March 2018 – Page 3 – FancyTvChannel

Pope Francis to have cataracts surgery next year

Pope Francis revealed the news as he bid farewell to prisoners at Rome’s Regina Coeli prison, after he performed the Holy Thursday ritual of washing the feet of 12 people. Francis, who frequently tells inmates they need to keep hope alive, told them that they must clear their eyes every day so they can see and spread hope. He said cataracts often make it difficult to see. He says “at my age, for example, cataracts come and you don’t see reality well. Next year I have to have an operation.”…

Two teenagers found dead seven hours after crash in Hampshire

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The wreckage of a car in which two teenagers died was spotted seven hours after the vehicle crashed into trees at the side of a busy main road in Hampshire. Police believe the crash happened at 10.30pm on Tuesday, but the white Fiat 500 was spotted and reported by a passing motorist at 5am on Wednesday morning. Ella Alford and her friend Aimee Clayton, both 18, were pronounced dead at the scene. Hampshire constabulary said it was impossible to say whether the teenagers’ lives could have been saved if the…

Group protests new import duty on solar panels

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A private sector renewable energy group, Renewable Energy Association of Nigeria (REAN), has rejected the new 5 – 10 per cent import duty on solar panels imposed on its members by the Nigerian Customs Service. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos Wednesday, Segun Adaju, President of REAN, said there was no justification for the duty on the strength that under the CET code 8541.4010.00 – a classification for import duty tariff – import duty on solar panels should be zero per cent. Mr. Adaju said discharge of goods from…

School teacher remanded in prison for defiling 7-year-old pupil

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A Kasuwan Mama Upper Area court on Thursday ordered that a 23-year-old teacher, Moses Danladi, be remanded in prison for allegedly defiling a 7-year-old pupil. The police prosecutor, Mr E.A Inegbenoise, told the court that the victim’s uncle, one Cpl. Zakka Peter of III Division, Maxwell Khobe Cantonement, reported the matter at the Bassa police station on March 15. Inegbenoise said that the complainant told the police that the victim told him that her teacher molested her. The offense, according to the prosecutor, contravened Section 285 of the Penal Code…

Police discovers 16 suspected illegal immigrants including a child at the back of a lorry transporting boxes of shoes from Belgium

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Police have found 16 suspected illegal immigrants in the back of a truck transporting shoes from Belgium. The 15 adults and one child were discovered at Toddington services on the M1 in Bedfordshire this morning. The migrants were in the back of an Irish-registered truck carrying Skechers shoes. Bedfordshire Police confirmed the 15 adults and one child were found in the back of the truck which had recently arrived from Belgium. The migrants were assessed by the East of England Ambulance Service before being taken to police stations across the…