Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM (STORY) Ituen and the King's Wife Ituen was a young man of Calabar. He was the only child of his parents, and they were extremely fond of him, as he was of fine proportions and very good to look upon. ADVERTISEMENT They were poor people, and when Ituen grew up and became a man, he had very little money indeed, in fact he had so little food, that every day it was his custom to go to the market carrying an empty bag, into which he used to put anything eatable he could find after the market was over. ADVERTISEMENT At this time Offiong was king. He was an old man, but he had plenty of wives. One of these women, named Attem, was quite young and very good-looking. She did not like her old husband, but wished for a young and handsome husband. She therefore told her servant to go round the town and the market to try and find such a ma

Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Australian Open bans Russian flag after Ukraine complaint Ukraine’s ambassador criticises the display of the Russian flag during Ukrainian player Kateryna Baindl’s first-round match. ADVERTISEMENT Australian Open organisers have banned Russian and Belarusian flags from the Melbourne Park precinct during the tournament after a complaint from the Ukraine ambassador to the country. ADVERTISEMENT On Monday, the red, white and blue stripes of Russia were held up by fans during a first-round clash between Ukraine’s Kateryna Baindl and Russia’s Kamilla Rakhimova on day one. ADVERTISEMENT Ukrainian fans reportedly called security and police to the stands. A Russian flag was also unfurled at Rod Laver Arena during Daniil Medvedev’s clash with American Marcos Giron. ADVERTISEMENT “I strongly condemn the public display

Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Equatorial Guinea dissident Obama Mefuman dies in prison ulio Obama Mefuman was serving a 60-year jail term after being taken from South Sudan in a suspected kidnapping. ADVERTISEMENT A prominent dissident in Equatorial Guinea has died in prison while serving a 60-year jail sentence, his group said. Julio Obama Mefuman, 51, who was also a Spanish citizen and was taken from South Sudan in a suspected kidnapping in 2019, “died in Oveng Azem prison” in the eastern city of Mongomo, the MLGE3R movement said. ADVERTISEMENT It gave no date for Obama Mefuman’s death but accused the country’s hardline government of “torture”. MLGE3R stands for the Movement for the Liberation of the Third Equatorial Guinea and is based in Spain, the central African state’s former coloniser. ADVERTISEMENT On Monday, Equatorial Guinea’s foreign mini

Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Europe awakens to the threat of sabotage by Russian agents Attacks on critical infrastructure from France to Denmark bear the hallmark of Russian operatives, experts say. ADVERTISEMENT Suspicion has fallen on Russia over a series of confirmed or apparent acts of sabotage and espionage that took place late last year in Western Europe, experts say, with European countries increasingly taking measures in response. ADVERTISEMENT The acts came after two events that hurt Russian interests. In September, explosions in the Baltic Sea put Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipelines to Germany out of use. ADVERTISEMENT The Kremlin blamed the sabotage on the United Kingdom, without evidence. Ukraine and Poland blamed Russia but also provided no evidence. ADVERTISEMENT Then, on October 7, the Kerch Strait Bridge was bombed, int