THERE is not a cloud in the Saturday sky as Derek Chisora, cigar in hand, responds to the IBF’s decision to install him as the next mandatory challenger for their heavyweight championship of the world. Other boxers have enjoyed Indian summers in their careers, but few have matched the one this 41-year-old from Finchley is currently experiencing. It is not labouring the point to say that the first few calls for Chisora to retire came way back in 2017 when he dropped a majority decision to then 16-0 Agit Kabayel in Monte Carlo. It is a defeat that has aged...
Former Assistant To Former President Buhari Describes Uromi Killing As ‘Act Of Collective Barbarism’ Warns Supporters Of Jungle Justice To Stop Tagging The Victims As Bandits
Bashir Ahmad, the Special Assistant to former president Muhammadu Buhari, on Digital Communications concerning the Hausa haunters burnt to death in Uromi, Edo state, defended that they were not bandit. Last Friday, 16 Hausa hunters were accosted by local security in Uromi on the allegation that they are bandits, jungle justice was melted out on them as, seven of them while burnt to death by the mob. The northerners were said to be coming from Port Harcourt, heading home to Kano for Salah celebration when the Dangote truck conveying them was stopped and searched, they were caught with dane guns....
“The Poverty That Pushes One To Hide Their Labor In The Dark Is A Painful One.” Chess Coach Condemn Estate Woman For Belittling Her, Awards Scholarship To Her 11-Year-Old
The convener of ‘chess in the slum Africa’, Tunde Onokoya added his voice to reprimand an online activist simply known as Adetoun that recorded her estate cleaner and her 11-year-old daughter yesterday morning while working. Adetoun had confronted the cleaner, knocked her for bringing her minor daughter to assist her in cleaning, she threatened the woman with ‘child abuse’ and vowed to make sure the child is taken custody of, if she ever see her working alongside the mom again. The Chess Coach categorically condemned Adetoun’s action, stating that it is wrong of her to do recording of such bashing,...
Justice Department Instructed To Dismiss Legal Challenge To Georgia Election Law
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday instructed the Justice Department to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a sweeping election overhaul that Georgia Republican lawmakers passed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state. The lawsuit, filed in June 2021 under former President Joe Biden, alleged that the Georgia law was intended to deny Black voters equal access to the ballot. Bondi said the Biden administration was pushing “false claims of suppression.” “Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us,” she said. The law was part of a trend of Republican-backed measures that...
Authorities Arrest 24-Year-Old Dad In Georgia For Leaving His Children At Mcdonald’s While He Attended A Job Interview.
A Georgia man was arrested last week after leaving his three young children in a McDonald’s restaurant without supervision while attending a job interview. Chris Louis, 24, was charged with deprivation of a minor on March 22. Authorities responded to the McDonald’s at 2902 Washington Road in Augusta after a concerned bystander noticed the children, aged 1, 6 and 10, in the restaurant alone, reported The Augusta Press. A responding deputy arrived at the scene to find the children unaccompanied, with a witness reporting seeing them with Louis at 4:30 pm. Louis was detained by law enforcement as soon as he returned to the restaurant around 6:18...
A 17-Year-Old From The West Bank Becomes The First Palestinian Teenager To Die In An Israeli Prison
A 17-year-old from the West Bank who was held in an Israeli prison for six months without being charged died after collapsing in unclear circumstances, becoming the first Palestinian teen to die in Israeli detention, officials said. Walid Ahmad was a healthy high schooler before his arrest in September for allegedly throwing stones at soldiers, his family said. Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in Israeli detention facilities holding thousands of Palestinians who were rounded up after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack ignited the war in the Gaza Strip. Prison authorities deny any systematic abuse and say they investigate accusations of wrongdoing by...
NASA Astronauts Open Up About Being ‘Stuck’ In Space For 9 Months Says “When We’re Up There Operating In Space, You Don’t Feel The Politics.”
In their first public comments since their dramatic return to Earth, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore said they were surprised by the intense focus on their mission. At a news briefing Monday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Williams and Wilmore described their “unique” mission, on which they unexpectedly spent more than nine months at the International Space Station when they were originally supposed to stay for only about a week. The duo launched to the space station in June on the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule. However, they encountered problems with the vehicle’s thrusters during the...
Three Million Afghans Face Expulsion From Pakistan, Arrest And Deportation Pushed Back To April 10
Pakistan plans to expel 3 million Afghans from the country this year, as a deadline for them to voluntarily leave the capital and surrounding areas expired on Monday. It’s the latest phase of a nationwide crackdown launched in October 2023 to expel foreigners living in Pakistan illegally, mostly Afghans. The campaign has drawn fire from rights groups, the Taliban government and the United Nations. Arrests and deportations were due to begin Tuesday but were pushed back to April 10 because of the Eid al-Fitr holidays marking the end of Ramadan, according to government documents seen by The Associated Press. About 845,000 Afghans have left Pakistan...
Venezuela Is Set To Have Its First Female Saint Following Approval From Pope Francis.
On Monday, he paved the way for the canonization of Blessed María Carmen Rendiles by authorizing a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to her, the founder of the Congregation of the Handmaids of Jesus. A date for her canonization has not been set. Who was Carmen Rendiles? She was born on Aug. 11, 1903, in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and died there on May 9, 1977. From a young age, following her father’s death, Rendiles helped her mother support the family and worked at a local parish. She joined a French congregation in Venezuela in 1927 and became a novice...