A little boy from Uyo in a video had claimed to pick the boot a Super Eagles player Victor Boniface, threw to the fans after playing with Rwanda in World Cup Qualifier. The boy disclosed that he sold the boots to a Rwanda who had saw him with the boot for $100 because he was hungry and need to feed. The Super Eagles player happened upon the video jokingly appealed to fans in a post to help him locate the boy, so that he can pay him 10% from the proceed received.
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett Mocks Greg Abbott Disabilities, Calls Him ‘Gov. Hot Wheels’ At A Banquet
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett mocked her state’s governor during a weekend appearance, referring to Greg Abbott — who uses a wheelchair — as “Gov. Hot Wheels” while speaking at a banquet in Los Angeles. “You all know we got Gov. Hot Wheels down there. Come on, now,” Crockett, a Dallas Democrat, said about Abbott, a Republican, while addressing the Human Rights Campaign event. “And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-ass mess, honey.” Abbott was paralyzed in 1984 after a tree fell on him while he was running. The accident severely damaged Abbott’s spinal cord....
Thai Prime Minister Survives A No-Confidence Vote In Parliament, Rivals Say Her Father Pull The Strings
Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra easily survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday, following a two-day debate in which rivals charged that she has mismanaged the country and let her father, a former prime minister, control her administration. Opposition lawmakers argued that she has been unduly influenced by her father, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Thaksin is a popular but highly controversial political figure who was ousted in a 2006 military coup, fled into exile and recently returned to Thailand. Paetongtarn’s opponents said her administration has improperly favored the personal and financial interests of her family and her father. They also accused her...
Venezuela-Hired Lawyers File Petition In El Salvador Aimed At Freeing Venezuelans Deported By U.S.
Lawyers hired by the Venezuelan government filed a legal action Monday in El Salvador aimed at freeing 238 Venezuelans deported by the United States who are being held in a Salvadoran maximum-security prison. Jaime Ortega, who says he represents 30 of the imprisoned Venezuelans, said they filed the habeas corpus petition with the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Chamber. He said that by extension they requested that it be applied to all Venezuelans detained in El Salvador. The maneuver essentially compels the government to prove someone’s detention was justified. The Salvadoran government has been silent about the status of the Venezuelan prisoners...
Alphonso Davies Ruled Out for the Remainder of the Season
Alphonso Davies has torn his ACL and will be out for six months. The Canadian’s season is over, meaning he will also miss the FIFA Club World Cup. He sustained the injury while on international duty with Canada. The player will undergo surgery today and will be supported throughout his recovery to regain full fitness. Bayern Munich’s director of sport, Max Eberl, expressed his disappointment, stating: “Unfortunately, there’s always a risk of players returning injured from international duty, and this time we’ve been hit particularly hard. The absence of Alphonso Davies and Dayot Upamecano is a blow for FC Bayern....
Utah Adds Protections For Child Influencers Following Youtuber Ruby Franke’s Child Abuse Conviction
Utah on Tuesday added new protections for the children of online content creators following the child abuse conviction of Ruby Franke, a mother of six who dispensed parenting advice to millions on YouTube before her arrest in 2023. Gov. Spencer Cox signed a law under the encouragement of Franke’s now ex-husband that gives adults a path to scrub from all platforms the digital content they were featured in as minors and requires parents to set aside money for kids featured in content. Kevin Franke told lawmakers in February that he wished he had never let his ex-wife post their children’s lives...
South Korea’s Truth Commission Says Government Responsible For Fraud And Abuse In Foreign Adoptions
South Korea’s truth commission has concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children’s backgrounds and origins. The landmark report released Wednesday followed a nearly three-year investigation into complaints from 367 adoptees in Europe, the United States and Australia, representing the most comprehensive examination yet of South Korea’s foreign adoptions, which peaked under a succession of military governments in the 1970s and ’80s. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a government-appointed fact-finding panel, said it confirmed human rights violations in 56 of...
Stanford Football Fires Coach Taylor Following Report Of Maltreatment Of Female Staff Members, Searches For New Coach
Stanford football fired coach Troy Taylor amid allegations he mistreated female staff members. The move was announced Tuesday by Stanford Football General Manager Andrew Luck days after a report citing documents said more than 20 current and former staffers cooperated with the two investigations that included complaints against Taylor for what are described as hostile and aggressive behavior, as well as personal attacks. In a statement released on X Luck stated: “After continued consideration it is evident to me that our program needs a reset, in consultation with university leadership I no longer believe that Coach Taylor is the right coach to lead...
Nigeria on the Verge of Missing a Second Consecutive World Cup After Draw Against South Africa
Nigeria’s hopes of securing a place at the World Cup are hanging by a thread after the Super Eagles failed to claim maximum points against Zimbabwe. Nigeria needed a win to put the pressure on South Africa but they ended up with a draw—a result that feels like a defeat for millions of Nigerian fans. Victor Osimhen gave Nigeria the lead in the 74th minute with a diving header, but Tawanda Chirewa equalized late in the game. Many Nigerians blamed head coach Eric Chelle, citing poor substitutions and a failure to see out the match as the reasons for the...
Alleged Kenyan Missing Police Officer Found Dead, Haitians Parades Corpse
The office of the Inspector, National Police Service on Wednesday released a press statement announcing a missing Kenyan officer on Haiti soil. According to the NPS spokesperson, Muchiri Nyaga the force was informed of its missing officer while on duty on the 25th March following an ambush incidence. The statement read in part: “A Kenyan police officer serving under the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti is missing. “Following an ambush incidence along the Carrefour Paye-Savien main supply route in the pont-sonde area, Artibonite Department.” It further explained that the MSS in collaboration with the Haitian National Police...