The CEO of Telsa and owner of X App, Elon Musk has submitted that the United State of America should speed up the legal immigration processing for anyone who is hardworking and talented, irrespective of their legal status and nationality.Musk opined that America should focus on further development and recruiting best hands from all walks of life professionally, employing the best man for the job and legalizing immigrant in the process as long as they have the IQ fit for such purposes instead of focusing on their illegality.“As a reminder, I am very much in favor of expedited legal immigration...
INDIA GOVERNMENT TOLD COURT TO BE LENIENT ON MARITAL RAPE PENALTY
In an ongoing case brought before the Supreme Court by campaigners seeking redress, India’s government has insisted that marital rape should be treated more leniently than other rape offences.The penal code introduced in the 19th century during British colonial rule of India explicitly states that “sexual acts by a man with his own wife… is not rape”.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government enacted an overhauled code in July which retains that clause, despite the decade-long court challenge by activists seeking to make marital rape illegal.India’s interior ministry filed an affidavit to the Supreme Court yesterday stating that while marital rape should...
COMPANY DISMISSES DELIVERY DRIVER FOR OFFERING CHOCOLATE TO A TEENAGER
Szymon Stolarczyk has been dismissed from his job after acknowledging giving a 15 years old chocolate on the street.Stolarczyk who has lost his claim was a delivery driver who had in the company’s van offered a chocolate to a minor, told the Tribunal that the father of the minor was overreacting to what he sees being normal in his country.The incident happened at a housing estate where he and a colleague were making deliveries on 15 December 2023.The driver argued that his former employer, Clare Distribution Services Ltd, went too far in firing him.He had contended that he had never...
ENTERTAINMENT: KIDJO NOMINATES DAVIDO’S ‘JOY’ AS BEST AFRICAN PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Angelique Kidjo has nominated“Joy” featuring Davido for Grammy Consideration in the “Best African Performance/Record of the Year” categoryKidjo’s Grammy submissions: – JOY ft. Davido: – Best African Music Performance – Record of the Year“Sunlight to My Soul” ft. Soweto Gospel Choir: – Best Global Music Performance – Song of the YearThe Beninese-French singer-songwriter, actress and activist is noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos‘Joy’ music video was released on the 2nd October 2024
ELECTION: EXPLOSION ROCKS TONY OKOCHA-LED RIVERS APC SECRETARIAT
Explosives destroyed buildings and others property at the Tony Okocha-led secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) along Aba Road, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.The gate of the secretariat and the doors were shattered by the explosion which happened Saturday morning while local government election is taking place in the state.Windows shattered by the explosives that hit the APC secretariat in Rivers State on Saturday, October 5, 2024Amid controversies surrounding the Rivers local government poll, accreditation and voting has started in many polling centres around Port Harcourt City. Credit: Channels TV
PHOTO STORY: FUBARA FOILS POLICE ATTEMPT TO CART AWAY ELECTION MATERIAL
Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers state led delegations of the state Independent Electoral Commission office in Port Harcourt at the early hours on Friday, following the alleged attempt to break into the facility to cart away Saturday’s Local Government election materials.
ATIKU DESCRIBES THE RIVERS LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS AS BEACON OF HOPE, THAT OFFERS RENEWED VIGOR TO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
Ahead of the Local Government election in Rivers State on 5th October, the former president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubarkar admitted that it’s a cause that should not only be supported but embrace in order to make true democracy work in the country.He made this in a statement on Friday night while applauding the effort of the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara effort in ensuring that the election take place, he encouraged indigenes to perform their civic duties.His statement read: “The local government elections in Rivers State tomorrow stand as a beacon of hope, offering renewed vigor to constitutional democracy at the...
NYPD ARRESTS SUSPECT IN FATAL STABBING OF BROOKLYN HEALTH AND FITNESS DEVOTEE
According to Daily News report, on Friday, detectives have arrested the man allegedly stabbed a 30-year-old health and fitness lover to death during a nighttime brawl on a bustling Brooklyn commercial strip.Tristan Matthews, 31, was arrested on Wednesday for the Sept. 15 slaying and charged with manslaughter, gang assault and weapon possession.He’s accused of knifing Joshua Wahhab in the left torso on Nostrand Ave. near Fulton St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 12:30 a.m.Police and relatives confirmed Wahhab, who had just recently started two jobs, was about a mile from his home when he was killed during an argument outside a deli with four or five men and was...
RCCG OVERSEER APOLOGIZES FOR TYING CHRISTIANS MAKING HEAVEN TO PAYMENT OF TITHE.
The General Overseer of the Redeem Christian Church of God, Pastor E.A. Adeboye has apologized for tying Christians going to heaven to the payment of tithes.Adeboye in a video addressing some of the congregations acknowledged his mistakes revealing that it’s not in the bibleAccording to the RCCG leader : “I am going to be apologizing, for making a mistake, for saying that if you don’t pay tithe, you might not make it to heaven, I’m sorry.“That’s not in the bible, what the bible says is, He is at peace with all men and holiness, without which no man shall see...
IRAN SUPREME LEADER DESCRIBES MISSILES AMBUSH OVER ISRAEL AS ‘VITAL SERVICE TO THE ENTIRE MUSLIM WORLD.’
Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday extolled the missiles thrown at Israel, affirming that it’s ‘vital service to the entire region and the entire Muslim world.’Recall on Tuesday, Iran launched at least 180 missiles at Israel, the latest in a series of rapidly escalating attacks between Israel and Iran and its allies that threaten to push the Middle East closer to a region wide war.Khamenei while referring to the Lebanese and the Hezbollah youth as his children, applauded their devotion to the cause stating that it’s required of ‘Islamic Ummah,’ while declaring that there is need to avenge...