Ademola Lookman the current African Footballer of The Year shows frustration after being subbed off in The Champions League and got into an altercation with manager Ivan Juric Lookman: 🚨Scored a historic hat-trick in the UEFA Europa League final 🚨Named Atalanta Player of the Season. 🚨2024 CAF African Footballer of the Year 🚨first Atalanta player ever to be nominated for the Ballon d’Or
Lagos Court Jails Banker For N8.6bn Cyber Fraud
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday sentenced one Samuel Asiegbu to three years in prison for his involvement in a ₦8.56 billion cyber fraud targeting Wema Bank Nigeria Plc. Asiegbu was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Asiegbu was arraigned alongside Hamza Zakaria, Nurudeen Ibrahim, and Alhaji Sulaiman (currently at large) on four counts bordering on conspiracy, stealing, and unauthorized access to a computer system, preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The defendants were first arraigned on June 23, 2025, and had initially pleaded not guilty....
North Korea Holds State Funeral For Longtime Ceremonial Head Of State
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un led a state funeral for the country’s longtime ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, who died this week at age 97. Kim Jong Un and other senior officials from a 100-member funeral committee joined family members as Kim Yong Nam — unrelated to the ruling Kim family — was buried on Wednesday at the Patriotic Martyrs’ Cemetery in Pyongyang, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday. State media images showed mourning citizens bowing along the streets as a car carrying Kim Yong Nam’s flag-draped coffin and a large portrait drove toward the cemetery,...
Federal Agents Drive Off With 1-Year-Old Girl After Arresting Her Father In Los Angeles
Federal immigration officers in Los Angeles arrested a U.S. citizen during a raid outside a Home Depot store, then two of them got into his car and drove off with the man’s toddler strapped into a car seat in the back, advocates and family said Wednesday, decrying the action. A video shot by a member of the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network, an immigrant advocacy coalition, shows the man with his hands behind his back and leaning up against his car before being escorted away as two masked agents with helmets and bulletproof vests get into the car and drive...
Jury Deliberates In $40M Lawsuit Filed Against Administrator By Teacher Who Was Shot By 6-Year-Old
A jury in Virginia began deliberating Wednesday in a $40 million lawsuit filed against a former school administrator accused of ignoring repeated warnings that a 6-year-old had a gun hours before a teacher was shot. Closing arguments were held earlier Wednesday following a weeklong trial in the lawsuit filed by former teacher Abby Zwerner against Ebony Parker, a former assistant principal at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News. Zwerner was shot in January 2023 as she sat at a reading table in her first-grade classroom. Zwerner spent nearly two weeks in the hospital, required six surgeries and does not have the full use of her...
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Deportation Of Brown Medicine Doctor
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the deportation of a doctor from Lebanon who was deported from Boston’s Logan Airport earlier this year despite having a visa after immigration officials said she supported a Hezbollah leader and attended his funeral. In March, Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist at Brown Medicine, was detained for at least 36 hours in Boston’s airport after arriving from Lebanon. The doctor was traveling with her family, and while traveling, she attended the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, the former leader of Hezbollah. Homeland Security officials say they reviewed her phone while Alawieh was detained and...
Indians Who Fled A Myanmar Cyberscam Center Are Being Flown Home From Thailand
India is repatriating on Thursday the first batch of hundreds of its nationals who last month fled to Thailand from Myanmar, where most had been working at a notorious center for online scams. The center, known as KK Park on the outskirts of the border city of Myawaddy and said to house a major cybercrime operation, was raided by Myanmar’s army in mid-October to suppress cross-border online scams and illegal gambling. An Indian air force transport plane left Thailand en route to India and another plane was to leave later in the day, with about 270 out of 465 Indians who are to be...
Mexico President Sheinbaum Presses Charges After Street Groping Incident
What should have been a five-minute time-saving walk from Mexico’s National Palace to the Education Ministry for President Claudia Sheinbaum has become a symbol of what Mexican women face every day after a video captured a drunk man groping the country’s first woman president. On Wednesday, gender violence catapulted to the highest-profile platform, and Sheinbaum used her daily press briefing to say that she had pressed charges against the man. She also called on states to scrutinize their laws and procedures to make it easier for women to report such assaults and said Mexicans needed to hear a “loud and clear, no,...
Israeli Freed Hostage Rom Braslavski Emotionally Recounts Horrible Experience While In Islamic Jihad Terrorists’ Captivity
President of Israel Isaac Herzog: “Former hostage Rom Braslavski showed extraordinary courage in sharing the horrors of his captivity, including a horrific sexual assault he endured while held by Islamic Jihad terrorists. “His trembling voice, heard tonight in Israel and around the world, breaks through the walls of silence and denial, reminding the world that it must not turn away from the truth. “The world must understand the scale of the crimes committed by the terrorists in Gaza, heinous cruelty, sexual violence, and abuse. “We saw this methodical, deliberate evil in the massacre of October 7, and we have heard...