Billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has acquired Twitter in a $44 billion deal that would cap a bid that began in early April to exert official influence over policies designed to combat abuse on the platform, which Musk has cast as anti-free speech. On April 4, Musk became the company’s largest shareholder and backed out at the last minute from an agreement to join Twitter’s board of directors. Now, on the verge of taking over the company, Musk is promising to bring “free speech” to Twitter. Musk is…
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Saudi Arabia to Disney: Cut LGBTQ references from superhero movie before bringing to kingdom
Saudi Arabia has asked Disney to cut “LGBTQ references” from its latest Marvel superhero movie before it can be screened in the kingdom, an official said on Monday. Disney has so far declined the requested edits to the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, slated for release in early May, that amount to “barely 12 seconds” in which a lesbian character, America Chavez, refers to her “two moms”, said Nawaf Alsabhan, Saudi Arabia’s general supervisor of cinema classification. “It’s just her talking about her moms, because she has…
Read MoreNDLEA arrests Drug baron with 103 bank accounts at Lagos airport
Chief Afam Ukatu, the billionaire drug baron behind the N3bn tramadol deal involving a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police and former leader of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. A statement on Monday by the spokesperson for the agency, Femi Babafemi, said he was arrested “after months of surveillance and evading arrest.” According to Babafemi, Ukatu, who is the chairman of Mallinson Group of Companies, was nabbed onboard a flight to Abuja at the MM2 terminal of the Lagos airport,…
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