Category: Foreign

Diggers banned as Congolese villagers discover gold in South Kivu

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  Gold-rich ore discovered in a village in Congo’s South Kivu province has driven authorities to ban mining there until more oversight is established, the provincial mines minister said on Thursday. The discovery of gold-rich ore in Luhihi in late February brought throngs of diggers to the site, South Kivu Mines Minister Venant Burume Muhigirwa said, putting pressure on the small village around 50 km (30 miles) from the provincial capital, Bukavu. Subsistence mining – extracting minerals with rudimentary tools – is common across Democratic Republic of Congo, and the…

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Veteran actor, Sadiq Daba is dead

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Veteran broadcaster and Nollywood actor, Sadiq Daba who was diagnosed with leukaemia and prostate cancer in 2017 is dead. Sadiq Daba reportedly died on Wednesday evening. It will be recalled that after his diagnosis, billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola came to his rescue and paid for his treatments with additional supplies of oxygen, therapies and drugs for a long time, after which he recovered. A senior official of NTA confirmed the death of the veteran broadcaster. Daba had suffered from leukaemia and prostate cancer over a protracted period. Daba became a…

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New York governor accused by a second woman of sexual harassment

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‌ New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has been accused of sexual harrassment by a second ex-employee . This time the allegations came from 25-year-old former health adviser Charlotte Bennett, who told said the governor sexually harassed her in the spring of 2020. According to Bennett, the 63-year-old politician said in June that he was open to dating women in their 20s, and asked her if she thought age made a difference in romantic relationships. While Cuomo never tried to touch her, “I understood that the governor wanted to sleep…

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“Minister Of Loneliness” appointed in Japan Following Increase In Suicide Rates

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In a bid to reduce loneliness and social isolation among its residents, Japan has appointed a “minister of loneliness” as the country deals with rising suicide rates. Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga created the role in early February, taking after the U.K., which created its own such role in 2018. Tetsushi Sakamoto will take on the role while also handling the country’s falling birth rates and regional economies. Figures from the National Police Agency showed that 20,919 people committed suicide in 2020, a 750-person increase from the previous year and…

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Hushpuppi accused of laundering money for for North Korean criminals

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Social media celebrity, Ramon Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi who was arrested for fraud from his base in Dubai, UAE is in the news again. He was named as a co-conspirator in a case that involves North Korean hackers. Hushpuppi, legal experts say, may get up to 20 years sentence in US prison from laundering hundreds of millions of dollars from business email compromise (BEC) frauds and other scams, including schemes targeting a U.S. law firm, a foreign bank, and an English Premier League soccer club. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles made…

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US Porn Tycoon And Publisher Of ‘Hustlers’ Magazine, Dead At 78

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Larry Flynt, the publisher of the American porn magazine Hustler, has died. He passed away on Wednesday at his Hollywood Hills home in Los Angeles. He was 78. Flynt died “from the recent onset of a sudden illness,” the statement added, without specifying the cause. Various US media outlets have reported Flynt died from heart failure. Flynt rose from abject poverty to run a vast adult entertainment empire. He published the first issue of Hustler Magazine, created as a lowbrow, explicit counterpart to magazines like Playboy in 1974. Sales skyrocketed…

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Joe Biden sworn in as America’s 46th president

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‌ Joe Biden was on Wednesday sworn in as the 46th President of the United States at a scaled-down ceremony overseen by over 20,000 National Guards in Washington DC. Biden took the oath of office administered by US Chief Justice, John Roberts, and became the oldest US president in history at age 78. The president in his inaugural address pledged to end the “uncivil war” in the deeply divided country reeling from a battered economy and a raging coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 Americans. He said, “To…

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Donald Trump becomes the first US president to be impeached twice

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Donald Trump became the first president in the history of the United States of America, to be impeached twice when the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to charge him with inciting last week’s mob attack on Capitol building. The Senate will not hold a trial before January 20, when Joe Biden assumes the presidency, meaning Trump will escape the risk of being forced to leave early. He will, however, depart in disgrace — and likely due to face a Senate trial later. The only question in the House had…

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Donald Trump’s account permanently banned by Twitter

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For repeatedly violating its rules, the social media giant, Twitter Inc, has permanently banned the United States President, Donald Trump’s personal account. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” the company wrote in a blog post on Friday. The company announced the ban two days after Trump was initially suspended Wednesday for posting…

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American Principal Who Inspired The Film ‘Lean on Me,’ Dies At 82

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Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” has died at the age of 82. Clark died at his Florida home on Tuesday after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said in a statement. Born in Rochelle, Georgia, on May 8, 1938, Clark’s family moved north to Newark, New Jersey, when he was 6 years old. After graduating from Newark Central High School, Clark received his bachelor’s degree from…

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