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Elon musk pays Hostess $250,000 to keep quiet over sexual harassment

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Aflight attendant who accused SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk of sexually harassing her on a flight in 2016, was reportedly paid $250,000 to remain silent on the matter. The air hostess was paid by SpaceX in 2018 to settle the claim of sexual misconduct against Elon Musk. Elon Musk The attendant, who used to work on a contract basis for the corporate jet fleet of SpaceX, accused Musk of exposing himself to her, rubbing her leg without consent and offering to buy her a horse or an erotic massage, the Business Insider reported. "The incident is alleged in a declaration signed by a friend of the attendant and prepared in support of her claim.  The details in this story are drawn from the declaration as well as other documents, including email correspondence and other records shared with Insider by the friend," added the Business Insider report. According to the declaration, the attendant told her friend that after taking the flight attendant job, she was pushed to get...
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IPOB threatens to kill any PDP Vice Presidential slot in the South-East

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The Indigenous Biafra-Warriors Worldwide has warned Peoples Democratic Party presidential aspirants from the South-East region against accepting the vice presidential slot after the party’s primary election.   Some of the PDP presidential aspirants from the region include Peter Obi, Anyim Pius Anyim, Sam Ohabunwa and Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze. IBWW in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Lt. Jack Warrior, said the group had established that politicians from the South-East were set to sabotage Obi, Pius Anyim and others. He added that whoever did such would cry for betraying the South-East.     The statement reads, “The Indigenous Biafra-Warriors Worldwide, independent militants in Biafra land, a military and civilian watchdog, has mounted its searchlight on PDP stakeholders in South-East and South-South. We're in all the countries of the earth, no hiding place for our targets.   “We have noted with most interest a perceived conspiracy against South-East p...
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Biafra Nation league's Commander shot Dead by Cameroonian armies

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Operatives of the Rapid d'intervention Battalion, a Cameroonian military unit in the Bakassi Peninsula, have killed a commander of the pro-Biafra group, the Biafra Nations League.  According to a statement by Ita Bassey, leader of the Bakassi chapter of BNL, the deceased commander was killed during an operation on Wednesday.  The deceased led the armed group who attacked a boat in a bid to abduct the three tourists, and one security personnel onboard. The corpse of the commander has since been handed over to the Nigerian Military, Bassey said. "He was captured in his house, we are not aware if he was part of the attack on the boat on Wednesday, but what we know is that he has been killed and his remains handed to Nigerian Military," he stated. The Cameroonian Security Forces shot the suspect when he attempted to flee during a tip-off operation at his residence in Idabato on Friday morning. Some weeks ago, the BNL ordered its men to regroup in order to block bo...
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Fulani herdsmen killed 3 persons in Enugu communities

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At least three residents of Imama Ugbawka in Nkanu East and Umuhu Eha-Amufu in the Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State have been killed by suspected herdsmen.  According to reports, several other persons were wounded in the attacks which were carried out on Tuesday and Wednesday. During the attack in Ugbawka on Tuesday, the herders allegedly invaded farmland and killed two labourers hired from Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, to cultivate crops on the farm, Eha-Amufu’s incident occurred on Wednesday at Agba-Esher. A community leader in Umuhu, Eha-Amufu, Odo Francis, said the herders numbering about seven with AK-47s blocked Nkalagu-Eha-Amufu Road. “Unfortunately, an Okada rider from Amade Eha-Amufu who was carrying two persons got to the point. They killed him and abducted the two men. Our people were alerted when a man from Umuhu Eha-Amufu identified as Okibe Odo, who escaped death by the whiskers broke the news. “Now, our forest guards and neighbourhood watch (member...
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Gunmen kill 2, burn car in Enugu

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Two persons were reportedly killed on Monday by gunmen said to be enforcing the controversial sit-at-home exercise in Enugu.   A Toyota Sienna SUV was also burnt by hoodlums at the crime scene identified as Chris Chemist Bus Stop at about 6:45 am. We learnt that the hoodlums stormed the park and shot a passenger inside the Sienna SUV and another at the bus stop. "They (hoodlums) set ablaze a Sienna bus and tried to burn another vehicle but the driver of the vehicle quickly sped off,” a source said. According to the driver of the vehicle that was burnt, the gunmen arrived at the motor park as he was still awaiting passengers to take to their destinations.   According to a security source, the driver used to load passengers very early every Monday to beat the sit-at-home. "Unfortunately, he was standing a distance away from his vehicle when the gunmen arrived in a minibus.   "He told us that when he saw some men with guns he felt they were armed robbers and imm...
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Russian soldier detained for raping Ukrainian girls

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A Russian soldier Alexey Bychkov was detained on Saturday, for recording a video of himself sexually abusing a baby.   The arrest comes after Lyudmila Denisova, commissioner for human rights in the Ukrainian Parliament, alleged on Saturday that Russian troops have raped children during the war. In a statement on Telegram, she said a 14-year-old girl in Bucha was raped by five soldiers and as a result is now pregnant.   In another shocking incident, an 11-year-old boy in the same town was also raped in front of his mum, who was tied to a chair and forced to watch.   The ombudswoman added that three soldiers also raped a 20-year-old woman in Irpen.   Bychkov serves in a military unit in Pskov, a Russian town. The Insider further cited the chairman of the Council of Veterans of the 76th Guards Division of the Airborne Forces, Yuri Sosedov's information that all units in Pskov had been in Ukraine as part of Russia's "special military operations," according to...
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"Don't talk to me again If I no feature on your album">>> Techno to Davido

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Nigerian singer and songwriter, Tekno, has made a playful threat to his colleague, Davido over the latter's next body of project. In a post on his official Twitter page on Sunday, April 10, 2022, Tekno gave fans a big hint that he may feature in Davido's new album. The 'Pana' crooner however, instructed Davido to stop talking to him if he (Tekno) doesn't get to on the album when it eventually comes out. "@davido if the new album come out and I no dey inside don’t talk to me again," he tweeted. When released, the project will be Davido's first since the release of his third studio album "A Better Time," in 2020. Recall that the duo have been music partners dating back to year 2013 when Tekno featured Davido on a single titled "Holiday." Also, Davido has severally credited Tekno for writing his comeback hit "IF." In a 2020 interview, OBO as fondly called, said, "Tekno brought me back. I didn't have a hit...
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U.S former president Clinton released from hospital

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A former United States President Bill Clinton has been released from a California hospital after being treated for an infection that spread to his bloodstream. Clinton walked out arm-in-arm with his wife and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before greeting hospital staff and giving a thumbs-up when asked how he was feeling, CNN reports. University of California Irvine Health Department of Medicine Executive Director Dr Alpesh N. Amin, who had been overseeing Clinton’s medical team, released a statement following Clinton’s release. “President Clinton was discharged from UC Irvine Medical Center today. His fever and white blood cell count are normalized, and he will return home to New York to finish his course of antibiotics. On behalf of everyone at UC Irvine Medical Center, we were honoured to have treated him and will continue to monitor his progress,” Amin wrote. Clinton had been admitted last week to the UC Irvine Medical Center’s intensive care unit for a urina...
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Buhari congratulates King of Morocco on 22nd Anniversary

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President Muhammadu Buhari has extended warm felicitations to His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the 22nd anniversary of his ascension to the throne.  The President, on behalf of the people of Nigeria, and of himself, wishes the King good health, and prosperity. The letter below: “On the occasion of the 22nd Anniversary of Your Majesty's ascension to the throne, I have the pleasure to express, on behalf of the people of Nigeria and myself, warm congratulations  and best wishes for good health and prosperity. “Your Majesty's reign has witnessed very impressive economic and social development in the Kingdom of Morocco for the benefit of all your people. Under your reign, the Kingdom has also significantly contributed in advancing regional peace, stability and development. “We value the excellent fraternal relations between our two countries and look forward to building on the significant progress so far achieved under our renewed bilateral relation. “While...
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FG to unveil N15Trn infrastructure company in Oct.

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*To establish International Financial Centre in 12 months Plans are underway for establishment of the Nigerian International Financial Centre, NIFC, in the next 12 months, just as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, gets set to roll out the N15 trillion Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria (Infra-Co) next month. Disclosing these at the ongoing 14th annual banking and finance conference organised by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, CIBN, in Abuja yesterday, Governor of CBN, Godwin Emefiele, said, the NIFC will act as an international gateway for capital and investments in the country. The company whose establishment was approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in February, is expected to get its initial seed capital from the CBN, the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, and the Africa Finance Corporation. He stated: “InfraCorp would enable the use of mostly private capital to support infrastructure investment that will have a multiplier effect on growth ...
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