“Promoting and protecting the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons is a U.S. foreign policy priority,” read the State Department statement that accompanied the report. The report opens a window into how the U.S. government, under the Biden administration, is specifically leveraging foreign aid programmes and its influence with international financial institutions and the United Nations…
Actor Alec Baldwin’s criminal case has been dismissed after new evidence emerged that wasn’t disclosed to the defence. Baldwin was seen sobbing when the announcement was made. “One of the two special prosecutors in the Alec Baldwin trial, prosecutor Erlindo Ocampo Johnson, resigned in the middle of a long, dramatic hearing in Santa Fe Friday…
Justice Victoria Nwoye of the Anambra State High Court sitting in Onitsha has convicted and sentenced the duo of Ikechukwu Obiekwe and Ugo Chukwudi to prison for fraud. They were prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 10-count charges bordering on conspiracy, fraudulent conversion, stealing and retention…
The corpse of former Senate President Joseph Wayas has finally arrived in Nigeria from the United Kingdom, three years after he died. Converseer learned that Wayas’ remains arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja from Heathrow Airport London, United Kingdom, onboard British Airways BA O83, on Wednesday morning. According to The Beagle News,…
The mummified body of an American climber who went missing 22 years ago has been found in the ice in Peru. 59-year-old William Stampfl of Chino, California, was climbing the 6,768-metre Mount Huascaran in 2002 when tragedy hit. Stampfl and his two friends, Steve Erskine and Matthew Richardson, were climbing the mountain when an avalanche…
