Russia’s general prosecutor on Thursday banned the activities of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, accusing it of taking a negative stance towards countries like Russia that protect “traditional spiritual and moral values”. The prosecutor’s office said the ban applied specifically to two non-governmental organizations, one registered in the United States and the other in Britain…
An employee has sparked a debate on X after she revealed that her employer rejected her promo video for the organisation because she wore her natural hair in the video. The employee shared a screenshot of the feedback she received telling her the video cannot be used because her hair is not plaited. She was…
An original model of E.T., created for Steven Spielberg’s beloved film “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” did not find a buyer after being put up for auction, Sotheby’s auction house in New York said Thursday. The piece, a little over a meter high and which had been estimated to fetch between $600,000 and $900,000, comes from the…
At least four people died in an auto crash along the Gombe–Yola Road in Gombe State on Wednesday night. The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, Mr. Samson Kaura, confirmed the incident to journalists in Gombe on Thursday. He said a truck and a car were involved in the…
A Nigerian man, Meshach Owunebe Oko, also known as Uncle Wowo, has recalled how people mocked him and his wife for using loaves of bread as cake on their wedding day. Oko, who disclosed this in a Facebook post on their first wedding anniversary on Wednesday, April 3, said the matter was made…
