The House of Representatives cancelled its Thursday session after receiving information about a possible security threat at the Capitol on March 4, reports USA Today.
In the report, the United States Capitol Police said Wednesday they were aware of a “possible plot to breach the Capitol by an identified militia group”, and a notice sent to all congressional offices and the agency was bolstering its security presence on Capitol Hill.
Mistrust in the government is nothing new for the residents of Flint, Michigan, CNN reports.
According to the report, in 2014, the state’s public officials assured the residents that their water was safe to drink. It wasn’t. Now, with the coronavirus vaccine rolling out across the country, some Flint residents are wondering whether or not it’s safe. Hesitancy is particularly high in some Black communities, which have a history of being discriminated against in the US health care system.
In their bid to escape incessant bandit attacks, Men, women and children from Pandogari district of Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State have reportedly thronged Tegina.
According to media reports, one of the displaced persons who gave his name as Mahmood through the phone of a source said they had to flee to stay alive because they no longer had peace in their community
My dear (hesitates, then changes the subject) … someone proposed love to me the other day and I couldn’t say it to his face that I didn’t love him. I couldn’t tell him that he was not my kind of guy.
... Ama
Laurel
It was Laura Ikeji’s baby first birthday Sunday. See it in pictures below:
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| NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA, DG, World Trade Organization |
The first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Monday officially resumes with message via her Instagram handle “I want tonide this opportunity to thank you all for being so amazingly supportive through this journey. Now we are here, let’s stick together and work together.
“God bless you all.”
Director-General of World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has via her IG commented on the apology advanced by a Swiss newspaper that had dismissed the seasoned international professional as a “grandmother”
“I’m thankful to all my sisters, UN Women Leaders and the 124 Ambassadors in Geneva who signed the petition on calling out the racist & sexist remarks in this newspaper. It is important & timely that they’ve apologized.”
See the screen shot of her post below:
Shelley Hopper, a 31-year-old single mother, said she spent two years suffering from debilitating pain until she found a doctor who "believed me."
Hopper, of Roseville, California, was diagnosed with endometriosis, a disease that researchers believe affects more than six million women in the U.S. and as many as 200 million women worldwide.
Ellen DeGeneres celebrates birthday boy, Justine Bieber on her show. See the video below:
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls we present to you – Justin Bieber … Oh! Not him? Well, I mean, 27 years ago. Yep! He posted this baby picture of himself via his IG, taking his followers back in time his cradle stage. Still quite handsome even then, don’t you think?
A Business District Street In Lagos, Nigeria.
The south of Nigeria mostly depends on the north for its food, but the farmers-herders crises is driving a wedge through that business relationship, reports Pulse Nigeria.
According to the report, Alhaji Bello, a peripatetic salesman who hawks beef around Surulere, Lagos, has been forced out of business for well over a week now.
“Meat is so expensive now”, he told Pulse, his blackened hands quickly shoved into his blood stained trousers. “In fact, we don’t even see the meat to buy anymore.”
In the last couple of weeks, suspected hoodlums and brigands in the northern region have been impounding food trucks making their way down Nigeria’s south in what has been labelled a reprisal move, as ethnic tension stemming from a recurring farmers-herders crisis engulfs Africa’s most population.
I see. But why have you suddenly stood against every decision I take concerning this village? You used to be very cooperative and understanding, very supportive and encouraging. But ever since Kotansibe’s demise you have changed totally … But I ask again, why have you suddenly stood against every decision I take concerning this village?
... King Oyeyemi
Three days ago President Joe Biden of the United States posted this on his IG "Today we mark a truly grim, heartbreaking milestone — 500,071 dead. That's more Americans who've died in one year in this pandemic than in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War combined. That's more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on Earth. We often hear people described as ordinary Americans. There's no such thing. There's nothing ordinary about them. The people we lost were extraordinary. If you’re comfortable, share a memory of a loved one you lost to COVID in the comments below." What do you think? See the screenshot of the post below:
Mike Abayomi Bamiloye is a Nigerian film actor, dramatist, director and producer. Check out his recent post on Instagram about the "Mighty Men of Valor" below:
Mighty Men of Valor who have married Glorious Daughters of Zion,
Are you praying for them?
You give her money to buy things in the house,
You take her out to Parks and Garden and Malls and Eateries,
And think that is all she would need?
The extraordinary behavior of this whale, according to wildlifepixtures is thought to have developed because pollution has made the Gulf of Tailand a hypoxic environment. Sewage outflows from the land have caused all the oxygen in the water to be used up, except at the surface. This means the whale's fish prey can only live in this surface layer. By treading water and keeping the corners of their mouth below the surface, a flow is created pulling the fish into the whale's mouth. In the panic, some of the fish also seem to jump out the water and into the whale's mouth!
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| Hon. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, Chairperson, House Committee on Diaspora |
The Chairperson, House Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe was at the recent Journalist International Forum for Migration (JIFORM) on African Media Summit on Migration. Below is her speech as posted on her Instagram handle.
Speech
"People migrate in search of work or economic opportunities, to join family, or to study. Others move to escape conflict, persecution, terrorism, or human rights violations. Still others migrate in response to the adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters, or other environmental factors. In Nigeria, we have both internal and external movement and is mostly caused by insecurity, consequences of climate change, lessening resources and economic challenges."
