More than 200 claims were filed with California’s EDD system listing a single address on 75th Avenue in Hyattsville… Three Prince George’s County men are charged with stealing more than $1.4 million in unemployment benefits fraud from several states, including Maryland. According to court documents unsealed in California, the three Nigerian nationals filed for unemployment … Read more
Born in Greece to Nigerian parents, Antetokounmpo began playing basketball for the youth teams of Filathlitikos in Athens… Nigerian basketball stars, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jordan Nwora won the franchise’s first NBA championship in 50 years with the Milwaukee Bucks, a cruising to a 105-98 win over the visiting Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night. Exactly three … Read more
Appearing by video link in court on Monday, Zuma seeked a further delay in his corruption trial. A South African court has adjourned former president Jacob Zuma’s arms deal corruption trial to August 10, after he applied for a postponement to appear in person rather than virtually. Zuma’s jailing earlier this month ignited protests by … Read more
Coasting upward along an unpowered ballistic trajectory, Bezos and his crewmates enjoyed about three minutes of weightlessness Jeff Bezos, the richest human in the world, went to space on Tuesday. It was a brief trip — rising 60-some miles into the sky above West Texas — in a spacecraft that was built by Mr … Read more
The police department quickly took a screenshot of Graves’ comment, which received 37 replies before it was deleted. A woman on the run for her alleged role in a murder case has been apprehended after commenting on the police department’s Facebook post asking about reward money for her arrest. Last Wednesday, the police department … Read more
Mali has been struggling to contain an jihadist insurgency that first emerged in the north of the country in 2012. EKO HOT BLOG reports that two armed men, including one who wielded a knife, attacked Mali’s interim President Assimi Goita on Tuesday in the great mosque in the capital Bamako. The attack took place during … Read more
Moise had tapped Henry to replace Joseph as prime minister in the days before the president was shot dead in his home… Haiti’s interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who has run the country following the assassination of president Jovenel Moise, will step down and a new government will be formed with Ariel Henry as prime … Read more
But his depiction of Mohammed was met with the greatest outrage from Muslims. Kurt Westergaard, a Danish cartoonist whose pictorial depiction of prophet Mohammed sparked tremendous backlash, has passed away. Danish newspaper Berlingske reports that Westergaard died peacefully after a long illness at age 86. Danish broadcaster TV2 cited the former editor of Jyllands-Posten … Read more
He himself was then carried deep into the sea by the current. He couldn’t get out. EkoHotBlog reports that a Nigerian man, Eluemunor Richard Okasia tragically drowned after rescuing a drowning lady at a beach in Kaliningrad, Russia. The deceased was reportedly a student in a Marine University and got married barely a year … Read more
According to US health officials, a current spike in Covid-19 deaths and illnesses around the country is almost exclusively hitting people who remain unvaccinated President Joe Biden has said that social media misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccinations is “killing people” and the White House said Facebook needs to clean up its act. “They’re killing people. … Read more
But he stressed he has received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine and his symptoms were “very mild” British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Saturday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was self-isolating — just as his government prepared to jettison most pandemic restrictions in England. Under his government’s rules, Javid is now … Read more
The latest incident follows a July 6 crash of an An-26 plane in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, killing all 28 people on board. A Russian plane carrying at least 17 people that went missing on Friday in the Siberian region of Tomsk has been found and survivors have been spotted, officials said. The plane, … Read more
The protesters also submitted a petition against the Nigerian Government over what they described as an ‘Illegal detention’ of Mr. Kanu. The British Embassy in Ireland received some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who are protesting the arrest of the group’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu. EkoHotBlog earlier reported that Mr. Kanu was … Read more
Investigators are yet to establish whether the rest of the commando unit was ever informed of the true aim of the mission. Colombian mercenaries arrested for allegedly taking part in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise have confessed that they were hired to capture him and hand him over to the US Drug Enforcement … Read more
So far, 1,234 people have been arrested, according to police, but the chaos has continued. Looters were seen ransacking warehouses and supermarkets in the port city of Durban on Tuesday At least 72 people have been confirmed dead and a total of 1,234 people have been arrested in the ongoing riots sparked by the imprisonment of … Read more
The Federal Government has declared a three-day holiday for Eidul Azha. EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Federal Government of Pakistan has on Tuesday announced a three-day Eidul Azha holiday from July 20 to 22. The declaration was made after the meeting of the federal cabinet where several important decisions were taken. READ ALSO: Pakistan, Afghanistan … Read more
Soldiers patrolled the streets of Johannesburg in armored personnel carriers Tuesday, holding rifles with live ammunition as the military worked to gain some sense of order following the violence. EKO HOT BLOG reports that soldiers and police were struggling to restore order in parts of South Africa on Tuesday, as police said the number of … Read more
…world leaders to put in collaborative efforts to stop the spread of the new variant around the globe The World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded the alarm bells on the rampaging effects of the COVID-19 Delta strain that has now seen it spread across 104 countries. Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, made this known at a media … Read more
The rapidly transmissible COVID-19 Delta strain, first identified in India, is dominant in western Kenya, where it was initially detected in the country. Holders of Kenya passport cannot access 54 countries in the wake of COVID-19 ban in the global race to protect nations against new variants of coronavirus. The Henley Passport Index, which has … Read more
Opportunistic criminals appear to be taking advantage of the anger some feel over Zuma’s incarceration to steal and cause destruction, police said. South Africa has deployed military on the streets, to quell the violence that erupted in the wake of former president Jacob Zuma’s jailing, after days of riots left at least six people dead. … Read more