The shortlist for the 2024 Time Person of the Year award was announced on Monday, unveiling ten candidates under consideration for the prestigious title. The nominees, revealed on NBC’s Today Show, represent individuals and concepts that have made the most significant impact—whether positive or negative—over the past year. EDITOR’S PICKS PDP Declares Ethiope East Federal … Read more
Vice President Kashim Shettima on Thursday, canceled his trip to the 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in Samoa. EKO HOT BLOG reported that President Bola Tinubu had appointed Shettima to represent Nigeria at the upcoming summit. However, on Thursday night, the presidency announced the trip’s cancellation after a foreign object struck the vice president’s … Read more
Girl who vanished from Australian campsite found alive after weeks of searching Ekohotblog reports that a 4-year-old girl who was reportedly taken from her family’s tent at a rural Western Australian camping more than two weeks ago has been discovered alive. Police discovered Cleo Smith in a residence near her home in Carnarvon, a tiny … Read more
‘You’re choking me!’ Black jogger, 33, screams as he’s forcefully arrested in San Antonio and then detained for two days in case of mistaken identity -despite victim in the case telling cops they had the wrong man. Nigerian American Mathias Ometu, a 33-year-old insurance adjuster, was arrested by police for “jogging while black’ in San … Read more
Canada’s transport agency said on Friday it will take a Boeing 737 MAX out, for a test flight, more than a year after two deadly crashes led to the jetliner’s grounding around the world. In a statement to AFP, Transport Canada said it would conduct the test flights in US airspace during the week of … Read more
United States President Donald Trump has urged more universities to reopen. The American President said that COVID-19 is very dangerous for older people, Trump said youths are less at risk. “For university students, the likelihood of severe illness is less than or equal to the risk of a seasonal flu,” CNBC quoted Trump as saying. … Read more
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa of Portugal has rescued two women from drowning at an Algarve beach after their kayak capsized, BBC says. The 71-year President was pictured swimming over to the kayakers who were struggling in the water. De Sousa later told the press that the women had been swept by currents from a … Read more
White House hopeful Joe Biden on Friday leveled fierce criticism at Donald Trump, with his campaign saying the president has resorted to “abhorrent” lies about Democrat Kamala Harris’s eligibility to be vice president. Biden named Harris, a woman of colour who was born in the United States and is constitutionally eligible to be both vice … Read more
A French bus driver who was badly beaten by passengers after asking them to wear face masks in line with coronavirus rules has died, his family said. His death has sparked tributes from political leaders who condemned his “cowardly” attackers. Philippe Monguillot, 59, was left brain dead by the attack in the south-western town of … Read more