To this end, the House resolved to invite the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, acting Comptroller-general of the Nigerian Immigration Service, and director-general and chief executive officer of NIMC to brief the relevant committees of the House on all necessary actions taken regarding the matter. the House also mandated …
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US President Joe Biden on Saturday, June 25, signed into law the most significant gun control bill in nearly 30 years less than 24 hours after it passed through Congress. The Democrat signed the bipartisan gun safety bill, which was drafted in the wake of the deadly mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and …
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Alleged mass shooter Payton S. Gendron has been charged with 26 federal hate crimes, which carries a death penalty over the killing of 10 Black people last month at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket. The charges against the White suspect came as Attorney General Merrick Garland visited the site of the …
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A local lawmaker told CNN Monday that “close to 50 people, including children” were killed after attackers stormed into St. Francis Catholic Church in the city of Owo and began “shooting sporadically.” “The death toll was quite large,” said Adeyemi Olayemi, the legislator representing the Owo constituency in the Ondo …
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Read More »“Here’s your reparations” – Buffalo supermarket mass shooter wrote racist messages on weapon used in attack (photos)
Payton Gendron, the young man responsible for killing 10 people at a Buffalo grocery store had hateful messages on the gun he used in the attack. On Saturday afternoon, May 14, Payton drove more than three hours from his hometown of Conklin in New York State, to the Tops Friendly Market in a …
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