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Oil producing countries are bracing for a bumpy ride this year, with a precipitous drop in prices to the lowest levels in four years seen as the initial, alarming sign of looming turmoil. A price drop benefits any country seeking to cut its fuel bill. But in oil producing nations, lower prices can feed economic troubles, and sometimes political unrest, as governments slash spending. Analysts who had already been predicting lower oil prices because of softening demand amid increased global production said the possibility of a tariff trade war and the overall climate of uncertainty could well deepen producers’ woes....

The spread of Chinese overseas police service stations around the world raises concerns among human rights campaigners. The Chinese government is opening illegal police posts all over the world. China claims that these posts are capable of cracking down on global and multinational crimes. These checkpoints have been opened in many countries around the world including developed countries like Canada and Ireland. According to local media reports, Fuzhou has established informal police service stations affiliated with the Public Security Bureau (PSB) across Canada. At least three of these stations are located in the Greater Toronto Area only. Chinese Police Station...

Jihadists are murdering, raping, torturing, kidnapping, enslaving, and, in some instances, burning people alive — across Africa, and now in Syria. Local jihadist organizations go by different names, but the ideology that drives them is the same: Every one of them deeply believes that Allah wants him to wipe the world clean of the kuffar (infidels). More than 16.2 million Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa have been driven from their homes by jihadi violence and conflict, reports the human rights organization Open Doors. Women and girls are abducted, forced into "marriage," forced to convert to Islam, raped, and subjected to forced...

An Evangelical mission doctor has warned that millions of lives are at stake surrounding the potential dismantling of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), as country music artists led by Amy Grant have called for the program's reauthorization. PEPFAR, launched in 2003 under President George W. Bush, is the largest global health initiative focused on a single disease, HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR has sent over $100 billion to more than 50 countries in the last two decades, providing antiretroviral therapy (ARVs) life-saving treatment and infrastructure support to regions most affected by the epidemic, particularly in Africa. However, recent aid...

As Nigeria continues to experience unparalleled levels of murder, kidnappings, and rape at the hands of radical Islamist terrorists targeting Christians and other religious minorities, a House subcommittee hearing held Wednesday concluded that the most populous country in Africa must be redesignated as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) by the U.S. Department of State in order to pressure the Nigerian government to take more forceful action to quell the violence.

Authorities have issued an alert for a 35-year-old British man who was taking flight lessons at Gwinnett County Airport-Briscoe Field and allegedly tried to have his pilot rating upgraded despite not being qualified. In a special alert bulletin sent to law enforcement agencies and aviation facilities this week, the Atlanta Joint Terrorism Task Force said the man, Zayead Christopher Hajaig, became "aggressive" and also tried to have the flight school speed up his training schedule, which began in 2002 and continued off and on for more than two and a half years. The flight school notified the task force. The...

A prominent Obama administration trade advisor is one of the central players in a series of scandals and ethical rows that have reportedly placed him in cahoots with corrupt Congolese warlords and other questionable figures. Kase Lawal, an oil mogul with longstanding ties to the Clinton family, was appointed in 2010 as a member of Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. Since his selection to the trade board, Lawal has become enmeshed in a pact to purchase large quantities of illegal gold from a violent Congolese warlord, according to a U.N. investigation and various reports. The crooked gold...

House Republicans brought the receipts to this week's "USAID Betrayal" hearing exposing the U.S. international aid agency's widespread waste and abuse of American tax dollars. Amid intense examination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)'s spending spree, Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), a majority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, listed off more ways USAID has wasted taxpayer money. [snip] According to the congressional committee's findings, USAID spent: $11.75 million on measuring the effectiveness of DEI promotion efforts in Nepal (Award ID #AID367C1500001); $750,000 on Princeton University's DEI survey in the Middle East (Award ID #7200AA21C00087); $859,000 on hiring...

FILED UNDER: You just can’t make this sh*t up!! Meet Nigerian Prince Ifeanyi Ossai Nwabuonwu Idriss. Last year, his company, CribProcure Inc., received $1.4 MILLION from FEMA for bottled water for illegal immigrants in NYC. But wait, it gets better!! CribProcure Inc. is not certified or registered to participate in NYC’s procurement process or conduct business with the city. This raises the question: how was Idriss able to secure a contract with the city without proper documentation? Additionally, branches of his company may have ties to the WEF. DOGE and Big Balls need to look into NYC contracts funded by...

A federal whistleblower has come forward with allegations that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was involved in the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The whistleblower, identified as Hadassah Feinberg, a former Pennsylvania State Police employee, filed a criminal complaint on February 7, 2025, detailing claims that Shapiro conspired with other officials to orchestrate the attack as part of a political scheme. ... According to the complaint, President Joe Biden made frequent visits to Shapiro in the weeks leading up to the Trump rally to discuss what was described as an “obstacle” faced by...

Chemonics International Inc. agreed to pay a fine of $3.1 million to the U.S. government over the fraudulent activities of its Nigerian subcontractor Zenith Carex for inflating its bills, massively overcharging U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for distributing sensitive HIV/AIDS treatment packages. USAID had awarded the contract of delivering certain healthcare products to Chemonics, which later hired Zenith Carex for last-mile delivery (LMD) and long-haul delivery (LHD) services to execute the contract. Zenith Carex, a logistics and freight forwarding company based in Abuja, Nigeria, inflated its invoices to deliver the products which include HIV test reagents, a financial crime...

DOGE: David Lebryk controlled the computerized payment system responsible for $6 trillion in Treasury payments before he refused to give Trump's DOGE team access to the system. His manager was a Nigerian immigrant appointed by Biden. He quit two weeks ago. ... Obama hired him ... Adeyemo was an Obama insider. He was Director of the National Economic Council under Obama AND he was a Sr Advisor at BlackRock - Very Convenient for them. We’re going to find out how MUCH the Treasury Department stole from the American taxpayers now. People are going to prison. ... Biden really did try...

For more than 50 years, one family has dedicated itself to caring for the biggest graveyard in Nigeria's northern city of Kaduna - much to the gratitude of other residents who do not fancy the job of dealing with the dead. Until a few weeks ago, they did it for no formal pay - digging graves, washing corpses and tending to the vast cemetery, receiving only small donations from mourners for their labour. The vast Tudun Wada Cemetery was set aside for the Muslim residents of the city by the authorities a century ago. The Abdullahi family became involved in...

Jihadist Genocide Of Christians In Nigeria Bloodiest In 2023: 8,222 Hacked To Death From Jan-Jan ..Nigeria: second deadliest genocide country (150,000 deaths since 2009) after Syria’s 306,000 deaths since 2011 … Nigeria is second in the world list of ’Fourteen Genocides’ (ongoing) and ‘Seven Warning Genocides’ Emerging Shocking Statistics: 1,450 Christian Deaths In 2023 In Benue, 1,400 In Plateau, 822 In Kaduna, 730 In Niger, Etc 8,400 Christians Abducted In 2023 And 840 Never Returned Alive From Captivity Military, Police Abducted 800 In 2023 In South-East Who Never Returned Alive Till Date Jihadist Herdsmen Abducted 1000 Easterners In 2023 In...

The couple, though not legally divorced, reportedly had a history of frequent conflicts that led to their living separately.Bishop Shina Olaribigbe, the founder of Rapture Empowerment International in Osogbo, Osun State, was tragically stabbed to death in the early hours of Thursday while trying to mediate a domestic dispute between a couple. Although details about the couple remain unclear, sources disclosed that the wife served as an interpreter at Bishop Olaribigbe’s church, located in the BCGA area of Osogbo. The couple, though not legally divorced, reportedly had a history of frequent conflicts that led to their living separately. It...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - A series of witnesses place six top al-Qaida fugitives in Africa buying up diamonds in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a confidential report by UN-backed prosecutors obtained by The Associated Press. The first-person accounts detailed by the prosecutors add to long-standing claims that al-Qaida laundered millions of dollars in terror funds through African diamonds before launching its deadliest offensive. Al-Qaida figures, including some already wanted in pre-Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. targets, dealt directly with then-president Charles Taylor and other leaders and warlords in the West African country of Liberia from 1999...

The woman was beaten to death following allegations of witchcraft against her.(Nigeria) A State High Court in Enugu State has discharged a Nigerian man who was charged with the murder of a woman accused of being a witch. The man, Michael Chukwuilo, was charged with the murder of the woman, Agatha Chukwuilo, in Ululor, a community in Awgu Local Government Area of the state. How it happenedIn January 2022, the man was said to have alleged that Agatha had killed many villagers through witchcraft and had perfected plans to kill her daughter and husband, Remigius Chukwuilo. Agatha was said to...

President-elect Donald Trump named Massad Boulos, a Lebanon-born billionaire and the father-in-law of Trump's youngest daughter Tiffany, as his senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs on Sunday. The announcement, made on Trump's Truth Social platform, praised Boulos as "an accomplished lawyer" who is an "unwavering supporter of peace in the Middle East." "I am proud to announce that Massad Boulos will serve as Senior Advisor to the President on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Massad is an accomplished lawyer and a highly respected leader in the business world, with extensive experience on the International scene," Trump wrote. "Massad...

Donald Trump’s election victory has been received with mixed feelings worldwide. In Nigeria, a separatist group hopes it will free their detained leader. A viral video on X claims that the US president-elect has given the Nigerian government a deadline to release Nnamdi Kanu, head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This is misleading; the video’s audio was digitally altered. The original footage is from Trump’s victory speech after this year’s US election. On November 15, 2024, an account on X shared a video with a caption that reads: “U.S President Donald Trump gives Nigeria government till 31st November...

DOJ issued press release that misrepresented Colorado Springs mayor's involvement.. The FBI referred Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade for prosecution for making false statements related to a hate crime hoax intended to boost his candidacy, but the Department of Justice refused to pursue it for racial and political reasons, an FBI official told The Daily Wire. On Nov. 12 the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado announced that three of Mobolade’s supporters had been charged with writing the n-word on one of his campaign signs, erecting a burning cross in front of it, and sending video of the...