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By Cypher Ilerioluwa Duduspree News, Texas A disabled British man has been chosen for astronaut training by Europe's space agency, a world first. John McFall, 41, joined 16 men and women selected for the European Space Agency's (Esa) first new class of astronauts in 13 years. His right leg was amputated after a motorcycle crash when he was 19. He...

By Cypher Ilerioluwa Duduspree News, Texas Twelve people, including three women, have been flogged in front of thousands of onlookers at a football stadium in Afghanistan. The group were guilty of "moral crimes" including adultery, robbery and gay sex, a Taliban official told the News Department. This is thought to be the second time in a month the Islamist group...

By Cypher Ilerioluwa Duduspree News, Texas An employee at a Walmart supermarket in the US state of Virginia has shot dead six people and injured six others. Officers were called to the busy branch in Chesapeake after the gunman opened fire on colleagues in a staff room. He then turned the gun on himself and died of a self-inflicted gunshot...

By Cypher Ilerioluwa Duduspree News, Texas There was a mild drama at the Lagos airport on Wednesday afternoon when supporters of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and some party chieftains were prevented from boarding a campaign plane for their rally in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. The Deputy Director-General and Campaign Manager for the LP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Oseloka...

By Ajoke Ade Duduspree News, Washington The FIFA World Cup is here! As scheduled, 32 countries will battle it out in Qatar for the right to become World Champions.The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins today with the host nation Qatar (a well-known controversial and oppressive regime) facing off with Ecuador, a country that was under investigation for using an ineligible...

By Cypher Ilerioluwa Duduspree News, Texas Flight delays have become a norm in Nigeria. Many air travellers have had to wait for several hours, create a scene at airports or react angrily as the case may be before eventually flying to their destinations or getting a refund. In this report, SEGUN ODUNAYO examines this worrisome trendOn a Friday in December...

By Cypher Ilerioluwa Duduspree News, Texas https://twitter.com/MobilePunch/status/1592436248886796290?t=RHzhs4bb_Zxtm-NDCGpdUg&s=19 Duduspree News is not responsible for the content of external sites. View original tweet on Twitter A ṣe àbẹ̀wò sí bàbá Ọmọ́wálé Òdúmọ ti wọ́n há àwọn ìwé márààrún òǹkọ̀wé ìtàn àròsọ méríìírí ìgbàanì sórí, tí wọ́n sí ń kà wọ́n sí etígbọ̀ọ́ àwọn ènìyàn lóòrèkóòrè láti kọ́ ẹ̀kọ́ nínú wọn àti láti...

By Cypher Ilerioluwa Duduspree News, Texas Nearly a week after four University of Idaho students were found dead in their rental home, a coroner has revealed they were stabbed in their beds. The three young women and young man were probably sleeping when they were attacked on Sunday 13 November, said Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt. They were stabbed multiple...

By Cypher Ilerioluwa Duduspree News, Texas Humans could stay on the Moon for lengthy periods during this decade, a Nasa official has told the BBC. Howard Hu, who leads the Orion lunar spacecraft programme for the agency, said habitats would be needed to support scientific missions. He told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that Wednesday's launch of the Artemis rocket, which...

By Temitope Duduspree News, Texas Alcohol will not be sold to fans at the World Cup's eight stadiums in Qatar after Fifa changed its policy two days before the start of the tournament. Alcohol was set to be served "in select areas within stadiums", despite its sale being strictly controlled in the Muslim country. Those in corporate areas of stadiums at...

By Temitope Duduspree News, Texas The United States has said Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would be granted sovereign immunity over the civil case of the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Duduspreenews media department reports. Khashoggi, a renowned journalist, critic, dissident and author, was assassinated by the order of Salman, at the...

By Cypher Ilerioluwa Duduspree News, Texas Mention deadly cold and I think of polar explorers with icicles dangling from their beards and mountaineers tackling the heights of Everest; of fingers turning black with frostbite and the chilling clutch of hypothermia. So I was sceptical when I was asked to take part in a cold experiment that took place at just...

By Cypher Ilerioluwa Duduspree News, Texas https://youtu.be/QI9s-kF7wxk Watch: US attorney general announces appointment of special counsel An independent lawyer has been appointed to oversee the US justice department's criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump. Jack Smith, a former war crimes prosecutor, was named special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in a news conference. He will lead investigations into...

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to over 11 years in prison for defrauding investors in her blood testing startup that was once valued at $9bn (£7.5bn). The former Silicon Valley star falsely claimed the technology could diagnose disease with just a few drops of blood.Holmes, 38, who is pregnant, tearfully told the court she felt "deep pain" for...

…How we killed INEC staff and took his bus – Suspect No fewer than 20 criminal suspects have been arrested and paraded by the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, CP Echeng Echeng, at the force headquarters in Awka, on Friday. Some of the suspects confessed to various crimes and how they perpetrated their dastard acts before the police and journalists...

The family of jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah says his hunger strike was broken for him last Friday by prison authorities in Egypt after he had a "near-death experience". Abdel Fattah told his mother, sister and aunt during a visit that he collapsed in his cell and awoke with an intravenous drip in his arm. He had stopped drinking...

A man from the Canadian province of Quebec has been charged with terrorism for an alleged plot to topple the Haitian government of Jovenel Moise. Gerald Nicolas, 51, was charged by the RCMP, Canada's federal police force, on Thursday. President Moise was killed in July 2021 by gunmen who stormed his home in Port-au-Prince.Canadian police say the charges against Mr...

Nestcoin, a Nigerian cryptocurrency business, has stated that it lost its stablecoins due to the collapse of FTX, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency. Nestcoin, a Nigerian cryptocurrency business, has stated that it lost its stablecoins due to the collapse of FTX, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange. Bankman-Fried resigned as CEO of FTX last week, after the company, along with over 100...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK) chapter, have appealed to the Nasarawa State Government to release the 200 million naira promise for payment of Earned Allowance. The Union has an outstanding on billion naira and other outstanding welfare packages but the Nasarawa State Government promised to pay 200 million as part pay for the...

The Zamfara state Governor, Bello Matawalle has presented the 2023 appropriation bill tagged “Budget of peace and Development” to the State House of Assembly. The total Budget is 188, 872, 272 Billion naira with the capital at 98,976,227 and 102,:564,207 and 86,308,020 as recurrent expenditure. Security, Education, Agriculture, Health and Humanitarian Services take the highest. While presenting the Budget, the...