It’s illegal to insult Islam in the Netherlands now? When did the Netherlands adopt Sharia?“Anti-Islam group Pegida attempts to burn Koran in Rotterdam; Leader arrested,” NL Times, October 23, 2022: The anti-Islam group Pegida announced it would burn a Koran near Rotterdam Central Station on Saturday, amid outcry from Muslim counter-protesters. However, the police arrested the group’s leader and confiscated the Koran before the demonstration was under completely underway, according to Rijnmond. Edwin Wagensveld, Pegida’s foreman, could be heard insulting Islam and the prophet Muhammad during his arrest. He was arrested for “insulting the faith,” according to Rijnmond….Pegida announced beforehand…
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Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle Reveals She Is partly NigerianDuchess of Sussex Meghan Markle Reveals She Is partly NigerianThe Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle has revealed that she is partly Nigerian.Making this disclosure in the last episode of her Archetypes podcast, Meghan detailed that she did a genealogy test, which found she is 43 percent Nigerian. Meghan Markle stated that she was “very delighted to sit down” with Nigerian-American comedian Ziwe Fumudoh, host of the Showtime program Ziwe, to share the revelation.“I just got my genealogy done a couple of years ago, I’m 43 percent Nigerian,” she said. “I’m going…
I am a thirty-eight-year-old Muslim woman who has been married for three years. And thanks be to Allah, we have a lively two-year-old boy. My husband is everything a Muslim woman might want to have in a man. He protects us and provides for us by every means possible. Though we are very much in love with each other we are polar opposites. On one hand, there is me, an introvert to the core. And on the hand, there is him, a man of the people.I enjoy spending time by myself, but that does not mean I am lonely, as…
I am a health worker in my late twenties. I moved to my current region about a year ago because of an unhealthy and complicated relationship I had with the father of my children. We have two children together but, in the end, I had to choose myself and the interests of my children. People talked when I moved away but I didn’t care about any of that. I told myself, “These people who are judging me now are the same people who will show up at my funeral in tears if that relationship kills me.”Eight months after I moved…
World’s di3tiest man dies after taking his first bath in decades An Iranian man nicknamed the “dirtiest man in the world” for not taking a shower for decades has died at the age of 94, state media reported on Tuesday. Amou Haji, who did not wash for more than half a century and was single, d#ed on Sunday in the village of Dejgah in the southern province of Fars, IRNA news agency reports. Haji had avoided showering over fears of “getting sick”, the agency quoted a local official as saying. But “for the first time a few months ago, villagers…
In a rare and shocking true love story, a Tanzanian man, Rashidi has narrated how he became visually impaired years after marrying a lady living with visual impairment known as Lilian. He said that his family members made a mockery of him and rejected him when he informed them that he has fallen for a woman who is unable to see.The Tanzanian couple shared their story with Afrimax in an interview as they engaged in Public display of affection. When Rashidi, a native of Arusha, indicated interest in her, Lilian was shocked at how a normal person who has never…
The Owode-Idi-Iroko in the Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State was thrown into pandemonium when some soldiers allegedly shot a resident dead.It was gathered that an angry mob attacked and killed an innocent Air Force officer in what appeared like a reprisal attack after the soldiers that perpetrated the crime fled the scene. Findings show that the soldiers came from Badagry, Lagos, in an alleged search of contraband items…The soldiers reportedly stormed Owode Market and broke some shops in search of contraband goods and carted away bags of rice. Prices of foreign rice is said to be on…
We met in SHS. He loved me and I loved him too. He couldn’t propose to me and I obviously couldn’t propose to him too. He came to my house often to visit, so much so that my parents got to know him. I on the other hand was not allowed to go out so I couldn’t visit him during the time when we were in school. When we completed, I gathered the courage to ask permission from my parents to go and visit him and to my surprise, they allowed me. I visited his place often until his parents…
The body of a 13-year-old boy, Tosin Faisal Otun, has been recovered four days after he was swept away by flood in Abuja. According to the victim’s sister, Toyosi, the incident happened when the victim was sent to get a goat tied beside a drainage channel close to their house along SCC Road in the Bwari area of Abuja. Shortly after the incident, Toyosi took to Twitter to announce that he was missing.”Pls, help find my brother. His name is Tosin Faisal Otun, a 13-year-old. He was swept away by water on Friday around 4pm, 14th October, 2022. Pls, retweet…
A Nigerian lady simply identified as Damilola, has reacted to the news of possible power cuts in the United Kingdom where she currently resides. The UK National Grid electricity system operator (ESO) on Monday, alerted residents of energy blackouts this winter, while asking that they unplug household appliances.Following the news, Damilola said that the issue of national grid collapse which is a frequent occurrence in Nigeria has followed her abroad.Quoting the report, she wrote; ”National grid wahala still followed me 😩” Meanwhle, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Power, Goddy Jedy-Agba, earlier said the national grid has not collapsed this year.Speaking…