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Corps Member Receives Applause For Donating Solar Power To Community In Edo

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4 years ago

December 10, 2021

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Kogi-born 27-year-old National Youth Corps member serving in Edo State, Emmanuel Fache, has donated six Solar Electricity Power to major streets that lead to Agbonmoba community in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state.

Commenting at the event, the Edo State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs. Abiodun Olubukola, described Fache as a young man that is full of wisdom, insight, idea, courage, determination and focus who is eager to finish what he has started despite the obstacles.

The NYSC State Coordinator, represented at the occasion by NYSC Ikpob-Okha Local Inspector, Mrs. Uzebor A. Lixcana, begged the community youths, elders and the people to help monitor the facilities so that hoodlums will not steal or destroy them.

Olubukola equally urged other corps members to emulate Corps Member for making his environment better and for not leaving the environment the way he meant it.

She explained that definitely Agbonmoba community will keep on remembering Fache for the luadable, durable and tangible project in the locality.

“I also want to thank NYSC as a Scheme for giving us the opportunity for us to have a gathering like this. If not NYSC we will not be able to have a forum like this. I thank the State Coordinator NYSC in Edo State, Mrs. Olubukola, all the Staff, LGIs, Directors and Corp members for making this occasion a reality.

” Corp member Emmanuel Fache Omeiza, has done well. Among 225 Corp members serving in Edo state, only two distinguished themselves. They distingusihed themselves among other corps members for carrying out personal projects. That is what NYSC scheme is all about, not leaving their localities the way they meant it. Making the community better than the way they meant it before they came.

“What corp member Emmanuel Omeiza did is to brighten and lighten the locality. By providing six solar light to this Agbonmoba community. I want to say, back to darkness and welcomed to light. This community will never experience darkness any more. This project is a luiadable one, durable and is going to last for long. I beg the community that they should keep watching this project. And this project will fulfil the purpose why it is done.

“Let it continue to give light to this community, and Agbonmoba locality keep on enjoying the light. For Corp member Emmanuel Fache Omeiza, the community will never forget you in a hurry. They will keep remembering you, even after you have gone. Keep whatever you are doing, you may not know when it would pay you.

“It may not pay you, but your children or your generation. And I know God will surely reward you for it. Above all, corps members that are here, Presco and all that came to grace this event, I want to thank you for coming,” she asserted.

In her remarks, the Health and Safety Environment, Presco Plc, Edo State where Emmanuel Omeiza is serving, Mrs. Benedicta Elvis-Ogbe, Corper Omeiza is somebody that does not easily give up, when embarking on his projects.

She described Corps Member as a person who is focused with clear direction, adding that despite the constrains and plights, he did not give up until he saw the success of the projects.

In his comments, the General Secretary, Agbonmoba community, Mr. Efemwenkiekie Osamuyi, described Corper Emmanuel Fache Omeiza, as somebody that is reliable, dedicated and committed to seeing whatever he has started comes to a fruition.

Osamuyi appealed to other corps members to emulate Corper Omeiza to make the community more better and conducive to leave.

He added that the locality is a business environment full of various activities that make life moves on.

Disclosing what prompted him to execute the project, Fache posited that he embarked on the project after he had concluded with his investigation that the street leading to Agbonmoba village is often served as hideout to criminals, hoodlums and armed robbers who robbed and raped people in the community by night, hence he was motivated to installed the six solar electricity power to the street to light up the area to avoid chaos in the locality.

“As a young man coming from a very humble background, I experienced how difficult it could be to traverse through a society that has little or nothing to offer for survival and fulfilment of life dreams, especially, the youths, children of this generation.”

Continuing, Corper Omeiza asserted, “surviving through this as an ” Orphan,” to become a first -class university graduate, created a person in me to improve my society. I started my youth service with the urge to make an impact in my location, I would be posted to serve. I set out to implement initiatives that would help enhance life in my locality.

Talking about how he started conceiving the idea he said: “Several ideas were conceived, but could not be implemented due to inability to raise funds. Eventually, the need for this solar power lighting for Agbonmoba community was identified considering past criminal activities, which was made easier by the darkness around the area. I believe this project is a good response to one the ways to help curb the criminal activities.

“As I remain committed knowing that there is still more to be done to enhance and bring advancement to the society, I encourage governments, and all individuals to continue with this social responsibilities.”

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US Revokes Visas Of Foreigners Who Mocked Kirk’s Assassination

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October 15, 2025

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The United States has revoked the visas of several foreign nationals who publicly mocked or celebrated the killing of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk, officials confirmed on Tuesday.

The State Department said the decision followed an internal review of social media posts deemed “offensive and contrary to U.S. values,” adding that the country “has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.”

Kirk, 31, co-founder of the conservative youth group Turning Point USA and a strong ally of former President Donald Trump, was shot dead during a political rally on 10 September.

His killing drew widespread condemnation across the political spectrum, with many describing the act as a targeted attack on free speech.

According to U.S. authorities, at least six individuals from Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico, and Germany had their visas revoked after making comments online that celebrated Kirk’s murder or insulted his supporters.

Examples cited by officials included posts calling Kirk a racist who deserved it, and messages mocking grieving Americans.

“We will not tolerate foreigners who promote or celebrate acts of violence against U.S. citizens,” a State Department spokesperson said.

The move underscores Washington’s growing use of immigration powers to respond to online behaviour perceived as threatening or disrespectful towards the country.

The Department said it continues to monitor social media content for evidence of incitement or endorsement of violence.
Civil liberties advocates, however, have questioned the decision, arguing that revoking visas for social media comments could set a worrying precedent.

Officials maintained that the visa cancellations were lawful, limited in scope, and aimed at protecting national integrity.

“Freedom of speech does not extend to foreigners seeking the privilege of entry while glorifying violence,” the spokesperson added.

The United States has increased visa scrutiny in recent years, requiring applicants to disclose social media handles and online activity.

The policy, officials say, is designed to prevent extremist sympathisers or those expressing hostility towards the country from entering its borders

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Israeli PM Netanyahu Back In Court For Graft Trial

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October 15, 2025

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was back in a Tel Aviv court on Wednesday for the latest hearing in his long-running corruption trial, which opened in May 2020.

The prime minister kept a smiling face as he and his entourage of several ministers from his conservative Likud party were heckled by protesters en route to the tribunal.

It comes after US President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that the Israeli premier should be pardoned in his three separate corruption cases.

His latest appearance at the Tel Aviv court also follows the return of the hostages taken by Hamas as part of Trump’s US-brokered plan to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

In one case, Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, are accused of accepting more than $260,000 worth of luxury goods, including champagne, cigars and jewellery, from billionaires in exchange for political favours.

In two other instances, Netanyahu is also charged with attempting to negotiate better press coverage from two Israeli media outlets. He has denied any wrongdoing, claiming to be the victim of a political plot.

During his current term, which started in late 2022, Netanyahu has proposed far-reaching judicial reforms that critics say sought to weaken the courts.

Those prompted massive protests that only abated after the onset of the Gaza war, sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

In an address on Monday to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, Trump told the chamber that Netanyahu should receive a pardon in the graft cases.

“Cigars and champagne, who the hell cares about that?” Trump joked, before asking his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog: “Why don’t you give him a pardon?”

The Israeli premier is also subject to an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on suspicion of ordering war crimes in his government’s assault on Hamas militants in Gaza.

Netanyahu holds the record for the most years spent at the head of Israel’s government, having served 18 years in several stints as premier since 1996.

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FULL LIST: US Set To Carry Out Four Executions This Week

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October 15, 2025

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A Florida man convicted of murdering two women he hired for sex was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday, one of four executions to be carried out in the United States this week.

Samuel Smithers, 72, was sentenced to death in 1999 for the 1996 killings of Christy Cowan and Denise Roach in Tampa. They had been beaten and strangled and their bodies were found in a pond.

Smithers was executed at a Florida state prison at 6:15 pm (2215 GMT), the 14th execution in the southern state this year.

Another convicted murderer was also put to death by lethal injection in the midwestern state of Missouri on Tuesday.

The execution of Lance Shockley, 48, was carried out at 6:13 pm (2313 GMT) for the 2005 murder of a police sergeant, Carl Graham.

Graham was gunned down in an ambush at his home. The officer had been investigating a fatal car accident involving Shockley at the time.

Shockley maintained his innocence but his appeals were rejected by numerous courts, including the Supreme Court. Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe rejected his clemency request on Monday.

Two other executions are scheduled this week.

Charles Crawford, 59, is to be put to death by lethal injection in Mississippi on Wednesday for the 1994 rape and murder of Kristy Ray, a 20-year-old college student.

Richard Djerf, 55, is to be executed by lethal injection in Arizona on Friday for the brutal 1993 murders of four members of a Phoenix family.

In a letter last month apologizing for the crime, Djerf said he was ready to die and would not seek clemency.

“If I can’t find reason to spare my life, what reason would anyone else have?” he wrote.

There have been 37 executions in the United States this year, the most since 2013, when 39 inmates were put to death.

Florida has carried out the most executions with 14, followed by Texas with five and South Carolina and Alabama with four.

Thirty-one of this year’s executions have been carried out by lethal injection, two by firing squad and four by nitrogen hypoxia, which involves pumping nitrogen gas into a face mask, causing the prisoner to suffocate.

The use of nitrogen gas as a method of capital punishment has been denounced by United Nations experts as cruel and inhumane.

The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states, while three others — California, Oregon and Pennsylvania — have moratoriums in place.

President Donald Trump is a proponent of capital punishment and, on his first day in office, called for an expansion of its use “for the vilest crimes.”