Author: OneAfricaYT

“From Comedy Central, it’s the all-new, government-approved ‘Daily Show,’ with your patriotically obedient host, Jon Stewart!” That’s how Thursday night’s edition of “The Daily Show” began, as Stewart — who normally only hosts the late-night talker on Mondays — stepped in to satirically showcase what “The Daily Show” might have to morph into as the Trump administration pushes for acquiescence from the media. The whole “administration-compliant” “Daily Show” bit, of course, was a response to this week’s suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and host Jimmy Kimmel after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to go after Disney because of that program’s…

Alaina GetzenbergCloseAlaina GetzenbergESPNAlaina Getzenberg covers the Buffalo Bills for ESPN. She joined ESPN in 2021. Alaina was previously a beat reporter for the Charlotte Observer and has also worked for CBS Sports and the Dallas Morning News. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.Marcel Louis-JacquesCloseMarcel Louis-JacquesESPNMarcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE award for breaking news and the South Carolina Press Association award for enterprise writing in 2018.Sep 18,…

Adrienne Murray & James BrooksTechnology ReportersBeta TechnologiesAlia on the way to Stavanger in NorwayAn aviation rarity touched down in the Norway’s second city of Bergen earlier this month.Alia had flown 100 miles (160km) in 55 minutes on battery power alone.Built by US aerospace company Beta Technologies, the electric plane is designed for cargo operations – carrying up to 560kg (half a tonne) loads.The flight had simulated a planned cargo route between the coastal cities of Stavanger and Bergen, and for the next few months test-flights will be carried out, as part of the country’s move towards establishing low-emission aviation.At the…

229 Novarick Homes has announced the launch of an ambitious initiative tagged Project 1600 – Vision 2045, a twenty-year plan to deliver 1,600 apartments across four of Nigeria’s key cities: Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan and Port Harcourt. Unlike a single large estate, the initiative will be executed through distributed housing developments built on available land in these cities, from single plots in densely packed urban communities to larger hectares where expansion is possible. Management says this approach reflects the realities of Nigeria’s property market and allows the company to adapt quickly to available resources while still working within a long-term vision.…

Simon Birmingham, the new Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Banking Association (ABA), says Australia should move quickly to ban card surcharges but proceed carefully on interchange fees to avoid giving multinational tech companies a windfall. ABA Backs Surcharge Ban Birmingham, a former senior Liberal government minister, told Sky News Business that the Reserve Bank of Australia’s draft plan to outlaw surcharges is “long overdue.” About 10% of Australian businesses still impose extra fees, which he said confuse customers and unfairly shift blame onto banks. “Consumers want clear, upfront pricing at the checkout,” Birmingham said. “Banks don’t much like getting…

The European Commission calls for a suspension of free trade agreements with Israel in response to the war on Gaza.The European Union says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is untenable.The bloc proposes a suspension of its trade agreement with Israel.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAnd it wants to impose sanctions on two ministers as well as settlers in the occupied West Bank.The change would make trade between the EU and Israel more costly for Israel.The proposal needs the approval of the European Council and may face a veto from some countries, including Germany.So will these financial measures pressure…

On the day that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson shot and the killed rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, prosecutors say, he texted his roommate to confess what he had done. While appearing to admit to the murder and describe how he was planning to retrieve his gun, he pivoted to mention why he had carved messages into the ammunition.“Remember how I was engraving bullets? The fuckin messages are mostly a big meme,” Robinson texted, according to authorities.Robinson’s shooting of Kirk has put the spotlight on the intersection of political violence and an increasingly nihilistic online world that promotes misinformation and extremism. It’s a…

Here are the key events on day 1,303 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 19 Sep 202519 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareHere is how things stand on Friday, September 19 :Fighting Ukrainian drones hit a key oil-processing and petrochemical complex in Russia’s Bashkortostan region, as well as an oil refinery in the Volgograd region, as Ukraine escalates its campaign against Russia’s extensive oil and gas sector. Russian military units claim to have breached Ukraine’s western village of Yampol and secured new positions near five residential areas in the same area, according to Russia’s state TASS news agency.…

In 2012, a plucky, headstrong young entrepreneur crashes a startup mixer in Los Angeles, desperately trying to get their big idea off the ground. Naive and ruthlessly ambitious, they brave the skeptics, the losers, the people too good to talk to them and the people who don’t take them seriously. Eventually, inevitably, their genius – obvious, unsinkable, perhaps diabolical – collides with opportunity. Voilà! An origin story is born.Swap out the date and the city, and this would describe a pivotal scene in any number of recent movies and TV shows that take cinematic interest in the self-mythology of entrepreneurs.…

UK High Court ruled against Eritrean man in case that tested new ‘one in, one out’ migration scheme.An Eritrean man who has been fighting to stay in the United Kingdom is set to be deported to France after losing a High Court bid to have his removal temporarily blocked.The 25-year-old Eritrean man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, crossed the English Channel in August and was originally due to be removed on Wednesday under a “one in, one out” pilot scheme agreed between the UK and France in July.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut London’s High Court…