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Sorry Rick Perry, Trump is not the 'chosen one' (opinion)

Rick Perry, as well as being energy secretary, is also a bit of a self-styled theologian, as we saw on Fox Newsthis past weekend. He told viewers that President Trump was installed in the Oval Office by God. Perry said he was a "big believer" that the Lord involves himself in the "details of the day-to-day lives of government," having picked Obama, too. Mr. Perry says he told Trump to his face that he was "the chosen one." RELATED Trump is ‘the chosen one, sent by God to do great things,’ says president’s adviser This notion has been going around the administration like a strange virus. Trump's former press secretary, Sarah Sanders, saw God's hand in picking Trump, as did Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was asked by a Christian Broadcasting Network interviewer: "Could it be that President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from the Iranian menace?"Pom...

Fast-moving fire threatens homes in Santa Barbara County

Fire ripped through brush and woodland on hills above the Californian city of Santa Barbara early on Tuesday, forcing residents to leave their homes, authorities said. RELATED Santa Barbara-area fire: Cave Fire has charred more than 4,300 acres and is 10% contained The Santa Barbara County declared a local emergency at 10:30 p.m (0630 GMT) on Monday night, after a fire broke out in Los Padres National Forest at about 4:15 p.m. The flames spread quickly to cover about 3,000 acres by the evening and have not yet been contained, Santa Barbara County said in a statement. "An evacuation warning is being issued for the area north of Foothill Road and Ontare to Gibraltar Road," the office said, referring to areas north of the city. The blaze, dubbed the "cave fire", started near East Camino Cielo and Painted Cave Road in the forest. "The Cave Fire is advancing towards major population areas in the cities of Santa Barbara and Goleta," the county said. Firefighters...

Inside the US government's top-secret bioweapons lab

Dugway Proving Ground tests and stores some of the deadliest chemical and biological agents on earth. The facility, which opened in 1942, covers about 800,000 acres - larger than the state of Rhode Island. Past experiments include weaponized mosquitoes and fleas, as well as tests with deadly diseases such as anthrax. Narrator : In 1968, about 6,000 sheep died near this government facility. They were poisoned by a chemical weapon named VX. The US hasn't been known to actively use VX in combat. In fact, it's begun destroying its stockpile of chemical munitions as part of a UN treaty. But it's just one of many strange and secretive experiments that happened within these walls. Experiments on sheep, mosquitoes, and even civilians. About 85 miles southwest of Salt Lake City is the US government's top-secret bioweapons lab. It's called the Dugway Proving Ground. The 77-year-old facility covers about 800,000 acres. That's just a little larger than the entire state of R...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled Cybertruck , the company's first passenger truck, on Thursday night.

During the presentation, Musk took shots at traditional makers in his usual fashion. "We've always focused on serving our truck customers regardless of what others say or do," a Ford spokesperson told Business Insider. Elon Musk didn't hold back on his usual criticism of traditional automakers as he  unveiled Tesla's long-awaited Crybertruck on Thursday  . But Ford doesn't seem to scared. "Trucks have been the same for a very long time, like 100 years," Musk told the crowd at Tesla's design center in Hawthorne, California. "We wanted to try something different." After showing the Tesla truck could withstand more damage from a sledgehammer than a regular truck's door, Musk said "You want a truck that's really tough, not fake tough." That might be the case, but for America's consumers, the truck they've wanted for decades has been the Ford F-150. In response to Musk's shade at it and other automakers, Ford se...

EFCC To Arraign ‘Mompha’ On Monday For Alleged Fraud

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a 14 charge of alleged fraud and money laundering against internet celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha.  Mompha is to be arraigned before Justice Mohammad Liman of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi Lagos on Monday, November 25. In the first charge, the EFCC said that between 2015 & 2018, Mompha procured Ismalob Global Investment Ltd to retain the sum of N18m in its account, a sum suspected to be proceeds of crime. Only yesterday, Mompha had filed a Fundamental Rights Enforcement Suit before the Lagos High Court to challenge his continued detention by the EFCC. He asked the court to award him N5m in damages against the EFCC for what he called his unlawful detention. See charge sheet below:

Here are the five Nigerians with Grammy nominations

This list is limited to Nigerian acts who have been nominated for their own work and not those nominated by association. On November 20, 2019, nominations for the 62nd Grammy Awards were announced at 2:30 pm. Burna Boy's album,  African Giant  got nominated in the Best World Music Album category. He was nominated in the category alongside  Altin Gün  for  Gece, Bokanté & Metropole Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley  for What Heat,  Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet  for  Fanm D'Ayiti,  and  Angelique Kidjo  for  Celia. But Burna Boy is not the first Nigerian to get a Grammy Award nomination. This article will document Burna Boy and the five other Nigerians to get nominated for a Grammy Award. Please note that this list only includes Nigerians who got nominated for their own work and not ones who got nominated by association. Here is the list; a.) Artist: King Sunny Ade Profession : Artiste, Instrumentalist, Musicia...