Author: News Room

Members of California’s Black reparations task force handed off their historic two-year report to state lawmakers Thursday (June 29), beginning the next chapter in the long struggle to compensate the descendants of slavery. The first U.S. panel of its kind met one last time Thursday, urging supporters to press lawmakers into action on more than 100 recommendations. State legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom must agree for any money to be… Read the full article here

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has rejected the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards prepared by the National Universities Commission. The union said it was nightmarish, a threat to quality university education, and an erosion of powers of the university Senate in Nigerian universities. A statement signed by the national president of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, on Friday, explained that it was inexplicable that NUC pre-packaged 70 per cent CCMAS contents… Read the full article here

It could be the end of an era with regards to the Manchester United goalkeeping position with reports across English media suggesting the club will move on from former Spain international David de Gea and instead turn their attention to Andre Onana from Inter Milan. De Gea, 32, has been at United since arriving from Atletico Madrid in 2011, making 545 appearances for the club. Cameroon international Onana is five years younger at 27 and has been with Inter Milan since 2022, prior to that he… Read the full article here

There was a sign in the Google Reader team’s workspace at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. “Days Since Cancellation,” it read, with a number below: zero. It was always zero.This was in 2006 or so, back when Google Reader was still growing. Back when it still existed at all. Google’s feed-reading tool offered a powerful way to curate and read the internet and was beloved by its users. Reader launched in 2005, right as the blogging era went mainstream; it made… Read the full article here

Receive free South Africa updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest South Africa news every morning. South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has been cleared by a state ombudsman of wrongdoing over the theft of thousands of US dollars stuffed into a sofa on his private game farm, a boost as he battles to put the biggest threat to his presidency behind him.Kholeka Gcaleka, South Africa’s acting public protector, said on Friday that Ramaphosa did not… Read the full article here

Cryptocurrency-friendly neobank Revolut is next to delist a batch of digital assets on its platform in the United States amid the ongoing regulatory developments in the country.Revolut is preparing to completely delist tokens like Cardano (ADA), Polygon (MATIC) and Solana (SOL) from its platform in September, a spokesperson for the firm told Cointelegraph.On June 29, Revolut notified its U.S. customers about the change, stating that buying ADA, MATIC and SOL is immediately closed for all… Read the full article here

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny does not feature Indy’s son, Mutt Williams, but his absence doesn’t go unexplained. [Spoilers ahead!] Mutt, played by Shia LaBeouf, was introduced in 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as a 1950s greaser who was looking for his abducted mother and turned to everyone’s favorite archaeologist for help. Indiana (Harrison Ford) helped reunite Mutt with his mom  — only to realize that she is his ex-girlfriend… Read the full article here

The National Vice President of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Munnir Lamido, has been reported missing. Mr Lamido has not been seen for about a week, his friends and family members have said. A family source, who asked not to be named because he has not been authorised to speak with the press, said the last time Mr Lamido communicated with his family, on 23 June, he was travelling to Kaduna from Zaria. On Friday, MACBAN confirmed that Mr Lamido was… Read the full article here

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Verily, all praise is for Allah. We praise Him, we seek His assistance and we ask for His forgiveness. And we seek refuge in Him from the evils of ourselves. Whoever Allah guides, none can misguide. Whoever He misguides, none can guide. And I bear witness that there is no deity other than Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and messenger. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu… Read the full article here

Paris Saint Germain manager, Christophe Galtier, was on Friday held for questioning along with his son as part of a probe into alleged discrimination, the Nice prosecutor told AFP on Friday. This follows an investigation launched in April, following claims that Galtier made racist and Islamophobic comments about players when he coached Nice in the 2021/2022 campaign. The prosecutor said they would provide more information on Galtier’s arrest and his son via a statement later on… Read the full article here