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Acedude:
Wtf is your headline?! You no read the title wey you post. Does it makes sense to you?

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi withdrew from a long-planned interview with CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, after she declined a last-minute demand to wear a head scarf.

Some 40 minutes after the interview was scheduled due to start and with Raisi running late, an aide told Amanpour the president had suggested that she wear a head scarf. Amanpour said that she “politely declined.”

Amanpour, who grew up in the Iranian capital Tehran and is a fluent Farsi speaker, said that she wears a head scarf while reporting in Iran to comply with the local laws and customs, “otherwise you couldn’t operate as a journalist.” But she said that she would not cover her head to conduct an interview with an Iranian official outside a country where it is not required.

Here in New York, or anywhere else outside of Iran, I have never been asked by any Iranian president – and I have interviewed every single one of them since 1995 – either inside or outside of Iran, never been asked to wear a head scarf,” she said on CNN’s “New Day” program Thursday.

“I very politely declined on behalf of myself and CNN, and female journalists everywhere because it is not a requirement.”

Iranian law requires all women to wear a head covering and loose-fitting clothing in public. The rule has been enforced in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and it is obligatory for every woman in the country – including tourists, visiting political figures and journalists.

Amanpour said that Raisi’s aide made clear that the interview – which would have been the Iranian president’s first on American soil – would not happen if she did not wear a head scarf. He referred to it as “a matter of respect,” given that it is the holy months of Muharram and Safar, and referred to “the situation in Iran,” alluding to the protests sweeping the country, she added.

Anti-government protests erupted across Iran last week over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in custody, after having been arrested by Iran’s morality police on an accusation of violating the law on head scarves.

Thousands of people have taken to streets, with some women cutting their hair and burning their hijabs in protest against the law. Human rights groups have reported that at least eight people have been killed in the demonstrations, which have been met with a sharp crackdown by authorities, according to witnesses and videos shared on social media.

The demonstrations appear to be the most large-scale displays of defiance against the Islamic Republic’s rule, one which has become more stringent since the election of Raisi’s hard-line government last year. After eight years of Hassan Rouhani’s moderate administration, Iran elected Raisi, an ultra-conservative judiciary chief whose views are in line with the thinking of the country’s powerful clergy and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In Iran, the head scarf is a potent symbol of a set of personal rules imposed by the country’s clerical leaders, which govern what people can wear, watch and do. Over the past decade, protests have flared as many Iranians have grown resentful of those limitations.

Amini’s death has fueled an outpouring of long-simmering anger over restrictions on personal freedoms. Surveys and reports in recent years have shown an increasing number of Iranians do not believe the hijab, or head scarf, should be mandatory.

Iranian officials have claimed Amini died after suffering a “heart attack” and falling into a coma, but her family have said she had no pre-existing heart condition, according to Emtedad news, an Iranian pro-reform media outlet. Skepticism over the officials’ account of her death has also stoked the public outcry.

CCTV footage released by Iran’s state media showed Mahsa Amini collapsing at a “re-education” center where she was taken by the morality police to receive “guidance” on her attire.

Amanpour had planned to probe Raisi on the Amini’s death and the protests, as well as the nuclear deal and Iran’s support for Russia in Ukraine, but said that she had to walk away.

“As protests continue in Iran and people are being killed, it would have been an important moment to speak with President Raisi,” she said in a Twitter thread.

Explorers:
Packets of condoms, a pistol and two enigma machines used by the Germans to transmit coded messages during the Second World War are among a trove of items from a sunken Nazi submarine that have been documented for the first time.

The treasures were onboard U-boat 534 when it was sunk by an RAF Liberator bomber off the coast of the Danish Island of Anholt on May 5, 1945, as the war was coming to an end.

The U-boat was raised in 1993 and taken to Birkenhead, in Liverpool, where it went on display to the public.

However, the artefacts it contained which were preserved by the cold water and layers of silt when they were in the sea were put into storage without being properly examined.

This month, they were looked at for the first time in nearly 80 years.

Stunning images show the dozens of objects as well as the rusted interior of the submarine itself.


Pictured, packets of condoms are among a trove of items from a sunken German submarine that have been examined for the first time.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11133755/CONDOMS-pistol-enigma-machines-items-Nazi-U-boat-examined-time.html

duro4chang:
Tell us the projects done by the PDP in the South east after all these years.

jeromestarks:
Marry a young virgin woman (17 -23) anything above this age will only produce poor quality children.
No matter how Healthy you eat, exercise and or visit the hospital, you can never be happy dating a woman above 23.
Once a woman is 30, avoid her! (You can keep her for sex though)
Once a woman is not a virgin, avoid her( you can also date her just for sex).
If you marry any woman above 23, you will experience sadness and you will age faster and die before you are 70.
Believe me or not, it's the truth.

KiNg0G:
We all know controversies is what helps to keep the industry flowing either Good or bad. just like Biggie and 2pac in here we are going to talk about the king0g top 5 countdown nigeria musicians who had quarrels, dispute with each other.... some got settled between the line other's still holds grudges between themselves till today, hence the line by burna boy on black sermon track remix some of his friends do carry gun!. shogbo?


OLAMIDE and DONJAZZY

This happened in 2015 during the headies next rated between their both top signees....it was getting so fustrating seeing don jazzy musicians winning that category almost every year.. though he is a good promoter but some of us saw they is an influence going on in headies (wiao wiao government) because it was so clear lil kesh had more hits than reekardo banks that year...when olamide stepped up on stage to make his mind known, i didn't really blame him.. the fight got to social media that they both started throwing jabs to each other that it was getting to a stage of been threatened not to enter some parts of lagos state..until we later heard what was supposed to be a fight became a businesses transaction. A big man came to settle the whole thing, probably shut them both up with couple of nairas.. the both signees they want to fight for is nowhere to found as of now. what a shame!


eedris abdulkareem and 50 cent

Though eedris claimed this earned him alot of respect, back then as a kid so many of us were in support but as I grew older I finally understood the real issue, it's not right to vent your fustration on someone else. it's not 50cent doings to be the headline event of the show....he was invited to....it's not 50 cent fault to be booked in a first class seat on the plane by the organisers. why will you carry your agbero character to go taunt him...if you felt you weren't treated better in your own country go talk to the organisers and caused havoc with them, let's see if he won't spent the rest of his careers behind kuje since 04.
That was an unnecessary act he pulled with 50 cent, let's say the truth and we all could see how it affected his career... upcoming musicians that's one vital lesson.


ZLANTA and DJ CUPPY

This is one of the reasons I don't blame this online redpillers on nairaland, why come into a business transaction with some one (gelato) and not make the laid down rules known from the start?..is it because it's a female involved? after the whole thing is done.. concerts you attended to perform with her.. months later you blocked her on all platform and came out to say.... you didn't receive one naira from the song... you even spent your own money on it.. ah who does that?.. if not a SIMPle guy. what a pathetic joke...that's Why I don't blame nigerias when they say he was after his own "share" to tap free current...when the wifi was not connecting to her "hotspot" access denied dude finally realised and got back to his senses ...by then it's too late. business before pleasure my gee... that doesn't mean you shouldn't lick ice cream with her but be business oriented.... I hope zlanta gets to see this someday...so many musicians gets paid outrightly for a verse feature before they jump on any beat.

MI and VECTOR

This was a fight between a father and a son that went on for decade, when they finally saw that nigeria's have moved passed their balderdash they were forced to settle their beef claiming hennessy dropped some naira...hmm.. funny guys.... buh the truth is they realised nigeria's has moved on when they both drop their various diss tracks and it didn't make that much waves.. no one cares no more....we just wanted some good music from fireboy, omah lay and the rest ......was this really about rivalry? both are on different levels though, I appreciate vectors freestyles, metaphors and punchlines but when I see people compare him with mi I shake my head. let's talk about music... there's different between been a rapper who drop bars on a beat and been a rap Musician for the show business.... that's the reason MI will forever be a legend.
I mean been a rapper in nigeria is not easy, to be relevant for years now I wonder how he pulled it off with guys he started with so many have been long forgotten.

BURNA BOY and Mr 2Kay

sometimes I feel this man is untouchable, backed by different top men in nigeria, big Gods I don't think been a cultist or ruggedity won't give a man that much power to be in the news for bad reasons almost all the time and can't be touched. just few weeks ago we heard about how is security guard shot a man in a club till now nothing is done about it... This isn't the first time he was declared wanted by the nigeria police, makes me reminisce about the 2017 incident with beef he had with Mr 2kay a fellow port harcourt brother, dudes was beaten to pulp and robbed at Eko hotel.. after the hoodlums were apprehended they later confessed it was burna boy who sent them, but a scared chicken will always be a frightened chicken. kay said he wasn't going to press any charges, last we heard was they've settled their beef... pathetic.

note: this here is not to promote any form of violence staying peaceful should be encouraged at all time

thank you.

Penguin2:
The Act establishing the CBN provides for how it’s Governor can be removed and the process would involve the National Assembly .

So any report claiming Buhari has unilaterally sacked Godwin Emefiele is fake news and should be ignored.

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