Some people created posts that we are always meeting and beaing beaten by the United States in this competition. I corrected them and pointed out that we beat the United States at this stage in the last edition of this competition.
Since then people have been quoting me and insinuating that I said things that I did not say. One even made it seem as if I said that we didn't need to beat them in this match. What have all those things got to do with my post??
unscripted: if you saw the 2022 match , u will under stand it was total luck ,, you can't compare the preparation and facilities on ground in America with what our NFF has to offer these girls.. we have to start doing things right in this country .. kudus to our girls ,, i was really praying for a repeat this year..
Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report
Washington Post contrasts the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views
Elon Musk briefly worked illegally in the US after abandoning a graduate studies program in California, according to a Washington Post report that contrasted the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views.
The boss of Tesla and SpaceX, who has in recent weeks supported Donald Trump’s campaign for a second presidency while promoting the Republican White House nominee’s opposition to “open borders” on his X social media site, has previously maintained that his transition from student to entrepreneur was a “legal grey area”.
But the Washington Post reported Saturday that the world’s wealthiest individual was almost certainly working in the US without correct authorization for a period in 1995 after he dropped out of Stanford University to work on his debut company, Zip2, which sold for about $300m four years later.
Legal experts said foreign students cannot drop out of school to build a company even if they are not getting paid. The Post also noted that – prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks agains the US in 2001 – regulation for student visas was more lax.
“If you do anything that helps to facilitate revenue creation, such as design code or try to make sales in furtherance of revenue creation, then you’re in trouble,” Leon Fresco, a former US justice department immigration litigator, told the outlet.
But the Post also acknowledged: “While overstaying a student visa is somewhat common and officials have at times turned a blind eye to it, it remains illegal.”
Musk has previously said: “I was legally there, but I was meant to be doing student work. I was allowed to do work sort of supporting whatever.”
Musk employs 121,000 people at Tesla, about 13,000 at SpaceX and nearly 3,000 at X. The scrutiny of his immigration status after dropping out of Stanford comes after Trump has touted his desire for Musk to play a high-profile role focused on government efficiency in a second Trump administration if voters return him to office at the expense of Kamala Harris in the 5 November election.
Musk in turn has accused the vice-president and her fellow Democrats of “importing voters” through illegal and temporary protected status immigration. During a recent Trump campaign appearance, he compared the US-Mexico border to a “zombie apocalypse” – even as he had also previously described himself as “extremely pro immigrant, being one myself”.
Bloomberg News recently published an analysis of more than 53,000 posts sent from Musk’s X account, finding that the entrepreneur’s output turned increasingly political this election year.
“In 2024, immigration and voter fraud has become Musk’s most frequently posted and engaged with policy topic, garnering about 10bn views,” the outlet said. “Musk posted more than 1,300 times about the topic overall, with more than 330 posts in the past 2 months alone.”
Bloomberg described Musk – who paid $44bn for X, then Twitter, in 2022 – as the platform’s single most important influencer and has reportedly ordered site engineers to push his posts into users’ feeds. That makes Musk “the most widely read person on the site today”, Bloomberg said.
Biden says Elon Musk was an 'illegal worker' when he began U.S. career
Lora Kolodny SAT, OCT 26 2024
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⚫️ President Joe Biden said Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, now a Republican megadonor, launched his long career in the U.S. as an "illegal worker."
⚫️ Biden's comments about Musk followed a Washington Post report that cites correspondence, legal records and multiple people who helped Musk attain a work visa in 1996 after he had already been working here without one.
⚫️ Musk has become a regular campaign surrogate for Donald Trump in the presidential race against Vice President Kamala Harris.
President Joe Biden called out Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, now a Republican megadonor and Trump campaign surrogate, for hypocrisy on immigration on Saturday, saying Musk launched his long career in the U.S. as an "illegal worker" before becoming the world's wealthiest man.
The president made these remarks at a campaign event to support Democrats that took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
Labeling Musk as former President Donald Trump's wealthy new "ally," Biden said, "That wealthiest man in the world turned out to be an illegal worker here when he was here," referring to Musk.
"He was supposed to be in school when he came on a student visa. He wasn't in school. He was violating the law. He's talking about all these 'illegals' coming our way," Biden added.
He then criticized Trump and Republicans for failing to sign legislation that would fix "the problem with the border." He added, "We have fewer people crossing the border illegally now — or crossing the border period — than at any time since his third year as President of the United States."
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment on Biden's remarks.
Musk recently completed a series of "town hall" events in the same swing state of Pennsylvania, where he sought to convince voters to back Trump and Trump's policies. Musk also stirred up his fan base there by doling out $1 million lottery-style prizes to registered voters in swing states who signed a petition distributed by his pro-Trump group, America PAC.
According to an analysis by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Trump's new immigration policy proposals include plans for the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, ending birthright citizenship, and revoking the visas of and deporting foreign students who are pro-Palestinian protestors, among others.
Biden's comments about Musk, his Trump alliance and hypocrisy on immigration followed a Washington Post report that cites correspondence, legal records and multiple people who helped Musk attain a work visa in 1996 after he had already been working here without one.
Musk had arrived in the U.S. with the stated intention of attending grad school at Stanford in the mid-90s. He did not enroll in the program to which he said he was accepted and instead began to build a venture-backed startup called Zip2 with his brother.
The Washington Post wrote that investors in Musk's first company worried about their "'founder being deported' and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa."
Zip2 sold for about $300 million in 1999, a windfall that enabled Elon Musk to later become an early investor in and chairman of Tesla, and to start his capital-intensive aerospace venture SpaceX, which is now a major U.S. defense contractor.
Those businesses have propelled Musk to become the world's wealthiest person on paper. According to Forbes, the Tesla CEO's net worth stands at around $274 billion today.
In late 2022, Musk used that considerable wealth to acquire the social network Twitter in a $44 billion buyout.
On the platform, since rebranded X, Musk has repeatedly claimed in posts seen by his massive online fan base that "open borders" and undocumented immigrants are somehow harming the United States.
He also has shared the false claim that noncitizens are systematically voting in U.S. elections, a conspiracy theory floated by conservative groups to lay the legal groundwork to contest the election results if the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, wins the presidency.
In the U.S., it's already a federal crime and a crime under every state's laws for noncitizens to register or vote in federal elections.
According to studies compiled by the Brennan Center for Justice, "extensive research reveals that fraud is very rare, voter impersonation is virtually nonexistent, and many instances of alleged fraud are, in fact, mistakes by voters or administrators. The same is true for mail ballots, which are secure and essential to holding a safe election amid the coronavirus pandemic."
— CNBC's Rebecca Picciotto contributed to this report.
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U-17 WWC: Flamingos Lose 2-0 To USA In Quarter-finals
Nigeria’s Flamingos have crashed out of the FIFA U-17 women’s World Cup in Dominican Republic, after losing 2-0 to the USA In the quarter-finals on Saturday.
Goals in each half from Kennedy Fuller and Kimmie Ascanio secured the win for the Americans.
Fuller gave USA the lead with two minutes left in the first half before Ascanio added the second goal.
The win for the Americans was a revenge for their ouster against the Flamingos at this same stage in the 2022 edition in India.
The Flamingos shocked the Americans as they edged them on penalty shootout to reach the semi-finals and go on to finish third.
In the group stage, the Nigerian team finished top after wins against New Zealand, Ecuador and Dominican Republic.
For the USA, they lost 3-1 to champions Spain but won their second and third games to progress into the quarter-finals.
Friendly: Ajibade’s Brace Earns Super Falcons Win Against Algeria
A first half brace from Rasheedat Ajibade earned Nigeria’s Super Falcons a 2-0 win against Algeria, in Saturday’s friendly game played inside Remo stadium, in Ikenne, Ogun State.
Ajibade opened the scoring in the 24th minute as she ran on to a long range pass from midfield and lobbed the Algerian keeper who rushed out of her area.
Then in two minutes of added time in the first half Ajibade got her second goal as he volleyed into the top corner from outside the box.
It is the first of two friendly games between the Falcons and their Algerian counterparts.
Both teams will meet again on Tuesday, October 29 inside the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, in Lagos.
bixton: I won't be surprised that just as we are complaining about how Libya treated our players badly thats how the Libyans will be telling their people on social media how Nigerians treated them badly as well.....
But in all of these what has CAF as an institution done about all these issues and what did the Nigerian government do as well to ensure it does not continue?
That's reverse gamesmanship. North African teams often pretend to their fans that they have been maltreated abroad, so that their fans will descend angrily on the visiting team during the second leg.
They tried to do it to Enyimba, but Enyimba reported them to CAF, they did it to Mamelodi Sundowns and they did it to the Super Eagles.
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Soludo has approved the proposal by organized labour to ensure that the Minimum Take-Home for a worker (after all deductions, including tax and Union dues) is at least N70,000 per month ( the gross salary could range from N78,000 to N84,000).
In addition, Soludo has considered the plight of our pensioners.
He also approved a monthly, non-taxable cash award of N10,000 to our pensioners (in addition to their monthly pension).
In Anambra, we care deeply for the welfare of our workers, including the new 8,115 teachers and other 3,300 workers employed since we assumed office barely 30 months ago.
North Africans are notorious for their gamesmanship.
Mamelodi Sundowns accuse Wydad Casablanca of gamesmanship
Yusuf Variava 21 Sept 2017
Masandawana are clearly not pleased by the way the club have been treated in Morocco
Mamelodi Sundowns' preparations for the second leg of the Caf Champions League quarterfinal encounter has been hampered by Wydad Casablanca's relentless shenanigans.
Masandawana arrived in Rabat earlier this week, but have been sent from pillar to post in search of a suitable training venue after their hosts failed to provide one, but after spending the whole of Wednesday looking for a venue, the Brazilians are finally able to begin their preparations ahead of the crunch encounter.
Sundowns officials have not been pleased with Wydad's gamesmanship and it was previously reported that management had written a strongly worded letter to the South African Football Association (Safa) expressing their displeasure and pleading with Caf to help.
“They have been messing around‚” Sundowns spokesman Thulani Thuswa told Times Media on Thursday.
“They didn’t provide us with a training pitch and we had to look for one ourselves. Yesterday (on Wednesday) we drove all around Rabat the whole day looking for a pitch. Eventually we found one – at the Stade du FUS‚ which is the old pitch that used to be used by FUS Rabat. On our first day here (Tuesday) we didn’t train. We even told Wydad that if they could not provide us a pitch we had an option to train at the old FUS Rabat pitch‚ but they said‚ ‘No‚ no‚ you can’t because the lights don’t work there’,” he explained.
“Then we went to train there yesterday and the lights worked fine. Our advance party even arrived two days before the team‚ and in that time, they could also not find a pitch available,” he added.
“But we believe that Morocco does not have a very good relationship with SA. Apparently, it stems back to SA winning the right to host the 2010 World Cup. And also‚ gamesmanship is a big thing here. The bus they gave us was sh*t – it was a grey, old, stinky bus. So, we’ve got another one at our own expense,” he lamented.
According to reports, there is suspicion that Wydad had called several officials around Rabat asking them not to avail training venues.
“The official reason the Moroccans have given us is that the national team has not been doing well because of poor pitches‚ and that they need to preserve all the pitches for the national team‚” Thuswa said.
“The thing is‚ when they came to SA‚ we treated them really well. We gave them police escorts‚ we had (Sundowns official) Alex Shakoane and drivers stationed permanently with them to attend to their needs. Here we have had no police escorts," he continued.
"We have this guy who drives our van with our kit in‚ Ashraf‚ and he’s the one who shows us where to go.”
Despite all the uncertainty created, Thuswa maintains that the players are in good spirits and that the adversity could motivate Sundowns players even further.
“I believe so‚ because I have seen that in all the countries that treat us like this‚ we come out victorious,” he expressed.
“The players are not affected at all. When we can’t find a pitch they go and do match analysis‚ and there’s a gym and a pool at the hotel. So, people use their time constructively,” he concluded.
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