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A Newly Converted Nigerian Lady Narrates How She Was Sent Home From Work in the US For Adorning The Hijab (VIDEO)
Folake Adebola, a US-based Nigerian Muslim took to her Twitter account to express how she was sent home from work in Fort Worth, Dallas, for putting on the hijab.
The 22-year-old Nigerian lady got converted to Islam in August 2019 just before she started working at the Chicken Express Restaurant in October 2019.
She narrated that the day she was sent home was the first time she wore the hijab to the office. She said that she informed her employer she was a Muslim before she started working with them.
Adebola shared a short video of how she was confronted by her boss while she pleaded with him saying “the hijab is part of my religion…. I felt like if I work here you all could be able to accommodate my religion”. She said her boss sees things differently as he said that the traditional Muslim headdress is “a different thing” and part of her “personal life out there”. According to him, it has nothing to do with religion
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Dino Melaye and a former Senator at the Red Chambers bear his mind concerning his collections of automobiles.
Dino said, homosexuals spend so much money on same-sex, some hide their money in Switzerland, the occult buy blood for any amount while for him, he makes use of his money for what he loves which is to collect automobiles
Ajia Strauss, 28, from New Jersey on Thursday 13th February pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the US by being involved in a fake marriage.
She was brought before the Pittsburgh federal court where she confessed to entering into a fake marriage with a Nigerian man residing in Pittsburgh at that time so he could be a permanent resident
The Nigerian, 36-year-old Monsuru Ogunbiyi went back to Pennsylvania where he lived after the marriage was done in New Jersey on 3rd June 2016. Besides, in addition to paying Strauss $1,500 for the arranged marriage, they made false statements to citizenship and immigration services, staged loved up photos, falsified documents, opened a joint bank account, and claimed they lived together.
They were discovered when the Nigerian man, Ogunbiyi, applied for permanent residence in 2017. Also, SMS in which they talked about Strauss’s address and to know about each other before going on with the marriage.
The couple was arrested in July 2019 where the Nigerian man pleaded guilty to the same offense in December 2019. Ogunbiyi has already served two and a half months in jail and likely to be deported.
On the other hand, Strauss is expected to be sentenced in Pittsburgh on 3rd June. If found guilty, she could spend five years in prison and $250,000 fines.
A youth corps member in Kaduna State has been praised by the NYSC authorities for returning the excess allowance paid into his account.
He was paid N66,000 instead of his N33,000 allowance in January. However, he alerted his superiors to the errors.
This act of integrity has earned him commendations as he was brought before his colleagues as an exemplary corps member.
