Amazon:More Money, More Problems

Amazon is worth half a trillion dollars,the online retail giant is

the fourth company in the U.S it exclusive club with Apple, Microsoft and Google's parent company, Alphabet. 

The love for Amazon show that one of every two dollars spent online goes to the e-retailing giant. Customers spend their pick time on Amazon daily.

Julie Veltman, of Portland, Oregon, she says” am a loyal Amazon customer. I bought pretty much everything there. "Every tube of toothpaste I needed to buy, videos, books for my kindle, resources for my classroom, every gift I sent through Amazon...you name it, I bought it at Amazon,"

But Veltman decided to break up with Amazon and other retailers that carried Trump products after the election.

It's part of a larger "Grab Your Wallet" boycott that Shannon Coulter kicked off in opposition to President Trump. So far, Coulter says more than two dozen companies — like Nordstrom — have ended financial ties to the Trump family. But, she says, Amazon hasn't changed a thing. "A few months ago, Grab Your Wallet participants voted Amazon one of the most boycottable companies on the list," Coulter says.

Not just by a minority of progressives. Check out the #BoycottAmazon on Twitter and you'll see a strange mix of Amazon haters. Among them, President Trump. He's sparred with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos a number of times. Bezos, one of the richest men on the planet, has donated mostly to Democrats and owns the Washington Post.

The painting that has reopened America’s wounds over race and exploitation

Open Casket by Dana Schutz on display at the Whitney Museum in New York. An open letter has called for the painting to be destroyed. Photograph: Alina Heineke/AP

 
New York art world bitterly divided over ‘cultural appropriation’ of 1955 photograph of murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till

It is one of the most powerful images to emerge from the racism that infected the southern states of America in the 1950s – the photograph of a badly beaten 14-year-old boy, lynched after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman, lying in a funeral casket.
Now protests over a painting based on the photograph, included in a New York museum show, are dividing the city’s art world amid claims of racist exploitation and censorship.
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LASEMA:rescue victims from collapses building in Lagos Island

Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) and other stakeholders have moved to the scene to evacuate the victims building located at Karena Street, Campus Bus Stop in Lagos Island. Many people are currently trapped in the rubble of the collapsed building.

Just three days ago, bungalow under construction in Meran, Abule Egba axis of Lagos State has collapsed killing a two-year-old girl and her 30-year-old mother.

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House of Representatives: amendments 1999 Constitution,to commence vote on new age for president.

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The committee, which is headed by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Mr Yussuff Lasun, compiled all bills/proposals for amendments to the constitution in line with the legislative agenda of the 8th House.

The age reduction proposal specifically seeks to amend Sections 65, 106, 131 and 177 of the Constitution.  The sections deal with age qualification for the Senate, House of Representatives; state Houses of Assembly; President; and governors

the amendments 1999 Constitution is to lower the age qualification for presidential aspirants to 30 years.

The leadership positions like Vice-President, state governors and members of the National Assembly, according to the proposal, will also be lowered.The age requirement to contest an election to the Senate is 35 years, under the extant Section 65, while for the House of Representatives, is 30 years.

For the office of the governor of a state, the qualification in the extant Section 177 is 35 years.Section 106, the age requirement to contest a state House of Assembly seat is 30 years.For the office of the President, the extant provision in Section 131 is 40 years.

.The proposed amendment also recommends that a Vice-President or deputy governor, whose principal dies in office, shall be entitled to only one tenure after completing the tenure of the deceased.

The recommendations, among others, are in the report of the House Ad Hoc Committee on Constitution Review, which was laid before the House on Thursday.

.The Lasun committee also proposed financial autonomy for local government councils and state assemblies.The committee also recommends that the state/local government “joint account should be abolished.”

There is also a proposal for independent candidates to contest in elections in a bid to allow persons not affiliated to political parties to have a right to seek elective offices.

There are additional proposals on devolution of power to the states by moving certain items from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent List.