NIGERIAN MAKES U.S MOST WANTED LIST OVER $1M FRAUD. (PHOTO).

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 Nigerian makes US Most Wanted List over $1m fraud A Nigerian, Onoriode Ezewu, has been named on the United States Department of Labour’s first-ever Most Wanted List over allegations of money laundering involving fraudulent unemployment benefit claims worth more than $1m. The department’s Office of Inspector General unveiled the list on its website on Wednesday, naming 16 fugitives wanted in cases involving alleged fraud, identity theft, money laundering, labour trafficking and other offences. According to the agency, the cases collectively involve more than $55m allegedly stolen from American taxpayers. Ezewu’s profile on the department’s website identifies him as wanted for concealment money laundering and states that he is believed to be residing in Nigeria. “In January 2021, Ezewu was charged with 15 counts of concealment money laundering tied to fraudulent UI and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims filed using stolen identities, in a scheme exceeding $1 million that also t...

HIJAB CASE FILED AGAINST A CLOTHING COMPANY IN AMERICA,WAS WON BY A MUSLIM WOMAN,YESTERDAY.

                            The U.S Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a muslim woman who sued after being denied a job at a clothing store because she showed up to the interview wearing hijab.The clothing compan declined to hire Samantha Elauf  in 2008 as a sales associate because her Hijab violated the company's ''Look policy'',which at the time prohibited employees from wearing head coverings.Samantha Elauf was never informed of the ''Look policy''.Elauf filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on an 8-1 vote yesterday monday,the justice handed a victory to a federal agency that Sued the clothing company Abercromble & Fitch on behalf of job applicant Samantha Elauf.The company argued that it's store policy bans sales employess from wearing ''caps'' of any type and that Elauf,then 17 should have made clear in her 2008 interview that she needed a religious accommodation.A jury eventually awarded Samantha $20,000 but the 10th U.S circuit of appeals in Denver,Colorado,threw out the award and concluded that Abercromble & Fitch could not be held liable because Elauf never asked the company to relax its policy against head scarves.The ruling was welcomed by the council on American Islamic Relations {CAIR} which campaigns for the civil liberties of Muslim communities in the defence of religions freedom at a time when the American muslim community is facing increased levels of Islamophobia''.Said CAIR National Executive Director Nhad Awad.

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