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Save big on lashes & brows: Black Friday Exclusive!GOOD Party secretary-general Brett Herron has expressed concern over home affairs minister Leon Schreiber's silence regarding the party's request to cancel American artist Chris Brown's visa application to South Africa. Brown is scheduled to perform in Johannesburg on December 14 and 15. The party earlier wrote to Schreiber, urging him to ban Brown from entering the country, citing his history of domestic violence. “He hasn't even bothered to respond to multiple requests from the GOOD Party that he reject the visa application of convicted Brown. Rather than reject this abuser, Schreiber prefers to look away,” Herron said. “We know that banning Brown won't be popular with South Africans, but if Schreiber gives a damn about women, he will declare Brown an 'undesirable person' in terms of section 30 of the Immigration Act.” Brown pleaded guilty to a felony charge in 2009 for assaulting his then-girlfriend, Rihanna. “South Africa's Immigration Act provides that a person 'with previous criminal convictions without the option of a fine for conduct which would be an offence in the republic...' is undesirable. Schreiber therefore has the tool to act but lacks the spine to use it.” Herron argued that the government should play its part in commemorating the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence by not allowing Brown to “get a free pass”. The party believes that granting Brown entry into the country would be inconsistent with the government's commitment to eradicating gender-based violence. “Over the past month, our emails to the minister and his minders have failed to elicit a response. He instead appears intent on rolling out the red carpet for Brown to perform two concerts in Johannesburg — the week after 16 Days of Activism ends. Government expends much energy talking up its commitment to eradicate gender-based violence. Regardless of his personal views on these matters, Schreiber, as a government minister, must walk the talk.” TimesLIVE

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Effects of fuel subsidy removal on Nigerians’ socioeconomic well-beingFuel subsidy in Nigeria has ignited topical issues in national discourse, business circles and almost all sectors of the economy. The removal of the subsidy took effect on the inauguration of President Bola Tinubu on May 29, 2023. The government promised to channel money saved from petrol subsidy removal to important sectors, such as education and healthcare and reduce Nigeria’s dependence on imported fuel. It also hoped to increase employment, reduce the budget deficit and generate a budget surplus soon, reduce government borrowing, curb corruption associated with fuel subsidy payments and reinvigorate domestic refineries. The subsidy removal, which was initially intended to alleviate the financial burden on citizens, has become unbearable and harsh. The rise in fuel prices triggers inflationary pressures, erasing the purchasing power of citizens and reducing their standard of living. Due to the hike in fuel prices, there is an automatic increment in transport fares, which many transporters have taken advantage of, causing inconvenience for Nigerians, despite the harsh living conditions. Fuel subsidy removal has brought about harsh living conditions for students, especially in feeding and transportation. A fare of N400 before the removal of the fuel subsidy has skyrocketed to over N1,000 and this has not just affected students but their parents also. The living conditions of many students have declined significantly, which could adversely impact serious-minded students and prevent them from attaining their academic goals. In addition, the hike in fuel prices has affected businesses across various sectors, from transportation to manufacturing. High operating costs have reduced the profitability of many enterprises, leading to job losses and even business closures. The immediate consequence of fuel subsidy removal was the hike in fuel prices. This increase has had grave effects on the economy, leading to higher transportation costs, increased food prices, and a surge in the cost of living. The agricultural sector, which is crucial to Nigeria’s economy, has not been immune to the effects of fuel subsidy removal. Higher fuel prices increase the cost of production, transportation, and storage, leading to reduced food production and increased food prices. Also, the removal of fuel subsidy has caused widespread protests and social chaos across the country. The perceived hardship has led to increased tensions, with many Nigerians expressing frustration and displeasure about the government’s economic policies. Related News Nigerians to reap FG’s economic reforms by 2025 – Osun APC chieftain Direct IG to implement court-ordered reinstament, disengaged cops beg Tinubu Publish your assets, Shettima, others should follow, SERAP urges Tinubu The removal of fuel subsidy has led to over a 100 per cent increment in school fees in many tertiary institutions. This is due to the high cost of school maintenance. For example, the cost of fuel to power the generator for the school and the cost of running academic activities have led to universities’ increased financial demands from students. Moreover, increased house rent is another impact of the removal of fuel subsidy. Landlords across the country have reviewed rents upward due to the high costs of building materials. Another fallout of the removal of petrol subsidy is the slowdown in economic growth. Before the removal of fuel subsidy, Nigeria had a striving-to-be-better economy. But with the fuel subsidy removed, things have become more difficult for Nigerians due to the high cost of living. Increased poverty is one of the dire consequences of fuel subsidy removal. Although poverty alleviation is one of the reasons the government gave for the removal of fuel subsidy, poverty has only escalated after the removal of fuel subsidy and many Nigerians are now living from hand to mouth. Due to the harsh and poor conditions of living, many Nigerian youths are taking to crime, which has increased the crime rate in the country. Many Nigerians have lost their jobs due to the closure of businesses due to the high operating costs of these firms. And this is hereby affecting so many families, as they find it difficult to feed. The removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria is a complex issue with many socio-economic implications. While the policy shift is necessary to drive economic reform, it is essential to implement measures to minimise the grave effects on the most vulnerable in society. I recommend that the government carefully evaluate the impact of fuel subsidy removal on individuals, families and businesses and provide palliatives and other economic relief programmes to minimise the adverse effect on individuals and firms. Josephine Obisanya in 200-level Mass Communication at the Olabisi Onabanjo UniversityIndiana aims to run its winning streak to five games Friday night when Nebraska welcomes the Hoosiers to Lincoln, Neb. Indiana (8-2, 1-0 Big Ten) has lost the past three meetings with Nebraska after winning seven straight. The Hoosiers are led by center Oumar Ballo, a transfer from Arizona who averages 13.2 points and 9.1 rebounds per game, and forward Malik Reneau (team-best 15.5 points and 6.4 rebounds). Reneau, according to Indiana, is one of five major-conference players to average at least 10 points per game with a field goal percentage of at least 60 and 80 percent from the free-throw line. Off Indiana's 82-67 home win over Minnesota on Monday, head coach Mike Woodson said there are things to work on going forward. "When you get a team down 15, 20 points, you got to remember how you got them down and continue to do the same things that got you the lead," said Woodson, "and I don't think we did that coming down the stretch." Nebraska's best win this season was over then-No. 14 Creighton in an in-state battle last month. But the Cornhuskers (6-2, 0-1) haven't played a very difficult schedule, and were blown out 89-52 by current No. 21 Michigan State on the road last weekend. The Spartans became the first team in 25 games to make more than 50 percent of their shots against Nebraska, so improved defense will be key for the Huskers. Nebraska was also outrebounded 48-19. "That hadn't been us all year, and that was the disappointing thing," coach Fred Hoiberg said. "The physicality of the game in this league ... we're going to see it every night. I've been pleased with how they've responded, but we'll see how they step up to the challenge Friday night." If Nebraska can turn things around on offense, it is 38-2 under Hoiberg when scoring at least 80 points, including 4-0 this season. Brice Williams is Nebraska's leading scorer at 17.5 points per game. Connor Essegian adds 13.0 ppg and shoots 42.6 percent from 3-point range. --Field Level Media

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Their ages vary. But a conspicuous handful of filmmaking lions in winter, or let’s say late autumn, have given us new reasons to be grateful for their work over the decades — even for the work that didn’t quite work. Which, yes, sounds like ingratitude. But do we even want more conventional or better-behaved work from talents such as Francis Ford Coppola? Even if we’re talking about “Megalopolis” ? If Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2” gave audiences a less morally complicated courtroom drama, would that have mattered, given Warner Bros.’ butt-headed decision to plop it in less than three dozen movie theaters in the U.S.? Coppola is 85. Eastwood is 94. Paul Schrader, whose latest film “Oh, Canada” arrives this week and is well worth seeking out, is a mere 78. Based on the 2021 Russell Banks novel “Foregone,” “Oh, Canada” is the story of a documentary filmmaker, played by Richard Gere, being interviewed near the end of his cancer-shrouded final days. In the Montreal home he shares with his wife and creative partner, played by Uma Thurman, he consents to the interview by two former students of his. Gere’s character, Leonard Fife, has no little contempt for these two, whom he calls “Mr. and Mrs. Ken Burns of Canada” with subtle disdain. As we learn over the artful dodges and layers of past and present, events imagined and/or real, Fife treats the interview as a final confession from a guarded and deceptive soul. He’s also a hero to everyone in the room, famous for his anti-Vietnam war political activism, and for the Frederick Wiseman-like inflection of his own films’ interview techniques. The real-life filmmaker name-checked in “Oh, Canada” is documentarian Errol Morris, whose straight-to-the-lens framing of interview subjects was made possible by his Interrotron device. In Schrader’s adaptation, Fife doesn’t want the nominal director (Michael Imperioli, a nicely finessed embodiment of a second-rate talent with first-rate airs) in his eyeline. Rather, as he struggles with hazy, self-incriminating memories of affairs, marriages, one-offs with a friend’s wife and a tense, brief reunion with the son he never knew, Fife wants only his wife, Emma — his former Goddard College student — in this metaphoric confessional. Schrader and his editor Benjamin Rodriguez Jr. treat the memories as on-screen flashbacks spanning from 1968 to 2023. At times, Gere and Thurman appear as their decades-young selves, without any attempt to de-age them, digitally or otherwise. (Thank god, I kind of hate that stuff in any circumstance.) In other sequences from Fife’s past, Jacob Elordi portrays Fife, with sly and convincing behavioral details linking his performance to Gere’s persona. We hear frequent voiceovers spoken by Gere about having ruined his life by age 24, at least spiritually or morally. Banks’ novel is no less devoted to a dying man’s addled but ardent attempt to come clean and own up to what has terrified him the most in the mess and joy of living: Honesty. Love. Commitment. There are elements of “Oh, Canada” that soften Banks’ conception of Fife, from the parentage of Fife’s abandoned son to the specific qualities of Gere’s performance. It has been 44 years since Gere teamed with Schrader on “American Gigolo,” a movie made by a very different filmmaker with very different preoccupations of hetero male hollowness. It’s also clearly the same director at work, I think. And Gere remains a unique camera object, with a stunning mastery of filling a close-up with an unblinking stillness conveying feelings easier left behind. The musical score is pretty watery, and with Schrader you always get a few lines of tortured rhetoric interrupting the good stuff. In the end, “Oh, Canada” has an extraordinarily simple idea at its core: That of a man with a movie camera, most of his life, now on the other side of the lens. Not easy. “I can’t tell the truth unless that camera’s on!” he barks at one point. I don’t think the line from the novel made it into Schrader’s script, but it too sums up this lion-in-winter feeling of truth without triumphal Hollywood catharsis. The interview, Banks wrote, is one’s man’s “last chance to stop lying.” It’s also a “final prayer,” dramatized by the Calvinist-to-the-bone filmmaker who made sure to include that phrase in his latest devotion to final prayers and missions of redemption. “Oh, Canada” — 3 stars (out of 4) No MPA rating (some language and sexual material) Running time: 1:34 How to watch: Opens in theaters Dec. 13, running 1in Chicago Dec. 13-19 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.; siskelfilmcenter.org Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic.None

Drake eases by Stetson 49-10 to secure a second straight outright Pioneer Football League titleThe San Francisco 49ers must win against the Los Angeles Rams if they want to have a realistic chance of making the playoffs. It's as simple as that. Lose, and their playoff odds drop to under a percent, per The New York Times . It's all hands on deck then, with Dre Greenlaw returning from his Super Bowl Achilles injury and Nick Bosa reportedly likely to end his three-game absence. Those will be critical reinforcements as the 49ers look to slow down a red hot Rams offense, but there are several other factors that will have a big say in deciding a do-or-die divisional clash. Moore's biggest test The 49ers have traditionally struggled mightily to win games without Trent Williams. That has remained the case during his absence from an ankle injury as the Niners have gone 1-2. However, his deputy Jaylon Moore has played objectively well, vindicating the 49ers' faith in him as their swing tackle with a series of strong displays. Moore has allowed five pressures, per Pro Football Focus, and has five blown blocks as a pass protector, per Sports Info Solutions. Yet he has not allowed a sack and has excelled as a run blocker. The 2021 fifth-round pick does not have a blown block in the run game and, over the last three weeks, Moore ranks eighth among tackles in PFF run block grade. But a Rams defensive front that has hit its stride in recent weeks will provide a much bigger test, with the challenge primarily set to come from rookie first-round pick Jared Verse, who ranks sixth among defensive ends with at least 10 pressures in pressure rate (18.1%) and is first in the SIS points saved metric against the run among players at his position with at least five tackles. Verse has played the vast majority of his snaps on the right edge, meaning Moore can expect to see an awful lot of a dynamic young pass rusher with a powerful bull rush who also defends the run extremely well. How he handles that challenge could have an outsized impact on the outcome of the game. Defensive line depth pieces key amid Bosa's potential return Regardless of whether Bosa makes his return, there will be a huge onus on the 49er defensive line to get Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles offense out of rhythm after the Rams' incredible showing on that side of the ball in their shootout win over the Buffalo Bills. San Francisco tallied seven sacks of Caleb Williams in last week's blowout of the Chicago Bears. Three of those came from NFC Defensive Player of the Week Yetur Gross-Matos, who produced an excellent demonstration of why the Niners bet on his athleticism this past offseason. The 49ers have largely weirdly gone away from stunts or any semblance of anything creative up front this season. They were more varied against the Bears, and hey it worked. More of this with Bosa back in the mix with two other DL playing well in Floyd and Gross-Matos. pic.twitter.com/e2oE0GtcOo Two of those sacks came as a result of Gross-Matos' power and effort, but his first was the product of a well-designed stunt, the kind of which the 49ers have utilized too little this season in Nick Sorensen's first season as the defensive coordinator. With former Ram Leonard Floyd registering 5.5 sacks in the last four games and Gross-Matos impressing, the 49ers have the firepower up front to cause Los Angeles problems. Their abilities in that regard will obviously be greatly increased if Bosa is able to go, and his return would facilitate the Niners getting greater usage of Gross-Matos as an interior pass rusher to take some of the strain off a defensive tackle group that, outside of Maliek Collins, has struggled to disrupt the pocket. Gross-Matos' flexibility stood out throughout against the Bears. With the interior DL struggling to create much disruption, outside of Maliek Collins, his versatility to play inside and out will be key tonight. pic.twitter.com/OigXB7zxzj What the 49ers do have on the interior is an excellent rookie run defender. Undrafted free agent Evan Anderson ranks seven among defensive tackles with at least five tackles in points saved per play against the run, and he is fourth in run stop rate (12.8%) among interior defensive linemen with a minimum of 50 run defense snaps. Gross-Matos has also impressed in that area, consistently showcasing himself as one of the 49ers' best edge-setters. Gross-Matos is also quietly one of the 49ers' better run defenders. pic.twitter.com/OrTfMfwSqR In a matchup with a running back in Kyren Williams who ground the Niners down in the Week 3 meeting and two stellar wide receivers in Cooper Kupp and Puka Nacua, the 49ers' success in being able to limit the Los Angles rushing attack and key in on Stafford will be crucial. Though much of the focus is on Bosa's return, D-Line depth pieces such as Gross-Matos and Anderson figure to have huge roles to play. Can Deebo silence the doubters? Deebo Samuel may say he isn't struggling. However, when you take the step to post that on social media, it's a clear sign you're struggling. Both Kyle Shanahan and Brock Purdy showed support for Samuel following his hastily deleted tweet about not getting the ball, the latter expressing a desire to get him more touches. And history says that would be a wise move. In nine games against the Rams (regular season & post), he has 794 scrimmage yards and seven touchdowns. He also threw a passing touchdown against Los Angeles in 2021 in a de-facto Week 18 playoff game. When the 49ers have had their backs against the wall in games with the Rams, Samuel has typically delivered. San Francisco did not have him available in their Week 3 defeat at SoFi Stadium but, with George Kittle and Jauan Jennings each performing to a standard that should see them command plenty of attention from the Los Angeles defense, the opportunities should be there for Samuel to do damage both in the underneath passing game and out of the backfield as a runner and a receiver. The stage is set for another vintage Samuel exhibition against the Rams. If he can save the 49ers' season, that would emphatically silence the doubters. This article first appeared on A to Z Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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