New report reveals Kanye West has spent $6.8 million on his Presidential campaign so far

 

It has been revealed that Kanye West has spent $6.8 million on his Presidential campaign so far, despite failing to file paperwork in time to get his name on the ballots in several states.

 

The Billionaire rapper, 43, whose political party is called The Birthday Party, has only made the ballot in 10 states, including Colorado, Iowa, and Minnesota, according to CNN.

 

West’s campaign finance report, filed to the Federal Election Commission on Friday, reported bringing in a total of $6.8 million between July 15 and Aug. 31.

 

The campaign raised $11,472 in contributions from eight donors that gave between $200 and $1,000 and smaller donors who gave under $200 during that time, the report shows.

 

The report also shows that the campaign spent a total of $5.9 million during that time period. $2.7 million was paid to Millennial Strategies, based in Long Island, N.Y., and Atlas Strategy Group for “ballot access services, polling, campaign management consulting, legal services, and election law research, according to the filing. ”  

 

The campaign also spent $1.5 million on Fortified Consulting, based in Tempe, Ariz. Politico reported that Fortified Consulting shares an address with Lincoln Strategy Group, which did work in 2016 for President Trump’s campaign as well as the campaign of Carly Fiorina.

 

Another large sum of West campaign's money went to a Tempe, Arizona-based firm named Fortified Consulting, which was paid roughly $1.5 million for similar services, the filing shows. The firm is owed an additional $1.2 million from the campaign, which isn't included in the total spending.

 

The campaign spent a total of about $404,000 on legal fees, paying a wide range of firms, and spent $95,000 on private jet services.

International flights resume in Nigeria as Middle East Airlines plane lands at Lagos airport (photos)

International flights in Nigeria resumed operations yesterday September 5 after many months of closure.

 

The airspace was closed in March 2020, as part of measures to contain the spread of COVID-19.

 

A Middle East Airlines plane from Beirut was the first international flight that landed at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos with 222 passengers and 17 crew members this afternoon.

 

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"Trump would start a war if it means winning the 2020 election" - Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen claims

                         

Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has claimed that the US president could "start a war" to win the 2020 election because he'd do "anything and everything" to stay in power.

 

Cohen who was Trump's lawyer from 2006 to 2018, is currently under house arrest in New York. He was disbarred and got three years in prison for campaign-finance crimes related to his work for Trump.

 

Cohen, who is promoting his new book "Disloyal," which is out on September 8, spoke to NBC, and detailed what he thinks Trump could do.

 

 

"Donald Trump will do anything and everything within which to win," said Cohen.

"I believe that includes manipulating the ballots, I believe that he would even go so far as to start a war in order to prevent himself from being removed from office," he said during the NBC interview.

"My biggest fear is that there will not be a peaceful transition of power in 2020."

 

Cohen once vowed that he would "take a bullet" for his boss but in the Forward of his book, he revealed Trump's "mob boss" mentality.

"Apart from his wife and children, I knew Trump better than anyone else did," Cohen wrote, taking credit for his decision to run in 2015.

"In some ways, I knew him better than even his family did because I bore witness to the real man, in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man."

"Not the billionaire celebrity savior of the country or lying lunatic, not the tabloid tycoon or self-anointed Chosen One, not the avatar @realdonaldtrump of Twitter fame, but the real real Donald Trump—the man very, very, very few people know," Cohen said.

"He has no one he trusts to keep his secrets," Cohen's book reads.
"For ten years, he certainly had me, and I was always there for him, and look what happened to me."

 

Trump recently stated that he might not accept the election results, telling Fox News: "No, I'm not going to just say yes. I'm not going to say no, and I didn't last time either."

 

Hillary Clinton, Trump's 2016 rival, recently urged Biden not to concede to the Republican candidate even if he loses.

 

50-year-old security man suffocates after reportedly sleeping with his face mask on

A security guard identified as Solomon Ede has died after he allegedly slept wearing his face mask in his place of work in Alako area of Abeokuta, Ogun state on Friday, August 28.

 

The Nation reports that Solomon was well known in the area for never failing to wear his face mask as part of measures to protect himself from contracting the dreaded Coronavirus. However, on Friday, the 50-year-old had a few glasses of local gin popularly known as Ogogoro before going to bed. He went to bed with his face mask on.

 

 

His lifeless body was discovered face down, suggesting that he died of suffocation from the face mask. Neighbors who came to fetch water at the compound of the house where the deceased worked, banged on the gate of the building endlessly but late Ede did not come out to grant them access to the tap.

 

It was said that the noise at the gate of the building alerted late Ede’s boss who opened the gate for the visitors and decided to check on Ede in his room. He noticed that the door was locked so he forced it open only to find Ede lying face down on the bed lifeless and with his face mask in place. The boss was said to have raised the alarm which attracted other residents to the building, with many blaming the deceased’s tragic death on his obsession with alcohol.

 

A source said 

“But for the noise from those who came to fetch water in the early hours of the day, no one would have known that a tragedy had occurred.

It was when the deceased failed to come out of his apartment to attend to those fetching water in the premises of the house that his boss came out and discovered his body.”

Shocked by the discovery, the deceased's employer reported the matter to a police division at Kemta, Idi Aba.

 

Residents of the area claim the deceased took to alcohol after suffering depression. He was said to have been warned by his employer and others to desist from his habitual abuse of alcohol.

 

“He usually removed his face mask before going to bed. But he took some ogogoro late in the evening and was downcast. Those who saw him at the entrance of his apartment asked him to remove the mask on his face and go to bed, but he refused.

”However, he went to bed forgetting to remove his face mask and slept face down. He was probably choked to death by the face mask,” one of the residents who spoke on condition of anonymity said