Nigerian music video director ThankGod Omori Jesam, popularly known as TG Omori, has made a heartwarming return to social media months after battling severe health challenges related to kidney failure. Omori’s recovery journey, which included a failed kidney transplant, had left fans deeply concerned about his well-being.
Now, the 29-year-old director, known for his iconic music videos, appears to be in much better health. In a recent video shared on Instagram, TG Omori is seen smiling and looking noticeably healthier, a change that fans attribute to his new lifestyle.
See his post below;
TG Omori shares new appearance after post Kidney transplant pic.twitter.com/wuC2mYxh6F
Fan Reactions:
@JbrandyOfficial: “TG Omori kon Dey fat😂.”
@SarahWilli7849: “Na because he no puff again e don run from alcohol too.”
@mrmoraks: “Aww, nothing like life. I am happy for you bro. Many did not have the opportunity to see the end of this year.”
@lakesidep007: “Good to see you man. O de pada.”
The warm reactions reflect the relief and joy of fans who have watched Omori overcome a challenging phase, with many celebrating his healthier appearance and positive outlook.
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(BBB) — If you see an ad for extremely discounted Halloween costumes, beware! BBB Scam Tracker has received a few reports of phony websites offering deals that are too good to be true or fake coupons sent via email. Here’s how to spot these impostor sites and avoid being tricked.
Read more or hear from Better Business Bureau Regional Director Pamela Hernandez below:
How impostor Halloween costume websites trick shoppers with fake ads, coupons, and extreme discounts.
Warning signs to look for when shopping online for costumes and decorations.
Practical tips to protect your money and personal information from holiday scams.
How the scam works
You see an ad online or receive an email for Halloween costumes with shockingly low prices—claims like “overstock clearance,” “90% off,” or “reduced prices.” It looks like a great deal, especially with Halloween right around the corner.
But before you click “buy,” take a closer look. BBB Scam Tracker has received reports of fake websites tricking consumers into purchasing costumes that don’t actually exist. One consumer shared, “fake website- attempted to buy a Halloween costume– took my payment and all my contact information including my mailing address. The payment part of the site just spun. I knew they just took all my info and then a day later I had two charges on my credit card that were fraud.”
Other consumers reported clicking on social media ads promising great deals on costumes and decorations only to find out that they’ve shared their credit card information on phony websites and purchased items that they will never receive. One consumer shared this experience on BBB Scam Tracker: “Sent email stating 90% coupon off all [company name redacted] items. Clicked on it and ordered items. Next day my bank said fraud alert. I called and denied all actions and cancelled card.”
If you’re tempted by these “too good to be true” deals, keep these tips in mind before making a purchase.
Tips to avoid Halloween-related scams
For more information
Learn how to celebrate Halloween on a budget.
See tips on how to identify fake websites.
If you spot a Halloween scam, report it at BBB.org/ScamTracker.
FALLS, Pa. — Kettell’s Greenhouse is busy prepping for an expected freeze in Wyoming County and the rest of northeastern and central Pennsylvania.
At their greenhouse in Falls, they are taking the more sensitive flowering plants and moving them inside. The greenhouse can naturally keep temperatures 10 degrees warmer at night.
Manager Sylvia Gruber knows that not everyone has a greenhouse. “We’ve had quite a few calls this week already, trying to prepare. So, we’ve encouraged to cover what you can, bring in what you can.”
She says it’s important to know which plants you should bring inside, and which ones are safe outside. “Mums are considered hearty. They can handle the colder temperatures, but it’s the flower buds that are really going to struggle with the cold temperatures.”
Plants that are rooted in the ground can be covered, but Sylvia warns against using plastic, “What happens is the cold penetrates through the plastic and can damage your plants further.”
If you do plan on plastic, make sure there is space between the plant and the plastic.
The freeze warning means our area could see overnight temperatures in the 20s in higher elevations. Temperatures in the valleys should hover right around the freezing mark.
Winds won’t be breezy, so covering should stay in place through the night.
After this freeze, the current thinking at the Stormtracker16 weather team is some milder weather for a week or so before another possible freeze sets in.
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In a letter to senators, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin requested that Congress modify certain aspects of the proposed bill. At the same time, regulatory experts argued that the legislation would make it “easier” for scam artists.
October 9, 2025
State securities regulators are sounding the alarm about legislation that could upend the country’s digital asset market structure rules.
In a letter to U.S. Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Massachusetts Commonwealth Secretary William Galvin claimed that if passed, the bill would be “a recipe of disaster for millions of savers” that would reach “financial assets far beyond crypto.”
Galvin’s letter focused on the Responsible Financial Innovation Act of 2025, which would modify the regulatory framework for digital assets between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) first introduced the legislation in 2022, but with Republicans holding both houses of Congress and the White House, passage is closer than ever. Additionally, in July, the House of Representatives passed the Clarity Act, its version of a revised regulatory framework for digital assets. Senate Republicans unveiled their draft legislation for the Responsible Financial Innovation Act in September.
In his letter, Galvin argues that RIFA is “unacceptable in its expansive impact on the treatment of ‘real world assets’” at the state level, and urged Congress to modify certain sections of the bill “to preserve state anti-fraud authority.”
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According to Galvin, one section would preempt state authority “over a wide range of high-risk securities, including abusive penny stocks and microcap stocks,” while another section is a “misplaced effort” to scale back the oversight of “tokenized ‘real world assets’ including real estate and other contractual rights.”
The new rule would designate the CFTC and SEC as the entities enacting rules affecting operations that Galvin’s office has overseen for decades.
“A mere passing reference … to a study of potential ‘fraud and false claims’ is insufficient, and the lack of state involvement is unacceptable,” the letter read.
Additionally, in a separate letter signed by 28 academic leaders in securities and financial regulation, the North American Securities Administrators Association urged Congress to oppose parts of the legislation that would undermine regulators’ ability to combat fraud.
Particularly, signers targeted Section 105, which would “redefine the investment contract” test federal and state regulators often relied on to protect investors against “new and emerging fraud,” including pig butchering, Ponzi schemes, promissory note frauds, real estate swindles and fraudulent oil and gas offerings.
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“Given the epidemic of fraud being perpetrated against American investors, especially older investors, Congress should not be pursuing policies that will make it easier for scam artists to get away with their crimes and harder for law enforcement and regulators to act,” the letter read.
Ben Edwards, a professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was one of the signees. He told WealthManagement.com that it was “dangerous to meddle” with the investment contract test, as it helps capture misconduct that might otherwise escape the scope of securities laws.
“One of the risks you face is that if you limit the test or otherwise inhibit the ability of state securities regulators to go after bad behavior, it can make it easier for fraudsters and scammers to escape accountability,” he said.
Earlier this year, state securities regulators urged federal lawmakers not to exclude the states from crypto enforcement, with a letter to senators from NASAA President Leslie Van Buskirk claiming that it would be a “decision with net-negative, significant consequences for Americans.”
In an interview with WealthManagement.com, Alabama Securities Commission Director Amanda Senn stated that without “clear authority” for states to pursue crypto-related fraud, investors within the states “will have no recourse” when it comes to pursuing justice, with many cases likely going unscrutinized due to the sheer volume of schemes.
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“These are our friends and family,” she said. “They’re people in our communities, and nobody wants to be helpless when it comes to helping a victim of fraud or crime.”
Patrick Donachie
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Patrick Donachie is a senior reporter for WealthManagement.com, covering federal and state regulation, litigation and M&A deals in financial services. Patrick was born in Staten Island, and now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Ripple’s partnership with Bahrain Fintech Bay strengthens Middle East presence, enhancing XRP liquidity and RLUSD stability.
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Ripple is deepening its presence in the Middle East through a new partnership with Bahrain Fintech Bay (BFB), the kingdom’s leading fintech incubator and blockchain ecosystem builder.
The collaboration, announced on Oct. 9, strengthens Ripple’s foothold in a region rapidly becoming a testing ground for digital asset infrastructure.
Indeed, Bahrain has long positioned itself as a fintech gateway to the Gulf. In 2019, the country’s central bank was one of the first in the world to issue comprehensive crypto-asset regulations, attracting early pilots from firms like Binance.
By joining forces with BFB, Ripple gains access to an innovation hub that connects government regulators, banks, and fintechs experimenting with cross-border remittance technologies.
This gives it a strategic foothold in the Middle East market, where digital payments rapidly expand but remain constrained by compliance costs, exchange-rate risks, and patchy interoperability between national regimes.
Meanwhile, the Bahrain partnership complements Ripple’s earlier regulatory victory in Dubai, where it obtained a payments license from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) in March.
These jurisdictions anchor a two-hub strategy to connect the Gulf’s most significant financial centers under a shared digital-asset framework in the Middle East.
According to World Bank data, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region collectively handled over $58 billion in remittance flows last year.
These massive multi-currency flows present a significant opportunity that Ripple’s technology was built to solve.
Through its XRP-based settlement network, Ripple enables institutions to move value instantly without maintaining costly pre-funded accounts. This results in cheaper and faster cross-border transfers in corridors that traditionally take days to settle.
If the Brad Garlinghouse-led firm captures just 2% of the region’s $58 billion remittance market, this would translate into more than $1 billion in annual on-chain transactions, potentially driving liquidity demand for XRP.
However, the opportunity in the region is matched by an attendant complexity. Despite Bahrain’s openness, most MENA jurisdictions still impose stringent controls on cross-border money transfers.
The divergent anti-money laundering and know-your-customers frameworks create overlapping requirements that can delay settlements and increase operational costs, especially for smaller providers.
Ripple’s approach of embedding auditable, real-time transaction data directly on-chain offers regulators a unified view of money movement, potentially streamlining oversight while preserving transparency. If implemented widely, this structure could reconcile the region’s fragmented compliance systems with the global reach of digital finance.
Push for remittances
The move toward digitized remittances has also introduced heightened cybersecurity and fraud risks. Phishing scams, identity theft, and data breaches have tested consumer trust in mobile and online transfers.
Ripple’s institutional-grade custody framework, layered with advanced encryption and blockchain immutability, could provide the assurance regional banks need to expand digital-asset services without compromising security.
Exchange-rate volatility adds another layer of uncertainty. Currency fluctuations routinely erode the real value of remittances, reducing the amount that families ultimately receive. Ripple USD (RLUSD), a US dollar–backed stablecoin now valued at approximately $790 million in market capitalization, provides a stabilizing mechanism for regional transactions.
By pairing RLUSD with XRP as a bridge asset, institutions can execute near-instant conversions between local currencies and dollar settlements, shielding users from currency swings and improving predictability for both senders and receivers.
Meanwhile, competition across the remittance industry remains fierce. Established players like Western Union and MoneyGram face mounting pressure from digital-first challengers such as Wise and Remitly, which have reset consumer expectations around fees and speed.
Ripple’s advantage lies not in retail front-ends but in building the institutional infrastructure that underpins them. By equipping banks and licensed fintechs with the same efficiency as consumer-facing platforms, within a compliant framework, Ripple’s network could transform XRP-driven settlements into a standard component of regional financial infrastructure, rather than a speculative experiment.
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Your grocery bill stings more each month, and your savings barely keep pace. In small towns scattered across Pennsylvania’s Coal Region, where coal’s legacy casts long shadows over rising costs, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are becoming an unexpected hedge against inflation. Watching the bitcoin price today on platforms like Binance, residents are starting to see digital assets as a potential shield for their savings. Here’s how global economic pressures are nudging everyday residents toward digital assets, and what this quiet revolution means for your financial survival.
The gravel crunches under truck tires at the corner store, same as it has for decades. But inside, everything’s different now. Milk’s up again. Bread costs what a full meal used to. Even the simplest hardware like screws, washers, basic lumber keeps climbing in price, squeezing budgets already stretched thin in a region that’s been rebuilding since the mines closed.
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THE National Lottery Set For Life numbers are in and it's time to find out if you've won the top prize of £10,000 every month for 30 years.
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The first National Lottery draw was held on November 19 1994 when seven winners shared a jackpot of £5,874,778.
The largest amount ever to be won by a single ticket holder was £42million, won in 1996.
Gareth Bull, a 49-year-old builder, won £41million in November, 2020 and ended up knocking down his bungalow to make way for a luxury manor house with a pool.
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