Summons

Image: Warner Bros.Things are about to get even more strange and unusual, from the looks of the utterly fun and unhinged first trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Tim Burton directs the returning Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice, Winona Rider as Lydia Deetz, and Catherine O’Hara as her step mom, Delia—plus Jenna Ortega as Lydia’s daughter, Astrid.Who Should Be the New Doctor Doom? io9 PicksAfter a death in the Deetz family, their old pal Beetlejuice re-enters the picture—prompting a new chain of afterlife hijinks. Check out…

The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, on Wednesday, summoned the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Yemi Cardoso, over the state of the nation’s economy. Chairman of the Committee, Adetokunbo Abiru (APC, Lagos East) directed the CBN governor to appear before the lawmakers on Tuesday next week by 3 p.m. at the senate complex, Abuja. Mr Abiru, who announced the resolution of the committee after a closed door meeting of its members, said the session with Mr Cardoso would…

The Special Investigator probing the Central Bank of Nigeria, Jim Obazee, has summoned the Chairman of Titan Trust Bank (TTB), Tunde Lemo, and two other shareholders of the bank to a “follow-up meeting” in Abuja on Thursday over the controversial 2022 acquisition of Union Bank of Nigeria. The Special Investigator issued the summons hours after Mr Lemo, a former deputy governor of the CBN, faulted his findings on the issue. Mr Obazee, in a report he submitted to President Bola Tinubu on 20 December, had said the…

The Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing has summoned BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain for questioning in connection with an alleged Rs 81-crore fraud at the fintech unicorn, police sources said on Friday. The couple has been asked to appear at the Economic Offences Wing's (EOW) Mandir Marg office on November 21 to join the probe being carried out on a complaint by BharatPe, the sources said. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK…

Colson Whitehead, 53, is the author of 11 books, including a poker memoir, The Noble Hustle, and the Pulitzer-winning novels The Underground Railroad, which was televised in 2021, and The Nickel Boys, about an abusive reform school in the Jim Crow era. His new novel, Crook Manifesto, takes place in the 1970s and rejoins furniture salesman and stolen-goods dealer Ray Carney, first seen in Harlem Shuffle, a crime caper “subversively using the genre against itself” (the Atlantic magazine). Whitehead, born and raised in New…

The Parliamentary Standing Committee for Finance on Friday called a meeting over cyber security and cyber threats on July 4.The parliamentary panel has summoned senior officials of various banks to give detailed presentations on how to prevent cyber threats in the country.The subject for the meeting is 'Cyber security and rising incidence of cyber/white collar crimes.'"Oral evidence of the representatives of Punjab National Bank (PNB), Bank of India, Yes Bank and Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on the…

There’s some strange ones! Final Fantasy XVI is nearly here, and we already know most of it will revolve around the series’ beloved summons. The Final Fantasy series is home to some of the coolest summons in the history of gaming, magnificent creatures that would easily squish any Pokemon in existence. It’s also home to some of the most batsh*t bonkers summons ever, so let’s take a break from worshipping the ever-popular Bahamuts and Shivas and celebrate the weird ones! Image by Square Enix 9. Fat Chocobo from Final…

Lewisham-hailing rapper KidWild is back with a new video and it’s got all the hallmarks that made tracks like “Popular Loner”, “DND” and “Feeling A Way” so instantly likeable. “If I Told You (Lady)” dropped a couple of weeks ago and it’s just been given some visuals by director Blue Boredom.A sample from turn-of-the-millenium dance-pop hit “Lady (Hear Me Tonight)” by Modjo gives the track its backbone, which KidWild hops and skips over as he serenades the girl of his dreams. Between the recurring guitar lick sample and…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly used a little-known administrative subpoena more than 100,000 times over six years to request information from schools, abortion clinics, and newspapers, all without first procuring warrants from judges. Pentagon Employees Too Horny to Follow RulesThe massive database of subpoenas, first revealed by Wired, is just the latest example of ICE and other federal agencies finding creative loopholes to sidestep privacysafeguards. Though details of the requests remain obscure,…

My friends are my power! Sora has enlisted the help of many Disney and Final Fantasy characters over the years, and Kingdom Hearts summons have provided a great way for players to get the upper hand on the Heartless and Nobodies. With Tinkerbell giving constant healing, and Peter Pan lifting Sora off the ground for some aerial attacks, there were plenty of awesome summons to pool from in order to create this list. While not all Kingdom Hearts summons are useful (we’re looking at you, Chicken Little), plenty of them can…