Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been featured on the cover of the highly coveted September 2019 issue of British Vogue alongside 14 other women, personally chosen by The Duchess of Sussex – Meghan Markle, and British Vogue’s editor-in-chief Edward Enninful.
The British Vogue issue was guest-edited by Meghan Markle alongside the magazine’s Edward Enninful for seven months to create an issue that highlights the power of the collective titled Forces For Change.
Forces For Change features 15 “world-leading women who are reshaping public life for global good”
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday paid a condolence visit to the family of Precious Owolabi, the National Youth Service Corps member serving with Channels Television, who was killed during a clash between the Nigeria Police Force and members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), also known as Shi'ite.
Osinbajo, in the company of Nasir El-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State, visited the home of Owolabi in Zaria, the state capital.
Osinbajo revealed this via his official Twitter handle. He said: "Nothing will ever compare with the pain of losing a child. This evening, I visited the family of Precious Owolabi and as a nation, we grieve the loss of this bright young man. May the Almighty God comfort the family and loved one."
Also writing about two hours ago on Instagram, the Vice-President shared photos and wrote; ‘’We bless the name of the Lord for the life of Precious Owolabi. We cannot even purport to imagine the enormity of this loss to the family, but we are confident the almighty God will comfort the family and bring back joy and peace to all members of the family.’’
Owolabi and a senior police officer were killed by stray bullets during a clash between police and Shi'ite in Abuja on Monday, July 22, 2019.
Owhhhhh! Bow Wow is facing backlash from some of his followers after body shaming Wendy Williams on Twitter.
The 55-year-old talk show hostess recently called out the 32-year-old rapper on her show after he dissed ex-girlfriend Ciara.
Bow Wow retaliated by posting a bikini photo of Williams to Twitter with a disparaging caption.
The paparazzi photo showed Williams smiling as she walked on a beach in a sexy black bikini with her signature 'W' necklace and a large pare of square pink Gucci sunglasses.
Bow Wow captioned the tweet: 'They say its a hot girl summer' with the emojis of laughing and sick faces, as well as a hazard sign.
Fans quickly hit back in defense of Williams, one posting: 'you literally have a daughter...body shaming aint the move'
Another wrote: 'You need to put "Lil" back in front of your name because clearly, you're still a child.'
Some fought fire with fire, calling him out on his height: 'Babes, you’re 3 foot 5 inches...'
The feud began last week when Williams called Bow Wow out on the Hot Topics segment of her nationally syndicated talk show The Wendy Williams Show.
The rapper recently performed his song Like U, which he originally recorded with fellow artist and ex-girlfriend Ciara.
During the Atlanta performance, he said: 'I had this b***h first. You know that right?'
Nigerians have reacted on social media after spotting a billboard of APC national leader, Bola Tinubu beginning a early presidential campaign against 2023. The slog was “BAT 2023”. But a closer look at the board, shows it was sponsored and not an effort of the APC party leader. But that didn’t bother Nigerians as they went in to give their opinions. See all reactions below…
The Duchess of Sussex is the guest editor on the September issue of British Vogue - and its cover features 15 'women she admires'.
The Duchess becomes the first royal to guest-edit the fashion bible, bringing together 15 'trailblazers' and 'changemakers' for a special 'Forces for Change' issue.
The line-up of women she admires includes celebrities, politicians and activists known for championing issues such as diversity, body positivity, transgender rights and climate change.
Meghan's edition, includes actress Jane Fonda, 81, and climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg, 16 among other famous faces.
The Duchess does not feature on the cover as she believed it would be a 'boastful' thing for her to do, according to the magazine's editor-in-chief Edward Enninful.
It represents one of the most radical moves in Vogue's 100-year history, with the magazine saying it considers the new September issue to be its most important edition of the year.
The duchess, a former actress and avowed feminist, had initially been asked to appear on the cover herself. But Vogue's editor-in-chief Edward Enninful said Meghan refused as she thought it would appear too 'boastful'.
An A$AP Rocky fan was arrested last week after threatening to blow up the Swedish Embassy over the rapper's imprisonment.
Authorities said an initial incident occurred Monday when the suspect, named Rebecca Kanter, shouted, 'I'm going to blow this motherf****r up,' after tossing liquid from a cola bottle toward a doorway in the facility, according to an affidavit in the case which was obtained by Variety.
Kanter was detained for destruction of property and unlawful entry after going back to the building on Tuesday to make a scene yelling about the rapper's imprisonment.
When she would not vacate the premises when asked U.S. Secret Service officials were lead to arrest her.
In her second visit to the embassy, Kanter yelled about human rights and toppled over a display in front of a student group passing through.
As of Sunday, the New York City native Rocky, 30, has been in custody for 29 days stemming from a June 30 fight in Stockholm that Swedish authorities said was involved in.
The African Action Congress (AAC) has declared August 5, 2019, the commencement date of revolution protests tagged ‘Days of Rage’ across the country to demand for a better Nigeria.
The presidential candidate of the party in the 2019 general elections, Omoyele Sowore, disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja at the end of the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the AAC.
Mr Sowore said that the protest would be sustained until the country is put on the right path of honour where justice will prevail.
He stated that the action of the government compelled them to take the decision noting that there was no level playing field in the last elections.
“Election is a place we would have carried out a revolution of the ballot box but they stole the ballot box. They hijacked materials that was meant for free and fair election and as a result they did not organise any election that was credible enough for people to have faith in the ballot box,” he said.
Mr Sowore who is also a human rights activist maintained that for the country to have free and fair elections in the future, there must be a showdown and people must define who should be their electoral officers.
He said, “The revolution has therefore become inevitable. We didn’t choose to go for revolution they choose it by ensuring that there was no level playing field in the last election.
“As you know they did it in Sudan and it was started by some females. They were making fun of them but they did not stop until doctors joined them, the labour union joined them and what started as 5 people became 5,000 and 500,000 and became 5,000,000 and the regime fell.
“So don’t let anybody deceive you that in asking for a better government or country you are committing any illegality. The biggest illegality being committed in Nigeria as of today is the rigging of election in 2019.
“The moment you don’t allow people to express their God giving rights to choose their leaders, you are committing an illegality and inviting resistance.”
He said that the proposed revolution is inevitable adding that the group has mobilised people in Lagos and many parts of the country to create places of community resistance.
Mr Sowore said the party has succeeded in creating awareness for the people to speak up and be resistant to all form of poor services from the government.
Looooool. Men who engage in oral s-x have been described as “foolish, perverted and abnormal” individuals who must have no place in the circles of reasonable people.
The act, according to private legal practitioner and founder of the Legal Advocacy Foundation, Dr Maurice Ampaw, does not only deviates from the natural order of s-xual intercourse but also breaches the laws of Ghana.
Speaking in an interview on Kumasi-based Angel FM, Maurice Ampaw challenged Ghanaians to feel free to report any persons they may find engaging in oral s-x to the police to effect their arrest.
“Such matters are not reported because it often involves two willing individuals and so there are no complainants; but if you have any evidence of such acts rush to the police to report it”, he said.
Describing oral s-x as “unholy, criminal, disgusting and obscene”, he called out people who have had occasions to use their mouths on the genitalia of others as “foolish abnormal perverts” who are destined for hell fire.
“There is no place for the p-nis or v-gina in anybody’s mouth, so if they bite it off or transmit any diseases” in the process, the law would not hold them for any harm.
Senator Elisha Abbo has received an award of excellence. The Senator recently made news for assaulting a nursing mother in at an adult shop in Abuja.
According to reports, the Senator who is representing Adamawa North Senatorial Zone recently received the award from members of inter-community awareness, for his contributions to his community and active participation of youths to transform Nigeria's democracy.
An air strike has killed five doctors in a hospital in the southern outskirts of Libya's capital Tripoli, an official from the UN-backed government says.
A warplane belonging to Khalifa Hafta, the rogue general who commands the Libyan National Army, carried out the attack, the health ministry spokesman added.
Libya has been roiled in conflict since the fall of long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Fighting between the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, and Mr Haftar's LNA, has claimed 1,100 lives since April, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The fighting has remained deadlocked on the outskirts of the capital, with both sides resorting to air strikes.
Kenya will become the first country in Africa to collect data on intersex people in its national population census, in a major victory for rights activists.
The August survey will determine the number of citizens who do not identify as either male or female.
Intersex people in Kenya often face violence and discrimination.
There are thought to be more than 700,000 of them out of a general population of 49 million.
"Getting information about intersex people in the census will help people understand the challenges we go through," Ryan Muiruri, founder of the Intersex Persons Society of Kenya (IPSK), said he welcomed the government's decision.
"Being included in the census is a big achievement for us," he told the BBC.
South Africa was the first African country to explicitly include intersex people in anti-discrimination law.
Edo State Police Command has arrested a Lance Corporal, Moses Oguche, attached to the 4 Brigade, for allegedly stabbing a driver to death.
The deceased driver, simply identified as Mr. Ogbimi, worked with the Big Joe Motors, Benin and had gone to Okene in Kogi State to alongside a mechanic, repair a broken down vehicle belonging to the company when the incident occurred.
Witnesses said trouble started when the towing van driven by the deceased had a collision with a silver colour Nissan Premera marked Abuja- KWL 811-AP, belonging to the suspect.
The soldier, who was said to be in mufti, stabbed the driver during an argument that ensued between them and later fled the scene, to prevent being attacked.
He was said to have been pursued by passersby and he later abandoned his car and ran into a bush at Agbede in Edo State.
Policemen in the area were alerted and they took him into custody with his vehicle at Agbede Divisional Police Headquarters.
It was gathered that some armed soldiers stormed Agbede Police Station in two Hilux vans to rescue their colleague, but were prevented by residents and policemen.
Sources said Police Commissioner DanMallam Mohammed ordered the transfer of the suspect to the police headquarters in Benin City.
He said justice will be done, as nobody is above the law.
“The case is under investigation. It is a case of murder. He is a Nigerian and he is not above the law.
“I assure that justice will be done in this case,” DanMallam said.
A British woman who alleged she was raped in Cyprus has been arrested on suspicion of making a false allegation, according to news agencies.
The 12 Israelis arrested over the alleged attack, which was said to have taken place on 17 July in Ayia Napa, have all been released.
Reuters and AFP said the 19-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday.
The Foreign Office said it was supporting a British woman and her family following her arrest in Cyprus.
She will appear in court on Monday, police spokesman Christos Andreou told AFP.
The British woman contacted police in the early hours of 17 July saying she had been assaulted in a hotel in the holiday resort. Later that day police arrested 12 males, who were remanded in custody.
The group, aged from 15 to 20, denied the claim.
Five of the group were released on Thursday and the remaining seven were sent home on Sunday.
The town of Ayia Napa is a resort popular with young people.
More than 1.3m British tourists visited Cyprus last year, according to Cyprus's statistical service.
A US teenager has won a record-breaking $3m (£2.4m) to become world champion of the computer game Fortnite.
It is the largest prize pool in the history of e-sports, with $30m shared amongst the winners.
Kyle Giersdorf, 16, won the solo event of the competition in the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, which hosts the US Open tennis tournament.
British teenager Jaden Ashman won almost £1m for coming second in the duos event.
Mr Giersdorf, known online as Bugha, stood laughing and shaking his head as the crowd erupted when his name was announced.
He told the BBC he wants to save most of his prize. "All I want is a new desk and maybe a desk for my trophy," he said.
The final game was described by the commentators as a "ridiculous victory lap" as the winner played with a smile on his face whilst beating his rivals.
Boko Haram insurgents have killed 23 mourners in Borno state, after they attended a funeral, local militia and residents said.
At around 1030 GMT on Saturday, the attackers on three motorbikes opened fire on a group of men as they walked back from a funeral in Nganzai district near the state capital Maiduguri, local militia leader Bunu Bukar Mustapha told the AFP.
“Our men recovered 23 dead bodies from the scene of the attack, which happened this morning,” Mustapha said.
The men were returning to Badu Kuluwu from nearby Goni Abachari village where they had attended funeral prayers for a relative, Mustapha said.
A Nganzai district official confirmed both the incident and death toll.
“I received calls from Nganzai that Boko Haram killed 23 people near Badu Kuluwu this morning,” said the official, who asked not to be identified for his own safety.
Local hunters and militia recovered the bodies after survivors returned to the village and alerted them, Nganzai resident Saleh Masida said.
Boko Haram fighters have been repeatedly attacking Nganzai district.
In September last year, the group killed eight people and stole livestock in two villages in the area after residents tried to stop them from taking their animals.
The Police Command in Bayelsa has said that its personnel are working round the clock to ensure that the kidnapped mother of Samson Siasia, Nigeria’s former Super Eagles footballer is rescued from her captors.
SP Asinim Butswat, the spokesperson of the command made this known in Yenagoa on Sunday.
Mrs Beauty Siasia, who was kidnapped on July 15 with two others in Odoni community, Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa, have spent 14 days in the kidnappers’ den.
The 79-year-old woman was kidnapped with Mrs Florence Douanana, 65, and her daughter, Selekire Douanana, 17.
According to the police spokesman, the command is on top of the game, stressing that investigation is on-going to enable the victims regain freedom.
“Yes, investigation is on-going to rescue the victims,” he stated.
The state Commissioner of Police, Uche Anozia, had visited the scene twice and had deployed marine components of the force to comb the creeks of the area in search of the abducted victims.
he Lagos State Police Command has arrested two men for allegedly killing their landlord and stealing his Toyota Camry car.
The command’s spokesperson, DSP Bala Elkana, said that the suspects were flagged down by the police for reckless driving before they discovered that the car the suspects were driving was stolen.
The News Agency of Nigeria quoted the spokesman as saying, “On July 24 at 5.00 a.m., some policemen from the Iba Police Station on Stop-and -search at First gate, Agboroko area, Iba, Lagos flagged down a Toyota Camry which was driven in a reckless and suspicious manner by two suspects namely: Daniel Isaac, 38, and Emmanuel Chukwu; 36.
“Further investigation revealed that the first suspect, Daniel Isaac, had allegedly killed his landlord, Don Able, 50 , from Rivers and dumped his corpse in a well inside his compound at Owodun Street in Ikotun area of Lagos State.
“The suspect was escaping with the stolen vehicle of the deceased in company of his accomplice, Emmanuel Chukwu, when they were intercepted. Their intention was to sell the car.
“They confessed to the crime. Homicide detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Yaba are investigating the case. Suspects will be charged to court.”
