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American actress and model Tika Sumpter has reacted to Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s seemingly controversial comments where she concluded that president Obama would not have been elected if the FLOTUS rocked her natural hair.Sumpter and co-star Parker Sawyers are set to bring the Obamas’ love story to life on the big screen, playing young Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama in the film “Southside With You”In an August 9th interview with Britain’s Channel 4 News, Ms Adichie says that Mrs Obama could not get away with natural hair because of the negative stereotypes associated with it, adding that the…

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The Abia State Government, led by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu said the state has approved reduction of fees in the state owned university, as a measure to reach out to the poor and encourage indigenes of the state.According to the Commissioner for Information, Comrade Bonnie Iwuoha, the executive council has given approval for a reduction of 10,000 Naira in the school fees payable by Abia state indigenes in the Abia state University, Uturu.The beneficiaries are however to present the tax receipts of their parents or guardians which are to be proved through biometrics.The information boss also disclosed that the Ministry of…

Oscar Pistorius will not face more years in jail after prosecutors today lost an appeal against his sentence.South African Judge Thokozile Masipa rejected an application by state prosecutors to appeal Pistorius’ six-year murder sentence. She told them it had no reasonable prospects of success.Masipa had sentenced the Paralympic gold medallist in July for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in 2013.However, the prosecution says the decision was too lenient, but there is nothing they can do about it now.

A student of the Lagos State University (UNILAG), Adeyeye Olorunfemi of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences department of Building has been rusticated for 4 semesters for criticising the management of the institution.It will be recalled that the authorities of the institution recently rusticated 11 executive members of the school’s Students’ Union executives, including its president, Muhammed Olaniyan, over the April 2016 protest.The affected students were rusticated between two and four semesters, which took effect from the second semester of the 2015/2016 academic session.Those serving two-semester penalty were informed to apply for readmission at the beginning of the second semester of…

The rapper and fashion mogul has delivered on the promise he made to U.S paparazzi back in November 2015. He said he would hand out his sneakers Yeezys to most of them to thank them for all their hard work.  He fulfilled the promise earlier this week when he delivered Yeezys to a bunch of freelance camera guys, totally free of charge.Jack_arshakyan, one of the paparazzi to receive the gift posted the photo below with the caption.’Thx to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West for hooking me and my fellow papz up with Yeezy boost 350.”

The late Bola Ige was governor of Oyo state during the Second Republic (1979-1983), and during his era, students enjoyed free education.In 1981 he wrote this beautiful letter to students enjoying the free education in Oyo State, as they were about to go for their long holidays.What an era…. What happened to Nigeria?

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday disclosed that the removal of oil subsidy has saved the Federal government N1.4 trillion. He said this while speaking at the the 15th Joint Planning Board and National Council on Development meeting in Kano state. “With the deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector, there has been a significant increase in the availability of petrol throughout the country for the savings of N1.4 trillion on subsidy payments alone” he said

Mocheddah’s long time boyfriend, Prince Bukunyi shared this cute photo of them during their trip to  Italy for Seyi Tinubu’s wedding.

A love-struck woman in China has been pictured proposing to her boyfriend, offering him a new motorbike and joint ownership of an apartment.The woman was seen inside a shopping centre in Chengdu, south-west China on the evening of the 24th August wearing a wedding dress and riding a Harley Davidson.She told her boyfriend that she would put his name on the real estate licence if he married her.She had even prepared a copy of the real estate licence.The man accepted his girlfriend’s proposal in front of a large crowd that gathered around the pair and took video and photographs of…