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The people of Hausa tribe react to BBC HAUSA Sexual behavior research done by   Claremont Graduate   University in California on facebook. According to the research, Bisexuals enjoys the pleasure of sex mother than anyone. Some Facebook users of the Hausa tribe accused Britain of disrespecting the culture and the religion of Hausa’s. One of the users,   Aminu adam tangar   wrote in hausa: I’m not surprised, the media organization belongs to Britain, but whatever is the case: they should learn to respect our culture and religion. (Translated) Hamza Danbatta   also wrote: This is totally against the hausa culture, if this media organization is really for Hausa listeners then you’re not trying at all, may God deliver you. (Translated)

Hollywood will always be “Hollyweird.” If you need proof of that, all you’d have to do is walk down the street in la-la land for under 10 seconds. If that’s still not enough for you, this obscure and kind of awesome Kanye West sculpture should do the trick. A street artist who calls himself Plastic Jesus has composed a life-size gold sculpture of the 39-year-old rapper recreating the crucifixion of Jesus. On February 22, the Los Angeles-based artist erected the sculpture called “False Idol” at Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in West Hollywood. The sculpture features nails in each of Kanye’s hands. Also included are a pair of Yeezys from West’s popular collaboration with Adidas. Street artist Plastic Jesus spoke to the Hollywood Reporter about what inspired him to create the sculpture, saying, He’s a genius at writing and producing but he’s not a God, and that’s where we put him. Until there’s an issue in his life or a hiccup in his career, then we crucify him. H...

The naira to dollar yesterday nosedive from N523 to N505 as a result of the  revaluation of foreign exchange by the Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday. Acting President of Association of Bureau de change Operators,Aminu Gwadabe,who confirmed this in a chat with our correspondent, said the apex bank  use of carrot rather than stick to banks directing them to sell their invisibles services at  20percent margin is really bringing out the stashed liquidity in the banking safe, homes, etc. He said other measures of the CBN like reduced tenored futures, intervention in the parallel market have aided a significant naira rebound in the market. He however added there is the need for the apex to still look at the sources of supply ends of the market like the diaspora remittance and FDI agitations to complement the mouth watering margin of 20% to banks transactions. “The CBN should also harmonise the rates between that of the BDCs buying and selling rates and banks to ens...

Nigeria loses $2.9 billion annually to corporate tax waivers, the ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has said. The country director of AAN, Ms. Ojobo Ode Atuluku, who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, said Ghana and Senegal also lose $2.7 and $0.2bn respectively annually to tax waivers bring the loss of the three countries to $5.8bn annually. She was speaking at the West African Summit on Tax Treaties organised by ActionAid themed, ‘A Common Treaty Protocol: Cutting the Giveaways’. Mrs Atuluku also stated that Nigeria lost over $3.3bn in 10 years to tax incentives under the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Act. She urged the labour, civil society organisations civil servants and other stakeholders to rise as a movement to end the extravagant waivers that characterise treaties that African countries have signed. She said studies by her organisation and other development agencies showed that there is need to take more than a cursory look at the treaties which have become maj...

A video from Donald Trump’s most recent campaign rally has the internet extremely concerned about Melania Trump’s well-being. In the clip filmed on Saturday, February 18 at the president’s event in Orlando, Florida, Melania is preparing to deliver the Lord’s Prayer for a rambunctious crowd surrounding her. Moments before she begins the prayer, Donald Trump approaches the FLOTUS and touches her upper arm before walking behind her. In that very moment, Melania takes a quick breath, rapidly turns her head and looks down at the podium. When she looks back up, she re-focuses and begins the prayer. After the video clip was posted on Twitter, one user specifically pointed out the controversial moment when Donald approaches his wife, and people became worried. Some people claimed Melania acted how “sexual abuse victims react to their aggressors in public,” while others seemed unfazed by the couple’s interaction. In order to prope...

Nigeria wants to borrow at least $1 billion from the World Bank and to sign within months for a $1.3 billion loan from China to fund railway projects, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said on Tuesday. Africa's biggest economy needs to plug a gap in its record 7.3 trillion naira ($23.17 billion) 2017 budget, which boosts capital expenditures by a quarter to end its first recession in 25 years due to low oil prices. The government has been in talks with the World Bank for a year and wants to finalise this month a reform proposal necessary for a loan application, according to officials. " We expected to borrow at least $1 bln dollars ," Adeosun told CNBC when asked about the talks with the Washington-based bank. "There is also some possibility of doing sector specific intervention in the power sector, they are working very closely with us on power," she added, without being more specific. Nigeria had initially promised to submit an economic plan to t...

The executive directors of the International Monetary Fund have adopted a proposal to promote Islamic Banking (IB) due to its popularity in the global financial system. The board, at the end of its first formal discussion on IB, adopted a set of proposals on the role the fund should play in this area. The proposals, according to the bank, and the case for adopting them, are contained in the staff paper titled “Ensuring Financial Stability in Countries with Islamic Banking” and the accompanying country case studies paper. A statement from the IMF said the board noted that the growth of Islamic Banking and its complexities posed new challenges and unique risks for regulatory and supervisory authorities. “Against this background, the directors called for stronger efforts to establish a policy framework and environment that promote financial stability and sound development of Islamic Banking, particularly for countries in which Islamic Banking has become systemically importan...

Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran are officially, completely, legally over. The model allegedly made a sworn statement to a judge earlier in February that Brown “told a few people that he was going to kill me,” insisting he was going to “take me out” and “threatened to shoot me,” TMZ reports. She told the judge her ex “punched me in the stomach twice” several years back and “pushed me down the stairs,” roughly around the time the rapper was on probation for assaulting his ex, Rihanna. Brown also allegedly threatened to hurt Tran’s friends and threw a drink at one of them. Tran now has a retraining order against Brown that requires him to stay at least 100 yards away from her, her mother and her brother. The 27-year-old shared a video a few weeks ago that only serves to support his ex-girlfriend’s allegations. In it, he tells viewers, Ladies, y’all be complaining about niggas being, like, stalkers, in love with y’all kinda crazy shi...

A Ghanaian migrant who was facing deportation from Malta took his own life on Saturday after he was forced to "feel like a criminal" by a new immigration policy in that country. The Times of Malta   reports that, Frederick Ofosu, 33, was found strangled with an electric cable in a Qawra building site on Saturday night. He left a recorded message for friends explaining his despair, saying he was being forced to feel like a criminal when he had done no wrong, according to Ahmed Bugri, director for the Foundation for Shelter and Support for Migrants. Dr Bugri who identified the victim together with a Ghanaian embassy official, said the government's decision to review the so-called THPn system had forced him to the edge. However, the Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela said the victim had applied for assisted voluntary return scheme to return to Ghana last September. His return process could not be concluded because there were other pending court cases. Mr A...

GUYS, it’s happened. Since Danielle Bregoli entered our lives with the immortal “Cash me outside, how bow dah?” line, the world has been waiting for an encore. Sure, we’ve had crazy music videos and her Dr. Phil diss, but now the angry 13-year-old has raised the bar — and the world needs to look out. The “Cash Me Outside” girl is coming at Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian and the rest of the Kardashian Klique. Yes, a teen who rose to fame by stealing cars and threatening an entire studio audience is taking on one of America’s most famous families, leading us all to ask a very important question… …WTF?! A video obtained by TMZ shows a paparazzo following Danielle “Cash Me Outside” Bregoli through LAX and, for reasons that are unclear, asking her about Kylie Jenner and the Kardashians. I mean, he asks in the video, Are you worried about Kylie Jenner coming back at you? So, knowing young Danielle as well as we do, we can safely assume there’s been some kind of biz...

A heartbroken mom has spoken out about the horrific moment she told her boyfriend to stop snoring… before realizing he was actually dead. Lewis Little, who died at just 25, was making a loud gasping noise that woke up his girlfriend Lisa Lee. The couple, who have a young son named Tyler, knew Lewis had a rare heart condition, but he was thought to be a low-risk sufferer. 25-year-old Lisa, from Northumberland, England, said, I just thought he was snoring, so I kicked him out of the bed and told him to shut up. But I felt that the sheets were wet and knew something was wrong. I turned the lights on and his face was purple – he wasn’t breathing. But in fact, Lewis wasn’t snoring at all. Shockingly, he had died earlier in his sleep, and the sound Lisa heard was air passing through Lewis’ vocal cords as it left his body, according to doctors. Lisa, who described Lewis as her soulmate, said he died only a year after being diagnosed with Brugada syndrome, despite being t...

A woman accused of giving her boyfriend a blowjob in a courthouse and uploading a video of the sex act on social media has been arrested. Brittney Jones has been charged with performing an unnatural and lascivious act in relation to a 34-second clip posted on Twitter on January 31. In the graphic footage, a woman can allegedly be seen performing oral sex on an unknown man. The camera then pans to reveal a hallway on the fourth floor of the Duval County Courthouse. Jones’ attorney, Jerry Sessions, said she is not guilty and claimed the charge was “archaic.” According to the Florida Times-Union, the 26-year-old was arrested when police were called to her home in Jacksonville, Florida, to aid a bail bonds worker in serving a warrant for her arrest. She was then booked into the Duval County jail on Wednesday. The sheriff’s office said both Jones and Jeremiah Robinson, 35, had warrants for a charge of an unnatural or lascivious act, but Robinson handed himself in to poli...

The Kaduna State Government on Monday announced that the Garrison Commander of the 1 Division of the Nigerian Army and the state’s Commissioner of Police have relocated to the southern part of the state. According to a statement by Samuel Aruwan, the Special Assistant (Media and Publicity), to governor Nasir El-Rufai, the move is to enable Brigadier-General Ismaila Isa and CP Agyole Abeh coordinate a determined response to renewed attacks by armed bandits on communities in Kaura and Jema’a local government areas. No less than 21 people were reportedly killed and several houses burnt in a fresh round of attacks on five southern Kaduna communities by suspected herdsmen. The first rounds of attacks was launched at about 5:30 pm on Sunday in a community on Jema'a local.government of the state while fresh attacks on four communities in Kaura local government  were launched around 6:00 am on Monday. The statement added that Malam El-Rufai has extended his condolence to the...

Mavin Records `first lady’, Tiwa Savage has debut her international campaign with a ‘single’ collaboration with Grammy-nominated American rapper Remy Ma of Fat Joe’s rap crew, Terror Squad. Tiwa Savage collaboration would be on the Remy Ma and Fat Joe joint album entitled “Plata o Plomo”, currently on the works. “She is huge, she is like the African Rihanna type, you know,” Fat Joe said referring to Tiwa Savage The Nigerian singer in 2016 signed a major management and distribution deal with Jay Z’s label Roc Nation in the USA. A move that made her joined the likes of Rihanna, J. Cole, Big Sean, Emeli Sande, Shakira and other American top singers who are currently signed to the entertainment company. The “African Rihanna”, as she was popularly called by her American fans, was then tipped by industry watchers to begin the international phase of her career. She recently attended the annual Roc Nation Brunch, and was pictured with Diddy, Jay Z, DJ Khaled, Remy Ma, Fat J...

A report on, “ JAMB Admitted Candidates by State and Gender within Faculty’’, released by NBS in Abuja on Monday said that 2,674,485 students were admitted across the 36 states and the FCT between 2010 and 2015. “In 2010, a total of 1,513,940 applications were received while 423,531 students were admitted. “This shows that 28 per cent of students who applied for admission were admitted across the 36 states and the FCT in the year under review. “Adamawa and Niger States admitted 38 per cent of students who applied for admission in 2010. “Both states received 14,483 and 16,556 applications while 5,678 and 6,278 students were admitted, respectively,’’ it stated. Similarly, the report stated that 1,636,356 applications were received while 417,341 students were admitted in 2011. “This simply means that 26 per cent of students who applied for admission were admitted across the 36 states and the FCT in 2011,“it said. The report said Yobe with 7,879 applications and 3,185 adm...

It’s been months since Kanye West’s heated rant during his tour. As a matter of fact, it’s been so long, most people figured Drake would never respond to West calling him out. If you were one of those people like me, you thought wrong. The 30-year-old Toronto native sat down for a new interview with DJ Semtex. During the interview, Drake covered everything from the early bits of his music career to his popular feud with Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill. One of the most interesting parts of the interview was perhaps when Drake spoke about Kanye West. For months, we’ve been forced to wonder whether or not these two rappers are on cordial terms with each other. When asked about the confusing comments West made about him in November, Drake finally responded, saying,” I think everybody has their own little things going on, I’m not really sure what he’s referring to half the time, as in the same breath, I went from being… like working on a project with him, to him sort of publicly s...

Selena Gomez Doesn’t Want Her Relationships To Overshadow Her Success Imagine being an incredibly talented recording artist with countless accomplishments. Now, imagine the world being too blinded by the juicy gossip about your love life to appreciate your talent. That’s likely what Selena Gomez is experiencing. Or at least that’s what can be gathered from recent statements made by her team. According to TMZ, the 24-year-old singer is sick and tired of people defining her based on the men she dates. Apparently, Gomez wants people to focus more on her success as an artist instead of her relationships. The report states, She’s proud of her accomplishments as a singer and thinks every time she hooks up with someone people ignore her as an artist, a TV producer for a new show, the face of Coach and the most followed person on Instagram. Another detail indicates the singer wants her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber to move on “from his obsession with her.” This could have something t...

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, says Nigeria has achieved the status of second largest producer of rice in the world. Malam Garba said this in Abuja at the weekend at a special interactive session with the youths organized by Citizens Support for Good Governance in Nigeria (SGGN). The presidential media aide, who spoke on the efforts being made by President Muhammadu Buhari to restructure the economy, called for more patience. He said the government met a situation in which the economy had been ravaged, while the people had been used to lifestyles that could no longer be sustained. He said, “No country will develop when you have to import virtually everything, including tooth pick and tissue paper. All the food we eat in this country was being imported. So, all of the money earned was just going to buy food. “But as I speak to you now, Nigeria just achieved the record of the second largest producer of rice in the ...

The governor of Kano Abdullahi Umar Ganduje disclosed this in an interview with Dailytrust , he also blamed the Jonathan Administration for the current situation of the country. He also said, APC is ready for any mega party that may likely to come up. ''At the national level, it is being speculated that some political bigwigs would come up with a platform to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)''  ‘’Most of the problems, especially those of the economy, were created by the former administration. If Buhari didn’t come on board, I don’t know where the people from the North would have been by now because of the issue of Boko Haram. Curtailing Boko Haram was not in sight; the military was corrupt, the police was corrupt and there was no political will by the president to tackle such problems. The international community had lost confidence in our honesty and political will to curtail Boko Haram. By the time Buhari came in, most local gove...

The Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has disclosed the main reasons behind the strained relationship between him and his former political associate, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, linking them to disagreements on policy implementation and actions of sycophants. He said Kwankwaso had misinterpreted the fine-tuning of the policies he bequeathed to mean an attempt to deny him credit.  The governor expressed doubt about the clash affecting the chances of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state during the next general elections in 2019. He, however, expressed readiness to reconcile with his former principal who he said he had not been on talking terms with.   You attended the National Economic Council meeting on Thursday, where the state of the nation’s economy was discussed. Did the council come up with what would give Nigerians a reason to be happy? What featured most was the value of the Naira because the situation is becoming alarming. But...