Hollywood actor Bill Paxton dies at 61

Bill Paxton, whose extensive career included films such as "The Terminator," "Aliens" and "Titanic," passed away due to complications from surgery. A representative for his family in a statement said, 

"It is with heavy hearts we share the news that Bill Paxton has died. A loving husband and father, Bill began his career in Hollywood working on films in the art department and went on to have an illustrious career spanning four decades as a beloved and prolific actor and filmmaker. Bill's passion for the arts was felt by all who knew him, and his warmth and tireless energy were undeniable. We ask to please respect the family's wish for privacy as they mourn the loss of their adored husband and father." 

Moments after news of Paxton's death broke, social media lit up with tributes to the versatile actor.

May his soul Rest In Peace.

Pharell losing his youthful look

Singer-songwriter, rapper and record producer, Pharell is almost 44 years old but he's always looked like a guy in his 20s or at least 30s. But when he stepped out at an event this week, he looked his age

Buhari's personal assistant on New Media gets attacked for saying Nigerians should stop going overseas for everything

Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant to the Nigerian President on New Media, just shot himself in the foot. In reply to a Nigerian who called him out on the promise by the government to make $1 equal to N1, Bashir said that can only happen if Nigerians stop travelling overseas for every single need and Nigerians went ham on him instantly.

'China can easily deal with N.Korea, i want to expand our nuclear Arsenal to become the best' - Donald Trump's says

U.S President Donald Trump, has upped the ante on the Chinese government by claiming the Far East nation can deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un if they decide to and also revealed he plans to expand the nuclear capability of the United States to be the best in the world and surpass it's closest military rival.

According to the Ploughshares Fund, an anti-nuclear group, and the Arms control association, Russia has 7,000 warheads while the United States has 6,800, a situation Trump wants to reverse, in order for the U.S to regain it's military supremacy.

“I am the first one that would like to see ... nobody have nukes, but we’re never going to fall behind any country even if it’s a friendly country, we’re never going to fall behind on nuclear power.'' Trump said on Thursday in an exclusive interview with Reuters at the Oval office.

"It would be wonderful, a dream would be that no country would have nukes, but if countries are going to have nukes, we’re going to be at the top of the pack," 

Trump also talked about China and said he supports the E.U while also saying he will like to see Israel and Palestine settle their conflicts with a two-state solution.

"There's talks of a lot more than that," Trump said, when asked about the missile defence system. "We'll see what happens. But it's a very dangerous situation, and China can end it very quickly in my opinion."

 Daryl Kimball, executive director of the independent Arms Control Association non-profit group said:

"Russia and the United States have far more weapons than is necessary to deter nuclear attack by the other or by another nuclear-armed country," .

Trump also said it was late to have a peaceful meeting with Kim Jong Un, blasting Obama's inability to solve the North Korean headache during his administration.

"It's very late. We're very angry at what he's done, and frankly this should have been taken care of during the Obama administration," he said.

Piers Morgan, Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand & many others continue to lash out after Claudio Ranieiri's sack

Claudio Ranieiri, who won Leicester's first premier league title last season, was shockingly sacked on Thursday night by the club's board of directors.

Despite the club's poor start this season which has seen them battle with the relegation zone, most fans didn't expect Ranieri, FIFA's Best manager of the year, to be sacked because he delivered the club's greatest achievement last season.


Football celebs and indeed the whole sports world have taken to Twitter to lash out at the decision of the club's owners.
Some feel he shouldn't have been sacked because he didn't get the players he wanted, and some of the club's stars last season aren't performing well this season, so the players should have taken the stick.

Nigerian students give South African companies 48 hours ultimatum to leave Nigeria over Xenophobic attacks

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, have given all South African countries operating in Nigeria a 24 hours ultimatum to leave the country. This is in reaction to the xenophobic attacks meted out on Nigerians in South Africa.

NANS staged a peaceful protest on Thursday at some South African companies located in Abuja where they made their displeasure known and revealed that they will no longer be silent while Nigerians are attacked in South Africa whereas South African companies like MTN, DSTV and Shoprite are allowed to operate freely in Nigeria.

Speaking on behalf of the students, the president of NANS, Kadiri Aruna, said South African companies in Nigeria had only 48 hours to leave Nigerian soil, else Nigerian students will retaliate by pulling down all MTN masts in the country in the country. DSTV and Shoprite were also not left out in the threats.

Aruna said: 

“I don’t want to say we will be barbaric but we will not be lawful in our actions, we will do it and face the consequences, enough of this rubbish.’’

Aruna went further to reminisce on how Nigeria was instrumental in freeing South Africans from apartheid and Nigeria contributed 80 per cent of the freedom the South Africans are enjoying today because we saved them from the jaws of apartheid and have over the years supported South Africa financially. He said it was time to take action and called on the Federal Government to step up and work towards evacuating Nigerians in South Africa. He also suggestion cutting diplomatic ties with the South Africans due to the silence of their government in the face of the attacks.

"The government of South Africa is criminally quiet and they say silence is consent, and their police are folding their hands while they are killing Nigerians, this is conspiracy, enough is enough,’’ he said.

Riots erupt in Sweden confirming Trump's comments about the immigrant situation in the country

Monday night, just two days after President Trump was mocked for implying, at his rally, that there was a terror attack in Sweden, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in the northern suburbs of the country's capital, Stockholm. During the evening hundreds of young people gathered in the center of Rinkeby, well known for its high concentration of immigrants and people with immigrant ancestry.
For four hours, a massive crowd of immigrants in the predominantly Muslim region of Rinkeby burned several cars, vandalized several shops, looted several shops and threw rocks at police What caused the riot on Monday night was that the Swedish police made an arrest on a Muslim drug dealer and presses drug charges on him at about 8 p.m. near the Rinkeby station. For reasons not yet disclosed by the police, word of the arrest prompted hundreds of youths to gather and cause mayhem in the city.

Police spokesman Lars Bystrom confirmed to Sweden's Dagens Nyheter newspaper that an officer fired shots at a rioter but missed. A photographer for the newspaper was attacked and beaten by more than a dozen men and his camera was stolen by them.

Bystrom later said that a police officer was slightly injured and that one person was arrested for throwing rocks, news agencies reported. Some civilians were also assaulted while trying to stop looters, he said.

In June 2010, Rinkeby was the scene of riots and attacks against the local police station and Rinkeby is the region in which the ’60 Minutes’ crew were attacked in 2016.

The problems Sweden faces integrating large numbers of Muslim immigrants is a subject on which Nordstjernan columnist Ulf Nilson has written many times. His warnings of increasing radicalization among Sweden’s Muslims – warnings he started to broadcast a decade ago – now seem eerily prophetic in light of an Associated Press investigation that found Stockholm to be a breeding ground for jihadists among Swedish Somalis.

According to the AP report, which first ran Jan. 24, an al-Qaida-linked group is busy recruiting anti-government fighters among Somali youths living in Rinkeby. A suburb of Stockholm, Rinkeby has earned the nickname of “Little Mogadishu” because of the number of Somalis living there. Rinkeby is also the center of the recruiting efforts of al-Shabab, a group with ties to al-Qaida.

Rinkeby is a known problem area in Stockholm. It was here NRK journalist Anders Magnus was attacked with stones last spring, and here the police never go in the evenings without reinforcements from other patrols according to Dabladet.

Watch the video below:

Source: Washington Post/AP

French presidential candidate cancels meeting with Lebanese Islamic leader after she was asked to wear a headscarf

Anyone following the French presidential race will be familiar with far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen of the National Front party. Her policies and utterances closely mirror that of Donald Trump's. The 48 year old cancelled a scheduled meeting with Lebanon's most senior Islamic leader Sheikh Abdellatif Deryan after she was handed a headscarf, asking her to cover her hair. She objected to covering her hair and canceled the meeting.
Her ‘political gesture’ against the Sunni Grand Mufti was aimed at asserting French secular values in Lebanon, where the main religions are Islam and Christianity.

The visit had been planned in advance and the Sheikh's people said she was informed of the traditional procedure of covering the head as a mark of respect.
Ms Le Pen who is on a tour of the middle east said she had visited Al-Azhar, the Egyptian centre of Sunni Islamic learning, in 2015, without covering up adding:

‘The highest Sunni authority in the world did not require wearing this, so I have no reason to.' She told reporters: ‘But it doesn’t matter. You pass on my regards to the Grand Mufti, but I won’t veil myself’.

Praising the ‘political gesture’, Florian Philippot, one of Ms Le Pen’s closest aides, said it was ‘a beautiful message of emancipation and freedom sent to the women of France and the world’.

Sheikh Abdellatif Deryan is in charge of Dar al-Fatwa, the highest Sunni authority in Lebanon.

In a statement, it said it had ‘informed the presidential candidate, through one of her assistants, of the need to cover her head when she meets his eminence, according to the protocol assumed by Dar al-Fatwa.’
The statement added that ‘the leaders of Dar al-Fatwa were surprised by her refusal to comply with this well-known rule.’

It is common practice for foreign politicians and diplomat to adopt local customs when visiting religious institutions abroad.

Football star leaves field in tears after being the victim of racism with rival fans making monkey noise at him

At some point during the match, the Rad fans unveiled a banner with content which was insulting to Luiz, causing the game to be halted and a warning issued, however, this did not deter the racist fans who continued with mocking the Brazilian star. 

By the time the game was over, Luiz couldn't take it anymore and he made a one-fingered gesture at the rival fans as he left the field, crying, in spite of the fact that his team, Partizan, won the game 1-0. 

A teary Luiz revealed to reporters that he suffered abuse all through the match and that upset him, but what was more upsetting was that home players supported it.

 He was eventually consoled by his team's goalkeeper, Filip Kljajic. Partizan coach, Marko Nikolic, hinted that Luiz was likely to face disciplinary action for the way he reacted to the racist abuse, though he acknowledged that Rad fans were at fault and should also be punished. Nikolic said: 

"Everton should not have reacted but something provoked his outburst, didn't it?"

Loved up photos of Gabrielle Union and Dwayne as they soak up the sun on a Yacht

Actress Gabrielle Union and her basketball star husband Dwyane Wade looked so in love as they spent an afternoon on a yacht soaking up the sun and enjoying the sea breeze.

Gabrielle showed off her well-toned figure in a two-piece bikini, while Dwyane wore a jacket, which was left unbuttoned, with matching shorts. They both had on white face caps to provide shade from the sun. 

EPL's biggest referee Mark Clattenburg quits Premier League for mega-money move to Saudi Arabia

England's biggest referee, Mark Clattenburg, has decided to snub the English Premier league for a mouth watering move to Saudi Arabia

Mark, who has been a celebrated referee since 2004 called an end to his premier league career on Thursday and according to former referees' chief Keith Hackett, the 41-year-old joined the Saudi Arabian league due to a lack of support from PGMOL (Professional Game Match Officials Limited) during an incident with Juan Mata in 2012 where he allegedly called Juan Mata a "Spanish t**t" in 2012 and John Obi Mikel a "monkey".

 

 

"It's bad news for English reffing. The Premier League has lost the world's best ref - it's a massive blow," Hackett told the Daily Star.

"He's 41 and had nine more years ahead of him - but he's not the first young ref to leave.

"Howard Webb and Mark Halsey both quit early and you have to ask, 'what is going on?'

"I think it's down to poor management. There were incidents when the PGMOL haven't supported or clarified decisions when they've needed to.

"Mark felt after the Mata incident no one supported him. He was left high and dry.

"I was doing lot of talking to him at the time and it's how you manage people and how you manage personalities. 

"That's a part of the skillset that's lacking at the moment.

"The problem is he's gone and the Premier League are without the best around.

"And I feel he's gone because no-one ever comes out from the PMGOL and clarifies a decision. There's time when refs need a phone call, they need an arm round the shoulder but it isn't happening.

"It's not about the money. He's got an opportunity to secure his future, yes, and they've not tried to stop him going.

"Where's the Premier League, where's the PGMOL and where's The FA? Why haven't they tried to keep him?"

The Professional Game Match Officials Limited reacting to Clattenburg's decision, said in a statement: “The PGMOL would like to wish Mark Clattenburg well as he prepares for his move to the Saudi Arabian Football Federation.

“Since joining the PGMO Select Group in 2004, Mark developed into one of our top officials, refereeing at the highest level and setting standards for others to follow.

“Mark is a talented referee, he has been a great asset to the English game and hopefully an inspiration to those who want to get into refereeing at the grass roots of the game.

“We understand this is an exciting opportunity for Mark as well as further underlining what high esteem English match officials are held throughout the world game.”

Woman born without a vagina has genital organ created using her own intestine

A 23 year old woman who was born without a vagina, had a surgery yesterday to have a man-made one created for her. According to Dailymail, the woman whose surname was given as Zhang, found out she had no vagina when she could not menstruate after attaining puberty.

Zhang's mother reportedly checked her daughter's body and found out that she didn't have a vagina. The female anatomy has three holes, the Vagina which is used for birthing a child and sex, the Urethra which is for peeing and the Anus which is used for excretion.

Zhang went to the hospital and was diagnosed with a condition known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), a congenital abnormality characterised by women who have no vagina, womb and cervix. MRKH is found in one in every 5,000 women or so in the world. A B-scan ultra-sonography revealed that Zhang has no vagina or uterus, but she has functioning ovaries.

She told the doctors that she had not been able to date any man because of her condition and also had to turn down many admirers who had asked her out.

In a very rare medical procedure, surgeons from the North-West China's Shaanxi Province on February 15th, took a section of Zhang's small intestine and used it to create a vagina for her.

The operation was assisted by a da Vinci robot, a technology used to carry out minimal invasive surgery. Doctors said the man-made vagina should have no difference to a normal vagina in terms of its appearance and functionality.

One of the doctors was quoted saying: 'If Zhang wishes to have babies, we will need to carry out a uterus transplant surgery.' Doctor Guo Shuzhong who is a renowned plastic surgeon and medical professor in China, led the medical team that carried out the surgery. Shuzhong conducted the first face transplant operation in China in 2006 and successfully built an artificial ear for a man in 2006 using his patient's cartilage.

Source: UK Daily Mail

Paul and Florentin Pogba spoke more tonight than I have to any of my brothers in the last 5 years - Roy Keane fires shots at Pogba brothers

Man United legend and former captain, Roy Keane, has blasted Paul Pogba and his brother Florentin Pogba for their bromance during Man U's 3-0 win over Saint Etienne in Thursday night's Europa League clash at Old Trafford.

Florentin, who plays for Saint Etienne was seen hugging and conversing with Paul at half time and at the end of the match as the pair walked down the tunnel, and Keane, a coach and pundit blasted the pair saying their chat was 'over the top'.

 

When asked on Thursday night by Jacqui Oatley on ITV's Europa League Highlights show if Paul Pogba chatting to his brother at half-time disturbed him, Keane replied: "Yes.

"The boy, Pogba, he's a bit of a free spirit, a bit of a character. But I think it was a little bit over the top tonight - before the game and at half-time.

"They've spoke more tonight than I have to any of my brothers [Denis, Pat and Johnson] in the last five years. "It's all a bit strange. I think when the game started they were focused on the game.

"But all this stuff before and after the game, [it's] a lot of nonsense - but that's the modern player, I'm afraid."

The Pogba boys look so alike they could be triplets

Luxury designer, Malivelihood shows off the $1.5m mansion he gifted his girlfriend

Known for surprising his girlfriend, Deola Smart in an extravagant way for Valentine's Day, Luxury designer Micheal has revealed that he gifted a $1.5m luxury home to her this year. He shared photos via Snapchat today, showing off the exterior and interior of the new crib. However, although her initials were inscribed in some parts of the house, so where his own on some interlocking tiles..