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IT IS A TRACT IT SHOULD NOT BE BRIDGDED:          It is dawn again in the small resourceful village in Ikeduru Local Government area, poor Mrs. Ekemma who has been a victim of spite and neglect in her very large family comprising three other wives, gives birth to her fifth daughter in a Local home in their village. The tears of this girl child that should stimulate joy in her mother rather gave birth to more tears, as her other four daughters has faced the discrimination and inhumanity culture metes out to the girl child: No formal education, early marriage, teenage pregnancy etc. But the most grueling of all is what they called 'Ibi nwaanyi ugwu' (female circumcision) fondly called 'Female Genital Tract Mutilation..        This practiced has long been hinged on mythical and cultural beliefs of various tropical countries such as: It aids to reduce/prevent fornication or promiscuity in the girl child. Female genital mutilation entails cut...

Major spoilers for Avengers: Endgame below. You’ll be horrifically shocked to learn that at least one person dies in Avengers: Endgame. We won’t go down the full roster of casualties right now, but we can address the most climactic of them: the final sacrifice of Tony Stark. Iron Man perishes while defeating the galaxy’s hottest space daddy, Thanos, and is subsequently laid to rest by his friends and family. (Yes, family. He managed to settle down and have a kid over the course of the yarn.) There are oodles of familiar faces at Stark’s funeral, set on the property of his post-snap cabin in the woods. But there’s one upon whom the camera lingers, despite the fact that many viewers will likely have no clue who it belongs to. He’s a lanky teenage boy with a vaguely emo demeanor, and if his visage is ringing any bells, then you’ve clearly seen Iron Man 3. The kid is none other than Harley Keener, as portrayed by the fantastically named actor Ty Simpkins. We were first introduced to...

The Deputy leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Uche Mefor, has reacted to a sex video of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. A sex video yesterday surfaced online of the IPOB leader with a lady said to be his wife, Uchechi. In the video, Kanu and his wife could be seen in bed half naked taking about their sex life. Reacting to the video, Mefor wondered if it was a crime to have sex with one’s wife, stressing that the footage was an old video. In a statement, Mefor accused Aso Rock cabals of being behind the circulation of the video. The statement reads: “The video making rounds about the leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not new, it has been in circulation since 2013/2014 and as such nothing to be surprised about. Be advised accordingly, though, that this is a video of husband and wife (Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and our own Mrs Uchechi Okwu-kanu). “We note that employing of this cowardly conduct remains in the circumstances the only response-and-panic-control strategy from the ...

Some candidates of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have expressed optimism in their results as the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) commences the 2019/2020 exercise. The candidates expressed this on Thursday in Abuja. The JAMB had scheduled the exercise to commence from April 11 to 15 in all its accredited centres nationwide. A candidate, Esther Nwabueze who sat for the exams at the JAMB Headquarters Computer Based Test (CBT) centre said that she believed the efforts she put in preparing for the exams would give her a positive result. “The process was smoothly conducted by the officials at the centre. This gives me confidence of a favourable result. I pray that I get admission with theresult,” she said. Another candidate, Ahmad Lawal said that he was satisfied with the questions as they were what he prepared for before the examination. “The questions were from the syllabus and fair, even though, not exactly from past examination questio...

Bitcoin jumped suddenly on Tuesday, following months of relatively low volatility in an asset once known for its wild price swings. The price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency bounced more than 15 percent higher to almost $4,800, according to CoinDesk data, reaching its highest level since late November. Bitcoin also briefly touched the $5,000 mark on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange. The digital asset has added over $14 billion to its market value in the last 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap. The reason for the sudden price jump wasn’t immediately clear. Other virtual currencies were also higher, with ether and XRP both rising around 7 percent. Experts attributed the price hike to a breakout from a closely-watched resistance level of $4,200. Bitcoin had been hovering around the $4,000 mark for several months. “Bitcoin’s break above $4,200 this morning was critical, as the market had been watching that level for a while,” Mati Greenspan, senior market analyst at t...

Pope Francis has said his Argentinian compatriot Lionel Messi is not "God" yet understands why people refer to him as if he is. Barcelona forward Messi has scored 31 goals, including both in the 2-0 derby victory over Espanyol, and set up 12 more in 27 league games for the La Liga leaders. He has netted 16 in 12 Champions League appearances to help Barca reach the quarterfinals and also helped his side progress to the Copa del Rey final. Asked if it was a sacrilege to call the five-time Ballon d'Or winner Messi "God," thus breaking the third commandment by using the lord's name in vain, Pope Francis told Spanish TV La Sexta show "Salvados": "In theory it's a sacrilege. "You can't say it and I don't believe it. I think people say 'he is God' just as they say 'I adore you.' You have to adore only God. It's expressions that people use. This is a god with the ball on the pitch. It's a popular way tha...

Cardi B has defended herself after a video resurfaced of her saying she drugged and robbed men who wanted to have sex with her while she worked as a stripper before finding fame. The rapper faced criticism after the three-year-old Instagram live video recirculated on social media. "Whether or not they were poor choices at the time, I did what I had to do to survive," she wrote on Tuesday. "I never claimed to be perfect or come from a perfect world." The original video was made as her career was starting to take off and was her response to someone who said she didn't deserve success because she hadn't put in any work. "Nothing was handed to me. Nothing," she said in the video, before going on to reveal that she would invite men to a hotel before drugging and robbing them. In response to the furore, she wrote on Instagram that she had been talking "about things in my past right or wrong that I felt I needed to do to make a living...

Criminal charges against actor Jussie Smollett have been dropped, but the court of public opinion is still out. This morning, Smollett’s attorneys and prosecutors announced that all  charges against Smollett have been dropped and his record expunged. The Empire actor was accused of orchestrating a hate crime against himself in Chicago and filing a false police report about it.  The decision is a stunning about-face in a very public case that saw Chicago police claim the alleged attack was in service of Smollett’s career. Among the evidence the police said they had was a copy of the check used for payment and phone records showing Smollett communicating with the assailants before and after the incident. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and Mayor Rahm Emanuel slammed the dropped charges, with Rahm condemning that Smollett had been “let off scot-free.” “If you want to say you’re innocent of the situation, you take your day in court,” said Johnson. “I would neve...

This Into The Badlands review contains spoilers. Ask anyone who their favorite character on Into the Badlands is, and they'd probably say "The Widow". And why wouldn't they? She stole the show since day one (no offense to Sunny) and continues to be one of its main focal points. The Widow's come a long way since we first met her, that's for sure. And while watching "Raven's Feather, Phoenix Blood", I realized that more than ever. Raven's Feather, Phoenix Blood" is an experimental episode for Into the Badlands. In it, The Widow goes on a spontaneous vision quest to get her "gift" back. This takes place in an alternate reality where The Widow is a deadly red-clad baron known as the Phoenix who rules the Badlands with a velvet fist. Her right hand man is none other than a version of Gaius Chau, who is also dressed in all red. As the Phoenix, the Widow has access to all the powers of her "gift" which she has used to ...

Vast areas of the United States are at risk of flooding this spring, even as Nebraska and other Midwestern states are already reeling from record-breaking late-winter floods, federal scientists said on Thursday. Nearly two-thirds of the lower 48 states will have an elevated risk of some flooding from now until May, and 25 states could experience “major or moderate flooding,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “The flooding this year could be worse than anything we’ve seen in recent years, even worse than the historic floods of 1993 and 2011,” said Mary C. Erickson, deputy director of the National Weather Service, in a conference call with reporters. The major flooding this month in Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa and elsewhere is “a preview of what we expect throughout the rest of the spring,” she said. Some 13 million people could be exposed to major flooding, making this a “potentially unprecedented” flood season, said Edward Clark, director of NOAA’s...

Google according to reports, had announced its plans to shut down Inbox by Gmail on April 2, 2019. The company has been contemplating shutting down the popular mobile email app since last year but no specific date until now. In case you’re still using Inbox by Gmail, it’s likely that you’ve come across a notification within the app, informing you that the app will be ‘going away’ in 13 days. Inbox by Gmail will be shutting down the same day as Google+, the company’s failed social platform. Along with the in-app notice, Google is offering a shortcut that opens the Gmail app for Inbox by Gmail users. Depending on when the in-app notice was seen, Google listed 15, 14, or 13 days to the shutdown – but all these points to the same date – April 2. Over the past few months, Google has been bringing some of the Inbox by Gmail features to the regular Gmail app. But users are likely to still miss a lot of useful features they fell in love with. Unfortunately, core services of the app wi...

Blackface just released a Diss Song for 2Baba            A former member of the defunct Plantashun Boiz group, Blackface, has just released a diss song for his former co-band mate, 2Baba. The song is titled “WAR” and was released on Blackface’s Reverbnation page. According to Blackface, a music video is also coming out soon. The dispute between Blackface and 2Baba has been going on for a while now and it dates back to allegations of song theft from Blackface against 2Baba.

A cross section of civil servants in the Federal Capital Territory on Wednesday in Abuja lauded the Senate for approving the N30,000 minimum wage. Mr Moses Oga, a civil servant praised the Senate for taking the bold step after several negotiations between labour and the Federal Government. He said the new development was good for the Nigerians workers, adding that it would enhance economic development in the country.  Mr David Samuel, a staff of the Ministry of Information, said the issue of the minimum wage was long overdue but it was better late than never. He added that the implementation of the bill would reduce the suffering of civil servants across the country. Mr Amos Thomas, a civil servant with the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, said civil servants deserved more than the minimum wage but the N30,000 was a good place to start. He, however, expressed hope that when the implementation commenced the country’s economy would have improved to reduce the stress on...

Google recalls this Monday to the Japanese Seiichi Miyake: He originally wanted to help a friend whose eyesight was limited. Meanwhile, his invention is used worldwide. Anyone calling Google's home page in numerous countries this Monday , including Germany, sees the drawn-up close-up of a street instead of the usual logo, some paving stones are grooved, others with pimples - on it stand a person with a cane. Google is reminiscent of the Japanese inventor Seiichi Miyake (1926-1982). The so-called blind guidance system goes back to him; also called guideline system or tactile floor guidance system. These are systems that allow visually impaired or blind people, for example, using a stick safely move in public space: For this purpose in the soil certain indicators are embedded, grooves or pimples. You can see them in everyday life, for example on platforms, at pedestrian lights or in public places. In 1965, Seiichi Miyake invested his own money to develop the tactile plates, ac...

An actress, Etinosa Idemudia, has admitted she made a mistake after appearing nude on a Instagram call to MC Galaxy on Friday, March 15, 2019. Commenting on her social media profile this time, she attributed her performance to a challenge she was dealing with that seemed like a problem in her romance. Etinosa shared that she hopes to move on from the incident while maintaining a confidence about her body. "I made a mistake that I do not ever want to repeat. No man is perfect but we must continue to strive for perfection. "The big blunder has occurred and I would love to move on. Me, my pot belly and the rest of my beautiful body," writes Etinosa with humour. No more nudity When a viral video showing Etinosa Idemudia undressing herself on IG hit the social media audience, MC Galaxy had his share of criticism for allowing the display to go. Despite his claim that he was powerless, the singer was blamed for not doing enough to prevent the regrettable show. As a ...