Laverne Cox becomes first Transgender person on the cover of Time

American Transgender actress, Laverne Cox, of Netflix's hit Orange Is the New Black becomes the first transgender woman to grace the cover of Time magazine for a story about 'The Transgender Tipping Point. Time revealed the mag cover today.

INCREDIBLE! Naomi Campbell Looking Young In New Magazine Cover 

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Bow Down, Bieber! Kimye Wedding Photo Breaks Record for Most Liked Instagram Ever

Justin Bieber's reign as king of Instagram has ended.

Instagram announced that the photo of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's first kiss as a married couple has become the most-liked ever in the app's three-year history. The pic, posted by theKeeping Up With the Kardashians star on Tuesday, has 1.98 million hearts (and counting). And, if you want to get technical, many more than that thanks to regramming by Kris Jenner (346,000 more likes) and other adoring Kimye fans who couldn't get enough of the country-hopping weddingpalooza.Now how does The Biebs fit into all this? Well, the Canadian crooner previously held the title with a photo he posted showing him in a surprise snuggle with Selena Gomez. Since he uploaded it on Jan. 4, a much longer time period, it has amassed 1.82 million likes.

 Kim's newfound Instagram popularity doesn't seem to be a one-off. A second photo she posted from Saturday s nuptials has amassed a whopping 1.61 million likes in three days.

27 people have been killed in two separate auto accidents in Sokoto and Edo states.

In Sokoto, a night accident at Tudun-Dukiya village near Dogon Karfe, Sokoto state left at least 13 people dead.

The accident occurred between a Peugeot J-5 bus travelling from Jos to Illela and a Toyota Starlet car travelling from Illela to Sokoto.

In Edo State, no fewer than 14 persons lost their lives also in an auto crash along Benin-Okene highway.

The incident, which occurred around the Ewu slope in Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo State, involved a 15-seater Toyota Hiace bus and truck, which was said to be coming from Abuja.

An eyewitness said that the incident occurred when brakes of the truck failed and ran over the Toyota bus coming from the opposite side. It killed the 13 passengers and the driver.

Kudos to Tiwa Savage on new video

Barely 24 hours after Tiwa Savage premiered the ‘daring’ video for her song entitled, Wanted, the singer is still in the news. With over 62,000 views on YouTube as at the time of going to press, Nollywood filmmaker, Charles Novia, bluntly described the video as a “stupid art” while Uti Nwachukwu came to her defence, describing critics of the video as “dead hypocrites.” Beat FM presenter Gbemi Olateru–Olagbegi, on the other hand, also tweeted, “You can’t be hailing Beyoncé, Rihanna, Shakira for their sexiness and hating on Tiwa for a sexy video.”

CRAZY WORLD: 16-year-old boy admits to killing parents for taking away his iPod

16-year-old Vincent Parker from Virgina admitted to a judge, May 27 that he murdered his parents because they kept taking away his iPod. The 10th grader was an honor roll student at Norview High School, but his frustration with his parents refusing to lighten their punishments somehow caused him to flip. Via WKTR The parents were found dead a week before last Christmas. Parker attacked his mother with pepper spray as she came out of an upstairs bathroom, stabbing her in the eye and then beating her in the head with a baseball bat and crowbar until she was dead. He then struck his father with a crowbar and stabbed him multiple times as soon as he walked through the front door. According to WTKR, Parker told the court that he “just got mad and went off” due to built up anger directed mainly towards his father. It’s all from my dad. All this stuff like my dad taking away my iPod and stuff. Parker first told police that his dad had started the physical confrontation, but soon admitted to murdering his parents. The father also lived long enough to tell the police what happened before dying from head injuries. Tried as an adult, Parker has pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and will be sentenced in September. His grandfather told WKTR that he’s in shock that Vincent, who had a clean criminal record and almost never got in trouble in school, would kill his parents in revenge for such petty forms of discipline. He said, He is a smart young man. He is smart in school. I don’t know what happened. A psychiatric evaluation showed that Vincent was completely sane and possessed high intellectual potential. His defense attorney will ask the court to let him serve at least a portion of his sentence in a juvenile facility as the boy could go to jail for nearly the rest of his life if he is sentenced the maximum punishment for both murders.

Kendall Jenner has officially landed Vogue

Kendall Jenner, 18, has officially infiltrated Vogue.

The reality star and her proud mother Kris Jenner took to Instagram to give a sneak peak of her upcoming spread in the June/July 2014 issue of Vogue Paris, in which the lanky Kendall fits right in with the high fashion look the publication is well-known for.

"PARIS VOGUE June/July 2014 Wow @kendalljenner stunning!! Congratulations!! #proudmama," Kris posted, along with this fierce shot of Kendall posing in a purple dress in-between two models.

Shot by famed photographer Patrick Demarchelier, Kendall also shared these two brooding black-and-white snaps.

Kendall's Paris Vogue spread is just the latest evidence that she’s being accepted into the high fashion modeling world with open arms -- she walked the Marc Jacobs runway braless in February, and has also walked for such high-profile shows as Chanel and Givenchy.

Nigeria's president orders full scale offensive on Boko Haram

Speaking on Nigeria's Democracy Day, Goodluck Jonathan said he had authorized security forces to use any means necessary under the law to ensure that Boko Haram, which operates in the country's northeast, is defeated.

"I am determined to protect our democracy, our national unity and our political stability, by waging a total war against terrorism," Jonathan said in a televised speech.

It was not immediately clear what such an offensive might entail, given that the northeast of the country has been under a state of emergency and a full scale military operation for a year. Nigerian forces are also hugely overstretched.

Chad's President Idriss Deby also used the phrase "total war" after neighboring West African states met in Paris in mid-May to seek a common strategy to fight the militants.

"I assure you that Nigeria will be safe again and that these thugs will be driven away. It will not happen overnight, but we will spare no effort to achieve this goal," Jonathan said.

The scale of the challenge was underlined by a fresh attack on Thursday in the northeastern village of Gurmushi, near Nigeria's border with Cameroon, in which suspected Islamist gunmen riding motorbikes killed 32 people.

On April 14 Boko Haram militants surrounded a secondary school in the remote northeastern village of Chibok and took away in trucks 276 girls who had been sitting exams, according to official figures from an audit this week.

Nigeria's Borno state, the epicenter of the insurgency, said on Wednesday that a total of 57 of the kidnapped girls had escaped. But 219 others were still missing and assumed held by the militants, who say they are fighting for an Islamic state in Nigeria and have killed thousands over the years.

Since the day of the girls' abduction, Boko Haram have killed at least 500 civilians, according to a Reuters count.

"With the support of Nigerians, our neighbors and the international community, we will reinforce our defense, free our girls and rid Nigeria of terrorists," Jonathan said.

"I share the deep pain and anxiety of their parents."

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The mass abduction thrust the Islamist insurgency into the international spotlight like never before, with a Twitter campaign #BringBackOurGirls drawing in U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and Hollywood star Angelina Jolie.

Capitalizing on this, Jonathan has sought to paint Boko Haram as part of a broader global jihadist movement being directed from abroad, the first time he has taken this line.

"Extremist foreign elements, collaborating with some of our misguided citizens," was one phrase he used to describe them.

"What we are witnessing in Nigeria today is a manifestation of the same warped and ferocious world view that brought down the Twin Towers in New York (and) killed innocent persons in Boston," Jonathan said, referring, respectively, to the September 11, 2001 attacks and the April 2013 marathon bombing.

Scores have been killed in Nigerian bombings in the past month, including two in the capital Abuja.

But signaling a willingness to negotiate, Jonathan said: "our doors remain open to them for dialogue and reconciliation."

Chief of Defence Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh said on Tuesday the military knew where the abducted girls were but ruled out a rescue by force for fear of endangering them. The military was criticized for its slow response to the crisis, but Jonathan has accepted international help.

U.S. troops have deployed to Chad on a mission to find the girls, and surveillance drones are being used.

Malcolm Glazer dies: Manchester United owner passes away at 86

Manchester United owner Malcolm Glazer has died at the age of 86.

The Glazer family purchased United for £790m in May 2005 amid protests from the Premier League club’s fans.

Inventors Introduce Mobile House in Nigeria that comes with its own Garden For N5m (See Photos)

As standard, the dwelling measures 3.5 x 2.4 m (12 x 8 ft), but there are also larger 4.8 m (16 ft), 5.4 m (18 ft), and 6 m (20 ft) long versions available.

The firm describes the house as a ‘A 96 sq. ft. instant cabin designed to be an efficient, durable and budget-friendly Tiny Home.’

 It was originally built as an instructional model to give workshop students a clear look at each of the steps involved in building a Tiny Home.

However, Shelter Wise said the design was so popular it decided to start selling it.

‘It is a cozy, compact cabin with a queen sized bed and lots of creative nooks and crannies for storage, and was designed to provide simple living in a natural setting.’

It comes with a full 30 Amp RV hookup and RV water connection.

The bathroom boasts a mini tub/shower combo (8 cubic feet) and a flushing toilet.

Nicki Minaj  during a Memorial    

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China to take 6 million older vehicles off roads

China's government plans to take 6 million older, polluting vehicles off the road this year in an effort to revive stalled progress toward cleaning up smog-choked cities.

The plan also calls for filling stations in Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities to switch to selling only the cleanest grades of gasoline and diesel, according to a Cabinet statement issued Monday.

The order comes after China failed to meet official pollution-reduction goals for 2011-2013, the statement said. It said vehicles registered before 2005 that fail to meet cleaner emissions standards will be "phased out," though it did not say how.

It called the country's environmental situation "extremely grim."

China's major cities are smothered in eye-searing smog. The country has some of the world's strictest emissions standards, but authorities have refrained from enforcing them until now to avoid forcing older, pollution-belching trucks off the road and hurting small businesses.

Monday's announcement suggests authorities have settled that conflict in favor of environmental protection following reports on the mounting health and economic costs of pollution.

Plans call for retiring 5 million older, polluting vehicles in Beijing, the nearby port of Tianjin and the deltas of the Yangtze River, around Shanghai, and the Pearl River, around the southern business center of Guangzhou, according to the statement. It gave no details on where the remaining 1 million vehicles due to be taken off the road were.

China has about 240 million vehicles on the road, and half are passenger cars, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

China is the world's biggest auto market by number of vehicles sold. Sales rose 15.7 percent last year to 17.9 million vehicles. Sales growth is slowing but analysts still expect an increase of 8 to 10 percent this year.

Taxi fleets and public buses in major cities have been required to switch to cleaner-burning natural gas or battery power. The government is promoting development of an electric car manufacturing industry.

'Basketball Wives' Divorce -- I DON'T HATE YOUR GUTS ... Malaysia Tells NBA Hubby

"Basketball Wives" star Malaysia Pargo insists her divorce from NBA player Jannero Pargo is NOT as nasty as it seems ... telling TMZ Sports she still wants to be friends after the split. 

We broke the story ... Malaysia just filed divorce docs in L.A. after airing her beef with the Charlotte Hornets player on various social media platforms ... and it seemed the two were ready to go to war. 

But now, Malaysia tells us both she and Jannero are keeping things friendly for the good of their 3 children -- and are committed to not only being civil toward each other, but friendly.

"Our family is our top priority and while we have decided to amicably go our separate way," Malaysia says, "We are both committed parents and plan to remain friends as we co-parent our three children. At this time we do not wish to discuss the details of our divorce. We ask that you keep our family in your prayers."

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Akwa Ibom Assembly passes Governor’s Pension Bill

Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has passed the controversial Pension and Other Benefits Bill enabling elected former governors and deputy governors to earn salaries for life and collect not less than $50,000 for their domestic servants per month.     The bill, which almost made the organised labour protest in the streets but for the timely intervention of the Speaker, Sam Ikon and his Deputy, Udo Kerian Akpan, who rushed to placate labour leaders yesterday morning, stipulates that at the expense of the state government, former state leaders are entitled to “ a new official car and a utility vehicle once in every four years, one personal aide and the provision of adequate security for his person during his lifetime.”The bill likely to be signed into law on or before June 1, 2014, will also ensure the “provision of funds to employ a cook, chauffeurs, and security guards for the governor at a sum not exceeding N5 million (or the equivalent of $50,000 in Nigerian currency) per month, and N2 million (or the equivalent of $20,000 in Nigerian currency) per month for the deputy governor.”The retired governor and his deputy are also entitled to “provision of free medical services for his person and spouse at the sum not exceeding N100 million (or the equivalent of $600,000 in Nigerian currency) per annum for the governor and N30 million (or the equivalent of the $20,000 in Nigerian currency) per annum for the deputy governor.The bill also seeks to provide for the former governor a befitting accommodation not below a five-bedroom maisonette in either Abuja or Akwa Ibom for retired governor, even as it will also provide for yearly accommodation allowance of 300 per cent of annual basic salary for a former deputy governor of the state.The former governor, according to the bill, will also receive a severance gratuity of 300 per cent of annual basic salary as at the time he leaves office, among other things. Where the former governor or deputy dies, government will make adequate arrangement and bear financial responsibility for his burial, pay a condolence allowance of a sum equivalent to the annual basic salary of the incumbent to his next of kin, and provide one surviving spouse with medical allowance not exceeding N12 million per annum, provided that such a spouse was married to the governor at the time he or she was in office, and if a wife, had served the state as first lady.

After careful and heated debate by members present, the motion for the bill to be read for the third time and passed into law was moved by the Deputy Leader, Ekaete Okon, and seconded by Mr. Aniekan Akpan, a member representing Ukanafun State Constituency.
Consequently, the speaker directed the clerk of the House, Mrs Mandu Umoren, to forward a clean copy of the bill to the governor.

The newest couple, matching jackets.

Finally a picture, E! releses  pictures from KIMYE wedding

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Kim Kardashian Givenchy couture wedding dress

22yr old mother sells her one-month old baby for N430k in Onitsha, Nigeria

22 year old Chinelo Huma, (pictured above), who got pregnant while she was engaged in prostitution, sold her 1-month baby for N430,000. She, alongside 3 others, have been arrested by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Enugu State Police Command.

A Nigerian girl studying at the Vaal University of Technology in  South Africa is said to have been killed by her Zimbabwean boyfriend.

20-year-old Naizi Evah, a third year student of Computer Systems Engineering, is said to have been murdered on May 24 by the unnamed boyfriend.

Naizi was said to have been abused by her boyfriend before her eventual death. Her fellow students have threatened to march on the local police station if investigations into her death does not yield results.

May her soul rest in peace.

THREE AFRICAN STUDENTS “ZAMBIANS” IN RUSSIA GOT SHOT AT THE CENTRE OF THE CITY “NESKIY PROSPECT” ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.

The 24th/25th of May 2014 was a weekend set aside for the Celebration of the City known as “День Города Санкт Петербурга” – “St.Petersburg Day” which was founded on the 27th of may 1703.
In the spirit of Festivity, A lot of People from around the world gathered and celebrated “St.petersburg day” by taking a walk at the centre of the city and paticipating in other fun loving activities on Nevskiy prospect.Three African Students from Zambia who also went for a walk with their Russian friend were attacked by Skinheads,beaten and Shot at around “Dom Knigi” on Nevskiy Prospect Metro “in the Centre of the City”, Two of them suffered injuries on the chest and back respectively but the third guy Who happenes to Study at “The Bonch Bruevich Saint Petersburg University Of Telecommunications” got Shot twice “one minor on the stomach and a fatal shot in his right cheek into his gum.The injury led to him bleeding profusely as he ended up collapsing.Fortunately there were good passersby who came to his rescue by calling an ambulance that performed first aid treatment and rushed him to the hospital were he is still recieving treatment. He is now fine and conscious,responding to treatment.
As of now the Case is still under investigation and The Saint Petersburg Nevskiy Region Police authorities (Dept.) are actively working hard to get hold of the Neo-Nazi/Skinhead but no arrest have been made Yet though they happen to be a lot of cameras at nevskiy prospect which happens to be the most popular Street/business and tourist centre of St.petersburg,Russia.

Nigerian defense chief says abducted girls located

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but fears using force to try to free them could get them killed, the country's chief of defense said Monday.

Air Marshal Alex Badeh told demonstrators supporting the much criticized military that Nigerian troops can save the girls. But he added, "we can't go and kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back."

He spoke to thousands of demonstrators who marched to Defense Ministry headquarters in Abuja, the capital. Many were brought in on buses, indicating it was an organized event.

Asked by reporters where they had found the girls, Badeh refused to elaborate.

"We want our girls back. I can tell you we can do it. Our military can do it. But where they are held, can we go with force?" he asked the crowd.

People roared back, "No!"     "If we go with force what will happen?" Badeh asked.

"They will die," the demonstrators responded.

That appeared to leave negotiation the sole option, but a human rights activist close to negotiators said a deal to swap the girls for detained Boko Haram members was agreed last week and then scuttled at the last minute by President Goodluck Jonathan.

The activist who is close to those mediating between Boko Haram extremists and government officials said the girls would have been freed last week Monday.

Jonathan had already told British officials that he would not consider an exchange. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

Nigeria's military and government have faced national and international outrage over their failure to rescue the girls seized by Boko Haram militants from a remote northeastern school six weeks ago.

President Jonathan was forced this month to accept international help. American planes have been searching for the girls and Britain, France, Israel and other countries have sent experts in surveillance and hostage negotiation. A.U.S. Defense Department spokesman said the department cannot confirm the reports about the Nigerian girls at this point. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the situation, spoke on background. Jonathan's reluctance to accept offered help for weeks is seen as unwillingness to have outsiders looking in on what is considered a very corrupt force. Soldiers have told The Associated Press that they are not properly paid, are dumped in dangerous bush with no supplies and that the Boko Haram extremists holding the girls are better equipped than they are.

Train accident kills at least 40 in northern India

 An express train plowed into a parked freight train in northern India on Monday, killing at least 40 people and reducing cars to heaps of torn and twisted metal, officials said.

YVONNE NELSON, twitted a pic of her in Madrid.
really looking good, love the hair.

30 insurgents killed in eastern Ukraine

Firefighters work at a burnt ice hockey arena in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Early Tuesday, a group of unidentified men stormed Donetsk's main ice hockey arena, which was to host the 2015 world championships and set it ablaze, according to the mayor's office. The ice hockey arena belongs to Ukrainian lawmaker Boris Kolesnikov

After skipping his sister Kim Kardashian's wedding to Kanye West on Saturday, Rob, 27, took to Twitter on Monday morning to let everyone know he was doing just fine.

The cryptic tweet didn't reveal why he chose not to attend the much-anticipated Florence, Italy, nuptials of his older sister, but the sock designer was in Paris for the days leading up to the main event. Rob wasn't the only member of the famous family to decline attendance. Bruce Jenner's son, Brody Jenner, was also absent.

Chinese police in arrest "terror group" state media