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                     Rihanna took to her social media page to flaunt her her new collection with PUMA.She captioned the picture above ''THE TRAINER from Rihanna's FENTY for PUMA collection ...Coming soon FENTY x PUMA''.She also posted her a new song on iTunes ANTI {Deluxe} with the caption ''I sometimes fear that i am misunderstood it is simply because what i want to say,what i need to say,won't be comprehended.Not because peple won't listen,but because i won't be heard.Heard in a way i so rightly deserve.What i choose to say is of so much substance that people just won't understand the depth of my message.So my voice is not my weakness,it is the opposite of what others are afraid of.My voice is my suit and armour,my shield,and all that i am.I will comfortably live,eat,and breath in it.Until i find the moment to be silent.I live loudly in my mind,so many hours of the day.The world is a pin drop sound compared to the boom that thumps...

                      55 year old Angela Raiola,popularly known as ''Big Ang''died from stage four brain and lung cancer early today thursday morning after she had been fighting tumors that she was diagnosed with late last year.She was first suffering from throat cancer and she learned in December that it had spread to her brain and lungs.She had admitted to smoking at least one pack of cigarettes a day for over 40 years prior to the cancer diagnosis.On monday,she appeared on Dr Oz where she discussed how dire her situation was,but sadly,she passe away in the early hours of today thursday morning at a Manhattan hospital,where she was surrounded by her family and some friends.May her soul rest in peace,Amen.                                                                 ...

                     Seventy one {7 1} } people were confirmed dead after a bus hit a cargo truck north of Ghana's second city Kumasi overnight.The head-on crash,which left thirteen { 13}  people seriously injured,occurred 420 km {260 miles} north of the capital Accra when a Metro Mass Transit coach bound for the northern town of Tamale from the city of Kumasi hit a truck loaded with boxes of tomatoes,regional police chief Maxwell Atingane said.''Many of the passengers on the bus died on the spot.Initial reports suggested a mechanical failure on the bus caused the accident but police were investigating''. Ghana,like many other African countries,has a relatively high rate of road deaths due in part to narrow and poorly constructed roads,failure by drivers to respect speed limits and inadequate vehicle maintenance.Some of the injured had been evacuated by air for treatment in Kumasi.One more photo below.       ...

                     According to sources,a female passenger was found dead inside a lavatory at the department hall of the international wing of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos yesterday.It was however learnt that the woman was on her way too the UAE to seek for medical attention.She is said to have complained of slight pain after which she went to the lavatory.She however did not return to the departture hall,and her body was discovered by an aviation security official who alerted medixcal personnel at the airport.Her body was deposited at the mortuary of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital {LUTH} while investigation is in progress to determine the cause of her death.One more photo below.                                                                 ...

                           According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said today thursday that,the United States added Yemen,Somalia and Libya as countries of concern under its visa waiver program.The move limits travel for individuals who have visited those countries in the past five years.The three additional nations join Iran,Iraq,Sudan and Syria as countries subject to restrictions for those seeking to travel to the United States.More photos below.                                                               

                               The Ooni of Ife,Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi,has called on the Senate President,Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki to keep making the youths proud as both himself and the younger generation would continue to look forward to him.Oba Ogunwusi who stated this when he visited Saraki in his Abuja residence yesterday wednesday,according to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President,Sanni Onogu,said it was time for leaders at all levels to rekindle the hope of youths in the country by making them comfortable in their pursuits.The monarch said he visited Saraki in deference to Saraki's office as the Senate President and to ''Give honour to whom honour is due''.He said his present exalted office as the Ooni of Ife would not make him forget his primary constituency who are the youths of this country.He said the visit was memorable to him and Nigerian youths.He said he was in...