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      I hadn’t done a Rolling Stone cover in 5 years, and hadn’t seen Brian Hiatt since I got in 2 car crashes while driving him around during our interview in 2012.  🤦‍♀️  There were no cars driven this time, but we had a lot to catch up on. Thank you  Rolling Stone  and Brian for everything you did to make this cover happen. And Erik Madigan Heck for taking these photos, absolutely loved working with you!-Taylor Swift.   According to the magazine '' Taylor Swift   bursts into her mom’s Nashville kitchen, smiling, looking remarkably like Taylor Swift. (That red-lip, classic thing? Check.) “I need someone to help dye my hair pink,” she says, and moments later, her ends match her sparkly nail polish, sneakers, and the stripes on her button-down. It’s all in keeping with the pastel aesthetic of her new album,   Lover ; black-leather combat-Taylor from her previous album cycle has handed back the phone. Around the black-granite kitchen island, all is calm and normal, as Swift’s

      ‘How I received news of death of my wife, three kids’ Tavershima Jebe, a Tiv man from Benue State, who lost his wife and three children in a fatal accident on the Nassarawa Eggon-Lafia road in Nasarawa State, has told The Nation how he received the news of the accident. Jebe, who intermittently betrayed emotion and wept profusely at his David Jebe Street, Logo 1, opposite First Bank, Makurdi, home, said he drove his wife, Comfort and the three children, David Iorwuese, 10, Beauty Iwuese, seven, and Favour Dooshima, three, to Benue Links Transport Company park in Abuja. He said after they boarded an 18-seater bus to Makurdi, he bade them farewell, not knowing that it would be last contact with his lovely family. Jebe said after a short while, his wife called his phone, but it was raining heavily in Abuja and he was driving, so he did not pick her calls. Jebe, who said his world had crumbled, said when he later called his wife, the number was no longer going, “so I phone

      Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Children Affairs, Lady Ndidi Mezue, this afternoon, 19th September 2019, at Prof. Dora Akunyili Women Development Center, Awka, presented Items ranging from mattresses, cooking utensils, food items, and gas stoves, to both Nteje home for the mentally challenged and Model children home Awka. The Honourable Commissioner, ma de the presentation in line with the desire of the Gov of Anambra State, His Excellency Chief Willie Obiano, to improve facilities and welfare of staff and inmates at all the state owned welfare centers in Anambra State. It is worthy to note that, both Nteje home for the mentally challenged and Model children home Awka are presently undergoing massive renovation, to improve facilities at the centers. Vincent Ezechukwu Awka, Anambra State. More photos below.

      A commercial bus driver was filmed changing gear between a woman's thighs while driving his bus. In a video shared online, the female passenger, wearing a short dress, is seen sitting beside the driver, with the gear stick between her thighs. Whenever the driver needs to change gears, he reaches for the stick between the woman's thighs and shifts it, then keeps driving. As for the woman, she doesn't flinch as this happens. The Twitter user who shared the video said it happened in Lagos.One more photo below.

     OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT PRESS RELEASE In response to a request for clarification by members of the National Economic Council regarding NEC’s relationship with the newly announced Economic Advisory Council, EAC, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said both councils are for the benefit of the President. Prof. Osinbajo spoke at the 97th NEC meeting today at the Council Chambers. “If NEC want to be briefed regularly by the Economic Advisory Council, EAC, we will request the President to do that,” the VP explained to the Council observing that such interaction will promote synergy. Below are highlights of NEC deliberations: NEC (5TH IN 2019) 97TH NEC MEETING – THURSDAY, 19TH September, 2019 UPDATE ON THE NATIONAL LIVESTOCK TRANSFORMATION PLAN BY THE GOVERNOR OF EBONYI STATE, DAVE UMAHI, CHAIRMAN OF NEC TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON THE NLTP The chairman reminded NEC that the Committee was to address the Farmer/herder crisis The Committee presented a National Livestock

      The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on September 19, 2019 secured the conviction of commercial director of Process and Industrial Developments Limited, (P&ID), Mohammed Kuchazi and the company’s director of process, Adamu Usman before Justice I. E. Ekwo of Federal High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja. The judge sentenced the company, incorporated in British Virgin Island to wind up in Nigeria and its properties, forfeited to the federal government. The duo were arraigned on 11-count charges, bordering on obtaining by false pretence; dealing in petroleum products without appropriate license; money laundering and failure to register P&ID with the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering (SCUML) as required by law, amounting to economic sabotage against the Nigerian state. One of the charges reads: “That you, Process and Industrial Development Limited, being a company, incorporated in the British Virgin Island, Michael Quinn (deceased), Brendan Cahil