People Laugh at My Body…Di’ja

Mavin records singer, Hadiza  better known as Aphro Di’ja, is not happy with the way people mock her around due to her slim body structure.The singer stated that rather than wear clothes that are revealing, she would prefer to dress up to toe to cover herself so that she will not be laughed at.
In her words about her style of fashion, she said, “People make fun of me that I am slim, so I don’t like showing up a lot because if I do you will be seeing bones.”
She also noted that she loves flat shoes but though wears heels sometimes but prefers flat shoes because she is not always comfortable with heels.
On her kind of shoe preference, she told newtelegraph that she loves flat shoes. “Flats. I am wearing heels now and I really wish I can get it off because I am not comfortable in it.”

Terry G BabyMama is In-charge of His Water Business

Self acclaimed Ginja master, Terry G, is not relenting in his water line of business as he hopes to ensure that it stands the test of time.
Aside just the water business, the singer while making money from his studio works, is planning on investing it a bakery as he explains that he loves flavoured bread than the normal bread which will the next plan for year 2016.
The singer explained that his pure water business is gradually gaining more awareness since it is being managed by his babymama.
According to him while speaking with pulse, “My pure water business is doing fine, thank God my babymama is in charge and it’s quite getting bigger though it’s quite challenging because the tentacles needs to be spread. People keep asking for Terry water at different places which is quite challenging but na small small as a small boy but in 10 years time I will be very big. Like now, I have like eight trucks now but don’t worry; it’s a process to success.”

DMX Released From Jail

DMX was released from jail on Friday, but his freedom may not last.
In July, the rapper was sentenced to six months in jail due to failing to pay child support. But he claims he was never made aware he owed the woman money, TMZ reports.
With his release, DMX will go back to court. If the judge decides DMX did know about his child support obligation and intentionally did not pay, then he will have to finish his sentence.
At the time of his arrest, it was reported that DMX had $400,000 worth of unpaid child support, a warrant issued by the city of White Plains for bail jumping and a robbery complaint out of Newark, N.J. No charges were filed in the Newark case.
DMX's first five albums all debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Have Experts Discovered the Bones of Leonardo's Mona Lisa?

Italian researchers believe they are closer to confirming the identity of the Renaissance woman who posed for one of the world's most famous paintings: Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."
Experts have believed for some time that the enigmatic model with the mysterious smile in Leonardo's masterpiece, which hangs in the Louvre in Paris, was Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine silk merchant. Now, after four years spent excavating human remains buried for centuries beneath a derelict convent in Florence, researchers believe they have finally found her.
Historical records suggest that Gherardini, who spent her last years in the Sant'Orsola convent in Florence, was laid to rest at the site. On Thursday, researchers announced that carbon-14 dating showed the bones they found in the convent date from around the time that Gherardini died, in 1542, when she was 63.
"I'm convinced it is her," Silvano Vinceti, an art historian who led the research team, told The Telegraph.
The next stages of the investigation will prove highly challenging. Some scholars say that as dozens of bodies were buried beneath the convent over several decades, the remains could belong to someone else. So, DNA samples will need to be taken from the bone fragments and compared with DNA extracted from the remains of two of Gherardini's children. Those remains have been badly damaged by flooding in the tomb in the Basilica of Santissima Annunziata in Florence.
And even if the bones are proved to belong to Gherardini, scholars are divided over whether she really was the model for the "Mona Lisa." The absence of a skull has also thwarted efforts to reconstruct the face of the noblewoman, making it nearly impossible to compare it to the painting.
But head researcher Vinceti, who leads the investigation as part of the National Committee of Historic, Cultural and Environmental Heritage, told The Guardian: "The odds that the bones belong to her are extremely high."

Pope stops, turns around to kiss disabled boy

PHILADELPHIA — Pope Francis kissed the forehead of a boy with cerebral palsy after landing in Philadelphia on Saturday morning, coaxing a small smile from the severely disabled 10-year-old.
Francis apparently spied Michael Keating as he was being driven away from the plane. Ordering the Fiat to stop, Francis got out and walked over to the boy, put his hand on his head and kissed him as his sobbing mother looked on.
Kristin Keating thanked the pope, who grasped her hand. Francis also shook the hand of Keating's husband, Chuck Keating, the band director at Bishop Shanahan High School in Downingtown. The band serenaded Francis as he arrived in Philadelphia for the last leg of his six-day visit to the United States.
"It was an unbelievable feeling," Kristin Keating said of the papal encounter, adding she felt "totally blessed and loved" by the pope.
Her son was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 6 months old. He also has a profound intellectual disability as well as vision and hearing problems and cannot do anything for himself, communicating through various moans and cries.
Michael, who got up 2:15 a.m. for the trip to Philadelphia, had been agitated off and on throughout the morning, but he seemed to calm in the pope's presence.
"When the pope took his hand off him, he had a bit of a smile on his face. To me, in that moment, he must have felt that blessing," said Kristin Keating, a fourth-grade teacher from Elverson.
"For us, it was beautiful," she added. "For us, it meant something."
Francis later blessed several disabled children at a Mass at Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul.

Omotola Blasts Buhari, Ambode Over Death of Electrocuted UNILAG Student

Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade, is not happy with the way both the states and Federal government handles matters especially when human lives are involved.
According to her, the current administration keeps clamouring for Change, yet they cannot exhibit what they have been preaching about.
The actress frowned at the how the Lagos State government and the Federal government have kept silent over the sudden death of a 300 level student of the Accounting department of the Lagos University.
Omotola got angry over the issues after about three days gone; the government were yet to release a statement on the matter which according to her is a sign of negligence and lack of respect for humanity.
In her words, “A Nigerian student is electrocuted and no statement from both state and federal government? Do Nigerian lives matter? How is there ‘change’ when this government can't show its people they are valued? Who do they work for? Cattles, Aliens? Negligence and lack of respect.”

Danny Glover

In other to join efforts with some Nigerian casts to help tell the story of the dreaded Ebola virus which shaken the country some months back, Hollywood veterans, Danny Glover & Tim Reid, have arrived Nigeria to partake in the cast of "93 Days."
The movie is to help tell and show the world how the country was able to manage the crisis which caused so much fear and tension in the country but for the collective effort of both the government and private individuals.
"93 Days” is set to demonstrate the bravery of the late Dr. Ameyor Stella Adadevoh and her colleagues from their encounter with the late American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, who was the index case of the Ebola Virus.
"93 Days" is expected to parade an array of top Nollywood actors in the country with the hope that the movie will be ready between the end of the year and the first quarter of 2016.

Ebola Crisis: Another ‘Patrick Sawyer’ Arrives in Nigeria Ahead of "93 Days"

Story by Nathan Nathaniel Ekpo/Nigeriafilms.com

Danny Glover

In other to join efforts with some Nigerian casts to help tell the story of the dreaded Ebola virus which shaken the country some months back, Hollywood veterans, Danny Glover & Tim Reid, have arrived Nigeria to partake in the cast of "93 Days."
The movie is to help tell and show the world how the country was able to manage the crisis which caused so much fear and tension in the country but for the collective effort of both the government and private individuals.
"93 Days” is set to demonstrate the bravery of the late Dr. Ameyor Stella Adadevoh and her colleagues from their encounter with the late American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, who was the index case of the Ebola Virus.
"93 Days" is expected to parade an array of top Nollywood actors in the country with the hope that the movie will be ready between the end of the year and the first quarter of 2016.

Tim Reid

Justin Bieber And Britney Spears Did Not 'Hook Up' After VMAs, Despite Report

Justin Bieber and Britney Spears did NOT “hook up” after the VMAs, despite a report. Gossip Cop can exclusively debunk the claim, as we’ve learned it’s a total fabrication.
According to the Australian tabloid NW, Bieber’s “red-hot fantasies” about Spears “became a reality when they locked lips at his MTV Video Music Awards afterparty.” The outlet claims that after Bieber filmed his funny rehearsal video in which he gave a poster of Spears a “Spider-man kiss,” he “made his move” when the show got underway. “Justin sent her a little note during the awards ceremony, inviting her to a private house party he was hosting later that night,” a so-called “insider” alleges.
The magazine’s supposed source goes on to claim, “They ended up around the piano, singing and laughing all night,” with things heating up when Bieber showed Spears his kiss video. “Britney immediately demanded he do the real thing,” the NW “insider” alleges, adding, “She and Justin were all over each other!”
But isn’t it funny how a tabloid on the other side of the world was the only outlet to report this juicy gossip? That’s because it NEVER happened. Spears was never at any Bieber after-party, let alone smooching him. Gossip Cop has exclusively learned that the pop princess actually left the VMAs after she presented the night’s first award, returning home with her sons before heading to Las Vegas for her ongoing residency. The start of “Britney Justin 2.0″ this is most definitely not.

EXCLUSIVE-Russian troops join combat in Syria - sources

Russian forces have begun participating in military operations in Syria in support of government troops, three Lebanese sources familiar with the political and military situation there said on Wednesday.
The sources, speaking to Reuters on condition they not be identified, gave the most forthright account yet from the region of what the United States fears is a deepening Russian military role in Syria's civil war, though one of the Lebanese sources said the number of Russians involved so far was small.
U.S. officials said Russia sent two tank landing ships and additional cargo aircraft to Syria in the past day or so and deployed a small number of naval infantry forces.
The U.S. officials, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said the intent of Russia's military moves in Syria was unclear. One suggested the focus may be on preparing an airfield near the port city of Latakia, a stronghold of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
U.S. officials have not ruled out the possibility that Russia may want to use the airfield for air combat missions.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to his Russian counterpart for the second time in four days to express concern over reports of Russian military activities in Syria, warning that it could fan more violence.
The White House said it was closely monitoring the situation.
Russia says the Syrian government must be incorporated into a shared global fight against Islamic State, the Islamist group that has taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq. The United States and Assad's regional foes see him as part of the problem.
"We would welcome constructive Russian contributions to the counter-ISIL effort, but we've been clear that it would be unconscionable for any party, including the Russians, to provide any support to the Assad regime," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said, using an acronym for Islamic State.
SYRIAN TROOPS PULLING BACK
Assad's forces have faced big setbacks on the battlefield in a four-year-old multi-sided civil war that has killed 250,000 people and driven half of Syria's 23 million people from their homes.
Syrian troops pulled out of a major air base last Wednesday, and a monitoring group said this meant government soldiers were no longer present at all in Idlib province, most of which slipped from government control earlier this year.
Moscow confirmed it had "experts" on the ground in Syria, its long-time ally in the Middle East.
But Russia has declined to comment on the scale and scope of its military presence. Damascus denied Russians were involved in combat, but a Syrian official said the presence of experts had increased in the past year.
Reflecting Western concern, Germany's foreign minister warned Russia against increased military intervention, saying the Iran nuclear deal and new U.N. initiatives offered a starting point for a political solution to the conflict.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said reports of growing Russian military activity in Syria were a cause for concern, while France said it made finding a political solution to the crisis more complicated.
Two of the Lebanese sources said the Russians were establishing two bases in Syria, one near the coast and one further inland which would be an operations base.
"The Russians are no longer just advisors," one of the sources said. "The Russians have decided to join the war against terrorism."
RUSSIAN NAVAL BASE
Moscow's only naval base in the Mediterranean is at Tartous on the Syrian coast in territory held by Assad, and keeping it secure would be an important strategic objective for the Kremlin.
Another of the Lebanese sources said that so far any Russian combat role was still small: "They have started in small numbers, but the bigger force did not yet take part ... There are numbers of Russians taking part in Syria but they did not yet join the fight against terrorism strongly."
The Syrian official said: "Russian experts are always present but in the last year they have been present to a greater degree."
Officials in the United States, which is fighting an air war against the Islamist militant group Islamic State in Syria and also opposes Assad's government, have said in recent days that they suspect Russia is reinforcing to aid Assad.
Washington has put pressure on countries nearby to deny their air space to Russian flights, a move Moscow denounced on Wednesday as "international boorishness".
Russia has set out the case for supporting Assad in the most forthright terms yet in the past few days, likening the Western approach to Syria to failures in Iraq and Libya.
Part of the diplomatic quarrel has centred around use of air space for flights, which Moscow says bring humanitarian aid but U.S. officials say may be bringing military supplies.
U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters on Wednesday that multiple Russian flights have passed over the airspace of Iran and Iraq to reach Syria.
RUSSIAN OVERFLIGHTS
The State Department said Russian use of Iranian airspace would not be surprising, given Tehran's past support for Assad.
Spokesman John Kirby said the United States had advised "partners and our friends to ask the Russians tough questions about" overflight requests. He did not elaborate, saying only: "I'm not gonna detail diplomatic conversations."
To avoid flying over Turkey, one of Assad's main enemies, Russia has sought to fly planes over Balkan states, but Washington has urged them to deny Moscow permission.
On Tuesday, Bulgaria refused a Russian request to use its airspace citing doubts about the cargo on board. It said on Wednesday it would allow Russian supply flights to Syria to use its airspace only if Moscow agreed to checks of their cargo at a Bulgarian airport.
Turkey has not officially confirmed a ban on Russian flights to Syria but says it considers any requests to fly over its air space to Syria on a case by case basis.
Thus far in the war, Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah have been Assad's main sources of military support. The momentum turned against Assad earlier this year.
In the latest setback, state television reported government troops had surrendered an air base in northwestern Syria to a rebel alliance after nearly two years under siege.
This meant the last government troops had withdrawn from central Idlib province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that monitors the conflict. (Additional reporting by Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman; Mark Hosenball and Lesley Wroughton in Washington; Writing by Tom Perry, Sylvia Westall, Peter Graff and Phil Stewart; Editing by Giles Elgood, David Storey, Grant McCool)

Study: Bones in South African cave reveal new human relative

MAGALIESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Scientists say they've discovered a new member of the human family tree, revealed by a huge trove of bones in a barely accessible, pitch-dark chamber of a cave in South Africa.
The creature shows a surprising mix of human-like and more primitive characteristics — some experts called it "bizarre" and "weird."
And the discovery presents some key mysteries: How old are the bones? And how did they get into that chamber, reachable only by a complicated pathway that includes squeezing through passages as narrow as about 7½ inches (17.8 centimeters)?
The site, about 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, has yielded some 1,550 specimens since its discovery in 2013. The fossils represent at least 15 individuals.
Researchers named the creature Homo naledi (nah-LEH-dee). That reflects the "Homo" evolutionary group, which includes modern people and our closest extinct relatives, and the word for "star" in a local language. The find was made in the Rising Star cave system.
The creature, which evidently walked upright, represents a mix of traits. For example, the hands and feet look like Homo, but the shoulders and the small brain recall Homo's more ape-like ancestors, the researchers said.
Lee Berger, a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg who led the work, said naledi's anatomy suggest that it arose at or near the root of the Homo group, which would make the species some 2.5 million to 2.8 million years old. The discovered bones themselves may be younger, he said.
© Provided by Associated Press In an announcement made Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, scientists say the fossils revealed the new member of the human family tree. The expedition team was led by Lee Berger…

The researchers announced the discovery Thursday in the journal eLife and at a news conference in the Cradle of Humankind, a site near the village of Magaliesburg. They said they were unable to determine an age for the fossils because of unusual characteristics of the site, but that they are still trying.
Berger said researchers are not claiming that neledi was a direct ancestor of modern-day people, and experts unconnected to the project said they believed it was not.
Rick Potts, director of the human origins program at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Museum, who was not involved in the discovery, said that without an age, "there's no way we can judge the evolutionary significance of this find."
If the bones are about as old as the Homo group, that would argue that naledi is "a snapshot of ... the evolutionary experimentation that was going on right around the origin" of Homo, he said. If they are significantly younger, it either shows the naledi retained the primitive body characteristics much longer than any other known creature, or that it re-evolved them, he said.
Eric Delson of Lehman College in New York, who also wasn't involved with the work, said his guess is that naledi fits within a known group of early Homo creatures from around 2 million year ago.
Besides the age of the bones, another mystery is how they got into the difficult-to-reach area of the cave. The researchers said they suspect the naledi may have repeatedly deposited their dead in the room, but alternatively it may have been a death trap for individuals that found their own way in.
"This stuff is like a Sherlock Holmes mystery," declared Bernard Wood of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the study. Visitors to the cave must have created artificial light, as with a torch, Wood said. The people who did cave drawings in Europe had such technology, but nobody has suspected that mental ability in creatures with such a small brain as naledi, he said.
Potts said a deliberate disposal of dead bodies is a feasible explanation, but he added it's not clear who did the disposing. Maybe it was some human relative other than naledi, he said.
Not everybody agreed that the discovery revealed a new species. Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, called that claim questionable. "From what is presented here, (the fossils) belong to a primitive Homo erectus, a species named in the 1800s," he said in an email.

Playboy Slaps MediaTakeOut With Lawsuit Over Azealia Banks Nude Photos

MediaTakeOut has just learned the naked truth about the lengths Playboy will go to protect its photos.
The popular urban news website has been slapped with a lawsuit by Playboy Enterprises for allegedly publishing Playboy's nude photos of controversial rapper Azealia Banks.
The suit, filed in federal court in New York on Tuesday, states that Playboy was the exclusive licensee of the photos, which according to the complaint, MediaTakeOut published in March.
To add insult to injury, the lawsuit claims that MediaTakeOut slapped its own watermark on the images, even though Playboy had obtained a registration for the images from the U.S. Copyright Office.
"Upon information and belief, defendant knowingly altered and/or falsified copyright management information to conceal defendant's infringement of plaintiff's registered and unregistered copyright works.
Banks appeared in the April 2015 issue of Playboy.
Alleging copyright infringement and violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the suit is asking for a declaration that Media Takeout infringed on the works. Playboy also wants damages of "up to $150,000 for each copyright infringement" and up to $25,000 for each violation of the DMCA.