News, Entertainment, Fashion and Bead Making: August 2016

Wednesday 31 August 2016

Brazil swears in a new president just hours after impeaching Dilma Rousseff over financial corruption

Brazil has sworn in its new president after the Senate voted to permanently remove Dilma Rousseff from office.

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star explained that she is solely focused on her kids and herself following the end of their relationship in July 2015.

Kourtney said that 'the idea of having my family together is amazing, but that's not the way things ended up.'

The Nigerian Railway Corporation traces its history to the year 1898, when the first railroad in Nigeria was constructed by the British colonial government. On October 3, 1912 the Lagos Government Railway and the Baro-Kano Railway were amalgamated, starting nationwide rail service under the name Government Department of Railways.

An annular solar eclipse is expected to be visible in Nigeria tomorrow, 1 September 2016.

Scottish fashion designer, Ann MCreath came to Kenya in 1996 to do relief work.

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The Ministry of Islamic Affairs has terminated the services of 10,000 substitute imams to save $96 million (SR360 million).

A source said the ministry gave the substitute imams the option to either transfer to the position of a full-time imam leading five prayers a day at a mosque or to leave their job all together.

There has been outpouring tributes to United Kingdom’s Princess Diana as today marks 19 years since her death through a gruesome road accident.

The star of the upcoming E! reality series Rob & Chyna is opening up exclusively in this week’s PEOPLE cover story about the long, dark road that he found himself on before finding love and happiness with fiancée Blac Chyna.

A Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, has volunteered to be a patient in the first procedure of human head transplant reports CBS news. The 31 year old suffers from Werdnig-Hoffman Disease, a rare and often fatal genetic disorder that breaks down muscles and kills nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, confining him to a wheel chair and restricting him to feeding and typing only.
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Mr Luqman Mamudu, the Director Policy and Planning of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) made this known at an interactive session with journalists in Lagos on Wednesday.

A strong signal is being sent to the world economic powers as four hundred Nigerian youths are being empowered in digital skills that may lead to an explosion of innovation that could place the country among technological advanced countries even as the nation is committed to diversify its economy.

The naira plunged to 418 against the dollar at the parallel market on Tuesday as scarcity of foreign exchange continued to weigh on the official interbank and black market.

The Republic of Ireland's Cabinet is meeting to discuss the European Commission's decision that Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13bn (£11bn) to Apple.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said the Irish Government will appeal against the ruling.

Nigeria is the largest Facebook market in Africa, with 16 million people visiting the social media platform monthly.

Sixteen people have been injured after turbulence prompted a transatlantic flight to make an emergency landing in the Republic of Ireland.

Los Angeles police Lt Chris Ramirez say there was an arrest of 27 years old on Tuesday his known better as Chris Brown was taken to downtown for booking.
Mr. Brown posted on his Instagram that he’s innocent and rebutted reports that he had barricaded himself in his house.

US Republican candidate Donald Trump is to visit Mexico on Wednesday, hours before he details measures against illegal immigration in a speech.

25-Year-Old Fathia Kareem Nigerian Breaks Record at Ghana University

A Nigerian, Fathia Kareem, has set a record at the School of Medical Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, breaking its academic history.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has
called for the strengthening of bilateral ties between Nigeria and
Sudan in the areas of cultural/creative industry and digital economy
in order to boost the efforts of the two countries to diversify their
economies away from oil.

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron has resigned from the government ahead of an expected centrist bid for the presidency in next year's election.

The Abia State Governor, Mr Okezie Ikpeazu, on Tuesday said that despite the recent political upheavals, he has been able to leave a land mark in various sectors especially in road construction at Aba and across the three senatorial zones of the state.

Arsenal are willing to let England midfielder Jack Wilshere go out on loan to get first-team football.

The 24-year-old, whose career has been plagued by injuries, only made three appearances for the Gunners last season after fracturing his left fibula.

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The China Railway Construction Corporation Ltd issued a statement saying two of its subsidiaries had been provisionally awarded the light railway project in Kano.

Pregnant Blac Chyna poses NUDE on her very own Paper magazine cover

Kim Kardashian 'broke the internet' with her outrageous Paper magazine cover nearly two years ago.

And now the newest addition to the clan, Blac Chyna, is looking to outdo her future sister-in-law with a nude cover of her own.

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Ireland should recover up to €13bn (£11bn) from Apple in back taxes, the European Commission has ruled.

Alistair Soyode (Founder and Chairman of Ben TV) and Mr Charles Efe Sylvester (Member NPA Board)

The Nigerian Leadership Forum, a European Think Tank group on Nigeria has commended the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing one of their members.

A car driven by a suicide bomber has exploded after ramming the gates of the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, officials say.

France burkini highest court suspends ban

A Muslim woman wears a burkini, a swimsuit that leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, as she swims in the Mediterranean Sea in Marseille, France, August 17, 2016.

France's highest administrative court has suspended a ban on full-body "burkini" swimsuits that was imposed in a town on the Mediterranean coast.

A bus evacuating people from the besieged Syrian town of Darayya leaves

Civilians and rebel fighters have begun leaving the Syrian town of Darayya after a deal was reached ending a four-year government siege.

Starving and alone, five-year-old Umar was left for dead in a camp for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria.
The reason? He is the son of a Boko Haram fighter.

The Alaafin of Oyo Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has applauded the genuine efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari at addressing what he calls multi-dimensional problems of the country and solicited the support and understanding of Nigerians.

South African state prosecutors have failed in their bid to challenge the six-year sentence for murder handed down to Oscar Pistorius.

Prosecutors described the Paralympic athlete's punishment for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013 as "shockingly lenient".

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Minister of Power, Works and Housing

As part of his resolve to physically monitor on-going road projects across the country, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, on Wednesday August 24, 2016 inspected progress made on the Ilorin-Jebba road rehabilitation project in Kwara State.

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