Yemi Alade shares photos of expected music video “Tumbum”

 Effyzzie Music diva and award-winning music sensation, Yemi Alade, is set to premiere the music video of her single “Tumbum”.
The singer on Tuesday shared some behind the scene photos of the music video.
The track, slated to drop on Wednesday, was produced by Triple MG producer, singer and songwriter, Selebobo.
The up-tempo afro-pop dance anthem serves as the sixth single off Alade’s smash sophomore album “Mama Africa: The Diary of an African Woman”.
The Paul Gambit directed flick stars Nollywood stars, Ime Bishop and Beverly Osu.
Yemi Alade recently won the highly coveted Best Female Act Award at the just concluded 2016 MAMA Awards.

Will Smith Father is Death

 Will Smith's father, Willard Carroll Smith, Sr. has died.
The 48-year-old actor's ex-wife, Sheree Fletcher, shared the news on Instagram on Monday.
"We're gonna miss you Daddio!" wrote Fletcher in a heartfelt tribute. "You lived & played by your own rules...you truly were 1 of a kind! You instilled discipline, and a work ethic that has created a legacy in your honor! (Pic left to right: Will Smith II; Will Smith III (Trey); Will Smith I (Daddio!) #RIPDaddio#donttellmetheresnothingyoucantdo#WillSMITH1."
Fletcher was married to Smith for three years, from 1992 to 1995, and the pair share a 23-year-old son, Trey Smith.https://www.instagram.com/p/BMhOQpUAtCk/
In her touching Instagram post, Fletcher shared a throwback snap of Trey with his father and grandfather.
"Dad was tough but not tyrannical," Smith reportedly once told Essence magazine. "He kept me in line. He'd get this look that said, 'One more step, Will, and it'll get ugly.' He was an independent businessman -- he set up refrigeration in supermarkets -- and he always provided for us. He's a steady and positive figure in my life."
Our condolences go out to the Smith family.

Gigantic sinkhole swallows intersection in Japanese city

 A gigantic sinkhole has opened in the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka, swallowing huge sections of road near underground work to extend a subway tunnel.

A 7-to 8-meter-wide hole was first reported early Tuesday, according to Motohisa Oda, a crisis management officer from the city of Fukuoka.

 Nearby residents were evacuated, and five major roads cordoned off in Hakata ward in Fukuoka's business district.

The gaping hole -- which started off as two smaller ones before merging into the larger cavity -- appeared 300 meters from the JR Hakata railway station.

The sinkhole is now a whopping 27 meters wide, 30 meters long and 15 meters deep.

It is filled with water that seeped in from sewage pipes destroyed by collapsing sections of road. 

Subway work was underway

City officials were working nearby to extend the subway from JR Hakata station to the city center along a 1.4-kilometer route.

Oda told CNN that the underground construction work may have triggered the hole.

The sinkhole has cut power to roughly 170 households across the city of Fukuoka. Saibu, a gas supplier, is checking for any gas leaks in the area.

While authorities investigate what exactly caused the hole, a few social media users in Japan have been joking about the kind of monsters that might emerge.

 

Facebook sued over 'discriminatory' house and job adverts

 Facebook is facing legal action over alleged bias in its housing and employment ads.

The claim, brought by a group of Facebook users, alleges the platform's "ethnic affinity" option is racially biased.
The option is there to enable marketers to exclude certain demographics and target others.
Facebook said the lawsuit was "utterly without merit" and that it would defend itself "vigorously".
The lawsuit was filed in Northern California with the lead plaintiff named as Suzanne-Juliette Mobley, according to the Courthouse News Service. It also names up to 9,999 defendants as advertisers who allegedly "used Facebook's platform to discriminate based on race, gender, national origin and other protected attributes".
It claims that allowing advertisers to block users from seeing ads based on these groups is in violation of the Fair Housing Act and the Civil Rights Act.
The 14-page lawsuit adds that there is no option to exclude the demographic of "white or Caucasian Americans from the target audience".

Empowerment tool

Facebook told Courthouse News that the lawsuit was without merit.
A spokesman later told the BBC: "We are committed to providing people with quality ad experiences, which includes helping people see messages that are both relevant to the cultural communities they are interested in and have content that reflects or represents their communities - not just generic content that's targeted to mass audiences.
"We believe that multicultural advertising should be a tool for empowerment. We take a strong stand against advertisers misusing our platform: our policies prohibit using our targeting options to discriminate, and they require compliance with the law. We take prompt enforcement action when we determine that ads violate our policies."
Public interest website Pro Publica led an investigation into the claims last month, creating adverts for the housing market that excluded African Americans, Asian Americans and Hispanics.
When they showed the adverts to civil rights lawyer John Relman he concluded that they were "as blatant a violation of the federal Fair Housing Act as one can find".
In a blogpost, Facebook's head of multicultural, Christian Martinez said: "Living in the US, most of the advertising that I see in traditional media is targeted to people in the majority - people who don't look like me, who don't speak Spanish, and who may not share my experience.
"The experience of ads constantly reminding you that you're different from the majority is incredibly marginalising, and it's not right."
He added that companies offering "multicultural advertising options" allows people to find content that is relevant to them.

Woman whose son was killed while he was robbing, wants the man who shot him to be charged with a crime

A woman, Temia Hairston, whose son, Michael Grace Jr., 28, robbed a Pizza Hut he used to work at is demanding justice for her son who was killed by an employee of the business.

Hairston said her son had been fired from a series of low-paying, unskilled jobs. He had a 4-year-old child, a pregnant girlfriend and was essentially homeless. Hairston said:

“He had lost everything. He lost his Pizza Hut job. He lost his primary job. And because he lost his jobs, he lost his car also,” Hairston, of Charlotte, told The Washington Post.

She added:

“We were talking about baby Michael and I was like, ‘you got to get it together because the child’s mother is having to take care of him by herself because you’re not working. I need you to get yourself together and get back on your grind.’ ” Hairston said she wasn’t sure if her words sunk in.

“He was nodding,” she said of the Oct. 29 conversation, “but he had a look on his face like he had nothing left to lose.”

A few hours after the talk with his mother, Grace called 2 of his friends, put on a mask and went to the west Charlotte Pizza Hut where he used to work, armed with a gun. Police say he and the two men waited until the business was closed, then burst into the restaurant.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say what happened next is still under investigation:

“Three individuals . . . were in the process of robbing the business when one of the employees fired his own personal handgun at one of the robbery suspects, striking him,” the police statement said.

Grace was shot in the head and died on the floor in the early morning of Oct. 30, his mother said. Police say the gun fell from his hand and was recovered next to his body.

Now Grace's mum is saying she wants justice for her son, whose final act was one of “desperation.” She wants the Pizza Hut employee who killed him to be charged with a crime.

“My son was out doing something wrong … I don’t condone his actions, but he didn’t deserve to die,” she said Monday, while crying. “If you decide to rob someone, then you face a judge.

“If prison was where he was going, then prison is where he should be instead of in the ground.”

Police have not charged the person who shot Grace or released his identity.

According to North Carolina law, a person is allowed to use deadly force in self-defense or defense of another. A person is “justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat in any place” if that force is used to prevent death or bodily harm to himself or another.

However, Pizza Hut employees aren’t allowed to carry guns on company property, according to an employee manual posted online. Their first priority during a crime is to contact the police, according to the manual.

“If you observe a weapon on an individual, other than a uniformed police officer, push the security panic button immediately,” the handbook says.

In the statement about Grace’s killing, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said the Pizza Hut franchisee was cooperating with the investigation.

“The security of its staff is of utmost concern,” the statement said. “They are providing support to the team members involved to ensure their health and well-being following this incident. The employee involved in the shooting has been placed on a leave of absence following further review.”

Hairston said she’s going to continue to push the company and the police for more details about her son’s death.

Kenyan app Ushahidi monitoring US elections

 A team in Kenya and the US are working on the project, Ushahidi's innovation manager has told the BBC.
The platform is being used to collect and verify information which can be shared to affiliated groups for action.
Republican candidate Donald Trump has said he believes the election will be rigged.
Some fear his call for his supporters to monitor the voting process could lead to intimidation.
His opponent, Hillary Clinton, has dismissed the voter fraud allegations.
Millions of Americans are voting to elect a president and leaders in federal and state levels. Other states are also running ballot measures to get the public to vote on local issues.
"The team is currently combing through social media and dealing with messages sent directly to its platform, verifying the content before escalating to the right people," Ushahidi's innovation manager Chris Mukuria told the BBC.
A statement on Ushahidi's website says that it has partnered with several institutions including the Election Protection Committee, "who run one of the largest non-partisan election monitoring organizations in the USA".
"Our honest hope is that all of this is for naught, and that end of the day Tuesday we look at all the reports and that 99.9% of reports say: 'Everything went great!'" Ushahidi's chief operating officer Nathaniel Manning said in a statement.

Ushahidi around the world

Ushahidi was launched in 2008 by a group of activists and developers to monitor and map the violence in Kenya after a disputed election.
The platform has been used in several countries and in different projects, from monitoring sexual harassment in Egypt and to respond to the needs during the earthquake Haiti in 2012.
The application that has been deployed to monitor the US elections has also been used in Mexico and Nigeria, Mr Mukuria said.
"The team plans to continue monitoring the elections until polls close," he added.
Mrs Clinton is the Democratic candidate for the presidential race and is aiming to become the first woman president of the United States.
Mr Trump, a real-estate billionaire and a reality-TV star, beat seasoned politicians in the primaries to emerge as the Republican candidate for the presidential race.

Notorious Ghanaian prisoner ‘Garkum’ attempts jail break again

Notorious Ghanaian criminal, Johnson Kombian popularly known as Garkum has attempted to escape with two of his accomplice from the Nsawam Medium Security Prison. According to report, Garkum who is currently on death sentence for killing two police officers in 2010, was said to have moved from his condemned cell to the main prison yard together with his two cell mates around midnight on Sunday November 6th.

The incident prompted the officials to lock down the Nsawam Medium Security Prison.

Speaking on the attempted jail break, DSP Courage Atsem, the Eastern Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Prisons Service, confirmed the incident, saying

‘What I can confirm is that, there was an attempted escape last night [Sunday], which was foiled by the officers on duty. Everybody is in intact; the Police have started a full scale investigation into the incident to get the full details of what occurred.’

The notorious inmate who was sentenced in October 2010 after he was charged with murder and conspiracy for killing two police officers and leaving another injured in the Nakpanduri area of the Northern region, initially escaped from the Nsawam Medium Security Prison and fled to his hometown.

In November 2010, he was re-arrested through the efforts of INTERPOL, when he crossed the border at Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District to visit his girlfriend on November 19, 2010. On August 19, 2015, Johnson Kombian was sentenced to death by hanging on two counts of murder, after a seven-member jury returned a guilty verdict. He is also serving a 30-year jail term on the charge of conspiracy.

England face Scotland in Euro 2017 group stages

 England have been drawn to face Scotland in the group stages of Euro 2017 in the Netherlands.

The British sides meet in the opening game of Group D on Wednesday 19 July.
They will be joined in their group by Spain - beaten by England in a friendly in October - and the lowest-ranked side at the tournament, Portugal.
Top-seeds Germany - who have won the tournament six times in a row and last lost at a European Championship in 1993 - face Sweden, Russia and Italy.
The tournament will be played in seven stadiums and begins on 16 July, with the final on 6 August.
For the first time 16 teams will take part, up from 12 in 2013, a move Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said would add "an extra dimension".
But the meeting between England and Scotland in Utrecht appears the stand-out fixture in the group stage and in their last meeting, the sides shared a 4-4 draw at the Cyprus Cup in 2013.
Scotland go into the tournament as one of five debutants, along with Belgium, Portugal, Austria and Switzerland.
Anna Signeul's side, who have never played in a major tournament, qualified as runners-up in their group, their one defeat in eight games coming against group winners Iceland.
The Scotland manager said they "can't wait," for the fixture, adding: "It's a tough group but one for us to relish. We've had good encounters with Spain and Portugal and our players will be very motivated."

England won their group, recording seven wins and a draw to beat Belgium to top spot.
Mark Sampson's side are the third-ranked side at Euro 2017, behind France and Germany, the side they beat beat to finish third at the 2015 World Cup.
Hosts the Netherlands, ranked ninth of the 16 teams, will meet 2013 runners-up Norway in the opening match of the tournament in Utrecht, with Belgium and Denmark completing Group A.
England meet the Netherlands in a friendly on 29 November and also have a fixture with Italy scheduled for 6 April.

Draw in full:

Group A: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway
Group B: Germany, Sweden, Russia, Italy,
Group C: France, Iceland, Austria, Switzerland
Group D: England, Scotland, Spain, Portugal

PHOTOS: Nollywood Star Kenneth Okonkwo celebrates 48th birthday with his family and orphans

Nollywood actor and lawyer Kenneth Okonkwo, who turned 48 yesterday, November 7th,  celebrated his birthday with family and friends, in a motherless babies home. See more photos after the cut.

Photos: Aisha Buhari, Toyin Saraki, Zahra Buhari, others at the funeral of the fallen heroes

Wife of President Buhari, Aisha Buhari, her daughter Zahra, Wife of Senate President Toyin Saraki, President Buhari's Chief of Staff Abbah Kyari and others attended the Funeral ceremony of the seven soldiers killed by Boko Haram in Mallam Fatori, Borno state last week. Chief of Army staff Buratai Tukur broke down in tears during the funeral. More photos after the cut.

Prince Harry condemns press 'abuse' of girlfriend

 The statement said the couple were "a few months into a relationship" and it was "not right" that Ms Markle should be subjected to such treatment.
It said the prince rarely took formal action over "fictional stories".
"But the past week has seen a line crossed," it added.
In recent days a number of newspapers have carried front page stories about the 35-year-old actress, best known for playing Rachel Zane in the TV drama Suits.
 The statement issued by the prince's communications secretary said: "His girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment.
 "Some of this has been very public - the smear on the front page of a national newspaper; the racial undertones of comment pieces; and the outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments.
 "Some of it has been hidden from the public - the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers; her mother having to struggle past photographers in order to get to her front door; the attempts of reporters and photographers to gain illegal entry to her home and the calls to police that followed; the substantial bribes offered by papers to her ex-boyfriend; the bombardment of nearly every friend, co-worker, and loved one in her life."
 The 32-year-old prince has long had an uneasy relationship with the press, having grown up aware of the impact that intense media intrusion had on the life of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.
When he was 20, he was caught up in a scuffle with a paparazzi photographer outside a London nightclub.
In 2012, naked photographs of him in a Las Vegas hotel room were published online and on newspaper front pages, prompting a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission.
But he has also attracted positive coverage of his charitable interests and military service.

PHOTOS: 1 soldier killed, 3 others wounded during insurgence attack in Kangarwa

Troops of 119 Task Force Battalion, 8 Division Nigerian Army, deployed at Kangarwa, Kukawa LGA of Borno State, yesterday neutralized 13 Boko Haram terrorists in a counter attack by the troops. Unfortunately, 1 soldier lost his life during the encounter, while 3 others were wounded.

According to Acting Director Army Public Relations; Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the attack which began at about 4.00pm and lasted for roughly four hours, necessitated the troops to call for air support.

 To which the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) promptly responded by dispatching an Intelligence Surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft and a Ground Attack Fighter Aircraft in support of the ground offensive. The fierce counter saw some insurgents fleeing with gunshot wounds and abandoning logistics and weapons.

The troops neutralized 2 Hilux vehicles belonging to the insurgents and recovered the following; a Hilux vehicle, 1 Browning Machine Gun (BMG), 1 Anti Aircraft Gun (AAG), 2 General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG), 1 Light Machine Gun (LMG), 2 Rocket Propelled Guns Seven (RPG 7) tubes and bombs, 5 AK-47 Rifles and 550 Rounds of Anti-Aircraft Gun ammunition.

More photos below..

Twitter reacts after Lady Gaga wears bizarre costume likened to a Nazi Uniform to Clinton rally (Photos)

Lady Gaga on Monday night helped campaign for Hillary Clinton, but what got people's attention was her costume to the rally in North Carolina  which many have likened to a Nazi uniform, like that worn by Adolph Hitler. One Twitter user even said she looked like a “futuristic Nazi”. See some reactions on Twitter after the cut.