New Music: FOR THE GIRLS @miclbabs

kindly listen to this brand new tune  titled  :For the Girls by Mic’L

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Apple Music Link: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1171448244

Amazon Link : https://www.amazon.com/Girls-feat-Victoriouz-Icon/dp/B01M3XR2K6/

Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/14452382

Tidal: http://tidal.com/ng/store/album/66787343

Yandex: https://music.yandex.ru/album/3900137/track/32051218

Early voting statistics update: Battlegrounds tight with 30 million ballots cast

Democrats are building an early voting lead in North Carolina and Nevada, but Republicans maintain an edge in Florida and Ohio, according to a CNN analysis.

With five days to go, registered Republicans also lead Democrats in early voting in Arizona, while Democrats are also ahead in Colorado and Iowa.

More than 30 million votes have been cast already across 38 states with early voting. And with five days to go, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are encouraging their supporters to hit the polls early. So far, about 7.4 million registered Democrats and about 6.4 million Republicans have done just that.

CNN has partnered with Catalist, a data company that works with progressive candidates and groups, to receive detailed early vote return information this year. Catalist's voter list connects returned ballots with demographic and registration information, such as party registration, gender and age, and allows a closer look at who has already cast a vote.

These are not results -- ballots aren't counted until Election Day. But the findings provide clues on who is voting and which party is turning out to vote. And in states that track party affiliation, it's important to remember that not all Democrats are voting for Clinton, and not all Republicans support Trump.

Here's a look at the early voting data from several battleground states:

END SICKLE CELL IN OUR GENERATION Campaign #Nov 19th @4SIGHTPRODUCTIONS

Why don’t we speak enough about Sickle Cell? Research shows that Nigeria has the largest cases of Sickle Cell in the world making up to 8% of infant mortality rates in the country. To put it plainly many children to do not live to see their 10th birthday, the genetic disorder occurs when persons containing sickle cell trait pass on their genes to their children leaving them susceptible to Anemia, delayed growth, frequent infections and strokes. Asides that there is a huge stigma attached to the disorder and we want to push back against that with the help of NGO Nirvana Initiative who specialise in educating people about Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) at our event- ‘End Sickle Cell in our Generation’.

Nirvana Initiative provides a safe haven for sickle cell individuals so they do not have to feel alone knowing they have a community there to pray with them, laugh and support them in all their endeavors. Nirvana Initiative will be providing free genotype testing for 200 people on the day 50 of which will be free. They will also provide free drugs for warriors (a term used to describe those living with sickle cell) finally there would be free counselling for those who feel it may be required. 

FUNMILAYO RANSOME-KUTI: THE LIONESS OF LISABI, NIGERIA`S FOREMOST SUFFRAGIST, WOMEN`S RIGHT ACTIVIST AND THE MOTHER OF FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI

“Alake, for a long time you have used your penis as a mark of authority that you are our husband. Today we shall reverse the order and use our vagina to play the role of husband.” Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and her AWU members song that saw the Oba Ademola II, Alake of Egbaland abdicating over arbitrary taxation.

Funmilayo Ransome Kuti , the celebrated women`s right activist, Suffragist and the mother of the King of Afrobeat, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

Funmilayo Ransome Kuti (25 October 1900 Abeokuta, Nigeria - 13 April 1978 Lagos, Nigeria) popularly known as FRK was a celebrated women`s right activist of her time. This hard core lady, prolific woman nationalist and representative of the feminist cause in her country and internationally started her powerful fight for suffrage and equal rights for her countrywomen long before the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. She was also a teacher, political campaigner, and traditional aristocrat. She served with distinction as one of the most prominent leaders of her generation. Mrs Ransome-Kuti was the first woman in Nigeria to drive car.

 As a result of her unique political activism, Ransome-Kuti has been described as "the doyen of female rights in Nigeria."  Others regard her as "The Mother of Africa."  She was described in 1947, by the West African Pilot as the "Lioness of Lisabi" for her leadership of the women of the Egba clan that she belonged to on a campaign against their arbitrary taxation. That struggle led to the abdication of the Egba high king Oba Ademola II in 1949. It must be emphasized here that Kuti`s heritage can be traced back to her great grandmother Sarah Taiwo, also known as the ‘Lioness of Lisabi’, a title stemming from her escape from slavery and an assertiveness with which she influenced her community in Abeokuta in western Nigeria.
Given this background it was perhaps a natural evolution that Kuti herself would develop into an activist whose life circled around the struggle for suffrage and equal rights for women.

Kuti was the mother of the world`s celebrated musician, King of Afrobeats and political activists Fela Anikulapo Kuti,  Beko Ransome-Kuti, a renowned medical practitioner, and Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, a doctor and a former health minister of Nigeria. She was also grandmother to ace musicians Seun Kuti and Femi Kuti.

Oritsefemi drops new album, 'Corporate Miscreant'

Oritsefemi popularly known as the ‘Musical Taliban’ just dropped a 21-track album titled ‘Corporate Miscreant’. Oritsefemi is known for his remake of Fela Kuti’s ‘Double Wahala’ song.

His rendition of the song earned him two nominations at the 2014 City People Entertainment Awards, winning the award for Most Popular Song of the Year. He also won the Indigenous Artist of the Year award at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards.

In 2014, he released the remix for his version of the song featuring D'banj. His popular single, ‘Mr Gomina’ featuring Reekado Banks is one of the tracks on the new album. Corporate Miscreant has different upbeat sounds, and features artistes like Kosere, White Man, Shokah, Citiboi, Reekado Banks, Flekta Man and HHS.

According to him, this is the best album he has released so far after the success of his last album ‘Money Stops Nonsense’ which was popular for hits like ‘Igbeyawo’. Corporate Miscreant is available for download on itunes and MTN Music Plus. You can also grab a copy from music vendors.

Corporate Miscreant is available for download on itunes and MTN Music Plus. You can also grab a copy from music vendors.

MTN Music Plus: goo.gl/htAiO8

Follow Oritsefemi on Twitter and Instagram; @Oritsefemi 

#CorporateMiscreantAlbum

Kenyans youths allegedly now sleep in coffin for rituals (photo)

According to the Facebook user, Youths in Kenya now visit a place in Westland Nairobi where they sleep in coffins as part of a ritual to make money. The post has been shared over 900 times. See the full picture below..

Why I Dumped MMMG For Mavin - Iyanya

Latest addition to Mavin Records, Iyanya Onoyom Mbuk has revealed the reason he decided to join Don Jazzy’s crew despite numerous offers.

The 30-year-old entertainer on Monday announced he was joining the Mavin family and also released a new single “Up to Something’’ featuring Don Jazzy and Dr. Sid.

In an exclusive interview with Premium Times, the ‘Kukere’ singer revealed why he joined Mavin records and link up with Don Jazzy, one of Nigeria’s foremost music producers.

According to him, he chose Don Jazzy because he needed to work with someone who can help him fulfil his music ambition.

“We needed the Iyanya brand to work with somebody who understands the music industry and can help me fulfill that dream. Making sure that I get my music right is the most important thing.

Barack Obama Tells The Scariest Halloween Story Ever (And Yes, It’s About Donald Trump)

President Barack Obama seriously spooked Samantha Bee with a scary Halloween tale.

On Monday’s episode of “Full Frontal,” Bee asked POTUS to recount a “story about what happens if people don’t vote.”

Obama’s response? Let’s just say it involved GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump inside the White House.

Absolutely terrifying, right?

Bee made history with the show as she became the first female late-night host to interview a U.S. president.

City attorney sues Millennium developer — says buyers duped

City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued the developer of the sinking Millennium condominium tower Thursday, alleging the builder violated the law by failing to disclose the building’s settlement issues despite knowing of the problem more than a year before the units came to market.

Herrera’s lawsuit, a cross-complaint of a previous lawsuit filed by building homeowners against the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, which is building the new Transbay Transit Center next door, alleges developer Millennium Partners knew by 2008 — a year before it started selling condominiums — that the building had sunk almost six inches, well in excess of projections.

Millennium Partners had a legal obligation to tell prospective buyers about the sinking, Herrera said. In not doing so, the developer gained an unfair advantage over other developers it was competing against for sales. The lack of information also put buyers at an unfair disadvantage as they weighed the pros and cons of investing in the tower. Essentially, Millennium Tower buyers were sold a lemon, Herrera said.

m not a monster’: A teen horror blogger explains why she killed her parents

In prison, 18-year-old Ashlee Martinson said she feels freer than she did at home in Wisconsin.

It was there, she said, that a lifetime of physical, sexual and psychological abuse culminated into one horrific moment last year — the moment she fatally shot her stepfather, Thomas Ayers, 37, and fatally stabbed her mother, Jennifer Ayers, 40, more than 30 times. Then she locked her three younger siblings in a bedroom in their home in the tiny town of Piehl, in northern Wisconsin, and ran, police said.

Following a multistate manhunt, police arrested Martinson in Indiana, where she fled with her boyfriend. In March, she ultimately pleaded guilty to second-degree homicide and is serving 23 years in prison.

“I’m happy,” Martinson said during an exclusive interview with Crime Watch Daily, which aired Tuesday. “I know that sounds crazy, because I’m in prison, but I feel like I’m free. I can wake up every day and know that I am safe.”

Seemingly for the first time since she was sent to prison, Martinson is telling her own story — one about a teenage girl, abused for years by her mother’s boyfriends as her mother stood by them.

“I’m not a monster,” she told Crime Watch Daily. “I never meant any of this to happen. It doesn’t make it right, what happened. But I was just a girl, an abused girl, who was forced to make a really bad decision.

“I’m not the monster that they portrayed me to be.”

Accounts from Martinson and professionals who interviewed her after the incident portray a teenage girl who, after years of alleged abuse, suffered severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, The Washington Post reported earlier this year.

Her online presence, it seems, revealed the darker side.

Martinson, who went by the pseudonym “Vampchick” on her blog titled Nightmare, purportedly posted a poem days before her parents’ deaths about torturing and killing people, according to People.

“I clean the dry blood off my tools from a previous session,” she wrote in a poem called “Unworthy,” according the Daily Mail. “The last body has been disposed of just hours before, yet I have not been satisfied with the pain, agony and blood.

“I bend down as they start to wake.

” ‘Welcome to hell.’ I whisper in her ear. ‘Never again will you see the light of day.’ ”

Authorities confirmed last year that the blog that had been linked to Martinson was indeed associated with her; but they did not know whether the content posted under the pseudonym “Vampchick” was her original work.

The blog has since been taken offline.

Obama says FBI investigations shouldn’t ‘operate on innuendo’

President Obama defended Hillary Clinton’s “integrity” as she faces a renewed FBI investigation of emails sent from her private server.

In a NowThis News interview released Wednesday, the president ducked a question about whether he was upset that FBI Director James Comey had announced the new twist in the long-running probe so close to Election Day. However, he did say the FBI should not operate on innuendo.

“I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations, we don’t operate on innuendo, and we don’t operate on incomplete information, and we don’t operate on leaks,” he said. “We operate based on concrete decisions that are made.”

Obama pointed to Comey’s conclusion in July, following months of investigation into whether Clinton or her aides mishandled classified information, that he would not recommend bringing charges. But in a cryptic letter to Congress last Friday, Comey said new emails, reportedly found on a computer used by her aide Huma Abedin, would be investigated.

“When this was investigated thoroughly last time, the conclusion of the FBI, the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was she had made some mistakes but that there wasn’t anything there that was prosecutable,” Obama said.

I don’t know how $32.5m Escrow Account was opened, says Adoke

A former Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), yesterday said he knew nothing about how an Escrow Account was opened and $32.5 million fines from Halliburton Energy Services paid into it.

He said he was not briefed about the existent of any Escrow Account at any time by a member of the legal team of the Federal Government, Mr. Roland Ewubare, who was National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) former Executive Secretary.

He explained that the team was constituted to initiate criminal proceedings against the five companies involved in the Halliburton bribe scandal.

The five firms, which later settled for plea bargain, were: Julius Berger ($35m); Siemens (Euros 30m); Snamprogetti ($30m); Halliburton Energy Services ($32,500,000) and Japan Gasoline Corporation ($26, 500,000).

Adoke, who spoke exclusively with The Nation on the telephone, said he did his best for the nation.

He said: “On assumption of office in 2010, I was approached by then chairperson of the EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, that she has a request from some American lawyers to sue, on behalf of Nigeria, Halliburton and associated companies involved in the $180 million bribe scandal.

Gawker settles Hulk Hogan privacy case for $31m

The defunct US news website Gawker has settled a lawsuit won by retired US professional wrestler Hulk Hogan for $31m (£25m).

The privacy case forced Gawker to declare bankruptcy earlier this year, after a jury awarded Mr Hogan $140m over a leaked sex tape.

Mr Hogan's legal bill was paid by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, who said he wanted to curb Gawker's "bullying".

Gawker shut down in August following the judgement.

The website, launched in the early 2000s, was known for its acerbic tone and aggressive coverage of celebrities.

The case involved a video posted by Gawker in 2012 after Mr Hogan was secretly recorded having sex with his friend's wife.

The settlement was announced on Wednesday in a blog post by Gawker founder Nick Denton, who called the conclusion of the case "a hard peace".

Footballer Andy Carroll threatened at gunpoint on way home from training

West Ham and England footballer Andy Carroll, 27, was on Wednesday threatened at gunpoint on his way home from training while driving his £100,000 Mercedes -Benz G-Class.

Just minutes after leaving West Ham's Essex training ground, two bikers pulled up alongside the striker and then one of them pointed a gun at him.

The striker, then immediately sped off in panic with the two bikers in heavy pursuit, but he managed to lose them. He immediately returned to the well secured Essex training ground.

His team-mates were alarmed as they struggled to grasp his word while the club staff immediately rushed to his aid. 

The incident left the striker 'shaken' and the club have now confirmed the incident with plans to beef up security around the striker already underway.

Young accident survivor meets with Cristiano Ronaldo 2 years after the footballer 'woke him up from coma' @akposcomedian1

A boy from Poland had the time of his life on Tuesday as he met up with his idol Cristiano Ronaldo, who helped him 'wake up from coma' back in 2014.

David, a young Real Madrid/Cristiano Ronaldo fan in 2013, had a bad accident while riding a bike and was in coma for three months.

His family enlisted him in a hospital that tested a new method of recovery from coma leading the doctors in the hospital to suggest that David should listen to commentaries of Real Madrid's games and Ronaldo's voice since everyone knew he was a huge Ronaldo supporter.

Three months later, David miraculously woke up at the exact moment he was listening to Cristiano Ronaldo scoring his third goal for Portugal against Sweden in a World Cup playoff.

Ronaldo invited David to Madrid as his special guest to watch a Champions League match against Borussia Dortmund in April 2014, on Tuesday the football star showed his kind side once again as he invited the young lad and his parents to Real Madrid's team hotel in Poland where Real Madrid will face Legia Warsaw (a Polish club) in the Champions League .

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