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After a week of excitement and a mock eviction which shook the housemates and brought some of them to tears, Big Brother Naija will witness it's first real eviction come Sunday, February 5. The housemate with the least number of votes will be evicted from the house. Last night, the first live nomination happened on the show. The housemates were each given 45 seconds to nominate two fellow housemates for eviction and Miyonse, Soma and Gifty got the most nominations from other housemates. The head of house, CoCoIce was called to save one of the nominated housemates and replace with another. CoCoIce saved Gifty and replaced her with Efe.

Some of music’s biggest stars will be missing from Music’s Biggest Night. Drake, Kanye West, Justin Bieber, and Frank Ocean are reportedly skipping the Grammys this year. Ocean, who released  Blonde  and  Endless  last year, failed to submit either for consideration by the award show. He’s since bashed it,  saying  “it just doesn’t seem to be representing very well for people who come from where I come from, and hold down what I hold down.” He also called it “dated.” “I’d rather this be my Colin Kaepernick moment for the Grammys,” he added, “than sit there in the audience.” Kanye West has eight  nominations  and has earned 21 Grammys throughout his career, but he’s also  boycotting  the event. In October, he said, “If [Frank’s] album’s not nominated in no categories, I’m not showin’ up to the Grammys.” Despite his own eight nods, Drake won’t be attending this year’s ceremony as he will be overseas on his “Boy Meets World Tour.” ...

Scientists have successfully created  pig embryos that contain a small fraction of human cells , according to a study published Thursday in  Cell. The study, led by researchers at the Salk Institute in California, represents a significant step toward human-animal hybrids that could one day grow whole new human organs for transplant. Right now, the pig hybrids only contain about one human cell to 100,000 pig cells and were very tricky to make. And due to ethical guidelines, the researchers only let them develop for about a month. But researchers are optimistic that they’ll be able to tackle the technical—and ethical—challenges moving forward. They certainly have a lot of hints that they’ll be successful. To show that cells from two different species can share one body in harmony, the researchers also created mice with rat organs. They used a snazzy new genetic engineering tool called  CRISPR/Cas9  to break a few genes in mouse embryos that dashed their ability ...

The world's first solar highway has been opened in France, in the not-very-sunny village of Tourouvre au Perche in Normandy. The roadway is just one kilometre (0.6mi) long, but that still works out at 2,800 square metres of photovoltaic cells—enough, hopefully, to power the village's street lights. The road was built by Colas, a large Anglo-French construction company. Colas has apparently been working on its own solar road tech, called Wattway, for at least five years. Wattway has been tested in car parks, but this is the first time it has been used on an active road. There will now be a two-year test period, to see if Wattway can withstand the rigour of being pounded by thousands of cars and trucks per day, and whether it can actually provide a useful amount of electricity. Usefulness aside, the main problem with constructing solar roads is their crippling cost. One of the main selling points of Wattway, according to Colas, is that each panel is just a few millimetr...

Apple has allegedly started removing apps originating in Iran from the App Store. According to  Techrasa , Apple removed the app of Digikala, the biggest Iranian e-commerce service, a few days ago. Apple has yet to comment on the procedure but it seems to stem from international trade laws (via TechCrunch). Apple started opening up the App Store to users in Iran in September of 2016, gradually lifting limitations that had previously been in place. While there is still no official App Store in the country, developers in Iran often register their apps as being from other countries to get around that limitation. The aforementioned e-commerce app Digikala uses the Shaparak payment system, which is isolated from international systems and thus does not contradict Apple’s terms and conditions for developers. Nevertheless, it has been removed as part of this seemingly new policy. On the other hand, many Iranian banks have iOS apps that are side-loaded onto devices to a...

A simple breath test could be the key to achieving earlier diagnosis of two deadly cancers. A trial of more than 300 patients demonstrated the test can identify stomach and oesophageal cancers with 85% accuracy by picking up on levels of acids and chemicals. Both types of cancer are often diagnosed late and have poor survival rates. Scientists hope detecting the cancers earlier will lead to more effective treatment and help save lives. The test is also expected to reduce the need for unpleasant endoscopy examinations that require a flexible telescope to be inserted into the stomach via the throat. Around 6,682 people are diagnosed with stomach cancer in the UK every year, with 4,576 dying from the disease. For oesophageal cancer, around 8,919 people are diagnosed and 7,790 die. For the new study breath samples were collected from 335 patients at three London hospitals. Of these, 163 had been diagnosed with oesophageal or stomach cancer while 172 were shown to be cance...

Police are investigating if six teenagers found dead after a garden party in Germany were poisoned by carbon monoxide. The five young men and one young woman were found on Sunday morning by the owner of a garden shed, who wondered why his son and daughter - both among the victims - had not returned from the party. Police in Arnstein, Bavaria, said the victims were all aged 18 or 19. They said in a statement: "It remains unclear what led to the death of the six people, but there were no indications of any violent crime." There was a wood-burning stove in the shed, prompting detectives to investigate the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning. Local police spokesman Bjorn Schmitt told the Bild newspaper the group had turned on the stove "so it is a possibility, but there are others". He said post-mortem examinations should provide more information on the cause of the deaths.

Housemates in the on-going Big Brother Naija expected an eviction on the show last night, but they were pleasantly surprised as not only was there no eviction, they also got two more people in the house. The two were introduced during a live show anchored by Ebuka Obi.  First runner-up in the third edition of Nigerian Idol, Debbie Rise and actor, Bassey are the new additions to the Big Brother Naija house. Nominations for real eviction will now begin in the new week, but the two new housemates are immuned, just as they are also not allowed to nominate any for possible eviction. The 14 contestants are playing for N25 million and a new Kia Sorento car.

On Sunday night, actors celebrated their fellow costars at the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Below, a look at the full lists of actors and actresses who took home a SAG Award: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series - William H. Macy, Shameless Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series - Orange Is the New Black Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Viola Davis, Fences Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Mahershala Ali, Moonlight Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series - Sarah Paulson, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series - Bryan Cranston, All the Way Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series - Claire Foy, The Crown Outstandi...

Kim Kardashian responded to US President, Donald Trump's claim that the ban on 7 Muslim countries was a way of preventing radical terrorism in the US by sharing statistics of the number of Americans killed annually by several groups of people.

See Falz TheBahdguy's hilarious response to someone asking him about the authenticity of the rumour that he got singer, Simi pregnant.

According to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, Doctors in India were stunned to remove a tapeworm measuring more than 6 feet through a patient's mouth. Dr. Cyriac Phillips wrote in an email that the 48-year-old man underwent a colonoscopy in 2014 after complaints of "tolerable" abdominal pain that had gone on for two months and test results indicating low hemoglobin concentrations in his blood. While performing the colonoscopy, Phillips discovered part of the worm. "It was an undulating, moving piece of the worm, " he said. After the initial discovery, doctors performed an endoscopy, a procedure using a camera inserted into the patient's stomach to view the intestines. During the procedure, Phillips and his team were able to see images of the lengthy parasite residing in the small intestine. After sedating the man, a team of physicians at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences Hospital in New Delhi were able to extract...

Iran Foreign Ministry on Saturday, January 28, 2017, announced that U.S. citizens will be blocked from entering the country in retaliation to Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from seven majority-Muslim countries coming to the US. 'While respecting the American people and distinguishing between them and the hostile policies of the U.S. government, Iran will implement the principle of reciprocity until the offensive U.S. limitations against Iranian nationals are lifted. 'The restrictions against travel by Muslims to America are an open affront against the Muslim world and the Iranian nation in particular and will be known as a great gift to extremists.' It comes after President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order to suspend visas for citizens of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. However, a Federal Judge in New York granted an emergency stay on Saturday night for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries who have already arrived in th...

A medical doctor in Zimbabwe, Henry Harry Mushuku of Gutu Mission Hospital, has allegedly killed a patient during a childbirth operation. The deceased identified as Locadi Mbindi died after the delivery of her baby two weeks ago. According to a Zim Eye Report, Dr. Mushuku conducted the operation under the influence of alcohol resulting in the death of the patient. But commenting on the incident, Gutu District Medical Officer, Dr. Tapiwa Mupepe, said the woman died of delivery complications. 'The woman died as a result of delivery complications and we are in the process of analysing the matter.' he said. Masvingo Provincial Medical Director, Dr. Amadeus Shamu who also confirmed the incident said investigations were ongoing.  'I have heard about the incident but let me say investigations are under way. I can furnish you with further details after receiving a comprehensive report on the matter.' It's however understood that the medical doctor was under the ...

British actor, John Hurt who garnered Oscar nominations for his roles in "Midnight Express" and "The Elephant Man," has died at the age of 77, his agent confirmed this morning. He died yesterday Jan. 27th in London just 5 days after his 77th birthday. Hurt worked more than six decades in television, movies and voice work in England and the United States. He recently played a priest who counsels Jacqueline Kennedy in last year's biopic "Jackie". Mourning him, actor Kiefer Sutherland tweeted: "My deepest sympathies to John Hurt's family, friends and fans. He was a dear friend."    On 16 June 2015, Hurt publicly announced that he had been diagnosed with early-stage pancreatic cancer but aid he would continue to work while undergoing treatment. From his Wikipedia page... Hurt played leading roles as John Merrick in David Lynch's biopic The Elephant Man (1980), Winston Smith in a version of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), Mr. Braddock in t...

On Friday January 27, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that indefinitely suspends admissions for Syrian refugees and limits the flow of other refugees into the United States by instituting "extreme vetting" of immigrants. Titled "Protection Of The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States," the executive order would start to make good on Trump's promise to tighten borders and halt certain refugees from entering the United States. According to a White House official, the countries impacted are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. The total number of refugees admitted into the United States would also be capped during the 2017 fiscal year at 50,000, down more than half from the current level of 110,000. The order bars all persons from certain terror-prone countries from entering the United States for 90 days and suspends the US Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days until it is reinstated "only f...

80-year-old spiritual healer, Hava Celebic AKA nana Hava, claims that her tongue possesses healing abilities and she has cured over 5,000 people from all over the world using her tongue. She corrects the eye defects of her patients by first washing her mouth with alcohol to sterilise it, afterwards she licks the eyeballs of the patient. Hava claims her methods are more effective than modern medicine and has worked for so many people. "There are a lot of those that modern medicine could not help. They came to me out of the hospital with swollen eyes, I clean them and remove the speck." She said. Hava, who hails from Bosnia and Herzegovina in Europe, removes particles like lead, iron, coal, sawdust and glass from people's eyes.  For those who are unemployed and cannot afford it, she treats them for free but charges the sum of 10 Euros from those who can afford to pay. She revealed that she learnt her methods from a woman who was also called Hava however, the healing abi...

When Usain Bolt helped the Jamaican sprint relay team to gold in the Beijing Bird's Nest in 2008 it felt like he was signing off with a joyful exclamation mark at the end of a miraculous new chapter in sporting history. It brought him a third gold medal to go with the 100m and 200m titles (all of them won in world-record times) and emphasised the exuberant brilliance that had encouraged even the most cynical to believe. Sprinting had long been the most rancid of Olympic disciplines, turned sour by decades of doping, but Bolt's speed, his smile and his unblemished past was the sweetest of spectacles. It was a national triumph too for Jamaica, indisputably established as the world leaders in sprinting, with a clean-sweep of the women's 100m medals to go with Bolt's personal haul. Except it wasn't. Eight years on we learned that the man who ran the lead-out leg in the Bird's Nest that night, Nesta Carter, was running with a banned substance in his system....

Three people were confirmed dead following the first rain of the year which fell on Monday night in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. The rain was reportedly very heavy and was accompanied by thunderstorms, bringing down telecommunication masts and billboards while it lasted. Some of the advertising boards and telecommunication masts landed on homes and properties, destroying them. A three-year-old girl and a sixteen-year-old boy were reportedly among those who died. The boy died instantly when a telecommunication mast fell on him while hawking pure water for his mother at Nkpolu School, Port Harcourt. The mother of the deceased three-year-old girl was inconsolable as she asked the owner of the mast that resulted in the death to revive her daughter. Another victim of the heavy rain, Mr Ifeanyi Uba, who shop together with the goods in it were destroyed by a falling mast, trapping two of his workers, lamented his loss and called on the government to assist him in rebuilding because he could n...

Moody? Neurotic? The outer layer of your brain is probably thicker and less wrinkled than that of your more personable friends. A team at Cambridge University studied brain imaging from 507 people to try and link the shape of our brains with five key personality traits. The team concluded that the outer layer of the brain - similar to the skin of an apple - is thicker and the brain less folded in neurotic people who are prone to mood changes and psychiatric disorders. Individuals with 'open' personalities linked to curiosity and creativity show the opposite. The outer layer of their brains is thinner and the brain more folded in certain regions, with a greater surface area. Researcher Dr Luca Passamonti says that long-term applications could include early diagnosis of severe anxiety and other psychiatric disorders. He says the research shows evidence of a compromise within the human brain. "Evolution has shaped our brain anatomy in a way that maximises its ar...

Michael Jackson's only daughter, Paris, says she believes her father was murdered. In her first in-depth interview , Paris told Rolling Stone she was convinced Jackson's 2009 death was "a setup". The singer died from an overdose of the powerful anaesthetic propofol. His doctor Conrad Murray was later  found guilty  of involuntary manslaughter. But Paris believes there is more to the story. "He would drop hints about people being out to get him," she said. "And at some point he was like, 'They're gonna kill me one day.'" Asked by interviewer Brian Hiatt if she thought her father was murdered, the 18-year-old replied: "Absolutely". "Because it's obvious. All arrows point to that. It sounds like a total conspiracy theory... but all real fans and everybody in the family knows it. It was a setup." She went on to say "a lot of people" wanted her father dead, and that she was playing a "che...

Ahead of 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has agreed on a harmonized timetable with other examination bodies in the country to have a hitch free examination.   The Board at a brainstorming meeting with National Examination Council (NECO), West African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Business and Technical Examination (NABTEB) held at the national headquarters of the Board in Abuja unanimously agreed to harmonize the examination timetable because of the candidates desire for qualitative tertiary education. The harmonised examination timetable has put to rest problems arising from overlapping of examination dates, which would have disenfranchised a sizeable number of candidates. At the end of the brainstorming session, the bodies resolved that WAEC would speak to all its authorities that from 2018, between March and April, for a window of two (2) weeks be created where all other examinations ...

Thae Yong Ho, North Korea's highest diplomat to ever defect from the secretive state in almost 20 years, has revealed that the country's supreme leader Kim Jong Un wants to meet new America president Donald Trump and that the country will never stop production of nukes, and will one day use those nukes to attack the U.S.. Thae Yong Ho escaped with his wife and two sons from North Korea, arriving in South Korea in August,  causing his brothers and relatives to be punished for his defection, but has revealed that cases of human rights abuses in North Korea will never stop as long as Kim is alive. As long as Kim Jong Un is in power, there'll be no chance for the world to improve the human rights issue" or cancel "the nuclear program," he says. "If Kim Jong Un decides to kill someone, if he thinks that he is a threat or he scared him, he just wants to get rid of him, that is the present reality of North Korea,"  Thae says he feel surprised...

Kenyan football fan was stabbed to death following the match between Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester City on Saturday, January 21, 2017. The fan was killed by a rival after an argument erupted while they were watching the match at a bar in Maringo, Kenya. He is said to have been stabbed several times by the rival fan Buru Buru police boss, Joseph Maiyek confirmed the incident, saying the assailant escaped after the killing his rival. he said a manhunt has been launched for the killer. According to nyumbanitv, the body of the football fan has been taken to the City Mortuary for preservation.

Away from the beef with Chris Brown, it seems Soula Boy is in alot more trouble. He is now facing a felony for the guns police found in his house during his December arrest. The L.A. County D.A. just slapped him with 2 felonies. First, for possession of an assault weapon and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was also charged with a misdemeanor for receiving stolen property cops say one of the guns in Soulja's house was reportedly stolen from a cop car. The assault weapon charge is for a Mini Draco AR-15 which is illegal for anyone to possess in California. If convicted Soulja could face more than 4 years in prison, so far he's pled not guilty and will be back in court next month.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Monday, 23 January, 2017 arraigned Akintunde Vincent Abiodun before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of Lagos State High court Ikeja on amended charge bordering on forgery and obtaining money by false pretence.  The 37-year-old HND holder from Federal Polytechnic Auchi, Edo State, is said to have defrauded the victim, D. Bonnici of $267,000 N ew Zealand Dollars by claiming to be Christopher Williams from United Kingdom. According to the complainant, she met Akintunde in a dating site on the internet and allegedly fell in love with him. She said the accused started collecting money from her after he claimed he was in possession of gemstone worth $18,050,000 (Eighteen Million and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars), which he purportedly inherited from his father. She further said, Akintunde hoodwinked her into believing that he was coming to New Zealand to settle down with her. She alleged that the money she sent to the suspect were re...

The nominees for the 2017 Oscars have finally been announced. The event will be held on Sunday, February 26. Here’s the entire list of nominees: 1 Best Picture Arrival Fences Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water Hidden Figures La La Land Lion Manchester by the Sea Moonlight   2 Directing Denis Villeneuve, Arrival Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge Damien Chazelle, La La Land Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea Barry Jenkins, Moonlight   3 Actor in a Leading Role Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge Ryan Gosling, La La Land Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic Denzel Washington, Fences   4 Actress in a Leading Role Isabelle Huppert, Elle Ruth Negga, Loving Natalie Portman, Jackie Emma Stone, La La Land Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins   5 Actress in a Supporting Role Viola Davis, Fences Naomie Harris, Moonlight Nicole Kidman, Lion Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea...