A Twitter user @sophiebello has taken to Twitter to appreciate her mother who went back to school after having her and her 3 siblings.
According to @sophiebello, her mother who enrolled for a first degree program while she (sophie) was in the University recently bagged a Doctorate degree. She also recalled how her mother took care of her grandchild while working on her thesis.
Read her tweets below;
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Amazon has reportedly claimed the worldwide rights for an untitled documentary centered on the Grammy award winning singer Rihanna.
Amazon doled out $25 million for the documentary directed by Peter Berg in a move that is said to bolster its streaming service platform, according to Billboard, citing unnamed sources.
This comes as the streaming wars near a fever pitch and viewers are being targeted from every vantage point across various services including Apple TV+, Disney+, Netflix and Amazon.
“Peter Berg’s bold and innovative Rihanna is an unfiltered look into Rihanna’s life, providing a glimpse into the evolution of one of the world’s most well-known pop artists,” Berg’s production company, Film45, said on its website.
During the production process, Berg was given “unparalleled access” into Rihanna’s world where he was able to compile over 1,200 hours of footage for the project, according to Film45.
“The doc takes us on a journey through private insights into Rihanna’s personality and humor, philosophies on work, family and love that are both moving and inspirational.”
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Kim Kardashian has revealed she underwent five operations within a year and a half to ‘fix the damage’ caused by pregnancy following the births of her children, North, and Saint West.
The mother of four said when she was pregnant with her first child, North, she had a condition called preeclampsia or toxemia. After delivering the daughter her placenta didn’t come out but grew inside her.
After she managed to deliver her second child, North, Kim said she underwent five operations to ‘fix the damage’ caused by the pregnancy.
Speaking in a video for her new SKIMS campaign, Kim said: ‘When I was pregnant with my daughter North, I had a condition called preeclampsia or toxemia, which is basically when the mom’s organs start to shut down.
‘The only way to get rid of that is to deliver the baby. At 34 and a half weeks, I had to go into emergency labour – they induced me. North was four pounds. She was almost six weeks early.’
She went on to explain that after delivering her daughter, her placenta never came out but grew inside her uterus, warning: ‘That is what women die from in childbirth.
She continued: ‘After my daughter was born, I still continued to do the process of freezing my eggs.
‘I was able to get pregnant through that with my son Saint, and then I had two embryos left. I had the same condition, same awful delivery that I had with my first daughter.
‘After that, I had to have five different operations within a year and a half to fix the damage that all of that did on the inside.’
She recalled: ‘I asked my doctors, ‘Can I do it one more time?’ And they were like, “We won’t even put an embryo in you — that would be like malpractice”.’
Despite the challenges, Kim said all the struggles were ‘worth it’. She concluded: ‘I’m so thankful for my beautiful kids, no matter how they came to me — they came to me. I’m so thankful for surrogates. I’m really thankful for my family. I grew up with so many siblings. I just loved being in a big environment.
‘I would have gone through the same pain and back for the result of having my babies. It was all worth it.’
Kim Kardashian’s other two children, Psalm and Chicago West were carried by a surrogate.
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Barbadian singer Rihanna alongside American singers Beyonce and Taylor Swift have made Forbes list of 100 most powerful women.
Forbes on Thursday released its list of 100 Most Powerful Women list for 2019. The list comprised of women who have made a profound impact in six categories: business, technology, finance, media & entertainment, politics & policy, and philanthropy.
On the newly released Forbes’ list, Rihanna ranks as number 61 ahead of Beyonce, who is positioned at number 66 and Taylor Swift at 71. Other female entertainers on the list are Ava DuVernay (79) and Reese Witherspoon (90).
Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, the Barbadian singer has sold over 250 million records. She is one of the world’s best-selling music artists. She has earned 14 number-one singles and 31 top-ten singles in the US, and 30 top-ten entries in the UK. Her accolades include nine Grammy Awards, 13 American Music Awards, 12 Billboard Music Awards, and six Guinness World Records.
From fashion to cosmetics, Rihanna has been on a trail of entrepreneurial ventures. Her cosmetic brand Fenty Beauty was launched in September 2017. Fenty Beauty was named one of Time magazine’s best inventions of 2017.
Forbes ranked her among the top ten highest-paid celebrities in 2012 and 2014, and Time named her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world twice (2012 and 2018). With an estimated net worth of N216,000,000,000 ($600 million), Rihanna is the richest female musician in the world.
American singer, songwriter Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny’s Child. Beyoncé is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 100 million records worldwide as a solo artist and a further 60 million records with Destiny’s Child. Forbes ranked her as the most powerful female in entertainment on their 2015 and 2017 lists, and in 2016, she occupied the sixth place for Time’s Person of the Year.
American singer-songwriter Taylor Alison Swift is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She has sold more than 50 million albums—including 37 million in the US—and 150 million singles.
Time included her on its annual list of the 100 most influential people in 2010, 2015, and 2019. From 2011 to 2015, she appeared in the top three on the Forbes Top-Earning Women in Music list with earnings of $45 million, $57 million, $55 million, $64 million, and $80 million respectively.
She has appeared in Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world (2010, 2015, 2019).
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The cover spotlights Lupita Nyong’o’s most praised role as Red and Adelaide in the horror-thriller, “US”.
Brad Pitt, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lopez, Leonardo Dicaprio, Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, amongst others were also mentioned.
New York Times says:
One is “sane” and the other is “evil,” meaning Nyong’o alternates, terrifyingly, between poles of psychological extremity. Sure, that in itself is a feat. But it’s merely the most obvious thing to applaud. The rigor of her achievement is that it won’t stop revealing itself. For the movie’s first third, what she’s doing might seem rather unremarkable. She plays Adelaide Wilson: bright, upper-middle-class and on vacation at her California ranch house with her goofy husband and their two children. Her biggest worry appears to be her teenage daughter’s decision to quit the track team. But you can sense her gathering fear that some terrible event is on its way; it’s dimming her glow as it heightens our anticipation.
The event, of course, is the other Nyong’o. This one is credited as Red and has made her way up from deep underground to Adelaide’s house, on a mission to exterminate the planet’s current inhabitants so that her people — all clones — can take over. As Red, Nyong’o stands with the bearing of certain dictators — crimson jumpsuit, shoulders back, nose up — but moves as if she was reared by Alvin Ailey (if his dancers also carried water in a Japanese teahouse). Red looks prepared to bellow. But Nyong’o makes Red’s voice thin and gasping, the sort of sound that makes you want to call an E.N.T., even as it brings you to the edge of your seat to get closer to her mouth.
Maybe Nyong’o had a pre-existing model for this character. (She has mentioned that Peele prompted her with words like “regal” and “cockroach.”) But I’ve never seen anything like what she’s done here. Just the flick-flick flitting of her hand to command her troops to attack scared a year of my life. The movies are rich with textured villainy. But it’s not villainy that Nyong’o is acting here. It’s having been irrevocably wronged. And the woman who wronged her, decades ago, is 10 feet away, trembling on the sofa.
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Climate activist, Greta Thunberg has been named Time’s 2019 Person of the Year, becoming the youngest ever recipient of the title.
The magazine announced 16-year old Thunberg as its preferred choice on Wednesday, December 11, 2019.
“She became the biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet this year, coming from essentially nowhere to lead a worldwide movement,” Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal told “TODAY.”
He also revealed that Thunberg is the magazine’s youngest choice ever to be named Person of the Year.
The 16-year-old Swedish teen who became a global voice for climate change and environmental activism inspired the school strikes for the climate movement.
For over a year, her movement has drawn large crowds with her appearances at protests and conferences around the world.
Thunberg, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at a young age, heard about climate change at 8 years old. She gave up eating meat and traveling via airplanes, among other things, just to reduce her carbon footprint.
“I remember thinking that it was very strange that humans that are an animal species, among others, could be capable of changing the Earth’s climate,” she said during a 2018 Ted Talk.
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A bill to amend the Police Act 2004 by expunging the gender-discriminatory provisions on Thursday, passed second reading in the Senate.
This followed the presentation of the bill by the sponsor, Sen.Ezenwa Onyewuchi (PDP-Imo East) during the plenary.
Leading the debate on the general principles of the bill, Onyewuchi said that the bill was read for the first time on October 10.
He said that that the bill sought to expunge the provisions of regulations 122, 123, 124 and 127 from the principal act.
Onyewuchi noted that Regulation 122 restricts female police officers assigned to the General Duties Branch of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to telephone, clerical and office orderly duties.
“Regulation 123 prohibits women police from drilling under arms; Regulation 124 mandates female police officers to apply for permission to marry while the intending fiancé is also investigated for criminal records.
” It also stipulates that a police woman who is single at the time of enlistment must spend three years in service before applying for permission to marry,” he said.
The lawmaker enumerated the duties of the police to include prevention and detection of crime, apprehension of offenders, preservation of law and order among others.
”Analysis of the Police Act and other regulatory/policy documents governing the internal and external workings of the Nigeria Police Force reveals a preponderance of discriminatory regulations and workplace practices that reinforce gender discrimination.
” Many of the police regulations particularly regulations 122, 123, 124 and 127 are overtly discriminatory to female police officers,” he said.
He further said that specifically, the current regulations stated that “a woman police officer who is desirous of marrying must apply in writing to the commissioner of police for the State Police Command in which she is serving, requesting permission to marry.
” She is to also give the name, address and occupation of the person she intends to marry.”
He explained that there was need to expunge the regulations as it was not reasonably justifiable in democratic state like Nigeria which had domesticated the African Charter on Human and People Rights.
Supporting the bill, Sen. Istifanus Gyang (PDP-Plateau North) said that the bill was most welcomed as it widened the scope of mainstreaming women rights in the country’s statutes.
He said that exposure to discrimination was one of the factors that was used in rating and ranking the country on the index of best and worst countries for a woman to live in.
“It is sad that women’s rights such as protection from sexual harassment, right to vote and be voted for,and right to hold public office are today a reality.
“The quest for gender equality and equity in our clime will be further strengthened by the passage of this bill,” he said.
On his part, Senate Minority Leader, Eyinnaya Abaribe said that amending the law would give dignity to the female folk.
“It is very strange to find such provisions in the Police Act which is discriminatory in the sense that the male counterparts don’t have the same restrictions,” he noted.
Also, Sen. Stella Oduah (PDP-Anambra North) urged the senators to give the bill accelerated second reading.
Sen. Smart Adeyemi (APC-Kogi West) said that Nigeria was a democratic society and there should not be any provision that made women be seen as second class citizen.
In his remark, President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan referred the bill to the Senate Committee on Police Affairs and report back to the chamber in four weeks.
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The “Truth Hurts” singer incorporates themes of confidence and self-love into her music, TIME wrote. “Her sound is relentlessly positive and impossibly catchy: bangers that synthesize pop, rap and R&B, with hooks so sharp it feels like they’ve been in your brain forever. Her lyrics are funny, bawdy and vulnerable: reminders to dump whatever idiot is holding you back and become your own biggest fan.”
Lizzo reminiscing “why this year, after nearly a decade on the road, performing shows for next to nothing, living in her car, being her own hype man and bagging more Grammy nominations than any other artist,” says:
I’ve been doing positive music for a long-ass time. Then the culture changed. There were a lot of things that weren’t popular but existed, like body positivity, which at first was a form of protest for fat bodies and black women and has now become a trendy, commercialized thing. Now I’ve seen it reach the mainstream. Suddenly I’m mainstream! How could we have guessed something like this would happen when we’ve never seen anything like this before?
Her self-empowerment anthem “Truth Hurts,” originally released in 2017, went on to top the Billboard Hot 100. She carried a tiny Valentino purse down the red carpet at the American Music Awards, generating a million memes.
Her third album, “Cuz I Love You“, earned her eight Grammy nominations and each of moment of her winning helped develop her as the defining entertainer of this year. It also made her a bigger target.
I have to bite my tongue on certain things. When people challenge my talent, they challenge whether I deserve to be here. They challenge my blackness. I’m like, ‘Oh! I can easily just let your ass know right now in 132 characters why you’re f-cking wrong.
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And on Friday, Silverbird announced that Nyekachi won the title of “Top Model,” which is one of the fast track events of Miss World 2019.
It reads:
@nyeka_d has made Nigeria proud again by racking another major win in the Miss World Contest.
She has won the title of the Miss World Top Model💃🏼, Congratulations Queen.
Regina Daniels has topped the ‘Most Searched actor’ list on Google’s trending searches in Nigeria 2019.
Recall that the young actress was a hot topic in Nigeria this year when the news of her marriage to Senator Ned Nwoko broke.
Genevieve Nnaji follows closely at number 2 while Tonto Dikeh is placed at number 3.
Ini Edo, Eniola Badmus, Iyabo Ojo and Toyin Aimakhu are on numbers 5, 6, 7, 10 respectively.
Teni had a good 2019 as she was also listed on the list of ‘Most Searched Trending People’ .
Her songs ‘Billionaire and Uyo Meyo’ made the ‘Top Trending Songs’ list.
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