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The US government partial shutdown is set to end after Senate Republicans and Democrats voted to approve a temporary funding bill. Senator Chuck Schumer said Democrats would support the bill if Republicans address a programme that shields young immigrants from deportation. Democrats refused to vote for the bill unless they secured protections for recipients of the Obama-era programme. Mr Schumer said the three-day shutdown was expected to end in a few hours. What's the political reaction? Mr Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, lambasted President Donald Trump for failing to help reach a bipartisan deal, adding that he had not spoken with him since a meeting on Friday before the shutdown began. The New York senator said he was hopeful about talks on so-called Dreamers, more than 700,000 young immigrants brought to the US as children who were protected under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) programme. Republican Senate leade

Popular Nigerian relationship expert, Joro Olumofi, has shared qualities of a wife material on his Instagram page.   According to him, for men looking for wives, a lady must have 20 of these 24 qualities. Since the development, women have evaded his page with comments. While some think the list is fair, others question certain things he puts on the list. Here are the 24 qualities: 1.She attends church every Sunday & also mid week service 2.Offers to pay the bills on a date, pays her own transport fare  3.Being a virgin doesn’t matter but at least 5 Body Count. 4️.She should be able to pray for at least 45 minutes straight and fasts at least 3 times a month 5️.Any lady who doesn’t care if you live on the mainland or island ( she loves you in Egbeda, Mowe,Orile ) 6️. She is not suffering from Aso Ebi syndrome I.e ( she can do without buying Aso Ebi for 5 months ) 7️.Social media follower ship / Validation means nothing to her 8️. She spends 65

Samklef has taken his war of words with Daddy Freeze to another level by using a homophobic slur to describe the OAP. Continuing his clash with Daddy Freeze on Sunday, January 21, 2018, Samklef accused the OAP of preaching hate and also called him the 'f' word. "Daddy freeze Aka daddy faggot said my career is  dead. I laugh Noni. so is that what a yoyo who condemns other men of God is suppose to be teaching? Using fake account to comment and preach hate......brozay go wash ur brain, you be my boi noni," he tweeted. SAMKLEF X S K E L E B E ✔ @SAMKLEF Daddy freeze Aka daddy faggot said my career is dead. I laugh Noni. so is that what a yoyo who condemns other men of God is suppose to be teaching? Using fake account to comment and preach hate......brozay go wash ur brain, you be my boi noni. 10:20 AM - Jan 22, 2018 62 62 Replies 207

Mr. Grey went to great lengths to try and impress girls as a teen. His words. Jamie Dornan is the king of suave as he continuously seduces his onscreen lover  Dakota Johnson  in the hit  Fifty Shades   films but his adolescent sex life was as awkward as most people's. Possibly even more. The 35-year-old actor recently told an embarrassing story that brings to mind an R-rated teen comedy romp more than an erotic romance. Speaking on the  Graham Norton Show  on Friday, while sitting with fellow celebs  Helen Mirren and Liam Neeson , Dornan said that he was a "late developer" and that at age 15, he "looked about 7." He said that he was performing in an amateur production of  Anton Chekhov 's  The Cherry Orchard . He said he had no facial hair, so a "black, very acrylic, highly flammable wig" was cut and glued to his face to make him look older for his performance. He said he hoped to go a party after the play, so he decid

HIV therapy involves a combination of drugs that must be taken once or twice daily, making treatment adherence challenging for many people. But researchers may have found a solution to this problem, in the form of a pill that only needs to be taken once per week.   Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Brigham and Women's Hospital — both located in Boston, MA — have developed an ingestible capsule that can slowly release 1 week's worth of antiretroviral drugs. The team's novel creation has the potential to transform HIV therapy, as it means that people may only need to take a single pill once every week, rather than multiple medications every day. Co-lead study author Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, and his colleagues believe that their "pillbox in a capsule" could combat the current problem of adherence to antiretroviral therapy; research has indicated that up to 30 pe

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will today rule on the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Abdul Abdu-Kafarati, will deliver the judgment in the suit seeking to void the proscription and declaration of IPOB, as a terrorist organization. The Pro-Biafra group had through its lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, approached the court challenging the ruling it delivered on September 20, 2017, which outlawed it on the strength of an ex-parte motion the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, filed on behalf of the government. The court had declared as illegal, all activities of IPOB, particularly in the South-East and South-South regions of the country in the said ruling. The Acting Chief Justice, who gave the ruling in chambers, further restrained “any person or group of persons from participating in any of the group’s activities.” The judge further

  One client put so much cocaine up my vagina. After spending 11 months as a prostitute in London, Polly's ready to tell her horrifying story from the streets   Polly Trope* spent 11 months working as a prostitute, detouring into selling sex shortly after quitting her PhD at an Ivy League university in the US. "I had really bad mental health issues and although I wanted to finish my degree I knew I couldn't," she reveals. "So I decided to return to London, where I'd studied for my undergraduate degree. I reckoned it would be easier to find somewhere to stay and get a job there than it was in America."  But when she arrived in London, Polly didn't immediately get round to looking for work. "I drank a lot and took drugs and used up all my savings," she says. "One night I was thrown out of my lodgings because I hadn't paid my rent. So I just went into Soho, where I bumped into one of my dealers."

Not too long ago, a fancy restaurant wasn’t such a big deal in Lagos compared to other major cities. Then Instagram came and the millennials went wild. Lagos restaurants started outdoing each other by building 'woke' Instagram places for the crowd . Because we love to discover and scope out the best places in Lagos , we bring five restaurants you should totally visit with your cameras! 1. Nok by Alara Nok is such a darling of the dining scene and every Instagram dream. Part hippy and part African ambience, the restaurant serves African staple dishes in a contemporary setting. Nestled within a lush, bamboo-framed garden, NOK is an intimate dining space while also displaying contemporary Art and Design from all over the continent. You could mistake Nok for a New York restaurant with its light chatter, background music and soft lighting. This place really does go above and beyond. And if the food isn’t beautiful enough, you guys have to see th

 Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai, on a mission to the International Space Station, apologized on Wednesday for saying he had grown 9 cm (3.5 inches) while in space and expressing concern about whether he’d be safe on his return to Earth.  Most astronauts “grow” during protracted space missions because their spines extend in the absence of gravity, but the gains are usually limited to a couple of centimeters (inches) maximum and disappear once they are back on the ground. The 41-year-old Kanai, who went to space last month for a nearly six-month mission, posted on Twitter on Monday that he had “a big announcement.” “My height’s been measured here in space and somehow, somehow, I’ve grown 9 cm! In only three weeks I’ve really shot up, something I haven’t seen since high school,” he tweeted. “This makes me a little worried that I might not be able to fit in the Soyuz seats for our return.” But a bit over a day later - and in the wake of a flurry of

Why are people interested in seeing Mercy Johnson's marriage fail?   This story didn't just pop up from anywhere as there were related developments which led to the idea of a possible crack in Mercy Johnson's marriage.  When the news that Mercy Johnson had deleted all the pictures of her husband, Prince Odi Okojie from her Instagram page broke, all hell was let loose even though she has come out to defend it. Now a lot of people would say this is a sign that these guys are having issues and that the marriage would soon crash or might have crashed already. A major way to justify these guys who think the marriage might be having cracks is the that a number of celebrity marriages have crashed immediately they start deleting photos from their social media pages.  A typical example of a celebrity whose marriage crashed after they stop following each other and removed each other's photos on their Instagram page is Damilola Adegbite.   The