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USAToday has been around for 34 years, and they’ve never picked a side in an election. However that changed on Sept. 29. They say that during each election, they reconsider whether or not they should back a nominee. Since their inception, they have decided against it time after time. “We’ve never seen reason to alter our approach. Untilnow.” Yikes!“This year, the choice isn’t between twocapable major party nominees who happen to have significant ideological differences,”USA Todaysays. “This year, one of the candidates — Republican nominee Donald Trump — is, by unanimous consensus of the Editorial Board, unfit for the presidency.From the day he declared his candidacy 15 months ago through this week’s first presidential debate, Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he lacks the temperament, knowledge, steadiness and honesty that America needs from its presidents.” Wow! For them to feel that they had to say something to their varied readers is huge. They also included along lis...

Read his piece below...     As Nigeria marks its 56th Independence Anniversary, very few Nigerians would expect any form of celebration or excitement. Independence from colonial rule in 1960 has brought the country so much to be cheerful about, but 56 years later, also a lot of regrets.I am not one of those who imagine that wewould probably have been better off if we had remained under British rule, but that there are some Nigerians who still entertain such impossible thought indicates the depth of the people’s anxiety about Nigeria’s post-colonial reality.     The big issues are well-known: the failure of leadership, corruption, and perpetual anxiety about the future. Every October 1, Nigeria is described as “a crippled giant”, a“toddler”, “a broken nation”. And the various editorials, year after year sound so repetitive as they focus on an economy that is not working, the failure of public infrastructure, leadership crisis, the bad habits of the political e...

We cannot say this has been the best week of her life because shevhas had more better ones but Kim Kardashian West has really had a blast in the last few days.The Paris Fashion Week has really been incredible for her. Now she has graced the cover of the Billboard Magazine TV Issue. The 35-year-old reality star, business woman and mother of two, Kim Kardashian is the face of Billboard Magazine TV Issue. She opened up about her partnership with husband Kanye West, music business and 'famous' feud with Taylor Swift, adding thatshe didn't want to talk about Swift. She said:    “I’m so over it, she says with a laugh. "If it were up to Kanye, it all would probably never have come out. He can handle it, he has no hard feelings. He doesn’t even really care. I just wanted to protect my husband. I saw him getting a lot of shit"

The Paris Fashion week was really a blast for Kim Kardashian, her husband rapper, Kanye West and sister Kourtney Kardashian, as well for her Mum Kris Jenner and her boytoy, Corey Gamble at the SS17 Off-White fashion show in Paris for the Paris Fashion Week and at the Balmain after party on Thursday.Check out the stunning pics You would think she's naked underneath the sheer dress but she's wearing a nude bra. She attended the Balmain show with her mum, Kris and older sister, Kourtney.

Three Nigerians men and a woman, together with eleven other accomplices currently on the run, were charged in the Court of First Instance on Thursday, September 29th, with attacking two Pakistani men and robbing them of millions in different currencies, belonging to their employer.The 11 others on the run, including another woman, are being accused in the same case of possessing the stolen money.  The defendants, all Nigerians are currently in detention.The main accused, a 31-year-old Nigerian worker, was not present in court to face the charges. The others, of ages ranging between 26 and 41 and among them are two businessmen and two managers, pleaded not guilty to the charges. Those, who are accused of possession of the stolen money, claimed before the panel of judges they were doing business with the other accused and were not aware the money was stolen.According to Khaleej Times,  a 34-year-old Afghani sales executive said that his sponsor gave him while in Afghanistan lar...

Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieon Wednesday, spoke about racial issues in America and the continual reports of black people killed by police.     In her novel Americanah, her protagonist, Ifemelu, starts a blog about race in America from her perspective as a Nigerian immigrant.The blog, called “Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-­American Black," is funny as well as insightful."The blog in Americanah—I wanted it to be funny. I wanted to poke fun, because I think many of the ways race manifests itself in this country are actually quite funny so I hoped that people would laugh,"Adichie said at the Washington Ideas Forum, an event produced by The Aspen Institute and The Atlantic.Her interviewer, Mary Louise Kelly, a contributing editor at The Atlantic, asked what Ifemelu might say about racial issuesin America today. "I think what’s going on now just doesn’t give me room for humor,...