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The nation is still deeply divided over Donald Trump's stunning win – and so is Congress. By Susan Milligan | Staff Writer The 2000 presidential election was a painful period for American democracy, as voters and candidates wondered whether the electoral system that was supposed to be a model for the world was, in fact, fatally flawed. A protracted recount in Florida left the nation without a clear winner until December, when a Supreme Court ruling stopping the recount made Republican George W. Bush the winner. Foes of the president-elect called the outcome rigged, and said Bush would never be considered a legitimate president. Demonstrations were held to support each side of the conflict. Making matters even more complicated, Democratic pickups in Congress left the GOP with just a three-seat majority in the House, and a 50-50 Senate. Since members of Congress are sworn in before the chief executive and vice pre...

Nobel prize-winning author, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said on Thursday he had fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card and leave the country if Donald Trump won the presidential election. Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to give up his permanent US residency over a Trump victory to protest against the Republican billionaire’s campaign promises to get tough on immigration. AFP reported that Soyinka said this on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg. “I have already done it, I have disengaged (from the United States). I have done what I said I would do,” the 82-year-old said. He added,  “I had a horror of what is to come with Trump… I threw away the (green) card, and I have relocated, and I’m back to where I have always been” – meaning his homeland Nigeria. The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has been a regular teacher at US universities includi...

The cleavage bearing actress recounted this experience she supposedly had with a stranger recently, via her IG page. In her words: "I saw him staring at me...I noticed him sweating and uncomfortable.. We were stuck at d waiting room for over 40min. Don't know what was causing his discomfort. But I kept quite...when it was time for me to go in...I jokingly said...hi...hope your ok.. A problem shared is a problem solved .. Found out all he wanted was to chat me up and get a number.. Well ended up giving him my public line. Sometimes people miss out on opportunities because they are afraid to ask. Be a true Nigerian we are not afraid of the word #No. Its just a word. It does not come with a jail sentence or koboko. The word #No simply shows your recognized. Ur noticed .. Be ambitious, be recognized and get noticed... Then soon u will start hearing yes yes yes... Hahhha exactly d sound i make when am getting ....... Hahhahaha"

  Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh President Yahya Jammeh, who has ruled The Gambia for 22 years, has conceded defeat to opposition leader Adama Barrow, the chairman of the electoral commission said on Friday “It’s really unique that someone who has been ruling this country for so long has accepted defeat,” Alieu Momar Njie told reporters. AFP

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter will learn Monday whether his appeal against a six-year ban from football has been successful, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Friday. Once the most powerful man in football, Blatter is serving a ban over ethics violations relating to a suspect $2 million payment he authorised in 2011 to former UEFA boss Michel Platini. The 80-year-old Swiss served as FIFA chief from 1998 to 2015. Both Blatter and Platini were originally banned for eight years by the sport’s world governing body, but that was reduced to six years by a FIFA appeals panel in February. Platini had his ban cut by a further two years by CAS in May. The result of Blatter’s appeal will be made public at 1400 GMT (1500 local time) on Monday. A CAS statement confirmed: “The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will issue its decision in the arbitration procedure between Joseph S Blatter and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) at 3....

Comedian Klint Da Drunk and his wife, Lilien are celebrating their daughter, Adaora's 1st birthday today. Beautiful new family photos were shared via their respective Instagram accounts. Happy Birthday to the little girl. See more photos after the cut.

A sex-starved housewife, Sherifat Asimiyu, on Friday approached an Ibadan Customary Court sitting in Agodi to dissolve her 10-year-old marriage with Mr Saheed Asimiyu. Sherifat told the court that apart from starving her of sex, Saheed was also in the habit of beating and biting her whenever they have domestic quarrels. The complainant said she could no longer cope without sex, as her husband had not slept with her in the last six months. She said, “There is no doubt about his ability to provide food, money and other material things for me and the two children of the union but I am not satisfied with all these without sex. “He abandoned me deliberately, I cannot take it anymore because I am still young and I see no reason for his action. “To make the issue worst, he was in the habit of beating and biting me whenever we have misunderstanding over minor issues.” The husband, who is a motor spare parts dealer, admitted that he had starved his wife of sex, as he was o...

  Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade on Thursday advised youths to stop engaging in sex before marriage as it is the best way to avoid contracting HIV/AIDS virus. The governor, who stated this in Calabar during the 2016 World Aids Day, said the best virtue any girl or woman would give to her husband is to get married as a virgin, a core value Africans are known for. The governor described his wife, Dr. Linda Ayade, as one of such rare  women who lived a virtuous lifestyle before she got married to him as a virgin. "I am emphasizing on  this core value because I married my wife as a virgin and she has remain faithful. So I charge all women to remain faithful to their spouses.Condom is not a guarantee to safe sexual life. It can fail one. There is no alternative to abstinence in sex life." Ayade appealed to youths to see the dreaded HIV/ AIDS as real because it has destroyed many families, rendered many children orphans, many men and women w...

A Denver doctor has been suspended from seeing patients indefinitely after she called first lady Michelle Obama monkey face" on Facebook then insisted her comments were not racist. According to the local ABC affiliate KMGH, Dr. Michelle Herren, who is an anesthesiologist at Denver Health Medical Center and an assistant professor at Colorado University School of Medicine, posted an unflattering photo of Michelle on Facebook with the caption "doesn't seem to be speaking too eloquently here, thank god we can't hear her! Harvard??? That's a place for "entitled" folks said all the liberals!" Herren then wrote that she wasn't being racist, that she was just "calling it like it is": She wrote: "Monkey face and poor ebonic English!!! There! I feel better and am still not racist!!! Just calling it like it is" Shocked by Herren's comments, a fellow Facebook user JoAnn Nieto, sent an email to the Colorado Universit...

A 17 year old Senior at Central High School, Louisiana, Daniel Wesley, was headed home after leaving the Mall of Louisiana when he saw a woman with gunshot wounds, dying on the street. He put on a pair of gloves and searched for the woman’s bullet wounds, looking for the best place to apply pressure. The 17-year-old didn’t have his EMT certification yet, but in the critical moments the first thing that came to his mind was to help stop the bleeding. April Peck,  a 30-year-old mother of two, had been shot by her boyfriend on Sunday,when Wesley saw her but before the teen could do more, Peck’s boyfriend came roaring back in a Chevy Malibu screaming.. “If you help her, I’m going to kill you,” he said, according to Wesley’s mother, who spoke to the Advocate, a newspaper based in Baton Rouge. The boyfriend, Terrell Walker, rammed the car into Wesley, according to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office. The car threw him into the si...

MUCH remains unknown about Lamia Airlines flight 2933, which crashed into the hills of Colombia on November 28th, killing 71 of the 77 people on board (see article in this week’s print edition). Fans of Chapecoense, a Brazilian football team, must wait to hear the full story of how a chartered plane carrying 22 of their players and several staff members failed to arrive safely. (Only three players are among the survivors.) Many Brazilian reporters covering the crash knew one of the 21 journalists on board, and are starting to ask why these lives were lost in such devastating circumstances. The chartered plane was to fly the team from Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia to the Colombian city of Medellín for the biggest match of their lives, the final of a continental club tournament. An earlier commercial flight had brought them from São Paulo in Brazil to Bolivia. The private jet was scheduled to stop for refuelling in Cobija, in Bolivia’s north. But it never did. In a...

Three people were killed and four others injured in Malaysia when the bodyguard of one of the victims went on a shooting rampage, the country’s police chief said Friday. Gun violence is rare in Malaysia, which has strict firearms laws, and the incident on the northern resort island of Penang late Thursday brought traffic to a standstill for about six hours. “Three people were killed and four others injured in the shooting. The weapon has been seized,” national police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told reporters. The bodyguard, a former military reservist who police did not want to identify, was detained and is being held in police custody. “From the initial investigations… the shooter has a mental problem,” Khalid added. The bodyguard, who police said was in his 40s, initially shot his 32-year-old employer Ong Teik Kwong in his car, Mior Faridalathrash Wahid, Penang district police chief, told AFP. He then got out of the vehicle and began firing at random, killing tw...

Writing on The Players' Tribune , Henrikh Mkhitaryan opens up about his emotional journey from Armenia to Manchester United. One of my earliest memories is begging my father, Hamlet, to take me to training with his football club in France. I was maybe five years old. In the '80s, before I was born, my dad played in the old Soviet Top League in our home country of Armenia. He was a small but very quick striker. Soviet Soldier magazine actually honoured him with its "Knight of Attack" award in 1984. In 1989, when I was just a baby, we moved to France because of some conflicts that were brewing in Armenia. My father played five years for Valence in France's second division. I'd always cry when he would leave for training. Every morning I'd say, "Dad, take me with you. Please, please take me with you!" At that age, I didn't really care about the football yet, I just wanted to be with my father. But he didn't want to be ...

  On Thursday , ex-beauty queen and mother-of-one, Dabota Lawson, took to social media to drag a former beauty queen, for allegedly sleeping with her ex husband and asking around to find out the father of her daughter. Dabota gave a hint about the lady in question and when LIB checked it out, former MBGN Sylvia Nduka's name popped up. Slyvia replied (read here ) and everyone thought the drama was over. Turns out it wasn't! Dabota has responded, warning that she's coming for her. Read her post after the cut... "The #JokeOfTheYear is you honey. And I really want to put this behind me as I promised your sisters but Its unfortunate you choose to publicly address out of 3 points ( my best friend and daughter ) the one that matters to you the most ( The Man) . When you clearly understood from our conversation and your apology over the phone yesterday that the fact that you claim we are "sisters" and you didn't reach out to me after you hear...

Not all of them are particularly popular! LONDON (Reuters) - Swim ming, racquet sports and aerobics are associated with the best odds of staving off death, and in particular of reducing the risk of dying from heart disease or stroke, scientists said on Tuesday. In a study of various types of exercise and their risk levels, the researchers found that participation in specific sports showed significant benefits for public health, and urged doctors and policymakers to encourage people to take them up. While the research, published in the British Journal and Sports Medicine, showed no added advantage for people who favor running and football or rugby, independent experts said this was purely due to the design of the study. “This study must not be misinterpreted as showing that running and football do not protect against heart disease,” said Tim Chico, a consultant cardiologist at professor at Britain’s Sheffield University who was asked to comment on the fi...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has acknowledged the contributions of the African-Americans to his election, saying they gave him the highest votes they had ever given a Republican nominee in recent times. Trump, at a “Thank you tour” of Ohio, said the African-Americans had nothing to lose in his presidency, a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria reports. “Remember when I was making speeches, I said what a hell do you (African-Americans) have to lose? “The African-American community was so great to me in this election; they were so great to me; amazing! “I couldn’t believe it that I saw them in their large numbers and every week, ‘boom, boom, boom’. “And I got up added up to a number that’s higher than all of the Republican candidates for years and it was great!,” he said. While addressing the cheering crowd, the president-elect again pledged to unite Americans, noting the divisive presidential campaigns between him and Democrat Hillary Clinton. “We are n...

Feeling rejected? Mushroom can Help! I n findings that could pry open a door closed for nearly half a century, researchers have found that psilocybin — a hallucinogen long used in traditional healing rituals — eases the depression and soothes the anxiety of patients contending with serious illness and the prospect of imminent death. In two separate studies published Thursday, researchers report that trial subjects who received a single moderate-to-large dose of psilocybin got substantial and lasting relief from their profound distress. Among 80 cancer patients who participated in the two trials, as many as 4 in 5 continued to feel measurably less hopeless and demoralized six months after taking the drug than they had upon their recruitment. And even years later, many reported they had gained — and retained — a profound sense of peace and meaning from the experience. Of 29 cancer patients who got psilocybin in a trial conducted at New York University’s Langone ...

Former Nollywood actress, Victoria Inyama has written an open letter to all mothers, advising them to raise their sons well.. With love, prayers and more. This to her will ensure that boys grow up to be a better man. The letter read;  To all d moms <<<Sons Do you show your sons love? Like loving them & showing them genuine sincere love. I feel that most men that don't have emotions & are not sensitive is just cause they don't know what love is. How can they give what they don't have So pls my fellow moms to boys that will grow to  be  men< Give him night kisses <Pray with him<communicate & share secrets <Praise him<Remind him of how much he is loved<Encourage him to have emotions, Feelings & Compassion< He needs d strength to face challenges!!!!! Doing this will help Reduce all  this Violence Against Woman! Let's reduce Further future Abuse Against Women Lets start today 🏽 For d Sake of our Da...

DECATUR, Ind. – An Indiana man says his family’s church barred him from singing at his grandmother’s funeral last week because he leads a “gay lifestyle.” Connor Hakes, 23, asked to perform at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church after learning of his grandmother’s death on Nov. 21st. Hakes says he and his family have been longtime members of the parish, so he was saddened when Father Bob J. Lengerich denied his request in a lengthy letter that has since been made public. In the letter, Lengerich said he was concerned that Hakes was living a same-sex lifestyle and openly advocating for LGBT rights. “Anytime someone sins and then acts in the name of God, it causes scandal,” said Lengerich. “This is the main reason why you cannot (at this time) offer your gifts in service at St. Mary’s.” The letter goes on to say that any person who serves in the church or as a representative of the church must uphold the church’s values. The church suggested Hakes should...

A sedentary lifestyle is linked to poorer reading skills in the first three school years in 6-8 year old boys, according to a new study from Finland. The study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland in collaboration with the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Cambridge was recently published in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport . "Low levels of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and high levels of sedentary time in Grade 1 were related to better reading skills in Grades 1-3 among boys. We also observed that boys who had a combination of low levels of physical activity and high levels of sedentary time had the poorest reading skills through Grades 1-3," explains Eero Haapala, PhD, from the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Jyväskylä. The study, constituting part of the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children Study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland and part of the First Steps Study conducte...

A cartoon published earlier by Punch offers perhaps the most prophetic foreword to the political tragedy that climaxed in Ondo on November 26. Someone in an unconscious state is sketched being hustled away from the shelter of the Iroko (big oak tree) as the Good Samaritan mutters, “struck by lightning”. Indisputably, the Iroko moniker is patent for the brand of politics Dr. Olusegun Mimiko has retailed in Ondo State in the past two decades. The ill-starred vagrant depicted in the cartoon could only be Eyitayo Jegede, a senior advocate he had anointed to succeed him as governor, only to finish poorly in last weekend’s polls. The cartoonist’s surreal evocation is obviously rooted in Yoruba cosmology, which ordinarily invests the Iroko shrub with some metaphysical prowess. But in the event that such powers prove impotent under a tempest, so much that the proverbial l...