Nigerians react to finale of Northern political drama
Posted on August 7, 2024
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| Martina Birk
After 13 entertaining episodes, the political drama which is set in the North of Nigeria about three rich, entitled and ambitious young men, aired its final episode for the season on Thursday, January 5, 2017. Following the episode, Nigerians took to Twitter to react. While some viewers were left excited, others consider the episode a let down. ADVERTISEMENT
Check out reactions below; Created, written and produced by Dimbo and Karachi Atiya, the TV series is set to reposition the stereotypes about Northern Nigeria in a way people have not imagined before.
[Read More]Physicists Used Einstein To Explain the Magic of Christmas
Posted on August 7, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
December 14, 2016 3:15 PM EST
Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve journey has always required a leap of faith for believers. After all, if it takes nine hours just to get from Pittsburgh to Helsinki, no one could deliver presents to boys and girls around the world in just one night. Plus, in the age of modern technology someone would have seen Santa from a plane window or on radar and there’s no way a guy with a stomach like a “bowl full of jelly” could fit down a chimney, right?
[Read More]Readers doubt that Tyga had been hitting on 14-yr-old O'Malia
Posted on August 7, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Following the allegations leveled against him by 14-yr-old Molly O'Malia, Tyga's manager spoke up on the allegations, refuting the false claims. TMZ reports that the rapper's manager, Anthony Martini, has revealed that the rapper only reached out to 14-year-old, Molly O'Malia, after their team had reportedly found out that she had a pretty strong musical following online. ADVERTISEMENT
They claim that they had, at the time thought bO'Malia would be a good fit for a Last Kings Records project.
[Read More]Sexual harassment in Nollywood is an epidemic; but who will speak up?
Posted on August 7, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
“It would be living in some kind of Utopian space to say that it doesn’t exist [in Nollywood],” veteran actress Joke Silva said to Pulse during a conversation about sexual harassment. “I think the situation is even more sick in Africa because men get away with a lot in this part [Africa],” Ghanaian filmmaker Shirley Frimpong-Manso said. Following the recent revelations of sexual harassment by Media Mogul Harvey Weinstein of actresses such as Angelina Jolie, Lupita Nyong'o and Kate Beckinsale, several other film heavyweights have been exposed.
[Read More]Superhero Movies To Anticipate In 2014
Posted on August 7, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
This is a sequel to the X-men First Class 2. Captain America : The Winter Soldier The first Captain America movie was a terrible movie for me considering i had high hopes for it, but seeing that the Avenger Movie was a huge success we can only hope that they have improved upon their movie making skills and awe us next year. Chris Evans remains the hero and Scarlett Johansson and Samuel Jackson will also be cast for the upcoming movie next April.
[Read More]The Aghori tribe in India, where people eat human corpses
Posted on August 7, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
The tribe is considered to be one of the most scary tribes in India.
The Aghori are a small sect of Hindus known for their extreme practices. They live in cremation grounds, eat human flesh, and smear themselves with ash from the dead.
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The Best Blumhouse Horror Movies, Ranked
Posted on August 7, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
If there's one name that carries a lot of weight in the horror movie industry, it's Jason Blum.
The founder and CEO of horror hit factory Blumhouse Productions, Blum has been responsible for more than $6 billion in global box office earnings over the past two decades. After producing a handful of non-horror movies in the early aughts, Blum put his company on the map by acquiring a low-budget indie titled Paranormal Activity after it screened at 2007's Screamfest Horror Film Festival.
[Read More]The Crown Season 3: The True Story Behind Princess Margaret
Posted on August 7, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
“There have always been dazzling Windsors, and dull ones,” says Prince Philip matter-of-factly to Queen Elizabeth II (Olivia Colman) in Season 3 of the Netflix series The Crown. Yet the “dazzling” Windsor to whom Philip is referring isn’t his wife, but her sister, Princess Margaret.
In seasons 1 and 2 of the hit show, the storyline involving Margaret — whom TIME once dubbed “a Royal Lightning Rod” — detailed her rebellious streak, setting the scene for her unconventional marriage to photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, known by the time Season 3 begins as Lord Snowdon.
[Read More]The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Turns 35: What It Taught Us
Posted on August 7, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Are you a hoopy frood who really knows where her towel is? Then you probably already know that Sunday marks 35 years to the day since legendary comedy/sci-fi author Douglas Adams published the novel based on his radio show The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, first in a trilogy of five books. Yeah, a trilogy of five — Adams was a weird dude!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide follows the story of a hapless human called Arthur Dent, who is saved from Earth’s destruction by aliens with just seconds to spare by his good friend Ford Prefect.
[Read More]The Idea of a Normal Body Is Damaging. Heres Why
Posted on August 7, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
The first dressing room I remember was at Hudson’s, a Detroit-based department store where middle-class people in my town went to get things that were “nice.” It was the place where my mother bought me overalls and hair bows, where she bought herself high-heeled shoes displayed like pastries on wooden pedestals.
On those shopping trips, my mother would gather a pile of clothes, hunting and pecking her way through the various women’s departments.
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