Roc Nation singer Rita Ora showed off her cleavage as she and Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton went on a dinner date in London all dressed in black. Rita teamed her sexy satin mini dress with racy fishnet tights giving her feminine look a tougher edge. The pair have been 'friends' for some time. Last year Lewis joined Rita for her 25th birthday celebrations. More photos...
The draw for the third round of African Zone qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place today in Cairo, Egypt. Nigeria has been placed against Cameroon, Zambia and Algeria.
This is the final and decisive stage of the continent's preliminary competition, with only 5 teams out of the 20 teams to participate at Russia 2018. May God help us...
The Nigerian Football Federation has unveiled the preliminary 35-man football squad prepared by coach Samson Siasia, to represent Nigeria in the Summer Olympic games set for August in Rio de Janeiro.
Peter Zoutenbier, Jack Couranz and Mark Gabbedy are the three Australians kidnapped in Calabar, their families have confirmed. The fourth Mr Coot managed to escape.
After some residents came out to protest against their governor this afternoon, some residents of the state were later seen cheering Fayose as he went for some road inspection this evening. More pics...
 
The surgery theater at the Effia-Nkwanta regional hospital in Takoradi in the Western region, Ghana, caved in during a live surgical operation.
The development caused a temporary hold up on three ongoing operation and doctors had to transfer the patients to Kwesi Mintin Hospital for the process to continue. One of the patients, a 31-year-old pregnant woman died. Her death are being attributed to the incident. 
 
According to local media, she died due to unavailability of blood transfusion equipment or 'giving set' at the hospital. But the medical Director of Effa Nkwanta Hospital, Dr. Kwau Ntodi in an interview with Joy News correspondent Francis Whajah denied the report. He said the lady could have died even if the incident had not happened because she had a ruptured uterus.
Hundreds of thousands of jubilant fans came out for a parade celebrating the Cleveland Cavaliers' NBA Championship win, in downtown Cleveland. The team led by Lebron James brought home the city's first major sports title in more than 50 years (since 1964), ending their long professional sports championship drought. Confetti in the team's colours rained down as the parade moved through the city, with the NBA championship trophy in a black pickup truck and team members traveling in separate vehicles. See more photos..
The U.S. men's gymnastics team trials for the 2016 Olympic Games will be holding soon. Gymnasts will vie for the eight coveted spots on the American squad, consisting of 5 team members and three alternates. People magazine conducted an exclusive interview with these elite gymnasts and here are some of their photos.

Texas pastor Donnie Romero of the Stedford Baptist Church delivered a sermon last week in which he said he agreed that the Orlando club attack victims were perverts who deserved death.
With shocks aplenty in the group stages, the draw for the knockout stages is somewhat lopsided with England, Germany, Spain, Italy and hosts France all with similar routes to the final.
Iceland, Hungary, Switzerland and Poland are just some of the teams bidding to make their mark on a major tournament for the first time in many years.



Read the full schedule and fixtures for the next round and quarter finals.
TI's stepdaughter, Zonnique Williams was arrested last week for trying to take a semiautomatic gun with her aboard a plane and the rapper is standing with her.
TI and his wife, Tiny both agreed that the 20-year-old needed the semi-automatic pistol for protection, and Tiny went with her daughter to purchase the weapon.
Leicester city sensation Jamie Vardy has ended all speculation about his future by signing a new four year deal with Leicester City, the current English premier league champions, hereby ending all rumors linking him with a move to Arsenal. Announcing the news Vardy was staying at the club, a Leicester statement on their official website read;

Kenneth Omeruo, a Chelsea central defender who played this past season on loan in Turkey, has reportedly agreed to join Samson Siasia's team and participate in the upcoming Rio Olympics tournament. 22 year old Kenneth will not be one of the three over-aged players allowed for this U23 tournament in August because of his age and can join as a regular player.
28-year-old model, Joy Corrigan, set pulses racing as she ditched her top during a swimsuit photo shoot in Miami. When she did wear a one-piece bikini, it looked like her assets were spilling out of it. More photos.
A 'Jesus' statue in a religious shop located in Brooklyn, New York didn't get burnt as fire, which broke out on Broadway near Belvidere St. in Bushwick at 12:28 p.m., left the shop seriously damaged with a pile of charred debris on the sidewalk, according to witnesses.
Oscar Pistorius has admitted he deserves a long jail sentence for killing Reeva Steenkamp but vehemently denied he murdered her, insisting that the 2013 shooting was not premeditated. In his first TV interview since Reeva's death, Pistorius said he "couldn’t disagree" with those who felt he should be punished.

U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle has specially recognised Zahra Buhari for her work in promoting free genotype testing and genetic counselling as important early interventions in order to prevent sickle cell disease. He also commended Mrs. Oludolapo Osinbajo, wife of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, for promoting self-sufficiency of those who have the sickle cell disease.
Nigerian transgender Iris Sahhara Henson, often referred to as Miss Sahhara, shared some new photos of herself that were taken in a club during her night out. More pics after the cut...
In a division 9 match in Sweden, football club Pershagen SK's Adam Lindin Ljungkvist was sent off for farting, an action the referee termed "unsportsmanlike behaviour" after he farted loudly in a game against Jarna SK's reserve team.
The Super Eagles were earlier placed in Pot Three while Egypt were placed in Pot one after the Egyptian Football Association lodged a formal complaint to express their discontent after being zoned in Pot Two despite being the fifth best ranked team among the 20 teams.
Instagram user Kokobie, whose pregnancy yoga photos went viral online shared photos of her breastfeeding her newborn son and wrote:

Heavy rain has caused serious flooding in some parts of the UK. There is a major disruption to the rail network, with many routes blocked by water and a number of London Underground lines have been suspended due to the rising floods. It has also affected homes, commercial properties, roads and even vehicles have been trapped. Some properties were reportedly struck by lightning, which also brought down a tree. The London Fire Brigade have appealed to people to only dial 999 "where there is a risk to life or property" after receiving twice as many weather-related emergency calls than they've ever handled in 24 hours. See more photos after the cut.

18 year old Paris Jackson, daughter to late Pop icon Michael Jackson, took to her Twitter to slam critics whom she says are always trying to tear 'the most pure' people down.
The mother of a student stabbed to death for teasing a friend about his looks said the "cold-blooded" killer should never be released from prison.
Most of what the world knows and can do, and is possible to do or have in this modern era, has derived from the ingenious concepts, ideas and tried inventions of the world’s most greatest and brilliant mind’s to have ever thought in this world as we know it, enabling us to have what we have, do what we do on a daily basis, by their theories, philosophies, laws of physical sciences, scientific breakthroughs, concept or prototype inventions etc. The world’s greatest centurions have been made famous for their mindsets and unique way of thinking which literally impacted on and changed the world as we know it today. Everybody in this era ought to have learnt about in school, studied in university or stumbled across the most influential geniuses sometime in their lives and times of feeding their curiosity, yet not everybody would know precisely what each of these individuals were famous for.


1. Thomas Edison

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In terms of boiling a list down to the number one ranked Smartest people in history of the world, the battle between the most brilliant, won’t always lie in the lines of fancy inventions or theories etc. but purely on the basis on such a person’s reputation and how it passed through history and has changed the world for the better today. The toughest decision had to be made about who is the smartest people and especially when Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein are in competition with one and other, both cannot be compared and placed on a scale, however both of these geniuses and their discoveries interlink with one and other. Einstein has been placed second best but this doesn’t necessarily mean that Thomas Edison is smarter than him either.

To “shine light” on this and speaking of light, color wouldn’t exist without light firstly, at least not to the spectrum of the eyes. The world would have been In absolute dark ages even in this modern era, without Thomas Edison’s grand invention of the light bulb,the very first which was displayed to public viewing and that lit up which was said to be one of the best Christmas nights ever in that era, since the light bulb invention. Thomas Edison as opposed to Albert Einstein has been ranked number one on the list of the world’s smartest people in history, purely because his been the most responsible apart from everybody else to have created the modern shiny, lit up and glittery world that we reside in today.

Think about this very carefully. Without the invention of the light bulb, can you imagine how many things wouldn’t have been possible today? While Einstein’s, E-MC² would benefit people in the specific fields of Mathematics and Science, Thomas Edison’s invention of the Electric light bulb is to illuminate modern society for as long as civilization exists, then till now, and probably to eternity too if the human race and all we have to live for is preserved. Thomas Edison has been crafted by the hands of God himself to have given him the gift of such a discovery.


2. Albert Einstein

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People throughout centuries or more especially modern society would probably render Albert Einstein as one of the smartest people in history. Really who could blame such people for thinking so, seeing that this particular common norm has been cast in stone by the common perception of people globally and they are allowed to think so.
A simple sounding equation such as: E=MC² can come across as rather intimidating to the average minded person who may be mathematically ignorant. To crack down E=MC² formulated by Albert Einstein, it simply means:
Energy Equals to Mass times the Speed of Light Squared. To further boil this down to you, it primarily means to say that by theory energy can be measured and is double the velocity of the speed of light or the force of energy is greater than speed. Power is everything after all. He has been rendered as the most well-known and influential scientist of the 20th Century.

Einstein’s name has also been subsequently linked to and referred to as a word of its own in popular culture and urban language. Example if somebody calls somebody an Einstein, it can be regarded as one of the most magnanimous and highest of compliments ever indicating that such a person is brilliant with endless creativity.

3. Sir Isaac Newton

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Here we welcome another Mathematician with a slight twist of where his prime intelligence and passion lied primarily in scientific intellects. Ever heard of Neutrons? Yes! You’ve guessed it, the ground breaking idea that Isaac Newton had has revolutionized the laws of physics and has been built purely on the laws of gravity too theorized with simple examples such as :an apple falling from the tree, pen from a desk etc.

Yet still with revolutionary impact. Newton’s mind worked so brilliantly that he was able to, by his own findings and analysis of the world ,determine the earth’s axis precession all in direct combination to the sun, planetary motion and tidal waves and how each one corresponds with its individual action and occurrence. 

When people understand the world through Newton’s theoretical aspects and points of view, it becomes perfectly understood and makes absolute sense at the very same time. A man can make a ground breaking discovery, but in most cases, how long exactly does it continue to be on the minds of people or to play on the curiosity of those who take interest to the subject?

It usually lasts a decade now in modern time until it dies off into a simpler concept that requires less explaining, while these men made history, and their discoveries lingered for more than 2 centuries and some flying decades till this very day, it’s not very easy to make a timeless impact on the basis of one theory, idea or invention as great as these men managed to impossibly do, creating an endless amount of possibilities at the same time. A constant supply to feed the minds of interest, lasting decades if not centuries more.

4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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For decades, school kids, university level students, and others have had a major problem when it came to logic and especially all the rules of Mathematics in general. They found and still find it somewhat difficult beyond some usual levels of comprehension to solve a Math’s problem with the method that’s already been established and taught for each specific problem, but can you imagine how mind wrecking it may be to actually have the brain so powerful to actually invent mathematical aspects?

 Gottfried, being a logicist, he has managed to use most parts, if not all of his working brilliant brain to be an independent inventor of Integral Calculus. As mind wrecking as just the words “integral calculus” may sound to the average Joe, it is unimaginable the amount of mind wrecking in one man’s mindset it might have taken to be methodizing this as part of a mathematical subject.

There is a powerful mind in everybody who discovers and constantly develops it .Just a bit of history shared, in case you have come into encounter with somewhat ‘scary calculus’ during your time at school or in university etc. Gottfried has been in persistent development of a theory that “God constructed the universe in such a way that corresponding mental and physical events occur simultaneously” and so wanted to boil this down to a formal symbolic system which lead to his great invention of Algebra or Calculus of thought by bringing all things to be solved by calculations by simply using a method.

5. Galileo Galilei

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A man who could build Telescopes, directive mediums for Military and to have had an engineering mindset that revolutionized science and took it to an extreme new level than it was in that time, to have influenced how people see the universe by his theories and philosophies of Astronomy and how it governs our birth signs which determines what happens, when it will happen in our lives, who it may happen to etc.

Can most surely be given credit for being one of the smartest people in history and with no doubt he was. While others used their intelligence to carve sculptures out of a plain block of wood, or to see a blank piece of canvas and to paint a timeless masterpiece or to use their intelligence to gain control of an entire country and run it down by abuse of personal interest and use, Galileo has used his god gifted brain to analyze, understand and to change the perceptions of mankind by his methods and mindset.

 His main field of expertise and brilliance lied in the cosmos, understanding the universe. The universe in terms of astronomy (stars, the sun, planets) and everything else beyond the sky that cannot be seen or easily understood by the naked eye, is what Galilei specialized and revolutionized in. Not any fool of any era could just understand things that happen billions of kilometers beyond our heads as Galilei attempted and succeeded in managing to do so.

 He most certainly had a universal mindset and all this to be done without the convenience of NASA’s space technology we have at our disposal today. He saw beyond the stars.


June 16, 2016: Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry is held back from referee Jason Phillips by Shaun Livingston, left, and Klay Thompson, right, while reacting to being called for his sixth foul during Game 6 of the NBA Finals


The wife of Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry took out her frustration over the Warriors' loss in Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Twitter late Thursday, posting that the championship series was "rigged for money" before deleting the message.

U.S President Barack Obama has told the families of the people that were killed in the Orlando gay club massacre that due to government policies on gun acquisition and control, he can't assure the grieving families that death or killing of this nature won't occur again.

A Homosexual Kenyan primary school teacher has been sentenced to 90 years in prison by a Kenyan court for sexually assaulting 10 boys who were his students. The 23 year old teacher simply identified as Mugi, will serve nine years for each assault. The sentences will run consecutively.
Samuel Okon Ikon 

The United States Embassy has cancelled the visas of three House of Representatives members who were accused of improper conduct during an official visit to the US.

The legislators were identified as Mohammed Garba Gololo (Bauchi), Samuel Ikon (Akwa Ibom) and Mark Gbillah (Benue).

A total of 18 Somali nationals have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo after traveling from neighbouring Zambia in a container truck packed with fish, in an apparent case of human trafficking gone wrong, Zambian police say.
How to maintain relationships hurt phrases

 When you are in a long-term relationship or even married, you should learn to leave some certain things unsaid.

Words are like arrows; you might end up hitting the wrong target, so be extra careful at where you aim. 

Arizona native and 2008 Republican party presidential nominee Senator John McCain has made a serious allegation towards U.S president Barack Obama saying he is responsible for the Orlando Gay club attacks that took over 49 lives on Sunday, saying the responsibility of those attacks lies with Obama.
And how did they arrive at that? US Wall Street Journals shared an article on its website written by Pete Hoekstra titled "Buhari Is Nigeria’s Problem, Not Its Solution". The article accused President Buhari of Inflexibility, lack of vision and reactive approach to issues. Read the article below

Olumpic medalist Louis Smith has been slammed for posting a provocative photo of a 16-year-old gymnast online. Louis, 27, shared a close-up of US gymnast Carly Patterson’s bum cheeks in a red leotard before gushing, “My sport has its moments,” on Instagram.
34-year-old Okeke Amadi Samuel and his Vietnamese wife, Ho Hu Thuy, 28, were sentenced to 25 years in jail by the Phnonm Penh Municipal Court for mailing 1.5 kilograms of heroin to Australia.
British astronaut Tim Peake

The Astronomer Royal says the money should be devoted to robotic missions instead of sending astronauts like Tim Peake into orbit.

Britain's leading astronomer has told Sky News that the public should no longer fund human spaceflight.
Bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children who were abandoned by people smugglers while trying to reach neighbouring Algeria were found in the Niger desert last week, authorities said Wednesday, June 15.
"Thirty-four people, including five men, nine women and 20 children died trying to cross the desert,” Niger’s interior ministry said in a statement."They probably died of thirst, as is often the case, and they were found near Assamaka,” a security source said, referring to a border post between Niger and Algeria.

“The migrants were abandoned by people smugglers,” the statement added, and only two of the bodies have so far been identified – a man and a 26-year-old woman both from Niger.
Two unidentified Europe-bound Nigerians were among the dead. The nationalities of other victims are yet to be revealed.

Temperatures in the desolate region can reach a brutal 42 degrees Celsius, with blinding sandstorms tearing across the desert. The hostile conditions mean that only a fraction of those who die trying to cross the area are ever found.

Thousands of illegal migrants have arrived in Algeria in recent years, mostly from neighbouring Mali and Niger.

Libya used to play host to the majority of migrants in sub-Saharan Africa, but since that country descended into chaos following the ousting of Moamer Kadhafi, Algeria has become the main destination for the region’s migrants.

Many transit through Algeria headed for Europe, but more than 7,000 migrants from Niger, mostly women and children, were returned to their home country in 2015 as part of an agreement between the two countries’ governments.

Europe has recently turned its attention to trying to curb the number of illegal arrivals from Africa, after a deal with Ankara in March slashed the number of people trying to cross from Turkey.



Source: AFP
The scene following airstrikes on the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib

State Department employees use a special "dissent channel" to question President Obama's policy towards the Assad regime.

More than 50 diplomats have signed an internal memo calling on the US government to take military action against the Assad regime in Syria.