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Italian actress and director, and foremost #MeToo campaigner Asia Argento has released a statement, saying she was sexually assaulted by then 17-year old Jimmy Bennett in 2013. According to New York Times, Bennett claimed Argento assaulted him in a California hotel room in 2013 , just two months after his 17th birthday. Argento was 37 at the time, and the age of consent in California is 18. Argento, one of the accusers of Harvey Weinstein had, in October, after several women came forward with reports of sexual…

Presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, has submitted his presidential forms to the national secretariat of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja on Thursday, September 6, 2018. The former vice president was welcomed by hordes of supporters and accompanied by prominent politicians like Senator Ben Murray-Bruce (Bayelsa East – PDP) when he submitted his expression of interest form and nomination form to officially express his interest to contest in the 2019 presidential election. He later took…

Music icon Beyonce celebrated her birthday a few days ago on the 4th of September and yesterday she marked the day while on holiday with her husband Jay-Z in Italy. The couple is currently on their On The Run tour and took some time together to celebrate Beyonce’s birthday. On her website, Beyonce also shared a message with her fans while reflecting on the past year – from becoming a mother of three to performing at Coachella as a comeback after…

Kenya’s immigration department has said a Chinese man will be deported after a video emerged of him making racist comments.   The man, indentified as Liu Jiaqi, was captured in a video calling all Kenyans, including President Uhuru Kenyatta, “monkeys”. The authorities have revoked his work permit and say he will be deported on “racism grounds”.   An employee filmed Mr Liu, who is a motorcycle trader, saying that he disliked Kenya because it “smells bad and [its…

According to a Facebook post by Aliyu Ma’aji, which was also corroborated on Twitter, residence of Abuja yesterday experienced what appears to have been earthquake. The experience was mostly felt in Mpape Hills, Brigade of Guards and areas around Aso Villa. Read his post below. HAPPENING NOW!! MORE THAN 15 MASSIVE TREMORS FOLLOWED BY LOUD MUFFLED RUMBLING EXPLOSIONS HAVE BEEN ROCKING MPAPE HILLS, STRETCHING ALL THE WAY TO BRIGADE OF GUARDS AND POLO CLUB/BEHIND ASO…

 Security Agencies in Bauchi state of Nigeria have arrested 41 homosexual suspects in the state. The suspects were arrested in a joint operation carried out by the Bauchi state police command and the Nigeria Security Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). It was learnt that Police had charged 37 suspects to court while NSCDC paraded 4 suspects. Confirming the incident, the stars Command Public Relations Officer Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Kamal Datti Abubakar said the police…

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday legalized gay sex. Section 377 of the Indian penal code, enacted by British rulers in 1861, banned “carnal intercourse against the order of nature”. “The law had become a weapon for harassment for the LGBT community,” Chief Justice Dipak Misra said as he announced the landmark verdict. Activists had been fighting the ban since the 1990s, with their efforts suffering several court reverses before Thursday’s verdict which sparked celebrations among…

Five people have been arrested in Rwanda for allegedly seeking to bribe and intimidate witnesses in order to overturn a genocide conviction at the UN tribunal in neighbouring Tanzania, the court said Wednesday. Contempt of court warrants for Maximilien Turinabo, Anselme Nzabonimpa, Jean de Dieu Ndagijimana, Marie Rose Fatuma and Dick Prudence Munyeshuli were issued under seal on August 24, and the five were arrested in Rwanda on Monday. The UN’s International Residual Mechanism for…

President Muhammadu Buhari is on his way back to the country after a six-day trip to China where he participated in the Forum of China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). The Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Mr Bashir Ahmed, revealed this via his Twitter handle. According to him, the President’s aircraft departed the Beijing Capital International Airport on Thursday morning. Bashir Ahmad ✔@BashirAhmaad President Muhammadu Buhari departs the Beijing Capital International Airport for Abuja after…

Two teenagers who sold a stolen laptop for N2,000, have been arrested by the operatives of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly breaking into a shop on Jakande Estate, in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State, to steal the laptop. The police also arrested two others – 27-year-old Adejagun Babatunde and 20-year-old Lawal Wasiu – for allegedly receiving the stolen laptop from the teenage burglars, Punch Metro reports. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police,…