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In case you were wondering, this is real life,. You are not having a nightmare. You did read the headline correctly. Actor/performer  Jaden Smith  has signed on to star in a tim titled “The Good Lord Bird” where he will play a cross-dressing slave. According to reports, Smith will play the role of  Henry “Onion” Shackelford  in the film. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, follows the salve as he embarks on a mission to join the abolitionist movement fronted by  John Brown . On his way to meet up with John Brown, Shackelford is mistaken for a woman. The film will also show Shackelford and Brown as they prepare to raid the Harper’s Ferry, which is one of the incidents to help kick off the Civil War. Just when you thought you were safe from being pelted with slave movies and black men in dresses, they combine both and make one film. does Hollywood really need to make another slave film? And does it need to have a cross-dressing slave in it as well?...

NBA player  Kevin Durant  recently had his dirty little secrets aired out in a counter-lawsuit brought on by his ex-travel agent. The travel agent detailed how she set up several hotel rooms for KD and his entourage’s hookups. Durant filed a lawsuit against  Lynn Swanson  back in September of last year claiming that as his travel agent, she overcharged him for at least $500,000 for services she provided for him between 2007 and 2012. Swanson didn’t immediately respond to the suit, but she did file a countersuit this past March. In Lynn Swanson’s countersuit, she says she earned every bit of the money in question. She says she earned that money by dealing with all of Durant’s celebrity requests. Lynn Swanson says she fielded Durant’s late-night phone calls, las minute requests that needed to be carried out immediately, and booked hotel accommodations for quite a few of Durant’s lady friends. According to Swanson’s legal documents, on top of setting up KD’s freak...

A body has been recovered by the Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU) of the Nigerian security forces suspected to be the suicide bomber of yesterday’s attack in Nyanya, Abuja. The charred body was recovered with charms and amulets, he must have used for protection, still strapped to his body. Also with him was a photo of a young boy suspected to be his son. The charms and amulets are typical of the type used by members of the terrorist group Boko Haram. Security sources also recovered useful leads with him, including a mobile phone. Eyewitnesses say they saw a red Volkswagen with four men drive into the park yesterday, whom after detonated the bomb also tried to escape before the explosion. Either way, security forces said that the suspected bomber, having conveyed the bomb to its destination, walked away to a location at the bus park where he ostensibly waited for the bomb to explode. Security forces are investigating into how the bomb operation was carried out. Scroll do...

The presence of strange armed men in a forest around Darazo area in Bauchi State has sent fears into residents. This is coming at a time the state Police Commissioner, Mohammed Ladan, said the command had received reports of camping of the men in the forest and that he had detailed security operatives to monitor their activities. The fear of residents over the presence  of the armed men in Darazo forests were  heightened by series of attacks in the state, the latest being the brutal killing of two customs officials yesterday, in Darazo area. Daily Sun gathered that the gunmen ambushed the customs personnel  between Sade and Lanzai towns in Darazo Local Government Area of  Bauchi State, located along Bauchi-Damaturu-Maiduguri federal highway. The victims  were  said to be returning from official assignment in Geidam, Yobe State, when they were attacked. The gunmen  were said to have shot one  of the officials to death and set ablaze his ...

The residence of President- General of Egi Peoples Assembly (EPA), in Ogbogu in Ogba /Egbema /Nodoni Local Government Area of Rivers State,  Chief Oris Onyiri, has been bombed. Two persons died in the attack, which occurred at about 10pm, Wednesday . One of the victims was said to be a relative of Chief Onyiri, popularly called Stainless, while the other was a member of the terror gang, who was shot dead during a gun duel with some security men. Other members of the gang, it was further gathered, escaped  after one of them was killed. Daily Sun  gathered that Chief Onyiri was not at home when the bandits, who  arrived on a motorcycle, came to detonate the explosive, which damaged  part  of a bungalow in his compound. Chief Onyiri, a former secretary of the state’s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the Odili administration, is said to be a supporter of President Goodluck Jonathan. He is also said to be a strong supporter of the stat...

A middle-aged man, who allegedly beheaded a two-year old boy in Ofada village, Owode-Egba in  Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of  Ogun State is  cooling off in police net. According to the state  Police Command, the 37-year-old suspect identified as  ‎Mamodu, is a Nigerien and he allegedly committed the crime shortly before he raped the mother of the boy. Mamodu was said to have committed the crime on Wednesday, while the woman was easing herself in a  bush in the town. According to eyewitness account, the suspect pounced on her with the baby tied to her back and dragged the duo into an uncompleted building. “It was in the building that he raped the woman, stabbed her and killed the boy before he severed his head from his body,” the source said.

The mini-sub searching for missing flight MH370 has reached record depths well beyond its normal operating limits, officials said Friday as it dived on its fifth seabed mission. With no results to show since the Boeing 777 carrying 239 people disappeared on 8 March, Australia's prime minister Tony Abbott has set a one-week deadline to locate the plane which is believed to have crashed in a remote area of the Indian Ocean west of Perth. Searchers have extended the hunt beyond the normal 4 500 metre depth range of the US Navy's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) called Bluefin-21. "The AUV reached a record depth of 4 695 meters during mission four," the US Navy said. "This is the first time the Bluefin-21 has descended to this depth. "Diving to such depths does carry with it some residual risk to the equipment and this is being carefully monitored," a statement said. Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) announced that the mini-sub had...

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil's old guard may hold sway with 73-year-old Marco Polo del Nero confirmed as the man to succeed octagenarian Jose Maria Marin as head of the Brazilian football Confederation. But if the game's hierarchy remains in place pressure to reform the domestic game is mounting from the bottom up via player pressure group Bom Senso (Common sense) FC. The group is pushing hard for a congested fixture list, comprising a packed national and state league program, to be reduced and for financial fair-play of the kind being proposed in Europe to be brought in along with a fixed pre-season break. - Subtle protest - Signs of subtle protest have been deployed, ranging from players standing with arms crossed for 30 seconds after kickoff or staging a mini-sit down or else simply spending the opening minute passing the ball from one half to the other back and forth. The group's determination to be heard has earned them some modest victories to date. They incl...

Juventus will look to a possible slip-up by closest challengers Roma at Fiorentina as the Turin giants begin the countdown to claiming a third consecutive Serie A title. Roma's faint hopes of a first scudetto since 2001 were kept in check on Monday when Juve restored their eight-point lead at the top with a comfortable 2-0 win away at Udinese. Antonio Conte's Juve side would be forgiven for hoping Roma, who on Thursday failed in their bid to reduce a three-match ban handed down to top scorer Mattia Destro, concede defeat away at a Fiorentina side which still has a mathematical chance of challenging third-placed Napoli for the league's final Champions League place. Such a scenario would put Juve, who host Bologna, 11 points ahead with four games remaining, and allow the title party preparations to begin. Roma coach Rudi Garcia, however, has refused to throw in the towel: "We're playing in Florence and on paper it's a difficult match, while Juve look l...

The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied reports its Governors shunned the expanded National Security Council meeting President Goodluck Jonathan called to review the security situation in the country. In a statement issued in Lagos by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party claimed its Governors were given the impression that the meeting had been called off, hence they did not attend. ''On Wednesday, the Presidency called the Chief Detail of the Kwara State Government to say that the meeting has been called off. On the basis of this information, which apparently got to other Governors under the aegis of the APC, our Governors did not attend. ''Now that the meeting has been held, it is incumbent on the Presidency to launch an investigation into the source of the call to the Kwara State Government and what the call was meant to achieve. ''Irrespective of the totally unfounded and absolutely irresponsible allega...

 Able-bodied men from the town of Chibok have taken to the dangerous Sambisa Forest to search for more than 100 abducted girls and young women whom the military claimed to have freed from their extremist kidnappers, an education official said Thursday. Six more have managed to escape their captors on their own, bringing to 20 the number that are free, the education commissioner of Borno state, Musa Inuwo Kubo, told reporters. He spoke at a news conference where parents of the kidnapped students expressed their anguish over a Defense Ministry statement claiming to have freed all but eight of the students by Wednesday night. "The military had really gladdened our hearts. But now we are left in confusion," said Lydia Ibrahim, whose three cousins are among the kidnapped. "These girls are innocent, we plead that government should do all that they can to help us." The Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, had said in a statement late Wednesda...

Governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress on Thursday shunned a meeting called by President Goodluck Jonathan to address the security challenges facing the country. As at the time the meeting started at the First Lady’s Conference Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, at about 2pm, 15 Peoples Democratic Party governors, one All Progressives Grand Alliance governor, one Labour Party governor, two PDP deputy governors and an acting governor were in attendance. The meeting presided over by the President also had Vice President Namadi Sambo; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Pius Anyim; and the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) in attendance. Governors in attendance include: Gabriel Suswan (Benue), Martin Elechi (Ebonyi) Ramalan Yero (Kaduna), Isa Yuguda(Bauchi), Theodore Orji (Abia), Ibrahim Dankwanbo (Gombe), Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Willie Obiano (Anambra) and Idris Wada (Kogi).

A former head of state and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to retract its wild accusation linking him with the Boko Haram terrorist acts, tender an unreserved public apology to him or face a legal action. In a statement he personally signed in Kaduna on Thursday Gen. Buhari said: ”I cannot sit back and allow my image, and that of my political party be smeared by falsehood in the name of politics. ”He said the widely publicized and very serious allegations made against him by the PDP and its spokesman, Olisa Metuh, to the effect that his utterances were responsible for the current state of insecurity and terrorism bedeviling Nigeria, were absolutely without basis ”To support his claim, Mr. Metuh engaged in twisted logic and outright distortion – which he called facts – in which he said that I, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, beckoned on my ‘supporters to go on lynching spre...

The sufferings and death of Jesus, which Christians commemorate on Good Friday, may seem far removed from our everyday lives. After all, it is almost impossible to imagine that anyone reading this essay will ever be crucified. (On the other hand, persecution of Christians continues in many parts of the world even today.) So what can the story of Jesus's crucifixion, as recorded in the Gospels almost 2,000 years ago, teach us about our own lives? One. Physical suffering is part of life. Unlike philosophies or belief systems that suggest that suffering is more or less an illusion, Jesus says this from the cross: suffering is real. As a fully human person, Jesus suffered. On Good Friday, he was beaten, tortured and then nailed to a cross, the most agonizing way the Roman authorities had devised for capital punishment. There, according to the Gospels, he hung for three hours. Victims of crucifixion died either from loss of blood or, more commonly,