Meet Queen Joy Ebhodaghe, Nigeria's Rep at The Miss globe 2020 World Finals

Queen Ebhodaghe Joy is currently representing Nigeria at the 46th edition of The Miss Globe pageant in Tirana, Albania.

The Edo state born model emerged 3rd runner up at the 13th edition of the prestigious Beauty of Africa International pageant(BAIP) held in Calabar 2019. And was crowned Baip Globe Nigeria 2019/2020

As The Miss Globe Nigeria 2020, Joy will be hoping to win the highly reffered pageant title that has 47 delegates from other countries.

The grand finale is set to take off on Tuesday, 12th November, 2020. Virtual voting is open on the competition website and Joy will be hoping to get all the support that will help her win the title.

#missnigeria

Meet Queen Joy Ebhodaghe, Nigeria's Rep at The Miss globe 2020 World Finals

Queen Ebhodaghe Joy is currently representing Nigeria at the 46th edition of The Miss Globe pageant in Tirana, Albania.

The Edo state born model emerged 3rd runner up at the 13th edition of the prestigious Beauty of Africa International pageant(BAIP) held in Calabar 2019. And was crowned Baip Globe Nigeria 2019/2020

As The Miss Globe Nigeria 2020, Joy will be hoping to win the highly reffered pageant title that has 47 delegates from other countries.

The grand finale is set to take off on Tuesday, 12th November, 2020. Virtual voting is open on the competition website and Joy will be hoping to get all the support that will help her win the title.

#missnigeria

US Election 2020: Protests Rock New York, Portland And Other Cities

Protesters have marched through the streets of several American cities in response to President Donald Trump’s ‘aggressive’ moves to challenge the outcome of the US presidential election.

In Minneapolis, New York, protesters blocked a freeway, prompting arrests.

In Portland, a large crowd gathered on the waterfront to protest Trump’s attempted interventions in the votes currently being counted.

About 150 pro-Trump protesters, some of them armed in Phoenix gathered outside the county recorder’s office where a closely watched count of votes that could help determine the outcome of the election was being conducted, New York Times reports.

Also some suspected supporters of the United States President, Donald Trump, said to be armed, protested at Maricopa County Election Department, Arizona, saying that Adrian Fontes, the county official who oversees elections in Maricopa County, was improperly failing to count some ballots, thereby, costing costing Trump votes in Arizona
.

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Ike Onyema To Release A Tell-All Book On Relationship With Mercy Eke

Big Brother Naija star Ike Onyema says he would be releasing a book on his relationship with his seemingly estranged girlfriend Mercy Eke.

Ike, according to his Instagram post on Thursday, revealed this to Pulse following rumour Mercy had tied the knots with another man.

“This is incorrect. I have a tell-all book coming soon. Please be patient,” he said.

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It was reported that Mercy had on November 3 via Snapchat hinted at her engagement to a mystery man known as Mr H.

“Good morning from Mrs H,” she wrote.

Ike and Mercy became lovers on the Big Brother Naija season four edition in 2019.

#ike #mercy #bbnaija

Taraba University ASUU Organises Prayer Session Over Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Taraba State University Chapter, on Wednesday, organised prayer sessions for God’s intervention over the prolonged nationwide strike and their internal issues.

Tribune Online reports that Christian and Muslim members of the union held prayer sessions at different venues at the same time crying to God for intervention.

Mr Mbave Garba, the former Vice Chairman of the union told Journalists at the end of the sessions that what was happening to public universities in the country was not ordinary, hence the need to turn to God.

“We have no other choice at this point than to turn to God for intervention because we have exhausted all other means to resolve the issues in vein.

“Apart from the nationwide strike action over IPPIS and other issues, we have serious internal matters with the management and with funding of the university.

“Our members have gone two months without salary and without any explanation for such action from the Taraba government and university management,” he said.

Garba prayed to God to touch the hearts of all the individuals and groups that are responsible for the amicable resolution of these issues so as to bring sanity into the system.

#nairaland

Biodun Stephen Feeds 250 Children In Remembrance Of Late Mother (Photos videos)

Nollywood actress Biodun Stephen says she would be feeding 250 children in honour of her mother Ibironke who died on November 5, 2000.

Igbere TV reports that the mother of one on Thursday shared a video of food packs on her Instastories saying, “Happy to be able to feed 250 kids today in honor of our Mother.”



Biodun also shared a picture of herself and mother and penned a lengthy note on her Instagram page.

She wrote, “I think this was our last picture. Not sure. Thank you for prepping me… for life’s hustle. Those days you would strap the money across my stomach and send me to the factory to buy products.”

“It’s been 20 years… so much water has crossed the bridge but today I say; THANK YOU MUMMY FOR PREPPING ME FOR LIFE AFTER YOU.”

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Biodun had on November 3 shared a picture of her mother, narrating how she died.

“I remember that Sunday, 6:45 am 5th November 2000. I didn’t think it would be our last. Barely 15 minutes later you were gone,” she wrote.

“Hit by a driver so drunk, he didn’t know aside injuring 5 others, he killed one… You. We would only find out you had been killed 36hours later.”

#nairaland

Abia State University ABSU , Demands N15,000 "Pandemic Prevention Fee" From Students

which kind wahala be this?

Why Government always looking for a way to extort the ordinary citizens. what is pandemic prevention fee of 15k, for each students of Abia State University?, When their parents and guardians have not been paid their salaries and pensions.

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Obasanjo Reveals Why Atiku’s And Ekwueme Alliance In 2003 collapsed

Ex-President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said the alliance of his former deputy, Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, with the late Alex Ekwueme, during the 2003 presidential primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), collapsed after Ekwueme lost at the poll.

Obasanjo revealed this on Thursday at the public presentation of ‘Amazing Grace’, a biography of former Oyo State Governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, in Ibadan, Oyo state.

He was correcting a part in the book, where the author claimed Atiku backed down before the primary poll.

“Again, Atiku did not back down as you claimed until Alex Ekwueme was defeated at the primary of PDP in 2003.

“Atiku’s agreement with Ekwueme was to be Ekwueme’s running mate and Ekwueme, as President, spending three years and resigning for Atiku to complete the fourth year and then for Atiku to contest election in his own right in 2007.

“It was after the result of the primary that Atiku backed down, if you put it that way, it was when there was no other choice,” Obasanjo said.

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AU Chair, Ramaphosa, Thanks WTO For Transparent Process. Okonjo-Iweala Reacts

South African President & Chairperson of the African Union 2020, Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa has congratulated members of the World Trade Organisation on the peaceful and transparent process leading to the nomination of its new Director-General, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Biden Inches Nearer To Victory As Trump Launches Lawsuit Blitz To Slow Him Down

Democrat Joe Biden inched nearer to victory on Thursday over Donald Trump in an exceedingly close U.S. election that hinged on razor-thin margins in a handful of states, while the Republican president launched a flurry of lawsuits hoping to slow down his opponent.

Tensions rose in some places as the ballot counting dragged on two days after polls closed, with a second day of sometimes dueling street demonstrations over the integrity of the election.

Biden, the former U.S. vice president, was continuing to cut into Trump’s leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia while holding on to slim margins in Nevada and Arizona.

Trump, who during the long and rancorous campaign attacked the integrity of the U.S. voting system, has again alleged voting fraud without providing evidence, filed lawsuits and called for at least one state recount.

The latest move by Trump’s campaign was a lawsuit to be announced later on Thursday alleging voting fraud in Nevada, another of the crucial states where he narrowly trails Biden.

Some legal experts called the challenges a long shot unlikely to affect the eventual outcome of the election, one of the most unusual presidential races in modern U.S. history due to the coronavirus pandemic. Concern about the virus caused a huge jump in people voting by mail, delaying the results.

Still, Biden was leading in Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona and closing in on Trump in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

Multiple Trump lawsuits and a recount request would have to succeed and find in some cases tens of thousands of invalid ballots to reverse the result if Biden does prevail.

“What we are seeing on these legal suits are that they are meritless, and nothing more than an attempt to distract and delay what is now inevitable: Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States,” Biden’s campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon told reporters.

Trump’s campaign predicted victory, with campaign manager Bill Stepien saying, “Donald Trump is alive and well” in the election.

Some of the outstanding votes in Georgia and Pennsylvania were clustered in places expected to lean Democratic - like the Atlanta and Philadelphia areas.

In Georgia, officials expressed hope that they would have a resolution in their vote count by the end of Thursday. Trump’s eroding lead stood at around 14,000, with about 2 percent of the ballots remaining to be tallied. Trump’s lead was about 115,000 votes in Pennsylvania, with about 8 percent of the ballots left to be counted.

Trump has to win the states where he is still ahead, including North Carolina, plus either Arizona or Nevada to triumph and avoid becoming the first incumbent U.S. president to lose a re-election bid since fellow Republican George H.W. Bush in 1992.

The president appears to have grown more upset as his leads in some states have diminished or evaporated during the counting. On Thursday morning, he weighed in on Twitter, writing, “STOP THE COUNT!” and “STOP THE FRAUD!” although he has no authority over ballot counting.

Trump, who has often relished legal battles during his long, turbulent, business career, was at the White House, working the phones and monitoring developments on television, two Trump advisers said.

He has been talking to state governors as well as close friends and advisers and dispatched some of this closest advisers out in the field to fight for him.

To capture the White House, a candidate must amass at least 270 votes in the state-by-state Electoral College. Such electoral votes are based largely on a state’s population. Edison Research gave Biden a 243 to 213 lead in Electoral College votes. Other news outlets said Biden had won Wisconsin, which would give him another 10 votes.

The exceedingly close election has underscored the political polarization in the United States and the deep divisions along racial, socioeconomic, religious and generational lines as well as between urban and rural areas.

The counting and court challenges set the stage for days if not weeks of uncertainty before Dec. 8, the deadline to resolve election disputes. The president is sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2021.

RAZOR-THIN MARGINS

Trump’s campaign called for a recount in Wisconsin, where Biden led by roughly 21,000 votes out of 3.3 million cast, a margin slim enough to entitle him to a recount. However elections experts said a recount in Wisconsin was seen as unlikely to alter the result.

Trump’s campaign announced plans to file a Nevada lawsuit alleging a series of voting irregularities in populous Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, such as voting by people who left the state or were dead.

His campaign also filed lawsuits in Michigan and Pennsylvania to stop vote counting. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, in charge of elections, called the Trump team’s lawsuit “frivolous.”

Trump’s campaign filed a lawsuit in Georgia to require that Chatham County, which includes the city of Savannah, separate and secure late-arriving ballots to ensure they are not counted.

It also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow Trump to join a pending lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania Republicans over whether the battleground state should be permitted to accept late-arriving ballots that were mailed by Election Day.

Despite Trump’s allegations of fraud and an unsubstantiated charge that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election, U.S. election experts say fraud in balloting is rare.

Thursday marked a second day of peaceful election-related protests as demonstrators rallied in cities including Philadelphia, Washington, Phoenix and Detroit. Some groups, mainly Democrats, rallied around the slogan to “count every vote.”

Some Trump supporters countered with cries to “protect the vote” in support of his campaign’s efforts to have some categories of ballots, including some votes submitted by mail, discarded.

About 200 Trump supporters, some armed with rifles and handguns, gathered outside an election office in Phoenix on Wednesday following unsubstantiated rumors that votes were not being counted.

Biden had drawn about 3.6 million more votes than Trump nationwide. Trump defeated Democrat Clinton in 2016 after winning crucial battleground states and securing the Electoral College win even though she won about 3 million more votes nationwide.

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