Halsey’s personal life that keeps her making headlines

She may have reached mainstream success with her hit single “Closer,” but it seems to be singer Halsey’s personal life that keeps her making headlines. She has dished on everything from her miscarriage to feeling like a black woman trapped in a white woman’s body.

Halsey’s biracial — her father is black and her mother is white. Of her genetics, she says this:

NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR SATURDAY 19 AUGUST 2017

THE GUARDIAN
Lagos court remands woman, 11 others over Ikeja ‘Ile-Zik’ kidnappers’ den

‘I've been to London to see the King’

My mother’s shoes are too large to fill, i am carving my own path - Sonia Irabor

UN urges parties in conflicts to desist from war crimes

Injury may stop Iheanacho from Eagles’ squad

British TV star Bruce Forsyth dies aged 89

Chinese crime writer arrested for murders 22 years ago

Ibadan to have 32 Obas, as Olubadan remains paramount ruler

Fayose cautions FG over plan to make hate speech treasonable

End Of The Road For Criminal DSS Officer in Enugu

Today was the End of the Road for a Sacked DSS Officer who turned to Crime. Through an intelligence information and coordinated operation by the operatives of the Anti Cultism Unit of the Enugu state command of the Nigeria Police Force arrested One Emmanuel Ogbonna who claimed to hail from Okpanam Delta state, Odo  Chinedu of Aguabo Enugu with Sixteen Bags of  weeds suspected to be indiam hemp.

10 Newpaper Headlines You Need To Know This Morning

Good Morning! The Headlines you need to know this morning.

1. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta on Sunday accused some leaders of the Pan Niger Delta Forum including Chief Edwin Clark and HRH, King Alfred Diete-Spiff, of using the forum to seek political relevance and bounce back to life financially.

MEND, which also announced its withdrawal as a member of PANDEF, a forum of various ethnic nationality leaders in the Niger Delta, said it was “annoying working with pretenders who conspired to keep silent when Goodluck Jonathan wasted the opportunity of the region.”

ENUGU CP WARN AGAINST EXTORTION OF MOTORISTS

The Enugu state commissioner of police Danmallam Mohammed has reiterated his earlier warning of personnel on stop  and search points as well as other duty post against extortion,intimidation/harassment as well as unprofessional use of fire arms against members of the public contrary to the Force order on the use of Fire Arms.

According to Danmallam,any police officer who engages in all manners of extortion as well as other unprofessional conduct which the Force frowns at,will be dealt with in accordance with the relevant rules and regulations guiding the Force and  therefore reminded officers and men on the need to shun those conduct capable of bringing the image of the Force to disrepute.

Nigeria's Dangerous NGO Regulation Bill

Nigeria’s House of Representatives is presently considering what perhaps qualifies as the most dangerous piece of legislation to come before the National Assembly since the return of civilian rule in 1999. It is the NGO Regulation Bill sponsored by the Deputy Majority Leader of the House, Hon. Umar Buba Jibril. The Bill is stunning in its audacity, far reaching in its scope and a danger to elective government in Nigeria. It should not be allowed to pass.

Biafra: Boycott Or Not, Winner Will Be Declared in Anambra Election - INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has stated that whether people boycott elections or not, winners must emerge in any scheduled election.

How to Book Cheap Flight Ticket

Booking travel is so easy to do, yet all too often we wind up spending more than we wanted. 

Thank fee-happy airlines for that— there's no limit to what they'll charge for, from meals to checked bags and flimsy pillows. 

According to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, airlines made $4.2 billion in baggage fees alone in 2016.  

With summer travel season in full swing, we've rounded up the best money-saving tips out there.

Nigerian Newspaper Headline News For Today, Tuesday 18/07/2017

PUNCH

Pressure mounts on PDP to sanction Sheriff, others
Terrorism became bigger under Jonathan, Presidency replies Dasuki
How Diezani, others diverted NNPC’s $1.8bn –FG
WASSCE results out, 59% pass Mathematics, English
I covered my husband’s mouth with pillow while assassin stabbed him to death – Wife
LASG stops vacation teaching over fear of kidnappers
Shameful! Suicide is still a crime in Nigeria

Strong Igbo Women: The Aba Women's Riot

The "riots" or the war, led by women in the provinces of Calabar and Owerri in southeastern Nigeria in November and December of 1929, became known as the "Aba Women's Riots of 1929" in British colonial history, or as the "Women's War" in Igbo history. 

Thousands of Igbo women organized a massive revolt against the policies imposed by British colonial administrators in southeastern Nigeria, touching off the most serious challenge to British rule in the history of the colony.  The "Women's War" took months for the government to suppress and became a historic example of feminist and anti-colonial protest.