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An ousted executive suing a celebrity financial management firm says the company climate was sexist as hell, and not even VIVA GLAM Rihanna™ model Rihanna was safe from their comments, the lawsuit alleges.

Say it ain't so! The financial hits just keep coming for  Tyga  this year. On Monday, it was revealed that  Kylie Jenner 's boyfriend owes the state of California $19,000 in back taxes for the years 2009, 2010, and 2011. Yikes! It's said that the state's even put a tax lien on the  Rack City  rapper. Merp. As we previously reported, this isn't the only monetary hiccup  Blac Chyna 's ex is currently in the middle of. T-Raww's duking it out with his landlord who accuses him of owing $70,000 in unpaid rent. Well that's not gonna help his credit score! However, the reality TV star claims in a separate lawsuit that he's already paid $200,000 toward the purchase of the $8 million Calabasas home that he's renting from the complaint. Bummer. Conveniently, the property in question is located near his lady love's $2.7 million dollar mansion. Well then, we can now understand why he's so stubborn about this residence -- HA! D...

Donald Trump remains the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president — but two candidates have surged after last week's intense CNN debate. Trump is slumping in a new CNN/ORC poll released Sunday. He leads the crowded field with 24% of the Republican vote, down 8 points from a similar survey earlier in the month.  Meanwhile, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) — whom many pundits identified as the two winners of the debate — have jumped a few spots. Fiorina has vaulted into second behind Trump, grabbing 15% of the vote. She had just 3% support in the previous CNN poll earlier this month. Rubio is in fourth place with 11% of the Republican vote, also up from 3%. He's also behind retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who fell to third place amid Fiorina's rise. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) stands in fifth place, with 9% of the vote. He also had 9% in the last CNN poll. Fiorina has risen from virtual ...

In a couple of hours from now, the much anticipated  2face Idibia  All star tribute concert to celebrate his 4th birthday will kick off at Eko Hotels, Victoria island, Lagos. Before the show stars, let’s tell you 5 things to expect from one of the events that’ll possibly contend for the ‘Event of year’ honours.

Greece went to the polls on Sunday, and the first exit polls are projecting a victory for the incumbent Prime Minister and Syriza. The radical left-wing party was catapulted into power in January this year, in opposition to the country's European bailout deals and austerity policies. Eight months later, after months of torturous negotiations, capitulation, the resignation of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and the calling of new snap elections, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is now heading up a pro-bailout party. The anti-bailout hard left of Syriza are running under a separate banner, as a bloc called Popular Unity.  The polls have generally given Syriza a narrow lead, but it's been uncomfortably close to New Democracy, the centre-right party that previously headed up a coalition.  We'll have more as the results come out.

Berkeley professor and economist  Robert Reich argues  in The New York Times that the big tech industry has become too powerful, and suggests that more government intervention is necessary to stop giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon from amassing more power. His argument is utterly wrong, across the board. If you believe Reich, you'd have to argue that almost every other sector in the U.S. economy deserves even  more government intervention. Because, in fact, the tech industry — by which we're actually referring to information technology, not other kinds of "tech" like biotech — has seen more turnover in power in a shorter amount of time than any other U.S. industry.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says she'll roll out a new plan this week to control the cost of prescription drugs. The 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that she often hears complaints about the "skyrocketing" costs of prescription drugs. She added that the proposal is an effort to improve on President Barack Obama's signature national health care law, which she says is working well. Republican presidential candidates want to get rid of the law, which has been upheld by the Supreme Court and survived dozens of votes in Congress to repeal it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says she'll roll out a new plan this week to control the cost of prescription drugs. The 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that she often hears complaints about the "skyrocketing" costs of prescription drugs. She added that the proposal is an effort to improve on President Barack Obama's signature national health care law, which she says is working well. Republican presidential candidates want to get rid of the law, which has been upheld by the Supreme Court and survived dozens of votes in Congress to repeal it.

SIMI VALLEY, California (AP) — Here's a look at how the eleven Republican candidates for president participating in the main-event debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California fared on Wednesday night.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Court records show Caitlyn Jenner has filed paperwork to make her name and gender transition official. The Olympic gold medalist who was born as Bruce Jenner filed a name and gender change petition on Tuesday in Los Angeles. The filing seeks to officially change her name to Caitlyn Marie Jenner and gender to female. The filing says the 65-year-old Jenner is seeking the change to better match her identity. It was released Wednesday so a judge could consider Jenner's request to file portions of the application under seal. Some details in the released petition were redacted after Jenner's attorneys sought to keep certain personal details private, citing concerns about threats made against her. Jenner won a gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Olympics.

On Monday,  Disney  announced that it was developing a new live-action musical adaptation of  Mary Poppins , which immediately sparked debate on which leading lady would play the magical nanny! Mere speculation is fun, but some fans are so serious they're actually placing bets on which actress will snag the role! On Tuesday, Ireland-based online betting firm  BoyleSports  announced that  Anne Hathaway  is the current favorite to take over  Julie Andrews 's famous role, with 6/4 odds! Not bad! Other stars who bettors think would be in the running feature many A-list actresses with vocal talent, like  Emily Blunt (5/2),  Amy Adams  (7/2),  Anna Kendrick  (10/1), and  Kristen Bell  (11/2) -- who already played the nanny in a  FunnyOrDie sketch! Other possible actresses to take the role include  Amanda Seyfried  (12/1),  Gugu Mbatha-Raw  (16/1),  Lea Miche...

The top 11 Republican presidential candidates are set to square off Wednesday night in the second GOP debate of the campaign. With less than 420 days until the election, we took a look at where the GOP's top contenders stand heading into the debate. Our rankings are based on the Real Clear Politics averages of national polls and those in New Hampshire, Iowa, and South Carolina — the three first voting states. We also factored in candidates' momentum (or lack thereof) over the past few weeks. Here's a look at where all the candidates stand.

Lawyers for a convicted murderer in Virginia have asked the Supreme Court to decide whether death row inmatesshould automatically be placed in solitary confinement.  If the Supreme Court agrees takes up the case, it could also examine the broader issue of whether solitary confinement violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.  As New York Times columnist Adam Liptak writes this week, the high court "seems eager" to weigh in on this "distinctively American form of punishment." In 2011, a United Nations expert on torture called for a ban on the practice, but the US still routinely uses it.

New clothes weren't the only thing  Kanye West  debuted during his  Yeezy Season 2  fashion show! On Wednesday, the  All Day  rapper hosted the runway show during New York  Fashion Week  to introduce more of his fashion line with  adidas . But Yeezy also introduced a BRAND NEW song featuring  Ty Dolla $ign  and  Travi$ Scott ! The track is reportedly titled  I Feel Enslaved , and samples the Motown classic  I'm Losing You  by  The Undisputed Truth and  Hardrive 's  Deep Inside ! We're not sure if this is the lead single off Ye's next album, or it could be the new song for his upcoming presidential 

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday in an interview with France 24 that he does not think the country’s currency, the naira, should be devalued again.

Nicki Minaj hosted the MTV EMAs 2014 show at SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow, Scotland and also took home the award for Best Hip-Hop Artist. Photo: Filed Check out the full nominees list for MTV Europe Music Awards 2015, which will hold at the Mediolanum Forum in Milan, Italy, on October 25. Best Song:

President Barack Obama held a town hall on college access and affordability in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, where he took questions from local high school students and their parents. During one impassioned response, he waded into the discussion over political dialogue on college campuses and said students should not be "coddled" from opposing political viewpoints. "I’ve heard of some college campuses where they don’t want to have a guest speaker who is too conservative," Obama said. "Or they don’t want to read a book if it has language that is offensive to African-Americans, or somehow sends a demeaning signal towards women. I don’t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of views."  His statement came in response to a question from a junior at Lincoln High School, who asked the president what he thought about threats from presidential candidates that they would cut governm...

STRASBOURG, France (AP) — For seven decades, the remains of several Holocaust victims were kept in jars and test tubes locked up in a French medical school. On Sunday, they were buried at last. Several hundred people gathered Sunday for a somber ceremony near the eastern French city of Strasbourg to pay respect to the victims, throwing earth on a single coffin holding the collective remains. Led by Strasbourg chief rabbi Rene Gutman and attended by Strasbourg Mayor Roland Ries, the event at the Cronenbourg cemetery was aimed at closing a troubling chapter in the region's history.

Chris Smalling enters Guinness Book of records for scoring the the most Premier League goals by a substitute.Photo: Filed Jose Mourinho ,  Frank Lampard   and  Cristiano Ronaldo  have been honoured in the Guinness World Records book – and so has Manchester United defender,  Chris Smalling . Smalling enters the Guinness World Records book  for the fastest goal in the Premier League by a substitute from kick-off when he netted against Burnley after five minutes nine seconds last season.  He scored again to earn a second record, for the most goals in the Premier League scored by a subtitute in the first half to join the exalted company of Lampard, Mourinho and Ronaldo. Lampard broke Andy Cole’s record for scoring against the most Premier League clubs after netting against Chelsea, the club where he is record goalscorer, for Manchester City last season.

Donald Trump has described his slogan, "Make America Great Again," as the "whole theme" of his presidential campaign. But earlier this week, one of his rivals, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) attacked him for that message with a speech in which he argued the slogan implies the country is "not great." Business Insider asked Trump at his press conference on Thursday whether he means to imply the country is not great now and if he thinks any other country is better. Trump didn't directly answer the question and instead said "our country could be doing much better." He then proceeded to list a litany of issues.

Another American male bowed out of the US Open today, this time in scary fashion. Jack Sock, the hard-hitting 22-year-old who reached the Round of 16 at this year's French Open, collapsed during the middle of the fourth set in his second round match and had to retire. He was leading two sets to love before suddenly slowing his serve down substantially and being unable to run during the third set, which he lost 6-4. At 1-2 down in the fourth set, he started to cramp and then collapsed. While the trainers were attending to him, he looked to be fading in and out of consciousness. He was so exhausted and physically depleted that he couldn't even shake opponent Ruben Bemelmans' hand. The moments when Sock folded (no audio).  #usopen  pic.twitter.com/3H8OtS4sPA — Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg)  September 3, 2015 Sock down.  #usopen   pic.twitter.com/hcDi2UH2bH — Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg)  September 3,...

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, have declared their assets. A statement by the Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu said.. “The documents submitted to the CCB, which officials say are still being vetted and will soon be made public, show that prior to being sworn in on May 29, President Buhari had less than N30 million to his name. He also had only one bank account, with the Union Bank. President Buhari had no foreign account, no factory and no enterprises. He also had no registered company and no oil wells”, the statement said.

A British Army mascot has little to be sheepish about after being promoted for good behaviour. Private Derby XXX, who happens to be a ram is the regimental totem of the 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment. After eight years serving, he was promoted to Lance Corporal in a special ceremony. The ram was presented with […]

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom challenged at the tribunal by Umana Umana Witnesses for Governor Udom Gabriel Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) failed to adequately counter the evidences provided by Umana Umana, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate on the second day of defence by the 1st Respondent before the Akwa Ibom State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja.

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Thursday approved the immediate dissolution of the 23 local government caretaker committees in the state. Similarly, all the secretaries of the councils were relieved of their appointments. This is contained in a statement by the Governor’s spokesman, Malam Imam Imam, made available to NAN in Sokoto. The statement said Directors of Personnel Management in the councils were directed to take over the leadership of their local governments.

Governor Mohammed Abubakar, Bauchi State Governor Muhammad Abubakar of Bauchi State has said that the government will not relent in the sponsorship of pilgrims to the holy land in spite of its lean finances. This was contained in a statement signed by Mr Celestine Ogugua, Head of Media, Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday. Abubakar, according to the statement, said this in Bauchi during a sensitisation visit by the Executive Secretary of NCPC, Mr. John-Kennedy Opara, and his federal commissioners.

Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai The Nigerian Army has pledged to ensure strict compliance to human rights regulations and discharge its duties according to constitutional provisions. The Chief of Civil Military Affairs, Brig.-Gen. Rogers Nicholas, made the assertion on Thursday in Abuja when he visited Prof. Bem Angwe, the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission.

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria Some Nigerian women groups have expressed concern over what they see as the neglect of women in President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent appointment of principal officers. The women raised the concern at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday. The President of Women in Politics Forum (WIPF), Mrs Ebere Ifendu, said that the non-inclusion of women in the appointments so far made by the present administration would hamper the country’s democracy. “We warn that this exclusion of women if not immediately checked, may lead to a situation where the generality of Nigerian women will regard themselves as outsiders in President Buhari’s administration. “We want to sound a note of caution here, that this deliberate policy of ignoring the aspiration of Nigerian women for representation through this outright negligence or non-recognition in the scheme of things will not help the growth and sustenance of the country’s democratic project. “It is foolh...

Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, NNPC, GMD Dr Emmanuel Kachikwu, Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Thrusday said Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) would resume production in November, 2015. He disclosed this during his official visit to the WRPC in Ekpan, near Warri in Delta. Kachikwu, who assumed duty in August 2015, said that the refinery stopped production temporarily to enable the authorities to carry out maintenance on some of its facilities.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis slipped out of the Vatican Thursday for a personal errand: New glasses. Francis arrived at dusk at the Ottica Spiezia on swank Via del Babuino in his Ford Focus, accompanied by his bodyguard and some plainclothes police, witness Daniel Soehe said. Shop owner Alessandro Spiezia told The Associated Press he put new lenses in the pope's existing frames. He said he had made the pope new glasses last year, and that the pope had liked them so much that he asked him to fill a new prescription.

BEIRUT (AP) — Several Lebanese activists launched an open-ended hunger strike on Thursday, demanding the resignation of the environment minister at the center of the country's trash crisis. The activists set up tents outside the Environment Ministry in downtown Beirut. Several supporters joined the 11 hunger strikers Thursday evening. "I want him to feel our pain," 25-year-old protester Salah Jbeili said. "He is responsible for the trash problem. We will fight him, like we will fight all corrupt politicians."

Real-estate developer Donald Trump doubled down on his  recent praise  for Kanye West during a Thursday press conference in which he declared he wouldn't launch a third-party 2016 presidential run. While taking questions on a wide range of topics, the Republican businessman declared that he has nothing but "love" for the sometimes controversial rapper.  "I'll never say bad [things] about him. You know why? Because he loves Trump. He loves Trump. He goes around saying, 'Trump is my all-time hero.' He says it to everybody. So Kanye West — I love him," Trump said. West questionably declared his plans to run for president in 2020 during Sunday's MTV VMA awards. Trump suggested that he might have to compete against West during his reelection campaign. "Now maybe in a few years I'll have to run against him, I don't know. So I'll take that [praise] back," he joked. Trump frequently blasts media figures and his Republi...

NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Bieber is marking a comeback: The singer set a new record on Spotify, besting One Direction. Spotify said Thursday that Bieber's "What Do You Mean" was streamed more than 21 million streams in just five days. The song sets a new record in the U.S. and globally, and surpassed the 20 million streams that One Direction's "Drag Me Down" launched in its debut week. Bieber performed the song at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards and cried after the performance. The 21-year-old said in an interview on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Wednesday that the performance was "so overwhelming for me ... I just wasn't expecting them to support me in the way they did." Bieber will release his new album on Nov. 13.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he has signed a pledge of "allegiance to the Republican Party and the conservative principles for which it stands." The pledge, circulated by the Republican National Committee to GOP candidates, is aimed at boxing in Trump. He hasmultiple times threatened to run as a third-party candidate in the event Republicans do not treat him "fairly" and attempt to push him out of the race. Trump said Thursday that he was satisfied with how he had been treated by the national party thus far.  "The RNC has treated me with great respect," Trump said. The relationship between Trump and the RNC has been fraught since his bombastic entry into the race in mid-June. He has drawn intense scrutiny over his comments on immigration, his remark on the war record of Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), and his feud with Fox News host Megyn Kelly. Trump has said all along that he wants to run...

BEIRUT (AP) — A 3-year-old boy washes ashore on a Turkish beach. Seventy-one migrants suffocate in a truck in Austria. Daily scenes of chaos unfolding in European cities as governments try to halt a human tide heading north. There seems to be no letup to the horrors triggered by Syria's civil war. The images have sparked an international uproar over the human cost of the crisis and spurred calls for serious action to end the country's long-running war. Here's a look at the conflict and what compels Syrians to attempt the treacherous journey to Europe. ___ WHAT ARE THEY ESCAPING? Barrel bombs, chemical weapons attacks, beheadings and starvation — to name just a few. Most of the refugees are driven by an overriding need to escape what has essentially become hell on earth, caught between Syrian President Bashar Assad's ruthless war machine and the Islamic State group's brutality. Many Syrians say most unbearable are the barrel bombs dropped daily on op...

Born into a family with 4 children including 3boys, Annie was the third born. Photo: Annie Idibia Annie Idibia   nee  Annie Macaulay  recently shared a picture of her self and her immediate family. Annie who is currently married to  2face Idibia  got emotional when she posted the picture on her social media page. Reminiscing about happier times she wrote,  ‘Memories… flashes…. joy…. when we were actually complete!’. Born into a family with 4 kids as the only girl, Annie had 3 siblings before she lost her younger brother and last born sibling  Emmanuel Macaulay . See her post below…