Expendable Movie Part 3 Cast Carry #Bringbackourgirls Placard At Cannes

The cast of the hollywood all star action movie Expendables 3 all carried the #bringbackourgirls posters at their film premiere in Cannes Yesterday. From left: Harrison Ford...Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallon and Mel Gibson. 

List Of Top Notable African Women You Should Know

There are always lists of professionals who embody leadership and excellence promoted in mainstream media, bringing prestige, pride and sometimes added scrutiny, especially when minorities are omitted or excluded for whatever reason.

Well, I was more than happy to read a recent list lauding 40 African women leaders on the continent and in the diaspora by The AWP Network, a Web platform and global movement that offers African entrepreneurs business resources, educational tools and community support.

“The AWP Network Power List” includes several leaders who have received global recognition from both mainstream and minority media outlets, but also includes a diverse list of other women who may be under the radar but exemplify excellence in leadership and advocacy. Each serves as inspiration and motivation for all power women on the come up.

Check out a few notables from the list, as detailed by The AWP Network, and be encouraged to push for your own global boss moves as power women on the rise:

Omobola Johnson (Nigeria) Early in the year, AWP Network founder, Mary Olushoga wrote an article asking if African Female Techpreneurs are Lagging Behind? and what should be done to ensure the inclusion and participation of girls in ICT. Honorable Omobola Johnson takes ‘person of the year’ because by the end of the year, she took action and used her very influential position to create programs and policies that will ensure that Nigerian girls become active participants in the ICT sector by launching the ‘SmartWomen Initiative’ and the ’1000 Girls in Training’ program. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>

Photos: Iranian Women Enjoy 'Stealthy' Freedoms By Removing Their Hijabs In Facebook Group

Some Iranian women are posting photos of themselves without the hijab on a new Facebook page launched to share “stealthy” moments of freedom from the veil.

The page – which has accumulated more than 132,000 likes in just a fortnight – features Iranian women joyfully revelling without their headscarves.

It was set up by Masih Alinejad, an Iranian political journalist based in the UK, “My hair was like a hostage to the government. The government still has a lot of hostages.”

Wearing the hijab has been compulsory since the 1979 Revolution and the lack of it is punishable by fines, imprisonment or lashes.

Additionally, Facebook is banned in Iran, though as many as four million Iranians are believed to use it regularly. “No words to say. Just that freedom is wonderfully enjoyable, even a brief moment of it,” reads a caption to one of the photos uploaded. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>>

China To Build New East Africa Railway Line

Regional leaders and visiting Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang attended the signing ceremony

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Construction work on the standard gauge line is expected to start in October this year, and the 610km (380-mile) stretch from the coast to Nairobi is due to be finished in early 2018."The costs of moving our people and our goods... across our borders will fall sharply," Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta told a news conference after the signing also attended by the leaders of China, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan and representatives from Tanzania, Burundi and the African Development Bank. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>>>

Photos: Kim Kardashian's Looks On Her Final Day Of Filming Before Her Wedding

Keeping very casual for her, Kim dressed in a simple look of, no doubt tailor made, grey denim pants with a white shirt and grey heels. As if the tight jeans did not show off the star's fine form, which she has been hard at work perfecting before her May 24 wedding  Kim left her white collar-less shirt half unbuttoned, exposing her impressive cleavage.

Keeping the look simple but expensive, the brunette beauty ported one of her many Hermes bags, this time choosing a black Birkin.

While her outfit was dressed down, Kim made sure to look polished, wearing her hair in voluminous soft curls. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>>>>>>>>>

China Tightens Security In It's Capital Beijing

The police patrols will be stationed at major road junctions in the capital China has deployed armed police patrol vehicles in Beijing after three attacks at transport hubs around the country.

The 150 vehicles are tasked with "countering street terrorism and fighting severe violence", state-run Xinhua news agency said.

Petrol purchases would also be tightened, with buyers required to register with police, reports said.

The move follows station attacks in Kunming, Urumqi and Guangzhou, and comes before the Tiananmen anniversary.

Xinhua said the armed police patrols would be stationed at major road junctions and manned by at least nine police officers and other assistants.

They would cover an area of 3km (1.8 miles) and would be required to respond within three minutes, Xinhua added. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>>>

PHOTOS: Kim & Kanye's West Wedding Invitation

Kim and Kanye's wedding invitation,the wedding is happening on Saturday 24th of May in Paris, France and it's a black-tie event. And now that they are no longer filming the wedding for Kim's reality show, there are reports that Jay Z and Beyonce and many A-list celebs will attend the wedding to honor Kanye. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>

Photos: P.Diddy Bags Doctorate Degree At Howard University

P.Diddy an American singer and rapper, as received an honorary doctorate degree in humanities from Howard University. P.Diddy also delivered a commencement speech at the ceremony in honour of the graduating class of 2014. There was a live viewing, from 9:30 am Est on Diddy’s TV station, Revolt TV during the ceremony. Others recipient of the Doctorate degree include the likes of Wolf Blitzer. Diddy tweeted that he’s done with his speech and needed fans to pray for him. Other celebs like Bow Wow, also tweeted him landing on a jet to lend support for P.diddy as he takes the new life changing step SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>

#BringBackOurGirls Los Angeles: Actress Anne Hathaway Leads Protest

 Oscar winning actress Anne Hathaway On Thursday May 8th took to the streets of Los Angeles to raise awareness for the Bring Back Our Girls cause. She was joined by her husband Adam Shulman and a few others. During the protest, Anne grabbed a megaphone and said..."These Nigerian girls are part of the 5% who are able to seek an education, they were taken from their beds in the middle of the night by cowards, cowards who tell them that girls do not deserve an education. Do we agree with these cowards?" she asked the crowd, then yelled, "What do you want?" the crowd replied "Our girls" SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>

Photos: Kim Kardashian's Bridal Shower

Kim Kardashian's Paris themed bridal shower held on Saturday May 10th at the Peninsula hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The bride-to-be looked stunning in a strapless white dress. Rachel Roy, Ciara, many of her close friends and family members attended the bridal shower which was filmed for Keeping Up With The Kardashians SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>

Photos: #BringBackOurGirls Multi-Cultural & Multi-Lingual Campaign Holds In Germany

#BringBackOurGirls Multi-Cultural & Multi-Lingual solidarity campaign was held at the University of Bayreuth,Germany on the 7^th of May 2014. The solidarity campaign was conducted to press home demands for the release of the over 200 Nigerian girls adopted by the terrorist group, Boko Haram. The campaign which included a prominent Professor of Anglophone literature, Professor Susan Arndt, Fellows and students across disciplines had the Bring-Back-Our-Girls message translated into different languages to further drive home the point. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>>

Things You Must Know About Canada Before Traveling

if you’re planning to travel to canada for any other reason, here are a few more things to know 

1) Canada is not a U.S. state. It’s a state of mind.

2) Ambient temperatures have no discernible effect on the customer service, which is quite good.

3) Canadians that have made great contributions to American culture include Frank Gehry, Kim Cattrall and Tommy Chong. 

4) Bryan Adams? Celine Dion? Shania Twain? Blame Canada.

5) Like us, Canadians love guns. But they are too polite to use them at work.

6) If you’re lucky, you may catch a glimpse of a Canadian national animal, the majestic ... beaver. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>>>>>

South Africa & China Set To Build Science And Tech Park

 South Africa and China are in talks for the establishment of a joint science and technology industrial park that will stimulate high-tech manufacturing industries in the former’s economy. China’s deputy Ambassador to South Africa, Yang Yirui said the issue was discussed between China’s Science and Technology Minister Wan Gang and his South African counterpart, Derek Hanekom in February while the former attended the first meeting of BRICS (an acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) science and technology ministers. Hundreds of such parks has been built by China, including the Zhongguancun China Science Park (ZCSP) to provide industries in specific sectors with top-rate facilities and government concessions to foster innovations. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>

Rihanna Has Never Looked This Pretty In Pink

See exclusive pictures of award winner/ R&B Singer Rihanna below, One thing with Rihanna is, she can switch up her looks and make us forget the day before, she was literally naked.. She has been slaying the red carpets in body baring outfits but decided to give us a break and rock this really pretty dress to the show.She paired her dress with Dior shoes & bag.. This is one of her prettiest looks this year.. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>

Why Nigeria's In Diaspora Won’t Return Home

There has been an enormous increase of U.S immigrants going back to their native countries to start up their own businesses. It is safe to say over the past decade the countries grouped in the BRICS have been fortunate to receive a brain-gain, as many of their best and brightest have seen their own countries as land of opportunities.

On one of my social media networks I spotted a comment that said “By the time Africans get featured in an article like this the gold rush will be over.” Of course you can easily interpret this statement in several ways but it spoke volumes about how Africans tend to always be last in everything.

The Political Climate: The political climate in Nigeria is one of the number top reasons why the Nigerian Diaspora refuse to go back to Nigeria. Despite a democratic society, the political system is still full of corruption and lack of transparency.

If we compare our political history to a developing country such as Malaysia you will see some similarity as both countries received independence two years apart from each other from British rule. Even in the 1960’s Nigeria was ahead of Malaysia economically wise and had vast more natural resources. If we compare both countries as of today, Malaysia has been able to pull ahead in terms of development. In Malaysia, a person can literally start a business in less of week versus Nigeria which is 30 plus days. Interestingly enough there is an increasing Nigerian base in Malaysia. In other countries hard work can actually turn into a successful business like Chris Aire who has created a jewelry empire or Kase Lawal a well known business man in the oil sector. In Nigeria there are many businesses thriving based off their own work, but as well just as many growing because of ties these companies have with the government. SEE MORE REASONS AFTER CUT>>>>>>>>

Etisalat To Sell West African Subsidiary For $650m

UAE-based telecom giant, Etisalat has agreed to sell its West African subsidiary, Atlantique Telecoms, to its Moroccan affiliate, Maroc Telecoms for $650 million.

Etisalat believes the deal with allow it gain expert knowledge in the region – an area Maroc has done particularly well in. Maroc’s operations within the francophone region extends more than 5 countries, including Gabon, Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso are providing healthy returns, posting a combined 9.5 percent revenue increase.

“Maroc Telecom has done pretty well with its own operations in sub-Saharan Africa, so Etisalat’s thinking seem to be that it should take advantage of Maroc Telecom’s demonstrable expertise in that region,” said Matthew Reed, an analyst at Dubai-based Informa Telecoms and Media. Atlantique Telecoms, which controls interest in Senegal, CAR, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Togo, Niger and Benin, has not performed so well, returning lean profit margins for the UAE-based Etisalat. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>>>

Parent Shares Horrific Conditions On Flight Where Sixty Children From Welsh Choir Fell ill On Emirates From Dubai

A parent of one of the sixty children struck down with a gastric bug on the return leg of a trip from their choir's trip to South Africa said the youngsters 'went down like nine pins'. The group from the Only Kids Aloud Chorus from Cardiff, Wales were on their way home from Cape Town after performing with opera singer Bryn Terfer (inset) when they boarded Airbus A380 super jumbo in Dubai. Soon after taking off on the seven-hour long flight, the first of the children started falling ill. The aircraft, equipped with 17 toilets, was greeted in Heathrow by a fleet of ambulances to treat the stricken youngsters.

Crew on the Airbus A380 alerted emergency services after several of the youngsters, aged ten to 14, began vomiting during the seven-hour final leg of their flight home from South Africa, via Dubai. Four ambulances and a ‘hazardous area response team’ trained to provide life-saving medical care following natural disasters or industrial accidents – were sent to meet the flight.

Hybrid Helicopter Plane Is Battery Powered & Doesn't Need A Runway It Takes Off Vertically

Powering down a runway in an aeroplane could be a thing of the past - for the rich and famous at least - if this concept for a personal aircraft takes off.

A team of engineers who specialise in the design of wind-energy turbines have designed a small electric aeroplane that can take off vertically.

Its lift off would be similar to a helicopter’s, but once airborne, the S2 aircraft’s 12 rotor blade motors fold up so it can glide along like a conventional plane. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>>

#BringBackOurGirls: What You Must Know About the Nigerian Terrorist

Here is what have to know, and how you can help, firstly Heavily armed terrorists have abducted more than 200 teenage girls from the boarding school dormitory where they slept.

What happened?

On April 15, terrorist organization Boko Haram, an Islamist terrorist group, drove into the town of Chibok, a small farming town in northeastern Nigeria, and made their way to the girls' boarding school. The girls, ages 15 to 18, were inside their dormitory. They awoke to gunfire, their school ablaze. The militants, reportedly dressed in Nigerian military uniforms, herded the terrified girls into their vehicles, telling them they would be taken to safety. Instead, they vanished. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>

#BringBackOurGirls Protest Held In New York City

#BringBackOurGirls Protest Held In New York City On May 3, some crowd of people gathered at Union Square in New York City in solidarity of the 234 Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram over two weeks ago. Wearing African head wraps, they chanted and prayed for not only the girls, but also for their families. SEE MORE AFTER CUT>>>>>