Tuesday
09:33
Friday
Ifebunso Harrison popularly known as Clyde, a student of Pharmacy Madonna University, Elele. An indigen of Anambra state, born and bred in Benin is out with another hit track.
The '16 bars' artist started music in the year 2007 and has done a lot of hip hop tracks of which 'I gat it' is not an exception. Download and enjoy.
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Wednesday
03:47
Festus Oriaku
Java, Programming
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4 Reasons Why Java is Still #1
It’s the start of 2016, which means that we’ve now finished the “20 Years of Java” celebrations. Actually, although the announcement about Java (and the HotJava browser, which did not enjoy quite the same success) was made publicly on May 23rd, 1995, the first official release of the JDK was on January 23rd, 1996. You could justifiably claim that Java is only now turning twenty. There have been numerous retrospectives on Java, but I thought what would be interesting to look at is the success of Java in its twentieth year.
Simon Ritter @speakjava
It’s difficult to accurately measure the popularity of programming languages, but one of the generally accepted surveys is theTIOBE index. This tracks language references through a variety of search engines as well as Google Blogs, Wikipedia and even YouTube. (In writing this entry I learnt something new, which is that TIOBE is actually an acronym for “The Importance Of Being Ernest,” the play by Oscar Wilde. Not sure what that has to do wiith programming languages, but there you go.).
- 03:44
- Festus Oriaku
- Facts, Girls
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1. Girls don’t enjoy talking dirty as much guys do.
2. Girls hate it when guys say perverted things.
3. Girls are more talkative in nature than guys.
- 02:03
- Unknown
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Sunday
- 13:51
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The whirlwind romance between Mariah Carey and James Packer just got serious.
The Australian billionaire is said to have proposed to the American singer, seven months after they were first seen cozying up on a holiday in Italy.
"A close friend of Mr. Packer confirmed the couple were engaged and said they were over the moon that James has found such happiness with Mariah," a source told CNN.
- 12:35
- Unknown
- BET, Cosby, Stacey Dash
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To many, Stacey Dash is best remembered for her role in the 1995 hit film "Clueless" and appearances on "The Cosby Show," "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and BET's "The Game."
Or, so it was until this week, when Dash appeared on "Fox & Friends" to discuss the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee said they will boycott the award show to protest the lack of diversity among nominees.
Dash, a Fox News contributor since 2014, called the boycott "ludicrous" and said it implied there was no need for Black History Month or the BET network.
"We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration, and if we don't want segregation, then we have to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black," Dash said. "If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms. It's a double standard."
- 11:54
- Unknown
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Ever taken out cash from an ATM machine and gotten socked with a $3 fee (or worse)? You probably weren't thrilled about that.
Saturday
- 13:59
- Unknown
- Celine Dion
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The Canadian singer suffers another family tragedy as it's confirmed her older brother Daniel has died of cancer.
19:16, UK,
Saturday 16 January 2016
Dion's older brother Daniel Dion, 59, passed away a day after it was revealed he had just days to live.
He was one of the Canadian singer's 13 siblings.
Dion's husband and manager Rene Angelil died on Thursday, the day before his 74th birthday, after a long battle with throat cancer.
The 73-year-old, who passed away at his suburban Las Vegas home, will be laid to rest on 22 January at the same cathedral where the couple married.
A post on Dion's official website read: "According to his final wishes, his funeral will be held at Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, where 21 years ago he chose to marry the one who will remain as the great love of his life, the artist for which he had the most respect, the woman who gave him light and happiness until his very last breath."
Dion, 47, and Angelil had three children together - Rene-Charles, who was born in 2001 and twins Nelson and Eddy, who were born in 2010.
The couple, who were 26 years apart in age, got married in an elaborate ceremony in 1994 at Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal.
Angelil stepped down as his wife's manager in 2014, turning her career over to a friend of the couple.
However, he remained involved in business decisions.
Dion has won a number of Grammy awards during her successful career, including for the Titanic theme My Heart Will Go On.
- 13:52
- Unknown
- Hotel
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Burkina Faso's government says 26 people were killed and a further 56 injured after Islamist militants attacked a hotel in the capital, Ouagadougou, popular with foreigners.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has said it carried out the attack, which began on Friday night.
Wednesday
- 12:22
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(The Hollywood Reporter)Adam Sandler and "Fifty Shades of Grey" lead the nominations for the season's most unwanted awards and are looking strong favorites to pick a few Razzies with multiple noms.
- 12:21
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It was unlike any State of the Union address that President Obama has delivered before. Instead of a laundry list of legislative goals, this speech was about defending his achievements and articulating what he wants his legacy to be.
That, of course, was a highly political task and there were plenty of thinly veiled attacks on his Republican opponents and Donald Trump in particular - although he was never mentioned by name.
But near the end of the speech, Mr Obama also spoke about Washington's hyperpartisan politics - and took some personal blame for the division and dysfunction it has led to.
"It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancour and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better," he said.
"There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office."
This was the hopeful Obama of 2008, tempered by the realities of two terms in the White House.
The candidate who promised to break down the barriers between red states and blue states has found it is harder to make purple than he thought.
And perhaps that moment of candour was contagious. Moments after the speech ended I spoke with Republican congressman Luke Messer of Indiana.
Yes, he dismissed the president's vision of today's US as a "great Jedi mind trick" played on the American people. But he also accepted that his party's rhetoric often did not help lead to solutions either.
As Stu Rothenburg, joining me in the BBC's Washington studio for post-speech analysis, put it, the admission was both rare and revealing. How long it lasts is another matter.
- 11:55
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For years, fans have worried that Leonardo DiCaprio is on track to become the Susan Lucci of the Academy Awards.
Lucci, the beloved star of the now-canceled soap "All My Children," endured 19 consecutive Daytime Emmy nominations for best actress before finally winning in 1999.
- 11:40
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A photographer has created images that place some of Star Wars' best-loved characters on oil rigs parked up in the Cromarty Firth in the Highlands.
Glasgow-based photographer Craig Mann, whose work usually features landscapes from around the world, used Photoshop to make the pictures.
- 11:27
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The US director of national intelligence has had several of his personal online accounts hacked, his office has confirmed.
A spokesman said the matter had been "reported to the appropriate authorities", but declined to say more.
As director of national intelligence, James Clapper serves as a key adviser to the US president on security matters including cyberthreats.
It follows a similar cyber-attack on the CIA's director in October.
The Motherboard news site reported on Tuesday that it had been contacted by a young hacker who had claimed responsibility.
Motherboard reported the teenager had said he was part of the same group - Crackas With Attitude (CWA) - behind the earlier breach.
Calls rerouted
The youth said he had broken into Mr Clapper's personal email, his Verizon phone and internet account settings and a Yahoo email account belonging to Mr Clapper's wife.
The BBC understands that Mr Clapper's office has only seen evidence that the hacker actually accessed Sue Clapper's email and the couple's family phone number.
- 11:24
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Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page has become a troll battleground after he posted a photo that endorses the use of vaccines in young children.
The Facebook (FB, Tech30) CEO, who is enjoying two months of paternity leave following the birth of his daughter, Maxima, recently posted a father-and-daughter photo from the doctor's office.
"Doctor's visit -- time for vaccines!" the caption on the photo reads.
It's not clear whether Zuckerberg intended to stake out a position on one of the Internet's favorite conspiracy theories, but he succeeded in sparking a major debate.
The post has generated more than 77,000 comments, many from anti-vaxxers who wrongly argue that vaccines increase the risk of autism and other health-related issues.
"Injecting newborns and infants with disease and neurotoxins is disgusting science that injures millions every year," said a Facebook user named Meredith Allyson Gibney. "Shame on all of you and your souls."
The recurrent myth about a link between vaccines and autism, propagated by a small but vocal group of anti-vaccine activists, grew out of a now discredited study from 1998 that was published in a British medical journal by a doctor who was later stripped of his license.
Other comments reflected views more grounded in medical science.
"As someone with autism, with a son with autism, as someone who is constantly watching good people put their own children at serious risk because of old, fraudulent fears of vaccines and autism... thank you for being sensible," said Facebook user Stuart Duncan. "Thank you for doing what's right."
Zuckerberg previously addressed vaccines in a post about one of the works selected for his book club.
"Vaccination is an important and timely topic. The science is completely clear: vaccinations work and are important for the health of everyone in our community," he said.
Monday
- 16:55
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Charlotte Heffelmire is being celebrated as a hero after she lifted a pick-up truck off her dad - and saved her family from a dangerous fire.
Dad Eric was working in the family garage on a GMC pick-up truck when the jack propping up the car slipped and pinned him to the ground, with leaking petrol instantly catching fire.
- 16:49
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Al Qaeda has warned Saudi Arabia it will pay for the executions of dozens of its members, saying they were intended to be a new year's gift to Riyadh's Western allies aimed at consolidating the rule of the Saudi dynasty.
Though it was the killing of a Shi-ite cleric in the Jan. 2 mass execution which sparked a crisis between Saudi Arabia and its regional rival Iran, most of the 47 executed were al Qaeda militants convicted of bombings and gun attacks in the kingdom.
- 16:42
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Singer David Bowie, one of the most influential musicians of his era, has died of cancer at the age of 69.
A statement was issued on his social media accounts, saying he "died peacefully, surrounded by his family" after an "18-month battle with cancer".
Tributes have been paid from around the world to the "extraordinary artist" whose last album was released days ago.
Sir Paul McCartney described him as a "great star" who "played a very strong part in British musical history".
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