Jessica, a Model With Down Syndrome, Proves That Only You Can Define What Beauty Is
When you see somebody else triumph, you often only see the good parts of their journey. Hardly anyone takes into account all the effort that they had to do to get there. Only them and the people that stuck with them through thick and thin truly know just how challenging it can be to truly fight for a dream. And unfortunately, today, this is even truer when it comes to people with disabilities because we still live in a world where canons of beauty are still fairly rigid.
John Isner - Age, Family, Bio
American tennis professional who was ranked singles World No. 9 on March 19, 2012. He achieved his highest doubles ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals in July of 2022, at No. 16. He partnered with Jack Sock among other well-known players to achieve the title.
Before Fame He won the NCCA championship with the University of Georgia in 2007.
Trivia He competed against Nicolas Mahut in the longest tennis match in the history of 2010, clocking in at 11 hours and 5 minutes over three days.
Review: A Family Affair | TIME
Sometimes, and perhaps increasingly, the pleasure of movies lies in the small things. The congenial Netflix romantic comedy A Family Affair, written by newcomer Carrie Solomon and directed by Richard LaGravenese, a veteran director and screenwriter who knows what he’s doing, mines some territory that’s already familiar from a movie released earlier this year: An “older” single mother tumbles into an affair with a much younger man, inviting judgment and ridicule from those around her.
Tinubu Transmits Names Of Supreme Court Justices To Senate For Screening
President Bola Tinubu has transmitted the names of eleven justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria to the Senate for screening and confirmation. Senate President Godswill Akpabio made this known while reading a letter sent to the Senate on the floor of the Red Chamber on Wednesday.
Recall that the National Judicial Council (NJC) recommended the appointment of 11 persons as Justices of the Supreme Court to the President.
The NJC also recommended the appointment of 1 Justice of the Court of Appeal, 6 heads of Court and 26 other judicial officers.
Tom Jones - Age, Family, Bio
Born Thomas Woodward, Jones gained fame for hits such as "It's Not Unusual" and "What's New Pussycat?" He won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1966.
Before Fame When he was twelve, he spent two years listening to music and drawing while bedridden with tuberculosis. One of his first groups was the beat group Tommy Scott and the Senators.
Trivia He has sold over 100 million records and was invited to be one of the judges on the UK's version of The Voice.
Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines For Today, Wednesday, 24th January, 2024
Good morning Nigeria. Welcome to the Naija News roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Wednesday, 24th January 2024. The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on Tuesday, arrived in Nigeria.
Upon arrival in Nigeria through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, the top American official departed for the Aso Rock Villa to meet President Bola Tinubu.
Naija News gathered his plane touched down at about 4.40 pm local time, 35 minutes beyond the expected time of arrival.
Viral Marketing Stunt Goes Viral
Baseball Fans Creeped Out By ‘Smile’ Marketing StuntBy Dan ClarendonPublished Sept. 26 2022, 8:00 p.m. ET
Source: @SNY/TwitterHalloween is more than a month away, but baseball fans still got chills down their spine on Friday, Sept. 26, as actors promoting the new horror movie Smile crashed baseball games across the country, sitting behind home plate and staring fixedly into the camera with a creepy smile on their face.
“Thanks for the 6 months of nightmares,” one person wrote on Twitter, reacting to footage from the marketing stunt.
Youth: Teen-Age Nightclubs | TIME
“There are years more before I can go anyplace fun,” said San Francisco High School Senior Claudia French as she marked her 17th birthday. For many a U.S. teenager, the task of finding nighttime amusement that will meet with the approval of parents and the law is a similarly doleful problem. The nightspots that serve food and nonalcoholic drinks usually lack the entertainment or dance floor that teen-agers look for. Those that have such features usually serve liquor, which is forbidden to the under-21 crowd by law in 47 states* and by the stern disapproval of many parents in all 50 states.
2,500 Hectares Of Land Given Obasanjo By Gbenga Daniel To Be Revoked
The insatiable greed of former President Olusegun Obasanjo was exposed on Thursday as a commission set up by the Ogun State government revealed that he was fraudulently allocated 2,250 hectares of land by the immediate past Governor of the state, Mr. Gbenga Daniel.
That allocation will now be cancelled. Obasanjo, who already owns thousands of hectares of land throughout the state, both developed and undeveloped, was allocated the land by Mr.