Emmanuelle Chriqui and Adrian Bellani are developing a movie version of Christine Brae’s recently published romance-drama “In This Life,” Variety has learned exclusively. “In This Life” is a complex love triangle that develops between a headstrong young doctor and the two men in her life as the doctor spends a few weeks in Thailand, taking on other people’s problems while getting away from her own.
- Samuel Ragira is said to have been shot by goons he had been fighting on social media - Prior to his death, he had claimed Mungiki goons were terrorising students and traders at Klabuu Market - Rangira claimed they were demanding traders pay KSh 10,000 each in exchange for stalls Family of slain ex-University of Nairobi students' leader Samuel Ragira has urged the government to speed up investigations and bring to book his killers.
Updated: August 11, 2016 4:42 PM [ET] | Originally published: August 11, 2016 2:59 PM EDT; A child fell off a roller coaster at Idlewild Park & SoakZone in Pennsylvania on Thursday, Westmoreland County officials said. The child, whose name and gender have not been released, was flown to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh with unknown injuries, a Westmoreland Public Safety spokeswoman told TIME. The incident took place at 12:18 p.m. and the child’s immediate family was there at the park.
The Nigerian movie industry, Nollywood, has lost two talented people, actor Romanus Uchenna Amuta and costumer Lizzy Ogbodo, who passed away on the same day, last weekend. Veteran actor Romanus Uchenna Amuta, who is popularly known as Natty from the now rested sitcom of the 80s, New Masquerade, has been suffering from partial paralyses and living in complete penury. He died from stroke in the morning of Saturday, June 7. Later on the same day, Enugu based Nollywood costumer, Lizzy Ogbodo, died from complications from typhoid fever and malaria.
- The Nigerian Christian Elders Forum said the Northerners mindset is to turn Nigeria into a caliphate - NCEF declared that government policies are promoting Fulani herdsmen's agenda directly or indirectly - They said it is time for Nigerians to join hands together and tell the colonialists and Jihadists to back off The Nigerian Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) has accused Northerners of plotting to turn Nigerian into a “caliphate.