Robin Wright will direct Patricia Clarkson in a new film, “Bingo,” which shares some DNA with the cult classic “Harold and Maude,” she told Variety Friday at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where both Wright and Clarkson are guests.
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Current Governor: Ahmed Aliyu SokotoFounded: February 3, 1976Area: 25,973 km2Capital: SokotoGeopolitical Zone: North WestHD1 (2021): 0.336; low, 36 of 37ISO 3166 code: NG-SOPopulation: 3.6 millionPostal Code: 840001 Official WebsiteSlogan: Seat of the CaliphateBackgroundSokoto is a state in northwestern Nigeria, bordering the Republic of Niger to the north. It also shares boundaries with Kebbi state to the west and south and Zamfara to the south and east. Sokoto state occupies an area of short-grass savanna vegetation in the south and thorn scrub in the north.
For many families, shopping for a Christmas tree is an annual holiday rite. Happy children bundled up in mittens romp from row to row, pirouetting the fragrant firs to check the fullness of their branches. But the experience also has less romantic aspects. To hear Scrooge tell it, shopping for a Christmas tree might amount to fighting crowds for the privilege of haggling over a $65 plant — and getting sappy fingers.
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Each year, as Memorial Day approaches, Holly Thaggard braces herself for the headlines. About how sunscreen may be damaging coral reefs. About the possible flammability of spray-on sunscreen. Headlines—as there were this year—about how sunscreen contains chemicals that could harm your health.
“This has happened every single year for the last decade of my life,” says Thaggard, founder of Texas-based Supergoop, a sunscreen company that brands itself as reef-safe and free of hundreds of potentially problematic ingredients.
Were Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley ever friends? Unpacking the relationship between two of music's biggest stars ever.
Source: Getty ImagesWhen one thinks of historically-significant faces in popular music in the U.S. overall, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash are two names that immediately come to mind. In their own rights, each artist profoundly affected the genre that they both occupied and left longstanding legacies that created legions of fans and redefined popular music going forward.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its comment against the signing of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. Naija News earlier reported that the opposition party said the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the bill despite the public outcry is a confirmation of his disregard for Nigerians.
In a statement in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said the President should have waited until the areas of concern are addressed.
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, for describing them as “Fake News peddlers”. The PDP governors’ forum had in a communique on Monday after their meeting in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, berated President Muhammadu for suspending Twitter’s operations in the country.
They called on the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, to review the revenue sharing formula with a view to making more money available to states to execute their developmental projects.
Nigerian singer, Inetimi Alfred Timaya Odon, better known as Timaya, has opened up on how he struggled to give up drug addiction. Naija News reports that the singer, in a recent interview with The Beat 99.9 FM, Lagos, admitted to engaging in drugs during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.
The ‘Dem Mama’ crooner said he got introduced to drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic by some young boys who get extraordinarily excited after consuming molly.