Travis Kelce Teams Up With His Dog For Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Campaign

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Travis Kelce has posed alongside the dog he shares with Taylor Swift in his new campaign for Tommy Hilfiger.

The NFL star and his pop singer wife are the proud owners of a white, fluffy Samoyed and the pooch is now starring alongside Travis in the new ads for the American fashion house. In the pictures, Travis is seen reclining on a striped lounger at New York City’s famous Plaza Hotel with the Samoyed leaning on his leg.
The campaign also features a video in which Travis is seen playing with the pooch on a sofa.

The couple haven’t shared any details about the new dog including its name or gender and their new addition wasn’t revealed until pictures of the fluffy pup emerged during their wedding in July while Travis was later seen disembarking a plane with the pooch in Florida in the days after the ceremony.

Travis signed a big money deal with Tommy Hilfiger earlier this year and he admitted he was looking forward to put his “own twist on timeless pieces”.

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After being announced as an ambassador and creative collaborator for the brand, the Kansas City Chiefs star said in a statement: “I’ve long admired Tommy Hilfiger as an iconic American brand. Ever since high school, when I used to ask my mom to buy Sailing Gear jackets, I’ve been drawn towards the brand’s confident style, and over the years have respected its ability to be classic and consistent while still evolving.

“Getting to work with Tommy and put my own twist on timeless pieces, in a way that feels original for today, is a dream come true.”

Hilfiger added: “Travis Kelce is one of the magnetic figures in sport and culture today. He is at the forefront of a new generation of athletes expressing themselves through style, with a down-to-earth quality that people immediately connect with.

“I’m excited to see how he brings his fearless, fun-loving and bold take on Prep Made Current to fans around the world.”

The 75-year-old designer opened up about his latest signing in an interview with WWD – calling Travis a “true American icon” who is a perfect fit for Tommy Hilfiger.
He told the publication: “As you know, we’ve over the years had a lot of iconic ambassadors, from Rafael Nadal to Gigi Hadid, Lewis Hamilton and recently Damson Idris from the F1 movie.

“We think Travis is a true American icon. He’s not only a talented athlete, but he’s a great person, a great personality and he’s one of the most talked-about people in sport and pop culture. …

“I’m excited to see how he brings a vibrant and bold take on our modern prep. Because that’s what he wears. He wears preppy with a twist.

“He loves color and is not afraid to wear it. He’s in the zeitgeist … And you know he has a natural instinct for style. He knows what looks good on him. He likes to feel current … “

“I Am Better Than Burna Boy At Singing And Almost Everything”- Nissi

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Nigerian singer and songwriter Nissi has sparked reactions after confidently declaring that she is a better singer than her brother, Grammy-winning Afrobeats star Burna Boy.
The music artist made the claim during a recent interview with Cool FM, where she compared her vocal abilities with those of her famous sibling.
According to Nissi, even Burna Boy acknowledges that she has the edge over him when it comes to singing. She explained that while she considers herself better at singing and several other aspects of music, her brother clearly surpasses her in rap.

Nissi said the two of them have previously agreed that she is the stronger vocalist.

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“I am better than Burna Boy at singing and almost everything. He is only better than me at rapping. We both actually agreed on the fact that I was a better singer,” she said.
Her playful but confident assessment of their musical abilities has since drawn attention, particularly given Burna Boy’s status as one of Africa’s most successful international music stars.
In other news… Nigerian singer Seun Kuti has shared a hilarious account of his experience at Peller’s wedding, claiming that guests who arrived at the event looking like big men eventually left as though they were fleeing from trouble.

Speaking about the wedding, Seun Kuti said, “At Peller’s wedding, all of us left there as if we were thi£ves. Everybody escaped from that wedding.”

The singer continued, “Nobody left the wedding like a big man. Nobody left like the big man that we were when we arrived. We were leaving as if they were pursuing thi£ves because the Agberos in Lagos were too much.”

His comments have generated reactions online, withsome social media users agreeing with his remarks about the presence of agberos in Lagos.

“Motherhood Changes You”- Paschaline Alex Shares Emotional Reflection as She Welcomes First Child

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Nollywood actress Paschaline Alex has embraced a new chapter in her life after welcoming her first child.

The Jenifa’s Diary star announced the joyful news while sharing a series of maternity photos with her followers on Instagram. Reflecting on her pregnancy journey, the actress opened up about how motherhood has given deeper meaning to something she had often heard people say about becoming a mother.

Paschaline explained that people often say motherhood changes a woman, and she now understands the statement from personal experience.

Looking back at her maternity pictures, the actress said she sees more than just a pregnant woman. She sees someone gradually stepping into motherhood while still learning and trying to understand what the new phase of life would bring.

She admitted that her pregnancy journey came with different emotions. While there were moments when she felt completely prepared for motherhood, there were also days when she had no idea what she was doing.
According to her, the period was a mixture of excitement, uncertainty, fear, gratitude and countless questions as she prepared to welcome her baby.

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However, holding her child in her arms has given her a different perspective on the entire experience.

Paschaline noted that she has come to realise that her pregnancy journey was not only about carrying and growing a baby. It was also about becoming a new version of herself in the process.

The actress’s heartfelt reflection has resonated with many of her fans, who have celebrated her transition into motherhood and congratulated her on the arrival of her first child.

Hew words..

“They say motherhood changes you.

I think you only truly understand what that means when it happens to you.

Looking back at these pictures, I see a woman who was becoming a mother while still figuring things out. Learning her changing body, learning to make room for someone she hadn’t met yet, carrying so much love for a little person she only knew through tiny kicks and a heartbeat.

Some days I felt ready; other days, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing—days filled with excitement, uncertainty, fear, gratitude and so many questions.

But I kept going.

And now, looking at these pictures with you finally in my arms, I realise I wasn’t just growing a baby. I was growing into a new version of myself too.

I’m still learning. Still figuring it out. Maybe that’s what motherhood is becoming, every single day.

These pictures will always hold a version of me I’ll never forget, the woman who carried you before she ever got to hold you.

And I think there’s something incredibly beautiful about that”.

Why National Assembly Must Fast-Track Decriminalisation Of Attempted Suicide

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At the 80th United Nations General Assembly High-Level Political Declaration Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health, Nigeria reaffirmed its global commitments to increase access to mental health services for millions of citizens and to move away from punitive suicide laws. This important step saw the country join the global movement that views attempted suicide as a public health and mental health concern, not a criminal offense.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 700,000 people commit suicide globally each year, making it the second leading cause of death for young people. WHO’s position is clear: suicide is fundamentally a public health problem, not a crime, and decriminalizing attempted suicide is a proven, evidence-based intervention necessary to reduce mortality.
Ghana has already decriminalized attempted suicide in Africa and is now building its response to suicide prevention and mental health around a more supportive framework. For example, Kenya has progressed through judicial and legislative debates on reform, whereas many countries on the continent are still deliberating laws that remain from the former legal systems. In Botswana, as in some other African countries, attempted suicide is not a criminal offense.

The country is among the few on the continent with the most recent legislation in this regard, having repealed the Lunacy Act of 1958 and introduced the National Mental Health Act in 2022. But the missing piece is the decriminalization of attempted. This provides an opportunity for Nigeria to not only learn from global best practices, but also to strengthen her position as a leading African voice for mental health reforms.

People in their lowest moment have been subjected to double jeopardy for decades in Nigeria, suffering extreme psychological distress and then threatened under Section 327 of the Criminal Code Act in the South or Section 231 of the Penal Code in the North to up to one year in prison for a failed suicide attempt.

On December 28, 2022 the former President Muhammadu Buhari gave presidential assent to the landmark National Mental Health Act 2021, which marked a turning point for the path toward mental health legislative reforms in Nigeria. This landmark legislation repealed the obsolete Lunacy Act of 1958 and created a rights-based framework prohibiting disenfranchisement and requiring the development of a specific national suicide prevention strategy.

In this legislative context, the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, headed by the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, launched the National Suicide Prevention Strategic Framework (2023–2030) in November 2023. The strategy is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including a national target to reduce the suicide mortality rate by 15 per cent by 2030. One of the key policy actions to achieve this is the decriminalization of attempted suicide.

Recognizing that legal reform needs to connect health policy with statutory law, the Ministry of Health joined forces with the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation to launch the National Taskforce on the Decriminalization of Attempted Suicide on World Mental Health Day in October 2024. The taskforce, chaired by health law authority, Professor Cheluchi Onyemelukwe, and with Dr Ojo Tunde Masseyferguson, the National Coordinator, National Mental Health Program at the Federal Ministry of Health as the secretary, comprises professional associations, civil society organizations, people with lived experience and key government agencies. It was tasked with conducting national stakeholder engagements, debunking socio-cultural and religious myths and charting an actionable path forward.

The task force acknowledged that suicide is greatly affected by culture, religion and social beliefs. It thus embarked on consultations and national conversations with multiple stakeholders, including religious leaders and people with diverse views on the issue. These engagements were important as some of the proponents of criminalization had argued that punishment could be a deterrent and reinforce the sanctity of life. But the emerging public health position was that punishment does not address the underlying distress that may have led to the attempt.

The campaign centered on one simple but powerful principle: people in distress need help, not handcuffs. The task force concluded that the most efficient and politically feasible approach to the abrogation of the punitive articles of the Criminal and Penal Codes was a targeted executive bill amending the National Mental Health Act. This momentum reached a historic high-water mark when the Federal Executive Council (FEC) officially threw its full weight behind the policy, approving the proposed amendment bill for transmission to the legislature on the 21st of August, 2026. “This is a major milestone but far from the end of the road.

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Decriminalizing attempted suicide will change the mental health landscape of Nigeria by replacing fear with help and compassionate care. Under the legacy criminalization framework, people in serious distress are forced to conceal their struggles under the threat of police arrest, prosecution and social exile. Decriminalization creates a safe environment where survivors can come forward to receive medical, psychological and social support without fear of penalty. This also improves public health surveillance by removing legal sanctions and providing accurate data for national planning, resource allocation for healthcare and targeted suicide prevention efforts across the country.

But executive approval isn’t the end of the road. The proposal still needs to be passed through legislative processes in both the Senate and the House of Representatives before Nigeria can completely remove provisions criminalizing an unsuccessful attempt to take one’s life. This is a chance for the National Assembly to bring to conclusion a reform which has already gone through years of policy development, consultation and inter-ministerial engagement.

There is no request for Nigeria to re-invent its entire mental health architecture. The country already has a National Mental Health Act . It has a National Mental Health Policy” It has a National Suicide Prevention Strategy Framework, The urgent legislative request is a specific amendment to ensure that suicide attempts are no longer criminalized .

Worries about what happens after decriminalization have also been considered. The current strategic framework already identifies responsibilities for prevention, screening, service delivery and intervention. The proposed amendment also provides for regulatory powers to strengthen the post-decriminalisation response.

As the approval heads to the National Assembly, lawmakers need to pass the amendment bill into law formally. The legislative clock is ticking down fast before the next electoral cycle and this focused amendment cannot wait. The National Assembly needs to act fast to ratify decriminalization of attempted suicide, replacing prosecution with compassion, medical care and psychosocial support.

The National Assembly must not let the journey grind to a halt at the last mile. We therefore call on the Senate President, HE Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas and other committees in both chambers to quickly ratify this bill. Decriminalizing attempted suicide will send a strong message that Nigeria recognizes mental distress as a health issue that requires intervention, compassion and access to care. It will also reinforce the country’s commitment to the international course it has already taken.

Davis Found Guilty Of Killing Tupac Nearly 30 Years Later

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A Las Vegas jury has convicted former Los Angeles gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis of the 1996 killing of American rap star Tupac Shakur.

Davis, 63, was found guilty of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon on Monday, nearly three decades after the shooting that claimed the life of the 25-year-old hip-hop icon.

The jury reached its verdict after deliberating for only a few hours.

“Count one, murder with use of a deadly weapon, guilty of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon,” the jury foreperson announced in court.

Davis, who could be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, told Judge Carli Kierny after the verdict that he intended to appeal.

Shakur was shot on September 7, 1996, in Las Vegas after attending a heavyweight boxing bout involving Mike Tyson.

The rapper was travelling in the front passenger seat of a BMW driven by Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight when a white Cadillac pulled alongside the vehicle at a traffic light.

A gunman inside the Cadillac opened fire, hitting Shakur several times. Knight was also wounded in the attack.

Prosecutors argued that the shooting was a retaliation for an earlier confrontation at a Las Vegas casino, where members of Shakur’s entourage had assaulted Davis’ nephew.

According to the prosecution, Davis responded by obtaining a firearm, assembling members of his gang and setting out to confront Shakur.

Prosecutor Binu Palal told the jury during closing arguments, “Duane Davis, in the culture of gangs, could not let that stand.

“So what did he do? He acquired a firearm, got his group together, and went hunting for Mr Shakur.”

Davis, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, was the only person in the Cadillac that night who was still alive when the case eventually resulted in an arrest.

Prosecutors said Davis handed a firearm to another occupant of the vehicle and directed him to shoot Shakur.

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The investigation made little progress for decades until Davis’ public statements and memoir brought renewed attention to the killing.

Davis had previously spoken about the shooting in interviews with the media and law enforcement authorities. His 2019 autobiography, Compton Street Legend, also contained accounts that prosecutors relied on to connect him to the crime.

However, Davis later changed his position, denied responsibility and pleaded not guilty.

During the trial, Palal presented recordings of Davis’ previous statements to the jury, portraying them as admissions of his involvement.

Davis’ lawyer, Michael Sanft, argued that his client’s previous accounts could not be treated as reliable confessions.

He told the jury that Davis had exaggerated his involvement, partly to generate publicity for his memoir.

Sanft said, “You’re reading a book that is fiction and not fact.

“But the state wants you to believe that this is somehow a confession, that he was there and present at the time of the shooting.”

The defence maintained that there was no independent evidence tying Davis directly to the murder apart from his own statements.

His lawyers had previously sought to prevent the prosecution from introducing both his memoir and statements he made during a 2008 police interview, but the efforts were unsuccessful.

Shakur was one of the defining figures of 1990s American hip-hop and a central figure in the highly publicised rivalry between the East Coast and West Coast rap scenes.

Born to a family with links to the Black Panther movement, he spent parts of his childhood in New York and Baltimore before establishing himself as a major figure in California’s hip-hop culture.

After joining Los Angeles-based Death Row Records, he produced several commercially successful albums and became known worldwide for songs including California Love and All Eyez on Me.

Davis is scheduled to be sentenced on October 13.

Mary Austin Never Discussed Her Relationship With Freddie Mercury With Her Sons

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Mary Austin “never told” her sons anything about Freddie Mercury – even though she inherited his house and half his fortune.

The 75-year-old former shop assistant dated the late Queen frontman for six years, and they remained very close friends until he died in 1991, but she never discussed their bond with her boys Richard and James – who she has with ex-husband Piers Cameron and they only became aware of how the family came to own their home a few years ago, when she began arranging an auction of some of the Bohemian Rhapsody singer’s possessions.

She told The Guardian newspaper: “The boys had no idea until they were in their late 20s.

“They knew nothing about Queen, because I never told them. I never told them about Freddie. Ask Jamie when you see him. Ask him when he first realised.

“Jamie thought we’d inherited the house from his great-grandfather. He made it up. When he was young, he brought his friend to the house. In my head I can see them close to the piano, mid-conversation, photographs are on the piano, and Jamie is telling his friend, ‘Yes, the house used to belong to my great-grandfather.’ And I thought, wherever did you get that from?

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“There were [photos of Freddie in the house], on the piano, but Jamie never asked. Nobody asked. They were just there.”

Asked how the conversation went when she told them about her inheritance and Freddie being the love of her life, she said: “It never did. I never talk to them about money. Money goes into the bank account if you need to pay for anything…

“They were young boys growing into teenagers and young men. I’ve read so many psychology books about young boys and how many hormonal changes they go through and how complex they are, and I thought, you have to enjoy your life. Your childhood is key to who you are.”

Mary admitted she has asked her sons very little about Queen over the years and was reluctant to broach the topic because she didn’t want to upset herself.
Asked if Jamie listened to Queen, she said: “I haven’t even asked him that question. I just didn’t want him to grow up being anybody else other than himself. I’d lived around Freddie, and how d’you ever describe anyone like Freddie? It takes a lifetime. And it took my lifetime, even though he’s been dead for so much of it.

“Talking about [Freddie] used to make me cry. Why would I do that to make myself upset?”

But Jamie insisted he was more aware of Freddie’s bond with his mother than she realised and avoided the subject so as not to cause Mary “pain”.

He said: “So, when I was younger, there was a tendency for parents to speak about my mother’s association with Freddie, and I didn’t really want that association. I just wanted to be seen for me. So I would tell people I was at school with that it was actually inherited by my grandfather.