The mum of one took to Twitter today, May 12, 2016 to put rumours to rest tweeting, "I'm not pregnant. But thanks for the best wishes in advance."
Recall that the newly married actress told Genevieve magazine she's going to have a baby for her second husband.
In her words, "I am going to have a baby for him, he deserves it."
The actress who revealed she met her husband at 14 got married to her husband, Victor February 20, 2016 in a grand ceremony in the popular city of Port Harcourt.
Monalisa was formerly married to Segun Dejo-Richard and theirmarriage crashed in 2009 following domestic abuse. They had a child together.
Tyra Banks attends the 42nd
Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on April 26, 2015, in Burbank, California.
Credit: Victorochell & Michael Buckner/Getty Images for NATAS
There's nothing quite like that feeling! Tyra Banks celebrated her first Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 8, with a sweet post on Instagram featuring herself, her mom, and her baby boy, York Banks Asla.
“I’m hearing, ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ and I can’t believe how lucky I am!” the America’s Next Top Model host
wrote. “Of all the fashionable hats I wear, I love being a #mother the
most. #HappyMothersDay from me and my mama to all the wonderful women of
the world!” In the cute snapshot,
Banks, 42, looks ecstatic as she cradles her son in her arms while her
mom, Carolyn London, smiles over her shoulder at the tiny bundle of joy.
The supermodel revealed in January that she and boyfriend Erik Asla had welcomed their baby boy via surrogate. “The best present we worked and prayed so hard for is finally here,” she captioned an Instagram photo of the baby’s knit cap.
“He’s got my fingers and big eyes and his daddy Erik’s mouth and chin.
As we thank the angel of a woman that carried our miracle baby boy for
us, we pray for everyone who struggles to reach this joyous milestone.
York Banks Asla, welcome to the world.” The former FABLife host has been open about her fertility problems.
On an episode of the talk show last year, Banks got emotional as she sympathized with supermodel Chrissy Teigen’s struggles to get pregnant. (The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model welcomed her own little one with husband John Legend this April and also celebrated her first Mother's Day on Sunday.)
"We're
kind of going through this similar thing with IVF," Banks said at the
time. “And, you know, putting needles in your tummy every day and having
to come to work and smile when you feel like you want to throw up and
lay down — I can't believe I'm saying this right now!” York is the first child for both Banks and her photographer beau, who have been together for two years.
The 35-year-old commercial
motorcyclist, Muhammed Kabiru, struggled on with the dagger stuck in his
head till sympathizers assisted him to a hospital where the surgery was
swiftly performed, The Sun reports.
Muhammed's brother, Mustapha Kabiru
narrates that his brother had picked up a passenger to Masaka, a town
in Nasarawa State that borders Abuja, for an agreed fare of #300.
Upon arrival at the destination, and asking for the fare, The Sun
reports that the passenger brought out a dagger and stabbed Muhammed in
the head and ran off. It remained in that position until doctors
surgically removed it after several hours.
Mustapha, narrating how his brother survived the attack said: “Alas, my brother did not fall off the bike, but instead he rode on with the long dagger stuck in his head.” “He
was later taken to Pan Raf Hospital, Nyanya, where doctors led by one
Dr. Odia and other members of staff battled to save his life, through
emergency care."
According to the report,
when Kabiru appeared to have stabilized, the doctors referred him to
another hospital for proper management and care. “An
X-ray of the skull showed the dagger had gone in from the right side of
the face just in front of the ear and was nearly poking out from the
cheek on the other side,” a source at the hospital said. Dr. Biodun Ogungbo,
who was one of the consultant neurosurgeons who performed the surgery,
shared the case through an online platform for Nigerian doctors.
A man, apparently tired of life, decided to take the easy way out by committing suicide but he took a rather curious way of ending it all by climbing to the top of an electric pole.
The
incident which took many by surprise, happened at Adebisi Ogunniyi
Crescent, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos State, when the man was found early this
morning on his suicidal mission.
Eyewitnesses
say the man looked scary hanging on the top of the pole, screaming that
he was going to jump down as some people frantically called police
officers from the Maroko Division who hurried to the scene to try and
persuade the man to abandon his suicide attempt
This
is not the first time someone would attempt to take the high pole route
to suicide. In March 2015, a naked man was found at the top of a
telecommunication mast in the same Lekki and it took lots of persuasion
for the man to come down.
Russian officials said on Wednesday that Moscow will create three new
divisions to counter NATO’s planned troop buildup in Eastern Europe.
“The Defense Ministry is taking a series of measures
to counter the expansion of NATO forces in direct proximity to the
Russian border,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
Shoigu said the new Russian divisions would be formed
by the end of the year. Reuters, citing Russian media, reported that
the Russian divisions would include about 10,000 soldiers each.
Western officials told The Wall Street Journal last
week that NATO will send about 4,000 troops to Poland and the Baltic
states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday NATO
was weighing a decision to place more battalions in the eastern member
nations amid rising tensions between the West and Russia.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the
alliance’s planned buildup in the Baltics wouldn’t have happened if
Russia didn’t insert itself into the Ukraine conflict in 2014.
Stoltenberg said NATO’s deployment was a reaction to Russian aggression.
The announcement of heightened military measures on
both sides comes after a serious of incidents in the skies and the
Baltic Sea involving U.S. jets, a U.S. destroyer and Russian warplanes.
Last week, a Russian Su-27 performed a barrel roll
over a U.S. spy plane in the Baltic Sea. Russia said the U.S. plane was
coming too close to a military base and had its transponder turned off.
Su-27s and a military helicopter also simulated
attack passes near the USS Donald Cook, flying up to 75 feet within the
Navy destroyer last month in the Baltic Sea.
Speaking in Brussels on Tuesday, NATO
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed the alliance would deploy
"batallion-sized" multinational units on a rotational basis in the east.
Andrei
Kelin, a department head at Russia's Foreign Ministry, said the
proposed NATO deployment was a source of concern for Moscow. Russia once
held sway in eastern Europe as the Soviet-era overlord.
"This
would be a very dangerous build-up of armed forces pretty close to our
borders," Kelin told the Interfax news agency. "I am afraid this would
require certain retaliatory measures, which the Russian Defence Ministry
is already talking about."
Russia announced in
January it would create three new military divisions and bring five new
strategic nuclear missile regiments into service.
On
Wednesday, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the new
divisions would be formed by the end of this year to counter what Moscow
saw as NATO's growing strength.
Russian
media, citing unnamed military sources, said the new Russian divisions
would most likely be motorized rifle ones and number around 10,000
soldiers each.
"The Ministry of
Defence has adopted a series of measures to counter the growing capacity
of NATO forces in close proximity to the Russian borders," Shoigu said
in televised comments.
The new divisions
are likely to be deployed in military districts close to Russia's
borders with Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states and Finland as well as
Georgia and Azerbaijan.
NATO TO KEEP COURSE
"What we do is defensive, it's proportionate ... And therefore we will continue to respond," Stoltenberg said.
"There can be no
doubt that what NATO does is a reaction to the Russian behavior in
Ukraine. We didn't have any troops in Baltic countries ... before the
illegal annexation of Crimea and Russia's destabilizing activities in
eastern Ukraine."
He was speaking
at news conference with NATO's new Supreme Allied Commander Europe
(SACEUR), General Curtis Scaparrotti, who said he intended to continue
NATO's response so far to what the West sees as a more assertive and
muscle-flexing Russia.
The bloodbath in Ukpabi Nimbo community, Uzo-Uwani
council of Enugu state on Monday, April 25, has left many villagers living in
pain and despair. In a recent visit to the community, reporters and photo
journalist caught up with some of the locals, who narrated the bitter story of
watching the herdsmen slaughter their loved ones right there on their land.
It was learnt that the rampaging Fulani herdsmen attacked
the area killing scores of villagers, mostly farmers, and destroyed property
worth millions of naira. Sources in the area had put the casualty figure at 40,
even as the police was yet to give a definite figure. However, Vanguard had
reported that six more bodies were recovered from the scene of the ugly
incident on Wednesday, April 27, which took the death toll to 46.
The Fulani herdsmen attack comes on the heels of reports of
a non-stop friction between the Farmers and herdsmen over the cattle rustling
and trespassing into farmlands.
According to the reporters, many natives now
live in perpetual fear and pain following the attack of the Fulani herdsmen,
despite heavy security presence in the area.
This
is quite evident in the pictures below:
A physical impaired Catechist shares how he had to
take his family away from the community when the attack started.
A woman carrying a wheel barrow and a chair at the
same time, trying to locate where she can lay her head.
An old woman looking unhappy
A destroyed house now deserted.
Kids looking
sad
An old man and his son looking helpless. An old man
and his son looking helpless.
Rollicking and action-packed, Captain America: Civil War (out
May 6) is a comic book extravaganza that lives up to the hype. The
characters are on point. The plot doesn't require a doctorate degree. At
147 minutes, it manages to move (fairly) briskly. Smart humor is
peppered throughout. All right, let’s just spell it out: This movie
course-corrects nearly everything Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice got wrong.
Perhaps its most impressive accomplishment is
that despite a cast full of Marvel favorites, Captain America isn't just
the title character in name only. Chris Evans’
decidedly square superhero, a former World War II soldier programmed by
the government to be an indestructible figure, still feels like an
outsider even as he dons the red, white and blue. He’s also seething
that his ol’ Brooklyn buddy, James “Bucky” Barnes (Sebastian Stan),
was brainwashed to be an assassin. The character carries that emotional
baggage as the movie lands in Lagos, Nigeria — where he and his cohorts
are on a mission to smoke out some guys up to no good. But one
mercenary's mere mention of Bucky sends the Captain into a
bone-crunching rage. Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen)
uses her mystical hocus pocus to fly the villain into a building, and,
well, this all ends very badly for many innocent civilians.
The secretary of state arrives at the Avengers
headquarters with a proposal: From now on, the U.S. government will call
the shots on the superheroes' employment. In order to cut down on the
global destruction, the various caped crusaders will no longer be free
to roam the world to unleash their powers. Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) is on board with the plan because, as he puts it, “we need to be put in check.” Steely Natasha Romanov/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) sides with him. But Steve Rogers/Captain America is finished following orders and refuses to sign.
A
moral disagreement explodes into a bitter feud. And after Bucky is
punished for a crime he didn’t commit, Captain America goes rogue. Sure,
he has trusty Falcon (Anthony Mackie) as a confidant, and Agent 13 (Emily VanCamp)
returns to bat her eyes at him, but the Captain is essentially alone.
Screw the rules and the hyper-verbal Tony Stark — the vet is determined
to hunt down the man responsible for turning Bucky into an evil Winter
Soldier.
Perhaps you wouldn’t expect such psychologically loaded drama from a Marvel flick. After all, Christopher Nolan isn’t in the director’s chair and creator Stan Lee makes
his requisite cheesy cameo. Putting the characters out of costume for a
few key scenes helps the cause. With all the loud bells and whistles in
these Avengers movies, sometimes we forget that esteemed actors such as
Downey, Johansson, Olsen, Mackie, Don Cheadle (War Machine) and Paul Bettany (Vision) are driving the story. Maybe someday they can all reunite on screen in a movie under a $100 million budget.
Fans will also get a kick out of watching familiar faces emerge and pick a team. The retired Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) gets drawn back in and promptly joins Cap's fight club. Falcon also reins in that pesky outlaw Ant-Man (Paul Rudd). Meanwhile, an intriguing new character named Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) unites with Iron Man because he believes Bucky is responsible for his father’s death.
And
a teenager nearly upstages them all! In the most amusing scene, Stark
shows up in a Queens living room to recruit a wide-eyed, web-slinging
teen named Peter Parker (Tom Holland). Yeah, yeah, yeah: Yet
another Spider-Man is about as necessary as another Kardashian reality
show. But in his tiny role, Holland is charmingly adorkable. (And as a
special bonus, Downey gets to share screen time with Marisa Tomei’s Aunt May. Assume this is as close as we’re going to get to a sequel to the underrated 1994 rom-com Only You.)
Just don’t try to make sense of why, say,
Scarlet Witch aligns with Captain America or why Black Widow scraps her
alliance with the former soldier and stands by Iron Man. Snappy
punchlines asides, many of the characters’ rationales are murky at best.
For that matter, Iron Man working so closely with the government goes
against his rakish, devil-may-care M.O. These inconsistent qualities may
prove bothersome for comic book aficionados and fans of the franchise.
The result of all this infighting is a bone-crunching and
satisfying war in which every superhero has a moment to shine. (Jokes
one, "Everyone's got a gimmick now!") Indeed, it’s a remarkable feat
that the movie rarely feels overstuffed with characters and plots. Even
the chief villain, Daniel Bruhl’s Helmut Zero, is quietly thoughtful yet forceful. He could teach Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor a lesson in how to underplay.
You
don’t have to take a side, though. There’s no right or wrong or even a
lame cop-out ending in which everyone agrees to get along and sing an
all-star version of "Kumbaya." Just root for both teams and enjoy.
Monalisa Chinda debunks pregnancy rumours
