Photos: Rwanda to participate in Miss World Pageant for the first time in history

For the first time in history, Rwanda is set to participate in Miss World Beauty Pageant. The country will be represented at the international beauty pageant by Miss Rwanda, Jolly Mutesi.

The 19-year-old beauty queen was crowned Miss Rwanda 2016 on February 27. She will participate in the 66th edition of Miss World scheduled for December 2016, in the United States.

"This is an excellent platform to further improve the country's image outside the country because most people out there have absolutely no idea about the progress Rwanda has made in the recent years," Dieudonne Kagame Ishimwe, the CEO of Rwanda Inspiration Back Up Ltd, a local company that organised Miss Rwanda beauty pageant.

Shocking footage shows youths hurling racial abuse at a man on a tram in Manchester

Shocking video which emerged on Tuesday morning shows three apparently drunk youths shouting hurling racial abuse and shouting at a man to "Get back to Africa' on a tram in Manchester.

According to Manchester Evening News, the man, who spoke with a foreign accent had asked the young men to stop using bad language as they were frightening other passengers.

The youths responded by hurling abuses at the man, telling his to "get back to Africa," Get off the tram now. Bro, I 'll waste you. I 'll waste anyone and Dont chat sh*t when you are not even from England, you little f***king immigrant"

The man, whose nationality was not mentioned, asked how old the youth is, "18,19? I 've been here longer than you".

The youths at one point flick the drink at the man, splashing him and several passengers. They were later chased off the tram, with passengers yelling at them, "You're a disgrace to England".

A woman who was on the tram, who wished to remain anonymous, said: "When I was there I knew it was going to get serious. This kind of incident is really happening. It needs to be noticed we don’t want these kind of incidents happening. The three men got off the tram at Market Street and it stopped there.The women on the tram started crying. It was really horrible. When I was walking back to my work I was crying all the way. I couldn’t control myself. I was feeling sad, I now feel scared coming to work. They were three boys, they weren’t very old. I am scared of travelling on my own, I feel scared for my children that it is not safe, I will not take them on the tram."

Chief Inspector Gareth Parkin of Greater Manchester Police City said: "This is a disgusting display of abuse which quite frankly has no place in society. All hate incidents are treated with the utmost severity and this behaviour will not be tolerated in Greater Manchester."

Photos:Toke Makinwa slays for Glam Africa magazine

Toke Makinwa is featured on the cover of the Summer 2016 edition of Glam Africa Magazin,the Power edition. The magazine speaks to Toke about her recent challenges and how she overcame them to maintain her crown as Nigeria’s top social media personality. 

Apple opens talks to acquire Tidal of Jay Z

Apple is allegedly in talks to acquire Tidal, a streaming-music service run by rapper and business mogul Jay Z. Buying Tidal would give Apple Music one less competitor in the streaming music space.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the news came after various reports that Tidal has been shopping for potential buyers, including holding talks last year with Napster, the company formally called Rhapsody. According to unnamed sources, Apple is exploring the idea of bringing on Tidal to bolster its Apple Music service because of Tidal’s strong ties to popular artists such as Kanye West, Rihanna and Madonna.

Terms of the potential deal aren’t known.

Jay-Z bought the service in March 2015 for $56 million from Swedish company Aspiro. He launched the service under the brand Tidal a month later. He has given 19 famous artists and bands small stakes in Tidal and promised each millions of dollars worth of marketing, according to people familiar with the matter.

A Tidal spokesman said Tidal executives had not held talks with Apple.

Spotify still remains the largest service with 30 million subscribers.

Tidal, meanwhile, doubled its subscriber base in the last six months, from 1 million to just over 3 million, according to CEO Jeff Toig, largely on the strength of its artist exclusives with the likes of West and Beyonce

An Apple spokesman declined to comment. Tidal representatives have also kept mum about the supposedly on going talks.

Source: The Wall Street Journal.

Almost there! Blac Chyna puts her growing baby bump on display

Rob Kardashian's fiancée and Mother-of-one, Blac Chyna shared a video of her growing Kardashian baby bump via Snapchat with her 3 year old son caressing her tummy...

Huddah Monroe Opens Up About Her Boyfriend Who Is An Athlete Living In UK

No old sponsors! Huddah Monroe has finally settled on a sportsman as her boyfriend!

Huddah Monroe’s trips abroad have always been deemed as sponsor funded mission. But things are not as they seem.

Huddah doesn’t necessarily fly abroad to see sponsors, the socialite has finally found her prince charming who’s young and energetic.

Actually Huddah has settled for an athlete as a boyfriend. She’s dating a footballer playing in English Premier League.

Speaking on Kiss FM, Huddah revealed her boyfriend was a footballer who plays for a big club in EPL, but she said he wasn’t Wanyama.

“I have a boyfriend, he’s playing soccer” Huddah disclosed.

Watch the interview below:

Concern as higher banking fees come into effect today

Commercial banks have announced an increase in transaction fees of 18 per cent effective today.

Stakeholders say the increase threatens to reverse gains made in financial inclusion in the country.

Banks have announced that fees charged on services such as withdrawals would increase following the government’s decision to impose 18 per cent value added tax (VAT) on the charges.

The government is targeting the billions of shillings banks have been earning in transaction fees, but, as expected, the additional cost has simply been passed on to customers.

This, in turn, would increase the tax burden on low income earners, making banking a costly undertaking, according to stakeholders.

Records show that the five biggest banks raked in Sh58 billion in fees and commissions in the first three months of this year, making the earnings a significant part of their profits.

The government has also introduced a 10 per cent excise duty tax on mobile money transfers, leaving people with no viable alternatives.  Previously, only mobile withdrawals were charged.

Mobile money helped to bring the majority of the unbanked population into the financial network, thus increasing financial inclusion to 40 per cent from 17 per cent in 2011, according to the Bank of Tanzania (BoT).

Transaction fees are charged on various banking services such as the depositing or withdrawal of cash, balance inquiry, ATM use, ATM card issuance and the transfer of money among banks or to mobile platforms.

The charges usually range from Sh250 to Sh20,000, or slightly more, depending on the type of services and bank policies.