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Apple Confirms Kim Kardashian’s Kimoji App Did Not Break App Store

Kimoji Yesterday, Kim Kardashian revealed a new app:Kimoji. The collection of emojis (designed by BuzzFeed’s very own Jen Lewis) let you communicate in the lingua franca of Kardashian. It costs $1.99 and basically provides access to an additional keyboard of Kim-specific emojis. People wanted it. LOTS of people. So many people that something went wrong, and people complained they couldn’t get the app from Apple’s App Store. (more…)

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Nigerian Senate embarks on fresh constitution review

The senate on Tuesday set up a 38-member committee to commence a fresh process for the amendment of the 1999 constitution amendment. Announcing the constitution of the committee at plenary in Abuja, Senate President Bukola Saraki said the committee would be headed by Ike Ekweremadu, deputy president of the senate. He said the committee would gather facts from stakeholders across the country as part of the process, urging its members to concentrate on issues that would de-emphasise recurrent expenditure. (more…)

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Breakdown of the 2016 Budge

GDP Growth Rate Projection 4.37% Revenue Projection 3.86 Naira Deficit 2.22 trillion Naira (equivalent to 2.16% of Nigeria’s GDP) Oil Related Revenues 820 billion Naira Non-oil Revenues 1.45 trillion Naira  Projected Independent Revenues 1.51 trillion Naira Capital Expenditure 1.8 trillion Naira (30%  of total budget) (more…)

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Newly crowned Miss Iraq receives threatening phone call: Join ISIS or else

Iraq's new beauty queen received a threatening phone call on Tuesday telling her to join the ranks of ISIS or she will be kidnapped, according to a report by the Kuwaiti daily al-Watan. Shayma Qassim, 20, won the first beauty pageant to be held in Iraq in 40 years on Saturday. According to the report, following her win, Qassim received a threatening phone call in which she was warned that if she refused to join the ranks of the Islamic State movement she would be kidnapped. (more…)