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Bettye Farrow-Williams leaned back in a worn metal desk chair, laced her fuchsia fingernails into a prayerlike pose and declared that the world had lost its mind. “Everybody is in a panic,” she said on a recent Thursday morning at H.W. Byers High School in rural Holly Springs, Miss., where she has spent the past 49 years teaching social studies. Farrow-Williams was talking not just about her colleagues at Byers but also about the thousands of teachers, students, administrators and parents across Mississippi who are finding themselves at the center of an increasingly pitched battle over a set of new education standards known as Common Core.

According to one Yusuf Abubakar, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed is not proud of his religion and tribe, saying that for him to warn that he won’t accept to be referred to as a Muslim or northerner means he is ungrateful to the Almighty. “If he has publicly said that he does not support tribalism, then nobody would comment on that because tribalism can destroy the entire country,” he added. Another person who spoke to reporters, Babangida Ahmed, said that Baba-Ahmed has destroyed his political career in the north, saying that with such utterances, northerners may not cast their votes for Labour Party in 2023.

That's the case for Dr. Pimple Popper, at least. In her newest Instagram video, dermatologist Sandra Lee, MD has one massive blackhead in her sights-specifically a dilated pore of Winer-and it's pretty hard to miss, even though it's lurking on a hairy area. Dr. Pimple Popper captioned the Instagram video: "Its a #jungle out there, you never know what might POPup..." Brace yourselves, that sounds like a warning coming from the doc.

Edward J. Watts is the author of The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea and Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny. He holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. The author and editor of several prize-winning books, including The Final Pagan Generation, he lives in Carlsbad, California. ncG1vNJzZmismaKyb6%2FOpmaaraSdvLN7xJ2umqqUYrduw8Ctq6xn

The ceremony will take place in Minna, according to reports from NAN. Halimat Babangida and her man, Alhaji Auwal Lawal Abdullahi will become husband and wife in the coming days. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7scHLrJxnppdkuaqyxKyrsqSVZL%2BmuMCtoKimo522sb%2BMsJydnJmjtLR7yJupmqCZonqjrcGapaChlJZ6p7vRppyrZZiarqV5zp9krKyRqbK0ecOarKCgpJq%2FbsDOZqSaqqKuerC6jKaYsmVhZ3pzfJBwZnKeaa6EdrY%3D

Weert Borner, the German Consul General to Nigeria, made this submission when he led a delegation of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) on a working visit to Governor Peter Mbah at Government House, Enugu. Borner said that Germany chose Enugu as one of the three business and investment destinations in the entire southern Nigeria because of improved ease of doing business under Mbah’s administration. He said that the visit was in continuation of discussions that started in Lagos in 2023 on increasing German cooperation with the state.

We already brought you a list of the 50 Healthiest Foods of All Time. Now, we’ve gathered another 50, chosen by TIME editors and registered dietitian Alicia Romano from Tufts Medical Center. While most of us know the basics of how to eat well, sometimes putting together a menu for the week can be daunting. So we are providing you with lots of options. All these foods are highly nutritious and they’re also easy to find at the local grocery store.

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the fourth and final season of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” now streaming on Disney+. The Wildcats of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” have taken their final bow.

Sitting in her writing office, surrounded by mossy green bookshelves, Jenny Han is telling an origin story of sorts. She was 24, and her first novel was about to be published. At the time, it wasn’t considered appropriate for authors to put their headshot on the back flap of their books. But Han wanted hers to be on it — not for vanity’s sake but to reinforce the magnitude of her achievement.