Tyra Banks welcomes 'miracle baby boy', York , via surrogate with boyfriend Erik Asla

The supermodel, businesswoman and America's Next Top Model host delivered huge news to her followers Wednesday evening. As it turns out, her family just got a little bigger with the help from a surrogate. "The best present we worked and prayed so hard for is finally here," she shared on Instagram with a photo of baby clothes. "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." Boyfriend Erik Asla added, "Witnessing the dawn of life is possibly life's greatest gift." 

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The news comes after for former FABLife co-host talked openly about her fertility struggles. After Chrissy Teigen opened up about her obstacles at getting pregnant, Tyra decided to also share her own personal hurdles. "I want to co-sign what Chrissy is saying and say 'You have no idea what people are going through,'" she said on the daytime talk show before fighting back tears. "Why am I crying? You just have no idea what people are going through, so when you ask Chrissy [why don't you have kids] or me that or anybody that, it is none of your frigging business, okay?" "And for any women, it is none of your business what somebody is going through," the former model continued. "Whether they want to have a child or don't ever want to have a child or may have a child on the way, it's none of your business, okay? Until somebody wants to make it your business."

Tyra later admitted on the show that she was undergoing IVF treatments before reiterating how important it was for women to support each other. Fast-forward to today and Tyra is feeling extra grateful for the life around her. It also doesn't hurt that she has a supportive boyfriend by her side to experience all the milestones and joys of parenthood.  "Everyone deserves to be loved like this," she wrote on Instagram during the holiday season after posing with her man.

Congratulations to the happy couple on their family news!

THISDAY PUBLISHER, NDUKA OBAIGBENA SURRENDERS... TO REFUND N500M

The publisher of THISDAY Newspapers, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena may have surrendered himself to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) over his alleged involvement in the arms deal scandal for interrogation. He allegedly received N500 million from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) in the wake of last year general elections. However, Obaigbena had in a letter to the anti-graft commission claimed he received the money on behalf of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), and as a compensation for the bombing of THISDAY premises Abuja by the Boko Haram terrorists. The disclosure of names of other newspapers that also benefitted from the largesse has made some to return the N9m given for the loss suffered in the wake of impounding some newspapers by the military last year before the election. He has promised to return his own share of N500 million Naira

HOW BANKS DEFRAUD NIGERIANS DAILY

It's high time we look into this Forex racket in Nigeria. Today at exactly 9am, I walked into Diamond Bank Maryland branch to do a MoneyGram transfer. As a good and law abiding Nigerian I stayed on the queue and waited my turn. I got to the cashier and asked to send dollars only for her to tell me "We have exceeded our daily limit". I was so shocked and wasted no time in asking how possible it was to have exceeded daily limit as early as 9am, she replied saying "madam it’s not our fault we have exceeded our limit for the day you can come back tomorrow". I was so livid but kept my cool and approached another colleague of hers whom am quite familiar with, she advise i try another bank because their branch has never succeeded in sending MoneyGram. Of course I rushed to a nearby Bank, where after wasting 30 minutes of my time waiting for the Forex cashier to appear told me what i dint want to hear "madam we have exceeded our limits even our boss want to send dollars out but we can't seem to send, it is unavailable". This got me thinking, who has actually succeeded in sending dollars from Nigerian Banks? Who is this mysterious person or persons that wakes up before 9am to exhaust the dollars in the banks? Everyone I know can’t seem to send dollar out but this banks always seem to have exceeded their daily limits before 8am. This brings me to my point, Aren’t this banks running a racket here. It seems like they are reselling dollar to the highest bidder? I think the banking sector as a whole be probed because this crazy margin between the black market rate and official rate has made some bankers very rich. The EFCC had better shine their light on the big racket going on in the banking industry.

ROB KARDASHIAN AND BLACK CHYNA DATING

In addition to getting back into shape after receiving his diabetes diagnosis, the reclusive Keeping Up With the Kardashian star also seems to have found a new romance. E! News can confirm that Rob is dating Blac Chyna, but it's a tad complicated. Some people feel she is "preying" on Rob "during a weak time." The source is also concerned that she is only using him to get back at Kylie Jenner. Kylie and the model have been rumored to be feuding for a long time, given Chyna's previous relationship with rapper Tyga. She and Tyga share one child together. Kylie and Tyga have been on-again, off-again for a little while now. As for how Rob and Chyna made it official despite his tendency to stay indoors over the past year, the source tells us, "She and Rob have known each other for a while and she had been staying in touch."

Chyna first sparked rumors when she posted a photo of her cuddling with Rob, but he was cut out. All that could be seen was his tattooed arm. "The beginning," she captioned the pic. Rob has been staying out of the spotlight after his health took a turn and he gained more than 100 pounds. Khloe Kardashian has opened up about her brother's struggles and why she believes he spiraled into such a dark place. "I don't think he blames any of us. We talk about stuff all the time. I think Rob hit a dark place more so dealing with my dad's death," she explained on Watch What Happens Live when a caller asked if Rob blames his family. "His wish was always for Rob to go to college. When Rob finished that, okay what do I do next? He had no direction. I think he felt lost there." She continued, "Then breakups and all this stuff happened, which I think added to other things in his life." Hopefully fans will start to see Rob again soon, as mom Kris Jenner told Maria Shriver that he's looking to return to life in front of the cameras. "He wants to still come back and shoot the show, he just wants to feel good," Kris explained. "It's not that he doesn't want to be on the show, it's just he wasn't feeling good."

Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa’s bizarre Twitter feud

But as Kanye gears up to release Waves, his eighth studio album (formerly known asSwish), he's been causing a stir on Twitter by teasing his upcoming album in ways both inscrutable and deliberately provocative. On Wednesday, he channeled some of his infamously prolific energy toward Wiz Khalifa in a rant that continued for more than 30 tweets. As is typically the case with Kanye, the rapid-fire dispatches were alternately hilarious, poignant, disappointing, and deeply confusing. So what the hell did it all mean, anyway? Wiz Khalifa challenged Kanye West's decision to rename his forthcoming album. When Kanye posted that he was changing his album title from Swish to Waves, Wiz tweeted that it would co-opt the "wavy movement" — a more chill, smoother brand of hip-hop with sung hooks — pioneered by rapper Max B.

Wiz tweeted that Max B created "the wave," and that "there is no wave without him."

Kanye tweeted, "All respect to [producer] Andre Harrel and Max B."

Wiz, not buying it, replied with a terse, "Yea aight." And the beat goes on.
But Kanye only went off because he thought Wiz was tweeting about Kim Kardashian. (He wasn't.) Several hours after tweeting about Kanye ripping off Max B, Wiz tweeted the following: Kanye, fresh off Wiz's recent accusations, assumed Wiz was still talking about him and that "kk" stood for "Kim Kardashian." He responded in kind — and then some.

Here are some "highlights":

The thing is, Wiz wasn't actually talking about Kim Kardashian — he was talking about Khalifa Kush, his own branded marijuana strain. So Kanye was wrong. He soon realized this and promised to delete his disparaging statements about Wiz, the better to promote "good energy, positive energy." Performing damage control "within the hour" isn't fast enough to make people forget your weirdo tweets, especially when you're Kanye West. You could practically hear the frantic snaps of screenshots being captured (mine included) as people watched the tweets roll out.  This is the world we live and type in now. So while we're here, we might as well break down what Kanye actually said. The good great best that's ever been in this world ever of Kanye's Twitter rant. As Kanye went to work dismantling Wiz limb by gangly limb, he still made time to share some truly bizarre tangents that, out of context, are pretty great. The best, by a mile, was when Kanye paused his anger to compliment Wiz's style, and more specifically, his pants:
Bonus points, I suppose, for using a meme of his own wife's crying face to make a point (or something approaching a point, anyway). The one tweet that will inevitably rise in triumph from the ashes of this bizarre debacle should have also been Kanye's mic drop:
Whether or not you agree that Kanye is the greatest artist of all time, this tweet is, objectively, one of history's very best. Sadly, in between complimenting Wiz's pants and reaffirming his self-proclaimed status as the greatest artist to ever walk the face of this godforsaken Earth, Kanye had to go and drag Wiz, his music, and his family through the mud. The bad and the ugly of Kanye's Twitter rant: Kanye made it personal. Kanye believed that Wiz was personally attacking his wife, and he was not about to let that happen. Unsurprisingly, the ensuing (one-sided) conversation almost immediately got ugly. After dissing Wiz's music ("corny as fuck"), Kanye went all in on insulting Wiz's complicated relationship with Amber Rose, as well as the child they have together. The key thing to remember here is that Amber Rose is also Kanye's ex-girlfriend; they dated from 2008 to 2010. It's safe to say there's no love lost between the two — mostly because whenever Kanye talks about her, it goes something like this:
Independently of what Wiz said — or, in this case, didn't say — this is a pretty disgusting way to talk about a woman and child. And it's far from the first time Kanye has dismissed Amber Rose as just some gold-digging stripper. In February 2015, during Khloe Kardashian and Amber rose's twitter beef he even said he "had to take 30 showers" between dating Amber Rose and Kim Kardashian — although when you consider that two years passed between his breakup with Amber Rose and the start of his and Kim's relationship in 2012, that isn't actually that many showers. No matter what, it was a gross thing to say, and the comment actually inspired Amber Rose to throw a "SlutWalk" in October 2015, aiming to fight back against derogatory statements against outwardly sexual women like herself. This time, Amber Rose made sure to have the last word: Kanye has deleted this particular Twitter rant, but more will inevitably spring up in its place. Reading any Kanye rant is an exercise in frustration. For every hilarious "#Wizwearscoolpants" tangent, there's usually a more insidious "you let a stripper trap you" lurking not far behind. When Kanye speaks his truth, he speaks all of it — for better and for worse. So even though Kanye has deleted all of his tweets about Wiz and Wiz's family, apologized for the misunderstanding, and pledged that he's all about "positive energy blessings blessings positive energy blessings", this is the internet, and he is Kanye West. This incident will live on forever — or at least as long as people care about it — in Google's very deep memory. And while there might be no explaining Kanye West, this tweetstorm's tangled web of ego, personal history, and hot-tempered attacks comes pretty damn close.

Eritrea orders men to marry two wives or be jailed

Eritrean men have been asked by the government to marry more than one wife or risk being jailed for life. This is contained in a statement in Arabic by the Grand Mufti (the highest official of religious law in the country) which scanned copy surfaced on social media sites on Thursday last week. In the statement, Eritrea called for all men in the country to marry at least two wives and the government assured the men that it would pay for the marriage ceremonies and houses.According to the government, the order is because there is an acute shortage of men occasioned by causalities during the civil war with Ethiopia. The document, which could not be independently verified, warned that any man or woman who opposes the decision “will face a life sentence”. The document in arabic which is in Arabic, says, “Based on the law of God in polygamy, and given the circumstances which the country is experiencing in terms of men shortage, the Eritrean department of Religious Affairs has decided on the following: “First that every man shall marry at least two women and the man who refuses to do so shall be subjected to life imprisonment with hard labour. "The woman who tries to prevent her husband from marrying another wife shall be punished to life imprisonment.” More than 150,000 Eritrean soldiers were killed during the secession war from Ethiopia between 1998 and 2000. At the time Eritrea had about four million people. Eritrea, is a country in theHorn of Africa. With its capital at Asmara, it is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive coastline along the Red Sea, across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The nation has a total area of approximately 117,600 km, and includes the Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands. Its name Eritrea is based on the Greek name for the Red Sea, which was first adopted for Italian Eritrea in 1890. The country ranks that worst (189 out of 189) on the World Bank’s ease-of-doing-business index.