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ex vice president- Atiku A presidential aspirant and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday said corruption thrived more in the present government than any other since 1999. He said the coming together of 40 political parties was to rescue the country and return it to the path of progress for the good of her people. Atiku, who stated this in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, during his visit, said lack of inclusive government had compounded the problems of the country. “So, let nobody come and deceive you on corruption. They are more corrupt than any government that I know since 1999 and we shall be revealing their level of corruption. Fighting corruption alone is not the only responsibility of government but other welfares. “I am here to introduce myself to the people of Ebonyi State to seek your support and that of our party, the PDP, so that we can throw out Muhammadu Buhari from Aso Rock. “Forty political parties came together to present one candidate for pres...

Kechi Okwuchi Nigerian singer Kechi Okwuchi is set to release her debut album titled “Don’t You Dare”. Okwuchi, is one of the two survivors in the Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crash on Dec. 10, 2005 that claimed 107 lives, 60 of which were her schoolmates from Loyola Jesuit College. She made the “Big announcement” on her official twitter account while urging fans to anticipate the release.  @kechi “Debut single ‘Don’t You Dare’ dropping next Friday, July 13. 10 day countdown begins now”. Kechi took part in the twelfth season of the famous America’s Got Talent hunt show in 2017, finishing off as a finalist. The music sensation has gone on to graduate from the University of St Thomas, Texas, United States of America.

The people of Ekiti state gave an indication of their voting intention on Tuesday when they defied the orders by outgoing Governor Ayodele Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party, ordering buses and taxis off the roads and urging residents in the state capital of Ado-Ekiti to stay at home and snub visiting President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari was in Ado-Ekiti to attend the grand finale of All Progressives Congress candidate Dr. Kayode Fayemi’s campaign for the governorship seat, in the election holding on Saturday 14 July. Fayose’s deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olubunmi Olusola-Eleka is Fayemi’s main challenger. NAN reports that many residents of the state capital ignored Fayose’s orders made in a broadcast earlier in the day. The governor had directed commercial drivers and motorcyclists to withdraw their services, until 4pm, from the roads. He also ordered that public offices and major markets in the city be closed and residents to stay indoors to slight the visiting president. As a...

The afro beat singer, multi talented instrumentalist and son of the late legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, told Yori Folarin, anchor of the programme 'THIS MORNING' which airs on TVC when a phone call was put across to him as part of celebrations marking the grand visit of the French president, Macron, to the Afrika shrine that Tinubu was a big threat to the survival of the dream in setting up the African shrine which was meant to immortalize the great legend, Fela. Femi also disclosed to Folarin that after Tinubu left office Fashola continued in his stead but after a massive protest and appeal by artistes around the world, he succumbed to their request. However, Femi expressed his innermost appreciations to Governor Ambode whom he described as a friend of the family. Ambode has always supported Felabration and has thus visited the shrine on several occasions. 

The last remaining member of the wild Boars soccer team and their coach have been pulled out of a flooded cave in Thailand, bringing an end to a near three-week ordeal that prompted an international rescue effort that captivated audiences around the world. The twelfth boy and his coach were the last of the team to be rescued Tuesday, after a complicated three-day operation to extricate the team, who became trapped on June 23 when a rising flood water cut them off deep inside the cave. In the last 18 days, what began as a local search for the missing 13 turned into a complex search operation, involving hundreds of experts who flew in from around the world to help. The Parents of the boys have maintained a constant vigil outside the cave since they went missing , praying for their safe return.

Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party on Tuesday dismissed several challenges to President Muhammadu Buhari after a new opposition alliance formed to try to prevent him from being re-elected to a second term next year. More than 30 parties, including the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday announced they were teaming up against Buhari for next February’s vote. That followed the creation last week of a splinter group within the APC of disaffected members who criticised Buhari’s three years in power as “a monumental disaster”. But APC spokesman Bolaji Abdullahi said both developments would have no effect. “We are confident that no level of gang-up can make our government under President Buhari waiver in its promises to Nigerians to rid our country of corruption and improve the quality of lives for our people,” he said in a statement. Buhari in 2015 became the first opposition candidate to defeat a sitting presid...

Kemi Adeosun The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has confirmed that the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, applied for an exemption certificate. Mrs Adeyemi Adenike, the NYSC Director of Press, said in a statement in Abuja on Monday, that the scheme would however, investigate the origin of the allegedly forged exemption certificate purportedly being used by the minister. “Our attention has been drawn to the issue of the alleged forgery of an NYSC exemption certificate by the Honorable Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun.

Buhari lands in Ado-Ekiti President Muhammadu Buhari has said he would not play politics with Ekiti people regardless of the partisan and hostile nature of the government of that state. Buhari spoke at a grand rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday in Ado Ekiti for Mr Kayode Fayemi, the candidate of the party in the July 14 governorship election. Despite being in opposition and the disposition of the governor of the state, Buhari said Ekiti state would continue to receive its fair share in resource allocations. Buhari explained that Ekiti people were intelligent and honourable and should be so treated. He explained that he had not come to Ekiti just to campaign but to explain to the people efforts of the government to implement its change agenda. Buhari urged Ekiti people not allow themselves to be deceived. He explained that the federal government embarked on 13 projects in the state, including the construction of N700 million road...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now the third richest man in the world, overtaking Warren Buffett on Bloomberg’s list of the world’s richest people. Zuckerberg passed Buffett Friday as Facebook shares rose 2.4 percent, Bloomberg reported. Above Zuckerberg were Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, in the No. 1 spot, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. The daily rankings of the world’s 500 richest people listed in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed the top 3 remained the same Saturday. Zuckerberg is now worth $81.6 billion, nearly $400 million more than Buffett, chairman of the Berkshire Hathaway investment group, rankings show. Zuckerberg’s California-based social network business has more than 2 billion active monthly users. The company’s stock has reached a record high despite ongoing scrutiny over its Cambridge Analytica data breach that leaked personal information of up to 87 million people, MarketWatch reported. Zuckerberg has pledged to gi...

groundnuts Eating nuts “significantly” boosted the number and health of sperm in young men in a scientific trial, researchers said Wednesday. The findings “support a beneficial role for chronic nut consumption in sperm quality,” they said, but stressed the study participants were all healthy, apparently fertile men. The potential benefits of nuts for men struggling with fertility have yet to be probed. For the study, researchers recruited 119 men aged 18-35, who they divided into two groups. One group ate 60 grammes of almonds, hazelnuts, and walnuts daily on top of their usual “western-style” diet, while the second group got no nuts. After 14 weeks, the nut group “had significant improvements in their sperm count, vitality, motility (movement) and morphology (shape)” — all associated with male fertility, said a statement. “Moreover, the subjects in the nut group also showed a significant reduction in their levels of sperm DNA fragmentation, a parameter c...

French Leader Emmanuel Macron yesterday met with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, challenging him to work towards providing an enabling economic and political environment to help youths to achieve their dreams.He noted that it was important for leaders in Africa to understand why young people were disposed to joining terrorist groups. “What we have to better understand is why many people are convinced to join these jihadists and these terrorists. That is why it is very important to build not just the security approach but also the stabilisation approach at the same time, to provide new opportunities.“Your governments will take care of you, I mean provide security and secondly, your governments can provide opportunities to you. And the best support is not to join crazy people and buy a bunch of guns and do crazy things,” Macron said. At a joint press conference with Buhari after a closed-door bilateral meeting at the Presidential Villa, Macron pledged to...

Boko haram members Six soldiers were killed over the weekend in an attack blamed on the jihadist group Boko Haram on a military position in southeast Niger, the defence ministry said Tuesday revising down an earlier death toll. The Niger army previously said Sunday that ten soldiers were killed in the assault near the border with Nigeria. “In the night from Saturday to Sunday, the military post of Bla Brin was attacked by the terrorist group Boko Haram, we deplore the deaths of six soldiers and three wounded,” said a defence ministry statement read out on state radio on Tuesday, without giving a reason for the revised death toll. In late April, Niamey announced a military operation against Boko Haram in the region of Lake Chad, which links Niger, Chad, Nigeria and Cameroon. The group, which is seeking an Islamic state based on Sharia law, has caused the deaths of at least 20,000 people since it took up arms in 2009 in Nigeria. Some 2.4 million people have bee...

President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly informing it of his  desire to extend his vacation. President Buhari who left Nigeria on 19 January was scheduled to return today and resume work tomorrow. But in a statement by Femi Adesina, the special adviser on the media, the president said he would be prolonging the leave  to complete and receive the results of a series of tests recommended by his doctors. Adesina did not indicate when the vacation will now end. According to Adesina, the President had planned to return to Abuja Sunday evening, but was advised to complete the test cycle before returning. “The notice has since been dispatched to the Senate President, and Speaker, House of Representatives”, Adesina said.

Love can be tricky, it varies in intensity and in specificity of emotions, it's sometimes the most amazing thing in the world and at other times its the most horrid thing we'll ever come face to face with. Its the closest thing to perfection that exists in the world, the only thing that encompasses both good and evil, beautiful and ugly. Contrary to popular belief or wishful thinking, love doesn't always result in the joining of two people, sometimes or rare occasions it results in the wedging apart of the two people. You can love someone with all ur soul and never get a chance to be with that person, the fact is love is not enough to sustain a relationship  because its not rational. Unfortunately we live in a world governed by rationality, and we manage to make it work for sometimes, then the real world catches up with us and our irrational illusions disappear into thin air, then we are left with reality, and reality doesn't reason the way lovers do. Share ...

The list of some Nigerian looters has been released by the minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. He said "The PDP challenged us to name the looters claiming there was no looter under their watch, but I'm sure they know that the treasury was looted dry under their government, yet they decided to be ostentatious, and this shows the chasm of their apology to Nigerians, so we decided to name a few of them (the looters) , while this is just the tip of the ice- berg, I'm sure the PDP are aware of this. He continued by saying that PDP is an hypocritical party and they are the reason Nigerians are in this sorry state. He consequently urged Nigerians to be cautious them. Reacting to the statement, the PDP dismissed the list as laughable, as it's National publicity Secretary Mr. Kola ologbondiyan challenged the government to come up with names of its members convicted for looting. He went on to say its unfortunate that the APC and its government un...

        This week's icon fashionista goes to Modupe-Oreoluwa Oyeyemi, popularly known as Mo'Chedda, born 16th october1990, she attended the university of Lagos.  She's a Nigerian rapper and singer, although she left the music scene for a few years, she's made a great come back, not only in her music career, but has also ventured into other businesses which is her clothing line and blog. She's currently engaged to her long time boyfriend, Bukunyi olateru-olagbegi.  

Dapchi Abduction: insurgents becomes community friends. Recent reports have it that insurgents returned the kidnapped DAPCHI school girls unarmed as they exchanged pleasantries with the community leaders and villagers who cheered them, the question is, when did insurgents become friends with their supposed victims? The minister of information, Alh. Lai Mohammed also said the insurgents acted on moral grounds, but one would not but ask when terrorists began to act morally, the mystifying part of the story is that the girls were returned with bags full of clothing items of which they where abducted with nothing, this leaves me thinking if the popular insurgent group, boko-haram has a special super store where they take their kidnapped victims on a shopping spree?  Or could it be that the APC led Federal Government staged this whole drama to appeal to people’s sympathy in order to stay in power beyond 2019? 

Some financial experts on Monday commended the new share pricing method of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). They said it that would not allow share prices to trade as low as one kobo and boost inflow foreign investments. The experts, in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, said that the method would also enable investors to categorise stocks on the NSE. NAN reports that new pricing method was started on Monday, Jan. 29. Prof. Sheriffdeen Tella, Professor of Economics, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun said that the NSE must of necessity update its pricing method from time to time for trading to be transparent. He said that for any stock exchange to attract foreigners to participate in its trading and invariably in the economy, it must adhere to global best practices. Tella said that the method must be well implemented to leave no one in doubt about a particular stock. Dr Uche Uwaleke, the Head of Banking and Finance Departm...

President George Weah President George Weah of Liberia pledged to cut his  salary by 25 per cent  on Monday, in a nationwide address in which he warned of tough times ahead for a “broke” country. “The state of the economy that my administration inherited leaves a lot to do and to be decided,” the former international soccer star said in an address apparently aimed at lowering high expectations following his election victory at the end of last year to replace Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The President of Liberia earns about $100,000 yearly, meaning that Weah will relinquish about $25,000.

Stephanie Stephanie Otobo, the Canada-based singer has recanted her story she was involved in a sexual relationship with Apostle Johnson Suleman of Omega Fire Ministries. In a twist to the story she had maintained since March last year, she said she was paid to lie, opening herself to the risk of being convicted for blackmailing Suleman. The singer in a trending video said she was approached and paid by politicians and some pastors to blackmail Apostle Suleman. She said during a church programme in Auchi she fell for their bait because she wanted to further her career. Otobo made the disclosure before Suleiman’s church congregation in Auchi, Edo state. watch Stephanie's confession here She was also shown asking for forgiveness from the cleric and his wife. This was drowned by the voices of protest by the congregation.