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Nobel Laureate and iconic playwright, Professor Wole Soyinka, has spoken out about the report making the rounds about dead and cloned President Muhammadu Buhari. The 84-year-old man from Abeokuta, Ogun State explained the need to take the allegation seriously saying he expected President Buhari to do something beyond repudiating the claims during his recent visit to Poland to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference for 2018. While in Poland, President Buhari had denied claims that he was dead and cloned, affirming that he is himself. Absconded leader of the proscribed separatist group, the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu originated the claims late 2017, claiming Nigeria is being ruled by a Buhari dead-ringer called Jubril Aminu from Sudan. Soyinka was addressing a cross section of audience at Freedom Park in an event marking the 70th anniversary of human rights and worldwide reading for press freedom in memory of Jamal Khashoggi. He also stress...

Update:: The children of the vice president of Nigeria, Professor Yomi Osinbajo just completed their national youth service.  The daughter of the vice president, Kiki Osinbajo took to Instagram to share their joys in serving the nation for the past one year successfully.  Kiki and her sibling, Laolu who studied law like dad, just completed their national youth service as can be seen in adorable photos posted. See more photos below;

Update:: The governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) and son-in-law to Governor Okorocha of Imo State, Uche Nwosu, has said the "era of sitting at home and writing results" in Imo is bygone. Nwosu who recently dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC, for AA, after a guber parallel primaries in the state at the end of which he lost the governorship ticket to Senator Hope Uzodimma, also declared absolute support for President Buhari despite being out of the APC. Nwosu added Thursday in Owerri that nobody would be allowed to rig the forthcoming governorship election in the state. Nwosu said: “In fact, anybody thinking of rigging the 2019 election is making a big mistake because we will resist it. The youths of Imo state will resist it, the women and the leaders of the state will resist it. “If you are not popular, you are not popular and INEC knows that it is not possible to write result in Imo state. People should know that the era of sitting at home ...

Update:: Following Babatunde Fashola's statement that it isn’t the government’s problem if the populace do not have electricity, Femi Fani Kayode Former aviation minister has in a tweet called him a prince of darkness. View tweet below. According to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, power generation & distribution is now aprivately owned business and not the government’s problem.

Update::  passenger plane has had to make a U-turn mid-air after the crew members discovered a human heart on board the flight.  It has been reported that a plane had to make a u-turn midair because someone had left a human heart on board.  The Southwest Airlines flight bound for Dallas, Texas, had to turn around and head back to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after the crew realised someone had forgotten to unload the heart.  Yahoo News UK reports that the captain said the heart should have been left in Seattle after an earlier flight from Sacramento and taken to a hospital. After the u-turn, the flight landed in Seattle and the “life-critical cargo shipment” was unloaded.  Southwest spokesman Dan Landson said the return to Seattle was vital because it was “absolutely necessary to deliver the shipment to its destination in the Seattle area as quickly as possible.”  He said: “Nothing is more important to us than the...

Nigeria’s broadband penetration has hit 30.9 per cent surpassing the 30 per cent recorded before November 2018. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) confirmed the data produced by the National Broad Band Plan. Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, in Abuja said that the Federal Government’s National Broadband Plan 2013-2018 has set a target of 30 per cent penetration to be achieved by end of 2018.

Update:: A controversial statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the famed Indian independence leader, has been removed from a university campus in Ghana's capital, Accra. Students and lecturers told the AFP news agency it had been removed from the Legon campus of the University of Ghana overnight on Tuesday. The statue was unveiled by India’s former President Prana Mukherjee in 2016 to celebrate to strong ties between the two countries. The university's professors launched a petition calling for its removal soon after the unveiling, saying Gandhi was "racist" and that the university should put African heroes "first and foremost". In the wake of the row, Ghana's government at the time had said the statue would be relocated.

Update:: A fire overnight at a warehouse in Congo Kinshasa destroyed thousands of voting machines and ballot boxes that were due to be used in the country’s long-delayed Dec. 23 presidential election. Democratic Republic of Congo’s national electoral commission (CENI) said in a statement the blaze had destroyed 8,000 of 10,368 voting machines due to be used in the capital Kinshasa, but said the election would go ahead as scheduled.

Update:: Bananas are the world's most popular fruit. Experts say 100 billion bananas are eaten every year, and 95% of those are the Cavendish banana type. But a new fungus has emerged that attacks this usually resistant variety of banana, and it is rapidly spreading throughout the world's commercial crops. Around 14% of global banana exports are from the African continent, according to the UN food agency It says that up to 80% of production in Africa is of local banana varieties that have been present on the continent for more than 1,000 years. Chemicals can help, but another potential solution is to grow bananas without using soil, as Gert Kema, professor of Tropical Phytopathology at Wageningen University, told.

Update:: South Africa’s embattled former President Jacob Zuma will have to pay back the money provided for his legal fees. The state has paid between $1m (£792,000) and $2.2m in legal costs for Mr Zuma over the past decade. A High Court ruling has instructed the state attorney to recover the money.

Update:: The Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, has threatened to work against the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Oyo State, Adebayo Adelabu, at the February elections. Shittu who lost in the race for the governorship ticket said without restitution, there won’t be peace in the APC. The National Working Committee of the APC had raised the Peace and Reconciliation Committee for each of the six geopolitical zones to reconcile aggrieved members ahead of the general elections. The minister joins the list of Governor Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun) and his counterpart in Imo, Rochas Okorocha, who had threatened to work against the party’s governorship candidates in their states. Speaking during a media chat in Abuja, Shittu accused the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole and Oyo Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, of being the brains behind his exclusion from the party’s primaries.