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Update:: Police have identified a house in Tanzania Mbezi Beach as where tycoon Mohammed Dewji was held following his kidnapping by unknown gunmen. The country's Special Zone Police Commander, Mr Lazaro Mambosasa, told journalists about the one-storey house during a briefing in the city on Monday. Mambosasa said that after the businessman was freed, police continued with investigations and found out that he was kept in the house that is a few kilometres from Old Bagamoyo Road. “The house belonged to the late Mwansasu. Its ownership was changed after his death. It is currently owned by his daughter,” said Mr Mambosasa. He did not disclose the name of the woman but added that the house was rented by South African businessmen. Commander Mambosasa said police were also holding taxi driver and broker Twalibu Mussa, who is believed to have close ties with the abductors. He said the lease agreement for the house stated that $1500 (over Sh3.4 million) was to be paid per month. Th...

Update:: The Future Awards Africa, TFAA, has released the list of its 2018 nominees. Some of the stars who were nominated include Adesua Etomi, Ahmed Musa, Simi, and many others. The award ceremony will be held at the Balmoral Centre, Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos on December 16. See the full list below: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Acting Zainab Balogun (29)] Maryam Booth (24) Bisola Aiyeola (32) Adesua Etomi (31) Alex Ekubo (32) The Future Awards Africa Prize for Advocacy Charles Odii (30) Hauwa Ojeifo (26) Samira Sanusi (30) Gospel Martins (30) Uche Kenneth (31) The Future Awards Africa Prize for Agriculture Abdulfatah Sadiq (31) Abubakar Sadiq Falalu (28) Jesse Osiobe (31) Oluwafemi Aliu (25) Ayodele Sipasi Olalekan (32) The Future Awards Africa Prize for Business Ladipo Lawani (30) Sunkanmi Ola (26) Chidi Ajaere (31) Ronke Bamisedun (31) Mohammed Jammal (31) The Future Awards Africa Prize for Comedy Samuel ‘Broda Shaggi’ Perry (25) Gloria ‘Ma...

Update:: This article is part of the World Economic Forum's Geostrategy platform The ability of the European Union to act in defence, today and in the future, is an important reference point in the debate about EU strategic autonomy in the context of Brexit. The EU has set itself a military level of ambition. Under the heading of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), EU member states want to be able to conduct a range of military operations. Together with the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), the IISS study Protecting Europe: meeting the EU’s military level of ambition in the context of Brexit (pdf) , assesses to what extent the EU is able to fulfil this level of ambition, today and with an outlook towards 2030. The IISS and DGAP have developed policy-compliant scenarios to assess where possible capability shortfalls lie. Our findings benchmark existing and future EU member state capabilities against the force requirements the EU level of ambition generate...

Update:: It’s time for Filipino men to shine in pageants abroad. (Photo courtesy of Jonas Gaffud/ MANILA BULLETIN) Filipino-Australian model Jeff Langan was 3rd runner-up in the Manhunt International 2018 contest held in Gold Coast, Australia on Sunday. Vicent Llorach of Spain edged out 32 other candidates for the prestigious modelling title. Other winners were Australia, 1st runner-up; Netherlands, 2nd runner-up; and Vietnam, 4th runner-up. Winners of special awards were Puerto Rico, Mr. Physique; Thailand, Mr. Photogenic; Pakistan, Mr. Personality; United Kingdom, Best Runway Model; Spain, Best Commercial Model; Philippines, Best Fashion Model; and Indonesia, Mr. Internet Popularity. Started in 1988 by Alex Liu in Singapore, Manhunt International is the world’s most recognized and longest-running international male model competition. Langan, 25, started modelling when he was still a child. “My mom got me started on my first commercial for Long Beach Memorial Hospital when I w...

Olushola Ricketts Actress, Ebere Ohakwe, better known as Jewel Infinity, has said she has yet to get her compensation from the Nigerian Army. After being assaulted by an army officer identified as Sulaiman Olamilekan in February 2017, Ohakwe dragged the army before the court. Last month, a Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, ordered the Nigerian Army to pay the sum of N1, 250,000 and publish a written apology in at least two national dailies to the actress. Speaking to Sunday Scoop , the actress said she was yet to get any compensation from the military. She said, “I am yet to speak with my lawyer, but I think he knows what to do and the next step to take. I am happy with the outcome of the case in court.” Ohakwe said she didn’t intend to take the military to court initially but she was abandoned and different lies were told to the public. She added, “At first, I didn’t want to take them to court though I was suffering serious pains and I couldn’t do anything for seven mo...

Thousands turned out on Sunday for a concert in Johannesburg to honor the life of Nelson Mandela, with Beyonce leading an all-star line-up. The event, held to mark 100 years since the birth of South Africa's first black president, was organized by advocacy group Global Citizen. It also aimed to highlight the fight against poverty, gender inequality and hunger, causes that Mandela championed. World Bank President Jim Kim was among a number of political and business leaders attending the event and he announced a $1 billion investment in health and education across Africa in 2019. "Be-yo-nce! Be-yo-nce!," chanted a group of ladies as they waited in a long queue to enter Johannesburg's FNB stadium, where Jay-Z, Usher and Ed Sheeran were also set to perform. Thousands of fans, some wearing Global Citizen T-shirts and temporary tattoos on their shoulders, cheered, danced and cried at the sight of their favorite artists. Many fans had been given free tickets in exchang...

Update:: The African Union (AU) has warned Burundi against moves to jeopardise peace efforts after an international arrest warrant was issued for ex-leader Pierre Buyoya and 16 other officials. They are accused of being behind the 1993 assassination of the country's first elected Hutu president. The killing of Melchior Ndadaye triggered a brutal ethnic civil war. Mr Buyoya, an ethnic Tutsi, says it is a ploy to stir up divisions and shift attention from the current crisis. More than 300,000 people died in a 12-year civil war between the minority Tutsi-dominated army and mainly Hutu rebel groups.

Update:: The United Nations condemned on Sunday a wave of “brutal” sexual attacks on women and girls in the northern town of Bentiu in South Sudan which took place in what it described as a government controlled area of the region. On Friday, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said that unknown gunmen have raped 125 women during a 10-day spree of violence in Bentiu, but local officials disputed the report.

Update:: An Egyptian film star faces trial next month for promoting immorality after attending the Cairo Film Festival in a see-through dress, state-owned online newspaper Al-Ahram Gate reported on Saturday. In a statement on her Twitter account, Rania Youssef apologised to families she may have angered by her outfit choice and said she did not expect it would cause so much anger.

Update:: President Muhammadu Buhari reacted for the first time on Sunday to rumours that he is not the real Person elected by Nigerians but a look-alike double from Sudan, known as Jubril. He declared: ‘‘It’s real me, I assure you. I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong.’’ President Muhammadu Buhari was speaking in Krakow, Poland, when he met Nigerians living in the country. For sometime, the fake news industry claimed that the Nigerian President is an impostor. The issue was raised by one of the Nigerians. But an unruffled Buhari reaffirmed his authentic identity.

Update:: The presidential candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has assured Nigerians of development in the power sector if she wins the 2019 election. She added that uninterrupted power supply would be witnessed in the country. In a press statement on Sunday, Ezekwesili said that the electricity industry would be developed to employ more youths. She said, "From 1999 till date, all the projections made by successive governments to grow the supply of electricity to Nigerians, to either 6,000MW, 10,000MW or 20,000MW, have not been met. The Nigerian citizens’ desire and willingness to pay an appropriate price of electricity consumed is seen in the great demand for generators of all shapes and sizes, and how much they pay to operate and service these machines. "The low power availability from the National Grid has meant that corporate entities have to divert large amount of funds from their core productive areas of focus to this critical ar...

Update:: A fresh controversy has hit the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after its national chairman, Uche Secondus was pictured kneeling before the Presidential Candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar. Its unclear why Secondus is kneeling but the emergence of the photograph has raised eyebrows on the behind-the-scenes activities going on within the opposition party. More details soon….

Update:: The CEO of Www.churchillchoken.blogspot.com, Churchill Choken Chigozirim will on Wednesday, 5th of December celebrate his two decades, and a year of existence on the planet earth. To wish him well,go to the bottom of Www.churchillchoken.blogspot.com, click on "Happy birthday Churchill" to wish him well on his personal Facebook account thanks.

Update:: Below is a Press Statement from the All Progressives Congress, APC made available to PoliticsNGR; We are amused by the latest utterances of the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus calling on both the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Yakubu Mahmoud and the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim to resign on account of the PDP’s baseless suspicions ahead of the 2019 General Elections. It is a pity that the once boisterous PDP, having undermined the country for 16 years through mindless undemocratic actions, has now become a caricature of a political party. This latest outburst is yet another reminder of how the PDP government serially abused state institutions in the pursuit of selfish political and economic interests. PDP is now being haunted by its sordid past and the ruinous party is now scampering from its own shadow. It is sad that the PDP hounds have continued to take Nigerians for granted, thinking ...

Update:: Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a frontline Presidential contender on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), Sam Nwanti, has withdrawn from the presidential race in support of President Muhammadu Buhari re-election. The American-based detective from Mbieri, in the Mbaitoli Council Area of Imo State dropped his ambition in an interactive session with newsmen in Owerri. Nwanti disclosed that he withdrew from the race to boost the re-election bid of President Buhari in the 2019 elections, while he prepares for the 2023 presidential race. “Today, I withdraw from contesting for the presidential race on the platform of Labour party and back to APC. “I am back to APC to support President Buhari for his second term bid because he needs our support to get things aright once again. I will help All Progressives Congress and Buhari led administration fight corruption and as the only detective who is contesting in 2019, it may split the support of President Muhammadu Buhari,”

Update:: President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Krakow, Poland, ahead of the 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place from December 2 to 4. Mr Buhari arrived Military Base Balice, International Airport, Krakow at exactly 17:44 p.m., local time, an official statement from the presidency noted. The president and his team arrived just when the town was experiencing its first snow of the winter season. Temperature reading at the time of his arrival was -3 degrees Centigrade. COP24 Summit is being held at the International Conference Centre (MCK), Katowice, an industrial hub, about 100 kilometers from Krakow. Mr Buhari’s first official engagement will be a town hall meeting with Nigerians living in Poland on Sunday evening. The President will during the Leaders’ Summit at COP24, on Monday morning deliver a national statement highlighting Nigeria’s commitment to addressing climate change by impleme...

Update:: Hollywood superstars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached an amicable agreement on the custody of their six children, avoiding a potentially messy public trial, US media reported on Friday. Pitt and Jolie announced their separation in September 2016 after two years of marriage and 11 years together. Three of their children are their biological children, and the other three are adopted. “A custody arrangement was agreed two weeks ago, and has been signed by both parties and the judge,” Jolie’s lawyer, Samantha Bley DeJean, said in a statement carried by several US celebrity news outlets including TMZ. “The agreement, which is based on the recommendations of the child custody evaluator, eliminates the need for a trial,” she said. The couple had been set for a trial on December 4 — the deal means they will not battle in court. Jolie originally wanted to have sole custody of the children, while Pitt asked for shared custody. The terms of the agreement are confidentia...

Update:: Joaquin Calles became interested in learning Chinese when he first picked up the classic Chinese philosophical book Tao Te Ching more than a decade ago. However, scant additional information was available in Spanish on the school of thought in this work. Curious to learn more, Calles decided to study Chinese so he could further explore ancient Chinese philosophy. Learning the language fascinated him. "I found Chinese characters very interesting because they are very much related to the culture," Calles said. "For example, the Chinese word for medicine, yao , in its traditional form is related to music and herbs. It implies a connection with food and mood," he said. Calles had to find another school when the Language University Center canceled the Chinese class due to insufficient demand. He found another venue and four years later gained a degree in Chinese translation. To improve his Chinese, Calles enrolled with Chinese Language Education in Beijin...

Update:: Since the emergence of a video on social media, showing some strange looking armed men in the Northwestern state of Sokoto, Nigerians have been calling for a thorough investigation to avoid stories that touch. The fear that leaving it unattended to, by appropriate authorities, may just see the beginning of another terrorist group, while the country was still battling to expel Boko Haram, which has held the Northeast to ransom for many years now. Joining voice with many other Nigerians, Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central at the senate has also called for quick and serious probe of the situation. According to him, while speaking via social media on Saturday, the government must take seriously the investigation of the armed group that just showed up in Sokoto. He noted that the group must be nibbed in the bud, to avoid another form of armed bandits, which the region was already battling with. The emergence of an Armed group in Sokoto state must be investigated ...

Update:: Modupe-Oreoluwa Oyeyemi, Nigerian artiste better known as Mo’Cheddah, says that she once battled depression to the point of considering jumping off Third Mainland Bridge. The 28-year-old fashion designer said older colleagues in the industry hated her when she got into the industry. “I was coming from a naive, God-fearing family and I went into the world of adults and I was thrown into a jungle and people did not care if I was 16, they attacked me,” she said in an interview with DANG Network. “The industry was hostile. I would be performing and they would turn off my microphone because the A-list artist doesn’t like me. There was one day I looked at my Mum and told her ‘you taught me everything about love but you did not teach me to hate’. “I don’t know why she did not, but the truth is there is hate in the world, so I went into the industry thinking everybody loved everybody. I didn’t understand that hate.” Explaining her abrupt exit from the music scene, Mo Cheddah sai...

In a bid to come across as attractive and wow their fanbases, celebs sometimes always take the wrong route and often end up embarrassing themselves. This was the case for Nollywood actress, Destiny Etiko who in a bid to come up as curvy made a mess of herself on Instagram. Check on the Photo below: Ms Etiko ended up just distorting the AC vent! Mercy Aigbe 2.0

Following close to a month of peace, female hip-hop stars, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B‘s unending beef has sprung up again after the former threw a pronounced shade at the latter recently. Nicki Minaj dropped a video for her track “Good Form” featuring Lil Wayne off her “Queen” album and she chose to hire sisters/video vixens/strip club bartenders, Baddie Gi and Jade to star in it. The duo are currently preparing to sue Cardi, TMZ reports, after she allegedly ordered an attack on them in late August. Cardi accused Jade of sleeping with her husband, Migos’ Offset. Jade accused Cardi of hiring five people to jump her at Queens’ Angels Strip Club. They allegedly punched her, pulled her hair and hit her with an ashtray. Both women claim that hours after the attack, Cardi B entered the club and threw a bottle at the pair of them, and they suffered injuries in the assault. She has denied the allegations.

Update:: Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has finally been issued a visa to the United States. A family source disclosed this to TheCable on Saturday, adding that the former vice-president has left Nigeria for the UK, where he would spend some time before flying to the U. S. It was learnt that former President Olusegun Obasanjo played a “critical” role in getting the American government to issue the visa to his former deputy with whom he was estranged for almost 15 years. Scooper recalls that Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information on Thursday warned the US to be cautious in granting visa to the main opponent of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 election. However, commenting on Atiku’s visa status on Friday, Rusell Brooks, spokesman of the US consulate in Lagos, said issuance of visa to Nigerians irrespective of their status is strictly a confidential matter. He said the U.S government will not discuss such confidentiality in ...

Update:: Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has suspended the Accountant-General of the State, Mrs. Stella Udogwu over the non-payment of the November salary of Local Government Workers. The governor also ordered the arrest of the Branch Managers of Ecobank and Access Bank where the money for the payment was lodged, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, stated in a release on Friday. The governor said that the suspension of the accountant-general would take immediate effect. He also directed that the Chief of Staff appoint an acting accountant-general pending the appointment of a new person to the office. Okorocha said Friday that before now he had directed that the October and November salaries of workers in the state be paid at the same time in October. He said he was dismayed that the directive was not carried out until he was informed at the 40th Anniversary ceremony of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees in Owerri on Friday. “I had rele...

Update:: The Federal Government of Nigeria has directed vice-chancellors of striking public universities across the country to enforce “no-work-no-pay” rule on the striking lecturers. It was gathered late Friday that the directive to implement the “no work, no pay” policy was communicated to the universities in a memo sent by the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) to university vice-chancellors. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had on November 4 declared indefinite, nationwide strike over non-implementation of previous agreements by the federal government and demand for increased university funding. At least two meetings have been held between the lecturers and the government since the strike commenced. However, both parties are yet to reach an agreement. In the memo signed by NUC Director of Research, Information and Technology S.B Ramon-Yusuf, the university regulator stated that payment of salaries from any other sources but government funding will be viewed...

Update:: A student of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic (RUGIPO), Owo, Ondo State has been shot dead by unknown cultist. It is unclear to the cause of the attack.

Iconic Bollywood star and India's highest-paid, most popular celebrity, Priyanka Chopra is now officially married. The superstar got married to prominent Texan singer, Nick Jonas before family and friends in Jodhpur's Umaid Bhavan Palace. It was gathered that the ceremony was officiated by Jonas's father Paul Kevin Jonas. The couple will have a traditional Hindu ceremony on Sunday. Jonas and Chopra became engaged four months ago after dating for a year. They both confirmed the wedding had taken place on their respective social media accounts. They said "one of the special things" about their relationship was the merging of their families, faiths and cultures "and so planning our wedding with an amalgamation of both was so so amazing". Jonas, 26, and Chopra, 36, are believed to have first started dating around the time of the Met Gala in May 2017. They got engaged in London just over a year later. Chopra won the Miss World pageant in 2000 and ...

Update:: Next week in Poland, a discreet delegation of American diplomats will settle in for two weeks of international climate negotiations along with their European, Chinese and other counterparts they've mixed with for years. The fact that Donald Trump announced in June 2017 that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord signed in 2015 by his predecessor, Barack Obama, has not ended US participation in continuing climate talks. The US pullout won't take effect until 2020. In the meantime, the Americans are not leaving their seats empty and remain heavily involved at the technical, rather than political, level. "Among developed countries, the US is hardly isolated on those issues," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, noting that the US has maintained a united front with Europe and other rich nations when it comes to technical subjects that are indispensable to the effective rollout of the Paris deal...

Update:: Tiffany Trump has been privately dating Michael Boulos, the son of a multi-billion dollar family in Nigeria, Page Six reports. A source close to Tiffany tells the outlet that she and Boulos spent Thanksgiving together earlier this month and that he met most of her family. Tiffany and Boulos are assumed to have started dating over the summer when they met while on vacation in Mykonos. Boulos grew up in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria—a country which Tiffany's father President Trump once referred to as a "shithole country." Back in January of this year, a source who works within the White House reported to CNN that President Trump had denounced immigrants by asking aides,"Why do we want all these people from shithole countries coming here?" Tiffany is happy she has so far been able to keep things with Michael under the radar," explains Page Six's source. "But she introduced him to her family at Thanksgiving, and he comes across as...

•Urhobo guaranteed of power in 2023 if Anioma gets second term •Why Clark’s position on Gov Okowa is incontrovertible •Speaks on Flash Flamingoes FC By Emma Amaeze THREE-TIME Senator, Chief Patrick Osakwe, has said that at the appropriate time, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, will inform the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who boasted some months ago that his party would take over the state in 2019, that the oil-rich state belongs to it (PDP). Senator, who spoke to Saturday Vanguard in an interview, asserted that with Delta state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, from North senatorial district (Anioma), as PDP gubernatorial standard-bearer for the 2019 general election, the Central district (Urhobo) is sure of regaining power in 2023 once it supports Anioma’s second term bid under the power rotation arrangement Urhobo themselves kick started in the new political dispensation. Lawyers in Imo boycott court si...

Update:: According to the organisers, the conference is expected to finalise the rules for implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change under the Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP), the rulebook for implementation. During the summit, President Buhari will deliver a national statement highlighting Nigeria’s commitment to addressing climate change by implementing the goals set out in its National Determined Contributions and accentuate Nigeria’s willingness to work with international partners to reverse the negative effects of climate change in Africa and the world over, while expecting that developed nations scale up their emission reduction activities in order to limit the increase in average global temperatures to well below 2 degrees centigrade between now and 2020. The Leaders’ Summit is expected to adopt a ‘‘Declaration on Solidarity and Just Transition Silesia,’’ named after the region of Poland where this year’s climate conference is taking place. As a member ...

Update:: The Federal Government has pleaded with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to make a sacrifice and suspend its ongoing industrial action so that students won’t be used for political thuggery. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mrs Ibukun Odusote, who has been at the centre of the efforts to resolve the crisis, appealed to members of ASUU to make some sacrifices as parents to secure the future of Nigeria children. Odusote made the appeal while addressing the delegates of the African Students Union Parliament (ASUP), led by its Speaker, Kewul Abel, in Abuja on Tuesday. “I am appealing to ASUU members, who are also parents, that there are some sacrifices that some people have to make so that the future of our children can be secured. “If our children are sitting at home at a critical time like this, with the year coming to an end, and the nation preparing for a national election. The tendencies that they will start running into...