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Update::   Dr. Pedro Obaseki, the President of Midwest Movement, says the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, should not use restructuring as a political gimmick to get votes. Obaseki, a cousin to Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, said Friday that only a restructured Nigeria would engender peace, progress and prosperity for the country. According to him, the country needs a presidential candidate that strongly believes in and committed to restructuring of the nation for Nigeria to join the comity of developed nations of the world.                   He spoke against the backdrop of Abubakar’s promise to commence the processes of Nigeria’s restructuring within six months of his administration if he emerges the winner of the Feb. 16 Presidential Election. Abubakar gave the pledge at the PDP rally in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday. Obaseki said: “We will take any presidential candidate...

Update::  A petrol tanker has exploded at Forte Oil filling station located very close to the local airport in Lagos State. Sources from the airport confirmed this to Channels Television on Friday shortly after the incident occurred. The explosion which occurred when the tanker was discharging its contents has resulted in a massive blaze at the facility. Channels Television aviation correspondent said officials of the fire services have moved in to contain the inferno. However, it is yet to be ascertained if there are casualties as a result of the incident. The airport itself, just across the road, has not been affected by the fire. The incident has caused a gridlock in the Ikeja axis of the state. More to follow… See photos from the filling station below;

Update:: American video vixen and model, Symba has narrated how a hotel cleaner in the Lekki area of Lagos State recently stole her panties including that of her friend. This is happening amid rumours of female panties being utilized by internet fraudsters popularly known as ‘Yahoo Boys’ for money-making rituals. According to the curvy Black American, she was smart enough to discover the missing panties and alerted the hotel authorities that in turn summoned the suspected cleaner. .

Update:: Senate Minority Leader, Biodun Olujimi, has said that Nigerians have no reason to re-elect President Muhammadu Buhari who is the All Progressives Congress’ presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections. Olujimi, who is the Peoples Democratic Party’s senatorial candidate for Ekiti South, said Nigerians should vote in 2019 based on past record and ability to deliver. The senator who was represented by her campaign director, Sanya Adesua, spoke at Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday during the distribution of Mathematics and English Language textbooks to public secondary schools in her senatorial district. She said, “President Buhari does not have anything to campaign with as his achievements in the last four years. Maybe that is why he has been finding it difficult to address Nigerians. “The situation in the country at present requires a leader with vision and ability to put things right. That is where the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar...

Update:: A US woman has accused Nigerian musician Runtown of conning her of $124, 000 (Ksh12.4 million). Shawn Rene recently took to social media to post receipts, screenshots and a video to back up her claim .[Click here to like and follow us on Facebook] Runtown has, however, come out to refute Ms Rene’s allegations. In a statement released by his management, Runtown says:  “Our attention has been drawn to reports circulating on social media by a US-based woman named, Shawn Rene accusing our artist, Runtown, of fraud. It’s all lies and an attempt to blackmail and tarnish our image. “We have contacted the Nigerian security agencies including the DSS and EFCC who are all on the matter at the moment and preliminary investigations already reveals that it’s a group of impostors who may have duped ‘Sawhn Rene’ using Runtown’s name. Runtown has never and will never defraud anyone,”  reads the statement.

Update:: American singer, Justin Timberlake has revealed that he will be taking a break from singing for a short while.  Taking to Instagram, he revealed that his doctors have advised him to take a rest from singing as he recuperates from a bruised vocal cord.  Get well soon JT! Peep the post below:

Update:: The Campaign Train of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has hit the South-western part of the country. Campaign DG, Bukola Saraki, Ex-governor of Ekiti, Ayo Fayose among many other top chieftains of the party in the South-west stormed the city of Ibadan for their campaign rally.  Photos below;

Update:: Management of Ebonyi state University (EBSU) on Thursday said it has sacked 63  lecturers for various infringements. Among the infringements include alleged certificate forgeries, sexual harassment and extortion. Public Relations Officer of the University, Patrick Itumo confirmed the sack to The Nation. He noted that some of the people sacked were adjunct lecturers of the school who have over stayed in the university. According to him, most of the staff sacked were said to have obtained their West African School Certificate Examination (WAEC) before their First School Leaving Certificate. They were also said to have falsified their age certificates and other relevant credentials. The spokesman said the sack followed audit report submitted by a committee set up to verify credentials of workers of the institution. Rumour has it that over 300 persons were affected by the sack but the spokesman said only 63 were dism...

Update:: The spokesman for the House of Representatives, Abdulrazak Namdas, has denied claims that Reps members were collating signatures to impeach the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. Namdas told journalists on Wednesday that he is not aware of such process in the House. According to him, “There is nothing like impeachment before the House of Representatives as I speak now. “As far as I am concerned, I speak for the House, and there is nothing like impeachment before the House for consideration. I don’t speak for members, I speak for the House. “At least, officially before the house, there is nothing like that. I am not aware of any impeachment.” Namdas’ reaction comes amidst allegation that some of the lawmakers are collating signatures to commence the impeachment of Vice-President Osinbajo. A member of the House of Representatives, Johnson Agbonayinma, had made this allegation on Tuesday while speaking with journalists. Agbonayinma alleged that political gladi...

Update:: Someone who possibly has a little more time on their hands than the rest of us has discovered that Nicki Minaj and Drake are no longer following each other on Instagram. The two came up in the game together in Young Money, and are the two most successful Lil Waynesignees. After exploding onto the scene in 2009-2009, Nicki and Drake both reached the pinnacle of pop fame in record time. While Drake was boasting accolades such as collaborating with Eminem and Jay-Z during the early stages of his career, Minaj was blessed with a judges chair on American Idol. As their fame grew, it seemed like Nicki and Drake were drifting apart. On "Tuscan Leather" Drake infamously rapped, "Not even talkin' to Nicki, communication is breaking." Now, it appears the two have stopped following each other. Speculative fans belive it may have something to do with the fact Drake and Meek Mill have made up. The two friends turned enemies, turned friends again, pushed thei...

Update:: The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has said the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole needs to learn how to talk in a way that will dignify the party. Okorocha said this while lambasting the APC Chairman over his comments against some leaders of the ruling party. Recall that Oshiomhole had on Wednesday described some state governors on the party’s platform as poor students of history. Oshiomhole had spoken after receiving the APC women leaders from Edo State and Abuja, who paid him a solidarity visit in his office in Aso Drive, Abuja. In a swift response, Okorocha said the former Edo State Governor should apply caution in the way he speaks about the party leaders. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, the governor urged Oshiomhole to learn from President Muhammadu Buhari. He said, “We have not read Oshiomhole’s statement but I don’t think any National Chairman of a party can say such a thing. He should ...

Update:: The 2018 ranking on terrorism is out and Nigeria, for the fourth consecutive year, occupies the third position among the countries worst hit by terrorism, globally, because of the activities of Boko Haram and herdsmen. Apart from 2014 when it was ranked fourth, Nigeria has remained in the unenviable third position in the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) ranking since 2015. In the latest report released on Wednesday, Iraq, a country in the Middle-East, is ranked first, a position it has held since 2014. Afghanistan has ranked second since 2013. Syria and Pakistan are ranked fourth and fifth respectively. Others among the top 10 countries worst hit by terrorism in 2017 are Somalia (sixth), India (seventh), Yemen (eighth), Egypt (ninth), and Philippines (10th). The good news, however, is that there has been a reduction in the number of deaths caused by terrorism in Nigeria in 2017, just like the other three preceding years, according to the report “When compared to the peak ...

A lecturer in one the universities in the Southeast ‘transformed’ into Spiderman to attend to his students. The unnamed lecturer was seen on Wednesday morning walking into his office in Spiderman's costume. Some non-teaching staff were present when the incident happened and were stunned to see a man dressed in Spiderman's costume walking into the office complex. As the lecturer was greeted and called by his name, he ignored every greeting, pretending not to know anyone since he was not ‘human’. He opened his door, walked in and sat down, waiting for students whom he had told to await the arrival of ‘Spiderman’ to assist them. As Mass Media Nigeria reported, "it was gathered that the unnamed lecturer had told some students he was a strong member of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) currently on nationwide strike for the past one month. According to sources, some of his M.Sc. students wanted to see him to have a final discussion with him before their...

Update:: Russia has asked Italy to drop charges against a former ambassador caught up in a Nigerian corruption case, legal documents showed on Wednesday. Ednan Tofik ogly Agaev, a former Russian ambassador in Colombia, is charged with international corruption in a case revolving around the 2011 purchase by oil majors Eni and Shell of Nigeria’s OPL 245 oilfield. Milan prosecutors allege bribes totalling around $1.1 billion were paid to win the licence to explore the field. Agaev and all the parties involved in the case have denied any wrongdoing. Documents filed by prosecutors with the Milan court on Wednesday showed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov handed a letter to his Italian counterpart in Moscow at a meeting on Oct. 8, calling on Italian authorities to be “reasonable”. The letter said Russia was convinced Agaev had committed no wrongdoing. "We hope the Italian authorities adopt a reasonable approach and after respective checks find a way to change the status o...

Update:: People steal about 60% of the electricity generated in Liberia annually by making illegal connections to their homes and businesses, the state-owned power utility has said. The theft caused annual losses of about £35m (£27m), Liberia Electricity Corporation officials told state radio. This robbed the utility of money needed to extend power supply, they added. Liberia is trying to rebuild its power sector, destroyed during a civil war which lasted from 1989 to 2003. But up to now only 12% of Liberians - and less than 20% of residents in the capital, Monrovia - have electricity, one of the lowest access rates in the world. The government has set itself the target of rolling out electricity to 70% of Monrovia's population by 2030.

Update:: A plane carrying the body of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush touched down in Houston on Wednesday following a state funeral in Washington where he was remembered as a statesman of uncommon personal kindness. He occupied the White House from 1989 to 1993, navigating the collapse of the Soviet Union and expelling former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s forces from oil-rich Kuwait. “George H.W. Bush was America’s last great soldier-statesman,” Jon Meacham, a presidential biographer, said in a eulogy at the service in Washington. “He stood in the breach in the Cold War against totalitarianism. He stood in the breach in Washington against unthinking partisanship.”

Update:: Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, in Vancouver on suspicion she violated U.S. sanctions against Iran. She now faces extradition to the United States, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Wednesday. Meng, who is one of the vice chairs on the Chinese technology company’s board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested on Dec. 1. A court hearing has been set for Friday, a Canadian Justice Department spokesman said, according to the Globe and Mail.

Update:: President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja from Poland, where he participated in the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice. While in Poland, the President delivered his national address at the 12-day meeting of COP24, and met with several world leaders . He also visited the impressive Nigerian pavilion at the climate summit. President Buhari on Tuesday visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, in Oświęcim, Poland where he paid tribute to Holocaust victims.

Update:: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said President Muhammadu Buhari will perform better if re-elected in 2019. He said Buhari’s honesty, integrity and performance in the past three years in office set him apart from all other contenders for the exalted office. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, stated this yesterday in Abuja during a door-to-door strategy in two Abuja suburbs of Karu and Nyanya. Osinbajo, who addressed a mammoth crowd, said “For the honest, decent and hardworking Nigerians, Mr. President has devoted his life to ensuring that their lives are made better even when it is sometimes not easy to do so. “All of us are going higher. I want you to believe that President Muhammadu Buhari is going to do even better. We have to create more jobs for all these young people. “We have to give our market women credit so that they can do more business; our young people money so that they can do more business.” Speaking on the President’s concern for the common man, Prof. O...

Update:: Eight staff of Osun College of Technology, Esa-Oke were on Tuesday kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. The Public Relations Officer of the college, Mr Adewale Oyekanmi, made this known in a phone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo. According to him, the gunmen also shot dead another staff who attempted to escape from the scene of the incident at about 4:30pm. Oyekanmi explained that the gunmen blocked Esa-Oke Road (a road leading to the college campus), stopped several vehicles including the victims’ vehicles and abducted them. “So far, the gunmen have not made contact with the families of the kidnapped persons or with the college management. “The police, Department of State Security and men of the OPC are combing the bushes to see if they can rescue the kidnapped staff,” he said. When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mrs Folashade Odoro, said the police were aware of the matter, adding that it would soon issue an of...

Update:: Mr. Stanley Osifo, a Peoples Democratic Party 2019 presidential aspirant has issued a 48-hours ultimatum to the party to cancel its presidential primaries, calling for a new convention. Osifo also threatened to go to court if the party refused to revert to the status quo and cancel the primaries that ushered in Atiku Abubakar as its candidate. Addressing newsmen in Lagos, Osifo said that he deserved the same opportunity as other aspirants of the party, having obtained its nomination and intention forms for N10 million and N2 million respectively. The aspirant, who hails from Edo State, said his major grievance was that he was not allowed to undergo screening and participate in the primaries for no reason. “I do not want my N12 million refunded. I bought the form to contest and must be given the opportunity to do so. “The electoral act guarantees that we can still hold fresh primaries a week to the election. “The party refused to screen me for the election after I obta...

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has launched a fresh attack on Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, stating that he is unfit to be the next president of Nigeria Tinubu explained his reason for declaring Atiku unfit to rule Nigeria, saying the former Vice President was “a merry-go-round and carnival-like politician with no focus or mission.” The APC national leader spoke while delivering a keynote address at the meeting of National Consultative Forum by the National Committee of Buhari Support Groups held yesterday in Abuja. The former Lagos State Governor stated that the Waziri of Adamawa had changed parties so many times and collected so many membership cards that he had become unstable and confused Tinubu said, “Atiku could build a house of the party membership cards he has accumulated. “But one thing he should remember is that a man who builds a house of cards ought not to cast stones at a ma...

Update:: South Africa has picked a new chief prosecutor - a key figure in the country’s struggle against corruption. Shamila Batohi - the first woman in the role - said she was ready to fight the good fight. The prosecution service has been engulfed by scandal, with claims that former President Jacob Zuma and his allies were shielded from corruption investigations. Hence, there has been huge interest here in the appointment of a new chief prosecutor. President Cyril Ramaphosa's government - anxious to show it is now serious about tackling corruption - took the unprecedented step of broadcasting the job interviews on live television.

Update:: Kenya has appointed top British lawyer and scholar, Khawar Qureshi, as a prosecutor in charge of corruption cases against high-profile individuals. "The stakes in such cases are very high, and therefore it is necessary that the proceedings are insulated from public perceptions of political interferences," the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said in a statement. Dozens of civil servants and top business people are facing corruption charges. One of the high profile cases is that of Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu Mwilu, who was arrested in August on suspicion of corruption, failure to pay tax and improper dealings with a local bank now in receivership. She denies the charges.

Update:: The UN has launched a global humanitarian appeal of $25 billion to provide support to no less than 93 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in Nigeria and other countries in 2019. Speaking at the launch of a major annual analysis of global humanitarian needs in Geneva, Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock said that 132 million people would need assistance next year. He said conflict had pushed tens of millions of people into a situation where they were in urgent need of help, adding the appeal for funds could top $25 billion to support life-saving aid projects in over 40 countries next year.

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A couple from Utah, United States, was on Friday attacked by three Kenyan men with one wielding a machete during a fitness tour along a rough road in Nairobi. According to a video posted on their social media account, the two, Lauren and Bryant Swenson, did not have enough time to react after they came across a matatu parked along that road. In a report by US media, the two had taken the rough road as a shortcut to bypass a highway snarl up in one of the city’s major roads While the four occupants of the vehicle approached the parked Public Service Vehicle (PSV), it slowly started moving revealing the three armed men. The three then started running towards their vehicle. Two Kenyans who were on the passengers' back seats, seeing how serious the situation was, then directed the driver to keep moving. They suspected that the PSV had been robbed as well. According to Bryant Swenson’s father, Bryant Swenson Senior, his son did not have any choice at the time but to try and driv...

Update:: Currently rocking the Senate house Tuesday morning is the protest by the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) to agitate for the payment of salaries and allowances owed it members. Report shows the protest is taking place at the lobby of the Senate amid heavy security. The protesting staffers bear banners with the inscription: ‘enough is enough. ‘the Clerk to the National Assembly has suddenly become stupendous’. The protesters were also singing: “Sani Omolori, juju de fail’, ‘Ole’ (Sani Omolori, charms fail, you are a thief) as they moved round the balcony to the chambers. Sani Omolori is the Clerk to the National Assembly.