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Update:: Remember when Area Fada, Charly Boy announced he was divorcing his wife Diane on December 14th to remarry on December 15th? Well, he actually wasn’t mincing words. He, in fact remarried today, December 15th, but to Diane, his wife of 40 years. He shared photos of the ceremony on social media, writing: Today I said NO to “see finish” by remarrying my phenomenal, bespoke wife of 40years. Thank you for marrying me again. And I go do am again and again. Our marriage na for heaven Baba God bake am come let us enjoy am for earth. You toooooo much😘😍 See photos below:

Update:: A final year student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Olaniyi Ashimi, died recently due to lack of good medical care at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, and the University College Hospital, Ibadan. His sister and friend shares the circumstances leading to his death How did you hear of his death? I am Ajoke Ashimi, the younger sister of the late Olaniyi Ashimi. I am also a final year student of the Department of Soil Science at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. I was beside him on his sickbed till he died. What led to his hospitalisation? He was involved in an accident on his way back from a conference.  He broke his leg in the accident. He and the others were taken to the Federal Medical Centre and they treated his broken leg but didn’t do any further check-up. He was fine and playing until Thursday afternoon. The hospital where he was taken to doesn’t have any X-ray machine; so, the school intended to take all of the...

Update:: The Nigerian Military has suspended operations of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) from the North-East for allegedly sabotaging it counter-terrorism efforts. "(UNICEF has) abdicated its primary duty of catering for the wellbeing of children and the vulnerable through humanitarian activities and now engaged in training selected persons for clandestine activities to continue sabotaging the counter terrorism and Counter insurgency efforts of troops through spurious and unconfirmed allegations bothering on alleged violations of human rights by the military,” said the Army. Colonel and Deputy Director of Public Relations, Theatre Command,  Onyema Nwachukwu,  in a statement made available to pressmen on Friday threatened that  “this kind of sabotage from any individual, group of persons or organization will not be condoned”,  therefore, urged all NGOs and members of humanitarian agencies to keep to their legitimate norm...

Update:: Former Ethiopian president Girma Woldegiorgis died on Saturday, two weeks short of his 95th birthday, state media reported. Girma was president of Ethiopia for twelve years between 2001 to 2013, a largely ceremonial role. His death was reported by the Ethiopia Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) and other state media. The cause of death was not given. Girma was a fluent speaker in Ethiopia’s working language Amharic, his native language Afan Oromo as well as English and French. In recent years Girma had been active in efforts to foster reconciliation between former foes Ethiopia and Eritrea who declared an end to two decades of hostility in July. In a political career that spanned more than five decades, the man fondly known as Lieutenant Girma has been fortunate enough to live through and witness many momentous and significant period of the nation. Starting his career as head of civil aviation in Eritrea in 1955, he was appointed as director-general of Ethiop...

…Job creation, key to tackle insecurity, social vices — Peter Obi ABUJA —  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria suffered major infrastructural deficit in the 16 years of the Peoples Democraty Party’s (PDP) rule. Okorocha, Ohakim have been 12yrs of trauma for Imo – Araraume He stated this on Friday in Abuja at the 2019 Vice Presidential Debate organised by the Nigeria Election Debate Group in collaboration with the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) and Civil Society Organisations. He added that corruption is the major cause of the country‘s current challenges which must be tackled head-on. He argued that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product had consistently gone up under the All Progressives Congress (APC) led administration which he added was building the country‘s infrastructure, especially the road and rail sector. While acknowledging issues of poverty in the county, Osinbajo said the administration’s social investment programmes were put in place to ad...

Update:: The Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole has suspended the operations of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in the Northeast theatre, until further notice. A statement yesterday by Deputy Director Public Relations, Theatre Command, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, yesterday said UNICEF is sabotaging the counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency efforts of troops through spurious and unconfirmed allegations bothering on alleged violation of human rights by the military. Nwachukwu added that the organization has abdicated its primary duty of catering for the wellbeing of children and the vulnerable through humanitarian activities and is now engaged in training selected persons for clandestine activities to frustrate the efforts of the Nigerian military. He said: “Theatre Command Operation LAFIYA DOLE has observed with dismay that some of the activities of International Humanitarian Agencies and non-governmental organisations operating in th...

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.

Update:: A young man has reportedly died while he was being baptized by a pastor inside a river in Ghana.  The man died during baptism Yaw Kyeremeh, a 20-year-old man has drowned while being baptised by a pastor in a river south of Ghana’s capital, Accra, BBC reports.  In a video circulating on social media, Yaw Kyeremeh is seen stationed at the banks of River Densu together with a pastor who immersed him in the water.  Then after brief prayers he was immersed a second time but he did not emerge from the waters.  Accra Regional Police Command spokeswoman Afia Tenge told the BBC a junior pastor had been arrested at the scene while police were still searching for the head pastor of the church involved in the baptism.  The drowning, which happened on Sunday, has led many people to question why a life should be lost during a religious ritual. The man’s family is quoted by local media as saying that it does not blame anyone for the drowning....

Update:: Nollywood actor  Ken Erics  has finally decided to succumb the invisible pressure that entertainers claim to have when they want to try something new.  He has decided to combine two very demanding sectors of the entertainment industry releasing a full song he used as an original soundtrack titled  INOZIKWA OMEE .  His new song is available on major music streaming platforms. 

Update:: The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on Thursday disagreed with the Majority Leader, Senator  Ahmed Lawan, over the composition of the membership of the upper legislative chamber. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the disagreement played out on the floor of the Senate during plenary presided over by Ekweremadu. Raising a point of order, Lawan (APC-Yobe) had claimed that there were 56 APC senators as against PDP’s 46 in the upper chamber. But Ekweremadu (PDP-Enugu) countered him, saying there was no record to back his claim. Lawan’s point of order was in reaction to two reports on pages 5 and 7 of Daily Trust newspaper of Wednesday which he dismissed as erroneous. He said, “On page 5 of Daily Trust of Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2018, it is reported that the APC senators are 57 and PDP senators, 58. “For the record, Mr President, APC senators are 56 and PDP senators are 46. “On page 7, the Daily T...