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The suit instituted by a national leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu challenging an alleged defamatory documentary against him by the African Independent Television (AIT) has taken a new twist as the chairman of DAAR Communication Plc, High Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi has indicated his intention to testify in the matter. Other witnesses listed to testify in defence of the libellous documentary are Namure Joy Edoimioya, Chief Medan Tenke, Ajibola Adewusi, Olumide Idowu, Chief Stanley Odidi, Engr. Nwabueze and Dr. Stanley Bassey. Tinubu had instituted the N150 billion suit against AIT before an Ikeja High Court for peddling false accusations about his personality in the documentary titled “Lion of Bourdilion” According to him, the documentary was politically sponsored to tarnish his reputation in the eyes of the populace. The presiding judge, Justice Iyabo Akinkugbe had on April 1 granted an interlocutory injunction restraining the AIT from furthe...

Kashamu had been under house arrest since Saturday morning when anti-narcotic agents secured his property. Malham Ibrahim Bubba the chief justice of a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the personnel of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, out of the home of fugitive senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu.  The NDLEA had said Mr. Kashamu was detained to ensure he appears in court to face extradition proceedings on Monday. The lawmaker-elect is wanted by United States authorities for alleged drug related offences. Despite the house arrest, the NDLEA failed to take Mr. Kashamu to court on Monday. The matter has subsequently been adjourned till‎ 4th of june‎.

There is a reason why the United States of America are considered “the land of endless possibilities”. Year by year, a new success story proves that commitment and hard work do pay off. Moreover, many of the names you see on the board of great accomplishments are those of the immigrants. Let’s meet some of them! Sergey Brin 1. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google The online world today would be completely different without Google, the most popular search engine so far. The company is also a leader in terms of innovation and a great place to work, from what we’ve heard. Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, Russia’s capital city. His family immigrated to the USA when he was just a six year old kid. Computer science was his thing from an early age and he pursued his passion through school. While attending a Ph.D. program at Stanford, one of the world’s most prestigious universities, he met Larry Page. They dropped out and started Google together. He has an estate estimated at $24.4 billion...

The CEO of Capital Oil & Gas Ltd., Ifeanyi Ubah, has released a press statement on the ongoing fuel scarcity with a hint to almost single-handedly bring provide a temporary solution read.  On Saturday 16th May 2015, we received an SMS ordering the suspension of loading activities in all depots from Monday 18th May 2015. We later realized that this directive was as a result of unpaid funds owed to transporters by oil marketers who in turn are owed by the Federal Government. This development has resulted in immense hardship to our fellow country men and women. We believe that a better solution can be pursued towards solving this problem in a way that does not adversely affect our dear citizens. Capital Oil and Gas has watched with so much pain, the suffering and hardship our citizens have been subjected to as a result of scarcity of petrol, diesel, aviation fuel and house hold kerosene. We are deeply pained to hear that hospitals cannot perform surgeries, laboratories are unab...

Buruji Kashamu, Ogun East senator-elect, has threatened to commit suicide if men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) try to forcefully take him from his Lekki, Lagos residence. Kashamu spoke to online news platform, SaharaReporters, that the operatives that surrounded his house are masked and were operating illegally. “I will commit suicide should NDLEA forces surrounding his house in Lekki break his bedroom door,” he said. Buruji said he will accept “house arrest” until Monday when a competent court c

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has vowed not to pay oil marketers their subsidy claims, accusing them of presenting fraudulent claims with various exchange rates. She said the marketers subsidy claims reeked of fraud and that the marketers are just out to blackmail Nigerians and make them suffer. She said this while addressing newsmen in Abuja yesterday May 23 

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, currently on a private visit to England, on Friday turned down the use of a Rolls Royce made available for him by the Nigerian High Commission in London. Buhari shocked officials of the High Commission when, on landing at the Heathrow Airport, he declined to make use of  the  Rolls Royce and other facilities offered him. Premium wikis gathered that after exchanging pleasantries with the embassy officials led by the High Commissioner, Dr Dalhatu Tafida, the president-elect politely told them that his visit was strictly private and he had made arrangement for all his needs while in the UK. He reportedly thanked them for the warm reception and quickly hopped into a less flamboyant car he had arranged for and drove out of the airport. A source said: “It appeared he was uncomfortable with the number of exotic cars in the convoy. “Hard as the stunned diplomats present tried to convince him, he refused to bulge, insisting that since he ...

I came across this interesting fellow in the city of jos. This young fellow was tired of is tricycle and feels what to do next is to drag it about. Funny enough the road safety officers were close by and were so amazed and tout of the changes to charge him for, but none. More photos after the cut. .

The 68-year-old had been a pivotal figure for the South Asian nation's debate over euthanasia Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug, a former nurse who spent over four decades in a vegetative state after being raped at a Mumbai hospital in 1973, died Monday morning after a heart attack following a bout of pneumonia. She was 68. “She was recovering and all her other medical parameters were fine. Today she suffered a sudden attack and could not be saved,” Dr. Ahmad Pazare, head of medicine at Mumbai’s King Edward Memorial hospital (KEM), told the Indian Express . Shanbaug began working as a junior nurse at KEM in the early 1970s, after moving to the city from the southern Indian state of Karnataka. On Nov. 27, 1973, she was brutally attacked by a hospital sweeper named Sohanlal Bhartia Valmiki, who tied her to a dog chain and sodomized her . The incident left her in a vegetative state owing to serious brain injuries. For the past 42 years, she had been confined to ward No. 4 of...

                              (BUJUMBURA, Burundi) — Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has made his first appearance in the capital since the attempted coup against his government last week. Nkurunziza made a brief statement to journalists in the foyer of his heavily guarded presidential offices in Bujumbura Sunday morning. He did not mention the failed coup plot against him or the protests that have rocked Burundi for weeks over his bid for a third term in office. Instead he described how he contacted the presidents of nearby African countries to discuss the threat from Somalia’s Islamic extremists, al-Shabab. Burundi, Kenya and Uganda contribute troops to the African Union force in Somalia that is fighting al-Shabab. The extremist rebels have retaliated by carrying out violent attacks in Kenya and Uganda. “You know that Burundi is among the countries that is contributing troops in Somalia ...

                                    President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday met separately with two leading pastors in the country based in Ogun State. Jonathan met with the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye; and the Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide a.k.a Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo. The headquarters of Winners Chapel is located in Ota, Ogun State while the Redemption Camp of the RCCG is situated at Mowe along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The President arrived the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos in the afternoon and was conveyed to the venues of the separate meetings in a helicopter. The two meetings were said to have been described as “private” and hence were not opened to journalists. After the closed-door meetings with the two clergymen, Jonathan who was accompanied on the tri...

                                   No fewer than 100 people, including a pastor and three soldiers, were killed at the weekend and Monday in Plateau and Taraba states. Seventy of the deaths were recorded in Karim Lamido and Takum local government areas of Taraba State and 30 in two villages at the Barkin Ladi LGA   of Plateau State. It was learnt that suspected Fulani herdsmen   invaded Vat and Zakupang , killing Pastor Luka Gwom of the Church of Christ in Nation and 29 others in the early hours of Monday. Spokesman for the Special Task Force,   Ikedichi Iweha, told our correspondent in Jos   that the herdsmen took the action following the theft of about 400 of their cows.   More than 300   of the stolen cows, according to him, were later found and returned to their owners. He explained that the cows were stolen in ...

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has said the hate campaign against Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress by the President Goodluck Jonathan campaign team played a huge part in PDP’s woeful outing at the last general elections. It also accused the   team of shutting out its members from Jonathan’s electioneering after receiving about N500m out of the N7bn generated from the sale of forms to the aspirants. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh,   told journalists at a news conference in Abuja on Monday, that apart from the N500m, the Jerry Gana -led fund raising campaign committee generated about N21bn which it spent without involving the NWC members. He said that the belief by the Jonathan campaign team that it could denigrate   a respected statesman like Buhari, who is reverred in the North, instead of dwelling on issues, cost the party a lot of votes in that part of the cou...