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Speaking with David Piling in a Financial Times interview, Lunch with FT, the multi-billionaire, who is Africa’s richest man, revealed a soft side of himself and talked tall about his ambitions to buy Arsenal Football club after successfully leading Nigeria’s oil refining revolution. DANGOTE REALLY NEEDS A NEW WIFE Dangote revealed that his schedule is inhibiting romance. The founder of Dangote Group, who is twice divorced and has three grown-up daughters, told FT that he is on the lookout for a new bride. He however adds a caveat: “I’m not getting younger. Sixty years is no joke. But it doesn’t make sense to go out and get somebody if you don’t have the time. Right now, things are really, really very busy, because we have the refinery, we have the petrochemicals, we have the fertiliser, we have the gas pipeline.” But he agrees that he needs to “calm down a bit”. FASTS AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK Who will believe that the man who has one of the biggest food chains in the country, a...

His Special Adviser on Public Communication and New Media, Lere Olayinka who confirmed the incident on Twitter said Fayose was teargassed by the policemen who laid siege at the Governement House and was now receiving treatment at the Government House’s clinic.   Lere on Twitter wrote, ”Gov Fayose, a few minutes ago escaped plot to assassinate him by Fayemi and his APC. ”He is currently receiving treatment at govt house clinic after he was hit by teargas canister fired by the policemen. ”The armed policeme are laying siege at the Govt House.  The DIG in charge of operations Joshak Habila cited prevention of breakdown of law and order as the reason for the siege.

Cynthia, the wife of TV host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu revealed today that she first met him on twitter. 

Speaking at a world press conference in Abuja today, the Minister also described fake news a global epidemic that could be worse than all the plagues that the world has recorded put together, a clear and present danger to global peace and security, and a threat to democracy.   He said the fake news phenomenon is capable of undermining confidence in the media, adding: ”Once the people lose confidence in the media, the media and the society are in trouble. The essence of the campaign is to sensitize all Nigerians to the dangers posed to the peace and security, and indeed the corporate existence of Nigeria by the phenomenon, and the fact that each and every Nigerian has a role to play in curtailing the spread of fake news”.   He explained that though the federal government has been calling national attention to the issue of fake news and hate speeches since last year, ”the timing of the launch is also not unconnected to the role of fake news in aggravating the various cris...

Others are National Unity Party, Peoples Alliance for National Development and Liberty, Peoples Progressive Party, People for Democratic Change,  Peoples Democratic Party , Providence People’s Congress,  Reformed All Progressive Congress , Restoration Party of Nigeria, Social Democratic Party, Unity Party of Nigeria, All Grassroots Alliance,  National Interest Party,  Nigeria Democratic Congress Party,  Progressive Peoples Alliance , and  Young Democratic Party , among others. The plot to unseat president Buhari got thicker today with Thirty-nine political parties including PDP, SDP, the Reformed-APC AND and many others, meeting in Abuja to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to field a single presidential candidate during the 2019 general election and work together during all the elections in 2019.

In May,  she told the UK's The Times  that she and Bieber, who both attend Hillsong Church in Los Angeles, had a tense time after their 2016 breakup. "We didn't speak for quite some time and there was a lot of weirdness that went on," she said. "But it brought both of us to the realization that we just work much better as friends. He's somebody I really cherish. Now it's a very mature situation. It's good." Bieber told GQ magazine in February 2016  that he wanted to be careful not to rush things with Baldwin in case she ended up being the one. "What if Hailey ends up being the girl I'm gonna marry, right? If I rush into anything, if I damage her, then it's always gonna be damaged," he said. "It's really hard to fix wounds like that. It's so hard ... I just don't want to hurt her."

An Instagram user who seemed not too happy by the post deemed it fit to insult Adesua via her comment section. See mumu don't go and get pregnant. Be there dancing like an idiot, I hate you because you are too fake... A not so bothered Adesua, gave a classy reply: "Lool. Peace and love. She wrote "

Momoh who spoke on behalf of the elders said Dino if allowed to contest in any free and fair election in the state now will be defeated. The elders said they will vehemently reject any attempt to make Dino an automatic senatorial candidiate “He is seen as too controversial and his unacceptable behaviors are the serious negative views of the public against him. He can not win any election in a free and fair atmosphere and PDP should therefore not gamble with him as a candidate for now.  He needs a serious reformation period which PDP Kogi state do not have the luxury of time to dispense. The leadership of PDP in the state under the apex leadership of two former governors of the state, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, Captain Idris Wada, senator Tunde Ogbeha Alhaji Musa Ahmadu and host of other critical stakeholders have been struggling to rebrand a PDP that can recapture power from an aggressive none performing government of APC in the state. They have reconcile several prominent strong me...

A 31-year-old, Christiana Eze, has been arrested by the International Federation Of Women Lawyers, FIDA, for pouring hot water on her 13-year-old housemaid, Beauty, for allegedly sleeping on her couch in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. It was gathered that Beauty normally sleeps on the floor, but slept on the couch that fateful day because of cold, promoting the reaction from Christiana.  she let the girl go to school in that condition following morning and her teacher noticed and filed a report against Christiana. Beauty, from Edo State, accused Christiana of pouring hot water on her and using a belt to flog her on the same spot she poured the hot water on, till her skin pilled peeled off.  It was gathered that for the last two years of the girl has stayed with Christiana, she knew nothing but torment and torture, a situation the neighbors attested to.  The security man also revealed that he gives Beauty food sometimes because she eats once a day. The investigation...

Preamble: I have watched the viral video of Mr. Kunle Karimu (my former colleague in chambers) being assaulted by Policemen and I state without equivocation that I did not give any instruction to that effect and find his treatment reprehensible. The assault of any person (whether by a private citizen or law-enforcement officer) is unacceptable and should be deprecated. I have become aware that a lot of public condemnation has followed the publication of the viral video, and much of that condemnation and opprobrium has been visited on me. It has been alleged that I treated Mr. Karimu badly as an employee and when he called at my office to demand his rights, I invited the Policemen to assault and threaten him. Mr Karimu has also put forward his own story making a number of allegations against me. I make bold to state, categorically, that the allegation that I contracted Policemen to assault him is untrue and an unwarranted smear campaign. What really happened? Mr. Kunle Karimu was emplo...

In an recent chat with TheNet, while speaking on his longtime break from the industry, the actor said, "I have not been away, it is the producers who cannot afford me. So I know my worth.“

According to a Facebook post put up earlier by Lokhande,  the woman’s father  had told him told to prove his love for her by killing himself .  A man who did not want his daughter to marry her boyfriend told the young man to  shoot himself to prove his love. 30-year-old Atul Lokhande desperately wanted to marry the woman, so he complied  with her father’s request. He had reportedly been in a relationship with the 27-year-old woman, who is a bank  an employee, for the last 13 years. In a Facebook post,-Lokhande wrote that his girlfriend’s father asked him to shoot  himself in order to show his love for the young woman. Lokhande said that the father, who tried to break them up several times, promised to  let him marry his girlfriend if he survived. Lokhande went to the woman’s home and shot himself in front of his horrified girlfriend  and his uncle who was waiting in a car outside the home. The uncle rushed him to a hos...

President Yemi Osinbajo in Borno State to visit the recently opened Children Learning Center, Maiduguri, built by a charity- North East Children Trust for orphans out of the NE insurgency. The boarding school from Primary to SSS is a model educational institution with about 325 students. 

 1,473 members (male) 1,011 (female), deployed to the state, the 91 corps members were alleged to have been involved in gross misconduct and flouting of the rules of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC. Mr Benjamin Omotade, the state coordinator said, “the 91 corps members are to repeat their service, they were found defaulting of gross misconduct, lawlessness. This is the punishment they face for another one year.” He stated that corps members in Delta, throughout their service, were trained to face the labour market independently through different skills acquisition programmes that include: baking, bead making and soap making among others. From Daily Post 

According to him, the accused was apprehended while trying to enter the apartment of the complainant, Mr Adeboye Lamidi.  Lamidi alleged that he was in his sitting room when he noticed someone was trying to open the door to his apartment with a key from outside. Akilapa used a different key to unlock the door of the complainant house but was caught in the act. He said, “l peeped through the door hole and l saw the accused trying to open my door with a key.” The prosecutor also alleged that the accused on Nov. 16, 2015, at 3.00 p.m. broke into the residence of Oyinlola Tuga by unlocking the door with a master key. Tuga, who lives at No. 39A, Ayodele Okeowo St., Gbagada Soluyi in Lagos, reported that the accused stole jewellery, bags and other valuables worth N7 million. “Tuga alleged that after raising an alarm that his house had been burgled, his neighbours told him that they saw the accused parked her car with registration no. MUS 689 CZ in front of the complainant’...

A family's dream in Canada turned into a nightmare after their young son drowned in a swimming pool in Saint-Leonard, Quebec Monday night. The 6-year-old boy named Bukumi was the oldest of three children, living with their mother, 31-year-old Bukola Babayemi, and had only just arrived in Quebec, Canada, from Nigeria, via the United States, in April.  Witnesses told CTV Montreal that the swimming pool, located outside an apartment building in the city’s Saint-Leonard neighborhood, was crowded on Monday around 7 p.m. when the boy drowned. The child slipped under the water and was spotted unconscious at the bottom of the pool, witnesses said.  There was one lifeguard on duty, witnesses say, and she jumped into the pool and pulled the child to the deck. She immediately performed chest compressions on the child but was unable to revive the boy. Speaking with the Journal de Montreal, the boy's mother, Bukola Babayemi, said they moved into their apartment ...

Following Peter and Tonto's comments, some people criticized them, saying they were being insensitive and it was wrong to try to replace the position Dbanj's son holds in his heart by offering their sons.

Drake rapped about how he found out he had a son with a former porn star he claimed he only slept with once and only met twice. His son's photos below. Yesterday morning was crazy I had to come to terms with the fact that it's not a maybe That shit is in stone, sealed and signed She not my lover like Billie Jean but the kid is mine Sandi used to tell me all it takes is one time and all it took was one time Shit, we only met two times, two times And both times were nothin' like the new times Now it's rough times, I'm out here on front lines Just tryin' to make sure that I see him sometimes It's breakin' my spirit Single father, I hate when I hear it I used to challenge my parents on every album Now I'm embarrassed to tell 'em I ended up as a co-parent Always promised the family unit I wanted it to be different because I've been through it But this is the harsh truth now And fairy tales are saved for the bedtime stor...