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Senate President Bukola Saraki has declared his intention to run for presidency in the 2019 general elections. He made the declaration on Thursday while delivering a keynote address at a dialogue for youths and young aspirants in Abuja. The Senate President listed several challenges which he believes have clogged the wheels of progress in the nation. He highlighted extreme poverty, hunger, lack of education and mass unemployment as some of the things that have paved…

Zimbabwe’s president has re-appointed as one of his vice presidents a former military general who helped him take power. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Constantino Chiwenga, who led the defense forces when the military rolled into the capital in November to pressure longtime leader Robert Mugabe to resign. Chiwenga later left the military with several other generals to take up leadership positions in the government and ruling party. Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi were sworn in…

AC Milan coach, Gennaro Gattuso who was known for his temper during his footballing days in the club, seem to be taking the same step into his coaching career. The coach, 40, was seen playfully slapping a youngster Gabriele Bellodi as he walked behind him in the tunnel area earlier this month. The playful jab occurred as 17-year-old Bellodi was filmed proudly showing off a Barcelona shirt to the camera after the two sides played…

Germany on Wednesday, handed back the skulls of indigenous people killed during a genocide in colonial Namibia over 100 years ago, Reuters reports. The skulls were received by a Namibian delegation at a church service in Berlin. Between 1904 – 1908, soldiers of German Kaiser Wilhelm slaughtered about 65,000 persons from the Herero tribe and 10,000 from Nama tribe after they revolted against land seizures by the German colonists. German Protestant bishop Petra Bosse-Huber said at the service: “Today,…

The Central Bank of Nigeria has slammed fines totalling over N5 billion on four banks “for breaching Nigeria’s forex regulations” and asked MTN Nigeria Communications Limited to refund $8.134 billion. All four banks – Standard Chartered, Stanbic IBTC, Citibank and Diamond Bank – were fined with regards to capital repatriation by telecoms giant MTN. The Central Bank hit Standard Chartered with a N2.4 billion fine (N2,470,604,767.13), slammed a N1.8 billion (N1,885,852,847.45) fine on Stanbic IBTC….

No fewer than eight persons were killed and scores of houses were burnt by yet to be identified persons in Plateau State, the police said on Wednesday. A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Plateau Police Command, Mr Tyopev Mathias, revealed that the attack also left three others injured. The incident occurred when the attackers stormed Abonong and Zayit villages of Foron District in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of the state. “The…

  1. Former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, on Wednesday officially declared his presidential ambition. The Senator is among aspirants seeking the Peoples Democratic Party’s ticket. His declaration which was held at Chida Hotel in Abuja attracted thousands of Kwankwasiya supporters and party members. The ex-Minister of Defence expressed readiness to give Nigerians the change the current government has failed to provide despite repeated assurances. 2. The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Wednesday had…

The mortal remains of former United Nations Secretary-General, Busumuru Kofi Annan will arrive in Accra, Ghana on Monday, September 10, 2018, for a state burial. The body will be accompanied by his widow Nane Maria Annan, his children and some executives of the United Nations(UN). This was made known at a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, addressed by the Information Minister-designate, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah. Mr Oppong Nkrumah said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo…

The British Prime Minister Theresa May is meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari after arriving in Abuja, Nigeria. The British Government had announced that May would be making her first official visit to Africa. May had visited South Africa, where she danced with kids, and will be travelling to Kenya after her visit to Nigeria. She had been presented with the key to the city of Abuja upon her arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport. May met with Buhari at the Presidential Villa where they both…

TMZ is reporting that Tyga has filed a lawsuit against Birdman and Lil Wayne‘s record labels. The report claims that the new suit is over Cash Money‘s refusal to pay him all royalties from two albums he produced for Young Money – Careless World and Hotel California. While the Young Money suit is over the label shorting him of significant sums of money.