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President Buhari: Why I’m seeking re-election

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President Muhammadu Buhari at the APC NEC meeting on Monday explained why he would seek re-election in 2019. Buhari, who is already 75 years, said he was responding to the clamour by Nigerians to re-contest in 2019, adding that he wanted to give NEC members the honour of notifying them first. Before making the declaration, the President gave his speech on the report of the APC National Executive Technical Committee. According to Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau who briefed journalists after the meeting, the President made known his second term…

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Wife of Swazi king commits suicide

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The eighth wife of Swaziland King Mswati III, Ms Senteni Masango, has committed suicide, local media confirmed. “The king’s wife is believed to have overdosed on about 40 amitriptyline capsules – widely used to block the long-term (chronic) pain of some rheumatic conditions and treat depression and related disorders,” online publication News24 reported. Ms Masango – known as Inkhosikati LaMasango –was found dead early on Friday morning and she was buried on Sunday morning. Senteni Masango, late wife of Swazi King King Mswati III chose Ms Masango as his eighth…

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China the rainmaker, to force rainfall over an area 2X Nigeria

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China is almost set to force rainfall and snow over 1.6 million sq km (620,000 sq miles), an area roughly three times the size of Spain or twice the size of Nigeria(923,768 Sq.kms) According to media reports, the government will use new military weather-altering technology developed by the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Since 2013 China has created 55 billion tons of artificial rain a year. The latest plan is the biggest rainmaking project ever. The country plans to build tens of thousands of combustion chambers on Tibetan…

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Messi named UN ambassador

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The UN World Tourism Organisation has appointed FC Barcelona’s Argentine star Lionel Messi as an ambassador to promote responsible tourism. “During my travels I have had the opportunity to know other cultures and societies as well as other ways to see the world and this is very enriching,” Messi said in a statement released by the Madrid-based United Nations body announcing his nomination. “I am happy I can join this mission of promoting responsible tourism,” the five-time winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year award added as the…

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Nigeria not owing UN, pays $5.08m dues

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Nigeria is not indebted to the United Nations as the country has paid $5,080,178 dollars up till April 5, 2018. The country is the 74th out of the 193 Member States of the global international organisation to fulfill its financial obligations. Spokesperson to the UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric said in New York that Nigeria paid its annual dues in full. Dujarric said: “Nigeria has paid its regular budget dues in full, bringing the Honour Roll to 74”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that one hundred and nineteen members…

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Golf: Patrick Reed wins the Masters

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Patrick Reed held his nerve and held off Sunday charges by Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth to win his first major championship at the Masters. Reed, a 27-year-old Texan better known for his match-play performances at the Ryder Cup, shot a final-round 71 to finish with a 15-under 273. It was one shot ahead of Fowler and two shots ahead of Spieth on a dramatic final day at Augusta National Golf Club. The promised duel between Reed and his final-round playing partner, Rory McIlroy, never materialized. But Spieth, the 2015…

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Lightning strikes woman to death in U.S.

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Tragedy struck over the weekend as a 23-year-old woman was killed by lightning at a Florida mud bog and four other people were hurt. The lightning killed Kourtney Lambert, reportedly unfolded at Woodpecker Mud Bog in White Springs on Saturday afternoon. The lightning hit a tree before it reached a nearby trailer, Hamilton County Sheriff Harrell Reid told the media. During mud bogging, people run large trucks or off-road vehicles through a pit of mud. Lonnie Inez Pate offered her condolences for Lambert on Facebook, describing her as a colleague. “She…

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2019: Why cabals in presidency, APC hired Arewa pastors to endorse Buhari – PDP

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday accused the some cabals in the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress, APC, of “procuring individuals who masqueraded as religious leaders” to endorse President Muhammadu Buhari. The Party described the recent visit of some Arewa Pastors to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock as “stage-managed political endorsement by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Buhari Presidency.” PDP said the Buhari “Presidency’s hiring of supposed Arewa Pastors was a second attempt to orchestrate fake endorsements ahead of the 2019 election, recalling the recent Martin…

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PDP: A hysterical, tabloid opposition

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Many are disappointed with the ruling party. The opposition has been presented a ridiculous opportunity. But a bleary-eyed, voluble, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has allowed beer-parlor habits distract it from diligent purposeful oppositional politics. The PDP has remained perpetually excited, intoxicated. The PDP sees itself as an inevitable choice of a frustrated electorate. The PDP is naive. It welcomes every scandal with revelry. It manufactures scandals when genuine ones dry up. It weaponizes misfortunes. It demonizes shortcomings. It interprets every failure of governance at the centre hyperbolically. It is unfettered…

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Governor Emmanuel’s wife builds 24 houses for widows

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The wife of the governor of Akwa Ibom, Mrs Martha Emmanuel, has built and furnished 24 bungalow houses for widows and widowers in the state since 2015. Mrs Emmanuel disclosed this during the maiden edition of Eket Women’s Day Celebration in Eket Local Government Area of the state on Saturday. She said that the houses were built and furnished through the Family Empowerment and Youth Re-Orientation Initiative (FEYReP), her pet project. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mrs Emmanuel commissioned a fully furnished two-bedroom bungalow for a widow,…

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