President Buhari, Tinubu say they are on rescue mission

President Mohammadu Buhari and APC leader Ahmed Tinubu have re-kindle hope with assurances that Nigeria is being rescued from wreckage. Buhari, who is in Lagos for a two-day official visit, restated his commitment to implement people-oriented programmes. “Our goal is to bring everybody together for mutually beneficial ethnic, economic, social, religion, political and cultural relationship. “We are determined to invest in people because we depend on people to govern,’’ Buhari said , on Thursday at the 10th Bola Tinubu Colloquium. Buhari, who earlier commissioned the Ikeja Bus Terminal designed to…

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Governor Obaseki expresses shock at killing of APC youth leader

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has expressed shock at the news of the brutal killing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) youth leader in Etsako West Local Government Area of the state, Mr. Samson Sedi, who was allegedly shot by armed robbers on Wednesday night in Jattu. “I was shocked on receiving the news of Mr. Samson Sedi’s death. My heart goes out to his family. I have ordered the relevant security agencies to arrest the killers and prosecute them without delay,” Obaseki said. He described the…

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Tonto Dikeh: Reality TV show “KingTonto’’ to hit screens soon

Controversial Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh says her much anticipated reality TV show “KingTonto’’ will hit screens across the country and beyond soon. The 33 year-old singer and mother of one revealed this on Thursday via her instagram handle, @tontolet with a 30 seconds sneak preview video of herself in different outfits with a crown on her head. “#KINGTONTO THE MOST ANTICIPATED REALITY TV SHOW…I promise you DRAMA, Love, Motherhood in its purest adorable form, work and everything I am made up of and more…Tell your friends to tell their friends…

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Navy discovers six new illegal refineries in Rivers

Capt. Victor Choji, Executive Officer of the Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder Port Harcourt, disclosed this while destroying one of the illegal refineries on Thursday in Alakiri, Asari-Toru. The Nigerian Navy says it has discovered six new illegal refineries with combined capacity to refine four million litres of crude oil daily in Alakiri, Asari Toru Local Government Area of Rivers. Capt. Victor Choji, Executive Officer of the Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder Port Harcourt, disclosed this while destroying one of the illegal refineries on Thursday in Alakiri, Asari-Toru. Choji said: “The refinery…

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Atiku Abubakar: APC has failed Nigerians

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday declared his intention to contest the position of the President. Atiku made this declaration when he led some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party to the Government House in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. This is as the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said Nigerians must take up the responsibility of sacking the “non-performing” APC Federal Government in 2019. The former Vice-President and other PDP leaders were in the state to consult with chieftains of the party in Rivers State. Atiku said that…

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Facebook announces new steps to protect users’ privacy

Facebook said Wednesday it would overhaul its privacy settings tools to put users “more in control” of their information on the social media website. “We’ve heard loud and clear that privacy settings and other important tools are too hard to find and that we must do more to keep people informed,” Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan and Deputy General Counsel Ashlie Beringer said in a blog post. “We’re taking additional steps in the coming weeks to put people more in control of their privacy,” they confirmed. The updates include improving…

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Google Maps is now available in 39 new languages

Google Maps is now available in 39 new languages, the company announced today in a blog post. These languages — including Afrikaans, Danish, Filipino, Hebrew, Icelandic, Mongolian, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Turkish, and Vietnamese, to name a few — are spoken by around 1.25 billion people. Keep in mind there are a total of 6,909 living languages recorded in the Ethnologue catalogue. Many of the languages Google chose to add today are spoken by large populations. Swahili, in particular, has 8 percent of the African continent speaking it, while Turkish is spoken by 9…

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North Korea’s President met China’s Xi Jinping on first foreign trip

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has made his first ever foreign trip as leader to meet China’s president, vowing he is “committed to denuclearisation” and willing to hold summits with the South and the US. The secretive visit was confirmed Wednesday by Chinese and North Korean state media which said Kim was treated to a lavish stay in a show of unity after relations were battered by Beijing‘s support of UN sanctions against Pyongyang. Kim had not met China’s President Xi Jinping since taking over after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, in 2011. The young leader…

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Buhari backs Tinubu, says Oyegun’s tenure extension illegal

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the reversal of tenure elongation of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and other National and State Executive Officers of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He described the elongation of their tenure by one year as unconstitutional. He told the National Executive Committee meeting of the party in Abuja on Tuesday that he had reflected on the elongation and also sought advice and had come to the conclusion that it is unconstitutional. The APC had in its NEC meeting on February 27 extended the tenure of members of…

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Atiku Declares For 2019 Presidency

Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday declared his intention to run for president in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Abubakar announced his candidacy in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Tuesday, Channels tv reports. The former Vice President said his decision to make the announcement in Rivers State because is because he believes Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike represents what he represented in 1998/99 as the live wire of the PDP. Mr Abubakar who defected from the All Progressives Congress to the…

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