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President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Super Eagles for outstanding 3-1 victory over Desert Foxes of Algeria in the African qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The President, in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday, joined millions of football loving fans in the country in celebrating the very-much improved national team for meeting nation’s expectations during the “entertaining and action-soaked encounter”. The statement was signed by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina. The President commended the team and its handlers for displaying “uncommon strength, determination and high professionalism in the onward and steady progress to the 2018 tournament in Russia. President Buhari assured that with the six points so far gathered from two impressive wins by the team, the Federal Government, and all Nigerians would continue to support them to make the nation proud. The President also commended the Akw...

Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton has blamed her defeat in the US presidential election on interventions by the FBI director. James Comey’s announcement of a new inquiry into her use of email while secretary of state shortly before election day had stopped her campaign’s momentum, Mrs Clinton said. The Democratic candidate was speaking to top party donors in a phone call, which was leaked to the media. Protests are continuing against the victory of her rival, Donald Trump. About 2,000 people have been marching through the New York borough of Manhattan, to shouts of “not my president”, as they head for the skyscraper where the president-elect lives. Advertisement American cities have seen nightly protests by activists furious at the property tycoon’s controversial policies. Mr Trump seems to be rowing back on some of his campaign pledges. Having pledged to scrap President Barack Obama’s healthcare law dubbed “Obamacare”, he now says he is open to leaving intact key parts of the a...

President Muhammadu Buhari The Presidency on Saturday dismissed media reports that 21 million dollars was paid as ransom to secure the recent release of 21 Chibok schoolgirls. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, stated this in a statement issued in Abuja. Shehu enjoined members of the public to disregard the reports, saying “this loose talk is journalism at its most irresponsible and it’s most dismaying’’. According to him, President Buhari’s administration is a responsible government that is run on the basis of the constitution and budgets duly appropriated by the National Assembly. “We have no such money under any allocation to pay out this outrageous sum of money as ransom,’’ he said. He said, “Beyond the call of journalism, the newspaper making this charge has a national duty to point how and where this money was paid, and to supply leads as to where the `powerful weapons` were bought by the terrorists.’’ The...

Mr Godwin Obaseki on Saturday, 12 November 2016, took the oath of office as the Governor of Edo State at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, the state capital. The stadium was filled to capacity during the inauguration. Here are some pictures taken at the event by Jethro Ibileke. Obaseki waving to the crowd after his swearing in as Governor of Edo State Obaseki signing the oath register after being sworn in as governor Obaseki taking his oath of office Former governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole and his wife, Iara, bidding the crowd goodbye after the inauguration Obaseki and his wife after the oath taking ceremony

The complainant The Police at Maroko division, Lekki, Lagos have arrested a couple, Paul Nnamdi Obodo a.k.a Opoko, 33 and his wife, Cynthia Obodo, 28 for allegedly stabbing their neighbours, Moses Ayemi and his wife Jovita Ayemi with broken bottle 10 times. The victims, according to the police charge sheet, were stabbed for allegedly accusing the suspects of pouring urine on their doorstep. The victims were rushed to the hospital for treatment while the suspects were arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on a two-count charge of felony, to wit: inflicting injury occasioning bodily harm. The victim Police prosecutor, Sergeant T. O. Tubi, informed the court in charge No N/11/2016 that the couple committed the alleged offence at 8, Bakare Street, Ikate, Lekki Phase I, Lagos where they reside with the victims. He said the complainants told the police that they warned the suspects not to pour urine on their doorstep but they failed to heed the warning. He said th...

Margaret Chan, President of the World Health Organisation, WHO. Kazeem Ugbodaga A report released by the World Health Organisation, WHO, has disclosed that measles killed 134,000 children in 2015 with third world countries the most hit. The report said despite a 79% worldwide decrease in measles deaths between 2000 and 2015, nearly 400 children still die from the disease every day. “Making measles history is not mission impossible,” said Robin Nandy, UNICEF Immunization Chief. “We have the tools and the knowledge to do it; what we lack is the political will to reach every single child, no matter how far. Without this commitment, children will continue to die from a disease that is easy and cheap to prevent.” Mass measles vaccination campaigns and a global increase in routine measles vaccination coverage saved an estimated 20.3 million young lives between 2000 and 2015, according to UNICEF; WHO; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

Victorious Donald Trump savouring victory in the US Presidential Election Donald Trump’s stunning and “upset” victory over Hillary Clinton in the recent US presidential election should primarily go down in history as the triumph of a political outsider over a corrupt and arrogant media industrial-complex, not necessarily as the triumph of a derided billionaire against a woman that was a political insider like no other. The US media claims it did not see Trump’s victory coming. It did; it just turned its evil and uber-partisan eyes away from a nagging probability that was unfolding before its very eyes. Instead of confronting, or better still, reporting that reality it turned to manipulating obvious and not-so-obvious facts, while allowing itself to be blinded by its not-too-subtle political and ideological preferences. The subject of the media is one that is obviously very close to my heart. I worked as a full-time journalist in Nigeria for close to a decade from the late 80s to 19...