May 2019

Google sever ties with Huawei

Google sever ties with Huawei

May 20, 2019 12:35 am

US internet giant Google, whose Android mobile operating system powers most of the world’s smartphones, said Sunday it was beginning to cut ties with China’s Huawei, which Washington considers a national security threat.

In the midst of a trade war with Beijing, President Donald Trump has barred US companies from engaging in telecommunications trade with foreign companies said to threaten American national security.

The measure targets Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant in Washington’s sights that is listed by the Commerce Department among firms with which American companies can only engage in trade after obtaining the green light from the authorities.…

Actress Uche Ogbodo tells her story with nude pictures

Actress Uche Ogbodo tells her story with nude pictures

May 20, 2019 12:09 am

Nollywood actress Uche Ogbodo, who added a year over the weekend, celebrated the special day with the releases of new pictures, which included a nude picture which she used to tell the story of her life.

Posting the pictures on Instagram, and pouring out her mind, the mother of one revealed that she never choose her career, but  found herself in the line of stardom.

“I didn’t choose this Life, this Life chose me. I didn’t choose to Be Born without a Silver Spoon, the option wasn’t given to me. I never chose to be born in Poverty, To grow …

Dangote, world’s 11th greatest leader - US journal

Dangote, world’s 11th greatest leader – US journal

May 19, 2019 10:48 pm

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote has been ranked 11th in the club of World’s 50 Greatest Leaders for this year.

The rating was announced by Fortune, a multinational business magazine based in New York City, United States. It focuses mainly on privately-run businesses and how their promoters have used them to impact their society positively.

The magazine, which had its maiden edition published in February 1930, said the world’s greatest leaders (both men and women) are transforming the world and inspiring others to do so in business, government, philanthropy and the arts.

It said: “These thinkers, speakers and doers …

PDP govs reject el-Rufai in two-man race for NGF chairman

PDP govs reject el-Rufai in two-man race for NGF chairman

May 19, 2019 10:20 pm

Ahead of the election of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) chairman, there are indications that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors prefer their Ekiti State colleague, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai.

The seventh NGF poll will hold on Wednesday in Abuja.

El-Rufai may back out of the contest following talks among All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, The Nation learnt last night.

NGF has produced six chairmen in the last 20 years of the nation’s democracy.

They are: Alh. Abdullahi Adamu, (Nasarawa, 1999 – 2004), Arc. (Obong) Victor Attah (Akwa Ibom State, 2004 -2006), Chief Lucky Igbinedion (Edo,
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Jihadists kill Nigerian soldier, injure others in Mali

Jihadists kill Nigerian soldier, injure others in Mali

May 19, 2019 9:45 pm

A Nigerian soldier was killed and another compatriot was injured in two attacks on the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, UN officials said on Sunday.

Gunmen attacked the UN troops in Timbuktu in the north of the country, where several groups of militants are active, according to Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres.

The Nigerian peacekeepers attacked have not been identified.

A further three UN soldiers from Chad were injured in Tessalit in the northern Kidal region near the border with Algeria when their vehicle drove over an explosive device.

The UN chief, Antonio Guterres expressed his “heartfelt …

Beauty or Character, which one attracts men most in women?

Beauty or Character, which one attracts men most in women?

May 19, 2019 9:21 pm

The world, certainly would be a boring place without ladies, women make life more colourful, and very attractive, and this is evident in the way men often times lust, love and ceaselessly chase them. A woman compliments a man, and just as there are many different men so the things that attract them in women, equally differ.

Africa Daily News, New York, took out time to find out from quite a number of Nigerian eligible bachelors, if it is beauty or good character that they usually fancy more in women. Among them include; Mr Ojo Johnson, a Lagos based …

Disaster: Five die in Honduras plane crash

Disaster: Five die in Honduras plane crash

May 19, 2019 8:02 am

Five foreigners including the pilot died on Saturday when their private plane crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Roatan island, a tourist destination on the Atlantic coast of Honduras.

Officials gave conflicting accounts of the victims’ nationalities.

Read Also: Jet crash between Las Vegas, Monterrey in Mexico kill 14

Armed forces spokesman Jose Domingo Meza said four of the victims were from the United States and the fifth victim’s nationality had yet to be determined.

Local emergency services initially said the victims included four Canadians and another victim of unknown nationality.

Local authorities did not immediately offer …

Etim Esin: My struggles, rejections make me stronger

Etim Esin: My struggles, rejections make me stronger

May 19, 2019 12:01 am

No footballer of African descent has a story like that of Etim John Esin. At only 25, the Akwa Ibom bundle of skill a.k.a ‘Maradona’ had experienced fatal earthquake in Turkey, bloody gunshot, rape case that truncated his career, and messy drug problem. 
“No footballer in Africa has that kind of story. Twice I stared at death, I was set up and severally rejected by people close to me and battled depression, yet I’m still standing tall,” Etim blurted out without regret. Etim touched on his struggles and rejections, his passion, still, for football, his affluent family and background, his …

FA Cup defeat: Man City hits Watford 6-0 in final match

FA Cup defeat: Man City hits Watford 6-0 in final match

May 18, 2019 11:24 pm

It was a game of humiliation as Manchester City scored six goals to defeat Watford in the final match of the 2019 English FA Cup.

The win ensured Man City became the first English men’s team to win a treble in the same football season having earlier lifted the Premier League  and Carabao Cup.

Raheem Sterling scored a hat-trick, while David Silva, Kevin de Bruyne and Gabriel Jesus also netted to cap a glorious campaign with the biggest margin of victory in a FA Cup final since 1903.

Watford’s wait to win their first ever major piece of silverware goes …

‘2 Weeks in Lagos’ featuring Beverly Naya, Toyin Abraham to premiere at Cannes Film Festival

‘2 Weeks in Lagos’ to premiere at Cannes Film Festival

May 18, 2019 10:52 pm

Kathryn Fasegha’s “2 Weeks in Lagos” is set to screen at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. The movie, which is an unusual love story set in Lagos Nigeria features prominent Nigerian actors like Mawuli Gavor, Beverly Naya, Joke Silva, Jide Kosoko, Toyin Abraham, Shaffy Bello, Tina Mba and many more.

“2 Weeks in Lagos” captures the excitement and vibrancy of everyday life in Lagos and reflects the complexity of life in Lagos, a dynamic city where anything is possible in 2 Weeks.

Read Also: Actress Beverly Naya defines beauty with ‘Skin’ documentary

Its first screening was at the world’s largest …

Nnamdi Kanu lambastes FG for deceiving Nigerian masses

Nnamdi Kanu lambastes FG for deceiving Nigerian masses

May 18, 2019 10:19 pm

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Supreme Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has condemned the Federal Government of Nigeria for misleading the Nigerian masses with old pictures of  Muhammadu Buhari, his wife and others taken in 2016 during an Islamic prayer as if they were recently taken during his purported visit to Saudi Arabia for Islamic spiritual rites.

Kanu, who had in the past proven with profound evidence that the man being paraded as Nigeria’s president is Jubril Al-Sudani, an impostor from Sudan, who looks twice younger than the real Muhammadu Buhari, whom Kanu said had been deceased since 2017 …

Former Vice President Joe Biden, in his first major foreign policy address as a Democratic presidential candidate, on Thursday blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s performance on the world stage as erratic and extreme.

Biden to call for unity, knock Trump in 2020 launch

May 18, 2019 11:55 am

Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden kicks off his 2020 presidential bid Saturday with a call for fairness and equality in America, urging voters to heal deep divisions and reject Donald Trump’s “hard heart.”

“Some say Democrats don’t want to hear about unity. That they are angry — and the angrier you are, the better,” Biden will say at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, according to speech excerpts.

“I don’t believe it,” he will tell the crowd, adding that he is running for president to offer Democrats and Republicans alike a “different path” towards unity.

“If the American people want a president …

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