December 28, 2019

Obasanjo Criticizes Ambode For Abandoning Lagos Rail

December 28, 2019 2:44 pm

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised former Lagos State governor Akinwunmi Ambode for abandoning the Lagos light rail project while he was the governor of the state between 2015 and 2019.

“We borrowed to build a light rail in Lagos, embarked on the project and a succeeding governor abandoned the project for his full term of four years at 65 per cent completion when he should have started paying down on the loan,” Obasanjo said on Friday in Lagos as a keynote speaker at the “Why I am Alive” campaign.

Obasanjo also criticised Ambode of prioritising the construction of …

Rolls-Royce Completes Black Badge Family With Cullinan

December 28, 2019 2:42 pm

Rolls-Royce debuted Black Badge with Wraith and Ghost in 2016 followed by Dawn in 2017. Today, the family is completed with the introduction of Black Badge Cullinan: the darkest and most urban statement of Black Badge yet.

“Black Badge reflects the desires of a distinct group of Rolls-Royce clients: men and women who take risks, break rules and build success on their own terms. Indeed, before we launched Black Badge in 2016 the idea of creating a product that would satisfy this subversive cohort – that is highly dynamic and wilfully rebellious in aesthetic – caused a great deal of …

Mikel, Musa Make African Team Of The Decade

December 28, 2019 2:42 pm

Former Super Eagles captain John Mikel Obi and Ahmed Musa have been included in the African Team of the Decade.

The list was unveiled by SuperSports and published on their verified Twitter handle on Friday.

Also included in the list are Egytian legend Essam El Hadary, Serge Aurier of Cote d’Ivoire, Kalidou Koulibaly of Senegal, Morocco’s Mehdi Benatia and Kwadwo Asamoah of Ghana.

Others who also made the list are Cote d’Ivoire’s Yaya Toure, Sadio Mane of Senegal, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon and Asamoah Gyan of Ghana.

In the decade in review, Mikel won the Premier League title in 2009/2010 …

Former Brazil Player Hulk Divorces Wife To Date Her Niece

December 28, 2019 2:41 pm

Former Brazil international Hulk has ended his 12 years relationship with his wife Iran Angelo de Souza to date her niece.

Hulk, real name Givanildo Vieira de Sousa, had three children, two boys – Ian, 10 and Tiago 8, and a girl – Alice 6, with his divorced wife.

Hulk representatives confirmed he has been dating his former niece-in-law Camila since October, who has since been forced to delete her social media accounts.

The representative told a Brazilian website UOL Esporte, that Hulk’s announcement about him seeing Camila makes his position “transparent”.

“It was Hulk himself who made the news …

Bollywood Star Kushal Punjabi Found Dead In His Apartment

December 28, 2019 2:41 pm

Popular Bollywood actor, Kushal Punjabi, has been confirmed dead by suicide at the age of 42.

Punjabi was found dead by his parents at his Bandra, Mumbai home in India early Friday morning where a suicide note was recovered, The Times of India reports.

“His parents reached his building after he did not pick up their calls,” Vijay Lakshmi Hiremath, a senior police inspector for the Bandra police station, told the news outlet.

According to the outlet, Punjabi’s suicide note stated no one should be …

Shocking Revealations As CAN Reacts To Sultan’s Statement

December 28, 2019 11:40 am
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has carpeted the statement by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, wherein he was quoted to have said that “It is a lie to say Christians are being persecuted in Nigeria.”

CAN had backed the inclusion of Nigeria in United States’ list of nations where religious intolerance was going on.

Kwamkur Samuel, CAN National Director of Legal and Public Affairs, in a statement on Saturday, said it would have been better if the Sultan had remained quiet the way he did when those killings were taking place.

Recalling the several hundreds of innocent people

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PDP Made Thieves Billionaires – APC Reacts To PDP

December 28, 2019 11:40 am
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to the statement by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that history won’t be kind to President Muhammadu Buhari.

APC said PDP was in pain because the Buhari administration had put a lot of members out of their illegitimate job of looting the country.

Lanre Issa-Onilu, APC National Publicity Secretary, in a statement on Saturday, said for 16 years, several leaders of the PDP were having a bazaar in their reckless and senseless race to produce the world’s highest number of billionaires whose only enterprise was stealing from the public purse.

He noted that:

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Enough Is Enough – Saraki Dares Kwara Governor

December 28, 2019 11:39 am
Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has claimed that Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, is out for vengeance against his family.

Saraki stated this on Saturday, while reacting to the governor’s decision to revoke a land occupied by his family in Ilorin, the state capital.

In a statement on Friday, Abdulrazaq’s Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaiye, claimed the land was originally meant for government secretariat and parking space of a clinic.

But in a statement he personally signed, Saraki who once governed the state, insisted the land was duly allocated and a Right of Occupancy title issued on it.

“It should

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Edo 2020: Why We Must Fast, Pray – Oba Of Benin

December 28, 2019 11:39 am
The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, has urged traditional rulers to fast and pray for peace in the state ahead of the Edo governorship election in 2020.

The traditional ruler gave the charge at the quarterly meeting of the Edo Council of Traditional Rulers and Chiefs in Benin on Saturday, NAN reports.

The monarch said the prayers and fasting should go along with offering of sacrifice to Almighty God and their ancestors.

Read Also: ‘2023 Is Not Right Time For Igbo Presidency’ – Shettima

Ewuare, who is the chairman of the council, said the call for prayers became necessary in

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300 Power Bikers Storm 2019 Calabar Carnival

December 28, 2019 11:39 am

About 300 hundred motorcycle riders from 32 countries from different continents of the world have participated in the 2019 Biker’s festival.

Flagging off the bikers parade festival at the millennium park popularly referred to as eleven, eleven round along Murtala Mohammed Highway Calabar on Friday, Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State urged the people to expect something spectacular from the usual bikers parade.

The parade which also feature hundreds parade of porsche cars and power bikes along the carnival route, had the bikers led by Governor Ben Ayade and the former Governor of the state Governor Donald Duke and

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Guards Brigade Commander Opens Up On Aso Rock

December 28, 2019 11:38 am
The Commander, Guards Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Usman has explained the uniqueness and magnificence of Aso Rock in Abuja.

NAN reports that Usman disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja at the 2019 edition of the Guards Brigade Ascent of Aso Rock.

During the event, the commander led his officers and soldiers alongside personnel from the Defence and Army Headquarters to the hill top.

Other participants at the rigorous exercise were diplomats, security agencies, and interested members of the public.

According to Usman, Ascent of Aso Rock of the Guards Brigade is observed at the end of every year.

He said

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ISWAP: We Killed 11 Christians To Avenge Al Baghdadi

December 28, 2019 9:16 am

The ISIL (ISIS) group has released a video claiming to show the execution of 11 Christians in northeast Nigeria, one day after Christmas.

The footage posted in an online Telegram news channel late on Thursday by ISIL-linked propaganda arm Amaq showed 11 blindfolded men being lined up at an unidentified outdoor location.

One man is shot before the other 10 are beheaded. A masked man in the almost one-minute video claimed the killings were in response to the death of ISIL chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his spokesman.

Al-Baghdadi committed suicide in October to avoid capture during a raid by …

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