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Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, has threatened to expose people who he says worked against Buhari during the 2015 election. He said this at an occasion to mark the 2, 900 days of Fashola as governor of Lagos state “A lot of things have been happening now. Some people have been telling Buhari all sorts of things. Awujale and I have decided to meet Buhari because Lagos and South West states must benefit from the Buhari administration. People, who are now telling Buhari all sorts of things, are sycophants. They did not want Buhari to emerge winner in the election. These people know themselves. When it gets to a stage, I will name them one after the other. I am not afraid of human beings."  he said.

An  election exit poll  is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. Unlike an  opinion poll , which asks whom the voter plans to vote for or some similar formulation, an exit poll asks whom the voter actually voted for. The Conservatives are set to be the largest party in the Commons but just short of a majority, according to the general election exit poll. The survey taken at polling stations across the UK suggests the Tories will get 316 MPs to Labour's 239 when all the results have been counted. It suggests the Lib Dems will get 10 MPs, the SNP 58, Plaid Cymru 4, UKIP 2 and the Greens two. The exit poll was conducted by NOP/MORI for the BBC, ITV and Sky. The first election results are due before midnight with the final result on Friday afternoon. The finishing line needed to form a majority is 326. If the exit poll is accurate, as it was in 2010, David Cameron could be on course to rem...

International interest in Nigeria’s political transition and the planned transfer of power from the Jonathan-Sambo presidency to the Buhari-Osinbajo presidency billed for May 29 has risen in the United States as President Barack Obama now considers sending a high-powered U.S. delegation to the event, officials said Wednesday. U.S. government sources said Mr. Obama is considering who might lead the American representatives to the event. Besides, at least two US Ivy universities-Harvard and Yale – have since held special review sessions where scholars were invited from around the U.S. and the world to give lectures and seminars on the outcome of the Nigerian elections, focusing on the emergence of a former military head of state, who is a Muslim from the North of Nigeria, and a Christian pastor, who is a law professor from the South as president-elect and vice president-elect respectively. Three names are already being mentioned in official U.S. and dip...

(AP) — After months of delays and vetting, the training of moderate Syrian rebels has started in Jordan as part of a broader effort to build a force capable of fighting Islamic State extremists, U.S. and Jordanian officials said Thursday. Defense Secretary Ash Carter acknowledged, however, that the administration has yet to decide exactly how and when the U.S. would support or go to the rescue of Syrian rebel troops if they are attacked by forces under the control of President Bashar Assad. Carter said the U.S. is training the rebel troops to fight against Islamic State militants, and will support the reb els in that effort with surveillance or airstrikes. But he said that while the U.S. bears some general responsibility to protect the rebels, there have been no decisions yet on what the U.S. would be willing to do if the trained rebels return to Syria and get into a battle with regime troops. Calling the training program a critical and complex part of the campaign to de...

The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Adamu Mu’azu, on Thursday, traded barbs with the governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, on Twitter. Mr. Fayose had earlier called for Mr. Mu’azu’s resignation, blaming him for the party’s defeat at the recent national polls. The PDP has been hit by internal crisis since losing the presidential election, and several governorship seats, the party’s biggest defeat ever. Mr. Fayose had said Wednesday he had evidence proving that the PDP chairman sabotaged the party by working for the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC. Mr. Mu’azu responded via Twitter on Thursday, challenging the Ekiti governor to substantiate his claims. “Fayose: I have evidence that Mu’azu worked for APC. We hope it’s not the kind of evidence he once said he had that Buhari was dying?” Mr. Mu’azu said. “You will all recall that the National Chairman warned members of our Presidential Campaign Org to stop the hate campaign. “The National ...

Shocking pictures have emerged from the Burundi protests which killed two.They are protesting President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term in office . The angry protesters in the Nyakabiga district of Bujumbura have targeted members of pro-Government militia,the Imbonerakure . Chilling photos show a member who narrowly escaped death from protesters who arrived at his house with bats and machetes - although they were not used. According to Dailymail ,Jean Claude Niyonzima was chased through a courtyard and found himself cornered between two buildings. Bleeding from his head, he begged for his life as members of the crowd interrogated him. He squeezed through his attackers but the mob kept chasing him around his yard as women cried and begged for them to show mercy. The mob hailing him with rocks as he flees for his life into the filthy city sewers. The pictures show him with blood pouring down the side of his face, being physically held by mem...

The actress and mother of two shared these beautiful new photos of her family ..They are so cute!

Jim Iyke has officially delved into business.Alongside his partner ,Henry, they just launched their bottled water brand "Burgeon' table water.According to Jim, the first delivery vans left the factory today and he is so proud as this is a dream come true..

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has emerged the leading candidate for the prestigious position of Oxford Professor of Poetry, a 300-year-old position regarded by many as the top academic role in the United Kingdom. The Britain’s Guardian newspaper is reporting that the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature winner has received over 90 nominations, 40 more than the required number, from Oxford graduates and looks set to replace Geoffery Hill, who will complete his five year tenure this summer. To be named the Oxford professor of poetry, candidates needs to receive at least 50 nominations. Mr. Soyinka has at least 36 nominations more than his closest rival for the position, Ian Gregson, a poet, literary critic and professor of creative writing at Bangor University who was backed by 54 graduates. The Oxford professor of poetry was first held in 1708 by Joseph Trapp. Past occupiers of the post include prominent poets like WH Auden, Seamus Heaney, Matthew Arnold and Paul Muldon....

He must love his job! A make-up artist was photographed brushing up Beyonce's cleavage in a low-cut outfit today May 7th  during a photoshoot  on a roof-top in New York City for a new campaign for French luxury brand, Givenchy. More pics below   Photo credit: Splash News

President Jonathan today May 7th inspected the Abuja Rail Mass Transit Line. 

Abia State election petition tribunal for the National and State Houses of Assembly has granted for­mer governor of the state, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, leave to inspect documents used for Abia North senatorial elec­tion. The tribunal, which com­menced sitting yesterday, also granted the former governor’s application to serve the first re­spondent in the petition, Chief Mao Ohuabunwa, by substi­tuted means. Dr. Kalu contested the Abia North Senatorial election on the platform of Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), while Chief Ohuabunwa, who was declared winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) contested on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Kalu’s team of lawyers, led by K. C. Nwafor (SAN), had presented two motions to the tribunal, which were attended to yesterday by the panel headed by Justice M. B. Wakili. Mr. Perfect Okorie, who represented Nwafor at the tri­bunal, told Daily Sun that apart from having acc...

The UK government earlier this year repatriated three Nigerians in UK prisons under the prisoners exchange agreement signed by the UK and Nigeria. The prisoners are now serving time in a Nigerian prison. This was made known today by Nigeria's Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, during a Q&A with journalists in Abuja. "The prisoners exchange agreement is in place and the United Kingdom has repatriated three Nigerians in the UK prison since January this year and  more prisons would also be transferred. The programme would continue after the exit of this administration, there is a committee in place to ensure the sustenance of the programme,” he explained. (Punch)

President Zuma signed a bill that seems to be one of the greatest steps in the history of trying to combat HIV. From now on, every person who gets tested and is found to be HIV positive will not just get counselling and medication. They will also get a mark in form of a tattoo near their genitals according to the bill signed by the president. The mark is to protect those who can’t say no to sex. I mean if you can’t read between the lines you should read between the legs because that’s where the status would be tatted. The choice to be HIV positive is now in your hands or your genitals for that matter…. We also encourage those who had been living with the virus to go to the nearest public hospitals to get their status tatted in President Zuma volunteered to be the first South African citizen to get his status tatted near his genitals and he also announced that the first 10 million people(who already tested positive) to volunteer to have their HIV statuse...

I saw the photos and they looked happy but some keen observers say they detected friction between Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian on the 2015 Met Gala red carpet. According to tell  OK  magazine "At one point, when Kim reached for Kanye’s hand, he moved away to pose for photos! He also briefly left her on the red carpet to talk to another attendee while Kim continued to pose for the numerous photographers. As the couple headed inside, Kanye didn’t look like he wanted to pose with his wife, and photographers had to literally scream and beg him to turn back towards the cameras and face in the same direction as his curvy wife." Go  here  to watch a clip of Kanye supposedly giving Kim the cold shoulder. I didn't see it though...