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Chinese billionaire, Li Jinyuan, the chairman Tiens Group Company, has taken 6,400 of his staff on a 4-day holiday to France which finished with a world-record breaking human chain in Cote D'Azur.  According to  Mail Online , Jinyuan, 57, (pictured right in white) booked up 140 hotels in Paris where the group visited the Louvre and various cultural sites in one of the world's most famous and revered cities. The huge group of tourists then made their way to the glamorous Cote D'Azur, where they booked 4,760 rooms in 79 four-and five-star hotels in Cannes and Monaco. The billionaire  It took 147 buses to take the tourists from their hotels to the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, where Guinness World Record officials where on hand to validate the world's biggest ever human chain I t took 147 buses to take the tourists from their hotels to the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, where Guinness World Record officials where on hand to validate the worl...

The Senator-elect has been on a roll this weekend. Writing articles, tweeting etc. This time he says he's not going to the Senate to make money. He also says no governor or commissioner should collect salary until all state workers are paid. See more tweets below

Footballer Emmanuel Adebayor who made some startling revelation about his family recently took to his facebook page this afternoon to shed more light on his rocky relationship with one of his brothers, Rotimi Adebayor pictured with him above. What he wrote below... Here is another part of the story I have kept inside since. Today I feel the constant need to let it out. If I share my stories, it is because I believe every story comes with a lesson. And the lesson is for anyone that is reading this. This is about a brother who keeps saying today that I am not a good support for our family. His name is Rotimi Adebayor. At the age of 13, he did something very bad. He and I know what he did. Because of that our parents had to send him to a village far from the big city. When I started to be successful in football and I went to Togo for vacation; at that time one of my mother’s friend came from the village to visit us. As she explained how Rotimi was suffering in the village,...

President elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari says his cabinet members will be made of only technocrats with the prerequisite experience to serve in whatever capacity they are called in to serve. He said this while speaking with members of the Northern Elders Forum who paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja earlier today. Gen Buhari said he will choose men and women that will drive his government towards meeting the aspiration and dreams of every Nigerian. He however called on Nigerians to give him and his team some time to achieve all they have promised. He stated that they will concentrate on Education, Security and Employment creation.

A female fan Rachel Mahoe left a comment on Adebayor's most recent post and he replied to it. Check out the comment and reply.

President-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari, on Wednesday in Abuja, tell the story of his many failed attempts at winning the presidential election and how he turned a democrat. First, he ran on the platform of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, against the then President Olusegun Obasanjo. He also faced late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2007 presidential election but lost. Later 2010, he formed the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. On that platform, he contested in 2011 but also lost to outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. By the middle of 2013, Buhari’s party, CPC, joined forces with three others to form the All Progressives Congress, APC. He contested on this new platform and won the March 28, 2015, presidential election. Faced with similar daunting electoral challenge, the APC’s gubernatorial candidates of Taraba and Akwa Ibom in the last April 11 governorship polls, Mrs. Aisha Alhassan an...

We carried this story a few months ago. Handsome 22 year old Nigerian college student and artist Matthew Ajibade, was found dead in restraints in an isolation cell after he was booked into a county jail in Georgia on January 1st. Ajibade had been arrested on domestic violence charges following a fight with his girlfriend.   Police said they were called to a home and when they arrived, they saw Ajibade holding his girlfriend down under a blanket and refused to release her. They claim the gilr had bruises on her face and her nose was bleeding and when they tried to arrest Ajibade, he became combative and had to restrained. His family lawyer has since said Ajibade was bipolar. The update now is that 9 police officers have been fired in connection with his death. From UK Daily Mail  The sheriff released no findings from the investigations into Ajibade's death, which is still considered an open case as prosecutors weigh possible criminal charges. However, ...

Kim K is defending her 17 year old sister Kylie Jenner who recently admitted having lip injections after lying about it for years, claiming the pumped up lips was as a result of make-up. Defending her Kim said Kylie has always wanted lips like hers and wondered why she wasn't blessed with it "What you’ll see on the show is, Kylie, for a really long time, she was over-lining her lips. That was her method. That really was the truth for a while, then she decided to plump them. She didn’t lie, it took her a while to actually make that decision to do it and once she decided to plump them, she was still over-lining, then sometimes it would look too big, then she figured out to stop over-lining. She plumped them and she was happy with it." Kim said. Continue... People think ‘Oh my god she lied for so long – now she’s finally come clean’ but that’s not really the case, it took her a while to do it. I know people are saying ‘She’s [only] 17 years old,’ but...

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Labour Party MP Chuka Umunna arriving for the Marr Show in London with his partner Alice Sullivan   Photo: LNP Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, has appeared in public with his girlfriend for the first time moments before setting out his stall for the leadership of the Labour Party. Mr Umunna was pictured walking hand-in-hand with Alice Sullivan, an employment lawyer, as he went to the studio of the Andrew Marr show. During his appearance Mr Umunna became the first senior Labour figure to say the party was wrong to run a deficit before the financial crisis and condemned Ed Miliband's attacks on "wealth creators". Until now Mr Umunna has kept his girlfriend's identity a secret, and their first public appearance together will spark suggestions that the move was carefully choreographed to coincide with his leadership bid. Speaking about his girlfriend, he has previously said: ‘I just switch off. I’m not bad at that. It’s ve...

State and zonal caucuses of the House of Representatives are now sharply divided over the ambition of House Minority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, and Chairman, Committee on House Services, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, to become the speaker of the 8th Assembly. Findings showed that the crack also cut across party lines as the two foremost contestants intensified their campaign for the number four job in the country. Gbajabiamila and Dogara had taken their campaign to state and zonal caucuses last week, visiting states to meet with lawmakers in their constituencies ?ahead of the election, expected to take place on June 6. SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that some caucus meetings also took place in Abuja before the contestants took the battle to the home ground. It was gathered that the idea of using mobilisation committees to visit states was to “interact” with the majority of the lawmakers “who are new comers and will not formally be members of the House before the day of the...

We are living in a complex and highly sophisticated society in which sexual intercourse is often taken for granted not only among individuals unknown to each other, but even between family members and close relatives. Incidents of incest, defined as “having sexual relations or activity with close family members”, are common today all over the world, but not often reported. That presents a dilemma. Incest is not only a taboo but also illegal. Different kinds of incest exist – one is when a father and daughter, or step father and step daughter engage in sexual relationship. This kind of incest has been the most reported worldwide. But in Nigeria, incest between fathers and daughters is hardly reported because nobody wants such a story to be heard outside the family. Incest in Nigeria is kept often as a “family secret”, not to be reported to the relevant authorities. However, some fathers and stepfathers abuse their daughters and stepdaughters on r...