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African Development Bank President-elect, Dr. Adewunmi Adesina visited President Buhari at the Presidential Villa today August 4th. More photos below

Here's Michelle Obama's message to her husband, Barack Obama, as he turned a year older today..

89 year old Elizabeth Govern, called Nana Betty by her family, was asked by her granddaughter Christine to be one of her four bridesmaids - and Nana Betty stole the show. The happy bride shared the photos of her grandma, who she calls her BFF, on her Facebook page and the photos went viral. Most said they haven't seen any woman this age as a bridesmaid and were thrilled to see it. Christine said her gran was the life and soul of the wedding party and gave everyone a great time. “She had the entire wedding party laughing with her words of wisdom and funny comments throughout the day. Nana got on the party bus with the rest of the wedding party instead of ‘going home to rest’ but did not tell my mom (her daughter). She also danced the entire night away, including an adorable moment when she and my husband’s grandmother, Bellsie, danced together. It was amazing.” Christine said

Dr Ada Igonor, one of the doctors at First Consultant Hospital who contracted the deadly Ebola virus after Patrick Sawyer was admitted there took to Twitter this evening to share how she survived the deadly virus and how God saved her. More of her tweets below Read from bottom up...  

Pres. Buhari met with Chairman/MD Exxonmobil Nigeria, Mr. Nolan O’Neal & Dr. Ibe Kachuikwu the newly appointed GMD NNPC today August 4th. Mr. Kachikwu, has assumed duty as the Chief Executive of the oil corporation. A brief handover ceremony was held at the NNPC Towers to mark the assumption of office this evening. Kachikwu pictured above with the immediate past GMD od NNPC, Joseph Dawha.

Sujibomi Ogundele aka Sujimoto, the CEO of Sujimoto construction was recently spotted in Dubai with the king of Dubai, his Royal Highness Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The multi-millionaire Nigerian business man has been trying for years to make million dollar investments in Dubai and maybe that's what the short meeting with the king was about. More photos after the cut...

A Nigerian man identified as Emeka Ugwuonye, has exposed the various filthy activities of a woman he referred to as the brain behind most of the prostitute trafficking consortium where desperate girls are lured into cities like Malaysia, Russia, Dubai and China for the purpose of selling their body. The peeved man has today used his Facebook account to reveal this. He said the lady goes by the name, Madam Esther Otubo Nicole. He simply described her as a human trafficker who sends Nigerian girls into prostitution in Dubai. Emeka said there is a particular video all over Facebook, showing a nude girl. “I got the video of two different girls recorded under the most debasing conditions, naked and scared. What Nicole does is videotape these girls in the nude and blackmails them into prostitution in Dubai. “I had to expose this lady, so I opened a chat group on Facebook, and my aim is to checkmate the activities of Nicole and her kind.” The screech gander...

Sahara Reporters has learned of a monumental $8,853,600 (N1,751,864,867) fraud in the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) during the just-terminated tenure of Mr. Sambo Dasuki. The fraud pertains to shipments of guns and ammunitions allegedly for the fight against Boko Haram terrorists, for which the amount was allegedly allocated for the purchase of arms and ammunition, none of which seem to have ever arrived in Nigeria.This fraud appears to have been perpetrated at a time that Nigeria was in desperate need of military hardware to fight the insurgency in the northeast of the country, with Boko Haram murdering or abducting thousands of civilians. The then President, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, and his officials, were also openly critical of international partners, including the United States, for not selling arms to Nigeria. The news of this particular fraud breaks only two weeks after the former the home of Mr. Dasuki was raided by State Security agents for his co...

The Senate after several hours of screening, confirmed the newly appointed Service Chiefs . The screening which lasted for about four hours was held in a closed door session. President Muhammadu Buhari recently requested the red chamber , in a letter addressed to the Senate President , Bukola Saraki, to approve the appointment of Service Chiefs. He appointed them on July 13. He also appointed Air Vice-Marshal Monday Morgan as Chief of Defence Intelligence and retired Major General Babagana Monguno as National Security Adviser. At the commencement of plenary last week after a five week recess, Saraki announced that the Service Chiefs would be screened Tuesday. The confirmed Service Chiefs include :Major General Abayomi Olonishakin, Chief of Defence Staff; Major General Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, Chief of Naval Staff; Air Vice-Marshal Sadique Abubakar, Chief of Air Staff. The screening of the Service Chiefs dominated yest...

South African first lady, Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma has allegedly admitted to have a hand in a plot to poison her husband, President Zuma. The first lady was first suspected when the president took ill sometime in 2014. According to report, Jacob Zuma was told that he was poisoned by more than one doctor during his trip to the United States in August last year. It’s understood a label has been opened with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in which reliable sources revealed that Ntuli-Zuma made a confession to investigators. It was gathered from The City (SA) Press that she will in no time be charged with having full knowledge and involved in a conspiracy to commit murder. The City Press reports that while sources in the NPA say top bosses are aware of the matter, spokesperson, Vuyo Mfaku, has denied this. Ntuli-Zuma has however been banned from the Nkandla homestead earlier this year based on claims of a conspiracy to poison Zuma. As the s...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo commissioned a 1.5Mt Dangote Cement plant & 30MW coal-fired power plant in Ndola, Zambia today August 4. He was joined by Zambian President, Edgar Chagwa Lungu. More photos below

Nigerian transgender Stephanie Rose, is full of hatred for the Lord our God and is coming out again to insult him and call him a monster. Stephanie, who was born a man named Dapo Adaralegbe, was expelled from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, where she was studying Law due to her homosexuality. She later underwent surgery to become a woman. In her latest rant, she has taken to her Facebook page to share a post by an avowed atheist, Amenhotep Kingsagreed, where she thinks that God is the devil himself. Follow the jump to see what she says about God and why she believes God is the devil as she quotes from the Bible. (This is one of those times you'll see why our people say "even devil know Bible pass any man"). See her Biblical claims after the jump: "I'm amazed that people who claim to read and worship the words of the bible tend to be so ignorant about just what the bible says. I wonder how many of them know that god is quoted many tim...

The head of a multi-billion-dollar state-owned Chinese heavy machinery manufacturer was found hanging in his office as anti-corruption investigators probed his firm, state media said Tuesday. Police believe Wu Shengfu, 51, the general manager of China First Heavy Industries (CFHI), killed himself, the official Xinhua news agency reported. CFHI makes machinery for purposes ranging from nuclear power equipment to petrochemical and auto manufacturing. Its Shanghai-listed arm -- of which Wu was chairman -- has a market capitalisation of 66.8 billion yuan ($10.8 billion). His body was found early Monday in his office at the company headquarters in the northeastern city of Qiqihar, Xinhua said. The ruling Communist Party's feared anti-corruption investigators are carrying out a two-month inspection of the company, Chinese news portal thepaper.cn reported, adding that whistleblowing allegations against Wu had circulated online previously. CFHI is one of the ...

President Buhari has approved the appointment of Professor Umaru Garba Danbatta as the new Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of the Nigerian Communications Commission. Prof. Danbatta, who holds a Doctorate Degree in Electronic Engineering, takes over from Dr. Eugene Juwah whose tenure expired on July 29, 2015.

For the first time since they got married in 2010, and also ever since tale bearers started saturating the social media with all kinds of obnoxious stories about her husband, actor and singer, Ernest Asuzu’s wife, Jennifer, had refused to grant any interview or speak to the press. The whole thing, however, changed on Monday, July 27, 2015 when YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine’s AZUH ARINZE got her to do that. The strong woman who obviously loves her husband immeasurably and immensely even recounted how they met, fell in love and then all her pains and agonies – especially as they concern the rumour that her husband and the father of her children is not mentally okay. Hear her… Madam, I will like to start by asking – what is your name? My name is Mrs. Jennifer Asuzu. What do you do or are you a full time house wife? I’m a professional teacher, I teach. Where specifically do you teach? Yeah! In Lagos, in Alaka Estate (Surulere) to be precise. I teach in one of the priv...