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Gordon Obua, the former chief security officer (CSO) to former President Goodluck Jonathan, is now in a “stable condition” after falling ill on Monday. According to online blog, TheCable, Obua, who has been detained by the SSS in Abuja since the night of July 16, had embarked on hunger strike to protest the conditions of his detention.  He was denied access to outsiders, including his doctor, lawyer and family members – and his lawyer claimed on Sunday that Obua was also denied his medications for hypertension and diabetes. The effect of the hunger strike took its toll on the detainee on Monday and he fainted, according to an SSS source, leading to speculations that Obua had died. The source added that Obua was taken to the hospital and was treated and discharged on Monday, after which he was returned to SSS headquarters where he is being detained. It's however yet not confirmed if Obua has been allowed access to his medications. Though the SSS is y...

After his meeting with President Obama at the White House yesterday, President Buhari attended a dinner hosted in his honor by the US Chamber of Commerce & the Corporate Council on Africa. He is seen above addressing the group. More photos BELOW

Pictured here is Ve Nartan Kilic & her son, Ferdane Kilic, who died yesterday after a suicide bomber struck at a youth gathering in Turkey. So sad!

The man tells his own side of the story below.. My name is Jeremiah Ashang, crown Prince of Obanlikwu. At about 01.00Hrs on Saturday 18th July 2015, in Gramics Hotel along Obudu Ranch road in Cross River State, the Chief of Staff to the Cross River State Government (Martin Orim) orders his security aide to shoot me dead. This is my story. In the early hours of Saturday 18th July, 2015 at about 1am I returned to my hotel room from funeral at Igwo in Obudu and in my company was my cousin and his father. While trying to settle in into our booked rooms, we discovered an unknown man in one of the rooms.   This unidentified person rained curses and attacked my uncle and when we tried to resolve the crisis at the front office, this stranger identified himself firstly as a cultist and also as the driver to the Chief of staff to the cross river state government. While I was still trying to settle in, my cousin proceeded to speak to the Chief of Staff who was at the time seated at ...

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All the young men and women pictured here died after an 18yr old female suicide bomber suspected to be a member of a Turkish backed ISIS terrorists blew herself up in their midst yesterday in Suruc, Turkey. So sad!

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