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V ice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday disclosed that when President Buhari was on Medical vacation in the UK, he jokingly told him that if he, Buhari, dropped dead, he would still have to run the government. Osinbajo said President Buhari made the joke when he called him to brief him on how he was running the country in his capacity as Acting President. 'I remember when he was on medical vacation, and I was speaking to him on the phone fairly regularly and giving him a rundown of what was going on, especially when he was on the first medical vacation. He said to me, “don’t worry about telling me all that is happening, I rely on your judgment keep doing your best, what if I drop dead?! You would have to run it anyway.” I had to say to him, that his dropping dead was not part of the plan' he said He also spoke on President Buhari's Fprudence prudency. 'Some things have not been included in the book and I might just supply some of that. One of such thi...

A s Bovi cracks a joke on keeping his kids straight, most people on twitter did not see the sense in his joke, some said it is a disgusting and homophobic, joke using his children and graphic sexual language. Nigerian comic Bovi's disgusting and homophobic joke using his children and graphic sexual language. pic.twitter.com/yEdnmHdpU8 — T. Rankïn' ∆ (@AfroVII) November 16, 2017 See more tweets below:

B ola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), has said the Goodluck Jonathan administration won a gold medal in corruption. According to Tinubu, money “ran away” faster than Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. Tinubu said this on Thursday while giving a keynote speech at the presentation of ‘Making Steady, Sustainable Progressive for Nigeria’s Peace and Prosperity: A mid-term scorecard on the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration’. The book presentation held at the state house conference center, Abuja. The former Lagos governor said Boko Haram would have taken more territory and more lives would have been lost to insurgency if Jonathan had remained in power. “The prior government used the public treasury as a private hedge fund or a charity that limited its giving only to themselves,” he said. “So much money grew feet and ran away faster than Usain Bolt ever could. That which could have been spent on national development was squande...

C hief Pius Anyim, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. According to SaharaReportersn Anyim is in detention where he is being interrogated by EFCC officials. The former SFG was arrested by the anti-graft agency over alleged fraud involving the Centenary City in Abuja. The report said Anyim, who was SGF under the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan, is being interrogated by the Commission’s operatives. Recall that the House of Representatives had recently recommended the prosecution of Anyim over the Abuja Centenary City project. The house also said Anyim and his associates flouted existing laws guiding the Abuja land swap policy for personal gains. The project in question, which cost over $18 billion, had Anyim as a major driver. On February 3, Anyim, while appearing before the committee, accused Herman Hembe, the committee’s chairman, of “dee...

O ver electricity disconnection. Lady fights PHCN staff in Ikorodu, climbs ladder to beat official Source: @native9ja VIDEO: Over electricity disconnection. Lady fights PHCN staff in Ikorodu, climbs ladder to beat official pic.twitter.com/MGVZQHYF5Q VIA @native9ja — Trafficbutter.com.ng (@trafficbutter) November 16, 2017

T he number of terror related deaths around the world fell for a second year in 2016, according to the Global Terrorism Index. The biggest drop was recorded in Nigeria where there's been an 80% reduction. Daniel Hyslop heads research at the Institute for Economics and Peace, which compiled this year's report.

T he downfall of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015 after bragging for years as the biggest political party in Africa was down to pure stupidity, ignorance, and greed. More than two years after and with no lesson learned from that epic crash, greedy PDP stalwarts are once more boasting that they are ready to return to the Aso Rock in 2019. My outsiders’ view of the inside, however, indicates that the combined stupidity of Ayo Fayose, Femi Fani-Kayode, and Reno Omokri will guarantee the reelection of Buhari and All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019. Today’s PDP is gifted with vociferous, yet the most incompetent trolls proudly displaying stupidity as opposition. Albert Einstein must be thinking of Fayose, FKK, and Reno when he said that stupidity has no limit. Their stupidity has no limit. The more these political lepers remain the "official" face of PDP and keep exposing their bigotry on ethnicity and religion, the more it helps the cabal around Presiden...