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U.S. Govt hosts northern Nigeria governors in Washington D.C (photos) Governors of the 19 northern states in Nigeria were yesterday received in Washington by the US government, in furtherance of the northern governors’ symposium organised by United States Institute of Peace (USIP) designed to amongst other things, seek possible ways of attaining lasting peace in Northern Nigeria. The visiting governors are expected to spend three days in Washington while meeting with Steve Hayes, chairman of the Corporate Council on Africa and Gayle Smith, USAID director, to discuss project priorities for northern Nigeria.

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How a Nigerian girl was incacerated and exploited as a domestic slave by a wealthy family in the UK 26-year-old Cynthia is one of the thousands of modern slavery victims whose suffering has been highlighted in a report published by the University of Hull and YouGov on Tuesday, October 18th, about the lack of awareness of the scale or nature of modern slavery in the UK. In December 2013, a year after she escaped, Cynthia, then 23, reported the abuse and exploitation to the police. Her case is currently in its final stages. And three years later, precisely last week, she won her asylum case and is now working for a charity alongside her Accountancy studies. However, walking away from slavery was terrifying for Cynthia. Enslaved at the age of 13 after being tricked into leaving her home and school in Nigeria for a better life, she had spent a decade incarcerated and exploited as a domestic servant at the hands of a wealthy family in Essex. "I knew I had to leave," says

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Family of Lawyers! Check out photos of Nollywood actor Kenneth Okonkwo and his sisters at Enugu High Court Nollywood actor and lawyer, Kenneth Okonkwo shared photos of himself and siblings at the Enugu High Court. He wrote: "It tastes pretty good for lawyers from the same womb to appear on the same side of a case. Glad to be with Anita and Princess my siblings at an Enugu High Court. To God be the glory"

Why I Paid N500,000 To Hired Assasins To Kill My Husband – 41-Year-Old Woman The Nigerian Police have arrested Mrs. Chika Orji for allegedly hiring hit men to kill her husband. Mrs. Chika Orji opened up on why she decided to have her spouse killed as she was apprehended by officers of the Area ‘J’ Command, Ajah, Lagos State after one of the hired assassins, Bright Ikechukwu was caught while trying to gain entry into the victim’s house in Jakande Estate, Ajah, Lagos State. The 41-year-old wife, however denied trying to have her husband killed as she claimed she only wanted the thugs to just beat up Mr.Orji though it was claimed she paid the hired assassins N500,000 to carry out the dastardly act. She explained during the interrogation that she did that because her husband failed to honour any of the Court summons sent him on how to resolve their quarrel after he sent her out of the house three years ago while refusing to let her go with their children.

Naira shortage pushes interbank rate to 150% Oyetunji Abioye with agency report Overnight interbank rate was quoted at a record high of 150 per cent on Tuesday, two days after commercial banks placed funds with the Central Bank of Nigeria to participate in last Friday’s currency forward auction. Traders said few deals were done on Tuesday due to a shortage of naira on the money market, with banks unwilling to place funds among themselves until the result of Friday’s currency auction was published. On Friday, the CBN held a two-month dollar forward auction to clear a backlog of demand from airlines, manufacturers and other companies, as the exchange rate crisis deepened. Traders said the banks were later directed by the CBN to re-submit bids again on Monday. It was learnt that rates spiked because banks were barred from the CBN’s repo window before any currency auction. The CBN had not announced result of the auction as of Tuesday. “Most banks are not quoting rates because they are stil

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi cornered in Mosul as Daesh lose MORE ground in the city DAESH leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is trapped in the besieged city of Mosul, reports have claimed. GETTY/ ANADOLUAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to be holed up in Mosul The terror cult's founder is thought to be holed up with ISIS bombmaker Fawzi Ali Nouimeh – leading the fears the twisted jihadis are prepared to fight to the bitter death to impress their self-proclaimed caliph. Initial reports suggest the death cult has dug a series of complex tunnels and laid out booby traps to ensure maximum casualties when Iraqi and Peshmerga forces attempt to reclaim the city. ISIS jihadis spray paint prisoners before blasting them to death REUTERSThere are fears ISIS could use chemical weapons which were left in Mosul Hoshiyar Zebari, a top Kurdish official, said he had received "solid" intelligence that al-Baghdadi is in the city. Mosul was the city where al-Baghdadi declared his sickening cali

Former FIFA official Worawi Makudi banned 5 years for forgery Worawi Makudi and Sepp Blatter Former FIFA executive committee member Worawi Makudi has been banned from football for five years for election forgery. On Tuesday, the judging chamber of FIFA’s ethics committee said it had found Thailand’s Makudi guilty of forgery and falsification of documents and refusing to cooperate with investigators. He was also fined 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,100). Makudi, a long-time ally of former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar, was a member of the executive committee for 18 years until Asian federations voted him out in April 2015. He is the ninth member of the 24-man ruling panel that oversaw the bidding contests for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to be banned for unethical conduct by FIFA. Four others have been indicted or are under criminal investigation in the United States or Switzerland, although they yet to be banned by the ethics committee. Some of Makudi’s former colle

Nationwide job centres ready by March – FG Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Federal Government on Tuesday announced that it would locate job centres in all local government areas across the country before the end of March next year. ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads The government stated that the job centres, with at least one in every local government, will be used to gather data on the actual number of unemployed persons in the country, adding that it was perfecting all requisite processes needed to actualise this. Speaking during a panel discussion on addressing Nigeria’s unemployment challenge at the 48th Annual National Conference of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria in Abuja, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Dr. Paul Adalikwu, stated that the centres would address the lack of data for unemployed persons, adding that currently, no one seemed to know the exact number of job

N1tn needed to turn around aviation sector – Minister Hadi Sirika The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, on Tuesday in Abuja said the Federal Government needed One Trillion Naira to turn around the country’s aviation sector. Sirika said this at a four-day public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation. The hearing is focused on “The Need to Rescue the Ailing Aviation Industry from Imminent Collapse.’’ Sirika stressed that the government had no plans to sell the country’s airports, but frowned at the poor state of infrastructure in the aviation sector. He said, “One trillion naira will be needed to turn around our aviation sector, we will not sell the airports and nobody is carrying any structure to anywhere. “In fact, what we intend to do is to put them into better use.” Advertisement The Minister disclosed that the ministry had inaugurated a 9-man delivery team to interface with stakeholders in the aviation sector on concession of the airports

Zinedine Zidane the right manager for Real Madrid – Roberto Carlos Zinedine Zidane Real Madrid great Roberto Carlos has said former teammate Zinedine Zidane has already proven he is a perfect fit as coach of Los Blancos. Zidane was promoted from his position as head coach of the club’s reserve team, Castilla, to Rafa Benitez’s replacement in January, and steered Real to a runners-up finish in La Liga and to Champions League glory. Roberto Carlos said of Zidane, the three-time FIFA World Player of the Year, to Onda Cero radio: “He is going to do great things. “You can already see his numbers. No coach, with all due respect to past coaches at the club, has achieved what Zidane has done in terms of creating a great atmosphere, modernising training and building trust with the players. I have seen it very few times in my life.” Real star Cristiano Ronaldo recently praised Zidane for bringing stability to the team. “He [Zidane] knows Real Madrid well which is a plus, but he also listens, whi

Sokoto becomes first state to initiate bill for right to education Aminu Waziri Tambuwal Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has initiated the Right to Education Bill 2016 in recognition and protection of the right to education of children between six and 18 years in the state. This is the first time any state in Nigeria will seek to legally make education a fundamental human right of all children. The bill is one of the major components of the policy on the state of emergency in the education sector declared in the state in December 2015. “Sokoto will be the first state in Nigeria to provide right to education, thereby bringing it in comformity with status of fundamental objective and directive principle of state policy under chapter two of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999,” Justice Commissioner Suleiman Usman stated this while fielding questions from reporters in Sokoto. Advertisement He added that it would consolidate the declaration of emergency i

Edo PDP hopeful of victory over Obaseki in court Almost a month after the Edo State governorship election, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has said it hopes to overturn the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in court. In an interview with journalists yesterday, state chairman of the PDP, Dan Orbih, said the party remains calm as it seeks to reclaim its stolen mandate from the court and appealed to supporters not to take laws into their hands. According to Orbih: “We, and indeed Nigerians know that the governorship election was won by the PDP. We have evidence to back this; we are not just laying claims to have won. “PDP did not lose the election. It will be appropriate to say that the INEC allocated votes to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and declared them winner of that election. “We have already stated our position ever before they declared that results. We rejected the drama that played out at the INEC headquarters in Edo, and stated clearly quite early that the

Bring Back Our Girls dissociates self from fundraising for Chibok girls organised by Pres. Buhari's daughter Advocacy group for the missing Chibok girls, Bring Back Our Girls BBOG, has distanced itself from the fundraising organized by president Buhari's daughter, Hadiza Buhari-Bello who is the Chairperson of Africa Support and Empowerment Initiative (AFRISEI) and the Nigerian Peace Corps (PCN). BBOG in a statement, says it has no affiliation with the fundraising event. Read the statement below... Following repeated enquiries from the media, we stumbled upon information of an event tagged “Official Inauguration and Signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Chibok Girls Endowment Project” organised by the “Peace Corps of Nigeria” and “Africa Support and Empowerment Initiative”, with Hadiza Buhari-Bello. We are shocked, perplexed and completely dumbfounded to see the bold inscription of our hard-earned name, #BringBackOurGirls, on the event’s backdrop. We

Pep Guardiola won't coach Barca again, his time there has come and gone - His father reveals Pep Guardiola's father, Valenti Guardiola has revealed that the current Man City manager won't return to the camp Nou to to manage again. Pep Guardiola played for Barcelona and also captained the team before he enjoyed four trophen laden years as manager from 2008 until 2012. As he takes Man City to battle Barca in the champions league, his dad debunked any possibility of Pep returning to Barca as a Manager. Asked about the possibility of his son returning one day to work at Barca, Valenti Guardiola told Cadena Ser radio  on Tuesday : "Return to Barcelona? To do what, work as a ball boy? I really don't see him there either as president or on the bench. His time with Barca has come and gone. I don't think he would do well in going back. "At the very least, I think we can rule him out coming back as coach. I say he could take the Catalan nationa

Phoo: RRS arrest suspected Light-Up Lagos cable-thieft syndicate The operatives of Rapid Response Squad RRS of Lagos State Police Command, yesterday arrested a 6-man syndicate which allegedly specialized in vandalizing and stealing light-up Lagos cable wire, street lamps and light poles installed by the Ambode-led administration to illuminate the State. The suspects, Tunde Alaba, 29, Saheed Ismail, 27, Deji Afolorunso, 26, Sunday Obasanmi, 27, Jelili Abodunrin, 32, and Taofeek Oyedele, 28, were apprehended at about 2:30 am, under the bridge at CMS after destroying the streetlights powering the area and its environs. It was gathered that the RRS operatives who were patrolling the area, sighted them in the act of pulling down the street lamps, cables and poles, before mobilising more officers for their eventual arrest and movement to RRS Headquarters, Alausa. The suspects, who confessed to the crime during interrogation and revealed that they have been living under the bridge fo

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Nigerian woman who paid man £1,000 to pose as her baby's father to gain British citizenship jailed Faust Abolore plotted to gain British citizenship by putting 44-year-old Anthony Ezekpo’s name on her son’s birth certificate and a subsequent passport application. However, she was caught when photographs of the child’s real father, Nigerian national Peter Gentry, were posted on Facebook, showing him cradling the boy at a naming ceremony. See previous post  here Inner London crown court heard that Abolore got a job as a care home assistant in 2011 with a bogus Portuguese passport, and had twice been turned down for leave to remain in 2013 and 2014. Sentencing Abolore and Ezekpo to 18 months each, Judge Mark Bishop said: "These sort of offences undermine confidence in the system of immigration control. You, Abolore, were seeking to cheat your way into being allowed to remain in this country. Ezekpo, you agreed to help her in making that possible." Abolore, who was l

Kerry Washington and Nnamdi Asomugha welcome son, Caleb Actress Kerry Washingon has welcomed her second child. The Scandal star and her husband Nnamdi Asomugha welcomed a baby boy, Caleb Kelechi Asomugha, on Oct. 5, according to E! News. Kerry and Nnamdi already have a daughter, Isabelle. Congrats to them..

Federal High court sacks two House of Representatives members from Enugu A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has ordered two House of Representatives members from Enugu State, Stella Ngwu from Igbo-Etiti/Uzo-Uwani Federal Constituency and Hon. Dennis Nnmachi Agbo from Igbo-Eze North/Udenu Federal Constituency to vacate their seats immediately. The court gave the ruling following a petition from their political rivals. The court ruled that Gabriel Okafor is the rightful winner of Igbo-Eze North/Udenu Federal Constituency seat election while Chijioke Ugwu won the Egbo-Eze North/Udenu Federal Constituency in Enugu State in 2015.

Tupac Shakur gets nominated for the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame   Hip hop icon, Tupac Shakur has been nominated for entry into the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The list, which was released today with 19 nominees, will see the late rapper who was killed in Las Vegas, Nevada in September 1996, battle out Janet Jackson, Pearl Jam, Joan Baez, Depeche Mode, Chaka Khan, Electric Light Orchestra, Jane's Addiction, J. Geils Band, Journey, The Cars, Yes, The Zombies, The Bad Brains, Steppenwolf,MC5, Kraftwerk, Joe Tex and Chic for the Induction.

Stylish new photos of late Stephen Keshi's son, Stephen Jnr Stephen Jnr, son of former Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, shared these stylish photos of himself via social media. Acknowledging his fashion sense, he wrote: "My mother introduced me to style, my Dad taught me attention to detail." See more photos after the cut..

Photos: Iara Oshimhole visit orphanage homes in Edo state Wife of Edo State Governor, Iara Oshiomhole paid a visit to Amadi and Cole Orphanages in the state to see the children and inspect the double bunk beds with accessories which she distributed across all orphanages in the state. More photos after the cut.

Kelechi Iheanacho and fellow Man City stars step out in identical outfits as they prepare for Barca clash (Photos) Super Eagles player Kelechi Iheanacho joined fellow Man City stars Raheem Sterling, David Silva, Nolito, Nicolas Otamendi etc to wear identical bomber jackets, grey pullovers and white trainers worth £1,750 as they arrived at Manchester airport this morning to fly to Barcelona ahead of the champions league clash against the Spanish heavyweights  on Wednesday . More photos after the cut.