Breaking: President Buhari signs #NotTooYoungToRun bill into law

President Buhari has signed the Not-Too-Young-To-Run Bill into law. The president signed the bill this afternoon inside Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja.  President Buhari had, in his Democracy Day broadcast on Tuesday, pledged to sign the bill.

The bill was passed by the National Assembly last year to alter Sections 65, 106, 131, 177 of the Constitution to reduce the age qualification for president from 40 to 30; governor from 35 to 30; senator from 35 to 30; House of Representatives membership from 30 to 25 and State House of Assembly membership from 30 to 25.

Mohamed Salah wins PFA Player of the year

Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has been crowned the PFA Player of the year after scoring 31 goals this term in the Premier League with three games to end the season.

The Egyptian fought off competition from Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne to scoop the prestigious individual prize on Sunday night, April 22.Former English professional footballer andcurrent sports broadcaster Gary Lineker broke the news on social media.

The former Chelsea and Roma man has been instrumental in Liverpool’s top four push under Jurgen Klopp.Salah joined the Reds from Roma last summer for £37 million and has quickly established himself as a club icon.

De Bruyne finished runner-up to Salah, withthe Belgian sure to be disappointed at missing out on English football’s top individual accolade.He has been the main man in City’s incredible title win, scoring eight goals and 15 assists this season.

Miracle smiles home with N45m as winner of Big Brother Naija season 3!

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After 85 days in the third season ofBig Brother Naijareality show, Miracle has emerged the winner smiling home with 25million nairaand other prizes all to the tune of 45million naira.

Miracle edged out competition from 19 other housemates who all began the journey and made itto the finals alongsideTobi, Nina, AlexandCeecWith this, Miracle joins the roll call of past winners of the show likeKatung UduwakandEfe!

Congratulations!

Three dead, many injured as overhead road sign falls on moving commercial vehicle along Apapa-Oshodi Expressway

Three persons were killed with many injured on Wednesday morning, after an overhead road sign fell on a fast moving commercial vehicle at Ilasa bus stop, along Apapa -Oshodi Expressway.

According to reports, the road sign fell on the vehicle after it was hit by a truck at Ilasa bus stop.

A police officer, who confirmed the incident said rescue work was still ongoing.

Many persons were injured and 3 persons dead . The accident was caused by a pole which fellon a moving commercial vehicle. Our policemen are on the ground," he said.More photos below...

South Africa announces state funeral for Winnie Mandela

The South African government has announced a state funeral forWinnie NomzamoMadikizela-Mandela, the anti-apartheid campaigner and former wife of the country’s first black president,Nelson Mandela.

“Freedom fighter Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela will be laid to rest on 14 April 2018, during a state funeral,” a government statement read.

Ahead of the funeral, an official memorial service of Madikizela-Mandela will take place on 11 April 2018.President Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement on Monday night after visiting the family home of the former activist inOrlando, Soweto.

“At a national government level, we have declared that Winnie Mandela will have a national official funeral.

 We would like to express our gratitude and our thanks to the many across the country and the world who are wishing us well,” said President Ramaphosa.

In a  televised tribute, Mr. Ramaphosa described Madikizela-Mandela a “champion of justice and equality” whose “dedication to the plight of her people gained her the love and the respect of the nation”

.“For many years‚ she bore the brunt of the senseless brutality of the apartheid state with stoicism and fortitude,” he said. “Despite the hardship she faced‚ she never doubted that the struggle for freedom and democracy would triumph and succeed.

“She remained throughout her life a tireless advocate for the dispossessed and the marginalised. She was the voice for the voiceless.

”The late Winnie who was married to Mandela for 38-years died on Monday at the age of 81 following a “long illness.”

Breaking: MMM founder Sergey Mavrodi dies of heart attack in Moscow hospital

According to a report by Moskovsky Komsomolets, the founder of the MMM series of financial pyramid schemes, Mavrodi, died in Moscow at the age of 62.

Mavrodi was taken to a city hospital from a bus stop overnightMonday, March 26, after he felt weakness and pain in the chest area."The emergency team has failed to save his life.

He died this morning,"the report said.The preliminary cause of death is a heart attack.

Sergei Mavrodi created the company"MMM" in 1992. It quickly gained popularity and became the largest financial pyramid inthe history of Russia. The income of the members who joined it was paid out of the contributions of new arrivals, and when theflow of customers ceased to grow, non-payments began.

According to various estimates, the number of victims of the MMM has reached10-15 million people.In 1994, Mavrodi became a member of the Russian parliament. Then he announced that he was giving up his privileges: salaries and cars. Mavrodi stressed that he became a deputy only for the sake of immunity.

Two years later, before the presidential elections in 1996, he was stripped of his mandate.In 2007, Mavrodi was sentenced to 4.5 yearsin prison for defrauding 10,000 investors out of 110 million rubles ($4.3 million). All this time he left during the preliminary detention while the investigation was conducted.

Mavrodi claimed he is not the beneficiary of the donations and he is not used to flamboyant lifestyle.His true charges of which he was later convicted of is tax fraud though he claimed that MMM scheme is not a business, but a mutual donation program of which there is no law against such.In 2016, he announced the creation of his own crypto currency - Mavro.

In the first month, 33,000 people took part in the project.MMM stands for the first letters of the founders’ surnames - Sergei Mavrodi, Olga Melnikova and Vyacheslav Mavrodi.However, some people believe that it stands for Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox. The company got a lot of money from people - it was making about 50 million USD each day.

MMM started as a company that imported office equipment. However, there were some problems. In January 1992 the company was accused of tax evasion. This led to problems with the financial support of company's operation.

 It struggled.But how did MMM achieve that? The company promised annual returns for up to 1000% to private investors. It sounded quite attractive, and a lot of people were eager to invest. With strong advertising andnaive people (no one heard about scams during that time), MMM became one of the most successful companies in Russia.

However, the success didn’t last for long. Eventually, the company was shut down in 1994 and it declared bankruptcy in 1997. Unfortunately, everything didn't end there. After 14 years, the company reopened as “MMM Global.”

MMM in Nigeria

MMM started in Nigeria in November 2015, when it launched a new website for Nigerian audience.In Nigeria, the company decided to lower the standards and promised profit was 30%per month.The primary target of MMM was unemployed people. 

The number of people that signed up by the late 2016 was shocking - 2.4 million! They hoped that MMM would give them easy money and they had no doubts. 

Unfortunately, after a year of work in Nigeria, MMM announced the freezing of all members accounts.According to the company, the reason was “systems overload and the negative attention brought on by the Government and mass media. 

”After the freeze of members’ accounts, people started to panic. Sadly, the worst thing that happened was that the panic led them to even attempt to end their lives.

Things got so serious that even the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency asked the citizens to look out for each other and call the emergency number if someone was trying to kill himself.

Surprisingly, on January 2017 MMM Nigeriareopened. Also, on February 11th the company announced the lifting of the withdrawal limits on 2017 mavro.Investors were angry because of the delayed, and unfulfilled payments and some people left the scheme.

The investors who stayed loyal to the company were given assurance of getting back their money. But the company stated that in order to get the pre-2017 money, investors should add new money. And the more they add, the higher their chances to get the previous money back.

Though MMM came back, it could not regain the trust of the bulk of the investors failed to make huge impact it had when it was first introduced.About 110 countries suffered from MMM, including various African countries like Kenya, Ghana, Zimbabwe. People believed inthe company and wanted to get a lot of money almost out of nowhere.

African migrants are worse than terrorists, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the flood of illegal migrants fromAfrica are worse than terrorists in the Sinai peninsula.Netanyahu said this while speaking at an event celebrating the Negev region held in Dimona.

The PM said that Israel has recently completed a fence along"more than 200 kilometers of the border with Sinai." He said the border fence constructed along Israel’s border with Egypt is holding back a potential "flood" of illegal migrants from Africa.

Without the fence, "we would be faced with … severe attacks by Sinai terrorists, and something much worse, a flood of illegal migrants from Africa," Netanyahusaid.Netanyahu's comments come on the heels of Israel's campaign to deport thousands of African migrants in the country.

The interior ministry says there are currently some 42,000 African migrants in Israel, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, and the government has ordered that thousands of them must leave or face indefinite imprisonment.

Freed Dapchi girl recounts how 5 of them died

In a telephone conversation with one Modu Geidam, Fatsima Abdullahi, who was released along with other girls to Dapchi in the early hours of Wednesday, March 21, confirmed that truly, five of the abducted students died in the Boko Haram camp.

However, Fatsima claimed that she only knew two of the girls that died, and identified them as Aisha and Maimuna (no last name).

Recall that 110 students of Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchiwere on February 19, 2018 kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents.

The 91 girls were howeverbrought back their abductors on Wednesday, March 21 and dropped at the village square according to several reports.

Fatsima, a 15-year-old SS1 student of the school was number 73 on the list of the abducted students published by the FederalMinistry of Information, Daily Trust reports. She claimed the abducted girls were kept in an "underground space" were even aircraft couldn't spot them.

She said the five girls died due to the congestion in the vehicle which they were transported in after they were abducted from school.

Sen. John McCain slams Trump for congratulating Putin, says "An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections"

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on his recent election victory but Republican Sen. John McCain slammed him for that, calling it an "insult".

Trump said that he and Putin would likely get together in the not too distant future to discuss what he called "the arms race," Ukraine, Syria, and North Korea."We had a very good call,' Trump said. He added that the arms race"is getting out of control. We will never allow anybody to have anything close to what we have.

"Reacting to Trump's statement, Republican Sen. John McCain saidTrump had "insulted" Russians who had been denied a chance to vote.McCain said in a statement: "An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.

And by doing so with Vladimir Putin, President Trump insulted every Russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country's future, including the countless Russian patriots who have risked so much to protest and resist Putin's regime."

Fetty Wap, 26 welcomes his seventh child of with one of his Babymamas

Fetty Wap is a father again for theseventh time. The 26-year-old rapper who has six baby mamas recently welcomed a baby boy with Lezhae Zeona, who he also shares a two-year-old daughter, with.

In a photo obtained by The Shade Room, the proud mother is seen in the hospital holding the little boy wrapped in a blanket.

The good news comes two months after his ex-girlfriend, Love & Hip Hop's Alexis Skyy Mcfarland, gave birth to a baby girl prematurely.

Fetty Wap who also shares a child (Khari, two) with video vixen Masika Kalyshaon, hasAydin Maxwell, five, with former girlfriendAriel Reese, Amani, one, with Elaynna Parker and Lauren(born late 2016) with exotic dancerTurquoise Miami.

Photos From Dangote’s Daughter Fatima And Fiance Jamil Abubakar’s Wedding Fatia

The wedding Fatia of Fatima, the daughter of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote to her pilot husband, Jamil Abubakar, took place in Kano yesterday March 16th.

The wedding was well attended by very important dignitaries such as President Buhari, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Bola Tinubu,. Ooni of Ife, Oba of Lagos, oil magnate Femi Otedola, Jim Ovia, John Momoh, many state governors, members of the National Assembly and others.

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Nigeria is sick and empty- Prof. Wole Soyinka

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Nobel Laureate,Professor Wole Soyinka has described Nigeria as a sick and empty country, deserving of the term “shithole” as described by United States President,Donald Trump.

Soyinka said this while speaking at the Ripples Nigerian Dialogue titled “Rebuilding trust in a Divided Nigeria,”held at The Wheatbaker Hotel in Ikoyi, Lagos.

“We have become laughing stocksin the eyes of the public. We have earned the term of shithole. Nigeria is sick and empty. Some retrogressive forces won’t just stop. Everything Nigeria touches rusts”he said.

He condemned the humiliation of Nigerians by  military personnel, stating that the humiliation of Nigerians led him to relocating abroad.“The treatment of Nigerians by the military led me to relocating to a saner clime. I remember invading Obasanjo’s residence in Lagos and challenging him concerning the way Nigerians were being treated.It is a disgrace to us, as a nation. We have been left behind in nearly every field. There are lessons to be learnt from the diaspora. We need to peep acrossthe Atlantic to see how other countries have been faring,” Soyinka said.  Drawing illustrations from his lecture titled “From Miyetti to Haiti: Notes from a Solidarity Visit,”Soyinka emphasized the need to end slavery in our  society.  

Soyinka emphasized the need of looking in the mirror to solve Nigerian problems and encouraged  youths to resist the passage of the Hate Speech bill.

''Stop contesting the title of incompetence with GoodluckJonathan, leave him alone'' Aisha Yesufu tells President Buhari

The co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls group tweeted this while reacting to President Buhari's comment in Dapchi, Yobe state yesterday March 14th. President Buhari during his meeting with parents of the 110 abducted Dapchi school girls, saidhis administration acted faster after the abduction of the girls unlike the Goodluck Jonathan's administration that were insensitive when the Chibok schoolgirls were abducted in April 2014.

''Fake marriages are now taking place in Nigeria'' Immigration boss, Muhammad Babandede, says

The comptroller general of the Nigeria Immigration Service(NIS), Muhammad Babandede, hassaid that a lot of fake marriages are taking place between Nigerians and foreigners in the country.

According to Babandede, male foreigners are the ones that are mostly involved in the sham marriages. They come into Nigeria just to get married to a Nigerian woman so they can easily get a residence permit.

The Immigration boss disclosed this when he spoke at the Zonal Coordinators and State Comptrollers of the agency's meeting held at its national headquarters in Abuja yesterday March 14th.

We have observed that foreigners, especially men,are trying to beat the system of issuance of residence permits. A lot of fake or `arrangee’ marriages are going on, and that would give them permission to stay in this country without much liabilities. The advantage is that when you are the spouse of a Nigerian, you have no limitation on the job you will do; you don’t have to pay residence permit fees; it is easier for you to stay. So, we are beginning to face difficulties because many people are becoming married on temporary ground'’ Babandede said.

Speaking further, Babandede said

We will not allow any person to come for holiday marriage, because we have also observed thatpeople just come on holidays, arrange marriages in Nigeria and go back. Read also ; Nigerians arrested over fake marriage “We will not allow that anymore; you have to stay for a period ofsix months after marriage before you get our residence permit. “You have to also enter with permission to stay in Nigeria, so you must come with the residency visa; you can’t come as a tourist and get married,’’ .

''Unlike Jonathan, I acted fast when the Dapchi abduction happened'' President Buhari says

President Buhari today said that unlike the previous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan that was insensitive to the plight of parents of the Chibok girls when they were abducted in April 2014, his administration acted fast when 110 female students were abducted in Dapchi, Yobe state.

Speaking in Damaturu, the Yobe state capital on Wednesday during his sympathy visit to the state, President Buhari  vowed to ensure that the girls are reunited with their families.

The Federal Government’sresponse to the unfortunate abduction of the school girls is a clear departure from the insensitivity of the past administration which looked the other way whilethe Chibok girls were taken away in 2014 and held in captivity for over 3 years. Due to our commitment, over 100 Chibok girls have been rescued and reunited with their families, sent back to school and empowered with requisite skills. You may recall that recently, our negotiation efforts led to the release of abducted University of Maiduguri lecturers, some women Police personnel, students and even an NYSC member. We, therefore, have no doubt that the Dapchi girls will be rescued or released. I can reassure parents, Nigerians and the International Community that we will do all that is within our power to make sure that the girls are brought back safely to their families. 

There will be no rest till the last girl, whether from Chibok and Dapchi, is released. The girls, like all our citizens, must enjoy unhindered freedom and pursue their legitimate aspirations. The Dapchi and Chibok students are our girls and must enjoy our protection. They must live to achieve their individual ambitions, to be great women of tomorrow.It is our duty to protect them. We are determined to restore peace to all partof the country – from the West to the East; North to the South. While calling for calm, I implore affected parents and families to restrain from making statements that may jeopardize the success of the rescue mission''. 

Governor Fayose carries placard that reads, "APC,#BringBack Our Dapchi Girls

Ekiti State Governor,Ayo Fayose continues to mount pressure on the Federal Government and the ruling party,APCto do something about the missing Dapchi Girls.

Why we prefer negotiation tomilitary option for kidnapped Chibok and Dapchi Schoolgirls - President Buhari tells Rex Tillerson

Nigeria prefers to have schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from Chibok and Dapchiback alive, and that is why it has chosen negotiation, rather than military option, says President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said so while receiving the American Secretary of State,Rex Tillerson at the State House, Abuja. President Buhari added that Nigeria was working in concert with international organizations and negotiators, to ensure that the girls were released unharmed by their captors.

"We are trying to be careful. It is better to get our daughters back alive,"the President said.

He thanked America for assistance rendered in the fight against insurgency, noting that Nigerian forces are good, "but need assistance in the areas of training and equipment."

President Buhari promised that his administration would continue to do its best to secure the country, adding that he would be in Yobe State, from where Dapchi school girls were abducted, later this week"as part of my condolence and sympathy visits to areas where we have had unfortunate events.

"The President pledged free and fair polls in 2019, recalling that the then American Secretary of State, John Kerry, had visited before the 2015 polls,"and he told the party in government then, andthose of us in opposition, to behave ourselves, and we did.

"The visiting Secretary of State commended President Buhari on his strides in the anti-corruption war, to which the Nigerian leader responded that moneys recovered are being invested on development of infrastructure.

Tillerson said Nigeria was a very important country to the U.S, stressing: "You have our support in your challenges. We will also support opportunities to expand the economy, commercial investments, and peaceful polls in2019."

21 African Presidents and their ages as of 2016

Meanwhile, Theodore Roosevelt was only 42 years when he became the president of the mostpowerful country in the world

. America! John F. Kennedy was only 43. Bill Clinton was only 46 years old when he became president of the most powerful  country in the world.

 America! Barack Obama was only 47 when he ruled the world's most powerful country France elected a 39 year old man...

Why is Africa obsessed with electing old people upandan?

Brad Pitt vows to stay celibate for a year after shock Angelina Jolie split

Brad Pitthas reportedly vowed to stay celibate for a year following his shock split from his Hollywood star wife,Angelina Jolie

.The 54-year-old actor and movie producer is also said to be putting himself together by keeping fit, eat healthily and cut alcohol from his diet

.A source told The Sun: 'He's looking after number one. Brad isreally sorting himself out. He's getting trim, eating healthily and has cut out the booze. He has been in relationships for pretty much all of his entire adult life. Now that he's single, he's doing things he's previously been unable to do.'

Brad Pitt split with wife Angelina Jolie in 2016, after 11 years and sixkids together.

This comes after Actress and stand-up comedian,Tiffany Haddish claimed that the veteran actor told her they would date.

“He said in one year if he’s single and I’m single, we gonna do it, so you know what that means … But he do got seven kids, I don’t knowif I could deal with a man that’s got that many kids,' she told Ripa during the Live! with Kelly and Ryan‘s special post-Oscars show.

Photos: Football chairman confronts referee on the pitch with a gun in his belt, tells him 'You're finished'

A football chairman lost his cool and confronted a referee on the football pitch with a gun in his belt.

The ugly display occurred duringSunday's Super League game between title rivals PAOK and AEKAthens which ended in chaos as a pitch invasion followed a disallowed goal.

Ivan Savvidis, the chairman of Greek club PAOK also took to thepitch with a Gun in his waistband to confront the referee after Fernando Varelalate goal for PAOK was ruled as offside.

The chairman reportedly told the referee: 'You're finished.'Rival, AEK's Spanish coach Manolo Jimenez saw the firearm and claims to have heard Savvid is threatening the referee verbally.

'We didn't know if he had a gun, then we saw it,'Jimenez told CadenaSER. 'It could be seen that he was moving his hand towards his waist because he had a gun.'Jimenez added: 'He threatened the referee right in front of me.

According to my interpreter, he told him: 'You're finished as a referee'.'I'm stunned; I don't understand it.

It's the type of thing you expect tosee in aClint Eastwoodmovie.' AEK will file a complaint with FIFA and UEFA. Meanwhile, PAOK said in a statement said: 'After what happened today, PAOK chairman Ivan Savvidis is preparing all necessary procedures to protect the team and all his collaborators from the threats and attacks they have been subjected to.

'There will be relevant announcements on the issue soon.'