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I didn't Make Buhari President, says Obasanjo

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The Former president has said that no single person or group can take glory for President Buhari's success at the 2015 presidential election. Former president Olusegun Obasanjo said this while playing down some media reports that said  himself and a few others brought PresodentbBuhari into power. Speaking during a meeting at the Taraba state government house in Jalingo the state capital yesterday, Obasanjo said “I never made such claims. It is inconsiderate of any single person or group to claim the glory. I am astounded by media reports quoting me as saying that I and few other persons brought President Buhari to power to save Nigeria. I have never said that, because it is not true. Nigerians voted overwhelmingly and massively for the President and we are all witnesses to that fact. No single person or group can claim that glory”.

See Michelle Obama's Interview for Variety Magazine

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For Her Cover Shoot ,the first lady was wearing a Jonathan Simkhai dress from the Pre Fall 2016 collection. The US First Lady sat down with Variety magazine to talk Pop Culture and how her husband used that to make an impact...of course among other things she said. Read below from VarietyTen days before delivering the best-received speech at the Democratic National Convention, first lady Michelle Obama was in her East Wing office describing an entirely different appearanceshe was about to make that was poised to have an equally notable impact. his story first appeared in the August 23, 2016 issue of Variety. Subscribe today.That was Carpool Karaoke, the insanely popular segment on CBS’ “Late Late Show,” in which she sat in the passenger seat with host James Corden and belted out renditions of Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours,” Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” and Missy Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On” as they circled the driveway on the South

Death toll rises to 159 in Italy Earthquake

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The magnitude-6.2 quake struck at 03:36(01:36 GMT), 100km (65 miles) north-east of Rome, not far from Perugia. Eighty-six of the dead were in the historic town of Amatrice, where the mayor said three-quarters of the town was destroyed, and in nearby Accumoli.Many people are still believed to be buried under rubble.Rescue teams are using heavy lifting equipment and their bare hands as they continue to search for survivors after nightfall.There were cheers in the village of Pescara del Tronto when an eight-year-old girl was pulled alive from the rubble after being trapped for 17 hours."This is not a final toll," Mr Renzi warned as he gave the latest figures on a visit tothe area.He had earlier paid tribute to the volunteers and civil defence officials who had rushed to the scene in the middle of the night and used their bare hands to dig for survivors.He promised "no family, no city, no hamlet will be left behind .The tremor was felt across Italy, from Bologna in

6.2 Magnitude Earthquake hits Central Italy

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A powerful earthquake has rocked Italy killing many  people. People were crushed by falling buildings and a lot more buried alive under rubble as they slept. The 6.2-magnitude quake hit at around3.30amlocal time and was so powerful it rocked buildings in the centre of Rome more than 100 miles away and was felt across Italy. After it happened civil protection workers and even priests began digging out with shovels, bulldozers and their bare hands, trying to reach survivors. Survivors have described apocalyptic scenes in towns and villages near the city of Perugia - the capital of the tourist-packed Umbrian region, which is especially popular with British holidayymakers. Its epicentre was in Norcia in Umbria, about 105 miles north east of Rome, while the hardest-hit towns were reported as Amatrice, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto.As people were carried out of ruined buildings on stretchers and people desperately searched the debris for survivors or sobbed as they inspected their