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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”.

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 ...

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...

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 th...

Nigeria Apex Bank,The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has barred nine commercial banks from participating in all foreign exchange transactions and operations. According to the apex bank, the commercial banks werebarred following their failure to remit into the Treasury Single Account the sum of$2.12 billion belonging to the nation’s oil corporation, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).‎The nine banks comprise of three tier-one lenders and another six tier-two deposit money banks. All the banks remain barred from foreign exchange operations until they fully remit the NNPC funds into government coffers via the Treasury single account.

Democratic Presidential Aspirant ,Hillary Clinton, calmed down any questions about her health and stamina during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night, arguing that the currentspeculation "makes no sense."After Kimmel asked whether there wasany truth to the rumors most recently raised by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the Democratic nomineefor president extended her wrist and told the late night host to take her pulse "to make sure I'm alive."Kimmel obliged, taking Clinton's pulse with his thumb and joking: "Oh my God, there's nothing there!"advertisementHe then dared the former secretary of state to open a jar of pickles to show her strength, which she did while pretending to exert great energy. Back in October, the National Enquirer said I'd be dead in six months. So with every breath I take I feel like it's a new lease on life," she quipped. "I do feel sometimes like this campaign has entered int...

The Sokoto State Police Command division yesterday, cleared the air on the alleged gay marriage in the state that led to the arrest of two suspects.Speaking to Daily Trust, spokesman of the Command, DSP Almustapha Sani, who hadearlier confirmed the arrest of two personsover the allegation, said investigations revealed that the wedding was actually between a male and female but because ofthe presence of ‘Yan Daudu,’ who were mimicking female mannerism, people in the area thought it was gay marriage and alerted the police.'Yan Daudu', shorthand for "men who act like women" in Hausa language, means"sons of Daudu," a fun-loving, gambling spirit worshiped in the Muslim Bori practice, whose trance and dancing rituals are traditionally associated with marginalised poor women, sex workers and disabled people. (The guardian, 2013)The landlord of the house, Alhaji Shehu Adamu confirmed that ceremony took place but that those who hired the venue were females with wh...