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Saturday, 11 March 2017

'I see no reason to leave Atletico Madrid' - Antoine Griezmann

Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann has said that he has no plans to leave the club and called the constant questioning over whether he will go to Manchester United tiresome.

Although the 25-year-old is under contract at Atletico until 2021, there has been regular speculation that United are among the clubs considering paying the €100 million release clause in his contract.

Griezmann said he is staying right where he is.

"I am always asked the same question and I am pretty sick of it, but like I always say, I am very happy here," he told Spain's TVE Telediario de La1. "I have learned a lot over time, I have the best teammates and a top coach. So I am doing very well here and there is no reason to go."

Taylor Swift Obsessed Fan Tweeted Clues He Was Up to No Good-TMZ

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Taylor Swift's latest obsessed fan has been reaching out to her for years with some creepy social media posts that should have been a huge warning.

Mohammed Jaffar was arraigned this week for stalking -- but we uncovered tweets he posted at Taylor as far back as 2014. His posts seemed to get more brazen in February though. On the 7th, he tweeted ... a "security guard in your lobby today prevented us from sharing" candy.

Kim Richards just got her sentence nearly doubled in her drunken Bev Hills rampage case, and she's actually happy about it.

Kim was ordered on Friday to do 450 hours of community service for her 2015 arrest at the Beverly Hills Hotel. You'll recall she allegedly kicked an officer who responded when she got hammered and unruly in the famed Polo Lounge.

It’s only destiny that two men who were born in the same hospital, grew up in the same town in Rhode Island, and went to the same college would end up in a super-group together.

Enter singer, songwriter, visual artist, and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beaudreau and Grammy-winning producer Dawaun Parker (who has produced for the likes of Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar) collectively known as AOE (Ambassadors of Earth).

The out-of-the-box pop-meets-R&B-leaning duo recently signed with Def Jam Records and released their aesthetically dynamic visual and debut single "I’m Right This Time" in January. The animated video was created by Phil and goes along with the group’s mission to not separate sight from sound.

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The Premier League champions will try to produce the game of their lives against the Spanish side when they meet in the Champions League
Sevilla coach Jorge Sampaoli expects Leicester City to put in a performance worthy of the World Cup final when the teams meet in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Addressing the media, the Argentine attempted not to look beyond the visit of Leganes to the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan in La Liga on Saturday, but attention inevitably turned to the second leg of the round-of-16 tie in midweek.

Paris Saint-Germain have confirmed reports of an incident at Le Bourget Airport in the early hours of Thursday morning following the team's return to the French capital after their UEFA Champions League exit at the hands of Barcelona.

Unai Emery's men were astonishingly beaten 6-1 at Camp Nou as the Spanish giants completed an improbable 6-5 aggregate victory, which prompted angry scenes when the squad touched down in Paris at around 5 a.m. CET.

Conte: Mourinho mind games will not give him victories

The Italian was criticised for his celebrations when he last met the Portuguese manager, but he's not about to tone down his passion ahead of Monday

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte has not cleared the air with Jose Mourinho since their Premier League win over Manchester United.

The Blues host United in a mouthwatering FA Cup quarter-final on Monday, Mourinho hoping to avenge a 4-0 October defeat against his former club.

Eden Hazard has won the Premier League Goal of the Month award for February for his strike in Chelsea's 3-1 Premier League win against Arsenal.

Hazard's goal came in the 53rd minute of that game and put Antonio Conte's side 2-0 up, after Marcos Alonso had opened the scoring on 13 minutes. Cesc Fabregas added a third in the 85th minute before Olivier Giroud pulled one back for Arsenal in added time.

The PSG forward's wife used a picture of Simpsons' character Lyle Lanley to make her point

Angel Di Maria's wife has moved fast to delete a series of angry posts on social media after accusing the referee of engineering Barcelona's historic Champions League comeback against Paris Saint-Germain.

The French champions took a 4-0 lead to the Nou Camp on Wednesday evening and were 5-3 up with an away goal with two minutes remaining.

WikiLeaks to give tech companies early access to next hacking docs: Assange

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange defended on Thursday his organization's decision to publish what he alleges are more than 8,000 documents detailing the CIA's hacking arsenal, adding he would give tech companies early access to the next tranche of documents so that they can develop fixes before vulnerabilities in consumer technologies are made public.

Assange also reiterated allegations made in Wednesday's publications that the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt, Germany served as a base for U.S. cyber warriors.

"The U.S. consulate in Frankfurt is a CIA hacker base. People go there from the central intelligence agency," Assange said. "They operate out of that hacker base to attack targets wihtin europe, within africa and within the Middle East."

The CIA has not confirmed the authenticity of the documents, but officials tell ABC News that they appear authentic.

A supporter of South Korean President Park Geun-hye cries during a rally opposing her impeachment.

Seoul, South Korea (CNN)South Korea has been plunged into a period of political uncertainty after the President, Park Geun-hye, was forced out of office by a corruption scandal.
The country's Constitutional Court upheld a parliamentary vote to impeach Park over allegations of corruption and cronyism. She becomes the country's first democratically elected leader to be forcibly removed.
Two died amid chaotic scenes in the capital, Seoul. Thousands demonstrated after the unanimous decision by eight judges was read out down in a live broadcast that gripped the nation.
The decision brings the career of South Korea's first female president to an inglorious end. It also comes at a pivotal moment for the region, as North Korea ramps up its nuclear weapons testing program.
Here are the main developments:

The danger to economic data in the age of Trump

President Trump's first full month was a big one for jobs.

The U.S. economy added a robust 235,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department said Friday.

The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.7%. Unemployment peaked at 10% in 2009, after the financial crisis.

South Korea's Constitutional Court removes President Park Geun-hye from office in a unanimous ruling on Friday over a corruption scandal that has plunged the country into political turmoil and worsened an already-serious national divide.

The decision capped a stunning fall for the country's first female leader, who rode a wave of lingering conservative nostalgia for her late dictator father to victory in 2012, only to see her presidency crumble as millions of furious protesters filled the nation's streets.

Aisha, ministers rejoice as Buhari returns after long vacation

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to continue in acting capacity while he keeps resting this weekend.
Buhari returned to the country on Friday morning after a medical vacation in the UK.

“I deliberately came back towards the weekend so that the vice-president will continue and I will continue to rest. Thank you very much,” he said.

Shortly after his arrival, he met with top government officials at the first lady conference room of the presidential villa in Abuja.

Pope Francis holds firm against conservative pushback

Rome (CNN)Pope Francis has said he is open to married men becoming priests to combat the Roman Catholic Church's shortage of clergy.
In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, Pope Francis said the lack of Catholic priests was an "enormous problem" for the Church, and indicated he would be open to a change in the rules governing eligibility for the priesthood.
"We need to consider if 'viri probati' could be a possibility," he said. "If so, we would need to determine what duties they could undertake, for example, in remote communities."

Politics: Nigerians Welcome President Muhammad Buhari Back to The Country

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says President Muhammadu Buhari has returned back to the country “with new vigour” to fix the challenges facing Nigerians.

Buhari returned to the country on Friday after a 49-day vacation in the United Kingdom.

After a meeting with Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, Buhari said his deputy will continue running the affairs of the country while he continues his rest.

But in a statement, Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesperson of the APC, said Buhari was back to fulfil the party’s promises to Nigerians.

“The party believes that President Buhari is now well rested and has returned with new vigour and optimism to fix the challenges facing our people and fulfil the promises our party made to Nigerians during the 2015 elections,” the statement by Abdullahi read.

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“We thank the president for following due process and properly handing over to his deputy, vice-president Yemi Osinbajo and thereby saving the country the needless controversies and crises that we experienced in the past.

“The Party also commend the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo for competently holding fort on behalf of Mr. President and for his loyalty and commitment to the change agenda of our party.

“We thank Nigerians and all men and women of goodwill who have been praying for the health and safe return of the President and note that the government is fully committed to the Party’s manifesto of Change, couched on true transformation in every area of national life.”

Thursday, 9 March 2017

There's Nothing Wrong With Egg Yolks, They are Good for Consumption

Eggs are great, but be sure to only eat the whites, because that ugly yellow blob in the middle is teeming with cholesterol. And you don't want high cholesterol, do you? After all, you are what you eat (in your case, mostly bacon grease and your own words).

Ah, but the most recent evidence indicates that although egg yolk does contain most of an egg's cholesterol, foods high in dietary cholesterol have little to no effect on your blood cholesterol. This means that egg yolks do not actually increase your risk of heart disease. The yolks are in fact the healthiest part of the egg. They have more of the good stuff -- phosphorus, calcium, zinc, folate, and B12 vitamins -- along with things that the white doesn't have at all, such as vitamins A, D, E, and K. Of course, this isn't to say the white is bad. It's just a little bland and a lot overrated. It's the Top 40 of the egg world.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday hosted Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the Abuja House in London.

“Very pleased to welcome my friend the Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Abuja House this afternoon,” Buhari said via Facebook.

Ace Nollywood actor, Stephanie Okereke Linus appointed Regional Maternal Health Ambassador for West & Central Africa by United Nations Population Fund.

Diddy has big plans to celebrate the legacy of the late Notorious B.I.G.

Diddy (born Sean Combs, later became Puff Daddy and reverted to P. Diddy, the nickname bestowed on him by his big bro), launched a social media campaign that will remember the influential rapper on the 20th death anniversary of his death.

The 47-year-old Harlem-born hip-hop star and entrepreneur invites followers to rap their favorite Biggie verses and post it on social media with the hashtag #WeMissYouBIG. The clips that come in will get chopped up and edited into “something special,” he enthuses.

To get things rolling Diddy shared a highlight reel of the artist, who he describes as the "greatest rapper" of them all.

Humble Xabi Alonso should go down as a midfield great

The Spaniard, who will retire this summer, won every major honour in the game but, more than that, he was a class act on and off the field

"Lived it. Loved it. Farewell, beautiful game." Xabi Alonso's retirement announcement was wonderfully fitting: short and sweet; simple and effective. Just like the midfielder's play.

For that reason, he probably never got the credit he deserved. He will bring the curtain down on his career this summer having won every major honour in football, yet there are those that do not consider him one of the game's greatest playmakers.

Xabi Alonso announces retirement

Pharrell Williams arrives on the red carpet during the 58th Annual Grammy Music Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 15, 2016.

Pharrell Williams has been decorated by France’s culture minister for his contribution to the arts.

She claims she's being targeted by men searching the site for pictures of women.

A 42-year-old woman selling dresses on eBay says she has been inundated with crude messages from men - and some have even sent her naked photographs.

Katherine MacPherson, from Wiltshire, runs a small business on the auction site and takes photographs of herself in the dresses to advertise them.

It's been a busy week for Drake. First, on Tuesday night (March 7) during a show in Cophenhagen on his Boy Meets World Tour, Drizzy appeared to squash any remaining beef between himself and Kanye West by happily pulling on a Yeezy mask reportedly tossed up on stage by a fan.

Barcelona needed to become the first team in European history to overcome a 4-0 first-leg Champions League deficit and did so against Paris Saint-Germain as they scored six goals to knock out the French champions despite Edinson Cavani's away goal, ending the tie 6-5 on aggregate. With the win on Wednesday, Barcelona reached the quarterfinals.

Inside two minutes, they had one back. Luis Suarez took advantage of mayhem in the PSG backline as they failed to deal with a bouncing ball and the Uruguayan headed over the line in front of goalkeeper Kevin Trapp before Thomas Meunier could try and clear it from underneath the bar.

Neymar says his stunning performance in Barcelona's belief-defying 6-1 win against Paris Saint-Germain was the best he has ever produced.

Sergi Roberto scored the winning goal in stoppage time, but the Brazilian was the driving force as Barca scored three times in the final seven minutes of their Champions League round-of-16 second-leg tie against the French champions en route to the competition's biggest ever comeback.

As well as being his side's biggest threat throughout the match, Neymar scored two goals and created another to knock PSG out of Europe, 6-5 on aggregate, in an exhilarating ending to what developed into an encounter for the history books at Camp Nou.

A whale's dead body measuring at least 9 metres long has washed up on a Devon beach.

The mammal's body - said to be a fin or a baleen whale - was first spotted at 4pm yesterday after it was washed ashore near Hartland Quay.

Cheryl Fan Duerden wrote on Facebook: "Back from a BDMLR call out this evening to check on a whale that washed up on Hartland Quay.

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has said the the Federal Ministry of Works is frustrating his administration’s plan to carry out a total reconstruction of the International Airport road from Oshodi.

The Lagos Helmsman revealed this on Wednesday, March 8 when speaking to Government House Correspondents at the Lagos House, shortly after carrying out an extensive inspection of some critical projects in the state.

Senators seek Trump wiretap evidence from Justice Department, FBI

A pair of senators are working together from across the aisle to get to the bottom of President Donald Trump's explosive allegation that President Obama wiretapped the phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 election season.

Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., formally requested information from the Department of Justice and FBI Wednesday on any action taken to listen in on calls from Trump's New York home and offices.

"Congress must get to the bottom of President Trump's recent allegation that President Obama wiretapped President Trump's phones during the 2016 election," wrote Graham and Whitehouse in a letter to FBI director James Comey and Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente.

"As Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, we would take any abuse of wiretapping authorities for political purposes very seriously," the letter adds.

PHOTO: Pink-colored water flows from a faucet from the home of Victoria Van Zanten in Onoway, Alberta, Canada, March 7, 2017.

Hundreds of people in Canada arrived home Monday evening to an unusual sight: bright pink liquid running out of their faucets.

Despite its unusual hue, the fluid was neither fruit punch nor pink lemonade but city water that had been contaminated during a weekly treatment of the water lines, according to the city of Onoway in Alberta province, about 42 miles northwest of Edmonton.

A disinfecting agent called potassium permanganate likely tainted the city's water supply through a valve that became stuck, allowing the fuchsia water to enter the distribution system, according to a notice posted to the official Onoway website on Monday.

The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has said the deceased warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu would have fought Nigeria for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu if he was alive.

MASSOB also noted that the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, would have waged war against Nigeria if he was an Igbo man.

In a statement issued in Awka, Anambra State, on Wednesday, MASSOB leader, Uchenna wondered why Ohanaeze Ndigbo under the leadership of Nnia Nwodo has not visited Kanu in Kuje Prison.

The statement reads in part, “If truly these men in Ohaneze Ndigbo leadership love our people knowing fully well that 90 percent of Ndigbo prefers Biafra to staying in Nigeria, what has kept Chief Nnia Nwodo, his executive and Ime Obi from visiting or showing solidarity to Nnamdi Kanu, the most loved Igbo man today?

PHOTO: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily press briefing in he White House on March 8, 2017 in Washington, DC.

The White House on Wednesday said that President Trump was not the target of any investigation, even though five days earlier he claimed in a series of tweets that he had indeed been the target of a wiretap initiated by former President Barack Obama.

"There is no reason that we should -- that we have to think that the President is the target of any investigation whatsoever," White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said during his daily briefing with reporters.

Spicer's comments came several minutes after he had first implied that the White House was unsure whether the president was a target or not.

A federal high court in Abuja has delivered judgement on the killing of six traders in Abuja by policemen on June 7, 2005.

Ishaq Bello, a judge, sentenced two policemen in the trial to death, while three others were discharged.

The accused persons, Danjuma Ibrahim, Othman Abdulsalami, Nicholas Zakaria, Ezekiel Acheneje, Baba Emmanuel and Sadiq Salami, were arraigned on a nine-count charge of conspiracy and culpable homicide, which contravened the provisions of sections 97 and 221 (a) of the penal code law.

Their victims were between the ages of 21 and 25.

Len Pen Still Ahead in The First Round Polls

Opinion polls for the first round of voting the French elections continue to favour far-right candidate Marine Le Pen for victory though En Marche! Candidate Emmanuel Macron now trails by only one point according to polling by PresiTrack OpinionWay / ORPI for Les Echos & Radio Classique.

Le Pen currently holds 25% of the polling while Macron tracks with 24%, Francois Fillon behind at 21% and finally Benoit Hamon, the socialist candidate, coming in last with 16%. Support for Fillon, though diminished somewhat, remains intact despite recent a very public scandal recently regarding him paying his wife for “fake work.” Speaking this week, Fillon declared that he would remain in the Presidential campaign and that reports regarding the alleged scandal were simply “fake assassination” aimed at removing the center-right candidate.

At first glance, 22-year-old Sokha Chan might seem like your average young California girl. She has a lap dog named Chica, and her own car that she bought herself.

But behind her seemingly charmed life, Sokha hides a dark past from her childhood that still haunts her to this day. And for the first time, she’s decided to travel 8,000 miles to confront that past, going back to where her life started in Cambodia.

Cambodia is often called “The Kingdom of Wonder,” but turn down certain side streets and there is a sordid world where sex is the hot commodity and children are still used as currency. It’s a country that was almost destroyed by civil war and genocide, and experts say it was out of that brutal and lawless period, following the fall of the Khmer Rouge, that prostitution and child sex trafficking began to flourish.

Why North Korea may be President Trump's greatest foreign policy challenge

PHOTO: This undated picture released by North Koreas Korean Central News Agency on March 7, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un supervising the launching of four ballistic missiles during a military drill at an undisclosed location.

Forget Russia, Iran or even ISIS. North Korea is shaping up to be the Trump administration’s greatest foreign policy challenge and one the United States can’t afford to ignore, some experts say.

Russian cyber-attacks and Islamic terrorism have captured much of the international stage, but they do not pose an "existential threat" to the United States like North Korea does, according to those experts.

North Korea evolved into the nuclear-armed enigma it is today long before President Trump took office. Now, the reclusive, authoritarian state is testing America’s newest commander-in-chief with a round of provocative missile tests. Experts told ABC News that Trump’s administration must come up with a plan to curb North Korea’s missile and nuclear development program -- and it must do so quickly.

BREAKING: One dead as Customs, rice traders clash again in Ogun

The Punch is reporting that at least one person has been allegedly killed by the operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) along Siun-Sagamu-Abeokuta road on Wednesday, March 8.

It quoted unconfirmed reports as saying that NCS operatives had pursued alleged rice smugglers to a certain point along the road around Kobape when the tragic event occurred.

Theresa May has been captured laughing in a disturbing manner at Prime Minister's Questions.

On Wednesday, just before the Budget, May sat back in her chair and feverishly convulsed with laughter in the House of Commons.

Nigerians not affected by Trump’s ban, says US embassy

The US embassy in Nigeria says there is no need for Nigerians to cancel travel plans to the United States, dismissing reports about a policy change affecting Nigerians.

Russell K. Brooks, spokesperson of the embassy, said this in response to inquiries by Associated Press.

The agency had requested comment after Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, said some Nigerians with valid multiple-entry US visas were stopped at the airport and put on the next plane home.

Just when people think the “comedy thrills” of Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, is running dry, the fiery politician bounces back in another style.

From sharing cakes on the streets to riding on commercial motorcycles, driving heavy duty trucks, making joke out of a serious business (which civilian governor storms the house of assembly in camoflague and sun shade, to present budget?), Fayose has his own style.

Real Madrid star Isco is ready to move to Manchester City this summer.

Pep Guardiola is a long term admirer of the Spain midfielder and City were keen on signing him when Manuel Pellegrini was in charge.

Isco, 24, will now push to leave Madrid this summer with his contract due to expire in 2018 and is ready to move to another top club.

Spain playmaker Isco has become increasingly frustrated and has made it clear that he could be up for a new challenge.

‘5 killed’ as Hausa, Yoruba clash in Ile-Ife

At least five people have been killed in a clash between Yoruba and Hausa traders in the Sabo area of Ile-Ife in Osun state.

A resident of the ancient city told TheCable that the situation started on Tuesday, but escalated on Wednesday morning.

He said trouble started after a vehicle driven by a Yoruba man hit the wife of a Hausa trader. Some youths were said to have attacked the driver with machete.

Xenophobic attack: Nigeria Senate cancels protest visit to South Africa-Thecable

The senate has cancelled its planned visit to the South African parliament to protest against the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians.

Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, announced the decision of upper legislative during a plenary session on Wednesday.

He said the decision of the senate was informed by the need for the legislature to send a single delegation to South Africa.

The house of representatives had already nominated Femi Gbajabiamila, house leader, to lead five members of the lower legislative chamber to South Africa for the same reason.

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Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri is set to reject the chance to become Arsenal manager and instead replace Luis Enrique at Barcelona, according to Mundo Deportivo.

Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea wants to join Real Madrid this summer, according to OK Diario journalist, Eduardo Inda.
Speaking on Spanish television, Inda revealed De Gea is keen to leave Manchester and return to his homeland.

Chelsea working to renew Conte's contract after extraordinary first season

The Blues are in talks to reward their manager for a great start to his tenure in West London as his side remain favourites for the title

Antonio Conte is expected to come to an agreement with Chelsea over a new deal following links with Inter Milan and Barcelona, Goal understands.

Inter's Chinese owners were hoping that they could convince Conte to move back to Italy as it is well known that the Chelsea manager was missing his family, despite his impressive first season at Stamford Bridge.

IS gunmen in white lab coats kill 30 in Kabul hospital

Gunmen wearing white lab coats stormed a military hospital in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

The attack on the 400-bed military facility, located near two civilian hospitals in Kabul's heavily-guarded diplomatic quarter, set off clashes with security forces that lasted several hours.

The brazen assault reflected the capability of militant groups in Afghanistan to stage large-scale and complex attacks in the heart of Kabul, underscoring the challenges the government continues to face to improve security for ordinary Afghans.

Gen. Dawlat Waziri, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said there were "more than 30 killed and more than 50 wounded" in the attack. Afghan forces battled the attackers floor by floor, he added. The ministry said the attackers were dressed like health workers.

HHS Secretary Tom Price dodges on whether new health care plan is guaranteed to cover all Americans

Dr. Tom Price, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, told ABC News this morning that it is "certainly the goal" for health care to be less expensive and to provide coverage for all, but he didn't guarantee that would be the case.

Of the GOP's proposed Obamacare replacement, Price said he and his colleagues are trying to "fix a system that isn't working."

The new health care bill, which was previewed by House Republicans this week, bears some similarities to the Obama-era Affordable Care Act (ACA): tax credits, protections for people with health problems and the ability of parents to keep young adults on their insurance. It has nevertheless drawn sharp criticism from Democrats, health care advocates, and even many conservatives, who would prefer to see a total repeal.

VIDEO: Ethiopian Airlines lands in Kaduna

A Boeing 787 plane belonging to Ethopian Airlines has landed at the Kaduna International Airport.

Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, witnessed the landing.

According to officials of the Kaduna state government, the pilot of the aircraft certified the airport landing system to be “A1 excellent”.

Flights would be diverted to Kaduna as a result of the closure of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, over repairs of its runway.

Abuja airport would be closed for six weeks, and many foreign airlines have rejected the facility in Kaduna.

Below is a video of the first flight in Kaduna:

source:https://www.thecable.ng/video-ethiopian-airlines-lands-kaduna

[CELEBRITY BIO] Oge Okoye’s Exuberant Lifestyle

Oge Okoye is a talented and versatile Nollywood actress who is one of the few actresses that loves to keep her life away from the eyes of the public.

Early Life

Oge, who was born on the 16th November 1980 in London to the Late Mazi Okoye and Lolo Okoye is a native of Nnewi in Anambra State. She attended Holy Rosary College, Enugu and later graduated from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka with a degree in Theatre Arts.

Career

Oge Okoye’s first shot at the home video was in the commercially successful comedy ‘One Dollar’ starring Patience Ozokwo and Victor Osuagwu. Though she played a supporting role, she drew attention to herself with her smooth interpretation and showed a lot of promise. After that outing in ‘One Dollar’, producers sought and engaged her and today, she has featured in over 50 movies with a dozen others at various stages of post production.

President Muhammadu Buhari with APC Chieftains, Bisi Akande and Bola Tinubu in London

While running for president in 2007, former President Umar Yar’Adua looked clearly weak. But former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who tapped Mr. Yar’Adua to succeed him, said he threw his support behind the late president because he understood he was medically fit to govern Nigeria.

Mr. Obasanjo said he became confident of Mr. Yar’Adua’s ability to govern Nigeria after he pored through his health records and sought the opinion of medical experts.

Mr. Obasanjo said he believed Mr. Yar’Adua “had a clean bill” of health report when he tapped him as his replacement in 2007.

But during the campaign, Mr. Yar’Adua gave Nigerians a hint of his health crisis when he suddenly dashed out to Germany, fuelling rumours of his death.

WikiLeaks docs allege CIA can hack smartphones, expose Frankfurt listening post

WikiLeaks released Tuesday what the whistleblower group claimed were thousands of secret CIA files showing how U.S. spies hack smartphones, as well as exposing a major secret listening post in Germany.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment, and the CIA in a statement would not say whether the files are real.

"We do not comment on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents," said CIA spokesperson Jonathan Liu.

However, several current and former intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told ABC News the documents appear to be authentic, and, in fact, likely have origins at the National Security Agency where most national security hacking of overseas targets occurs.

Theo Walcott has told the London Evening Standard it is up to Arsenal's players to take the pressure off manager Arsene Wenger.

Arsenal lost 5-1 at home to Bayern Munich on Tuesday to go out of the Champions League 10-2 on aggregate, increasing calls for Wenger to step down at the end of the season.

The result added to the turmoil surrounding the club after Saturday's loss at Liverpool, when Wenger dropped Alexis Sanchez after an alleged training ground row.

Walcott said: "The players are like everybody else -- we don't really know what's going on. We just want to try to focus on the football.

Nigerians illegally residing in Libya or using that country as transit have been voluntarily returning home with the latest on Tuesday of 171 persons.

They arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja in Lagos with close supervision of the relevant agencies.

The plane, which conveyed them from the North African country, landed around 4:15pm.

Frank Lampard names Steven Gerrard as best midfielder he faced

Frank Lampard says Liverpool counterpart Steven Gerrard was the toughest midfielder he faced during his 20-year Premier League career.

The pair faced each other on numerous occasions when Liverpool and Chelsea squared off both on the domestic and European stages, and they played together in the England national team for 14 years.

Gerrard, who now works as a coach at Liverpool's academy, announced his retirement from football in November, with Lampard deciding to hang up his boots last month.

GOP Hill leaders back away from Trump on wiretap allegations

The top Republicans investigating Russia's interference in the US election declined Tuesday to back up President Donald Trump's claims that then-President Barack Obama wiretapped his Manhattan headquarters last year -- leaving the White House on its own to explain the stunning allegation.
When pressed on whether he believed Trump's allegations, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes -- one of Trump's strongest supporters in the House and a member of his transition team -- brushed aside the President's allegations.
"A lot of the things he says, you guys take literally," Nunes told reporters Tuesday. Nunes later hedged his comments and said that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn may have been wiretapped and that Trump had raised "valid questions" about how his aides were listened in on.
Across the Capitol, Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, who is leading a concurrent investigation into Russia's interference, said he had not seen any evidence of Trump's claims.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger 'looks like a lost man' after Bayern loss - Wright

Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright believes Arsene Wenger's reign at the club is "imploding."

Arsenal conceded five second-half goals to Bayern Munich at Emirates Stadium to slump to a 5-1 loss in the second leg of their Champions League round-of-16 tie, going down 10-2 on aggregate.

Defeat, sparked when Laurent Koscielny was controversially dismissed in conceding a penalty which led to Bayern's equaliser on the night, followed reports ahead of the match of a training ground bust-up involving star player Alexis Sanchez.

That was denied by Wenger, but Wright said it would take a "cataclysmic effort" for the Frenchman to revitalise his team.

LONDON -- Several hundred Arsenal fans marched in protest to the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday chanting for Arsene Wenger to step down prior to Tuesday's 5-1 Champions League defeat against Bayern Munich.

The group of fans gathered around 6 p.m. local time outside the old Highbury stadium and marched holding banners reading "No new contract" and "Every story has an ending," while chants included: "Arsene Wenger, we want you to go."

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a press conference in Beijing on March 8.

The United States and North Korea are set for a "head-on collision" with neither side willing to give way, China's top diplomat has warned.
In a week of heightened tensions in the region, Foreign Minister Wang Yi cautioned the US in unusually frank language against the deployment of a controversial missile defense system in South Korea. The system is vehemently opposed by China.
But he also had strong words for North Korea, saying Pyonyang should suspend its nuclear weapons program.

Embattled Andrew Yakubu has restated his claim that the $9,772,800 and £74,000 recovered from where he kept them in a house in Kaduna last month were gifts he got over a period of time.

The former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) reiterated this in an affidavit, which he filed before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, he however stated that the sums of money, which amounted to about N3bn, were not gifts he got “as a public servant or while he was a public servant”.

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President Trump's first full month was a big one for jobs.

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