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Recently after his decamp to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) an issue came up that the former vice President, Atiku Abubakar is banned from entering the United State of America due to corruption charges against him since from 2003. However, Atiku Abubakar denied the allegation in a recent interview. Here is what we found from the website of the Senate United stated of America.  According to an article published on United State Senates page: Abubakar Case History.  From 2000 to 2008, Jennifer Douglas, a U.S. citizen and the fourth wife of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and former candidate for President of Nigeria, helped her husband bring over $40 million in suspect funds into the United States through wire transfers sent by offshore corporations to U.S. bank accounts. In a 2008 civil complaint, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that Ms. Douglas received over $2 million in bribe payments in 2001 and 2002, from Siemens AG, a major German corp...

Senator Walid Jubril, the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT), has said the party was willing to visit and sympathise with President Muhammadu Buhari in London. But the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) says PDP leaders are being “unnecessary overzealous” and urged them to allow the president enjoy his leave as he prepares to return soon. Jubril, who denied that the party promoted the rumored death of the president, said that the PDP was rather praying fervently for Buhari’s safe return to Nigeria. “Let him be well and come back and continue with his leadership of Nigeria. “If we are to be given the opportunity, the PDP leaders will even go to London to wish him well and sympathize with his family,” he said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna. But the National Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, said the PDP leaders were “too late to have expressed their willingness to visit the president at this ma...

This roller coaster will never stop rolling, regardless of how many mysterious deaths it causes. OK, so Rob Kardashian and Black Chyna’s relationship has caused zero mysterious deaths so far (THAT WE KNOW OF), but the couple reunited and their neighbors are not having it. Rob moved back into Chyna’s San Fernando home last week, TMZ reports, though law enforcement sources told the site police visited the gated community on Tuesday and were already inundated with complaints from residents regarding the couple. Neighbors allegedly told the cops Rob and Chyna’s visitors failed to use the front gate, opting to scale the wall and avoid security. Community members then went on to call said visitors “thugs” and “riffraff” in an effort to keep insults with a history of problematic racial connotations in circulation. They made sure to mention the neighborhood is full of “affluent people” concerned with how Rob and Chyna’s presence will affect the property value. Residents claimed Rob...

The office of the former President Goodluck Jonathan has refuted claims that the last administration rejected an offer made by British forces to rescue the kidnapped Chibok school girls. Report by guardian.com claims the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom, on a mission named Operation Turus, conduct air recce over northern Nigeria for several months after the girls were taken in April 2014. “The girls were located in the first few weeks of the RAF mission,” a source involved in Operation Turus told the Observer. “We offered to rescue them, but the Nigerian government declined.” A statement by Jonathan’s media adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, said the lies in this report are self-evident, noting that Nigerians are conversant with the effort made by the Jonathan administration to rescue the girls. Eze said the media actively covered the multinational efforts and collaboration which involved some of the major powers deploying their crack intelligence officers to work with Nigeri...

President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his 80th birthday. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, made this known in a statement last night. Adesina said in a phone call from London, where he is convalescing, Buhari told the former military ruler (1976 to 1979) and democratically elected president (1999 to 2007) that “a time like this provides opportunity to reflect on Obasanjo’s invaluable roles and contributions to the unity and cohesion of Nigeria, the brotherhood of all Africans, as well as peace and amity over the globe.” The presidential spokesman quoted Buhari as describing the former president as “a true citizen of the world.” He said Buhari recalled their days in the military thus: “Those of us who served under you in various capacities recall a man with boundless energy, with razor sharp mind, and one who does not suffer fools gladly. Working with you was a school in itself, and t...

 Radiating anger and resignation in equal measure, Arsene Wenger wore the exasperated expression that has become all too familiar to Arsenal followers during their club’s futile attempts to conquer Europe. Wenger’s frustrated demeanor on the touchline at the Allianz Arena last month was provoked by the sight of Arsenal being outclassed by Bayern Munich — again — in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie. Each Bayern goal was a fresh twist of the knife for Wenger and by full-time Arsenal had been hammered 5-1, a chastening loss that seems certain to make Tuesday’s second leg at the Emirates Stadium a mere formality for the Germans. There was an unmistakeable feeling of deja vu as Wenger and his players trudged back to the changing room, once again assailed by the harsh realities of Europe’s elite club competition. Arsenal have been eliminated in the first knockout round of the Champions League in each of the last six seasons, twice by Bayern, and Wenger ...

Two Prophets arrested in the capital of Ghana Accra for defrauding 400 traders. The Accra Regional Police Command has apprehended two men who allegedly posed as prophets and defrauded over 400 traders under the alleged reason of delivering them from spiritual bondage. The suspects, identified as Joseph Brimah, 22, and Derick Kweku Sakyi Baisie, 31, alias Kweku Money, allegedly collected money, mobile phones, tablets and two vehicles- a Kia Optima and Mercedes C Class from the victims. Luck eluded them when one of the victims who gave GH¢75,000 to them discovered their fraudulent activities and reported the matter to the police. Confirming the story to   DAILY GUIDE , ASP Effia Tenge, the Accra Regional Police spokeswoman, said the suspects allegedly defrauded the victims within a spate of six months. According to one of the complainants (name withheld), Joseph Braimah came to her shop at Tudu to preach to the traders. After preaching for the day, Braimah approach...

The central bank of Nigeria stated that the recent appreciation of Naira against the Dolar was the result of intervention and market monitoring by the CBN. The acting director of cooperate communication CBN , Mr Isaac Okorafor in sokoto clarifies the allegations by Mr Babatunde Gbadamosi on the illegal sales of foreign currencies at ridiculous rates was responsible for the change in forex policy. The Lagos Businessman Babatunde Gbadamosi, also former governorship candidate made the allegations of racketeering against the CBN and favoritism in allocation of foreign exchange to cronies of the present administration. The Central bank of Nigeria later clarifies the issue that the transactions in question were third party transactions like Japanese Yen to the South African Rand, or Euros to U.S Dollars.  The CBN later went supplementary to direct banks to file returns on the sale of foreign currencies in dollars to avoid ambiguities and misinterpretations in future. Mr...

A media Organization in Ghana Daily graphic gathered a story of pain and sorrow of three “yahoo boys’’/“Sakawa” go true to become millionaires in a night. “I became interested in sakawa (scam) two years ago when I had nothing. No roof on my head, no food to eat and no pesewa in my account. But now I boast of $ 2 million in my account and a six-bedroom house. I’m pretty sure this is the kind of life every young man wants, but I will gladly give them up if there is a way out for me to be free again.” “Sometimes you get lucky to be instructed to just sleep with about 70 dark-skinned ladies in a month and collect their vagina fluid. But in worse scenarios, the task is inconceivable,” reveals a 34-year-old sakawa (Yahoo/scam) man. While they drive in flashy vehicles and appear to enjoy life, the life of a sakawa boy, the Daily Graphic gathered, is one characterized by sorrow, pain and regrets. For Abuda (not his real name), the pain and frustration of the sacrifice he ...

This is the confession of a 19-year-old Senior High School (SHS) graduate who engages in prostitution at Liberia Camp, a popular area in Kasoa in the Central Region Ghana. Lady Pan, as she prefers to be called, engages in prostitution to feed herself, her 57-year-old visually-impaired mother and two siblings. Her light skin and sizeable backside are assets that open gates and get the attention of men. So far, Lady Pan claims to have slept with over 700 men, majority of them being between the ages of 40 and 65. “I don’t go for young men, particularly those in their 20s and early 30s, because they don’t pay well and yet it takes a long time before they ejaculate. My targets are married men who want pleasure they do not get from their wives,” she said with a coy smile. Why I joined Lady Pan said it all began when she was in Senior High School (SHS) second year. “My mother lost her sight and within two weeks she was out of business too. She was the cashier of a popular ...

The people of Hausa tribe react to BBC HAUSA Sexual behavior research done by   Claremont Graduate   University in California on facebook. According to the research, Bisexuals enjoys the pleasure of sex mother than anyone. Some Facebook users of the Hausa tribe accused Britain of disrespecting the culture and the religion of Hausa’s. One of the users,   Aminu adam tangar   wrote in hausa: I’m not surprised, the media organization belongs to Britain, but whatever is the case: they should learn to respect our culture and religion. (Translated) Hamza Danbatta   also wrote: This is totally against the hausa culture, if this media organization is really for Hausa listeners then you’re not trying at all, may God deliver you. (Translated)

Hollywood will always be “Hollyweird.” If you need proof of that, all you’d have to do is walk down the street in la-la land for under 10 seconds. If that’s still not enough for you, this obscure and kind of awesome Kanye West sculpture should do the trick. A street artist who calls himself Plastic Jesus has composed a life-size gold sculpture of the 39-year-old rapper recreating the crucifixion of Jesus. On February 22, the Los Angeles-based artist erected the sculpture called “False Idol” at Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in West Hollywood. The sculpture features nails in each of Kanye’s hands. Also included are a pair of Yeezys from West’s popular collaboration with Adidas. Street artist Plastic Jesus spoke to the Hollywood Reporter about what inspired him to create the sculpture, saying, He’s a genius at writing and producing but he’s not a God, and that’s where we put him. Until there’s an issue in his life or a hiccup in his career, then we crucify him. H...

The naira to dollar yesterday nosedive from N523 to N505 as a result of the  revaluation of foreign exchange by the Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday. Acting President of Association of Bureau de change Operators,Aminu Gwadabe,who confirmed this in a chat with our correspondent, said the apex bank  use of carrot rather than stick to banks directing them to sell their invisibles services at  20percent margin is really bringing out the stashed liquidity in the banking safe, homes, etc. He said other measures of the CBN like reduced tenored futures, intervention in the parallel market have aided a significant naira rebound in the market. He however added there is the need for the apex to still look at the sources of supply ends of the market like the diaspora remittance and FDI agitations to complement the mouth watering margin of 20% to banks transactions. “The CBN should also harmonise the rates between that of the BDCs buying and selling rates and banks to ens...

Nigeria loses $2.9 billion annually to corporate tax waivers, the ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has said. The country director of AAN, Ms. Ojobo Ode Atuluku, who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, said Ghana and Senegal also lose $2.7 and $0.2bn respectively annually to tax waivers bring the loss of the three countries to $5.8bn annually. She was speaking at the West African Summit on Tax Treaties organised by ActionAid themed, ‘A Common Treaty Protocol: Cutting the Giveaways’. Mrs Atuluku also stated that Nigeria lost over $3.3bn in 10 years to tax incentives under the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Act. She urged the labour, civil society organisations civil servants and other stakeholders to rise as a movement to end the extravagant waivers that characterise treaties that African countries have signed. She said studies by her organisation and other development agencies showed that there is need to take more than a cursory look at the treaties which have become maj...

A video from Donald Trump’s most recent campaign rally has the internet extremely concerned about Melania Trump’s well-being. In the clip filmed on Saturday, February 18 at the president’s event in Orlando, Florida, Melania is preparing to deliver the Lord’s Prayer for a rambunctious crowd surrounding her. Moments before she begins the prayer, Donald Trump approaches the FLOTUS and touches her upper arm before walking behind her. In that very moment, Melania takes a quick breath, rapidly turns her head and looks down at the podium. When she looks back up, she re-focuses and begins the prayer. After the video clip was posted on Twitter, one user specifically pointed out the controversial moment when Donald approaches his wife, and people became worried. Some people claimed Melania acted how “sexual abuse victims react to their aggressors in public,” while others seemed unfazed by the couple’s interaction. In order to prope...

Nigeria wants to borrow at least $1 billion from the World Bank and to sign within months for a $1.3 billion loan from China to fund railway projects, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said on Tuesday. Africa's biggest economy needs to plug a gap in its record 7.3 trillion naira ($23.17 billion) 2017 budget, which boosts capital expenditures by a quarter to end its first recession in 25 years due to low oil prices. The government has been in talks with the World Bank for a year and wants to finalise this month a reform proposal necessary for a loan application, according to officials. " We expected to borrow at least $1 bln dollars ," Adeosun told CNBC when asked about the talks with the Washington-based bank. "There is also some possibility of doing sector specific intervention in the power sector, they are working very closely with us on power," she added, without being more specific. Nigeria had initially promised to submit an economic plan to t...

The executive directors of the International Monetary Fund have adopted a proposal to promote Islamic Banking (IB) due to its popularity in the global financial system. The board, at the end of its first formal discussion on IB, adopted a set of proposals on the role the fund should play in this area. The proposals, according to the bank, and the case for adopting them, are contained in the staff paper titled “Ensuring Financial Stability in Countries with Islamic Banking” and the accompanying country case studies paper. A statement from the IMF said the board noted that the growth of Islamic Banking and its complexities posed new challenges and unique risks for regulatory and supervisory authorities. “Against this background, the directors called for stronger efforts to establish a policy framework and environment that promote financial stability and sound development of Islamic Banking, particularly for countries in which Islamic Banking has become systemically importan...