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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...