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Kanu Nwankwo visits Tony Elumelu (Photo)

Legendary Nigerian footballer, Kanu Nwankwo on Monday paid a surprise visit to billionaire businessman and CEO of Heirs Holdings Company, Tony Elumelu.

According to Tony Elumelu, it's been a while since he saw the African football legend.

'It's been a while since I saw #KanuNwankwo - was pleasantly surprised when he visited @heirsholdings yesterday,' he wrote on his IG page.

Photos: One dies, Nigerian construction worker missing after platform collapsed on Hong Kong Zhuhai-Macao Bridge

A Nigerian construction worker is still missing and a Nepali man died after a temporary work platform collapsed on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge on Wednesday afternoon, March 29th.

The 41-year-old Nigerian simply identified as Onwuka and two Nepali men, Phapa Paul Denedick, 20 and Gurung Anel, 22, were dismantling a temporary work platform underneath a completed three-meter-high viaduct.

Work began on the bridge in 2009 and is situated at the waters of Lingdingyang in the Pearl River Estuary. It is a mega-sized sea crossing linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai city in Guangdong Province and Macau.

Man mauled to death by his own dog during BBC interview

41-year-old Mario Perivoitos has died after being attacked at home by his Staffordshire bull terrier in front of a BBC documentary crew. He was being interviewed by BBC for a documentary believed to be about drug use when the attack happened on Monday, March 20th...

Mario was a computer expert and had two masters degree but got involved with the wrong crowd after the death of his father in 2007 and got worse after his mother, who was suffering dementia, went into a care home last year. He started using drugs heavily and had rowdy drug users over often and this led to his house being sealed by the police for a period from February 22 till May 21. The closure order prohibited anyone except him from coming into the house, which is why when he was screaming for help, no one could get into the locked house to help and when the police came they had to use a crowbar to forcefully open the door.

President Buhari reportedly cancels his medical trip to London, invites Physicians to Nigeria

Two weeks after his return from his 49-days month medical trip to the United Kingdom, President Buhari has reportedly cancelled his new medical trip to London for a checkup.

According to Sahara Reporters, President Buhari was billed to travel to the UK this weekend for a medical checkup but has instructed his doctors to come to Nigeria instead to carry out the medical examination on him.

Finally, Donald Trump to meet with Chinese President, Xi Jinping in April

According to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with US President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on April 6 and 7, 2017.

It would be the first meeting between the two men, in what has been described as the most important bilateral relationship in the world.

The comes amid heightened tensions in Asia. Trump has said in recent weeks that North Korea is one of the biggest security challenges he faces as president and has called on China to rein in Pyongyang, which US officials believe is preparing for another nuclear test.

Ivanka Trump to become US president adviser

Ivanka Trump will take an official government role as an unpaid adviser to her father US President Donald Trump, the White House announced on Wednesday. The first daughter, 35, whose estate developer husband Jared Kushner also works as an unpaid senior advisor to the president, will not receive a salary for her work as a federal employee.

Comedian, Julius Agwu took to his Instagram page to celebrate his wife who is celebrating 35th birthday today. He wrote;

"Happy birthday @ibmac_a May the good Lord continue to bless u more $ more in Jesus Name, Amen ... my Love for you "knows no bounds" ... Keep on shining ‼"