EFCC denies that Femi Fani-Kayode slumped in their office

EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, has denied claims that former Minister of Aviation and spokesperson to former President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign Organisation, Femi Fani- Kayode, slumped at their premises yesterday. Speaking with Vanguard, Uwujaren said there was no truth whatsoever in the report

“There is no truth whatsoever in the dubious and attention-seeking alarm that Fani-Kayode slumped and was revived by EFCC medical personnel. There was nothing like that as the said Fani-kayode and Obanikoro sat together and enjoyed their jokes at the first round of checks of inmates in EFCC custody on Monday night"he said.

Leicester city hero Jamie Vardy nominated for Ballon D'or (full list)

 Jamie Vardy, Leicester City's highest goal scorer in last season English premier league campaign where the club defied all odds to win the EPL title, is the only Englishman to be nominated for the 2016 Ballon D'or award organized by France Football after scoring 24 goals for the club last season.

Alongside stars like Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar and Suarez, Vardy has been nominated in the original 30 man shortlist for the award. See the full  Ballon D'or shortlist 

Sergio Aguero Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Gareth Bale Gianluigi Buffon Cristiano Ronaldo Kevin De Bruyne Paulo Dybala Diego Godín Antoine Griezmann Gonzalo Higuain Zlatan Ibrahimovic Andres Iniesta Koke Toni Kroos Robert Lewandowski Hugo Lloris Riyad Mahrez Lionel Messi Luka Modric Thomas Muller Manuel Neuer Neymar Dimitri Payet Pepe Paul Pogba Rui Patricio Sergio Ramos Luis Suarez Jamie Vardy Arturo Vidal.

'I don't believe Dasuki stole $2.2 billion' - Former president Jonathan

While responding to questions after his lecture at Oxford University yesterday, Former President Goodluck Jonathan, said he does not believe Former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, can "steal" $2.2 billion as he is being accused of by the EFCC. Responding to a question on Dasuki, Jonathan said

 “They said the National Security Adviser stole $2.2billion. I don’t believe somebody can just steal $2.2 billion. We bought warships, we bought aircraft, we bought lots of weapons for the army and so on and so forth and you are still saying 2.2 billion, so where did we get the money to buy all those things? 

Petrol: N145 per litre not sustainable – NNPC

The Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Department of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, has said that the sale of petrol at N145 per litre is not sustaining due to the current economic recession. Kyari stated this while speaking at the 10th Oil Trading and Logistics Africa Downstream Week in Lagos.

According to Kyari, the current economic downturn has made it impossible to import petroleum products at the current market price and at the current fixed foreign exchange rate and still make profit as well as recovered the capital invested in importation.

Jonathan at Oxford University, makes case for youth empowerment 'I worked for next generation, not next election'

Former President Dr Goodluck Jonathan yesterday defended his administration’s Transformation Agenda stressing that it was designed to engage the latent potential in the entire nation, as well as stimulate and enable higher productivity.

Jonathan who stated this yesterday in lecture at the Oxford Union of the Oxford University in the United Kingdom, also said that while serving as President of Nigeria, he worked for the next generation and not for the next elections, as a means of ensuring that Nigerian children had a promising future.

He said:

“While serving as President of Nigeria, I worked for the next generation and not for the next elections. Somebody must sacrifice and work for the next generation otherwise your children's children will suffer the same predicaments as you have.

Photos: Check out this newly wedded couple. If this is not love then I don't know what it is

The wedding reportedly took place in Akwa Ibom State over the weekend...congrats to them..

Just two hours after getting married,groom divorces wife for posting their ceremony on snapchat

A furious groom has divorced his bride for posting their ceremony on Snapchat, just two hours after their wedding in Saudi Arabia.

According to Daily Mail, the unidentified couple had a binding agreement not to share pictures or videos of the their ceremony on social media, only for the groom to find out that images of his new wife from the wedding ceremony had been sent to the several female friends, prompting an immediate divorce.