Presidency Speaks On Alleged Pressure On Osinbajo To Resign

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, on Wednesday denied the report making the rounds on social media that Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is currently under pressure to resign.

In a statement made available to journalists, Ojudu said the news was a fabrication and should be discarded.

The presidential aide said, “I have read many ridiculous stories saying the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is being held hostage by some governors who are trying to compel him to resign.

“It Is Only In Nigeria Citizens Wish Their President Dead” – Lai Mohammed

The minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday described the unending rumours that President Muhammadu Buhari is dead as “silly” and “uncharitable”..

He made the statement while speaking at the federal executive council meeting, saying;

5 songs that make Don Jazzy the capo of African music producers

Artists draw so we can connect with their vision, to draw us in. Music producers do the same thing with their creativity, they seek to hypnotize our mass mind, to draw us in to their audio presentation and its unique mechanism.

Some music producers do this more than others, they eat their competition alive: raw. In today’s music industry few producers of contemporary hip hop sound has made more impact than Don Jazzy.

We Will Build Mexico Border Wall- Trump

Donald Trump has said a "big day" is planned on national security, including an announcement to build a wall on the border between the US and Mexico.

The new US president is expected to sign several executive orders regarding immigration and border security over the next few days.

They are likely to include the "extreme vetting" of people coming from seven predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa. This would restrict refugee access.

Gunmen Attack Somali Hotel, As Al-Shabab Says We Are Responsible

A number of people have been killed after a car bomb exploded and gunmen opened fire at a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

The attack took place at the Dayah hotel, where some members of parliament were thought to be staying, police said on Wednesday.

Detailed casualty figures remain unclear but emergency services said dozens of people died in the attack.

The Islamist militant group al-Shabab has said it carried out the attack.

Syrians Ride First Train Across Aleppo In Years

Hundreds of Syrians took a train through battle-scarred east Aleppo on Thursday as services resumed for the first time after four years of fighting, a photographer working with AFP said.

It was the train's first such trip since rebels overran east Aleppo in the summer of 2012, effectively dividing the northern city into a regime-held west and a rebel-controlled east.

A driver in a leather jacket ferried the full carriages from Jibreen station on the city's eastern outskirts across the city's former front line to Aleppo's main Baghdad railway station.

Usain Bolt Stripped Of Olympic Gold Medal

The ignominious list of the fastest men in the world to fail drugs tests grew bigger on Wednesday when Usain Bolt lost his claim to the title of 'triple-triple' Olympic champion after a Jamaican 4x100m team-mate retrospectively tested positive for a banned substance and caused the 2008 Beijing gold medal winners to be stripped of their title. 

Bolt, the world’s greatest track-and-field star, is now the only one of six sub-9.79sec 100m runners not to have committed a doping violation, with double Olympic champion Nesta Carter caught out in the reanalysis of urine and blood samples from the Beijing Games. But because his team mate tested positive for a banned substance, he has now been stripped of his 2008 Beijing gold medal title.