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A son of deceased al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been officially added to the U.S. counter-terrorism blacklist, a move that bars U.S. citizens from doing business with them, the State Department said.The State and Treasury departments on Thursday, said they had designated Hamza bin Laden and Ibrahim al-Banna, a senior leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as global terrorists.Hamza, who is now in his twenties was named an official member of al-Qaeda in 2015 by senior leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and is seen as a possible successor to his father.Hamza is Bin Laden's child with and Khairiah Sabar, one of the wives who was captured during the 2011 raid on his Abbotabad compound in Pakistan.In 2015, al-Qaeda released an audio message from Hamza, which called on followers in Kabul, Baghdad and Gaza to wage jihad, or holy war, on Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv.He now joins his half-brother Saad on theUS sanctions list as a "specially designated global terrorist"

The cracks within the MMM community in Nigeria have continued to widen with manyof the three million participants in the Ponzi scheme losing patience and trading accusations due to their inability to get their money out of the scheme after waiting for more than a month.After being mocked Nigerians opposed to the scheme and fed excuses by those behind it for over a month, confidence in the scheme is declining with participants questioning its mode of operation and faulting explanations offered by guiders.The discontent with MMM became evident this week after all payment (Get Help) requests by participants were removed bythe scheme. The development meant that even the poor or small investors that the scheme said upon its ‘return’ on January 13 it would pay before higher investors were equally frozen out.Ironically, the frustration follows the wild jubilation that followed its return on January 13.[b]“We were patient for a whole month. What were you guys doing during that period? It’s not

Whatsapp is going to the height of it. Many of us had sent felicitations messages during the past festive period to family and friends on WhatsApp. Me precisely I had many boringlong picture messages, and however bored I was, courtesy forced me into saying thank you. But do you know that New Year eve, that is December 31, a total of 63 billion WhatsApp messages were sent on Whsastapp. This official data was confidently released by Facebook, who now is in ownership of the messaging device. India actually accounted for a whopping 14 billion messages that were still included in the 63 billion Lot.Images practically made up about 8 billion messages, and then the video message composition accounted for 2.5 billion WhatsApp messages.This 63 billion figure is an impressive confirmation of data released April last year which disclosed that WhastApp and Facebook Messenger put together were about 60 billion messages. Whatsppp for now has no limits.

The United Action for Democracy (UAD) has commenced what a member of the group called a series of protests to call the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to order and make it meet the challenges of the economy as it promised during the campaigns in 2015.The protesters said almost two years into the Buhari administration, the country's hardship has continued without much actions from the government.The civil society group launched the first face of the protests in Lagos on Monday, January 16, 2017 in Lagos after it mobilized residents of the state to come out en-masse for the action.With the success recorded in Lagos, a member of the group told NAIJ.com in confidence that the protest would be replicated in other states of the federation.“In Lagos, the protest was successful and against the increasing hardship experienced by the citizens, many of whom voted in favour of the All Progressives Congress in 2015.“It is close to two years after the emergence of President Muhammadu Bu

A prophet in South Africa, Prophet Theo Bongani Maseko of the Breath of Christ Ministries in Daveyton, has sparked outrage yet again after he made his church members drink engine oil .According to him, it tastes like honey and drinking the oil demonstrates “the power of God”.Photographs of people drinking the fluid during church service were posted on his church’s Facebook page. They had a caption which read:"The fullness of Christ is in this bottle. Healing and strange deliverance#Mark16:17 -18."Maseko confirmed he had made his congregants drink the chemical. Asked why he had used this method, he said it was “to demonstrate the power of God”.“When we pray over anything, its poison dies. So it can’t harm people. Nothing happened, no one has been to hospital,” he said.On the contrary, he said, congregants whohad drunk the engine cleaner had been “saved, healed and delivered”. He backed up his claims by citing Bible verses.“Jesus spat on the ground and made mud. He took that mu

Diego Costa could be back in the Chelsea starting line-up against Hull on Sunday after he made up with the Premier League leaders’ manager Antonio Conte, British media reported Wednesday.The 28-year-old striker — whose 14 goals this season has spurred Chelsea to a seven-point lead at the top of the table — was pictured at the club’s training ground hugging fitness coach Julio Tous, with whom apparently he had a row last week over the level of his fitness and amid reports of a big-money offer from China.Diego CostaThe Spanish international also trained with the rest of the squad having trained on his own at the start of the week.Both the volatile Brazil-born star and Conte claimed he hada back injury after he was omitted from the squad for last Saturday’s 3-0 win over champions Leicester.However, Costa was also said to have had his head turned by a bid from Chinese club Tianjin Quanjian, who were reportedly willing to offer him£30 million (35m euros, $37m)a year.“I can tell you if there

Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola has advised university graduates to dump their certificates and go back to farm, urging them to see agriculture as viable alternative to white collar job.The governor said the call was necessary due to the menace of unemployment among Nigerian youths.Aregbesola who gave this speech during the 6th convocation ceremony of Fountain University, Osogbo, added that the present economic situation has shown Nigerians the need to encourage farming as the only alternative to crude oil, Daily Post reports.He explained that there was no aspect of life that could do without agriculture, saying Nigerian graduates must henceforth stop searching for formal jobs that realistically remained elusive.He called for productivity, resilience and hard-work among Nigerians, stressing that the present nation’s economy demands one to be self-employed.The governor noted that there is no other alternative to sustain Nigerian economy than to build and encourage requisite interes

Fayose through his aide, Lere Olayinka stated this in reaction to President Buhari's apology over an operational mistake that took place at theIDP camp in Borno state today.The Ekiti state governor also blasted Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai saying:Just wondering what El-Rufai's tweets will be today if Jonathan is still thePresident and over 100 Nigerians were mistakenly killed by military bombs.If this had mistakenly happened under GEJ, would anyone believe it was a mistake?Won't El-Rufai be on Twitter now saying J onthan did it to reduce population of the North?IDPs camp is an area designated by the military. Meaning that the military knows the location of the IDPs camps. How can you bomb a location that you know mistakenly?Buhari in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina pleaded for calm. Nigerians react to IDP camp bombing. Dozens of people were on Tuesday, January 17, killed after a military jet mistakenly dropped a bomb inside t

THE Federal Government, has pleaded withthe three striking non teaching staff unions in the universities that embarked on strike yesterday to suspend their action in the interest of the nation.The three University unions, the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, Non Academic Staff Union and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, had yesterday, started a five-day warning strike over the inability of the Federal Government to implement the 2009 Agreements with the unions.

— The real reasons for the sack of former Executive Secretary of Financial Reporting Council ofNigeria, FRCN, Mr. Jim Obazee,emerged yesterday, with Presidency sources disclosingthat he was removed for procedural breaches.A source, who did not want to be mentioned, revealed that the removal of Mr. Obazee based on advice of the Attorney General of the Federation had been approvedby President Muhammadu Buhari before the decision of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church ofGod, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to step aside as head of RCCG in Nigeria.It was learned in Abuja that contrary to the widely held opinion that  Obazee was sacked because he forced Pastor Adeboye to resign, the resignation of the pastor and the removal of the Executive Secretary were mere co-incidence, as Obazee’s sack was to be announced at the same period, whether or not the pastor resigned.The source said: “The sack of Obazee had nothing to do withthe decision of the General Overseer of RCCG, Pastor Ad

The Manchester United manager believes his team played to win at Old Trafford, as two old adversaries cancelled each other out in a1-1 draw.Jose Mourinho was left frustrated by Manchester United's failure to take all three points against a Liverpool side who he claimsset out to defend.Liverpool departed Old Trafford on Sunday with a 1-1 draw, but their hosts left it late to secure a point, as Zlatan Ibrahimovic headed in his 10th Premier League goal from his last 10 appearances six minutes from time.Goal machine Ibra matches PL greatsJames Milner had put Liverpool ahead just before the half-hour mark, converting a penalty after Paul Pogba handled in the area,but Mourinho is adamant that his men deserved more."It was entertaining, I have to agree, but it was not high quality," he toldSky Sports."Both teams can do much better than we did interms of quality. "But it was entertaining because we created chances to be in front. They defended well and it was good to s

With continued killings in Southern Kaduna killings, Fulani herdsmen attacks and kidnapping in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said the Federal Government has not been able to live up to its primary responsibility of securing lives and property, The Christian body said although the government had recorded some successful in tackling insurgency in the North-East, taking Fulani herdsmen attacks with sentiment would not help the country. President of CAN, Dr. Samson Ayokunle, in a statement by his media assistant, Pastor Bayo Oladeji noted that most of the economic policies of the government have no human face. CAN urged the government to change its attitude of not responding to issues raised by its citizens until the situation has gone out of hands. “The rising wave of kidnapping is rampant in the East but has almost become a lucrative business now in the West and North. It is a very bad experience that Nigerians do not deserve to be passing through. “

Ajibola, the second child of the Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has joined her father in lambasting students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho in Oyo State, who staged a protest over the continued closure of their school. The school is jointly owned by the Oyo and Osun State Governments and had been shut for about eight months. The students took their protest to the Governor’s Office in Agodi, Ibadan, where Ajimobi addressed them, using what many have termed uncouth language. Ajibola’s father told the students that they lacked manners for not respecting constituted authority. He said he remains the constituted authority in their case. The video footage from the students’ encounter with Governor Ajimobi, courtesy of Sahara Reporters Television, can be found below. However, apparently in anger following the booing and jeering of her father, Ajibola took to social media network, Instagram, to further lambast the students. Ajibola, with the name: con

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According to PROPHET I. O AJILORE of the living proof Christian church ibadan who released prophecies for the year 2016. He gave the predictions during the church annual thanksgiving and prophetic declaration service that holds every 19th December of every year, he said “The following are what God revealed to me about what will happen in the year 2017 if God did not change HIS MIND. Remember, a prophet is he that speaks the mind of God. I appreciate and thank God for fulfillment of the past predictions”. Read them below: 1. To God be the glory, April 17th 2015, he told me that, 2016 shall be year of ISAAC, that is why our theme for 2016 was “YEAR OF ISAAC ” Gen 26. The year of famine, that things will be costly. To God be the glory, we are all alive to know if actually 2016 is year of Isaac : Did things become costly of not? 2. God told me that 2017 shall be the year of Divine Solution Gen 41. Their will be divine solution for the nation, if they can seek the face of God and direction

Super Eagles skipper, John Mikel Obi, has opened his goal account for Chinese side, Tianjin TEDA, in just his second appearance. The 29-year-old who made the switch from Chelsea last week scored one of the goals as TEDA crashed 6-2 to German side, St. Pauli, in a friendly on Saturday. This was barely two days after the Nigerian made his debut in TEDA’S first pre-season game against another German side, Borussia Monchengladbach which ended in a 2-1 loss. However, it was another poor outing for his team as Pauli ran riot scoring three goals in the opening 26 minute before Mikel pulled one back in the 35th minute to bring scores to 3-1. His goal came off a header from a well delivered free kick. The strike will come as huge surprise to many soccer enthusiasts considering the Nigerian’s appalling goal scoring record. He managed just five strikes in over 10 years at Stamford Bridge.

With a narrative from Dr Ishaku Chollom Pam FRCP, Consultant Physician, Tony Egbulefu captures the ghastly details of the conversations that preceded the cold-blooded execution of Lt Col James Pam, the Adjutant-general of the Nigerian Army in the hands of the January 15, 1966 mutineers. As the guns cracked in the early hours of January 15, 1966 from the officers and men loyal to some mutineering middle rank officers of the Nigerian Army, led by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, 11 prominent Nigerian politicians and some senior army officers met their fatal end in its trail. Gone with the coup that spanned across the cities of Lagos (then federal capital ), Kaduna, (capital of Northern Region), and Ibadan, (capital of the Western Region) were the Nigerian Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Premier of the Northern Region, Chief Samuel Akintola, Premier of the Western Region, and minister of finance, Festus Okotie Eboh. Ostensibly targeted at the ruling political clas

Nigeria's first coup d'etat was led by Kaduna Nzeogwu on January 15th, 1966. The Coup was one of the causes of the civil war, 1967-70.

At least three former African Player of the Year winners will lead an all star cast of African football legends in a two-legged charity game to be jointly organized by both the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Kanu Heart Foundation. Former Nigeria captain and two-time African Player of the Year Winner Nwankwo Kanu announced the event in Abuja on Thursday. “A team of African football legends will play against a team of South African legends to raise funds for the two charities,” Kanu said.  The first of the two-legged game is scheduled to take place in Nigeria on 8 April, while the second is scheduled for 6 May in South Africa. Among former internationals expected during both matches are Abedi Pele, Samuel Etoo, Didier Drogba, Austin Jay Jay Okocha, Daniel Amokachi, Anthony Yeoboah, Oman Biyick, Kana Biyick, Doctor Khumalo, Eric Tinkler, Phil Masinga, Abdullahi Traore, Yussuf Foufana, Omar Ben Sallah, Michael Essien, Charles Akunnor and Pape Diouf. Proceeds from the matches will be

Following the arrest of Mike Eze-Nwalie Nwogu A.K.A PRETTY  MIKE by the Lagos State Police Command for dehumanizing young girls by turning them into human puppies with chains round their necks, the socialite has signed an undertaking to stop using chains on humans. 30 years old Nwogu (aka Pretty Mike) who owns a club in Ikeja area of Lagos State was arrested on Wednesday on the order of the Lagos State Government.He was released by the police after signing an undertaking to stop chaining any woman or man like puppies. Pretty Mike’s undertaking reads below; “I, Mike Eze Nwalie, A.K.A Pretty Mike, of 21A, Magodo GRA, Luma Street, do hereby undertake to stop whatever act of putting girls on a leash or any other degrading treatment to ladies and guys. “I am aware that such act offends the law of the State of Lagos and if I repeat it again, there will be legal act towards me. “I undertake to issue a letter of apology to the public effective from tomorrow on all my social

MMM IS BACK OOO! Many people were said to be in a state of coma when the news of the freezing of accounts broke. Those who had made plans to spend their money for some projects and Programmes at the end of the year had those projects postponed aborted. There was panic and great confusion in the country on December 13, 2016 when the scheme froze accounts of members without their preparation for it. MMM Nigeria MMM participants woke up on Tuesday, December 13 morning to the heartbreaking news that accounts have been frozen with the possibility that their money may not be retrieved. Fear gripped hearts as many had millions locked up in the MMM account. Many people were said to have wept uncontrollably, believing that the scheme was gone and their money had disappeared forever. Those who were due to get help could not as it was said that those who were to provide help at that period were not willing as it was the festive period. It was learnt that many were preserving their mo

We want to use this medium to thank all of you and wish you a prosperous new year. HAPPY 2017.