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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