Kemi Olunloyo

Ahead of the 2019 elections, Kemi Olunloyo has officially declared her intention to contest for President.

She made this known via her Instagram account sparking reactions from her thousands of followers. Kemi Olunloyo who is popularly regarded as Madam KOO bragged she has the popularity to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress at the polls.

It should be noted that Kemi Olunloyo was initially eyeing the gubernatorial seat in Oyo State before having a change of mind. Kemi Olunloyo, 54, is a self-acclaimed investigative journalist in Nigeria who has been in and out trouble following her constant tirades against prominent figures in Nigeria.

Speaking on her presidential ambition, the single mother stated that “this will make her the first woman among the others who she referred to as ‘recycled leaders’.”

In her words: “#BREAKING #hnnpolitics I’m joining the race to be President of #Nigeria under the platform @OfficialPDPNig. That makes me the 1ST WOMAN in the line up of male RECYCLED LEADERS. I can beat @mbuhari for real So pls support my primaries WIN! #NigeriaDecides2019.”

Recall that a 39-year-old lady mother of five, Eunice Uche Atuejide, has shown interest in contesting for the post of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the 2019 election.

Nigeria presently has 91 political parties who mostly have unpopular presidential candidates teased to be 'pretenders' and not 'contenders' by political analysts.

Chelsea new goalkeeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga has explained why he joined Chelsea during the summer.


Arrizabalaga signed for the Blues from Athletic Club Bilbao in a €80million deal last month.

The 23-year-old, who was included in the Spain squad for the international fixtures against England and Croatia, has so far made four starts for the West London club this season.


Speaking in an interview with Spanish newspaper, AS, the keeper explained what convinced him to sign for Chelsea, despite reported interest from Real Madrid and Juventus.

“It is a great club, which in recent years has won the Champions League, Europa League and the Premier League… It’s a team with great players. It was an important bet and I am happy to take this step, I want to enjoy it,” Kepa said.

“I started the pre-season with Bilbao and it was several weeks, Chelsea showed their interest. There were talks and everything was carried out. I’m happy for all the effort that Chelsea has made because it’s not easy to pay those amounts and I’m looking forward to returning it on the field.”

Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, has denied any gang-up against President Muhammadu Buhari by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, General Theophilus Danjuma and himself.



General Babangida, who ruled Nigeria from August 27, 1985 to August 26, 1993, made the declaration on Tuesday at his Hilltop Mansion in Minna, the Niger State capital, in an interview with The Crest, an online newspaper, a part of which was released Friday night.

The former military president was asked to react to the soaring notion that some past heads of state and retired Generals have ganged up and mapped strategies to upstage President Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the 2019 general election.

“Gang up?” General Babangida asked. “What gang-up? That is a media creation. It is media perception. It is easier for the media to add things up and conclude. I think what has happened is that after General Danjuma said what he said [about the alleged genocide in his home state of Taraba and the need for his people to defend themselves because the military had failed to protect them], after President Obasanjo released his letter, and perhaps, after my release too, the media simply added things up and came to the conclusion that there is a gang-up. There is no gang-up. It is media perception,” Babangida said.

He also took a critical look at the gale of defections from the ruling APC to the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and declared that the development was great for Nigeria’s democracy.

After watching the coverage of the defection of 14 senators live on national television with the former president, The Crest said it asked him what he felt about the development and Babangida replied in four words: “This is political dexterity.”

Asked to expatiate, he declared: “I call it political dexterity because there are no better words to describe it. This is political dexterity and I don’t think anybody should have any problems with that. I have nothing against it. I think it is good for democracy. If it is good for democracy, then, it is good for Nigeria.

“If people left the APC to form R-APC [Reformed All Progressives Congress], they must have a solid reason or reasons for doing that. If 12 senators got to a point where they felt their continued stay in APC was not working and decided to leave, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Similarly, if the other two senators felt that their stay in APC was no longer worth their while and decided to join the ADC [African Democratic Congress], they have not committed any crime.

“I think the development is good for democracy. Democracy is about choices; it is about the freedom to choose. In the democratic system that we practise, you can always disagree if you feel what you see in the system does not agree with your expectation.”

Former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida, on Friday, described the death of former Governor of Gombe State, Alhaji Abubakar Hashidu, as a great loss not only to Gombe State, but Nigeria in general.

In a statement signed by him and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna, Babangida said the deceased contributed alot the development of the country.

Hashidu, who died on Friday, served as Minister of Water Resources, and later Agriculture under the regime of Babangida.

He described Hashidu as a “trusted ally and a technocrat per excellence” that was an asset to his administration in the development of River Basins, and who also ensured the implementation of water resources management policies in the country .

He also described the deceased as a “political ideologists and a pragmatic politician that accepted the will of the people by conceding defeat in the 2003 election and congratulated the winner.”

The former Military President extended his hearfelt condolences to the family of the deceased as well as the government and people of Gombe State

The news trended on social media and left many Nigerians divided on whether or not the story was authentic.

Dino Melaye later emerged from his 'captivity', announcing that he had 'escaped' the terrible attack on him and that he was now free.

Nigerian OAP, Toolz, is apparently one of those people. In a new post she made on Instagram, the woman shared a photo asking people what theatrics Dino Melaye will employ in his next outing.

Below is what she posted

Nigerian youths urged to vote for Sowore

Ahead of the 2019 Presidential election, Nigerian youths of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds have been asked to vote for radical journalist, Mr Omoyele Sowore.
In a statement issued in Zamfara on Friday, the South West Progressive Youth Coalition, (SWPYC) said youths, by their population have the power to create a paradigm shift in the 2019 Presidential poll. The statement was signed by the group’s National Coordinator, Mr Yomi Peter Ogunsona. The statement was made available to Irohinoodua on Friday.
The group which is a coalition of 35 different youth-driven organisations, mainly in the South West said Nigeria has continued to suffer the double affliction of ‘corruption and exclusion of young people from governance.”
He said “Youths constitute 60 percent of Nigerian population. We should take a clue from what took place in France. Nigerians must put an end to the cycle of leaders that have been on the same stage for half a century. Nigerians need a new beginning. We need a new orientation. We need a sharp break from the past.”
SWPYC said youths in the country have been ‘blackmailed, abused, attacked by the anti-people policies’ of the government and also excluded from changing the system from its ugly shape.
He said Sowore has been spreading messages of hope across Nigeria and that the responses from younger people “have been quite amazing.”
According to him, across the country, inspite of the ethnic and religious differences, one thing is prevalent: Poverty and illiteracy. “The greatest inventions in the world are products of human imagination. There can be nothing more destructive than for a leadership to condemn the human mind to illiteracy. This is a fertile ground for violence, drug abuse and evil plots against the society itself.
He said more than 70 percent of Nigerians have no access to quality education, free health and opportunities to develop their potentials.
Ogunsona said Mr Sowore offers hope for Nigerians who are daily traumatise by a parasitic economy, corruption and dehumanization. He said the people ruling Nigeria are outdated and are not in tune with the modern times saying that their leadership style has further polarise the country
“We cannot continue to vote for leaders that have no fresh ideas, but have constrained themselves to repeating the policies of discrimination, hate, corruption and gross maladministration.”
According to him, Sowore is a revolutionary brand that will reunite Nigerians and bring revive the floundering fortunes of the country.

Chelsea manager, Maurizio Sarri has reportedly said he will be happy to sell Belgium forward, Eden Hazard for £170 million to Real Madrid.

Chelsea reckon they can earn a considerable transfer fee from the sale of the Belgium international to the Spanish giants.

Chelsea are aware of Real’s interest in the player and the player had also said he was open to joining the Bernabeu club.

Football London reports that Chelsea are aware of how much they can get Real Madrid to pay for Hazard.

The newspaper added that Real are willing to table up a staggering £178m for Hazard.

Manager Sarri has reportedly decided he will happily sell for that price.

The Blues’ board are in charge of transfers and are working on getting deals done before the August 9 deadline

Divine Giwa, a 19-year-old girl, who allegedly administered sleeping substance on her friend via tea, which made her sleep from 7a.m. till 10p.m., during which she ransacked her room, stole money and properties valued at N918,000, was arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, yesterday.
Giwa, according to prosecuting counsel, Ehizoba Godspower, committed the offence in September 2017. He said she stole three bags containing clothes valued at N200,000; 30 pieces of shoes, N150,000; jewelries, N100,000; make-up kit, N50,000 and three pieces of human hair wigs, N250,000.
Others included eye glasses valued N20,000, one phone valued N100,000 and N48,000, totalling N918,000; properties of Chioma Daniels.
Godspower said: “The defendant deliberately drugged the complainant to enable her steal her money and properties,” adding that the offence is punishable under Section 287 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015. Giwa pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The complainant had narrated how she was drugged by her friend to the Police.
Daniels said: “A friend of mine introduced the suspect to me in March 2017 at a fast food outlet in Lekki, and begged me to allow the suspect to live with me, pending when she would be able to raise money to rent accommodation.

“I lived with the suspect from March till September 2017, when I told her to prepare tea for both of us to drink.

“After I drank the tea, I slept from 7a.m. and woke up 10p.m., only to discover that the suspect had stolen all my properties and money and escaped.

“I later sighted her at Lekki in June this year and raised the alarm, which attracted people who assisted me to apprehend her and dragged her to the police station.”
Magistrate M. F. Onanusi granted Giwa N200,000 bail, with one surety in like sum, adjourned the case till August 1 for mention and ordered that the defendant be kept at Kirikiri Prisons, pending when she is able to perfect her bail conditions.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday said there was no man of honour, who left the Peoples Democratic Party because of its alleged crimes against the nation, that would want to return to the opposition party.

He insisted that he was not losing sleep over the emergence of a faction of the party called Reformed-APC.
He said no matter their irritations in the ruling party, no aggrieved member should be thinking of returning to the PDP.

He said, “No, I am not losing sleep. I am sleeping very well. I still maintain that I don’t see any man of honour who with his eyes open left the PDP on the account of their gross mismanagement, abuse of the treasury and all of the crimes that the PDP committed; I don’t see them, whatever their irritations, that can be justifications, to return to that house.

“All we need to do is to play back their own tape about what the PDP represents and why they left. I still hold the view that you cannot vomit in the morning and convert it to lunch in the afternoon, if you have honour. That position still remains the same.”

Despite his position, Oshiomhole explained that the party could distinguish between those who had genuine complaints and those he described as mercenaries.

He said the party would try and listen to those with genuine grievances but would not change its core values to accommodate the mercenaries who he said were after personal issues.

Apostle Essien Ayi, the Senior Pastor of the Peniel Church of God in Calabar, has donated one million Naira for the completion of a central mosque and Islamic Centre in Calabar, the capital city of Cross River State.

Ayi who is also a politician representing Akpabuyo/Bakassi/Calabar-South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, said Nigerians should be their brothers’ keepers, irrespective of religion.

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The cleric and lawmaker, who made the cash donation at Gbogobiri, a Hausa settlement in Calabar, said the gesture was also to appreciate the support he has enjoyed from them.

He said:

“Every human being whether Christian or Muslim believes in God, a creator. The religion may be different. The mode of practicing may be different, but it is tilted towards one being, which is God.

“Also the Muslim society has been very supportive of me right from when I was chairman and they informed me that their former mosque had been demolished and they are trying to erect a new and befitting mosque. I feel as a representative, they too are my constituents. I am bound to make a token donation towards the completion of that mosque. We should be be our brothers’ keepers. We are all Nigerians irrespective of our religion.”

A Nigerian, Obi Okeke, has bought Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Bugatti for $2.5 million (approximately N900m).

According to a TMZ report, Mr. Okeke plans to resell the ride, which goes 0-60 mph in 2.5 secs and only had about 1,000 miles on it.

The Super Sport version of the Veyron is recognized by Guinness World Records as the fastest streets legal production car in the world, with a top speed of 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph)

The dealer popularly known as aka Doctor Bugatti is famed for selling a similar ride to boxing star, Floyd Mayweather, in August 2017.

Mr. Okeke who is the owner of Fusion Luxury Motors, met Mayweather in 2009 and the boxer has purchased over 40 luxury cars from him.

The 56-year-old car merchant is a fixture in the American luxury automobile industry, dealing in cars that cost millions and selling to high net worth clients.

Currently in his inventory, car prices range from $49,000 to $3.8 million.

See Pictures of How and Where the Golden FIFA World Cup Trophy Is Manufactured!

In Paderno Dugnano, a little city close to Milan, Italy, there is a pink-walled factory. This, in such a low-key area, is where the trophy is made.
The golden original, property of FIFA and rarely exhibited, was designed in 1970 by artist Silvio Gazzaniga, winning the international contest for the new World Cup trophy.

Every four years, a brass copy of the trophy is provided and handed to the football federation of the winning side.
The pictures below show different stages of foundry ,treatment, chiseling and polishing the trophy undergoes before it could be handed over to

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The youths of Ondo kingdom massively turned out for Hon. Abiola Makinde (known as HAM) when visiting ward 5 in Ondo East Local Government Area on 19/07/2018[img][/img]
According to the ward 5 youth leader in person of Mr. Olatunji Oladayo said Hon. Abiola Makinde is a well known politician both home and abroad, especially in terms of development, Hon. Abiola Makinde has contributed a lot to development of Ondo kingdom, both west and east constituency even in terms of health sector he has done a lot of free health care for women across the kingdom and also giving scholarships for youths to study abroad. Nevertheless, the youths leader also made it known to ward 5 that Hon. Abiola Makinde deserves their vote come 2019 because he is a God fearing, trust worthy, loyal, and a very young man.