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Updated | President Donald Trump touched on many hot-button subjects during his 41-minute address at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday.

The U.S. president pontificated on the potential impending destruction of North Korea; railed against Iran as a “rogue regime” and described the Venezuelan government as a “socialist dictatorship” and “corrupt regime” that had inflicted “terrible pain and suffering” on its people.

But it seems that none of these topics was particularly engaging for Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. The 93-year-old African leader—the world’s oldest serving head of state—appeared to try and catch up on sleep during Trump’s address.

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While Trump was speaking about how the United States “bears an unfair cost burden” for maintaining the U.N., a cutaway showed members of the Zimbabwean delegation in various states of what looked like slumber, confusion and contentment.

Mugabe, sat at the front of his delegation, rested his head on his left hand and seemed to have his eyes closed.

With an economic crisis at home in Zimbabwe and preparations underway for a general election in 2018, Mugabe is probably in need of some rest. The nonagenarian leader has also been plagued by illness in recent years: Mugabe makes regular trips to Singapore for medical check-ups and has suffered problems with his eyes, though government officials have downplayed his ailments.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe closes his eyes during the Africa Union meeting in Sirte, Libya, on July 4, 2005. Radu Sigheti/Reuters

On that occasion, Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba explained that his boss was not really sleeping during important conferences, but was rather protecting his eyes from bright lighting by looking down and avoiding the glare of lights.

Whatever the explanation, the reactions of Zimbabwe’s delegation to Trump’s speech were well-received by many on social media.

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A Nigerian court has seized $21m from bank accounts linked to Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former oil minister who faces corruption allegations.

Abdulazeez Anka, a federal high court judge, ordered on Monday the immediate forfeiture of the sum allegedly held in local bank accounts by Alison-Madueke, who was once one of Africa's most prominent female politicians.

Nigeria's anti-graft Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which accuses Alison-Madueke of corruption, argued in the Lagos court that she had illicitly laundered the funds with the help of top oil officials.

Since leaving office in 2015, Alison-Madueke has been implicated in bribery, fraud, misuse of public funds and money laundering cases in Nigeria, Britain, Italy and the United States.


Nigerian corruption agency uncovers $43m in cash
Alison-Madueke - former president of the global oil cartel OPEC and the first woman to hold the post - has always denied the allegations, which involve billions of dollars syphoned from oil deals and state accounts.

Monday's ruling followed two applications by the EFCC which earlier this month successfully seized properties worth $44m that Alison-Madueke allegedly purchased with the proceeds of corruption.

The court had also ordered an interim forfeiture of 56 houses linked to the former minister valued at $9m.

Nigeria is reeling from a series of corruption scandals by top officials.

Earlier in April, the EFCC uncovered $43m worth of cash during an apartment raid in Lagos.

After the discovery, Nigeria's National Intelligence Agency (NIA) claimed the money belonged to the organisation, prompting President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend its head, Ayodele Oke

Also suspended and under investigation is Lawal Babachir, Buhari's secretary and longtime ally, following his indictment by the legislature for an alleged 200 million naira ($635,000) scam.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/nigeria-seizes-21m-linked-diezani-alison-madueke-170828185617954.html

The capture of Nigeria’s most-wanted kidnapper should have been a cause for national celebration in the West African country, which has been blighted by high-profile abductions and ransom payments for years.

But instead, many Nigerians have been left angry by what they view as the national media glamorizing the crimes of Chukwudi Dumeme Onuamadike, popularly known as Evans.

Police in the port city of Lagos captured Evans from Anambra State, in southeastern Nigeria, earlier in June following a gun battle with the suspect and his associates. The 36-year-old is allegedly responsible for the abductions of numerous victims, including foreign nationals, traditional chiefs and wealthy businessmen. For some of these, he reportedly demanded ransoms of up to $1 million—almost 400 times the average annual income of a person in Nigeria. Unsurprisingly, Evans is thought to be one of Nigeria’s wealthiest criminals, owning two mansions in an upmarket Lagos district and another two in Accra, the capital of Ghana.

But now, Nigerians on social media are fuming over the media scrum for coverage of Evans. The alleged kidnapper has given interviews to several major Nigerian outlets, including a nearly nine-minute video interview with Channels Television, one of the country’s biggest networks, that has been viewed almost a quarter of a million times on YouTube. Evans’s wife and family have made emotional appeals for his release, and photos of his luxury properties have been published.

This has not gone down well with Nigerians on social media, who have called for harsh penalties for the alleged criminal. (Earlier in 2017, the Lagos governor signed a decree authorizing the death penalty for kidnappers in cases in which the victim dies.)

http://www.newsweek.com/twitter-nigeria-evans-nigeria-corruption-nigeria-627614

While many students have just graduated from high school, 18-year-old Nigeria native Nkechinyere Chidi-Ogbolu is not your typical teen.

Chidi-Ogbolu just graduated summa cum laude from Howard University with a degree in chemical engineering — making her the youngest person to graduate from Howard this year, and one of the youngest in Howard’s history.


But that’s not all for Chidi-Ogbolu.

She’s now preparing to start a Ph.D. program at the University of California-Davis after the summer ends. She’ll be studying biomedical engineering with a focus on creating and discovering new medicines.

“I’ve always been interested in the medical field,” she told USA TODAY College. “But I want to have a broader scale of impact than in
treating patients one-on-one.”

Chidi-Ogbolu said she’s always been the youngest person in her classes. While most students from Nigeria graduate high school at the age of 16, Chidi-Ogbolu finished high school particularly early, at 14, since she skipped 5th grade and attended an accelerated high school.

After high school, she left Nigeria for America and enrolled full-time at Howard University, a historically black university and her first-choice school.

“I thought I would be more comfortable at the age going to a school with more people that looked like me and therefore I could more easily relate to,” said Chidi-Ogbolu. “Plus, they gave me a full scholarship, so that definitely helped.”

Leaving her parents in Nigeria was difficult, but Chidi-Ogbolu wasn’t alone. Many of her extended family members live in America, including an aunt who lived not far from her dorm, and other family members in Texas and Alabama.

She credited her family’s support for her ability to cope with her new surroundings.

“I spoke to my mom almost every day on the phone — for over an hour almost every time. My dad and I talked really often too,” Chidi-Ogbolu says, adding that she spent most holidays with her aunts in America. “Talking to them definitely helped sometimes when things were overwhelming.”

“My support system was a very big part of why I was able to stay very grounded during the whole journey,” she says.

Her friends at Howard were very supportive of her too. Many of her them didn’t initially know how young she was, which gave rise to many moments of surprise.

“People usually reacted with shock,” she says. “Then they became really protective.”

With the blessings of her parents, Chidi-Ogbolu spent the summer after her junior year researching African weather patterns with Professor Paul Ullrich at UC-Davis. “While I was there, I decided that grad school was what I wanted to do.”

She started working on her graduate school applications during her senior year. “I can’t say it was stress-free,” she jokes. Her hard work paid off on February 7, when she received her acceptance letter from UC-Davis.

“It was definitely a wonderful moment,” she says.

Prasant Mohapatra, UC Davis vice provost of graduate education, and dean of graduate studies, had this to say about Chidi-Ogbolu: “We are delighted to welcome Nkechinyere into the graduate education community at UC Davis. We hope to provide a dynamic educational experience that will deepen and expand her passion for advancing the field of biomedical engineering, and we are truly impressed by her future plans to help people worldwide through scientific research and innovation.”

What’s next for her? This summer, she’s taking an advanced biology class at a local community college to prepare for her doctoral program. She’s also working on a book, provisionally titled Tales of an Uber Minor in College.

While she says she’s super busy, she does set aside free time to relax. “I love watching movies and series, especially Korean ones, and I like to sing and do karaoke,” she says.

Chidi-Ogbolu also has some advice for teens her age.

“Don’t limit yourself because you think you can’t do it or because no one you know had done it,” she advises. “You can always be the exception to the rule and end up being exceptional.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news

The stability of Africa’s most populous nation has hinged on an unwritten political rule that might be coming apart.[b][/b]

BUJA, Nigeria — For the second time in seven years, the political stability of Africa’s most populous nation hinges on the health of one man. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is once again in Britain for medical treatment because of an undisclosed illness. He was there for almost two months earlier this year, and in June 2016 he spent nearly two weeks abroad being treated for an ear infection. In the past month, he missed three straight cabinet meetings due to sickness, and perhaps more tellingly for a devout Muslim, he missed Friday mosque prayers in Abuja, where he usually attends without fail.

Buhari’s unwillingness to disclose the nature or extent of his illness fuels rumors that he is terminally ill or, periodically, that he has already died. Last month, Garba Shehu, a spokesman for the president, was forced to issue a series of tweets denying that anything unpleasant happened to the president. He added that reports of Buhari’s ill health are “plain lies spread by vested interests to create panic.” Buhari’s wife recently tweeted that his health is “not as bad as it’s being perceived.”

Regardless of the severity of his illness, Buhari’s extended absence risks igniting an ugly power struggle that would threaten not just the political fortunes of his ruling party but also a long observed gentleman’s agreement that has been critical to maintaining the stability of the country.

The unwritten power-sharing agreement obliges the country’s major parties to alternate the presidency between northern and southern officeholders every eight years. It was consolidated during Nigeria’s first two democratic transfers of power — in 1999 and 2007 — and it alleviated the southern secessionist pressures that had festered under decades of military rule by dictators from the north. For a time, this mechanism for alternating power helped keep the peace in a country with hundreds of different ethnic groups and more than 500 different languages. But it was never intended to be permanent, and as Buhari’s illness demonstrates, it has increasingly become a source of tension rather than consensus.

If Buhari, a northerner, doesn’t finish his term of office, and power passes to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a Christian from the south, it will be the second time in seven years that the north’s “turn” in the presidency has been cut short. In late 2009, then-President Umaru Yar’Adua, who like Buhari was a Muslim from the north, traveled abroad for treatment for an undisclosed illness. When Yar’Adua died in office the following year, his southern Christian vice president, Goodluck Jonathan, succeeded him, setting the stage for an acrimonious split within the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) over whether Jonathan should merely finish out Yar’Adua’s term or run to retain the office in the 2011 election.

In the end, Jonathan ran and won in 2011. But not before 800 people were killed in riots in the north after the PDP allowed Jonathan to contest the election. The anti-Jonathan faction later resigned in protest and defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) party. Buhari led the APC to victory over the PDP in 2015.

An eerily similar scenario is now playing out in Buhari’s APC party. If Buhari dies, resigns, or is declared medically incapacitated by the cabinet, it would likely ignite a similar struggle within the APC over whether Vice President Osinbajo should permanently succeed him as president. A group of prominent northerners has already stated that Osinbajo should serve merely as an interim president and that he cannot replace Buhari on the ticket in the 2019 presidential election. Should Osinbajo succeed Buhari, win the 2019 election, and serve a full term, a Christian southerner will have been president for 18 of the 24 years since Nigeria transitioned to democracy in 1999.

There is a chance that APC leaders will convince — or force — Osinbajo to stand down in favor of another Muslim candidate from the north. But sidelining Osinbajo would pose other sectarian risks. He was chosen as Buhari’s running mate in part to counter southern accusations that the APC is a Muslim party. And although he is seen as a technocrat, Osinbajo is a powerful political force in his own right — too powerful, perhaps, to be sidelined in 2019 without alienating millions of voters. He is a pastor in the country’s largest evangelical church, which has some 6 million members, and his wife is the granddaughter of Obafemi Awolowo, one of Nigeria’s early independence politicians who is beloved in southwest Nigeria.

Yet if the north’s “turn” in power is interrupted again, it will further alienate the region — already home to the bloody Boko Haram insurgency, which has thrived in part because of government neglect — and make north-south cooperation on security, development, and a host of other critical issues more difficult. It could easily lead to another round of deadly riots, as it did in 2011. But there is a way out.

Nigeria should abandon the convention of north-south presidential power rotation now that it has outlived its purpose. At the same time, it should deepen power sharing in state and local governments, which have steadily gained influence relative to the national government since 1999. Many of the country’s 36 states and 774 local governments already practice some form of power rotation among politicians from different ethnic, religious, and geographic groups. The key will be to frame the abolition of power rotation at the presidential level as an opportunity to strengthen these norms at the state and local levels — not a chance to terminate them everywhere at once.

The reality is that most Nigerians experience government at the local level anyway. Regardless of whether Buhari or Osinbajo is in the presidential palace, state and local officials have the most purchase on the lives of ordinary citizens. Letting go of a dangerous convention at the national level while devolving more power to inclusive governance structures at the local level offers a way out of the current impasse.

https://www.yahoo.com/news

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WASHINGTON – President Trump unleashed airstrikes on Syria on Thursday to punish its strongman, Bashar Assad, after a chemical attack this week that killed dozens of civilians, including children. The barrage amounted to the most significant military operation ordered by Trump, a newcomer to governing who had warned, before taking office, against escalating America’s involvement in the Middle East.

“Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched,” Trump said in Palm Beach, Florida. “It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.”

The operation — the first known direct American strike on Syrian government assets since the start of the country’s civil war — rained at least 50 cruise missiles from U.S. Navy ships in the Mediterranean on a Syrian airfield thought to be the point of origin for the chemical attack, U.S. officials said. The attack took place at 8:40 p.m. Eastern time.

The decision risked confrontation with Russia, Syria’s patron, which reportedly had troops stationed at the air base, and could mean increased dangers for hundreds of U.S. troops now in Syria to prepare for the assault on Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State militant group. But it also sent a dramatically different message about Washington’s willingness to use force in Syria after Barack Obama shied away from enforcing his self-imposed “red line.”

President Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on April 6, 2017, after the U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria.
President Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on April 6, 2017, after the U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria. (Photo: Alex Brandon/AP)
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The decision to dramatically escalate America’s role in a conflict that has left some 500,000 dead, according to human rights groups, was arguably the new president’s biggest decision yet, with many unknown consequences. At home, the early response from Congress suggested strong bipartisan support for the strikes but deep concern about the way forward. Some in Congress, including Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, said Trump should have sought authorization from Congress for a military operation that was not in response to an attack on the U.S.

Trump explained his decision by describing the horrific images from Tuesday’s chemical weapons strike in a mostly rebel-controlled area near the Turkish border, saying “there can be no dispute” that Assad’s forces were responsible.

“Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians,” he said. “Using a deadly nerve agent, Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack.”

So “tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched,” Trump said. “It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.”

The president also urged “all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria.”

Congressional Democrats offered measured support for the onslaught but warned that lawmakers would need to weigh in on any sustained escalation of the conflict. Some of the lawmakers delivering that message stood idly by while Barack Obama escalated America’s role in Iraq and Syria.

The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ben Cardin of Maryland, said in a statement that “any longer-term or larger military operation in Syria by the Trump administration will need to be done in consultation with the Congress.”

Cardin also pressed Trump “to inform the legislative branch and the American people about his larger policy in Syria, as well as the legal basis for this action and any additional military activities in that country.”

Trump had huddled with top advisers, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary James Mattis and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in Palm Beach, Fla., where he was to hold meetings Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In a sign of how quickly events were unfolding, White House officials had said just a day earlier that McMaster would not travel with Trump.

Tillerson told reporters that the president had begun a long, difficult and potentially fruitless effort to push Assad from power.

“The process by which Assad would leave is something that I think requires an international community effort, both to first defeat ISIS within Syria, to stabilize the Syrian country, to avoid further civil war, and then to work collectively with our partners around the world through a political process that would lead to Assad leaving,” he said. Pressed on whether he and Trump were working to assemble an international coalition to achieve that goal, Tillerson replied: “Those steps are underway.”

The secretary of state also had tough words for Moscow, Assad’s patron. “It is very important that the Russian government consider carefully their continued support for the Assad regime,” he said.

And he reaffirmed what senior U.S. officials have said since the world first saw footage and photographs of gasping, dying or dead children in Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province: Assad is to blame.

“There is no doubt in our minds and the information we have supports that Syria, the Syrian regime under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad, are responsible for this attack,” Tillerson said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-launches-military-strikes-syria-025315056.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/07/world/syria-us-strike-world-reaction/

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/07/world/syria-us-strike-world-reaction/

International Business TimesApril 6, 2017

A former Nigeria oil minister and three election officials have been charged with money-laundering. Ex-minister Diezani Alison-Madueke was accused of bribing the officials before the 2015 presidential election that saw President Muhammadu Buhari emerging as winner.

The bribes amounted to almost N265m ( £694,493; $866,865), according to the Premium Times newspaper.

The three officials appeared at the Federal High Court in Lagos on 5 April. One pleased guilty and the other two not guilty.

Madueke was not in court and a charge sheet described her as being "still at large."

Madueke served under President Goodluck Jonathan, who lost to Buhari in 2015. She was arrested in London in 2015 on suspicion of bribery and money laundering, charges she has always denied.

Alison-Madueke, who became the first female president of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) in 2014, was arrested days after Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari appointed himself as the country's oil minister, after he vowed he would recover millions of dollars worth of funds he alleged were stolen during previous administrations.
The leader also alleged some 250,000 barrels of Nigerian crude oil are stolen every day and sold to other countries at higher prices. In order to stop illicit activities in the oil industry, Buhari replaced the whole board of the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and temporarily banned some 113 vessels from taking crude oil from Nigerian ports.
While Alison-Madueke was in office, former governor of Nigeria Central Bank Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was suspended after he claimed $20bn (£12bn) of oil revenue "went missing" from state oil company Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
According to the Premium Times, Alison-Madueke – who has been dubbed "one of the most powerful officials of President Goodluck Jonathan" – admitted to spending $3.5bn (£2.3bn) of Nigeria's money without budgetary approval in February 2014.
During her time in the role, she supported the unpopular attempt by Jonathan in 2012 to end fuel subsidies, arguing it posed a financial burden on the government's finances. The government backtracked on its decision following rallies that caused at least 16 deaths.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-nigeria-oil-minister-diezani-083719036.html

The make fu4k that girl, this is one of the reason i dont give money to church any more

Dudeweedlmao:
a week old news i just making front page.

Blocking the media from the White House brief isn't old get your fact straight before we block you from here lol. This just happened Friday I should think

alBHAGDADI:
We all remember the amount of propaganda these mainstream media heaped against him, yet he won.

CNN didn't lie against Trump, all what they said about is true and that's why he is fighting back now but watch and see. They will bring him down to his knees, they know how to get more info than the trump him self. Because of CNN trump already lose his first security adviser. More to to be leaked out

Trump can't survive this, these main stream media are some times too powerful and more influencia than the president. The New York Times and CNN will leak out Trump ties to Russia which will lead to his impeament. You can't fight against the very man that gives out information to millions of US citizens and thousand of other countries. New York time and CNN will bring trump down. Watch and see. The White House is already begging. See the attached pics

President Trump might mean well for Americans. This what he said

Nigeria will have to turn to industries other than oil to help pull itself out of recession, experts say, as the latest sobering government figures reveal that the economy fell by just over 2 percent in the second quarter.

The overall decline of Nigeria's economy is - gross domestic product (GDP) fell 2.06 percent in the second quarter - largely attributed to the global drop in the price of oil, which saw growth of -17.48 percent in real terms in the same period.

IMF data projects a -1.8 percent change in real GDP for 2016. This would be the first annual decline in over twenty years, and the worst annual recession to have hit the country since 1987, when GDP growth dropped to -10.8 percent.

But, as dark clouds threaten, how will the country cope?



After the bad economic news was delivered, Nigeria's finance minister Kemi Adeosun announced that the government had approved a three-year plan to borrow more from abroad, Reuters reported. She also said that Nigeria had to tackle structural problems that had stoked inflation and that interest rate hikes were not the answer.

The government has so far spent more than 400 billion naira in capital expenditure this year, part of a record 6.06 trillion naira ($30 billion) budget for 2016, Adeosun said last week - as reported by Reuters.

Nigeria plans to borrow as much as $10 billion from debt markets, with about half of that coming from foreign sources. Funds from this Eurobond would be spent on power transmission projects, solid mineral development and agriculture.

The medium-term borrowing plan, which covers 2016-2019, will now be sent to parliament for approval, Reuters reported.

Nigeria's finance minister stressed the importance of diversifying the economy. "We have to grow our non-oil economy," she said, according to Reuters.

According to a note by Renaissance Capital, agriculture and telecoms are two of the bigger economic sectors which saw growth in the second quarter of this year, though this was slower than previously.

Agriculture, which accounts for one fifth of Nigeria's GDP, saw growth of 2.5 percent in the second quarter of this year, said Renaissance Capital's note. But, while this was down 0.7 percent year on year, Yvonne Mhango, a Sub-Saharan Africa economist behind Renaissance Capital's note, told CNBC via telephone that the organisation was "not expecting negative territory for crop production."

As for the promise of telecoms, Mhango explained that the sector was "still growing."

Nigeria's services sector, which is worth 50 percent of GDP, shrank by 1.3 percent year on year in the second quarter of 2016, according to Renaissance Capital's note. The sector's decline can partly be attributed to zero percent year-on-year growth of its largest subsector, wholesale and retail trade, explained the note. But, Mhango was positive, and said that the second quarter "was the first time services saw a contraction," and because "its decline is not as deep [as elsewhere] – it has the best prospect of recovering."

With regards to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Nigerian tech start-ups last week, Mhango was also upbeat, and explained that in Nigeria's current climate of a squeezed job market and high unemployment, tech "allows for entrepreneurs to exist," which is "great in terms of [allowing them to] generate more income for themselves."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/3cb31a63-23e7-39b5-88d4-9596d0792dc1/how-can-nigeria-deal-with-its.html

Usain Bolt Net Worth: $60 Million. Bolt earned the No. 32 spot on Forbes' list of the world's highest-earning athletes. The Olympic champion is currently worth $60 million — according to Celebrity Net Worth — mainly from endorsements and prize money.Aug 12, 2016

Six-time Olympic winner Usain Bolt has been named the fastest man in the world, and he’s at Rio to compete in the 2016 Olympic Games. He made history at the 2012 Olympics by breaking record times in both the 100-meter and 200-meter races and is on a mission to set a new record in Rio.

The Jamaican-born track and field athlete will be competing in his fourth Olympic Games this year. See how much his career on the track has made him.

Usain Bolt Net Worth: $60 Million
Bolt earned the No. 32 spot on Forbes’ list of the world’s highest-earning athletes. The Olympic champion is currently worth $60 million — according to Celebrity Net Worth — mainly from endorsements and prize money. Between June 2015 and June 2016, he earned $32.5 million, reported Forbes, more than any other sprinter in the history of track and field.

Usain Bolt Endorsements
As with most Olympic winners, after Bolt took home the gold in 2012, endorsement opportunities followed. Over the years, Bolt has held deals with major brands like Hublot, Virgin Media, Visa and Nissan, according to Forbes.

Bolt’s biggest endorsement deal was with sportswear brand Puma, who re-signed the champion in 2010 for a deal worth approximately $9 million annually. The famed runner also has his own shaving company, named Champion Shave.

Surprisingly, only an estimated $2.5 million of the 29-year-old’s income actually comes from salary and winnings.

Usain Bolt at the Rio Olympic Games
Training for the Olympics also comes with a steep price tag — travel, medical expenses, gear and coaching are all factored in and could cost athletes and their families over $10,000. For Bolt, it seems like an investment well worth it.

This August, Bolt competes in the men’s 100-meter and 200-meter races, and the 4×100-meter relay. He’s already claiming he’ll run the 200-meter under 19 seconds. If history repeats itself, Bolt will be the first man to win a “triple-triple” — three successive Olympic titles.

This will be the final Summer Games for Bolt, and he could potentially walk away celebrating his final victory — and his 30th birthday — during the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Not a bad way to ring in your 30s, Bolt. Not bad at all.

https://www.gobankingrates.com/personal-finance/usain-bolt-net-worth-gold-2016-olympics/

This might make you share tears, so heartful: Flavour showing love to Widows in Enugu (Giving them food and cash), Aslo sings for them, making them feel love, care, mostly young & beautiful again. Watching this makes you wonder what other A-list artist do....

MUSIC IS POWER, SEE HOW HAPPY THEY FEEL. EVERYBODY NEEDS LOVE.
JUST SHOW SOME LITTLE LOVE, IT HELPS


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BUHARI, BUHARI, BUHARI HOW MANY TIMES WAY I DONE CALL YOU NOW? HMMMM .................. PLS HELP ME FILL UP THE BLACK SPACE PLS BECOS IF I TELL THIS MAN WAITING THEY MY MIND HE WILL CRY .....

President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed the corrupt Nigerians must face the law and return stolen wealth no amount of pressure would make him give up the war against corruption in the country.

In an address to a group of Nigerians who marched to the Presidential Villa to pledge their full support for his administration’s anti-corruption campaign, President Buhari promised a relentless prosecution of the war against corruption, with due regard for the rule of law.

The President said all persons charged with stealing the nation’s resources will have their day in court and that, upon conviction, their ill-gotten wealth would be seized and returned to government coffers.

“I believe it is time for Nigeria to change course. That is why I sought election as President and got elected. As President, I am determined that Nigeria must move away from a course of endemic corruption that was leading us to perdition,” a spokesperson quoted the President as saying through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina.

“There can be no question of our willfully allowing anyone to get away with corruption. No matter the pressure and entreaties, the anti-corruption war will continue and all accused persons will have their day in court.”

The Nigerians Against Corruption group led by Aisha Yesufu had condemned recent statements by some individuals against the President’s anti-corruption campaign.

They assured the President that the vast majority of ordinary Nigerians fully supported his ongoing efforts to curb corruption and urged him not to be deterred by the antics of those who do not share his laudable vision of a fairer, more equitable, corruption-free and progressive nation.

https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/dont-beg-me-looters-must-face-the-law-%E2%80%93-buhari-vows.220147/

Make I hold here first. But come oh why coach money come plenty like that Na after all Na the boys suffer play the ball him only just they watch them. Anyway that's cool cash bro, and that will definitely go along way for those guys. Hard work pays any time any day. And if the govt is thinking right this would have be a good time to woo this man to come invest in Nigeria I think from the look of things he like Nigerians .

The fastest man in the world Usain Bolt win the 9 gold medal he finally break world record by winning 400m men relay. According to bolt this will be his last Olympic he sure did make a record.

Nigeria woman came last in Rio 400 *1 women Olympic, what is really going on with my beautiful country it's seems every everything seems not to be working well for us. Could it be that buhari bring us and luck

Buhari finally responded to Fayose about the allegation on His wife


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Waoo I'm loving this. I m enjoying the commentary more than the football. Good things is been said about Nigeria

i done collect my own too

A street Dog found a new born baby after he was thrown in the street by his mother. The Dog took the new born baby in his mouth without hurting him and put in front of one house and went away, baby is alive and health.Dog has more pain than the mother who birthed him.God use this dog as helper to the new born baby to SURVIVE. This Dog deserve Big AMEN.

Monimatic:

Kai see the way you just murdered English Language
You must be an APC Zombie

bros forget the English man, i nor be oyibo abeg i believe the mesg i m trying to pass across you get the mesg. dont try to be over sabi abeg.

He said give us the asset and bank account that Nigerian corrupt person hide in your country


http://www.newsweek.com/nigerias-buhari-embarassed-camerons-fantastically-corrupt-comment-458360

President Buhari said that era of stolen, misappropriated funds gone –

He asks Worl Bank officials to assist in repatriation of Nigerian stolen funds –

Swiss authorities listed conditions for fast returning of looted money

The officials of the World Bank, who met with President Muhammadu Buhari on April 27, have listed conditions for repartriation of the stolen funds.

One of the conditions given by the Swiss authorities is that it should be expended on the implementation of social programmes for the benefit of the Nigerian people in an efficient and accountable way, secured by the monitoring of the World Bank.

Buhari stated that Nigeria will welcome greater international help for the rehabilitation of damaged homes, schools, health facilities and other infrastructure in the North Eastern states affected by the Boko Haram insurgency.

The World Bank managing director Ms. Indrawati told the president that the World Bank was ready to use its knowledge, expertise and resources to help Nigeria achieve faster growth and development. ‘‘We will strongly support you to create jobs and ensure prosperity in Nigeria,’’ she said. On his own part, President Buhari advised the World Bank to do all within its powers to ease the speedy repatriation to Nigeria of stolen funds still being held by Swiss authorities.

Buhari stated that the repatriation of the additional $320 million US dollars in Switzerland, which has been known as lawfully taken from Nigeria under the Abacha government, will help to ease the current economic hardship facing Nigeria. He said: ‘‘We need the support of the World Bank for the repatriation of the funds. “We are as concerned as the World Bank about accountability. If such repatriated funds have been misapplied in the past, I assure you that the same will not happen with us.

The Nigerian president also assured gave the assurance that his government will honour all agreements with the bank that will assist to impact Nigeria’s economy and cut the level of poverty in the country.

Three hundred and twenty million dollars is a lot of money and we will not allow it to be misappropriated or diverted.” President Buhari during his Middle-East tour signed agreements with the United Arab Emirate on repatriation of stolen funds and extradition of culpable officials. The UAE is a Mecca for Nigeria’s wealthy who are drawn by the expensive high rise properties, glitzy malls and ritzy hotels in the oil-rich country.

https://www.naij.com/813343-world-bank-gives-buhari-conditions-repatriation-stolen-funds.html