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Pius Adesanmi touched many lives. He'll be sorely missed.

Great man!

In a piece, Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times’ columnist, dwelt extensively on the exceptional skills that the boy possesses in the game of chess which he started learning over a year ago.



Kristof said Adewumi went undefeated at the state tournament last weekend, outwitting children from elite private schools with private chess tutors.

The prodigy, who just won his category at the New York State chess championship, now has seven trophies.

But sadly his family is homeless in Manhattan, New York.

“His play has skyrocketed month by month, and he now has seven trophies by his bed in the homeless shelter,” Kristof wrote.

“The boy is a Nigerian refugee with an uncertain future, but he is beaming. He can’t stop grinning because the awkward load is a huge trophy, almost as big as he is. This homeless third grader has just won his category at the New York State chess championship.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/chased-by-boko-haram-this-8-year-old-nigerian-has-conquered-the-world-of-chess-in-the-us

Professor Pius Adesanmi’s widow, Olumuyiwa Balogun-Adesanmi, has released an official statement since the death of her husband who was one of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday, 10th of March, 2019.

Ms. Olumuyiwa Balogun-Adesanmi, in her tribute to her late husband described him as a gem who stood by his words and was also looked up to by his peers and proteges.

I have no words to describe the depths of my pain on the untimely passing of my husband, Pius Adesanmi. He was an extraordinary scholar, husband, devoted father and a fine gentleman.

He was an uncommon breed. He wrote about human rights, gender equality and human dignity. He practised what he preached. I am a living witness to the kindness of his soul and love for others.

Pius Adesanmi enjoyed spending time with his family and friends. Our daughter Tise’s words often tugged at his heart every time he needed to travel. He compensated for his regular absences by being generous with his time. He was witty, funny and a joy to behold.

My family and I have been touched by the incredible demonstrations of support and waves of condolences sent our way. I have learned about people of all ages and backgrounds, who never met Pius Adesanmi but broke down in tears when they learned of his death.

http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/prof-pius-adesanmis-widow-has-released-an-official-statement-in-response-to-the-death-of-her-husband

Prof Mashudu Tshifularo, an ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist at the Steve Biko Academic hospital who has just performed the world's first middle ear transplant using 3D printed bones.

A pioneering surgical procedure using 3D-printed middle ear bones, developed by Professor Mashudu Tshifularo and his team at the University of Pretoria (UP) Faculty of Health Sciences, may be the answer to conductive hearing loss, a middle ear problem caused by congenital birth defects, infection, trauma or metabolic diseases.

“3D technology is allowing us to do things we never thought we could,” says Prof Tshifularo, who is head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at UP. “But I need sponsors and funding for this invention to take off the ground.”


The surgery, which can be performed on everyone including newborns, has benefitted two patients already, and on 13 March, Prof Tshifularo performed the transplant on a patient born with an underdeveloped middle ear, effectively replacing the hammer, anvil, and stirrup, the ossicles that make up the middle ear. 3D-printing technology is used to print these bones, and then used in the surgery to reconstruct the ossicles.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/meet-african-professor-who-just-performed-worlds-first-mid-ear-transplant-using-3d-printed-bones

A Nigerian Imam, Alabi Lateef who saved several lives during the New Zealand terror attack, has broken his silence about the massacre.


Fifty people lost their lives when a gunman identified as Brenton Tarrant invaded two mosques in New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday.

Those who sustained injuries are being treated in hospitals.


Recounting his experience, Alabi, a leader in the Linwood mosque, said he was in the middle of his prayer when he heard gunshots.
Lateef was at the Linwood mosque in Christchurch when gunman, Brenton Tarrant, opened fire on worshippers killing at least 7 people, after already killing 42 people at the Al Noor mosque.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/new-zealand-massacre-nigerian-imam-who-saved-countless-lives-speaks

After an Australian politician blamed the white nationalist attack at a mosque on Muslims, 17 year Old Will connolly broke an egg on the senator
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These guys just killed it...
They made the parade simple and fun!

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Manchester United will slug it out with FC Barcelona for a place in the last four of the 2018/2019 UEFA Champions League.

According to the draws by UEFA on Friday, last year’s finalist, Liverpool, will book a date with FC Porto while Tottenham will play Manchester City.

Juventus will travel to Holland to face AFC Ajax for a place in the last four.

http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/champios-league-draw--man-utd-vs--barcelona-as-tottenham-face-man-city-in-quarter-finals

Nigerian entrepreneur and former CEO of Konga, Sim Shagaya, took to his Twitter page earlier today to announce an ongoing startup which he can’t wait to share to the world.

According to the tweet, Mr Shagaya said he plans to create a platform that would change how Africans read, something he called uLesson and he seeks young vibrant mind who could join him on this mission.

http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/kongas-former-ceo-sim-shagaya-establishes--a-new-company-ulesson

Champions League draws: Barcelona to face Man City in 'leaked' quarterfinal fixtures

UEFA director was said to have mistakenly dropped a post on social media for all four parings in the quarterfinal - The remaining fixtures as regards the 'leaked' draws will also have Man United vs Tottenham, Liverpool vs Ajax and Juventus vs Porto Premier League champions Manchester City have been reportedly drawn with Barcelona in a 'leaked' Champions League quarterfinal draws.
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The president son received his NYSC discharge certificate earlier today in Abuja as he showed it off in a video recorded in Aso Rock. He reportedly served at the orientation camp in Kubwa, Abuja.

Yusuf commenced the NYSC programme two years after graduating from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom.

http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/buharis-son-yusuf-completes-his-nysc-shows-off-discharge-certificate

Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi, has been named Commonwealth Young Person of the Year at the Commonwealth Secretariat Headquarters, the 13th of March.


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Osowobi who was raped during her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) by election touts during the 2011 elections for not compromising on her values and collecting a bribe has since 2011, become a voice and lent a helping hand to domestic and sexual abuse victims through her programme, Stand to End Rape Initiative (STER).
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/oluwaseun-osowobi-named-commonwealth-young-person-of-the-year

The current era of soccer is dominated by two giants: Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi. The two nemeses have scooped every individual award over the past decade, and despite their advanced ages (33 and 30, respectively), they show no signs of slowing down.
As there can be only one, which of them is it? The phenomenal Portuguese Ronaldo or the one-team man Lionel Messi?

The race for the greatest footballer of all time between Messi and Ronaldo does not look like it's going to end any time soon.

Messi's goal-to-game ratio is marginally better than Ronaldo's (0.68 to 0.60), even though his Portuguese counterpart attempts more shots per game.

It is one of the UEFA Champions League's best sub-plots: Lionel Messi against Cristiano Ronaldo at the top of the all-time scoring charts.

The Juventus star leads 124–106 in terms of UEFA Champions League goals; and in all UEFA club competition action the scoreline is 127–109 in his favour.


Ronaldo's opening goal against Paris Saint-Germain on 14 February 2018 was his 100th for Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League, the first time anyone had reached that mark for a single club. Messi completed his century, all for Barcelona, exactly a month later against Chelsea. Ronaldo then opened his account for Juve in a 2-1 loss to his old side Manchester United on matchday four of the 2018/19 campaign.

UEFA.com has listed all of Messi and Ronaldo's UEFA Champions League goals since they first struck at this level – picking out some noteworthy stats amid the numbers.

Messi has been on the losing side just three times when he has scored
2017/18 was the seventh season running that Ronaldo scored ten goals or more in the UEFA Champions League
Ronaldo has netted twice or more on 35 different occasions
Each has scored eight hat-tricks
Ronaldo did not score until his 30th game in the competition
Ronaldo is the first player to amass 50 knockout goals, and is now past 60
Ronaldo is the only player to score in three UEFA Champions League finals
Ronaldo is the only player to score in 11 consecutive appearances in the competition proper
Ronaldo's ten goals against his current club Juventus is more than anyone has scored against a single opponent
Messi now leads Ronaldo 66-61 in all-time group stage goals
Ronaldo took 144 games to reach 100; Messi 123


The two footballers breaks one record or the other week in week out.

Going by their current performance, who is your GOAT?

SHARE FOR Ronaldo and LIKE FOR Messi
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/lionel-messi-and-cristiano-ronaldo-goal-for-goal

Lithuania, a European country, is providing a year work placement opportunity for Nigerian techies (Digital Explores) to deepen their digital skills. They match you with some leading technology companies for one year. Digital Explorers from Nigeria can choose the type of training they receive, and the company they will work in, all with a supportive and encouraging team of Nigerian and Lithuanian experts by their sides.

Largely, Lithuania wants to build mutual partnerships and linkages with Nigeria. Our developers work (remotely) in some of their tech companies from Lagos while they have sent some founders to Lagos. The numbers must be encouraging for the government to step in to help their tech ecosystems in this way.

It consists of a paid 1 year work placement and emerging technologies training in Lithuania – a vibrant and ever-growing European ICT hub – and reintegration support in Nigeria upon return.

The programme connects Nigerian Digital Talents (developers, digital creatives, and biz devs) and one of Europe’s most impressive up-and-coming ICT ecosystems for unexpected partnerships and mutual growth.

Digital Explorers from Nigeria can choose the type of training they receive, the company they will work in, and really experience the local ICT culture from the inside. All with a supportive and encouraging team of Nigerian and Lithuanian experts by their side.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/lithuania-offering-one-year-work-placement-for-nigerian-techies--how-to-apply

Former UFC two-division champion Conor McGregor has been arrested in Miami Beach on charges of strong-arm robbery and criminal mischief.

McGregor was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami tonight after an incident that allegedly took place early in the day outside the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel. The Miami Herald first reported the news.

Around 10:30 p.m. ET Monday, Miami-Dade County’s (Fla.) Corrections and Rehabilitation site no longer listed McGregor as an inmate in custody at the facility. He had been arrested and booked with bonds totaling $12,500.

McGregor allegedly took the phone from a man taking photos of him outside the hotel and smashed it. According to Miami-Dade County jail’s website, McGregor’s charges of strong-arm robbery and criminal mischief of $1,000 or more came with bonds of $7,500 and $5,000, respectively. Both are felony charges.



A spokeswoman for McGregor’s attorney, Miami-based Samuel Rabin, issued a statement to MMA Junkie that said: “Early this morning Conor McGregor was involved in a minor altercation involving a cell phone that resulted in a call to law enforcement. Mr. McGregor appreciates the response of law enforcement and pledges his full cooperation.”

UFC officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and the promotion has not yet made any formal statements on McGregor’s arrest.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/conor-mcgregor-arrested-on-strong-arm-robbery-criminal-mischief-charges-in-miami-beach

Two Nigerians are confirmed to be among the 157 passengers and crew that died in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi that crashed today.

They are Professor Pius Adesanmi, who was carrying a Canadian passport.

The popular columnist and activist teaches at Carlton University in Canada.

The second person is Ambassador Abiodun Bashua of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He was carrying a UN passport.

The late Bashua was former UN and AU Deputy Joint Special Representative in Darfur, Sudan.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/breaking-pius-adesanmi-bashau-among-victims-of-ethiopian-crash

This day of recognition shines a spotlight on the achievements of women past and present. It was formally established in 1975, when the United Nations celebrated International Women’s Year and held the first World Conference on Women in Mexico City. However, the day’s origins can be traced back to the first decade of the twentieth century and the women’s labor and suffrage movements.



All too often women and their stories are edited out of history. However, women have played critical roles in forging the contemporary world and the international institutions that help govern it. Thanks to women, we gained—among other fixtures—the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first treaty to articulate the fundamental human rights that should be universally protected. Eleanor Roosevelt steered the treaty through a tumultuous drafting and adoption process; Hansa Mehta, Minerva Bernardino, and Bodil Begtrup insisted upon inclusive language that referred to “humans” instead of “men”; and women such as Begum Shaista Ikramullah, Evdokia Uralova, and Marie-Helene Lefaucheux pushed for it to address women’s issues such as marriage and equal pay. Furthermore, women such as Hannah Arendt, Marie Colvin, and Elena Poniatowska have challenged us to understand the world in new ways. And in recent years Margaret Chan, Christine Lagarde, Angela Merkel, and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka have changed the face of leadership.

Read also: Lady Gives Birth On The Road While Going To Cast Her Vote In Port-Harcourt

Today, in honor of International Women’s Day, we highlight just a few of the women whose contributions have helped to shape world order into its present form.

Mabel Newcomer. Dr. Mabel Newcomer was a respected economist, passionate educator, and prolific writer. From 1917 to 1957, she taught economics at Vassar College, where she was known as the best “tax man” of those years. In addition to teaching, Newcomer served as the first female vice president of the American Economic Association and as a consultant to the U.S. Treasury. In 1944, she represented the United States at the UN Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods. She was the only American woman at the conference that would establish the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, later to grow into the World Bank. At the meetings on the IMF, Newcomer was the only woman at the table, though not the only woman in the room. The other women present sat behind male delegates as expert consultants. After the conference, Newcomer helped sell the program to American women, and traveled throughout the country speaking to many groups, contributing to the success of the institutions that have been essential in managing the world economy.
Doris Stevens. Doris Stevens was a champion for women’s rights both at home and abroad. Stevens was a prominent organizer and leader within the American suffrage movement. Though she was arrested multiple times, she remained committed to her cause. In 1922, the suffragists secured the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and Stevens turned her attention to international women’s rights and legal status. She was appointed as the inaugural chair of the Inter-American Commission of Women (IACW), the first intergovernmental agency established to ensure recognition of women’s human rights. During her tenure, the IACW meticulouslydocumented how laws around the world codified gender inequality. In 1933, this work yielded the Convention on the Nationality of Women, which was the first international instrument adopted concerning the rights of women. The treaty ensured a woman’s right to retain her own nationality in the event of marriage to a man of another nationality. Decades later, women around the world continue her fight for legal equality.
Gro Harlem Brundtland. Beyond becoming the first woman and youngest individual to hold the office of Norwegian prime minister, Dr. Gro HarlemBrundtland played an essential role in popularizing the idea of sustainable development. In 1983, the UN General Assembly established the World Commission on Environment and Development and mandated it, among other items, “to propose long-term environmental strategies for achieving sustainable development to the year 2000 and beyond.” Brundtland chaired this commission and oversaw the three years of deliberations that produced its seminal report, Our Common Future [PDF]. The findings of the Brundtland Report, as it came to be known, have served as a foundation for much of the United Nations’ subsequent work on environment and development, including the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and, more recently, the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The concept of sustainable development articulated in its pages has gained currency well beyond the halls of multilateral institutions, becoming a twenty-first century global social, cultural, economic, and political touchstone.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. While some international institutions, like the Brundtland Commission, have had women at their helm, others have proved more recalcitrant to female leaders. One such institution, the World Bank, saw cracks in its glass ceiling in 2012, when Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ran to become its president. After serving terms as Nigeria’s foreign affairs minister and finance minister, and then as a managing director at the bank, she (and Colombia’s Jose Antonio Ocampo) squared off against American physician Jim Yong Kim in the bank’s first-ever contestedpresidential selection. Historically, a longstanding transatlantic gentlemen’s agreement has put an American in charge of the bank and a European in charge of the IMF as a fait accompli. Okonjo-Iweala helped to challenge that non-meritocratic status quo with her candidacy. Although unsuccessful, she put up fierce opposition and laid the groundwork for future challenges from non-Americans, especially from developing countries. With the World Bank presidency now up for grabs once again and the controversial David Malpass as the U.S. nominee, Okonjo-Iweala has garnered attention as a potential alternative. As the current chair of the board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and an influential figure on the world stage, she will remain an inspiration for women across the globe regardless of whether she assumes the mantle of World Bank president.
Jody Williams. For decades, Jody Williams has been one of the world’s most effective peace advocates. In 1997, Williams and the International Coalition to Ban Landmines (ICBL) jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to ban landmines. Williams was first exposed to landmines’ devastation during her work in El Salvador in the 1980s. As an aid worker, she was responsible for providing prosthetic arms and legs to children who had lost limbs to mines. She returned to the United States, and in 1991 began working with ICBL as its chief strategist and spokesperson. Williams was a triple threat: she had a flair for activsim, was an effective organizer, and did not mind if people found her difficult. Within six years, she had grown the coalition to some 1,300 organizations across ninety-five countries. In December 1997, ICBL achieved a major victory when world leaders gathered in Ottawa, Canada, to sign the Mine Ban Treaty, which bans the production, use, stockpiling or transport of antipersonnel mines. Although these weapons still exist, the treaty contributed to a strong norm against their use. Ever the activist, Williams continues to work toward peace. In addition to her work with the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, she co-chairs the Nobel Women’s Initiative, and has joined with fellow survivors of sexual assault in lobbying world leaders to end sexual violence in conflict.
Lise Meitner. Science, alongside politics, is one of the most powerful forces shaping the modern world. Dr. Lise Meitner, a prolific and pathbreaking Austrian physicist, had a profound influence on both. She was a critical member of the team that first unlocked the potential of the atom, a structure central to international politics since World War II. After her colleague Otto Hahn’s bombardment of uranium with neutrons in 1938 yielded barium isotopes, Meitner correctly inferred that the splitting of the atomic nucleus—nuclear fission—was responsible. She and her nephew Otto Frisch articulated the process through which this occurred, leading scientists to surmise that a fissile chain reaction would release enormous amounts of energy, generating an explosion of immense power. Although Meitner, who had fled to Sweden due to her Jewish lineage, had made a contribution integral to the development of the atomic bomb, she refused to participate in the subsequent Manhattan Project. The Nobel Committee overlooked her several years later, when it awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Otto Hahn “for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.” Meitner’s personal legacy, then, is one of profound humanity, having escaped the atrocities of Nazi Europe and abstained from the making of the bomb only to see her genius employed toward the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and bring the world to the knife’s edge during the Cold War.
The Way Forward

The women highlighted here represent only a small proportion of the women who have worked across borders to build a more peaceful, prosperous, and equal world. Their already challenging work was made even more daunting by the barriers—legal, economic, and social—that they had to overcome in order to do their work. Today, in addition to honoring these women and their achievements, we should take a clear-eyed look at the barriers that remain intact and double-down on efforts to dismantle them. A generation of young women waits to engage in the hard work of changing the world, and it is our responsibility to make it easier for them to do so.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/ngozi-okonjo-iweala-listed--as-one-of-six-women-who-shaped-the-contemporary-world-order

The Deputy Governorship Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Oluyemisi Haleemat Busari, has lost her polling unit to his All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

Busari polled 15 votes against Sanwo-Olu’s 40 at the 021 polling unit of Ward A, Unit 021 in Adekunle Anglican Primary School, Makoko, Lagos a few metres from her residence at Denny Estate.

In the House of Assembly, APC polled 41 against PDP’S 13.

She and her husband voted at the unit several hours earlier, some minutes after 11.am.

In Lagos, today's governorship and house of assembly elections could be delayed in parts of Ejigbo, in Oshodi-Isolo LCDA, as INEC ad-hoc staff are currently protesting over the non-payment of their allowances.

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People like this should to be celebrated.....

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Happy Birthday to the vice president of the federal republic of Nigeria Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

“Yemi” Osinbajo (born 8 March 1957) is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who is the current Vice President of Nigeria, in office since 29 May 2015. He is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Professor of Law and until his inauguration as Vice President, a Senior Partner with SimmonsCooper Partners, a commercial law practice

http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/vice-president-prof-yemi-osinbajo-celebrates-his-62nd-birthday-today

Gbenga Daniel, a former Governor of Ogun State and Director General of the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign organisation, has directed the supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Remo, Ogun State, to vote for Dapo Abiodun, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State.

Daniel made this known in a statement he issued on Thursday.



The PDP governorship candidate in Ogun State is Buruji Kashamu.

However, Kashamu's candidature, which was affirmed by a court ruling in January, did not sit well with the national leadership of the party, which presented Ladi Adebutu as its preferred candidate in the state. A court ruling on Wednesday then reaffirmed Kashamu's candidature.

Read also:http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/pdp-opens-gofundme-account-for-nigerians-willing-to-donate-for-atikus39s-legal-defence PDP Opens GoFundme Account For Nigerians Willing To Donate For Atikus's Legal Defence

Making reference to Wednesday's ruling, Daniel said: "You would have noticed my studied silence in our local politics in recent times. I have busied myself with national politics, having served the state for eight years.

"I have also been very busy supporting the ambition of the son of our great philanthropist in Remoland to become the next Governor of our dear state. You, however, would have become aware of the court decision yesterday which did not favour him.

"Going forward, I have directed all our Structures statewide to cast all their votes on Saturday for Prince Dapo Abiodun, another bona fide Remo son despite current party differences. I therefore, enjoin all to please go and cast your vote on Saturday for Dapo Abiodun in the overall interest of our people."
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/pdp39s-gbenga-daniel-directs-supporters-to-vote-for-apc39s-dapo-abiodun-in-ogun-state

Dreal1247:
We shall soon join the league

Amen

About 13 black persons were among the 2,153 people who made the Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires for 2019.



The list of black persons on the list improved from 11 a year ago.

Nigerian Cement tycoon, Aliko Dangote is still the richest black person in the world with a fortune estimated at $10.9 billion. He’s closely followed by Nigerian oil and telecoms mogul, Mike Adenuga.



American businessman, David Stewart, who is the majority owner of World Wide Technology, an $11.2 billion (sales) IT provider, whose customers include Citi, Verizon and the federal government, joins the Black Billionaires Club with a fortune Forbes estimates at $3 billion.

Nigerian businessman Abdulsamad Rabiu, who made his fortune in cement, flour, edible oils and real estate, returns to the 3-Comma club after a multi-year hiatus. He last featured on the Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires in 2014.

In December 2018, Rabiu merged his privately owned Kalambaina Cement Company with listed firm Cement Co. of Northern Nigeria, which he controlled.



The new, larger company has a market capitalization of more than $800 million, with Rabiu owning more than 90% of the company’s stock. The value of his shares in the new Cement Co. of Northern Nigeria provided a shot in the arm to his fortune, which Forbes estimates at $1.6 billion.

Nigeria’s Folorunsho Alakija, American TV mogul Oprah Winfrey and Angolan investor Isabel dos Santos still remain the only black female billionaires in the world.

These are the 13 richest black people on earth:





Aliko Dangote, $10.9 billion

Nigerian, Sugar, Cement, Flour

The Cement and commodities tycoon retains his title as the world’s richest black man this year. After building his fortune in sugar, flour and cement, the Nigerian tycoon is embarking on his most ambitious project to date- a private oil refinery in Nigeria which will have a refining capacity of 6500,000 barrels a day and is expected to reduce Nigeria’s dependence on oil imports. Dangote started out in business more than 3 decades ago by trading in commodities like cement, flour and sugar with a loan he received from his maternal uncle and went on to build the Dangote Group, the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa.


Mike Adenuga, $9.1 billion

Nigerian, Oil, Telecoms

Nigerian-born Mike Adenuga, the world’s second richest black person, built his fortune in oil and mobile telecoms. His Conoil Producing Company was one of the first indigenous Nigerian companies to be granted an oil exploration license in the early 90s. The company is the operator of six blocks in the Niger Delta and also owns a25% stake in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ) Block 4. He is also the founder and sole owner of Globacom, a Nigerian mobile phone network that has more than 40 million subscribers in Nigeria and neighbouring African countries. His property company, Cobblestone Properties, owns hundreds of prime residential and commercial property all over Nigeria.



Robert Smith, $5 billion

American, Private Equity

Robert Smith, a former Goldman Sachs executive, is the founder of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners that focuses exclusively on investing in software companies. The firm has more than $30 billion in assets and is one of the best-performing private equity firms, posting annualized returns of 22% since inception.



David Steward, $ 3 billion

American, Tech

David Steward is the co-founder and chairman of IT provider World Wide Technology, World Wide Technology, an $11.2 billion (sales) IT provider, whose customers include Citi, Verizon and the federal government.

Oprah Winfrey, $2.5 billion

American, Television

Oprah is still the richest African-American person in the world thanks largely to the 25 years of her profitable daytime TV show and earnings from her Harpo production company. Her cable channel, OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) is also cash flow positive for the first time and is enjoying favorable ratings as a result of securing exclusive TV interviews with headline-grabbers like disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, Beyonce and gay NBA player Jason Collins. One of America’s most generous philanthropists, Oprah continues to give to education causes and has spent about $100 million on the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.

Strive Masiyiwa, $2.4 billion
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/4-nigerians-make-list-of-forbes-13-black-billionaires-for-2019

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Wednesday, said the Federal Government was worried about the low number of candidates seeking admission into its 104 colleges.



The minister, in a statement by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Education, Mrs. Priscillia Ihuoma, disclosed that only 28 candidates from Zamfara State registered for the 2018 National Common Entrance Examination.

Adamu stated that a directive had been given to leave the portal open for registration until April 13.



He added that the report of a stakeholders’ meeting held recently indicated that Taraba, Kebbi and Zamfara States had the lowest number of candidates who registered for the entrance examination. While Taraba had 95 candidates, Kebbi had 50.

“Ahead of the 2018 National Common Entrance Examination for admission of candidates into the 104 Federal Government colleges on Saturday, April 14, the minister has expressed worry over low registration for the examination so far,” the statement read.

“According to him, the report of a meeting of major stakeholders in the education sector said candidates registered in 2018 stood at 71,294 as against 80,421 that wrote the examination in 2017.
“The report further shows three states with the highest number of pupils registered so far are: Lagos with 24,465 candidates, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with 7,699 and Rivers State with 4,810 candidates respectively.

Read also: PDP Opens GoFundme Account For Nigerians Willing To Donate For Atikus's Legal Defence

“On the other hand, three states with extreme low registration are: Zamfara with only 28 candidates, Kebbi, 50 and Taraba, 95 candidates respectively.”
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/only-28-candidates-registered-for-common-entrance-exam-in-zamfara

A man from Waterbury in Connecticut faces divorce after his wife found out that he was not actually deaf and had been faking it for more than 62 years to avoid having to listen to her.
According to the divorce papers, 84-year old Barry Dawson never spoke a single word in front of his 80-year old wife Dorothy during the decades they lived together.

Ms. Dawson learned the sign language to be able to communicate with her husband but says he was still not really communicative.

“It took me two years to learn to communicate with my hands. As soon as I got good at it, he began having problems with his sight. Now that I think of it, he probably faked that too!”
The couple still raised six children and has thirteen grandchildren, all of whom were also convinced that Mr. Dawson was deaf.

“When he was at home, that jerk always faked being deaf. It wasn’t until I saw a Youtube video of him singing during a karaoke night in a bar while he was supposed to be at a meeting for a charity, that I understood everything.”
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/man-faked-being-deaf-and-dumb-for-62-years-to-avoid-listening-to-his-wife

Why I will Continue to Criticise Buhari — Obasanjo

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Popular Human right activist known as Segalink uploaded a Gofundme link on his twitter page calling on Nigerians willing to donate in defense of Atiku's mandate in a credible Court of Law to follow a link where they can domate their widow's mite.


In the mean time, Nigerians have begin to react to this call for donation.

http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/pdp-opens-gofundme-account-for-nigerians-willing-to-donate-for-atikus39s-legal-defence

APC Chieftain Buys Lions For Security

A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State Tony Kabaka has bought two lions as the elections hold this weekend across the country.

The former Chairman of Akugbe Ventures shared the video of the canivorous animals.

Kabaka in the video, warned people to stay off his house as he bought the animals for security concerns.
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http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/apc-chieftain-buys-lions-for-security

A London patient has become the second known man to be cleared of AIDS virus after receiving a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant donor, according to his doctor.

The patient has shown no trace of previous HIV infection since he underwent the transplant operation three years ago.

“There is no virus there that we can measure. We can’t detect anything,’’ said Ravindra Gupta, a professor and HIV biologist who co-led a team of doctors treating the man.

However, Gupta described his patient as “functionally cured’’ and “in remission,’’ rather than “cured. It’s too early to say he’s cured,” he said.

The first known patient to be functionally cured of HIV is an American man, Timothy Brown, who also underwent similar treatment in Germany in 2007.

Both patients received bone marrow stem cells from donors with a rare genetic mutation known as “CCR5 delta 32,” which confers resistance to HIV.



Between Brown and the new London patient, scientists made several attempts to cure other AIDS patients using the same method, but failed in all of them.

Gupta said the method used is not appropriate for all patients but offers hope for new treatment strategies.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/london-patient-cleared-of-hiv-after-bone-marrow-transplant

After renaming his country to Burkina Faso, here’s Thomas Sankara’s accomplishments, ONLY 4 YEARS in power (1983-87).

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as “Africa’s Che Guevara”

– He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
– He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
– He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification
– He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
– He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
– He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of Women’s rights
– He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
– He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
– He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
– He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
– He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance. • He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting
– In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
– He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
– He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
– As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
– A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
– He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
– When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
– An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself.
http://tellmystory.com.ng/story/what-you-may-not-know-about-thomas-sankara-the-rare-african-revolutionary-leader

Mr Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu & his running mate, Dr Femi Hamzat had a meeting with Ohaneze Ndigbo Stakeholders on saturday where they promised to vote massively for APC on Saturday

"Chief Solomon Ogbonna, President Ohaneze Ndigbo Lagos says the Igbos in Lagos are now fully behind the candidature of the Lagos APC Governorship Candidate, Mr Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu & his running mate, Dr Femi Hamzat."

He said they trust Sanwo-Olu as a friend and the man that will give them what they want.

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