Why Nigerian Big Men don't want Buhari to Become President

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, has said the Nigerian elite are opposed to the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as president because they are aware he would wage unreserved war against corruption. 

He said as president, Buhari would rubbish the belief that there is no ideological difference between the APC and the PDP, by implementing the manifesto of the opposition party. 

Bin Laden son-in-law sentenced to life in US

 

Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in New York following his conviction on terrorism charges.
A Manhattan federal jury in March found the Kuwaiti-born 48-year-old guilty of conspiring to kill Americans, conspiring to provide material support for terrorists and providing such support.

$9.3m scandal: APC Reps storm out of House

 

Angry All Progressives Congress members in the House of Representatives staged a walkout   on Tuesday in protest against a failed debate on the controversial $9.3m   seized from two Nigerians and an Israeli by the South African authorities on September 5.

The two Nigerians and the Israeli   had flown the money in a Challenger 600 jet from Nigeria to the Lanseria International Airport, Northwest Johannesburg, where the money was uncovered   in three suit cases.

The aircraft was said to belong to the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria and President Goodluck Jonathan’s confidant, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor.

Don’t give Joshua visa, ANC youths tell Zuma

                            

The African National Congress Youth League has called on the Jacob Zuma-led South African government not to issue a visa to the General Overseer of the Synagogue of All Nations, Pastor Temitope Joshua.

Joshua had expressed on Sunday his desire to visit South Africa to commiserate with the families of 84 citizens of the country who lost their lives when a building of the church collapsed in Lagos on September 12.

About 115 people died in the tragedy and Joshua had described those who lost their lives as martyrs to the consternation of South Africans.

'My naked pictures have been leaked online, but I really don’t care': Politician who suffered same fate as Rihanna and Jennifer Lawrence laughs off row

• Nude photographs of Ukrainian politician Olga Lyulchak leaked online
• She says her nude images are fine art, comparing them to Van Gogh
• It follows mass-leak of images of female celebrities after an iCloud hack
  
  A Ukrainian politician claims have been a victim of an iCloud hacker after her naked pictures leaked online.
  However, parliamentary candidate Olga Lyulchak says she has nothing to be ashamed of, comparing her raunchy images to fine art.
  The photographs of 30-year-old Ms Lyulchak emerged last week sparking a wave of controversy in Ukraine.
  
  Not ashamed: Ukrainian parliamentary candidate Olga Lyulchak, 30, says the naked images of her is like fine art

The Lady is a vamp! Gaga dazzles in gold sequinned gown as she hits the stage with Tony Bennett ahead of jazz album release

She used to wowing the crowds with her wacky costumes and eccentric dance routines, but Lady Gaga proved she can do old fashioned glamour with the best of them on Monday night.

The Bad Romance hitmaker hit the stage at the Grand'place with legendary crooner Tony Bennett in Belgium for a special concert just hours before the release of their collaborative jazz album, Cheek To Cheek.

Stepping out on stage at the same time as the 88-year-old, Gaga sparkled in a gold sequinned halter-neck gown with a matching headpiece.

Ga-ga-gold: Lady Gaga looked stunning in a halterneck sequinned number as she took to the stage in

“Abubakar Shekau” killed was one Bashir Mohammed - SR

A Nigerian military intelligence source has told SaharaReporters that the top Boko Haram figure killed in a recent operation was one Bashir Mohammed, leader of the Islamist sect’s Uye camp.

Cameroonian authorities yesterday released a photo of a dead man they identified as Abubakar Shekau, the loquacious and attention-seeking leader of the terrorist group that has launched deadly strikes in Nigeria’s northeast zone as well as Cameroon. The Nigerian intelligence source told SaharaReporters that Nigerian soldiers, not Cameroonian troops, had killed Mr. Bashir last Friday in a fierce battle against Boko Haram insurgents in