President Buhari, Aliko Dangote, Linda Ikeji Make Africa's 100 Most Influential List

President Muhammadu Buhari, business mogul, Aliko Dangote, blogger Linda Ikeji and 17 other Nigerians have been named amongst the 100 most influential Africans of 2015. The list complied by New African Magazine was dominated by Nigeria and South Africa, with 20 and 16 personalities respectively.

Kenya, Uganda and Cameroon also feature strongly with eight, six and six entries each respectively. Of the top 100 personalities, 65 are men and 32 are women, with the other three being groups of people. South Africa’s students, for example, were recognised this year for their role in South Africa’s #FeesMustFall and #Rhodesmustfall campaigns.
The list presents the continent’s definitive power list and profiles the continent’s top game changers in eight different fields: 22 from politics ; four from public office; 21 from arts and culture; 21 from business; 11 from civil society; nine from technology; seven from media, and five from sports.

In one of the continent’s most dramatic and unusual elections of 2015, and Nigeria’s most significant in recent history, Muhammadu Buhari defeated his opponent and incumbent Goodluck Jonathan. Both are recognised in New African. Other Nigerians recognised include the former UN Special Advisor on Post Development Planning, and current minister of Environment, Amina J. Mohammed; AfDB’s new President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina and a surprising addition in the form of Nigerian Diasporan, UK MP, Chuka Umunna, who was in the frame Labour Party leadership.

South Africa also had its fair share of political influencers, among them “the black leader of South Africa’s ‘white’ opposition” party, the DA’s youthful Mmusi Maimane who also makes the list as one to watch during the next elections.

Prominent women making the list are UN Women’s Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and fellow South African Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the current chairperson of the AU Commission, widely tipped to be a potential successor to her former husband, President Jacob Zuma.

Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is recognised together with her fellow heads of states, Alpha Conde of Guinea and Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, for beating the odds to win the war against Ebola in 2015.

African financial giant and Credit Suisse boss, Tidjane Thiam, from Côte d’Ivoire, makes this year’s most influential list for Business and Economy, where he is joined by new World Bank VP and Treasurer, Arunma Otteh, Kenyan ‘DJ’ businessman Chris Kirubi and the entrepreneur and innovator behind Tesla cars, Elon Musk, among others. Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote also makes the list.

Also on the list are innovators (Cameroon’s Tonje Bakang), philanthropists (Senegal’s Akon), athletes (Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana), actors (Zimbabwe’s Danai Gurira and Keyna’s Lupita Nyong’o), writers (Zambia’s Namwali Serpell), cultural and media personalities (Trevor Noah and Linda Ikeji), along with the activists, artists, models, musicians that have made the headlines and shaped opinions during the year.

Culled from; abusidiqu.com

15-Year-Old Liberian Boy Tested Of Ebola Virus Finally Dies

A 15-year-old boy who tested positive for Ebola last week in Liberia has died, becoming the first victim since the country was declared free of the virus in September, according to reports from health officials. The boy died on Monday afternoon at a treatment centre near the capital, Monrovia, where his father and brother, the only two other confirmed Ebola cases in the country, are also being treated.

Liberia has seen more than 10,000 Ebola cases and more than 4,000 deaths. Sierra Leone was officially declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this month. Source; BBC

Emmanuel Adebayor Chills With Friends In His Exquisite Togo Mansion.. Photos

Emmanuel Adebayor is making the most of his long "vacation" (currently without a club) with his friends in his hometown in Togo. The former Tottenham striker shared photos of himself chilling with his friends during breakfast in his exquisite mansion.

Photos; Migrants And Refugees Sew Their Lips In Protest At Greek-Macedonia Border. *Viewers Discretion*

This is just ridiculous. Migrants and refugees stuck at the border in Gevgelija, a town in Macedonia sewed their lips in protest photos. According to reports, Macedonian authorities are granting passage only to those fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan- thereby leaving other nationalities stranded at the border.

Sambo Dasuki Lands In More Trouble

Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), was on Monday absent at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over the controversy surrounding the house arrest of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Mohammed Dasuki (retd).

He was expected to explain the reason behind the siege on Dasuki’s Abuja residence by the Department of State Services (DSS) in spite of the bail earlier granted him by the court.
But the AGF has gone ahead to file an application dated November 20, 2015 asking for an order revoking Dasuki’s bail application and committing him to prison pending his trial.

Dasuki was charged with unlawful possession of firearms and money laundering. He had pleaded not guilty.

Justice Adeniyi Ademola had ordered the release of Dasuki’s international passport to enable him travel abroad for medical attention.

While ruling on Dasuki’s application for the release of his travel document, the court held that in criminal trial, every suspect is presumed innocent and that every Nigerian has the right to access medication anywhere of his choice.

At the resumption of hearing of the matter, Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the prosecution counsel, Mohammed Diri, applied for an order revoking Dasuki’s bail and commit him to prison.

Diri based his application on 7 grounds including intelligence report that Dasuki has concluded plans to by all means escape justice and tamper with investigation on procurement of arms and equipment.

He said the ailment for which permission was given to Dasuki to travel to the United Kingdom for treatment can be properly treated at the National Hospital, Abuja or any other teaching hospital in the country.

Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN), lead counsel to Dasuki, objected to the prosecution’s application and reminded the court that the expectation was for the Federal Government to tell the court why its order was violated by the DSS by laying siege on Dasuki’s house after the court had granted his overseas trip.

Daudu said the essence of his preliminary objection is to deny the government any indulgence until the court order is obeyed and that Dasuki’s absence in court was justified as he has not violated any of his bail conditions.

Justice Ademola adjourned the matter to November 26 to rule of the applications.

This Lady is cursing Prince Audu in Death bcos of Torture, Sex (FULL DETAILS)

This matter might lead to somebody suing the other, so it's a very serious issue:
Shortly after the death of Prince Abubakar Audu, the APC guber candidate in Kagi State, this lady, who has been identified as Empress (a.k.a. Sugabelly), has been cursing and celebrating at the same time.

She recounted her ordeal in the home of late Prince Audu. Shocking details...

According to Daily Post, she claimed that Audu's son had rap*d and also tortured her in some ways.

In her tweets, she said, “The Prince Audu I knew was a monster. I am glad he is dead, and I spit and dance on his grave. So happy he died. God please hurry up and take Mustapha, Kabir and Bashir too, and that their animal of a cousin called Jibrin."

As if addressing one of the sons Mustapha directly, she penned down, “Your daddy is dead Mustapha.” She also went on to say those who think she is happy the Prince died because of politics are unserious people.

The said Empress went further to allege that the deceased’s son molested her s*xually. She said she was just 17 years old when she graduated from a school in Abuja knwon as Loyola, and decided to take one year to make ends meet.

According to her, “I lived in Abuja and had just finished my first ever real world job as an intern in this tech company called Alteq. I met Mustapha there. His father, Audu, was the governor of Kogi state then.

“I was the youngest person in the company and he sort of took me under his wings and he was nice to me."

She went further to claim that one thing led to another and Mustapha allegedly started having carnal knowledge of her. Empress added that at that point, there was no one she could ask for help.

According to her, “He will choke me while f***ing me. I cried and begged him but he will get angry and say I was ruining his flow. Whenever I did not do what he or his friends wanted, he would hit me and drag me by my hair. So I learnt to be obedient.

“He used to bring new friends every time. He did other unpleasant things like burn me and hold my head under water while his friends f***ed me, but that was only once or twice.

“I was in love with him and inside, I kept hoping he didn’t mean it and if I was obedient enough, he would go back to being the sweet guy i met', Empress tweeted.

- lets agree Audu's son "Mustapha" did those terrible things to her. But what is late Audu's offence? So all ladies should be going to dance on the grave of men whose son did them wrong? I don't get!

Lagos state warns against poisonous poultry.

Lagos State Government at the weekend raised the alarm over the danger of buying and consuming ex­humed contaminated poul­try produce like chicken and turkey meat presently in circulation in the state. The state’s Commission­er for Agriculture, Mr. To­yin Suarau, who disclosed this while receiving offi­cials of the National Orien­tation Agency (NOA), who came on the directive of the Federal Government to ap­peal for support on how to sensitise Lagosians on the danger posed by this act noted that these exhumed poultry produce are poi­sonous and could lead to death if consumed.

Suarau added that the imported contaminated poultry produce were seized by men of the Ni­geria Customs Service in Badagry but were later exhumed after being de­stroyed by some unscrupu­lous individuals who now sell same to unsuspecting consumers. “This visit by officials of National Orientation Agency was based on the circular received by the agency about the recently exhumed contaminated poultry produce being de­stroyed by officials of the Nigeria Customs Service somewhere in Badagry.

“The need for sensitization on the dangers as­sociated with consuming these exhumed poisonous poultry produce cannot be overemphasized especially in view of the havoc it pos­es to the public,” he noted. The commissioner pos­ited that the imported poultry produce were pre­served with chemicals like formalin which is poison­ous, adding that it could lead to slow death without the knowledge of the con­sumer.

NDLEA nabb drug Baron, Tochukwu Ubah with Cocaine worth N4.6bn. (See Pics)

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested suspected drug baron, Tochukwu Ubah, alleged to be coordinating a large volume of methamphetamine and ephedrine distribution in the country. A statement issued by Mitchell Ofoyeju, Head of Public Affairs, NDLEA, in Lagos on Sunday said Ubah was arrested by the agency’s Special Enforcement Team, SET, at the old local section of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos upon arrival from Enugu.
  

Ubah, a big “drug baron” was caught after “intense investigation”. It was also revealed that Ubah used his company Visoch Resources Limited, as a front for his drug smuggling operations. The chairman of the NDLEA praised the efforts of the investigation team. “The arrest of Tochukwu is a product of painstaking surveillance and another milestone success in the fight against drugs. This seizure is a confirmation that criminal investments will always go down the drain.”

Gov. Dickson's 2 ex-aides decamp to APC.

Two ex-aides of Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson have defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress in the state. The defection took place on Saturday when the APC candidate in the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, took his campaign tour to the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area ahead of the December 5 governorship poll. The new defectors are Commissioner for Lands and Survey, Furoebi Akene, who resigned his appointment penultimate week, and Dickson’s Special Representative to Southern Ijaw, Apreala Pereladei. The two, who said they had defected to the APC with their supporters, insisted that the APC represented the needed change that would accelerate the socio-economic and political development of the state.

The Southern Ijaw, home to Dickson’s strong allies such as his Chief of Staff, Government House, Talford Ongol; late former Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; and Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Konbowei Benson, is believed to be a major battle ground for Dickson and Sylva in the December poll. Of the total 663,639 number of registered voters released on November 5, 2015 by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the election, Southern Ijaw has 120,827 voters, second only to the Yenagoa Local Government, which has 139,777 voters. Among the major towns in the Southern Ijaw area, where Sylva campaigned on Saturday, were Otuan, Amassoma, Koluama, Foropa and Oporoma, headquarters of the council.

Addressing supporters after the defectors were welcomed into the APC by the party’s Chairman, Chief Tiwei Orunimighe, Sylva assured them that the party had come to change their lives from poverty to wealth. He urged them to embrace the APC if they wanted development and progress. He said that the Southern Ijaw was a strong stakeholder in APC because his running mate, Wilberforce Igiri, and the state chairman of the party, Tiwei Orunimighe, were indigenes of the area. Sylva said, “Oporoma people, Southern Ijaw people, if you want development and progress, it is APC. The opposition party is dead. We have buried it in Abuja. We will also bury it in Bayelsa. “On December 5, vote for me and my deputy. After victory, we will sit down and look at how to bring peace to Bayelsa, companies will come, and there will be jobs and enjoyment.

See The Full Photo Of Alison-Madueke After Her Cancer Treatment

The photo of the immediate past Minister of Petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, after she underwent treatment for cancer outside the country.????

Alison-Madueke is being investigated by the UK police for alleged bribery and money laundering.

Pictured with him is Dele Momodu, publisher of the Boss Magazine.

Read 10 Important Facts About Prince Abubakar Audu (Oct. 1947 – Nov. 2015)

The governorship candidate for APC, Prince Abubakar Audu, in the just concluded Kogi state election which was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, reportedly died, on Sunday, 22nd November, 2015. 

Here is a brief biography of the deceased foremost Kogi politician that you need to know.

1. Prince Abubakar Audu, was the first Executive Governor of Kogi State was born on 27th of October 1947, to the family of his Royal Highness, the late Pa Audu Oyidi, Orego Atta of Igala Land and the paramount ruler of Ogbonicha-Alloma in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State.

2. Prince Abubakar Audu (born 1947) was twice the Governor of Kogi state. His first tenure was from January 1992 until November 1993 and the second from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2003.

3. He began his career as a bank worker, later proceeded to London from 1975-1978 where he studied banking and personnel management, obtaining professional qualification as a certified secretary, and as a Fellow of the Association of International Accountants of London, as well as fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Industrial Administration of Nigeria.

4. Late Audu’s banking career lasted for a total of 25 years, which he spent with First Bank – formerly known and Standard Bank.

5. He made history as the first training officer of African descent and also as one of the first black senior management staff of Standard Chartered Bank in London and New York.

In 1991, he was appointed Executive Director of FSB International Bank PLC. 

6. He joined public service in 1986 when we has appointed as Commissioner for Finance and Economic Planning in the Old Benue state. He served in this capacity until 1988 when the cabinet was dissolved.7. He contested on the platform of the National Republican Convention (NRC) and won the election held in November, 1991.

8. He was subsequently sworn in as the first executive governor of Kogi state in January 1992.

9. In 1998, democracy was again re-introduced and Audu, now with the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), was elected again with over 700,000 votes while his opponent hardly recorded 50% of the vote cast. He was sworn in on 29 May 1999 as the 2nd Executive Governor of Kogi State.

10. He reportedly died, on the 22nd November, 2015, while seeking re-election on the platform of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress.

Read 3 Reasons Why president Buhari’s December Deadline To Crush Boko Haram Is Now ‘A Mere Wishful Thinking’

Sources within the Nigerian military have revealed that The December ultimatum given by President Muhammadu Buhari to destroy Boko Haram terrorists in the North-east has become mere wishful thinking because of operational, logistic and administrative setbacks that have proven to be beyond the control of the military authorities.

Below are 3 main reasons why Boko Haram may not be crushed by December as promised by The President.

1. The erratic and non-chalant attitude of Chadians towards effective take off of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF): They Have employed economic sabotage by taking advantage of their geopolitical strategy around the Lake Chad Basin to extract a lot of financial and strategic concessions from Nigeria. They are yet to contribute the needed troops to man their side of the common borders.


2. Change of tactics by the Boko Haram : Now they have resorted to laying ambush and traps for troops. Most recent case is ambush that led to the missing of about 125 Nigerian soldiers. The entire operation seems to have turned into a stalemate.

3. Dwindling supply of arms and ammunition: Military sources have revealed that that no new weapons, arms and ammunition have been supplied for a long while now. Therefore as troops are fast running out of stock and that is seriously affecting their morale.

Angry Wife Takes Revenge On Cheating Husband By Selling House While He Was Away (Photo)

                                        
A cheating husband was taught an extremely valuable lesson – after returning from a business trip to find his wife had sold their house.

Builder Craig Arnolds returned home from New York to find the locks changed – and six students in his lounge.Wife Laura, aged 42, had packed her bags and gone.

She took the extreme measure after discovering an incriminating message on her partner’s iPhone.
44-year-old Craig forgot his iPhone 6 when on a business trip to America.

When the phone flashed an unknown number, suspicious Laura swooped. The steamy message was from an American woman who described the kind of hot reception Craig could expect in New York. It was then she hatched her revenge plot.

Laura told The Sunday Mercury :


“Things aren’t great between us at the moment. I could do it because my parents came up with the deposit for our home and when we struggled with the mortgage, they came in.”

Craig, who now lives in London, described the baffling scene that greeted him at the former family home.

“All the lights were on and the TV was blaring,” “I remember thinking it was really out of character for Laura to be up past 11pm. I had no idea what on earth was going on.

“At this point I was seriously freaked out, jet lagged and frantic – I started banging on the door and shouting Laura’s name – but was greeted instead by what looked like a 21-year-old hippie.”

He added: ‘

I noticed all Laura’s furniture was gone, but the chairs and tables I’d inherited from my late father, plus my set of golf clubs and vintage radio – which Laura always hated – was sitting on the kitchen table in all its glory. “She’d included my most prized possessions in the ‘fixtures and fittings’. I was gutted. I still can’t get my head around how she did this in the space of a two week holiday.”

Last time I marry an Italian, that’s for sure.“I made a mistake and paid for it dearly.

“I was very annoyed at first but life is too short to dwell on these things and I made the decision that for the children’s sake, we should stop the hostilities there.

“Who knows, maybe by getting this out of her system will allow us to build on the existing amicable relationship?”

Meet 30 Year Old Man Who Lead Gang To Abduct His Father For N1.5 Million Ransom

The A 30 year old man, one Hassan Maikudi, has been arrested by the Police in Oyo State, alongside five Fulani men suspected to be members of a notorious kidnapping and armed robbery gang who for years had terrorized Okeho and Iganna communities in the state.

Maikudi, led the gang to abduct his own father and collected a sum of N1.5 million as ransom to free him. Parading the suspects, Mr. Solomon Arase, the Inspector General of Police said some of the suspects fled into the bush when officers of the force invaded their hideout.He added that the police recovered the sum of N200,000 as well as several charms. The suspects are: Damanya Gambo, 30, Usman Saidu, 30, Abubakar Abubakar, 28, Abdullahi Mohammed, 35 and Usman Idris, 33.

Police Arrest Gang Leader And Others Of Lagos State, Ogun State Bank Robbery

Four of the armed robbers, including their leader, raiding commercial banks in Lagos and Ogun States, met their Waterloo in Delta State.

Led by CSP, Abba Kyari, the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Responses Team, SIT, trailed the robbers to Sapele area of Delta State, where sources disclosed that a police officer lost his life during an exchange of gunfire. The suspects sustained bullets wounds and were arrested.


The gang leader, identified as Kelly Foto, A.K.A, Kelvin, is alleged to be the notorious Kelvin of Kokori, who had terrorized the entire South South and South East in the past.

Read This Shocking Report On The Alleged Cause Of Audu’s Death

Hmm! Nawaoo! I can’t shout… I saw this on Elomba… Read below;

More news coming in on the Audu death. Information coming in from This Day suggests Audu was actually poisoned. He did not die of a heart attack. Audu was rushed to the hospital and repeatedly vomiting blood which he then passed out and died.

Word going around now is that Tinubu has a hand in his death. It is said that Audu’s poisoning was pre-planned in order to impose Bola Tinubu’s boy James Abiodun Faleke from Okun-Yoruba – Abubakar Audu’s running mate – on Kogi.

Although from Kogi, Faleke was a member of theHouse of Representatives, representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, Lagos. There is send to be rising ethnic tension and an impeding constitutional crises if the INEC or court eventually decides to give the APC the win.

Some are mentioning the 1999 situation where Obasanjo picked Abubakar Atiku as his VP after Atiku won the Adamawa elections. Although Atiku was yet to be sworn in, his running mate Boni Haruna ascended into the governor seat.

Na wa ooo for Tinubu. Una don’ bite more than you can chew on this own. Pity. Of course, the ruling Igala people will not allow it. Tinubu trying to spread his tentacles to Kogi by all means. I fear what will happen in Bayelsa. War is looming…