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A serving House of Representatives member in Oyo State, Temitope Olatoye, popularly known as 'sugar', who is representing Akinyele/Lagelu Federal Constituency was reportedly shot dead by unknown gunmen. According to Sunday Vanguard, an information from a reliable source stated that the Honourable was shot in the eye at Iyana-Agbala area of Ibadan on Saturday. Sugar's younger brother, Oladotun revealed that Sugar was truly shot and was rushed to University College Hospital Ibadan (UCH), he died few hours later. Olatoye is said to have died at the Intensive Care Unit of UCH, Ibadan on Saturday, March 9. The spokesman of the hospital, Toye Akinrinola said Sugar died from gunshot wound. "We have formally told the family of his demise", Akinrinola said. Dermology Anti Aging Solution Look younger than ever - click here

Former U.S. President, Bill Clinton who was expected to visit Nigeria to manage Wednesday's peace pact signing ceremony between the two leading candidates, President Buhari and Atiku Abubakar has stepped aside. However, he has decided to stay away from visiting Nigeria following grumblings  here and there in Nigeria that the visit could be politically misinterpreted. Clinton however has wished Nigeria well. According to a statement from the presidential villa, he called President Buhari and wished Nigeria well. In a statement provided by Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adeshina, which was released on Thursday, noticed President Clinton's constant backing for the development of democracy in Nigeria regardless of him not being able to make it for the final endorsement of the peace accord between the two main aspirants. Quality and Affordable 4G phone         Save #3,000 - click here According to Mr. Femi Adesina President Buhari pr...

The United Kingdom (UK) has repeated that it regards Nigeria's self-government and that the country would not intrude into Nigeria's internal affairs. According to the British high commissioner to Nigeria, Ms Catriona Laing, UK would be installing over 100 viewers to cover 15 states in Nigeria during the general election which is coming up soon in the country. While speaking as a guest on Nigerian Info FM in Abuja on Tuesday, Ms Catriona revealed the aim of installing the viewers, "It is our job to stand with the people of Nigeria in this democratic journey". Quality and Affordable Laptop She continued, "As an independent observe country, we regard Nigeria's sovereignty". "What matter to us is the process. This is why we will be developing over 100 observers covering 15 states to support observer missions from the European Union, United States Diplomatic Mission in Nigeria and other local observers". Quality and Affordable 4G...

John Kerry , the former Secretary of State, when speking on a CNBC panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, made the announcement that Trump should "resign", when asked his message for President Donald Trump. At first, Kerry hesitated to give an answer, when he was asked to leave a message for Donald Trump, he said " Trump doesn't take any of this seriously, he doesn't have the ability to have that kind of conversation". Kerry eventually replied the question by saying "Resign", and after he answered, the folks laughed and clapped. President Donald Trump would also have been present in Davos for the forum, but he had to terminate the trip because of the present government shutdown. However, in a Tuesday morning tweet, President Donald Trump attacked the media concerning the matter. "Last time I went to Davos , the Fake News said I should not go there. This year, because of the shutdown, I decided not to go, and...

In 2016, China's government increased the limit to two children to restore the world's most populous country, that has almost 1.4 billion people, and experts say it may release the cap next year. The adjustment however, does not seem to have encouraged couples to reproduce more children, according to experts, this may be related to urbanisation and higher cost of living in China. China's population growth crawled last year regardless of the cancellation of the one-child policy, official data showed on Monday, increase anxieties an ageing community will rise further pressure on an already crawling economy. Wang Feng, a sociology professor at university of California, Irving said "Decades-long social and economic changes have prepared an entirely new generation in China, for whom marriage and child bearing no longer have the importance as they used to, for their parents generation". Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed that there were...

About N6.16 trillion out of the N8.49 trillion pension asset under the Contributory Pension Scheme has been borrowed by the Federal Government. This was revealed by the National Pension Commission (NPC) on Tuesday in Abuja. It was reported by the pension commission that the Federal Government's borrowing signifies 72.5% of the pension fund. The Pension Fund Administrators also spent 6.87% or N584.321bn of the fund in domestic ordinary shares and 0.71% or N60.529bn of the fund was spent in foreign ordinary shares, according to data from PenCom. The commission stated that, it maintained its consultative ideology in running and management of the industry, said the risk-based examination approach was created as a means of boosting clarity and creating awareness as well as stimulating pension operators to frequently self-analyze their roles. The Acting Director-General, PenCom, Mrs Aisha Dashir-Umar, stated that, in order to achieve a desirable pension sector, the commis...

Vice-president Yemi osinbajo while speaking at a conference in Abuja on Wednesday, said fake news are capable of resulting in great adverse effects. He said - I have been one of the victims of fake news. It can cause marriage crisis. My wife called me about 3 or 4 weeks ago saying - Yemi what are you doing with strippers? I replied - how do you mean?  I later read a post from a famous blog that states 'Osinbajo caught with strippers'. There was actually a picture where I was sitting between two clothed women but beneath the picture, the same women were not wearing much. I observed that the picture was taken in an entertainment event where these women were wearing perfect clothes, but it was as if the picture was taken when they dressed like strippers on the blog. The vice-president further rejected legislation that would limit press freedom, claiming it involved the right to post on social media and creation of blogs. He made it known that regulating social med...

        The U.S embassy has announced on its website and also on a facebook post that- 'Due to the current U.S government shut down, the America centers located in the Embassy, Abuja and Consulate General, Lagos are unfortunately closed. They will re-open once the U.S government shut down is resolved. Sorry for any inconvenience to our valued patrons'. This is due to president Donald Trump's inability to get support of the U.S congress in the building of Mexican wall. During 2016 election campaign, President Trump promised to erect a wall between  Mexico and U.S to curb the increase of illegal migration from that country, which he stated that the Mexican government would fund the erection of the border wall. The government of Mexico however refused to fund the erection of the wall. President Trump met with speaker designee - Nancy pelosi and Senate minority leader - Chuck schumer on December 11, 2018 seeking for the sum of $5billion to fund the projec...