Buhari meets Jonathan over Niger Delta Avengers

President Buhari and Former President Jonathan met at the state house in Abuja yesterday night June 2nd, to discuss the increasing activities of Niger Delta Avengers and other militants in the Niger Delta region. 

 

According to Sahara Reporters, the meeting started at about 9pm at the president's private home. President Buhari in the meeting reportedly told Jonathan that there were no plans to arrest him or his wife Patience. The meeting is said to have been brokered by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Source: sahara 

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"I can never fight davido, he is too......"- dele momodu says

Dele momodu 

In an interview with Ghana’s Joy News, the Ovation publisher ‘Dele Momodu’ responded to the questions on how he feels about Davido taunts on social media.

“I don’t think Davido will see me and say I’m his boy, I’m his father,” Momodu said, adding, “Why would I fight with my own child? I can’t fight him and now we are connected together through that baby.”

Recall that last week, Davido shared a clip, mocking Momodu. “How fa na, uncle Dele? You for tell me make I buy you ticket,” the singer, said in a Snapchat clip, and his gang also joined in mocking the Ovation magazine publisher.

However, Momodu feels Davido does all this just to sell records. “ Sometimes your fans may mislead you, and know what he is doing is what every other artistes does: you wants to sell records, so you have to create controversy,” Momodu said.

“I can never fight Davido,” Momodu continued. “He is too small for me. On Ovation TV, almost every week they are playing Osinachi despite the fact that Osinachi is using style to attack me .”

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Two dead in shooting on UCLA campus, LAPD confirms

 – Two people are confirmed dead after a shooting Wednesday morning at UCLA, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The school remained on lockdown and the city of Los Angeles is placed on tactical alert following reports of the shooting on the Westwood campus, authorities said.

The gunman is “described as a white male about 6 feet tall,” the Daily Bruin student newspaper wrote on its Twitter feed at 9:20 a.m., adding that the shooting was reported to have occurred at Engineering IV on the school’s Westwood campus.

“Shooter is wearing a black jacket and black pants, according to police,” the Daily Bruin wrote in another post.

The paper also reported that administrators had asked professors to cancel classes and that students were being alerted to the incident by email.
Source: CNN.

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2016/17 Champions League taking shape

With the 2015/16 European football season just about over, next season's UEFA Champions League group stage is slowly coming into focus. And so far, 22 teams have already booked their spots at the 32-seat table.

The round-robin stage is drawn using a series of pots filled with little plastic footballs containing the names of qualifying teams. The only pot already set to go is the one containing the champions of the top seven domestic leagues, which are determined using special UEFA coefficients, plus the current titleholder. Thus the following teams will make up pot 1: FC Barcelona (Spain), Bayern Munich (Germany), Benfica(Portugal), Paris Saint-Germain (France), Juventus (Italy), Leicester City (England), and CSKA Moscow(Russia), as well as defending champions Real Madrid.

Easily the biggest surprise at next season's tournament will be the appearance of Leicester City, which will be making its Champions League debut after winning this season's Premier League, also for the first time in its history. It is this very status as league winners that will keep them from facing FC Barcelona in the group stage. The two teams, however, are set to meet in the second match of the preseason, on 3 August inStockholm, Sweden.

The rest of the teams will be dropped into pots 2, 3, and 4, based on UEFA club coefficients.

The second pot will contain the names of Atlético Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal, Sevilla, Napoli,and Bayer Leverkusen, with two more to be determined.

The third pot already has Basel, Tottenham, Dinamo Kiev, and Olympique Lyon, with four teams to be added.

Pot number four will hold PSV Eindhoven, Sporting of Portugal, Bruges, and Besiktas, with another four pending as well.

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Naira increases from 199 to 285 at inter bank rates

The Nigerian Currency, Naira has crashed to N285 to a dollar at the interbank market following the new flexible exchange rate policy to be introduced by CBN

Nigerian Customs reacts to reports that it will begin to use the rate of N285 to the dollar for the calculation of duty on all imports from Wednesday June 1, 2016

President Muhammadu Buhari gives the CBN the go-ahead to introduce flexibility in the naira exchange rate

Despite the Central Bank of Nigeria yet to roll out the details of the new flexible exchange rate policy, which is a monetary system that allows the exchange rate to be determined by supply and demand, the nation’s currency naira has switched to N285 to a dollar at the interbank market, The Guardian reports.

The policy, which throws naira into open market, paves way for one to walk into the bank and ask to buy forex at the market rate, hence, putting pressure on black market and Bureau de Change operators.
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Bomb explosion in Borno state kills four including a baby

Four persons  have been confirmed dead in a bomb attack in Biu, Borno state this morning. According to a statement by the Nigerian Army, at about 8.15 this morning, keke napep driver unknowingly stepped on an Improvise Explosive Device (IED) planted by the side of Biu -Damboa road close to a military checkpoint at the outskirts of Biu town, Borno State.

 The IED exploded instantly, killing 4 persons . Three other persons were injured including a soldier and they were immediately evacuated to Biu General Hospital, but the soldier later died.

The general area has been cordoned off and Explosive Ordinance Device  team from Forward Operation Base (FOB) in Buratai have been mobilized to carryout further search of the area. Investigations shows that the IED was buried long time ago undetected. It exploded when the driver of the keke napep stepped on the IED.

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