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The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, on Friday said America would not discriminate against any Nigerian on the basis of religion or on the new visa regime. President Trump recently signed an executive order that banned citizens from seven countries from travelling into the U.S. for 90 days. The countries are Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The restrictions were part of wide-ranging immigration controls that also suspended refugee arrivals. At a press conference in Abuja on President Donald Trump’s executive order and its effects on Nigeria, the ambassador dispelled the rumour of reducing U.S. visa policy for Nigeria to one year. Mr. Symington said the two-year visa for Nigeria was still valid. “The new order now is for the U.S. government to cross-check as many that are coming into the U.S. before issuing visas. “We will not discriminate on the basis of religion in issuing visas to Nigerians. The two-year visa is still valid contrary to reports we

The Lagos state police commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, has agreed to provide security for the February 6th protest that is slated to hold at the National Stadium, Lagos. After a meeting with the organizers of the rally, the Commissioner who spoke to newsmen said : “We had a meeting with the protesters and we explained to them why we advised against the protest. A pro-government group wants to protest that same day and we don’t want a situation where there would be friction. We also don’t want hooligans to hijack the process and injure the protesters. After explaining to them, they said they will go back and discuss with others. They said if they decide to go ahead, they won’t demonstrate but would assemble at a point and read their demands. That notwithstanding, we have resolved to provide security for them. It is our responsibility and we won’t shy away from it. We will ensure trouble makers do not hijack the process.” -LIB

The Lagos State Police Commissioner Fatai Owoseni on Wednesday said he will not allow the planned protest against the Federal Government slated for February 5 to hold in the state, The Nation reports. . . Popular musician, TuFace Idibia, who joined the call for protest by some concerned Nigerians over the state of the nation, had used his social media platforms to appeal to his supporters to join the movement. . . But Owoseni, who had earlier stated that there was no official request from the protesters notifying security agencies of their plan, said Wednesday that intelligence report indicates that criminals might hijack the process. . . According to the police chief, the command wasn’t ready for that kind of demonstration and as such would not allow it to hold. He said no matter how good an intention is, hoodlums would always find a way to harass, rob and attack innocent members of the public, who may wish to go about their Lawful duty. . . Owoseni said: “Information rea

A junkie held a terrified 13-year-old girl at knifepoint in her bedroom after breaking in so he could exchange her for drugs only for Russian police to storm in and free her. The drug-crazed man broke into the house in the city of Omsk in Omsk Oblast region, central Russia, where the girl lives with her grandmother. Named only as Zhenya, he started demanding drugs from the terrified family, and when it became clear they didn't have any he made the family call the police so that he could get his fix in exchange for the girl's freedom. Police and a SWAT team rushed to the scene and a video filmed by an officer shows the tattooed junkie holding the girl on his lap with a knife to her back. The drug addict and Zhenya get embroiled in tense negotiation, as he demands the policemen leave the room as he did not want to 'get a life sentence'. - -  The girl can be heard crying in terror, asking the intruder to let her go as officers attempt to diffuse the situation by sayin

A teenager from Pakistan has become an internet sensation after he filmed himself popping his eye balls out. Ahmed Khan, 14, can pop his eyes out beyond eye sockets by over 10 mm. Khan, who studies at a local school in Lahore, discovered his unique ability to pop his eyes last year. 'Last year, I was doing something and I touched my eye and the eyeball popped out,' said the 14-year-old. 'I thought I had damaged my eye or something but realised it did not cause any harm to my eye. - - - 'I tried popping the other eye out and I was successful. This seemed fun and after trying a couple of times I got used to it.' 'Many younger kids in school run away when they see me. They are scared of my eye popping,' he said. 'Even the girls in school get scared. They think that my eyes will fall out into my hands or something.' - - Khan is now 'eyeing' a place in the Guinness World record books. 'Once I had mastered the art of popping eyeballs at

Barack and Michelle Obama's vacation on billionaire Richard Branson's Necker Island is over. The world power couple left yesterday and sources on the island told TMZ the Obamas took a helicopter from Necker Island to nearby Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport. The former POTUS and FLOTUS are seen above chatting with BVI Premier Dr. Orlando Smith and his wife before jetting off  private, of course to somewhere unknown. Barack and Michelle have been hanging with Sir Richard Branson since last week after they left White House. It is unclear if they're coming back home to the States.

Meet Danladi Ibrahim, a 23-year-old Nigerian man based in Kaduna who converted a motorcycle into a high-heeled shoe that can be moved. How creative is Danladi Ibrahim's invention?? According to Splufik Nigerians, Danladi was only seven years old when he started going to his father’s shop to watch how he repaired different bicycles. A decade later, having developed much interest, he decided to drop out of Rimi College, Kaduna to venture into welding after which he became a motorcycle mechanic. Ibrahim now uncouples and repair things formerly strange to him. One of his many inventions is a two-wheel motorcycle he reconstructed to a tricycle shaped like a lady’s shoe. According to Danladi, no government agency like the NBTI, NDE or a technical institution like Kaduna Polytechnic or Technical College Malali has ever contacted him on how he can develop or teach youngsters in a joint partnership. He also urges parents to encourage their children to acquire skills, especially when th

Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has countered allegations that Zahra Buhari's December wedding to Ahmed Indimi,was extravagant. In a radio interview he said the wedding was modest and blamed photos for being deceptive. He also compared it with former president Jonathan's daughter who he alleged got 80 car gifts on her wedding day. He said; "Yes you saw pictures but pictures can be deceptive, pictures will not give you the exact impression, it doesn't communicate the exact thing that happened. I was at that wedding. I was the master of ceremony at the wedding launch. Despite the fact that it was the president's daughter's wedding, I will say it was modest" If you know our President, you will know that there is no ostentatious bone in his body. That wedding luncheon was modest for a sitting president. I don't like to compare but we were here when President Jonathan's daughter got married. You know

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Worldwide , Pastor Enoch Adeboye , has said there is dearth of good leadership in the country , adding that the church is the worst hit . Adeboye explained that the problem of corruption in Nigeria was traceable to lack of contentment and greed . The cleric spoke on Wednesday in Ikeja , Lagos, during the Third Annual Birthday Public Lecture organised by the church to commemorate his 75 th birthday . He said: - - - “ Leadership is at the core of our problem in this nation . Some people sit in their room and comment on newspaper articles, but have you removed the log in your eyes ? “If there is anywhere leadership should be recommended , it should be from the church. But it is unfortunate that the worst leadership is from the church. We should go and check ourselves . Are we in true leadership or we are in falsehood? Because this has been the groaning of my heart for many years and I pray about it fervently. - - - “I

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The Bhoys forward has been linked with a move to the Premier League and did nothing to quell speculation after being pictured on a flight to London Celtic attacker Moussa Dembele has added fuel to the rumours that he could be set for a £40 million deadline day transfer to Chelsea after being photographed flying to London. The 20-year-old Frenchman has scored nine goals in the Scottish Premiership so far this season, and with Celtic already 22 points clear at the top of the table, has been linked with a move to a bigger club. Dembele is reportedly travelling to London, arriving at Heathrow before having a scan on a knee injury. Big Moussa on my flight to London.... Don't do it big man!!!  #celtic   #MoussaDembele pic.twitter.com/ MyyWIUFE0i — Guy Goma (@GuyGoma)  January 31, 2017 @GuyGoma  there he is in arrivals at T5  pic.twitter.com / acwx3twQjg — Guy Goma (@GuyGoma)  January 31, 2017 Chelsea have scouted the former Fulham attacker, who has four goals in four inter

The striker, who is the club's all-time top scorer, will remain at the club until the summer at least, while the winger will also stay at Old Trafford Jose Mourinho has confirmed that Wayne Rooney and Ashley Young are staying at Manchester United ahead of the January transfer deadline. Rooney has attracted interest from China and the USA, while Young was reportedly wanted by a number of foreign clubs. Reports even claimed that Rooney had been offered a staggering salary worth £32 million-per-year to move to China. However, Mourinho has now spoken to the press, and has confirmed that both players will remain at Old Trafford. "We don't have players coming in or going out," Mourinho told reporters. "Ashley Young is staying, definitely. He is selected for tomorrow." United have been inactive throughout the January transfer window, but  Goal  understands that the club have targeted a summer move for Antoine Griezmann. The club are set to table a £68m bid

The FA Cup has thrown up a sublime fifth-round  tie as Wolverhampton Wanderers face Chelsea - and ikeme has joked that the pairing was ‘okay’ for his team. First half goals from Richard Stearman and Andreas Weimann helped the Championship side dismiss Liverpool at Anfield to book a date with Antonio Conte’s men. And Ikeme who missed that game owing to suspension, retweeted the draw pairing posted by Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Twitter handle accompanied with a joke emoji. After dismissing Stoke City and Liverpool, Paul Lambert’s Wolves would be hoping to add Antonio Conte's Blues to the list of Premier League clubs they have knocked out. Ikeme's two-match suspension for a crude challenge on Norwich City midfielder Wes Hoolahan will see him miss his side's Championship game againt Barnsley at Oakwell. His team sits 18th on the English Championship’s log with 32 points from 27 games.

A civil servant, Faith Ogu, on Tuesday, dragged her unemployed husband, Joseph Ogu, to a Jikwoyi Customary Court in Abuja, seeking for divorce on the grounds that he deceived her about his ’employment’ status. Faith told the court that her jobless husband had deceived her into believing he had a source of livelihood before their marriage, adding that she only got to knew about his status as a ‘job-less’ person after they had tied the knot. - - - “He never told me that he had no job, instead he kept telling me that he works with the Zenith Bank and that he has a business in Lagos, that yields him millions. “It was after I got married to him that I discovered the whole truth about him,” Faith said. She told the court that Joseph had also told her that he had built a house somewhere in Lugbe, but that after investigating, she realised that it was false. Faith said all her efforts to encourage him find a job did not elicit any positive response, as such she wanted the marriage dissol

A woman who was desperate to save her marriage and stop her husband from falling into the arms of younger women employed an unfamiliar way to achieve this. The woman who was only identified as Wanjiru Kamami or Shiro, published an advertisement on a Kenyan newspaper complete with her husband's image, his phone number and his National Identification number. The translated ad above reads: - - - "This is to inform the general public that the person whose photograph appears above is the husband to Wanjiru Kamami (Shiro) since 1982, (sic) therefore if you see him getting lied to with school girls or young women at the market, tell him to go home or call my number 0751993571." - - - Many Kenyans expressed shock on the woman's desperate move while others found the whole situation hilarious. Your thoughts?

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A new craze is taking Japan by storm and sees adults wrapped up like babies and swayed from side-to-side. The bizarre-looking therapy called Otonamaki is becoming popular especially with new mums. At a recent session in Tokyo organised by a non-profit organisation dedicated to post-natal women, five tried out the new trend. Each took turns to tie each other in a large cloth from head to toe and in a cross-legged position. They also swayed lightly from side-to-side after being laid gently on their backs in the hope of helping loosening the muscles and bones. Some were given the option to use a colored cloth to help simulate different environments as they lay completely covered in the white cloths. After emerging one woman said: "It felt warm and there was this feeling with my body. I have never experienced this before so its quite hard to describe properly."

A 20-year-old suspect, Blessing Emmanuel, said on Monday in Lagos that he kidnapped his boss’ son for not settling him after apprenticeship. Chinobi Sabestine and Emmanuel were arrested by the police for allegedly abducting a 10-year-old boy. It was reported that the suspects were apprehended in a bank in the Oyingbo area of the state as they were about withdrawing the ransom paid by the boy’s family into an account. Emmanuel, who claimed to be a trader at the Mandilas Market, Lagos Island, claimed that he abducted the 10-year-old in the Alafia area of Orile-Iganmu, on his way to school, as a way of paying his master back for refusing to settle him after working for him for four years. The suspect further explained that he kept the young boy in his hotel room for four days, until he was arrested on Apapa Road. The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, while briefing newsmen on the arrest, said the suspect, along with one other, kidnapped the 10-year-old boy. He said after kidnap

According to PMNEWS, investigations on Monday revealed a former Akwa Ibom State Governor as the chief sponsor of the planned massive nationwide protest being orchestrated by hip hop artiste, 2face against the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. The protest, planned to hold on Sunday, February 5, had in the last two weeks generated much hue and cry with some Nigerian celebrities queuing behind the move, while others had kicked against the intention. But on Monday, a source revealed that 2face was being used as a stooge to drive the protest aimed at smearing the Buhari-led Federal Government. This said former governor, now a Senator, has never hidden his love for the ‘African Queen’ crooner and had in the past said to have showered award winning musician with cash and gifts worth several millions of naira. 2face has however, come under severe criticism by some fans who feel he was silent during the previous administration where massive corruption, lawlessness and poverty

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has recommended a nationwide ban on commercial motorcycles popularly known as `Okada’ to reduce accidents on our roads. The recommendation forms part of the October Road Traffic Crash (RTC) Report 2016, submitted by the Corps Marshal, Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). The report made available to the News of Nigeria (NAN) quotes Oyeyemi as saying that commercial motorcyclist, remained a major cause of fatal road traffic accidents across the country, hence the need for state governments to consider banning them from operating.

A 40-year-old Hausa trader, Ibrahim Adamu, allegedly killed a bus driver, Lekan Adeleke on Monday. This caused serious chaos on Mojeed Sanni Street, in the Igando area of Lagos State. Some residents and friends of the victim made a bonfire on the road as they chased away Hausa traders in the community, threatening to avenge the killing. Vanguard gathered that late Adeleke, 37, an only son, who plied Iyana-Ipaja/Iyana-Iba route, visited a canteen owned by the suspect, identified as Adamu, at College Bus Stop at about 11p.m. He requested for noodles and two eggs to be prepared for him, after which he was given a bill of N230. But he was said to have paid N200, and Adamu started a fight. Another customer, Kehinde Ayanduro, appealed to Adamu to allow Adeleke to go home to get the balance of N30, which Adeleke did. But when he came back with the money, Adamu still continued the fight. Ayanduro said Adeleke finally escaped and was crossing the road when Adamu went after him and hit him

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A Canadian woman has survived six days with no lungs thanks to pioneering surgery and state-of-the-art technology that successfully oxygenated and circulated her blood after both her lungs were removed simultaneously. Doctors at Toronto General Hospital made the life-saving call with just hours to spare as Melissa Benoit, who suffers from Cystic Fibrosis, had contracted a serious, antibiotic-resistant lung infection back in April 2016. At the time, no donor had been found and there was no precedent for such a procedure but the team chose to make the high risk decision in the hope that a suitable donor could be found in time. They did not anticipate a wait of six days. As part of her recovery, Melissa has had to learn how to lift her head, raise her torso and stand again after almost six months in bed following the operation. She is also preparing for another transplant in the near future as her kidneys were damaged throughout the process. Thankfully Melissa’s mother has agreed to