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(President Donald Trump has lambasted James Comey, the former FBI director, as a "leaker" for making public his accounts of his meetings with the president.© AFP Brendan Smialowski) If there is one thing the White House has sought to hammer home about the FBI investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, it is that President Donald Trump was not a subject of it. The point was so important to Trump that he repeated it in his letter firing FBI Director James Comey. "I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation," he wrote. When Comey told Congress last week that he had, in fact, confirmed to Trump on at least two occasions that he wasn't under investigation, Trump and his allies said they felt "vindicated," even though the investigation into his campaign team was ongoing. And they continued to rail on "innuendo" that the president's interactions with Co...

With one stroke of the pen on Wednesday, Floyd Mayweather and Showtime scored a triple play on arch-rival HBO. Mayweather signed to fight UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor in a bout that figures to generate more than $500 million in gross revenue on Aug. 26 in Las Vegas. That deal, first reported by Yahoo Sports, was devastating to three separate HBO fights: Saturday’s light heavyweight title match between Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev in Las Vegas; the Aug. 26 super welterweight bout between Miguel Cotto and Yoshihiro Kamegai in Carson, Calif.; and the Sept. 16 mega-bout in Las Vegas between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin for the middleweight title. Ward-Kovalev is an outstanding match that looks like it will struggle badly at the box office. Promoters at Thursday’s news conference were pleading with the gathered media for coverage to what should be a sensational bout. Bu...

Goodnight story.. A couple of young newlyweds was very poor and lived in a small farm. One day the husband made the following proposal to his wife: - Honey, I will leave the house: I will travel faraway, get a job and work hard in order to be able to come back and give you the comfortable life that you deserve. I do not know how long I will stay away… I only ask one thing, please wait for me, and while I am out, you should be faithful to me, because I will be faithful to you. So the young man left. He walked many days until he found a farmer who was in need of someone to help him. The young man came and offered his services. He was accepted! Therefore he discussed the terms with his boss: - Let me work for as long as I want and, when I think I should go home please release me of my duties. I do not want to receive my salary. I ask you to save it for me, until the day I leave. The day I decide to go, please give me the money and I will follow my way. They agreed in that! So, the...

OurMumuDonDo: in the Face of Hopelessness I saw Hope with the #IstandWithNigeria Project; in the Midst of Excruciating Hunger I saw Defiance in the faces of our youths; In a Nation of Virtual Social Media Mouthing Youths I saw Foot Soldiers who are capable of Moving this Nation forward if the dream of nationalism is nurtured in the minds of all. Bad Governance is a failure of the governed just as much as it is a failure of Political Leadership. I am a realist and I understand the challenges this country is facing from decades of wasteful wickedness; indifferent Leadership; Mindless Looting and Audacious Criminality. And so, I understand the Challenges of the current President Muhammadu Buhari Administration; I know there are no Short term Solutions; I am aware that no Matter how smooth the processes of realigning Nigeria will be, we all will have to bite the Bullet as our wounds are being treated.   Change we know is hard in the Beginning; Messy in the Mi...

Rotherham United’s coaching staff has praised Nigerian striker Peter Odemwingie after he left the club following a short spell, describing him as “one great human being” and saying he would remain in touch with him for life. The emotional reaction came after Odemwingie ended his time at the Championship club just a few months after joining. Odemwingie joined Rotherham United on a short-term deal as he looked to regain fitness and secure regular playing time. However, his stay was brief, lasting only about three months before both parties decided to part ways. The former Super Eagles forward, known for his pace and experience in the Premier League, had been brought in to strengthen the squad during a difficult period. Rotherham caretaker manager Paul Warne spoke warmly about the Nigerian striker, making it clear there was no bad blood over his departure. Warne explained that Odemwingie had communicated honestly about his future and desire for more regular football elsewhere. D...

“About 50 AD he was of the Church who had received baptism in the Holy Spirit and called Jesus Lord but about year 180 AD [it was he] who acknowledged the rule of faith i.e. the creed, the new testament canon and the authority of the bishops” says a writer from the first 500 years. We saw Christianity, the hated, illegal and persecuted movement growing to impact all of the Roman empire – the then world super power and its colonies – and even won the president of the world to the Way. The Way is the biblical term for Christianity, they were called Christians later, they are Disciples i.e. learners or followers of Christ.! R T Glover puts it this way: “The Church captured the world … because they out-lived, out-thought, and out-died everyone else”. In the first centuries the life boat was in the world to save it but in the next 1000 years (dark, middle ages) the water got into the lifeboat [*]. Second 500 years [ Year 501 to 1000 AD] When the Church became the president’s church e...

During the 1920s, a period in Nigerian history associated with the beginning of political agitation for self-rule, Macaulay became a leading figure in the first generation of Nigerian Nationalists. In 1921, Macaulay passionately led protests in Lagos over water rates, land issues, and mishandling of the railway finances. In 1922, he helped a Lagos chief in his legal battle with the colonial government who had forcefully taken some of his land for government purposes. The highest court in England heard the case and returned the land to the chief. This victory inspired Macaulay to establish in 1923 Nigeria’s first political party, the Nigerian National Democratic Party whose members were the first to sit in the Legislative Council. The Nigerian National Democratic Party dominated Nigerian politics throughout the 1920s until the late 1930s. However in 1934, the NNDP lost its dominant position to newly organized student groups such as the Nigerian Youth Movement. In order to avoid the de...