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APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu, has said that since he assumed office in May 2015, President Buhari, has achieved what his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, could not achieve in his six years in office, Tinubu said this while delivering a lecture titled ‘Strategic Leadership: My Personal Theory and Practice,’ at the National Defense College Abuja yesterday January 25th. He said the Buhari-led administration has been able to subdue Boko Haram. "With the courage and dedication of the military, Boko Haram has been subdued. Also, notable and significant progress is being made against corruption. Press freedoms and civil liberties are protected, putting to lie those who cried that President Buhari would not respect democracy and rule of law.” Commending the military for defeating Boko Haram, Tinubu said “This vile force has been reduced to where it no longer poses a strategic threat. You have done so well as a military can in putting down this amorphous dange...

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Artists draw so we can connect with their vision, to draw us in. Music producers do the same thing with their creativity, they seek to hypnotize our mass mind, to draw us in to their audio presentation and its unique mechanism. Some music producers do this more than others, they eat their competition alive: raw. In today’s music industry few producers of contemporary hip hop sound has made more impact than Don Jazzy.

Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Lagos High Court Ikeja, has sentenced Walter Wagbatsoma and Adaoha Ugo-Nnadi, owners of Ontario Oil and Gas company, to 10 years in prison for fuel subsidy fraud. The duo were found guilty of obtaining the sum of N754 million by false pretense from the Federal Government purporting the money to be subsidy payable to Ontario Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited.  Delivering judgement this morning, the presiding judge ordered the accused persons and their company to refund N754 million being the amount it defrauded the Nigerian government. The judge ruled that their sentence would start counting from January 13th 2016.

The Authority Mobile app is out! Please visit Google Playstore, search for "Authority News" and click on "install" to download free of charge. Today's top stories: Wike, Ugwuanyi, Tambuwal, Okafor bag the authority Awards for Excellence - https://goo.gl/3Lfpmm Buhari is alive; no pressure on Osinbajo to resign - https://goo.gl/5Yugy1   How we rescued Turkish school students, staff - Police - https://goo.gl/DLzL02 Senate rejects electricity tariff hike, budget allocation - https://goo.gl/caJnOf N10bn SURE-P fund: FG slams fresh charges against Suswam, others - https://goo.gl/UaXHXf Senators fault sectorial allocations in 2017 budget - https://goo.gl/yKuo0L Why Rivers'Golden Jubilee is worth celebrating - Wike - https://goo.gl/QifgVS For the full list & profiles of THE AUTHORITY ICONS from inception till date, click below: http://authorityngr.com/ authorityicon?all See extracts o...

Nigerian author, writer and Novelist, Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta has died. Late Emecheta is a best selling author of over 20 books including, “The Joys of Motherhood”, Second-Class Citizen, The Bride Price, and many more.The Slave Girl. She died on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 in London, England where she's lived most of her life. Confirming her death, 'the current president of Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, Denja Abdullahi said the death was a big loss to the Nigerian literary world.  Abdullahi said Emecheta would forever be remembered for championing the agenda of the girl child through her works.  “We have lost a rare gem in this field. Her works would forever live to speak for her. It is a sad loss to our circle and we pray that God would give the family the fortitude to bear the loss. She was known for championing the female gender and we would forever miss her,” he said.  Buchi is currently trending on social media with tribut...

He's Nigerian and goes by Jay Bugatti. He shared that on his IG page...

The 2017 Australian Open just reached an interesting climax! Venus and Serena Williams will now meet in the Grand Slam final for the ninth time after the American sisters came through their semi-finals in Melbourne.   Venus beat fellow American Coco Vandeweghe 6-7 (3-7) 6-2 6-3 to reach her first major final since 2009 while Serena saw off Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 6-2 6-1 in the second semi-final. For Serena, she'll be attempting to win an Open-era record 23rd Grand Slam singles title while while Venus hopes to win an eighth major title, first in Melbourne and first since Wimbledon in 2008.

Fuji star, Alao Malaika joined several other parents at the 2017 convocation ceremony in Unilag to celebrate their kids success.For Malaika, it was his first child, Alimotu Sadiat Labake Adekunle Saka who graduated from the Department of Insurance at the University of Lagos. Another photo after the cut..

This is an article written by Femi Fani Kayode Jnr. Please read on. "Not a single soul has been prosecuted, let alone jailed for the genocide in Southern Kaduna and you are blaming someone for preaching self defense? You are INSANE. Yes, INSANE"- Olufemi Korode, Twitter, 24th January 2017. Can anyone dispute the fact that Mr. Korode is right? Are those that say that Christians should not defend themselves or complain when they are being slaughtered not completely insane? The truth is that had it not been for the fact that eight more innocent and defenceless people were butchered by Fulani militants in Samaru Kataf, Southern Kaduna on 17th January, that six young students of the College of Education, Gidan Waya, Southern Kaduna were massacred on 23rd January and that twenty innocent souls, including women and children, were slaughtered by the same pack of beastly savages in the village of Ohimini in Benue state on that same day I may not have written th...

18-year-old Elliot Stapleton-Giddins has left everyone confused after he was found hanging in his bedroom at his home in Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, England. The teenager, who worked as a chef for a Masterchef: The Professionals finalist, was reportedly very hard working, had a lovely girlfriend, Lily Avril and £2,500 in his account. He also did not give signs of suffering a mental illness so this is quite confusing for everyone, including the coroner who could not arrive at a conclusive verdict. The only incident was likely to have triggered his action was a text message he and his mother exchanged before he was found hanging. His mother informed him via text message that he was to start paying rent of £200 a month. She said she did this to teach him how to be responsible. His girlfriend, Lily, was having a text conversation with him until 2 a.m. the day he died and she revealed that he was upset about his mother's text message. Ms Stapleton-Giddins, ...

Love birds, Dolly, 89, and Stan Izatt, 91, have been married for 70 years and have known each other for 74 years, and though they are all lovey-dovey now, Dolly reveals that she did not love him at first. The pair first met when they began living next to each other, but Dolly was in love with Stan's best friend, never Stan. Two weeks after meeting, Stan was already telling everyone that he was going to marry Dolly, but she did not want same. She even went as far as dodging into a corner store whenever she saw him coming, yet he kept stalking her everywhere. The couple got married in 1947 after Stan, a World War veteran, returned from the war. She was 19 and he 21 when they tied the knot. They went on to have 3 daughters, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. As they celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary, Her Majesty the Queen of England sent them a card to congratulate them on their impressively long marriage. During the ceremony, Dolly r...

Fashion Model, Hanne Gaby Odiele, has revealed that she is intersex. This means that she was born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male. The fashion star revealed the anguish she had to live through while growing up due to her condition and she is teaming up with InterACT Advocates for Intersex Youth with the hopes of giving a voice to others like her who have to spend their lives hiding. The 29-year-old made a startling revelation, that there are as many intersex people in the world as there are redheads, that is 1.7% of the world's population are intersex and that anyone could be born with the condition. Hanne was born with internal, undescended testes and had to undergo surgery at age 10 to have her testicles removed because her parents were wrongly informed that if left, she could have cancer and may not develop as a normal female child. After the surgery, she knew she could not have...

South African Media personality, Bonang Matheba has landed her first international cover of 2017 with Afropolitain Magazine. The delighted TV host who was tagged 'Africa's Queen' on the magazine cover,  took to her IG page to share her first international cover and also thanked the team behind the magic. Captioning the post, she wrote: 'Very excited to share my 1st international cover for 2017. Shot on location in New York, THANK YOU so much to the team behind this MAGIC!!'

A Ghanaian man identified as John Kwame Atta Owusu, whose wife and three children perished in a fire outbreak in Finland, says he completely went dumb for 3 hours after hearing the heartbreaking news. His wife, Nana Ago Prah and three children all died in the early hours of Friday, December 9, 2016, when their home was razed down by the fire. Speaking in a recent interview with 3news, the heartbroken husband recalled the moment he received sad news about his family's demise. 'I was at work at dawn and my immediate boss I report to came with a smiling face and asked me to come with him for a conversation.  I didn’t know exactly what he wanted to talk about but I followed him all the same but to my surprise, we went to a different room.  'Upon reaching the room, I saw two police officers who asked me to sit and immediately started asking me questions related to my residential address which they asked me to confirm if it was correct.  They then told m...

Iconic actress Mary Tyler Moore, whose eponymous '70s sitcom helped usher in a new era for women on television is dead. Her longtime representative Mara Buxbaum , confirmed that she died on Wednesday January 25, 2017 at the age of 80. "Today beloved icon Mary Tyler Moore passed away at the age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine. A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile" she said. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted in 1970 and starred the actress as Mary Richards, a single, middle aged career woman at a Minneapolis TV station. The series was hailed by feminists and fans alike as the first modern woman's sitcom. Moore first found fame playing Laura Petrie, the wife on the "The Dick Van Dyke Show," which...

There's a sponsored post floating on Facebook that former Minister of Finance‘Okonjo-Iweala will be running with Adesina in 2019. Don't know how true this is because she has denied that she would run for Presidency.

Bent on the enforcement of the Lagos State Road Traffic Law as well as prevention of crime committed with the use of motorcycles in the metropolis, the Lagos State Police Command in collaboration with other security agencies will on Friday, Jan 27th, begin a clamp down on motorcyclists plying prohibited routes. This was the resolution of a meeting held on Tuesday, January 24th, at the office of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, and attended by representatives of other security and transport related agencies in the state. The meeting which was chaired by Mr. Owoseni had in attendance representative of the Commissioner of Transportation, Commandant of Civil Defence, General Manager, LASTMA and Commander RRS among others. Owoseni noted that the Command had observed an increase in the trend of crime perpetrated by motorcyclists in the metropolis, particularly, in prohibited routes, hence, the need to rejig the enforcement of the law ba...

In a press statement released by Sani Kukasheka Usman, Brigadier General Director, the army has denied the re-absorption of dismissed soldiers. The statement reads: "The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to false information circulating through WhatsApp and other social media platforms on the purported re-absorption of dismissed regiments (Soldiers) between 2006 to date into the Nigerian Army. The Nigerian Army has no plan for any re-absorption of dismissed soldiers as assumed. Members of the public are please urged to discountenance such false information. They are also encouraged to cross check any information about the Nigerian Army with the Directorate of Army Public Relations or the Nigerian Army Website www.army.mil.ng "

Actor, Leo DiCaprio's girlfriend, 24 year old model, Nina Agdal went topless for the upcoming Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue extremely. The model posed topless on the beach while starring in a video posted Wednesday to announce her return to the upcoming 2017 edition of the magazine's Swimsuit issue. More photos after the cut...