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President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo met today, Sunday, January 28 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the opening session of the 30th African Union Summit. This is the first time both men are meeting since Obasanjo advised President Buhari not to re-contest in 2019 in a widely publicized letter. They both shook hands and talked for about two minutes in a short video posted by the president's aide, Bashir Ahmad, on Twitter. According to Daily Trust, a former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, later joined Buhari and Obasanjo for a snapshot. Obasanjo's letter to President Buhari is still a trending topic in the country. The former president had accused Buhari of nepotism and failure to revive the economy, among others. Meanwhile, the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP) has responded to Obasanjo’s call for Nigerians to gravitate towards a new political coalition that will replace the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and main oppo...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he would never work with ex-President Goodluck Jonathan again as Nigeria’s president. Premium Times reports that he made his position known on Tuesday, January 23, in a letter he sent to President Muhammadu Buhari about 2019 election and the state of the nation. Obasanjo's letter, which x-rayed Buhari’s performance in office, has since gone viral as many Nigerians continue to subject its contents to diverse interpretations. The former president, who supported Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2015 presidential election, said his love for Nigeria and Jonathan’s lacklustre performance made him dump the PDP to support the APC. “All these led me to take the unusual step of going against my own political Party, PDP, in the last general election to support the opposite side. “I saw that action as the best option for Nigeria. As it has been revealed in the last three years or so, ...

The Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government has issued a formal response to the attack on the president by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, NAN reports. The Presidency gave its response on Wednesday, January 24, via the minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. According to Mohammaed, the Buhari-government had received Obasanjo’s message in good faith. It was noted that the minister further thanked the ex-president for his “positive comments”, even as he proceeded to set the record straight. The full statement read: “We have read the press statement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the State of the Nation. “For the record, Chief Obasanjo is a patriot, and he has proven this time and time again. We appreciate what he said concerning the administration’s performance in two out of the three key issues that formed the plank of its campaign: Fighting corruption and tackling insurgency. “Specifically, the former president said President Buhari must be given credit for his ...

In a statement: The Way Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement, Obasanjo said President Buhari has performed far below expectation just as he added that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is not the solution to the country's challenges. Premium Times reports Obasanjo as asking Buhari to honourably dismount from the horse and join the league of former leaders whose experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the side line for the good of the country. Obasanjo said he was not excited with the way Buhari, who he supported during the 2015 general elections against Goodluck Jonathan, had handled the country. He said even Jonathan had come to realise that he made some mistakes and had publicly regretted them. “Even the horse rider then, with whom I maintain very cordial, happy and social relationship today has come to realise his mistakes and regretted it publicly and I admire his courage and forthrightness in this regard. “He has a...

Ahead of 2019 general elections, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is reportedly banking on seven people to challenge the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the presidential contest. New Telegraph reports that the PDP’s plan is in place whether or not President Muhammadu Buhari is going to seek re-election in the poll scheduled to hold on February 16, 2019.  It was gathered that New Telegraph was reliably informed by high ranking sources within the main opposition party that the PDP is banking on the candidacy of five of its members and two others expected to come from the APC. The two APC stalwarts expected to join the PDP are a former Governor of Kano state, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and a serving northern governor. “The PDP is working on one of the APC governors as its presidential candidate. The governor has a broad-based support and acceptable to many of the PDP governors and stakeholders. “I can tell you that some powerful forces in the opposit...

With the press of a button, LG Display's 65-inch screen slowly lowers into a box, rolling up around a solid core like wrapping paper. - The tech company showed off an impressive prototype of its latest rolling-screen technology at International CES 2018 in Las Vegas. Last year, it demoed a smaller 18-inch version that could fit in your back pocket. But now its latest -- and much larger -- display can roll up, too. The front of the 4k OLED display works and looks just like a regular TV screen. When rolled out, it's rigid and flat. The back is covered in small vertical slats, which allow it to curve for storage. The screen can also be rolled partially down to create different aspect ratios. A few inches of the display can be left up to show information like the weather or headlines. LG Display -- a research arm of LG Electronics, Corp -- focuses on developing innovative display technologies, which it then sells directly to display manufacturers that w...

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Two Americans and two Canadians who were abducted by gunmen in northern Nigeria this week have been rescued, a police official said Saturday. All four are safe and in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, with the US and Canadian embassies, Nigeria's State Commissioner of Police Agyole Abeh told CNN by phone. Nigerian police have arrested a suspect in connection with the abduction and are pursuing others, he said. The four foreigners were rescued in the Jere area of the Kagarko local government area of Kaduna state, he said. The rescue operation followed a massive police manhunt, Abeh said, adding that no ransom was paid for the foreigners' release. The foreign nationals were members of an investment team for a solar power project in Kafanchan district in Southern Kaduna, Kaduna State Police spokesman Mukhtar Aliyu told CNN. The four were abducted at 7 p.m. Tuesday, while traveling with police escorts from Kaduna city to Abuja. "The abductors ambushed them along with police es...

Gunmen raided the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, leaving at least five people dead in a 12-hour siege with security forces that ended Sunday, Afghan authorities say. A foreigner was among those killed before Afghan forces secured the hotel, according to Nasrat Rahimi, a deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry. Seven Afghans were also wounded, he said. Afghan security forces went on every floor of the six-story hotel in a clearing operation that left four attackers dead, ministry spokesman Najib Danish said. The Interior Ministry first said five people were killed, but its spokesmen later said six people. The ministry said the attackers were affiliated with the Pakistan-based Haqqani network. Rahimi said four attackers were involved.   Security force near the hotel after the attack In a statement, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was carried out by five assailants. The ministry said that 153 people -- including 41 foreigners -- had be...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has explained why its national leaders, Bola Tinubu and Bisi Akande were not invited to a dinner with President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, January 18. The APC said there was no need for the presence of both leaders at the meeting which took place at the residence of President Buhari two days ago. Punch reports that the spokesperson for the APC, Bolaji Abdullahi, said Tinubu and Akande would have been at the dinner with the president if there was a need for their presence. Abdullahi said although he is not sure of the criteria used in selecting top party members, there should not be much fuss over their absence. He said: “I don’t know what parameters they used to invite people to the meeting so I cannot say whether there was a reason why they (Tinubu and co) were not at the meeting. But I am sure that if there was a need for them to be a part of the meeting, they would have been there.” Also speaking a media aide to Tinubu, said the APC's ...

Many Nigerians have come out on social media to express their joy at the court's verdict which declared unconstitutional and illegal the Commission of Inquiry recommending the elevation of some Ibadan high chiefs to Obas. The state government had on August 27, 2017, elevated some Ibadan high chiefs, except one and some district heads (Baales) as obas, an action which pitted them against Oba Saliu Adetunji, the Olubadan. The Osi Olubadan and former governor of the state, Chief Rashidi Ladoja, had filed a suit to challenge the propriety of the Justice Boade Commission of Inquiry. Reacting to the judgement, Dayo Williams, a journalist and social commentator expressed an unbridled joy at the development, noting that the ego of the state governor had been deflated. "Excited to learn that Mr Constituted Authority's ego was constitutionally deflated by a high court in Oyo state today over his balkanization of the Olubadan of Ibadan's chieftaincy title. Those ro...

The federal government disclosed this on Friday, January 19 - Going further, the federal government said it would engage the services of the National Animal Production Research Institute (NAPRI) to assist in the production of fodder for cattle The federal government says work will commence next week on cattle colonies in states that has indicated interest to establish them, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, disclosed this on Friday, January 19, during a visit to the Agriculture and Veterinary Complex of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Ogbeh said that the National Economic Council on Thursday set up a 10-member committee comprising the vice resident, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, as chairman and nine governors to facilitate the commencement of the cattle colonies in interested states.  “We are happy that we are making progress in agriculture now. “One of the most topical issues we have today is that of f...

The tenth-anniversary  iPhone 8  simply won't wow unless it boasts the radical redesign shoppers have been clamoring for, along with new features that weren't possible before. Yes, the upcoming  A11 processor  looks pretty darn fast, and it's nice that we'll probably  finally get wireless charging , but what is going to compel iPhone fans perfectly happy with their handsets to upgrade? Patently Apple  has unearthed a slew of patents awarded to Apple related to the iPhone and a new feature that could turn the iPhone 8 (or another future iPhone) into a Kinect-like device. The first key patent relates to an edge-to-edge display, which would finally get rid of the bulky bezels around the iPhone. This lines up with other  iPhone 8 rumors and reports . The patent covers "bending one or more edges of a touch sensor panel and/or a display panel of an electronic device to reduce the non-interactive border area." MORE:  If iPhone 8 Loo...