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Nnamdi Kanu rejects plea by Southeast governors, insists on Biafra The  Nnamdi Kanu  led  Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)  rejected the plea of the governors of the Southeast zone of Nigeria during a meeting between the pro-Biafra group and the politicians. The closed door meeting held at the Enugu Government House where the governors attempted to convince Kanu to drop his agitation for Biafra but failed. According to reports, the meeting also failed to stop his threat against the November 18 governorship election in Anambra state. The governors had invited Kanu to discuss issues concerning the alleged violation of his bail conditions for which the Federal Government had asked an Abuja High court to issue an order to re-arrest him. They pleaded he talks to his supporters to relapse on IPOB pursuit. At the meeting, Kanu is quoted to have said, ' these are the people that sent me. I didn't send myself. If you leaders genuinely love this land and her pe

Photos: Music legend,  Madonna has moved to Lisbon, Portugal, to be with her 11-year-old adopted  son, David Banda who has just joined the youth academy at Benfica football club .   According to reports, Madonna has been staying in a Lisbon hotel, while a house she bought in a nearby village called Sintra is currently undergoing renovation. Her son, David is 1 of 4 children the she adopted from Malawi back in 2006. He came through trials at the Portuguese club in the spring and is currently living at the club's youth academy at Seixal in Lisbon's suburbs. He will attend Lisbon's French lycee when schools return next month.

See Photos  Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's pregnant 23-year-old girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez was spotted chatting on the phone during an Ibiza getaway, with her growing baby bump on display in a loose-fitting t-shirt.

Photos:  Oluh Tochukwu, a medical doctor with the Imo State University Teaching Hospital IMSUTH, recently did the right thing by returning N2.7 million that was mistakenly paid into his account. Showing his account balance and a letter he wrote to the bank requesting the money to be removed from his account, Oluh on his Facebook page wrote "In this austere time and with the long holidays knocking, the sum of #2.7M (Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand naira) was MISTAKENLY credited into one of my "not well used" accounts 3days ago. I reported officially and have given the required consent and other stuffs necessary to REVERSE it back to where it came from successfully.  There are still HONEST Nigerians. OLUH BEDE TOCHUKWU IS ONE OF THEM. BARKA D SALLAH to all my Muslim friends and happy holidays to all and sundry".

Donald Trump pledges $1 million of his personal money to Hurricane Harvey Relief White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced at a press conference that President Donald Trump is pledging $1 million in personal funds to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. In her words, 'he would like to join in the efforts that a lot of the people we’ve seen across this country do, and he’s pledging $1 million of personal money to the fund'. Sanders also asked the media for suggestions regarding which specific organization Trump should donate to. Already, celebrity figures including Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock, Ellen DeGeneres, and Kevin Hart, Chris Brown and a lot more, have contributed hurricane relief efforts to groups such as the Red Cross, Salvation Army, Montrose’s Hurricane Harvey LGBTQ Disaster Relief Fund in Houston, SPCA of Texas, and Austin Pets Alive.

I commend Nnamdi Kanu for his display of humility and commitment to peace by attending the meeting with South-East governors - Fayose     Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has charged the Federal Government to look into political solution for the agitations by ethnic-based groups in the country rather than the employment of what he described as “brute force”.   In his statement he also hailed governors of the South East states for their meeting with leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu saying  'the meeting has provided a veritable platform, which all Igbos must key into otherwise they will remain guinea pig as long as this country exists'. He appealed to the Federal Government to “allow political solutions to agitations by Nigerians as against the use of brute force,” which, he said had “become the hallmark of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government.”  According to him, he remained “committed to the call for full a

President Buhari speaks on massive flood happening in Benue state Over 100, 000 persons are said to have been displaced by the massive flood currently happening in Makurdi, the Benue state capital. President Buhari in a statement released on his Facebook page, sympathized with the victims, adding that he has ordered officials of the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA, to mobilize its personnel and resources that would aid the affected communities. Read the statement below I have received with great concern reports of the flooding in Benue State, displacing, from early estimates, more than 100,000 people. I have directed NEMA to immediately mobilize personnel and resources to the aid of the affected communities and persons. I will be monitoring and getting updates on the rollout of the Federal Government's humanitarian response to the disaster. My sympathies go to the Government and people of Benue State. I assure that the Federal Government will make availab