Buhari Inaugurates Solar Power Plant in UI

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday inaugurated the first major solar plant power plant in the country at the university of Ibadan.

The plant has the capacity to supply 10 megawatts of renewable electricity to the university community and its environs when completed.

The multi-million dollar project is a product of negotiation and financing between the Federal Government, through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, the German government and UI.

I am very, very scared of her: Tyra banks still blames Naomi Campbell for causing some of the lowest times of her life

Tyra Banks who is worth an estimated $90million has disclosed how she carried on a running feud with fellow supermodel, Naomi Campbell. Tyra said Naomi was jealous because she was no longer going to be the undisputed top supermodel of colour. Speaking to a Norwegian TV show she said:

"I got to Paris and it was very difficult. I did very well, very fast. But then the industry was saying, "Look out Naomi Campbell, here comes Tyra Banks. Naomi Campbell sit your butt down, this younger one is coming to take your place.'"

 'It was really unfair to her because the other models that weren't black, like Kate Moss came up, we were the same generation, they weren't saying, 'Look out Christy Turlington, this cheek bone girl has cheekbones higher than yours! Get back!' You know, so they weren't saying that. 

'So, you know, it wasn't fair to Naomi, but her response to this day was... I'm very scared of her. I don't want to go too deep into the past, but it was very difficult, very, very. Some of the lowest times of my life I'm dealing with that. I don't condone her actions and her response, but I understand where it comes from, because the world is saying "you're not gonna have your spot, we're gonna take your money, we're gonna take your fame, go sit down, there's somebody else." 

'You know, so that's pretty serious. She reacted strongly, but I kind of understand where that was coming from inside of her."

The two queens of the catwalk  however put the past behind them when Naomi appeared on Tyra's defunct chat show and offered an apology. Speaking about the touching moment Tyra said: 'She kept saying it never happened and then there was a commercial break and then she came back and said, you know, "I'm sorry."

'And, oh my God, I just cried like a baby. To hear that after so many years of pain and dealing with it publicly... me having to leave agencies because of her... to hear that apology meant the world to me. She has no idea what that did for me.'

The super successful model also spoke about how her career almost grind to a halt when top designers stopped picking her because she put on weight.

She said:

'My agents in Italy gave (my mum) a list of designers that did not want to hire me anymore because my body was getting thicker.

'And she showed me this list of designers and I just started crying and said, 'Oh my gosh, Mommy, what do I do? Am I supposed to like starve myself? OK, maybe I won’t eat any bread anymore. Just salads with no dressing, salads for breakfast, lunch and dinner.'"

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Pacquiao will be the first Senator to win a World’s title if he defeats Jessie Vargas on Nov 5

Filipino boxing champ, Manny Pacquiao, who is currently serving as Senator in the Philippines will be the first ever Senator to win a World title if he wins when he takes on America’s Jessie Vargas, on Saturday, November 5, 2016 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

Pacquiao is generally considered to be one of the greatest boxers of all time as he is the first and only eight-division world champion in which he has won ten world titles, as well as being the first to win the lineal championship at five different weight classes.

Edo Assembly hails Buhari over release of 21 Chibok girls

Edo State House of Assembly, yesterday, commended President Muhammadu Buhari on the recent release of the 21 Chibok girls held by the Boko Haram sect, urging Nigerians to be patient with the current administration as it was capable of finding solutions to the problems confronting the nation

Released E-mails show Clinton foundation received $1m pledge from Qatar while serving as Sec. of State

Hacked emails have revealed Bill and Hillary Clinton received $1m from Qatar for the Clinton Foundation while she was still in office as Secretary of State despite Hillary publicly promising the U.S. government that while she served as Secretary of state, the foundation would not accept new funding from foreign governments without seeking clearance from the State Department's ethics office.

The hacked email is among thousands published over the last week by the pro-transparency group Wikileaks from the account of John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and in the email from 2012, a senior official from the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation informed colleagues that a planned donation by Qatar's government to mark Bill Clinton's birthday came up in a meeting he had with Qatar's ambassador in Washington.

In the email, the ambassador said that he asked "to see WJC 'for five minutes' in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC's birthday in 2011," Amitabh Desai, the foundation official, writes in his email, using the former U.S. president's initials.

But the email doesn't show if the money was sent as a birthday gift to Bill Clinton or the family's foundation although the family's foundation's website lists the State of Qatar as having given that figure. 

Meanwhile, the U.S State Department in a statement said it cannot cite any instances of its ethics officials reviewing or approving new donations from foreign governments to the foundation while Clinton served as the country's top diplomat from 2009 until 2013.

"You would need to ask the Foundation whether there were additional matters that it should have submitted for State Department review," the department said in a statement..

Bill Clinton announced in August that, if Hillary won the presidency, the foundation would cease to accept money from foreign or corporate bodies and Bill would resign from the board. Hillary Clinton has not served on the board since April 2015.

Source: CNN / Fox News

RRS nabs man over visa racketeering, swindles victims off 2m

28 year old man, Emu-Larry Chidebere, has been apprehended by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command, for allegedly involved in Obtain By Trick (OBT) with a United Arab Emirate's visa racketeering in Ajah area of Lagos State. 

The suspect, who hailed from Ika North Local Government Area of Delta State, swindled one Abraham Jude and four other persons of N2,000,000.00  under the pretence of helping them to procure a Dubai Visa.

According to Abraham, one of the victims,

“when I was laid off where I was working in Abuja. I had intention of moving out of the country to start a new life. Then, I met his uncle, Samuel Obed, who told me his nephew was working with one company at the United Arab Emirate (UAE) and that he could help me to secure the country’s visa…. We started to communicate via telephone, and he assured me that he could secure Dubai Visa for me at a reasonable price. He requested for N400, 000. 00, which I told him I can’t afford such huge amount of money at that particular point in time.

''Later, he called me again that his work place in Dubai was recruiting and he had already submitted my name for employment…. Afterwards, he started to persuade me by telling me the benefits that are attached to the employment. As a result of this, I began to source for the money by all means, and at the end of the day, I got the N400, 000:00 and sent to him in Dubai through his Access Bank account number: 0029521100," he added.

Abraham noted that, the suspect, after receiving the money developed hostile attitude towards him, and eventually stopped picking his calls whenever he put calls across to him.

“After two days he got the money, he stopped picking up my calls. Even if he managed to pick the call, he will just tell me I shouldn’t bother myself anymore that my money has gone down the drain. It was at this point, I came to RRS to report the case. And the Policemen told me anytime he is in Nigeria I should let them know,” he said.

RRS operatives were on his trail for four months monitoring his movement between Nigeria and Dubai.

“After four months, I got a hint that he had arrived the country but had changed his telephone line. As fate would have it, I got his new line and handed it over to the RRS officers, they took up the surveillance from that end, which eventually led to his arrest,” he added.

In his confessional statement, he said

“I can’t deny the fact that I collected the N400, 00.00 from him. I tried to secure the visa for him but all my efforts to do so were in vain. And I started to spend the money gradually till I finished it all.”

Investigators revealed that Emu-Larry has under the guise of helping four other victims from obtaining Dubai visa collected a total of N1.6 million from them, and that some of them only came forward when they learnt that he has been arrested.

While confirming the arrest, the Police Public Relations Officer of Lagos State, Superintendent of Police, SP Dolapo Badmus, said that Police will not rest on its oars in protecting rights of any individual in the country. The suspect has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigation.