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"We're building a community that has made us brand ambassadors for the entire continent," says Abudu. "As a black person sitting here today, I know how important it is to have people I can look up to that represent me in media." In eleven years, this female entrepreneur has transitioned from simply hosting a television show to owning a multimedia empire. The 52-year-old has been labeled as Africa's most successful woman by Forbes.

President Muhamamadu Buhari, has on Wednesday, cancelled his planned medical trip to the United Kingdom, UK, following the advice from the Aso Rock cabals.

"I'm happy that I'm victorious and we've alerted Nigerians and the entire world to what is happening in Nigeria," the businessman told CNN. "What the court fined NAFDAC is not one tenth of the amount I've spent on litigation ... We should have been awarded at least the amount that we spent in purchasing that product and in exporting it to UK. We are entitled to special damages for what we have gone through." Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Consumers of Sprite and Fanta have more to worry about than rotting teeth according to a Lagos High Court judge, who ruled that the Coca-Cola products could be "poisonous." The court held that high levels of benzoic acid and sunset additives in the popular soft drinks could pose a health risk to consumers when mixed with ascorbic acid, commonly known as vitamin C, according to local media.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was freed Friday after a six-year imprisonment following his overthrow during the Arab Spring. Mubarak, 88, was released from a military hospital in Maadi and is now back at his home in a Cairo suburb, his attorney, Farid El Deeb. Mubarak dominated the nation for three decades as President but went through a series of criminal trials after being forced from office in 2011. He was sentenced in 2012 to life in prison for complicity in the killings of protesters during the January 2011 revolt. Amnesty International said at least 840 people were killed and more than 6,000 injured during 18 days of street protests in Egypt.-Aj Arthurjnr

"I want my mommy," Hawra' mumbles while cradled in the arms of her grandmother, Aliya. The four-and-a-half-year-old's lips barely move to form the weak but desperate plea. Her face is etched with small wounds, gauze wrapped around her throat and leg over burns that have yet to heal. She can't open her eyes; there is shrapnel in one of them, the other painfully closed. Doctors don't know if she will be able to see properly again. Her grandmother is lost for words. Tears start to fall. "I am thinking it's better to be dead. I am thinking to die, rather than a life like this. (Hawra') was like a little flower. She would play and run. Now, she how has no mother, no eyes," Aliya says. Hawra's mother was killed, we are told, in an airstrike on March 17. There were multiple US coalition-led strikes that day in their west Mosul neighborhood, where allegations of civilian casualties have since emerged.

Say goodbye to the Galaxy's home button and hello to an infinity display. Samsung ( SSNLF ) unveiled the Galaxy S8 and S8+ at an event in New York on Wednesday. The new phone displays are bigger than the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge and they have curved screens that flow onto the sides. For the first time on a Samsung phone, the physical home button is removed entirely. (This is already the case on most other Android devices.) The S8 will be the first phone to feature Bixby, Samsung's new AI assistant. Despite a crowded voice assistant market, Samsung insists Bixby is "fundamentally" different from competitors like Apple's ( AAPL , Tech30 ) Siri and Amazon's ( AMZN , Tech30 ) Alexa. It remains to be seen how this will play out. Samsung touts the assistant as being able to "see, remind and recommend," but much of this functionality is already available with rival assistants. One potentially interesting feature is the ability t

"Jeff Bezos passes Warren Buffet to become the world's second riches person." Move over Warren Buffett! Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is now the second richest person on Earth. The latest tally by Bloomberg's Billionaires Index shows Bezos is now worth about $75.6 billion. Another ranking compiled by Forbes has Bezos' value at "just" $75.2 billion. He added $1.5 billion to his net worth after Amazon ( AMZN , Tech30 ) gained $9 billion in market value during trading hours Wednesday. The company received a generous stock bump after a Barclay's ( AGRPY ) analyst declared Amazon will "likely to be one of the first trillion-dollar market cap companies." Its shares hit a record high shortly after. Amazon's stock has been on fire lately -- it's grown more than 16% over the last year. Investors were pleased with the company's decision, announced yesterday, to buy Souq , an e-commerce giant in the Middle East.

"Cristiano Ronald gets airport named in his honour.......and a dubuos burst." Cristiano Ronaldo now has an international airport named after him. The Real Madrid striker was joined on Wednesday by dozens of guests and hundreds of fans in his native Maderia Islands for an official ceremony renaming the local airport as Aeroporto Cristiano Ronaldo.

"Save the date, Wizkid ft drake-Come Closer." Wizkid new single.

A seven-metre python had to be cut open by local citizens to retrieve a missing man's body. An Indonesian man, who had not been seen since the weekend, was found inside a 23ft (7m)-long python. Villagers on the island of West Sulawesi had the horrific task of cutting open the giant snake's stomach to retrieve the body. Akbar was last seen on Sunday (26 March) before he left to harvest palm oil in the remote village. When his friends and neighbours realised he did not return home by the end of the day, they began searching for him. They eventually reported the matter to the local police, according to Mashura, a spokesperson for the police in West Sulawesi province. A day later, when the police conducted a search they found a python had sprawled out in Akbar's garden, the BBC noted. Police said they feared the snake had swallowed the 25-year-old whole. "They didn't find him [Akbar], but the villagers saw an unmoving python in the dit

“For the public there is a certain frisson in seeing it [the darker objects],” Janice Murray, the director-general said. “And there is a robust attitude in the army. You learn to deal with things, and people are not fazed by things the ordinary civilian might be.” Bronco Lane, a paratrooper, donated his frostbitten toes to the National Army Museum after he lost them on the descent from an Army Mountaineering Association expedition to Mount Everest

"It is going to be a close race" Lewis Hamilton is confident he can beat Sebastian Vettel to the title this year".-Formula 1 2017 Season.

" She attempted suicide by attempting to jump into the Lagoon around Oworonshoki inward Mainland on Third Mainland Bridge. Unfortunately for her, she was rescued. The woman was in a taxi and alighted on the bridge and wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the Lagoon."-Fatai Owoseni

"We learned a lot about loyalty," Trump said. "We learned a lot about some very arcane rules in obviously both the Senate and in the House. So, it's been certainly, for me, it's been a very interesting experience."- speaking Obamacare repeal bill,

"Based on a phychologic study, a crush only lasts a maximum of 4 months. If it exceeds then you're in love." Who are you crushing on and for how long?

"You know your're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there."  Grandpa!

"The best time to give advice to your children is while they’re still young enough to believe you know what you’re talking about."-Arthurjnr

"I believe in God, only i spell it Nature."

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"I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, i treat my job as a hobby. It's something i love doing." oh dear! didn't he do it so well?.

 "Celebrity culture,  it's everywhere, isn't it? I'ts reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to become famous. I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you  want people following you about all day?" Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ryangiggs431444.html Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about a

" I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins." I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ryangiggs296058.html I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ryangiggs296058.html

"The bill to prohibit tribal marks is more important than any other bill in this country..."

"In politics stupidity is not a handicap." "Great words from a great man I admire so much."

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

 "The Only time a Man Can Remember All The girls he had Slept with is ....When his HIV RESULT is delayed."

“Girls: If your boyfriend is a good listener….he’s probably thinking of something else when you’re talking.”

"Weed Khalifa"

"If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.

 "Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you reacrt."

"Throw dirt on my name, and I still come out clean."

“Those who queued in the sun and in the rain to vote, knew that they were electing a president for four years. They didn’t elect him for one year, two years or three years. “They elected him for four years. And it is just going to be mid-term in May this year. Those, who genuinely queued and voted, know that the person, whom they voted for, will deliver.

“I know what I will do in my future and will let you know soon. You will see.”

‘For sure this is an important win,’ said Conte. ‘It is not easy at this point in the season to come here and play Stoke, a strong team with good quality and good tactical organisation, but we showed from the start to the end a great will to win and I am very pleased for this. My players were prepared to fight for this game because it was not easy.

 "If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by a strong woman."

"When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk."

"Money is not everything but ranks right up there with oxygen."

"Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the samee side."

". Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on."

"Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions."

"We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda."

"Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. the type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I hanve no interest in."

" Mnny stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But sotries can also be used to emopower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity."

"My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through."

"I am a product of Nollywood and my loyalty remains unshaken."

"Chocolates and cakes are the biggest problem I have. That is why I punish myself at the gym because I know I can't stop myself from eating what I want. I call it eating your cake and having it."

"Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I don't know about anyone else, acting is spiritual, so if I do not embody a character or a story or a script, it's going to be extremely difficult for me to be convincing and I don't like that because I am somewhat of a perfectionsist."

EFCC acting Chairman After his rejection, Magu invited to speak at anti-corruption conference in London. "The international conference, which is coming on the heels of the 2016 London Anti-Corruption Summit, will focus on the progress of Nigeria’s asset recovery and anti-corruption efforts. It will also feature a panel discussions for “critical exchange of views” between officials and non-government experts from Nigeria and the United Kingdom.

December 17,  "We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital."