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Mandela Day is usually celebrated on July 18 every year in commemoration Nelson Mandela’s exemplary life. Due to the iconic status of the first democratically-elected President of.... Read more via Thisdaylive Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2nbctD1 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Boko Haram Terrorism (BHT) is war on Nigeria; let us not pretend or deceive ourselves. And it is a war which had raged and sapped the.... Read more via Leadership Nigeria Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2LgeL2d Get More Nigeria Metro News

Former US president Barack Obama will deliver a speech to a crowd of 15,000 people in South Africa on Tuesday as the centrepiece of celebrations marking 100 years since Nelson Mandela’s birth. Obama has made relatively few public appearances since leaving the White House in 2017, but he …...

Former US President Barack Obama is visiting Kenya and South Africa in his first visit to the African continent since he left office. Obama, sharing the news on his Facebook, decided to also share a list of books authored by Africans he’s drawn inspiration Read more via BellaNaija –...

On any other day during the Fifa World Cup fiesta, K'Ogelo, a Siaya village in football-crazy western Kenya, would be abuzz with pundits, wagers, and the occasional tiffs between … Read more via AllAfrica News: Kenya – https://ift.tt/2KG2CSV Get more World News

The former president Barack Obama served up some tough love to fellow Democrats during a party fundraiser in California on Thursday, urging them to snap out of their funk ahead of the November midterm elections. He seemed to vent some frustration w1ith Democrats over what he sees as … Read...

US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement. So why is this a big deal? We do not yet know who President Donald Trump... Read more via BBC – https://ift.tt/2KfYTfs Get more World News

Former President Barack Obama will travel to his father's homeland of Kenya next month as part of a trip that will include stops in South Africa, Spain and Portugal. Obama will visit Kenya from July 15-16, where... Read more via CNN – https://ift.tt/2MPY8Yo Get more World News

Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the... Read more via Reuters – https://ift.tt/2K0xjSP Get more World News

On Thursday, the Justice Department inspector general released a sprawling 568-page report on the handling of the Hillary Clinton emails investigation in 2015-16 by the FBI and DOJ. There’s far too much in the report to detail here in one bite, as it covered (among other things): … Read...

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How cute are these goofy photo booth pictures of Barack Obama and his beautiful wife Michelle? Read more via Nigerian Entertainment Today – http://ift.tt/2HIWmpf Get more World News

Former US president Barack Obama has warned leaders to think before tweeting, saying that the social media tools such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter are leading to “snap judgments to complex issues”. Obama at a New Delhi symposium in India on Friday, was repeatedly asked about his...

Former US president Barack Obama has selected New-York based Nigerian artist, Kehinde Wiley, to paint his official portrait. It is traditional for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery to commission an artist to create a portrait of the president and the first lady after their tenure...

Former US President Barack Obama personally urged Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to counter the rise of fake news on the social network during a meeting held shortly after last year’s election, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The encounter reportedly took place on the sidelines of a...

The Pentagon has notified the U.S. Congress of the sale to Nigeria of 12 Super Tucano A-29 planes and weapons worth $593 million, needed for the fight against the militant group, Boko Haram. The move on the sale, which included thousands of bombs and rockets and was originally agreed by...

We reported yesterday that Obama's tweet condemning the racial attacks in Virginia, America was the third most liked tweet in history. Well, just one day after, micro-blogging site Twitter, has confirmed that tweet to be the most liked tweet ever. Wat to go Barack

Former US president, Barack Obama is still making history even while out of office. His tweet condemning the Charlottesville racial attacks in Virginia, has garnered 2.5m likes and still counting. He wrote: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his...

Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has disclosed that her husband, former President Barack Obama wore the same tuxedo for all of his appearances during his eight years in office. According to Us Weekly, the former first lady revealed this during her talk at Apple’s Worldwide Developers...