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Outgoing U.S. President, Barack Obama who broke down in tears has recalled one of his worst days while serving his 8 year tenure which ends January 20. While reflecting on his legacies in a series of exit interviews, he said that the day he met with the parents of victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 the toughest day of his presidency. President Barack Obama cries over shooting of school children “I still consider the day I traveled up to Newtown to meet with parents and address that community as the toughest day of my presidency. “It’s the only time I ever saw Secret Service cry at an event. So it was brutal.” Obama said in an interview which will be aired on January 15. On other occasions while recalling the incidence which climed 20 children and 6 others, Obama himself have been moved to tears Obama cried while delivering a statement the day of the massacre, at an interfaith vigil in Newtown. He also cried at the White House last January while announcing ...

  The Nigerian Army said on Wednesday that it had recovered more suspected Boko Haram terrorists’ items during a mop-up operation around Camp Zairo in Sambisa forest. Maj. – Gen. Lucky Irabor, the Theater Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, stated this while briefing newsmen in Maiduguri. Irabor said that the items included a pair of black uniform with camouflage design often used by security guards of Abubakar Shekau in his videos. “On Jan. 5, at about 1000hrs, our troops conducted a mop-up operation around Camp Zairo general area and recovered additional Boko Haram terrorists’ items. “They included a pair of black uniform with camouflage design on the edges, a précis on motar operation written in Arabic, one big size of the Qur’an, and 4 notebooks containing names of terrorists, “he said. ” The items also include a list of the terrorists locs, a list of IED materials and method of preparation and breakdown of quantities of arms and ammunition issued to their members. “There were...

What Ikechukwu must have said to trigger such war of words on himself still remains a mystery as the aggrieved parties made no mention of it in their social media rants. However, in a bid to defend her brother after Ikechukwu aired his opinions about Joy’s brother, the latter took to her Instagram page to hurl unprintable words on the rapper. As if that was not enough, Ikechukwu’s ex girlfriend, Sarah Ofili, also joined forces with Joy on her Instagram page to declare war on the rapper, boasting that she and her friends would wage war on him since he has declared it initially.

fellas a day like any other on the 12 of January, 2012, everyone woke up in Data Kaduna preparing to go about their normal usual business when boom! Bomb went off killing many, maiming many and setting the homes ablaze, pandemonium, chaos everywhere. Little did the family of the Abdullahi’s know that trouble has just began. Abdulrazak Abdullahi and his sister Aishat Abdullahi were the only survivor of in their family. Little did they know that this attack was religiously motivated. They lost their father, mother and two of their siblings during the bomb attack and later discovered that some people hid themselves under the bomb blast to murder their parents. Luckily for them they were not in the scene of the bomb blast. Later, when life began to return to normalcy they came home to start their lives all over, it was then they discovered that it was because of their conversion from Islam to Christianity they were been attacked, as they started getting all kinds of threat and they...

The gunmen who abducted a Catholic Priest in Delta on Friday last week have demanded N20m as ransom. Fr. Jude Onyebadi, the Parish Priest of SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Issele-Azagba, was allegedly abducted by three gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen at his pineapple farm located between Ubulu-Uku and Issele-Uku communities. Sources close to the priest told our correspondent on Monday that the captors had established contact with church and made their demands known even as the police command in the state claimed its personnel were closing in on the suspects. Eyewitnesses said the hoodlums stormed the farm command-style and immediately went for the cleric, and dragged him into the bush and whisked him away to unknown destination. One of the sources said, “Father was kidnapped by three armed men who were dressed and looked like Fulani herdsmen. Before help could come he had already been dragged into the bush from where we have not heard from him till today (Monday)....

The debut of the Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox (MMM) in Kenya and Ghana, approximately 48 hours after its activities in Nigeria were suspended for a month, has caused increased panic among Nigerian MMM participants. Chiamaka Ugorji, the wife of Chuddy Ugorji, a leading MMM Nigeria promoter, attempted to calm nerves by writing an open letter to participants, but this failed to reassure Nigerians that their investments were safe. Some individuals, who spoke to newsmen on Monday in Abuja, shared their thoughts on the issue. A civil servant, Charity Okafor, said “I participated in the scheme twice by investing N500,000 and one million naira respectively and I got my money back with the large interest. “However, I felt I should not participate in the scheme any longer and I am lucky I had people around me who convinced me not to reinvest. “I know I would have turned into a crazy woman if I had money there during this suspension,” Okafor said. Ebube Okoh, a housewife, told pressmen that she...

The sad story of the Enaghagbon family in Benin City, South South of Nigeria, who resides at No. 12 Omoruyi Street, Benin City. It was a tale of blood during the governorship election of 2007 that eventually saw the emergence of Comrade Adams Oshiomole as the governor, who fought very hard at the election tribunal and court of appeal to reclaim his mandate that was subverted by the then Obasanjo –led federal government. Mr. Eric osarodion Enoghayiagbon who was a chieftain of one of the political parties PDP found himself and his household in the middle of political crossfire because of his stands on the election as he confront the political leaders for the attacked by gangs of thugs that was  used for the killing of three people at oba akenzua primary school polling unite, Luckily he managed to escape with his family, when ask how he managed to escape Mr. Enoghayiagbon thanked God and thank some person (whose name is withheld) for promptly giving the information so he could e...