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  Barely 24 hours after three former heads of state, President Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida and General Abdulsalami Abubakar, met at Babangida’s hilltop residence, in Minna, facts have emerged on what they discussed. Sources revealed that the former heads, not at ease with speculations and insinuations, talked about President Muhammad Buhari’s health and the need to douse tension and restore confidence. It was gathered that following the discussion, one of the former heads of state may visit the presidential villa to meet with President Buhari. Source close to Babangida told Daily Sun in Minna, Niger State capital, yesterday, that although the meeting was called by Obasanjo, “Minna was chosen as venue because of IBB’s health and the fact that he and Abdulsalami were in Minna and, therefore, it was convenient for Obasanjo to join them.” It was further gathered that the meeting was also to have in attendance former Minister of Defence, General Theophilius Danj...

  Emerging report, indicates that some selected former Heads of State have been summoned to the Presidential Villa, over President Muhammadu Buhari’s dwindling health condition. The leaders are: former Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Badamosi Babaginda, and Abdusalami Abubakar. It was reliably gathered, that the three former Presidents have decided to pay a visit to the Buhari, to ascertain the true state of his health.  According to The Nation newspaper’s report: “In the meeting which lasted for two hours, it was learnt that they expressed concern over the politicking of the President’s health, which they noted is unhealthy, and a threat to national development. “They also reportedly frowned at the discordant tune by the President’s Media Aides and his close Associates, which they plan to discuss when they meet him.” Post-Nigeria, gathered that the meeting of the former Heads of State, was held a top secret, as visitors...

Breaking an hour ago May 2, 2017 • By Kush Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu’s bedroom is currently being razed by fire and extending to other parts of the Palace. Fire officers are currently at the palace with lots of Police Men at the site.The cause of the fire hasn’t been revealed, however, the Police have cordoned off the road leading to the palace. Officials of Lagos state fire service are within the palace trying to put out the inferno. The real cause of the fire outbreak is still unknown at the moment. The incident is coming barely one week after the Oba publicly shunned the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. There were claims by a certain Tunde Awoyeni that the palace would invoke the wrath of his ancestors on the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu. Oba Ogunwusi in his reaction denied planning to curse Oba Akiolu.

May 1, 2017 For the last year, the MMA and boxing communities have been taken over by the proposed crossover super-fight between UFC lightweight champion  Conor McGregor  and boxing great Floyd Mayweather Jr. With UFC President  Dana White  now  seemingly on board with making the fight a reality, fans are hoping the fight will be made for later this year, though there remains a  healthy amount of skepticism  as to whether the bout will actually materialize. Even if the bout does happen, the general consensus among boxing aficionados is that McGregor, a man with zero professional boxing experience, stands little to no chance against one of the greatest boxers of all time. But Mayweather’s father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., is willing to take that even further, saying that McGregor wouldn’t stand a chance against him, much less his son. “He don’t want that fight. Floyd’s gonna turn him upside down,” Mayweather Sr. told  FightHype.com . “That be like...