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                         The publishers of RichestLifestyle.com has removed the name of President Goodluck Jonathan from the Richest African Presidents 2014 list. President Jonathan was ranked sixth richest African President with a net worth of $100 million dollars. A claim the President denied, threatening legal action against the publishers. A check on the website revealed that the article on President Jonathan has been deleted. The publishers stated of the removal of the article thus, ” This article has been removed. The net worth was evaluated by Celebrity Net Worth”. Here is a report from the RichestLifestyle.com this afternoon  See full detail below. Continue...

                      The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, on Wednesday, said it recorded one million passengers who passed through its Domestic Terminal 1 of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, between January and August 2014. This is contained in a statement signed by the authority’s General Manager, Corporate Communication, Yakubu Dati, in Lagos. Continue...

                   Several images, which have not been independently verified, emerged on social media this week after a video reporting the deaths of the boy and his father was uploaded to YouTube in September. The original video - distributed by the pro-Isis media group Al-A'amaq - is understood to have since been removed, but a number of photographs of the boy have since been widely shared by ISIS militants and their sympathisers on social media. Continue...

                      With the death toll on the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) currently standing at over 3,439 among the worst-hit countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the World Bank Group has said should the epidemic significantly infect citizens in neighbouring countries, the regional financial impact can reach $32.6 billion by the end of 2015. Continue...

                                    A source reports that  Dencia is working on a new music video to promote her forthcoming album so we can expect to see more press sightings of the controversial Cameroonian singer and model. Yesterday, TMZ TV spotted Dencia walking out of the Chanel store and this sparked a discussion on her Whitenicious skincare line and race as well.

                              President Goodluck Jonathan is not too happy about being included in “9 Richest African Presidents and Kings of 2014,” list, published by US website, richestlifestyle.com . As you will recall, the online publication listed him as the 6th richest president in Africa. The president has expressed his displeasure about the list through presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, who issued the following statement about the matter, as reported by Daily Post : Continue....

                             The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan was on Wednesday decorated as “Mother Theresa of Today’’ by the Ladies of St. Mulumba (LSM) of the Catholic Church of Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Jonathan was decorated because of the humanitarian works done through her pet project, the Women for Change and Development Initiative (W4CDI). Ngor Nwachukwu, the President of LSM, decorated the her when she led its members on a courtesy visit to the first lady at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Continue...