PHOTOS: LIONEL MESSI SENDS OBAMA'S DAUGHTERS SASHA AND MALIA SIGNED JERSEYS

Making up for their inability to meet in Argentina last week.

Malia's after the cut>>>

BAYELSA NIGERIA - APC SUSPENDS GOVERNORSHIP ASPIRANT TIMIPRE SYLVA! WHY? CHECK IT OUT

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NIGERIA {ENUGU} - SAD!!! AUTOCRASH IN ENUGU KILLS FOUR

Police in Enugu on Saturday confirmed the death of four persons in road crash along Udi-Oji River on the Enugu-Onitsha old road.

The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu that the incident occurred at about 6.30 a.m.

FOOTBALL {LA LIGA} - EL CLASICO PHOTOS AND KEY MOMENTS (BARCELONA VS REAL MADRID). BARCA 6 MONTHS UNBEATEN RUN ENDS

Barcelona 1-2 Real (Pique 56' Benzema 62' C.Ronaldo 85') FT

Barcelona unbeaten six months run ends here at the Nou Camp.

CHINA - CAR PILE UP IN CHINA KILLS TWO, INJURES DOZENS

At least two people have died and dozens have been injured after a car pile-up on a busy highway in China.

US ELECTION 2016 {KENTUCKY} - THREE PEOPLE SUE TRUMP IN KENTUCKY FOR INCITING CROWD TO VIOLENCE

Three people who claim they were assaulted at a Donald Trump rally in Louisville, Kentucky, last month have filed a lawsuit against the Republican presidential candidate, saying he "incited a riot."

US - AT FBI REQUEST, STATE DEPARTMENT STOPS REVIEW OF HILLARY CLINTON EMAILS

The U.S. State Department has suspended plans for an internal review of whether classified information was properly handled in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails at the request of the FBI, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

US {WASHINGTON} - PRESIDENT BUHARI ADDRESSES NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT; SAYS NIGERIA IS COMMITED TO ANTI-TERROR BATTLE

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Washington DC reaffirmed Nigeria’s commitment to the global fight against the threat of nuclear terrorism and other forms of terrorism.

PHOTOS FROM WASHINGTON DC US {BUHARI'S PARTICIPATION FOR NIGERIA AT THE NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT}

Meanwhile Boss do come house oh. Wahala de ghetto. Men are not smiling. Lol

ENTERTAINMENT {NOLLYWOOD} - ONYEABO'S CONTROVERSIAL MOVIE "THE TRIBE" READY FOR CINEMA RUN

After five years of painstaking work, Tribe, the highly anticipated film directed by multiple-award winning film maker, Ifeanyichukwu Onyeabo, is ready to hit the screen.The film coming on the stable of Igbosteve Pictures will start showing in the cinemas in Africa and the Diaspora in the coming weeks. 

Lol see wahala

No be small thing oh.

Lol. This is from a Trump hater no doubts

Bwehehehehe

9JA - AND BY THE WAY PRESIDENT BUHARI HAD A THRILL AT THE NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT

9ja spot your President jor. He lift hand so? Check it out jareeeee.... Baba emergency needed oh, fuel and light matter don cast ground guy. Lol

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NIGERIA - BOKO HARAM IN NEW VIDEO SAY NO NEGOTIATION, NO SURRENDER

Boko Haram released a new video Friday denying any suggestions it would surrender, just over a week after their shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a rare message looking dejected and frail. 

9JA - HMM! RADIO BIAFRA RETURNS TO THE AIRWAVES, IPOB PRAYS FOR CONFUSION IN ENEMIES CAMP

Who says these guys are giving up any time soon? Well you got to have a rethink. Radio Biafra which has been off the air for some time, is currently streaming live across the Nigerian airwaves without Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

FOOTBALL {EPL} - CHELSEA'S DIEGO COSTA BAN INCREASED PLUS £20,000 FINE

Chelsea striker Diego Costa has had his two-match ban extended to three and been fined £20k after admitting a charge of improper conduct following his red card at Everton.

US ELECTION 2016 - TRUMP TOLD BY FANS TO GET MORE SERIOUS IN HIS TONE DURING CAMPAIGNS AS WISCONSIN NOMINATION GETS CLOSE

Donald Trump is facing pressure to adopt a more serious tone in his U.S. presidential campaign from Republicans worried that a string of missteps may do him lasting damage in remaining state-by-state contests needed to clinch the nomination.

PHOTOS (NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT WASHINGTON, US)

NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT {WASHINGTON, US} - PRESIDENT OBAMA SAYS MAD MEN MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO GET NUCLEAR MATERIAL

U.S. President Barack Obama urged world leaders on Friday to do more to safeguard nuclear facilities to prevent “madmen” from groups like Islamic State from getting their hands on a nuclear weapon or a radioactive “dirty bomb.”

FOOTBALL {TRANSFER RUMOUR} - CHELSEA OFFER DIEGO COSTA TO PSG

Chelsea striker Diego Costa has been offered to Paris Saint-Germain by his agent Jorge Mendes, according to France Football.

NORTH KOREA - GENEVA ENVOY SAYS NORTH KOREA IS PURSUING NUCLEAR AND MISSILE PROGRAMS

North Korea will pursue its nuclear and ballistic missile program in defiance of the United States and its allies, a top Pyongyang envoy said on Friday, adding that a state of "semi-war" now existed on the divided Korean peninsula.

PHOTOS {NIGERIA} - PRESIDENT BUHARI'S ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON US FOR THE NUCLEAR SUMMIT

NIGERIA {HEALTH} - HEALTH MINISTER DIRECTS TERTIARY HOSPITALS TO SAVE LIVES FIRST IN EMERGENCY CASES

The Health Minister Prof Isaac Adewole, today directed tertiary hospitals across the country to save patients’ lives first during emergency cases before demanding for money.

Adewole, spoke during a facility tour of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), said people’s lives were more important than the money being demanded before treatment.

According to him, accidents, among other emergency cases can occur at anytime, so patients should not be refrained from accessing treatment.

Adewole advised hospitals not to allow patients stay beyond a day at the Accident and Emergency (A and E) ward to enable them have room for other new patients on emergency.

He urged LUTH management to ensure that the poor receive treatment, stressing that the hospital should operate a social system to enable it know those that are genuinely poor.

“We cannot continue to turn poor patients away from the hospitals. The poverty indicator shows that 60 to 70 percent of Nigerians is poor. This means about 100 million people are poor in Nigeria. So, we will provide basic care through the primary health care (PHC) system for Nigerians,” he said.

He lamented poor funding of the health care, saying there was chronic underfunding of the sector.

Moreover, Nigerians and the media should take the fight to increase health budget to the front burner because health is wealth. “The sick cannot make the country strong,” the minister said.

He charged patients with minor ailments to visit primary health care (PHC) centres rather than going to teaching hospitals.

Prof Adewole said Nigeria needs 140 radiotherapy machines, adding that the seven machines now available were inadequate.

“Only two or three presently work at a time.  Poor power supply has marred our effort to keep the machines running regularly. If power improves, the equipment will last longer,” he said.

He charged people to improve their lifestyle, exercise and eat healthily.

Besides, they should have regular checkups.

“Many late cancer cases cannot be curedcured.

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NIGERIA {LAGOS} - ONE YEAR IMPRISONMENT FOR JOBLESS 21 YEAR OLD OVER #10,000 AND #1,000 PHONE THEFT

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday sentenced a 21-year-old unemployed man, Benjamin Sunday, to one- year imprisonment for stealing N10,000 cash and a phone valued at N1,000. 

LIBERIA {MONROVIA} - FRESH EBOLA CASE IN MONROVIA

Liberia has registered a new case of Ebola in the capital, the health ministry said Friday, more than two months after the epidemic was declared over in the country. 

NIGERIA - SAHARA REPORTERS' APRIL FOOLS POST ON BUHARI CONDEMNED BY PRESIDENCY

The Personal Assistant to President Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad and the Digital Strategy & Engagement Unit in Buhari's office have reacted to Sahara reporters April Fool Prank. They described the post as senseless and tasteless.

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Lol. I wish

Lol imagine if this was possible! 

Source: Dr Igbinosun (A funny friend)

BOXING - BOXER PUT INTO COMA NICK BLACKWELL TO WAKE WITHIN THREE DAYS

Nick Blackwell's family expect the boxer to wake from his induced coma in the next three days, report says.

Blackwell, 25, was taken to hospital after Saturday's British middleweight title fight with Chris Eubank Jr was stopped in round 10.

FOOTBALL {EPL} - UK REPORTS SAY MANCHESTER UNITED HAVE BEEN GIVEN MAY 1ST DEADLINE TO SECURE JOSE MOURINHO CONTRACT

The Forefront monitoring UK reports have it that Manchester United have been set a deadline of 1 May to secure the services of Jose Mourinho as their manager.

EGYPT - SOURCES SAY EGYPT BLOCKED FACEBOOK INTERNET SERVICES LAST YEAR OVER SURVEILLANCE

Egypt blocked Facebook Inc's Free Basics Internet service at the end of last year after the U.S. company refused to give the Egyptian government the ability to spy on users, two people familiar with the matter said.

NIGERIA (DELTA STATE) - PEACE PACT SIGNED BY IJAW AND URHOBO YOUTH LEADERS

It is understood youth leaders from Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja communities, Delta State, both of whom have been involved in an age long land dispute, have met and resolved to sheathe their swords, pending the implementation of the resolution of the boundary committee set up by the state government. 

FOOTBALL: SHERINGHAM WANTS VAN GAAL AXED, SAYS MOURINHO HAS THE BELIEF OF A MANCHESTER UNITED MANAGER

Former Manchester United attacker, Teddy Sheringham says Manchester United should sack Van Gaal this summer and claims Mourinho has the belief necessary to succeed where the Dutchman has failed.

Van Gaal’s position has been the subject of regular debate this season, with United’s early exit from the Champions League and struggles in the Premier League resulting in questions about his future as manager.

BUSINESS (GLOBAL) - OIL PRICES FALL AGAINST STRONG DOLLAR

Oil futures fell in Asian trade on Friday as oversupply, a strengthening dollar and falls in regional stock markets all weighed on sentiment. But another fall in U.S. oil output in January helped to limit the losses.

INDIA {KOLKATA} - 90 RESCUED IN KOLKATA FLYOVER COLLAPSE WITH 23 DEATHS NOW RECORDED

The death toll in the collapse of a flyover under construction in the Indian city of Kolkata rose to 23 on Friday, after rescuers worked through the night with cranes and jackhammers to clear huge slabs of steel and concrete.

INNOVATION - NIGERIA RECORDS BIRTH OF FIRST BABY BY PROCEDURE OF EGG FREEZING

The Forefront has learnt that Nigeria has recorded the birth of its first baby conceived through the oocyte (egg) freezing protocol.

The feat was recorded by The Bridge Clinic, Lagos, on February 16, with the delivery of a male child, named Tiwatope.

TURKEY - Officials say car bomb has killed seven police officers in Turkey's Diyarbakir

A car bomb killed seven police officers and wounded around two dozen people in Turkey's Diyarbakir on Thursday, security sources and officials said, a day before the prime minister is due to visit the biggest city in the largely Kurdish southeast.

US - Media reports say suspected gunman and state troopers have been killed in Virginia shooting

Three people including two state troopers were shot at a Richmond, Virginia, bus station on Thursday and the suspected gunman has been taken into custody, local media reported.

Nigeria - ASUU President Fagge blames saboteurs for fuel scarcity

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says the persistence fuel scarcity faced by Nigerians is part of the ongoing sabotage in the political system. ‎ Dr Nasir Fagge, the national president of the union, said in Lagos after paying a courtesy visit to Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, the Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo. 

FOOTBALL: LA LIGA - IF RESULTS REMAIN POOR MOURINHO WILL BE REINSTALLED AT REAL MADRID, CALDERON SAYS

Calderon what makes you so sure dude?

Jose Mourinho will be reinstated as Real Madrid head coach should he fail to take over at Manchester United in the close season, according to former club president Ramon Calderon.

FOOTBALL: NIGERIAN LEAGUE - BUSINESS TYCOON IFEANYI UBAH HAMMERED 10 MATCH BAN PLUS #2.5M FINE FOR SLAPPING GOALIE. NAWA

Nawa sha 9ja. Just imagine Roman Abramovich of Chelsea England entering a pitch and slapping Manchester United keeper De Gea in the EPL!!! That can't damn happen surely. But in 9ja anything goes. Again I say Nawa sha!

Nigeria’s League Management Company has slammed a N2.5 million fine and a 10-match ban on billionaire businessman, Ifeanyi Ubah, who was caught on camera slapping Heartland FC goalkeeper, Ebele Obi.

FOOTBALL: ALEX FERGUSON DEMANDS PATIENCE WITH VAN GAAL AT OLD TRAFFORD

Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson insists Louis Van Gaal will bring success back to Old Trafford as long as the club are patient with him.

United have not won a major trophy since the Premier League title triumph in Ferguson's final season in 2012-13, and the FA Cup is their only realistic chance of silverware in a frustratingly inconsistent campaign so far.

Nigeria - HMM!!! NAWA. POLICE SERGEANT DIES IN HOTEL ROOM.

A police Sergeant, Jude Nwadudu, has been found dead in a hotel at Iju, a Lagos suburb.

Nwadudu was said to have gone there with a female friend at Easter.

US {OKHLAHOMA} - TORNADOE HITS OKHLAHOMA, AT LEAST 7 INJURED

At least seven people were injured after tornado touched down multiple times in northeastern Oklahoma, tearing off roofs and causing structural damage to homes.

National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Amy Jankowski said a tornado touched down repeatedly on Wednesday night as it swept through the Tulsa and Owasso areas.

ENTERTAINMENT: HOLLYWOOD - SYLVESTER STALLONE ATTACKS COMEDIAN WHITEHALL OVER OSCAR LIES

Sylvester Stallone has attacked British comedian Jack Whitehall for creating "insulting lies" after he joked about consoling the actor after his loss at the Oscars.

The Hollywood star was reacting after Whitehall told the Daily Mirror the Creed star had cried on his shoulder after Mark Rylance won best supporting actor.

INDIA {KOLKATA} - SAD!!! India overpass collapse kills 14 with scores feared trapped (updated)

At least 14 people were killed in the Indian city of Kolkata on Thursday and scores were feared trapped when a flyover under construction collapsed onto traffic moving along the street below, police said.

US SECRETARY OF STATES KERRY SAYS OVER $600M IS TO BE INVESTED IN NIGERIA BY THE US

The Forefront has learned that the United States will invest more than $600 million in Nigeria this year, Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday in Washington.

He spoke during the opening session of the U.S.- Nigeria Bi-National Commission meeting.

FOOTBALL: VALENCIA EMERGE AS MANCHESTER UNITED'S RIVAL TO SIGN MOURINHO, REPORT SAY

Spanish outfit Valencia have emerged as a shock rival to Manchester United in the race for Jose Mourinho, according to The UK Sun. 

FOOTBALL: PELLEGRINI IS VALENCIA'S PRIME TARGET TO REPLACE AXED NEVILLE

The Forefront understands that Valencia have lined up Manchester City manager Pellegrini as the  candidate to replace the axed ex-Manchester United full back Gary Neville.

US ELECTION 2016 - TRUMP PRESIDENCY A BIG THREAT TO EMERGING MARKETS SAYS US FUND MANAGER

A Donald Trump victory in the November U.S. presidential election would wreak havoc on emerging market stocks, said portfolio manager Rick Schmidt, a co-manager of the $2.4 billion Harding Loevner Emerging Markets stock fund.

US - Donald Trump revises stance on abortion punishment after criticism from all sides

Business tycoon and Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday that women who end pregnancies should face punishment if the United States bans abortion, triggering a torrent of criticism from both sides of the abortion debate, including from his White House rivals.