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Some Democrats are calling on President Donald Trump to testify under oath after his personal attorney suggested that fired FBI Director James Comey lied under oath and Trump tweeted Friday that Comey's hearing was a "total and complete vindication" in spite of "so many false statements and lies." Comey's statements — lying under oath would constitute a federal crime — carry more legal weight than those of Trump and his team, since they are not under oath. That provided the inspiration for a few Democratic senators to suggest that Trump testify under oath.

The Akwa Ibom government on Friday pledged to create an enabling environment for artists to showcase and promote their works in the state. Gov. Udom Emmanuel gave the pledged when he declared open an exhibition of contemporary Nigerian Arts and Crafts tagged, “‘Usoro Uso’ Celebrating Creativity in Akwa Ibom’’in Uyo. He assured that the state “will create that sense of belief in our people and a platform for them to express the artistic gifts to wider experience and audience.”

American rapper Kanye West is a year older today and his wife, Kim K took to Instagram just now to shower him with loving words. Few days ago, Kim rented an entire private island in the Bahamas for a four-day vacation and celebration with their kids, North & Saint, family, as well as friends.

A Nigerian lady who grew up in Ibadan and had to sell pepper on the streets to assist her parents, just graduated from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Asides selling pepper, she did a lot of other part-time jobs to fund her education. The hard-working woman just bagged bag a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and she shared the good news together with the story of her struggles. Find it below.

Ugandan billionaire educationist and founder of St Lawrence schools, Prof Lawrence Mukiibi was laid to rest on Friday, June 1st in his ancestral home at Katenden. He died at the age of 71. However, one small event left mourners and Ugandans in shock...the number of his children, whom he had outside wedlock as he had no official wife. Those in attendance counted over 30 children of the deceased, some of them as young as few months. Reports claims that he fathered more than 80 kids from his students.   In an April 2016 interview with NBS Television, when asked the number of his children, Prof. Mukiibi said: "It is a taboo to ask an African man how many children he has, especially a man of my age. But I have children, I keep adopting" The New Vision reports that his family is planning to conduct DNA tests to confirm the paternity of the children. Meanwhile, several pregnant women have come forward to claim that the late educationist was responsible for thei

President Donald Trump’s son, Eric in a TV appearance  on Tuesday  reacted over the ongoing probe of his father's presidential campaign saying that the Democrats who are in support of the investigation are ‘not even people'. "I've never seen hatred like this, and to me they're not even people," he said in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity.

A 25-year-old federal contractor, 'Reality Leigh Winner' has been arrested and is facing charges she leaked a classified National Security Agency document to a news outlet in May 2017. The charges against her came about an hour after the publication of a story based on an NSA document detailing Russian attempts to hack American voting systems in 2016.  

                    Operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT), arrested two men for allegedly abducting Chief Imam/Islamic Scholar, Alhaji Jibrin Idris, on February 21. The suspects, 31-year-old Musa Mohammed and 24-year-old Suleiman Isah from Ankpa, Kogi State, were arrested on 29th of May at Ninth Mile, Enugu State, and Ayinba in Kogi.

A Facebook User, Victoria Onwuchekwa has said if you’re married and then you hang out with friends beyond 11pm, then you’re an irresponsible man. She wrote;

Y’all remember Penuel Mnguni yeah? the controversial South African pastor who fed his members with live snakes, saying it would taste like chocolate, rode them like horses and did all manners of strange things? Well, the self-proclaimed man of God says he had to come to Prophet T.B Joshua to deliver him because he thought what he was doing was right…