INSPIRING Story from AMERICA: Nigerian Woman serving LIFE Jail, MAUREEN ONYELOBI emerges Overall Law Degree Best Graduate from prison, becomes United States First Incarcerated Immigrant Legal Scholar …Admitted at Mitchell Hamline Law School *FACT: She is one of eight women currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole at the state women’s prison in Shakopee, Accepted into the American Bar Association accredited juris doctor program nearly three years in the making *“Mitchell Hamline Law School has a long history of looking for ways to expand the idea of who gets to go to law school. It’s important for people who are incarcerated to better understand the criminal justice system, and this is one important way to do that. Our students will also benefit from having Maureen in class with them”-Anthony Niedwiecki, Mitchell Hamline’s president and dean *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Senior Investigative Editor
Nigerians: Let Me Enjoy My Marriage in Peace as a Second Wife, Leave Me Alone, Nollywood Actress, Mercy Aigbe tells Critics …Stop bullying me on Social Media, Face your own Life *There is No Crime being married to a movie marketer, Rejoice with me and stop your jealousy * “If you can be happy for me, be happy for me. If you’re not happy for me, go and get busy. I am not the first person to be a second wife. It is my choice to be a second wife”-AIGBE *BY TOPE AKINLADE/ENTERTAINMENT Writer
IMMIGRANT ADVENTURE IN UNITED STATES! Inside story of Ghana’s King, Nana Gyensare V, OSEI, a Taxi Driver in New York …a traditional leader of the Akwamu people, who oversees residents of five towns across Eastern Region * Recalled various challenges on how his brother died, when he inherited the throne * Moved to New York in 1977 to make a better living for himself * Began taxi driving as he bought a medallion in 1982, his father had 19 children *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief
INSPIRING STORY OF A NIGERIAN BILLIONAIRE: HAKEEM Olajuwon, Nigerian born ‘Dreamer’ American Basketball Legend Networth hits $200million….Retires into Real-estate dealer in Houston, turns successful Instructor for NBA players * Lagos native was only player in NBA history to win NBA MVP, Defensive Player of the Year and Finals MVP awards in the same season *Famous as cornerstone of the Houston Rockets for 17 of his 18 NBA seasons *Starts playing basketball at 15 years old in Muslim Teachers College Lagos * How he made over $100 million profits from lawful Real estate business in Texas *Attracts NO SINGLE scandal on-and-outside the pitch *PLUS How he emigrated to United States to play basketball at University of Houston BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF/UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TRENDING: Nigerian born Britain’s Gold Medalist, Anthony Joshua Knocks Out Ukrainian’s Klitschko…Wins IBF, WBA and IBO World Heavyweight Champion *Displays the Resilience Power of Nigerians in 11th Round for Victory *Wow 90,000 fans at Wembley Stadium *Won 19 straight boxing matches *Hailed as the biggest fight night ever staged in United Kingdom Ring * “I did not know how I was knocked down. The best man won tonight and it’s a massive event for boxing. Two gentlemen fought each other. Anthony was better today”-Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko BY ISABEL KENNEDY/SPORTS WRITER, EUROPE
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PAINFUL: SEEKING GREENER PASTURES IN EUROPE!50 Nigerians, 790 African Migrants Perish in Mediterranean Sea…Tunisian’s Ship Captain charged with ‘Multiple Manslaughter’* Exposed: Libya’s traffickers Rapes Teenage Girls, Fear of pregnancy grip survivors* Libya, Africa’s Most Dangerous Haven for Human Traffickers* Only 28 people Survived Disaster off Libya Coast* Syrian Crew Member Faces Prosecution over ‘Illegal Immigration’* Three other people died on Creek island of Rhodes in Stormy Europe’s Seas* “We’ll Destroy and Capture Human Traffickers’ boats to solve crisis”-European Union (EU)* “It’s a very Dark for Europe”-David Cameroon, British Prime Minister*Survivor narrates Ordeal: “Suffering in Nigeria is too much. That is why we look for money anyhow to pay traffickers in Libya to move us to Europe”-Pious Chinedu

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LET HIM FACE THE MUSIC IN AMERICA! 20-year-old Nigerian born American Green Card Holder, EYITOLUWA OLALEYE Handcuffed for Assassinating own biological Mother in Holiday Inn hotel, Texas….deceased found face down on the floor with her son lying on her back- arms wrapped around her body * Mother screamed for help at 2:12am, son forcefully cover mouth so no one could hear * Call transcript said Austin-Travis County EMS already on their way to the scene for a report of someone screaming in their room, Later updates to the call said the sounds of a fight were also coming from the room * Police say once they made their way into the room they found a woman face down on the floor with a man lying on her back with his arms wrapped around her body. The woman was unresponsive and ATCEMS performed CPR but she was declared dead at the scene. Police say as he was detained the suspect appeared to be singing in a different language * ‘ A post mortem examination on Olayeye’s mother said the victim suffered deep skull hemorrhaging, hemorrhaging around the neck, lacerations to the inner mouth, petechial hemorrhaging and signs of strangulation’- Travis County medical examiner *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief

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JUST IN: America’s JP Morgan removed NIGERIA from Emerging Market, Blacklist from Foreign Investors … country out of ‘overweight’ category due to fiscal woes amid a worsening global risk, replaced Nigeria in list with Serbia and Uzbekistan * Claims ‘shady deal’ in Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation non-transfer of any revenue to the government from January to March this year caused market panic *Bank analysts bank revealed Emerging Markets Bond Index Global Diversified index dropped 16% this year, most losses come from rates of $4 billion in net outflows from emerging markets since mid-April *BY BISOLA EWEWYEMI/FINANCE Editor, New York, GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Senior Investigative Editor & AHMED NURUDEEN/BUSINESS Reporter, Abuja

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GLOBAL EYES ON AMERICA! DUNCAN EXPOSED: Face of Liberian Ebola Man in Texas…Virus fully blown few days after in Dallas, Admitted in separate ICU, Feeling Feverish, Bleeding & Why he lives in Ghana * ‘Settles’ Liberian Airport Security Officials, Board Passengers’ Flight to America * US Immigration, Health Officials step up Surveillance, Monitoring around victim’s Family, Friends *Attended E.Jonothan Goodridge High School (Class of 1989) Township Barnesville, Monrovia-INVESTIGATION *American Embassy Plans Tougher Stringent visa measures for Africans *US Health CDC warns: “Avoid Non-Essential Travel to Liberia, Sierra Leone & Guinea” * “U.S. facilities can do Special Isolation in health care infrastructure than any African country”-Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health * Obama urges Texas Presby’s Hospital to Isolate, give victim First Class Medical Treatment * “No Plan to ban flights coming from West Africa, passengers thoroughly screened”-White House spokesman Josh Earnest

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WICKED, EVIL, FACING LIFE JAIL TERM IN AMERICA PRISON: NIGERIAN Man, KEHINDE AFOLAYAN blames the Devil for Stabbing wheelchair-bound 61-year-old disabled White American woman over 100 times in chest, abdomen … leaving her partially disemboweled, near 5th Avenue and Clark Avenue in South Milwaukee *31-year old suspect charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide in connection * Charging document confirmed a witness peered through the window and saw Afolayan stabbed Deborah Lynch as she sat in her wheelchair * Responding officers found Lynch sitting motionless in her wheelchair, breathing but unresponsive, victim passed away before being loaded onto the aircraft *Police claims Nigerian squatter in deceased’s apartment not cooperative, but keep saying “Jesus forgives me BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF/Naija Standard Newspaper

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WONDER: Nigeria’s Female Police Sergeant, NAOMI DANLAMI ‘Kidnaps Self’, Demand Ransom to Fund up-coming Wedding to loverboy …detained by police that she faked own kidnap to extort ransom from well wishers to fund marriage, released in less than 24 hours after, case closed *Announced engagement on social media, next day alleges abduction made by friends on her Facebook group *During fundraising, there were dissenting voices that expressed doubts about the abduction story, saying she had a history of criminal behavior: that she was not truthful, not to be trusted, and that her lifestyle was wayward *Suspect arrested after raising suspicion: suddenly appeared at the Police Force Headquarters, claimed she escaped from the kidnappers’ den where she was molested, insisted on work resumption as though nothing happened to the surprise of those around her *“See suffer wey I suffer. Do you know that the kidnappers called; they are not kidnappers. It is set up, this girl just set it up; she needs money. That girl is wicked, see the wey I just de cry since”-Suspect’s friend eyewitness record of conversation *BY DEBO ABAYOMI/SPECIAL Crime Correspondent, Abuja

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BREAKING NEWS: NIGERIAN Amazon, DR. DALI Wins UNITED NATIONS Award…Saving, Caring, Re-integrating BOKO HARAM Widows and Orphans into society *Helped 650,000 displaced persons in the North Eastern Nigeria *Her SON abducted in 2011 during Jos, Plateau State crisis and has not been found till date *Becomes Recipient of the 2017 UN Sergio Vieira de Mello Award *Still first humanitarian actor to set up a livelihood programme for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), takes risk of reaching areas considered inaccessible and dangerous at the peak of Boko Haram’s insurgency * “The Sergio Vieira de Mello Award is conferred biennially, to draw the world’s attention to the unnoticed efforts by individuals, groups and organisations doing something special and unique to reconcile people and parties in conflict”-UNITED NATIONS *PLUS plans for her family trip to United States as Green Card recipients BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF, UNITED STATES

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EXCLUSIVE: INT’L CONSPIRACY AGAINST NIGERIA!OBJ Infiltrates African Union, Fuels Hatred in Jonathan’s Govt…Convinces AU Members to Rubbish Nigeria*Deceives 15-Member ECOWAS to Discredit Jonathan’s Electioneering Result Outcome at Poll*Why He’s Angry with Jonathan over IBB, Main Bitterness with PDP Exposed *“Nigerian Security Services must Restore Normalcy to North-East before Election”-ECOWAS*“We have Expelled, Ex-Communicated Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo for unabated anti-party activities, unbecoming of a cerebral elder-statesman losing all rights, privileges and respect of our teeming members this day, Monday 16th February 2015”-PDP Ogun State*Knocks by African leaders: “Nigeria was so corrupt that you to bribe a pilot before he could fly his passenger plane at Nigeria’s airport’-Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe*Cameroon President: “I would rather commit suicide than ask the International Community to help safeguard my country against militias, our country has a strong army to do the job, unlike Nigeria”

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TOURISM: MOROCCO Gets AFRICA’S First High-speed Train at a whooping cost of $2billion…10 year decade project funded by the governments of Morocco, France, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates * French President Emmanuel Macron and Morocco’s King Mohammed VI inaugurated train * New trains made by manufacturer Alstom and can reach speeds of 200 miles per hour *It’s double the speed of South Africa’s Gautrain launched in 2012, which falls short of the criteria of high-speed rail * “We aim at six million passengers a year after three years of commercial operation, instead of three million currently”- Mohamed Rabie Khlie, director general of national rail operator * ‘The Government is continuing its reforms and major investments to improve the business climate and attract foreign investors’- African Development Bank BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF
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