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After 55 Yrs, Switzerland Reopens Consulate Office In Lagos. Fifty-five years after it shut its consulate-general office in Nigeria, the Swiss government inaugurated a new office in Lagos late Tuesday. Declaring the office open, Didier Burkhalter, Switzerland’s federal counselor, and head of foreign affairs, said the Nigerian office is the second in Sub-Saharan Africa. “The opening of this second consulate-general of Switzerland in Sub-Saharan Africa, after Cape Town, marks a very special day for us,” he said. “Switzerland is officially returning to the place where its long-standing friendship with Nigeria started 55 years ago: the exciting city of Lagos! “Ever since the opening of our embassy, Nigeria has been at the heart of our foreign policy on Africa.” He said Nigeria has not lost her importance in his country’s foreign policy. Burkhalter also said the economic significance of Nigeria could not be “overstated”, adding that it was “one of the main reasons” that th...

South African Gay Singer Dies Of Anal Cancer Abuja – 36-year-old gay South African singer, Koyo Bala, who is HIV positive has died at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, after battling with anal cancer for two years. Koyo Bala was part of a pop gay group known as 3-Sum made up of Bala‚ Amstel Maboa and the late Jeff Moyo, who were popularly known in the South African entertainment industry as gay rights activists. In a report obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria, Koyo Bala had disclosed publicly that he was HIV positive in 2011. It was also disclosed that he was, earlier in 2014, diagnosed of anal cancer which he lived with for two years before it now claimed his life. His last tweet about his illness in February reads: “I pray 2 God everyday 2 help me pass this cancer #itshard #pains #wontgiveup #canwinthisbattle #cantsleepofpains”. Vanguard.

The website Afrique News Info issued a scarcely credible information, the Cameroonian army might have  intercepted a French helicopter at the North of the country providing arms, ammunition and money to the terrorist group affiliated with Daech. Citing as source a Cameroonian politician Banda Kani, national president of the New People’s Movement (NPM). “You also know that there are two French terrorists who were arrested at the Briqueterie with explosives. […] Another factor is that a helicopter was intercepted in the north of Cameroon depositing arms, ammunition and dollars […] take their loot deposited by the helicopter. “ In support of the facts, they recall that these practices have already been seen during the post-election crisis that was played in Ivory Coast. “We remember that in 2010 and 2011, to bring down the elected president Laurent Gbagbo, rebels and criminal weapons of Soro-Ouattara were helicopter by French soldiers stationed in the Unicorn force in Ivory ...

President Buhari Has Done The "Impossible." . Buhari has unbundled the NNPC into 7 operating units. They're the Upstream unit; Downstream unit; Refinery unit; Gas/Power unit; Ventures; Finance & Accounting; and Executive Head, Corporate Planning and Services. . Bello Rabiu is CEO of Upstream Company; Henry Ikem-Onih for Downstream; Anibor Kragha for Refineries; Saidu Mohammed for Gas and Power Plant; Babatunde Adeniran for Ventures; Isiaka Abdulrasaq for Finance & Accounting; and Isa Inuwa for Executive Head, Corporate Planning and Services. All appointments take immediate effect. . Ibeh Kachikwu said there would be no job loss as a result of the unbundling. . Meanwhile, oil workers under the aegis of Pengassan and Nupeng said they were not consulted before the decision to unbundle NNPC was taken, hence it is unacceptable to them. They have therefore embarked on an industrial action that is bound to hamper power and fuel supply across the country. . ...

Kelvin Okafor is an excellent PENCILman. Here are some of his work, done in pencils. It takes him a minimum of 100 hours to complete each portrait. As in One Hundred Hours? Gosh. Give it up for Kelvin folks, Nigerians are doing the country proud wherever they go. PS: You know yourself, you have been running around since yesterday trying to discredit Oresegun's work. Please come and tell me how this is 3D abeg. Photo credits: Daily Mail.

NIGERIAN ARTISTE ORESEGUN OLUMIDE DISPLAYS HIS DRAWING THAT BEATS THE MONALISA PAINTING See these amazing hyperrealism paintings by a Yabatech graduate, Oresegun Olumide. can we take a minute and acknowledge these paintings by Oresegun Olumide born in 1981 (Nigerian painter) These are art work, a painting by a Nigerian,Oresegun Olumide who drew it. It will beat any painting of Monalisa. This paint is so real,these arecNOT  human beings but PAINTINGS! PHOTO CREDIT: ORESEGUN OLUMIDE 

The Federal Government on Tuesday signed an agreement called “Letter of Intent” with the Swiss government with the aim of repatriating $321m looted by a former military ruler, late Gen. Sani Abacha. According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the agreement was signed during a meeting Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had with a Swiss delegation led by the country’s Federal Councillor and Head of its Foreign Affairs Department, Mr. Didier Burkhalter and the Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria,  Mr. Eric Mayoruz, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), signed the agreement on behalf of the Federal Government while Burkhalter signed on behalf of the Swiss government. He said the agreement was on the restitution of illegally-acquired assets forfeited in Switzerland. “Under the agreement, the Swiss government will award to Nigeria $321m of funds i...