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                  President Barack Obaama received a warm welcome as he arrived Kenya late today friday for his first presidential visit to his father's homeland.According to sources,Obama's Air Force One plane landed today evening in the Kenyan capital,where he will co-host a conference on boosting entrepreneurs in Africa before traveling on to Ethiopia.After being greeted by President Uhuru Kenyatta and other top Kenyan officials including a little girl with flowers,Obama was given a tour of the capital.Hours before Obama's arrival,police blocked major roads and emptied streets of traffic in the usually congested capital as part of a huge security operation.In the darkness,excited Kenyans lined parts of the route to his hotel,cheering Obama as he passed by.More photos below.                                                                                                                

                    Millen Magese,ex-Miss Tanzania,has been awarded by BET International with the first ever Global Good recipient,an award given to highlight the humanitarian efforts of global personalities and celebrities in communities around the world.Her award was given to her by African designer and her friend David Tlale,but she officially received the actual award two days ago.Her Humanitarian campaign is specialized in raising awareness for people living with Endometrosis in Africa.Millen who is also a model has gone extra mile in ensuring that more Africans are aware of this health issue,one she is dealing with herself.More photos below.                                                                                                                               

                                           According to the Director General of Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate {PTAD}Nellie Mayshak,said they have discovered 3,000 ghost pensioners in the police pension scheme.She made the disclosure at a two day sensitisation workshop in Abuja yesterday thursday saying ''When PTAD was first given the police pensions payroll,it contained 18,000 pensioners which we thought were all genuine.But when we went around the states to verify,we discovered that there were 15,000 pensioners in the police.If we had not made this discovery,we would have been paying pension to these non-existing 3,000 pensioners''.She said that the diectorate saved the Federal Government more than N100 million monthly which would have been paid to the ghost pensioners.She said PTAD was partnering with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission {EFCC} and Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission {ICPC} to ensure that pension

           According to an official election results announced today friday,President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza has won for the third term in office.Nkurunziza won 69.41% of the vote in tuesday's vote.The election commission said ''This is the first round victory''.Nkurunziza's candidacy was denounced as unconstitutional by the opposition and provoked months of protests and an attempted coup when he traveled out of Burundi.Although eight candidates were on the ballot paper for the presidential polls,most of them withdrew from the race,with the closure of most independent media preventing them from campaigning.A lot of people took to the street to demonstrate against his third term return,most of them lost their lives in the process,but their death seems for nothing,now their President is back for the third term.

                 Hmmm,i just got these information that a Japanese restaurant has recently introduced this strange new dishes which includes a whole pigs {not made from pork}but Tufo.The move of making these pigs has scared away many of their customers.Other people consider this whole pig dishes as a reminder of how cruel it is to kill and eat animals.Even if am a meat lover,the mere sight of a whole pig on my plate is disgusting and i am not looking forward to such experience.In Nigeria,the most common animal cruelty is a dish they call Asun {roasted meat with pepper}.They will put a whole goat or any other eatable animal on an exposed grill for it to roast.What do you think about this whole pig dishes?.More photos below.