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A 37-year-old woman in Uganda has found herself in the history books after it was discovered she gave birth to 38 children. Mariam Nabatanzi Babiryeho nicknamed Nalongo Muzaala Bana which means ‘the twin mother who produces quadruplets,’ was said to have started having babies at the age of 13 when she was given out in marriage by her poor parents. And over the years, she has created a record of having six sets of twins, four sets of triplets, three sets of quadruplets and two single births. In an interview with reporters who discovered her, Babirye said her own father had 45 children from different women and the children came in multiple births. “My father gave birth to 45 children with different women and they all came in quintuplets, quadruplets, twins and triplets.”

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan came under attacks yesterday over his claims in Against the Run of Play, a book by ThisDay Editorial Board Chairman Olusegun Adeniyi. Jonathan, in the book, accused immediate past Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Prof. Attahiru Jega of disappointing him. Jega’s Special Assistant, Prof Mohammed Kuna, disagreed with Jonathan’s belief that the wide margin between the presidential election and National Assembly results in Kano State was a reflection of a flawed election. The former President said it was strange that the state recorded 1.8 million votes in the presidential poll and 800,000 in the National Assembly election on the same day. But Prof Kuna, in a section of the book, said: “There is nothing particularly special about the Kano result; it is a general trend as many votes were more interested in the presidential election than in other elections. That was what happened across the country and you can go and do the tabu

Former Nigerian minister of education, Prof Babalola Borishade is dead. He died in London on Wednesday after a brief illness at 71. He was initially rushed to Reddington Hospital in Lagos, last week from where he was taken to London. The cause of death was lung and heart –related. Borishade was born in Usi- Ekiti on March 7, 1946 into the Ebi Ilotin family. He served as a minister for four times, between 1999-2011. The electrical engineer was also a teacher and a political strategist. Between February 2001 and May 2003, he served as the Minister of Education. In recognition of his contributions to Education in Nigeria, Africa and the World at large, Borishade was elected the Vice- Chairman of the E9 Group of the United Nations, President of the UNESCO International Conference on Education, as well as Chairman Education for All (EFA) Forum of African Ministers of Education. In 2004, Borishade was appointed as Minister of State, Power and Steel. He initiated the ‘Gas t

The Nigeria Police Force says it has launched a manhunt for one Inusa Saidu Biu, a riot policeman, who threatened to kill 200 persons if ailing President Muhammadu dies. READ: If Buhari dies, I promise to kill 200 people – Police officer The police stated that it had commenced investigation into the content of his post on the social media, with a view to identifying the policeman and taking necessary actions. Biu took to his Facebook timeline on Tuesday, claiming that some persons he tagged as enemies of the President were orchestrating his (Buhari) death. He rained curses on the so called enemies and threatened to take 200 lives if Buhari died from the illness. He wrote, “After they poisoned him, God did not let him die; Buhari, the cat with nine lives. Now they want him to resign so that they would continue to steal our ‘yam’ (treasury). No way; your enemies will die like mosquitoes before you, including those who are commenting negatively. Shege ya buro uba, Zamu ci uwak

INFORMATION, Culture & Tourism Lai Mohammed has explained why President Muhammadu Buhari did not chair the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting yesterday. He needed rest and attended to government businesses from home, the minister said, adding that he mandated Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to chair the meeting that lasted for about two hours. The President was not at the FEC meeting a fortnight ago. That of last week was cancelled due to what the Presidency called the inability to circulate invitation to cabinet members as a result of the Easter holiday. At the end of the meeting, Mohammed told State House reporters that the President needed to rest and had directed his vice to stand in for him. Stressing that Buhari would operate from home yesterday, the minister said that all pending files requiring his attention had been to his official residence on the President’s directive. He said: “We just concluded the FEC meeting, I’m sure you noticed that the Presiden

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has alleged that the immediate past US president, Barack Obama, was desperate to have him removed from office. Jonathan said Obama made it clear that the US wanted a change of government in Nigeria. The Obama administration was unsatisfied with the way Jonathan handled the fight against corruption, Boko Haram insurgency and the rescue of the kidnapped Chibok school girls, it was learnt. It is believed that it was based on these reasons that the US at the time placed an arms embargo on Nigeria. Although the US cited gross abuse of human rights by the Nigerian army as the reason for its decision. President Donald Trump has reportedly lifted the embargo, with plans underway for the US to sell fighter jets to Nigeria to further advance the anti-Boko Haram war. In a new book written by Segun Adeniyi and titled ‘Against the Run of Play’, which chronicles how Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential election, the ex-president said Obama influenced UK

A National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has alleged that Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, worked against the plan to make him President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in the 2015 presidential election. Tinubu stated that Saraki, El-Rufai and other stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party, who defected to the APC in the build-up to the 2015 elections, instigated Buhari and some APC chieftains not to pick him as the would-be Vice-President. The APC leader’s comments were contained in a book titled ‘Against the Run of Play,’ written by the Chairman, Editorial Board of ThisDay, Olusegun Adeniyi. Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State, said his opponents persuaded Buhari to look for another running mate on the grounds that Christians in the North would not embrace a Muslim-Muslim ticket, and as such, could jeopardise the party’s victory. The former governor said the arguments put forward by