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Mega Mode Media: Co-pilot of crashed German plane told flying schoo... : (Reuters) - The pilot believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane into the Alps last week had told officials at Lufthansa&#39...

Despite  claims that all is amicable  after  Zayn Malik 's shock  departure  from the chart-topping boy band last week,  Louis Tomlinson  was feeling some anger in the early hours of Tuesday, March 31, after music producer  Naughty Boy  tweeted and retweeted a series of messages suggesting he'd "saved" Malik from the band. Malik, who left the group claiming he wanted "to be a normal 22-year-old" has been spotted working in the studio with Naughty Boy (who has worked with  Sam Smith  and  Emeli Sande ) this past week. And on Tuesday, March 31, the producer tweeted out a series of messages hinting that he was responsible for saving the singer from his former bandmates. One message (a video that has since been deleted) flashed up the words "Naughty Boy Saved My Life Zaughty." He also tweeted a message that read, "You're the most important part of this jigsaw," and a quote, "Respect yourself enough to walk away from anythi...

(Reuters) - The pilot believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane into the Alps last week had told officials at Lufthansa's flight training school that he had suffered from severe depression, the airline said. Lufthansa's CEO had previously said the company was not aware of anything that could have driven the co-pilot to crash the Airbus A320 into the French Alps and that he was 100 percent fit to fly. Lufthansa said Andreas Lubitz broke off his pilot training for a period of several months but then passed medical checks confirming his fitness to fly. When he resumed training in 2009, he provided the flight school with medical documents showing that he had gone through a "previous episode of severe depression," Lufthansa said, citing emailed correspondence between Lubitz and the flight school. Duesseldorf state prosecutors said on Monday Lubitz had been treated for suicidal tendencies before getting his pilot's licence. They last week foun...

Unprecedented in the history of electioneering in Nigeria! in politicking, in level of opposition, in voting and the outcome of the election, this election will ofrever rank as t he best yet in Nigeria's history of elections. Incumbent, now outgoing, President Goodluck Jonathan just called opposition Muhammadu  Buhari to acknowledge results of the election and concede defeat. The call was received by BUhari in Abuja a few minutes ago. UPDATE: Ovbiously, President Jonathan doe snot want to be collared into engaging in a long-drawn political battle with Buhari which  is highly likely if the power hawks circling around him assemble and offer their advice. His stance is clearly a marked departure from that of Godswill Orubebe, a former minister of the country, who stormed the venue of the meeting demanding that the electoral umpire, Prof. Jega should "go to his office" instead of continuing his announcement of the results. It confirms earlier suspicions that Orubebe...

With only a few votes left to count, Muhammadu Buhari appears to have been elected president of Nigeria; a seismic result that ends the reign of the People’s Democratic Party, which has held power in Africa’s largest economy since its return to civilian rule in 1999. Buhari, a former general who took power in a military coup in 1983, beat the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, whose government had been racked with corruption scandals and undermined by a failure to address an insurgency by the extremist group Boko Haram in the northeast. The new president, who has rebuilt his image as an austere, quasi-spiritual figure and a ‘converted democrat’, inherits a number of complex and intertwined social, political and economic challenges. The economy:   Nigeria’s economy is in a dangerous place , following a collapse in oil prices that have weakened its fiscal position and undermined its currency. The relatively smooth passage of the election should restore some investor confid...

 Nigeria’s opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) declared an election victory on Tuesday for former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari and said Africa’s most populous nation was witnessing history with its first democratic transfer of power. “The people of Nigeria have taken over,” an ecstatic APC spokesman Lai Mohammed told Reuters at the house in the capital where Buhari, a sandal-wearing Muslim ascetic watching the results on television. “This is the first time in Nigeria that a sitting government will be voted out of power using purely democratic means.”  The count showed Buhari steamrolling to a landslide against President Goodluck Jonathan, whose People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has made no comment since the scale of the political earthquake in Nigeria — Africa’s biggest economy and top oil producer — has become apparent. With just one of 36 states left to declare, Buhari’s APC had 15.1 million votes versus 11.7 for Jonathan and the PDP, according to a Reuters tally. M...

Mega Mode Media: Jay Z, Kanye, Madonna, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Coldp... : From left to right, musical artists Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Deadmau5, and Kanye West appeared on stage at the Tidal launch event M...

From left to right, musical artists Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Deadmau5, and Kanye West appeared on stage at the Tidal launch event Monday in New York City. Music mogul Jay Z re-launched the streaming service, billed as the first artist-owned platform for music and video. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Roc Nation) Madonna, Rihanna, Beyonce and Jay Z are among the A-List musicians who are co-owners of Tidal, a streaming service being billed as the first artist-owned platform for music and video. The membership-based service — similar to subscription service Spotify — will provide music and video content that users can stream on computers, tablets and smartphones or listen to offline. It is being offered at two price points: $10 for standard sound quality and $20 for "lossless high fidelity sound quality." (All figures in US dollars.) Few other details were released about the streaming service. Changing 'the course of music history' Alicia Keys ...

Mega Mode Media: #NigeriaDecides: Exclusive: Military gets ready fo... : Exclusive information obtained from a top intelligence source says heavily armed military personnel have been deployed to many parts of t...

Exclusive information obtained from a top intelligence source says heavily armed military personnel have been deployed to many parts of the country to forestall a possible outbreak of violence following the conclusion of the ongoing announcement of the presidential elections in Abuja. They have been ordered to quell any riots and demonstrations that may arise from the declaration of the winner with the use of force.

Mega Mode Media: Buhari speaks to SkyNews (SkyNews) : The man who has taken a significant early lead in  Nigeria 's closest-ever presidential election has told Sky News he does not even kno...

The man who has taken a significant early lead in  Nigeria 's closest-ever presidential election has told Sky News he does not even know the official timetable for any run-off, such is the quiet confidence in his camp. But the APC's Muhammadu Buhari cautioned an outright win would only happen if the count was "free and fair". We joined Mr Buhari as the first half of results in the count showed a convincing lead for the former military ruler. The official tally indicated the opposition leader had built up a two million vote lead on sitting President Goodluck Jonathan with the results in half the states declared. To win, Mr Buhari needs not only the most votes but at least 25% in two-thirds of Nigerian states to avoid a run-off. But this is the fourth attempt by the former general at claiming the presidential prize and he has accused the ruling PDP Party of rigging the vote in all three previous contests. This time has been no different he said, although he...

Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) He polled 8,520,436 votes in the states and the FCT while his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart and incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan had 6,488,210 votes.Results from 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory so far released by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday showed the All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari coasting to victory. The Daura, Katsina State-born former Head of State won 10 of the states and Jonathan, eight plus the FCT. The states cleared by Buhari are Kaduna, Kwara, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Oyo, Ondo, Osun, Kogi and Ogun. Jonathan captured Abia, Anambra, Nasarawa, Enugu, Ekiti, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Plateau and FCT. In the South-West states, Buhari won in   Oyo, Ondo, Osun, Ogun but lost in Ekiti where he garnered 120,331 votes. Jonathan   polled 176,466 votes in the PDP-controlled state. Buhari polled   299,889 votes   in ...