How Bill Gate's wife turned him down the first time they met

Bill and Melinda Gates first met in 1987, shortly after Melinda was hired as a product manager at Microsoft. 

A few months later, Bill asked her out on a date. 

"You know I was thinking maybe we could go out  if you give me your phone number  maybe two weeks from tonight," Bill said, according to an interview Melinda gave with AOL's Makers site.

"And I said to him, 'Two weeks from tonight? I have no idea what I'm doing two weeks from tonight.' And I said, 'You're not spontaneous enough for me.'"

But Bill wasn't ready to give up just yet. 

"He called an hour later and said, 'Is this spontaneous enough for you?'" Melinda told Makers. 

She agreed to the date. They were married in a secret ceremony on the island of Lanai on January 1, 1994, after seven years of dating.

The couple has three daughters together. Their work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has included everything from eradicating diseases across the world to developing sources of food for impoverished people.

Soyinka to Obasanjo; Nigeria recorded more political murders in your tenure

Professor Soyinka yesterday in Lagos at the public presentation of a book titled “Modern and Tradition Elite in the Politics of Lagos” written by Ambassador Patrick Dele Cole dismissed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s book, “My Watch”, calling it “three tonnes of doctored and self-serving narratives”. Criticising Chief Obasanjo’s book, “My Watch” he described it as “three tonnes of doctored and self-serving narratives”.

He, therefore, tasked Dr Dele Cole, who was a former adviser to the former president, to give Obasanjo tutorial on how to write history.

Soyinka also asked Cole to investigate alleged allegations that President Goodluck Jonathan was training some 1000 snipers and write about it. He argued that there were more political murders during the former president’s reign than at any other time, noting that even during Gen. Sani Abacha’s time, he could not boast of 1000 snipers at his disposal. He however stated that a little learning is a dangerous thing.

I'm commited to APC- Atiku

Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has reassured that his commitment to the APC and the success of its presidential flag bearer, General Muhammadu Buhari and other candidates of the party in the 2015 general elections is unequivocal  and will never be up for bargaining.

The former Vice President made the assertion against the backdrop of reports in a section of the media of his purported return to the fold of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

In his words; “I remain irrevocably committed to the APC, as I promised in my concession speech at the conclusion of our party’s presidential primaries, and has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure the victory of General Muhammadu Buhari and other candidates of our great party at the general elections,” .

A statement by the Atiku Media Office in Abuja on Tuesday said that reports of the Turaki Adamawa’s purported return to the PDP or any other party is the handiwork of mischief makers focused on pitching the former Vice President against other leaders of the opposition party.

Fayose to Buhari and APC: Stop lying to Nigerians , you are a scam!

Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose has called on the APC Presidential flag bearer General Muhammadu Buhari and his party to stop lying and deceiving Nigerians.

Speaking at an interactive session organized by the Nigerian Governor’s Forum for media men and civil society organizations yesterday in Lagos, Governor Fayose described General Buhari as a man too old to fit into the rigorous nature of the office of the President of Nigeria.

He accused APC of covering up the state of health of General Buhari and maintained that his last trip to London was because he was critically ill and needed urgent medical attention. Governor Fayose further boasted that he can knows the name of the hospital General Buhari was treated in London.

He described General Buhari as his father, saying that anybody who is the age of his mother is his father.

In his words; General Buhari is my father, anybody who is the age of your mother is your father. When General Olusegun Obasanjo became president at 62, they call him Baba, but when you have the difference in the age of Obasanjo and General Buhari, you say “Baa”.

He also decried General Buhari’s inability to speak for more than 57 minutes throughout his campaign tour of the country, saying that if Buhari is the change they are talking about, then it is a waste of time.