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Ever wondered how the names , of cars were chosen .All those abbreviations you just don’t seem to understand like BMW(Be My Wife ).Its time to know the truth.I would be taking the veil of ignorance off your faces 1. Alfa Romeo Formerly known as ALFA(Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili).The name changed when Nicola Romeo bought the company 1915. 2.Aston Martin The name was coined from the founder’s name Lionel Martin,and the “Aston Hill” races (near Aston Clinton) where the company was founded. 3.Audi The founder’s name is August Horch, so he formed the name of the company from the Latin translation of his German name “Horch”.Long story short Horch (German)=Audi(Latin). 4.BMW Nope its not “Be My Wife”.Its Bayerische Motoren Werke (Bavarian Motor Works). 5.Cadillac Now owned by General Motors(they bought the original company in 1909).It was named after the 18th century French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, founder of Detroit, Michigan.Cadillac is a sma

Actress, Funke Akindele shared photos on snapchat saying she is moving into her new home at Amen Estate, Eleko, Lagos. Congrats to her! See more photos after the cut.

A vulnerability in open source shopping cart software osCommerce has affected almost 200 websites that have been listed and posted online. A source informed SC Magazine of the  Pastebin  list of 198 websites, which they said were fairly small e-commerce sites and vulnerable to the osCommerce flaw and could be subject to attack soon. SC Magazine showed the list to a number of industry experts. Andrew Barratt, partner at PTP Consulting, confirmed that all of the websites have the same vulnerability and said it appears that the examples given allow the password file to be stolen, or access to be granted to their database information including connection strings and passwords. Michael Jordon, information security consultant at Context Information Security, said that the osCommerce bug affects the ‘extras' directory bug that may let remote users view files on the target system and according to  securitytracker.com  this was originally reported on in April 2006. Jordon said: “So

- Four people have been killed in a clash between kidnappers and men of the police force in Lagos - The kidnap incident took place along Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos state - An open fire battle battle led to the death of the kidnappers Four suspected kidnappers were killed on Friday, December 16, after they clashed with some policemen from the Lagos state police command.

About 11 people have been reported dead, after a crash in Ondo state - The victims are said to be guests on their way back form a wedding ceremony - A few other persons are said to have received varying degrees of injury An accident involving a fully-loaded commercial bus and a Dangote trailer at the Akintelu end of the Benin-Sagamu Expressway, has led to the death of 11 people.

.A 34 year old woman took her husband to court for denying her sex. The woman told the court that her husband was physically and emotionally abusing her. She said that the most annoying part is that the husband has been denying her sex.  “He has been beating me claiming that I hate his relatives.” “He has also been denying me conjugal rights. We no longer have sex... He left home since July, ” the woman reportedly said in her affidavit. The man on his part said he was tired of the union and want the marriage to end.  However, the magistrate ruled in favour of the sexually starved woman and ordered her husband to take her home, continue the marriage and give her sex regularly.  Here’s how the story was reported in the media.

Lucy Nwachukwu(NAN): Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, the Managing Director, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Commission (NDIC), on Friday said the commission and CBN had set up a committee to look into the trending digital currency, Bitcoin. According to Bitcoin.org, Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin is open-source; its design is public, nobody owns or controls Bitcoin and everyone can take part. On Bitcoin reddit page, it was explained that it is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralised digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, naira- bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin. As such, it is more resistant to wild inflation, devaluation, import policies, currency fixing and corrupt banks. It is a true floating

Monday, 19 December 2016 Video: Two Nigerian men fight inside airplane The video of two Nigerian guys exchanging punches as if it were pleasantries during an international flight has gone viral. In the footage the pilot could be heard announcing to other passengers who rarely bulged to react, that the plane would be diverted to Lomé, Togo over the fight which was was “not acceptable at all.” Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT06Z98lVGk

In 2016 the MMM Community united millions of people in Nigeria. Regardless of their age, social status, ethnicity or confession, millions of Nigerians help each other with MMM and change their lives for the better. And we will do our utmost to make the new year even better than the last one! On the occasion of the upcoming holidays, we are introducing a bonus: +20% on all contributions made from December 7 to January 1. So, when you provide help, for example, in the amount of 1,000 naira, you will be granted 1,000 Mavro-NGN plus a bonus of 200 Mavro-NGN (so it will look like you provided help for 1,200 naira). Holiday Bonus Terms: The bonus is frozen for a month after the PH-request is created. The bonus will be granted only for “new” money. It means, if you created a request to get help after December 7 and later you provided help for the amount you withdrew, you will not get the bonus. You should not create a request to get help until the bonus is unfrozen (thi

Bothered by the dearth of potable drinking water faced by residents of Kedum, Kaani ward, in Ogoni community of Rivers State., the MMM-Nigeria’, a community of mutual financial aid and donations, Port Harcourt chapter, Sunday, commissioned a borehole in the community, saying it's its own little way of ameliorating the plights of residents in Kedum area and other neighbouring communities.      A Guider in the ‘MMM Community’, Ndukwe Joseph Ndukwe, said the project was motivated by the desire of the group to affect the society positively especially now the country is faced with excruciating recession induced hunger and poverty.       "That is what defines us as a community of people providing financial help to each other on the principle of gratuitous, benevolence and reciprocity," Ndukwe stated.        Present at the commissioning of the project were the MMM Nigeria, PH chapter number one man,Abiye Johnson (100k+ Guider); Nonso Onwuneme (100k+ Guider), other MMM Guider

It is at the early hours of today that members and participants of www.helpingrevolution.com already know what has befallen them when its time for them to get returns on investments and the system couldn't match them at all, and this seems to be an automatic before.      Opytainment crew spoke to a participant who claimed he has invested over $1,000 USD on the platform claims he has been duped as the system does not work on peer-peer as they claim they are.        It has later been discovered that they have a central account where all members bit coin are assembled and directed to where the GH platform is operated by a Autobots.       This system claims to pay her participants 200% return on investments. Nigerians be warned on all these pyramids platforms that has flooded the internet now adays.

See what someone sent just now: #BREAKING_NEWS: RITUALISTS ABDUCT EIGHT JOB SEEKERS IN IBADAN . Ritualists have adopted a new trick to lure their victims into captivity by taking advantage of the high rate of unemployment in the country, inviting jobless youths to report at a point where they are ferried away to the slaughter’s slab. We reliably gathered that unsuspecting unemployed youths were requested by the syndicate to report at a designated point where they were taken away in a Sienna car to the ritualist den in a bush along Ibadan-Ijebu-Ode road. One of the victims, Adesola, Aina on Monday, November 28, 2016 said that he saw a GSM number on the wall along the street requesting interested candidates looking for job to report at Idi-Arere, Ibadan. He said he reported at the agreed point in the morning since he had been jobless for sometime now. According to the young man who was visibly shaking as he narrated his experience in Ibadan this morning, nine of the job seekers

Diego Costa, Willian and Eden Hazard struck for Chelsea to fire them to a 3-1 Premier League win at Manchester City on Saturday, cancelling out Gary Cahill’s spectacular own goal in the first half.

Ifedolapo Oladepo Did Not Die in Camp - NYSC THE National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) has, on Friday cleared air over the controversial death of a First Class graduate of Transport Management, Ifedolapo Oladepo from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Osogbo at its orientation camp in Kano State. In an exclusive chat with Vanguard , the KANO Coordinator of NYSC, Abdullahi Baba said that the late Coper died in a Government hospital. “The truth of the matter was that the Coper did not died at the camp, she died in the hospital. She was sick, treated at the camp clinic, and when she was not responding, she was taken to second facility hospital at Gwarzo General hospital “. Speaking further, the state Coordinator “I have reported the matter to my Head office, she was handled by our doctors in the camp before she was transferred to Government hospital.” He distanced the Camp management from the Coper’s death stressing that “we have nothing to do with her death, the records and the

United for one last time, these are the coffins containing the remains of Brazilian footballers killed in the devastating Colombia air crash.

The coffins of some of the Brazilian Chapecoense football team players killed in a plane crash in the Colombian mountains, are seen at the San Vicente Mortuary in Medellin today.

Yet another deceased stowaway was discovered on an Arik Air flight at the Oliver Tambo Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa on Wednesday. The unidentified stowaway was found dead inside the wheel well of the Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The flight had departed the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos on Tuesday at 3:55 pm and arrived in Johannesburg at 11 pm that night. A statement by the spokesperson of Arik Air, Mr. Ola Adebanji, disclosed that the engineers of the South African Airways Technical facility at the Oliver Tambo International Airport discovered the body of the stowaway during the inspection phase of a routine maintenance check on Tuesday. He said that investigations were ongoing to determine how the stowaway found his way into the aircraft’s main wheel well from the Lagos airport. A source close to MMIA told our correspondent that it is not uncommon to find stowaways on planes departing from the airport, as some desperate Nigerians connive with secur

Perhaps she should come and reduce it for them? Say it as it is Journalist Kemi Olunloyo is back again and this time she is out for female in the industry who she thinks are in need of a bust reduction surgery. According to her; 1. Cossy Ojiakor 2. Eniola Badmus 3. Bimbo Thomas Needs to get a reduction asap. Thoughts?

Say No To Increase In Data Plan In Nigeria By NCC          In a bid to air his disappointment and non-support for this nonsense, someone on Nairaland has already created a *petition in a website* and he needs all of us that make use of data, and you violently don’t want it to increase in price, to sign this petition.            Let's say NO to increase in data plan in Nigeria by NCC_ Here is Buhari's Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu phone numbers, who is behind the increment in cost of DATA BUNDLE. Let's Occupy him. 08035868386 08099213903 Buhari and his gang can't GAG the Social Media! Join the Movement! Hon Bright Okoebor

Today is a sad day in Umuahia as at least four people were confirmed dead at the Federal Medical Center(FMC),Umuahia, Abia State following a multiple auto crash that occurred along Ubakala axis of the Enugu/ Port- Harcourt express way. According to an eyewitness,4 vehicles were involved in the crash, including a Toyota Hilux van with registration number CG 539RSH, a Peugeot J5 bus with registration No XA 874 AKW, and a Mercedes Benz tipper with registration no EGG 555 YG, while the fourth vehicle said to be a commercial bus had been towed out of the scene before our reporter arrived. One of the victims named Abdulhamid Abubakar blamed over speeding on the side of the Hilux van driver as the cause of accident.According to him,they were 4 in number in a Peugeot J5 bus travelling from Lafia, Nasarawa to Aba to sale bags of garden eggs and oranges when the accident happened.He said he was in the Peugeot with 3 of his friends, Husaini Tanko, Imamu Abubakar and Ibrahim Abubakar. The accid

Just coming from school around 4:30pm and I saw people running away,I heard gunshots,the killers escaped on a keke napep,three guys they were        I took one pics sha ,people around were saying he is a cultist,he was a radio mechanic at imsu junction they chased him from his shop to Orange groove before they shot him in the head

I ran into a previous thread I once created back in the days, "7 reasons ladies act the way they do." I think it's high time I created something on the opposite.  Some ladies usually see negative in any thing their guy does for them. They read meanings, jump into conclusions and act with little outdated information as to Why Guys Act They Way They Do. I hope as you carefully ponder on this thread, may you find what you are looking for. 1. When he just goes quiet and doesn't want to talk:  Sometimes, ladies judge him to be harbouring some evil plan but Hey No! It could be an unfulfilled dream bugging his mind. Unfortunately, he can't discuss with you because either you might not understand or get worried/upset. Other times, you never saw that melancholic part of him; you are now discovering. Don't compare to this or that, stop already! That emotional manipulation/blackmail is one of the reasons your relationship is still where it is; You don't know what

One actress who many have been wondering, considering her beauty and status, if she will ever remarry again since she lost her husband several years ago, is Toyin Adegbola. Though she is now above 50 years of age but her beauty and achievements in the Yoruba Movie Industry still speak volumes and would endear any man to her.        As an actress, Toyin Adegbola has done well for herself and as a mother she has trained her children to an enviable stage; all of them are Masters degree holders and they are also doing well in their own chosing fields.images Lately as a politician, ‘Asewo to re universe’ as she is fondly called is trying her best to mark her presence. But one question people won’t stop asking is whether Toyin Adegbola will ever remarry. In a chat with Yorubamoviegist.com recently, she was asked the same question and her response would interest you. “You know at the initial stage I felt there is no man I will marry and would not want a child or two from me. And that I was

NEWISSUES, Abuja By Haruna Yusuf  Nigerians all over, home and abroad, and on social media have come out to condemn the Federal Government’s directive to telecom providers to increase the tariff for calls that last beyond 3 minutes and that of data subscription. It was complete outrage on social media with Nigerians calling the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari from clueless to waiting for him to just go by 2019 without bothering to contest. These are comments from notable Nigerians. Profesor Moses Ochonu from USA wrote:- “They have directed telecom providers to raise tariffs on data plans. The CBN governor says tariffs should be raised for calls that last beyond 3 minutes. After raising the price of petrol and causing the price of rice, foodstuffs, fertilizers, and other commodities to rise to astronomical levels, they have invaded the communication sector to raise more money to subsidize the expensive bureaucracies and political patronage of the ruling elites. With the

Suspect remanded in custody for $8,674 USD fraud Pleads not guilty Remanded in prison till December 6th The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on Monday November 28, 2016, docked one Okwara Victory before Justice I.B Gafai of the Federal High Court Awka in Anambra State, for charges bothering on obtaining by false pretense to the tune of $8,674USD. When the charge was read to the accused, he pleaded not guilty on all counts of the three count charge preferred against him by the EFCC. In view of his plea, the Defense Counsel Barr. Emma Onyibor applied for the bail of his client adding that his client had been on administrative bail granted him by the EFCC, and had not defaulted but reported regularly to the EFCC whenever he was needed. But the Prosecuting Counsel Barr. Habila Jonathan informed the court that he was served the motion for bail, shortly before court proceeding and needed time to study and respond. The court upheld the argument of the EFCC counsel as the

In fact, if you are really in a good relationship, you will never get confused about this question. You will know it inside your heart.But if you ever get confused and wonder about the quality of your relationship then go through the following signs. They are signs you are in a relationship that will last for a lifetime.Here are some signs that your relationship is eternal. Signs that your relationship is eternal are: 1.You always try to extend support to each other without thinking twice. Of course, when you want your life partner to succeed in life, you tend to render unselfish support. 2.Trust is another important factor that can make or break relationships. If you are in a position to trust each other without any doubt then it is one of the signs you are in a good relationship. 3.Judging the other person every now and then is a bad thing. If both of you don’t feel like judging each other, then it is an important sign of good relationship. 4.Communicating softly and effective

The undated photo shows late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade receiving Fidel Castro in his hotel room in Cuba. The late Cuban despot died on Friday at age 90. See Photo Below:

A former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, on Sunday congratulated Rotimi Akeredolu, the winner of the governorship election in Ondo State. Mr. Tinubu had been opposed to Mr. Akeredolu’s emergence as candidate of their party, APC, alleging irregularities in the party’s primaries. The former governor and his key supporters were conspicuously absent during Mr. Akeredolu’s campaign rallies. However, on Sunday, few hours after Mr. Akeredolu was declared winner by the electoral commission, INEC, Mr. Tinubu asked party members to close ranks “for the good of our party and its progressive ideals.” Read Mr. Tinubu’s full statement below: Following the announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with regard to the governorship elections in Ondo State, I extend congratulations to Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN. on the outcome of the election and for his perseverance and persistence in seeking that office. I must also congratulate the people of Ondo State for their

It was a glamorous and joyous sight to behold as eighty couples tied the knot in style at St. Sylvester Catholic Church, New Nyanya in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.                    The couples were given the sacrament of matrimony by the Catholic Bishop of Lafia Diocese, Most Reverend Dr. Mathew Ishaya Audu. According to reports, the ceremony was unique and historic in the records of St. Sylvester Catholic Church. Congratulations to the new couples. 

A young man was seriously injured following a violent clash between two notorious gangs popularly called 'Yan-daba' in a community in Jos, the Plateau State capital. The man whose hand was chopped off was pictured being rushed to a hospital by his firends after the incident. Yan-daba are a criminal gang known to use dangerous weapons such as daggers to intimidate members of their communities.

Following his bail on Thursday to the tune of 1 million after he was allegedly caught trying to steal 9 iPhones, movie producer Seun Egbegbe has sent out special appreciation to loving fans. Read below: SEUN EGBEGBE: Special Appreciation to you all!                Following the public allegation about the news/publication on social media that Mr Seun Egbegbe was remanded at kirikiri prison, we will authoritatively inform the general public that Mr Seun Egbegbe of Ebony Films Productions was granted bail on thursday 24th November, 2016 by the magistrate court in lagos with adjournment of case till february 18th, 2017.                The Media Team to Mr Seun Egbegbe will appreciate if some Non-investigative media, would stop misleading the general public and fans with false report or story over the settled matter. "I am not presently at Kirikiri prison as alleged by some reporters, since the begining of the whole drama because i know nothing about it and God bears my witness&qu

Photo News: Mrs. Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu is the wife of Ondo State governor-elect Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN. She hails from Emeabiam in Owerri West Local Government of Imo State.        A breast cancer survivor, she is the founder and president of Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN), an organization she founded in October 1997.        A graduate of Zoology from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Mrs. Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu also has a master’s in Fisheries(major in Aquaculture) from University of the Philippines.        She is the chief executive officer/owner of Aquatek Farms Ventures. Rotimi and Betty Akeredolu’s marriage is blessed with 4 successful children: Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (Jnr), Dr. Teniola Akeredolu, Mrs.Yejide Runsewe and Babajide Akeredolu.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the November 26, 2016 governorship election in Ondo State. According to Prof. Ganiyu Ambali, INEC Returning Officer, Mr. Akeredolu defeated two major opponents, Eyitayo Jegede of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), to clinch victory. INEC disclosed during the collation of results from 18 local government areas in the state that the victorious Mr. Akeredolu scored 244, 842 votes in the election while Mr. Oke won 126, 889 votes and Mr. Jegede 150,380 votes. Mr. Akeredolu, a lawyer by profession, who led overall by 94,462 will take over from Governor Olusegun Mimiko who has served two terms as governor of Ondo State. A breakdown of the votes in various local government areas is as follows: 1. ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY =126, 889 2. ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS =244, 842 3. PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC

The All Progressives Congress candidate in the Ondo governorship election, Rotimi Akeredolu has said he is humbled, after winning majority votes at Saturday’s election. Akeredolu had won in 14 Local Government Areas out of the 17 LGAs, already announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission. While thanking Ondo people for choosing him as the governor of the state, he said it was time to think and act anew. See tweets: Ondo has decided and I am humbled that my people chose me. Our time to Think Anew and Act Anew has come. Thank You Ondo State. #OndoDecides.pic.twitter.com/pd1u2zk5A0 — Rotimi Akeredolu SAN (@RotimiAkeredolu)November 27, 2016 This level of oversight is welcomed and encouraged. It is the beauty of democracy.  — Rotimi Akeredolu SAN (@RotimiAkeredolu)November 27, 2016 I will be live on Periscope in a few hours to address#OndoDecides — Rotimi Akeredolu SAN (@RotimiAkeredolu)

THE candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Rotimi Akerdolu, SAN, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, were locked in a tight race, yesterday, in the Ondo State governorship election. However, according to unofficial results from  the 18 local councils of the state obtained by Sunday Vanguard, which are subject to authentication by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Akeredolu had a slight lead over Jegede in the election that was largely peaceful and witnessed impressive voters’ turnout. Electoral materials and officials arrived on time in most locations. Voting commenced by 8am and ended by 2pm while sor ting and counting of ballots  took place almost immediately. According to the unconfirmed figures, Akeredolu won in 10 councils while Jegede had the upper hand in eight. The official results are expected to be announced today. The election was said to have been highly monetised as voters were allegedly induced with money before vo

There had been series of issued ahead of the polls, ranging from arms being arrested from loyalists to contesting candidates to irregularities in the party members presented to to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Eyitayo Jegede emerged as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after a Supreme Court judgment ruled against erstwhile factional candidate of same party, Jimoh Ibrahim. All the candidates have, according to our guys on ground in the state, voted and have either blamed the electoral body for the proper conduct or otherwise of the election. Earlier, Resident Electoral Commissioner, Olusegun Agbaje, informed that all the sensitive and non-sensitive materials were on ground for the election. ADVERTISING Read more: https://www.opytainment.blogspot. com

Davido also known as OBO is always repping. Love this guy tho. My own question is "how did he gain access into their dressing room?"  Probably Victor Moses connection. Nothing money cannot do sha. More grease to his elbow tho. Check out the pictures below.

**It’s not his first time of stealing  By Dipo Olowookere Top social media activist and journalist, Ms Kemi Olunloyo, has narrated how popular Nigerian filmmaker and Lagos socialite, Mr Seun Egbegbe, who was accused of stealing phones, tried to hypnotise a sales girl in Lagos on Tuesday, November 22, 2016. Ms Olunloyo, in her investigation into the alleged phone theft, revealed that Mr Egbegbe left his house with the intention of using charm on phone retailers at the popular Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos. She said however, during the process, he was caught and could have been killed if not for the intervention of some policemen from Area F Command, who whisked him away to their custody. It was alleged that the filmmaker stole about nine iPhones from a store at Computer Village. He was beaten by a mob when an alarm was raised. “#HNNInvestigates Seun Egbegbe #Nollywood film maker and marketer/CEO Ebony films indeed attempted to steal EIGHT i-phones two models. “I spoke to sever

Akure township, the capital of Ondo State, remains calm and devoid of any crisis or celebration as the people await the declaration of the just concluded governorship election in the state. One of the major contestants for the position of the governor, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) of the Peoples Democratic Party, hails from the town. His supporters gathered in groups to discuss the outcome of the results as being put together by his supporters at different units when our correspondent went round the town. While some were optimistic of his emergence, others felt that the results being bandied about by APC agents were dangerous for their ambition. For example, those at Jegede’s poling unit wondered how the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Rotimi Akeredou ( SAN ) could have the figure he had in their son’s ( Jegede ) unit, whereas Akeredolu trounced his opponent in his ( Akeredolu ) ward. At Jegede’s Unit Ward 2, Unit 009, PDP had 184, while the APC scored 77 votes. W

CNN)Fidel Castro, the Cuban despot who famously proclaimed after his arrest in a failed coup attempt that history would absolve him, has died aged 90. Castro's brother and the nation's President of several years, Raul, announced his death Friday on Cuban TV. At the end, an elderly and infirm Castro was a whisper of the Marxist firebrand whose iron will and passionate determination bent the arc of destiny. "There are few individuals in the 20th century who had a more profound impact on a single country than Fidel Castro had in Cuba," Robert Pastor, a former national security adviser for President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s, told CNN in 2012. "He reshaped Cuba in his image, for both bad and good," said Pastor, who died in 2014. Castro lived long enough to see a historic thaw in relations between Cuba and the United States. The two nations reestablished diplomatic relations in July 2015 and President Barack Obama visited the island earlier this year. Presi