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Honorable Patrick Obahiagbon has sent an Independence day message to Nigerians today October 1st and as usual, it has left Nigerians rolling with laughter. Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon is well known for his use of ‘complex terms’ to communicate the simplest things. Read his message below: “As we celebrate Nigeria’s autarky at 59, we must reflect on the urgent need to pull Nigeria out of its marshmallow of centrifugal excrescences that currently weighs against our centripetal agglutinants. “The Sisyphean challenge to the pax nigeriana of our dreams, more than anything else, still remains our maladorous, putrescent, frankeinstous and opprobrious drift into a cocoon of ethnocentric…
Big Brother Naija, BBNaija housemate, Omashola has revealed what Mercy did to Tuface Idibia on his visit to the house. Recalls that Tuface paid housemates a surprise visit alongside Larry Gaga. The music legend during his visit held a dinner party in celebration of his 41-year-old birthday with the housemates. However, Omashola speaking to Seyi after Diane’s surprise eviction, said Mercy tried to seduce Tuface during his visit. According to him, Mercy was licking her lips and giving Tuface sign. He said: “Mercy tried to seduce Tuface, she was licking her lips and giving him sign because she knows he…
The Niger chapter of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, has on Tuesday concluded a two-day state-based management training for 10 volunteers in the state, aimed at saving lives. The state secretary in Niger, Yahaya Mohammed, stated this at the closing ceremony of the training. “This workshop, which is jointly organised by the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) and the Nigerian Red Cross Society is geared towards equipping volunteers on modern database management and computer based technology,” he said. He said the workshop was meant only for volunteers in their respective divisions at the local government level. Mohammed said the…
Nigerians have continued to express mixed reactions over the surprise eviction of housemate, Diane Russet, from BBNaija Season Four show. Diane was evicted on Monday night in a funny game of chance. Frodd, as the ultimate veto holder, had previously nominated five housemates for eviction and as a result, Elozonam, Cindy and Ike were evicted from the pool. On Monday night, he was asked to perform the final eviction as veto holder in a game of chance between Omashola and Diane. Diane and Omashola wrote their names on their gold Bet9ja coins and dropped it in a magic hat with…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning to release N600 billion for Capital Expenditure in the next three months. The President gave the directive in his nationwide broadcast to mark the Nigeria’s 59th Independence Anniversary on Tuesday in Abuja. He stated that the directive was informed by his administration’s desire to significantly increase investments in the nation critical infrastructure. According to him, the implementation of the 2019 Capital Budget, which was only approved in June 2019, will be accelerated to ensure that critical priority projects are completed or substantially addressed. He revealed that the Federal Government…
Oil prices rebounded on Tuesday on reports that output from the world’s largest oil producers fell during the third quarter, although a resumption in Saudi supply and demand concerns kept a lid on gains. Brent crude futures LCOc1 rose 57 cents to 59.82 dollars a barrel by 0852 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 was up 59 cents at 54.66 dollars a barrel. Front-month prices for both contracts posted their largest quarterly falls this year on Monday, hurt by a slowdown in global economic growth amid the U.S.-China trade war. “Although oil has been given every opportunity to…
The management of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has said that it will not succumb to blackmail and intimidation in the discharge of its rightful regulatory oversight. In a statement on Tuesday, the management debunked insinuation by the management of BUA Ports and Terminal Limited alleging that NPA ran against the rule of law in decommissioning Rivers Ports Terminal B, operated by the company. But, NPA insisted that as a responsible agency of government, it will continue to hold itself accountable to Nigerians. The statement reads: “On Monday September 30, 2019, the management of BUA Ports and Terminal Limited took…
Yahoo Yahoo Boys committing cyber crimes and now under EFCC surveillance are in for more trouble as the Korean ambassador to Nigeria, Lee In Tae, promised more support to the commission. Lee said the Korean government will help the commission in the area of cyber intelligence and forensic capacity building. Tae made the pledge as he led a Korean delegation that comprised the director of the Korean Cultural Center, Abuja, Lee Jin Su on an on-duty tour at the EFCC Headquarters, Jabi Abuja, where Korean forensic experts are currently training officials of the Commission on forensic technology. The ambassador expressed…
President Muhammadu Buhari has reinforced the administration’s commitment to effectively managing the nations economy. Buhari disclosed this during the nationwide broadcast as he analysed the progress his administration had achieved and the new development implemented. He said that his administration would ensure prudent management and saving of the oil incomes. “learning from the mistakes of the past, this Administration is committed to responsibly managing our oil wealth endowments. “We will continue to prudently save our oil income and invest more in the non-oil job-creating sectors.” “This Administration inherited a skewed economy, where the Oil Sector comprised only 8% of Gross…
As the gridlock along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway occasioned by the ongoing reconstruction of the road by Julius Berger Construction Company bites harder, residents working in Lagos now take refuges on the Island, mainland and in churches. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that hundreds of residents living in the adjourning communities along the ever busy expressway but working in Lagos now squat in various places ranging from churches to relatives and friends. The residents who spoke to NAN lamented the lackadaisical attitude of the contractor (Julius Berger) handling the road that reputably has 250 vehicles on it every day.…