July 2016

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Gov. Okorocha plans to reduce work days per week to 3, so as to cut cost on salaries

The Imo State governor said this, today, while briefing journalists on the state of affairs in Imo. He said the reduction of work days would enable workers to attend to other activities that would generate money to supplement their monthly salaries to take care of their families. .

His words: “I encourage Imo workers to find additional things to do to support their families because of the economic situation we are facing in Nigeria. We are considering to reduce the working days from five to three in Imo, so that workers will use the rest of the days to work and support their families."

He added that Imo government was equally planning to review workers’ salaries downward. He said that in spite of the current payment of 70% of salaries to workers, the state still paid the highest salary scale among South-Eastern states of Abia, Anabmbra, Ebonyi and Enugu.

His words: “Directors in these other SE states receive something a little above N90, 000 while in Imo they receive more than N100, 000. We intend to clear salary arrears up to July by next week. After that, we will consider downward review of salary to workers to be at par with other SE states.".... n anyone who doesn't like it, can resign....
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Mikel Obi

Chelsea FC midfielder and Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi has been named Captain of Team Nigeria to the 2016 Olympic Games at Rio in Brazil, which begins on August 5.

A statement on Tuesday by Nneka Ikem-Anibeze, Special Assistant on Media to Youths and Sports Minister Solomon Dalung, also named Funke Oshonaike as the Assistant Team Captain.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mikel is one of the three over-aged players invited to the national under-23 football team for the Games.

He is making his first appearance at an Olympic Games, after missing out on the 2008 edition in Beijing, China where he was widely expected to make an appearance.
Table tennis star Oshonaike is making her sixth appearance at the Olympics after she made her debut at the Atlanta Games in 1996.
“Mikel and Oshonaike were chosen because of their consistency, patriotism and dedication to national assignments.
Mikel is a young, patriotic footballer of international status and we believe he will be a role model to the upcoming athletes, while Oshonaike is experienced and is one of the oldest athletes in the team.
We believe that their combined efforts will bring goodwill to Team Nigeria and project the county’s image positively to the world,” Ikem-Anibeze said in the statement.
NAN reports that the Dream Team VI, Team Nigeria’s male football side, is expected to depart for Rio from Atlanta in the U.S., where they have been training, on Friday.
Other athletes making up the team are however expected to leave Nigeria on the same day from Abuja.


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Davido plan to send at least  four students to school yearly,  he made this known on his instagram handle today 
See what he wrote below...

So many people deserve education.. Starting from this year I plan to start the Veronica Adeleke Education Scholarship program .. I plan to send people to school every year ... I'm starting from 4 students this year details will be released soon on how to apply.... DO YOUR PART TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER , EVEN IF YOU START SMALL .. AT LEAST START! OBO !
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The relationship between singer/TV host, Adrienne Bailon and her man, grammy-award winning Gospel artiste Israel Houghton (who recently divorced his wife of 20 years), seems to be going strong. he share a picture of himself kissing his new girl friend.
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 President Buhari Commissions Abuja-Kaduna Rail5
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commissioned the Abuja (Idu) – Kaduna railway track and flagged-off the Abuja-Kaduna train services (Passengers & Freight) on Nigeria’s first ever Standard Gauge Rail track to go into operation.

Among those present were the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, among others.

The construction of the track began in 2009, and President Buhari expressed joy that the track is being commissioned today.
The president stated that his administration is ready to link most state capitals and cities through the rehabilitation and construction of rail lines so as to boost socio-economic development and regional integration.

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Yahoo first put itself up for sale in February and it fielded multiple bids from many different types of buyers — supposedly as many as 40 at one point.

Those included AT&T; Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert with financial backing from Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett; and private equity firms TPG and Vector Capital Management.
According to Re/code, Yahoo informed the other bidders on Saturday that Verizon had won the process.


“Yahoo is a company that has changed the world, and will continue to do so through this combination with Verizon and AOL,” said Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer in a press release. “The sale of our operating business, which effectively separates our Asian asset equity stakes, is an important step in our plan to unlock shareholder value for Yahoo. This transaction also sets up a great opportunity for Yahoo to build further distribution and accelerate our work in mobile, video, native advertising and social.”


Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL when Verizon acquired it for $4.4 billion last year, will run a new group at Verizon that brings together AOL and Yahoo, he confirmed on Bloomberg TV on Monday. “Our mission at AOL is to build brands people love, and we will continue to invest in and grow them,” he said in a press release. “Yahoo has been a long-time investor in premium content and created some of the most beloved consumer brands in key categories like sports, news and finance … We have enormous respect for what Yahoo has accomplished.”


Marissa Mayer was generally not expected to stay on board, but said in a Yahoo blog post on Monday that in fact she will. “For me personally, I’m planning to stay,” she wrote. “I love Yahoo… It’s important to me to see Yahoo into its next chapter.” She did not specify what role she would serve.


Verizon’s acquisition is of “core” Yahoo, which includes search, email, advertising products and the media business (including Yahoo Finance). It did not acquire Yahoo’s 15% stake in Alibaba, its 35% stake in Yahoo Japan, or Yahoo’s patents, which some analysts suggested during the bidding process were valuable.


As Suntrust wrote in a note this month, “Yahoo is running two auctions in parallel – core sale and Excalibur patent portfolio – so we wouldn’t be surprised to see multiple winners.” If there is a winner of Yahoo’s patents, it remains to be seen who that is and how much they will pay. Suntrust predicted the Yahoo sale would generate $6 billion, “in one or multiple transactions.”
Verizon has made a string of acquisitions in an apparent effort to move beyond a telecom provider into a media-and-mobile-advertising powerhouse that can compete with Google. Many believe buying Yahoo is a savvy move for Verizon. 

In addition to getting the fifth-most visited web site in the US, Verizon gets assets like Tumblr, Flickr, Polyvore and digital ad tools Flurry and BrightRoll.
Last week, Yahoo reported second-quarter earnings of 9 cents per share and revenue of $1.31 billion, which beat analyst expectations. Revenue of its MaVeNS division (mobile, video, native and social), which accounts for more than 30% of Yahoo’s revenue, rose 25% last quarter. Yahoo shares are up 32% in the last six months during the public sale process.

Verizon reports its own Q2 earnings on Tuesday, and reportedly wanted to announce the Yahoo deal before that.

source-yahoo finance
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Psquare are back together Peter notify their fans with a short video and the write up below 

My dear fans, P-Square is back. Ours is a journey that started from our mother’s womb. It was a journey that started from Primary School, continued to St. Murumba College, to when we were in University in Abuja. It was a journey in which we shared childhood memories and grown-up dreams.  We are back  because brothers do not let each other wander in the dark alone. We are back because we have tried the lonely road and it was not the same.
I want to take responsibility for what has happened and sincerely apologise to you our fans. For supporting us throughout this journey we owed you so much more than what you have had to endure and I apologise for that. We are embarking now on a new journey with exciting new management (Jude Okoye), new music and new ideas.
We cannot thank you enough for all your prayers and support throughout this difficult period. Maya Angelou once said that brotherhood is a condition that people have to work at. We will continue to work on that and you can be prepared to be blown away by this new phase of P-Square.
God bless you all and be assured that you have not seen anything yet!
Peter Okoye
P-Square
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Governor-Abdulaziz-Yari



Six governors from each geo-political zone of the country are concluding plans to attend a vocational programme in Germany.

According to PUNCH, the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Governor of Zamfara state, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, said this to correspondents after the forum’s meeting in Abuja on Wednesday night.

“We received some presentations from the German ambassador prior to our trip to Germany for the vocational programme. We also received presentation from Vodacom. The firm made presentation on the areas we are going to partner such as in the areas of health and agriculture,” he was quoted as saying.

Following the development, Human Rights Activist, Femi Falana (SAN) blasted the governors, saying that it is “a decoy for summer vacation”.
“There are here enough solutions to the problems of the nation which the governors are not attending to. You said the country is broke, governors are embarking on jamboree to Germany.
We are going to appeal to the German authority not to give them visa so that they can stay at home and work. We will contact the German government not to be party to this wastage by the Nigerian government.
The Federal Government has just adopted about 147-page report on agriculture. How many of them have read the report? I think it’s just a decoy for a summer holiday,” he told PUNCH’s correspondent on the telephone.
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The immediate-past presi­dent of the Christian As­sociation of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has opened up on his reign as the leader of CAN.
 
Ayo spoke to Daily Sun on how he weathered the storm as leader of the apex Christian body in the country and how he was betrayed and insulted by Christians.

He said Christians plot­ted against him and equally insulted him even when he put his life on the line for them.
Oritsejafor said he took over the mantle of lead­ership at the most trying times in the country.
“We came in a period the challenges of the church had reached a point that lots of Christians in Nigeria had been displaced from their home and churches.
“Some pastors, par­ticularly, in northern Ni­geria were closing their churches. Lots of Nigeri­ans had become internally displaced persons in their homes,” he said.


He called on Nigerians, particularly the Christian faithful, to stand behind the new president of CAN, Pastor Samson Ayokunle and his team in order to withstand the challenges ahead.
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Nigerians yesterday got a piece of bad news from the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun that the economy is in recession. But there is no need to panic because it will be short, according to her.

Mrs Adeosun, broke the depressing news to Senators in plenary while briefing them on measures adopted to get the economy out of the woods. She said the Federal Government had released N247.9 billion in the last two months for capital expenditure.

She said N60 billion would be released for capital vote in the next few weeks, adding that N74 billion went to the Works Ministry.
All the releases, Mrs. Adeosun said, had been fully cash-backed.

The Minister, however, told the Senators that the recession would be a very short one because the government had measures to reverse the trend.
She said Nigerians should not dwell on the recession but rather on where the country is going through the measures being taken to save the economy.

Mrs. Adeosun said: ”Is Nigeria in recession? Technically. If you go into two quarters of negative growth, technically, we are in recession. But I don’t think we should dwell on definitions. I think we should really dwell on where we are going. I think if we are in recession, what I will like to say is we are going to come out of it and it would be a very short one because the policies that we have would ensure that we don’t go below where we need to go and I think with what we are doing, we would begin to turn the corner I believe by Quarter Three.”

“We are not the only country in recession; many countries are doing far worse than us. But for Nigeria, what Nigerians want to know is ‘how’s that going to affect me’ and I want to assure everybody that what we are doing is going to work and it’s going to turn this economy around,” the minister said.


-The Nation.
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A couple of weeks ago TripleMG boss Ubi Franklin and Lilian Esoro welcomed their son, obviously the new Dad can't stop gushing about his son

He shared a new photo of his baby on IG last night and captioned:
You are my Happiness and you are my Greatest Accomplishment. I hand you Over to God daily, I can’t really do Much son, your Generation will shine Brighter than ours, keep getting stronger by the day, no one will take the happiness and the love I feel for you away. Your covered”.
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The burial of former Super Eagles captain and Chief Coach, Stephen Keshi, who died on June 8th has been slated for July 29th at his hometown, Illah in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. According to the Delta State Commissioner for Information, Patrick Ukah who is a member of the Keshi burial committee,‎ Keshi's funeral ceremony will commence on Thursday July 28th and end on Sunday July 31st.

The funeral would kick off in Edo State on Thursday July 28th with a requiem mass at Saint Paul’s Catholic Church, Airport Road, Benin-City, from 9:00 am, followed by lying in state at Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, also in Benin-City, by 11:00am.

There will also be a novelty match by All Stars as well as a session of tributes in honour of the late soccer star at the stadium.

“The same day, his remains will depart Benin-City for Asaba, Delta State, from 1:15pm. On arrival, there will be lying in state ceremony at Stephen Keshi International Stadium, Indoor Hall, Asaba, from 3:15pm, followed by a novelty match by All Stars and Tributes at Stephen Keshi International Stadium, Asaba, from 3:30pm”Ukah said The service of songs/vigil Mass will the same day hold at St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Illah, by 6:00pm, according to the obsequies release. On Friday, July 29th, his body will leave Asaba for his hometown, Illah by ‎7am.

There will be a lying in state at his family home, Ukpologwu Quarters, Illah, from 8:30am. A‎ Requiem Mass will take place at St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Illah, by 10:00am followed by interment at his family compound, Ukpologwu Quarters, Illah, from 12:30pm.

A thanksgiving will be held at the Evangelist Catholic Church, Illah on Sunday July 31st.
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Actor Alex Ekubo writes an open letter to his Future wife stating his characteristics, wants and needs.
 
Read the letter below
 
To Whom it may Concern;
Dear Future Wife,
 
I'm writing you this letter, from the deepest part of my Heart, the part that is reserved for Joh-loff Rice & goat meat, so pls feel special. Consider this a pointer or heads-up & act accordingly.
 
1. You MUST love our Lord Jesus Christ, with all sincerity, in deeds & in purpose.#JesusIsBae
2. i'm filled with Simple Complexities & Complex Simplicities... #DealOrNoDeal?

3. I'm NOT here to pay for your Ex's mistake, i was not there when you both were "doing" so pls don't punish me. #InnocentMe
4. I'm a huge kisser, key word HUGE.
5. Pls forgive me for all i'll say when i'm hungry I Love FOOD i really do.
6.I love play i don't take myself too serious, you shouldn't too (nobody cares) there are more important things going on in the World.
7. Hope you love to travel, because i am Ajala the Traveler.
8. Pls be beauty with Brains, i take God beg you, because beauty fades, but an intelligent wife is forever.
9. Pls pls pls pls come with factory fitted sense of humor. (Nothing is that serious).
10. Lastly, you must acknowledge the AlexxEkubo Wives Association Worldwide (A.W.A) they'v been my support structure holding me down all the while you were forming "Baddest girl ever liveth" they were here voting & encouraging my ministry, don't come & put sand-sand in their garri.
Hope with these few points of mine i've been able to convince you & not confuse you. See you at the Altar. 💍👫
 
Sincerely yours,
Best Husband Ever Liveth.
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A member of the Kogi state civil service, Sali Ndarusa who worked with the state's Ministry of Education in Lokoja the state capital, died on Tuesday July 19th after he fell during a protest with his colleagues over their six months unpaid salaries.
 According to Rariya, Ndarusa who was rushed home after the fall, died when his family members could not raise money for him to buy food and medicine. He has been buried according to Islamic rites.

Another photo after the cut.



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Protests against Dino Melaye in Abuja3

Some women (and men) are currently protesting against the Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi West).

This is coming after the senator alleged on Monday, that wife of former Lagos state governor and Senate Committee Chairman on Women Affairs, Oluremi Tinubu (APC-Lagos Central) “splashed” N75 million to sponsor protests against him in the FCT.

Crisis began after Tinubu reportedly called Dino a “dog” and a “thug” during a closed-door session. Dino, according to reports, reacted, saying that he will “beat up” and “impregnate” Tinubu and nothing will happen.
The protesters are seen with placards and banners which read: “Say no to impunity, stop gender based violence”, “Danger! Dino on the prowl, women beware”, “women are not threat objects,” among others.
The protesters were on all white tops with the words: “No to impunity for gender based violence,” printed on them.

This is coming after Pro-Melaye women held a press conference in Kogi asking Tinubu to apologise to Melaye.

Also, Tinubu, yesterday wrote to the Senate and the APC to sanction Melaye over threat to her life.




 
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Photo Credit: PUNCH
 
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Senator Oluremi Tinubu  sent a letter to Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Chairman of APC, John Odigie-Oyegun over the recent uprising with Dino Melaye and herself. 
 
 
 
 
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Eunice Olawale, the RCCG Evangelist who was hacked to death on Saturday July 9th while she was preaching around her area in Gbazango community in Kubwa satellite town in Bwari council area, Abuja, will be buried on Saturday July 23rd in Abuja. Service of Songs will hold on Friday July 22nd. May her soul rest in peace Amen.



Sources- Linda Ikeji
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