Urban Creation to partner with Lela Agro on rice packaging

The management of Urban Creation makers of high quality B1 Rice are set to partner with Lela Agro for the standard packaging of B1 rice 

Profile; Alhaji Abdulrazaq Isa Kutepa

Abdulrazaq Isa Kutepa has put in 28 years of his life into diverse professional and entrepreneurial activities both in the private and public sectors in Nigeria, United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, covering oil and gas, commercial and mortgage banking, financial services, telecommunication, manufacturing, water transport, research, and science and technology. He

Profile: Ifeanyi Godwin Ararume

Blood Genotype

It is very important to know your blood genotype and blood group, most especially those who are not married and hope to get married soon.
Please do not hide your blood genotype from your partner, so you can safe your unborn children from the pain of Sickle Cell disease!
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The Korean War

It has become very important to know the historical background of the North and South Korea of today. So here is an article on the Korean War
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10 most corrupt Polititians

Corruption is characterized as the abuse of public resources, power and position to provide unfair advantage to individuals, families and friends. Common public resources that often pocketed by politicians are money, goods, medical aid funds and budget allocations.
Corruption is a complex problem that affects social, economic and political aspects in almost all countries. Corruption can undermine democratic institutions, slow down development projects and may even cause destabilization in the government. It is high time that people be more conscious of the corruption in our midst today. Knowledge and public awareness of corruption can help minimize the problem.

King of Swaziland Chooses wife from naked Ladies

A common tradition in Swaziland (Swazi) permits the King, Mswati, to choose a new bride every year.
According to reports by Talk Africa, it has been a long time tradition in Swaziland and isn’t the first time this controversial issue is making it into the news.
It will be recalled that in 2012, Dailymail reported that topless virgins were paraded in front of the Swazi King, to celebrate chastity and unity.
As part of Swazi custom and norms, that time of the year has come, when the King chooses his bride and again, he has reportedly tested girls’ virginity before choosing a wife for himself.
The Reed Dance ceremony, known as Umhlanga reveals thousands of Swaziland’s ‘prettiest virgins’ dancing topless for King Mswati III, every August, hoping to be his next wife.
As the story goes, underage girls are being publicly checked to ascertain that their virginity was still intact.

Patience Jonathan and Senator Ben Murry Bruce endorses Timi Sylva for Governor

 
Ahead of the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa State the camp of ex governor Timipre Sylva is seriously gaining support from all angles of the state, there are indications that the wife of the former president, Dame Patience Jonathan, has thrown her political weight behind the candidacy of Chief Timipre Sylva, the immediate past governor of the State.
Sylva wants to contest the gubernatorial election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Nollywood Actor, Bruno Iwuoha hospitalised in the US

About two weeks ago Mr. Bruno Iwuoha was calling for medical help. After that the CEO Morgan Entertainment, Emeka Morgan Nwanne Oguejiofor Jr invited him to the US and took him to one of the best hospitals and paid all the bills including hospital bill feeding and medication bill

South Africa, Home of Drunkards

 

Globally, there has been an increase in the amount of alcohol being consumed. Research suggests that this trend is driven by an increase in drinking in India and China. In Africa, the alcohol consumption trend has not increased since 2006.

Lara Oshiomhole attends August Meeting

 

Due to the cancellation of the office of first lady the activities of governors wives have been grounded in some states and less media attention given to state first ladies. But ever since Adams Oshiomhole and Lara Fortez got married they have become some popular. this time Mrs Lara Oshiomhole was invited by the wife of the Imo state governor, as a special guest to witness this years August meeting of women in Imo State. she is billed to visit some tourist attractions in the state as well as some charity and pet projects of the wife of the Imo state governor.

   

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Bailout for the bruised, not boom for bandits. by Fola Ojo

You may call it deliberate wickedness; you may define it an action from a depraved mind; or just brand it sheer sweeping governorship ineptitude. But no one is in doubt that these are precarious and

PROFILE, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu. GMD NNPC

Kachikwu hails from Onicha-Ugbo, a town in Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State, Nigeria.They are Igbo-speaking people. The town lies on the Benin-Asaba Express way connecting the west to the East of Nigeria. Kachikwu is a First Class Graduate of Law from the

CONFUSION, as Law School Postpones release of Bar Final results

The Nigerian Law school is at it again as uncertainty has come upon the faith of the 'will be lawyers',the release of the results have been postponed a record 4 times, the highest in Nigerian history, this is partly due to the dissolution of the council of legal education by the president, the approval and ratification of the said Bar final results for both the April batch and that of May, has been a serious issue as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice lacks the power to do so, as he will require the approval of the president or the president can inaugurate a new council as soon as possible.

SPECIAL Report on illuminati

 

Everyone knows that there is a secret society as old as mankind itself that runs the world and pulls the strings behind the scenes. Many people believe that the Illuminati is still operating and managing the main actions of the governments of the world. It is believed that they wish to create a One World Government based on humanist and atheist principles. It's a shadowy conspiracy that has existed since the dawn of time, secretly pulling the strings of every major organisation in the world. It manipulates finances and dictates policy so as to usher in a terrifying new world order. Illuminati is a Latin word meaning “enlightened ones.” The Illuminati is a group of individuals who believe that they are more enlightened than everybody else. There are many Illuminated groups, with different kinds of secret knowledge.

The illuminati is a secret cult formed in 1776, the same year America got independence by a German, Adam Weishaupt, in the German city of Bavaria. The group started with 5 elite foundation members. the aim was to rule the world through taking control of every influential and powerful position posibleand thruogh luring influential personalities into its fold. the group has been regarded as devilish as it has adopted many different signs such as the "udjat", which features the human eye incorporated in a triangle.

Profile; Ruth Obih

OBIH RUTH Job Title:CEO
Company Name:3INVEST
Ruth is a Lawyer, an Entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer at 3Invest. In 2007, She founded 3INVEST a Real Estate Company serving real estate owners, investors, developers and occupiers globally. Ruth is fast becoming the face of Real Estate in Nigeria as her Company 3Invest has been credited for leading the drive to digitize the real estate sector in Sub Saharan Africa through its advocacy platform 3invest Intelligence. About 3INVEST 3INVEST is a Commercial Real Estate Company serving retail and industrial real estate investors, developers and occupiers globally through e-commerce and technology driven solutions. Website : 3investonline.com

7000 Nigerians may lose their Jobs...if

The Buhari administration may be considering merging some of the biggest debtor airlines in Nigeria including Arik Air, Aero Contractors, Chanchangi Airlines, among others to form one national carrier that provides service to Central and West Africa. The Ahmed Joda-led Transition Committee submitted a report two weeks ago briefing the Presidency on the condition of six of Nigeria’s leading airlines, recommending the bold action. Nigeria’s six leading domestic airlines are faced with huge debts totaling approximately N130 billion. All of the airlines were required a financial bailout from the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). The Federal Ministry of Aviation submitted a debt portfolio of five of the airlines with AMCON totaling over N190 billion. Details of the Aviation Ministry audit findings showed Aero Contractors’ debt stood at over $200 million (N308 billion), with 60% of its equity already taken over by AMCON, while Arik Air has been $600 million (N924 billion) in debt; IRS Airlines, $55 million (N84 billion); Chanchangi Airlines, $55 million (N84 billion), and bankrupt Air Nigeria owing about $225.8 mn (N347.7 billion). There are reports that the struggling airlines recently approached AMCON once again for a multi-billion Naira bailout to handle their outstanding debts to aviation agencies like the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), suppliers, and other institutions. The Joda Committee advised the Buhari administration to establish a public-private partnership (PPP) with all the airlines affiliated with AMCON in order to subsidize a national carrier. The Committee said that the action should be carried out in six months. The Committee believes that the PPP would increase government revenue from the sector, reduce capital flight, grow the local aviation industry, and create more jobs for Nigerians. It was prescribed that the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), works with the Ministries of Aviation, Finance, Industry, Trade and Investment in order to establish the PPP. The report also highlighted inefficiency as one of the key obstacles that the aviation industry has to deal with. It said about 75 percent of passenger traffic was generated from three airports; Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja, while over 90 percent of the revenue earned came from Lagos and Abuja. The Committee also recommended that the National Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) reviews the N7 billion capital expenditure required to improve the infrastructure of both domestic and international airlines.

ABUJA the quest for a minister

Abuja the capital of Nigeria is nothing but a beautiful city owing to huge infrastructural investment made by previous government in the city. It is now right for a government to think with focus on appointing a visionary minister who will actualise the vision of the Abuja master plan, I strongly suggest that a former governor who is sound, focused and innovative in the area of infrastructural development should be appointed Minister

Gambia Expensive Election

Gambia: presidential candidates face US$25,000 electoral registration fee Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh wants to increase the fee for would-be electoral opponents by a factor of about 10,000 times Agence France-Presse Friday 26 June 201502.56 BSTLast modified on Friday 26 June 201503.48 BST Pro-democracy activists have accused Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh of trying to price potential opponents out of the market through astronomical rises in registration fees for presidential elections. The government has announced plans to charge candidates one million dalasi (US$25,000) to run in any future campaigns – 10,000 times the current cost. The sum would differ from a conventional election deposit in that it would be non-refundable, even upon victory, under a bill being put before parliament. The government is proposing the same charge for political parties, as well as smaller, but still significant, increases for candidates for parliamentary and mayoral elections. “The proposed amendments are retrogressive and are designed to scuttle the growth of multiparty democracy in the Gambia,” said Ousainou Darboe, secretary general of the main opposition United Democratic Party. About two-thirds of the population of the west African nation live on less than US$1.25 a day and would have to spend nothing for more than half a century to be able to afford to run for president. The Gambia, mainland Africa’s smallest country with a population of about 1.7 million, has been ruled with an iron fist by Jammeh since he came to power in a bloodless coup in 1994. One of the poorest countries in the world, it survives mostly on agriculture and tourism, luring sun-worshipping Europeans to its sweeping, palm-fringed coastline. Jammeh has woven an aura of mysticism around himself, dressing in billowing white robes, never letting go of his Qur’an and brooking no dissent. The former wrestler, who claims he can cure AIDS, is often pilloried for rights abuses and the muzzling of journalists. He has threatened to cut off the heads of homosexuals and heaps derision on any criticism from the west. He won a landslide re-election to serve a fourth term in 2011 presidential polls slammed by the opposition as bogus and fraudulent. The next vote is expected in 2016. Due to high levels of illiteracy, voting is through a unique system using glass marbles instead of ballot papers. The marbles are dropped into drums, which are coloured to represent each candidate. As the marbles fall they hit a bell that sounds loudly, preventing multiple voting.

Gambia and Death penalty

"It's very perplexing," said Amadou Scattred Janneh, an exiled former information minister who is now with the opposition Coalition for Change. "We don't know why [President Yahya Jammeh] is broadening the death penalty except to find the means to punish his political rivals and to sow greater fear in the population." Janneh, who was in 2012 sentenced to life in prison for treason after distributing t-shirts with the slogan "End Dictatorship Now", fears that he would have been executed had the new law been in place. "[The judge] cited the fact that his hands were tied, that he could not give me a death sentence because there was no violence in my activity," Janneh remembered. "So this type of change would give President Jammeh and his judges leeway to pass death sentences on people who are involved in purely political matters." Some observers believe President Jammeh is cracking down on civil liberties and on the opposition to assert his authority in light of a failed coup that exposed weaknesses in the presidential retinue last year. In Banjul, the Gambian capital, opposition leader Halifa Salla believes a victory for the "yes" side - 75 per cent on a turnout of at least 50 per cent is required to carry the motion - would give the regime immense latitude. "It means the government would be able to [impose] the death penalty for any crime it deems fit, by just passing a bill at the national assembly," Salla told AFP. Sallah said his People's Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism would "leave no stone unturned" in organising people to vote "no" in the referendum, for which a date has yet to be set. Although the government has cast the extension of the death penalty as a law-and-order issue, capital punishment is unpopular in The Gambia, according to the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP). The UDP is not only convinced that the "no" side will win but that voters may use the referendum as an opportunity to register their discontent with the government. "The death penalty as an instrument of justice is not something that enjoys popular support," said an exiled UDP spokesperson Karamba Touray. "It's a deeply unpopular regime because of its record of abuse and violence and terror." There are doubts that the referendum will allow citizens - all Gambians aged over 18 are entitled to take part - to express themselves freely. "For the last 20 years no vote conducted in that country has been nor free nor fair," remarked Touray. There are also fears that the constitutional change could also affect business. Opposition activist Janneh noted: "With this change the Jammeh regime would have the final say in terms of who's eligible to be executed - even people convicted of economic crimes." In 2012 the execution of nine convicts by firing squad triggered international outrage, especially in neighbouring Senegal, which had two citizens among those put to death. Lawyers lamented that the men were shot before they were able to appeal against their sentences. Rights groups estimate that about 30 people are on death row in Gambia but no executions have been announced since 2012. Jammeh, an outspoken military officer and former wrestler, has ruled Gambia with an iron fist since seizing power in a coup in 1994. According to the Gambian State House website, he must now be formally addressed as "His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh Babili Mansa".