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                                                                      Wow,i really like the 1920 look they gave Kendall Jenner,Bella Hadid and other models at the 2017 Givenchy Meanswear Spring/Summer collection during Paris Fashion week.Kendall really look stunning in her outfit as she put up a straight face show,in a long one strap white gown.paired with a black pants.Fellow model Bella Hadid looked similarly stunning in a black strapless creation that bared her tone arms and shoulders beautifully.To me,these collection is fun but very classy.More photos below                             

                        Senate President 'Saraki',who took to his social media to announce that he just affixed his signature on the Senate's version of the Public Procurement Act {Amendment} Bill.He wrote ''I just affixed my signature on the Senate's version of the Pubic Procurement Act {Amendment} Bill,2016 {SB.232},which will now be forwarded on the House of Representatives for Concurrence.Many countries have used legislative mechanisms like these that focus inwards to diversify their local economies.This amendment helps to position our local producers,manufactures and service providers to benefit from the government procurement process of ministries,departments and agencies.Hence,once passed by the House of Representatives and signed into law by Mr President,this amendment will hellp to stimulate Nigeria's domestic economy,and will go a long way in ensuring that in the process of awarding contracts,funds are available as quickly as possible and jobs are

                                           The trial of a former governor of Nasarawa State,Aliyu Akwe Doma,and two others,continued on June 23,2016,with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC,presenting its ninth witness,as it  closed its case against the accused persons.Akwe Doma,alongside Timothy Anthony Anjide,a former Secretary to the State Government,and Dauda Egwa,a former Accountant-General,are being prosecuted by the EFCC on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering and financial crimes.The accused persons between January 2007 and December 2009 allegedly conspired and fraudulently laundered state funds to the tune of N8bn,an offence contrary to Section 14 {1} {a} of the Money Laundering {Prohibition } Act 2004 and punishablee under section 14 {1} of the same Act.At yesterday's hearing,PW 9,Abdulrazaq Salawu,an operative with the EFCC,told the court how he met the defendants,following different petitions and intelligence report received by the Commission.Le

                       According to sources,a Zimbabwe truck driver was sentenced to two years in prison for failing to make way for President Robert Mugabe's motorcade.The truck driver is identified as Joseph Chakantesa was also banned for life from driving trucks by a Harare Court yesterday thursday,which charged him with negligent driving and ignoring Presidential convoy.The incident took place on saturday when the Presidents motorcade of more than 10 cars and motorbikes was heading to President's home in uptown Harare.the 28 year old driver was arrested about 10 kilometres from the scene of the incident after attempting to escape by driving through traffic lights and at times in wrong lanes.Joseph Chakanetsa said that the ERF tipper truck was making a lot of noise,making it difficult for him to hear external noises.He was also given an option to pay $100 fine for failing to stop and a $200 fine for ignoring the officers instruction.One more photo below.                    

                              15 year old Ghana born actor Abraham Attah,lands a major role in the upcoming American superhero film 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' after his breakthrough movie,Beasts of No Nation,won him the Best Male lead award at this year's Independent Spirit Awards fortifying him as a rising star.'Spider-Man:Homecoming' is intended to be the second reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise and the sixteenth film of the marvel Cinematic Universe {MCU}.The movie will be directed by Jon Watts.His role has in the movie has not been disclosed yet.More photos below.                    

                     The Lagos State Government through its agency,Lagos State Planning and Environmental Monitoring Authority {LASPEMA} has issued contravention notices on some distressed buildings in Ajegunle and some other parts of Ifelodun Local Council Development Area of the State.The contravention notices follows an inspection tour by officials of the agency who decried the unlivable state of over thirteen buildingd in the area which is already structurally unstable.According to the Agency's Acting General Manager,Engineer Olanrewaju Kazeem who led the inspection team to these areas,he bemoaned the state state of these buildings,adding that such buildings are not befitting of the status of the state in addition to the dangers it poses to its inhabitants and neighbours.The Acting General Manager added that the defaulters of such buildings had been issued 48 hours contravention notices,while further compliance monitoring was recommended in some other cases.Kazeem disclosed tha

                       Lagos State Governor,M Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday thursday received a donation of N10 million from the Lebanese Nigerian Initiative {LNI} for the State Security Trust Fund,charging the body to continue to do more for the State.The Governor,who spoke at the Lagos House,Ikeja when he received the Chairman and the directors of the LNI through the Secretary to the State Government,Mr Tunji Bello thanked the group for the initiative,adding that a lot could still be done for the State in that regard.He said ''Particularly in the field of security,there is still a lot you can still do for us.without the efforts of people like you and others in the past,Lagos would not have been where it is today in terms of maintenance of peace and security''.The Governor added that with the business pedigree of each of the members of the LNI,the present administration is deeply appreciative of their contribution which,according to him,is a good initiative.He said the is

                             In the morning hours of yesterday thursday,June 23,2016,there was an unfortunate fracas between a soldier and a policeman around the office of the Deputy Governor over a disagreement which led to the unfortunate shooting of a policeman on his foot.The policeman is responding to treatment and has been visited by the the theatre commander,operation Lafiya Dole,Major General LEO Irabor and the Commissioner of Police,Borno State Command,Aminchi Baraya,both of whom went together to sympathize with the policeman.By way of background from the Permanent Secretary,Government House and Security,Mr Ahmed Sanda,the Borno State Government had on sunday,June 19,2016 began the distribution of rice to  internally displaced persns living in the host communities of Maiduguri and Jere metropolis.The distribution was meant to take place at 28 wards of the two local government areas unfortunately,when the exercise was launched in old Maiduguri ward for Jere local government are

                The new Inspector General of Police,Ag.IGP Ibrahim K. Idris,mni,psc,paid courtesy call on the Comptroller General,Nigeria Immigration Service,Muhammed Babandede,MFR,in his office at the Airport Road,Abuja.And to the  Comptroller-General,Nigeria Prisons Service Mr Ahmed Ja'afaru,at the Prisons Headquarters in Abuja today 24th of June,2016.More photos below.