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      Sapele pikin/Education Ambassador, Miss Success Adegor, bags an endorsement deal, as brand/Kid model, for Dubai based Nigerian fashion company, House of Michybal JJ. They are to provide little Miss Success Adegor with clothing for all her outings for one year. Photo of Success and her Manager closing the deal in Sapele, Delta state.More photos below.

      President Muhammadu Buhari has described the death of the former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Mamman Nasir, "as not only a loss to the judiciary, but also the country at large, because of his remarkable commitment to public service.” Reacting to the death of the Galadiman Katsina in a statement soon after he heard the news, President Buhari recalled that "the late Nasir belonged to a generation of Jud ges and Justices who perceived public office as an opportunity to offer selfless service to the country and its people." According to Buhari, "Nasir and Judges of their golden age were more interested in leaving untainted record of integrity than accumulation of wealth overnight." Buhari said "when you look at Nasir's modest lifestyle and his incredibly humble possessions, you would be disarmed at once by his honesty and patriotism." "While some Nigerians perceive public office as an opportunity to line their pockets

      April 14, 2019 Press Statement The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dismisses the reckless and groundless claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is a Cameroonian, as a calculated attempt by the APC to trivialize and divert attention from the compelling issue of their criminal rigging of the 2019 Presidential election. This disingenuous claim is also a woeful design by the APC to overburden, distract and bog down the Presidential election petition tribunal with trivialities, lies and falsehood, so as to derail the course of justice. Such diversionary tactic has however only helped in further exposing the fact that the APC has no answers to the plethora of overwhelming evidence before the tribunal that the election was won by Atiku Abubakar and the PDP. Whereas Atiku Abubakar’s citizenship by birth, even under our constitution, cannot be contested, it is indeed the biggest irony of the year, that Atiku’s citizenship

      The operatives of both the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Taskforce) Unit and the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) on Saturday dislodged all illegal traders on road setbacks and walk-ways around Ikeja. Speaking on the clampdown, the Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi stated that the activities of the illegal traders and hawkers constitute an environmental nuisance and also an eyesore which impeded the free flow of traffic around Kodesho Street, Medical Road and Ikeja under-bridge towards the Railway line. CSP Egbeyemi said the exercise was in line with Section (1) of the Lagos State Street Trading and Illegal Market Prohibition Law 2003 which prescribes a punishment of N90, 000 or a six-month jail term, for both the buyer and the seller of any goods or services on all roads across the State. In his words, "Despite continuous advocacy, enlightenment and appeals from the government, some illegal

       Nollywood actor, Ebere Larry Ebere a.k.a Cornel, has died few days after being involved in an accident.He died few days after a head surgery following a accident. May his soul RIP.Amen!.More details later and more photos below.

      MINISTRY OF BUDGET AND NATIONAL PLANNING        Saturday, April 13, 2019 The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, and his Finance Ministry counterpart, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, at the weekend in Washington DC, assured that with elections now over, Nigeria is set for faster growth. At a high level business meeting with the US business community held under the auspices of the Corporate Council for Africa (CCA), Senator Udoma told investors that Nigeria is on the path of diversified inclusive growth; and President Muhammadu Buhari in his second term is focused on consolidation and further expansion of the investor-friendly policies of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP). CCA is at the forefront of strengthening and facilitating the commercial relationship between the United States and the African continent. The audience was made up of top America investors, some of them already doing business in Nigeria. Fundamentals of the Nigerian economy

       SPEECH OF THE HON. MINISTER OF POWER, WORKS & HOUSING AND CHAIRMAN OF THE MINISTERIAL STEERING COMMITTEE, MR BABATUNDE FASHOLA SAN AT THE 12TH STEERING COMMITTEE & EXPERTS MEETING FOR ABIDJAN - LAGOS CORRIDOR HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME , IN LOME, TOGO ON FRIDAY 12TH APRIL , 2019 Your Excellencies, Honourable Ministers, Experts, Participants and Distinguished guests, let me thank my colleague minsters for the brilliant and illuminating speeches they have given today. It makes my job as Chairman and last speaker very easy because they have covered the field admirably and no useful purpose will be served repeating what they have said about the history of the project, I adopt their speeches as my own. I only wish to add first a word of appreciation to the President, the Minister, the Government and the people of the Republic of Togo for hosting us. Secondly, I wish to acknowledge the vision of the founding presidents of this committee who chose to go far as a

      In reply please quote   Ref No. CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.2/27 Date: 14th April, 2019 The Director of News  In line with the IGP’s stated commitment to curb all forms of crimes and criminality, especially incidences of kidnapping and other violent crimes in the country, Police Operatives attached to Operation Puff Adder, acting on intelligence report, on 9th April, 2019 at about 6:30am arrested three (3) notorious persons involved in the kidnap of Channels Television’s staff, Mr. Friday Okeregbe. The suspects: Hanniel Patrick ‘m’ 29years from Akwa Ibom State, Abdulwahab Isah ‘m’ 28years and Salisu Mohammed ‘M’ 32years both from Kogi State have made useful statement to the Police. Meanwhile, investigation reveals that Mr. Friday Okeregbe was not originally the intended target of the vicious criminals. However, on that fateful day, 22nd March, 2019, at 07:45PM, he was kidnapped when the kidnappers saw him parking his vehicle at a location in Lugbe, Abuja. Investigation fu