Author: Mr Abiodun Borisade

These revelations were unearthed when a team of EFCC operatives came calling for administrative evidences based on series of petitions written by top civil servants in order to exonerate themselves from possible indictment…. I) No fiscal Committee meeting was held throughout Gov Fayose’s tenure between October 2014 to October 2018. II) No official report from Fountain Holdings detailing Ekiti Investment Portfolio, status and accrued revenue all through the last Administration led by Fayose. NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE EKITI STATE FINANCE IS IN A MESS…… These revelations were unearthed when a team of EFCC operatives came calling for administrative evidences…

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Nigeria Heads to Sea in Search of Future for Oil Producers By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo October 29, 2018 When it comes to the future of its oil industry, Nigeria is looking miles out to sea. By early next year, the largest offshore production vessel ever delivered to Nigeria will start pumping crude from a deposit deep beneath the seabed, boosting the West African country’s oil output by about 10 percent. The project, viewed as the most ambitious in Nigeria’s history, could help to push production to a record by 2022. The project will help to boost the share of the nation’s…

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NHIS: You have no power to suspend or remove CEOs, SGF warns Boards at the induction of board members of some parastatal agencies, including federal universities and medical centres on Monday in Abuja. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr Boss Mustapha, has warned chairmen of boards of parastatal agencies not to interfere in the administration of the companies. Mustapha gave the warning at the induction of board members of some parastatal agencies, including federal universities and medical centres on Monday in Abuja. He said that governing boards did not have power to suspend or remove…

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Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza Wed, Feb 28, 2018 In Namibia, the nomadic tribes of the Ovahimba and Ovazimba engage in their cultural practice of exchanging wives. When it comes to matters of the heart, the world has been conditioned and standardized in a way such that lines are drawn, clear lines. When one crosses these lines, trouble is bound to ensue, and hearts are bound to be shattered. But this is not the case with the Ovahimba and Ovazimba tribes in Northern Namibia. While the whole world may attack their cultural practices that they have upheld for a long, enduring time,…

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Japan’s Princess Ayako QUITS royal family to marry commoner declaring she’s ‘full of joy’ JAPAN’S royal family said goodbye to Princess Ayako who gave up her title to marry commoner Kei Moriya in a glittering wedding in Tokyo. The 28-year-old princess said “I am filled with happiness” as she sat next to her 32-year-old groom, an employee of shipping company Nippon Yusen, after the traditional ceremony at Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine. She wore a large, multiple layered kimono and extravagant molded hair, typical of imperial aristocracy, while the groom wore a black tuxedo with grey trousers for the ceremony at the…

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Windowless planes will give passengers a panoramic view of the sky Ever since air travel was invented, people have been fighting over the window seat. Not any more! The Center for Process Innovation, a British technology and research firm, is creating the future of air travel! The futuristic planes will actually be windowless. Instead, the entire length of the plane will be covered in OLED touch screens. Essentially giving everyone in plane a virtual window seat! Within 10 to 15 years these planes could hopefully be a reality! The touch screens with be connected to cameras that are place…

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Power is Transient…. Exhibition of Samuel Doe’s Body During the Civil War in Liberia Liberian soldiers pose with their rifles around the displayed dead body of President Samuel Doe during the Liberian Civil War. Prince Yormie Johnson, leader of the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL), tortured and murdered Doe after his captured. Doe’s ears and fingers were cut off on camera during the attack.

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Sources say Gabon leader has stroke, govt says it’s fatigue Gabonese President Ali Bongo on Monday was still under observation at the King Faisal hospital in Riyadh where he was taken to on October 24. A medical and a diplomatic source both told the media that the president suffered a stroke. Bongo was hospitalised last week in Saudi Arabia after suffering a stroke, two sources told media, while the Gabonese authorities said he was admitted only because of fatigue. Government spokesman, Ike Ngouoni, denied this and said that Bongo, instead, had “severe fatigue” after months of strenuous work. The president…

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Bouygues Construction Nigeria Limited (BNL) the firm handling the late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe’s Mausoleum, says work is completed on the project. Mr John Ameh, the Project Manager of the firm made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in Onitsha on Monday. NAN reports that the project initiated by Federal Government in honour of the first president of Nigeria came to completion, 22 years after its initial commencement. FG, Labour and the new minimum wage Ameh said that the project was ready for handover. NAN reports that Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, in May told…

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