Happy birthday Bobby... Many more fruitful years to you. I imagine how you feel taken your wife's surname and naturalizing in Japan. That's show how discouraging Nigeria can be, a country where there are no jobs for the youth. There is no bragging or prahlen about it.

This stay at home is not easy but I'm really enjoying with my sweet heart. The main problem now is money to replenish used items so far but we are always online glued to the latest nigeria news paper

Jenifa messed up this time. I didn't expect this kind party from her and her husband. COVID-19 is real. Please, lets remain safe at home.

So if this man didn't kill this snake now, it will these 64 poisonous babies to the community. Only God that will help us with the latest nigeria news paper


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGR_0Vk4Rg

Great, this is why the coronavirus death rate in Germany is very low compared to positive cases they have. This a good job from Bosch Germany. I believe we will need this automated testing kit here in Nigeria to detect more people.

Covid 19 is spreading like wide fire

that's good but this Coronavirus will have a negative impact on Nigeria economy this season.

Annkio Briggs is a vocal Niger Delta advocate and activist for the rights of the people of the geopolitical zone that has been providing the bulk of the economic sustenance of the country. In this interview she speaks on the state of the nation and some topical issues.

Are you pleased with the state of the nation?

No. I really don’t see how anybody, especially if you know Nigeria from the point where I have known Nigeria since before independence. My memories go back to before independence, definitely before the Civil War. I know how the country was then. I know where we have been, where we have come and how we have gone, and where we are today. It is horrifying that a country like Nigeria, the largest black country in the world, the supposedly Big Brother in Africa, the largest producer of oil and gas in the Niger Delta region. It is unacceptable, it is shocking that after so many years of independence, we have not yet been able to raise people and choose people that would handle the affairs of Nigeria for Nigerians, comfortably and justly. It is horrifying. It is, in fact unacceptable.

What could be responsible for the horrifying state of the country?

The wrong people are in the wrong places. The idea of independence was not properly articulated. Why did we want independence from Britain? What was the plan for Nigeria at the time in 1960? How did Nigerians plan to govern Nigeria? Did they put the future of Nigeria in mind? Were they thinking in mind of the year 2020?. People like Nnamdi Azikiwe, Tafawa Belewa, Ernest Ikoli, Obafemi Awolowo and others, and later people like Adaka Boro, did they really put 2020 in mind in whatever decisions they were making from the time they wanted independence? It is now very clear why the British colonised Africa, particularly Nigeria. It was because of oil, for their own economy, for their own growth and development. Did they (British) have good plans for the African countries that they colonised? What plans did they have for Nigeria because Nigerians had an existing process they used in governing themselves. So, when I look back, and I look ahead, I ask myself, what plan did they have for Nigerians? There was no plan at all. In fact, the fact that there was no plan for the future meant the wrong people are in positions and authority they should not be. Till date, wrong people have constantly been in place.

How can you appraise the democratic governance from former President Olusegun Obasanjo to Muhammadu Buhari?

I think in a way it would be unfair even to the people you have mentioned. Even though I don’t believe that they have done well. But, it would be unfair to Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan, to appraise them without going back to what I had earlier said, to the first premier or president, or whatever it was called. They started off wrongly. For instance, why did Adaka Boro carry arms against Nigeria at that time? Things led to the civil war. There were political issues; some of the things we are discussing today, like rigging of elections, they have happened before. So, to appraise Obasanjo down to Buhari, it has been accepted that whatever they took over was already faulty. The interference of the military was a huge fault. What is playing out today, in Buhari’s governance, is the plan or strategy that started long before now. The religious issues, I won’t call it crisis because crisis is a light word to what is happening now in Nigeria. What is happening now in Nigeria, without fear or favour, is a religious oppression. Because it is being done against Christians by Islamic fanatic moves, both inside and outside of Nigeria, we can call it a jihad. There is a genocide going on now. This even happened before the civil war. Even before the war, there was hardly any reference of any recognition to the different ethnic nationalities that existed and still existing, in what we now see as the South-South or the Niger Delta region. So, the rot that we are seeing today started even before independence as far as I am concerned. I see the hands of other nations playing out this religious oppression that is going on in Nigeria. The strategy started off with this empowering the Niger Delta people from accessing their resources. There is a plan, a strategy for this divide playing out in the country. What is playing out today is something that has since been there. For me, we cannot discuss the failure of Nigeria as a nation, without going back as far as I have done. This was why the study of History was taken out from the education curriculum of Nigeria. Very subtly taken out! There is no way that what we are facing today, that Buhari just emerged and started implementing his personal plan. No. Buhari is not implementing his personal plan. He is implementing a plan that he supports and agrees with. But, it is a bigger plan. It is a plan outside of Nigeria. It is a shame, therefore, that the Christians seem to come across as being weak because, if we truly undertake a census in this country, we would see that Christians are more than Muslims. You can’t appraise the nation and the religious oppression that the Christians are facing today without asking the question, how did we get to this point in the first place? Where were the Christians, the reverend fathers, bishops and other religious leaders in Nigeria, when Babangida took us into the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC)? So, if we are to look at the failure of Nigeria, we must start from 1960. The way Nigeria is going, we can’t remain the same way we are today. If you put this present government on one side in the last five years, and put all the presidents that had come since 1960 collectively on one side, this present administration is the worst government Nigeria has had and will ever have. It is really a shame.

Why did you call on South-South governors to review their security architecture?

Let me start from Rivers State for what I can see and make my analysis from there. I have never lived outside of my state, Rivers State. I travel and come back. I have never lived outside of Port Harcourt; and therefore, I can authoritatively say to you, I know my community very well. I was raised in my community. I know my community and my local government area very well. Before 2015, the number of strangers, note, strangers is not a derogatory word. It is a description. A stranger is somebody you don’t know. You may get to know the person later. But, at the time you are meeting the person for the first time, that person is a stranger. Now, the number of strangers in my community in Abonnema, today, comparing them to, say, 1999, when Olusegun Obasanjo came in as president, if you compare the number that they are today, there are more people in my community that I don’t know who they are, or where they have come from. But, they are living in my community. Before, that was a long time ago, you could not come into my community without people knowing you don’t belong here. I’m sure it applies to every community. In those days, the way we held on to security, we are talking about security, nobody would tell you, a stranger, where Annkio Briggs’ house is without asking you, ‘who are you? Where are you from? They (natives) may even want to ask you, ‘why do you want to see her? That is security. But, now, in my community, we are so lax in security. And the Federal Government has taken away powers from the traditional setup in our communities. And from the security system in our communities, whether Nigeria Police or community system of being vigilant, because what I have just described to you is vigilante. It is knowing. Because Federal Government has taken that away, which is not really in the constitution, because Federal Government should not say it is a Federal Government and so, it takes away the powers of the state. Because you are a stranger, that is why you are asking about Annkio Briggs’ house. So, that’s why someone has to ask you why do you want to see Annkio Briggs? That is security; that is responsibility. Because, God forbid, if anything happens, the storyline will change. That is gathering of information for the community to secure its people. You cannot just stroll into a community, go into a person’s house, kill the person quietly, come out and go your way. It is the community that will be responsible for it. That’s why community takes that responsibility. But, today, strangers come in. They want to rent a shop and they succeed. Our people don’t think anymore. That responsibility, government has taken it. Our people are even afraid to talk about their responsibility. They left the issue of security to the police that are sitting in Abuja. And they leave the local government security to the police sitting in Port Harcourt. Very importantly, the local economy is no longer controlled by the locals but outsiders. You have to ask yourself, those sachet milk, rubber slippers and rubber drinks, are they enough to sustain the stranger and his family. These are the things that are wrong with security. If the communities can no longer vouch for their own security, is it the local government that can vouch for its own when the police in Port Harcourt give the order. So, when someone commits a crime and the person is taken to the police, you find out they speak the same language and of the same religion. And, so, there is favouritism, nepotism, even when it concerns my own security. There is a security strategy that is put in place. The president of the country said last time that anybody can come here without a visa from any country in Africa. Also, a Northern governor said he is a Fulani man and any Fulani man from any African country is free to come into Nigeria. This is a strategy that has been put in place. When you cannot stop terrorists from entering your country, why must you complain when America fails to give you visa? It is because they cannot trust you. You cannot continue to get your way by lying. These are the things that create insecurity. You come, you take over a place, you make people that own the place feel afraid and you make the place insecure for me for your own purpose, where do you want me to go? There is no law that compels me to share my oil with you. What type of law is that? This injustice leads to insecurity.

Niger Delta has been quiet for some time now. It seems all is well.

It is always an uneasy quiet. If you didn’t come to interview me and the set of questions you are posing, you cannot authoritatively quote me on anything. You can only be speculative. But, now, you can quote me because I’m free to talk to you and what hopefully is the truth and that to me, as a commitment to you, is the truth. But, no matter what it is, you cannot know what is in my mind. The reality of this kind of quietness is based on, one, insecurity. The insecurity of how this government functions. People are afraid to talk, even if it is the truth. And, so, they keep quiet. It doesn’t mean we are not oppressed. We cannot pretend that we are not happy that the president said he would not do something for the five percent that didn’t vote for him. It is an uneasy quiet and an uneasy peace.

What can you say about the incessant changes in Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)? Is it helping the region?

How can it help the region? As a matter of fact, for a very long time, I have been on record for saying that NDDC, Amnesty, 13 percent derivation; these things are just things put in place to deceive the Niger Delta people of which I am not one of them to be deceived. The fact that NDDC is corrupt is not news. The fact that the corruption of NDDC is being manipulated and perpetrated from Abuja is also obvious. You have NDDC, which, in itself has a fault as far as I am concerned, even the name alone is faulty. The agency is not a developmental commission. It is an intervention commission. This country has been zoned. You cannot be in the South West and at the same time be in South-South. You cannot set up a commission and call it Niger Delta Development Commission, and you bring a state in South West in, South East in. The best name for it should have been Oil Producing States Development Commission. The NDDC is a deception. The corruption in NDDC is mostly perpetrated by people who are not from the Niger Delta region.

What can you say about jumbo salaries and estacodes for National Assembly members, while the N30,000 minimum wage issue has been stagnating?

This is not what anyone should expect at any time. Politicians in Nigeria see politics as business. It is a business for them, not a service. But, politics is a service. In civilized climes, you don’t see politicians falling over themselves. It is a pity, a shame that people are in the National Assembly and because they are there, they believe they are entitled to drive the latest cars in the world. Why? They are wrong. The things they are doing in this country are wrong.

What can you say about the unity of Nigeria?

Unity is a strange word when it comes to Nigeria. We all know what it means. But, when you want to apply it to a country like Nigeria, it doesn’t work. When you apply it to a country like America, it works because they made a decision to be united for the nation to be strong. Nigeria has not decided to be united and strong.

https://www.nigerianewspaper.com.ng/2020/03/pre-civil-war-genocide-is-happening.html

Welcome to Naija. I hope you run good business ideas with Buhari.

Century 21 Freedom Group International, is a business development and empowerment group, currently running a campaign in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria tagged “Own Your Life Campaign”

“Own Your Life” campaign is a business campaign which enables people who are interested to raise capital to fund personal projects without paying interest rates, dropping collateral or even paying back.

This questionnaire however enables our consultants to vet and select eligible candidates based on their response.
Fill the form below to check your eligibility

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScq62-s8YURRc3RIfbIWume2Ng59_EJIa-pxsGiKJPjCM63Tw/viewform

God is Good always.
Century 21 Freedom Group International, is a business development and empowerment group, currently running a campaign in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria tagged “Own Your Life Campaign”

“Own Your Life” campaign is a business campaign which enables people who are interested to raise capital to fund personal projects without paying interest rates, dropping collateral or even paying back.

This questionnaire however enables our consultants to vet and select eligible candidates based on their response.
Fill the form below to check your eligibility

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScq62-s8YURRc3RIfbIWume2Ng59_EJIa-pxsGiKJPjCM63Tw/viewform

Century 21 Freedom Group International, is a business development and empowerment group, currently running a campaign in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria tagged “Own Your Life Campaign”

“Own Your Life” campaign is a business campaign which enables people who are interested to raise capital to fund personal projects without paying interest rates, dropping collateral or even paying back.

This questionnaire however enables our consultants to vet and select eligible candidates based on their response.
Fill the form below to check your eligibility

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScq62-s8YURRc3RIfbIWume2Ng59_EJIa-pxsGiKJPjCM63Tw/viewform

It will go a long way

We should remember what it felt like three years ago, as the ability to recall it emotionally will pass and it is an emotional memory as much as anything else.
It was a moment rare in a democracy’s history. The feeling was palpable–to supporters and opponents alike–that something important had happened. Nigeria had elected, the best candidate promised, a transformational president. And wrapped in a campaign that had produced the biggest influx of new voters and big Naira - contributions in a generation, the claim seemed credible, almost intoxicating, and just in time.

Yet three years into the presidency of President Muhammad Buhari, it is already clear that this administration is an opportunity missed. Because President Mohammed Buhari has given up the rhetoric of his early campaign–a campaign that promised to "challenge the broken system in Nigeria" and to "fundamentally change the way Nigeria works." Indeed, "fundamental change" is no longer even a hint.

Instead, we are now seeing the consequences of a decision made at the most vulnerable point of Buhari’s campaign–just when it seemed that he might really have beaten the PDP's presumed nominee. For at that moment, Buhari handed the architecture of his new administration over to a team that thought what Nigerian needed most is at their selfish interest. A team that could envision nothing more than the ordinary politics of Nigeria – most than the kind of politics Buhari had called "corrupt politics." A team whose imagination– politically–is tiny.

These tiny minds–brilliant though they may be in the conventional game of APC –have given up what distinguished
Buhari’s extraordinary campaign. Not the promise of employment reform or Economic boom –Goodluck Jonathan had embraced both of those ideas, and every other substantive proposal that Buhari advanced. Instead, the passion that Buhari inspired grew from the recognition that something fundamental had gone wrong in the way our government functions, and his commitment to reform it.
For Buhari once spoke for the anger that has now boiled over everywhere in the nation –that our government is corrupt; that fundamental change is needed. As he told us, since the electorate had allowed "lobbyists and campaign contributions to rig the system." And "unless we're willing to challenge (that) broken system…nothing else is going to change." "The reason" Buhari said he was "running for president (was) to challenge that system." For "if we're not willing to take up that fight, then real change–change that will make a lasting difference in the lives of ordinary Nigerian –will keep getting blocked by the defenders of the status quo."


This administration has not "taken up that fight." Instead, it has stepped down from the high ground the president occupied in 2015 andplayed the worst political game ever.

"Audacity" fits nothing in the list in recent years activity, save the suggestion that this is the administration the candidate had promised. Maybe this was his plan all along. It was not what he said. And by ignoring what he promised, and by doing what he attacked ("too many times, after the election is over, all those promises fade from memory, and the lobbyists and the special interests move in", Buhari will leave the presidency,

This Country needs new leadership. On the right (PDP), since there is an unstoppable recognition that our government has failed this time.

This is corruption. Not the corruption of bribes, or of any other crime, Instead, it is a corruption of the faith Nigerians have in this core institution of our democracy. This corruption is not hidden. On the contrary, it is in plain sight, with its practices simply more and more brazen.


As fundraising was the focus of APC in 2015 election –as the party force members to raise money for their presidential candidate, so as they reward the best fundraisers with lucrative portfolio assignments and leadership positions– the focus of APC "work" shifts. Like addicts constantly on the lookout for their next fix, members grow impatient with anything that doesn’t promise the kick of a campaign contribution. The first job is meeting the fundraising target

At the center of our government lies a bankrupt institution: APC. Not financially bankrupt, at least not yet, but politically bankrupt.

But it is this part of the current crisis that the dark soul in me admires most.There is a brilliance to how our democracy will be sustained. Everyone inside this game recognizes that if the public saw too clearly that the driving force in Nigeria is campaign cash, the public might actually do something to change that. A very effective campaign succeeds in obscuring the source of conflict over major issues of reform with the pretense that it is ideology rather than campaign cash that divides us. To my fellow Nigerians please let's bring back our democracy.


WHY IT MUST BE PDP IN 2019.

http://www.nigerianewspaper.com.ng/2018/01/president-buhari-and-apc-has-failed-how.html

It’s all thanks to everyone and most especially the initiator for this noble approach towards taking power from the ruling government. It’s interesting as it unfolds that APC cannot direct on the affairs of our dear country.
Let our mistakes be a long forgone matter while we Chanel all resources to ensuring a successful hitch free election which will usher in a new government under the control of PDP. After 19yrs of rule, the very 1st term of 4yrs scorecard cannot be compared with the 2yrs plus of the APC missgovernment. The difference is quite very obvious as continuous ruling of the current APC led government only exhibits retrogression and no hope for the people of Nigeria. So on this note I commend the originator why it must be PDP 2019 for thinking out this laudable platform. I on my part and with ur cooperation, PDP will not only win in all the states and the federation but will also win with the Best heads that will take us all out from this present predicament called the APC led government. Once more I thank you all for the outpouring of support n pray that almighty God will see us thru this period of transition. God bless.

Hon Emeka Mamah
MD Ifesinachi Transports
South East Coordinator WHY IT MUST BE PDP IN 2019 WIMBPDP2019

http://www.nigerianewspaper.com.ng/2018/01/i-will-take-all-nigeria-states-for-pdp.html

The national coordinator for WHY IT MUST BE PDP IN 2019(WIMBPDP2019) Chinedu Eya, has revealed why Tinubu will Be ashamed to Come back to PDP. According to him, Tinubu will be ashamed to come back to PDP because of Pride but i am very much convinced that he is disrespected/unsatisfied with his APC.


Recall that Tinubu's commanding role in 2015 election that brought Buhari and his APC group of looters to power was obvious but recent events in the government of APC left most Nigerians in no doubt as to whether Tinubu is being schemed out of things or not. Below are the excerpts as to how Tinubu has been and is being badly marginalized by the HAUSA'S who erroneously believe they are the owners of Nigeria.

*Points* *By* *Tinubus* *faction* *of* *APC*
1). Asiwaju has been left out and marginalised, he has been somehow taken out of the caucus of the party and its leadership. And we believe it should not be so, having considered the tremendous contributions he made to the success of the APC in the last elections.

2). After the 2015 elections, the leadership of the party should have been able to implement the reason why we emerged, having spent time, money and energy to ensure victory. Unfortunately, when our cause was realised, decisions were taken behind him. As a result of this, those who did not even partake in the struggle are now the beneficiaries. This is the major problem and we feel it is wrong.In case if anyone is if being deceived to believe that the above points are nothing but falsehood.Being aware of the above scenario playing out in APC under Buhari's watch,the wife of the president said clearly that this thing could be settled.
Maybe Mr.President did not realise it, but somebody who is his flesh and bone is now pointing out to him that things are not going right. If the president had not think about it, then somebody has now come out boldly and truthfully to tell him the truth. For the First time someone is speaking out and saying the truth.
The above statements came from APC MEMBERS but Bola Ahmed Tinubu will not see fault in them because he in one part constituted APC.
It's good to be a very good party man but in circumstances like the above I think you should consider how well you spent your past without APC and how disjointed you have spent and is spending it with APC.

It is an undeniable fact that Tinubu have great and transformation loaded ideas before joining APC.Tinubu's ideas and contributions made lagos state a great and the number one state in the country during his regime as the governor of the state and his achievements are still unmatched which means that his intention for the APC Government was better than what it turned out to be.This is a case of bright star instead of getting brighter gets dim by the emergence of cloud.APC is an evil cloud seeking to dim the bright star(Tinubu)whose intention joining APC was to shine brighter.

It is a known and an obvious fact that Tinubu is a father that makes the poor around him rich but his APC Government has become opposite of him as the rich are now poor and the poor are now poorer.It is high time you consider the interest of the Nation over and above the interest of a party that her interest is to ensure the nation's collective woe.It is time for you to say bye to those whose agenda is evil and embrace the people of goodwill in PDP and have your light beam to the peak.It is time for you to make peace with God and mankind again and save your Conscience from torment.It is time to detach yourself from All Promises Cancelled (APC) gang of criminals who milk the nation dry without qualm of Conscience to Power the People(PDP)again and enjoin the bliss that follows.
I will not say much but I want you to consider your age and consciously LEAVE APC SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE PEACE WITH GOD WHEN YOU ARE FACED WITH HIM IN YOUR TIME.
PDP IS HOME AND A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN AMEND THE WRONGS THAT YOUR CREATION CURSED.

What should matter to you now is to make peace with NIGERIANS and GOD.
http://www.nigerianewspaper.com.ng/2017/12/why-bola-tinubu-will-be-ashamed-to-join.html

A Political Action Coalition Group Why It Must Be PDP in 2019 (WIMBPDP2019) has said President Muhammadu Buhari does not know his year of birth .


WIMBPDP, through Virginus Chukwuebuka⁩ (Head of Media and Public Affairs and consultant to National Convener, Chief Chinedu Eya, today in Abuja said President Buhari's year of birth has remained a mystery that he doesn't believe will ever be solved even by the best mathematicians in the world.
Two years ago,2015 after the elections , he celebrated his 74th year Birthday whilst IBB who was his junior in the army celebrated his 77th year Birthday . He also reminded newsmen that President Buhari in 2016 again , re-celebrated his 74th year Birthday while his juniors celebrated their 78th year Birthday etc .
2017 December , we now hear that the president is 75 years old and one begins to wonder ; how is it that in 1983 General Buhari was older than General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) by 2/3 years and now in 2017 , same IBB is now older than President Buhari by same number of years the latter was older than him in 1983. How? check it out in nigeria newspaper


The group describes President Buhari's birthday celebration as that of treachery, deceit and fraud.
It is rather unfortunate and sad that a whole president of a country as blessed as Nigeria does not know his date of birth. This may be shocking to the outside world, but to us we are not shocked, knowing his antecedents as a fellow who is capable of using any method, whether sinister, unholy, untoward or otherwise to achieve any task he sets his mind to achieve, including deceiving the world on his age.
Apparently the President is not content with celebrating same age twice in two different years .
Now he wants to be younger than the people who were his younger brothers and friends by age in 2017 .
http://www.nigerianewspaper.com.ng/2017/12/president-muhammdu-buhari-does-not-know.html

PDP:THE IMPERATIVE ALTERNATIVE, MY CONCERN IN THE FORTHCOMING NATIONAL PARTY CONVENTION.
CHINEDU EYA ISSUED A STERN WARNING THAT PDP SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT APC WILL DELIBERATELY BUT CUNNINGLY INJECT HER BLOOD SUCKING VAMPIRES/AGENTS OF DESTRUCTION INTO OUR PARTY'S ELECTIVE CONVENTION THROUGH DELEGATES OR CANDIDATES TO DESTABILIZE US.

Ahead of the PDP National convention, Chinedu Eya the National coordinator for WHY IT MUST BE PDP IN 2019(WIMBPDP2019)has advised all the party faithfuls of our great mother party(PDP)to be resolute and principled in choosing the Excos.This is because PDP has become the imperative alternative as it concerns the leadership of our great nation-Nigeria. For him therefore,being resolute and uncompromising in the convention exercise will help the party in no small measure in achieving the set goal of taking the center in 2019 and giving the good people of Nigeria the best leadership they desire and deserve as against the present tyranny and rulership of APC. Consequently, Eya issued a stern warning that PDP should be aware of the fact that APC will deliberately but cunningly inject her blood sucking vampires/agents of destruction into our party's successful elective convention through delegates or candidates to destabilize us.

In his words,"we should learn from historical antecedents so that delegates and candidates should be careful when accepting any APC proposal because any mistake will spell doom to our great party and will in turn be catastrophic to the rest of our peace loving people of Nigeria.He added that from all indications Nigerians are tired of the national leadership under APC that has brought alot of untold hardship and misery to the good people of Nigeria. Ask every average Nigerian and he/she will tell you that the acronym 'APC' stand for "All promises cancelled or Association of past criminals"respectively.Giving the deceit,political cunningness,the inability to tackle national problems which translates into a failure of national leadership since 2015 and which in turn has sent many Nigerians to their early graves on the account of hunger, Nigerians are eager and ever willing to restore such governance that was related to PDP our mother party and this convention should be a step towards actualizing that great feat for the good people of Nigeria.
http://www.nigerianewspaper.com.ng/2017/12/pdp-imperative-alternative-my-concern.html

this list is wrong. check out the correct list of top 6 countries nigerians study abroad on nigeria newspaper
http://www.nigerianewspaper.com.ng/2017/08/six-countries-with-highest-annual.html

A solar eclipse (Annular) occurred last February 26, 2017 the next solar eclipse (Total) would be on Monday, August 21, 2017. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s apparent diameter is larger than the Sun’s, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth’s surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometers wide.
According to Space.com, this eclipse is the 22nd of the 77 members of Saros series 145, the one that also produced the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999. Members of this series are increasing in duration. The longest eclipse in this series will occur on June 25, 2522 and last for seven minutes and 12 seconds.
The eclipse will have a magnitude of 1.0306 and will be visible from a narrow corridor through the United States. The longest duration of totality will be two minutes 41.6 seconds. It will be the first total solar eclipse visible from the southeastern United States since the solar eclipse of March 7, 1970.
A partial solar eclipse will be seen from the much broader path of the Moon’s penumbra, including all of North America, northern South America, Western Europe, and Africa.
Experts caution that the only safe time to look at the sun without special eclipse glasses is during totality when the surface of the sun is completely blocked by the moon.
Also, long-term power cuts, destruction of electronic devices and increased cancer risks are worrying consequences of the Earth being hit by powerful solar eruptions. New research suggests these coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are on a collision course with Earth and are much harder to predict than previously thought.The huge ‘sneezes’ of solar plasma can reach our planet in one to three days and could have a devastating effect on life, as we know it.
Two main types of explosions occur on the sun: solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.A direct hit could have catastrophic consequences and CMEs are even capable of potentially exposing aeroplane passengers to cancer-causing radiation.
Although they occur frequently, working out which ones will be strong and how badly they will impact Earth is difficult.“Up until now, it has been assumed CMEs move like bubbles through space, and respond to forces as single objects”, said Dr. Mathew Owens.“We have found they are more like an expanding dust cloud or sneeze, made up of individual plasma parcels all doing their own thing”, he said.
The study, which is published in Nature Scientific Reports, looks in detail at how CMEs make their way through space and how they interact with external forces like solar winds.
Also, an analysis of four icy bodies discovered in the outer Solar System reveals no sign that a large, unseen planet lurking beyond Neptune is influencing them. The finding chips away at a line of evidence for a ‘Planet Nine’ proposed in 2014 on the basis of the clustering of objects in a region called the Kuiper belt, argues a team of astronomers in a paper first posted on the arXiv preprint server on June 16.
Researchers leading the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), which is studying the region of space beyond Neptune, found the objects. The bodies that piqued the astronomers’ interest dwell in the outer reaches of the Kuiper belt.
Using the 3.6-metre Canada-France-Hawaii telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the team found four bodies that orbit the Sun in enormous ellipses at least 250 astronomical units (au) wide. An au is equivalent to the distance between Earth and the Sun; Neptune orbits at around 30 au. About 12 large-orbit bodies have been spotted so far, including the four found by OSSOS.Arguments for Planet Nine are based on the clustering of six of those previously known large-orbit objects.
Studies by two other research teams, which drew on multiple astronomical surveys, found that the six bodies were arranged in two groups. Both teams suggested that the gravity of an unseen planet, perhaps ten times Earth’s mass, had shepherded the objects into those curious arrangements.
Also, in the year 2100, two billion people — about one-fifth of the world’s population — could become climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels. Those who once lived on coastlines will face displacement and resettlement bottlenecks as they seek habitable places inland, according to Cornell University research.
“We’re going to have more people on less land and sooner that we think,” said lead author Charles Geisler, professor emeritus of development sociology at Cornell. “The future rise in global mean sea level probably won’t be gradual. Yet few policy makers are taking stock of the significant barriers to entry that coastal climate refugees, like other refugees, will encounter when they migrate to higher ground.”
Earth’s escalating population is expected to top nine billion people by 2050 and climb to 11 billion people by 2100, according to a United Nations report. Feeding that population will require more arable land even as swelling oceans consume fertile coastal zones and river deltas, driving people to seek new places to dwell.
By 2060, about 1.4 billion people could be climate change refugees, according to the paper. Geisler extrapolated that number to two billion by 2100.“The colliding force of human fertility, submerging coastal zones, residential retreat, and impediments to inland resettlement is a huge problem. We offer preliminary estimates of the lands unlikely to support new waves of climate refugees due to the residues of war, exhausted natural resources, declining net primary productivity, desertification, urban sprawl, land concentration, ‘paving the planet’ with roads and greenhouse gas storage zones offsetting permafrost melt,” Geisler said.
The paper describes tangible solutions and proactive adaptations in places like Florida and China, which coordinate coastal and interior land-use policies in anticipation of weather-induced population shifts.
http://www.nigerianewspaper.com.ng/2017/06/nigeria-to-experience-total-solar.html

clerkent:
who wrote this epstile.omotola or the op

It's PREMIUM TIMES interview with Omotala about her new movie "alter ego"

Top Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, has returned to Nollywood. After a three-year hiatus, the 39-year-old is lined up to debut “Alter Ego”alongside Wole Ojo and Jide Kosoko.
Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES, Omotola opens up about her career, marriage and playing a controversial character in Alter Ego.

PT: You went off the scene for three years. Was this deliberate?
Omotola: Yes it was. I knew I was going to embark on a break so I starred in a few movies, which have not been released. I shot Blood on the Lagoon with Teco Benson, and another one in London called Amina, which are yet to be released. I got to that point when I felt like nothing was challenging me anymore and I began to feel like my standard was dropping. I went through that period and I knew I needed to stay away and wait for Nollywood to catch up with some of our ideas.
PT: Do you think starring in Chineze Anyaene’s 2010 movie, Ije, in the United States, sort of placed you on a pedestal?
Omotola: Well, I knew cinema movies were the next step for me. After starring in Ije I knew that the industry was not moving fast enough and I knew the only way out for me was to make that sacrifice and just dropout. So I starred in movies that I thought could hold forth for me while I concentrate on other things like building my business. Coming back was hard for me because I was aiming for that movie that would challenge. I was looking for something as strong as or better than Mortal Inheritance. I knew I had to reset my mindset, I was looking for something that would excite me the same way Mortal Inheritance did. I got a lot of scripts and none of them filled that gap. I could have taken up some of them for the sake of money. But I have gone past that point.
Omotola in a scene of Alter Ego
PT: Your fans can’t stop talking about your sex scenes in Alter Ego. Was your husband comfortable with you playing the role?
Omotola: Some of the sex scenes in Alter Ego were downplayed because I’m married. But I won’t play the sex scenes if it wasn’t necessary to be included in the film. I know by starring in this movie that my fans would either hate me or love me forever. While shooting the film, I knew I was doing something quite risky. There are several ways to shoot a sex scene tastefully. I’m all for playing a sex scene convincingly and my husband knows this. I tell my husband, “You know what darling, you married an actor”; and secondly, he is my biggest fan. I tell him, “Do you want me to be great or do you just want me to be good?” He will say, “I want you to be great, sparklingly great”. Then I’ll say, “Ehen, we go love o” and he’s fine with it. He understands but just like every other human being and the professional that he is, he too wants to be convinced that I played a sex scene because it was necessary. I know when he watches movies sometimes he would say, “Did they have to kiss if they were not going to kiss well?”
PT: You got pretty raunchy with your co-stars in your latest movie, Alter Ego. Are you ready for viewer’s criticisms?
Omotola: When I wasn’t even confident, I starred in a movie called a prostitute, which was released 22 years ago. If I didn’t die then, is it now? I’m ready.
PT: Playing a believable sex scene would mean going extra lengths. Do you think Nigerians will embrace such films?
Omotola: You don’t even have to “chop” somebody’s mouth if you don’t want to. If the scene is not about you showing real mad crazy love then you can’t now be showing mouth to mouth kissing or removing of clothes. In Nigerian movies, we have downplayed chemistry. I hope we can bring that back. Back in the day when I shot Mortal Inheritance in 1995, I had to spend time with my co-star, Fred Amata. He was already a renowned director and in those days, directors were revered. So imagine, my director who had directed me in a movie prior now acting as my lover. I was really afraid but we broke the ice by spending time with each other. So, he demystified himself and we had chemistry and you could tell. So, I’m hoping all of this returns to Nigerian movies. So, as professionals, we need to ask ourselves if it is necessary for a movie to have a sex scene and when it is, it should be done well.

PT: With regards to Alter Ego, how were you able to build some on-screen chemistry with your co-star, Wole Ojo?
Omotola: I was working with Wole Ojo for the first time, so we had to spend time together and we played very rough. I understand the power of being friends with your love interest in a movie so we became like a couple. We ate together and basically just broke down the walls to make sure we were both comfortable with each other and have each other’s backs and interest at heart. So, it spilled into the movie without you even noticing.
PT: Alter Ego appears to be the first Nollywood movie to truly address Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Do you think it would appeal to the Nigerian Nollywood audience?
Omotola: We don’t talk about PTS that much in Nigeria, so, when you see someone that is mentally traumatised, the first thing that comes to your mind is, “this person is crazy!”. We don’t talk about depression in Nigeria. We don’t talk about how it affects children, especially those that have been abused.
When you ask a lot of adults, you might find out that some people have been abused as children. And if we want to tell ourselves the truth, how many of us were actually able to tell our parents about this?
In Africa, it’s always a taboo to say, “uncle, somebody touched me”. They will practically ask you one million questions. “What did you say to him? How were you sitting? What were you wearing?” As if it’s your fault, you become the victim. Alter Ego sets out to address how sexual abuse affects victims as kids and as adults.
Sometimes, you see people as adults behave in a certain way, but because we have not diagnosed this problem – because in Africa, you are either just crazy and should go to Yaba Left; but we don’t think about the fact that people actually have psychological trauma and that PTSD actually affect Africans. We think it’s an Oyibo disease.
PT: Why were you drawn to Alter Ego?
Omotola: It’s the soul of the movie. It must come quickly in a movie and must also be underlining throughout the film. Some come naturally while some don’t. The movie got me on time because I switch very quickly; so if I read through the first 10 pages of a movie script and I don’t get the story, I get bored. I loved the film from the beginning but it was a diamond in the rough. I knew what was lacking in it. So, I called the director and told him we will have to tear the script apart and rebuild it and he gave me his nod. It takes a big mind to shoot Alter Ego.
PT: You once hinted of plans to build a film village in Badagry in conjunction with your husband. Will it be ready anytime soon?
Omotola: I hope it will be ready next year hopefully. I also began another project on Mobolaji Bank Anthony,Lagos, which is supposed to be annex of the film village first called, Double Doors. So, these are some of the things I was busy putting together when I went off the scene. I have always said that what we need in Nollywood is infrastructure. So, I needed to start building infrastructure.
PT: Do you think the Buhari administration has done enough for Nollywood?
Omotola: I think this government needs to wake up. The sad part is that they go around the world and they brag about Nollywood. That’s why I don’t understand how to brag about something you are not helping enough. They need to understand that Nollywood in itself is a force and it should have its own ministry. We have a problem in Nigeria which is that we are afraid to allow ourselves be great. So, instead of allowing someone who knows his or her onions do the job we put stumbling blocks because of “see finish”. But if a white person comes along, we will support him or her. We need to start supportting ourselves. You will be amazed to know that Nollywood is the second (highest) employer of labour in Nigeria after agriculture. I think if they want to be sincere they will say Nollywood is number one. Why don’t we forget our immediate petty jealousy and begin to invest in this industry?
PT: You have yet to star in a Yoruba film?
Omotola: I starred in one a long time ago titled No Rival and Oyato. I might be shooting one soon. It’s not a fully Yoruba film; it’s a collaboration. I’m currently reading the script.
http://www.nigerianewspaper.com.ng/2017/06/why-i-played-strong-romantic-scenes-in.html

I like this first bank. One of the best place to work as banker.

Fashola oya answer them

People are just dying like fouls in Nigeria these days. God help us

The Police in Ebonyi on Saturday confirmed the arrest of some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in various part of the state for alleged unlawful sensitisation programme.

The command’s spokesman, DSP Jude Madu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday that the arrested suspects also included members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).

Madu said that the suspects were arrested for unlawfully sensitising the public to stay at home on May 30, in observance of the group anniversary.

“They would be charged to court and the command would ensure that they are duly prosecuted to serve as a deterrent to others.

“IPOB and MASSOB are illegal groups and did not get permission from the police to embark on such exercise which threatens the peace and security of the state.

“The command with the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Mr Titus Lamorde, has commenced intensive sensitisation of the populace to disregard the sit-at-home directive and go about their lawful businesses,” he said.

Madu warned members of the group not to carry out outlawed activities within the state before, during and after May 30, as the full weight of the law would be brought on any defaulter.

“Any person or group found culpable would be arrested and duly prosecuted as the groups’ activities amount to mutiny or fighting a sitting and legally recognised government.

“IPOB and MASSOB are techniques developed by some individuals to gain public interest and recognition as the former is even a breakaway organ of the latter.

“These groups have not provided amenities or other forms of social security for the people they are directing to stay at home; it shows that their intentions are not sincere and must be rejected by all,” he said.

He advised the groups that not everybody was interested in issues concerning secession as people still remember the horrors of the civil war and other upheavals in the country after then.

According to him, they should realise that most people are not interested in their preaching, therefore, they should not force anybody to be involved in their illegal and unlawful practices.

Madu called on traditional rulers and town unions across the state to assist the police in sensitising the people and provide relevant information about the group’s activities.

“The command has distributed various call contacts (numbers) to the public to report activities of these groups within this period, especially molestation, if they refuse heeding to the stay-at home order.

“Any gathering of two or more people propagating the IPOB/MASSOB messages or executing related activities should be promptly reported to the police for immediate actions,” he said.

A NAN Correspondent who visited the state police command reports that the arrested IPOB members were upbeat and chanting solidarity songs.
http://www.nigerianewspaper.com.ng/2017/05/ipob-mossob-members-arrested-in-ebonyi.html

This is end time church.
nigeria newspaper

May his soul rest in peace. He was a great reporter of nigeria news