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Good news for Nigerian businesses as CBN signs $2.5bn swap deal with China


Nigeria is the third African country to have such an agreement in place with China.

https://www.thecable.ng/.WurcE5Es-cg.twitter

Finally!
After two long years of expectations.

These things really can take time to happen sha.
People count in days days and weeks...
Govt's count in quarters and years

In your mind, it has taken a hundred weeks, waiting for a new development week in week out.
In their mind (govt.), it has taken only 8 quarters.

Lesson: the mill of govt, like justice, grinds slowly, sometimes annoyingly and unjustifiably slowly.

Interesting...

@garriguy
Good job bro. Pls how much is a 50kg bag of garri sold now? And how much is ton of cassava?
I hope to patronize you soon and then maybe later in the year.

When a group you had high expectations for seems to just have thrown names together with or without consent, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Ideological homogeneity? Never mind!

Ayo Obe has dissociated herself from the group. She did so on public radio saying she was never consulted not contacted before putting her name in the group. She said she does not know what the group stands for.
Femi Falana essentially did same on channels TV a few days back.
This doesn't portend well for this 'rescue' group that wants to do things properly.

Hmm...

sarrki:
Enugu didn't have portable water

The most populated state with water tankerin the whole of Nigeria

Ça va?

On the 10th but of Jan? Well better than not paying for 5 months.

Does this mean Osun is not owing workers any more months?

And OP? For the month of December 2018?
Nigeria's journalism! This reporter and editor have Dec. 2018 appearing 3 times in that short report. And these same folks would shout themselves hoarse if 3 wrong names appear in a 250- name list.

Not excusing govt sloppiness.
Like civil servants like journalists.

Double post

omoiyalayi:
My grandfather have been sitting like that all his life and he hasn't suffer any of the grammar you wrote

Ayoemrys:
My grandfather sits like that everytime stil he spent 105yrs. In life

People should stop saying stuffs like these.
If Oyinbo makes a gun that fires only 1 in 10 times you pull the trigger, are you going to put that gun to your head?

Interesting days in America. I don't know Steve Banon's intent on telling all, whether it's altruistic and in the nation's interest or he's just sore...
Some of the 'revelations' are deeply worrying, though.

dammytosh:
Thank You.

The m0r0nic trumptards will soon arrive.

Their only song is Fake News

Lol. Mr. Trump is reportedly organizing a 'Fake News award ceremony'.
...And the winner is.... Your guesses are as good as his.

14. https://www.google.com.ng/amp/amp.toofab.com/2018/01/04/14-explosive-allegations-from-michael-wolffs-fire-and-fury-inside-the-trump-white-house

13. Trump's Staff Are Afraid to Let Him Do Interviews
With Trump's tendency for repetition and lapses, not to mention off-the-cuff comments, his staff allegedly urged him to forgo a "60 Minutes" interview intended to open that show's fall season. Instead, they went with Sean Hannity, with insiders saying it was because he was willing to supply his questions beforehand. Hannity quickly denied this claim in a statement to Mediate: "I never provided questions ahead of time to Trump and never said I was going to quit my longtime, successful TV and radio career to work for Trump."

12. Trump May Be Only Semi-Literate
One of the biggest challenges staffers faced was wrangling the president and communicating directly with him. They reportedly say he processes information in a very scatter-brained way, shifting focus with the wind. He apparently doesn't read, and barely even skims.

11. Trump Is Probably His Own Leak
While Trump became obsessed with finding out who was leaking all of his personal and private habits to the media, it may well be that it was Trump himself. He allegedly has a habit in the evening lamenting to his associates and friends about his day, his grievances, his enemies, really whatever came to mind. Those people were under no obligation or expectation that they should keep his words to themselves, and so likely many of them fed their scoops to the hungry media.

10. Trump Eats McDonalds for Fear of Poisoning
Much fun has been made of Trump's voluminous McDonalds order, but there's another reason than those delicious fries for his penchant for the fast-food giant. Just as he demanded no one touch his toothbrush for fear of it being poisoned, Wolff says he chooses McDonalds because they don't know he's coming and the food is generally already premade.

9. Trump Wanted a Lock on His Door, His Stuff Untouched
After moving to the White House, Trump is said to have retreated to his bedroom (he does not share a room with the First Lady) where he ordered two additional televisions and wanted a lock put on the inside of his door. The Secret Service balked at this, saying they needed access to him. Trump also demanded no one touch anything in his room, including the cleaning staff.

8. Jarvanka' Are Angling for President Ivanka
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump defied the advice of everyone they knew to take roles in the Trump administration. Their plan was to allegedly set Ivanka up for a future run for president. "They didn't say that?” Bannon said when he heard of the plan. "Stop. Oh, come on. They didn't actually say that? Please don't tell me that. Oh my God."

7. Bannon's Plan Was Chaos And Division
Most of Trump's staff in the early days didn't really have titles or official positions, so Bannon set to work pushing forth his plan for the first 100 days. "Chaos was Steve's strategy," said deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh. His first victory came with Trump signing the controversial Muslim travel ban executive order. As Bannon anticipated, liberal media exploded, creating a wider rift between the left and the right.

6.Trump Repeats Himself a Lot And Also Repeats Himself
If it sounds like Trump brings out the same talking points over and over again in public speeches, Wolff says it's even worse in person. When approached for the chief of staff position, Rience Priebus had been warned how by a Trump associate how to talk to the then president-elect. "In an hour meeting with him, you're going to hear 54 minutes of stories, and they're going to be the same stories over and over again. So you have to have one point to make, and you pepper it in whenever you can."

5. Trump Was Woefully Uninformed About Washington, DC
When former Speaker of the House John Boehner was suggested as a solid candidate for chief of staff by longtime Trump friend Roger Ailes (also former head of Fox News and veteran of Nixon, Reagan and H.W. Bush administrations, so he has some idea how politics works), Trump allegedly responded, "Who's that?" Considering that Beohener was one of the most well-known members of the Republican Party and a very public rival to President Obama through much of his time in office, one would think Donald Trump would know who this guy is.

4. Trump Didn't Know the Constitution
Early in the campaign, Trump aide Sam Nunberg was supposedly tasked with explaining the U.S. Constitution to the future president. "I got as far as the Four Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head," Nunberg told Wolff.

3. Trump Campaign Wanted to Lose to Win
The plan all along was to lose, but to win by doing so, which would explain why Trump had little interest in personally investing in a losing cause. According to Wolff, Trump wanted to launch his own television network, while his cronies could reap their own rewards. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner would be huge celebrities, Conway was looking to be on-air with cable news, and Bannon was poised to emerge as the new leader of the far-right Tea Party. Instead, they found themselves at the Oval Office with no idea what to do next.

2. Trump Refused to Invest in His Campaign
Bannon and Kellyanne Conway were allegedly inserted into the Trump campaign at the behest of billionaire Robert Mercer, after infusing $5 million into the campaign. Right away, Bannon noted that Trump had not contributed to his own campaign. When he determined it needed $50 million to make it to election day, he had to settle for $10 million from Trump, provided he was repaid as soon as that money could be raised from others. It says a lot when a self-claimed multi-billionaire isn't willing to invest in his own campaign.

We might never find out what really is and what is not. All these are allegations, still.

The book 'Fire and Fury' by Michael Wolff goes on sale Friday 05 Jan, fours days earlier than originally planned, probably to hedge against a lawsuit by the White House or ride the wave of demand. Here, copied are some of the allegations that would become the talking points on- and offline in the coming days:
https://www.google.com.ng/amp/amp.toofab.com/2018/01/04/14-explosive-allegations-from-michael-wolffs-fire-and-fury-inside-the-trump-white-house

1. Wolff Was Accidentally Given Almost Unprecedented Access
As a testament to how unstructured Trump and his organization was, Wolff was given extraordinary access to the inner workings almost by accident. When he asked about being allowed to linger and listen in for a book, Trump talked about right-wing author Ed Klein and didn't outright deny his request. "His non-disapproval became a kind of passport for me to hang around ... plunking myself down, day after day, on a West Wing couch," Wolff wrote in The Hollywood Reporter.

happyjaja:
Hello, thanks for this thread. After reading, my hopes of becoming a programmer skyrocketed to the rocketed end��. I always wonder how this applications function, and how they came to be. But I don't really get nice stuffs online. I studied microbiology, I want to learn from scratch. There are some language terminologies that was used along the thread like end lines, DUI., ND stuffs like that. I will be grateful if a link will be provided to get me started as an amateur beginner and also mentorship will be appreciated. I look forward to writing programs for games (I like games well) n do something useful for microbiologist with it.

@happyjaja
The best resources I've found for a beginner are these one here: http://inventwithpython.com/invent4thed/, http://inventwithpython.com/pygame
You can read the book online for free. You can also choose to buy the hard-copy on amazon.

It teaches Python in probably the most learner-friendly way. In fact, it teaches coding using several games as explained examples.

I hope you find it helpful.

Ladoja
Oladoja
Adedoja

This is good to note. We thank God and hope things get even better.