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Sorry o, I know you have long been counting down to 7pm of July 19, 2020, but I can't help but ask why the fifth season of BBNaija must start now? Indeed, I am further forced to ask: couldn't the popular reality television show be shelved for now or even forever? Don't organisers of the programme have any milk of human pity? I mean mercy for those they are supposedly entertaining! Ironic, you may say but this paradox is well intended by yours sincerely. Who did this to us? It's obvious that what we have in our hands is like a person being bitten and blown by a rat all at the same time. 
 
Now that you may be getting my drift, kindly suffer me for being such a spoilsport or like someone would say "vibe killer". But then, I just have to kill this vibe for the good of my compatriot and country. In plain language, I am kvetching over the start of Big Brother Naija because of the distraction or escape from griping reality that it offers. Distractions from more important matters and escape from what we should be confronting concertedly. Unfortunately, the distractions have started barely hours into the programme. 
 
My neighbour told me about the dilemma he had to contend with last night...

Read full article here: https://allnews.ng/news/oh-no-why-must-bbnaija-2020-begin-now

The Director-General of Igbo Nsukka Unity Front (INUF), Comrade Chineme Onyeke has observed that Enugu North District is blessed by providence in virtually all sectors, stressing that Nsukka land in Enugu State should naturally be the academic hub, agricultural base and the leading tourist destination in Nigeria. 

In an address forwarded to AllNews on Tuesday, he however regretted that these great potentials have not been harnessed "due to a lot of things chasing Igbo Nsukka, some of which are a combination of carefully orchestrated marginalization agenda against Nsukka people and ineffective and visionless leadership of our people".

Hon. Onyeke disclosed that his group's visits to wonderful sites littered across Nsukka land revealed that "Igbo-Nsukka should naturally be the leading tourist destination in Nigeria, (examples, Ezzimo Waterfalls, Nkalagu Obukpa Cave, etc). Also, Nsukka should be the Academic hub of Nigeria, Nsukka should be the Agricultural base of the South-East, and other innumerable potentials of Nsukka Land".

He explained that it is in combating the combination of the "anti-Nsukka agenda and bad leadership that has pauperised our people" that the Igbo Nsukka United Front came up with a three-point agenda which the group intends to vigorously pursue in order to birth the latent greatness in Nsukka land.

The DG explained the agenda as follows: "to give Igbo Nsukka a voice: Having gone through series of marginalization, degradation, and oppression, and being looked down upon by almost all cultural zones around us, within and outside Enugu State, it has become imperative for us to stand and speak for our people, to promote our people, our culture, our heritage, our achievements, and our heroics. Prof Chinua Achebe in admonishing African Writers once said "if you don't write your story, another person will do it the way you may not like" which will culminate in what Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie terms *"the danger of a single story"* Igbo Nsukka United Front is to form a rallying ground for Igbo Nsukka men and women where we converge and put heads together to plan for what will benefit the entire Igbo Nsukka Cultural zone, thereby attracting tremendous development to our land and make Igbo Nsukka the most desirable place to live in or to come from in the entire Igbo Land. 

"Industrialization of Igbo Nsukka:  The best way to attract development to a place is to create Jobs there and the best way to create Jobs is to build industries. This informed our quest for the industrialization of Igbo Nsukka land, especially in Agriculture and Information Communication Technology ICT. To achieve this, we will need a University of Agriculture that will drive the rapid industrialization of this zone. On this basic agenda, we are to do everything within our power to ensure that a University of Agriculture is established in Igbo Nsukka and fully operational before 2023.

"To ensure that Igbo Nsukka is not left out in the 2023 power equation and beyond: Having fought really hard before we were "given" the chance to lead Enugu State in 2015 which culminated in the former Gov. Sullivan Chime sacrificing his political ambition for Nsukka to take what is rightfully theirs in the Political equation of Enugu State.  We are not even sure if this 4th republic will last until then, and also borrowing a leaf from what happened in the tenure of Chimaroke when he totally neglected Nsukka Zone.
"Even at that, during the turn of Enugu East Senatorial Zone, they had the Senate President and the Federal Ministers that joined hands with the governor to develop their area. During that of Enugu West Senatorial Zone, they had the deputy Senate President and the Federal Ministers, including UNN Vice Chancellors that all joined hands to develop their place, but when our turn came, it was only the governor and nothing more.

"Therefore, we must stand and insist that the next round of the zoning arrangement starts from Nsukka, especially, because we are the last and in the principle of equality, equity and fairness, (traditional ISUSU) the last person to take in the first round should be the first to take in the second round. Hence, it is the rightful turn of Igbo Nsukka to produce the next Governor of Enugu State come 2023."
While clarifying that it is neither fronting nor opposing any individual, politician, group or political party, INUF stressed that her only interest "is the well-being of Nsukka men and women and the development of Nsukka land hence any man, woman, boy or girl that is against the interest of Nsukka Land is automatically against us and anyone supporting the interest of Nsukka Land is automatically for us."

Click here to view pictures: https://allnews.ng/news/what-igbo-nsukka-should-be-to-nigeria-but-for-marginalisation-poor-leadership-onyeke

Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega has observed that the clamour for a restructuring of the Nigerian federation, true federalism and actualization of the sovereign state of Biafra are interconnected, noting that these demands have become so heightened to the extent of overheating the polity.

The Professor of Political Science warned that the consequences of seceding from Nigeria to the secessionists and the remaining citizens would far outweigh what it would cost the country and Nigerians to have a restructured federal system.

https://allnews.ng/news/attahiru-jega-links-biafra-agitation-with-demands-for-restructuring-true-federalism

Chief Celestine Okanya is a seasoned technocrat cum diplomat currently at the peak of his career with all the attendant pecks, yet yearns for a better-governed Enugu State. His passion for the development of the state has seen him take on the establishment as he explains in this explosive interview with Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi. For South-East politicians agitating for Nigeria to produce a President of Igbo extraction in 2023, he left this message: "Victim mentality does not attract power, victor mentality does". AllNews now brings you excerpts of the interview:

https://allnews.ng/news/okanya-blasts-gov-ugwuanyi-exposes-ojebegocracy-as-real-reason-enugu-politicians-aren-t-accountable-interview

Fresh information has surfaced surrounding the emergence of Prof Ibrahim Gambari as the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari and how the appointment connects to the reported gunfight at the Aso Rock Villa involving First Lady Aisha Buhari's ADC and the President's private secretary cum blood relative, Sabiu Yusuf.

Read details here: https://allnews.ng/news/kperogi-links-gambari-appointment-to-aisha-buhari-s-gunfight-with-sabiu-yusuf-in-new-claims

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has posited that prison experience for any politician is a “badge of honour”.

AllNews had reported that Federal High Court in Lagos last week ordered the release of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu from the Correctional Centre. This was after the Supreme Court in Nigeria nullified the conviction of Kalu and ordered the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to reassign the case for a fresh trial.

The former Abia governor was convicted by the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on Thursday, December 5, 2019, and sentenced to 12 years in prison for N7.65 billion fraud. He was convicted for defrauding the government of Abia State where he was a governor for 8 years using his company, Slok Nigeria Limited.

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/going-to-prison-is-politicians-mark-of-honour-gbajabiamila-tells-orji-kalu

National President of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, has said that Fulani herdsmen do not need anybody’s approval or permission to occupy any land in any part of the country, adding that MAKH’s own security outfit is set to roll out between 5,000 to 100,000 vigilantes to be deployed across all the states of the country.

The Leader of the socio-cultural association also claimed that the Fulani race founded Nigeria, therefore, they will forever produce the country's leaders. He pointed out that the Fulani are in the majority in Nigeria and "are everywhere if they want they will be producing elected officials".

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/fulani-produced-nigeria-they-must-rule-forever-miyetti-allah

It was on April 10, 2018 that Nigerians were treated to the shocking scene of a governor weeping publicly. Well, the same Governor, who at the time cried over an epochal N1.3 trillion budget he proposed for his state, is at it again. This time, however, the poverty level of his people moved him to tears.

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State on Thursday broke down in tears while inaugurating an anti-tax agency headed by Bishop Emma Isong

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/it-is-very-painful-nigerian-governor-cries-publicly-again

The perception that party differences do not really matter to Nigerian politicians played out Wednesday evening when Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign, Kassim Afegbua, put up a robust defence of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole against the appointee of an APC Governor, Godwin Obaseki. 

The issue at stake is the upfront payment of 75 per cent for the construction of the Edo Specialist Hospital as Oshiomhole, a former Edo governor, had come under fire for purportedly breaching the state’s Public Procurement Law which states that any contractor working on a government project should not receive more than 25 per cent upfront payment upon the award of a contract.

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/pdp-spokesman-defends-oshiomhole-against-apc-governor-s-appointee

The President of Bioresources Development Group and a consultant pharmacognosist, Prof. Maurice Iwu, has pointed out other major factors that offer Africans some form of protection from the Coronavirus aside the hot temperatures in most parts of the continent. 

“An issue is high humidity in most African countries, not just hot temperatures. Because of the density of the virus in tropical Africa...

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/covid-19-how-africans-are-protected-from-coronavirus-aside-hot-weather-maurice-iwu

A United States-based professor from Kwara State, Farooq Kperogi, has advised those expecting the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, CoS, Ibrahim Gambari to be as powerful as the late Abba Kyari in that office to discountenance such thought. 

He foreclosed such possibility because the new CoS purportedly cannot function well enough in the Hausa language and "Buhari has difficulty forming deep informal interpersonal relationships with people who don’t speak Hausa". 

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/why-aso-rock-cabal-chose-gambari-as-buhari-s-chief-of-staff-kperogi

Making it clear that his intervention has nothing to do with partisan politics, President Muhammadu Buhari's main opponent in the 2019 general election, Atiku Abubakar says the Buhari government's revision of the 2020 budget with a difference of N71.5 billion during a time of austerity is no reduction but at best a window dressing.

He insisted that the mere 0.6 slash to the 2020 was grossly insignificant to heal the nation's economy reeling from the adverse effects of Coronavirus on the world economy, and expressed surprised that the federal government would still choose to ‘merry’ in a time of austerities.

AllNews recalls that the Federal Executive Council, FEC chaired by Buhari in a virtual meeting on Wednesday reduced the 2020 budget from N10.594 trillion signed into law to N10.523 trillion. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zaniab Ahmed told journalists after the meeting that the development saw the inclusion of new expenditures into the budget to mitigate unenvisaged effect of coronavirus.

According  to her, “This is because, as we cut down the size of the budget, we also have to bring in new expenditure previously not budgeted, to enable us adequately respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The federal government in this budget will have direct revenue of funding the budget of N5.158 billion. The deficit to this budget is N5.365 trillion and this will be financed by both domestic as well as foreign borrowing.”

Reacting to the development on Thursday, Atiku insisted that there was no noticeable difference between the former and the revised versions of the budget and advised Buhari on the best possible way to withstand the harsh economic realities occasioned by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Atiku, a former Vice President, asked Buhari to jettison billions budgeted for his travels and feeding as well as those of his deputy, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

Writing on a topic 'Nigeria Cannot Afford Luxuries During an Austerity' on his Facebook page, Atiku also asked Buhari to do away with the N37billion budget for the renovation of the National Assembly, urging him to downsize the massive budgets to run both the Presidency and the Legislature.

The ex-Vice President also counselled that the budget for purchasing luxury cars for the President, his vice, and other political office holders must be abandoned, and advised Buhari to sell 8 or 9 of the jets in the Presidential Air Fleet as well as reduce the salaries of political appointees.

The opposition leader, however, warned against touching the salaries of civil servants.

He wrote: “It is to my consternation that despite the crash in the price of oil, and the inability of Nigeria to expand our revenue base through the non-oil sector, the Federal Government of Nigeria has only seen fit to slash our budget by a mere 0.6%, from ₦10.594 trillion to ₦ 10.523 trillion. This represents a reduction of only ₦71 billion.

“Putting politics aside, this is grossly insufficient and betrays the fact we have lost touch with the current realities in the global political economy.

“For the avoidance of doubt, when this budget was presented to the National Assembly on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, it was predicated on a projection that our nation would generate crude oil production of 2.18 million barrels a day, at an expected oil price of $57 per barrel.

“Today that is no longer the case. Both our production, and the price of oil have been severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic, to the extent that we have unsold vessels, and our income has tanked by more than 50%.

“Given that this is the case, how can anyone justify a reduction in expenditure of just 0.6%? We cannot be the only nation bucking the trend?

“Saudi Arabia, a nation with a much stronger production capacity than ours and with a larger global market share, as well as a foreign reserve that is 12 times ours, has slashed her budget by almost 30%. Ditto for other oil economies.

“Nigeria cannot make up for the loss of expected revenue by taking out more loans and issuing out more bonds. Debt will be the death of our economy, and bonds will put our people in bondage.

“The best way out of this economic quagmire is to reduce our expenditure. And a 0.6% reduction is no reduction. It is only window dressing.

“My counsel to the Federal Government of Nigeria is this: put Nigerians first and cut your coat, not according to your size, but according to your cloth.

“Realistically slash the budget. Every pork barrel has to go. The billions budgeted for the travels and feeding of the President and Vice President has to be reduced. The ₦27 billion budget for the renovation of the National Assembly has to go. The massive budgets to run both the Presidency and the Legislature has to be downsized. The budget for purchasing luxury cars for the President, his vice, and other political office holders must be abandoned. Leave the salaries of civil servants alone, but reduce the salaries of political appointees. Sell 8 or 9 of the jets in the Presidential Air Fleet.

“Any budget slash that is less than 25% will not be in the interest of Nigeria. And beyond a budget slash, Nigeria needs a budget realignment, to redirect expenditure away from running a massive bureaucracy, into social development sectors like education, infrastructure, and above all, healthcare. We must invest in the goose that lays the golden egg – the Nigerian people.

“These are the types of sacrifices that we need in a time of crisis. We do not need empty gestures that will lead to empty treasuries.

“In times of austerity, no nation, not the least a mono-product economy, such as ours, should be living in luxury at a leadership level.”

https://allnews.ng/news/atiku-puts-politics-aside-over-buhari-s-cost-saving-measure-amid-covid-19

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing has expressed delight over President Muhammadu Buhari's appointment of Ibrahim Gambari as his Chief of Staff, but goofed in the process. 

The seasoned diplomat, whose appointment as Nigeria's Chief of Staff has been trending since Tuesday, was officially presented to the Federal Executive Council, FEC, today during their virtual meeting. 

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/british-envoy-laing-commits-grammatical-blunder-while-lauding-gambari-s-appointment

The founder and General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Prophet TB Joshua, is at it again, asserting this time that unfortunate events like the novel Coronavirus must afflict the entire universe once every 100 years.

The controversial cleric, who had given a failed prophecy on Coronavirus pandemic ending late March, said God revealed to him that...

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/something-like-coronavirus-must-hit-the-world-every-100-years-tb-joshua

Although his last intervention in that regard brought him flak, founder and chief executive of Cable Newspaper Ltd, Simon Kolawole has continued to speak on his relationship with Nigeria's former Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died last month as a result of complications from COVID-19.

A tribute to his deceased friend published by the veteran columnist on the back page of ThisDay attracted him so much backlash which he claimed were sponsored by the same persons who demonized Abba Kyari while alive. 

"I wrote just one article and they have replied with about 46 rejoinders as at the last count. It’s an industry!", he pointed out in an interview...

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/abba-kyari-asked-me-to-become-buhari-s-campaign-spokesman-simon-kolawole

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, on Monday described as politically tainted and statistically unreliable, unbelievable, untenable, the latest poverty rate of Nigeria as issued by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, which fixed the current poverty rate at forty percent.

It dismissed as absolutely absurd, the NBS explanation that a new methodology was adopted in reaching the very recent determination of the estimated percentage of Nigerians that are poor in which case the percentage of poor people in Nigeria when Goodluck Jonathan was President in 2012 was now higher than the statistical data under the Muhammadu Buhari presidency.

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/nbs-claim-that-more-nigerians-were-poor-under-jonathan-than-buhari-absolutely-absurd

The claim by Mamman Daura that when former President Olusegun Obasanjo was selected "as PDP candidate, a group of women and youths in the PDP lobbied Obasanjo to pick Malam Abba Kyari as his vice presidential running mate" has been rubbished by an authority on Nigeria's presidency, Tony Eluemunor.
AllNews recalls that Daura, a nephew to President Buhari, recently disclosed that Abba Kyari was recommended as running mate to Obasanjo when Nigeria returned to democracy, adding that "Malam Abba was among those enthusiastically espousing the cause of General Obasanjo”. This disclosure was made in a tribute mourning Kyari's death. 
Eluemunor has now come out to puncture the claim...

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/how-mamman-daura-lied-about-abba-kyari-almost-becoming-obasanjo-s-vp

Former Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Prof Usman Yusuf has accused Kano State governor, Dr. Umar Ganduje of spreading Coronavirus across northern states, warning that what is currently happening in Kano can bring down the whole of Africa.

He categorically warned that if urgent steps were not taken to halt the spate of deaths, Nigeria’s end has started in Kano "because if Kano goes down, the whole of Nigeria goes with it, as well as Africa".

Read more: https://allnews.ng/news/ganduje-planting-coronavirus-across-north-kano-may-kill-nigeria-ex-nhis-boss-warns

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Saturday forecasted that Nigeria and the rest of the world would not return to normalcy until next year at the very least. 
The NCDC boss, who stated this during the 24th edition of The Platform, hosted by Poju Oyemade’s Covenant Nation, said the short term pains are sacrifices Nigerians must make for a safer long term.
When asked how soon Nigerians would stop being expected to wear face masks and observe social distancing and the rest of the COVID-19 precautions, Ihekweazu said until next year at least. 

Read more here: https://allnews.ng/news/covid-19-not-ending-soon-normal-life-won-t-return-until-2021-ncdc-dg

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Dear Lagosians, please help a brother;

Between the traffic situation from Egbeda to Ikeja and Ogba to Ikeja, please which is worst?

Dear Lagosians, please help a broda. Between Egbada and Ogba in Lagos which is a better or cooler neighbourhood to reside in? Objective answers please.