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Rest in peace Mallam Abba Kyari the Chief of Staff @MBuhari. You gave your all, including your life to the service of your fatherland and in seeing the your friend and principal succeeded -a quality which majority of your critics lack.

Your visit to Germany and Egypt wasn't because you enjoyed globetrotting but in the interest of your fatherland and unalloyed loyalty to your principal and childhood friend PMB and I pray you find peace as you rest on.

Painfully,your major sin and main cause of your being hated by your critics was your blunt refusal to compromise the trust reposed on you by your principal. A costly quality that is never easy to come by. My prayer is that God grants me such unconditional loyal friends which late Abba Kyari appropriately epitomized.

May your soul and the souls of all that have died of COVID-19 all over the world rest in peace,Amen!
Ka Chukwu nara mkpuluobi gi n'ndokwa nna anyi!

There was a little disruption inside an Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo on Tuesday after an accused arraigned for assault suddenly coughed while his charge was being read.


Three lawyers that sat in front of the accused, identified as Ige, hurriedly moved away their chairs.

Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara told the accused that in spite of his cough the session would not stop.

Ige was arraigned alongside Rasaq Sunday, Wasiu Adeyanju and Samson Ogunleye.

The trio was said to have on April 6, 2020 on Olugun Street, Osogbo, conspired to commit assault occasioning harm – an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 516 of criminal code cap 34 Vol. Il, Laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002.

It was learnt that the accused were said to have used broken bottles, scissors, and cutlass to inflict injury on the left hand of one Lateef Kareem.

Rasaq Olayiwola announced appearance for the prosecution.

The accused, who had no legal representation, pleaded not guilty to the two counts of assault pressed against them.

Magistrate, Ayilara, admitted the accused to bail in the sum of N200, 000 with one surety each. He then adjourned the matter till May 13 for mention.
https://m.guardian.ng/life/drama-in-osun-court-as-lawyers-flee-after-accused-coughs/

Majority of the bigots and enemies of progress that commented above didn't read the post else they have very poor comprehension abilities.

The news said, the 1000 bags of rice is to be share among Nnewi indigens ( i.e his hometown) not entire Anambra State. OLODOISM is bad!

Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist and a professor at Columbia University, New York, has picked the editor-in-chief of PREMIUM TIMES, Musikilu Mojeed, as one of the journalists he admires most around the world.

Mr Stiglitz also picked another Nigerian journalist, Omoyele Sowore, who is the publisher of SaharaReporters.

Mr Stiglitz, a public policy analyst, is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist was asked in an interview with The New York Times to mention the writers, novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, and poets he admires most.

“We support the Committee to Protect Journalists and I admire brave reporters all over the world including María Teresa Ronderos (Colombia), Giannina Segnini (Costa Rica and now a colleague at Columbia), Ferial Haffajee in South Africa, Musikilu Mojeed (Nigeria) and the tenacious human rights reporters at Rappler (Philippines),” Mr Stiglitz said in the interview.

Continuing, he said, “A Columbia alum and citizen journalist, Omoyele Sowore, ran for president in Nigeria and was arrested after a controversial tweet. Now more than ever we need good journalism and we are getting it thanks to the philanthropists funding groups like the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ProPublica, The Marshall Project, Daily Maverick and others.”

Admired writers

Mr Stiglitz, 77, mentioned a Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie, as one of the three writers he would love to invite if he were to organise a literary dinner party. The other two are Diksha Basu, Indian-born author, and Anita Desai, an Indian novelist who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.

Another Nigerian author, the late Chinua Achebe, also got a mention in the interview when Mr Stiglitz was asked about what book he was planning to read.

“The journalist Robyn Meredith came back from Hong Kong and got us organized into a monthly reading group. We are rereading “Things Fall Apart,” by Chinua Achebe, this month and then next month we will read Claude McKay’s book “Romance in Marseille,” which has just been rediscovered,” he said.

Mr Stiglitz said what moves him most in a work of literature are stories of struggle, fighting injustice and oppression.

He does not go near science fiction, he said. “Not sure why. I just don’t. Perhaps it’s because I think it’s hard enough to understand our own world and try to fix it. It’s escapism to try to create another one.”


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/387049-american-nobel-laureate-names-premium-times-editor-among-his-most-admired-journalists.html

Okonjo-Iweala gets new IMF appointment

Nigeria’s former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was on Friday named a member of the External Advisory Group constituted by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva.

The group of prominent individuals from around the world are to serve as the IMF chief’s special advisers that would provide insights to enhance the fund’s ability to serve its membership.

They consist mainly of high-level technocrats and policy experts with private sector experience.

The new external advisory group, inaugurated on Friday in Washington DC, is to also provide perspectives from around the globe on key developments and policy issues.

The issues include responses to the exceptional challenges the world now faces due to the novel coronavirus and its economic impact on member countries.

“Even before the spread of Covid-19 and the dramatic health, economic, and financial disruptions it has brought, IMF members confronted a rapidly evolving world and complex policy issues,” the IMF boss, Ms Georgieva, said.

“To serve our membership well in this context, we need top-notch input and expertise from the widest range of sources, inside and outside the Fund.

“Toward this end, I am proud that an exceptional and diverse group of eminent individuals with high-level policy, market, and private sector experience has agreed to serve on my External Advisory Group.

“Today, we had a dynamic discussion to gain their insights, and to receive informal reactions to our ideas and approaches,” she added.

Apart from Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, who is also a former Vice President of the World Bank, other members of the advisory group include a Senior Minister of Singapore and Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, and a Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kristin Forbes.

Others are former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd; former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Mark Brown; Honorary Chair, DSM and former CEO, Royal DSM, Feike Sijbesima; a Professor, University of Chicago, Raghuram Rajan; Group Executive Chairman, Santander, Ana Botín, and a Professor at Harvard University, Carmen Reinhart.

The Chief Economic Adviser, Allianz, Mohamed El-Erian; the Chief Investment Officer and head of Guggenheim Investments, Scott Minerd, and the Chair of ActionAid International, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, are also members.

The advisory group will be meeting a few times a year with the IMF’s Managing Director, Deputy Managing Directors, and a sub-set of IMF department directors to discuss policy issues affecting member countries.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/387141-okonjo-iweala-gets-new-imf-appointment.html

faceURfront:
Isn't that alcohol? Isn't he a muslim?

He's Christian, Catholic precisely.

These are where countries really exist not asshole country over here!;

Oga with which money?

I wish you a speedy recovery Your Excellency.

It's high time his seat is declared vacant to enable his senatorial district have a replacement in order not to be cut off from issues politically at the national level.

Nke onye metalu,owelu isi ya bulu!

An epitome of a true democratic leader is GEJ. It's quite unfortunate that the selfish majority chose a compendium of incompetence over GEJ out of ethnoreligious sentiments.

Oria Mkpochi ngu China

Hypocrites everywhere!

Meanwhile, whilst Nigeria wallow in recession and epileptic economy sequel to the cluelessness of the government of the day as a result of ethnoreligious cum nepotistic tendencies,her South African counterpart is busy setting her economy firmly standardized using tribalistically despised Nigerian best economic brains.

Una wahala and absolutely nothing concerns me with that. My own concern is let the handlers of our economy handle it effectively chikena.

Meanwhile see below

It's because the language is not noisy. It's calm, melodic, cherubic and seraphic when used in worshipping God as it opens heaven and invokes God's blessings on all and sundry in situ!

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Ok o, we wait till Supreme Court finality ergo manifests in this case!

Awol1:
Unapologetically catholic.

The church is wise.

Yes o! Ecclesia est sapiens

Maxymilliano:
Wike be like "see you, which university did you attend" ?

And Oshomole be like, me I'm dancing I don't care by Flavour!

Na wetin remain make Lyon see for him deputy hand before inauguration?

Honestly, nothing remain again make Lyon see for him deputy hand before inauguration!

Those who live by propaganda, will die by propaganda~ Most Distinguished Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe 2020.

....Then, 14 of the lawmakers-elect loyal to them have already been quarantined in Abuja as Internally Displaced Politicians (IDPs).


This man get month o!

donbachi:
She go don cum prupruprapra...lovely.

Onyem inokwu Nairaland? Eze purupuruparapara!

Subzero047:
You will not see heroe

Honestly, before God and man, I am here only to read the usual hypocritical comment of that senseless fellow but as a confirmed hypocrite that he or she is, he/she has chosen to boycott this thread.

Senseless sycophant@

[quote author= post=86012152]We will always believe in our darling nation.

We will always believe in Nigeria.

Slow and steady we will get to a New and better Nigeria.

Nigeria will be great in our lifetime.

If only PDP focused on ONLY ELECTRICITY for the 16 years they used in power,
Things would have been better for us as a nation.

All we had was 16 wasted BILLION DOLLARS on audio electricity

It will end in praise.

Btw, when are we going to have the thread about Nigerians mocking, bashing and slapping the fat head of FFK for cursing out Anthony Oluwafemi Joshua for postrating and taking a selfie with our darling daddy in London?
It's all over social media!
Just like this thread!![/quote]Your hypocrisy has no end, your sycophancy knows no boundaries and your stupidity is to say the least, unsatisfactory.

I have never seen such a sycophant like you in the entire world. Keep deceiving yourself until karma visits you at its appointed time.

iluvdonjazzy:
Rev Father Ejike Mbaka make me shared tears today and fear God the more, ladies and gentlemen I am now a born again.

Hahahahahaha

Hmmmm

Hmmmmm

Hmmmm

Odiegwu!

When one door closes, another opens for even a better opportunity. May God grant all the exiting 2016 npower beneficiaries permanent job/great opportunity to excel in life.

Better than garri and groundnut stomach infrastructure!

Good move by the Holy Church and we thank God for that.

Meanwhile,the OP should take this correction; the delegation was not led by Fr Ebube Mmunso since there was a Bishop there that celebrated the Mass as evident in the pictures. Learn and respect the hierarchy of the Church and stop placing a priest above the Bishop.