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IPOB Could you trim the video to start from 37min,

He said ''Biafra will be the 16TH State of ECOWAS and that means you have free movment goods and properties''

After this meeting two days ago,Now came a reply

Ego ole ka ana ere? Kam kpo madu abuo na ariaaria Aba ka ha weta the money !


Ndi ara

Thank You BUHARI !!

Maggie Fick in Lagos and Shawn Donnan in Washington

Plans by the Nigerian government to borrow billions of dollars from the World Bank and other international lenders to plug its budget deficit have run into delays amid a stalemate over reforms, jeopardising the country’s ability to finance its budget.
Nigeria’s plight is emblematic of the growing problems facing commodity-exporting countries in the developing world in the wake of the collapse in oil and other commodity prices in recent years, a subject that will be heavily discussed at this week’s annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington.

Mongolia on Friday became the latest example of those woes when it lodged a formal request for a bailout from the IMF, joining countries such as Angola and Suriname that have been driven to seek help this year.

Nigeria is heading towards its first full-year economic contraction in a quarter of a century, due in part to the slow and widely criticised response to the oil price collapse by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Meanwhile, militant attacks in the oil-producing Delta have slashed foreign earnings further, stoking severe foreign exchange shortages.

The naira has lost 40 per cent of its value since June, when the central bank abandoned a currency peg at the behest of the IMF and other lenders concerned at the pace at which the government was burning through foreign exchange reserves.

But Abuja is now facing calls from the IMF and World Bank to push through further reforms. These discussions have held up any agreement on a loan from the bank, said people briefed on the talks.

They added that the World Bank had said it would not be able to disburse any loans until 2017 at the earliest because it “has not yet received the macroeconomic framework” needed for the discussions to progress, though the finance ministry disputes that.

Mr Buhari was elected last year on a promise to tackle corruption but has struggled to manage Africa’s largest economy and stave off the deep fiscal crisis. Underlying that has been his deep aversion to the IMF, with which he clashed in the 1980s when he ran the country as a military ruler before he was toppled in a coup amid a public outcry over conditions set by the fund in a bailout.

Mr Buhari said in a speech at the weekend that the government had spent 720.5bn naira ($2.3bn) on capital projects this year to get the economy moving again.

The World Bank said it was “continuing its discussions” with Nigeria “on a range of critical reforms for restoring macroeconomic resilience” and “would determine, with the government, the most appropriate instrument to support the reform programme”. It did not give a timeline for those discussions, which are expected to continue on the sidelines of the World Bank and IMF meetings in Washington.

“Although recent measures, including the adjustment of fuel prices and the move toward more flexibility in the foreign exchange market, are welcome, more are needed to ensure sustained economic benefits,” Gene Leon, the IMF’s mission chief for Nigeria, said in a statement to the Financial Times.

Nigeria needs to “reduce domestic and external imbalances” and provide “greater clarity” on its macroeconomic policy direction, he added.

Finance minister Kemi Adeosun told the FT in April that Nigeria planned to secure external financing for a shortfall now estimated at 1.8tn naira by the end of the third quarter. She said last week that discussions with the bank were ongoing.

There have been some signs of progress. Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, last week said he would go to the lender’s board in October to seek approval for a $1bn loan to help cover Nigeria’s deficit.

Meanwhile, senior politicians and businesspeople, including Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, have said Nigeria has no choice but to sell state-owned assets to raise capital and avoid a prolonged fiscal crisis.

https://www.ft.com/content/4ed37f18-8885-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d123b1?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_us%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

What are the Legal Consequences Of Plagiarism

Individuals caught plagiarizing can face serious consequences.

There are also copyright laws which protect the original work of authors. If individuals are caught using that original work and claiming it as their own, they are guilty of plagiarism. Plagiarism can include prosecution under copyright laws, which often include an attempt at a monetary award based on damages.
The individual may also have to make pay to make up for lost profits when the owner of the work has lost income or is unable to use their work any longer.
In some cases, plagiarism can include criminal prosecution. The individual may face fines, jail time and community service, in addition to a civil case.

http://copyright.laws.com/copyright-laws/legal-consequences-of-plagiarism

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has assured Nigerians of better times ahead, saying they will soon get the change they voted for. ”This Government will not give excuses. The painstaking and methodical approach by the Buhari Administration, its deep analysis and understanding of the challenges and the recent inauguration of the cabinet will herald a new dawn,” the Minister said at a meeting with representatives of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Abuja on Tuesday.

He said that in the next few days, the Administration ”will start firing from all cylinders, starting with the unveiling of the 2016 budget”. ”Nigerians will witness measurable and impactful progress in all spheres of governance. We shall not abandon our social intervention policies such as one meal a day for school children and the payment of 5,000 Naira each to vulnerable Nigerians. We are committed to lifting millions of Nigerians out of poverty,” Alhaji Mohammed said...

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10 Top Nickel-producing Countries



1. Philippines Mine production: 530,000 tonnes


2. Russia Mine production: 240,000 tonnes


3. Canada Mine production: 240,000 tonnes


4. Australia Mine production: 234,000 tonnes


5. New Caledonia Mine production: 190,000 tonnes


6. Indonesia Mine production: 170,000 tonnes


7. Brazil Mine production: 110,000 tonnes


8. China Mine production: 102,000 tonnes


9. Colombia Mine production:73,000 tonnes


10. Cuba Mine production: 57,000 tonnes

You want to compete with China abi !

Meanwhile ,While many expected the nickel price to continue to rise in 2015 on the back of Indonesia’s ban on unprocessed ore exports, it ultimately fell from $14,767 to $9,895 .

Unna think say we no go school

Ewu Gambia

We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to put away the garb of a stooge to the imperialists, whenever he speaks outside Nigeria. We have listened carefully and halted hostilities in the Niger Delta; we expect a genuine and positive attitude to restructuring and self-determination for every component unit of Nigeria. Dear president, what makes those countries (Japan, Germany, France, USA, Britain etc.) great is the ability of their governments to accommodate internal protestations and conflicts for the greater good of their nations over the years. Please stop presenting your government as pawn to the web of military industrialists complex, whenever you leave the shores of Nigeria.

Nigeria is not a one-man personal property we must have these talks every time if this union must continue to work as one. The people of the Niger Delta have been living here from time immemorial, so we have the secret of the terrain and survival of amphibious operations. No amount of troop surge and simulation exercises will make you win the oil war, you can only win battles. You cannot apply the might of the state to restore the people's confidence in your leadership when you cannot differentiate between genuine demands and being mismanaged by disorganized characters and tribal lords around you in your government that are playing the court jesters role as well as counting the days that is left in your four years term. You can deceive the whole world but We cannot be deceived by the so glamorized ongoing military operations in the creeks Of Ijaw communities in the Delta coded " Operation Crocodile Smiles"... the world should know that with your pronouncement in Kenya and your attitude to the military build up in the Niger Delta, it is crystal clear that the military has nothing less than a pre-determined genocide in Niger Delta and burn more already scared national resources to the pockets of those that have failed to locate the missing Chiboks School Girls.


Conclusively, dear President Muhammadu Buhari please also tell those foreign nations that you are always at ease talking to, while refusing to listen to Nigerians that your troops are about to carrying out extra judicial killings in the Niger Delta in violation of article four of the Geneva Convention with "OPERATION CROCODILE SMILES". All sane minds knows the meaning of " CROCRODILE TEARS" so by code-naming your military operation CROCODILE SMILES only betrays your motives and attitude to the whole world about the Niger Delta question. The whole world will surely applaud you in The Hague when you leave office! This is not the Nigeria and the world of the 1980s and 1990s under General Sani Abacha and your watch.

Brig.Gen Mudoch Agbinibo
Spokeperson

http://www./2016/08/open-letter-to-mr-president.html#more

The Murtala Mohammed international airport on Saturday night hit a new low as darkness enveloped the premier airport due to power outage at the time passengers were boarding flights to different foreign destinations.

The power outage at the airport occurred between 10pm and midnight, when about four international flights – British Airways, Air France, South African Airways, and one other – were boarding.

The departure lounge was pitch dark as airlines officials deployed gas-powered lanterns and battery-powered flashlights to check-in passengers and walk them through the boarding gates.
Passengers groped their ways through the boarding gates into the aircraft.

They discussed the security implications of conducting check-in and boarding processes in darkness in a country currently battling terrorism and at a time when aviation security should be a high priority.

“The place was full of heat and people were sweating. It was a disaster. Our international airport has reached a new low,” a passenger on one of the flights told THISDAY

The cause of last night’s power outage at the airport could not be ascertained at the time of going to press.

EU And ECOWAS Storms Nigeria, Set To Meet With Buhari Over Biafra Agitation And ND Avengers

The leadership of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has concluded plans to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the rising wave of militancy in the Niger Delta and the agitations by the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), it was gathered at the weekend.


The 28-member Union, with a population of over 500 million people, and a quarter of the global wealth, is one of the most powerful organisations in the world.
The AUTHORITY gathered that, worried by the deteriorating security situation in the Niger Delta and the Southeast, leaders of the European Union spent the past weeks meeting with opinion leaders from the zones to help their understanding of how best to handle the situation.

According to The Authority, the EU leaders hosted the opinion leaders from the zones to several meetings in Abuja. At one of the meetings, said the source, one speaker from the Niger Delta pointedly accused the EU of fanning the embers of the crises in the zones, and advised the Union to stop “playing the ostrich in Nigeria.”


An official of the Union who spoke under the condition of anonymity told The Authority that it was wrong to accuse the EU, which he said between 2009 and 2013, granted over €700m aid to Nigeria, of bad faith.
“It is most unfortunate that an organisation which committed over €200m to youth development, including reintegrating ex-militants in the same Niger Delta, is accused of bad faith...

http://www.weeklypostng.org/2016/06/eu-and-ecowas-storms-nigeria-set-to_29.html

Just 5,500 barrels of oil per day and people are jumping. If you are not business inclined you wont understand. For your information.


The oil and gas industry in the United Kingdom produced 1.42 million boepd.UK exports of oil-related goods and services have been estimated

at more than $40 billion a year in value.This amount is a reflection of how well established the UK's supply chain is internationally. The

competence of its people and the quality of its technology, particularly subsea, are very much in demand in oil and gas provinces around the

world.


Ewu Gambia !

Anahi eji guy aga America

What will he tell them that they never see before


Igbo bu Ami na oweha.

Funny ARMY

PUT SAME RPG ON ONE BOKO, YOU SNAP PICTURE, SAME RPG AND ANOTHER YOU SNAP AGAIN , PUT ON GROUND YOU SNAP AGAIN.

PUT SAME ...

ULI — Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris has commended Air Peace Chairman, Chief Allen Onyema for building a Police Station at Uli in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State.


Speaking during the commissioning of the project at the weekend, the IGP urged other well-to- do Nigerians to emulate Onyema’s generosity

and effort to ensure security and peace in the country through his Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria, FEHN. Meanwhile, Onyema has

said he embarked on construction of the police station outside his Mbosi community because he was convinced that all Nigerians must support

the Federal Government to set up a motivated, efficient and effective police force. Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Sam Okaula, who

represented the IGP at the commissioning, said: “Security is everybody’s business. We need to collaborate and cooperate. We need to synergise

so that we can create an enabling environment for peace to reign.”..



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/igp-hails-onyema-building-police-station-anambra-community/

These are old pictures

No chibok girl was kiddnapped is a scam

The main game is in the creek. They should go there not wasting the little aviation fuel they have

Ewu Gambia

Gov. Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa, on Saturday, said he had released the sum of N280 million for the 2016 hajj operation.

Badaru made this disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) after the departure of some intending pilgrims from the state at Dutse

International Airport to Saudi Arabia.'


He explained that the money would be used for the feeding of the pilgrims and other contingencies during the hajj in the holy land.

According to him, the same amount was approved and released for the expenditure of 2015 pilgrimage.

The State Government has done everything possible to take care of our pilgrims and make them comfortable in the holy land,” he said.

The governor said that the pilgrims had been advised to abide by the rules set out by the Hajj Commission, adding that this was why their screening was thorough.

NAN reports that no fewer than 2, 369 intending pilgrims from the state are expected to perform this year’s hajj. (NAN)

http://dailypost.ng/2016/08/21/jigawa-government-releases-n280m-2016-hajj-operation/

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BREAKING NEWS!!! Security agents attack the convoy of Governor Nyesom Wike

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In a nutshell , Afonja was a Yoruba traitor who helped to destroy the Oyo empire and handed over Ilorin to the Fulani jihadists in exchange for a promise of cooperation to install him as the Yoruba leader. He was promptly kicked out by the Fulanis, who till today, rule Ilorin which is 98% Yoruba. That is why you have Olusola Saraki, Bukola Saraki, and Agboola Gambari , Fulanis with fake Yoruba names and outlook, lording it over these "most educated" of Nigerians , right in their own land and with their acquiescence. Yet today, in order to spite their Igbo rivals who they helped the Alimi tendency to defeat in Biafra, they shout to the rooftops that the Yoruba race had never been defeated!!

As for Aalafin Aole, after being sentenced to commit ritual suicide by the Oyo Mesi( the Yoruba Parliament), he cursed the Yoruba race and predicted that they will be carried to the four corners of the earth as slaves and that their former slaves would rule over them. He fired four arrows to all the four corners of the compass. That is perhaps why at least 80% of the black slave diaspora, from Brazil to the Caribbean, to Cuba and the USA is of the ethnic Yoruba stock, a really sad situation, which is unfortunately celebrated by some "educated" Yoruba people as a sign of Yoruba dispersal all over the world.

You have a Yoruba name, so please read the book, "A History of Nigeria" by my mentor, the late Professor F. Ade Ajayi and also the seminal work "The Black Mans Dilemma " by Areoye Oyebola and you will learn that the rain started beating the Yorubas and Nigeria from a long time ago and has not ceased after several centuries. Epelle OO!!

Jon west

Olaleye Aluko

The acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, on Thursday visited Isawo and Igbo Olomu towns in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.

The two areas have recently come heavily under the attacks of militants who killed and kidnapped many residents for ransom.

The IG, who arrived at the towns around 10.30am, asked members of the communities to be vigilant and to report suspicious activities to the police.

A soldier deployed in the area said some of the militants had fled from the creek into the community and were among those who welcomed the IG.



http://punchng.com/militants-igp-visits-ogun-lagos-communities/

Delta

By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief

The federal government revenue fell by N1.064 trillion in the first half of the year. The Minister of National

Planning Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma, revealed this at the 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and

Fiscal Strategy consultations which commenced in Abuja, yesterday.

He said, “Overall, the total revenue inflow was short of the budget by N 1, 064.91 billion (or 55.2%) as at

June 2016. “The shortfall was augmented by domestic borrowing amounting to N 600 billion (about 33% of

approved borrowing of N 1, 818.87 billion).” The Minister blamed the negative revenue outlook on the declining

oil revenue and the series of attacks on oil and gas facilities in the oil – rich Niger Delta region. “The 2016 budget

performance is reflective of the low revenue out turns attributable to the global and domestic developments earlier

highlighted. “Oil revenues fell significantly in the second quarter compared to the first quarter as a result of increased

oil pipeline vandalism and production shut-ins. “Non – oil revenues also declined compared with forecasts in the budget

due to slow- down in economic activities and the acute shortage of foreign exchange,” Sen. Udoma said. The minister

revealed that his team was working assiduously to ensure an early presentation of the 2017 budget to the National Assembly.

Details later…



Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/fg-suffers-n1-064-trn-revenue-shortfall-in-1st-half-2016/

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie



How softly the rain fell that Monday morning when my water broke. Because I was used to the raging downpours of Lagos, this quiet patter calmed me, filled me with peace. My husband Omoregie was at work and so our neighbor took me to the hospital, my dress slightly damp, my heart full of expectation. My firstborn child. The nurse on duty was Sister Chioma, a woman with an unsmiling face who liked to crack sharp-tongued jokes. During my last check up, when I complained about the backache brought on by my pregnancy, her retort was, “Did you think about backache when you were enjoying it?”

She checked my cervix and told me it was early. She encouraged me to walk up and down the ward.

“You must be happy that your first is a boy,” she said.

I shrugged. “As long as the baby is healthy.”

“I know you are supposed to wait until he is born to decide on a name but I’m sure you already have something in mind,” she said.

“I will name him Olikoye.”

“Oh.” She paused. “I didn’t know your husband was Yoruba.”

“He’s not. We’re both Bini.”

“But Olikoye is a Yoruba name.”

“Yes it is.”

“Why?” she asked.

My contractions were slow. I told Sister Chioma to sit down and I would tell her the story.



*



My father’s first child was a girl. He said she was a loud squalling baby who grasped his finger with surprising strength, and he knew it meant she would be tough. But she died at the age of four months. The second, a boy, was not yet four months old before he died. Some people from my father’s family said my mother was a witch, eating her children, trading their innocent hearts in exchange for her own long life. But, at that time, other babies in our village in Edo were dying too. They got sick with watery shit and weak eyes. Some people said the diarrhea was punishment from God. The Christians prayed in church. The Muslims prayed at the mosque. The old people performed sacrifices. Still, babies died, and their tiny still bodies were wrapped in cloth and buried, and it seemed senseless that they had even been born at all. It was 1985. My father was working as a driver at the Ministry of Health. He was in the general pool, a lowly position. One day, he picked up a visiting dignitary from the airport, dropped him at his hotel, and then discovered, lodged in the back seat of the car, a thick envelope of cash that had slid out of the man’s bag. He returned it immediately. The man was so pleased – and surprised – that he told the new Minister of Health about it. Two days later, the new Minister asked for my father. “I want you to be my driver,” The Minister said. “I value honesty.”



*

The Minister’s name was Dr. Olikoye Ransome-Kuti. He had big sleepy eyes and seemed to come from another time in the past when old-fashioned integrity was easy. His simplicity surprised my father. He was not interested in the usual carousing of the powerful, no late nights and drinking and trysts, and my father did not have to guard any secrets for him. He ate breakfast with his family every morning, and took walks with his wife in the evening, and played tennis with his children on weekends. He listened attentively, those half-closed eyes so intent that my father, at first, felt uncomfortable when they were trained on him.

The Minister asked my father about his family, and my father told him everyone was fine. The Minister asked how many children he had, and my father said none yet, but that his wife was pregnant and due in a few weeks. (My mother was pregnant with me). Then the minister asked a question that startled my father. “How many of your children have died?”

My father stuttered and said ‘two sir, but we are praying that it will not happen again.”

The Minister told him it was good to pray, but there was something else he had to do.

“Our children are dying of simple illnesses and that must stop. I want you to take me to your village. I have started a program in Lagos but I want to start others in different parts of the country. We will go to your village next week.”

It took my heavy-tongued father a while to find his voice and say, “Yes sir.”



*

In my father’s village, the Minister walked around with his assistants, meeting people and asking them questions and listening to them. He showed women how to mix sugar and salt and clean water to give their children who had diarrhea and he told them about washing their hands with soap and he told them the Universal Primary Health Care center would be open in a month. Once it was open, every baby would receive vaccines. He showed them photographs of bright-eyed babies in Lagos and he told them immunizations were like small precious gifts for babies. They cheered and clapped. In the eyes of the villagers, my father was a star. No minister had ever come to them before. Who even knew that our small village existed? But my father kept telling them that he had done nothing, that it was the minister who insisted on coming. Years later, when my father told me the story, I could still see his eyes full of things I could not name.

“The Minister treated all of us like human beings,” he said. “Like human beings.”



*



It took mere moments. A baby’s small open mouth and a drop of liquid. A baby’s warm arm and a small injection. It took that to save the lives of the babies born that year in my village, and in the villages around us and those far from us, in Calabar and Enugu and Kaduna. It took that to save my life. I was born in 1986. I often tried to imagine myself being immunized, in my mother’s arms, in the new clinic the minister built. Women filled the passages. The treatment was free. At the other end was the family planning unit where nurse was talking to a roomful of women, sometimes making jokes that made them laugh. My mother joined them. Years later, she told me that the reason I did not die was that small injection in my arm, but the reason I was able to go to school was family planning. My sister was born two years after me, and my brother two years after her, and my mother remembered the words of the family planning nurse who told her to ‘have the number of children that you can train well. Otherwise you will not be able to train even one of them well.”



*



Because of the Minister, my father came to know Nigeria well. The Minister went to other interior villages and towns, and my father drove him through the flat roads of the North and the undulating roads of the south. He followed the Minister to the clinics, watched him speaking, gesticulating, explaining, cutting ribbons to open health centers. Everywhere they went, people followed the Minister. Some just wanted to touch him, to shake his hands. Others brought gifts. “No, no,” the minister said to my father, when he saw the yams and plantains and chickens. “Give it back to them. Tell them that they should keep it for me.”



*



I first met the Minister when I was six years old. I was in Primary one, and my father told him I came first in class and the minister asked him to bring me to his house. I expected to wait in the kitchen, and felt awkward to be asked into the living room, into the sinking softness of the carpet and the smell of clean and new things. He appeared with his wife, both of them smiling. They gave me a book. A Childs Illustrated Book About The Body.

“Thank you sir, thank you ma,” I said, holding the book tighter than I had ever held anything in my young life.



*

Sister Chioma was squeezing my hand.

“So you knew him personally,” she said. “I finished nursing school the year he was appointed Minister.”

Her tone was different, less flat, more emotional. It was then I noticed that Sister Chioma, unsmiling, hard Sister Chioma, had tears in her eyes.

“It was because of Olikoye Ransome-Kuti that so many people in Nigeria did not die,” she said quietly, and I knew she had her own story about the minister. Perhaps she would tell me the story later, or perhaps she would not, but it pleased me that we had a story in common.

“He was the best health minister this country has ever had,” she said, standing up and hastily wiping her eyes. My contractions were now shorter and sharper. Sister Chioma said it was perhaps time to push, and she got up to call the doctor.

Outside the rain continued to fall gently until Olikoye was born.


http://artofsavingalife.com/artists/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is set to cancel the Foreign Exchange Primary Dealers (FXPDs) status of some of the 15 FXPDs banks for recording low forex volumes of transactions against set guidelines, The Nation has learnt.

Some of the FXDPs banks include FirstBank, Zenith Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA), Access Bank, GTBank, Stanbic IBTC and Ecobank Nigeria...





http://thenationonlineng.net/banks-fail-meet-cbns-forex-terms/

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Published on Jul 1, 2016.

Bama Evacuation of malnourished children by Empower54 and the Borno State Government:

On June 13th and 15th 2016, Empower54 and the Borno State Government evacuated extremely malnourished children in Bama IDP camp that were rescued by the Nigerian Army from Sambisa Forest.

The Governor, Kashim Shettima, ensured the successful evacuation and the children are receiving medical treatment in Maiduguri, Borno State.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lulo5hkb0Fg