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chibaby1985:
A source involved in the transaction said there was no way Boeing will get involved involved in a deal with Air Peace without verifying the documents.

“Boeing did verify the documents and sealed the deal. It is there surprising that some report will say the documents are fake. It is not true,” the source said.

The US report had said: “ Onyema is also the CEO and Chairman of Nigerian airline Air Peace, which he founded in 2013. In years following the founding of Air Peace, he traveled to the United States and purchased multiple airplanes for the airline. However, over $3 million of the funds used to purchase the aircraft allegedly came from bank accounts for Foundation for Ethnic Harmony, International Center for Non-Violence and Peace Development, All-Time Peace Media Communications Limited, and Every Child Limited.”

In conclusion, the report said: “Members of the public are reminded that the indictment only contains charges. The defendants are presumed innocent of the charges and it will be the government’s burden to prove the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at trial.”




https://ebeanonews..com/2019/11/air-peace-fresh-facts-reveals.html

OladimejiRufai:
Chicken republic has no chicken?

it's almost like saying the Republic of Benin has no Beninese living in it.

Fabolousibk1:
Abi ooo...Na so I carry my bae go that one in panseke area of Abeokuta Ogun state yesterday being her birthday, they tell us they don't have chicken that they only have moi moi....Wait first who swear for us in this country?

godlyguy:
Nigerian actress and award winning director, Funke Akindele aka Jenifa has called out a popular fast food outlet for not having a product associated with their brand name.

The actress who narrated how she visited one of Chicken republic’s outlets in Lagos, called them out for not having the chicken that she requested. See her tweet below:


https://ebeanonews..com/2019/11/nigerian-actress-and-award-winning.html

chibaby1985:
The House of Representatives on Wednesday called for the abolishment of ‘acceptance fees’ paid by students offered admission into various institutions in Nigeria.



A motion moved by Emeka Chinedu, PDP-Imo (Ahiazu Mbaise/Ezinihitte Federal Constituency), Wednesday got the lawmakers debating about how to reverse this trend.



Leading the debate, Mr Chinedu said one of the factors contributing to poor access to tertiary education is the “predatory admission policies being enforced by tertiary institutions, particularly the requirement for payment of non-refundable acceptance fees as a condition precedent for admission”.



He added that “it should bother the lawmakers that his state’s Imo State University charges N70,000 as acceptance fee.”



“Other institutions like the University of Ibadan charge 35,000; University of Lagos, 20,000; Ahmadu Bello University, 30,000; Lagos State University, N20,000; University of Uyo, 25,000,” he said.



He, therefore, moved that the fee be abolished. He was unanimously backed by his colleagues.



Resolution



The House also mandated the House Committee on Tertiary Education and Services “to investigate the admission policies and practices of tertiary institutions in the country as they relate to the charge of acceptance fees in order to remove all obstacles to accessing tertiary education in the country.”



Meanwhile, Idowu Olayinka, vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan, has said his institution will comply with the directive.



He said the amount accruing to the University of Ibadan, for instance, in a year is not enough to fund the university in a month. “Therefore, the school has to look for alternative means to source for funds”.



“Someone has to take up the bill,” he said. “We have to make up our mind on what we really want. You can’t even run a creche without funds. In a year, we spend at least N200 million on our clinic contactors. Add this to electricity bill and diesel, then you’re talking of over N800 million.



“What the university is getting for overhead is less than N100 million. So where do you think the remaining N700 million will come from? Unless you want to close down the whole university,” he added.

https://ebeanonews..com/2019/11/reps-call-for-abolishment-of-acceptance.html

Glory2glory54:
Burna for the Grammy

godlyguy:
The Grammy Award, unarguably the biggest music award in the world, is presented annually by The Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry.
And some Nigerian musicians have been nominated at different times for the awards. It is interesting to note that these nominations have been for the World Best Music Category.

See below the Nigerians that have earned Grammy nominations:

King Sunny Ade

Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye is a juju singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. King Sunny Ade has been nominated for the grammy twice.

Synchro System [Grammy 1984]
It was the second of King Sunny Adé’s three releases for Island Records, following on the heels of 1982’s Juju Music but was not as critically well-received as the first. The album was re-released in 1990 under the variant spelling Synchro System.

Odu [Grammy 1999]
Odu was released in 1998 on Mesa/Atlantic. Recorded at Dockside Studios, Maurice, Louisiana, it was produced by Andrew Frankel and features traditional Yoruba music. Odù means oracle in the Yoruba divination systems of Ifá.

Babatunde Olatunji

Babatunde Olatunji (April 7, 1927 – April 6, 2003) was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist. Olatunji was nominated once.

Love Drum talk [Grammy 1998]


Femi Kuti



Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti is the eldest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti and a grandchild of a political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional aristocrat Funmilayo Ransome Kuti. He began his musical career playing in his father’s band, Egypt 80.

Femi Kuti has the highest grammy nominations in Nigeria, he has been nominated four times.

Fight to Win [Grammy 2003]
“Fight to Win” was released in mid-October 2001. The album featured a number of respected rap artists like Mos Def and Common.

Day by Day [Grammy 2010]
“Day by Day” released in mid-October 2008. A definitive album that helped to establish Femi as a true original with his own unique style; it was nominated for a Grammy award.

Africa for Africa [Grammy 2012]
“Africa for Africa” was released in 2011.

No Place for My Dream [Grammy 2014]
“No Place for My Dream” was released in June 2013 under Knitting Factory Records.

Seun Kuti

Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti the youngest son of famous afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Seun leads his father’s former band Egypt 80.

Black Times [Grammy 2019]

Burna Boy

African Giant [Grammy 2020]
African Giant was released on July 26, 2019. It is Burna Boy’s fourth studio album.

The album featured guest appearances from Zlatan Ibile, Jorja Smith, Jeremih, Serani, M.anifest, Damian Marley, Angelique Kidjo, Future and YG.


https://ebeanonews..com/2019/11/5-nigerians-that-have-been-nominated.html

chibaby1985:
Rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has said that operatives of the Department of State Services turned down his request to drive out detained pro-democracy campaigner and Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, from the headquarters of the agency in Abuja.

Falana said that he was at the DSS facility following an appointment he booked with the agency to enable him visit his client.
DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, had on Tuesday morning claimed that the service was yet to release Sowore because he could be knocked down by a vehicle if left to go on his own.
Falana while reacting to Afunanya's claim, advised the agency to stop misleading and giving false information to members of the public.
He debunked claims by the DSS spokesperson that he had not called the Director-General of the service, who had failed to respond.


https://ebeanonews..com/2019/11/i-offered-to-drive-sowore-out-of-dss-hq.html



http://saharareporters.com/2019/11/20/i-offered-drive-sowore-out-dss-hq-was-turned-down-falana

SalamRushdie:
It's actually Buharis idea

ornicus:
This one was caught because the guy is alive. How many times have they run this scam on the dead?

godlyguy:
An international rights group has called the Nigerian government to ban chaining as it condemned the "terrible" abuse faced by thousands of people with mental health conditions across the country.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report published on Monday that detention, chaining and violent treatment of mental health patients was pervasive in the country "in many settings, including state hospitals, rehabilitation centres, traditional healing centres, and both Christian and Islamic faith-based facilities".

"People with mental health conditions should be supported and provided with effective services in their communities, not chained and abused," said Emina Cerimovic, senior disability rights researcher at HRW.

"People with mental health conditions find themselves in chains in various places in Nigeria, subject to years of unimaginable hardship and abuse," she said.

Home to some 200 million people, Nigeria is the seventh most populous country in the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in four Nigerians - some 50 million people - are suffering from some sort of mental illness.

WHO says Nigeria has Africas highest rate of depression, and ranks fifth in the world in the frequency of suicide. There are less than 150 psychiatrists in the county and WHO estimates that fewer than 10 percent of mentally ill Nigerians have access to the care they need.

Abuse victims

The HRW report came days after Nigerian police rescued nearly 259 young people from an Islamic rehabilitation centre in the southwestern city of Ibadan.

Many captives have said they were physically and sexually abused and chained up to prevent them from escaping.

It brought the total number of people released from abusive institutions in the country since September to nearly 1,500.

At the time, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement that "no responsible democratic government would tolerate the existence of the torture chambers and physical abuses of inmates in the name of rehabilitation of the victims".

But HRW criticised the government for failing to acknowledge that this abuse was rife in government-run facilities too.

The rights group said it visited 28 facilities providing mental healthcare in eight Nigerian states and the federal capital territory between August 2018 and September 2019.

It found that people with actual or perceived mental health conditions, including children, were placed in facilities without their consent, usually by relatives.

HRW said in some cases, police arrest people with actual or perceived mental health conditions and send them to state-run rehabilitation centres.

"Once there, many are shackled with iron chains, around one or both ankles, to heavy objects or to other detainees, in some cases for months or years," the report said.

"They cannot leave, are often confined in overcrowded, unhygienic conditions, and are sometimes forced to sleep, eat, and defecate within the same confined place," it said. "Many are physically and emotionally abused as well as forced to take treatments."

Deep wounds

According to HRW, adults and children in some Islamic rehabilitation centres reported being whipped, causing deep wounds.



People in Christian healing centres and churches described being denied food for up to three days at a time, which staff characterised as "fasting" for "treatment" purposes, the group said.



In many of the traditional and religious rehabilitation centres visited by HRW, staff forced people with mental health conditions, including children, to eat or drink herbs, in some cases with staff pinning people down to make them swallow.

The report said in psychiatric hospitals and state-run rehabilitation centres, staff forcibly administered medication, while some staff admitted to administering electroconvulsive therapy to patients without their consent.

The rights group called on the Nigerian government to "urgently investigate" the facilities and "prioritise the development of quality, accessible, and affordable community-based mental health services".




https://ebeanonews..com/2019/11/hrw-to-nigeria-stop-chaining-mentally.html

godlyguy:
Lampard only the third Premier League manager to achieve this rare feat

Super Frank

1 min ago

Frank Lampard has just won the manager of the month award in the Premier League for the first time, putting him in a fairly unique category.

Lampard won the award as a player – several times in fact – and having now won it as a manager too, he becomes only the third person to have won it as both.

Stuart Pearce did it, and Gareth Southgate was the last manager to win it having already done so as a player, way back in August 2008.

That’s not a great omen – he was sacked just a year later. But we’re confident Frank will last longer than that. In fact, Frank’s success as a player has set him up perfectly for a transition to management.

We’re all so used to seeing him win everything all the time as a player, that nobody is batting an eye at how well he is taking to Premier League management.

How many of these awards could he end up with? This certainly won’t be the last impressive achievement of his.

https://ebeanonews..com/2019/11/lampard-achieves-rare-feat-in-premier.html

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chibaby1985:
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on his 65th birthday slated for Monday, November 11, 2019.

The President’s congratulatory message was conveyed through a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Sunday.

Adesina quoted the President, in a letter allegedly signed by Buhari and addressed to Bakare as saying: “I rejoice with you as you gracefully clock 65 years of age in good health.

“I am glad that you have remained faithful and true to your callings, particularly as a pastor and preacher, contributing to pointing people to God’s kingdom, teaching them on how to get there, and living acceptable life before God.

“We have shared ideas on how to engender a better country, and formed a tag team for political power. May the ideas germinate fully, proliferate and give us the country of our dreams.

“As you turn 65, I pray that your indomitable spirit will continue to point Nigeria to all that is noble and just.

“I wish you longer life in good health and strength.’’

(NAN)

https://punchng.com/buhari-greets-tunde-bakare-ahead-of-65th-birthday/

https://ebeanonews..com/2019/11/buhari-greets-tunde-bakare-ahead-of.html

SEGLIZ:
nobi small one o.

eTECTIV:
All songs from d album are also top 10 in d Top 100 Christian Charts

godlyguy:
The new crowning of Kanye West’s Jesus Is King at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart places the newly anointed rapper in a three-way tie for second-place with Eminem and Drake for rapper with the most No. 1 albums.

All three rank behind Jay-Z who stands with 14 on the all-time list. And all three are closing the gap between themselves and Jigga at a faster clip than ever before.

Hova’s lead once seemed insurmountable. His last chart-topping album, 4:44, led the Billboard list on July 29, 2017. At the time, he led the all-time list 14 to 7, with Kanye, Eminem and Drake each coincidentally tied for second-place at that point.

Since that time, the three challengers have added two No. 1s each. Drake has had Scorpion (2018) and Care Package (2019); Eminem topped with Revival and Kamikaze (both in 2018), and Kanye crowned with Ye(2018) and now Jesus is King this week.

The recent pace of No. 1s for each artist suggests that Jay-Z, who will be 50 next month, has even more reason to be concerned about his perch at the top. In the 2010s, he’s only had three chart-toppers, while Eminem, age 47, has had four, Kanye, 42, has had six, and Drake has had 9 (all of his No. 1s came during this decade).

It’s safe to say that all four rappers will have more No. 1 albums in the near future, especially Drake, who just turned 33 last month. All things being equal, nine of Jay-Z’s chart-topping albums occurred after his 33rd birthday. Six of Eminem’s occurred after he turned 33. And Jesus is King is Kanye’s sixth since his 33rd birthday.



https://ebeanonews..com/2019/11/kanyes-jesus-is-king-is-no-1-album-on.html