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Newsgeek24:
https://news360ng.com/breaking-22-kano-delegates-die-in-ghastly-accident-while-returning-national-sports-festival/

WriterNig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUJSEg8FsI


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FlirtyGist:
Anthony Joshua Boxing Champ also eats Amala and Ewedu, He posted on snapchat yesterday updating his friends about what he eats, after we are all in shook.

News via Gistmore - https://gistmore.com/photos-kind-food-anthony-joshua-eats-gym-goes-viral-photos

AntiChristian:
That's the average Ghana. In Accra things are super expensive! Things are cheaper in Togo than Ghana!

You should ask them how much is a mini flat rent in Accra and compare to that obtained in Abuja metropolis!

AntiChristian:
As usual, the governement do not have the capacity to monitor and we continue to dupe ourselves while blaming only the government!

Someone who sells one spoon of Jollof rice for N500 when a bag of rice was N100,000 still sells at the same rate when a bag is less that 60k when you buy in bulk.

EKITI001:
The 2025 edition of the internationally celebrated Osun Osogbo Festival has officially commenced with a spiritually profound opening ceremony at the sacred source of the Osun River in Igede-Ekiti, Ekiti State. While the festival is widely associated with the city of Osogbo in Osun State, the river’s true origin and, by extension, the spiritual genesis of the Osun deity lies in the quiet yet historically significant town of Igede-Ekiti.

This year’s festival carries a renewed focus on reconnecting with the roots of Yoruba spirituality and heritage. The event attracted worshippers, cultural enthusiasts, scholars, tourists, and traditional leaders from across Nigeria and beyond, all gathered to honor Osun, the revered Yoruba goddess of fertility, purity, love, and fresh water.

Although the climactic festivities traditionally culminate in Osogbo, this year marks a symbolic return to the source, reinforcing Igede-Ekiti’s vital role in the narrative of the Osun deity and Yoruba cosmology. In a powerful display of devotion and cultural preservation, traditional priests and custodians performed purification rites, libations, and sacred offerings at the river’s point of origin, invoking blessings for peace, abundance, and spiritual renewal.

At the heart of the opening ceremony was Yeye Osun, a high priestess of the Osun tradition, who underscored the spiritual importance of beginning the festival at the river’s source:

“Osun’s journey begins here in Igede-Ekiti. This sacred place is the heartbeat of her power. We are here to reconnect with the roots of our heritage and to honor the divine spirit where it first touched the earth.”

The 2025 festival’s theme, “Back to the Source,” encapsulates a growing cultural movement to reclaim and celebrate indigenous heritage at its most authentic sites. The Ekiti State Ministry of Arts and Culture, in partnership with local monarchs and traditional councils, is leading efforts to position Igede-Ekiti as an essential stop on the Osun spiritual pilgrimage.

“It is time the world recognizes that Igede-Ekiti is not just part of the Osun story it is the very beginning. We invite all to witness this cultural renaissance and partake in the spiritual essence that flows from this land.”

Following the opening rites in Igede-Ekiti, the Osun Osogbo Festival will continue with a series of events, including traditional music and dance performances, spiritual consultations, art exhibitions, and a symbolic pilgrimage procession toward Osogbo, where the grand finale is scheduled for August.

As this year’s festival unfolds, the re-centering of Igede-Ekiti as the source of the Osun River represents a significant milestone in preserving and honoring the full historical and spiritual legacy of one of Nigeria’s most enduring cultural treasures.

SOURCE: https://ekitinews247.com.ng/2025/05/30/osun-osogbo-festival-2025-begins-at-sacred-source-in-igede-ekiti/

obagofizzy:
Video https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Hbsbbsf7W/



Video after rescue https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19ZveW6HCU/

EKITI001:
WATCH THE VIDEO


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO4z9dfOP1Q

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God1000:
The actress and mother of two shared the beautiful pictures on her Facebook page

yommen:
Go and do a proper analysis of the result of the election before you cry tribalism. Obi won Lagos, right? Could Yorubas not have voted for him that made him win Lagoa? More Yorubas voted for Obi than Igbos voting for Tinubu. It was the numbers Tinubu got from outside SW that gave him victory.

If it was all about the south alone, do you know that Obi won? Obi got the highest votes in the south but Tinubu won overwhelmingly in the north. If you still haven't done that analysis by now, sorry, you are just a noise maker with nothing to offer.

AntiChristian:
Na dollar price affect everything!

Even person wey dey plant for him backyard do local gari without security issues dey elevate price.

Even person wey them convert CNG bus for am free dey charge same price as normal petrol buses!

Blame Tinubu till tomorrow, Nigeria still remains better than Ghana, Niger and co.

We all contributed to the mess in one way or the other!

SporaD8:
Fixed!

Don't confuse yourself - olodumare as worshipped in Ifa is the grand creator of the universe!

TimeManager:
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has donated three acres of land to the International Council for Ifa Religion for the construction of the World Ifa Temple.

This was aimed at promoting its activities and establishing the largest pilgrimage site for Yoruba traditional worshippers across the world.

The ICIR announced this in a statement released by its President, Fayemi Fakayode, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Wednesday.

Fakayode said, “This gesture of our referred first class Oba has demonstrated his love for tradition and Yoruba culture and spirituality.

“On behalf of the Council of Araba and Oluwo, under the Chairmanship of His Eminence, Awodotun Aworeni, the Araba/Olu-Isese Agbaye and all practitioners of Ifa and Orisa Worldwide, we thank His Imperial Majesty, Oba Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, for this good and historic gesture.

“With this step, Ooni’s commitment to preserving and promoting Oduduwa’s cultural heritage and spirituality is obvious to all to see.
“This project is going to be the largest World Ifa Temple across the world, and it will serve as a major pilgrimage site for practitioners of Oduduwa’s spirituality across the globe.”

He said the three acres of land are located around the Stadium Area, Route 7, Ile-Ife, Osun State, and work has begun on the site.

It will be recalled that ICIR, whose headquarters is located at Oke-Itase, Ile Ife, had recently requested the land for the construction of what the body tagged “the Largest World Ifa Temple” in Ile Ife.
https://punchng.com/ooni-donates-land-for-construction-of-world-ifa-temple/

abc115:
PRESIDENT BOLA TINUBU ISSUES LANDMARK EXECUTIVE ORDER ON COST EFFICIENCY IN OIL & GAS SECTOR

…Targets New Investments, Improved Revenues, and Greater Value for Nigerians

In a move to further strengthen Nigeria’s global competitiveness and attract greater investment into the oil and gas sector, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has signed a landmark Executive Order establishing cost efficiency incentives for upstream petroleum operations.

The Upstream Petroleum Operations Cost Efficiency Incentives Order, 2025 introduces a new performance-driven framework that links tax incentives to verifiable cost savings, benchmarks operations by terrain, and protects public revenues while rewarding operational efficiency.

“This Order is a signal to the world: we are building an oil and gas sector that is efficient, competitive, and works for all Nigerians,” said President Tinubu. “It is about securing our future, creating jobs, and making every barrel count.”
https://www.energyreforms.ng/publications/putting-every-barrel-to-work-nigeria-s-new-presidential-directive-on-cost-efficiency-/

Nodogragra4me:
Oga, IBB started the local award of oil licenses in 1991 and the price tag was deliberately set low for 1.5 million dollars. Before then only Dubri oil was the Nigerian controlled firm in Exploration and Production

That Mrs Alakija struck gold was entirely heaven being on her side. There was no data that proved the reserves and even the government had called IOCs to go into the Agbami field for nothing but they turned it down

Texaco that patnered her has visited DPR looking for opl right owners to partner and were direct to her and the rest is history. The discovery became the second largest deep water field after Bonga in Nigeria


Off all the persons that got this license in the first round in 1991 how many are still holding on to it? To renew a supposed asset that you have not made a penny from cost over 100m dollar
today



In the article,it is stated that only about five firms have begun anything on their field


There are not too many IOCs that wants OPL. They all pay half a billion dollars to be part of OML

naptu2:
Nigeria’s shock therapy

Citizens have yet to feel the benefit of economic reform, but Bola Tinubu should press on

For years, Nigeria has been not so much a sleeping giant as a comatose one. Home to nearly one in five sub-Saharan Africans, its market of 230mn people should be an engine of continental growth. Instead it has been a drag, stuck in an oil-dependent rut, plagued by banditry and run by a political elite bent on self-enrichment. It is hardly surprising that all but a few investors may have missed the fact that Nigeria has turned a corner.

Halfway through the first presidential term of Bola Tinubu, who completes two years in office this Thursday, Nigeria is in better shape than at any time in the past decade. That may come as a surprise — or even sound like a sick joke — to tens of millions of Nigerians who are suffering the worst cost of living crisis in a generation.

Yet Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos and the country’s wiliest politician in a generation, has stabilised the economy and laid the groundwork for a broader recovery. This year, the World Bank expects growth of 3.7 per cent, in what would be Nigeria’s best performance since 2014 save for a post-Covid rebound. Most ordinary Nigerians won’t feel that yet. But it is a decent performance when oil prices are weak. The tiny green shoots have come because Tinubu’s government has tackled — albeit in often haphazard fashion — debilitating structural distortions.

On day one Tinubu removed a ruinously expensive fuel subsidy. More important still, the central bank has restored monetary policy orthodoxy after a shambolic era in which only cronies with access to cheap dollars benefited. After a dangerous overshoot, the naira has stabilised, with the gap between the official and black market rate shrinking to almost nothing.

The central bank has stopped printing money to pay for government profligacy. Politicians still spend too much, often on fripperies like an extravagant presidential jet, but at least the government has begun to increase tax receipts.

Investors do not live in constant fear of a devaluation and can readily access dollars. That may eventually help Nigeria to diversify, but shorter term it is positive that oil production has recovered from a nadir of 1mn barrels a day to nearly 1.5mn last month. Oil theft has been reduced and local companies are squeezing more out of marginal fields.

That so much has been achieved by a government stuffed with cronies — and, to be fair, one or two competent technocrats — shows how much could be achieved if Nigeria really got its act together. There are plenty of ways for Tinubu to build on a promising start.

First, his government has to tackle inflation — still running at 24 per cent — with more urgency. Food is the biggest driver. State governments need to increase supply by providing farm inputs, security and better access to market.

Second, it must build on tax reform by achieving its stated aim of doubling the ratio of tax collected to 18 per cent of GDP. Some of that should be spent on woefully neglected schools and clinics — even more urgent given foreign aid cuts. That will bring benefits of its own but, just as importantly, will also help to establish a social contract, which has been dangerously lacking.

Third, and perhaps most crucial, the government must confront banditry and terrorism with the same single-mindedness as it did distorted monetary policy. The army needs cleaning up as urgently as did the central bank.

As Nigeria’s election cycle edges towards 2027, Tinubu may be tempted to slow the pace of change. That would be a mistake. He should forge ahead, with the overriding aim of making ordinary Nigerians — not just investors — feel the benefits of shock therapy.

https://www.ft.com/content/21c6d9a5-bd45-49af-8708-747417535e81


Photo: President Bola Tinubu has stabilised the economy and laid the groundwork for a broader recovery © Sarah Meyssonnier/AFP/Getty
https://www.ft.com/content/21c6d9a5-bd45-49af-8708-747417535e81


Photo: President Bola Tinubu has stabilised the economy and laid the groundwork for a broader recovery © Sarah Meyssonnier/AFP/Getty Images

Putindbutt:
https://www.legit.ng/business-economy/economy/1656680-another-billionaire-moves-crash-rice-price-abdul-samad-rabiu-pledge/

Putindbutt:
https://dailytrust.com/cassava-producers-take-steps-as-starch-import-crashes-price/

Morbeta11:
https://www.earth.com/news/geologist-who-accidentally-discovered-humans-have-an-internal-clock-by-spending-63-days-underground/

zero8zero:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/2025/05/25/gombe-bauchi-officials-meet-nnpcl-aoml-to-resolve-operational-concerns-over-kolmani-oil-field/?amp

dominique:
https://guardian.ng/news/northern-can-lauds-zamfara-govts-swift-response-to-christian-ladys-prosecution-claims

Mekuseh11:
When you pay attention to the intent of a word of advice, then you can gauge if it's from a place of care, concern or disguised mockery.

The " Go and marry" tag falls in line with the disguised mockery often packaged as a genuine concern.

Age, finance and status are mostly the determinant of these fallacious shows of sportsmanship as it is always a subtle way to remind you of your decline.

Rarely does happiness, companionship or even peace of mind be considered as a criteria for the supposed " Go and marry" advice.

Isn't it surprising that if there is a refusal on your part to cling onto the marriage ship, they throw in a subtle jibe and undertone caricature, reminding you of your anticipated decline and risk of losing out in life.

Every other achievement is discarded and you are faced with multiple reasons why you are on your way to doom.

Then the game starts,
Pressure from onlookers
Constant reminder of your lack of purpose (marriage wise)

Subtle jibe and derogatory insinuations
Age shaming and broke shaming.

It's like there is a calculated arrangement to undermine every good thing in your life outside of marriage.

Soon it gets to a stage where the pendulum swings and they become loud, aggressive, judgmental, mean, disrespectful and what have you! Just to sway and hasten your decision.

The question is why do you get offended at my refusal to heed your supposed advice?

Why am I getting mocked all of a sudden?

Why are my achievements secondary to your concerns?

Why do I need to prove my intent of life with marriage?

Think about it slowly!

We are all a product of life and it is expected through procreation to give life too. I understand that sometimes you need a slight push to make future decisions especially when it concerns others.

What I don't understand is why there is pressure to act quickly, a timer to determine my right to what fulfillment entails.
Maybe I'm overthinking, just maybe?

" Go and marry" is far from what it looks like, it has become a source of pain, caricature and a reminder of a looming failure.

The pressure takes a toll on people.

The sigh of relief that comes after marriage is mostly from a place of freedom against the society, instead of a genuine path to a beautiful next chapter.

LegendHero:
Source: https://leadership.ng/thank-tinubu-for-intervention-in-rivers-crisis-fubara-tells-nigerians/

chukwutee:
Meaning every reasonable person should vote any party affiliated with obi??, that’s your own progress for Nigeria?? 2027 election will be the burial of fake lovers of Nigeria like you!

Morbeta11:
https://www.voronoiapp.com/education/The-Worlds-Most-Educated-Countries-5219

Racoon:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/05/tinubu-inherited-a-big-mess-from-somebody-he-installed-in-office-dr-sobowale/#google_vignette

folake4u:
You've said everything here. No more input from my end. 😃😃

NL has its ups and downs but there still exist lots of great minds in the forum.

And you too. Thank you.

kushme:
Yes sir, i am doing OK. Thank you for asking. I believe you are hale and hearty. To be honest sir, i have not had the time and clear mindset to go through the resources you shared due to some issues, however, i skimmed through the BOI site. I noticed it mostly supports existing businesses. So to say, when i find the time to consume every necessary infomation from the BOI, then, i would be able to see options and ways to go about making an informed decision.

The first time i noticed the ban. I had to re-type, screenshot before hitting the submit bottom. Yes, the problem has not been fixed.

Best regards and stay blessed,sir.

anonimi:
What is ebilokan confused about