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The Federal Ministry of Education, for fear of impending bandits and terrorists’ attacks, has directed the immediate closure of all Federal Government Colleges domiciled in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, while ordering immediate evacuation of students.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the decision was as a result of rising insecurity and threat to the lives, properties and well-being of the students therein.

While some schools had directed students to vacate latest on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, other schools disseminated messages to parents on Sunday asking them not to fail to come pick their children on Monday, unfailingly, due to rising fear and anxiety emanating from reported threats.

An unconfirmed report had trended on social media on Sunday, indicating that there were heavy shootings at Federal Government College in Kwali, Abuja, a report which prompted parents to rush down to the school to ascertain the safety of their wards and possibly return home with them until calm was restored.

Some members of staff at the Federal Government Girls’ College, Bwari, also confided in our correspondent that they received a directive from the Federal Ministry of Education to allow students vacate the school before Wednesday.

Members of staff also told our correspondent, in confidence, that the school would be shut down today not minding the Wednesday deadline as parents had been asked to come pick up their children before noon on Monday.

Efforts to reach the authorities for reactions to the incident have been futile; however, some parents, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, claimed that a message came from the school authorities informing parents to come pick up their children not later than Monday noon.

Although sources within the Federal Ministry of Education confirmed to our correspondent that the schools were directed to be closed due to security threats and fear of impending bandits and terrorists’ attacks, PUNCH Metro could not reach the Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr Ben Goong, for comments on the situation, as the director did not respond to phone calls nor text messages.

@AirtelNigeria why is this

Good Morning beautiful people.

Today I went to Airtel Office to Link my Line with my NIN. After waiting for almost 2 hours to get to my turn, the customer service provider told me that the Camera cannot capture my face because it is eye programm, you blink both eyes before it takes your picture, tried talking to some other workers in that office but none of them gave me attention. I have to leave the office with sadness in my heart.

My question is why should a service provider program camera without having to consider persons like me.

I have never felt sad about my condition like I felt today.

Benteke
Chisom Orogwu

Elon Musk 'had affair with Google founder Sergey Brin's WIFE in December which led to their divorce and end of tech billionaires' friendship' - years after Sergey's $500,000 loan kept Tesla afloat

Sergey Brin filed for divorce from his wife Nicole Shanahan in January citing irreconcilable differences.

Now, friends of the pair tell The Wall Street Journal that Nicole had an affair with Elon Musk in December 2021.

In the same month, Musk welcomed a baby girl via surrogate with his ex-girlfriend Grimes
It was a month after he had twins with a former executive, and three months before he started dating current girlfriend Natasha Bassett.

Sergey and his wife were separated but still living together when she had her affair with the Tesla CEO.

Brin and Shanahan were married for four years and welcomed a daughter in 2018
He is the world's 7th richest man, worth of $93billion, while Musk, worth $253.4bn, is the richest.

During our inspection tour, I declared a state of emergency on the Lagos-Sango Ota-Abeokuta Road and also stated that we are giving the Federal Government a 2-week window to intervene on this road.

At it's expiration, the State Government would, putting the safety and comfort of its citizens first, have no choice than to immediately intervene through total reconstruction.

We were also at the Owode-Ilaro Road where I was made to understand that the contractor handling the Owode-Iwoye end of the road, RAJCOM is not living up to expectations.

I immediately revoked their contract due to the slow pace of work, and awarded it to CCECC who will now handle all the roadworks.

We also inspected some sections of the Ojodu-Abiodun-Akute-Oke Aro-Agbado-Ijoko-Sango Road where I promised that workers will move to site in the next three weeks so as to begin reconstruction of the deplorable road. #BuildingOurFutureTogether #DapoAbiodun #ISEYA #OgunState

The Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited, Ahmed Dikko, has assured that the rehabilitation of the Old Port Harcourt Refinery with a refining capacity of 60, 000 barrels per day would be completed and put to use by the first quarter of 2023.

He gave the assurance when the House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee on the state of the country’s refineries visited the facility in Rivers State for an on the spot assessment of the $1.5 billion dollar rehabilitation project of the facility.

Dikko said the Old Port Harcourt refinery, referred to as Area Five, would be the first of three phases of the project.

He said by the time the entire project is completed by the end of 2024, the facility would have a refining capacity of 210 bpd.

Dikko expressed confidence that they would stick to the timelines and within the cost approved for the project.

He said despite costing more, some of the equipment required for the rehabilitation had to be air freighted to ensure that they stick as much as possible to the schedule that they have.

“We plan to finish Area 5 by the first quarter of next year, so we can begin to run it. It is the old refinery. It is a 60, 000 barrels per day capacity plant and it is a priority for us at this point. The other parts of the refinery would come a few months after that.

“We are on track and managing the process very well and would continue to do the best we can at all times to ensure that we meet these expectations we put on ourselves so we all would be proud of all these activities and begin to have some refining capacity in Port Harcourt,” he said.

He expressed gratitude to the House of Representatives for their support.

Chairman of the House Ad-Hoc Committee, Hon Ganiyu Johnson, who was conducted round the facility along with his members by the MD expressed satisfaction with the level of work.

He said: “So far on behalf of my committee members, we are satisfied with the level of work, because we did not expect this level of performance when we left Abuja. But after going round we are satisfied with the level of performance.

“Nigerians should bear with the company. We know that the solution to all oil subsidy is the refineries. The oil subsidy would be a thing of the past. We should be able to reduce it to the barest minimum.

“We owe Nigerians the duty to ensure this place is working. Because if these refineries are not working, we would continue to suffer and God forbid we hope it would not get to a stage an average man cannot buy fuel and that is why we really want to encourage you and support you and make sure you complete this refinery. Even if it is just Port Harcourt for now, it means we would be able to deliver 210, 000 bpd.”

He urged the MD to fast track the completion of the refinery and make sure it is delivered on schedule.

I paid 26k online for my International Passport and got it within 6 weeks.

I didn't have to pay anybody.

Here is a thread how to get your International Passport in 5 Steps

STEP 1: Register Online

Visit the registration portal, fill in the required details and continue.

N.B The standard passport (sometimes appears as standard e-passport) is for regular citizens, while official passport is for govt officials & diplomats.

Fill in your personal details, Contact details and next of kin details.

Doing this will generate an 'Application ID' and 'Reference Number' for you.

STEP 2: Pay online.

32 pages/5yrs - 25,000
64 pages/5yrs - 35,000
64 pages/10yrs - 70,000
Plus online payment charge

STEP 3: Gather your documents.

Here are the documents you will need:
1. Letter of ID from L.G/State of Origin
2. NIN (They said or NIN, me I sha submitted both)
3. Passport Application Form (You will see an option to print the form you filled online.)
4. Passport Photograph

5. Guarantor's Form signed by commissioner of oath. (Link to form below)

Don't let big English scare you. Print the guarantor's form, and find an eligible person to sign, then go to court.

An eligible guarantor is one with an International Passport.
https://passport.immigration.gov.ng/search/VTJGc2RHVmtYMTkvb2M3QlN4YXNqaTZaNy9IRW5OeFNLZDhzZXJwU0Rxaz0%3D

Don't let the word 'court' scare you either.

Go to a high court, and ask how you can get a commissioner for oaths stamp (less than 1k)

Or pay one the people doing affidavit to process it for you (about 1500 or 2k).

6. Acknowledgement slip & evidence of payment (from the site).

7. Birth Certificate (If your DOB is from Dec 1992) But it's not heavy to carry, so sha just carry it in case.....

You are to go with both the originals and photocopy of your documents. They will see the original, return it to you, and keep the photocopy.

STEP 4: Go to the office for submission and capturing.

After registration and payment, you get an appointment date. Visit the office on that date to submit the documents you have gathered and get your biometrics captured.

Some things you should know about capturing����

1. Don't wear white: You will be captured against a white background
2. No coloured hair: You will be asked your hair colour during registration, let your hair be as close to that color as possible
3. No dropping earrings (I think it's because of the shadow)

Bonus tip: Don't wear off shoulder. I wore off shoulder for mine, and now it looks like I was not wearing anything in my passport ��.

Also, if you wear contacts, stick to your natural eye colour for the capturing.

STEP 5: Collection

After capturing, your watch (abi na count) officially begins.

Usually, you receive an SMS when it is ready. (But I didn't get any because my line was on DND sha). I sha just went after 6 weeks and got it.

A friend got hers in 4 weeks.

I had done mine in Alausa.

Between December when I got mine, and February when above mentioned friend got hers, I have noticed some improvement in the process.

E.g.
1. My own time, submission and capturing were on 2 different days. Now, it's just one day.

2. No appointment date when I did mine, I just went when I was ready, now they have appointment dates.

3. The site is much more easier to use now.

I am hopeful that when you begin your process, you will find it easier.

Yours,
Explainer Feli��

Thursday’s revelation by Nigeria’s Finance Minister that the cost of servicing Nigeria’s debt has surpassed the Federal Government’s retained revenue by N310 billion in the first quarter of the year is very worrisome.

First, this action must be in breach of all known reasonable debt-sustainability thresholds. Second, it puts a big question mark on the capacity of the government to manage its rising debt profile without endangering macroeconomic stability.

Indeed, I am concerned that this action is already exposing Nigeria to financial stability issues as we slip from a medium risk of debt distress to high risk of debt distress.

I had on several occasions warned that not only is the fiscal cost of government’s indiscriminate borrowing so enormous but has even greater opportunity costs as we sacrifice investments in critical areas, including education, health, and other basic services.

This is certainly detrimental to Nigeria’s long-term growth.

I urge the government to as a matter of urgency do the following:

• Take immediate steps to slow down the rate of debt accumulation by promoting more Public Private Partnerships in critical infrastructure funding and identifying more innovative funding options;

• Review the current utilization of all borrowed funds and ensure that they are deployed more judiciously.

Specifically, government must ensure that all borrowed funds are for priority infrastructure projects that would generate income, boost output, and put the economy on the path of sustainable growth;

• Review the country’s debt strategy by focusing on concessional and semi-concessional sources with lower interest rates and relatively long-term maturity. The government must reduce the issuance of short-dated debt instruments;

• Take steps to improve its spending efficiency and drastically cut unnecessary and wasteful expenditures. -AA

On the Morning Show, PDP Presidential candidate and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, speaks exclusively to ARISE News. Join us at 8:30am
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The World Bank’s latest Gross National Income per capita report shows that Nigeria’s gross national income per capita has surged to $5,250 per capita in 2021. This is a 5% increase compared to $5,000 per capita in 2020.

Our Nairametrics audience will be familiar with the definition of Gross National Income as the total income earned by a nation’s people and businesses, including economic aid and investment income, regardless of where it was earned.

There is actually a formula [GNI = GDP + Money flowing from overseas – Money flowing to foreign countries]

This increase in Nigeria’s GNI per Capita is remarkable especially as it occurred despite the plethora of headwinds facing Africa’s largest economy and its residents.

Furthermore, Nigeria’s GNI per capita of $5,250 is at the highest in the last six years.

In other words, GNI includes income earned from overseas investments by residents of a country (i.e. folks residing in Nigeria but earning overseas income)

So how does Nigeria’s GNI compare to other African countries?

Aggregate basis:

On an aggregated basis Nigeria’s Gross National Income is over USD$ 1 trillion and simply dwarfs all other African countries except Egypt with GNI of $1.2 trillion.

Per Capita basis

As with most economic indicators, a per capita basis is arguably a more appropriate measure to assess how aggregate results are being felt by everyone in that economy.

On a Per Capita basis, Nigeria ranks 20th. Thus, remains part of the top 20 in Africa, a position which is unchanged from the prior year.

So who are the top 10 African countries with the highest GNI per capita?

Seychelles, Mauritius, and Libya maintained the top spots as the richest African countries on a per capita basis in 2021. The below list outlines the countries in descending order.

#10: Tunisia – $11,270 (maintained same spot)

Tunisia saw its gross national income per capita increase by 7.3% from $10,500 recorded in 2020 to $11,270 in the review. Despite the increase, Tunisia retained the same position it held in the previous year at 10th. A cursory look at the historic trend shows that Tunisia’s GNI per capita is yet to return to pre-covid levels (2019: $11,540, 2018: $11,360).

#9: Algeria – $11,750 (maintained same spot)

Algeria ranked 9th on the list, same as the previous year with a GNI per capita of $11,750, which is 6% higher than the $11,090 recorded in the previous year. The North African country’s GNI per capita was able to surpass the levels it recorded before the hit of the pandemic, albeit marginally.

#8: Egypt – $12,910 (maintained same spot)

Egypt ranked eighth on the list of countries in Africa with the highest GNI per capita in 2021 with an average of $12,910. Although the GNI of Egypt increased by 5.7% from $12,210 recorded in the previous year, the country maintained its position from the previous year.

#7: Equatorial Guinea – $13,520 (One spot down)

The Republic of Equatorial Guinea recorded a gross national income per capita of $13,520 in 2021, a marginal increase compared to $13,400 recorded the year before. The country fell by one spot to 7th position from 6th, surpassed by South Africa.

#6: South Africa – $14,140 (One spot up)

South Africa, recorded a 7.6% growth in its GNI per capita to $14,140 in 2021 compared to $13,140 recorded in the previous year. South Africa went up by one spot from its position in the previous year to stand 6th on the ranking list.

#5: Gabon – $14,560 (maintained same spot)

Gabon recorded a gross national income per capita of $14,560 in the year 2021, a 1.8% increase compared to $14,300 recorded in the previous year. Gabon maintained the spot it occupied in the previous year at 5th. According to the World Bank, Gabon’s population stood at 2.27 million as of 2021.

#4: Botswana – $16,650 (maintained same spot)

Botswana ranked fourth on the list with a GNI per capita of $16,650 in 2021, a 9.5% increase compared to $15,210 recorded in the previous year. The Southern African country has a population of 2.39 million in 2021 from 2.35 million as of 2020.

#3: Libya – $23,550 (maintained same spot)

Libya recorded a GNI per individual of $23,550 in 2021 to stand in 3rd position on the list, the same as recorded in the previous year. On a year-on-year basis, the GNI per capita of Libya increased significantly by 35.6% from $17,370 recorded in 2020.

#2: Mauritius – 25,530 (maintained same spot)

Mauritius maintained the second position with a GNI per capita of $25,530 in 2021, increasing by 4.6% from $26,820 recorded in 2020. Although the country is a small Indian Ocean Island nation, its 1.23 million people ensured the country recorded a higher GNI per capita.

#1: Seychelles – 28,050 (maintained same spot)

Seychelles, a group of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, off East Africa recorded a GNI per capita of $28,050 in 2021, representing a 4.6% increase compared to $26,820 recorded in the previous year. Seychelles maintained the first position on GNI per capita for 2021.

I had an experience with a guy that I had just agreed to be in a relationship with. One week into the relationship, dude asked me to address him as “lord” I am not even bluffing, I thought he was trying to be funny and I laughed over it. I came back to my senses when he asked...

me what was funny. I knew from that moment that I have used my hand to bring wahala to myself. The one that broke the camel's back, was when I was eating out with one of my male pal in a restaurant and The lord of my life called me on phone.

The conversation went like this..
*Phone rings*
Me: Hello

My lord: (Silence)

Me: Hello, are you there? Can you hear, me?

My lord: (Silence)...... (More silence)

Me: (Hangs up)

He calls back...

Me: Hello..

My lord: (Silence)

I was beginning to think it was network until Oga decided to break the breathing competition.

My lord: Is it me you are saying hello to?

Me: What should I have said?

*He hung up*

My friend on the side asked me if I was okay. I explained to him what “my lord” was doing on the phone.

My lord called back, and him being the proper fool that he is, proceeds to ask me if the way I said “Hello” was the way I was supposed to address him. I didn't even know...

When I burst out laughing, apparently my laughter aggravated his supposed anger and dude hung up again.

He called back and asked me if I was with a man, I replied yes. He said that was why I was talking to him like that, I kept quiet. He asked me where I was, I told I was...

In a restaurant, he asked which one, I refuse to disclose. He started ranting. He said I was with another of my boyfriend and I was cheating on him. My friend who was there all along, listening to the back and forth squabbling, asked me to concede our location to him.

In jiffy, dude called me that he was outside the restaurant and that I should come out, I and my friend were done from the restaurant and we both went out. My lord was trying to cause a scene and I wasn't up for it, my friend who had given us space to talk had to come back...

And asked what the problem was, my lord, shouted at him to get out. At that point, I knew I was done. The relationship was barely two weeks and I am already hyperventilating. I told him I was done, that I was so done. Dude started crying, I swear I have never seen anything like..

It, from roaring like a lion to suddenly crying and professing his love for me. And also saying that all this wouldn't have happened if I had just responded to him properly when he called. Only I had to leave with my friend immediately, when in my friend's car, I deleted....

Mr lord’s number blocked him on all social media platforms, broke my sim card, and used my friend's phone to call my brother, I explained to my brother what had just happened and he reassured me I was going to be fine, and me to call him if any other issue arises. Honestly, I..

Was terrified, and visibly shaking. I thought Mr lord was going to hurt me or come look for me, but that didn't happen, and for that I am forever grateful.

What a life!