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Nigeria will start selling and buying oil and gasoline directly to cut out middlemen and curb graft, the new managers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. announced Tuesday night.
The major policy shift fits new President Muhammadu Buhari's plan to halt corruption endemic in the industry in Africa's biggest oil producer. The previous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan had ignored warnings from Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi that some $20 billion in oil sales over three years was missing from federal coffers, and instead fired Sanusi.
Nigeria produces 2 million barrels of crude a day, according to the corporation's website. Nigerians consume about 9 million liters (2.4 million gallons) of gas daily, almost all imported because local refineries are inefficient. One barrel of crude produces about 30 gallons of diesel or fuel. (s: Michelle Faul)
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Beyonce, Jay Z and daughter all portrayed characters from the iconic 1988 comedy, Coming to America. The R-rated movie starred Eddie Murphy as an African prince who travels to Queens, New York to find a wife.
On Sunday, Beyonce posted a pic of herself donning Queen Aoleon' garbs and Jay Z dressed up as Prince Akeem -- complete with the amazing mustache! As for Blue Ivy, she portrayed the love interest in the movie, Lisa McDowell.
All for Halloween festival.....
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The second-largest U.S.-based oil producer, slashed its 2016 capital budget by 25 percent and said it would lay off roughly 10 percent of its workforce, one of the most-drastic reactions to date to the plunge in crude prices.
The price drop has forced Chevron and dozens of its peers to make tough decisions about what projects to fund or not fund in order to offset natural declines at its existing fields.
The choices are that much starker at large international oil giants like Chevron that rely heavily on their massive budgets to fund exploration projects crucial to finding new energy sources.
The San Ramon, California-based company also said it would lay off 6,000 to 7,000 workers as part of the budget cuts. (s:rigzone)
We better start looking elsewhere
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that's really scaring....

A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers crashed into a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday shortly after losing radar contact near cruising altitude, killing all aboard.
Not long after the crash, A militant group affiliated to Islamic State in Egypt, Sinai Province, said in a statement it had brought down the plane "in response to Russian airstrikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land".

Though Russia Government doubts this claim as investigations are still ongoing , but will this fatal crash change Putin's stand on Syria war? What if technical errors were ruled out, what then? This aint good news for Russia President, Putin.
This is a matter that has grown beyond national security to world security concerns.
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Suspected Boko Haram attack left scores dead as twin bomb blast destroys mosque in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. Soldiers and rescue workers are trying to recover bodies of victims.
Some months ago, similar attack was carried out in a major mosque in Kano.
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Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, former governor of Bayelsa, has died from cardiac arrest today in University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. It was gathered that he went into coma two days ago and has been on life support. He was 63 years old.
There were reports during the week that the British Government was determined to resurrect an outstanding case of money laundering against the former governor and had requested for his extradition to London.
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Liverpool Football Club has announced that Brendan Rodgers will leave his post with immediate effect after having his contract terminated. The process to appoint a new manager is underway.
The Northern Irishman joined Liverpool FC in June 2012 and helped the club mount a memorable title challenge in his second season, as well as helping to develop many exciting young players. LFC's ownership have paid tribute and thanked Rodgers for his contribution.
The news came after Liverpool drew 1-1 with Everton this evening....
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Over 310 people have died and 450 injured during the last ritual 'stoning the devil' in the Mecca Hajj pilgrimage. The latest death toll, according to the civil defense ministry, is 310 but the numbers have been climbing steadily throughout the day.
Officials deployed 4,000 workers and 220 ambulances and other vehicles to Mina to help with the disaster. In the ritual, crowds of pilgrims throw stones at three pillars, in a re-enactment of an event when Prophet Abraham stoned the devil and rejected his temptations, according to Muslim traditions.
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18-feet huge crocodile in the continent of Australia. Got a lot of them there, but they are really wild like the continent......
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Chelsea Marr from Aberdeen, Scotland, bears striking a resemblance to the Oscar-winning actress, Angelina Jolie, that she's racked up over 100K Instagram followers. Chelsea recently took to Facebook to speak out about all the attention she has been getting for her looks. "I don't really see the resemblance myself to be honest," she wrote in a lengthy post on Aug. 27. "I just see the imperfections in the mirror like most girls do . . . Despite what the articles say I am not a model. I work for an oil and gas recruitment company as an Operations Manager in the city so trying to get work done with all of this has been a bit of a strain as you can imagine,,,
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You hear of super stars get paid for promotional tweets because of their large followers on Twitter. Christiano Ronaldo is no exception as the Real Madrid star receives over $250k for promo tweets according to AS. Already one of the highest paid soccer stars in the world with about $23.4m salary in Madrid, there is no stopping for income diversification for Ronaldo......
Remember, you can also make money on twitter by promoting/tweeting company's products. Just build up your followers to an appreciable level.
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Google executive Benjamin is back in the headlines and proving his generosity once more, this time by presenting his wife Christine with a LaFerrari-based FXX K for her birthday.
The executive style car is about $2.8 million and sold out for lucky few invited to purchase. It was a huge surprise as the birthday girl thought she was only flying to Maranello to drive the 599XX Evo, but when she arrived she was greeted with this yellow FXX K.
What a surprise indeed...
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When Peter Greste was released everyone thought the case will come out well for all the three journalists. On the contrary the Egyptian court revisited the case and all the three Al-Jazeera journalist, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste have been sentenced to three years imprisonment.
They are accused of aiding the banned Muslim Brotherhood group but they strenuously deny the allegations.
The three journalists were originally sentenced in July 2014, with Mr Greste and Mr Fahmy receiving seven years and Mr Mohamed getting 10 years.

But their convictions were overturned in January this year and they were freed in February to await retrial.
This is not a good season for journalism and press freedom......
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The suspected attacker was armed with a Kalashnikov assault weapon, nine chargers, a Luger automatic pistol, a 9mm charger and a box cutter, reports said..
What could have turned out to be a massacre in a train from Amsterdam to Paris was thwarted by a British national and the 3 American passengers.
"I saw a man with what I think was an AK-47 -- anyway, it was some kind of machine gun or submachine gun," said the British man, Chris Norman.
Reports say they believed the riffle was jammed which gave the chance for the heroic passengers to attack and subdue the gun man.
By the time the suspect was subdued, three people had non life-threatening injuries, said Anthony Blondeau, a spokesman for the city of Arras in northern France, where the train pulled up after the incident and the suspect was arrested. One of the Americans who subdued the gunman was among the injured.
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1. San Fruttuoso, Italy: Guido Galletti built of Statue of Christ in 1954 and placed in the water at a depth of 55 feet. It depicts Christ offering a benediction of peace, with his head and hands raised skyward.

2. The underwater city in Shicheng, China is 1341 years old and was submerged in 1959 during the construction of a hydropower station.
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16GB of storage, dual-SIM support, an FM radio.

Google is introducing a low-priced smartphone in six African countries where most people still can't afford an Internet-connected device.The tech giant promises high quality phones in Nigeria. Google says the smartphones will be affordable. They are starting with Nigeria in Africa before moving to other few countries in the continent.
Android One represents Google's push to lower the prices of smartphones in less developed parts of the world where computers are considered a luxury.
The phone announced Tuesday is made by Infinix and will cost about $87 (roughly Rs. 5,650). It will be sold in stores in Nigeria and offered by online retailer Jumia in five other countries: Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, and Morocco.
Infinix worked with Google on the "Hot 2" phone as part of a program called Android One that made its debut in India last year.
Guess it is an innovative initiative that benefit both stakeholders and Google.
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Images of the suspect caught on CCTV footage had already been released.
In the new footage, the suspect shown carefully and deliberately removing his backpack inside the shrine, getting up without it and immediately leaving the scene.
The spot where he was sitting is precisely where the bomb went off a few minutes later, says the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
"There is a suspect... we are looking for this guy," Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters.
"The yellow shirt guy is not just the suspect. He is the bomber," police spokesman Lt Gen Prawut Thavornsiri told the Associated Press news agency.
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Amen!!!!

The attack took place close to the Erawan Shrine in the capital's central Chidlom district, Bangkok, Thailand.
This a very well known shrine in the center of Bangkok, next to a five-star hotel. No group has claimed responsibility. see photos below;
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Lately, celebrities now have the effrontery to go braless even in public. Why this sudden surge in this type of fashion parade....Before we criticize lets read and digest the report below.

According to the results of a 15-year study in France published Wednesday, bras provide no benefits to women and may actually be harmful to breasts over time.
"Medically, physiologically, anatomically, the breast does not benefit from being deprived of gravity," Jean-Denis Rouillon, a professor at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon, told France Info.
Conducting the study at the university's hospital, Rouillon measured and examined the breasts of more than 300 women, aged 18 and 35, taking note of how the additional support provided by bras affects the body over time. (It should be noted the study does not mention breast size.)
Overall, he found that women who did not use bras benefited in the long term, developing more muscle tissue to provide
natural support. As France's The Local notes, Rouillon also noticed that nipples gained a higher lift, in relation to the shoulders, on women who went braless. When bras are worn, the restrictive material prevents such tissue from growing, which may actually accelerate sagging, the study concluded.
Capucine Vercellotti, a 28-year-old woman who participated in the research, found that she breathes easier without the constraints of a bra.
But don't throw away your bras just yet, ladies.
Despite the findings, Rouillon said it would be dangerous to advise all women to take off their bras based on the study's sample, which may not be representative of the population. (c:Sarah Gates)

Dr Dre's first studio record in 16 years, has gone straight to the top of the UK album chart.
Fans of the long time rapper and producer will have something to yap about as Dr Dre's third album, the soundtrack to N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton, follows his last release, called 2001.

To be released in the UK on 28 August, Straight Outta Compton dramatises the early days of N.W.A., the influential gangsta rap group Dr Dre formed with Eazy-E, Ice Cube and others.
It has been a long tough road for the talented rapper and producer through the late 80s, 90s to present. This should be his last studio album according to reports....
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Sundar Oichai has been announced as Google new CEO. Pichai, 43, was born in Tamil Nadu, India. After completing his undergraduate degree in metallurgical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, he came to the United States to study at Standford University.
He was the leader of the team that founded Chrome operating system and also co-founder of Android. As Google's third CEO, Pichai is taking over a company in flux
Subdued and generally quiet, Pichai is admired at Google not just for his obvious engineering talents but also his general likability.
Congrats and good luck and India is proud of you....
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Tyga gave Kylie Jenner a gorgeous $320,000 Ferrari for her 18th birthday on Aug. 10.

Well, it’s safe to say Kylie Jenner had the best 18th birthday ever. Her boyfriend, Tyga, 25, surprised the starlet with a new white Ferrari at her birthday party on Aug. 10. Tyga waited until the festivities were in full swing before presenting her with the lavish $320,000 gift.
Guys, can you beat that
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Been late is better than never...go move Ayari and others who show care..

The star hinted she is expecting her first child, while pouring cold water over rumours the pair had split, as she stunned everyone by referring to the rapper as her "baby father".

She was performing in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania on Friday night, when she introduced Meek on stage, who is opening for her Pinkprint Tour, telling the crowd: "Make some noise for my baby father!"

And now, keen to keep those rumours coming, Nicki has remained tight-lipped - only adding a new loved up photo with her man.
She has posted a snap of her holding her stomach next to rapper boyfriend Meek Mill, after sparking rumours she's pregnant.
Nicki and Meek, who have collaborated on a number of tracks, are rumored to be engaged and she has previously about how she wants to be settled before she has her first child. (credit: Katy Forrester, Celebrity news)
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They have officially apologized long time ago.....then nobody knew the devastating effects of atomic bombs.
Also remember Japan attacked US first (Pearl Harbor), that prompted Frederick Roosevelt (then US President) to test the atomic bomb on Japan.
The type of modern atomic bombs world powers have developed in recent years can wipe out a whole nation....
May God help us.....

In 9th Aug. 1945, the United States dropped its second atomic bomb killing more than 70,000 people in Nagasaki, Japan. The first bomb had been dropped 3 days earlier on Hiroshima. Six days later on August 15th, Japan announced its surrender effectively ending World War II. Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender on September 2.
Japan, today, marks the 70th anniversary of this event that change the course of history on use of nuclear weapons. Japan is the only country where nuclear/atomic bomb has been used during war…
Its dangerous effects were unprecedented.

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Indeed a thing of joy....Jehovah the greater healer....

"Surgeons used a fibula bone from my right leg, and nerve and skin tissue harvested from leg, arm, hip and shoulder to perform reconstructive surgery on my jaw".
A model who had the vast majority her jaw removed due to an aggressive cancer posed for a series of ultra-glamorous shots.
Elizaveta Bulokhova, 25, first noticed an inflammation on her jaw which became more and more painful.
After undergoing a series of biopsies, she was told she had jaw osteosarcoma – a cancer which attacks the bone.
Elizaveta, who lives in Ontario, Canada, was forced to undergo a series of intensive operations in 2014 to remove 95% of her jaw.
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