Davido resumed daddy duties earlier today as he took his second daughter; Hailey Adeleke swimming after returning to Atlanta, United States last week.
The singer who has been really busy putting finishing touches to his forthcoming sophomore album, “A Good Time” which is set for release in October has not been in touch with his second daughter for a while now. He, however, decided on making sure he spends good time with her today as he takes her swimming.

The video of the daddy and daughter swimming just got on the internet a few minutes ago and it has got everyone given really sweet remarks.

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Public outcry on N5.5bn SUVs, an insult –Senate

The Senate, on Wednesday, described the public condemnation of its planned purchase of Sport Utility Vehicles amounting to N5.5bn for the senators as an insult.

The Leader of the Senate, Yahaya Abdullahi, stated this in an interview with journalists in his office in Abuja.

Abdullahi said the status of a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not undeserving of an SUV.

He said each of the 109 senators in the upper chamber would get one SUV, which would be paid for at the end of their four-year legislative tenure.

He said the burden on the shoulders of the senator was not a mean task and that an SUV for their work was not too much.

The Senate Leader said, “What is the problem there? It is an insult to say that a senator of the Federal Republic cannot ride a jeep in Nigeria. It is an insult. The N5.5bn is from the National Assembly fund and it is budgeted for every year, which they will pay back at the end of the tenure.

“I was a permanent secretary. I know what ministers get; we cannot even compare ourselves to ministers because we are higher than the minister(s). For you to say that a senator of the Federal Republic cannot drive a jeep today — come on, that is an insult.

“Go and tell the people that the work that we do is more than the work of ministers. The weight that is on me today; there is no minister of the Federal Republic that has it.”

Abdullahi said the collapse of the local government areas across the country had placed a burden on senators who “carry loads outside their purview.”

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/public-outcry-on-n5-5bn-suvs-an-insult-senate/amp/

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Hundreds of women on Wednesday morning marched to the Government House in Port Harcourt, protesting the killing of young women in hotels in Rivers State.

The women, who were clad in black attire, called for an end to the ugly trend.

They also stated that everybody, including prostitutes, deserve the right to life and should not be killed in such a gruesome manner.

At least, eight young women have been murdered in different hotels within the last two months.



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FEkiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi said on Tuesday that the workers in the state civil service were being owed N57billion as arrears of unpaid salaries and emoluments.

The governor said this at a meeting he had with the civil servants as well as a cross-section of labour leaders at the Government House, Ado- Ekiti.

He said that his administration was making frantic efforts to defray the backlogs which he said would be done in phases.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Fayemi claimed the trend was caused by irregular payments of salaries and pensions by the immediate past administration of Mr. Ayodele Fayose.

He said the arrears covered outstanding salaries, pensions, promotion arrears, leave bonuses and other emoluments from 2014 till October 2018 when he assumed office.

The governor also said he was not part of the people that were opposed to local government autonomy.

He said the local governments in the state were currently being given unfettered access to administer their own funds without interference from his government.

He said he would honour his earlier pledge to pay all the outstanding workers’ benefits.

He clarified that some would be given immediate attention, while some would be defrayed by instalment.

He said: “It is sad to reel out such a homongous figure, because it can create panic for you and I.

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“ But let me say that we cannot pay everything in one fell swoop, but the 2019 promotion arrears will be given immediate attention while others will be defrayed by instalment.

“ It becomes difficult to pay once because Ekiti gets a little above N5billion monthly, with the state getting like N3billion, while the local governments receive little above N2billion monthly “, he said.

On the issue of local government autonomy, Fayemi said he was never opposed to the idea of giving financial independence to the third tier of government, being the closest to the grassroots.

“But today, we have less than 500 to manage 22 health facilities across the state.

“The governor must do something about this,” he said.

Some of the other labour union leaders in the state that attended the meeting include: Kolapo Olatunde of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Sola Adigun of the Trade Union Congress (TUC).

They also pleaded that issues that had to do with the benefits of workers must be given utmost priority.

They urged the governor to use his connection as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum to fast track the implementation of the new minimum wage for workers. He said.





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Timaya & 7 Other Nigerian Artistes That Have Gotten A Grammy Award Nomination: Grammy is the most prestigious award that is currently existing in the world of music. There are only a few and privileged artistes around the world and outside of the world that has won it.
It is an award that every music maker around the world hopes to receive before the end of their music career. Many when they get this award come to the conclusion that a fulfilled life has been achieved and it is to a huge extent a fact.

However, ever since the existence of the Grammy award, there has only been one Nigerian music act who has been privileged to have one up in his awards shelf. It is the biggest dream of every Nigerian music act to win one and will continue to be for a long time. Although only one Nigerian act has won a Grammy award, there have been a few who have been close through nominations of their works or other people’s works in which they were contributors. This post is intended to make a list of the few privileged Nigerian artistes who have once or twice as the case may be been nominated for a Grammy award before.



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The video below uncovers the new technique of rice smuggling by peddlers – who seek ways to beat Federal Government’s clamp down on the act. Thickmatch.com Reports'

As posted by Viral Trendz on twitter, a Customs’ officer can be seen pulling out rice grains that have been stuffed inside a Tyre, explaining it was the new technique employed by the smugglers.

He condemned the rice as poisonous and warned the general public against consuming such.

Recall that the Federal Government had closed its land borders to neighbouring countries, in a bid to checkmate smuggling and boost local production. Thickmatch.com reports'



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Three Islamic clerics arrested for fraud, serial rape

Three self-acclaimed Islamic clerics who specialized in defrauding unsuspecting members of the public have been arrested by the police in Ogun State.

The suspected fraudsters were also accused of having unlawful carnal knowledge of their female victims.

The suspects, identified as Aliu Abdulfatai, 50; Sule Adebayo, 36 and Lekan Olokodana, 31, were reportedly arrested following a report by one of their victims.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident on Tuesday, said a female victim (name withheld) reported at Adigbe Police Station that she was duped of N70,000 by the suspects and also raped by one of them.

Oyeyemi disclosed that investigation revealed that one of the suspects had used the proceeds of their fraudulent act to build a private school in Ikorodu, Lagos State.

The police spokesman stated that the suspects got in contact with the female victim, who is a marketer with real estate company, on the pretext that they wanted to purchase a large expanse of land.

Source: https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2019/09/three-islamic-clerics-arrested-for-fraud-serial-rape/

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the re-appointment of Mr Segun Adeyemi and Mr Williams Adeleye as his Special Assistants (Media) attached to the Office of the Minister of Information and Culture. Thickmatch.com Reports'

Mr Joe Mutah, the Chief Press Secretary to information and culture minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday.

He said the re-appointment letters of the two SSAs, which were signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, stated that their appointment took effect from Sept. 6 2019.

Adeyemi and Adeleye served in the same capacity between November 2015 and May 2019. Thickmatch.com Reports'



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Kidnappers have released Aisha Ardo, the daughter of a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Dr. Umar Ardo.

Our correspondent gathered that Aisha was released in Abuja around 11:00 p.m. on Sunday night after spending about 30 hours with the kidnappers.

Her father, Umar, confirmed the release of her daughter in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Monday morning.

“She was released on Sunday night around 11:00 p.m. She is fine and she is with me now,” he said.

It was gathered that Aisha was taken to a forest close to Gwarinpa area of the nation’s capital, where she was kept until her release.

After her release, she was said to have trekked to an eatery from where she got a telephone with which she called her father.

Her father, who was a former presidential aide, drove to the eatery to pick his daughter up.

Aisha was abducted at 7:45 p.m outside a popular supermarket in Kwame Nkwruma Crescent, Abuja on Saturday.





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The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum has expressed support for the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate in the February 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar to appeal to the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal at the Supreme Court.

The tribunal had upheld the victory of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, President Muhammadu
Buhari.

The Chairman of the Forum, Mr Seriake Dickson, on behalf of his colleague-members in a statement on Sunday also said the judgement stood justice on its head.

Dickson who is also the Governor of Bayelsa State said that it will also send wrong signals to the teeming youths and lay a faulty moral foundation for generations of Nigerians yet unborn.

He said, “After painstakingly and prudently understudying line after line of the judgement, several holes were picked and
countless anomalies identified by us. We would be doing a greater disservice and moral injustice to our party, our democracy and
Nigerians in general if we turn blind eyes, swallow such bile and applaud that rape of justice.

“The judgement to say the least has further painted our judiciary with darker colours, only this time around with a never-before-seen
blemished coat of tar. However, we are hopeful that the Supreme Court will rewrite that history by ensuring that such stains and tar are removed from our judicial archives.”

He added, “The apex court should know that its integrity is at stake and in order to avoid it been shredded to particles, must employ all known technicalities to save our nation and the future of Nigerians yet unborn from development that may further make us a perpetual laughing stock amongst the comity of nations. And Nigerians are very hopeful that these wrongs will be righted.

“Without any iota of trepidation, it is most paramount for us to once more restate and reconfirm our undiluted loyalty, deserving support and maximum commitment to our great party and the Atiku-Obi Presidential ticket. This is our stand, now and in the future. Posterity would judge us harshly if we did otherwise.”




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Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has explained the delay in constituting his cabinet four months after his inauguration.

He said he was taking his time to carry along all the different parties and groups that contributed to his second term mandate.

The Nation gathered that the yet-to-be constituted cabinet could be as a result of Ganduje’s magnanimity to compensate all shades of different parties and groups.

In his first term, the governor constituted his cabinet within three weeks.

However, Ganduje explained that the process of nominating Commissioners in his second term is taking a lot longer time, due to the emergence of different forces that supported him during the 2019 election.

In a foreign Hausa Radio, monitored in Kano, the governor promised to unveil the names of the prospective Commissioners soonest.

“Some of my former commissioners will be re-nominated while others will not.

“However, those that are not returning, as commissioners will still be accommodated in the government,” he said.

To this end, it was learnt that political considerations appeared to have made it difficult for the governor to form a cabinet.

In 2015, Ganduje ran for election as a candidate of the Kwankwasiyya group within the APC.

It was therefore easy for the group to agree on commissioner- nominees even before Ganduje took the oath of office.

However in 2019, running as the head of his own Gandujiyya faction, Ganduje needed the support of other political blocs to defeat the Kwankwasiyya candidate after the group decamped to the opposition PDP.

Among the frontline politicians, who threw their weight behind Ganduje’s ambition include former Governor Senator Ibrahim Shekarau; former deputy governor Prof Hafiz Abubakar and a host of some notable Kwankwasiyya and PDP members who left in protest against the alleged high-handedness of the group leader, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.



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As part of commitment to tackling the issue of underdevelopment bedevilling the Northern region, Chairman of Northern States Governors’ Forum and Governor of Platueau State, Simon Lalong has commissioned N793 Mall in Kaduna.

The mall was built by northern conglomerate, the New Nigerian Development Company (NNDC).

Commissioning the three-storey Mall on Muhammadu Buhari Way, Lalong, accompanied by other northern Governors, expressed optimism that such investments would tackle the underdevelopment bedevilling the region and better the lives of the people.

He, however, commended the Board and Management of the company for the initiative.

Chairman Board of NNDC, Tanimu Yakubu, said the company was initially known as the Northern Regional Production and Development Board, (NRPDB) was established in 1949 to catalyse the economic and social development of the then Northern region.

He said that the NNDC is a diversified holding company with a worthy heritage and an enviable track record of achievements, providing a wide range of financial and professional advisory services.

According to him, the company’s objective is to be a resounding commercial success in its operations especially with its interest in real estate development, which is one of the major purveyors in the Nigerian economy with considerable opportunities within the northern region.

The NNDC chairman disclosed that the decision to develop the ultra -modern shopping Mall; a three-story edifice with state-of-the-art facilities, was part of a 5-Year Strategic Plan of the company and was solely financed 100 per cent at the total cost of N793m by the NNDC.



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An African Group of Democrats under the aegis of African Democracy Assessment Network (ADAN) based in Dakar, Senegal, has selected Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state to be honoured with an award of “Best Governor in 100 Days in office”.

This is contained in a statement signed by Abba Anwar, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Ganduje and issued to journalists on Sunday in Kano.

“Barely 24 hours after the traditional 100 days in office for governors who were inaugurated on May 29, an African group of democrats under the auspices of African Democracy Assessment Network (ADAN), has selected Kano State governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, for an award.

“After assessing what was achieved by all the governors in the last 100 days of their stewardship, Kano state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has been selected by the Group to be awarded “Best Governor In 100 Days,” he said.

Anwar said that the group, in a letter sent to the governor and signed by the West African Regional Coordinator, Mr Samson Theodore, looked at the major sectors that were likely to improve the living standards of the majority of people in the state as against the few individuals before selecting Ganduje for the award.

“We carefully selected these areas, education, health agriculture, security, economy, infrastructural development and politics, with a concentration on the supremacy of political party or parties as the case may be.

Anwar quoted the group in the letter titled “Why Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje Picks First Position in 100 Days in Office” as saying that Ganduje was selected after the Mid-Year Democracy Review Meeting of the group.

“Your intention to establish the College of Education, (Technical) for Women is considered by our panel of research, as genuine policy pronouncement. This will also go a long way in boosting Girl child education in the state.

“Ganduje made a clear pronouncement that both basic and secondary education will be free and compulsory.

“We are amazed that your policy pronouncement on free and compulsory basic and secondary education has become a reality.”



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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, says the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, sacked the only commissioner he nominated into his cabinet.

Oshiomhole, who is the immediate past governor of Edo State, said this during an interview on Channels Television on Saturday.

He said the irony was that Obaseki took the drastic action after a reconciliatory meeting which was attended by some APC stalwarts including Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State.

The APC chairman said, “We have no argument over money or appointment… In the meeting we held with four governors, including Governor Bagudu, I asked the governor, how many commissioners I nominated into his cabinet. He agreed that I only nominated one person out of more than 20 commissioners.

“Not many Nigerians will believe that because for me I was out of government and I have convinced myself that the day I step out of government, that is it. After that first meeting, the governor decided to remove that one commissioner along with seven others. But that is not my business.”

Oshiomhole, who has been at loggerheads with his successor in the last couple of months, said he was also disturbed that Obaseki decided to abandon some of his projects.

The former, however, assured his successor that he was not under any threat.

He said, “The governor can never tell you that I have interfered in his choice of projects and so on. The only thing I feel a bit worried about is that some of the projects we started together have been abandoned. There is no way to solve disagreements without talking to the aggrieved parties.

“Let me assure you. This governor is not under threat. It is those who make money from crisis, those I call merchants of confusion, who can tell the governor that he wants to be impeached. What will I gain if Godwin does not run a second term?”

Obaseki and Oshiomhole’s feud deepened in June when the former issued a letter of proclamation for the inauguration of the House of Assembly.

The inauguration subsequently took place at night in the absence of lawmakers loyal to Oshiomhole, thereby making it possible for those loyal to Obaseki to emerge as presiding officers of the Assembly.

The move was said to have infuriated Oshiomhole and the APC leadership, causing the National Assembly to threaten to take over the state legislature.

Oshiomhole’s brother, Seidu, was also violently attacked during the crisis that ensued.


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Barcelona stroll past Real Madrid female team (CD Tacon) on Saturday afternoon with a humiliating scoreline of 9-1 in what was billed as women’s football’s first clasico at the Estadi Johan Cruyff.

There were 5,413 in attendance to watch the mauling, as the Blaugranas showed just how far ahead they are of Real Madrid’s venture into the world of women’s football, though their name is yet to be put onto the club.

It barely took eight minutes for the deadlock to be broken. Alexia Putellas, acting as captain, pounced on an error to open the scoring. Tacon then enjoyed 20 minutes’ peace before Aitana Bonmati added a second, with Lucia Suarez Garcia and Mariona Caldentey making it four before half time.

Jessica Martinez did reduce the deficit by scoring first after the break, but normal service resumed just six minutes later when Bonmati got her second on the hour mark. Caroline Graham Hansen made it six inside the final 20 minutes and Jennifer Hermoso then scored twice in three minutes before completing her hat-trick in stoppage time.



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