₦airaland Forum

Nigeria’s Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma has blamed the current economic recession in the country on lack of policy implementation meant to turn around the fortunes of the country by past governments.

http://skytrendnews.com/2016/09/24/lack-policy-nigeria-recession-udoma/

A Nigerian senator, Shehu Sani, has described those demanding sales of the country’s national asset as “economic predators and profiteers who want to take advantage of the situation in the country.”

Mr. Sani, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign and Local Debts, said on Friday that “Nigeria’s capitalist forces raped Nigeria to recession and now they want to kill and bury it.”

http://skytrendnews.com/2016/09/23/dangote-saraki-others-economic-predators-shehu-sani/

The National Economic Council, which comprises Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and 36 state governors, has endorsed plans by the Federal Government to sell some national assets as part of efforts to address the current economic recession in the country.

http://skytrendnews.com/2016/09/23/recession-nigerian-govt-governors-endorse-move-sell-national-assets/

The International Monetary Funds (IMF) predicted in 2015 that Nigeria’s economy will slide into a recession in 2016 by 1.8 per cent. The forecast indicated that our economy will grow at a much slower pace than South Africa’s. Months after the prediction, truly Nigeria slipped into a recession. Everywhere around the world, recession is one of the most dreaded economic downturns. The reasons – although not far-fetched – include, but not limited to, drop in stock market, hike in unemployment, salary cuts in most private establishments and monumental decline in housing market.

http://skytrendnews.com/2016/09/23/economic-slump-will-grow-hospitality/

Nigeria needs $15 billion from asset sales and borrowing to revive its collapsing and slumping economy and boost foreign reserves, according to Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man.

“Through sales of assets, through loans from Bank of China or wherever, we need something like $15 billion,” Dangote, a Nigerian national, said in a Bloomberg TV interview at the U.S.-Africa Business Forum in New York on Wednesday. “We’re having a problem as the reserves are low. The banks, entrepreneurs, everybody is speculating on the currency.”

http://skytrendnews.com/2016/09/22/nigeria-collapsing-economy-dangote/

Money makes the world go round! You are made to realize how authentic the cliché phrase actually is after you have graduated from college or university, forced to join the labour markets and stroll the boulevards of Nigeria’s challenging economy. On the bright side, you are finally entering the early stages of your career and you are getting paid for your time rather than paying for classes, but then, there is also the false sense of mega wealth that comes with the new income, making it super difficult to manage spending.

If you have just graduated and are having a hard time getting your financial act together, the following are five simple ways you can effectively manage spending and excel financially as a young professional.

http://skytrendnews.com/2016/09/20/managing-money-nigerias-recessed-economy/

Nigeria’s lower house ordered a probe to investigate whether $17 billion of petroleum and fuel exports were stolen.

Most of the oil and liquefied natural gas ended up in the U.S. and some went to China and Norway, Johnson Agbonayinma, a lawmaker, told the House of Representatives in the capital, Abuja, on Thursday...

http://skytrendnews.com/2016/09/22/nigeria-lawmakers-probe-17bn-stolen-oil/

BP is to cut 4,000 jobs in its global exploration and production business over the next two years, including 600 in the North Sea, representing about a fifth of its 3,000-member workforce there.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/business/business-economy/12473-energy-giant-bp-to-fire-4-000-staff-as-oil-price-plummets-to-record-low

The convoy of Hajia Aishat Buhari, wife of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, was on Monday 16 March in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, attacked by suspected Peoples Democratic Party’s, PDP, thugs.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/cover/7386-breaking-aisha-buhari-s-motorcade-attacked-in-ilorin-by-alleged-pdp-thugs

Medical doctors working for the Lagos State Government on Monday began an indefinite strike over several protracted issues with the state government.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/breaking-news/7385-breaking-doctors-in-s-west-lagos-commence-indefinite-strike

“Anytime I listen to Fayose, I feel embarrassed that he is a governor. This young man, I used to know him.

“Though when I was gov­ernor he was not governor; these days when I look at him, I think something is wrong with his mouth.

“When you see him, tell him to learn how to respect elders. Buhari is healthier than Jona­than. He has been abusing the northern people.

“The day of reckoning will come. He speaks the mind of his principal to abuse us. We have no apology for being northerners. On March 28, the North and the rest of Nigeri­ans will speak.“ - Governor Kwankwaso

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/gallery/7379-watch-video-gov-kwankwaso-lambasts-fayose-says-he-lacks-respect-for-elders

It was like an epic Hollywood scene. Five young men, dressed in military fatigue uniforms and wielding AK47 automatic rifles, just emerged from the nearby waterway bordering the lagoon along Ikoyi/Lekki bridge....Their mission was obvious because they started firing from all fronts. It was the peak hour when workers were on their way home.... (WATCH ROBBERY VIDEO)

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/cover/7355-revealed-how-the-lekki-ak47-weilding-armed-robbers-struck-watch-video

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday confirmed Musiliu Obanikoro as a federal minister, appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan, brushing aside allegations that Mr. Obanikoro played a key role in election fraud in Ekiti State.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/breaking-news/7292-breaking-despite-ekiti-rigging-scandal-senate-okays-obanikoro-as-nigerian-minister

A court in Ivory Coast sentenced former first lady Simone Gbagbo on Tuesday to 20 years in prison for her role in a 2011 post-election crisis in which around 3,000 people were killed, her lawyer said.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/africa/7263-ivory-coast-s-former-first-lady-jailed-20-years-for-instigating-election-crisis

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has demanded that Dame Patience Jonathan, wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, should accept responsibility for the recent attack on the APC gubernatorial campaign train while attempting to hold a rally in her local government of birth, Okrika.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/latest-reports/7261-nigerian-first-lady-should-be-held-responsible-for-rivers-attack-death-of-policeman-apc

The Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya has declared that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not ready for the 2015 general elections


Dr Ikanya made this known in a press statement signed by his Senior Special Aide on Media and Public Affairs, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, saying “this explains the desperation of the party to scuttle the polls with one booby trap after another”.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/latest-reports/7248-jonathan-pdp-still-not-ready-for-poll-apc-insists

Troops from Chad and Niger have killed 200 Boko Haram fighters and retaken the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak in an offensive that began Sunday.
.
10 Chadian soldiers were however killed in the combat. Boko Haram had held the town Damasak near Niger border since November 2015, a part of a swathe of territory it had taken over in Nigeria's northeast states.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/cover/7243-breaking-coalition-forces-recapture-nigeria-n-east-damasak-from-boko-haram

A 22-YEAR-OLD who was addicted to online pornography would lock herself in a dark room and look at adult material for hours every day.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/feature/love-relationship/7240-shocking-female-porn-addict-explains-how-she-viewed-400-hrs-of-adult-content-watch-video

Three explosions hit the northeastern Nigerian town of Maiduguri on Saturday in the worst attacks there since suspected Islamist militants tried to seize it in January.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/breaking-news/7222-breaking-3-bombs-hit-nigeria-n-east-maiduguri-dozens-killed

How expensive is marriage in Igboland compared to other parts of Nigeria? Juliet Umeh examines the full range of bride price practices east of the Niger.

Ask Anthony Omeha why he is still single at 45. His response will give you an insight into why most youths from the South East of Nigeria marry late. Says Omeha, “I’ve been in a relationship with Chinasa Ukeh, my girl friend, for the past ten years, but I’ve not been able to tie the knot because getting married in my town is not child’s play. It could nearly push you to rob a bank, especially if you don’t have a good job or a viable source of income.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/feature/love-relationship/7177-relationship-affairs-what-does-it-cost-to-marry-an-igbo-woman

Link to the audio is there now, there is no need to doubt, just listen to the audio voice. Thanks

President Goodluck Jonathan should bring back the missing Chibok girls to their parents, rather than sending emissaries to them and making empty promises, the Buhari campaign office said on Friday.

A statement by the campaign media and publicity director Malam Garba Shehu pointed out that it was getting to almost a year since the girls went missing, and that all Nigerians have had since then was nothing but failed promises and dashed hopes.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/breaking-news/7207-abducted-chibok-girls-jonathan-making-empty-promises-buhari

Godswill Akpabio has said that before he became the governor of Akwa Ibom State there were moments in his life he used to eat from dustbins.

Mr. Akpabio’s shocking revelation is contained in an audio clip initially published by Think Akwa Ibom blog!

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/entertainmnt/celebrities/7206-shocking-i-used-to-eat-from-dustbins-gov-akpabio-confesses-watch-video

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) on Thursday rose in defence of the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, declaring that she was right alleging that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari was “brain dead”

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/cover/7195-fani-kayode-reaffirms-first-lady-s-statement-says-buhari-is-brain-dead

President Goodluck Jonathan has faulted the perception ratings on corruption in Nigeria, saying such belief was exaggerated and has political motives.

Speaking Monday night with Aljazeera, Jonathan said notwithstanding the country’s position in the global corruption perception index, the thinking that corruption has worsened under his leadership was erroneous.

http://skytrendnews.com/index.php/news/cover/7193-corruption-rating-exaggerated-in-nigeria-jonathan-watch-video

Terrible!!!