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As the National Blood Transfusion Service, NBTS, experiences underfunding, obsolete equipments and inadequate technical staff, there are indications that blood scarcity may hit Nigeria.

The looming danger risks the lives of over 1 million Nigerians; mostly accident victims, pregnant women as well as sundry blood needs and patients diagnosed with sickle cell anemia who rely so much on blood for survival.

While the NBTS also does not have adequate data to support the blood needs of the people, because of its current predicaments, it is estimated that the unmet blood requirements by the organisation is put at over 500,000 units per annum.

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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting list of candidates for the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo from other leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) except form the Ali Modu Sheriff-led National Working Committee (NWC).


Justice Okon Abang in a ruling also granted an order of interlocutory injunction restraining INEC, the PDP and their agents from dealing with or according any facility required by law (regarding the gubernatorial elections to be conducted by INEC in Edo and Ondo states) to any other persons or group other than the Sheriff, Prof. Wale Oladipo and Fatai Adeyanju -led NWC of the party


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Members of the National Assembly caucus in both the Senate and House
of Representatives from Ekiti State have told the federal government
to stop harassing the State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose with the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and face governance,
especially the dwindling economy and insecurity in the country.


The caucus, which condemned the freezing of the bank accounts of the
governor and harassment of members of the State House of Assembly,
maintained that it was absolutely illegal, and an affront on the
constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for bank accounts of
any Nigerian to be blocked by the EFCC without court order not to talk
of a sitting governor that enjoyed absolute immunity.

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Foreign investors press for 300/$
CBN helpless
Gun for Nigeria’s cheap labour

There were indications yesterday that not a few foreign interests seek further devaluation of the naira to as low as 300 to the United States dollar, if desired economic goals must be achieved.

The new foreign exchange regime implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, saw the naira devalued from 197 to about 283 against the dollar on the official side, losing over 30 percent of its value since the start of the new regime.


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CBN intervenes with Dollar sales; Naira weakens 282.50/$
Deposit Money Banks, DMBs, reported a total of 12,279 fraud cases in 2015, representing an increase of 15.71% over the 10,612 fraud cases recorded in 2014.
However, the amount involved decreased significantly by N7.59 billion or 29.63% from N25.608 billion in 2014 to N18.021 billion in 2015.
Similarly, the actual loss suffered by the insured banks decreased by N3.02 billion or 48.79% from N6.19 billion in 2014 to N3.17 billion in 2015.
These disclosures are contained in the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, 2015 Annual Report released in Abuja, yesterday.
Some of the highlights of the report say the actual loss sustained in respect of internet banking fraud was N857 million, representing 27% of total actual loss of the industry.
Also, there was an increase in the frequency of ATM/Card-Related Fraud cases from 7,181 in 2014 to 8,039 in 2015, an increase of 11.95%.

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Nigerians consume more than 5 million metric tons of rice every year, with a significant portion of its consumption needs sourced from imports. Rotimi Williams, an ambitious 36 year-old Nigerian entrepreneur and rice farmer, is on a quest to change that.

Williams, a former Journalist, is the owner of Kereksuk Rice Farm, the 2nd largest commercial rice farm in Nigeria by land size. His farm, which is situated in Nasarawa state in northern Nigeria, currently sits on 43,000 hectares and employs more than 100 indigenes of Nasarawa.


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LESSON: Naija youths we can do better, Imagine this cute guy was born with a silver spoon but yet, he choose to go farming.

As Senate fears they may get stringent bail conditions

There was palpable fear among Senators weekend that the president, Bukola Saraki and deputy, Ike Ekweremadu may go to jail should the court place stringent conditions on them following their scheduled arraignment for alleged forgery of senate standing rules in 2015. Former clerk of the National Assembly, Salisu Maikasuwa and one other are among those to be docked today for the same offence.

The federal government has listed 14 witnesses against the defendants.
Others to be docked alongside the senators today are the immediate past clerk to the National Assembly, Salisu Abubakar Maikasuwa, and the deputy clerk to the National Assembly, Benedict Efeture.


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How Beyoncé Opens the 2016 BET Awards With a Powerful Statement About 'Freedom'

Who could have possibly slayed the opening of the 2016 BET Awards more thoroughly than Queen Bey?

Beyoncé wasn’t officially announced to perform at Sunday’s award show. But as her backup dancers marched into the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech echoed over a driving beat, the audience knew it was on.

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Members of the National Assembly caucus in both the Senate and House
of Representatives from Ekiti State have cautioned the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), against allowing itself to be used
to intimidate or harass Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State by the
Federal government.


The caucus unequivocally condemned the freezing of the bank accounts
belonging to Ekiti state Governor by the EFCC, describing it as
absolutely illegal, and an affront to the constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.

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Foreign reserves may fall to 3.4 months cover of external payments

GDP growth falls to 1.5%

Govt fiscal deficit may rise to 4.2%

Naira depreciation will increase debt and service burden
Fitch Ratings has downgraded Nigeria’s Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating, IDR, to ‘B+’ from ‘BB-’ and Long-term local currency IDR to ‘BB-’ from ‘BB’, but says the Outlooks are Stable.

The issue ratings on Nigeria’s senior unsecured foreign-currency bonds have also been downgraded to ‘B+’ from ‘BB-’.
The Country Ceiling has been revised down to ‘B+’ from ‘BB-’ and the Short-Term Foreign-Currency IDR affirmed at ‘B’.
According to Fitch, the main factors that could lead to a downgrade are: A loss of foreign exchange reserves that increases vulnerability to external shocks; reversal of key structural reforms and anticorruption and transparency measures; worsening of political and security risks that reduces oil production for a prolonged period or worsens ethnic or sectarian tension, and failure to narrow the fiscal deficit leading to a marked increase in public debt.

On the reverse side, the main factors that could lead to an upgrade are: A rise in non-oil revenues that leads to a reduction of the fiscal deficit and the maintenance of a manageable debt burden; A revival of economic growth supported by the sustained implementation of coherent macroeconomic policies, and increase in foreign exchange reserves to a level that reduces vulnerability to external shocks.


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Four Arrested, As Youths Accuse Him Of Diverting Relief Materials

Accountant General’s Elaborate Wedding Rubs Off Workers Pay

In what many people described as a show of shame, Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima and one of his Commissioners on Wednesday threw caution to the winds when they engaged some street urchins in physical combat, before security men on his convoy came to the rescue by arresting all youths within the vicinity.
Eye witness accounts revealed that trouble started when the boys, who were stationed in front of Governor Shettima’s Campaign Director, Babakura Shettima’s car mall on Kashim Ibrahim Way, started chanting unpalatable remarks, against the Governor, which seemingly angered him.
According to them, the Governor had earlier passed the route on his way to inspect another set of relief materials donated to the state, and on his return, the boys stationed themselves strategically pointing fingers at his vehicle and accusing the Governor of diverting relief materials donated to the state by Aliko Dangote and some other donors.
The Governor in turn ordered his convoy to turn and return to where the boys were, and decided to stop no sooner had they stopped than his Commissioner for Justice, Kaka Shehu who was driving in the vehicle with him jumped down and engaged the boys in fisticuff, following which security operatives had to come to the rescue, by whisking some of the boys away.
Our correspondent who was trailing the Governor’s convoy reports that, the Governor had to be restrained from jumping out of the car to join his commissioner in beating up the boys, even as eye witnesses confirmed that two of the boys were arrested with bloody mouths after the beating.

source: http://nationaltrailonline.com.ng/2016/06/14/gov-shettima-in-street-fight-with-urchins/
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Alhaji Musa Iliyasu Kwankwaso, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kano State, has revealed that the reason why the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, couldn’t published names of those who returned looted money as demanded by most Nigerians was because majority of those who made the lists were from the party.

Kwankwaso, who made the revelation in an interview,said President Buhari lied to Nigerians when he said the list of treasury looters could not be published because of legal action.

Kwankwaso said, “I had since wanted to react on this recovery of looted money.


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The Lagos State Fire Service said a six-year-old girl was burnt to death in a church in the early hours of Saturday in Egbeda area of the state.

The Director of the service, Mr Rasak Fadipe, told the our correspondent that the incident occurred at about 2 a.m. at Faith Revival Church.
Fadipe said that the inferno affected the boys’ quarters of the church while a vigil was going on at the main auditorium.

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The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, on Saturday, announced the death of its Technical Director, Shuaibu Amodu.

The Nigerian Sports industry will surely miss him.

Nigerian Pilot share with you 14 key things you need to know about Amodu. -

Amodu was born 18 April, 1958 in Edo State.

Playing career

1 -Amodu, a striker, played for Dumez and Niger Tornadoes. His playing career ended after he broke his leg.

Coaching career

2 -Amodu has managed a number of club sides in the past both in Nigeria and overseas. They include: Shooting Stars, BCC Lions, El Kanemi Warriors, Sharks F.C and Orlando Pirates of South Africa.

3 -He first managed the Nigerian national team from April 2001 to February 2002, where he led Nigeria to the AFCON bronze medal at Mali 2002. He was later dismissed after the AFCON tournament.

4 -Amodu later stated that his dismissal was “unfair”, and also said that, a month later, he had yet to receive a formal letter confirming his dismissal.

5 -He was appointed Head Coach of the Nigerian national side in April 2008, and was sacked on 6 February 2010 despite reaching third place with

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Spiritual head of INRI Church, Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele has spoken of his revelations concerning
the death of former Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi. Ayodele said he wrote Keshia personal letter after the
South Africa 2013 Nations Cup campaign to intimate him of the divine revelations he got.
“I have been in deep pains since I learnt of his death. Keshi was a soccer icon. He served
Nigeria well both as a player and as a coach. I remember writing him a personal letter
after the Nations Cup in South Africa and warned him to seek the face of God. He needed
prayers and I told Nigerians then that Keshi has completed his assignment with the Eagles
after the Nations Cup and that Eagles needed another coach to
move forward.”“I have sent messages to the NFF and I hope they will listen. I have told them the
Abuja Glass House needs some spiritual cleansing. On the Eagles, I have made it clear that what the Eagles need now
is not a foreign coach. This is what God revealed to me. I m not saying it to attract publicity
or for any financial gain. LetPinnick Amaju and his board
look inwards for a coach. From
what God has revealed to me,
an indigenous coach will not
only qualify the country for
the World Cup but take the
Eagles far in the competition
in Russia. Bringing a foreign
coach will be a disaster. They
shouldn’t waste money on a
white man.’’
“The crisis is not good
for our football. If it is not
resolved, everything will be at
a standstill and most of those
sponsoring the game will pull
out. There will be no money
in NFF and the country will
stop doing well. I just hope
the gladiators will seek the
face of God and know that the
country’s interest and that of
our youths should come first.”


Source : http://nigerianpilot.com/warned-keshi-primate-ayodele/

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the drastic reduction in the number of national newspapers supplied to the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The restriction, evidence of the prevalence of the economic downturn, means that only few top officials of government are entitled to copies at the expense of the government.

Nigerian Pilot Saturday learnt that supplies to the offices of the Chief of Staff to the president, the Permanent Secretary State House and the Deputy Chief of Staff were restricted to between one and four copies.

Although when the directive was given isn’t clear, however its adverse effect on newspaper circulation in Abuja has been felt by media houses that now have huge additional unsold copies, some of which could have been supplied to the Presidency.

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The Niger Delta Avengers Blows up Brass Trunk line belonging to Agip ENI.
The statement was made in a tweet on their handle

@Niger Delta Avengers

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This is the heartwarming moment a man breaks down as he sees his bride walking down the aisle.

Groom Gabriel Deku, was overcome with emotion as he saw his wife-to-be Annabella walking towards him at their lavish ceremony at St Martin In The Fields church at Trafalgar Square.

Cameras captured the moment his beautiful bride made her way to the altar in a poignant video - but the minute Gabriel caught a glimpse of her the tears started flowing.

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As the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government at the centre, after one year in office, is losing grounds over failed campaign promises, comatose economy and security challenges, some politicians have started gearing up for the 2019 general election confident that the failure of the present government will create vacancy in Aso Rock presidential villa.

A lot of politicians are already oiling their political machinery ahead of 2019 but they are keeping their plans close to their chest. The other day it was Senator Godswill Akpabio who was denying that he was not eyeing the presidency for 2019 even when some have started projecting him.

The other day, it was Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State who was ready to swear even more than St. Peter, the apostle that he was not eyeing the presidency. Why were they are afraid and jittery about making their intentions known even if they had such intention?

It is because, according to Nigerian factor, President Muhammadu Buhari is supposed to go for two tenures before he relinquishes power.

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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has urged President Mohammadu
Buhari to dialogue with the Niger Delta Militants, especially the
Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) so as to end hostilities in the oil rich
region and save Nigeria economy from imminent collapse.

Governor Fayose said President Buhari's failure to attend the flag-off
of the Clean-Up Ogoni project today, because of threat from the Niger
Delta Militants was a demonstration that the President had surrendered
to the superior powers of the militants.

It should be recalled that the NDA had warned President Buhari to stay
away from the Niger Delta region if he desired to live.‎

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PMB today received Ministers of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA), led by Executive Secretary, Dr Mrs Toupta Boguena

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BeeBeeOoh:
Thanks To Buharinomics. I pray will still have money 2 buy data & log onto Nairaland by 2019

Amen oooooooooooo

The Naira on Wednesday weakened further against the dollar at the parallel market, barely 24 hours after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) moved for the adoption of a flexible exchange rate.


The naira sold at N350, weakening further from its rate on Tuesday when it went for N347 to a dollar.
The Pounds Sterling and the Euro opened at N385 and N380 and closed at N390 and N385 respectively.

Traders at the market said that they were keenly watching out for the impact of the new foreign exchange policy of the apex bank at the market.

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said former acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, had a hidden agenda before coming to the national convention of the party in Port Harcourt.

He also said Sheriff made a u-turn on the national convention when he got information that he was not qualified to contest the election on Saturday.

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The Federal Government has declared Monday, May 30 as public holiday to celebrate the 2016 Democracy Day.

The Minister of Interior, Retired Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government on Wednesday in Abuja.

A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mr Bassey Akpanyung, quoted the minister as wishing Nigerians happy democracy day celebration.


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Kaduna State Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai today Wednesday disclosed plans to beef up security surveillance and install Close Circle Television, CCTV across the state.

Governor El-Rufai made the disclosure through his Special Adviser on Internal Security and Coordinator, Joint Operation Yaki, Hon. Yakubu Yusuf Soja while addressing a press briefing at Kaduna Correspondent Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ in preparatory of the May 29th, 2016 celebration in the state.

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The Senate, Tuesday , declared that a whooping N447.42 billion fraud was perpetuated in the administration of import duty waivers, concessions and grants on rice and other imported foods by different Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs of the federal government and companies from 2011 to 2015.

The fraud as contained in a report approved by the Senate from its Ad-hoc Committee on Import Duty Waivers, Concessions and Grants, include N78billion in 2011, N128billion in 2012, N46billion in 2013, N87billion in 2014 and N106billion in 2r015 respectively.

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Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday picked hole in a medical report submitted to his court by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesman, Olisa Metuh.

Metuh had submitted the report issued by one Dr. O. O. Oyeleye, a Consultant Neurosurgeon at the National Hospital, Abuja, to support his application for adjournment on health ground.

The medical report contained information that Metuh, who was absent in court on Tuesday, required bed rest in the hospital.

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The Federal Government on Monday reiterated its resolve to alleviate poverty across the country with N5,000 using biometrics data collation.
Mrs Maryam Uwais, Special Advisor, Social Investment, Office of the Vice President, said this while speaking at the international conference on “Child Poverty and Social Protection in Western, Central Africa,” in Abuja.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the conference focuses on proffering solutions to tackle child poverty, protection to children across the West and Central African region.

According to her, government allocated money to assist the poor and is ensuring that communities determine the poor within them for proper interventions.


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Concludes performance review of appointees

Feuding ministers, non-performing aides, perceived corrupt ones to go


Against the back drop of the bickering among ministers of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration alongside performance evaluation reports confidentially carried out by a select committee, the president is reportedly under pressure to “reorganise his cabinet” even as he was said to have rounded up consultations on the matter.


According to presidency sources who opened up to Nigerian pilot last weekend, Buhari is said to have been miffed by reports of feud among his appointees, non-performance of many of them and allegations of corrupt practices against some of his aides and cabinet members.


“He is really pained that persons recommended by his party and friends of the government are not performing. They are self-serving and some of them have corruption allegations hanging around their necks that the whole scenario has become an embarrassment to the president and his administration,” said a top presidency official weekend.

The official who hails from one of the northern states, added that though Buhari managed the well publicized description of Britain’s Prime minister, David Cameron of Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt,” it was a huge embarrassment that was akin to a slap on the face.

“Yes, the president managed the embarrassment with diplomatic equanimity. But it did not mean that it was not an embarrassment to him, his government and the country. As a statesman who knows his onions he managed the fallouts very well. But it just will not end there. He saw it as a challenge to clean the dirty stable. The needful has to be done,” the source further told Nigerian Pilot.

Feuding ministers
It was gathered that some ministers openly disagree with the administration’s position on critical national issues. Mention was made of remarks by some appointees on policy issues which are not in tandem with the policy direction of government. In such cases, the government had been made to “go the extra mile to issue statements to correct such bungling, thereby casting our confidence in doubts in the mind of the Nigerian public. Also, many of them work at cross purposes with mandated direction as if they were not well briefed on their schedules before they assumed duty,” Nigerian Pilot was told.
“President Buhari cannot watch as his cabinet, the government and his party, consciously and unconsciously bungle APC’s success at polls. He has to stop the bitterness and hostilities among his appointees,” the source said.

Only recently, but for the timely intervention of their respective aides, a minister and the minister of state reportedly almost engaged each other in fisticuffs over allegations of insubordination by the latter for the former.


Non-performing aides
It was learnt that following the brief each appointee got on assumption of office, Buhari expected them to dutifully deliver on their assigned schedules. But he is said to be worried that given the loads of complaints from the Nigerian public and the international community, not a few appointees are failing on this note.

“They lack initiative and are always waiting for the president to direct them before they are jolted to act. There is the belief that there is too much eye service around here. The president does not want to see their faces as often as they wish. All he needs is for them to work and deliver. Some of them even claim they are scared not to make mistakes that would offend the president. But they have not been seen to be trying to perform in the first case,” another source in a critical ministry revealed.


Corrupt aides
With allegations of corruption hanging over the heads of some appointees of the president alongside petitions and in some cases, officially confirmed fraudulent acts, Buhari is said to be decided on relieving affected persons of their appointment if his anti-corruption war must still be taken seriously.
This category according to Nigerian Pilot’s findings cuts across cabinet members and non-cabinet aides of the president.

Apart from financial corruption, it further learnt that appointees who politicise virtually every policy and agenda of the administration may be categorized as failing in the foregoing respect.


Last night, it was gathered that ahead the first year anniversary of the administration and speculation of a looming cabinet overhaul, most appointees of the president are jittery as they have nothing on the score card to show as their modest achievements in furtherance of the administration’s agenda.
“Some of them hold the last signing of the 2016 budget as excuse for non-performance. That was expected. But is that a tenable excuse when they have not been able to streamline operations in their respective ministries and the parastatals under them?” one presidential aide asked.

Source: http://nigerianpilot.com/buhari-pressure-sack-ministers-aides/

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied media reports that he has gone on a self imposed exile to Ivory Coast.

There were reports earlier today that the former president had embarked on exile for fear of being arrested by EFCC


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Heavily armed policemen Sunday took over the premises of the Peoples Democratic Party, blocking access into the party secretariat. Five police vehicles, comprising two trucks and two pick up vans blocked access on both end of the street directly in front of the secretariat.

A detachment of policemen also blocked the entry into the secretariat


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