WASTE: ₦1tn spent on N’Assembly members in eight years – Ezekwesili

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A former Minister of Education, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili,  on Monday said Nigeria had spent over  ₦1tn on  the National Assembly members   in the last eight years.

Ezekwesili, in a keynote address she delivered during one-day dialogue session on the ‘Cost of governance in Nigeria, “ added that  banks earned N699bn as interests last year  on loans secured by the government.

 “Since 2005, the National Assembly members alone have been allocated N1tr,’’she said while also lamenting that “82 per cent of Nigeria’s budgetary cost goes for recurrent expenditure.”

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Check Out Why Patience GEJ shunned Amaechi’s deputy in P’Harcourt

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WIFE of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has said that the refusal of senior officials of the Rivers State Government to pay her a condolence visit when she lost her foster mother was the reason why she shunned the state Deputy Governor, Mr. Tele Ikuru, at the Port Harcourt airport.

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Check Out Why Patience shunned Amaechi’s deputy in P’Harcourt

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WIFE of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has said that the refusal of senior officials of the Rivers State Government to pay her a condolence visit when she lost her foster mother was the reason why she shunned the state Deputy Governor, Mr. Tele Ikuru, at the Port Harcourt airport.

She said despite the fact that several groups and individuals from across the country came to commiserate with her, she did not receive any delegation from Rivers State. Mrs. Jonathan said this in a statement by her spokesman,  Mrs. Ayo Adesugba.

She was reacting to media reports that she snubbed Ikuru, when she arrived at the Port Harcourt airport on Sunday.

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GEJ did not sign any single-term package, Presidency contends

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The Presidency on Monday insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan did not sign any agreement with any individual or group that he would serve just one term in office.  The Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, said this in a interview with certainly one of our correspondents in Abuja.

Gulak was reacting to a statement credited to the spokesman of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Anthony Sani, on Monday.

Sani had said  that the crisis in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party will be resolved if Jonathan respected agreements he entered into with stakeholders prior to the 2011 elections.

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Message To GEJ: Jonathan Is Being Confused By Those Around Him –– OBJ

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Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to beware of some of his aides who are confusing him and making more enemies for him in the pretext of doing their jobs.

“Obasanjo did not mince words in telling President Jonathan the bitter truth. He told him clearly to beware of some of his aides who are making life difficult for him through their unguarded utterances that are making more enemies for him”.

He also advised Jonathan to start running an inclusive government so as to douse tension in the ruling PDP.

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Check Out What APC Wants To Give To Nigerians

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"Our eight cardinal programmes, which we shall be articulating in the days ahead, represent a summary of how we intend to rescue the long-suffering citizens and rescue our nation.

“These are: War Against Corruption, Food Security, Accelerated Power Supply, Integrated Transport Network, Free Education, Devolution of Power, Accelerated Economic Growth and Affordable Health Care.

"Our Guiding Philosophy will derive its impetus from these principles:Belief in, and the fear of God; upholding the rule of law; preserving national unity; pursuit of a just and egalitarian society; building of strong institutions; commitment to social justice and economic progress; and promoting representative and functional participatory democracy."

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LEE THOMPSON YOUNG Ex-Disney Killed Himself

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Former Disney child actor Lee Thompson Young was found dead in his apartment from a suspected self-inflected gun shot wound...

Lee Thompson Young, who played the main character on Disney's "The Famous Jett Jackson" has died after what officials believe is a suicide TMZ has learned. He was 29. Sources tell us Young's body was discovered with a gunshot wound that appears to be self-inflicted.

Young currently appears in the TNT show "Rizzoli & Isles" and we're told when he didn't show up to work this morning, staffers called the landlord of Young's L.A. home to check up on the actor.

CIA admits it was behind Iranian coup of 1953. When will it admit its role in the coups of the 2000s?

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Iranian students holding a poster of Mohammad Mossadegh after a rally on December 7, 2002

Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the August 19, 1953 coup d'état in Iran, the US National Security Archive has posted recently declassified CIA documents concerning the United States' role in the coup. It took the agency 60 years to admit what had been an open secret for any observer. Now one may only wonder how long will it take the CIA to admit its role in other turbulent events of recent years, when governments were toppled, installed and once again toppled due to what appeared to be spontaneous mass protests, but in fact were orchestrated from the same place as the 1953 coup in Iran.

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European information agencies press EU over US electronic surveillance process

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European data protection agencies have asked the European Commission to help evaluate the impact of US electronic surveillance on Europeans, the French CNIL agency said Monday.
Following information disclosed by US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, European data protection agencies "consider they should evaluate the exact impact of the PRISM programme on the privacy and data of European citizens," and have written to the European Commission for its help to get information from the United States, said CNIL in a statement

Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram Leader 'May Be Dead'

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Nigeria's militant Islamist leader Abubakar Shekau may have been killed by the security forces during a shoot-out, an army spokesman has said.
An "intelligence report" showed that Shekau, the leader of the Boko Haram group, may have died between 25 July and 3 August, Lt-Col Sagir Musa said.

Boko Haram, which has waged an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009, has not commented on the statement.

The US had put a bounty of $7m (£4.6m) on Shekau's head.

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Video: Fashola Replies Amnesty International, To Build 1,008 Flats In Badia

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The Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fasola, in a counter response to allegations made by Amnesty International has refuted claims that his administration is displacing some residents by pulling down their buildings.

A report by the organisation stated that an estimated 9,000 residents of Badia East lost their homes or livelihoods. However senior officials in the Lagos state government had claimed that the area was a rubbish dump.

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Fashola Replies Amnesty International, To Build 1,008 Flats In Badia

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There's a new islamic sect in Niger State known as Kala Kato

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We've not finished battling Boko Haram now we are hearing of a new Islamic sect called Kala Kato that has settled in Rafi Local Government Section of Niger State.  According to what the spokesman of the Niger state Police command, ASP Richard Adamu told Daily Trust, the sect are reported to be preaching some ideologies thought to be in comparison with conventional Islamic teaching. He said they're preaching contrary to the teaching of Hadith (traditions of the holy prophet) and emphasising only on the contents of the Holy Quran.  ASP Adamu said most locals are apprehensive of these presence. 

Akwa Ibom LG chairman Nabbed for smuggling $82,000 into the US

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The executive chairman of Essien Udim local government area of Akwa Ibom state, Mr Nse Ntuen, was arrested at the BWI International Airport in Baltimore, Maryland on Friday August 16th for smuggling $82, 000 in to the US. The Maryland State Police Department confirmed the arrest yesterday Sunday August 18th, saying Mr Ntuen didn't declare the amount of money with the US custom officials. They said he only declared $5,000, just for an additional $77,000 to be found in his bag.

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Story Of A Man That Refuse To Die: Survives After Being Shot 5 TIMES In The Head in Imo -

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The shout of alleluia is resounding in the home of Mr. Alex Anosike, an engineer, who miraculously cheated death after gunmen shot him six times – five shots in the head and one on the shoulder

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Video: OBJ BLOWS OWN TRUMPET

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PDP Or APC; Nigeria Must Progress

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There are various write ups flying in the air, it baffles me when parties are challenging each other unnecessarily just to make one look inferior than the other. Can't we just be matured in our thinking and handle issues appropriately?

Adoyi Ali said and I quote in an article titled Why APC will fail:

"Nigerians at different quarters have said that they need straight forward leaders who spell it out exactly the way it is. Nigerians need leaders who mean well for the country and definitely not leaders that pick on very flimsy issues as criticisms against its own government."

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WASTE: ₦1tn spent on N’Assembly members in eight years – Ezekwesili

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A former Minister of Education, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili,  on Monday said Nigeria had spent over  N1tn on  the National Assembly members   in the last eight years.

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Story Of A Man That Refuse To Die: Survives After Being Shot 5 TIMES In The Head in Imo -

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The shout of alleluia is resounding in the home of Mr. Alex Anosike, an engineer, who miraculously cheated death after gunmen shot him six times – five shots in the head and one on the shoulder.  But for divine providence, Anosike’s family, pastor and members of his church would today be in deep grief. Rather than mourning over his death, they are praising God and celebrating his survival.

Anosike’s close shave began on July 21 shortly after service at the pentecostal church where he is a member, when some other members reported to the pastor that they had seen two strange young men in one of the uncompleted buildings within the compound of the church located in Naze Extension in Owerri North Local Government Area, Imo State.

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Olumegbon palace, 30 rooms razed by fire

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The palace of Olumegbon of Lagos in Isale Eko, Lagos State, was razed by fire on Sunday.

It was learnt that apart from the palace, 30 other rooms in the compound were also destroyed in the inferno which lasted for about an hour.  Although the cause of the fire could not be ascertained, the Lagos State Fire Service told our correspondent that the likely cause was an electric surge.

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