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President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2016 Democracy Day Speech (Read Full Text)

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Excerpts of President buhari’s democracy speech May 29, 2016. My compatriots, It is one year today since our administration came into office. It has been a year of triumph, consolidation, pains and achievements. By age, instinct and experience, my preference is to look forward, to prepare for the challenges that lie ahead and rededicate the administration to the task of fixing nigeria. But i believe we can also learn from the obstacles we have overcome and the progress we made thus far, to help strengthen the plans that we have in place to put nigeria back on the path of progress. We affirm our belief in democracy as the form of government that best assures the active participation and actual benefit of the people. Despite the many years of hardship and disappointment the people of this nation have proved inherently good, industrious tolerant, patient and generous. The past years have witnessed huge flows of oil revenues. From 2010 average oil prices were $100 per b...

Tomato Scarcity As Metaphor By Reuben Abati

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Reuben Abati is back with yet another article, this time its on the trending issue of tomatoes scarcity in the country. Read below; One of the major news items in circulation has been the scarcity of tomato. Incidentally, Nigeria is (was) the 14th largest producer of tomato in the world and the second largest producer in Africa, after Egypt, but our country hardly produces enough to meet the local demand of about 2.3 million tonnes, and lacks the capacity to ensure an effective storage or value chain processing of what is produced. Out of the 1.8 million tonnes that the country produces annually, 900, 000 tonnes are left to rot and waste. Meanwhile, tomato-processing companies in the country operate below capacity and many of them have had to shut down. The CEO of Erisco Foods, Lagos, Eric Umeofia laments that tomato processing companies lack access to foreign exchange to enable them buy heat-resistant seedlings and other tools that would help ensure the country’s sufficienc...

PROUDLY NAIJA INITIATIVE: AS WE EMPOWER ALIMOSHO YOUTHS

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Its a tough moment for Nigerians, like ever, we glorify tomatoes and garri. Our inferior goods turn luxury overnight. The popular aphorism becomes 'Ita gbe'. Its not a rosy moment at all. At Proudly Naija Initiative (PIN), we aim at contributing our own quotas to the development of this country by empowering Nigerian youths.

The Second Coming Of President Buhari By Dele Momodu

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Dele Momodou has released an article about President Muhammadu Buhari, read below; Fellow Nigerians, let me start today’s epistle by saying time flies indeed. Over a year ago, the dream of Major General Muhammadu Buhari to return to power, after being toppled in a military coup by Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and company, was eventually realised after a record fourth attempt.

Management of NYSC has officially confirmed the postponement of the orientation date of Batch A 2016 stream 2 corps members.

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From yesterday evening many PCMs bombarded social media pages about the SMS they are getting. We however a remain calm as we wait for official statement by NYSC. The SMS reads

Kiss Daniel opens up about YBNL Princess' rendition of his single

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Temmie Ovwasa, A.K.A YBNL Princess posted a rendition of Kiss Daniel’s latest single Mama on her IG page.

Forte Oil PLC. clears the air about reducing their PMS price to N115.00

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Forte Oil Plc. has took to his IG page to inform its  customers  and the buying  public  to ignore these false r umours  that their gas station will be selling fuel(PMS) at the rate of N115.00 as they are untrue. See the post below: #Disclaimer: Our attention has been drawn to a #reduction in price of #Fuel (PMS) to 115 NGN at our gas #stations, This is #false. Forte Oil Plc would use its official handles to inform its customers and the buying public of any price change. We therefore inform our #customers and the buying #public to ignore these false #rumours as they are untrue and we #disassociate ourselves from same. #instapic #instablog #forteoil #FOFacts A photo posted by ForteOilNg (@forteoilng) on May 18, 2016 at 2:09am PDT

Lagos Now Officially An Oil Producing State – Governor Akinwunmi Ambode

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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday declared that Lagos has officially joined the League of Oil Producing States in Nigeria following the discovery of crude oil by Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company Limited in Badagry, Lagos.

Empire Star, Taraji P. Henson(Cookie) Listens To Nigerian Music

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American actress and Empire series star, Taraji P. Henson, popularly known as Cookie Lyon, has showered praises on StarBoy’s Wizkid and late legendary musician, Fela Kuti and also commended their musical efforts.

Ngozi Iweala's son writes about his parents "grey love"

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Ngozi iweala's son, Uzodinma writes about his parents "grey love" on his IG page. My mother sent this to me and my siblings the other day in an email with the title "grey love." She and my father took a selfie on the deck at the house we grew up in, a house that saw four kids thunder across its floors and up and down its steps, and countless Christmases, and so many celebrations. There were also tragedies and tears. Once a dog lived in this house and they loved him a lot too. My parents sacrificed so much for us to have the opportunity that we enjoy. Many people with kids devote so much of their energy to the children and to working to support those children, often putting their own relationship second. These children bring them joy and also trouble. We reward them with our successes and keep them ever preoccupied with our safety and wellbeing long after we have left the havens they have built or tried to build for us. My parents are no different...

Social Media And The English Language By Reuben Abati

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I get confused these days reading many of the posts on social media, and text messages sent through cell phones, because of the kind of new English that young people now write. The English language is without doubt quite dynamic. In the last 200 years, it has lent itself to many innovations, as cultural, religious, and situational codes have transformed the language and extended the dictionary, with new words and idioms. The kind of new English being written by twitter and what’s app users, particularly young people is however so frightening and lamentable, because it is beginning to creep into regular writing. Texting and tweeting is producing a generation of users of English, (it is worse that they are using English as a second language), who cannot write grammatically successful sentences. I was privileged to go through some applications that some young graduates submitted for job openings recently and I was scared. This new group of English users does not know the differen...

LASUSU REJECTS GNS Results : ISSUES A 72-HOUR ULTIMATUM.

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The Lagos State University Students' Union has condemned in strong terms, the shameful conduct and marking of the GnS examination papers. In this light,we will like to make our positions clear. 1.For the past 3 semesters, so many students are yet to see their GnS results with no rational reasons given for such actions. The GnS Director out of his incompetence and arrogance, will ask affected students to write down their names, promising a rectification which they will eventually fail to do. LASUSU will not allow her memebers to waste the ink of their biro in writing any names this semester. Therefore, we demand an immediate withdrawal of all unacceptable (0points and 2points); GnS results from our members DPU profile, after which we want a transparent, credible  and sensible remark of all these scripts. 2.It is more than evident that they don't truly mark GnS scripts, some set of persons out of their unfortunate incompetence and laziness will just sit down and allocate...

Funny Video: Emanuella & Friends – Singular & Plural (Mark Angel Comedy)

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The kids at Mark Angel Comedy will crack your ribs. Emanuella and her friends are something else. In this Episode (71) Emmanuella told her Aunty the Truth and the outcome was not nice… Enjoy!! Watch the Video below:-

OAP Freeze throw shades at UK Prime Minister David Cameron

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A number of reactions have trailed David Cameron after a video showing him telling the Queen of England that Nigeria and Afghanistan are two of the most corrupt countries in the world. OAP Freeze is not happy with Cameron for such remarks and decided to fire him heavily, calling him out on social media. He shared the photo above with the caption: Dear David, when you get to hell, help me greet your fantastically corrupt dad! I can’t believe that you, a man whose father was implicated in the Panama papers saga and this same you were asked by the opposition to resign because you owned shares in the alleged company that was involved, are now calling Nigeria corrupt??? John 8:7 KJV [7] So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. The qualification required to call someone corrupt, is to be absolutely corruption free yourself. I wish my president was from the ghetto so he co...

WhatsApp Launches Desktop Apps For Windows And Mac

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Facebook’s messaging behemoth, WhatsApp announced a few hours ago  on their blog   that users can now access their messages on their PCs via a native desktop app.  As reported by Whatsapp official Blog: Today, we're introducing a desktop app so you have a new way to stay in touch anytime and anywhere - whether on your phone or computer at home or work. Like WhatsApp Web, our desktop app is simply an extension of your phone: the app mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device.

MTN rolls out New Cheap Data Plans

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This is a great news to all MTN internet users as MTN officially reduce their data plan bundle to cheaper price, and with this cheaper price we can be able to enjoy browsing on all our devices without too much worry. How I wish other network can do something as MTN did so thi can enjoy a plan as other countries do. But we want cheap un No need to buy any MTN data from third party resellers for now because MTN provides cheapest data for you which you can buy it directly from you sim card. Below are the Newly MTN data plan bundle for Monthly, Weekly and Daily users. For Daily plan users Dial *131*1*1# then you reply any plan you wish to buybuy OR Text Format MTN 30MB For 100 (Valid for 24Hrs) SMS 104 to 131 MTN 100MB For N200 (Valid for 24Hrs) SMS 113 to 131 For Weekly plan users Dial *131*1*2# then you reply any plan you wish to buy OR Text Format MTN 750MB For N500 (Valid for 7 Days) SMS 103 to I31 For Monthly plan users Dial *131*1*3# then you re...