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The presidency has ordered immediate arms procurement of critical equipment for the armed forces in line with the Federal Government policy of purchasing such items from the original manufacturers on government-to- government basis. The president also directed the enhancement of the welfare of troops, particularly those serving in operational areas within the country,  Guardian  reports. Minister of Defence, Mansur Muhammad Dan-Ali who disclosed this yesterday during a meeting with the service chiefs at the he Ship House, Headquarters of Ministry of Defence, ordered the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, to relocate to the North East pending when the security situation improves. He also directed the General Officer Commanding the 8 Division, Nigerian Army to relocate his tactical headquarters from Sokoto to Gusau, Zamfara State to oversee the conduct of Operation Sharan Dahi. The minister mandated the chief of defence staff and Buratai to ...

President Buhari has pledged that his government will not rest until the remaining Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists in April 2014 are safely released. He renewed his commitment Monday in Katowice, Poland, at a bilateral meeting with Swiss President Alain Berset, on the margins of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP24. The President had spent the whole day at the International Conference Centre, Katowice, where he delivered his national address at the opening of the 12-day meeting of COP24, met with several world leaders and visited the impressive Nigerian pavilion at the climate summit. During his meeting with the Swiss President, the Nigerian leader thanked the Swiss Confederation for its efforts and important role as intermediaries to secure the release of some Chibok girls and assured him that the issue of the remaining kidnapped girls and other abducted persons will remain a ''key priority'' for the Nigerian government. President Buh...

A THIEF WHO HAD STOLEN A LAPTOP BELONGING TO A UNIVERSITY STUDENT, HAS WRITTEN A MAIL TO THE STUDENT EXPLAINING WHY HE DID IT.  In what will come across as a really surprising development, a thief has written a mail to a university student whose laptop he stole.  The development was made known on Twitter by one Stevie Valentine who claimed that the person whose laptop was stolen is his flatmate. In the mail, the thief apologized for stealing the laptop and also went on to state that he is extremely poor and needed money so badly he had to take the laptop. The thief who said he was willing to send back any important files on the laptop also revealed that he left the owner’s phone and wallet, with the hope they will make up for the stolen laptop. 

Nigerian actress, Destiny Etiko has been caught enhancing her curves with a photo editing app. The actress, who is naturally curvy, decided to make herself even curvier with the aid of Photoshop. And she would have gotten away with it, but a disfigured condensing unit by the side gave her away. See below.

Yesterday Banky W took to his instagram page to acknowledge Ufuoma Ilesanmi GM of Haven Homes. Bringing to our attention the issue of how most leadership roles in Nigeria are dominated by old men. He described the Haven Home GM as a young, incredibly competent, brilliant and accomplished young lady.   See His post below: This Shoutout is for  @thehavenhomes .. We can talk about the MD/CEO Mr Sonuga, and how he is one of the kindest souls I have ever met. (Pls look up my previous  #havenhelpinghands   posts to see what we have done). We can talk about how.. in a Country that has most leadership roles dominated by Old men, their GM is a young, incredibly competent, brilliant and accomplished lady  @ufuomaukueku . We can talk about awards e.g: 2014 & 2015: Affordable development of the year 2018: most innovative developer of the year and the Real Estate Development of Excellence by (REDAN) Or we can just talk about how top-notch their properties a...

Drama continues at the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly as members allegedly arrived the chamber only to meet an Owl.   "A Strange Bird(Owl called Nkirikid) found inside the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly Chamber. They are now going diabolical, # OnlyGod will continue to protect his own." An eyewitness wrote on social media.

After the dedication of his 100,000 capacity church 'Glory Dome' in Abuja over the weekend, Paul Idoko Enenche, the founder and senior pastor of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre headquartered in Abuja has cursed out those speaking against him, particularly Daddy Freeze. In his words,  'I heard some very highly irrelevant, insignificant, infinitesimal, microscopic piece of materials that are only relevant for census purposes, who only hang on the internet to talk againt people. They have not achieved anything and will never achieve anything for life, would be remembered for nothing'.

25-year-old  Oksana Voevodina  who won the title of Miss Moscow in 2015 has become the first lady of Malaysia after marrying the country's king.  The Russian beauty queen married Malaysia's  Muhammad V of Kelantan , 49, in a lavish royal wedding ceremony in the Russian capital after reportedly converting to Islam earlier this year. The 25-year-old who is 24 years younger than the king, known as Yang di-Pertuan Agong married him in a ceremony which took place on November 22 in a concert hall in the upscale Moscow suburb of Barvikha, according to Islam News. Malaysian news portal rakyatku.com said that the former beauty queen converted to Islam on April 16, 2018.

Justice Daniel Longji of the Plateau state High Court in Jos, has sentenced a 24-year-old man, Godwin Banchir, to death by hanging, for beating his 65-years-old mother to death just because she failed to respond to his greetings. Bachir was first arraigned on June 6th 2016 and charged with culpable homicide, contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code punishable with death upon conviction. He is was said to have committed the crime on Jan. 21st 2016, when he used a stick to beat his mother to death. Banchir in his confessional statement said that he returned from the farm on the said date and found his mother sitting in the compound and when he greeted her, she ignored him. He said that infuriated him and he picked a stick and hit her.  “I got angry when she did not respond to my greetings, so I picked the stick of an axe and hit her around her ribs. “She fell down and started shouting, which attracted our neighbours who came to beat me up and later took me to the...

Daddy Freeze has responded to Pastor Idoko Enenche who called him a ' very highly irrelevant, insignificant, infinitesimal, microscopic piece of material'. Daddy Freeze had called out the pastor after the dedication of his 100,000 capacity church 'Glory Dome' in Abuja over the weekend, , And now he stands on his words, saying, ' defending the largest temple in the world, located in the poverty capital of the world, without a single scripture, instead with insults, sentiments and emotions. Walmart pays 2 million salaries a month, while Volkswagen pays 550,000 salaries. We need factories not temples, God doesn’t live in temples! I’m sure it is us this one is insulting like this'.

As the Federal government continues to debate whether or not to increase the miniumum wage from N18, 000 to N30, 000, the South African government has gone ahead to increase that of it's civil servants from N97, 495 to N126,480 per month. South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, who signed the new minimum wage into law yesterday November 26th, said the new wage would take effect from January 1st 2019 and would benefit about six million workers that currently earn R3,700 (N97,495). One South African Rand is equivalent to N26.35. This means South African workers would be earning N527 per hour: N4,216 per day and N126,480 per month. Their Nigerian counterparts currently earn N75 per hour, which is N600 per day (at eight working hours per day) and N18,000 per month. Recall that the sytate governors and the labour unions have been at loggerheads over the demand for the increase in minimum wage. While the Labour unions are demanding that the minimum wage be increased to N3...

The APC disabled governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha was unable to walked back home. The heavy weight lose by Okorocha may not be connected to the recent political loses he had in the recent time. Our governor is loosing it daily. He was sighted at the Hero square, where he went to inspect some recently molded statues. His face shows signs of severe body or leg pains.

Zamfara State High Court sitting in Gusau, has sentenced a serving member of the State’s House of Assembly, Lawali Attahiru Dogonkade, to four years imprisonment over an alleged N31 million fraud.   Dogonkade who was arraigned today by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on a four-count charge bordering on conferring corrupt advantage on himself admitted guilt before Justice Bello Shinkafi, thereby leading to his immediate conviction by the court.   The convict, representing Kauran-Namoda Local Government in the Zamfara State House of Assembly, was accused of using his position to confer corrupt advantage upon himself in a N31, 290, 000 contract meant for the supply of medical equipment to the State Government in violation of Sections 10, 12 and 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.   Counsel to ICPC, Mashkur Salisu, in one of the counts told the court that the convict received N4.5 mil...

A man bought a second-hand storage unit at an auction and was shocked to find £5.8million cash inside it after it was opened. This shocking discovery was made public by auctioneer Dan Dotson who hosts US television show Storage Wars. It was Dan who auctioned off the storage unit to the lucky buyer. According to Dan, last weekend, at a charity event in California, a woman came to him and told him that one of this buyers had found a fortune inside a storage unit he bought from him for only £390. Sharing the news via a video on Twitter, Dan said: An older Asian woman at the table next to me kept looking at me like she wanted to tell me something. Eventually she walked up and told me her husband works with a guy who bought a unit from me for $500 and found a safe inside. And the first person they called to open it I guess couldn't or didn't. They called a second person and when that person opened it up - inside the safe they'...

  A young Nigerian man committed suicide this week. Tolulope Abodunrin suffered from depression and had tried committing suicide before but he survived. Sadly, he went through with it this week. Tolu's Twitter bio reads: Nigerian. Retail and SME Banking. Finance, Economics, Sports and Politics. Goal-Getter.  Depression and Suicide Survivor ! Arsenal FC Fan. People who knew him described him as an ambitious and helpful man and also a giver.

The police in Adamawa state have arrested 23 year old Abubakar Yahaya, pictured above, for chopping off the wrist of one  Mohammed Jafar, following their dispute over a girl named Mariam Boni. According to the state police command spokesperson, Othman Abubakar, the suspect and Mariam were lovers and when their relationship crashed, Mariam started seeing Jafar. Abubakar became jealous and made several attempts to persuade Mohammed from seeing Mariam. For failling to heed his several warnings, Abuabakr arranged with his friends and they ambushed Mohammed on November 21st. They beat him up and during the attack, Abubakar used a matchete to chop off Mohammed's hands. The case was immediately reported to the police and Abubakar was arrested. The police spokesperson said the suspect will soon be arraigned in court.

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A Keke driver has questioned why women reject their advances and went on to reveal that some of them are university graduates who make more money than the men in the corporate world. Kelly Murphy wrote:  Why do you girls runaway from us because we drive KEKE, you girls normally see we KEKE drivers as Tout and illetrates, that we don't have dreams apart from driving KEKE, don't you girls know that some of we KEKE drivers are graduates with better grades, please my dear ladies, stop running away from us, driving KEKE is not a bad job, we gain more than 7,000  Naira a day, check it to a month, some of your boyfriends who work in some company or whatever can't withstand us in terms of spending!!!!!  STOP SEEING US AS TOUTS PLEASE ACCEPT US ,IF WE ASK FOR RELATIONSHIP NAWAOOOO!!!!!!

The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, 20th November 2018 as public holiday to mark the Eid-El Maulud celebration. This was made known by the Minister of Interior, Lt Gen (rtd) Abdulrahman Dambazau who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement signed by the permanent secretary Dr. M.B Umar, he urged all Muslim faithful to align themselves with the prophet’s teachings which border on piety, charity, tolerance and peaceful co-existence, among others. While calling on all Nigerians to uphold these virtues, with a view to overcoming the current national challenges facing the country, Gen. Dambazau assured that the Federal Government remains committed to the unity of the country and as such, will put adequate structures on ground towards ensuring that the forthcoming general elections are credible, free and fair.

HOW TO GET STUDENTS ID CARD           To get ID card, the student must have paid school fees and cleared by the Faculty officer Procedure: Go to M.I.S Unit (Tenece Office) for biometric capturing. A temporal ID card will be issued to you, pending when the permanent ID card will be ready. You will be contacted through SMS when the card is ready Go to ICT building (Access Bank Building) with your temporal ID card to enable you collect the permanent ID card. For more info and updates click  HERE

HOW TO GET LIONET/HOTSPOT PASSWORD Procedure: Send an e-mail with your UNN e-mail address to  oncall@unn.edu.ng  requesting for Lionet password, You can specify a password, if you have preference for any. Your username and password (a default password, if you don’t have a preference password) will be sent to you through e-mail within 48hrs. For more info click  Here

    The procedures are: Go to ICT MIS building (website team) with your school ID card or evidence of school fees payment. After due verification, the ICT unit would create an e-mail address for you.   Note :  To get an e-mail address, the student must have completed his clearance and must have been issued with a registration number. For more info click  Here

''Nigerians made the mistake of handing over the country to a man who failed in managing his own small business''- Fayose Fayose the immediate past governor of Ekiti state took to his twitter handler to blast Buhari 

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday approved for the commencement of a suit seeking an order of mandamus to compel the police and the Department of State Services to prosecute certain individuals for allegedly aiding the escape of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu,  from Nigeria and putting pressure on the military to produce him.     Justice John Tsoho , in a ruling on an ex parte application, granted leave to the plaintiff,  Isiah Ayugu , to commence the suit, which he filed on October 31, 2018 Ayugu had described himself as a tax-paying, responsible Nigerian and lawyer. The judge, who fixed November 22 for the hearing of the suit, ordered the suit to be served on the defendants the DSS, its director-general, the police and the Inspector-General of Police.   The suit is seeking the arrest and prosecution of a former Minister of Aviation,  Femi Fani-Kayode  and those who stood sureties for the bail gr...

The Abuja police command have arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly disguising as a woman to lure men at nightclubs in Abuja. The suspect,  Iliyasu Omika , a native of Kogi State who stays in Tungan Maje in Abuja, was among 15 suspects paraded by the FCT Police Command on Wednesday for allegedly luring men at nightclubs into amorous relationships while disguised as a lady. Police said he was arrested at a brothel in Mpape on November 5 around 5am “after his supposed client raised alarm upon discovery that he was actually a man and not a woman as he claimed.” When speaking with journalists, Omika denied the allegations but admitted that he met the man in a bar while he was with his sisters. He explained that the complainant offered to buy him drinks, but he turned down the offer because he does not take alcohol.  According to him, he and his sisters were in the bar to look for jobs, but the man informed him that they could get employment at the bar. ...

A masters degree holder, Aminu Ahmed Yerima has been arrested for defrauding over 50 persons on Facebook, pretending to be an aide to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. Yerima fleeced his victims of large sums of money, running into millions of naira. He, however, ran into trouble when two of his female victims petitioned the I.G of Police, Ibrahim Idris, about how he defrauded them of the sum of N5million in 6 months. The suspect created a Facebook account using pictures of himself and Atiku, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia and several other locations. He also identified himself on his facebook wall as the personal aide to the former vice president. He made his victims to believe that Atiku usually gave out financial assistance and contracts to people who were in need and he assured them that he could always help to facilitate it. He had told the women who wrote separate petitions against him, Raliat and Awa Maje, that Atiku would give them N15million while he fleeced them o...

Let's compare Atiku and Sowore: EDUCATION Atiku: Diploma in Law, which is less than a full degree. Sowore: Masters in PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Columbia University (Same Uni as Obama) CAMPAIGN FUNDING Atiku:? ? ? ? ? ? Sowore: Open and Transparent Go-Fund-Me along with open donations by the public BUSINESS Atiku: Businesses clouded in allegation after allegation Sowore: Founder of Sahara Reporters, a very CLEAN and COMPETITIVE business, aspiring to the likes of Aljazera and BBC HISTORY: Atiku: Former Vice President faced with further allegations, ruled Nigeria for 8 years (why you coming back bro?) Sowore: Fought Abacha, Fought OBJ, Fought the Cabal behind Yaradua, Fought GEJ, Fought Tinubu - exposing his land grabs around Lagos, currently fighting Buhari. CAMPAIGN STRATEGY: Atiku: Strategizing from the comfort of his hotel in Dubai Sowore: ON GROUND!!! With Town Hall meeting after Town Hall meeting throughout Nigeria.

Earlier today, Ikorodu road in Lagos was temporarily closed as a tanker carrying Premium Motor Spirit fell and spilled its content on the road.   The tanker, which fell at Kosofe area of Ketu caused a gridlock as Lagosians coming from Ikorodu were stuck on the road.  Lagos State Fire Service announced the temporary closure of the road while advising road-users to make use of alternative routes.   “If you're coming in from Ikorodu towards mile 12, Kosofe, Ketu. Road is temporarily shut down. Loaded Fuel Tanker fell,” a tweet on the LASG Fire Service handle read. The Fire Service noted that emergency units are on ground and working to avert a fire incident.out 

Lovebirds,  Justin Bieber  and  Hailey Baldwin  are officially married. The pair who became engaged in July exchanged vows in a surprise courthouse service in front of a judge in a  New York City courthouse  on Thursday, according to People.  A source close to the couple told the site, that 'they went ahead and did it without listening to anyone.  At first, it was believed that they were only going to the courthouse to get a marriage license, but then it was claimed they made it official. It was added that the 24-year-old singer and the 21-year-old model will have a celebratory ceremony soon. 'They’re going to have a big blowout, in front of God and everyone they love,' said the insider, who has been called 'a religious source. TMZ claimed earlier on Friday that the wedding will take place in Canada next week. According to the report, they will likely throw their wedding bash at the $5m mansion in Ontario, Canada he pur...

Immediate past Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, in her resignation letter sent to President Buhari today, said she decided to tender her resignation after she became privy to the findings of an online medium that the NYSC discharge certificate she possesses, was not genuine. Recall that in July, Premiumtimes exclusively reported that the former Minister was working with a forged NYSC discharge certificate. Adeosun in her resignation letter, gave her reaction to this allegation. A part of her letter read  "I have, today, become privy to the findings of the investigation into the allegation made in an online medium that the Certificate of Exemption from National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) that I had presented was not genuine. This has come as a shock to me and I believe that in line with this administration’s focus on integrity, I must do the honourable thing and resign. Your Excellency, kindly permit me to outline some of the background to this matter. I was born and ra...

Nigerian popstar, Davido has reacted to reports that EFCC has reportedly frozen seven different bank accounts of the Adeleke family, including that of Osun state PDP governorship aspirant Isiaka Adeleke, Davido's billionaire father. According to a tweet shared by ChangeTheChange (PDP Twitter handle) which Davido has since retweeted and dropped comments like, 'Make dem go Wells Fargo for Atlanta na'.

American rapper,  2 Chainz  took to his Instagram page to celebrate buying his wife,  Kesha Ward,  a school and in the process, he threw shade at guys who are still buying handbags for their girlfriends. Sharing a post of his wife celebrating the 2nd year anniversary of the school ( A Gift From Heaven Academy ), and also praising him for mentally preparing her with business and buying the school, the rapper wrote: 'YOU STILL BUYING GIRLS BAGS ? I BOUGHT MINES A SCHOOL ???‍??? WE ARE NOT THE SAME TRUST ME.'

A man is lucky to be alive after narrowly escaping death following a mishap which occurred on Wednesday, September 12th in Imo state. According to Stephen Chidiebere Anoro from Owerri, Imo state, a portion of the house (the ceiling) fell on his brother while he was in the room but he narrowly escaped the tragedy and came out alive. An excited Stephen took to Facebook to share a footage showing aftermath of the incident as he wrote;  Friend and friends make una follow me thank God for savings the life of my brother yesterday being 12th September 2018.. Last year, four occupants of a two storey building on Fire Service/Mbaise Road died after the building collapsed at the early hour on Sunday. Five other occupants of the building were, however, rescued but they sustained various degrees of injuries.