AND DONALD TRUMP IS TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR FOR 2016

President-elect Donald Trump, whose election campaign made the entire world take notice, has been selected as TIME’s 2016 Person of the Year.

The magazine revealed its choice Wednesday on TODAY.

"To be on the cover of Time as Person of the Year is a tremendous honor," Trump told Matt Lauer in an interview after the reveal.

Every year, TIME editors select the person — or idea — who has most influenced the news and the world in the past year, for good or ill.

Trump beat out 10 other finalists, including his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. TIME declared Clinton their runner-up, and she was also the top pick among TODAY viewers.

This will be Trump’s 10th time on the magazine’s cover, and all but one have been since August 2015. His first appearance on TIME was in 1989.

ATIKU SAYS NIGERIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY GRADUATES ARE BRAINLESS, CAN'T COMPETE WITH HIS SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has described graduates of Nigerian public universities as brainless, saying they cannot communicate in English with the students of his private secondary school, the American University of Nigeria (AUN) Academy.

Abubakar, who spoke on Thursday evening in Yola during his birthday celebration organised by the management of AUN, said public universities graduates cannot fit into private industries due to their poor education and character.

“I was in the University of Zik in Akwa in Anambra State on Wednesday on the invitation of the university. There is no student in public universities that can speak English in an error-free manner like the head boy of my secondary, who just finished addressing us now.

“When the head boy of AUN Academy, Abdullahi Sani, started speaking, I was thinking it is one of the lecturers in AUN, but only for him to introduce himself as the head boy of AUN Academy,” he stated.

Atiku said his ambition to establish AUN was to ensure that Nigeria produced graduates of high quality, both in learning and character, at an affordable rate and avoid the stress of traveling to other countries in search of quality education.

He pointed out that only quality education could bring about technology development in any country in the world, not oil, gold or other mineral resources.

Atiku noted that a country that places emphasis on oil, instead of manpower development, is preparing to collapse, pointing out that quality education produces quality manpower that turns a country into a wealthy nation.

While addressing students of the Law Department, the former vice president restated that Nigeria would continue to move backward unless it is restructured to address the problems threatening its existing.

“When government set up the last constitutional conference, I sent my proposal to the conference and when the members received it, they all agree with the content and resolved to include it in their final report as part of their resolutions.

Source - Guardianng

JOHN LEGEND REACTS TO THE OUTCOME OF THE U.S ELECTION

JOHN LEGEND REACTS TO THE OUTCOME OF THE U.S ELECTION

A day to the U.S elections, John Legend urged his followers not to vote Donald Trump, that he is uniquely unfit for the office of president. He told them to vote for the exceptionally qualified candidate running against him, which is Hillary Clinton.

Well, the outcome of the election was shocking to him too. He took to his Instagram to say;

"It's been quite a time for the United States and the rest of the world as we all watched the election results come in early Wednesday morning. Some of us wept for our country. Some of us celebrated. Some of us are already taking to the streets in protest.  

You all know how I wanted and expected the election to go. I wanted us to choose unity and inclusion over building walls and singling out ethnic and religious groups for hate and suspicion. I wanted us to choose progress over yearning for some long-lost mythical era when America was supposedly greatest. 

I wanted us to destroy the highest glass ceiling instead of electing an admitted sexual assaulter. But we did not. These are the election results and all of us will have to learn to deal with it. I will not give up though. I will continue to be aware and vigilant. I will continue to speak out for justice.  

We didn't think about the election when we planned the release date for this song and video. But in this time of conflict and uncertainty, it's clear that we all need more love. I find it in my family and in my music. Embracing my family has made today full of love and light despite the bad news. 

But it's also important that we show love and empathy to people who may not look like us or live like us. Those who are marginalized and rejected, feared and left behind. The video premieres Friday and features a diverse group of people from all over the world. From Standing Rock to Iraq, from Orlando to the DR. Love is universal. We all need it. We all can give it. And it will ultimately win over hate. I have to believe that. 

If you want to join in our celebration of love, use the hashtag #lovemenow and send us a picture of you and someone you care about."

DONALD TRUMP'S WEBSITE DELETES POLICY ON BANNING MUSLIMS FROM ENTERING THE UNITED STATES

DONALD TRUMP'S WEBSITE DELETES POLICY ON BANNING MUSLIMS FROM ENTERING THE UNITED STATES

Donald Trump’s team has removed the statement on his website to ban all Muslims from the US.

On the same night that millions of votes were pouring in for the real estate mogul turned politician, the page linking to his December statement regarding a temporary and complete Muslim has been removed.
The page now redirects to his a page encouraging voters to donate to his campaign.

The page was available on the morning of the election on 8 November, according to online caches. But the redirected was added later the same night.

Mr Trump was widely condemned for his call shortly after the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 to temporarily ban all Muslims until he figured out "what the hell was going on".

Mr Trump and his allies have consistently defended the ban, insisting the measure was about Americans’ "safety" and not about discriminating against religion. Videos and speeches defending the ban remain on the Trump campaign website.

ISIS HAILS DONALD TRUMP'S VICTORY CLAIMING HE WILL DESTROY AMERICA HIMSELF

ISIS HAILS DONALD TRUMP'S VICTORY CLAIMING HE WILL DESTROY AMERICA HIMSELF

Islamic State jihadist have hailed the victory of Donald Trump while claiming the billionaire "fool" will ruin America himself allowing terror groups to take control of the country.

The Republican was branded a "donkey" by militants who warned his election is "an indication of the end of the American empire".

One ISIS jihadi said:

"What we want is their country be delivered to a donkey like Trump who will destroy it. 

In the end, they are all our enemies and we will only meet them on the battlefields.

It is either them or us. We ask Allah to make their destruction caused by their own plans and their death come among themselves. 

The world is going to experience a change and this change will put Islam in the leadership position as the end result."

It comes hours after group al-Qaeda said the billionaire’s White House win will give extremists across the Middle East a common enemy, sparking fears of a major attack on US soil.

SEE THE U.S CELEBRITIES WHO VOWED TO LEAVE THE U.S IF DONALD TRUMP WINS

SEE THE U.S CELEBRITIES WHO VOWED TO LEAVE THE U.S IF DONALD TRUMP WINS

Some United states celebrities joked/threatened to leave the U.S. if  Donald Trump became president.

Well Donald won. Here's a list of a few celebs who said they will be out of the country should Republican candidate Donald Trump win the White House on Tuesday.

• Cher

The superstar singer has been Cher-ing all her feelings via Twitter this election season.  She wins the award for the furthest declared destination if the real estate magnate prevails.
"If he were to be elected, I'm moving to Jupiter," she tweeted last year.

• Amy Schumer

The comedienne may or may not have been joking when she said she's bound for Spain should Hillary Clinton lose.

"My act will change because I'll need to learn to speak Spanish because I will move to Spain, or somewhere," she said. "It's beyond my comprehension if Trump won. It's too crazy."

• Chelsea Handler

Like fellow funnywoman Schumer, the talk show host says she, too, has her eye on Spain.
But Handler's gone one better: she said she's already got a home ready.

"I did buy a house in another country just in case, so all of these people that threaten to leave the country and then don't, I will leave the country," she said in May on "Live With Kelly and Michael."

• Barbra Streisand

The iconic singer may be headed down under. Streisand told "60 Minutes" in Australia that she was worried about the election results.

"I'm either coming to your country, if you'll let me in, or Canada," she said.

• Lena Dunham

The "Girls" star seemed pretty firm in her assertion at the Matrix Awards in April that she is Vancouver-bound should Trump win.

"I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will," she said.

• Ne Yo

The singer said he's planning to kick it with buddy (and Canadian) rapper Drake if Clinton loses.

"I'm moving to Canada straight away," he told TMZ. "Me and Drake gonna be neighbors if Donald Trump becomes president."

• Samuel L. Jackson

 While promoting "The Hateful Eight," Samuel L. Jackson told Jimmy Kimmel that in the wake of a Trump victory he would "move my black ass to South Africa."

• Miley Cyrus

Trump's Super Tuesday victory in the primaries left Miley Cyrus distraught. She hasn't said where she'll go, but promised on Instagram that "I am moving if this is my president! I don't say things I don't mean!"

• Jon Stewart

If Cher does get a SpaceX flight to another planet, she might have Jon Stewart as her window-seat buddy, as he joked to People Magazine that he “would consider getting in a rocket and going to another planet, because clearly this planet’s gone bonkers.”

• Al Sharpton 

Al Sharpton said in February that he had "reserved his ticket" to leave if Trump won and that he would support anyone necessary to beat him.

THE SIMPSONS PREDICTED DONALD TRUMP'S PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY 16 YEARS AGO AS A *WARNING TO AMERICA* (VIDEO)

  Creators saw it as being an 'insane vision' of a future America

 

The Simpsons creators predicated that Donald Trump would be president 16 years ago, but only as a warning to Americans.

In an episode which aired back in 2000, Lisa becomes President of the United States, talking over from ‘President Trump’.

“We’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump,” she says while sitting in the Oval Office.

Simpsons writer Dan Greaney recently told The Hollywood Reporter that the episode was meant to show a vision of the country ‘going insane’.

 ‘It was a warning to America,” he said. “That just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom. 

“It was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane.

 "What we needed was for Lisa to have problems that were beyond her fixing, that everything went as bad as it possibly could, and that's why we had Trump be president before her."

 
Show creator Matt Groening told The Guardian: “We predicted that he would be president back in 2000 – but (Trump) was of course the most absurd placeholder joke name that we could think of at the time, and that’s still true.

"It’s beyond satire."

The world awoke on Wednesday to discover that Groening’s ‘insane’ vision of a future American had in fact become reality as Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the US elections to become President of the United States.

YOU ARE FREE TO LEAVE NIGERIA IF YOU HAVE ANOTHER COUNTRY - BUHARI

 YOU ARE FREE TO LEAVE NIGERIA IF YOU HAVE ANOTHER COUNTRY - BUHARI

President Muhammadu Buhari have said if anybody has a country to go to, let him go, that we will stay here and salvage our country.

In a statement issued on Tuesday by the special assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Buhari said this when he received Niger Delta leaders.

“We are determined to make life comfortable and affordable to all Nigerians. If anybody has a country to go to, let him go, we will stay here and salvage our country.”

Speaking further, the President urged leaders of the region to join him in building the country.

“Please Your Excellencies, Your Majesties, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen; we all have our individual constituencies. Let us try to pacify our constituencies. 

Let us first recover our country, secure the country and let us invite people who will invest. Let us create jobs for our people and let us be accountable to our people where we are sitting on treasuries, whether it is local government, state or the center. We should ensure that we rebuild this country. 

Nobody wants to fail. So, the only way out is, if people understand and believe that we are doing our best at all levels, then we will have some peace. But it they have reason to doubt our performance and sincerity, then we will have problem”.

FIRST PHOTOS FROM WEDDING OF PRESIDENT BUHARI'S DAUGHTER FATIMA & MALLAM YA'U GIMBA KUMO

FIRST PHOTOS FROM WEDDING OF PRESIDENT BUHARI'S DAUGHTER FATIMA & MALLAM YA'U GIMBA KUMO

The wedding of President Buhari's first daughter Fatima Buhari and ex Managing Director of Federal Mortgage Bank,  Mallam Ya' u Gimba Kumo held today at Daura, Katsina.

Here the first photos shared by Buhari Sallau. After the cut.

We will bring more as we get them.

IS FIRST WIFE OF BUHARI'S DAUGHTER'S HUSBAND-TO-BE SHADING HER???

 IS FIRST WIFE OF BUHARI'S DAUGHTER'S HUSBAND-TO-BE SHADING HER???

President Buhari's second daughter, Hajiya Fatima who he had with his deceased first wife Safinatu, is set to wed former Managing Director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Malam Gimba Yau Kumo, today, Friday 28th at her father's home in Daura, Katsina.

However, Fatima won't be Mallam Gimba's first wife. As it is permissible in Islam, Gimba, who is 57 years has other wives but one of them, Aishatu Gimba doesn't seem too pleased having another woman join the family.

She has been posting pictures and making comments that people are interpreting as subtle shades.

See more after the cut.

GOODLUCK JONATHAN WRITES NIGERIANS A HEARTFELT INDEPENDENCE DAY MESSAGE

GOODLUCK JONATHAN WRITES NIGERIANS A HEARTFELT INDEPENDENCE DAY MESSAGE

Guys, read ex-president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s message to all Nigerians as we celebrate Independence day. today.

Reactions from Nigerians continue below. Someone said he wishes God will bring GEJ back to villa to correct what Buhari has damaged. Do you want that too? Another person called Buhari a 'coconut head president'.

HERE'S THE FULL TEXT OF PRESIDENT BUHARI'S 56TH INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH

HERE'S THE FULL TEXT OF PRESIDENT BUHARI'S 56TH INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH

Today – 1st October is a day of celebration for us Nigerians. 

On this day, 56 years ago our people achieved the most important of all human desires – freedom and independence. We should all therefore give thanks and pray for our founding fathers without whose efforts and toil we would not reap the bounties of today.

• 2. I know that uppermost in your minds today is the economic crisis. The recession for many individuals and families is real. For some It means not being able to pay school fees, for others it's not being able to afford the high cost of food (rice and millet) or the high cost of local or international travel, and for many of our young people the recession means joblessness, sometimes after graduating from university or polytechnic.
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• 3. I know how difficult things are, and how rough business is. All my adult life I have always earned a salary and I know what it is like when your salary simply is not enough. In every part of our nation people are making incredible sacrifices.
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• 4. But let me say to all Nigerians today, I ran for office four times to make the point that we can rule this nation with honesty and transparency, that we can stop the stealing of Nigeria's resources so that the resources could be used to provide jobs for our young people, security, infrastructure for commerce, education and healthcare.
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• 5. I ran for office because I know that good government is the only way to ensure prosperity and abundance for all. I remain resolutely committed to this objective.
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• 6. I believe that this recession will not last.
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• 7. Temporary problems should not blind or divert us from the corrective course this government has charted for our nation. We have identified the country’s salient problems and we are working hard at lasting solutions.
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• 8. To re-cap what I have been saying since the inception of this administration, our problems are security, corruption and the economy, especially unemployment and the alarming level of poverty.
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• 9. On Security, we have made progress. Boko Haram was defeated by last December – only resorting to cowardly attacks on soft targets, killing innocent men, women and children.
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• 10. Nigerians should thank our gallant men of the Armed Forces and Police for rescuing large areas of the country captured by insurgents. Now, residents in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States, as well as several neighbouring states go about their daily business in relative safety. People can go to mosques, churches, market places in reasonable safety.
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• 11. Commuters can travel between cities, towns and villages without fear. Credit for this remarkable turn-round should go to our Armed Forces, the Police, various sponsored and private vigilante groups, the local traditional leaders. Security is a top to bottom concern and responsibility.
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• 12. Besides Boko Haram, we are confronting other long-running security issues, namely herdsmen vs farmers, cattle rustling, kidnappings. This Administration is firmly resolved to tackle these challenges and to defeat them.
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• 13. A new insurgency has reared up its head in the shape of blowing up gas and oil pipelines by groups of Niger Delta Militants. This Administration will not allow these mindless groups to hold the country to ransom.
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• 14. What sense is there to damage a gas line as a result of which many towns in the country including their own town or village is put in darkness as a result? What logic is there in blowing up an export pipeline and as a result income to your state and local governments and consequently their ability to provide services to your own people is reduced?
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• 15. No group can unlawfully challenge the authority of the Federal Government and succeed. Our Administration is fully sympathetic to the plight of the good people of Niger Delta and we are in touch with the State Governments and leaderships of the region. It is known that the clean-up of the Ogoniland has started. Infrastructural projects financed by the Federal Government and post amnesty programme financing will continue.
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• 16. We have however, continued to dialogue with all groups and leaders of thought in the region to bring lasting peace.
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• 17. Corruption is a cancer which must be fought with all the weapons at our disposal. It corrodes the very fabric of government and destroys society. Fighting corruption is Key, not only to restoring the moral health of the nation, but also to freeing our enormous resources for urgent socio-economic development.
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• 18. In fighting corruption, however, the government would adhere strictly by the rule of law. Not for the first time I am appealing to the judiciary to join the fight against corruption.
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• 19. The Third Plank in this Administration’s drive to CHANGE Nigeria is re-structuring the economy. Economies behaviour is cyclical. All countries face ups and downs. Our own recession has been brought about by a critical shortage of foreign exchange. Oil price dropped from an average of hundred USD per barrel over the last decade to an average of forty USD per barrel this year and last.
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• 20. Worse still, the damage perpetrated by Niger Delta thugs on pipelines sometimes reduced Nigeria’s production to below One million barrels per day against the normal two point two million barrels per day. Consequently, the naira is at its weakest, but the situation will stabilize.
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• 21. But this is only temporary. Historically about half our dollar export earnings go to importation of petroleum and food products! Nothing was saved for the rainy days during the periods of prosperity. We are now reaping the whirlwinds of corruption, recklessness and impunity.
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• 22. There are no easy solutions, but there are solutions nonetheless and Government is pursuing them in earnest. We are to repair our four refineries so that Nigeria can produce most of our petrol requirements locally, pending the coming on stream of new refineries. That way we will save ten billion USD yearly in importing fuel.
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• 23. At the same time, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and the Central Bank have been mobilized to encourage local production of rice, maize, sorghum, millet and soya beans. Our target is to achieve domestic self-sufficiency in these staples by 2018.
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• 24. Already farmers in thirteen out of thirty six states are receiving credit support through the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Anchor Borrowers Programme. Kebbi state alone this year is expected to produce one million tonnes of locally grown rice, thanks to a favourable harvest this year. As part of the 13 states, Lagos and Ogun are also starting this programme. Rice alone for example costs Nigeria two billion USD to import.
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• 25. The country should be self-sufficient in basic staples by 2019. Foreign exchange thus saved can go to industrial revival requirements for retooling, essential raw materials and spare parts. It is in recognition of the need to re-invigorate agriculture in our rural communities that we are introducing the LIFE programme.
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• 26. Government recognises that irrigation is key to modern agriculture: that is why the Ministries of Agriculture and Water Resources are embarking on a huge programme of development of lakes, earth dams and water harvesting schemes throughout the country to ensure that we are no longer dependent on rain-fed agriculture for our food requirements.
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• 27. In addition, government is introducing Water Resources Bill encompassing the National Water Resources Policy and National Irrigation and Drainage Policy to improve management of water and irrigation development in the country. We are reviving all the twelve River Basin Authorities, namely;
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• Anambra - Imo
• Benin - Owena
• Chad Basin
• Cross River
• Hadejia - Jama'are
• Lower Benue
• Lower Niger
• Niger Delta
• Ogun - Osun
• Sokoto - Rima
• Upper Benue
• Upper Niger
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• 28. The intention is eventually to fully commercialise them to better support crop production, aqua –culture and accelerated rural development.
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• 29. This Administration is committed to the revival of Lake Chad and improvement of the hydrology and ecology of the basin. This will tune in with efforts to rehabilitate the thirty million people affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad basin countries.
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• 30. The second plank in our economic revival strategy is centred on the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing. The Ministry will lead and oversee the provision of critical infrastructure of power, road transport network and housing development.
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• 31. Power generation has steadily risen since our Administration came on board from three thousand three hundred and twenty four megawatts in June 2015, rising to a peak of five thousand and seventy four megawatts in February 2016.
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• 32. For the first time in our history the country was producing five thousand megawatts. However, renewed militancy and destruction of gas pipelines caused acute shortage of gas and constant drop in electricity output available on the grid.
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• 33. There has been during the period June 2015 to September 2016 big improvement in transmission capacity from five thousand five hundred megawatts to the present seven thousand three hundred megawatts.
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• 34. There were only two system collapses between June and December 2015, but due to vandalism by Niger Delta militants the over-all system suffered 16 system collapses between March and July 2016 alone. As I have said earlier, we are engaging with responsible leadership in the region to find lasting solutions to genuine grievances of the area but we will not allow a tiny minority of thugs to cripple the country's economy.
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• 35. In the meantime, government is going ahead with projects utilizing alternate technologies such as hydro, wind, and solar to contribute to our energy mix. In this respect, the Mambilla Hydro project, after many years of delay is taking off this year. Contract negotiations are nearing completion with Chinese firms for technical and financial commitments.
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• 36. The project is to be jointly financed by Nigeria and the Chinese-Export-Import Bank. In addition, fourteen Solar Power Projects have had their power purchase agreements concluded. Hence the plan to produce one thousand two hundred megawatts of solar electricity for the country would be realized on schedule.
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• 37. And in line with the objective of government to complete all abandoned projects across the country, the Rural Electrification Agency's projects needing completion are provided for in the 2016 Budget. Bringing electricity to rural areas will help farmers, small scale and cottage industries to integrate with the national economy.
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• 38. Roads Construction and Rehabilitation has taken off. The sum of twelve billion naira was allocated to this sector in the 2015 Budget, not enough even to pay interest on outstanding unpaid claims.
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• 39. Notwithstanding the budgetary constraints, the current budget allocated two hundred and forty billion naira for highway projects against twelve billion naira in 2015. Many contractors who have not been paid for three years have now remobilized to sites. Seven hundred and twenty point five billion naira has so far been released this budget year to capital projects.
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• 40. The Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has received one hundred and ninety seven point five billion naira. Work on the following highways has now resumed.
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• Dualization of Calabar – Itu Road in Cross River/Akwa Ibom States.
• Dualization of Lokoja – Benin Road, Ehor - Benin city, Edo State.
• Re-construction of outstanding sections of Benin – Shagamu Express way, Edo/Ogun States.
• Expansion works on Lagos – Ibadan Dual carriageway, Ogun/Oyo States
• Rehabilitation of Onitsha – Enugu Expressway, Anambra/Enugu States.
• Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Enugu – Port Harcourt Dual carriageway, Abia/Rivers States.
• Rehabilitation of Hadejia – Nguru Road, Jigawa State.
• Dualization of Kano – Katsina Road, Kano State.
• Dualization of Kano – Maiduguri Road, Borno State.
• Dualization of Azare – Potiskum Road, Azare – Sharuri Road, Bauchi State.
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• Rehabilitation of Ilorin – Jebba – Mokwa – Birnin Gwari Road, Kwara State.
• Construction of Oju/Lokoja – Oweto Bridge over River Benue, Benue State.
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• 41. Other major highways are in the queue for rehabilitation or new construction.
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• 42. Already contractors have recalled about nine thousand workers laid off and Government expects that several hundreds of thousands of workers will be reengaged in the next few months as our public works programme gains momentum.
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• 43. On railways, we have provided our counterpart funding to China for the building of our standard gauge Lagos -Kano railway. Meanwhile, General Electric is investing two point two billion USD in a concession to revamp, provide rolling stock, and manage the existing lines, including the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Line. The Lagos-Calabar railway will also be on stream soon.
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• 44. We have initiated the National Housing Programme. In 2014 four hundred million naira was voted for Housing. In 2015 nothing. Our first budget this year is devoting thirty five point six billion naira. Much of the house building will be private – sector led but Government is initiating a pilot housing scheme of two thousand eight hundred and thirty eight units uniformly spread across the 36 states and FCT.
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• 45. We expect these units to be completed within 4 – 6 months. These experimental Nigeria House model Units will be constructed using only made in Nigeria building materials and components. This initiative is expected to reactivate the building materials manufacturing sector, generate massive employment opportunities and develop sector capacity and expertise.
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• 46. The programmes I have outlined will revive the economy, restore the value of the naira and drive hunger from our land.
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• 47. Abroad, Nigeria’s standing has changed beyond belief in the last 18 months. We are no longer a pariah state. Wherever I go, I have been received with un-accustomed hospitality. Investors from all over the world are falling over themselves to come and do business in Nigeria. This government intends to make business environment more friendly because we can not develop ourselves alone.
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• 48. All countries, no matter how advanced, welcome foreign investments to their economy. This is the essence of globalization and no country in the 21st century can be an island. Our reforms are therefore designed to prepare Nigeria for the 21st century.
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• 49. Finally, let me commend Nigerians for your patience, steadfastness and perseverance. You know that I am trying to do the right things for our country.
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• 50. Thank you and may God bless our country.

TURKISH GOVERNMENT ARRESTS 50 NIGERIAN STUDENTS OVER FAILED COUP

TURKISH GOVERNMENT ARRESTS 50 NIGERIAN STUDENTS OVER FAILED COUP

Over 50 Nigerian students were yesterday arrested in Turkey, allegedly on the orders of the Turkish government.

A source whose relative was among the detained students told ThisDay that “upon arrival at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, they were all escorted to a room and their passport confiscated by Turkish police.”

The detained Nigerians are mainly students of Fathi University, one of the private universities in
Turkey. The school which is located in the metropolitan Büyükçekmece district of Istanbul, Turkey was founded in 1996 with a rela- tively high rate of international students from 102 countries.

“When they enquired why they were clamped in a dirty room, the police said they are students of a terrorist organisation. They offered to transfer them to government schools but on the condition that we will pay same fees as private universities,” the source added.

The Fathi University is among the 2099 schools, dormitories and universities shut down in the wake of the July 15th failed coup in Turkey.

 The Turkish authorities said the schools and universities were terrorist schools because they have links with Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen, whom the Turkish government had accused of being the mastermind of the coup in Turkey.

It would also be recalled the Turkish Ambassador in Nigeria Mr. Hakan Cakil, had requested the Nigerian authorities to close down 17 Turkish schools in Nigeria for alleged links to the Hizmet movement.

The Nigerian Authorities rejected the call, stating that it would rely on evidence linking the proprietors of the schools in Nigeria to the failed coup in Turkey.

In exclusive pictures obtained by THISDAY, students could be seen lying down on the bare floor in a room that could barely be habitable.

Their source also hinted of a particular case of a Nigerian by name Aminat, a final year student in one of the universities affected by the closure at the time of the coup. The source said:

“Aminat came to the airport to travel to Nigeria since her school had been shut, but to her surprise, she was asked to pay a penalty for entering the country illegally. She paid the fine, and she was kept, alongside others in the same room with people waiting to be deported.”

THISDAY also gathered that some of those detained at the airport were made to sign documents giving their consent to deportation from Turkey.

An e-mail to the Turkish embassy on why the students were detained was not responded to as at the time of going to press, ThisDay reports.

CBN GOVERNOR:- GODWIN EMEFIELE THANKS EVERYONE OVER FREED WIFE

CBN GOVERNOR:- GODWIN EMEFIELE THANKS EVERYONE OVER FREED WIFE 

Mr Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has praised the security agencies for their gallantry in bringing his wife, Margaret back home within 24 hours.

This, he said, was in compliance with the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Emefiele also thanked the Delta and Edo State governments, friends and well-wishers, who through their actions, prayers and goodwill, helped to bring this harrowing experience to a joyful end.

Margaret Emefiele, who was kidnapped on Thursday by armed men on Benin-Agbor road,  was
 rescued from the hands of kidnappers on Friday night by the Nigerian security agencies. Earlier report had said she was released early today.

The Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Mr Isaac Okorafor, stated that the CBN governor’s wife confirmed that she was rescued on Friday night.

Okoroafor did not state  whether any ransom was paid.

The kidnappers had  made contact with the CBN governor, demanding a N100million  in ransom.

According to family sources Margaret  was rescued by a combined team of security agencies; Army and Police, at Ugoneki near Benin City.

To stem kidnapping in the state, the government of Edo  enacted a law  prescribing death penalty on kidnappers.

Okoroafor said despite the kidnapping trauma, the CBN Governor has reaffirmed his resolve to continue to serve the nation diligently, without any fear of intimidation.

PHOTOS:- ADAMS OSHIOMOLE AND HIS WIFE CELEBRATE VICTORY OF APC CANDIDATE IN EDO GUBER ELECTION

PHOTOS:- ADAMS OSHIOMOLE AND HIS WIFE CELEBRATE VICTORY OF APC CANDIDATE IN EDO GUBER ELECTION

The governor and his wife Iara pictured celebrating with APC members on the occasion of their party's candidate, Godwin Obaseki's victory ‎at the state governorship election. 

 

FEMI FANI KAYODE JOINS THE KENYA VS NIGERIA TWITTER BATTLE

FEMI FANI KAYODE JOINS THE KENYA VS NIGERIA TWITTER BATTLE 

Nigerians and Kenyans have been 'fighting' on social media over superiority since Mark Zuckerberg made his first visit to Nigerian and then Kenya. The ex-minister has a thing or two to say about it too.

So far, Nigerians are winning the social media battle. Lol...

PRESIDENT BUHARI WAS THE MASTERMIND BEHIND MARK ZUCKERBERG'S VISIT TO NIGERIA

PRESIDENT BUHARI WAS THE MASTERMIND BEHIND MARK ZUCKERBERG'S VISIT TO NIGERIA

 

 President Buhari was the mastermind behind Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Nigeria, as he was the one who invited the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to explore possible ways of direct foreign investment & also to listen, learn and take ideas back to California, to help Facebook better support tech development and entrepreneurship in Nigeria & across Africa.

 As a mark of appreciation, Zuckerberg directed his Facebook tech engineers, to include Hausa (Nigeria's second official language) as one of the Facebook's languages.

 Mark Zuckerberg also noted that his visit to Nigeria wouldn't have been possible if Buhari had not become President & also started his anti-corruption campaign, as all the investment he plans to make in Nigeria would have been futile as the investment would have been mismanaged and looted if Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was still in power.

KUDOS MR PRESIDENT, SAI BUHARI!!! SAI BABA!!!

PS: A FEAT NOT EVEN GOODLUCK JONATHAN COULD ACHIEVE

GUYS, LET'S RATE PRESIDENT BUHARI'S OVER ONE YEAR IN OFFICE

GUYS, LET'S RATE PRESIDENT BUHARI'S OVER ONE YEAR IN OFFICE 

President Muhammadu Buhari is over a year in Aso Rock as the president of Nigeria, how would you personally rate his performance for now?

Good, fair, excellent, poor, very poor....