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Paul Pogba will demand a huge wage of €16million (£13.65m) a year, if Real Madrid or Juventus try to sign him from Manchester United in the summer, Tuttosport reports. The France midfielder’s agent, Mino Raiola, has set his huge wage demands amid transfer rumours surrounding the player. Pogba is one of several names who has been heavily linked with joining Real Madrid, when they launch a summer rebuild under returning boss Zinedine Zidane. The United midfielder fuelled those rumours by admitting “Real Madrid is a dream for anyone”, during a press conference last week whilst on international duty. But it is understood Raiola will insist on Pogba becoming the highest paid player at the Bernabeu, on a higher wage than Gareth Bale and Sergio Ramos, the current top earners on €14m and €11m per year respectively. Pogba is understood to be on €10m (£8.5m) per year at Manchester United. source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/03/real-madrid-to-pay-man-united-star.html

seek nullification of his election, allege irregularities By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – It is more trouble for President Muhammadu Buhari, as three more presidential candidates have separately approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, asking it to void the outcome of the February 23 presidential election. Aisha Buhari voting at the Governorship and State Assembly Elections at Kofar Baru Polling Unit 003 in Daura Katsina State on 9th Mar 2019 In their various petitions, the three presidential candidates, urged the tribunal to invoke its powers and quash the declaration of President Buhari as the bonafide winner of the 2019 presidential election. The petitioners separately alleged that the election was characterized by manifest irregularities, adding that the Electoral Act was not substantially complied with by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Those asking the tribunal to sack President Buhari and order a fresh el...

Pastor Chris Okafor,Senior Pastor "The founder of Liberation City",  has warned Kaduna State Governor to avoid persecuting Christians and preachers in the state or risk the wrath of God. The preacher gave El-Rufai seven days to reverse bill at the state House of Assembly to license religious bodies or  risk Gods wrathful visitation. Any person found guilty of preaching without a valid licence and other offences under the law “shall be liable to two years in prison or pay a fine of N200, 000.” has remained the content of the bill which is causing uprising by Christain folks. Under this new edict, the government seeks to create an inter-faith Ministerial Committee to be appointed by the governor which will exercise control over Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, and the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN. The bill ensures that the ministerial committee shall issue licenses to religious bodies without which the body cannot preach. It also stipulates that no external prea...

Seyi Law and wife celebrate 8th wedding anniversary (Photos)Nigerian comedian, Seyi Law and his wife, Stacy are celebrating their 8th wedding anniversary today. The comedian took to his Instagram page where he shared a couple of photos to mark the special day. He went on to caption the photos with a quote where got to express his gratefulness to God for keeping his marriage. “Glory be to God for all He has done. Happy 8th Wedding Anniversary to us. New wine in Jesus name. Fresh Oil from above. God’s Grace and Mercy. Wisdom and wealth. Good Health and Joy. Divine Protection and Love,” he wrote. See photos below; source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/03/seyi-law-and-wife-celebrate-8th-wedding.html

Published 1 min agoon Mar 27, 2019By Benjamin B Nigerians now enjoying 24-hour power supply under Buhari – FasholaMinister of Power, Housing and Works, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has described the situation of power supply in the country as an improvement to what the present administration met on ground. Fashola expressed this view while speaking on Sunrise Daily on Channels TV on Wednesday. Fashola asserted that in some parts of the country like Kebbi and Yobe, the power supply is constant. Fashola, however, revealed that the power distribution companies in those areas reported their consumers as saying that they do not need 24/7 power supply due to the high billing. Fashola assured Nigerians that the current situation of power supply in the country would improve significantly before President Buhari leaves office in 2023. Although, he pointed out that Nigeria has a long way to go before it achieves a constant power supply. Also, he revealed that the Federal Government is al...

Veteran Yoruba actor, Samuel Oludayo Akinpelu, popularly known as Alabi Yellow, is dying of stroke as he appeals for public support. 62 year old Alabi Yellow left acting a lot time ago to writing literature book. The news of Alabi Yellow’s ill health was announced on Tuesday, March 26, 2018, by the Executive Chairman of Best Of Nollywood awards, Seun Oloketuyi. Oloketuyi announced that the actor, who was born has suffered a partial stroke shortly after the demise of his wife. source: https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/03/veteran-yoruba-actor-alabi-yellow.html

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has restated that his administration has never borrowed money from any bank within or outside the country. He gave the financial institutions seven days ultimatum to openly counter the claim if it is not true. Okorocha also disclosed that his administration does not owe workers, adding that workers’ salaries have been paid up to February 2019. The outgoing governor, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, challenged any bank with contrary claim to “openly indicate and give details of such transaction for the public to know”. According to him: “We have come up with this position because the PDP is synonymous with falsehood and propaganda. “And even as a party, if they know any bank the government of Rochas Okorocha has borrowed one naira from, they should mention such bank and state the particulars of the transaction so that interested persons can verify or forever, they should keep their mouths shut”. He continu...

The University of Lagos is to graduate 12,811 undergraduate and postgraduate students during its 50th convocation next week. Its Vice-Chancellor, Prof Olwatoyin Ogundipe said at a pre-convocation press briefing on Wednesday that 271 of the 7,406 would be graduating with First Class grades during the award of degrees which would hold between Tuesday and Thursday next week at the J.F Ade-Ajayi Auditorium. “I am proud to announce that 271 students would be awarded First Class degrees of which 56 are from the Faculty of Engineering. “The breakdown of the other classes of degrees are as follows: 2,277 in the Second Class Upper, 3,116 in Second Class Lower, 1,197 in Third Class, 13 in Pass, while 414 in degrees or diplomas that are not classified, “he said. Former Federal Commissioner for Works and Housing, Mr Lateef Olufemi Okunnu; General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Dr Daniel Olukoya and Founder of Zenith Bank, Mr Jim Ovia, would be conferred with h...

The Nigerian Union in South Africa (NUSA) has expressed displeasure with the alleged violent attack of Nigerians in the latest wave of xenophobic attacks on foreigners in that country. The Acting Secretary of NUSA, Collins Mgbo, gave the condemnation in a letter addressed to the South African authorities, a copy of which made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. He said the xenophobic attacks on foreigners started on March 24 in Brits, North West Province and Durban, Kwazulu-Natal province. “NUSA is using this medium to bring to your attention of attacks on our nationals in Brits, North West Province which started on Sunday, March 24 2019. “Our people are living in panic and fear of more attacks by a coalition of gang members called Russians and Taxi Drivers. “Information available to our disposal revealed that shops and properties of Nigerians were damaged and burnt during the attacks,” he said. Mgbo said that seven Nigerians were...

The Presidential Election Tribunal has acceded to the request by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar for permission to serve their petition of President Muhammadu Buhari through his party, All Progressives Congress (APC). PDP and Atiku, who, by the petition they filed earlier this month, are challenging Buhari’s victory at the election, applied for leave to effect service of the petition on the President on the grounds that they were having difficulty serving him personally. On Wednesday, the three-man tribunal, after to listening Chris Uche (SAN) who moved the ex-parte filed by the petitioners, granted them permission to serve through substituted means. Justice Abdul Aboki, who led the panel, ordered that Buhari, who is the second respondent to the petition, be served through any senior official or an officer of the APC at the party’s secretariat in Abuja. Justice Aboki, in his lead ruling, said “it is in t...

China’s President Xi Jinping speaks during an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Message to Compatriots in Taiwan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on January 2, 2019. – Taiwan’s unification with the mainland is “inevitable”, President Xi Jinping said on January 2, warning against any effort to promote the island’s independence and saying China would not renounce the option of military force to bring it into the fold. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein / POOL / AFP) Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that China and Europe were “advancing together” but that the two trading blocs needed to overcome “suspicions”. “Of course there are differences and competition, but it’s positive competition,” Xi told a press conference in Paris with the leaders of France, Germany and the European Commission. “We are advancing together. We shouldn’t let suspicions lead us to be constantly looking backwards.” Xi was speaking on the third day of a France visit dominated by c...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 05, 2017 A British one pound sterling coin, a one euro coin and a US quarter dollar coin are arranged and photographed in central London on October 5, 2017. – Sterling rose further on March 22, 2019 after Brussels gave Britain a Brexit deadline extension, but stocks dived as fresh economic gloom gripped trading floors. (Photo by Daniel SORABJI / AFP) Sterling rallied above $1.32 on Tuesday on fresh hope that British Prime Minister Theresa May would avoid a chaotic no-deal Brexit, while global stock markets recovered. The pound jumped as high as $1.3262 in London morning deals, before tempering the gains by midday. The European single currency fell as low as 85.25 pence on hopes of an orderly departure from the European Union on April 12. The long-running saga took a fresh twist after Brexit hardliner Jacob Rees-Mogg declared on Twitter: “The choice seems to be Mrs May’s deal or no Brexit”. Rees-Mogg, head of the European Research ...

Real Madrid Madrid Football Academy in Port Harcourt will be completed and commissioned in May 2019 , Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has announced. Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike (m) and Rivers State PDP Chairman, Bro Felix Obuah (r) at the Real Madrid Football Academy in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. Speaking with journalists after projects inspection on Tuesday, Governor Wike said that the Academy would groom International football stars. The Governor said that the project will create talented soccer players and manpower that will positively impact the economy of the state. He said: “This project will be completed and commissioned before the end of May this year. As you can see, the facilities are almost set. “This facility will create International soccer stars and develop the economy of the state”. Governor Wike said contrary to propaganda by the opposition, the Real Madrid Football has been developed since it was initiated. “Already 12 coaches are...

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has cut down the benchmark lending rate from 14 per cent to 13.5 per cent to further promote economic growth. The Central Bank Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele said this when he briefed newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday on the outcome of the 266th Monetary Policy Committee meeting. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this is the first time the rate has been altered since July 2016. Emefiele said all 11 members were present at the meeting and six out of 11 of them voted to reduce the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) by 50 basis point. He explained that two members voted to reduce the MPR by 25 basis point, another two members voted to hold the MPR at 14 per cent while one member voted to reduce it by 100 basis point. He also said that 10 members voted to hold all other parameters at the present rate, while only one member voted to reduce the cash reserve ratio. To this effect, he said the Cash Reserves Rat...

The baby died A baby has reportedly died at a hospital in Lagos as a result of alleged doctor's negligence. It was gathered that the the twin baby was allegedly administered the wrong blood which later led to her death. Instagram user, @housebybeaut who shared the story online wrote; "Wickedness!!!!!!!Beware of Dr Joy at Igando General Hospital, she transferred my cousin twins to her hospital from General hospital with out attending to the baby in the general hospital because of her selfish interest, the baby was given blood without knowing the blood group of baby and she gave up immediately. "The hospital has no equipment and when given the blood the baby reacted to the blood,struggling through out before she gave up. The picture of that doctor is below and the quack nurses. "Please help repost till it get to the authorities. We have no one but God." Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/03/baby-reportedly-dies-in-lagos-hospital.ht...

The U.S. will further clamp down on the use of foreign aid for non-governmental organisations that support abortions or work with groups that help women access the medical service, an official said. The U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on Tuesday, said this as he announced new limitations on the use of federal government funds in Washington. “We can continue to meet our critical global health goals… while refusing to subsidize the killing of unborn babies,” Pompeo said. He said the new measures would include “strict prohibition on back door schemes” meant to help funnel money to organisations working on women’s health and that support abortions. Pompeo is a Christian conservative and has been facing lobbying by right-wing groups on the abortion issue in Latin America. U.S. President Donald Trump, upon taking office, reversed regulations that were in place during the Obama administration to reimpose the so-called Mexico City Policy, which prohibits organisations receiv...

Ado-Ekiti – An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court has dissolved a nine-year-old marriage between Ayodele Olaoye and his wife, Oluwatoyin, over religious difference. Olaoye, 48, who lives live in Odo-Ado, Ekiti, approached the court on Tuesday, seeking dissolution of the marriage. He said they were not compatible couple because of the frequent differences between them. The President of the court, Mrs Olayinka Akomolede, who said he had observed that the marriage had broken down irretrievably, consequently dissolved the marriage. Akomolede awarded the custody of the children to the wife, ordering the husband to make monthly payments of N5,000 on each of the children as their feeding allowance. She added that the husband shall be responsible for the education of the children. Meanwhile, the president ordered the respondent to refrain from abusing, cursing and intimidating the petitioner, who was granted access to see his children. Earlier, Olaoye said: ”I am an adherent of the Gr...

Danny Young Singer,  Danny Young has stated that it will cost an artiste a whopping sum of N10 million on the average to make and promote a song. He made the revelation in reaction to Waje's decision to quit music after running out of cash. Waje explained that she has been expending a lot of money catering for the education of her daughter who is still in school. Some Nigerians have urged Waje not to throw in the towel as she has so much quality to offer the music industry. This prompted the response of Danny Young who has since taken a long hiatus from the industry. "U quit, u no quit, u are a Legend still. Ur Talent no be here and no be today I see things in ur perspective. Bigup" he captioned his lengthy note to Waje. He took to his Instagram account to make his voice heard as seen below: source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/03/you-need-average-of-n10-million-to-make.html

People board a bus at a bus station in Petare during a power outage in Caracas on March 26, 2019. – A new blackout swept across Venezuela on Monday, including much of Caracas, sowing alarm two weeks after a nationwide outage that paralyzed the country. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP) Venezuela decreed a holiday Tuesday to cope with a new near-nationwide blackout that the government alleged was caused by an “attack” targeting its main hydroelectric plant. Caracas and other cities were without power, knocking out public transport, water supplies and leaving buildings without generators — including many hospitals — plunged into gloom. In the capital, streets were largely empty. There were lines for the very few buses running, but subway stations were closed, the underground trains stalled on their tracks. Shops were shuttered. The outage began in the middle of Monday, sparking fear and frustration as citizens confronted anew the same paralysis that gripped the country just two week...

The FCT High Court, Apo, on Tuesday ordered the Economic And Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to charge an Abuja-based lawyer, Monday Ubani and a former Senator, Christopher Enai to court or release them on bail, on or before March, 28. Justice Silvanus Oriji gave the order after listening to the submissions of the applicants in an ex-parte motion filed by their counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), NAN reports. The judge also in alternative granted bail to the applicants in the sum of N50 million with two reasonable sureties, who must be civil servants on level 15. The court had also ordered that the applicants must deposit their international passports. Ozekhome, counsel to the applicants, in the motion ex parte, prayed the court to order the EFCC to grant the applicants bail on self-recognizance or liberal terms pending arraignment. He also prayed for an order of the court to direct the EFCC to immediately release the applicant on bail pending formal arraignment of appli...

A Federal High Court will on June 6 resume trial in a suit filed by the Federal Government against Shell Western Supply & Trading Ltd. over alleged 406.7 million dollars deprivation in crude oil shipment. The suit numbered FHC/L/CS/336/16 was filed in Lagos by Prof. Fabian Ajogwu (SAN) on behalf of the Federal Government. Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nig. Ltd. and its subsidiary, Shell Western Supply & Trading Ltd. are defendants in the suit before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun. The trial was stalled on Tuesday following absence of the judge who is said to be on another official assignment. In the suit, the Federal Government is claiming the sum of 406.7 million dollars from the defendants as shortfall of money paid by them into the Federal Government account. The money was said to be for crude oil lifted by the defendants in 2013 and 2014. The government said that the Anglo-Dutch company did not declare or under-declared crude oil shipments during the pe...

…as court orders trial-within-trial By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, commenced a trial-within-trial, to ascertain the veracity of an allegation that the Department of State Service, DSS, tortured a pro-Biafra agitator, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, and forced him to sign an incriminating confessional statement. pro-Biafra agitators, Mr. Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi Onwudiwe, hitherto faced treasonable felony charge alongside the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. The Federal Government had shortly after the IPOB leader was declared “missing”, applied to separately try him and three-other pro-Biafra activist, Bright Chimezie, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi. In an amended three-count treasonable felony charge it filed before the court, FG, alleged that the quartet, acting with Kanu (now at large) and others at large, “on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in Nigeri...

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reduced the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) by 50 basis points to 13.50 per cent from 14 per cent. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this during a press conference at the end of a two-day MPC meeting held on Tuesday in Abuja. This is the first time the MPR will be reduced since July 2016. The MPC, however, held all other key parameters remain unchanged; Cash Reserve Requirement (CRR) remained at 22.5 per cent, while the liquidity ratio was kept at 30 per cent. Mr Emefiele explained that the cut in the rates was to support the nation’s feeble economic growth at this time. He added that the decision was aimed at reducing the rate of unemployment and diversifying the country’s economy. Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/03/mpc-cuts-down-mpr-to-135.html

The chance of surviving an air crash is very slim and as such is a disaster when they occur. According to statistics, most air crash occur during takeoffs or landing. Crashes during aircraft cruising are very minimal. According to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, aviation accident is defined as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, and in which:      A person is fatally or seriously injured     The aircraft sustains significant damage or structural failure     The aircraft goes missing or becomes completely inaccessible. It is worthy of mention to say that the first fatal aviation accident was near Wimereux, France, on the 15th day of June, 1785. The crash killed Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier who is the balloon inventor, and the other occupant, Pierre Romain. According t...

he recruitment exercise in Lagos. Sodiq Abubakar (not real name) was not going to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; it was prayers answered for him and he was ready to deploy all his resources to get the job. And so as early as 6:30am, he joined hundreds of other doctors outside the Ladi Kwali Hall of Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, for the recruitment exercise being organised by the Saudi Arabian ministry of health. The ministry, according to a document seen by TheCable, was seeking to employ medical consultants, specialists and medical officers in various fields with priority areas such as anaesthesia, ICU, paediatrics, surgery, emergency and internal medicine as well as ophthalmology. Abubakar currently works at a popular university teaching hospital in the north-west where he earns “around N600,000” a month as a consultant but the Saudi health ministry is proposing something much juicier: between $3,000 (equivalent of N1 million) and $8,333 (equivalent of N3 million) as monthly...