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”Your prayer 5 above approved – PMB” With those words, President Muhammadu Buhari on 13th August cancelled the controversial offshore processing and oil swap deals initiated in January this year by the outgone administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. The agreement was earlier billed to last till December 2016. President Buhari’s approval is in a bid by the new leadership of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to ensure transparency and due process. In a memo to the President on August 12, the NNPC sought approval to terminate all such current contracts following a presidential directive. “This memo purports to seek Mr President’s approval to terminate all current Offshore Processing and SWAP contracts and commence a fresh re-tendering process to ensure transparency, due process and optimized contract terms in favour of the NNPC,” stated the letter signed by Ibe Kachikwu, the Group Managing Director of NNPC. Responding, the president approv...

Femi Falana, a famous Lagos lawyer, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption strategy. The Lagos lawyer while speaking on Channels TV programme said that “contrary to the general belief that former President closed his eyes to corruption, President Goodluck Jonathan did so much in the fight against corruption including the sack of three of his ministers for alleged graft.” Falana added that Jonathan carried out the most positive loot recovery without making noise about it. It should be noted that during the Jonathan’s tenure, the administration presented the Single Bank account for the country, saving billions. Their electronic payroll payment system and the Bio-metric registration of federal personnel recognized 68,000 ghost workers and over 50,000 ghost pensioners. The previous government also introduced the Single Contract Requisition system with a legislative oversight. The cashless economy was the cause that “Ghana-Must-Go” vanis...

Women are more likely to become bisexual if opportunities arise to explore same-sex relationships , say researchers. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to stay on one side of the sexual fence or the other. US scientists tracked 5,018 women and 4,191 men as they progressed from adolescence to young adulthood, questioning them about their sexual activity. They found that women were three times more likely than men to change their sexual identities. Women who were more educated, more physically attractive, and who avoided young motherhood were less likely to experiment with bisexuality.  Lead researcher Dr Elizabeth McClintock, from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, said: "Women with some degree of attraction to both males and females might be drawn into heterosexuality if they have favourable options in the heterosexual partner market. "Women who are initially successful in partnering with men, as is more traditionally expected, may nev...

Below is how the church of the controversial SA pastor is reporting his latest wonder deliverance "The man of God commanded the sheep to come to the front & he started demonstrating power through them. He first commanded the spirit of a snake to enter into them and commanded the spirit to show its character in them. They started moving like snakes and behaving like snakes. He then sent them to go to Nigeria and they started to speak like Nigerians. He further demonstrated by sending them into the water and commanded them to swim. They all started swimming and behaving like the different creatures living under the sea. He then turned them into sheep and they started bleating like goats making sounds as if they were goats. He turned one of them into a horse, climbed on top of him, and turned his head to become his feet and he stood on his head with his legs up. He took them to the church next to the bridge and one of them manifested saying “We must tell people ...

A pregnant woman and a baby were among those who died in a twin suicide bomb attack at a bus terminal in Damaturu in Yobe state this morning. The state police commands spokesperson, DSP Toyin Gbadegeshin said this to news men after the incident “The suicide bomb girl detonated the explosive at the screening centre of the motor park gate, killing herself and four others, including a pregnant woman and a baby. The other explosive went off at about the same time with the first one at Pompomari, when a suspected male suicide bomber, sensing he will be apprehended, ran into a nearby bush and the explosive went off, killing him alone,” he said.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Nigeria Immigration Service has been directed by the Nigerian Government to retrieve all valid diplomatic and official passports from those who are not entitled to hold such documents. The statement signed  on Monday , by the Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Interior, Yusuf Isiaka and made available to NAN reads: "The attention of the Federal Government has been drawn to the fact that some Nigerians who are not entitled to hold diplomatic and official passports are in possession of these documents. The Permanent Secretary, Mr Abubakar Magaji, Federal Ministry of Interior, has directed the Nigeria Immigration Service to retrieve all valid diplomatic and official passports with immediate effect from all persons who are not entitled to hold such documents." The measure, according to the statement, is intended to protect and promote Nigeria’s integrity in the comity of nations in addition to ensuring l...

25-year-old Jasmine Twitty just made history by becoming the youngest judge ever in Easley, South Carolina, US.