'Buhari to sign the 2016 budget on or before next week Tuesday'- Saraki

Senate president, Bukola Saraki, says President Buhari will sign the 2016 budget on or before next week Tuesday May 3rd. Speaking with State House correspondents at the end of a meeting the leaders in the National Assembly had with Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday April 26th, Saraki said all the grey areas in the budget will be ironed out in a matter of days and the budget will be ready for Buhari’s assent on or before next week Tuesday.

“We just finished a meeting with the president and vice president. We came to let them know some of the solutions that we found in moving the budget process forward and we are happy to say that we have agreed on the way forward and we believe that this process will be completed in matter of days rather than weeks. So it is good to Nigerians and all of us, we have found a way forward and in a matter of days the budget will be ready for president’s assent. We have committees that have been set up on our side and also on the executive side. We will engage over the next few days, to just tidy up a few loose ends and here and there and the outcome will be satisfactory to everybody.”

Nigeria not on the list of 15 growing economies in Africa

According to this new statistic shared by the International Monetary Fund IMF, Nigeria is not among the top 15 growing economies in Africa. The statistic shows that Cote D’Ivoire is the most economically viable country in Africa.

7 Ways To Increase The Battery Life Of Your Android Smartphone

As we all know that android smartphone is the most used device in the world when it comes to the phone world. With Features like multitasking, it's easier for the device battery to get drained up at a fast rate.

There are fews reasons why your battery gets drained easily which includes overcharging, apps running in background mode but this discussion has to do with some tips to increase the life span of your android battery.

Power Generation Drops To 3,494MW

The 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) have continued to ration power supply to consumers across the geo-political zones of the country as the national grid generation drops to 3,494Mega Watts (MW).

The Guardian investigations yesterday revealed that the nation’s power sector appears to be lacking proper harmonisation of data as various government agencies, including the Federal Ministry of Power, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) failed to update the power generation level while some are parading conflicting figures on their websites.

F.C.T Minister Malam Bello Orders Removal Of Speed Bumps On Abuja-nyanya Highway

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Malam Muhammad Bello has ordered the removal of the speed bumps erected on the Abuja-Nyanya expressway, precisely at the Kugbo furniture market.
This directive which was announced on RayPower FM on Tuesday morning and monitored by DAILY POST was in response to the public outcry that trailed the appearance of the speed bumps said to have been constructed to enable residents cross over to Kugbo without being hit by ongoing vehicles.

Pliers of the road had since last Saturday when it was noticed cried out to the authorities to remove the bumps which had worsened the traffic snarl experienced on the road. Some say they spend over six hours returning home because of the ensuing gridlock.

Missing Coventry University Student Found Dead.

Coventry University Student Ozi Akerele Who was missing Last year January has been found dead.


"Two young boys playing football found body of missing student in disused Coventry churchyard.

The body in a disused Coventry churchyard believed to be that of missing student Ozi Akerele was discovered by two ten-year-old boys.

The shocking discovery happened after the boys kicked a football in to the churchyard, off Albert Fearns Garden, in Foleshill, and climbed over a fence to retrieve it.

Kelechi Iheanacho is ''Europe's Deadllest Striker''

His 11 goals have come at an average of every 81.27 minutes - better than anyone in Europe's top five leagues

Iheanacho scored twice for Manchester City as they swept aside Stoke 4-0 in the Premier League on Saturday

In Manchester the spotlight on one of the hottest young talents falls on the red side of the city in Marcus Rashford. The Manchester United teenager has lit up their season with his goalscoring exploits - netting seven goals in 14 appearances since making his debut in February.

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Drivers' License Expiration Is Now "5 Years" Says Federal Government

The good news is that the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Road Safety Corps - Boboye Oyeyemi, has announced that the Federal Government has approved the extension of the validity period of Drivers license to five years. 

This decision was taken by the Joint Tax Board at its 134th meeting held recently in Kano. In a chat with Transport Editors in Lagos, the Corps Marshal said rather than Drivers’ license expiring in three years, drivers now had the option of settling for either three or five years license.

This however comes with different price tags. Drivers who want the three years' license are to pay N6,000 while those who opted for the five years' license would pay N10,000.00

National Assembly to correct errors in 2016 budget within one week

The National Assembly has assured that it would resolve gray areas in the 2016 budget and transmit same to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent within one week.

This is even as the two legislative chambers clarified that details of the budget aggregated and transmitted to the Executive were largely inputs received from the standing committees.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropirations Danjuma Goje and his counterpart in the House of Representatives Abdulmumin Jibrin stated this in a press release late Sunday.

They submitted that consultations are ongoing with a view to resolving impasse.

Bailouts Reveal Precarious Finances Of Nigerian States

The continuing reliefs and bailouts given to states by the Federal Government reveal the dangerous financial situations of various sub-national governments in Nigeria.

They show that most states are not viable and may need to merge to consistently meet their social and economic obligations to their citizens.

As at the fourth quarter of 2015, the debt owed by Nigerian state governments to deposit money banks (DMBs) was in excess of N600bn.

In addition to N338 billion injected by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as bailout, the total credit to some 27 financially distressed states was in the neighbourhood of N1 trillion, an amount analysts say is quite significant.

The Federal Government is again offering a relief, which has led to the suspension of further deductions from their monthly allocations from the Federation Account for an unspecified period.

FG To Empower 1,000 Youths In ICT

The federal government has planned to empower 1,000 Nigerian youth in Information and Communication technology (ICT).

The media assistant to presidential aide on youth and student affairs, Gidado Shuaib in statement said the Nigerian government has developed a partnership with a leading global ICT form to initiate a social development programme for youth.

Shuaib said the ICT programme by Huawei Technologies would empower 1,000 Nigeria youth as part of government’s effort to addressing unemployment in the country.

The initiative, Shuaib said would be overseen by Nasir Adhama, special assistant to president Muhammadu Buhari on youth and student affairs.

Nigeria Revenue Drops To 5-year Low As Tax, Oil Income Fall

Nigeria’s revenue fell last month to the lowest level in more than five years as taxes and oil earnings dropped, making it more difficult for the government of Africa’s largest economy to pay public workers.

The country’s federal, state and local governments were altogether allocated 300 billion naira ($1.5 billion) in March, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement e-mailed late Thursday from the capital, Abuja. To assist the lower-tier governments, the ministry also waived 10.9 billion naira of loan repayments.

About 27 of 36 states are “currently experiencing challenges meeting their salary payments,” the ministry said. “We are not able to guarantee that all states will be able to meet their salary obligations.”

Electing Sheriff National Chairman Will Be Disastrous, Okupe Tells PDP

An aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin

Okupe, has called on leaders of the Peoples

Democratic Party, PDP, not to elect Ali Modu

Sheriff the party’s chairman.

Mr. Okupe said electing the controversial Borno

politician would mean repeating the mistake the

party made in adopting Goodluck Jonathan as its

presidential candidate in 2015.

What is in a shisha pipe A.K.A Hookah?

Shisha pipes use tobacco sweetened with fruit or molasses sugar, which makes the smoke more aromatic than cigarette smoke. Popular flavourings include apple, plum, coconut, mango, mint, strawberry and cola. Wood, coal, or charcoal is burned in the shisha pipe to heat the tobacco and create the smoke because the fruit syrup or sugar makes the tobacco damp.

When you smoke shisha, you and anyone sitting near you are breathing in smoke which releases toxins including carbon monoxide and heavy metals –reducing your body’s ability to carry oxygen around in your blood.

How harmful is shisha smoking?
Traditionally shisha tobacco contains cigarette tobacco, so like cigarettes it contains nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide and heavy metals, such as arsenic and lead. As a result, shisha smokers are at risk of the same kinds of diseases as cigarette smokers, such as heart disease, cancer, respiratory disease and problems during pregnancy.
It’s difficult to say exactly how much smoke or toxic substances you’re exposed to in a typical shisha session .People smoke shisha for much longer periods of time than they smoke a cigarette, and in one puff of shisha you inhale the same amount of smoke as you’d get from a smoking a whole cigarette.

The average shisha-smoking session lasts an hour and research has shown that in this time you can inhale the same amount of smoke as from more than 100 cigarettes.

Some people mistakenly think that shisha smoking is not addictive because the water used in the pipe can absorb nicotine. In reality, because only some of the nicotine is absorbed by the water, shisha smokers are still exposed to enough nicotine to cause an addiction.

Please always remember smoker are liable to die young.

The Oldest Person With Sickle - Asiata Onikoyi-laguda

At 90, Asiata Onikoyi-Laguda is believed to be the oldest person with sickle cell disease in the world. She was born in November 1925, the same year as Margaret Thatcher, first female British prime minister and Malcolm X, the African American civil rights activist. At that time, the average life expectancy of children born with sickle cell disorder was just five years, but she has defied the odds to live up to 90. Due to the high level of illiteracy at the time of her birth, she was never diagnosed with sickle cell. She endured years of pain, which kept her away from school till she was 12 years old. Her pain was so severe and frequent that she would beg God to let her die.

U.S.-led coalition blows up $500 million in Islamic State cash and cuts its oil revenues

The U.S.-led coalition air campaign blew up about $500 million of the Islamic State’s cash and cut its oil revenues by about 50%, according to a senior US defense official.
An ISIS source who asked not to be named says The Islamic State has been forced to ration fuel in some areas and cut its fighters and government officials pay in regions it controls by half.

U.S. officials have said the air campaign combined with local ground forces in Iraq and Syria have dealt the Islamic State setbacks in recent months, saying the terror group has lost 40% of the territory it once controlled in Iraq. “We've got the momentum,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said.

How CBN Exceeded Approved Waiver To Employ Buhari, Ministers’ Relatives

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, illegally hired at least 396 more than the number approved by the Federal Character Commission, in a highly secretive process that benefitted relatives of President Muhammadu Buhari and ministers in his cabinet, PREMIUM TIMES can confirm today.

Although the Commission granted waiver for 513 people to be employed without advertisement as required by law, PREMIUM TIMES learnt that CBN raised the number to 909.

Many beneficiaries of the crooked process were family members of senior government officials, serving and past.

Ozil misses out on PFA Team of the Year as Leicester & Tottenham dominate

Leicester City and Tottenham have four representatives each in the PFA Team of the Year, with Arsenal star Mesut Ozil left out of the Premier League's best XI for 2015-16.

The German playmaker misses out on the team despite racking up 18 assists, with Tottenham starlet Dele Alli preferred in central midfield alongside Leicester's N'Golo Kante.

For the third time in his Manchester United career, David de Gea gets the nod as the division's top goalkeeper on the back of another impressive season.

Man To Die For Killing Fulani Man

The Supreme Court has affirmed the death sentence handed out to a farmer and father of five, James Afolabi, by the Kogi State High Court and the Court of Appeal.
In a unanimous judgment delivered on Friday, a five-man panel of the apex court held that there was no basis to disturb the concurrent finding of the trial and lower courts in their previous judgments.
Afolabi, from Kogi State, was convicted and sentenced to death by the Kogi State High Court, Lokoja in 2012 having been found guilty for the murder of a Fulani man, Abubakar Mohammed.

The court relied on Afolabi’s confessional statement to the police, where he claimed to have shot Mohammed on the chest for straying into his (Afolabi’s) yam and cassava farm on February 27, 2009.

PDP Only Needs Three Senators To Produce Senate President - Yerima

A PDP-controlled Senate will spell doom for the All Progressive Congress government of President Muhammadu Buhari, former House of Representatives member Dr Haruna Yerima has said.

“The ruling party and the presidency must ensure that the ranks and files of APC senators remain intact,” Yerima told Daily Trust on Thursday.

The APC chieftain said with the ongoing criminal trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki, “something strategic must be done to avert the National Assembly’s ridiculing of the president.”

“You can imagine what will happen if the PDP takes over the Senate? What happened during the election of Saraki in June last year is an eye opener. There will be problems for Buhari’s government if the PDP takes over the senate,” he said.