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Friday, 23 September 2016

Nigerian Blogger Detained For Five Days….. PremiumTimes

A Nigerian blogger on Thursday spent his fourth night in detention for writing a controversial blog post.
Jamil Mabai, a blogger based in the Northwestern state of Katsina, was arrested by officers of the Nigerian Police Force on Monday in Kaduna.

The blogger is a known critic of the Katsina administration led by Aminu Masari on his blog, Cliqq Magazine.
A Magistrate Court in Katsina on Thursday declined jurisdiction to try him. The judge instead asked that he be further detained.

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Friday, September 23

Isaiah 60:19-22

THE GLORY OF THE NATION RESTORED

… for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. Isaiah 60:19, NIV

A terrible agony to bear in life is the agony of lost or departed glory, especially the glory of God. It is better not to experience it

84 undergraduates who flouted the dress code of Lagos State University (LASU) have been issued warning letters by the manament of the institution.

According to the official bulletin of LASU, the students, after being sent the letters, were magnanimously pardoned for dressing indecently within the school premises.

In Abuja: Cook to spend 1month in prison for generator theft

A 22-year-old cook, Nura Ibrahim, will spend one month in prison for theft of generator.

A Karimo, Grade 1 Area Court presided over by Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, after the cook pleaded guilty and begged for leniency.

GABORONE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe should step aside without delay and allow new leadership of a country whose political and economic implosion since 2000 is dragging down the whole of southern Africa, Botswana President Ian Khama said.

Despite his reputation as one of Africa’s most outspoken figures, Khama’s remarks are certain to raise hackles in Harare, where factions of Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party are locked in a bitter struggle to succeed the only leader Zimbabwe has known.

Segun's Thoughts

If you don't feature in your future mental picture then there is problem!!
Don't be afraid though, you can still feature.
Amen, Amen.

If you had a dream about how your future will look like or will be and you discovered that you did not feature in it there is a big problem. You must feature in that dream if you want it to be fulfilled.

There is indeed cause for worry. When three major domestic airlines get grounded in weeks, you are bound to begin to imagine the country itself is shutting down.

This was the feeling recently as three airlines: Aero Contractors; First Nation and Arik announced in quick succession, their inability to continue to fly their domestic and foreign routes.

Although Arik Airlines, the biggest of them all, has announced its return to business, not so for the other two. Aero on its part insists it is undergoing “strategic realignment” for improved profitability, it may take a while to return as it is enmeshed in deep debt issues with the Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), which has already taken over management of the firm.

A civil servant, Rose Archibong, on Wednesday told a Nyanya Customary Court, Abuja, that her husband, Uko Effiong, has threatened to use her and her children for money ritual.

Rose, the petitioner, who resides in Nyanya, said this when she testified in a divorce petition she filed against her husband.

“My husband said he will kill me and my children and use us for money ritual.

Curiously, I heard for the first time in Toronto, from some Nigerian filmmakers no less, a new name, ‘New Nigerian Cinema’, to describe our film industry. We’ve heard “Nollywood”, “New Nollywood”, “Nollywood 2.0”, and now ‘New Nigerian Cinema’? Is the industry evolving? Are the players in the industry changing?

There was only one reason why I decided to attend the Toronto International Film Festival this year. To feel like a filmmaker again. Well, also because this year, the Festival had chosen Lagos as the city in focus for their annual “City to City” feature and spotlight on the bubbling film industry.

A 42-year-old businessman has accused his wife of being a thief at an Igando Customary Court in Lagos.

Urging the court to dissolve his marriage of four years, Livinus Uwa, claimed that he had married a thief who always stole his money and wardrobe.

Uwa made the disclosure while testifying in his divorce petition against his wife, Chineye, on Wednesday, September 21.

AS school children resume from the long vacation, Vanguard investigations revealed that parents have commenced withdrawing their children from private schools to public ones, attributing their action to the harsh economic situation in the country.

Parents and school owners, who spoke to Vanguard yesterday, lamented the bad economic situation, with proprietors stating that since resumption their schools have been witnessing a low turnout of returning pupils. Mrs Gladys Adewumi, whose three children were in Living Joy Nursery and Primary School, Ikorodu, said she withdrew two of her children from the private school to a public school when it was apparent her husband could not cope financially.

The long-standing comedian created a video to mark the event and shared it on his IG page.

In the short video, Klint referred to his wife as his rock, the most beautiful lady he knows, the strongest woman he knows... basically she is just his everything, [Awwwwn, so sweet.]

The victims of alleged herdsmen’s brutality in Agatu Local Government of Benue have prayed the ECOWAS Court to compel the Federal Government to pay them N10 billion as compensation.

This is contained in an originating application filed by the affected members of the Agatu Community and made available by the court to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Abuja on Wednesday.

In a previous article, we listed the things you must absolutely do during your honeymoon.

One of the things we listed, one which several couples actually look forward to, is good, romantic sex.

It is not ridiculous to say that good sex is a big component of every good honeymoon experience.

…how would a woman, who should be sued on behalf of the IDPs, nursing mothers, pregnant women, school children, market women and the sick, all of who had suffered deprivation, on account of the activities of her husband’s government, in which she was an active participant, have the effrontery to sue the EFCC for peeping into her closets of looted funds?

The former first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan obviously enjoys the glitz of life in the limelight, even if such publicity is negatively skewed against her. This past week has seen so much of that, but the glamorous and powerful woman of yesteryears appears unperturbed about her perception by many as a bad representative of that office.

Brad Pitt are Angelina Jolie might be separated now, as they wait for the finalization of their divorce.

That's pretty sad when you consider how great they were as a couple while the marriage lasted.

They managed 12 years together; and if you look at it, that’s enough time to get enough experience and be able to share some relationship advice.

So in this article, we list the best 5 advice the power-couple shared with us over the years.

Angelina and Brad Pitt (IB Times)

Take a leap of faith

Brad believes that whatever will be will be, so everyone should give themselves a shot at love and marriage. You really will not know what your marriage will be like if you do not actually marry.

"A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. That's the trade-off.

But I'll take it all ... One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her," Brad tells Parade.

Brangelina (People)

Family first, all the time

Work should always come after family, according to Brad Pitt.

Yes. The star actor, appearing on CBS This Morning, is of the opinion that putting your career ahead of everything is fine, until you start a family.

"The work has gotten better because I worry less about it — it's family. Family becomes the source of joy or worry. It takes any pressure of self-absorption away; it just evaporates. It makes it freer," he says.

Push each other to be the best

In an interview with Elle, Angelina advises that couples shouldn't just love each other. They should also push each other to attain the best at whatever you do.

"You get together and you're two individuals and you feel inspired by each other, you challenge each other, you complement each other, drive each other beautifully crazy," she says.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (Wikipedia)

Save your wild side only for your partner

The couple believe the ‘bad’ side of everyone should be kept for their partners. [Apparently, Brad's views changed over time, yeah?]

Anyway, when both the couple appeared on 60 Minutes, Angelina said she still retained her ‘bad’ side.

"I'm still a bad girl," she says.

“Yes, she is, but that's not for public consumption,"Brad adds.

Angelina and Brad Pitt (DailyMail)

Let the kids know that daddy and mommy need special time

"We tell the kids, 'Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.' They go, 'Eww

Google Allo Released, Letting People Chat While Being Watched By Its Robots | Independent

Google’s Allo chat app has finally been released.

The new messaging platform hopes to win people over from the huge variety of other chat apps – like iMessage, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger – by taking advantages of Google’s smart robots. The little assistant sits within the app itself, and can be called on as part of a conversation.

That tool, referred to as Google Assistant, leverages all Google’s power in storing and finding out information. And it’s accessed by talking to it as people would in anyone else in a chat – asking questions and having them answered, only the person knows almost everything in human knowledge.

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Thursday, September 22

Isaiah 60:1-5

THE EXILES WILL RETURN

When you see them coming you’ll smile… a rich harvest of exiles gathered in from other nations.
Isaiah 60:5, MSG

There was a time in Israel that the circumstances surrounding the people of God brought them into serious depression and frustration. Sorrow, gloom and devastation became their lot

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt: A summary of the celebrity couple's 12-year union

According to TMZ, Angelina Jolie has set forward a divorce motion against Brad Pitt.

Whisper it gently; the unexpected somehow happened - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are being used in the same sentence as Divorce.

We bet you are just as shocked as we were when we came across the reports too.

Pep Guardiola says Yaya Toure will not play for him again at Manchester City until he receives an apology from the midfielder.

Toure found himself out of favour under Guardiola at Barcelona earlier in his career and this season has proved a similar story with the Spaniard starting him in just one competitive match.

That came in the second leg of the Champions League play-off against Steaua Bucharest, with City already leading 5-0 from the away fixture, and Toure was subsequently omitted from City's squad for the group stage.

Yaya Toure has only played in one game for City this season (Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine Livepic)

The significance of KSA’s work as a musician lies in his ability to weave such a diverse array of elements into a distinct form that is immediately recognisable. It unfolds as sequences of improvised vocal and instrumental narratives carefully put together, exploring diverse and free-flowing themes, gracefully embodied, and rendered conversationally with the audience in ways that break social and cultural boundaries.

Celebrating King Sunny Ade

King Sunny Ade’s transformation from his Oshogbo/Ondo humble beginnings into global stardom is marked by two recurring attributes: single-mindedness and perseverance. It is a story about a person who knew he had a calling to become a professional musician, and worked resolutely towards achieving his goal. Drawing on the values of self-dignity that his mother had taught him, and relying on his knowledge of indigenous performance, King Sunny Ade (KSA) proceeded to Lagos and began a

The Forgotten Country Man, By Ozioma Ezeugo

Social and economic policies should, in the main, be construed to mitigate the effects of the unwholesome status of the local economic substratum and hence empower the “forgotten country man” for national recognition and visibility.

The domestic economy of any country is, unarguably, a dynamic fiscal/monetary organism bound together by critical challenge scenarios which sneer continually at the core centres of socio-economic decision making. The dynamism of a given economy is often enough woven around specific streams of national socio-economic, human and natural endowments. And so, when managers at the commanding heights of the domestic economy train their search lights on the critical strengths of the economy, the perceived result of their creative exploration and appropriation measures is often read as economic growth and development.

The Senate President, Bukol Saraki, in his welcome speech at the resumption of plenary, called on the Federal Government to focus on ending the hunger in the land.

According to Premium Times, Saraki also said Nigerians are hungry and they do not want to know who caused the recession.

The Senate President said the debate on the economic recession should be free of partisan sentiments and blames.

Africa’s Top Cotton Grower Sees Good Crop After Monsanto Ban | Bloomberg

With a well-worn hoe dangling on his shoulder, farmer Elie Gnoumou scanned his cotton field in the south of Burkina Faso, Africa’s top grower of the fiber, with visible relief.

A month before the harvest is due to start, the 44-year-old said his hard work this season is likely to pay off. “I’ve had to do six insecticide treatments so far and there’s probably two more to go,” Gnoumou said. “But it’s looking good.”

Following the news on Tuesday, September 20, 2016, that Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, Paramount has released a new teaser for "Allied," starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard.

playBrad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in "Allied" (YouTube )

About movie

While on a mission to kill a German official in 1942 Africa, two assassins (Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard) fall in love, get married and then discover that one is a double agent that the other must eliminate.

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