22 Top Federal Officials Sacked Over Budget Padding’…. PUNCH

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A total of 184 civil servants were disciplined for their different roles in the padding of the 2016 budget.

This was contained in Buhari’s authorised biography, ‘Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria’, written by Prof. John Paden and presented to the public on Monday.

Of the 184, Paden said 22 top officials were dismissed from service.

Dino Melaye: Lawmaker buys N180m Rolls Royce despite economic recession [PHOTO]

Dino Melaye, the All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial district has recently acquired a 93-year-old Rolls Royce estimated at N180 million.

Premium Times reports that the Rolls Royce has the registration number “MELAYE 2” and is believed to cost some $400,000.

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Dino Melay's N180m Rolls Royce

A source said the car was purchased in Las Vegas, in the United States of America.

Emotional Wedding: Teacher had her pupils walk her down the aisle

According to reports, the super-teacher and amazing woman got her proposal in front of the whole class, so she thought they deserved to be a big part of the wedding.

What makes French's gesture sweeter and more thoughtful is the fact that all the pupils, students of Christian Academy Rock Creek, Louiseville, Kentucky, had a medical condition - Down Syndrome.

MTN: Senate will not "tolerate" company's move to sack workers

The Senate has opposed the move by telecommunication giant, MTN, to sack its Nigerian workers without following global practices.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Communications, Senator Gilbert Nnaji, told newsmen on Wednesday, October 5, that the upper chamber will reject any unfair decision of the company to terminate workers' appointments.

Fayose says he is the "Real Change"

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has declared himself as the real change.

According to NAN, Fayose made the known when he displayed a poster bearing the inscription:‘Fayose The Real Change’ on Wednesday, October 5, 2016, at an event to celebrate theWorld Teachers Day in Ado-Ekiti.

JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY FOUNDATION

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1 Corinthians 3:10-12

JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY FOUNDATION

For no other foundation can a man lay than what is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:11, NIV

Foundation is critical to the sustenance of any building as it also determines how long it will last. A false foundation is bound to result in building collapse, sooner or later. The famous ship - Titanic - was built with unprecedented sophistication and expertise that it was proclaimed unsinkable not even, by God! by its builders. However, it sunk in less than three hours on its

Nigeria’s Change Mantra In the Era of SDGs, By Noimot Balogun

…the wealth of a nation is sustained when stakeholders are collectively committed to a common good. This public good which is the core of economic stability can only be propelled in the wake of genuine collaboration of concerned actors, thereby creating national wealth that trickles down to individuals, groups and societies and encourages sustainable development.

It is now a glaring fact that so much is happening in the Nigerian polity, especially in relation to economic policy making agencies. This may be partly owing to the pressure of stakeholders at the local and international levels on finding a lasting solution to the current challenges of the Nigerian economy. Declared to be officially in recession a few weeks ago, Nigeria has witnessed a reactive series of policy statements and approaches from different policy making bodies even to the point of creating policy summersault as manifest in the arguments and counter-arguments of decision makers.

Ageless Love These elderly couples give us long-term relationship goals [Gallery]

Love is meant to be timeless. It is meant to be ageless. Love is meant to be forever.

Of course, having been burnt on few [or many many] occasions, many of us no longer believe in these statements as strongly as we once did, and some totally do not even believe it anymore.

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However, these 18 couples, who have defied time and age, are here to remind us that true love still defies age, time, body-changes and even.

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There were some who felt the need to let everyone know they have been around for so long.

Well, we do not blame them for being such showoffs. Who wouldn't be proud of such achievements?

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There were those that were too playful, bringing smiles to our faces and making us wish for such endless love, too.

And there were also those who could not keep their old hands off each other. [Lol]

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Such romance  can only bring nothing but joy to our hearts.

See the full collection of pictures, gotten fromBored Panda, in the gallery above.

Tinubu: I serve the nation:Tinubu chose Osinbajo for Buhari, says general……Nation

Being a statement issued by All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on December 17, 2014, after turning down an offer by the then APC flag bearer Muhammadu Buhari to be his running mate at the March 28, 2015 presidential election. The statement was issued after the former Lagos State Governor had forwarded the names of Prof Yemi Osinbajo as the party’s sole presidential running mate to Buhari. This is contrary to the claim in the President’s biography written by American author and international studies’ teacher Prof John Paden that Buhari chose Osinbajo above Tinubu and his successor at the Lagos State House, Babatunde Fashola.

World Teachers’ Day: ’27 States Unable To Pay Salaries’ By Success Nwogu

The Kwara State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Mr. Musa Abubakar, has said that 27 states in Nigeria have been unable to pay teachers’ salaries.

He added that workers and teachers, in particular, were the worst hit of Nigeria’s current economic recession.

He spoke on Wednesday during the World Teachers’ Day in Ilorin.

He also condemned what he described as government’s inability to match its words with action.

ECOWAS Court Declares Dasuki’s Detention Illegal, Asks FG to Pay N15m Compensation…. Vanguard News

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The Economic Community for West African States, ECOWAS, Court, Tuesday, ordered the Federal Government to immediately release the erstwhile National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, from detention and asked that the Federal Government to pay him N15 million damages. Dasuki, who was NSA to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has been in detention since November 3, 2015, when he was arrested by security operatives over his alleged complicity in a $2.1billion arms procurement fraud.

Asset Declaration: CCT Convicts Orubebe, ex-minister Loses Abuja Property

The Code of Conduct Tribunal on Tuesday convicted a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Godsday Orubebe, for failure to declare his property at Plot 2057, Asokoro District, Abuja, in any of his asset declaration forms he completed as minister.

As punishment, the Danladi Umar-led tribunal in its judgment ordered that the property which the former minister failed to declare be forfeited to the Federal Government.

Umar, reading the judgment of the CCT, said, “The tribunal has been satisfied with the prosecution that up till now it is the name of the accused person that is with the Federal Capital Territory Land Registry as the owner of the property and not DW1/Divention Properties Limited.

Niger Delta 'We'll respect negotiation efforts but don't dare us,' Military warns militants

The Nigerian military has warned militants in theNiger Delta that it will retaliate proportionately if they attack its location in the region, despite the ongoing negotiation with the Federal Government.

According to the Defence Headquarters, the military will abide with the negotiation effort of the government but will not take kindly any attack on its men.

Why Google’s Pixel Phones Should Be A Big Deal For Everyone

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So the rumors were true: the Nexus brand is officially dead, and Google did unveil its new Pixel phones. Some love the Pixel duo, and some don’t, but whether you like the Pixel phones or not, Google’s announcement is a huge deal because it signals a monumental shift in Google’s mobile phone strategy.

In case you missed the news, it was a busy day for Google today. The search giant announced the highly anticipated Pixel and Pixel XL phones among other products. The Pixel phones boast a sturdy body with an impressive camera, and they come with the all new Google Assistant. The design may not be elegant as the Nexus 6P, and the pricing may be unexpectedly high. But everything aside, the October 4th event will always be remembered as a turning point for the company, as Hiroshi Lockheimer tweeted a few weeks ago.

Yahaya Bello: Gov appoints female Chief Press Secretary, first-ever in Northern history

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has namedPetra Akinti Onyegbule the Chief press secretary of the state government.

Onyegbele becomes the first woman to occupy the position in the history of northern Nigeria, and the second in Nigeria's history.

The Governor confirmed her appointment on Tuesday, October 4.

Before her appointment, Onyegbule served as Bello's special assistant on electronic media.

The Supreme Court had on Tuesday, September 20 upheld Bello's victory in the December 2015 gubernatorial election in the state.

FG Puts Up N7bn Presidential Jets For Sale | Punch

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The Presidency on Tuesday confirmed that newspaper advertisements for the sale of two presidential aircraft, a Falcon 7X executive jet and Hawker 4000, were duly authorised by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed this in a statement made available to journalists.

Shehu said the decision to sell the jets was in line with the directive of the President that aircraft in the Presidential Air Fleet should be reduced to cut down on waste.

Honestly, Nigerians Don’t Want Good Governance By Azuka Onwuka

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Nigerians say that they want the nation transformed into one of the leading nations of the world, but there are no signs that many of them truly mean it. Talk is cheap. Our actions since Independence do not support that view. Why do I think so?

Since October 1, a former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, has been top in national discourse. His name has been trending in the social media platforms. He delivered an inspiring speech at The Platform 2016, organised by the Covenant Christian Centre. In the speech, he spoke about how to cut out waste in governance. He based his speech on his experience as governor.

Change Begins With Who? By Olu Aluko-Apalara

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By now, one would have expected Nigerians to know that the leadership is no longer our problem but the following. Since 1979, one would have expected the citizens to have known better and make democracy work by now.

Where was Goodluck Jonathan when Shehu Shagari was President? Where was Bola Tinubu, Dimeji Bankole, Anyim Pius Anyim, Ayo Fayose when the nation was in dire need of new breed politicians?

PDP Heads For Tribunal To Challenge Obaseki’s Victory By Alexander Okere

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The Independent National Electoral Commission had last Thursday declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Godwin Obaseki, as the winner of the election.

According to the electoral umpire, Obaseki had a total of 319,483 votes while his counterpart in the PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, polled 253,173 votes to come second.

The opposition had rejected the result, which it described as a fraud, and accused INEC of alleged complicity.

British Scientists May Have Cured A Man Of HIV With Experimental New Therapy

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British scientists could be one step closer towards finding a permanent cure for HIV.

A 44-year-old social worker in London appears to be completely free of the virus after undergoing an experimental therapy technique.

The man was first given a vaccine which helped his immune system detect infected cells, and then took Vorinostat, a drug which is normally used in experimental cancer treatment trials.

The Vorinostat then activates dormant infected cells that would normally slip through the net allowing the body’s immune system to detect and kill every last infected cell.

Exclusive: Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.

The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees and a third person apprised of the events.

APC Crisis: You Can’t Remove Me On Pages Of Newspaper, Oyegun Tells Tinubu

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The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, John Oyegun, has reacted to the call by a former Lagos governor and a leader of the party, Ahmed Tinubu, that he should resign.

Mr. Oyegun said the national chairman of a party cannot be removed on the pages of newspapers.

He said Mr. Tinubu’s letter accusing him of highhandedness and being a mole in the party, was a “bit too harsh”, but said the two politicians merely had a “difference of opinion”.

WORLD TEACHERS’DAY: Where Is The Nigerian Teacher Globally? By Dayo Adesulu

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AS Nigerian teachers join their counterparts all over the world to celebrate the World Teachers’ Day, stakeholders in the teaching profession have lamented the precarious state of Nigerian teachers in the comity of teachers globally. The 2016 World Teachers’ Day with the theme -‘Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status’ was described by teachers as most apt for the Nigerian where our teachers deserved to be celebrated for being the pivot of socio-economic development.

HOLD FAST TO OUR CONFESSION

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Wednesday, October 5

Hebrews 10:19-25

HOLD FAST TO OUR CONFESSION

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23-24. NIV

We can’t go back to Mosul for fear of being killed, kidnapped or robbed.” “We can’t ever return to Mosul as we have nothing left there.” These were the voices of Leila and Imad Aziz, a couple who fled from the harsh and inhumane treatment of Christians in Iraq. Imad and Aziz were just few of millions of Christians

KEEP YOUR COMMITMENT TO CHRIST

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Hebrews 3:7-15

KEEP YOUR COMMITMENT TO CHRIST

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. Hebrews 3:14, NIV

The sad history of the nation of Israel teaches us profound and timely lessons today. The Israelites started with God but most of them did not end well because their hearts always went astray.