The Semiotics of ASUU’s Warning Strike By Niyi Akinnaso

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Thinking with You Niyi Akinnaso, niyi.tlc@gmail.com

When I was teaching Semiotics to graduate students at Temple University in Philadelphia, United States of America, I often used “The Rhetoric of the image”, a classic semiotic analysis published in 1964 by Roland Barthes, to illustrate how different messages are conveyed, usually on different levels, by a system of signs. Like the advertisement of Panzani (a brand of pasta) used in Barthes’ illustration, union strikes in Nigeria are a system of signs, each strike conveying multiple messages simultaneously.

Military, Not Buhari, Responsible For Nigeria’s Problems— Sen Achonu By Joseph Erunke

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Senator Athan Achonu has asked Nigerians not to heap blames of the current economic recession on President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the problems were created by past military administrations.

Achonu insisted that the problems bedeviling Nigeria were caused by the military, which, he said, abandoned its constitutional responsibilities to engage in the governance.

Power Supply Won’t Improve In Next 5 Years— DISCO BOSS

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The Managing Director of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, Olufunke Osibodu, has urged Nigerians not to expect any improvement in the power sector in the next five years.

Speaking at the 11th Annual Founder’s Day event of the American University of Nigeria in Yola, Saturday, Mrs. Osibodu said at least N250 billion is required annually to fix the country’s electricity sector. “And we Nigerians need to understand that we cannot do it overnight, and in addition we have to pay for it,” said Mrs. Osibodu, while delivering the keynote speech titled ‘Beyond Oil: Sustainable Development for All Nigerians.

NYSC Call-up Letter Can Now Be Printed Online, Camp Begins Thursday

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The National Youth Service Corps authorities have said that prospective corps members can now print their call-up letters online.

It also adds that the camp for Stream 1, 2016 Batch ‘B’ commences on Thursday.

This is a radical departure from the practice whereby intending corps members must return to their respective schools to pick up the letters physically

Protest hit Egypt as School Girls Battle Cycling Harassment (Photo)

Girls in northern Egypt have launched a bike-riding campaign in protest against widespread intolerance towards female cyclists.

It's unusual to see women cycling in Egypt, and some of those who do so face harassment from passers-by.
But five teenagers in the city of Port Said are trying to change that.

Reality Will Force Trump To Adjust As U.S. President – Obama

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New York – Outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama says he can not guarantee that president-elect Donald Trump will not pursue some of his campaign rhetoric when sworn-in as president. Obama made the remark in Lima at his final international news conference as U.S. president after attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum.

At the news conference Obama said “I can’t guarantee that the president-elect won’t pursue some of the positions that he’s taken.

Trump Agenda

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday released a two-and-a-half-minute infomercial-style video, turning to social media to deliver a direct-to-camera message in which he vowed to create jobs, renegotiate trade agreements, end restrictions on energy production and impose bans on lobbying.

Pirated Product As Poisonous As Adulterated Drug – Lai Mohammed

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Lagos – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that “a pirated product is as poisonous as an adulterated drug” and urged stakeholders to take necessary steps to stem piracy.

The minister said this on Sunday night in Lagos at the command performance of one of Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka’s iconic plays, “Death and the King’s Horseman”.

BREAKING: Toyin Aimakhu's Ex-Lover Seun Egbegbe Caught Stealing iPhones, Beaten By Mob

It's sad that when you try to save people from mess, their greed usually overwhelmed them and lead them to the fast lane until they land inside the actual mess you were trying to save them from.

I will just write in parables and leave this matter because many so called big boys and big girls you see in Lagos are into this act...they use 'charms' to control people, use 'charms' to enter shops to steal and get away, forgetting that there is always a day of reckoning. Everyone should learn.

Prioritising Public Spending In States By Obo Effanga

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Last week, I wrote about the need for Nigerians to pay more attention to what their state governors are doing, if we are to save our present and future. There is every reason to stay on the matter a bit more. And a few news items in the last few weeks and a further reflection about similar stories in years past make this choice imperative.

More importantly, Nigerians need a lot more reminders to realise that the rot may be right under their roofs, where they can influence more change than from a more distant level of governance. This should not be mistaken though, for an attempt to discourage a focus on what is happening at the centre.

Visit of the Century: What Nigerians tot of the Dangote, Peter of PSquare' Visit

Nigerians are so funny sometimes, see what they tot of the visit of Dangote the One of the P Squares Peter Okoye.

Unjust Dismissal: Nigerian Army Boycotts Court | PremiumTimes

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More than three months after a top Army officer – who was dismissed from service without query or indictment – filed suit for redress at the National Industrial Court, Nigerian military has refused to enter appearance to defend its action.

This has opened the Army to accusations of deliberately shunning the court and frustrating the applicant’s push for justice, court documents reviewed by PREMIUM TIMES showed.

Under the procedures and rules of Nigeria’s industrial court, respondents are obligated to file defence within 14 days of receiving originating processes; and in this particular case, court records revealed military authorities, including the Defence Minister, Chief of Army Staff and the Chief of Defence Staff, were served on August 15, 2016, over three months ago.

Donald Trump, the United States And The World, By Akin Adesokan

So, courageous, progressive American patriots and their allies the world over, we are all in the same boat, although we took different paths to get here. Combine your resolve to fight Trump every inch, every second of his journey through the presidency with an awareness of the clear and present danger that is the state of the world right now and a strong hold on the imagination.

Whenever one’s worst fears have come to pass, and one’s highest expectations have come to nought, the only intelligent judgment to make is that one is confronted with a tragic moment. There are several ways to confront a tragedy.

Kokomaster Responds To Alleged Debt + His Response To A Fan

Oh dear, D’banj has reacted to stories of him flying on the internet that he is owing an organization an amount running into millions. The singer took to twitter to accuse media houses who published the story without contacting him or his team. He then went on to reply a fan who compared his latest track, FOCUS to a WASTE BIN. It’s a bit hilarious and one can feel D’banj’s anger. See you people should stop carrying rumours o, looolz. Continue...

Dalung: A Minister And His Many Goofs, By Emmanuel Egobiambu

At the wake of Nigerian athletes outstanding performance at the Paralympics, the sports minister, speaking with Brila FM, infuriated sports lovers by saying that, “the disabled athletes have shown that all you need is a winning mentality and not too much preparation, they trained under the same condition with their able bodied counterparts but they are winning medals now.”

Those who live in glass in houses do not throw stones, but it appears that since assumption of office, Nigeria’s Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung, has hauled mountains at Nigerian sports, especially football by his utterances.

Fat People Should be Hopeful: See How Cute This Lady Now Looks After Losing Weight

A lady who is on the big side but lost few pounds especially working HARD on her stomach region is now flaunting her abs. A quick look at her shows how sexy she now looks even though she is still on the big side. You know the tummy goes a long wayyyyy. She did something, pushed a little and today she is enjoying it. Start something today too, let’s have a sexy world, all sexy Nigerian women, lol.
See what she wrote;

Economy Sinks Deeper Into Recession | Vanguard

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Goods and services produced in Nigeria between July and September 2016 have dropped lower as the nation grapples with economic slow down.

Companies and other economic agents in the country are producing far below their capacities as Nigeria’s economic slump deepened with oil production falling and factory output hard hit by shortage of foreign exchange.

Data released yesterday by the National Bureau of Statistics, signed by its Director-General, Dr. Yale, showed that the value of goods and services produced in Nigeria GDP, in the third quarter of 2016 contracted by 2.2 per cent in the three months through September from a year earlier, after shrinking 2.1 percent in the second quarter.

Ondo Election: Governorship Debate - See what Aspirants are saying.

This is live and it’s presently on-going on channels Television. It’s the Ondo State Governorship election on the 26th of November, 2016 and the four candidates representing PDP. APC, SDP and AD are meant to be present at a televised debate tonight on Channels Tv, but the candidate for APC, Akeredolu is absent. The debate has however continued with other candidates who honoured the invitation.

Judge Refuses To Order Justice Ajumogobia’s Release By Ramon Oladimeji

Justice Muslim Hassan of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday rejected an ex parte application by Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, seeking immediate release from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The EFCC had detained Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia while probing the source of about $793,800, which the EFCC claimed passed through the judge’s domiciliary accounts between 2012 and 2015.

Recession: South West Governors Join Forces To Evict Economic Problem

Governors in the South West Region of Nigeria have joined forces to tackle socio-economic problems confronting the six states and militating against development even as they tackle recession by leveraging on comparative advantages in the zone.

Hosted by the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, other governors of Lagos, Ogun, Ekiti, Osun and Ondo States came together for the first time without recourse to political or ideological differences.

Fake Currency: Man Exchanges N1.7m With Fake Dollars

A bureau de change operator, Usman Nafada, has been arrested by the police for allegedly conniving with an accomplice at large to swindle one Abdullahi Uba out of N1.7m.

It was learnt the victim had approached Nafada on November 16, 2016, at the Obalende area of Lagos State to help him change the sum to dollars.

Nafada was said to have told Uba that he did not have hard currency for the exchange. He, however, reportedly collected the money from Uba and took it to his “partner.”

The GM of LASEPA, The Lord’s Chosen Church And the Tenants of 45 Anjorin Street Lawanson

I am really sorry to disturb you on this matter but I want my voice to be heard.

The tenants of 45 Anjorin Street Lawanson surulere took a notice to LASEPA on the 15th of Nov,2016 that our caretaker let out the ground floor of a residential building to The lords chosen church.

Fake Doctor Arrested After 11 Years’ Practice

The police in Lagos State on Monday paraded an alleged quack doctor, Celestine Yolonfun, who was arrested in the Apapa area of the state.

It was gathered that 32-year-old Yolonfun had been practising as a doctor since 2005 after he dropped out of a nursing school in the Benin Republic.

Punch Metro learnt that Yolonfun was arrested on Wednesday by operatives of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, Yaba.

THIS IS THE MESSIAH

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Tuesday, November 22

John 7:37-43

THIS IS THE MESSIAH

Others said, “He is Christ. “ John 7:41, NIV

While physically on earth, Jesus demonstrated that He knew people’s deepest need for spiritual rejuvenation. He made a bold invitation to those who were thirsty to come for water that provides eternal refreshing (John 7:37-39). It was this that convinced them of His Lordship.

Inside Abia: Suspects Disagree Over Gun Ownership

A drama played out at the Abia State Police Command headquarters in Umuahia when some suspected cultists accused one another of owning a gun.

The suspects, four in number, literally divided themselves into two groups, with each group insisting that the gun in question belonged to the other team.

The suspects were two kinsmen, Okoye Simon and Charles Okeke, who are from Anambra State and other were roommates, Udu John and Aigbemen Eromoselem, all students of a private polytechnic in Aba, Abia State.