President
Buhari has denied reports that he is a chauvinist and that his
administration has a low percentage of female representation. The
President reacted to the report when he spoke with the Nigerian
community in Poland yesterday, December 2nd.When asked about the number
of women in his administration, President Buhari said‘‘I have plans for
all Nigerians. I am not a male chauvinist. If I’m a chauvinist will I
give the Finance Ministry to women?’’ . President Buhari also used the
occasion to reiterate that his government will continue to maintain
focus and deliver on the three focal points of his campaign in 2015:
security, economy and the fight against corruption. ‘‘Those in the
North East will tell you that in spite of the recent setbacks, there is a
difference between the time we came and before. We are not doing badly
on security, economy and agriculture. We have virtually stopped the
importation of food especially rice and we are saving a lot of money. We
now have food security and that has come with fiscal security because a
lot of young educated people have not regretted going back to the farms
and earning a respectable living. I am afraid, this is not receiving
good publicity… but a lot of people in the rural areas are enjoying the
benefits of our interventions in agriculture,’’ he said.President Buhari denies being a Chauvinist, says his administration has enough female representation
President
Buhari has denied reports that he is a chauvinist and that his
administration has a low percentage of female representation. The
President reacted to the report when he spoke with the Nigerian
community in Poland yesterday, December 2nd.When asked about the number
of women in his administration, President Buhari said‘‘I have plans for
all Nigerians. I am not a male chauvinist. If I’m a chauvinist will I
give the Finance Ministry to women?’’ . President Buhari also used the
occasion to reiterate that his government will continue to maintain
focus and deliver on the three focal points of his campaign in 2015:
security, economy and the fight against corruption. ‘‘Those in the
North East will tell you that in spite of the recent setbacks, there is a
difference between the time we came and before. We are not doing badly
on security, economy and agriculture. We have virtually stopped the
importation of food especially rice and we are saving a lot of money. We
now have food security and that has come with fiscal security because a
lot of young educated people have not regretted going back to the farms
and earning a respectable living. I am afraid, this is not receiving
good publicity… but a lot of people in the rural areas are enjoying the
benefits of our interventions in agriculture,’’ he said.'Those boobs are crying for help' - Nigerians react to Toke Makinwa's revealing outfit to the premiere of 'Chief Daddy'
Last
night, media personality Toke Makinwa stepped out for the premiere
of 'Chief Daddy' in Lagos and she did cause a bit of a stir on the red
carpet and on social media. Rocking an outfit by Tubo, Toke Makinwa
showed off some skin and social media definitely had things to say. See
the full pic and social media reactions below.... 
Lmao
today is the first time I actually rate Toke makinwa. That outfit was
befitting.— DOCTOR SPICE! (@TheMonijesu) December 2, 2018Wow Toke
Makinwa is on fire.I stan!!!— Ihuaku (@GenieinaGoblet) December 2,
2018Toke Makinwa served it ALL #chiefDaddypremiere— E! (@TheEbukaaaa)
December 2, 2018Toke makinwa is not your fave's mate— Bubbles
(@itunuloluwa) December 2, 2018Toke Makinwa is the fairest and slayest
of them all .— A DIME PLUS 99 (@snazzy_sharlie) December 2, 2018So Toke
Makinwa was dressed like that and nobody’s saying anything!! All that
sauce and NOBODY’s SAYING ANYTHING— Ennis (@enniiola) December 2,
2018Toke Makinwa never comes to play when she dresses up. Omoooo—
#LaidBarePodcast (@Oloni) December 2, 2018don't invite Toke Makinwa to
your event if you're not going to slay tbh— Bi-bye (@halimah_va)
December 2, 2018'Lagos rats are demonic' - Man cries out after rodents eat up his stashed naira notes
A
Nigerian man is crying out on Twitter after his stashed naira notes got
destroyed by rats. In his words, 'breaking news! I interrupt your
twittering to bring to your notice that this December rats are back!!!
WTF na Somebody can't stash money in someone's house again. Lagos Rats
are demonic What would you do, If this happens to you? I don't know what
to do right now'.Two years after, Nigerian actor Victor Olaotan still needs money to travel abroad over possibility of his two legs being amputated
Victor
Olaotan, a veteran Nigerian veteran actor and lead character of the
popular Soap opera, Tinsel, has been completely off the scene for the
past two years after a ghastly accident cost him the use of his
legs. According to a Gofundme page created by Emmanuel Ajibade that went
live on Sunday 2nd December, the actor is appealing for financial aid
to seek medical treatment abroad. Back in 2016, the actor best known for
his recurrent role in Tinsel was involved in a car crash on
Lagos/Ibadan Expressway and was placed in a medically induced coma as he
was treated for months. He has been facing the possibility of his two
legs being amputated to save his life and his family has been treating
him as best as they could in the last two years. Right now he needs
$50,000 to seek treatment abroad. The message on his Gofundme page
reads; Victor Toye Olaotan has brought Joy to teeming viewers on stage,
Television and the big screen through his solid work as a professional
actor. For the last two years he has been incapacitated following an
accident. Victor is still fighting and he has been advised to seek
medical attention outside our nigerian shores" we implore your help in
raising the funds.For the naira account.Here is his wife’s info since he
can’t go to the bank 0001101396 stanbic bank. Julia olaotan.Oil marketers give FG seven days ultimatum to pay N800b subsidy debts
Oil
marketers have issued a seven-day ultimatum, demanding that the Federal
Government settle the outstanding debts totalling N800 billion, failing
which depots would cease operation across the country. The marketers,
comprising Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, Depot and
Petroleum Products Marketers Association and Independent Petroleum
Products Importers, said failure to meet the deadline would force its
members to disengage workers from depots. Confirming the seven-day
notice, Patrick Etim, Legal Adviser to IPPI told the News Agency of
Nigeria that banks have taken over investments and assets of oil
marketers over unpaid debts. According to Etim, marketers have no choice
that to ask their workers to stay at home over unpaid salary arrears
due to huge subsidy debts owed by the government. “The only way to
salvage the situation is for government to pay the oil marketers the
outstanding debts through cash option instead of promissory note being
proposed. As I speak, nothing has been done several months after
assurances received by government saying it would pay off the
outstanding debts.The oil marketers have requested that forex
differential and interest component of government’s indebtedness to
marketers be calculated up to December 2018 and be paid within next
seven days from the date of the letter sent to the government,’’ he
said.Etim said that several thousand jobs were on the line in the
industry, as oil marketers begin to cut-down their workforce due to
inability to pay salaries “At the inception of the current
administration, marketers engaged the government with the view to secure
approval for all outstanding subsidy-induced debts handed over to the
current administration,’’ he said. The counsel said that the current
administration paid part of the debts with a substantial portion of the
subsidy interest and foreign exchange differential still pending. The
Executive Secretary of DAPPMA, Mr Olufemi Adewole, also confirmed the
seven-day ultimatum notice. Adewole disclosed that the oil marketers
on November 28 served the ultimatum letter on the Debt Management
Office, Minister of Finance, Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum
Downstream, Department of State Services and Minister of State,
Petroleum Resources.'His step-mother is wicked' - Man shares touching photos of a kid going through child-labour and abuse in Abuja
Facebook
user, Chimelum Ajanma just shared photos showing a child carrying a
heavy plank and according to him, 'I wept seeing this little boy this
morning staggering in pains carrying this hefty loads,i inquired from
2-3 persons and was told he carries that often,most times he gets
assisted by people who feel pity,he doesn't go to school,his mother is
late and his step-mother is wicked!'. See more photos below....
Last
weekend in Lagos, popular photographer Bolaji Alonge and his Belgian
fiancée, Sandra got married and they raised eyebrows with their
unusual cavalcade of 20 tricycles that conveyed them to the wedding
reception. See more photos below...
Four
brothers had their traditional wedding ceremonies in Umeh community,
Isoko Local Government Area of Delta State on Saturday.Two of the
brothers married two women each while the other two married one each,
bringing it to six new wives brought into the family same day. 
Check out this amazing transformation of American actress Lucy Liu in 1999 and 2018 as she clocks 50 today
Lucy
Liu is an American actress, voice actress, director and artist who
became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling
Woo in the television series Ally McBeal.Lucy is 50 today, December 2,
2018, and here is a side by side photo of the actress in 1999 and 2018. 
We think she is getting better with age or what do you think?Kidnappers kill lawyer, Adeola Adebayo in Ekiti State after collecting N3m ransom
Secretary
of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ikole Ekiti Branch, Adeola Adebayo who
was kidnapped on Saturday, November, 17, 2018 at Erio, Ekiti State, has
been found dead with several bullet wounds. Adebayo was returning from
Osogbo, Osun State, with his wife and parents where they attended an
event when he was stopped and kidnapped. A ransom of N3million was
allegedly paid for his release, but his abductors still killed him after
receiving the money.See lovely photos of some of the wives of world leaders with Melania Trump rocking $10,000 Dior dress as they pose together.
Yesterday,
the first ladies of the United States and Argentina alongside other
wives visited an art museum during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
US
first lady Melania 48, sported an elegant cream-colored coat over a
$9,800 custom polka dot Christian Dior dress as she toured the Latin
American Art Museum of Buenos Aires. She completed her outfit with gray
suede pumps.
She
was pictured with Juliana Awada, the wife of Argentina's President
Mauricio Macri, and partners of world leaders, including Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe's spouse Akie Abe, Turkish first lady Emine Erdogan,
European Council President Donald Tusk's spouse Malgorzata Tusk, and
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's spouse Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.
See more photos below.
Seyi Shay is serving up major sexiness in these new photos.
Cardi B rants about how expensive it is to be a woman after spending $1,000 on hair and nails
Rapper,
Cardi B, took to Instagram to rant about how expensive it is to be a
woman after she spent N1,000 to get her hair and nails done. In the
video which she recorded from the back of her limo, the 26-year-old
mother said:Let me tell you motherf**ers something, it's getting more
and more expensive - well, nah for real, it's getting more expensive to
maintain us women.' 'You know this is not the early 2000s and s**t where
you give a b***h a hundred dollars to get her motherf***ing hair done,
nails done, her eyebrows done. Whatever.'Nah. Let me tell you something.
Like, bit**es is not getting the $17 full set with the three pre nail
design motherf***er.'Bit**es want the gel set and some hos, like me, you
know what I'm saying, want Swarovski crystals. So that about there is
about $200 - the end nail. You know what I'm saying.'She continued to do
the math on the processes she undertakes, adding:'And then the hair? We
are not in the era where b**ches do the blow outs, you know what I'm
saying, or the sew-ins and shit. Nah, b**ches want the full lace wig.
The wig is about $800, $500, it really depend where you get it from.This
dye about, I say about three hundred dollars. Two hundred dollars.
Three hundred dollars. 'So, just on dat it's a thousand dollars!' she
concluded, before asking, 'So...what's good?' Watch the video
below. View this post on Instagram We getting more expensive
boo boo To defeat terrorism, we need to arm our military and motivate them with good working conditions - Atiku Abubakar
PDP's
presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar wrote a lenghty piece as a guest
columnist for Thisday titled, 'To Win the War on Terror, We Need
Opportunities and Jobs'. In the article, Atiku said, 'to defeat
terrorism, we need to arm our military & motivate them with good
working conditions, especially the lower ranks who face the greatest
risks & are the least paid. We need to demonstrate that when you
fight for Nigeria, Nigeria will fight for you'. Read the full piece
below... In order to defeat terror, Nigeria needs a well thought out
anti-terror plan and one thing that must be central to that plan is the
buy in of the people because terror can only thrive where there is local
support. Take that local support structure away and the terror
architecture will collapse like a pack of cards.Terrorists are
themselves human beings. Terror groups depend on recruiting from the
local communities to replenish their ranks or they cannot grow. The
members of Boko Haram are not spirits and while there definitely is some
foreign influence, the overwhelming number of their leadership and
followers are members of the local population.Central to our plans for
defeating terror therefore must be to find out why young men in those
communities are aggrieved enough to be alienated from Nigeria and
attracted to the radical philosophy of Boko Haram and ISWAP. When we
find out, we must prevent this alienation from occurring.The key to
answering this question is to look at the economy of Nigeria and how
that economy is distributed.Within Nigeria, the heartland of the terror
insurgency is the Northeast, with Borno and Yobe states being the
hardest hit. Surely, it cannot be a coincidence that the Northeast is
also the most economically backward part of Nigeria with Borno and Yobe
states worst affected.Recently, someone called Nigerian youths “lazy”.
Rightly, there was an uproar over that indecorous slandering of a whole
generation, but that type of mentality exposes the mindset that has led
to the alienating of huge swathes of our youth, especially in the
Northeast.When Nigerian youths feel that they are not valued as equal
members of society that should have equal access to opportunity, they
begin to take matters into their own hands.When the leadership of a
nation fail to provide positive avenues for the youth to assert their
intelligence positively, then the youth will find negative uses to
express their innate intelligences.Lack of access to education is linked
to poverty and poverty is undoubtedly an incubator for crime, terrorism
or militancy.On November 22, 2016, the United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) revealed that a whopping 70% of children in Kebbi state are not
in school. They also revealed that they do not have reliable figures
for states such as Borno and Yobe, but the numbers may well be more.
Even likely so.In 2016, my running mate, former Governor Peter Obi, gave
an Independence Day speech at The Platform event organised by Covenant
Christian Centre in Lagos. It was an unforgettable Independence Day
event which, according to Google analytics, was the most searched item
in Nigeria on that day, besting even the President’s own speech.Why was
that speech so attractive to Nigerians? It is because Mr. Obi gave a
detailed breakdown of the reality of governance in Nigeria today, which
is one of a wasteful squandering of the riches that should have gone
into the development of our youth.And he is not alone in noticing this.
Youth everywhere and especially in the Northeast are seeing this. The
Nigerian government and the Nigerian elite are not offering them a way
out of this dilemma. However, anti social groups, like Boko Haram and
ISWAP, are exploiting their dissatisfaction with society and are
offering our youth a utopian ideal which is in reality a dystopia.These
youth read about highly connected government officials who pilfer N200
million that was meant for Internally Displaced Persons, without so much
as a slap on the wrists, they hear about suspected mega thieves who are
returned by government, reinstated into the civil service, given
promotions and armed guards and treated like royalty.These events only
deepen their alienation from society and affirm the twisted messages of
groups like Boko Haram and ISWAP.To defeat terrorism therefore, we need
to arm our military and motivate them with good working conditions and
terms of services, especially for the lower ranks who face the greatest
risks and are the least paid. We need to demonstrate that when you fight
for Nigeria, Nigeria will fight for you, but even more importantly, we
must show that when you die in the services of Nigeria, your name and
your survivors will be celebrated by the society that you died for.We
must also help our military win the hearts and minds of the people of
the Northeast by empowering them to open soup kitchens where they give
food to the hungry. We must encourage them to set up field hospitals
where they treat the local population free of charge. Even something as
giving each soldier a pocketful of sweets to handout to little children
on the streets will help the military win the love and affection of the
local population and turn their allegiance to our armed forces.That is
one part of the plan. The other part of the plan, which is even more
important, is that we must starve Boko Haram and ISWAP of their
recruiting tool by quickly and effectively restructuring Nigeria so that
we have a society that allows for inclusiveness and social justice.A
very good first step is to go back in time to find out why an initially
peaceful movement became violent. It all started with the extra judicial
murder of their charismatic preacher and founder Ustaz Mohammed
Yusuf.In fact, the current leader of ISWAP, is Mohammed Yusuf’s son, Abu
Musab al-Barnawi. It is clear that that act of extra judicially killing
Mohammed Yusuf is one of the grudges that these groups have against the
Nigerian state.We must deprive Boko Haram of the means of claiming
injustice as the rationale behind its insurgency by trying all those
behind Mohammed Yusuf‘s extra judicial murder.As Theodore Parker said
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards
justice”.Just as we are satisfying this moral debt, as a nation, we must
ensure that there is a fairer redistribution of the wealth of Nigeria
amongst all Nigerians. Our budgeting system must be upended and we must
have the political will to start spending more on capital expenditures
than on recurrent expenditures.We must curb waste in government by
eliminating security votes and those wasteful spendings highlighted by
Governor Peter Obi which include, but are not limited to, eliminating
huge and expensive convoys, overseas medical treatment at public
expense, reducing unnecessary travel and building people instead of
building edifices.We must learn from countries like Rwanda that has
stabilised its society by statutorily reserving 30% of all legislative
seats for women. As the late Kofi Annan said in 2006, “there is no tool
for development more effective than the empowerment of women. No other
policy is as likely to raise economic productivity, or to reduce infant
and maternal mortality”.When you empower a woman, you empower a family, a
village, a community and eventually, a nation.In our case, we can go
further by reserving at least 35% of all legislative and executive
positions for not just women, but also for our youth, at all levels of
government, federal, states and local governments. We must convert our
youths from onlookers to stakeholders.They must see that it is easier
for them to influence the direction of Nigeria by going into government
or business than by going into crime or terrorise.But above all, we must
massively invest in education by building capacity, which must not just
be limited to establishing more schools, but by training teachers. In a
situation where we do not even have enough teachers, it is a mistake to
sack the few that we have because they fail adhoc examinations.
Instead, we must build their capacity to teach via training and
continuous development.It is impossible to have 70% of the children of a
state outside the formal school system without having destabilising
crime and terrorism such as we are currently having in Nigeria. And it
will be a mistake to fight only the symptoms without fighting the
cause.We must accept the wisdom that a provision of equal opportunity
and social justice is the panacea to almost all of the ills of
society.By reversing our budgeting ratio from 7-3 in favour of recurrent
to 7-3 in favour of capital expenditure, we will create an atmosphere
for jobs.If we are building and rebuilding infrastructure, there will be
jobs for our youth. They will have increased purchasing power, which
will itself lead to further jobs flowing from the goods and services
they patronise. They will keep their monies in banks, which will result
in more liquidity with which the banks can then provide loans to more
small and medium scale enterprises. The snowball effect is almost
limitless.Again, let me state that we have to make these changes to
rescue our nation from the brink. Only last week, the World Bank
revealed that in recent years, Nigeria “has underinvested in human
capital and remains very low compared to others.”If we do not address
these negative indices, we will continue to totter, while nations that
sufficiently invest in their youth make advances that we can only dream
of.These are the only ways we can decisively defeat terror and defeat it
we must otherwise anarchy await us.•Waziri Atiku Abubakar is the
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.Nicki Minaj is allegedly dating a convicted rapist Kenneth 'Zoo' Petty (Screenshots)
Last
week, rapper Nicki Minaj shared a photo of herself and a mystery man,
sparking relationship rumours that she has gotten herself a new
man. Well, it has now been uncovered that the mystery man is a
40-year-old father of five and convicted rapist identified as Kenneth
'Zoo' Petty.See what they shared and wrote about him below.
2019: There is danger ahead -Â Prophet Samuel Abiara
Prophet
Samuel Abiara, the General Overseer of the Christ Apostolic Church,
Agbala-Itura worldwide on Saturday said danger lurked around the 2019
general elections. Abiara, who called for prayers to avert looming
disaster, raised his voice to God to hearken Nigeria’s prayers for
peaceful elections and indivisible nation. He spoke while addressing
World Press Conference heralding 2018 Jesus Festival on the church
premises along old Ife Road, Ibadan. He said the country could have been
in crisis before now if not for the prayers of the men of God in the
country, “there are clerics and servants of God across denominations and
churches praying for this nation and that is why there is still peace
in Nigeria. Prayer has been the saving grace upholding the country. God
said there would be peace for Nigeria if men of God come together and
pray for the country. The future of Nigeria is good if we pray,
irrespective of our religion. We don’t have to listen to prophets of
doom concerning the nation.” On the new minimum wage agitation by the
Nigeria Labour Congress, he urged the government to look for a way to
pay the N30,000, adding that “it is one of the dangers ahead for the
country. I am not a prophet that scares people with vision of doom but
when we talk, we have our reasons. Government should look for a way to
pay the salaries. If workers go on strike, it will affect many
Nigerians. I call on other prophets and other servants of God, even if
they see anything bad or glooming, they must not speak evil but call
other men of God to pray for peace and unity of Nigeria. There is danger
ahead but with prayer, all will be resolved. We need to call on God of
peace to interfere in the affairs of this country.”Did you know that Cardi B's husband Offset was once a backup dancer for Whitney Houston?
It
has been uncovered that Migos rapper and Cardi B's husband, Offset, was
a backup dancer for Whitney Houston.The hip-hop star was just 10 when
he appeared in Whitney Houston's 'Whatchulookinat' music video which
featured on the late singer’s fifth studio albumThis comes days after
Offset posted an old photograph from the set of Houston’s video for her
2002 single ‘Whatchulookinat’ on Instagram back on November 18. “I been
doing this entertainment, God my witness – which one is me?” he
captioned the photo. View this post on Instagram I BEEN
DOING THIS ENTERTAINMENT GOD MY WITNESS WHICH ONE IS ME ????A post
shared by OFFSET (@offsetyrn) on Nov 18, 2018 at 2:57pm PSTCheck out the
video of Offset dancing with other kids for Houston’s single
‘Whatchulookinat’ below.I was today years old when i found out young
Offset was a backup dancer in a Whitney Houston I love my dress sense and I will never live the fake life you want - Duncan Mighty responds to his fashion critics
Singer,
Duncan Mighty has called out those who always complain about his dress
sense.According to him, they are ignorant and unaware of his efforts in
combatting unemployment and other important things he does. See his
response below....First i give GOD the glory for my life today and am
proud to say i am not a music award winner but with the little my career
has given me ive created jobs i know my construction company
mighty-crete is still growing up but 38 staff's are employed, in
construction company we pay daily some persons 27k, some 20k some 15k
some 10k and we pay labour 5k per day, we only pay admin, securities and
cleaners monthly we feed them and gave them health insurance people
around me are getting daily breads raising there families thanking GOD
for bringing me around.I will never live the fake life u want i am
proud to wear my oil resistance and anti-Hazard and post on Instagram
but my last word to u all abusing me each time i post pictures from work
and those sending me dm on how to dress pls those your celebrities
you always refer me to that wears the best fashion, pls can u tag me or
post where they have created jobs and try to eradicate unemployment in
there local communities or where there are, Time is the greatest
healer. I pray GOD bless uPhotos: President Buhari arrives in Poland
President
Buhari has landed in Poland where he is to participate at the 24th
Session of the Conference of the Parties under the UN framework
Convention on Climate Change. Some of the senior executive members on
the president's entourage include; Minister of Foreign Affairs, National
Security Adviser Babagana Monguno, Minister of State Environment Bawa
Abubakar, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi, Governor of Niger Abubakar Sani
Bello and Governor of Enugu Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. 
100 people arrested, 80 injured as French police class with fuel tax protesters in Paris
At
least 100 people have been arrested and 80 injured as French police
clashed with fuel tax protesters Saturday in Paris. Thousands of
people gathered at the Champs-Élysées in the third weekend of protests
against the government over rising fuel prices and taxes. At Paris’
famous monument on the western end of the Champs-Élysées, the Arc de
Triomphe, riot police fired tear gas and a water cannon to displace the
crowd. Some protesters had lit fires, thrown rocks and sprayed police
officers with yellow paint earlier Saturday morning in an effort to
breach the barricades blocking a route to the Elysee Palace, President
Emmanuel Macron‘s official residence. By early evening, 183 people had
been arrested, and some 80 people had been injured in the protests,
including 14 police officers. French interior ministry blamed
extremists for violence at the famous monument, pointing out that around
5,000 peaceful demonstrators, some holding roses, had marched near the
Champs-Élysées. Prime Minister Edouard Phillipe made the distinction
between peaceful demonstrators and the ones breaking the law. “We are
attached to freedom of expression, but also to respect for the law. I am
shocked by the violence of such a symbol of France,” he said, referring
to the clashes around the Arc de Triomphe and graffiti sprayed on it
that read “Yellow Jackets Will Triumph.” Since the protests began on
Nov. 17, hundreds of people have been injured and two people have been
killed in car crashes.
