2023: NORTHAN GOVERNORS OPPOSE POWER SHIFT TO SOUTH

Northern States Governors’ Forum at an emergency meeting on Monday in Kaduna

Governors of the 19 states in the North have opposed the call by their southern counterparts that the Presidency should be zoned to the South in 2023, Channels Television reports.

This formed part of the resolutions reached on Monday when the governors held an emergency meeting with traditional rulers in the region at the Government House in Kaduna State, the report stated.

According to the report, Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, read out the communique containing the resolutions on behalf of his colleague which submits among others that zoning the office of the President as being agitated by southern governors is against the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, stating further that any president elected must meet the constitutional requirements which include scoring the majority votes, and polling at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in two-thirds of the 36 states of the Federation.

BIMPE – THE PROUD GIRL

Bimpe, a girl from an extremely poor home is been the hope of her family. She’s exceptionally brilliant, distinctively beautiful and quite proud, and she’s the only choice of the governor’s son for a wife. This spells a very bright future for her, as well as her family and friends. However, many including her mother have advised her severally to bury her pride to avoid undue difficulties and hazards of life. But she claims she’s not by nature ‘proud’, she says it’s just a way of packaging to win confidence and attention in the heart of everyone, her own way of fooling the world. Really, she’s been quite fortunate with such act over the years because she gets anything she desires from anyone without losing a thing, not even her virginity. But suddenly, she’s confirmed pregnant just as soon as the marriage rites between her and the governor’s son commences.

Now, this is not a true life story. But if you were to do a resolution for this story what would it be? Yes, rack your brain on it guys.

Ebonyi landlords directed to renovate their buildings

Dave Umahi, Ebonyi State Governor

“All buildings in rickety shapes and some leaking roofs must be renovated by the landlords before November 30, 2021.”

Ebonyi State Government has ordered owners of dilapidated buildings situated on major roads in Abakaliki, the state capital, to renovate them before November 30, News Agency of Nigeria reports.

According to the report, the Commissioner, Ministry of Capital City Development, Peter Nwebonyi, gave the directive at a meeting with the Ebonyi State Landlord Association on Friday in Abakaliki.

Mr Nwebonyi said the government’s directive was to enable structures to match the present level of development in the city adding that the state government spent resources constructing flyovers, streetlights and concrete roads, and required the landlords to play their part by rehabilitating their buildings, the report stated.

TROUBLE IS GUARANTEED

Rayo Abe, Professional Housewife

The message today is about trials and temptations and as such we bring you this very beautiful piece titled “Trouble Is Guaranteed”, a two part ministration by Rayo Abe, a professional housewife popularly known as the “Lagos House Wife”, an Instagram user with a passion for women and family. Trust you would be blessed and edified by the message:

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Hosting FFK at Aso Villa evidence of Buhari’s capacity to forgive -Femi Adesina

L-R: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari and Femi Fani-Kayode, Fmr. Nigeria's Minister of Aviation

Special Adviser to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has explained why his principal hosted an unsparing critic of the regime and former minister Femi Fani-Kayode in Aso Villa following his defection to the ruling All Progress Congress, Punch Newspapers reports.

In the report, Adesina wrote:

Not a small ruckus has been caused by the defection of former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK), from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) last week.

An icing on the cake, or the salt added to injury (depending on which side you are), was his reception at the Presidential Villa by Muhammadu Buhari, father of the nation. The development has been rocking the polity for many days.

FFK is by no means a miscellaneous personality, and whatever he does, or does not do, attracts loads of attention.

Northern Elders regret not supporting Jonathan in 2015, advises South on 2023 polls

NEF Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed

The Northern Elders Forum on Wednesday said it regretted backing then candidate Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election, instead of the then incumbent Goodluck Jonathan.

The position of the NEF was made known by its Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.

Ahmed, who spoke on a programme on Arise TV: “The Morning Show,” said Buhari had since succeeding Jonathan let down a majority of Nigerians who trusted in his leadership before the 2015 polls.

He said: “Is there any Nigerian who is not disappointed in President Buhari, including diehard APC (All Progressives Congress) people?

A well informed, sensitised and educated citizenry is the bedrock of effective regulation - NAFDAC

NAFDAC-DG-Prof.-Mojisola-Adeyeye

The National Agency for Food And Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says measures are in place to sensitise Nigerians on some major public health challenges, NAN reports.

In the report and according to NAFDAC, some of the various infractions that impact negatively on public health and healthcare delivery system include the use of Azo-dyes in Palm Oil and “ Sniper’’  to preserve foodstuffs.

The assertion was made by the Director-General, NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye at the Flag-Off of the agency’s sensitisation campaigns in Lagos on Tuesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the sensitisation campaign is taking place nationwide.

According to the Director General, the campaign themes are multifaceted with clear, concise, informative and educative messages.

Trump Sues His Niece and The New York Times Over Leaked Tax Documents

Then-President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Dec. 7, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Mary L. Trump, The New York Times and three of its reporters of conspiring in an “insidious plot” to improperly obtain his confidential tax records and exploit their use in news articles and a book.

The lawsuit claims that the Times reporters, as part of an effort to obtain the tax records, relentlessly sought out Mary Trump, the former president’s niece, and persuaded her “to smuggle the records out of her attorney’s office” and turn them over to The Times.

That action, according to the lawsuit, breached a confidentiality agreement that was part of the settlement of litigation involving the will of the former president’s father, Fred C. Trump, who died in 1999.

International Week of the Deaf: How Nigerian Sign Language Interpreters help children dispel fear of Coronavirus

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Sign Language Champions

A major recurring problem in the integration and empowerment of the deaf in Nigeria is communication; ease of communication with their hearing families, seamless communication in schools.

In Nigeria, over 27 million people are estimated to live with various disabilities.

While physical disability tops the chart with 27.09% of this number according to a Shelby Treat Report (2016),  Deafness/Hearing Loss is the second largest form of disability in Nigeria with 23.76% an estimated 6.4 million people.

It is even more worrisome as studies show that 75 per cent of deaf children and young adults were not genetically born deaf but health complications, lack of good medical care, ignorance and poverty have often contributed to the challenge.

The Nigerian Deaf Community and Struggle with Communication

Businesses must accept e-naira payment - CBN

The Central Bank of Nigeria says the e-naira which is set to launch October 1, 2021, is a legal tender equal to the value of the naira and thus must be accepted as a form of payment by all merchants and business outlets.

Featured on Business Morning, a Channels Television programme, on Monday, Musa Jimoh, CBN’s Director of Payment System Management, said that eNaira which is Nigeria’s first digital currency is a legal tender just as the naira.

“Today, anywhere you present naira to pay, compulsorily it must be accepted because that is our fiat currency’, Jimoh said. “ So, the same way naira is accepted that you can’t reject it, is the same way e-naira must be accepted. Anywhere in this country where e-naira is presented, it must be accepted. So, merchants must accept e-naira as a means of payment.”

As a child, she wrote to a WWII vet. He carried the letter everywhere, and 12 years later, they finally met

Dashauna Priest, 21, with Frank Grasberger, 95. When Priest was in third grade, she wrote Grasberger a letter as part of a class project thanking veterans for their service. Grasberger sought to find Priest for 12 years, and finally met her in late July. (Vitalia Senior Residences at Strongsville)

Dashauna Priest still recalls sitting in her third-grade classroom 12 years ago in Lorain, Ohio, writing a heartfelt thank-you letter to a World War II veteran whom she did not know.

At the time, and in the years that followed, she had no idea that the recipient of her letter would carry the note with him everywhere he went, carefully folded in an envelope. “I’m never without it,” said Frank Grasberger, now 95.

Grasberger, who lives in Strongsville, Ohio, was drafted into the military when he was 18 and spent nearly three years in Germany. He received Priest’s letter, which was part of a class project, while he was on an Honor Flight home from D.C. in 2009. Ever since, the letter has either been folded neatly in his pocket or tucked away beneath the seat of his wheelchair. Wherever Grasberger goes, the letter goes.

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PDP Governors Beg National Assembly To Rescue Nigeria's Democracy

The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum has appealed to the National Assembly to rescue Nigeria’s democracy by passing necessary amendments to the Electoral Act, Punch reports.

Specifically, according to the report, the forum urged the lawmakers to rise above partisan politics to pass the amendment to allow for the electronic transfer of election results.

This was contained in a statement titled, ‘Electronic Transmission: PDP Governors Forum Tasks National Assembly Conference Committee To Rescue Nigeria’s Democracy… Asks NASS to be guided by patriotism and national interest.’