Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Nigeria to stay at home during 2015 African Nations Cup

nigeria1 Nigeria to stay at home during 2015 African Nations Cup

Sad Nigeria could not manage to beat make it this time around, we drew with South Africa this evening 2-2.


Better luck next time !



Nigeria to stay at home during 2015 African Nations Cup

Photos: Nigeria Military Mopping-up Operations in Gombi, Pelia & Hong in Adamawa

Here are some pictures and a statement by the Nigerian Defence Headquarters on the military action that reclaimed three towns in Adamawa state from Boko Haram on Monday November 16th.


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The pictures here are from the military operations in Gombi, Pelia and Hong in Adamawa State, where the Nigerian troops mercilessly dealt with the terrorists with the recovery of the towns as well as their destroyed vehicles, hideouts, weapons and ammunitions. While some of the terrorists have been captured alive others were killed in the operation. The Nigerian troops too could be seen in action.


The ongoing military operations in the North-Eastern Nigeria is to clear all areas infested by terrorists.

Mopping up exercise is ongoing in the areas while the troops are moving to other communities in what a top security officer described as ‘Operation No Mercy against Terrorists.”


 





 



Photos: Nigeria Military Mopping-up Operations in Gombi, Pelia & Hong in Adamawa

Earth tremor hits Ikeja, Lagos ?

earth tremor Earth tremor hits Ikeja, Lagos ?

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Earth tremor hits Ikeja, Lagos ?

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War on Terror: Nigeria Military reclaims some captured towns in Adamawa state

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Photos: Singer Niyola shows off her undies for Made magazine

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EME 1st lady Niyola covered g the November issue of Made magazine.



Photos: Singer Niyola shows off her undies for Made magazine

"Highlites with IK" - IK Osakioduwa's new show

Prominent radio character and Big Brother Africa host, IK Osakioduwa will launch his new show on Saturday, November 22nd at 7pm Nigerian time.
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The show, Highlites with IK, will air on Africa Magic Showcase (DSTV channel 151) and will handle societal issues with a measurements of amusingness and wit. Highlites with IK will emphasize well known hash-label points on online networking and meetings with Vips and identities. The show will gimmick rib-airing out letters on social issues and humorous prerecorded productions for the regular, yet upwardly portable Nigerian and visitors will likewise be occupied with savvy yet carefree diversions and fights.



"Highlites with IK" - IK Osakioduwa's new show

Photos: Harrysong buys 2009 hummer H2 SUV

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Harrysong just acquired  a brand new 2009 hummer H2 SUV.


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Photos: Harrysong buys 2009 hummer H2 SUV

Forbes Magazine adds Orji Uzor Kalu, Tony Elumelu to List Of World's Richest

Forbes Magazine recently distributed its yearly positioning of Africa’s 50 Richest People, and ex-Abia state senator and representative Orji Uzor Kalu and ex-MD of UBA Tony Elumelu are recorded as tycoons. Also Nigeria has additionally overwhelmed South African in the quantity of wealthiest.
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As per Forbes, among the rundown of Africa’s 50 Richest, Nigeria claims 13 spots while South Africa has 11 extremely rich people.


Africa’s 50 wealthiest are additionally wealthier than a year back. Their joined total assets of $110.7billion is 6.7% more than in Nov. 2013. The base total assets required to join this world class bunch rose to $510 million, up from $400 million a year back.”


There are three new uber rich people on the rundown: Orji Uzor Kalu of Nigeria, Tony Elumelu of Nigeria and King Mohammed VI of Morocco.” Forbes reports.



Forbes Magazine adds Orji Uzor Kalu, Tony Elumelu to List Of World's Richest

Former miss world Agbani Darego covers November issue of Mania Magazine

Agbani Darego Former miss world Agbani Darego covers November issue of Mania Magazine Credits Cover Photographer: Kelechi Amadi-Obi Fashion Editor: Godson Ukaegbu Make-up: Bimpe Onakoya


Ex-Miss world & fashion entrepreneur Agbani Darego graces the November Edition as she talks about her retail brand AD by Agbani Darego and the nearest future.



Former miss world Agbani Darego covers November issue of Mania Magazine

FG to Begin National Job Survey

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In continuation of a massive job creation drive, President Goodluck Jonathan has instituted a national job survey meant to ascertain the number of skilled vacancies in all sectors of the economy. The Federal Government commissioned the survey in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).


According to the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Dr Olusegun Aganga, the survey will tell the number of skilled workers needed in all the various sectors over the next 10 years in view of the investments being made in the sectors. Aganga disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Friday at the end of the inaugural meeting of the Presidential Jobs Board presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo. The board was mandated by President Goodluck Jonathan to create three million jobs in 12 months.


The minister said, “For the first time in this country, we have begun a national job survey of skills gap for the country so that by sector, we will know what the gap is and know what it is required to fill that gap. We are not just looking at the existing gaps today, we are looking at where the investments are going to. We are looking at the next five to 10 years.”


“For instance, a lot of investments are going to automobile, we have automobile engineers, how many will we need in the next five to 10 years. A lot of investments are going to sugarcane, to sugar, do we have the skills to do that? How many will we need in the next three, five or 10 years?


“About N16 billion is going to petrochemicals, fertilizer, and methanol, we will need skilled players. A lot of investments are going to metals, iron ore and all that.


“Most of these positions at the moment in this country are not filled and if they are filled, they are filled by foreigners. We do not have anything to ensure that our graduates coming out from the universities are very relevant to the economy today.


“So for the first time in this country we have embarked on that national survey with UNIDO and that survey will be ready in January. That survey will be used by training institutions like Industrial Training Fund to ensure people are trained. But not just trained, but trained to work immediately.”


The minister noted the survey result would also be useful to the Ministry of Education in preparing relevant syllabus from secondary school to higher levels.



FG to Begin National Job Survey

BOI To step up Funding Access For MSMEs

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In accordance with FG’s endeavors to animate a mechanical unrest through expanded funding access to, the Bank of Industry (Boi) has set up arrangements to expand budgetary access for business under Micro, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (Smes). In perspective of this improvement, the bank dispensed N613 billion to organizations while setting up different projects for Smes.


Boi Executive Director Waheed Olagunju expressed the N613 billion was dispensed to in excess of 2,800 undertakings, who made over a million jobs. SME General Manager Ganiyu Mohammed additionally talked at the occasion saying the bank considers little entrepreneurs important. Advances loaned to organizations in this classification typically have more effect than those for substantial ventures.


“If you give a large enterprise N5million for instance, the impact will be small. This is because the enterprise can only create few jobs. But if you give the same amount to a number of SME operators, they will employ many others,” Ganiyu said. He added the bank has created a product called “Bottom of the Pyramid,” which is targeted at micro borrowers who are seeking N500,000 or less.


President Jonathan’s industrial revolution aimed at boosting the economy and creating thousands of jobs through robust polices and easy access to funds has yielded positive results as Nigeria moves forward on the path to full industrialization.



BOI To step up Funding Access For MSMEs

FG Signs Agreement to Develop International Trade Centre

FG is focused on solidifying the position of Nigeria as the greatest economy in Africa through dynamic and creative neighborhood and global investment strategies and tasks.
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The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Olusegun Aganga said the nation is prepared to realise  its fantasy of turning into one of the world’s main 20 economies by the year 2020. He additionally expressed that the undertaking would give Nigeria a notable building in the class of the Ronald Reagan Center in Washington DC. The minister was talking at the consenting to of an arrangement that would transform the 25-story Independence Building in Lagos into the National Trade and International Business Center.


President Jonathan and his group have gotten wide recognition for the strategies and projects they have presented putting the nation’s economy on a finer balance and making headway with Nigeria.



FG Signs Agreement to Develop International Trade Centre

9 States Get ₦200bn SMEs Fund

9 states have completely profited from the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (Smes) Fund put aside by President Goodluck Jonathan’s organization to help the improvement of the sector.
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At the inaugural gathering of the National Council on Smes, the Minister of Industry and Investment Olusegun Aganga published the set up of subcommittees accountable for creating methods to simplicity access to the trust fund. The minister likewise expressed 19 states have met the terms needed to make the store and are at the present time getting  it.


Aganga included that as a measure of enhancing access to simple financing in the nation, the board is likewise considering the need to fortify credit authorities, business advancement suppliers and the foundation of renting organizations



9 States Get ₦200bn SMEs Fund

FG Develops Mechanized Plant for Garri Production

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In accordance with the arrangements of President Goodluck Jonathan to guarantee independence in nourishment creation, Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO) Dr. Gloria Elemo uncovered the organization had outlined and protected a plant for the motorized generation of garri.


Elemo revealed 25 cassava-based items were produced through FIIRO’s innovative work. The executive expressed the establishment has been proactive in increasing the value of agrarian produce, utilizing basic handling advances that can without much of a stretch be received.


Independence in sustenance creation is a key piece of President Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda and his projects and arrangements have yielded astounding results, helping go places with Nigeria.



FG Develops Mechanized Plant for Garri Production

GEJ launches $50m Venture Capital Fund - YouWin

In his longing to make more occupations for Nigerians and extend the economy, President Goodluck Jonathan dispatched a $50million Venture Capital Fund known as the Youwin Small and Medium Enterprise Fund.
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 The store was dispatched alongside the fourth round of the Youth Enterprise With Innovation in Nigeria (Youwin) program and is relied upon to make extra 1500 business visionaries.

Speaking at the occasion held at the State House Banquet Hall, President Goodluck Jonathan said the new venture store will empower the individuals who have won past stipends from the Youwin system to take their organizations to the following level. The store needs seed capital of about $50 million and will oblige diligent shot at the side of government. The president included if government buckles down it can pull in more speculators to help progressing endeavors.


“This fund will identify and further empower a few of you, some who are here and some new people that will join us, that are interested in expanding what they already have through the You Win or even starting new businesses,” he said.


The President further noted that the new reserve will be overseen by free store chiefs close by the legislature and “you won’t have to know some individual to get to it.” He said the trust which will recognize and put resources into a couple of endeavors, will be very focused as choice will be entirely on legitimacy.


He applauded the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has effectively facilitated three clumps of the Youwin program. From accessible records, the first and second version of the Youwin made 22,000 occupations.

“Hopefully when the disbursement of the third phase commences and by the time the fourth phase takes off, we are expecting a minimum of 44,000 jobs created by young Nigerians for young Nigerians,” the president said. 18,000 who did not straightforwardly profit from the plan were prepared and had the capacity access reserve from distinctive sources


Talking earlier, the Minister of Finance revealed that distributions for the third period of the Program will begin right away. She said the three year old system made Nigerians focused on the value of their marketable strategies. Another thousand five hundred ambitious people will be upheld with gifts between one million and ten million naira to empower them enhance or run their organizations and extend and make occupations.


Youwin commenced in 2011 as an entrepreneurial plan intended for business people matured somewhere around 18 and 45 years. It has a target of making many employments by helping champs to fortify and grow existing organizations and additionally transform creative thoughts into robust organizations. As asked for by President Jonathan, the second round of the system was completely committed to ladies keeping in mind the end goal to make them against furious rivalry from men.


 


 


 


 


 



GEJ launches $50m Venture Capital Fund - YouWin

Rice Production set to add ₦400b to Nigeria’s Economy

FG’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda has kept on yielding stunning results for the nation’s economy. Throughout the most recent three years, rice creation in the nation has produced about 400billion to the Nigerian economy.
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Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dr. Akinwumi Adesina uncovered this in Abuja at the Second Nigeria Rice Investment Forum. He said Nigeria has presently accomplished 80 for every penny independence in paddy rice generation and additionally included seven million metric huge amounts of paddy rice to the residential nourishment supply in 2013. He kept up with the foundation of 18 rice incorporated plants all over the nation, Nigeria would accomplish independence in rice creation, as well as turn into a net exporter of the sustenance.


While clarifying different activities presented by the Agricultural Transformation Agenda and the victories recorded he said, “What has happened as a result of this is that our rice agriculturists have permitted us to include N400billion worth of estimation of rice into the economy. When we began, there was one and only coordinated rice process in the nation, yet today there are 18 of them within the time of two and half years.”


The minister said the Federal Government has arrived at six million rice production over the procurement of manures and astounding seeds.


He included 24 States in Nigeria are currently growing rice amid the dry season, including each of the 36 States and Abuja are similarly occupied with rice generation amid the wet season.


Separated from the procurement of employments for the overflowing young people all over the nation, Adesina said the presentation of both wet and dry seasons cultivating



Rice Production set to add ₦400b to Nigeria’s Economy

B'Haram Shoots Nigerian Army Brigade Commander - report

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Boko Haram outlawed terrorists have shot and harmed the acting Brigade officer of 23rd Brigade in Yola – Saharatv reports


“Colonel Popoola was shot in the shoulder three days prior in the thick of a fight to recover control of Hong and Gombi in Adamawa state from the Islamist aggressor order. An armed force source in Abuja told Saharareporters that the senior armed force officer has been taken to UCH Ibadan where he is required to get better and further treatment in the impending days.”
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B'Haram Shoots Nigerian Army Brigade Commander - report

Nigeria Set to Join League of Rice Exporters in 2017

President Goodluck Jonathan’s forceful transformational drive in the agric part is set to accomplish an alternate point of milestone. Nigeria will soon join Thailand and India in the matter of rice exportation by 2017.
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According to the president, the nation attained this with solid political will, organization of science and innovation and enormous private part interest in rice generation and handling in the previous four years. The nation’s sustenance imports have been on the descending pattern from N1.1 trillion in 2009 to N634 billion in December2013.


“I’m optimistic therefore that our food import bill will continue its downward trend,” he asserted.


The Nigerian rice industry in the following three months will be accepting an extra private area venture of $1.7 billion for the most part from the Dangote gathering, while Olam which is developing in excess of 6,000 hectares of rice in Nasarawa state utilizing modernise airplane broadcasting has sunk $700 million into the segment.


President Jonathan was spoken to by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Mr. Akinwumi Adeshina, who made the divulgence at the second Nigeria rice speculation summit put together by the New Partnership for Africa Development Business Group-Nigeria.


Portrayed as an issue insurgency going to be unleashed in the nation, he said Nigeria’s fullfillment of 80 for every penny independence denoted an aggregate defining moment for nourishment security and generation in the nation.


“I have no doubt in mind that in the next three years Nigeria will be exporting rice to other countries just like Thailand and India,” President Jonathan said.


 



Nigeria Set to Join League of Rice Exporters in 2017

Funny! Man writes letter to neighbour, begs them to stop making 'very loud, short & annoying s3x'

A furious neighbor who was fed up his neighbor irritating his peace and slumber with their ‘uproarious, short and extremely irritating s3x’ defied them by composing an amusing letter and sticking it to their front entryway
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The note was posted on Reddit and the poster says this happened in Sydney, Australia.  See the full letter bellow.258 Funny! Man writes letter to neighbour, begs them to stop making very loud, short & annoying s3x



Funny! Man writes letter to neighbour, begs them to stop making 'very loud, short & annoying s3x'

Unsual interview with Jaden & Willow Smith


Just read excerpts from Jaden and Willow Smith's interview with T magazine and I'm not so sure that these kids are totally alright...lol. In the interview, Jaden 16 and Willow, 14, talk about quantum physics, meditation, their ability to control time, why school is useless, that they write their own novels because there are no good novels out there, how babies remember when they are born and so many weird stuff.  Read below, from 
T Magazine

Q: What have you been reading?
Willow: Quantum physics. Osho.
Jaden: “The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life” and ancient texts; things that can’t be pre-dated.
Things that can't be pre-dated? Will and Jada Smith, come get your children please..lol.
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