Ex-Beauty Queen, Regina Askia unveils new project

Former Nollywood actress, Regina Askia-Williams has released some gorgeous new photos as she re-brands for what lies ahead.

As part of her re-branding, the Ex-beauty queen launched her official website to showcase her work in health, nursing, education as well as her vibrant new image.

According to Askia, ‘I am excited about this new chapter to use my expertise to support my people in their health and lifestyle journey. My re-branding came at the appropriate time. Being a proud Nigerian and being able to really give back is eternally

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3 African Print Looks To Rock With Your Partner

African prints are in vogue! You don’t have to slay alone, you can slay with your bae….. we have got beautiful styles to match with your partner.
1. Try this agbada look with your husband, it sure looks amazing

2. Ankara-concept-inspired. This would make heads turn!

3. Jumpsuit Ankara style to slay with bae….

Nigerians Troll Senator Ben Bruce For Endorsing Buhari’s Corruption Fight

Senator Ben Bruce of the Peoples Democratic Party, took to his twitter handle to endorse the president Muhammadu Buhari’s fight against corruption. Many of his followers could not hide their displeasure as they came at him almost immediately saying his debt issues with AMCON has made him change his position on being on the side of the masses.

He had written that the fight against corruption is not a witch-hunt but everyone who has been named should go and prove their innocence.

The admin’s anticorruption war isn’t a witch hunt. In my opinion, we need it. If you’re innocent, prove your innocence. Dont say witch hunt!

— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) August 1, 2016

And his followers seemingly displeased by the tweet didn’t waste any time in letting him know it

@benmurraybruce After reading this tweet – Dareys song came to mind – Ur not the Ben I used to know- Ur a shadow of ursef -Haba @ogeorge306

— Charles otobo (@charles_otobo) August 2, 2016

@benmurraybruce they have succeeded in caging you last last. Bring back our common sense

— Stephen Emmanuel (@Emmysteve9) August 1, 2016

@ICON_ADENUSI see all these politicians have zero integrity…. Sigh

— computer Village (@LaptopMechanic) August 2, 2016

@benmurraybruce is ur account HACKED???

— ¿? (@ciaxon) August 2, 2016

@benmurraybruce Yes, you’re right, it’s not a witch hunt. You’re more corrupt than Amaechi, Sylva, Fashola, Fayemi & other untouched APC

— OD_SIT (@I_amOD_SIT) August 2, 2016

@benmurraybruce , I totally disagree sir.Are you now saying that those that defected from PDP to APC even after elections are now saints?

— UFFIE EDISON (@UFFIEEDISON) August 1, 2016

@benmurraybruce l never knew #Debt make people think straight.. Na wa oh!! May God put all enemies of Nigeria into an uncommon Debt

— Dotcom (@onlydotcom) August 1, 2016

@benmurraybruce really and Amaechi and Fayemi and fashola are ministers even with mounting allegations and petitions with EFCC? u don fear.

— i-stev (@IsiakaSteven) August 2, 2016

@benmurraybruce The next thing we see is you Twitting Buhari is the best President ever. We need Dino in PDP tired of this complaisance

— Desmond Joyce (@DesmondNatu) August 2, 2016

@benmurraybruce I can’t believe the voice is changing to another direction🙂🙂

— Olawale Adebayo (@B_yworld) August 1, 2016

@benmurraybruce Sir, Ever since your AMCON issues, you have been highly compromised. You are no longer on the side of the Masses. #Fact

— Jaiyeoba Oluwaseyi (@afrooomedia) August 1, 2016

@benmurraybruce see as small debt don dey make uncle white banana head get plenty sense pass Mr Bean!

— Good-head (@goodhead_hills) August 1, 2016

@benmurraybruce @APCNigeria I refused to belive this is a tweet from Senator “Common Sense”…

— Orire Abdulfatah (@Oriiskyy) August 2, 2016

But he did win some over, as they praised him for his very first commonsense tweet

@benmurraybruce now I can begin taking your common sense gist seriously.

— nsisong effiong okon (@nsikool_terror) August 2, 2016

@benmurraybruce this by my judgment, is indeed the first time you will talk commonsense. All along, you were on a popularity seeking spree

— daniel nomishan (@danniboidarren) August 2, 2016

4 Things You Should Know About Dangote’s Lagos Refinery

Africa’s richest man and mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has since commenced the construction of a refinery in Lagos. Gov Akinwumi Ambode, who spoke at the LFTZ during an extensive inspection tour of the Dangote Refinery by the Togolese President, Mr. Faure Gnassingbe revealed all the benefits of the project for Lagos, Nigeria and Africa at large.

1.The Dangote Refinery being developed at the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ)  will resolve fuel supply challenge in the West African region.
2.According to Gov Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State,  the refinery being sited in Lagos was another confirmation that Lagos is a prime investment destination, as the project would positively change the face of oil and gas business in the West African region.
3.The investment (Dangote Refinery) is one of the biggest in Africa today and will have a huge impact on the economy of not only Nigeria but the whole of West African region.
4.The refinery, when completed, will be the largest single line refinery anywhere in the world refining 650,000 barrels of crude oil daily. Apart from creating jobs, this refinery will contribute immensely to solving the fuel supply challenge in the West African region.

20 Facts About New JAMB registrar Prof Ishaq Oloyede

Students of the University of Ilorin are ecstatic following the confirmation of their former Vice Chancellor as the new JAMB boss. We have put together 20 things facts about him.

Prof. Is-haq Olarewaju Oloyede was born in October 1954.
He hails from Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State.
He was a former Vice Chancellor of university of Ilorin
The University of Ilorin was ranked amongst the best in Africa under his leadership.
He had his Secondary Education from 1969-1973 at the Progressive Institute, Agege Lagos and Arabic Training Centre Agege, Lagos,(Markaz) from 1973-1976.
He later obtained a certificate in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Ibadan between 1976 and 1977.
His tertiary education began at the University of Ilorin in 1978 where he studied Arabic and was awarded a B.A. Arabic (First Class Hons) in 1981.
In July 1982 he was appointed an Assistant Lecturer in  the Department of Religions of the University.
In 1991, he had his Doctorate degree in Islamic Studies also from the University of Ilorin.
Prof. Oloyede earned several scholarships and prizes during his student days, notable among which were the Arab League prize for the best final year Certificate student in Arabic and Islamic Studies in 1977 at the University of Ibadan; Federal Government undergraduate merit award from 1979 to 1981; Department of Religions Award, University of Ilorin, 1981 and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Award, Unilorin also in 1981.
He is a fellow of the Islamic Academy of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Fellow, Academy of Entrepreneurship; Member, Nigerian Association of Teachers of Arabic and Islamic Studies (NATAIS); Member, Editorial Board, Centre for Islamic Legal Studies, ABU, Zaria, among, several others.
Between 1995 and 1998, he was National President of the Unilorin Alumni Association, and was a two-time 1st and 2nd National Vice-
Prof. Oloyede was elevated to professorial rank in 1995.
In July 1982 he was appointed a Consultant by the National Universities Commission on Educational Reforms in Nigeria.
Prof. Oloyede is married with 4 children and one grandchild.
Prof Is-haq Oloyede is the Executive Secretary of National Inter -Religious Council (NIREC.)
He is also the President of Association of African Universities (AAU).
He is an International Advisory Board members of International Network for Higher Education in Africa (INHEA).
He has authored and co-authored several articles in reputable local and international outlets.

Igbo Youths To APC: We’ll Resist Plot To Remove Ekweremadu As Deputy Senate President

The youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has warned against the removal of Senator Ike Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President.
Ekweremadu is currently standing trial alongside Senate President Bukola Saraki and two others on allegations of forgery of the Senate rules book.

The youths gave the warning less than 24 hours after Ekweremadu told members of Enugu State Economic Advisory Committee, who paid him a solidarity visit at his residence in Enugu yesterday, that the only offence he committed that warranted his being charged for alleged forgery was his emergence as deputy Senate president  against the wishes of the “powers that be”.
The youths, who spoke under the aegis of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, said any attempt to remove Ekweremadu will fail as Nigerians are comfortable with the current leadership of the senate.
In a statement signed and issued by the co-coordinator Abuja and Liaison Officer, Northern Region, Obasi Ogbonnaya, the Ohanaeze Youth pointed out that the South East, where Ekweremadu hails from, is also comfortable with his achievements in the Senate.
“His Constituency in Enugu East Senatorial zone and the entire South East are feeling his impact”, the youths said.
The statement continued: “We have gotten information that some hatchet persons from the South East APC have been busy lobbying the Senate membership and the Presidency to lend their support to the devilish plan to threaten the office of the Senate President. We warn such people to desist from such ill-fated moves as it is bound to fail”.
It further said the fact that there is now an All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator from Imo State, does not mean that such persons will begin to try what it said was the “impossible” as the South East and Nigerians in general, will resist any move to change the current leadership of the Senate.
The APC candidate, Ben Uwajumogu, was declared winner of the July 28 Imo North senatorial district re-run election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, leading to a statement by the state governor and Chairman of APC Governors Forum, Rochas Okorocha, that Ekweremadu’s seat was under threat.
Following the victory of the APC in the 2015 general elections, the South East was favoured to produce the Senate President but following the defeat of all the party’s candidates in the senatorial elections conducted in the region, the position was zoned to the North.
However, a deft political calculation by Mr. Saraki, who secured the support of some senators from his party and the minority Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, paved the way for Ekweremadu, who was elected on the latter’s platform, to emerge deputy Senate president to the chagrin of the APC, which has not forgiven him or the Senate president.
Deputy Senate President Ekweremadu, by virtue of his position, is the highest ranking PDP member and politician from the South East in the present political dispensation but that is also under threat by the forgery charges against him, Saraki and two others.
Not oblivious of the forces gathering against Mr. Ekweremadu, the Ohanaeze youths expressed confidence in the “cerebral and patriotic minds” in the Senate, who they said will not lend themselves to any plan to change their leadership.
They, however, warned “busy body persons of South East extraction, who may lend themselves to be used for any such unpatriotic move to prepare to face the wrath of Ndigbo and Nigerians. Such persons will be declared persona non grata in Igbo land”.

Namibian Student Invents Phone Which Does Not Use Airtime

A Grade 12 learner in Namibia’s Ohagwena Region has invented a sim-less mobile phone that allows users to make free calls and watch one TV channel.

Simon Petrus, a pupil at Abraham Iyambo Senior Secondary School, created the phone using spares from a phone and television set.
Complete with a light bulb, fan and charger socket, the handset functions off power supplied through a radiator and is able to make calls to anywhere through the use of radio frequencies.
The invention, which is made up of a radio system, is attached to a box and also allows the user to view one TV channel on it.
He is also able to watch NBC1 TV on his box.
No stranger to the world of creation, Petrus is reported to have won a gold medal at national level last year for his invention of a two-in-one machine that works as both a seed drier and cooler.
The shy learner has admitted to working on his invention for two years through money provided by his unemployed parents.
Petrus claims that he invented the phone in the hopes that it would be successful and be able to be carried further.

Meet The Man Who Has Lived In A Cave For 40 Years

Pedro Luca, 79, has lived in a cave high on a mountain in northern Argentina for 40 years without running water or electricity.

 He lives in the cave with 11 cockerels and 2 goats. The animals roam the mountainside during the day and return at night.
A creek is his main source of water. He says it’s the purest and richest water there is.
He starts his day around 3 a.m with a fire after the crow of the cockerels wake him.
When he gets hungry he picks up his rifle and goes hunting or heads on a 3-hour trek down the mountain to the nearest settlement of San Pedro de Colalao.

Luca’s skin is weather-beaten and he has few teeth left, but he seems much younger than a man who is almost 80.
Luca says he always wanted to live in isolation in the wild, even as a boy. He was raised by his grandfather in San Pedro de Colalao, which he first left at age 14 to travel northern Argentina and earn a living transporting coal to Bolivia.

He returned to the area and the cave. Word of his solitary lifestyle spread and he now gets occasional visits from tourists and schoolchildren.
“I never asked myself why I chose to live here,” he says. “There was another cave nearby but I liked this one better. Sometimes, I think that I would have liked to travel the world, see Europe. But there’s a lot of sea in the middle of it all and you have to have the time to cross that sea.”

Luca has become a legend in San Pedro de Colalao, and town dwellers often give him food and supplies.
He buys candles, yeast and corn with a government old-age pension, worth about $100-$200, that he collects at the town’s post office.
His only technological gadget is a small, battery-powered radio, but he has a hard time tuning into stations because the signal is weak up the mountain.

Why I Won’t Seek Vengeance Against Killers Of Abuja Preacher- Adeboye

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has revealed why he will not seek vengeance against killers of Abuja preacher, Deaconess Eunice Olawale Elisha.

Forty-two-year old Mrs Elisha was hacked to death by hoodlums on June 9 at Gbazango-West area of Kubwa, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory while preaching early in the morning.
She was an assistant pastor at the RCCG, Divine Touch parish, Old NEPA road, Phase 4, Kubwa, before she was slashed in the neck and stabbed in the stomach by suspected religious fanatics.
Adeboye, fondly called Daddy G.O by his admirers, said contrary to calls by eminent Nigerians that he should seek vengeance against killers of the evangelist, he would not do so.
He said such move would be counterproductive just as it would be contrary to what the deceased wanted and stood for when she was martyred.
According to the revered man of God, if Dcns Elisha was actually preaching to win souls for Jesus Christ, it would be unscriptural and anti-Christ to seek to kill the same souls she sought to save.
Adeboye made the declaration on the occasion of the second day of the ongoing Ministers Conference at the Redemption Camp, Kilometer 46, Lagos – Ibadan Expressway on Friday morning ahead the 64 annual convention starting August 1.
“I’m not looking for vengeance. I won’t listen to people asking me to seek vengeance.

“I won’t pursue the case. That’ll be contrary to what she wanted.
“She wanted them saved, not killed.
“What will their killing do for me?,” the 74-year-old cleric queried.
Teaching on the topic, “Importance of Mercy,” Adeboye said since every Christian did not know when they would die, the time to truly seek God was now.
Making an example out of the slain Mrs Elisha whom he said was not aware she won’t return home alive on that fateful day, the Ifewara-born cleric warned that the end of the age was imminent, hence the prevalence of vices all over the world.
He said the murdered evangelist finished well and was, no doubt, sitting at the right hand of her Saviour for whom she paid the supreme price.

“Recently, some hoodlums went to murder my daughter in Abuja.
“She was doing her morning cry that morning as she usually did, armed with a megaphone and her Bible.
“An Imam was said to have sent some hoodlums to drive her away, but they did something else.
“She didn’t know she won’t return home that day.
“She finished well. She finished strong
“What a beautiful way to go. She’s gone to be with the Lord,” he stated glowingly.
The man of God said that his joy was predicated on the fact that another soul was waiting for him in Heaven.
“My joy is that she finished well and I have additional soul waiting to welcome me in Heaven when it is my time,” Adeboye noted.
It will be recalled that husband of the slain evangelist, Pastor Elisha had, earlier, expressed misgivings in killing whoever was caught in connection with the murder, saying he would rather they gave their lives to Jesus Christ.
Describing his wife as a martyr, he said: “I see her as a martyr, and she died for Christ. And whether the people are caught or not, they should forgive them; my prayer is that if they can accept Christ, that will be a gain to Christ.”
The slain lady evangelist, who left behind his husband, aged father, mother and seven children, was buried last Saturday in Abuja.

Reactions Trail JAMB’s Decision To Withdraw 2016 Admission List

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced the withdrawal of the 2016 admission list earlier sent to all tertiary institutions in the country.

In a statement signed by the Board’s Public Relations Officer, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the board said institutions are now to make their own list to JAMB in-line with Federal Government’s guideline on admissions and Nigerians can’t stop talking about it.
Twitter users seemingly upset with the decision of the board didn’t waste any time in lashing them on the platform. A lot of them likened the decision of JAMB to the inconclusive elections conducted by INEC.
Nigeria needs certainty

Our penchant for inconclusiveness is now affecting our youth. How can JAMB withdraw released results? We need more certainty in Nigeria!

— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) August 1, 2016

@benmurraybruce This is laughable.

— UNIJOS Breaking News (@UniJosBreaking) August 1, 2016

The government is rubbing off on everything

@benmurraybruce Everything about us is becoming inconclusive since this government took over. God please come to our rescue

— Potential senator (@EEnwerem) August 1, 2016

JAMB wasn’t supposed to admit for universities in the first place

@channelstv jamb has no business with admission list. It is the university that prepares admission list. Jamb only provide results and tests

— Mohammed Umar (@_muhammad_umar_) July 31, 2016

Stop confusing the students

@vanguardngrnews @vanguardngr why are they confusing these innocent admision seekers,they shld get tins right at their end I beg joor.

— harde (@olorisuperbaby) July 31, 2016

@GuardianNigeria we are tired of their(jamb) yes today, no tomorrow.

— Hardey Topman (@Topman2gentle) August 1, 2016

@GuardianNigeria what’s happening, jamb n NUC have confused our children that even parents don’t know what’s happening with d admission

— Lucky Ailemen (@Luckiano06) August 1, 2016

Like Idris Abdulkareem said ‘Everything jaga jaga’

@channelstv Nigeria in one word JAGA-JAGA! For goodness sake don’t they know the effect before embarking on such an idea? SMH

— Kadree Steven (@Kadreexy) August 1, 2016

The students should protest

@MobilePunch I feel the students should riot

— Shobanjo Adebayo (@keduski) August 1, 2016

See What Nigerian States Owed Domestically In 2015

Here are details on the Domestic Debt Stock by all Nigerian state as at December 2015.

Domestic or Internal debt is the amount of money raised by the Government, in local currency, and from its own residents. Generally, domestic debt consists of two categories, which are Bank and Non-Bank borrowing.
Put differently,it is also defined as debt denominated in local currency. The management of domestic debt in Nigeria has hitherto been conducted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the issuance of government debt instruments, which consisted of:
• Nigerian Treasury Bills
• Nigerian Treasury Certificates
• Federal Government Development Stocks
• Treasury Bonds
• Ways and Means Advances.
Now to what the states owe;
Abia – N33.5bn
Adamawa – N47.2bn
Akwa Ibom – N147.6bn
Anambra – N3.6bn
Bauchi – N57.6bn
Bayelsa – N103.3bn
Benue – N39.9bn
Borno – N22.3bn
Cross River – N115.5bn
Delta – N320.6bn
Ebonyi – N34.1bn
Edo – N46.2bn
Ekiti – N52.5bn
Enugu – N37.55bn
Gombe – N53.4bn
Imo – N71.7bn
Jigawa – N22.1bn
Kaduna – N49.8bn
Kano – N65bn
Katsina – N11.49bn
Kebbi – N63.7bn
Kogi – N42bn
Kwara – N31.9bn
Lagos – N218.5bn
Nasarawa – N40.5bn
Niger – N21.5bn
Ogun – N75.9bn
Ondo – N26.6bn
Osun – N144.6bn
oyo – N47.4bn
Plateau – N96.2bn
Rivers – N134.9bn
Sokoto – N11.6bn
Taraba – N27.6bn
Yobe – N3.8bn
Zamfara – N46.2bn
Domestic debt stock increased by N848.08bn from N1.655tn in 2014 to N2.503tn in 2015.
Highest Jump in Domestic Debt stock (2014 to 2015)
Delta – N108.6bn increase
Osun – N106.8bn increase
Akwa Ibom – N65.81bn
Reduction in domestic debt stock 2015
Lagos – N49.5bn reduction from 2014
Niger – N1.9bn reduction from 2014
Only Lagos and Niger states had reductions in total domestic debt stock in 2015
SCARY NUMBERS
Katsina state had 1,859% increase in domestic debt stock
2014 – N586m
2015 – N11.4bn
Jigawa state had a 1314% increase in domestic debt stock
2014 – N1.5bn
2015 – N22.1bn
Ebonyi state had a 391% increase in domestic debt stock
2014 – N6.9bn
2015 – N34.1bn
Nigeria’s Public Debt stock
Ext Debt stock (FG+states) – N2.11tn
Domestic (FG) – N8.83tn
Domestic (States) – N2.5tn
 Total – N13.45tn