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Even as back in the days musician, Eedris Abdulkareem, tongue-lashed D'banj in a recent video, calling him "stupid" to have left Don Jazzy, the Kokomaster has refused to retaliate but rather gave a subtle throwback by saying Eedris insulted people who are young enough to be his children. The controversial singer had in the said video that surfaced online recently, took some of his younger colleagues to the cleaners while saying D'banj "lacked talent and all he has is 'razzmatazz'". Saturday Beatscaught up with the Kokomaster during the one year anniversary of his initiative, CREAM, an acronym that stands for Creative, Reality, Entertainment, Arts and Music and he bared his mind on Eedris' outburst. He toldSaturday Beatsthat he felt Eedris could have handled the matter in a better way. The Kokomaster said, "At first, I did not see the video where Eedris spoke about me and initially, I thought it was something else till people s

The United Kingdom has asked the Federal Government to clarify the status and whereabouts of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The British government said it had asked the government if the British national was alive or dead. However, it could not be immediately ascertained if the Federal Government had responded to the inquiries or not. The Press Officer, UK high commission in Nigeria, Joe Abuku, stated that the inquiry followed reports that Kanu had been missing since September 14, 2017 when armed soldiers stormed his residence in Abia State. Abuku said this in response to questions fromSaturday PUNCHseeking to know UK's concern on the missing IPOB leader. "We are seeking urgent clarification from the Nigerian authorities about the status and whereabouts of Mr. Kanu, a British-Nigerian man, who has been reported missing since September 14," Abuku stated in an email on Thursday. Asked if the UK would strip Kanu of citizenship on

The Transmission Company of Nigeria has announced a total collapse of the country's electricity grid. It, however, assured that restoration of the grid was at an advanced stage and explained that the total collapse was due to tripping of three generator units at Egbin power generation station. The daily report on Nigeria's power sector stated that the grid collapsed totally on Thursday, September 28, 2017, after the country generated 3,515 megawatts of electricity the preceding day. The TCN said, "A total system collapse was recorded on September 28, 2017 at 20:03Hrs. "Reports obtained from stations and the sequence of events generated by the SCADA system indicated that the system collapse was triggered by the tripping of Egbin Units ST4, ST6 and ST5 at '20:03:15, 20:03:32 and 20:03:34' respectively. "By this incident, the Nigerian electric power grid lost generation completely before restoration commenced at 20:22Hrs." TCN added that

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has jokingly blamed Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, for "all the bad things" that happened to the country during his tenure between 1999 and 2007. Obasanjo was speaking in Owerri, at the graduation ceremony of students of Rochas Foundation. He said the worst advice he got while in office was from Okorocha, one of his then advisers. "As you may all know, Rochas was one of the advisers I had when I was president," he said. "All the bad things that happened to this country under my presidency was advised by Rochas Okorocha," he said. Obasanjo however extolled the qualities of the Governor, who he said never ceased to surprise him. "He (Okorocha) has never stopped to surprise me. He is a man of vision, of ideas. He is a thinking man. And when he explained to me his ideas about education, what he has done, I was marvelled. I doff my hat for you, Okorocha. "Let me say this, the beginning of

A President Of a Country Must Have A Sound and working mind With Standard Ideas On how to Move A country Forward. . Disclaimer-->This Post Is Clearly My opinion And was Not Sponsored. . There Are More Than 100 of Reasons Why Any Citizen of Nigeria,With A sane mind would not vote Governor Ayodele Fayose As president But I'll be Highlighting just Some Of It.... . 1.Corruption. This Point Might be disputed by few , but President Buhari (Gcfr) is the only President that assumed the seat of the presidency with Nigerians Voting For Him for the feeling he will be the one to eradicate corruption in our dear country Nigeria And i can say he has done so (Even though not to the level we had envisioned) , He has proven his self,But this Man Governor Ayodele Fayose Has Been The Main Opposition Of The president who is Trying To eradicate corruption in Nigeria , The reason Is that he feels corruption shouldn't be eradicated and that it's Part Of us(That's The on

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has given more insights into why he opted to run for the office of the President in 2019 despite the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, zoning the slot to the North. DAILY POST reports that Fayose, who is the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, had on Thursday officially announced his intention to run for presidencyon the platform of the party. In a series of tweets, on his Twitter handle, Fayose said his decision was without "prejudice" to the party. Fayose wondered if PDP wants to be without a candidate, since nobody has come out from the North. He wrote: "My decision to seek the PDP ticket to contest the 2019 presidential election is without prejudice to our party's position. "However, I am a supporter of competence and capacity especially now that this country needs young and able leaders that can take our country out of this present state of hopelessness. "Most importantly, despite that the party

The Presidency on Friday gave more reasons why the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu was proscribed. President Muhammadu Buhari's Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie said IPOB was proscribed to avoid "them hurting themselves." The Presidential aide, who took to his twitter handle made the remark while sharing a cartoon making carricalture the pro-Biafra group. Onochie wrote: "We are our brother's keepers. "It was needful to proscribe IPOB. We don't want them hurting themselves. "God bless Nigeria."

This should be president Buhari's cutest photo since his return from London for medical vacation. He was pictured adjusting his glasses while smiling shortly after Juma'at Prayer today in Abuja. His Cap Is Dope Photo Credit-FB

Education Is The Bed Rock Of Every Functioning Society And developed Country Today. No Developed Country Would Have attained that Height Without Education. But My Post Today Is Built Around Higher Education(Institutions) . (Disclaimer):This Post Was Created Not To discourage Anybody From Been Educated(In Higher Institution), But To Show The Reason Why Advance Search For Knowledge(Not Basic Education) Is Over-rated In Nigeria.. . 1.Employment. Almost About 90% Of Every Nigerian Youth In The University Is There For The Fact That He Wants To Believe He Has Greater Opportunity Of Getting A Job. But According To emerging Stastistics ,Nigeria's Unemployment Rate Is Declining The More,So My Point is Why Are You Studying When You Might Not Get Your Fantasized Dream Job. Just Knock that dream Off. 2. Knowledge. Search for Knowledge is One Of The fundamental Reason We Are Humans and higher Beings(Not Monkeys). But The Knowledge We Get from Attending Higher Institutions In

FG declares Monday public holiday The federal government has declared Monday, October 2 as public holiday in commemoration of Nigeria's Independence Day anniversary. The Punch reports that Lt Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.) who is the minister of interior made this declaration on Wednesday, September 27 in Abuja on behalf of the federal government. He called on Nigerians to work towards maintaining and strengthening the unity of the country. In a statement by the minister's permanent secretary, Abubakar Magaji, he emphasised"government's commitment to promoting national unity, economic growth and political development on democratic principles." He noted that"in the past 57 years, Nigeria had made much progress and positive impact not only on its citizens but also on human development globally." "The minister enjoined all Nigerians to remain steadfast in the love and care of the country, noting that a strong sense of ownership of on

Hate speech and fake news have been identified as the biggest threats to Nigeria's national security, by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna. According to reports, the governor made his comments when he received the new commander of Operation Safe Haven, Maj. Gen. Anthony Alolagbe.. He stated:"There is need to curtail the emerging trend of using social media to create crisis in the country. "I think collectively we have to fight it and discourage those behind it by arresting and prosecuting them. "In this state, we will not allow anyone engage in propagation of hate speech and fake news; there is provision in the penal code in Kaduna state that deals with that." ‎The governor further stated:"Nigerians are becoming more aware of the dangers hate speech, fake news and the abuses on social media pose to the peace, unity and stability of this country. "There are still challenges; but with the intervention of the Army and Police, it has been c

The Yoruba People Are Known For Their Well Preserved And Observed Culture , And Your Culture detemines Your Actual self.. This Are 14 Things You Might Not Know about The Yoruba People.. 1. The language of the Yorubas, known as Yoruba, belongs to the Congo-Kordofanian language family. Yoruba as a language has many dialects, but most of its speakers are able to understand each other. 2. The Yoruba constitute over 35 million people in total with majority of this population from Nigeria. The Yorubas make up 21% of the Nigerian population. 3. According to the CIA World Fact book, the Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa. 4. Traditional childbirth in Yorubaland does not support anyone younger than the mother to be present at the birth. 5. When a child is born in a traditional Yoruba society, the infant is taken to the backyard with the umbilical cord bound tightly with thread before it is cut. The placenta is then buried in the backyard. The child is bathed w

Edo State chapter of Nigerian Medical Association, NMA has raised alarm over the bad state of health facilities in the state, regretting that Doctors use candles, rechargeable Lanterns to work. The state chairman of NMA, Dr Emmanuel Osaigbovo, who raised the alarm while briefing journalists in Benin City, urged the state government to declare state of emergency in the health sector. He said; "Today, there is hardly any functional ward that is befitting for the people to recover from their infirmities. The wards are dilapidated and ironically pose a major health risk to those who are being cared for and those who render services therein. "In some of these obsolete facilities, doctors in their usual zeal to work resort to the use of candles and personal rechargeable lanterns when the authorities fail to provide basic electricity. The buildings are falling apart in their numbers due to lack of maintenance. "We seriously hope that there is no collapse of one

Singer Skales in an Interview with SoundCity'sMoet Abeberevealed that he and former label mate Wizkid were never really friends. When asked about his relationship with Wizkid, he said; "Wiz is a great. I can't deny the fact that we started together. He is doing really big. We are all doing really great now, in our different ways, in our different lanes. I am inspired by his works. Big ups to him." "Whatever happened, happened. The past is behind now. As much as I don't like to talk about the past anymore, it's all positive energy now." Asked if they're still on talking terms, Skales said he and Wizkid were never really friends. He said; "It's always been about the business between the two of us."

News reports that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, is now leading Federal Government negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU is inaccurate. Media reports seemed to have misrepresented what Labor & Employment Minister, Dr. Chris Ngige meant when he spoke with reporters about the negotiations after theFederal Executive Councilmeeting on Wednesday. The Vice President had a discussion after FEC with both the Labour Minister and Education Minister Malam Adamu Adamu around the issues, but has not taken over the negotiations as widely reported. Both Ministers will continue to lead the FG- ASUU talks. The Federal Government continues to diligently pursue a prompt resolution of this dispute and is confident the matter would be resolved. Laolu Akande Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity Office of the Vice President 1st September 2017

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday said that the Federal Government should be held responsible for the unions continuous strike. The union said that the way the FG was handling the development represented the mockery of global standards of university education . ASUU chairman at the University of Ibadan, Dr Deji Omole , who said this on a radio programme monitored in Ibadan, said the FG could end the strike by implementing the agreement it reached with the union . He explained that all that the union was demanding from the FG was to use public funds to develop public education in the country . He noted that the union would not shy away from embracing purposeful dialogue with the FG over the development. "ASUU has never run away from negotiations. The issue in connection with the strike is about implementation and not negotiation as being peddled by the Minister of Labour , Chris Ngige . It was sad that successive government , including the incumbent

The Nigerian economy has rallied back into growth after suffering contraction for five consecutive quarters. Official results from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) ) has shown that the economy grew at 0.55 per cent in the second quarter (Q2) of 2017, effectively removing Nigeria out of recession. FINANCIAL WATCH reported earlier Latest survey by Bloomberg which suggest that top Africa's economy – Nigeria and South Africa who has been battling with dwindling economy may be on her way out of recession. According to the survey, Nigeria's GDP likely grew 1.6 per cent from a year earlier after contracting for five straight quarters. The Q2 2017 growth rate of 0.55 per cent (year-on-year) was 2.04 per cent higher than the rate recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2016 (-1.49%) and higher by 1.46 per cent points from rate recorded in the preceding quarter, which was revised to –0.91% from –0.52% due to revisions to crude output for March 2017. According to th

Oluh Tochukwu, a medical doctor with the Imo State University Teaching Hospital IMSUTH, recently did the right thing by returning N2.7 million that was mistakenly paid into his account. Showing his account balance and a letter he wrote to the bank requesting the money to be removed from his account, Oluh on his Facebook page wrote; "In this austere time and with the long holidays knocking, the sum of #2.7M (Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand naira) was MISTAKENLY credited into one of my "not well used" accounts 3days ago. I reported officially and have given the required consent and other stuffs necessary to REVERSE it back to where it came from successfully. There are still HONEST Nigerians. OLUH BEDE TOCHUKWU IS ONE OF THEM. BARKA D SALLAH to all my Muslim friends and happy holidays to all and sundry".

The Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose join Muslim faithfuls during 2017 Eid Kabir prayer at Muslim Community Prayer Ground, Odo-Ado, Ado-Ekiti today.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says contrary to the claim by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, he has not taken over negotiations with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities. The vice president said this today through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande. Ngige had, while addressing State House reporters after the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, said Osinbajo had taken over some aspects of the negotiations and discussions with the ASUU. The minister had stated: "At council today (Wednesday), the vice president has taken over some of the aspects of the negotiations and discussions. "So, we are continuing the meeting in his office and when we finish meeting, we will get back to ASUU for another round of meeting and we are hopeful that we will be able to go to an appreciable extent to solve some of the outstanding issues that is preventing them from g

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Wednesday disclosed that his child is also affected by the current ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Ngige revealed this when he spoke with state house correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting. He said, "I have my child at home as we speak. Government is leaving no stone unturned to make sure that we reach a conclusive agreement with ASUU so that they can go back to classroom." The minister also said,"Students who are supposed to take their exams and promotional exams have been forced by circumstances beyond their control to stay at home"

We rejoice with our Muslim families as they celebrate this year Eid Kabir. May this Eid bring fun, Happiness,God Endless Blessing and Fresh Love. Baraka de Sallah