CORRECTED VERSION OF 2016 BUDGET SENT TO PRESIDENCY FOR ASSENT.

Reports reaching our publishing desk reveals that the corrected version of the 2016 budget was, yesterday, being Thursday 5th April, handed over to the Presidency through the Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters Senate (Senator), Ita Enang.

The final conclusion and onward transmission of the corrected version of the budget, which had suffered delay, was disclosed by the Deputy Chairman of House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Jonathan Gaza, while briefing journalists at the assembly complex.

Though Gaza did not give details on how and when the budget was transmitted to the Presidency, sources close to the Presidency confirmed that it was Senator Ita Enang who collected the budget from the 10-man committee of the National Assembly, headed by the Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun.

Recall that earlier in the day, it was scheduled that the deputy speaker would hand over the corrected version of the budget in the presence of journalists, but the plan was later cancelled and was submitted quietly.

While fielding questions from journalists on the position of the budget, Gaza said: “It is the same media that has kept the whole country abreast. Don’t forget that we are equally Nigerians and it is our desire for the country to move forward.

“A committee was set up, which was in the papers and was headed by the deputy speaker. Members from the Senate as well as the executive arm looked at the budget and I believe the resolutions have been transmitted or rather the resolutions have been submitted to the President.

“I am quite optimistic and I enjoin all other Nigerians, including yourselves, to be as optimistic as me that in the very near future, this budget will be signed into law.”

On when the budget was submitted and whether it was an amendment that was submitted, the House Deputy spokesman said: “Well, I honestly believe that we have to be quite careful with our choice of words.

“Over time, there have been differences and both arms of government had sat down to look at what those issues are. Most importantly, what we want is to see our country and our economy moving forward.”

NIGER DELTA MILITANTS BLOW UP CHEVRON VALVE PLATFORM IN WARRI

 MILITANTS in the Niger Delta region have continued their onslaught on oil installations in the area with the blowing up of the Chevron Valve Platform in Abiteye, Warri North council area of Delta State. The incident it was gathered occurred at about 10:40pm on Wednesday. Though the company’s Public Affairs Manager, Deji Haastrup could not be reached for comments on the incident, on official of the Department of Security Services, DSS who spoke on anonymity, confirmed the incident adding that the platform was totally destroyed with the use of dynamites. 

The security source further hinted that the platform is a major connecting point where all other platforms link up and serves as a fulcrum to chevron BOP and the Chevron Tank farm thereby halting all operations of the company in the region. Claiming responsibility for the incident, the Niger Delta Avengers, a militant group in the region in a statement on Wednesday night, while attributing the incident to the effort of its strike Team 6, stated that attack on the facility is in line with its promise to the Nigerian government to cripple the economy. 

The group which had earlier claimed responsibility for destroying the Forcados 48-inch Export Pipeline, also threatened to attack oil facilities in Lagos and Abuja, the nation’s capital. “We want to pass this message to the all international oil companies operating in the Niger Delta that the Nigeria Military can’t protect their facilities. They should talk to the federal government to meet our demands else more mishaps will befall their installations. “Until our demands are met, no repair works should be done at the blast site,” the group added.

GUNMEN INVADES, KILL MANY, IN AHOADA, RIVERS STATE.

🇬unmen, suspected to be cultists on Saturday invaded Ula-Ukpata and Edoha communities in Ahoada East Local Council area of Rivers State, killing no fewer than 16 persons.

It was gathered that the said gunmen invaded the communities about 1pm shooting indiscriminately at people.

According to eye witnesses and some lucky ones who escaped the attack, the gunmen attacked Ula-Upata communities twice. At their first attack, they reportedly killed 12 persons, and returned around 9pm during which two more persons were killed.

It was further gathered that the gunmen thereafter moved to Edoha, a nearby village, where they beheaded five persons, and made away with their heads, while the bodies were left on the road.

However, briefing journalists on the incidence in Port Harcourt, the state Commissioner of Police, Musa Kimo confirmed the incidence but claimed that only four persons were killed.

The commissioner confirmed that the killings occurred on Saturday night at Zion Nwoka’s compound in Ula-Ukpata community, giving the names of the victims as Mrs Monica Zion (62), Gospel Nwoka (45), Patricia Ziko (42) and Rogers Nwoka (28).

Kimo added that four patrol team of policemen has been deployed to the community to beef up security and forestall reprisal attack.

He however called on members of the public to work with the police, by giving them prompt information in tackling the menace in the society.

WAS TEE BILLZ's INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT TRULY HACKED?

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🇹rending in social media is the claim and counter claims of the once lovebirds and couple Tunji Balogun (Tee Billz) and main queen Tiwa Savage. Tee Billz gave the first shot after his alleged suicide attempt, blaming it all on Tiwa Savage's infidelity and lack of submissiveness in the home front. All these he (Tee Billz) made public on his Instagram handle. Why he quickly ran to his Instagram too early is still unclear. But he denied doing that dirty,  childish job on his Instagram handle claiming he's account was hack. WHAT??? How? By who??? 

It was however gathered that those publications on his Instagram page was not hacked after all.  They were truly made by Tee Billz himself in the heat of his anger. But because of the unexpected heat it has generated,  he decided to feign innocence claiming his account was hacked,  which was most likely untrue. 

GROW UP TEE BILLZ!!! 

MAVIN QUEEN, TIWA SAVAGE HAVING AFFAIR WITH 2FACE IDIBIA (TUBABA) AND MAVIN BOSS, DON JAZZY??? THE REAL GIST AND DRAMA

Some days ago, Tiwa Savage's former manager and husband Tunji Balogun aka ''Tee Billz" took to his Instagram to make shocking accusations against his wife, the Mavin Queen, Tiwa Savage. Many people never saw this coming and here’s why:

In September 2014, barely five months into their marriage, a report alleged that Tiwa Savage’s husband and manager, Tunji ‘Tee Billz’ Balogun, physically abuses her. According to Kemi Filani, the singer had to move out of their home when she couldn’t take on the physical and emotional abuses,  and there were also claims that he cheated on her.

But this surprisingly this January, Tee Billz shut down those claims.

“I have never in my life raised my hands on any woman,” he said, adding that anyone who claims otherwise should come forward with proof.

The denial was believable and this is especially because of how the couple show love to each other in public. On her birthday, Tee Billz wrote his wife a love note. “Our love story is my favorite,” he said.

The peak of this fairytale relationship was when at the Youth Enterprise Conference held in Lagos this April, the mum of one told a touching story of how her husband saved her from being sexually harassed by figureheads in the industry.

Here’s what she (Tiwa) said:

“A lot of times they said that they wanted to help me but actually they wanted me to do ‘something’ with them. Luckily I had a crazy boyfriend who ended up being my husband. He just shut them down.

But here, Tee Billz accuses her of sleeping with multiple figureheads in the industry:

So, where did the accusation of sleeping with ‘2face, Dr SID and Don Jazzy’ come from?

The first time Tee Billz fought with Tiwa Savage’s fans was after her zealous follower requested that she shoot a video of her song ‘Love Me Hard’ featuring (2baba) Tuface Idibia. “Tell Tiwa Savage to shoot video for ‘love me hard’ ft 2baba,” the fan Don Foreign wrote on Instagram. “If she no release that song video, she f*ck up big time.”

But Tee Billz flipped and took that as some sort of disrespect, to the surprise of many people. “Tell your parents to send you to music school so you can learn to record and shoot whatever fucking video you want with your stupid self,” Tee Billz replied, adding, “F**k you being a fan if you [are] going to be disrespectful.”

And so with this recent accusation, fans are already asking: was his account truly hacked?

According to a very close family source, it is Tee Billz that put up all the posts by himself.  His account wasn’t hacked.

Also, Bank W has been commenting on the posts as though he knew the minds behind it, and he is asking the already upset Tee Billz to take his calls. “I know you are reading this bro,” Banky W said. “Call me back please. I love you and so does your wife and your kids. We can fix whatever it is or we can at least try. Please call me , please.”

The EME boss is sure of who is making those never-heard-before posts, revealing details he, Banky W, may have heard before.

Next, he made apologies which has fans worried about his safety, with many asking that he be watched at this time.This is too much information for us to absorb in one day.

Tee Billz has reportedly isolated himself from close friends as he refuses to respond to calls. And this leads us to this point: when he says he moved out of their home five times during the course of their union, is he contradicting earlier claims that they never faced challenges earlier in their marriage?

Tiwa Savage is yet to speak up since this news broke, and the Supreme Mavin Dynasty team is yet to issue any press statements at this point.

The otherwise happy relationship suddenly, allegedly packed up, making a joke of how their fans had perceived the? 

I pray you fix this marriage...plz! 

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EBONYI TOPS IN VVF/ VIGINAL FISTULA DISEASE CASES NATIONWIDE - USAID

Abakaliki — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) yesterday said over 12,000 women are afflicted with Vesico Viginal Fistula (VVF) in Nigeria, with[b] Ebonyi State having the highest of over 3,000 cases.

According to the Federal Ministry of Health, between 500,000 and 1,000,000 women/girls are living with VVF, and an estimate of up to 80,000 new cases are recorded annually. The maternal mortality ratio in Nigeria remains unacceptably high; adding that Nigeria contributing about 2.5% of the global population bears 10% of the global burden of maternal mortality and 40% of the global burden of obstetric fistula.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/vvf-the-silent-scourge-alienating-women-of-reproductive-age/

USAID Deputy Mission Director, Aler Grubbs, who stated this in Abakaliki while handing over hospital equipment worth N47million to the Ebonyi State government, said the disease was ravaging women in Nigeria.

She maintained that VVF is treatable and preventable as over 10,000 victims had been treated in the state and other parts of the country.
She pointed out that over 450 doctors had been trained in the area of VVF surgery, adding that USAID would continue to partner with Ebonyi to eradication the disease.

Vesicovaginal Fistula, or VVF, is an abnormal fistulous tract extending between the bladder (or vesico) and the vagina that allows the continuous involuntary discharge of urine into the vaginal vault, leading to an uncontrollable release of urine

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/ebonyi-tops-in-vvf-cases-usaid/134900.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/201602230271.html

POLICE ESCORT SHOT DEATH IN PORT-HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE . VERY GRAPHIC PHOTOS (Viewer discretion advised)

What is really happening in Rivers state...so much killings in recent times...?

Unknown gunmen yet again went berserk,  as they attacked and killed a policeman in an escort vehicle. This reportedly happened yesterday along Waterline area in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state..

FORMER RIVERS STATE REC, GESILA KHAN MAKES CONFESSIONAL STATEMENT?

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in charge of the 2015 Rivers governorship election, Gesila Khan has reportedly made confessions in custody of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The REC had been arrested by the zonal office of the EFCC alongside four others on Thursday, April 14 and the anti graft agency reports that over N675.1m has been discovered in the bank accounts of different electoral officers in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, and Delta states.

Reports say the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) received and shared the said amount during the last gubernatorial election.

The Punch reports that Khan had been questioned by the Department of State Security (DSS) in July, 2015, but had no charges against her.

In the recent arrest, however, the residences of all the suspects were searched and incriminating documents were said to have been recovered by the commission.

Khan, who has since been deployed to Cross River state, was reported to have received N185.8m ahead of the March 28 and April 11, 2015, elections.

A reliable source with the EFCC revealed that Khan made confessional statements where it was gathered that she received the money through a special bank account.

“Khan was the REC in Rivers State in 2015 election before she was transferred to Cross River early this year. She was said to have received N185.8m. She has made confessional statements,”the source revealed.

Also, one Edem Okon Essanga, a retired INEC official, was picked up by the anti graft agency alongside his alleged accomplice, Immaculata Asuquo, who is the head, voter education of INEC in Akwa Ibom.

The source at the EFCC added that “Essanga received N241.1m during the general election. He admitted receiving the money and confirmed sharing it with different ad hoc workers during the election. His accomplice Asuquo has also been arrested.”

Fidelia Omoile, who was the INEC electoral officer in Isoko-south local government area of Delta, was also picked up and apart the over N112m traced to her, EFCC also recovered some sensitive electoral materials.

“She received N112.4m during the 2015 general election. A search warrant was executed at her residences in Asaba and Benin.

“Sensitive materials used in the 2015 elections were recovered, including evidence of the suspicious bank transaction and land documents that will assist us in our investigations,” the anonymous EFCC source revealed.

INEC’s administrative secretary in Delta, Oluchi Obi-Brown, was among those picked up and investigations by EFCC showed that she allegedly received over N111m and had about $75,000 in an account in the United States.

The source added that “Oluchi received N111.5m during the general election. Investigations showed that she operates a foreign account with the Bank of America. As of February this year, the account balance was $75,857, (N24, 274,240),” explaining further that the total amount found in the bank accounts of the INEC officials stands at N675.1m.

And according to the anonymous source, the commission was banking on the confessional statements to catch the ‘big fish’.

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25 FACTS I BET YOU  NEVER KNEW ABOUT AFRICA!

1. Gambia has only one university.
2. Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s only Spanish-speaking country.
3. South Africa is the most visited African country.
4. Nigeria has the richest Black people in Africa.
5. Samuel Eto’o is the highest paid Footballer of all time, he received about £350,000 weekly in Russia in 2011.
6. A person from Botswana is called a
Motswana, the plural is Batswana.
7. A person from Lesotho is called a Mosotho.
8. A person from Niger is called a Nigerien. A person from Burkina Faso is called a Burkinabe.
9. Nigeria has won more football cups than England.
10. Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the world’s most educated President with 7 degrees, two of them are Masters.
11. Al-Ahly of Egypt is the richest club in
Africa.
12. Didier Drogba is Chelsea’s highest goal scorer in European competition.
13. Johannesburg, South Africa is the most visited city in Africa.
14. Zinedine Zidane wanted to play for
Algeria, but the selector rejected him, saying they are already many players like him in the team.
15. President Jacob Zuma was once a referee
in prison.
16. President Robert Mugabe was jailed for 11 years for fighting for freedom.
17. President Robert Mugabe is Africa’s oldest Head of State and the world’s second oldest Head of State. He was born 1924.
18. The Seychellois are the most educated Africans. Seychelles’ literacy rates (Adult: 92%, Youth: 99%)
Zimbabwe is 2nd (Adult: 91.2%, Youth: 99%).
19. Rwanda is a better country for gender equality than England and USA.
20. Somalia got its first ATM on October 7,2014.
21. South Africa has the most Grammy Award winners in Africa.
22. Ethiopia has the most airports in Africa.
23. Ethiopia’s economy is growing faster than China's.
24. Eritrea’s President, Isaiah Afwerki is the least richest President in Africa.
25. Ethiopia is Africa’s oldest independent country.
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