Thursday
Embracing Made in Nigeria.
Following the deep slide of crude oil prices from $140 per barrel in 2013 to the current trading just below $40 per barrel the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) made bold, proactive moves to protect the economy from spiralling into chaos.
First of all, the CBN sought to preserve our foreign reserves and steady the value of the Naira by prohibiting the sale of foreign exchange for the importation of items that can be produced in Nigeria. It also strove to make foreign exchange available to manufacturers to import machineries and other intermediate goods to keep their production lines running. The Bank is at the forefront of the current drive to look inwards, dump the national mania for imported products and redirect efforts to “made in Nigeria” goods. These measures have ensured that the foreign reserves have remained steady at just below 30 billion US Dollars, thus holding up Nigeria’s creditworthiness among our international trade partners. We are expecting the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Finance, to immediately unfold a national economic agenda that will mobilise all sectors of the economy to embrace the “Made in Nigeria” campaign.
This it can do by first of all enunciating a robust fiscal policy support to complement the CBN’s efforts at managing the foreign exchange, inflation and interest rates. We are disappointed that the so-called Economic Team headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has not shown its hands to guide the drivers of the various sectors of the economy to confront the challenges posed by the oil glut. It was this lack of spark that prompted concerned Nigerians like Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, to call for an emergency economic conference, which the Federal Government has accepted in principle to do. The Federal Government must unleash its various arms to key into the “Made in Nigeria” drive. The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) must redouble its efforts to plug the entry points to ensure that unpatriotic Nigerian traders and their foreign collaborators do not undermine the inward-looking measures. This it can do through the imposition of stringent import tariffs to discourage importation.
Happily, the National Assembly has shown its eagerness to play a leading role in the “Made in Nigeria” initiative through the application of appropriate legislative measures. Nigerians must do away with import dependency. They must consume what they produce as well as produce what they consume. That is the only way to increase productivity, diversify the economy and provide jobs for our teeming jobless youth. When that happens, the rate of crimes will come down and Nigeria will be economically prosperous and politically stable. Let us see this economic crisis as an opportunity to escape import dependency.
First of all, the CBN sought to preserve our foreign reserves and steady the value of the Naira by prohibiting the sale of foreign exchange for the importation of items that can be produced in Nigeria. It also strove to make foreign exchange available to manufacturers to import machineries and other intermediate goods to keep their production lines running. The Bank is at the forefront of the current drive to look inwards, dump the national mania for imported products and redirect efforts to “made in Nigeria” goods. These measures have ensured that the foreign reserves have remained steady at just below 30 billion US Dollars, thus holding up Nigeria’s creditworthiness among our international trade partners. We are expecting the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Finance, to immediately unfold a national economic agenda that will mobilise all sectors of the economy to embrace the “Made in Nigeria” campaign.
This it can do by first of all enunciating a robust fiscal policy support to complement the CBN’s efforts at managing the foreign exchange, inflation and interest rates. We are disappointed that the so-called Economic Team headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has not shown its hands to guide the drivers of the various sectors of the economy to confront the challenges posed by the oil glut. It was this lack of spark that prompted concerned Nigerians like Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, to call for an emergency economic conference, which the Federal Government has accepted in principle to do. The Federal Government must unleash its various arms to key into the “Made in Nigeria” drive. The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) must redouble its efforts to plug the entry points to ensure that unpatriotic Nigerian traders and their foreign collaborators do not undermine the inward-looking measures. This it can do through the imposition of stringent import tariffs to discourage importation.
Happily, the National Assembly has shown its eagerness to play a leading role in the “Made in Nigeria” initiative through the application of appropriate legislative measures. Nigerians must do away with import dependency. They must consume what they produce as well as produce what they consume. That is the only way to increase productivity, diversify the economy and provide jobs for our teeming jobless youth. When that happens, the rate of crimes will come down and Nigeria will be economically prosperous and politically stable. Let us see this economic crisis as an opportunity to escape import dependency.
Creating Online Turnkey Business Website
Within this article today, we’ll look at ways that you can work on creating an online turnkey business website. When you are looking at creating an online turnkey business website, the initial development will take more time than with a standard website but it will pay off with big dividends in the end for you. We will look at what types of software you possibly want to use or look for as well as an example of a possible online turnkey business website.
The first key when creating an online turnkey business website is software. Using and buying software helps create efficiencies that you will need in creating an online turnkey business website. If you have a newsletter and people sign up for it, you will want an email system in place which incorporates autoresponders. A good example of an email autoresponder software that you can use is:GETRESPONSE.COM. This software is not too expensive with the standard edition running free trial and the Professional Edition costing you up to a custom pricing. Take some time to look at this website and see if this is software that can work for you.
Other ways to help in bringing traffic to your website and in creating an online turnkey business website would be buying leads from an email marketing firm. If you do this, you can let the autoresponders and other software in place handle the leads so that you can continue to buy leads and have sales conversions occur. Remember that one of the main keys in working on creating an online turnkey business website is to make sure that you are using as much software as possible so that the process is automated. Most of this paragraph has emphasized the fact that you need auto responders. Without this, you would have to manually write each e-mail and this would be a huge waste of your time.
Another good example of creating an online turnkey business website would be creating an affiliate program. When you’re doing this, all of the information should be set up ahead of time so that once your affiliate is able to successfully close a sale, the person who wants to buy the product is sent automatically to your landing page. This would be a great example of creating an online turnkey business website because you’d only need a landing page, a download page for the product, and a thank you page. There would be nothing that would be done on your end as far as marking the websites or anything like that. If you promoted products using clickbank.com as well as affiliate programs.com, you would be very well set up in creating an online turnkey business website.
Hopefully this article on creating an online turnkey business website will help you. There’s a great deal of information that can be found on this on the Internet but take your time in setting up a website ahead of time because using software and buying leads can lead to constant profits for you.
Tuesday
Buhari Sacks 26 Jonathan Appointees
- After budget fiasco, appoints new DG Budget, Akabueze SA, National Planning
- Dabiri-Erewa is new presidential aide, Foreign Affairs
Bolaji Adebiyi, Tobi Soniyi and Jaiyeola Andrews in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari monday approved the immediate disengagement of 26 chief executives of federal government agencies and commissions whom he inherited from his predecessor, former President Goodluck Jonathan, confirming THISDAY’s exclusive report that at least 35 of them will be relieved of their posts this week.
He also directed that the most senior officers in the affected parastatals should oversee the organisations pending the appointment of substantive heads of the agencies.
The disengagement was confirmed in a statement by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir Lawal.
The affected persons were the Directors-General of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Mr. Sola Omole; Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Mr. Ladan Salihu; Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr. Sam Worlu; National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mr. Emeka Mba; National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr. Mike Omieri; and Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr. Ima Niboro.
Others included the DGs of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Paul Orhii; Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Mr. Emeka Eze; Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Benjamin Dikki; Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Mr. Ahmed Farouk; Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Mr. Joseph Odumodu; and the Managing Director of Bank of Industry (BoI), Mr. Rasheed Olaoluwa.
Also affected were the chief executives of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Mr. Umar Munir Abubakar; Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Denzil Amagbe Kentebe; Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Mr. Gimba Ya’u Kumo; Nigeria Railways Corporation (NRC), Mr. Adeseyi Sijuwade; and National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr. Peter Jack, who was recently suspended by the Minister of Communications Technology.
In addition, the heads of the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), Ms. Onyeka Onwenu; Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Mrs. Juliet Chukkas-Onaeko; National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic In Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP), Mrs. Beatrice Jeddy Egba; Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF); New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD); Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund); Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF); Nigeria Investment Promotion Council (NIPC); and Nigerian Export-Import Bank were relieved of their posts.
According to the statement, Buhari thanked them for their invaluable services to the nation and wished them well in their future endeavours.
THISDAY exclusively reported yesterday that members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had been mounting pressure on the president to remove the heads appointed by the Jonathan administration, irrespective of the non-expiration of their tenures and what their establishment Acts stipulate for their removal.
For instance, Section 7 of the Public Procurement Act of 2007 that established the BPP, states that “the Director-General shall hold office: (a) for a term of 4 years in the first instance and may be re-appointed for a further term of 4 years and no more; and (b) on such terms and conditions as may be specified in his letter of appointment”.
While subsection 4, states: “Without prejudice to the provisions of this Act, the Director-General of the Bureau may be removed from office at the instance of the President on the basis of gross misconduct of financial impropriety, fraud, and manifested incompetence proven by the Council.”
Similarly, the Act establishing the NTA and FRCN stipulates that “if it appears to the Minister that a member of the Authority/Corporation should be removed from office on the grounds of misconduct or inability to perform the functions of his office, the Minister shall after consultation with the interests, if any, represented by that member make a recommendation to that effect to the President, and if the President approves the recommendation, the Minister may declare, in writing, the office of that member vacant”.
Just as the sacking was made public, Buhari also approved the appointment of Mr. Tijjani Mohammed Abdullahi as the new Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation.
A statement issued by his media aide, Mr Femi Adesina, said Mr. Abdullahi, a fellow of the Certified National Accountants of Nigeria, and a banker of repute with experience in managing public finance, replaced the current Director-General (Budget), Mr. Yahaya Gusau.
The statement said: “The new Director-General (Budget) is expected to work with the Minister of Budget and National Planning to efficiently deliver on the mandates of the Budget Office of the Federation.”
The statement said: “The new Director-General (Budget) is expected to work with the Minister of Budget and National Planning to efficiently deliver on the mandates of the Budget Office of the Federation.”
Buhari has also approved the appointment of Mr. Ben Ifeanyi Akabueze as his Special Adviser, National Planning.
Akabueze, who is the immediate past Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget in Lagos State, has worked in senior management positions in Citi Bank, Fidelity B
Akabueze, who is the immediate past Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget in Lagos State, has worked in senior management positions in Citi Bank, Fidelity B
ank, United Bank for Africa, NAL Merchant Bank, Sterling Bank and BIA Consulting Limited, among others.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers; Fellow, Institute of Credit Administrators, and Honorary Fellow, Chartered Institute of Bankers.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers; Fellow, Institute of Credit Administrators, and Honorary Fellow, Chartered Institute of Bankers.
Abdullahi and Akabueze’s appointments followed the fiasco that has trailed the 2016 budget since its presentation to the National Assembly by Buhari last December.
The 2016 budget has been variously declared “missing” and “error-ridden” by the National Assembly, causing immense embarrassment to the administration.
In addition to Abdullahi and Akabueze’s appointments, Buhari also named Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa as his Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora.
Her appointment takes immediate effect.
Dabiri-Erewa was sighted at the Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday when she came for her appointment letter after which she completed her documentation.
Amaechi debunks Wike’s allegation of $150m donation to APC
Minister
of Transportation and former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi,
has debunked an allegation, by Governor Nyesom Wike to the effect that
he (Amaechi) gave $150 million to the All Progressives Congress (APC)
for the 2015 general election.
Governor Wike had at a thanksgiving
service at Saint Peters Anglican Church, Rumuepirikon, Port Harcourt, on
Sunday, alleged that his predecessor gave the said amount of money from
the state coffers to APC.
A statement issued yesterday by Amaechi’s
media office in Abuja, dismissed the allegation and said the allegation
by the governor was aimed at denigrating and disparaging his person and
the office he is currently occupying.
“The ‘story-story’ this time is about
another phantom $150,000,000 that Amaechi purportedly stole from Rivers
State Government coffers and siphoned to his party, the APC within
18days, from December 1 to 18 of 2014. Sadly, again, Wike picked a
church, a sacred temple of God, to tell his new imaginary tale; another
bogus, fallacious concoction.
“This new scurrilous fabrication by
Governor Wike is in sync with the one-point agenda of his Wike
administration; which is to throw as much mud as possible at the former
governor, Amaechi, hoping that some may at least, stick.
All sorts of spurious stories about
alleged corruption and stealing of state funds against the Amaechi
administration have been bandied in the media, with no attempt to
substantiate or prove these distorted false claims that completely makes
nonsense of common sense.
“Even, when Amaechi challenged Wike’s
administration and its agents to use any constitutionally available
legal process or procedure to prove their jaundiced, deceitful
allegations against him and his administration, they have rather elected
to do their own corruption probe, trial and conviction in the media;
and now, even inside our solemn places of worship (churches). How
callous! Why would a government be so determined to desecrate and
destroy every institution, all in the name of playing politics?
“It continues to baffle us, like most
right-thinking Nigerians, that Governor Wike will stand in a church- a
solemn place of worship- and carelessly, brusquely tell such a profound
lie.”
The statement challenged Governor Wike,
to disclose the name of the person who collected the $150 million on
behalf of APC and from which state government account (s).
“How was the $150 million taken and given
to APC? Was it by wired transfer from Rivers State Government
account(s) to APC account(s)? So
many questions, if Wike had attempted to answer, would have made
nonsense of his supercilious allegations,” the statement further said.
Lagos Marathon’s Not So Surprising Winners
The infamously congested, concrete jungle of Lagos is far from a
runners’ paradise, but with the launch of a new annual marathon on
Saturday organisers hope to show that the city’s bad reputation is
undeserved.
Over 20,000 participants turned out before dawn on a typically muggy morning in Lagos to compete in the biggest marathon the city has seen in thirty years.
The streets of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest metropolis, usually clogged with cars, battered mini busses and whizzing okadas—motorbike taxis—were cleared for the event and patrolled by lines of armed police and soldiers.
Runners, some barefoot and others decked out head to toe in candy-coloured athletic gear, braved the haze, taking advantage of the rare opportunity to run on a smooth road with air free of exhaust fumes.
“It’s kind of hectic to stay in Lagos, but people make it work,” Lolade McJohnson, a 33-year-old lawyer cheering on runners, said to AFP.
“After this, we’ll have more people interested in running, maybe now we’ll even have a Nigerian champion.”
Unlike in Kenya and Ethiopia, two countries whose runners have dominated marathons for years, or in marathon-crazed South Africa, Nigeria has yet to develop a long distance running culture.
For some, it’s a casualty of years of chronic mismanagement of lucrative oil funds that has left Africa’s biggest economy without basic infrastructure, let along quality sports programs.
“In the 70’s and 80’s there was a strong culture of running, all that died,” Lagos City Marathon spokesman Olukayode Thomas said to AFP.
“But that is a culture we’re trying to revive.”
With Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, taking a massive hit from the low price of crude and battling an almost seven-year Boko Haram Islamic insurgency, Thomas said events like the marathon show it’s not only doom and gloom for the country.
“It’s not just about Boko Haram, there are a lot of positives in Nigeria.”
Pressing heat
Thousands of people turned out to encourage the runners along the 42 kilometre stretch of road, with gardeners hosing down panting contestants and a mini-marching band composed of a trumpeter and two drummers adding an impromptu soundtrack to the event.
Kenyan Abraham Kipton won the marathon and the $50,000 prize with a time of 2:16.21, crossing the finish line with his arms raised in victory before collapsing on the ground just after the finish line.
Though happy for his win, he had to acknowledge Lagos’s oppressive heat.
“It is my first time running in very high humidity but I thank God for this day,” Kipton said to AFP.
“Nigeria is very hot but it is very good,” agreed the women’s winner Ethiopian Halima Hussein Kayo.
Adeyemi Kazeem, one of the first Nigerian finishers, said that despite not placing in the top three he was proud of his performance.
“I feel good, I can inspire more people to run in Nigeria,” he said.
Still in its infancy, the race suffered a few hitches.
One runner said that by the time he reached the refreshment station there was no bottles of water left and was forced to pull out of the race at the 30 kilometre mark.
But with the next Lagos marathon already pencilled in for February next year, Thomas insists these are just hiccups in the grand scheme of things.
“We were facing many fears before the race—security, traffic—but so far there’s not been any issues,” Thomas said, “it can only get better.”
Over 20,000 participants turned out before dawn on a typically muggy morning in Lagos to compete in the biggest marathon the city has seen in thirty years.
The streets of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest metropolis, usually clogged with cars, battered mini busses and whizzing okadas—motorbike taxis—were cleared for the event and patrolled by lines of armed police and soldiers.
Runners, some barefoot and others decked out head to toe in candy-coloured athletic gear, braved the haze, taking advantage of the rare opportunity to run on a smooth road with air free of exhaust fumes.
“It’s kind of hectic to stay in Lagos, but people make it work,” Lolade McJohnson, a 33-year-old lawyer cheering on runners, said to AFP.
“After this, we’ll have more people interested in running, maybe now we’ll even have a Nigerian champion.”
Unlike in Kenya and Ethiopia, two countries whose runners have dominated marathons for years, or in marathon-crazed South Africa, Nigeria has yet to develop a long distance running culture.
For some, it’s a casualty of years of chronic mismanagement of lucrative oil funds that has left Africa’s biggest economy without basic infrastructure, let along quality sports programs.
“In the 70’s and 80’s there was a strong culture of running, all that died,” Lagos City Marathon spokesman Olukayode Thomas said to AFP.
“But that is a culture we’re trying to revive.”
With Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, taking a massive hit from the low price of crude and battling an almost seven-year Boko Haram Islamic insurgency, Thomas said events like the marathon show it’s not only doom and gloom for the country.
“It’s not just about Boko Haram, there are a lot of positives in Nigeria.”
Pressing heat
Thousands of people turned out to encourage the runners along the 42 kilometre stretch of road, with gardeners hosing down panting contestants and a mini-marching band composed of a trumpeter and two drummers adding an impromptu soundtrack to the event.
Kenyan Abraham Kipton won the marathon and the $50,000 prize with a time of 2:16.21, crossing the finish line with his arms raised in victory before collapsing on the ground just after the finish line.
Though happy for his win, he had to acknowledge Lagos’s oppressive heat.
“It is my first time running in very high humidity but I thank God for this day,” Kipton said to AFP.
“Nigeria is very hot but it is very good,” agreed the women’s winner Ethiopian Halima Hussein Kayo.
Adeyemi Kazeem, one of the first Nigerian finishers, said that despite not placing in the top three he was proud of his performance.
“I feel good, I can inspire more people to run in Nigeria,” he said.
Still in its infancy, the race suffered a few hitches.
One runner said that by the time he reached the refreshment station there was no bottles of water left and was forced to pull out of the race at the 30 kilometre mark.
But with the next Lagos marathon already pencilled in for February next year, Thomas insists these are just hiccups in the grand scheme of things.
“We were facing many fears before the race—security, traffic—but so far there’s not been any issues,” Thomas said, “it can only get better.”
Baby Mama palaver: Tuface, Olamide, Davido, 9ice and their out-of-wedlock families
They are young, handsome, rich and upwardly mobile. Little wonder
they attract legions of adoring female fans. The baby mama syndrome is
fast becoming the norm, as it seems some young musicians don’t see
anything wrong in sowing wild oats. In fact, it has become the trend for
young Nigerian artistes to father children out of wedlock, without any
intention to get married to their baby mamas. From Tuface Idibia aka
Tubaba who is regarded as ‘father of many nations’ to youngsters like
Wizkid and Davido, the story is the same. This is the world of notable
musicians with baby mamas.
Tuface
While he has been a pioneer of sort in the music industry, Tuface Idibia is also a pioneer as far as baby mama palaver is concerned. In a career spanning two decades and still counting, Tuface has developed a legendary reputation for sowing wild oats, and to date, over a dozen women have claimed that he’s the father of their babies. Tuface’s baby mamas include Sumbo Adeoye nee Ajaba, Pero Adeniyi and Annie Macaulay. Between them the women have seven kids for the musician.
However, in 2013, Annie Macaulay became the official wife when Tuface married her in a society wedding that attracted the crème de la crème of the entertainment industry. In an interview, Tuface confessed that even though, he regrets his life with women; he loves his children very much.
9ice
Success hit 9ice like a ton of bricks after the release of his chartbuster, Gongo Aso, a few years ago. Before anyone could say Jackie Robinson, 9ice tied the knot with Toni Payne and together they made a baby boy. But the marriage soon broke up, and ever since, 9ice has been on rampage!
Beginning with his long time girlfriend, Vicky Godis, the musician fathered a set of female twins. Not done, he hooked up with Olasunkanmi Ajala, who also had a child for him, raising his number of children to four.
Flavour
Ever since he hit fame and stardom with the remix of Osita Osadebe’s classic, Ashawo, contemporary highlife singer, Flavour, has been smiling to the bank, with girls swooning all over him. Little wonder he is not left out of the fray.
However, what sets Flavour apart from the pack is his attraction to ex-beauty queens. So far, he has two daughters from ex-Delta queen, Sandra Okagbue and former MBGN queen, Anna Banner.
Seun Kuti
Seun Kuti has always insisted that the institution of marriage makes no sense to him because of the high rate of divorce in the world. In fact, the Afrobeat act has severally declared in interviews that he has no intention of getting married.
However, Seun Kuti, who has a baby girl from his long time girlfriend, Yetunde Ademiluyi, a couple of years ago is alleged to have secretly fathered another child with a lady called Adaeze.
What actually exposed Seun were messages leaked on social media credited to his baby mama, Adaeze, disclosing that he is yet to set eyes on his child, Zuna, who was delivered over a year ago. To date, Seun has declined comments on the issue.
Wizkid
Ayo Balogun popularly known as Wizkid rode to fame after the release of his debut single, Holla At Ur Boi and since then the self-acclaimed Star Boy has never looked back. While his career has risen at an astronomical rate, so also his penchant for bedding pretty ladies.
Beginning with Tania Omotayo, who had a child for him in 2011, Wizkid fathered another child recently courtesy of Blue Diamond, a Guinean model. She posted the picture of her and the baby on the Instagram recently, saying that she has christened him Ayo Balogun Jnr.
Davido
OBO singer, David Adeleke aka Davido, is not left out of the brouhaha of musicians sowing wild oats. He was recently in the thick of a custody battle with his baby mama, Sophia, over their daughter, Imade. However, Davido has openly declared that he has no intention of marrying Sophia due to age difference and the fact that she does not deserve him.
Solidstar
Delta-born musician, Joshua Iniyezo aka Solidstar, had a son with his UK-based lover late last year. Although, the identity of the white baby mama is still unknown, the singer shared adorable photos of his cute baby on Instagram. As a testament to his bedding skills, the Baby Jollof singer in an interview described himself as a “striker”!
Olamide
Award-winning rapper and YBNL boss, Olamide, is also in the thick of the baby mama drama. Only recently, the musician revealed that he had no intention of marrying Adebukunmi Suleiman, who had a child for him.
“We’ve been cool from way back and we’ve been together for almost five years now. She is not just a random chic that came around from nowhere. But regarding the question of marrying her, that one is very hard to answer because Olamide is not God; only God knows tomorrow,” he said.
Oritsefemi
Majemite Oritsefemi grew up in the ghettos of Ajegunle and rose to limelight in 2013 after the release of his hit single, Double Wahala. The self-styled Musical Taliban has two beautiful daughters aged 9 and 11 from his baby mama, Blessing Rawa. However, both of them broke up amid allegations that she hacked his Instagram account last year. The pair dated for years but as soon as success came Oritshefemi’s way, the story changed, leading him to hook up with sexy singer, Adasounds.
Lanre Teriba
When popular gospel singer, Lanre Teriba aka Atorise impregnated a lady outside wedlock, he had thought that his marriage was over. But luckily for him, his wife forgave and took him back!
In a recent interview with The Sun, Teriba narrated his ordeal: “When I had a child out of wedlock I cried. The reason why I felt bad about it was that some people were using it against me. I regret it as well. Certain things happen in your life that are beyond you; I am human. But I don’t know why some people think I should kill myself because of that singular mistake. When I read stuff about me on the Internet, I felt so bad but I have some wonderful fans that encouraged me.
“And I thank God for my wife for being a great encouragement. I have prayed to God for forgiveness and my wife has also forgiven me. So, those who still use it against me are haters.”
Tuface
While he has been a pioneer of sort in the music industry, Tuface Idibia is also a pioneer as far as baby mama palaver is concerned. In a career spanning two decades and still counting, Tuface has developed a legendary reputation for sowing wild oats, and to date, over a dozen women have claimed that he’s the father of their babies. Tuface’s baby mamas include Sumbo Adeoye nee Ajaba, Pero Adeniyi and Annie Macaulay. Between them the women have seven kids for the musician.
However, in 2013, Annie Macaulay became the official wife when Tuface married her in a society wedding that attracted the crème de la crème of the entertainment industry. In an interview, Tuface confessed that even though, he regrets his life with women; he loves his children very much.
9ice
Success hit 9ice like a ton of bricks after the release of his chartbuster, Gongo Aso, a few years ago. Before anyone could say Jackie Robinson, 9ice tied the knot with Toni Payne and together they made a baby boy. But the marriage soon broke up, and ever since, 9ice has been on rampage!
Beginning with his long time girlfriend, Vicky Godis, the musician fathered a set of female twins. Not done, he hooked up with Olasunkanmi Ajala, who also had a child for him, raising his number of children to four.
Flavour
Ever since he hit fame and stardom with the remix of Osita Osadebe’s classic, Ashawo, contemporary highlife singer, Flavour, has been smiling to the bank, with girls swooning all over him. Little wonder he is not left out of the fray.
However, what sets Flavour apart from the pack is his attraction to ex-beauty queens. So far, he has two daughters from ex-Delta queen, Sandra Okagbue and former MBGN queen, Anna Banner.
Seun Kuti
Seun Kuti has always insisted that the institution of marriage makes no sense to him because of the high rate of divorce in the world. In fact, the Afrobeat act has severally declared in interviews that he has no intention of getting married.
However, Seun Kuti, who has a baby girl from his long time girlfriend, Yetunde Ademiluyi, a couple of years ago is alleged to have secretly fathered another child with a lady called Adaeze.
What actually exposed Seun were messages leaked on social media credited to his baby mama, Adaeze, disclosing that he is yet to set eyes on his child, Zuna, who was delivered over a year ago. To date, Seun has declined comments on the issue.
Wizkid
Ayo Balogun popularly known as Wizkid rode to fame after the release of his debut single, Holla At Ur Boi and since then the self-acclaimed Star Boy has never looked back. While his career has risen at an astronomical rate, so also his penchant for bedding pretty ladies.
Beginning with Tania Omotayo, who had a child for him in 2011, Wizkid fathered another child recently courtesy of Blue Diamond, a Guinean model. She posted the picture of her and the baby on the Instagram recently, saying that she has christened him Ayo Balogun Jnr.
Davido
OBO singer, David Adeleke aka Davido, is not left out of the brouhaha of musicians sowing wild oats. He was recently in the thick of a custody battle with his baby mama, Sophia, over their daughter, Imade. However, Davido has openly declared that he has no intention of marrying Sophia due to age difference and the fact that she does not deserve him.
Solidstar
Delta-born musician, Joshua Iniyezo aka Solidstar, had a son with his UK-based lover late last year. Although, the identity of the white baby mama is still unknown, the singer shared adorable photos of his cute baby on Instagram. As a testament to his bedding skills, the Baby Jollof singer in an interview described himself as a “striker”!
Olamide
Award-winning rapper and YBNL boss, Olamide, is also in the thick of the baby mama drama. Only recently, the musician revealed that he had no intention of marrying Adebukunmi Suleiman, who had a child for him.
“We’ve been cool from way back and we’ve been together for almost five years now. She is not just a random chic that came around from nowhere. But regarding the question of marrying her, that one is very hard to answer because Olamide is not God; only God knows tomorrow,” he said.
Oritsefemi
Majemite Oritsefemi grew up in the ghettos of Ajegunle and rose to limelight in 2013 after the release of his hit single, Double Wahala. The self-styled Musical Taliban has two beautiful daughters aged 9 and 11 from his baby mama, Blessing Rawa. However, both of them broke up amid allegations that she hacked his Instagram account last year. The pair dated for years but as soon as success came Oritshefemi’s way, the story changed, leading him to hook up with sexy singer, Adasounds.
Lanre Teriba
When popular gospel singer, Lanre Teriba aka Atorise impregnated a lady outside wedlock, he had thought that his marriage was over. But luckily for him, his wife forgave and took him back!
In a recent interview with The Sun, Teriba narrated his ordeal: “When I had a child out of wedlock I cried. The reason why I felt bad about it was that some people were using it against me. I regret it as well. Certain things happen in your life that are beyond you; I am human. But I don’t know why some people think I should kill myself because of that singular mistake. When I read stuff about me on the Internet, I felt so bad but I have some wonderful fans that encouraged me.
“And I thank God for my wife for being a great encouragement. I have prayed to God for forgiveness and my wife has also forgiven me. So, those who still use it against me are haters.”
DISCOs assures on increased electricity supply as generation peaks
ELECTRICITY distribution companies in Nigeria have
assured consumers of improved electricity supply as power generation
continues to increase from the generation companies.
The Association of Nigeria Electricity Distributors (ANED), in a atatement said the boost in power generation over the last few months meant electricity users were in for the best of time.
ANED in the statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by its Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, Mr. Sunday Oduntan said the attainment of 5,075MW go generated electricity had to be appreciated in the context of a sector that barely generated 2,000MW prior to the start of the sector reforms, a little over five years ago.
Regrating the removal of the Fixed Charges Oduntan said: “it constitutes a revenue risk to the operators, but it is a risk that we are prepared to take, as necessary to march in lockstep with our customers and loudly convey that that the sector’s players are making every kind of compromise possible to ensure that affordable but sustainable and appropriately priced power is delivered to your homes and businesses.”
Electricity generation in Nigeria last week hit an all-time high of 5,075MW, demonstrating the capacity of the sector to meet the country’s power needs, a major milestone in the drive to grow the nation’s economy and improve quality of life.
Nigeria’s growth has been crippled for too long by decades-old deficiencies in the power sector.
Private sector-driven efficiency and realistic market prices can, and are already giving the sector a new lease of life. According to Oduntan, the Distribution Companies (DisCos) will continue to do its best to distribute power that is transmitted to them.
“ANED and its members are sensitive to customer anxiety over the recent increase in electricity tariffs,” he said.
“We hereby provide our customers an assurance that the increase is no more than that which is necessary for critical improvement of an electricity infrastructure that has suffered decades of neglect. “The increase will help to mitigate the negative cashflow and revenue shortfalls that have bedeviled the sector since the handover of the assets to private operators and hindered the ability for generators to increase power supply, due to their inability to pay their gas suppliers.
“Presently, over two-thirds of power generated are from gas-fired plants”, he stated. He said with the increased investment that will occur, as a result of the ability of the operators to generate a credible cashflow that will, in turn, provide them with access to financing for investment in distribution, generation and transmission infrastructure, the cost of electricity supply and distribution will be reduced.
“This reduction, as a result of increased investment and efficiency gains, will result in lower tariffs for electricity customers,” he added.
The Association of Nigeria Electricity Distributors (ANED), in a atatement said the boost in power generation over the last few months meant electricity users were in for the best of time.
ANED in the statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by its Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, Mr. Sunday Oduntan said the attainment of 5,075MW go generated electricity had to be appreciated in the context of a sector that barely generated 2,000MW prior to the start of the sector reforms, a little over five years ago.
Regrating the removal of the Fixed Charges Oduntan said: “it constitutes a revenue risk to the operators, but it is a risk that we are prepared to take, as necessary to march in lockstep with our customers and loudly convey that that the sector’s players are making every kind of compromise possible to ensure that affordable but sustainable and appropriately priced power is delivered to your homes and businesses.”
Electricity generation in Nigeria last week hit an all-time high of 5,075MW, demonstrating the capacity of the sector to meet the country’s power needs, a major milestone in the drive to grow the nation’s economy and improve quality of life.
Nigeria’s growth has been crippled for too long by decades-old deficiencies in the power sector.
Private sector-driven efficiency and realistic market prices can, and are already giving the sector a new lease of life. According to Oduntan, the Distribution Companies (DisCos) will continue to do its best to distribute power that is transmitted to them.
“ANED and its members are sensitive to customer anxiety over the recent increase in electricity tariffs,” he said.
“We hereby provide our customers an assurance that the increase is no more than that which is necessary for critical improvement of an electricity infrastructure that has suffered decades of neglect. “The increase will help to mitigate the negative cashflow and revenue shortfalls that have bedeviled the sector since the handover of the assets to private operators and hindered the ability for generators to increase power supply, due to their inability to pay their gas suppliers.
“Presently, over two-thirds of power generated are from gas-fired plants”, he stated. He said with the increased investment that will occur, as a result of the ability of the operators to generate a credible cashflow that will, in turn, provide them with access to financing for investment in distribution, generation and transmission infrastructure, the cost of electricity supply and distribution will be reduced.
“This reduction, as a result of increased investment and efficiency gains, will result in lower tariffs for electricity customers,” he added.
Senate declares war on Presidency
A showdown
is imminent between the Presidency and the Senate following a failed
attempt by Senate President Bukola Saraki to stop his trial at the Code
of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
The Supreme Court last Friday threw out
Saraki’s appeal to stop his prosecution over alleged false assets
declaration. The lawmakers have resolved to throw their weight behind
Saraki.
The Senate may soon launch a full-scale
war against the Presidency and certain people in the All Progressives
Congress (APC), who they persistently accused of masterminding Saraki’s
travails.
Saraki is currently facing a 13- count
charge of alleged corruption and false declaration of assets.
Specifically, he was accused of deliberately manipulating the assets’s
declaration form that he filed prior to his assumption of office as the
Senate President, by making anticipatory declaration of assets.
Saraki, who once refused to honour an
invitation extended to him by the CCT, approached a Federal High Court
where he lost and approached the Court of Appeal. Again, he didn’t
succeed. Eventually, he was docked by the CCT.
He proceeded to the Supreme Court and on
November 12, 2015, a panel of judges, headed by Justice John Fabiyi,
suspended further hearing on the case pending the outcome of the appeal.
Saraki had in his six grounds of appeal
prayed the Supreme Court to set aside the majority verdict of the
appellate court panel delivered by Justices Moore Adumein and Mohammed
Mustapha on September 30, 2015.
But last Friday, the Supreme Court ruled
that the CCT’s case against Saraki should go on. The court ruled that
the tribunal was properly constituted to exercise jurisdiction over the
trial.
However, the Senate is not ready to dump its embattled president. In a statement
issued in Abuja yesterday, spokesman of the Red Chamber, Senator
Abdullahi Sabi, said lawmakers were solidly behind Saraki. He lampooned
some Senators who have been calling for his resignation.
In the statement, Senator Sabi, who
claimed that he was speaking on behalf of the Senate, said: Following a
meeting held in Abuja on Sunday by some Senators and the wide
consultations with our colleagues in which we reviewed last Friday’s
decision of the Supreme Court in the appeal on the preliminary matters
filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on the charges filed
against him at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), we hereby resolve
that from the beginning of the trial last September, we have declared
that this case is not about any fight against corruption. It is simply a
case of political vendetta. Our position remains the same. We still
believe that the case is politically-motivated.”
Meanwhile, human rights lawyer, Mr Femi
Falana(SAN), has asked Saraki to resign in order to preserve National
Assembly’s integrity. Saraki is the Chairman of the federal legislature.
He said the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court would add value to
the battle against corruption.
Citing an instance involving a former
Senate President, the late Senators Chuba Okadigbo, Falana asked Saraki
to resign having undertaken to prove his innocence before the CCT.
He said, “having undertaken to prove his
innocence at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Saraki should resign as
Senate President so as to preserve the integrity of the National
Assembly.
“When Senators Chuba Okadigbo and Adolphus Wabara were indicted, they were made to step down as Senate presidents.”
This comes amid indications that Senators
opposed to Saraki under the aegis of the Senate Unity Forum, had
regrouped to force Saraki out of the seat.
The Supreme Court had on Friday dismissed the appeal.
A seven-man panel of the apex court
justices presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud
Mohammed, unanimously ruled that Saraki’s appeal against the
jurisdiction of the trial and competence of the charges lacked merit.
Saraki, who said the Supreme Court
judgment was disappointing, however, said he would have his day in court
and that “at the end of the day, the truth will prevail, and justice
will be served.”
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