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Monday, 9 January 2017

How We Picked Beneficiaries For The N5000 Stipend – Presidency

Senior Special Assistant to VP Yemi Osinbajo on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, has clarified how the Presidency picked recipients of the N5000 stipend for defenseless Nigerians.

Akande in the announcement discharged yesterday, said the Community-Based Targeting (CBT) model of the World Bank was utilized as a part of 2015 to recognize a large portion of the recipients.

As per Akande, the defenseless Nigerians had been picked by the last organization amid a practice did by World bank which was unquestionably without any controls or misrepresentation. Akande said in eight of the nine pilot expresses, the procedure had occurred no less than two years prior through the World Bank-bolstered program under an understanding went into with the state governments.

"This is an altogether reasonable and straightforward process and shy of wickedness, its absolutely impossible you can depict this procedure as divided. The president will be president of the whole nation and the SIPs are for all Nigerians all things considered. In the first place, the authorities at elected level, working with the state authorities, distinguish the poorest neighborhood government zones, utilizing a current neediness delineate the state, then the nearby authorities recognize the poorest groups in the LGAs and we send our groups there. The main thing our group does after determination of the LGAs is to choose individuals from the NOA, the LGA and group authorities to frame the CBT group. At that point we prepare the chose authorities on the most proficient method to lead center gathering examinations at group level. These concentration bunches include ladies, men, adolescents as the group decides. In the wake of preparing them, the CBT groups go to each of their groups to sharpen the pioneers, including conventional rulers, on the CBT procedure and the need for objectivity and openness simultaneously. At that meeting, they solidify a date to assemble a group meeting at an assigned area inside the group. On the set date, discourses are held in the nearby dialects, utilizing phrasings that resound in that group. The CBT group will disclose to the group the motivation behind the social event; that is, to decide the parameters of neediness whereupon people can be depicted as poor and helpless inside the setting of that group. The CBT groups will then connect with every gathering (men, ladies and adolescents) in the discussion around the criteria and parameters for deciding the poorest individuals. The gatherings would then be urged to recognize those family units that fall inside the criteria that the group itself decides, and told that the data is required for government's arranging purposes. Different destitution criteria have been hurled in this way. At times, individuals have said it's the quantity of times they eat, it's the quantity of times the exhaust of kindling go up from the house, the extent of farmland or sort of harvests developed. At that point, the gatherings continue in entire and report back the criteria and parameters talked about. The CBT group would then incorporate the criteria and parameters and request that every gathering come back to their break-out sessions and now start to distinguish the family units in the group that have been recognized as fitting the criteria and parameters. Once that is done at the gatherings, everyone meets up again with names incorporated by every gathering. Presently, when a similar name is highlighted in no less than two of the three gatherings, it is esteemed met all requirements to be recorded on the social enroll. At this stage, we now identify the individuals from the family unit and open a financial balance for each of the parental figures by catching the biometric information of families distinguished as among the poorest and helpless."

VP Yemi Osinbajo Meets With Daughter Of One Of Nigeria's Fallen Heroes

Vice President, Professor Yemi Oshinbajo, yesterday had a brief chat with Olatayo Lola Emmanuel, daughter of one of Nigeria's Fallen Hero at the 2017 Armed Forces Remembrance Celebration, Inter-Denominational Church Service held at The National Christian Centre Abuja.


It is frenzy If At This Age, Despite Everything I Consider Taking A Spouse – Jide Kosoko


In June 2016, veteran Nollywood performing artist Jide Kosoko lost his third spouse, Henrietta Kosoko after a brief fight with diabetes. In a late meeting with The Point, he described what really prompted to her passing saying,

'Disregard each one of those things you listened. She was sick. She kicked the bucket of intricacies that emerged from diabetes. Truly, my family, companions and partners remained by me and I welcome that.

Obviously, you will dependably have maybe a couple people, who might state maybe a couple adverse things. Be that as it may in my life, I have battled such a variety of fights and I have won all. It is just individuals who need to be pulverized that would go up against me in war, in light of the fact that the Almighty God has His arrangements for me. It is recently very awful that these things are transpiring, however I would even now thank the Almighty God for everything. There are purposes behind everything and I need to trust that it is regular'.

Whenever inquired as to whether he'll be taking another spouse, he said,

'In the event that at this age, despite everything I consider taking a spouse, when I have over twelve kids, it is frenzy. On January 12, I will be 63. I am dealing with a portion of the kids, while others are presently grown-ups. She cleared out and left me with two adolescents'.

Sokoto State Government Denies Disbanding Sokoto Sharia Police Over Seizure Of Musical Instruments Used At State Governor's Daughter's Wedding

A week ago, the Sokoto Hisbah Commission which is the unique police drive that authorizes Sharia hone in the North, grabbed the melodic instruments utilized amid the pre-wedding supper of the little girl of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal last December, for supposedly abusing Shari'ah law being worked in the state(Read here).

There were reports online yesterday that the state government, in striking back, has disbanded the Commission. The Secretary to the state government, Bashir Garba, has discharged an announcement, denying the report. Perused the announcement underneath.

The consideration of Sokoto State Government has been attracted to stories the media such that the State Hisbah Commission has been disbanded.

The Government wishes to illuminate that the operations of the State Hisbah Commission, which is a formation of the law, has not been suspended. Correspondingly, it ought to be noticed that the initiative of the Commission is still set up and have not been suspended from obligation.

By the arrangements of the law building up the Hisbah Commission, just the State Governor has the privilege to expel any individual from the Commission from his/her obligation, which for this situation, nothing of such has happened.

For the records, the Ministry of Religious Affairs held a meeting with the initiative of the three groups guaranteeing power over Hisbah Commission in the State. An assention was come to fit their operations for the advantage of the citizenry.

That procedure is still on, and encourage correspondence will be made after due interviews with significant partners.

We entreat columnists to constantly cross-check all issues with assigned powers before continuing to press.

5 Players To Look Out For At The AFCON 2017 (Photos)

With the 2017 Africa Cup of Nation set to kick off in Gabon from January 14 to February 5, 2017, LIB brings you the top 5 football stars to watch out for:


1.    Riyad Mahrez, Algeria (Leicester City, England)
He is currently the Africa’s best player. The Algerian played a greater part in securing his club first league title last season, scored 17 league goals and was voted  BBC player of the year. 
He was also awarded ‘Player of the Year’ by the Professional Footballers Association, making him the first African to win the award.
 
 
2. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Gabon (Borussia Dortmund, Germany)
He was the 2015 African player of the year but failed to retain it by coming as the runner-up in 2016. All eyes will be on the top shot striker who scored 25 goals for his club side last season.
 
 
3.  Saido Mane, Senegal (Liverpool FC, England)
He is currently the third African best player. The Senegalese soccer star became the most expensive African player in history when he joined Liverpool in a £34M deal.
 
4. Eric Bailly, Ivory Coast (Manchester United, England)
After joining Manchester United for a reported fee of £30 million, the top defender has been an outstanding star on the football pitch.
He is a key man to watch and will be guiding the defense line for the defending champions Ivory Coast during the tournament.
 
 
5.  Andre Ayew, Ghana (West Ham (England)
Despite a bit of injury frustration playing for his Premier league team, the Ghanaian is another top striker to look out for. 
He was the top scorer at the 2015 AFCON, and will sure be playing a key part for Ghana who have not won the continental trophy since 1982
 

Man Hacks His Senior Sibling To Death While He Dozed For Neglecting To Give Him Stash Cash.


Dominic Ogbaji, a 22-year-old indigene of Cross River State, executed his senior sibling, 32-year-old John Ogbaji, while he was snoozing, for professedly neglecting to give him stash cash.

The episode happened on the second of November 2016 at Ajegunle in Mpape Village, FCT Abuja.

Dominic who filled in as a hair stylist in his town, because of the way that he was not sufficiently winning moved to Abuja looking for a superior life. He professedly went to Abuja to live with his sister yet she alluded him to his sibling. As indicated by Dominic's declaration, he educated his sibling, John, that he needed a vocation, however he was not ready to get him one. He guaranteed that life got to be distinctly troublesome for him as he said that asides bolstering him, John was not giving him take cash.

On the night of November second, John gave Dominic N60 to purchase bread and unadulterated water which they had for supper. A short time later, Dominic requested N4,000 from his sibling to come back to the town however was not given. During the evening, while John dozed, Dominic recovered the cutlass underneath their quaint little inn his sibling's throat with it then took the N10,000 and telephone in the perished's pocket before getting away for Cross River State.

The damaged group of John was found by a neighbor who went to charge her telephone in his room. She raised the caution that got the police included, prompting to a manhunt for Dominic. The mother of Dominic and John was educated of the wrongdoing and when the speculate returned home, she bound him and gave him over to the police from where he was exchanged to Abuja.

Dominic in the long run admitted to the wrongdoing saying;

"I lament executing my sibling since I was eager and required pocket cash, so the fiend pushed me to the insidious thing I did."

The Commissioner of Police, FCT Police Command, Mohammed Mustapha, affirmed the episode to Sunday Sun and educated that the young fellow will be charged to court to stand trial for claimed kill.

Source Sunnewsonline

FG Plans To Establish Aviation University- Minister Says

Minister of state for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, over the weekend, disclosed that the Federal government is planning to establish an Aviation University in Nigeria.

Addressing newsmen after a familiarization tour of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) in Zaria, Kaduna State, Sirika said the university when completed, will be into research and training of aviation personnel that will manufacture aircraft components.


“The aviation university will be different from NCAT. The university will be fully into research and development and production of higher level management manpower need of the industry. The university will go into deep research, with the hope that in the near future, we will be able to manufacture aircraft components, until when we are able to produce the aircraft itself. Since the technology is available around the world, is no longer a hindrance, it is our own ability and capability to pursue it. The technology is known, we are not reinventing it, we just put our act together in doing it. So, the university will cater for that, while NCAT will continue to provide the services in the institute” he said

Spanish La liga: Real Madrid, Sevilla, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Battle Out Another Football Season




Barca's position on the Spanish La Liga table dropped after last night's 1-1 draw with Villareal. Real Madrid is on top with 40 points, followed by Sevilla with 36 points.

MMM Adopts Bitcoin As New Currency For Payment


Ahead of January 14 when the pop­ular ponzi conspire, MMM is relied upon to lift suspension on installment of members, the administrators of the plan have intro­duced Bitcoin as its cur­rency for installment.

Bitcoin rose the world's best performing method for installment in 2016 and is tipped to wind up distinctly the most secure resource all around.

The Bitcoin money had been sought after however had not increased much pop­ularity among Nigerians contrasted with the MMM ponzi conspire which mil­lions of Nigerians patron­ised in 2016 preceding it was suspended in December a year ago.

In spite of the fact that trusts among the members of the ponzi plan are still high in Nigeria, many have kept on swinging to Bit­coin which had been there yet had little support like it was with the ponzi plot.

As per the new course of action, partici­pants to get installment in bitcoin, and watch their monies develop in bitcoin which the MMM were permitted to furnish help with before the records were solidified in December 2016.

An announcement to partic­ipants yesterday by the MMM administrators on Fa­cebook read: "Because of the late sharp value fluctua­tions of Bitcoin, MAVRO-BTC is being presented in the framework".

"In this way, we have just had Mavro-Naira in the System. Despite the fact that you gave assistance by means of Bitcoin, your Bitcoins, in any case, were recalculated into the Nigerian Naira at the ex­change rate right now of giving help, and you were credited with Mavro-Naira in your PO.

Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian Army Base, Five Soldiers Killed

Five Nigerian Army and more than 15 Boko Haram contenders were killed when the jihadists assaulted an armed force base in the remote upper east where the gathering has been battling for an Islamic express, a military source said on Sunday.

Boko Haram assaulted an armed force detachment in Buni Yadi in Yobe state late on Saturday, an armed force representative said by instant message, without giving a setback figure.

"Five warriors lost their life in the assault however more than 15 Boko Haram were murdered by troops," the military source said.

A few blasts could be heard on Sunday in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state where Boko Haram began its seven-year rebellion that has killed around 15 000 individuals and uprooted more than 2 million. Authorities or doctors were not promptly accessible to give a setback figure. In mid 2015, Boko Haram controlled a region about the span of Belgium.

It has been pushed out of the greater part of that domain over the previous year by Nigeria's armed force and troops from neighboring nations, moving to a base in the Sambisa timberland. A month ago, the armed force said it had taken Boko Haram's key camp in the backwoods, in spite of the fact that the gathering has arranged suicide bombings from that point forward. Security examiners say the gathering's capacity to complete assaults in neighboring Niger, Cameroon and Chad recommends it has various bases.

'The Redeemed Church's New Pioneer Not GO, But Rather National Regulator'

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode (center), his better half, Bolanle (third left), Senator Olamilekan Solomon Adeola (left), his significant other, Temitope (second left), Spiritual Leader and Global Missioner of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye (second right) and his better half, Pastor Folu Adeboye (ideal) at the 2017 yearly thanksgiving administration at the Lagos House, Ikeja… yesterday

Atiku compliments Adeboye for 'venturing aside'

• Thread delicately, Fayose cautions Federal Government


The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has made further elucidations on the new arrangements in its crease.

The congregation at the end of the week declared the new arrangements at its yearly Ministers Thanksgiving held at the Redemption Camp in Ogun State.

In an announcement yesterday, the Assistant General Overseer (Admin and Personnel) Pastor J. F. Odesola, said the General Overseer has named a National Overseer for Nigeria face to face of Pastor Joseph Osuolale Obayemi, who is the present Assistant General Overseer, Finance in the mission, to be helped by the National

Secretary in the individual of Pastor Johnson Funso Odesola and the National Treasurer, Pastor Joseph Adelanke Adeyokunnu.

"This arrangement of Obayemi does not at all influence the regulatory structure and positions as officially constituted at all levels in the Mission (home and abroad)," the announcement said.

Odesola additionally clarified: "The status and task of Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye as the Spiritual Leader and Global Missioner of The Redeemed Christian Church of God stays unaltered."

Responding to the advancement in the congregation, previous Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar has portrayed Pastor Enoch Adeboye as a one of a kind case of persuasive authority, saying Nigeria needs more religious pioneers in the shape of the minister.

In an announcement discharged at the declaration of Pastor Adeboye's venturing aside as the General Overseer (G.O.) of the RCCG, Nigeria, Atiku said:

"The absolute most noticeable identities Nigeria has been honored with have been the individuals who learnt from the podium of Pastor Adeboye. A latest case is our present Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo."

In the interim, Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose yesterday forewarned the Federal Government to be cautious in the execution of the law, which constrained the RCCG into authority changes.

Fayose, who talked yesterday amid the 53rd birthday thanksgiving administration of his significant other, Feyisetan, at the Governor's Office sanctuary, Ado-Ekiti State, said government must string delicately.

As indicated by him, "There is one thing each administration must not do, the minute you meddle with the congregation of God, you will come up short. The God of Adeboye, Kumuyi will cut down every one of the foes in this administration."

Mrs. Fayose said she quit going to God to expel her significant other's heart from governmental issues when God uncovered to her in 2006 that He required him (Fayose) in Nigeria.

She said to her significant other: "The Lord will remunerate, He will remain by you. You are going higher and I'll be close to. Despite everything i'll continue as before individual. God has said it and it will never come up short.

Photographs: Emir Of Kano's Young Little Girl And His Second Wife Moves On From Quranic School


Maryam, Emir of Kano's little girl with his second spouse moved on from Quranic school Saturday, January seventh, 2017.

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Photographs: Gov. Fayose Helps With Putting Out Flame From A Smoldering Petrol Tanker In Ekiti


Ekiti state senator, Ayo Fayose, moved up his sleeves and helped individuals from the state Fire administration to put out flame from a smoldering petrol tanker at the Strive Energy Petrol Station, Ijigbo circuitous in Ado Ekiti, the state capital Sunday.

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Suspected Fulani Herders Execute Three Police Officer, Others In Adamawa state


Three police officers and numerous others were killed amid an assault completed by speculated Fulani herders in three groups in Adamawa state in the early hours of Sunday January eighth. As per inhabitants of Kwayine town, which is one of the towns assaulted, around 10 people were executed while one individual was snatched. Two police officers have been proclaimed missing after the assault. Security specialists have been drafted to the influenced groups to reestablish peace.