Buhari to leave for Germany tomorrow ?

President Muhammad Buhari will leave for Germany tomorrow Wednesday, October 12th.

According to inside sources close to the Presidential Villa,the president will return to Nigeria on Saturday.


The Presidency is however yet to announce the event, it was also learnt that barring a last-minute change of plans, he will jet out of Abuja late on Wednesday, to arrive in Berlin in the early hours of Thursday.

He is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings scheduled for Thursday and Friday, and pay a visit to a local hospital.

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War against Terrorism or Recession ?? PMB donates 2 aircraft from the Presidential fleet to the Nigerian Air Force

Two aircraft from the presidential fleet have been handed over to the Nigerian air force, barely a weeks after two jets from the same fleet were put up for sale.



At the handover ceremony on Monday, Babagana Monguno national security adviser, signed the transfer documents on behalf of the president.

The two helicopters, which are part of the 10 aircraft in the presidential air fleet, were acquired on October 20, 2014 and May 21, 2015.

According to the presidency office of digital engagement, the two aircraft being handed over today are Agusta Westland AW101 helicopters and possess ballistics defence capabilities, and are equipped against certain forms of missile attacks.


“It is with a big sense of appreciation that I accept these helicopters into the Air Force,” said Sadique Abubakar, chief of air staff.

“One of the helicopters will be configured and deployed as an air ambulance, while second will be deployed as a troop carrier. The two helicopters will be immediately reconfigured and deployed to the northeast for the use of Nigerian troops.

“The air ambulance will carry a trauma unit, to ensure that injured troops get immediate medical assistance during airlift. These helicopters are some of the most sophisticated, most comfortable and most equipped in the world.

“We can’t wait to fly our new aircraft. That’s why we’re all dressed in combat gear.”

Since Muhammadu Buhari ascended the presidency in May 2015, this is the second time he is handing aircraft from the presidential air fleet to the Nigerian air force.

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I still can't believe i'm playing for Super Eagles

Alex Iwobi, who Scored alongside Kelechi Iheanacho against Zambia on sunday during Nigeria's WC qualifiers has stated that the FIFA World Cup is the biggest championship and that Nigeria surely must be there in 2018.


“We are such a big country, we believed we could do well but unfortunately we lost to Egypt. So, we were unable to qualify for the African Cup of Nations,” he said.

“Qualifying for the World Cup is the biggest one and everyone would want to participate in it.”

Iwobi revealed that he had not yet recovered from the pleasant surprise of been an integral part of the Super Eagles of Nigeria early in his career.

“I will love to be at the World Cup too but right now, playing for my national team, I am still amazed,” he said. “To play in the World Cup will be a great feeling… to be able to play among world class players.”

From 2011, Iwobi played regularly for the England Under 16, Under 17 and England Under 18 national teams, however he chose Nigeria for the full national team and Iwobi made his Super Eagles debut on October 8, 2015, replacing Ahmed Musa in the 57th minute of a 2-0 friendly defeat to DR Congo in Vise, Belgium.

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Did You Know That Chelsea Have Been Relegated More Times Than They Have Won The English League? (See More Amazing Facts)

Some Strange But True And Amazing Football Facts.

1. When Barcelona’s Xavi was 19, he almost signed for Milan. His father gave his “yes” to him but his mother said “if Xavi leaves Barca, I will divorce!”


2. While Zlatan Ibrahimovich’s youth team was 4-0 down, he came in as a substitute and scored 8 goals.

3. Juan Mata is the first player in history to have joined Manchester United from Chelsea.

4. Xherdan Shaqiri has so far won league titles in every year of his professional career.

5. Alex Song has 27 siblings – 17 sisters and 10 brothers.

6. Ryan Giggs is the only Premier League player to score 100 goals without scoring a hat- trick.

7. Cristiano Ronaldo was named after former US President Ronald Reagan.

8. Steven Gerrard has swapped his jersey with more than a hundred players, but never with a Man United player.

9. Ronaldinho first gained media attention when his youth team won 23 – 0. He scored all 23 goals.

10. Chelsea have been relegated more times than they have won the English league.

11. The difference in Messi’s age and Ronaldo’s age is 869 days, the same difference as between Messi’s son and Ronaldo’s son.

12. Zinedine Zidane was never caught in offside position in his whole career.

13. Only one GOLD Premier League trophy has been awarded and it was to Arsenal because in 2003/2004 season, they didn’t lose any match.

14. Brazilian legend, Pele, scored 92 hat-tricks, 4 goals on 31 occasions, 5 goals on 6 occasions, and 8 goals on an occasion.

15. When Mourinho says you have a bright future, it means you can’t make his team at the present.

16. Cristiano Ronaldo was expelled from school at the age of 14 after throwing a chair at his teacher for mocking his family’s financial status.

17. CR7 has no tattoos because he frequently gives blood and getting a tattoo will render him unable to do so for 6 months.

18. Real Madrid sold 50,000 James Rodriguez jerseys in one day. Juventus sold 0 (zero) Bendtner jersey in one season.

19. In January 2003, Louis Van Gaal was SACKED by Barcelona after leaving them just 3 points above the relegation zone.

20. Louis Van Gaal and David Moyes attended the same Tactical Management School.

21. Arsenal bought Anelka, Overmars, Petit, Henry, Vieira, Fabregas, RVP, Adebayor and Nasri all together for £42 million. Then sold them for £206 million.

22. Hearts of Oak never lost a game in the Ghana Premier League but they couldn’t clinch the league title.

Which one of them do you find interesting!!!

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Wow! Checkout How Much Super Eagles Players To Get As Match Bonus After Win Against Zambia

An outstanding display by the Super Eagles of Nigeria to beat Chipolopolo of Zambia 2-1 which is Nigeria’s first against Zambia on home soil and therefore ended their 14 game unbeaten run in all competition.


Goals from Arsenal’s Alex Iwobi (32 mins) and Manchester City wonder-kid Kelechi Iheanacho (42 mins) gave Nigeria a first half lead before veteran Collins Mbesuma pooled one back for the Zambians but that did not stop the Eagles from claiming victory as they got their World Cup qualifying campaign off to a winning start.

Meanwhile the Super Eagles players received their flight ticket refunds, match bonus for the AFCON qualifier against Tanzania last month as well as appearance fees for two friendlies in May against Mali and Luxembourg.

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[Story] The Last Virgin by Mr Kiddah ( Episode 6)

EPISODE 6 (POLICE KASALA)

Continuation
**Cynthia’s side of the story**
Suddenly we heard a knock on the door, mehn I and Elizabeth were disorganized we didn’t know what to do, so we decided to keep mute but the person continued knocking but still we kept mute but suddenly the door opened and Immediately I pissed on my body , it was then I realized that it’s folake
so I whispered to her to come and immediately she entered the bathroom she saw funke’s body hanging and immediately she saw this she screamed… suddenly we heard a male voice outside asking what’s wrong, it was then folake told us that funke’s dad is outside …
Me: we are doomed
Elizabeth: haaa mogbe mo da ran
Folake: so you killed her?
Before I could explain folake ran outside to tell her dad , even Elizabeth doesn’t know the full story of what happened the other night…………..

**police station**
**Elizabeth side of the story**
We were being held in custody with restriction to mobile access, while we were being held in custody we heard a woman shouting and screaming that her daughter has being kidnapped and the kidnappers were asking for a ransom of #1,000,000…. She started screaming chineke mo my oge , suddenly it occurred to me that it’s been a while we’ve seen Oge….

**Oge side of the story**
I was on my way home from a party and almost at my hostel before two guys came out of nowhere and kidnapped me..I was blindfolded and soon I met myself in an empty room with two guys, later they forced me to give them my mom’s number asking for a ransom of #1,000,000 within 7days or else they’ll deliver my dead body to her door post

**Back in the police station**
**Cynthia’s side of the story**
Elzabeth what are we to do now, who will even believe our story, even you yourself you don’t know the full story, she was surprised so I narrated everything that happened, she started crying when she realized that her boyfriend has been killed… while we were busy discussing funke’s dad walked in with her lawyer so I and Elizabeth were taken to the DPO’s office where funke’s dad , mom and lawyer were sited and to my own surprise funke’s dad is the state commissioner of police and before I could say anything Elizabeth screamed
Me: what’s wrong
Elizabeth : we are in deep shit
Me: what’s wrong na?
Elizabeth : my dad is funke’s dad lawyer

My dad fainted……………

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World Bank To give Nigeria $1.3BN to start up Development Bank of Nigeria

Nigeria has reached an agreement with the World Bank Group and other development partners for the release of $1.3bn for the take-off of the Development Bank of Nigeria.



Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, the Minister of Finance, said this on Sunday in Washington DC, United States of America at the closing press conference marking the end of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings.

Adeosun, who spoke alongside the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, explained that the DBN would serve as a means of intervention for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the country to get funds to run their operations and expand in order to achieve inclusive growth for the country.
 “An agreement was reached on the final steps for the take-off of the Development Bank of Nigeria, which had been stopped due to some issues; we have resolved all those issues, the recruitment process has now been finalised, with management team put in place; and this will release $1.3bn, which is aimed at supporting our SMEs and the SMEs are part of the engine that will spur the growth of our economy” she said.

The minister also said that the Nigerian delegation to the meetings had high-level discussions with the multilateral agencies on the challenges in the power sector, especially the financial issues, and that an agreement was reached for a workshop to hold in Abuja in November to be attended by the World Bank Group, International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, which provided partial risk guarantees.


Adeosun added that the World Bank would be bringing its specialist power finance team to see how they could proffer financial solutions to the challenges of the power sector in Nigeria.

The minister said, “We also met with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and we secured their commitment to facilitate trade and investment in Nigeria; specifically, they have agreed to make investments in agriculture, especially in the fisheries sector, and we have made progress on the Jebba hydro project, which is also a power project.

“Our constituency, which represents South Africa, Nigeria and Angola, had a meeting and we reviewed the fact that the allocations to our constituency are among the poorest, particularly from the IFC, which are unacceptably low. What we have agreed to do is that we will be hosting a meeting in Abuja in March for the three finance ministers and the idea is that we will benchmark and scale up our technical capacity to ensure that we are able to get more of what is available for the three countries.

“We also secured commitments from the Canadian ministry of finance to support us in the PPP platform for roads; they have successfully developed a PPP platform for road investment and they have offered to support us on the technical front in that regard.”

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