Four Nigerians who contested for various seats to represent different county in UK's parliament won their elections. Helen Grant won the seat for Member of Parliament representing Maidstone and The Weald while Chuka Umunna won the elections to represent Streatham. Kate Osamor won the seat for Edmonton in North London while Chi Onwurah won the seat for New Castle upon Tyne Central. Congrats to them.
Nigeria's Apex court, the Supreme court, has barred the National Assembly from taking further steps towards amending the 1999 constitution. Delivering its Judgement today May 7th, the seven man panel of justices led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed directed the National Assembly members to maintain status quo on the matter until June 18 for further hearing.
Four Nigerians will be contesting for a seat in the United Kingdom's parliament today May 7th. They are Chuka Umunna (left), Kate Osamor (right) Helen Grant and Chi Onwurah. Three of them are contesting on the platform of Labor party while one is contesting on the platform of the Tories flag.
Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, says Jimi Agbaje who contested and lost the Lagos governorship seat in the last governorship election will never be governor of Lagos state.
Oba Akiolu who first stated this in April while making his controversial speech to Igbo leaders, said he still maintains his position that Mr Agbaje will not be governor of the state. Oba Akiolu said this while speaking at the public policy lecture organized by the Institute of Directors, IoD and launch of the book "The Example: The Era of Babatunde Raji Fashola as Governor of Lagos State,’ in Lagos yesterday May 6th. Read what the Oba said after the cut...
"On May 14, 2014 when I first told all residents of Lagos that the next governor of the state will be Ambode, many didn’t believe me. I knew all the waters that have passed under the bridge, including my own blood relations, who without consulting me went with others to say that Bola Tinubu, Fashola and Oba Akiolu have pocketed Lagos, saying that this time, they will not allow that. And I told them that Jimi (Agbaje) will never be the governor. I still maintain it. There is no going back. I have no doubt in my mind, with the cooperation and prayers of everyone, Ambode will perform very well. I told many people that Bola Tinubu planted the seed, Fashola came and watered the seed and it started germinating in geometrical progressions. We have just started" he said (Source: Vanguard)
Daddy Freeze has been chosen as brand ambassador for the luxury automobile manufacturer, GAC Motors in Nigeria. He signed a mouth watering deal on his birthday, today the 6th of May. Freeze is an automobile and luxury timepiece enthusiast, sparking the choice of him as their brand ambassador, according to their spokesperson.
The Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday, put to rest fears of immediate removal of fuel subsidy, as she confirmed that N145.2 billion provision was made for it in 2015 budget.
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja, she said: “I want to clarify that there has been some misinformation that has gone around in the media about the fact that the National Assembly passed the 2015 budget without provision for fuel subsidy. It is not true. It is important to note that the National Assembly approved the N100 billion provisions for PMS and N45.2 billion provision for kerosene subsidy.
They approved that. So it is not true that they approved the budget without the subsidy. They retained various elements of the first line charges we put in. But let me say that they were based on the above parameters. The gross federally collectable revenue for the federation increased by N169.845 billion. From N9.64 trillion to N9.78 trillion as a result of raising the benchmark price by a dollar.
The minister further stated that managing the economy since the crash in oil prices had been very tough for her team which had to adopt various strategies to keep the economy running.
She said: “As you know, I have been honest with you since the current economic problems started. I would like to repeat: we have serious challenges, things have been tough since the beginning of the year and they are likely to remain so till the end of the year. We have serious challenges but we also have strengths and if we do the right things we can keep a steady course and emerge out of the current situation.
“As a result of the 50 per cent decline in oil revenues, the country has faced a difficult cash crunch and the Federal Government has focused on keeping the economy stable and the government running through a series of measures. We have front-loaded the borrowing programme to manage the cash crunch in the economy.
Okonjo-Iweala said the Federal Government had already utilised more than half of the budgetary provisions for borrowing in the year, in the first four months to pay salaries and provide funds for overheads.
Govt borrows N473bn to meet up with recurrent expenditure She said: “Of the N882 billon budgetary provision for borrowing, the government has borrowed N473 billion to meet up with recurrent expenditure, including salaries and overheads. No capital release so far.
“Traditionally, the first part of the year witnessed low revenue because tax receipts come in from the middle of the year. This has compounded the challenges caused by the steep drop in revenues due to the oil price fall. As a consequence of the revenue challenges, there has been no capital budget release so far this year but we have kept the recurrent expenditure going."
“On the part of the Federal Government; now, Federal Government budget revenue went up from N3.52 trillion from a position of N3.358 trillion so when we sent in the budget, Federal Government revenue was N3.358 trillion. They returned it with a slight difference of N3.452 trillion.
On the expenditure side, the aggregate expenditure part was higher than what we went in with. The Federal Government went in with a proposed aggregate expenditure of N4.42 trillion and the National Assembly cast expenditure of N4.49 trillion, which was N67.43 billion higher than the proposed expenditure. Debt service was left unchanged at N943.62 billion.
The National Assembly increased statutory transfers; you know, these are transfers that go to the MDGs like the National Assembly itself, NDDC, UBEC, Human Rights Commission and others. I will not read of these but just know that the National Assembly increased NDDC.
She stated that, “the fiscal deficit was decreased slightly from N1.067 trillion to N1. 04 trillion but the essential thing to note is that the fiscal deficit decreased from 11 per cent to 1. 09 per cent so this is a difficult budget but a responsible one.
Josie Harris, the mother of three of Mayweather’s children, is suing him for damages in excess of $20 million. According to TMZ Sports’ report, Harris feels humiliated after Mayweather spoke on the domestic violence case he had with her in 2010. Mayweather, who plead guilty and served jailtime in 2011 for the incident, denied ever hurting her in an April 2015 interview with Katie Couric.
Floyd-mayweatherHe painted himself as a white knight protecting his family against a druggie—not a man who viciously assaulted another woman in a jealous rage.
“DID I KICK, STOMP AND BEAT SOMEONE? NO, THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN,” SAID MAYWEATHER. “I LOOK IN YOUR FACE AND SAY, ‘NO, THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN.’ DID I RESTRAIN A WOMAN THAT WAS ON DRUGS? YES, I DID. SO IF THEY SAY THAT’S DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, THEN, YOU KNOW WHAT? I’M GUILTY. I’M GUILTY OF RESTRAINING SOMEONE.’ ”
In the lawsuit, Harris recounts her version of that night’s events, claiming that Mayweather broke into her home and attacked her in front of their son while she was asleep. Again, this is something that Mayweather’s already plead guilty for, but in the face of public attacks and some revisionist history on his part, Harris still has to convince the world of the abuse she suffered.
Ultimately, Mayweather’s lies are the crux of the defamation suit. Harris’ lawyer writes that the claims from the Couric interview “were knowingly fabricated in order to hype Mayweather’s upcoming fight with Pacquiao, to avoid bad press by deflecting responsibility for beating the mother of his children.”
