Perhaps, they were too involved in their conversation to notice how odd their standing positions are, or maybe they were just playing or being nutty……..
I am curious about what must have been going on at that moment, are you?
Thursday, 19 December 2013
Nollywood Drama: Foluke Daramola Vs Fathia Balogun, Battle of the B**bs (PHOTOS)
Nollywood Actresses,Fathia Balogun and Foluke Daramola were recently spotted in a very interesting pose.
Perhaps, they were too involved in their conversation to notice how odd their standing positions are, or maybe they were just playing or being nutty……..
Perhaps, they were too involved in their conversation to notice how odd their standing positions are, or maybe they were just playing or being nutty……..
SEE Why Beyonce Has Been Banned
Beyonce sold more than 618,550 copies of her new self-titled album last week — her best showing ever. But not everyone is a fan.
It has now been learned that Target has made the decision not to sell the CD.
The retail titan announced earlier this week that they would not be carrying “Beyonce” in stores since the singer had decided to release the album in digital format first.
“At Target, we focus on offering our guests a wide assortment of physical CDs, and when a new album is available digitally before it is available physically, it impacts demand and sales projections,” Target spokeswoman Erica Julkowski told Rolling Stone. “While there are many aspects that contribute to our approach and we have appreciated partnering with Beyonce in the past, we are primarily focused on offering CDs that will be available in the physical format at the same time as all other formats.”
For her last album, 2011′s “4,” Beyonce had actually sold an exclusive edition through Target, with six additional tracks.
Other stores will get hard copies of the album beginning on Wednesday, and by Friday at the latest, Rolling Stone reported.
But even then, the full “Beyonce” experience won’t be available to all shoppers. In accordance with a long-standing policy, Walmart will only carry a softened-down “clean” version of the album
It has now been learned that Target has made the decision not to sell the CD.The retail titan announced earlier this week that they would not be carrying “Beyonce” in stores since the singer had decided to release the album in digital format first.
“At Target, we focus on offering our guests a wide assortment of physical CDs, and when a new album is available digitally before it is available physically, it impacts demand and sales projections,” Target spokeswoman Erica Julkowski told Rolling Stone. “While there are many aspects that contribute to our approach and we have appreciated partnering with Beyonce in the past, we are primarily focused on offering CDs that will be available in the physical format at the same time as all other formats.”
For her last album, 2011′s “4,” Beyonce had actually sold an exclusive edition through Target, with six additional tracks.
Other stores will get hard copies of the album beginning on Wednesday, and by Friday at the latest, Rolling Stone reported.
But even then, the full “Beyonce” experience won’t be available to all shoppers. In accordance with a long-standing policy, Walmart will only carry a softened-down “clean” version of the album
Share LOVE IN THE AIR: Jim Iyke & Nadia Buari Spotted Together PLUS Nadia Flaunts Her Engagement Ring
Celebrity
couple, the beautiful Ghanaian actress, Nadia Buari and her boo,
nollywood actor, Jim Iyke were spotted at the Ovation Christmas Carol in
Accra this past weekend.
What do you think of this couple?
READ MORE: http://news.naij.com/54637.html
BREAKING NEWS: ASUU, NASU, SSANU Shut Down UNN Indefinitely
Barely one day after the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, suspended its 5-month old strike, the University of
Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, has been shut down indefinitely by the
institution’s workers, Daily Post reports.
During the serious protest in the University on Wednesday, all the workers union demanded the immediate sack of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Bartho Okolo.
According to Vanguard, it was the largest demonstration of members of staff of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, since the university was founded.
Academic and non-academic workers of both campuses converged on the
campus in a spontaneous peaceful demonstration to demand the
reinstatement of the Chairman of the Governing Council, Prof Emeka
Enejere, who was said to have been suspended.
They chanted songs saying it was the Vice Chancellor, Prof Bartho Okolo, instead, who should be sacked.
After marching for half of the day and some members of staff addressed the press at the Freedom Square, they however, dispersed, promising to return for daily demonstrations until the Council Chairman was reinstated and other ills of the university which they alleged originated by Prof Okolo were corrected.
A professor told Vanguard that “the Federal Government would have to choose between only one man (Okolo) or working with all of us.”
It has been gathered that Okolo is accused of corrupt practices and neglect of due process in running the affairs of the university.
During the serious protest in the University on Wednesday, all the workers union demanded the immediate sack of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Bartho Okolo.
According to Vanguard, it was the largest demonstration of members of staff of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, since the university was founded.
Academic and non-academic workers of both campuses converged on the
campus in a spontaneous peaceful demonstration to demand the
reinstatement of the Chairman of the Governing Council, Prof Emeka
Enejere, who was said to have been suspended.They chanted songs saying it was the Vice Chancellor, Prof Bartho Okolo, instead, who should be sacked.
After marching for half of the day and some members of staff addressed the press at the Freedom Square, they however, dispersed, promising to return for daily demonstrations until the Council Chairman was reinstated and other ills of the university which they alleged originated by Prof Okolo were corrected.
A professor told Vanguard that “the Federal Government would have to choose between only one man (Okolo) or working with all of us.”
It has been gathered that Okolo is accused of corrupt practices and neglect of due process in running the affairs of the university.
Share COULD YOU SPECIFY? Sanusi Now Says N1.9Trn, Not N8Trn OIL MONEY Missing (UPDATED)
Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi, Governor of Nigeria's Central Bank, said only $12
billion (N1.9 trillion) proceeds of oil sales was missing as of yet,
having not been accounted for by the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, instead of over $48 billion (N8 trillion), as he had
claimed earlier.
The
CBN governor's claim in a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan stirred
outrage a week ago, and prompted calls for immediate investigation. In
the letter, Mr. Sanusi said the NNPC had failed to remit 76 percent of
oil sales revenue for several months.
The CBN, NNPC and the finance ministry have met to examine the figures. Also present at the meeting were the Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who oversees the NNPC.
Furthermore, Okonjo-Iweala named the sum of $10.8 billion, and said the sum was not missing but would be accounted for.
Mr.
Sanusi made the revelation today, Wednesday December 18, at a meeting
with Senators, saying that the latest results were shown by an ongoing
review of the relevant accounts between the CBN, the NNPC, and the
Ministry of Finance.
Sanusi Speaks
Insisting
that the letter was meant for the President to launch an investigation
into the issue, Sanusi told the Committee's chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi:
"I
repeat, Mr Chairman, that we did not see the letter as a conclusion of
our investigation but an invitation to investigate. So, the conclusion
that $49.8billion was missing was wrong even though we had the
allegation that it was unremitted.
"Now,
since then, a lot has happened. We have heard the Minister of Finance,
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Central Bank, FIRS, CPR, we have set up
technical team and has started a process of reconciliation and there
has been a lot of progress in that process.
"I found it very unfortunate it
was leaked to the press and the answer is 'yes', the CBN Governor did
send that letter with those contents. By way of those contents, the
Central Bank and Finance Ministry and the government were very much
concerned over the years at the very low rate of accretion to the
reserves in spite of very high level of oil prices and in particular,
depletion of excess crude account in spite of what seems to be very high
level of oil sales.
"Now, in investigation and trying
to understand where those leakages were, our attention was drawn to a
huge difference between what appeared to be export of crude made by NNPC
and amount repatriated into the crude equity account of the federal
government.
"The numbers were about $65
billion exported by NNPC and about $15 billion repatriated to Federation
Account out of that. Now, in view with our duty as the banker of the
government, we had the responsibility of alerting the president and
request a thorough investigation of this matter."
The CBN Governor further explained
that "the major progress has been the provision of Monetary Policy
Committee, PMC, by the MPC documents to show that even though they did
ship that amount in question which is a little more $67 billion, about
$24billion was actually not their crude but crude shipped on behalf of
third parties like oil companies, tax in crude and also for third party
financing and so, that already addresses half of the amount.
"So, the second half is the issues
around domestic crude lifting of $28billion from which we feel there is
a short fall, there is a general consensus among us on this even though
the amount has been disputed. For us in Central Bank, there is a
shortfall of $12billion," he disclosed.
But even with the amount, he said the CBN was still in the process of reconciling the amount.
"Now, we still are in the process
of trying to reconcile that number and we have not even started talking
of the sales, the export sales tax, which is about $2billion, which will
come after the sales. The Finance Ministry has told us that even before
now, there is ongoing negotiation and discretion with NNPC ad-hoc
committee and these numbers have always been discussed at the level of
Commissions of Finance.
"Since the objective of this
committee and for all of us on this side is actually to get to the
bottom of it and find out exactly what is the amount unremitted and what
is to be done and recommend actions."
He pleaded for time so that the CBN, NNPC and all relevant agencies come up with a collective figure.
"What I would like to do is, given
the progress we have made, to request that we be given little more time
to continue with this process and come back with the final position
that is a common position among us if the committee will so grant us,"
he added, and was subsequently granted the request.
Senate President, David Mark
Speaking at the event earlier, Senate
President, David Mark, noted that the controversial amount was still
allegation but stressed that it was a serious one.
"At this point what we have is
allegations but it’s a serious allegation. When Senator Adetumbi raised
the point of order, I did not allow comment on the issue
"It's for us to get facts so that
when we come back we can make useful and meaningful contributions. The
Senate has no positions on it, nobody knows apart from what was
published in the papers, that’s why we want the committee to establish
the facts, the committee, your body language and utterances must be seen
to be totally neutral because we have no facts, we have no position on
it, we urge you to observe the facts," he said.
Saudi ready to act alone on Iran, Syria: ambassador
Washington (AFP) - The
West's policies on Iran and Syria are a "dangerous gamble" and Saudi
Arabia is prepared to act on its own to safeguard security in the
region, a top Saudi diplomat said.
"We
believe that many of the West’s policies on both Iran and Syria risk
the stability and security of the Middle East," the Saudi ambassador to
Britain, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, wrote in a commentary
in the New York Times.
"This is a dangerous gamble, about which we cannot remain silent, and will not stand idly by," he wrote.The bluntly-worded warning was the latest in a series of public statements by senior Saudi figures expressing displeasure with US and Western diplomatic initiatives towards Syria and Iran.
Until recently, Saudi leaders rarely voiced public criticism of their Western allies in a decades-long partnership.
But
Washington's decision to pull back from military action in Syria and
its backing for an interim nuclear deal with Iran has dismayed the
oil-rich Saudi kingdom, which views Tehran as a dangerous regional
rival.
Citing Iran's backing
for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, he said "rather than
challenging the Syrian and Iranian governments, some of our Western
partners have refused to take much-needed action against them.
"The
West has allowed one regime to survive and the other to continue its
program for uranium enrichment, with all the consequent dangers of
weaponization," he wrote.
Diplomatic talks with Iran may "dilute" the West's will to confront both Damascus and Tehran, he said.
"What price is 'peace' though, when it is made with such regimes?"
As
a result, Saudi Arabia "has no choice but to become more assertive in
international affairs: more determined than ever to stand up for the
genuine stability our region so desperately needs."The Gulf monarchy had "global responsibilities," both political and economic, and he said: "We will act to fulfill these responsibilities, with or without the support of our Western partners."
In a thinly veiled jab at US President Barack Obama, the Saudi ambassador said that "for all their talk of 'red lines,' when it counted, our partners have seemed all too ready to concede our safety and risk our region’s stability."
Obama
had used the term "red lines" to warn Syria's regime against using
chemical weapons. After the regime was accused of firing chemical
weapons, Obama threatened punitive military strikes. But in the end he
pursued a diplomatic agreement in which Damascus promised to give up its
lethal arsenal of chemical agents.
The
Saudi ambassador slammed the West for its reluctance to offer decisive
help to Syrian rebels, vowing to continue support for the Free Syrian
Army and the "Syrian opposition."
Acknowledging
the threat of Al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria, he argued the best way
to counter the rise of extremists among the rebels was to support the
"champions of moderation."
Angry Olusegun Obasanjo Lashes Out Over Letter From His Daughter
With echoes of the open letter to former president, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo from his daughter, Iyabo, reverberating nationwide,
the daughter yesterday gave reasons she gave up on her father ever
changing.
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo spoke against the background of mixed reactions from Yoruba elders and politicians on the import of the letter which she said was the last communication with her father.
The former president himself was furious when approached by Vanguard, yesterday, as he hurled invectives at the newspaper. The exchange between Vanguard and the former president ran thus:
Vanguard: Sir, we tried reaching you all through yesterday, to no avail, over the letter written by your daughter, Iyabo, to you.
Chief Obasanjo: You are a bloody idiot, you have published the paper and you are now looking for me, you are an idiot, don’t call me again. When Iyabo finishes you in court…. (hangs up).
Senator Obasanjo nevertheless flayed the orchestrated attempt in the social media by a network of associates of her father to separate her from the letter.
Aremo Olusegun Osoba, former governor of Ogun State, who was cited in the letter, confirmed the meeting between him and Iyabo in Massachusetts, United States but distanced himself from the plot allegedly cited by her father to empower her with the ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the next round of elections.
Besides, Aremo Osoba, several prominent Yoruba elders spoke on the development among whom were Afenifere leader, Chief Rueben Fasoranti, Afenifere bigwig, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, Chief Ebenezer Babatope and Hon. Femi Kehinde, a former member of the House of Representatives.
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo had written an open letter to her father accusing him of being a liar, manipulator, wife-basher and hypocrite who was desperate for a third term despite his denials to the contrary.
Source: Vanguard
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo spoke against the background of mixed reactions from Yoruba elders and politicians on the import of the letter which she said was the last communication with her father.
The former president himself was furious when approached by Vanguard, yesterday, as he hurled invectives at the newspaper. The exchange between Vanguard and the former president ran thus:
Vanguard: Sir, we tried reaching you all through yesterday, to no avail, over the letter written by your daughter, Iyabo, to you.
Chief Obasanjo: You are a bloody idiot, you have published the paper and you are now looking for me, you are an idiot, don’t call me again. When Iyabo finishes you in court…. (hangs up).
Senator Obasanjo nevertheless flayed the orchestrated attempt in the social media by a network of associates of her father to separate her from the letter.
Aremo Olusegun Osoba, former governor of Ogun State, who was cited in the letter, confirmed the meeting between him and Iyabo in Massachusetts, United States but distanced himself from the plot allegedly cited by her father to empower her with the ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the next round of elections.
Besides, Aremo Osoba, several prominent Yoruba elders spoke on the development among whom were Afenifere leader, Chief Rueben Fasoranti, Afenifere bigwig, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, Chief Ebenezer Babatope and Hon. Femi Kehinde, a former member of the House of Representatives.
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo had written an open letter to her father accusing him of being a liar, manipulator, wife-basher and hypocrite who was desperate for a third term despite his denials to the contrary.
Source: Vanguard
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