Video:- Okonjo- Iweala Dances To 'Chop My Money'

A video of Nigerian economist and former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The video demonstrating the comprehensively famous financial expert moving obediently to the tune of Psquare's 'Slash my cash' has chosen to become a web sensation at once she is at present doing combating to demonstrate her innocence from the continuous examination of arms arrangement including previous national security consultant to President Jonathan, Sambo Dasuki.

On the other hand, it was seen that Okonjo-Iweala got on camera moving to the well known Nigerian melody around a year prior, amid a rousing converse with a vast gathering of youth. While attempting to pay tribute to late South African president, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, amid a TEDx thought sharing talk, she advised the young to stand up while she moved to the tune of the said melody. She later chatted on the point: 'Don't trivialize defilement, tackle it'.



Meanwhile, there are solid signs that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) might soon summon the previous account clergyman for addressing over assertions that she is aware of present circumstances of how the $2bn implied for securing of arms intended to fight feared Islamist order, Boko Haram was spent.

N18billion: Group Detects Alleged Foul Play In Buhari's Cabinet

In a request to President Muhammadu Buhari marked by its National Coordinator, Victor Giwa, the gathering blamed the workplace for the SSA to the President on MDGs of arrangements to occupy a portion of the N15bn asset discharged for the installment of the contractual workers by honoring new contracts to themselves and accomplices.

It additionally blamed the workplace for the SSA to the President on MDGs of deliberately declining and fail to pay the temporary workers.

The bunch's request to President Buhari peruses: "The outline of the actualities is that sure Nigerians, specialists and little scale entrepreneurs and businesses of work had in 2013/2014 awaited and won various contracts under the OSSAP on MDGs for different works in every one of the conditions of Nigeria. The agreements were executed, assessed and affirmation was given by the significant power and guarantees activity issued for ahead installment.

"Sir, rather than brief installment of the contractual workers, who had by their letter of recompenses, looked for and got advances and other credit offices from different bank for the execution of the venture, the previous SSAP enjoyed specific installment, control and reserve preoccupation, paying a small add up to the genuine temporary workers.

He noted: "After arrangement of exceptional weight and disturbance from these contractual workers and the mediation of the previous Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Iweala, in 2014, the then SSAP, joined these temporary workers' liabilities in the estimation of 15 billion naira, in the 2015 spending plan of her office, under the sub head MDG Intervention 1 and 2 and the contract based workers were appease to sit tight for the discharge.

"It is stunning that while the OSSAP is currently in receipt of the said whole through a warrant of discharge dated December 8, 2015, under the sub head MDG Intervention 1 and 2, officers of the OSSAP have fizzled, decline and fail to pay the said temporary workers their full entirety. Be that as it may, have somewhat occupied with preoccupation of this asset into grant of new contracts, for individual increases. This is in clear break of the Fiscal Responsibility and Financial (Control and Management) Acts, Laws of the Federation.

"All the more along these lines, the authorities even in the recompense of the new contract, have shamelessly debased the express procurements of area 30 (an e) of Public Procurement Act, in that they neither allowed bidders or participants to watch the offering procedure nor did they bring about every one of the offers to be made in the open.

"It's is further inquisitive that the OSSAP-MDGS knowing very well indeed that we have just yet two weeks to the end of the 2015 monetary year, are still set on proceeding with the acquirement prepare that is definitely not extortion.

"All supplications for the OSSAP to channel the assets into selling its liabilities to its temporary workers have been met with a reason that the Projects are implied for the Members of the National Assembly.

"The constitution of Nigeria is clear that while the Assembly Appropriates the Executive Implements so we are at a misfortune on how it has now turned into the obligations of the National Assembly to demand the usage of ventures that are sure to come up short and that will just prompt expanding the officially over bloated liabilities of the Federal Government.

"Hence, we are looking for the accompanying requests to God: (i).Immediate installment of the appropriately owed contractual workers through the MDG Intervention 1 and 2 discharges; (ii) Outright cancelation or stoppage of the recompense of new contracts."

In the interim, the government has said the poor condition of the nation's economy, particularly the deterioration in the Naira swapping scale, is the immediate result of the limitless blunder of the economy and the careless plundering of the national treasury under the quick past organization of Goodluck Jonathan

Amnesty urges release of allegedly abused boy by police in egypt

Egypt should quickly discharge a 14-year-old kid who says he was sexually manhandled in detainment by police utilizing a wooden stick and convey his charged torturers to equity, Amnesty International said.

Mazen Mohamed Abdallah's family told the rights amass the adolescent was over and again tormented in guardianship, including likewise being given electric stuns to his private parts.

"The terrible misuse depicted by Abdallah gives a sickening knowledge into the far reaching and routine utilization of torment and sick treatment by Egyptian security powers in police headquarters," Said Boumedouha, Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa program delegate chief, said in an announcement on Friday.

The kid's case is one of a few highlighted over the previous weeks by rights bunches who say police severity is at the end of the day across the board in Egypt.

The Interior Ministry declined quick remark on Amnesty's allegations yet said it would issue an announcement later. It has said it would explore all misuse affirmations.

The gathering said Abdallah was tormented into admitting enrollment of the Muslim Brotherhood and taking part in an unapproved dissent.

The Brotherhood was expelled from force by the military in 2013 when then-military boss Abdel Fattah al-Sisi removed previous President Mohamed Mursi, an individual from the gathering, after mass dissents against his chose principle.

The gathering was then prohibited and security strengths slaughtered several its supporters and imprisoned thousands, with hundreds more sentenced to death in mass trials.

Egypt's police were infamous for human rights misuse amid the guideline of czar Hosni Mubarak however dissolved away amid the uprising that toppled him in 2011. They have subsequent to made a solid rebound under Sisi, who supplanted Mursi as president.

Two cops were sentenced on Saturday to five years in prison for tormenting a legal counselor to death in a police headquarters in February.

On Friday, nine police were alluded to a criminal court and accused of pounding the life out of a father of four.

He was one of no less than three men who passed on in police authority in the space of a week in November, inciting uproars in the place where he grew up and uncommon media investigation of police techniques.

N1 trilion fine: MTN may sack more workers

Antennas radiating from MTN Nigeria on Thursday demonstrated that the information transfers firm may be sacking so as to sustain arrangements to lessen its workforce a sizeable number of its lesser representatives.

This is coming one week after the first indigenous Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria, Michael Ikpoki, and the Regulatory and Corporate Service Executive, Akinwale Goodluck, left the organization.

Ikpoki and Goodluck left the organization taking after the inconvenience of a N1.04trilion fine on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission for not cutting off more than 5 million unregistered Subscriber Id Module cards. Taking after extraordinary entryway, the Federal Government has now cut the fine by 25 for every penny to N780bn.

Dependable sources at the Lagos central station of the organization told our journalist on Thursday that the administration was arranging eliminated the quantity of representatives, particularly those in the lower framework.

Talking on state of obscurity, one of the sources said, "This is a troublesome time for MTN. We are truly confronting significant issues. In light of this fine, the administration has begun cutting expenses. Workers' remittances are being checked on.

"The stunning thing now is that we learnt the administration is wanting to scale back, particularly among the lower unit staff. The arrangement is to do it noiselessly. No declaration will be made of the sacking. Individuals will simply be paid off."

In any case, a senior administration representative of the organization, who likewise talked on state of secrecy given the present circumstance of things in the firm, negated the arranged sacking of junior laborers.

"It is an untruth. It is not genuine. The association is right now incline as far as staff quality, so how would we oversee sacking individuals once more? MTN can't be battling fights at distinctive closures," the source said.

He included, "We are until further notice focused on the most proficient method to determine issues around the fine. For the individuals who had been requested that go, it was not as though they were chargeable in the matter, however reality will be told at the opportune time.

"For the present, there is no arrangement to scale down. It might be later on. MTN has turned into an establishment. We are likewise as of now taking a shot at how to get more laborers."

On the other hand, another senior administration representative of the organization countered the case by his associate, saying.

"The organization may be incline in assets if it in the long run pay the fine, however it is not incline in staff quality and that is the reason it needs some more individuals out. Presently, they have begun cutting expenses and remittances, and are wanting to sack the lesser specialists without satisfactory result bundle.

"Is that how the organization needs to recover the N780bn fine would it be advisable for it to in the end pay up to that sum?"

Ekiti state governor fayose says APC plans to upturn his election

Ekiti State Governor, Peter Ayodele Fayose, has charged that there are arrangements by the decision party, All Progressives Congress (APC) to upturn his organization.

Addressing Channels TV, Fayose raised the alert saying APC has arrangements to upturn the judgment of the Supreme Court on the 2014 governorship race that got him into force as a second time senator.

Perused: Ekiti Governor blows hot, challenges Buhari, DSS

He further claimed that the gathering is wanting to utilize the military request reports when conveyed to upturn the Supreme Court judgment.

Couple of months back, the military had constituted a board of investigation into the operations of its authorities in the governorship race, after the APC claimed that the military schemed with the Peoples Democratic Party to fix the race to support Fayose.

"They went to Kaduna and after all entries, they need to now come up and say that military fixed Ekiti race.

"They are discharging their report soon and they need to return and say that, knowing completely that the military report holds no water in law, the lawyer General of the country or different offices of the Federal Government will need that report uncovered and that will be issued in Kaduna at whatever time from now.

"They need to utilize that and approach the Supreme Court to survey its position which is not known not," he asserted.

NEWS:- Boko Haram won’t stop us from celebrating Xmas------ said CAN

The Christian Association of Nigeria has said that the security challenges the nation over won't ingrain dread in Christians amid the prospective Christmas festivity.

The affiliation, however requested that Christians "safeguard themselves when it gets to be fundamental" even with any incitement.

The General Secretary of CAN, Dr. Musa Asake and its Director of National Issues, Mr. Sunny Oibe, expressed these in discrete meetings   in Abuja.

Asake said, "The present condition of shakiness in the nation won't in any case keep places of worship from having bigger social occasions to observe Christmas. The Department of State Services has alarmed individuals and whatever I can say is that houses of worship ought to reinforce their security by ensuring the spots of love and homes.

"No measure of risk from the agitators ought to terrify us from going to chapel particularly on a Christmas day. I consequently approach all Christians amid this merry period to watch and ask and be prepared to shield themselves when it gets to be important. Administrations by the beauty of God will occur and all will go well. Our God will see us through effectively."

In his response, Oibe said, "Christians will assemble to commend the conception of their friend in need, Jesus Christ; the unrivaled ruling King, with or without the security difficulties standing up to our dear country. Our security and wellbeing is for the sake of the Lord of Host. Our confidence is unshaken and can't be broken by the exercises and strengths of shrewdness men making trepidation in the area."

Biafra: Kukah says, Kanu is a bigger crowd-puller than Buhari

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Kukah, has said nothing wasn't right with the unsettling for Biafra by individuals from the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra.

Kukah, who said this on Friday night at the assembly address of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, included that the expert Biafra instigators were practicing the flexibility of expression.

The minister exhorted the Federal Government to join forces with the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, saying the administration ought to try to work with him in view of his magnetism.

The diocesan further said no Nigerian legislator could activate a colossal number of supporters like Kanu without paying them, saying the administration did not have to dog this sort of individual but rather to cooperate with him.

Kukah said: "This nation can't proceed with along these lines. MASSOB has right to request Biafra since we have flexibility of expression. The issue of Nigeria ought not be with Kanu but rather ought to be with who let the entryway open.

"The President of Nigeria or any representative, unless he pays, can't bring the quantity of individuals that Kanu brought out. The uneasiness of Nigeria ought to be that a young fellow who can bring out such awesome number of individuals merits working with."

The pastor likewise wailed over the condition of Nigerian colleges. He said the administration and in addition instructors ought to be faulted if a few understudies neglected to graduate.

Kukah expressed that understudies had a say in the advancement of their teachers in a few colleges yet that was not the situation in the country's varsities.

"Somewhere else, understudies have a say in the advancement of their educators however here in Nigeria, an excess of indecencies are being dedicated. We require an era of legal advisors and judges who can twist the circular segment of equity for poor people," he included.

In his introductory statements, the Vice-Chancellor of the OAU, Prof. Bamitale Omole, said the college remained the best in the nation, saying numerous deeds had been accomplished since he expected office.

Terrible Accident in Enugu

Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has communicated trouble over the passing of eight All Progressives Congress supporters and a conductor in a car accident on the Ezzamgbo segment of the Abakaliki-Enugu parkway.

The accident happened when the driver of a Toyota Sienna passing on the APC supporters lost control and slammed into a truck going to Abakaliki.

The gathering supporters were said to be going to Enugu to join the followers of the Labor Party contender for the last governorship race in Ebonyi State, Edward Nkwegu, who had massed at the Court of Appeal anticipating the decision on Nkwegu's allure.

In an announcement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Emma Anya, on Saturday, Umahi said it was "grievous that the casualties who were providers of their families lost their lives while going to witness a practically futile offer," by Nkwegu.

VICTORY:- Siasia’s Dream Team VI Are African Champions

Nigeria's Dream Team VI have won the U-23 Africa Cup of Nations in Senegal. A support by Etebo Oghenekaro guaranteed that Samson Siasia's men turned out triumphant against an extremely sorted out Algeria.

Etebo gave Nigeria the lead from the punishment spot in the twelfth moment after he was fouled in the 18-yard-box. Algeria drew level by means of an own objective by Oduduwa Segun whose header occupied Fehat's cross into his own particular net.

Etebo struck again in the 40th moment as he controlled his way through to objective from the inside, opening the ball past the Algerian objective guardian. It finished Nigeria 2 – 1 Algeria.

Perused our live scope of the last beneath.

Nigeria meets Algeria in the last of the 2015 U-23 Africa Nations Cup. The two groups have played in the gathering phases of the competition.

The two groups have fit the bill for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the wake of making it to the finals.

The two groups confronted in the gathering stages prior in the competition and the match finished in a goalless stalemate in spite of various chances that fell both sides.

The Dream group welcome back chief Azubuike Okechukwu who missed the semi-last conflict with Senegal through suspension. Taiwo Awoniyi is fit subsequent to anguish a damage.

90+4′ FULL TIME! Nigeria are U-23 African Champions. In an extremely throbbing amusement, Samson Siasia's Dream Team despite seemingly insurmountable opposition have won the title here in Senegal. It finished, Nigeria 2 – 1 Algeria.

90+ 2′ Yet once more! Emmanuel Daniel to the salvage of Nigeria. The Nigerian objective attendant has without any help protected his foreman's.

90′ Four minutes included.

89′ The Algerian goalkeeper surges off his line to clear the risk. The diversion is getting unpleasant as another Nigerian player goes on the turf.

87′ Three minutes to go. Dream Team VI are setting out toward superbness here.

85′ Nigeria wins another freekick exactly at the edge of the Algerian range. The North Africans are starting to toss alert into the wind.

83′ Daniel with another stupendous recovery from a freekick to keep Nigeria in the diversion

76 – 80′ Both groups have been playing with alert, with Ageria so frantic to get once more into the diversion.

69′ MISSED… Algeria miss their punishment… Emmanuel Daniel with a great recovery

68′ SUB: Siasia takes off Tiongoli, bring on Eyo

68′ PENALTY to Algeria!!!

66′ SAVED!! Dream Team;s Emmanuel Daniel asserts a freekick effortlessly

57′ Junior Ajayi is punished for a foul… .even the neutrals will dissent that choice.

56′ Victor Osimhen has been giving the restriction players a wide range of issues… .he has been fairly noteworthy today

53′ The diversion this second half has been 50/50 for both groups however Nigeria have had endeavors

52′ MISSED OPPORTUNITY!!! Osimhen is found by Tiongoli in the container on the left, again the Golden Eaglet's exertion is simply wide… he was shaky shooting

50′ EFFORT IS WIDE!!! Algeria cut out an opening yet the left back can't take his risk to test Ngeria's Emanuel David in objective.

47′ Nothing of note yet to report in the second haf yet Algeria have made a noteworthy begin to the second half however the Dream group protection has been up to the errand

45+ HT: Nigeria 2 – 1 Algeria… .Etebo's twofold the distinction in a match completely ruled by the Dream Team

45′ GOOOD DEFENDING!!! A winger pulls clear on the privilege and drives a cross into the case however Amafuele endeavors to clear as an aggressor was prowling behind to score into an open net

43′ NIgeria's strength telling in this match… the DT have completely pegged back Algeria

40′ GOOAALL!!! Etebo scores once more, by one means or another he pulls clear of the safeguard and spaces past the goalie after a radiant keep running from the inside circle

34′ OFFSIDE!!! Ferhat's freekick from the privilege is going at objective however the arbitrator says a shield pulled clear too soon

30′ FREEKICK!!! Etebo is felled on the edge of the case… the assailant gets up to take the endeavor. it is hindered by the divider and Oduduwa's bounced back exertion is off target

27′ GOOAAALLL!!!!! Algeria level… Ferhat's cross from the privilege is occupied into the Nigerian objective by Oduduwa Segun

24′ So far the Algerians have been on the attck with Nigeria being pegged back

17′ The amusement is looking really adjusted at this point

17′ SAVED!!! Nigeria's Emmanuel Daniel spares a long range free-kick hit with fierce force

14′ Since that objective Algeria have been attempting to over-burden the Dream group a large portion of… .Siasia's kid utilized the same strategy to begin the match

12′ GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!! Etebo scores his fourth punishment of the competition

11′ PENALTY!!! Etebo is felled in the case… Etebo to take..the guard gets a yellow for his endeavors

9′ WHAT AN ATTEMPT!!! Osimhen is found in the case once more, the striker's first touch is unimaginable however his left-footed exertion from the left is dragged wide… Algeria survive

8′ The fantasy group have pegged their adversaries in their own half

6′ FREEKICK once more!!! Like the prior freekick hotel position andd conveyance, this time the endeavor misses everybody and the goalie handles

5′ The Dream Team having all the ownership and early risks, simply an issue of time before they score

3′ FREEKICK!!! Tiongoli powers a freekick on the left yet a guard clear the endeavor

1′ Early risk for the Eagles!!! 

MUST READ:- Policemen jailed for beating lawyer to death

An Egyptian court sentenced two officers with the mystery police to five years in jail on Saturday for pounding the life out of a detained attorney, the second such decision in a week.

The two officers, a lieutenant colonel and chief with the He had been hung on suspicion of having a place with the Muslim Brotherhood development, which the military had expelled from force in 2013.

Both litigants had been discharged on safeguard over the span of the trial and it was not clear when they would be confined. They can claim the decision.

The decision came two days after another court sentenced an officer to five years in jail for pounding the life out of a detainee in a police headquarters.

There has been an increment in reports of beatings and passings in detainment as of late, inciting President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and the inside service to vow they would consider answerable those dependable.

The indictment alluded on Thursday nine policemen to trial on charges of pounding the life out of a prisoner in a police headquarters in the southern town of Luxor.

Long running police misuse, including the fierce killing of a young fellow in 2010 because of two policemen, had fuelled a 18-day uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Mubarak was succeeded in 2012 by the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi, who kept going a year in force before his ouster by the military after enormous arouses requesting the Islamist's acquiescence.

Morsi's oust unleashed a lethal crackdown on his supporters and thousands have been kept, and allegations of sick treatment in detainment facilities are regular.

The inside service has said it doesn't overlook torment yet says there have been "individual" instances of misuse.

PDP- We’ll back Buhari to end insurgency

The Peoples Democratic Party said in Abuja on Friday that it would not censure President Muhammadu Buhari-drove All Progressives Congress government on the off chance that it neglects to meet the December 31 due date to end uprising in the nation.

Maybe, it said that it would back the President to end the dread war.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, expressed the party's position when he got a young gathering under the aegis of Northern Youth Network at the gathering national secretariat.

Metuh said, "APC had guaranteed that they were going to end uprising in two weeks, they later said it will be over in two months and after that they now gave December 31 due date to end Boko Haram.

"Presently, notwithstanding the dialect it is framed in moving the objective posts, and in spite of taking note of and watching every one of the infractions and a wide range of dangerous reactions APC mounted on us when they were in resistance, the PDP as a national gathering will shun making remarks on issues on the deficiencies relating to the war against insurrection in the nation.

"For us in the PDP, we remain totally in backing of the government in the war to destroy revolt in our property and we charge all Nigerians to bolster President Muhammadu Buhari in the war against fear. "The war by the fear gathering is not against the President, it is not against the APC nor is it against the PDP.

"It is somewhat a war being pursued against Nigerians and the kinsmen ought to remain as a united power with our President to battle and annihilation the agitators.

"On the off chance that we do this we will be battling for a typical decent. We would make an impression on those that look to separation us that we are unified and that Nigeria is really one nation and that we need to remain so. We have chosen not to examine things relating to the war against insurrection and we will remain by the President as the pioneer of nation."

Metuh said that even in doing as such, the gathering would in any case not delay or modest far from making its perspectives known on different ranges it feels that the administration is not doing admirably.

"We won't be threatened or hassled into relinquishing our part as the main resistance party. We will remain a practical and vocal voice of the restriction and we will stay centered in our productive feedback against the legislature of the day," he included.

Fashola said :- FG will pay great attention to roads, others

Mr. Babtunde Fashola

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, 

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said the Federal Government will give careful consideration and put vigorously in street base, power and lodging in the coming years.

The segments, he said, would be organized by virtue of their commitments to national economy because of their abilities to create multiplier impacts and livelihood on an extensive scale.

The clergyman said this amid the opening service of the 2015 actuation for recently enlisted amount surveyors and honing firms and the fourth yearly expert center on danger administration, composed by the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria, on Thursday in Abuja.

Fashola said the administration would be depending on the backing of enrolled Nigerian amount surveyors and different experts in the development business in its journey to convey great administration to the general population.

The priest, who was spoken to by the Director, Survey Department, Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Dickson Onojah, asked amount studies to present their mastery as development expense administrators as a powerful influence for the costing of activities keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish esteem for cash and cost productivity in the execution of tasks in both the general population and private segments of the economy.

He said, "I am enchanted to be having impact in today's incitement function for a gathering of experts like enlisted amount surveyors, who are key players in the assembled environment, which is a key segment of our economy.

"Here, we are discussing foundation, for example, streets, lodging and urban advancement, all of which go under the domain of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, which I have been accused of the obligation of supervising.

"It is one area, which this legislature will give due regard for in perspective of its commitments to the national financial because of its ability to create multiplier impacts and occupation on a vast scale."

Fashola recognize the QSRBN for "the great work you have done as such far in the quest for your command not just in the customary enrollment and impelling of qualified amount surveyors, additionally in the range of expert advancement and accreditation of amount looking over projects in the colleges and polytechnics."

The QSRBN President, Mallam Hussaini Dikko, expressed that 317 recently enlisted amount surveyors and 34 rehearsing firms of amount surveyors were accepted, bringing the aggregate number of enrolled amount surveyors and honing firms in the register of the board to 2,777 and 236 separately.

He cautioned that the board would cinch down vigorously on any enlisted amount surveyor that occupied with sharp practices.

Dikko said, "in such manner, enlisted amount surveyors must line behind President Muhammadu Buhari in his against defilement campaign. Amount surveyors have a key part to play in battling defilement in the building and designing industry."

Oil falls to $39, threatens Federal Government’s savings plan

'Femi Asu 

Worldwide benchmark Brent rough on Thursday developed its misfortunes, dropping to $39 per barrel in this manner debilitating the Federal Government's capacity to spare income from raw petroleum deals one year from now.

The Federal Executive Council had recently proposed $38 per barrel as the oil benchmark cost for the 2016 spending plan, down from $53 this year.

The Excess Crude Account, into which the nation spares the distinction between the business sector cost of oil and the monetary allowance benchmark to give a pad when oil costs fall or additional money is required for spending on foundation, has been drained as of late as oil incomes dove.

The record, which remained at about $4.11bn in October 2014, dropped to $2.45bn in December that year, down from about $3.11bn in November. The equalization in the ECA was put at $2.1bn in July this year.

Congresspersons on Wednesday differ among themselves on the $38 per barrel proposed by the Federal Executive Council as the oil benchmark cost for the 2016 spending plan, which was contained in the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper sent to the upper chamber by President Muhammadu Buhari.

While a portion of the administrators required an increment in the benchmark value, others bolstered the choice of the Federal Government to peg the benchmark at $38 per barrel.

Brent, against which the greater part of the world's oil, including Nigeria's is evaluated, has fallen by more than 60 for each penny in the previous year and a half, putting weight on oil-sending out nations.

The worldwide benchmark fell underneath the $40-per-barrel mark on Tuesday without precedent for right around seven years because of oversupply. It later headed back above $40, at which it exchanged on Wednesday.

Remarking on the proposed $38 per barrel benchmark for the 2016 spending plan, the Head of Energy Research, Ecobank Capital, Mr. Dolapo Oni, in a messaged reaction to addresses from our journalist, said, "I think it is a reasonable cost. The oil business sector is really unstable and responding to the OPEC news right now."

He said oil cost could even go lower to $38 per barrel, however included that it would recuperate above $40 and possibly $50.

"We have guage a normal of $46.33 per barrel one year from now in light of the fact that we see the potential at costs above $50 and in addition costs in the $20-30 territory. As I would like to think, in this manner, I think the benchmark is agreeable," Oni said.

Nigeria, as different nations that depend on oil incomes, has seen its accounts gravely hit by the decrease in oil costs, with unrefined exchanging underneath the nation's 2015 spending plan benchmark cost as of late.




The precarious decrease in oil costs had in March constrained the National Assembly to settle for $53 per barrel as the benchmark cost for the 2015 spending plan, down from $65 proposed by the Executive, which needed to alter it twice, from $78 to $73, and later to $65.

Goldman Sachs, a standout amongst the most persuasive banks in ware markets, as of late said that oil could tumble to as low as $20 per barrel in the midst of reasons for alarm that the world is coming up short on capacity limit.

The Chief Executive Officer, Total, Patrick Pouyanne, had on Monday said he didn't expect weight on oil costs after OPEC's choice last Friday not to force a roof on rough yield and keep generation at abnormal states.

"OPEC's choice was normal by the business sector. We don't envision a recuperation in 2016 (at oil costs), on the grounds that in 2016, the development in limit will be bigger than the development sought after… I am not exceptionally idealistic for 2016," he told journalists in Qatar.

OPEC neglected to concede to another yield portion on Friday, permitting part nations to keep pumping more than 31 million barrels for each day of oil, further swelling an overabundance that has brought down costs.

The OPEC choice sent Brent into substantial fall on Monday, when it tumbled to $41 per barrel, the most minimal level since March 200

In Osun:- Pupils attack teachers with guns

Femi Makinde, Osogbo

A few instructors at Anglican High School and Adenle Middle School in Osogbo barely avoided being shot when a few cultists attacked the school compound and pursued out educators.

The school which houses understudy populace of around 7,000 is comprised of Anglican High School 1-5 and a few understudies of Adenle Middle School.

Our journalist accumulated on Thursday that the emergency was brought about by a few understudies who knew they couldn't pass the qualifying examination the state needed to direct to choose those whose WAEC expense would be paid by the state government.

However, some said the emergency began last Friday when an understudy distinguished as Toib and his associates raged the school premises with dane firearms to assault an individual from Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme ( O' YES cadet) who they had issues with.

An instructor told our journalist that Toib and his pack pursued a female Home Economics educator out of the class when the inconvenience began.

The attack of the school constrained different understudies and laborers to escape.

The Friday intrusion was said to have constrained the school powers to welcome policemen yet the cultists prepared more individuals and assaulted the police even on Monday.

The advancement, it was accumulated prompted the guideline given to the educators by the Nigeria Union of Teachers that all instructors ought to avoid school in view of the danger to their lives.

It was further learnt that the Osun State Ministry of Education had likewise shut down the school to keep any passing.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Lawrence Oyeniran, when reached declined to make any remark on the emergency.

He said, " This is a subject I would prefer not to discuss. Possibly you can see the agent representative and pose your inquiries."

On the other hand, the NUT director, Mr. Amudah Wakeel, when reached said the emergency was so genuine, including that a percentage of the educators were fortunate to have circumvented being shot dead by the rampaging cultists.

Wakeel said, " Some cultists among the understudies attacked the school. They needed to execute a portion of the educators. They took dane firearms to the school yet our individuals were lucky.

"An individual from "OYES" cadet was harmed with a hatchet by the understudies yet he survived. The police were conveyed to keep the circumstance from prompting loss of lives. We have taught our individuals to avoid the school on account of the danger to their lives.

"The union has the ability to teach individuals not to go to class if their lives were debilitated and this is precisely what happened. The instructors quit going to class and the administration has shut down the school."

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, when reached told our third party that seven suspects were captured regarding the emergency.

It will be reviewed that an educator at the Oosgbo High School was harmed with a hatchet taking after the wicked conflict between understudies of the school and understudies of Government Technical College, Osogbo, in 2014.

Marketers:- We’ll continue to sell fuel above N87 per litre

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Rivers State branch, has said it will keep on offering fuel above government-affirmed pump costs unless the stops consent to the same order.

IPMAN made this promise on Thursday at the yearly meeting of the Department of Petroleum Resources, warehouse proprietors and different partners in the oil division.

Premum engine soul otherwise called petrol had been rare in the nation, prompting a trek in cost from the official cost of N87 to between N120 to N180 per liter.

Be that as it may, IPMAN Chairman, Mr. Sunny Nkpe, cautioned that the union would not have the capacity to implement N87 per liter of petrol on its individuals.

Nkpe rebuked stations proprietors for the infringement of the order that fuel ought to be sold at authority costs.

He contended that there was no chance retailers would purchase item at a high rate from the stations and administer to the clients beneath the expense cost.

Clarifying that the advertisers were prepared to serve people in general with uprightness and appreciation if terminal proprietors offer at the affirmed value, the IPMAN director in the state said, "We won't consent to the administrative petrol cost of N87 until the warehouses proprietors follow the same mandate.

"The terminals offer to us at a high value and anticipate that us will offer at the official rate. We purchase above endorsed cost from the station proprietors. We won't acknowledge that; we will oppose any specialists who will come to uphold such request until the terminals proprietors make the best decision."

Be that as it may, Mr. Paul Fred, who represented the warehouse proprietors in the state, pointed out that stops in the state were as of now confronting numerous difficulties.

Fred clarified that the warehouses were confronting the issue of money and portion.

As indicated by him, "In the midst of the said difficulties, the terminals proprietors are prepared to play by the standard of the amusement keeping in mind the end goal to advance the nation."

Talking at the event, the DPR cautioned that the organization would no more endure any terminal proprietor and advertiser who occupied with any type of unlawful practices in the oil and gas industry inside of the zone.

Keyamo tells Buhari to punish corrupt politicians

Lagos legal advisor, Festus Keyamo, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to be stopped by the reactions that he is being particular in his against debasement war.

Keyamo requested that Buhari rebuff those effectively discovered blameworthy of improving themselves unjustifiably in the last organization.

The legal advisor, who said this in a progression of tweets on his official Twitter handle on Wednesday, said those reprimanding the President for being specific in his hostile to debasement war were those chargeable of defilement.

He said, "The individuals who say that President Buhari is specific in his against debasement war ought to hold up till 2019. Vote out the All Progressives Congress and manage those he (Buhari) disregarded. Until further notice, gives us a chance to manage those (degenerate lawmakers) that have being gotten."

Keyamo said regardless of the downpour of reactions against him on the online networking, he would keep on supporting the President in recuperating plundered assets.

He said it was heartbreaking that the individuals who faulted previous President Goodluck Jonathan for not examining individuals for defilement related offenses were pointing the finger at President Buhari for taking up arms against thieves.

He included, "A few individuals imagine that futile tweets and entertaining rationale would deter a few of us from supporting President Buhari's endeavors against bandits. I giggle. What do we truly need in this nation? Goodluck Jonathan didn't capture anybody for defilement, we grumbled. Buhari has chosen else, despite everything we grumbled.

"Individuals that have slaughtered thousands by stashing assets intended to ensure lives are presently asserting human rights misuse. Some grumble about those confined with court orders for taking cash implied for the obtainment of arms yet are quiet about the individuals who are in their graves as a consequence of the extortion.

"By following marauders, Buhari is bowing to the wishes of the masses that conveyed him to control. What's more, that is the voting public that he needs to fulfill."

MUST READ:- Northern leader Meet With Igbo Royal Fathers

A powerful designation was invited by the Governor of the state Rochas Okorocha, who held a meeting to rub minds on the past aggravations in the South-East.

The Northern customary rulers said they put stock in the solidarity of Nigeria and are stressed over the unsettling for the Biafra state. They said the nervousness ought to be observed.

The meeting was gone to by the top of the line customary leaders of Nigeria containing the Obi of Onitsha, Emir of Lafia, Emir of Fika, Gbong Gwom Jos among others.

The Igbo imperial fathers displayed their new boss HRM Eze Eberechi Dick, who duplicates as Chairman Abia State Council of Traditional Rulers.

The customary rulers educated Okorocha that peace has come back to the conventional organization in the South-East.

The Imo state representative in his answer adulated the Northern conventional rulers for their enthusiasm for the occasions in the state including that the Igbos has lost a larger number of lives than whatever other tribe in Nigeria for the peace in Nigeria.

Okorocha said Igbos are dedicated and are found in all aspects of Nigeria, proceeding with that the Igbo man doesn't consider himself to be an outsider in any area.

He gave the confirmation that the guests that the tumult is being investigated by the governors and pioneers of South-East.

The representative included that murdering of Ibos in the Boko Haram emergencies without remuneration, pardon allowed Niger Delta adolescents without stretching out same to Igbo young people who presented their arms and so on.

"Nigeria is my supporters, having been conceived and prepared in the North, enabled by the South West and being of Igbo parentage," he said.

Okorocha at the wake of the dissents exonerated that the Southeast governors and Igbo pioneers of any complicity including that the separatists abhors the backing of dominant part of the Igbo.

Additionally the senator had ventured up security in the state to stop the expert Biafra bunches from holding the dissent in the state.

Dismissed policeman, arrested for stealing manhole covers

The statement advised parents to monitor the activities of their wards

The police in Lagos have captured the child of a resigned Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and one other individual for purportedly vandalizing and taking sewer vent covers.

The Lagos State Police Rapid Respond Squad (RRS) Commander, ACP Olatunji Disu, put forth the revelation in an announcement on Wednesday in Lagos.

The announcement said that the ex-cop's child was released from the Nigeria Police before he took to wrongdoing.

It said the released policeman, one Earnest Young, 30, and his associate, Rasheed Tiamiyu (20), were captured on Eko Bridge around 10 p.m. on Tuesday.

"They were captured possessing sewer vent spreads vandalized and stolen on Eko Bridge.

"'The suspects asserted they saw the sewer vent covers and wanted to offer to truck pushers.

"They additionally asserted that them two rest and work as burden bearers at Ijora Motor Park,'' the announcement said.

It noticed that suspects' activity represented an incredible threat to street clients, including that revealed sewer vents could bring about mischance, especially during the evening.

The announcement informed folks to screen the exercises concerning their wards, cautioning that Lagos would not be a reproducing ground for lawbreakers.

It said that the suspects had been charged to court on Wednesday.

SEE PHOTO: Thieves Destroy ATM In Niger State

As indicated by reports, the thieves robbed at the Federal University of Technology, Minna and chose to pulverize the Automated Teller Machines (ATM) they refered to

They were said to have trucked away the cash they met on the ATM after they completely devastated it. See photographs below:

Mavin Records Artist:- Korede Bello Becomes Police Ambassador

Korede bello Becomes police Ambassador

This is on account of the 19-year-old Mavin Records artist and musician has been respected by the Nigerian Police Force as a police youth diplomat. The energized "Godwin" crooner took to his twitter page to report the most recent advancement by saying: "THIS IS MEGA!!! The Nigerian Police Force has quite recently confered on me the honor of being the first ever Nigerian Police Youth Ambassador; I am to a great degree humbled special to convey this GREAT obligation. This activity by Inspector General of Police - IGP Solomon E. Arase, is memorable. This crosses over any barrier between the Police and the general population ( the Youths ) . Security/Safety is OUR aggregate obligation."

The news is absolutely "Mega" in light of the fact that ever, there has never been anything like a young police diplomat; the vocalist is the first! His mark mate, Di'ja, who couldn't withhold the news likewise shared photographs from the vocalist's induction occasion today, December 2. At the occasion was Police advertising officer, AC Olabisi Kolawole, DIG John Domas, prominent entertainer CHIEF Chika Okpala prevalently known as Zebrudaya pseudonym 4:30 and some more. See photographs below: