GOVERNMENT SHOULD SWING INTO IMMEDIATE AND FAST ACTIONS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2016 BUDGET AS PASSED NOW! - CACOL

Last week, after a protracted wait, Nigeria’s Budget for 2016 was finally signed by the President Muhammadu Buhari; the process which began December 2015, witnessed controversies from the very first time it was presented before the NASS, making the budget perhaps the most popularly debated one in the history of Nigeria’s national budgeting.

After all the intrigues, grandstanding, shameless display of avariciousness and insensitivity to the plight of the ordinary Nigerians, it is time for the government to put its acts together to achieve the full implementation of the budget to mitigate in the subsisting deplorable situation on the masses.

Femi Adesina takes to Twitter to share Buhari's statement at the Commonwealth Anti-corruption Summit

Special Assistant on Media to President Muhammadu Buhari Femi Adesina took to Twitter to share some of the things the president said at the Commonwealth Tackling Corruption Together Conference in the UK this morning.

 

Late Ronke's husband, Lekan Shonde, has a child outside their marriage – Her sister reveals

 The family of late Ronke Shonde (nee Bewaji) has reacted to the allegations leveled against her by her husband, Mr Lekan Shonde.

The first and only surviving child of Bewaji family, Bolatito Bewaji, claimed that Lekan allegedly killed her sister due to jealousy and insecurity.

She said their problem started when Ronke discovered that her husband had a child outside wedlock, which she said affected their marriage.

Many injured as suicide bomber attacks mosque in Borno

Many people were injured after a male suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Sulimanti ward of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital this morning.

According to reports, two male suicide bombers arrived the mosque but one of them ran away without detonating the bomb strapped on him while the bomb on the other one exploded a few metres from the Masalacin Kofar Shehu Councillor mosque where Muslim faithful were performing their morning prayers.He was the only casualty in the attack.

'I never did any business with NIMASA yet I was paid N97.6m' - Witness

Wakili Dauda, a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi, and six others, has told a Lagos State High Court how the agency paid him the sum of N96, 764, 689.00million for doing nothing.

Testifying before Justice R.1.B Adebiyi on Monday, May 9th, Dauda, owner of Kofa Father Nigeria Limited, a Bureau De Change, stated that the sum of N96. 7 million was paid into his account on October 30th 2014, in two tranches of N35, 688,000.00 and N61, 076,680.00 by the agency’s Committee tasked with the Voluntary International Maritime Organisation Member State Audit Scheme (VIMSAS) project Committee of NIMASA. Speaking through an interpreter, Ibrahim AbdulHakeem, a registrar with a Magistrate Court, Wakili further told the court that he was shocked when he received the money.

FG to reduce petrol price from N87 to N85 per litre from Jan 1, 2016

The Nigerian Government has promised to reduce the pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as  petrol from N87 to N85 per litre come January 1, 2016. 

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, disclosed this to journalists yesterday at the Port Harcourt Refinery Company, where he went to inspect the plant.

Asked when the Federal Government would release the new price template of the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulation Agency (PPPRA), Mr. Kachikwu said he approved the new price for the agency on Thursday.

“Like I said, we have done a modulation calculation and it is showing us below N87,” Mr. Kachikwu said. “I imagine that if PPPRA publishes it today, it will become effective immediately. But the 1st of January that is when we are looking at.”

George Clayton Johnson, Writer of First 'Star Trek' Episode, dies on Christmas Day at 86

George Clayton Johnson, who wrote the script for the first "Star Trek" episode to air and co-wrote "Logan's Run," died Friday, Dec. 25 in the Los Angeles area following a battle with cancer, according to his son, Paul Johnson. He was 86. 

 

He was born in Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1929. He broke into the entertainment business in 1959 when he wrote the "I'll Take Care of You" episode for "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."

Johnson was a member of the Southern California School of Writers, which included Theodore Sturgeon, William F. Nolan, Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson and Ray Bradbury. He met "Twilight Zone" producer Rod Serling through them and would go on to write eight episodes for the seminal sci-fi series including "Nothing in the Dark," "Kick the Can," "A Game of Pool" and "A Penny for Your Thoughts."

Johnson sold a short story that would serve as the basis for Frank Sinatra's 1960 movie "Ocean's 11" and the George Clooney-Brad Pitt reboot in 2001. He also wrote episodes for "Route 66," "The Law and Mrs. Jones" and "Kung Fu."

With William F. Nolan, he wrote the dystopian novel "Logan's Run," in which people are executed at the age of 21 and which served as the basis for the 1976 film. He wrote the adapted script for "The Intruder," the 1962 movie directed by Roger Corman, based on the novel by his friend Charles Beaumont. Both appear in the movie along with William F. Nolan.