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Friday, 24 September 2021

China Bans Cryptocurrency, Says All Crypto-Related Transactions Are Illegal

China’s central bank said all cryptocurrency-related transactions are illegal and must be banned, sending the strongest signal yet on its determination to crack down on the industry.

All cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Tether, are not fiat currency and cannot be circulated on the market, the People’s Bank of China said on its website. All crypto-related transactions, including services provided by offshore exchanges to domestic residents, are illicit financial activities, the PBOC said in the statement.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that more than 300,000 children lost their lives in the last 12 years because of the insurgency ravaging the North East region.

In its latest statistics, UNICEF disclosed that over one million people have been displaced within the period under review.

The agency further divulged that no fewer than 5,129 out-of-school children were currently battling mental health challenges as a result of the conflict in the North.

THE Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, on Thursday lamented that some states in the country were paying Egyptian, Cuban and Pakistani doctors five times higher than what they pay their Nigerian counterparts.

He warned that such preferential treatment given to foreigners by some states ahead of their Nigerian counterparts does not encourage national unity and loyalty.

Ngige said this while receiving the Chairman of the Federal Character Commission, Dr Muheeba Dankaka, and other federal commissioners, who paid him a courtesy visit.

Operatives of Katsina State Police Command have apprehended mother, her daughter, alongside another woman, for concealing petrol in their bag to take to bandits in the forest, Newspremises reports.

The suspects were reportedly picked up by a team of policemen, operating along Katsina-Jibia road on Thursday, September 23, 2021.

SP. Isah Gambo, the State Police command spokesperson, paraded the three suspects at the state police headquarters on Thurday.

The suspects who had however, confessed to have committed the offence, are all said to be residents of the Malali Quarters, in Katsina metropolis.

By Frank Ikpefan, Abuja

President of Nigeria Dominican Republic Business Exchange NIDOR-BEX Dr Kingsley Azonobi has said with the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, Nigerian businessmen can now travel and do business with the 120 countries that have ties with Dominical Republic without visa.

He spoke at the inaugural ceremony of NIDOR-BEX management board on Thursday in Abuja.

The two top men have made fantastic starts to their respective seasons so far with Osimhen grabbing 5 goals in 5 matches and Onuachu chipping in with 5 goals in 9 appearances.

The real headache is for Nigerian head coach Rohr who has to constantly decide who to play upfront between the tow talismen with Leicester City’s Iheanacho also a contender for the starting Super Eagles jersey.

According to Wikipedia, Crowdsourcing is a type of participative online activity in which an individual, an institution, a nonprofit organization, or company proposes to a group of individuals of varying knowledge, heterogeneity, and number, via a flexible open call, the voluntary undertaking of a task.

Praise be to Allah.

There is nothing wrong with setting up a website to provide work for jobseekers and connect them with employers in return for commission paid either by the worker or the business owner, or both of them, according to the terms of the agreement. That comes under the heading of brokerage.

If Your Daughter Did This To Your Car, What Would You Do? (Photo)

Whatchu gonna do if your little daughter did that to your brand new vehicle? Spank her, kick her, pat her, hug her, disown her or prob'ly put her behind bars? What really are you going to do?

#funTime;
#noChildTalk;
#noBadVibe;
#noBadEnergy;
#noAds;
#noSpamming;

"Imagine that it was Lailatul Qadr (the Night of Power), or you managed to cling to the Ka’bah at the multazam, and you now had a ‘once in a lifetime chance’ to make a du‘aa that you greatly hope will gain acceptance. What would you ask for? Perhaps many of us would ask for something related to this world such as beauty, health, wealth, a dream home, etc."

On one occasion, Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) visited a Bedouin who received him warmly and honoured him. So, Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) bade him to also visit him.

Accordingly, the Bedouin visited Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam). Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said to him, “If you have any need, you may ask me.” The Bedouin replied, “I want a she-camel to use as a conveyance, and a few goats for my family to milk.”

What's Your Most Humbling Verse Of The Qur'an. - Islam for Muslims

There are a lot of verses in the Qur'an that makes the heart tremble and humbles the arrogance and pride in the heart. One of them for me is:

"Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was not a thing worth mentioning" Qur'an 76:1

May Allah cleanse our hearts off arrogance.

Salamun alaykum warahmotuLlah wabarakatuhu.

Segun Sowunmi: Dapo Abiodun Running Ogun Like A Level 13 Civil Servant

Spokesman to Nigeria’s Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (1999-2007) and PDP presidential candidate (2019) has lambasted Prince Dapo Abiodun, Ogun State governor, for alleged unproductive handling of the state.

Segun Sowunmi, former PDP candidate for House of Representatives, who spoke during an interaction with members of Independent Newspapers Association of Nigeria (iNAN) , said Governor Abiodun is governing the state as though he’s a level 13 civil servant.

He said the description was not meant to disrespect civil servants in the State and elsewhere, saying the intellectual capacity deployed in the governance of the State is not more than the workload challenge of a level 13government worker.

Sowunmi posited that Abiodun’s intellectual capacity deployed in his administration is even below level 14,15 or 16, adding that he runs the State without new great ideas

The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed Sgt. Samuel Philips, the police officer who killed 18-year-old Monsurat Ojuade in Ijesha-Tedo, Lagos State.

This is according to a statement released by Adekunle Ajisebutu, the Lagos police spokesperson on Thursday. Ajisebutu said the officer was dismissed after the conclusion of his orderly room trial.

“This is to inform the general public that Sgt. Samuel Philips, who was tried for the shooting incident of 10 September, 2021, that led to the death of Monsurat Ojuade, has been dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force,” the statement reads in part.

Nigerian Government Officials Confront Oduduwa Protesters In New York (Video)

More drama in New York as Nigeria government officials confront Oduduwa protesters.

It was a moment of glitz and glamour at the Catholic Diocese of Ekwulobia as the Catholic Women Organisation Umunze Deanery hosted their convention and Fundraising of N150m for the building of Deanery C.W.O Hostel and Event Center.

The event took a new turn with the early arrival of Dr. Godwin Maduka who marked the occasion with them and made a handsome donation to flag-off the event in style

The occasion with the theme " The Role of C.W.O In Combating Insecurity In The Country" recorded the presence of several Reverend fathers, Reverend Sisters and impressive numbers of Catholic Women.

Commercial banks in Ijebu – Ode, Ogun State have closed operations for the fear of being attacked by armed robbers.

Daily Trust gathered that banks have closed shops against customers since Monday following letters allegedly sent to some of them by the suspected robbers.

The development, which has left some residents and customers stranded, was seen as a proactive measure by the bankers, our correspondent understands.

Sources said the banks maintained that they would only resume operations if the Ogun State Government assisted the police with armoured personnel carriers to be mounted close to their branches.

Janemena's Sister Reveals How Janemena Enjoyed Kpokpogri's Money

Janemena's sister, Katty has dragged Tonto Dikeh to filth after she called out Janemena, claiming Kpokpogri also has her s*x tapes.

Katty, in her response, dragged Tonto for calling out her sister, as she alleged that her sister only enjoyed Kpokpogri's money but didn't sleep with him.

However, Nigerians have dragged Janemena's sister, as they insist that she only confirmed the gist.

She wrote;
"king Tonto or whichever u call urself. My dear cry for urself not Janemena because prince never ever saw Janemena pant but we chop him money steady so worry for ur n*de not Jane's my dear. Karma is here to teach u a lesson. King wen no wise.

GOVERNOR SANWO-OLU COMPENSATES MORE DECEASED FAMILIES OF LATE RRS OFFICERS WITH N20m*

Governor of Lagos State Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has again, reaffirmed his pledge to always give wholesome support to the security agencies as he today, in his government's trademark tradition, handed out, two (2), individual beneficiary cheques of ten million naira (N10,000,000.00), each to the bereaved families of Late RRS Officers at Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja.

The Federal Government has banned students in Senior Secondary School one and two from taking from applying for and taking external West African Senior School Certificate Examination, the National Examination Council, and National Business and Technical Examinations Board.

This was contained in a circular issued by the Federal Ministry of Education to principals of federal unity schools.

It was titled In the circular with no: FME/DBSE/US/DOC/III/16 and signed by the ministry’s Director Senior Secondary Education, Hajia Binta Abdulkadir.

African America acknowledge of being paid by Nigeria Government to Protest in New York. This where Nigeria Money are been spend, dollars paid to hire African Americans to protest in support of Nigeria Government. In the Video the protesters confess of knowing nothing about Nigeria but were hired to support the Government.

A Nigerian man, Vincent Desmond @vincentdesmond_ has shared his experience with the police in Lagos. He wrote:

"I got stopped by the police at Gbagada this afternoon and after accusing me of being a yahoo boy and manhandling me and attempting to take me to their station, they took me to the ATM and made me withdraw pretty much all that I had in my account."

After this happened, I got stopped by another set — dressed in army uniform. Despite explaining who I was and that I had already been stopped by and extorted by another set minutes ago, they insisted on me giving them money. They've taken everything from me. I am actually crying.

Car Owners And Experts Can You Tell If A Vehicle Had Accident In The Past?

A heavily dented car handled by veterans, the spray, parts, repairs and fixes done very well and look as good as new.

The Nigerian President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said that Nigeria will spare no efforts at getting rid of Boko Haram terrorists, especially in the North-East part of the West African nation.

He stated this on Thursday while addressing over 80 world leaders at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The President also lamented that Nigeria was concerned about illicit trading and movement of small arms which was increasing criminality and insurgency in the country.

Worried by the recent damaging articles against the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), the leadership of the Alumni Association of the institution has written to the management of FUTO and issued a seven-day ultimatum within which the university is to reply on the circumstances leading to the recent appointment of Dr Isa Ali Pantami as a professor.

The association, in its letter signed by the National President, Ndubuisi Chijioke and forwarded to FUTO, expressed serious regret over an embarrassing article tagged FUTO – “Fraudsters University of Technology Owerri” targeted at destroying the reputation and image of their Alma mater.

High Court judge Teresia Matheka has declared that being a housewife should be considered a full-time job.

The judge, who was presiding over a matrimonial property dispute, said that it was rather unfair for courts to rule that housewives have no significant contribution to the financial progression of a family.

Justice Matheka opined that housewives offer full-time services at home and should not regard themselves as jobless.

She further argued that it was unfair to use visible income and the mindset that one has to dig deep into their pockets during the marriage to evaluate their financial value.

Unbeaten Olympic gold medal winner Oleksandr Usyk is not intimidated by the size advantage in Saturday’s fight with WBO, IBF, WBA, IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.

The fight with Joshua will take place before a hostile crowd of over 60,000 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Usyk is the smaller man, who moved up from the cruiserweight ranks in 2019.

He dominated the cruiserweight ranks and unified the entire weight class in 2018 – when he won a lopsided twelve round unanimous decision over Murat Gassiev in the final round of the World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight tournament.

Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea has said that his club can fight for the English Premier League and Champions League titles this season following s Cristiano Ronaldo return, and signing of Raphael Varane and Jadon Sancho, Newspremises reports.

Manchester United reportedly spent in excess of £130 million on Ronaldo, Varane and Sancho before the summer transfer deadline.

The Red Devils last won silverware [Europa League title] in May 2017 under their former manager, Jose Mourinho.

Opening:

The President congratulates UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres on his re-election and thanks him for re-appointing Nigeria’s Ms. Amina Mohammed as Deputy Secretary General.

On Covid:

PMB now speaking about Nigeria’s Covid Response (this year’s UNGA theme is “Building resilience through hope - to recover from COVID-19, rebuild sustainably, respond to the needs of the planet, respect the rights of the people, and revitalise the United Nations).

The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has listed 26 players for an invitational tournament in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Completesports.com reports.

Nasarawa United forward Silas Nwankwo, who was top scorer in the NPFL in the 2020/21 season, Lobi Stars goalkeeper Stanley Nwabili, Akwa United defender Adeleke Adekunle and Enyimba’s Tosin Omoyele are among the players invited for the invitational tourney.

The team will be handled by NFF Technical director Austin Eguavoen and his assistant, Paul Aigbogun.

In what appears to be a bold volte-face, the authorities at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have admitted that copies of its pamphlets containing security tips for staff and corps members contain the “embarrassing” clause that advises corps members to prepare for ransom payment if abducted.

The organisation, however, noted that it realised that different copies of the pamphlets are in circulation with some containing the clause and others not.

The NYSC spokesperson, Adenike Adeyemi, in a terse message to PREMIUM TIMES on Friday noted that the organisation was already investigating the situation.

The reaction followed this newspaper’s insistence that copies in its possession contain the clause, and queries the rationale behind the hurried rebuttal earlier issued by the organisation on the matter.

Mrs Adeyemi, in a short response, simply wrote; “We realised different copies are in circulation. We are investigating.”

ABC Invitational Women's Cup: Nigeria Vs South Africa Today At 4pm

Aisha Buhari Cup. (ABC). invitational Women's cup

Nigeria vs South Africa

Date: Tues 21st. Sept

Venue: Mobolaji Johnson stadium Lagos

Time 4 pm

People Won’t Tell You The Truth Until You Reach Abroad – Nigerian Man (Photos)

A Turkey-based Nigerian man has taken to Twitter to narrate his awful experience in Cyprus before he eventually relocated to Turkey.

The man, identified as @Klaws09 on Twitter, shared this while reacting to a tweet of a lady who warned Nigerians to beware of travelling to “low-budget” European countries out of desperation to leave the country.

He seconded a claim on the fact that ‘abroad is different from obodo oyinbo‘ and narrated that the second he landed in Cyprus, he regretted the decision of leaving Nigeria.

@Klaws09 wrote on twitter;

A former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, and Wife of popular Juju Musician, King Sunny Ade, Hon. Risikat Ajoke Adegeye is dead.

The deceased who was also a former Chairmanship Aspirant under the platform of All Progressives Congress,APC, in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area, reportedly died in the early hours of Tuesday.

Adegeye, a devoted and loyal party member of the APC, died after a brief sickness.

Man Hides His Mother's Body In Their Basement For One Year After Her Death...You Won't Believe Why

In what will come across as a really startling development, an Austrian man had to hide his mother's corpse in his basement for a year so he could keep pocketing her money.

The son wrapped the woman’s dead body with bandages and ice packs and kept it hidden in his basement for a year so he could continue collecting her benefits, police said Thursday, September 9.

The 89-year-old mom died in June 2020 in Tyrol province, but authorities only learned about her death this month when a mail carrier who had been handing her checks to her son asked to see the woman, according to police. The name of mother and son have not yet been released.

Court of Appeal stops states from collecting VAT

A Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has stopped the governments of Rivers and Lagos from collecting Value Added Taxes (VAT), pending the determination of an appeal filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).

The appellate court which said the order was to preserve the ‘Res’ (subject matter) of the appeal before it, gave the order on Friday, September 10.

This came after Attorney-General of Lagos state, Moyosore Onigbanjo informed the court of an application for the Lagos state government to be joined as a co-respondent in the appeal filed by FIRS.

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom says farmers should be allowed to carry AK-47 rifles to protect themseleves against criminal herdsmen.

The governor said this while answering his questions from newsmen at the Makurdi airport in Benue on Friday, September 10, 2021.

Orotom said a situation whereby herdsmen carried sophisticated weapons like AK-47 rifles and farmers are asked to defend themselves with cutlass and Dane guns is unfair.

The released Dodo of Wawa Community in Borgu Kingdom, Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State, Dr, Mahmud Ahmed Aliyu was purportedly returned to his palace by those that abducted him last Saturday.

DAILY POST also learnt that his kidnap was due to his strong opposition against criminal activities perpetrated by bandits in his area.

It was gathered that the district Head was transported back on three motorcycles each conveying two persons, including the victim yesterday at 8:30pm.

Our Correspondent learnt the gunmen brought him unnoticed during power outage, and dropped him close to the palace and zoomed off from the area.

Nigerian songstress Simi has reacted after a Canada based comedian, MC Morris accused her of biting his fingers.

On Thursday, MC Morris hopped on IG to recount how Simi betrayed him. According to him, he sacrificed a lot for Simi to attain the fame she’s presently enjoying with no form of payback from Simi.

MC Morris shared not one, but three occasions he had to go out of his way to save Simi from trouble. He recounted how he had to pay #500,000 in 2011 after Simi fucked up at an Akpabio event in Uyo. Also, how he reached out to her in 2016 to perform at his show and her management asked him to pay millions.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic believes he should be considered the equal of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the debate over the world's greatest player.

The 39-year-old Swedish striker, still going strong at AC Milan, has enjoyed a hugely successful career at nine clubs in seven countries, scoring 502 goals.

Yet despite never winning the Champions League or the Ballon d'Or - honours won multiple times by both Ronaldo and Messi - Ibrahimovic says he shouldn't be regarded as inferior to them.

'If you're talking about intrinsic qualities, I have nothing less than them,' he told France Football magazine.

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Nigerian songstress Simi has reacted after a Canada based comedian, MC Morris accused her of biting his fingers.