Tough time awaits ministerial nominees



Tough times await ministerial nominees in the Senate on Tuesday as the Peoples Democratic Party senators on Friday vowed not to lower their guard during the screening at the upper legislative chamber.
Saturday PUNCH reliably gathered that although some nominees had indirectly contacted the senators across party lines, their efforts had not yielded desired results.
Investigations also showed that the PDP senators might stop the screening, unless President Muhammadu Buhari presents all the 36 ministerial nominees, as against 21 he submitted on Tuesday.
It was learnt that the move by President Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress and the senators to reach out to the PDP senators was being coordinated by his Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang.

TRIBUNAL NULLIFIES KASHAMU’S ELECTION, ORDERS FRESH ELECTIONS

 The National and state Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, this afternoon set aside the election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senatorial candidate for Ogun East, Prince Buruji Kashamu.
The three man Tribunal headed by Justice Ebiowei Tobi in delivering the judgement this afternoon, also ordered a re – run election in 110 of the polling units in Ogun East Senato...rial district, comprising of nine Local Governments within 90 days.

MINISTERIAL LIST : SEE SPECULATED PORTFOLIOS OF MINISTERS

 Following the release of 21 names of ministerial nominees sent by President Muhammadu Buhari to Senate President Bukola Saraki last week, the social media has been abuzz with lots of speculations over who heads what ministry among the nominees who are expected be screened by the senate before the President announces portfolios assigned to each of them.
See the purported portfolios allotted to each of th...e nominees from 21 States of the federation.
Do you think these ministerial nominees rightly fit the ministries they have purportedly been designated to?

Online Publishers Charge To Sustain Professionalism Virtues

Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Anambra state council, Comrade Henry Nwasike has urged online publishers to ensure they infuse professionalism in the discharge of their duties, which is gradually becoming the future of information dissemination network

He urged practitioners to ensure credibility of production is instilled in order to secure the future of online media in the country.

Intellectuals Advcate For Overhauling of Nigeria's Value Ethcs, Political and Economic System

Former National President of the Academic Staff Union of University, Professor Dipo Fashina, has called for total overhauling of Nigeria’s value system and tasked all citizens across board on ethical revolution.

Speaking at the recent 2015 Annual Distinguished Lecture of Professor Fidelis Okafor Annual  International Lecture in Awka, tagged: ‘The Literati Philosophia: The Human Science/Humanities &The Recovery of Human Values For Social And Economic Development, disclosed that in moral and social philosophy, there are no final answers to the question of whether or not citizens have a legal right to revolution.

Let The Wixked Try By Hon. Chinedu Nkwonta

I was woken up late last night by a phone call from a close friend I have not heard from for a while. This guy got a text that had some news, some bad news about the Governor that had my name to it. I became curious to know what it was, crazy talk of the insane, the same desperate old group and their desperate moves, a cheap move to sow a seed of mistrust. After my explaining the motive behind their evil intensions, my friend saw the cheap joke in the entire rubbish. I had not heard from my man for some months previous, so at least, the frustrated miscreants got us talking again.

AYO MAKUN (AY LIVE) Settles Rift Between Gordons and Helen Paul on stage

 Nigeria’s biggest annual comedy show, Maltina AY Live held another edition of the comedy concert in Port Harcourt yesterday, Sunday, October 4, 2015.

GordonsThe event which held at the Aztech Arcum in Port Harcourt featured rib cracking performances from some of Nigeria’s biggest comedians including Ushbebe, Gordons, Acapella, Akpororo, Helen Paul, Romeo, Dan D’Humorous, Ajebo, Hezekiah among many others.

Unbelievable! See Lepacious Bose New Stunning Look, Is She Not Beautiful............................!

                                                                  Lepacious Bose

Top female stand-up comedienne is known to be a very fat woman, but one who has used her huge weight to good effect by using her body as a vessel to sell her jokes across. Even her name ‘Lepacious Bose’ is a mockery of her figure.

Bose seemed so much at home with her huge weight and so thought many of her fans but she was secretly ashamed by it and working to shed them off!

48 Million Year-Old Horse Fetus Helps to Trace Evolution of Species

The reproductive system of horses has barely changed at all over the last 48 million years, according to a new study which analyzed the fossil of a fetus belonging to what is the oldest known horse ancestor.

The discovery of the fetus — and its mother — was made at the Grube Messel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located near Frankfurt, Germany. The bones were first found in 2000, but scientists have only now concluded their study of the fetus. The resulting paper was published on Thursday in the open-access science journal PLOS ONE.

Update: Oliseh Explain Why He Fire Vincent Enyeama

The dramatis personae in what has become known as the show of shame of Belgium have been speaking on their actions even as they put aside their differences to confront Congo in a friendly match today in Belgium.

Gaffer Sunday Oliseh who described the altercation as a normal disagreement in a family, however, has explained his actions of stripping first choice goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama of the Eagles captain’s band and handing it over to CSKA Moscow forward Ahmed Musa.