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How to Seduce Straight Guys President Muhammadu Buhari By Henry Umoru On Wednesday, 29th January, 2020, barely twenty- four hours after the Senators resumed from the Christmas and New year break, they decided to spend the entire day of the plenary session to brainstorm on the very burning issue of security challenges confronting the country. For six hours from 11.30 to 4.25pm that the Senators were at the hallowed Chamber deliberating, there was tension, uproar, sharp disagreement, but at the end of the day, they landed on the same page. They resolved that for the very fact that the security infrastructure has failed in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari should as a matter of urgency declare a National Security Emergency. The Senators also asked President Muhammadu Buhari to walk the talks and if he would achieve this, he must as a matter of urgency, sack the Service Chiefs who they said were no longer fit and had ran out of ideas to tackle the myriad of security problems w...

How to Seduce Straight Guys Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, Tuesday concluded a two-day inspection tour of on-going Highway Projects in Niger State stating that President Muhammadu Buhari was making the Nation’s economy the front and centre of his administration’s Next Level Agenda. Speaking at Bokani Junction in Niger State where he was briefed on the progress of work on the Dualization of Jebba-Mokwa-Bokani Road (Section II), Fashola said the President, in making this decision, has chosen the development of infrastructure as anchor to achieve economic growth more quickly adding that the passing of the 2020 Budget in the first week of January was a clear indication of that decision. The Minister told hundreds of residents of Mokwa Community who trooped out to welcome him at the site, “Whether you notice or not, the President has been very clear in his commitment to build infrastructure”, adding...

How to Seduce Straight Guys Kwara State Governor, Abdulrazaq By Demola Akinyemi The passion of Governor Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman of Kwara state to restore the glory of education in the state can best be described as legendary considering the pragmatic steps he had been taking to identify the problems and plan to tackle them. He had been doing this by technically  boycotting the usual window dressing protocols of the sycophantic  civil servants with unscheduled visits to various sensitive and non    sensitive   governments ministries and parastatals  since he assumed office. Speaking in an interview with press men in the Ministry of education on Thursday,at the symbolic flag off ceremony of distribution of free exercise books to pupils and students of public primary and secondary schools across the state, the governor declared that,’’We want to restore this state back to number one in Northern Nigeria.That is our aim.’’ In view of this, out o...

How to Seduce Straight Guys By Ayo Onikoyi Nigerian billionaire Mr. Femi Otedola has paid a surprise visit to the cast and crew of ‘Citation’, a new movie by award-winning filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan. Femi Otedola who was at the Obafemi Awolowo University campus, Ile-Ife,  Osun State where the movie is currently being shot, noted that his mission was to see what the making of a film looks like, adding that his new interest would be to support the fast-growing Nigerian movie industry. The billionaire whose daughter Temi Otedola is playing a lead role in the college drama was joined by another VIP visitor and cinematographer, Tunde Kelani on set of the movie. READ ALSO:  The Sardauna of our era The much much-advertised movie is expected to move locations to Senegal and the beautiful Island of Cape Verde in a couple of weeks. Exploring a subject of social decadence in the educational sector, the movie is about a female postgraduate student who has to find a way of dealing w...

How to Seduce Straight Guys wedding ring By Fr Gorge Adimike It is common knowledge that our civilisation is in crisis. The question remains: what kind? Remarkably, there is arguably a parity of those who consider it as the crisis of truth; the others, of love. Many as well see it as the crisis of faith. For the purpose of this piece, the principle of ‘both … and’ applies. It involves the whole question of the truth and identity of man, which includes faith, hope and love. Adequate awareness of the truth and meaning of man’s existence settles most of the crisis. As one of the fitting context for his life, marriage figures centrally in the truth about man and woman. It is not good for humans to be alone. Human physiology reveals graphically and powerfully that we are meant for communion. Hence, human sexuality is a spiritual faculty that drives humans to the bond that parses the meaning of their existence. God created man for ‘marriage’, which he realises historically through the...

How to Seduce Straight Guys My attention has been drawn to a news headline titled” Igbo Presidency: Don’t Repeat Moghalu’s Mistakes, Ngige Tells Ndigbo”. The headline and underlining news story, was based on an interview that Dr. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment granted. In the said interview Dr. Ngige was reported as saying that I failed in my quest to become President of Nigeria in 2019 because the Young Progressive Party (YPP), on which platform I was a presidential candidate, was“a relatively unknown party”. Ngige, a former governor of Anambra State, called on Igbos to pitch their tent with the two main political parties – the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to actualize their presidential aspiration. According to the news report “Ngige, who described Moghalu as an illustrious Igbo son and eminently qualified for the post of president, said … Moghalu, rather than aspire for the president, would have launched his aspiration by fir...

How to Seduce Straight Guys A protester brandishes a banner  By Tony Eluemunor Actually, no matter whatever Zik did or did not do in Biafra, he had achieved immortality before the civil war started. Is it Zik the intellectual? Or the father of Nigerian nationalism? Or Zik the Pan-Africanist? His place in history was quite secured, as though with a lock and key and backed with a harness. This is a reaction to Mr. Soji Akinrinade’s article published in the Sunday Independent of January 26, 2020: “Nnamdi Azikiwe and the Nigerian Civil War.” Yet, Mr. Akinrinade, made no impeachable assertions, because, to be fair to him, he reached no personal judgment or conclusion on Zik’s support for Biafra, why Zik dumped Biafra in the heat of the war and appeared in Lagos. Mr. Akinrinade simply recounted the trouble in placing Zik’s role(s) in Biafra. That is the only reason for this reaction to the article by Mr. Akinrinade, who was not just an Editor at Newswatch magazine in 1986, when De...

How to Seduce Straight Guys A protester brandishes a banner  By Emeka Obasi Professor Adebimpe Olorunsola Ike deserves more than condolence messages from those who stood with Biafra during the civil war. The professor of Library Science, is all alone today in Ndikelionwu, Anambra State following the loss of her husband, Prof. Chukwuemeka Ike. Liverpool fans say, ‘You’ll never walk alone.’ That is exactly the best words for Ezenwanyi Ike. When the war started in 1967, she had her husband and their only child, Osita. Now husband and child are no more. As Mrs Bimpe Ike, she saw herself as a Biafran and went through war. Born an Abimbolu, from Ijebu Igbo in the South–West, love was all she had for her husband who was forced back to Biafra after the genocide of 1966. When the going got tough, Mrs Ike had opportunities to run back to Nigeria. She did not. Vincent and Osita meant everything to her. She chose Biafra. Bombs did not scare her, hunger could not deter her. Prof. Ike a...

How to Seduce Straight Guys A Lassa fever casualty has been confirmed in Enugu by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr Ifeanyi Agujiobi in a press conference. The epidemic was reported to have killed a 24-year-old pregnant woman after her admission at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Utuku-Ozalla. According to Aguijobi, the pregnant woman died Thursday night while another female victim, a Corps member survived the attack and presently recuperating. Aguijobi claimed the newly recorded death was as a result of late reporting by the victim to a health facility. ALSO READ:  Lassa fever claims 41 lives, 258 cases confirmed in 19 States The Federal Government of Nigeria has however said it is committed to containing Lassa fever which has claimed 41 lives in parts of the country since the beginning of 2020. The Minister for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire revealed that at least two health professionals were among the 41 deaths recorded; adding that there were at l...

How to Seduce Straight Guys Leon Balogun Wigan Athletic completed the loan signing of defender Leon Balogun from Brighton & Hove Albion until the end of the 2019-20 season, subject to EFL, Premier League and FA approval. Balogun, 31, completed the move late on Deadline Day and is unavailable for Latics’ clash at Leeds United on Saturday. The Nigeria international signed for Brighton in 2018, having spent his career in Germany, featuring in the Bundesliga for Hannover 96, Werder Bremen, Fortuna Dusseldorf and Mainz 05. READ ALSO:  Odion Ighalo joins Man United on loan With over 200 career league appearances and 32 international caps to his name, Balogun brings useful experience to Paul Cook’s defence for the final 17 games of the season. SIGNINGS | Latics have completed a double-loan signing from Brighton & Hove Albion. Defender @LeonBalogun and Striker Jan Mlaker have joined until the end of the 2019-20 season. Balogun story https://t.co/XMqnDR5Yin Malker stor...

How to Seduce Straight Guys By  FRED IWENJORA Last week we brought you the life story of Benson Idonije, his relationship with Fela and his influence on his grandson Burna Boy who was nominated for the just concluded 62nd edition of the Grammy awards. This is the concluding part as told to FRED IWENJORA Could you throw more light on your friend Fela’s character? As a man, Fela was a good man. Yet he was highly misunderstood by many. As a musician he was incomparable. He was a great musical talent. He was restless. He wanted to make everyone around him happy both by his music and character. He did not want any man around him to suffer or complain. Fela hated injustice and always wanted to fight to redress oppression for the masses. He was humane and friendly. Did anything change in your relationship with him? So much had changed about our friendship over the years before he died. When his profile was rising internationally, I was also rising on my job so I stopped being...

How to Seduce Straight Guys •During the burning Executive Director of the National Film and Video Censors Board Alhaji Adedayo Thomas says the war on production and distribution of unwholesome films and video works in Nigeria is total. Speaking at the Lagos office of the board in Ikoyi after the recent burning of confiscated unclassified and uncensored films and videos including pornographic ones Alhaji Thomas hinted that the board will continue to work hard to fulfill the mandate of the board which includes “to license a person to exhibit films and video works; and premises for the purpose of exhibiting films and video works;, to censor films and video works; to regulate and prescribe safety precautions to be observed in licensed premises; to regulate and control cinematographic exhibitions; to regulate the import of foreign movies and export of Nigerian movies  and to perform such other functions as are necessary or expedient for the full discharge of all or any of the funct...

How to Seduce Straight Guys By Ayo Onikoyi Nigerian billionaire Mr. Femi Otedola has paid a surprise visit to the cast and crew of ‘Citation’, a new movie by award-winning filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan. Femi Otedola who was at the Obafemi Awolowo University campus, Ile-Ife,  Osun State where the movie is currently being shot, noted that his mission was to see what the making of a film looks like, adding that his new interest would be to support the fast-growing Nigerian movie industry. The billionaire whose daughter Temi Otedola is playing a lead role in the college drama was joined by another VIP visitor and cinematographer, Tunde Kelani on set of the movie. READ ALSO:  The Sardauna of our era The much much-advertised movie is expected to move locations to Senegal and the beautiful Island of Cape Verde in a couple of weeks. Exploring a subject of social decadence in the educational sector, the movie is about a female postgraduate student who has to find a way of dealing w...

How to Seduce Straight Guys wedding ring By Fr Gorge Adimike It is common knowledge that our civilisation is in crisis. The question remains: what kind? Remarkably, there is arguably a parity of those who consider it as the crisis of truth; the others, of love. Many as well see it as the crisis of faith. For the purpose of this piece, the principle of ‘both … and’ applies. It involves the whole question of the truth and identity of man, which includes faith, hope and love. Adequate awareness of the truth and meaning of man’s existence settles most of the crisis. As one of the fitting context for his life, marriage figures centrally in the truth about man and woman. It is not good for humans to be alone. Human physiology reveals graphically and powerfully that we are meant for communion. Hence, human sexuality is a spiritual faculty that drives humans to the bond that parses the meaning of their existence. God created man for ‘marriage’, which he realises historically through the...

How to Seduce Straight Guys My attention has been drawn to a news headline titled” Igbo Presidency: Don’t Repeat Moghalu’s Mistakes, Ngige Tells Ndigbo”. The headline and underlining news story, was based on an interview that Dr. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment granted. In the said interview Dr. Ngige was reported as saying that I failed in my quest to become President of Nigeria in 2019 because the Young Progressive Party (YPP), on which platform I was a presidential candidate, was“a relatively unknown party”. Ngige, a former governor of Anambra State, called on Igbos to pitch their tent with the two main political parties – the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to actualize their presidential aspiration. According to the news report “Ngige, who described Moghalu as an illustrious Igbo son and eminently qualified for the post of president, said … Moghalu, rather than aspire for the president, would have launched his aspiration by fir...