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How to Seduce Straight Guys US President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team announced its picks for the incoming administration’s White House communications team on Sunday, selecting seven women for the country’s top communications jobs. “President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect [Kamala] Harris today announced new members of the White House staff who will serve in senior communications roles,” the transition team said in a statement. “For the first time in history, these communications roles will be filled entirely by women.” Among the newly appointed team are industry veterans, including the Obama administration’s former White House communications director Jen Psaki, who will serve as White House press secretary for the Biden-Harris administration. Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s communications director when he was Vice President, will be the White House communications director for the new administration. “Communicating directly and truthfully to the American people is one of th...

How to Seduce Straight Guys By Prisca Sam-Duru Children’s literature on folktales usually takes a common form that transports the reader back to life during the primordial era, but Sayo Juba’s “Tort And The Townies” offers far beyond that. The book is colorfully presented in such a unique style, spiced with all the ingredients that make children’s literature engaging, educating as well as entertaining. Most fascinatingly, it is crafted with a touch of modernity. The potency of folktales as a tool for shaping the moral of children who transform into individuals with great values, cannot be overemphasized. If there’s one great aspect of Africa’s ‘primitive’ lifestyle or community lifestyle that should be revived in its totality, it is telling tales under the moonlight. Surely, modernity may oppose gathering under the trees at the village square, but the storytelling can be done in homes or elsewhere safe. READ ALSO:  Lagos sensitises stakeholders on UBEC Cluster School Model T...

How to Seduce Straight Guys The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Coalition Against COVID-19, CACOVID, deserve a pat on the back for their untiring efforts to help Nigerians cope with the tough challenges posed by the two most profound disasters that have faced the country this most unusual year. On March 30, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari and governors of the 36 states had to invoke the Quarantine Law to force the citizenry into a national lock-down that lasted five to six weeks. The CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, mobilised the Bankers’ Committee and other corporate and business leaders to form the CACOVID and raise billions of naira to procure medical and nutritional palliatives for the most vulnerable Nigerians. As the lock-down ended and most businesses emerged debilitated, the CBN and CACOVID pledged N50 billion worth of packages towards helping tottering small and medium business back to life. To worsen matters, the #EndSARS peaceful protests, which erupted in Octo...

How to Seduce Straight Guys By Nkiruka Nnorom Fresh crises is brewing between the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and shareholders as the Council has set registration with it as part of conditions for shareholders of public companies to qualify as audit committee members. FRC, in a Draft Audit Regulation 2020, said with commencement of the regulation, activities of the Statutory Audit, including that of the audit committee members would be regulated by the Council. According to the new draft rule, every auditor, audit firm, other assurance providers, and audit committee member “shall register with the Council from the commencement of these regulations.” However, shareholders have risen against the new regulation. READ ALSO: Hoodlums hold Customs officials hostage, snatch gun from soldiers in Ogun While kicking against the regulation, shareholders under the aegis of New Dimension Shareholders Association (NDSA) claimed that the Council is not well advised on its powers, author...

How to Seduce Straight Guys Godwin Emefiele, CBN Governor. By Emeka Anaeto, Business Editor, and Peter Egwuatu, Asst. Business Editor At the backdrop of the slide into the second recession in five years, fiscal and monetary authorities are indicating that efforts are on all fronts to ensure early exit from the recession. While the Federal Government has indicated that implementation of its N2.3 trillion Economic Sustainability Plan, ESP, has started, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is saying that in addition to all its major economic stimulus measures, it was also mobilising banks to back the government efforts. Speaking at the Chartered Institute of Bankers’ annual dinner at the weekend, CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, hinted that all the economy recovery measures of the apex bank are already at advanced stages of implementation with some positive results already recorded. READ ALSO: 50-yr-old father of 2 rapes neighbour’s 10-year-old daughter in Ondo He stated: “ The fisca...

How to Seduce Straight Guys By Nkiruka Nnorom Fresh crises is brewing between the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and shareholders as the Council has set registration with it as part of conditions for shareholders of public companies to qualify as audit committee members. FRC, in a Draft Audit Regulation 2020, said with commencement of the regulation, activities of the Statutory Audit, including that of the audit committee members would be regulated by the Council. According to the new draft rule, every auditor, audit firm, other assurance providers, and audit committee member “shall register with the Council from the commencement of these regulations.” However, shareholders have risen against the new regulation. READ ALSO: Hoodlums hold Customs officials hostage, snatch gun from soldiers in Ogun While kicking against the regulation, shareholders under the aegis of New Dimension Shareholders Association (NDSA) claimed that the Council is not well advised on its powers, author...

How to Seduce Straight Guys Godwin Emefiele, CBN Governor. By Emeka Anaeto, Business Editor, and Peter Egwuatu, Asst. Business Editor At the backdrop of the slide into the second recession in five years, fiscal and monetary authorities are indicating that efforts are on all fronts to ensure early exit from the recession. While the Federal Government has indicated that implementation of its N2.3 trillion Economic Sustainability Plan, ESP, has started, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is saying that in addition to all its major economic stimulus measures, it was also mobilising banks to back the government efforts. Speaking at the Chartered Institute of Bankers’ annual dinner at the weekend, CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, hinted that all the economy recovery measures of the apex bank are already at advanced stages of implementation with some positive results already recorded. READ ALSO: 50-yr-old father of 2 rapes neighbour’s 10-year-old daughter in Ondo He stated: “ The fisca...