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Singer Paul Okoye’s wife, Ifeoma, has shared her thoughts on social media trolls who claim they drop hateful comments on people’s post just for fun, recognition or because they seek financial gains from them.
In a post shared on Instastories, Ifeoma said the act of trolling is stupid. She mentioned that not everyone is like singer Chike who gifted a troll N1 million after the troll left a disrespectful comment on his X handle.
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President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja, the nation’s capital, on Monday, August 19, for a trip to Paris, France.
The president’s spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement on Sunday night said the President will return to the country after his brief work stay in France.
The President will travel on the newly acquired luxury Airbus A330 aircraft, which landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at 8.29 pm on Sunday, PremiumTimes reports.
The aircraft was received by officials of Nigeria’s Presidential Air Fleet, led by their commander, Olayinka Olusola, an air vice marshal.
According to the news outlet, the Airbus 330 aircraft is a repossessed one recovered from an indebted oil sheikh who used the aeroplane as collateral for a loan he obtained from an unidentified German bank to buy it.
L & L International LLC, an American aviation firm based in Miami, Florida, brokered the deal, which saw Nigeria buy the aircraft for over $100 million. A presidency official described the acquisition as an excellent deal for Nigeria, putting the aircraft’s real market value in the region of $600 million.
The multi-engine prestige jet, which has an elaborate VIP configuration, is now Nigeria’s Airforce One, with registration number 5N-NGA.
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Shares of Bavarian Nordic surged in Danish trading Friday as investors bought into the company with the only approved mpox vaccine in the U.S. and Europe, after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the fast-breaking outbreak a global health emergency.
The WHO on Wednesday said the surge in mpox in African countries constituted a global pubic health emergency, its second such declaration about the disease in two years. The health organization had declared the virus, then called monkeypox, a global emergency in July 2022 but ended the call 10 months later.
The Danish firm has the only mpox vaccine approved by American, European, Canadian, and British regulators. It said Friday that it had submitted clinical data to Europe's regulators so the vaccine could be extended for use by adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age. It is currently only approved for adults 18 and over.
Sweden became the first country outside the African continent to confirm mpox in an individual who has traveled to central Africa, the WHO said. The United Nations agency said it had declared the disease a public health emergency after a surge in recent cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo and some neighboring countries and as a new, more severe strain, called clade 1b, emerged.
Bavarian Nordic stock closed up 18% in Danish trading Friday at 283.50 Danish kroner ($41.84). They surged about 48% this week.
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A lady has counseled her gender
She said don’t let civilisation br3ak your lovely home, there is nothing like 50/50 in marriage, Your husband is your boss don’t let social media brainwash you Our people are practicing selective feminism.
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DJ FLo and Rhuthiee (FLORUISH) have been evicted from the season 9 ‘No loose Guard’ edition of the Big Brother Naija Show.
They were evicted on Sunday, August 18, 2024, after their fellow house mates voted them out.
FLORUISH, STREEZE, RADICALS, and BETA were nominated for eviction by the viewers. Custodians WANNI x HANDI were only able to save one pair and they chose BETA.
FLORUISH are now the fourth pair of housemates to be evicted from the show after STREEZE, NDI NNE, and TAMI.
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The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says an executive bill which seeks to restructure revenue administration in Nigeria, including regulation of the cryptocurrency industry, is being drafted for transmission to the national assembly.
Zacch Adedeji, FIRS chairman, spoke on Saturday at a stakeholders’ engagement with a joint committee of the national assembly in Lagos. According to a statement by Dare Adekanmbi, special adviser on media to Adedeji, the FIRS chairman said the objectives of the bill include simplifying tax laws, harmonising collection of revenue as well as seeking the replacement of obsolete tax laws with new ones in line with the current economic realities.
“By the special grace of the Almighty God, we will bring a bill for a law to overhaul the whole process of revenue administration in Nigeria. Part of what we intend to achieve with this is to harmonise revenue collection, making tax laws very simple to understand and to be in tune with our current realities,” he said.
“For example, the Stamp Duty Act was made in 1939 when there was no internet connectivity or any of the features of modern society as we have it now. Even in 1939, states and local government councils had not been created. So, we need to bring that law up to date. This is one of the reasons President Bola Tinubu set up the Taiwo Oyedele-led fiscal policy and tax reform committee to look into all these laws and make recommendations.
Today, we cannot run away from the cryptocurrency ecosystem because it is the in-thing. But as it stands in Nigeria today, there is no law that regulates cryptocurrency operations. We need a law that regulates that area of our economy. This is why we are having this engagement with the legislators. We will regulate it in a way that is not injurious to the economic development of Nigeria. These are some of the things we are bringing together in an executive bill to overhaul revenue administration for the development of the country.”
