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Delta Governor’s aide, Ossai Success, has criticized Pastor Jerry Eze for his guest list at his birthday party.
He said Pastor Jerry Eze shouldn’t have invited E-Money and Obi Cubana to his birthday. This is disappointing as we all know E-Money and Cubana aren’t genuinely Christians, considering their lifestyles.
Just as Bishop David Oyedepo didn’t invite them to his birthday despite their celebrity status, Pastor Jerry Eze, Lead Pastor of Streams of Joy International, shouldn’t have invited them, as this puts his faith into question.
If this guys were to be poor living a worldly lifestyle, I don’t think he would have invited them or associated himself with them but then they are rich Popular celebrities In the Bible, 2 Corinthians 6:14 states, “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
It’s disappointing that Pastor Jerry invited E-Money and Obi Cubana without encouraging them to commit to Jesus Christ. The birthday celebration should have been an opportunity to win souls for God, but after watching the birthday videos, I didn’t see E-Money or Obi Cubana give their lives to Jesus Christ.
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Meta (META) unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can generate realistic videos with accompanying music from text inputs.
Meta's Movie Gen can create new videos, edit existing ones, or adapt images into video form, the company said Friday. Specifically, it can create videos up to 16 seconds long that run at 16 frames per second.
Movie Gen rivals the video generator from Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI, which announced its product, Sora, in February.
Meta's Movie Gen isn’t publicly available yet, but Meta said it's working toward a potential future release.
Shares of Meta hit another record high Friday, and were up 2% at $594.25 in afternoon trading. They've gained more than two-thirds of their value since the start of the year.
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Bobrisky has thrown shades at VeryDarkMan following his latest exposé.
He said nurse Titi, your patient is out again o.
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) is ending its exclusive purchase agreement with Dangote Refinery, opening up the market for other marketers to buy petrol directly from the refinery, PREMIUM TIMES is reporting.
This means NNPC will no longer be the sole off-taker, and marketers can now negotiate prices directly with Dangote Refinery. This development aligns with the current practices for fully deregulated products, where refineries can sell directly to marketers on a willing buyer, willing seller basis.
Earlier in September, Devakumar Edwin, vice president at Dangote Industries Limited, said the 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery has begun the processing of petrol. Mr Edwin explained that NNPC Limited would buy its product exclusively.
But the NNPC, in reaction to a statement that the Dangote Refinery Limited is being undermined by actions of the company at the time, said it was not the sole offtaker of all products from the Dangote Refinery. It said the refinery was free to sell its petrol to any marketer.
The NNPC explained that the Dangote Refinery and any other domestic refinery were free to sell directly to any marketer on a willing buyer, willing seller basis, which is the current practice for all fully deregulated products such as diesel, aviation fuel and kerosene. But on 15 September, the NNPC began loading petrol from the Dangote Refinery. Although some major petroleum marketers were later reportedly approved to lift the product from the refinery under an agreement with NNPC Ltd, independent marketers remained excluded
On 26 September, the House of Representatives called on the federal government to mandate the NNPC Ltd and Dangote Refinery to allow independent marketers to lift petrol directly from the refinery.
The lower chamber also urged the management of Dangote Refinery to build, acquire, or partner to establish tank farms or depots across the geo-political zones of the country, to ease access to petroleum products for the public. This call followed a motion of urgent public importance moved on Thursday by Oboku Oforji (PDP, Bayelsa). Moving the motion, Mr Oforji explained that the exclusion of independent marketers threatened competition in the sector.
He noted that competition is essential for reducing costs, adding that some marketers may resort to importing products to survive in the market. “NNPCL and the major marketers being the exclusive off-takers spells monopoly, which is tantamount to greed. This is the same NNPC Ltd that has failed to manage our crude and refineries for decades,” the lawmaker said at the time.
Those familiar with the matter told PREMIUM TIMES that NPC is now set to withdraw as the sole off-taker to allow other marketers to directly purchase petrol from Dangote Refinery at the prevailing market price, promoting competition and potentially stabilising supply chains.
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Big Brother Naija Season 9 runner-up, Wanni Danbaki, has boasted that she will make the N100 million grand prize of the show before the end of the year.
Wanni made the boast during her last diary session with Biggie shortly before the finale event.
The disk jockey, who won a brand new car earlier last week from the Innoson task, stated that regardless of the outcome of the final votes, she would make the grand prize before next year.
“Winning the money or not winning the money, I’m going to make that money before the end of the year,” she declared.
It would be recalled that Kellyrae won Big Brother Naija Season 9 with 35.95 per cent of the total votes, ahead of Wanni, who scored 32.48 per cent.
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The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the immediate withdrawal of police personnel previously deployed to seal off the 23 local government areas of Rivers State.
The secretariat were sealed in June following the disagreement between the Caretaker Committee Chairmen loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the immediate past local government chairmen, who were loyalists of Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
This directive was announced on Monday in a statement by Grace Iringe-Koko, the Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State Command. According to the statement, the order follows recent political developments in Rivers State. “The newly deployed State Commissioner of Police, Bala Mustapha, conveyed the directives of the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, for the immediate withdrawal of all police personnel previously deployed to seal and safeguard the Local Government Secretariats in the state.”
The statement emphasized that the decision “is in line with the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force to ensure neutrality and the smooth functioning of democratic institutions.”
It further clarified that personnel will only be redeployed to those areas if there was a crisis or breakdown of law and order, at which point emergency measures would be swiftly implemented to restore normalcy. The Rivers State Command assured the public of its continued commitment to maintaining peace and order across the state, while reiterating its professional conduct in carrying out its duties. Residents and stakeholders were urged to remain calm and law-abiding as the situation unfolds.
