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Instablog9ja
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Damilola and Toyosi also known as TAMI have been evicted from the season 9 ‘No loose Guard’ edition of Big Brother Naija.
The duo who are friends were evicted by their housemates on Sunday, August 4, after making bottom four on the poll.
The BBNaija which began on Sunday, July 28, 2024, saw 28 housemates come in pairs to battle for the grand prize of 100 million naira and other mouthwatering prizes. The show as revealed by the organizers has a lot of twists and turns to keep viewers glued to their TV screens.
One of the twists on the show include viewers having to vote to nominate possible pairs for eviction on Sunday then the housemates get to conspire and vote out a pair or more every Sunday till Big brother says otherwise.
Instablog9ja
3 hrs
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Media personality Dele Momodu has reacted to president Tinubu’s recent address.
He said, as a man who has held iron grip on Lagos State in the last 25 years, it would be difficult for him to change a winning formula that has worked for him ever since.
So it was mere wishful thinking on the part of incurable optimists like me to think he was going to have mercy on hapless and seemingly helpless Nigerians. Just for academic purposes, let’s reel out what a sensitive leader, who craves the rightful position in posterity, would have done and said:
1. In view of the unprecedented suffering being experienced by Nigerians, we have decided to cut the cost of governance drastically… Some Ministries will be scrapped and some Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and all redundant personnel would be eased out…No official cars would be procured anytime soon.
2. The number of aircrafts on our Presidential fleet will be reduced to maximum two. I offer sincere apologies that we went ahead to invest in luxury items at this bad times. We shall place immediate embargo on subsequent purchases.
3. Subsidy of petroleum products will be reviewed thoroughly to ascertain the genuine costs and true billing of the controversial payments. While we hope to achieve this in maximum of three months, we shall revert to old prices within this period in order to reduce the heavy burden on our people. We shall also escalate work on our existing refineries without which we shall be throwing away loads of resources. Nothing has stalled our refineries other than reckless corruption. This we are blocking immediately.
4. Instead of tasking civil servants and politicians to handle students loans and vocational grants, we shall engage reputable accounting firms and banks to set up modalities for credits and activate the disbursements.” – CHIEF DELE MOMODU
Instablog9ja
6 hrs
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Team Nigeria’s women basketball squad, ‘Tigress, have qualified for their first-ever quarterfinal at the Olympic Games following a hard-fought 79-70 win over Canadian counterparts in their final group B match at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille, France, on Sunday.
The victory earned D’Tigress their first-ever appearance in the quarter-final of the Olympics basketball tournament.
Nigeria sailed through the group stage with five classification points and sit top of the pack, with France still to play Australia later in the day. The Rena Wakama-led ladies bounced back from losing to the French in their second game after winning Australia in the first game.
There was little to separate the D’Tigress from the Canadians in the first quarter that finished 18-18. The Canadians edged the team in the second quarter, and the game finished 41-37 by halftime. The third quarter took a different toll from the previous periods, and the Canadians could only manage five points as Nigeria swarmed them. D’Tigress sealed the victory with superior performance in the final quarter and rounded off a historic 9-point victory.
Instablog9ja
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Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has said that President Bola Tinubu’s nationwide address on Sunday failed to address the atta3ks on #EndBadGovernance protesters by security agencies.
Soyinka made the observation in a statement on Sunday following Tinubu’s address to the nation. The #EndBadGovernance protests continued on Sunday, marking their fourth day, as demonstrators voiced their frustrations over the country’s deepening economic hardship, escalating poverty, and ineffective governance.
Soyinka said, “I set my alarm clock for this morning to ensure that I did not miss President Bola Tinubu’s impatiently awaited address to the nation on the current unrest across the nation. His outline of government’s remedial action since inception, aimed at warding off just such an outbreak, will undoubtedly receive expert and sustained attention both for effectiveness and in content analysis. My primary concern, quite predictably, is the continuing deterioration of the state’s seizure of protest management, an area in which the presidential address fell conspicuously short.
Such short-changing of civic deserving, regrettably, goes to arm the security forces in the exercise of impunity and condemns the nation to a seemingly unbreakable cycle of resentment and reprisals. Live b¥llets as state response to civic protest – that becomes the core issue. Even tear gas remains questionable in most circumstances, certainly an abuse in situations of clearly peaceful protest. Hunger marches constitute a universal S.O.S, not peculiar to the Nigerian nation. They belong indeed in a class of their own, never mind the collateral claims emblazoned on posters.
Instablog9ja
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Four years after her Tokyo 2020 Olympics dream was dashed due to negligence, former Nigerian athlete, Annette Echikunwoke, has qualified for USA in 2024 Olympics Hammer Throw Final.
Former Nigerian athlete, Annette Echikunwoke (representing the United States), needed just one attempt in the women’s Hammer Throw to hit instant qualification for the final. One attempt, straight into the final. The automatic standard is 73.00m, but Annette threw over that, landing the implement at a mark of 73.52m
Instablog9ja
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Multiple consignments of ill#cit dr¥gs concealed in tins of Cerelac baby food bound for United Kingdom have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, and a courier firm in Lagos.
This was revealed in a signed statement by the agency’s Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi on Sunday, August 4, 2024.
About 36 parcels of a strong strain of cann3bis concealed in six cartons of tins of branded Nestle Cerelac baby food, with six containers in each package were recovered at the SAHCOL export shed of Lagos airport on Wednesday 31st July 2024. The psychotropic substance has a total weight of 18.50 kilograms.
A freight agent, Salaudeen Suliat Abiola who presented the consignment for export to the UK was promptly arrested while a follow up operation to Ibadan, Oyo state on Saturday 3rd August led to the arrest of the sender of the cargo, Bello Motunrayo Folu at Elewuro, Akobo area of the Oyo state capital.
The Cerelac tins were all factory-sealed at the top while they tampered with the bottom through which they put the substances covered with loose quantities of the infant cereal meal to prevent discovery, an effort that ended in futility as vigilant NDLEA officers were able to foil the attempt.
