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FIdelis Soriwei, Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced February 16, 2019, as the date for the next Presidential and National Assembly elections in the country. The INEC National Commissioner in charge South West, Solomon Soyebi, who made disclosure during a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday said further that the commission also fixed the governorship/state assembly/Federal Capital Territory Area Council elections for Saturday, March 2, 2019. He said that fixing of the dates was part of efforts by INEC to standardise and ensure certainty of timetable for general elections in the country. Soyebi gave instances that in the…

A woman taunted as “having balls” by cruel partners has explained her decision to have vulva surgery. Antonia said her large labia made sex difficult and painful, and made her a victim of taunts by her sex partners. She spoke about her labiaplasty on a BBC 3 documentary called My Unusual Vagina, highlighting the rise in young women opting to have ‘designer vagina’ surgery. “My labia drops down four centimetres from the outside, with four centimetres of skin hanging from the outer lips,’ Antonia said. “They’re like elastic bands, so if I were to pull them, I could pull them…

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja Two Nigerians with valid visas, who were denied entry into the United States have alleged that they were humiliated and dehumanised by the US immigration and border protection officials at the Los Angeles International Airport and the Abu Dhabi Airport in the United Arab Emirates. The victims, Femi Olaniyi and Popoola Olayemi, the latter having travelled to the US with his pregnant wife and two children, said their two-year multiple entry visas were revoked without any explanation before they were sent back to Nigeria by the US authorities. READ: Avoid travel to US, FG advises Nigerians Olaniyi, a…

Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday arraigned three directors of an oil firm, Partsmaster Oil and Gas Limited, for allegedly diverting N100m meant for the payment of contractors who executed a job for the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission. The EFCC said in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, that the accused persons, Gregory Eriyanremu, Frank Ugen and Harriman Oyofo were arraigned before Justice T. O. Uloho of the Delta State High Court sitting in Warri on five charges bordering on stealing. The suspects were arraigned alongside their company, Partsmaster Oil…

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, played host to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday, where he launched MSME Clinic initiative. See photos: Source: Punch News

Qualcomm has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate next-generation cloud services on the 10nm Qualcomm Centriq 2400 ARM-based platform. The collaboration will span multiple future generations of hardware, software and systems. The companies have been working for several years on ARM-based server enablement. They have been optimizing a version of Windows Server for ARM running on the Centriq 2400. “When two vendors see synergies, good things can happen,” said Hoolger Mueller, a principal analyst at Constellation Research. Source: Techy

A former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to adopt a transparent crude oil swap arrangement to solve the country’s foreign exchange problems. The Jonathan administration had relied on crude oil swap arrangement, but the NNPC had, in September 2015, decided to dump the programme, which it said was corrupt, in favour of a direct-sale-direct-purchase arrangement. In an open letter to Osinbajo on Thursday, Okupe argued that the swap deal would help decrease the demand for dollars by up to $14m daily. “It is obvious that if…

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta The Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested two persons who have been impersonating as men of Nigeria Army in order to extort and maltreat innocent people in Agbado area of the state. The two fake soldiers were  Joseph David and Adebayo Olanrewaju. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said they were arrested following a complaint from a lawyer, Paul Oniyo and Chima Solomon that the two suspects who put on military camouflage accosted them, beat them up and inflicted injuries on them over a minor disagreement. Upon their complaint, he said, the Divisional…

{$inline_image} The Gen Xers are in their prime (author’s bias noted). Part of the adult workforce for at least 20 years now, those between the ages of 35 and 50 have experience to offer your small business. Though it may not be the specific experience your small business is looking for, they bring a unique skill set. They started working, largely, before the internet — or at least high-speed internet — but they’re still part of the workforce, working elbow-to-elbow with Millennials. “Recent studies and articles have highlighted Generation X employees as the most engaged and committed at work,” said…

Oil prices took a battering on Thursday, with US prices falling below $50 for the first time this year, on signs a global supply glut is not going away. The euro meanwhile rallied briefly against the dollar as the ECB said it no longer saw a deflation threat and would end some of its massive support for the eurozone economy. Equities were under pressure during Asian and much of European trading after as a closely-watched report showed a shock surge in US oil inventories, rekindling worries about the oversupply that has hammered the crude market since mid-2014. The Energy Department…