Nathaniel Bassey Debunks Car Accident as Fake Rumour

The convener of the recently ended "Halleluyah challenge", Nathaniel Bassey debunk the rumour to have been involved in a ghastly car accident on Wednesday as Fake.

He revealed in his tweeter and Instagram

Nathaniel Bassey survives ghastly auto crash

The initiator of the recently ended "Halleluyah challenge", Nathaniel Bassey was included in a loathsome mishap on Wednesday. 

The convener of the online worship session got away demise after he was included in a ghastly car accident yet left the crash without a scratch. He shared the declaration on his Instagram page saying, "Thank You Jesus! We cancel the appointment with death. Goodmorning, I simply need to use this medium to express gratitude toward God and share my testimony with you. 

On the 28th of June I was en route home from the last halleluyah praise challenge night which occurred at the glitz event Center, I was inside a car and another car kept running into us exactly at the lekki third round about (Ikate) and my car somersaulted inside the circuitous. Individuals were frightened that we were dead. The main thing I said last was the

'Pay your tax or go to prison' - Osinbajo gives 9 month due date to tax evaders

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has offered nine months elegance period to citizens to regularize their tax status or face criminal prosecution for tax offenses. 

Osinbajo gave the final offer in Abuja on Thursday at the initiation of the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDs).He said "The plan will be operated from July 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018. 

"It will be upheld by an official request, which I will sign into law today to offer once in an existence time opportunity to those in default to regularize their tax undertakings. "In return for full and legit presentation, tax evaders will get insusceptibility from arraignment, absolution of punishment and intrigue that is expected on unpaid taxes. 

They will likewise get the full confirmation that all data gave will stay private. Furthermore, members in the scheme won't be chosen for review investugation for the period." 

We comprehend that some citizens may have issues raising money and thus, we have worked in a framework that will

Ebonyi not ripe for Biafra and restructuring – Governor Umahi

The governor of Ebonyi state, Governor David Umahi on Wednesday said Ebonyi State is neither in help of the disturbance for Biafra nor the call for restructuring in light of the fact that the two recommendations were not going to profit the state as a people. 

Mr. Umahi, who expressed this in Abakaliki while reacting to the introduction of an expert on Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, amid the state official committee meeting, said the state was not monetarily reasonable to look for freedom. ‎ 

"At the point when the issue of Biafra or restructuring is talked about, my heart hops in light of the fact that Ebonyi is not ready for any. Ask yourself, hat is it that we are producing? We absolutely rely on upon the government for . Speculators are not coming into the state and our IGR is not a big deal, in light of the fact that the possibility of anbinvestor is, assuming the allocation that originates from the centre stops, how would I get back my cash?" Mr.

FEC approves incorporation of NYSC members in NHIS

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday endorsed the incorporation of youth corps members into the National Health Insurance Scheme. 

To this end, the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, is to team up with the Scheme to enhance social insurance administrations to serving corps members all through their one-year compulsory administration year. 

The Health Minister, Isaac Adewole, disclosed to State House reporters after the FEC meeting that the incorporation was gone for avoiding superfluous death among youth corps members in the nation.

"Council endorsed the notice that consequently we will incorporate NYSC members in the National Health Insurance Scheme in the nation. 

"This will ensure access to quality care across the nation, forestall superfluous deaths and furthermore guarantee our youth corps members get the most elevated

Nigeria to flag off yam export to Europe Thursday

The Federal Government of Nigeria has said that it would formally flag off the export of yam to Europe on Thursday. 

Yam, a tuber crop, is a staple sustenance in Nigeria and is developed in a few regions of the nation. 

The export plan was uncovered by the Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbe, on Wednesday while tending to State House reporters after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, led by acting president Yemi Osinbajo. 

Mr. Ogbe said 72 tonnes of yam will be sent out in the first period of the program to the United Kingdom. 

The minister said while Thursday's occasion is the formal take off of the program, a few tonnes of yam that were sent out before arrived New York on June 16 this year. 

$12m bridge collapses two weeks after presidential inspection

A bridge that is being built by the Chinese Overseas Construction and Engineering Company at a cost of $12m has fell. 

The bridge crumpled two weeks after the president went by the site to look at the continuous work. 

The development of the bridge was endorsed after the occasion of August 30, 2014, when 11 individuals died after a boat they had boarded overturned, murdering everybody on board as they endeavored to cross the boat, as per Africa Review. 

The bridge, which is being built in Kenya's Budalang'i Constituency close to the fringe with Uganda, broken down a fortnight after President Uhuru Kenyatta assessed it. 

One of the casualties of the pontoon overturn was Brian Juma, a JSS3 student whose burial, among different casualties, was attended by President Kenyatta who at

Facebook to start its own TV series and games

Facebook is beginning creation on astounding TV series and game shows to be communicted on its platform, one of the social media giant's officials said on Monday. 

The online platform, which has around two billion monthly users around the world, is dealing with the venture with a little group of accomplices and would like to begin putting out episode of its imminent series before the end of the mid year, Nick Grudin, the VP for media organizations, said in an statement to AFP, affirming a report in the Wall Street Journal. 

"We will likely make Facebook a place where individuals can meet up around video," Grudin stated, taking note of that Facebook and its collaborators would "try different things with the sorts of shows you can assemble a group around — from games to comedy to reality to gaming." 

Facebook is funding the shows all alone at to begin, he stated, "yet after some time we need to enable heaps of makers to make recordings financed through revenue sharing items like Ad Break," a product device that enables adverts to be

19-year-old singer wins N10m in talent competition

Nineteen year-old singer, Miss Esther Benyeogo, has emerged champ of the God's Children Great Talent (GCGT) Season 7, with N250 million management deal, N10 million cash and a brand new car. 

The GCGT Grand Finale held on Saturday at the Eko Convention Center, Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. 

GCGT is a Christian talent competition that started in 2011 and is organized by the `City of David', Victoria Island, a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). It is Africa's Leading Youth Talent Competition including talents, for example, singing, dancing, melodic instruments, spoken words, drama, writing and drawing. 

Benyeogo said that she was elated to have won the prize having contended with different competitors who likewise performed astoundingly well at the opposition. "I am so happy and offer gratitude to God for making it possible for me to win this extraordinary prize at the competition," she said. The singer, who is a student of the University of Benin said that

20-yr old Nigerian sets record, graduates with a CGPA of 5.0 in Poland

Another Nigeria youth has again made academic history in far away Poland, graduating with a Cummulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 in Computer Technology from the University of Computer Sciences and Skills, Lodz, Poland. 

Officially leading in first class from his first semester examinations in Babcock University, 20-year old Olukayode Mobolaji Oluwasona, was among the 17 extraordinary studebts of Babcock University that left Nigeria toward the start of their 200-level program in 2014 to proceed with their academic pursuit in Poland. 

This was under an uncommon degree trade program orchestrated by Babcock University with the University of Computer Sciences and Skills in Lodz, Poland, where they stayed global understudy until the

BREAKING: Wike sacks cabinet

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, on Saturday, dissolved the State Executive Council. 

The disintegration of the council came scarcely two days after the Commissioner for Works, Bathuel Harrison, was relieved of his position. 

The Commissioner for Information and Communication, Dr. Austin Tam-George, had on Friday resigned from his position as the image maker of the state. 

Be that as it may, an announcement marked by the Governor's Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu, demonstrated that Wike had directed previous magistrates to hand over to

American man sent to Kirikiri jail for cheating Nigerians

An Ikeja High Court on Thursday remanded an American citizen, Marco Ramirez, at Kirikiri Maximum Prison for professedly defrauding three Nigerians in a $565,000 green card and investment scam.

Mr. Ramirez was remanded following his not-liable request to a 16-count charge of getting cash under false habitations. He was charged by the EFCC.

The EFCC prosecutor, V. O. Aigboje, charged that the accused, overseeing executive of three organizations – USA Now Plc., Eagleford Instalodge Group and USA Now Capital Group – submitted the offenses between February 2013 and August 2013.

Mr. Aigboje said Mr. Ramirez falsely got $545,000 from Godson Echejue to put

Customs Officer Arraigned For Trafficking 384kg Of Marijuana, Using Official Car

A Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) officer, Ugwoke Emmanuel, was on Thursday summoned by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on drug trafficking charges before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. 

The court read a two-count charge of unlawful offering and transporting of 384 kilograms of cannabis, or marijuana. Mr. Emmanuel, a 25-year-old local of Bale-Oko in Badagry LGA, Lagos State, purportedly transported cannabis using an official NCS Toyota Hilux at the Gbaji Customs checkpoint along Seme-Badagry Road on May 14, 2017. 

The charged works at the Seme Border Post of the NCS. Emmanuel argued not guilty to the charge. The presiding judge, Justice Hadizat Rabiu-Shagari, while dismissing the

Senate plans bill to check high house rents

The Senate is working on a bill that will check the relentless increment in house rents in Abuja and different parts of Nigeria, the Senate Committee Chairman on Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye, has said. 

He expressed that the 'Rent Edit' bill would secure inhabitants and owners even as he guaranteed that officials would guarantee the section of the bill before the finish of the 8th Senate. 

Melaye unveiled this in an announcement issued by the Director of Information at the Housing arm of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Mrs Eno Olotu, in Abuja, on Wednesday. 

As indicated by the statement, the senator, who spoke at the second Abuja Housing and Investment Expo, additionally expressed that debasement had frustrated advancement and development in the housing sector.

Melaye asked partners to have a change of

How I paid 'notorious kidnapper', Evans, additional $200,000 after initial $1 million ransom — Victim

Asserted famous kidnapping boss, Chukwudi Onwuamadike (prevalently known as Evans), collected an additional $200,000 from one of his victims in the wake of guaranteeing some portion of the $1 million ransom was "old cash,"

The victim, who asked for not to be named in light of the fact that he didn't need reputation, said he paid an aggregate of $1.2 million to Evans and not $1 million as being accounted for.

"He gathered 1.2 (million dollars) from me, not 1 million he's composition," the victim, who was among the few individuals grabbed by Evans in the FESTAC zone, revealed in an interview.

"Since when he released me, there was an assention amongst me and him, the day he was releasing me, he said the cash my wife gave him, that like 200,000 was old cash, that they didn't gather it from her, and that the cash must be finished. I told him to relaese me let me go and search for the

N541 billion Debt: Access Bank, others take over Etisalat Nigeria

A consortium of banks, led by Access Bank PLC and other Nigerian and foriegn banks, has assumed control over the administration of Etisalat Nigeria, effective June 15. 

The takeover took after the fall of the exertion by Emerging Markets Telecommunications Services, EMTS, advanced by-one time Chairman, United Bank for Africa, UBA, Hakeem Bello-Osagie, to achieve concurrence with the banks on debt reconstructing plans in the extended $1.72 billion (about N541.8 billion) debt impasse. 

Be that as it may, EMTS Holding BV, built up in the Netherlands, has up to June 23 to finish the exchange of 100% of the organization's offers in Etisalat to the

300 graduates quit Kano Internal Revenue Service work over N35,000 pay

Barely three months after their engagement as revenue officials with the Kano Internal Revenue Service (KIRS), at the very least 300 out of the 765 graduates as of late engaged to work in the administration, have dumped the employment. 

Reason is a result of the insignificant pay of N35,000 every month, which the graduates depicted as poor as well as in opposition to what was before guaranteed. 

As indicated by one of the recently connected with graduates that dumped the employment, the administration has neglected to satisfy a portion of the guarantees made to them as to the administration's compensation scale, focusing on that a large portion of them where coaxed to leave their occupations and acknowledge the assessment era work just to be paid N35, 000. 

"We were informed that they will offer us a superior compensation than what we were earning at our previous place of work. Be that as it may, after we have finished up every single bureaucratic engagement, we

2 dead, Church, Mosque razed as task force conflict with Hausa traders in Rivers

Around two individuals have been dreaded murdered with place of worship burnt as Hausa traders and a few young people, accepted to be neighborhood government task force group in Eleme LGA of Rivers State, conflicted. 

It was accumulated that inconvenience began when a few young people from Eleme, who are working as task force, went to Opaku Park in Onne to request payment of taxes from Hausa dealers working in the region. 

An observer, Mr. Franklin Bobmanuel, portrayed that the youths wound up plainly furious when the traders declined paying the tax and the following contention brought about a free-for-all. 

Bobmanuel said one of the tax office died amid the battle and his associates, on seeing that one of them had passed on, murdered one of the traders in striking back. It was

N-POWER: FG to recruit another 300,000 youths

The Federal Government is set to recruit 300,000 young people in the second batch of its N-Power social intervention and occupation creation program. 

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed unveiled this on Friday in Isanlu-Isin people group close Omu-Aran town in Kwara State. 

Mohammed said that the Federal Government would "revive the N-POWER entrance by one week from now to initiate the procedure for the recruitment". 

He urged the young people to exploit the recruitment training by finishing the