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The sentiment has also been expressed by the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.    Senator Ben Murray Bruce Senator Ben Murray Bruce has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to increase the minimum wage in Nigeria due to the recent increase in fuel price. Murray-Bruce made the call via his Twitter account today, May 13, 2016. The sentiment has also been expressed by the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.

The singer and B-Red had a misunderstanding over the signing of Mayor Kun, whose newly released video "Eleko" was doing well at the time .  Davido (Instagram) HKN boss, Davido, who is also signed to Sony BMG Music Entertainment, has been reportedly ended his beef with label mate, B-Red. The pair clashed earlier in 2016 over Davido's sentiments towards new signing, Mayor Kun, who had just released his first single, "Eleko".

Globacom Nigeria has launched a new product called Talk Special. It also reloaded three other products which were launched recently to boost the power of Nigerians to use their phones for education, social and business purposes. The repackaged products are: Campus Booster to Campus Booster Plus Voice, Twin Bash and the Glo N2500 data plan which has been reloaded to give 5GB data bundle per month instead of the previous 4.5GB data bundle.

  The director-general of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Mr Muda Yusuf said, for the objective of liberating the petroleum downstream sector to be achieved, the current foreign exchange policy needs to be urgently reviewed. In a statement, Yusuf said, “This has to be done to improve liquidity and transparency in the foreign exchange market. Only a limited success will be achieved if the current rigidities in the management of the foreign exchange market persist.” He pointed out that the decision by the federal government to liberalize the petroleum downstream sector is inevitable given the acute resource constraint that the country is faced with at this time.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said meeting parents of the schoolgirls abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state, on a regular basis, is not good for his emotional state. Lamenting the plight of the parents in an interview with Christine Amanpour, a CNN correspondent, Buhari said he could not imagine his own daughter in such situation. "I saw the families as a group twice. The first time, they came to visit my wife. The second, they came as a group to see me, and the less I see them the better for my own emotional balance," he said.

   After two months of stability, the naira, yesterday, depreciated by N14 in the parallel market, in response to demand pressure occasioned by the deregulation of petroleum sector announced by the Federal Government, Wednesday. Buhari Buhari Meanwhile, shares of major petroleum products marketers recorded significant price appreciation on the Nigeria stock market in response to the announcement by the Federal Government. While announcing the deregulation of petroleum imports, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, said in order to meet the consumption demand of the country, importers will henceforth be permitted to source for their foreign exchange requirements from secondary sources.

  Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, said the commission would from next week, commence impounding of vehicles with expired tyres across the country. Oyeyemi made this known at a capacity development workshop for Zonal and Sector Heads of Operations of the commission in Enugu on Thursday. “We have a major problem in our hands. Our management team will be in the field next week to enforce the ban on usage of expired tyres on our roads.

There is a state of confusion in Nze community, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State over reported plan by Fulani herdsmen to invade the community, this (Thursday) night. An indigene of the community, resident in Abuja, who sent a distress message obtained by DAILY POST said “I just received a frightening report that Fulani herdsmen have planned to invade my community, Nze in Udi Local Government Area. “I therefore call on the Police in Enugu State to rise up to this grave security challenge to avert a repeat of Ukpabi Nimbo.

The residence of Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, was yesterday raided by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Jude Ndukwe, his media aide in a statement Thursday night, said “Earlier today (Thursday), the EFCC invaded the residence of Chief Femi Fani-Kayode even when he was still in their custody. “What miffed us most was their mode of operation which was forceful, provocative and dangerous as they wielded their guns with needless threats.

  Embattled director of Radio Biafra and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has berated the recent comments credited to President Muhammadu Buhari over the continued detention of the IPOB leader and the agitators of the Biafra Republic. Kanu, who spoke through his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor at a media briefing in Abuja, said the recent comments made by the President during his visit to Katsina was influencing the court to convict him for treasonable felony, even when his appeal for bail was before the Abuja Court of Appeal. “The moment the President pronounced to the whole world that Nnamdi Kanu cannot be granted bail by any court, that moment he made Nnamdi Kanu a political prisoner, and as such, most part of the media chat inadvertently posited the judge when Kanu was refused bail by the presiding judge.

The Federal Government has revealed its decision to probe the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. According to the Federal Ministry of Finance on Thursday, May 12, it became necessary to investigate the payrolls following the revelation during the trial of a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh that N558.2 million was reportedly diverted from the NAF accounts monthly. The ministry, in a statement released by the Director of Information in the ministry, Salisu Dambatta said that the minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun gave the directive for the audit which would be carried out by the Continuous Audit Team of the Federal Government.

There is a ring to his name, a poetic ring. The surname is not global. But, the first name pretends to be. Madoch Agbinibo —that is what he claims. His first name and surname are radical departure from Gbomo Jomo, the generic being who spoke for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). And also remind us of the dreaded Gbomogbomo (aka abductor). Agbinibo claims to be Ijaw and I assume he speaks Izon. His names sound real; though I doubt he is real. He has been spitting fire in the last few weeks. Heaven will fall, hell is real, Agbinibo has been telling whoever cares to listen and he is not losing his voice yet. If his conditions are not met, I suspect he will soon tell us that he will detonate bomb that will wipe out the whole of Nigeria. The man get mouth and liver no dey cut am, some must have hailed him.

The some senators have faulted the manner President Muhammadu Buhari carried out the subsidy removal. Senators are to tell their constituents where they stand on the issue of the new fuel price in a debate next week The upper chamber has in reaction to the increment scheduled a meeting next week to debate the new fuel price. The Nation citing a source close to the leadership of the Senate reports that the scheduled meeting would afford senators the opportunity to tell their constituents where they stand on the issue