Our Vice-President is having sleepless nights
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the problem of extreme poverty in Nigeria keeps him up at night. Osinbajo disclosed this at a dinner and interactive session with Faculty Members, Harvard Business School on Tuesday in Lagos.
“I think what keeps me up at night has to do with extreme poverty. The issue is that the largest number of those who voted for us are very poor.
“The promise that government makes to them is that their lives will be better and obviously they are looking at their lives being better in the shortest possible time. I will like to see Nigeria being an industrialised nation in the next 10 years; a very strong middle class and most people living above the poverty line.”
The sad thing about Osinbajo’s revelation is that he’s not the president. Interprete that as you may biko. No be me DSS go come dey find.
No-nonsense Lagos!
The Lagos State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has assured the Lagos State Government of compliance to traffic laws. Its chairman, Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede, said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
Agbede, however, pleaded for time to keep his members abreast of the traffic laws operational in the state. “We are in support of the government of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, but we plead that the government should always carry the unions along while making traffic laws,” Agbede said.
He also implored all NURTW members to always obey all the traffic laws put in place by the state government.
LOL. We all know that by plying Lagos roads you’re anointed with the spirit of disobedience. Make we see how Sanwo-Olu will work this miracle.
The Nigeria-Korea connection
Mr Lee Jin Su, the Director of Korean Cultural Centre in Nigeria (KCCN) has said that the Centre will maintain the bimonthly Korean movie premiere to further deepen bilateral relation between Koreans and Nigerians. Su made this known in an interview in Abuja.
“We will continue to maintain movie premieres in the Centre to encourage interaction and improve relations between Nigerians and Koreans,” Su said.
Su also hoped that the relationship between Nigeria and Korea would be extended to Nollywood and Korean movie industries.
I know a few friends to who this news sounds like Christmas. The only thing is that they are too broke to relocate to Abuja. Sorry to una o.
NYSC Dos and Don’ts
Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General, Shuaibu Ibrahim has warned corps members against presenting fake documents during registration in camp. The DG said corps members caught presenting fake documents would be handed over to law enforcement agents for prosecution.
He gave the warning while monitoring the registration procedure of prospective Corps Members deployed to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja and Nasarawa State for 2019 Batch “B” Stream One Service year.
He admonished them to obey the NYSC bye-laws and be of good conduct during and after their Orientation Exercise.
Mtcheww. When defaulters buy una beer for Mami market now, we no go hear una voice again.
How to make a father out of a sperm donor
An Australian sperm donor is the father of an 11-year-old girl because it was understood he would be involved in her life, the nation’s top court has ruled.
The 49-year-old man and the child’s mother, who was single at the time, had been friends when he agreed to donate his semen in 2006. The man had fought to stop the girl’s biological mother and her wife from moving to New Zealand with the child.
They arranged to raise the child together but the pair later had a falling out, his lawyers said. The woman’s lawyers argued he was not the father. However, the man was identified as a parent on the girl’s birth certificate and she called him “Daddy”. The man’s lawyer, Tahlia Bleier, said her client was elated after a five-year battle for recognition.
Hmmm. The unique thing about most sperm donors in Naija is that they are married to the woman (or women) but they are still sperm donors. Unbelievable, right? Yeah, that’s how we roll.