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 ENVIRONMENT: Roofs at Ladipo market removed : photo credit: Pm news Traders locked outside the market as demolition going on at Ladipo market . Photo credit PM news info@sucoconsulting.com, chukwudiobi74@gmail.com 08030902410, www.facebook.com/chukwudi obi.33, @sonsnid741, 5564abf3 Join Club080 and get enormous discount and offers on breast enhancers, mobile phones, air-times, free ATM etc www.club080.com/makemoni Make money tweeting. Do you have website or blog/ make more money from your blog http://nairapp.com/index.php?rp=823 Buy luxury Swiss grade watches Wishwatch : http://saveouridentity.blogspot.com/2014/08/swiss-watches-for-sale.html

BANKING: T he Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the deadline for the registration for Bank Verification Number (BVN) to October 31. The apex bank had earlier pegged the deadline to today June 30 but following the rush and inconveniences experienced by both commercial banks and Nigerians, the apex bank rescinded the decision to end the registartion today. CBN Director, Banking and Payment System Department, Mr Dipo Fatokun, while disclosing this in a statement issued today in Abuja said, “It has come to our notice that the BVN registration has elicited tremendous interest from the Nigerian bank customers who crowded the banking halls in order to beat the deadline. “In view of the foregoing, it has become imperative for the banks to extend the timeline for all customers to have the BVN. “The deadline for the enrollment is hereby extended from June 30 to October 31,’’ Fatokun said. Many Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief as the the extension is expected to fast

Ambassador (Dr.) Mohammad Ahmad Wali, a national commissioner of the INEC from Sokoto State, has been named the new chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. This position, it was learnt will be on acting capacity pending when President Muhammad Buhari will appoint an INEC boss. Amb Dr Ahmed Wali . Photo Credit thenationalpilot.com Wali took over from Prof. Attahiru Jega whose tenure expired today. Incidentally, Wali's tenure as commissioner also expires on August 11, 2015; a position he has held since 2010. Prof Jega who was appointed chairman of the commission by former President Goodluck Jonathan on June 30, 2010 conducted two elections – 2011 and 2015 general elections which was adjudged free and fair by observers from across the globe.  Wali is a Muslim, Fulani who hails from Sanyima town in Tambuwal Local Government Area of Sokoto State, in the North-West geopolitical zone of Nigeria.  Before his appointment as National Commissioner of

FINANCE: Former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has washed her hands off  allegations of unauthorized spending during the tenure as minister, saying it is a political witch hunt. Recall that allegations of unauthorized withdrawals from the Excess Crude account were leveled against her by FG recently. Okonjo-Iweaka who said this in a statement issued by her Media Adviser, Paul C Nwabuikwu said t5he allegation is "false, malicious and totally without foundation". Former Minister of Finance Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala   Photo credit davebrookpr.com  The statement read thus: “We want to state categorically that no unauthorized expenditure from the ECA was made under Okonjo-Iweala’s watch in the Finance Ministry. Decisions on such expenditure were discussed at meetings of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) attended by finance commissioners from the 36 states. “It is curious that in their desper

 FOREIGN:  The governor of California, Jerry Brown has signed a contentious bill to impose one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the country. With the signing of the bill, California has joined  Mississipi and West Virginia as the only states with such strict laws in the United states. The bill, SB 277 was introduced after an outbreak of measles at Disneyland in December infected over 100 people in the U.S. and Mexico. Gov Jerry Brown     Photo Credit: Lashoolreport.com According to Associated Press, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown said in a statement released today said that science clearly shows vaccines dramatically protect children against infectious diseases. The bill strikes California’s personal belief exemption for immunizations, requiring nearly all public schoolchildren to be vaccinated. While medical exemptions would still be granted to children with serious health issues, other unvaccinated children would need to be home-schooled, it was learn

 POLITICS: Former Vice president, Atiku Abubakar has commended out going Chairman of Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Attahiru Jega for the success Jega recorded during his tenure as INEC boss. This is coming as the former number two man in the country tasked whoever will replace Jega to  push for reforms that might strengthen the Electoral Act and deepen democracy. The tenure of the INEC boss comes to an end today. A statement signed by Mazi Paul Ibe and released by the Atiku Media Office (AMO) in Abuja  noted that  Atiku hailed the successful conduct of the 2015 elections with the introduction of Card Reader and Permanent Voters Card (PVC) observing that the feats tremendously boosted Jega's reputation and earned him the respect of Nigerians and the international community. The former Vice President and APC stalwart said that Jega had disarmed even the worst pessimists that never gave him the slightest chance to produce free and fair elect

POLITICS: Barring any last minute changes, the 27 members of the Imo state House of Assembly will be inaugurated this morning. In a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo and made available to newsmen, the time for the inauguration is put at 10 am while the venue is the Imo state Assembly complex. “The inauguration will take place following the earlier proclamation by His Excellency for the event on Thursday in line with the letters of section 105 sub-section 31 of the Constitution which empowers the governor as the Chief Executive of the sate to perform such constitutional functions”, Onwuemeodo said. According to the CPS, before the inauguration, Governor Okorocha will commission the Assembly complex “that has been made the best and indeed the largest legislative edifice in the South-east and one of the best in the country”. He said: “It has always been the dream and desire of the governor to see and ensure that all the arm

CLIMATE: According to a recent report, by 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan will create nearly 100,000 according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank. The new report found that the job impacts of the Clean Power Plan, which limits carbon emissions from power plants, would not last, and would become “almost completely insignificant by 2030.” Recall that recently, G7 leaders agreed to reduce global temperatures by two degrees Celsius ahead of their Climate summit in Paris in December, a move many climate change activists commended. According to the report, coal mining and coal-fired power plants will face the biggest job losses if the Clean Power Plan is implemented, because coal-fired power plants are responsible for 39 percent of the United States’ electricity generation and three-quarters of the sector’s carbon emissions. But other sectors, including renewable energy, scientific res

ICT: Nigeria has been listed among top ten global markets for Smartphone along side South Africa and Egypt according to a latest Ericsson Mobility Report. As at April 2015, Nigeria’s telecom regulator Nigeria Communications Commission put the mobile subscriber database at 196,941,125. The report predicts that in 2020, Smartphone subscription will hit 6.1 billion with 80 per cent of the number coming from Asia Middle East and Africa (MEA) According to the report, the total African mobile subscription for the first quarter of 2015 stands at 910 million with 21 million new subscriptions added in the quarter. The report asserted that in markets such as Africa, there were rampant cases of multiple ownership of mobile numbers, thus increasing the total number of subscriptions. “The number of subscriptions exceeds the population in many countries. This is largely due to inactive subscriptions and multiple device ownership, for example - for business and private use,

URBAN DEVELOPMENT: This is the state at which one of the roads governor Ikpeazu contracted to be reconstructed by a local construction company. The road is located at Low Cost Housing Estate. Residents are worried if the roa d has been brushed or graded and abandoned. Many are of the view that with the heavy downpours, chances are high that the roads will be worse than it was before it was touched. Many are of the view that a speedy completion of the road will give the them respite. info@sucoconsulting.com, chukwudiobi74@gmail.com 08030902410, www.facebook.com/chukwudi obi.33, @sonsnid741, 5564abf3 Join Club080 and get enormous discount and offers on breast enhancers, mobile phones, air-times, free ATM etc www.club080.com/makemoni Make money tweeting. Do you have website or blog/ make more money from your blog http://nairapp.com/index.php?rp=823 Buy luxury Swiss grade watches Wishwatch : http://saveouridentity.blogspot.com/2014/08/swiss-wat

HEALTH: Located at Adelabu street is a huge refuse dump situated directly opposite a primary health care centre in Umuahia, the Abia state Capital. Added to the fact that refuse is littered around the receptacle is the stench oozing out of the dump. The worst part of it is that each week many nursing mothers bring their babies, some just a few weeks old for their routine immunization. This receptacle has been at this location for a long time. info@sucoconsulting.com, chukwudiobi74@gmail.com 08030902410, www.facebook.com/chukwudi obi.33, @sonsnid741, 5564abf3 Join Club080 and get enormous discount and offers on breast enhancers, mobile phones, air-times, free ATM etc www.club080.com/makemoni Make money tweeting. Do you have website or blog/ make more money from your blog http://nairapp.com/index.php?rp=823 Buy luxury Swiss grade watches Wishwatch : http://saveouridentity.blogspot.com/2014/08/swiss-watches-for-sale.html

Prodded by German Chancellor, Angel Merkel, world leaders at the G7 summit yesterday, agreed to limit the increase in global temperatures. Merkel stated that it was necessary for wealthy country to present a common front at the Climate Summit in Paris in December. While stressing that there was urgent need for concrete action geared towards climate change, Merkel extracted agreement from the world leaders to limit increase  in global temperatures to a maximum of two degrees celsius above pre industrial levels. Working closely with US president and French president, Merkel overcame resistance from their counterparts from Japan and Canada. Though many Climate change activists commended the moves many were of the view that more needs to be done while more countries need to do more to reduce the effects of climate change.

NEWS: Controversy has trailed the recent commencement of payment of backlog of salaries of some workers in Abia state. Our correspondent gathered that though the state government has started paying the outstanding salaries, there are discrepancies in the payment format. According to a staff in one of the parastatals, while some were paid salary for March, others recieved payment for the month of February. "I dont understand what is going on in government right now. Though we have recieved payment of one month salary, for some the salary is for March while for others, it is for February", she said. Recall that the incoming governor Dr. Okezie info@sucoconsulting.com, chukwudiobi74@gmail.com 08030902410, www.facebook.com/chukwudi obi.33, @sonsnid741, 5564abf3 Join Club080 and get enormous discount and offers on breast enhancers, mobile phones, air-times, free ATM etc www.club080.com/makemoni Make money tweeting. Do you have website or blog/ make more money from your blog

MEDIA: The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria, has expressed serious concern over the renewed wave of attacks on journalists in different parts of the country.   This is even as the Director of IPC, Mr. Lanre Arogundade has advised all the affected journalists and their organizations to seek redress in the law court should the police authorities fail to apprehend the culprits and charge them to court within the next 48 hours. In a statement signed by IPC program Officer, Stella Nwofia, and made available to journalists, Mr. Lanre Arogundade condemned attacks on journalists in Nigeria observing that not less than three journalists had been assaulted in the course of their legitimate duties recently.  “The assault on the three journalists was so violent that they had to be hospitalized following the injuries they suffered”, Mr Arogundade said adding that the incidents should be condemned by all lovers of freedom of expression and democracy. According t

ENERGY: Worried by the incessant power outage within Umuahia and environs added to the unavailability of pre paid meters,electricity consumers lamented their plight to this reporter. In a bid to find out the true situation of things from the distribution company supplying Umuahia with electricity this reporter sent a question to them. Using their twitter handle @enugudisco, this reporter complained to the company of inadequate pre paid meters insisting that when consumers visit their Umuahia office, some members of staff there inform them that they are yet to receive any from Enugu. 24 hours later, the company replied stating that actions were underway to give smart meters to consumers. Below is the chat: #ChangeNigeria ‏@sonsnid741 @enugudisco pls in many parts of Umuahia consumers are asking for pre paid meters but the Umuahia office directs us to Enugu. Wats your take 0 retweets 0 favorites Reply Retweet Favorite More enugudisco ‏@enugudisco @sonsnid741 Dear, actions

BOOK REVIEW: Title of book : ENURESIS : A PSYCHO-COUNSELLING APPROACH Author: Obi Osorochi Patricia Phd. No. Of Pages :132 Enuresis simply means bedwetting. It is a a widespread childhood disorder. Bedwetting is the most common chronic childhood conditions affecting millions of children globally. Many parents whose children bed wet express social and economic distress, exhibit apparent helplessness over their children's inability to stop bedwetting after the anticipated time of stoppage. Schools with boarding facilities also feel helpless about what to do to the students who bed wet . But beyond these concerns by parents and school pwrsonnel, lie emotional, social, academic and psychological problems for children who bed wet. They are faced with a host of complex issues marked by incomprehension, avoidance of social activities, a sense of difference from others, victimization and loss of self esteem. In the words of Prof. C. Ekennia of the department of Psychological