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These tips will make you wake up and feel on top of the world..... First tip: 5 - 10 mins rest .. After you wake up give your self at least 5 - 10 mins rest. you don't want to over stress the body so by giving your self about 5 - 10 mins rest it would reduce the tension naturally felt after waking up . try not to fall back asleep but enjoy your rest time . Second tip:  Be hydrated ..once you've had you rest consume at least  a glass of water . Its very important that you get hydrated. It doesn't matter if you've brushed or not just consume at least a glass of water. Third tip:  Avoid reaching your phone. if you want to have a fruitful day then your phone should not be the first thing you reach out for. Forth tip:  Have a  plan for the day. This is the most important thing of the day make sure you have a plan . Fifth tip:  Stretch. After waking up try stretching your muscles a little in other to feel relieved and free from stress....

The Edo State Government has said that the recent arrests by the State Police Command of seven persons in connection with the murder of Prof. Paul Otasowie, a lecturer with the University of Benin, killers of three police officers who also kidnapped Andy Ehanire, the Chief Executive of Ogba Zoological Garden, justify Obaseki’s insistence on a new commissioner of police for the state. While commending the new Commissioner of Police, Johnson Kokumo, the state government, through the Special Adviser, Media and Communication Strategy to the Edo State Governor, Crusoe Osagie, stated that the security challenges in Edo required a highly experienced operational police officer at the helms of affairs and that it is quite gratifying that CP Kokuma has since hit the ground running, “a result of which is the large hurl of arrests in barely 48 hours of his assumption of duty in Edo State”. Otasowie, a senior lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, was on October ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award winning Nigerian writer, says president Muhammadu Buhari wasted the chance to make “real reforms” in the early days of his administration. In an article written for the New York Times, Adichie said Buhari’s outdated economic ideology and the seemingly selective corruption war had led to a “declining hope” in his government. She noted that Buhari had, in many situations, appeared disengaged, saying his “tone and demeanour” were reminiscent of 1984 when he was a military head of state. Adicihie wrote: “For the first weeks of his presidency, it was said that civil servants who were often absent from work suddenly appeared every day, on time, and that police officers and customs officials stopped demanding bribes. He had an opportunity to make real reforms early on, to boldly reshape Nigeria’s path. He wasted it. “Perhaps the first clue was the unusually long time it took him to appoint his ministers. After an ostensible search for the very best, he ...

The wife of the Edo State Governor, Mrs Betsy Obaseki is collaborating with stakeholders in the health sector to reduce the death of neonates (babies between 0- 28 days old) in the state. Speaking during a stakeholders’ meeting on the prevention of neonatal deaths in the state, organised in Benin City on Monday, Mrs. Obaseki said that more collaborations are needed to strengthen the country’s health sector. She assured that she would continue to partner with other stakeholders to implement the Essential New-born Care Cost (ENCC), an initiative of the federal government launched in 2016, that is geared towards reduction of neonatal deaths in the country. The First Lady urged stakeholders to take the collaboration seriously and bring in their wealth of experience to ensure that the ENCC initiative succeeds in the state. Delivering his speech, Dr Ikechukwu Okonwko, a Consultant Paediatrician and Neonatologist at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), said that a nation...

 Lizzy Amkpa, the General Manager, Kwesé TV Nigeria, a new satellite pay TV network, on Tuesday assured subscribers of home-grown programmes unique to the Nigerian market. Amkpa told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that part of the company’s policy was to integrate more unique home-grown channels into the pay-TV for the Nigerian market. The TV network, offering subscribers ‘pay-as-you-watch’ options, was recently launched into the Nigerian market. “We are excited to launch our dynamic content business in Nigeria; a market that we know is hungry for a compelling alternative pay-TV network. “At Kwesé, we pride ourselves in having selected strong general entertainment and sports programmes lined-up which we believe will be well-received by viewers of all ages including kids, young adults, men and women. “Our business is premised on the concept of TV anywhere and everywhere, this means we have made our premium content easily accessible across a number of platforms na...

  A Katsina State High Court has fixed Feb 13, 2018, for mention of the case filed by Economic and Financial Crime Commission(EFCC) against ex-governor Ibrahim Shema, alleged to have misappropriated N11 billion state fund. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Shema had challenged the jurisdiction of the High Court to hear the case but lost at the Court of Appeal in Kaduna. The ex-governor is now at the Supreme Court, which has fixed Nov. 8, to hear his appeal on the verdict by the appellate court. During the proceedings at the state High Court on Tuesday in Katsina, the defence counsel, Akinlolu Kehinde (SAN), prayed the court to adjourn the case, pending the outcome of the Supreme Court ruling on jurisdiction. However, the prosecution counsel, Mr Earnest Obunadike objected to the request by the defence, urging the court to proceed with the trial.The judge, Justice Ibrahim Maikaita-Bako, who adjourned the case to Feb. 13, 2018, for mention, however, said the court...

Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on Tuesday advised the Federal Government to handover Federal roads to states governments for effective management of the roads. Tambuwal gave the advice when he received the Senate Committee on Works led by its Chairman, Sen. Kabiru Gaya, in Sokoto. He said: “There is the need for the federal government handover the roads to states, because states governments are closer to the people and we have more efficient methods of supervision. “If this is done, it will go a long way in ensuring that the vast majority of major roads and highways in the country are well maintained.’’ The governor pledged to work with all stakeholders to ensure proper management and development of infrastructure in the state. He solicited the support of the National Assembly to facilitate the reimbursement of fund spent by the state government spent on the repairs of some federal roads.Earlier, Gaya said they were in the state as part of the committee’s oversight func...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has arrived Jakarta on a two-day working visit to the Republic of Indonesia, during which he will address the opening plenary of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Beneficial Ownership Conference taking place from Monday 23rd October to Tuesday 24th October, 2017. This information was made public via a statement Sunday by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media & Publicity. Akande said, “At the conference, the Vice President will speak on a range of issues concerning Nigeria’s extractive industry and general reforms embarked upon by the Buhari administration in the extractive sector of the economy, among other issues. Other world leaders and top government dignitaries speaking at the event include the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo; Minister of National Development Planning in Indonesia, Bambang Brodjonegoro; EITI Chair, Fredrik Reinfeldt; among others. “This year’s conference, which will...

A report by Budgit, a civil society organization, has revealed that only four states in Nigeria can meet their recurrent expenditure commitments, including payment of salaries, without borrowing or tapping into “donor funds and other extra-budgetary revenue sources”, The report, State of States 2017, was launched on Thursday and released to the public on Friday. “Important is states’ ability to meet their recurrent expenditure obligation with all revenue source — a test of prudent fiscal management. Kano, Katsina, Rivers and Lagos top that portion of the index. “In effect, only four states could meet their recurrent expenditure obligation without resorting to borrowing or tapping donor funds and other extra-budgetary revenue sources”, it read. The report added that, “Bonds issued by the states are usually assisted by Irrevocable Standing Payment Orders (ISPOs), which legally empower the accountant general of the federation (AGF) to withdraw sums due to debt holders from stat...

In an aggressive drive towards shoring up its revenue base, the Federal Government has through Nnamdi Dimgba, a judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, secured an order granting temporary forfeiture of funds kept in accounts without Bank Verification Number (BVN) and whose ownership could not be clearly identified, to it. Also granted was an order to seize funds held in bank accounts “with insufficient Know Your Customer (KYC) guidelines”. The order which followed an originating motion of notice filed by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on behalf of the Nigerian government on September 28, was issued on October 17. The court ordered that all the 19 Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) operating in the country release to the Nigerian government, names of accounts not yet connected to BVN, account numbers, their outstanding balances, domiciling locations, as well as domiciliary accounts without BVN and where they are domiciled. The DMB...

Latest performance figures show that Dangote Cement continues to maintain its large share of Nigeria’s domestic cement market, accounting for 65 percent of the Nigerian market volume, while other African plants’ volumes went up by 7.5 percent to 7.0 mta. These results are coming as the company’s board announced changes to the leadership of the company, with Onne Van der Weijde stepping down as Chief Executive Officer at the end of 2017, having completed three years in this position. He would be returning to his home country, The Netherlands. Van der Weijde will be appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Dangote Cement PLC, with effect from 1st January 2018. In the meantime, Engr. Joseph Makoju, Honorary Adviser to the Chairman and former MD of WAPCO/Lafarge, will be acting MD/CEO of Dangote Cement PLC. The Cement company which had in the past months expanded its operations across Africa, the latest being the coming on stream of the 1.5 mta integrated cement plant in Mfila...

Nigeria’s Federal Government has admitted recalling a dismissed civil servant and former chairman of the defunct Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina. The recall of Maina, who was sacked for alleged fraud and still has a pending corruption trial, may have opened another window for some Nigerians who have continued to pick holes in the anti-corruption fight of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. This is especially as the Nigerian government only admitted recalling Maina after a report by an online portal revealed that the former civil servant sacked for alleged corruption has been recalled by the Federal Government. The reports had claimed that Buhari’s government secretly recalled Maina, who was in 2013 declared wanted by Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and promoted him to head a directorate in the Ministry of Interior. Maina was accused of allegedly being involved in a Pensions Biometric s...

Chairman, Senate committee on Navy, Isah Hamman Misau, will on Tuesday, appear before the Senate interim committee to officially table his petition. The Bauchi born senator, who is expected to appear before the committee at 2pm on Tuesday, is expected to address the committee and respond to questions from members of the probe panel. Speaking with newsmen on Sunday, chairman of the adhoc committee and Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Francis Alimikhena, said, “Senator Isah Hamman Misau will appear before the committee on Tuesday to answer to questions that will come up after his presentation and therefore, we take the next step.” Misau, in August, while the Senate was on a recess, made series of allegations against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Magu. Parts of the allegations were that, the IGP siphoned over N120 billion generated by the Force in the last one year. He also claimed that the IGP facilitated the promotion of some officers, contrary to the laid...

A constitutional lawyer, Johnmary Jideobi, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari before the Federal High Court in Abuja, over his alleged approval of “unlawful” and “unconstitutional” appointments in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Recall that Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, had alleged in his leaked memo that the recent appointments done by the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Maikanti Baru, were without the approval of the corporation’s board as stipulated by law. The appointments have also been the subject of much public controversy for their lopsidedness, overwhelmingly favouring the North. The lawyer is praying the court to declare as unconstitutional, what he termed President Buhari’s unilateral approval of appointments or any form of re-organisation in the NNPC without input from, and consideration by the corporation’s board. Other defendants in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/990/2017 are the GMD of the NNPC, Baru, the NNPC ...

The efforts by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe to extricate himself as one of the sureties of the leader of the recently proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group, Nnamdi Kanu, may have hit another brick-wall. This is as the Federal Government has filed a counter-affidavit insisting Kanu is in the senator’s custody. On October 17, co-defendants with Kanu, who are being prosecuted on charges of treasonable felony along him were produced in court by prison officials while the IPOB leader was absent. Abaribe, who was one of his three sureties had then through his lawyer, Ogechi Ogunna, informed the court of his motion seeking to withdraw as Kanu’s surety. The presiding judge in the matter, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja, had however said that she was not going to hear the motion until Abaribe first produced the missing defendant. But the Federal Government in reply to Abaribe’s application filed a counter-affidavit and written address before the Feder...

The face-off between Senator Buruji Kashamu, who represents Ogun East senatorial district at the Senate, and a former governor of the state, Gbenga Daniel, appear to be getting messier with both accusing each other of corruption. Kashamu in a statement in Abuja on Sunday said that the former governor’s ambition to become the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national chairman was nothing but “a mockery of democracy and assault on the anti-corruption war.” Describing Daniel’s statement while declaring his chairmanship ambition that the best way to fight corruption was not to punish those found culpable, Kashamu called on the Ogun State government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to quicken action on Daniel’s corruption case. According to him, Daniel by his statement was making a mockery of the Federal Government’s anti-corruption war. He said “OGD (Otumba Gbenga Daniel) is like ‘a rotten mackerel’ in the moonlight; he shines from afar but stinks badly at clo...

Erstwhile President of the Senate, Adolphus Wabara, on Sunday assured that the South-East will throw their support behind the South-West to ensure that the geo-political zone emerge Peoples Democratic Party (PDp) national chairman. According to him, the delegates from the South-East to the PDP forthcoming national convention in December will support the South-West so that the region will reciprocate by supporting South-East to produce a presidential candidate after the North. He stated this in Ibadan on Sunday, where he said he was certain the PDP was going to emerge winner of the 2019 presidential election. “I have no doubt that we are going to grab power from the All Progressives Congress in Oyo State but I cannot begin to tell you the strategies in place for our party. As an Igboman, we wish to produce the president of Nigeria after the North, so we are going to sacrifice the chairmanship of the party for the South-West. We will support the South-West so as for them to suppor...