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MGang Records front-line artiste Blixxy drops another fire tune titled “ Magodo ”, a tribute to his hood. After the successful release of “Mumu” which is still enjoying massive trends across various platforms. Mixed and Mastered by Indomix. Download, Share and Enjoy!

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       Eazi Nakarmura popularly known asMr Eazifound his perfect corner and he’s staying there. He understands the game, whether it’s him or his team it’s pretty awesome to witness.You probably might not remember when Pipi Dance came along and it was an anthem in Ghana,it didn’t really cut it in the nigerian market;skin tight came along and changed Eazi’s footstep.The song created the path which he followed, more deals, collaboration, and a sold out concert which I did witness.I WasAmazed by the Crowd’s turn out for a man without an album yet, amazing stuff.Listen & Download Mr Eazi Ft. Olamide & Phyno – Life Is Eazi Below;            

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Matrix Music Nation presents a rave single titled “Wahala Dey ” by its front-man, Efe Michael Ejeba, popularly known as EFE .Efe who is currently one of the contestants at the BigBrotherNaija reality show is a rapper/singer from Jos. A graduate of the department of Economics, University of Jos, his love for music backdates to his days in high school.The Duktor Sett produced track is off his Lagos EP which was released in 2016.
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National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has said that the party’s return to power in the 2019 general election will be like a tsunami.

However, Makarfi urged members of the party to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari, so that he will recover and return office soon.
He said although the PDP is desirous of taking over power in 2019, it wants to do so under an orderly atmosphere.

The PDP leader, who is also a former governor of Kaduna State, stated this in Abuja yesterday at the public presentation of the report of the Strategy Review and Inter-party Committee.
The ceremony was attended by members of the National Caretaker Committee, Board of Trustee (BoT) members and party leaders across the country.
The 115 man committee was inaugurated by the caretaker committee in November last year to fashion out ways to repositon the party and explore possible collaboration with other political parties ahead of the 2019 general election.

Makarfi said although the party has faced serious challenges in recent times, it is determined to regain power in the country.
According to him, “We have been facing a lot of challenges. One of the ways they have evolved to hold down and destroy opposition in the country is to use the court to tie us down. But we refused to be tied down. We want to keep the party moving. PDP return shall be a great tsunami. We are not going to sleep,” he said.

The PDP leader admitted that the party made mistakes in the past, noting that one of such mistakes was imposition of candidates during elections and taking things for granted.
Makarfi,who lauded the report, stated that it has laid the path for the recovery of the PDP. He, however, stated that the report will be presented to the various organs of the party for ratification.
The former Kaduna governor said all hands must be on deck to repositon the PDP, adding that governors elected on the party’s platform, its former ministers, former governors and all members of the party have a role to play to move the party forward.

“We had made mistakes and we apologise. They report has laid the party to recovery. One of mistakes was taking things for granted. Taking people for granted and imposition. Even I must have imposed and I apologise. After imposition, what did we achieve from it?,” he queried.
Makarfi, while stating that institutions in the country were been bastardised, warned that “Nigerians cannot continue to be patient forever. It is either we do the right or the right thing will be done to us.”

He promised that if the PDP regains power, it work towards the reformation of institutions in the country.While noting that the various institutions presently serve the interest of those in office and not Nigerians, Makarfi said “we must free them from selfish control”.
Speaking earlier,the chairman of the committee, Professor Jerry Gana said some of the key recommendations of the report include strict adherence to the principles of zoning and rotation of political offices, use of direct primaries to select candidates for election and entrenching internal democracy.

Gana added that several political parties are already talking with the PDP, with a view to collaborating with it in future elections.
“We are pleased to report that our initial contacts have yielded positive responses from seven people -focused and social democratic parties…This has nothing to do with the rumoured mega party, but a separate and highly principled initiative of the PDP,” he said.

Former Minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, also lauded the report. He said the committee report is the best thing anybody can do to upgrade the PDP.

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki

Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate has faulted how the power sector was privatised, saying it was sold to individuals who had no idea about how to run it out of ignorance, selfish interests and fraud.

Saraki made this known on Tuesday as he spoke at a workshop on the power sector organised by the National Assembly in Abuja lamenting that the sector, in spite of the enormous resources committed to it for the last 14 years, had remained in a perilous state.
“Today, we are on the verge of a total systemic breakdown and I see this as an opportunity to stop this train from derailing completely,” he said.

“We sold the discos to individuals and parties who had no idea about running a proper power distribution business. Licenses were issues based on cronyism rather than capital adequacy, market experience and capacity to deliver. Agreements were faulty and transaction integrity hardly imperative.

“This is the opportunity for both the legislature and executive to come together to forge a solution to this perennial problem. We cannot afford to waste the opportunity we have now. We owe it to the people who have entrusted us with the privilege of working out solutions to their problems by electing us to our various offices that we are hard on our heels to bring them solutions not complaints.

“We cannot shy away from the fact that inexcusable mistakes have been made in the past that brought us to this point and we must be willing to face up to them and clearly delineate them in order to ensure that we do not return to the mistakes of the past.
“Clearly some of these where innocent mistakes, others were rather the product of selfish interests, some fraudulent, some borne out of ignorance and others glaring lack of capacity apparent from day one. All of these combined has brought us to the mess we now have to face up to.
“Where we are is not an accident. We walked our way into the landmine we are facing with the decisions we made in the past. While privatisation is a right policy recipe to pursue in order to put in place a power sector that can galvanise our economy, we forgot that the participation of the private sector is not an end in itself.

“We neglected that unless this is done, observing transparency, competition, transaction integrity we might end up with a sector worse than the past. The BPE did things that were inexcusable. To imagine that even the sale proceeds of about $4bn was solely spent towards the payment of pensions and staff. Not one single kobo was expended towards catalysing the sector back to life.
“GENCOS bought generating units without a clear assurance of source of gas to fire plants and government had no active roadmap for delivery of a gas market infrastructure to make this happen.
“Yet gas companies and the IOCs were exporting our gas out of our shores to create gas markets elsewhere in Europe and Asia while we languished in darkness as a result of incessant, persistent and erratic power outages.

“In the face of all these our people continued to be called upon to bear inexplicable bills estimated beyond rationale service value.”

The Head, West African Examinations Council International, Mr. Adelowo Maliki, has advised the Federal Government to open more schools to accommodate millions of school-aged children roaming the streets.

Maliki said on Wednesday in Lagos that building more schools and equipping them with latest facilities and professional teachers would help in improving the state of education in the country.
He explained that WAEC, as an examination body, did not feel that it was enough just to set tests for students and end it there.
He said, “Our main task, aside conducting examination, is also to research into education-related issues and seek ways of coming up with solutions.

“We have realised that some of the key challenges are inadequate schools, ill-equipped schools, and lack of professional teachers.
“The development is a major challenge in our effort to move forward as a nation.
“One of the ways we try to give back to the society, as our corporate social responsibility, is by noting these challenges and organising seminars that will benefit the teachers and students.

“This is mainly handled by the research unit of the council.
“We organise monthly seminars for these people as we want them to have feedback on what we are doing for them.”.

Maliki said that the seminars were mostly targeted at the teachers at the secondary school level.
He said that the seminar was supposed to be taken round the country, but due to paucity of funds, was concentrated more in Lagos.
In addition to the need for the more public schools across the country, Maliki said government should recruit more teachers and improve their welfare.

He said, “Building more schools entails recruiting more qualified teachers and putting in place improved welfare package for them.
“I say this because another challenge facing the sector currently is the huge distraction facing the teachers.

“Just like the students, there are so many things competing for their attention, especially in the face of the current economic recession.
“These teachers are human and attend the same markets like every other person.

“So, if what they get is not enough to cater for their basic needs, then what is available becomes the next option for them.”

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has appealed to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to sanction all private depots in Apapa area of Lagos selling above the regulated petrol price of N133.28k.

The Chairman, IPMAN, Western Zone, Alhaji Debo Ahmed, made the call during a chat with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.

Ahmed said many depot owners at Apapa sold petrol between N140 and N145, against the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) price template of N133.28kobo.

He said 90 per cent of petrol products imported into the country were distributed through the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC).
“It is extremely difficult for marketers outside Lagos to buy petrol at N145 from the depots and sell at same price to consumers,” Ahmed told NAN.
“The marketers in Ilorin, Ore, Ondo, Akure, Ibadan and Osogbo, are running at a loss.

“There is need for government to review the activities of DPR official domicile at Apapa private depots who connive with depot owners to sell products above regulated price.”
He urged the Federal Government to wade into the matter and wield the big stick on dishonest depot owners taking advantage of the shutdown of government- owned depots to make life difficult for his members.

“We marketers within the South-West – Lagos, Ibadan, Ore, Ilorin and Ekiti – find it extremely difficult to load at Apapa depot due to bottleneck at the depot,’’ the IPMAN chairman said.

A new Indian (bollywood) blockbuster has been banned in Pakistan for allegedly misrepresenting Muslims.
Bollywood megastar, Shah Rukh Khan, himself a Muslim, has millions of fans all around the world.
But his new film “Raees,” about a bootlegger turned politician, has hit a roadblock with Pakistan’s censors.

The movie, scheduled for release last Sunday has been banned because of its “inappropriate depiction of Muslims,” according to Pakistan’s Central Censor Board.
The board also said the movie “did not show the real face of Islam” and focused on a “sect of Muslims as bad.”

The decision to ban the movie, which is based on a true story set in Gujarat in the 1980s and 1990s, has caught cinema-goers as well as the cast and crew by surprise.
Speaking to CNN, film trade analyst and television host, Komal Nahta, blamed the ban on oversensitivity.

“Pakistan is known for being sensitive and blowing things out of proportion. This is based on a true story so you can’t change the facts to suit a particular nation,” said Nahta. “They get maximum mileage out of Bollywood. Politics is about making noise.”
The censor board’s ban is likely to hit cinema revenues in Pakistan, where estimates suggest Indian movies account for between 60 and 70% of earnings.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multinational professional services firm, estimates the industry generated up to $1.64 billion in revenue in 2015.

Senator Ahmed Makarfi

The national caretaker committee of the People’s Democratic Party said in Abuja on Wednesday that it was not praying for the death of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Rather, it said it was its prayer that the President should return to Nigeria in peace from the United Kingdom where he is currently holidaying and attending to his health.
Chairman of PDP National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, stated this while addressing members of the party in Abuja.

He spoke during the submission of the report of the PDP Strategic Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee, which was headed by Professor Jerry Gana.
Makarfi, a former governor of Kaduna State, said it was in the interest of the PDP for the President to return in peace and continue to preside over the affairs of the nation.

He said the health of the President was important for the country and Nigerians, adding that the PDP would like to return to power in a conducive environment in 2019.
He said, “We are not praying for the death of the President. Instead, we are praying for the President to regain his health, return to the country and also continue ruling us.

“His health is important to the country and Nigerians. It is through we want to capture power in 2019, but we want to take over in an orderly manner.

“He must come back and continue his work. That’s our prayer. So, we want two people to, before this event is over, pray for the good health of the President.”
Before then, a former Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu had prayed for the President’s quick recovery.

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News available to Jtownexclusive Nigeria indicates that the Governor of Plateau State Hon. Simon Lalong inspected the facilities in the Jos prison’s schools.

The Governor inspected the school library, class rooms, inmates view center, metal workshop, tailoring workshop and others. He commended the Prison authority for the effort on ground towards developing the capacity of inmates through education and reiterated the commitment of the Plateau State government to collaborate with the service to ensure the effective rehabilitation of the inmates.
The Governor was represented by the Special Assistant to the Governor on Education Hon. Wanga Hosea Lemoro, toured the entire school facilities in the Prison, noting areas of possible interventions by the State Government.
The Controller of Prisons Plateau State Command, Mr. Noel Ailewon appreciated the Plateau State government for its support towards improving the welfare of the inmates. Furthermore, he assure the government for his cooperation towards actualizing the task.