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Monday, June 29, 2015

Photos: the $4.8m Ferrari Floyd Mayweather wants to buy

When you make $300million a year - you can buy any bladdy thing you like. TMZ reports below..
How do you upgrade from a $3.8 million Ferrari?? Easy ... you get a $4.8million super

Greeks queueing to pull their money out of banks are getting mobbed:business insider

Central Athens is a strange place today — the normal tourist activities are still going on, just metres away from shuttered banks and lines of people trying to access their cash.
Most of the people queueing that I've talked to seemed cautiously optimistic about the situation for the country, or maybe just a little jaded after a six-year crisis. The current capital controls and bank closures are supposed to last just a week. Of course, that's also what was said when Cyprus brought in its controls two years ago.
Central Athens is predictably a hotspot for the international media too, so savers are being mobbed by journalists from around the world looking for juicy quotes.
The queues seem shorter than they were when I arrived on Sunday night. One on a street corner near the city's Syntagma Square had around 15 people in line at about 2 p.m. Athens time (12 p.m. BST, 7 a.m. ET) today.
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Mike Bird, Business Insider
Others trying to get hold of their deposits are being mobbed by journalists from around the world too:

JUST IN! Buhari Appoints Chief Of Staff

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari, has today, June 29, appointed Colonel Hamidu Ali as his Chief of Staff, Omojuwa.com reports.
The status of the former military administrator of Kaduna State was also immediately updated by Wikipedia, where it was stated that “he is currently the Chief of Staff to president Muhammadu Buhari” as there are limited sources to confirm the appointment.
JUST IN! Buhari Appoints Chief Of Staff
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Thus, reports linking immediate past governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Fashola, to the coveted post may have been all but quashed as Sahara Reporters,via its twitter handle, also confirmed the new

CBN-BVN Deadline No Going Back

Customers expecting the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the deadline for the Bank Verification Number (BVN) exercise may be disappointed as CBN has ruled out the possibility.
Leadership reports that Ibrahim Mu’azu, director,corporate communications, CBN, confirmed that the deadline for registration is tomorrow, Tuesday, June 30, 2015.
BVN Deadline: No Going Back-CBN
Godwin Emefiele,CBN Governor
He explained further that bank customers were given adequate time and that the bank expected they should have taken advantage of the period scheduled for the exercise to register.

Nigerian-OOU students seize factory, Lagos – Ore expressway: The nation

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Thousands of grieving Olabisi Onabqnjo University (OOU) students seized the Sagamu – Ilisan stretch of the Lagos – Ore expressway as they stormed the scene of horrific accident which claimed the lives of a dozen of their colleagues last Friday.
Vehicular movement came to abrupt halt on both lanes of the dual carriage way – hordes of travelers were turned back even as they threatened to hauled stones at any truck carrying container.
The students who arrived in four long buses and about three cars had converged to pray at the scene for the repose of their colleagues but emotions took the better part of them as they cried, yelled and cursed the driver that brought the untimely death on the affected students.

Buhari to governors: Pay workers’ salaries

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday charged state governors to seek efficient ways to settle unpaid workers’ salaries in their states.
Many of the state governments have been hit by cash crunch and are owing huge workers’ salaries, among other indebtedness.
Inaugurating the National Economic Council (NEC) headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Buhari also asked government at all levels to be more prudent in the management of their resources.
He urged state governors to look inward in order to boost their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to supplement income from the Federation Account.

Diddy falls during epic Bad Boy anniversary medley at BET Awards: Mashable

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 OS ANGELES — "I thought I told you that we won't stop," Diddy has routinely reminded everyone since the 1990s, and on Sunday at the BET Awards he delivered on that mantra in full force with a star-studded Bad Boy Records medley.

APC debunks rumour of B’Haram detainees’ transfer to Anambra:the Guardian

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed as ‘untrue’ reports making the rounds that Boko Haram detainees will be transferred to Anambra State or any other state.
A protest had erupted in Onitsha on Saturday over reports that Boko Haram detainees will be transferred to Onitsha Prisons.

EFCC quizzes former minister, Etete, over alleged oil deal:the Guadian


Oil workers, member sof PENGASSAN. Photo: naij
FORMER Minister of Petroleum, Dan Etete, was yesterday quizzed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in continuation of an investigation that had been stalled for several years.
A source told The Guardian that the former minister was granted administrative bail to provide more documents on the alleged $1.1 billion oil deal transfer that was made to Switzerland under his company, Malabu Oil and Gas.

Why President Buhari’s cabinet will be delayed beyond July:the Guardian

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DESPITE scathing criticism that President Muhammadu Buhari has unduly delayed naming his cabinet, indications emerged at the weekend that he is not in a haste to bow to pressure on the issue.

Specifically, it was confirmed at the weekend that the President may not be appointing any cabinet members within the next two months, at least.