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http://ift.tt/2tcYzRG Marissa Mayer Marissa Mayer was hailed as Yahoo’s savior when she took charge of the pioneering internet firm five years ago. But Mayer was unable to stem the decline of the iconic Silicon Valley company, which is set to close a deal on Tuesday selling its core internet operations to telecom giant Verizon. She is likely headed for the exit as Yahoo ends two-decade run as an independent company, getting a departure package worth an estimated $186 million. Mayer inherited a company in protracted decline, having lost its leadership as an internet search company to Google and falling behind others like Facebook in serving money-making ads to users. She is the latest in a line of chief executives who tried to reinvent Yahoo, and her experience at rival Google inspired hope. “Marissa inherited a mess, in a company that had already lost its leadership role in search,” said Creative Strategies president and analyst Tim Bajarin, who has known Yahoo since its ...

http://ift.tt/2q9XE6P President Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has observed that it is in the interest of the nation’s economy for Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to sign the 2017 Appropriation Bill into law. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity made this known in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday. The acting President is expected to sign the 2017 Appropriation Bill by 4 p.m on Monday. The presidential aide quoted the President as saying “the signing of the budget by the acting president would further buttress unity at the highest level of government.” Shehu also stated that the President was delighted over the decision of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to submit 2018 budget proposals by October, while the National Assembly would conclude the Appropriation process by December 2017. He said “following the receipt of full brief on the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the National Assembly, and to butt...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has been warned against making mockery of the health of president Muhammadu Buhari. O’odu Progressives Youth Movement, which handed this warning to the ex-minister, said his recent comments suggest that he is allegedly one of those planning to lure the military to overthrow Buhari. The PDP stalwart had in article on Thursday, entitled ‘THE RINGING OF COUP BELLS AND A CAUSE FOR DEEP CONCERN’, noted that ever since 1966, the northern ruling class had always effected a coup d’etat whenever they feel sufficiently threatened with the loss of power. “They would rather have a core northern military dictator in power than a southern leader or President.And they are prepared to kill anyone, no matter how highly placed, who stands in their way or who attempts to oppose or stop them,” he had written. Reacting to the comment on Friday at a press conference in Lagos, the National Coordinator of the group, Kola Sal...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Nwafor Sunday The Minister for Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has said that Nigerians attach keen interest in  purveying fake and bad news to the public that thus denigrates and reduces the state of the nation to naught internationally. I don’t no why Nigerians like sharing fake and bad news, he quizzed. In an interview with newsmen, Mr. Amaechi said that the completion of  Abuja Airport within the stipulated six weeks was a surprise to most Nigerians. However, recall that an alleged Abuja Airport was reported via video to be submerged last week. It was filled by newsmen that people swim to find their way inside the plane. According to Mr. Amaechi, ” There is a video flying around concerning Abuja Airport, it is not Abuja Airport. ” I don’t know where they got it from. “Nigerians will forward bad news, they wont forward good news”. “Even if you issue a statement to say that the alleged Abuja Airport is not the real Abuja Airport, they will sa...

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A 21-year-old trader, Chukwuebuka Ezengwu, who allegedly staked N286,600 sent to him by customers into the Mavrodi Mondial Movement (MMM) scheme was arraigned on Thursday in Lagos. Ezengwu, who appeared before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, is facing a two-count charge of fraud and theft. He, however, denied the charges. The Prosecutor, Insp. Philip Osijiale, told court that the accused committed the offences on March 1 at about 12:00 p.m. at Obun-Eko on Lagos Island. He said that the accused put some N286, 600 sent by two of his customers, Chukwumeka Okafor and Paul Ekene to help them buy goods into the Ponzi scheme. Osijiale explained that Okafor sent N152, 000 while Ekene sent N134, 600 to the accused. He said that Ezengwu put the money to his personal use and refused to refund the duo, having staked the money into MMM. The prosecutor said that the offences contravened Sections 287 and 314 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. The News Agency of Niger...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The House of Representatives on Thursday urged the Federal Government to provide quality healthcare services for prison inmates across the country. This followed a unanimous adoption of a motion on “Need to Address the Deplorable State of Healthcare Service in Nigerian Prisons’’ sponsored by Rep. Chike Okafor (Imo-APC). Moving the motion, Okafor said that non-availability of drugs and inadequate medical personnel in health facilities in the prisons had resulted in avoidable death of inmates. He said that due to the comatose nature of the facilities, inmates depended on donations and outreach programmes from churches, mosques and voluntary organisations to access healthcare. According to him, inmates at times, have to buy drugs from vendors, some of whom sold fake, sub-standard or adulterated drugs with their deleterious consequences. “This has resulted in the frequent outbreak of epidemics in the prisons and the high death rate recorded among inmates. “It is...