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http://ift.tt/2ps6fP4 Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara The Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, said the legislature had kept its promise to Nigerians with transparent deliberations and passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill. He assured that the bill would be signed next week. Dogara stated this in his address at the opening of a “Special Session’’ to mark the second anniversary of the 8th Assembly on Friday in Abuja. According to him, the house carried out significant budget reforms “for the first time in the history of Nigeria’’. He said that a public hearing was conducted at the National Assembly to get the input of Nigerians in the budgetary process. He said that reforms introduced included the details of the Appropriation Bill being made available to all members before passage at the plenary. Also introduced, he said, was requirement that members of committee should sign report of their committees before it would be sen...

http://ift.tt/2ps6fP4 Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara The Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, said the legislature had kept its promise to Nigerians with transparent deliberations and passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill. He assured that the bill would be signed next week. Dogara stated this in his address at the opening of a “Special Session’’ to mark the second anniversary of the 8th Assembly on Friday in Abuja. According to him, the house carried out significant budget reforms “for the first time in the history of Nigeria’’. He said that a public hearing was conducted at the National Assembly to get the input of Nigerians in the budgetary process. He said that reforms introduced included the details of the Appropriation Bill being made available to all members before passage at the plenary. Also introduced, he said, was requirement that members of committee should sign report of their committees before it would be sen...

http://ift.tt/2r1XoU4 Real Madrid's players celebrate at the end of the UEFA Champions League semifinal second leg football match Club Atletico de Madrid vs Real Madrid CF at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, on May 10, 2017. GERARD JULIEN / AFP It’s the irresistible force against the immovable object as Real Madrid takes on Juventus tomorrow night at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Will the Galacticos keep the “big ears” in Madrid or will the Old Lady of Italian football take it from them and return it to Turin for the first time in over two decades? These are some of the questions we will be itching to have answered when the game kicks off at 7:45 pm, local time tomorrow. Before then, take a look at Real’s credentials again! 1. Defending Champions. Won 2014 and 2016 and want badly to become the first team to retain the title since the competition was named the UEFA Champions League. If there is any team that is capable of this feat, it has to be this Spanish ...

http://ift.tt/2rGpqVt US President Donald Trump (C-L), Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (C-R), Jordan's King Abdullah II (3-R), Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (2-R) and other officials pose for a group photo during the Arabic Islamic American Summit at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh on May 21, 2017. MANDEL NGAN / AFP US President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Muslim countries to deny sanctuary to extremists and called for international isolation of Iran, which he accused of fuelling “sectarian conflict and terror”. “From Lebanon to Iraq to Yemen, Iran funds, arms and trains terrorists, militias and other extremist groups that spread destruction and chaos across the region,” Trump said in a major speech in Saudi Arabia. “Until the Iranian regime is willing to be a partner for peace, all nations of conscience must work together to isolate it… and pray for the day when the Iranian people have the just and righteous government they so r...

http://ift.tt/2rqRU5R Real Madrid's French forward Karim Benzema runs with the ball during the UEFA Champions League semifinal second leg football match Club Atletico de Madrid vs Real Madrid CF at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, on May 10, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / JAVIER SORIANO Lyon midfielder Mathieu Valbuena on Wednesday launched an emotional attack on Karim Benzema over the sex-tape saga, accusing the Real Madrid star of “slander”. “Slander is the weapon of the impotent, it is distressing !!! Justice will restore the truth,” Valbuena posted on his Twitter account. Valbuena was responding to comments made by Benzema in French sports daily L’Equipe’s online edition the day before. Both men missed Euro 2016 on home soil after an investigation was launched into alleged blackmail in a sex-tape scandal featuring Valbuena which is likely to go to court in France later this year. Investigators suspect Benzema of acting as an intermediary between the presumed blackmaile...

http://ift.tt/2rihCsS The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru PHOTO: TWITTER/NNPC The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it will resume oil prospecting in the Lake Chad Basin of Borno. The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, disclosed this when he visited Gov. Kashim Shettima at the Government House in Maiduguri on Monday. Baru was represented at the occasion by the NNPC Chief Operations Officer, who is also the Executive Director, Gas and Power, Mr Saidu Mohammed. He said that the corporation had concluded arrangement to mobilise heavy and sophisticated equipment to resume oil prospecting in the Lake Chad Basin. He said the resumption, which would be done in the next six weeks, was based on the military’s assurance to provide adequate security. Baru explained that the move was due to the present relative peace in the state and the degrading of Boko Haram insurgents in the North East region. “ We are here in Borno to express our fu...