Inflation rate drops to 15.1% in January – NBS

Inflation rate drops to 15.1% in January – NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday released the Consumer Price Index which measures inflation with the rate dropping by 0.24 % basis from 15.37 % in December to 15.13 in January. The bureau in the report made available to our correspondent said this is the twelfth consecutive months that the index would be declining.
On a month-on-month basis, the bureau said the Headline index increased by 0.80 % in January 2018, adding that this is 0.21 % points higher from the rate of 0.59 % recorded in December 2017.
The report reads in part, “The Consumer Price Index which measures inflation started the year 2018 increasing by 15.13 % year-on-year in January 2018. “This was 0.24 % points lower than the rate recorded in December (15.37 %) making it the twelfth consecutive slowdown in the inflation rate though still positive in headline year on year inflation since January 2017.”

EPISODE 6: MARRIED BUT NO SEX (THE SEMI-FINAL)

EPISODE 6: MARRIED BUT NO SEX (THE SEMI-FINAL)here we go
{The Return of Sis. Rose - Part 2}
(A Story Written By Ayodele Adeoye)

Her issue became complicated when she discovered that she was HIV positive. The cost of kidney transplant for a HIV patient was also a nightmare. All her corporate prostitution could not fetch her enough money for her kidney transplant.

She lived in fear and agony daily as her health deteriorated. 'This is the time to return home like the prodigal son to my husband, earthly father and heavenly father.' She said to herself. 'But will my husband accept me back? What would I tell my father? How do I explain my foolishness to my pastor? Would I be able to face my church members again? How do I tell my unit leader in church that I left my husband because of one day sexual denial? How do I explain to people that see me as a good Christian?' She was lost in thought.

Thoughts of suicide filled her mind. 'The pain and shame will be too heavy a cross for me to carry. What is the use of a woman with damaged kidney living with HIV? Even if the kidney transplant is successful what about the HIV virus? What a useless life! To die would have been better than this. O death where are you? If you don't come for me, I will come to you.'

At about 11am on Thursday his phone rang, 'hello! Hello! Who am I on to?' Bro. Solo asked his caller. 'It's me Angela, Rose's friend.' 'Oh, Angela how are you? Quite an age,' he greeted. 'Sir I have a good news and a bad news for you, which will you want me to share first, the bad news or the good news?' 'Please share the bad new first and let the good news follow, he said. Your wife is alive and reachable but'........ 'But what?' He interrupted her. She's sick and in need of a kidney donor to save her life. 'Please tell her I will donate my second kidney for her. At this time he had not known that she was also HIV positive.

Immediately he arrived at the hospital and saw Sis. Rose he could not but shed uncontrollable tears because of her pitiable condition. 'Why didn't you give me a chance to explain myself? Why did you leave me in this agony without knowing I did what I did to save your life? If I had slept with you that night you would have been dead by now. You didn't allow me explain the agenda of my 4 and half hours meeting with your parents and elders.

'I am sorry, I was misled. I listened to the agent of the devil in sheep's clothing. I was not wise enough to ask you. It was Bro. Sam who told me few days to our wedding that you are impotent. I didn't believe him initially but your attitude on our wedding day made me believe him.' Bro. Sam is Bro Solo's friend in the same unit in church. He was nursing the intension of wooing Sis. Rose when Bro. Solo introduced her to him as his fiancée. This secret was known after it was discovered Bro. Sam had told similar lies against two other brothers in church. He was suspended from his unit for three months after his confession.

'Let's leave all these talk for now and attend to your health. Can I see the doctor?' He was led to the doctor's office to donate his kidney to save his wife. Tests were carried out on him but his kidney could not be used. 'Please sir do something to save my wife's life, she must not die.' Bro. Solo begged the doctor. 'If she was not HIV positive the transplant would have been much easier.' The doctor said. HIV what? Bro. Solo collapsed and was rushed to the emergency ward for attention.

...to be Continued
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* See what deception of a friend and an impatience can cause in a 'Would-Have-Been-Blissful + Christian Home!'
(Your comment please...)

* Were they able to resuscitate Bro. Solo back to life? And what becomes of this marriage at the end?
Watch out for EPISODE 7 (THE GRAND FINAL).
(The suspense is about to end. The last episode will reveal much.

Restore peace in Benue or forget 2019, Bafarawa tells Buhari

 *Restore peace in Benue or forget 2019, Bafarawa tells Buhari*

A former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, on Friday said that there would be no elections in Nigeria in 2019 if the Federal Government failed to restore peace to Benue State. Bafarawa made the statement during a condolence visit to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State at the Government House in Makurdi, the state capital, to commiserate with him and the people of the state over the killings of 73 persons on January 1, 2018, by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

Bafarawa said, “Why would there be an election in 2019 when there is no peace? The most important thing you can bring to a society is peace. When you bring peace to them, you have brought life and can then talk about the election.”

Speaking further, Bafarawa said that while it was the duty of the Federal Government to put serious efforts to restore peace in Benue State and other parts of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari must involve other stakeholders, irrespective of political affiliation, to solve the problem.

Court To Introduce Electronic Mailing System From July 2018*

 *Court To Introduce Electronic Mailing System From July 2018*

The Supreme Court says from July 16, 2018, it will phase out manual forms of serving court processes in all cases before it and commence serving processes by electronic means on all matters. The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, said this on Friday in Abuja at the formal presentation of the ‘newly retrofitted court and legal mail’ at the Supreme Court.

He asked all judges and lawyers to subscribe to and acquire the legal mail, pledging to have the system replicated in all courts in the nearest future. The system according to the CJN has become imperative to speed up justice delivery in the country. President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Abubakar Mahmoud, also believes that the policy is overdue and critical in moving the justice sector forward.

“The email system will undoubtedly easy communication between the court and the bar. It will reduce paperwork, speed up the court process and thereby improve the administration of justice," he said.

Court To Introduce Electronic Mailing System From July 2018*

*Court To Introduce Electronic Mailing System From July 2018*

The Supreme Court says from July 16, 2018, it will phase out manual forms of serving court processes in all cases before it and commence serving processes by electronic means on all matters. The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, said this on Friday in Abuja at the formal presentation of the ‘newly retrofitted court and legal mail’ at the Supreme Court.

He asked all judges and lawyers to subscribe to and acquire the legal mail, pledging to hav          e the system replicated in all courts in the nearest future. The system according to the CJN has become imperative to speed up justice delivery in the country. President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Abubakar Mahmoud, also believes that the policy is overdue and critical in moving the justice sector forward.

“The email system will undoubtedly easy communication between the court and the bar. It will reduce paperwork, speed up the court process and thereby improve the administration of justice," he sad

A former Governor of Sokoto

A former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, on Friday said that there would be no elections in Nigeria in 2019 if the Federal Government failed to restore peace to Benue State. Bafarawa made the statement during a condolence visit to Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State at the Government House in Makurdi, the state capital, to commiserate with him and the people of the state over the killings of 73 persons on January 1, 2018, by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

Bafarawa said, “Why would there be an election in 2019 when there is no peace? The most important thing you can bring to a society is peace. When you bring peace to them, you have brought life and can then talk about the election.”

Speaking further, Bafarawa said that while it was the duty of the Federal Government to put serious efforts to restore peace in Benue State and other parts of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari must involve other stakeholders, irrespective of political affiliation, to solve the problem.