It's PluxTIME: 2016-12-18

No sense in running a central Federal government- Atiku Abubakar

No sense in running a central Federal government- Atiku Abubakar

As he shared on Twitter.

NNPC has slated a comprehensive rehabilitation of the nation’s three refineries

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has slated a comprehensive rehabilitation of the nation’s three refineries located in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna to achieve optimal capacity utilization for next year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Chief Operating Officer (COO), Refineries, of the NNPC, Mr. Anibor Kragha, at the Annual General Meeting of the three facilities in Abuja, yesterday, stated that the corporation was determined to move away from the approach of quick fixes and undertake a comprehensive rehabilitation of the plants.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">‘’The plan for next year is to get the comprehensive rehabilitation programme done. The situation is like having three cars in your garage that have not been maintained for 15 to 20 years while you expect optimal performance from them. Changing one fuel pump here, one compressor there is not helpful. What we are doing now is to step back and take a holistic approach and do a full rehabilitation of all the refineries”, Kragha stated.</span></div>

NNPC has slated a comprehensive rehabilitation of the nation’s three refineries

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has slated a comprehensive rehabilitation of the nation’s three refineries located in ...

“There is no indication of prosecuting President Yahya Jammeh"- Opposition

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to sitibe, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will not face prosecution on leaving office, a spokesman for the opposition coalition that backed president-elect Adama Barrow told AFP late on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Jammeh led the Gambia for 22 years but conceded d</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">efeat in polls this month before reversing his position and claiming victory, bringing calls from the international community to accept the result and step down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“ECOWAS wanted to know whether the incoming administration plans to prosecute outgoing President Yahya Jammeh,” spokesman Halifa Sallah said following talks with the Economic Community of West African States on the peaceful transfer of power.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“There is no indication of a threat (of prosecution) or the need to threaten outgoing President Yahya Jammeh,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“President-elect Barrow says he is going to treat outgoing President Yahya Jammeh like a former head of state and would consult him for advice,” Sallah added.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also on Tuesday, French President Francois Hollande said the results of the 1 December polls were “indisputable” and that Barrow “must be installed as soon as possible”.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“The matter is non-negotiable,” Hollande said after a meeting in Paris with visiting Senegalese President Macky Sall, whose country nearly surrounds the Gambia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week, ECOWAS said Jammeh must step down next month when his term runs out and vowed “to take all necessary action to enforce the results” of the poll, without spelling out what those measures might be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jammeh, who took power in a 1994 coup, initially warmly congratulated Barrow after results were declared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But on 9 December he condemned “unacceptable errors” by election authorities and called for a new vote.</span></div>
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“There is no indication of prosecuting President Yahya Jammeh"- Opposition

According to sitibe, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will not face prosecution on leaving office, a spokesman for the opposition coalition...

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh insisted that he will not vacate his sit

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to LIB, <span style="background-color: white;">Gambian President Yahya Jammeh yesterday night addressed the citizens of his country in a state broadcast where he insisted that he will not vacate his sit for Adama Barrow who he lost to in the December 1st presidential election.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“I am not a coward. My right cannot be intimidated and violated. This is my position. Nobody can deprive me of that victory except the Almighty Allah.<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>Already the ECOWAS meeting was a formality. Before they came, they had already said Jammeh must step down. I will not step down,” he said.</span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jammeh who has ruled the country for 22 years, had initially accepted the results of the election but suddenly rescinded his decision, saying the election was fraudulent.</span></span>

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh insisted that he will not vacate his sit

According to LIB, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh yesterday night addressed the citizens of his country in a state broadcast where he insi...

President Buhari has signed eight bills into law

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A statement released by his spokesperson on National Assembly matters, Ita Enang, says some of the bills are the National Judicial Institute Amendment Act 2016, Advertising Practitioners Registration Amendment Act 2016, Utilities Charges Commission Amendment Act 2016 and Quality Surveyors Registration Amendment Act 2016.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white;"></a><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Others include Small and Medium Scale Industries Development Agency Amendment Act 2016, Treaty to Establish African Economic Community Relating to Pan African Parliament (Accession and Jurisdiction) Amendment Act 2016, University of Abuja Amendment Act 2016 and Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers Amendment Act 2016.</span></span>

President Buhari has signed eight bills into law

A statement released by his spokesperson on National Assembly matters, Ita Enang, says some of the bills are the National Judicial Institut...

There is a rumor that something could be going on between Drake and JLo

Read TMZ report below... Drake rented out Delilah restaurant in WeHo Monday night, and J Lo was his guest. We're told 20 others join...

Kaduna women protest naked over the killing in Southern Kaduna

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to Sahara reporters/ LIB, some a<span style="background-color: white;">ggrieved women in Kafanchan, Kaduna State yesterday came out half naked to protest the incessant killings by suspected herdsmen in the Southern part of the state. The area have over the last six months, witnessed repeated attacks by suspected herdsmen. The women, mostly elderly, marched to the government house and demanded to see the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai. They were allowed in to have a meeting with him and as they left, they began to destroy some of the cars in his garage.</span></span><div>
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Kaduna women protest naked over the killing in Southern Kaduna

According to Sahara reporters/ LIB, some a ggrieved women in Kafanchan, Kaduna State yesterday came out half naked to protest the incessan...

Kylie Jenner looks hot, sexy and beautiful in new photos

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She shared them on Instagram</span><br />
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Kylie Jenner looks hot, sexy and beautiful in new photos

She shared them on Instagram

The painful death of LASTMA most senior Officer,Bakare Surajudeen Olatunji in Lagos

<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tajudeen Olatunji Bakare, an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Apapa, was beaten to death by okada riders and touts on Thursday, 15th December, 2016. A graphic video of the gruesome murder has now surfaced online. The late officer can be seen lying helplessly inside a gutter, as an irrate mob stoned him to death.<br />
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The Lagos State Government has condemned the mob action, promising to bring the perpetrators to book. The Government also denied involvement of LASTMA in an incident which led to the death of a motor boy attached to a Tanker in Apapa (an incident which triggered the mob action).<br />
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Addressing the press, the Lagos state’s acting Commissioner for Transportation, Prince Anofiu Elegushi said the victim was killed while performing his lawful duties of making Apapa safe for motorists and commuters, and alleged that the mob action was carried out by Tanker Drivers, Okada Riders and other persons who live around them,.<br />
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Elegushi, who addressed the briefing alongside the Chief Executive Officer of LASTMA, Mr. Chris Olakpe and the General Manager of the Agency, Bashir Braimoh, said the officer was killed for an incident he knew absolutely nothing about.<br />
“Officer Bakare did not lose his life to an accident. No. His life was taken by persons whose only response to an incident is to resort to jungle justice, even when they were not sure of the play of event. Our officer was murdered by blood thirsty hounds who parade themselves as purveyors of transportation,” Elegushi said.<br />
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The painful death of LASTMA most senior Officer,Bakare Surajudeen Olatunji in Lagos

Tajudeen Olatunji Bakare, an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Apapa, was beaten to death by okada riders an...

Donald Trump disrespects former US president Bill Clinton on Twitter

Really?

My mother demand too much sex from me, that is why i killed her- Okada rider in Ogun

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Read LIB report below, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">33 year old commercial motorcycle rider, Segun Ogunlusi, pictured above, who was recently arrested for killing his 60 year old mother, Abimbola Ogunlusi, at their home in Ogijo area of Ogun State, today confessed to the crime, saying his mother's high demand for sex from him made him kill her and bury her corpse in a shallow grave.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white;"></a><span style="background-color: white;">Ogunlusi while confessing, said that after he hacked his mother to death, he poured kerosene on her remains but later buried her when the corpse failed to catch fire.</span></span><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"My mother kept saying if I had sex with her I would be free. On a particular Tuesday morning, when two of us were at home, she was in the kitchen, I walked up to her and stabbed in the stomach and she died. I poured kerosene on her corpse in a bid to burn her but it did not catch fire. Later, I dumped the corpse in a soakaway pit,” he said</span></blockquote>
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My mother demand too much sex from me, that is why i killed her- Okada rider in Ogun

Read LIB report below, 33 year old commercial motorcycle rider, Segun Ogunlusi, pictured above, who was recently arrested for killing hi...

Another madness all in the name of fashion

What is she wearing?

Marc Anthony call it quit with Shannon De Lima over a kiss with JLo

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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to LIB, there was a <span style="background-color: white;">speculation, l</span><span style="background-color: white;">ast month, </span><span style="background-color: white;">that Marc Anthony's marriage to Shannon De Lima was over when he shared a kiss with JLo onstage at the Latin Grammy Awards. The rumours have now been confirmed. In a statement to Us Weekly, the couple said: 'After much consideration, we have mutually and amicably decided to end our two year marriage.' 'We ask for privacy during this difficult process, and no further comments will be made from either one of us about this personal matter.'</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white;"></a><span style="background-color: white;">Marc Anthony, 48 and Shannon De Lima, 28 were married for two years and have no children together. Before that he was married to Jlo, his third wife after Dayanara Torres and Maria Von Ritchie Lopez.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Prior to making their split official, rumours had it Marc wanted to get back with Jlo with whom he shares 8yr old twins, Max and Emme. According to a source close to Marc, he 'is trying to get back together with her.' </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The source also disclosed that Jlo's split with Casper Smart was a turning point. They said: 'As soon as he heard Jennifer split with Casper, he wanted out.' Jennifer and Marc wed in 2004, split in 2011 and finalized their divorce in 2014.</span></span></div>

Marc Anthony call it quit with Shannon De Lima over a kiss with JLo

According to LIB, there was a speculation, l ast month, that Marc Anthony's marriage to Shannon De Lima was over when he shared a kis...

Africa is so poor because of religion- Chinese Lady

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">OAP Freeze shared this on social media, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Chinese lady commented on my post about why Africa is so underdeveloped.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Nigeria has gone to China to start making church noise there! Why not Afghanistan, Syria or North Korea? If China had built churches instead of Factories, would we still want to go there to make 'church' noise? Little wonder why we are where we are today, sitting so deep in recession, with the financial forecast for 2017 looking bleak and blurry!</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">--------</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">South Korea got her independence in 1957, only 3years before Nigeria, and is a Buddhist Nation, yet the Hyundai factory is among the top 10 biggest factories in the entire world, despite being constantly under threat of attack from North Korea, they have grown immensely. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Nigeria, on the other hand, according to reports, has the largest Church auditorium in the world, belonging to Redeemed, and located somewhere in Ogun state.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">-------</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Let's learn from Jacob's story in the bible;</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">-------</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Matthew 22:32 KJV</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">-------</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Jacob was blessed by default because Abraham was his grandfather, he even went on to steal Esau's blessing from their father Isaac, yet despite all these blessings, while he was still alive, God revealed himself to a pagan pharaoh who worshiped the 'sun god' in a dream. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Despite Jacob's huge blessings, his children and their children went on to become slaves in Egypt. Listen Nigeria if you do not develop your blessings you will become SLAVES to those who do. That is why God's promise to Christians, that we will lend and never borrow, is not manifesting, despite the multitude of Churches, with as many as one on every street, we have become the 'king' of borrowers and are even borrowing from Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim nations.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">-----</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">CHINA, GERMANY AND SOUTH KOREA DID NOT BECOME ECONOMIC GIANTS BY HAVING 2 REDEEMED BRANCHES ON THE SAME STREET, THEY BUILT FACTORIES NOT CHURCH AUDITORIUMS!</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Prayer and Church and looking for miracles and blessings would not help us get out of recession, let's build Nigeria and make her great again, then God will crown our efforts with glory, in JESUS name, AMEN!</span></span></blockquote>

Africa is so poor because of religion- Chinese Lady

OAP Freeze shared this on social media, Chinese lady commented on my post about why Africa is so underdeveloped. Nigeria has gone to Chi...

Madness or Fashion?

Is this not madness?

Pentecostal church are worse than MMM- OAP Freeze

He wrote: “When asked which is the greater Ponzi scheme, MMM or the Nigerian version of the Pentecostal church; my answer was simple........

Skales clap back at a female fan calling him too old to be using @younskales on twitter

Read the tweet below.... Funny!

Pregnancy changes a woman’s brain – study

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to a study
released on Monday, pregnancy causes “long-lasting” physical changes to a
woman’s brain, with significant, but seemingly beneficial, grey matter loss in
parts of the crucial organ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some alterations lasted at least
two years, they reported, but did not appear to erode memory or other mental
processes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The changes “concern brain areas
associated with functions necessary to manage the challenges of motherhood,”
study co-author Erika Barba-Muller of the Autonomous University of Barcelona
(UAB) said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The radical hormone surges and
physical changes of pregnancy have long been known and studied, but its effects
on the brain have been little understood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The new study, published in
Nature Neuroscience, claims to provide the first evidence “that pregnancy
confers long-lasting changes in a woman’s brain.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It compared pre- and
post-pregnancy brain scans of 25 first-time mothers. They researchers also
looked at the brains of first-time fathers, as well as men and women with no
children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">It found
“pronounced and long-lasting GM (grey matter) volume reductions in a woman’s
brain” in pregnancy, in regions involved in social processes.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In later tests, these same
regions lit up most on scans measuring the women’s responses to their babies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The brain changes were likely an
adaptation for motherhood — boosting the ability to recognise the needs and
emotional state of a baby and decode potential threats to its health and
safety, said the researchers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Grey matter is found in the
brain’s wrinkly outer layer called the cerebral cortex, which houses the processes
of learning and memory, motor function, social skills, language and problem
solving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The good news: the researchers
“did not observe any changes in memory or other cognitive functions during the
pregnancies and therefore believe that the loss of grey matter does not imply
any cognitive defects,” said a UAB statement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The study tested the women up to
two years after pregnancy, so it is not clear how long the changes last.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The study pointed to a process
called “synaptic pruning” which happens to humans in adolescence to remove
rarely-used synapses — connections between brain cells.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is done to make way, after
childhood, for more efficient and specialised synapses and boost the network’s
overall efficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A similar process may be at play
in pregnancy, the researchers speculated.</span><span style="color: #3e3e3e;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>

Pregnancy changes a woman’s brain – study

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with Recession in 2016, we still generate more revenue than that 2015- Gov Ambode

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Speaking at a special evening of music and camaraderie held at the Lagos House, Ikeja, to usher in the Yuletide season yesterday, Governor Ambode said as at December 16th 2016, the State had raked in N287billion IGR for the year under review as against N268.2billion generated in 2015. He applauded taxpayers for living up to their responsibilities by paying their taxes promptly.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white;"></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"The truth is that the people have been carrying out their civic obligations and somehow we have been returning those obligations with the services that we have provided and you found out that this year; we have actually made more IGR than last year under a recession. So, somehow, we need to appreciate all the people that have made this to happen and then I look at the way I could use Arts, Entertainment, Tourism and Hospitality not only to promote the excellence that Lagos has always been known for but to provide another sector of revenue for Lagos State and I felt one of the ways to go about that was to invite our old celebrities that we seem to have forgotten and spend an evening with them,” he said</span></blockquote>

with Recession in 2016, we still generate more revenue than that 2015- Gov Ambode

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Senators arguing for the fidelity clause to be dropped from heterosexual marriage in Italy

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to LIB, i<span style="background-color: white;">f the bill which was presented to the Italian Senate last year is approved, married couples in the country will no longer have to promise to be faithful to each other.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The proposed amendment to Italy's Civil Code would remove the word "fidelity" from Italian marriage contracts.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white;"></a><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;"> According to the senators who have signed the bill, the promise not to cheat is a "cultural legacy from an outdated and obsolete vision of marriage, family, and the rights and duties of spouses"</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">They cited a previous ruling from Italy's top court, which declared that judges could not legally place the blame for a marriage separation "on the mere failure to observe the duty of fidelity".</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Instead, the other party has to prove that their spouse's infidelity led to the irreconcilable breakdown of the marriage.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The bill which has now been passed to its Judiciary Committee, goes on to argue that there is an element of sexism in the current wording. It was originally included to refer to the woman's sexual fidelity, in order to determine whether children were "legitimate", they noted. </span></span><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Until not long ago, only the fidelity of the woman was sufficient to guarantee the 'legitimacy' of children,  the bill notes, saying that since the "hateful" legal distinction between "legitimate" and "natural" children was scrapped in a 2012 ruling, there is no longer a need for the clause.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The senators assert that fidelity should not be thought of only in sexual terms, but also in terms of "trust and respect", and that while it was an "important value", it should not be up to the State to impose it by law.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">  </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">References to fidelity and faithfulness were removed from Italy's civil unions bill which was passed earlier this year - a change which provoked outcry from some of the LGBT community, who saw this as a failure to acknowledge the parity of same-sex and opposite-sex romantic relationships.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Instead, that bill simply refers to "moral and material support" and "cohabitation".</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Laura Cantini, one of the senators arguing for the fidelity clause to be dropped from heterosexual marriage, said that the wording of the civil unions bill is "a much more advanced model".</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">  </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">According to a  2013 poll, 55 percent of men and one in three women in Italy admitted to cheating on their partners. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Source: The Local Italy/LIB</span></span>

Senators arguing for the fidelity clause to be dropped from heterosexual marriage in Italy

According to LIB, i f the bill which was presented to the Italian Senate last year is approved, married couples in the country will no long...