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By Jonathan Nda- Isaiah, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday directed that the budget support loan facility for states which ended today  be extended until other states claims are paid. This was disclosed by the Gombe State governor, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo after the National Economic Council ( NEC)meeting yesterday presided over by Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa. He said, “Although Finance Minister presented that the Budget Support Loan Facility has been fully disbursed, she announced that the Acting President has directed the facility to continue until other states’ claim are paid.” LEADERSHIP recalls that the Budget Support Loan Facility is an initiative of the Buhari administration to help states get boost in their funding in the light of the dwindling FAAC allocations. The conditional budget support facility was designed earlier this year to provide financial relief to state governments. The facility is based on the implementation of a compr...

\ The Nigeria in Diaspora Monitoring Group (United Kingdom Chapter) has faulted the recent media report, which alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari has been on “life support for 20-days. Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, had in a statement he personally urged Nigerians to pray for the President as all was not well with him. “Like every other Nigerian, I do not wish the president dead, I have therefore maintained dignified silence since we were told that the President embarked on his second medical trip abroad this year,” Fayose had said. NDMG while condemning the claim, described Fayose as a low jobber, who is only out to dent the administration of president Buhari. Adeka Onyilo, NDMG Coordinator, in an electronic statement made available on Thursday, the diaspora body berated Fayose for making crude remark about the office and person of the president. Onyilo said, “It is most ridiculous the story is coming from no other person than the governor of Ekiti ...

  Candidates have been directed to to print their examination slip today 28th June, 2017 for the mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). A statement by the director of Media, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Dr.Fabian Benjamin‎, said andidates slated for the mop-up examination scheduled to hold on Saturday July 1st, 2017  nationwide are to visit the Board’s website on  www.jamb.org.ng  to print the e-slip or their e-mail and profile created by the candidates. He said, ”A bulk sms has equally been sent to their telephone numbers provided by the candidates during the registration. The board implore sthe candidates to ensure that their e slips are printed on or before the examination as no excuse will be entertained.” The board while reiterating its unavowed commitment to deliver on her mandate,urged the candidate to avail themselves of the window of  opportunity created by it widen access and give equal op...

R2-D2 prop from 'Star Wars' fetches a healthy price An R2-D2 droid that was used in several Star Wars  films has sold at auction for nearly $3 million. The auction house Profiles in History said the 43-inch tall unit that was compiled from parts used throughout filming of the original trilogy sold for $2.76 million at an auction Wednesday. There was no information about who purchased the droid, which was the most expensive item offered in a movie memorabilia auction that included numerous props from the Star Wars  franchise. Other items up for sale included Luke Skywalker's lightsaber from the first two films, which sold for $450,000 and Darth Vader's helmet from the original film sold for $96,000. The Calabasas, California-based Profiles in History had estimated the droid could fetch up to $2 million before Wednesday's sale...

  Julia Munslow 35 minutes ago MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, President Trump. (Photos: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; Carlos Barria/Reuters) “Morning Joe” co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough on Friday fired back at a Twitter attack from President Trump, saying he is “not mentally equipped” to continue watching their show.The pair penned a scathing column published in the Washington Post to respond to Trump’s Thursday tweets, in which he referred to Brzezinski as “low I.Q. crazy” and Scarborough as “psycho.” They also appeared on their MSNBC show Friday morning, saying they delayed vacation plans to be there. “It’s been fascinating and frightening and really sad for our country,” Brzezinski said when asked by fellow host Willie Geist for her reaction to the tweets. “I’m fine. My family brought me up really tough, this is nothing,” she said. “But ...

Twenty years ago this summer, Gina Gershon appeared in one of the all-time great warm weather blockbusters, John Woo’s 1997 action classic  Face/Off , in which Nicolas Cage and John Travolta switched faces. Flash-forward to summer 2017, and she and Cage are reuniting in the new film,  Inconceivable , which feels like a descendent of ’90s thrillers like The Hand that Rocks the Cradle  and  Sleeping with the Enemy . “It’s the most normal characters we had both played,” Gershon tells Yahoo Movies, revealing that she and Cage had been in each other’s lives long before  Face/Off . “Nic and I kind of knew each other during high school. It’s a funny thing when you have known someone for a long time; it seems like you’re still 15 or something.” (Watch our full Facebook conversation with Gershon above.) In Inconceivable , which arrives in theaters and on demand June 30, Gershon and Cage play Angela and Brian, a married couple trying to conceive a second ch...

Back in his natural element, President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening gave a freewheeling, 70-minute speech at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that had all the signatures of his presidential campaign. Appealing to his core supporters, Trump exaggerated his accomplishments, railed against journalists (the “fake news”) and Democratic lawmakers (the “obstructionists” ), and derided as a “witch hunt” the ongoing investigations into whether his campaign c...