Guests at Don Jazzy's Birthday Party Receive N120k Each as Birthday Souvenirs (Photos)

Guests at Don Jazzy's Birthday Party Receive N120k Each as Birthday Souvenirs (Photos)

 

 

Mavin boss, Don Jazzy yesterday turned 33 and had a star studded party last night to celebrate.

Everyone who attended Don Jazzy's birthday party went home with at least $600 = N120,000 as birthday souvenirs. And there were at least 30 guests present.

 

 

 

Another Container Falls Off Truck And Lands On Okada In Lagos (See Photos)

Another Container Falls Off Truck And Lands On Okada In Lagos (See Photos)

 

 

Lagosians at the popular Rainbow bus stop on the Oshodi-Apapa expressway today witnessed a forty feet container fall off a truck and landed on a motorcycle, popularly called ‘Okada’.

 
According to popular blogger, Linda Ikeji, the truck was trying
to over take another truck, when it tripped on the pedestrian path and fell, injuring the Okada rider.
The scene of the incident was filled with many on-lookers who trooped out to catch a glimpse of what had happened.

The incident is coming two months after the Lagos state government reiterated its determination to ensure strict enforcement of the Lagos state Road Traffic Law 2012, which restricts trailers and other long vehicles from plying the metropolis between the hours of 6am to 9pm.
The state government had vowed to go tough on any trailer and long vehicle that contravenes the law as such vehicle will be impounded and made to pay the stipulated fine accordingly.

Recall that on Wednesday, September 2, a heavy duty container skidded off the Ojuelegba bridge in Lagos and landed on two private cars, crushing the occupants of the vehicles.

Two days after the incident, another articulated truck skidded off along Ikorodu-Shagamu expressway causing serious vehicular obstruction in the axis.
On Friday, October 30, a similar accident occurred around the busy Bonny Camp bus stop in Victoria Island, Lagos. 

See photos from the accident scene below:

Nigeria Now World’s 22nd Largest Economy – IMF

Nigeria Now World’s 22nd Largest Economy – IMF

 

  Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun

 

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has listed Nigeria as the world’s 22nd largest economy.

 

According to a survey by the IMF, with an annual growth rate of 5% during the course of 2015, Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) is set to total $1.105trn in 2015, representing a 5% growth from last year. 

Th report which was published on the website of the global body stated that despite global crude oil prices falling by about three quarters over the last year, Nigeria has defied the negative growth that afflicted several crude-producing countries.

 

Africa’s two other economies on the list Egypt and South Africa, who were ranked 24th and 30th respectively, enjoyed GDP growth rates of 5.2% and 2.4% respectively.

In terms of growth, Nigeria, was also the sixth highest achiever as only China, India, Egypt, Pakistan and the Philippines recorded higher GDP growth.

 

Over the last 15 years, Nigeria has enjoyed annual GDP growth rates of about 7% but with crude oil prices falling to about $40 a barrel from over $100 a barrel, it is no surprise that growth has slowed.

Despite this, the economy continues to diversify and the country remains on course to achieve its goal of becoming one of the world’s top 20 economies by 2020. 

 

Below is the list as released by the IMF:

1. China: US$19.510 trillion (up 7.9% from 2014)
2. United States: $17.968 trillion (up 3.6%)
3. India: $8.027 trillion (up 8.3%)
4. Japan: $4.842 trillion (up 1.6%)
5. Germany: $3.842 trillion (up 2.5%)
6. Russia: $3.474 trillion (down -2.9%)
7. Brazil: $3.208 trillion (down -2.1%)
8. Indonesia: $2.839 trillion (up 5.7%)
9. United Kingdom: $2.660 trillion (up 3.5%)
10. France: $2.647 trillion (up 2.2%)
11. Mexico: $2.220 trillion (up 3.3%)
12. Italy: $2.174 trillion (up 1.8%)
13. South Korea: $1.849 trillion (up 3.7%)
14. Saudi Arabia: $1.681 trillion (up 4.4%)
15. Spain: $1.636 trillion (up 4.1%)
16. Canada: $1.628 trillion (up 2%)
17. Turkey: $1.576 trillion (up 4.1%)
18. Iran: $1.382 trillion (up 1.8%)
19. Australia: $1.137 trillion (up 3.4%)
20. Taiwan: $1.114 trillion (up 3.2%)
21. Thailand: $1.107 trillion (up 3.5%)
22. Nigeria: $1.105 trillion (up 5%)
23. Poland: $1.003 trillion (up 4.5%)
24. Egypt: $996 billion (up 5.2%)
26. Pakistan: $930.8 billion (up 5.3%)
27. Netherlands: $831.4 billion (up 2.8%)
28. Malaysia: $813.5 billion (up 5.7%)
29. Philippines: $742.3 billion (up 7%)
30. South Africa: $724 billion (up 2.4%)

 

I Never Praised Tinubu – Prof Wole Soyinka

I Never Praised Tinubu – Prof Wole Soyinka

 

 

Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature has refuted the claims that he had praised the goodness of aBola Tinubu, the ex-governor of Lagos state and leader of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).

A report making rounds in different media had cited Soyinka as admiring Tinubu’s maturity and political sacrifice for “saving Nigeria from the danger of falling into one party state”. 

 

However, Premium Times reports that famous writer in an e-mail on Thursday, November 26, distanced himself from the full report, saying he had never said what was attributed to him.

 

“It is difficult to prescribe for the sort of mind that finds itself so inadequate that it must foist its opinions on others, and with such confident sense of impunity. Kindly assist me in letting the public know that I am not in anyway connected with the publication that has just been forwarded to me,” the professor stated.

 

“I can only yet again recommend my recent “occasional” publication – The Republic of Liars – to the public as a cautionary tract, while the growing population of victims await the routine descent of the full operational wrath of Internet policing on all impudent impersonators.”