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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the Bank Registration Verification (BVN) deadline to Oct. 31, to accommodate customers who had thronged the banks to beat an earlier closing date. This was contained in a circular issued by the apex bank and signed by Mr Dipo Fatokun, Director, Banking and Payment System Department, in Abuja on Tuesday. “It has come to our notice that the BVN registration has elicited tremendous interest from the Nigerian bank customers who crowded the banking halls in order to beat the deadline. “In view of the foregoing, it has become imperative for the banks to extend the timeline for all customers to have the BVN. “The deadline for the enrolment is hereby extended from June 30 to October 31,” it stated. According to the statement, the extension is expected to facilitate a smooth completion of the registration exercise. It further stated that the extension would give Nigerian bank customers in the Diaspora, ample time to enrol into the pr

Register for Kaffy's Dance Workshop and Camp Don't know what to do this summer? Wondering where to take your kids? Are you a teenager who wants to explore? Or an adult that needs a getaway? Register now for the Dance Camp 2015. Now open for all ages youngest being 7 years. The camp is designed to use the art of dance as a tool for mind building and empowerment for young people capturing them from childhood into maturity. Young minds need to be fed mentally and physically. The art of dance possesses power which is beyond simple movements. It is a craft smith of the productive mind. Kaffy  is also helping Parents to ease the burden of occupying the long hours which their kids have during vacation by allowing them become engaged in Dance curriculum which helps in developing their body and minds. Schools and colleges can register their students for the camp. Dance crews or groups are also eligible. Schools, family and crews are eligible for group discounts.

Photos: Photos: Kate Henshaw stuns for Made Magazine new issue Actress Kate Henshaw is the cover girl for the new issue of Made magazine in stunning photos shot by famed photographer, Paul Ukonu. More photos after the cut.. Actress Kate Henshaw is the cover girl for the new issue of Made magazine in stunning photos shot by famed photographer, Paul Ukonu. More photos after the cut..

MI & Ice Prince announced as new CEO & VP of Choc City music label Former Chocolate City music label CEO Audu Maikori made the announcement just now on social media. The new CEO is MI Abaga while the New Vice President is Ice Prince. Congrats to them!

30 Days in Atlanta wins the highest number of awards in Ghana West Africa's Highest grossing movie, 30 Days In Atlanta won 4 awards from 15 Nominations at the maiden edition of the 'Golden Movie Awards' held on Saturday, June 27, at the State House Banquet Hall, Ghana. This is coming just as AY the Producer of the Movie is preparing to do a sequel with the Hollywood and Nollywood Stars in August, here in Nigeria. 30 Days In Atlanta won The Golden Comedy Movie of the Year, AY gets the award for the Golden Comedy Actor, Ramsey Nouah won The Golden Supporting Actor, while Patrick Odjegba went home with Award for the Golden Editor. The movie which clinched the highest number of awards in Ghana, simply means that the Future is bright for Nollywood, and for AY the Producers of the Record–Smashing Blockbuster. Congrats to everyone

Yemi Alade is of the opinion that it is wrong for the African stars to receive their awards before the show….. Yemi Alade  has spoken out against the  BET Awards. The Nigerian pop star was nominated for the Best International Act – Africa at the 2015 BET awards. But she opted not to travel, instead remaining in Nigeria. She has spoken out on social media against the organization of the awards.  Yemi Alade  is of the opinion that it is wrong for the African stars to receive their awards before the show. “By the way…@bet_intl AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY.!!! ..IT IS WRONG TO NOMINATE HUGE AFRICAN STARS AND PUBLICLY TRY TO HUMILIATE AFRICA.WHY ON EARTH IS THE AFRICAN CATEGORY OF THE AWARDS HELD HOURS BEFORE THE “MAIN EVENT? IF AFRICAN ARTISTS ARE NOT WORTHY IN YOUR SIGHT.” Yemi Alade  went further calling for the cancellation, deletion and omission of the category, if the winners will not get a chance to receive their honors at the main event. “PLS BY ALL MEANS CANCEL,DELETE,OMM

Former national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande has described the ongoing leadership crisis in the National Assembly as a rebellion financed by some persons among the elite and oil subsidy barons to frustrate President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption stance. He has therefore urged Mr President and the APC governors to begin a damage control measure that would help in reconstructing “the party in its claim to bring about the promised change before the party’s shortcomings begin to aggravate the challenges of governance in their hands.” According to Akande, with the whole conspiracy blown open, it is doubtful if the present party leadership can muster the required capacity to arrest the drift. The barons have enough money to spend and they’ve succeeded in imposing Saraki at all cost. What next

Pres. Buhari today inaugurated the National Economic Council which will be chaired by VP Yemi Osinbajo, while all the 36 state governors and the Governor of the central bank Godwin Emefiele are to serve as members. The team will be responsible for advising President Buhari on all issues relating to the Nigerian economy. More photos below;

•Buhari Buhari to governors: Pay workers’ salaries Posted by:  Augustine Ehikioya, Abuja   in  Featured ,  News Update   2 hours ago President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday charged state governors to seek efficient ways to settle unpaid workers’ salaries in their states. Many of the state governments have been hit by cash crunch and are owing huge workers’ salaries, among other indebtedness. Inaugurating the National Economic Council (NEC) headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Buhari also asked government at all levels to be more prudent in the management of their resources. He urged state governors to look inward in order to boost their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to supplement income from the Federation Account. He said: “Your Excellencies, it is evident that the task of ensuring growth, job creation and equity, is quite enormous. Consequently, we must kick-start this process by cultivating a culture of prudent management of

Edwin Okon fired, interim coach Danjuma takes over Super Falcons Photo by Getty Images Previous By Shina Oludare 2 Jun 29, 2015 13:54:00 The Nigeria Football Federation has dismissed the Falcons head coach with his assistant to take charge on a short-time basis till a substantial handler is announced The Nigeria Football Federation has announced the sack of Edwin Okon as coach of the Super Falcons.He has been replaced with his assistant; Christopher Danjuma who will handle the team’s Olympics qualifier against Equatorial Giunea until a substantive trainer is employed. Okon’s job had come under intense scrutiny with the Falcons shaky start of the 2015 Fifa Women’s World Cup as his team were down before clawing back to a 3-3 draw in Canada. A further defeat in Australia and the USA made his tenure look like coming to an inglorious end after a fairy tale year where he led the Super Falcons to victory at the 2014 African Women’s Championship

The Czech goalkeeper has completed his move to north London despite Jose Mourinho being keen for him to stay, ending his 11-year association with the Premier League champions Arsenal  have completed the signing of goalkeeper  Petr Cech  from London rivals  Chelsea  on a long-term contract for an undisclosed fee. The 33-year-old completed his medical on Friday and has now signed a £100,000-a-week contract, immediately making him one of the club's highest earners alongside Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez. The £11 million capture of Cech represents Arsenal's first signing of the summer, though Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho had been hugely reluctant to allow the veteran goalkeeper to join a rival. Mourinho was keen to retain Cech as backup to Thibaut Courtois, but owner Roman Abramovich wanted to show respect for the Czech's 11 years of distinguished service so ceded to his wishes for first-team football as well as his desire to keep his young family in London . COMMENT  |

Oodua People’s Congress’ leader, Otunba Gani Adams has warned President Muhammadu Buhari to be weary of bad advisers if he does not want to suffer the same fate as the immediate past president Goodluck Jonathan. He said Jonathan lost credibility because he was surrounded and misled by bad heads who would usually pose as loyalists. Adams said that Nigerians are longing for true change, noting that if Buhari let bad advisers make up his cabinet, Nigerians would lose confidence in his government, which might result to his destruction. “The former President Jonathan was surrounded by bad advisers who made him lose credibility. Buhari must not appoint ministers that he wouldn’t be able to control. The people in his cabinet should be accountable,” he told Vanguard. The OPC boss highlighted unstable policy, epileptic power outage, corruption, improper planning, high cost of governance as areas the country needs urgent attention

Few days ago, a rumor surfaced online about small doctor allegedly arrested With Marijuna “Igbo” at Lagos Airport. Various versions of the story have emerged since then. Small doctor’s management would like to categorically state that these stories are completely false and baseless. The news was first published by exclusivebaze.Com. All effort to get across to the management of the blog proved abortive. We would like to make it very clear:  THERE IS NO TRUTH TO THIS STORY. We would also like to request that the media houses that have already published this story issue retractions without any delay. When striving to maintain journalistic integrity, it is important for the press to make sure that they have irrefutable evidence before publishing potentially harmful news such as this. In this case, there has been no confirmation of the authenticity of the rumor. We do not know what the true motives are behind the peddling of such a vicious rumor, but we would like to

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress ( APC ) Chief John Odigie -Oyegun yesterday wrote to Senate President Bukola Saraki and House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara, stating the party’ s position on principal officers for the eighth National a$$embly. The letter to Saraki , reads : “Please find below for your necessary action names of principal officers approved by the party, after excessive consultations for the 8 th Senate as follows : Senator Ahmed Lawan( Majority Leader)–North -East ; Prof. Sola Adeyeye ( Chief Whip )–South-West ; Sen . George Akume ( Deputy Majority Leader ) —North -Central; and Sen . Abu Ibrahim ( Deputy Chief Whip ) —North -West . A similar letter to the Speaker says : “Please find below for your necessary action names of principal officers approved by the party after extensive consultations for the eighth House of Representativesas follows : Hon . Femi Gbajabiamila ( House Leader) South-West ; Hon . Alha$$an Ado Doguwa ( Deputy House

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan awarded 72 licences for Radio broadcasting to his political a$$ociates and friends few weeks before the end of his administration using irregular procedures and documentation. Findings by Daily Trust on the allocations list showed that Jonathan’s friends and key members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) such as Chief Bode George, Ibadan-born industrialist, and chairman of the finance committee of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Otunba Funso Lawal, an oil mogul and a friend to the former president, Chief Emeka Offor, among others were among the beneficiaries. Others are former National Chairman of the PDP Chief Barnabas Gemade, national coordinator of the Transformation Amba$$adors of Nigeria (TAN) Patrick Ubah as well as some former ministers Olajumoke Akinjide and Labaran Maku among others. Some of the irregularities discovered by Daily Trust in the allocation process include the politicians use of companies not registered to run

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President Buhari has assured Nigerians that he would recover billions of dollars stolen by past politicians and bureaucrats of the past administration. This was part of the agenda discussed as he met with Governor’s in the presidential villa in Abuja today. He said “The next three months may be hard, but billions of dollars can be recovered, and we will do our best,” the president told the governors. He warned that the days of impunity, lack of accountability and fiscal recklessness in the management of national resources are over in Nigeria. “There are financial and administrative instructions in every government parastatal and agency. But all these were thrown to the dogs in the past. Honestly, our problems are great, but we will do our best to surmount them,” he stated.Information also reaching FonkGist confirm that a politician from kogi state use by  GEJ to launder public fund s has also made some returns back to federal pulse. s has also made some returns back to feder

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Arsenal have completed the signing of Chelsea’s Petr Cech and the goalkeeper could face his former club as soon as August 2 in the Community Shield at Wembley. Talks over an £11million deal have been ongoing since the season ended and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has finally made the 33-year-old his first signing of the summer. Jose Mourinho was reluctant to sell Cech to a direct Barclays Premier League rival but, although there has been no official confirmation,FonkyGist understand the transfer has gone through but no official statement from both club yet.

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday said that he inherited a “‎virtually empty treasury” with debts running into hundreds of millions of Dollars and appealed to the media to explain the true position to Nigerians so that “they won’t match on us”. The President who spoke while meeting with members of the State House Press Corps said it was a disgrace that Nigeria is not able to pay workers salaries adding that this was as a result of bad management. According to him, there was ‎already a lot of pressure on his government due to the huge expectations of Nigerians on what they desire from the administration. While calling on the media to cooperate with his administration‎, President Buhari said he choose Femi Adesina to be his Adviser because he is ‘one of the best’. President Muhammadu Buhari attending to some files in his office as he resumed duties at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Photo by Abayomi Adeshida “It is not by accident that I got the best of you to be the special ad

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday ordered the removal of all military checkpoints set up in the wake of Boko Haram activities across the country. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Aliyu Ismaila, disclosed this to State House correspondents after a meeting Buhari had with service chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. “The President had instructed the Chief of Defence Staff to get the Chief of Army Staff and Inspector-General of Police to  remove all the military men along the roads across the country,” he said. Ismaila said the meeting had further encouraged the security chiefs to do more in the war against insurgency because of the leadership being provided by the President who is a retired military officer. He said the service chiefs left the meeting happier because the President updated and enriched their strategic plans. He added that the meeting also discussed the movement of the command centre to the North-East. He said they briefed the President