FG SETS TO GENERATE 15 MILLION WORTH OF JOBS SAYS SENATOR UDO UDOMA.

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, has disclosed that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has strong plans to bring down unemployment rate in the country, by creating at least, 15 million jobs for Nigerians by the year 2020 as captured in the recently launched Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP).

Speaking at a news conference on ERGP on Tuesday in Abuja, the Minister disclosed that the 15 million jobs will be created in agriculture, manufacturing, construction, services and particularly among the youth.

He also stated that the implementation of the plan would deliver some key outcomes including generation of at least, 10 gigawatt of electricity by 2020. According to the Minister, the intents of the government include:

“We want agriculture to also grow by 6.9 per cent over the Plan period; we want self-sufficiency in rice and wheat 2018 and 2020 at the end of the plan period.

“We want 60 per cent reduction in imports of refined petroleum products by 2018 and to become a net exporter of refined crude by 2020.

“We expect an average of 4.6 per cent average real GDP (Gross Domestic Growth) growth rate over the Plan period with 7 per cent by 2020; we want to achieve single digit inflation rate by 2020.”

“We want to increase crude oil output from 2.2 million barrel per day (mbpd) to 2.5 mbpd by 2020.

“We want to achieve at 10 gigawatt of operational electricity capacity by 2020.’’

“YOUR ‘PUNANI’ CAN MAKE YOU RICH, USE IT WISELY” SLAY QUEEN ADVISES WOMEN.

Mixed reactions and criticisms by Nigerians have trailed a young slay queen following her controversial post where she advised ladies to use their private for fame and wealth. The Nigerian slay queen identified simply as Sunbo Ap has taken to popular social networking platform, Snapchat, to advise Nigerian ladies on how to make judicious use of their private part. She posted her photo and wrote: “Use ur punani wisely, it would either make u broke, famous or rich, Don’t just open ur legs 4 fried rice chicken n salad.”

ACTING PRESIDENT OSIBANJO SET TO SIGN 2017 BUDGET, INAUGURATES NEW MINISTERS.

Though report of the three-man Presidential Committee that investigated the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, and the Director-General, Nigerian Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ayo Oke, is yet to be made public, both men stand suspended, a Presidency source has said. Investigations by Vanguard, last night, revealed that chairman of the committee, Acting President Yemi

Kola Abiola Speaks On His Marriage To Babangida’s Daughter (Read full gist)

Kola Abiola, the eldest son of Late Chief MKO Abiola, has finally spoken on his alleged marriage to Aisha Babangida, the eldest daughter of Nigeria’s former Military President Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB). IBB and MKO Abiola were friends until the latter contested and won the June 12, 1993, presidential election, but the former would later cancel the election. Their relationship went sour, but before the annulment, Kola and Aisha were allegedly dating. At a time, it was speculated that they secretly got married. Rumour-mongers said the marriage failed after IBB annulled the election of MKO Abiola, which the late business mogul convincingly won under the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In an interview, Kola said they never got married. According to him, they’ve been friends before politics. “We never got married. I had known her way before politics and, if I wanted to, I would have married her long before the election, but it would not have made an

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