* Senate passes MTEF 5 months after presentation, slashes debt plan * Twitter puts limits on daily accounts you can follow to curb spammers

APRIL 9, 2019 'State governors are very irresponsible' - Senator Shehu Sani Senator Shehu Sani has criticized governors who relinquish their stately [Forward](  [Like](  [Tweet](  [Pin](  [+1](  [in](  [1st news logo real](  [ipower]( APRIL 9, 2019 [***] [shehu sani]( 'State governors are very irresponsible' - Senator Shehu Sani Senator Shehu Sani has criticized governors who relinquish their stately responsibilities only to seek succour at the nation's capital, Abuja. Sani in a tweet late on Monday, April 8 said these governors spend days in Abuja under the guise of meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. He said the governors spend Monday to Thursday in the FCT and on Friday they head to the mosques to pray with the president. [Read more]( [***] [Ibrahim-Magu]( Court orders substituted service on Acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu An FCT High Court in Apo, on Tuesday, April 9 granted leave for substituted service on the acting Chairman of the Economic And Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu. Justice Silvanus Oriji, gave the order after listening to the submissions of Mike Ozekhome, counsel to an Abuja-based lawyer, Monday Ubani and a former Senator, Christopher Enai. [Read more]( [***] [PETER-OBI]( Obi calls for probe of Imo Airport fire incident The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Peter Obi, has lamented Monday’s fire incident at the Arrival Section of the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport Owerri, Imo State, calling on the Federal Government to investigate the incident. Also Read: ‘Igbos are failures in present political dispensation’ – Okorocha The former governor called on the Federal Government “to immediately do everything necessary to determine the immediate cause of the arson, [Read more]( [***] [Senate]( Senate passes MTEF 5 months after presentation, slashes debt plan After over five months, the Senate has passed the 2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper. The MTEF and FSP are documented papers that contain the short term rolling plan of the government and the framework for preparing the annual budget. The MTEF provides the framework of designing a budget as enshrined in section 11 (3) of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2007. [Read more]( [***] [dan-ali-mansur]( FG warns traditional rulers, individuals in Zamfara against colluding with bandits The Federal Government (FG) on Tuesday, April 9 warned some traditional rulers and highly placed individuals in Zamfara against colluding with bandits in the state to perpetuate nefarious activities. The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, in a statement issued by his spokesman, by Tukur Gusau, on Tuesday said fresh intelligence had exposed the complicity of some “highly-placed traditional rulers” in the ongoing killings of Nigerians across the northern parts of the country. [Read more]( [***] [PZ advert]( [***] [Benjamin Netanyahu]( Isreal election: Body cameras mark buildup to results as Netanyahu seek fifth term Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a record fifth term in office in what is looking like Israel's tightest election in years. The tussle is widely seen as a contest between PM Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud Party, and Mr. Gantz, head of the centrist Blue and White alliance. Perhaps adding to the electric atmosphere is the fact that Netanyahu is being invested for corruption charges, something he decribes as merely a 'witch-hunt' orchestrated by political detractors. [Read more]( [***] [Alexei Navalny]( ECHR rules Russia violated Navalny's rights in 2014 arrest, Kremlin disagrees The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Russia violated the rights of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny by placing him under house arrest in 2014 and imposing other restrictive measures on him. Navalny was held under house arrest for months from February 2014 while he and his brother Oleg were investigated for embezzlement in a case his supporters called politically motivated. [Read more]( [***] [tariffs]( US wants to put tariffs on $11B in EU goods The United States wants to put tariffs on $11.2 billion worth of EU goods — from airplanes to Gouda cheese and olives — to offset what it says are unfair European subsidies for plane maker Airbus. While the size of the tariffs is small compared with the hundreds of billions the U.S. and China are taxing in their trade war, it suggests a breakdown in talks with the European Union over trade at a time when the economy is already slowing sharply. 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The news was announced on Monday. Having tried repeatedly to fix the Android version of the app through ongoing updates, Snapchat’s developer team eventually realized that the underlying issues could only be solved by completely rebuilding the software. [Read more]( [***] [Tweet]( Twitter puts limits on daily accounts you can follow to curb spammers Twitter has put a limit on the number of accounts that users can follow in one day to 400. In the past, a Twitter account could follow up to 1,000 new accounts each day. Understandably, spammers latched onto this and leveraged the opportunity to use automated accounts which would repeatedly follow and unfollow the same account. [Read more]( [***] [Amira]( Tunisian human rights activist seek to democratize US college financial aid system Tunisian human rights activist Amira Yahyaoui couldn’t go to college. Not because she couldn’t afford it; where she comes from, college is virtually free. She lost the opportunity to pursue higher education, to finish high school, even, when she was exiled from Tunisia at age 17, under the repressive regime of the country’s former President, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. [Read more]( [***] [spotify]( Spotify launches new streaming metrics to track how people interact with ads Spotify is introducing new analytics tools to help artists and their teams track responses to their ads and their effectiveness. The new streaming conversion metrics will show how Spotify listeners reacted to a particular ad campaign — whether they clicked through to listen, saved the music or added it to a playlist, for example. The new tools also can detail whether the campaign did better with existing fans who have been streaming the music already, or if an ad worked to hook new fans. [Read more]( [***] [AIRTEL]( [Health]( [***] [PUBIC-HAIR]( Think shaving your pubic hair is more hygienic? Ladies here is why it could be dangerous People who trim their public hair have an 80 percent higher chance of having a sexually transmitted disease, a new study suggests. And the link between grooming one's privates and harbouring an STD is stronger in those who groom more frequently or more intensively, researchers found. In fact, groomers who removed all public hair, at least 11 times a year were up to four times more likely to have an STD than those who never groomed. [Read more]( [***] [chili-pepper]( Study shows Chili Pepper compound, Capsaicin could delay lung cancer A new study finds that capsaicin, the pungent compound in chili peppers, can successfully stop lung cancer metastasis. According to the American Cancer Society, lung cancer is "by far the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women" in the United States. The Society also estimates that 228,150 people will develop lung cancer and 142,670 people will die from the condition in 2019. [Read more]( [***] [beauty - gene]( Can we trace beauty to a specific gene? What is the genetic basis for facial attractiveness? A new study investigates.Few would argue that being considered attractive is a social advantage. Studies have shown that people who are deemed attractive are more likely to get better jobs, perform better academically, and make more money. 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