Retirement of NAFDAC DG approved by FG

The Nigerian government has approved the retirement of the acting director general of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Yetunde Oni.

The directive for Mrs. Oni’s ‘immediate retirement’ was granted by the R.P. Ugo, a Permanent Secretary in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.The directive, dated September 28, was in response to a letter written to the SGF by Mrs. Oni over the worker’s unrest in the regulatory agency.NAFDAC workers commenced an indefinite strike last week demanding among others the immediate removal of Mrs. Oni, whom they said was already due for retirement.

Goovernors request for federal roads to be handed over to them for rehabilitation

 

The demand was announced Thursday by the governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, at the end of the monthly meeting of National Economic Council, NEC, which held at the presidential villa Abuja.

Mr. Umahi said the failure of most federal Roads in the country was of concern to governors. Mr. Umahi said NEC has “recommended release of some federal government roads to state governors for prompt rehabilitation”.
He also said the NEC directed the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, to come up with modalities that will reduce pressure on the roads in order to preserve their quality.

Methods of texting your website performance

So you’ve replaced with Apache with Nginx, or put Varnish out in front of your main webserver. Or maybe you just spent time converting all your main site images to CSS Data URLs. Either way, you’re now ready to taste the fruits of your work via speed tests. Here are some of the best resources for doing that.

1. Google Page Speed Online | Google
   This is a brand-new service from Google that replicates it’s Page Speed service in online form. It’s focus is not on displaying a visual of the response, but rather on giving recommendations on how to improve speed.
2. Site-perf.com | Site Performance
   This site is very responsive and lets you test from a few different servers — two in the U.S. and two overseas.
3. Websiteoptimization.com | Website Optimization
   This service (and it’s accompanying documentation and guidance around optimization) is one of the best at giving recommendations on what to fix.
4. Whichloadsfaster.com | Which Site Loads Faster?
   This site allows you to compare your site against another to see which loads faster. It also lets you do multiple tests in a row to get a better baseline. Hint: if you load faster than Google’s front page then you’re doing well.
5. tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ | Pingdom Load Time Test
   Pingdom’s test service is perhaps the cleanest in terms of presentation. I find myself using this one quite often.
   
6. Browser Load Time Stopwatch | LifeHacker
   This is also one of my most-used options for testing speed. It’s different than the others because it’s not a web page, but rather a piece of JavaScript that runs. You add the link to your bookmarks and execute it to test the page you’re currently on.
7. Google Chrome Page Speed | Extension
   The Page Speed chrome extension is phenomenal for getting results that look like a local application in terms of detail and presentation.
8. Google Chrome Developer Tools | Built-in Tool
   Many don’t realize that Google Chrome has a wicked-powerful set of tools built in. By opening the tools from the options menu you not only have the classics that let you manipulate JavaScript, see page layout, etc., but you also have a network display that lets you see what took the longest to load. It’s like a mini Page Speed display without the extension.
9. YSlow | Browser Extension
   YSlow is like Google’s Page Speed, only not quite as advanced and available for more platforms. It’s now available for Chrome as well.
10. webpagetest.org | Web Page Test
    This is another very solid web-based test that gives extremely detailed output with regard to what the request looked like from the browser.
11. Google Analytics | Google
    It’s now possible to track load speed through Google Analytics. Simply get the latest version of the tracking script that has the functionality in it, and you’ll see it as an option within your metrics.
12. Google’s Webmaster Tools
    Google’s Webmaster Tools has a Page Speed menu under Labs that shows you how fast your various pages have been loading. The options is very beta, however, as it gives you no control over what to test and not much information on what has been tested.
13. Pingdom’s Web Monitoring Service
    This offering doesn’t test on demand like the others, but rather is an ongoing service that continuously tests pages that you define to let you know how their responsiveness changes over time. It’s very helpful for noticing how various techniques, like CloudFlare or Varnish, improve site load times. And since their servers are located all over the world, you get to see how fast your site loads from different countries as well.
14. Blitz.io. It is a real-deal traffic simulation platform.

If you know of any I should add to this list, let me know.

This lady love her boo wella see where she tatooed his pix on her body...

A lady has gone viral online after she shared photos of herself with her boyfriend’s face tattooed on her throat.

This has caused speculations on the Internet as some people see it as Relationship goals while others see no good in what she has done.

See some reactions below;
Snow Didy Nigerians HV low mentality.. Y do we HV negative thoughts.. She loves the guy and that’s the best way she can show..at least if she wanna cheat she did b careful..if he dump her no p..but now that the love is strong it worth it…so y all shouting stupidity are just still in the stone age..primitive low thinkers…I don’t do tattoos but I respect every one believe.. Hypocrites… Yeye people them…my sister tattoo on Ur clitoris jare!!

Kylie & Travis Scott NOT Talking Marriage AT ALL

Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott are not ready to get married despite they're having a baby.

Sources connected with Kylie and Travis tell TMZ, they both feel they haven't known each other long enough to tie the knot. As one very connected source puts it, "They're still trying to figure out their relationship."


Kylie has no issues about being an unwed mother. Fact is, she's following in the footsteps of Kim and Kourtney. Khloe is in the same boat.
They are not even discussing marriage, but they're talking a lot about raising their daughter.
TMZ was told Kylie's the one who really wanted the baby. They met in April and she's 5 months along -- she got pregnant about a month after they hooked up.

Patoranking is truly an embodiment of blessing

 
Patoraking tells the public that he is a product of grace talking from his past experience telling people that know him very well how great God is and how thankful he is for his mercies towards his life.
  Patoranking made this assertion while speaking as one of the coaches at the grand finale of the second season of the voice Nigeria music reality show.He went further to tell them he don't joke with God considering what he has done for him.Born and raised in Ijegun-Egba, Patoranking started his musical career doing
underground collaborations with artists such as XProject, Konga, Slam and Reggie Rockstone. He signed a record deal with K-Solo’s Igberaga Records in 2010, releasing “Up in D Club” under the outfit. He later became a protégé of Dem Mama Records after collaborating with Timaya on his song “Alubarika” which brought him into limelight. In 2014, he signed a record deal with Foston Musik and released another song, “Girlie O.” He has since become a force to reckon with in the Nigerian music scene, releasing hit after hits and collaborating many artistes. Patoranking was one of the judges for the second season of the singing competition, The Voice Nigeria.

Former Five Star Music Producer Drags Kcee, Harrysong To Court

Harrysong has been slammed with another lawsuit, and Five Star records was also dragged in. The lawsuit comes from  Dr. Amir who claims Harrysong's song 'Samankwe' was stolen and is demanding N45m.
Also,  Dr Amir also filed a similar suit against Five Star Music artiste Kcee for unauthorized publishing of the song “Afro-shake” produced and written by him. It will be interesting to note that Dr Amir once worked at Five Star Music as a producer.

Doris Simeon dating again

After years of waiting, Doris Simeon has confirmed she is dating again. Doris made the confession in an interview with Oge Ezeliora when she was asked if there is any possibility of reconciling with her ex-husband, Daniel Ademinokan. Doris said;The truth is that I have forgotten about everything. Time has erased it (the emotional pain I went through). I am now a better person. Today, I am closer to God and I put God first in everything I do. I never gave up on love. I have found love again in Jesus. I am married to my career right now. I am in a relationship anyway but I want to be private about it. I thank God because I am a better person. My career and business are going on well.

N.B Daniel is now with Stella Damascus.

Lets Play a Game>>>Eye Test....WHICH OF THEM IS NOT A ZEBRA

 

 It was very easy for me to see, 1, 2,3, 4,5,6 or 7?

A kidnapper caught in Ogun State

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 28-year-old man, Abiodun Joseph, in Ibadan, Oyo State, for allegedly kidnapping two children. 

 The Man kidnapped Tobiloba Aleshiloye 12years, and an eight-year-old boy, Yussuf Kudus. The suspect, who was said to be a resident of Cananland, Sango Ota, in the Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state, allegedly abducted the two children on September 15, 2017.

He was said to have taken them to an unknown place, from where he started demanding a ransom of N150,000 per child from their parents.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the parents of the abducted children reported the case to the police at the Agbara division and detectives were detailed to be on the trail of the kidnapper.

He said “Technical investigation” was conducted on the suspect’s whereabouts and the hideout was located in a hotel in the Ojo area of Ibadan.

He said the detectives stormed the location, arrested the suspect and rescued the victims unhurt.

“The two children have been reunited with their parents,” Oyeyemi added.

Meanwhile the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of the case to the Anti-kidnapping/Cultism unit of the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

Iliyasu appealed to members of the public to take security of their children seriously in order not to make them victims of kidnappers.

Monday will be public holiday

The Federal Government has declared Monday, October 2, 2017 as a public holiday in commemoration of Nigeria’s 57th independence anniversary.

The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government and congratulated Nigerians on the anniversary and urged them to sustain the collective efforts towards maintaining and strengthening the unity of the country.

Michelle Obama speaks again

Any Woman Who Voted For Trump, Voted Against Her Own Voice- Michelle Obama

Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has lashed out at female voters who backed President Donald Trump. "Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice," she said.
Mrs Obama, who has stayed largely out of the political fray since leaving the White House, made the remark at a Boston conference.
"Quite frankly, we saw this in this election. As far as I'm concerned, any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice," Mrs Obama said on Wednesday during a question-and-answer session at Inbound, a marketing and sales conference in Boston. Who is with her?
She reflected on the 2016 election as an example of staying true to her "authentic self".

Five Dating Trends That Have So Far Taken Over 2017

The advancement in technology in the 21st century has taken dating to a whole new level and this has necessitated the springing up of new trends. 2017 has especially brought up new trends that are used to describe all the happenings in the online dating world.
Being familiar with some of these dating terms can be very important as they may determine your success or otherwise in the online dating world. Here are five dating trends that have so far taken over the online dating world in 2017.
Slow Fade

The slow fade is another variation of ghosting but appears to be even more strung-out. While a ghost tends to pull out instantly, a slow-fader gradually makes less and less effort to keep in touch in the hope that the other person will give up.
Slow fade seems to be a cowardly way of pulling out of relationships because anyone with a bit of spine would have mercy on the other person and put the relationship out of its misery, rather than slowly presenting a colder and colder shoulder that makes communication difficult instead of just simply saying to ‘I’m just not that into you’.
Cushioning
Another term that has been used to refer to cushioning is lay-by. This term can be likened to you putting down a deposit at the moment for something and planning to pay the rest later. As such, Cushioning refers to when someone in a relationship lays down some groundwork with a potential target.
The groundwork may include sending a few flirty messages that are just enough to let them know you’re interested, but nothing that is too obvious that you would not be able to justify it to your partner. This means that when your relationship falls over, you have somebody ready and waiting to help ‘cushion’ the effects of the break-up.
Draking
This dating trend is named in honour of the Canadian rapper/ R ’n’ B singer, Drake who more or less made his name by talking about his relationship dramas in his song. Draking is what that your friend that is unlucky-in-love does on Facebook, Instagram, twitter and other social media apps by plastering their feed with emotional song lyrics or inspirational quotes, that cryptically refers to their last heartbreak.
This affliction commonly affects women than men and more and more people are following this trend.
Benching
Ghosting refers to vanishing into thin air entirely but benching is different in that it involves the occasional check-in just to keep you on the hook. Someone that intends to ‘bench’ you is one that you would have gone on a couple of dates and struck up a decent chemistry with but you somehow never get to planning another date.
It could be that they’re busy with work or they are dating other prospects they consider stronger. Whatever the reason maybe, they are still reasonably interested in you but not quite enough to call you from the bench into the game yet.
Haunting
Ghosting is a term that we have basically been used to before 2017 and it is more or less a sudden disappearance where you totally ignore all contact. This year has however introduced a more terrifying concept to the dating vocabulary: haunting.
Whereas someone that is ghosting will be totally invisible, a haunter is someone who lingers in the shadows of social media, and who occasionally clicks the like button or views your Snapchat instead of silently lurking around like most people do.

Men Get In Here! This Is How To Tell Whether She’s Flirting Or Being Nice With You

The dilemma every man will face at least once in their lifetime is knowing whether the woman that catches their eye in public is flirting or just being nice. A lot of the time, men meet women and are completely confident that things are going well but the minute they decide to take things to the next level, you sense her rebuff.
The truth is women are complex creatures and their minds can be pretty difficult to read. Some women can just be simply cordial while others will get involved with flirting just to get a free drink or an exciting conversation.

As such, it is important that you pay attention to the things she says and more importantly, her body language. Here are telltale signs to know that she’s not just being nice but she’s also flirting with you.

She Keeps Touching You
If she’s into you, there’s a chance she won’t be able to keep her hands off you. She will initiate a lot of physical contact while flirting and chatting with you. If she “accidentally” brushes up against you or strokes your arm, she wants a little more.
She Flaunts Her Assets
Women don’t hold back when they’re interested in you and they will be willing to pull all the stops by flirting and flaunting their assets. Pay attention to the little things, such as her readjusting her top to showcase her cleavage or adjusting her skirt for you to get a good view of her legs.
She Talks About Sex
There’s no way she would make sexually suggestive jokes if she was not flirting with you. Listen intently for sexually suggestive jokes and comments. If she brings them up, she is ready to take things to another level.
She Acts Curious
Just like you will want to know more about a woman you’re interested in, so would she want to know about you through flirting. She sure won’t ask or seek additional information if she’s not romantically interested in you.
She Initiates Conversation
If you met her in a public place and the conversation gets to an awkward pause and she’s not into you, there’s a high chance she will walk away. If she’s however interested, she will come up with another question to ask as a way of keeping the conversation going.

She Keeps Complimenting You
A woman interested in you has no reason to lie when it comes to the compliments she’s passing. If she compliments your shirt, your smile or anything else without you buying free drinks for her at a bar, she’s obviously feeling you.
She Let’s You Know She’s Single
If she’s flirting with you during your first meeting, she may casually mention that she’s not dating anyone at the moment or tell you something about her ex. That’s a good sign that she’s flirting and ready to mingle with you.
She Makes Long Eye Contact
Eye contact is an intimate and subtle way of conveying ones feelings. If she’s feeling you, she will most likely look you straight in the eye, for long periods of time before taking her eyes away.
She Offers To Get You Drinks
If she offers to buy you a drink, she obviously wants to take the flirting to another level. It means she is enjoying her time with you and doesn’t want you to leave her side. More so, if you’re at a bar or club, it means she is not just using you to pay for her drinks.

Will Biafra Go The Way Of Catalonia And Kurdistan?

South Sudan, the last baby of the United Nations is still in intensive care after seven years of a still birth. Born on July 14, 2011, the 193rd member of the UN slipped into ethnic and internecine war less than two years after and has known no peace since then. What could have passed as a personality clash between two power mongers—President Salva Kiir and his then deputy Riek Machar has since degenerated into the total collapse of the fragile state, with costly human misery, deaths and destruction.

This piece was written by Zainab Suleiman Okino. The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of 360Nobs.com or Skazyupdate.

If the on-going referendums succeed, Catalonia and Kurdistan are set to become sovereign nation states in no distant future. Another nation state hopeful—Biafra—is readying for its own independent identity. But unlike the Catalans and the Kurdish people, the grievances of Biafran advocates are yet to be fully articulated, on the basis of which the world would empathize and identify with their cause. For a fact, IPOB and its nation state dream is not coordinated, not driven by genuine desires and objectives and at best is a loose ensemble of aggrieved youth with the tacit nod of elders and the elite. Whether it has the buy-in of all Igbos or not, is organised or ragtag, IPOB has succeeded in attracting the attention of the international community. Questions are now being asked as to its proscription, ban and blackmail or persecution of the Igbos that make up the states in the South-East geo-political zone.
President Muhammadu Buhari has a share in the propaganda machine IPOB has turned the clamour for Biafra to. IPOB’s propaganda was originally a knee-jerk response to his (the president’s) narrow vision of Nigeria, where equity, fairness and justice in appointments and share of the ‘national patrimony’ has a new definition. Biafra cannot be compared with Catalonia, which had a long history of struggle, as one of Spain’s wealthiest and most productive regions with a distinct history, had enjoyed some form of autonomy before now, but which was suppressed under the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco between 1939 and 1975. The nationalist fervour was rekindled after his death. It has a ‘proud city’, the capital of Barcelona and there is unanimity of purpose and passion driven by its 7.5 million people. But Nnamdi Kanu’s idea of Biafra borders on megalomania; he likes to hold court, to revel in regal and presidential aura around him, and if he realises his ambition, his father’s compound may well serve as his palace and his village Isiama Afara Ukwu as his capital. Talk about the exaggerated ego of one misguided young man (masquerading as the messiah) mismanaged by the nation’s leadership, now threatening the cooperate existence of the country.
The Kurdish people in South-East Iraq are also into a controversial independence referendum that may trigger more conflicts with Iraq and possibly Turkey. The leader of the oil-rich Kurdistan region, Masssoud Barzani says independence is the only way to ensure the safety, stability and security of his people. Kurds have been in the forefront in the fight against ISIS. By the 2005 Iraq constitution, the region is autonomous, having consolidated its groups and forces after the Gulf war. Although there are worries that a ‘Yes’ majority of votes for Kurdistan may provoke Kurdish separatist movements in Turkey and Iran, there appears to be no stopping them from
flying their own sovereign flag. Having been an ally of the US in all its military expeditions in the Middle East, the Kurdish agitation has more to do with economic leverage and security concern than a political action.
Although the Spanish constitution, just like the Nigeria constitution, states that the country is indivisible, the Catalan parliament enacted their own law in September to give them the go ahead to secede. But that’s where the similarity ends. Catalonia is already run as a regional government with a president and a parliament. Ours is a federation and the states are independent of one another. Therefore, before Biafra can come to be, regional integration of all states of that zone has to take place. Kanu and his ilk need to do this internal assessment, but for now I dare say that Biafra is mere Utopia, does not have any force of law and cannot operate as an entity.
But IPOB’s cry of marginalisation which found expression in the Biafra separatist agitation and which Kanu claims to speak to is not different from the deprivation and want faced by other zones. However unlike other parts of the country, everything is wrong with the approach and symbol of the agitation. I was in one of the public hospitals in Abuja in the heat of the Biafra debate and observed that Igbo as a language was freely spoken by most of the staff. I didn’t hear anybody speak my language all through. If marginalisation is the absence of fair representation, is my ethnic group and state not marginalised too? And if the civil service workforce is the yardstick, is the South-East not marginalising others? Or how many of the agitators ever wondered that Imo State has more people in the federal civil service than Zamfara, Yobe, Sokoto, Jigawa and Katsina states put together. Therefore, the Biafra separatist agitation as presently constituted is all about the struggle of elites for power without recourse to the genuine need of the people and it does not necessarily wipe away the underlining problems of poverty, unemployment and social injustice.
But the Buhari government should do more to stem the tide of agitations and complaints, not just from IPOB but from all parts of the country. He should be a leader to all, be broad-minded and run an all-inclusive government. And I wonder why this is so difficult for him. Political appointment is about symbolism, tokenism, sense of belonging and emotional capital of a people, but of pecuniary benefits to the holders alone, at least, going by our recent experience with political office holders in Nigeria. Ultimately such appointees’ loyalty is first to their principal before their community, state, zone or even ethnic group. What does it take the president to share appointments equitably knowing that the appointees will still kow-tow to his whims? How have the appointments of Ngige and Osita Okechukwu benefitted their Igbo brothers or states? Don’t they defend the APC government and the president, instead of pitching tents with Kanu or IPOB?
So for my Biafran wannabe brothers, please do some reflection and introspection, and seek other means of redress rather than the present course of action. The inspiration from Catalonia and Kurdistan is tempting, but all the indices that sustained their agitations up to the referendums are absent here. South-East states operate under a federation; the people dominate their environments wherever they are. The preponderance of opinions from the South-East does not favour the severance of ties with Nigeria, and without a leadership that inspires confidence, exudes patriotism and is ready to make sacrifices, the thought of sovereignty can at best remain a mirage. And even when it comes to fruition, it can easily fall apart, as is the case with South Sudan. God forbid!
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