Yemi Osinbajo is currently presiding over the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in the capacity of the acting president.
The council meeting which is the first of the year 2017, has almost all ministers in attendance. It started at about 10.02am January 24, with Osinbajo’s arrival, The Punch reports. READ ALSO: Only Buhari has prerogative to re-jig his cabinet - Adesina
The minister of defence, Mansur Dan-Ali; and the minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun; took the opening prayers before the meeting went into closed door. Read More...
The senator representing Delta North senatorial district at the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Ned Nwoko, has said he can’t marry a woman who is not a virgin. Naija News reports that the Senator made this known in a snippet of the Mic On podcast, hosted by Nigerian journalist, Seun Okinbaloye.
According to the Nigerian billionaire, some people always assumed they had an idea of the woman he liked to marry and had brought some girls to him, but the ladies did not meet his standards. Read More...
In 1949, still reeling from his heroic service in world War II, already deep in the throes of writing The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger took a vacation at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in Daytona Beach, Fla., where he met a girl named Jean. She was 14. Salinger was 30. “He was the first adult who seemed to be genuinely interested in what I had to say,” she would recall 60 years later. Read More...