Paris Saint-Germain forward, Neymar, has told Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi, the club he wants to join this summer.
Neymar has been heavily linked with a move away from PSG to Real Madrid in recent months.
The 27-year-old joined the French Ligue 1 champions from Barcelona in a £200million deal two years ago.
However, Catalan newspaper, Sport, is reporting that Neymar, a former teammate with Messi during his time at Barcelona, told the Argentine captain that he wants to return to Barcelona this summer’s transfer window.
PSG manager, Thomas Tuchel, had admitted last week that both Neymar and Kylian Mbappe could leave the club this summer.
“As a coach, I do want them [Neymar and Mbappe] to continue, but this is football — we are not naïve,” Tuchel said at a news conference last week.
“Many clubs want to transfer many players and the market is crazy, but if you ask me, I want them here next season.
Former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan were absent at the Eagle Square, Abuja, where President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo took oath of office for their second term in office.
Also absent were former military president Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and former head of state, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar.
No reason has been given for their absence.
Ibrahim Muhammad, acting chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), has administered the oath of office on Buhari and Osinbajo.
Nigeria’s Federal Government has declared Wednesday, May 29, as a public holiday, in commemoration of the 2019 Presidential Inauguration.
Newly elected state governors would also take oaths of office.
The Minister of Interior, Lt.- Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, (Rtd), made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, in a statement signed by Mrs Georgina Ehuriah, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, on Monday in Abuja.
Dambazau congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari for his re-election and Nigerians for the successful conduct of the 2019 elections, which were widely acknowledged as peaceful, free, fair, credible and transparent.
Dambazau called on Nigerians to support the policies and programmes of the incoming administration.
He said these policies are all geared towards the improvement of the lives of the citizens, as well as the unity, growth and development of the nation, as it moves to the next level.
He expressed confidence that, with the collaboration of all Nigerians, the nation would be transformed in the next four years to a country that would be the envy of other nations.
President Muhammadu Buhari has in compliance with the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, submitted his assets declaration forms to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) which by law must precede his oath-taking slated for Wednesday.
Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
The duly completed forms were submitted to the Chairman of the CCB, Prof. Mohammed Isa, on behalf of the president by Sarki Abba, Senior Special Assistant, Household and Domestic Affairs.
The forms, as signed by the President and sworn to before a Judge of the Abuja High Court, showed no significant changes in assets as declared in 2015 by him.
“There are no new houses, no new bank accounts at home and abroad and there are no new shares acquired.
“The Chairman of the CCB commended the Pesident for leading by example by declaring his assets in accordance with the law.”
In 2015, Buhari declared that he had N30 million to his name.
He also had only one bank account, with the Union Bank, five homes, and two mud houses in Daura He declared two undeveloped plots of land, one in Kano and the other in Port Harcourt.
He also declared having Farms, an orchard and a ranch.
The total number of his holdings in the farm include 270 heads of cattle, 25 sheep, five horses, a variety of birds and a number of economic trees”.
He declared ownership of a number of cars, two of which he bought from his savings and the others supplied to him by the Federal Government in his capacity as former Head of State. The rest were donated to him by well-wishers after his jeep was damaged in a Boko Haram bomb attack on his convoy in July 2014.
President Buhari “had shares in Berger Paints, Union Bank and Skye Bank, which ran into crisis and has now been salvaged as Polaris Bank.
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says there is circulation of a fake anti-hypertensive drug.
According to the agency’s Director General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, the drug, Hydrochlorothiazide 50mg (containing Glibenclamide), was already on sale in neigbouring Cameroun.
“NAFDAC is alerting the public, especially healthcare providers, to the circulation of confirmed faked Hydrochlorothiazide 50mg tablets in Cameroun,” Adeyeye said in a press release.
“The faked product has been found to contain Glibenclamide instead of Hydrochlorothiazide.
“In March, the World Health Organisation was informed by an NGO in Cameroun that a medicine, presented as Hydrochlorothiazide 50mg tablets, has caused hypoglycaemia (deficiency of glucose in the bloodstream) in patients.
“Confirmatory laboratory analysis has established that the product did not contain hydrochlorothiazide, the stated active ingredient; rather, glibenclamide was instead identified.”
She explained that the genuine version of the drug was for treatment of hypertension, while the falsified medicine poses grave danger to patients.
“The falsified medicine presents a risk for patients who take hydrochlorothiazide for the treatment of hypertension,” she added.
“The label on the plastic container of this faked product states Laboratoires Sterop as the manufacturer; however, this company has confirmed to WHO that it did not manufacture or supply the faked product.
“The Falsified hydrochlorothiazide 50mg is presented in plastic containers of 1000 tablets each.”
The NAFDAC DG further said the drug, which had a batch number of 16G04, also carried 16/2017 as its Manufacture Date and 30/05/2021 as Expiry Date.
Buprenorphine, better known by the brand name Suboxone, helps people with opioid addiction stay in recovery. But it is prescribed far more often to white drug users than to blacks.
White drug users addicted to heroin, fentanyl and other opioids have had near-exclusive access to buprenorphine, a drug that curbs the craving for opioid addiction and reduces the chance of a fatal overdose. That’s according to a study out Wednesday from the University of Michigan. It appears in JAMA Psychiatry.
Researchers reviewed two national surveys of physician-reported prescriptions. Between 2012 and 2015, as overdose deaths surged in many states, so did the number of visits during which a doctor or nurse practitioner prescribed buprenorphine, often referred to by its brand name, Suboxone. The researchers assessed 13.4 million medical encounters involving the drug but found no increase in prescriptions written for African Americans and other minorities.
“White populations are almost 35 times as likely to have a buprenorphine-related visit than black Americans,” says Dr. Pooja Lagisetty, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and the study’s corresponding author.
The dominant use of buprenorphine to treat whites occurred at the same time opioid overdose deaths were rising faster for blacks than for whites. “This epidemic over the last few years has been framed by many as largely a white epidemic, but we know now that’s not true,” Lagisetty says.
What is true, Lagisetty added, is that most of the white patients either paid cash (40 percent) or relied on private insurance (35 percent) to fund their buprenorphine treatment. The fact that just 25 percent of the visits were paid for through Medicaid and Medicare “does highlight that many of these visits could be very costly for persons of low income,” Lagisetty says.
Doctors and nurse practitioners can demand cash payments because there’s a shortage of clinicians who can prescribe buprenorphine, according to Dr. Andrew Kolodny, co-director of Opioid Policy Research at Brandeis University. Only about 5 percent of physicians have taken the special training required to prescribe buprenorphine.
“The few that are doing it are really able to name their price, and that’s what we’re seeing here and that’s the reason why individuals with more resources — who are more likely to be white — are more likely to access treatment with buprenorphine,” says Kolodny, who was not involved in the study.
Kolodny wants the Federal Government to eliminate the required special training for buprenorphine and a related cap on the number of patients a doctor can manage on the drug.
In 2018, Beyonce’s net worth was $355 million and Jay-Z earned $900 million!
Music’s first billionaire couple Jay-Z and Beyonce have set the bar and inspired so many other couples to invest in themselves, their children and their future.
Business Insider detailed some of the investments, income and endorsements the power couple obtained to achieve their billionaire status.
Beyonce raked in money from music, tours, Coachella, Netflix, fragrances, vegan meal delivery services, Ivy Park Clothing line. endorsements with Tommy Hilfiger American Express and Pepsi.
Jay-Z earned funds from Tidal, Live Nation, Roc Nation, Rocawear, Dusse, Ace of Spades, Uber, Marcy Venture Partners and his stake in the Brooklyn Nets.
They spend their millions on Real Estate, gold cribs, charity, scholarships for disadvantaged youth, and Beyonce even purchased a $40,000,000 private jet for Father’s Day.
Salute to the couple for being a wonderful example to so many people to achieve all they ever dream of.
Popular Nigerian comedian Akpororo has responded to controversial media personality, Daddy Freeze, for mocking him over the low turnout of people at his comedy show.
It was earlier reported that the comedian held a show at Okokomaiko and was forced to reduce his ticket price from N5000 to N2000, before eventually giving out the ticket for free.
Freeze used the opportunity to call out the comic act and asked him if paying his tithes was no longer working for him. He also made a reference to a time when Akpororo called him a wall gecko in a church programme over his stance on tithing.
Reacting to the OAP, Akpororo who made sure to call him a ‘wall gecko’ reiterated the fact that he still pays his tithes and it has been manifesting in positive ways in his life.
He asked Freeze to go and have a second look at the pictures from the event and he will find out that the show was a successful one.
On a final note, Akpororo expressed that the OAP is an elderly person and as such he should try to act accordingly.
Deputy National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Lawal Shuaibu, has called on the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole to resign from office.
Shuaibu made this demand in his letter dated May 27, 2019, which was delivered to Oshiomhole in Abuja on May 28.
The letter was titled “APC: IT’S FORTUNES Vs MISFORTUNES, TIME TO ACT!”
The former senator said he wrote the letter in his personal capacity and as the deputy national chairman of the party.
Part of the letter reads, “I write this letter to you with a very deep (sic) heart and high sense of responsibility.
“I write this letter thinking because I am a critical stakeholder in the APC project.
“I write this letter with my hands shaking, arising from realising my involvement in a project that is currently seen as failing, even before achieving the ambition of its founding fathers. I never found myself in any failed project.
“In advanced democracies, people who fail to add value or build over and above what they met on assumption of duty show some civilized examples, they honourably bow out.
“In that connection, therefore, I want to advise you to take the path of honour, to step aside and allow the Party to embark on the onerous task of reconstruction and rehabilitation in those States it was weakened by the effect of the last primary election exercises.
“Or even the task of recreating the party where it is on the path of extinction, arising from the loss of a sitting APC Government, for example in Zamfara State, where you directly personally created the problem leading to the painful complete loss of APC’s electoral fortunes. From up to down, all these are uncontestable facts.
“You cannot exonerate yourself from what happened to APC (in) Zamfara State, thereby destroying the hopes and aspirations of 534,541 APC members and supporters.”
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank on Tuesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take responsibility for what he termed a “colossal failure” to make any positive impact in the last four years.
Frank said the President should not blame his alleged incompetence on the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara.
In a statement, the former APC spokesperson wondered why Buhari chose to “lie during the Holy month of Ramadan”.
He called on Buhari to stop his blame-game, face reality for once and apologise to Nigerians for leading a calamitous regime of pain and penury.
According to Frank: “Blame your lethargy, flip-flops and incompetence for your failure, not Saraki and Dogara.
“It is you the people elected as President to exercise executive powers and not Saraki and Dogara whose duties are to supervise the passage of legislation.
“Any leader who completely abdicates responsibility for his action or inaction cannot by any stretch of imagination be said to be a good leader. If at the twilight of a four-year tenure Mr. President is shopping for new scapegoats, At what point would he realize that its was under his government that Nigeria became the poverty capital of the world?
“How many jobs has this administration created for our teeming unemployed youths. It is unfortunate that Nigerians got a man whose archaic policies and personal ineptitude led a once thriving economy into a tailspin and perpetual downward slide.
“It is further regrettable that Buhari who claims to be a man of integrity has failed all integrity indicators in leadership and personal character of being true to self.
“Only last week, the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) alerted Nigerians that will soon resume its suspended strike following the refusal of the Buhari to honour agreement it reached with the union early this year.”
Frank said it is on record that under Buhari, all budgets were presented in late December and for the last four years budget performance has remained between a woeful 25 to 30 per cent while the appropriated amounts were brazenly stolen without consequence.
He said, “Only recently, Buhari’s wife, Aisha, cried out that the N500billion Social Intervention Programme was never implemented, even as there are no mosquito nets to show for a scandalous sum of N16billion set aside for that purpose. Is the SIP being implemented by Saraki and Dogara or the aides of the President?”
The activist maintained that rather than the 8th National Assembly being the problem, Buhari has been the real cog in the wheels of the nation’s progress and development.
He called on the President to immediately apologise to Nigerians for leading them with subterfuge and outright misinformation.
“It is on record that Buhari refuses to sign several bills passed by the 8th National Assembly like the Electoral Act, Proceeds of Crime Bill, Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, etc, that would have impacted positivity on the nation’s electoral system, the fight against corruption and the petroleum sector respectively.
“Why engage in blame game when you cannot discern quality minds nor fathom a brilliant and workable idea even if it were to come from perceived political opponents?
“It is clear that the achievements of Buhari in the last four years remain gargantuan propaganda, poverty, suicides and comatose economy for which he has not stopped to blame the 16 year rule of the opposition party.
“I also believe that Buhari has nothing in stock for Nigerians in the next four years, reason he has shifted his pastime of blame for failure to Saraki and Dogara.
“If anything, the unbridled corruption in Buhari’s administration and the thieving aides around him should be held responsible for his unabashed failures.
“Is it not laughable that “Baba Go Slow” has got people to blame for the snail speed of his government?
“A President whose district head was kidnapped and whose Emirate Council since has suspended the celebration of the this year’s Eid-el-Fitri as a result of insecurity is blaming Saraki and Dogara for his cluelessness,” Frank declared.
