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BY: ALAO JOHN, A CONCERNED PROSPECTIVE CORPS MEMBER. Dear Sir; SAVE OUR FUTURE STOP WASTING OUR PRECIOUS TIME With due respect to your office and your personality sir, it would be insane of me if I fail to congratulate you on your appointment as the Director General (DG) National Youth Service Corps few months ago by General Muhammadu Buhari (President Federal Republic of Nigeria). Haven said that, this letter is necessitated and borne out of the untold suffering, heartache and hardship prospective corps members had encountered in the last few months since the beginning of the postponement saga. I  felt obliged to tell you sir that a minute delay can result to a lifetime regret not to talk of spending almost a year at home anticipating for an inconsistent scheme called NYSC. Sir, many have resigned from the menial work they use to keep the body and soul together with the believe that its about time to serve our Father's land. What sicken me m...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he would not be demanding any apology from British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron over his diplomatic gaffe, describing Nigeria, along with Afghanistan as 'fantastically corrupt'. ‎President Buhari said instead, he would demand action from Cameron, by returning Nigeria's stolen money and assets stashed in the United Kingdom. Buhari made his frustration clear as he addressed a Commonwealth conference in London Wednesday morning in the wake of Mr Cameron's diplomatic gaffe. Clutching a glass as he made small talk with the Queen at a Buckingham Palace reception, the PM was caught on camera being indiscreet about the countries he had invited to a key anti-corruption summit tomorrow. The Presidency and several other Nigerians, have however, lashed back at the British PM for that scathing remark. This came as the Presidency, yesterday, expressed 'shock' at the unguarded comment, saying that Cameron must have bee...

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2016 appropriation Act into law. Mr. Buhari signed the budget in the presence of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, in his office at the presidential villa Abuja. ‎ Others who witnessed the budget been signed by the President were the national chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, John Odigie-Oyegun and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal. ‎ The 2016 budget estimates suffered several delays after claims and counter claims from both the legislature and executive arms, each accusing the other of padding the budget. Mr. Buhari returned the budget to the National Assembly, saying key projects were removed and others not in the estimates he submitted were added. ‎ A meeting was held last week with the leadership of the national assembly after which a committee was formed to look at all "grey areas" and harmon...

Congratulations to the recently sworn in NYSC 2016 Batch A (stream 1) corp members in Osun state as reports just reaching us confirms that Dr Adedeji Adeleke donated a sum of 10 million naira to the latest corp members. The father of the popular Nigerian singer, Davido and the Pro-chancellor of Adeleke University; during his visit today to the NYSC orientation camp in Osun state pronounced the huge amount as a gift to the corp members and urged them to serve their father's land with all humility. He also surprised 7 wonderful dancers with a sum of N100, 000 each. Congratulations to all Osun state Otondos!

A BRITISH doctor insists a breakthrough is near which can tackle the effects of ageing and allow humans to live until they are 1,000 years-old. ‎ Doctor Aubrey de Grey likens the human body to a car and is developing a new form of medicine based on regenerative therapies. ‎ He is the co-founder of Strategies for California based Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) Research Foundation says they have identified seven specific reasons we age, which can all be targeted. ‎ He said: "We are developing a new kind of medicine: regenerative therapies that remove, repair, replace, or render harmless the cellular and molecular damage that has accumulated in our tissues with time" "People have this crazy concept that ageing is natural and inevitable, and I have to keep explaining that it is not. "The human body is a machine with moving parts and like a car or an aeroplane, it accumulates damage throughout life as a consequence of normal operation." ...