Friday, 18 September 2015
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PHOTOS: Check Out 50 Cent's New Bodacious Girlfriend
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How You and Your Spouse Can Perform Well In The Bedroom
It is not only women that experience some down time in the bedroom. Men, too, find it difficult to get it up sometimes. This is not to say that they are impotent or suffering from er*ctile dysfunction, though.
Consultant Nutritionist, Dr. Tayo Akinsanya, says if you have found yourself saying, ‘Not tonight’ more than usual, it might have to do with something you ate.
According to him, these days, more men suffer from a decreased s*x drive, and some of the major culprits are as simple as majority of the things you eat...
Akinsanya says, “Foods can negatively affect your libido, especially as you age; so, it’s important to identify the wrong foods and cut them down, or cut them out totally.
“Some foods deplete testosterone levels – the hormone that boosts s*xual desire. And anything that depletes these hormones in men can eventually zap their desire for s*x.”
He notes that men who can’t seem to get s*xually stimulated at night should check what they had for supper.
He explains further that the food we eat can affect our s*x drive in both a positive and negative way.
The nutritionist says that eating too much carbohydrate, especially solid foods, after 8pm can ruin a man’s ability to have an er*ction that day.
Akinsanya says, “The dinner many men eat in a typical African setting is just wrong for any form of physical activity. How can you successfully have s*x on a full stomach?
“As your body tries to digest the Eba or Amala that you had for dinner, it will definitely find it difficult to send pleasure signals or hormones that will help you get an erection.”
It is not just solid foods, however, that affect a man’s ability to perform. There are many others:
Beans: This depends on how you digest beans. For some, they will feel full of energy after a bean meal; for others, they may feel sluggish or, at worst, bloated and even an increase in flatulence. So, its best avoided for dinner if you plan to have s*x that day.
It also gives many people heartburn. It is best to steer clear of beans and some other peas for dinner, just in case you are planning to pleasure your spouse that night.
Milk in tea: Dairy, generally, is a libido killer. For many, dairy is congesting and mucus-producing, so not the ideal way to feel before s*x!
Sugary snacks: Any refined carbohydrates, such as those loaded with refined sugars, can still wreak havoc on a man’s intimate time. Excess refined carbohydrates (bleached white flour) can zap testosterone levels. Sugars from refined carbohydrates will not only make a man gain weight but can raise the level of oestrogen and deplete his testosterone levels.
Red meat: Foods that contain added hormones or antibiotics, such as some red meats, are a huge s*x offender by unbalancing a man’s natural hormones when consumed in excess. The high saturated fat content in meat clogs up the vaginal and penile arteries, making this the least romantic hand-held treat around. All processed foods are a ‘no no’ for libido. They make you feel sluggish and low in energy — not good for feeling s*xy.
Overeating: Consumption of any food in excess leads to weight gain, which is the number one s*x drive killer for any man. “The worst food that a man can have for his sex drive is too much of it.”
“Diet accelerates the ageing process. Anyone carrying extra weight from ages 35 to 60 is accelerating the aging process; as does anyone living a high stress, poor diet and no exercise lifestyle. Midsection increase is probably the number one reason for lost s*x drive,” an expert warns.
A good diet equals good s*x.
Being overweight can affect not only your self-esteem and your feelings of sexuality, but you’re also likely to suffer from blood vessel diseases, which can reduce essential blood flow to the genitals.
Is your s*x drive no longer what it used to be? If the answer is ‘Yes’, here are some natural libido boosters, according to Dr. Catherine Hood, which may put the spark back into the family:
Keep fit: Moderate regular exercise will help improve blood flow to the s*xual organs. In addition, exercise helps you feel good about yourself. Anything that improves self-esteem will improve li-bido.
Drink in moderation: One alcoholic drink can lubricate a nervous situation. By reducing anxiety and stress, one drink can help get you in the mood for s*x. But beware, alcohol is a depressant; too much booze and you can end up with quite the opposite problem.
Fruit and vegetable: Eating five to nine fruits and vegetables a day can provide the cornerstone to your health. The vitamins and antioxidants will help maintain good blood flow to the s*x organs and prevent certain chronic diseases.
by BUKOLA ADEBAYO
Aww, 2face Idibia gets birthday shout out from his oldest son, Nino
2face's oldest son, Nino, 9, took to his instagram page this morning to send a shout out to his dad who turned 40 today. He wrote "#2facestarmoment #fortyfied happy Birthday Daddy"
Here Are Numbers You Can Use to Call The Police In Case of Any Emergency
Don't wait until you are in trouble and you don't know how to even contact the police in the state where you are currently residing. Below are the numbers to call Nigeria Police anywhere you are:
ALL NIGERIAN STATES POLICE COMMAND EMERGENCY NUMBERS
Abia 08035415408 08079210003 08079210004 08079210005
Adamawa 08089671313
Akwa Ibom 08039213071 08020913810
Anambra 07039194332 08024922772 08075390511 08182951257
Bauchi 08151849417 08127162434 08084763669 08073794920
Benue 08066006475 08053039936 07075390677
Bayelsa 07034578208
Borno 08068075581 08036071667 08123823322
Cross Rivers 08133568456 07053355415
Delta 08036684974
Ebonyi 07064515001 08125273721 08084704673
Edo 08037646272 08077773721 08067551618
Ekiti 08062335577 07089310359
Enugu 08032003702 08075390883 08086671202
Gombe 08150567771 08151855014
Imo 08034773600 08037037283
Abuja (F.C.T) 07057337653 08061581938 08032003913
Jigawa 08075391069 07089846285 08123821598
Kaduna 08123822284
Kano 08032419754 08123821575 064977004 064977005
Katsina 08075391255 08075391250
Kebbi 08038797644 08075391307
Kogi 08075391335 07038329084
Kwara 07032069501 08125275046
Lagos 07055462708 08035963919
Nassarawa 08123821571 07075391560
Niger 08081777498 08127185198
Ogun 08032136765 08081770416
Ondo 07034313903 08075391808
Osun 08075872433 08039537995 08123823981
Oyo 08081768614 08150777888
Plateau 08126375938 08075391844 08038907662
Rivers 08032003514 08073777717
Sokoto 07068848035 08075391943
Taraba 08140089863 08073260267
Yobe 07039301585 08035067570
Zamfara 08106580123
BREAKING: Saraki Should Be Arrested and Brought To Court
The trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki for "false declaration of assets" commenced at the code of conduct tribunal in Abuja on Friday as the tribunal has ordered.
Saraki refused to appear in person as ordered by the code of conduct tribunal but was represented by his lawyer, Mahmud Magaji. It appears he is hiding behind the directive by a federal high court asking the Tribunal and Saraki to appear for justification of the case on Monday.
Consequently, the federal government prosecuting counsel, M.S. Hassan, has asked the court to with immediate effect issue a bench warrant for the arrest of Saraki.
He told the Tribunal that Saraki, for failing to respect a competent court, should be arrested within the next two hours by the police authority in Abuja and brought to court immediately.
More details coming.
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REVEALED: Biggest Fraud Involving Jonathan, Diezani, Others
More revelations have emerged with regards to how few people cornered Nigeria's money:
PREMIUM TIMES has uncovered one of the most fraudulent crude oil deals carried out by the administration of Goodluck Jonathan, which saw cronies of the president pocket billions of naira through a domestic crude oil transportation contract that violated Nigeria’s procurement and economic regulations.
Our estimates indicate that the contracts, which the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has now admitted were unnecessarily exorbitant and inappropriately awarded, cost Nigeria N509.3 billion.
How much service the companies offered to pocket that amount remains unclear even to the state oil company, insiders say.
The deal, later disguised as security contract and channeled through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, saw two companies belonging to Idahosa Okunbor and Tunde Ayeni, illegally rack up billions of naira to purportedly transport crude oil from Escravos to Warri refinery, and Bonny Island to Port Harcourt refinery, by ship, since 2011.
The deal involved the transportation of five millions barrels of crude oil, monthly, from drilling terminals to the refineries using ships, and circumventing direct linking pipelines, at the cost of N3.063.00 ($15.4 USD) per barrel of crude.
The cost of this contract is several times higher than it takes to transport crude oil through the more efficient pipelines which PPMC, an arm of NNPC operates. The cost of transporting a barrel of crude through the pipeline is as low as N5.97.
Although, awarding the firms the job to transport crude oil by ships was a very expensive alternative, the administration pressed on, ignoring the fact that it increased the cost of transporting only a fraction of locally refined crude oil by several billions of naira monthly and was economically unjustifiable.
While the shady contract lasted, the NNPC, at the same time, transported crude through a national pipeline that originated from Escravos and landed in Warri Refinery before proceeding to Kaduna Refinery.
The Escravos-Warri Refinery arm of the project was conceived in 2010, shortly after Goodluck Jonathan became president. The contract kicked off properly in January 2011 and was explained to the few who knew about it back then as a way of circumventing vandalized pipelines to keep Nigeria’s refineries amply fed with crude oil.
The contract was never advertised and no competitive bidding was done, a clear violation of Nigeria’s procurement law. Cheaper options were neglected. Two companies, PPP Fluid Mechanics and Ocean Marine Securities, OMS, were awarded the job by presidential and ministerial discretion.
The two companies initially got N1.1 billion monthly payment each by NNPC, for a three months trial, documents sighted by PREMIUM TIMES show.
PPP Fluid Mechanics got the contract offering to transport the crude using Very Large Crude Carriers – super tankers – used in transporting crude oil. OMS got the contract to provide security for the 22.2km (12 nautical miles) journey, despite every other waterways security arrangement that existed at the time.
This brazen case of impropriety has, till date, been sustained by a tight web of secrecy.
“I do not have details” of the contract, NNPC spokesman, Ohi Alegbe, told PREMIUM TIMES more than one month after receiving our inquiries, and weeks after he later announced the corporation was canceling the contract.
Paying the cabal
This contract was conceptualized and executed in a classical mafioso style.
After the then Petroleum Minister, Deziani Alison-Madueke, in 2010, got the then President Jonathan to approve the deal, the NNPC secretly invited bids from international shipping contractors. PPP FM, managed by two Israelis at the time, was handpicked for the logistics part of the job. OMS, managed by Messrs. Okunbor and Ayeni, was invited to handle the security aspect.
There are no records of OMS ever bidding for the contract. Insiders who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES also claim OMS never bidded.
They were selected by a board led by Mrs. Madueke, which also had NNPC Group Managing Director at the time, Austin Oniwon, and eight others, including Yinka Omorogbe, the legal adviser to the corporation.
The contract was initially explained as a three-month trial to circumvent pipelines that were believed to be under serious threat from militants and oil thieves in the Niger Delta. It, however, lasted till August 2015, almost five years later.
How it escaped public scrutiny for the period it lasted is what is likely to shock many Nigerians.
Contract documents indicating the contract was supposed to last only three months were issued on December 2, 2010. Shipping began the following month – January 2011 – after PPP FM provided one mother vessel and three smaller shuttle vessels.
Contract documents seen by PREMIUM TIMES showed the each arm of the contract for the trial period was to cost NNPC N1.1 billion ($5.82 million USD) monthly. This is at the rate of N900 per barrel ($5.2 USD per barrel) split equally between shipping and security.
But the cost of the deal quickly skyrocketed after the three months trial period.
Shortly after the project began, Messrs. Okunbor and Ayeni sought to own the entire project, and initiated a hostile takeover of PPP FM. Eight months later, they completed the takeover and PPP FM’s founders, the Israelis, were kicked out.It is not clear how much they were paid to give up their company. It is also unclear whether they were merely used as fronts in the beginning.
The exit of the Israelis paved the way for one of the bloodiest financial hemorrhages Nigeria suffered during the Jonathan administration, and was perhaps still suffering till July 2015 when NNPC called it off after becoming aware this newspaper was investigating the deal.
With the Israelis out of the way, and believing the deal was now secret, the NNPC jacked up the cost of the deal to N1,496.10 ($7.52 USD) per barrel for transportation and the same amount for security.
This increase raised the cost of the contract to N6.7 billion monthly.
In August 2014, the former petroleum minister admitted to an oil and gas audience in the U.S. that NNPC was spending an average of $7.52 per barrel to transport crude oil locally to refineries by ship.
She was silent on the security costs. But multiple sources confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES the security cost was just as much as the shipping.
In four years, the NNPC shelled out at least N303 billion to the two companies owned by Messrs. Okunbor and Ayeni for the Escravos-Warri arm of the deal alone.
Thus, at the times the price of crude oil hovered around $50 per barrel, the NNPC paid these firms about a third of the cost of each barrel ($15.04) as shipment cost – in addition to all other cost of handling crude that existed before the contract.
These sums were paid despite the oil corporation reporting that it kept pumping crude oil from Escravos to Warri refinery through the pipeline, concurrently with the shipping deal.
Recently, during the opening of the renovated Port Harcourt Refinery, Mr. Okunbor confirmed to Thisday that his company did not even ship the total amount projected by the contract. But they got paid even while not shipping crude.
“Currently, we lift 950,000 barrels to the Warri refinery twice a month,” Mr. Okunbor told Thisday. The projected amount was 2.2 million barrels, apparently 300 thousand barrels higher than total actual shipment admitted by Mr. Okunbor and his partners.
While the deal was expected to supply Warri Refinery with 105.6 million barrels of crude, NNPC records show that the refinery only received 61.2 million barrels, combined. At least half of what was expected by ship alone was not delivered.
The Port Harcourt Refinery Deal
After running the Escravos-Warri Refinery deal successfully and secretly for two years, the NNPC opened the Bonny Island – Port Harcourt refinery route under the same covers. The Bonny Island – Port Harcourt refinery route was to transport 2.8 million barrels of crude oil monthly at the same cost with the same contractors, PPP FM and OMS.
Again, there were no competitive biddings before Mr. Ayeni and his partners were handed the contracts.
With the Bonny – Port Harcourt Refinery route added to the portfolio, Messrs. Okunbor and Ayeni were charged with transporting five million barrels of crude oil to the two refineries, via ships, monthly.
At that rate, NNPC was paying both companies N15.3 billion ($77 million USD) monthly on both fronts.
Like in the Warri refinery’s case, Messrs. Okunbor and Ayeni did not deliver the full amount of crude expected of the illegal contract.
“Currently, we lift… approximately 1.6 million barrels twice a month to the Port Harcourt refinery using our VLCC,” Mr. Okunbor told Thisday in July.
Cocktail of illegalities
These local crude oil transportation deals Messrs. Okunbor and Ayeni held until July were fraught with fraud, illegalities and irregularities.
Those familiar with the deal said the NNPC board, in the first place, had no businesses approving the initial contract in December 2010 because the cost exceeded their approval limit of N5 million, allowed by its laws, and $20 million US dollars allowed by Nigeria’s procurement laws.
The decision to extend the contract beyond three months was the second major step in a cascade of fraudulent activities that defined the contract.
In 2013, the NNPC attempted to regularize these illegal crude oil transportation contracts. In October that year, it published an invitation to tender bids for the two crude oil transportation contracts in major Nigerian dailies.
Days later, just as many shipping companies were putting final touches to their bids, the corporation withdrew the bid through another newspaper publication.
The state oil company did not give any reason for the withdrawal of the call for bids. But top NNPC sources told PREMIUM TIMES a directive demanding the withdrawal came from the presidency describing the project as a “security contract”.
Despite the only official explanation for the exorbitant contract being the drive to keep the refineries amply supplied with crude oil in the face of ‘failing pipelines,’ both the Warri and Port Harcourt refineries received crude oil volumes far less than the contract was expected to deliver.
Between January 2011 and December 2014, the Warri Refinery received crude supplies above two million barrels in six months only, NNPC crude distribution data shows.
In at least three months of 2014, the Warri Refinery did not receive a drop of crude supply. The Warri refinery received an average of 1.2 million barrels of crude oil monthly in those four years.
Port Harcourt refinery never received crude supply up to the full amount expected of the illegal contract while it lasted. In fact, NNPC data did not show any significant leap in supply after the transportation contract was initiated in 2013.
Within the period, the Port Harcourt refinery did not receive a drop of crude oil in three months. It received an average of 536 thousand barrels of crude monthly, at least 2 million barrels less than the contract was expected to deliver.
The NNPC data of crude received monthly by the refineries, obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, showed that in the last four years, the refineries rarely received crude oil close to the volumes awarded for shipment alone from both Messrs. Okunbor and Ayeni, not to talk of pipeline sources that fed the refineries.
Satellite images obtained by PREMIUM TIMES showed that in some instances, no security boats escorted the ships deployed by PPP FM to transport the crude from production terminals to refinery jetties. Yet, NNPC purportedly paid billions of naira for the security escorts.
“Some of the vessels involved also sat anchored offshore the Niger Delta—presumably at a significant cost to the nation—for long periods when NNPC was not sending crude to the refineries at all,” a recent report by Natural Resources Governance Institute said.
Besides being economically unjustifiable, many industry experts PREMIUM TIMES contacted for comment for this story were shocked by its details and ramifications.
“What happened to the crude oil received by these contractors in the months the refineries were down? Why did the refineries not receive full volumes of crude oil lifted by these contractors?” many asked.
Follow the money
Tunde Ayeni, one of the owners of the contracting firm in this deal is a long-standing ally of former governor of Bayelsa State, Depreiye Alamieyeseigha, and former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Mr. Jonathan succeeded Mr. Alamieyeseigha as governor of oil-rich Bayelsa state after the latter was removed from office in 2005 following money laundering scandal. Since his release from prison, Mr. Alamieyeseigha has remained active on the political scene.
Mr. Ayeni, a lawyer, gained notoriety following the corruption trial that brought down Mr. Alamieyeseigha as Bayelsa governor. He was mentioned in court documents as admitting helping Mr. Alamieyeseigha to execute some deals.
Mr. Ayeni was never convicted and has since then remained one of Nigeria’s most ambitious businessmen, investing heavily in almost all key sectors of the Nigerian economy – oil and gas, telecoms and power. He’s currently the chairman of Skye Bank and was awarded Commander of the Order of Niger (CON) – a national recognition – by the Jonathan administration.
In the build up to the 2015 general elections, Mr. Ayeni chaired a fundraising dinner organised by Mr. Jonathan’s party, the Peoples Democratic Party, and made a shocking donation of N2 billion ostensibly to fund the president’s re-election. He explained that half of the donation was raised by himself and an anonymous partner while the other half was raised by himself other anonymous friends.
Mr. Ayeni, whose law firm, Legal Resources Alliance, doubles as the company secretary to PPP FM, turned away PREMIUM TIMES reporters, who visited to request his comments for this story, from his 38 Birao Street, Wuse II, Abuja office.
The NNPC also declined to comment. After weeks of promises and excuses to respond to the website’s inquiry, the state oil company tried to preempt our investigation by announcing it was calling off the illegal contracts.
In announcing the cancellation, the corporation admitted the contractors were inappropriately engaged and the contract costs were exorbitant. It however did not say whether it planned to recover monies paid to the contractors even while not transporting crude.
Photo: Footballer Mikel Obi welcomes twins
He shared the photo on his instagram page and wrote "My whole world in my arms. Welcome to the world, my angels." Now, the question we all want to know is; who is the baby mama? Longtime girlfriend, Olga? Who knew she was pregnant?
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