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Niyi is a senior data editor at NiyiDaram

Senate leader, Ali Ndume, has said the National Assembly is broke and the situation was so worrisome that legislators were not receiving their allowances as and when due.He told newsmen in Abuja..“I know that the whole country is in financial difficulty, not only National Assembly. I have been in the National Assembly since 2003, but things keep getting worse; I think they paid us last month’s salary on the 16th of the following month or thereabouts,“It is not only with the National Assembly, some states have not been able to pay salaries for six months, one year.“Some states were even…

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Tyga has just gotten into a third lawsuit over unpaid debts ,as he has been forced to pay a landlord more than $186k over issues with a rented space.E! News confirms the rapper was slapped with a six-figure bill from F&S Investment Property after renting out a Los Angeles home used to run his side business, Egypt Last Kings Clothing.Attorneys for F&S Investment Property filed court documents, obtained by E! News, alleging that Tyga breached the lease by “failing to pay rent and other amounts due” when he abandoned the premises without notice in June 2015.When the house was inspected,…

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Twelve players who represented Nigeria in the 2016 Rio Olympics and 7 officials who accompanied them, including coach Samson Siasia, have arrived back in Nigeria while others returned to their various bases. The Dream Team won the only medal (Bronze) for Nigeria at the Olympics following their 3-2 victory over Honduras in the third-placed match.Interestingly, they arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Monday night without any official from the Sports Ministry or the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) welcoming them from Brazil and have now departed to their various destinations as no plans were made to host them.

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Kim kardashian took to her website to share her funny throwback tweets from 2009,the year she got on the social networking site.Then, the reality star was so excited to have 1.9 million followers on twitter that she said she would die if it got to 2 million.Now she has over 47 million followers and is still alive and kicking…Read more below

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The Kardashian and Jenner sisters are knee-deep in trouble over “stealthily-disguised product placement” on Instagram.Truth in Advertising (TINA), a nonprofit organization which is aimed at uncovering “false advertising and deceptive marketing,” has issued an ultimatum to the Kardashians and Jenners to either remove over a hundred Instagram false advertisements or they’ll report to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of alleged violations.In a press statement released on Monday, August 22, TINA Executive Director Bonnie Patten said, “When it comes to sponsored social media posts, the law is clear—unless it’s self-evident that an Instagram post is an advertisement, a clear and prominent…

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The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has barred nine commercial banks from participating in all foreign exchange transactions and operations. According to the apex bank, the commercial banks were barred following their failure to remit into the Treasury Single Account the sum of $2.12 billion belonging to the nation’s oil corporation, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).‎The nine banks comprise of three tier-one lenders and another six tier-two deposit money banks. All the banks remain barred from foreign exchange operations until they fully remit the NNPC funds into government coffers via the Treasury Single Account.

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Jennifer Lawrence, for the second year in a row, has been named the world’s highest-paid actress, notching $46 million pre-tax over 12 months – $13 million more than second-ranked Melissa McCarthy, who pocketed $33 million, according to Forbes Magazine, on Tuesday.The earnings of the 26-year-old, while decreasing 11.5% from 2015, were bumped up by a deal in which she took a share of the $653.4m box office of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2,” as well as a big upfront fee for her forthcoming space adventure movie “Passengers,” Forbes said.Second on the list is McCarthy, who reportedly raked eight-figure…

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