Interview: In the last 20 years, I’ve spent an hour daily reading dictionaries –Obahiagbon

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What is your educational background

I am by the grace of the celestial choir, a legal practitioner, a public administrator, an international historian and a diplomat. I earned a degree in Law and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria about 25 years ago and I do also have a double-barreled Master’s degree in Public Administration and in International History and Diplomacy.

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Extravagant lifestyle: PDP Spent More Than ₦92b To Rig 2011 Election ––Jonathan

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It has been revealed that the amount spent by the Peoples Democratic Party to rig to 2011 elections is more than what striking lecturers are asking for to return sanity to Nigeria's university system, but the government is not willing to do what is right.

“To meet ASUU demands will deny the party opportunity to stash more money from the national coffers for 2015 election.”

A chieftain of the newly-registered All Progressives Congress in Niger State, Vatsa Jonathan, has accused the Federal Government of insincerity in its current face-off with ASUU.

“What the varsity teachers are asking for is a far cry to what the party spent to rig elections in 2011,” he said while speaking in Minna on Saturday.

He also described the Governor Gabriel Suswan and Senator Anyim Pius Anyim-led government negotiating committees as a bunch of unserious people, just as they were earlier described by ASUU leadership.

Islamic Spiritual Advisor Spent Thousands On Lap-Dances And Prostit-utes

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Preacher blew thousands on prosti-tutes while spreading radical Islam. Married US-born Iman Anwar al-Awlaki was the spiritual adviser of three of the alleged 9/11 hijackers who flew jets into New York’s Twin Towers. But the terror mastermind led a double life, paying vice girls for raunchy s-ex shows and traveling to Las Vegas for lap-dances.  The FBI began tracking al-Awlaki after he was linked to “dozens” of terrorist plots and identified as a “key recruiter” for al-Qaida in  Yemen.

One hooker believed she had seen Osama bin Laden after spying al-Awlaki through a peephole.  Another described him as “very polite” after he paid £260 for s-ex.  The father of five once splashed out on seven prost-itutes in Washington during a s-ex spree the FBI say cost over £2,000.  When quizzed by agents the women said al-Awlaki had claimed to be an engineer from India and gave a false name.  The hate preacher was killed in a drone strike in 2011 after being added to the CIA’s “kill list”.

Time Spent at funerals Should Be Shortened ( Do You Agree ?)

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A group of leaders in the Eastern Cape of South Africa had decided to hold a seminar to discuss ways to shorten and reduce the cost of funerals, it reported;

“People make funerals a show-off, from the coffin to what family members wear. It is sad to see how our people are doing such things; we need to stop this trend,” said seminar organiser Bishop Makhosi Ngcoza.

“We should not expect people to attend a funeral from 9am to 3pm.”

Nigerians spent ₦580 billion on private jets

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The total cost of private jets acquired by Nigerians has been put at $3.75bn (N581bn), just as stakeholders say the number of such planes in the country has now reached 150.

On the average, each jet costs $25m, and are registered either locally and or in countries such as South Africa or the United States for various reasons.

The rising numbers of private jet acquisitions by businessmen, religious leaders and politicians has placed Nigeria as the leading market in Africa according to the Managing Director, GTBank Plc, Mr. Segun Agbaje.

Speaking at the Nigerian Business Aviation Conference 2013 in Lagos yesterday, Agbaje noted that the most popular jets common among Nigerians billionaires are Gulfstream, Bombardier, Global Express, Hawker Legacy and Dassault Falcon.

OMG: American Vice President Spent Close to 140 million Naira on Hotel Bills

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Vice President Biden’s gregarious, gaffe-laden diplomacy doesn’t come cheap.

It can cost in the neighborhood of $500,000 a night — and that’s just for the hotel.

Biden’s one-day visit to Paris on Feb. 4 required more than 100 rooms at the five-star Hotel InterContinental Paris Le Grand.

The lodging cost taxpayers $585,000.50, according to federal contracting records that emerged Friday.

Then it was on to London, where Biden’s visit on Feb. 5 required “approximately 136 rooms” at another five-star hotel, the Hyatt Regency London Churchill — the closest Hyatt to the U.S. Embassy.

Total cost for those rooms: $459,338.65.

Pictures And List Of Nigerian Artists Who Spent Big Money On Cars In 2012

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Iyanya
Luck seems to be shining on Iyanya Mbuk and he says he’s grateful for it. After the Project Fame West Africa (season one), Iyanya who emerged the winner moved into his newly acquired Lekki home in July 2012. With his hit song “Kukere” in December 2011, he followed up with a befitting car – a Ranger Rover Sport SUV worth about 12 million naira in September, that he was reported to have bought for close to N12M. Iyanya himself released the pictures of the car. Yes, he was beyond excited!