Metro Nigeriana

Former president Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to a statement credited to Kaduna State governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai where he said ‘”What President Goodluck Jonathan did was to take N2bn each from the Ecological Fund and gave to some PDP states. Any PDP state that was not his friend, like Kano and Kwara, didn’t get.” A statement released by Ikechukwu Eze, Media Adviser to Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, titled “ON EL-RUFAI’S LIES AGAINST JONATHAN ON THE SHARING OF THE ECOLOGICAL FUND” reads: “That Malam Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State has an incurable knack for lying has been proven by his own boss, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo who described El-Rufai in his book-My Watch Volume 2 as follows: “Nasir’s penchant for reputation savaging is almost pathological. Why does he do it? He is brilliant and smart. I grant him that also. Very early in my interaction with him, I appreciated his talent and brilliance. At the same time, I recognised his weaknesses; the worst being his inability ...

The visit which was a part of the activities marking the second anniversary of the Muhammad Buhari’s administration was essentially to interact with traders to get first hand information on the cost of goods and other food items in the market. Osinbajo arrived the market at about 3:10 pm to the cheers of the traders who shouted “Osibaba, APC” and exited the market after about 40 minutes. While pricing some food items which included fish, onions, rice and beans, the Acting President also received complaints from the traders who said that the cost of renting shops was high. A fish seller who sought government’s intervention to reduce the cost of the shop said it was as high as N250,000 per annum. She also complained that the prices of locally smoked fish had gone high just as the imported ones had also skyrocketed. Similarly, a rice seller, Alhaji Nasiru Maiyaki Kuryfi also complained of inadequate shop space. He said that the management of the market was yet to complete the shops alr...

Thirteen years after dropping out of Harvard University to work on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday finally got his degree -- well, sort of. Zuckerberg returned to the university where he launched what would become the world's biggest social network, and basked in the spotlight by receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree and addressing the 2017 commencement. His speech capped a nostalgic visit for the 33-year-old billionaire, which included a visit to his old dorm room. "Mom, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree," read the caption of a picture he posted of him posing with his honorary diploma and his parents. Facebook -- now one of the biggest tech firms, with nearly two billion members worldwide -- grew out of a website he created on campus. He left Harvard in May 2004, according to his Facebook profile. In his address, which he said he'd been working on "for a long time," Zuckerberg urged graduates of his alma mater...