ON THE ROCK” CONCERT WITH GOSPEL FORCE & FRIENDS

Following the release of their single “No One” featuring Eben, Fast rising Rock band, Gospel Force, brings to you, the first Christian Rock music and worship gathering in Lagos – On the Rock Concert . Gospel Force has high expectations for the concert which they believe will change lots of lives based on the revelation for the name of the concert adapted from Matthew 16:18; “…upon this rock, I will build my church”.

Gospel Force has unveiled the artiste line up for the concert which will include anointed ministers such as Kunle Kenny, Ladi Adewunmi, Segun Cooper, Tuke Morgan, Oyinyechi, Ayobamidele, Heaven Shakers, amongst others and the host will be Omoh (X2D TV).

Lagos awaits a life changing encounter with the Holy Spirit, through power packed worship and praise to the Almighty.

Date: Sunday, November 15th, 2015

Venue: Kingsville Church, No 2, Akinwunmi street via Casino Cinema, Alagomeji-Yaba, Lagos

Time: 3pm (Red Carpet) 4pm (Event starts)

Gospel Force is a Christian Rock band based in Lagos which was established in 2010. In 2014, they released their first debut single titled “I See You” , the song became a global worship anthem used in Europe, USA and other West African countries. This prompted their nomination in the prestigious Crystal Gospel Awards 2015 for the “Best Rock” category. The band has featured and worked with prominent gospel ministers such as Sammie Okposo, Eben, Efe Nathan to mention a few. August 2015 saw the release of their 2 single titled
“No One” . The single trhat has been enjoying rave reviews features renbowned Gospel Rock artiste Eben .

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2012 ETISALAT NIGERIAN IDOL WINNER, 'MERCY CHINWO' SET TO RELEASE FIRST OFFICIAL SINGLE

Mercy Chinwo would be remembered for her remarkable appearance on the 2012 Etisalat Nigerian Idol completion. She gave quite a show and fought here way through the very stiff competition to emerge winner of the $100,000 price. It has been three year since then but there had been nothing official from her indicating that she plans on taking music up professionally. But now she is set to take the center stage and bring her music to thousands of expectant fans across the country. This is what she has to say..
“I am excited at the coming release of my very first single which will be out on the 14 of November 2015. It is my very first single since after the Nigerian Idol experience. I have been featured on several songs at different times by different artists. Sure the release of my song has been long due and I really do appreciate all of the people out there who had had faith in me, shown some concern, supported me and waited patiently for this time. It sure will take some time to give the details of why it had taken me this long to put my works out, but summed up in one word I wanted the right time, and I think the time is right.


While there have been a lot of uncertainty between society and the Church about my brand and identity, I like to clear the assumptions; I am a Gospel Artist. While I hold my views about music as a tool for communication which should not be limited to the concepts and ideas of religion, I like to stand out for what I believe.


My single is titled”TESITMONY”. It is my attempt to encourage everyone out there to be strong in the face of all of the challenges they go through. In my short time on earth especially in the last three years I have been through a lot and I cannot exactly tell how I came through, my life is a testament of Testimonies. I am sure all over the world people will connect with my music and find their expression in each song as they are all soul bound. I really am excited at my TESTIMONY…” – MERCY CHINWO



You can reach Mercy Chinwo on social media;
Twitter ; @MMercychinwo

10 Signs of Depression (and 6 Ways to Fight It)

Here are 10 common symptoms

1. Depressed mood most of the day nearly every day.

2. Loss of interest in things you used to find interesting or enjoyable.

3. Changes in sleep patterns—primarily oversleeping.

4. Low energy and lethargy.

5. Difficulty with concentration and focus.

6. Feeling anxious or irritable, or having difficulty managing stress.

7. A reluctance to engage with others and a desire to be alone.

8. Decreased libido and sexual desire.

9. Craving sunlight.

10. Craving carbohydrate-rich foods (and resulting weight gain).

If you think you might be suffering from Depression you should consult a mental health professional. In addition, there are a number of things you can do to ease your symptoms:

1. Try light therapy.
Depression is fundamentally about a lack of light (and not the lower temperature). You should prioritize getting outside on sunny days as much as you can. But aside from that, light boxes, lamps, and visors can provide up to 10,000 LUX of light, functioning as a "sun replacement." Light therapy has been shown to be very effective for treating depression. Be sure to get your device from a reputable company and to follow the "dosing" guidelines.

2. Maintain a steady sleep schedule.
Since depression often induces sleep disturbances and disturbances in circadian rhythms, it is important to maintain a relatively strict sleeping schedule.

3. Spend time outdoors.
Depression  can make you want to hibernate and lock yourself indoors until spring. Spending time outdoors and in
nature combats this desire and restores mood and energy levels.

4. Go on vacation (as therapy).
Winter vacations to sunny climates can be an important way to alleviate the symptoms of depression and break up the long winter. (Plus, it’s easier to justify a vacation if it counts as therapy, too.)

5. Eat a balanced diet.
Craving carbs can make you gain weight, which itself can contribute to a bad mood and negative outlook. Try to find a balance between indulging your craving for carbs and eating sufficient amounts of protein and vegetables, while not going over your normal caloric intake. It is natural to gain a few pounds over the winter but the only way to make sure it doesn’t become more than that is to be mindful of your food intake.

6. Medication.
Many people who suffer from depression take antidepressants seasonally, starting in the fall and then weaning off of them in the spring. If you think you could benefit from antidepressants, make an appointment with a psychiatrist or your primary-care physician.

Source:PsychologyToday

10 Reasons Why Men Cheat

Men who engage in sexual and romantic entanglements after making a vow of monogamy do so for a variety of underlying psychological reasons:

1. He’s a liar. He never intended to be monogamous, despite his commitment. He doesn’t understand that his vow of fidelity is a sacrifice made to and for his relationship and the person he professes to love. This man views monogamy as something to be worked around rather than embraced.

2. He is insecure. Deep down, he feels that he is too young, too old, too fat, too thin, too poor, too stupid, or too whatever to be desirable. He uses flirtation, porn, and extramarital sex as a way to feel better about himself, to reassure himself that he is still desirable, worthwhile, and “good enough.”

3. He is immature. He thinks that as long as his partner doesn’t find out, he’s not hurting anybody. He doesn’t understand that significant others almost always know when something is up. He doesn’t “get” that his partner will eventually find out what’s been going on, and when that occurs, it won’t be pretty.

4. He is damaged. Perhaps he is acting out early
trauma experiences, such as physical abuse, neglect, or sexual abuse. His formative wounds have left him unable or unwilling to fully commit himself to another person. He may also seek sexual intensity outside his relationship as a way to self-medicate (escape from) his emotional and psychological pain.

5. He has unreasonable expectations. He believes that his spouse should meet his every sexual and emotional need, 24/7, without fail. In his
narcissistic and self-focused way, he doesn’t understand that his spouse may be juggling multiple priorities (kids, work, home, finances) in addition to him and the relationship. When this spouse inevitably fails him (in his view), he feels entitled to seek intimate attention elsewhere.

6. He is bored, overworked, or otherwise put-upon (in his mind), and feels deserving of something special that is just for him —hiring prostitutes, viewing porn, or having affairs. Or maybe he wants more attention from his mate and thinks a period of pulling away will cause her to comply.

7. He is confused about love. He mistakes
limerence— the “rush” of early romance—with love. He does not understand that in truly loving relationships, the early, visceral attraction is gradually replaced by sweeter feelings of longer-term attachment, honesty, commitment, and emotional intimacy.

8. He is addicted. Perhaps he has an ongoing, problematic relationship with alcohol or drugs that affects his decision-making and disinhibits him. He may also have an issue with sexual compulsivity, meaning he uses sexual activity as a way to self-soothe, escape uncomfortable emotions, and dissociate from the pain of underlying psychological conditions.

9. He wants out. He is looking to end his current relationship and is using external sexual and romantic activities to give his wife or girlfriend “the message” without having to be direct. Or, if he is a man who doesn’t like being alone,
period, then finding a new and “better” person before leaving a current relationship provides a safer and softer landing.

10. He lacks male bonding and a peer community.
Having undervalued his healthy need to maintain solid, supportive friendships and community with other men, his reaction to a busy or distracted spouse is all the more injurious—as he expects all of his emotional and physical needs to be met by this one person

Source:PsychologyToday

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Four Things You Do That Makes Your Hair Fall Off (LADIES)

Well, major concerns for women regarding their hair relates to falling and breaking hair. This is a huge albatross for women, considering that hair is a major beautifying element for their physical appearance. It is however important to note that there is “normal hair loss” which occurs when women comb their hair on a day to day basis.
The American Academy of Dermatology says that an average adult woman would lose between 50 to 120 strands of hair on a daily basis and if you fall within this category, there’s nothing to worry about as this is completely normal.
Having stated that, if you’re sure you’re losing more than the normal amount of hair each day, you might want to consider a change in your lifestyle and the way you take care of your hair. There are common habits that may facilitate hair loss. Stay off these four things and watch your hair grow.

You Don’t Eat Well
A lot of people don’t know that the human hair is about 95 percent protein. The scalp secretes sebum, a fatty fluid that lubricates and protects the scalp. Foods that are rich in protein such as eggs, fish and beans and other hair growth nutrients such as Vitamin B complexes, iron and omega-3 fats are important in producing sebum which protects the scalp. You can also try using vitamins and nutritional supplements which facilitate hair growth.

Wearing Tight Hairstyles
Certain ways in which you wear your hair may be a major contributory factor to your hair loss. Wearing tight braids, ponytails, hair extensions and buns have a major impact on hair loss. Even though these hairstyles are easy to maintain and look very cute, they tend to put a lot of pressure on your hair follicles. This pressure makes your hair easily pull off from the scalp and results in hair loss or alopecia. It is also important to note that if you constantly wear tight hairstyles, you may develop permanent hair loss. As such, if you’re the type that enjoys wearing tight and protective hairstyles, try to tell your stylist not to make them too tight. More so, you can rotate the styles you make between lose and tight styles so as not to put too much stress on your scalp.

Show Your Hair Love
It is important to know that your scalp is skin that covers your head. While it’s important to take care of your skin, the scalp should also be considered. Wash your hair regularly and avoid using soaps or creams that irritate the scalp. Certain creams that cause dandruff and dermatitis may result in hair loss. Such should be avoided. When the scalp is healthy, the hair is healthy. As such, wash your hair regularly and treat your scalp with gentle massages from time to time.

Using Heat And Chemical Treatments
When you use heat styling and certain chemicals such as relaxers on your hair often, they can damage your hair shaft which may cause hair breakage. Heat and chemicals also out stress on your hair follicles which cause hair loss. If you’re losing a lot of hair, you may want to cut back on using straighteners, blow dryers, hair dyes and relaxers. You can instead wear your hair naturally which would give your hair an opportunity to grow longer.

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WHEN IS LOVE REALLY LOVE?


Rev. Fr. Boniface Nkem Anusiem PhD.

Have you experienced love before? What does it seem to love or to be loved? Is there fake and real love? What is love? Where is love? How is love? Is love what we feel; that is affection? Remember that feelings fade but love never dies (1 Cor.13:8). Is love equivalent to likeness? Remember likes often turn to dislikes! What actually is love and when is love real? Let us reflect on these and more issues connected with love.

On the 14th of April 1912, the greatest maritime tragedy in sailing history occurred with the R.M.S Titanic. The sea vessel was the largest at the time with state of the art accompaniments which included aboard gymnasium, swimming pool, restaurants and park. The passengers in the epoch-making voyage were the exclusively rich at the time who wanted to be reckoned with the first voyage of one of the best from White Star Line. There were also few poor and lucky folks who were emigrants to North America who got free tickets. In all, there were more than 2,224 passengers on board.

With sixteen watertight compartments in a 1/6 mile long hull, the captain Edward John Smith made a pre-voyage boast that “not even God could sink the Ship”.(Of course God does not sink ships he rather saves them). The Titanic left Southampton to New York for her first sail on the historic 10th of April 1912.

While screen playing the story as a movie, James Cameron created two characters that made the movie “Titanic” to get universal acclaim. Hence as the Ship began her journey, fate brought about the meeting of two young people who later became love birds. Rose was of the super-rich class and was by family arrangement to marry a man from another rich family while Jack was one of the poor lucky emigrants heading to North America to search for better living. As the interaction between Rose and Jack grew, they came to connect and eventually fell in love.

An hour before midnight on the 14th of April 1912, amidst a starry moonless night, the Titanic collided with an iceberg which the crew noticed late in the midst of late night merriment. The formidable Ship broke into severally pieces while letting in the freezing North Atlantic Ocean water to engulf the Vessel. Unfortunately, rescue came a bit late and there were few lifeboats. Those in the first class were evacuated first which would have made it possible for Kate to have the option to escape death leaving Jack behind but she could not. She preferred to go through it all with Jack.

They struggled together to survive the raging freezing ocean water. At last there was just a platform left for them to hold unto. Rose clung unto it on top while Jack had his entire body inside the grisly cold water. He kept on encouraging Rose to hold and never to give up. Before a rescue could come, Jack was entirely frozen and died. Rose was eventually rescued!
While recounting what happened that eventful night after many years as an old woman, Rose said that she could only remember that a young man, out of love that she could not describe, gave up his life so that she could live. If we are asked to describe in one word what Jack did for Rose, the most fitting word would be sacrifice! The word sacrifice itself has a lot to do with love. To love one must let go something that is precious and that entails making a sacrifice. So to define love we must keep our eyes on sacrifice.

In the First Reading today (Deut.6:2-4), we are presented with the instructions given by God to the Israelites. Among other things God said: “Hear O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your might”.
If we examine the above instruction very closely, we will discover some pertinent points. First and foremost it was a command. Some translations would say: “You MUST love the Lord your God…” To show the seriousness of the instruction it began by summoning them to HEAR; to pay attention; to LISTEN. Furthermore, this love of God is to be done with the fullness of three important personal effects:

1) With all your heart: The heart is mentioned up to a thousand times in the whole of the bible. In Hebrew it is known as lebab and in Greek it is known as kardia. The heart is the seat of physical, emotional, and moral activities. In fact people are known to be good or bad from the point of view of their hearts. In the gospel of Matthew (15:18-20) our Lord Jesus Christ mentioned that it is not what goes into someone that defiles the person but what goes from inside; that is from the heart. It is from there that all evil proceeds. Loving God with all our hearts means that we allow our hearts to be God-full, leaving no space for any other thing. It means giving God our hearts

2) With all your soul. The soul is the most important aspect of the human person that survives after the death of the body. It is often used interchangeably with life. In Genesis (2:7) we are told that God breathed on man after making him from the dust of the earth and he became a living soul. Our soul represents everything about us. Without the soul we are no more. To love God with all our soul means submitting our entire being to God.


3) With all our might: Might has a lot to do with strength; not just physical strength but also spiritual strength. In the book of Judges (6:12) Gideon was greeted as “mighty man of valour”. In Ephesians (6:10) Paul advised saying: “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might”. Loving God with all our might means channelling all our physical and spiritual strength to God.

From what we have above, we can clearly see that loving God with all our heart, soul and might means sacrificing everything about us to God. A practical example of giving all these to God was the action of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (Dan.3:1ff). For the sake of their love for God, they were ready to lose everything including their lives however, God gave them back what they offered and even more.
In the Gospel Reading today (Mark 12:28-34) we discover that the instruction about love continued. One of the Scribes came to our Lord Jesus Christ and wanted to know which of the commandments could be the first. That is the most important of all. The man could be representing the men and women of his time (and of our time too) who were (are) confused as to what could be the most important of the commandments.

The Scribe who came to Jesus Christ wanted him to give preference to one of the commandments over and above others. May be as a Scribe he had been confronted with the same question or he wanted to size the opinion of our Lord to know the extent he knew the law. In whichever way, the response our Lord gave was indeed very remarkable. He quoted for him the passage we examined in the First Reading (Deut.6:2-4) about loving God and concluded with a passage in Leviticus (19:18) which says: “Love your neighbours as yourself”. In essence our Lord is of the view that the greatest commandment is the commandment of LOVE.
From what we have above, our Lord Jesus Christ gave us the two dimensional expression of love: to God and to our fellow human beings. In any case, it will be pertinent to examine how we can achieve these. The love of God is not achieved by saying it: “I love God”. It begins first from knowledge of God. The book of Hosea (4:6) says that “My people perish for lack of knowledge!” It is very clear and indisputable that you cannot love what you do not know! That could be fantasy, lust or infatuation. From knowledge and communication, you connect. That is the due process to love. Love seeks to express itself in selfless giving; an example is what our Lord Jesus Christ did for us. A selfish person cannot love effectively because his/her self-interest will always block the way to reaching out to others.

Love strictly seen is the seed of every good thing. Love is the reason why Jesus Christ came into the world (Jn 3:16), love is the reason why he preached and worked miracles (Matt. 9:36; Mark 6:34). Love is the reason why he went to the cross to die (Rom 5:8). Love is the reason for our salvation. Love answers all questions! Love is the only thing that can decide our fate after leaving this world. Love is a seed which every right thinking Christian must always sow.
Part of the reason why love as a phenomenon seems to be hard to define is that it is another name for God and God is not easy to define or describe. 1 John 4:8 tells us that “whoever does not love does not know God for God is love”. No wonder then St. Paul (1 Cor. 13:7) said that love conquers all things; this means that everything is subject to love which is God.

To love is not optional as most of us think. It is a commandment which carries a lot of consequences. In John (13:34) our Lord Jesus Christ said: “I give you a new commandment Love one another as I have loved you”. It also identifies who we are: “If you love one another everyone will know that you are my disciple” (John 13:35). Love is not based on conditions or conveniences. For some people their love is seasonal: the season of abundance; when things are going fine. The litmus test for love are critical times like the one Rose and Jack experienced at the Titanic tragedy and the love Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego had for God to the extent of marching into to the burning furnace.
Today our Lord Jesus Christ has given us the assignment to examine our love quotient. Do we love just by words of mouth, just by flowers, paintings, writings, messages and others materials gifts or do we practice and actualize love by our selflessness! Love is really love when it is selfless and sacrificial!

Happy Sunday and blessed week ahead!

Fr. Bonnie
(fatherbonny@hotmail.com).

Bad Morning Habits That Can Ruin An Entire Day

How you start your morning can set the tone for the rest of the day. A screaming match with your partner? Not a good way to start. A good, hearty breakfast? Much better. But your day could just as easily be derailed by other, more seemingly innocuous habits. Huffingtonpost.com highlights some bad morning habits that can ruin an entire day.

Hitting the snooze button

“Hitting the snooze button is frequently a sign that you are not getting enough sleep,” says Robert Rosenberg, M.D., Medical Director of the Sleep Disorders Center of Prescott Valley, Arizona and author of Sleep Soundly Every Night, Feel Fantastic Every Day. But it may also be a sign of ‘social jet lag,’ a condition where you are staying up too late on weekends and then because of the sleep debt you have built up, you need more sleep on work days. When you hit snooze, you disrupt your sleep cycles and you end up sleepier than if you had gotten up in the first place. You also scramble your internal circadian clock, which tells you when to sleep and when to wake.

Checking your phone before you get out of bed

A research paper from the University of British Columbia found that people who checked their email regularly throughout the day were more stressed than those who checked them three times a day.
When you check your phone first thing in the morning, you run the risk of stimulating your mind into criticism and judgment: your emails, texts, and voicemails tell you what you have to respond to or manage that day. Your Facebook page has you compare yourself to other people’s lives, and stimulates jealousy. Unfortunately, checking your phone can awaken your Inner Critic, that incessant voice in your mind that is always assessing, judging and evaluating you, and never shuts up. When you start the day listening to the Inner Critic, your stress level immediately goes up. Your brain begins to produce stress hormones, and your body responds, and before you know it, you are tense and agitated, your blood pressure is elevated, and your day hasn’t even started yet!”

Putting off exercise

Exercising at any time of day is better than not exercising at all. But if you can exercise in the morning, you may be doing your body a day-long favour. There’s research that has looked at people engaging in morning versus afternoon exercise, and those who exercise in the morning appear to have lower blood pressure throughout the day and they get better sleep.

Skipping breakfast altogether

For years we’ve heard that skipping breakfast is bad for us, yet people do it all the time! Skipping that first meal of the day is a bad morning habit, and the research proves it. Opting out of breakfast can lead your energy to flag and your appetite to increase. If you skip breakfast, you’re more likely to eat more calories later in the day. Breakfast does kick start our mornings.

Forgetting to Stretch

If you’ve ever felt stiff in the morning, almost like you can’t bend your knees or walk quite right, it’s not just you. Overnight, muscles and joints can stiffen as they ‘sleep’ right along with you. If you just try to hop out of bed, you may feel muscle twinges where you didn’t know you had muscles.
Lie on your back and stretch your arms and legs, pulling them in opposite directions. Make small circles with your wrists and feet to encourage blood and oxygen to these joints. You’ll find you get an energy boost and increase your flexibility, too. “It’s a positive, non-pharmacological approach to wellness,” says Dr. Carlson.

Source: The Leadership

Preparations For Calabar Carnival In Top Gear -Cross River Governor says

The Cross River State Government on Tuesday said preparations were in top gear for this year’s Calabar carnival and festivals beginning from Dec. 1, 2105.

Mr Kenneth Akler, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Event Management, told journalists in Calabar, capital of Cross River.

He said that it had become necessary to confirm that the event would hold on schedule.
“Yes, we are going to do the festival; we are going to do the carnival.
“Government is planning to review some of the activities of the carnival in order to make the event more interesting and worthwhile.
“We are trying to create something new from the old order in a bid to make the event more interesting to tourists,’’ Akler said.

According to him, the theme of this year’s event, “Climate change’’, was designed to showcase the vision of the government and tailor the carnival to the state’s environment.

The governor’s aide said the children aspect of the carnival had been modified to include : `wonders on the wheels’ and `carnival tree planting’.

He said that about 10 countries had indicated their interests to participate in the carnival.
Also speaking, Mr Gab Unah, the Director-General, State Carnival Commission, said that Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River had increased the prize for the best band in this year’s carnival.
According to Unah, the prize has been increased from N20 million to N50 million.

He stressed that economic benefit was paramount for the state in its carnival plans and execution.

“It is our own oil well for now. So for us, the most important part is the commercial aspect. And this we are doing through participation of multinational companies,’’ the director-general said.

He called on tourists and citizens of the state to brace up for the best carnival the state had never witnessed. (NAN)

Source: Leadership

FG urged to resume repair of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

OWING to the excruciating agony commuters and motorist experience on the road, a call has gone to the Federal Government to resume the on-going reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, stopped early this year, to save Nigerians from further suffering.

A socio-economic group in Ogun State, the Egba Economic Summit, in a statement signed yesterday by its President, Mr. Ayobami Biobaku said that the Federal Government should recall the contractor handling the Lagos-Sagamu interchange stretch of the road to improve economic activities in the area and to reduce the agony of the people who use the road.

The Lagos-Ibadan road is being redeveloped at a cost of N167 billion. The Lagos-Shagamu stretch of the road is being redeveloped by Julius Berger, while the Sagamu-Ibadan axis is being handled by RCC but work on both sections ceased when the President Muhammadu Buhari administration began.

According to Biobaku, it was also important for the Ogun State Government to contract a construction company to do palliative rehabilitation of some sections of that road that have deteriorated since the main contractor left the site.

Biobaku said, “We noticed that the contractor has moved out of site, leading to dilapidation of the road to the deplorable state it was in about two and a half years ago.
“The bad road adversely affects the socio-economic life of our people and negates the purpose of reconstructing the road,” adding that good roads were indispensable to the economic growth of any community where they are built.

Source: The Guardian

Chinese firms to build N4b transformer producing plant

NIGERIA is set to join the league of countries in the world with state-of-the-art transformer producing plants, as the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) in collaboration with the China Great Wall are planning a transformer producing plant in the country that could gulp N4 billion.

The Federal Government and Chinese Great Wall Corporation through the agency had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in 2013 to establish a local transformer manufacturing plant in Okene, Kogi State.

Speaking in Abuja, yesterday, Chinese Great Wall Corporation spokesperson, Ao Pei Yong, who led officials of the Chinese Great Wall Corporation, China Railway Corporation, Huaye Group and Bank of China on a facility tour of NASENI headquarters, said the Nigeria project, when completed, will be the second largest transformer producing plant in Africa.

According to the Chief Information Officer, Olusegun Ayeoyenikan, the joint Nigeria-Chinese project on transformer manufacturing plant is valued at $170 million, equivalent to N4billion.
Ao Pei Yong said, the visit was to ensure that the harmonization of government regulations and policies on all related issues were carried out, adding that the overview of the MoU, made sure the transformer-manufacturing project covers electric power and distribution, power transformer as well as high voltage testing laboratory.

“We guarantee to establish everything on transformer and transformer-making machines in this collaboration and promised that we will work together to achieve everything as specified in the MoU.”

“Once this project is completed, Nigeria will have the capacity to achieve a Nigeria brand of transformer, not only for self-sufficiency, but the country can export it to other parts of Africa and the project should be completed not later than three years,” he added.

Source: TheGuardian

U-17 World Cup: Mexico vs Nigeria – LIVE (2-4) Full-Time

Full-Time: Nigeria 4-2 Mexico. Golden Eaglets Advance To U17WC Final

90′ ANOTHER SUB! OSIKEL comes off the bench to replace OKONKWO (4-2)

85′ Alimi replaces Chukwueze. It’s looking very much like Nigeria/Mali final,1st all-African final at FIFA U17 WC in 22 years

83′ GOALLL!! OSIMHEN scores his 9th goal, equals Sinama Pongolle’s record set in 2001 U-17 WC (4-2)

83′ PENALTY TO NIGERIA. OSIMHEN TO TAKE

80′ Osimhen fires off target from close range. That was poor from the ‘goal machine’. He needed more power behind that ball (3-2)

75′ SUB! NIGERIA! MADUEKE comes off the bench to replace EBERE (3-2

74‘ CLOSE! Chukwueze hits the upright from a powerful left-foot. Could have been 4-2 there but scores still remains 3-2 in Nigeria’s favour.

70′ Mexico make their final sub as J. IBARRA comes off the bench to replace K. MAGAÑA (3-2)

67 ‘ GOALLL! EBERE scores to restore Golden Eaglets’ one goal lead. Nigeria 3-2 Mexico

63′ DOUBLE SUB! Mexico! F. ESCALANTE IN, E. LARA OUT, J. GURROLA IN, C. ZAMUDIO OUT

60′ GOALLLLL!!!! D. CORTES pulls Mexico level. Nigeria 2-2 Mexico, What a game!
Oh my God, goal of the tournament! Diego Cortes just waltzed past 5 players to score the equalizer. Mexico 2-2 Nigeria

50′ Osimhen tries to nutmeg Venegas, but the defender was up to the task, as he helps his team repel the danger (2-1)

49′ Osimhen tries to nutmeg Venegas, but the defender was up to the task, as he helps his team repel the danger (2-1)

46′ The Golden Eaglets get us underway in the second half. Nigeria 2-1 Mexico

43′ GOALLLL!!!! OKONKWO scores to give Golden Eaglets the lead. Nigeria 2-1 Mexico

35′ GOALLLL! NWAKALI draws Nigeria back on level term with a stunning free-kick. GAME ON (1-1)

29′ What an astonishing save by Udoh. That was class. Mexico looking good to extend their lead (0-1)

27′ Osimhen ‘steals’ the ball from the Mexicans for a Nigeria counter; Chukwueze’s shot sails over the bar (0-1)

25′ Nigeria 0-1 Mexico. chairman, Amaju Pinnick, is in Chile watching from the stands

15′ A great cross into the area but Osimhen’s header was too tame to trouble Romero
This is the first time in the competition that the Eaglets would be conceding first. Can they get back soon?

12′ Nigeria 0-1 Mexico. EL Tri on the front foot

4′ GOALLLL!!!! What a start from Mexico. K. MAGAÑA scores to give the North Americans the early lead

3′ Chance! Udoh tested early on after a great foot work by Aguirre but his shot was poor and easily gathered

1′ The game is underway as Mexico kicks off
Nigeria XI: Udoh (GK), Lazarus, Enogela, Zakari, Chukwueze, Osimhen, Nwakali (C), Ikwu, Anumudu, Ebere, Okonkwo
Mexico XI: Romero (GK), Cortes, Esquivel (c), Venegas, Cervantes, Lara, Lopez, Aguirre, Zamudio, Magaña, Lara
Defending champions, Nigeria , face Mexico in the
U-17 World Cup Chile 2015 semi-final on Thursday at Estadio Municipa.

The Golden Eaglets made it through the quarter-final in style after defeating tournament favourites and three-time champions, Brazil, 3-0. An impressive victory that will give Emmanuel Amuneke’s men a huge boost ahead of their semi-final clash with Mexico.

El Tri, on the other hand, eliminated Ecuador in the quarter-final with a 2-0 win in Coquimbo thanks to goals from Claudio Zamudio and Bryan Salazar, making it to the semi-final for the first time in their history.

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