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   Lokpobiri Heinekein  the Minister of State Agriculture has said if Nigeria fails to begin the process of producing its own rice, the cost of a bag of rice may shoot up to about N40,000 by December this year. He said this at a town hall meeting in Bayelsa state  yesterday September 10th. "For your information, we spend about $22bn a year importing food into Nigeria. We know how many more dollars they bought and that is why you see the price of rice going up. Price of rice was may be N12,000 some months ago, but it is now about N26,000 and if we don’t start producing, by December it could be N40,000.Rice matures in three months. So, this is a wake up call for Bayelsa people to take thefour farms we have seriously. The federal government has four farms in the state in our records. The average land you see in Bayelsa can grow rice, so the colonial masters were not wrong in their assessment when they said Niger Delta could feed not only Nigerian but also the entire West

Manchester united coach Jose Mourinho will be "damaged slightly" in the wake of losing the Manchester derby 2-1 at home to City on Saturday,Gary Neville has said.  Guardiola's City side overwhelmed United on their way to a 2-0 lead but Zlatan Ibrahimovic slice the crevice to 2-1 preceding half-time. Joined enhanced after the break however City clutched keep up their 100 percent begin to the season while Mourinho dropped focuses without precedent for the class this battle. Talking on Sky Games' Gary Neville Podcast, the previous Joined shield said: "For Pep Guardiola and City, it's a big day. To come and win against a Jose Mourinho group is not easy .He doesn't lose many games  at home and it's a major, pivotal turning point. "Jose Mourinho will be dented  and damged slightly today.He's a man of  pride, yet they'll react, it's still early and it doesn't tell us who will win the league and where it's going. "E

Fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks, Americans are increasingly worried that terrorists will strike inthe days around the anniversary, and they are more likely than five years ago to feel fear and anger when they think about what happened that day, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll.Half of Americans say that acts of terrorism in the US in the days around September 11 this year are at least somewhat likely, up from 39% who felt thatway around the 10th anniversary of the attacks in 2011.The time between these two anniversaries has seen the rise of ISIS and several high-profile terrorist attacks both in the US and abroad. On US soil, those include the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, an attack on a military recruiting center in Tennessee and a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, by a couple who had self-radicalized. In Europe, terrorists have struck an airport in Brussels, several sites around Paris and a Bastille Day celebration in Nice in the last year alone.The increased conce

On September 11, 2001, amid the burning ashes ofthe World Trade Center, three New York City firefighters hoisted a small American flag removed from a nearby yacht. It was 5 p.m. on a day that would radically change the course of history.The image, captured by a former photographer from The Bergen Record, became a symbol of hope and resiliency in the face of unimaginable tragedy.But within hours of its raising, the flag disappearedfrom the World Trade Center site.The iconic flag is now back in New York City, 15 years after it went missing.It will be displayed near the entrance of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, built on the site of ground zero.Its reappearance is as mysterious as its disappearance. CNN film traces disappearance The mystery of what happened to the ground zero flag was the subject of a 2013 CNN film "The Flag."The original flag was "either misplaced, stolen or secreted away by unknown forces in the chaos of ground zero," according

Rapper Future has a new single out and dissed his baby mama Ciara. The  song titled “How It Feel” took shots at Ciara saying he made her famous. Part of the lyrics goes..“ask me how it feel to smash an R&B sh*t”.“I made you b*tch.” "Bitch, you was nothing before me, I gave you fame on the ‘Gram. I put you back on the charts, I gave you number 1 spot.”Ciara and Future were engaged but called off their engagement in August 2014. Ciarahas since moved on and is now married to Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson.

As Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, shared via his official Instagram page. Read what he said. When the minister is there, you tell them, “You know, Hon. Minister, Nigeria is very lucky to have you in office.” No! You tell the minister that you are doing well, but, you know there are these areas that you must change. If a policy is wrong, it is wrong.Nothing will make it right. And it has to be changed. So, this is what we did.Look at real sector wages. It was not just Nigeria, it was all over Africa. Look at sovereign debt fuelling growth. If you take the example of an individual. You happen to know bank MDs and you can make a few phone calls and get loans. You borrowN1 billion here today and build a very nice mansion in Abuja. You borrow another N1 billion and let your family go out on first class ticket as you are travelling all over the world. You borrow another N5 to N6 billion and buy a private jet. We have very many people in Nigeria who you think are very rich. But, w

Cristiano Ronaldo has replied the Catalan legend, after the former Barcelona player said the Real Madrid/Portugal star was unlucky to be playing in the same generation as Lionel Messi. Speaking to Spanish radio station Cadena Ser earlier in the week, Xavi had said:“Ronaldo is a player of his time. The problem is that there is another who has been pretty much the best player in history. Ronaldo is extraordinary but compared to Messi, for me and for everyone who likes football, there are no comparisons.“Messi will be number one until he wants [to stop]. He’s superior to everyone and is the best in the world, unless you are Real Madrid.”'Only a fool could have played football and not recognize Cristiano is an elite footballer. But he just has had bad luck to be around at the same time as Leo.' On Saturday evening, Ronaldo who scored on his Madrid comeback after months of being injured stunningly reacted to the former Barcelona captain's comments.'    Am the mo

South Korea has an arrangement to obliterate the North Korean capital on the off chance that it hints at any mounting an atomic assault, as indicated by reports from Seoul. A military source told the Yonhap news office all aspects of Pyongyang "will be totally annihilated by ballistic rockets and high-explosives shells". Yonhap has close binds to South Korea's administration and is openly subsidized. On Friday North Korea completed what it said was its fifth, and biggest, atomic test. The worldwide group is thinking about its reaction. The US says it is thinking about its own approvals, notwithstanding any forced by the UN Security Board, Japan and South Korea. Pyongyang reacted on Sunday by calling the dangers of "aimless assents... exceptionally ludicrous". The South Korean military authority advised Yonhap that Pyongyang areas thought to conceal the North's administration would be especially focused in any assault. The city, the source said,

South Sudan says it's confronting money emergency at its outside international safe havens originating from compensation delays too chance expulsion for inability to pay rents. Philip Thon Leek, Director of Specific Board for Outside Relations in transitional Parliament, told Xinhua in a meeting in Juba. He said that the administration was endeavoring distraught endeavors to protect the negotiators who might be at danger of expulsion because of rental levy. "The representatives have been abandoning compensations for around five months, and some of them are being debilitated to be dragged to court for neglecting to pay rents by their proprietors," Leek said. In Spring, South Sudan said it would cut back the quantity of staff in its government offices over the world keeping in mind the end goal to slice costs because of monetary droop coming from a two-year common war. The move comes in the midst of unverified reports that a portion of the outside missions have be

The Nigerian Railroads corporation (NRC) has suspended its traveler train administration from Abuja to Kaduna on Monday and Tuesday in view of the Eid el-Kabir open occasions. Alhaji Yakub Mahmood, the public Relations officee of the NRC, made this known in Lagos on Saturday. Mahmood said the period would likewise be utilized to complete far reaching support of the train. He guaranteed travelers that the Abuja-Kaduna train administration would continue on Wednesday. "The organization exceedingly laments any impairment this may bring about our regarded travelers," he said. The News Office of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Abuja-Kaduna travelers train initiated by President Muhammadu Buhari move from Idu in Abuja to Rigasa in Kaduna.

Apple raised the stake for cameras in leader telephones with the declaration of its iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Or more on Wednesday. Others as of now have taken the double camera way to deal with cell phone photography - prominently HTC, LG and Huawei. "While it's not the main double camera mounted in a cell phone, it's keeping pace with the others as far as fundamental usefulness," said Brian Blau, an exploration executive for Gartner . Going above and beyond, Apple has added its own particular capable turn to the idea. "Apple has overhauled the camera application to make utilizing the double camera simple - and that could be their best component, as concentrating on the client experience is constantly one of Apple's qualities," Blau told TechNewsWorld. The iPhone 7 Or more has two cameras that sit next to each other on the back. There's the 12 megapixel camera with a 28mm focal point found in the base rendition of the telephone, and in addit