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UK could pay £50bn Brexit divorce bill after bowing to EU pressure.

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The UK has bowed to EU demands on the Brexit divorce bill in a move that could result in the UK paying £50bn to Brussels, in an attempt to get France and Germany to agree to move negotiations to trade. Non-stop behind-the-scenes negotiations have led to a broad agreement by the UK to a gross financial settlement of £89bn on leaving the bloc, although the British expect the final net bill to be half as much. A senior EU official told the Guardian that the UK appeared ready to honour its share of the EU’s unpaid bills, loans, pension and other liabilities accrued over 44 years of membership. “We have heard the UK wants to come along with the money,” the official said. “We have understood it covers the liabilities and what we consider the real commitments. But we have to see the fine print.” The bill could total £53bn to £58bn (€60bn to €65bn), although EU officials are not discussing numbers and the British government will fight hard to bring the total down. While EU sources hav
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Workers threaten governors over president Muhammadu Buhari's pay directive.

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A row broke out yesterday over the President’s directive to governors on workers’ salaries. Governors said President Muhammadu Buhari did not say they should pay all arrears of salaries before Christmas. But workers threatened to vote out governors who may fail to pay. After a meeting at the Presidential Villa on Monday, President Buhari directed Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele to release the balance of the Paris/London Club refund to states to enable them pay salaries. Governors Rochas Okorocha (Imo) and Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna) briefed reporters on the outcome of the meeting. Yesterday, the governors denied that the President said they should pay all arrears of workers’ salaries before Christmas. Besides, a statement by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum secretariat said given the delay in the past between when the President gave a directive and the actual release of funds, the money might not get to the states before Christm
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President Muhammadu Buhari demands full list of looters.

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Redemptionsamuel.blogspot.com   President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered relevant agencies to compile a full list of all those who stole government funds and make same available to him. The president’s directive followed federal government’s resolve to enforce a judgement of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos which ordered that names of public officers from whom public funds were recovered be made public. The court had also ordered the government to tell Nigerians the circumstances under which funds were recovered, as well as the exact amount of funds recovered from each public official. Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abukabar Malami (SAN), who disclosed this yesterday said, “President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all relevant agencies to compile documents on names of all looters with a view to promptly enforcing the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos ordering the government to release to Nigerians, information about the names
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Nigeria Will Be Great Again – Osinbajo.

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           Redemptionsamuel.blogspot.com   Nigeria will overcome all challenges facing it Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said. Osinbajo spoke at the 2017 Independence Day Interdenominational Church Service at the National Christian Centre, Abuja. The service was themed “National Unity in the Bond of Peace and Love.” He said Nigeria would be prosperous in the coming years. According to him, the  greatest commandment in the scripture is “love the Lord your God with all your strength and love your Neigbour as yourself.” He also reminded the congregation that the Bible also encourages us to love our enemies. He said, “I was very inspired by the words spoken by Professor Turaki a few minutes ago very challenging words that he spoke and I think that in some senses it led to the question who does God hold responsible for the destiny of nations.  There is a people of whom  Jesus said that you are the salt of the earth and the light of the world, a people who are charg
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The real reason why some people become addicted to drugs - drug dependence.

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Redemptionsamuel.blogspot.com  Why do they do it? This is a question that friends and families often ask of those who are addicted. It’s difficult to explain how drug addiction develops over time. To many, it looks like the constant search for pleasure. But the pleasure derived from opioids like heroin or stimulants like cocaine declines with repeated use. What’s more, some addictive drugs, like nicotine, fail to produce any noticeable euphoria in regular users. So what does explain the persistence of addiction? As an addiction researcher for the past 15 years, I look to the brain to understand how recreational use becomes compulsive, prompting people like you and me to make bad choices. There are two popular explanations for addiction, neither of which holds up to scrutiny. The first is that compulsive drug taking is a bad habit – one that addicts just need to “kick.” However, to the brain, a habit is nothing more than our ability to carry out repetitive tasks – like ty
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France renews half of senate in test for Macron.

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          Redemptionsamuel.blogspot.com         PARIS - France on Sunday (Sept 24) renews half of its senators' seats, in a vote that is important for President Emmanuel Macron's reform plans and will be a test of his declining popularity, just four months after his election in May. Macron's Republic on the Move (LREM) is not expected to win majority, both because of the electoral system - only mayors and regional councilors elected before 17-month old LREM even existed vote, not the general public - and because Macron has plans that are unpopular with many local councilors. What is at stake instead, is whether LREM and allies will win enough seats to give Macron a three-fifths majority vote in both houses of parliament, which he needs for constitutional reforms, including plans to overhaul parliament. There are 171 out of 348 senate seats up for renewal and the three fifth majority question may not be immediately clear on Sunday as it might require talks with
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Nasa facility honors African American woman who plotted key space missions.

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Redemptionsamuel.blogspot.com  Katherine Johnson, the mathematician whose calculations influenced some of the most important missions of the space age, on Friday helped Nasa open a new research and development facility that bears her name. The 99-year-old cut the ribbon for the  Katherine G Johnson Computational Research Facility  at the Langley research center in Hampton, Virginia, where she was honored as a trailblazing “human computer”. In a pre-taped video message, Johnson laughed when asked how she felt about a building being named in her honor. “You want my honest answer? I think they’re crazy,” she said. “I was excited at something new, always liked something new, but give credit to everybody who helped. I didn’t do anything alone but try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there.” In an extraordinary career, Johnson defied racial and gender constraints and was involved with many of the greatest achievements in space. “Today all of these things seem in
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