#BBB NEWS| Okonjo-Iweala And Allison-Madueke Summoned To Senate For Fuel Crisis

A Senate Joint Committees on Petroleum Resources (the Upstream Committee and the Downstream Committee) statement on Friday summoned the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the Minister of Petroleum Diezani Allison-Madueke, to appear on Monday to discuss the biting fuel scarcity in the country.

The Joint Committee also extended a summons to the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the Managing Director Petroleum Pricing, the Regulatory Agency; and the Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources to appear before them to contribute to the discussion.

Okonjo-Iweala and Madueke are expected to speak to the Committee addressing the causes behind lingering fuel scarcity, which has brought on untold hardship for many Nigerians.

The Joint Committee statement issued in Abuja, by Committee Chairmen, Senators Emmanuel Paulker (Upstream) and Magnus Abe (Downstream), explained that the invitation to Okonjo-Iweala and Madueke was as a result of the assignment given to them by the Senate to investigate the fuel crisis thoroughly.

#BBB NEWS| Robin Thicke Shows Off His Sexy 20-Year-Old Girlfriend To The World! [PHOTOS]

After being denied multiple times to reconcile with ex-wife Paula Patton, Robin Thicke has a new young girlfriend and he doesn’t care who knows! The “Blurred Lines” singer has been dating 20-year-old April Love Geary for almost a year now and they have made things fairly public.

Robin even took his new bae to the Cannes Music Festival where the two made a ton of different appearances together. However, the two didn’t hit the Red Carpet together, which is weird, but we already know they’re an item so those things shouldn’t matter.

Check out Robin and his bangin’ boo below...

#BBB NEWS| Cassie Breaks The Internet With This SEXY Naked Pic Covered In Flowers! [PHOTOS]

It looks like Cassie did it again. Diddy’s beautiful bae took her clothes off and laid up in a bed of flowers with absolutely no clothes on.

See what everyone is drooling over after the jump..

#BBB NEWS| PDP Trustee Chairman, Tony Anenih, Resigns

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) issued a statement saying that Tony Anenih, Chairman of the Board Trustees of the Party, as resigned from his post effective immediately.

The National Secretary, Wale Oladipo, said that “consequent upon the resignation, the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jibrin holds forth pending the election of a new BoT Chairman.”

The explanation that Tony Anenih gave in his resignation was that he left “on personal grounds.”

#BBB NEWS| Fani-Kayode Slams Metuh, Claims APC Ran Malicious Campaign

The chief media spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan’s failed reelection campaign, Femi Fani-Kayode, has dismissed claims that the president’s team engaged in a hate campaign.

Mr. Fani-Kayode, who spoke yesterday, was reacting to allegations by some members of Mr. Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the party lost due to its deployment of hate-filled speeches.

“If one or two members of the [PDP’s] National Working Committee are so ignorant that they cannot make a distinction between virile political banter and a hate campaign, that is their problem,” said the presidential spokesman, making a hardly veiled reference to Olisa Metuh, the PDP’s national publicity secretary.

Mr. Fani-Kayode insisted that the PDP’s campaign had to vigorously engage the All Progressives Congress (APC) because the PDP “was faced with the most effective and ruthless campaign of calumny that this country has ever known from an opposition that was ruthlessly efficient in all its ways and that was not prepared to spare [President Jonathan] or take any prisoners.”

#BBB NEWS| Snoop Dogg On Suge Knight: ‘I Feel Sorry For Him’

Snoop Dogg has gotten way over his past beef with Suge Knight. So much so, that he recently revealed in an interview on DJ Whoo Kid’s The Whoolywood Shuffle radio show this past weekend that he feels bad for Knight in lieu of his murder case.

The “Gin & Juice” rapper explained that despite their past differences there was not any bad blood between them, and that he feels indebted to Knight for helping him win his own murder case in the 90’s.

“I never hated him, he never really hated me,” he revealed.“How could you hate me when I made you a $100 million? How could I hate you when you helped me build a team to beat my murder case? That’s why I’ve always had an open heart for him…people don’t understand, he was my friend before he became my enemy.”
Snoop also went onto say that him and Suge were actually on good terms before he got locked up.

#BBB NEWS| Orubebe Denies Reports Of Defection To APC

Former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, vehemently denied media reports that he was leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressive Congress (APC).

Orubebe was allegedly posted on his twitter handle, @EderGOrubebe, “I have concluded plans to join my folks in the APC to champion and sustain the movement for a better Niger Delta in the new administration.”

It will be recalled that Mr. Orubebe created panic at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) collation center during the presidential elections in March. SaharaReporters later reported that Mr. Orubebe was part of an elaborate plot to have INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega abducted.

According to a SaharaReporters investigation, Mr. Orubebe was acting under the direction of President Goodluck Jonathan.

#BBB NEWS| Nigeria Governors’ Forum Turns Against Okonjo-Iweala, Demand Explanation For Missing $20 Billion

Governors attending Nigeria’s Governors’ Forum took aim at Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in a statement released from the proceedings today. The Forum, presided over by its Chairman Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, was held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja.

The statement expressed outrage, questioned her integrity, and demanded that she give an explanation regarding the missing $20 billion from the state coffers.

The Governors’ Forum statement is the latest development centered on the controversial PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) audit of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which was spurred by Lamido Sanusi exposing to the public the missing money. Sanusi, now the Emir of Kano, was sacked by President Jonathan for blowing the whistle on the mission $20 billion.

Governor Amaechi demanded action from Okonjo-Iweala on the missing money in a statement that “In the light of the facts that funds in the Excess Crude Account were last disbursed in May 2013, there is need for the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to provide explanations for accruals to this account from June 2013 to April 2015 which is estimated at over $20billion."

#BBB NEWS| Jonathan Govt Incurs N5tn Domestic Debt In Five Years | PUNCH

In the over five years that President Goodluck Jonathan has been presiding over the affairs of the country, the Federal Government has borrowed N5.04tn from the domestic debt market.

Jonathan became Nigeria’s acting President on February 10, 2010 and   substantive President on May 6,2010 following the death of President Umaru Yar’Adua on May 5,2010. On May 29, 2011, he was sworn in as an elected president.

Records at the Debt Management Office showed that the domestic debt of the Federal Government stood at N3,466,360,000,000 (N3.47tn) as of March 31, 2010.

The latest debt statistics from the DMO as of March 31, 2015 showed that the domestic debt   had risen to N8,507,545,474,000 (N8.51tn).

This means that in the last five years, the Federal Government had borrowed N5.04tn from domestic lenders. It also means that within the period, the domestic debt of the Federal Government grew by 157.48 per cent.

#BBB NEWS| Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair To Speak at APC Policy Forum

The All Progressives Congress is set to hold a two-day forum to unveil the policy plan of the incoming Muhammadu Buhari administration.

According to a statement by the party, a former British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair, will be the keynote speaker at the dialogue where input for the actualisation of the policies of the incoming administration would be made by experts drawn from different fields and members of the public.

The policy dialogue themed, “Implementing Change: From Vision to Reality,” and organised by the Policy, Research and Strategy Directorate of the APC Presidential Campaign Council would hold in Abuja on Wednesday and Thursday.

The Deputy Head of the Directorate and a former Minister of Youth and Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, said the President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, would declare open the dialogue which would be chaired by Vice-President-elect, Prof. Yemi Osibajo (SAN).

#BBB NEWS| Floyd Mayweather Wins Over $800K in 4 Sports Bets [PHOTO]

It’s well known that Floyd Mayweather is an avid gambler especially when it comes to big games. This past weekend was pretty big in sports with the NBA Eastern and Western Conference semi-finals as well as a boxing match between Gennady Golovokin and Willie Monroe Jr. 

Mayweather placed sports bets on the three games as well as the fight and won big. See photo below..

#BBB NEWS| Sports: Tom Brady & Michael Jordan Golf Together in the Bahamas [PHOTOS]

While Patriots fans are anxiously awaiting his four-game suspension appeal, quarterback Tom Brady was having some fun in the Bahamas 

While there he caught up with his good friend and NBA legend, Michael Jordan. Tom Brady visited the Bahamas this weekend to attend the wedding of his former assistant according to the Boston Herald.

Less than two months ago Jordan and Brady were seen playing basketball together in the Bahamas. This weekend they played golf.

See photos below..

#BBB NEWS| I Was Flown Out For Surgery During Campaigns – Patience Jonathan

Wife of the President,   Patience Jonathan, on Sunday disclosed that she battled with another round of ill-health   during the re-election campaigns of her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan.

Mrs Jonathan, who was flown abroad about two years ago on health grounds, said the latest   was so severe   that she had to be sneaked out of the country to Germany in January for a   major surgery.

She spoke during a farewell service in honour of the Jonathan family at the Aso Villa Chapel.

The President’s wife said before she left the German hospital after the operation, she was billed for another in a bigger hospital immediately after the elections but that God miraculously healed her.

She said after her husband lost his re-election bid, she returned to Germany for the surgery.

#BBB NEWS| RIP: Rapper Chinx Shot And Killed In Queens, NY [PHOTO]

Coke Boys affiliate Chinx was reportedly gunned down in Queens, NY early this morning (May 17). Most closely associated with French Montana, the rapper, real name Lionel Pickens, was killed when an unidentified gunman open fire on his vehicle in Briarwood, according to ABC 7.

The shooting occurred at 4 a.m. at Queens Boulevard and 84th Drive. Another person was in the car with Pickens, and is currently in critical condition at Jamaica Hospital. Chinx succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds to the torso.

#BBB NEWS| Diddy And Drake Have Reportedly Squash Beef!

Attention: Diddy and Drake have reportedly mended fences. Back in December, things were on a very sour note between the two after an altercation at the LIV nightclub in Miami.

The rap mogul allegedly threw a punch at the Young Money rapper, causing him to re-injure his shoulder. It was later confirmed that the beef stemmed from Boi-1da’s “1 to 100” beat, which Diddy claimed he was given first.

Fast forward a few months, and it seems Drake and Diddy have buried the hatchet. TMZ reports that the two participated in a phone call last month and decided to make amends for the sake of business.

#BBB NEWS| Henceforth Call Me Muhammadu Buhari, I am No Longer General Buhari...Unveils Official Portraits [PHOTOS]

With the acronym, GMB (General Muhammadu Buhari) he rode to victory at the last general election but he now wants to be addressed differently.

The official portraits of Nigeria’s president-elect and his vice-president, have been unveiled by their media team in Abuja.

And after being sworn in on 29 May, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari will now want to be addressed simply as Muhammadu Buhari, President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria.

#BBB NEWS| Jay Z Reunites With Beanie Sigel, Memphis Bleek, Young Gunz, And Freeway For TIDAL X Concert [PHOTOS]

Jay Z unwrapped not only his pristine and nostalgic B-Side tracks for his TIDAL X concert Saturday night (May 16), but a moment that many have been waiting for happened in a matter of minutes.

While running through classic Roc-A-Fella records, it was only fitting that Jigga brought out his familia including Memphis Bleek, Young Gunz, Freeway, and Beanie Sigel.

#BBB NEWS| Mohammed Morsi And 100 Others Sentenced To Death In Egypt

Mohammed Morsi, the former president of Egypt, has been sentenced to death today along with 100 other people over a mass prison break in 2011.

Morsi is already serving a 20 year prison sentence for the unlawful arrest and torture of protesters while he was in power.

In July 2013, amidst intense protesting in Tahrir Square, the Egyptian military removed Morsi in a coup d’état. Since his arrest the governing authorities have banned the Muslim Brotherhood and arrested thousands of Morsi’s supporters.