N500bn Intervention Fund: Ndume against
selecting beneficiaries online:

Senate leader, Muhammad Ndume, on Sunday, objected to the use of on-line registration to select beneficiaries of Federal Government’s N500 billion Social Intervention Fund.

Addressing newsmen in Maiduguri, Ndume, who represents Borno South at the National Assembly, observed that using internet registration for the
programme would deprive many qualified Nigerians from benefiting.

” The N500 billion Social Intervention Fund has started on a wrong footing, so we are not going to agree; we are not going to let it pass like other previous interventions without tangible gains.

” We do not want it to be like the SureP where nobody was sure, ” Ndume said.

He pointed out that the new concept on MPower requiring teachers, market women and graduates, to register online, was faulty.

“How can they say that everybody must go on-line and register when most states are off-line; in fact, Borno is even worst than off- line, ” Ndume said.

He said that registering on-line will end up in corrupt practice as some individuals used fake names to register.

“The National Assembly is going to insist that the programme must be done on Local Government Areas (LGA) basis, or even on ward basis, because there is no ward in Nigeria without a qualified graduate.

” So let each ward or LGA be represented like we did during the police recruitment, ” Ndume said.

He said that he position was based on the outcome of similar programs in the past.

” Most often what they do is to hire a consultant who will charge about 5 percent of the total money as his fee and by the you remove 5 percent of N500 billion you have already started depleting the resources.

” Again the consultant will start asking the participants to go to one portal and register with scratch card, this is also unacceptable, “Ndume said.

He said that the National Assembly would take a stand on the issue next Wednesday to ensure that the right
thing was done in the implementation of the programme.

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Police recruitment resume as Senate, PSC resolve dispute:

The recruitment of 10,000 personnel into the police force that was suspended following a clash between the Senate and Police Service Commission (PSC) would soon resume, Chairman Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Senator Abu Ibrahim (APC, Katsina
South) has said.

The Senate had in a letter four weeks ago asked the PSC to suspend the exercise over alleged irregularity in the criteria adopted for the recruitment.

The Senate had suggested that the recruitment be done on Local government basis but the PSC insisted that it should be done per state.

Addressing newsmen yesterday, Senator Ibrahim said the clash between the Senate and the PSC has been resolved.

"We have resolved the issue and the recruitment would be done on local government basis. Very soon the exercise will resume, "he said.

He said the personnel to be recruited would form the foundation for the commencement of community policing in the country.

" Nine personnel would be recruited per local government area. The policemen would be used to form a unit for community policing in all the 774 local government areas of the country, "he said.

Ibrahim added that in the next three years, 30 personnel would be recruited per local government for the community policing programme.

Our correspondent had last week reported that President Muhammadu Buhari has waded
into the clash between the Senate and the
PSC.
www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/sports/page-2/

Senator Abu Ibrahim is the Senate Committee Chairman on Police affairs. His number 08058107174.
Senator Ali Ndume is the Senate leader from Borno States. His number 08109480000.
Call them and tell them to stop frustrating youths because of their selfish agenda since their southern counterparts jobs is to sit down and fold their arms while major decisions are being taken by these illiterates. Enough is enough.

Mr ndume has no point
This is 21st century for fucck sake

its a shame dat Nigeria at this global age produce this kind of archaic n ICT clueless senators.just a diversion to frustrate d whole process and allow for rigging n nepotism in selecting candidates.how many gradiates reside in dat villahe/ lga he just mentioned?must all exams/ selection be paper based? smh .I smell sabotage and by Gods grace they won't succeed.

This is not proper.
Saying states like Borno is offline probably due to insurgency shows that the can't even participate actively in the Npower or police recruitment.
What indigenes of Borno and other troubled states need is not Npower or police recruitment.
The need rehabilitation, resettlement, re-oreintation and various therapies. Not immediate jobs.

Secondly, the world is going or Infact is already Global and digital, so having the ability to use the Internet and also register for jobs or programs online Should indeed even be a prerequisite qualifying factor for prospective Job seekers.
But our lovely Northern brethren see politics, tribalism and pettiness in almost every thing.

The want IDPs to also register for police jobs, IDPs that are living in camps, malnourished, ravaged, raped.
There was a country.
Come to even think of it, how many of them are qualified .. I ain't a bigot, but sometimes this Northerners gets me crazy

To them, Nigeria belong to the North and every decision must go their way yet we have the southern senators folding their arms. What a country.

Emmysteve:
N500bn Intervention Fund: Ndume against
selecting beneficiaries online:

Senate leader, Muhammad Ndume, on Sunday, objected to the use of on-line registration to select beneficiaries of Federal Government’s N500 billion Social Intervention Fund.

Addressing newsmen in Maiduguri, Ndume, who represents Borno South at the National Assembly, observed that using internet registration for the
programme would deprive many qualified Nigerians from benefiting.

” The N500 billion Social Intervention Fund has started on a wrong footing, so we are not going to agree; we are not going to let it pass like other previous interventions without tangible gains.

” We do not want it to be like the SureP where nobody was sure, ” Ndume said.

He pointed out that the new concept on MPower requiring teachers, market women and graduates, to register online, was faulty.

“How can they say that everybody must go on-line and register when most states are off-line; in fact, Borno is even worst than off- line, ” Ndume said.

He said that registering on-line will end up in corrupt practice as some individuals used fake names to register.

“The National Assembly is going to insist that the programme must be done on Local Government Areas (LGA) basis, or even on ward basis, because there is no ward in Nigeria without a qualified graduate.

” So let each ward or LGA be represented like we did during the police recruitment, ” Ndume said.

He said that he position was based on the outcome of similar programs in the past.

” Most often what they do is to hire a consultant who will charge about 5 percent of the total money as his fee and by the you remove 5 percent of N500 billion you have already started depleting the resources.

” Again the consultant will start asking the participants to go to one portal and register with scratch card, this is also unacceptable, “Ndume said.

He said that the National Assembly would take a stand on the issue next Wednesday to ensure that the right
thing was done in the implementation of the programme.

www.m.guardian.ng/news/n500bn-intervention-fund-ndume-against-use-of-on-line-registration-to-select-beneficiaries/

Nigeria is indeed a problem in itself. A country whr paper recruitment is now more transparent than ICT based recruitment. This is what is expected from a country that lacks a data base.