amk2803@gmail.com

Any news regarding this recruitment?

Eseose9:
I just got a mail frm Nexzon for the Second level interview at Abuja on Wednesday
anyone with me?

Congrats. Yet to get it, hoping for the best.

Eseose9:


same here

which position did you applied?

Just received interview invite after Saturday test, schedule on Thursday in lagos. Alhamdulillah.

I just received a mail for e-test and writing test invitation in Abuja.

*TODAY KATSINA STATE IS 29 YEARS OLD.*

_Katsina is a home of great men and women. Katsina state is the only state that produced two elected Presidents._ _*Late Umaru Musa and incumbent Muhammad Buhari.*_

_Katsina state is the only state that produced the first and last Military Governor of the defunct Northern region. That is_ _*Major General Hassan Usman Katsina.*_

_Katsina state produced the first female Medical Doctor from Northern Nigeria. She is_ _*Dr Halima Adamu.*_

_The first Charted Accountant in the Northern Region is Bakatsine._ _*Late Hamza Zayyad.*_

_Katsina state produced two IGPs, MD Yusuf and Ibrahim Commassie._

_Katsina state produced one Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service._ _*Dikko Abdullahi Inde.*_

_Katsina state had produced a Speaker of the National Assembly. He is_ _*Aminu Bello Masari.*_

_Katsina state had produced_ _*CJF, Muhmmadu Bello.*_
_The great state produced two Presidents of the Appeal court. They are_ _*Justices Mamman Nasir and Ummaru Abdullahi.*_ _Other great men and women who contributed to the nation building include:-_

*{1}.* _*Musa Yar'adua former Min for Lagos affairs.*_
*{2}* General Shehu Musa Yar'adua
Former Military Vice President

*{2}.* _*Alhaji Usman Ladan Baki former Former Des. Min of trade.*_

*{3}.* _*Isa Kaita former Regional Min of Education.*_

*{4}.* _*Justice Mamman Nasir, former Regional Min of Justice.*_

*{5}.* _*Mamman Bashar, Former Min of LGs later Economic affairs.*_

*{6}.* _*Shehu Usman Sarkin Maska, former Regional Min of Internal affairs.*_

*{7}.* _*Iro Danmusa, former FCT Minister.*_

*{8}.* _*Sani Zangon Daura, former Min of Agric.*_

*{9}.* _*Abba Sayyadi Ruma, former Min of Agric.*_

*{10}.* _*Samaila Isa Funtuwa, former Min of Agric.*_

*{11}.* _*Eng Sule Unguwar Alkali, Min for States and Local Govt affairs.*_

*{12}.* _*Alh Lawal Kaita former Gov of old Kaduna State.*_

*{13}.* _*Abba Musa Rimi, former Governor of old Kaduna State.*_

*{14}.* _*Alh Saidu Barda, the first civilian Governor of Katsina state.*_

*{15}.* _*Brigadier Ahmed Daku, former Military Governor of Kano and Sokoto state.*_

*{16}.* _*Colonel Abdulmumini Aminu, former Military Governorof old Borno State.*_

*{17}.* _*Colonel Umar Farukh Ahmed, former Military Governor of Kadunatate.*_

*{18}.* _*CP Habu Daura, former Ag Military Governor of Bayelsa State.*_

*{19}.* _*AIG Dabo Aliyu, former Military Governor of Yobe State.*_

*{20}.* _*Ambassador Yusuf Sada.*_

*{21}.* _*Ambassador Tanimu Saulawa.*_

*{22}.* _*Ambassador Iro Ladan.*_

*{23}.* _*Ambassador Abdu Aminci.*_

*{24}.* _*Ambassador Sani Bala Saulawa.*_

*{25}.* _*Ambassador Adamu Saidu.*_

*{26}.* _*Ambassador Babangida Karaduwa.*_

*{27}.* _*Ambassador Zakari Ibrahim.*_

*{28}.* _*Ambassador Mamman Daura.*_

*{29}.* _*Ambassador Ibrahim Bindawa.*_

*{30}.* _*Ambassador Lawal Rafindadi.*_

*{31}.* _*Ambassador Musa Musawa.*_

*{32}.* _*Ummaru Mutallab, former MD UBA.*_

*{33}.* _*Mahe Rasheed, former Dep Governor CBN.*_

*{34}.* _*Muntari Bello, former MD, Security Printing and Minting Company.*_

*{35}.* _*Mamman Danmusa, former Speaker, old Kaduna state assembly.*_

*Long live katsina state! long live the federal Republic of Nigeria!!*

_*Iam Proud to be Bakatsine.*_

_*®MD
Musa.*_

Ebuka478:

Thanks for being reasonable (it's apparently as scarce as the Dollar). The gist making the rounds now is that BOI on friday by 3pm sent invites to some participants for the in-class training, according to the supposed message it was because of their successful completion of the "first 14 courses". Ironically some participants who received this message said they were yet to finish all 14 courses, some said they missed one along the way. Some peeps I know have finished all 18 courses yet they didn't get the message. I've sent a message to AMI to enquire the truth to which no reply has been received yet.
I did not receive any message as alleged by the ignoramus who quoted me, I'm only seeking the truth and criteria for which the selection was made.
Do have a blessed Sunday.

Don't mind him, at least if he is reasonable he will remember how the selection mails where sent; it was in batches.
I will not join issues with small head who is not suppose to be in this process (as an entrepreneur) because of the way he think.
Goodluck to everyone (including HIM)

Rhard:
who is this ebuka the fooling himsef her?,program that is stilon going and end on 6th sept b4 selection you are here shouting ur are selected,who selected you dreamer,tales bearer,u want to rubbish the transparent gesture of BOI,AMI,EDC

Satisfy?

Ebuka478:
Has anyone here received an invite for the in-class training?

Yes I received a mail of congratulation, that I made it to class phase.

Digitron:


Neither do the zone owe him any apology for voting against him and in fact we will do it again and again if he continues in this trajectory, all we are saying is that he has a duty to ensure equitable distribution of resources and appointment even if he had ZERO vote from SE

Who cares? we have enough people down here in the North to vote him into power again and again.
FRUSTRATION MUST BE KILLING YOU!!!

Digitron:

so you mean the SE that voted for an IJAW man is more tribalistic than the NORTH that voted for buhari their son and the SW that voted Osibanjo their son? SMH

North gave Jonathan more votes than SE gave to Buhari despite they known his is a better candidate in actual truth.
Anyway, you don't expect to rift where you didn't sow. Go and ask Jonathan for appointments.
Buhari will not trust them, nobody will.
They are the first people to stage a coup in this country killing all the northerners living their son alive, do you remember?
Take heart till eternity.

Digitron:


It still did not change the fact that Buhari has not been fair to the SE when it comes to appointment, he has to do more to prove that he is not a tribalist

The SE has to do more not to vote base on ethnic line!!!

"The West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD) in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank is currently inviting applications from young agricultural entrepreneurs for its Empowering Youths for Agripreneurship in West Africa Project with an aim to enroll over 1000 Young entrepreneurs in agriculture “Agripreneurs” or young people interested in agriculture in a one-year mentoring process in the framework of the project “Empowering Youths for Agripreneurship in West Africa”.


Further details: http://www.coraf-youthshub.org/en/content/corafwecard-now-accepting-applications

Application form: http://coraf-youthshub.org/node/289

Deadline: 24th July, 2016

bigtt76:
E yaaa. I feel you. Don't be scared those guys in Lagos are just marketers too aiming for their own commission.

If they disturb you too much involve the police armed with all correspondence with the course advisor etc. It's a bad debt and you dropped out. They can't force you.

It's a lovely course though. Finished one with University of Liverpool and it was quite interesting. Wished you could finish it though.

Is TOPEL must before they admitted you?

bigtt76:
E yaaa. I feel you. Don't be scared those guys in Lagos are just marketers too aiming for their own commission.

If they disturb you too much involve the police armed with all correspondence with the course advisor etc. It's a bad debt and you dropped out. They can't force you.

It's a lovely course though. Finished one with University of Liverpool and it was quite interesting. Wished you could finish it though.

I am about to apply for Msc Corporate Finance with the University of Liverpool, please can you give me the estimated amount you spend and the mode of payment you used, did you attended the graduation ceremony? plus any other advice. Thanks in anticipation

Late Sir Ahmadu Bello’s passion for promoting western education was legendary. All those who knew him or wrote about him attested to this fact. But it wasn’t a passion the inimitable leader of Northern Nigeria pursued with kid gloves. In the following speech, which he delivered to a gathering of 500 Northern secondary students in 1963, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardaunan Sakkwato, didn’t mince words saying how he felt about theirperformance. As this column salutes and remembers him, fifty years after he was brutally murdered, please read on to know why this educational revolutionary was forced to read the riot’s act to these Northern youths. “The theme ofmy speech today, is the urgent need for higher academic achievement and a higher moral tone, in all secondary schools and institutions of higher learning in the region.

In other words, my government is not satisfied with the standards set by you. This is not meant to belittle your past achievements which were quite good. But when you pause and compare thesteep rise in the number of secondary schools with the number of boys and girls of Northern origin who have gained admission into universities, you will agree with me that your recent achievements are not good enough for Northern Nigeria. There has been a remarkable development in secondary education since 1952.In 1952, when the ministerial system of government was introduced, there were only two secondary schools in the region. Now there are 53 at different stages of growth. In view of this remarkable growth can you sincerely say that your academic achievement, during the past ten years has been proportional to this development?No doubt, one or two schools can rightly answer these questions in the affirmative but that is only a small minority. I note with deep regret, that one of those schools which have failed to rise to the occasion and set the pace and standard of high academic attainment, is my alma mater. Last year, fifty percent of the boys of this college, who took the West African school certificate examinations failed. If I may ask you, staff and boys of government college Zaria, why must you lag behind? You have a great history behind you. Many of the leaders of this country are old boys of this college. You must wake up from your slumber and pull your weight. This reprimand is equally applicable to many of our secondary schools. You have wonderful opportunities. You must take them. If you let them pass, you will never have them again. You may wonder why I should say that you have wonderful opportunitiesand that if you let them pass you will never have them again. The explanation is simple. The demand for boys and girls who have completed secondary education has been absorbed in the public service. The great demand as you are no doubt aware, has been caused by the implementation of the Northernisation policy of my government. Every boy and every girl who hadthat qualification has either been absorbed in the public service of the region, or been offered a scholarship for higher education. This great demand for secondary schools leavers will not continue indefinitely. There will come a time when secondary educational qualification will not be enough to gain you a good job. Perhaps bythe time the lowest forms pass out of school, they may be faced with very fierce competition for well-paid jobs. Perhaps by that time most, if not all the executive grades and the intermediategrades in the public service, would have been filled. And all well-paid jobs require high academic and professional qualifications. There will be no room for idlers and carefree passengers in our schools, who have no ambitionand no intention to be ambitious. I hope you do now appreciate what I mean when I say you have wonderful opportunities. If you fail to take full advantage of your education now, you may live toregret it for the rest of your lives. I have been toldthat little effort is being exerted by some boys and girls in schools and that teachers are somehow failing to get the maximum effort from their pupils. But I would like to make a distinctionbetween students who are slow at their work andthose who fail through idleness to develop their natural talents. My government is considering a proposal to transfer the boys of the former category, who have shown little promise, to institutions which provide practical training. As regards the latter category, the lazy and indolent ones, I see little point in government giving further financial assistance to their education. With the growing interest in education in the region and the resulting fierce competition for places in secondary schools, they can be expelled and substitutes found without difficulty. My government has been, for some time now reluctant to expel boys from schools. That is the reason why there is no ‘weeding out’ at secondary II. But if the result of government leniency is to remove incentive to work, then we must consider a drastic measure to deal with boys who waste the money of the country. Idleness and indolence go hand-in-hand with indiscipline. I have been told of many cases of indiscipline, of bad and disgraceful behavior in the towns which are visited by students at will, regardless of school rules, and about neglect of religious observances. This country cannot tolerate such cases of indiscipline and indolence.As future leaders of this country you must be prepared to learn how to obey.” This speech was delivered at the Assembly Hall of Zaria Government College on 16th of September 1963. Culled from the book, ‘Work and Worship: Selected speeches of Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto,’ compiled by Stephen Amune.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/opinion/gamji-uban-yan-boko/129195.html

This week, there was a flurry of activities to commemorate ‘Fifty Years Since 1966’. One of the most prominent events of the anniversaries centred on the fact that yesterday was exactly fifty years since the assassination of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of Northern Nigeria. Killed at the same time were SirAbubakar Tafawa Balewa, the nation’s First and Last Prime Minister, as well many of the North’s leading lights in the military. Similarly murdered was South West’s Premier Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, an ally of the Sardauna and who, in fact,was reported to have visited the latter in Kaduna only a few hours earlier. This Columnist didn’t know Sardauna. The first national bereavement inhis comparatively ‘young’ memory was that of late General Murtala Muhammad in 1976, ten years after the Sardauna and forty years this year.But now that fifty years have passed since Sardauna, this Column feels that enough has been said about the great soul and his immense goodness (and may Allah continue to rest his soul, amin). Continuing on this path of annual eulogising his achievements and ruing his loss after half a century is not only escapist, but an indictment of the generation of leaders that came after him who, by implication, have always been portrayed as great failures (which, it must be said, many of them really were and are).

Perhaps more than anybody else, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III hit the nail on the head when he challenged leaders of the northern region to stop hiding under the shadows of the lateý Sardauna, and rather live and work and live like Sardauna did. The Sultan spoke Thursday in Kaduna at the 50th commemoration of the demise of late Premier and continued to remind the leaders that there are a lot of problems in their hands and there wasneed to begin to find lasting solutions to the challenges bedeviling the northern region, rather than looking up, apparently, at the Sardauna’s halo. According to the Sultan, with bad leadership (which is the lot of the current - or immediate past - crop of the North’s helms-people), nothing good can be achieved. He stressed that northern leaders need to take up the mantle of leadership and the challenges, and stop hiding under the Sardauna’s legendary success as though they themselves can never achieve anything. “Fifty years after Sardauna’s death, let’s work with his blueprints and the ethics he left for us,” said the Sultan. For example, said the Sultan, northern leaders particularly Governors must rise to address the menace of unemployment in the region. Yes, indeed, the Sardauna was a great man, especiallyconsidering the time and the resources. He was more than a legend, and can be said to have been extra-legendary. In a pre-emptive note, one of this Columnist’s readers from Maiduguri wroteto remind us that if we were to write anything on the Sardauna this week, let us remember the apocryphal tales about him - for example he was once said to have returned a rather short and stout boy who was refused enrollment in the army back to the recruiters with a message: “Let them add a little of my height to his”. And the boywas enrolled. (And how we wish he hadn’t). Or the story about the Sardauna replying then ceremonial President Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe who had said “Let’s forget our differences…” with “No, let’s understand our differences…” Apparently, those who killed our version of Mahatma didn’t understand those differences; they wanted to forget them. And now they have on Nnamdi Kanureminding us all over again. Perhaps the Sardauna’s greatest feat was his ability to cement the North’s considerable religious and ethnic cracks. He had a reputation for religious toleration. On Christmas Day 1959, he had stated in a broadcast: “Here in Northern Nigeria we havepeople of many different races, tribes and religions who are knit together by common history, common interest and common ideas. The things that unite us are stronger than the things that divide us. I always remind people of our firmly rooted policy of religious tolerance. Wehave no intention of favouring one religion at the expense of another. Subject to the overriding need to preserve law and order, it is our determination that everyone should have absolute liberty to practice his belief according tothe dictates of his conscience.” That was prescient! Still on Fifty Years, another important event to mark the milestone was the Annual Trust Dialogue that is hosted by this newspaper. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, as Special Guest at this year’s event, assured Nigerians that the country has been rising since the sad events of January 1966 which terminated the First Republic, but it needs consensus among its elite on what needs to be done in the years and decades ahead. The Vice President said he was saddened when he recently received in audience a delegation representing a small part of one state, and it included some retired top civil servants as well as university professors, yet theycame to advocate for their small, tiny community. He wondered aloud why such eminent persons should be championing the cause of a small community. Osinbajo also narrated the story of a small exchange he had with President Muhammadu Buhari while they were campaigning in Zamfara State just before last year’s elections. He said as they rode in a bus, dozens of eager young supporters stuck their faces onto the bus’ side glasses, overwhelmed by sheer ecstasy and excitement. Buhari then asked Osinbajo what he saw in their young faces as they pressed on the bus’ glasses. According to Osinbajo, he told the then APC presidential candidate that what he could see was excitement in their faces; but Buhari said that was not the main message. “What I can see in their faces,” Osinbajo quoted Buhari as saying, “is that they expect all their problems to be solved on the second day after our inauguration, if we win this election.” Osinbajo said he told the General, “Well, it is you that they expect to solve all their problems on the second day after your inauguration.” So, there! The Dialogue itself was preceded the previous night by the 2015 Daily Trust African of the Year Award Dinner. This year’s winner, Mr Gregoire Ahongbonon from Benin Republic, who had excelled in his work of rehabilitating the mentally ill, had said his recognition was for the forgotten mentally-challenged persons in Africa. Speaking after receiving a $50,000 cheque, a plague and a certificate, Mr Ahongbonon said the honour donehim was also for the poor and the voiceless. “It touches me. I don’t know how to express myself. I thank you, thank you Daily Trust and the members of the selection committee, who chosea simple person like me.” An unsung Sardauna in his own right! Now returning to the Sardauna story and the fact that he was killed alongside hisSouth West ally Premier Akintola, perhaps it is now time to move on as we now with a similar alliance fifty years after - history seems to have come full circle with the current alliance betweenthe North (Arewa) and the South West in the All Progressives Congress, APC, and between Buhariand Tinubu. May they live long and deliver us to where those young Zamfara supporters want the country to arrive at. And may the soul of our colleague and friend and Editorial Page Editor of this newspaper Alhaji IbrahimAuduson rest in perfect peace, and may Allah forgive his shortcomings and admit him to paradise, amin.

Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company, which has the capacity to refine 110,000 barrels of crude oil a day, restartedproduction on Saturday after it was closed for months for repairs.

The managing director, Pipelines and Products marketing Company, Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, said on Sunday that the plant, which was closed in September, came back on stream ahead of the December deadline for Nigeria’s four refineries to return to full production.

The group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Ibe Kachikwu, had issued a 90-day ultimatum to the managements of the fourrefineries shortly after his appointment last August.

Mrs. Nnamdi-Ogbue said the Kaduna plant,which is currently undergoing a test run of its production lines, is expected to commence trucking of petrol by the end ofnext week.

“Kaduna refinery came back on stream on Saturday as scheduled and is running,” thePPMC boss told PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday, via text message.

“PMS (Premium Motor spirit, also called petrol) should be available for trucking by the end of the week. The refinery is expected to produce an average of about 1.6 million litres of PMS daily once in full operation,” she said.

Prior to its closure in September, Kaduna refinery had stopped working for most partof the year, except briefly in July and August, when its utilisation capacity dropped to about 2.6 per cent and 10.5 per cent respectively, according the NNPC monthly operational report for October.

On Friday, Mrs. Nnamdi-Ogbue said resumption of production in other refineries would follow before the end of the year, first by the 210,000 bpd-capacity Port Harcourt refinery shut-down since October.

The 125,000 bpd-capacity Warri refinery, which was closed since September for repairs, would be the last to come back on stream, according to the resumption timeline expected to see all the refineries come back on before the end of the year.

The restart of production at the Kaduna refinery should be a cheering news for Nigerians, who have endured weeks of scarcity of petroleum products.

Part of the problem is because PPMC is currently saddled with the responsibility ofimporting and supplying 100 per cent of the average 40 million litres daily national fuel consumption capacity, as none of the major and independent oil marketers is involved in the fuel importation programme in the country at the moment.

Before now, the PPMC and the other oil marketers used to split the responsibility of importing fuel at the ratio of 52:48.

But, with the backlog of unpaid fuel subsidy and accumulated foreign exchange differential, the oil marketers had opted out of further importation, leaving it to the PPMC.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/oil-and-gas/195494-kaduna-refinery-restarts-production.html

Exploration of oil and gas in the North eastern region of Nigeria, to commence by Northern Nigeria Development Company NNDC, by the first quarter of next year.

This was made known on Friday by the Chairman of the company, Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu, while briefing newsmen at NNDC’s 47th Annual General Meeting in Kaduna.Dalhatu stated that NNDC was currently collaborating with its technical partners and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on the expertise and budgetary requirements for the flag off of the project.

Also speaking, the company’s Group Managing Director, GMD, Alhaji Ahmed Musa, noted that the company could not start the project as earlier planned due to the securitysituation in the region.Musa added that the company was constrained by finance and production sharing formula.While noting that NNDC needed the sum of 20m dollars for exploration on each of the four oil blocks which caused part of the delay, Musa stressed that modalities were underway to commence exploration within the first quarter of 2016.He said the company from the first quarter of next year would open the exploration in the four oil blocks allocated to it in the Lake Chad Basin, adding that plans were underway to acquire four more oil blocks in the region.

Speaking on the AGM, the GMD said the company had recorded 42 per cent increase in its income the financial year which ended March 31, 2015.“Operating income increased from N651.2 million to N923.9, while a 73 per cent increase had been recorded in operating profit before taxfrom N137.2 million to N237.2 million.“ Furthermore, increase was recorded in earnings per share of 87 per cent from 16.7 kobo to 31.2 kobo and 4.4 per cent in net assets per share from N14.1 to N18. 5 when compared with results of the preceding year ended 31st March 2014, “ he said.

http://watchdognews.net/nndc-to-commence-oil-gas-exploration-in-north-east-by-2016/

Blackfire:



u are a fo.ol for threatning @chrisbaba1.
What is with u muslim, always violent in reply.
Let me ask u, is it right for a 50+ year old man to marry a 6 year old small girl? Can u give your 6year old daughter/sister to a 50 year old man?

watch out you too!

chrisbaba1:
Sharia Law and the Nations constitution running concurrently in one country.


Mohammed married a 6 year old and had sex with her at 9 yet you burn porn movies. Brood of pedophiliac narcissistic hypocrites.

you will pay for this!!!

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LordClem:
First got this email

Dear Lord_Clem
We are pleased to inform you that you were successful at the online assessment and you will be progressing to the next phase of the recruitment which is a Paper Based Test. Kindly see your schedule as follows;


Venue: Workforce Group, Garban Gora House, Farm Center, Adjacent Assalam International School, Kano, Kano State.
Date: Thursday November 19, 2015
Time: 9:00AM
You are required to come along with a form of identification, HB pencil, a copy of this Letter and a passport picture affixed to the copy of this mail.
Do not bring any calculator.

Then later got this SMS

You were successful at the online test and you have been invited for a Paper Based Test on 21/11/2015 at 9am Venue: Garban Gora House, Farm Center, Adjacent Assalam International School, Kano State.

Then a lady called me twice to confirmed that I got the changes

Is this same with everyone? #TeamKano

The same thing with me although mine is 10:30, I later got two emails notifying of the change, but I never received the call.

These are roles of d newly curbed storage company from PPMC a subsidiary of NNPC.
Anyone for Kano?

IBFCAlliance Limited - Our Client, a player in the banking industry seeks to recruit young, intelligent and out-going persons at the entry level, to fill the position of:

Job Title: Graduate Trainee

Location:Nigeria

Requirements

*Candidates must have a minimum of 2.2 or lower credit from reputable institutions and must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service Corp.

Application Closing Date

22nd October, 2015.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should send a copy of their resumes to: recruitment@ibfcalliance.com with their Name and Age in the subject to the mail.

Note:Applicants are to submit only ONE application as multiple applications will result in disqualification.

send your CV To patrick@giresources.net, the subject should be Implementation Officer, in bracket you shall put any northwestern or northeastern states. God luk

The news that charges have been filed against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal was received by many with shock. The expectation, however, was that the accused would be in haste to clear his name, as honourable men are wont to.

On the contrary, Dr. Saraki filed an application before the Federal High Court seeking to stop the scheduled trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The application was granted ex-parte.

The ex-parte application and its grant represent the two of the most frustrating avenues through which justice is frustrated and judicial process abused in our country's courts of 'justice'. The fact that the number three man in our political hierarchy is the perpetrator in this case is profoundly disappointing.

More importantly, however, is the fact that the grant of the application was in manifest error of trite law such that keen watchers may be pardoned for suspecting that something underhand was involved in the entire process.

In the first place, no court of law has the powers to interfere with, or in any way restrain the exercise of the judicial powers of another court of co-ordinate jurisdiction. This is trite and well established in accordance with the principles of the doctrine of judicial precedent. In this case, the Federal High Court and the Code of Conduct Tribunal are courts of coordinate jurisdiction: appeals from the decisions of the Code of Conduct Tribunal lie to the Court of Appeal (s.23 (4) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act) and appeals from the decisions of a Federal high Court lie to the court of Appeal (s. 243, Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999).

In the second place, The Code of Conduct Bureau is not a prosecuting authority; under section 3 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act, it is merely an administrative and investigative authority and its role in the prosecution of defaulters under the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act is limited to recommending persons for prosecution. The prosecuting authority in respect of offences under the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act is the Office of the Attorney General. Thus section 24 (3) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act provides the Attorney General or any one nominated by him may bring charges in respect of offences under the Act.

In the third place, it is incorrect for Dr. Saraki to hinge the basis of his ex parte application on the fact that there is no incumbent Attorney General capable of instituting actions against him or any criminal action whatsoever. This line of legal reasoning, once regularly cited, has since been discredited by the Supreme Court in a number of cases and, most recently, in the case of Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Senator Adewunmi where the Supreme Court, per Umaru AltuKalgo, JSC said: "There is no doubt at all that the power to institute criminal proceedings against any person in the 1999 Constitution lies on the Attorney-General of the State or the Federation as the case may be, but such power may be exercised by the Attorney-General himself or through any officers of his department. See Sections 174 and 211 of the 1999 Constitution. These sections though very similar in content do not require that the officers can only exercise the power to institute criminal proceedings if the Attorney General expressly donated his power to them. The provisions of the sections presume that any officer in any department of the Attorney General's office is empowered to initiate criminal proceedings unless it is proved otherwise."

Furthermore, section 25(3) provides that the question whether any authority has been given in pursuance of this section requiring the Attorney General to donate his prosecutorial powers under the Act, "shall not be inquired into by any person".

The decent course for an accused, if he has concerns, is to raise preliminary objection(s) before the tribunal where he has been charged. Dr. Saraki is advised to so do if he is to remain qualified to remain as the number one lawmaker in this country.

On September 18, 2015, following Dr. Bukola Saraki's failure to appear before the Code of Conduct Tribunal as charged, the Tribunal, on the application of the prosecutor, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Dr. Saraki. This power is inherent in any tribunal having the full powers of a court of law, such as the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Furthermore, sections 2 and 14 of the 3rd Schedule to the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act empower the tribunal to compel the attendance of accused persons and witnesses.

Under section 23 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act, if found guilty, the tribunal is empowered to impose any of the following punishments:

(a) Vacation of office or any elective or nominated office, as the case may be;
(b) Disqualification from holding any public office (whether elective or not) for a period not exceeding ten years; and
(c) Seizure and forfeiture to the State of any property acquired in abuse or corruption of office.

Furthermore, trial or conviction under the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act does not preclude a separate trial under any other applicable criminal law (Section 24 Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act).

http://www.fullyreported.com/2015/09/why-dr-bukola-sarakis-surreptitious-ex.html?m=1