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The only thing Prof .Wole Soyinka bequeaths our society is cultism....May the Lord have mercy on his soul

[quote author=Promxy94 post=87961112]Law and am happy with it... [
Liars causing confusion all over

A Major General in the Nigerian Army, Olusegun Adeniyi has admitted that there has been series of intense attacks from the Boko Haram insurgents in the past days.

In a video that surfaced on social media, the Adeniyi who was on battlefield could be heard saying the insurgents are equipped with the latest ammunitions and they have been countering their attacks on different flanks.

He said:

“We have been met with very strong resistance from Boko Haram since yesterday. They are more than pockets of insurgents. Today morning, and from every flank, not less than 15 gun trunks faced us. The Boko Haram terrorists fired more than 100 RPGs and mortars on us,” Olusegun Adeniyi, a major-general and theatre commander of Operation Lafiya Dole said in a video.

In the video, Mr. Adeniyi said he and other generals led the Nigerian troops to successfully fight off the insurgents.

“Yet, we are not running or fleeing from them. Me and other generals are on the ground. We are good to go. But this is the true situation of things,” he added.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if your kid gets infected and taken away from you for quarantine?

Have you?

Has it occurred to you that you might not be allowed outside your house, talk more of going to the the quarantine center to look after your kid?

Do you know that when an infested person dies, the government takes charge of disposal, which is likely to be by cremation?

That is to say, from the time they are taken away for quarantine, the family might not get to see them again, except they recover.

You don't know all these.

Because if you do, you'd take all available measures to protect yourself and your kids.

Don't listen to anybody telling you that people who talk against your going to church / mosque at this critical time are anti-christs / anti-Islam.

We are in this together.

Don't please!

He who the gods fight for, also fights for himself!

Take all practicable measures to stay safe.

One love!!!

Factfinder1:
Muslims are mostly illiterate populated they wont listen

Imagine people going to burn someone's house in kano because of Allah

One nigga once said Allah will poor more blessings of those who are late for Friday prayers and are running to go join the rest,I now asked him if those who went to the mosque earlier to meditate before prayers will be blessed less

Shallow reasonings.......what do say to that" Business man" (sic David Bishop Oyedepo) that defies Government instructions and went ahead to conduct Church services in that" business center" Canaanland?......His is very lucky man had it been his is in Kaduna state where El- Rufai would have used him for practising like EL Zakzaky

FAKE man ......only fool can believe in this

[quote author=Donstel post=87321517]I pity you, you have forgotten that you have a Governor I Benue State.[/qu
I pity your micro sense......no governor dey where him the run upandown

Nicklaus619:
You just made a fool outa your self, when did it become mandatory for him construct road in his state when his state governor feed fat on the road allocation each year ??

Another reasoning from ANUS....So the state in which his investing do not have governor abi.....he is just promoting his business empire .....SIMPLE.. BECOS dem say charity begin at home

Graxie:
Who told you he is from otukpo? You people just sit down to generate curse to your generation.

see your mumu sense curse ko curse ni.....otukpo is proudly all idoma home..let that sink into your NUMB SKULL.

tuskers:
highly commendable, may God keep lifting this great man of God

commendable what??go OTUKPO his ancestral home and see moribund infrastructure everywhere...but the man busy doing eyes service elsewhere

ha him dem never solve the world problem

e no concern me t all.....make him show em face

B4 nko.....hear talk abeg

IPPIS is a really SCAM...uptill date some in the Military has not gotten their NOVEMBER salary...

Make we catch you we that camouflage cap for naija....na frog jump be your name

Gov Wike always on drugs ,that why he talk before he think...Just look way he talk to a whole traditional rulers in the public last time ....i weep for The so called South -South people with the kind of leaders they always produce....DRINKING KAI KAI ALL THRU

Truthbites:
NIGERIAN soldiers eh! That's why I'm happy Boko Haram de deal with them

[quote author=Afenson post=86205368][/quote]The Boko Haram will soon consume you as well

[quote author=Afenson post=86205368][/quote]God bless you ...i suspect that what really happen.....can you try US Soldier like that in Iraq,Afghanistan and Somalia...NIGERIA right now is in WAR situations and the soldier do not have that time to romance you...either you respect yourself with simple instructions or you see anyhow period.

famzynet:
You obviously have not been outside Nigeria. Officers in developed nations respect themselves. You hardly see the army in US or UK unlike in Nigeria where they parade with their camouflage even in markets. Officers don't just approach you except they see you breaking the law. And people are not scared of the police or army ,rather people respect them. In Nigeria,people fear them and hate them because of how they terrorise and extort innocent civilians.

another lies......pls educate us how comes on "BLACK LIFE MATTER IN THE US"..

You are deceiving yourself either the man is rude to them,do not obey their instructions or want to prove americana to them..is he the only to have ply the road...

LIAR......just like that they bundle you into their hilux.........can you try the arrogance attitude you might have exhibited a white officers in the US.learn how to obey our law enforcement personnel just like you do in AMERICA..

If American police pull you over and ask you to place your your hand on steering wheel ANYTHING LESS THAN THAT he will gunned you that...HUMAN RIGHT DEM TO DEY ?

Racoon:
The price for organized genocide and annihilation of the Asaba people was paid by Lt.Col.Murtala Mohammed & Capt.Ibrahim "Gagara" Taiwo.They came in all guns blazing and also left the world in a hail of bullets.RIP Asaba brethren & other victims of similar injustice till date.

round 4am on Friday, however, the telephone rang in my house I picked it up. Alhaji Isa kaita, the Minister for Education was on the line; he wanted to let me know, he said, there had been a coup against the government. The Sardauna’s house had been attacked by soldiers and all important official had gone into hiding. He had spoke with major Hassan Katsina who explained that there was a little he could do; he was actually at a meeting with rebels at that time. Alhaji Isa Kaita concluded with the request that I should go to the Sardauna’s house and assessed the situation.

I got ready and said my dawn prayer, later I went out. I found the residence of the premier completely destroyed. It had been shelled and burnt, strings of smoke were still raising into the air from some sections. I looked for certain familiar scenes around but all were now a sorrowful sight. There was destruction everywhere. A few soldiers stood idly with weapons in their hands. All was quiet. I walked into the house silently and found the body of Sardauna lying on the ground the courtyard. He had been shot a number of times.

I arranged for the body to be taken to the house of the Sultan in Kaduna which was a short distance away. His wife, Hafsah, who was killed together with him, was also taken to the Sultan’s house. Details of the incidence soon got round and gradually a little crowd of senior government officials and other sympathisers assembled to prepare the bodies for burial. It was then announced that the Sardauna had requested before he died, that he should be taken to Wurno and buried beside the grave of Sultan Muhammad Bello, his great-grandfather.

But I explained that this wish could not be carried out. The Sardauna was a martyr who had been killed in the cause of the religion. In Islam, martyrs are always buried at the site of their death…..I felt that we should respect that honour in the case of the Sardauna.

With all the preparation completed, we set the body in position for the burial prayers. The early morning sun was fairly high in the sky. I stood in front to lead the prayers while the rest of the people formed neat rows behind me. There are no ceremonies to observe during burials in Islam. The religion emphasizes that the dead should be put into grave with minimum delay after death…..

It was altogether a very solemn and touching occasion. For me, it was the end of an era which I could not possibly forget. I had been lucky to know the Sardauna and help influence a little of his life. Reflections of this day and many others came back to me as I stood over the fresh earth marking the grave after the funeral.

As a Muslim I knew that one died unless his time was due, so I was not bothered about whether the Sardauna could have been saved. I did not mourn his death as something he or anyone else could have helped to avoid. But I grieve for the ignorance and fear that plotted against him and what he represented; the greed and selfishness that killed him; and the prejudice and contempt that sought to disgrace his name after his death.

NIGHTFALL
‘For anyone who worshipped Muhammad,’ Sayyid Abu Bakr, a close companion to the Holy Prophet, had said to the public while announcing the death of the Prophet, ‘Muhammad is dead. But whoever worshipped God let him know that God is alive and does not die.’ I could have spoken to the people in similar vein if I had been responsible for announcing the killing of the Sardauna. But so bloody and horrifying had the events been that early morning that the public did not need further warning about the fate of the Premier.

As I drove back home after the funeral, I passed a long line of people standing solemnly on the streets. Some stood in small groups absorbed in mournful discussions while others sat quietly in front of their houses. No one seemed to know fully what was happening, so that the people’s sorrow was worsened by the fear of the final outcome. The extent of the killings, and what that meant in terms of communication had been cut between various parts of the country and there appear to be total confusion even among the soldiers themselves. I figured that it would be quite a while before the final picture emerged. Meanwhile, I could not really think of what to do other than to continue with my normal routine. I, therefore, got ready and went to my office.

I was in the office late in the morning when military van pulled up in the premises and some soldiers came down. They asked for me and were shown into my office by a staff. They greeted me curtly and explained that they had been sent to invite me for a meeting with the leader of that morning’s coup, Nzeogwu. I was to go in their van, they said, although I could ask someone to follow in my own csr so that he would bring me back after the meeting. I got up and went with them as they requested while my driver drove behind us.

We arrived at the military barracks housing Nzeogwu’s soldiers which had by now turned into a beehive of activity. There were many soldiers on guard, their weapons held firmly in their hand. There were also trucks parked in front of the offices; a few others came in and went out. Except for the noise of the vehicles and occasional exchange among soldiers, all was quiet and business-like. No one spoke to us as we parked and walked into the building. Eventually, I was brought before Nzeogwu and he received me with no ceremony. I sat down on a chair and he slowly began to talk.

First of all, he wanted to know where we had hidden the weapons which we were said to have imported into the country. The question really surprised me and so did the tone in which it was asked. I had not met Nzeogwu before, and had never dealt with him in any capacity whatsoever. I had, therefore, no prior expectations with regard to his personality or the questions he would ask me. Nevertheless, I had imagined that he would show a little concern about the sad events that had taken place earlier in the morning. I did not expect him to apologise for what he had done, because he in no way appeared to be unhappy about the new power and attention which he was receiving as a result of his present position. But I had expected that he would begin by justifying the killings somehow, and offering explanations as to how or why the dead leaders had to lose their lives. After all, no matter his feelings against them, they were statesmen who had once led the country and the people. Human decency and reason demanded that they should be treated with respect for their past services, especially because they had died holding their offices. One did not murder one’s national figures and dismiss the incident casually, whatever their fault. Judicial system.

Besides, I thought it was disappointing that the organizers of the military coup were only now trying to put together the reason for their action. I had never known anyone to have imported weapons into the country illegally, least of all the Sardauna. I therefore felt I had to seek further information from Nzeogwu himself before I could answer him. He explained that he heard we had bought many weapons from the Middle East, which we planned to use to wage Jihad against non-Muslims in Nigeria. That was why he now wanted to know where we kept them, he said.

In my prompt response, I told him about my ignorance in this regard. As far as I was aware, no such plans had ever been considered by any Islamic group in this country. I spoke with authority because I was the closest adviser to the Sardauna on religious matters, and at no time did he visit the Islamic countries in the Middle East without me since I became Grand Khadi. I had never known him to have discussed war in Nigeria, much less purchase weapons.

This prompted Nzeogwu to take me to ask concerning my own appointment. He could not understand, he said, why there had to be a separate court for Muslims outside the country’s judicial system. After all, Muslims were also Nigerians, and must, therefore submit to the law of the land like everyone else. ‘As for Grand Khadi, of what use is he, since there is already the Chief Justice?’ he concluded.

‘Well,’ I answered, ‘Islam is not like Christianity or the other religions you know. In Islam, there are very specific laws in respect of all social matters which must be observed correctly. They include those concerning marriage, divorce, rights to offspring and inheritance. In this regard, only an Islamic court, with a judge versed in the science of the Quran and the Prophet’s traditions, could proper administer justice on a disputing Muslim couple or their inheritors. As for my position, it is only a natural complement to the Area Courts. The appeals that come to me cannot be handled by the Chief Justice because he has no knowledge of Islamic Law.’

With this main subject of the short meeting seemed to have been settled...
It became established that in the midnight attack on the Premier’s residence many others had been killed….During the week the Prime Minister (Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa) was found dead in the outskirts of Lagos…..others killed included Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari, Colnel Kur Muhammad, Lt-Colonel Abogo Largema, Lt-Colonel Yakubu Pam. Similarly, the Premier of the Western Nigeria, the Minister of Finance, the Commander of the 1s t Brigade, Kaduna all lost their lives.

Gradually, more details about the military coup became public and at the same time the real motives of the coup planners began to appear. It was immediately apparent that Igbo Christian officers were the leaders and all the killings followed a set pattern. Only the Muslims and those who were considered as their friends were assassinated. The Prime Minister (a Hausa-Fulani Muslim) was killed, but the President (an Igbo Christian) was skillfully sent out of the country. His farewell words to the Prime Minister, as I heard later, were, ‘I see you on 15 January.’

Pictures of the dead Sardauna against the background of his burning house were immediately put on display, along with those of Nzeogwu giving the heroic account of how he broke into the house and shot him, amidst the wailings of the women and children. These pictures were used by many Igbo leaders and traders and elsewhere in the North to taunt the local people, as evidence that the Sardauna was dead and the North had been defeated. Suddenly, the massacres of the Muslim leaders and politicians was turned into a revolution, with the most glowing tributes being showered on the assassins. In the South in general there outright jubilation in most urban centres, which echoed in their papers. Hardly any newspaper lamented the killings, in fact some saw it as progressive political move. Many editorials were unrepentant, as though the killings were most natural solution to whatever problems the country had.''

- Sheikh Abubakar Gumi with Isma'ila A. Tsiga, 'Where I Stand', (1992). Pg 112, 113, 114, 115,116,117,118.

kolafolabi:
In a month's time, it will be reported that Boko Haram has hijacked half of the vehicles.

True talk

chrischukszy01:
Pls update on USA n Iran war... any other news we no want. Pls wen is d ww3 starting Biko?

MUMU SO YOU ARE PRAYING FOR WAR......? I PRAY YOU AND YOUR SIBLINGS BECOMES A VICTIM

helinues:
Nigerian footballer

Has he played for Nigeria before?

No mind that stupid post..NA UPPER VOLTA footballer ni

FOR a long time, the Federal Government had no accurate and reliable data on personnel in the civil service. This resulted in inaccurate budgeting for recurrent expenditures and other challenges.
In an attempt to reduce and possibly eliminate these problems, the government introduced the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) to be implemented in phases.
In 1999, after the country’s return to democratic rule, the government carried out a Public Service Reform (PSR) study and the result was the development of the National Strategy for Public Service Reform (NSPSR) in 2003.
The strategy was to be implemented through four cardinal programmes known as the four pillars of NSPSR. Pillar three was aimed at “implementing a public financial management reform to achieve strategic, efficient and effective mobilisation, allocation and use of public resources, fiscal discipline, transparency, integrity and accountability through timely reporting”.
To achieve this pillar, the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFFMIS) and the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) were created. These are digital-based programme aimed at Public Financial Management (PFM) and the Human Resource and Payroll issues at the federal level.
Thus, IPPIS is a form of identity system management aimed at providing a centralised database to support personal planning and decision making, automated storage of personnel records to aid staff enrolment, and monitoring against budgeting and prevention of wastages and leakages based on factual personnel records and information (www.oagf.gov.ng/IPPIS).
IPPIS captures facial images, fingerprints of government employees, and stored in a digitalised data-based library which can be accessed with authorisation anywhere.
IPPIS was a reform initiative conceived to position the public service for improved efficiency and productivity. It was rolled out in 2007 with seven pilot Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) and has since been expanded to cover 506 MDAs with total staff strength of 344,625 as at September last year.
IPPIS Secretariat is a department under the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation. It is responsible for payment of salaries and wages directly to government employee’s bank account with appropriate deductions and remittances of third party payments such as the Federal Inland Revenue Service, State Boards of Internal Revenue, National Health Insurance Scheme, National Housing Fund, Pension Fund Administrator, Cooperative Societies, Trade Unions Dues, Association Dues and Bank Loans.
The department is responsible for processing and payment of salary to over Three hundred thousand (300,000) Federal Government Employees across the 506 MDAs. IPPIS aims to enrol into the platform, all Federal Government MDAs that draws personnel cost fund from the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
Since the inception of the IPPIS project in April 2007, the department claims it has saved the Federal Government billions of Naira by eliminating thousands of ghost workers.
A study carried out by Lucky Izobo Enakirerhi and Sunny O Temile stated that “accurate and reliable personnel information, reduction or elimination of corrupt and sharp practices, facilitation of modern scientific and accurate budgeting and forecasting are the major benefits of IPPIS. These benefits are, however, threatened by skills transfer problem, poor supporting infrastructure, technological barriers for inter-MDAs transfer, resistance from stakeholders and lack of will for accelerated implementation.”
They argued that “accelerated and unbiased implementation that will enable smooth transfer of the IPPIS technology knowledge and skills from consultants to government personnel for effective management, future integration and synchronising of IPPIS with other identity management system are keys to harnessing the benefits of the project.”
From audit carried out through IPPIS implementation, the Budget Office of the Federation and the National Planning Commission were among the government agencies that had high incidences of ghost workers with 77.3 per cent and 74.9 per cent of names on payroll being ghost workers.
“This means that in 2017, the overhead cost of running these two agencies would be reduced by over 75 per cent due to the implementation of IPPIS,” the scholars said.
Under the old manual and filing system, some unscrupulous workers were collecting salaries from multiple salaries from different government sources, or not working with the government. Inaccurate and unreliable information characterized the old manual and file-based system, resulting in padded overhead cost, double pay and other sharp practices. This meant that the government did not know the number of its workforce resulting in budgeting and estimation difficulties.
Enakirerhi and Temile added that “the file-based system is marred with over-estimation of ministerial budgeting and thereby fuelling corruption in two ways, falsification of age and certificate of the local government of origin (indigeneship) due to ease of replacement of file records and other sharp practices. Introduction of IPPIS helps reduce these menace as payrolling would be central and directly to employees’ private accounts.”
The implementation of IPPIS has not been without challenges. Some of these challenges include lack “of sufficient skills transfer to government personnel which prolong consultants stay on the project, poor state of supporting infrastructure such as low internet penetration, technological barrier, problem associated with transfer of pay point due to the posting of employees from IPPIS MDA to non-IPPIS MDA, resistance from stakeholders which have prolonged implementation, and government’s lack of will and commitment to accelerate implementation of this project”.
The IPPIS project has also had some scandals coming from it. Police inspectors and rank and file under the Akwa Ibom State Police Command and some personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have called on the authorities to investigate inconsistency in the payment of their salaries.
They queried the operation of the IPPIS, saying they suspect fraud. According to the police officers who pleaded anonymity, they have been suffering underpayment of their regular salary every month since 2018 when payment of police salaries and allowances was moved from Mechanised Salary Section (MSS) to the IPPIS.
One of them said: “We made complaints at the MSS Uyo and the officers there blamed the IPPIS saying the problem is from the IPPIS. And when some of us suffered and travelled to IPPIS office in Abuja they were referred back to the MSS in Uyo and blamed the MSS for the short payments and non-payment in some months.
“Some inspectors on same grade level 10 now receive N50, 000, N60, 000, some N40, 000. And we also have situations where constables are receiving N250, 000 monthly, while sergeants, inspectors are paid N10, 000, N32, 000, and even N9, 000 as monthly salary.
”We demand to know why officers in the same grade level are paid different as salary, and why the amount paid each month is not consistent.
“The situation is that we no longer know what our salary is per month as IPPIS pays whatever amount they deem fit for each month. Some people lose up to N60, 000, each month from what they have been receiving before IPPIS took over our salary payment.
“We are therefore appealing to the president, the Inspector General of Police IGP to as a matter of great importance institute a high powered investigative panel to unravel this endemic corruption. IPPIS activities as it relates to the payment of police Salaries should be investigated from February 2018 till date.”
Another affected police officer said that they have found out recently that their colleagues with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC have been paid refund from the short payment after going to IPPIS office in Abuja to threaten them.
“We gathered that few of our colleagues that have corrected their short payment did so by visiting IPPIS through back door. That is why we are calling on the IGP, Chairman Senate Committee on Police Affairs, to set up a fact-finding team to go across the command and hear the agony of the men before we embark on a protest to expose IPPIS and the fraud they have been committing.
“Even the implementation of the new salary package approved by President Buhari for the Nigeria Police Force December 2018 is another source of concern as the fraud by IPPIS continues. It is unfortunate because this is only a mockery of the President’s fight against corruption.”
When asked to comment on this development, spokesman of the OAGF, Mr. Henshaw Ogubike, who is the Deputy Director (Press), told The Nation that the aggrieved government workers should report to their desk officers to have such issues addressed. He also referred them to publications on IPPIS placed in national dailies.
It was also been alleged by the former Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Mr. Ekpo Nta, that “by outsmarting the Federal Government Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS), some public servants allegedly collected salaries from four different federal ministries”.
Nta spoke at the commencement of a three-day anti-corruption and fraud prevention training organised by the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria (ACAN), a research and training arm of the ICPC in Keffi, Nasarawa State.
He said, as a result, the commission had partnered with Office of the Auditor General, Office of the Accountant General and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to monitor and execute corruption risks assessment on the various electronic-governance platforms.
In March 2016, the Auditor–General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Samuel Ukura, said the introduction of the IPPIS is not the cure for ghost workers syndrome in the country’s public service.
The AGF noted that ghost workers syndrome would continue in the country unless the management and implementation of IPPIS was checked by relevant authorities.
Ukura gave the warning while presenting the 2014 Annual Audit Report to the Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikashuwa, in Abuja.
He lamented that unidentified software developers have unhindered access to the database of IPPIS and usually set up new users and change live data, from time to time.
Ukura told reporters after presenting his audit report that the password controls for access to IPPIS were not adequate because the database can be accessed remotely through the internet. He added that the password to access the IPPIS database does not expire after 90 days.
The situation, he said, makes it possible for retired government officers to use their password even after leaving the office.
Certainly, the IPPIS is not without its challenges. For analysts, the loopholes must be blocked if the gains are not to be lost.

seankafor:
Hotel and club is one biz that can never run down if you know what you re doing..

Balling na must..

How....some hotel cannot pay workers salary....no cottage industries and tourists site couple with insecurity and lack of infrastructure, so tell us how can they make profits

Samnavy:
This man has due for retired
There are people better than this man
In Nigerian army.
Please we meet youth as chief of army staff.
He as use many peoples tenure.

Honestly is the best for now...Boko Haram are mostly Kanuri people and his from Kanuri origin...So ONLY NINJA can kill a NINJA

nameo:
Why cant Northerners debate stuff like this? I will be very interested.

The last World Bank economic report on Nigeria relased yesterday says that 80% of the poor households in Nigeria are in the north. 80%!!!

For a naturally resource rich region, this is shocking.

So question: are the youths of the north debating this??

Really pathetic and appalling

Smoke.....lie lie

KANO STATE:‬

‪Population: 18million‬
‪Number of Industries: 58‬
‪Number of Mosques: 435,389.‬
‪Number of Churches 674.‬
‪Number of Parentless wandering under-aged kids: 3.67million.‬

‪Number of Divorcee Women including under (14): 857,443
‪Number of jobless youth: 3.8m.‬

Courtesy: *‪Kano Statistics Board‬*

A mosque for every 40 people in Kano. And 1 industry for every 300,000 people.

3.7 million Children roaming the streets. 900,000 divorced women with no work.

The state gets allocation from Center and pays wages for over less than 300,000 pple with its multiplier effect of one million pple.

The rest are buying and selling at Kurmi market, Bata etc, less than 50,000 are employed by the industries.

In the "South East" there are over 8 major towns in Anambra state that can beat the 58 industries status of Kano.

Ihiala one of the smallest of the towns in Anambra with over "64 industries" employs over 20,000 people! No child roams the streets.

They go to school or they are apprenticed out to learn a trade. The situation in Kano is replicated virtually in all the Northern States.

Sincerely speaking, the North has to rethink, because there is a looming danger. May God help us!