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AllBusiness:
Portugal only doing Initial Gira Gira (IGG).. They will soon know how far... They should go and ask Brazil when they do same to Germany

EfeNuda1:
Even me, I would like to know how you got ten years? What did you do different? Normally Nigeria is 2 years?

Ciscagirl:
Pls is this offer still available

mabea:
You cant just ignore that question because it happens every other time

Lakeside79:
It's not about winning or loosing sir

All is asked was for clear specific assurance that there will.e no theft intellectual property of said submitted business plans

Nothing stops you from collating ideas from the submitted plans after all plans will.be submitted ahead of the presentation and I assume only those successful will be contacted for presentation?

What I wanted to know will there be any measures taken to ensure you are not just on an idea minimg operation disguised as a start up funding opportunity?

For me I find this all too flimsy and questionable so I shall not be sending any proposal to you my good sir .

There are too many loop holes via which one can be taken advantage offf in this
Good luck

Lakeside79:
I did see it but would.the presentation be after submission? If yes I suggest there's no submission at all instead make it a series of presentation like the reality investment show "Dragons Den" watch it for reference

That is to.orevent people from stealing others submitted business ideas

Which brings.me.back to.mty first point

What is to stop you from doing that? That is stealing our ideas ?

Why are you doing this ? Surely investment banks have a backlog of submitted proposals ?

What is in this for you ?

Lakeside79:
Understood

Just saying why not organize a chance for people to make presentation to you instead ?

Lakeside79:
How are we sure you are not shopping for business ideas to repackage and submit to the government on that their startup Nigeria as your own idea ? How do we know you are legit ?

PMWSpirit:
Where for the abroad? Bc not all places qualifies as "abroad" ooo

TonyeBarcanista:
Nigerians may recall that one of the biggest criticism that trailed the government of President Goodluck Jonathan administration was his lukewarmness to take action in his then Chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina despite several recommendations by the 7th Senate. Though he would later fire Maina when it got too hot, many, including the opposition felt a lot of damage had already been done. It is however shocking and evil to see the reappearance of Maina under the Muhammadu Buhari government.

The Man Maina And What He Stood For
Maina, an Assistant Director in charge of Customs,Immigration and Prisons Pension in the Federal ministry of Interior within the human resources department, was appointed the Chairman on Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms by Goodluck Jonathan's administration. The key mandate of the task force was to sanitise public pension sector that has been enmeshed in acute corruption, his position was like a sort of cop.

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To his credit, Maina's Team blew the whistle that led to the investigation, prosecution and "conviction" of Mr. John Yakubu Yusufu, then serving Assistant Director who stole over N2 billion belonging to Police pensioners. He pleaded guilty and was tried alongside accomplices that include; then Permanent Secretary, Atiku Abubakar Kigo, the Director, Ahmed Inuwa Wada, Cashier Veronica Onyegbula and Sani Habila Zira the ICT Officer.

N/B: Despite pleading guilty to the stealing of N2 billion belonging to retired policemen, Mr Yusufu was told by the trial judge, Justice Abubakar Talba of Abuja High Court to forfeit properties that weren't worth 200 million naira and pay N250,000 fine to avoid going to jail. He paid right there in court.

Maina was however accused of "re-stealing" N2 billion belonging to pensioners by pensioners through petitions to both the Senate and House of Representative. He was invited by the Senate joint committee on public service and establishment led by Aloysius Etok to defend himself but refused to honor any invitation, the Senate subsequently issued an arrest warrant on him. Maina absconded the country after the police management withdrew his security details and placed him on Wanted List. He was equally fired from the Civil service for absconding from duty and his failure to respond to summons.

It is unfortunate that such a man could be returned to the service through the backdoor by an administration that came to power through its anti corruption rhetoric.

Who Is Liable For Maina's Return?
In my candid opinion, the following people are primarily liable for the return of Maina.

1. Gen (Dr) Abdulrahman Dambazzau: The Interior minister, who is also in charge of supervision of Nigeria Police that had declared Maina a fugitive cannot turnaround to claim innocence. The fugitive was posted to his ministry as a director of Human Relations (if his claim is correct). Part of citizens responsibility (as demanded by the law) is to arrest fugitives and hand them over to security agencies or give valuable information that will lead to arrest of fugitive. Maina, being a fugitive was supposed to have been arrested by citizen Dambazzau and handover to the Police or EFCC that declared him Wanted. As public servant, Dambazzau is under a oath to uphold, protect and defend the laws of land, which he failed to in this case.

2. Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita (Head of Service, HOSF): She is in charge of posting, reposting and discipline of civil servants. I am very sure she is aware of Maina return and approved his payment of benefits. As HOSF, she was expected to understand the implication of the return of Maina as an infringement on civil service rules.

3. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior: Being the Chief Accounting Officer of the ministry, the "Perm sec" cannot claim ignorance of this backdoor appointment.

4. President Muhammadu Buhari: The bucks stops at his table! He can't claim ignorance of Maina return because such senior level appointment/reappointment cannot take effect without his authorised approval/signature upon the recommendations of HOSF and Federal Civil Service Commission. His recent claim of ignorance is simply face-saving to get someone take the fall.

Appropriate Action
What is appropriate now is for the President to fire/suspend everyone with link (or possible link) to the reappointment of Maina and judiciously institute a probe to unravel all the real perpetrators of this wicked act. They have betrayed the trusts of Nigeria people especially pensioners, whose monies were squandered by Maina and likes after putting decades into the service of the country.

As for Buhari, I'm sure Nigerians should be tired of him already. The scandal he has been linked with in less than 3 years in government is more than the entire scandal in the 5+ years of the past administration. He has no moral justification remaining in office beyond the May 29, 2019 mandate given him by the Nigeria electorate on March 28, 2015 and which came to effect on May 29, 2015.

Sacking Maina is not enough, Baba Must Go!

cowleg:
Really, the only way is too pay heavily else, you on your own. Applying and paying through official root is useless as no one will help move your file. I suggest you confront the junioir officer and rather pursue it through a reliable officer. At least it should cost you 180k

toofit007:
is there any sense in this your write up? in your subsequent write up, don't let gross hatred for nnamdi January override your sense of judgement. you only mentioned the bail that was granted to him by the magistrate court, what about the unconditional release granted to him by justice Ademola, why didn't you include it in your write up? now you mentioned kanu asking of guns and bullet, I bet you, you did not watch that video when you were psychologically OK, probably you were on osogbo weed. I am with the video and I do watch it almost every day to see if I can see anywhere kanu requested for a weapon to wage war against Nigeria government but what I keep on seeing and kanu mentioning was guns and bullet for self defence, especially when he mentioned the issues of Fulani herdsmen cropping gradually into biafra land which the government of buhari has refused to protect the people of old Eastern region from those blood sucking vampires. so Mr man go back and re-watch the video, kanu never requested for guns to carry out an attack on Nigeria government rather it was purely a call for self defence he made. by the way, how do you thing that such video will be valid or useful exhibit and the DSS are yet to call the attention of the judge to that video of more than two years now that kanu has been in detention? the Nigeria government that I know will stop at nothing to get evidence to nail him, but I can assure you right how they don't have.