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I am Praying that this will not escalate because if it does Book haram will be a Child's play. Let us Pray for Nigeria.

likila:
Army reacts to hunger strike by reinstated soldiers


By Wale Odunsi on January 8, 2016 @dailypostngr
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The Nigerian Army on Friday reacted to the alleged maltreatment of about 3000 soldiers recently re-engaged.

Some of the soldiers had told Daily Trust that they were on hunger strike to protest the army’s refusal to post them five months after re-engagement.

The soldiers are part of about 2,500 soldiers and 102 officers dismissed from service over alleged offenses committed during counter insurgency operations.

Commenting on the matter, army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said the claim was unfortunate.

“It should be noted that the Nigerian Army has been tolerant and patient with their acts of indiscipline and unprofessional conducts,” he said.

“This was based on the understanding of their circumstances and conditions. Efforts have been made to retrain them, integrate and give them sense of belonging.

“But the attitude of some of them has left so much to be desired and would not be tolerated any more.

“The Nigerian Army thrives on discipline, loyalty and good conduct and if anyone of them could not measure up to expectation or live by those tenets, he should leave”, he warned.

so does this statement solve the problem? I had thought that their agitations will be resolved. This is high mark of insensitivity in my own opinion. I was expecting to hear that they have been properly reengaged with formal letters. Let us be human, I mean all of us.

Kenkesh:
THE AGONY OF UNEMPLOYED MEDICAL GRADUATES IN NIGERIA©

It is no longer news to the world and especially to Nigerians, the rate and vigour with which corruption in its different forms has invaded every facet of Nigeria's institutions. It seems to have become part of the genetic composition of most Nigerians if not all.

An aspect that inevitably affect youth develepmont and empowerment is worth discussing taking the medical sector which plays a critical role in nation building and economic development:

1) Collection of mandatory levy from applicants --- this usually happens before the submission of applications for job interview, jobs that the applicant is not sure he/she will get.

While the present government is planning to alleviate poverty by paying the unemployed youth some token for their upkeep, these employers - so called government workers and heads of institutions - set up their own wicked strategies to impoverish these unemployed teeming number of medical and health graduates by collecting huge sums from them before allowing them to sit for job interviews.This is so common most especially among the teaching hospitals in the western and south-eastern part of the country.

Just last year(2015), UCTH and UPTH collected N5000 from newly graduated doctors for their interview. The same year UNILORIN Teaching Hospital collected the same amount for the same reason of job interview, LASUTH charged the same amount. Many other hospitals did the same. Currently, Ekiti State Teaching Hospital is collecting N5000 (being the price of the application form) from these newly graduated medical doctors. Bear in mind that these fresh doctors have to do their one year mandatory internship programme. They have temporary licences and must do this within a limited time. They are entirely on their own and must compete with one another and with doctors trained abroad for the few placements available in the qualified hospitals.

These graduates will not only pay the mandatory fee, but will also risk their lives transporting themselves to the various venues of these interviews, lodge in hotels and cater for themselves etc. Where will they get funds and supports from knowing fully well that they are yet to start work, implying that the burden stil falls back to their parents and guardians who must have spent enormously in seeing them through medical school. Why do these MDs and CMDs, want to further impoverish the already poor young graduates before giving them their rightful placements? Is it what the Federal Government asked them to do? These question demand urgent answers!

2) The epidemic of I.M (ima mmadu OR to know somebody) in Nigerian employment system:

Merit is no longer recognised in the Nigerian employment system. After paying a heavy application fee, working hard to pass an the interview, you still are not sure of getting the job unless you know somebody or somebody who know somebody within the institution who can secure the job for you. For example, how can the best graduating students of reputable colleges of medicine go for interview at institutions different from their alma mater & not even one of the best ten graduating students get placements. You have to know some body before you can get a job. Those that don't know any body are automatically hopeless.

How can you explain the fact that someone re-sitting his final exams (ie he has not yet graduated, has no license and can not apply for internship) nevertheless participates in the job interview organized by his alma mater and gets a placement ahead of those that have graduated.

The situation is really discouraging hard work among youths, since hard work is no longer recognised. NAUTH has been delaying the list of succesful candidates, presumably because of the same reasons.

3) Buying of placements:
Here, the employer will collect application fees, conduct interviews, cast all the result of the interview into the waste paper basket and then commence the phase of auctioning the placements. Huge sums are unofficially/covertly collected from the employees before employing them. In UNTH and ESUTH, many have had to pay at least N150,000 and above before they could get housemanship . Is this part of the Youth Empowerment Programme?

4) Ghost workers in Nigerian employment system:

This particularly refers to a situation where an institution accredited and financially equipped to employ for instance 200 workers, decides to employ about 150. It then takes appropriate measures to secure the salary of the other 50 for the boss' pocket.

Ghost workers exist almost everywhere in Nigerian institutions. Take the case of UNTH that is budgeted to employ/train 180 house officers, but only employs about 120-125, with about less than half of them being their own graduants while the rest are abroad-trained doctors who heavily lobbied themselves into the system.
This creates artificial scarcity of jobs, making it difficult and impossible for all the graduates to promptly do their mandatory one year internships. Just as happens during artificial fuel scarcity, these wicked MDs and CMDs enrich themselves grossly from these situations.

Another phenomenon probably unique to medical internships is the possibility of doing the internship more than once. The salary is attractive and there is lack of nationally centralized control over the internship programme. With the appropriate corrupt means at the individual's disposal, he/she can get a fresh placement in a different hospital and can do multiple internships. This obviously denies fresh graduates their rightful placements.

It is clear that our senior colleagues, our leaders, our fathers and our elders in privileged positions are the very ones frustrating the youths of this country.

What is happening in the medical sector is pitiable! The role of our CMDs is scandalous! The practice of young interns who block their unemployed colleagues from getting slots by doing internship over and over again to make more money is totally wicked and punishable by Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria(MDCN). The silence of MDCN on the ongoing mess is the height of negligence of duty to protect the profession from ridicule! Finally, the inability of young medical graduates to articulate their experiences and speak out to the authorities is an act of timidity. Evil thrives when good men fail to speak up! I just weep for our corrupt generation.

Let this serve as a clarion call to all individuals and agencies capable and responsible for looking into matters such as these to come to our rescue.

Thanks. God bless Nigeria

This is nothing compared to what other medical/health Professionals suffer. I don't think Op compared their situation with Doctors of Optometry who also spend Six to Seven years in school and their internship placement is rarely advertised, medical lab scientists, dentists, physiotherapists, etc.

Good news but they look like scraps. I don't know much about military hardwares though so don't crucify me rather educate me

Be careful please. Don't Start EBOLA again oooo

SO SOMEONE THAT COLLECTS 5000 naira MONTHLY SALARY NOW WILL BE PAID HOW MUCH? OP do the arithmetic.

I THINK KANU is Still focused on his goal. The caption of the Op is some worth deceptive.

I am a recipient of Commonwealth scholarship for masters program in University of Capetown South Africa. I applied for South African Study permit since 9th of November 2015. The South African High commission in Abuja recently told me that the study permit will be ready towards the end of January 2016 while the School is insisting that I must be in South Africa on the 8th of January 2016 or forget coming. The school is to administer this scholarship including my flight tickets. please what should I do?

I am a recipient of Commonwealth scholarship for masters program in University of Capetown South Africa. I applied for South African Study permit since 9th of November 2015. The South African High commission in Abuja recently told me that the study permit will be ready towards the end of January 2016 while the School is insisting that I must be in South Africa on the 8th of January 2016 or forget coming. The school is to administer this scholarship including my flight tickets. please what should I do?

Nice move.

The truth is that this administration is busy planning on how to blame the past administration for this. The masses are patiently waiting for them to cast the blame so that they will be supported. that is the level we are now in Nigeria. Anything that can't work blame GEJ and the masses will support. don't just blame PMB.

why didn't he report back to the president then? The President gave him a mandate and standard. The Standard was compromised by his colleagues and he didn't call the attention of the president and didn't even include it in his resignation letter. I am disappointed.

whaaat! please is it up to 100 days? the 100 days didn't take time. please letz recount the days. wow that means 4 years is here.

Buhari wants to compensate himself and friends. After all he doesnt need second tenure

boman2014:
leave all those saddist that will post/write anything to discredit this administration.

i dont care who PMB puts as long as those poeple deliver the dividend of democracy.


biafrans said Buhari is the leader of BH & the same biafrans said
Buhari is brainless, so if I may ask,why are biafrans rushing to
serve under a brainless president & leader of BH? And who's
the brainless now? biafrans u better wake up frm ur slumber &
face reality coz hatred & envy wud only consume u.

the best thing is to allow the biafrans to secede

Innoson is great. MADE IN NIGERIA, MADE IN ANAMBRA STATE not ASSEMBLED. Doubters should visit innoson company.

SenseiX:
Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, has revoked the allocation of over25 plots of land by his predecessor, Babatunde Fashola, in his final days in office.
TheCable understands that the expansive land at Lekki Phase One had been allocated to the Lagos State Water Corporation in 1998 by the then military administrator of the state, Mohamed Marwa, while the certificate of occupancy was signed by Bola Tinubu, former governor of the state, in 2006.
However, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, who was the permanent secretary of the Lagos state ministry of lands under Fashola, had reportedly informed the former governor that the land was “available”.
The land was officially parcelled into 25plots and shared by Fashola who went on to sign the certificates of occupancy on May 26, three days to his exit from office.
The new allottees were curiously issued the old Cs of O, which had been phased out by Fashola and replaced with electronic certificates.
Most of the plots, it is alleged, were allocated to Fashola’s relatives, aides and associates — including Yewande Animashaun, his cousin who also served as his special adviser on public health, and Wale Ahmed, who served ashis commissioner for special duties.
A female newscaster with a Lagos-based TV station was one of the beneficiaries, TheCable learnt.

Meanwhile, TheCable understands that Muri-Okunola did not disclose the actual number of available plots to Fashola and was said to have kept several plots for himself, out of which three were allocated to Adeyemi Isiba, then general manager of New Towns Development Authority (NTDA), against government regulation.
Nobody is allowed to buy more than one plot in a government scheme but the three plots were registered in Isiba’s name.
He has now been removed as GM of NTDA following a series of findings on the activities of theagency under his watch.
As soon as Ambode assumed office, officials of the water corporation wrote to him to complain that the land belongs to the agency and that the original C of O was still valid as it was not voided by Fashola before the reallocation.
Ambode, TheCable was informed, immediately launched an investigation, only to discover that Muri-Okunola had kept some plots for himself with the hope of getting the new governor to sign off on the Cs of O.Muri-Okunola was immediately sacked by Ambode, but he was prevailed upon by prominent power brokers in Lagos to redeploy the son of the late Muri Okunola, a former justice reputed for his integrity.
Ambode later decided to redeploy the 42-year-old Muri-Okunola to the ministry of youth as permanent secretary and the ownership of the landhas been reverted to water corporation.
Both Muri-Okunola and Isiba did not respond to text messages sent by TheCable on the Lekki land affair.
Fashola has been in the public eye in recent times following revelations that he awarded a N78 million contract to set up a website in his name. Punch also reported on Monday that Fashola approved N138 million for the sinking of two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja — according to information sourced from the website of the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency.
https://www.thecable.ng/exclusive-ambode-revokes-fasholas-last-minute-land-allocations-lekki
Cc lalasticlala

GEJ is the cause, why did he appoint Fashola as the minister of ...and now APC that is known to parade honest men is making jest of PDP. what am I even saying?

ochejoseph:
‎“The Office of the First Lady is not in the constitution, so there’s no official role for them,” 

These were the exact words of general Mohammadu Buhari prior to the 2015 general elections. 

http://dailytrust.com.ng/daily/top-stories/42969-i-won-t-have-office-for-first-lady-buhari



When he announced that the office of the "First lady" will cease to exist  if he won the elections three things Happened :

1. Those who saw the office as a waste of public resources switched camps and aligned with him ‎

2. Those who saw the  "overbearing" influence of the former first lady screamed the messiah has come!!!!

3.those who simply wanted GEJ out because of his wife found a leader in the retired general.  

Believe it or not that statement gave him a good number of votes 


However,   Like the Promise of 20,000 megawatts vanished with a simple statement from Lai Mohammed and the Public assets declaration metamorphosed into an APC promise, the pledge not to have an office for the first Lady has all but disappeared.

The Punch Newspapers this week reported that unknown to public the Hajia Aisha Buhari who moved into the Villa before her husband had since  taken over the office of the first lady with full parafenlia and retinue of aides. 


http://www.punchng.com/news/aisha-buhari-takes-over-patience-jonathans-office/

The deception was further taken to another level when the President secretly appointed Hajo Sani as Senior Special assistant for an office he promised not to entertain under his administration.
 Even when confronted with the facts Femi Adeshina and Garba Shehu were unable to provide explanations as to why they refused to announce the appointment until it was leaked to the public.
The only change that has taken place is the change in nomenclature from first Lady to Wife of the President. 

This post election change  in behavioural pattern raises a lot of questions

1 . Does changing goal post after election amounts to obtaining votes by false pretence?

2. Does re defining electoral promises by one party after hoodwinking the other party  to do its bidding amount to a betrayal of trust ?

3. Does a man who could not keep his own words have the moral right to ask others to do so ?

Why will a President who has previously declared an office unconstitutional turn around to allocate public funds and appoint senior public officers to an office that he promised to scrap? 


For the antagonists I have these few words....

This thread is not about Wailing far from it 

1. It's about asking a Party and an individual to keep the Promises and pledges they made to Nigerians 

2. It's about asking a man who many claim is a man of honour to do what is Honourable 

3. Is about asking all those who chanted change to see beyond party sentiments, ethnic or religious affiliation and stand for the truth even when it hurts


May God continue to Bless Nigeria and Nigerians 




Cc: Lalasticlala

well, this is how we will continue till the end of this administration. Buhari supporters will never see anything wrong in his dishonesty cos they don't want to be laughed at. op don't worry truth sets free, until Nigerians resolve to follow the Truth, they will continue to be in bondage.

major466:
Totally support Mugabe on the issue of ICC. African countries should as a matter of urgency withdraw their membership to ICC. That organisation is just another neo-colonial institution with the mandate to keep African leaders under Western control.
Robert Mugabe is the only African leader with guts to face Western leaders and say to them right infront of their faces; You guys are wicked, leave Africa alone.
Ride on Mr Mugabe. The treatment you suffered while in Nigeria and Ivory Coast was the handy work of the Wicked Ones.

so that they will run the court as Nigeria is running the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

Dotng:
Corruption Probe: Peace Committee Shocked In Meeting With President Buhari


Former military head of state Lieutenant General Abdulsalam Abubakar (rtd) and other members of the National Peace Committee for the 2015 general elections were rattled by the stubborn posture and utterance of President Muhammadu Buhari during a meeting with him earlier today. Mr. Abubakar had led members of the so-called Peace Committee in yet another mission to plead with Mr. Buhari not to probe the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

However, several participants at today’s meeting told SaharaReporters that the president remained obstinate and made no secret of his determination to proceed with the probe.

SaharaReporters learnt that today’s meeting was a stepped up version of previous failed attempts to sway Mr. Buhari from his determination to probe acts of corruption by officials of Mr. Jonathan’s administration. SaharaReporters had revealed that former Commonwealth Secretary General Emeka Anyaoku visited President Buhari to press the case for letting bygone be bygone shortly before the latter’s departure for an official visit to the US. Our sources had disclosed that Mr. Anyaoku had undertaken his mission to the president at the behest of Mr. Jonathan.

During Mr. Buhari’s US visit, American officials handed him dossiers that detailed billion dollar thefts perpetrated by key officials of the Jonathan administration. Members of Mr. Buhari’s delegation during his US trip disclosed that the extent of the looting left the Nigerian president angry, and strengthened his determination to unearth the widespread embezzlement of Nigeria’s funds.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, who was on the presidential delegation at a meeting with US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, later told Nigerians that US officials revealed that one of Mr. Jonathan’s ministers, whom he did not name, stole as much as $6 billion. Even though Mr. Oshiomhole did not disclose the name of the concerned minister, checks by SaharaReporters revealed that the rapacious former minister is Diezani Alison-Madueke who held the portfolio of Petroleum for most of Mr. Jonathan’s tenure. Ms. Alison-Madueke is currently in London.

After Mr. Buhari’s return from the US, President Jonathan stepped up maneuvers to talk him into discontinuing the probe of his administration.

A source close to the former president told SaharaReporters that Mr. Buhari’s pronouncements that his government would probe his predecessor had contributed to a major health crisis that beset former First Lady Patience Jonathan. “Madam [Mrs. Jonathan] has been suffering from serious depression,” according to the source. Ms. Alison-Madueke has also had a share of ill health apparently triggered by being the focus of global attention for symbolizing the pervasive corruption of the past administration. A source close to her in the UK stated that she collapsed in her posh apartment in London due to “exhaustion” and had to be hospitalized for two days.

Last week, former President Jonathan reached out to former military head of state, Abdulsalam Abubakar, and urged him to arrange a one-on-one meeting with Mr. Buhari to discuss his concerns. President Buhari agreed to a secret meeting with the former president last Thursday in the dead of the night. A source familiar with the meeting told SaharaReporters that Mr. Jonathan appeared jittery at the meeting and was unable to articulate the case against probing his government. Instead, the former president reportedly asked mundane questions about how Buhari was coping with governing the country and offered to help in any way.

The meeting was over in less than 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, former President Olusegun Obasanjo was so incensed on hearing about Mr. Buhari’s meeting with Mr. Jonathan that he called at the Presidential Villa 24 hours later to meet with Mr. Buhari behind closed doors.

A source at the Presidency revealed that Mr. Obasanjo, whose record of corruption as president was equally monumental, urged Mr. Buhari to send former President Jonathan to jail.

Another source stated that Mr. Obasanjo volunteered to use his international contacts to help trace the funds stolen during Mr. Jonathan’s administration, adding that much of the funds were laundered through arms deals as well as shady oil sales and swaps.

On learning of former President Obasanjo’s ominous mission to Aso Rock, Mr. Jonathan reportedly contacted General Abubakar (rtd) again, this time pleading with the retired general to intercede with Mr. Buhari.

Today, Mr. Abubakar and fellow members of the National Peace Committee first met with President Buhari in a closed-door session before appearing before the media. A member of the committee revealed that their team first told President Buhari that they had come to discuss how to “wind up” and to check if there was a new national assignment they could undertake.

The source also revealed that, even though the committee did not mention former President Jonathan by name during their interaction with Mr. Buhari, the committee members cautioned against leaving the impression that the government was targeting “anybody.” They also appealed to Mr. Buhari to tarry a little before deciding on probing anybody.

A source at the Presidency stated that Mr. Buhari was well aware of the committee’s secret mission, hence his decision to speak forthrightly in response. Among the committee’s members is a controversial President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Ayo Oritsejafor, a loyalist of Mr. Jonathan’s. His private jet was involved in an arms deal scandal after South African authorities discovered, and confiscated, $9.3 million in cash inside the aircraft. The Jonathan administration then stated that the funds were meant for the purchase of arms to prosecute the war against Islamist insurgents, Boko Haram.

Officials of the Buhari administration disclosed that the Presidency had already identified and was investigating acts of corruption involving former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and former Petroleum Minister, Alison-Madueke. In addition, our sources said the new administration was pursuing leads about huge corrupt deals involving former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, former Attorney general, Mohammaed Bello Adoke, the Amnesty Office, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), and the Federal Capital Territory. In one instance, more than $1 million dollars in cash was found at the residence of Gordon Obuah, a former Chief Security Officer to Mr. Jonathan.

“We are also looking at properties purchased in Ghana, Dubai, UK and US by various officials of the immediate past administration,” one source disclosed.

He added that one of the biggest means of money laundering was the reckless purchase of private jets by former cohorts of Mr. Jonathan.

At the end of the meeting yesterday, President Buhari made it clear to members of the committee that his government would soon commence trial of Nigerian treasury looters.


http://saharareporters.com/2015/08/11/corruption-probe-peace-committee-shocked-meeting-president-buhari

too many talks, start abeg. Buhari this and that. let us see one person in jail

HungerBAD:
Mr. Paul Ikonne,

One Million Mocks from the PDP will not force Buhari into hastily putting unqualified people into positions, from any Region as that was one of the main reason's Jonathan failed.

Mr. Paul Ikonne, in the APC we do not use words like rewards. If there is a qualified person from the East, then by all means he or she should be put in charge of the job. We will not say, because we want to placate the East in anyway, then put in mediocre's to do a job meant for a qualified technocrat.

Mr. Paul Ikonne, honestly should not even be in the APC from his utterances. What party does he think the APC is? the PDP? where positions are shared like candies to unqualified persons based on tribal or ethnicity reasons?

So the South Eastern APC does not have qualified People? Well, I know that at the end of the whole drama the Igbo man will be stronger. We know the people that need government appointments and civil service to survive not the igbo man. The Igbo mocks the APC supporters in the south East cos the APC supporters thought that a snake will give birth to a Lion.

I think GEJ isn't afraid of probe but want PMB to be honest and not to present him as a bad fellow

Please is it unlawful or a crime to make or receive calls at a checkpoint? A lot of Nigerians have been assaulted, intimated and harassed for this action. Your opinion is needed plz

That result na ojoro

[quote author=silverdam post=32421265]Honestly speaking, Kunle Afolayan is saying the truth and the fact. Even the igbos know this, we all see them, that's their business, piracy business. God heal our land..

Later, you will hear the igbos shouting and screaming they own nollywood, they are the creator of nollywood, they dominate nollywood, yet they are the one killing the same nollywood with high volume of PIRACY.

I love the igbos but they've caused so many troubles, I'm not a tribalist or a bigot but let's face reality, igbos are industrious but they just don't get it. I don't understand them, especially the ones that are not born in Lagos.

Please don't quote me... Just read and break a leg.

Meanwhile vote Ambode for continuity, its not Oba we are voting for. Ambode ni[/quote

Yoruba's like cheap things and prefer pirated copies to originals. Most people involved in piracy are Yoruba, if you doubt me take statistics. The boy on the street selling the CDs is not the person that pirated the CDs ,he is just hustling

It is normal for the stock and economy to depreciate towards election and appreciate after a successful election. The credit should go to GEJ for a successful and violent free election. Kerosene has been selling for 50 naira in NNPC mega stations for a long time it didn't just start.

Did I hear somebody say crush them? You can't crush them cos they aren't fighting Nigerian Army or killing innocent people. They said they will bomb pipelines so what you do is to protect the pipelines if you can. They have made known their agitation, federal government should call address their agitation, why deprive them what others are benefiting?

I think the caption is deceitful, FFK is the one threatening with Gay video. Information is power,FFK please give us information.

I understood the man of God, he said people are money, when you affect them positively they in turn bless you.

Mortuary engineering nko?

Just that most Nigerians are often too fast to speak and slow to listen. They jumped into assumptive conclusions without waiting for the South African government to conclude investigations. This is a call for patience on matters of national interest and for us to show a little trust on our government. I know that Nigerian version of activism is to oppose the government, so everybody want to turn activists. Let me stop here as things unfold

Hope the boy friend has not done any funny thing with the gal? What am I saying?