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Following the Federal Government’s deductions from the Federal Account in the name of oil subsidy, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) is set for war with the Federal Government. The forum which is made up of 36 governors in the country pointed out that despite the increase in the pump price of petrol, the amount of subsidy deduction is still high.

It’s against this backdrop that a committee has been set up to meet the President on the issue. In a communiqué issued and signed by Governor Rotimi Amaechi, at the end of the meeting which was held on Wednesday, stated that “ the continuing unconstitutional deductions by the Federal Government from the Federal Account all in the name of subsidy rules out the principles of federalism and budgetary provisions.”

The forum, which explained that the current sharing formula of ...http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/04/06/governors-prepare-for-war-with-fg-over-oil-subsidy-funds/

The result of 27,266 candidates who sat for this year’s 2012 UTME has not been released due their involvement in examination malpractices, which the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board detected. There was a case of two mobile handsets embedded in sandals in two separate locations in the country.
http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/04/01/2012-utme-results-jamb-withdraws-27266-results/

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Just got a call that Third mainland bridge has just been bombed. please is it true?
Might be "April Fool".

Anybody with pictures about the event should upload

Research released revealed that a typical oil and gas executive in Nigeria earns nearly half a million dollars a year, chalking up the biggest premium for working abroad over salary levels in Britain.

A study by the Curzon Partnership recruitment consultants also showed that a typical senior oil and gas employee in Nigeria will receive a supplementary country premium worth 45 percent of base pay, taking the total salary to $454,400 a year...

Something has to been done.Our education sector needs to be revisited, starting from the primary to the tertiary level.If we have quality graduates who can fill in these gaps, this huge amount of money and job opportunities to expatriates will be cut to the barest minimum...http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/03/20/oil-expatriates-in-nigeria-are-the-highest-paid-in-the-world/

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International Women’s Day is a day for recognizing women’s contribution to societies around the globe, both past and present, and for discussing their need for equal rights. While each country or entity celebrating the Day can select its own theme each year.

This year 2012, the United Nation’s theme for the day is “Empower Women – End Hunger and Poverty” with the organization hoping to focus attention on how women have been let down in developing economies. “Healthcare, education, gender inequality and limited access to credit, however, have posed a number of challenges for rural women” the UN said in a statement. http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/03/08/today-march-8-is-international-womens-day-empower-women-end-hunger-and-poverty/

International Women’s Day is a day for recognizing women’s contribution to societies around the globe, both past and present, and for discussing their need for equal rights. While each country or entity celebrating the Day can select its own theme each year.

This year 2012, the United Nation’s theme for the day is “Empower Women – End Hunger and Poverty” with the organization hoping to focus attention on how women have been let down in developing economies. “Healthcare, education, gender inequality and limited access to credit, however, have posed a number of challenges for rural women” the UN said in a statement.http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/03/08/today-march-8-is-international-womens-day-empower-women-end-hunger-and-poverty/

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“All that glitters is not gold” the saying goes, as members of the NYSC serving at the National Assembly in Abuja are not happy with the way they are being treated by the members of the National Assemby and Senators. Corps members were disappointed after finding out that what they expected was not what they got.

Serving at the National Assembly was neither tasking nor Rosy as members of the committees had no regard for them.
http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/02/26/nysc-members-turn-errand-boys-tea-girls-at-the-national-assembly/

Nigerians have slammed President Jonathan over his comment that the fuel subsidy palliatives he promised are no longer possible.The President had yesterday said the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE, he promised was no longer realistic because there was no 100 percent removal of the fuel subsidy which he canvassed for.Speaking with.Prof. Itse Sagay said, “Nigerians have been vindicated because no government has ever successfully used the accrual of subsidy removal to http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/02/21/president-goodluck-jonathan-fuel-subsidy-reinvestment-programme-no-longer-possible-why/

Minister of Power, Prof Barth Nnaji yesterday said the Federal Government has ordered 24 hours supply of electricity to Lagos State given the economic position it occupies in Nigeria.

Nnaji was speaking yesterday at the commissioning of a new gymnasium at the Egbin Power Plant in Ikorodu.

He said: “We have resolved that Lagos will be getting more power round the clock, except if there is a hitch to supply. I think much attention should be given to the latest power supply rather than the number of generation. This a great achievement on the part of the government.”

The minister further announced that supply of electricity in the country has improved by over 40 percent since President Goodluck Jonathan came on board.

According to him, the development was a manifestation that the incumbent administration gives priority to improved power supply, especially in its drive to boost industrialization.

The minister said current power generation in Nigeria is now 4300mw.

He spoke on the recently concluded biometric verification exercise in the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and said it was the best thing the government could do to arrest the spiraling rate of ghost workers in the company.

According to him, the chief executive officers of distribution companies of the PHCN would meet in Abuja by the end of the month to identify and capture those who were left out in the last biometric exercise.

He expressed optimism that the ongoing negotiation between the Federal Government and electricity workers over their severance package would produce a beneficial outcome.

The minister also assured electricity workers of improved welfare condition, stressing that the recent 50 percent pay rise for them was a demonstration that the government matches its word with action.

According to him, the commissioning of the gymnasium underscores the need for workers to maintain mental and physical fitness with a view to optimally discharging their duties.


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Cowbell Mathematics Competition is a National mathematics competition organized and sponsored by Promasidor (The manufacturer of Cowbell Milk) and is basically high schools (secondary Schools). It is a competition that has proven to be stable and continuous in countries like Nigeria, est.
Who is qualified to participate in the Cowbell Mathematics Competition?
The competition is restricted to http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/02/18/cowbell-mathematics-competition-2012/

The only way to curb corruption in Nigeria is to fight it the Chinese way. In this case, anyone found guilty of stealing public funds should be made to face capital punishment. Despite the shortcomings of the Obasanjo administration, the establishment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Due Process Office and strengthening of the Independent Corrupt and Other Related Crimes Commission in a bid to fight corruption in Nigeria will http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/02/16/nigeria-should-fight-corruption-the-chinese-way/

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Recent arrests of top leaders and foot soldiers of the dreaded

Islamic militant group, Boko Haram, were said to have yielded the security agencies probing into its activities a whole lot of details, leading to the unraveling of its funding secrets, origin, training patterns and locations as well as planned targets.

Information at the disposal of the different security agencies indicate that contrary to the widely-held belief that the Boko Haram started around 2003http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/02/12/boko-harams-secret-exposed-how-it-started-training-methods/

Have you heard about the 2012 Education UK Exhibition that will bring together over 50 UK institutions in Lagos. Get first hand information about courses and career advice, application processes and procedures, studying and living in the UK, and top tips in UK visa applications

About the 2012 Education UK Exhibition

The Exhibition brings together top-rated UK institutions and is aimed at creating a platform for prospective Nigerian students to interact with, http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/02/09/education-in-uk-2012-exhibiton-undergraduatesmasters-phds-positions-available/

An 18-year old girl, Miss  Blessing  John, was on Friday,  arrested by the  Police in Minna,  Niger state capital,  for selling her two weeks old baby girl to a 50-year-old woman,  Mrs. Chikodili Jude for the sum of N20,000 to feed and clothe herself.

The sale of the baby to the second suspect, who is also a widow, took place  on Friday January 20, few hours after the former was delivered of the baby at the General Hospital, Minna by  medical personnel.

Sunday Tribune  learnt that no sooner than Blessing, who claimed to be an indigene of Kwale area of Delta state, was delivered of the yet unnamed baby girl, that she allegedly expressed the desire to do away with the child in view if the fact that she could no longer locate one Emmanuel Sunday of Mechanic bye-pass, Minna  who impregnated her, after he ran away in an attempt not to claim the  baby.

“Sunday and I met  when I was working at Kwetere Gwari mechanic village  as an attendant in a restaurant. He approached me to be his girlfriend and I accepted his proposal.

He later impregnated me after making love  to me. When I told him that I was pregnant for him, he picked a quarrel with me over the pregnancy and thereafter, I did not see him again until I put to bed at the General Hospital, Minna on January 18 this year,” Blessing said in an interview with Sunday Tribune.

She added: “I gave out my baby to Mrs. Chikodili James to hold her for me and  she  in return gave me  N20,000 for feeding and clothing  because I did not have any money at hand to feed and take care of myself. I  told her that whenever I am able to put the amount she gave me together, I would pay her back  and take my baby to my state, and she agreed.”

When she was asked whether  there was any written agreement between them to that effect,  she answered in the affirmative, stating that the second suspect immediately brought out a document for her so that they could both append their signatures on the memorandum of agreement.

Blessing, who informed Sunday Tribune  that she had been living in Minna since 2009, noted that the second suspect allegedly brought one paper for her to  sign.

“I read the paper and I understood everything that was written there. I  signed and said that if I had the money she gave me, I would pay her and collect my baby from her later.

“I did not finish my secondary school education as I stopped at Senior Secondary School III when I was supposed to sit for my SSCE Ordinary Level and that of  the National Examinations Council but the school authorities said I had to pay some money as examinations fees which I did not have,” she stated.

It was further gathered that the sale of the baby was allegedly facilitated by one  Mrs. Martha  Obialor, a 65- year-old woman resident at 1010 area of  Kwetere Gwari community of the state capital, who was also being detained by the police in connection with the case, while the memorandum of agreement was drafted at the law firm of “Freedom Chambers” at SW 264, Yoruba road, Minna  metropolitan area by one Mike Ekemezie Esq.

The memorandum of agreement, a copy of which is in the possession of the Sunday Tribune, read thus: “This  agreement is made this 20th day of January between Blessing John of Suleja, Niger state of Nigeria (hereinafter referred to as DISCLAIMER, which expression shall, where the context so admits, include her heirs and successor-in title) on the first hand and Mrs. Chikodili Jude of Minna, Niger state of Nigeria, (hereinafter referred to as CLAIMANT which expression shall where the context so admits include her heirs and successor-in – title) on the second hand.”

Accordingly, the legal practitioner stated among other issues that the disclaimer had a female child at the General Hospital, Minna and decided to do away with the child and that the claimant agreed to take the child and also give the disclaimer a token of N20,000 to enable her (Blessing) to travel back to her station, adding that both parties now desire that  their oral agreement be put in writing to be legally binding and enforceable to avoid any controversy in future.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Niger State, Mr. Richard A. Oguche, confirmed the incident, stating that the first suspect, Miss Blessing John transferred the ownership of the two-week-old baby girl to the  second suspect, Mrs. Chikodili Jude, in return for N20,000.




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In Jos, the security agencies, Special Task Force on Sunday in Plateau State carried out aerial survey with military helicopter to shoe their readiness in wading off any attacks in the state. This is coming when the some online publications have revealed that there is a threat by the Boko Haram to attack Jos in the same manner they attacked Kano.

Security teams of military and the police were seen moving around major streets in a convoy backed by armed personnel carriers yesterday. A security source who preferred anonymity has revealed that intelligence had been stepped up to gather necessary information and take steps to frustrate any plan to cause trouble in the state.http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/01/30/planned-attack-security-tightens-up-in-jos/

Academic Staff Union of universities (ASUU) says the strike would be called off before mid-february. ASUU said the offers made by the Federal Government at the last meeting held on the 23 of January 2011 http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/01/29/current-news-on-ASUU-strike/

The Islamic terror group, Boko Haram's leader, Imam Abubakar Shekau have given condition for peace and their engaging in any peace discussion, is for President Goodluck Jonathan to "repent to Islam".
Imam Abubakar Shekau in his latest youtube post said that "If Jonath  http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/01/28/boko-haram-leader-insists-that-jonathan-must-convert-to-islam/

The Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has threatened to adopt a change of tactics in a message posted on YouTube yesterday. The sect also restated that it was behind last week’s attacks in Kano saying bombings and shootings were to avenge the torture of its members.

“We were responsible,” a voice identified as that of suspected Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau says in audio played over a picture of him. “I ordered it and I will give that order again and again. God gave us victory.”http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/01/27/tactics-change-by-boko-haram-to-begin-kidnap-of-wives-children-of-top-government-officials/

As University of Nigeria Nsukka marks its 41st convocation ceremony on January 27 and 28,2012, ninety-four first class honours are among the 11,496 graduates. Professor Bartho Okolo, the UNN vice chancellor made this known on Monday at a briefing. He also said that the graduating class was ten per-cent higher than that of the previous year.

Out of the graduating 11,496 students, 1,235 of the graduands will receive higher degrees including 170 http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/01/26/unn94-first-class-honours-as-11496-graduates/

The Christmas Day bomb suspect, Kabir Sokoto, who escaped from the police custody, has been rearrested by the Nigeria Police with the aid of an alleged popular marabout named Alhaji Ali Quran.

Sokoto, according to police sources, was rearrested at the   Nigeria/Chad Border in Borno State few hours ago.

The Police were said to have sought the assistance of Quran who is popular with tracking down suspects with voodoo http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/01/20/mastermind-of-christmas-day-bombing-re-arrested/

The prolonged ASUU Strike would soon be called off as the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government are working to meet reasonable demands of ASUU

within a week or two at most.

The government has agreed to meet some reasonable demands of ASUU such as the reconstitution of boards and councils and the retirement age of http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/01/19/updates-on-ASUU-strike/

yes it is out.

Organisers of mass protest/occupy Nigeria, the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and Civil Society groups have asked the protesters all over the country to stay at home on Saturday and Sunday to enable them to get enough rest and refreshment for the next week’s task.
Addressing the mammoth crowd at the Gani Fawehimin Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos, Friday, the leader of Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare said the two days break was to allow the protesters to relax their nerves and reconvene on Monday, http://hotnaijanews.com/2012/01/13/saturday-and-sunday-declared-as-rest-days/