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Alpha Jet we still hv a long way to go

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The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, in Lagos on Wednesday said it had acquired new platforms and was currently reactivating old aircraft to better combat contemporary security challenges in the country.
The Chief of Air Staff, CAS, Sadiq Abubakar, disclosed this at the inauguration of newly built Air Force Secondary School and Airmen Transit Accommodation at 401 Communications Depot, Shasha, Lagos State.
Mr. Abubakar said the in-country reactivation of NAF’s aircraft was one of the gains in building personnel capacity, adding that six Alpha Jet engines earlier reactivated were already being flown.
He added that “recently, we reactivated six engines of Alpha Jets that would have been taken outside the country.
“Those six engines have been mounted on the aircraft and now flying.
“We inducted MI-35 helicopter and helicopter gunships in Makurdi recently through the help of federal government.
“We are tying as much as possible to attend to the welfare of officers and men as they are putting in their best and we are seeing the benefits in their inputs.”
The chief of air staff said some NAF personnel were being trained abroad and
would come back home to save the country of resources that would have been spent abroad.


“This has contributed immensely toward equipping the service to conduct counter insurgency operations and also contend with other emerging security challenges across the country.
“Be assured that we will continue to do our best in meeting our statutory responsibilities of defending the territorial integrity of the nation,”
On the inaugurated school and accommodation, Mr. Abubakar said education was key in human capital development and a key factor in technical advancement and innovation.
He said “we made a quick assessment of the available primary and secondary schools in our bases and identified some gaps.
“These gaps necessitated the upgrade of some of the schools, building and additional ones to meet the educational requirements of our personnel’s dependants and the host communities.
“NAF School Shasha has 18 classrooms, five laboratories, a library and recreational facilities, as well as offices for the commandant and other members of staff,” he said.
Mr. Abubakar said airmen would stay in the transit accommodation for some months with a view to ensuring improved mentorship and post-recruitment training for enhanced performance.
“Each block consists of 30 fully furnished self-contained rooms. Similar blocks are being provided in major Nigerian NAF bases across the country,” he said.
Earlier, the Air Officer Commanding (AOC), Ibrahim Yahaya, said the accommodation was built to meet the growing accommodation needs of personnel.
“Two other projects are also currently ongoing in this base — a block of 18 flats of two-bedrooms for Senior Non-Commissioned Officers (SNCO) and new Corporals and below mess.
“The CAS on April 19, last year, promised to construct the classrooms and was reminded of the urgent need for a secondary school to address the difficulty experienced by personnel’s children.


“In line with his policy of efficient service delivery, the CAS promptly gave authorisation for the establishment of a secondary school in Shasha.
“Like many other units and bases across the country, the NAF base Shasha has benefitted immensely from different projects, including the construction of a drainage system.”

source :http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/234132-nigerian-air-force-acquires-helicopter-gunships-other-aircraft.html

FriendNG:
I don't know what Nairaland is turning to. You agreed with what the author of this thread said but you're quick to delete the below created by astana1 ?



https://www.nairaland.com/3861383/life-hausa-man-enugu

Seun what's happening?

They dont want me to say the truth of what is happening

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A civil society organisation, South East Advocacy Group (SEAG), has urged the Senate not to confirm the appointment of Mr. Funsho Doherty as the Director-General of the National Pension Commission (PENCOM).

The group in a statement described the appointment as a violation of the provisions of the Pension Reform Act (PRA) 2014.
SEAG said the contraventions of Section 20 and Section 21 (a)-(j) of the Act in the removal of the former Director-General (DG) of PENCOM, Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, and flagrant breach of Section 21 (2) of the Act for a second consecutive time in the appointment of her successor was an affront on rule of law.



It said the actions had further confirmed a deliberate discriminatory policy against the South-east by the federal government, noting that such actions were responsible for the resurgence of Biafra agitation in the zone.

The statement signed by a legal practitioner and the Deputy National Coordinator of SEAG, Mr. Francis Nwodo, said: “Section 21 (2) of the Pension Act, 2014 clearly provides that ‘In the event of a vacancy, the President shall appoint a replacement from the geo-political zone of the immediate past member that vacated office to complete the remaining tenure’.

“But the presidency first appointed Alhaji Aliyu Dikko from Kaduna State in the North-west as replacement for the removed DG, who hails from the South-east. This resulted in outcry among pension industry stakeholders and the South-east since that appointment was in breach of Section 21(2) of the Pension Act and Section 19 (5) (a).

“We feel more disappointed that whereas Nigerians expected the acting president to uphold the rule to protect the pension industry as a Professor of Law, what he did after his sweet sermon at the colloquium to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Biafra war on the need to build a country that does not ‘discriminate or marginalise in any way’ was to appoint his brother from the South-west, Funsho Doherty, as the DG of PenCom in clear and continued contravention of the law and exclusion of South-east.”

The group wondered why it was so difficult for the government to appoint a qualified person from the South-east to complete the tenure of Mrs. Anohu-Amazu.

“If this is Osinbajo’s way of building a nation that ‘does not discriminate or marginalise in any way’and sustaining the gains made by the disbanded PenCom leadership, which raised pension assets from N2.9 trillion to N6.5 trillion and won the African Pension Award for three consecutive years, then there is little hope for the Igbos, the pension industry and our progress as a nation,” SEAG emphasised.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/06/02/south-east-group-rejects-doherty-as-pencom-dg/

Good. we should be increasing Northern investment.

Super Eagles star Ahmed Musa spent the huge sum of N500m on a sports complex in his home city, Kano.
Musa spent some years in Kano during his years as a player for Kano Pillars where he played for two seasons.
He also met and married his wife Jamila in the city which has been his home for some years now.
Jamila and Ahmed Musaplay
Ahmed Musa met his first wife in Kano and considers the city his home (Facebook)

According to Kwese Sports, the 24-year-old has spent N500m on a new sports complex which will be opened on Thursday, June 15.
The facility is said to have has two five-a-side pitches, a gymnasium, lounge, restaurant and a large multipurpose events hall.
According to the Leicester City forward, the sports complex will serve as a venue for the football loving people of Kano to train.
Aside from the opening of the sports complex, Musa has other plans lined up in Nigeria this holiday.

http://pulse.ng/sports/football/ahmed-musa-has-built-a-n500m-sports-complex-in-kano-id6717115.html

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The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) says more than 10,000 candidates caught for examination malpractices in the ongoing UTME in Anambra have been handed over to appropriate authority.
Lynda Nwachukwu, the Coordinator of the board in Anambra, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Saturday.
NAN reports that the all computer-based testing (CBT) mode 2017 UTME, which started on May 13 in 642 centres nationwide, ended on May 20.
Ms. Nwachukwu said the examination, which took place in 28 centres in the state, was successful.
“There was no disruption of the exercise in any of the examination centres,’’ she said.
The coordinator said the candidates adhered strictly to the requirements of the examination, adding that JAMB provided all the materials required for the examination.
NAN correspondent, who monitored the last batch of the examination, reports that some parents complained of system failure in some CBT centres in the state.
Eucharia Okonkwo, a parent, said her daughter, who wrote the examination at the St Mary’s High School Ifite-Dunu centre, could not complete the examination due to the faulty computer and network failure at the centre.

According to her daughter, many candidates could not complete the questions in record time because of the faulty system.
Ms. Okonkwo advised JAMB to plan well for examination in subsequent years to avoid the technical hitches that could give the candidates psychological trauma.
Mose Mojekeh, Head, Department of Marketing at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, told NAN on telephone that such system failure in UTME was not acceptable.
According to him, the hiccups could potentially deny young people from Anambra State university admission.
Mr. Mojekeh advised JAMB to urgently collate the number of candidates affected and set another examination for them.
He also decried the practice whereby JAMB sends officials from one state to supervise examinations in another state.
“Experience has shown that such officials do not care much about the candidates when problems arise, as they leave them to their fate,’’ the lecturer said.
He called on the management of schools, whose candidates experienced the computer failure, to take their complaints to the State Ministry of Education to present their cases.
JAMB concluded the 2017 CBT UTME on May 20.
(NAN)

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/231720-jamb-more-than-10000-candidates-caught-cheating-in-anambra.html

Kano-based Azman Air Services has commenced its first international operations, taking off from the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano to Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia.


Supervising the boarding exercise at the international terminal, the President of the airline, Mr. Abdulmunaf Sarina, said two more aircraft will soon arrive Kano to begin flights to China and Dubai as approved by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).



Established in 2010, the company has already secured approval from the Federal Ministry of Aviation to begin regional operations in Africa which will start after the arrival of the two new white body aircraft.


Meanwhile, Dr. Sarina stated that safety of passengers and the aircraft will be his major priority in an attempt to diversify the company.

The General Manager of the company, Mr. Suleiman Lawan also noted that the airline is expected to further expand soon in line with international best practices.

https://www.channelstv.com/2017/05/15/azman-air-goes-international/

Over 7000 youths in Kano state were yesterday trained on Google digital skills, in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative, designed to empower youths to become self-reliant and employers of labour.

The youths were trained in six different centres simultaneously within Kano metropolis.

Speaking during the inauguration of the one-day training workshop, Kano state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje underscored the importance for youths to be conversant, with information technology, so as to realize their full potentials in the modern world.

According to him, “present day life is driven by digital knowledge. The aim of the state government is to empower Kano youths, with ICT knowledge, as a way of making them become self-reliant and useful to the society.”

He further stated that, “part of the motive for organizing the empowerment programme is to get rid of poverty, upgrade Kano youths, so as to contend, with their contemporaries from other climes. We hope that this will accord them the knowledge, with which to shun anti-societal vices and engage themselves in meaning and productive ventures.”

He expressed optimism that on completion of the first and second phases of the exercise, a minimum of 7000 youths in the state would utilize the digital knowledge acquired to support the fight against climate change, improve agricultural sector, provision of quality health service and further proceed to secure the future of the state.

Ganduje added that selected participants were drawn from the 44 Local Government Areas without resort to the considering political party affiliation.

Earlier in his remark, Kano state Commissioner for Information, Youths and Culture, comrade Mohammed Garba disclosed that, the one day intensive programme was being held in six different locations across the state.

He disclosed that, the training programme is a joint capacity building venture between the state government and the office of the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on SDG’s, adding that upon completion, the state government will equip the participants with laptop computers and other necessary equipments they need to start-up their business.

In her address, Kano state Commissioner for Planning and Budget, Bar. Zubaida Damaka Abubakar said that Ganduje’s administration has trained and empowered youths in different skills acquisition areas like automobile, computer training among others, adding that in realization of the training exercise, the state government released N5.6 million as counterpart funding for the training programme.

The Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on SDG’s, Adejoke Orelope Adefulire revealed that, over 125,000 Nigerian youths would be provided with ICT basic skills across the country.

The aide to president Buhari, who was represented by the Secretary attached to the office of the SSA, Alhaji Waziri Laminu, stated that, 7000 beneficiaries have been selected from Kano to benefit from the national scheme.

http://thenationonlineng.net/kano-trains-7-000-youths-on-google-digital/

he Kano State government said it spent about N433 million for purchase of HIV equipment and training of personnel with the aim of achieving zero-prevalence by 2030, using the "90-90-90" strategy.

Mr. Usman Gwadabe, Public Relations Officer, Kano State Agency for the Control of AIDS (KSACA), made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Kano on Sunday.

Gwadabe stated that the Director General of the agency, Dr. Bashir Usman, disclosed this at the closing ceremony of a training workshop on HIV Testing and Services, Health Workers on Monitoring and Evaluation/Logistics Revised Data Tools in Kano.

He quoted Usman as saying “the 90-90-90 strategy means 90 per cent of all people will know their HIV status, 90 per cent of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy (ART) and 90 per cent of all people receiving ART will have viral suppression.”

The explained that out of the amount spent, N385 million was a grant from World Bank, while the remaining N48 million was from the state government.

Usman said the organisations that benefitted from the training programme include staff of the NDLEA, Northwest University Medical Centre and Premier Hospital, as well as staff of two agencies from Ministry of Health.

He charged the participants to make the best use of the skills and techniques they learned from the workshop while discharging their duties.

Usman said that the agency had so far trained no fewer than 2,000 personnel in different capacities through various workshops.

He added that HIV rapid test materials distributed to 494 health facilities that provided antenatal services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

http://saharareporters.com/2017/05/14/kano-state-government-spends-n433m-hiv-treatment-equipment-training

The Aisha Buhari Foundation, has offered skills training to 1, 000 women in Kano State, to earn decent living. The beneficiaries were selected from the 44 Local Government Areas of the state and were trained in skills of their choice. Aisha Buhari The first batch of the trainees completed their one month programme on Friday and the wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, was in Kano on Saturday for their graduation. The trainees specialised in fashion designing, interior decoration, spice and condiments, souvenir work, soap and shoe making as well as event management and decoration skills. Mrs Buhari arrived at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport Kano at about 10:53 a.m., accompanied by wife of the Vice-President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo. Others on the entourage included the wife of Kogi Governor, Mrs Rashidat Bello, Senior Special Assistant to the wife of the President, Dr Hajo Sani, and Dr Mohammed Kamal. The delegation was was received at the airport by the wife of Kano State Governor, Dr Hafsat Ganduje. The graduation ceremony took place at the Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/aisha-buhari-foundation-trains-1-000-women-kano/

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Requirements : must be doing NYSC

send your cv to nuru94@yahoo.com.

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The job offer closes on 22nd dec 2016.

we are a consulting firm looking for an economist, who is computer literate and is available to work in Abuja. starting january 2017.

Requirements : must be doing NYSC

send your cv to nuru94@yahoo.com.

Thanks

please send in your applications as spaces are limited. The job offer closes on 22nd dec 2016.

I was born in Lagos state and have spent most of my life in the southwest but I am actually Hausa. I Have never been to the south-east or south-south part of Nigeria despite having many friends from the region. I had been to practically every region apart from the SE AND SS.

As the saying goes, experience is the best teacher and nothing prepares you for the unknown as much as the NYSC does. I remember the day i got my Call up letter like it was yesterday. We had all gathered in front of the faculty officers office awaiting our turns to get called in for our Posting letters. Many people came out of the office rejoicing and this gave me a little bit of hope but boy was i wrong. I knew i wasn't going to get what i expected when i noticed the countenance of the officer as he handed the letter to me.As I stared down at my call up letter with the bold words written on it 'A State in the South east', I couldn't help but let the flow of mixed feelings come through. At first i was dazed, then slowly the reality of my situation began to creep in. I could feel my heart shredding into several pieces with every beat. This was probably due to the negative stories (kidnapping, fraud and etc) and pictures I had heard and seen in the media. While others were rejoicing about their states of deployment, I simply walked to a corner to let hot tears that had welled up in my eyes fall freely.

At that moment, Google became my best friend and the Nigerian Map became my Companion. Who knew the southern Province occupied about 1/3 times the size of Nigeria? Before then, i didn’t….lol!. Since desperate times requires desperate measures, lots of things went through my mind with the first being how to change my state of deployment but since i wasn't married, Heavily pregnant or sick & living with a serious health condition, my hopes of changing my state of deployment flew out the window, my fate had been sealed.

I Had my camp in Enugu and was posted to Calabar.[i][/i]
On getting to Enugu state, I found the place to be Dirty and rowdy. The camp was even worse than most of the NYSC camps I had visited in other states (mine included). My roommates were fun and lively. Fortunately for me, 3 of us were from the same department in school, so we kinda had an upper hand in bonding with the others.

After finally completing the registration process at my PPA, I was so uncomfortable and angry. The lodge I was provided was tiny and stuffy,
and at night the mosquitoes came en masse on their power bikes. My first night was dreadful, I couldn’t sleep. Throughout the night, I made a
mental note on getting a new apartment the
next day. The next day I asked around for where I could get an apartment around my PPA. I finally got one and I spent two days buying stuffs and tidying the place up.

In summary, It was a horrible expireInce, everyone there was abrasive and were not polite. They always tried to deceive people. I will never wish that experience on anyone.

My Experience of the south east and south south
I was born in Lagos state and have spent most of my life in the southwest but I am actually Hausa. I Have never been to the south-east or south-south part of Nigeria despite having many friends from the region. I had been to practically every region apart from the SE AND SS.

As the saying goes, experience is the best teacher and nothing prepares you for the unknown as much as the NYSC does. I remember the day i got my Call up letter like it was yesterday. We had all gathered in front of the faculty officers office awaiting our turns to get called in for our Posting letters. Many people came out of the office rejoicing and this gave me a little bit of hope but boy was i wrong. I knew i wasn't going to get what i expected when i noticed the countenance of the officer as he handed the letter to me.As I stared down at my call up letter with the bold words written on it 'A State in the South east', I couldn't help but let the flow of mixed feelings come through. At first i was dazed, then slowly the reality of my situation began to creep in. I could feel my heart shredding into several pieces with every beat. This was probably due to the negative stories (kidnapping, fraud and etc) and pictures I had heard and seen in the media. While others were rejoicing about their states of deployment, I simply walked to a corner to let hot tears that had welled up in my eyes fall freely.

At that moment, Google became my best friend and the Nigerian Map became my Companion. Who knew the southern Province occupied about 1/3 times the size of Nigeria? Before then, i didn’t….lol!. Since desperate times requires desperate measures, lots of things went through my mind with the first being how to change my state of deployment but since i wasn't married, Heavily pregnant or sick & living with a serious health condition, my hopes of changing my state of deployment flew out the window, my fate had been sealed.

I Had my camp in Enugu and was posted to Calabar.[i][/i]
On getting to Enugu state, I found the place to be Dirty and rowdy. The camp was even worse than most of the NYSC camps I had visited in other states (mine included). My roommates were fun and lively. Fortunately for me, 3 of us were from the same department in school, so we kinda had an upper hand in bonding with the others.

After finally completing the registration process at my PPA, I was so uncomfortable and angry. The lodge I was provided was tiny and stuffy,
and at night the mosquitoes came en masse on their power bikes. My first night was dreadful, I couldn’t sleep. Throughout the night, I made a
mental note on getting a new apartment the
next day. The next day I asked around for where I could get an apartment around my PPA. I finally got one and I spent two days buying stuffs and tidying the place up.

In summary, It was a horrible expireInce, everyone there was abrasive and were not polite. They always tried to deceive people. I will never wish that experience on anyone.

https://www.nairaland.com/3428806/northerners-experience-south-east-south-south

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The Senate has passed a motion for the reintroduction of toll gates on federal roads in the country.

The motion, titled ‘Need for the Re-establishment of Toll Gates On Our Federal

More beow;

http://punchng.com/breaking-senate-passes-motion-to-reintroduce-toll-gates/