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Committee to rename Nigeria

Stallion77: If hammer is the only tool you got. ...u will see every problem as a nail.... click "like" if u code

Nice

Soon there will be a presidential committee to sanitise nd upgrade Nairaland to facebook/twitter status

Oga Gej will form a committee to look into the number of committees in Nigeria

by Azubuike Ishiekwene
If success were measured in panels,
committees and task forces, President
Goodluck Jonathan’s administration would
be a master class. Of course, he did not
invent the idea and governments before
him used it for all sorts. In the three years
since he became president, however,
Jonathan appears not only to have
rediscovered the utility of panels and
committees, he has, in fact, reinvented this
bureaucratic tool in a way that would make
Max Weber burn with envy.
Former military president Ibrahim
Babangida used to be the official Nigerian
record holder. He created dozens of
panels and committees during his eight-
year military presidency. There were
panels, committees or bureaus on
everything from assets investigation and
local government to civil service reforms
and from state creation to the number and
type of political parties. If there was a
dispute over a market stall, Babangida
would suborn a committee to find out the
“immediate and remote causes” of the
dispute. What happened after that was a
different matter.
If it was OK for a military government,
which desperately needed legitimacy, I
can’t, for the life of me, understand why an
elected government already weighed
down by its bloated size finds nothing
wrong in compounding its obesity. Why, at
a time when government’s recurrent
expenses gulp N3.4trillion with a
legislature that is the world’s most
overpaid and underworked, does Jonathan
think that we need another presidential
committee on a national conference?
The committee is coming two years after
Jonathan set up the Justice Alfa Belgore
committee to review the report of the 2005
National Political Reform Conference. The
committee is coming about one year to the
general elections and less than six months
left for the National Assembly to even take
a look at it. Most of all, the committee is
coming at the most damning time for its
nuisance value – it’s coming when we
need proof of performance, not
recommendations.
Records from the Office of the Secretary to
the Government of the Federation show
that we have passed through this road 24
times in the last three and a half years. We
had the presidential advisory committee
chaired by TY Danjuma, which not only
helped stabilise the government but was
also supposed to provide alternative views
to the government on the economy, power,
security, infrastructure, the electoral
process and the fight against corruption,
among others. The government single-
handedly killed the committee.
There was the presidential project
assessment committee chaired by Ibrahim
Bunu that was supposed to assess all
ongoing federal projects and offer
suggestions on the optimum choices. The
government single-handedly frustrated the
committee. There was the Stephen
Oronsaye committee to restructure and
rationalise federal government agencies
and parastatals. The committee was given
eight weeks in August 2011 to submit its
report. The report has since been
submitted, but the same government that
set up the committee unleashed its own
demons against any sensible
implementation of the report.
During the last “Media Chat”, the president
tried to say something was being done
about the report. Whatever is being done
may be progress in Ijawspeak, but, in fact,
it is malicious rigmarole. In December
2011, the government set up a national
task force to carry out a forensic study on
the state of the country’s three refineries in
Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna and to
audit the refineries. The plan, it was said at
the time, was to bring the refineries to
“world-class status.” Well, nearly two years
after, there is nothing being said about the
audit or anything. In fact, the refineries are
now being threatened by extinction – and
the poignant irony is that Aliko Dangote,
the man once blocked from buying the Port
Harcourt refinery, is building a refinery that
will make existing ones look like museum
pieces.
I’m not going to talk about the committee to
upgrade forensic laboratory equipment for
the police, the committee to resolve the
revenue allocation crisis, or the committee
on light arms and small weapons, all of
which have become major
embarrassments to the members and their
mentors.
www.thescoopng.com/azubuike-ishiekwene-how-many-committees-does-a-government-need/

A middle aged man, Oluade Fatuba has
been arraigned before an Akure
Magistrate’s Court over allegation of illegal operation of a paramilitary outfit called the Nigerian Merchant Navy.

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bomb factory at Gunduwawa village in Gezawa Local Government Area of the state.

The Commander, 3 Brigade of the Nigeria Army, Kano, Brig.-Gen. Iliyasu Abba, made the disclosure when he briefed newsmen in Kano on Wednesday.

Abba said the discovery was made on Tuesday around 2 a.m., during an operation by a combined team of the JTF troops and the Department of State Services (DSS) operatives.

``At about 2 am on Oct. 8, a combined team of the JTF troops and Department of State Services raided two Boko Haram terrorists’ hideouts at Gunduwawa village in Gezawa Local Government Area.

``The raid, which was conducted following a lead on intelligence reports, made no arrests as the terrorists fled the village on the approach of the JTF troops and DSS personnel,’’ he said.

He, however, said one person who was believed to be the son of the owner of the house was killed during the operation.

According to him, the deceased is said to have rented the house to the fleeing terrorists.

He said the team was also able to recover weapons, working tools and materials used for making improvised explosive devices (EIDs).

He added that they recovered one assault rifle, two AK58 rifle magazines with 193 rounds of 5.56mm ammunition, and one AK 47 rifle magazine with 107 rounds of 7.62mm (Special) ammunition and bows and arrows.

Others are: three primed cylinders of IEDs, one primed explosive suicide back pack, 18 empty IED cylinders, 24 detonators, and small bag of fertiliser and IED timers.

The rest are: cortex wires and three remote control devices, five Motorola hand held radios, four communicators, six alarm clocks, two cartons of 9-volt batteries, a scale, one external hard drive and one heavy duty charger/battery.

``These weapons, ammunitions and other dangerous materials were meant to wreak havoc on Kano during the Eid-el-Kabir and other festivities before the end of the year.’’

He urged members of the public to continue to cooperate with the JTF operatives in its effort to curb the activities of terrorists in the state. (NAN)



http://leadership.ng/news/091013/jtf-dss-discover- high-calibre-bomb-factory-kano#

Solomon Lar not dead, on life support
Contrary to online reports last night that, first civilian governor of Plateau State, Chief Solomon Lar was dead, DailyPost can authoritatively report that the elder statesman is alive, but however, on live
support.Lar, 80 who is also the pioneer chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has been undergoing medical treatment in a London hospital for over a year now.

They just want to collect nd remain relevant

Ogbeche77: don't be baffled, there is a Solomon Lar (Jnr)

His Daughter was S.A to pres obj

0lumide: No! MEND is a southern arm of Boko Haram!!

MEND that never got amnesty and instead continued to fight for what it believes in which is the liberation of SS tribes. No MEND is from the North

Henry Okah is from Borno!!

Hehehe. Ok wo

So mend still dey...:..:hmmmm

The Movement for the Emancipation of
the Niger Delta (MEND) has dismissed
President Goodluck Jonathan’s
inauguration of an Advisory Committee
on the proposed National Dialogue,
describing it as “another deceit, a
distraction, waste of public funds and
time” which has “absolutely nothing
else to offer.”
In a statement today, it called on
members of the National Assembly to
rise up to their responsibilities and
justify their huge salaries and fringe
benefits.
“Reversing the injustice meted out
especially from the General Yakubu
Gowon and Olusegun Obasanjo
military regimes on the people of the
Niger Delta, is one of such
responsibilities,” the statement said.
It argued that in Nigeria's return to
democratic governance, the unjust
distortion of the Nigerian Constitution
by military dictators has been widely
acknowledged.
“This mutilation of the pre-
independence constitution laid the
foundation for militancy in the Niger
Delta. Military dictators on account of
oil, stripped the indigenes of the Niger
Delta of their land and God given
mineral resources which have for 53
years been used to develop other parts
of Nigeria while the people of the Niger
Delta survive in abject poverty without
basic necessities such as potable
water, electricity, roads, schools,
habitable shelter to mention a few.”
On the part of civilian administrations,
MEND said that understanding the
illegality of the constitution mutilation
by the military, they have been quick to
amend convenient sections of the
constitution carefully avoiding areas to
do with the theft of the land of the
people of the Niger Delta by individuals
hiding under the cloak of the "Federal
Government" in collusion with Western
governments and their accompanying
oil companies, thus attempting to
legitimize an obvious crime.
“The fact that this crime has continued
unchallenged for more than four
decades does not make it more
palatable to the indigenes of the Niger
Delta who have endured a terrible
crime which the world has found
convenient to ignore,” the movement
said.
“Instead of wasting time to rant over
what can be expressed in the opinion
columns of newspapers, or radio and
television talk shows at a reduced cost,
our National Dialogue should focus on
Corruption: The Mother of all terrors
which is tantamount to this
government,” MEND stressed.
In the absence of this constitutional
step, the group said it agreed with the
late Otto von Bismarck who once
remarked, “The great questions of the
time will be decided, not by speeches
and resolutions, but by iron and blood”.

The people attending/representing us at the SNC hold the key to its success or failure
Will like to knw who you think should be there on your behalf
Please Nominate 5 people

Please suggest 5 people from your state or tripe u want at the NSC

All the Southerners shouting North dis nd north that, do u think its ordinary northerners that benefit from ur so called favouritism?...or do u think Southern Leaders don't get the same share of the loot, pls stop deceiving ourselves cos the leadership of Nigeria (North and south) will not allow things to change nd will definitely hijack the conference making it a Jamboree

The same politicians benefiting from the status qua will be the ones goin for the SNC, the corrupt nigerian system will make sure that corrupt nd selfish individuals attend nd represent the intrest groups making it worthless nd waste of time

Clerverly: You mean those clowns? They are just senatoring and representing their different bank accounts at the national assembly. Whether we can still afford to keep them would all be discussed in the debate.

The issue is at the end of it the same corrupt, unworthy people will be representing ppl at he conference cos they hav the way and a bad system will never produce a good  out come...the entire system is corrupt nd shady

Clerverly: No Sir, I disagree. We want to know why Kano State has 44 Local Government I.e almost the entire South East Combined?? This is where I would focus during the debate whether Jamboree or not, at least our consciousness would be reawaken once more that this country is a fraud.

Why can't your senators/reps ask or find out

Hmmm

Kwankwaso is right, hw do u select reps for the National jamboree

Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of
Kano state has condemned the call for
a national conference, saying the
conference will be a Pandora’s Box
that will create disunity among the
Nigerians. During a media chat in
Hausa, that was broadcast live by
Radio Kano, Freedom Radio and
Rahma Radio in Kano, to mark the
53rd anniversary of the Nigeria’s
independence, Governor Kwankwaso
explained that the conference is not
only unconstitutional but also a waste
of time and resources.
He said that with the presence of the
National Assembly there is no need of
such a conference, as members of the
two chambers have the constitutional
mandate to deliberate on national
issues and take action accordingly. “In
my opinion the national conference is a
colossal waste of resources that ought
to be utilized to solve the socio-
economic problems clogging the
progress of our country”, governor
Kwankwaso said, adding that the
resources that will be wasted in
organizing the conference will be
channeled to improve other sectors. He
added that such conferences were held
during Obasanjo and Abacha regimes
and nothing happened after that
asserting that “anybody who thinks that
Nigeria will breakup is wasting his time
as the nation will remain one no matter
the pressure”.
On the current dilemma facing the
PDP, Governor Kwankwaso said the
crisis is associated with agitations for
good governance obtained in real
democracies, pointing out that the
meeting between two contending
factions of the party, slated for 7th
October, 2013, will be crucial. He said
that the G7 governors will attend the
meeting and they are ready to defend
their positions in whatever action they
take during the agreed cease fire
period, emphasizing that if consensus
was not reached, Nigerians should wait
and see what will happen. Speaking on
local government elections in Kano
state, Governor Kwankwaso assured
people of the state that government is
ready to hold the elections explaining
that plans are being worked out to
create good environment for credible
local government elections.

malc619: Why did they deduct from their salaries illegally??

That's not right....

Illegal deductions are the order of the day especially in small commission/agencies
The executives deduct monies anytime they want and create bogus deductions

Staff of the Corporate Affairs Commission,
CAC, on Friday shut down their offices at
the Abuja headquarters to protest what
some described as illegal deductions of
their salaries by the management of the
commission.
The CAC is the agency responsible for
company registrations in Nigeria.
Lawyers who besieged the commission’s
office in the Maitama District of Abuja to
incorporate new firms, conduct corporate
searches and conduct other businesses
left disappointed.
“The workers said they will not work until
the management stops deducting their pay
illegally,” one lawyer said.
The spokesperson for the commission
could not be reached for comments as he
did not answer or return calls made to his
telephone.

GEJ no show Face

hopilo: YOU GUYS DON'T KNOW THE MONSTER IN DUKE, HE FINE FACE OOO BUT THE MIND NA DIE.

Are u from C/Rivers

It seems it GEJ vs Duke

noblezone: @ OP, Please

Your list should be

GEJ, Oshimole and Duke.

thats my opinion, anyway!

Democratic options

Donald Duke