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Christian Youth in Kogi State have been urged to to fervently pray for the continued success of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State.
Addressing participants at the Thanksgiving Service organized to mark the 2nd Anniversary of the Governor in Lokoja by the Christian Youth 4 Societal Change, the Director General of Media and Publicity to the Governor, Kingsley Fanwo said Christians owe people in Government a lot of prayers to make them succeed.
According to the Governor’s Aide, it is only God that can support people in power to succeed in addressing the needs of the poor and vulnerable in the society.
“The administration of Alh. Yahaya Bello is rooted in the plan of God to rescue Kogi State from underdevelopment and those who had oppressed the state and stole the resources meant for the betterment of the poor.
“He is a divine Governor who was designed to act against the negative norms and fix our dear State.
“Since his assumption of Office, he has declared war against underdevelopment and retrogression. From Agriculture to infrastructure and healthcare; he has proven his mettle as someone who came to power prepared. Kogi has witnessed tremendous development under his administration.
“The Civil Service Reforms was a masterstroke against the canal that held the state hostage for more than 25 years. Today, we have a civil service that is prepared and better motivated to serve the people.
“The Governor has completed a good number of projects while many others are ongoing. Kogi Rice has seen the light of the day. We are the leading Cashew producer in the country today and we are pushing to also take the lead in Cassava production. Kogi is moving in the right direction.
“We have chosen to focus on the Project New Direction rather than succumb to the antics of detractors who are determined to pull our state down.
“Education has been given a pride of place in the New Direction Administration. The GYB Model Primary Schools will be the best in the country when completed. The administration has also remodeled our higher institutions of learning and repositioned them for better productivity.
“In the area of healthcare delivery, our programs are empowering the poor to access good healthcare”.
Fanwo said Governor Yahaya Bello has succeeded in stabilizing the ship of state and can now make more progress in making Kogi State a better place for all.
He urged Christian Youth in the state to be “shining examples of patriotism and commitment to development and progress”, saying the body should collaborate with Government in fighting societal menace.
“Let me make this clarion call to the Christian Youth here. Join our drive to build a great Kogi State. Join our commitment to make Kogi the jobs center of Nigeria. Shun every tendency to destroy your state. Kogi belongs to you”.
http://kogireports.com/pray-for-governor-bello-aide-urges-christian-youth/

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What system of government are we practicing in Kogi state? I decided to ask this question because after Governor Yahaya Bello’s two years in power. Neither the government or the people seem to know the system of government that it been practiced in the state.

I thought that my state was practicing democracy as a system of government but event that took place last week, as it pertain to the passage of the 2018 budget of the state, left me intellectually, politically and emotionally dumbfounded.

Democracy as a concept of government has it own theoretical as well as its operational theories and in a federal system of government, in which Nigeria is a strong adherent of its principle, the concept of separation of powers for checks and balances is the of the cardinal and well respected constitutional principles. In a layman’s sense, it simply means that the three organs of government should be separate from each other in terms of finance, power and personnel. What happened last week in the state was a childish, nonintellectual and unconstitutional rape on the concept of democracy and the constitution. Budget presentation as well as its subsequent defense is a constitutional power of the executive arm of government, but in Kogi State what happened was an abnormal constitutional process where by the budget was presented by the executive and was defended by the legislature. Yahaya Bello and co presented a budget to the state assembly, while a lawmaker, Ahmed Ahmed representing Ankpa 1 was call upon to do the defense. He gladly did this on behalf of the government house. When did legislative member assume the role of defending executive budget? Where is the constitutional principles of separation of powers, checks and balances? This shows the caliber of legislators that Kogi state has been battling with for the past two years! For such an act to be allowed to take place in the House the deputy majority leader shows that the majority party which happened to be My beloved party has been infiltrated by emergency recruited decampees members of Yahaya Bello in order to sustain his continuous socio-economic exploitation of Kogi state.

The majority party is in great disarray while the minority party is planning strategy of taking over come 2019. The socio-eceonomic underdevelopment of Kogi state in the past two years is a deliberate and calculated ideology of conspiracy against the masses between Yahaya Bello and the kindergarten State House of Assembly.

Before I end this article, It won’t be fair if I fail to apologize to Kogites on behalf of the masses and people of Ankpa state constituency that the member at the center of this unconstitutional and un intellectual acts happens to represent us. We are not denying that, but just that he is a typical example of a judiciary appointed legislator, without the legitimate mandate of the people. In fact, he went without been democratically sent. We, Ankpa 1 people, are intellectually refined and well- behaved people and we promise not to allow them send another liability to the state house of assembly come 2019 via our PVCs.

To the people of the state, just as the state governor has vowed to make majority of the National Assembly members not to go back to Abuja come 2019, we the masses of the state have to make a conscience vow to make sure that all our unproductive liabilities and political hallelujah boys of Yahaya Bello in the state house of assembly don’t come back to Lokoja in 2019 because our primary concern is more of good governance at our grassroots level than those at Abuja.

Democracy is healthy when you have not only a strong opposition but strong vibrant masses orientated Houses of Assembly that operates along the sacred principle of separation of powers for check and balances. When you have a mis-firing executive and a weak state house of assembly, the whole polity is politically, socially, economically and administratively finished.
http://kogireports.com/yahaya-bello-two-years-after-no-vision-no-system-of-government/

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Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has declared that many of the National Assembly members from the state will not be fortunate to return to the Green or Red chambers.

Bello, who spoke in Lokoja on Tuesday evening at the Infrastructural Expo to commemorate the second anniversary of his administration, said his own political aspiration will be taking care off by God when the time comes.
He wondered why the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which plundered the resources of the country would still be contemplating returning to power, saying that can never happen.

“It is quite lamentable that all the members of the National Assembly from the state have not done enough to adequately protect the interest of the state. But I can assured that in 2019 only those that are prepared to do the needful would be elected to the National Assembly,” he said.

Gov. Bello re-affirmed his support for President Muhamadu Buhari and said his support for the President’s second term in office is hinged on his determined efforts to put the country on sound economic pedestal.
http://ebirareporters..com.ng/2018/01/2019-many-of-national-assembly-members.html

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The drums will tomorrow be rolled out in Kogi State to celebrate Governor Yahaya Bello’s second year anniversary in the saddle. But Ayo Oluwadare, a lawyer, insists Bello rode to the office on the back of a conspiratorial scheme of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership, aided and abetted by ‘suspicious judiciary’. In this article, the lawyer lists the odds against the governor’s second term bid.

By tomorrow, Alhaji Yahaya Bello will be celebrating his second anniversary as governor of Kogi State. His emergence as governor of the Confluence State was not without events.

On November 21, 2015, the governorship election held throughout Kogi State. The late Prince Abubakar Audu contested the election on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), with House of Representatives member James Abiodun Faleke as his running mate. At the end of the polls, the joint ticket of Audu/Faleke scored majority of 240,867 lawful votes.

Significantly, the results in all the 21 local government areas of the state were collated and announced. Curiously, however, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deliberately delayed the announcement of the final result for a reason that later became obvious: INEC got wind that the winner of the election, the late Prince Audu, had died. Thus, the stage was set for all kinds of political manipulations and manoeuvres.

Ultimately, the process was hijacked by political hawkers and jobbers and the table was unjustly turned against the running mate of the late Prince Audu, who was on ground to continue the election. The process was skewed eventually in favour of Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who had earlier lost out in the primaries of the parties.

Bello was made to substitute the late Audu in a questionable supplementary election that was designed to hoodwink the people of Kogi in a well-orchestrated contrivance. At the end of the day, Bello was returned governor upon winning just 6,885 votes! Consequently, it turned out that a man the people of Kogi did not vote for was installed as governor of the state.

The concern of this piece is to x-ray the recent indictment of Governor Bello by INEC for double registration as a voter. It is no longer news that INEC recently came up heavily against the governor, having proved against him the allegation of illegal double registration as a voter. INEC confirmed that Bello registered twice for the Permanent Voter Card (PVC).

According to the electoral umpire, the governor illegally registered as a voter in Abuja and Kogi State. The commission bravely provided details of Bello’s double registration. It stated that his first registration was on January 30, 2011 in Wuse Zone 4, Abuja. It also found out that Bello registered as a voter for the second time on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 in the Government House, Lokoja, outside INEC’s designated centres, which, according to the commission, is another act of illegality.

Consequent upon the foregoing, the commission approved the summary dismissal of two of its staff for acts of gross misconduct and compulsorily retired an electoral officer. In respect of Governor Bello, INEC stated that it would have prosecuted him but for the fact that he is currently covered by the immunity clause under Section 308 of the Constitution.

Governor Bello responded to the allegation. In a mendacious manner, characteristic of him, he stated that he was not in the country as at the alleged date of the second registration. The governor’s political aides were his undoing. The governor forgot that when he registered the second time at the Government House in Lokoja, his political aides counted it for him as a big achievement. Gleefully, they went viral, posting the pictures of his registration, which turned out to be his second one, into the social media, with the caption: our digital governor now registered in Kogi. In their ignorance, little did they know that they were advertising the governor’s act of criminality.

The act of the governor, deliberately flouting the electoral law, is simply scandalous. In civilised climes, it is capable of igniting a process of impeachment against him, if he failed to resign honourably. Regrettably, this is a land where honour means nothing to a man, particularly in Kogi State, where anything goes and the political class is reputed for their complacency.

What the law says

The process of registering as a voter is guided by the provisions of Electoral Act 2010 (as amended). Section 12 (1) (a) – (e) of the Act stipulates the qualifications for registration thus:

12 (1): A person shall be qualified to be registered as a voter if such a person

(a) is a citizen of Nigeria;

(b) has attained the age of 18 years;

(c) is ordinarily resident, works in, originates from the local government area, council or ward;

(d) presents himself to the registration officers of the commission for registration as a voter;

(e) is not subject to any legal incapacity to vote under any law, rule or regulation in force.

Presumably, it was upon meeting the above qualifications that Bello was registered as a voter in Wuze Zone 4 in 2011.

The Electoral Act envisages the possibility of a voter relocating from his place of primary registration and accordingly, provides for transfer of the PVC to the new constituency of his relocation. Governor Bello would simply have taken advantage of the provisions of the law by applying to transfer his PVC to Kogi State from Abuja. Section 13(1) of the Electoral Act is explicit on this as it provides: that “a person who before the election is resident in a constituency other than the one in which he was registered may apply to the Electoral Commissioner of the state where he is currently resident for his name to be registered on the transferred voters list for the constituency.

Curiously, perhaps due to ignorance, Bello did not follow this simple procedure but chose to follow the path of illegality and criminality.

Double registration as an offence

Double registration is a criminal offence under the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended). Section 12 (2) and (3) criminalise the act:

(2) A person shall not register in more than one registration centre or register more than once in the same.

(3) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (2) of this section commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding N100, 000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or both.

From the above provisions, the offence of double registration occurs where a person registers twice, either at same registration centre, or at different registration points. The punishment is specifically spelt out in sub-section (3). INEC has also stated that the Government House, Lokoja, where the governor registered, is not a place designated for registration, which act, according to the commission, constitutes another offence under the Electoral Act. It follows that the governor now has two electoral offences hanging on his neck.

Can Bello now transfer his voter card?

One pertinent issue that arises here is, can Governor Bello now transfer his voter’s card to Kogi State to qualify him for the next election? Going by the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), he cannot. He has bungled the process. He has shot himself in the foot. He has disqualified himself.

Section 13 of the Electoral Act that provides for transfer of a voter card to a constituency in a new location pre-supposes that such a voter has not registered in the new place of residency at all. Now, having illegally registered in Kogi State, Bello cannot seek to transfer his card to the same state as long as the criminal allegations against him hang on his neck. He who comes to equity must come with clean hands. In any event, Section 13(3) places a duty on the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) to whom an application for transfer is made, to investigate the registration status of the applicant.

The governor should, therefore, stop amusing himself of the possibility of a second term in Kogi State. He could seek a further term in the constituency where he is a registered voter. He surely does not belong to the electoral community of Kogi State. He remains an unregistered voter in Kogi. He can neither vote nor be voted for. It is no longer going to be a solitary fight of Faleke but a collective fight of all well-meaning Kogites and lovers of democracy who will not allow the altar of democracy to be desecrated again in the state!

The governor should also not imagine that the political and judicial abracadabra that catapulted and transfigured him to Lugard House, Lokoja, on a platter of gold at the expense of the efforts of others will work in 2020. Kogites are all the wiser now. And, it is doubtful if the Judiciary that was battered on his own account would do the biddings of mentors again.

It would be recalled that the Supreme Court delivered reasons for its mysterious judgment on September 30, 2016, and the home of Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, who curiously chaired all the panels that heard all the cases relating to the governorship seat of Kogi State, was raided seven days later by the Department of State Services (DSS). He is currently being tried at the Federal High Court.

Commendation for INEC

INEC must be commended for its courage and forthrightness in handling the governor’s double registration saga. The commission could easily have swept the matter under the carpet, given the status and position of the governor. After all, we live in a society where, unfortunately, the law is applied with two weights and measures – one for the rich and powerful individuals and another for the poor.

It is, however, hoped that INEC will keep its words by pursuing the case to its logical conclusions at the expiration of the governor’s tenure so that the full weight of the law can be applied. Governor Bello should not be spared. Time does not run against a crime.

How judiciary inflicted injustice on Kogites

The electoral status of Yahaya Bello was contested through all the rungs of the judiciary; from the Federal High Court through the Election Petition Tribunal, and the Court of Appeal, to the Supreme Court. The fact that Bello registered as a voter in Abuja and not in Kogi State and, therefore, not qualified to vote or be voted for in the state was duly established before the courts. Disappointingly, the courts prevaricated and gave a dubious, questionable and unjust stamp of authority to legitimise an obvious illegitimacy.

At the end of it all, the will of the people of Kogi State was subverted by judicial process. This is the greatest injustice that can be inflicted on a people.

One of the grounds upon which his ‘election’ was challenged was that at the time of that supplementary election that transmuted him to power, Bello was not qualified to contest the election because he was not a registered voter in Kogi State. The voters’ register of his Agassa Okene Ward was tendered. His name was not found there. His sole witness, one Edward Onoja, indeed, confirmed, under cross-examination, that his application to transfer his voter card to Kogi State had not been approved. It was further established, as INEC now confirmed, that he registered at Wuse Zone 4, Abuja. Nigerian judiciary closed it eyes against this fundamental point.

The Supreme Court, in the past had tangentially pronounced upon a situation of this nature in Yusuf vs. Obasanjo (2005) 18 NWLR (Pt. 956) 96 at 166 paras: D-E, holding that an unregistered voter cannot be validly nominated and can neither vote nor be voted for. The Supreme Court said: “I do not think the eleventh petitioner’s witness was a witness of truth. He claimed to be the gubernatorial candidate of the second petitioner for Imo State whereas he was not registered in his village in Imo State where he alleged to have voted after evading military road block by passing through footpath to exercise his franchise.

He testified to be registered at Ogudu GRA in Lagos. In that circumstance, could he have been nominated as a governorship candidate for Imo State when it was basic that to be validly nominated, one must be a registered elector within the constituency? I do not think so. Could he have been able to vote in his village, as he claimed, when he was not on the voters’ register there? Certainly not! And if he did, he did so unlawfully or dishonestly”.

Faleke’s case, wherein the issue of non-registration of Bello as a voter in Kogi State was raised and his electoral status challenged, provided the Supreme Court the rare opportunity of advancing the law and tenets of democracy by consolidating on its earlier pronouncement in Yusuf v. Obasanjo (supra). Regrettably, the opportunity was sacrificed on the altar of political expediency, reading of body language, and judicial timidity and timorousness. The Election Tribunal made a finding of fact that Bello registered in Abuja but drew no conclusion therefrom. The Court of Appeal told an outright lie by holding that Bello voted, a fact which the trial tribunal never found and which was never proved. The Supreme Court unjustly avoided the point like a plague, making no pronouncement on it. It behaved as if the point was never made.

All these happened in order to reach a pre-determined end and favour a particular person and party. The effect of that singular injustice is what we have today in Kogi State.

Bello, as governor of Kogi State is a product of a conspiratorial scheme at the top echelon of the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), aided and abetted by a timid and corrupt judiciary.

The aftermath of this is the imposition of an incompetent and visionless man who finds himself wearing over-sized shoes of governance. He finds himself doing a job he least prepared for.

Consequently, what we see today in Kogi, is a spectacle of pains, distress, agony, misery, torture, suicides and despair being inflicted on the people, who should have been enjoying dividends of democracy.

Impunity, terror and mendacity have been instituted as guiding principles of governance in Kogi State. Never in the history of the state have Kogites been subjected to hardship and humiliation of the magnitude they are currently experiencing. The cries, anguish, complaints and murmurings in the land are unprecedented. The full story of how Governor Bello succeeded in pauperising and terrorising the people of Kogi State, making destitute of them, is being chronicled. In the fullness of time, it will be told.

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JIIDS:
INTRODUCTION
Education is a right of every individual. It unlocks the development of personal and national potentials of citizens of a country and the world at large. Currently, emphasis is shifting away from the general education that encourages mere acquisition of certificates to skill-based education which centres more on what one can do and the ability to apply requisite skill in real work environment. In Nigeria, the rising unemployment has helped to heighten the need for vocational and technical education. This article therefore discusses the importance of Vocational and Technical Education, the way forward and conclusion.
THE NEED OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
1. Vocational and Technical education prepares one for the world of work with which the individual become reliant and can make contributions to the development of the society. As employers look for new talents every year from new graduates, it is important to not only have a solid education but graduates that have features that stand out from the rest of the graduating students. With the economy being more globalized than ever, it is important to have a background and a skill set that allows graduates to become immersed in the global economy right from graduation (Cote, 2007).
Leadership is not a major cause of Nigeria's under-developed status. Nigeria can become an economic power-house (and realize its visions) only if proper attention is given to education and technological development and promotes and rewards creativity, and channel its material and human resources to productive use.
2. Youth Empowerment In this 21st century characterized by knowledge explosion, the emphasis should be on production of self-reliant citizens. VTE empowers Nigerian youth with requisite employability skills that should be sustained. VTE schools produces men and women who, at the end of their education should be able to put into use the skills they have acquired while in school. Institutions should partner with industries and other businesses to enable students fit into the wider society on graduation, either as individual workers in paid employment or self-employed person and functional members of the political society.
3. VTE also empower the people socially and economically so that they will be able to participate in the making of decision regarding policies affecting their lives, to make the citizens and nations to be self-reliant in the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Ogundele, Akingbade and Akinlabi (2012) revealed that youth empowerment is influenced through acquired skills.
4. As a channel for entrepreneurial skill acquisition, VTE play the role of improving the economic situation of Nigeria through production and distribution of goods in different areas of specialization. This is achievable through the training of the students in different specialized fields. In the long run, this will help the students to establish their own enterprise as seen in China, Turkey, India, Japan among other countries that have succeeded economically through vocational education.
CONCLUSION
Improving skill acquisition through VTE will no doubt solve Nigerian's multiple problems regarding human capital development, empowerment, unemployment and economic instability. The world has recognized that no meaningful social and economic progress could be recorded when majority of the populace is unemployed. This is why nations are striving to overcome the problem of unemployment especially among its youths and Nigeria is not left out. Since many programmes introduced to tackle the issue of unemployment in Nigeria has failed the nation, it now becomes obvious that the easiest way to achieve the goal is by improving skill acquisition through vocational and technical education for youth empowerment and sustainability.

Written by: John Idems- Programme Coordinator, FISD CADEP

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I'm a kogi state indegine and i wrote jamb 2017, then i score 181, and i choose mass communication as my course, then i proceed to their PUT-ME EXAM which they calculate everything and i score 45.01% and there curt off mark is 177, and for Mass communication it's 45%.
Now they have change my course to Christian Religion knowledge (CRS) where as i don't offer CRS during my Secondary school period, now they have given me admission on jamb CAPS and i don't know if i can change it there before registration start. And I'm a Muslim i just don't know what to do....... embarassed
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I'm a kogi state indegine and i wrote jamb 2017, then i score 181, and i choose mass communication as my course, then i proceed to their PUT-ME EXAM which they calculate everything and i score 45.01% and there curt off mark is 177, and for Mass communication it's 45%.
Now they have change my course to Christian Religion knowledge (CRS) where as i don't offer CRS during my Secondary school period, now they have given me admission on jamb CAPS and i don't know if i can change it there before registration start. And I'm a Muslim i just don't know what to do.......
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