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zombieHUNTER:
Real Yorubas know that Buhari is a hypocrite...

Ask the only Nobel professor in the region when in doubt

The only Nobel Laurette in Nigeria.

Bayelsa uncovers 27, 000 ‘ghost’, illegal workers
By Julius Osahon, Yenagoa
15 June 2018 | 3:53 am

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa.<br />
The Bayelsa State government yesterday revealed that over 27,000 ghost and illegal workers had so far been discovered in the payrolls of the ministries, agencies and local governments.
The Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, who made the disclosure, said the ongoing public sector reforms in the state had led to more bizarre discoveries.
Iworiso-Markson told stakeholders in Sagbama Local Government Area, at a town hall meeting on reforms, that the development had brought the workforce down from 54,000 to 27,000.
Stakeholders from Sagbama, the local government area of Governor Seriake Dickson, unanimously, through voice vote, endorsed the ongoing reforms.
Iworiso-Markson said: “Look at what has happened through the reforms. From 54,000 workers, with reforms, we are now 27,000 workers in the entire state. It means that the difference of about 27,000 workers are fake people.
“Since 1996 that the state was created, it is only now that we are realizing that Bayelsa is being shortchanged. It means that billions of naira had entered into the pockets of some people. They are the people fighting these reforms.
“The people against these reforms are those who are taking advantage of our collective wealth and appropriating it into their own personal pockets and putting all of us, including the state, in this terrible mess. When you hear them criticize the reforms, take note of them, it is very possible they are those shortchanging the state.”


https://m.guardian.ng/news/bayelsa-uncovers-27-000-ghost-illegal-workers/

princeadams11:
Same way you guys celebrate Jonathan as a hero after crippling Nija

Who is you guys? I am not one of 'you guys'.

doctokwus:
Pls don't come with your religious bullshit here.
If you bothered to read you would come across where it was stated that he was taken to the 'Ebola treatment centre in the General hospital',where he was cured.
Even the reverend father himself didn't attribute his cure to religion or just prayers offered.
God leads people who care to be led,to take wise,appropriate decisions,not by claiming to be worshipping him foolishly,by stupidly following dogmas.
The wise reverend and the Catholic faith over there prayed for him,guided him to access appropriate health care while still praying for him.
Here,people will take their sick to a prayer house,refuse him accessing care in a hospital and continue praying foolishly for miracles to fall from heaven with the dying person still 'confined' to the prayer or pastor's house in name of a church.
That's foolishness and I am sure if there is indeed hell,God will punish people,owners of such prayer home and such pastors to the deepest parts of it.

Why didn't the other Ebola victim survive?

The harsh reality is Abacha still enjoys wide support in the north and is seen as a hero.

kimbraa:
LMAO @ "We'll Fence Nigeria". That statement was a comic relief to me. If that's one of your manifesto, then they should be rest assured to lose. Of what benefit is fencing Nigeria to Nigerians?

They are right Nigeria needs a physical or logical fence.

midolian:


I am of the opinion that the requirements for forming a political party in Nigeria should be reviewed. Something like brain check should come first

May be the party exaggerated by promising to fence the whole Nigeria but Nigeria needs something like a fence when one considers the number of immigrants from sahara Africa that have settled in Nigeria and the number that may join.
Maybe not a physical fence but a logical fence like a national DB that can help separate the real Nigerians from the Hausa speaking immigrants.

mods this news is so sweet I am going to use it to drink pap as my breakfast.

What of camel sh.it ? Silly OP.

^^^ Croatia's is "ic"

What of Uduaghan, Ibori, and Igbinedion?

Insecure Aboki OP looking to make up for lost middle belt votes by courting the Yoruba's.

So after struggling to feed them for four or eight years and oils prices starts to dip, what happens to this stomach infrastructure scheme?


Nigerians hardly think beyond the short term sha.

Ibe Kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum resources, says about $1.2 billion is needed to repair the three refineries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Speaking at a news briefing in Abuja on Thursday, Kachikwu said reports of the concession of Port Harcourt refinery to Oando and Agip companies were untrue.
He said a technical committee set up by the government to undertake the review and selection process is yet to submit its report.
The minister said the committee is coming up with a holistic investment figure enough to fix the nation’s three refineries.
“We have not selected any firm yet even though some firms have shown interests,” he said.
“We need about 1.2 billion dollars to repair and bring the three refineries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna, up to 100 percent production level.”
Kachikwu added that the cost of the project had been determined in terms of the extent of work required.
“The total cumulative amount is in the 1.1 billion dollars and 1.2 billion dollars category between all the refineries. And that, of course, does not include the pipelines,” he said.
“You have got to address the pipelines and that is something else that is being done.”
He explained that Nigeria spent about N4.74 trillion on the importation of petrol in the past year which was 30 percent of the total foreign exchange outlay of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
“The importation of petroleum products between January and December of last year amounted to about 20 million metric tonnes,” he added.
“A total amount of N3.4 trillion was spent, the consumption of FX from CBN was approximately 30 percent of CBN total FX outlay, and the logistic costs of that importation was about N1.34 trillion within the same one-year period.”
On domestic refining capacity, Kachikwu said the nation produced six million litres out of a total consumption of about 35 million litres per day.

Repackage your idea properly and mention the mods for FP consideration.

I once though of something like this also. nothing stops us from having such a people floated enterprise and end fuel importation forever. moreover this is something that can employ hundreds of thousands but Nigeria is in the hands of cliques who benefit from the suffering of the masses.

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All except one name has "son" as the last three letters. I hope the referee doesn't mix up their names that day and give them advantage.

The north is 'populous' and that population is also their key to poverty.

I choose exploitation of the masses over elimination of minorities any day anytime.
Exploitation of masses in more about selfish interest unlike elimination of the minorities which is personal.

This same Aregbesola who dashed civil servants thirteenth month salary when oil prices was up and withheld their salaries when oil prices dipped is trying to sound like responsible character here.

They are preparing you for the world out there. That's part of the advantage of the uni. It prepares ur ass for the action out there.

Proposed extra year as short-term cure for long-term headache
By Iyabo Lawal
14 June 2018 | 4:21 am



Everybody is concerned about the quality of graduates Nigerian tertiary institutions are churning out. Employers are worried and parents are not proud. The Federal Government now wants parents and their wards to pay for its ineptitude and that of the education system. Head, Education Desk, IYABO LAWAL examines the intriguing proposal of the Federal Ministry of Education to add one more year, post-National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC) to the time Nigerian youths will spend to acquire academic excellence.
In the recent past, some have called for the scrapping of the National Youth Service Corps. Its critics said the programme had outlived its usefulness. Despite various attacks against the programme, the Federal Government has continued to fund it.
The jury is still out how much of unity it has achieved and what practical impacts the scheme has had on the majority of those that went through the orientation programme.
While the public and the government are divided on the usefulness and appropriateness of the scheme, the education system has taken a big hit so much so that policymakers in the federal government are thinking of tinkering with the national policy on education to add what will likely be regarded as a miserable year to the academic calendar of students at tertiary institutions of learning.
The never-before-imagined idea was the product of some brainstorming at the Ministry of Education perhaps under the chairmanship of an erudite personality.
That is correct. The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, believes that the rot in Nigeria’s tertiary schools is bad that it will require an extra year added to the years of study of students before they can be fit to explore the outside world.
Anwukah, alongside his co-travellers, has put forward a proposal for Nigerian students to spend an extra year in specialised institutions after graduation from the university.
The minister’s proposal was tabled at the recent retreat for Governing Councils of Nigerian Federal Universities, organised by the National Universities Commission (NUC) with the theme, “Elements of Statutory Governance, Procurement and Financial Accounting in Nigerian Universities”.
Understandably, not many employers are proud of the hands they hired. They claim that re-training and sometimes making the students they have employed to unlearn what they have learnt in schools can cost an arm and a leg. Anwukah does not want this trend to continue, agreeing that many university graduates are not good enough for employment.
As he argues his case, it is easy to imagine Nigerian employers giving him a standing ovation while parents and guardians including the students –at least armed with placards to shoo him and his ideas away.
But the junior minister said, “Law students attend Law School for one year before going for NYSC and medical students go for one year housemanship before they are allowed to practice fully. So, it will be necessary for (students who study) other courses to also go through this process.”
Not stopping at that, he even suggested the need for parents and students to be ready to break the bank unless the federal government will sponsor for the one extra scheme when he said, “The Lagos Business School can also serve as one-year after-school training.”
A cursory examination of how the NYSC, which has not eroded the nation’s primordial sharp ethnic divides, has performed will provide some insight into the appropriateness or otherwise of the extra one year proposed by Anwukah.
The National Youth Service Corps is a one–year compulsory programme for students under 30 years who studied in Nigerian tertiary institutions or Nigerian students abroad but intends to work in Nigeria. It was created through decree No. 24 of 22nd May 1973 by the military administration of General Yakubu Gowon.
The vision of the scheme is to foster national unity and even development, and describes the scheme as “an organisation that is well motivated and capable of bringing out the best qualities in our youths and imparting in them the right attitude and values for nation-building; an organisation that serves as a catalyst to national development, and a source of pride and fulfilment to its participating graduate youths,” according to a statement on its website.
Among other things, the organisation’s mission is to “be at the fore front of national development efforts, as well as serve as a profitable platform for imparting in our youths values of nationalism, patriotism, loyalty, and accountable leadership.”
So the core objectives of the scheme include discipline, fostering a tradition of work, to teach ideals of national development, develop skills for self-employment, remove prejudices and eliminate ignorance and promote national integration.
But some say even the decision to continue a scheme set up to fill an immediate need created by the fractious civil war for 44 long years is the clearest indication that the war never ended and that unity remains elusive. Hence, following the killings of corps members in northern Nigeria, many called for the abolition of the scheme.
The arguments against retaining the programme include the argument that it is a waste of funds, leads to loss of lives of corps members in crisis-prone or hostile areas, makes youths engage in illicit behaviour during orientation camps where supervision is minimal and even adds little value to host communities as young graduates with no formal training in teaching are assigned to teach children in rural areas.
But the biggest argument against the programme is that the current operation does not even help the objectives of the programme. Prospective corps members with people in prominent positions manipulate their postings to states of their choice hence defeating the purpose the scheme.
The use of corps members as ad-hoc INEC staff during elections exposes them to election violence. About two years ago, Samuel Okonta, serving in Rivers State as a corps member, was shot dead by some yet to be apprehended gunmen. To address the concern of parents about insecurity, the scheme now allows corps members to choose to serve in states of their choice or reject postings to volatile areas, totally defeating the goals of the programme.
However there are those who strongly believe it should not be scrapped. The vice chancellor, Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State, Prof. Olurotimi Ajayi, said the scheme should be protected and preserved, since its objective was the promotion of national unity among Nigerians, which it was fulfilling.
The vice chancellor said rather than abolish the scheme, the government should look at the challenges facing the scheme such as insecurity, poor incentives and welfare of the corps members.
It is instructive to note that Nigeria spends billions of naira each year to pay allowances of thousands of graduates who enrol for the NYSC programme across the country. In 2016, the Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports Development was allocated N75.47 billion of which N66.83 or 86 per cent was for NYSC. Yet, this is barely sufficient to meet the bare necessities of mobilised students who are paid a stipend of N19, 800.
The slots are not even enough for all the students needing mobilisation and many who serve only do so because it is required by employers despite the fact that the experience add little or no value to what they bring to the job. A couple of years back, the Kwara State university told its recent graduates who should be part of next year’s NYSC mobilisation exercise that the university has slots for only 500 despite graduating thousands.
Still, the minister of state for education insisted: “The universities are producing products that are not matching the needs of the industries. I urge the committee of pro chancellors and committee of vice chancellors to end the decline in the standard of education. The SIWES projects introduced for a year’s industrial attachment for students has failed in the universities. It is not doing its role in bridging the gap between the universities and the industries.”
For his salacious idea to scale through nationwide consultations will be required. Experts in the education sector, however, think that even if the idea is eventually accepted and implemented, it will only be a superficial treatment of deep-rooted malaise of the education system.
Like a great salesman who seems to know his products more than the manufacturer, Anwukah added: “We are trying to sell an idea, the proposal is to get into our university system the re-schooling concept – that is, you finish your university degree –may be add one more year as a finishing school project. I don’t know how it is going to sell.
“But the idea has come as a result of the failure of SIWES system in the universities. We try to address the relationship between the universities, the industries and the graduates: how they can fit in and we introduced the SIWES project and it is not working and it is not providing that bridge between the industries because the most industries are unwilling to accept most students on the SIWES programme.”
So, the minister said plans are under way to see whether an extra year can be added, “When a student finishes from the university he can now go out to industries for one year internship for that job”.
To buttress his point, he gave an example: “The law department has one extra year; after the law programme they (graduating students) go to Law School – doctors go for one additional year.”
One thing he is certainly right about is that the country cannot continue with the current education system and expect to have students who are well qualified to be employed by quality employees-starved employers.
So, he asked: “Are we going to continue with the SIWES experiment which is not working or we are going to brace up to introduce an additional year of re-school whereby you spend that one year in any industry?”
The question is needless and the proposed idea is nothing short of a shot in the dark. A more enlightened step will be for the government to carefully examine the problems of the education sector and do the needful.


https://m.guardian.ng/features/proposed-extra-year-as-short-term-cure-for-long-term-headache/

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What are you offering here ? The tin cup or refill ?
What about the 25 KG ?

How is fasting suppose to be done ?
To me the prayer and word content of the fast is what adds weights to it.
I like to know how you guys do yours and why ?

How much power is kainji dam giving us and how much are we selling to them. All these half info thread self.

Ok. When will court declare underage voting null and void.

Is road so expensive up north or it is just the distance?

Strange

Nice. Nigerians and the first this and first that mentality.

One way justice is injustice. Let them prosecute arm carrying herdsmen at least.

This is serious!

The most terrifying part is the hypnotism. On top your own money them turn you to zombie.