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MIKOLOWISKA:When I say rise, I mean in thinking and orientations, we need to reset our mindsets. |
Shegzy8:Alright, may God grant us understanding. |
Beremx:Laughing out my head. You're a genius ma'am. |
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that President Muhammadu Buhari-led government ignored federal character in the appointment of the Nigeria's security chiefs. Punch reports that he also berated the National Assembly and the Federal Character Commission for failing to check the excesses of the president in the uneven distribution of public offices. NAIJ.com gathered that Obasanjo said this on Thursday, February 1, at the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Oke Ilewo area of Abeokuta , shortly after the Coalition for Nigeria Movement was inaugurated in Ogun state, and he was registered as a member of the movement. The former President, who was flanked by a former military administrator of old Ondo state, Gen. Ekundayo Opaleye and a former minister of state for defence, Dupe Adelaja, said the ethos of nation building through even distribution of public offices had been abused. He said: “Let me emphasise important areas, programmes, priorities or processes for improved attention. To start with, we seem to have taken nation building for granted. Nation building must be given continued attention to give every citizen a feeling of belonging and a stake in his or her country. “For instance, the Federal Character principle, as espoused in our constitution, was to guide the leadership to search for competent holders of major offices to be distributed within the entire nation, and avoid concentration in a few ethnic hands or geographical places, as we currently have in the leadership of our security apparatus. “To avoid such non-integrative situation, we have the National Assembly and the Federal Character Commission, both institutions which must raise the alarm or call for correction of actions by the executive that violates the spirit of our constitution.” Obasanjo’s registration came almost 24 hours after the CNM was inaugurated in Abuja. He arrived the venue at exactly 12.44pm in company with dignitaries including former governors of Cross River and Osun states, Donald Duke and Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola. The former president, while justifying the need for the CNM, argued that if all the instruments the country had used in the quest for nation building and governance since independence had failed, it was imperative to try new ways. He said: “If what we have tried in the past has not taken us to the Promised Land, we have to try something else and something else is this grassroots popular movement built from the bottom-up to lead us, I hope and pray, to the Promised Land.” He, however, warned that if the movement “decides to transform itself and go into partisan politics, I will cease to be a member.” Obasanjo further said the spate of violence, and other forms of criminality had not received sufficient proactive ameliorative responses through transformational leadership. He said the youth and women would be carried along, as “they must be part and parcel of governance in this country.” Obasanjo, who urged Nigerians to go online and register as members, said the CNM currently had no link with other movements. But he, however, said: “if there are people of like minds, people who share the views and the aims and objectives of the Coalition for Nigeria Movement who want to join this movement, we will not object, we will welcome them.” He said the movement did not regard itself as a third force, but “it sees itself as a popular movement that can accommodate all Nigerians irrespective of their political interest or affiliations and will propel Nigeria forward.” Obasanjo added: “This is the new message in town, the new dance in town, the ceremony in town and I will appeal to you to join this ceremony and dance in town. “There may be many masquerades and those of you who had my own type of background, when we were growing up, we were playing masquerades too but those were small masquerades, but when big masquerades come out, the small masquerades must go.” Obasanjo later led the gathering to sing a chorus titled, ‘I see a new Nigeria, in the hands of God.’ Others at the event included a former deputy governor in Oyo State, Taofeek Arapaja, a two-time governorship candidate in Ogun state, Prince Gboyega Isiaka and some other politicians in the state. |
krissconnect:Did he say that? He simply means his legacies need to be built until they can outlive him. Btw, can you show us your own legacy please?
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Shegzy8:What's in the bible oo, Bros?
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Election is around the corner again. Buying Jamb forms for them so that they can gain admissions into the institutions you guys messed-up, study 4-year courses for 6 years because of strike and unstable academic calendars, study in the most inconducive ways of learning under lecturers that will torment their hope and future out of them. Meanwhile, your own children are in European Universities. Let the younger generation arise. |
The federal government has created millions of jobs through its various programmes cutting across many sectors, the minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said. Speaking at the 6th Graduation Ceremony of the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI), founded by former Rivers state first lady Dame Judith Amaechi, in Port Harcourt on Saturday, February 3, the minister said over 7 million jobs have been created in the agriculture sector alone. His words: “In agriculture, for example, this administration has created over 7 million jobs. When the administration assumed office in May 2015, about 5 million farmers were engaged in rice production. Thanks to the administration's Anchor Borrowers Programme, the number of farmers engaged in rice production today stands at 12.2 million. These are verifiable facts, not fiction.” He said 69,736 jobs have been created in the power, works and housing sector, while the administration's National Social Investment Programmes have created at least 200,000 jobs, in addition to empowering 500,000 others under the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP). “The federal ministry of power, works and housing has created 69,736 jobs (direct and indirect) across the country. The power sector projects created 1,740 jobs, the works sector created 38,391 jobs, while the Housing Sector created 29,605 jobs," he said. The minister also said the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, through which 6.4 million school children in 33,981 schools across 20 states are being fed with one meal a day, has created jobs for 61,352 cooks. He commended Dame Amaechi for establishing the ESI programme, which is an entrepreneurial and skills acquisition programme for youths and women of the Niger Delta, saying such programmes complement the Federal Government's efforts to provide jobs for the citizens. “National development is not just the duty of the government, but that of the citizens. In other words, all of us, as citizens, have a role to play in ensuring the development of our nation. This has bee amply demonstrated by Dame Judith Amaechi in setting up this Empowerment Support Initiative,” the minister said. He charged the graduands to make the best use of the opportunities that the ESI programme has given them, saying that is the best way they can justify the efforts of the ESI founder. Similarly, Nigeria’s minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the government is doing everything possible to reverse the unemployment rate in the country. The minister made the comment when a delegation from Dudley College of Technology, United Kingdom in partnership with the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI) paid him a courtesy visit at his residence in Abuja. His words: “The government of Nigeria is doing everything possible to eradicate unemployment, we are creating jobs and engaging the youth at various levels of skills acquisition. We have improved on our railway transportation and you can imagine the number of youth that have been engaged in the project, same thing in other sectors.” |
Beremx:Can you Igbonize my name too? Cos this is really beautiful. |
sarrki:If you like show us Obama in his cattle farm, any herdsman found open-grazing in the south remains a terrorist, and we will deal with him. |
Papiikush:Next time you want to say something like helping the poor, speak with sense and not sentiments towards ministers. Don't be stupid like Daddy Freezer. Got that?
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I don't care who IBB is, but I think he's speaking sense here. |
How come Lie Muhammed has too many disciples in this government than Chris Brown has followers on Instagram?
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I never expected anything better from a Buhari appointee. Be complaining of anti-grazing laws when you should be doing your job of protecting of lives and properties. Nonsense. |
Why do school managements always pick on SUG officials? |
Of course we know ! Phyqee10:Click the post first. ITK! |
Do spectators sit on those trees I'm seeing? Because me ayam not seeing any other place for them. |
Sirjamo:
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This MuMuric people and their religious bigotry. Were you on strike when killings were done to Benue & Taraba dwellers? Why didn't you caution your brothers then? Where were you when all the times they wanted to finish Olu Falae? It seems the so-called prof. leading you guys has a sense mixed with okro leaves. |
Chikita66:Did you read the post at all?
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MetroBaba1:Na Lala pishure be dat? |
Village people at work again. Ehn, at 42! |
Village people in Africa will be wasting destinies while their colleagues in other parts of the world help their children into scientific discoveries. |
Rigel95:You wan kill am? |
sarrki:
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It might be better to let your dad know now, so that plans on how to give you a new beginning can begin in earnest, because he'll still get to know of everything sooner or later. |
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dalaman:You probably haven't read APC scripts, cos if you have, you'll know that evidences can be faked. |
madridguy:You'll pretend like you don't know just to be Pro-Buhari. Anyways, I've been searching for your brain all day and still can't find it. I think I need to check Buhari's cattle farm.
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Everyone is sha talking nonsense to gain cheap popularity. |
I see a Fulani Emirate rising in Kogi. Any witness to that? |
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