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I just got a message saying lectures have commenced for pgd chemical engineering, and I am to resume immediately, who else?

A good example of a self driven and independent lady

dats so true im 100percent sure that the question about 750,000 salary didnt have an answer, na dem know sha im not that desperate, wish u guyz the best of luck!

Okechukwu Jonnwakalo

So recent Biafran protests have got me thinking, but I have been skeptical about airing my views because of perceived reactions.

DISCLAIMER: THESE ARE PERSONAL VIEWS, AND I, IN NO WAY CLAIM SUPREMACY OF KNOWLEDGE. FOR THE "GREYS" WHO THINK I AM TOO YOUNG TO SPEAK OF THIS SUBJECT, PLEASE PERMIT THIS CHILD TO SPEAK, THEN CORRECT HIM IF HE IS WRONG. FOR IGNORANCE CAN ONLY BE KNOWN IF IT IS AIRED, AND CAN ONLY BE CORRECTED IF IT IS KNOWN.

My points are as follows:

1. According to worldometers the median age of Nigeria is 17.8, hence an "average " did not experience the civil war.

2.This is the age statistics of Nigeria as at 2014 is as follows:
0-14 years: 43.2%
15-24 years: 19.3%
25-54 years: 30.5%
55-64 years: 3.9%
65 years and over: 3.1% (indexmundi.com)
In simpler statistics 93% of Nigerians were 5 and below in 1967.

3. According to Wikipedia, youth age range is between 18-35. Hence no present day Nigerian youth saw the civil war.

My first question: since over 90% percent of us neither saw the civil war nor participated actively, and our youth were born 10 years after the war, where is all the hate and agitation from?

4. The major driving force of Biafra is the igboland, but the Biafran map includes states like Cross river, Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom state. This makes Biafra a culturally diverse state. I am igbo and i currently live in Akwa Ibom state, and we share no similarity in custom or language. How then can we live together as "one Biafra" when we can't tolerate the cultural diversity of Nigeria.

5. The Igbo tribe would become the majority tribe in Biafra, while the others who constitute the oil producing states hence the 'rich boys' would become minority. "How can the wealth most especially that from oil be distributed, when the majority is in power and the minority have the resource?"
So therefore, a time may come when the "minority" may decide to be free, because no man wants to live in another man's shadow.

6. Igbos are generally regarded as traders, and the lifeblood of their markets like Onitsha Main market and Ariaria international market is found in Lagos seaport where most of the goods come from. In Biafra, Lagos becomes another country hence tax and import/ export levies would increase drastically and logistics would become more difficult.
The other option is to trade via the Calabar Port, Delta Port or Rivers Port at Port Harcourt, and Onne. These ports are only found in the non-igbo states, hence another potential challenge.

7. What happens to Biafrans that have their livelihood rooted deeply in non biafran states? What happens to the igbos that constitute the majority of Alaba international market?
Would naturalization take place or would they liquidate assets and return to Biafra and start afresh?

8. Finally, the question of rulership. Who rules Biafra?
Currently, most Igbo people especially those in Abia and Imo state are dissatisfied with the condition of their states. They complain of bad government, massive looting, poor infrastructures etc, and they are currently ruled by Igbo governors.
If Biafra is formed who would rule then?
I believe it would be the same people that they complain of, and as you can see the cycle of pain and complaints would continue.

Problems are fixed by inward reflections not outward projections and blame shifting.

PLEASE BEAR WITH ME, FOR A CHILD WHO DID NOT SEE THE WAR HAS SPOKEN.

Source: okechukwu Jonnwakolo (Facebook)

I would love to see dakuku peterside become governor but wike is already repairing roads everywhere and has resumed payment of corpers their state allowance among other things so I doubt rivers people will want a change of goverment.

I dont see what all this wailing is for, amaechi has been screened successfully, the ethics committee report on him cleared him of any allegations, come next week the question will be put before the senate " those in favour of amaechi's confirmation say aye" and even if the minority senators use loudspeaker to shout nay, they'll be wasting their time because APC is the majority and once Saraki strikes that his magic hammer it is done!

EazyMoh:
U've got to be ffing kidding me!

thats what he said o,but he immediately changed it and said "thats what the people of rivers state want us to do!

When Your conscience is clear you have nothing to fear, amaechi has proved that

finally what everybody has been waiting for the screening of the Lion of Africa, Rt honourable Rotimi Amaechi, He has taken his postion at the podium let the Show begin

when asked why the rivers senators are against the confirmation of Rotimi Amaechi, Senator Sekibo replied "thats what the governor told us to do.

Im a big fan of Fashola as we can all attest to his achievements in Lagos State, Yes he answered the question in a political manner simply because the ministerial screening was not just the right occasion to start going into details about the exact amount of the contract awarded and what it covered, the right thing to do was for the senator to submit a petition to the ethics, priviledges, and public petitions comittee where Fashola would be summoned to defend himself as in the case of amaechi.

Barr adebayo shittu,mrs kemi Adeosun and Ogbonnaya Onu

1) Lai Mohammed

Apart from being the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, 63-year-old Mohammed is also a lawyer and fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations. He worked as the Public Relations Officer of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria for 10 years.

In 2002, Mohammed resigned as the Chief of Staff to the then Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and emerged as the Kwara State governorship candidate of the defunct Alliance for Democracy. He was, however, defeated by Bukola Saraki of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2003. Interestingly, Saraki, who is now the Senate President and Mohammed are now members of the same party, the APC.

2) Audu Ogbeh

Ogbeh, who is 68-years-old, is popular for being the third National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party. However, long before becoming the PDP chairman, precisely in 1982, he was appointed Minister of Communications, and later Minister of Steel Development by President Shehu Shagari. Interestingly, he and others were kicked out of office in December 1983 by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari who has now nominated him as a minister again.

Interestingly, also, when Ogbeh was nominated a minister in 1982, he was screened by a Senate which included the father of the current Senate President, Dr. Olusola Saraki, who was the then Majority Leader. Ogbeh will again appear before the son of the late Saraki, Bukola, who is now the Senate President, for screening. Senate President Bukola Saraki was only 17-years-old when Ogbeh became the Deputy Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly in 1979.

3) Ogbonnaya Onu

Onu was the first governor of the old Abia State. Following the redrawing of the Nigerian map due to state creation, Onu is now an indigene of Ebonyi State. Onu, who turns 64 in December, was the National Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, a platform on which Buhari contested elections twice. This probably is the reason for their closeness.

Onu ran for President in 1999 on the platform of the All Peoples Party (later ANPP) but lost.

A first class graduate of Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos, Onu was the one that gave Abia State the sobriquet, ‘God’s own state’. He also taught at the University of Port Harcourt as the pioneer Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering.

4) Rotimi Amaechi

Amaechi was the political godson and special assistant to Dr. Peter Odili, who was between 1992 and 1994, the deputy governor of Rivers State.

Through Odili’s support and as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Amaechi emerged as a lawmaker in the Rivers State House of Assembly and later Speaker between 2003 and 2007. He, however, fell out with his benefactor and emerged the governor of the state in 2007.

Born on May 27, 1965, Amaechi later defected from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress after falling out with the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, and the PDP.

The fifth Governor of Rivers State, Amaechi, has also been engaged in a running battle with incumbent Governor Nyesom Wike, his former commissioner. Wike had vowed that Amaechi would be arrested and tried after Amaechi’s tenure as governor ends.

5) Babatunde Fashola

The emergence of Fashola as the Lagos State governorship candidate of the Action Congress in 2006 sent a shockwave through the Action Congress with some leading members of the party threatening fire and brimstone. His political godfather and predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, stood his ground by supporting Fashola’s candidature despite immense intraparty pressure to drop the ‘political greenhorn’.

The 52-year-old University of Benin trained lawyer, who later governed Lagos State between 2007 and 2015, had his secondary education at Birch Freeman and Igbobi College, Lagos.

A crack, however, appeared in the wall of relationship between Fashola and Tinubu when both came up with different aspirants for Lagos State governorship seat in 2015.

It will be recalled that Fashola as governor spent N139m on the drilling of two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja.

6) Kemi Adeosun

At 48, Adeosun is arguably the youngest ministerial nominee among the 21 nominees. The former Ogun State Commissioner for Finance was born and raised in London. A graduate of Economics from the University of East London, she was a senior manager at the Price waterhouseCoopers, London. The mother of three is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales.

Due to her foreign upbringing, the outspoken feminist told Sunday PUNCH in an interview in 2013 that the “Yoruba language I speak sounds like Chinese to others.”

On a lighter note, Adeosun who has also been nominated by Governor Ibikunle Amosun could become the first Nigerian to double as a commissioner and a minister if her nominations are approved by the Senate and Ogun House of Assembly.

7) Kayode Fayemi

Working in the background for pro-democracy groups during the military years of the 1990s, Fayemi came into national prominence when he emerged the Ekiti State governorship candidate of the Action Congress in 2007.

Born on February 9, 1965, Fayemi, is seen more as a scholar rather than the run-of-the-mill Nigerian politician. Many political analysts saw this outlook as being responsible for his electoral defeat in the hands of Governor Ayodele Fayose in the June 21, 2014 governorship election.

It is believed that like Fashola, his personal relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari earned him the ministerial slot because like Fashola, the APC leadership is believed not to be favourably disposed to having him picked by Buhari as minister.

He emerged the governor of Ekiti on October 15, 2010 after three and a half years of legal battle against the then Governor, Segun Oni, of the PDP.

8.) Adebayo Shittu

Although not known nationally, Shittu made history in 1979 by becoming the youngest member of the Old Oyo State House of Assembly at the age of 26.

He subsequently served as the Oyo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice under the PDP government of Governor Rashidi Ladoja

In 2011, Shittu became the governorship candidate of the Buhari-led Congress of Progressive Change. He was a staunch critic of Governor Abiola Ajimobi of the then Action Congress of Nigeria even after their parties merged to form the APC in 2013. In late 2014, when Ajimobi was running for a second term, Shittu purchased the APC Expression of Interest form and vowed to defeat Ajimobi at the APC primary. Buhari was said to have intervened in the feud between the two. Expectedly, the APC in Oyo State which is largely loyal to Ajimobi, has rejected Shittu’s ministerial nomination. But his own faction of the APC has expressed support for him.

Compiled by Tunde Odesola and Eniola Akinkuotu
Copyright PUNCH.

Its quite sad that Some of us cant see beyond ethnic confines, what have all the previous ministers from delta state done for Nigeria? we must put a stop to this ethnic discrimination so that Nigeria can move foward.

forwardvent:
I got a call from Sumeru Limited representative to confirm my interest in working for Access bank as Direct Sales Agent. After I indicated my interest, she proceeded to conduct a short interview with me and then told me about the salary scheme. She said that Access offers N50,000 but my take-home will be N45,000 as N5,000 will be deducted for insurance cover. She asked me to reply to her mail with my CV and scanned copy of my credentials.
Yesterday, I got a text message from Sumeru Limited inviting for an interview at Access Bank branch in my location on 20th August.
I will update the outcome of my interview tomorrow.

Please what was the outcome of the interview?

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