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Still on gender disparity * It is a show of shame on the floor of the hallow senate chamber yesterday, when the "Naysayer" voted against the bill of gender parity. * It is disheartening to know that the world is changing but our knowledge about gender remain static. It seems some of our Senators are still living in the world of 60's when James Brown released a song entitled " It's a Man's World". * I quite understand the simple fact that in most Nigerian cultures, women generally are pictured as second class citizens, being inferior to men, objects of sexual gratification, weak vessels, personal property of men, domestic servant/slave and that which men must wield absolute power over. * I also learnt that the holy book was cited on the floor for disparity but at this juncture let us make them understand for every word spoken in the bible there is a situation surrounding such utterances. We don't understand the established fact that the generations in the bible were guided by their ill customs too. Their culture also preached againt gender equality. In their culture, they see women as slaves, personal propery and intimacy gadgets. It Is unequivocally wrong to say the bible preached against women equality to men. God the Creator of heaven and earth recognises the importance of a woman. Deborah (Heb 11) was a perfect example. Let's leave sentiment and change our mindset from the seemingly bloated ego of always being superior. * As a developing country, cultural views of a woman's role continue to devalue her worth and dignity. Sometimes, she's considered the equivalent of a domestic servant or slave. We forget that we made culture, culture doesn't make us. Why must we wallow in mental abyss for its cause? * It is apt time we must look beyond the cultural system and rediscover intrinsic truths about the nature of women and men. We must transcend tradition and recapture principles that can free women to be fulfilled and valued. * If we don't address the underlying cause of the problems of women by changing the mindset of men, the internalised devaluing and abuse of women will continue. * Make social and legal advances for equal right and not advocating for more wives. We are not sexual object. We are Equal! NIB |
Ejanla07:Normalcy from the pandemonium caused by rumour mongers. |
hardbody:I'm to busy to banter words with people like you. I've reported the true state of situation. If I may ask you this, have you heard/read about any clash in that area since then? Its an attestation that OP was only eager to create a tread. |
Ejanla07:I stay around that area and I can confidently say there is no clash of any sort. We thrive more on "Them say". Normalcy is restored to the area. |
I become apprehensive when we mislead people and create unrest with our post. There's no ethnic clash of any sort. What happened was that the area was often disturbed by bandits in which the security (Hausa Man) posed serious threat to successfully carry out operation. He was killed to create hitch free attack according to residents. For the influx of hausa men, they were deliberating on how to reinforce security measures as suggested by their chairman. I hope this clear the air? Have a blessed day ahead. |
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*Kill two, injure five Seriki Adinoyi in Jos Students of the famous Nigerian College of Accountancy (NCA), Kwal, near Jos, Plateau State, on Tuesday fled their campus following a ferocious invasion of the host community of Kwal by unknown gunmen, who left two dead and five others injured in the wake of the attack. A student of the college, who preferred anonymity, said: “Most of us had to flee the community to Jos for safety.” He however said: “I was told that normalcy has been restored to the community following a heavy presence of military and police personnel.” Management Committee Chairman of Bassa local government, Mrs. Sarah Bali, who confirmed the attack, added that she had visited the community and normalcy had been restored. Calling for calm, she promised that security operatives were working round the clock to arrest the perpetrators. Also confirming the attack, the state Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), Mr. Emmanuel Abuh, noted that the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adekunle Adedunjoye had deployed men of the command to the scene. Abuh however said he was yet to receive the casualty figure. Meanwhile, The secretary of the Irigwe Youth Movement (IYM), Mr. John Gana, told journalists that two persons were killed while five others were injured, adding that the attack left serious tension behind, which the security men are trying hard to manage. He added that most villagers too have fled the community with the students of the college, leaving behind only a few, who now have their hearts in their mouths. www.thisdaylive.com/articles/students-flee-campus-as-gunmen-invade-plateau-community/232141/ |
Seriki Adinoyi in Jos The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) monday arraigned the Provost of Federal School of Medical Laboratory Technology, Dr. Nkereuwem Etukudo and four others before a High Court in Jos for embezzlement and diversion of public funds. Etukudo was arraigned with two other members of staffs of the institution and two contractors. The staffs are the Accountant/Bursar of the institution, Mr. Yusuf Samuel and the Data Analyst of the school, Mr. Ernest Demto. The contractors are Messrs Esio Udoh and Goodluck Echenwa. The arraignment was before Justice Y.D. Dakwak of Court 2 in suit Number PLDJ/36c/2015. However, the charges were not formally read to the accused in court because the Prosecution Counsel, Mr. Steve Odiase, curiously told the court that even though the case was for arraignment, one of the accused persons, Demto, was down with kidney disease and currently receiving treatment at the National Hospital, Abuja. He said that since they were to be jointly arraigned, it was improper to arraign the remaining without Demto. Odiase therefore pleaded for a long adjournment to enable the parties pray for the quick recovery of the accused, adding that if by the next adjourned date, he was still unfit to stand trial, then he would amend the charges to enable the case to go on. Dakwak granted the plea of the prosecution counsel and adjourned the case to May 2. www.thisdaylive.com/articles/efcc-arraigns-provost-four-others-for-multi-million-naira-fraud/232043/ |
The Jigawa State Government has approved the use of e- learning tablets in public schools after its five-week pilot test. About 1,000 students, 61 teachers and 27 student- technicians were trained in the art of e-learning and e- teaching programme held in Dutse, the state capital, according to a statement by the state government. The state Governor, Alhaji Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, had directed that over 8,000 e-learning tablets/computers, tagged, e-Mallam, be distributed to all senior secondary school students and teachers in the state, the statement said. It added that the e-teaching and e-learning devices came with pre-installed educational applications designed to enhance learning for students in the states. Abubakar was quoted as saying at the inauguration of the e- Mallam pilot scheme that the move became necessary because of the declining level of education, which his administration inherited from the previous regime. He added that e-Malllam Tablets would prepare students for examinations and train them on digital technology, especially since examinations bodies were shifting from paper and pencil to computer-based testing. The Commissioner for Education, Hajia Hussein-Adamu Esiak, said the introduction of the tablet would improve the standard of education in the state. She said that statistics showed that the students had not been learning well, hence, the decision of the government to initiate the intervention programme. The Project Coordinator, Basheer Aliyu, demonstrated how the devices provide interactivity and simulation in various fields in a manner easy for students to understand and apply in real life situations. The Country Representative of Echo Telecoms, Mr. Abdussalam Ismail, said Jigawa State was the first state in the northern Nigeria to adopt the innovative approach to learning. http://www.punchng.com/jigawa-adopts-e-learning-tablets-for-schools/ |
Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has commenced the distribution of special needs, food and non-food items to internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Maiduguri. A statement by the information officer of the agency’s North-east office, Mallam AbdulKadir Ibrahim, yesterday said “the North-east zonal office of NEMA has started distributing special needs food and non food items for IDPs in camps across Maiduguri metropolis. He said the items distributed are meant to cater for IDPs with special needs like diabetes patients, babies and nursing mothers. He disclosed that the food items distributed to the camps include Cerelac formula for babies, milk, biscuits, custard, beverages, wheat, Hungary rice, soya plus, kunun tsamiya, among others. He also disclosed that among the non food items distributed include slippers, blankets, plates, spoons, vaseline, soap, detergents and dignity kits for lactating mothers. He however revealed that the distribution was aside the memorandum of understanding signed by the agency and Borno State government where NEMA supplies all food items to be prepared in camps while the state government provides condiments and other necessities for cooking the food. www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nema-distributes-special-need-items-in-maiduguri-idp-camps/232048/ |
•CBN may invite EFCC to probe allegations of round tripping •IMF relaxes stance as more countries adopt capital controls By Obinna Chima with agency report With the clamour growing everyday for the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to devalue the Nigerian naira and relax foreign exchange controls, THISDAY has learnt that a number of factors, chief of which is the lack of conviction that a devaluation would not improve dollar supply in the economy, are some of the reasons President Muhammadu Buhari and the CBN have adamantly refused to endorse the devaluation of the nation’s currency. However, Buhari’s stance has led to a division in his cabinet and among some party leaders in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), some of whom believe the president should be more pragmatic in his dogmatic stance against devaluation, arguing that by not devaluing, there will be more money for the three tiers of government to share from the Federation Account to meet their obligations. As one government official, who did not want to be named, explained to THISDAY: “Yes, there are those in government who want it, but there is stiff resistance from Buhari and the CBN. “But those who are pro-devaluation have argued that with oil prices at a 12-year low, our foreign earning have declined to less than a billion dollars a month. To top it, we have no buffers to shield us from the oil price decline. “So they believe that if we devalue, the three tiers of government, especially states with a cash crunch, will have more money to share from oil earnings going to the Federation Account. “And this will enable the three tiers of government to meet their obligations to their workers, contractors, and help to reflate the economy which is literally comatose at the moment.” However, the flipside to this line of argument is that whilst the three tiers of government may stand to gain from devaluation, in real terms, they could also lose it to inflation. According to a director of the CBN who spoke on the issue: “Yes, we understand that devaluation will create more money for all the tiers of government, but what we stand to gain from one hand, we will lose on the other hand due to inflation.” The director, who preferred to remain anonymous, pointed out that the enforcement of transfers of federal government funds to the Treasury Single Account (TSA) has led to the accumulation of N2.8 trillion in the CBN, part of which will be used by the government to fund the 2016 budget. “Given the experience of the federal government, states will be well advised to adopt the TSA to plug leakages, as hidden state funds in commercial banks could help them to meet their obligations also,” he said. He added that there was no guaranty that by devaluing the currency, there will be an improvement in dollar supply through foreign portfolio investors, “whom the markets have claimed have been sitting on the fence”. “This is hot money and there is no guaranty that devaluation will attract them to the country. Besides, even if they come back, whatever cash they inject will just be a drop in the ocean relative to the demand requirement for dollars in the foreign exchange market,” the central bank official said. When reminded that the forex restrictions have led to a massive widening in the gap between the official rate of the dollar and the parallel market rate, resulting in rent seeking in the market, he said the CBN was not unaware of this problem and was considering inviting the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate banks, companies and individuals who might be engaged in the illicit practice. “We are aware of this problem and have received some reports that some banks may be colluding with customers to engage in round tripping. Owing to the reports, we are currently considering inviting the EFCC to investigate banks and anyone caught will face the full wrath of the law,” he said. The director added that it was for this reason the Bankers’ Committee agreed to start the publication of forex allocations to bank customers in newspapers on a regular basis. Surprisingly, Buhari and the CBN’s anti-devaluation stance is getting support from the most unexpected of quarters, as an article published recently by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has shown that some global analysts, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), are gradually accepting the argument that capital controls could serve as a shield against destabilising investment flows from foreign investors. According to the report by WSJ, the response to turbulent financial markets might be a dose of “unorthodox thinking”, which is in line with CBN’s position in the last few months. For instance, the central bank officially stopped the sale of dollars for 41 items, as it sought to reduce pressure on the naira and preserve external reserves. It also cancelled the sale of dollars to Bureau De Change (BDC) operators and the use of electronic naira cards abroad, just as it has continued to resist pressure to further devalue the naira. Dissatisfied with the central bank’s forex policy, a lot of foreign portfolio investors have continued to divest from the country’s equities and bond markets, with their exit accounting for one of the largest chunks of forex outflows from the economy. However, the WSJ report pointed out that amid the turmoil, financial and economic policy makers are advocating a tactic once anathema to all but the most mismanaged economies: capital controls. Governor of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda, it stated, seemed to deviate from standard economic thinking late last month when he suggested that China might benefit from stricter capital controls. “Both India and Nigeria tightened restrictions on their citizens’ access to foreign currency in recent months, battling to limit capital outflows caused by the winding down of the Federal Reserve’s bond-buying programme. Controls are making an intellectual comeback, too,” the New York-based financial paper added. Also expressing his support for the policy, Olivier Blanchard, who arrived at the IMF as chief economist in 2008 and left the fund last year said: “The general presumption was that capital-account liberalisation was always good, and capital controls were nearly always bad. I’ve seen the thinking change, partly because it was already wrong then, and because it was particularly wrong in the crisis.” Similarly, IMF’s Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, at a speech in Maryland recently, cited “a growing recognition that the short-term nature and inherent volatility of global capital flows are problematic”. She said emerging markets and countries such as the US that are the largest sources of international capital flows should consider new regulations and tax policies that curb short- term debt flows and stimulate longer-term equity investments. The current support for capital controls builds on a change of course at the IMF half a decade ago. After long urging countries to free the movement of capital, the fund surprised markets and economic policy makers by endorsing and even recommending the use of controls in some cases to slow destabilising inflows of investment. The fund was in part influenced by the lessons of the financial crisis, when a handful of advanced economies that were entirely open to global capital flows were hit hard. Iceland and Spain both experienced deep recessions when the foreign investment that had driven booms in their economies evaporated. According to WSJ, similar lessons were drawn by some observers during the Eurozone crisis. Greece and Cyprus, both facing sudden outflows over fears their banks would fail, put strict restrictions on bank transfers to stop money from leaving. Switzerland, meanwhile, has struggled to keep its economy balanced amid massive inflows. Those flows put pressure on the Swiss franc to rise. A stronger currency pushes down consumer prices that have been falling for most of the last four years, making it harder for the Swiss National Bank to fend off deflation. A strong franc also hurts Swiss exporters by making their goods less competitive in global markets. The central bank sold huge quantities of francs to keep the currency from appreciating until deciding a year ago it couldn’t sustain the effort, allowing the franc to rise sharply. Capital controls have major downsides, nonetheless. For one, they can make it hard to attract inward investment, because investors may fear they won’t easily get their money back out. They also can be hard to kick. After its collapse in 2008, Iceland imposed capital controls that helped stem colossal outflows, but also crimped investment and financing for Icelandic companies. Seven years later, the country only now is inching towards eliminating them. But there is growing support for the idea that limits on money flows may be necessary. Any economics student will have read about the so-called impossible trinity that supposedly binds policy makers’ hands. It holds that a country that wants to control its own monetary policy, such as interest rates, can’t also have both a fixed exchange rate and a free flow of capital. Financial and economic orthodoxy thus held that countries should allow exchange rates to float and keep themselves open to movements of international capital. Helene Rey, an economist at the London Business School, believes the trinity is actually even more impossible than has been thought. In a 2013 paper presented to the influential Jackson Hole, Wyoming, gathering of monetary- policy makers, she argued that the tumultuous global financial cycle showed that countries hoping to control their monetary policy could have neither fixed exchange rates nor a free flow of capital. That view appears to be spreading. Benoit Coeuré, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board, has referenced Ms. Rey’s work in two speeches over the past year. Last November, Mr. Coeuré said capital controls were “once again part of the policy discussion”. Some of the change is evident in the financial policy already. Poland, for example, has effectively halted new lending in foreign currencies for most people. Many Poles had taken out mortgages in Swiss francs and were badly hurt by the franc’s striking appreciation a year ago, which made their loans more expensive to pay off. The increasing focus on those sorts of “macro-prudential” measures to limit financial instability can have the same effect as capital controls, Mr. Blanchard said. “If you forbid someone in your country from borrowing in another country’s currency, that’s macro-pru,” he said. “But stopping a foreign bank from lending in your country is called capital controls.” Expectedly, the debate has come to a head with China, reported WSJ. In the past, policy makers in high-income countries could argue somewhat dispassionately about fluctuations in capital flows that rocked emerging markets. But now that the swings in flows are hitting the world’s second-largest economy, how China responds is the rest of the world’s problem, too. “There is a real contradiction between what China needs for internal balance—lower interest rates, significant credit easing via unconventional channels—and what the exchange-rate consequences of such easing mean for both Chinese and global external balances,” said Karthik Sankaran of the Eurasia Group, a consulting firm. Capital controls could help Chinese authorities use monetary policy to stimulate the economy without causing the exchange rate to tumble. “This makes it a lot easier to deal with those situations where the demands of internal balance and external balance point in opposite directions,” Mr. Sankaran said. Recently, Beijing imposed some added controls in an effort to halt a huge outflow of funds from China. The moves include curbing the ability of foreign companies in China to repatriate earnings, and forbidding foreign asset managers, including hedge funds and private-equity firms, from raising yuan-based funds aimed for overseas investment, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. History has also shown that capital controls played significant roles in stabilising economies centuries ago. For instance, the Border Guards 1300 Act made it increasingly difficult to export metals from England. A 1381 King Richard II statute condemned “the great mischief which the realm suffereth when gold and silver leaves the country”. Prohibitions were lifted in 1538 by King Henry VIII. Also, between 1914 -1944 when World War I and the Great Depression disrupted the international order based on the gold standard, John Maynard Keynes argued for permanent restrictions on capital flows. Then between 1968 – 1971 when the Bretton Woods system collapsed, fixed exchange rates were abandoned and the IMF enforced a new orthodoxy: money should flow freely across borders. But between 1997-2016, as Asian currencies plunged during the region’s 1997 financial crisis, Malaysia spurned the IMF and slapped capital controls. Iceland followed suit in 2008 as investors tried to yank their monies from the country. This was followed by Greece and Cyprus, forcing the IMF to state in 2010 that controls could be useful. Source - www.thisdaylive.com/articles/why-the-president-is-reluctant-to-back-devaluation/231973/ |
AGAINST the backdrop of plans to rehabilitate the region, the presidency on Sunday announced that the Federal Government, the World Bank, European Union, and the United Nations have concluded a two-week recovery and assessment mission in the north eastern states ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency. It came as part of its ongoing Recovery and Peace Building Assessment (RPBA) programme. According to a statement issued by Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, in Abuja, on Sunday, the recovery and assessment team which was led by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Dr Mariam Masha, visited Adamawa, Taraba, Gombe, Bauchi, Borno and Yobe states during which they actively engaged with state governors, decision- makers as well as top government functionaries, Civil Society Organisations, private sector players, traditional rulers, the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), emergency management, humanitarian and relief agencies and other active partners in the recovery efforts in the affected states. The statement said in the course of the tour, the team visited several camps and resettlement centres for the IDPs as well as insurgency–ravaged public institutions like hospitals, markets and military formations. The team also gained first hand knowledge of human and physical conditions in the camps and resettlement centres affording them the opportunity to empathize with the people and also reassured them of the commitment of the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration towards addressing their challenges. According to the statement, in furtherance of the importance of the recovery and assessment mission, the team’s top level engagements with relevant stakeholders centred on sector recovery and needs assessment strategy in the three major components of infrastructure and social services, peace building, stability and social cohesion as well as the economic recovery of the affected people in the six states. It added that the visit by the technical and humanitarian experts from these critical global institutions primarily focused on validating the processes through which data are to be collected and how to develop internationally acceptable mechanisms to maintain contact with focal points in all the states. The statement recalled that the Federal Government had last month unveiled this assessment programme which is a joint, high-level collaboration between the government of Nigeria and development partners - the World Bank, EU and the UN - aimed at supporting government in its short, medium and long term efforts towards peace building and sustainable recovery in the North-East region of the country. It is a follow up to the agreements reached with the North-East states in respect of the sector and component work plans, data collection modalities and timelines and provision of quantitative and qualitative information by the states. This assessment will also form the pivot for planning a broad-based public sector recovery programme for the zone, as well as leverage, synchronise and inform the financing initiatives and projects of Nigeria’s development partners, civil society organisations and private sector groups and organisations. Source - Nigerian Tribune |
• Despite enabling laws, 35 agency chiefs may be forced outhttp://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/apc-pressure-mounts-on-buhari-to-sack-heads-of-parastatals/231974/ |
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Karlovich:I am highly disappointed in you. Why? Interpretation of English Language is your problem. Go and read the interview over and over again, maybe this time your brain will be open to comprehend and figure the context in which the word criminals was used. Don't be parochial when it comes to national issues. Its enough to instigate violence to gullible audience or readers like you. |
After the show of shame in registering for the NYSC A16 batch finally, the call - up letter is out. Worry not if its showing oops as the site is congested now. Here is the process of checking 1. Use a system to browse 2.. After logging in, link will be Portal.nysc.org.ng/nysc4/corphome 3. Change link to Change the link to Portal.nysc.org.ng/nysc4/print 4. Upon entering, it will go straight to "download call_upletter" Pdf format After downloading, open the letter You'll see your everything there |
Kookny:Thank you for the clarity. |
Successfully registered. After spending over 20 hours at the cyber cafe coupled with the series of tweets to them, I break even. I will suggest you tweet at them and suggest the nature of the problem and area where you are. It was indeed instrumental to me. God help us all. |
How much? |
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From antiquity the essence of NYSC is not for money making but for promotion of national unity, perhaps, self development. Its an aberration to see many corp members wire their minds as an avenue to rake in more money hence unmitigated unemployment. Obviously, money is part of it but prominence should not be given to it. In the face of dwindling economy, does that mean the scheme won't continue? Certainly NO! Use this medium to develop and re-brand yourself to make you marketable. All the best. |
A SOURCE: READ MORE: TERRORISM, BREAKING NEWS YOU MAY ALSO LIKE READ NEXT A suicide bomb attack, believed to be carried out by three people, has left at least 13 dead and 30 wounded in Chibok, according to media reports. The explosions hit a market in the northern town on Wednesday. Two of the three suicide bombers were believed. to be women who approached the market dressed in veils. "Two veiled girls suspected to be suicide bombers entered Chibok market at about 12:54 P.M. today," a police official informed Reuters. Thus far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack although the incident bears a resemblance to tactics utilized by the terrorist group Boko Haram. Nearly two years ago 200 girls were kidnapped from Chibok, the whereabouts of the girls still remains a mystery. The Nigerian Army has been able to reclaim control of most of Borno State, where Chibok is located. In response, Boko Haram has resorted to hitting soft targets such as markets or mosques. saharareporters.com/2016/01/27/suicide-bomb-attack-leaves-13-dead-chibok |
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