Some folks have started seeing their names on the npower portal. you only need your phone number to confirm your status. Best of Luck

According to the Senior Special Assistant(Media&Publicity) to Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the 200K unemployed graduates selected in first batch of N-power jobs will be notified any moment from now. 150K will teach, 50K for health & agric. See tweets below:

Mama - Kiss Daniel

G-Worldwide’s star, Boy Kiss lit things up with Mama. And just as has become the signature of his music releases, this sensational sound produced by the wicked Young John, tailors pretty much like a typical love song but was executed with the styling of a banging turn up jam. Mama is housed on Kiss Daniel’s debut album, New Era.

Just a few words that come to mind when we think of this hero. #TheLastShip

"Captain on board" *in master chief's voice*

The Last Ship Renewed for Season 5

www.tv.com/shows/the-last-ship/community/post/the-last-ship-renewed-for-season-5-147335787400/

Moses Mikel Moses MMM

Who You Epp? - Olamide

The streets continued their takeover feat with the launch of a new music competition that sampled egbon Olamide‘s trending music single, Who You Epp? Major players of the industry as well as upcoming acts and underground profile artistes have hopped on the new beat sensation that is fast enveloping the music populace. Produced by Shizzi.

Oluwa Ni - Reekado Banks

Fresh outta the energy of winning The Headies’ highly coveted national award for Next Rated, Reekado Banks let us know he was a well-deserved winner’s choice when he put out the first trending single for the year 2016. Oluwa Ni still remains a jam of the moment, and was produced by Altims.

Irrespective of the tumultuous dramatic events that ravaged the music industry, a few fine heads still managed to rise up to the auspicious occasion and have pulled through with banging, chart-topping, fan-loving, turn-up worthy and street-friendly hits. Of course, this is outside some of the misses recorded since the year period progressed.

Now, with almost a dozen hit count, I say we proceed to check out the hit makers of the year 2016!

I guess by sokoto, u mean the state capital right?. With 80k in sokoto, u'll be comfortable but u also need to consider other factors like weather, language and distance. You can secure a room-self contain around 100k/year. All the best

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https://www.thecable.ng/close-onnoghen-new-cjn-annulled-igbo-culture-cancelled-yaraduas-election

NOTED sire

Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen is the new chief justice of Nigeria, following the retirement of Justice Mahmud Mohammed who clocked 70 on Thursday, November 10.

Onnoghen is remarkably the first southerner to be CJN since 1987 when Ayo Irikefe retired.

Beyond the regional fact, however, TheCable presents interesting highlights of his career: ranging from his pronouncements on culture and tradition to politics.

TRAINED IN GHANA

Born on December 22, 1950 in Biase, Cross Rivers state, Onnoghen will be in office till December 2020, barring any circumstances beyond his control.

He attended the Presbyterian Primary School, Okurike, Biase, from 1959 to 1965 and proceeded to Ghana for his secondary education from 1967 to 1972. He did his A’Level at the Accra Academy in 1972 and studied law at the University of Ghana, Legon, from 1974 to 1977.

He returned to Lagos to attend the Nigerian Law School between 1977 and 1978, thereafter working as pupil state counsel, ministry of justice, in Ikeja, Lagos and Ogun states between 1978 and 1979.

FROM BAR TO BENCH

Between 1979 and 1988, he was a partner in the law firm of Effiom Ekong and Company, in Calabar, after which he became principal partner and head of chamber of Walter Onneghen and Associates, Calabar.

In 1989, he crossed from the bar to the bench as he was appointed a high court judge by the Cross Rivers state judiciary. He moved on in 1990 to become the chairman, Cross Rivers State Armed Robbery and Fire Arms Tribunal. He was there for three years.

Onnoghen was appointed chairman of the Failed Bank Tribunal, Ibadan zone, in 1998, from where he moved on to become a justice of the court of appeal. In 2005, he was elevated to the supreme court.

ANNULLED IGBO CULTURE

For gender rights activists, April 11, 2014 was not just another day in the history of Nigeria. That day the supreme court made a landmark pronouncement in the case of two Igbo women, Gladys Ada Ukeje and Maria Nweke, who argued that they should have equal access as men to the inheritance of their parents.

In Igbo culture, women had been disinherited for ages as a result of tradition.

The two women sued the men in their families – and finally got justice as the case moved from the lower to the highest courts in the land.

Delivering the unanimous judgment on behalf of Justices Onnoghen, Clara Bata Ogunbiyi, Kumai Bayang Aka’ahs and John Inyang Okoro, Bode Rhodes-Vivour declared: “No matter the circumstances of the birth of a female child, such a child is entitled to an inheritance from her father’s estate. Consequently, the Igbo customary law, which disentitles a female child from partaking in sharing of the deceased father’s estate, is in breach of section 42(1) and (2) of the constitution, a fundamental rights provision guaranteed to every Nigerian.”

Feminists and gender rights activists celebrated the historic moment. Now that they have a “friendly” judge as CJN, should they expect more justice for Nigerian women?

UPHELD REV. KING’S DEATH SENTENCE

Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, also known as “Rev. King”, the general overseer of Christian Praying Assembly,  was accused of murdering a member of his church in 2006.

The Lagos state government prosecuted King and he was convicted to die by hanging.

King appealed his death sentence by the high court which was affirmed by the court of appeal.

At the supreme court, the panel of justices led by Onnoghen upheld the decision of the Lagos division of the court of appeal, which had affirmed the conviction and the sentence.

“The ‎facts of the case could have been lifted from [the] horror film,” the panel led by Onnoghen held.

“This appeal has no merit. The judgement of the court of appeal is hereby affirmed. The prison sentence that was earlier handed to the appellant is no longer relevant in view of the death sentence passed on him.”

CANCELLED YAR’ADUA’S ELECTION

When Muhammadu Buhari, a retired major-general, lost to Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, governor of his home state, Katsina, in the 2007 presidential election, he headed for the tribunal.

Buhari argued, among other things, that the election was rigged and that it should be cancelled and a fresh election conducted.

Never in the history of Nigeria had a presidential election been cancelled, perhaps because of the complications of not having a substantive president holding fort during a rerun.

Some of these political considerations are believed to have discouraged the judiciary from ruling decisively on presidential election petitions. In the end, all who went to the tribunal did so more for the record than to get justice.

However, Onnoghen was not moved by such sentiments. Along with George Oguntade and Aloma Muktah (who later became CJN), Onnoghen annulled Yar’Adua’s election in December 2008 and called for a fresh one.

However, they were outnumbered by the other justices who agreed that even though the election was flawed, the irregularities were not “substantial enough” to lead to a nullification.

These were Justices Idris Kutigi (then CJN), Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu, Niki Tobi (late) and Dahiru Musdapher.

ONNOGHEN’S VERDICT ON BUHARI VS YAR’ADUA

I had already held that the burden of proving non-compliance and the substantiality of the non-compliance on the result of the election lie on the petitioner/appellant. Has he discharged that onus? I hold the view that he has. There are non-compliances that go straight to the fundamentals of an election thereby affecting condition precedents for the holding of an election while others may just affect the result of the election where one had been validly held. In other words, some non-compliance may render an ‘election’ void in which case there is no result of the election to be substantial affected by the non-compliance while others may substantially affect the result of an election validly conducted.

For instance, if the non-compliance with the provisions of the electoral act complained of have to do with the validity of the voters register used at an election which non-compliance is found  proved, will that alone not be enough, to invalidate the election without the requirement of the further prove of how the non-compliance affected substantially the result of the election when in law there could not have been an election in the first place as no election can take place without a valid voters register.

In my view two things are crucial and fundamental to the holding of an election. These are voters register and ballot papers. It is common knowledge that he two are the targets of the election rigger,  if not properly handled. Section 10 and 11 of the Electoral Act deal with National Register of Voters and Voters’ Registration while  section 45 and 67 dead with the format of ballot papers.

It is failure to comply with subsection 2 of section 45 that the lower court found to constitute substantial non-compliance with the provisions of Electoral Act. There is no cross appeal on that crucial finding/holding. That being the case, the respondents are deemed to have accepted the said finding as valid and proper and it is settled law that under the circumstance the parties and this court are bound by the said finding and as such this court is without vires or jurisdiction to reverse or disagree with same not being a busy body.

I therefore agree with the lower court that the non-compliance with the provisions of section 45 (2) of the Electoral Act, 2006 constitute substantial non-compliance but i do not agree that the substantial  non-compliance so found is not enough to affect the result of the election because in the first place, you cannot conduct an election properly so called without valid ballot papers. By holding that there was substantial non-compliance with section 45 (2) supra it tantamount to holding that the election that was conducted on the 21st day of April, 2007 was done without valid ballot papers which to me, with the greatest respect, amounts to a nullity.

The situation being as found by the lower court it follows that there was no election known to law the result of which could have been substantially affected by the non-compliance as the non-compliance in this case is of the nature that invalidated the election. To hold otherwise amounts to giving licence to those who conduct our elections to continue to do whatever they like including creating loopholes for the rigging of our elections thereby continuing to deny our electoral process the credibility it deserves in the comity of democratic nations. How is one to know which ballot papers were sent to Sokoto, Kastina, Ebonyi etc when the ballot papers were not in booklet form and numbered serially?

Even the within the particular state where the ballot papers are sent for election how do we know if ballot papers meant for one Local Government Area or ward are not diverted and used in another or even not used at all but stuffed into the ballot boxes and counted as votes. How can we determine a genuine ballot paper from a fake one when we agree that any paper can pass for a ballot paper and be used in an election and assumed that such an act of non-compliance does not affect the result of the ‘election’?”

https://www.thecable.ng/close-onnoghen-new-cjn-annulled-igbo-culture-cancelled-yaraduas-election

Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton last night (Nov. to become the 45th President of the United States. The man who will be sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2017 was picked to lose in almost every mainstream projection, leading up to the shocking news that he not only won, but soundly defeated Clinton. Presidential elections are decided by capturing the majority of the United
States’ 538 electoral votes ; at publication time, Trump led Clinton 279 to 218, thus topping the 270 needed for said majority.
But what does that all mean? You might be hearing a lot of talk about how Clinton actually won the popular vote. At publication
time, she indeed led Trump by about 175,000 votes, according to the Associated Press . As Clinton-friendly West Coast votes continue to be counted, that margin figures to increase. So if more people voted for Clinton, why did Trump win the election? This is where the United States Electoral College comes in. It’s
been in place since the Constitution was first drawn up and, ideally, it’s supposed to protect against a lot of perceived problems that would come from a straight-up popular vote. Each state is given a share of the United States’ 538 electoral votes based off its population, with totals ranging from California’s 55 to a number of states with only three. This might seem like a wide margin, but in the big picture, it supposedly levels the playing field for sparsely-populated states
like Wyoming and North Dakota, which could see even less national attention if their less-than-a-million populations were siphoned into the United States’ 300 million-plus electorate. The country is undoubtedly a melting pot of social groups, and by giving a unique say to each state, the Electoral College is supposed to foster individual interests that would be swallowed up in a winner-take-all affair.
Back to Clinton and Trump -- Hillary won more votes overall, but a multitude of them came from the same few states, like California and New York . Regardless of how decisively you win them, you can only win them one time, and there’s a set amount of electoral votes you earn. Trump’s grand total of votes was spread more evenly throughout the country and he won many more states,
albeit often by a slim margin. What about third parties? Despite some comparatively strong showings, they haven’t won a single electoral vote in a Presidential election since 1968, and one criticism of the Electoral College is that it’s too tough on third party challengers to the Republicans and Democrats . So far this year, the entire field (including the Green Party’s Jill Stein and the Libertarians’ Gary Johnson) have combined for about six million votes over all 50 states. You might hear some complaining about how they spoiled the race for Clinton. This is possible in some states, though extremely difficult to assess nationally, since it forces guesswork on which mainstream candidate these voters would otherwise support. Pinning Clinton’s loss on third-party voting -- in light of this year’s electoral map -- is quite a stretch. Potentially, this would be the fifth time a candidate has won the popular vote but failed to win the election. Clinton’s most recent company is fellow Democrat Al Gore, whose supporters outvoted George W. Bush’s in 2000, but narrowly lost the electoral vote via the highly-contested state of Florida. Low voter turnout has often been tied to such elections and indeed, that factor has also come into play this year: When Trump’s final count is tallied, it’s possible he’ll have earned fewer popular votes than John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012, his two Republican
predecessors, both of whom lost to Barack Obama. To win this year, Trump didn’t necessarily win the most votes, but he won the most votes in the right places. Under the Electoral College, that’s what matters.

10. The Rolls Royce Phantom is valued at about N160 million Such a retinue of luxury cars on parade at the Sokoto Durbar shows the opulence traditional rulers in Nigeria are quite used to.

9. BMW 730li is valued at about N28 million. This BMW 730 Li belongs to a Bauchi traditional ruler The Bauchi Emirate was founded by Fula in the early 19th century in what is now Bauchi state, Nigeria, with its capital in Bauchi.

8.Cadillac Escalade is valued at about N28 million Cadillac Escalade belongs to Emir of Zuru Brigadier Mohammed Sani Sami was Governor of Bauchi state, Nigeria from January 1984 to August 1985 during the military regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari. Mohammed Sani Sami was born in Zuru in Kebbi state. Mohammed Sani Sami retired as a major general on 3 September 1990. He later became the Emir of Zuru, in Kebbi state.

7. The Lexus LX 570 is valued about N56 million. This Lexus LX 570 belonging to Mai Yawuri Yauri or Yawuri is an emirate in Nigeria’s Kebbi state, occupying the Yauri local government area. Today, Yauri is one of the smallest historical emirates in Northern Nigeria.

7. The Lexus LX 570 is valued about N56 million. This Lexus LX 570 belonging to Mai Yawuri Yauri or Yawuri is an emirate in Nigeria’s Kebbi state, occupying the Yauri local government area. Today, Yauri is one of the smallest historical emirates in Northern Nigeria.

6. Toyota Land Cruiser Prado is valued about N22 million Toyota Land Cruiser Prado Staff of office to Homun Honest Irmiya, the 28th Hama Bachama of Bachama Kingdom in Numan, Adamawa was present at the event.

5. Mercedes s550 is valued at about N48 million This Mercedes S550 belongs to Lafia Lafia is a town in central Nigeria. It is the capital city of Nasarawa state and has a population of 330,712 inhabitants according to the 2006 census results. It is the largest town in Nasarawa state.

4. GMC jeeps are valued around N15 – N20 million. This GMC Jeep belonging to the Emir of Awe Nasarawa state has 24 ethnic groups that comprise Alago, Arum, Agatu, Afo, Bassa, Buh, Eggon, Egbura, Fulani, Gade, Gbagyi and Gwandara. Others are Hausa, Jukun, Kantana, Kanuri, Koro, Kulere, Mada, Migli, Nyamkpa, Ninzam, Rindre and Tiv. These groups spread across the 13 local government areas of Akwanga, Awe, Doma, Karu, Keana, Keffi, Kokona, Lafia, Nasarawa, Nasarawa-Eggon, Obi, Toto and Wamba. The Emir of Awe rules Awe.

3. This Mercedes S400 is valued at about N30 million. This Mercedes S400 belonging to Sarkin Misau Misau is a local government area of Bauchi state, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Misau. The Sarkin Misau, is the traditional head.

2. This Lexus LS 460 is valued at about N28 million. This Lexus LS 460 belonging to Kanta Kanta is the family name, of Muhammed Kanta who founded the Kebbi Kingdom in 1515. The Kanta museum was erected by Yakubu Nabame, a former Emir of Kebbi, and served as the Emir’s palace until 1942 when the British built a new administrative palace during the reign of Muhammed Sani.

1. This Mercedes S500 belongs to the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, and it is valued at about N38 million. This Mercedes S500 belonging to Abdullahin Gwandu Gwandu, also called Gando, is a town and emirate in Kebbi State, Nigeria. The seat of government for the emirate and district of this name is in Birnin Kebbi, which is the capital of Kebbi State and was capital of the historical Kingdom of Kebbi. Originally founded in the sixteenth century by the Kebbawa, a Hausa-speaking people, Gwandu today acts as one of the four emirates composing Kebbi State.

1. This Mercedes S500 belongs to the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, and it is valued at about N38 million. This Mercedes S500 belonging to Abdullahin Gwandu Gwandu, also called Gando, is a town and emirate in Kebbi State, Nigeria. The seat of government for the emirate and district of this name is in Birnin Kebbi, which is the capital of Kebbi State and was capital of the historical Kingdom of Kebbi. Originally founded in the sixteenth century by the Kebbawa, a Hausa-speaking people, Gwandu today acts as one of the four emirates composing Kebbi State.

On Saturday November 5, 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari joined other dignitaries to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III. The event was attended by several traditional rulers and the cars they drove there, will make you ask, if Nigeria is actually in a recession: