Umahi must have been sent by APC guys for this journey. Wike is a very powerful force and factor in PDP. This is a man who has been carrying the party since 2015. Wike personally went to Edo state, committed his time, money and great risk to stop APC from what just happened in Ekiti state. Why, even Obaseke he retained his political life, conspiring against him? The greatest mistake Atiku and PDP made is not to pick Wike as the vice presidential candidate. Wike is a force, Wike maybe asset to Tinubu and co.

It is not only in NECO that recruitment of staff without advertising is going on. The University of Nigeria Nsukka has recruited overwhelming number of lecturers and technical officers without advertising and proper recuitment process

Is it when you people selected many people that are already working for federal government and did not select the real unemployed ones. What is the need for bvn? Was bvn not linked?

This is the man that made it possible, Chief Victor Umeh

Let them continue the sit at home till January, stupid people. You are sitting at home in Aba while election is ongoing in Anambra with massive turnout of voters

Granted brief press interview after

Dr Ifeanyi Uba casts his vote

Dr Uba casta his vote

This group does not represent Igbos

The alleged demonstration by IPOB members in Onitsha yesterday telling voters to vote and die may be a strategy to rig the fortcoming governorship election in Anambra state. I am not pointing accusing finger to any party but the party that have known that they have slim chances of winning the election may be responsible for this. We all know that since the army, federal government and south east governors outlawed the group, members have gone undeground, including their leader whose whereabout is unknown, for fear of government action against anyone caught. Why is it that a week to the election, the group gathered, demonstrated along the streets of Onitsha without any intelligent report to stop them and nobody was arrested? The worst part of it is that there is no reaction from the federal government and security agencies.

There will be restriction of movement in Enugu state tomorrow from 8 am to 4 pm as the state conducts local government election. This is to advice people that will travel to or across the state to do so before the said time or after.

The former minister of information in APGA rally

Though it is not good to take the life of any human being for any reason, these are not the elders of the state, they are politicians trying to score a very cheap political point. The government of the state is not favouring them, they have been skimmed out of power and money sharing formular of the state. They deceiving the masses because Nigerian politicians are in the habbit of pretending to be projecting and fighting for the masses whan the power game does not favour them. For clarity, we have two parties in this country, the elites and the masses. The masses are in the majority but are always played on emotionally by the elites to get what they want.

Here stands the lion king. All other animals that took over the jungle in the absence of the king are into hiding. Fayose could not attend the last meeting the president had with the governors because of what he has said about him. I just want to warn Fayose and FFK to mind their utterances especially when it comes to health and life. The great Zik of Africa was rumured to have died in 80s for cheap political reason by two politicians. Do you know that all those politicians died young before Zik. My advise is that while doing politics, there are some boundaries we should not cross. What would these men have gained from his death.

Some bite the fingers that feed them but not so with former president Olusegun Obasanjo. Ask GEJ, Buruji and they will tell you the best story about it.

Supreme court has uphold the election of Gov Ikpeazu of Abia state. By this judgement, the supreme court has set aside the judgement of court of Appeal which earlier sacked the governor

NANS supposed to mean National Association of Nigerian Students. Why is it that they do not make any comment on the welfare of Nigerian students but rather on political matters? Does it mean they do not see or hear all these exploitations Nigerian students are facing. As NLC is concerned with workers welfare, NANS should be concerned with students' welfare.

What makes an organization are people in the organization. I once told my friend that if bring American down here, here will be better than America now. But take us to America, we cannot even survive because of the natural disaster there. What makes PDP are people in PDP. If people in PDP moves over to APC, logically PDP becomes APC.

One thing I don't agree with this present government is blaming the immediate past administration on the maladministration of PDP government. PDP ruled this country for 16 years and the immediate past administration ruled for 5 years. What happened to the remaining 11 years? Who was in charge?

Her hair style has nothing to do with her competency

Education does not make a good leader. President Buhari is good leader.

The First Executive Governor of Enugu state, the former National Secretary of PDP, the Former National Chairman of PDP, Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo (Ezeanyanwu 1 of Enugu State) is today confided with honorary doctorate degree of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State. His wife, Mrs Dorathy Nwodo accompanied him to the event.

The president of Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammed Buhari bags honorary doctorate degree of kaduna State University this morning. The orator of the university describe the president as an exceptional Nigerian who has not soiled his hands despite all the sensitive positions he has held in this country.

Somebody asked whether fight against corruption is the problem holding Nigeria. Yes, corruption is the pivot on which the problems of Nigeria revolves. Take corruption out Nigeria, it will be greater than United States. If every government that lasts for eight or four years should achieve one thing, with time we will solve all our problems. If Buhari's government should reduce corruption to bearest minimum, I think he should be our hero.

This is a rented crowd. I pity Nigerians for the dearth of their consciences.

The writer is not talking about whether TINUBU is corrupt or not. He is talking about the political strength of the man. The issue of whether he is corrupt or not should be left for another day. Some are commenting that he is patron of drug barons. There is no established case against him on that, so it is just the position of weakness that some are taking. Even if he is, barons in drugs, arms and oil rule anywhere in the world. Example is Bush family in America. JAGABAN is the mastermind of the present Nigerian politics. He is the single architect of the present political equation. He developed the formula single handedly. When I met this great man in UK a year before the election where he was telling his audience that he will uproot the then government of GEJ, I thought he had really taken to drugs. Let us thank the God that makes Tinubu great because He can also make us great.

THE PRESIDENT MUST HEAR THIS
The President of Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammad Buhari must hear about the tragic situation in the University of Nigeria Nsukka that, if not reversed, would prevent thousands of vulnerable prospective first year students of the institution from registering for the admission they got. The administration of Vice Chancellor, Professor Benjamin Ozumba increased the number of the hurdle of fees the first year students have to pay before they take up their hard-earned placements.
In addition to acceptance fee of N25,000, tuition fees ranging from N55,000 to N60,000 depending on the course, accommodation fee of N9, 500 for males and N11, 500 for females, Ozumba introduced what he terms ‘’laptop fee’’. The first year students must cough out an extra N70,000 for some UNN-issued laptop or be deemed unqualified to register.
There is no justification for making the payment of laptop fee a condition for registration of first year students. It is simply exploitation and a means of denying the less privileged Nigerians access to education. It is rigging education against the poor.
In this hard economic season, one in which the President has declared the country broke several times, raising money to pay ‘’acceptance fee’’, tuition fees, and accommodation fee of those stipulated sums is tough. These are times when federal and state governments can’t pay the civil servants who are supposed to underwrite their children’s education. To choose this time to lay an extra burden on broke people is not mere wickedness. It is murder!

There is a tragic situation in the University of Nigeria Nsukka that, if not reversed, would shunt thousands of prospective first year students of the institution away from resumption.
The administration of Vice Chancellor Professor Benjamin Ozumba increased the number of the hurdle of fees the kids have to surmount before they take up their hard-earned placements.
In addition to acceptance fee (25,000 naira), tuition fees (ranging from 55,000 to 60,000 naira depending on the course), accommodation fee (9, 500 naira for males and 11, 500 naira for females), Ozumba introduced what he terms ‘’laptop fee’’. The intake must fork out an extra 70,000 naira for some UNN-issued laptop or be deemed unqualified to register.
There is no justification for making the payment of laptop fee a condition for registration of freshers. It is simply a pretext for blatant exploitation. It is the glorification of lucre over sanity. It is the mouth of commercialism opened wide against reason and knowledge. It is rigging education against the poor.
In this hard economic season, one in which the President has declared the country broke several times, raising money to pay ‘’acceptance fee’’, tuition fees, and accommodation fee of those stipulated sums is tough. These are times when federal and state governments can’t pay the civil servants who are supposed to underwrite their children’s education. To choose this time to lay an extra burden on broke people is not mere wickedness. It is murder!
To begin with, Ozumba’s monopoly laptop shop doesn’t chime in with the free market system Nigeria runs. No respectable university in a capitalist economy presumes to force products on students at a price decided by the university administration. No university foists its own preferred brand of conusmer goods on its students. And if there must be such aberration of a university that detours from teaching and research to trading, it should not be the University of Nigeria.
This instance of abuse of the VC’s authority negates the very motto of UNN. The imposition of laptop fee violates the university’s foundational respect for human freedom. It is a departure from the institution’s pursuit of the advancement of the pride of the human being.
The laptop imposition is unwarranted. If the university administration had set ownership of a laptop as one of the preconditions for student registration, the prospective students should have been asked to buy themselves laptops or be ready to provide evidence of possession of a personal computer at the point of registration.
Some of the intakes already have their own laptops. Some bought theirs ahead of resumption. In this forced purchase arrangement, they must buy a laptop they don’t need because the VC had decreed that every person that steps into his territory must kiss his ware.
This “You Must Buy My Laptop’’ diktat is meant to channel gains to the private pockets of the masterminds of this policy. The scheme apparently arose from the tryst of a person with links to a laptop dealership and someone that boasts a student population that could be turned into a compulsory market.
It’s a conspiracy to swindle!
If the administration was only interested in ensuring that the new intakes have the technology they need to start their adventure on campus, the university would not need to push the kids to buy from its stock. They would not be told they must buy their laptops from Ozumba’s hands, at Ozumba’s price.
This scheme divests those who don’t own a laptop of the right to buy laptops with specifications that fit their choice and interest. They must pay for a uniform laptop that the all-wise Ozumba has decided would satisfy the spectrum of their individual tastes.
This laptop thing is a niche for racketeering. The policy originated from mercantile greed. Some predators had thought up this scheme, calculated the likely profits, and then proceeded to invent an excuse to make the eggs of their financial fantasy hatch elephants!
The truth is that the market is full of high quality laptops of affordable price. The students can buy themselves laptops; everyone according to their means. The fact that they met UNN’s admission requirements is a proof that they are capable of making intelligent decisions.
In Nigeria, public servants tend to demonstrate ingenuity in creating opportunity for self-enrichment. They study their work environment and parlay the powers at their disposal to create a mischievous initiative that will fatten their savings.
And the word that encapsulates this misuse of power is CORRUPTION!
Ozumba manipulated the levers of his office in a way that compromises public interest and delivers profit to individual pockets. He deployed his authority to drain his students and favor the bottom line of some laptop suppliers.
He must be made to drop this business deal for the sake of something that is more important than countable naira bills: the future of young people.
The students Ozumba is scaring away from the gates of UNN have already walked a long road. They studied hard to meet the academic requirements for admission. They notched up the requisite number of O-level credits. They sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and scored above the cut-off point. They took another qualification test and earned the marks that fetched them their current placements.
Why should the Vice Chancellor who ought to embrace these kids push them away? Why is he suggesting they need to perform money ritual to cap their admission eligibility?
It is a shame that, in Nigeria, public officials who have a responsibility for making things work often work hard making sure things don’t work. David Mark, then Minister of Communication who was supposed to access to telecommunication service, was proud to affirm that the poor should not aspire to owning a telephone. Ozumba, the Vice Chancellor who is obligated to attract the best brains in the university catchment area and beyond, is scaring bright but poor brains them away from the university.
Ozumba seems to have revised the scriptural quotation that illustrates the rich’s difficult path to heaven into a discriminatory disqualifier for the poor who intends to come to ‘his’ university. He appears to have made it easier for a camel to pass through the needle’s eye than for a poor kid to enter the gates of the University of Nigeria!
Many Nigerian families recognize the importance of education. They know that education is a game changer. They know education breaks the cycle of inherited poverty. They know the educated acquires an escape velocity that frees him from the imprisonment of an impoverished family background. This explains why many poor Nigerians are sworn to seeing their children through to the university.
Struggling widows in Nigeria sell their prized wears to pay their children’s school fees. Some men sell their plots of land. They sweat in their farms and building sites. They delay personal gratifications. They borrow when there is little or nothing else to sell. They sow in hope, praying that their sacrifice would exorcise illiteracy and penury from their bloodline.
An Ozumba seated in a cozy Vice Chancellor’s office is a stranger to these realities. The comfort he lives in would make him less inclined to consider the impact of his decision on the base that feeds him majority of his intake. But Nigeria cannot allow a big man’s insensitivity to consume the future of education-hungry Nigerians.
A couple of weeks ago, South African students marched in the streets. They rallied in their thousands. They protested against a proposed 11.5% hike in fees due to go into effect next year. They battled for a future that was about to slip away from their hands. And they won. They secured an increment-free 2016 academic session.
In University of Nigeria, there is a mockery of Students’ Union Government that can neither mobilize a viable protest against this murderous deal nor articulate a compelling case against it.
Successive administrations in the recent past have cumulatively neutered UNN students’ representative body. They randomly suspended student union activities and destroyed the pattern of transmission of the Den’s union culture through mentorship. When they deigned to approve the restoration of the students’ union, they excluded vibrant and popular students from vying for leadership positions and installed pliant figureheads.
As a former UNN students’ union leader, I feel duty-bound by my retrospective role to urge the University of Nigeria Alumni Association to prevail on UNN VC to scrap this laptop imposition. I call on the regulator of the Nigerian university system, the National University Commission, to direct Ozumba to desist from bartering students for pecuniary gain.
Those who weaved this scam must not be permitted to enjoy their spoil. The kids who have paid should be refunded. Those who have yet to pay should be allowed to complete the university’s registration formalities.
The kids who have earned their placements should not be slaughtered on the altar of Mammon. Smart Nigerians should not be turned away from their dream university because of a life-and-death laptop supply contract!

I hail you, the great Jagaban. The man that ruled Lagos state for eight years despite all Obasanjo's attempt to take the state from him, and since then has maintained the hold of the state since then. He later extended his empire to the whole south west.

Amaechi has one of the most juicy ministry, transportation. Land, Air, Marine and Rail transportations are all under him. If want to know what is in marine transportation, ask Hon Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu state governor). Also, if you want to know what is in Aviation, ask Princess Odua and FFK. I was laughing when I read some uninformed/misinformed people commenting that its all about motor park agboro stuff.

Kayode gets Solid minierals; Fasola gets Power housing works

Rotimi Amaechi, immediate past governor of Rivers state is the minister of Transportation.


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