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NO fewer than 22 ghost primary schools and 24 head teachers have been discovered in the Chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger State.

Investigations showed that between the ghost schools and head teachers, a whopping N76m was being lost monthly.

The discovery of the ‘ghosts’ followed a staff audit ordered by the Chairman of the local government, Alhaji Inuwa Adamu Fuka.

It was discovered that in addition to the ‘ghost’ schools and head teachers, some senior staff of the local government, who either had been transferred to the state’s Ministry for Local Government or were retired, still drew their salaries, at least, up to the end of April this year.

Some of the ‘ghosts’ schools were located in Minna, the capital of the state. Investigation revealed the names of the schools as Kurmin Sarki Primary School (located in the low cost area of the state capital), Angwan Gaya Model Primary School, Awal Ibrahim Primary School, Bagudu Waziri Primary School, as well as Rabah Kede Primary School.

Part of the shocking discovery, according to the investigation, is a level 5 staff of the local government that was drawing the salary of a level 15 officer. Also, an employee who withdrew his appointment to join the Federal Government parastatal still had his name on the pay roll and was collecting his salary monthly until April.

According to the findings, the Chairman of the local government, Alhaji Adamu Fuka, had directed that all the ‘ghost’ schools and head teachers’ salaries should be stopped, until the audit team had completed its assignment and submitted a report to the council.

In addition, it was gathered that Fuka had asked that those involved in the scam should be identified and their names submitted to his office.

“You are to identify and submit the names of scheduled officers responsible for the payment as from January 2010 to April 2016,” he said.

When contacted, Fuka neither denied not confirm the story. He however said, “I have heard what you are talking about. Wait for a report to be submitted to me to enable me say something on the issue.”

Governor Abubakar Sani Bello had recently directed all local government chairmen in the state to carry out a staff audit to identify genuine workers. He said this would bring down the huge salary bills paid by the local government areas.

http://www.punchng.com/niger-uncovers-22-ghost-schools-24-head-teachers/

SANDOSKI:
M shy

lol , no worry na only me go see am
i no go show anybody

The bill proposing to lower the eligible age for presidential candidates and those interested to run for public offices in Nigeria passed second reading in the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

If passed into a law it will lower age of candidacy requirements for the office of the president from 40 to 30 years, and will also allow the 30-year-olds to run for the office of a governor and for election to the Senate.

Besides, it will reduce the age qualifications to contest for the House of Representatives and State Houses of Assembly to 25 years. The sponsor of the bill is Tony Chinedu Nwulu who represents Oshodi-Isolo 11 Federal Constituency of Lagos state, on platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The lawmaker believes that the intiative will attract more youths in politics and governance, he stressed that electing young candidates into public offices is an important aspect of democratic practices.

Explaining his position he gave an example of other countries where age of candidacy requirements were reduced. He said: “Countries like the United Kingdom parliament decided in 2006 to lower their age of candidacy from 21 to 18, which had existed since the Parliamentary Elections Act 1695. An age candidacy of 25 would encourage greater youth participation in politics.”

Mr Nwulu is convinced that the bill is a demonstration of the growing desire and demand of youths to participate in the country governance. He added: “This desire itself could be viewed as a sufficient warrant for young people to participate, demonstrate a willingness to engage and fulfill the burdens of office.”

The bill also promotes the independence of candidacy into the country’s electoral process. He said: “It is pertinent now to amend the constitution to make room for independent candidates to widen the democratic processes in our elections, and above all to encourage our young ones to fully participate in all elective offices.”

The Bill is an alteration of section 65, 106, 131 and 177 of the 1999 constitution which had prescribed qualification into the office of President to 40 years and above, office of governors and senate, 35 years and above as well as House of Representatives and state Houses of Assembly to 25 years and above.

https://www.naij.com/854592-reps-reduce-age-candidacy-president-govs-senate-30-years.html

SANDOSKI:
...


Chai I no reach quarter for wer dis gal dey ....

make we see am

There was confusion in some parts of Kakuri, in Kaduna South Local Government Area, when a 41-year-old carpenter, Mr. Francis Emmanuel Francis, almost lost his right eye on Tuesday following an attack on him by Muslim youths for not observing the Ramadan fast.

This is coming barely a week after a 74-year-old, Mrs Bridget Agbahime, was murdered in Kano for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Mohammed.

An eyewitness account had it that the carpenter courted trouble for himself when he was spotted by some Muslim boys in the Sokoto Road area of Kakuri, at about 2.30pm, eating when others were supposed to be observing the fast. This drew the ire of the youth who started beating him.

Emmanuel, according to the eyewitness, was given the beating of his life and subsequently rushed to the St. Gerard Catholic Hospital, where he is currently receiving medical treatment.

He was inflicted with deep machete cuts on his head and other parts of his body during the incident.

Narrating his ordeal to journalists from his hospital bed, Emmanuel said he was taking his lunch when the boys, numbering about six, descended on him on the grounds that he was not fasting.

He said, “I went to buy wood to do some work. When I came back, I bought food to eat. As I was eating, about six Hausa boys came and asked me whether I was a Muslim or a Christian. I did not answer them. They asked me why I was not fasting. I told them that I am not a Muslim.

“Before I know it, one of them slapped me. As I stood up, the rest came and surrounded me and started attacking me with knives. I didn’t know them. Nobody could come to my aid because of the type of dangerous knives they were carrying.

“They used cutlasses, scissors and knives. I became unconscious; I don’t even know who brought me to the hospital.”

http://www.punchng.com/muslim-youths-attack-carpenter-eating-fasting/

kernel501:
Your entire village for the next 100 years, may never get to the height he's gotten to, mark my word... may never, not will never.

neither will yours

its as simple as that

kernel501:
Your entire village for the next 100 years, may never get to the height he's gotten to, mark my word... may never, not will never.

neither will urs

ajebuter:
Thanks.. Your compliment is flattering..

u welcome

she fine pass rehanna self

multikolour:
No humble and meekness type of leadership

i agree with u on that aspect, but those are not the only characteristics of a good president u knw

i dont know y but i hav a feeling that the guy was on the receiving end



click like if u think its the guys blood on the floor and share 4 the girl

multikolour:
GEJ I really miss your style of leadership, God bless you sir.

and wat style of leadership could that be?


the corrupt style?

lol, jona no fit eat watin them put 4 table,he even looks sad


if to say them give am kain kain

him 4 dey smile lol

ritababe:
lol no dare us.

lol, see arsenal fan they talk ooo

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ritababe:
oya tell me the table, abi no be table them they use arrange champions league?

watin be the difference, manu no qualify 4 cl, arsenal go reach round of 16 and end the season trophyless

ritababe:
last never pass, u dey talk 5-10 years ago

madam 4get dat thing, even yesterday na past tense

ritababe:
those one na past tense na future I dey talk

watin happen to chelsea no be past tense

ritababe:
yes, anything can happen did u see Chelsea last season.

thats chelsea, we are talking about the most successful and the richest club in Britain

e be like say Jonathan smoke cannabis/cocaine b4 him deliver that speech

ritababe:
lol even with mouthrino una go still relegate

lol tel me, frm the bottom of ur heart do u think that is possible

1. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't.

2. "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

3. "I'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I can't possibly be beat."

4. "Don’t count the days; make the days count."

5. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it." Jesse Jackson said this as early as 1983, according to the Associated Press, and Ali used it in his 2004 book.

6. “It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am."

7. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”

8. “If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.”

9. “Braggin' is when a person says something and can’t do it. I do what I say.”

10. "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

11. "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

12. "I'm so mean, I make medicine sick."

13. "I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked."

14. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

15. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

16. "A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

17. “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”

18. "I shook up the world. Me! Whee!"

19. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”

20. “At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.”

21. "A man who has no imagination has no wings."

22. "He’s (Sonny Liston) too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty like me!"

23. "I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."

24. “I’ve wrestled with alligators. I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning. And throw thunder in jail.”

25. "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."

26. “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”

27. "I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them."

28. "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

29. “I’m not the greatest, I’m the double greatest.”

30. “Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”


Muhammad Ali
✔
@MuhammadAli

“How tall are you? So I can know in advance how far to step back when you fall down!” #MuhammadAli



http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/boxing/2016/06/03/muhammad-ali-best-quotes-boxing/85370850/

ritababe:
na them sabi



#whats holding vardy? sign that thing na

i hate arsenal, but female fans like u come dey make me like the club


dont get it twisted,man u till rapture

otijah:
If Olympus the most protected building on earth fell, what is common aso rock .

My own happiness is that BUBU have pick race as usual so if u are still there, u ar at Ur own peril.

see what film has done to ur brain


smh 4 u

The pastor of an evangelical church in Essex has been fined for holding 'unbearably loud' services in the middle of the night.

Akinseye Iyun, head of the Celestial Church of Christ in Grays, Essex, led services involving amplified music, drumming and chanting as often as four times a week, frequently finishing as late as 4am.

And he ignored complaints from neighbours, claiming that the building had been sound-proofed.

"It's not really reasonable the amount of noise they're making – you don't hear that from any other church," one local told the Thurrock Gazette.

"When it's going full blast, I can hear every word the preacher is saying. They're not really taking care of the residents at all."

However, after months of broken nights for locals, Iyun has finally been prosecuted at Basildon magistrates' court, where he was found guilty of breaching a noise abatement notice. He's been ordered to pay £1,241.50 in fines and costs.

Mr Iyun, 38, has apologised for causing a disturbance, saying it wasn't intentional. He has scrapped the late-night programme, so that services will now run from 7pm to 8pm on Wednesdays and Fridays, and to 9pm on one Thursday a month.

And he's been warned that if, despite this, the noise continues to be unreasonable, his PA equipment will be seized.

Evangelical churches frequently cause problems with their neighbours, thanks to their often highly enthusiastic services.

Earlier this year, Kingdom Church in Camberwell was fined £8,000 for holding weekly 'healing and miracle' services in the early hours of the morning. And the church insisted that these middle-of-the-night services were necessary because 'It is a well-known time that witchcraft and negative elements begin to work in the early hours of the morning'.

But more traditional churches can infuriate their neighbours too. Most commonly, it's a case of objections to church bells - but not always.

Last year, for example, the 13th century St James the Great Church in Thorley, Hertfordshire, was accused of making residents' lives 'hell' for using barns on the site to host parties.

"We don't want to upset the church, but we don't want drunken wedding guests wandering around shouting outside our houses," one resident complained.

Neighbours wishing to complain about noise - from however godly the source - should contact their local council.

http://tribuneonlineng.com/white-garment-church-fined-%C2%A3230-in-uk-for-noise-pollution

that second pic from bottom hmmmm
u go fear aerial view selfie nw

OP correct urself, its ATM and nt ATM Machine

The Kogi state governorship election petitions tribunal has ruled that Hon. James Faleke has no locus stand to file any petition against the election of Yahaya Bello as Governor of Kogi state.

The Tribunal, therefore, dismissed Faleke’s petition against Bello.

Faleke, the running mate of the initial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Abubakar Audu, had gone to the Tribunal seeking his declaration as the valid candidate of the party for the election and his declaration as Governor.

Faleke said with the death of Audu on the day the results of the initial election was being announced, he should have stepped into the shoes of Audu.

But while the duo have continued with their legal tussle, a minister in the Muhammadu Buhari cabinet, Chris Ngige, recently called Yahaya a lucky man.https://www.naij.com/851110-breaking-tribunal-dismisses-james-falekes-petition-governor-yahaya-bello.html

“He is a child of circumstance. He is a governor that inherited votes and whether anyone likes it not, he will remain as governor at least for the next four years,” he said.