₦airaland Forum

We don't have to be
happy with this news,because
one thing is so sure that once
they stop the ATM charges the
ATM machines will no longer be
effective as it used to be. The ATM situation will be worst than what we are experiencing
now. And the issue of Debiting
will increase. if they the banks
can make the ATM more
effective and maybe charge let's say N50 Fifty Naira per
transaction I think that is very
reasonable too. There is
nowhere ATM transaction is
free even in the developed
world. If we are happy that they stop the charges today
we will still come back to this
forum to cry for the
ineffectiveness of the ATM
machine in no time. I see this as
a Greek gift.

The commercial banks doing business in Nigeria may lose millions of naira to the new regime stopping them from charging customers N100 for using Automated Teller Machines (ATM) per transaction.

Under the outgoing regime, a customer using the ATM of another bank is charged N100 per transaction. The banks, under the Bankers Committee, after a meeting in Abuja, recently opted to stop the fee, saying it was a sacrifice they have to make to ease the pains of their customers.

The Group Managing Director, First Bank Plc, Mr. Bisi Onasanya, said the decision will help to increase the patronage of ATMs in the country.

He said, “When you use the ATM of a bank other than your bank, there is a charge of N100, which is borne by the account holder. We have decided that we will work out the modality and ensure that with immediate effect we will pass on this cost to respective banks to bear the cost of providing services.”

He added, “No matter where you are withdrawing your money from, you will not be subjected to any charge for using the ATM. The new policy does not cover withdrawals inside the banking hall when the ATMs are off. But for transaction on what we call ‘not on us,’ when you are a customer with First bank, you can use the ATM of a GTB bank, it is free and you will no longer bear any cost”.

www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/atm-banks-to-lose-millions/

Abuja – Miss Winfrey Okolo, a
student of the University of Benin,
has won the 2012 Miss University
Nigeria (MUN) beauty pageant. Okolo emerged the winner by
beating 48 other contestants in
Abuja on Friday night. The beauty queen received a
star prize of a Nissan Sony car
and one million naira. In an interview after her
installation, Okolo said that the
event marked her first
participation at a beauty
contest, thanking God for
enabling her to excel at the competition. She, however, pledged to make
good use of her position to
affect the lives of Nigerian
youths. “I will try to stimulate a change
in the Nigerian university system; I
will endeavour to promote
modesty, hard work and a lot of
things that will bring out the
students’ confidence,’’ Okolo said. NAN reports that the competition
was a “no-bikini pageant’’ that
was particularly aimed at
promoting the African culture
and discouraging indecent
dressing among the youth. Mr Taylor Nazzal, the President
of MUN Organisation, said that he
was happy to touch the lives of
many young Nigerians. “We can always inspire women
out there to be better leaders of
tomorrow. They are all potential
wives and if you groom them well,
you’ve succeeded in grooming
the men and the whole world,’’ he said. Nazzal said that the new beauty
queen would be Nigeria’s student
ambassador to the United
Nations (UN), adding that she
would also be engaged to carry
out charity assignments. He also noted that Okolo would
represent Nigeria at the Miss
University Africa pageant
involving 53 countries in South
Africa and the Miss United
Nations pageant in New York next year. In her remark, the FCT Minister of
State, Mrs Olajumoke Akinjide,
said that the pageant was also
promoting the government’s
vision for the youth. The minister, who was
represented by Dr Geoffrey
Chukwuemeka, a Director in FCT
Administration (FCTA), noted that
the beauty contest also created
an avenue for the contestants to exhibit their talents because it
was not about beauty alone. Akinjide said that the pageant
also reinforced the FCTA’s goal
of promoting national unity and
peace. “It also supports our plans aimed
at discovering the potential of
our female youth, protection of
our female youth and
discouragement of indecent
dressing, prostitution and other social vices among young ladies,’’
she said. The `non-bikini’ beauty pageant
began in 2007 and its 2011
edition was won by Miss
Temitope Olowoniyan of Ahmadu
Bello University (ABU), Zaria. (NAN)
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/okolo-wins-miss-university-nigeria-beauty-pageant/

Yahoo! after a court battle has been ordered by a Mexican court breach of contract involving a yellow pages listings service. Although, the US firm have decided to appeal
as it claimed that the allegations were
without merit and would vigorously pursue all
appeals. The civil case was brought by Worldwide
Directories and Ideas Interactivas against
Yahoo! and Yahoo! De Mexico. The two firms claim to have suffered breach
of contract, breach of promise and lost
profits arising from contracts related to a
listings service. Yahoo! said the ruling by the 49th Civil Court
of the Federal District of Mexico City was only
a preliminary judgement, and vowed to fight
on. It was not immediately clear when the lawsuit
had been filed against Yahoo! Worldwide Directories and Ideas Interactivas
could not immediately be reached for
comment. Documents from local courts in Mexico are not
available for public consultation. Shares of Yahoo! were down 1.7% at $18.45 in
after-hours trading in the wake of the news. In October, Yahoo! reported that its
quarterly profit rocketed above $3bn
(£1.9bn), fuelled by the sale of part of its
stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The Californian Company’s revenue from
display advertising was little changed from
the same quarter last year. But Yahoo! said its income from adverts which
appeared alongside online search results was
up by 11%. It has been trying to reinvent itself after
being overtaken by Google for internet
searches.
www.channelstv.com/home/2012/12/01/mexican-court-orders-yahoo-to-pay-2-7bn-for-breach-of-contract/

Yea

I think the man has a solid point. The
country's style of democratic
governance is obviously too expensive
for us. You can imagine a situation
where mr President appoints over 40
ministers and same number of people as ministers of state for such numbers
of ministries, and each of them will in
turn, be entitled to employ a large
number of retiny of special assistants
and advicers and they'll be on huge
salaries and allowances and most of the time, these people have nothing
tangible to show for all the monies
paid to them. It is this class of people
that should have their numbers
reduced, not the ordinary civil servant,
whose N18,000 minimum wage, can barely be enough for him.

The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has lashed out on those calling for his sack over his purported statement that the federal government should reduce the work force in the country.

Speaking to Channels Television’s correspondent, Chukwuma Onuekwusi, in London at the end of the 13th session of the Honorary International Investors council meeting, Mr Sanusi said that those calling for his sack “are shying away from the reality of the time”.

He said he was not talking about the sack of civil servants but a reduction in the size of political appointees who take 70 percent of government revenue leaving a mere 30 percent for the 160 million Nigerians.

According to him “what Nigeria is practising is an American system of government that is very expensive”.

He said that he cannot join issues with anyone calling for his sack.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUazPIQAJoE

www.channelstv.com/home/2012/11/30/sanusi-lashes-back-at-those-calling-for-his-sack/

Less than a week after Forbes
Magazine chronicled the list of 40
richest Africans in which 11 of them
were Nigerians; another different
list emerged that was unfavourable
to Nigeria. The quantification and tabulation by
Forbes, maintained that Aliko
Dangote was still the richest person
in Africa for two consecutive years,
2011 and 2012 respectively. Many
Nigerians were probably proud to have one of their own at the top of
the list. Of course, Dangote works for
his money and has been providing
jobs to Nigerians. He is part of the
solution by heavily investing in Nigeria
and Africa, unlike those that siphoned their wealth abroad. And here comes the bombshell, The
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a
sister company of The Economist
magazine, complied a list of its 2013
Where-to-be-born Index and of the
80 countries evaluated, quantified and covered, Nigeria comes last in the
ranking at 80 out of 80: "it is the
worst place for a baby to enter the
world in 2013." This is beyond just a
bad news, it is depressing, no matter
how you look at it. Nigeria is among the worst and
miserable places for wealth
redistribution and income inequality
in the world. An oil and mineral
resources rich nation, where less than
1% of the population controls about 99.5% of the country's wealth. This
implies that Nigeria wealth
distribution is more like a pyramid
with tiny wealthy class at the top
and large base of poor and
destitutes at the bottom. No country can progress without a thriving
middle class. Nigeria does not have a
middle class, but few very rich and the
large very poor. This is a pathway to
gloom and doom, not a recipe for
winning a future. Nigeria a nation of private jet
owners, tantalizing cars and
expensive wine drinkers, is also a
nation of massive homelessness,
joblessness, disease infected water
and starvation. Many women and children go to bed at nights on empty
stomach with malaria infected bodies.
Nigeria is the only oil exporting nation
without reasonable electricity,
drinking water and health care
facilities. Wole Shadare and Faith Oparugo,
writing in Guardian News on Nigeria's
growing ownership of private jets
wrote: "WITH Nigeria holding the record of a
country with the highest private jet
ownership in Africa, the aviation
sector has brought into sharp relief
the paradox of a nation that is
endowed with huge oil resources but where only a few are wealthy. In a country where the average
Nigerian lives on less than $1 a day,
there is a super rich class of business
moguls, bankers, preachers,
politicians and oil magnates whose
private ownership of jets is more than that of any other country. While
the rich can afford such luxuries, the
economic crisis in the nation is seen in
a situation where the aviation sector
needs financial succour from the
Federal Government. According to an official of
Bombardier, the Canadian aircraft
manufacturer, Nigeria ranks behind
the United States, United Kingdom, and
China among countries that top their
orders for the supply of the aircraft type; just as there are indications
that N1.30 trillion may have been
expended in the last seven years.
Nigeria is said to top the market for
private jet ownership." Well this time around, the country of
jet owners has been classified as the
worst place to be born in the world. What does this really mean? Well, it is
loaded and this is not good for
Nigeria and Nigerians. Without being
defensive as usual, the world is
actually losing the hope they
bestowed on Nigeria. Nigeria is not a confidence nation
and Nigeria without doubt, rely on
how the rest of the world sees her.
This is important because the world is
telling Nigeria that her so-called
image re-branding and public relation are not working. The most important
image re-branding is doing the right
thing, not tricking people to think
otherwise. The Economist Intelligence Unit
assessment actually means that
among the poorest countries in
Africa, Latin America and Asia, Nigeria
is the worst place to be born in 2013.
Cynics and realistic Nigeria may refute such an assumption and
conclusion, but that may not be
necessary because they do not have
the bigger microphone to dispute EIU
assertion and convince the rest of
the world that Nigeria is the 'best' country to be born. Nigerians do not have access to
media industry as big as CNN, BBC or
EIU that can
easily dispense and dissipate information
to all the four corners of the world.
Therefore Nigeria has to lick her wound and move on as usual. Nigeria is
now becoming like a football to be
kick around without any
consequences because our leaders
and policy makers are so
inconsequential in global affairs and do not command any respect. Is Nigeria really the worst place to
be born? The answer depends who is
answering the question. Of course
the fat cats and politicians will
resoundingly say NO, but the average
Nigerian without food, electricity and drinking water will say YES. But it is also easy to pick on Nigeria,
because of its management failure.
Nigeria's natural and human resources
have not been properly managed, due
to weaken internal mechanism
of operandi . This is the principal factor that deterred her from
greatness and parked her where she
found herself today. Nigeria can be a miserable place for
our youths whose unemployment rate
is at a disastrous and alarming level.
Our youths are poorly educated, and
less than 5% of them are gainfully
employed. This means that 95% of Nigerian youths are roaming the
streets without purpose and
employments. The implication of
this scenario is crime, restlessness and
vandalism that are running rampant
among energetic youths and elusive minds. The rate of joblessness for the
entire country is alarming, Nigerians
without full employment should be
approaching 75-80%. The operating
world is 'full employment' and when an
individual is fully employed, it means that he is not underemployed and he
can survive comfortably from the
gainful employment. Nigerian wealthy class are known for
spending their fortunes in foreign
lands. Big shops in places like
Dubai, London and many others
cannot be satiated until wealthy
Nigerians step into their expensive stores and impressed them with hard
currencies. At same time it must be
clearly clarified that spending one's
earned income is his right. But when
the rich could not utilize their
disposal income to help boast the well-being of their country, then
there is a problem. Nigeria must be serious about
improving the quality of life and well-
being of her people. The brain
drain occurring in Nigeria is not
healthy for the most populous
country in Africa. Nigeria needs all the brain power it can muster and as
much as it can gather to improve her
economy for her poor citizens. There
are emerging leaders and active
Nigerians that are rising to the
challenge of making their nation better but the critical mass has not
been approached. As The Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU) narrated: the "quality-of-life
index links the results of subjective
life-satisfaction surveys—how happy
people say they are—to objective
determinants of the quality of life across countries. Being rich helps
more than anything else, but it is not
all that counts; things like crime, trust
in public institutions and the health of
family life matter too. In all, the index
takes 11 statistically significant indicators into account. They are a
mixed bunch: some are fixed factors,
such as geography; others change
only very slowly over time
(demography, many social and
cultural characteristics); and some factors depend on policies and the
state of the world economy." Corruption has arrested affirmative
development in Nigeria. The country
must slow down corruption to be
able to win the future for posterity.
Corruption has become so bad in
Nigeria, that even sports, the only institution that Nigerians
collectively adored has been touched
by corruption. The Nigerian Green
Eagles coach recently narrated how
bribery and corruption played a role
in selection of the players. Nigerians are becoming sick and tired
of hearing Nigeria called, " the most
corrupt, the worst country, the bad
and the ugly". For once Nigerians
desire to be proud to announce to all
and sundry - We are Nigerians without anybody reminding them
how backward, corrupt or bad
Nigeria is. When is that going to
happen? Or Nigerians asking too
much?

It will be an unusual atmosphere at
the exquisite Eko Hotel and Suites,
Victoria Island, Lagos this evening,
as an unusual music concert,tagged,
the mother of all shows, TOP10MICS
holds in grand style. Organised by entertainment
powerhouse, Koga, the concert has
been generating heat in the past
few weeks in respect of what to
expect today as African queen
crooner, Tuface Idibia, Kokomaster, Dbanj, Afrobeat Icon, Femi Kuti, Juju
Star, Sir Shina Peters, Ace Humorist,
BasketMouth, popular OAP, Yaw, DJs
Jimmy Jatt and Neptune get set to
thrill their fans. The organisers have also confirmed
that there would be 10% discount on
tickets bought online This year's TOP10MICS has been
described as the ' battle of the
young and the old breed' as two of
Nigerian best music acts, Femi Kuti
and Sir Shina Peters go head to head
with the likes of 2face, D'banj and others. Speaking on the concert, Anu
Awoseyi of Koga Entertainment
informed that there will be new
twist to this year's concert. "We
have been encouraged by the volume
of tickets sold so far. For those fans who would be at the concert today,
there is something more to this
concert that would separate it
from the usual ones. I am not
allowed to reveal the specifics now
but there would be new twists to this year's concert, last year's event
was a little predictable but this
year's show won't be like that from
the performance of the headlining
artistes to the organisation for the
concert". When asked how it has been working
on the TOP10MICS project, Anu said
"TOP10MICS is a big brand, it has not
been easy for us at Koga and even
our partners, it is not easy when an
organisation decides to stage the mother of all shows but we have
been able to break new grounds
together because of the team spirit
at Koga".
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LAGOS—The Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) has
dismissed the call for the sack of
Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as governor of the Central Bank of
Nigeria, CBN by the Nigeria
Labour Congress as self-serving. The party said the labour
leadership’s call was only aimed
at winning back popular support
after the same leadership
betrayed the masses when it
unceremoniously surrendered at the peak of the popular revolt
against the hike in fuel prices at
the beginning of the year. The NLC had on Wednesday
called for Sanusi’s sack upon his
submission that the civil service
be trimmed for the purpose of
fiscal discipline. In a statement issued by the
party’s national publicity
secretary, Engr. Rotimi Fashakin,
the CPC, nevertheless, upbraided
the ruling Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP for mismanaging the economy. “Whilst we do not agree that the
cause of the exorbitant
recurrent expenditure is wholly
due to the size of the public
service work-force and that the
sacking of half its size is the solution to the identified
problem, we believe the call for
the call for the sacking of the
forthright Public officer for
volunteering his personal opinion
is equally preposterous. It is our belief that the fiscal indiscipline
of this Jonathan-led
administration has exacerbated
the Nation’s malaise!” “We equally believe that rather
vilifying the CBN governor for the
commentary, this should throw
up meaningful discourse on
extricating the Nation from the
financial recklessness of this PDP-led Federal Government.” “In
the first place, the CBN governor
is not in a position to implement
policy for sacking the Nation’s
public servants. At best, Mallam
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi aired his personal opinion. We are at a loss
at the nexus between his
personal opinion and the
strident call for his sack, except
there are other sinister
underpinnings in this call.” “As a Party, we have equally
taken note of the ignominious
manner this present crop of
Labour leadership truncated, in
January 2012, the people’s
popular refusal to yield to the exploitative tendencies of the
Nation’s rulers. In the course of
scuttling the people’s revolt,
some of these Labour leaders
got appointed into some dodgy
committees that were not primed to achieve result. This is why we
view this call by the Labour
leaders for Sanusi’s sack as a
cheap, opportunistic (albeit
languid) ploy to crawl back to
the people’s reckoning.” “We believe that responsible
leadership is about selflessness
and consistency. We advise the
Nation’s Labour leaders to
critically examine the policies of
governments (Federal and State) that impinge on the well-being of
the people instead of looking for
scape-goat for cheap populism.”
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/sanusi-nlc-call-is-hypocritical-cpc/

A record obtained from the state Traffic Management Authority on Thursday showed that there were 619 accidents involving 1,204 vehicles. The record showed that 633 commercial and 571 private vehicles were involved in the accidents, while the people that died were 80 males and 44 females. Four hundred and eighty one persons were injured in the accidents. The injured males were 309 and female were 172. LASTMA said of the 619 road accidents, 94 were fatal, 159 serious and 366 minor. A further breakdown showed that 18 of the crashes happened in January, involving 26 commercial and 12 private
vehicles. Ten people were injured but no death was recorded. In February, however, 81 accident cases were recorded involving 82 commercial and 71 private vehicles. About 11 persons (seven males and four females) lost their lives. No fewer than 37 people were injured. Road crashes in the state in March were low compared to the previous month as 41 cases involving 43 commercial and 34 private vehicles were recorded. The causality figure was high with 22 deaths, involving 12 males and 10 females. About 44 people were injured. In April, the LASTMA’s record showed that 29 road accidents occurred, involving 38 commercial and 25 private
vehicles. Seven people died while 21 others were injured. Fifty five accidents were recorded in May, involving 58 commercial and 38 private vehicles. The accidents claimed six lives, with 46 people injured. Road accidents in June were 60, with seven males and three females losing their lives. About 77 commercial and 59
private vehicles were involved, while 48 persons were injured. Road crashes in Lagos in July were 81,
involving 69 commercial and 72 private
vehicles. About 17 people died, while 58 people were injured. In August, LASMA’s record showed that there were 71 accidents in the state involving 56 commercial and 86 private vehicles. About 13 people (11 male and two females) died, while 99 people were injured. The beginning of ember months in September recorded 90 accidents involving 97 commercial and 77 private
vehicles. The accidents claimed 17 lives
and left 45 people injured. There were 93 crashes in October, involving 87 commercial and 97 private
vehicles. No fewer than 21 people died, while 73 others were injured.
www.punchng.com/news/accidentslagos-records-124-deaths-in-10-months/

True Talk.

Those that are
supposed to uphold the
laws breaks the law. Those that
we entrusted with our money
steals them. Those we
entrusted with leading us are leading us astray, those
entrusted with providing us
jobs are daily selling our
national heritages to
themselves in the name of
privatisation.f.uck this country

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, arrested a police officer who rode his 100 CC commercial motorcycle on the Agege Motor Road, Ikeja in defiance of the traffic law.

It would be recalled that the state governor, on August 2, signed into law the road traffic law which restricted the activities of Okada operators on 475 roads in the metropolis.

The officer, Mr. Ebahan Johnson, a Police Sergeant, who was accosted on the ever busy expressroad by the governor at the Airport Bus-stop, Ikeja, during an inspection tour of on-going projects in the Lagos-West Senatorial District of the state, was riding a red Bajaj motorcycle.
Johnson, who initially resisted arrest, succu- mbed when he realised that it was the governor that accosted him.

Speaking on the arrest, Fashola said; “There is no one who would be above the law. If anyone cannot submit himself to the law of the state, then that person should please, leave the state.”

The governor warned that the state government will not condone any violation of the road traffic law which was signed into law to bring sanity into road transportation.

According to him: “There is no society where laws are not broken but the state government will increase its enforcement to ensure that residents of the state comply with the law.

“And as we move on the road if we see anyone violating the law, we will stop and arrest him.”
According to the governor, the officer in question will be handed to the Commissioner of Police, Umar Mankko for proper prosecution.

“I am sure he would be prosecuted,” he said.





www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/fashola-arrests-policeman-riding-okada-on-restricted-road/

A clash in Agbere community, Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Tuesday claimed the lives of 12 people, including a policeman.

The clash was triggered by the chieftaincy tussle in the community, which has split the youths of the community into factions.

The community has been tensed since the administration of former Governor Timipre Sylva sacked Chief Aziza Ekide for alleged breach of the chieftaincy laws and replaced him with Chief Victor Alali as acting paramount ruler.

11 youths were killed during a clash involving youths of the community over who becomes the paramount ruler of the community, while the policeman was said to have been killed when some youths invaded and sacked the police station in the community.

The state government has deployed armed policemen and soldiers to the community.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said the situation has been brought under control.

www.channelstv.com/home/2012/11/28/bayelsa-chieftaincy-dispute-clash-claims-12-lives/

Na wa o! :-just finished reading one of his books. EAT THAT FROG.

The Chairman, IndependentNational Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Attahiru Jega, said on Wednesday that the commission was ready to issue permanent electronic voters' card that would be valid for 10 years. ``With the design of the card and specification it will serve for an average of 10 years, as it could also be used for the 2019 elections.'' He said in Abuja that the electronic voters' card would eliminate electoral fraud and ensure credible and transparent polls.

Speaking at an INEC/civil society dialogue on plans and progress towards the 2015 elections, Jega said that was as a result of the features on the electronic card, which, he added, included micro testing security, hologram, and finger prints. ``The cards will be an electronic card to be used for identification, authentication and for voting, also it will prevent multiple voting and frauds.

The chairman said that card readers would take the finger print and determine the legitimacy of the owners of the card and that it would be used during the 2015 elections. He said with the introduction of card readers, matching the electoral manipulations and fraudulent activities of people buying voters card and multiple voting would be eliminated.

``There is a lot of work to be done, we have to procure card readers and we have started this, we have made budget for it and we are receiving support. ``This budget year we are buying 500 and under the 2013/14 budget we are buying the rest, so by 2015 there will be enough card readers to deploy to polling units to ensure 100 per cent authentication. Jega said INEC would commence the issuance of permanent voters' card early in 2013, as the contract for the production of 40 million voters registered card out of the 73.5 million registered had been awarded.

He said INEC was doing the last stage of the processing of the second batch of the contract and by the middle of 2014 all the eligible voters that had registered would have been given their permanent voters' card. ``There are 73.5 million eligible voters but for the first phase we will
print 40 million and another part of it for completion is in the budget for 2012," he said. He said the idea of doing voter registration once on the eve of election was now a thing of the past.

``There is a continuing process of registration in which any person who is eligible as required by the law can go to an established office and be registered. ``There are so many processes of this globally and INEC is embracing the best methodology, which will be launched nationwide next year. He said the beauty of the exercise was that most of the displaced people with adequate information and evidence would be re- registered.

``In Kogi, two of INEC offices were affected by the flood disaster, as we lost valuable items, but we must move ahead and will never allow the negative consequences of disaster to affect our job.'' He said INEC has enough Direct Data Capture Machines (DDC) bought for the 2011 general elections and the commission has identified the quantity required for the exercise.

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1. Jose Mourinho – Real Madrid (£12.3m)
2. Carlo Ancelotti – Paris St. Germain
(£10.9m)
3. Marcelo Lippi – Guangzhou (£8.7m)
4. Sir Alex Ferguson – Manchester
United (£7.6m) 5. Arsene Wenger – Arsenal (£7.5m)
6. Guus Hiddink – Anzhi (£6.7m)
7. Fabio Capello – Russia (£6.3m)
8. Tito Vilanova – Barcelona (£5.6m)
9. Jose Camacho – China (£4.8m)
10. Roberto Mancini – Manchester City (£4.8m)
11. Frank Rijkaard – Saudi Arabia
(£4.3m)
12. Jupp Heynckes – Bayern Munich
(£4.2m)
13. Andre Villas-Boas – Tottenham (£3.6m)
14. Harry Redknapp – QPR (£3.2m)
15. Jorge Jesus – Benfica (£3.2m)
16. David Moyes – Everton (£2.9m)
17. Manuel Pellegrini – Malaga (£2.9m)
18. Paulo Autuori – Qatar (£2.9m) 19. Abel Braga – Fluminense (2.8m)
20. Luciano Spaletti – Zenit (£2.7m)
21. Antonio Conte – Juventus (£2.4m)
22. Cesare Prandelli – Italy (£2.4m)
23. Vanderlei Luxemburgo – Gremio
(£2.4m) 24. Muricy Ramalho – Santos (£2.4m)
25. Tite – Corinthians (£2.4m)
26. Ottmar Hitzfeld – Switzerland
(£2.1m)
27. Joachim Low – Germany (£2m)
28. Marcelo Bielsa – Athletic Bilbao (£2m)
29. Martin O’Neill – Sunderland (£2m)
30. Roy Hodgson – England (£2m)
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Wetin consign me

Military authorities have confirmed that two suicide bombs hit a church inside a military barracks of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, in Jaji, Kaduna state, killing 11 people and injuring 30 others. A military source confirmed that a bus
entered the barracks and was driven into the
wall of the Saint Andrews Protestant Church,
where it exploded and ten minutes later
another car blew up outside the church. Though the first blast caused no casualties,
the second blast however did as curious
worshippers gathered around the scene of
the first blast looking at the debris of the
initial explosion. The area has since been cordoned off. No one or group has claimed responsibility for
the attack.Northern state Governors The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF)
has commiserated with the Nigerian military
over Sunday’s bomb blast which killed some
worshippers at the Saint Andrews Protestant
Church, describing the attack as “cruel and
wicked.” Chairman of the forum and Governor of Niger
state, Alhaji Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, in a
statement made available to Channels TV
stated that “the deceased were heroes who
died in the course of service to our father
land, and prayed that God will grant repose to their souls and give their families and
friends the fortitude to bear the loss.” On behalf of other governors, the statement
reiterated its commitment to “continue to
work closely with the federal government in
finding a lasting solution to the security
challenges confronting some parts of the
north.” This is the second bombing this year, targeted
at military barracks of the Nigerian Army in
Kaduna state with the explosions at the 1st
Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army,
Kaduna in February, while in October about 100 people were injured as eight lives were lost after a suspected suicide bomber rammed
his car into the St. Rita’s Catholic Church,
Malali area of the state. Kaduna has also witnessed a number of other
explosions this year with some targeted at
worship centres. The February bombings were a coordinated
bomb explosions in three different parts of
the city. In August, a bomb explosion occurred in Kaduna metropolis, killing at least four people
along Ali Akilu road between Abakpa Total/
Shagalinku. In September, a series of bomb explosions rocked the city of Zaria in Kaduna state,
killing at least 3 people and injuring several
others. The blast which took place at Tukur
Tukur area near Barewa College, occurred
when soldiers of the Joint Task Force (JTF)
stormed some buildings, which were inhabited by suspected members of Boko Haram sec PREVIOUS REPORT A bomb explosion has claimed a number of lives at a church within the premises of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The explosion was reportedly caused by a car
bomb which was detonated in front of the
church inside the military barracks. A military officer who witnessed the bombing
and does not want to be named, told Reuters
news agency that “I saw five bodies and
scores injured.” An official of the National Emergency Agency
(NEMA) in Abuja, Mr Yushau A. Shuaib, has
confirmed the explosion to Channels TV saying,
“NEMA rescuers have been alerted to an
explosion at a military formation in Kaduna
state today and likely at a worship centre.” The casualty figure is yet to be ascertained. More details soon.
www.channelstv.com/home/2012/11/25/bomb-explosion-rocks-military-barracks-in-kaduna/

Johndoe100: Rule 1a - No policeman is allowed to collect more than =N=1,000 from any victim member of the public in respect of one complaint.
Rule 1b - All vehicles shall be inoperable anytime those bloody civilians our friends come crying that armed robbers are attacking them.
Rule 1c - (For Lagos command) Drop whatever you are doing and chase after okada riders. This is your main duty. All proceeds from this must be delivered to your DPO latest by 18:00 the next day.

True talk bro

I feel sorry for GEJ, who is
trapped between the Western
Oil companies and Nigerians. He
is trying to free Nigerians from
the bondage of economic ruin,
yet all he gets is abuse from the Nigerians he is trying to help.
When the revolution comes, one
assured outcome will be the loss
of the Niger Delta and with it
the so called fuel subsidy. We
will learn, over the bodies of our neighbors, brothers, pregnant
wives and sisters how to think
clearly and know our real
interests.
No group of intelligent honest
people be they NNPC, FGN can go and forcefully steal oil from the
oil producing communities with
the help of the IOCs. Only
looters can do it over the
protests of MEND, the Ogoni,
Ikwerre, and other oil producing communities. These
looters FGN and the oil
companies will never, never ever
be honest with Nigerians. One
would think after the Farouk
Lawan saga that our people will learn the bitter truth about
the so called fuel subsidy.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday advised President Goodluck Jonathan against further increases in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, warning that such increases would collapse the government.

Reacting to President Jonathan’s claim that only the removal of fuel subsidy will allow for domestic refining of fuel, NLC in a statement by its President, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, noted that President Jonathan’s claim was not only highly disturbing, but dishonest to Nigerians.

The statement contended that the January protests would seem a child’s play compared to what might follow any attempt to deregulate the downstream sector of the oil industry, which in government language meant increases in pump price of fuel.

According to the statement, “With the wave of revelations regarding monumental corruption in the Petroleum industry it will be unimaginable to contemplate any other thing than focusing on ridding the industry of the endemic corruption that has become so pervasive in the industry. Nigerians would love to see President Goodluck Jonathan dissipate energy on fighting corruption in the industry as he promised Nigerians. All those so far indicted in corrupt practices in the Fuel Subsidy scam have not yet been prosecuted. More revelations on corruption keep coming out by the day. The argument proffered that domestic refining of Petroleum products is only possible under private operators cannot be defended. Our refineries were built and operated successfully as fully public owned enterprises in the past until the industry was massively inflicted with corruption and home for corrupt government officials and their cronies, the refineries functioned well.”

“Today, the problem with the petroleum industry is largely lack of decency and political will on the part of the government to deal with those who have already been identified as having corruptly enriched themselves with funds meant for the industry. We believe Mr. President is not being honest with Nigerians about the real problems of the industry. The same President who set up several committees to identify the crisis in the industry and who have been given detailed reports by the committees cannot validly say he is still helpless. Some of the committees, including those set up by the National Assembly, particularly the House of Representatives Adhoc Committee led by Hon. Farouk Lawal identified not just the problems of the industry but specifically named individuals and companies who have diverted subsidies meant for the industry to private use. Majority of them are political associates of those in power. Indeed, the President has been seen severally hobnobbing in public with some of the key persons indicted by the reports.”

Continuing NLC said “In a decent society, all those who have been indicted by all the reports would have been facing accelerated prosecution or serving severe jail terms for committing economic crimes injurious to public interest. As at this moment, N1.7 trillion meant to subsidize the industry has been diverted by identified private individuals and companies and the government is not in any hurry to prosecute the alleged thieves. We can’t therefore understand why the President is in so much haste to inflict deeper poverty on Nigerians.’’

When government kept silent over the prevailing scarcity of petroleum products in the country, we alerted Nigerians that it was clear the government was testing grounds for further increases in fuel prices and we wish to reiterate our resolute rejection of such attempts.”

“No responsible government will allow private interests to hold her hostage against the collective interests of the people. It is becoming apparent that those in power seem more inclined serving individual interests than protecting our collective treasures. And we will massively mobilize Nigerians against his new anti people plans.

While the Department of Petroleum Resources of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum has the responsibility to ensure consumers are not shortchanged by marketers, the DPR, security and other government agencies watch helplessly as marketers sell far above the official rates.

They are even bold enough to display the unilaterally fixed new prices in their pump meters. These cannot be reigning under a serious government.”

“The crisis that will welcome any announcement of further withdrawal of subsidy on petroleum products will be so monumental and so far reaching than envisaged by anyone.

The January protests would seem a child’s play compared to what might follow any attempt to deregulate the downstream sector of the oil industry.

This government has more than enough reports and details to commence a honest process of punishing those in illegal possession of our collective wealth rather than inflict more pains on Nigerians, while industries and virtually all public infrastructures have collapsed.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/another-fuel-hike-ll-collapse-your-govt-nlc-warns-jonathan/

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar has constituted a set of new rules that is aimed at regulating police officers both while on or off duty.

According to a press statement signed by the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba “special ‘Code of Conduct and Professional Standards for officers of the Nigeria Police Force” will be launched on Monday 19 November at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

The new ‘Code of Conduct’, according to Mr Mba “is a set of rules collated and formulated under the leadership of the current Inspector-General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar, for guiding and regulating the behaviours of Police officers in Nigeria – both while on or off duty. The Code contains standard policing rules as well as contemporary international best practices in law enforcement as available in various United Nations Conventions, the Nigeria constitution, Police Act and Regulations and other domestic statutes. It is intended to be used by Police Officers in determining what is right and proper in all their actions.

“The Code is designed to promote efficiency and effectiveness of Police services by promoting transparency, accountability and a deeper sense of civilian oversight on police activities. It is further intended to promote discipline, professionalism and strict adherence to due process in police activities and operations. Its institution within the Force is therefore part of measures by the IGP to promote the Federal Government transformational agenda, through deliberate and conscious efforts at encouraging positive attitudinal change amongst all cadres of officers within the Force.”

The police spokesman said the launch of the new code of conduct is meant to “generate the needed awareness among Government Officials, members of the Force and the general public; and to formally announce the enforcement of the “Code” both as a guide for all personnel of the Force, as well as an instrument for monitoring the conduct of individual Police officers in the daily performance of their duties, by the Police High Command and the public.

“It is the earnest belief of the IGP that the “Code” will improve the standards and outputs of the Force and make it an enviable Law Enforcement Organization that will best serve the interest of Nigerians.

“The IGP once again solicits the cooperation and understanding of the public at ensuring the successful implementation of the “Code” as it marks another mile stone in current efforts at repositioning the Force. He believes that getting it right with the Code, will no doubt, amount to getting it right with the Force; and this will in turn translate to getting it right with the overall security of Nigeria and her teeming citizens.”

The statement listed those expected to be at the launching to include President Goodluck Jonathan, the leadership of the National Assembly, Executive governors from the 36 States, Service Chiefs, senior government officials, members of the Diplomatic Corps, and senior police officers..

www.channelstv.com/home/2012/11/16/police-to-launch-new-code-of-conduct-for-officers-on-monday/