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Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammad Sanusi II, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to seek the advice of top economic experts in and out of government to find solution to the economic crisis in the country. Sanusi spoke on Wednesday during the traditional Sallah Durbar (Hawan Nasarawa) at the Government House, Kano. The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said now was the time to involve all forward-thinking individuals to seek way out of the recession that had hit the country and seriously affecting Nigerians. Sanusi, however, urged wealthy Nigerians to support the less-privileged in the society in order to alleviate their sufferings. He added that Nigerians, “irrespective of religious beliefs and political inclinations, should continue to pray for economic growth and development of the country”. Sanusi also urged the people of Kano to remain law-abiding and be their brother’s keeper irrespective of religion or ethnic background. Sanusi appealed to the state government to help the people to acquire skills that would make them self-reliant.
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Merger of aggrieved PDP and APC politicians? Classic case of Bad meets Evil. |
[b] [Amaechi, Wife, Samson Parker Siphoned N70bn Rivers State Fund...Pilfers $50million for Fake 1,000 State Bed Hospital Project in Greater City (P/H) /b] HE was former Governor of Rivers State. He lives life to the full and flies anywhere in the world in his private bombardier plane ever since he became governor of the oil-rich state. He was President of Governors' Forum. He takes pleasure in using his wife, Judith Amaechi, former Commissioner of Health, Dr. Samson Parker, who doubles as a front partner in Clinotech LTD -a Blue Pacific Canadian Hospitality health consulting firm he allegedly had some percentage stakes. Amaechi was most financial supporting public-officer to the Presidential Election Campaign which brought General Muhammadu Buhari (retired) to power as Nigeria's president on May 29, 2015. CNN iReport gathered that under his tenure from October 2007 to May 28,2015, a huge sum of N70billion was either 'stolen, squandered and plundered' directly under his watchful eyes been a governor then using various forms of fronts. Our correspondent investigation showed that Amaechi sunk over Thirty million United States Dollars ($30million ) into the Presidential Electioneering Campaign of Buhari which invariably helped to 'tilt victory' for the then opposition party, All Progressives Party, APC- now turns ruling party. This over $30million siphoned from Rivers State treasury further increased the poverty-line among the masses in the oil-rich state. [b]How Amaechi, Wife, other loot Rivers State blind [ /b] Undercover reports by CNN iReport confirmed that similar to the way the then Governor of Delta State, James Ibori , now serving jail term for corruption in London massively contributed financially for the victory of late President Musa Yar'Adua/Goodluck Jonathan ticket yet docked by Nigeria's anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for fraud, same way Amaechi is seeing ironically hanging-on to the notoriety of being highest South-South then Governor to have contributed financially in millions of United States dollars to Buhari's victory. In 2008, it was gathered that Judith and Parker, the then Commissioner for health connived with a Canada based company “Clinotech LTD” to embezzle through the ministry of health 50 million dollars from the coffers of Rivers state under the pretense that the trio of Judith Amaechi, Parker and Clinotech LTD were about to execute a health project of building 1,000 bed hospital at 'Greater CITY Portharcourt', where as it was all lies after all. To convince an average Rivers State native, Amaechi allegedly directed Parker to ensure 'a fake soil test was carried out' primarily to discredit the earlier location of the former state hospital. Pronto, 'hoax result' surfaced in Rivers State ministry of health claiming outcome showed “failed soil test on the earlier location of the state hospital, now prompting Amaechi's administration to relocate the state hospital to Greater City in Port Harcourt”, revealed a source in Amaechi's government. CNN iReport can assure that after Amaechi's government destroyed the former state hospital located by State CID which had been in existence for 25 years, sold same assets at give-away prices to friends, claimed 1,000 bed hospital project his administration intends to re-build the state hospital failed soil test. By this, he deceived the teeming populace that the 1,000 state bed Hospital project would commence in Greater City Portharcourt, but up till today no such hospital has been built and the 50 million dollars paid then into coffers of the Rivers state government, withdrawn by Clinotech LTD under Amaechi's direction is no-where to be traced or found. To worsen matters, Clinotech LTD, the fraudulent Canadian health company has since moved back to its Riverside Industrial Park, Richmond. All of these self-enrichment happened in Amaechi’s first term in office against protests by the good people of Rivers state, Amaechi insisted never to drop Parker, as the man continued his alleged financial manipulation in Amaechi’s second term without any probe, investigation or arrest by Amaechi since it was business as usual. This was the reason Amaechi was fond nd and once captured in foreign media during a live interview in United States showing off 'wad of US dollars in his suit.' Desperate to amass more wealth, Amaechi government sold off all the three Electricity Gas Urban in Rivers state namely: Trans Amadi Gas Turbine, Omoukwu Gas Turbine and Afam Gas Turbine for a whopping sum of 386 million dollars which was paid into the coffers of Rivers State with 30 million dollars as down initial payment and final payment of 356 million dollars. The 30 million dollars was paid early 2014 into Rivers State coffers but was diverted into an account of a Bureau De Change by Amaechi. As earlier explained in the heat of the election campaign last year the final payment which is also a balance of 356 million dollars was paid into the Rivers state coffers in December but 24 hours after, Amaechi moved the fund to a Bureau De Change with no single penny of the money left in the Rivers State coffers. Source :http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1264100
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[/b]The Chelsea midfielder has recently returned to London from a successful Rio 2016 campaign and was brutally honest about the extent of the problems he faced out there.[b] John Obi Mikel has slammed the Nigeria Football Federation after he was forced to put up his own money to help his country achieve their remarkable bronze medal at Rio 2016. The Nigeria captain organised travel, paid for meals and booked training pitches while trying to physically and tactically prepare for games. The bronze medal, Mikel explained, was his country's only moment of glory during the Olympics amid the troubles he had in Brazil. "I think if we talk about the money that I put into the team I think it was more than [£30,000]," Mikel told Goal. "But we just had to do it. "I said to myself, 'I won’t let this happen. If I can help, I’ll try to help'. Sometimes there was no food, sometimes there was no pitch to train on, there was no bus to go to the training ground. So all of this was what me and the coach had to figure out, and get money together. "I came to the camp. I sat down with the boys in Atlanta and I could see the frustration, the pain and the anger. Their aim was to play in the Olympics, their goal was to play in the Olympics. "And for me being there and seeing what they are going through, they are young boys, they want to start their career and someone in the ministry is trying to crush that dream." READ MORE | Conte not discussing PL favourites Mikel and his Nigeria team-mates' problems began in the United States as they trained in Atlanta, where Nigeria won a shock gold medal in 1996 after a thrilling 3-2 win over Argentina. He had to work closely on off-the-pitch arrangements with the Nigeria coach Samson Siasia and told of how, after problems with funding for the flights to the tournament, his team arrived only hours before their first game, which they remarkably still won against Sweden. "There was just no flight provided by the Nigerian ministry," he added. "We planned to leave three or four days before the tournament, but we ended up leaving the day of our first game. It was a difficult one. I don’t think I have ever seen something like that before, it was crazy. "[After our last minute flight] we got to the hotel, dropped our bags, grabbed some sandwiches, something to eat. A little bit of food. Then headed straight back to the stadium because we hadn’t even done our accreditations then, so we had to go there and wait in the line, do our accreditation. "It was absolutely hectic. I don’t know how we managed to go onto the pitch and win that game, it was absolutely mind blowing." The Chelsea midfielder appeared relaxed and happy after returning home to join up with Antonio Conte's squad this week as they prepare to face Swansea City on Sunday. He was bursting with pride as he reflected on a successful tournament which culminated with a 3-2 bronze-medal match win over Honduras. "Sometimes I wear my medal around the house, it gets my missus jealous," he joked as he showed off his medal. "The kids love playing with the medal. I am sure one day they will know what this really means. "We had lots of problems outside the pitch, but I always told the boys that you shouldn’t let that affect what we came here to do. We still want to achieve what we came here to do. We still have to represent our country and play for ourselves and our family and the people of Nigeria. "So if the ministry don’t want to take responsibility, we have to make sure we play for ourselves and our country. The boys understand that and we made sure they went along with my message that I kept putting across to them every single day and we managed to achieve what we did achieve." Source:http://m.goal.com/x/en-gb/news/25362/olympic-games/2016/09/10/27384292/mikel-admits-he-paid-his-own-money-to-save-nigerias-olympics
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[/b]Chief Ernest Shonekan, Dr Goodluck Jonathan and Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar are present, while Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida are absent at the meeting. Conspicuously absent are General Yakubu Gowon and Shehu Shagari.[b] [/b]Senate president, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara didn’t attend the meeting.[b] A mild drama has occurred at the meeting when photographers and cameramen ‘abandoned’ President Buhari for his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, Daily Trust reports. President Buhari is expected to brief the council on the nomination of Ibrahim Idris as acting Inspector-General of Police and the Nigerian Police Council (NPC) is expected to ratify the appointment thereafter. The Council of State is the highest constitutional advisory body in Nigeria. It is chaired by the leader of the nation. It is organ of the Nigerian government whose functions comprise advising the executive on policy making. This is the second meeting of the Council of State presided over by President Buhari. The first meeting of the council, under the incumbent administration, was held on October 21, 2015.
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[b][/b]Youngster Ripon Sarker has only just been able to have hospital treatment for the condition, which causes the growth of scaly warts Meet the little boy who suffers from an extremely rare condition that makes his hands and feet look like they're turning into trees. The body of seven-year-old Ripon Sarker is covered in scaly warts because he suffers from the condition known as 'epidermodysplasia verruciformis'. Youngster Ripon, from Thakurgaon, Bangladesh, was only admitted to hospital for the first time this month because his family couldn't afford treatment. The young boy was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on August 20. His dad Mahendra Das said: "They haven't carried out tests on him. Physicians say they will look into this matter before treatment." Poor Ripon cannot walk or eat by himself because of his tree-like features – but doctors have said they are hopeful that his hands and feet are operable as his fingers and toes and can still be identified. Ripon's symptoms match the ones of 26-year-old Abul Bajander – dubbed ' tree man ' – who also has the same condition and was recently operated at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Burn and plastic surgery unit coordinator Samanta Lal Sen said: "We are hopeful about the child's situation. "In Abul's case, we couldn't distinguish the warts from his fingers. "Ripon's warts have not expanded to that extent yet. He can identify his fingers and toes. "We might be able to treat him with fewer operations." The physician went on to explain that the child's family is extremely poor. He said: "That's why he lacks proper nutrition. His physical development has been hampered as well. We need to give him proper nutrition before the operations begin. "He might require blood as well." Abul, 26, went under the knife in March to treat the extremely rare growths. During the procedure, doctors operated on his right hand to eliminate some of the smaller warts. The medics estimated the growths removed weighed at least 11 pounds. They also suggested Abul would need at least 15 further operations in the course of one year. Samanta Lal Sen, faculty director at the hospital, said: "We removed some small warts from his palm but Bajandar would need up to 15 operations in total to rid his body of the growths in one year." Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/meet-boy-turning-human-tree-8686824
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The midfield whiz skippered Bolton Wanderers for three years, and his former coach reveals he is the best leader he ever worked with England manager Sam Allardyce says Austin Okocha is the best captain he has ever had. Okocha, 43, was named skipper of Bolton Wanderers following Guðni Bergsson’s retirement and as leader, he led the Trotters to the 2004 League Cup final where they bowed to Middlesbrough. And Allardyce - who manager of the team then reveals Okocha was proficient in the role and also a brilliant player. “Jay Jay Okocha. On and off the field he was the captain you looked for,” the Three Lions boss told Mirror.co.uk. "In a multi-national side from all over the world he could speak four different languages, communicate very well with some of the players who couldn't speak quite as good English. “He sorted the odd scuffle out in the dressing room, talked to the players about how we had to go out and win. He'd take the manager's instructions and apply them in the right way. “Then there was outstanding ability on the field, leading by example and showing everybody he wasn't a mercenary which was suggested in the beginning, that he'd only come for the money. He became an iconic figure at Bolton Wanderers.” |
Who wants to be a billionaire?
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Shedyray: apparently you did well.. But it appears you quoted a reverse score line. Match ended 1-2 Nice work though. |
shamsuRana:My dear Brother, A careful scrutiny of the information on that Wikipedia page shows only 3 names from the south East: Raymond Njoku Aja Wachukwu K. O. Mbadiwe In all fairness, I believe you'd agree with me that just 3 people from the SE, in 3 different Cabinets cannot be classified as favorable bias towards the southeast. You are having a good day, I hope? |
shamsuRana:I believe You are a freeborn citizen of Nigeria, and as such you have both the moral and constitutional rights to make your views known. With all due respect, knowing the present religious and ethnic realities in Nigeria at the moment, it would only be be proper to utilize this your moral and constitutional privilege of expression in a truthful, non peace-threatning manner. Prime Minister Balewa's Chief of Army Staff were: Maj Gen John Alexander Mackenzie, Maj Gen Sir Christopher (193-1965) Ironsi was COS fore barely 9 months. Chief of Naval Staff: Commodore A.R. Kennedy(British), Vice Commodore J.E.A. Wey ( Born in Calabar to a Yoruba Father) IG of police :Louis Orok Edet (Cross River) Chief of Defense Staff: This position didn't exist until 1979, and the first was Lt. General Ipoola Alani Akinrinade Internal Affairs Minister : J. M. Johnson(Lagos), Usman Sarki, Shehu Shagari(Sokoto) External Affairs: Prime Minister Balewa himself (1960-1961, 1964-1966) Key Ministerial Posts : Attorney Gen/Justice Taslim Olawale Elias (Wst) Lands & Lagos Affairs Muhammadu Ribadu (North) Finance Festus Okotie-Eboh (South South) Transport and Aviation- Raymond Njoku (SE) Commerce &industries- Zanna Bukar Dipcharima(North) Works & Surveys- Inua Wada (North) Labour & Welfare- J. M. Johnson Also responsible for Sports Education Jaja Wachuku (SE) Mines & Power - Maitama Sule(North) Economic Development & Natural Resources- Shehu Shagari (North) Communications- Olu Akinfosile(West) Information- T. O. S. Benson (West) Health - Waziri Ibrahim (North) Pensions, Establishment & Nigerianization - Yisa Yara'Dua(North) For the sake of peace, please let's always stick to the truth. |
PREMIUM TIMES has obtained an insider account by a whistleblower, who is an operative of the State Security Service. The same whistleblower had reached out and provided vital information to two human rights organization, the Amnesty International and the Intersociety for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law. Blowing the whistle The operative, who was part of the joint security operation but is now disturbed by the manner soldiers “refused to play by the rule”, contacted a trusted human rights activist. The identity of the whistleblower is being concealed, so he is not punished by the authorities. His recorded narrative is however in the possession of this newspaper. The whistleblower stated that the operation started with the medium use of force on the night of May 29. The following morning, the joint task force moved from the Onitsha Army Barracks to the rally venue on Nkpor-Umuoji Road only to find a crowd of pro-Biafra supporters who had been battered the night before by invading soldiers in the premises of St Edmunds Catholic Primary School. The crowd, joined by newcomers, was by now in a resistance mood. At that point, the JTF retreated to Onitsha Military Barracks. The retreat infuriated Cantonment Commander, Issah M. Abdullahi, a colonel, who ordered them back to clear the venue and roads of all “miscreants.” With this firm directive, the JTF, dominated by soldiers and led by Major C.O. Ibrahim of the Nigerian Military Police stormed the streets and the event venue. The rest is history. The whistleblower said that while other members of the JTF were minimizing the use of force, soldiers recklessly opened fire at crowds, shooting at close range, and “wasting people indiscriminately.” Passersby and people in their homes and shops were not spared of stray bullets, the SSS operative said. He said it got to a point where injured pro-Biafra supporters, seeing the countless bodies of their colleagues on the ground, opened their arms wide, advanced towards the soldiers screaming that they too should be killed. Three military trucks were used to cart away heaps of dead bodies. According to the whistleblower, there are two cemeteries inside the Onitsha Army Barracks. Though reserved for fallen soldiers, victims of the massacre were buried in the cemetery close to Yahweh Church, inside the barracks. The whistleblower added that in the evening of the same day when everyone thought the dust had settled, JTF operatives invaded the Nnewi Teaching Hospital and to the fury of nurses, abducted 12 gunshot victims and seven of their relations looking after them. The 19, including women, were brought before the Commissioner of Police, Hosea Karma. He claimed that the commissioner accused the 19 of threatening the security of the state. He would, however, order that the wounded men be returned to the hospital while their family members be taken away by SARS for interrogation. Human rights activists familiar with police tactics in Nigeria say that interrogation by SARS is a euphemism for torture. Continuing his narrative, the whistleblower said that on June 2, two days after the massacre, soldiers stormed the Nnewi hospital and arrested eight of the 12 critical injured men the commissioner had earlier sent back to the hospital. Their whereabouts remain unknown. PREMIUM TIMES separately gathered that on June 3, five men with serious bullet wounds were transferred by soldiers from Onitsha Army Barracks to the State CID and dumped inside a cell without any medical attention. We are unable to ascertain if the five men were among the eight abducted from Nnewi Teaching Hospital the day before. The name of one of the abducted men is given as Ugoo K.C. As the news spread that soldiers had invaded the Nnewi Teaching Hospital, gunshot victims in other hospitals begged their relations to move them to other states. Among those moved to Abia State were Chidi Nwigwe, Uchenna Odaa, Ezeaka Ejike, Chima Anamuasonye, Nwaowe John, Ifeanyi C. Azuuike and Ugochukwu Nnamu. Those moved to Enugu included Ifeanyi Ogumma and Arinze Aja. Since the whistleblower’s account, human rights groups have worked their contacts in the various security outfits to check out the story. A security source, another SSS source, and a military police source individually confirmed that a mass burial occurred in the afternoon of Wednesday, June 1 in a military cemetery, near Yahweh Church, inside the Onitsha Military Barracks. The military police source added that a total of 15 graves were prepared with some taking as many as 10 bodies while some contained only five. To hell and back: an escapee experience ‘To hell and back’ is the only way to summarize the experience of Henry Ibebuike Enekwe, the 32-year old electrical engineer who was abducted by soldiers on his way to Enugu. News of Mr. Enekwe’s abduction was widely circulated by the human rights coalition called the Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations. Recounting his ordeal, Mr. Enekwe, who is not an IPOB member, said he was on his way to Enugu from Onitsha to seal an electrical-installation contract with a Lagos-based businessman. In the morning of the D-Day, May 30, 2016, he was abducted by soldiers and taken to the Onitsha Military Cantonment. “I live at Nkpor-Agu. The greatest shock of my live was witnessing the killing of three young men returning from the early-morning mass in front of the street leading to St Edmunds Catholic Church Nkpor-Agu (Early-morning mass is a daily ritual for Catholic communities). I was arrested and thrown into a military truck. I think the three young men panicked when they saw the soldiers waving their guns and barking. They attempted to run and right before my very eyes, the soldiers fired at them one after the other. They picked up their corpses and threw them like logs of wood into the same truck I was sitting inside. The soldiers moved from that street to another, arresting people and throwing them inside the same truck and killing others and picking up their bodies. They were acting like hunters on a hunting expedition. “When we got to the barracks, I saw heaps of bodies on the ground. Those still breathing were dumped together with the dead. Another military vehicle brought in a new set of corpses. Later in the evening, all the corpses were taken in the direction of a nursery and primary school inside the barracks. I never saw anything again because we were taken into a cell,” Mr. Enekwe recounted. While in captivity, Mr. Enekwe said he and other detainees were tortured every morning by soldiers. “The soldiers call it morning tea. They force us to lie on a long bench and flog you with koboko (horsewhip) till you begin to bleed. When blood comes out, they pour water on wounds and continue to flog you to bring out more blood. As they flogged us, they rain curses on our mothers, our fathers, and our tribes,” Mr. Enekwe recalled. In a little office filled with sympathizers, among them a PREMIUM TIMES reporter, Mr. Enekwe told human rights activists that in the night of Wednesday, June 1, about 8.30pm, soldiers guarding his cell crudely announced to the detainees: “We don give your brothers mass burial today, and if you people mess up, you will join them, and nothing will happen.” The engineer further added that in the early hours of June 3, about 1.30am, soldiers came to his cell and moved some detainees, including six groaning with gunshot wounds. They were never returned to the cell till June 4 when he regained freedom. Mr. Enekwe said he was lucky to have come out of military detention alive. His rescue was made possible by family contacts within the SSS. It could not be confirmed, but someone in the Ebonyi State Directorate of the SSS is believed to have contacted a senior SSS colleague in Anambra. He was told that his SSS savior came six times to the Onitsha military barracks but was each time told Mr. Enekwe was not in their custody. |
Hey Everyone. Really Glad to have found this thread. I finished my youth service in February 2014,and since then it's been Job Ultimate Search.. In between the job search I've always wanted to go over to the UK and get a masters degree, but I've continously pushed this aside with the excuse that Job experience trumps a Masters degree. But the truth remains that by February this year I'd have wasted 2 years.. And I'm seriously beginning to give the masters degree issue a fresh thought. My dilemma now is that most schools I was previously interested in have just January and September intakes, and January is already too late. A friend of mine suggested I try the University of Salford,but honestly I've never really heard about the school. I now stand in between the bridge of applying to Salford and beginning the masters by April or waiting till September (which amounts to wasting 8 further months) So please any genuine advice would be appreciated, especially from those already in the UK who might know a thing or two about the University of Salford. |
Bubewilson:I was sent a message yesterday to come to porthacourt today for an interview... Just leaving porthacourt now, where I've been told to head to Abuja.. Please my dear friend, what exactly would I possibly have to do in Abuja? (Thank you so much for your help thus far) |
Bubewilson:Thank you so much.. The thing is I reside in Abuja not Owerri, so I'm basically in a conflicting situation.. do I stay back in Owerri and hope they'd call me within the next one week or do I return to Abuja since you said you had to wait for 5 weeks in your own case? Secondly, please do you have any idea what role I'm supposed to take up in the Bank when I am eventually employed. |
I did My computer test in Owerri yesterday.. The computer just stated that I was successful and that I'd be gotten back to. So please I wish to know what exactly is next after the computer test.. And how long it'd take to get back to me |
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apparently you did well.. But it appears you quoted a reverse score line.