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Dlifeboy:
Please I need help urgently, I'm on it right now

Is it still going
If not create a new one asap

Eddyella:
Please,what are the required documents to upload and what format should it be in

Its on the website they are just normal things you used for admission

mrNEMZY:
How do you presume that I should get in touch with aptitude questions that relate to the scholarship, and what of those parading with the news that they are selling past questions?

Also apart from English and maths, isn't there anything like General questions, current affairs or any other thing?

And I forgot to answer as at last year it was just English and maths. Say you're shortlisted you will be told the format of the test

mrNEMZY:
How do you presume that I should get in touch with aptitude questions that relate to the scholarship, and what of those parading with the news that they are selling past questions?

Also apart from English and maths, isn't there anything like General questions, current affairs or any other thing?

First I wrote the exam last year and I got the scholarship.
I attended their scholars connect program three days ago and its still like the questions will be of the same format. But then if you're shortlisted you will be told the format of the test.
People who claim to sell pqs are just scammers. One thing I've observed is they sell the same set of questions for different scholarships. Though they generally revolve around aptitude but the truth is these guys don't release their questions so people claiming to sell are liars though the questions they give you may help. In fact last year was the first edition of NNpC/SNEPCo scholarship so we are the first beneficiaries so its not possible they will have questions put out already.
Thank you and start practising G-MAT stuffs.

mrNEMZY:
Pls how can I get sturdy materials for the scholarship.
Pls if you have any info that can help share

My number is 09036137677 for watsapp thanks

Just lay ur hands on aptitude questions on English and maths and solve as many as you can within an hour.
Last year when I wrote mine it was 50 maths questions for 50 mins which is like a minute to a question. Solve jamb questions if u can and go to google play store and download apps based on aptitude and reasoning tests, we have loads of them online.
And remember to always pray.
All the best bro

Robinscrusoe:
Whatxappp me @08091491385 to get nnpc/s nepco pAst question and study materials for jst mtn#100

Guy this one na scam oo.
These guys don't release their questions. Just study aptitude test questions well bothel English and maths and most importantly pray.
There is a lot to benefit from Shell Nigeria. These guys are just wonderful

Dlifeboy:
Pls Hw much is the scholarship worth?

oga na 200k. But awardees of last year were paid 400k straight up for first and second year of study.
These guys are just wonderful. if you're shortlisted na 5k reimbursement to exam centre for every single person

What Is It?
Cardiac arrest, sometimes called sudden cardiac arrest, means that your heart suddenly stops beating. This cuts off blood flow to the brain and other organs. It’s an emergency and is deadly if not treated immediately.
Symptoms
Cardiac arrest is quick and drastic: You suddenly collapse, lose consciousness, have no pulse, and aren’t breathing. Right before it happens, you could be very tired, dizzy, weak, short of breath, or sick to your stomach. You may pass out or have chest pain. But not always. Cardiac arrest can happen with no warning signs at all.
What Happens
Your heart has an electrical system that keeps it beating regularly. Cardiac arrest can strike if the electrical signals go haywire and cause an irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia. There are different types of arrhythmias, and most aren’t dangerous. One called ventricular fibrillation triggers cardiac arrest the most. If this happens, the heart can’t pump enough blood to your body. That’s life-threatening within minutes.
Heart Disease Link
Many people who have cardiac arrest also have coronary artery disease. Often, that’s where the trouble starts. Having coronary artery disease means less blood flows into your heart. This can lead to a heart attack that damages your heart’s electrical system.
Other Causes
Cardiac arrest can also happen for other reasons, including:

Major blood loss or severe lack of oxygen
Intense exercise, if you have heart problems
Too high levels of potassium or magnesium, which could lead to a deadly heart rhythm
Your genes. You may inherit certain arrhythmias or a tendency to get them.
Changes to your heart's structure. For instance, an enlarged heart or changes caused by an infection.
Not a Heart Attack
Unlike cardiac arrest, your heart doesn’t usually stop during a heart attack. Rather, blood flow is blocked in a heart attack, so your heart doesn’t get enough oxygen. That can kill some of the heart muscle. But the two are linked: The scar tissue that grows as you recover from a heart attack can mess with the heart’s electrical signals and could put you at risk. And a heart attack itself can sometimes trigger cardiac arrest.
Not Heart Failure, Either
Cardiac arrest strikes suddenly. It’s an instant crisis. Heart failure is different. It’s a condition where your heart gets weaker over time until it can’t send enough blood and oxygen around your body. When your cells don’t get enough of these nutrients, your body doesn’t work as well. You may find it hard to catch your breath when you do simple things like carry groceries, climb stairs, or even walk.
At Risk for Cardiac Arrest
It’s more likely if you:

Have coronary artery disease (This is the biggest risk.)
Are a man
Have had arrhythmias or cardiac arrest, or someone in your family has
Smoke or abuse drugs or alcohol
Have had one or more heart attacks
Have diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart failure
Are obese
Intense Emotion
Sudden strong feelings, especially out-of-control anger, can prompt arrhythmias that trigger cardiac arrest. Mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression also may make you more likely to have it. That’s one more reason to tell your doctor or see a counselor if you’re having a hard time.
Treatment
If you have cardiac arrest, you need immediate treatment with a defibrillator, a machine that sends an electric shock to the heart. This shock sometimes can get your heart to beat normally again. But it must be done within minutes to help. First responders like police, firefighters, and paramedics usually have a defibrillator and know how to use it. Some public places have a version of the machine, called an AED, that anyone can use
AED: What to Do
You don’t need training to use an AED (automated external defibrillator). Just follow the directions. This device can sense dangerous arrhythmias and send a lifesaving shock to the heart if needed. If you think someone is having cardiac arrest, call 911 and send someone to look for an AED. Do CPR until the AED or emergency responders arrive.
At the Hospital
The doctors will watch you closely. They will try to find out what caused your cardiac arrest and treat the problem. If you have coronary artery disease, you may get a bypass or a procedure called angioplasty to open narrowed or blocked arteries in your heart. You may also get medicines and advice for lifestyle changes to lower your chances of having it again.
See a Cardiologist
After you recover, you’ll see a heart doctor (cardiologist), who will check your heart’s electrical system and come up with your treatment plan to try to prevent another cardiac arrest. You might get blood tests and other types of studies to check on your heart.
What Other Tests Might I Get?
Your doctor may recommend:

EKG (electrocardiogram): It reads your heart's electrical activity.
Echocardiography: It shows your heart’s size, shape, and how well it works.
Cardiac MRI (magnetic resonance imaging): This makes detailed pictures of your heart at work.
MUGA (multiple gated acquisition): You get a little radioactive material injected into your bloodstream to help special cameras take pictures of your heart.
Cardiac Catheterization
Your doctor may put a soft, thin tube called a catheter into a blood vessel in your neck, arm, or upper thigh and guide it to your heart. She may send a special dye that’s visible on X-rays into the tube to check for narrowed or blocked arteries. She can also test your heart’s response to certain drugs or electrical signals. She may even use the tube to do angioplasty, a procedure to open blocked arteries.
If You Need an ICD
This device is a small automated defibrillator that a surgeon can implant under your skin to send an electric shock to your heart if it finds certain irregular heartbeats. Your doctor may suggest that you get one if you have severe heart disease or have already had cardiac arrest. A surgeon places the ICD under your skin. Some devices include a pacemaker as well as an ICD to keep your heart rhythm regular.
Lalasticala, mods abeg EPP me move to fp

Robinscrusoe:
[color=][/color]hwfa is dis how it was during ur time

Yes, it was like that too.

atrix4g:
Should I send mine too?

Well I just sent the scholarship FAQs if u are interested u can send your mail too

engrjosefz:
Where did you get the scholarship info? Seems like it's not on shell official website? Even checked other possible sites non is displaying it

Send me your email account

onuhabel1:
Will They Shortlist Me If I Am Using Neco Result? Credit Parallel

Guy na just prayers oooo. Just pray for God's grace

engrjosefz:
That one was a pro scholarship. They awarded without exams.... A few lucky ones got the thing

That's it worth just 100k sha. This one is 200k with mad exams like this

IukkyAitee:
I'm I still eligible.
I'm a petroleum engineering student of university of uyo
I concluded my 200l exams last month and I'm due to resume 300l September 18th

No you're not according to the rules.
I'm resuming 300l sep 6th and I was a beneficiary last year.
But then you can try your luck sha. I know of a prospective 400l student who is also a beneficiary.

Just chill small and try to use a PC.
The deadlint is sep 1 but then its advisable u submit way before that. So just keep trying

The 2017 NNpc snepco scholarship is out.
Applications from 200l students are welcomed.

I believe he should be given another chance sha .
The judgement passed has not just defied the law, the disciplinary committee spat in law's face, questioned the moral inclinations of its parents, kicked it in the shins, kneed it in the groin, strangled it unconscious, then shoved it into the mud and set its trousers on fire.
But the guy too get strong head sha. He should have shown himself before the panel.

O Allah, forgive him and have mercy on him and give him strength and pardon him. Be generous to him and cause his entrance to be wide and wash him with water and snow and hail. Cleanse him of his transgressions as white cloth is cleansed of stains. Give him an abode better than his home, and a family better than his family and a wife better than his wife. Take him into Paradise and protect him from the punishment of the grave (and from the punishment of Hell-fire

Very very true. Let me also point out that asking questions in class is a way of gaining favour with your lecturers if your questions are intelligible.

By definition, A fundamental human right is a right that you can make litigation for if not given access to. I support making it free for people but then making it a fundamental human right does not help our current situation here in Nigeria as it will lead to lots of lawsuits and unfulfilled promises. It will just be another avenue for our corrupt leaders to loot fund if the idea is even feasible sef.

it's just so shocking that a oil field worth nearly a trillion dollars was sold for 1.2 billion dollars and not even all the money was remitted to the nation's account. Nigerian leaders sef

The BBC has seen evidence that top executives at Shell knew money paid to the Nigerian government for a vast oil field would be passed to a convicted money-launderer.
It also had reason to believe that money would be used to pay political bribes.
The deal was concluded while Shell was operating under a probation order for a separate corruption case in Nigeria.
Shell said it did not believe its employees acted illegally.
OPL 245 is an oilfield off the coast of Nigeria whose estimated nine billion barrels of oil are worth nearly half a trillion dollars at today's prices. Shell has been active in Nigeria for nearly 60 years and was keen to acquire the field.
New evidence shows just how far Shell was prepared to go to get its hands on it.
Standing between Shell and its prize was Dan Etete, whose company acquired the rights to OPL 245 for a tiny sum while he was oil minister of Nigeria. He was later convicted of money
laundering in a different case.
Shell and the Italian oil company ENI eventually acquired OPL 245 in 2011 - by paying $1.3bn to the Nigerian government.
The government promptly passed on more than $1bn of the money to a company called Malabu, which was controlled by Dan Etete.
Emails obtained by anti-corruption charities Global Witness and Finance Uncovered, and seen by the BBC, show that Shell representatives were negotiating with Etete for a year before the deal was finalised.
In March 2010, an email from a former MI6 officer employed by Shell shows the company believed Etete stood to benefit from the deal.
"Etete can smell the money. If, at 70 years old, he does turn his nose up at 1.2 bill he is completely certifiable and we should then probably just hold out until nature takes its course with him."
That email was forwarded to the then Shell chief executive Peter Voser - one of the most powerful men in the oil business - showing knowledge of Etete's involvement went right to the top.
Representatives of Peter Voser declined to comment.
Shell also had good reason to suspect that hundreds of millions would end up in the pockets of Nigerian politicians including the former President Goodluck Jonathan.
In an email from July, the same Shell employee says Etete's negotiating strategy is "clearly an attempt to deliver significant revenues to GLJ [Goodluck Jonathan] as part of any transaction.
Italian prosecutors allege that $466m were laundered through a network of Nigerian bureaux de change to facilitate payments to President Jonathan and other politicians.
A spokesperson for Goodluck Jonathan told the BBC that no charges or indictments have been brought or secured against the former president relating to this transaction and described the allegations as a "false narrative".
The BBC is still awaiting comment from Dan Etete, but he has previously denied any wrongdoing.
The controversy around this deal has attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies in Italy and the Netherlands.
In February of 2016 Shell's offices in the Hague were raided and documents removed.
On the day of the raid, the current chief executive, Ben van Beurden, called the now former chief financial officer Simon Henry to discuss the raid. That call was recorded by Dutch law enforcement officials and has been heard by the BBC.
On that call, Mr van Beurden said that Shell's own investigation had turned up correspondence from the former MI6 officers which he described as "just pub talk in emails which was stupid but nevertheless it's there" and acknowledged they were "really unhelpful".
'Doubled down'
The emails the BBC has seen appear to be more than pub talk. They seem to show that a number of Shell executives were aware that a company controlled by Etete would ultimately receive more than $1bn and were advised by their own employees that the money was likely to end up being paid in political kickbacks.
In a statement, Shell said it did not believe that any current or former employees had acted illegally. It also said that if any payments were mathat any current or former employees had acted illegally. It also said that if any payments were made by Malabu to government officials then it was done without its knowledge, authorisation or on its behalf.
ENI said an independent investigation had found "no credible evidence of the involvement of Eni staff in corrupt activities with Nigerian government officials, nor any knowledge of the actual existence of such activities by third parties in connection with the transaction".
It should be remembered that this deal was concluded just months after Shell had paid $30m to settle previous allegations of bribery in Nigeria and elsewhere.
As part of a deal to spare the company a damaging criminal conviction in that case, Shell agreed to what was, in effect, a probation order, by giving an undertaking to the US Department of Justice to tighten up its internal controls in order to stay in compliance with America's tough anti-corruption laws.
The question for Shell is what on earth were they doing negotiating with a convicted money launderer, who they suspected might pass the money to the president, months after reaching a previous bribery settlement in the same country.
Matthew Page worked for the US State Department in Nigeria for 15 years. He told the BBC: "At a time when Shell should have been cautious having just settled a previous case, rather than walk away from a deal with clear corruption risks, they doubled down."
Barnaby Pace, a campaigner at Global Witness, said: "The $1bn that Shell paid for this massive offshore oil licence in Nigeria is equivalent to more than the 2016 ministry of health budget in Nigeria - a country where one in ten children don't live to see their fifth birthday. And these companies need to face justice for what they have done."
Italian courts will decide whether to proceed with criminal proceedings against Shell and its partner ENI on 20 April.
Corruption may be a stubbornly regrettable fact of life in Nigeria. And it may be very difficult to drill for oil there without buying access through corrupt payments to politicians. Western companies - and their investors - have to decide if that is a price worth paying.
Lawmakers will have to decide whether the weapons they have to stop it are sufficient to deter it.

Phi001:
It's the same one na...



and that's the reason why India was banned from playing football...

Omo na lie India was banned because they refused to wear boots to play football. But the ban has been lifted Now coz their u17 team who they claimed has been training overseas for months were flogged 9-0 or so recently

How that one take consign us.

Many more people under-promote themselves on their resumes than the reverse. They leave their most significant accomplishments off their resumes, because they are afraid to claim them!

Why would anybody hesitate to claim their professional accomplishments? In this list of Ten Things You Didn’t Know You Can Claim on Your Resume, you’ll see why talented people so often understate their own career histories.


10 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Claim On Your Resume

1. You can claim any project you were part of, even if your manager was not aware of your participation or would not have approved the time and energy you spent on the project. This is one reason many people don’t claim their most exciting projects. They don’t claim them because they didn’t have their manager’s full support for the project!

2. You can claim any good idea that you came up with, especially if you had to “sell” the idea to upper management. Make sure to call out that accomplishment in your resume, like this: “I conceived of our new pricing scheme and sold the idea internally for six months before it was adopted and then expanded to include all seven regions.” Yes, you can use the word “I” in your resume, and you should!

3. You can claim work that you performed on a volunteer basis or when you were consulting with a friend for free.

4. You can claim work that you performed as a favor to a colleague.
5. You can claim accomplishments that were not part of your official job description. Here’s another reason many people fail to take credit for their triumphs. They keep their coolest accomplishments off their resume because those wins were not in their job description. Who cares?
6. You can claim everything you learned at work, whether you learned it in a classroom, online, or from another employee. On-the-job training is just as good as instructor-led training, if not better!

7. You can claim the leadership of a task or project if it is true. It doesn’t matter whether anyone appointed you the group leader, or whether you just took on that role naturally.
8. You can claim wins that didn’t show success while you were working for the company, but only bore fruit later. It’s still your win! People work on cathedrals for hundreds of years before the cathedral is finished. Every one of those people is part of the triumph when the cathedral doors open.

9. You can claim projects that you worked on that never came to fruition. It’s still tremendous learning for you!

10. Finally, you can claim responsibilities that were in someone else’s job description, as long as you actually carried out the responsibilities.

Feel Free to add yours

The legendary Brazilian footballer will not be coming to Lagos this month because of poor health days after he cancelled appearing at the Olympic Games opening ceremony
Football legend Pele will not be coming to Lagos this week due to ill health, organizers of the visit have announced.
The Winihin Jemide Series and the Youth Experience Days Africa had planned to bring Pele to Nigeria for the Legend Edition on August 11-12.
However, a statement from the organizers said that another date will be announced once the legend has fully recovered from the ailment that also kept him from attending the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in his home country last weekend.
“The Winihin Jemide Series & Youth Experience Days Africa have both chosen to postpone the 2016 WJS/YEDA LEGEND EDITION with Pelé due to reports of his ill health on Friday 5th, 2016,” read a statement.
“We are sorry that we have to disappoint the many Pelé fans and Legend Edition supporters at this time, who were looking forward to this event. As we pray for his speedy and full recovery, we believe that it would be inconsiderate for us to put his health at risk.
“Our ticketing platforms will be offering a full refund on all tickets purchased and new dates for the event will be announced over the course of the next few weeks. We hope the new dates are suitable for everyone.
“The decision to postpone the event did not come easily and we want to express gratitude to sponsors and stakeholders.”

Donald Trump acknowledged Friday he was wrong in claiming to have seen secret Iranian footage of $400 million in cash being delivered to Tehran as payment for the release of US prisoners.
Trump raised eyebrows this week when he made that assertion and gave many details of what he said he saw in the film.
“Remember this: Iran — I don’t think you heard this anywhere but here — Iran provided all of that footage, the tape of taking that money off the airplane,” Trump said Wednesday at a rally in Florida. “Right?”
But that widely viewed footage is believed instead to show the moment in January when three of five American prisoners freed by Iran get off a plane in Geneva.
In a tweet Friday, Trump said this is indeed what he saw. It is rare for the free-wheeling Republican presidential nominee — known for making provocative claims — to admit making a mistake.
“The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!” Trump wrote.
The story of the seemingly cloak and dagger money transfer in an unmarked plane was broken this week by the Wall Street Journal.
In January, five American prisoners were released as Washington granted clemency to seven Iranians and withdrew arrest warrants for 14 others.
Soon thereafter, the United States helped airlift $400 million worth of Swiss francs and euros to Iran.
But President Barack Obama says the payment was not ransom for the release of US prisoners.
The White House has said it was returning cash from a 1970s Iranian military order that was not fulfilled because of the Islamic Revolution.

The National Assembly is a reflection of the larger Nigerian society. Whether it is called budget padding or budget stuffing, they are all synonyms of corruption. As of today, Nigeria cannot boast of any arm of government that is corruption-free… Is it the judiciary or the legislature or the executive? Sadly, the civil service is, incredibly, the “Mother of Corruption”. And that brings us to the dilemma of the Nigerian nation. It brings us to why we are stagnant. Who is going to check who? Who is going to investigate who? Where are the checks and balances?”

– A Nigerian, reacting to allegations of budget padding in the National Assembly (The PUNCH, July 29, 2016)

Ever since a former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Lamido Sanusi (now the Emir of Kano), drew our attention to the financial recklessness of the National Assembly, all eyes have been on its members. We knew all along from the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the National Assembly members inflated their entitlements and were raking in even more money than the inflated entitlements.
We also knew that they were fond of inserting their own budgetary wishes into the national budget in the course of appropriation. To be frank with ourselves, the National Assembly is constitutionally empowered to modify the budgetary proposals submitted by the President, by deleting or adding particular items to the budget. It can also reduce or increase the proposed budget for particular items. It is in the course of carrying out these functions that their own pet projects are inserted into the budget. This is the origin of the ongoing budget padding controversy.

This practice is not peculiar to Nigeria. In the United States, Congress (consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives) adds billions of dollars of pet projects, known as earmarks or pork, to spending bills every year. In 2006, the Boston Globe reported that the Congress spent $10bn on 1,439 such projects in 1995. Ten years later, the figures had gone up astronomically to $27.3bn on 13, 997 projects.

By December 2015, as the appropriation for fiscal year 2016 peaked, virtually every member of Congress struggled to insert their own pet project into the bill. Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, had this to say about them: “Anyone who wants to get anything done, who has already been frustrated by a virtually non-functioning Washington, is trying to cram whatever they can into this (appropriation) bill” (The New York Times, December 9, 2015). The result is billions of dollars for thousands of pet projects.

What is peculiar to Nigeria is that most, if not all, of the funds emanating from the padding of the budget goes into the private pockets of their sponsors, whereas, in the US, they are spent on the projects for which such funds are earmarked. For most US legislators, the appropriate spending of such project funds is often the basis for re-election or rejection at the polls. This is so because the budget is transparent and line items can be identified and monitored, constituency by constituency, which is not the case in Nigeria.

Another significant feature of the ongoing budget padding controversy is that the insertion of projects worth over N400bn was done after the whole House had passed the budget. In other words, the padding took place on the budget’s way to the Presidency, after leaving the House floor. It is this aspect of the process that is criminal. There really isn’t much difference in law between such an act and the forgery of the Senate Rules by a clique, without the knowledge of the whole Senate. If the latter is considered a criminal offence, and it has been charged to court as such, then the former is equally criminal and should be charged to court.

What is worse, the padding of this year’s budget was wrong on three additional grounds. First, the amount was excessive, given the small number of alleged culprits, namely, the Principal Officers of the House and a few Committee chairmen. One of them allegedly asked for over N40bn of pork for himself alone.

Second, the whole country is in an extended financial drought due to the dip in oil prices, the vandalism of pipelines, and dollar scarcity for foreign exchange, leading to the devaluation of the naira. Over 30 states have fallen six to 12 months in arrears of salaries, pensions, allowances, and/or required deductions. The multiplier effects on businesses and personal welfare are evident all over the country. For example, petty traders cannot restock partly because civil servants, who bought on credit, could no longer pay up and partly because prices have soared beyond their capital outlay. Even small businesses are distressed because they can no longer afford to borrow from banks, which charge exorbitant interests on loans. Against these backgrounds, adding so much money to the national budget just to benefit a few people is callous and immoral.

Third, the culprits of the alleged fraudulent padding of the budget should have been mindful of the present administration’s fight against corruption. If the lawmakers involved could not think about the welfare of those who elected them into office, they should at least be mindful of their party’s pet project, namely, to fight corruption.

The whole nation is now watching the administration to see if it can successfully turn the fight against some of its own. With the Department of State Services and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after the alleged culprits, there are signs that the case will be investigated. I would caution, however, that reporters and commentators tread carefully until charges are formally brought against the alleged culprits.

Whatever the outcome of the investigation, however, the alleged culprits have fallen short of the honour and respect due to their ranks, at least in the court of public opinion. They have made hollow the hallowed chambers of the Lower House. That’s why they all should resign once charges are brought against them on the padding of the 2016 budget.

And here lies the significance of the opening quote. Will the allegations be effectively investigated? Will charges be brought against the culprits? Will President Muhammadu Buhari insist, as in the case of the Senate President and his Deputy, that the law must take its course? Will the culprits sit tight like the Senate leaders in order to drag out the case so they could run out their tenure?

The answers to these questions lie with the Presidency, the law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies, the nation’s high profile lawyers, and the judiciary. Above all, whether or not the nation will be tortured through a protracted legal battle depends on the integrity of the alleged culprit. If they have a sense of shame at all (their integrity having been seriously questioned), they will resign before they appear in court.

Finally, let me crave the indulgence of the few honourable members of the House of Representatives that may be left out there. I thought about you when I adopted the title for this essay. However, I let it stand on the basis of a Chinese proverb: The fish stinks from the head.

Copyright PUNCH.

A former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin, opened up on Thursday on why the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, sacked him on Wednesday.
Jibrin, an All Progressives Congress lawmaker from Kano State, claimed in a statement that he was being victimised by the Speaker because he objected to a request Dogara made that he (Jibrin) should allocate projects worth N40bn to him in the 2016 budget.
He alleged that the projects would have been shared among four principal officers, namely, Dogara; the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Yussuff Lasun; the Whip, Mr. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa; and the Minority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor.
Jibrin, who demanded the immediate resignation of Dogara and the three other principal officers, added that the four met and took the “unilateral” decision to request the inclusion of the N40bn projects in the budget.
According to Jibrin, when he was approached by the four with the information, he declined to oblige them in a bid to assert the independence of his committee.
He said the N40bn was to have come from the N100bn earmarked for the constituency projects of all lawmakers.
Jibrin said, “These members of the body of principal officers were not comfortable with my independent disposition and my refusal to cover up their unilateral decision to allocate to themselves N40bn out of the N100bn allocated to the entire National Assembly.
“The four of them met and took that decision, in addition to billions of wasteful projects running to over 20bn, they allocated to their constituencies. They must come out clean. My inability to admit into the budget almost 30bn personal requests from Mr. Speaker and the three other principal officers, also became an issue.
However, in a response, the leadership of the House described Jibrin’s allegations as an “afterthought” just to express his anger over his sacking.
It also said there was no connection between his sacking and his opposition to the immunity clause for presiding officers proposed by the House.
The Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Abdulrazak Namdas, who made the reaction, noted that Jibrin was removed because the leadership reserved the prerogative of appointing and removing committee chairmen whenever they were seen to no longer be able to perform their duties.
Namdas stated further, “Most of the allegations on the 2016 budget process and his opposition to immunity of presiding officers are non-issues and (but) mere afterthought manufactured simply because the House relieved him of his position.
“If he had all these ‘facts’ before, why didn’t he make them public? Why is he doing that now?
“Jibrin, like any other member of the House, knows that there are conventions and precedents as they relate to budgets and projects for principal officers of the National Assembly. Why is he making it an issue now?
“In any case, he is entitled to his opinion as a Nigerian and as a legislator, while acting within the laws of Nigeria and rules of the House.”
But Jibrin added that his offence was that he dared to tell members the whole truth when the heat was turned on him by colleagues, who felt that they were short-changed in the allocation of projects.
The lawmaker did not comment on the N4bn projects he too was accused to have allocated to himself in his Bebeji Federal Constituency in Kano State.
However, he added that his removal was timed to coincide with the annual recess of the House to weaken his power to fight back.
But, he assured the Speaker and the three other principal officers that the issue would remain alive and must be addressed when members would have resumed in September.
Jibrin stated that rather than tell the truth, the leadership created the impression that he was sacked because he padded the 2016 budget.
He described the reason given for his removal as “complete misrepresentation, false, mischievous, unfair and a calculated attempt to bring my name to disrepute, blackmail, silence and use me as a scapegoat.”
Copyright PUNCH.