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And some fools believed we made a mistake choosing Obiano instead of Ngige. We were accused of being sentimental. But what an adult sees seating down, a child with ''sai baba'' chant can never see standing up.

It is only in this country that people want to force their ''enemy'' to live in the same place with them. I wish this oil will just dry up!

some people are busy making a way for their family and others are on the internet shouting sai Baba. You still wonder how some people will survive if this country divides ? Hard work is the answer and not propaganda.

tempex88:
1. BudgIT should show us the acknowledged copy of their letter to the SGF.
2. Complete copy of the response of the SGF.

I don't know y it is just letterhead and snapshots they are providing. what are they hiding?

How many copies did El Rufai show u ?

Information obtained from the Office of the Secretary General of the Federation (OSGF) in a letter dated October 12, 2015 and made available to BudgIT Nigeria, an organisation committed to exposing transparency and accountability in public finance, apparently showed that the Jonathan administration spent N333, 600, 000 for four years to hold independence day celebrations.

According to the letter by OSGF and signed by the Director (Finance & Accounts), Mohammed Lawal Garba, no funds were released for the independence day anniversary celebration in 2011. In 2012, N107,600,000 was released for the celebrations. In 2013, only the sum of N45 million was approved and in 2014, only N180 million was spent.

See the letter from OSGF below:

Independence Day (1)

Recall that following the announcement that President Muhammadu Buhari earmarked only N70 million for the 2015 Independence Day Anniversary, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, took to his Facebook page on October 1, 2015, alleging that the administration of former President Jonathan spent N64 billion to celebrate Independence anniversaries between 2011 and 2014.

According to Governor El-Rufai, Jonathan’s administration spent N13 billion in 2011, N15 billion in 2012, N14 billion in 2013 and N22 billion in 2014.

See El-Rufai’s post below:

El-Rufai's Facebook post on Jonathan's spending for Independence Anniversaries (2011-2014)
Governor El-Rufai’s Facebook post on Jonathan’s spending for Independence Anniversaries (2011-2014)
But in a swift response, the immediate past Minister of National Planning during the Goodluck Jonathan presidency, Abubakar Sulaiman, said the Jonathan administration only spent N333 million on three independence anniversaries (2012-2014) and not the billions of naira being bandied about by the Kaduna State Governor.

Read Suleiman’s response here

However, when Vanguard checked Governor El-Rufai’s Facebook page as at the time of filing this report, the controversial post had been deleted.

EgunMogaji:
A total and complete waste and a disfavor to the average Nigerian.

Those dignitaries are the ones that will be able to afford this.

A true medical philanthropist would open mini clinics directly in the inner cities.

Nigeria is always behind the curve ball. We're already transitioning back to providing health care to patients in their homes.

We are now in an age where we have telephone visits, video visits, mini clinics inside grocery stores (Target and Walmart) but yet here we are with another white elephant project in Nigeria.

We have a long way to go.

we should demolish it right ?

tunesoft:
Nigerians ans structures?....shey we never learn that just because a structure is big don't mean a hospital is world class. Even the gadgets displayed are what is expected of a regular hospital yet we celebrate one xray machine... (at the time and age of multi slice CTs) we celebrate incubators and drug dose dispensers and USS Machines. Abeg.....where are the perseonnels....? The pead surgeons ? the specially trained nurses...the anesthetists...the interventional radiologists..the paediatric oncologists? They ever loving peadiatricians? Show me the the automated lab equipment with well qualified lab scientists ? The computerised records department....the 2- 3 units of rapid response paramedics. Then maybe we can start talking of a world class hospital . We are not dumb at least I am not. Structures don't mean hospital strcutes mean hotels and event centre s abeg left to me turn that place to a hotel rather than deceiving people that it'world class's when its only Malaria and diarrhoea it will treat. People should open their eyesss jaareee

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So what is your argument. We should demolish the building or take it to lagos before is classified as world class ?

Oyegun, Below is the result of 2011 election. What did the NE and NW commit . APC is a big joke . The election was no issue in 2011 , but now if you don't vote for a candidate and you are from the SE , it is a blunder. To imagine that the president of a country admitted in Washington that a section of his country will not be treated equally because of election result is very shameful and immature. Hell would have been let lose if GEJ made such statement after 2011 elections.

keni:
Sorry bros I have checked which one is 6k amongst them thats the one gan gan am looking for but I cant find it there?

check UNA -- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA

Tay16:
Some Affordable Universities in USA that offer an MBA ($6,000 - $25,000)

1. Southern Arkansas University
2. Colorado Technical University
3. SUNY University (Buffalo)
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please do further research on the schools websites for yourself. This includes admission process, tuition fees, living expenses, other academic programs etc.

Include UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA too

IIZER29:
Congrats man, I'm heading to dallas to start my masters in January. will probably be using the shortest route possible to get there. PM me when you can

Which school are you coming to in Dallas ?

It appears this power no longer understands body language. And the fuel scarcity is getting worse . Felas ! what is the condition of things in your area ?

Any working link please ?

peterd53:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SoccErFanCluB/comments/3qyt0u/live_tvmanchester_city_vs_norwich_city_live/

Thanks bro . But is asking for registration

Any link please?

How many of this presidential Jet that APC accused GEJ of maintaining has been sold yet ? or are they still keeping those Jets

ARUNMA Oteh, the much-maligned immediate past Director-General of Nigeria’s Security and Exchange Commission, SEC, has just assumed duties at the World Bank as its Vice President and Treasurer. Oteh’s appointment was announced on Friday 24, July 2015, by the World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim who enthused: “I am pleased to announce the appointment of Arunma Oteh as VP and Treasurer of the World Bank. Ms. Oteh was selected for this position through an international competitive search.” Her appointment, said Kim, is effective from September 28, 2015.


Oteh’s appointment excites me for three reasons. She is a Nigerian. She is a woman. But the most exciting is that it vindicates all those who believed in her in the midst of one of the most vicious humiliation meted out on a public officer in his/her fatherland.

I first met Oteh on the pages of Vanguard Newspapers when the newspaper invited her from her Tunis base at the African Development Bank Group, AfDB, where she was the Vice President, Corporate Services, to deliver a high profile lecture in Nigeria. After reading her paper, I regretted not attending the lecture.

Beautiful. Elegant. Sure – footed. Meticulous, intelligent, brilliant, and not given to frivolity, Oteh is a cocktail of a total woman. I longed to meet her. Then, as fate would have it, months later, I met her physically at the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, where both of us were honoured with the Fellowship of the Institution. Before we were bestowed with the honour, Oteh delivered another beautiful lecture which had the students on their feet, cheering and applauding.

When I went over to congratulate her, she was humble, and full of humility. We chatted like two long lost friends. That was where Oteh and I exchanged phone numbers. You can imagine my joy when former President Goodluck Jonathan appointed her the Director General of SEC, thus, bringing her back to her fatherland. In doing that, she was expected to bring her expertise into reviving Nigeria’s, almost, dead Capital Market. Her profile fitted the bill, and so did her carriage.

Prior to coming home to boss the SEC, her job as the VP AfDB, Corporate, included human resources, information, technology, and institutional procurement. For five years – 2001 to 2006 – she led AfDB’s fund-raising and capital market, world-over. According to Kim’s press release, “Earlier roles at the AfDB, which she joined in 1992, included trading room management, investment portfolio coverage, and public sector lending. She also held other positions in capital markets and lending during the course of her career at the AfDB.”

So, Oteh’s home-coming, to her fatherland, to put on display what she had done for Africa at the AfDB was a big deal. She went about it meticulously and courageously, not minding, excuse this cliché, whose ox was gored. She began by cleaning the capital market, and showing dead woods the exit door. In doing that, she stepped on very big toes.

For some people, hard work, competence and efficiency are a no-no. As SEC boss, she exhibited those, and that was the beginning of her problem. Her carriage, beauty and brilliance did not help matters. To some people, “she is but a woman who must be conquered.” And they went about it in a most shameless manner.

Where she was accommodated, briefly, at the Hilton Hotel, Abuja, they went snooping, even in the thrash basket in her suite. They compiled her menu everyday and, what it cost. If she entertained visitors in her capacity as the SEC boss, they added up the number of cups of tea and/or coffee they drank, as well as cakes and/or other snacks they ate, and compiled the bills. Then, they inflated them, calling her extravagant.

At SEC, her very serious work ethics were her undoing. She was accused of high-handedness, amongst others, because she would not compromise standards. The last straw was her ordeal at the National Assembly where every effort was made to not only intimidate her, but to rubbish her. During an “ordinary session” to confirm a couple of things before the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market, some members of the Committee, led by the then Chairman, Herman Hembe, reduced it to a humiliation of Oteh.

They insisted she was not qualified to head SEC; that she didn’t have the experience or competence. Their aim was to intimidate her, and make her grovel before them. But you intimidate Oteh at your own peril. Angered by the condescending manner she was treated, she hit back, accusing the Chairman of corruption and certain behaviours beneath his position as an Honourable member.

As for her qualification? She flaunted her CV before them to the applause of those who watched it live on television. She told them she graduated, top of her class, in Computer Science at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and had her Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard University. Then, she flaunted the portfolio she managed at AfDB. Those grilling her watched open-mouthed, taken-aback, and too confused to say anything coherent.

After Oteh’s performance, everybody became cautious. Her penalty was the zero – allocation in the budget for SEC, after a failed pressure on Jonathan to sack her. That zero-allocation inspired her to keep SEC on track. But, it no doubt led to the non-renewal of her tenure as SEC DG. Now, it is this same woman who Nigerians tried hard to rubbish that the World Bank has found worthy for this high profile appointment after a thorough search.

She neither lobbied for it, nor got it through “bottom power”, the cross always hung on the neck of every successful career women in Nigeria. Her competence gave her the job.

No wonder the World Bank President, Kim, was effusive in his commendation of Oteh, while announcing her appointment. As the VP and Treasurer of the World Bank, Oteh will manage and lead a large and diverse team responsible for managing more than $150 billion in assets. Her top priority, Kim revealed, among others, will be to maintain the World Bank’s global reputation as a prudent and innovative borrower, investor and risk manager.

For the records, there are many Otehs in Nigeria. But they are destroyed by their country men and women as soon as they start “shining.” We derive joy in pulling down our compatriots, thus, running down our country before the world. Oteh’s case is a classic example of the Biblical prophet not recognised at home, but worshipped abroad. No response could have been sweeter for her envious critics than this very appointment. It is an unequivocal endorsement on her competence. And a lesson for bad belles!


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/arunma-oteh-the-rejected-stone/

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Any Nairalander in Arlingnton . Please pm me

GEJ did not do anything for 6 yrs and Buhari body odour is fixing power and refineries. Fashola changed Lagos to London , But Ambode Body scent is scattering it (who is fooling who?). Willie Obiano was voted in against Ngige, we were accused of being sentimental . Today , we have been proved right. We also saw through the propaganda of APC in lagos and was also described as sentimental . Who really is the Sentimental one here ? What an adult sees seating down,a child can never see ranting on twitter .

bbdd:
What exactly do you mean by secret clearance?

Bros, e go better if you just take small time ,Google DOD secret clearance. I don't want to type some things here

Guys , I have a CCNP and have practiced for seven years. Anyone with an idea of the state in the US where I can easily get a very lucrative Job? Am currently in Alabama and most employers seen to need secret clearance here .

Any Nairalander in UNT Denton ? Please PM me

PMB Appointments are not going as planned before election . They have resorted to the same tactics used against GEJ and accusing Ijaws in Niger Delta.

DeeTus:
Business Admin.

try UNA . But you will have to write TOEFL and GRE .

DeeTus:
Hey guys, please which school would you recommendate to someone with GPA 2.28 for masters.

A friend of mine needs help.

What major ?

Guys considering an MBA or Nursing should try the University of North Alabama. The school is kinda cheap and the cost of living is quite low

iamayodeji:
I thought they said something was wrong with his teeth.

is it not obvious ?