₦airaland Forum

So, did the President deliberately distort the fact (lie) in his speech or he's simply out of touch with reality concerning the economy? $2.2B isn't the same as $150M.

Good news, anyways. We need more of this.

This MTN matter na season film? First, it was in Lagos, now Ilorin.

Stop misinforming the public!!! Oorelope State Constituency within Ogbomosho territory? If I slap you, ehn!

OAJE:
Thoughtful... Also, it should be noted that Otunba Alao Akala who is the Chief Financier of Labour Party in Oyo State is now a political ally of Governor Abiola Ajimobi. Although has decamped to APC, he still retain and maintain his political structure in Labour Party. The seat that was contested for is still within Ogbomosho territory(constituency) which is Alao-Akala's main political base. So, it is not really an all-loss situation for APC. Going forward, if Alao-Akala's platform is fully allowed into APC, all the LP legislators will move into APC. Did you notice that Governor Ajimobi reacted to the death of that late LP legislator with no light vigour and fervency, and that was why the killers could be nabbed fast and with ease.

So, Toke Makinwa's mother's name is Mrs Toke? OP, kwontinue...

Ghen ghen! One by one, they'll vomit all they ate with impunity. Femi Otedola should be next...

DoyenExchange:
Ekiti is in hot soup again! Yesterday it was teachers, today doctors, tomorrow who will join the strike?

The State Governor.

opalu:
2% of 170 million Nigerians = (2×170,000,000)/100= 3,400,000 people.

No, sir. It's 2% of 70,000,000 depositors/bank account holders. i.e. 2/100 * (70,000,000) = 1,400,000, which is a paltry 0.82% of the total population.

Picture of her in Tony Elumelu's private jet or office, or.....you know the drills.

YoursGEJ:
This is completely illegal. I'm spending my money not their own so who are they to tell me that I cannot use my own money?

The thunder wey go fire diamond bank dey chop 8 wraps of fufu for iya basira canteen. Them go gather for me and my bank manager today

Spending your money? No, sir! Your money is the Naira you deposited in your account, which you are free to draw anytime in Naira. Allowing you to draw and/or spend that money in other currencies is a privilege, not a right. If you have any doubts about this, kindly check the T&C section of any bank's account opening package.

Picture of him trying to jump into the lagoon, or...

Where is the Bayelsa Twitter Senator with "uncommon sense"?

Good development

Then, fully clothed; now, half unclad. Amazing transition...

SaharaReporters has obtained a list of at least 91 people tied to influential or highly placed Nigerians who were recently offered juicy appointments by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in a hiring process that was highly secretive.

The list of beneficiaries of the CBN’s job largesse include a daughter of former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, a son of Mamman Daura, a nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari and one of the closest members of the president’s inner circle, a son of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, a daughter of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’aba, also daughter of of the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, a since of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdurahman Danbazzau and at least 86 others.

The highly controversial recruitment, seen as peddling of influence, first came to light a few weeks ago, but SaharaReporters just exclusively obtained the names of the beneficiaries.
The leaking of the irregular hires by the CBN caused significant embarrassment for the government and the bank. The CBN’s Director of Human Resources, Chizoba Mojekwu, was reportedly redeployed as the bank’s Director of Capacity Development and IT after CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, accused her of being behind the leaking of the list. However, a top official of the CBN told our correspondent that Mr. Emefiele had arranged the hiring of relatives of top party leaders and powerful government officials as a strategy for saving his job.

Even though the list obtained by SaharaReporters has 91 names, our sources at the CBN disclosed that the CBN Governor had started the practice of using job offers to woo top government officials since Mr. Buhari came into power on May 29, 2015. One source revealed that, in September 2015, Mr. Emefiele had hired Claire Arase, a daughter of Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase.

SaharaReporters learnt that the CBN often went to great lengths, including tweaking the names of recruits, in order to hide the identities of beneficiaries of politically motivated recruitment. Often the CBN used the beneficiaries’ first names and their father’s middle names to hide their real identities. For instance, the bank listed Maryam Atiku as “Maryam Abubakar.” In another case, the bank entered the name of the son of Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, as “Nagode Abdulrahman.” In other instances, the bank used the maiden names of hired persons instead of their married names.

The recruitments are deemed irregular because the CBN failed to advertise the vacancies in order to allow opportunities to all qualified Nigerians to apply for the jobs. In addition, the bank’s “political” recruitments did not follow principles of federal character set out for employment by government agencies and other public institutions. “Jobs were just handed to the children of ministers in the current administration,” one bank official stated. The source added that many of the new hires were asked to pick their department of choice after their irregular employment was concluded.

Below is the full list of 91 people illegally hired by the CBN:

1. BIOLA OLOGBURO ADENIRAN 2. ABBA MUSTAPHA SHETTIMA 3. ABDUL-HAKEEM MOHAMMED ALI 4. ABDULLAHI MOHAMMED NURADEEN 5. ABDULMALIK ATTA 6. ABDULNASIR HARUNA 7. ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED YAHAYA 8. ADEFELA H. ADEJUWON 9. ADUWAK LARABA 10. AHMAD AMINU 11. AHMED AMINU-KANO 12. AHMED ZAINAB SHEHU 13. AINA MICHAEL O 14. AKINWUNMI AYODEJI AKINTOLA 15. ALEXANDAR CHUKWUKA OKAKWU 16. ALIYU AISHA YAKUBU 17. AMINU AHMADU DAUDA 18. AMINU HALIMAT SADIA ABDULLAHI 19. ASUZU OBIOMA C

20. AYOOLA B OYEBANJO 21. AYOOLA OLUWABUKOLA 22. BABAYO ABDULHAKEEM ABDULLAHI 23. CARPENTER BARKA MUHAMMAD 24. DAHIRU ISA ABBA 25. EJIKE EMMANUEL IBE 26. EKAYI NYOFO SHITTA 27. ESSIEN INNOCENT JOSHUA 28. ETHEL ISIOMA OJIJE 29. FARIDA ZUHAIR 30. FATIMA BABA SHEHU 31. FATIMA IMAM 32. HAJARA SANI 33. HANAFI ABUBAKAR MUJELI 34. HASSAN USMAN 35. IBEH NNADOZIE NATHANIEL

36. IBIRONKE IFEOLUWA ADETUNBI 37. IBRAHIM AHMED LAWAN 38. IBRAHIM KABIR TIJJANI 39. IBRAHIM MUHAMMED KABIR 40. IBRAHIM USMAN 41. IDIGO IFEANYI CHARLES 42. IHEOMAMERE CHIKEZIE CHIKWENDU 43. IKYEMBE TERSEEL IKYEMBE 44. JAMES ELIZABETH EDIDIONG 45. JIBRIL ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM 46. JOEL UGOCHUKWU JONES 47. JOHN IRIMIYA BALEWA 48. KAMALUDDEN TUKUR TAFIDA 49. LORETTA LAOYE 50. MARYAM ABUBAKAR 51. MARYAM ADAMU BADAMASI 52. MBWIDUFFU IBRAHIM AUTA 53. MOHAMMAD AHMAD ADAMU

54. MOHAMMED ALI 55. MOHAMMED AMEER IBRAHIM BUNU 56. MUHAMMAD ISAH RUMU 57. MUHAMMAD MUHAMMAD MAGASA 58. MUHAMMED HASSAN 59. MUSA IBRAHIM 60. MUSTAPHA MARIAM BUKOLA 61. NA'ABBA FATIMA GHALI 62. NAGODE ABDULRAHMAN 63. NASREEN MAMMAN-DAURA 64. ODELOLA OYEKUNLE ISIMENME 65. OKOCHA UZOMA MESHARK 66. OLAJIDE TOLANI KUDIRAT 67. OLAWUNMI ADEDOYIN KAYODE

68. OMITOKUN OMOLOLA TEMITOPE 69. OMOILE KINGSLEY UCHEKA 70. ONOJA UWANE JESSICA 71. ORUCHE CHUKWUDUBEM GODWIN 72. OWOADE ADEDAMOLA KAZEEM 73. PRINCEWILL EVA 74. RABIU MUSA MBULO 75. SADIK UBA SULE 76. SADIQ INUWA BABA 77. SALAMI BASHIRAT OMOLOLA 78. SAMAILA SHEHU 79. SHIMA KUMA 80. SOLOMON EZRA MONDE 81. SUNDAY JOHN MOMOH

82. TASLIM GANIYU OLALEKAN 83. TEMITOPE ADEOLA ODUNOWO 84. TITILAYO TOLA OLOWONIYI 85. UKUTE PATRICK EWERE 86. USMAN BUBA JALO 87. YAHAYA SANI 88. YAKUB UMAR YAKUB 89. YAMANI SANUSI 90. YINUSA BILIKIS OREKULEYIN 91. YISA DANIEL NMA


http://saharareporters.com/2016/03/15/nigeria%E2%80%99s-central-bank-illegally-hired-sons-daughters-and-relatives-former-vp-atiku-igp

Where is Dolapo Osinbajo in that picture?

jabulani000001:
Heritage Bank MD, in a newspaper interview on Monday, said the Bank, upon the completion of the integration with its acquired Enterprise Bank, sacked some staff that were found to be unfit. Banks, like other organisations, constantly review their operations and resources to achieve set goals and objectives. UBA, 1ST Bank and Diamond Bank have cut jobs in the last 5 months. It has nothing to do with being or not being able to stay afloat. It is about positioning for greater performance. Even my office sacked some old staff recently and employed some other fresh staff.

Stick with what you know. UBA has not cut any jobs in the past 1 year. Stop misinforming the public!

allanphash7:
It is not well

Maybe not with you, but it's well with me and mine!

It is well!

marked10:
What an adorable kids. Now am thinking of having mine. How many is thinking that right now?

He shared the Photo and captioned it: ''Ken and Ty ...My life''

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAycZ08E6iw/?taken-by=obagoal

Chai...oyinbo na bas.tard... "...an adorable kidS"? "How many IS thinking"? Kontinu...

mufutau55:
Yeah right... and those American who are being recruited only speak Arabic? Keep fooling yourself.

Why the insult? Are you an ISIS sympathiser??

mufutau55:
Not bad... everyone must speak the language of the land...
BUT what about the CHRISTIAN women who cannot speak English? There are plenty of them too. Will they be exempted?

Hajji M.

The Christian women do not understand Arabic - which is considered the language used by terrorists to brainwash and radicalize unsuspecting men and women who become easier target when they cannot speak English and therefore find it difficult to integrate.

[quote author=jnrbayano post=42129897][/quote].

crazygod:
His account is a students account but his dad paid aboved the limit for his account

His account is not a student account! Rather, it's a tier 3 low-KYC account which is opened with just a passport photograph and minimal documentation. This class of account has limits on single deposits (N20k) and total cummulative balance.

OP should do as I earlier advised.

Babysho:
I am in a polytechnic but the ID card I was given has a valid use for 2014/2015 only and we are already in 2016 so......unless I go back to school maybe we are to be given a new ID card I do not know because my t-fare to sch is with "NoAccess Bank"

Go with the expired ID and any other recent document issued by the school in your name (like your current school fees receipt, course registration form, etc for the 2015/2016 session) and ask that your account be migrated to a Student Account.

Make dem do anything wey dem like, na their country!

[quote author=Tequilah post=42006706]Someone should do a documentary on this great man. Is there a way to merge all the different threads about his 50th year anniversary into one thread?

I concur with you on the documentary

CeterisXVII:
Eeyah.... what a great article! I just loved the multiple references to Greek history and mythology. The writer's loss is still so palpable, and it comes through clearly in her speech. May the soul of late Chief S.L.A Akintola the Are Ona Kakanfo, continue to rest in peace and may the good Lord continue to protect all those he left behind. I am thinking of making an unbiased documentary on the life of this great man....

Thanks for the kind words. Please go ahead with the documentary, if you're able to do so. Some of us will greatly appreciate that.

Continue to rest in peace, Akintola baba lamilami...Legendary SLA, the greatest son of Ogbomosholand, and 13th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland!

… A daughter remembers an accomplished and beloved father
Maria Abimbola Akintola

Growing up I came to behold my daddy Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola as a colossus. In my infant eyes he was full of life, very effervescent and I had, in my child like innocence, thought that he will be around forever. My father was my personal hero and my world, to an extent, revolved around him. I grew up knowing him as a wonderful father, teacher, counselor and friend who helped everyone around him to be a better person.

Akintola the man that I know was sagacious, personable, erudite, urbane, suave, industrious, energetic and intelligent. He was a great organizer, talented mobilizer, an outstanding orator and a man of the people in the truest sense of the word. These attributes made him a very successful politician.

As a politician he had friends and foes in legion but his main pre-occupation was a united Nigeria in which every tribe especially his beloved Yoruba race will partake in the common patrimony as equals.
Fifty years after his passage, I still reminiscence of a father with a heart of gold, one who could hardly hurt a fly and who refused to pay his opponent in their own coin even when political exigencies demanded just that. Often times, I marvel at the concerted demonization of his memory for political pottage. At such times I am reminded of the old story as recounted by the Nigerian nationalist and prolific author Mokwugo Okoye of the great Athenian general and statesman, Aristides, hero of the Marathon War, noted for his valour, incorruptibility and magnanimity and nicknamed The Just.

When out of his rival, the venal Themistocles’ machination, he was banished from his country by the ostracism that was the bane of Ancient Greece, Aristides met an illiterate citizen who, not knowing his identity, wanted him to inscribe “Aristides” on the shell which he wanted to vote for the general’s banishment. The latter asked him “Whether Aristides had ever injured him?” The dutiful burgher replied in the negative, adding “nor do I even know him, but it vexes me to hear him everywhere called the Just.” The great man, we are assured by Plutarch in his Lives of Greek Heroes, said nothing but inscribed his own name on the “ballot paper” as he was directed and later suffered his banishment, praying as he left Athens “that the people of Athens might never see the day which should force them to remember Aristides.”

But his prayer was signally unanswered and three years later Xerxes of Persia, terror of the Greek world, was at the gates of Athens with his grand armada, which obliged the frightened citizens of the city of culture to revoke their decrees of vengeance: all the exiles were recalled, and subsequently Aristides, now reconciled with Themistocles, distinguished himself at the Battles of Salamis and Platea. Unlike Aristides my father did not have a second chance as he was brutally murdered by a band of misguided and mutinous soldiers on January 15, 1966. Like Aristides’ illiterate voter, many of the writers, politicians, carpetbaggers and renegades who calumniate the memory of my father could not claim to have been offended by my father or even to have known him closely; yet when it became expedient and their Themistocles sounded the battle cry and accused him of all sorts of crimes, they sheepishly cast their votes with scurrilous castigation and venomous damnation of his memory and his place in history.

Thank goodness history is hardly partial and there still abound in Nigeria men of goodwill and good conscience. I am re-assured by the resurgence of unbiased record, review and analysis of my father’s place in history even as I remain amused by the apparent consternation of some dye in wool partisans who still cling to distorted facts. Lord Acton, a celebrated British historian while quoting an Italian counterpart noted that “the gods have placed upon the earth two judges of human actions; conscience and history”. While people are left to live with their conscience, the verdict of history remains forthright and palpable. The facts of history are clear. My father was a prominent lawyer in his time. He was an accomplished teacher, frontline journalist, first Nigeria Minister of Labour, Minister of Health, Minister of Communications, first leader of opposition in the Federal House of Representatives, 13th Are Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, brilliant parliamentarian, astute administrator, nationalist, Patriot, Statesman and Visionary.

National treasures like the National Stadium in Lagos, Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Ikeja industrial estate, Surulere Housing estate etc. bespeak the deft touches of his administrative acumen and his ingenuity as a parliamentarian. Historians are settled on his preeminent role in the fight for the nation’s independence and his prodigious contribution to post independent Nigeria. No amount of later day red herring will obliterate the facts.
As ebullient as they come, my father was soft at heart.

A good family man, he dotted on the love of his life and only wife; my dearly beloved mother Chief Mrs. Faderera Abeke Akintola (of blessed memory) with whom he bore five children. He loved his children equally and for different reasons largely based on unique attributes specific to each child. The last of his children Olatokunbo till his death in 1973 was “the soul of the family” and had earlier achieved fame as the first African to attend the highly regarded British public school Eton College. A large-hearted man he extended unaccustomed benevolence to his family, friends and associates as well as charity and goodwill to all men.

Most times when I think of my father, I often ruminate on the import of the inspiring admonition of Rudyard Kipling in the inimitable poem IF. “If you can keep head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream – and not make dreams your master; If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with worn out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your hearth and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you.

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on,” If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run--- Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And – which is more - you’ll be a Man my son!”
The poem could have been more than enough consolation only if my father was alive to share it with not just me but with all his loved ones today January 15, 2016. But since he is no longer around to share in the witty cadence of the ennobling verses so meticulously weaved together by Kipling, I shall continue to read alone and reminiscence on the time we shared together; precious time, now distant in memory, yet ever-green.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/reminiscences-chief-samuel-ladoke-akintola-50-years-after/230335/

Cc: Seun lalasticlala mynd44 dominique