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PoliticsRe: Northerners In NEPC Gang Up Against Segun Awolowo by illmatic101(op): 5:16pm On Apr 03, 2016
“They are with the NEPC to add value as there is need for private sector inputs in the agency’s activities. The three technocrats are sponsored by three banks, namely, United Bank for Africa Plc, Zenith Bank and Skye Bank and draw their salaries from the banks, and not NEPC or Segun Awolowo,” the insider who pleaded for anonymity said.
PoliticsRe: Northerners In NEPC Gang Up Against Segun Awolowo by illmatic101(op): 5:12pm On Apr 03, 2016
“If an unbiased Government approved external body conducted the exercise, and some officers are making untrue allegations as we are witnessing now, perhaps the worst would have happened if handled by internally constituted SSC, considering the fact that, even before the exercise, some staff had expressed their lack of confidence in the Committee.”
Sources said it was Awolowo’s refusal to put up with deliberate incompetence, and attitude of entitlement displayed by the aggrieved party that made them to disparage him, and accused him of corrupt practices.
Few days back, the NEPC CEO was pictured on a private jet heading to Abuja, and rumour mill said he was junketing around the globe, and bleeding the agency dry.
However, investigation revealed that Awolowo flew for free on the private jet owned by his friend (name withheld).
The source also said “There is no way the Council can deliver on its mandate if the CEO does not travel, and efforts are not made to take advantage of the existing opportunities, locally and internationally. The need to diversify the economy can only be achieved by being active participant in non-oil export relevant events both at home and abroad.
“Part of the mistakes of the past is failure to engage actively the development partners in realisation of the Council and the nation’s goals. The reports of all these engagements and empirical and verifiable benefits in terms of MOUs signed and contracts entered into by the private sector operators are contained in the respective operational files and well captured.
“Segun Awolowo does not single-handedly allocate funds without recourse to the Fund Allocation Committee as alleged by the aggrieved party. The true picture is that on assumption of office, each time they received funds the Fund Allocation Committee (FAC) would meet to allocate the funds. This exercise was religiously followed in spite of challenges as they have to postpone meetings for members to attend.
“It was, however, observed that every meeting produced similar allocation pattern and as an antidote to the recurrent delays experienced in the attempts at making the Funds Allocation Committee to meet, he had to use his discretion to make funds available for the smooth running of the Council by applying already established pattern from several meetings of the Committee.
“There is nothing like contingency, the miscellaneous provision is a stop gap measure to keep office running at all times and virtually all operational departments have benefited from it. The anticipatory approvals were always ratified by the Fund Allocation Committee.”
It was gathered that the allegation that Segun Awolowo is using fleet of cars, six in number including a siren blaring pick-up van is wicked, ridiculous and irresponsible.
On his arrival at NEPC, impeccable sources said he met both at the Headquarters and Zonal Offices, some rickety vehicles including two parked, used Land Cruiser SUVs purportedly meant for the ED/CEO and the Chairman of the Governing Board, and set in motion machinery to refurbish the vehicles. However, on several occasions they broke down on the road.
This necessitated the purchase of staff buses, hilux pick-up project vehicles and two cars to replace the 10-year old Land Cruisers. And the staff buses (both refurbished/repaired) and hilux pick-up project vehicles were deployed to NEPC Zonal Offices.
It was further gathered that the alleged payment of Segun Awolowo’s personal assistants by NEPC is a false claim likewise Sure-p fund alleged to have been embezzled.
Findings revealed that the three Technical Assistants to the ED/CEO were neither on the payroll of the Council nor were included in the Senior Staff Committee (SSC) that conducted the 2014 promotion.
PoliticsRe: Northerners In NEPC Gang Up Against Segun Awolowo by illmatic101(op): 5:08pm On Apr 03, 2016
“How could this officer qualify for promotion to Deputy Director in 2011? This is mere fallacy that ordinarily should be penalized.
“It is germane to mention that the lateral conversion of Mr. Rufus Durodoye to officer cadre was done along with fourteen other eligible officers. The alleged exclusion of Hassan Bala from being considered in 2014 is a high level of absurdity.
“Hassan Bala was deliberately excluded from the 2014 promotion exercise and at the same time claiming that he was invited and participated at the event. Hassan Bala transferred his service from Lagos International Trade Fair Complex with effect from 11th November, 2009, and accepted the conditions as given for his appointment by the NEPC Governing Board. He accepted the conditions in writing, but thereafter, without reference to the Board, Mr. Bala Hassan obtained a letter from the then Director Admin & Human Resources backdating his effective date to 1st January 2006 when he had not joined the services of the NEPC. The letter was later nullified by the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.
“They are also alleging that Mrs. Opeyemi Abebe was seconded to an organisation which had no relationship whatsoever with activities of the Council and the Nigerian nation.
“This is not so. Mrs. Opeyemi Abebe was seconded to the Canadian Embassy for the position of Trade Commissioner in line with PSR 020502 (iv) which states inter alia ‘Secondment of an officer to the service of another Government, or Approved body or recognised International Organisation at his own request shall be for a maximum period of two years in the first instance after which the officer must apply for extension, seek for transfer or return to his former post’. Her schedule of duties are in clear tandem with Trade Promotion activities,” sources explained.
Facts on the ground(published right) indicate that Northerners dominate NEPC, and has a substantial share of high ranking officials in the agency.
Investigation revealed that Segun Awolowo’s other sin is that he contracted the coordination of the NEPC staff promotion exercise that previously was done in-house to another government agency, Centre for Management Development(CMD), and the exercise was allegedly not in favour of Northerners.
It was gathered that he inherited huge backlog of promotion from the previous management, and there was absence of a Governing Board, which ordinarily conducts promotion exercises for the Directorate Cadre.
The insider also said “So the first promotion exercise under his watch was conducted in August 2014, and the second one in July 2015. This was done with a view to clearing all the arrears of promotion, so that subsequent ones could be conducted as at when due.
“The issue of alleged jerking up of pass mark to 70% and 75% as against 60% as stipulated in the Civil Service was used against him. The Guidelines for Appointments, Promotion and Discipline in the Civil Service stipulates under Part IV – Promotion Number 5 Paragraph 2 that ‘Eligibility for promotion shall depend on meeting the minimum score of 60%and satisfying all promotion criteria, including availability of vacancy.
“The import of this is that scoring minimum of 60% is one of the criteria and it is not final determinant for promotion and besides, the Senior Staff Committee (SSC) has the prerogative to determine the cut-off mark, in line with contemporary realities.
“In order to ensure fairness and give all candidates equal opportunities and level playing ground, Centre for Management Development, a Federal Government Agency was appointed to conduct the interview. The decision has a lot of advantages, which include fairness, speed, fool proof of leakages/insider abuse.
PoliticsNortherners In NEPC Gang Up Against Segun Awolowo by illmatic101(op): 5:02pm On Apr 03, 2016
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/04/03/northerners-in-nepc-gang-up-against-segun-awolowo/

There is a gang up against Segun Awolowo, the CEO of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), and grandson of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, by powerful group in NEPC, a Federal Government agency.

According to findings, the lawyer is being victimised for seeking to ensure that a high level of professionalism is achieved in NEPC, an agency like most other government establishments bedeviled by tribal brawling, crass ineptitude, and corruption.

The group in the NEPC opposed to his reforms is said to bee largely constituted by Northerners who see NEPC as their personal preserve, and that the position of NEPC CEO should only go to someone from their part of the country.

Sources said Segun Awolowo’s tenure has been marred by intrigues and problems. Within three months into his assumption of office as ED/CEO of the NEPC in November 2013 following his appointment by former President Goodluck Jonathan, four directors in the institution retired. Three of them are said to be from the Northwest.

The vacuum created by the exit of the four Directors upon Awolowo’s resumption posed a lot of challenges. It was said that he had to direct the available substantive directors, M. O. Ibrahim, H. O. Otowo and Sidi Aliyu to play supervisory roles for departments that didn’t have substantive directors.

A directive he later overturned to test the capacity of the Deputy Directors in handling their respective Departments.

Sources further stated that the group of Northerners is playing ethnicity card unabashedly, alleging that promotion in NEPC has tilted in favour of “Yorubas” under the leadership of Segun Awolowo, whereas the situation suggests otherwise.

According to an insider, “Segun Awolowo met Mr. M. O. Ibrahim, one of the Southerners they complained about as the Director, Office of the CEO/Incentives when he assumed office in 2013. He was placed in that position by the previous CEO and later by the Governing Board.

“It is a coincidence that Mr. M. O. Ibrahim is from the South-West, and he happens to be the most Senior Director after the retirement of the four (4) other Directors. From NEPC records, Mr. A. L. Ako was the most Senior Director when Mr. David Adulugba was the CEO from 2008 –2011. They were both from Benue State. Mr. A. M. Lawal, who handed over to Awolowo became the most Senior Director from 2011. He is from Zamfara State. These are mere coincidences.

“Mr. H. O. Otowo, was the Director OCEO/Incentives from 2009 to 2013, when the Governing Board brought in Mr. M. O. Ibrahim. If the aggrieved staff had this in mind all along, why didn’t they complain then and why now?

“The claim that Mr. Ibrahim falsified his age is ridiculous and untenable. The information from his personal file and International passport indicate that he was born on 9th September, 1956.

“So also the allegation that three out of the four existing Directors, Mr. H. O. Otowo, Mr. Sidi Aliyu and Mohammed A. Ibrahim were promoted at the time when there was no vacancy for the promotion of Director (2009) was not true. In fact, it was the NEPC Governing Board that conducted and approved their promotion.”

The insider who is in the know of the raging intrigues against Segun Awolowo, further revealed that “It is not true Mr. Tijjani K. Zakari was deliberately denied writing promotion exam for the year 2011. This is a ploy to destabilise NEPC. Tijjani K. Zakari was employed in 1998 and placed on Grade Level 12 when he transferred his Service from Katsina State while on Grade Level 10.

“The regulation is that he should have been employed one step lower i.e. GL. 09, in which case he might not have been an Assistant Director now. (And nobody petitioned against him for this undue advantage). He was promoted to the post of a Chief Trade Promotion Officer with effect from 1st January 2005, and subsequently promoted to the post of an Assistant Director with effect from 1st December, 2010.
PoliticsRe: The Purpose Of Nations (1), By Sunday Adelaja by illmatic101(op): 1:26pm On Apr 03, 2016
Even though the events leading to the division into languages at the tower of Babel was indeed a tragic one, yet it is obvious that God had a place in his heart originally for nations, languages, continents and diversity in general, especially since as seen above in Gen.10:5, God had intentionally divided the people by their languages to their various lands, territories and nations.

Why was God doing all these? Anyone who has studied the acts of God would tell you that our God is not a chaotic God. He is not confused, disorganised, disorderly or unthoughtful in his actions and deeds. Which means everything he does is well thought out. If he decided to create diversity through nations, people groups, tribes, nationalities, then he definitely has a purpose for it. He has a purpose for every tongue, a purpose for every tribe, a purpose for every ethnic group, a purpose for every nationality and a purpose for every country and nation.

At this time my friends, have you started wondering what the purpose is for your nation? What the purpose is for your tribe? What the purpose is for your people group? Is there any purpose for Nigeria? Is there any purpose for our composition? Could there be any reason why we all came together to become a country? Is there any place and purpose for every tribe? Each language? Each nation?

Sunday Adelaja is a Nigeria born leader, transformation strategist, pastor and innovator. He is based in Kiev, Ukraine. He can be contacted at sundayadelajablog@gmail.com.
PoliticsRe: The Purpose Of Nations (1), By Sunday Adelaja by illmatic101(op): 1:25pm On Apr 03, 2016
What that tells me is that even God recognises every single tribe, nation and ethnic group he has created. That is why he had to make that statement clear and loud, even in the New Testament; meaning the new thing God is doing in the New Testament belongs to all nations, tribes, people groups and all nationalities, no matter the differences.

Notice that there were no conditions for these people to become witnesses and participants to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. They didn’t need to become Jews, they didn’t need to be circumcised, they didn’t need to be baptized, etc. God just poured out his Spirit upon all flesh, signifying the fact that all flesh were made by him for his purposes.

“For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.” Col. 1:16

Hence, God has his own agenda, ideas and purpose for the creation of every single nation, country, ethnic group, tribe, nationality, colour, island, etc. Each one of these diversities are meant to serve their individual purposes as only God sees best.

I hope what we have observed so far has begun to awaken our interest in the importance of nations in God’s purposes.

Going back to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts Chapter 2, it is however important to note that despite the recognition of the diversities of nations and cultures represented on that Pentecostal historic day, yet there is another significant thing that happened which we must pay attention to.

The Spirit that was poured out is meant for all flesh, it is one and the same Spirit. Notice there was no different outpouring of the Spirit on the Jews, while a different Spirit on the Gentiles. There wasn’t a different Spirit for the educated and a different Spirit for the uneducated. It was the same spirit that was poured on the Jews that was equally poured on the Asians, Africans, Americans, Europeans, etc.

God thereby makes a very loud statement by saying that no matter our differences – culturally, ethically, racially, etc., we are all united by one Spirit. The message is clear: it is the spirit of God that makes us one. It is in God that we are all one and equal, yet not cancelling our diversities. ONLY GOD CAN DO THAT – A CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY!!!

Coming back to our main message in this write up, what I am going to focus on is that every nation, every ethnic group, every culture, and every country under the sun has a definite purpose for their creation. That is however not the most important thing that I want to point out today. More significantly, it is essential that each one of these nations, discover their purposes. Let me quickly point out that there are general purposes for all nations, as well as more concrete and specific purposes for each nation.

In regards to how to discover the specific callings and purposes of each nation, that would be a discussion for another day.

Following the events of the aftermath of the flood, according to Genesis 10:5, “From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations”.

After the flood, when the survivors began to grow, increase and multiply, God almighty saw the need to distribute nations by territories, lands, languages, families, tribes and nations. Obviously, this distribution and separation into lands and territories, happened only after the event of the Tower of Babel as recorded in Genesis 11:7-8, when the languages were first divided.

“’Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.”
PoliticsThe Purpose Of Nations (1), By Sunday Adelaja by illmatic101(op): 1:10pm On Apr 03, 2016
http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/2016/04/03/purpose-nations-2-sunday-adelaja/

God has his own agenda, ideas and purpose for the creation of every single nation, country, ethnic group, tribe, nationality, colour, island, etc. Each one of these diversities are meant to serve their individual purposes as only God sees best.

PELEG… This is a word that might be unknown to even some of the most ardent students of the Bible. Graduates of schools of theology, seminaries and Bible schools might not have a clue into the meaning and significance of this word.

If we however wish to understand the mind of God concerning nations and continents, there is no way we can bypass Peleg. This five letter word might hold the key to understanding the structure of our world. It could be a major key in understanding the makeup of the geographical map of the world. But even more important is the fact that Peleg could give us insight into the future of nations and continents as we know them today.

I wish to deviate meanwhile into a more detailed analysis of the centrality of our topic today – THE PURPOSE OF NATIONS. I would definitely come back to a full and detailed discussion about the supposedly mysterious word, Peleg.

It is expedient for every man and woman in our world today to know that he or she is not a product of accident. What I am trying to say is that, your origin matters, your nation matters, your culture matters, your ancestry matters, your country matters.

Sometimes the idea that we are living in a global village could create a sense of loss and confusion, in the sense that you don’t think any more in terms of where you are coming from. What your origin is. What your roots are.

Most of the time, especially as believers, we tend to think that these things don’t matter anymore, especially to God. We hear people say that if you are in Christ it doesn’t really matter who you are or where you are from. Yet, we cannot close our eyes to the fact that people are different. People have different skin colours, pigmentation, shapes and colours of the eyes, cultures, and traditions.

Even though we might all be in Christ, we speak different languages and relate to different cultures better; we belong to different races etc. What that tells me is that being in Christ does not obliterate diversity in cultures, traditions and even races.

A glaring proof of this hypothesis is seen in the New Testament. When the Holy Spirit poured out upon the disciples in Acts Chapter 2, God in his infinite wisdom had made arrangement for all people groups under the sun to be present at this historic and monumental event.

When the Spirit was eventually poured out on the disciples, the standbys from different nations of the earth testified to have heard the disciples speak in the various languages represented.

“And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, ‘Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.’ So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, ‘Whatever could this mean?’” Acts 2:6-12.
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Army Dispels Rumoured Tribal War, Killing Of Three Soldiers In Enuguby by illmatic101(op): 11:10pm On Apr 02, 2016
Cc: lala
PoliticsNigerian Army Dispels Rumoured Tribal War, Killing Of Three Soldiers In Enuguby by illmatic101(op): 9:24pm On Apr 02, 2016
http://dailypost.ng/2016/04/02/nigerian-army-dispels-rumoured-tribal-war-killing-of-three-soldiers-in-enugu/


The Nigerian Army on Saturday dismissed as untrue a reported tribal war at the 82 Division, Enugu, which allegedly claimed three lives.
Report had emerged online that following a perceived “tribal deployment of troops to the Niger Delta”, crisis engulfed the 82 Division, leading to the death of a military commander and two soldiers.

However, in a press statement made available to DAILY POST by Colonel H.A. GAMBO, the Deputy Director Army Public Relations, he described the report as “baseless and at best, mere figment of the author’s jaundiced imagination.”

The statement read in full:

“The attention of Headquarters 82 Division, Nigerian Army has been drawn to a deliberate campaign of misinformation that is being currently circulated in the social media.

“In specifics, a subversive group named ‘EASTERN RADIO’ with no known address or identity orchestrated an unfortunate caption and storyline with insinuation of ‘Tribal War at Army Barracks, 82 Division Enugu’.

“The colouration of ethnic and tribal collusion that greeted the misinformation is rather unfounded, baseless and at best mere figment of the authors’ jaundiced imagination.

“For the avoidance of doubt, let it be emphatically stated that the Nigerian Army remains a national institution which emphasises unity in diversity of the entire Country. There are extant norms, regulations and practices for diversity management in the Nigerian Army which are upheld in 82 Division without compromises.

“The intent and calculations of this band of mis-informant is to cause disaffection amongst own troops and the Country’s populace at large. Their methodology is to employ such campaign of calumny and distortion of an established reign of peaceful, harmonious and esprit-de-corps culture in 82 Division and the entire Nigerian Army.

“However, the campaign is a failed one as the entire Division remains indivisible, unprovoked and not gullible to such cheap and heinous insinuations.

“The general public is hereby called upon to discountenance the storyline of EASTERN RADIO and their affiliated secessionist groups. 82 Division Nigerian Army is intact and marching forward together as ever. Above all, the Nigerian Army remains committed to providing aid to civil authority as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (As Amended) and wishes to reassure the public of the Chief of Army Staff unalloyed commitment to protect lives and property whenever called upon to do so in line with extant provisions of the law.”
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 8:54pm On Apr 02, 2016
wahabian:
Nairaland is read everyday by the country's leaders.It is important to give this thread the necessary exposure,for the sake of our country.
Lalastica
seun
Hehehe....

Maybe they're confuse, remember the last time a topic about rice made front page it was about Aisha's rice cheesy
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 10:18am On Mar 30, 2016
wahabian:
If what you're saying is true,then we must strongly reject this offer,please mods Lalastica do the needful.
Lalastica prefer threads with snakes, earthworms, Tonto nudes pics, this one isn't making front page.
PoliticsBetter Water, Better Jobs by illmatic101(op): 6:18am On Mar 30, 2016
http://leadership.ng/opinions/editorial/513492/better-water-better-jobs



As customary since 1993, the world celebrated another Water Day recently. The theme was ‘Better Water, Better Jobs’. While it may mean little to many in this part of the globe, Nigeria was again missing in action as other countries reflected on the nexus between these global imperatives. It cannot be denied that almost half of the world’s workers – 1.5 billion people – work in water related sectors and nearly all jobs depend on water and those that ensure its safe delivery. Sadly, Nigeria ended at the base of the United Nations Decade for Water – 2005 to 2015. Despite her enormous water resources the country could not achieve the Millennium Development Goals on Water and Sanitation.

Many suburbs still do not have access to fresh water, as only 58 per cent of the populace is covered. It means about 87 million Nigerians rely on water scooped from filthy ponds, wells, rivers, lakes and in many privileged homes through boreholes that are privately dug. In many towns and villages, water vendors earn their livelihood scrounging water from sundry sources for sale to hapless citizens to use for their domestic consumption and industrial needs. In defiance of hazards associated with indiscriminate drilling of boreholes, the government is yet to live up to its responsibility on water supply.

With the number of people working at borehole sites, sachet water and pure water companies, it is self-evident that the workers are often not recognized or protected by basic labour rights. Our government needs to harness the expansiveness of knowledge age that sees water sector as highly conducive for job creation and create an enabling environment on how enough quantity and quality of water can change workers’ lives and livelihoods.

For instance, we see the nexus between job and energy as intrinsically linked and a potential job market. We also know that wastewater from domestic, commercial and industrial sectors can also be treated, using mechanical power driven by electricity. This increases the use of energy to treat wastewater. Industrial wastewater that carries hazardous chemicals may use higher energy input. Nevertheless, sewage and biomass can produce methane, a renewable energy resource to be converted into electricity or biogas. We see in this year’s theme couched in several possibilities for a government that ascended power on the mantra of change.

We need to join the rest of the developing world to accelerate research on how to maximise the harmonious relationship between water and jobs. Nigerian leaders should not slack in holding talks with professionals in the water sector through its numerous water boards, river basin authorities and other positive initiatives. Given its status as a universal solvent, water should be treated as a human right. The country’s National Water Supply Policy articulates this.

We propose that government should stand up to its responsibility and provide for special fund for the sector. Awareness of the inter-linkages between water and job is expedient, just as we must focus on the broad range of issues related to the nexus of water and jobs. Decision makers in the employment and the water sectors must integrate into the global plan on the water-job synergy to achieve greater economic and social impacts. If not, we will be charting the pathway to hunger since food security relies on water.
Jobs/VacanciesRe: Nigerian Army Dssc & Ssc 2015 Aspirants by illmatic101(m): 6:11am On Mar 30, 2016
Please send the past questions papers to angelani33@hotmail.co.uk
PoliticsRivers Rerun: PDP Wins More Federal Seats, One State by illmatic101(op): 6:02am On Mar 30, 2016
http://independentnig.com/2016/03/rivers-rerun-pdp-wins-federal-seats-one-state/

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Port Harcourt Federal constituencies 1 and 2 and that of Obio/Akpor winners of the March 19 rerun National and State Legislative Assemblies elections in Rivers State.

INEC also declared the party’s candidate for Port Harcourt state Sonstituency 2, Adoki Tonye Smart, winer of the election.

The national electoral umpire announced the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Benibo Fredrick Anabraba, winner of Akuku-Toru state Constituency 2.

The results were announced last night in Port Harcourt, the state capital, by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Aniedi Ikoiwak.

Ikoiwak said PDP’s candidate for Port Harcourt Federal Constituency 1, Kenneth Anayo Chikere, got 18, 904 votes to defeat his closest rival, Igo Aguma, of the APC, who polled 6, 035 votes.

The election results also showed that PDP’s candidate for Port Harcourt Constituency 2, Mrs. Blessing Nsiegbe, polled 6, 968 votes to defeat Collins A. N. Owhondah of the APC, who got 3,154 votes.

INEC announced that PDP’s candidate for Obio/Akpor state constituency, Kingsley Chinda, polled 27, 895 votes to defeat his closest rival, Tony Okocha, of the APC, who polled 9, 514 votes.

Thus far, the PDP has won four Federal and eight state constituency seats in the rerun; APC has won two of the state constituency seats.
PoliticsRe: Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu And Wife Blasted By Trolls [PICS] by illmatic101(m): 11:40pm On Mar 28, 2016
CecyAdrian:
Omg!!! shocked shocked shocked

Some girls get mind oooo huh huh This is what you call bedroom, sitting room and kitchen!!

Kai!!! How do they do "that thing" lipsrsealed
Simply put self contain grin
PoliticsRe: Nigerians Mock Tinubu For Blasting Kachikwu Instead Of PMB Over Petrol Scarcity by illmatic101(m): 9:18pm On Mar 28, 2016
PentiumPro:
FIXED
Your obsession with the Igbos is getting irritating, just because your ex ( definitely an Igbo guy) dump your ass you are now taking it out on others, try and contribute positively
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 8:06pm On Mar 28, 2016
FarmTech:
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Only the super mods can do that. I can only recommend this link.
Okay please do that
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 7:21pm On Mar 28, 2016
FarmTech can you move this to front page, no be only earthworm, snakes, Tonto... (what's that her last name again) deserves front page
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 7:11pm On Mar 28, 2016
RPDA:
Looking at it on a serious note, these guys are pained. See how they stylishly were advertising their economy..




MASIPAG(Philippines) don't worry, after we are done using the $6m judiciously yielding profits and boosting our economy with our ever fertile land and experienced farmers with both parties smiling to the bank, then BMGF can look into your matter.

No pour sand sand inside our garri abeg.
We can learn from the mistakes of others, the disaster that will befall this country no be here, we most oppose Bill's GMO at all cost
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 7:01pm On Mar 28, 2016
FarmTech:
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The only set of people that will support bill gate are those who know nothing about GMO. In simple terms, if u buy their seed and plant. Then u harvest many seeds, sell some and plant some. Those ones u plant will not produce well and u'll suffer loss. To make profit, u must go back to bill gate to buy his seed. That way they'll end up controlling farmers. If they set high price u won't beat them.
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The most dangerous is that their seed can pollinate other different seeds close by and affect their yield and other characteristics.
I couldn't have explained it more better
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 6:06pm On Mar 26, 2016
[quote author=sammyj post=44132589]Ok. I see you meant Gate want to monopolise casava farming in Nigeria. But I still don't see how evil comes in to the entire process. Gate is a business man and will not invest and not make profit. You would have advise our government to either invest on research that will allow a better option rather than blame the man for not being a father Christmas or DASUKI! !! grin

This is my fears, you plant Cassava using the stems, with this genetically modified seedlings you can only use the seeds which can only be supply by Bill, this seedlings changes the soil in such a way that only this kind of cassava can grow on the soil, that not all.

The GMO also affects other plants around it, if the pollen grains should be transferred to other plants around by insects or wind the genetical structure of the plant will change there by affecting the soil, the soil will remain useless, it can only be put to use by planting GMO.

Imagine you being neighbours with such a farmer
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 5:30pm On Mar 26, 2016
PoliticsRe: Philippine Farm-science Group Slammed Covert Bill Gates Gmo Push by illmatic101(op): 5:27pm On Mar 26, 2016
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 4:39pm On Mar 26, 2016
ki02020:
It is in the best interet of who? Dogs abihuh
Come this matter serious ooh, do you know this GMO also changes the genetics of other plants around it?
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 4:30pm On Mar 26, 2016
sammyj:
Ha which one is evil or good in this one oooo!!! shocked
Okay lemme explain, you plant Cassava using the stems, with this genetically modified seedlings you can only use the seeds which can only be supply by Bill, this seedlings changes the soil in such a way that only this kind of cassava can grow on the soil, tthat not all.
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 4:08pm On Mar 26, 2016
Where's lala when you need him
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 4:07pm On Mar 26, 2016
sammyj:
Enemy of progress and propaganda from the gate of he'll! ! shocked shocked
Listen here mister, you most stand for something, this is a battle between good and evil.
PoliticsPhilippine Farm-science Group Slammed Covert Bill Gates Gmo Push by illmatic101(op): 3:59pm On Mar 26, 2016
A local farmers-scientists group condemned the covert visit of the notorious GMO/vaccine advocate, Bill Gates, who is trying to convince the Philippine government to use genetically modified Golden Rice as the solution to vitamin A deficiency when Malungay or Moringa, which is very rich in Vitamin A and all other nutrients, is already pervasive in this part of the world since Moses’s time.


Is Bill Gates that desperate in killing us all here? Or, is he just plain stupid?

We hope that this guy realize how irritated we already are with his arrogant interference to our domestic affairs. He can take IRRI with him anytime of any day!

http://myeclinik.com/philippine-farm-science-group-slammed-covert-bill-gates-gmo-push/
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 3:53pm On Mar 26, 2016
ki02020:
There is nothing you do that people will not talk about...life is give and take...he is directly helping the country agric sector and indirectly helping himself end of story...even GOD created us to do his will and not ours and if there is anybody who has problem with that should tell GOD to take away the life he gave him or her
Helping the country in what way? do you know how many white farmers in Zimbabwe have committed suicide?
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 3:49pm On Mar 26, 2016
waternogetenemy:
Gnetically modified food.
Yes, in the last administration he was secretly lobbying lawmakers to pass a bill that would enable him be the sole supplier of this genetically modified seedlings
AgricultureRe: Say No To Bill Gates Cassava And Rice Farming by illmatic101(op): 3:39pm On Mar 26, 2016

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