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Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola exposed PDP plan to use ballot paper to rig the Osun Governorship election. Aregbesola explained how there are two thin wires in the Ballot paper that will be used on 9th of August 2014 Gurbernatorial election in osun.
Ogbeni explained that to void this PDP evil plan, all we need to do is to identify where the APC logo is on the ballot paper, he advised to count three other party logos upward and then fold the ballot paper on the 3rd logo. Then count three other party logo downward and then fold the ballot paper there too before you finally put your thumb print on the APC logo. Ogbeni explained that folding the ballot paper will break any thin wire inside it.

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=180525

tchidi: Get a cab going to wuse, stop at area 11, get a cab going to fcda, stop at d fcda junction and trek in.

Ok tnx alot

Pls house can someone please kindly explain how someone coming from Nyanya can get to Federal Ministry of Agriculture @ Area 11....tnx.

Nigeria's deadly politics of interfaith love.
Maram Mazen

A political power struggle masquerading as religious strife grips Nigeria - with mixed-faith couples paying the price.


Jos, Nigeria - Hajiya Badamasi was a practising Christian when she married her Muslim husband in the central city of Jos 20 years ago and converted to Islam.

The Plateau State capital has been a tinderbox for ethnic and religious clashes in the middle belt region, home to a region where Nigeria's largely Muslim north meets its mainly Christian south, encompassing many of Nigeria's ethnicities.

The tensions began in 1991 when Jos was demarcated and divided into Jos North and Jos South. Violence started to break out in 1994, when a Hausa (a group which along with others are regarded as "settlers" in the region, as opposed to ethnic groups that view themselves as "indigenes" was appointed as Jos North local government chairman.

According to International Crisis Group, roughly 4,000 people have been killed in sporadic outbreaks since 2001 in what Human Rights Watch described as "horrific internecine violence" .

Before Jos became the epicentre of religious strife in the region, there were no issues over "who is a Muslim, who is a Christian", said Badamasi, having interfaith parents herself.

"My father was a Muslim, he died as a Muslim, but my mom is a Christian and she still goes to Catholic church," she said. She was raised by a Christian uncle, and practised Christianity.

Her uncle initially wasn't fully supportive of her marriage to a Muslim, "but at the end of the day they said where you find love, happiness, and joy, it is where you go to".

Manufacturing religious strife

Generations of mixed Muslim and Christian marriages highlight previous religious tolerance in Jos, where the focal point is tension between indigenes and the settlers, with each struggling for control of political power and resources.

Settler groups say they have unequal access to government jobs and scholarships, political offices, and even roads and infrastructure, compared with more favoured indigenes. Distinction between individuals based on ethnic ancestry, not where they were born or reside, and its effects on privileges in each area, is a general practise across Nigeria.

Clashes followed when the Hausa challenged this distinction, demanding equal rights as they arrived in the early 1900's and helped build Jos.

Despite the conflict's portrayal as religious, "there is no religious doctrine that has been the focus of the fight," said Etannibi Alemika, a University of Jos professor of criminology and sociology of law.

Incidentally, the Hausa are predominantly Muslim, while the indigenes, mainly the Berom, are largely Christian.

The two sides say politicians reframed the conflict as a religious one to expand their support, manufacturing a religious conflict which feeds into the wider middle belt region.

Inter-communal clashes in the middle belt have killed more than 1,000 people from December 2013 to mid-April this year, and more than 10,000 since 1992 in Plateau and Kaduna states alone, according to HRW. In the process, Jos has become one of the most religiously segregated Nigerian cities.

The marriage of Alhaji Abdulaziz Haruna, a 59-year-old Muslim, and Augustina Vou Haruna, a Christian, nearly 40 years ago, is another example of the religious tolerance at the time.

"When my parents went to visit my wife's parents, they were received wholeheartedly," said Haruna, who's a community leader for the Shuwa Arabs, a minority group from northeastern Nigeria.

Augustina, a Berom, goes to church every Sunday, and sometimes Haruna takes her there himself. The couple have raised five children.

Targeting interfaith marriages

Among Jos' bouts of violence, the 2008 clashes hit mixed marriages the worst.

By then, religious undertones had overtaken the conflict's political roots, and families moved to neighbourhoods predominantly of their religion for safety. On two occasions, Augustina was compelled to stay with her parents in Christian neighbourhoods until tensions calmed.

The 2008 clashes erupted amid local government elections in Jos North, the conflict's focal point. A minority in Jos, the Hausa and Fulani believe they constitute a majority in Jos North, where, as in the other parts of the area, local governments confirm indigenes by issuing "indigene certificates".

"Whoever controls the local government controls the issuance of indigene certificates. This, in the final analysis, is what much of the fighting is about," Philip Ostien, a former lecturer in law at the University of Jos, wrote in a report examining the 2008 clashes.

The Hausa suspected vote rigging after the vote counting was moved to a Berom neighbourhood. Riots erupted, followed by clashes that claimed hundreds of lives.

In the aftermath, "Churches were burned, Mosques were burned", Isawa Elaigwu, president of the Institute of Governance and Social Research (IGSR) said in his Jos office.

"So religion is more a vehicle of expression than a cause, because it mobilises people and it's easier to express."

The increasing use of religion in the political space is a national phenomenon, said Elaigwu. “Suddenly from the 80's, politicians politicised religion and made religion an item of distinct conflict of social cleavage in the society,” he said.

"All of this is perpetrated by politicians,” Sani Mudi, a spokesman for the Muslim community in Jos, said in the city's central mosque.

New boundaries

Rising opposition to interfaith marriages, as well as the communities' segregation, have reduced their occurrence, said Muhammad Lawal Ishaq, a Jos lawyer.

"There's a sharp change from what was happening in the past," said Ishaq.

Ishaq was involved in a case four years ago where the parents of a Muslim, Hausa woman attempted to stop her marriage to a Christian, Berom man, ultimately arguing her age, 17, rendered the union illegal. But they married after she turned 18, and she was disowned by her parents.

Rarely do couples in Jos defy these new social boundaries.

Prince Charles Dickson, a Christian, and his wife, Fatimah Dickson, who was Muslim when they married in 2000, reside in Jos.

Fatimah converted to Christianity based on her own convictions, after the birth of their second child. Neither family approved of the marriage.

Fatimah said that, ironically, her own family's history provides a stark comparison of how mixed marriages were viewed in her parents' generation.

"My mom was a Christian, my father married her as a Christian and she converted when she had her last child," said Fatimah. "Her grandfather was also a Muslim, and he got converted by the early missionaries... So when she got married it wasn't a problem," she said.

Fatimah was born and raised in Kaduna, another central state embroiled in intermittent ethnic and religious clashes. But because her family is originally from Lagos, in the southwest, she is considered a Lagos indigene and a settler in both Jos and Kaduna.

As a settler, Fatimah says, she faces discrimination even though she's Christian, including, she said, being denied two government jobs that went to less qualified applicants.

Respecting indegene 'authority'

The Jos indigenes say they wouldn't be granted indigene rights in other places, and therefore it isn't fair, or possible, to share their ancestral rights with non-indigenes.

"We have our own people from Jos, from Plateau, residing in other states ... we will always make sure they respect the culture and tradition, respect the constituted authority," Jacob Gyang Buba, the paramount traditional leader in Jos, known as the Gbong Gwom Jos, said in his palace.

He insists that besides traditional privileges (such as representation in the traditional councils), all communities in Jos enjoy full residency rights. He also denied that there was any form of discrimination against settlers, on any level.

Initiatives by organisations such as IGSR and Operation Rainbow, a government programme, have helped to stem the violence. IGSR trained thousands of young people on early warning system protocols to stop the spread of clashes when violence breaks out through prompt communication with security agencies, said Elaigwu.

These questions over citizenship and identity are among others being discussed at a national conference that aims to resolve obstacles to "the nation’s harmonious development".

But, as politicians bicker, a generation is growing up in a tense, religiously segregated Jos. Trying to teach children tolerance is a challenge.

"My son saw a body being burned ... a couple of months later he bumps into a scene where people were being butchered, and you can imagine what that does to him. He was coming back from school," said a father who asked to remain unnamed.

At his church, the pastor told worshippers not to buy beef from Muslims, he said. "If the pastor teaches that, what do you think the teacher is doing?"


http://m.aljazeera.com/index/home#/story/201472984354915150

obayaya: Let it be known that APC drew the first blood in the "declaration of legislative seats vacant" saga that is about to begin.


Expect PDP to take it to the next level at the National Assembly.

Let the games begin

You spoke my mind bro....hope it doesn't backfire APC @ the Federal level
Them wan turn my State to Rivers....and hope hope APC are aware too that Rivers lawmakers too decamped from PDP to APC, so they too should vacate their seat!!! Just wondering why APC like giving the PDP road to deal with them

The Leader of Niger-Delta Peoples Volunteers Force, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, on Tuesday slammed President Goodluck Jonathan over his comment that Nigeria would have boiled if a former Head of State Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) had died in the Kaduna blast.

He also exonerated himself from the allegation that he paid the alleged masterminds of the Kaduna blast N5m to carry out the attacks, saying people were out to tarnish his image.

While describing the President’s comment as unnecessary, he stated that placing the life of one Nigerian above the over 80 persons who died in the incident was wrong.

“I do not work for Jonathan. What the President said was wrong. The life of Buhari is not more important than 87 people that died in that blast. It is unfortunate that the President made such a statement. I wonder why the President will be promoting one person above other Nigerians. That statement from the President was very unfortunate. I do not have the capacity to tell the President to apologise, but I still insist that he should not have made such a statement,” Dokubo-Asari told journalists on Tuesday in Abuja.

He recalled that, “Soon after the blast, a cross-gender person came out and was arrested. Even the mother of the person arrested said he was insane. Social media reports said I gave them N5m to carry out the attack. These things are masterminded. The first one is against President Jonathan and the other one is against me.

“I did not pay anybody to carry out any assassination attempt on Buhari. I do not have anything against him. He is not a threat. He will fail in 2015. For the records, I do not operate a Twitter account and anyone saying I tweeted that there would be more attacks is only using my name.”

Dokubo-Asari also raised the alarm that all the calculated attacks on him were geared towards shutting him up ahead of the 2015 presidential election.

He said, “They want to silence me because they know the role I will play in 2015. They have also sponsored reports in Benin Republic that I am the person financing Boko Haram. Another Islamic scholar also said I am the one sponsoring Boko Haram to destroy the North on behalf of President Jonathan.

Dokubo-Asari also alleged that the late leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, funded Buhari’s elections in 2011.

He said, “In March 2010, I was a guest of Maummar Gaddafi. He told me that Sule Armah and Buba Galadima were in Libya ahead of the 2011 elections. Gaddafi told me that he had been funding Buhari’s elections in the past. I want the Department of State Security to investigate if these names I have mentioned were not in Libya during the period I am talking about.”

But a Buhari’s ally and a former spokesperson for the defunct Congress for Progress Change, Alhaji Buba Galadima, said Dokubo’s allegations were unfounded.



http://www.punchng.com/news/dokubo-asari-faults-jonathans-comments-on-buhari/

ajisdavid: It was also added that the Police Service Commission (PSC) had shortlisted Abubakar’s 2 Deputy Inspectors-General (DIGs), 2 Assistant Inspectors-General (AIGs) and a Commissioner of Police (CP) as his potential successors.

Joseph Mbu comes to mind

Did my youth service there(@ NMS, Nigeria Army Depot, Zaria) last year and saw these people once, I was so scared, cos me nor even dey understand hausa!!! But thank God say mi don port come back to south...No Place like home!!!

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said although he had not visited Chibok, Borno State since April 14 when over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped, his desire was to visit the town after the girls might have been rescued.

He said it was only then that parents of the abducted girls could receive him with smiling faces rather than with tears.

A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, quoted Jonathan as speaking during a closed-door meeting he had with parents of the abducted girls, some of the girls who escaped from their abductors and leaders of the community at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Abati said the President told the gathering that his heart was constantly with the traumatized parents, despite that he had not visited the town.

The statement quoted the Jonathan to have said, “Our duty now is to take all relevant steps to recover our girls alive and our primary interest is getting them out as safely as possible. I will not want to say much, but we are doingt everything humanly possible to get the girls out.

“This not the time for talking much. This is the time for action. We will get to the time that we will tell stories. We will get to the time that we will celebrate and I assure you that, by God’s grace, that time will come soon.”

He was said to have reassured the Chibok community that his administration is doing everything humanly possible to rescue the girls and return them safely to their parents.

He said, “Anyone who gives you the impression that we are aloof and that we are not doing what we are supposed to do to get the girls out is not being truthful.

“Our commitment is not just to get the girls out, it is also to rout Boko Haram completely from Nigeria. But we are very, very mindful of the safety of the girls. We want to return them all alive to their parents. If they are killed in any rescue effort, then we have achieved nothing.”

Responding to appeals from the community leaders for more help in overcoming some of the challenges imposed on Chibok and neighbouring communities by the Boko Haram insurgency, the President was quoted as saying that the National Emergency Management Agency and Federal Medical Agencies would intensify their efforts to provide them with additional relief aid and assistance.

He also assured them that Chibok and other communities in the three North-Eastern States most affected by the Boko Haram insurgency will be the first beneficiaries of the Victims’ Support Fund, the Presidential Initiative for the North-East, the Safe Schools Initiative and other developmental programmes which the Federal Government is evolving to address the damage, losses, setbacks, economic and social dislocations occasioned by the Boko Haram insurgency.

“We solicit your maximum cooperation. Let us work together. Evil can never overcome good. We will surely overcome Boko Haram,” he told them.

In his remarks at the meeting, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State was said to have called for more sobriety, reflection and unity of purpose in the fight against terrorism in the country.

He pledged that his state would give Jonathan the fullest possible support for his efforts to address the problems caused by terrorism and the Boko Haram insurgency.

Dr. Pogu Bitrus presented the Chibok community’s address to the President.

Other speakers at the meeting included a district head, Mr. Zannamadu Usman, a member of the Borno State House of Assembly, Hon. Aminu Foni Chibok, parents of the abducted girls and three of the girls who escaped from their captors, Godia Simon, Dorcas Musa and Joy Bishara.

National Security Chiefs, Ministers and other senior government officials were also present at the meeting.


http://www.punchng.com/news/i-plan-to-visit-chibok-after-abducted-girls-freedom-jonathan/

Same story and benefits they said when you become a Gejite....till today, still waiting for the fresh air to get to me even as a Gejite and now its TAN, who knows tomorrow it may be ANT!!!....I guess you/this people are taking people informations to do something else all in the name of membership registrattion
SMH!!!

In case you are wondering why some men behave nicely when women are around them and behave anyhow when they are alone or with friends, a study has revealed why this is so.

The study shows that men put in their best behaviour when attractive or beautiful ladies are close by, and that the number of kind acts showed by men relates with how attractive a female is.

The study, carried out by Dr. Wendy Iredale of Sheffield Hallam University and Mark Van Vugt of the VU University in Amsterdam and the University of Oxford, further shows that the extent of kind and selfless acts by men corresponds with the attractiveness of women who are around.

The study, published in the British Journal of Psychology, also found out that the behaviour of women remains the same, regardless of who was around.

In the first part of the research, 65 men and 65 women, with an average age of 21, anonymously played a cooperation game where they could donate money to a group fund via a computer programme. The donations were selfless acts.

The two groups comprising 65 persons each were placed under observation by two physically attractive observers, who were either of the same sex or opposite sex. Men were found to do more significant good deeds when observed by the opposite sex than when observed by men, while the number of good deeds made by women did not change, regardless of who observed.

For the second experiment, groups of males were formed and were asked to make a number of public donations. Their donation increased when observed by an attractive female, where they were found to actively compete with one another. However, when observed by a male, donations did not increase.

Iredale said, “The research shows that good deeds among men increase when presented with an opportunity to be joined together. Theoretically, this suggests that a good deed is the human equivalent of the peacock’s tail. Practically, this research shows how societies can encourage selfless acts.”

In an interaction with our correspondent, a 31-year-old civil servant, Olanrewaju Felix, described the study as a true reflection of his personal experience. “From my personal experience, the study is true because I have observed that when female friends, colleagues or even visitors are around, I tend to behave well and be less dramatic. It is more so when the lady is within the age range of someone I can befriend.

“I can’t really explain it but that is just the truth, and I think it is common among men. In fact, my friends tell me that my voice changes on the phone when I am talking to a lady, but I have settled it in my mind that I can’t change it because I believe it is my nature.”

It seems like a common testimony among men in their late teens upwards to behave in a more refined manner and do certain positive things they may naturally not do if there were no women around, especially the sexy and attractive ones.
Seun Ibigbami, a student in his mid 20s, told our correspondent that the best time for him to ask for money from his brother is when he had female friends or colleagues around him.

“I have learnt that if I need to get anything from my brother, I need to ask him when there is at least a female around him. It works faster because I think he seeks to impress the women, whereas, if he is with a man, nothing changes.

“In fact, he feels free to talk to me if the person is a man because he believes it is man to man, which gives me an impression that his nice disposition in the presence of women is actually to impress.”

However, a consultant psychologist, Prof. Makanju Ayobami, said men tend to do that because they become more self-conscious and put on their best behaviour or effort in order to make a good impression on the attractive or beautiful person around.

“It is the same reason why we all want to look good when we are going out than when we are inside.

“And that is why there are certain things we do at home that we cannot do in the presence of visitors. This could be because of the familiarity and maybe taking them for granted.”

Ayobami argued that it could even be more with women than men but that it occurs in both males and females.

Another psychiatrist, Dr. Kehinde Ayenibiowo, said a man would not need to behave in the best way he could in the presence of a woman if there is no ulterior motive.

She added that, in spite of the need for rational beings to behave well to get the best from every relationship or situation, it is when the man hopes to get something from the woman, either at the moment or later in the future, that he could seek to impress her specially.

“It depends on the motive. If you do not want to create impressions, why do you want to behave well when a woman is around? It is because such men have ulterior motives, especially if they are expecting something from her.
“Why don’t such men behave well in the presence of their mother, no matter how beautiful she is? So, there must be a reason. Moreover, it also depends on the relationship between the man and the woman. If there is no established relationship, since we are moved by first impression, an average person wants people to think well of him or her.

“Human beings are rational beings, especially men, who are not moved by intuition, but by rationality, so, when they hide what is bad and only show what is good, they want to be accepted, and for the likelihood of what they hope to get from her now or later,” she explained.

Ayenibiowo further questioned why men who try to impress women by their behaviour do not act likewise in the presence of their wives at home. She said they behave well in such special occasions knowing that they cannot get their best if they do not behave themselves.
“If a man is very rich, he doesn’t need to create impression because he knows that he is already accepted, unless he is after a particular woman. They are also aware that people believe women flock after rich men in this part of the world,” she added.


http://www.punchng.com/entertainment/saturday-breeze/men-behave-better-when-around-beautiful-women-report/

The House of Representatives moved on Thursday to stop the practice of recruiting workers‎ as “casual, contract or temporary staff” in the country’s labour industry.

A bill to limit casual or temporary status of employees to‎ two years, passed second reading at the House on Thursday.

It is an amendment bill to the Labour Act, 2004.

By the provision of the bill, employers are required to convert any casual worker in their organisations to “permanent status” immediately they clock two years working as temporary staff.

The sponsor of the bill, Mr. Emmanuel ‎Jime, told the House that there were many Nigerians working as “casual staff for years” in some organisations without any indications that they would be converted to permanent staff.

He argued that the practice created discrimination in the work place, making dome workers remain inferior to others.

Besides, Jime noted that the discrimination affected the economic well-being of the casual workers.

“It means, we have two categories of workers. We have the permanent ones and the casual ones in the same work place.

“This division is unacceptable and unhealthy for economic growth”, he added.

The long title of the bill read, ‘A Bill for Act to Amend the Labour Act, Cap. LI, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, to Provide a Time frame for the Regulation of Casual or Temporary Employment to Permanent Status by all Employers of Labour in Nigeria and for other Matters Related thereto.’

Members applauded the bill, passing it for second reading in a voice vote.

The session was presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha.

http://www.punchng.com/news/reps-consider-bill-to-stop-casual-contract-job/

@op...try and visit UNiBEN hall 2....

davide470: There are drilling courses, Inspection, reservoir courses to take. Google them out. You should also know how to operate some softwares: OLGA, PipeSIM, etc

but the main 'koko' is experience, no matter how small..

Ok..tnx bro

imag5: so many but they are quite expensive Boseit,nebosh..irata

Oh tnx...but no Cert.courses on drilling and the rest?

Ezegozie: i think we should be discussing better things apart from comparing courses, because
it is too childish for this thread

a Geophysicist will never agree that geology is better than geophysics, neither will a geologist agree that geophysics is better.

By the way, Employment is based on
God
profficiency
connection
smartness
intelligence


pls let us discus something that will contribute to our knowledge other than unnecesary arguement.
because this kind of arguement can even weaken some young students.

because when ur course is critisized in order to win a debate, it may make you hate the course which will subsequently reduce ur enthusiasm towards reading.

Hey bro, you are yet to forward that gmat material sent to you by imag5 to me.
I'm still patiently waiting for you bro! Tnx

Pls house, after HSE1,2,3...what next certificate course would you advise for a young Petroleum Engineering graduate

Ezegozie: i cant access my Mail with my handset.
They are telling me to login with desktop.
And then try again using mobile.

But before one week, it will be resolved and i will forward it to U

Ok. Tnx

Ezegozie: Yes boss, thanx so much.....you are really doing a great Job

Ezegozie: pls kindly forward the GMAT questions sent to you by imag5 to my mail:

Speaker of house of representative, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, Senator Bukola Saraki and some other lawmakers shunned the entreaties by the senate president, David Mark, insisting that there was no going back in their decision to move into APC.

Tambuwal and Saraki were reported to have stated that they had gone too deep with APC to backpedal at this point in time while Abbe was quoted to have said that any attempt for him to remain in PDP henceforth would be tantamount to betrayal of Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, his political benefactor.

The Senate President, Davis Mark has been hired by President Goodluck Jonathan to help plead with aggrieved federal lawmakers of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP who where bent on defecting to the Opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.

It was gathered that despite obvious frustrations in handling the assignment from the Presidency, Mark continued consultation with the aggrieved members of the National Assembly even on the first day of the New Year yesterday.

One of the lawmakers from the South/South geopolitical zone confirmed to National Mirror in a telephone interview yesterday that Mark is meeting with his colleagues on behalf of the Presidency on the way forward over the protracted crisis bedevilling the ruling party.

http://247nigerianewsupdate.com/tambuwal-saraki-others-shun-daivid-marks-peace-talk-insist-on-defection-to-apc/

From what I observed last year,I want people to clear me on some issues on this politics section.
I want to know if people are paid to attack opposition political part? If yes, can't this be check mated or is it allowed in NL? If no, then what does it benefits some people to attack others!
I remember posting a topic here late last year, some comments that came were insults directed @ d Op from some party faithfuls , then others attacked themselves directly.
I feel in Politics sections opinions are suppose to be shared politely and people should not be forced to agree on your opinion. If APC, PDP is the party to take us to the promise land, then both party supporters should give candid reasons while his/her party should be supported and not base on ethnic or religious belief. But from what I observed last year, its either you agree to some people's opinion(even if its senseless) or they attack you in person.
Please this new year, let's try and make this section and every other sections peaceful and respectful as possible. The idea of names calling should stop.
But if actually some people are paid to defend or oppose political parties, then there is no need for this my post,because I don't think it will change anything.
God bless Nigeria and bless us all.
Happy newyear...

imag5: I was here in case it made FP...first to coment

And what's special abt the front page issue

Over 800 teachers were sacked by the Edo government.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Edo Chapter, on Monday urged Governor Adams Oshiomhole to declare the debt profile of the state.
Dan Orbih, the Chairman of the party in the state, told journalists in Benin that Mr. Oshiomhole had repeatedly denied that the state was indebted.
Mr. Orbih said the government had, however, set aside N20 billion in the 2014 budget for debt servicing.
He described the sack of 836 teachers by the state government as “tissues of lies”, adding that Mr. Oshiomhole was playing politics with the figure.
The chairman alleged that more than 3,000 teachers were sacked and there was no plan to recruit new ones.
He said the state government had failed to fulfill the promises made to the electorate and the stowaway boy, Daniel Ikhena. He said people who wanted to help the boy were stopped because of the government’s declared intention to take care of the boy and his family.
“Government did not fulfill the promise made to the family.
“People who wanted to help them stopped because they assumed they were being looked after by government. We also gathered that the mother is now sick,’’ he said.
Reacting to the issues, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Kassim Afegbua, said the state government had never denied that it was indebted.
“There is no government all over the world that is self sustaining and without having recourse to certain borrowings to meet up its statutory obligations,” he said.
“What is bad in borrowing is taking the money without using it.
“Since this government came on stream five years ago, we were servicing the debt inherited from the previous PDP government in the state.
“We took a bond specifically meant for the ongoing Benin water storm project, and as we speak, the Edo debt stands at between N11 and N12 billion. On monthly basis, there is certain amount taken from the internally-generated revenue to service that debt.’’
On Ikhena, he said that the boy, like several others on scholarship, was in the boarding house, adding that the boy was not abandoned.
He said that only 836 teachers were sacked, adding that the decision was taken after the outcome of the evaluation carried out in respect of teachers recruitment, population, competence and qualification.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/152351-pdp-challenges-oshiomhole-edo-debt-teachers-sack-others.html

@ OP pls let us know when you are to carry out the training!!! im so interested!

Was it flying with that Aboniki balm too?
Dats a flying hospital I guess

imag5: Thanks everyone,jpts certified drilling operations and offshore technology is 30k at pH.....hope u guys are fine.....we are the future..don't give up......if u are already a graduate sent or CV to my mail marcusimagwe@yahoo.com

Just saw this, but don't know if I'm late, but pls can I still send my CV to your mail? Will also send you details abt me!

femi4: Shaking My Head

Thanks....
Now smh @ myself, cos ve bn intimidated with it often!!! Lol

Pls what's the meaning of 'Smh'.
Guess shame?

Employment

what a touching story