that's nice.

kudos to the finance gurus who are uncovering the ghost workers and helping Nigeria save money.

A batch of 23000 ghost workers were uncovered earlier this year.

http://www.newsweek.com/nigeria-37000-ghost-workers-civil-service-says-anti-corruption-chief-450027


Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency says it has uncovered more than 37,000 ghost workers on the civil service payroll and that the number is still rising.

The acting chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, said that the thousands of non-existent workers had cost the government close to 1 billion naira ($5 million) so far. “The figure will definitely increase as we unravel more ghost workers buried deep in Federal Civil Service payrolls,” said Magu on Tuesday at an anti-corruption event at a government ministry in the capital Abuja, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported.


President Muhammadu Buhari has launched a crackdown on government corruption and fraud since his inauguration in May 2015. Nigeria’s Finance Ministry said in February that the removal of another 24,000 ghost workers from the state payroll resulted in a monthly saving of 2.29 billion naira ($11.5 million).




Magu lamented the widespread procurement fraud within government ministries and the civil service and warned that violators of Nigeria’s Public Procurement Act could face up to 10 years imprisonment. Magu said that the EFCC had established a specific unit to deal with procurement fraud as the agency had received an increased number of petitions on the matter. “The commission is determined more than ever before to rid all MDAs [ministries, departments and agencies] of all forms of fraudulent activities,” said Magu.

http://www.newsweek.com/nigeria-37000-ghost-workers-civil-service-says-anti-corruption-chief-450027

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Abolitionist Harriet Tubman will appear on front of the $20 bill, replacing former President Andrew Jackson and becoming the first woman featured on U.S. paper currency in modern times, a Treasury official said, in a design overhaul that will leave Alexander Hamilton on the $10 note.

The decision is the latest chapter in a 10-month-old controversy that erupted after Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew tried to address gender imbalance on U.S. currency notes. He opened up the selection process to the public just as the current face on the $10 bill was enjoying a resurgence in popularity, and outrage ensued.



The move Lew is announcing Wednesday is intended as a way to thread the needle between women’s groups who have been advocating for gender diversity on U.S. currency and fans of Hamilton, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, the playwright and star of the hit Broadway musical about the nation’s first Treasury secretary. Miranda lobbied Lew to keep Hamilton on the $10 when he visited Washington last month.

To appease those who have been looking forward to a woman on the $10, Treasury will will change the back of the $10 – which now has an image of the Treasury Department – to include women suffragists, according to a person familiar with the plans.



Politico earlier reported details of the Treasury’s planned announcement.

In June, Lew announced the government’s plan to feature a woman on the $10 bill, the first time in more than a century a woman has graced the nation’s paper currency. But the search turned to debate after former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and others objected to the removal of Hamilton from the $10 note.

The popularity of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” provoked a wave of interest in the man who played a leading role in creating the U.S. financial system and helped the country repay the debt it amassed during the Revolutionary War.



Suggestions by Lew that a woman might not feature on the front of the new bill triggered a backlash among women’s rights activists. Lew suggested in an interview March 30 with Charlie Rose that the government might leave Hamilton on the bill’s front portrait, saying the former Treasury secretary is one of his heroes.

Promises Made

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” Lisa Maatz, American Association of University Women’s vice president of government relations, said last week, before the new bill was introduced. “A promise was made and it should be fulfilled. I don’t know any particular reason why they would back away from it.“

A group of women including feminist icons Gloria Steinem and Marlo Thomas and soccer star Abby Wambach sent a letter to Lew on Wednesday before his announcement urging him to put a woman on the front of the $10. They started a Twitter hashtag #NotGoingBack to urge him to keep what they said was a promise to replace Hamilton with a woman.

“As a country, it is about time we put our money where our mouth is in the fight to support women,” they wrote.

The politics of swapping out Jackson might be easier. He had been a slave owner and is not enjoying a renaissance like Hamilton. Jackson was put under the lens last year in a book by National Public Radio journalist Steve Inskeep, who examined Jackson’s role in forcing Native Americans from their homelands.

Women on 20s, the group that has led the charge to feature a woman on U.S. currency, sent a letter to Lew and U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios last week asking that they fulfill the promise to put a woman on the $10 bill.

In their letter to Lew, Women on 20s wrote that “relegating women to the back of the bill is akin to sending them to the back of the bus.” Analogies to Rosa Parks, a black woman whose refusal to sit in the rear of a city bus made her a symbol of and leading civil-rights activist, “are inevitable,” the group said.

Along with women’s rights activists, Hillary Clinton, who’s campaigning to become the first female U.S. president, has weighed in to the debate. Miranda, who performed for President Barack Obama and his guests last month in an intimate East Room performance, said on Twitter on March 16 that he had discussed the issue of Hamilton on the $10 and that Lew told him “Ham fans’ll be ‘very happy’ about the new $10.”

Bernanke wrote last year that it would be a shame to demote Hamilton, “the best and most foresighted economic policy maker in U.S. history.”

Lew last June announced that he would decide which woman should go on the $10 after a period of public input. The $10 already was due for a makeover to incorporate security and technological upgrades, a five-year process.

The new bill was set to be unveiled in 2020, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment extending voting rights to women.

While there have been Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea dollar coins in limited runs, the last time women were pictured on U.S. currency was in the 1800s – Martha Washington on a $1 certificate and Pocahontas in a group engraving on some currency.


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/treasury-picks-tubman-20-bill-163628914.html

Leeeekeeee:



Who in Nigeria is not a cultist

eod.

Can a non cultist occupy that position?

I dont think so.

As a matter of fact, the question should be who in Nigeria is not a cultist, a very tiny minority in the population I'm sure.

A more pertinent question would also be: what type of cultist is an individual- a God fearing one or another type.

Warri no gree carry last.

See how this guy is _{offering his services to} crying for powerful women.

Hm!

Who is Mr Omoboriowo's photographer?

What a race.

Why specify Fashola, is he the only minister you know of?

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bezimo:
It seems someone stole this thread from me who first created it, no thanks to the biased moderators.
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Interesting.

I guess your thread title wasnt catchy like this one and they needed the headline.

The list needs to be updated since there are many types of visas and various waves of immigration besides or since the diversity lottery programme.

We have to differentiate between Africans migrating to the US from Africa, and Africans moving to the US from other countries besides their places of origin in Africa.

Opposites dont date opposites.

I dont get it, did she intentionally make the other lady look like her (Omoni Oboli) or ?

na your money, you fit take am buy any accessory.

SucreB:
i am yet to see fayose in this picture.

Deceptive headline.

is that an engagement ring or something?

Why does our African stuff pale in comparison when we view the western form?

Even the juju, if westerners show you their own, fear go catch you.

Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court appeared closely divided Monday as it weighed President Barack Obama's plan to shield nearly half of the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants from deportation.

If the eight justices deadlock in their ruling, due by late June, it will keep intact a lower court block on the plan, dealing a bruising defeat to Obama during his last year in office and pushing the issue to the next president.

Hundreds of immigrant rights activists massed outside in the blazing sunshine as the high-profile hearing got underway, brandishing heart-shaped signs reading "Keep families together" and "Si se puede" -- putting a Spanish twist on Obama's 2008 campaign slogan "Yes We Can."


Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy, two conservatives whose support is critical in this case, sparred repeatedly with the Obama administration's attorney during an extended 90-minute session of oral arguments.

At stake is a series of executive actions the president took in November 2014 to bypass a Republican-held Congress with which he was unable to enact a promised reform of America's immigration system.

One initiative shields from deportation people who have lived in the United States since 2010, with children who are US citizens or lawful residents. Another protects immigrants who entered the country as children.

The four liberal-leaning justices appeared to defend Obama's plan and pointed to similar past actions by his predecessors.

But critics accuse Obama of overstepping his authority, a view that appeared to find an echo among the conservative justices on the Supreme Court bench.

Kennedy said it was a "legislative task, not an executive task" to determine which group of immigrants could lawfully stay in the United States.

"It's as if the president is defining the policy and the Congress is executing it," Kennedy said. "That's just upside down."

Roberts, who has insisted the Supreme Court should stand above the political fray, is likely to focus on whether Texas and 25 other mostly Republican-led states have substantial enough injury as a result of Obama's actions to have the standing to sue the federal government.

Such a narrow ruling would allow the court to eschew a decision on more fundamental aspects of the immigration debate -- an immensely divisive issue at the heart of the 2016 presidential campaign.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-high-court-takes-high-stakes-immigration-fight-161357338.html

Lord have mercy.

Hm

Why did she report him to the police commissioner?


As opposed to going through a lawyer or filing a complaint?

Hm, and some people will be telling the man to be polygamous, lord have mercy. [this context only].

The kind of advice your enemies will give you.