TheGoodJoe:


Missed the game. So, I can not make much contribution.

justicejay:
Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole
Soyinka said Thursday he has fulfilled his pledge
to throw away his US residency green card and
leave the country if Donald Trump won the
presidential election.
Shortly before the vote, Soyinka had vowed to
give up his permanent US residency over a
Trump victory to protest against the Republican
billionaire’s campaign promises to get tough on
immigration.
“I have already done it, I have disengaged (from
the United States). I have done what I said I
would do,” the 82-year-old told AFP on the
sidelines of an education conference at the
University of Johannesburg.
“I had a horror of what is to come with Trump…
I threw away the (green) card, and I have
relocated, and I’m back to where I have always
been” — meaning his homeland Nigeria.
The prolific playwright, novelist and poet won
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has
been a regular teacher at US universities
including Harvard, Cornell and Yale.
At the same time he said he would not
discourage others from applying for a green
card.
“It’s useful in many ways. I wouldn’t for one
single moment discourage any Nigerians or
anybody from acquiring a green card… but I
have had enough of it,” he said.
Soyinka, one of Africa’s most famous writers and
rights activists, was jailed in 1967 for 22 months
during Nigeria’s civil war.
He was reported to have recently completed a
term as scholar-in-residence at New York
University’s Institute of African American Affairs.

justicejay:
24 students graduated with First Class at the
August/September 2016 Bar final examinations of the Nigerian Law School, the highest since the
school was established, Thisday reports.
The Director-General of the Nigerian Law School,
Mr. Olanrewaju Onadeko (SAN) while giving a
breakdown of the figures, disclosed that “of their
numbers, 24 candidates attained the First Class
grade, while 567 candidates obtained the Second Class Upper Division,” adding that the number of first class candidates that were presented was the largest since the inception of the Nigerian Law School.
In his address to the new lawyers, The acting
Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Samuel Nkanu
Walter Onnoghen, advised them to perform their roles as legal practitioners with integrity and competence.
He said, “As ministers in the temple of justice, it is never enough to solely protect the interest of
your client. You must strive to attain justice above all and not derail its course even if it may not favour your client and avoid ‘sharp practices.’
“The role of lawyers are multi-faceted; it cuts
across virtually every strata of the society. In all
this, you are expected to maintain the highest
profession standard of integrity and competence at all times. This should be your watch word.” A total of 4,225 candidates were called to the Nigerian Bar on Tuesday.

justicejay:
The Nigeria Union of Postal and
Telecommunication Employees on Tuesday
faulted the Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin
Emefiele, for advising GSM service providers to
tax calls above three minutes.
NUPTE President, Sunday Alhansan, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the tax would worsen the economic problems being
experienced by Nigerians.
Emefiele had suggested that Federal Government
should impose taxes on phone conversations that
last more than three minutes, as a way of
generating revenues.
The CBN governor said that the tax would cushion
the effects of the economic recession and could
raise additional revenue for the country.
Alhassan said the suggestion is
“counterproductive.”
“The people you want to tax are also affected by
the recession; and if you say that they are to be
taxed, definitely you are asking people to stop
making calls.
“And when they stop making calls, the GSM
operators are going to be affected and once they
are affected, there will be drop of some of their
lines.
“What is going to happen is that they are going to
sack their workers.
“So, that is why such a suggestion should not be
brought up in the first place because it will cause
more harm than good to the people,’’ he said.
Alhassan called on the Federal Government not to
listen to any neo-liberal advice that would expose
Nigerians to further hardships.
He called on the government to fashion out
innovative ideas of creating sustainable
employment that would bring succor to the
people and not by taxing citizens the more.
“What we are telling the government is that it
should look for succor for the people, the
common man is not finding it funny.
“Our advice is to stop this idea of imposing tax on
calls above three minutes, as it is not going to do
anybody any good,” Alhassan said.
He advised government to look at ways of utilising
looted funds that was returned to its coffers for
economic development.

donsteady:
If this is true, we should all support this, Buhari is closer to where he is going?

XploraBen:
Big thanks bro.I dont' want to derail the topic with request of words of prayer,the reason I asked for likes.

Topmaike007:
I have issue like this too.. Guys as a graduate of NCE going for DE can I read anything different from Education

XploraBen:
This is informative...though I do some of the listed.



Meanwhile, today is my birthday. Show me some likes

#Nov25thborn

TheGoodJoe:


I a so tied up but I am going to start soon to keep this thread alive.