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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti on Wednesday warned its members against hate speech in their campaigns ahead of the 2018 governorship elections.
Mrs Kemi Olaleye, the party Deputy Chairman in Ekiti, also warned against politics of bitterness that could ruffle the party cohesion ahead of the party primaries.
Olaleye, in a statement signed by the Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Taiwo Olatunbosun, gave the warning while addressing party members at the secretariat in Ado-Ekiti.

She also called for unity and comradeship among members, particularly the aspirants, urging them to ensure that their campaigns were issue-based.
Olaleye said that the party would not hesitate to apply appropriate sanctions against any erring member.
The deputy chairman said she was worried about the series of attacks in the social media, adding that such development should stop henceforth.
She commended the aspirants that had so far visited the party secretariat to declare their interest.
Olaleye said that so far, no fewer than eight aspirants from different parts of the state had visited the party secretariat to indicate their interest to contest the governorship seat.
“Therefore, the purported publication in some media that only one aspirant visited the state office of our party is not true.
“It will pay us if party leaders and members can remain in unity and lend support to strengthen the party for victory in the coming elections.
“The party office is open to all members, and as officers of the party, we are always available to serve the interest of the party and the party members,” Olaleye said.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/ekiti-guber-apc-warns-members-hate-speech-ahead-2018/

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Whenever intense discussions about reforming Nigeria’s education system emerges in the public square or policy corridors, they are usually triggered by the release of yet another (!) poor WAEC/Jamb exam results. If you think further, you will see that these discussions are perpetually led by adults and fueled by their ‘21st century’ economic aspirations for Nigerian children. Implicit in these reform narratives (see:1969 curriculum conference,Ezekwesili, 2006 comprehensive reform plans, and the Unified private school examination amongst other) are some faulty assumptions. Firstly, that the success of students as well as the effectiveness of the education system should be determined by student performance in examinations. Therefore, the more we test and examine students, the smarter they will become. Secondly, adults are the experts – they know it all and best. On the other hand, secondary school students are mere recipients of knowledge and their lived experiences/identities have no role in the classroom or on how they experience schooling.

Consequently, students’ views do not have a central place in the education reform process. Thirdly, that Nigeria is a “post-colonial” society and schools are neutral spaces that do not absorb the unjust social relations and histories that occur in the broader society. But, how valid are these assumptions? What can the experiences of young Nigerians tell us about what needs to change in the Nigerian education system?
Preliminary findings from my ongoing doctoral research project shows the need to include student experiences and views in efforts aimed at making Nigeria’s education system culturally responsive, just and inclusive for all. Based on the responses from 1500+student survey entries and interviews with ten students from private and public Nigerian secondary schools, it is clear that student-learning and schooling experiences are heavily influenced by their social class, ethnicity and the stereotypes associated with their ethnic groups. There appears to be blatant discrimination against certain students by teachers, bullying between students and emotional abuse by school authorities especially when it comes to student grades. There is also a lot of variation in teaching and in some high cost private schools, the Nigerian curriculum seems to be reinterpreted to suit the agenda of the private school’s while absorbing the power dynamics of the local community. Below are some highlights:
1) Almost every student that filled out my questionnaire has said that they were severely punished (some were sent to detention!) or made to pay a fine when they spoke their indigenous languages in school. English was the superior language.
2) A self- identified “Hausa-Fulani” female student that I interviewed talked about the predominant perception in her Federal government school which suggested that Hausa students are not smart while the Igbos are deemed to be smart. So, whenever she/any Hausa girl puts her hands up in class to answer a question, the teacher skips them and goes for the Igbo girl. When she gives a “chorus” answer (screams out the answer) even when the Igbo student fails the question, she was punished. She talked about how this became a self-fulfilling prophecy amongst Hausa girls… their teachers did not expect more from them, so they did not bother.
3) The Igbo girl that I interviewed attended a high cost Catholic private school in eastern Nigeria – she talked about how she was taught in an insular way, as if the best identity one could be is Catholic and Igbo. So, students who were not Igbo felt excluded in the school. Even though you are not Catholic, you were forced to do all the Catholic norms.
4) Two students I interviewed were from Kogi and Akwa Ibom. They attended high cost private schools in Abuja and they talked about the intense bullying non-Hausa’s experienced in school. They talked about how “cliquey” the Hausa students were in their school and how they always spoke Hausa and out rightly tried to castigate anyone they thought was Igbo or simply not Hausa. To belong was to speak Hausa. Even the teachers spoke Hausa to the students but the male participant said when he tried to speak his indigenous language with his brother, he was shunned. The girl shared an experience where a Hausa classmate came to her to tell her that she hated Igbos, thinking she was Igbo… but she is Igala, and from Kogi state. I asked why they didn’t report these issues, they said teachers/administration ignored these issues simply because of who they thought their parents were or trivialized it as student banter. The participant from Akwa Ibom said that things got out of hand in his school that a bloody fight broke out after exams between non-Hausa’s vs. Hausas.
5) My participant who is from Akwa Ibom shared that a teacher said something very offensive about Akwa Ibom people. He reported to the principal and the teacher got fired. But he believes that the teacher got fired simply because of who they thought his father was.
6) One of my participants went to a Foreign (e.g: Chinese, Turkish, Japanese) Nigerian secondary school – she talked about how they were mandated to learn the foreign language (not English or French, e.g. Chinese, Turkish, Japanese) till SS2 but questioned why Nigerian languages were stopped at JSS2. She says that they also had to sing the anthem of the country every day.
7) My last two interviewees were neither Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba – even though Nigerian languages was offered, none of theirs was an option. The female participant said she felt like another line in the school’s balance sheet.

These is so much to say about these experiences, but, what is clear is that our schools are a microcosm of the Nigerian society. The ethnic divisions that play out in broader society are alive and well in our schools and amongst our teenagers. Interviewing students in a way that affirmed their numerous social identities (ethnic, religious, social class), talents and personal aspirations revealed these ethnic tensions. From these student experiences, it is also clear that our schools are not politically neutral.They are in fact social sites where social inequalities and unjust social relations are reproduced, consolidated and sustained. But this doesn’t have to be so. Schools could also be sites for students to be equipped with the knowledge they require to disrupt the social inequalities and unjust social relations in our society.
So, in thinking about how to change the Nigerian education system, not only do we need to solicit the views of students, we must put students at the center of the discussion. In doing so, we must look at students as whole and complex beings with multiple identities (ethnic, religious, economic, political, etc) that shape how they learn, engage and succeed/ fail in school. Consequently, all these identities must be honored, engaged and negotiated with in the process of facilitating student development. Just as important, we must uphold the symbiotic relationship between our students, schools and the society at large. Schools do not operate in a social silo. Students don’t stop being who they are in the broader society once they enter schools.
Therefore, in thinking about changing our education system, we must also think about changing our society at large. If some students report feeling excluded and punished simply because they are not from a “major” ethnic group or hold unique beliefs or come from a less affluent families, this is selective discrimination and it is what it is – unjust! We musttackle it head on, defend all children and ask urgent philosophical questions of ourselves: what needs to change in the way Nigerian citizenship is currently defined and operationalized to ensure that students who are not Ibo, Yoruba or Hausa still feel just as important in the classroom/school curriculum?Of course, this is an ongoing question that overflows into broader national conversation about federalism and the need for Nigeria to in practice, pursue a multicultural national framework based on equity, justice and inclusion for all.
In the interim, a lot can be done at the policy, civil society and school level. Curriculum wise, we must identify specific content that needs be included in the curriculum to ensure our children learn to honour themselves as evolving complex yet holistic beings, their cultural heritage and fulfil their existential responsibility of incorporating the noble aspirations/struggles of their ancestors into their human endeavours while enriching the world through their unique cultural root.
Our curriculum must also help students learn about shared histories between ethnic groups and appreciate the value of diversity. Doing this goes beyond the sad situation we currently see in schools where our indigenous knowledge systems and heritage are relegated to a few “cultural days” and simplified to the showcase of food, dance and clothes that are mostly imported from China! At the very least, we must develop a mandatory decolonial course that seeks to unify secondary students through their indigenous and national histories to interrogate these perceptions students/teachers have about each other, show what we have in common while affirming each other’s rights to be different.
Many innovative approaches can be considered in teaching such a course – providing an environment in which students from different ethnic groups work on critical projects together and learn about each other’s history and heritage in the process; encourage projects where students can create a theme song/anthem with a new language – this new language could be an amalgamation of different languages/histories/aspirations; encouraging students to share experiences of inclusion/exclusion and privilege both in school and outside of school; bringing in elders (especially from the “minor” (this word needs to be scrapped from our national lingo!) ethnic groups) into the classroom to share their experiences, exposing students to videos/literature that reveals pre-colonial trade/social linkages between African communities and how these linkages were critical in securing independence victory across the continent.
Such a course will only thrive within a broader schooling context and society that centres justice, honours every student as an equal cultural being and draws from their diverse knowledge systems/experiences to teach mainstream subjects and reinvent our reality.
The student accounts of being punished and some detained for speaking their indigenous language in school brings to the fore the decolonizing and anti-colonial imperative of educational change in Nigeria. It is about time that we re-negotiate our relationship with English language. The paradox with our obsession with English is our collective immunity to the dehumanization associated with the language. Interestingly, no matter our high we go in Western education or how polished our English is, as Black people, we will never be “English” enough for the White person.
For example, in Canada, a handful of white Canadians have expressed sincere amazement at the quality of my English. Upon hearing me speak, they ask: “How come you speak such good English?” Yet, I have spoken English my entire life as if it were my mother tongue! I am not even fluent in my indigenous language, Igor. When you are even accepted as a good English speaker, your accent is called into question! They say, “you speak too fast”, “you don’t enunciate well”. But in our globally diverse English world, whose English is the yard stick of perfect enunciation and accents? Even after we all go to school in Nigeria in English and go ahead to London or America to obtain a Masters’ degree, as a Nigerian citizen that wants to do a doctorate, you must still show proof of English by paying to write a test!
To an extent, this is bewilderment with my competence in English is understandable. The White person that asks such a question rightfully acknowledges that I am culturally different from them. Although, she/he may also associate English with intelligence, an attribute that a racist mind assumes is absent in non-Whites. So, why are Nigerian schools and parents not educating children not to be able to fully substantiate their cultural difference – through language, stories,self-knowledge, et? Instead, we are taught to be English/western imposters with experiences and aspirations like the English.
As a nation, it is self-destructive and intellectually lazy for us to imagine that the only way we can survive as a unified country is to position a foreign language, English, superior to our indigenous languages and experiences. I understand and appreciate the convenience associated with English language serving as a unifier. But this doesn’t warrant that our indigenous languages be regarded as vernacular and students being punished for speaking their indigenous language.
Lastly, no one can over emphasize the role of parents/homes in laying the foundation and setting the expectation for what it means to be a successful child in a racist world such as the one we live in. Sadly, poverty and unreasonable work hours in Nigeria is drawing parents apart from their children and in more cases now, breaking families apart. Nevertheless, Nigerian parents need a decolonization, social justice and healing retreat. In the quest to make their children “globally competitive”, affluent parents especially demand all sorts of divisive and colonizing experiences in private schools.
But as many young students who eventually go abroad to study will tell you, the KKK and racist class mates/bus drivers care less about who your parents are or the side of Lagos you lived-in or the secondary school you attended, all that matters is that you are Black and your ancestors are slaves! Indeed, racism no dey look Black man face. Whatever change that can happen in our schools and society at large owe a great deal to the role our parents play in modelling what is important and the environment that is made available to children at home and beyond. PTA’s must be retooled to deal with these issues and help parents teach their kids better and demand that their schools open the minds of their children. And to say the least, teacher training must be REVAMPED!! But this one is a discussion for another day!

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/hausa-students-not-smart-igbos-deemed-smart/

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2.) Your looks (Appearance)/ Posture. A large chunk of about 55% of my first impression of you will come from your appearances: -Choose your clothes well, colour coordinate tops, bottoms, shoes. Do not wear ruffled clothing, keep your hair neat and well groomed. Your feet should look glamorous, wear good shoes and keep toes well catered for.
3.) Your Posture Stand elegantly, do not slouch, do not pick your nose or spit, watch your body language.
4.) Your Voice/Speed Choose words with maturity, no insults, no slangs. Be friendly and have a light heart, do not name drop or speak with pride. Use magic words.ie, Please, Thank you, Excuse me, Hello.
5.)Your Mindset Have a kind heart full of love, kindness, compassion, with no rudeness Your attitude should be good with a lot of patience while you try to ignore faults.
6.) Choose Quality not Quantity When purchasing for yourself or home appreciate good things like flowers, books, places and clothing, you should try to buy value for money. They should also be durable things not necessarily expensive. 7.)Invest in developing yourself Acquire education or knowledge in a chosen interesting field. Develop your IQ, your and your intellect. Better still find a sport of interest and engage in it.
8.) Beauty Aspire to always look good, don’t be lackadaisical about how you look or what you wear, don’t settle for less. Make up should be applied according to comfort. Plain faces make men look elsewhere when you are talking. Make your face, respectful, presentable.
9.) Elegant Home For me simple and elegant is a catch, your home should always be clean, clutter free, organized and colour coordinated. Touch up your home with flowers and decorations of pleasure; add pictures of yourself, family or real antique. Appreciate good things while making your home welcoming for all especially your husband and partner.
10.) Elegant Entertainment Finally an Elegant woman should have a heart of sharing, Invite friends and family home. Be that quintessential hostess, create social gatherings from there we learn a lot from one another. I believe that every woman should strive for elegance, a trait that helps you create your Panache Advantage. Let me leave you with a personal quote of mine: “Your Etiquette today will boost your personality and image, thus position you to become tomorrow’s successful leader”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/a-womans-elegance/

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Driving is an uphill task in Lagos. There is a quantum of things that that can frustrate your driving. The most obvious one is the notorious traffic while others are the reckless danfos who act as if they own the road and the shenanigans of the traffic wardens. This said, there are some seniors and elderly ones who still drive in Lagos. There is nothing wrong with this. But you have to look out for some signs to decide if it is time for the senior to stop driving. Jumia Travel gathers some of the signs to you should look out for.
1. They always dent their car
If you receive reports almost weekly that your aged dad is always denting his car, you should take action before you get news of their involvement in a fatal accident. Perhaps, it is time to get them a driver.
2. They get lost in familiar locations .
A senior has been driving this particular location for several years. But suddenly you receive a call that they do not yet return. Meanwhile, he has been driving around this familiar location for hours. If this is the case, you should just stop them from driving.
3. They don’t want to drive at night
For a fairly young driver, it is difficult to concentrate while driving at night let alone a senior. So, if they are reluctant to drive especially at night, it may be a signal that it is time to quit the wheels.
4. Their vision declines
Anyone with poor vision should not drive. Hence, the more you get older, the more your vision deteriorate. According to research, your vision declines significantly especially when you are 75 and above. So, don’t ignore vision complaints from a senior who drives.
5. They get confused by traffic lights
If a senior cannot recognize simple traffic lights, it is time them to stop driving. For example, if a traffic light says stop and they move; you should be very concerned.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/02/5-signs-senior-stop-driving-lagos-roads/

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troversial U.S. pipelines ON JANUARY 24, 20179:43 PMIN NEWSCOMMENTS U.S. President Donald Trump has signed orders designed to advance construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada into the U.S. and the Dakota Access pipeline. Both had been blocked by his predecessor Barack Obama over environmental concerns. The Keystone project had been a long-standing point of dispute between Republicans and Democrat Obama, who rejected it after years of review in 2015 because of climate change concerns. The proposed Keystone XL pipeline was slated to have carried oil from Canada’s tar sands in Alberta to the Midwestern state of Nebraska, where an existing pipeline would carry the Canadian oil to refineries in Texas. The Dakota Access Pipeline was the site of protests last year by Native American groups concerned about the impact on their lands and water. Last month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blocked the construction, calling for alternate routes to be considered.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/trump-signs-order-advance-controversial-u-s-pipelines/

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PROFESSOR Ango Abdulllahi who says he is a Northern elder today angered students across Nigeria in 1986 after he called in the Police who killed protesting students of Ahmadu Bello University, ABU. After the cold-blooded murder of Farida Mustapha, the then vice-chancellor told the media that “only four” students were killed. Furious Dele Giwa wrote in reaction to that callous utterance in his “Parallax Snaps” in Newswatch magazine that “May God kill only four out of the children of the man who made such a statement.” Nigerian students could not wait for God’s verdict. We took to the streets in angsts all over the country. We also hit the streets of Ife. We invaded the prison in the ancient city and set free the inmates as we felt that a State snuffing lives out of the innocent had no moral rights to lock any citizen up for petty crimes. Those were the days when the life of a Nigerian still had some worth. It was the the period when an accident that claimed a life would make the front page of a newspaper. Those days you would see a long convoy of vehicles waiting at an accident scene to help the victims. We still had human blood flowing in our veins as a people then. Public execution of robbers It is amazing how we have taken a full bend in a few years that the human life has become so worthless in the same country. We began to lose it when we started the ‘Bar Beach show,’ where we gathered our citizens to watch how we publicly execute armed robbers. Gradually the people began their own lynch parties setting ablaze suspected thieves without recourse to the law. Then some twelve states in the country ingrained into their codes provisions that are alien to our common laws which sanction amputation of offenders and public stoning to death. Kidnappers were unleashed on the country holding citizens to ransom and taking their lives if relatives don’t pay on time. Security forces brutalisations of citizens intensified with extra judicial killings unhinged. Then came the Boko Haram terror group and the Fulani herdsmen baying of blood. Wasting of lives in droves became a common place such that the casualties have to be in dozens to make the front page of our newspapers. All kinds of images of severing of heads, roasted flesh and mangled bodies began to circulate freely on our social media platforms. They were horrifying in the beginning until we became used to it thereby losing a substantial part of our humanity. Death of fellow citizens now mean nothing to us. We have arrived at some stage worse than the world of wide animals in the the jungle. A sorry state where a governor would openly declare he had to send a search party for the killers of people of his state so he could reward them with cash because he is of the same ethnic stock with the murderers and he still among their “Excellencies” in our country. We kill protesting Shiites in their hundreds and bury them in a mass grave. IPOB members gather for a church service and our soldiers murder them in the presence of God and no one is called to account. Hundreds of our citizens are killed in Southern Kaduna and it is one of the “every issue ” that our President cannot, according to his media aide, comment on. Killers are now so emboldened in our country that they no longer run for the law. It is citizens who run for dear lives for as long as they can until they are hacked. I spoke with a respected and forthright citizen from the North a few days back and told me that a former Head of State told him he now has about 5000 IDPs on his farm who are running from herdsmen. Unnecessary blood letting Even the IDPs are no longer safe in their camps. Our Air Force dropped three bombs in one of such camps in Borno State a few days ago killing scores of our citizens and injuring several others. There was no national outrage. All we heard was a feeble “sorry” from the Air Force. A three-paragraph statement came from the Villa which consoled the families of the dead and promising assistance to the Borno State government over the “operational error”. No more! Our festival of bloodletting continued on America’s president, (elect then) Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day when IPOB set up a rally in Port Harcourt with thousands of their members on the streets. We followed events on social media and expressed fears about how our security forces would handle the massive crowd. Before anyone could spell Trump, images of death began to surface from the scenes of rally. Our security forces have done it again. “The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB worldwide and it’s leadership has condemned the alleged barbaric killing of 11, of its unarmed peaceful Biafran holding rally Friday in solidarity with the new American President Mr. Donald J Trump. IPOB in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Mr. Emma Powerful, alleged that the Nigeria security agencies particularly, DSS and the soldiers killed about 11 people and left 27 people with bullets wounds while 57 people were arrested because they are supporting the newly elected President of United States of America Mr. Donald. J. Trump and his administration. “The dead bodies of the people killed were carried by the Nigerian soldiers. We are calling on international community to prevail on the Nigerian soldiers to bring back the dead bodies. Right now, we are being chased by the Nigeria security agencies and they are going round looking and arresting anybody suspected to be IPOB members, but we are not relenting in our support and solidarity with Mr. Trump.” I followed all the reactions on the social media closely. While there were those outraged by this unfortunate development, I found others gloating over the killings with comments such as: “They died for nothing wetin concern them with Trump”. And other unprintable comments. You do not have to agree with their cause but I found it mumbling that we have arrived at the stage in our existence that the blood of our compatriots does not mean anything to us again. As God has a robust sense of contrast, America was engulfed in protests simultaneously. As IPOB was marching in Port Harcourt with no report of violence before being attacked by security forces, violent protests were taking place on the streets of America. There were heated protests in northwest Washington throughout the day before Friday and after the swearing in. There was a violent protest in the area near 12th and L Street which started some time before 2:00 p.m. There were reports of pepper spray and flash bombs in the area. Police were seen in large numbers in the area, some equipped with riot outfits. Large amounts of smoke were seen in the street. The American example Other protests through the day led to windows being smashed, a fire being set, and three D.C. Police officers and one civilian being injured, according to D.C. Fire Officials. Authorities said all of the injuries are non-life-threatening. D.C. Police say they had to use pepper spray on some of the earlier protesters. Protesters were also caught damaging windows near McPherson Square with a Starbucks’ window smashed out and a trash can was also set on fire. Windows of businesses near McPherson Square were smashed during the Inauguration ceremonies. The Metropolitan Police Department released the following statement following the vandalism: “At approximately 10:30 a.m., an organised group was observed marching south in Northwest Washington. On their way, members of the group acting in a concerted effort engaged in acts of vandalism and several instances of destruction of property. More specifically, the group damaged vehicles, destroyed the property of multiple businesses, and ignited smaller isolated fires while armed with crowbars, hammers, and asps. Preliminary information indicates the group collectively engaged in these criminal acts. MPD members were alerted to the criminal activity, and responded swiftly to contain and detain the involved individuals in the area of 12th and L Streets, NW. At this time, numerous arrests have been made and those individuals have been charged with rioting. Investigation into the incident remains ongoing. Pepper spray and other control devices were used to control the criminal actors and protect persons and property. During the incident, police vehicles were damaged and two uniformed officers sustained minor injuries from coordinated attacks by members of the group that were attempting to avoid arrest.” Not yet a Country There have been series of other protests across America involving hundreds of thousands marching against Mr. Trump. Many were peaceful while some were violent but as at the time of writing this I am yet to receive the report of any casualty recorded. I am sure if such protests were to break out in Nigeria on the day of inauguration of a President, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would have been put under house arrest as the masterminds of the protests. The DSS would have provided volumes of reports of how they shared money to protesters and kitted them to avenge their painful loss. The number of casualties that would have been recorded can be measured by the number of men IPOB said it lost during the invasion of its peaceful march. To my friend and brother, Wale Adebanwi, recently appointed first black Rhodes Professor by the Oxford University I dedicate this. He was in Nigeria a few years ago to review Kunle Ajibade’s What a Country. But Wale with one of the most gifted pen around the world titled his review Not a Country. With incidences such as these, it’s indeed not a country!

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/worthlessness-nigerian-life/

It is sad that in 2017, one has to repeat the same warnings to those with investments on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE. For three or four years in a row, it has been in steady decline. Yet some people still place their funds in it or leave them there. Last year, investors lost over N1 trillion on the aggregate. They are set to lose more in 2017. but first read a previous warning. Then we meet again next week. ARE YOU LOSING MONEY ON THE NSE? YOU DESERVE IT. “The really awful days aren’t when I think I can’t write. They are when I wonder whether any writing is worthwhile at all.” F Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940. Millions of Nigerians are, once again losing billions of naira on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. In the last three weeks alone, about ten per cent of the value in January had been lost and more losses are on the way. It is on occasions such as this when I wonder if writing for Nigerians is not a bloody waste of time. File photo: The floor of Stock exchange A warning is issued each time the Stock Exchange is about to experience its periodical hiccups, or a banking crisis is around the corner. And My Fellow Countrymen ignore it – until they lose trillions. The same is happening now. So permit me to remind our readers about what was published in October 2013 concerning the current turbulence on the NSE. In November 2013, I went to each of my Stockbrokers and asked them to sell large quantities of securities. If I had waited till today, I would have lost a lot of money. They were shares I bought when the market was depressed in 2009.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/another-bad-year-investors-nse/

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Oyedepo Lays Curses On Sponsors Of Violence In Southern Kaduna…

Founder of the Living Faith church, also known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has asked God to break-up Nigeria immediately if that is His will for the country.

Bishop Oyedepo also invoked God’s wrath on those behind the mayhem in southern Kaduna.

Vanguard reports that during a ministration in his church, Oyedepo rained curses on those promoting the killings and destruction of properties in the northern state and in an area predominantly occupied by Christians.

The angry Oyedepo was quoted as releasing powerful curses during a prayer session saying: “God sent me as His apostle of liberation to this continent to stop it from decadence.

“I heard from God and He has proved it beyond measure. Therefore, every occultic root, every political root of this uprising is cursed today!

“All the northern forces that are sponsoring this uprising and killings, I decree the curse of God upon them.

“Lord, if it is your will to break up Nigeria, break it now!”

He told his members: “Come on, pray in the spirit everybody. Pray in the spirit; open fire, call down the Holy Ghost fire to descend on the camp of the enemy. Enough is Enough!

“If Nigeria wakes up, wait for the church to rise, there will be no more nation, what nonsense.”

“What demonic devils. What Islamic demons. If Nigeria waits for the church to rise, Nigeria will disappear as a nation.

“Every agent of destruction in Government today, call fire down on their head, call fire down on their head.

“Everyone sponsoring evil against the nation, let your fire fall on him!

“A Boko Haram agent was captured and they said he escaped. Everyone connected to his escape, fire consume them, consume them, consume them!

“Fire of the Lord consume them!

https://johnsonkelvin..com/2017/01/god-please-break-up-nigeria-now-if-it.html

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By Festus Ahon
ASABA —A Philanthropist and a US-based indigene of Igbodo community in Ika North East Local Government Area, Delta State, Dr Victor Ubani, has donated science equipment worth over N600, 000 to Comprehensive High School, Igbodo under Azuka and Ify Foundation.
Presenting the items, President, Azuka and Ify Foundation, Dr Ubani said: “We know certainly some of these students would be scientists, technologists and doctors, hence our support to build their foundation in line with our organization’s motto, every child should have opportunity to go to school and learn.”
He was flanked by his wife, children and some other members of the foundation.

www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/foundation-donates-science-equipment-sec-sch-delta/

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured that it will do everything possible to ensure the delivery of true democratic dividends to Nigerians.
Mr Bolaji Abdullahi, the party`s National Publicity Secretary, gave the assurance when he briefed newsmen in Abuja on Monday.
Abdullah’s said the party started the year on a peaceful note without any distraction as was the case in 2016 when it was faced with leadership crisis in the National Assembly.
“If you recall, a year ago, the party was engulfed with so much crisis, especially with the issue of leadership crisis in the National Assembly that is now behind us.
He expressed happiness that the party was starting the year 2017 on a more conducive note.
According to him, this will ensure stability within the party and more cohesion and unity that will enable it deliver on the expectations of Nigerians based on its campaign promises.
He, however, said that the 2016 budget was the first the APC Government implemented and attributed the hardship faced by most Nigerians in the year to the economic recession.
Abdullahi said that what happened in 2016; “was a fallout of the adjustment that needed to happen’’.
He stressed that the APC-led Federal Government was conscious of the hardship Nigerians were going through.
This, he added, was the reason it began the year with its social welfare initiative of giving N5, 000 monthly stipends to the poorest of the poor across the country.
Abdullahi said the initiative was an immediate response and a demonstration that the Federal Government was aware of the difficulties that the poor in the society was experiencing.
He, however, expressed optimism that the 2017 budget which was captioned budget of recovery by President Mohammadu Buhari would indeed bring about the desired change to all Nigerians.
He therefore, appealed to Nigerians to continue to support the APC government, especially at the national level, noting that “it remains the party with the possibility to deliver the greater good to Nigerians’’.
The APC`s spokesman, however, decried the utterances of some of the party`s spokespersons in its state chapters, which he said, was unbecoming of a ruling party.
According to him, some of the spokespersons while responding to some legitimate issues, failed to reflect the party`s profile and standard.
“When you speak for a ruling party, you need to speak with high level of responsibility and awareness of the implications of what you are saying.
“I think there are ways we have spoken to people while responding to issues in the past that is not necessarily the right way a ruling party should be speaking to people’’.
Abdullahi added that to address the issue, plans were under way to organise a workshop for the party`s spokespersons across the country.
This, he said, was critical to brainstorm on the way forward to change the language of conversation and reflect on the party`s profile as a ruling party.
The APC, North Central Zone, approved the nomination of Abdullahi, a former Minister of Sports as the party`s spokesman on Dec. 2, 2016.


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Four heads of parastatal agencies and college in the nation’s aviation industry have been sacked, according to a government statement.
Those relieved of their jobs are the Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Mr Emma Anasi, and the Director General of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Dr Anthony Anuforom.
Others are the Rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria, Mr Samuel Caulcrick and the Commissioner of Accident Investigation Bureau.
A statement by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transportation, Alhaji Sabiu Zakari said on Monday in Abuja that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sack and the appointments of new chief executive officers to run the agencies.
Mr Fola Akinkuotu has been named the new Managing Director of NAMA. Akinkuotu is a seasoned Transport Pilot, Flight and Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, Airline Chief Executive Officer as well as a trained Aviation Industry Regulator.
Also, Prof. Sani Mashi, a professor of Geography with speciality in Environmental Application of Remote Sensing will hold sway in NiMet as Director-General.
According to the statement, Mashi is currently a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Abuja.
Capt. Abdulsalam Mohammed, a renowned civil aviation trainer and examiner with accreditation by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority and the Federal Civil Aviation Administration, is the new Rector of NCAT, Zaria.
Similarly, Mr Akinola Olateru, an engineer of international repute, will take over as the head of the Accident Investigation Bureau.
Olateru is a trained Air Accident Manager and Certified Safety Officer with Aircraft Maintenance Engineering licenses in Nigeria, U.S. and the United Kingdom.


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UNDERGRADUATES have been called upon to focus on their academics or risk affecting their future adversely by being carried away by social media.
The call was made by a lecturer in Lagos State University, School of Communication, Mr Lanre Biobaku, who said social media has made many graduates seek the easy way, thereby seeing entertainment excellence as the height of achievement.
“Undergraduates should remain focused and committed, as the rush for entertainment excellence occasioned via social media, will fade. Again, I disagree with the assertion that academic excellence is not accorded the same recognition as entertainment excellence.
What you see is that entertainment excellence is usually over hyped but less enduring. While academic excellence is more enduring and prestigious even though it is less financially rewarding.”
“So, for undergraduates to achieve academic excellence and avoid being unduly exposed to social vices, they have to concentrate, more rigorously, on studying and research.” added the media scholar.

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ABUJA— Due to continuous depreciation of Naira to other foreign currencies, stakeholders in the health sector have raised an alarm over inadequate budgetary provision of N304 billion for the Federal Ministry of Health in the 2017 national budget.
The stakeholders on the platform of Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health, PACFAH, disclosed that the proposed health budget was cumulatively lower than that of 2016 due to foreign exchange challenges in the value of naira to the dollar.
In a statement on the State of Nigeria Health Budget – 2017 issued by the PACFAH, the stakeholders, noted that the proposed 2017 health budget was an improvement from past trends on the face value, especially the capital expenditure bit.
The statement read: “The total sum of N304 billion has been proposed for the Federal Ministry of Health, amounting to 83 percent for recurrent expenditures (salaries and overheads) and 17 percent for capital expenditure (health infrastructures and services).
“This 2017 proposed Ministry of Health budget is 4.17 percent of the national budget, a poor improvement on the 2016 budget of 4.13 percent. With about 80 about improvement in terms of capital expenditure of the 2017 proposed budget compared to that of 2016, the reality is that this proposed health budget is cumulatively lower than that of 2016 due to the skyrocketed foreign exchange value of a naira to dollar.”
“In 2016, the Central Bank of Nigeria pegged the exchange rate at N197/1USD. Mid-year of 2016 and for the 2017 proposed budget, the exchange rate is at N305/1USD. As a result, while 2016 Health budget was $1.269m, the proposed 2017 Health budget is less by 21 percent at $0.997m. This is important because most of our health services are reliant on importation.
“By extension, the National Health Act was signed into law in 2014, unfortunately the proposed 2017 budget does not make provision for it. If it did, the sum of N46bn would have been added and dedicated to health projects and services and would have gone a long way to improve the lives of Nigerians.”
“Lastly, the Federal Government committed to the Abuja Declaration of 2001, promising to allocate 15 percent of its budget to Health, year 2017 budget this is the 16th budget year, the best Nigeria has done in Health allocation was 5.95 in 2012. The 2017 proposed health budget is at 4.17 percent, a whopping 73 percent gap from the 15 percent benchmark.”
Health is Wealth. No sector of the Nigerian economy will function properly and at all if Health is not guaranteed. The Government need to urgently reconsider the inadequate 2017 proposed Health budget and upwardly review it to a minimum of 10 percent allocation while also considering the National Health Act (2014) and the Abuja Declaration.
The PACFaH NGO partners are include Association for the Advancement of Family Planning in Nigeria, AAFP; Family planning at Federal level; Civil Society Initiative for Scaling-up Nutrition in Nigeria, CS-SUNN; Community Health and Research Initiative, CHRI: Federation of Muslim Women Organisations of Nigeria, FOMWAN; Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria, HERFON and Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN.
PACFaH is a health policy advocacy project led by Nigerian NGOs holding government to account to fulfil health policy and funding commitments.

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The Bauchi State Fire Service said on Thursday that 41 people died in different fire incidents in the state in 2016.
A statement signed by the Spokesman of the service, Abubakar Bala made this known to newsmen on Thursday in Bauchi.
According to him, 172 lives were also saved within the period under review.
The report further stated that property worth over N619 million was lost, while other property worth N223 million was saved from fire within the same period.


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An economist, Dr Aminu Usman, has advised the Federal Government to resolve all legal issues surrounding looted funds, part of which is meant to fund the N7.30 trillion 2017 budget proposals.
Usman gave this advice in an interview on Wednesday in Abuja.
The National Budget Office said that N250 billion of the recovered looted funds from corrupt officers, was projected to be part of the sources expected to finance the 2017 budget.
The office said that N72 billion of the money had already been recovered.
To be included in the budget financing is $320 million, which is N97.6 billion recovered loot of Sani Abacha, expected from the Swiss Government.
The balance of N90 billion would be sourced from other expected recovered loots, now at advanced stages.
Usman said the government should engage the National Assembly (NASS) to ensure a speedy passage of the budget proposals.
The expert said the government should also engage the Niger Delta militants with the hope of resolving their agitations to guarantee oil production and supply to the tune of 2.2 million barrels per day.
According to him, these steps will help the country to come out of the present recession.
Usman, a lecturer at the Department of Economics, Kaduna State University, said a lot had been said about the budget and that the government should address the issues surrounding it.
“To begin with, a major drawback was the timing of the presentation of the budget; too late into December about the time the NASS was going on recess.
“This means that the budget may not be signed into law until sometimes around April.
“This leaves us with only eight months to implement the budget. With our elongated contract awards process, implementation will only start between September and October.
“Nothing much can be achieved within three to four months that will move the economy towards growth and away from recession,’’ he said.
The don, however, said that the economy might show some signs of recovery possibly around the third quarter, largely due to the general favourable outlook for the year.
He said the efforts of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to reach an agreement with market supply of crude, gave the hope that the market would at least be relatively stable for most part of the year.
“The stability will cause steady predictable cash flow to the country which will hopefully impact on the nation’s exchange and encourage investment by both local and foreign investors.
“We may also see a downward trend in unemployment towards the third quarter.
“However, inflation is likely to remain in double digit, due largely to the huge food supply gaps,’’ Usman said.
He also advised the government to pay more attention to the economy, as it did with security and corruption.
“The government should prioritise infrastructure investment to ease business activities in the country,’’ the don said.

www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/economist-calls-speedy-passage-budget-proposals/

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