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http://www.osundefender.org/?p=32231
Government of the State of Osun has distributed over 100 Computer Tablets of Knowledge (Opon Imo), an initiative of the Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led administration, to students for test-running, with a view to making adjustments where necessary.

The team of experts handling the project disclosed this at Ataoja School of Science, Osogbo last Friday during a sensitisation programme for the Senior Secondary School (SSS2) students of the school, who have been selected for the test-running of the computer tablets.

The computer tablets, which was designed to improve the learning among secondary school students and prepare them for external and internal examinations, was designed in the form of iPad and would be given to the students free-of-charge.

A member of the team, Mr Oyintiloye Olatunbosun, the Assistant Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, (Community Forum) in the Office of the Governor, who addressed the students, said that even though all students in SS1, SS2, and SS3 across the state would be given the tablets, the students of Ataoja School of Sciencehave been selected for the test-running, assuring the parents and students of other schools not to entertain any fear.

He said that after distributing the tablets to the students for test-running, they would be retrieved in the next two weeks, during which the students are expected to have used it both in school and at home and give feedback, including suggestion for improvement, where necessary.

According to him, since such project has never been embarked upon by any government, there are bound to be shortcomings and after suggestion might have been taken from the students and teachers who have used the tablets for test-running and all necessary adjustment are made, the project would then be launched and distributed to all students in the state.

He called on students to handle the computer tablets with care, both at home and in school, with a view to ensuring that the purposes of the project are not defeated.
Installed in each of the computer tablets are the soft copies of all the subjects being offered in secondary schools with different text books and lesson notes, as well as past questions of West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), National Examination Council Examination (NECO), as well as Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The Principal of the School, Mr AjidahunAdedayo, saluted Governor Aregbesola’s determination to ensure that students of the State of Osun are able to meet up with any students in the world, stressing that the Opon Imo initiative was a milestone that has never been achieved by any government.

He also appreciated the government for chosen his school as a pilot for the project, promising that everything would be done to ensure that the computer tablets are handled with care by the students, with a view to serving the purpose it is meant for.

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Osun State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has congratulated Governor Rauf Aregbesola for the international and regional award of excellence he got last Thursday in recognition of his outstanding performance in environmental management and youth empowerment.

The investiture was done in Osogbo to mark the 2012 World Environmental Day celebration by the African Round Table of Sustainable Consumption and Production, under the auspices of the United Nations.

The international body said it took the decision for the award on the governor, in recognition of the fact that he was the first to declare emergency on environment in the country, and initiate mass employment of youths in the country with O’YES project.

According to the ACN, in a statement issued and signed by its Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Mr Kunle Oyatomi, in spite of the attempts by political opponents of the governor to denigrate his achievements since he reclaimed his mandate, it is heartening that the world continues to appreciate Aregbesola’s work.
Oyatomi said it is a welcome development and encouraging that the world has continued to honour the governor for his efforts in changing the face of the state of Osun by cleaning up its environment and taking thousands of youths off the unemployment market.

The party, therefore, urged the governor to continue in his strategic approach to governance, which is producing results beyond the mental capacity of his political opponents to understand or appreciate.

“The people of the State of Osun not only love what is going on, they feel grateful that the governor has not allowed negative criticisms to dampen his enthusiasm for service to our people”, the party spokesman said.

Also, the party congratulated the governor’s wife, Alhaja Sherifat Aregbesola, who was made an Ambassador of Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) by the Federal Government.

“By this award, the governor’s wife has set a precedent of total commitment to the programmes being pursued by her husband to keep Osun clean and green. It is a refreshing departure from the ordinary that has become common with some first ladies.

“This kind of support from the home front will contribute greatly to assisting the governor to perform even more excellently to the joy and progress of the state”, the ACN noted.

ola_pluto: [b]The Oyo State Government has declared Tuesday, June 12, 2012 as public holiday.
[/b]Before next weekend, Ekiti, Osun and Lagos will follow.

cogitoErgo: How can a loan taken with the full knowledge of a governor just disappear and the now ex-govenor will still be working absolutely a free man? wierd Nigeria!

http://tribune.com.ng/sun/news/7552-dana-air-crash-nigerians-urgently-deserve-a-national-carrier-gov-akpabio
Written by Shola Adekola, Lagos Sunday, 10 June 2012

AGAINST the backdrop of last Sunday’s plane crash involving MD83 aircraft which belonged to DANA Air killing 153 passengers on board and six people on ground, Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio has called for an immediate need for the floating of a national carrier.

Akpabio, who spoke with some aviation journalists on arrival from an oversea trip Friday night, said it was due to the absence of a national carrier that all manner of questionable private airlines sprang up in the country.

According to him, if the country had had a national carrier, Nigerians would have had alternatives rather than being at the mercy of the private carriers.

Akpabio who was sad following the crash declared during the interview; “we must ensure proper monitoring of all the airlines that operate in Nigeria particularly to be sure that they go for the checks when the need arises and they don’t cut corners.

“As it is now, government must also think of how we can have a national carrier. I don’t see how countries such as Senegal, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia and so on would have their national carriers and Nigeria would be the only major country in Africa that does not have one. I think it is something we must sit down and think about again because the situation now is urgent. We must not even delay it. That a country with 160 million people can stay without a national carrier is unthinkable, almost half of the population has no access to aeroplane, that is the truth. It is because of this gap that people are trying to fill as a result of a lack of national carrier, that we are having mushroom airlines coming on board.

“We must have one in order to move forward. Why should we still have British Airways, Air France, Ethiopian Airline, Kenyan Airways and so on? I think we can’t allow 160 million Nigerians to be without a national carrier. I will want to urge the Federal Government to look at that immediately. For me as a state governor, I would be glad to take part in that because something that looks like a national carrier will give confidence to air travellers.”

Akpabio, who expressed his readiness to partner with government and the private sector for the purpose of giving Nigerians a befitting national carrier, said: “The current administration is capable of bringing up a national carrier because of its international reputation. I don’t mind if we still have to partner with the private sector, but don’t forget that the greatest problem of Nigeria in the past has been corruption and of course cutting corners and all that. If you look at the Nigeria Airways in the past, one-third of the passengers had complementary tickets because they were related to the workers of the airline or they came from the office of the permanent secretary. We must not run it like a ministry, but rather like a commercial entity and I think if we do so, we will succeed.”

“As it is today, you don’t see anybody working in the office of the Prime Minister getting British Airways ticket free. We must stop all the free ticket thing and run it as a commercial entity. Government cannot totally neglect the idea of putting money in social services.”

Gbawe: My guy, why don't you just let folks discuss politics and leave it at that? What does this personalising of issues reveal if not the fact that many here are obsessed with the messenger instead of the message? This is the politics sections and an article directly related to politics is supplied.

Why not give your opinion on the article and move on? Instead , in a totally sick and disgusting manner, you are discussing the messengers children and wife like a paedophile and pervert. The internet grants anonymity but some of you are really scary with how your writing is indicative of poor mental health and a distasteful lack of recognition of the limits of decency. Folks like you , without doubt, only come across as twisted sickos and sociopaths.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sociopath

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/oshiomhole-challenges-minister-on-n2-6billion-contract/
By Simon Ebegbulem

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, yesterday, alleged that the Minister of Works, Architect Mike Onolemenmen, awarded N2.6bn road contract in Uromi, Edo State which nobody could see.

Disclosing this in a rally at Egor, Benin City, where he officially received a former presidential aide, Prof.Julius Ihonvbere, into the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the governor asserted that “the godfather and the godson got the FEC into awarding a N2.6bn for a road contract that nobody sees in Uromi”.

“I am inviting the President to come and flag off the construction of that road so he can see that the road does not exist, “he added.

The governor posited that rather than campaign and tell the people of the state their plans for the development of the state, “the PDP leaders in Edo Central and Edo North were busy buying voters cards. As we speak, five of them have been charged to court on account of buying voters cards. Now that the PDP people have been caught red handed, we want to see what punishment INEC and Jega will mete out to these people.”

He accused the PDP candidate, Gen.Charles Airhiavbere, of ignorance of events in the state. “The man does not even know the state he wants to govern. He said he will pay salary arrears. Is there any worker we are owing in Edo State?”

National leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Chief Bola Tinubu, who addressed the rally, urged people of the state to sustain the development strides in the state.

Other ACN leaders who spoke on the occasion were Governors Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State.

Meanwhile, Ihonvbere, an erstwhile Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Policy and Strategy and a former governorship aspirant of the PDP, said the PDP in Edo represents “oppression, intimidation, repression, retrogression and decay”.

He said he is an old boy of Edo College and had to spend his personal resources to work on the roof and equip the computer laboratory of the school which was left to rot for years by the PDP, but which has now been rehabilitated by the ACN, saying “go there now and see what Oshiomhole is doing”.

bayooooooo: There is absolutely nothing wrong with the dress.

Mr. Globe:
The ACN governors are cheep attention seeking non performers (fyi: Fashola and Oshiomole are not considered ACN governors, just like Ngige ). agberoshola remains a corporate tout

PhysicsQED: Now I realize what it is. Both sides described the other with such extreme words of condemnation as to make their displeasure come across as almost farcical.

This Peter T. Jenkins character may not be aware of what his subordinates are doing or he may just not give a damn - in which case they need to fire him.

PapaBrowne: Very funny. Wish you can think about the reality of our existence for a moment. What is Government and what does it consist of. It consists of humans that yesterday were a part of the regular society.
So Big Question: Why do people that yesterday were a part of the regular society get to into the place called "government" and become neanderthals?
Answer, because the regular society is filled with neanderthals in the waiting. All they need is an environment that would help them bring it out. The place called government is that perfect environment.
The biggest problems we face steer us in the face in our everyday life. We see our friends steal the office dry and we either join them or turn a blind eye. The same students screaming Jonathan is clueless for renaming UNILAG would be cheating in class when exams start tommorow. The same doctors that are cursing on Fashola are selling drugs given free to patients. The market woman cheats. The Okada rider steals. The bank worker is a fraudster and the fast food owner is deliberately selling rotten chicken. And you know why?? Because they are all rotten and would do worse when given the perfect environment!!
Ask yourself, why is it Nigerians selling drugs on the streets of Europe, Thailand and Brazil?? Why not Zambians or Peruvians or Cambodians?? Now tell me, does the Nigerian Government train these people in the art of Drug dealing?? Or is Nigeria the only country with a messed up leadership??
THINK MAN, THINK. THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH OUR CULTURE. A CULTURE THAT PREVENTS US FROM TAKING RESPONSIBILITY, BUT ENCOURAGES BLAME SHIFTING.
Change will come only when people begin to seek to influence their little environment! It would start from the ground up.

PapaBrowne: Is that Fashola's Lagos?? What a mess!! Where the heck are the authorities responsible for disaster management??
No fire fighters! No Emergency health and first aid personel! No law enforcers tgo manage the crowds!! Nothing!
Or are they supposed to come from Abuja?? That scene looks like much more than an hour after!!

PapaBrowne: The leaders we talk about, were all members of the populace yesterday before they went to Abuja.
Truth be told, the current situation of the country is a reflection of the people that inhabit the country. The sad thing is that rather than look inwards, we are deflect our responsibilities and point hands at the leaders(people whose existence is totally dependent on us).
To get a better picture, look at the interiors of where Nigerians live, where Government has no jurisdiction over its functionality, and you'll find squalor and filth as a cultural anecdote. Filthier than the exteriors we blame the governments for failing to fix.
The problem is with 'we the people" and the revolution that we seek can only start from within us.
Before you ask Abuja to fight corruption, what have you done about the sleaze going on in your office?
Before you ask Abuja to fix the road, what have you done about your filthy unpainted house?
Before you ask Abuja to fix the hospitals, what have you done about your broken sewage?
Before you ask Abuja to fix education, stop cheating and exam malpractice!!
The revolution that would change this country can only start from withing us because the rot has corrupted every fabric of the society!

RICHIE BOI: This was her Last Picture in Abuja Airport before she Left us .

Rest in Perfect Peace and May Almighty God Accept your Soul.

HARDDON: 27 Cars burnt yesterday, den a Nigerian Plane crashed in Accra. Bomb in Bauchi today. Now a terrible plane crash happening right now in lagos All in 48hrs.U travel by road, A tanker will catch fire..by air, plane crashes..u sit in ur house,the plane will come and meet u, u go to church boko haram will attack u,u go by sea,militants will attack,u finally run to ur village,u r kidnapped....NTA Is showing Horse...AIT is Showing Ball, STV- beauty show, Channels- bible study, CNN -Dana Air crash..Finished country! God Help 9ja

Thor: I think it is time that Africa grounded its fleets of aircraft except for maybe South Africa, it is like Russian Roulette flying on an African Airline. Africans should stay on the ground or fly on Western Airlines only!
How many more people have to die through mismanagement, poor maintenance, poorly trained pilots and general criminal transport control. We can not even build proper roads or railways, so we should keep out of the air and leave it to developed countries

Those poor people and their families, yet another old plane crashes that should have retired years before

sheyguy: More like the Oyin and Aregbe type of debt thing.

ndu_chucks: I'd rather believe that you are speaking out of ignorance than deception, so I implore you to read up on MKO Abiola, his ITT contract, the looting of Liberia's $5billion a la IBB, e.t.c.

I'm very glad that you just opened a thread which exposes massive fraud in Nasarawa state wherein $113 in Paris club loan disappeared into thin air. I hope the perpetrators are caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Now lets assume the person responsible for this theft is never caught, as typical in Nigeria, and this person ends up in five years running for President, denied the office, and dies in jail like MKO, would you then call this common thief a noble man? I venture to say, of course not. Now imagine you calling a man who stole billions of dollars, a noble man!! It does not take a genius to know that your position is hypocritical.

Read how I really feel about MKO Abiola here

We need to stop worshiping these looters and thieves regardless of what part of Nigeria they are from.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/news/7549-n17b-paris-club-loan-disappears.html
Written by Idowu Samuel,Abuja Saturday, 02 June 2012

Democracy Day in Nasarawa State turned into a day of lamentation for the state governor, Alhaji Umaru Tanko Al’Makura, who expressed frustration over payment of N17 billion Paris Club loan his government never took.

The governor said since he took over power a year ago, he has been battling with triple tragedy of having to offset a huge debt of N30 billion left by his predecessor, in addition to refunding the sum of $240 million taken years ago by a former governor of the state.

He made this known in Lafia when addressing stakeholders in the state on Democracy Day anniversary, lamenting that a huge loan of N17 billion taken by former government of the state disappeared without a trace, leaving him to pay the debt which he never incurred.

He said the sum, amounting to $113 million was assessed, received, banked and eventually disappeared with no trace under the watchful eyes of a government headed by Alhaji Akwe Doma.

The money, he said, just disappeared without any trace, adding, “There was no record of expenditure by anyone, there was no legislation backing any spending of it and there was no project sited anywhere in the state in the name of the money.

Al’Makura said, so far, his government had lost the sum of N2.3 billion to the fictitious debt, while making conscious efforts to contain excess spending in the state.

Al’Makura stated further that the allocation from the Federal Government due to the state has continued to witness consistent decline from February 2012, notwithstanding the huge debt profile hanging on the neck of the state.

According to him, his administration has been managing the finances of the state without borrowing a penny from any bank, while ensuring payment of workers’ salaries as and when due.

The difference between Abiola and the rest was that he was truly noble. He gave his life fighting in a peaceful manner for his mandate against the evil regime of Abacha . There is no greater love, Jesus said, that a man give his life for his fellowmen. That is why he deserved more than UNILAG.

ndu_chucks: I disagree with this. Jonathan gas benefited from this move by diverting attention away from his lack of tangible achievements, the Justice Salami saga, the N155billion debacle, Boko Haram, e.t.c. The SW leaders who have been his chief critics are now spending their time and energy on this Unilag issue.

Given the treatment of fuel subsidy protesters in Lagos and several other actions by GEJ, every UNILAG student should have written GEJ off already, if not, those students must be dullards.



lol at the above. You’ve forgotten that Nigerians have a very short memory. Prior to now, there have been massive corruption under every civilian government, yet each President was reelected. The electorate is not as sophisticated as those of western nations at the moment. At election time, if a candidate spends enough money to buy rice, clothes, gifts, e.t.c. for voters, the voters will not remember any massive corruption. More than 80% of the electorate is a not a University graduate and is unaware of these issues and the issues will not affect how they vote. Sad but true.

The only thing that will save us now is to get PDP out of office at all costs.


With this renaming, GEJ has succeeded in exposing SW leaders, with the exception of Tinubu who said GEJ’s action was welcome, as hypocrites. When OBJ took steps for eight years to wipe the name of Abiola out of the annals of our history with spite and contempt, these leaders including Afe Babalola did not see it fit to raise any objections, they are now screaming blue murder. SMH.

I would have been more impressed if the objections of the SW leaders were because MKO Abiola played a major role in the corruption and decay of Nigeria and does not merit UNILAG to be named after him. These complaints about the illegality of the renaming is dishonest at best. These critics have quickly forgotten that Otuoke and eight other villages got fresh varsities by executive fiat recently, only to have NASS ratification later. Why wouldn’t the same be true in the case of renaming Unilag?

The SW leaders should be bold enough to tell us the real reason for their objections.

Tyche: People do underrate GEJ. It was not only luck/fate that got him to where he is now, he must have schemed his way through. The only problem is that he has failed to impact on the lives of many ordinary Nigerians esp those who braved alot of odds to vote him in.

ndu_chucks: In an act which many believe is ill-timed, not well thought-out, illegal, and an attempt to divide the SW, GEJ has succeeded in changing the political game, albeit accidentally. All of a sudden, calls for the prosecution of fuel subsidy thieves have disappeared, the N155billion scandal, and several other national issues have been placed on the back burner and replaced by the "outrage" of renaming Unilag. Even Tinubu publicly announced that the renaming of Unilag was a welcome development, effectively silencing further opposition by SWers to GEJ's act.

Are we now seeing a GEJ who after seeming to have outsmarted Northern politicians and thieves, has now initiated his plans for the recapture of the SW by PDP? The whole thing seems accidental to be, but one thing seems certain, this man, GEJ, is one lucky fellow.

Beaf: It is important for GEJ's opponents to continue calling him names like "coward," "weakling," "retardeen" etc.
It is only in Nigeria that a quiet person is regarded as foolish; this is despite the fact that quiet people are much more intelligent than the average person and the fact that 60% of geniuses are quiet.

It helps to be underestimated.

born2fuck: is the babe advertising tooth paste or what? Why she come ugly and the boy hanndsome after some ugly nairaland bbabes go begin misyarn for here,even her toto go black ddie

coogar: the president won't consult his subjects on a matter like that.
the office of the president pays the salaries of the university we are talking about.
they can hire/fire the people you want him to discuss with. he can promote/demote the members
of the university body. what the heck are you guys talking about?

Beaf: Of course, I do. You over-inflate influence, bro.

Beaf: No, I can't see why. You over-inflate influence, bro.