₦airaland Forum

For those ignorantly asserting the Ahmed Musa is an "aboki"-Ahmed Musa is from Auchi in Edo State.

infohenry:
The petition is driven by hate and fraustration, they were planning how to laugh him but buhari disappointed them. Amaechi is not corrupt because those who are corrupt don't take the kind of risk he took during the electioneering by challenging the incumbent president, you can ask lamido and babangida aliyu.

Wailings.....
If amechi didnt make the list they would have called it the infamous northern use and dump maneuver.He made it and they said he is corrupt (without proof).I am learning more and more about this brand of wailing.

‘‘Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.’’ –Proverbs 22:6 ‘‘I am indebted to my parent for living, but to my teacher for living well.’’ –Alexander the Great

EVERYMAN has a teacher and every great man has a great teacher. Zig Ziglar said, ‘a lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.’’ Frederick Douglas, the most important black American leader of the 19th century and a key figure in the abolition of slavery in the United States said, ‘‘it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.’’

Teachers are nation builders, teachers are the centre of education, and their contributions can never be overestimated. The United Nations declared October 5 of every year as teachers’ day all over the world. It is a unique day to celebrate a set of people that have invested their time, resources and skills into moulding and shaping lives all over the world. Teaching is hard work and it is poignant if it is further made tougher when teachers are ‘forced’ to work in environment that are not conducive to learning. ‘‘Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.’’ –Hain G. Ginott.

Parents must cultivate the habit of investing into their children’s teacher because it is an investment that will last them through life. On the long run, it cost less to invest in teachers. The greatest gift you can ever give to your children is the gift of someone that will nourish and inspire them to live a life of impact and purpose. A bad teacher is worse than a bad doctor because teachers affect eternity. ‘‘Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.’’ –Bob Talbert.

Alexander the great was the king of Macedonia, a man considered to be an inspiration to later conquerors such as Roman Pompey, Julius Caesar and Napoleon. When Alexander was 13 years old, his father, King Philip II of Macedonia hired one of the greatest teachers of his time, the Greek Philosopher Aristotle to be Alexander’s personal tutor. Aristotle taught the young prince everything about art and science. Alexander was said to be seemingly invisible in battle and at the age 33, he was said to have conquered the whole world that there was nothing else to conquer. When the legendary warrior was asked the secret of his success, he dedicated it to the awesomeness of his teacher –Aristotle! ‘‘Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.’’ –Bob Talbert

One of the most inspirational and awesome stories of a teacher’s influence on a child is that of Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Sullivan’s impact on Keller’s life was so revolutionary that she was given the nick name: MIRACLE WORKER! When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller was stricken with an acute illness that left her deaf and blind. In the 1880s, people who were both deaf and blind were classified in law as invalid.

Sullivan saw in the little Helen what was invisible to others; she could see latent potentials that were waiting to be unleased. Through patience, perseverance and passion for teaching, Anne was able to prove to the world that teachers are dealers in hope and that the most “sacred” responsibility of a teacher is ‘never to give up’ on a student.

Anne couldn’t restore Helen’s sight but she was able to inspire her insight. Her legendary teacher taught her one of the greatest style of learning -looking within! Helen was taught the power of insight and the ‘magic’ of a navigated mind.

Helen was blind to see the world around her but she met a teacher that revealed to her the world within– a world that is unlimited and unrestricted by sight. Prior to Sullivan, no one had been able to successfully teach a blind, deaf and mute child. Sullivan’s determination sets a remarkable standard for teachers. Despite Keller’s disabilities, Sullivan was able to see the abilities within, she refused to give up and became a worthy example for all teachers trying to reach difficult and challenging students. Helen Keller eventually became the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelors of Arts degree in the world from the Radcliffe College in 1904.

The story of Michael Faraday and how he rose from being a janitor to a giant in the field of electrochemistry also justifies the fact that teachers are truly miracle workers. Faraday was a janitor in the laboratory of the Royal Institution in Great Britain under Sir Humphrey Davy. Humphrey saw in Faraday an ‘image’ that goes beyond an ordinary janitor. Sir Humphrey trained the man who later taught the world how to convert electricity into power and light. When Humphrey was asked what his greatest discovery was and despite having several inventions and patents to his credit; the great teacher said confidently, ‘’my greatest discovery is Michael Faraday!’’
‘‘The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to them their own.’’ –Benjamin Disraeli

I have realised the truth in my 10 years of teaching that the easiest way to make a teacher produce good results is simply to make them feel good about themselves. Ken Blanchard said, ‘‘People who feel good about themselves, produce good results.’’ We must redesign the Nigerian system to provide a conducive atmosphere for learning. Our reward system has become archaic and obsolete for the new Nigeria that we are craving for. This nation, it would seem, has been meticulously designed in such a way to reward people with no intellectual value. Our reward system has been flawed, seemingly fully designed to reward miscreants and touts that harass, more than intellectuals that solve problems.

Thus redesigning has become imperative in the face of obvious degradation of our educational system. I am encouraging the government at every level to invest in teachers’ welfare and also create a conducive environment for learning. The quality of teachers is paramount to any nation that will go far in this 21st century.

Isaac Newton once said, ‘if I have seen further than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.’ I dedicate this piece to all the teachers all over the world and also to all the teachers that have ever taught me, the greatest being the Holy Spirit! Let us celebrate teachers today, call up your long time teachers, appreciate them, and encourage them with a special gift. Teachers matter! ‘‘We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.’’ –John F. Kennedy

Teaching is the noblest profession in the world and it is worth celebrating. Lee Iacocca, the former president of Ford Motors said, ‘in a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less.’’ I am encouraging teachers to see the teaching profession as an honourable calling, Eleanor Roosevelt said, ‘‘nobody can make you inferior without your consent.’’ The teaching profession is not inferior to any other. There are many geniuses with brains; a teacher is a genius with a heart!

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.’’ –Henry Brooks Adams

Gbenga Adebambo lives in Ibadan and is the dean of schools at the Educational Advancement Centre (EAC), consultant in teacher training. Tel: +2348053139316, gentletouch927@yahoo.com
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peleson:
Work in the ministry
Pls state the starting salary of each and why you choose the one you think is better

Please clarify.Church business or Federal/State governments

Name checking things.........

OrlandoOwoh:
OP, though Kayode Fayemi got his Msc in OAU, Ile-Ife, his name should have come under Unilag, where he got his BA. It's his wife that got her BA and MA in OAU, Ile-Ife.

Thanks for pointing this out.I didn't know until I read his tribute for Prof. Ade Adefuye,former ambassador to the United States.Fayemi wrote glowingly about him(Adefuye) recalling his days in the Department of History,UNILAG.

He was a contemporary of Former Justice Minister,Bola Ige and ex commonwealth secretary General, Emeka Anyaoku in the Department of Classics at the University of Ibadan in the 1950's.Many years ago I think in 2000,I read an an interview he granted to THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPERS wherein he said he courted his wife for only 27 days.They met on the 1st of October of a year I can't recollect now and got married on the 28th of October of the same year.

For all exes

As the lobbying for ministerial appointments continue, Nigerians not the APC political elite, will be wise not to expect much from the cabinet because according to Buhari the ministers yet to be announced are 'noise makers'. A president undermines his entire cabinet even before he appoints them? And one can only foresee the fight of supremacy between the 'hardworkers' the permanent secretaries and the 'noise makers the ministers. Buhari set that fight up all by himself. So everyone of us can forget about expecting any urgent meaningful work to be accomplished. As September 30 the deadline for naming his cabinet draws closer, all one can look forward to is the 'unveiling of Buhari's noise makers!'

Tribute to those who persuaded northern religious leaders in 2003 that the vaccine was not designed to sterilise Muslim women and curtail the biological growth of Islam. Tribute to courageous vaccinators murdered by Boko Haram in 2013. Tribute to Bill Gates who spent billions fighting the nervous/paralysis disease in a foreign country. Tribute to the governments of Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan for their devotion to the cause. Progress!

What we eat in some of these big restaurants is basically the packaging and the exciting environment.

And we pay so much for such with little in terms of biological value of what we eat there.

In terms of quality and quantity, the road side bukateria is far better.

I'm not just speaking casually. I'm speaking of a cumulative experience that spans over 15yrs now.

Not too long ago,Chocolate Royals, a swanky restaurant in Victoria Island,Lagos was sealed by NAFDAC for the use of expired ingredients and rotten food items.

List Of The 28 Senators Who Followed Saraki To His Trial

South South

1 Amori Ighoyota (Delta Central)PDP
2 Peter Nwaoboshi (Delta North)PDP
3 Ben Murray-Bruce (Bayelsa East) PDP
4 Emmanuel Paulker (Bayelsa Central)PDP
5 Ogola Foster (Bayelsa West) PDP
6 Rose Oko (Cross River North) PDP
7 Olaka Nwogu (Rivers South East)PDP
8 Clifford Ordia ( Edo Central)PDP
9 Gershom Henry Bassey (Cross River South) PDP
10 Bassey Albert Akpan (Akwa North East) PDP

South East

1 Theodore Orji (Abia Central) PDP
2 Mao Ohuabunwa (Abia North) PDP
3 Gilbert Nnaji (Enugu East) PDP
4 Sam Egwu (Ebonyi North) PDP
5 Samuel Anyanwu (Imo East) PDP
6 Sunny Ogbuoji (Ebonyi South)PDP
7 Obinna Ogba (Ebonyi Central) PDP

South West

1 Tayo Alasoadura (Ondo Central) APC

North Central

1 Abdulrahman Abubakar (Kogi East) APC
2 Shaaba Lafiagi (Kwara North) PDP
3 Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi (Niger East) APC
4 Mohammed Ohiare (Kogi Central) APC
5 Rafui Ibrahim (Kwara South) APC

North East

1 Isa Hamma Missau (Bauchi Central)APC

North West

1 Kabiru Gaya (Kano Central) APC
2 Aliyu Wamako (Sokoto North)APC
3 Ibrahim Dambaba (Sokoto South).APC
4 Kaura Tijjani (Zamfara North)APC

Total
South South 10
South East 7
South West 1
North Central 5
North East 1
North west 4
PDP 18
APC 10

I don't understand religion any more.It is commonly said that it is best way for a muslim to enter aljannah(paradise,heaven) is to die in Mecca while observing hajj,why then were the medics trying to save those that were half dead and the injured.Why not just ignore and let them die to meet Allah?

'If you have not tasted Sallah meat by now, you have to enroll for Character Development Classes. Iwa e o da ladugbo.'(you are a bad neighbour in your neighbourhood).

'If you have not tasted Sallah meat by now, you have to enroll for Character Development Classes. Iwa e o da ladugbo.'(you are a bad neighbour in your neighbourhood).

As Buhari refused to sponsor pilgrims for the hajj in Mecca, those in Kwara came up with a plan:

Since they could not go to Mecca to stone the devil there, they decided to stone the devil in their midst. Do not ask me who that devil was.

Barka De Sallah to my Muslim friends.

As a University, we have always viewed rejoinders and media wars as unnecessary cheap merchandise that we find distasteful either on retail or wholesale basis. This stance is borne out of our long-¬held view that media wars are usually orchestrated to serve the pecuniary interest of those who initiate and promote them in the public space.

Journalistic blackmail is a very cheap commodity that excites the imagination of only hack writers and sundry media spin doctors, who really abuse the tenets of the hallowed journalism profession that hold facts in very high esteem.

When C. P. Scott declared that "comments are free, facts are sacred," he probably may have had the likes of Chux Ohai of The Punch newspaper in mind. In an unguarded moment of journalistic bias, Mr. Ohai quite inexplicably armed himself with a poisoned pen and mounted a demolition truck that characteristically failed to draw a clear distinction between facts and fiction in his haste to soil the reputation. of the University of Port Harcourt on a contemptible scale.

How else would any discerning reader comprehend the hatchet job that was gleefully executed by Mr. Ohai in his one-sided two-page article entitled, Theo Vincent: From Ivory Tower to Lagos slums? If Mr. Ohai had any modicum of respect for facts which are held sacred in the journalism profession, he would have, at least, made even a passing effort to contact the authorities of the University of Port Harcourt for their own aide of the story before willfully blackmailing them through a distasteful media trial that evidently served his pecuniary interest under the circumstance.

The article which was published at pages 26 and 27 of The Punch edition of Thursday, September 3, 2015, was a piece of cheap blackmail that was deliberately concocted as a devious scheme of mass deception aimed at grabbing the attention of those not conversant with the facts of the matter. But, as we all know, the reason lies do not walk long distances is simply because they are usually fitted with very short legs that are not suited for a marathon race.

In the article under reference, Mr. Ohai readily admitted that Professor Theo Vincent had expressly set up barricades for the interview---insisting that it be strictly limited to literature--specifically poetry, and NOT about his personal existential condition which he was obviously quite reluctant to advertise to the public. Every serious-minded journalist would understand and promptly respect the hallowed ground rule set out by the interviewee widely known in media practice as 'off record' or 'no-go areas'. Not surprisingly, however, Mr. Ohai decided to take the generosity of his vulnerable host for granted which Is in utter violation of the unwritten eleventh commandment.

In a -thinly-veiled accusatory tone, Mr. Ohai appeared to blame the University of Port Harcourt for Professor Vincent's accommodation in "dilapidated two-storey residential building" where he located the eminent scholar to administer the killer punch. Even the detailed and unsparing description of the decrepit physical outlook of Professor Vincent was a very distasteful invasion of privacy that is totally out of synch with accepted media ethics. What is even more annoying is that in his attempt to drum up public sympathy for Professor Vincent, Mr. Ohai quite inadvertently succeeded in carving the venerable Professor as an odious carcass fit for the hounds! Was that really his intention in writing such a virulent piece that soiled individual and institutional images?

Pray, which journalism school taught Mr. Ohai such gratuitous disrespect for individual privacy? This is just media terrorism at its, worst manifestation, especially weighed against Mr. Ohai's own grudging admission that Professor Vincent had forewarned him of his circumspection about speaking to journalists'. Mr. Ohai did not disappoint Professor Vincent's apprehension. How tellingly true the gentleman's deeply-held suspicion of the killer instinct of some journalists turned out to be in this case!

Even more puzzling was the lachrymose input of a certain Dr. Chris Anyokwu of the Department of English in the University of Lagos, who was gleefully quoted by Mr. Ohai as lamenting that "a former Vice-Chancellor of a Federal University should end up the way Professor Theo Vincent has done..." It is rather instructive that in waxing so sanctimonious about the predicament of his erstwhile senior colleague in the English Department, Dr. Anyoku failed to first acknowledge the irrefutable fact that the same Professor Vincent who served the University of Lagos for 37 years was thrown out of his official accommodation where he resided for over 40 years! Not even Professor Vincent's visual impairment could confer a special status on him in difference to the extant rules governing accommodation on the Campus of the University of Lagos. Doesn't that, in the self-righteous words of Dr. Anyokwu, "beg the question and confound the imagination" even more than he and Mr. Ohai would want the general public to believe?

How could Mr. Ohai in one breath describe Professor Vincent in his story kicker as "a celebrated scholar and writer", only to turn round to patronise him as 'rambling about John Milton's famous sonnet"... (Obviously referring to Paradise Lost)? Professor Vincent 'rambling' about literature in which he is an acknowledged master? Doesn't that give Mr. Ohai away as a vengeful writer who was out to further sully the personality of the venerable academic he claimed to be defending, and by extension the reputation of the University of Port Harcourt, where Professor Vincent was Vice-Chancellor for only three and half years?

It defies conventional logic for Mr. Ohai to announce that he paid a visit to the Chapel of Christ Our Light to speak to the Management of the Church where Professor Vincent's wife currently worships, but could not remember to contact the authorities of the University of Port Harcourt which received the short end of his poisonous pen for its own version of events. Where is the balance and objectivity in this genre of guerrilla journalism that did not distinguish between military and civilian targets in its indiscriminate attack?

If Mr. Ohai or any reader of The Punch newspaper may wish to know the truth, here it is:
 Yes, Professor Vincent was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt between 1997and2000.
 At the end of his tenure, he did not transfer his services from the University of Lagos to the University of Port Harcourt.
 It is on record that Professor Vincent received all his statutory entitlements as a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt before returning to the University of Lagos.
 At no point in the stage-managed interview did Professor Vincent even indirectly complain against the authorities of the University of Port Harcourt for short-changing him as Mr. Ohai appeared to insinuate.
 Nobody notified the authorities of the University of Port Harcourt of the unfortunate plight of Professor Vincent until Mr. Ohai emerged from the blues to throw mud at the University, and quite unjustifiably so.

In the final analysis, the University of Port Harcourt wishes to express deep empathy with our former Vice-Chancellor over the unacceptable condition he is currently in and hopes that there would be concerted effort on all fronts to promptly reverse the trend for good. Portraying the University as insensitive to the plight of Professor Vincent is a piece of cheap blackmail that cannot fly in the light of the explanations outlined above.

What is obvious is that couching the expression of concern for Professor Vincent's current predicament in undisguised blackmail of the University of Port Harcourt defies logical reasoning on all fronts and is certainly NOT the best way to draw attention to his current predicament. Mr. Ohai conceded that the situation did not call for finger-pointing; yet, he pointed much more than fingers at the University of Port Harcourt.
It is our hope that Mr. Ohai would refrain from further attacks on the hard-¬earned reputation of the University of Port Harcourt and think of more noble ways of deploying his pen, especially when the subject is either individual privacy or institutional profile. As a University, we find this form of gutter journalism as utterly distasteful, contemptuous and libelous, but we will refrain from pressing charges at this point.
A word should be good enough for the wise.

WILLIAMS WODI
Deputy Registrar (Information)
ipqr@uniport.edu.ng/www.uniport.edu.ng

As a University, we have always viewed rejoinders and media wars as unnecessary cheap merchandise that we find distasteful either on retail or wholesale basis. This stance is borne out of our long-¬held view that media wars are usually orchestrated to serve the pecuniary interest of those who initiate and promote them in the public space.

Journalistic blackmail is a very cheap commodity that excites the imagination of only hack writers and sundry media spin doctors, who really abuse the tenets of the hallowed journalism profession that hold facts in very high esteem.

When C. P. Scott declared that "comments are free, facts are sacred," he probably may have had the likes of Chux Ohai of The Punch newspaper in mind. In an unguarded moment of journalistic bias, Mr. Ohai quite inexplicably armed himself with a poisoned pen and mounted a demolition truck that characteristically failed to draw a clear distinction between facts and fiction in his haste to soil the reputation. of the University of Port Harcourt on a contemptible scale.

How else would any discerning reader comprehend the hatchet job that was gleefully executed by Mr. Ohai in his one-sided two-page article entitled, Theo Vincent: From Ivory Tower to Lagos slums? If Mr. Ohai had any modicum of respect for facts which are held sacred in the journalism profession, he would have, at least, made even a passing effort to contact the authorities of the University of Port Harcourt for their own aide of the story before willfully blackmailing them through a distasteful media trial that evidently served his pecuniary interest under the circumstance.

The article which was published at pages 26 and 27 of The Punch edition of Thursday, September 3, 2015, was a piece of cheap blackmail that was deliberately concocted as a devious scheme of mass deception aimed at grabbing the attention of those not conversant with the facts of the matter. But, as we all know, the reason lies do not walk long distances is simply because they are usually fitted with very short legs that are not suited for a marathon race.

In the article under reference, Mr. Ohai readily admitted that Professor Theo Vincent had expressly set up barricades for the interview---insisting that it be strictly limited to literature--specifically poetry, and NOT about his personal existential condition which he was obviously quite reluctant to advertise to the public. Every serious-minded journalist would understand and promptly respect the hallowed ground rule set out by the interviewee widely known in media practice as 'off record' or 'no-go areas'. Not surprisingly, however, Mr. Ohai decided to take the generosity of his vulnerable host for granted which Is in utter violation of the unwritten eleventh commandment.

In a -thinly-veiled accusatory tone, Mr. Ohai appeared to blame the University of Port Harcourt for Professor Vincent's accommodation in "dilapidated two-storey residential building" where he located the eminent scholar to administer the killer punch. Even the detailed and unsparing description of the decrepit physical outlook of Professor Vincent was a very distasteful invasion of privacy that is totally out of synch with accepted media ethics. What is even more annoying is that in his attempt to drum up public sympathy for Professor Vincent, Mr. Ohai quite inadvertently succeeded in carving the venerable Professor as an odious carcass fit for the hounds! Was that really his intention in writing such a virulent piece that soiled individual and institutional images?

Pray, which journalism school taught Mr. Ohai such gratuitous disrespect for individual privacy? This is just media terrorism at its, worst manifestation, especially weighed against Mr. Ohai's own grudging admission that Professor Vincent had forewarned him of his circumspection about speaking to journalists'. Mr. Ohai did not disappoint Professor Vincent's apprehension. How tellingly true the gentleman's deeply-held suspicion of the killer instinct of some journalists turned out to be in this case!

Even more puzzling was the lachrymose input of a certain Dr. Chris Anyokwu of the Department of English in the University of Lagos, who was gleefully quoted by Mr. Ohai as lamenting that "a former Vice-Chancellor of a Federal University should end up the way Professor Theo Vincent has done..." It is rather instructive that in waxing so sanctimonious about the predicament of his erstwhile senior colleague in the English Department, Dr. Anyoku failed to first acknowledge the irrefutable fact that the same Professor Vincent who served the University of Lagos for 37 years was thrown out of his official accommodation where he resided for over 40 years! Not even Professor Vincent's visual impairment could confer a special status on him in difference to the extant rules governing accommodation on the Campus of the University of Lagos. Doesn't that, in the self-righteous words of Dr. Anyokwu, "beg the question and confound the imagination" even more than he and Mr. Ohai would want the general public to believe?

How could Mr. Ohai in one breath describe Professor Vincent in his story kicker as "a celebrated scholar and writer", only to turn round to patronise him as 'rambling about John Milton's famous sonnet"... (Obviously referring to Paradise Lost)? Professor Vincent 'rambling' about literature in which he is an acknowledged master? Doesn't that give Mr. Ohai away as a vengeful writer who was out to further sully the personality of the venerable academic he claimed to be defending, and by extension the reputation of the University of Port Harcourt, where Professor Vincent was Vice-Chancellor for only three and half years?

It defies conventional logic for Mr. Ohai to announce that he paid a visit to the Chapel of Christ Our Light to speak to the Management of the Church where Professor Vincent's wife currently worships, but could not remember to contact the authorities of the University of Port Harcourt which received the short end of his poisonous pen for its own version of events. Where is the balance and objectivity in this genre of guerrilla journalism that did not distinguish between military and civilian targets in its indiscriminate attack?

If Mr. Ohai or any reader of The Punch newspaper may wish to know the truth, here it is:
 Yes, Professor Vincent was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt between 1997and2000.
 At the end of his tenure, he did not transfer his services from the University of Lagos to the University of Port Harcourt.
 It is on record that Professor Vincent received all his statutory entitlements as a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt before returning to the University of Lagos.
 At no point in the stage-managed interview did Professor Vincent even indirectly complain against the authorities of the University of Port Harcourt for short-changing him as Mr. Ohai appeared to insinuate.
 Nobody notified the authorities of the University of Port Harcourt of the unfortunate plight of Professor Vincent until Mr. Ohai emerged from the blues to throw mud at the University, and quite unjustifiably so.

In the final analysis, the University of Port Harcourt wishes to express deep empathy with our former Vice-Chancellor over the unacceptable condition he is currently in and hopes that there would be concerted effort on all fronts to promptly reverse the trend for good. Portraying the University as insensitive to the plight of Professor Vincent is a piece of cheap blackmail that cannot fly in the light of the explanations outlined above.

What is obvious is that couching the expression of concern for Professor Vincent's current predicament in undisguised blackmail of the University of Port Harcourt defies logical reasoning on all fronts and is certainly NOT the best way to draw attention to his current predicament. Mr. Ohai conceded that the situation did not call for finger-pointing; yet, he pointed much more than fingers at the University of Port Harcourt.
It is our hope that Mr. Ohai would refrain from further attacks on the hard-¬earned reputation of the University of Port Harcourt and think of more noble ways of deploying his pen, especially when the subject is either individual privacy or institutional profile. As a University, we find this form of gutter journalism as utterly distasteful, contemptuous and libelous, but we will refrain from pressing charges at this point.
A word should be good enough for the wise.

WILLIAMS WODI
Deputy Registrar (Information)
ipqr@uniport.edu.ng/www.uniport.edu.ng

Beginning with the Oliver Lyttleton Constitution, the 1954 document that conferred the status of a federation on Nigeria, the central government has always been mandated to operate a single revenue account for the country.

Preparatory to the 1960 independence, the colonial masters had kept faith with that aspect of the law and bequeathed it to the First Republic, run by the duo of the late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe as president and Alhaji Tafawa Balewa as Prime Minister.

However, the Nigerian civil war economy run by Gen. Yakubu Gowon — beginning from 1967 — necessitated a deviation from what was the norm and inadvertently opened the door of what critics have come to refer to as the door of impunity for successive military and civilian governments.

The practice continued even without regard for the Section 162, sub-section 1 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), which states: “The Federation shall maintain a special account to be called ‘the Federation Account’ into which shall be paid all revenues collected by the Government of the Federation, except the proceeds from the personal income tax of the personnel of the armed forces of the Federation, the Nigeria Police Force, the ministry or department of government charged with responsibility for Foreign Affairs and the residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.”

adedayourt:
i dont seem to understnd dis bolded part

Wole Soyinka's mother is a niece of Fela's father.In other words,Wole Soyinka's grandmother was Fela's father (Israel Oludotun)elder sister.Their

Zonacom:
Longest serving monarch in the world?
Maybe they don't include Africa when they make some of these pronouncements

Lack of documentary and verifiable evidence accounts for the omission.

okpurukata:
Because it's Britian it's allowed. If an African leader lasts that long they will scream dictatorship. Gadhafi comes to my mind. Hypocrites.

Ignorance on full throttle.Update yourself on basic systems of government.

A smart man with Obasanjo's kind of record knows where to pitch his tent, especially as Buhari has consistently queried the $16 billion spent on power by the Obasanjo government without any results. The files on the Halliburton and Siemens scandals are still gathering dust in the attorney general's office. Unlike Jonathan, Buhari has the will to go after anybody, no matter who their father is. And I dare say Buhari is about the only Nigerian leader I know today (there may be others that I don't know) who can take on anybody at anytime. It is only logical for people with skeletons in their cupboard to jump on the Buhari train as a form of insurance policy.

PMB should proceed carefully. Obasanjo has a history. I used to be fooled by his "patriotic" interventions in national politics. The earliest I can recall was in the days of President Shehu Shagari. In 1979, Obasanjo conducted a transition to civil rule and handed over power to him at a time of oil boom. But oil prices began to take a tumble in 1982. As Nigerians began to experience the economic crunch, Obasanjo started attacking Shagari in the newspapers on a regular basis. The criticisms were timely, ahead of the 1983 elections, and the opposition parties were over the moon. Obasanjo knows the direction of the wind.

In his memoir, Beckoned to Serve, Shagari said of the coup that overthrew him: "Some public statements by General Obasanjo severely criticising the administration seemed to point to at least a tacit incitement of the military against the government." He said he tried endlessly to invite Obasanjo for discussion on the situation, especially on the national economy about which he showed some concern, but the general avoided him. He later discovered why Obasanjo had become very hostile to him. "I understand from someone close to him, however, that he had expected me to be constantly consulting him on all matters of government since he had an obsession of being a super-administrator, super-diplomat and of course a military genius," Shagari wrote.

After 63 years and 7 months at the helm, HM Queen Elizabeth II has become Britain’s longest-serving monarch.

She ascended to the throne on 6 February 1952, She is the world's oldest reigning monarch as well as Britain's longest-lived. On 9 September 2015,which is today at around 17:30 local time in Britain, she surpassed the record of her great-great-grandmother Victoria, who reigned from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901

10 Signs You Are Enjoying Your Work

1. Time flies by and you lose yourself. You enter a flow state.

Flow is a nearly transcendental state where time ceases to matter–what is in front of you is all there is, and worries and other tasks slip away. It happens when you do something that is really enjoyable (like playing a musical instrumental you love) or being with someone you really care about.

It’s the same thing when you are doing work you really love. Time slips away and you look at the window swearing that the sun just came up when you see it’s dark outside.

And the best thing about the flow state–it feels good.
2. You feel like you are doing something of value. You feel fulfilled.

Humans feel happy when they are connected to others, but also when they give or create something of value. It doesn’t have to be curing cancer (of course that would be amazing!); it could be more simple like being a carpenter and building things that people want or need. Whatever the job, you feel a deep sense of gratitude for being able to help and serve people. You feel like you are giving back and giving people your unique ideas, abilities, and talents.

It’s another thing that defines how a happy person lives their life, and how you too can stay happy daily.
3. You are excited to wake up in the morning.

If you aren’t ready and raring to get up in the morning, something might be amiss. Of course, everyone has off days. But if you continuously dread going to work to a serious amount, it might be time to change.

Whatever you do should get you excited to get up and hit the ground running full speed. It might involve you focusing on something about your job that you didn’t see before, but it should get you up and excited.
4. Your co-workers and superiors are seen as partners to give and produce something.

When you see the people you work with not just as other bodies in the office or guys who give you TPS reports to fill out, you are in the right place. You should see them as helpers with whom you can create something big. Maybe you aren’t the big boss deciding what that is, but you believe in what you’re doing, and you love that you get to work and struggle along with these people to make it a reality.
5. You do not complain.

Many people complain about their jobs:

“It’s too early.”

“It’s too far.”

“I don’t like the people I work with.”

“I hate what I do.”

If you’re constantly complaining, you either need a mindset change (start appreciating what you have, compared to say, being unemployed and struggling to pay any bill) or it’s your internal guide showing you that you need to find a different job you would enjoy more.

Whatever the case, in work you enjoy there may be times you complain about work load or an annoying task. But overall you know these are small potatoes compared to the happiness that comes from doing what you love.
6. You don’t mind the struggle.

Work can be a struggle. Writers spend hours editing and must work daily. Artists may do entire portraits and then throw them out. Engineers come up with designs that are faulty and have to go back to the drawing board of equations and figures.

But when you enjoy your work, you don’t care. You love the struggle. You love coming back, refining, and the process of progression to get what you want. The end goal of producing something amazing is worth it.
7. You get energized when you talk about what you do.

When people ask, “What do you do?”, you get revved up. You can’t shut up about it. That is a sign that you love what you do and you want everyone else to know.
8. You feel like your work is an extension of who you are; it is a part of your personality.

Work ceases to become work when it’s not just a means to an end. The perfect work is something that deeply resonates with something inside of you, and makes you able to output amazing quality and hours upon hours of production. You are expressing yourself and feel amazing and congruent with it.
9. You find yourself interested in extra items not assigned to you.

When you really enjoy your work, you’ll want to learn about your company or things that you might not be directly responsible for, but deal with the work in general. Even if you don’t have to do certain things, you want to learn more.
10. You feel tired at the end of the day, but in a satisfied way.

There’s a difference between feeling tired because you accomplished a lot, versus being tired because you had to drag yourself kicking and screaming through the day using lots of your willpower. If you feel accomplished, satisfied, happy, and like you produced something of value when you work and that makes you tired, you’re doing it right.

Always remember:

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

– Steve Jobs

The first female secondary school for girls in Nigeria is Methodist Girls' High School,Yaba which was established in January 1879.

Lagos once had a mayor who was a medical doctor,Abu Bakar Ibiyinka Olorun-Nimbe.

The current president of the Sierra Leone Football Association is a woman Who Has Nigerian Roots.She is from the very famous Tejan-Cole family with plenty of affinity with Nigerians. Her name is Abiodun and Iyatunde, her father calls her Remilekun while Dele Momodu is her mentor.

Isha Johansen, the Sierra Leonean FA President, has been speaking to Sports Planet anchorman, TUNDE KOIKI about the Lone Stars’ 2017 AFCON qualifier against Côte d’Ivoire at makeshift home, Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium Port Harcourt on Sunday. The strong woman of Sierra Leonean football touches on an Ebola-induced hardship on her country, Nigeria as a perfect home and how she has weathered the storm in a male dominated vocation. Excerpts…

Sports Planet: Isha Johansen, thank you for talking to us.

Isha Johansen: Thank you.

SP: Could you give us a summary of who Isha Johansen is?

Isha: I am the president of the Sierra Leone Football Association. I came into football administration 12 years ago, starting off with a humanitarian project just after the civil war, looking up to boys, women and orphans and offering them a little bit of help here and there. But these young kids decided they wanted to form a team called FC Johansen (which I don’t know why they chose the name) and they did. And we started putting them into local leagues, U-10, U-12 and also took them abroad. I’ve taken them to Sweden, America and Real Madrid where they played series of games. We then came back to Sierra Leone, groomed them and they started playing football proper from second division to first division; they are now in the Premier League.

Beyond that, my father is a co-founder of one of the biggest and most established clubs in Sierra Leone. I[b]’m from a very famous Tejan-Cole family with plenty of affinity with Nigerians. My name is Abiodun and Iyatunde, my father calls me Remilekun while Dele Momodu is my mentor. [/b]Being the president of the FA is what I’ve always loved to throw my heart in. And it was simply because I saw that those that have done it before I’ve messed things up (I don’t see this as arrogance), that is just the reality. The structure and discipline is lacking in their administration. So, I came into the race; this made me the second woman in the world to head a national football association (along with Lydia Nsekera, the president of the Burundi Football Association) and also because I’ve managed a club before. It’s been an experience, very challenging.

SP: How challenging has this position been for you especially in male dominated society like Africa?

Isha: It’s been very challenging. And I’m not happy at the level of sexism we encountered in terms of leadership position nowadays. But I don’t mind because I learn. And I also realize that sometimes this attack is not just because I’m a woman but because I’m trying to bring in a new structure and bad news that people are scared of because of their bad agenda like match fixing. So, it’s not a fun time for me and them too but at the end of the day, I stay in the game. I do what I love doing most. We are just building. We are in Nigeria to play against perhaps the strongest team in Africa and it’s going to be an exciting match. I must admit, it has been challenging.

SP: The tragedy of Ebola Virus has struck Sierra Leone. How difficult has this been especially for football in Sierra Leone?

Isha: It’s been extremely difficult, more difficult that you can ever imagine not just for football but everything else. I think what made it scary is that Nigeria had a little taste of the disease. We lost many lives, neigbours, lot of players and families to the players. The boys had no means of support financially because football is their only means of survival. They couldn’t play football and they couldn’t go to stadium to watch either. But slowly, we began to pick up. Initially, we were not encouraged to participate in the AFCON qualifier but eventually we were allowed but not with our local players but with only foreign based players. But as the fight against Ebola progressed, we were allowed four to five home grown players towards the end of the last qualifiers. We actually participated with home based players when we played in Cameroun, Algeria, Ivory Coast and now we are playing here in Nigeria. It’s been a very difficult time psychologically and physically for the boys.

SP: Why did you choose Nigeria as the venue for your match against Ivory Coast?

Isha? I chose Nigeria because Nigeria is home to me and Nigeria is home to many Sierra Leoneans. I think there is a special bond between Nigeria and Sierra Leone. And I think coming to play here is just as good as playing at home. On Sunday, Nigeria but not Sierra Leone is going to be playing Ivory Coast.

SP: You are in a group that has Sudan, Cote d’Ivoire and Gabon. To be honest, it’s going to be very difficult for you to qualify from the group. But looking forward, how do you expect to grow Sierra Leoneans football to the level where you have Mohammed Kallon and other great footballers in Sierra Leone.

Isha: You see, it’s a waiting game; we just have to win it. And I think it is about time Sierra Leoneans understand that for us to get to that stage, we have to prepare. There must be structure, discipline and preparation in place to compete at the highest level before we actually think of winning. So, we engage in the sport and get the boys into the habit of learning. In five years time, I’ll like to see us compete at the highest level but for now, I can only say we are there to participate.

SP: What words of encouragement do you have for women, to see you as a role model who aspires to be in the position of authority like you?

Isha: First of all, I’m humbled if that is the case. But I’ll say to them that you have to chase your dream before you believe in your dream. Being a woman in today’s world trying to be something that people perceived to be difficult, you have to keep the result and prepare to face challenges that come your way. I’m where I am now simply because of my result. So, keep the result and face the challenges; do not relent.

SP: Isha, thank you so much for you time.

Isha: Thank you very much.

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The pertinent questions remain: will the sensational stories we read in the media every day lead to the successful prosecution and conviction of some big fish in the pool of corruption to serve as deterrence to others? Are institutional mechanisms being put in place to make it difficult for people to fiddle with public funds and easily get away? What legal/judicial reforms are ongoing to ensure that public officials who steal billions are not asked to pay peanuts in fines to walk free? How are we going to deal with the private sector that is not only the enabler for the public sector corruption but also has its own monumental rot within? When are we going to get to a situation in which being invited to serve in public office would not attract celebrations and all manner of expensive social and religious thanksgivings?