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AuschwitzPrefec:
Spring onions and it's not indigenous to IPOB land and is grown mostly in the north.

10 FCTA directors shun FG’s directive, refuse to retire


About 10 directors in the Federal Capital Territory Administration who have spent over eight years in office have failed to proceed on mandatory retirement almost one month after the newly revised Public Service Rules became operational.

The directors were said to have spent between nine and 12 years on the directorate cadre and were required to turn in their letter of retirement in compliance with the PSR which took effect from July 27, 2023.

Our correspondent reported that the new rule was expected to affect over 500 directors who have stagnated in their positions for eight years or more.

The Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan had in a memo dated July 27, addressed to all Permanent Secretaries, Accountant-General of the Federation, Auditor-General of the Federation and Heads of Extra Ministerial Departments, ordered strict compliance with the revised rules.

The new rules also introduced a tenure policy for permanent secretaries who are now required to spend four years in office which is renewable subject to performance.

But sources at the FCTA said the Director of Human Resource Management, Bashir Muhammad, and his counterpart at the Christian Pilgrimage Board, Dabara Vingo and others who were affected by the rule have yet to vacate office almost a month after the directive became operational.

It was gathered that Muhammad recently requested a three-month tenure extension from the FCTA Permanent Secretary, Olusade Adesola.

An official stated, ‘’No fewer than 10 directors who have spent between nine and 12 years in office have refused to vacate office or retire as stipulated by the revised PSR. In fact, the Director of Human Resource Management has just asked the permanent secretary for three months’ extension in office.

‘’Though the request has not been granted, everyone in FCTA is worried by the refusal of the concerned officials to comply with the rules. We are hoping the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike would intervene speedily.’’

Ironically, Muhammad had in a circular dated August 9, 2023, drew the attention of the leadership of the FCT Administration to the HoS directive on the implementation of the PSR.

The letter with reference number: FCTA/HRM/ 141145/Vol.I was addressed to the Executive Secretary, Federal Capital Development Authority; Secretaries, Mandate Secretariats; Heads of Departments, Agencies and Parastatals, Coordinators and Directors, FCTA Common Services Department and all staff.

It read, ‘’I am directed to refer you to the circular number: HCSF/SPSO/268/T3/2/37 of 27th July, 2023 from the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation and to inform you that the revised Public Service Rules has become operational in the services of FCTA with effect from 27th July, 2023.

‘’In this regard, you are to ensure full compliance with all the provisions of the revised PSR, particularly the provision of section 020909 on tenure policy for directors or its equivalent on Grade Level 17. Please, ensure strict compliance with the contents of this circular.’’

Muhammad could not be reached on Thursday as calls to his phone indicated it was switched off.

However, the FCTA Director of Press, Muhammed Sule, explained that the concerned officials had been directed to retire via a circular.

A source at the Federal Ministry of Health told one of our correspondents that all the directors affected by the tenure policy have retired as directed by the Head of Service.

“For instance, the Director, Public Health, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Morenike Alex-Okoh has left; the Director of Family Health, Dr Boladale Alonge has gone, and many others. The ones I know personally that have retired are about seven,” the source said.

Igbo Man Who Owns Highest Number Of Rolls Royce and Private Jets in Nigeria (Photos)

Felix Chidi Idiga is a Nigerian Business Mogul and Entrepreneur. He is the Chairman/CEO of JAFAC Group

of Companies. He became a multi Billionaire in his mid 30s.

Born: Felix Chidi Idiga, June 30, 1963,Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria.

Occupation: MD/CEO JAFAC Group – Involved in Dredging, Marine, Logistics, Asphalt Production and Sales, Road/Bridge Construction, Equipment Sales/Leasing, Building Construction, Offshore Services;

Vessel, Tanker Vessel, Tug Boats, Barges, Security Boats services, etc. Agriculture – Rice Farming. Hospitality Industry, Aviation.

GROWING UP AND EDUCATION

Felix Idiga attended St. Mary’s Primary school, Amaifeke, Orlu, 1972

to 1977 and later proceeded to secondary school. He was unable to complete secondary school in one stretch due to his natural quest for business and entrepreneurship.

Felix later went back to school, Pre-Varsity Education Centre, Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja, to complete his disrupted secondary education.

Consequently, he ventured into the business world in 1984. With the help of his father, he was provided him the initial capital to start up a house utensils business in Onitsha. Inevitably, in June 1987, he went over to Lagos State, Nigeria to seek for greener pastures and to diversify his growing business.

Later, he ventured into importation by traveling to Europe to import certain goods like designer shoes and apparels.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP/BUSINESSES

A) JAFAC Group of Companies

As Chairman/CEO of JAFAC Group, which is made up of the following

companies :

• JAFAC Motors Nigeria/ JAFAC Auto Inc. USA

• JAFAC Wine

• JAFAC Construction Limited

• JAFAC Investment Nigeria Limited

• SWAT LINK’s Limited (Maritime)

• Swat Technology Limited

• Global Private Jet Charter

• JAFAC Hospitality Industry (Galpin Suites & Hotel)

• Jafac Oil and Gas

• Jafac Real estate

His garage is filled with numerous number of Rolls Royce ranging from Cullinans, Phantoms, Ghost etc amongst other automobiles.

He owns the highest number of Private jets and Rolls Royce in Nigeria.

Allegedly, he donated billions of naira to a political party in 2015,2019 and 2023.

He also donated his private jet to Tinubu’s campaign.

Net worth: Undisclosed but estimated to be worth billions of dollars.

He is revered with the title “Akuatuegwu of Igbo land.”

kestolove95:
Obi is worst than this people...obi is a known criminal.

I’m happy Fela didn’t exist in our generation, says Singer Burna Boy


Grammy award-winning Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu popularly known as Burna Boy, has stated that if Fela existed beyond the period he did, he would have been criticised and probably arrested.
He said he is grateful that the late afrobeats pioneer, Fela Kuti, didn’t exist in this generation.

The ‘Last Last’ crooner disclosed this in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in New York.

The African giant said Fela’s existence was good while it lasted, adding that he passed on the message his songs carried and explored the music space extensively.

According to Burna Boy, if Fela had existed in this current generation, most people holding him in high esteem today would have criticised and called for his arrest.

He said: “What I have realised is that the times are really funny. Fela in his time was going through things that, if he was here today, it might have been a whole different feeling like a whole bunch of people from Nigeria who you see today celebrating Fela, are the same people that would have been tagging the police to go and arrest Fela if there was Twitter then.

“So, at the end of the day, I feel like God doesn’t make mistakes. You know what I mean like the times are just perfect for everyone, you know. If he Fela was here today, like his career started now, he may not have the space to explore that [his conscious creativity] because there is too much in this day and age that it just doesn’t interlock with the spirits. Right now, spirituality is almost non-existent.

“Now, the society is just mostly run by stupidity and ignorance. It was still the same back then [during Fela’s era], but it wasn’t as amplified or accessed [as it is today]. Now, everything is defined by stupidity and ignorance.

“I’m grateful for the fact that he Fela existed in his time so that we can get an experience of the true organic nature of what he was, the essence of what he stood for and the messages he passed across to us.”

Jeon:
Lame, no humor in this apart from sex slavery.

👋

Jeon:
To show how boring 💤 he is.

If this was a movie, what title will you give it......for me its

1) "The Ghost of her Past"

2) "Inglorious Decision"

3) waxes

Canada keeps troops in Niger as the West hedges its bets on coup response


Nearly four weeks after Niger’s coup, the Canadian government has yet to withdraw any of its military trainers from the West African country, despite a decision to suspend direct aid to the new regime.

Canada is one of several Western governments that have kept their troops in Niger as they hedge their bets on how to respond to the military coup. Western leaders have condemned the putsch and demanded the restoration of civilian rule, but they have been ambivalent on whether to sever all their security ties with the strategically important country.

More than 2,600 Western troops – mostly U.S. and French – are currently in Niger. The decision to retain a military presence, while suspending some forms of financial aid, is a sign that Western governments are keenly aware of their geopolitical interests in West Africa. They recognize that a troop withdrawal would leave a security vacuum that Russia could swiftly fill, with troops from Moscow’s Wagner Group already heavily involved in combat operations in neighbouring Mali.


The result has been a mixed-signals response to the coup. Global Affairs Canada announced on Aug. 5 that it was freezing its bilateral development aid to Niger’s government. But this aid is relatively small, amounting to less than $3-million last year. At the same time, the department is refusing to describe the situation as a coup. Instead it calls it an “attempted coup” – an increasingly inaccurate term, since the military junta has continued to entrench its rule after seizing power.

West African bloc says ‘D-Day’ set for possible Niger intervention

Niger’s neighbours running out of options as defence chiefs meet to discuss potential military force

By avoiding a coup declaration, the department makes it politically easier for Canada to keep its troops in Niger. For the past decade, as many as 50 Canadian soldiers have been deployed to Niger annually to train the national army in counterterrorism operations, under a program known as Operation NABERIUS. Fewer than 10 Canadian soldiers were stationed in Niger when the army seized power, and they remain there today, officials say.

“At this time, there is no change to the number of members in Niger mentioned earlier,” National Defence spokesperson Andrew McKelvey told The Globe and Mail by e-mail on Friday.

“We continue to monitor the evolving situation in Niger, and the continued viability of Operation NABERIUS, as with all operations, is dependent on Government of Canada direction,” he said.

The United States, similarly, is still calling it an “attempted coup” rather than a coup. This is because, under its own laws, the U.S. government is strictly prohibited from providing a wide range of aid programs to any country where a coup has occurred. (Canada’s laws on development assistance are vaguer and looser on this.)

Most Western countries, despite their democratic rhetoric, have maintained good relations with many of Africa’s most authoritarian regimes. African politicians and military commanders, recognizing this reality, have become cynical about the pro-democracy statements of their Western allies. This, in turn, has meant that coup leaders are often undeterred.

Canada, for example, has continued to maintain ties with authoritarian rulers in countries such as Uganda and Rwanda. The United States has close relations with autocrats in oil-rich regimes in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and elsewhere.

Despite the U.S. law that prohibits aid to juntas that seize power in coups, the United States continued to support Burkina Faso’s participation in the Flintlock military training exercise in West Africa this year, even after the latest coups in that country.

The African Union has been similarly equivocal about how to respond to coups. It allowed Zimbabwe to remain in the organization after its military coup in 2017, even though AU rules require the suspension of such countries. Last week it reportedly rejected a proposed intervention in Niger by the West African bloc ECOWAS, which has threatened to send troops to restore civilian rule.

The reluctance to disengage from Niger’s new junta might be partly in hopes that a reversal of the coup could eventually be negotiated. Talks between the regime and a visiting ECOWAS delegation were held on Saturday for the first time, and a new U.S. ambassador arrived in Niger on the weekend.

But the refusal to pull out of Niger also reflects the West’s heavy investment in military training and development aid in the country over the past decade. “From an American perspective, it does seem that maintaining good relations with the military leaders they know well is the top priority,” said Chris Roberts, an expert on African military issues at the University of Calgary.

The United States still maintains an expensive military base in the northern Niger city of Agadez, where it deploys a drone fleet for counterterrorism operations in the wider region. After losing access to neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso in the wake of the coups in both countries, Western military officials see Niger as the best-situated site for pursuing Islamist insurgent groups across the Sahel region.

As for Canada’s policy in Niger, it might be taking its cue from the United States or France, Mr. Roberts said. In crises across Africa in recent months, the Canadian response has been “haphazard,” showing a lack of strategic leadership and resource deployment, Mr. Roberts said.

“This year illustrated again the urgent need for Canada to take Africa more seriously and reduce reliance on American or French leadership,” he told The Globe, citing the “huge regional and global implications” of the Niger crisis.

This Thread is for Legends......which one of these Spoons is the GOAT in homes of Nigerian families of the 80, 90s and maybe 2000s.

We need Legendary engagements...not for indomie generation.

accordadoga25:
Hehehehe...

That 3rd class graduate of PHILOSOPHY would have been a disgrace to Nigeria abroad with his tiny voice and upper iweka accent.

Can you compare upper iweka accent to city boy's Chicago accent?

Pigs tried to package Samyong as Samsung for us but we didn't buy. That thing really pained them.

BlackAdam65:
The guy that sold it to you does he have a black one I really need a black cat

MTNnews:
It amazes me when I see foolish igbos advice other tribes to focus of their regions.

Even your foolish Igbo father and forefathers never focused on their own land talk more of the multitude of fools Igbo now groom on social media poking their nose into affairs of other regions.








I will take you fools seriously when you quote your igbos kinsmen n correct n lampoon them the way you fools think you can to other tribe when they paid your wretched Igbo soul in same of thread you open daily.

helinues:
They always get too emotional whenever they hear the word Biafra which the opportunists amongst them always take an advantage on.

You know GEJ 2015 election pain loss brought Kanu/Ipob to the limelight cos the narration was quickly changed from election loss to Biafra struggle. Kanu held a protest in support of one Nigeria in UK when GEJ was in power now.

No be that same 2015 election loss dey cause sit at home till today?

Zxcvbnmghtr:
Wike is a very interesting man. He has become the spotlight again like when he was Governor.

It's going to be another exciting episode. Am rest assured that Wike is going to deliver goodness. So help him God.

I am ready to defend my administration – Ortom

Former Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, says he is ready to make himself available to respond to issues bordering on his administration whenever the need arises.

Ortom, who lost his bid for a Senatorial seat on the Peoples Democratic Party said this in a statement by his Media Aide, Mr Terver Akase, on Wednesday, in Makurdi, the state capital.

“I am capable of responding to the issues being raised against me and other officials of my government and I have always made known my belief in the rule of law.

“I am ready to make myself available to respond to issues bordering on my administration whenever the need arises,” Ortom said

Ortom appreciated concerns expressed by different people over his alleged harassment through petitions to anti-graft agencies, as well as arrests of his appointees and impoundment of his vehicles.

The former governor also called for calm and urged those making statements regarding the situation to exercise restraint and not to heat up the polity.

KingAzubuike:
This shit ain't hygienic one bit. Na typhoid go kill you.

phemmyfour:
Put it under microscopic view and fear will catch you

Those who drank from this refrigerator are not only legends, but wisdom filled.....and the water that comes from this refrigerator is so refreshing that ......I fill the urge to order for this unique water reservoir if it is possible. I crave for this water with its awesome taste...at this point am missing my grandmother.

Share your experience...

AuschwitzPrefec:
Just remember who drew first blood before you begin cry to UN,EU, NATO, Israel , AU and the Vatican

Benjaniblinks:

With Tinibu as the president, Africa (Nigeria) will be the first to land on Mars