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In summary,be the best you can be, never lose focus and at the end you will stand out among your contemporaries for the rest of your life.

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has announced automatic employment to 12 first class graduates of the Tai Solarin University of Education, TASUED.
Governor Amosun announced this, on Saturday, while speaking at the 6th and 7th Convocation and 10th anniversary ceremony of the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
He added that his administration was ready and committed to doing all that is necessary to make certificates of higher institutions in Ogun State, the most sought-after in Nigeria.
The governor noted that the greatest legacy anyone can bequeath to the coming generation is a good education adding that “it is easier to govern an enlightened and educated populace.”
Governor Amosun also promised to continue with his administration’s commitment to providing top notch facilities in tertiary institutions in Ogun State.
The governor said his administration will continue to build more hostels of residence and lecture rooms in order to ensure better learning conditions and forestall negative indoctrination of the students.
The Ogun State governor also enjoined the graduands to be aware of the responsibility they now have to the society as a whole.
“I charge you all to remember that you are now transitioning into shapers of other destinies as you go into the world to contribute your quota. It is your responsibility as teachers to ensure that the younger people put in your trust are well developed both in character and learning.
“Moreover, I want to charge you to be responsible, industrious, dependable and humble. You should ensure that you are good ambassadors of this great citadel of learning in all you do.
“You should also comport yourselves with dignity in whatever situation life may place you and in a manner befitting of products of the foremost University of education in Nigeria,” Governor Amosun said.
Speaking earlier, the Vice-chancellor of TASUED, Mrs. Oluyemisi Obilade noted that the institution was the first University of Education in Nigeria, the 2nd in Africa and the 8th in the world adding that its vision was "to be a one-stop shop for all educational needs and preferred University of education globally."
Obilade also noted that 5,970 graduands were being conferred with First degrees, out of which, twelve (12) graduated with First class Honours while adding that nothing has added more glamour to the school's 10th anniversary than the quality of individuals who were honoured with honorary doctorate degrees at the event.
The event witnessed the conferment of honorary doctorate degrees to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria; late Chief Mrs. HID Awolowo and
Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest
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Below is the detail I got on Nairaland about a PageOmni Technology :

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nkcares:
guys, has anyone gotten a good job from this site, jiji ng com? someone referred me to the site but all their job posts there looks fishy. On several vacancies i checked, They provide a phone number to send your name and qualification to instead of an email address that one could send a CV.
Its really bad professionalism to me. So am skeptical that those jobs are truly what they are. they might be all these healthy living products marketers hiding behind bank jobs advert just to get one to apply.

You don't need to doubt . It's a platform for MLM and other GNLD association to source for their marketers. Unfortunately, these people normally disguise as other professional jobs like Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing etcetera. For doubting Thomas, here is one of the researches I made on job advert for Customer service /call centre:

Check the link below:

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This is the number of the job poster on : 08169714685 and I used this number to search if I could get info on Facebook. The result from Facebook revealed that this person is the founder of Golden Care Resources(nutritionist). This is pure GNLD alike.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mallam Abubakar Malami and the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, to resign their positions. According to the party, Malami misled the INEC into arriving at an “unconstitutional decision” to allow the All Progressives Congress (APC) to substitute its candidate in the inconclusive Kogi State governorship election. Briefing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the party was shocked that INEC, a supposedly independent electoral umpire could succumb to the antics of the APC by following the “unlawful directive” of an obviously partisan AGF to substitute a candidate in the middle of the ballot process. Metuh said, “We are all aware that the two legal documents guiding INEC in the conduct of elections; the Constitution and the Electoral Act, have provisions for electoral exigencies as well as empower the electoral body to fully take responsibility for any of its actions or inactions without undue interference from any quarters whatsoever. “We are therefore at a loss as to which sections of these two relevant laws, INEC and the AGF relied on in arriving at their bizarre decision to substitute a dead candidate in an on-going election even after the timelines for such has elapsed under all the rules. “INEC as a statutory body has the full complements of technical hands in its legal department to advice it appropriately and we wonder why it had to wait for directives from the AGF, an external party, if not for partisan and subjective interest. “Consequently, the PDP rejects in its entirety, this brazen move by the APC and INEC to circumvent the laws and ambush the yet-to- be concluded election by introducing a practice that is completely alien to the constitution and the electoral act. “The clear implication of this action of the AGF and INEC is that the APC would be fielding two different governorship candidates in the ongoing Kogi election, meaning that INEC would be transferring votes cast for late Prince Abubakar Audu to another candidate, scenarios that have no place in the constitution of the land. “Whereas the PDP, in honour of the sanctity of human life and respect for the dead, had since Sunday refrained from making comments on the conduct of the election, we can no longer maintain such in the face of the barefaced attack on our democracy. “This INEC under the leadership of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has shown itself as partisan, morally bankrupt and obviously incapable of conducting a credible election within our laws. “In view of the foregoing therefore, the PDP demands an immediate resignation of the INEC Chairman, as the nation’s democracy cannot afford to be left in the hands of an electoral umpire that cannot exert its independence and the sanctity of the electoral process.” As a result of the development, the party has summoned an emergency national caucus meeting for Wednesday, to enable it take a decision on what it described as “threat to democracy.” thenationonlineng.net/pdp-asks-agf-inec-chairman-to-resign-over-kogi-poll/

The Independent National
Electoral Committee has
asked the All Progressives
Congress to fill the vacuum
created by the death of its
Kogi State governorship
election candidate, Abubakar
Audu, in order to continue
with supplementary election.
Mr. Audu died just as INEC
was collating the results of
the November 21 election, in
which the late APC candidate
was leading.
In a statement signed by the
secretary to the commission,
Augusta Ogakwu, on Monday,
INEC announced it would
allow the conclusion of the
election process by
conducting supplementary
election in the remaining 91
polling units where election
was cancelled.
The supplementary election
will hold December 5, INEC
announced.

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The incumbent governor of Kogi State and
candidate of the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) Capt. Idris Wada has called his
closest rival and winner of the just
concluded election, Prince Abubakar Audu
congratulating him on his victory.
A media aide to Audu, Odaudu Minister
confirmed to Nigerian Times that Wada
called Audu while the collation of results
was still in progress.
Meanwhile the process was not without its
hitches as reports of violence, ballot
snatching, over voting and non-use of card
readers led to cancellation of votes in many
units. The areas affected, according to
reports included Dekina, Wada’s local
government area, Okene, Okehi, Agali and
Adavi. Over 49,000 votes were voided with
Dekina alone accounting for over 17,000 of
the voided votes.
This is the complete result from all the
Local Government Areas.
IBAJI LGA
Collation Officer- Dr. Ahmed Alfa
No of Reg.Voters-66563
No of Accred Voters-24817
Results: APC-11427, LP-31,PDP-10572
TVC-23409
DEKINA LGA
LGA
No of Reg.Voters-141963
No of Accred Voters-52344
Results: APC-20994,LP-98,PDP-21602
TVC-46955
Rejected Votes:3017
BASSA LGA
Collation Officer- Mr. Dickson
No of Reg.Voters-51526
No of Accredited Voters-24663
Results: APC-11815, LP-39, PDP-9258
TVC-23226
Rejected Votes: 1524
IGALAMELA LGA
Collation Officer- Dr.Joseph
No of Reg.Voters-54266
No of Accredited Voters-20953
Results: APC-9003, LP-29,PDP-8683
TVC-19733
OLAMABORO LGA
Collation Officer- Dr.Onoja
No of Reg.Voters-71756
No of Accredited Voters-24429
Results: APC-13227,LP-13,PDP-8202
TVC-23267
Rejected Votes:1192
ANKPA LGA
Collation Officer- Dr.Jude.E
No of Reg.Voters- 119556
No of Accredited Voters-45967
Results: APC-22983,LP-54,PDP-14731
TVC-40692
Rejected Votes: 1960
OFU LGA
Collation Officer- Dr.Benson.A
No of Reg.Voters- 76936
No of Accredited Voters-32311
Results: APC-16800, LP-20,PDP-10997
Total Vote Cast-30631
Rejected Vote-1946
OMALA LGA
Collation Officer- Dr.Innocent.O
No of Reg.Voters- 53510
No of Accredited Voters-22545
Results: APC-9228, LP-017,PDP-10517
Total Vote Cast-21125
Rejected Vote-950
IDAH LGA
Collation Officer- Dr. Babatunde Abdulrauf
No of Reg.Voters- 48762
No of Accredited Voters-21471
Results: APC-11779, LP-24, PDP-6952
Total Vote Cast-20224
Rejected Vote-951
YAGBA EAST LGA
Collation Officer- Dr. Samuel
No of Reg.Voters-35322
No of Accredited Voters-13921
Results: APC-7129, LP-16, PDP-5368
Total Vote Cast-13358
Rejected Vote-516
YAGBA WEST LGA
Collation Officer- Shuaibu Moses
No of Reg.Voters-35966
No of Accredited Voters-15902
Results: APC-7930, LP-13, PDP-7021
Total Vote Cast-15,705
Rejected Vote-529
IJUMU LGA
Collation Officer- Ebenezer Lawal
No of Reg Voters- 46819
No of Accredited Voters-18199
Results: APC-9958, LP-251, PDP-6040
Total Vote Cast-17407
Rejected Vote-707
AJAOKUTA LGA
Collation Officer- Abdulwahab Raji
Reg Voters-52,441 Accrtd Voters-17,466
Results: APC-8,581, LP-550, PDP-6,903
TVC-16,706
ADAVI LGA
Collation Officer- Suleiman A.
Reg Voters-85,127 Accredited Voters-30,993
Results: APC-15,686, LP-1,318, PDP-11,902
TVC-30,060
OGORIMANGONGO LGA
Collation Officer – M.F Akorode.
Reg Voters-14,387 Accrtd Voters-4,820
Results: APC-1,931, LP-03, PDP-2,601
KOGI K.K LGA
Collation Officer- Rotimi Ajayi
No of Reg Voters- 45817
No of Accredited Voters-21834
Results: APC-10426, LP-10, PDP-9316
Total Vote Cast -20,533,
Rejected Vote: 517
OKEHI LGA
Returning Officer – Abdulkarim O.
PU – 176
Reg Voters-69,114 Accrtd Voters-24,645
Party Result: APC-10,170, LP-4,272,
PDP-8,504

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vikktor:
Plz somebody shld hlp me with direction to the actual location FROM LEKKI PHASE 1 GATE: is it trekkable from the entries gate or I have to bike or enter shuttle. thnks for ur direction in advance.[/color]P

You are to board a shuttle to Jeremiah Ugwu from Lekki Phase 1 gate.

If you're interested simply go there even without
invitation(u can gatecrash). Prepare for simple
maths and customer service questions for the
aptitude test vis-a-vis typing skills test

*Note the following:
Date:Monday 23RD Nov,2015.
Time :9am
Venue: Plot 4, Jeremiah Ugwu Street, Lekki Phase 1,Lagos.
Salary :40,000naira.

If you're interested simply go there even without invitation(u can gatecrash). Prepare for simple maths and customer service questions for the aptitude test vis-a-vis typing skills test

dombosco:
Dear Candidate,be informed that you have been invited for a test with regards to your application as a CSR with CCSNL. Date:Monday 23RD Nov, 2015. Time -9am Venue: Plot 4, Jeremiah Ugwu Street, Lekki Phase 1,Lagos. Kindly note that the monthly salary for the position is 40,000naira. CCSNL


I got that this evening after sending my CV to the email .

Anyone to tell me what to expect please

Prepare for aptitude test and interview .If you are successful afterwards, you would be trained for two weeks as a CSR. Good luck.

Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor
Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo has no reason
to regret his preference of President
Muhammadu Buhari over Dr Goodluck Jonathan
on the driver’s seat of the Nigerian economy.
In a lecture he delivered in Lagos yesterday at
third anniversary of RealNews magazine, the
former CBN offers tips on how to get the
economy on track
The timing of this lecture is auspicious –
coming in the sixth month after the
inauguration of a new administration, and also
with a new federal cabinet now in place.
Before the government rolls out its full
agenda, this is a good time to begin our
citizen duty of joining the ever continuous
discourse on the economy. Our focus for now
shall be pre-emptive and provocative – to
challenge the Buhari/APC regime not only to
demonstrate that it can manage the economy
better than the PDP but also that it can lay
the foundation for sustainably shared
prosperity in a post-oil economy.
Let me make three quick points to provide
some context to our discourse. First, I
supported President Muhammadu Buhari over
Jonathan not because I was convinced about
the credibility of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) manifesto (and I said so in
my article in January this year) but for three
reasons. I was convinced that the last
economic team was bankrupting the economy
and had no clue as to how to fix it. Second,
PMB is the first president of Nigeria under a
democracy to have seriously desired the job
and struggled for it for over 12 years. To me
therefore, he must have a few points to
prove, and I was willing to bet on a man who
purposefully wanted the job than otherwise.
Third, I was convinced that it would be in the
enlightened self-interest of the APC, once in
power to do their utmost to keep power by
delivering on the economy unlike the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) which had taken
power for granted. I am still confident that
PMB can deliver change (although as I had
indicated in my article in January, I didn’t
believe that any of the two parties could
deliver on their manifesto) but he and his
team now need to run at the speed of a 1000
kilometre per hour. We must support them to
succeed by contributing when we can, and
criticising when we must -tough love! I am
enjoying my status as ‘an independent’ (I
don’t belong to APC or PDP) and I therefore
have the liberty to say it as I see it from the
balcony!
Second, I am happy that the ministers are
now in place, and I believe the president has
assembled a team of eminently qualified and
experienced Nigerians. A more important
point is that it is a team of ‘believers’ – who
share in the mission and vision of APC. So,
now that a strong team of ‘believers’ is in
place, there can be no excuses!
Furthermore, I read in the media that the Vice
President, Prof. Osinbajo indicated that he is
“responsible for the economy”, and I believe
President Buhari deserves great
commendation for this fundamental
delegation. No question, the buck stops on
Mr. President’s table.
However, as I argued in my article published
January this year – “Buhari vs Jonathan:
Beyond the election”, I believe the intention
of our constitution is that the vice president
should be the ‘coordinating minister of the
economy’. Besides being the chair of the
National Economic Council (NEC), our laws
make the vice president chair of major
economic institutions of the Federal
Government. Thus, once a president selects
his deputy, we should begin to have some
ideas about the possible direction of
economic policy akin to a party in the United
Kingdom (UK) naming its Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Ours is a peculiar institutional
design but to the best of my knowledge,
these provisions have been undermined in the
past (I have thoughts on possible amendment
to the Constitution so that vice presidents
are not automatic successors to the
president in case of ‘accident’ and to shield
the office from the distractions of day-to-day
politics to focus on the economy and no
more). President Buhari has repeatedly stated
his focus on “re-building” our institutions, and
where else to begin the process of
systematic dialogue on the economy than the
strengthening of institutions for doing so
within government? There are other
institutional structures it must create/
strengthen to consolidate and sharpen what
Nigeria desperately needs now: a War Room
on the Economy!
The rest of the paper is organised as follows:
In section II, we summarise a caricature of
the baseline statistics on the economy that
PDP bequeathed but which APC/PMB must
improve upon. Section III shows that the ‘old’
Buharinomics of command and control is a
tried and failed policy and would not work
now. In Section IV, we hint at a few issues
the new Buharinomics must take cognisance
of if it hopes to build a sustainable, shared
prosperity for Nigeria. We conclude in Section
V.
What’s APC/Buhari government trying to
change?
Every team serious about ‘change’ starts with
a clear identification of the baseline from
which it measures deviations/progress.
Nigeria has had 16 uninterrupted years of
democracy with the PDP controlling the
federal government as well as majority of the
states. APC is now in charge at both the
centre and majority of the states. A minimum
standard for measuring ‘change’ is the extent
to which APC government beats the record of
the PDP in measurable terms. As the saying
goes, ‘if you can’t measure it, you can’t
improve/change it!’
The Federal Government must strengthen the
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and
preserve its independence to produce and
publish credible national statistics. It needs
serious funding. I really wish our policy
makers can be a little less careless or casual
about the use of official statistics. I criticised
the last government for relying on ‘estimates’
by World Bank official instead of the NBS
statistics. When I hear the narrative so far in
the media by the new government regarding
the economy, I take it largely as the kind of
‘usual propaganda’ new officials deploy to
show that their predecessors “did nothing”
and therefore lay the ground for claiming that
they are “doing everything for the first time in
our history”.
Fortunately also, there are many people as
well taking a hard look at the numbers and
recording scores. At AfriHeritage, we are
developing a template for measuring
government performance. As Nigeria has
largely evolved into a two party state in a
democracy, I prefer to frame the discourse on
the baseline as ‘PDP’s legacy and the APC’s
challenge’!
Since it is the practice to blame the PDP for
every ill that befell our country in the last 16
years (and there are many of them) it is also
fair to credit them with the positive ones.
According to data from NBS, one outstanding
legacy of the PDP is that in 16 years it held
sway, it more than doubled the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) of Nigeria (indeed
with average year-on-year GDP growth rate in
excess of six per cent over the past 12 years,
the GDP actually doubled within the last 12
years. It met average annual growth rate of
about two per cent and raised it to six –
seven per cent, led by the non-oil sector. Yes,
non-oil sector, and the “diversification”
reported in the recently re-based GDP
happened within the last 16 years. Will the
economy more than double in the next 12
years under the APC? For me, if only the APC
can double the size of GDP from about $550
billion to $1.1 trillion in 12 -16 years and
further half the poverty index, Nigeria will
indeed be on course to be one of the largest
10 economies in the world by the end of this
century.
As at 1999 when the PDP came to power,
Nigeria was largely a pariah state still lucky to
have survived as one indivisible sovereign,
especially in the context of the struggle by
NADECO (National Democratic Coalition) and
restiveness in many parts of the country. On
corruption, Transparency International (TI)
scored it 1.6 out of 10 and ranked 98 out of
99 countries in 1999. Nigeria was listed
among four countries that were non-
compliant on the anti-money laundering rules
by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
We could not service our external debt and
relied on stressful rescheduling, with all the
intrusive donor conditionalities. Poverty was
estimated at 70 per cent and unemployment
at nearly 20 per cent. The 1990s will go down
in our economic history as the decade of
stagnation: when per capita income growth
was zero. Average oil price in May 1999 when
President Olusegun Obasanjo took over was
$15.24 while stock of reserves was about $5
billion.
After 16 years, several challenges remain and
some have even worsened (especially
insecurity). Although President Jonathan’s
regime had the worst economic management
relative to the resources at its disposal, it
must be stressed that tremendous progress
was made in the aggregate 16 years of PDP
government. Yes, it should have left more
than $100 billion in reserves but left only $30
billion (still about six times of what it met).
We also wish that Jonathan’s team did not
leave Nigeria with unprecedented rate of debt
accumulation. But, according to statistics
from NBS, the PDP handed over a $550
billion economy (largest in Africa and 26th in
the world), with 7.5 per cent unemployment
rate (better than European Union, France,
Sweden and Belgium among others, although
the underemployment figure is much higher);
32 per cent poverty rate (as claimed by the
former Finance Minister, or 61 per cent? NBS
needs to clarify this claim); a stock of
reserves of $30 billion; GDP growth rate
averaging six per cent over the last 12 years;
a relatively more diversified economy, with
Information Communication Technology (ICT)
penetration from 0.2 per cent to over 60 per
cent and a new contributory pension scheme
now with trillions of naira in pension fund.
Our external debt is down, although the total
debt stock is escalating. Our Gini coefficient
(degree of inequality) is not different from
China’s. Nigeria has consolidated and stronger
banking system that currently finances both
government debt and the private sector, with
a relatively vibrant capital market. The
capitalisation of the Nigerian stock exchange
grew from less than N1 trillion to N12 trillion
as at handover. For the first time, Nigerian
economy is now rated by credit rating
agencies (Fitch, and Standard and Poor’s).
Even on corruption perception, Nigeria is far
better today than in 1999, and PDP created
the two major anti-corruption agencies –
ICPC (Independent Corrupt Practices and
Miscellaneous Offenses Commission) and
EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission ), and as at 2014, TI scored
Nigeria 2.7 and ranked 136 out of 175
countries. The PDP secured debt relief for
Nigeria, thereby relieving the country from the
stranglehold of the IMF/World Bank policy
conditionalities. The APC does not have to
negotiate with Washington on many economic
policies. The list is long. The point therefore
is that despite the fall in oil price, APC is
starting from a much stronger base than PDP
did in 1999 and the challenge now is to do far
better. In the coming years, Nigerians will be
asking the APC to show us their figures!
Body language and investors’ confidence
Another minor point relates to
communication and body language that jolts
the market and undermines confidence in the
monetary and financial system. When it was
widely publicised on two different occasions
within three months that “presidency directs
CBN to …”, it got many players in the
economy seriously worried. For sure, the CBN
is not a government unto itself, and despite
the statutory ‘autonomy’ or ‘independence’ of
the bank, it must work closely with the
Presidency and economic agencies to
coordinate macroeconomic policy. Everyone
knows that the CBN or Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) cannot survive
without the support and active collaboration
with the Presidency but no one wants to hear
that the President has directed INEC on how
to conduct an election. There is a reason the
APC promised in its manifesto to ensure CBN
independence. A central reason is to give the
market confidence that the CBN will always
act professionally and independently to
ensure price and financial stability. It is to
avoid the Africa’s Idi Amin phenomenon
whereby the government of the day may
‘direct’ the CBN to ‘print’ money or to take
other steps injurious to the economy because
it wants to retain power. When the market
knows or believes that the apex bank is
merely an extension of the presidency and
takes daily ‘directives’ from there, the bank
loses credibility and its Monetary Policy
Committee (MPC) meetings become
meaningless. My fear is the precedence: we
can never imagine how far future presidents
can go in ‘directing’ the central bank on what
to do with our commonwealth.

thenationonlineng.net/can-a-new-buharinomics-save-nigeria/

The top hierarchy of the troops
combating Boko Haram in North East
Nigeria yesterday denied media reports
detailing how some 105 soldiers of the
country’s army suddenly went missing
after a battle with terrorists in Borno
State.
Theater commander of the Lafiya Dole
counter-insurgency operation, Major
General Yushau Abubakar, said though
troops of the 157 Battalion in border
communities of Borno had recently come
under heavy attacks from Boko Haram,
he had not received any reports from
field commanders that soldiers
numbering up to 105 soldiers were
unaccounted for.
Major General Abubakar, who made this
known at a press conference he jointly
granted by the air component of the
Operation Lafiya Dole, Air Commodore
Dayo Amao, argued that his troops were
fully on ground and in control.
“We captured and held Gudumbal when
our troops went there on raid and
clearance of camps of Boko Haram. Of
course we were attacked by Boko Haram
but we repelled the attack. We don’t
have any report of missing soldiers so
far. As far as we’re concerned, the
operation is still ongoing. In fact, I spoke
with the OC (officer in charge) this
morning and all I can tell you is that our
troops are holding the ground,” he said.
On the gains made over the disintegrated
Boko Haram, the theater commander
said desperate Boko Haram terrorists
who may have obviously run out food
supply had resorted to sending their
families to IDP camps where they could
easily be fed, while some of them would
later join them under the guise of being
displaced persons.
“Desperate Boko Haram men are now
pushing their families to the IDPs camps
in Maiduguri and subsequently attempt to
enter the city through various means;
some of them have been arrested while
attempting to enter the state capital.
This is because the insurgents’ logistics
including foods supplies and fuel have
been degraded.”
He said that, in the last one month, the
army had made several arrests including
the mastermind of the ambush on the
Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur
Buratai, in mid-September when the army
chief was going towards Gamboru.
“He has been arrested in Matari village in
Yobe State,” he said.
General Yushau, who also revealed that
another Boko Haram suspect, John
Trankil, was arrested on November 14 at
Kasuwar Shanu in Maiduguri by the
troops of the Garrison Command, is a
Chadian. He said the suspect entered
the city through Njimtilo axis with a
vehicle laden with improvised explosive
devices.
Source:
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"If not for Awolowo's free education, I won't be here tonight. I'm standing on the legacy of Awolowo. This legacy is not for sale. That legacy cannot be bought by men."

"If not for Awolowo's free education, I won't be here tonight. I'm standing on the legacy of Awolowo. This legacy is not for sale. That legacy cannot be bought by men,"

“This trend is an outright breach of the
dignity of the human person and of
labour, negates the concepts of decent
work agenda of the International Labour
Organisation (ILO), which Nigeria is a
member.’’

The Presiding Pastor of Latter Rain Assembly,
Lagos State, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Tuesday,
said that the legacies of Papa Obafemi Awolowo
are not for sale for politicians.
Bakare stated this during a short exhortation at a
'Service of Thanksgiving: Praise and Worship,'
held at the Ikenne home of the Awolowos in
honour of the matriarch of the Awolowo's
dynasty, Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo.
The service was attended by the wife of the
vice-president, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo; wife of the
governor of Ogun State, Mrs. Funso Amosun;
Pastor of Trinity Church, Lagos, Ituah Ighodalo;
Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Diocesan
Bishop of Remoland, The Right Reverend Olusina
Fape, among other dignitaries.
Bakare said he would have been a carpenter if
not for the free education policy of Chief
Awolowo when he was the Premier of the
Western region.
"If not for Awolowo's free education, I won't be
here tonight. I'm standing on the legacy of
Awolowo. This legacy is not for sale. That legacy
cannot be bought by men," Bakare said.
He urged the family to uphold the legacies of
both Papa and Mama for posterity sake.
Pastor Bakare, who spoke on the theme: 'The
making of a God's Jewels,' taking his text from
Malachi 3 vs 16-18, described Chief Awolowo as
a heroine of an uncommon faith, a paragon of
beauty and a woman of courage.
He noted that Mrs Awolowo had gone through
different challenges in life and lived to the ripe
age because of her steadfastness and
determination to overcome difficult times.
He added that she merited being called a 'jewel
of inestimable value' because she feared God
and served her Maker diligently till the very end.
The cleric, who stated that Mrs Awolowo "fought
a good fight and finished her course," urged the
family to continue to sustain her legacies.
Pastor Bakare said that her life ended well.
The first Bible reading at the service was read
by Ambassador Olatokunbo Awolowo Dosumu,
while the second was read by Funke Awolowo.
There were songs of ministrations by
different groups which included Evangelist Funmi
Aragbaiye, Trinity Church choir, Blossom and
Blessed and the Chigozie and the Zion Voices, to
the delight of the gathering.
Giving the vote of thanks, Reverend Omotola
Oyediran appreciated all the ministers of God for
upholding the families with prayers and promised
that the Awolowo's legacies would be sustained.
www.tribuneonlineng.com/i-would-have-been-a-carpenter-if-not-for-awo-says-pastor-tunde-bakare

The President of the Senate, Sen. Bukola Saraki, has said that no amount of intimidation will stop the assembly from investigating the alleged N25 billion Treasury Single Account (TSA) fraud. Saraki was reacting to a motion moved by Sen. Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi West) on Tuesday over a newspaper article allegedly blackmailing the Senate for pointing out the alleged fraud. He said the assembly would not relent in carrying out its constitutional duties, including pointing out any action that would be detrimental to Nigerians. “No amount of either blackmail or intimidation will stop us from doing the work we have to do. “We have a responsibility here to ensure that there are no leakages in government funds and if there are, we will call the attention of the public and do whatever it takes to salvage the situation; it is our responsibility. “ The fact about the TSA will come out and everybody will have opportunity before the committee to state the fact, the facts will speak for themselves,’’ he said. Saraki said the assembly would expedite action on the inauguration of Standing Committees to enable it to begin its oversight function fully. Earlier, Melaye said his attention was drawn to the write-up accusing the Senate of working against President Muhammadu Buhari’s effort to implement TSA. He expressed concern that the writer could conceive such an idea in spite of the National Assembly’s resolve to work with Buhari in fighting corruption. Melaye recalled that it was the assembly’s stand on the alleged TSA fraud that led SystemSpecs to refund the one per cent it collected from mopped up funds to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). “The writer said we are against the change agenda of Mr President because we raised the abnormality going on with the implementation of the TSA. “We did not at any time in this Hallowed Chamber implicate President Muhammadu Buhari of being involved in TSA fraud. “ We will not stop carrying out our legislative duties for fear of being blackmailed. “The motion moved last week had two prayers. “The first thing we did was to thank Mr President and commend him for the implementation of the TSA and for anyone to say the Senate is fighting Mr. President is myopic, parochial and unacceptable. “I have a letter here that I am going to lay with this paper, written by the Director, Banking and Payment of CBN to the Managing Director of SystemSpecs. “The CBN categorically stated that they should remit the one per cent that they collected. “I also have a letter here by the managing director of that company to the Accountant General of the Federation and the Governor of CBN that have completely buttressed and elicited our decision last week. “ So for people to blackmail us as irresponsible, it is not acceptable to me and the Senate. “Never would we allow blackmail and political and economic bigots to destroy the people. We are for the people and we will stand in defence of public interest,’’ he said. The write-up and letters cited by Melaye were referred to the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition to be returned to Senate in one week. The Senate had on November 11 raised alarm over alleged payment of N25 billion to one e- collection firm, REMITA, in one day as one per cent of monies transferred to TSA. It also directed its Committee on Finance, Banking and other Financial Institutions and Public Accounts to carry out a holistic investigation into the matter and report back in two weeks. thenationonlineng.net/saraki-vows-to-continue-probe-of-alleged-tsa-fraud/

It's always ideal to give a range base on your research. How would they know the amount that is fair to you? . Take into cognizance a situation whereby an applicant gives a range and their pay falls within. Don't you think the applicant is better of compared to who said they should know the fair amount. The HR folks actually knew the pay but it an applicant job to state the pay. Just saying this because of the sensitivity of interviews nowadays.

The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad ( RRS) of the Lagos Police Command, in the wee hours of today arrested three persons for traffic robbery in Oshodi area of Lagos , Southwest Nigeria. The robbery suspects , Adekunle Mustapha, 21; Popoola Olumide , 20 and Femi Amusa, 20 , were arrested following the tip off from their victim , Olasunkanmi Oyelakin , who alerted the Police that his blackberry phone was stolen by the suspects during early morning traffic around Bolade , Oshodi. The victim recounted his ordeals to the Police: “ I was on my way to Ajah at about 6: 30 a. m, I saw Adekunle Mustapha passed by the bus I boarded. Unknown to me , he was monitoring me . A few minutes later, I noticed a missed call on my phone , and as I brought out the phone , Mustapha took the phone from me through the bus window and ran away . Because there was traffic , I made no attempt to struggle with him , but got down from the nearest bus-stop and I began to monitor him . I noticed that he had regrouped with his friends and one of them was telling him to hand over the phone he stole from me . “ I knew I couldn’ t handle the three of them all alone, so I informed the RRS operatives who followed me down to the place where he was arrested” , Oyelakin explained The visibly distraught Mustapha said that he was driven by frustration to steal the handset from him . “ I am a bus conductor in Oshodi. I am from Ibadan and a secondary school dropout . I sleep in Ojuwoye , Mushin . I am an ex – convict . I don ’t want to go to prison again. Government should please have mercy on me . I was frustrated into traffic robbery . I won ’ t do it again ” , he pleaded . Mustapha’ s accomplices , Popoola Olawale and Femi Amusa said that although they saw Mustapha in Oshodi regularly, they were also bus conductors and not traffic robbers . They added that they were in Lagos to make money to buy their working tools having completed their apprenticeship . In another development , RRS has recovered a locally made gun with a cartridge in Surulere. The gun was recovered about 2: 00 a. m. by RRS man on a regular patrol of Iganmu Bridge by Brewery , Surulere. The policeman had spotted three men standing in a suspicious manner . The men on sighting the officer took to their heels. However , when a search was conducted on where the men were standing , a locally made short gun was found with an unspent cartridge. Confirming the story , Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Joe Offor said that the three suspects had been charged to court . www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/11/15/rrs-arrests-three-suspected-traffic-robbers/

LAGOS State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode
has forwarded to the Lagos State House of
Assembly for passage into law a bill titled, N25bn
Employment Trust Fund (ETF) Bill, even as he
proposes a five-year single tenure for the State
University, LASU Vice Chancellor through another
bill titled, Lagos State University (Amendment)
Bill 2015.
The ETF Bill is aimed at radically transforming
employment creation in the state with the
proposed N25bn to be spent over four years as a
support scheme for young entrepreneurs and
small businesses, while the bill on LASU among
other things, proposes. a single term of five
years for the vice-chancellor of the institution.
The two bills were sent to the House as
Executive Bills.
Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr.
Steve Ayorinde, made this known on Saturday in
a statement made available to newsmen, saying
that the draft of the bills had earlier been
approved by the State Executive Council during
its meeting on Wednesday.
Ayorinde said the LASU (Amendment) Bill 2015
was meant to serve as an improvement over the
two previous amendments in 1990 and 1992 with
the aim of finding a lasting solution to the
challenges that had plagued the state-owned
institution in recent years.
Ayorinde said the bill was proposing to amend
certain sections of the law to meet current
realities in line with best practices, adding that,
“it seeks to review the exercise of general
supervision over discipline in the university
imposed on the Vice-Chancellor and to propose a
single term of five years for the institution’s
Vice-Chancellor.”
According to him, the bill also seeks an
amendment that will make the appointment of
the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the
Governing Council the prerogative of the Visitor
in line with standard practice.
“Yet, it seeks an amendment to Section 36(1)
and (2) of the Law which deals with admission
policy to place the responsibility of determining
the minimum admission requirement on the
Senate of the university,” he said.
The information commissioner said Employment
Trust Fund Bill was in fulfillment of one of the
campaign promises of Governor Ambode, which
is aimed at injecting N25bn into job creation and
employment opportunities over a period of four
years.
The fund, according to him, will be administered
as soft loans to bona fide residents of the state
that desire facilities ranging from N100, 000 to
N1,000, 000, or more, as the case may be.
Ayorinde said the bill seeks the establishment of
the ETF to be modeled after the state’s Security
Trust Fund, pointing out that it was meant to be
funded through joint contributions from the state
government and the private sector and would be
administered through an independent Trust
backed by an efficient structure that would
disburse the funds.
www.tribuneonlineng.com/ambode-sends-n25bn-employment-trust-fund-bill-to-lagos-assembly

Human right activist, Femi Falana, has
described Edo State governor, Adams
Oshiomhole, as a special governor and one of
the best in the country.
Falana said Oshiomhole took over the
leadership of Edo State at a time its coffers
have been looted and dried up.
The Lagos lawyer, who spoke in Benin City,
Friday, at a colloquium to mark the seven
years anniversary Oshiomhole’s administration
in the state, said roads in Edo could be
compared to roads available in western world.
Falana, who served as moderator at the
event, said Oshiomhole has demonstrated
extra ordinary leadership in looking for money
in the rock to fix the state.
“When he assumed the mantle of leadership,
the expectations at home and abroad were
very high. Having been in the front of popular
struggle and led the Nigerian people against
systemic exploitation and corruption,
Nigerians were wondering what this social
critic was going to do.”
“It wasn’t easy because by the time he
assumed leadership, the economy was nose-
diving. The eight years before then, the
governors of this country particularly of this
state were all smiling to the bank.”
“Our comrade accepted the challenge and
look for water even in the rock. The road has
not been easy and the battle has been
though. Oshiomhole ranked as one of the
best in this country.”
thenationonlineng.net/oshiomhole-a-special-governor-falana/

The appointment of Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, erstwhile Governor of Lagos State, as the de facto Minister of Infrastructure by President Muhammadu Buhari is, to all intents, instructive. That office combines the functions of three previous ministries – Power, Works and Housing, each a handful in itself. As a result, analysts have conferred on him the status of a Super Minister thereby bringing to mind the years of Super Permanent Secretaries. As Governor, Nigerians took note of his urban renewal efforts in Lagos with his concept of a mega city based on a synergy between the government and the private sector. Through this process, he reclaimed most areas of the city everybody had written off as perennial slum. Oshodi, Mile 2 and Orile Iganmu through the provision of expanded road network and the ongoing railway system became places to go to. Fashola proved that the private sector can be carried along in the provision of infrastructure in places like Victoria Island, Ikoyi, the Lekki peninsula and the Epe area. The massive housing projects in these areas, the envisaged Eko Atlantic City, the planned Sea port and Trade Free Zone brought out the potentials of the private sector as an engine of development in a right political setting. In the power sector, he rolled out a multi-billion Lagos Energy City Project with a capacity for 130 megawatts of electricity. These few daring efforts at putting in place modern infrastructure in a city like Lagos may have recommended him to the president who is perceived to be committed to retrieving the nation’s infrastructure from its decayed status. Buhari wants him to replicate, nationwide, the magic he performed in Lagos. It can also be a public relations stunt considering the larger than life image of the former governor in the minds of most Nigerians. Whatever is the case, it is obvious, in our view, that the president appreciates the can-do spirit identifiable in the former governor, particularly his deft moves that converted the reluctance, if not lethargy, on the part of the private sector to do business with the public sector, in a collaborative way, to a profitable sought after deal setting activity. Can he do it? Only time will tell. In Lagos he was the chief executive, as minister, the buck stops on someone else’s desk. There will be challenges most of them political. Others will be how to deal with the disappointing performances in the power sector even with the unbundling of the public power institutions. The nation is said to have a 16 million housing deficit. What will be his policy in this direction and in particular the cost of land which is responsible for the near unaffordability of houses in urban areas? The federal roads across the country need the courage and political will of someone who will not be afraid to step on sensitive toes and take a very close look at some contracts that have only brought pain and anguish to hapless Nigerians. Fashola, it is our opinion that your road to accomplishing the tasks before you will be rough. But it is not for nothing that Nigerians, as one man, are commending President Buhari for his confidence in you. Get it clear, sir, failure is not an option. The stakes are too high. leadership.ng/news/474782/fashola-tasks-before-a-super-minister

moshoodable:
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/11/13/how-i-met-bola-tinubu-babatunde-fashola/

Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Babatunde Raji Fashola remain first class politician and technocrat respectively. They are unarguably indispensable to the success of the current administration of PMB.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on
Saturday described the tribunal judgement
which sacked the Taraba State Governor ,
Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP , as a ridiculous political judgement
that can never stand before men of good
conscience and God .
Fayose, who maintained that there was a
conspiracy by the All Progressives Congress
( APC ) led federal government and a section of
the judiciary against the People’ s Democratic
Party ( PDP ) , called on the Supreme
Court to
save the country from impending anarchy.
In a statement issued by his Special Assistant
on Public Communications and New Media ,
Lere Olayinka , the governor wondered how a
tribunal could make conduct of the PDP
primary that produced Governor Ishaku in
Abuja an issue when the tribunal itself sat in
Abuja.
He said : “ how does the emergence of party
candidate, which is the clear internal business
of the party and a pre -election matter concern
the APC and the Election Tribunal?
“ Isn’ t it funny that it is no longer about
election rigging , but technicality of how PDP
candidates emerged even when no one in the
PDP went to court to challenge how Governor
Ishaku emerged as the PDP governorship
candidate?
“ If insecurity could make Taraba State
Tribunal sit in Abuja and not in Jalingo, how
then can it be justified that the same tribunal
that sat in Abuja nullified the governor ’ s
election because the primary election that
produced him too was held in Abuja?
“ Is it not being manifested in this President
Mohammadu Buhari led APC government that
what is good for some people may not be
good for others even though we operate the
same constitution?
“ To me and the teeming supporters of the
PDP , this judgement is one that must not be
allowed to stand . It is a clear miscarriage of
justice and we will seek redress from the
court of men and the court of God . ”
While reiterating his commitment to speaking
the truth in the overall interest of Nigerians ,
Governor Fayose said ; “ If everybody is
persecuted and intimidated to submission , I
will remain resolute in my resolved to always
say the truth before men and God . ”
www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/11/07/taraba-tribunal-judgement-ridiculous-says-fayose/