₦airaland Forum

ThisisBuhari:
the topic says' presidential complex' not state house.

jaymichael:
The reason may be that there isn't any official building called the 'ASO ROCK VILLA' just as the White House. What is referred to Aso rock is a series of buildings within a zone (even a bit far apart sef) that comprises of The office of the President, Vice president, Chief of staff, SGF, etc. also within this "zone" is found the residence of the President, the council chambers, barracks, private residences, estates etc etc.
When they say Aso Rock, it could me the office of the President, his official residence, the council chamber etc. We have all seen Aso Rock but not as we expect (even if you recognize it as Aso rock) what is mostly shown is the council chamber though.
Naptu2, come shed more light on this issue please.

dfrost:


Tolu sef wan kill me with his comments. "Visitor's register"?

naptu2:
That's the way Trump usually looks at signing ceremonies (usually followed by adjectives like greatest, best, beautiful, biggest, etc). There's really nothing special about it.

Besides, Buhari was merely signing the White House register. http://www.punchng.com/nigerians-react-as-buhari-signs-white-house-register/

nickxtra:
And he established an airline back in those days- IRS Airline

naptu2:
That's his son Abdulsamad Isyaku Rabiu. His sons are/were also successful. Abdulsamad Isyaku Rabiu is the chairman of BUA Group (cement, sugar, etc.), while Rabiu Isyaku Rabiu is the chairman of the IRS Group (airlines, etc.).

kingBenedict:
RIP...never knew he was the chairman of BUA group...Dangote took him outta the market...monopoly is everything...

Isyaku Rabiu


Isyaku Rabiu (born 1928 - May 8, 2018) was a Nigerian businessman and Islamic scholar who founded a major holding company in Kano State. He is a supporter of Ibrahim Niasse's Tijaniyyah brotherhood.

Life

Rabiu was born to the family of Muhammadu Rabiu Dan Tinki, a Quranic preacher from the Bichi area of Kano State who led his own Quranic school. From 1936 to 1942, Rabiu's attended his father's school learning the Quran and Arabic. He then moved to Maiduguri, Borno for further Islamic education. After spending 4 years in Maiduguri, he returned to Kano prepared to be an Islamic scholar. In 1949, Rabiu was an independent teacher of Arabic and the Quran who had among his audience, Ibrahim Musa Gashash.


In the early 1950s while still a teacher, Rabiu began to engage in private enterprise and established Isyaku Rabiu & Sons in 1952. Originally the firm acted as an agent of UAC and was trading in sewing machines, religious books and bicycles. In 1958, the firm had a breakthrough when Kaduna Textile Limited was established and it became one of the early distributors. Rabiu emerged as the leading distributor of the company in Northern Nigeria. In 1963, he joined a consortium of businessmen from Kano who came together to form the Kano Merchants Trading Company. The establishments continued to survive withstanding competition from foreign products. In 1970, he established a suit and packing factory.

Rabiu was a supporter of National Party of Nigeria and likely benefited from state patronage as a result.

Isyaku Rabiu & Sons group

Isyaku Rabiu & Sons founded by Rabiu is a family operated holding company with a history of investment in manufacturing, insurance, banking and real estate. In the 1970s, the group invested in manufacturing with its first investment being the Kano Suit and Packing Cases company, a factory producing suit cases and handbags, the firm was a joint venture with Lebanese investors. In 1972, he formed the Bagauda Textile Mill, manufacturing woven cloths for uniforms. From then on he established a series of ventures in different segments of the economy including frozen food service, real estate, sugar and a motor vehicle and parts distribution company specialized in Daihatsu products. However, unfavorable exchange rates and economic conditions forced the company to scale back on manufacturing and returning to its trading roots.

Khalifa Isyaku Rabi’u is dead



One of Nigeria’s foremost industrialists in the 1970s and 1980s, Khalifah Isyaku Rabiu, is dead.

Family sources confirmed to DAILY NIGERIAN that he died at a London hospital on Tuesday.


Details later.

Radio Television Theatre and Arts Workers Union ( RATTAWU ) Kaduna State Chapter Has Denounce The Rumor Of Passing Away Of One Of Her Comrade, Comrade Sani Idris Moda. He Is Still Alive And Getting Better, Pray For Him For A Speedy Recovery.

“I’m still alive, please pray for my quick recovery” – Sani Idris Moda

Legendary Kannywood actor Sani Idris Moda was said to have died yesterday evening after a man close to his bed in hospital passed away.

In a statement by Moda’s family debunking the rumours of his death, they confirmed that Alhaji Sani is still alive in Barrau Dikko Hospital Kaduna and he is appealing to his friends, fans and family to continue praying for his quick recovery.

May Allah grant Alhaji Sani Idris Moda quick recovery amin thumma amin

blank:
Why did they allow him come in with a razor? The company should have sanctioned him to stop that kind of behaviour.

Ishilove:
That's not what my history teachers taught me, and I will go with my teachers on this one

Jarus:
She quit NL after our politics section wahala of 2011. Still around but no longer as active.

Gboliwe:
She didn't quit in 2011.

She was much around even in 2014

khadaffi:
I never said state electoral commissions were not responsible for the conduct of LG elections. If you saw that in my post point it out. My point is that the fact that various states are now hurriedly conducting LG elections might be a pointer that the powers might soon leave that of the state and move to the Federal

Niceiroko:
Vote does not count

khadaffi:
Did you not even wonder why all of a sudden the entire states in Nigeria seems to be conducting LG elections. This had never happened since 1999. What are they afraid of?

B - State Independent Electoral Commission





3. A State Independent Electoral Commission shall comprise the following members -


(a) a Chairman; and

(b) not less than five but not more than seven other persons.

4. The Commission shall have power-


(a) to organise, undertake and supervise all elections to local government councils within the State.

(b) to render such advice as it may consider necessary to the Independent National Electoral Commission on the compilation of and the register of voters in so far as that register is applicable to local government elections in the State.

Watsoneology:
Ist the work of the Governor to introduce the said evoting or that of the INEC

LifeofAirforce:
Allow INEC to do their job

Rubbish

slightlyMad:
Lol, daft midget trying to do inecs job for inec
Is he that desperate?

Sektor101:
But not in use sha

El-Rufai introduces electronic voting to Nigeria, says APC deserves to win Kaduna LG elections

May 4, 2018 Press Release



In a record-setting move, the local government elections in Kaduna State are to be conducted using Electronic Voting Machines.

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai said his government has invested considerable sums in electronic voting because the All Progressives Congress (APC) believes votes must count

Mr. El-Rufai was speaking at the flag-off of the APC’s campaign for the local government elections in the state. The ceremony, which held at the Kaduna Township Stadium, had in attendance John Oyegun, national chairman of the APC; Zainab Ahmed, minister of state, budget and national planning, and senior officials of the Kaduna APC.

“We have made the most significant investment ever to promote electoral integrity and transparency in Nigeria. Our local government elections will be the first ever in Nigeria conducted by electronic voting,” the governor said.

“By introducing electronic voting machines, this government is affirming its democratic credentials, a firm belief that people’s vote must count.”

Acknowledging that INEC’s introduction of the card reader for the 2015 elections helped promote electoral integrity, Mr. El-Rufai said Kaduna is now taking it a step further to bring full electronic voting.

Mr. El-Rufai disclosed that the APC is making life better in Kaduna State.

He said the APC government in Kaduna State has in three years worked hard to overcome the legacy of sorrow that PDP left.

He reminded the people that 16 years of PDP rule left most public schools without furniture and other amenities.

To move the state forward, the APC has 1293 projects at various stages of completion across the state, he said, adding that the projects are being funded by unprecedented levels of capital spending.

“In each of the two full budget years we have had, 2016 and 2017, this government has spent more than N60bn on schools, hospitals, roads and water projects.”

“This injection of at least N120bn of budgetary investments into our state comes at a difficult period of national economic challenges. But we have been able to this because we have overthrown the corrupt legacy of the PDP; because the purpose of government has been rightly adjusted to making life better for our people through a commitment to their Education, Health, Jobs and Security.”

Speaking on the imminent LG elections in the state, Mr. El-Rufai disclosed that the APC is confident that the people will entrust the 23 local governments in the party that has given them life.



“As firm believers in democracy at the local level, we have invested considerable time in making our local governments fit for purpose,” he said.

“It is no exaggeration to affirm that we have reinvented the local government system.

“We inherited a system where many of our local government councils were so over-bloated that at least eight of them could not pay salaries without state government support. That system was so perverse that funds were illegally squeezed from solvent councils to pay bankrupt councils.

“By changing the laws, and removing their excess personnel burdens, all of our 23 local government councils are now solvent, able to pay their own staff and still have enough funds left to delivers services and projects. We have set our local government councils free from years of bankruptcy!”


The offices of the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission were recently gutted by fire. But the government says it is resolutely supporting SIECOM’s determination to hold the election as scheduled.

APC national chairman, Mr. Oyegun, who handed flags to the party’s chairman candidates, said he is proud to be present on the day electronic voting was introduced in Nigeria. Mr. Oyegun received into the APC prominent politicians and their supporters who have decamped from the PDP.

Mr. El-Rufai said the local government elections present an opportunity for Kaduna State voters to permanently retire the politicians of deceit and selfishness who are blocking the progress of the state, and impeding service delivery to ordinary people.