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We wish buhari goodluck dis march

We wish buhari goodluck dis march!

politricks:
Why are you taking panadol for another person's headache

Ar u not concerned. Retiring age is at 65 and 70 years, in civil service work. Someone wants to be d president of dis country at dat age.... Do u think he would rule us with his complete sense and strenght, u ar talking about anothers head ache and panadol. If u ar not concerned, u should just watch and sharrrap!!!

pring:
Meanwhile, read this

By May 29, 1999, we had 23 PDP governors, 6 AD, and 7 APP. 16 years later, this is their story:


1. James lbori - PDP Delta - in prison for looting
2. DSP Alamieseigha - PDP Bayelsa - Ex-convict for looting
3. Lucky Igbinedion - PDP Edo - Ex-convict for looting
4. Peter Odili - PDP Rivers - In court for looting
5. Chimaroke Nnamani - PDP Enugu - In court for looting
6. Ayo Fayose - PDP Ekiti - In court for looting
7. Rasheed Ladoja - PDP Oyo - In court for looting
8. Alao Akala - PDP Oyo - In court for looting
9. Gbenga Daniel - PDP Ogun - In court for looting
10. Ikenna Ohakim - PDP Imo - In court for looting
11. Adamu Muazu - Bauchi (current PDP National
Chairman) - In court for looting over N19 Billion from the state treasury
12. Joshua Dariye - PDP Plateau - In court for looting
13. Jolly Nyame - PDP Taraba - In court for looting the state treasury
14. Abdulahi Adamu - PDP Nassarawa - In court for looting the state treasury
15. Boni Haruna - PDP Adamawa - (newly appointed minister by President Jonathan) -
In court for looting the treasury
16. Saminu Turaki - EX-Gov. PDP Jigawa - In court for looting the treasury
17. Orji Uzor Kalu - PDP Abia - In court for looting the treasury



NO Ex governor has ever been taken to court for treasury looting.
NOTE:- Tinubu of Lagos was dragged to Code of Conduct Tribunal for having foreign accounts while in power against government
policy of zero foreign account for public officials. He was found  because he had the accounts before his election to the office of governor.
Case dismissed!


1. Attahiru Baffarawa - APP Sokoto - In court
for looting (he is now in a PDP member)
2. Prince Abubakar Audu - ANPP Kogi - In
court for looting.

So APC made up of AD/ AC/ACN of the past is
leading the pack. Does it not make perfect
sense to allow these people to lead at the center?

You also just showed us how transparent the pdp government was.....it was a pdp president dat was in power and all dis pple were still taken to court. I wonder what apc would have done.

Buhari should just go and rest, he is old....

Hmmmm! Spicy!

I love nnewi

Just like dat

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I go show there soon, on 4th!!! mehn! I've heard very crazy things abt d camp. But it will go down well there!

Crispels:
U saved 120k and u dey happy??





I know of people that saved 5m

. Which bank dey rob

He would come back to pdp

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Scary country oh!

Nonsense

"We have just shot down a plane. ... A plume of smoke is visible." The biggest clue so far into who may have shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 might be what Ukrainian officials say are intercepted communications between pro-Russian rebels operating in eastern Ukraine. The recordings, translated and distributed by Ukrainian officials, begin with an alleged militant informing others that a plane has been shot down. The communication picks up later, once the alleged rebels reach the scene of the crash. Here's a segment of a conversation between an alleged pro-Russian rebel named Major and another identified as Grek, per Ukrainian authorities: Major: The plane broke into pieces in the air ... we have found the first 200 (dead). It's a civilian.". Grek: "How are things going there?". M: "Well, we are 100% sure that it was a civilian plane.". G: "Are there a lot of people?". M: "F--k! The debris was falling straight into the yards.". M: "Here are remnants of internal brackets, chairs, bodies.". G: "Are there any weapons?". M: "Nothing at all. Civilian belongings, medical scraps, towels, toilet paper.". Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Friday blasted the "terrorists" he blamed for shooting down the plane a day earlier, with 298 people aboard. CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the phone call, and it is not known if the recordings were edited or when they were made. But Lt. Col. Rick Francona, a CNN military analyst, said he would not be surprised if Ukrainians were able to monitor the communications of the rebels. "Ukrainian intelligence, they're pretty good in their own territory," he said Friday on CNN's "New Day." In a final segment of the alleged intercepted phone calls, an unidentified militant allegedly speaks with a Russian Cossack, Mykola Kozitsyn. Militant: "On TV, they say like it is a Ukrainian An-26, a transport plane. But the writing says 'Malaysia Airlines.' What was it doing over the territory of Ukraine?" Kozitsyn: "Well then it was bringing spies. Why the hell were they flying? This is war going on.". While these recordings have garnered worldwide attention, they are not the first alleged intercepted calls that Ukrainian officials have released. Others were released earlier this month. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin told CNN on Friday that the phone calls were intercepted at the same time that the plane was shot down. Yatsenyuk called for international support "to bring to justice all these bastards who committed this international crime." Russia has not directly responded to the content of the audio, but President Vladimir Putin has blamed Ukraine for the crash. "This tragedy would not have happened if there had been peace on that land, or in any case, if military operations in southeastern Ukraine had not been renewed," he said. An additional set of recordings released by Ukrainian intelligence officials Friday is said to link the rebels to the time that the missile allegedly took down the plane. One recording, purportedly between the military chief of the separatist Lugansk. National Republic and a Russian military intelligence officer, discusses the missile system, called a Buk. The alleged rebel is heard telling the supposed Russian officer that they hold the Buk. "Yes, I know that," the Russian officer responds. In a separate audio, another alleged Russian military intelligence officer and another rebel military chief discuss where to unload and hide the Buk. cnnmobile.com/primary fullarticle?articleId=cnn/2014/07/18/world/europe/ukraine-mh17-intercepted-audio&pageSize=10&category=intl

Very very Pathetic in kosofe, lagos. The only thing dey do best 'is to cut ligth wires'

Baba God we only look up to you

Name d man.

on december 25, 2013 at 9:54 am in news
By AbdulSalam Muhammad.
KANO – In a bid to address educational backwardness of
the state, Kano state Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso
has declared free and compulsory education at level in
the state.
Kwankwaso who made the declaration during the
presentation of 2014 appropriation bill to the House of
Assembly revealed that the gesture would commenced
from 2014 academic year.
Kwankwaso stated that “in our collective resolve to drive
a knowledge base economy, government has already
concluded arrangement to adopt a free education for all
indigene at all levels: primary, secondary and tertiary
institutions in the state.”


The Governor added that “this is in addition to
sponsoring of Kano indigenes to pursue their various
degree programmes locally and internationally”,
pointing out that the commencement of the free
education for all Kano state indigenes from primary,
secondary and tertiary institutions starting from the new
academic session in 2014.”


In order to ensure effective implementation of the new
programme, the Education sector got the largest share
of the sectoral allocation with over N20billion with
Ministry of Education N15.22billion; while its ministry for
Higher Education counterpart got N5.61billion.
Other policy programmes in 2014 fiscal year under
education include, N6.5 billion for the continuation work
at Schools for Islamic Studies in each of the 44 LGAs
Kwankwaso revealed that N2 billion has been set aside
for the continuation of 44 Technical Schools one in each
LGAs; adding that N241 million has equally been
earmarked for the procurement of 15 mobile computing
solar powered container box.


He said that N250 million was also earmarked for the
establishment of another boarding primary school in the
state, adding that N1.3 billion has been allocated for the
Construction and furnishing of 268 additional classrooms
in the state.
The Governor further stated that Northwest University
got N3billion for the continuation of construction of
Faculty building, senate building and other
infrastructure, adding under the 2014 approriation bill
N586 million was earmarked for the continuation work
at former Magwan Water Restaurant to First Lady
College.
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/kwankwaso-declares-free-education-at-level-in-kano/

Shit mehn!

Paste d Link to dis story

Arsenal will win

By DAYO ADESULU

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on
Thursday released its November/December results with
a total of 86,612 candidates, representing 29.17% of the
total number of candidates who sat for the examination,
obtained credits in five subjects and above including
English Language and Mathematics.

Announcing the result at the WAEC office, Yaba, Lagos,
Head of National Office, Mr Charles Eguridu said that a
total of 308,217 candidates registered for the Nov/Dec
2013 WASSCE. 82 blind candidates registered and sat
for the examination. From the figure, he noted, 17
candidates, representing 20.73% obtained credits in 5
subjects including English Language and Mathematics.
According to him, 296,827 candidates, consisting of
163,659 male and 133,168 female candidates sat for the
examination. Out of the total of candidates, 299,784
candidates, representing 97.26% have their results fully
released, while 8,433 candidates, representing 2.74%
have a few of their subjects still being proceed.

Eguridu said: “Of the total of candidates that sat the
examination, 120,115 candidates, representing 40.46%,
obtained 6 credits and above; 161,721 candidates
representing 54.48% obtained 5 credits and above. In
addition, 198,832 candidates, representing 66.98%
obtained credits and above in four subjects while
230,325 candidates representing 77.59 obtained Credits
and above in 3 subjects. A total of 256,500 candidates
representing 86.41% obtained credits and above in 2
subjects.”

When compared to the November/December 2011 and
2012 WASSCE (Private) results, Eguridu said, there is a
marked decline in candidates’ performance.


He said: “In 2011 a total of 139,827 candidates,
representing 36.07% obtained credits in 5 subjects and
above including English Language and Mathematics.
Also in 2012, a total of 150,615 candidates, representing
37.97% obtained credits in 5 subjects including English
Language and Mathematics.”

There was over 8% decline in candidates’ performance
as only 29.17% obtained credits in 5 subjects and above
including English Language and Mathematics in 2013
WASSCE.
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/mass-failure-recorded-waec-releases-novdec-results/

Six years before his death last Thursday, Nelson
Mandela took a look at Nigeria and expressed sadness at
the political, economic and social degeneration of the
once touted giant of Africa.
He came up with a damning verdict. He blamed the
leaders for abandoning the people. Madiba, as he was
popularly called by South Africans, accused Nigerian
leaders of betraying their people in a candid interview
with Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed in 2007.

In the interview conducted in his home, the former
South African late hero blasted Nigerian leaders for lack
of genuine interest in the success of their people. He
lamented the poverty level in Nigeria and the bad
education system.
Though he acknowledged Nigeria’s effort in the fight
against apartheid, he accused Nigerian leaders of letting
their people and Africa down.

Nelson Mandela: 1917-2013
Hear Mandela: “You know I am not very happy with
Nigeria. I have made that very clear on many occasions.
Yes, Nigeria stood by us more than any nation, but you
let yourselves down, and Africa and the black race very
badly. Your leaders have no respect for their people.
They believe that their personal interests are the
interests of the people. They take people’s resources
and turn it into personal wealth. There is a level of
poverty in Nigeria that should be unacceptable. I cannot
understand why Nigerians are not more angry than they
are.

“What do young Nigerians think about your leaders and
their country and Africa? Do you teach them history? Do
you have lessons on how your past leaders stood by us
and gave us large amounts of money? You know I hear
from Angolans and Mozambicans and Zimbabweans how
your people opened their hearts and their homes to
them. I was in prison then, but we know how your
leaders punished western companies who supported
apartheid.

“What about the corruption and the crimes? Your
elections are like wars. Now, we hear that you cannot be
president in Nigeria unless you are Muslim or Christian.
Some people tell me your country may break up. Please
don’t let it happen.

“Let me tell you what I think you need to do. You should
encourage leaders to emerge who will not confuse
public office with sources of making personal wealth.
Corrupt people do not make good leaders. Then you
have to spend a lot of your resources for education.

“Educate children of the poor, so that they can get out
of poverty. Poverty does not breed confidence. Only
confident people can bring changes. Poor, uneducated
people can also bring change, but it will be hijacked by
the educated and the wealthy…give young Nigerians
good education. Teach them the value of hard work and
sacrifice, and discourage them from crimes which are
destroying your image as a good people.”
www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/12/11/mandelas-candid-opinion-of-nigerian-leaders/

UPDATED: Dec 8, 2013 20:54 GMT
A South Carolina sheriff is refusing to lower the American
flag in tribute to Nelson Mandela, saying the honor should
be reserved for American citizens.
President Barack Obama ordered flags lowered to half-
staff for the international icon until sunset Monday.
But Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark says not in his
department.

"It's just my simple opinion that the flag should only be
lowered to half-staff for Americans who sacrificed for their
country," Clark told CNN affiliate WHNS.
It should be lowered at the U.S. Embassy in South Africa,
he said, but not at home.
The flag in his department was lowered over the weekend
to honor a fallen law enforcement officer and for Pearl
Harbor Day. But it will stay up Sunday, he said.
"I have no problem lowering it in South Africa in their
country but not for our country. It should be the people
who have sacrificed for our country."

A spokesman for the department said the sheriff cannot
be disciplined.
"He's not breaking a law. It's his decision. And I support
the decision of the sheriff," Chief Deputy Creed Hashe
said.


Mandela became the symbol of the fight against racial
discrimination in South Africa and served 27 years behind
bars for defying the apartheid government. He died
Thursday at age 95.

Though rare, the lowering of flags for foreign citizens is
nothing new.


George W. Bush did it for Pope John Paul II eight years
ago. Bill Clinton did it when former Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in the 1990s.


In fact, the practice goes as far back as 1965, when
President Lyndon Johnson ordered flags lowered for
former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
But not all world leaders get the honor.
This year, Obama issued a statement expressing his
condolences for the death of former British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher. But he did not order the flag lowered.

American presidents can issue the executive order at their
discretion, the Flag Code states. In general, presidents
reserve the honor for major national figures, including
governors and foreign dignitaries.

The code says it's only a guide and it does not offer
penalties for noncompliance.
cnnmobile.com/primary/fullarticle?articleId=cnn/2013/12/08/us/sheriff-mandela-no-half-staff&pageSize=10&category=intl

on december 01, 2013 at 12:22 am in sunday
perspectives

By Douglas Anele

However, and this is the crux of the matter, those
responsible for running the universities on daily basis
have, through financial rascality, misused available
financial resources. Wastages and corruption in the
system are legion. They include explosive increase in the
purchase of official cars, frequent unnecessary trips by
top management of universities many of whom are
senior academics, huge allowances and gifts for
members of university councils, lavish convocation
ceremonies, overpriced contracts awarded to relatives,
friends and cronies of VIPs in various campuses most of
which are poorly executed, and so on.
I am sure that many senior academics at different levels
of authority will have serious cases to answer if the
federal and state governments undertake thorough
independent audit of the entire financial transactions of
universities.

Hence, although our political leaders
deserve opprobrium for neglecting the universities and
wasting available resources on self-aggrandisement,
sometimes criticism of government for not providing
basic facilities in our institutions of higher learning is
misplaced because highly placed lecturers in positions of
authority oftentimes misappropriate available funds.

Meanwhile ASUU leaders and activists insist that
government must provide everything universities need
to function, even relatively inexpensive items these
institutions, through imaginative financial management,
can comfortably provide for themselves. In this
connection, any university that does not have good
classrooms, decent toilets for both staff and students,
markers and dusters for lecturers, fairly good library and
basic equipment like Bunsen burners for laboratory work
ought not to have been licensed to operate by the NUC
in the first instance. Approving half-baked universities
just because of the explosion in the number of
candidates seeking university admission is a waste of
time, money and human resources.
Yet, NUC continues to approve such universities, with the
active connivance of senior academics and Professors
for whom “anything goes” as long as their financial
demands are met.

Now, instead of Vice Chancellors
wasting money on things of tangential value, such as
creating new directorates, lavish convocation
ceremonies and purchase of vehicles among others,
they should use such funds to provide affordable items
for teaching and learning. It is pertinent to observe that,
in virtually all universities transparent accountability with
respect to funds for capital projects and money derived
from internally generated revenue is lacking. For a
change, ASUU should be demanding from university
authorities across the country proper accountability with
respect to the subventions from government for capital
expenditure, instead of blaming government all the time
for petty items like Bunsen burners, toilets, fans etc. It is
well known that the new buildings and facilities in various
campuses are below the standard established in the
years from 1962 to around 1990, which is a reflection of
unimaginative planning and lack of Platonic aesthetic
sensibility amongst university authorities.

This is corroborated by the fact that buildings
constructed in Nigerian universities from around the
1990s, supervised by senior academics in the relevant
departments as consultants, are ghettoes compared to
the world class structures built before that time at the
University of Lagos, such as UNILAG library, faculty of
engineering building, the Senate Building the Council
Chambers, Main Auditorium, etc.
Another problem is the ethnicisation of key positions in
the universities, and I will use appointment of Vice
Chancellors to illustrate the point. Ideally, by its
mandate, a university is supposed to be universalistic in
orientation since its mission consists in the pursuit of
knowledge of The True, The Good and The Beautiful.
This implies that merit, excellence, and proven record of
performance must be the decisive factors in the
selection of candidates for the elevated position of VC.
Nevertheless, for a sizeable percentage of lecturers the
most important factor is the ethnic origin of a potential
VC; the question of merit and competence is secondary.
On several occasions, lecturers from a particular ethnic
group where a university is located insist that a “son of
the soil” must be the VC or else they will make things
extremely difficult for any non-indigene who has the
audacity to take up the post. It is a measure of
increasing indulgent narrow-minded provincialism in the
academia that virtually all VCs in our universities hail
from the culture area where the institutions are located.

Once upon a time, when Nigerian universities were truly
Ivory Towers, the Vice Chancellors of the Universities of
Ibadan, Lagos, and Nigeria, Nsukka, hailed from the
same ethnic group, and from my research, they
performed well. Why must the VC of UNN be an Igbo?
Must the VC of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, be a
Yoruba? I am not aware of any principled stance of
ASUU against the ethnicisation of Vice Chancellorship in
our universities, which is unfortunate because that
position is critical in the proper day-to-day management
of universities, and ethnicity is neither a necessary nor
sufficient criterion for selecting the most qualified
candidate for the job.

Anyway, Nigerian academics in general have retreated
into the cocoon of ethnic parochialism, because it
provides many of them a strong platform for negotiating
and competing effectively in the system to make up for
deficiencies in cognitive and emotional intelligence as
well as in character.
Even in the recruitment and promotion of lecturers,
several heads of departments, deans of faculties,
provosts of colleges and VCs have consistently sacrificed
merit on the altar of ethnicity. Students even allege that
some lecturers give preferential treatment to students
from their ethnic group while grading examination
scripts, tests and take home assignments.

To
summarise: the proclivity of an increasing number of
lecturers to put ethnic considerations before merit and
capacity to perform is a dangerous trend that has
impacted negatively on our universities; colleagues
should begin to think seriously about how to discourage
the practice. Lecturers are mainly responsible for the
skewed procedure and requirements for promotion of
academics, which allows square pegs to be in round
holes in our universities.
Now, the criteria for advancement from one cadre to
another are set by academics with the approval of
university councils. I maintain that the system is
inadequate because it places too much emphasis on
journal publications, especially foreign ones, and
neglects quality of teaching. Many truant lecturers with
poor teaching skills have successfully exploited the
weaknesses in the system and became Professors either
by cloning and plagiarising works written by others
(including graduate students), publishing in non-existent
or very obscure journals or by recycling the same set of
ideas in different publication outlets.
Indeed, some desperate colleagues connive with
unscrupulous individuals outside Nigeria to float
phantom journals just for attaining the professorial rank
after which the so-called journal will sink into oblivion. Of
course, some lecturers neglect teaching, and
concentrate on publishing half-baked and badly argued
ideas in order to be “high flyers” in the system. I just
cannot understand why ASUU has never worked to
ensure that a good system for students’ evaluation of
lecturers’ performance is instituted in universities as one
of the factors that determine the career movement of
lecturers.
TO BE CONTINUED

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