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Computers / Re: Huawei USB Modem Unlocker - Download Here! by OduBaba123: 7:22am On Sep 01, 2015
Please how do i unlock airtel e173u-2?

Urgent answer please. Please i need free methods.

My heart will remain forever grateful if you show me.

Thank you.
Politics / [photo] Update: Buhari And Jonathan In London by OduBaba123: 12:00pm On May 27, 2015
Politics / Re: Why Can’t Buhari Reassure These Oil Marketers? by OduBaba123: 6:47pm On May 25, 2015
theV0ice:


He should reassure them about a payment whose genuineness even the current minister of Finance is disputing?

This is serious!!

He doesn't need to reassure them of payment. All he need to do is reassure them that he will look into it. How hard can that be?
Business / Has Anybody Used Ukpostbox.com To Cash Their Clickbank Earning In Nigeria? by OduBaba123: 5:28pm On May 25, 2015
Hello everyone. I want to cash my clickbank earning. I have 2 options.

1. Myukmailbox.com
2. Ukpostbox.com

I've hear alot about myukmailbox.com. So i want to know about ukpostbox before making my decision. Has anybody used it? How did it work?

Thanks.
Politics / Why Can’t Buhari Reassure These Oil Marketers? by OduBaba123: 3:36pm On May 25, 2015
He’s the reason they are on strike. They are not sure he will pay them. Why can’t he reassure them that he’ll look into their matter? Just reassure them for the interest of the poor masses.

Fuel is now N300/liter. No light for 4 days (if they’re really sabotaging it, I don’t know). Transport is high. Price of everything is rising. Even my bank is feeling it. They just sent me SMS telling me that they’ll now be closing by 1pm because of fuel scarcity.

Why is Buhari pretending as if he doesn’t know what to do?

At least, we have been hearing his voice in the media lately. Why has he NOT said anything about the fuel scarcity? Why has he not done anything the help the situation?

If he’s responsible, now is the time to show it.

He should show some sign of responsibility. Just his words of assurance can end all these. He doesn’t have to say “I’ll pay you.” All he need say is, “I’ll look into it.” how hard can that be?

Anyway, I don’t blame him. If fuel turns to N1,000 /liter, it won’t affect him. So he doesn’t care. It is us down here that are suffering it. Not him. Not them.

Men, I’m just tired of this their “everything politics.” Must Buhari become “The President” before he starts taking responsibilities?

I’m just a frustrated Nigerian voicing out my frustration. I hope somebody hears me.

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Politics / How Tinubu Diverts Lagos Tax Payers Money 2 Fund Owned Alpha Beta Ltd (acc Detai by OduBaba123: 2:03pm On Feb 17, 2015
The APC leaders in Lagos State, from Bola Tinubu to Raji Fashola, have long been in the business of diverting funds of tax payers's money made for the development of State to personal, party and selfish use.

Prior to Tinubu and Fashola rule in lagos State, Col. Buba Marwa, increased the state Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) to over N600 million from the N100 million he inherited. And by the end of the tenure of Bola Tinubu, IGR was over N10 billion. And now under the governorship of Babatunde Fashola, IGR in Lagos State is over N200 billion. The revenue collection was contracted out to private consultants Alpha-Beta under Tinubu and Fashola administration.

Alpha-Beta is owned by Ex-Governor Bola Tinubu. Don't you think the billions is a colossal amount of money to pay an individual firm over the short period? also considering its tax payer's money. And if such amount of money is channelled into any sector, it is inevitable that impact will be felt.

Here is detailed transaction made from different bank account payments for the Tax Payers' Money





View the PDF format for the account details of Alpha-Beta Ltd

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Politics / Throwback 2012: "2015: Jega, National Commissioners On War Path" (Vanguard) by OduBaba123: 1:22pm On Jan 27, 2015
[size=20pt]Source: Vanguard[/size] - [size=16pt]http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/09/2015-jega-national-commissioners-on-war-path/[/size]

By Jide Ajani

A power struggle is brewing between Professor Attahiru Jega, the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and some of his National Commissioners, Sunday Vanguard can reveal.

At the centre of the struggle is the contention for relevance by the National Commissioners who see themselves as “mere board members” without any form of executive powers.

Then there is the allegation slammed on the face of Jega, that “there appears to be a systematic domination by people of northern extraction via appointments made by the INEC boss”.

The danger in this, as pointed out by some National Commissioners, is that this new paradigm of domination can not be unconnected with a plot to use the instrumentality of the electoral process to ensure the emergence of a northern president in 2015.

In an interview with Kayode Idowu, Chief Press Secretary to Jega, the allegation of domination was dismissed with a wave of the hand; while the other issue of power struggle was explained as “not being true”.

But information made available to Sunday Vanguard points to a seeming contest for power, relevance and clarification on the roles of National Commissioners, heads of departments/units and Secretary to the Commission.

Pursuant to enthroning a “paradigm shift” for effectiveness in INEC, “PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS, PwC”, according to a memo by Professor Jega, signed and dated Wednesday, June 13, 2012, “was appointed as a consultant by the Commission in October 2011 and tasked with the development of recommendations on restructuring INEC. I completed the task and submitted four volumes of its Report between February and May, 2012”.

This Report, Sunday Vanguard has been told, forms one of the many inputs from bodies with a view to repositioning INEC – at least, that was the position canvassed by Jega.

Apart from the PwC Report, Sunday Vanguard gathered that another independent committee, Registration and Election Review Committee, RERC, chaired by Professor Adele Jinadu, was also set up and its report submitted to the Commission.



AWKWARD PARALLEL

However, the Report at the centre of the brewing power tussle in INEC is the Senior Staff Establishments Committee (SSEC) Report on the PWC Report, which was submitted.

The INEC National Commissioners’ position was that they ought to exercise some executive functions and control, just as they sought to press home the point that Jega was merely a first among equals.

Jega scoofed at that suggestion, submitting that “the understanding of the Committee that all National Commissioners including the Chairman, are “Executive”, with the latter as being the Chief Executive”, is wrong and has no basis in law or in existing practice”.

”Since the establishment of INEC National Commissioners are National Commissioners, and the Chairman is Chairman and Chief Executive Commissioner, as well as the Chief Executive in law and in practice. Even more surprising is the laboured attempts to depict National Commissioners and the Chairman as equals. One wonders why drawing this awkward parallel should become a preoccupation of the SSEC”, the INEC Chairman thundered.

He added: “It will be unconstitutional for the National Commissioners to exercise any ‘management and control of any employee in the discharge of his day-to-day responsibilities in the Commission”.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Jega

The response of Jega, though hinged on a plethora of logic, legalese and common practice, is being frowned at by some of the National Commissioners.

In fact, at the recent Retreat by INEC at PROTEA HOTEL, Maryland, Lagos, last month, an air of unease was pervasive.

In Jega’s memo, titled INEC Chairman’s comments on the Senior Staff Establishments Committee (SSEC) Report on the PWC Report, the commissioners “were made to understand that there is a world of difference between what they desired and what was practicable in law”, a source at the meeting told Sunday Vanguard.

Whereas the commissioners had raised the issue of executive responsibilities, Jega, in his memo, explained that there were “responsibilities very important to the discharge of the Commission’s mandate, time consuming and (enough to) justify the full-time nature of appointment of the National Commissioners”.

The INEC boss added: “If these additional responsibilities are well conceptualized and done properly, at both the strategic and policy levels, the National Commissioners would be very busy indeed, with tremendous value-added to the overall attainment of the mandate of INEC; these responsibilities, though very important, are not “executive” in nature; and challenges have arisen when the distinction is blurred and some National Commissioners see themselves as “executives” over and above the head of departments/units (and the Secretary) in the day-to-day running of the affairs of the Commission.

(There are examples where National Commissioners felt that directors and heads of unit cannot deal directly with the Chairman without going through them, or where Chairman of Committees tried to take procurement decisions and impose them on the departments). I received reports of such complaints and perhaps in its interactions with the staff of the Commission, the PWC also received such complaints.”



‘NATIONAL COMMISSIONERS ARE NOT EXECUTIVES’

“For the avoidance of doubt”, Jega continued, “nowhere in the Constitution or the Electoral Act is it stated or implied that National Commissioners are “executives” or have “executive” duties/responsibilities. Certainly, Sections 14(1) and 15 of the Third Schedule 1999 Constitution neither explicitly state nor implied so. In other words, there is nowhere that full time Commissionership is equated to executive role.

“The essential point is, the Commission cannot be called a Board, even though some of its regular meetings at the highest level are akin to those of what is normally called a Board and the National Commissioners are not akin to “mere Board Members”, given their enormous additional roles/responsibilities. However, they have no “executive” roles as the SSEC implies in its use of the terms “management and control”.

“It is a misnomer to place the Chairman and Chief Electoral Officer on the same level of executive responsibilities or “management and control” in an Organogram with the National Commissioners. The legally defined responsibilities and job descriptions (and even remunerations!) are not the same. This is taking the notion of “first among equals” to a ridiculous extreme.”

Jega concluded his response with some recommendations.

“Arising from my review of and comments on the SSEC Report on PWC Report, I wish to recommend as follows|:

“1.At this Retreat we should not conflate the issues of restructuring and reorganisation of the administrative structure of INEC and those of making National Commissioners as Executives. If we have to do the latter at all, the best forum might be in our interactions with the members of the National Assembly as they undertake the review of the Constitution and the Electoral Act. We may then wish to ask them to make explicit provisions in the laws as to who is the Accounting Officer of INEC, whether National Commissioners are also Executives and so on.

“2.Let us then review the recommendation of the PWC, those of the SSEC and mine and see what kind of trim structure we may come up with, to reduce over departmentalization and sectionalisation, to remove duplication of functions and responsibilities, and to make for efficient and effective service delivery of INEC’s programmes and projects even before the Constitution and the Electoral Act are further amended”.

The correlation being drawn between preparations for the 2015 elections and the seeming over-concentration of people from a section of the country in INEC, is the “possibility of using the personnel to engender a systematic process that would determine a particular outcome for that year’s election”.

In a recent advertorial signed by ELECTION INTEGRITY NETWORK, and titled THE TAKE-OVER OF INEC, the group quoted a publication where it was stated that INEC’s nine-man Strategic Planning Committee is made up of seven person of northern extraction with just two people from the south, just as its committees on Logistics, Operations, Procurement, Finance and General Purpose, ICT and Political Monitoring are all allegedly chaired by northerners.

In the conversation with Idowu, yesterday, he said “some of the things being published by some people in that regard are laughable because the decisions taken at the Commission reflect a collective, hinged on consensus”.

INEC is composed of the National Chairman and 12 National Commissioners, along with Resident Electoral Commissioners in each of the states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

DETAILS OF JEGA’S MEMO NEXT SUNDAY.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/09/2015-jega-national-commissioners-on-war-path/#sthash.vkHxupA1.dpuf
Politics / INEC: Jega And His Commissioners In A Shouting Contest by OduBaba123: 5:46pm On Jan 26, 2015
Information available to 247ureports.com obtained through competent sources knowledgeable of the activities inside the executive offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] indicates that the INEC executive team are operating under significant distress that may disrupt the smooth conduct of the upcoming 2015 general elections. The INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega and the eleven national commissioners including the Directors are at daggers-drawn over unresolved issues that threatens disenfranchisement of select geopolitical regions.

[img]http://247nigerianewsupdate.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/PVC-INEC-ELECTION.jpg[/img]

At the center of the brewing quarrel is what appears to be a growing suspicion from some of the Commissioners and Directors of southern extraction towards the INEC Chairman and the other Commissioners of northern extraction. The suspicion, according to one of the Commissioners who spoke to our reporter, is principally based on Professor Jega’s unexplained eagerness to adopt policies favorable to the expansion of the northern geopolitical region’s voting strength. The commissioner pointed to the botched attempt by Prof Jega’s at arbitrarily increasing the polling units in the geopolitical regions of the north. “We had to fight the Chairman to the point of shouting match”, explained the Commissioner who continued that the Chairman seemed “determined to increase the polling units, and would not listen to any of us at the several closed door meetings. Instead he told us that only a court decision will stop him from increasing the polling units”.


The INEC Chairman was unable to deliver on his arbitrary quest. After a month of internal struggles with his lieutenants, the INEC Chairman dropped the idea reluctantly and grudgingly. Prof Jega, as a result of his inability to carry out his agenda decided to shutout the protesting Commissioners responsible to faulting the agenda. “He stopped talking to them [commissioners from the south]”. The relationship among the commissioners took a regional face with the southern commissioners suspicious of the northern commissioners who appear to have formed a click with the Chairman – along religious lines.

The northern commissioners including the Chairman – are seven [7] in number while the southern commissioners are only five [5].

The cold relationship worsened with the commencement of the distribution of the permanent voters card [PVC]. The distribution, according to the commissioner led to near physical confrontation between one of Jega’s close ally, Dr. Mohammad Wali [Chairman of Tender’s Board] from Sokoto and one of the commissioners from the south. It was revealed that the ‘shouting-match’ ensued as the modalities for the distribution by the INEC was marshalled out to the agents on the field – instructing that the PVCs should be delivered to the various INEC offices at the Local Government Area headquarters for the registered voters to pick up/collect – with the presentation of a valid identification card. The southern commissioner discovered that the rules for the distribution for the PVCs were different for the northern geopolitical regions – the rules were relaxed to enable easy distribution of the PVCs to the populace.

According to the commissioner, the PVCs dispatched to Gombe, Kebbi, Zamfara, Bauchi, Jigawa, Sokoto, Yobe, Kano, Plateau, Nasarawa, Katsina and Kaduna [12 states] were accompanied by an agent of Dr. Wali. The PVCs were not delivered to the INEC officer at the local government headquarters – rather it was registered at the INEC office at the local government headquarters and then delivered to the local chiefs and local Imams to complete the distribution to the masses. The PVCs were then recorded as having been collected by registered voters. As at January 7, 2015, INEC data showed that 83% of the registered voters in the 12 states have collected their PVCs. [See table below]



In the remainder of the States where the PVCs were delivered/dumped at the INEC office at the local government headquarters for onward distribution – a much lower percentage of PVCs collected were reported. In Lagos, Edo, Abuja, Enugu, Anambra, Ogun, Oyo and Ondo, only 57% of the PVCs have been collected. [See table below]



When the commissioners and directors got wind of the development and what appeared a structured discrepancy on the part of the INEC Chairman and the commissioners working in cohorts with him, they cried foul. Some of the commissioners took their frustrations to the desk of the President through alternate means – warning the President that ‘something was eerie’ in the manner the INEC chairman was readying for the February 14 polls. According to the source, the group of concerned officers within the INEC were successful in getting their concerns across to the presidency. “The president was shocked and visibly angry in utter disbelief” said the source who continued that the president then ordered for an immediate update on the status of PVC distribution. “What he saw confirmed what the commissioners had told him”.

The commissioner went on to state that it was the concerned commissioners who advised the President to consider seeking for a postponement of the election date from February 14 to sometime in April – without subverting existing electoral laws. The commissioner claimed that they advised the President to seek for shift in date in order to properly distribute the PVCs in a fashion that would ensure that up to 90% of the PVCs are distributed to the registered voter. Presently, only 71% of the PVCs have been collected nationwide. Presently, 15.6million registered voters are yet to collect their PVCs.

Meanwhile, Jega remains adamant that the date of February 14 will not be moved. In a statement to Journalists on January 23, he indicated that the PVC distribution will continue till the eve of the presidential election. The INEC Chairman expressed worry over the attitude of many eligible voters who have failed to show up to collect their voters card noting that the Commission should not be blamed when voters fail to collect their PVCs. “Yes we can even allow for the distribution of PVCs up to the eve of election day which is February 13 2015 but it will be good for voters to come and collect their PVC as soon as possible”.

Jega’s insistence comes against suggestions from the security service chiefs and the national security adviser – over the slow pace of PVC distribution and its implications to national security. His insistence has become a point of concern to many within the security circles who had once viewed Prof Jega as an upright incorruptible personality who was expected to understand the sensitive and volatile political climate in the country presently. A retired service chief who shared his concern with 247ureports.com did not shy away from labeling the body language of Jega and his refusal to level the playing field across all geopolitical regions as “highly tribalistic and unbecoming of a man like him”

- See more at: http://247nigerianewsupdate.co/trouble-in-inec-jega-at-war-with-commissioners-directors/#sthash.pMYmJ2Lb.dpuf

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Fashion / Re: Celestine Queen Wins Miss Congeniality At Miss Universe 2014 by OduBaba123: 1:00pm On Jan 26, 2015
Nice
Politics / Use Of Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium: Who's Will Will Prevail by OduBaba123: 12:27pm On Jan 26, 2015
Recently, there is a face off between Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and the PDP over the use of Adokiye amiesimaka Statium for PDPs presidential rally. Who's will do you think will prevail?
Politics / Jonathan Vs. Buhari: Who Is More Corrupt? by OduBaba123: 10:31am On Jan 26, 2015
It's a simple questions folks.

Anybody you choose, explain why.

Let the competition begin.
Jokes Etc / Re: Olusegun Obasanjo's Funny Responds To Bishop Oyedepo's Sunday Declaration by OduBaba123: 10:30am On Jan 26, 2015
This old man self. Won't he go and rest?
Politics / Re: Terrorism ; US Ignores Nigeria, To Work With Chad & Cameroon by OduBaba123: 10:17am On Jan 26, 2015
Are all these really true? Is America really trusted. Why is it now that they're talking about helping us?

Abeg forget all those things jare: America has ulterior motives. If they don't, how do you explain the fact that they totally stopped buying our crude oil while increasing the amount they bought from Canada, UAE and one other country like that - despite the fact that our oil has higher quality?

Or are they trying to make their prophecy of Nigeria splitting up by 2015 come true? Or are they trying to punish us because we rejected homo-sexuality?

A lot of questions really need to be asked. OK! Look at other countries that America has helped, what happened after wards? They're worse off. See Iraq, see Libya. Just go back in history and point to one country that America helped and that country became better for it. NONE!

In fact, it's even good as they're not dealing directly with Nigeria. Those people are not trust worthy?

They are deadly and cunning. That's the truth.

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Politics / Re: What's Killing More People In Nigeria Than Boko Haram? Lack Of Drinking Water by OduBaba123: 10:04am On Jan 26, 2015
No be small thing o

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