Jokerman:
If Edo pple dont vote out ds clown and his Ole party ehh.....

FlySly05:



Yes it was stated that they were drunk also.

So there was a NLer within close proximity and a popular at that. Why you nor hail na bros...lol

KINGinVAHALA:

Take heart bro because good news from Edo state would continue to hit you.

oduastates:


I thought it was a northern conspiracy against Jonathan goodluck .
For the saner, Buhari has no choice but hold his military chiefs accountable.

ambrosini593:

Not all were sacked. Some of them tenured expired like federal University otuoke and oye ekiti. I don't know of others

YouthsPC0:
Vice Chancellors of National Open University of Nigeria, Prof. Vincent Tenebe, and his counterparts in the 12 Federal Universities that were established by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan have been sacked by the Federal Government.

A terse statement signed by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, obtained by journalists on Saturday in Abuja simply said President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the appointment of new Vice Chancellors for the Universities.

Already, the sack has started generating controversies, with some pundits arguing that for NOUN, it is only the Governing Council of which Tenebe is a members, that could remove the VC.

While the NOUN VC was replaced with Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu of the Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano, the substantive Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Prof. Mohammed Kundiri, was transferred to the Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State,

Meanwhile, a human rights organisation, Coalition of Civil Society Groups, has protested against the sack in a letter to Buhari, demanding the reversal.

In a petition to President Buhari signed by its President, Etuk Bassey Williams, and Secretary-General, Ibrahim Abubakar, the CCSG said pursuant to the provisions of the Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act No.11 of 1993 (as amended) by decree No.25, 1996 and further amended in 2003 and 2012 respectively and other agreements as contained in the 2009 FGN staff union agreement, it was in total disagreement with the recent sacking of 13 Vice-Chancellors by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.


The petitioners said that four out of the twelve appointed VCs are from Kano University, an action they said, was a clear violation of the federal character principle.

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“While this does not come as a surprise owing to the influence of one of the Special Advisers to the Minister of Education in orchestrating the appointments of his friends and cronies without following due process, we are however concerned about the constitutional breach and the resultant litigation battle this action may cause, which in turn may generate unnecessary distractions to your focused administration,” the coalition said.

According to the public statement conveying the sack of the VCs, a former Head, Department of International Relations at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Kayode Soremekun, who was said to be on Sabbatical in NOUN is the new Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

While the Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State has Prof. Auwal Yadudu of the Faculty of Law, Bayero University, Kano as its new VC, Prof. Fatima Batoul Muktar of the Department of Biology, North West University, Kano is the VC of Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State.

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A lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Haruna Abdu Kaita is the new VC of Federal University, Dutsin Ma, Katsina State, while Prof. Andrew Haruna of the Department of Linguistics, University of Jos will now function as VC, Federal University, Gashua, Yobe State.

While another lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy, ABU, Zaria, Prof. Magaji Garba, will now be VC in Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State, Prof. Alhassan Mohammed Gani of the Institute of Maritime Studies, Federal University, Kashere in Gombe State has been elevated to the position of VC in same University.

A lecturer in the Department of Physics, Federal University, Lafia, Prof. Muhammad Sanusi Liman will henceforth be VC of same institution.

For Prof. Angela Freeman Miri of the Linguistics Department, UNIJOS, her new portfolio is the Federal University, Lokoja where she will now be VC.

The Federal University, Ndifu-Alike, Ebonyi State now has Prof. Chinedum Nwajiuba of the Post-Graduate School, Imo State University, Owerri as its VC, while Prof. Seth Accra Jaja of the Department of Management, University of Port Harcourt is now the VC of Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State.

https://twitter.com/NigeriaNewsdesk/status/698591808037588993
Hahaha is well time shall tell.

psucc:
Why will Nkiru report news from Kogi state rather than the killings of her IPOB kinsmen by the army?

sdindan:
And they keep lying to us.

Even Buhari have joined.

lukecent:
Was telling ma cousin last night that the way am seeing things PDP will take over Edo state.
Edo people were disappointed.
Adams na scam

gateleo:
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an immediate investigation into allegations of fraudulent padding of allocations in the 2016 budget, with strict orders that all cases of discrepancies, errors and ambiguities be resolved promptly, a senior government official told PREMIUM TIMES Thursday.

An extensive analysis of the budget by PREMIUM TIMES exposed questionable details, with the National Assembly on Tuesday suspending deliberations on the document indefinitely.

The chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Danjuma Goje, (APC-Gombe State), and his House of Representatives counterpart, Abdulmumin Jibrin (APC-Kano), said the suspension was necessary to enable the National Assembly carry out “proper clean-up” of the budget.

Earlier, a senior presidency official blamed “budget mafia” for the controversial contents, in reference to civil servants responsible for preparing the budget.

Another top administration official on Thursday gave PREMIUM TIMES further details on how the government was responding to the embarrassing budget allocations.
He pleaded anonymity, and said the government was avoiding publicly stating its position on the matter for now to avoid playing into the hands of its critics.

The official said both the Finance and Budget & National Planning ministries were determined to effect the necessary corrections and turn in a clean copy of the document for approval.


He blamed most of the errors in the budget on “over-ambitious civil servants” in the budget office who handled the preparation of the document prior to the appointment of ministers by Mr. Buhari.

He said by the time the ministers were eventually appointed, they had no sufficient time to properly scrutinize the budget for errors, in view of the tight deadline each of the ministries got before the final presentation to the joint session of the National Assembly on December 22, 2015.

To enable the budget to be cleaned up of all the controversial allocations, the official said a high-powered panel had been constituted with a mandate to investigate all observations and concerns by individuals, media and agencies, particularly the National Assembly.

“The presidency has ordered the immediate investigation of all the allegations and issues, particularly on padding, raised by the National Assembly on various ministries, departments and agencies of government,” he said.

“The investigative panel is expected to critically look into the budget item-by-item, incident-by-incident, with particular attention to the reactions from the National Assembly, ministries, media, civil society groups or indeed anybody that raised concerns regarding the padding of the budget.

“All corrections would be made to ensure that the budget was passed as soon as possible. I assure you government is working cautiously on the corrections with the intention of correcting any error or malfeasance spotted in the 2016 Appropriation Bill. If there is any error whatsoever, it is being sorted out straight away,” the official added.

It remained unclear what sanctions the government was considering for officials that might be found to be involved in padding the budget. Our first source had said those involved might be fired.

The House of Representatives had asked government to order the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to arrest and prosecute top civil servants behind the budget padding scandal.

On its part, the Senate said, apart from the prosecution of the civil servants, the Minister of National Planning and Budget, Udo Udoma, and other top officials of the ministry should also be sanctioned.

However, the official exonerated the minister, saying “That the budget could be presented the day it was presented and in the manner it was done was due to the extra effort and hard work by the ministers who inherited what the civil servants had already prepared.
”By the time they took over, most of the ministers did not have a good grasp of the details of the budget of their ministries”.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/198335-2016-budget-fraud-buhari-orders-probe-wants-questionable-allocations-scrapped.html

ichoku:
Bokoharam has become the real case of propaganda gone awry. God please help all of us to overcome this monster. Amen.

psucc:
Them am sure the APC had an unholy alliance and does not have the interest of Nigeria let alone Nigerians at heart.

This is the height of stupidity.

No change is so strong as to wipe away without leaving a trace of the former.

Babzrockman:
Although am a big fan of Amaechi. But it was a sweet victory for Wike. One positive out of this is that; there's still hope in our Judiciary.

lokotowers:
Okay

Keneking:
I can't believe this...Jonathan sef

atakamus:
Wetin dey worry this one na. Because say he de such Mercy big breast and lie on her big nyash, he is now thinking that it is enough to be Deputy Governor
Imagine this nonsense. Ohh. Na PDP new method. To go bring the husbands of actresses with big breast and bid nyash. It won't work. APC never rule Edo finish. Rubbish ingredients of malaria and Lassa Fever.

mu2sa2:
Good development. The free feeding programme is achieving its primary aim of getting pupils to stay in school. Those not in school will be attracted by the food. God bless El-Rufai for his foresight.

adonbilivit:
what is Amaechi doing to revive it?

IyaIode:
5% people

sammyj:
See Gbege !!!!

Legitbaba:
I tot some set of people said Nigeria doesn't need d ND again??....

dukie25:
Fellow Nigerians, I General Bubu of Boko Haram fame have decided today is Thursday.

Who listens to this illiterate self.

Geesarki:
Sharp guy, his alliance with FG will attract many federal presence to the state wyl IPOD states are busy blocking roads nd protesting. The guy sabi if u cant beat dem, join them.

SS ppl always smarter than SE. I am from ss, but please we should stop insulting others just to make a point, its doesn't make sense

Demmocrats:


So Op am trying to understand, Jim married her early 80s so lets assume her age then was 22 years in 1982 (early 80s) so by my calculation she is 56 years old in 2016. OP please that lady in that picture looks 34 years of age

babyfaceafrica:
Miscreants everywhere

seedorfg:
wailer wont find it easy on this one

sameer1212:
You will only strangle him in your dreams and he will continue to rule over your sorry ass in reality Mtchewww.

Tunami:
he scored 1/10

sexaddict08:


let's us remain blind, we still have four years or even 8 yrs to enjoy. be careful u might have hypertension

sammyj:
The toothless anti corruption dogs during the past clueless government are now backing which shows the integrity of this current government. PMB said I will probe corrupt officials or politicians, PDP start from within your party, PMB ok start with Saraki, PDP it's a witch hunt