₦airaland Forum

It is quite amazing, but this is what you get in a
peaceful country, where there is effective law
and order.

New statistics on Norway’s low level of gun use
has revealed that Police in Norway fired their
guns only twice last year, and no one was hurt.

Norwegian officers drew their weapons
just 42 times in 2014, the lowest number of times
in the last 12 years. Only two people were killed in
police shootings in the same period.

The majority of Norway’s police, like forces in
Britain, Ireland and Iceland, patrol unarmed and
carry guns only under special circumstances.

Sadly, in the US, 547 people have been killed by
police during the first six months of 2015 alone,
503 of them by gunshot. US police are always
armed.

I barely imagine what Nigeria’s statistics would
be.

What do you think?

https://nautv./2015/07/10/amazing-police-in-norway-fired-only-2-bullets-last-year/

MrCork:
...GAY?....WTF......u want them to pour Kerosine, petrol, hammer, nail, rubber & tyre on yor head??...bro u berra look for husband in yor United State!(no oofeinse)

dude I never said I was gay..

The guy dey pray make Im get im own Russian chick like mikel

this one have brain tumour sha

me supporting a fellow man banging a fellow man?...let me die

Now that the US has demonstrated its commitment
to equality before the law, by ensuring same-sex
couples can now marry in all 50 states of the
confederate following its historic Supreme
Court’s ruling which gave marriage equality as a
constitutional right throughout the country one
will wonder if this trend will find its way to
Nigeria.

In Nigeria, Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender (LGBT) persons are still facing legal
and social challenges only peculiar to their
community. Here, same-sex sexual activity is not
only illegal, it is a punishable offence.

According to the stipulations of Same-Sex
Marriage Prohibition Act in Nigeria, offenders
are to face 14 years’ imprisonment , and the
punishment isdeath by stoning in the twelve
northern states that have adopted Sharia law
, which applies to all Muslims and to those who
have voluntarily consented to application of the
Sharia courts in the region.

Nigeria has been criticized severely by civil rights
organizations, as well as the United Nations, for
failing to uphold, and violating, the rights of LGBT
people but this has not changed the cultural
disposition of its people to the topic.

However, the golden question is, can you ever
imagine same-sex becoming a way of life that
Nigerians will one day come to terms with?



Some Nigerians view on the topic..

grey of course

I vote lekinz
cc:nljega

All lairs go to hell

ABUJA- STRONG indications have emerged that
crisis looms in the family of Governors elected on
the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP
over the emergence of governor Olusegun Mimiko
as Chairman of PDP Governors’ Forum, PDPGF, the
umbrella body of the governors.

Olusegun Mimiko emerged the Chairman of PDPGF
last week and vowed to engage President
Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives
Congress, APC in very constructive manner.

Governor Mimiko was elected Chairman of the
Forum at the meeting, which was slated for 7pm
last week Tuesday night and did not start until
about 9pm, but came to a close at 12am last week
Wednesday morning. The Ondo State governor
replaced former Governor of Akwa Ibom State,
Senator Godswill Akpabio who was the first to
occupy the position following the formation of the
forum.

It was gathered yesterday that some PDP
members were already kicking against the choice
of Mimiko as the the Chairman of the Forum and
as a way of protest, have also written a petition
to the National Working Committee, NWC of the
party to as a matter of urgency wade into the
looming problem before it blows into an
uncontrollable situation.

Six Governors and two Deputies who represented
their governors were at the meeting, when he
was elected,while governor Ayodele Fayose of
Ekiti State was conspicuously absent.

According to a source at Wadata Plaza, National
Secretariat of PDP, the NWC would hold a crucial
meeting with all the governors today to
brainstorm on these issues relating to how to
move the party forward as well as the
chairmanship of the Forum.

The aggrived governors were said to have
protested that the choice of Mimiko did not follow
due process bearing in mind that Mimiko only
defected to the party recently.

Meanwhile, worried over the inability of PDP to
convene a meeting of the National Executive
Committee, NEC especially after the March 28
Presidential election, Governors elected on the
platform of the party will meet today in Abuja to
brainstorm on when the party should hold the
meeting, just as the last meeting was before the
general elections.

Also as of the National Assembly resumes today,
the PDP governors would at the meeting
deliberate on those to emerge as Minority leaders
in the Senate and House of Representatives.

A source told Vanguard yesterday that the newly
elected Chairman of PDP governors’ Forum and
governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko who
will preside, would look at how to come up with
names that will not cause ripples especially at this
trying moments for the PDP.

It would be recalled that during the March 28
Presidential election where former President
Goodluck Jonathan was the Presidential candidate
of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and
President Muhammadu Buhari was the candidate
of the then opposition political party, the All
Progressives Congress, APC, the PDP lost the
election and suddenly became the new opposition
political party in Nigeria.

Besides the removal of former President Goodluck
Jonathan from office in the election by
Muhammadu Buhari, the first of its kind in Nigeria
since 1999, the ruling PDP also suffered defeat at
both the Senate and the House of
Representatives which it hitherto controlled,
thereby becoming the opposition party at both the
red and green chambers.

Following the defeat, the PDP will now produce
the Minority and deputy minority leaders for both
chambers in the national assembly.

According to the source the PDP Governors will
also brainstorm on the problems of the party, its
present opposition status, the present National
Working Committee, NWC which has Prince Uche
Secondus as acting National Chairman.

The Governors, Vanguard gathered will also have a
postmortem on the party especially the election
that culminated in the resignation of the former
National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu and
former Chairman of PDP Board of Trustees, BoT,
Chief Tony Anenih and the emergence of former
Acting National Chairman, Dr. Bello Haliru
Mohammed as acting BoT chairman
It would be recalled that the PDP Governors’
Forum was formed to drum support for the re -
election of former President Goodluck Jonathan
following the crisis that broke out in the Nigerian
Governors Forum,NGF which led to the emergence
of former governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers and
former governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State as
two factions then.

Former Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom
State, a dire hard supporter of former President
Jonathan was then picked as the pioneer
Chairman of the Forum and since he was not
returning,a new Chairman had to emerge.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/fresh-crisis-looms-in-pdp-over-mimiko-emergence-as-pdpgf-chairman/

We received an email this morning from someone
who according to the information he provided,
claimed to be a final year student of the Federal
Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri Imo state.

The mail was supposed to be an application letter
for a job in Myschool Limited.

Below is the exact copy of the letter. However,
the phone number, email and name of the sender
have been excluded to protect his identity.

"Subject:
Requestion for a postion

Message:
Myschool, i really appreciate ur site for d
academics updates daily, weldone, may
GOd give u people d strength and capital in ur
servies. Becos of dat am pleasing to
apply for employing as a a school ADMIN IN MY
SCHOOL OR ANY position IN UR OFFICE
PLS. Iam a young handsome guy from AKWA IBOM
but am school in nekede poly final, in
d dept of ****** engineering , a programer,
webdesigner, a blogger,and odas online
stuffs.i have d following site by me: a bulksms
site,a bloging site,a personal site,
a shopping site and odas.i have a 2 yrs working
experience with JOAS AFRICA
COMPANY,UBA BANK,etc. Pls hoping to hear a
reply ur office. Thanks. "


It is not as if we all must be gurus in the use of
English language. Some mistakes are
understandable.

However, the poor punctuations, spellings and
gross grammatical errors that characterized the
content of the mail above especially when
juxtaposed with the fact that this is coming from
a final year student; someone who will soon be a
certified graduate is really worrisome and makes
you wonder who is to be blamed - the student or
his supposed teachers/lecturers or the country?
Mind you, the reason we published this is not to
condemn the sender or present him in a bad light.
But to let others learn from it. A letter like this
will out rightly get you disqualified for any job.

Unless otherwise, the use of English language is
not a criterion.

http://myschool.com.ng/school/news/37487/see-what-a-final-year-student-sent-to-us-as-a-job-application-letter.html

k

After three weeks of consultations with
international and Nigeria’s political leaders,
President Muhammadu Buhari appears set to
effect major changes in the administration of the
country in a bid to translate the ‘change’ mantra
of his party into reality. To start with, the
President is said to have accepted the
recommendation of the transition committee he
raised a few weeks ago to slash the number of
ministries from the present 42 to 19 with a view
to saving cost and making them more effective
and responsive to the needs of Nigerians.

In the same vein, many of the ministries have
been merged to ensure proper coordination of
duties and ensure greater efficiency and service
delivery.

A source close to the Presidency told Sunday
Vanguard that the number of Federal Government
departments and agencies had also been trimmed
in line with the policy of the administration.
Effectively, it means that no fewer than 50 of
the MDAs that were not backed by relevant laws
might be scrapped and their staff moved into
relevant departments to save cost.

The Presidency source hinted,”But the point
being made is that relevant MDAs that will exist
under the present administration must be those
backed by laws.

“What that means is that the era of doing things
the wrong way to please certain persons in
positions of power is over.”

Shedding light on some of the ministries that had
been merged, the official pointed out that the
Ministry of Aviation and relevant agencies had
been subsumed with Inland Waterways and
associated agencies.

Similarly, the Ministry of Agriculture has been
merged with that of Water Resources under what
the Presidency source described as the
consolidation of larger ministries.

It was learnt that under the administration of
Buhari, only 19 ministers and 17 ministers of
state would operate as opposed to the previous
arrangement where there were at least 42.
It was further gathered that some ministries
would be run by senior ministers while others
would be manned by junior ministers to save cost.

On the fight against corruption, the source
disclosed to Sunday Vanguard that the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to be
merged with the Independent Corrupt Practices
Commission, ICPC, to tackle graft in a new way
that would be prompt, fearless and decisive.

Buhari, who travelled out of Abuja since
returning from the African Union meeting in
South Africa, late last week, is expected to join
his wife, Aisha, at the Presidential Villa, for the
first time after being sworn-in on May 29.

The wife had moved into the Villa on Thursday
ahead of the President to prepare the ground for
his formal assumption of work at the seat of
power. He has been operating from the Defence
House in the last three weeks.

A top source also said Buhari was expected to
make some key appointments this week so as to
get the machinery of his administration running.

The delay in naming the critical staff of his office
had forced some of his key loyalists to demand
that he acts fast to deliver the change he
promised Nigerians during the campaigns


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/buhari-to-merge-efcc-icpc-42-ministries-reduced-to-19/

unizik on 6g speed

when we Nigerians go get sense.. somebody just wrote something.. took the picture and posted it ..and you people just believed it happened truly… #smh

the truth is that you're lying and nothing this happened

The Real Madrid superstar has lent his nickname
to a new discovery in the skies, believed to be the
brightest object found in the early universe
Real Madrid's 'galactico' era may have ended but
their Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo continues
to prove he is out of this world after a galaxy was
named 'CR7'.

The nickname is synonymous with the former
Manchester United man, comprising his initials
and the squad number he used at both Old Trafford
and the Santiago Bernabeu.

However, it now has astronomical connotations
after the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
named a new galaxy in the 30-year-old's
honour, describing it as the brightest to be found
in the early universe.

"Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope
have discovered by far the brightest galaxy yet
found in the early Universe and found strong
evidence that examples of the first generation of
stars lurk within it," the group explained.

"These massive, brilliant, and previously purely
theoretical objects were the creators of the first
heavy elements in history - the elements
necessary to forge the stars around us today, the
planets that orbit them, and life as we know it.
"The newly found galaxy, labelled CR7, is three
times brighter than the brightest distant galaxy
known up to now."

The CR7 epithet, in astronomical terms, stands
for Cosmic Redshift 7 - a method of measuring a
celestial body's place along the timescale of the
universe.

The discovery came after a new expansive study
of the skies - aimed at discovering ancient stars
known as Population III stars, which were formed
very early after the Big Bang - and it is hoped
CR7 will help scientists understand how early
elements came into being.

"Those stars were the ones that formed the first
heavy atoms that ultimately allowed us to be
here. It doesn’t really get any more exciting than
this," said team leader David Sobral..

http://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/4099/spain/2015/06/18/12852922/ronaldo-is-out-of-this-world-astronomers-name-galaxy-cr7

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ABUJA – DEPUTY Speaker of House of
Representatives, Hon. Lasun Yussuf, yesterday
said that there will be no amount of pressure that
would make him resign his position as the Deputy
Speaker.

Fielding question from journalists in Abuja
yesterday, on the alleged pressure on him to step
down from his position by some All Progressives
Congress, APC, Chieftains, following the
controversy trailing the election of the presiding
officers of the 8th assembly, Hon. Yussuf said his
election followed due process, hence, there was
no way he would ever contemplate to resign.
Some of the APC Chieftains it was gathered had
wanted him to step down for Hon. Femi
Gbajabiamila, the choice of the party who had lost
the Speakership seat to Hon. Dogara for the
Deputy position.

Describing the alleged pressure to resign as
speculations, he said, “why will I resign, I went
through an election.”

He also explained that the speculation that the
National Assembly takes a good chunk of the
national budget, was unfounded, noting that out
of the previous budgetary allocation of N150
billion, only N120 billion was budgeted in the 2015
appropriation.

Besides, he said that from the budget, the aides
of the Senators and House of Representatives
members, technocrats and their staff as well as
the staff of the National Assembly Commission are
paid.

He said, “when you talk about salary, it has to be
tied to something. Let me tell you this, for the
last three years with the exception of 2015, the
budget of the national Assembly has been N150
billion and that is exactly 2.67 percent of the
total budget of the federation.

“So, I don’t know where people see this to say it
is 25 percent of the budget of the National
Assembly. The budget of the National Assembly is
2.6 percent of the entire budget of the country
and so it is not overblown.

“And people have forgotten too that there are
469 members of the National Assembly with each
of the member with five aides that would be paid
from the N150 billion.

“We have the National Assembly technocrats and
their staffers and the National Assembly
commission – all of them earn their salaries and
allowances from these N150 billion.

“So, when people talk they always think that it is
the House of Representatives members and
senators that collect the N150 billion. And again
don’t forget that for 2015 budget, the money has
been reduced to N120 billion.

“So, when you do the calculation, that is why the
Dogara speakership in the last one week has
repeatedly said, he is going to do a needs
assessment, that he is going to engage
development partners to actually sit down and see
what it takes for the national Assembly to be run
as an arm of government.

“And you might be surprised that we have reasons
for doing that because we can compare with other
legislative bodies all over the world but it is not
going to come from us, it is going to come from
the body that would sit on the issue.”


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/469-nass-members-have-five-aides-each-deputy-speaker/

Former governor of Ebonyi State Martin Elechi,
yesterday, spent many hours in the hands of
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s
interrogators to clear himself of allegations that
he made away with millions of state funds during
his eight-year tenure.

As hard as he tried to prove his innocence of the
myriad of financial impropriety levelled against
him, the EFCC confronted him with more
accusations forcing him to spend more than he
expected with the investigators, who were armed
with facts and figures about his administration.
Although Elechi arrived the EFCC headquarters at
10 am he was still being quizzed is currently at
the headquarters of the EFCC, where he is being
grilled by a team of investigators, probing
allegations of financial malpractices during his
tenure as governor of the state.

He was questioned over the theft of millions of
naira in the asphalt contract for the 13 Local
Government Secretariats and Headquarters.

He was confronted with the fact that although his
administration deducted money from the 13 LGAs,
the asphalt plants have only been executed in six
of the councils. Besides, he was questioned on
why the contract was given to his son, Elechi
Nnanna Elechi.

The former governor was also taken to task over
the huge sum earmarked for the centenary
celebration. Towards the celebration, a
supervisory committee under the Commissioner
for Local Government, Nwali, deducted the sum of
N1 million from each of the 13 LG areas for the
purchase and production of T-Shirts for the
celebration but there was no evidence of T-shirts
produced for the celebration.

Elechi was also asked to explain what he knew
about issues arising from deductions from
stabilization fund account of the state
government for the financing of Labour party.

A concerned indigene of the state had in a
petition told the EFCC that the governor Martin
Elechi awarded contract to his family company
managed by his son Nnanna. Contracts from the
state and local government running into millions of
naira which remain un-executed a month after
the governor vacated Government House,
Abakalaiki.

The anti-graft agency had previously invited and
interrogated the permanent Secretary of the
state Ministry of Works to answer questions while
the trio of Igbele, Accountant General; Timothy
Ogbonnaya Odaa, Commissioner for Finance, and
Honourable Celestine Nwali, Commissioner for
Local government and Chieftaincy Matters, had
also being quizzed by operatives of the EFCC.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/elechi-ex-ebonyi-gov-claims-innocence-on-money-laundering/

faceURfront:
The whole fault lies squarely with Gaddafi. Libyans wanted gaddafi out. America only capitalised on that desire. If libyans didn't want him out, there was no way America and her allies would have done Wat we have now to libya. Gaddafi should ve stepped down.

I read somewhere about human wants...from d basic which is food and shelter to d peak which is association and den power. Libyans under gaddafi had everything except power. He refused giving that up.

So if u are here saying why would Libyans want gaddafi out wen they had a nice life going for them...cool houses, cars, etc, d reason is simple, those things were no longer wants. They had them. Wat dey wanted was a change of leadership, Simple. So the argument that Libyans had all the would ever need under gaddafi holds no water.

the devil you know is better then the angel you don't know....and meanwhile America's campaign in Libya was about revenge and not liberation... team #Russia

I am not big on football, as a matter of fact the
hottest match of the century could be going on
and i'll be laying down, sleeping and snoring
louder than my Grandma. And if the match gets
too loud and interrupts my snoring, I would get
up and off that T.V and try to suppress the urge
to break it. Lol


Anyway I am not big on football but I know this
man. I know Cristiano Ronaldo because his name
is everywhere just like that of his biggest rival,
Messi. However I find this man to be very very
interesting due to some discoveries I made and
some bar arguments. That is why I have chosen
him to be my second discussed person in my
Stories of Deceptive looks.


Looking at that picture above, one of the first
thing that come to people's mind is "Irresponsible
Play boy with too much money". I mean he
qualifies for all these right? Let's look at his
features for a while and see.

That funky haircut raises eyebrows and doesn't
tell well on his responsibility status. The stud on
his ear further damages that area of the
statistics. He is a good looking man, no doubt
about that. Very good build and height, good at
what he does. That means he must get all the
ladies he wants. As at 2009 his net worth was
about $250 million. That means he can buy all
those ladies all they want and keep them running
in circles. He has a son out of wedlock. hmmm....

So let's sum all this up and say that he is a
rich, handsome, arrogant, talented, play boy
with no sense of responsibility thanks to his
sense of fashion and general character. At least
this is the way a couple people analyzed him for
me when he was being compared to his rival one
day at a bar. That day we were out in a bar and
+Cristiano Ronaldo was playing in a match that
was showing on T.V. As usual there were
arguments. One of the men then said "This
C.Ronaldo no sabi play anything jare, na just to
dey carry women". I looked for trouble by
inquiring to know more about what they meant. I
explained how I wasn't a big fan of football but
that even I knew he was very good. They then
started talking and explaining how the fact that
he was good looking was their reason for saying
he was a playboy and his talent and 'send-less'
attitude on the field helped them conclude he
was arrogant.


I almost believed what they were saying but the
I remembered something that I had observed
something on his birthday either last year or
about last two years when it was posted on a
blog. It was a little party he threw for himself
and a few of his friends. In the party they had
champagne on the table, they were dressed in
suits and gowns (very modest gowns) and they
simply sat and ate. I thought to myself and said,
if this guy was so much of an irresponsible
playboy. With the kind of money he rakes in every
month, he could have hired a yacht, sailed off
with a boat full of women in bikinis and had a
crazy orgy right? I mean even if he was married
he could easily cover it up or beg his wife, better
yet his irresponsible side could come more alive
and decide to not apologize and instead go marry
again right? Or not marry at all and be free. I
thought about his reason for having a quiet
dinner and compared it to what those guys that
were talking ill about him were saying. I was
going to argue with them but then I looked down
on there table and noticed that each was on his
5th bottle of his own beer brand, so I simply
nodded sarcastically in agreement.

Recently while surfing the net recently, I
somehow stumbled upon a fact about him that got
me wondering. The fact said that +Cristiano
Ronaldo has no tattoos on his body. Do not get
me wrong, I do not care if you have a tattoo or
not, it doesn't mean nothing to me. It's what's in
your heart that matters for all I care. Anyway I
came across this fact and I said to myself "A guy
with that kind of haircut? Why doesn't he have a
tattoo?...Is he scared of needles? or is this fact
wrong?" Little did I know that it was because of
needles actually that he didn't have tattoos but
for a different reason from what I thought. I
went on to surf the web more and gain more
knowledge on that fact and I came across one of
his interviews. I first of all confirmed that yes,
he had no tattoos. Then as I read through the
interview, he was asked why he didn't have any
tattoos and he revealed that he donates blood to
the hospital regularly for the sick and getting
any tattoos would render him incapable of doing
that for a long period of time.

You see this "Irresponsible Play boy" according to
what a couple of people referred to him as, was
able to put his personal interests aside and
instead think of those that need him. It isn't
compulsory for him to donate and even if he
decides, he could get the tattoos and it will just
be a couple of months before he gets back to
doing the donation but he made a decision to
leave that aside and concentrate on helping out
the sick by giving a part of him.

So with this do you still think that a haircut
or a stud should be used to judge what a person
has in their heart? Looks can be really deceptive
so get to know a person first before concluding.
If you don't have the opportunity to know the
person then do not conclude at all.

I don't know about you but +Cristiano
Ronaldo has a huge heart to me. I don't know if
he is arrogant on the field or in his personal life
but I choose to judge by the good he is doing. He
earned maximum respect from me ever since I
read his interview.


cc: lalasticlala

IBADAN—More indications emerged yesterday at
the Federal High Court, Ibadan, where some
bankers from the Central Bank of Nigeria and
commercial banks are standing trial over alleged
fraud running into billions of naira as the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,
told the court that the stolen money was more
than the N8 billion being reported in the media.

The anti-corruption commission represented by
its counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) and other
counsel gave this hint while proving the enormity
of the offences committed and reason why the
court should not grant the bail applications the
accused tendered to the court.

He said, “There are other boxes they poured acid
on. That alone contained N3.9 billion. The money
stolen is even more than N8 billion that the media
is writing.”

According to him, the commission, during one of
its investigations, discovered that there were
over 8,000 boxes that were yet to be opened by
the CBN in its strong rooms and on opening 107 of
the boxes for the First Bank that should contain
N1.7 billion, only N256,000 was found in them.

He further told the court how the accused were
alleged to have made confessional statements
that they actually committed the offence.

At the sitting presided over by Justice Adeyinka
Faaji, all the counsels to the accused submitted
that the offence was a bailable and that the court
reserved the discretion whether or not to grant
the accused bail. The counsels who include Mr.
Nathaniel Oke, Michael Lana, Olalekan Ojo and
others fought spiritedly to convince the court why
their clients should be granted bail.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/value-of-cbn-currency-fraud-more-than-n8bn-efcc/