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President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, says that officials of the National Assembly do not tamper with job slots as being reported in some sections of the media. Lawan also said the National Assembly was committed to keeping with the practice of Federal Character principles in employment and other matters.

Lawan made the statement while fielding questions at a news conference in Abuja on Monday. He said that members of the National Assembly were representing people and could not have “hijacked” any employment process in the country. According to him, employment opportunity was for every qualified Nigerian to apply and that the recruitment process was done online. Lawan also said there was no lopsidedness in the confirmation of nominees forwarded to the Senate by the executive, noting that every nomination and confirmation was based on adherence to principles of federal character.

He pledged the commitment of the Senate to continue to work with the executive and private sector in the creation of employment for Nigerians. On if the senate wound pass the hate speech bill and the social media bill, that had passed first and second reading, Lawan said the bills would not be passed without going through public hearing. According to him, the opinion and decisions of Nigerians will determine the passages of bills. He said the opinion and decisions of Nigerians would decide the fate of the bills and every other bills before the national assembly.

He said the National Assembly would not do what would be inimical to the interest of Nigerians. Lawan said the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) bill passed by the Senate and the finance bill would help generate additional funds to implement the 2020 budget. (NAN)

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/senate-president-reacts-to-alleged-hijacking-of-job-slots-by-nass.html

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The Nigeria-Ethiopia Chamber of Commerce says it is making efforts to boost the bilateral trade and investment between both countries. Members of the Chamber disclosed this in Abuja when they paid a courtesy visit to Ethiopian Ambassador to Nigeria Mr. Azanaw Tadesse Abreha.

“The Chamber intends to ensure the promotion of bilateral trade and investment between Nigeria and Ethiopia by attracting investors and participating in commercial discussions and international trade fairs and exhibitions organized by the two countries’’, the president of the Chamber, Alh. Sani Umar, told Mr Abreha.

Umar said by establishing a strong and close relationship with the embassy, the Chamber would find it easier to facilitate trade and investment between both countries. Umar later proposed a business exploration tour that would avail members of the Chamber with existing business opportunities in Ethiopia and create a platform for engagement with Ethiopian industrialists, investors and entrepreneurs. In his address, the ambassador pledged to provide all necessary support towards the success of the mission of the Chamber.

He solicited the support of the Chamber in sensitizing tour operators on organising holidays and religious tours to Ethiopia for which he promised to co-opt Ethiopian Airlines operating in Nigeria for beneficial relationship. Other members of the board of directors on the visit were Engr Aminu Bala, Alh. Aminu Dangana, Yakubu Uba, Garba Isah Dutse, Suleiman Dikko and Abdulaziz Sabitu Mohammed.

Umar later gave the constitution of the Chamber to the ambassador.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/chamber-of-commerce-to-boost-nigeria-ethiopia-bilateral-trade.html

In Nigeria, artists sing in English or pidgin English, and sometimes one or more other language. Here is a list of five.

Olamide

Olamide Badoo as he is fondly called is one of the most popular Nigerian artistes known for singing in Yoruba language. His real name is Olamide Adedeji. He sings in English, pidgin English and Yoruba language. This gained him a lot of popularity among the Yorubas when he first started his music career. He has won lots of awards for his works and has nine albums so far. He has songs like ‘Melo Melo’, ‘Eyan Mayweather’, ‘Durosoke’, ‘Shakiti Bobo’, ‘Local Rappers’ and ‘Eleda Mi’ to mention a few, to his credit.

Tiwa Savage

Tiwa Savage is one of the few artistes who go by their real names professionally. Her full name is Tiwatope Savage. She sings in Yoruba language and mixes it with Pidgin English and English language. ‘Kele Kele Love’, ‘Ifewa Gbona’, ‘Folarin’, ‘Eminado’, ‘Adura’, ‘Key to the City’, ‘Sugar Cane’, and ‘Ma Lo’ are some of the songs she has to her credit.

Phyno

Phyno’s real name is Chibuzor Nelson Azubuike. He is a rapper who predominantly raps in the Igbo language. He sings in a combination of Igbo, English and Pidgin English. Phyno has a large audience, especially among the Igbos. He has recorded four albums in the course of his career. ‘Oringo’, ‘Yayo’, ‘Connect’, ‘Nnunu’, ‘Ezege’, ‘Alobam’, and ‘E Sure For Me’ to mention a few are some of his songs.

Teni Entertainer

She is a sensational singer who also makes people smile through her music. Teniola Apata is also an entertainer who, aside singing in English and Yoruba, also does her comedy shows in Yoruba language. She has won several awards and has been nominated for some. She has sung songs like ‘Fargin’, ‘Wait’, ‘Pareke’, ‘Jersey’, ‘Askamaya’, ‘Case’, ‘Uyo Meyo’, ‘Dangote’ and ‘Billionaire’ to mention a few.

Yemi Alade

She also goes by her real name professionally. Her full name is Yemi Eberechi Alade. She is born to a Yoruba father and Igbo mother. She has taken advantage of this and sings in a combination of Igbo, Yoruba, Pidgin English and English language. She has songs like ‘Fimisile’, ‘Ghen Ghen Love’, ‘Johnny’, ‘Tangerine’, ‘Duro Timi’, ‘Na Gode’, ‘Kom Kom’ and ‘Koffi Anan’.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/5-nigerian-artistes-who-sing-in-more-than-one-language-2.html

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The Bayelsa State Police command has confirmed the arrest of Four officers of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and one civilian over theft of N3.5m from the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff to Bayelsa state governor, Mrs Ebizi Ndiomu-Brown inside Bayelsa Government House yesterday. The Police said that the incident occurred on the December 4, 2019, at about 0850 hours, when the Command received a report of Burglary and Stealing in the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Government House, Yenagoa. ‘

According to the statement by the Police Spokesman in the state, SP Asinim Butswat, ‘It was reported that the main entrance door to the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff was broken and the Safe inside the office were destroyed.’ “The crime scene was visited by Policemen and it was further revealed that the sum of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira was stolen.

“Three Policemen, four personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and one maintenance staff on guard duty at the Governor’s office were arrested and are being interrogated at the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, Yenagoa.” He said. It was gathered that the alleged theft, which occurred on Wednesday night was discovered on Thursday morning with the safe where the cash was kept reportedly vandalised.

Sources close to the office of the Deputy Chief of staff, confirmed that the office where the money was kept ,which had two entrances, was buggled. It was gathered that the two entrances was guarded by policemen and many wondered how the buglers had access to the cash. It was gathered that the order for the arrest of the policemen on duty at the time of the theft, was by the State Commissioner of Police, Uche Anozia. Already, detectives from the department of the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the State Police Command is investigating the incident.

A Government House source told Daily Trust that the theft of such huge amount was shocking to the Deputy Chief of Staff and other officials of the state Government. Attempts to get confirmation from the officials of the State Government proved abortive as they kept mum over the incident. An official that spoke on the incident under anonymity, told Journalists that ‘only the security have been arrested because they were on duty at the time of the theft. The Deputy Chief of Staff to the Bayelsa State Government House, Ebizi Ndiomu-Brown when contacted on phone declined to respond to text message

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/3-policemen-4-nscdc-officials-1-civilian-arrested-over-theft-of-n3-5m-at-bayelsa-govt-house.html

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Losses in ACCESS (-2.7%), FBNH (-2.2%) and GUARANTY (-9.1%) have seen market capitalisation fell N12.0bn to N12.9trn at the close of trading on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) yesterday. Consequently, the development dragged the All-Share Index (ASI) down 9bps to 26,913.70 points while year to date (YTD) loss worsened to -14.4%.

Activity level strengthened as volume and value traded rose 83.1% and 164.2% to 206.7m units and N2.8bn respectively. The top traded stocks by volume were UACN (40.2m units), ACCESS (28.3m units) and GUARANTY (27.7m units) while GUARANTY (N837.7m), ZENITH (N484.6m) and NIGERIAN BREWERIES (N435.3m) led the value chart. Sector performance was bearish as 3 of 6 indices closed negative while the AFR-ICT index remained flat. The Consumer and Industrial Goods indices gained 3.8% and 1bps respectively, following buying interest in DANGSUGAR (+5.9%), NIGERIAN BREWERIES (+9.2%) and CUTIX (+4.1%). Conversely, sell pressures in MANSARD (-8.3%), WAPIC (-7.7%) and LAWUNION (-7.7%) dragged the Insurance index down 2.5%. Likewise, the Banking and Oil & Gas indices closed southward, down 70bps and 3bps respectively, due to declines in ACCESS (-2.7%), FBNH (-2.2%), GUARANTY (-9.1%) and OANDO (-0.3%). Investor sentiment as measured by market breadth (advance/decline ratio) declined to 0.4x from 1.2x recorded from the previous trading session as 8 stocks advanced against 19 decliners. The best performing stocks were CHAMS (+9.9%), UNIONDAC (+9.2%) and DANGSUGAR (+8.6%) while CORNERSTONE (-9.1%), MEDVIEWAIR (-8.7%) and ARBICO (-8.5%) led the laggards.

Analysts at Afrinvest said: “We expect the bearish performance to be sustained in the near term, barring the occurrence of a major catalyst in the market.”

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/stock-market-loses-n12bn.html

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Senate President, Ahmad Lawan yesterday explained why the upper legislative chamber has not constituted a committee on the review of the Nigerian Constitution, saying it would commence work next month. Lawan said the Constitutional Review Committee has not been set up because the Senate has been pre-occupied with other issues like the 2020 budget.

The Senate President spoke while receiving in audience the European Union Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ketil Karlsen who paid him a courtesy visit. He however assured the nation that the committee will soon be put in place.

“Very soon, we will constitute our Committee on Constitutional Review. We haven’t done so yet because we have been engaged so much more with other issues. “We believe that by the time we passed the budget, then our committee on Constitutional Review will be put in place. By next year January, the committee will start some work because we already have some references that require some kind of constitutional review,” Lawan said. He told his guest that the will and determination to carry out reforms is there.

Lawan expressed appreciation to the support the EU has been extending to Nigeria particularly in the areas of the electoral process and political development and cooperation. “Our democracy since 1999 has received a lot of support from the EU and this is making very positive impact. The relationship between the EU and the Nigerian government is not like it is with other organizations. “We also have relationship at the level of legislature.

We have the EU-ACPU joint parliamentary Assembly. We believe this is one area through which we can continue to discuss issues that affect us in relation to the EU or what we think we can be doing together,” Lawan said. Lawan asked of EU for more support in the area of capacity building particularly for the Senate Committees on INEC, National Planning and Finance. Earlier, Ambassador Karlsen said EU expressed the hope that the current EU leadership will “be able to establish even deeper relationship with Nigeria.”

Police to deploy 5,000 personnel for Adamawa LG Poll The Police Command in Adamawa has said that it plans to deploy 5, 000 personnel for the Dec. 7, local government poll in the state. Mr Audu Madaki, the state Commissioner of Police disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Yola. Madaki said that the police and other security agencies had prepared ground for peaceful conduct of the election.

“So far, the command has made preparation to deploy about 5,000 personnel to maintain law and order as well as to protect lives and property during the election. “Security operatives will continue to remain neutral during elections, however; we would not hesitate to deal with whoever is found threatening peaceful conduct of the election,” Madaki said. He said that policemen and other security personnel would be deployed in wards across the state to ensure peaceful conduct of the election.(NAN)

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/constitutional-amendment-begins-january-lawan.html

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Beroro T. Efekoro has narrated how he became a Legislator-Elect in Albany County Legislature in the United States. He defeated incumbent Douglas Bullock to win the District 7 election in November, 2019. Efekoro said he was born in Delta State but grew up in Delta and Lagos States.
“I was in senior secondary school class II when I moved, together with my siblings, to join our father in the United States in the summer of 2008,” the legislator-elect stated. He said he completed his high school in Brooklyn and in May 2015, he graduated from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York at Albany.

“I held multiple student leadership positions on campus and that helped positioned me into seeking public office after graduating,” he said. Speaking on strategy to get people’s support, Efekoro said “The only strategy is to do the work and keep hope alive” because “Generally, people respond positively to success; every single person out there has a challenge they are facing and no one is looking for you to add to their burden. So the best way to draw people to you for their support is to be positive”. On winning the election, he said “We ran a campaign that was based on ideas and a vision for a better community and people gravitated to it.

My election was against a twelve years incumbent that was very prominent in the county and state”. “People were scared for me at first because they believed I was going on a political suicide mission, but I knew I had what it takes and with God I can do all things,” he explained. He stressed that winning the election “was no magic”, as they “ran a very positive campaign that was based on ideas”.

On Nigerian politics, Efekoro said “I would not like to get into Nigerian politics at this time, but in my last Independence Day message to Nigeria in which I tagged President Buhari, I advised that the government of Nigeria should pursue policies that enables her to live within her means”.

He added that he believes Nigeria needs a total revolution of the judicial, law enforcement and the education system if the nation wants to make any significant strides towards becoming a world leader. “The easiest way for such a revolution to happen is to have the youth pursue the change they desire through advocacy, community service, and running for public office. You don’t have to win, put enough effort and with time you will be up there with the rest them,” he proffered. On Nigeria youth in politics, he said they “need to be more proactive in their quest for good governance”.

This, he said, was because “When the news of my electoral victory went out in Nigeria, I read some comments from a few youths that say, I wouldn’t had been given such an opportunity in Nigeria by the Nigerian leaders. Some opportunities are given, some are demanded. Running against a twelve years incumbent is not an opportunity handed out like an inheritance, it’s something that requires some sacrifices, “just do it”.”

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/how-i-won-election-in-us-nigerian-born-beroro-efekoro.html

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