₦airaland Forum

Emanodimo:
That is the only way to confront him.

Meanwhile, let assume Federal character was applied and the Northern applicants failed to meet up or pass the process, will Federal character still prevail with mediocre people just to fulfill quota?

If this is an intentional bias against the North, the recruitment exercise should be reviewed to correct it

Abdul05:
Now that the table has turned some people are crying foul..

for me, south west is simply getting the recognition and opportunities...


It has long earned through hard work and national contribution.

AMINDA:
Yes. Why is Tinubu not considering other parts of the South? Are Yorubas from Lagos the only Southerners in the country?

AustineE1:
The north goes in their and favour the north but a Yoruba man goes in there and favour only Yorubas,infact mainly Lagosians and please let nobody mention southerners.

Brendaniel:
Please there is nothing like southerners under Tinubu's regime, the article was specific, which is Lagos which is in the south west, please you people should challenge your northern allies you partnered with to fight the south south and south east by yourselves, we have no business with the fight, once again there is nothing like south under Tinubu, be always specific with the regions...

ogododo:
The Majority Leader of the Kano State House of Assembly, Hon. Lawan Hussaini Dala has raised alarm over what he described as a gross injustice and imbalance in the ongoing recruitment exercise by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), alleging that the process favours the southern part of the country.

Speaking during plenary on Wednesday, Hon. Dala said the recruitment exercise violated the principles of Federal Character.

He said whereas there ought to be fairness and equal representation in federal appointments and employments, the recruitment was designed to favour a section of the country against the other.

“I am on this floor to challenge the way and manner the recruitment exercise is going on at the Nigeria Customs Service. To us, there is injustice, the Federal Character that was saddled with the responsibility of ensuring equitable sharing of rights wasn’t considered,” he stated.

According to him, a total of 1,785 candidates were recruited nationwide, but the distribution of the slots heavily favoured states in the South-West, particularly Lagos and Ogun States, which he said received a disproportionately higher share.

“Lagos alone got 207, Ogun 145, Ondo 132, Osun 127, Oyo 108, and Ekiti, which is not more than Nasarawa Local Government in Kano, got 93. Altogether, the South-West got 812 slots, more than half of the total number of recruits in the entire country,” Dala lamented.

He contrasted this with the allocations given to states in the North-West, describing the disparity as “unacceptable and unjustifiable.”

“In the North-West, Kano got only 31, Katsina 20, Jigawa 18, and Zamfara 16. Altogether, the entire region got only about 7 percent of the total number recruited,” he said.

The lawmaker further revealed that across the northern region, only 651 slots were allotted, while the bulk of the opportunities went to states in the southern part of the country.

“Honourable Speaker, this is injustice, and if we keep quiet on issues like this, our people will continue to be cheated. The entire northern region was just left with 651 slots. If this continues, the Nigeria Customs Service in a few years to come will belong to a particular ethnicity or region,” he warned.

Dala urged the House to officially communicate the Assembly’s concern to relevant federal authorities, including the National Assembly, the Federal Character Commission (FCC), and the Nigeria Customs Service, demanding a review of the recruitment process to reflect fairness and inclusivity.

He said such imbalances in federal employment opportunities could further deepen regional mistrust and threaten national unity if not promptly addressed.

“We are calling on the Federal Character Commission and other relevant agencies to ensure that recruitment into federal institutions adheres strictly to fairness, equity, and justice, as enshrined in our constitution,” Dala added.

Other members of the Assembly who spoke on the matter supported Dala’s motion, calling on northern lawmakers at the National Assembly to take up the issue and ensure that corrective measures are taken.

The Speaker of the House commended Hon. Dala for bringing the matter to light, describing it as “a patriotic move in defence of fairness and justice.”

He directed the relevant House Committee to investigate the recruitment figures and report back for further legislative action.

https://dailytrust.com/lagos-got-more-slots-than-northern-states-combined-kano-assembly-rejects-customs-recruitment/?noamp=available

sreamsense:
All these years before Tinubu, is it not northerners that had majority in custom? Now, you can see how it feels now and what southerners had endured for years

Smartwave:
Funny! Remove 5% from South 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.

The remaining are called Southern 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

aribisala0:
When states were first created
They were 12
All other states have been split into at least 2 some 4 or more states

East Central is now 5 states
Lagos state is the only one of those 12 states that has not split and has only about 20 Local Government Areas

Yet it contributes most

Lagos state is most marginalised. If Lagos splits into 5 states it is okay

It is four times the land mass of Singapore

sreamsense:
All these years before Tinubu, is it not northerners that had majority in custom? Now, you can see how it feels now and what southerners had endured for years

Dotherightthing:
Let us have a breakdown of all the current personnel serving in the customs(NCS) based on states and geopolitical zones.

The FG is dull on issues like this

IbrahimSola:
So sickening to hear. What hard work? What recognition? It's called NEPOTISM. Buhari of the North enthroned NEPOTISM. One day other regions will even more. I hope we won't cry foul and call them names? Me I'm for Nigeria o, not for any ethnic sentiment. Otherwise each region shd stand on their own. And this is the only pathway to a better Nigeria.

aribisala0:
Actually that is not true
There are some things many of you assume

Nigeria was formed in 1914

Before that Lagos has ALWAYS BEEN AHEAD

https://www.nairaland.com/4144976/lagos-1898before-nigeria-not-oil

First power plant
Street lights before 1900
First secondary school
First telephone

Lagos has always been a net contributor

The success has been replicated

Who are the most educated Nigerians? You can live in denial but Yoruba are better than all of you

I say it with full chest
Most civilised and most likely to succeed when we break up

fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”

While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.

He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’

https://punchng.com/video-everyone-digging-borehole-in-lekki-is-probably-drinking-shit-water-lagos-govt/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMABDJjbGNrAwAEK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEewOd7728C0FSKQJNWar4yKRxNpNKt1owSlw47y57FKAux2QxvQL24Iu18rtw_aem_3kB5Sd2GjpdqjN6zFuIs7w

Brendaniel:
Please there is nothing like southerners under Tinubu's regime, the article was specific, which is Lagos which is in the south west, please you people should challenge your northern allies you partnered with to fight the south south and south east by yourselves, we have no business with the fight, once again there is nothing like south under Tinubu, be always specific with the regions...

Shawarmagirl:
Do you now see why I admonished people not to waste their precious time and resources to apply for any federal government top jobs except you know one Governor, Senator or House of Rep member?

Even if you go ahead to apply as a civilian and scale through the test and screening, you'll still not make it to the final stage.

I was once a secretary to NDLEA commander in one of the state, and I know the names handed to me to type.

If you want to get any Federal jobs, just apply for police and Army your name will be shortlisted asap.

press9jatv:
Yoruba politicians don wise up.

anonimi:
How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals

AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.

Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.

The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.

In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.

He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-we-foiled-jonathans-effort-to-make-mulika-adeola-speaker-akande-reveals/amp/