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 Politics › Re: Nigeria Destined To Fail Unless There Is A Break-up - FFK by princewoles: 4:07am On Sep 16, 2015 |
son of perdition and confusion. FFK. when he was eating with big fatty stomach with baba OBJ and Jonathan he won't remember or mentioning the breaking up of 9ja. this hungry man should be sent to prison indefinitely without trials 4 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Rivers Tribunal: How Area Commander Supervised Ballot Thumb-printing –Police by princewoles: 3:57am On Sep 16, 2015 |
Weeping they say may endure for the night but joy comes in the morning. Wike in his desperation for power becomes lawlessness and chosen to spill many innocent people's blood not minding any family that may be in perpetual sorrow. Judgement time, according to a Yoruba adage, every day is for the thief and a day is for the owner. Biblically as well; no evil man can go unpunished. 61 Likes 2 Shares |
| Politics › Between President Jonathan And Obasanjo Who Is WINNING The BATTLE by princewoles(op): 3:18am On Dec 27, 2013 |
I often wonder if obasanjo letter is actually getting the Attention it required Or May be JET response silent letter has finally quenched or debunked all negative impressions OBJ letter might have created in the mind of Nigerian against JET administration. Now let's see what Nigerian thought ARE on nairaland. Clike Like iF You think Jonathan Response to OBJ letter has made JET to be WINNING the Battle against all odds 1 Like |
| Politics › Five Rebel Governors Join APC by princewoles(op): 2:56am On Nov 27, 2013 |
The New Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday formally announced that it had merged with the opposition All Progressives Congress. The decision was taken at a meeting between leaders of the APC and the New PDP at the Kano State Governor’s residence in Abuja. The National Chairman of the New PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, announced the decision which was described by the Presidency as a welcome development. “The Presidency does not feel threatened; the PDP does not feel threatened,” the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, told State House correspondents in Abuja. But the New PDP said its members, including the rebel governors, were elated to “have abandoned PDP’s sinking ship.” Although Baraje claimed that the group’s merger with the APC was a unanimous decision, two of the seven rebel governors – Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Sule Lamido(Jigawa), distanced themselves from it. Governor Aliyu Wamakko(Sokoto) and Lamido were absent from the Tuesday meeting. One of our correspondents reported that Aliyu attended the meeting but left before it ended. The other rebel governors in attendance were Rotimi Amaechi(Rivers); Rabiu Kwakwanso (Kano); Murtala Nyako(Adamawa); and Abdulfatah Ahmed(Kwara). The leaders of the New PDP that attended the meeting were a former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Dr. Sam Jaja, ex-governor of old Abia State, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu; and a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipriye Sylva. The APC team comprised Chief Bisi Akande; a former Head of State, Maj.- Gen. Muhammadu Buhari; a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; and an ex- Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mallam Aminu Masari. Like Aliyu, Buhari left before the meeting ended. Baraje, who read a statement after the meeting, said they agreed to merge in the interest of Nigeria’s democracy. The statement which was signed by Baraje and the APC Interim National Chairman, Chief Akande, reads, “The leadership of the APC and the New PDP met this(Tuesday) morning at the residence of the Kano State Governor, Dr. Rabiu Kwakwanso, in Abuja. “After exhaustive deliberation, we agreed to merge in order to rescue our fledgling democracy and the nation.” • Aliyu, Lamido distance selves from merger But shortly after, Aliyu, a very vocal member of the G-7, added a strange twist to the merger. His Chief Press Secretary, Danladi Ndayebo, did not only deny that he attended the meeting, he said the governor remained a member of the PDP. Ndayebo, in a statement, said Aliyu was shocked that the merger was announced before a final decision on it was taken . He argued that since reconciliatory talks between President Goodluck Jonathan and the rebel governors were still ongoing, the merger ought not to have been announced. Also, Lamido, who said he remained a member of the PDP, added, “I will not give anybody the pleasure of engaging me by his terms for now.” In a statement by his Director of Press, Alhaji Umar Kiyari, the governor described himself as” the living father of the PDP.” The statement reads, “While I accept that my party, the PDP is currently embroiled in a serious crisis caused by the Bamanga Tukur style of leadership, that does not necessitate me renouncing myself and relinquishing my historical authority to anybody. “It is true that myself and my family are currently under a huge political web and campaign of misinformation and smear to the extent that we have been adjudged guilty in the public court by the gullible and the ill-informed, this will not intimidate or harass me out of the party. “I will not give anybody the pleasure of engaging me by his terms for now, I wish to say that I remain the living father of the PDP. As for my political persecutors, I will engage them by my terms at the appropriate time. Nobody speaks for me but myself.” • We’ve abandoned PDP’s sinking ship – Eze In spite of the position of Aliyu and Lamido, the New PDP said with its merger with the APC, the rank of governors in the PDP had further depleted. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, the group said a similar situation existed in the National Assembly where the APC now had the majority. It said, “Now, we have reached the stage that we can only say: ‘PDP, your sinking ship has been abandoned to you.’ You brought this misfortune upon yourself; now, you must bear it alone.” • It’s a welcome development However, the Presidency and the PDP said they were not worried by the development because the rebel governors and their supporters would come back to the PDP after 2015. Gulak, who spoke for the Presidency, argued that with the development, the leadership of the PDP would no longer be distracted from the task of building the party. He added that many members of the APC were already waiting for the rebel governors to take a final decision before they would also declare for the PDP. The Presidential aide said, “I know as of a fact that five of them (the seven aggrieved governors) said they would now join APC; but I know two of them – governors of Niger and Jigawa states – issued statements, saying that they are not part of that(merger). “I believe others, for a long time have not had their hearts in the PDP. “But it is good that they have told the world that they have taken a stand so that PDP will not be distracted; So that we in the PDP, will be focused to build our party.” “A lot of people in the APC have contacted me several times that they want to come back to PDP; that they were just waiting for what happened today (Tuesday) to happen. And to us, it is a good development.” On whether the Presidency was not feeling threatened ahead of 2015, Gulak said, “We do not feel threatened; the PDP also does not feel threatened. The PDP is the party to beat.” Despite the rebel governors’ exit from the PDP however, the presidential aide did not completely rule out reconciliation. He said the governors would always be welcomed back after they might have found out that life outside the PDP is empty. “We are talking about peace; reconciliation is an ongoing process.If they go outside there like those that went there before them and realise that the outside is empty, they are always welcome back home like we did before,” Gulak said. Gulak had met behind closed doors with the Chief of Staff to the President, Chief Mike Oghiadomhe, before speaking with journalists. Issues bordering on the development were said to have been discussed extensively at the meeting. • Merger’ll fail –PDP The PDP, through its National Secretary, Prof. Adewale Oladipo, described the rebel governors’ action as a manifestation of the very fertile environment that “we as a party, have brought into the Nigerian political environment.” He, however, predicted that the marriage between the aggrieved PDP governors and the APC would not last. Oladipo said, “The allegiance between the splinter group and the APC will not last and they will return to the PDP before long. “I am assuring you that after May 29, 2015, many of these people will come knocking again, and like the democrats that we are, we will welcome them with open hands.’’ He however admitted that the last four months had been quite challenging for the party. He said that President Goodluck Jonathan had effectively weathered the storm. • Tinubu reacts However, Tinubu, said the rebel governors and leaders of the APC and New PDP were committed to the task of rescuing the country from drifting. He said, “Is a good rescue mission for our fledgling democracy. It is a must for the country, it is very necessary and we are happy about that. “We are happy with the development; we have the commitment to rescue our country from drifting and we act as a group to promote the interest of this country.” He said there was a possibility that more PDP governors would join the APC. Tinubu added, “Why not half more? why not 28 . Are you seeing the trend with which we are going?” • Why Aliyu, Lamido kicked A highly placed source at the meeting told The PUNCH that Aliyu told the meeting that he would join the APC in January and that it was better for his colleagues to also discuss the mode of their dumping the PDP together. According the source , Aliyu was afraid that some influential persons in Niger State, could take over the structure of the PDP from him. These influential persons are believed to have perfected their plan to nominate a retired colonel as PDP’s governorship candidate in 2015. It was also gathered that Lamido was already negotiating with the Presidency over the arrest of his two sons by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for alleged money laundering. Their arrest is said to be pulling the governor back in his move to defect from the PDP. “I think this was why he was still foot dragging by saying we should meet with the President first,” our source added. Ahmed, who requested for a meeting with the President before the final defection, was said to have no option than to join his godfather, Sen. Bukoka Saraki, who was also at the meeting. It was not clear while the governor wanted to be part of the meeting with the President. Another sources said it was because of the fear that he might not be given either the APC ticket or that of the PDP in the state during the 2015 election. • How the deal was struck Unknown to many, the meeting was not free from disagreements as some of the aggrieved governors did not buy the idea of them joining the APC at the moment. Investigations showed that some of the rebel governors argued that the New PDP should meet again after Tuesday’s meeting before taking a final decision while others advised that they should use the word “work together” with the APC in their statements instead of “merger.” At the end of the deliberations, Kwakwanso was said to have told his colleagues that those who wanted to defect now were free to do so while others were free to move next year or anytime they prefer. However, majority of them preferred immediate merger with the APC. • Jonathan-rebel govs meeting may not hold again The PUNCH however gathered that the planned meeting between Jonathan and the rebel governors on Sunday might no longer hold. Investigations showed that the rebel governors were angry with the President over his refusal to meet with them last Sunday. But the governors were said to have been angry that though the President claimed to be ill, he performed state functions on Monday. • Oshiomhole, Imoke meet Jonathan Meanwhile, a few minutes after the aggrieved governors made their position known, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, an APC governor, met briefly behind closed doors with Jonathan. The meeting which was held inside the President’s office lasted about 20 minutes. Oshiomhole declined to speak with journalists at the end of the meeting. Shortly after he left, Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State also arrived at the Presidential Villa to meet with the President. He was however directed to the President’s residence as he had left the office before the governor’s arrival. Copyright PUNCH. All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH. Contact: editor@punchng.com
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| Christianity Etc › "Does The Bible Record The Death Of The Apostles? How Did Each Of The Apostles by princewoles(op): 11:49am On Sep 08, 2013 |
Answer: The only apostle whose death the Bible records is James (Acts 12:2). King Herod had James “put to death with the sword,” likely a reference to beheading. The circumstances of the deaths of the other apostles are related through church tradition, so we should not put too much weight on any of the other accounts. The most commonly accepted church tradition in regard to the death of an apostle is that the apostle Peter was crucified upside-down on an x-shaped cross in Rome in fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy (John 21:18). The following are the most popular “traditions” concerning the deaths of the other apostles: Matthew suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed by a sword wound. John faced martyrdom when he was boiled in a huge basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution in Rome. However, he was miraculously delivered from death. John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic book of Revelation on Patmos. The apostle John was later freed and returned to what is now modern-day Turkey. He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully. James, the brother of Jesus (not officially an apostle), was the leader of the church in Jerusalem. He was thrown from the southeast pinnacle of the temple (over a hundred feet down) when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a club. This is thought to be the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the temptation. Bartholomew, also known as Nathanael, was a missionary to Asia. He witnessed in present-day Turkey and was martyred for his preaching in Armenia, being flayed to death by a whip. Andrew was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Greece. After being whipped severely by seven soldiers, they tied his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words: “I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it.” He continued to preach to his tormentors for two days until he died. The apostle Thomas was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church there. Matthias, the apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded. The apostle Paul was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero in Rome in A.D. 67. There are traditions regarding the other apostles as well, but none with any reliable historical or traditional support. It is not so important how the apostles died. What is important is the fact that they were all willing to die for their faith. If Jesus had not been resurrected, the disciples would have known it. People will not die for something they know to be a lie. The fact that all of the apostles were willing to die horrible deaths, refusing to renounce their faith in Christ, is tremendous evidence that they had truly witnessed the resurrection of Jesus Christ. |
| Family › Meet 14yrs Old Ali Hussain, The Boy With The Body Of A 110-year-old Manau by princewoles(op): 7:37am On Aug 30, 2013 |
Meet 14yrs old Ali Hussain, The Boy With The Body Of A 110-year-old Man August 27, 2013 This 14-year-old boy has been left with the body of a 110-year-old in India because he has a rare disease which makes him age eight times faster than normal. Ali Hussain has seen five of his siblings- two of his brothers and three of his sisters, die from the same condition called Progeria which is known to affect just 80 people worldwide. Sufferers are not expected to live much beyond the age of 14. Life was made unbearable for him and his late siblings because of their disease, they were mocked inschool and called names like ‘big-eyed boy’ and ‘Patlu’ meaning skinny. Eventually they all stopped going to school. But despite the grim prognosis Ali has refused to give up hope. Ali says: ‘I very much want to live and I hope there is medicine for my condition out there. I’m not scared of death but my parents have suffered a lot. I’d love to live much longer for them. I don’t want to burden them with any more pain.. We had each other (his siblings) but that was it. We had no life. When we did go to school we were pushed and shoved, called names, kids tried to harm us. We can’t do much physically either; our lungs are so small weget breathless easily. I would love to be a normal person who can play, go to school, do some sports, take some risks. Sometimes I get depressed but most of the time Imake the most of the life I have.’ Ali is now the family’s only surviving Progeria sufferer. His parents Nabi Hussain Khan, 50, and Razia, 46, are first cousins and were the product of an arranged marriage 32 years ago. |
| Education › Iq Test For Job Seekers by princewoles(op): 8:29am On Aug 05, 2013 |
http://www.begent.org/intelquiz.htm Take the questions above and let's see how inteeligent are you..... |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Between Jesus And Mohammed! by princewoles: 8:44am On Jul 31, 2013 |
Deep Sight: Toba - i know its about Jezy and Mohams. But the reality is that the OP is trying to make bible-chistianity appear higher than quoranic-islam.Deep sight, your thought are Right about Moses but my brother you are absolutely wrong to have compared moses with the lord JESUS. Moses was a prophet, Jesus Is the Only Son of GOD,Moses operates on Gods' laws but JESUS sacrifice his life by shielding His blood on the cross for the remission of Human sins and from the LAWS of old prophets and fore fathers sins. So to as many that believes in Jesus will no longer be subjected to Laws but grace and mercy through the blood of JeSuS and they will become SONS and DAUGHTER of GOD almighty. They become Children of God and not SLAVE. Christian Bible is a Complete Holy book of God but the message in it can only be understood by those that have define knowlegde of God and not haters nor pegans. Christian are christ-like and christ Is not Violence,evil,haters,mulderers,adulterers and more importantly he loves sinners but hate sins,he therefore beseach sinners to change but he never takes their LIFE because His grace is enough for sinners to turn to Good. I humbly advise you to read holy Bible carefully without hatred in your heart bf reading it so that Holyspirit can interpret His Words unto You properly and spiritually. |
| Politics › Re: Tinubu Is Next - Pastor Who Predicted Death Of Patience's Mother by princewoles: 7:36am On Jul 31, 2013 |
yuzedo: Lmao! Hungry idiôts have started again, gunning for the superstitious & gullible. "Predicted" eh? If I were the First family, I'd have this foòl whipped 12 lashes in public, then pass him on to the Tinubu's for 24 lashes.. And finally, Ngige for 36 lashes + manual labour in his farm. Stooopid man wants to sucker desperate politicians into "patronising" him. I spit on you!For altering these garbage this show how ignorance and fool you are to the manifestation of God Revelations to even to His Servant and ordinary Mankind. |
| Politics › Re: Patience Jonathan Is Angry With Amaechi For The Way He Treated Okrika People by princewoles: 5:18pm On Jul 18, 2013 |
ujchief: I wonder what the guys that have been swearing that PEJ and GEJ have no hands with the Rivers crises do now. Defending these two dolts becomes harder and harder as the day goes by. |
| Politics › Who Is WISER Between Tinubu And Buhari by princewoles(op): 4:35am On Jul 17, 2013 |
As part of the on going process for 2015 Election,there are many political calculations in which the major key opponent are PDP incubent and APC opposition. In APC, there are only disticnt two powerful key Players but in the recent time events and activities have shown both of the to be wise,cunning,political conscious and always Love to be Ruler and dictator. From your own perspective who do you think is must favoured to Come First. |
| Politics › Re: Jonathan Is Behind Rivers Crisis - Tinubu by princewoles: 1:53pm On Jul 15, 2013 |
lokito: You're talking gibberish. Abi anybody Lloyd your head this morning?Everybody CLICK LIKE if YOU THINK Tinobu is Hypocrite and After His pocket 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Soyinka Is An Embarrassment To His Admirers – Patience Jonathan by princewoles: 10:54am On Jul 14, 2013 |
take dat: Who cares what an hardly literate, grossly insensitive and a corrupt beyond belief woman, whom I am sure is unable to grasp the consequences of her meddling has to say. Like the Prof said, be a lady before being a first lady.I beg, better explain yourself distinctly. Not all are grammarian. |
| Travel › Re: Travelling To Canada Part 4 by princewoles: 10:16pm On Jul 13, 2013 |
earthgreeners: You should start by checking through the list of Universities and Colleges in Canada. Check for the school that offer the course you intend to pursue. Then check admission requirement, or send email to the program secretary for country specific requirements..During my NYSC I was opportuned to serve in Exam and record department in ekiti state University. The department is meant to give CV,transcritp etc to students. On many occations we have Students wt 2.2 that obtain transcript and applied for MS in canada,US,UK etc. And so many of them were do gain admission 1 Like |
| Celebrities › Re: Stephanie Okereke-Idahosa's New Photos by princewoles: 6:45am On Jul 12, 2013 |
mayapop: I hate!Sorry o, then huge TRANSFORMER |
| Politics › Re: Amaechi’s Orderly Was The Policeman In The Video by princewoles: 10:07pm On Jul 11, 2013 |
shegsrules: Is gej reali fighting ameachi or its his wife n his silent, madam patience was ur sister suppose 2 marry ameachi n he refused or he used sumbody in ur house n den dupmed d person dat all dis fight is happening. Ad d ppresident wat steppp has he taken to prove his innocence,or settle d issue can gej invite ameachi n wike wit others n settle d difference. Wit all wats happenin I still find it hard 2 bliv gej is innocent.IF you find it difficult to Believe JET is Innocent even with the Image you posted which show Lloyd and amachi aid beating up honourable then You have a Depreciating Brain and Vision 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Soldiers Withdrawn From Amaechi's Governor's Lodge by princewoles: 1:02pm On Jul 11, 2013 |
Garri the 1st: GEJ is a disgrace to the office of the presidency. His greed for power will see him destroy the Nation and spill the blood of Nigerians.Imagin your name,Gari 1st; You must be suffering from. Severe epidemic obesity and irreparable brian dysfunction |
| Politics › Re: Soldiers Withdrawn From Amaechi's Governor's Lodge by princewoles: 12:44pm On Jul 11, 2013 |
Garri the 1st: GEJ is a disgrace to the office of the presidency. His greed for power will see him destroy the Nation and spill the blood of Nigerians.You must be a CHEAP Propagandist. When Buhari,Tinubi,Northern Elder Forum,prominent emirs,Northern Gov, and majority of Islamics scholars In the North Openly Embrace the activities of Bokoharam and all claim Boko haram are Defending their RIGHT. Whereas Condemning the JET millitary crack down on them and emergency rule in core boko state. And yet Riligious Bigot like you still ascribe Boko haram to JET. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: ACN Lawmakers Punish Bamidele For Nursing Governorship Ambition by princewoles: 10:22pm On Jul 10, 2013 |
SLIDE waxie: there is no loyalty in any form of politics. This is ur govnr, yet we knw during ur campaign, u will like to point out the flaws of ur govnr. A situation where as part of his cabinet, u are expected to work with him and push the state forward!What is your point Oga, if Jonathan is killing Amaechi, OBJ killed Atiku and now what is Tinubu and Fayemi doing to Opeyemi Bamidele?. Bunch of hypocrite |
| Celebrities › Re: OJB Thanks Amaechi For The $100,000 Donation by princewoles: 9:27am On Jul 10, 2013 |
Wendyslim: The governor try may GOD answer his prayer. Even if na govt money he use ,no be to save life? Let other governors emulate dis by giving huge amount to govt hospitals for equipments so dat Nigerians won't need to be referred to India for treatmentOJB has already receive enough donation b4 amaechi senseless donation.the question is why hasn't Amaechi openly help hundred of poor ppl that have died of one illness or the others? Just like the way they kept on wasting state money on super eagle after afcon. Even Zambian won the said trophy and yet they never empty their fund. There are over 20 thousand villages in Nigeria that lack water,electricity,road,adequate farm tools etc. |
| Sports › Re: NFL To Investigate 146 Goals In Two Matches by princewoles: 7:09am On Jul 10, 2013 |
scopusng: The Nigeria Football Federation has suspended four teams involved in "scandalous scorelines" after two lower league clubs chasing promotion and needing to boost their goal differences won games 79-0 and 67-0.I expect some senseless to also condemn Jonathan for this shameful act |
| Politics › Re: Rivers' Speaker Impeached, Amaechi Storms Assembly As Fight Erupts? by princewoles: 6:14pm On Jul 09, 2013 |
[quote author=Garri the 1st]GEJ is set to destroy the nation over his 2015 agenda.. 1. He has used BH to destroy and destabilize the North.. 2. He has empowered and armed Niger Delta militants.. 3. He tried introducing Boko Haram to the S-West, when he failed he gave OPC millions to procure arms against 2015.. Mr. GEJ, the gods are watching you.  [/quote. You are an apparent idiot for saying all those rubish |
| Politics › Re: FG Withholds Edo State Statutory Allocation – Oshiomhole Alleges by princewoles: 12:35pm On Jul 09, 2013 |
lakpa lakpa: Why is Goodluck Jonathan making a fool of himself??IS JET the finance minister? What does JET has to do wt withholding 1.8b when he can delay over 10b per month. Then why should oshiomole ketp on say MY money in His report, but I taught the money is made for the good ppl of Edo state. |
| Politics › Re: NGF Crisis Was Planned -aregbesola by princewoles: 12:09pm On Jul 06, 2013 |
Brimmie: [size=30]OP, Point Of Correction!! Not Osun State Bt State Of Osun[/size]What is State of Osun,na over sabi and too know dey kill Naija ppl. |
| Politics › Re: NGF Crisis Was Planned -aregbesola by princewoles: 12:06pm On Jul 06, 2013 |
[quote author=Pygru]   [/quoteGo and eat |
| Politics › Re: NGF Crisis Was Planned -aregbesola by princewoles: 12:04pm On Jul 06, 2013 |
Pygru:Nonsence what is State of OSun. Na over do and too know dey kill Naija ppl |
| Politics › Re: Police Arraign Innocent Man For Murder by princewoles: 7:22pm On Jul 05, 2013 |
BrightCar: THE POLICEMAN HAS BEEN BOUGHT OVER. THE POLICEMAN IS NEVER SAYING THE TRUTH. FROM MY PSYCHO ANALYSIS OF THE WHOLE MATTER, THE ACCUSED THE POLICEMAN TURNED TO DEFEND ACTUALLY COMMITTED THE CRIME. ASK THE POLICEMAN HOW MUCH HE HAS COLLECTED?I wonder how you think, 1 Like |
| Celebrities › Re: Patience Ozokwor Mobbed By Fans In South-Africa by princewoles: 3:40pm On Jun 17, 2013 |
Afam4eva: WOW! She's soo popular. |
| Politics › Benefits And Gains Of The Civil Service/civil Servants Under The Labour Party Go by princewoles(op): 3:11pm On Jun 16, 2013 |
1. End-of-Year Bonus: Dr Olusegun Mimiko, for the first time in history, introduced an end-of-year-bonus for all civil servants in Ondo State, which in tandem with the festive season, that is celebrated by all at such periods, spices the purse of workers. The payment of the largesse, which is 50% of monthly basic salary (25% was paid in 2012 but it remains a privilege not a right of the workers though), started in the same year that Dr Mimiko took oath of office in 2009 and has been sustained till date. It is instructive to note that this is also becoming the benchmark in neighboring states. 2. Settlement of Outstanding Pensions & Gratuities of Local Governments Including Primary School: Over 1 billion Naira was approved by Mr Governor to defray the long standing retirement benefits and pension entitlements of LG workers and primary school teachers. This helped in no small measure to lessen the monthly effort of local governments to pay off the debts, which had no end in sight. It also put an end to the endless wait of the veterans who were at times subjected to excruciating queues that was inimical to their health. 3. Salary Adjustment, Salary Relativity & Minimum Wage Payment: In a space of 2 years, the Dr Olusegun Mimiko administration for one reason or the other improved on the income of Ondo State serving workers. It all started with Salary Adjustment, which was to correct the short changing in monthly salaries of workers carried over from the last administration, bringing the State’s civil servants at par with their colleagues in neighbouring states. Thereafter came the Salary Relativity, which was based on a Federal Government’s circular aimed at bridging the gap between the take-home of Permanent Secretary and Directors on GL 16 and down the wage ladder. And, to cap it all, the Governor also consented and assented to a minimum wage of N22,000, making Ondo State the first State to actually implement what was a Bill passed by the National Assembly and signed into Law by Mr President. 4. Quantum Leap of the Minimum Wage Paid by Ondo State: To date the quantum leap of the minimum wage paid by Ondo State is the highest in the whole of Nigeria. This meant that the minimum wage, which Mimiko inherited at N10,500 was jerked up by over 104%. 5. Direct and Indirect Effect of the Mother & Child Hospital and Abiye Innovations for Pregnant Women: The Mother & Child Hospital was constructed purposely to stem the tide in the alarming rate of maternal and infant mortality. Services and drugs are also free, even when Cesarean Section is involved. In tandem with this is the Abiye programme that reached out to all pregnant women, with a provision of customized and networked phones and lines for such women to access consultancy services from State medical personnel and, should complications arise, such pregnant women would be attended to wherever they are and whatever time of the day by professionals at no cost. These facilities have received accolades from no less than the UNICEF and World Bank, urging other African nations to follow suit. By virtue of the fact that Dr Olusegun Mimiko meant this programme for all and sundry, including non-Ondo State indigenes, civil servants have benefitted largely and highly from the synergy availed by the MCH & Abiye programme. 6. Free Shuttle for Primary & Secondary Schools Students: This is another egalitarian largesse from the Mimiko administration that, directly or indirectly, civil servants who are parents of students in either private or public secondary schools have benefitted immensely in that these parents do not have to cough out any amount for the commuting of their wards to and from their schools everyday as there are buses available at designated and newly constructed bus stops in the rush hour of the morning and after closing hours in the afternoon to freight the children free of charge. 7. Vehicle Loans: Gone are the days, when in the immediate past administration, workers obtained car loans at between 18-22% compound interest rates. The administration of Dr Olusegun Mimiko has rescinded that cut throat decision to give out and make available vehicle loans to workers at a friendly simple interest rate of around 6% for civil servants. 8. Housing Loans: For long, the Housing Board at the Ministry of Lands & Housing, an ODSG organ for assisting workers with loans for housing construction has been comatose. However, with the advent of the Dr Mimiko administration, things have changed. The government has pumped money into the Board for the purpose of giving out soft loans up to N1m to civil servants at rock bottom interest rate of 5%. 9. Training Programmes: The ODSG has also intensified the capacity building of its workforce, with overhauled training programmes within and outside the country. Key among this training programme is the innovative Compuserve, which is aimed at enhancing the output of workers by pointing them in the way of a paradigm shift. It is also not uncommon to see the ODSG partnering with World Bank-assisted programmes to package useful training for its workers for the purpose of motivating and stimulating their unawaken abilities for the delivery of governance. 10. Faster Promotion of Civil Servants: There is no denying the fact that civil servants who are older in the system will have painful memories of how promotions used to be delayed, that is, if it eventually came in the 80s and 90s. Workers have had to wait for even over 3 years to get their rightfully deserved promotions and it is not as if the lost years will even be restored unto them nominally or financially. Up till the last administration, workers never got their promotion letters in the years they were due for promotions. The earliest time to lay hands on promotion letters was the following year of the due date of the promotion while there is never a make-up for the lost financial remunerations. As it were, there has been vast improvement in this sphere such that all civil servants who are due for promotion this year have already obtained their letter, a situation that is unprecedented. 11. Improved Condition of Work Environment: Most offices where civil servants work have undergone renovation to improve the work environment of workers. Since government workers spend most of the effective daytime hours in the office, it is expected that the office should boast of minimum comfort. This, the Mimiko-led administration has paid attention to with renovation of office, not least in the State Secretariat where the bulk of civil servants are located. Apart from the internal comforts availed by better and esteem-boosting furniture and air conditioners, the evidence of the scenic beauty of the view in the office ambience is also incontrovertible. 12. Opportunity to Attain the Peak of Career: The peak of a civil servant’s career is the office of a permanent secretary. But in the past, the office of a permanent secretary has been exclusively reserved for a selected few especially those in the admin cadre. When Dr Mimiko took the reins of office, he appointed new permanent secretaries, which unconventionally included medical doctors to man offices outside the Ministry of Health as well as Pharmacist, an Architect, Education Officers etc This had never happened before in the civil service. The message clearly sent was that every civil servant regardless of cadre has hope, not to just end as a director but to actually make it to the post of the permanent secretary. Furthermore, the Labour Party government has more permanent secretaries at any one time than any other administration. In teaching service, even teachers are now regularly appointed tutor-generals. |
| Celebrities › Revisiting Soyinka’s Gaffe On Achebe by princewoles(op): 1:03pm On Jun 16, 2013 |
By CHUKA NWOSU I wish to lend my voice to the raging discourse whether late Prof. Chinua Achebe is a greater writer and “Father of African Literature” than his friend and perhaps competing contemporary, Prof. Wole Soyinka. First, Prof. Chimalum Nwankwo, deserves kudos (Saturday Sun, June for giving vent to Prof Soyinka’s gaffe, in his frantic and desperate effort to challenge the generally held view, among world and African literary circles, on the appellation on Prof. Chinua Achebe, (o.b.m) as “Father of African Literature”.Methinks that the respected Prof Soyinka was looking for an outlet to let off angst, and avoid being drowned or submerged permanently by the deluge of world encomiums on Prof. Achebe after his death. But he failed to find space, or audience, with reputable world media like Time or Newsweek magazines, or even with our popular Nigerian media. Rather, he found outlet in the insidious online media, Sahara Reporters, which, few years ago, acquired some notoriety and infamy by publishing an unauthorized interview in which Mr Gbenga Obasanjo, accused his father, then President Olusegun Obasanjo, of committing adultery by allegedly seducing and sleeping with his (Gbenga’s) wife. The divorce case later went to court before being settled. I believe that Prof. Chimalum Nwankwo’s interview with Andrew soberly used panache, elegant prose and trite logic to deal justice to Prof. Soyinka’s jugular, thereby laying the ghost of the haunting Achebe/Soyinka supremacy debate to its final rest. Soyinka’s interview and utterances of some of his acolytes, like Odia Ofeimun, were rather senseless and insensitive to the death of a professional colleague, and utterly exposed Soyinka to a situation whereby the discerning public might cast a back glance at his mindset in his quest to be controversial always. Besides, in hindsight, perusing Achebe’s last book, There Was a Country, one starts to draw inferences and speculations on the mindset of Prof. Soyinka when he stormed WNBC Radio House in Ibadan with a gun (toy?), at the beginning of the Nigerian political crisis in 1965. One can also doubt his good motives and intentions when he visited Gen. Ojukwu in Enugu to discuss peace, and possible secession of Yoruba as Oduduwa Republic, if Igbos were allowed to go as Biafrans. One may also suspect Soyinka’s imprimatur in Brigadier Banjo’s infamous broadcast to Midwest, as Commander of Biafran Invasion of Midwest, (see page 259 of Achebe’s book). This is because the language, ambiance and twists in Banjo’s broadcast were obviously above the thinking and intellect of a beer-quaffing army officer, who was a disoriented Yorubaman in a state of war on the side of Biafra. Somebody, or people, might have given him an idea, or script, to declare and annex Midwest as part of Yoruba empire (which it might have eventually become today). And they got the poor Banjo killed. These things are now possible realities, and many people would not feel happy that Prof. Achebe, apart from saying that Chief Awolowo helped to starve millions of Igbos to death, had brought these sensitive truths and issues to limelight, as a parting gift to Nigeria, to enable her work at achieving a real united one Nigeria, or a confederation of States, or better Nations. However, if any other literary intellectual of Nigerian, Yoruba or African stock, feels strongly any longer, that Prof Soyinka is a “greater writer” than Prof. Achebe, let him or her produce empirical evidence, other than the fact that the “gaggle of Swedes” did give Soyinka the Nobel Prize in Literature, and failed to give same to Prof. Achebe. Thanks to Prof Sellwell who rightly said that the Nobel Prize needed Prof Achebe for its global image, than Achebe needed it as “Ezeafojulu” –the contented king of African Literature. But respected poet, Elechi Amadi’s position seemed to have laid this argument to rest, when he rightly articulated that, nevertheless, the Biafran war created a 29 year lull in the creative psyche and energies of Prof. Achebe, who wrote his epic, Things Fall Apart, in l958, only to follow up 29 years later in l987, with another great work, Anthills of the Savannah. Prof. Achebe, in his usual candour and humility, had always never wanted to broach the issue, believing as he did, that the “hood does not make the monk”. And we all know that the Swedish Nobel Prize Committee, though standing on its own high moral grounds in their selection criteria, had obviously not set any decipherable standards in literature, science, or morality, with regards to making peace or eradicating war globally, or medical research breakthroughs, to enable one earn its prizes. With regards to the supremacy debate, which Achebe never really cared a hoot about, I had believed that the issue had been well settled and concluded in a well researched book, with empirical evidences from world literary circles. The book is entitled Nigeria … A Future in Ruins, written by an Imo State born University don and classicist, Dr. Jimanze Ego Alowes, and published in 2011. The book contains, among several other chapters with acerbic and controversial pugilism, one chapter yet to be challenged, titled…”And Nigeria’s Greatest Writer Is…” Dr. Alowes had evidence to prove that without the Nobel Prize, Prof. Achebe’s image as a Greater Writer than Prof. Soyinka, was not doubtful, diminished, or controverted because “Lorca (Spain), Cavafy (Greek), Musil ( Austrian); Rilke (German); Marai (Hungarian); Blok (Russian); Mandelstan (Russian), Tolstoy (Russian), Chekov (Russian), Joyce (Irish), etc., all never got Nobel Prizes in Literature. Yet, if literature has gods, these are the gods. So, if these deities are on the outside, then who is in? Prof. Biodun Jeiyefo, a Soyinka acolyte, has been quoted as saying Achebe’s TFA is “… one of the extraordinary artistic and intellectual achievements, that, unlike say the writings of Soyinka and Okigbo from same period, TFA does not read like a work that grows out of and is addressed to a tiny literary and cultural elite. It mostly reads like a work written for the averagely literate man or woman. But then why has the novel attracted so much intellectual attention, a lot of it of the highest scholarly quality. Like some of the classics of world literature, it, Things Fall Apart is accessible to the most humble of readers, yet it is dearly beloved by very erudite scholars…” Finally, it is unfortunate that the much respected Nobel Laureate Prof. Soyinka, seemed to have flouted the basic Latin injunction that we say nothing but good of the dead: “De mortuis nil nisi bonum”. And this explains why I audaciously suggest that he retracts and apologises for his description of people as “suffering from literary ignorance”, just because they rightly classified Prof. Achebe as “Father of African Literature”. 0 |
| Politics › PDP May Sack Anti-tukur State Chairmen by princewoles(op): 4:54am On Jun 08, 2013 |
Govs' suspension: PDP may sack anti-Tukur state chairmenhttp://www.punchng.com/news/govs-suspension-pdp-may-sack-anti-tukur-state-chairmen/ |
| Culture › Shocking Testimony By A Police Officer by princewoles(op): 6:55pm On Jun 06, 2013 |
READ AND KINDLY SHARE THIS TESTIMONY BY A POLICE OFFICER GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU READ AND SHARE. I and one of my colleagues were traveling to Enugu State to pay a condolence visit to one of us who lost his mother. On the way, I discovered that I was pressed and needed to easy myself of which with the help of other passengers the driver was able to stop at a close by bush where I entered to easy myself. In the bush, I saw a very big snake came down from a tree and later turn into a female lady. I was chucked but could not make a move out of fear. The lady (snake) stretched out her hands and was immediately clothed after which she walked out towards the main road. I waited for some minutes to make sure that she must have gone far before I rushed out to meet with other disturbed passengers who have waited quite long for me. When I came to the bus and asked if they had seen any such lady that came out of the bush, they affirmed that she came out and stood along the express road where a man on jeep came and gave her a lift. At that point, I narrated what I saw to them and they were all filled with fear. It was at this point that I realized that not all human are human. But the question that I keep asking myself is whether to blame the man who has given lift to a supposed stranded lady …….? May God help us o!….. To as many people that shall read this message and share,to them I pray that may we never experience such. Type Amen To Claim This Prayer |
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