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In 2016 they called it BUDGET OF CHANGE, the Education sector got 6.01% of the largesse

In 2017 it was tagged BUDGET OF GROWTH AND RECOVERY, the Education sector was serviced with 7.4% of the lump sum

It has been proposed and its waiting in Asokoro to be passed into law, the 2018 APPROPRIATION BILL christened BUDGET OF CONSOLIDATION. Yet again, the Education sector must make do with 7% of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and other 'financial instruments' to be issued forthwith.

"A Nation can not rise above her level of Education"... Nelson Mandela

How did the 'Western powers' get it right?

How can the Nigeria of our dreams emerge?

Will the Nigeria of our dreams ever see the light of day?

Where's the place of rescue?

But UNESCO said Education must get not less than 26% of a country's budgetary allocation. Must Nigeria deviate?

"With the aim of revival of the economy, Nigeria needs to fund the education sector to provide human capital to develop other sectors of the economy. How can Nigeria become one of the best 20 economies in the world by 2020, if her best university for five years running is the 25th in Africa and the 2004th in the world? (Webometrics statistics, Jan. 2016). Education has to be free, accessible and quality to revive the economy. Trained hands are needed in the power sector, works sector, the ICT sector, etc, if Nigeria will survive this economic mess" (Campus Gist)

59.28....Ondo catchment for CHEMISTRY
I had 59.05....
Merit list?

danielous:
read what I typed carefully Bro, I was confused at 1st too...

I already did it bro. Thanks for your concern

danielous:
now I've been able to rectify mine. All you need to do is to re-open d application. After re-opening save d 1st page and continue to d second page which is where you'll fill ur results. Now, what u need to do is just to click on delete beside d EDIT button after confirming d deletion, it'll bring add results, that's where you'll re-upload ur results. I did mine just now. U can do it ur sef. Quote if u v been able to do it...

Its still same old same. Nothing changed

MasterMind21:
No it's not. Delete the result and upload it again.

I'm still having the same challenge

danielous:
I have the same problem too. I have tried to rectify it myself but still won't change. Nothing will happen.

People have been saying nothing will happen. I just want to be sure its not an error from my own end

SOMEBODY HELP ME

I tried to re-upload my O'level result this evening but the system has been duplicating the subjects and grades i put up for the screening to come

Something like

Mathematics C4
Mathematics C4
English Language C5
English Language C5

What do I do brothers and sisters

I must not lose this admission either by error of omission or commission

Labodinho
Ibadanfinest
davbravo

please put me through as soon as possible

Thanks!

What really is the Biafra ideology?

In April, the Senate president, Bukola Saraki inspected erosion control projects at Oja-Gboro, Ubandawaki/Oloje/Ajikobi and Abata Baba-Oyo. These are his constituency projects for which he collected hundreds of millions of naira. These are rural plains. He is neither constructing dykes nor levees, as Kwara State is not below the sea leavel. The total cost of all his constituency projects is a tiny fraction of what he pocketed from the treasury “legally”. He is unaccountable for this money, he owes us no explanation on how this money was spent. It is authority stealing, made legal! Ranking senators like Saraki often get as high as half a billion naira annually for constituency projects. Free, easy money!


Nigerians should look no where else for economic saboteurs outside the legislative chambers. It is scandalous that the National Assembly will cut funds for the completion of life saving infrastructural projects in favour of boreholes and culverts! Everyday, the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway claims a lot of lives and our elected officers do not care! Because they wanted money for themselves, they discounted the boost that a completed Bodo-Bonny road, Kano-Maiduguri road, the Second Niger Bridge and the Mambilla Hydropower Project could bring to the economy. They care not about the hundreds of jobs the construction of these projects will create and the jobs and revenue that could accrue from them on completion.


Constituency projects are often a farce, a kind of ponzi scheme designed to cream off taxpayers. These phony projects are inserted during the process of reviewing the proposed budget submitted by the president. Once the budget is signed, the money is released by the executive to the contractors, who are usually from front companies incorporated by the legislator who initiated and inserted the project to be funded into the budget. They do not care about the conflict of interest involved nor the ethics. It is about the money. After the approval and release of funds, the money meant for the project is usually shared between the contractors and the parties that agreed to the insertion. The process is repeated yearly as each budget is submitted to the legislature.


Money earmarked for constituency projects is stolen by legal means. The projects are often local, serving special interests, never competitively awarded and not subject to review. Giving money to legislators is wrong, it is a circumvention of established budgetary procedures. Given the lack of due process, transparency and accountability, it creates a few winners and a great many losers. Constituency projects corrupt democracy by eclipsing more important developments in favour of dubious schemes designed to enrich legislators and promote majoritarian patronage.


It is a crying shame that representatives are loading the budget with pork and increasing their own expenditure, while ordinary Nigerians are losing jobs and purchasing power. While the country groans under an infrastructure deficit, elected officials who are supposed to champion development are cutting allocations to vital projects under the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing and other Ministries. It bothers them not that Nigeria is embroiled in an economic and fiscal crisis requiring judicious and expert disbursement and management of resources at all tiers of government. They care more about what the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs and Excise wears to work than advancing Nigeria’s fare.


The spat between Governor Fashola and the Senate showed the difference between his farsightedness and notorious short-termism that our leaders are known for, as exemplified by the leeches in the Senate. In his words: “In any event, allegations of half truth is only a flawed response to the constitutional and developmental issues that have plagued Nigeria from 1999 about how to budget for the critical infrastructure in Nigeria. It shows the conflict between the Executive that wants to build big federal highways, bridges, power plants, rail and dams on one hand and the parliament that wants to do small things like bore holes, health centres, street lights and supplying grinding machines”. It is obvious that we lack thinking men and women in the Senate. The distortions introduced into the budget are discouraging. Why the mindless duplication? The local government exists to do the same things the legislators are fighting to do, so they can enrich themselves at our expence. Their demonstrated lack of understanding of budgetary provisions, concession and counterpart funding is laughable! It goes to show that this country needs knowledgeable and forward thinking patriots who will adhere to the policies, laws and the constitution to put Nigeria on the path of development.


For the avoidance of doubt, the funds they are trying so hard to steal is borrowed money, for which the public will pay interest, with the likely scenario of keeping future generation of Nigerians indebted. Again Fashola is right! “As long as budgets planned to deliver life changing infrastructure are cut into small pieces, Nigeria will continue to have small projects that are not life changing, and big projects that have not been completed in 17 years. If a project would cost N15 billion and the contractor gets only a fraction of that, then things won’t move. Success should be defined by how many projects an administration is able to complete or set on the path of irreversible completion and not how many poorly funded contracts are awarded”.


Who, or what, can lead Nigeria out of this sour patch of misgovernance? Who will help us educate the leeches in the National Assembly? Who will help protect our future by making sure we plan for this and future generation of Nigerians? There is a conflict on how best to serve the long suffering Nigerian people. There is a raging difference of opinion between those who want to build for us and those who want to steal from us. The minister must not allow this to stand. He should head to court to stop the leeches before our anemic bodies succumb to the vagaries of their parasitic feeding. Let the courts help us. Can they?

Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú a farmer, youth advocate and political analyst writes this weekly column, “Bamidele Upfront” for PREMIUM TIMES.

rheether:
Trash

I can not agree less!

TrueSenator:
I True Senator of the Naija Federal Assembly do hereby declare that your secondment be moved to the actual MOTION due to the potency and weightiness of your motion.....those in support say 'Yea'

Thank you very much Distinguished Colleague

TrueSenator:
We move a MOTION to swear in PYO as the PRESIDENT of FRN.....so he can have a VP to assist before he breaks down with all these traveling

Those in support click 'LIKE"

I Senator Sam Ade'Ola representing the good people of Akoko North West support this brave motion. Nigeria is currently being governed by THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS, and we must PROGRESS in deed!

I so SECOND!

Our constitution needs to, with immediate effect introduce CAPITAL PUNISHMENT as penalty to any public 'servant' who tampers with public funds

SOURCE
http://saharareporters.com/2017/02/15/andrew-yakubu-was-country-emmanuel-ugwu

Moderators please, let people see this!
CC Lalasticlala Mynd 44

SOURCE
http://saharareporters.com/2017/02/15/andrew-yakubu-was-country-emmanuel-ugwu

Moderators please, let people see this!

Truth is not always absolute. Sometimes, it has layers of correctness. For example, it’s a self-evident truth that Andrew Yakubu was a klpetocrat. But that’s a lower layer of truth. There is a higher and more relevant layer of truth about Andrew: He was his own country.


The former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was an avaricious plunderer of the commonwealth. He stole a fabulous fortune while on the job and hid a treasure trove in his house to guarantee himself a happily-ever-after bliss after his incumbency.
However, to portray Yakubu as just another face of Nigerian corruption is to minimize his evil genius. He was not a puny treasury looter. He amassed 9. 8 million dollars and 74, 000 pounds: he had his personal ' external reserves '!
A whistleblower claims the staggering find is only a quarter of the whole picture. He suggests that Yakubu had moved three cash-packed safes to an unknown hideaway before the EFCC raid. This implies that we may yet grapple with the reality that this one man managed to enrich himself in 'external reserves' more than other countries on this planet!


A vital fact that emerged from this scandal is that the house Yakubu repurposed as the bank of his 'external reserves' is located in the midst of a squalid slum in Kaduna.
The Nation reported that the slum dwellers, awakened to the hugeness of the dark money, cursed their 'neighbor' . They were bitter that they were left in the dark all along. Without the EFCC shakedown, they would never have known that the otherwise forgettable building in their neck of the woods was a veritable Ali Baba cave.
But the annoyance of the slum dwellers had nothing to do with the impropriety of the looting. They were vexed by the element of hoarding. Their ‘neighbor’ did not find it in himself to make them partakers of the unsearchable riches of his heist.
They were outraged that Yakubu cornered all of that 'government money' and kept it while they lived hand to mouth. Had he been generous with a modest fraction of the loot, they would not have felt hard done by their ‘neighbor’. The memory of the crisp feel of two or three bills he happened to hand them some time in the past would have made them feel indebted to him. It would have moved them to defend his innocence and to accuse government of politically motivated witch-hunt.
Yakubu’s neighbors felt betrayed. They thought that, as the host community of his ‘external reserves’ bank, he was supposed to know that he owed the slum and the people something. They were mistaken.
Yakubu did not steal on behalf of the collective. He stole for himself and by himself. He stole for his exclusive betterment.
Yakubu was a cheerful taker. His worldview had no accommodation for ‘corporate social responsibility’. His philosophy was averse to charity.
Yakubu’s neighbors abused him for being content to maintain a barn of fallow cash in an area where children go to bed hungry. If he had extended a little of his surplus to the destitute in the vicinity, they would not have taken a dim view of his ‘external reserves’. His unmitigated stinginess did not permit him to rid himself of his surplus spoils.
They didn’t know that Yakubu could not have kept the lion share of the loot and democratized the remainder. He was solely interested and invested in his own affairs. He was incapable of subtracting from his wealth to make a dent on someone’s poverty.


BudgIt, the vibrant civil society organization fighting for the institutionalization of transparency and accountability in Nigeria, published an
infograph that illustrates the opportunity cost of Yakubu’s ‘external reserves’. The diagram shows that 3.09 billion, the naira equivalent of his hard currency loot, would suffice to fund certain capital projects in federal government’s 2017 budget: construction of Suliya-Chaza-Babuni road; building of an Off-grid solar micro utility; building of a 700 megawatt Zungeru hydro power project; provision of 800 pieces of 11 KV transformer; repair, asphalting and provision of drainage on Mohammed Idrissa way, Potiskum, Yobe state.
That is to say, Yakubu arrested and locked two federal roads and two power projects in that single safe. He stole deliverables of development that could have improved the lives and livelihood the Nigerian people. He spoiled Nigeria to furnish his own niche.
Yakubu practiced the ultimate Nigerian looting. The highest ambition of the average corrupt public office holder in Nigeria is to steal enough from Nigeria to distinguish themselves from other Nigerians. They attain the peak of success when they salt away sufficient public funds to individuate themselves from other miserable Nigerians.
This is secessionist looting. The thieves steal so they can become discrete, independent one-man states. They steal to become nation entities unattached to and unaffected by Nigeria.
Yakubu made a country out of himself when he began to build his individual ‘external reserves’ to the detriment of Nigeria. He didn’t hoist a new flag but he effectively declared his own independence when he diverted Nigerian petrodollars to his personal warehouse.

By looting secessionally, he drew an invisible border around himself and his household. With his ‘external reserves’, he protected himself against Nigeria. He is unaffected by rising food prices. He will always have forex to pay the tuition fees of his kids studying abroad. If he took ill, he won’t be liable to fall a victim of Nigeria’s healthcare system.

If EFCC had spared Yakubu sleuthing, he would have lived a very exotic, un-Nigerian life. He and his ilk impoverish Nigeria on staggering scales because they want to exempt themselves from the tragedy that is Nigeria. They want to live as alien Nigerians. They want their ‘case to be different’.

The presence of Yakubu’s ‘external reserves’ in a slum epitomizes the proclivity of selfish Nigerian officials to construct an island of enjoyment in a desert of deprivation. It speaks to the depravity of their life of the internal exile. They hate the country and purport to serve it while they are actively undermining it.

In the austerity days of President Shehu Shagari, the federal government seized the airwaves with an ingenious jingle. An antsy Andrew character, lugging his baggage and excited about his prospect overseas, was in a hurry to leave Nigeria. At the last minute, he cancelled his travel plan. He was persuaded that Nigeria was on the threshold of recovery and so he didn’t need to abandon the country.

Andrew Yakubu was a different Andrew. He fled Nigeria. He was neither a patriot nor an optimist. He believed Nigeria could only get worse. He stole from an already failing country both to catalyze its bankruptcy and to insure his own future!
Yakubu would not concede that he is a thief. He said his ‘external reserves’ represented a stockpile of ‘ gifts ’. He reaped cash gifts upon cash gifts during his time as GMD of NNPC.

The Jonathan administration sacked him for ‘ insubordination ’. Only heaven knows how impressive his ‘external reserves’ would have been if his tenure was not abridged, if he had been obedient and compliant to Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, then Minister of Petroleum.
Ironically, a few days after the exposure of Andrew’s ‘external reserves,' EFCC discovered a 37.5 million dollar mansion owned by his former boss in Banana Island, Lagos. This is in addition to a Port Harcourt hotel and an 18 million dollar Abuja house recovered from the ultra-corrupt oil goddess last year.

Allison-Madueke is unarguably the most audacious thief of her gender to have ‘served’ Nigeria. Today, she is a cancer patient in UK in part because she stole herself free from Nigerian health facilities.
Her five-year tenure as minister of petroleum saw the highest turnover of GMDs of NNPC. She sacked 5 GMDs, averaging a dismissal every year. NNPC is the biggest cash cow of Nigeria. It’s possible they dared to prove a competition in larceny and it rubbed her the wrong way.
While Allison-Madueke was minister, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Emir Sanusi Lamido, alerted President Jonathan that 20 billion dollars was missing from NNPC coffers. The president invited him and demanded his resignation!

During the 2015 presidential campaign, Jonathan wooed South-West monarchs with million dollar bribes. After his defeat and departure from office, EFCC found 15 million dollars in his wife’s bank account.
She claimed that the amount she could not have earned legitimately, given her pedestrian career history, was her
savings for her overseas medical treatment . A group of sycophants swore that her ‘external reserves’ were ‘ gifts ’ brought to the First Lady by Santa Claus visitors!

The biggest problem of Nigeria is separatist individualism. Those who are supposed to build Nigeria are preoccupied with the business of self-aggrandizement.
Nigeria is an epic disaster because of the preeminence of the Andrew Yakubu demographic. Public officers prioritize the building of their ‘external reserves’. They usurp the wealth of the citizenry and even covet the slums –the very sanctuary of the poor!

angeltolly:
Power drunken cow.... After 23 years in power, e never do you? Now you gotta be humiliated then learn the hard way. Ewu

fantastic!
23 years..... 23 likes!!

OlujobaSamuel:
hold not thy peace, oh God of my praise

Psalm 109:1
The Apostolic Church Nigeria

The LORD will indeed give what is good, and our land shall yield its harvest.. Psalm 85:12(NIV)

Grace be unto us.......and Peace be multiplied in Nigeria!

Hmmm..
Obviously, Nairaland isn't for KIDS like ME

Hmmm..
Obviously, Nairaland isn't for KIDS like ME

Darey deserved the best R&B single dished out to Shadyee
MasterKraft deserved the producer of the year dished out to Young John
Illbliss.....lyricist on the roll

comedy of errors for the Headies

Preca:
Wow...i yawned when looking at the yawning pics

Research has shown that "Yawning is contagious"

RentALodge:
Touching!

Say what you want, but this man here is the greatest footballer ever!

Of Maradona, it is often said: 'He won the World Cup single-handedly,' and: 'He made Napoli Italy's finest side all on his own'. Away from the comfort zone of Barcelona Messi has never reached the same heights, goes the argument.

But, aside from underplaying the other strengths of Maradona's Napoli and the quality of that Argentina side in 1986, such a theory also brushes over the way Messi has sustained Barcelona far more than Barcelona has sustained him.

We thought Pep Guardiola was the secret to the club's incredible success when they won the treble in 2009 in the coach's first year in the job. But the year before last Barcelona completed the same feat, also with the FIFA Club World Cup cherry on the top. Guardiola had gone but it didn't matter because Messi remained.

In that incredible first season at Barcelona commentators could have been forgiven for believing Messi might not be the same without Samuel Eto'o and Thierry Henry alongside him.

But the following season he reached similar heights with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Pedro for company.

Zlatan, who at times never seemed to be too enamored by his diminutive team-mate, nevertheless has voted Messi the world's best player every year since 2009.

In 2011 David Villa became his new strike partner. Alexis Sanchez, Neymar and Luis Suarez have followed. The world changes, but it keeps orbiting around the same sun. Messi shines brightest every season.

We wondered if his level might drop when he no longer had Xavi playing behind him. But at times this season and last, Messi has morphed into his old midfield team-mate. Dropping deeper to play the passes that Xavi once played. All that's left is for him to get on the end of his own assists – it wouldn't be the first time he had bent the laws of physics.

The point is that, far from being in a Camp Nou comfort zone these last seven years, Messi has been at one of the most demanding clubs in the world and he has led them to a level of greatness that puts them at the summit of all-time top teams and leaves us in little doubt that he is the all-time great individual.

He never depended on Guardiola and Xavi just as now he doesn't depend on forward colleagues Luis Suarez and Neymar.

And on to all this excellence we can add the apparent ability to take such success in his stride that Galeano was on about.

Many good players have grasped at greatness and many great players have held on to it for a short time. Messi has it permanently under his arm and most of the time he forgets its even there.

All hail, King Leo!

all this epistle for only Messi one
issoryte!

AloyalNigerian:
These people need help.

MMM is available!

In the presence of God, there is FULLNESS OF JOY and at HIS right hand are pleasures evermore

Where there is laughter(an instant effect of comedy), there is joy!

No comedian mounts the rostrum to INTENTIONALLY say profane things about God or the Bible.. He/She is just trying to ply his trade based on 'the demand of the occasion'... God is aware of the intents of his heart at that point in time, and that's why there is GRACE

To cast our minds away from everyday challenges in an environment (church) where we believe we can find solutions to these challenges, the importance of comedy can not be over-emphasised

Comedy is ART..... So is MUSIC

Everything can be done in moderation
A call for total overhaul should not suffice

tosyne2much:
Na very good idea egbon.. Na you we go choose as our presidential candidate

make i graduate first baba mi
but if we start our party, I go support anybody wey we choose
É fit be YOU sef

bolaji3071:
about The Sif, None Of Us In Chemistry Department Own Has Been Signed, It's Gonna Be Signed On The Of Final Enrollment Day I Think. And It Is Your Course Adviser That Is Gonna Do The Facaulty And Departmental Reg For You.

@ bolaji can one gain admission to study Chemistry science with a UTME combination of Physics, chemistry and Biology with Use of English
someone said you Must do maths

bolaji3071:
Through with my registration
All students in the faculty of science were asked to come back on Monday 29th for the faculty and departmental registration
No one was screened out.
The registration officer for the faculty science were nice.
Note. You must ensure your screening form is coloured. Your letter of reference, if not stamped must be printed on a letter head paper
These infos are based on my registration experience today.

please Mr Bolaji, what is the acceptable UTME combination for CHEMISTRY SCIENCE this year?

Are you allowed to do Biology?

Alikiba would win awards in matters relating to THE OTHER ROOM