₦airaland Forum

FA13:
You are so right bro! We are the one that carry due process for head. As you have rightly said, the people that will tackle him most will be his own kinsmen if not his family sef.
Obasanjo comes to mind, no one disrespect him than people from his tribe and particularly his state.
As for the Olonisakin, I guess he is just a figure head, you will never see him making any important decision and he is the Chief of Defence!

ak22:
We people of Ekiti don't know the value of that man you mentioned over there. Olonisakin, that is how former Minister for police behave the other time. All Of you Ekitian at the top try to be helping your brothers and sisters because one day you will leave that position.

lokho:
That Olonisakin is just too useless.

Very soon they'll take Nigeria Navy University to the Southsouth or southeast
I don't know his usefulness at all

lokho:
That Olonisakin is just too useless.
I don't know his usefulness at all

AlphaStyles:
Navy University Delta
Army University Borno
Airforce University Bauchi

Isso k

lereinter:
Ihejirika

He built beer parlour Infront of 2 Div Ibadan

stano2:
Ihejirika did well for his people, he even established the Nigerian Army Language Institute here.
I'm currently in his hometown.

Kenturkey048:
watch out....University of Nigerian Navy,Ugep,cross river state.

lexy2014:
I have read it once and I believe that's enough. Or did u edit ur comment?

nams77:
This people are really Teaching us something. If only my people will learn

sentra05:
The northerners don't give a damn to political correctness. Them no send anybody.

lexy2014:
U are d one complaining of ihejirika, olonosakin, buratai and abubakar all at once. I don't have any problems with them. So I guess u should b d one doing d asking

lonelydora:
Rotimi Amaechi chose to build University of Transportation in Daura and threatened to shutdown the one in Delta state.

Mayflowa:
I cannot blame him for not building. This isn't how government should be run. You build universities in your home town because u are in position to making the decision. Worse, all military universities and colleges are situated in the north. What a shame!

lexy2014:
Y should Ihejirika and olonisakin build? Is it just building for d sake of building?

naptu2:
The Admiralty University of Nigeria (ADUN), which was established as part of a partnership between the Nigerian Navy and a private entity, is in Delta State.

Like Buratai, Airforce Chief establishes Military university in hometown

The decision of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.Gen Tukur Buratai; and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar; to situate the Nigerian Army University and Nigerian Air Force University in their respective hometowns has become a topic of debate.

The army university was established in 2018 in Biu, Borno State, where Buratai hails from while the proposed Airforce University will be located in Bauchi, where Abubakar is from.

The Army University has already been approved by the National Universities Commission even as the Federal Executive Council gave its nod for a N2bn take-off grant for the university which would be accessed from Tertiary Education Trust Fund.

Less than a year later, the Chief of Air staff has decided to replicate Buratai’s feat.

In a statement recently, Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, hailed Abubakar for using his good offices to establish a university in the state.

Mohammed also commended the CAS for the earlier establishment of the Air Force Special Operation Command in Bauchi.

The governor observed that the Airforce boss, being a “worthy son of the state”, has contributed immensely towards the development of the state.

While responding, Abubakar said arrangements had reached an advanced stage for the establishment of Air Force University in Bauchi as well as renovation and expansion of Azare airport.

Speaking with PUNCH, however, a human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), described the establishment of universities in the hometowns of service chiefs as an abuse of office.

Falana said it was unfortunate that service chiefs were taking actions in contravention of the federal character principle.

He said, “The Nigerian Defence Academy already exists and it awards certificates. The same NDA is not well funded and yet the military is establishing new universities in the hometowns of service chiefs. Interestingly, NDA, the army university and the new air force university and other institutions are mostly concentrated in the North. This is against the federal character principle.”

Top military officers who spoke to PUNCH on the condition of anonymity, said the establishment of the new military universities were not only the height of nepotism but abuse of taxpayers’ funds.

A brigadier-general, who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity said, “What the service chiefs are doing is nothing but a waste of taxpayers’ money. It is even worse that the Federal Government is allowing them to do this at a time when we need to curb waste.

“It’s even worse that our troops fighting insecurity are told there is not enough money for equipment but there is money for new military universities.

“The service chiefs have been in office for over four years and have turned themselves into politicians, taking projects to their hometowns like constituency projects.”

An Air Commodore, who also wished to remain anonymous, said there was already an Air Force Institute of Technology in Kaduna which was approved by the NUC.

He said the institute was already offering courses on aeronautics, aerospace engineering and avionics and wondered why there was a need to establish more institutions.

He said, “FEC has approved N2bn for the takeoff of the army university. That is already a waste of taxpayers’ funds.

“We already have AFIT in Kaduna which teaches aeronautics and other professional courses. The sad thing is that the army university is even offering courses like Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Arabic when it should be strictly specialised courses.

“Even conventional public universities are complaining of lack of funds. Is this the best time for the military to establish new schools?”

When contacted on the telephone, the Director of Information, NAF, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, promised to call back but had yet to do so as of press time.

Similarly, the Spokesman for the Nigerian Army, Col. Sagir Musa, said he would call back with a response but had not done so as of the time of filing this report.

A Babcock University (BU) graduate of Law, Mayowa Mubashir Abiru, has emerged Nigeria’s overall best at the 2019 Law School Bar Exams.

Abiru, who made a Second Class Upper credit from Babcock, is one of the 10 BU alumni with a First Class grade at the Bar exams.

Also, Babcock University ranked third among universities that produced the highest number of students with First Class at the Law School Bar Exams this year.

Abiru went home with 11 awards, including Council of Legal Education Star Prize, Most Promising Graduate Student of the Year, Prize for First Class, Overall Best Student, Overall Best Male Student, Student of the Year, Overall Best in Corporate Law, Best Student of the Year, and 3rd Prize in Ethics Skills.

Babcock University President/Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ademola S. Tayo yesterday congratulated the students and their faculty for the feat, noting that the university will continue to strive for excellence in all aspects of her programmes.

“It is for this reason that the University was founded”, he said, “to be an academic entity of excellence, offering value in cutting-edge and functional education to her students.”

Dean of the Babcock School of Law and Security Studies, Prof. Deji Olanrewaju, who was also in Abuja for yesterday’s call to bar ceremony, said “Babcock remains committed to the Adventist philosophy of holistic education and transformational leadership.”

This is not the first time Babcock will be breaking records for academic excellence beyond its campus. Moyosore Eigbefor, Babcock University’s Accounting graduate emerged 2018 Overall Best Student, in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria examinations (London, Canada and Nigeria centres).

Two other alumni, Gilbert Benson Oladeinbo won the 2019 Kerry Harike Joe Decke Memorial Award for Outstanding Moot Court Board Member at University of Georgia School of Law. Ngozi Ukweni, a 2015 First Class graduate of Accounting of the University and a chartered accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), was listed as 2019 Forbes Under 30 Scholar.

The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, to release the details of the 80,115 ghost officers said to have been discovered in the police formations and command in 2018.

Justice Binta Nyako, in a judgment, ordered the IGP to release the information to a civil society organisation, Centre for Social Justice, which earlier applied for it but was denied access by police authorities.

The judge, therefore, ordered the police helmsman to immediately release to the group, information, including the names and contact addresses of the “ghost officers” and their ranks.

The judge also ordered the IGP to release the bank account numbers, bank verification numbers, monthly salaries and emoluments and the total money paid to each one of them.

The court also ordered the IGP to pay to CSJ, the sum of N500,000 as damages for earlier denying the group access to the information.

Our correspondent on Tuesday saw a copy of the enrolled orders, containing the summary of the judgment of the court delivered on October 22, 2019.

The Lead Director of CSJ, Mr. Eze Onyekpere, recalled in a statement on Tuesday that his organisation sent a Freedom of Information request to the IGP on April 3, 2018, requesting information on the details of the list of 80,115 ghost officers.

He noted that the then Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, had disclosed the information about the existence of the ghost workers in her presentation on the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System to the Federal Executive Council on March 21, 2018.

The IGP was said to have failed to release the information and give reasons for its inability to grant the request to CSJ.

The development forced the organisation to, through its lawyer, Mr. Kingsley Nnajiaka, file the suit, FHC/ABJ/CS/493/2018, praying for an order compelling the IGP to release the information to it.

In her judgment delivered on October 22, 2019, the judge held among others, that, “denying the applicant access to the details of the list of 80,115 ghost officers recently discovered in the police formations and command through the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System without explanation constitutes an infringement of the applicant’s right guaranteed and protected by Section 1 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2011.”

The judge also made an order of mandamus compelling the IGP to “grant access to the list of 80,115 ghost officers recently discovered in the police formations and command through the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System”.

“It also ordered the respondent “to pay to the applicant the sum of N 500, 000 as damages for denying the Applicant access to information.”

SalamRushdie:
Learn to be realistic , such unrealistic view ends up assisting bad leaders like Buhari stay long in power

As the gubernatorial election process in Kogi state comes to a gradual halt, Yahaya Bello, the incumbent governor has been returned elected by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

TheCable takes a quick look at the electoral figures and highlights some important twists and turns, which may be baffling to any statistician and interesting to politicians — but not statistically impossible or new to Nigerians.

We compare the results from 2015 gubernatorial in the state with the just concluded elections in the region, and here are some quick takes:

In 2015, the All Progressives Congress (APC) with the late Audu Abubakar as its flagbearer polled 14,786 votes in Okene local government area, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 15,968 to win in the local government. The total number of voters accredited stood at 35,143.

By 2019, the APC ticket holder and incumbent governor of the state polled 112,764 votes in the same local government, recording a 662.6 percent increase in votes for the party. The PDP on the other hand polled only 139 votes. This means the PDP lost 99.1 percent of its voters from 2015. The party has called for a cancellation of votes in the region.

It is worthy of note that Yahaya Bello is from Agassa in Okene.

PDP LOSES 97 PERCENT OF ITS 2015 VOTERS IN ADAVI

In Adavi local government area, the PDP went from 11,902 votes in 2015 to only 366 votes in 2019. These figures suggest that the erstwhile ruling party has lost 96.92 percent (approximately 97 percent) of its voters in the region in the past four years.

Inversely, the All Progressives Congress, which polled 15,636 in 2016 recorded a surge of 313.51 percent within four years, bring the party’s 2019 votes to 64,657.

APC BAG OVER 89 PERCENT OF OKEHI VOTES

Natasha Akpoti, the SDP gov candidate, is from Okehi LGA
The narrative in Okehi local government was also the same as the Musa Wada of the PDP saw a drastic reduction in his party’s vote, when compared to the results recorded in 2015.

The PDP recorded 8,504 votes in 2015 from 24,645 accredited voters, while the numbers fell to only 478 votes in 2019 — shedding over 8,000 votes.

Natasha Akpoti of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) polled 3,095 votes in the local government, which also happens to be her home LGA.

Yahaya Bello of the APC, who was declared winner in the LGA, polled 36,954 votes — up from APC’s 10,170 votes in 2015. The total number of accredited voters stood at 41,384.

Statistically, Bello polled over 89 percent of votes, assuming all accredited voters eventually cast their ballot.

OVER 1 MILLION REGISTERED VOTERS DIDN’T VOTE

Yahaya Bello and his running mate, Edward Onoja
The voter turnout in elections across Nigeria has been reducing over the last decade, and Kogi will be no different. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 1.6 million (1,646,350) people registered to vote in Kogi state.

At the end of the election, only 636,202 were accredited to vote on election day. This means 1,010,148 people did not show up for the vote, accounting for 61.36 percent of those registered to vote.

Less than 39 percent of eligible voters turned out to be accredited, while even less eventually voted correctly.

In 2015, 1,379,971 people registered to vote, but only 511,648 were eventually accredited to vote, representing a little over 37 percent voter turn out. While the percentage of voters who turned out to vote in 2015 is lesser, the actual number who stayed home in 2015, compared to 2019 is smaller. Over one million stayed home in 2019, while 868,323 stayed home in 2015.

Iamgrey5:
Bello is a criminal oh

Fucking Dekina

DeOTR:
I'm also from the NC and that doesn't make me any less a Yorubaman than someone from Ogun state.

Iamgrey5:
Have you seen Dekina?