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babatawa:
Nice one

Harinholar:
....can u just hear urself...Rubbish reply?.pls is better u kip ur stupid advises here cos dey are nt welcome....nd besides must u comment....?....u are sighted wit ur trash already..kip calm....#Harinholar noni....#

Aare2050:
wow! see as i top the list. but right now i'm in a very sad mood.
#seemsiwillmissB15
#disapointed
#thinking
#thunder fire OAU
#weeping

slimspzy:
Cool... u fit confirm if truly main senate dey sit 2mao?....

elmisti:
Why dem no go plenty? Wen dem still get 1995 set wey neva go service? Beg leave dem ooo, dem fit com gatherbite u now

harristo:
Which one is advanced grammar again.

Ordinary grammar is difficult enough for most people, still you are mentioning advanced grammar.

After abusing President Buhari, after accusing him of being a Boko Haram sponsor, after denying him of votes from the South East and South South...

kokomilala:
Nice! But, there's a part of Concord that you didn't talk about-Notional Concord.In notional concord, which is very predominantly used in British English, the idea of plurality is embedded in a word, even if the word appears singular.For instance, government, team etc.If you notice, during English Premiership matches, you hear commentators say things like:'Arsenal are a delight to watch...Or, 'Chelsea are desperately defending...' The idea of plurality is hidden in words like Arsenal and Chelsea.These commentators, it has to be stated, are professional speakers.

dinkyicon:
im using this platform to inform nd correct my igbo brethren that there is nothing like ....pre-par its prepare(prepair) nd derz nothing like deter myne... but determine (determean) nd nothing like ya but your

codexgigax:
That's correct. What I mean is OAU is yet to send names to NYSC. Perhaps they want to add some before submitting it.

gbemmy2k10:
thanks for the info bro. I heard our names were submitted on Friday frm my past adviser tho I graduated dia yr sha...

gbemmy2k10:
are u sure about the Thursday? and pls ur source.. thanks

KeriBaby:
Yeah I'm good to go!

jossy874:
Bro abeg mistake in date of birth, how?

KeriBaby:
So sorry dear! Keep hope alive

Sent4rina:
I heard about the list, but i think they were outstanding A15 names.
I just graduated.

lokoloko84:
please my guy, I am a graduate of OAU.I revalidated my service year to this batch. A friend helped me to check my name on the list pasted and my name is there.He promised to send me the screen shot to me today.But he told me that date of birth is not included among the details pasted.
Is this true?

Sent4rina:
OAU management, please i beg of you do the needful, we are crying out loud..

We can't afford to miss B15, we are tired of sitting at home..
#signed; Association of OAU PCM B15...

Gazaliah:
Abeg,no ghost mode again ooo

The Lagos State Government has removed the list of contracts awarded under the administration of former Governor Babatunde Fashola.

The list which was published on the website of the state’s Public Procurement Agency, www.lagosppa.gov.ng, stated that Fashola’s administration spent N78.3m on his personal website, www.tundefashola.com, in 2014.

The list further stated that Fashola spent N139m on the drilling of two boreholes at the Lagos House, Ikeja.

However, checks by our correspondent on Monday showed that the section which lists all the contracts awarded under Fashola’s administration between 2013 and 2014 could no longer be accessed.

The website of the PPA was inaugurated by Fashola on July 15, 2013.

According to Fashola, the website is aimed at enhancing transparency, efficiency, accountability and value for money in the area of public procurement and asset disposal through the enactment of the Public Procurement Law, 2011, and the establishment of the requisite agency.

He had stated during the inauguration of the website that the details of contracts awarded by the government would be published periodically on the website.

Reacting to the development, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders said secrecy was one of the trademarks of the state government.

CACOL’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran, said that was why the state government failed to implement the Freedom of Information Act.

He said, “The development gives credence to the belief that the state government’s activities are shrouded in secrecy. They believe that the government is a cult and only the initiates should have information.

“It is for this reason that the Freedom of Information Act has been frustrated by state governments, especially Lagos. Such websites are only accessible when the state government’s have some interests to serve.”

The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, Mr. Habib Aruna, said he was not aware that the details of the executed contracts under Fashola had been removed from the website.

He, however, promised to investigate the matter.

Calls made to Fashola’s spokesperson, Hakeem Bello, rang out. He had also yet to respond to a text message sent to his telephone.

Lalasticlala
Ishilove

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has condemned the influence of godfathers in Nigerian politics, noting that godfathers are not true leaders.

The Speaker said ‘godfatherism’ was hindering the delivery of good governance in the country.

He said after corruption, the next issue that Nigerians must confront in order to enjoy the dividends of democracy was to end ‘godfather politics’ which he said was another form of corruption.

The Speaker, who represents Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa-Balewa federal constituency of Bauchi State, said this on his official Twitter handle.

In the series of tweets, Dogara, however, did not mention any particular godfather.

He said while true leaders raise competent leaders, godfathers only focus their attention on raising sycophants.

“Are godfathers true leaders? True leaders raise leaders while godfathers busy themselves in raising sycophants,” he said.

It will be recalled that Dogara defied the directive of his party to emerge as the leader of the lower legislative chamber on June 9.

The All Progressives Congress, led by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had favoured Femi Gbajabiamila, who is presently the Majority Leader of the lower legislative chamber, to be the Speaker.

Dogara, however, defeated Gbajabiamila in an election held in the House on June 9.

The Speaker said, “After killing corruption, the next thing to kill is ‘godfatherism.’ In fact it (godfatherism) is corruption in another form. So let’s kill both.

“With godfathers always breathing on the necks of their godsons who hold public offices, we can’t kill corruption and make progress. Why should the success or rising profile of a godson turn into the godfather’s insecurity? Why do godfathers always want to have followers who do not and must not have a sense of self-worth?

“Why does certain godfathers’ security rest on the insecurity of those they claim to have helped to power? Thank God for the social media but how many of us can stand up to what we hold dear, especially when our godfathers say no. Where is the place of character in our leadership recruitment process? Why are we no longer convicts of our own conviction?

“Why should the success or rising profile of a godson turn into the godfather’s insecurity? Why do we abandon our convictions at the caprices of a godfather without demonstrable evidence that we are wrong?”

liberty300:
The plot to probe only the GEJ admin is just an event to further divide the already divided south.

zuchyblink:
Nobody is defending anybody,all we are saying is that if you want to probe,probe everybody and don't select people to probe.
As simple as that

The South-East chapter of the All Progressives Congress says Igbo leaders who are opposing the probe of former President Goodluck Jonathan are desecrating the Igbo tradition.

It said the Igbo leaders who are supporting the former President are in breach of the traditional admonition which forbids Igbo from identifying with thieves or alleged thieves.

Several Igbo leaders, including the Chairman of the Igbo Leaders of Thought, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, and the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Joe Nwaorgu, had in recent times opposed President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to restrict the planned probe to Jonathan’s administration.

They insisted that Jonathan’s government should not be probed unless other previous administrations were included.

However, reacting to the development on Sunday, the South-East APC, in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, told the Igbo leaders to stop desecrating Igbo tradition by supporting Jonathan.

In the statement titled, ‘Stop desecration of Igbo tradition’, Okechukwu wondered why Jonathan’s defence was being championed by Igbo leaders, rather than the ex-President’s Ijaw kinsmen.

The statement read, “The South-East zonal chapter of the APC calls on Igbo leaders, in the name of defending our dear ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, to stop the desecration of the long standing Igbo tradition and by extension, our revered ancestors.

“Our worry is that the timeless Igbo tradition which admonishes us not to steal, and not to defend or associate with rogues or even alleged rogues is being flagrantly breached by prominent Igbo sons, crying more than Ijaw sons and daughters.

“We have yet to find any sentence where any of them, even our revered icon, erudite and constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, in any form denied the mindless, pervasive and unbridled corruption which pervaded ex-President Jonathan’s regime.”

Okechukwu equally condemned Nwaorgu’s advice that Buhari should extend the probe to the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The South-East APC spokesman accused Nwaorgu of deliberately blocking a planned meeting between Buhari and Ohanaeze Ndigbo before the elections.

According to Okechukwu, Buhari conveyed his request for the meeting, where he intended to “chart the way forward with Ndigbo”, in a letter forwarded to the Ohanaeze Ndigbo secretariat in November 2014.

The statement added, “May we appeal to Chief Joe Nwaorgu and his cohorts, if actually the interest of Ndigbo is what they are fighting for, to climb down from their high horses and stop the hate narratives and embrace the true position that Ndigbo stands to gain more from President Buhari’s regime, if ever we gained from our massive support to former President Jonathan.”

The South-East APC argued that “Ndigbo like all hardworking groups in the country” stand to gain more from Buhari’s administration than Jonathan’s, which it accused of dispensing patronage to cronies.

The party added that the Igbo were more likely to realise their wish to have one of their own as President of the country through Buhari.

According to Okechukwu “The Igbo ethnic merchants and gossip-terrorists who bandy all manners of conspiracy hate theories against President Buhari must come to terms that an eight-year tenure of the man of uncommon integrity is the surest route to the actualisation of President of Igbo extraction, given the zoning convention.”