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 Jobs/Vacancies / Rainoil Oil And Gas Company: Graduate Trainee Program 2020 by shehuolayinka(m): 3:29pm On Nov 14, 2020 |
Rainoil’s Trainee Program seeks to source, develop, and accelerate top graduates in Nigeria. The program is designed to fast-tracks talented individuals into critical roles at Rainoil. To upskill the Trainees through our Rainoil Academy Program as well as on-the-job training through full employment and placement into a strategically aligned role. The Program is designed to adopt a blended learning approach – classroom and online learning experience. Trainees will also be exposed to role play development experience through job rotations and other holistic career development interventions which include career counselling, mentoring and coaching. The Rainoil Graduate Trainee Program is an opportunity for top graduates to be part of a company that has & continue to set the pace in the downstream subsector of the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry. Job Type: Full Time Qualification: BA/BSc/HND Experience Location: Lagos Job Field: General, Graduate Jobs CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR WHATSAPP GROUP CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR TELEGRAM GROUP Graduate Trainee Program Profile • Rainoil’s Trainee Program seeks to source, develop, and accelerate top graduates in Nigeria. The program is designed to fast-tracks talented individuals into critical roles at Rainoil. To upskill the Trainees through our Rainoil Academy Program as well as on-the-job training through full employment and placement into a strategically aligned role. ALSO APPLY: VACANCY: Accountant at Vagan Oil and Gas Limited • The Program is designed to adopt a blended learning approach – classroom and online learning experience. Trainees will also be exposed to role play development experience through job rotations and other holistic career development interventions which include career counselling, mentoring and coaching. APPLY HERE: https://www.btjobsng.com/job/rainoil-oil-and-gas-company-graduate-trainee-program-2020/ |
| Jobs/Vacancies / VACANCY: Accountant At Vagan Oil And Gas Limited by shehuolayinka(m): 3:49pm On Nov 10, 2020 |
VAGAN OIL & GAS LIMITED is a Nigerian Private Limited liability Company registered under the Companies Acts of 1990, In line with the policies of the Nigerian service provision. The company core area of operation is to provide a broad spectrum of services ranging from Engineering, Pipeline & Flowline Construction / Repairs, Facility piping and maintenance, Wellhead & Christmas tree maintenance and servicing, Composite wrap technology, Equipment & Offshore/Marine Supplies etc. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR WHATSAPP GROUP CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR TELEGRAM GROUP Work experience, as an Accountant APPLY HERE: https://www.btjobsng.com/job/vacancy-accountant-at-vagan-oil-and-gas-limited/
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| Jobs/Vacancies / Lagos State Government Graduate Internship Placement Programme by shehuolayinka(m): 4:52pm On Nov 09, 2020 |
As part of efforts to reduce the rate of unemployment in Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved Internship Programme for 4,000 unemployed graduates in line with the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda of the present administration and the Youth Development Programme of the State. The Graduate Internship Placement Programme (GIPP) is designed to give candidates the opportunity to develop employability and work-ready skills that are needed in securing gainful employment. The Internship Programme will be addressing the third and fourth pillars of the present administration’s T.H.E.M.E.S agenda, which are Education and Technology and Making Lagos a 21st Century Economy, while the beneficiaries will be paid a monthly stipend of N40,000 for the six months duration of the internship. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR WHATSAPP GROUP CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR TELEGRAM GROUP Requirements Interested applicants must possess NYSC Certificates or letters of exemption, and must be registered residents of the State with Lagos State Residents Registration Agency, LASRRA. After Internship At the end of the internship period, interns would have gained valuable applied work experience, built up their professional skills and would have been exposed to possible entrepreneurial opportunities to strengthen their professional skills and interpersonal relationship. How it work APPLY HERE: https://www.btjobsng.com/job/40000-naira-monthly-stipend-lagos-state-government-graduate-internship-placement-programme/
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| Jobs/Vacancies / Nigerian Navy Resume 2020 Recruitment Exercise by shehuolayinka(m): 5:23pm On Nov 07, 2020 |
The Nigerian Navy has announced the resumption of online registration for the year 2020 recruitment exercise for two weeks beginning from November 5 to 18, 2020. A statement issued by the Navy said that the initial online registration commenced in March 2020 but was suspended in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR WHATSAPP GROUP CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR TELEGRAM GROUP “The registration is free of charge and applicants are to register online at http://joinnigeriannavy.com within the designated period and in strict compliance with regulations and guidelines”, the statement added. APPLY HERE: https://www.btjobsng.com/job/nigerian-navy-resume-2020-recruitment-exercise/
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| Jobs/Vacancies / VACANCY: Coronation Group Graduate Trainee Program 2020 by shehuolayinka(m): 4:18pm On Nov 07, 2020 |
Coronation Group is a leading African financial services platform, we have a wide range of distribution channels in banking, asset management, risk transfer and digital services. Applications are invited for: Title: 2020 Coronation Graduate Trainee Program Location: Nigeria CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR WHATSAPP GROUP CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR TELEGRAM GROUP Job Details As a leading financial services ecosystem with business interests in Corporate and Investment Banking, Asset Management, Insurance, Private Equity, Fund Administration, Research, Venture Capital, and Digital Distribution. Coronation is grooming a team of future leaders with great potential and interest in becoming future CFOs within various entities. Minimum Qualifications APPLY HERE: https://www.btjobsng.com/job/vacancy-coronation-group-graduate-trainee-program-2020/
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| Jobs/Vacancies / Head Of Sales, Public Sector & Ngos At Infohob by shehuolayinka(m): 4:04pm On Nov 07, 2020 |
Job Type: Full Time Qualification: BA/BSc/HND Experience: 8 years Location: Abuja Job Field: Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development Our client is one of the leading indigenous ICT companies in Nigeria with offices in Lagos and Abuja, delivering world-class solutions that meet her customers’ technology needs. You will be responsible for securing short and long-term profitable business in the Public Sector through proactive selling and management of resources based on fundamental understanding of our client’s business, operations and objectives. You will also be expected to act with strong authority and accountability to develop the business relation and actively contribute to making customers successful in the Public Sector. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Identifying market opportunities for new customers and achieving sales targets in NGO and Public Sector. Leading and motivating the sales team to achieve the best results possible. Identifying key areas of improvement in the sales process. Coaching direct reports in pipeline management, opportunity management, and planning. Facilitating/encouraging cross-team account and resource planning. Attending industry events and conferences to generate new business leads. Acting as a spokesperson for the organization at sales events and conferences. Networking with C-Level suite/ directors in order to generate new business for the company. Monthly reporting on sales performance against budget and reporting on variances. Managing the overall team process to develop solution areas, competitive and strategic initiative opportunity and pipeline assessment. These workloads/solution areas span the entire solution portfolio. Developing and maintaining a valid, healthy team pipeline. Managing a team of Solution Sales and Specialists and all sales related activities of the company. Developing a resource allocation strategy that enables effective opportunity engagement. Growing individual employees into effective and knowledgeable Solution Sales Professionals and Technology Solution Professionals who are motivated and committed to their customers and internal teams. Hiring qualified individuals with high potential to succeed. Growing and maintaining healthy customer relationships to foster repeat/new sales in existing accounts. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR WHATSAPP GROUP CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR TELEGRAM GROUP RESPONSIBILITIES & TASKS: Maximize customer relationship, build loyalty and eliminate customer churn. Develop long term business. APPLY HERE: https://www.btjobsng.com/job/head-of-sales-public-sector-ngos-at-infohob/
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| Politics / OPINION: Does The FCT Have A Minister?, By Fredrick Nwabufo by shehuolayinka(m): 9:42am On Oct 28, 2020 |
There is no government presence in the federal capital territory (FCT). Yes. In fact, there is no such thing as leadership in the FCT. If there was, I would certainly know being a habitué of the city. There are only vulgar structures which are purely administrative habitations of the federal government. Beyond the vast jungle of bricks and glass, the FCT is rudderless. There are many sore points in the ungovernance of the FCT. But I will situate my concerns in only two. Security is in a parlous state and infrastructure is generally decrepit. Derring-do attacks by bandits have become typical. As a matter of fact, the attacks have been eviscerated of shock — and normalised. It appears we are all just waiting for the next blitz and the next victim. These brigands initially expropriated the fringes of Abuja as the delimitation of their blood trade. But owing to the effective abdication of responsibility by the FCT administration (which is only in name) led by Mohammed Bello and Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, this noisome pestilence is inching into the city and already ravaging surrounding areas. A man was kidnapped from his home at Kubwa, opposite NYSC Junction; a notable satellite town in the FCT, last Friday at the dead of night. Please underline ‘’kidnapped from his home’’. This incident did not happen on the road as customary; these gunmen went straight to the home of their victim. The face of terror in the FCT is morphing; the freebooters are becoming more emboldened and vicious. And this is largely because of the ineptitude of Mohammed Bello and his co-driver. It is unarguable that Abuja is becoming the Dunkirk of kidnapping. Residents of Pegi in Kuje subsist with the nightmare of gun-toting kidnappers on the prowl. It has become casual for citizens to be kidnapped in that area. On October 10, 15 persons were kidnapped in that axis. Among those kidnapped was reportedly the vice chairman of Kuje area council, his aides, and other members of the council. This attack did not happen in the refuge of darkness. It happened about 6pm. Again, the consignors of blood are becoming feistier. My friend, Dr Laz fell into the pugnacious hands of the cousins of these bandits on Monday afternoon, October 26, 2020. He was in his car at Banex in Wuse II when three yobbos circled him, attempting to snatch his car key. They threatened his life and asked him to part with all he had before he could be ‘’free’’. He capitulated to their will to save his neck — broad daylight robbery in the heart of town. There have been accounts of armed violence in different parts of the FCT. In August, bandits dominated the arterial Life Camp road, where some estates are situated, discharging bullets on motorists. Really, from Lokogoma, Lugbe, Kuje, Kubwa, Wuse II, Gwarimpa, Apo to Karu and Karshi, the entire FCT province is under the cumulus of pillagers. A large part of the city is a coven of darkness at night – perilously unlit. Abuja which used to have a boisterous night-life is now as desolate as the streets of Aleppo in Syria at night. The city has lost its unique character as the safest place in the country. Infrastructure is in ruins; cavities dot the roads — like the giant bomb craters in the city of Ramadi in Iraq. The entire place oozes of detritus, and in fact, – there is nothing befitting of the much vaunted ‘’seat of power’’ under the figurine minister – Mohammed Bello. Traffic jams have become accustomed hardship citizens around Karu urban area and other places endure. The Karshi-Apo road which commonsensically will ease the daily chore of agony on the Abuja-Keffi road is yet to be completed after five years of the Buhari administration and of Bello as figurine minister of the FCT. In February 2016, Mohammed Bello visited the Karshi-Apo project site where he made quotidian political promises. Four years after his visit, the Karshi-Apo is not even near completion, and in fact, it has been abandoned.# READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/10/28/does-the-fct-have-a-minister-by-fredrick-nwabufo/ 1 Like
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| Politics / ‘igbo Tradition Is Sick’, Lady Narrates Family Ordeal In Trying To Bury Her Dad by shehuolayinka(m): 11:05am On Oct 24, 2020 |
A Twitter user, Julia (@ijayy_), has narrated the experience of her family as they are trying to buried her late father who died on the 30th of August. Julia who is from Oguta Local Government Area, Imo State in a series of tweets on her twitter account said her late father’s family members had been frustrating their effort to buried her dad. She said his own brothers and kinsmen had hijacked his corpse. According to her, because girls like me should not have opinions about things like this. Because why would someone with a vagina hold the mortuary tally. Because after my dad’s brothers abandoned his corpse and left it lying there in my living room I took him to the mortuary. See her below… Well it’s supposed to be my dad’s burial today. But his own brothers and kinsmen just hijacked his corpse: It’s literally the third grave that has been dug. Just to bury one man. Home NewsMetro Report ‘Igbo tradition is sick’, lady narrates family ordeal in trying to bury her late dad Metro ReportNews ‘Igbo tradition is sick’, lady narrates family ordeal in trying to bury her late dad written by Our Reporter October 24, 2020 ‘Igbo tradition is sick’, lady narrates family ordeal in trying to bury her late dad Tumblr Share A Twitter user, Julia (@ijayy_), has narrated the experience of her family as they are trying to buried her late father who died on the 30th of August. Julia who is from Oguta Local Government Area, Imo State in a series of tweets on her twitter account said her late father’s family members had been frustrating their effort to buried her dad. She said his own brothers and kinsmen had hijacked his corpse. According to her, because girls like me should not have opinions about things like this. Because why would someone with a vagina hold the mortuary tally. Because after my dad’s brothers abandoned his corpse and left it lying there in my living room I took him to the mortuary. See her below… Well it’s supposed to be my dad’s burial today. But his own brothers and kinsmen just hijacked his corpse: It’s literally the third grave that has been dug. Just to bury one man. For two months I haven’t been able to talk about my dad’s death or grieve because I’ve been busy fighting or quarreling or going for village meetings because of little things that should not matter. Because girls like me should not have opinions about things like this. Because why would someone with a vagina hold the mortuary tally. Because after my dad’s brothers abandoned his corpse and left it lying there in my living room I took him to the mortuary. Because his wife and children should not have a say when it comes to burial plans or where He is to be buried. After my recent experiences, I almost wish I wasn’t a woman. Because now my mum, my siblings and my late dad are suffering because of it. Previously, people have asked me why I hate Igbo culture and people, this is why, people who constantly make you feel. I don’t have words anymore.. Igbo tradition is sick. Being from the same bloodline does not make you family. And all you see in Igbo movies are true, in fact it’s worse actually. I take solace in the fact that that’s not really my dad, just his earthly home/host. Imagine refusing to bury my father on his own piece of land. Because it’s a virgin land, against his wishes, against his wife & children’s wishes. Imagine the effrontery! Telling people how to use their own property. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/10/24/igbo-tradition-is-sick-lady-narrates-family-ordeal-in-trying-to-bury-her-late-dad/
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| Religion / Ibiyeomie Not Different From Those Seeking Death Of Kano Singer For BLASPHEMY by shehuolayinka(m): 7:06pm On Sep 07, 2020 |
By Fredrick Nwabufo We have to face up to the truth; the truth about Christian fundamentalism. The church today has been sculpted in the image of extremists and demagogues – men who arrogate to themselves the power of life and death. They pronounce perdition on those who step on their testy ego and deploy the bloodhounds of hell against those who differ with them. These men are the people Jesus the Christ dismissed as “brood of vipers”. They have taken the word of God and revised it to fit into their foibles and weaknesses. They make themselves god and instruct their followers by a mundane canon. They make God in their own image. It is either their way or the thoroughfare to hell. Really, we have a “Boko Haram problem” in the church. Love, grace, temperance, and compassion have taken leave of the synagogue. Some Christians, if given the latitude, will fight and kill for their pastors. They lost the logic of the gospel and have become mammonised by mammon-seeking pastors. They defend man but not God. 1 John 3:10 puts a picture to these children of nemesis. “By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practise righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister,” the Bible says. Pastor David Ibiyeomie of Salvation Ministries, by his unrighteous paroxysm of attacks on Ifedayo Olarinde, better known as Daddy Freeze, has taken the chief table among the Pharisees Jesus condemned. He let off a volley of abominable invective against Daddy Freeze because the broadcaster differed with Bishop David Oyedepo. Ibiyeomie said Daddy Freeze insulted his “father” – Oyedepo – so, he would “kill and tear” him. Obviously, this is Beelzebub speaking, not God. Ibiyeomie’s words: “Insult me; I won’t comment, but insult Oyedepo …that bastard…. any day I hear you talk about him… Do they know his (Freeze’s) father? Does Daddy Freeze have a father? Who’s his father?” “That half-caste who is born by a Somalian? The day I hear him insult Oyedepo, I’ll deal with him. Oyedepo may not talk, but I can’t be alive and you’d insult my father. I can’t take it. I’ll tear you to pieces, bastard. People who have fathers don’t insult fathers. He’s insulting him because he has no father. Does he (Freeze) look like a Nigerian? Somebody they gave birth to on the ship. “I curse the day he was born. Tell him. This should be the last time he’d talk about Oyedepo. A man who is not married; he has no wife. He can’t take care of his home but he’s coming to talk on TV. If he has one, let him show us his father. Somebody that is a broadcaster, does he have a good job? I will never be alive to see someone insult my father. You’re not born! I’ll kill, arrest him.” What could be more ghastly from an aperture that supposedly preaches the Bible and praises God, and from the altar of God? How is he different from those seeking the death of a singer in Kano for simply making music they put a slant on? 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Literature / Gods And Heroes – History Of The Yoruba Nation’, By Oladele Olusanya by shehuolayinka(m): 12:43pm On Sep 05, 2020 |
Gods and heroes is available at Quintessence, Glendora, Mydrim, Jazz Hole & Patabah bookshop in Lagos; and UI Bookshop, Odusote and Booksellers Ltd in Ibadan Gods and Heroes, a book by by Oladele Olusanya, chronicles the history of the Yoruba people that inhabit South-Western region of Nigeria. The book looks at the story of the Yoruba people from 1000-year to the 20th century. It is an era in which the ancient Yoruba states, having been defeated in war during the closing years of the 19th century, find themselves under British rule as a colony and protectorate of the British Empire. The author using interactions of members of his own family — his grandmother and his parents — tells the story with the genre of the historical novel in a refreshing and imaginative fashion to present the whole tableau of Yoruba history and with many notable individuals who would go on to make a great impact on the history of Yorubaland in the first 80 years of the 20th century. He also discusses the influences of new discoveries in philosophy, religion, art, music, sports and education on the culture of the Yoruba people. Readers get to learn about various individuals such as Herbert Macaulay, Tai Solarin, Obafemi Awolowo and the musicians, Victor Olaiya, Roy Chicago and Fela, who take the stage and lead their countrymen in an uncertain period when the Yoruba people find themselves in a strange new country with disparate ethnic groups and competing interests. Home Art & Literature This is where you can get the book, ‘Gods and Heroes – history of the Yoruba nation’, by Oladele Olusanya Art & Literature This is where you can get the book, ‘Gods and Heroes – history of the Yoruba nation’, by Oladele Olusanya written by Our Reporter September 1, 2020 This is where you can get the book, ‘Gods and Heroes – history of the Yoruba nation’, by Oladele Olusanya Tumblr Share Gods and heroes is available at Quintessence, Glendora, Mydrim, Jazz Hole & Patabah bookshop in Lagos; and UI Bookshop, Odusote and Booksellers Ltd in Ibadan Gods and Heroes, a book by by Oladele Olusanya, chronicles the history of the Yoruba people that inhabit South-Western region of Nigeria. The book looks at the story of the Yoruba people from 1000-year to the 20th century. It is an era in which the ancient Yoruba states, having been defeated in war during the closing years of the 19th century, find themselves under British rule as a colony and protectorate of the British Empire. The author using interactions of members of his own family — his grandmother and his parents — tells the story with the genre of the historical novel in a refreshing and imaginative fashion to present the whole tableau of Yoruba history and with many notable individuals who would go on to make a great impact on the history of Yorubaland in the first 80 years of the 20th century. He also discusses the influences of new discoveries in philosophy, religion, art, music, sports and education on the culture of the Yoruba people. Readers get to learn about various individuals such as Herbert Macaulay, Tai Solarin, Obafemi Awolowo and the musicians, Victor Olaiya, Roy Chicago and Fela, who take the stage and lead their countrymen in an uncertain period when the Yoruba people find themselves in a strange new country with disparate ethnic groups and competing interests. To fully understand Olusanya’s A New Age, you have to read the first two historical novels in the trilogy, Gods and Heroes and A Time of Troubles. GODS AND HEROES Book 1: Itan – Legends of the golden age. GODS AND HEROES is the first volume of the ‘Itan – Legends of the Golden age’ trilogy about the 1000-year story of the Yoruba people. It starts with the establishment of Ile-Ife by Oduduwa and the great sacrifice of the heroine, Moremi. The ancient gods of Yorubaland, Obatala, Orunmila, Ogun and Olokun all play their part, as well as the great heroes and heroines of antiquity – Oranmiyan, Sango, Oya, Oba Esigie of Benin and Obanta of Ijebuland. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/09/01/this-is-where-you-can-get-the-book-gods-and-heroes-history-of-the-yoruba-nation-by-oladele-olusanya/
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| Politics / ‘jonathan Lost 2011 Election Because Of A Powerful, Wellfunded Ethnic Coalition' by shehuolayinka(m): 12:00pm On Sep 05, 2020 |
Moses Ochonu, a Nigerian United States based academic, historian, author and professor of African History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee says Former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the 2011 election as a a powerful, well-funded ethnic coalition that did not have to contend with a counterbalancing ethnic coalition on GEJ’s side. Ochonu in a post shared on his Facebook page said all Nigerian politics is ethnic in nature. Jonathan did come from a major ethnic group with sufficient political clout to bully or blackmail the other major ethnic blocs to back him. He also said the reason Nigerians have not been seeing public outcry like those visible during the Jonathan government was because those who participated in the ethnic coalition and civic effort that ousted Jonathan in 2015 are all now formally or informally embedded in this regime and are benefiting from it. His post read, Jonathan was a weak and ineffective leader, but Buhari is ten times worse, so in retrospect we now understand the real reason Jonathan faced the wrath of civil society and subsequently lost power while Buhari, who has effectively destroyed Nigeria as a viable nation, has not faced a civil uprising. Jonathan did not lose power because of his poor performance. Rather, he lost power mainly because of a powerful, well-funded ethnic coalition that did not have to contend with a counterbalancing ethnic coalition on GEJ’s side. A smaller factor was GEJ’s naivety regarding the overarching role ethnicity plays in Nigerian politics. Let me explain: All Nigerian politics is ethnic in nature. Jonathan did come from a major ethnic group with sufficient political clout to bully or blackmail the other major ethnic blocs to back him. The Southeast, which backed him, did not possess the numbers, the agenda-setting clout of the media (southwest), or the ability to threaten and unleash nihilist mass violence to blackmail political interlocutors into backing down (north). The only instrument of deterrence, political negotiation, and blackmail GEJ’s natal Niger Delta had was oil militancy, but the Amnesty, which began with Yar’Adua and which GEJ, as vice president, oversaw, had taken that leverage away. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/09/05/jonathan-lost-2011-election-because-of-a-powerful-well-funded-ethnic-coalition/ 1 Like
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| Foreign Affairs / Putin Didn’t ‘divide America’, Local Politicians Did – Analyst by shehuolayinka(m): 8:43am On Sep 05, 2020 |
Onye Nkuri, a Nigerian based Political and International Affair analyst has said Vladmir Putin, the Russian President didn’t divide America, rather local politicians in the country did. Nkuri in a tweet said, “Putin is not “going to destroy America from within”. Putin didn’t “divide America”, local politicians did.” “The best he can do is reveal that America is not what it claims to be; And with the current state of domestic politics in the USA, his job will be made a lot easier.” The Russian President in recent years have been accused by some section of American Politicians of trying to divide America through sowing “distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general by allegedly interfering in the 2016 election that brought current US President Doanld Trrump into office. Report had been that he focus efforts generally on dividing Americans by sowing “distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general.” Hillary Clinton, the former US Presidential candidate in 2016 after her defeat against current President, Donald Trump accused the Russian president of interfering in the US 2016 election. She had said in a report by Time that Russia wanted to “undermine our democracy” and that Putin has a “personal beef” with her because she said the 2011 Russian parliamentary elections were rigged.” READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/09/05/putin-didnt-divide-america-local-politicians-did-analyst/
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| Politics / El-rufai Vs. NBA: The Unspoken Truth About The Annual Conf. Of Nigerian Lawyers by shehuolayinka(m): 10:05am On Aug 29, 2020 |
By Inibehe Effiong As a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), I have been silent before now on the avoidable and needless controversy that has characterized the self-redeeming decision of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NBA to disinvite the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, as one of the speakers at the 2020 virtual Annual General Conference of the NBA because emotions have been elevated above reason. For the sake of history, I will summarize my position publicly because there is no fence for anyone to sit on this issue. Those who contemplated and recommended Mallam El-Rufai as a speaker at the 2020 NBA Conference despite his noxious human rights record, open contempt for the rule of law and inflammatory identity politics should apologize to Nigerian lawyers and the entire country for the attendant embarrassment, polarization and controversies that have greeted the NEC decision. The NBA has a fundamental problem; a problem of purpose. The NBA’s motto is “defending the rule of law”. Nobody to my knowledge has disputed the documented cases of disregard to court orders by Governor El-Rufai. Among the victims of his tyranny and intolerance are members of the NBA from Kaduna State. Those arguing that the Kaduna governor should have been given a “fair hearing” are playing to the gallery. The right to fair hearing under Section 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) only avails persons whose civil rights and obligations are to be determined by a court or tribunal established by law or by administrative bodies. El-Rufai does not have a legally protected right to speak at the NBA conference. It is only a privilege which can be given or withdrawn by the NBA without a reason. Therefore, the issue of fair hearing does not arise. All that the NBA owed him was the courtesy to notify him of the NEC decision which was done through the representation made to the Director General of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum by the NBA President, Paul Usoro SAN. The NBA President did not have to apologize to the Kaduna governor. Mr. Usoro’s apology was ostensibly actuated by his personal relationship with El-Rufai which he publicly alluded to and had nothing to do with the opinion of most lawyers in Nigeria on the matter. Majority of Nigerian lawyers do not owe El-Rufai an apology. The NBA was not obligated to hear from the Kaduna governor before reaching a decision on the massive protests by her members against the platform wrongly offered to him as one of the speakers. It is the domestic affairs of the NBA to determine who should speak at its conference which does not warrant the insolent, vexatious and intrusive statements by extremist religious bodies and individuals who have sought to capitalize on the development in a sinister effort to foster their misplaced divisive and sectarian agenda. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/08/29/el-rufai-vs-nba-the-unspoken-truth-about-the-annual-conference-of-nigerian-lawyers/ 1 Like
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| Religion / Oyedepo’s Unholy Anger Over CAMA And Nigeria’s Karma by shehuolayinka(m): 3:07pm On Aug 21, 2020 |
By, Fredrick Nwabufo Is the church an enterprise? Yes. Is the church a place of spiritual alliance with the creator? Yes. Naturally, the church as an industry should be detached from incorporeal control. Both must not be conflated. There is the tabernacle of God, which no mundane or terrestrial order has power over, and there is the venture of mammon which must submit to the laws of the land. Caesar must be given his due. The righteous one, Jesus Christ, said so. Bishop David Oyedepo, the redoubtable preacher, took umbrage against the government over a section of the recently signed Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) which warrants the Corporate Affairs Commission to suspend the trustees of an association or a religious body and appoint an interim manager or managers to coordinate its affairs where it reasonably believes that there has been any misconduct or mismanagement, or where the affairs of the association are being run fraudulently or where it is necessary or desirable for the purpose of public interest. By implication, the law regulates religious and charity organisations. Venting on the law, Oyedepo accused the government of jealousy. He said he knows the “prosperity of the church is making them jealous”. I think, this is mammon speaking. Hear him: “The church is God’s heritage on earth. Molest the wife of somebody and you will see the anger of that person. The church is the bride of Christ. You know how a strong man is when you tamper with his wife. The church is the body of Christ. We are under obligation to give warnings to wicked rulers so we could be free from their blood.” “The church works on the pattern delivered by God not the pattern of man. Government has no power to appoint people over churches. This is a secular nation. The church is the greatest asset of God in this country. Please be warned. Judgment is coming. The Lord says I have been still but now I will arise. Anybody that is in this deal is taking poison. This will never work. I am waiting for a day when anybody will appoint a trustee over this church… You can’t gag anybody. We own this country together.” Nothing can prevail against the church of God – not even Hades. But we must situate and contextualise the “church” in Oyedepo’s cadence. The “church” here according to Oyedepo is some behemoth or unwieldy corporation. I doubt if this is the church Jesus the Christ meant and established. Over the years, the church industry in Nigeria has carried on as an agency defiant to secular laws despite earning its sustenance from worldly pursuits. Some barely even pay tax while running publishing firms, hospitals, schools, restaurants and other businesses. If I am not mistaken, Pastor Tunde Bakare is one of the few clerics who established businesses distinct from their spiritual vocation. What is baffling is that these churches, which stand against laws seeking to enforce transparency in their business dealings in Nigeria, capitulate to similar regulations abroad. For example, in 2019, the UK Charities Commission appointed an interim manager for Mountain of Fire and Miracles International, the church founded by Daniel Olukoya. The commission hinged its decision on acts of fraud in the organisation. It said: “The commission is concerned over the trustees’ unwillingness to report serious incidents. The inquiry found two alleged incidents of fraud by former employees involving significant sums, both of which were not reported until a number of years after the frauds were discovered.” READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/08/21/oyedepos-unholy-anger-over-cama-and-nigerias-karma/
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| Politics / COAS, Burutai Is Waging A War On Nigeria’s Constitutional Democracy, Says Lawyer by shehuolayinka(m): 11:34am On Aug 04, 2020 |
Tope Akinyode, Human Right Lawyer and National President of Revolutionary Lawyers’ Forum says the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai is waging a war on Nigeria’s constitutional democracy over his disobedience of court order that ordered the release of Lance Corporal Martins Idakpini. Idakpini’s lawyer in a series of tweets on his official twitter handke said, the disobedience to court order by the military is a COUP D’ETAT on Nigeria’s democracy. Martins, a lance corporal, was arrested over a viral video on social media criticising the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, for “failing to provide adequate resources to soldiers combating Boko Haram.” He said the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai had failed by “failing to provide adequate resources to soldiers combating Boko Haram” while also calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to be “serious in its fight against insurgency.” He has since been detained and has remained incommunicado for over a month without access to his lawyer nor family. Following a rights violation lawsuit, on July 22, Justice AnwuIi Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja granted the soldier access to his lawyer and relative. The Judge had ordered that Idakpani’s lawyer be granted access to him and also ordered that the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Chief of Army Staff must ensure that the judgment was obeyed. His tweet read, “Tukur Brutai, Chief of @HQNigerianArmy Staff Shamelessly Disobeys Court Order Over Lance Corporal Martins’ Case.” “On 22nd July 2020, after I argued an Ex parte motion, the Federal High Court, Abuja ordered the @HQNigerianArmy to grant a detained Soldier, Lance Corporal Martins Immediate access to his lawyer, wife and relatives.” “Justice AI Chikere agreed with me that at any rate, it is a continuous breach of the detained Soldier’s fundamental human rights to be denied access to his lawyer and family.” READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/08/04/army-chief-burutai-is-waging-a-war-on-nigerias-constitutional-democracy-says-lawyer/
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| Politics / Nigerian Governors Are Now Smarter, They Now Borrow What To Loot – Author by shehuolayinka(m): 9:55am On Aug 03, 2020 |
Author, Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu says in the the past 8 years, most State governors in Nigeria now borrow what to loot—that is looting in the future tense. The author of “Under Bridge” said this in post on his Facebook page in reaction to the controversy surrounding Nigeria’s loan from China. Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, had made clarification while answering questions about the loan controversy on a TV programme stating that the clause ‘waiving sovereignty’ in the loan agreement between Nigeria and China was only a contract term, a sovereign guarantee that assures payback according to the terms and conditions of any loan. He said, “It is a commercial agreement, it’s a trade agreement between Nigeria and China. The first issue is that Ministry of Transport does not take loan. Anything about loan, talk to Ministry of Finance. What I signed is what they call commercial contract, that is contract between the federal government and CCECC as a contractor. Ibe-Anyanwu in reacting said, “The Chinese are very clever,” says @Uche Ezeh. “They will just wait for the interest on that loan (N8 trillion) to build. Two decades or so from now when we’ve all forgotten; when people like Amaechi and other political actors have all left the scene, they will return with some of their smartest bookkeepers and throw the entire book at us.” “If we say we can’t pay, then they will demand control of the NNPC and all our oil resources. This is the same thing they’ve been doing to other STUPID African nations. Now, if the Chinese take over the NNPC, what other sovereignty do you have?” “How much will this (rail project) generate annually? Who will account for what it generates? How will it be maintained? What is the payment plan, etc?” “Let me further break it down though I’m probably sounding like a broken record now: From 1999 to around 2011, most governors in Nigeria had great looting careers, but they stole mostly what they found in the coffers. Their successors since the past 8 years are smarter: state revenue is hardly enough, so they borrow what to loot—that is looting in the future tense. Okorocha for instance met a N26 billion debt in Imo accumulated over the years; in 8 years he kicked it forward to some N105 billion.” READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/08/02/nigerian-governors-are-now-smarter-they-now-borrow-what-to-loot-author/ 2 Likes 1 Share
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| Business / #notonipost: NIPOST Has Just Declared War On Smes In Nigeria, Says Expert by shehuolayinka(m): 11:38am On Jul 26, 2020 |
Ayo Bankole, a strategy expert and the Convener of Lagos SME boot Camp has reacted to the decision of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) to introduce costs of licence for logistics and courier services, stating that NIPOST just declared war on SMEs in Nigeria. The decision of the Nigerian Postal Service to introduce costs of licence for logistics and courier services has sparked outrage from a large section of Nigerians mainly online. NIPOST had recently announced an increase to the cost of licences for logistics and courier companies. The move, according to experts would increase the cost of goods purchased online. Bankole in a thread on his twitter handle, said “NIPOST has just declared war on SMEs in Nigeria, sadly on the eve of the #LagosSMEbootcamp. Logistics has become a flashpoint of trade during COVID, many SMEs relying on it for transactions, & many youths who lost income elsewhere investing. What is happening is a tragedy.” “NIPOST is one of those regulators in Nigeria that doubles as a player, ie also competing with Nigerians who struggle to make the system better. An inefficient regulator stifling the growth of the sector to Favour its inefficiencies. I have two friends in entertainment, a DJ & MC.” “Their business halted. Both have invested in logistics. The volumes of delivery transactions shot up as retail moved online & transactions moved from physical to virtual. Logistics became the biggest enabler to tech for trade. The largest part being SMEs. NIPOST wants to kill it.” “NIPOST is asking SMEs that want to operate within Lagos to pay N2,000,000 and then N800,000 annually. I am confident that NIPOST did not use any data or logical reasoning to arrive at this pricing. It points solely to a libidinal urge for more money, which again will be siphoned.” “I’m so pained that SMEs contribute so much to this economy, most on survivalist mode, and callous regulators like @NipostNgn will ruin it. Arresting & impounding riders. A tragedy. NIPOST had said companies which provide international courier services like DHL, UPS and FEDEX, are expected to pay N20m for a new licence and N8m annually while those who offer national services are expected to pay N10m for licence and N4m yearly for renewal. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/07/25/notonipost-nipost-has-just-declared-war-on-smes-in-nigeria-says-expert/
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| Politics / If There’ll Be A Revolution In Nigeria, The Almajiris Not Bbnaija-loving Youths by shehuolayinka(m): 11:44am On Jul 25, 2020 |
OPINION: If there’ll be a revolution in Nigeria, the Almajiris not BBNaija-loving youth will stir it By, Fredrick Nwabufo If Nigeria’s young are timid, tractable and apathetic to economic and political issues affecting their country blame the anvil on which they are forged. The government, the formative schools, the universities and the predatory politics – all are the forgers of today’s youth. A system which lobotomises the young from nascency has already denied them not only the ability to emote, think, act, but also the power to speak up for themselves, fight for their rights and defend themselves. There was a time in Nigeria when the youth held the fort. They were unbending to the caprices of the military and to the stimuli of fear and avarice. I will cite two epochs for emphasis – the dawn of Segun Okeowo, the provocateur of the Ali Must Go uprising of 1978, and the dusk of Omoyele Sowore – the trenchant voice of the June 12 struggle. In April 1978, the ministry of education led by Ahmadu Ali announced an increment of 50 kobo (from N1:50 to N2:00) to the cost of the daily meal of students. But the National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) led by Okeowo will not have it down its throat without some justification. The union asked the ministry to revert to the status quo, but it balked shifting responsibility to the supreme military ruling council. A head-to-head was inevitable. Students poured into the streets to press home their demands but received police bullets as rejoinders. Eight students were reportedly killed. But this did not stop the righteous movement which engulfed the entire country. The youth held their ground. They made their statement and their power was felt by the military government. I call this epoch the dawn of youth activism in Nigeria. Only 50 kobo increase in the cost of daily meals for students actuated a nationwide revolt. But today, what has changed? I will explain. Our formative schools and universities are no longer centres of critical learning. They are now robot factories where anyone who goes in as human comes out as a machine with flesh – beaten, broken, pliable and malleable. The mould from which the like of Wole Soyinka was shaped at the University of Ibadan which made him assertive and daring has long been smashed to smithereens. University administrations in cahoots with scourges in the highest realm of government have over the years sterilised student unionism. Student leaders no longer represent their constituencies but the school leadership which most times select them. Students are stampeded out of reason and seized of the power of independent thought and critical thinking. They are instructed to parrot whatever the lecturer and the school say. In fact, the methods of some universities today are not distant from concentration camps – only that there are no gas chambers. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/07/25/opinion-if-therell-be-a-revolution-in-nigeria-the-almajiris-not-bbnaija-loving-youth-will-stir-it/ 1 Like 1 Share |
| Celebrities / D’banj & Seyitan: Segalink Reacts To STER Allegation by shehuolayinka(m): 10:49am On Jul 25, 2020 |
Human Right Activist and EndSars campaigner, Segun Awosanya popular known as Segalink has threatened to take legal action against Stand To End Rape Initiative (STER), a Nigerian based youth-led movement advancing gender equality & an end to SGBV through advocacy, prevention & support state over its claim that he reached out to Oladapo Oyebanji (D’banj) accuser, Seyitan Babatayo to settle the issue. STER in a statement had said Segalink reached out to Seyitan to attend a meeting that was to negotiate a private settlement between D’banj and Seyitan. But Seyitan in a reaction to STER statement denied STER claim of Segalink reaching out to them, but that it was her and her family that contacted Segalink to help facilitate a meeting with D’banj and his team for an out of court resolution. Segalink in a twitter thread after both Seyitan and STER statement said, “Let it be abundantly clear to the general public that STER’s claim that I called for a meeting between Ms. Seyitan (and family) and D’banj to broker a peace-deal is a mischievous falsehood that betrays the irresponsibility and hypocrisy of the group.” “As a matter of fact, Ms. Seyitan & family contacted me to communicate their interest in discontinuing their counter-suit to D’banj’s defamatory action against Ms. Seyitan.” “STER’s uncharitable publication of yesterday has the weight to displace its credibility and reliability as a go-to resort for sexual abuse victims.” “It is truly regrettable to witness such an unraveling of its true intent especially the seeming desperation to take advantage of victim’s ordeal for publicity and opportunities to improve their public rating.” “In good faith, however, I choose to believe that STER, having had their falsehoods challenged by the primary protagonist in this matter, will exercise the decency and honesty of mind to retract the same and issue an apology accordingly within the next 24Hours, or sooner.” “Failure to do so would leave me with no other choice but to pursue a legal course for defamation before a competent court.” Seyitan, a self-styled influencer had claimed D’banj had raped her years ago in a hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos, after she refused his advances at a party.
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| Crime / FBI Declares Six Nigerians As Cyber Crimes Most Wanted by shehuolayinka(m): 10:34am On Jun 27, 2020 |
The United States Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) has declared Six Nigerians as Cyber Most wanted for their involvement in Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes. BEC are sophisticated cyber crimes involving electronic transfer payments or automated clearinghouse transfers Victims of such schemes include individuals and businesses of various sizes in Nebraska and other states of the U.S. Those charged for violating the U.S. federal law, but still at large are, Richard Uzuh, Michael Olorunyomi, Alex Ogunshakin, Felix Okpoh, Abiola Kayode and Nnamdi Benson. The FBI said they allegedly sent spoofed emails to thousands of businesses in the United States requesting fraudulent wire transfers. arrest. Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh according to the FBI is wanted for his alleged involvement in a Business Email Compromise (BEC) scheme that defrauded over 70 different businesses in the United States resulting in combined losses of over $6,000,000. Alex Afolabi Ogunshakin, according to the FBI provided bank accounts to Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh, and other co-conspirators Felix Osilama Okpoh, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode, and Nnamdi Orson Benson, that were used to receive fraudulent wire transfers and also assisted in these schemes by sending spoofed emails to businesses used to solicit fraudulent wire transfers.
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| Politics / We Must Renounce Our Tribal Identities; I’m Nigerian NOT Igbo by shehuolayinka(m): 10:36am On Jun 09, 2020 |
BY, Fredrick Nwabufo The recent current of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the US has surged tremendously in Nigeria – a country in the thrall of its own unique kind of ‘’racism’’ – tribalism. Nigerians held protests at the embassy of the US in Abuja, condemning the murder of George Floyd, an African-American, by a Caucasian Minneapolis police officer a few days ago. Really, while the protests are for a righteous cause, no doubt, we need to re-wheel and deepen them to square up to our own fundamental imbalances. The US is a society that is attuned to its frailties and rises to the occasion when need be to confront them. While there are laws to address issues of racism in America like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there are no laws assiduously tackling tribalism in Nigeria. In fact, the laws we have in Nigeria are designed to accent tribalism and nepotism; for example, the Quota System, ‘’Federal Character Principle’’ and ‘’catchment area’’ policy. I must say, while the Quota System and the Federal Character Principle were ideated to rugby-tackle concerns of ethnic representation in the public sector, they have over the years become the fulcrums on which tribalism, nepotism and ethnic dominance are scaffolded. These policies have also enthroned incompetence, discrimination, lack of healthy competition, indolence and indiscipline in the national life while supplanting meritocracy and competence. I scored 284 in JAMB – high above the cut-off mark of the course I applied to study at university. But I could not secure admission at the university I wanted which was in another part of the country where I am supposedly not a native. I was robbed of choice because of the ‘’catchment area’’ policy. This was many years ago, but the academic apartheid still persists in Nigeria today. There is no change even in 2020! Now, I have an eight-year-old son, and if I elect that he studies in Nigeria, that will be putting him through the same mill of discrimination and institutional apartheid that I faced. I think, this is the worst kind of ‘’native racism’’. We really have got to make Nigeria work for all Nigerians. We live in country where to transact any official matter you have to declare your ‘’state of origin’’ and not your ‘’state of residence’’ – even when you have lived in a particular area in the country since your nativity. I recall, in March, the Cross River state house of assembly rejected the appointment of Akon Ikpeme as substantive chief judge of the state — because she is from Akwa Ibom, even though she is married to a Cross Riverian. In a voice vote at a plenary session, the assembly rejected Ikpeme’s appointment after receiving a report by the committee on judiciary. In the report, Godwin Akwaji, representing Obudu state constituency, and five others, recommended her rejection on the loony grounds that she is not a native of the state. Ikpeme hails from Akwa Ibom state, but she is married to an indigene of Cross River. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/06/06/we-must-renounce-our-tribal-identities-im-nigerian-not-igbo-byfredrick-nwabufo/ 1 Like
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| Politics / Dear Femi Adesina, Learn From Yesterday’s Spokesmen by shehuolayinka(m): 2:21pm On May 16, 2020 |
By, Fredrick Nwabufo Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, features in the pantheon of accomplished Nigerian journalists no doubt. In his days of ‘’truth-telling’’ and before the hex of unclean spirits in Aso Rock, Adesina was the man from miyshore – the straight place. He was loved. He cut the persona of a light bearer. But why has the ‘’kulikuli exponent’’ so unravelled? By the way, it was Reuben Abati, Adesina’s predecessor, who regaled us with the tale of paranormal activities at Aso Rock. Abati in ‘Rituals, blood and death: The spiritual side of Aso Rock’, said: ‘’When presidents make mistakes, they are probably victims of a force higher than what we can imagine. Every student of Aso Villa politics would readily admit that when people get in there, they actually become something else. They act like they are under a spell.’’ So, I am compelled to believe that Adesina may be under a spell — for his uncharacteristic deportment. Really, he takes a nose-dive deeper and deeper into crassitude, insouciance, arrogance and iniquity. I wrote the draft of this article earlier than today but had it pigeonholed. I was conflicted – do I or do I not? Will my opinion be mistaken? Well, I have to blurt it out anyway. I knew the rulers of darkness and the principalities and powers in high places, like those sketched by Nathan Uzoma, the ‘’ghost buster’’, were at work when Adesina, a devout Christian, implied that giving land to marauding herdsmen was better than getting killed. Responding to a question on ancestral attachments to land on an AIT programme in July 2018, Adesina said: “Ancestral attachment? You can only have ancestral attachment when you are alive. If you are talking about ancestral attachment, if you are dead, how does the attachment matter?’’ Also, Adesina does not spare his tongue in thrashing the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) at every given turn. In fact, he is always on an ambush waiting for CAN to speak so he could attack. It appears he enjoys the sadomasochism on the Christian association. He once described CAN as a political party. When the Christian association was protesting over the death of Lawan Andimi, the pastor beheaded by Boko Haram, Adesina intervened with a caustic aspect, censuring the association for expressing indignation over their loss. But this is not to obviate CAN’s occasional alarmist tendency. Adesina has sunk steeply into the abyss of conceit. He has thrown caution to the wind and allowed himself to be swayed by the vortex of terminal privilege. The Yoruba say: T’á bá rán eni ní isé erú, à fí t’omo je. Translation: ‘’If you are sent on an errand as a slave, deploy the wisdom of a free born in delivering the message.’’ Adesina continues to deal a whammy to those who once admired him – including me. In an interview on Nigeria Info FM on May 6, the presidential spokesman dealt another shocker. He said: “People think because either you elected a president or you didn’t elect him, you must lead your president by the nose. It doesn’t happen. Because you elected a man then you begin to order him around.” I know Adesina understands the concept of democratic leadership. I know he is well aware that the president is an employee of Nigerians, and as such he is answerable to them and should even be ordered around by them. Yes, I know Adesina knows Nigerians are the boss of his boss, and that he must do as they please. I know he knows this. Perhaps, the extramundane forces of Aso Rock are at work again. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/05/16/dear-femi-adesina-learn-from-yesterdays-spokesmen/
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| Politics / Ibrahm Gambari: A Presidential Babysitter Who Won’t Be As Powerful As Abba Kyari by shehuolayinka(m): 2:10pm On May 16, 2020 |
By Farooq Kperogi On paper, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari’s choice as Buhari’s Chief of Staff is so far the regime’s most luminous appointment. Gambari is undoubtedly one of Nigeria’s most credentialed and globally visible citizens for whom the position of Chief of Staff to the President is actually a positional, even symbolic, downgrade. Ordinarily, the office of the Chief of Staff to the President is informal, discretionary, and of no consequence. Its inconsequence is underscored by the fact that the constitution does no recognize it and does not require the president to appoint anyone to perform its duties. That was why Umar Musa Yar’adua didn’t have one. Home Opinion Ibrahim Agboola Gambari: A Presidential babysitter who won’t be as powerful as Abba Kyari Opinion Ibrahim Agboola Gambari: A Presidential babysitter who won’t be as powerful as Abba Kyari written by Admin May 14, 2020 Ibrahim Agboola Gambari: A Presidential babysitter who won’t be as powerful as Abba Kyari Tumblr Share By Farooq Kperogi On paper, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari’s choice as Buhari’s Chief of Staff is so far the regime’s most luminous appointment. Gambari is undoubtedly one of Nigeria’s most credentialed and globally visible citizens for whom the position of Chief of Staff to the President is actually a positional, even symbolic, downgrade. Ordinarily, the office of the Chief of Staff to the President is informal, discretionary, and of no consequence. Its inconsequence is underscored by the fact that the constitution does no recognize it and does not require the president to appoint anyone to perform its duties. That was why Umar Musa Yar’adua didn’t have one. The only reason the position of CoS to the President has become uncharacteristically visible in the last five years is that Buhari is both too cognitively incapacitated and too splendidly incompetent to function as president, so he needs a proxy or, as I pointed out in my April 22 status update, “a babysitter, a political and intellectual babysitter.” As a military dictator, Tunde Idiagbon was Buhari’s political babysitter from 1983 to 1985. The late Salihijo Ahmad’s Afri-Projects Consortium (APC), was “the sole manager of the PTF projects,” according to Ray Ekpu’s June 5, 2018 article titled, “Petroleum Trust Fraud.” In other words, Buhari couldn’t even manage a government agency as small as the PTF without needing babysitting. Of course, most people know that since 2015 until his death, Abba Kyari was Buhari’s proxy. Mamman Daura, on whom Buhari is intellectually and emotionally dependent, “created” Abba Kyari for Buhari but Kyari later grew into a Frankenstein that almost devoured his “creator.” Daura wants no repeat of that and sees a potentially dutiful factotum in Gambari who was Buhari’s external affairs minister from 1984 to 1985. He seems like a person who would do a good job of concealing Buhari’s cognitive and mental infirmities from the public and from government officials, which is what the position of CoS to Buhari has now been reduced to. Although Gambari has intimidatingly impressive academic and professional credentials, he has no reputation for lofty, high-minded principles, which explains why he would even accept this position, which relegates rather than elevates him. He defended IBB’s ruinous invalidation of the June 12 presidential election, justified Abacha’s heartrending judicial murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni activists, and, according to the New York Times of Oct. 5, 1997, opposed something as innocuous as a planned renaming of a New York street after the late Kudirat Abiola who was murdered in cold blood by Abacha’s junta, which Gambari served. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/05/14/ibrahim-agboola-gambari-a-presidential-babysitter-who-wont-be-as-powerful-as-abba-kyari/ |
| Politics / Wike Is Lucky That Nigeria Is Currently Presidentless, Rudderless - Prof Farooq by shehuolayinka(m): 3:11pm On May 12, 2020 |
Hotels demolition: Wike is lucky that Nigeria is currently presidentless, rudderless - Prof Farooq United States of America based Nigerian academic, media scholar at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, Professor Farooq Kperogi has criticised Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike over the demolition of two hotels for flouting the State lockdown order. He said this in a series of tweets on his official twitter handle. The Professor of communication had said hotels Wike destroyed didn’t violate any law; their owners did. “Destroying hotels because their owners flouted a lockdown order is an indefensibly reckless, dictatorial executive overreach.” His tweet read… So Governor Wike’s demonstrably illegal demolition of people’s hotels in Rivers State has defenders on social media? And, curiously, from people who criticize Buhari? Seriously? People who defend Wike’s condemnably anarchic thuggery but criticize Buhari clearly aren’t Buhari critics because of what Buhari does; they’re Buhari critics because of who Buhari is–his ethnic, religious, regional identity and his political party affiliation. Such people are abject hypocrites. The hotels Wike destroyed didn’t violate any law; their owners did. Proportional justice would punish the owners and spare the buildings. 1 Like 1 Share
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| Politics / Orji Kalu: Supreme Court Judgment Correct – Legal Expert by shehuolayinka(m): 12:34pm On May 09, 2020 |
Lawyer and Political analyst, Charles Omole has said the judgement of the Supreme Court that nullified the sentence handed to Former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu is correct. He said in a series of tweets on his official twitter handle. Omole who’s also a security analyst said the President of the Court of Appeal shouldn’t have allowed a judge that has been promoted to the appeal court entertain a case at High Court. According to him, blame here in my view is with the CoA who allowed a CoA Judge to sit on a High Court Case. That should never have been allowed. See his tweets below… The verdict of the Supreme Court (SC) in this case is technical but correct. It was a foreseeable verdict; which begs the question why the President of the Court of Appeal allowed this to go ahead in the first place. It is also a lesson about the folly of allowing cases to drag on for many yrs The Judge hearing the case was promoted to the Court of Appeal (CoA) while d case was ongoing. Usual practice is for another judge of the High court to take over the case. But the guideline from the President CoA allows judges to keep on to part-heard cases in certain circumstances. So the Judge kept on to the case after his promotion to CoA. But this creates a Problem. When he swore on Oath at the CoA; that vacates his Oath at the High Court as a Judge cannot sit in two court of different ranking simultaneously. He therefore (as a Judge of CoA) lack jurisdiction to sit over a High Court case. Supreme Court merely affirmed d Constitution which states d various ranking of our courts. So, why was this not foreseen by EFCC & d management of the CoA? Was this deliberate Tanking of the case? We may never know. A new trial is next to impossible in this case. It has taken over a decade. Witnesses may have died. Evidence may have been lost etc. So Kalu is home and dry on this matter technically speaking. He will never face justice on this matter again in my view. Read more: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/05/08/orji-kalu-supreme-court-judgment-correct-legal-expert/
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| Health / Kogi Lost Four People To Sickness Suspected To Be COVID-19 In One Week – Report by shehuolayinka(m): 5:43pm On May 07, 2020 |
Independent and Investigative Journalist, Fisayo Soyombo has disclosed that four people died from a sickness suspected to be COVID-19 in Kogi State. He said this in a series of tweets on his official twitter handle. Nigeria, as of Wednesday has tested 21,208 with 2,950 confirmed cases and 98 deaths reported cross the country. Kogi is one of the two states yet to confirm any case of the virus since the country recorded its index case in February. The other state is Cross River. The State government led by Yahaya Bello had alleged in a statement on Tuesday by the state’s commissioner for information, Kingsley Fanwo, that there was attempts to import the disease or declare fictitious cases. Soyombo said a patient who came into Kogi from Lagos required a CS and exhibited COVID-19 symptoms, prompting the hospital to request for her to be tested but it was turned down. The patient according to him, was isolated for some time surgery was done and she was discharged without testing. See his tweets below… On Saturday, a patient died at FMC, Lokoja, Kogi, after exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms. His samples weren’t taken. That was the 4th such death at the FMC last week alone. Not once was the patient’s samples taken, dead or alive. A familiar cover-up March 22 was the first time this scenario occurred. A patient who came into Kogi from Lagos required a CS. The patient exhibited COVID-19 symptoms, prompting the hospital to request for her to be tested. It was turned down. The patient was isolated for some time surgery was done and she was discharged without testing. Last week, there were some patients in the O&G ward who manifested respiratory issues, inability to breathe and other COVID-19 symptoms. Three of them died. They’d come from private hospitals — one in Lokoja, another in Okene and the third in Ogudu. The first of the trio, Mrs G.I. (her initials), a 43-year-old woman who arrived at the hospital on Thursday, had a temp of 38.8°C. The other 2 had temperatures of more than 40°C. In each case, no sample was taken before or after death. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/05/06/kogi-lost-four-people-to-sickness-suspected-to-be-covid-19-in-one-week-report/
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| Politics / Any Place For The Almajiri? Rejected By Parents, Abused By Politicians by shehuolayinka(m): 4:17pm On May 05, 2020 |
Any place for the almajiri? Rejected by parents, scorned by society and abused by politicians A society which eats, debases and abuses its young is a coven run by witches. The almajiri children are innocents socialised into a culture and system they did not create. They are just unlucky to be born in an unfortunate axis of the world. They did not make their circumstances or their world; they were thrust into it. They live but are not given a life. They are programmed like hunter-robots to lead a life of the hunt – hunt for alms. I witnessed the almajiri affliction during my stay in Kaduna and visits to Kano and Katsina years ago. This was long before the threat of banditry and kidnapping in the north. These street kids are cultured to hunt-beg. They demand, and they seem assured that it is the right thing to do. They could intrude on your privacy to demand alms without flinching. They are made bold in their quest by a society that has normalised such an existence. I was always trepidated seeing them around; life has been made a trifle for them, so they cared not about anything. It is the reason they could easily be deployed by politicians to cause riots and unrest. I knew a day of reckoning would come. When I got a job in Abuja, I exhaled. I was happy to leave the ‘’crime scene’’. Alas! The nation’s capital is now grappling with its own almajiri problem. It is clear we cannot wish away the almajiri irritation. It is a northern Nigeria problem, but also a Nigeria challenge. Really, these almajiri children are the victims of the situation! In an article in February entitled ‘The northern elite created these bandits’, I alluded the current wave of banditry and kidnapping to the failures of the northern elite in fundamentally addressing the almajiri problem. For sake perspicuity, I will reproduce a section here. A study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) put the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria at 13.5 million – as of 2018. An unimpressive mass of this number comes from Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, and other northern states. In December 2019, Jigawa State Government announced it would open a bidding process for the construction of 95 mosques across the state. This is a state with over 800,000 out-of-school children, According to a survey by the Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN), there are more than 800,000 out-of-school children between the age of three and 18 in Jigawa. In Kano, there are about one million out-of-school children in the state. This is according to Peter Hawkins, the UNICEF representative to Nigeria, who disclosed this at a four-day workshop organised for commissioners and permanent secretaries from the 19 Northern states in August 2019. In Katsina, there are approximately one million out-of-school children. Though, Aminu Masari, the governor of the state, put the number at 996,000. Ditto Zamfara. In addition, reports by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) reveal that the North-West region has the highest number of drug-related arrests in years, with 2,205 arrests in 2015 alone. A motion on drug abuse in the north adopted by the senate in 2017 disclosed that three million bottles of codeine were consumed by drug abusers daily in Kano and Jigawa. Also, Mojisola Adeyeye, director-general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), revealed that 70 percent of the youth essentially, the young boys, abuse illicit drugs in Kano. When you put all these numbers together what you have is almajiris, chaos, banditry and kidnapping. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/05/05/any-place-for-the-almajiri-rejected-by-parents-scorned-by-society-and-abused-by-politicians/
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| Politics / Infectious Diseases Bill Will Create Legal Brouhaha – Right Lawyer by shehuolayinka(m): 12:52am On May 05, 2020 |
Human Right Lawyer and Social Commentator Abdul Mahmud has said the controversial Infectious diseases bill sponsored by House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila which seeks to repeal the Quarantine Act 2004 will create a legal brouhaha. According to him, the bill seeks to strip powers granted to the President under the Quarantine Act and hand same powers over to the DG NCDC who’s an appointee of the President. He said in this in an open letter to the Speaker shared on his official twitter handle. See his tweets to the Speaker below… Dear Hon. Speaker, Sir @femigbaja, greetings. Consequent on your plan to pass the Infectious Diseases Bill 2020 next Tuesday, I humbly wish to register my objection to your proposed plan hereunder. Grounds of my objection are set out seriatim as follows 1) As have been noted by Nigerians, your proposed Bill doesn’t anyway suit the peculiar democratic environment for which it is proposed, considering that the Singapore law For which it is tailored (though many accuse you of plagiarism- a moral cross hung around the neck of your bill) is a product of an undemocratic and draconian era 2) Your bill does not address our peculiar circumstances as a nation fighting a serious public health crisis never experienced before in its history. No nation proposes a new law in the middle of a crisis capable of destroying it 3) Your Bill which seeks to repeal the Quarantine Act 2004 will create legal brouhaha as it seeks to strip powers granted to the President under the Quarantine Act and hand same powers over to the DG NCDC who’s an appointee of the President READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/05/04/infectious-diseases-bill-will-create-legal-brouhaha-right-lawyer/
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| Religion / Fulfilling Purpose by shehuolayinka(m): 12:42pm On May 04, 2020 |
Welcome to LOV BLOG, thank you so much for taking time out to be here. I’m excited about what God is about to do in our lives. Fulfilling God’s call over your life!!! Are you a lady that is on the verge of giving up because you don’t know what to do about your life anymore? Are you confused or worried because you don’t understand why you are on this earth? Are you that lady that has been thinking over and over again what really your purpose on earth is? Stop, take a moment, and ponder on the questions above!!! Now, if your answers to the questions above are yes, yes and yes. Then this blog post is for you and I encourage you to carefully read till the end. Wait, someone just had this thought “this post is not for me, I’m still below 18 and I am not ready for purpose talks. This post is for every lady; if you are reading this, then this is for you. Age is not a barrier to fulfilling purpose, you might not have figured what your purpose is yet, but that is why we created this blog; to help put you on the right track. Enough of the stories, let’s get into it?? Before we get into purpose, it is right for you to get saved. You can’t fulfill God’s purpose for your life if you have not given your life to Christ; if you have not accepted Jesus as your Lord and personal Saviour. It is after you are born again, that you can now begin to live out your purpose. If you have not given your life to Christ and you are reading this blog post, before you go further; I would love you to take a minute to say this prayer out loud. If you are born again, please scroll down, this post was specially created for you If you are not yet saved or you want to rededicate your life to Christ, starting afresh with him, please say this prayer, I want you to know that the greatest decision you will ever make in life is to be saved. Romans 10:9 say ‘if you confess that Jesus is Lord and you believe that God raises Him from death, you will be saved. READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/05/04/fulfilling-purpose/
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| Politics / Infectious Diseases Bill Best Suited Suited To A Military Dictatorship – EXPERT by shehuolayinka(m): 10:46am On May 04, 2020 |
Lawyer and Social Commentator Dr. Charles Omole has said the controversial bill sponsored by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, and two of his colleagues is best suited to a Military dictatorship than a constitutional democracy. Omole who is also a security expert, said this in a series of tweets on his official twitter handle, stated that Nigeria cannot be using laws made during colonial era to administer our democracy in 2020. Omole said a new law is truly needed. But the original Bill is badly crafted, drafted and not domesticated for the realities of life in Nigeria. See his tweets below… I have been following d controversy about this Bill. I decided to actually read d Bill before making any comment. I found so many issues of concern in d Bill. But it also has some merit. So, I decided to do a line by line review of the 48-Page Bill. As a result; I will be producing a new Version of the Bill that keeps the meritorious provisions, deletes the horrible clauses and inserted dozens of new clauses to make the bill Human Rights Compliant in a constitutional democracy. I will publish my revised version of the Bill on Tuesday 5th May. This can then be debated and reviewed by all. We should not throw away the baby with the dirty water. Part of my criticism go to the legal drafters in NASS. They did a bad job with the original draft with so many lacunas and mischief provisions included. All of which I have tidied up in my revised version. If the NASS actual mean well, they should jettison their original version and proceed on the basis of my revised version (which of course can still be further refined). READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2020/05/04/infectious-diseases-bill-best-suited-suited-to-a-military-dictatorship-charles-omole/
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