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 Travel / Re: General South Africa Visa Enquiries by Shine1177: 8:31pm On Aug 30, 2015 |
Kehnyshavin:The scholarship is for Master degree by research and Phd students. You have to contact your intending Department, speak/mail the secretary. Pick a research topic of interest, draft a good research proposal and mail it to the department. If there is any faculty (lecturer) who can supervise your research, you will be granted a provisional admission to study. The scholarship only covers tuition fee, you have to sort feeding and accommodation yourself. Accommodation is expensive here, so you may plan to share a bachelor/mini-flat. |
| Travel / Re: General South Africa Visa Enquiries by Shine1177: 8:01pm On Aug 30, 2015 |
sultan003:Thanks, Sultan003. I'm about registering with ECSA while my SAIEE student member registration should be approve on 15/09. Do you think i can use SAIEE student member to apply for CS Visa? For ECSA, I intend to apply as Candidate Technologist then upgrade after my program at DUT, but considering your input, it seems i will have to go for Candidate Technician now. |
| Travel / Re: General South Africa Visa Enquiries by Shine1177: 2:56pm On Aug 30, 2015 |
Kehnyshavin:Yes. There is a two and three years scholarship for Masters and Doctoral students respectively but you must be ready to publish at least one journal paper and present conference papers. |
| Politics / Re: Abba Kyari, Chief-of-staff To President Buhari (profile) by Shine1177: 8:51am On Aug 28, 2015 |
Jarus: Jarus respect yourself. That was what was initially posted before the Mod changed it. You may read through the thread to learn some common sense. |
| Politics / Re: Abba Kyari, Chief-of-staff To President Buhari (profile) by Shine1177: 9:18pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
You mean there is no (wo)man of integrity in the South again? We are all corrupt? It is only in the north that PMB has found his incorruptible team. By the way when will these incorruptible men publicly declare their asset as baba made us to understanding? Oh I remember now that Baba has changed the goal post. I wish my fatherland well. **** Modify*** |
| Politics / New FIRS Boss Deletes Phd Degree From Wikipedia by Shine1177: 9:41am On Aug 22, 2015 |
AUGUST 22, 2015 : ERIC DUMO Amid the controversies generated following revelations that the newly appointed head of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, was brandishing a fake doctorate degree from a United Kingdom institution, Irish International University, the 59-year-old has since dropped the honourary degree from his Wikipedia entry. President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday named Fowler as the new head of the FIRS, but hours after the announcement of his appointment, it emerged that his doctorate degree might have been fraudulently obtained. Sahara Reporters, an online news platform, claimed in one of its stories that Fowler’s ‘Ph.D’ obtained from IIU in May 2007 was fake. The former Lagos Internal Revenue Service boss, according to SR, “engaged in desperate efforts to erase the controversial title from the Internet especially on Wikipedia.” His biography has been edited on the website of the LIRS while the title of “Dr.” remains on his personal webpage. Seven years ago, a BBC investigation labelled IIU as a fake institution dishing out “substandard and worthless degrees” to individuals, especially influential politicians and business men from Africa. The non-existent university is said to be linked to Baron Knowth, a chartered accountant whose real name was discovered to be Jeffrey Wooller. http://www.punchng.com/news/new-firs-boss-deletes-phd-degree-from-wikipedia/ |
| Investment / Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by Shine1177: 2:49pm On Aug 20, 2015 |
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| Travel / Re: General South Africa Visa Enquiries by Shine1177: 5:58pm On Aug 18, 2015 |
Juwohn:Check page 157 someone just got CS visa. I know he has only HND (Mech. Eng.) and he got a 5 year Critical Skill visa in Lagos. I don't think Phd is the only criteria. That guy was given a Technician grade which is below what will be given a Master/Phd holder. #MyThought 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: Aregbesola: Solanke, Sagay Want Oloyede Sacked by Shine1177: 11:10am On Aug 05, 2015 |
I think both Chief Folake Solanke and Professor Itse Sagay(SANs) are bias. It's a known fact that both men are APC admirer. Can Nigeria move forward with this attitude? They left the message (content of the petition) to pursue shadows. God save Nigeria! |
| Politics / Aregbesola: Solanke, Sagay Want Oloyede Sacked by Shine1177: 11:10am On Aug 05, 2015 |
I’m entitled to freedom of expression —Oloyede Written by: Lanre Adewole and Oluwole Ige THE National Judicial Council (NJC) was, on Tuesday, pressured by two foremost Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), Chief Folake Solanke and Professor Itse Sagay, to move against a serving judge in Osun judicial division, Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, for authoring a petition against the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola. The duo, in a statement signed by Sagay, were alarmed at the alleged silence of the council on the alleged indecorous and unethical conducts of the judge, while directly demanding her exit from the Bench for disagreeing with her appointor; the governor. The senior lawyers also had harsh words for the state House of Assembly for initiating a probe process into the allegations against the governor, tagging the legislative institution an ignoramus. They reasoned that the operational 1999 Constitution did not envisage and factor a serving judge calling for a governor’s impeachment which, according to them, made Oloyede’s petition incompetent and her involvement, political. When the Nigerian Tribune got across to Oloyede by SMS, she appeared unperturbed by the sack call with her response, which read: “interesting!” followed by her best wishes for the correspondent, “thanks and keep well.” Also reacting through her lawyer, Mr Lanre Ogunlesi, Justice Oloyede said “as a citizen of Nigeria, she is entitled to freedom of expression as guaranteed by the constitution.” According to Ogunlesi, “Justice Oloyede has not erred or committed any breach of law in writing a petition against Governor Aregbesola. Assuming one third of the lawmakers in Osun State House of Assembly votes in favour of the petition, the matter can never come before Justice Oloyede, who is the petitioner. It is only the Chief Judge of the state that can set up panel over it. “We have gone through the judicial code of conduct and Justice Oloyede has not violated any section of it by her action. So, I don’t think both Solanke and Sagay are right over their position on this matter.” Both Solanke and Sagay had, in the statement, demanded the sack of Justice Oloyede, saying her involvement showed she was political in the matter. [b] “We note with deep consternation and concern for the dignity and sanctity of the judiciary, the petition recently sent by Justice Folahanmi Oloyede to the Osun State House of Assembly, for the impeachment and removal from office, of Mr Rauf Aregbesola, Governor of Osun State. “We are disturbed by the source of this petition because it reveals the embarrassing and gross ignorance of the judge regarding the process for the impeachment of governors. We are also disturbed by this apparently reckless descent of a judicial officer into the murky waters of partisan politics... “Justice Oloyede is clearly not a member of the Osun State House of Assembly. She is not even a member of a civil society organisation. She is, in fact, a member of the judiciary, the third arm of government conferred with the responsibility of the interpretation of laws, including the constitution and the issuing of orders, judgments and sentences. “Indeed, it is the duty of someone in Justice Oloyede’s position to preside over a case for the determination of the issue, whether a purported removal of a governor by impeachment is valid or not. “It is, therefore, a cause for great embarrassment and shame that a judge of the High Court is ignorant of the fact that she cannot initiate impeachment proceedings against the governor. This raises a question whether she is fit to hold the office to which she has been appointed. “From what has been stated above, it is quite obvious that the Osun State House of Assembly acted in gross error in entertaining Justice Oloyede’s petition. That petition is an illegal document which should have been disregarded with contempt by the House. “By setting up a committee to investigate the allegations in the so-called petition, the House itself was displaying its ignorance of the impeachment process. “Even more fundamental is the question whether a judicial officer should be publicly engaged in a bitter public confrontation with any other arm of government, particularly the executive arm of government headed by the target of her tirade, the governor, who appointed her into office. “Specifically, is a judge permitted to make public political comments and engage in public diatribes against the government and the governor of the state in which he or she is serving? “The code of conduct for judicial officers is replete with provisions requiring a judicial officer to act with dignity, decorum and a high standard of conduct. "The preamble of the code, for example, provides that a judicial officer should actively participate in establishing, maintaining, enforcing and himself observing a high standard of conduct, so that the integrity and respect for the independence of the judiciary may be preserved,” the statement read.[/b] http://tribuneonlineng.com/aregbesola-solanke-sagay-want-oloyede-sacked |
| Politics / Re: Suspected Boko Haram Militants Kill Eight, Kidnap 100 In Cameroon by Shine1177: 7:54am On Aug 05, 2015 |
ifybroda: Humans are now ware that you advertise? In a sane society, DSS would have track that number and visit you. |
| Politics / Re: Bukola Saraki Inside IDP Camp In Maiduguri (Photos) by Shine1177: 8:29pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
I can see Senators Ndume and Goje in the first and third picture. Those guys are not small boys when it comes to the politics of Northern Nigeria. Bukola knows his friends. Meanwhile Senator Adeyeye has refuse to take the offer of the Chief Whip zone to South West by the Party and Saraki because he does want to recognize an "impostor" as directed by their 'Oga at the top'. 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: Saraki In Maiduguri, To Visit IDP Camps (Photos) by Shine1177: 3:07pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
hazyfm1: He is entitle to use one of the Presidential Jet in the Fleet. If you watch the first picture very well you will see the insignia of the Federal Republic on the Jet. The President, Vice, President , Senate President and his deputy, The Speaker of the HoR and his deputy by law are entitled to the Presidential Jets. I dey laugh those who think this guy will get the boot through the Tribunal or the NASS banana peels. 1 Like |
| Travel / Re: General South Africa Visa Enquiries by Shine1177: 3:32pm On Aug 02, 2015 |
femiaction: Congratulations! We are expecting you in Durban. |
| Romance / Re: Differences between Marriage Sex and Fornication/Adultery Sex by Shine1177: 12:56pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
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| Politics / Re: Na Only Fulani Waka Come (2)- By Yinka Odumakin by Shine1177: 2:40pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
It is being drummed into our ears that corruption is our greatest affliction and that it would kill us if we failed to kill it. That is half of the truth. Corruption itself is just a symptom of our worst disease: constitution. If Nigeria “dies” anytime the cause of its death would be printed boldly on its death certificate as the 1999 constitution. 2 Likes |
| Politics / Na Only Fulani Waka Come (2)- By Yinka Odumakin by Shine1177: 2:39pm On Jul 21, 2015 |
I HAVE no issue with Senator Rabiu Kwakwanso keeping his Almajiris so he could mobilise millions of herded voters at will,all I insist is that he should not run education from Abuja and churn out policies that would almajarise my own toddlers. Hillary, do you still remember our 1986 protest on the ABU crisis over the extra-judicial murder of Farida Mustapha and others? We emptied out of our campus and hit the streets of Ife in anger against the state that gave the guns to to the police who killed our schoolmates. We surmised that such a criminal state had no moral authority to accuse people of crimes and lock them away. Thus, we went to the prison in the heart of Oduduwa city and amnestied the inmates. We were sent home for about five months. When we returned to school,Yinka Tella wrote a poem titled “Zamaru:The Aftermath” which was published by “Democrat”, the campus journal I edited at the time. About 30 years after, I still remember his last lines: “If by the year 2000, the unmarried maidens of Zamaru resolve to remain in purdah, Despite Farida Mustapha, who cares? Certainly not Ife!” Tella was seeing far into the future and projected correctly that it would be futile seeking to unify civilisations. It is the template for a salad bowl country where all ingredients retain their identities and yet still collectively add up to one final product. Living in illusion For decades, we have lived the illusion of a nation-state buoyed by the oil doom which we nicknamed “boom”. We deluded ourselves that nationhood was settled with all the “no go areas” defined in our conversations . Yet, it is eternal truism that nothing is settled in the life of any country as it is a daily dialogue. The rentier economy and its corruption bred an irresponsible elite that assumed that everyday was celebration as conspicuous consumption became a way of life. They never bothered to internalise the law of motion that whatever goes up must come down. By the way, Isaac Newton who taught the world that diid not find much use for it in his personal life and he wept for it. Newton got his fingers burnt with the South Sea Company, which was established in the early 18th Century and granted a monopoly on trade in the South Seas in exchange for assuming England’s war debt. Investors warmed to the appeal of this monopoly and the company’s shares began their rise. Britain’s most celebrated scientist was not immune to the monetary charms of the South Sea Company, and in early 1720 he profited handsomely from his stake. Having cashed in his chips, he then watched with some perturbation as stock in the company continued to rise. In the words of Lord Overstone, no warning on earth can save people determined to grow suddenly rich. Newton went on to repurchase a good deal more South Sea Company shares at more than three times the price of his original stake, and then proceeded to lose £20,000 (which, in 1720, amounted to almost all his life savings). His song after the crash was “I can calculate the movement of stars, but not the madness of men.” It was that incalculable “madness of men” that made no one to listen when We warned a year ago that our “sharing” prosperity would end in calamity if the price of oil suddenly crash. The statement as captured by Vanguard of 9th, July 2014 is worth recalling: “If price of oil crashes today, govs flying jets will look for okada to ride – Delegate” By Henry Umoru ABUJA- A delegate representing the South West Geo- Political Zone of the country, Yinka Odunmakin told other delegates yesterday that if the price of oil crashes today, governors who he alleged to be going round the world with private jets, will look for motorcycles, known as Okada to ride. Contributing to debate on report of the devolution of power Committee yesterday, Odumakin also said that if no oil, only Lagos state out of the 36 states of the country would be able to use its Internally Generated Revenue, IGR to pay workers’ salaries. He said, “The recommendations of the Devolution Committee to use 4.5 % of our annual budget to develop other mineral resources outside oil is the most apt thing to do now to get out of the sharing culture that is holding Nigeria down. We are engaged in one of Ghandi’s identified 7 Social Deadly Sins-Wealth Without Work.If oil prices should crash today,all our states would collapse and the governors flying jets all over the place will look for okada to ride. “The grim reality below shows that we must embrace wealth flowing from work by going under the soil in our various states to diversify the economy.” Grim IGR reality On IGR and States’ wages, the delegate said, “Only one of the 36 states can afford to pay workers’ salaries with internally generated revenues, The remaining 35 states generate only a fraction of funds they require to settle their wage bills annually. This means that without federal funds, these states cannot even afford salaries payment, not to talk of executing any projects “Information on states’ wage bills comparisons with data on their internally generated revenues (IGR), published by the National Bureau of Statistics. The result showed that only Lagos State can pay salaries of its workers by solely relying on revenues generated internally. “None of the 19 Northern states has this much financial muscle. They all depend on federally-allocated subventions, mainly made up of funds generated from sales of crude oil that is extracted down south. “Other components of the federal allocation, shared between the three tiers of government on monthly basis, include taxes collected by the Nigerian Customs Service and the Federal Inland Revenue Service. “Lagos generated N219 billion in 2012, three times its annual wage bill of N76.5 billion. States that generated more than N10 billion in 2012 are Kano, Kaduna, Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Enugu, Edo, Delta, Cross River and Akwa Ibom. Among states with fairly strong revenue bases are Rivers, which generates the second highest IGR of N66.2 billion in 2012, but has an annual wages bill of N96 billion. “Edo made N18.9 billion revenue but is weighed down by a salaries bill of N28 billion yearly, while Cross River generated N12.7 billion though it pays N22 billion wages annually. Even though Kano has the highest IGR in the North, the N24 billion it generated in 2012 is not enough to pay salaries of its workers, which is N36 billion yearly. Kaduna, the second internal revenue earner in the North, garnered N11.5 billion but which is less than half its N27.4 billion annual wage bill. “The situation with the remaining states is worse, as their annual wage bills are several times larger than their internally generated revenues. [b]For instance, Zamfara’s internally generated revenue is N2.5 billion in 2012, while its annual wage bill is N13.2 billion; Yobe generated N1.7 billion, and has a yearly salaries bill of N18 billion; while Adamawa’s N23 billion wage bill is five times higher than its IGR of N4.6 billion. Even oil-rich Bayelsa State generated only N3 billion in 2011, but pays N48 billion in salaries yearly. “Nasarawa made N4.1 billion in 2012 but spends N24 billion yearly in salaries; Sokoto generated N3.8 billion in 2010 and spends N16.8 billion on annual wages; and Kogi got N3.1 billion in 2012 but it is workforce soaks up N44 billion yearly. “Kwara (salaries, N11 billion; revenue, N7.2 billion), Benue (revenue, N8.4 billion; salaries, N34.8 billion), Katsina (salaries, N14.4 billion; revenue, N5 billion), Bauchi (salaries, 26 billion; revenue, N4.1 billion), Ondo (revenue, N10.1 billion; salaries, N48 billion), Plateau (revenue, N7 billion; salaries, N20.7 billion), Kebbi (revenue, N5.4 billion; salaries N12 billion), Niger (revenue, N3.7 billion; salaries N31.2 billion), and Gombe (salaries, N14.4; revenue, N3.7 billion). “Others are Abia (salaries, N30 billion; revenue, N3 billion), Akwa Ibom (salaries, N33.2 billion; revenue, N13.5 billion), Anambra (revenue, N6.1 billion; salaries, N16.3 billion), Borno (salaries, N20.7 billion; revenue, N2.4 billion), Delta (revenue, N45.5 billion; salaries, N85.2 billion) and Ebonyi (salaries, N16.8 billion; revenue, N14 billion). “There are also Ekiti (salaries N24 billion, revenue N3.8 billion), Imo (revenue N6.8 billion, salaries N22.8 billion), Jigawa (salaries N33.5 billion, revenues N1.4 billion), Osun (salaries N22.8 billion, revenue N5 billion), Oyo (salaries N49 billion, revenue N14 billion), Taraba (revenue N3.4 billion, salaries N21.6 billion).”[/b] Reason for solo ‘waka’ The figures above clearly show why any group that holds the lever of power and does not have broadness of mind would do solo “Waka” to the consternation of others.There is very little we are making from oil . Even if prudently managed, there still can’t be national prosperity. Nigeria’s budget for 2015 is about $17b just about a little over one third of the $45b Walt Disney Company revenue in 2014. it is a recipe for poverty. A recent report by Vanguard shows that we are losing $208b annually in untapped resources because we have a constitution that says all mines belong to the Federal Government while the states that should tap them and create wealth are going to Abuja looking for “bail outs” are under their feet. That is going to Sokoto in search of what is tucked in your pocket! It is being drummed into our ears that corruption is our greatest affliction and that it would kill us if we failed to kill it. That is half of the truth. Corruption itself is just a symptom of our worst disease: constitution. If Nigeria “dies” anytime the cause of its death would be printed boldly on its death certificate as the 1999 constitution. Just one example in closing. It was profitable for a manager with NITEL to live on corruption when that body was the sole telephone provider with 400,000 lines to 100 million people. He would make a fortune taking bribes from many people running after his few lines.If that manager were to be with one of the many GSM operators of today, he would wallow in penury if all he knows is shaking down those want lines as operators now beg people to take their lines. What we have done in telecoms that we are able to communicate even with the demise of NITEL,we must do with our polity by reconstituting so we can create many corridors of prosperity with every federating unit pursuing their happiness according to their civilisation so we can all “Waka come” The existing paradigm can only be productive of marginalisation, exclusion and bickering because of limited opportunities which fuels nepotism and clannish inclinations. Hillary, your friend Jebb Bush is throwing his hat in the ring as the third Bush to seek the presidency of America in our adult life and you won’t hear “Na only Bush Family Waka Come?”Why?…May be I should let you chime in. See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/na-only-fulani-waka-come-2/#sthash.CAnQ8SZT.dpuf 5 Likes 2 Shares |
| Education / Teacher Jailed For Caning Pupil by Shine1177: 8:11pm On Jul 18, 2015 |
A magistrates' court in Alexandra, Johannesburg, South Africa, has sentenced a school teacher, Philippine Rakosa, to one year imprisonment for caning a grade two pupil. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the Sowetan newspaper on Friday in Pretoria said that the teacher was jailed on Wednesday for hitting an eight-year-old pupil with a hosepipe for failing a class test. The paper said the incident occurred on February 8, 2014, at Gordon`s Primary School in Alexandra, north of Johannesburg. The publication quoted the Magistrate, Gideon Suhnetler, as saying that it was time teachers realised that corporal punishment was outlawed in South Africa. It said that a medical doctor testified that the child suffered hand sepsis, a skin infection that changed the wound to various colours. "Her hand no longer works properly and there are fears it might not recover entirely," the doctor said. The paper also said that the pupil testified via video feed that the teacher assaulted her, claiming that she had copied from another pupil. According to the paper, the pupil`s mother told the court that the teacher offered her bribe to close the case. The teacher, according to the Sowetan, said she paid the money after being told to do so by her headmaster. Rakosa said the headmaster wanted the matter settled before the media got the information. The magistrate, however, said that it was impossible for an adult like the teacher to accept a liability if she had not committed the offence. He said the teacher`s testimony was not trustworthy and was aimed at defending herself. The paper quoted the prosecutor, Jackie Letsoalo, as requesting the court to jail the teacher for five years. The magistrate exercised leniency and jailed her for one year because she was the sole breadwinner in her family and had two children. The teacher`s husband, the publication also said, was unemployed. The Sowetan said that while there were many cases in the country, this was the first time a teacher had been sentenced to prison. http://tribuneonlineng.com/teacher-jailed-caning-pupil |
| Politics / Re: Senate To Share Committees Between APC, PDP by Shine1177: 8:24am On Jul 14, 2015 |
Good. My South West will have to manage 5 slots out of 57 slots that should go round the five South West State that voted APC excluding Ekiti State. Saraki is playing the script of the Northern elite. 1 Like |
| Politics / How Tinubu-saraki War Started by Shine1177: 12:13pm On Jul 12, 2015 |
Written by: Lanre Adewole The open feud between the camps of a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu and the Senate president, Bukola Saraki reportedly had its root in the well-orchestrated opposition to the emergence of a muslim running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari, Saturday Tribune’s checks have revealed. In the build-up to the National Assembly leadership contest, Tinubu had stoutly stood against Saraki’s ambition to lead the National Assembly as the Senate president, while showing preference, first, for former Minority Leader, Senator George Akume and later Senator Ahmed Lawan. It was, however, gathered that Tinubu’s disavowal of Saraki was predicated on the role the Senate president reportedly played in stopping him (Tinubu) from emerging as Buhari’s running mate in the course of searching for the vice-presidential candidate for the party. The slot was said to have been exclusively reserved for Tinubu who also openly admitted wanting it, but had to let go when the whole nation railed against the proposed Muslim-Muslim ticket with Buhari, despite the General’s stated positive disposition to the planned controversial pairing. Tinubu eventually brought in now Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo as his replacement on the ticket but unknown to many, Saraki reportedly played a crucial role in stopping Tinubu from actualizing his vice-presidential dream. Saraki, it was learnt, led a high-powered delegation of the party’s front-row leaders to Tinubu, asking him to perish the thought of flying a Muslim-Muslim ticket with Buhari. The Saraki delegation and senior Nigerians across tribes which the delegates appeared representing, reportedly communicated decisively to Tinubu that his project with Buhari would not fly. Following his alleged tenacious demand for the VP ticket in the heat of the search, Tinubu came under severe media attacks, especially from online media. It was also learnt that Tinubu’s camp reportedly suspected that Saraki’s group, including the immediate past governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, was behind the massive media attack rained on Tinubu in the days of long knives, before Osinbajo was announced. In the heat of the moment, Tinubu had to, twice within 24 hours, issue press statements stating his desire for the job and giving reasons for his withdrawal from the race. Saturday Tribune learnt that from the moment of his withdrawal, Tinubu’s camp swore that the Saraki group would be denied any of its aspirations and Saraki in particular would be given a dose of his own medicine. Saturday Tribune had exclusively reported the struggle between the duo in the build-up to the National Assembly leadership elections and the plots to outwit each other. With Saraki using the religious factor to win the first round of the battle, Tinubu’s camp was said to have planned using same to knock him out of the Senate presidency race by going for Akume, a Christian, as its preferred candidate for Senate presidency. The argument then was that the Christian minority in the North should be given a sense of belonging in the new administration. The counter-argument within the party that the Senate president should be a Muslim with the emergence of Osinbajo a Christian as VP reportedly forced a detour by the Tinubu camp which then switched from Akume to Lawan, in a bid to flow with a more popular opinion within the top echelon of the party. Core Northern elders, predominantly Muslims, were also said to have kicked against Akume’s choice, reportedly arguing that it was a ploy to return to the days of former President Olusegun Obasanjo when Christians occupied the first and third positions on the national protocol list all through. Tinubu’s camp was said to have also come up with the race card in shoring support for Lawan with a well-circulated argument then that the emergence of Saraki would see Yoruba occupying the number two, three and potentially four, with the permutation that Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila from Lagos, would emerge the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The argument being circulated then, allegedly by Tinubu’s camp, was that Saraki is a Yorubaman from Kwara, while his maternal root in Owo, Ondo State, was also being alluded to, to further prove his Yorubaness. The choice of Lawan from Yobe, the heart of Hausa-Fulani conclave by Tinubu’s camp, was said to have been primed to further push the narrative for a full-fledged northerner as the Senate president. The northern establishment, according to findings, was also expected to excitedly key into the Lawan candidacy due to his ethnic and religious placements. Saturday Tribune, however, gathered that the northern establishment lined behind Saraki in the Senate presidency game and still having his back in the post-National Assembly election struggle, because Tinubu reportedly refused to heed the North’s warning not to attempt choosing candidates for positions zoned to the North. Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal and a former governor from the North West (name withheld) were said to have separately met with Tinubu severally in the heat of the struggle to tell him the pervading feeling of the North on his position on choosing candidates, especially for the Senate leadership, but he was said to have stuck to his gun. Tambuwal, who was once a beneficiary of Tinubu’s political alliance, reportedly met with him thrice, begging him to respect the decision of the North to pick its candidate for the Senate president, without any commitment from the former governor of Lagos State. At such meetings, Tinubu was said to have consistently told his guests that all he was doing was to ensure the emergence of the right change team that would share the dreams and passion of the president. At one of such meetings with the former governor who is now a senator backing Saraki, Tinubu reportedly told him that his backing for Lawan was in the interest of the president and that he was working on his behalf. The former governor, who is known for straight shooting, reportedly demanded from Tinubu which president he was referring to, while asking rhetorically “your president or our president” (meaning North’s president). At that point, he reportedly told Tinubu that the North would take everything from him, including the speakership initially conceded to the South-West for which Gbajabiamila had been penciled in. His threat was said to have confirmed the earlier subtle one from the sitting governor who reportedly told Tinubu that “his ogas (northern establishment) may take everything from you if you don’t leave the Senate presidency for them”. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, who the northern establishment earlier penciled in as Gbajabiamila’s deputy speaker, was consequently asked by the North to run against the latter. In order to beat Tinubu’s camp to its reported race and religious cards, the Northern establishment decided to go for Dogara, a Christian minority from the North as the speaker to puncture any argument of religious imbalance that might be thrown up later. http://tribuneonlineng.com/how-tinubu-saraki-war-started |
| Investment / Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by Shine1177: 11:25am On Jul 12, 2015 |
Analysts at FSDH Merchant Bank Ltd., who also agreed that the operating environment is very unhealthy, said the outlook for July is not going to be better. ‘’We don’t expect a major improvement in the earnings of the quoted companies in second quarter of 2015 (which would have driven a market recovery)’’, one of the analysts said. In fact, the analysts forecast that the market may drop further this month, adding that the policy direction of the Buhari administration may set the path that the equity market would follow in the short term. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/investors-lose-n271bn-in-five-days/#sthash.TGhgijWA.dpuf |
| Family / Re: Man Who Abandoned His Wife And Twins Speaks Out by Shine1177: 1:07pm On Jul 10, 2015 |
Dharniel:Kai, you be bad person  You got me cracking wetin the man for do? |
| Jobs/Vacancies / Re: My Experience With An Nlng Scammer. by Shine1177: 6:07pm On Jul 09, 2015 |
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| Politics / Re: Bomb Explodes At Zaria Workers’ Biometric Screening Centre; Many Feared Dead by Shine1177: 4:01pm On Jul 07, 2015 |
czar001: Brother, it started as a religious war (JIHAD) and it would have been killed at that point but the people that suppose to do it felt less concern. They play politics with it also. In 1999 when Yerima started his political Shariah Law in Zamfara State despite the fact that Shariah Law has been in existence in the North before then, many hailed him and most of the Northern governors copied his style. OBJ said, it was a political shariah that will die a natural death but alas he was wrong. The jobless latch on to it and we have a national demon in our hands now. The reason the Arabia countries and the South West Muslims don't kill is because their leaders teach and impress on their mind against it but it is not like that in the Northern part of Nigeria. Their leaders encourage them for selfish reasons. If you remember, Senator Musa Kwankwaso told Nigerians after the election that they use the Almajiris to vote out GEJ. No good leader will say such things if not that he encourage the breading of these canon in terrorists hands. I don't think joblessness and poverty is the cause because it's not peculiar to the North alone but evil indoctrination of their youth. 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: Bomb Explodes At Zaria Workers’ Biometric Screening Centre; Many Feared Dead by Shine1177: 2:47pm On Jul 07, 2015 |
czar001:They are tired of attacking the Church. The Muslim clerks never condemned them back then because the evil did not affect their interest but the church prayed to God. When they killed the Jews, I speak not because I am not a Jew. When they killed the Germans. i speak not because I am not a German. When they killed the Irish. I speak not because I am not an Irish. When they came for me. There was nobody to speak for me because they are all dead. The wise saying teaches us to never harbour evil. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Pllease, somebody on this thread said Abuja is the next. DSS take note. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Education / Re: University Of Ibadan Ranked Nigeria’s Best University, 8th In Africa by Shine1177: 10:54am On Jul 07, 2015 |
South Africa occupies the top six positions because they focus more on research at Post-Graduate level than Nigeria. Nigeria Universities are more of hard learning and less research. Be inform also that Nigerians (both students and faculties) in top South African Universities are top researchers, this is a factor South Africa Universities cannot ignore. 4 Likes |
| Travel / Re: General South Africa Visa Enquiries by Shine1177: 4:09pm On Jul 06, 2015 |
elnino2015: Try UKZN. |
| Politics / Re: APC: Chief Bisi Akande Says Party Is A Wrecking Platform by Shine1177: 10:06am On Jun 29, 2015 |
Explaining the merging of the ACN, ANPP and CPC, the former chairman said “some times in 2013 ACN, ANPP and CPC resolved to merge and set up a merger committee to work out the modality for glueing together as one political party under one name, one constitution and one manifesto. Chief Bisi Akanda trying to twist events in APC history. nPDP was a major force in PMB/APC victory at the federal level. |
| Politics / APC: Chief Bisi Akande Says Party Is A Wrecking Platform by Shine1177: 10:05am On Jun 29, 2015 |
APC CRISIS: Akande calls on Buhari, APC govs to close ranks on June 29, 2015 By Dapo Akinrefon FOLLOWING the crisis rocking the National Assembly over election of its principal officers, former Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, yesterday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari and governors elected on the platform of the APC to close ranks and salvage the party from imminent collapse. President Muhammadu Buhari chairs the meeting of the Peace and Security Council at the 25th AU Summit in Johannesburg on Saturday President Muhammadu Buhari Akande, in a statement made available to Vanguard, painted a gloomy future of the party if the leaders of the party fail to urgently address the crisis rocking the APC. He alleged that those fuelling the rebellions against the APC positions, which led to the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki, were old new-PDP tendencies. According to him, “what began as political patronages to be shared into APC membership, spreads among ethnic zones, religious faiths and political rankings and experiences have now become so complicated that the sharing has to be done by and among PDP leadership together with cohorts of former new-PDP affiliations in the APC, by and among gangs of past anti-Buhari’s presidency, and certain APC legislators and party members who dance round the crisis arena to pick some crumbs.” Describing the crisis within the APC as a conspiracy, he said, “now that the whole conspiracy has blown open, it is doubtful if the present institutions of party leadership can muster the required capacity to arrest the drift. “It is my opinion that President Buhari, and the APC governors should now see APC as a wrecking platform that may not be strong enough again to carry them to political victory in 2019 and they should quickly begin a joint damage control effort to reconstruct the party in its claim to bring about the promised change before the party’s shortcomings begin to aggravate the challenges of governance in their hands,” Akande stated. Explaining the merging of the ACN, ANPP and CPC, the former chairman said “some times in 2013 ACN, ANPP and CPC resolved to merge and set up a merger committee to work out the modality for glueing together as one political party under one name, one constitution and one manifesto. A splinter of APGA sought to be included in the merger. An application made to INEC to this end by APC National Interim Committee composed of ACN, ANPP, CPC, And factions of APGA and DPP was approved in July, 2013. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/apc-crisis-akande-calls-on-buhari-apc-govs-to-close-ranks/#sthash.k5Ze9but.dpuf |
| Politics / Re: I Dropped My Presidential Ambition For Buhari — Saraki by Shine1177: 12:48pm On Jun 28, 2015 |
I feel sorry for anyone that believes Senator Saraki comment. What heat is he feeling after the deed has been done? All principal officer are on his side so he can now fake a good party man. Bukola Saraki and his father are known for playing tricks. They played on Kwarans intelligence in 2011 when Baba supported his daughter and Bukola supported Fatai Ahmed for governorship, his father faked cry at a rally and people were cursing Bukola for disobeying his father, the Baba told them to stop cursing his son afterall he still his son. Few week after election, Bukola candidate won, both Baba Saraki and his daughter, Gbemi Saraki went to join Bukola in PDP and Kwarans was scammed. The Sarakis are good in playing tricks. |
| Politics / Re: Impeachment: Judge Ready To Testify Against Aregbesola, Says Speaker by Shine1177: 7:32pm On Jun 25, 2015 |
tunwumi: She is a woman of honour. Apart her job can't be threaten by the governor, NJC is the boss here and Judges salary is on first line charge. 55 Likes |
| Politics / Impeachment: Judge Ready To Testify Against Aregbesola, Says Speaker by Shine1177: 6:47pm On Jun 25, 2015 |
The Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salaam, said on Thursday that Justice Folahanmi Oloyede, who wrote a petition calling for the impeachment of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, had expressed her readiness to defend her allegations against the governor.http://www.punchng.com/news/impeachment-judge-ready-to-testify-against-aregbesola-says-speaker/ 3 Likes 1 Share |
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