₦airaland Forum

Aliyu333:
Am going for katsina, Gombe, Ogun, and dunno of the far south yet. What about you? Tho I prefer katsina.

Rivers, Lag or Kano...

Coolboi05:
I rememba hw u were very active on 2012 ABU admission thread...
here we com bro..

Coolboi! You here too. How you doing? Hope ABU no change your skin o.....Nice one. I'm just proud of my fellow Abusites on Nairaland. Well done guys.

Aliyu333:
started from the bottom now we are here. Congratx bro

Ha! Aliyu! Congrats too bro. It has been a tough ride. Its not easy. We hope for a better future.

ABU, ZARIA.

Mass Comm.

2016.

Rivers, Ogun.

Hello, I downloaded the Pes 2016 patch on my PC, followed the installation video judiciously but since then the pes refused to open. Any help?

Depe:
Please, i need somebody good in statistical analysis

I am. What is the problem?

Thanks to Sahara reporters. This is what i wrote last December on investigative reporting in Nigeria......

http://my9jafan..co.ke/2015/12/opinion-sahara-reporters-face-of-modern.html?m=1

Thanks to Sahara reporters. This is what i wrote last December on investigative reporting in Nigeria......

Everything is right and wrong with the cult of the amateur.....

God bless the Nigerian Air Force. Success is the leading word. Wipe the Animals out. They don't deserve to leave.

What we have is no longer news, but advertising and public relations paraded as news and information.

I agree with this woman on this. The manner our media houses are handling this story shows that we have many journalists NOT communicators in the industry. The use of labelling was just unprofessional. The man who is part of the animals that melted such inhumane treatment on the innocent girl should be labelled a 'Terrorist' not her 'husband. He should be seen as a terrorist and treated like animal. He doesn't deserve such label. In fact, due to the poor media label, some people are of the opinion that the man should be freed. If Boko Haram forced him to join them as claimed, did boko haram also forced him to use that is 'useless rod' on the girl? Nonsense...

Bro, your analogy is very simple. I have observed that the APC led federal government has a lot of political and media strategists that are very good in the arts of propaganda. Their public manipulation techniques is too subtle for the gullible Nigerians to recognize. Your narrative can be given a philosophical bearing...........
According to Noam Chomsky, there are 10 strategies the elites use to manipulate the masses. The second of those strategies is ... . Create problems, then offer
solutions

This method is also called “problem
-reaction- solution.”
It creates a problem, a “situation”
referred to cause some reaction in
the audience, so this is the
principal of the steps that you want
to accept.
Or create an economic crisis to
accept as a necessary evil retreat
of social rights and the dismantling
of public services.
When social problems are
concocted to provoke a specific
need for orientation in the
population, that makes possible a
solution in the ideological direction
desired from the beginning. A
serious crime is committed
especially when the living
conditions of people deteriorate.
Whoever
sees the elites' information
advantage over their diverted
populations, particularly when the
mass media acts as a "fourth
branch" under resource scarcity
and factors of capital-connection and under a unanimous
mentality does not need much
imagination to recognize how
easily crises, catastrophes and
other problems in many areas can
be intensified and exploited.
This is what is currently happening....

Many reside in dingy hotels, ask for
N20m to rent secure, fit and proper
homes in Abuja

By Iyobosa Uwugiaren in Abuja

Six months after President
Muhammadu Buhari swore in his
ministers, most of them have still
not settled down in Abuja and are
groaning because the N4 million
approved by the president as their
yearly accommodation allowance
have not been able to rent any
meaningful house in Abuja,
THISDAY has learnt.

The N4 million, THISDAY findings
reviewed, can only rent flats and not
homes, and giving the need for
security, those flats which have
many other tenants in the building,
are not secure or fit for purpose.
Usually, accommodation for
ministers, special advisers and
other political office holders is
quickly resolved shortly after their
swearing-in to enable them settle
down to their official
responsibilities.

But owing to the inadequacy of the
funds approved for their
accommodation by Buhari, some
ministers have been forced to stay
in dingy hotels or squat with friends
and relatives, it was gathered.

The ministers, THISDAY learnt, are
concerned that it would be next to
impossible for them to get
accommodation befitting their
offices with N4 million in Abuja and
have repeatedly appealed to Buhari
to review it upwards to N20 million
per annum, but their request has
been turned down.

According to a source in the
presidency, “In a bid to make their
case, all the ministers who had
formed a committee on the issue of
their accommodation met with
Buhari last week Wednesday, but he
rejected their request because his
hands are tied by the Remuneration
Act, even though he empathises
with their situation.

“They were asking for N20 million
per annum for their
accommodation. But prior to last
week’s meeting, several other
options had been proposed,
including buying an estate or the
FCDA (Federal Capital Development
Authority) building one, but these
were considered expensive and
dropped.

“The final option was the request
for N20 million per annum, because
some ministers are squatting in
Abuja and the situation is impacting
on their jobs.”

However, the president was said to
have balked at increasing the
accommodation allowance to N20
million on the grounds that the
administration could suffer a
backlash from the public.

The source also explained that the
N4 million approved by the
president was in line with the
current remuneration package for
public office holders in the
ministerial cadre set by the
Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation
and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC)
under the Remuneration Act of
2007.

Under the current package,
ministers are entitled to N4,052,800
as housing allowance per annum.
The housing allowance is 200 per
cent of a minister’s annual
remuneration.

They are also entitled to
N6,079,200 as furniture allowance.
The furniture allowance is 300 per
cent of a minister’s annual salary.
But unlike the housing allowance,
the furniture allowance is paid once
in four years. This means the
furniture allowance per annum is
N1,519,800.

THISDAY also gathered that
ministers will be entitled to
N8,105,600 as motor vehicle
allowance, but will come in the
form of a loan repayable by the end
of a minister’s tenure.

However, aides of the ministers
conversant with the problem,
informed THISDAY that some
compromise would have to be
reached so that the ministers could
find decent accommodation in
Abuja.

“We hope there will be a meeting
point over what the president has
approved for the ministers and the
special advisers who are on the
same level, as the N4 million is not
realistic at all.

“Some of these public office
holders were past governors and
chief executives in private concerns
before they were appointed, and it
will be unfair to downgrade their
living standards,” one ministerial
aide stated.

He added that the nature of their
jobs also requires some ministers
to host local and foreign dignitaries
at their residences when they visit
Abuja.

“By virtue of their office, some
ministers such as those in charge
of foreign affairs, budget and
national planning, finance, trade
and investment, health, and
education, among others, often host
foreign dignitaries from missions,
embassies and international or
multilateral donor agencies.
Accordingly, they would need
befitting accommodation.

“It would not be in our interest for
such dignitaries to be hosted in tiny
flats or in far flung suburbs outside
the metropolis, which is what the
N4 million can afford at the
moment. Besides, there might also
be security concerns about allowing
ministers to live in such suburbs or
even hosting foreign dignitaries
there.

“Right now, the absence of
accommodation also means that
many of them have not been able to
relocate their families and have
been shuttling on a regular basis to
cater to the home front.
Realistically, that will be a
distraction that the administration
could do without,” the aide said.

Another aide, who preferred not to
be named, blamed the problem on
the monetisation programme of the
Olusegun Obasanjo administration,
resulting in the sale of official
residences built for ministers and
other top government functionaries
in Abuja.

“In the past, former ministers lived
in purpose-built spacious mansions
in Maitama, the Ministers’ Hill, also
in Maitama, and the Ministers’
Quarters in Mabushi, which were all
within the Abuja metropolis.

“But those official residences were
sold to former ministers. So their
successors have had to rent
accommodation starting with the
Goodluck Jonathan administration.

“And with the N4 million approved
by President Buhari, it is next to
impossible for the ministers to rent
anything decent,” the source said.
He added that the problem does not
just apply to ministers but also the
principal officers of the National
Assembly.

“The Obasanjo administration
should not have sold the official
residences of the Senate president,
the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and their deputies
to Senator David Mark, Hon. Dimeji
Bankole, and others.

“Today, the FCDA is spending
billions of naira building another
set of official residences for the
National Assembly’s principal
officers. Had the government
retained them, billions could have
been saved in building a new set of
residences for the leadership of
parliament,” he said.

A survey carried out by THISDAY
revealed that a four to five-bedroom
detached house in Wuse II, Abuja,
goes for anywhere between N8
million to N10 million per annum.
The rate is almost the same in
Gwarinpa Phase 1 and Utako, Abuja,
while a four-bedroom detached
house in Maitama or Asokoro goes
for between N10 million and N15
million per annum.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/05/02/accommodation-crisis-hits-buharis-ministers/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

mallamseifaldin:
Who is he deceiving?
He just wanna win his second term bid, after that he will revert to the old salary.

It's either you are not informed or ill-informed. Either ways, be informed.

Lol, why are you advertising and purchasing the product at same time. Between yesterday night and this evening, you sent chapter 1 of a project to someone, you sent questionnaire in chapter 3 to same. And the supervisor approved a questionnaire without chapter 2 and 3? lol, Clap for yourself...

If by the end of the whole drama, Saraki is discharged and acquitted. Then, I will see no reason not to concur with Avram Noam Chomsky first strategy of the ten most
powerful and efficacious strategies
used by “masters of the world” to
establish a manipulation of the
population through the media which is the strategy of DISTRACTION. According to him, The primary element of social
control is the strategy of distraction
which is to divert public attention
from important issues and changes
determined by the political and
economic elites, by the technique
of flood or flooding continuous
distractions and insignificant
information.
“Maintaining public attention
diverted away from the real social
problems, captivated by matters of
no real importance. Keep the public
busy, busy, busy, no time to think,
back to farm and other
animals” (quote from text Silent
Weapons for Quiet Wars )...

If you engage most, if not all of them in Media criticism and analysis, they will stick in the process. Well, they should enjoy, it is their time...........

What were the parameters and criteria you used in evaluating and measuring the university that made you arrive at that Categorical statement of yours? Be explicit please!!

THE Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria, in Kaduna State, Professor Ibrahim Garba,
has said the Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji
Aliko Dangote, has pledged to build 10 student
hostels in the university.
Speaking at the 38th convocation ceremony of
the university in Zaria on Saturday,he disclosed
that the building of the hostels would address
the problem of hostel accommodation in the
university.
According to him, ‘for the past 35 years, no
hostel had been built in the university, adding
that the university which had a student
population of 40,000 students, could only give
accommodation to only 11,000.
The vice chancellor who lauded the former
Minister of Defence, Gen T.Y. Danjuma for
donating N2bn for the construction of faculty of
sciences also commended two former students
of the university, the former governor of Taraba
State, Danbaba Suntai for building a 260 seater
lecture theatre for pharmaceutical students at
the cost of N300m and an executive director in
First Bank, Dauda Lawal for building offices for
staff of political science department and
donating a bus at the cost of N135m.

http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/dangote-to-build-10-students-hostels-for-abu-—vc?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

Prof. Ibrahim Garba, Vice-Chancellor, Ahmadu
Bello University (ABU), Zaria on Saturday said
the institution has produced 305 Ph.D. holders
and 98 First Class degree holders for 2013/2014
academic session.
He stated this in an address at the 38th
convocation ceremony of the university held at
the main campus, Samaru, Zaria, Kaduna State.
Garba said: "The Chancellor, Egwe, Nnaemeka
Alfred Ugochukwu will in today's convocation
ceremony, confer a total of 13,149 First Degrees
and 4,598 Higher Degrees and Diplomas to
deserving graduates for the 2013/2014 academic
session."
He gave the breakdown as follows; First Class,
89 persons, Second Class Upper, 2,086, Second
Class Lower, 7,108, Third Class, 3,161, Pass, 262
and 443 Unclassified Degrees.
According to him Higher Degrees and Diplomas
include; 305 Ph.Ds., 2,669 Masters of Arts and
Masters of Science and 1,624 Post Graduate
Diplomas.
Garba reminded the graduates that they have
been added to the list of alumni of the university
and should therefore see themselves as
members of the larger ABU family.
He said the university had continued to
discharge its mandate of teaching, research
innovation and community service diligently.
"The university had from its inception, continued
to train men and women without any distinction
on grounds of race, religion or political beliefs.
"It has remained the most national in character
in the Nigerian university system," he said.
He however lamented that the university with a
population of about 40,000 students has
accommodation for only 11,000 students on its
campus.
"It is important to note that the growth of
student population is not accompanied by any
addition of hostels in the last 35 years, while the
existing ones have been degraded over time."
The V-C said discussions were on with private
investors to build more hostels through public-
private partnership.
"A huge donation was yesterday pledged by
Alhaji Aliko Dangote to build 10 hostels for ABU.
This is unprecedented and has certainly come at
the right time," he said. (NAN)

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/education/abu-produces-89-first-class-305-ph-d-holders/131436.html

Prof. Ibrahim Garba, Vice-Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria on Saturday said the institution has produced 305 Ph.D. holders and 89 First Class degree holders for 2013/2014 academic session.

He stated this in an address at the 38th convocation ceremony of the university held at the main campus, Samaru, Zaria, Kaduna State.

Garba said: "The Chancellor, Egwe, Nnaemeka Alfred Ugochukwu will in today's convocation ceremony, confer a total of 13,149 First Degrees and 4,598 Higher Degrees and Diplomas to deserving graduates for the 2013/2014 academic session."

He gave the breakdown as follows; First Class, 89 persons, Second Class Upper, 2,086, Second Class Lower, 7,108, Third Class, 3,161, Pass, 262 and 443 Unclassified Degrees.

According to him Higher Degrees and Diplomas include; 305 Ph.Ds., 2,669 Masters of Arts and Masters of Science and 1,624 Post Graduate Diplomas.

Garba reminded the graduates that they have been added to the list of alumni of the university and should therefore see themselves as members of the larger ABU family.

He said the university had continued to discharge its mandate of teaching, research innovation and community service diligently.

"The university had from its inception, continued to train men and women without any distinction on grounds of race, religion or political beliefs.

"It has remained the most national in character in the Nigerian university system," he said.

He however lamented that the university with a population of about 40,000 students has accommodation for only 11,000 students on its campus.

"It is important to note that the growth of student population is not accompanied by any addition of hostels in the last 35 years, while the existing ones have been degraded over time."

The V-C said discussions were on with private investors to build more hostels through public-private partnership.

"A huge donation was yesterday pledged by Alhaji Aliko Dangote to build 10 hostels for ABU. This is unprecedented and has certainly come at the right time," he said. (NAN)

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/education/abu-produces-89-first-class-305-ph-d-holders/131436.html

If you were not a direct beneficiary of the yams and you are on internet 24/7 to defend the goats, Take Sense......

There are indications that the Nigeria Security
and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) may have
perfected plans to carry out mass recruitment of
personnel secretly.
Though, the Corps had denied on several
occasions that it was recruiting anytime soon,
our reporter reliably gathered that employment
process is actually taking place secretly.
Inside sources who wouldn't want their names on
print said some top officials of the Corps who
are not comfortable with the sharing formula of
slots were already having digging it out with the
Commandant General, Abdullahi Gana
Muhammadu.
According to the sources, the Commandant
General gave 10 slots to each of the 36 states
commandants while the Deputy Commandant
General (DCGs) who form part of his
management team got one slot each. Hence, the
in-fighting.
One of the officers said most of the names have
been compiled while the Corps is set to issue
out appointment letters soon.
"The letters would be backdated several months
and payments likely to be made. The newly-
recruited are to be deployed in the states," the
source hinted.
Several attempts to get the reaction of the
Commandant General proved abortive as his
number was not reachable. However, the
spokesperson of the NSCDC, Emmanuel Okeh
when contacted on the phone, denied any rift
between the CG and the DCGs.
He also denied the allegation that the Corps was
recruiting, stressing that the information was not
correct as the Corps has only got approval from
the Presidency to recruit in March next year.
When quizzed, Okeh did not however state the
number of personnel the Presidency has
approved to be recruited.
He pointed out that: "We hear a lot of
information about recruitment going on at the
Corps, but we don't take it serious again
because we have come to realise that it is the
desperate move of people to get employment
that had led to people alleging that the Corps
was employing.
"We are neither employing now nor doing
replacement."

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/civil-defence-allegedly-in-secret-recruitment/126544.html

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday
described the N6.8 trillion 2016 federal budget
presented by President Muhammadu Buhari as a
big fraud and executive conspiracy tailored
towards mortgaging the future of the nation.
The party queried President Buhari’s decision to
borrow N2 trillion, the biggest in the history of
the nation as the height of recklessness and
deceit from a government that trends on
propaganda.
The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity
Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, berated the
Federal Government for trying to use their bogus
welfare programme and phantom capital projects
as cover and conduit to syphon the funds to
satisfy partisan interests, particularly to settle
huge campaign debts.
“It is obvious that this budget is an extension of
the campaign promises of the APC government,
presented as a manifesto filled with bogus
promises which implementation will be
inconclusive, thereby allowing the APC to once
again deny their promises.
“There has never been any known economy in
the world where government deliberately
mortgage the future of its nation by borrowing
excessively to finance partisan interests while
hiding under bogus welfare programmes. This is
moreso important as the APC in reeling out their
bogus campaign promises never informed
Nigerians that they would mortgage their future
through excessive borrowing.
“We have it on good authority that this is the
first in the series of APC borrowings which would
leave the future generation of Nigerians under
the burden of huge debts after four years.”
The PDP said the budget clearly shows that after
seven months in power, President Buhari and his
party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) are
yet to differentiate between governance and
campaign propaganda.
“By all standards, the 2016 budget, the first
major economic policy outing of this government,
is completely unrealistic and duplicitously
embellished with impractical predications, a
development that confirms fears by economy
watchers and investors that this administration is
obviously ill-equipped for governance.
“We are indeed shocked that President Buhari
and his minister of information have come up
with two different reasons for the current fuel
crisis in the country. While we appreciate the
President’s apology, we think it is high time he
called this minister to order as his excessive
propaganda and blame game are ridiculing this
administration and the image of the nation.
“Furthermore, it is instructive to note the official
endorsement of Mr. President to the devaluation
of the naira as against his campaign promise of
firming up the value of our currency even to the
much vaunted one naira to one dollar.
‘Does it mean that Mr. President lied his way to
power, or that he did not understand the
complexities of governance when he was making
his false promises to Nigerians?
“In future, there is need to regulate campaign
promises so that we will not end up with a
government that promises to climb Mount
Everest with bare hands and end up mortgaging
our future with orchestrated borrowings.
“Finally, we want to request Mr. President to
once again to involve experienced and well-
tested hands in the management of the economy
and budgeting processes. This economy is not
for Mr. President, neither is it for the APC. The
progress of the economy is for all Nigerians and
as such, due care should taken to save ourselves
from unrealistic and deceptive programmes.


http://www.leadership.ng/news/485683/buharis-budget-plan-mortgage-nigerias-future-pdp

When ASUU turn SSANU now? or

MY tecno P5+ is very selective of earpiece. How can I make all earpiece work fine on it?

The office of the Accountant General of the
Federation (AGF) says it is upgrading the
Government Integrated Financial Management
Information System (GIFMIS) to ensure payment
of December salary before Christmas.
The Director of Funds in the office, Mr
Mohammed Dikwa, stated this in an interview
with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on
Wednesday in Abuja on the sideline of a one-day
workshop on the Treasury Single Account and e-
payment/collection.

Dikwa said that the system would be shut down
over the weekend for the upgrade.

``The essence of the shut down is for
maintenance. Some people complained that they
couldn’t have access over the last few weeks
because of the queue management challenge.

``We want to upgrade the infrastructure that we
have over the weekend so that by Monday next
week all payments will go on smoothly.

``If you look at the trend, people find it difficult
to have access easily because the infrastructure
was not strong enough to effectively handle the
queue management.

``But with the new improvement, the system will
be easily accessed, there will be seamless
transactions, and people will get their money
before Christmas particularly salaries and other
financial commitments of government.

``I want to assure all Federal civil servants that,
God willing, they will get their salaries before
Christmas because we will try as much as
possible to pay the salaries before that time.

``We hope to have the Federation Account
Allocation Committee meeting much more earlier
and that will give us the room to have more
money into the consolidated revenue of the
federal government that will be used for the
purpose of paying salaries and other
commitments of government as far as this
financial year is concerned.’’


Earlier at the workshop, Dikwa, who represented
the AGF, Alhaji Ahmed Idris, said that the
maintenance was to enhance the capability of
the system to address the issue of queue
management and other associated operational
challenges.

NAN reports that GIFMIS is an information
technology based system for budget
management and accounting that is being
implemented by the federal government.
The aim is to improve public expenditure
management processes and to enhance greater
accountability and transparency across ministries
and agencies.

In her remarks at the workshop, the acting Head
of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs
Wilnifred Oyo-Ita, said the workshop was an
opportunity for stakeholders to deliberate on the
challenges associated with the TSA
implementation.

Oyo-Ita, who was represented by the Permanent
Secretary in her office, Mr Yemi Adelakun, said
that the outcome of the workshop would provide
the much needed feedback for policy evaluation
and review.

NAN reports that the workshop was organised by
Jk Consulting Company Limited in collaboration
with the Office of the Account-General of the
Federation.
It participants included senior account officers
and internal auditors of ministries, departments
and agencies of the federal government. (NAN)


http://dailytrust.com.ng/news/news/fg-assures-payment-of-salaries-before-christmas-to-upgrade-financial-management-system/124814.html?platform=hootsuite

SUGARBEE:
The media sometimes is an opposite mirror reflection of what indeed happened but we can't strike out the fact that it has helped us in so many ways



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