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What is this one saying

Taking laws into there hands..

Hope we won't start hearing stories very soon

Benue indigenes have raised alarm over the state government’s signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an America-based company, Juma International.
According to Governor Samuel Ortom, the signing of the $1 billion agro-allied deal was geared towards achieving his administration’s objective of wealth creation for the Benue people.
However, background checks on the American company has left little to be desired. A concerned indigene who requested anonymity said things looked fishy with the company.
He said: “As an agric enthusiasts, I checked the company out. Quite true its a U.S based company but every other thing about it smells funny. For one, its registered address in U.S (1712 Pioneer Ave Ste 1504, Cheyenne, 82001, WY, USA.) has got a publication tittled ” a little house of secrets”. That address belongs to a law firm doing business on the cayman islands. I smell financial fraud.”
Another questioned the credentials of the company in handling such deal involving huge amount of money having only been registered less than a year ago with no evidence of requisite capacity.
“There is Juma International, LLC that was formed on the 17th of November 2015, just last year, registered with Wyoming Corporations Division with registration number: USWY000699753. There are no officers listed for this company nor are there any accounts listed for this company. This company has not been issued any license from an industry specific regulator to operate, even though none may be required, but if it is the same company that has signed a billion dollar MoU with Benue State government, how can it raise so much money and manage such an account when it is not even a year old and appears not to have handled any other business. The legal registered office for this company is: 1712 Pioneer Avenue Ste 1504 Cheyenne, WY, 82001.”
Benue State government under the leadership of Governor Samuel Ortom has signed no less than 20 Memoranda of Understanding with foreign companies largely Chinese, however, some over a year ago without any concrete materialization.
Reacting to the matter, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Terver Akase, played down concerns stating the difference between an MoU and a contract.
He said the government could afford to sign MoUs at will with any firm but are not legally bound to followup with a contract with that particular firm.
“An MoU is just a document for two parties to reach a decision, a form of prelude to a formal contract. While an MoU does not contain enforceable legal terms, a contract does. So a government can afford to sign an MoU with company A but eventually not award the contract to the firm, owing perhaps to factors that later made such a deal not sail through.” Akase explained.

pls which site can i download central intelligenceI ve done it twice but its just the audio..

brunofarad:
Now,

Y'all should look at that man on suite in the 3RD pic





He is covering his nose.....

Cos he knows the meeting,
Just like many others in the past,









Will eventually end in the dust bin of promises

. What is this one saying

will this reduce the price of a bag of rice??Some One Shold Help Me And Tell PMB that A Bag Of Rice Is Now sold for 25000 Naira

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The Nigerian Army Institute of Technology and Environment Studies is to commence the 2016/2017 academic session with no fewer than 300 students in Biu, Borno, after relocation from Benue. The Rector of the institute, Clement Ojo, made this known in an interview with journalists in Biu on Saturday. Mr. Ojo, a Brigadier General, however, said it was only the School of Management that had fully relocated to Biu because of personnel and logistic challenges, adding that other departments would relocate later. The rector noted that the movement of the institute to Biu was an indication that the challenge of insurgency in the North East was being overcome, adding that this would restore confidence in the people. “The entire North East has been ravaged by insurgency; of course, this school is going to restore confidence back to the people. “It will create admission and job opportunities for them and translate to economic development of the area,” Mr. Ojo said. He explained that the institute which had been in operation under the Nigeria Army School of Military Engineer (NASME) in Makurdi, was relocated to Biu due to ongoing expansion of the institute. Mr. Ojo said the institute which was established in 2001 and granted full autonomy in 2010, also offers courses in technology, engineering, general studies, and natural and computer studies. He said the institute was designed to train both military and civilian middle level manpower for the development of the nation. The rector said the school offers admission in the ratio of 30 percent to military and 70 percent to civilian populace. He said the institute had recorded breakthrough in the area of drone and maps to support military operations.....
source http://www.idomavoice.com/buharimovesarmyschoolfrombenuetobornu48484

I think Afrocamdy is seriously Aging... My opinion

police again

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There is no doubt that Senator David Mark was one of the most powerful persons in the last administration. The Peoples Democratic Party’s senator from Benue State remains the nation’s longest serving President of the Senate. He has won elections into the Red Chamber for a record five times. During the last dispensation, Mark, being the President of the Senate, was a regular visitor to the Villa. When he was not holding meetings with former President Goodluck Jonathan on pressing national issues, he was attending strategic meetings of leaders of the then ruling PDP. Immediately the All Progressives Congress ended the 16-year rule of the PDP with the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as the winner of the 2015 presidential election, Mark recoiled into his shell despite winning re- election. He no longer visits the Villa as he was doing under Jonathan. Even on the floor of the Senate, he keeps his calm apparently in order not to be seen as intimidating the new leadership, therefore making some people to be jokingly referring to him as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Observation! But on Monday, Mark made a surprise visit to the Villa. Since he is no longer the President of the Senate, his Monday’s visit was a clear departure from the numerous visits he paid to the seat of power during the previous administration. In the past, Mark would be driven straight to the forecourt of the President’s office through the Service Chiefs’ Gate in a convoy of cars. There were a few times he would decide to drive himself but with a retinue of aides running after him. The Monday visit was different. He walked the long distance from where he came out from his car through the Briefing Room and the Council Chambers towards the President’s Office. State House correspondents were surprised to see him. We then quickly decided to lay ambush for him so that he would tell the world, through us, the purpose of the surprise visit on his way out. As President of the Senate, Mark was not in the habit of answering journalists’ questions inside the Villa. He had a way of avoiding us and quickly jumping into his waiting car. I recall that there was a day I personally confronted him with the fact that he had never talked to us. I remember that he smiled, turned back and promised that he would talk to us one day. That promise went the way of a similar promise made by Jonathan, he did not fulfil it until he left office. That was the same way we approached Jonathan for comments after he attended his last Good Friday Service inside the Aso Villa Chapel. He had lost the presidential election then. As we approached him, the former President smiled and said, “Don’t worry, I will talk to you at the appropriate time,” as he made his way from the chapel to his official residence. The time was not appropriate until he left. Mark must have learnt from Jonathan. After the Monday meeting too, the former President of the Senate still refused to talk to us despite all entreaties. The President celebrated Mark’s visit on the social media when he posted the photograph they took together on his Twitter handle, recalling that he (Mark) was the military governor of Niger State when he (Buhari) was the Head of State. It was however clear that that meeting had nothing to do with those their past roles. There is fire on the mountain in the Senate and the government surely needs experienced hands like Mark to handle it. It would be recalled that he had been reported to have warned against a move to start an impeachment process against the President during an executive session last week. That showed that he is still a stabilising factor in the National Assembly, a role he played well during Jonathan’ s era. Mark made life easy for Jonathan throughout the former President’s tenure and defended him even to a fault. He came under fire when he reportedly manipulated the screening process that ensured that Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, who was then accused of rigging the Ekiti State governorship election, was confirmed a minister. Besides getting Obanikoro confirmed, Mark never blocked any of Jonathan’s ministerial nominations. At a point in the life of the administration, he convinced his colleagues not to pass a vote of no confidence in Jonathan over the former President’s failure to curb insecurity. In November 2014 specifically, he foiled a move by some senators to impeach Jonathan. In return, Jonathan gave him several benefits including the nomination of some ministers in his cabinet. Jonathan’s defeat and the waning power of the PDP in the Senate have certainly relegated Mark to the background. But his visit seemed to point to the fact that the present administration was set to tap from his fountain of experience to smoothen the relation between the Executive and Legislature which has been roughened by the court cases that the Federal Government had instituted against Mark’s successor, Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu. As if to confirm this, Saraki on Thursday reshuffled the leadership of Senate committees to accommodate some lawmakers believed to be against him. Can this be one of the fallouts of Mark’s intervention?

just passing

with her strong nyash

wetin concern me

The others are the shortest coppers in Nigeria...Just saying......

I was told to dig my height because i slaped my head girl when i was in SS2.

My governor samuel ortom of benue state is the worst so far.

When will Nigeria get to this stage where leaders think and execute excellently for the good of society? I present to you photos of the Aqueduct Veluwemeer in Netherlands. The wonderful masterpiece of a bridge is is located under a part of the lake Veluwemeer and at the same time connects the mainland Netherlands to Flevoland, which happens to be the largest artificial island in the world. The aqueduct is 25 meters long and 19 meters wide and has a water depth of 3 meters that allow boats to pass through without hindrance. Footpaths are built on either side of the aqueduct to accommodate people who want to enjoy the spectacular view

Since Adams Oshiomhole started making revelations on stealings, some folks started attacking him. Lol!

Scholarship examinations into the American University of Nigeria, AUN, will be conducted simultaneously in six designated centres across the country on Saturday, August 1, between 9 a.m. and 12noon. AUN’s Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Recruitment, Linus Ikuyrav, said candidates admitted into the University for the Fall 2015 Semester on the basis of their 2015 JAMB UTME scores are eligible to sit for the examinations. Candidates transferring from local and foreign universities and those in Academic Foundation Program are, however, not eligible to take part. The centres and their contact information are as follows: 1. Intels Integrated Logistics Services, Km 16 Aba Expressway, Port Harcourt, (contact: 08075493243); 2. Federal Government College, Isi-Uzo Street, Independence Layout, Enugu, (contact: 08056200091); 3. Mauve 21 Event Centre, MKO Abiola Way, Iyana Adeoyo, Ring Road, Ibadan, (contact: 08077400585); 4. Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, 1 Memorial Drive, Abuja, (contact: 08052266302); 5. Arewa House, 1 Rabah Road, Kaduna, (contact: 052266398), and 6. Robert Pastor E-Library, AUN, Lamido Zubairu Way, Yola, (contact: 08055026923) . All eligible candidates must bring with them their Acceptance Letter into AUN and either an International passport, National ID Card, or Voters Registration Card containing their photograph. Candidates who have not yet been notified of their admission to AUN, and their guardians, can phone the test centres to receive permission to take the special scholarship exam. There is no fee attached to this scholarship examination.

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The Department of State Services, DSS, may have taken over the job of monitoring downstream petroleum distribution and marketing, as part of the President Muhamadu Buhari’s measures to stem the high level of corruption in subsidy claims. Consequently, retail outlets found selling any petroleum product above the prescribed government price will be immediately shut down, while any depot selling above the ex-depot price will have to forfeit the subsidy claims on the cargo that brought in the product. The move followed the apparent inability of the industry regulators, the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, and the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, whose officials were apparently overwhelmed by the supply shortages to check sharp practices and market excesses among the operators. Consequently, the DPR has scheduled another impromptu closed door meeting with marketers and other industry stakeholders today (Wednesday) at its Headquarters in Lagos, to update them on the new development. Confirming the development yesterday, a top industry source who also attended the meeting told Vanguard in a telephone interview that the decision was made known to stakeholders at a closed door meeting which held in Abuja on Monday. The source, who spoke in confidence said: “DSS will lead the operations (monitoring), and marketers were also asked to monitor each other and to report any sharp practices. “Government decided that enough was enough and will no longer condone any sharp practices in the system.” The source, disclosed that the meeting was at the instance of the Federal Government, and had in attendance the representatives of the DSS, DPR, PPPRA, Major and independent marketers, depot operators and a host of other industry operators. The source added that attendants sat for long hours deliberating on the best way to arrest the unofficial price hike of petroleum products in the market, occasioned by supply shortages following the inability of the government to pay markets outstanding subsidy claims of over N200billion. Sudden hike in price The source was responding to Vanguard’s enquiries on the cause of the sudden unofficial hike of both the pump price and ex-depot price of premium motor spirit, PMS, popularly called petrol and kerosene, and the helplessness of the industry regulators to arrest the situation. Since the supply shortages set in some months ago, marketers and depot operators took the initiative to hike pump and ex-depot prices to reap enormous profit while waiting for government to pay off their outstanding claims. As a result, practically every retail outlet sold petrol at above the prescribed N87/ Litre, to peg price at between N100 and N150/Litre depending on the outlet and location. Similarly, rather than the prescribed N81/ litre ex-depot price, marketers accused the depot operators of selling at N96/litre instead, which they claimed forced them to also hike pump price. He said: “Such practices will no longer be condoned especially with the involvement of the DSS, who will use their intelligence network to get to the root of the matter. “The meeting decided that all marketers must sell at the regulated price of N87/ litre of petrol. And anyone found to be selling above this, the DSS will track the outlet to the depot where the product was lifted. “If it was discovered that the pump price increase is as a result of hike in ex-depot price, then both the outlet and the depot will be sanctioned. “Originally, it was agreed that both the outlet and the depot will be shut down, but after considering the situation, if was agreed that the depot will not be shut down in order not to exacerbate the supply situation. “However, the depot operator will be made to forfeit his subsidy claims on that cargo, as it will be assumed that he has reimbursed himself through the ex-depot price hike.” “We are meeting with DPR again tomorrow (today) on the same matter for them to tell everybody what is happening and the need for all to ensure compliance,” the source added. DPR meets with stakeholders Expressing shock at the takeover of parts of its functions by the DSS, a top management official of the DPR confirmed the upcoming meeting with stakeholders in Lagos today. The official, who also spoke in confidence in a telephone interview told Vanguard: “The Downstream Unit only informed us about the meeting holding tomorrow at about 4p.m. today.” He expressed shock that the Unit did not give them full disclosures on the reasons for the impromptu meeting saying: “It is sad that everybody now do territorial claim when the whole roof is caving in. if there are new developments we should know firsthand and not from a third party.” Agreeing that the DPR was overwhelmed by the sharp practices in the industry, he asked: “How can we effectively monitor a situation where the marketer shows us technical proof about the depots selling above the ex-depot price, and the depot operators in turn show prove at selling under the regulated price? “We heard their accusations back and forth, and decided to hold an impromptu meeting with them in Lagos a few weeks ago, which was also reported by your paper. Since it was an open meeting, we expected the parties to openly make their allegations. But nobody did. So how can we hold anybody responsible?” He, however said that the involvement of the DSS was a welcome development as long as it will bring sanity to the system, seeing that DPR lacked the capacity to fully monitor downstream operations.

Lagos – The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Tuesday said that it never denied Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, access to the VIP’s lounge at the Port Harcourt International Airport. FAAN’s denial is contained in a statement issued by Mr Yakubu Dati, its General Manager, Corporate Affairs. The statement said the news report of the incident which allegedly occurred on July 27 in the social media was misleading and mischievous. “We wish to state that no such thing happened as Dame Patience Jonathan, like other family members of former Presidents and other designated principal officers of Government, are officially entitled to the use of airports’ VIP and protocol lounges under the management of FAAN. “The Authority holds the former First Lady in high esteem, being the wife of our former President and, therefore, could not have done anything that would suggest disrespect for her person,” it said. According to the statement, the former first lady’s convoy was only denied access to the foot of the aircraft during boarding formalities at the airport in line with international aviation best practices. It said this was strictly for safety reasons as prescribed by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). The statement said: “Our security officials explained this fact in detail to the former first lady. “We wish to recall that former President Goodluck Jonathan in his recent trips from the same airport, had to walk to the aircraft from the protocol lounge, in recognition of this ICAO regulation.” (NAN