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We told the political neophytes to chill till May 29 before they will start running their mouths about yourbas losing out.

We own the game and we play it according to our rule.

Big up to Monguno.

A new sheriff is in town and all nobodies calling themselves somebody must fall in line.

if you are not corrupt and indicted in the subsidy scam, you have nothing to fear.

If you are, you have a lot to fear.

DAWN Commission was set up by the Governments of the Southwest States as the institution that will design and manage the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria – DAWN. It is therefore the dedicated coordinating agency, fully empowered by the Governments to ensure the delivery of the composite development aspirations of the Region.

The Commission is a dedicated technical organization that promotes and pursues sustainable development of the Southwest Region for the benefit of its people. In carrying out our mission and fulfilling our mandate, we have adopted what we describe as our 4Ms – the Commission’s cardinal driving methodology.

The 4Ms

1. Make (create) development ideas

2. Midwife development ideas

3. Mainstream development ideas

4. Monitor development ideas

DAWN Commission only speaks the language of development. Its mandate cuts across dividing lines, persuasions and inclinations. The Yoruba philosophical orientation of Agbajo Owo (collaboration) comes in handy as the underpinning concept behind our work. This orientation prescribes an unrelenting pursuance of collaborative and cooperative engagements, which would optimise the collective synergy and economies of scale of the integrating States for meeting the challenge of developing the Region for the benefit of its people.

The focus is on the following:

· Good Governance

· Economic Competitiveness

· Workforce for the Future

· Shareable & Interconnected Infrastructure

· Security and Law & Order

· Mobilised and Engaged Citizenry

DAWN Commission’s HQ office is situated on Floor No. 10 in the historic Cocoa House in Ibadan, Oyo State, Southwest, Nigeria.

Over 40 years since its inception, Cocoa House still remains a centre for economic development for the Yoruba people and the Region.

Member states are Ekiti, Lagos, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Ogun.

DAWN Commission was set up by the Governments of the Southwest States as the institution that will design and manage the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria – DAWN. It is therefore the dedicated coordinating agency, fully empowered by the Governments to ensure the delivery of the composite development aspirations of the Region.

The Commission is a dedicated technical organization that promotes and pursues sustainable development of the Southwest Region for the benefit of its people. In carrying out our mission and fulfilling our mandate, we have adopted what we describe as our 4Ms – the Commission’s cardinal driving methodology.

The 4Ms

1. Make (create) development ideas

2. Midwife development ideas

3. Mainstream development ideas

4. Monitor development ideas

DAWN Commission only speaks the language of development. Its mandate cuts across dividing lines, persuasions and inclinations. The Yoruba philosophical orientation of Agbajo Owo (collaboration) comes in handy as the underpinning concept behind our work. This orientation prescribes an unrelenting pursuance of collaborative and cooperative engagements, which would optimise the collective synergy and economies of scale of the integrating States for meeting the challenge of developing the Region for the benefit of its people.

The focus is on the following:

· Good Governance

· Economic Competitiveness

· Workforce for the Future

· Shareable & Interconnected Infrastructure

· Security and Law & Order

· Mobilised and Engaged Citizenry

DAWN Commission’s HQ office is situated on Floor No. 10 in the historic Cocoa House in Ibadan, Oyo State, Southwest, Nigeria.

Over 40 years since its inception, Cocoa House still remains a centre for economic development for the Yoruba people and the Region.

Member states are Ekiti, Lagos, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Ogun.

BackDatAssUp:
Libyan Dinarh

Zoomed in. That's 500 euros
Confirmation that ISIS is on ground

South West take note

South Beasts should be wary of the calamity they are calling on themselves, with their masai dance for Biafra.

God bless Murray Bruce for us.

I hope some Israeli Flag carrying Masai Dancers, can read and digest this lovely piece.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Pursue dem back to d north
We don't nid dem

SO Chief John Onedibe is from the north?

Clown.

akins56:
Abeg how much be 1 shop for this beautiful market ?

Don't you know they do not lease out shops to other ethnicities in their land? They are also too rich, you cannot afford their shops.

How is the ultra modern market this morning?

How much loan was collected to complete this ''never-seen-before ultra modern market''

ABOUT N8 billion has been earmarked by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), as part of intervention fund to empower no fewer than eight universities in the country.

The NCC, which set standards and rules for telecommunications regulation in the country, said its intervention in Nigerian schools is to help prepare the country for the digital economy being unleashed by a growing telecommunications ecosystem that will further be enriched by an unfolding broadband regime.

According to the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah, on Monday, in a document made available to journalists, the N8 billion intervention funds would provide a lift for four old generation and four new generation universities in the country.

Juwah explained that this is an improvement from last year when about N1 bilion was deployed for services in some higher institutions of learning.

The funds, he said will be deployed for e-learning centres in these universities to enable and facilitate learning online, real time whereby a single professor can teach several thousands of students without him seeing them.


“This is part of our mandate to intervene and deepen Information and Communications Technology (ICT) penetration in our universities and other tertiary institutions of learning”, said Juwah, who claimed that no agency of government has built and empowered schools through provision of ICTs more than the NCC.

“NCC promotes broadband penetration in these institutions as a major objective. So we want to transform the face of ICT in the country through our various interventions”, he stated.

Although this is not part of the NCC core mandate, but an intervention to cushion the lack of ICT or limited availability of it in the institutions. The policy is to capture areas of need since there is a growing awareness of ICT and some of the underserved communities are these universities and tertiary institutions of learning, Juwah explained.

Part of NCC interventions include: Advanced Digital Awareness Programme for Tertiary Institutions (ADAPTI). ADAPTI is aimed at improving the resource persons engaged in the process of impacting knowledge.

This programme was introduced to bridge the digital divide existing in the academia with the provision of computers and other ICT facilities to equip the lecturers and other experts in order to improve their ICT skills and to enrich the students.

The commission provides computers and other ICT systems to the beneficiaries, including installation of state-of-the-art e-learning suites for the Academics in tertiary institutions across the country. More than 300 institutions of higher learning have benefitted from the programme since its introduction in 2008.

The ADAPTI Programme supports Tertiary Institutions with the Provisions of 110 laptops Computers with E-learning facilities.

The objective is specifically designed to provide tools that support flexibility and mobility in the use and application of ICT in teaching and research.

Wireless Cloud Project The Wireless Cloud Project provides a platform for supporting campus-wide wireless access to Internet service for teaching, learning, research and development. The Commission provides the infrastructure, 12 months bandwidth supply, and 12 months maintenance support.

The principal objective is to encourage the use of ICT in academic development and facilitate easier access to the vast intellectual resources available globally. Tertiary Institutions Knowledge Center (TIKC) Project The TIKC was formerly known as Tertiary Access Project (TiAP) and it is aimed at facilitating connectivity to broadband internet with speed of up to 1Mbps in selected tertiary institutions thus facilitating a digital lifestyle.

Each institution that has benefited from the project received a total of 100 computers, 100 sets of chairs and tables, two printers with network facilities and fire walls with broadband Internet connectivity.

A total of 204 tertiary institutions have benefitted from the TIKC and the implementation in geo political zones is as follows: North West Zone (38), North East Zone (35), North Central Zone (37), South West Zone (34), South East Zone (29), South South Zone (31) and FCT (13).

University Inter Campus Connectivity (UnICC) The University Inter Campus Connectivity (UnICC) initiative is a collaborative project between the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) and the National Universities Commission (NUC) to facilitate the provision of ICT infrastructure for the National Research and Education Network (NREN) by inter-connecting Teaching hospitals and Medical Colleges to their respective Federal Universities.

The project will, amongst other things, achieve a seamless connection between the Universities and their Medical Colleges and Teaching hospitals to facilitate bi-directional communication for the purpose of sharing resources such as bandwidth, content, etc.

In the second phase of the project, relevant electronic components will be deployed in each of the benefitting universities to enable voice, data, video, and other multimedia services such as tele-presence to be achieved both intra-university and inter-universities.

A total of 16 Universities are benefitting from the first phase of the project. The list of Universities and corresponding campuses benefitting from this project include: Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos; University of Ibadan, Ibadan; University of Ilorin, Ilorin; Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto; University of Abuja, Abuja; University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri; University of Jos, Jos; Bayero University (New Site), Kano; Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi. University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Port Harcourt.

Others are Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Akwa, Anambra; University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State University of Nigeria, Enugu; University of Calabar, Calabar; University of Uyo, Uyo.

In all, about 290km of Optic Fibre Cable (OFC) have been deployed to seamlessly link the 16 universities with their corresponding medical colleges and teaching hospitals. DAP – Digital Access Programme The NCC has also empowered several secondary schools across the 36 states and FCT with ICT tools via the Digital Awareness Programme (DAP). So far, no fewer than 262 secondary schools have benefitted from the programme.

The DAP project supports Secondary Schools with the provision of 21 Desktop Computers, Local Area Network, Printers, Scanners, VSAT Dish and one year Bandwidth Subscription for Internet Access after which the institution will be responsible for its renewal.

These facilities are complemented with standby generators and construction of computer laboratory. The objective of this programme is to facilitate ICT awareness, teaching and learning in schools. So far, more than 262 schools have benefitted from the Digital Access Programme (DAP).

The key objective of these programmes are to prepare the nation for a digital tomorrow and equip the youth with necessary skills to tap into the potentials of the digital age.

Many of the secondary schools including those in remote villages have testified how this programme has facilitated their online examination activities such as subscription to JAMB, WAEC, NECO among other examinations.

The idea is to ensure that our future leaders are early adaptors to ICT, especially the internet which has limitless resources.

no wonder they want to die over Ladipo, Aspamda and Alaba.

A DELTA State-based group, Kombot Employment Front in Egbema and Gbaramatu Kingdoms, has threatened to disrupt operations of Chevron Oil Company over alleged lopsided employment policies and refusal to recall a sacked member of their community, Timi Okeoghene, despite interventions from the National Assembly and the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity that he be recalled.

Few days ago, the group staged a protest to the premises of Chevron in Wari Delta state where they disrupted activities there for several hours but suspended the protest after the company agreed to meet with the youths over their demands.

The group in a statement signed by its President and Secretary, Yabrade Moses and Asoki Victor respectively and made available to The Guardian yesterday, said previous meetings in the past with representatives of the group, elders of the communities and other interest groups where the company agreed to revisit the sack of Okeoghene and agreements on its employment policies were not implemented, saying: “But this time around, if the issues raised during this protest (reinstatement of Okirika Timmy Okeoghene and other employment issues) are not adequately and favourably addressed at the proposed meeting, Kombot will have no other option but to take the protest to the flow-stations and Chevron facilities in our domain to correct this grave injustice against our brother in particular and the community in general.”

Also, members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) may be heading for another industrial action against the management of Chevron over the company’s refusal to reconsider the disengagement of Okeoghene and two others.

Speaking on the matter on telephone with The Guardian, Branch Chairman of Chevron, Mr. Frank Esanubi, confirmed the development, saying: “We have been on the part of dialogue to see that this issue is resolved amicably. We are hoping that the company will comply with the directive from the National Assembly and the Ministry of Labour but in the event that it fails and degenerates into industrial action, they should not hold anybody responsible for it.”

It would recalled that the Clerk of the National Assembly, Salisu Maikasuwa, in a letter to the Managing Director of the company dated October 9, 2013 with reference number NASS/CNA/105/Vol. 18/240 recommended, among others, that Timi be reinstated and paid his outstanding financial benefits while on the case of Gilbert, it recommended that the company “temper justice with mercy and reconsider the case as Prince Dateme Gilbert had no fraudulent intent in his action.”


Also, a letter from the Ministry of Labour and Productivity signed by Mrs. M.O. Ike dated November 19, 2014 with reference number MLHB/7884/T/324, said it adopted the recommendations of the National Assembly on the matter and went further to say that it observed “some loopholes in the documents used by the management” to sanction the member of staff and recommended a review.

And in an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan dated March 2, 2015, the affected members of staff said their plea for the President’s intervention is hinged on the fact that the Federal Government has a majority share of 60 per cent in the Joint Venture (JV) agreement with Chevron and that the Federal Government to the ministry and National Assembly has oversight functions on the company, adding that if the situation remains as it is, could lead to a nation-wide industrial action.