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Guy bolt sure pass...I earned 24k Saturday and Sundays because of my job during the week...

Fyn myself almost same situation...my mom did worse than your mom sef...went spiritual to turn the babe face away against me.

This your News is false, my area at abuloma there relative 18 to 19 hours of power. So please rephrase your statement and stop spreading fake news .

Tajbol4splend:
Please someone tell me they have started paying the 30,000 naira minimum wage.

...A level 7 officer in parastater earn more than a level 10 officer in the federal ministry...they have started paying level 6 officers but level 7 to 14 nothing yet and that's where we have the main federal workers straight.

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The Inspector General of Police, the DIGs, and the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Musa Kimoh, actually wanted to wash their hands off any pressure by the very source (man) within the ruling party who misrepresents the name of the President and used it to intimidate and influence our senior officers in this my artificially created imbroglio by trying to use me as a sacrificial lamb
‘Do you want us to believe your CP is lying?
‘No, I didn’t say so, Sir. But going through the contents of the querry and my representation, you can decipher the truth Sir, as to who is trying to fool who “You can go; one of the DIGs said, with no concern shown.
Having walked out of the hall, bruised and devastated, I knew the die was cast.
And on getting back to my station in Cross River State, I put up this appeal as enumerated below, having been hinted of the decision of the Committee which was in no way, palatable.
The Nigeria Police
Divisional Headquarters
Obanliku.
Cross Rivers State.
January 8, 2016.
AP:24325/VOL.1/T/1
The Chairman,
Police Service Commission,
Federal Secretariat,
Abuja.
Through:
The Inspector General of Police
Force Headquarters, Abuja,
Through:
The Assistant Inspector General,
The Nigeria Police,
Zone 6, Calabar,
Through:
The Commissioner of Police
Cross Rivers State Command,
Calabar.
Sir,
PASSIONATE APPEAL TO MITIGATE ANY
DISCIPLINARY ACTION, IF ANY, BASED ON A
QUERRY HEADED “QUERRY FOR SERIOUS
MISCONDUCT ON ME. CH:6360/RVS/VOL.4/59 of 5/10/2015
INTRODUCTION
When a man is punished for an offence he actually committed, he swallows the bitter pills of such punishment, acknowledging the fact that he deserved what he got based on his stupid act, especially when he recalls that his stupid act was done deliberately and not out of ignorance. But when, ‘on the contrary, he finds himself at the receiving end for an allege offence he did not commit at all, he does everything within his reach, and or within human realm to convince the listening audience and or the judicial panel to listen deeper into the voice of truth and see that justice thrives, irrespective of whose ox is gorged.
I found myself in the latter stage of the above hence my cry and passionate appeal for justice to prevail in my favor, Sir. That I gave evidence on 02/10/2015 at the Governorship Election Tribunal that sat at Abuja in respect to the Rivers State Governorship Election of April 11, 2015 needs not be over emphasized but the outcome of my appearance or what I have been passing through since after then which is my main concern for this passionate appeal is the essence of not only drawing your attention but humbly asking that you see that an innocent man is not in my way, punished unjustly.
With every sense of humility, respect and responsibility, I bring to your exalted notice, my plight and beg that the issue be objectively looked into and justice be allowed to prevail please.
In our calling as police officers we are trained to obey all lawful orders and directives.
Furthermore, by the discipline inculcated within the period of service, all lawful orders by our superiors are meant to be obeyed religiously as they don’t carry the force of law but are seen and respected as sacred.
This has been my guiding principle in my ongoing career as a police officer for the past 34 years in service.
However, recent developments trailing the trail end of my glorious career have forced me to stand up to question some exercise of authority as they affect my person, my career and my family as I had to wake up this quite time of the night to ask:
Why am I keeping quiet?
Whose interest am I trying to protect and or serve
by my silence?
Sir fact is that on Wednesday, 30/09/2015, at about 1000 hours, while still the DPO, Borokiri Division, Rivers State Command, my then Commissioner of Police, CP Musa Kimoh, called me on his cell phone line to come over to his office so as to go to Abuja immediately; an order I obeyed with immediate effect too.
Sir, the outcome of obeying the lawful directive has today, turned against me as it is now a yardstick for making my life a living hell and which if not objectively looked into will affect my career which has all these years, been sailing smoothly as it is expected to come to a glorious end towards the tail end of this year 2016, hence my decision to bring it to your table of judgment as the highest appellate authority in the Nigeria Police.
The issue of the Rivers State Governorship Election at the Tribunal in Abuja in October, 2015 has come and gone but the scars still linger. As one of the police officers who testified as directed by the subpoena minuted upon by my then CP, his DC, DFA also, as well as the CP’S verbal directive, in addition to his handing over the sum of one hundred thousand naira (100,000.00) to me for my flight ticket to Abuja on that 30/09/2015 through his DC DFA and DC, DOP jointly, I am yet to smart out of the threat I am passing through now as a result of recent developments.
Sir, I was issued a query for Disobedience to Lawful Order by the same Commissioner of Police who issued me the very orders that I obeyed religiously. Based on this said shocking Query, I appeared before the Force Disciplinary Committee which sat between 30/11/2015 to 04/12/2014 at the Force Headquarters, Abuja courtesy my invitation letter no. CH:6360F5 /FHQ/ AB/D /VOL.T /160 DTO:30/630/11/2015 herewith attached for ease of reference, please.
In as much as I thought my invitation was a mere formality to clear the air, I was utterly shocked when, during cross-examination by the panel of DIG’s and other senior officers, I was asked if, among other directives, my CP did not ask me to go to the CP Legal Department, Force Headquarters, Abuja, to seek clearance before proceeding to the Tribunal; a question I honestly answered that at no such time was such directive given at all which prompted the CP been put on speaker call and he said he gave me such directive, at that point, making it his word against mine. Based on this development, I was asked if my CP was lying. Of course, by our calling as disciplined Police officers, officialdom requires that in a situation as this when it is the word of a superior against a subordinate, the former cannot be adjudged guilty and or faulty, hence when I was asked if my CP was lying, I said that a CP could not lie, given the background of the man on the other side of the divide, my humble self, a subordinate.
Sir, I do not know what the CP’s comments on the very query he issued me were, or what the recommendations of the Force Disciplinary committee (FDC) Panel were, my worry is that verbally, at the panel, I was called a liar who decided to rush to the tribunal to give evidence because of what I considered to be my personal/pecuniary interest.
I feel worried because after 34 years and now into my 35m, and after 9 years and now into the 10th in my present rank of CSP, having been promoted on 15/12/2006,1 honestly look forward to been elevated to the next rank so as to inarch out gloriously with the affix “Assistant Commissioner of Police”
This is a good dream which I know will be realized in the real world but to be branded a liar at this tail end of my career is something I cannot live with.
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There is no gainsaying that the foremost objective of any true political party is to aspire to legitimately ascending the seat of governance. It is therefore understandable that as the election period approaches, the parties mobilize their machineries and determined faithfuls to tour the nooks and crannies of the State in order to vigorously canvass their ideas, and convincingly ventilate their proffered solutions to the myriad of identified societal problems and challenges. All these, with a view to winning more adherents to the parties' credo and ideology. The score card of their efforts will be glaring to the public, when the post-election results are declared. The party that carries the day is accorded instant recognition and officially bestowed with the instruments of governance.
Our iconic Sage and hero of the country's independence, the Right Hon. Dr. Ogbuefi Nnamdi Azikiwe was once asked by his followers to reveal to them what he may consider as the most important and crucial quality of a true and dependable political Associate. The imagination of Zik's disciples ran riot as they wondered what direction their Leader's judgmental parameter may take. Upon deep reflection and cogitating, some of them concluded that a string of academic degrees or impeccable rhetorical eloquence might just be the much awaited qualities. But alas, his disciples were stunned and shell-shocked when the Sage told them that by far the most important attitudinal trait expected of his closest political associates, is that they consistently and unwaveringly remain LOYAL. His disciples quickly reviewed their thinking and remonstrated on the persona of his perceptibly close confidants. They arrived at the conclusion that they were after all not brimming with exceptional rhetorical eloquence and high sounding English lexicons that attracted roarous applauses at campaign rallies. They were quick to observe that the prizest qualities in Zik's closest friends was HUMILITY, the biblical version of what we commonly refer to as LOYALTY. They watched the self-effacing and humble Mazi Mbonu Ojike or again Mbazulike Amaechi, whom Azikiwe himself handed the enduring accolade THE BOY IS GOOD.
In the first Republic, the then Premier of Northern Nigeria and the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello had in Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa a trusted and loyal Associate. It was him he confidently dispatched to Lagos to assume the first Post-independence Prime Ministership of Nigeria in his stead.
In today's Nigeria, you can see Leaders like ex-Governor Bola Tinubu parade such dependable allies like Governor Aregbesola, or Dr Fayemi, the former Minister of Mines and Governor-designate of Ekiti State. Yes, make no mistake about it, loyalty is also copiously rewarded with "goodies" through the instrumentality of the Leader.
In Rivers State, one man who had been considered to be a loyal party man and respectful of his Leader, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is Senator Magnus Abe.
We were inspired to write this piece as a way of sincerely contributing to restoring the healthy and flourishing relationship that hitherto existed between the two personalities.
Senator Magnus Ngei Abe cut his teeth in politics as a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly, where he also became the Minority Leader of the then fledging Opposition APP. This was during the first-term Speakership of Rt Hon Amaechi in the Rivers State Legislature.
Seeing the blossoming talent in the young man, Amaechi brought him into the fold of the majority PDP for more palpable visibility and usefulness to his Constituency. Confidence and trust grew in leaps and bounds between the two men until Amaechi succeeded Dr Peter Odili
as the Governor of Rivers State, when he went on to appoint Abe as the
Secretary to the Rivers State Government. The two of them worked closely together even during the zealous shenanigans of Police
Commissioner Mbu as he "dutiously" implemented his “received orders from above".
There is no iota of doubt that his Leader and now the Federal Minister of transportation stood firmly behind him during the elections that catapulted him to the red chamber as Distinguished Senator. In a nutshell, Hon Amaechi's benevolent leverage can always be traced in all facets of the garnished and intimidating profile that Senator Abe parades today.
All men of goodwill must come together to reconcile these unfortunately estranged friends at this momentous timing of the unfolding electioneering calendar. Senator Abe should patiently bear with the principled sensitivities and altruistic desire of his leader. He should know that Amaechi's preference for a Riverine man as the next Governor of Rivers State is overwhelmingly borne out of his uncommon sense of justice. After all he is an Upland Ikwerre man. The UPLAND will be clocking 20 unbroken years in the governorship of Rivers State, come 2019. The Distinguished Senator should please support his leader and benevolent Mentor in his ennobling quest. His own time will surely come, when by God's grace it will be so smooth sailing. Senator Abe should not disperse the APC flock which it took them time and so much perseverance to build. As at today, only he can bring back his supporters into the family fold. The fratricidal self-emulation so far witnessed keeps exacerbating every passing day.
I enjoin Senator Abe to resolutely stand up today to shame his political adversaries as he resolutely declares like the biblical JOSHUA: AS FOR ME AND MY FAMILY I WILL STAND FOR MY LEADER. Then your Leader will also warmly embrace you as he in turn happily paraphrases a slightly modified bible verse: "My followers hear my voice and they follow me"
This tearing apart and internecine squabbles few months to the election is regrettable as it smacks of the handiwork of malevolent political fifth columnists.
I want to recall to Senator Abe that political office rotation, especially at the Governorship level, has never been done on the basis of Senatorial Districts. The Rivers man in his most intimate subconscious, certainly does not identify with that vision. Even in the early 80s and prior to the creation of Bayelsa State, when our political fathers laid down examples for us to follow, Chief Melford Okilo as Governor of Rivers State in his hardly paralleled sense of justice made sure UPLAND OGONI more or less "monopolized" the position of party Chairmanship of the NPN. We note in passing the NPN Chairmanship tenures of such illustrious Ogoni sons like Chief Kente Giadom, Dr G.B. Leton, Chief I.S Kogbara, or amiable Hon Prince Sangha.
This is therefore a clarion call to Senator Magnus Abe to please team up with his Leader Rt Hon Amaechi, for the seamless reunification of the APC. Anything short of that will be "donating" victory to his political opponents.
It is the clearest and noblest manner to say AMAECHI IS MY LEADER.
http://thebeaconewsnigeria.com/2018/11/on-leadership-an…-abe-altercation/

The Rivers State government says plans are under-way to employ more nurses to cater for the health needs of people in the state.
The state commissioner for health, Professor Princewill Chike, made this known in Port Harcourt during the 2018 international Nurses Week celebration of the Rivers Council of National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives.
Also at the event, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in the state, has issued a call to all medical practitioners in the state, including doctors, nurse and pharmacists, to work harmoniously in the best interest of both the medical professionals, government and patients.
Addressing nurses and midwives during the celebration, in reaction to presentation concerning the challenges of inadequate manpower in the services rendered by nurses in the state, Professor Princewill Chike said, “the employment of nurses is sacrosanct. There are lots of modalities and policies by the government towards the employment of nurses. We need nurses.”
The commissioner also said the government was committed to ensuring constant and regular training of nurses in the state.
Professor Chike who was represented by Dr. Sylvernus Ojum, asked nurses in the state to check issue of quackery among their members. He said that, “quackery does not only mean somebody who does not have a paper qualification, but is practicing where and when he or she is not supposed to practice.”
He charged them to always see their patients as the main focus of their services.
Speaking also on the issue of payment of retirees’ benefits and gratuities; Professor Chike said, “Be rest assured that efforts are being made towards paying your entitlements and benefits.”
On his part, the state chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, Dr. Obelebra Adebiyi said that nurses are as relevant as medical doctors in society, based on the nature of their services. He stressed the need for all those in the health sector to work together.
According to him, “Doctors and nurses have one calling or duty, which is the care for patients. Therefore, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others must come together to fight a common cause. Today, medical practitioners have a common slogan which says: ‘ One team, same patients, better outcome.”
Earlier in his remark, the chairman of the occasion, Dr. Goodluck Azuonwu said that though the modern nursing profession has a lot of challenges, nurses should not forget the standard and example set by late Florence Nightingale. While charging them to keep proper care on their patients, Dr. Azuonwu called on governments at all levels to keep encouraging nurses and midwives to do their jobs efficiently and effectively.
Also speaking, the state chairperson of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Mrs. Regina Kuru, explained that the essence of the nurses week was to ensure continuous training and re-training of her members across the state.
Mrs. Kuru pointed out that one of the challenges facing nurses in the state was lack of adequate staff, and appealed to the state government to employ more nurses to help address “the acute shortage of nurses in the health institutions of the state.
http://thebeaconewsnigeria.com/2018/11/rivers-govt-plan…rses-pharmacists/

THE FORCE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE INTERVIEW
‘Promotion’, is undoubtedly, one of the most vital ingredients that motivate any worker, policemen inclusive. This is so because it raises the recipient’s social status and economic empowerment level.
While contending with all my encounters, I had a focused attention on one paramount issue of concern; my promotion to the next rank and level.
Been one of the most senior CSPs in the country, I honestly prayed and looked forward to been elevated to the next stage of the ladder which was not just a promotion in rank but to the next level and class.
In as much as the next rank after CSP is ACP, the latter elevates one to the class where one is privileged to hold management meetings with the commissioner at the state level and have his/her posting directly from the Inspector General of Police.
While dreaming of this however, 1 had a snag; the uncleared query pending at the Force headquarters in Abuja.
As said earlier, when issues bordering on welfare of personnel crop up in the Force, they crawl slower than snails before getting to the recipients. But when they have to do with such that affect the personnel negatively, they move faster than lightening. For this, all reasonable officers spread their tentacles to monitoring things concerning their welfare, especially promotion.
In a very big organization as the Nigeria Police where authority is highly centralized, it is incumbent on an officer not to lose sight of happenings in Abuja. Therefore, keying into this was in no way abnormal. Haven domed the CSP rank for more than nine years, I could not but focus my searching light towards happenings at the national headquarters from where information eventually filtered in that names were been compiled for the next promotion of our group to the next stage.
Of course, I was supposed to be listed but the uncleared query was there as clog. Fortunately, the Force Disciplinary Committee (FDC) was sitting that week. But one problem lingered; no letter or signal had, up till then, been sent for my appearance. I was in a dilemma. Had it been sent to my former command, Rivers? If it had, there was no way I would be communicated because the CP there, with his deputy, had already declared me ‘persona non-gratia’.
Obanliku was closer to Cameroon on one side, and Benue State, on the other, than Calabar. My posting to Obanliku was a mere fulfillment of formality as my relevance was in no way needed. I was abandoned to my faith, no doubt. And knowing this, I waited patiently, not expecting anything from man but from God. When I made enquiries and was told the Board had not only been constituted but was already sitting, I sent a text message to my CP who clearly asked me to proceed.
After narrating my story on getting to the Force headquarters, on arrival there, some of the officers there who believed and sympathized with my situation told me my appearance was only a mere formality to clear the air, hence ensured and actually raised a signal in my favor, dated 30th November, 2015. At the same time, listed my name among those to be interviewed. Armed with this, I queued up to be attended to.
With confidence, I walked into the hall when called. But to my astonishment, my confidence was eroded when the Deputy Inspectors General (DIGs) on the committee decided to make themselves ‘campaign managers’ for APC the ruling party at the centre saying that as a federal public servant, I was not supposed to. give evidence in favor of a governor from an opposition party to that of my employer, the President. Each DIG was trying to outshine the other and see how he could place himself in pole position for the office of the Inspector General which was, at the time, about to be vacated by the occupant, Solomon Arase who, by virtue of age, was about to retire.
As in other fields of endeavor, all police officers, irrespective of rank or position, must strive to exhibit good leadership and communication qualities. They should avoid comments and or actions that will somehow, sell them out as been sentimental or parochial at any point in time. Personal and professional integrity are essential ingredients for successful leadership. When a leader displays these qualities the leader earns the respect and confidence of the followers who look up to him/her for direction. But when on the contrary, respect and trust are lost, the glory of that leader disappears and the followers look at him/her with scorn, hatred, bitterness and disappointment.
As said earlier, my appearance before the Force Disciplinary Committee (FDC) was supposed to be a mere formality, so I thought, and where possible, to clear some grey areas but I was wrong. Yes, I was wrong indeed.
The DIGs who were the senior members of the Committee made me understand that they had a mandate to use me as a warning pad to any other officer who would dream of standing up against any act or action of the ruling party and or any of its agents in the future.
When I took my seat, I was very humble and relaxed, expecting questions to emanate from the subject matter, the query, and the contents of my representation. No, that was not to be as the flurry of questions flew in from all directions. Why did you go to give evidence against a ruling party at the federal level, knowing you are a federal public servant?
Why did you not decline appearance, knowing the man you gave evidence in his favor is of the opposition party to the President’s party?
As these questions were flying in, one of them retorted!
Yes, I know they said the governor paid you a huge sum of money such that you could not resist. Don’t worry; your 35 years in service will be visited with shame and disappointment.
At that point I become infuriated because deep inside me, I knew there was never a time I had any monetary discussion or agreement with the Governor prior to my appearance at the tribunal hence the immediate lose of respect on the DIGs who, at that point in time, proved they were trying to out-talk each other so as to curry the favor of the ruling party in order to be penciled down as the next ‘heir apparent’ to the throne1
But at whose expense were they trying to do that? Definitely not mine, I soliloquized. After all, “courage is the willingness to act and rise against fear. Within this split second, I recalled the fact that the character of the courageous is the willingness to rise and act against fear, negative circumstances and dare your threats and opposition, and to develop the courage to excel. In the face of daunting oppositions and challenges, one must engage in what one fears the most or what, in normal circumstances, normal people consider too risky, to engage in or confront hcadlong”23.
At this point, a sudden anger and bitterness surged from within me as I no longer saw these senior officers as my mentors which they were supposed to be but threats to my carrier which I had labored to maintain a good reputation for more than three decades.
Having proven to me that I was an apologist for the PDP while they, my bosses, were the voices of the APC, I took them as such hence knew that even prostrating before them would even worsen matters, I took the bulls by their horns. After all, why should I beg for leniency as one of them had suggested.
What offence did I commit in the first place? and What lawful order did I disobey?.
The intrigues here were too clear as the macabre dance in this interview was a ground for each of the DIGS to display how loyal he was to the ruling party as against the police institution and the nation at large.
Yes, that Dan Azumi Job Doma, Mamman Ibrahim Tsafe, Saliu Arugungu Kashimu, Kakwe Christopher Katso tried to suffocate me with questions could be understood and understandable but what baffled me was that my chief tormentor who made certain statements against the PDP, as well as a great woman whom I considered his benefactor, and a man who, in 1990, when he was still a superintendent of police and the DPO Ahoada then, I served under while still an Inspector of Police, same Division I later became its DPO and the centre of this epic drama, Sotonye Leroy Wakama, chided me when I reminded him of my long-time relationship with him, was the most astonishing and most disappointing bitter experience I still cannot fathom till date.
How ungrateful some people can be, I soliloquized.
In fact, my biggest mistake was telling him that among the
pack of DIGS, he was my “brother”.
Needless to jot down the vituperations from him, not only against me but the PDP, as well as the great lady I knew was responsible for his been catapulted from the rank of a commissioner of police to the juicy and challenging office of a Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Operations in the country.
To be fair to her, the only female member of that Committee, Chimtua Amajor-Onu, was very neutral as she only put questions to me on areas that needed clarifications.
Well, I told myself, if the tribunal, in their ‘wisdom’, had, despite all evidence tabled before them, decided to annul the election of Ezenwo Nyesom Wike as Governor of Rivers State, not taking into account, the cost and consequences of that, what could be difficult in showing me the way out of the police job which I had spent the best part of my youthful age in?
Who would speak for me?
What would my people say back there in the village? Of course, any dismissed police officer of my native extraction is considered a thief and so, must be orchestrated from his age grade, the greatest shame and torture a man could face as even his children would find it difficult to associate freely, especially within their native community.
As all these thoughts raged like inferno in me within splits of seconds, I took my stand. After all, ‘something must kill a man. Play cool or hard, nothing can change the minds of members of this Committee’, I concluded within me.
If you said your CP actually permitted you, did he not brief you?
As I was about asking for clarifications as to what brief 111;1., in this context meant, the next question came.
No, Sir, he simply asked me to collect a hundred thousand naira for my flight ticket and proceed immediately’.
“Shut up, you liar, you can keep the money your dismissed governor gave to you and leave our job for us. You think all of us and the IG will risk our career just because of an ordinary CSP?”
I was really hurt but kept my cool for a while. Was I supposed to keep playing ‘nice?’
Was I supposed to imitate Isaac who denied his wife, Rebekah, and introduced her as his sister before the people of Gerar? (Genesis 26:7-9).
No, that is not one of the qualities of a courageous man.
Afterall, I remembered that the DSP who testified in favor of the APC and whom I knew, actually lied on oath before the Tribunal, was not subjected to any querry or committee interrogation.

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The Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi was not known to be one of those children born with a dazzling silver spoon in the mouth. All the same, late threw one at him.
When he was struggling with life at Okarki Street, Borikiri, a sleeply layout in Port Harcourt the Rivers State capital, both himself and others in the neighbourhood never imagined that his next place of abode would be in GRA and subsequently the Number One destination’ in Rivers State - the Brick House - the seat of power.
CRA did not start the game of politics from the foundational level like most politicians do, that is, from councillorship up to council chairmanship. Rather he shot straight at the State Assembly, and got it.
The high ladder provided by his godfather took him not only through the State Assembly but also to the speakership seat.
CRA was lucky but he was not cast in mould of any of predecessors like the elegant and knowledgeable late Hon R. R. Briggs. So when he was anointed for the speakership by the usual kingmakers, his colleagues in the House kicked.
The royal rumble match did not stretch into extra time before the “gods” came around and doused the fire by conducting some political rituals and thereafter delivered the “beloved son” in whom there were pleased.
Every road has its bends. CRA got his fire baptism on the day of his inauguration as naively snubbed the Press. And they fought back by recalling their members, and thereby gave the honourable House publicity blackout.
While the faceoff lasted, the RECORD, a daily newspaper published by late Marshall Harry, and edited by Robert Bikefe, a fearless, veteran journalist...who spearheaded in the fight.
The daily ran a serial on the brouhaha in the House titled “Kindergarten Speaker”. The press opened a salvo on the young and inexperienced speaker from all sides.
AUDU OGBE: THERE IS HUNGER &. HARDSHIP IN THE LAND !!
Mr Audu Ogbe is the minister of agriculture. He could be said to be a politician with more nine lives. He was a senior, national member of the PDP one time or the other before defecting to the APC.
I initially doubted when I heard the following news item credited to the minister: “There is no hunger in the land because I have not seen a Nigerian eating from the dustbin”.
It was Alhaji Umaru Dikko former minister of transport in President Shehu Shagari’s government who flew a similar kite.
Umaru Dikko was at the same time appointed chairman of the presidential task force on rice importation. With this padded portfolio he moved his abode out of this world.
He brought in rice from Thailand and China. The landing cost was N3000 only per bag, but he hiked the price of the product to N5000, thus raking in a whooping profit of N2000 per bag by several shiploads. Umaru Dikko instantly became a billionaire overnight.
Mr. Dikko began to talk before thinking like most men (and women) who became rich by easy means do.
So the transport minister-cum-rice merchant had the effrontery to declare that he was yet to see a Nigerian eat from the garbage heap therefore - no hunger in the land.
That unguarded statement a minister angered the hungry Nigerians like hell. But the citizens were too hungry and therefore too weak to lift up stones against him.
Which was why after toppling that “ insensitive and corrupt government” GMB went for Umaru Dikko’s jugular, drugged and crated him in his London nest for direct importation to Nigeria, but luck ran out on the part of the adventurers. And that false step became Dikko’s saving grace.
However. Dikko’s many sins were either forgotten or merely overlooked because he was “not an .orphan”. He even had temerity to tell MKO that “the presidency is not for the highest bidder”.
Mr. Audu Ogbe should be reminded to tell his principal that there is acute hunger and hardship in the land.
POLITICS WITHOUT MORALITY: The Emperor At A Precipice
All suspected hotbeds, breeding grounds for criminals and criminality in the state capital felt the righteous indignation of the government and fled.
Sitting relaxed under the big POP umbrella, CRA tried another shot at second term. Again, fate laughed with him as the steady hands of his godfather delivered him smooth back into office.
I laving pranced within the corridors of power for straight sixteen years (as speaker and then governor), he accumulated stupendous wealth for himself. Your guess is as good as mine over what cheap riches can do.
So spurred by his deep pocket, he became piggy headed, prideful and arrogant. He became unnecessarily abusive, disrespectful to his party elders and other revered institutions like the council of traditional rulers.
His disdain for-the leadership of his party at the centre was an open secret. He freely hauled insults at the first family, that is, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan the President of the federal Republic of Nigeria and family members.
http://thebeaconewsnigeria.com/2018/11/politics-without…s-rising-profile/

Nature has been very magnanimous with Nigeria. In our nation we have in abundance, men and women of talents of all shades and colours in all ramifications of human endeavour.
At the educational, political, economic, cultural, musical, and sociaI sectors we have been privileged to see men and women gifted with talents and leading the way and making waves across the world.
Among these leaders is Adams Oshomole, the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) who made his debut on the national landscape of this great nation, as a labour leader, indeed after the time of Nigeria’s Labour leader 1, Late Michael Imodu.
Nigerians were mesmerized with Oshomole’s eloquence and audacity when he was leading the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria.
The neglected and oppressed workers of Nigeria, who are the monkeys that work for the baboons to feed fat, heaved a sigh of relief when Adams Oshomole took over the Trade Unionism leadership with hope of finding lasting solution to the lingering problems of Nigerian workers.
Anybody who had the opportunity of hearing Adams Oshomole in those days at the labour Union platform concluded that at last the salvation the workers were seeking had finally come, because Adams spoke convincingly, assuring the workers that remedy had finally come to correct the problems besetting the labour force. Even governments and private employers of labour tremble any time Oshomole spoke for the workers.
But at a time Nigerian workers were still enjoying his charismatic leadership he sort of abandoned them for politics.
He contested for the governorship position of Edo State and won, thus became Edo State governor for eight years.
To-day Oshomole is the Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) - the party in the Central Government of Nigeria. He ousted John Odigie Oyegun who was vilified for his inability to give the party cohesion and order. Oyegun was blamed for bad leadership and the internal rumblings in the party leadership.
At the height of the APC internal crisis Oshomole maneuvered himself into power and assumed the national leadership of the party.
I had a singular opportunity of meeting John Odigie Oyegun in Abuja after his ousting from leadership. I visited a longtime friend of mine, who is currently serving as a Minister in the current administration, when Oyegun showed up in the Minister’s office.
While I was sitting, waiting for my turn to speak with the Minister, I overheard the discussions Oyegun was having with his host. I was impressed with the spirit of equanimity and fortitude exuding from Oyegun which, to me, spoke volumes of a man of honour who had seen it all. A man who had gone through thick and thin, yet appeared unhurt. I doff my hat for John Oyegun.
With what is happening in the APC to-day, I am sure that John Odigie Oyegun wherever he may be, must be thanking God like our former president Dr, Goodluck Ebelle Jonathan, who let go, as Oyegun did for peace to reign.
Recently, I watched Adams Oshomole on the telly where he was berating some APC governors whom he accused of ganging up against his leadership. It is true that some stakeholders in the party including some governors, have expressed serious concerns over the way the party is being run under Adams Oshopmole’s leadership. And these are among the group in the party routing for the removal of Oshomole.
From very reliable sources, about 15 out of 21 governors of the All Progressives Party are now collecting signatures to force Oshomole out of office perhaps with the collaboration of the National Executive Committee of the Party.
Those angling for the removal of Oshomole from the Chairmanship of the APC have even risen in number with a coalition of other APC Presidential aspirants and aspirants from various political levels within the party. The crisis arose as a result of primaries which were adjudged a failure by many party loyalists.
Oshomole has been accused of extortion and fraud; that he has become “a cancer” to the APC since assuming office of national chairman; that he was behaving like Adolf Hitler, the German Second World War Mastermind.
I can still remember very vividly, when Oshomole as Chairman of APC, lambasted a sitting Minister of the Federal Republic, threatening the Minister with sanction.
Watching Oshomole at very close range, one can see a leader with a brand of ideological and political purity displaying ostentatiously his track record of loquacious labour leadership trait.
The leadership of Adams Oshomole of the APC has recently been subjected to re-examination by a number of party members particularly some of the issues raised by the mother of the nation, Mrs. lsha Buhari.
My own view of Adams Oshomole, is that despite his undoubted qualities of leadership, he is unsuited by temperament, ideology, and judgement for the position of high command in APC which he currently occupies.
The cases of Zamfara, Edo and Rivers State were attributable at least in part to Adams errors of judgement and his refusal to face reality.
All of us in leadership positions some time make serious errors of judgement as humans, but we must stand alone to confront or even acknowledge the consequences of our actions instead of passing the blame to others.
Politics is a game of numbers and to be able to muster and harness great number of people, leadership must be extremely accommodating and caring.
Leadership is a process, not a position. Merely because one holds a title or position does not mean leadership, because leadership involves something which happens as a result of the interaction between a leader and his followers. The result of that interaction either for good or bad depends on the very leader.
Oshomole should have provided a level-playing ground to meet the diverse needs and aspirations of the teeming members of his party by adopting a reconciliatory posture, which would have gone a long way to douse tension and resolve all the differences and schisms in the party.
The extravagant showman- like leadership that is inherent in labour unionism with its fashionable French suit, with speeches which are usually padded with strong elements of knock about farce, is not acceptable and workable in politics. Such postures, with their hilarious vulgarity do not appeal to politicians and cannot work in politics with its multiple interests.
Oshomole should quickly go back to the drawing board, and perhaps without self inflation and adulatory reach out to his followers so that he would be able to empathize with the aggrieved party members to be able to win their loyalty and support.
And unless this happens, he would be unable to muster necessary human and material resources within the competing interests that have polarized the party to achieve successful outcome, come 2019.
Pride and arrogance should be put aside, so that he can build a consensus, needed in the party, that would be capable of healing the divisive wounds already very visible in the party.
Politics is a very serious and expensive game. It involves the destiny of the nation, the people and their resources. It is not a union affair like the labour unionism, that panders to only a minority interest.
Those extravagant showman- like leadership, peculiar with the labour union activity, is not an attractive strategy for political game.
How Oshomole manages APC for victory or failure in 2019 would determine his place in leadership. And history would be the best judge at the end of the day.
http://thebeaconewsnigeria.com/2018/11/leadership-oshomole-and-history/

Publicity Secretary of the Movement for the Survival of                the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Fegalo Nsuke, has said the Ogoni cleanup would end up as Nigeria’s biggest scam if left the way it is presently structured.

Speaking yesterday in Bori, headquarter of Khana local government area, when he met with youth leaders of the National Youth Council of the Ogoni People (NYCOP), Nsuke said HYPREP was desperate to spend money and not bothered about the integrity of the cleanup process and the welfare of the Ogoni people.

“It is absurd that HYPREP is desperate to spend money on the clean-up of Ogoniland just as elections approach without first putting in place the Integrated Soil Management Center which should take care of the wastes from the clean-up process.” He said.

The MOSOP spokesman said what HYPREP is doing is to desperately find ways that can allow them spend money meant for the cleanup without concern for the integrity of the process, He said HYPREP is no longer concerned about the fundamental recommendations of the UNEP report which concerns the Ogoni people especially the provision of safe drinking water in Ogoni communities as an emergency measure.

Nsuke warned that the impact of excavation and cleaning of the massive spill situation in Ogoniland would be counter productive without providing alternative sources of water for the people. “HYPREP should be ashamed that up till now, it has been unable to provide water for the Ogoni people and it has spent over USD10million without any positive impact on the people” he said.

Nsuke called for the removal of Shell from the governing council of HYPREP and the Board of trustees as the company (Shell) is still seen by the Ogoni people as a killer and an enemy.
http://thebeaconewsnigeria.com/2018/11/ogoni-clean-up-b…waits-the-people/

Chief John Odigie Oyegun, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), must be having a good laugh wherever he is. If he is just finishing a meal, he can afford to pick his teeth and belch from the deepest part of his biological system, and even turn up his nose as he asks for a glass of water. He can also look around and thank Karma for being kind to him, as he gulps down the water and reflects on the circumstances of the APC since he was shunted aside and Adams Oshiomhole, former Governor of Edo State and former labour leader, supplanted him.
Oyegun’s waterloo was the election in Ondo state and the emergence of Rotimi Akeredolu as Governor, and before then, his power-tussle with some key stakeholders in the South West wing of the ruling party. Oyegun was accused of being disdainful of reconciliation within the party, and not willing to work with some prominent stakeholders. He was seen as an obstacle to party cohesion. He was sacrificed. His place was taken by Adams Oshiomhole. Oyegun took his humiliation with absolute equanimity and has not since then uttered any fighting words nor has he openly worn his hurt on his sleeves. If he is aggrieved, it would be difficult to find enough evidence, in this season of extreme emotionalism, to prove that such is the case. But if he has been so studiously silent, why we do we think he should laugh and pick his teeth?
Our answer is as follows. His successor, Adams Aliu Oshiomhole, in less than one year of supplanting him has blown nearly all the bridges of goodwill and conspiracy that brought him to power as Chairman of the ruling party. In October 2017, 17 APC governors plotted to remove John Odigie-Oyegun as Chairman of the ruling APC. He was accused of being too close to only 7 out of the 24 APC governors in the country then and that he was using his position to the advantage of the purportedly famous 7. These seven Governors were named as Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna), Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Mohammed Abubakar (Bauchi), Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Simon Lalong (Plateau), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), and Samuel Ortom (Benue). They were called Oyegun’s “anointed Governors” with whom he was ruling the party. The loyalists of John Odigie-Oyegun at the time insisted that Adams Oshiomhole who had left the Governorship of Edo State and was looking for a job – so they alleged – was the man behind the anti-Oyegun plot. The detractors took their case to President Muhammadu Buhari. Oyegun soon lost his job. Oshiomhole replaced him.
But right now, in what looks like poetic justice, Oshiomhole is at the point where Oyegun was in 2017, and I dare say, he is in a worse position. We are told that 15 out of the 21 Governors of the APC are now collecting signatures to force the National Executive Committee of the APC to unseat Adams Oshiomhole. In 2017, 17 APC Governors out of 24 wanted Oyegun out. Today, it is not just even 15 Governors that are against Adams Oshiomhole, there is a coalition of APC Presidential aspirants and you can add to that, other aspirants at every level in the recently concluded APC primaries, who are calling for Adams Oshiomhole’s head. They accuse him of extortion and fraud. They say he has become “a cancer to APC”. Since his assumption of office, Adams Oshiomhole began to carry on like a “little Hitler”- that is what his own party members say behind him – and don’t ask anyone to come forward to say so publicly. Oshiomhole having won the crown of Chairmanship began to pound the floor like a conqueror. He issued threats to Ministers and threatened to sanction them if they did not listen to the party. He in fact began to sound as if he was President of the country. At more illumined moments, he even tried to do the job of the Minister of Information, party spokesperson and presidential spokespersons. He projected himself as a bundle of exaggerated enthusiasm and ambition.
The recent party primaries exposed the limits of Chairman Oshiomhole’s over-reaching politics. The Governors that were against Oyegun were 17. The ones that were for him were 7 as reported. In less than one year of taking over, Oshiomhole is far less popular. Under his watch, all the alleged pro-Oyegun Governors are biting their fingers. They have been battered, crippled, harassed and humiliated. Nasir el-Rufai almost had a heart-ache trying to prove his relevance in Kaduna politics. The same with Rochas Okorocha of Imo. In Plateau, Simon Lalong began to sound openly like a member of the opposition. Samuel Ortom of Benue chose the option of defection back to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Yahaya Bello (Kogi) is neither here nor there. He follows wherever the Buhari tide flows. But the real issue is that even the Governors that used to be anti-Oyegun and pro-Oshiomhole have turned against Oshiomhole. They don’t want him anymore. In the same manner in which a majority rose against Oyegun in 2017, they have risen against him. This time, the problem is not coming from just Governors, but members of the National Assembly, and all the way down to the grassroots.
Evidentially, the APC, with Chairman Oshiomhole’s NWC in charge, conducted problematic primaries in states like Edo, Ogun, Delta, Rivers, Imo, Zamfara, Kaduna, Kano, Oyo… with negative results. Oshiomhole deployed the powers of the National Working Committee and his influence as Chairman, but he alienated the party’s power base. For this reason, the state Governors and other critical stakeholders are up in arms. In Ogun, Ibikunle Amosun does not understand why some Godfathers in Lagos and Oyo state will be allowed to have their way and he would not be allowed to have a say in the choice of his own successor. In Zamfara, the Governor even threatened to take the law into his hands if his importance was ignored. In Kaduna, Governor el-Rufai’s arch-rival, Senator Shehu Sani, is on his way out of the APC, into another party, and that has split the party in Kaduna state. In Lagos state, the party’s incumbent Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has been left in limbo, dangling between survival, a lost bid for a second term, and the threat of impeachment around his neck.
On October 21, Oshiomhole, through his aide, issued a statement saying that the reason there is a rebellion against him is because he has been a champion of party supremacy and internal democracy within the APC. Nobody believes that wordy, rambling statement. What is clear is that the party primaries conducted by the APC under Oshiomhole’s watch have been far from transparent. They have been divisive and disruptive. The state of the APC right now, as I have argued elsewhere, is where the PDP was in 2015. Too many APC aspirants feel that they have been marginalized and excluded because Oshiomhole working with other actors, has hijacked the party. His argument that he is being persecuted because he is insisting on party supremacy is unimpressive. The APC party primaries were riddled with double standards and a descent into fascism by a man once known as a comrade. Oshiomhole may have committed the error of too much identification with the master. He talks about party supremacy. Those who use that phrase should be diplomatically reminded to double-check the source and quality of their knowledge.
They like to quote the United Kingdom, but not even in the UK is the party absolutely supreme – people hold on to their right to differ and be independent. Nobody votes in the House of Commons or the House of Lords like a robot. That is why Prime Minister Theresa May doesn’t have the absolute support of either her cabinet or the parliament on the question of Brexit. In the United States, the jurisdiction that we model our democracy after, nobody is a zombie under the banner of party supremacy. That explains the prolonged debate over the suitability of Brett Kavanaugh as a nominee for the US Supreme Court bench, despite the 51-49 majority in favour of Republicans. In Nigeria, the party Chairman expects party members at all levels to be zombies who take directives from the party. Adams Oshiomhole has not been defending party supremacy. He has been defending the supremacy of Adams Oshiomhole, and that is why he may lose his position as Chairman of the party.
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The NAF is enlisting graduates and post-graduates for training as Direct Short Service Cadets.

All applicants must be Nigerians, not less than 1.66m tall for male and not less than 1.63m tall for female. Applicants should be between 22 and 30 years by 30 September 2019 (22-35 for Consultants).

Interested applicants must possess Bachelor's Degree with second class Upper division or HND with Upper credit in the following fields:

a. Engineering: Software, Network, Computer, Electrical/Electronic, Mechanical, Chemical, Satellite Communication, Satellite Control, Satellite Ground Station, Telecommunication, Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering.

b. Administration: Mass Communication, Public Relations, Journalism, Television and Film Production, Sports, Music/Instrument Technology, Accounting, Sociology, Criminology, Psychology, Economics, Marketing, Purchasing and Supply, Business Management.

c. IT/Sciences: Database/Network Administration, Web Developing, Network & Cyber Security, IT Robotics, GIS/Remote Sensing, Satellite Image Analyst, Data Telecommunication, Intelligence and Security Studies, Geography, Cartography, Astronomy, Cosmology, MET, ATCO and Fire, Statistics/Record Analyst.

d. Education: Biology, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Arts, History and Languages namely French, German, Russian, Mandarin and Arabic languages.

e. Professions Allied to Medicine: Nutrition, Lab Tech, Nursing, Pharmacy, Biomedical Engineering, Vet Medicine, Dental Techs/Therapists, Dietetics, Medical Laboratory, Medical Records, Optometrist, Preventive Health, Clinical Psychology, Radiography, Physical & Health, Health Education & Human Kinetics, Biochemistry.

f. Medical Consultants: General Surgeons, Physicians, Paediatricians, Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Anaesthetists.

g. Chaplaincy /Islamic Affairs: Theology, Arabic & Islamic Studies.

h. Legal Studies: Criminal, Constitutional, Procurement, Land and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Law.

Interested applicants are to apply free of charge online at www.airforce.mil.ng.

Applicants are to print out the under listed documents after completion of application online:
a. Local Government Indigeneship Form.
b. Attestation Form.
c. Acknowledgment Form.
d. Serving Military personnel are to note that documents listed in a – c above are not applicable to them, however the special attestation form is to be filled by their current Unit Commander.

Online Registration Starts on 19 October 2018 and closes on 16 November 2018.

NAF online Registration and all other enlistment processes are free of charge and no payment should be made at any point throughout the Exercise.

The Attestation Form must be accompanied by the passport photograph of the signee. The signee is also to endorse his name and signature on the back of his passport photograph and that of the applicant. For further information :http://thebeaconewsnigeria.com/tag/jobs//2018/10/nigerian-air-for…-enlistment-2018/ ‎

Since we seem fated to chafe under the carapace of duplicitous politicians, we are justifiably cynical about their promises. In their desperation to get power, politicians harangue us with these promises in varied shades. But there is often that lurking caution that we should treat these promises as mere hallucinations of people who flay at anything in sight to assuage their hunger for power.
Yet, how do we measure the authenticity of our politicians if we accept as a given that politics is not a site of credibility? How do we align with the self-immolating notion that politicians are free to live in a world that is divorced from the reality of the rest of the citizens? We should not rule out the possibility that it is politicians who do not want to meet the demands of their offices but want us to take them seriously who are the purveyors of the expectation to gloss over the tragedy of the violation of their promises.
Thus, notwithstanding the dilettantism that hallmarks the promises of politicians, it is necessary that they unfold before the citizenry the agenda that actuates their quest for public office. But here, they must not be oblivious of the need to meet the higher obligation of their thinking through their promises and ensuring that they are the ones they can execute. Clearly, we take cognisance of the fact that some politicians do not make any promises. How would they tell the citizens a vision of the future they are taking them into when they are only political neophytes who are being imposed on the people by their godfathers? We encounter these political godsons on the grotesque occasions that are anomalously christened campaigns where they are spoken for by their godfathers. Not for them the need to embrace the prospect of their potential voters swooning over a picture of a future of plenitude they have succeeded in bringing before them during electioneering.
We are riled at the ease with which President MuhammaduBuhari and his political party have repudiated the promises they made under the banner of change. So, it is easy to think that there is no need investing hope in the promises of our politicians. In the dizzy days of their quest for office, they promised restructuring and the parity of the dollar and naira .Buhari promised that he would not belong to anybody but belong to everybody. He promised to fight corruption in such a manner that no citizen would dare to even contemplate sleaze of any kind in public office. But all these have been repudiated. On Buhari’s watch, Aso Rock has been turned into a cocoon where the corrupt luxuriate while the perceived enemies of the president and his cronies are easily denigrated as enemies of financial probity who must be punished.
So, we may justifiably snigger at the promises of politicians . Yet, we need such promises as an inkling into the minds of those who have offered to lead us. We need to focus on the visions of development those seeking the highest office in the land would bring. The primaries and other forms of the prelude to the 2019 presidential election have thrown up a phalanx of presidential candidates. Clearly, we can see what most of them do not see – the stark fate of not going far in the presidential race. Or they see but they do not bother. Since only a few Nigerians are immune to the obsession with highfalutin titles, these ones who are doomed to aborted journeys are probably satisfied with the prospect of being identified as ex-presidential aspirants, or better still as ex-presidential candidates. Thus, only Buhari and former Vice President AtikuAbubakarare considered as the two main contenders in the coming presidential election. But we need not bother ourselves with Buhari since we are familiar with his positions on many issues.
Atiku’s emergence seems to blur the fissures that have been pulling the nation apart under Buhari. Even though Atiku like Buhari is a Fulani from the north, there seems to be the notion that this fact does not matter. There seems to be no fear that Atiku would replicate ethno-religious bigotry the citizens have been subjected to under Buhari. So, the citizens do not really have any problem with their fellow citizens. It is rather Buhari who through his provincialism engendered ethnic distrust in the country.
However, Atiku needs to assure the people of the different regions that he has the right vision to improve their lot. Because of Buhari’s failure to rein in Fulani herdsmen, the people of the south-east, south-south and middle belt have been subjected to pillaging and carnage at the hands of the herders. Their farms are being destroyed while their women and daughters are being raped. In the Niger Delta, Buhari has failed to put in place policies that would ensure that they benefit from their oil revenues. Buhari has failed to clean the Ogoniland. And in the south-east, Buhari has neglected them because they belong to the five per cent who did not vote for him. The only time that the people of the south-east know that the government of Buhari exists is when he sends his military operatives under the ghoulish rubric of Operation Python Dance to kill the agitators for equity.
The south-west under the auspices of Afenifere on Tuesday met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in order to agree on the presidential candidate they would support. They are likely to support Atiku. But before Afenifere, the south-west, south-east, south-south, the middle belt and other parts of the country support Atiku, they have to ensure that he has met some minimal conditions.
Atiku should tell the citizens what he would do about restructuring. Clearly, Atiku has been talking about restructuring. He has been travelling to different parts of the country to give lectures on restructuring. So he is ready to promise to restructure the country when he gets to office. But the issue is that Atiku needs to spell out the measures he would deploy to prosecute his agenda of restructuring in order to make it believable. read more http://thebeaconewsnigeria.com/2018/10/before-backing-atiku/

The NAF is enlisting graduates and post-graduates for training as Direct Short Service Cadets.

All applicants must be Nigerians, not less than 1.66m tall for male and not less than 1.63m tall for female. Applicants should be between 22 and 30 years by 30 September 2019 (22-35 for Consultants).

Interested applicants must possess Bachelor's Degree with second class Upper division or HND with Upper credit in the following fields:

a. Engineering: Software, Network, Computer, Electrical/Electronic, Mechanical, Chemical, Satellite Communication, Satellite Control, Satellite Ground Station, Telecommunication, Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering.

b. Administration: Mass Communication, Public Relations, Journalism, Television and Film Production, Sports, Music/Instrument Technology, Accounting, Sociology, Criminology, Psychology, Economics, Marketing, Purchasing and Supply, Business Management.

c. IT/Sciences: Database/Network Administration, Web Developing, Network & Cyber Security, IT Robotics, GIS/Remote Sensing, Satellite Image Analyst, Data Telecommunication, Intelligence and Security Studies, Geography, Cartography, Astronomy, Cosmology, MET, ATCO and Fire, Statistics/Record Analyst.

d. Education: Biology, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Arts, History and Languages namely French, German, Russian, Mandarin and Arabic languages.

e. Professions Allied to Medicine: Nutrition, Lab Tech, Nursing, Pharmacy, Biomedical Engineering, Vet Medicine, Dental Techs/Therapists, Dietetics, Medical Laboratory, Medical Records, Optometrist, Preventive Health, Clinical Psychology, Radiography, Physical & Health, Health Education & Human Kinetics, Biochemistry.

f. Medical Consultants: General Surgeons, Physicians, Paediatricians, Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Anaesthetists.

g. Chaplaincy /Islamic Affairs: Theology, Arabic & Islamic Studies.

h. Legal Studies: Criminal, Constitutional, Procurement, Land and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Law.

Interested applicants are to apply free of charge online at www.airforce.mil.ng.

Applicants are to print out the under listed documents after completion of application online:
a. Local Government Indigeneship Form.
b. Attestation Form.
c. Acknowledgment Form.
d. Serving Military personnel are to note that documents listed in a – c above are not applicable to them, however the special attestation form is to be filled by their current Unit Commander.

Online Registration Starts on 19 October 2018 and closes on 16 November 2018.

NAF online Registration and all other enlistment processes are free of charge and no payment should be made at any point throughout the Exercise.

The Attestation Form must be accompanied by the passport photograph of the signee. The signee is also to endorse his name and signature on the back of his passport photograph and that of the applicant. For further information :http://thebeaconewsnigeria.com/tag/jobs//2018/10/nigerian-air-for…-enlistment-2018/ ‎

The Federal Government of Nigeria set up a committee to review the minimum wage of Nigeria workers some months ago. The committee was set up for upward review of the workers minimum wage. Labour leaders have met with the Federal Government on several occasions to dialogue and bargain for the acceptable minimum wage for the Nigeria worker. It is worthy to note that minimum wage is reviewed every five years.

The Nigeria Labour Congress Trade Union Congress and the affiliate Unions have frantic effort to convince the Federal Government to implement the new minimum wage in September, 2018 but to no avail. But every effort of the Labour Leaders was abortive as government was unable to heed to the clarion call of the Nigeria worker.

The strike would have been averted if the Federal Government had done the needful by implementing the new minimum wage in September. The meeting with the Labour Minister, Dr. Chris Ngige with Labour Leaders, ended in a deadlock, which means nothing substantial, was arrived at. The present eighteen Thousand Naira minimum wage of Nigeria worker has made life miserable for the average worker in the country. The high cost of goods and services is a threat to Nigerian workers. According to Everest Amaefule and Adelani Adepegba, online punch, the Nigeria Labour Congress has directed all its members and affiliate unions to commence a nationwide warning strike on Thursday, 27th September, 2018. The organized labour had held a meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, in Abuja on Wednesday, which did not produce the expected outcome.

The NLC president, Ayuba Wabba said the industrial action would commence due to the refusal of the Federal Government to reconvene the meeting of the tripartite national minimum wage committee to enable it to conclude its work he said, "In compliance with this mandate, all workers and private sector at all levels across the country have been directed to comply. All public and private institutions, offices, banks, schools, public and private business premises including filling stations are to remain shut till further notice", he said.

In the words of NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, "part of our consultation means the economic management team would have something to work on. Already, they are working on it, the National Salaries Incomes and

Wages Commission is working on it and it is expected that before the October meeting, they would have been through with the work". Dr. Chris Ngige said a bill would still have to go through the National Assembly after approval by the Federal Executive Council. The Federal Government of Nigeria should step up its speed to come up with the agreeable minimum wage for Nigerian worker.

The option of strike by NLC might not be the best but it is observed that Government in Nigeria always respond to Labour unions' demands when there is an enforcement of industrial action. That is so unfortunate in this part of the world.

Strike does no one any good. Therefore, there is need for serious dialogue and resolution of the minimum wage issue within the shortest possible time to avoid untold hardship on the poor masses. The state of the economy is critical. The plight of workers and all citizens should be looked into by the Federal Government of Nigeria. And prompt action taken to ameliorate the suffering in the country.

The Federal Government should not allow Labour Unions to engage in a prolonged strike, as that would adversely affect the economy and the livelihood of Nigerians. No Nigerian is happy with strike. And that is the more reason why the government should expedite action in making sure that the minimum wage is implemented.read more
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Until Friday, September 14, 2018, Folakemi Adeosun (nee Oguntomoju), was Nigeria’s erudite and piquant-witted minister of Finance.

Mrs. Kemi Adeosun (as she is popularly known) is as mannerly, almost inimitably brilliant, talking as though she once kissed the proverbial Blarney Stone in Scotland, as she is stunningly prepossessing, her face bedecked by inviting dimples and a touch of innocence belying her acute intelligence.

Whenever she addressed the press in or outside Nigeria, my pride as a Nigerian knew no limit as she would talk as though her only drink on earth was pure honey!

But, most unfortunately, whereas good things in Nigeria never last, the bad and the ugly enjoy immortality.

So Adeosun resigned from the Muhammadu Buhari-led cabinet on that fateful day, September 14, 2018, and her resignation was gingerly accepted with the promptitude and the alacrity of a practised acrobat!

It took six months to scout for her in 2016; it took less than a week to replace her in 2018!

The journey to her painful disgrace from the federal cabinet started when Premium Times, a social medium, bayed that ‘Kemi landed state and Federal Government jobs in Nigeria without undergoing the mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme and that the exemption certificate she allegedly procured from the NYSC secretariat was fake.

Now, let’s look at Kemi’s history, in a nutshell. She was born in the United Kingdom in 1967; she was raised (bred and nurtured) in that country.

She graduated from the Polytechnic of East London (later University of East London) in 1989 at the age of 22.

In England, where she was born and raised, there is no English equivalent of Nigeria’s NYSC scheme; so, she started working in Chapel Hill, Denham, in England, upon graduation, there being no such law (express or otherwise) in Nigeria that any Nigerian citizen, born, bred and trained outside Nigeria must come home to undergo the one-year NYSC programme before returning to his country of birth.

She was in the country of her birth and training until 2002, when she was 35, before coming to Nigeria in response to the strident calls by Nigeria’s federal and state governments on expert Nigerians in the diaspora to “come home and help develop your motherland.”

Before coming home at age 35, unsuspecting ‘Kemi, in all probability, procured the services of some Nigerian consultants to work out for her an NYSC exemption certificate, which was most unnecessary as she was past the NYSC age.

When she came home to Nigeria at age 35, no sensible interpreter of sections 12 and 13 of the NYSC Act (now section 315 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as altered) under “Existing Laws,” would insist that ‘Kemi should show evidence of her National Youth Service Corps.

That would even be like asking my son, who was nurtured and trained up to the university and post-graduate levels abroad and who, in obedience to the promptings of patriotism, may decide to come back to his fatherland at age 40 or above to help develop his country of origin, being asked to show evidence that he underwent the NYSC programme!

And if an unsuspecting Nigerian, still in the diaspora, inadvertently procured the services of an “Oluwole Company” (which abound in Nigeria) to help him/her get an NYSC exemption certificate, which was even unnecessary in Adeosun’s case, (she was 35 when she came back to Nigeria), the onus of proof of the genuineness of such a certificate should rest squarely on the shoulders of the individual/company which procured it.

Otherwise, we would require a London-based Dr. Hussein Adegboye Okechukwu, 50, born and trained in London as a specialist oncologist, to apply for the NYSC exemption certificate to come back to help develop his fatherland!

A 35-year-old person is no longer a youth as far as the NYSC Act, 2004 is concerned.

The rudiments of Criminal Law is the maxim,“Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea” (an act does not make the doer of it guilty, unless the mind that did it be guilty; that is, unless the intention be criminal, the act itself isn’t.

The intent and the act must both occur to constitute the crime.

Why then, by the light of heaven, would Folakemi Adeosun, with a hifalutin litany of professional qualifications, forge an NYSC exemption certificate at 35 to serve her fatherland?

I wish to heaven that someone would show me in any extant or even dated law where it is stated that a Nigerian, born and bred abroad, and who underwent the crucible of primary, secondary and tertiary education abroad must come back to Nigeria, his/her country of origin, to do the National Youth Service before getting employment abroad if he/she would ever work in Nigeria!

For how then do we explain the importunate appeals by successive federal and state governments to highly qualified Nigerian technocrats born, trained and resident abroad to “come home and help develop your fatherland”?

When such experts come home, do Premium Times and other Nigerian crucifiers expect them to show evidence of youth service?

Section 2 (1) (b) (d) of the NYSC Act, 2004, which provides that corps members who “shall have graduated at any university outside Nigeria to make himself available for service” does not refer to Nigerian students in diaspora (such ‘Kemi Adeosun) but to Nigerian students who left Nigeria to study abroad.
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Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance (2015-2018), Kemi Adeosun threw in her letter of resignation on Friday, September 14, to bring to a temporary closure, the public outcry and the embarrassment that her possession of a fake National Youth Service Corps Exemption Certificate had generated since July when it was first reported. Her letter of resignation in which she blames “trusted associates” for the mishap and explains her innocence, reads like the abstract of a future memoir in which she is likely to do her utmost best to ensure that her non-participation in the NYSC scheme does not become the defining marker of her public service career. She will of course in that book do the damage control of telling us that she is a victim of many conspiracies, the breach of trust, and the mischief of a sensitive and heavily politicized Nigerian public, seeking to hurt a holier-than-thou government as it seeks a second term in office.
I have no doubts that Kemi Adeosun was eventually pushed. Since the matter hit the headlines, she had been studiously silent. But her employers having seen that the NYSC scandal may be used against President Buhari during election season, she must have been advised to tender her letter of resignation. No political leader can willingly risk the cost of a serious collateral damage in an election year. It would not have been in President Buhari’s best interest to take the bullet for his own Minister. It must also have been painful for President Buhari to let her go. Out of his entire collection of faceless, impact-less and colourless Ministers, Adeosun was one of the very few whose name and face many Nigerians could recognize, and who could be given some marks for effort and commitment.
Often compared unfairly and sometimes unnecessarily with her more celebrated predecessor, Adeosun could not be accused of sleeping on the job. Under her watch, the Federal Government established an Efficiency Unit (E-Unit) in the last quarter of 2015, to monitor the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government (MDAs) in order to check wastage and leakages. There was also the initiative on continuous audit, the introduction of a whistleblower policy, the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme, a more rigorous insistence on the use of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), and the decision on financial bail-outs for ailing states. These initiatives may not have produced a robust or healthy economy, due to macroeconomic distortions or what the HSBC has identified as “fiscal fault lines’ in the Nigerian economy. Adeosun also borrowed rather heavily, leaving the country with large indebtedness, a choice she defended as the best option out of corrosive recession.
In the course of her work, Adeosun also showed a determination to step on toes, taking on powerful figures and departments such as the leadership of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for the opaque manner in which those institutions were being run. She further threatened tax defaulters with prosecution, and spoke openly about building a data base of the assets of the wealthy, their failure to pay tax as due, and bring them to justice. Adeosun apparently has lost out in the power game. Her lack of a proper NYSC certificate is her Achillee’s heel. Entrenched interest and groups in Nigeria, as elsewhere, take the power game seriously. There had been whispers about Adeosun’s NYSC certificate. The matter was unearthed to checkmate her. Is she guilty? Yes. The only innocent party is the media house, Premium Times, which saw in this, an opportunity for investigative journalism and chose to do its work as watchdog. Kudos to Premium Times for the determination with which it pursued the story. There are lessons here for all of us, in whom may reside a “KemiAdeosun.” There is indeed a “KemiAdeosun” in all of us.
The bone of contention is her non-participation in the NYSC, her non-entitlement to an exemption certificate and the possession of a fake exemption certificate. Established in 1973 as a post-civil war strategy for reuniting the country, the NYSC scheme is a creation of law. It requires Nigerian graduates of higher institutions, at home and abroad, to devote a year of compulsory national service to Nigeria, preferably in a state other than their own state of origin. You cannot seek exemption, except in accordance with Section 2(1) of the NYSC Act. Once you graduate before 30, if you wish, you could still serve at 50 as long as you are a Nigerian citizen. The NYSC certificate is usually required for purposes of employment generally or appointment into public office, if you are a graduate. Nigerian graduates since the establishment of the scheme have participated in it. Even in the face of calls by a few that the scheme should be scrapped, there are also those Nigerians who are happy to be part of it.
Indeed, some persons who graduate at over 30, we are told, smuggle themselves into the scheme, to avoid the stress of the unemployment queue. Some would even willingly serve in the scheme for a second term or a third term if possible. But Adeosun falls into a special category. She belongs to the category of Nigerians who studied abroad, and who were born and raised abroad, in countries where the NYSC is irrelevant and unknown. If she had remained abroad for the rest of her life, and did not take a job in Nigeria, there would have been absolutely no problem. And I believe there are many of her type in the diaspora, who are so established abroad that they may never imagine that they would need Nigeria some day. Adeosungate says something to such Nigerians: should you hope to work in Nigeria at any point, and you are a graduate, you would be required to undergo a year of the NYSC. Prepare yourself for that, because you never know tomorrow.
The second issue is that of citizenship. Certain commentators on Adeosungate have argued that she was not a Nigerian at the time she graduated. They insist that she took Nigerian visas on her British passport until she was 34. This is a wrong argument, because that was a matter of choice, not the result of a legal hindrance. Citizenship is not by passport. Kemi Adeosun became a Nigerian the very day she was born, in the light of Section 25 (1) (c) of the 1999 Constitution which confers citizenship on “every person born outside Nigeria either of whose parents is a citizen of Nigeria.”. As for her being British, Nigeria indeed recognizes dual citizenship. There are many Nigerian children being brought up overseas today by Nigerian parents, who do not regard themselves as Nigerians. I once met a young lady who told me: “My parents are Nigerians. I am American”. Every effort to convince her that she is a Nigerian was rejected. Some of such children can even lay claim to more than two countries. Their parents are Nigerians, they relocate to the United States and have children there, who may become Americans and they may further relocate to Canada where they also obtain Canadian citizenship. Nigerian parents who bring up their children abroad must always remind them of their roots. Those who are saying Adeosun has gone back to her country after resigning as Minister of Finance are overlooking the law. She is in every sense a Nigerian. She was not recruited as an expatriate staff. She did not have to renounce her Nigerian citizenship at any time or seek naturalization.
The third issue is that of certificate. Nigerians are very emotional about certificates. The country is blessed with so many educated persons, holding a file-load of certificates. When they hear that someone is holding a fake certificate even if it is that of the NYSC, they become completely hysterical. Kemi Adeosun is not the first highly-placed person to lose her position to a certificate controversy. Her own case is unfortunate because she got into trouble, not because of her academic qualifications, but because of NYSC certificate which some of her sympathizers claim should not be such a big deal. But the emotional attitude out there is: How can I go through NYSC and they will go and make someone who did not, a Minister? Meanwhile, there would most likely be thousands of Nigerians out there who either did not participate in the NYSC or are also holding fake or original exemption certificates that they do not qualify for. Adeosun has used that same certificate as a Company Executive in Nigeria, as a Commissioner in Ogun State and would have survived with it as Minister, if someone did not blow a whistle. This is ironic considering that she was the chief promoter of the whistle-blowing policy. Lesson: always double-check your certificates. You never know.
The fourth issue is that of trust. One of the points in Adeosun’s letter of resignation is that she was misled by a “trusted associate”. This may not be a strong point when deconstructed, more so as the NYSC exemption Certificate can only be collected in person and not by proxy. But is it not the case that many of us in Nigeria rely on others to help us sort out a lot of paper work? I don’t know any big man or woman in Nigeria who would go personally to a vehicle licensing office to renew vehicle papers. Or to the tax office to update tax certificates. If it were possible to send a personal assistant to obtain a voter’s card, our big men and women would gladly do so, but they do this by themselves because of biometrics. Perhaps if Adeosun had personally gone to the NYSC office herself at the time she wanted an Exemption Certificate, she would have been able to make necessary enquiries and be properly guided. This should be a lesson to all well-placed persons. There are very few trustworthy aides in Nigeria: drivers cheat, housemaids steal, assistants tell lies, gatemen are often absent-minded, security men sleep on duty, they drive you crazy all the time, and when they mess up, everyone holds you liable. You are told you cannot offer any excuses. “The big man syndrome” comes with its own risks. Stop being big, take charge of your own affairs.
The fifth point to be made is about the power game that I referred to earlier. No matter how conscientious you may be as a public official, there will always be persons who are seeking your downfall. They may not like your style, or they may simply want your job, or they are aggrieved that the job was given to you. If you are a powerful Minister or the architect of policies that they consider unfriendly, you could become the target of an established “Pull-Him-Down-Syndrome” which is the easiest way to destroy anybody seeking to raise his or her head in Nigeria. Whoever blew the whistle on KemiAdeosun has succeeded in pulling her down.
Power brokers do not moralize; they take advantage of every situation. Remember Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. As Nigeria’s Minister of Finance under the Goodluck Jonathan administration, the moment Okonjo-Iweala led the administrator’s efforts to reform the downstream sector of the oil and gas sector, and the oil subsidy regime, her 82-year old mother was kidnapped and Iweala was asked to resign as Minister of Finance by the kidnappers. She has told her story in a book titled “Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines.” Kemi Adeosun may not be able to make the same claims, because the whistle-blower correctly identified her Achilles’ heel and put her on the spot. The lesson here is that once you are in the public arena, all kinds of stones can be thrown at you. You are vulnerable.
For example, right now in the United States, Brett Kavanaugh, the Presidential nominee for the US Supreme Court, has his fate hanging in the balance. A Californian Professor in her 50s, Christine Blasey Ford, has suddenly shown up, to allege that when she was 15, and Kavanaugh was 17, the latter, having taken a drink too much, had tried to force himself on her. Political gladiators are seizing upon this to say that Kavanaugh should be denied a seat on the US Supreme Court Bench. The matter is phrased as a protection of moral standards, and part of the #Me-Too movement but the truth is that Kavanaugh’s elevation if it happens, could tip the ideological balance in the Supreme Court in favour of the conservatives for a long time to come. If there is a similar #Me-Too finger-pointing in Nigeria, there will be no man fit for public appointment in every part of Nigeria! Back to Adeosungate: So, the question may be asked: who is benefiting from Adeosun’s travails? Who is hiding somewhere saying: we have dealt with her?
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At home on Monday evening, I was engrossed in some heavy reading and writing task when I got a desperate call from my driver who had closed for the day. His friend, and some other hapless Nigerians, had just been randomly arrested at Ketu area by the “Lagos State Task Force” for undisclosed offences. “They have handcuffed him and taken him to the Ketu police station,” he said frantically. Immediately, I asked for the chap’s name and phone number. I then called a valuable police contact. She instantly swung into action. After hours of trying to trace the boy’s whereabouts, we finally found out he was somewhere in a police van around Oshodi.
His distraught mum was inconsolable. However, he was finally released around 9pm. But what really happened? Toheeb is a student of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin. Anytime he is on break, he comes to stay with his mum in Lagos and uses the opportunity to make some income driving his friend’s commercial tricycle, “KekeMarwa”. The little income supports his schooling. He was picking passengers in Ketu when the police swooped on them, arrested, handcuffed and whisked them away. They were beaten black and blue. I was told the police had just killed a young man and a mob attacked them. The officers decided to arrest “suspects” — meaning anybody in sight.
Toheeb and his passengers automatically became suspects for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. That was it. No other evidence is needed in our jungle justice system. They seized their phones, rendering them incommunicado. My contact told me the Lagos police PRO, CSP ChikeOti (God bless him), personally went there to secure his release. In tears, Toheeb narrated the whole incident. “So this is how innocent people suffer in this country? Some of my passengers are still in detention. They did nothing,” he said, sobbing and sniffing. The “suspects” were allegedly asked to pay between N50,000 and N100,000 to regain their freedom. This is Nigeria.
I was putting finishing touches to this article on Friday when my electrician called me. This was unusual of him. He would normally send an SMS. I knew there was fire on the mountain. His brother, a vulcaniser at Ojota Motor Park, Lagos, had a dispute with a client over payment. The client went to report him at Ogudu Police Station on Thursday. I don’t know how much the client gave to the police but they certainly over-delivered. The police immediately sent Omotayo to Ikoyi Prisons. By Friday, the poor fellow was fighting for his life. He had not eaten anything. The inmates had battered him to pulp — the traditional welcome party. Hopefully, we will secure his release this week.
Early 2017, I got a distress call from a commercial bus driver, a friend of a member of our staff. The Task Force van had suddenly crossed him at Maryland in an attempt to force him to stop for an offence he will never know how he committed it. It was too late for him to brake completely; he dented the van. Goodness Gracious! The police officers dragged him out, tore his shirt, battered his bulky frame, handcuffed him, flung him into their van and took him and his bus — his means of livelihood — to their Ikeja yard. Despite all my efforts, including getting a commissioner to intervene, we still had to part with a large sum to repair the police van. This is oppression.
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In an effort to reduce the population of unemployed youths of Rivers state, the state governor, Chief (Barr.) Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has announced that 7,000 qualified persons would be employed into the state civil service, with youths constituting 70% of that figure Governor Wike who expressed concern over the teeming unemployed youths of the state said, his administration will ensure that Rivers youths are gainfully employed for the betterment of their future.
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A group of Ikwerre youth leaders under the auspices of Ikwerre. Youth leaders Forum have joined in the agitation for rotational leadership in Rivers State, come 2019 general elections.
In a press release issued by the group and copies made available to The Beacon, four main leaders of the group each representing each of the four Ikwerre LGAs to wit: Ilechi Ikenda Clinto, Ikwerre LGA, Emmanuel Orlu, PHALGA, Wilson Wopara, Obio/Akpor, and Awuse Precious, Emohua, noted that the struggle of an Ikwerre man towards political emancipation, is one that came with sacrifices, sometimes painful ones.
They remarked that “for about 40 years, our people could not rise to the highest political aspiration in our state. Thank God however that as at today, we have not only achieved but also surpassed it”.
They said their history therefore, is that of struggle for equity, fairness and justice, that of equal opportunities for every Rivers man or woman irrespective of number, ethnicity or religion and indeed that of giving everyone the much needed sense of belonging that enhances peaceful co-existence.
They declored: Being conscious of these facts Ikwerre people are determined not to impose what she once campaigned against on other ethnic groups”. ^
We are aware that; of the 3 Senatorial Zones only the Rivers South East Senatorial zone has not produced a Governor since the creation of our State.
We are also aware that power is rotated between the two geo-locations of Upland and Riverine areas of our State. Our understanding is that these two and perhaps other factors, influenced the zoning of its 2015 Gubernatorial ticket exclusively to the South/East Senatorial Zone.
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SENATOR (GBENE) BARRISTER CYRUS NUNIEH
Senator (Barr.) Gbene Cyrus N. Nunieh, PhD. is a native of Nyogon Beeri in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. Khana is one of the five (5) Ogoni Local Government Areas of Rivers State. Others are Gokana, Tai, Eleme and Oyigbo. Ogoni Ethnic Nationality can proudly boast of six (6) Kingdoms viz. Nyo-Khana, Ken-Khana, Babbe, Gokana, Tai and Eleme. The 5 Ogoni LGAs and the 6 Ogoni Kingdoms enumerated above were originally in the Opobo Division in the Calabar Province while the other areas of Rivers like Port Harcourt, Ahoada, Degema and Isiokpo were originally in the Owerri Province. This was the political arrangement before Rivers State was created on March 27, 1967.
Barrister Nunieh graduated from the prestigious London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, England and was called to the Bar at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in London, England on February 5,1963. He was later called to the Bar in Nigeria as Barrister-at-law and Solicitor on January 17,1964. After the LL.B; he went further to acquire an M.A; and a Ph.D. from the California University for Advance Studies. He is the Doyen of the Nigerian Bar Association, Port Harcourt and Rivers State Branches. Senator (Barr.) Cyrus Nunieh is the first lawyer and Senator from Ogoni who represented all the Local Government Areas in Ogoni, Bonny, Andoni, Opobo/Nkoro, Okrika and Ogu/Bolo LGAs.
Senator Nunieh had made so many political and economic contributions to the growth and development of Rivers State. It was he who brought Oyigbo to Rivers State through the Justice Nasir Boundary Commission in 1976 and by implication the Afam Power Station. He was the sole solicitor that represented the Ogoni people in the land dispute between the Ogoni and the Igbo people from Imo State (Abia State was yet to be created) who were massively represented by Chief (Barr.) Jaja Nwachukwu (a very senior lawyer and the first Nigerian foreign Minister and a member of the 1st and 2nd Republic Senate), Chief Sam Mbakwe (also a senior lawyer who later became the Governor of Imo State), and Mr Kalu K. Ogba (a law graduate from Oxford University and who was then the Attorney General of Imo State).
The case of the eminent Igbo lawyers was that the land in dispute was an Igbo land which they called “Obi-lgbo” meaning “the heart of Igboland”. To this, Barrister Nunieh disagreed and made a submission to the effect that the said land rather belongs to the Ogoni benevolent landlords who merely accommodated their Igbo friends. He submitted further that the Commission should change the name from “Obigbo” to “Oyigbo” which in Ogoni language means “Oyi” (“to enter”) and “Gbo” (“friendship”). The Federal Government Boundary Adjustment Commission headed by Justice Nasir accepted the brilliant submission by Barr. Nunieh and consequently rejected the name “Obigbo” put forward by the Igbo usurpers and accepted “Oyigbo” the name given by the Ogoni landlord, Barr. Cyrus Nunieh, as the authentic name of the people.
Senator Nunieh was one of the brains behind the establishment of the Bonny Liquefied Natural Gas Project at Bonny and the Petro-Chemical Project at Eleme. During the Senate Debate on January 20, 1982, he vehemently argued in favour of the two economically super viable projects. Hear him:
“The need to industrialize our society is a revolution in the direction of true political and economic independence. We must ensure that both quality and quantity go together in a country like Nigeria with her teeming population in the production of our finished products.
“It is wasteful and it will amount to the burying of capital, if we invest in projects which cannot take off. The Liquefied Natural Gas Project (LNG) should be started immediately because a large population of people from Bonny in my constituency have moved and have been informed that the project would soon be started. The Petro-Chemical Project is very important in the development of our economy. If we have no money to start the project, we should do everything possible to get money with little string to establish this industry, because it will stabilize our unstable economy. These two projects are essential vital industries.
“The Petro-Chemical industry will maximize our advantages from oil and make Nigeria indeed an oil producing state. Until this is done, this nation remains a fuel-seller state. For the uses of products from oil are unlimited in these days of modern science and technology, hence the Petro-Chemical Industry must be placed on our priority list.”
He also influenced the construction and establishment of the following projects by the Federal Government in Rivers State.
•The construction of the East-West Road.
•The construction of the three (3) bridges linking Bonny, Andoni, and Opobo through Ogoni villages to enable our people in the Riverine Communities of the three said Local Government Areas which were in the South-East Senatorial district to travel by land to Port Harcourt, the State capital.
• The Onne Sea Port which is the deepest sea port South of the Sahara in West Africa.
•The Fertilizer Company at Onne-Eleme.
• The discovering of oil especially in Ogoni land and in other areas in Rivers State.
Senator Cyrus Nunieh was in the Senate from 1979-1983 and used his Senatorial influence in attracting most of the Federal Government mega-projects that had made Rivers State truly “The Treasure Base of the Nation” to the State.
On Saturday, June 13, 2015, Senator Barr. Dr. Cyrus Nunieh was corronated “The Gbene” (The King) of Ogoni Ethnic Nationality by the Chiefs and Traditional Rulers of Ogoni, members of Ogoni National Union (O.N.U) and Ogoni Leaders of Thought. However, Rivers State Government recognition is still awaited. TO BE CONTINUED
http://thebeaconewsnigeria.com/2018/08/are-these-rivers-patriots-and-revered-eminent-personalities-not-qualified-for-state-honours-4/

In some cases, certain situations are imposed on us that we seemingly have little ability to change, but we can change the world as we change ourselves. Those in the developed world especially have a responsibility, due to our general karma, to look at ourselves and see what we can do to make a difference at a very critical time.
Living in a Culture of Aggression
We must look closer at aggression and war because r. relates to our consciousness and to problems associated with modernity and institutionalization. Our generation has an interesting position in determining what the future of the planet. hold. We have the ability to blow up everyone on the man times over, and our clobal community is increasing;;-resorting to combative interactions. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the United States and many others that have followed around the world distinctly reveal this violent mindset.
This mentality is also reflected by the amount of murders that occur daily on this planet. Gary La Free describes in his book. Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America, the unbelievable amount of murder and crime occurring just in the United States alone, what to speak of other countries:
From the end of World War 11 until the early 1990s, the number of crimes committed in the streets of America skyrocketed. Murder rates doubled: rape rates quadrupled; robbery and burglary rates quintupled. By the early 1990s, nearly 25.000 Americans were being murdered each year. In just two years, more Americans were murdered than were killed in the Vietnam War: in twelve years more were murdered than died during World War 11.
Furthermore, if we look at how most governments spend ‘.heir money, we will also find a focus on war. We can learn much about a person or group by how they spend their money. ‘; reveals their priorities. When so much money is used to help maintain and perfect violence, we can understand that it will hard to attain peace. In Maximum Security, a journal article by Margo Okazawa-Rey and Gwyn Kirk, the authors port that worldwide expenditures on the education of an average child each year is approximately $380. while $22.000 is spent to train and equip the average soldier. In 1994 alone, the worldwide expenditures on defense totaled $700 billion. Most governments spend more on their military than on public health. For every 100.000 people in the world, there are 556 soldiers, but only 85 doctors.1’ These statistics can help us understand the extent to which the mentality of war and aggres­sion permeates this planet. In other words, governments spend the greatest amount of money on increasing and perfecting their ability to kill.
On September 1 1. I was just finishing a thirty-five country world tour. The news reports that we heard in Russia differed from the reports in America. For instance, in Russia it was reported that almost one hundred nuclear suitcase bombs were missing, and it was alleged that Osama bin Laden possibly had some of them. Russia was a first world country based mainly on the military, but if you look at Russia closely, you will see that it is in some ways more like a third world country. Most of the hospitals in Russia do not have sufficient running water. medicine, or indoor toilets, and the majority of homes in Russia also do not have toilets inside. As the communist block disman­tled, many military personnel and even scientists were literally starving. For this reason, the United States government has subsidized many of the scientists, but the military is not so easy to control. However, even if bin Laden did not acquire some of those weapons, there are so many other fanatical personali­ties in the world. He is just a small player in the grand scheme of things.
The Divine and the Demonic
Special beings have come into this world to facilitate both sides. Some entities have come to help elevate consciousness while others are empowered for destruction. Just as we have policemen, soldiers, and tax collectors, certain entities have specific responsibilities for different planets and universes. They make themselves available as we make ourselves avail­able to receive their help. This is an incredible time period in which people can connect with empowerment on both sides.
Some of these demonic entities can act in such abominable ways because their bodies are possessed by sinister entities. Just as a rat looks for shelter and food, such demons look for a place to find shelter. At times, we hear of a serial killer who murders up to thirty or forty people and then chops them up and eats their body parts. This is no ordinary criminal. Some of these people are possessed by entities who have taken over their bodies. TO BE CONTINUED
QUESTIONS THAT TOUCH THE MIND
I am appreciative of the life, which God has given to man, but why do some preachers say that when we die life is ended?
Preachers that say that life ends at death may be those that are internet shy, to avoid insulting anyone. Whatever one wishes to know is available in the internet, today. It is only dogma and creed that shall hold anyone down from knowledge.
Proper research is being carried out with the help of higher Intelligencies, you may wish to call them Angels or Spirit Friends, to unravel certain truths that we are not familiar with. Rescue circles are conducted regularly to save souls that are lost between the worlds due to ignorance, dogma and creed.
Some dead souls are embarrassed to be told that they are dead since they are able to communicate through the body of a living person. When they are asked to recognize the body through which they are communicating, some realize that they are men but are speaking through a female body. It is then explained to them that they had lost the use of their physical body, which is death. They live on as spirits with non-material (spiritual) bodies.
Some of us have not met our loved ones who have died holding discussions with us about happenings now though they might have died many years ago. If their life had ended with their death, how would they know about
now?
Death is the separation of the spirit from the material body. The spirit takes on spiritual bodies and lives forever. Incidentally, even for the body, we are told that matter is neither created nor destroyed. Like energy it changes (or is changed) from one form to another.
Why did Jesus die for us?
Jesus had been said to have died to save us from our sins. Last time a question was even asked why are we still dying? Some people tell us that Jesus died and resurrected to show His power over death. So death is now a transformation from one phase of life to another.
If we would go back in time, John the Baptist and Jesus were born around the same period, John's parents were told that, he was to be a forerunner to Jesus, to prepare the Jews to receive the Christ. He was sent by the creator to handle that job.
In a similar way, Mary was told that she would be pregnant and would bear a special son, whom God would use to save mankind from dogma and creed. She grew up in the Temple and had no reason to doubt the Angel who broke the news to her. Again even before Jesus was born, His mother, Mary, was told what He was to do, therefore it was not His choice but an assignment.
How is Jesus saving us? His entire life was service to His fellow men. Living the exemplary life he led is a sure way to salvation. Then when you are with Him, His Grace and Mercy shall always be with you. By showing good examples to others to follow, you will in turn save others.
How is the realm of spirit?
When solving a mathematical problem, we are advised to go through the known to approach the unknown.
Jesus had told us that in His Father's house are many mansions. We shall be able to understand this by looking at our earth plane with many countries with distinct people.
In the spirit realm, entities at the same frequency are housed together, so that there is no antagonism. They are occasionally sent on assignments from mansion to mansion and even to our earth. I have earlier on mentioned that some of them join with men over here to rescue souls that
are trapped between our world and theirs.
Some of them, like White Eagle and Red Cloud, enlighten us on spiritual philosophy and healing. They have bridged the gap between the worlds and still help to increase our understanding about their realm.
Are test-tube babies real?
I am not a medical practitioner but information we have confirms that test-tube babies are normal babies. Test-tube baby producers claim that the first set of such babies are already grandparents.
This means that they lived like others, married and brought forth children who later married and gave birth to other children. There is nothing to differentiate a test-tube baby from a non-test-tube baby. Both are born through the fertilization of ovary and sperm.
The foetus inside a mother eats and excretes through the mother while the test-tube child is fed with quality nutrients. The test-tube foetus may later be transferred to the womb of a volunteer mother, in which the baby would pass through the birth canal.
The doctors who started the test-tube programme were careful and secret not to attract stigma unto their creations. Even now that we are hearing of grandchildren, I have never heard of anyone that came through the test-tube programme.
It is a secret that has to some extent been foolproof. If information leaked, it would have jeopardized the whole programme. Some people might ask
why man has ventured into such a programme? When God created man He gave man the power and assists man from 'above' to succeed.
Man started with other living things and today is at the level of making spare parts for the human body. In time to come we may be buying such parts from Nnewi and Kaduna just to allow Aba to specialize in auto parts. TO BE CONTINUED
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One character of the Nigerian political leadership that has become entrenched and which has not been in the overall interest of the country since independence in 1960 is the penchant of the leaders to always brush serious national issues away with the wave of the hand. The reason is because Nigeria has passed through several critical challenges or turbulent times and managed to survive but not without serious wounds. This attitude of the leaders has more or less postponed the evil day and keeps postponing it as the country wallows in limbo. I wish to say, unequivocally, that 100 years is more than enough for Nigeria to manifest whatever potentials she has in every ramification. But that hasn’t happened because the country is not working.
I have anchored the failure of the Nigerian leadership to address fundamental national questions to the period from independence in 1960. That was when Nigerians took full control of the affairs of the country. But it is important to reiterate that Nigeria did not start in 1960. Nigeria, as a country, started in 1914 with the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates into one entity. The grafting of the two hitherto disparate colonies into one was accomplished by the British colonial overlord, Lord Lugard, the first Governor General of the reconstituted new colony of Nigeria. Why and how he did it, including the resistance of people in the south, particularly in Lagos, where it was opposed by the political class and the media are well recorded in history.
The amalgamation marked an important watershed in Nigeria’s history. In one consideration, the British did it out of the love they have for Nigeria. Maybe they wanted to create a sub regional power, for; there is no other country that is as big and potentially powerful in the West Africa sub-region as Nigeria. But I don’t know what love would make a colonial power to weld different nationalities into one powerful state that could challenge its authority. It would be foolhardy to do that. And, if that were the case, the creation of one Nigeria could have been for something other than love. But I won’t call it hate because the amalgamation of Nigeria has its inherent advantages, which I think is actually what the British wanted to exploit. It didn’t work out as expected between 1914 and 1960, a period of 46 years before the British relinquished power to Nigerians.
The British colonial masters did not treat Northern and Southern Nigeria on equal terms. For instance, in the South, the money needed for development projects like railways, harbours and hospitals was raised from taxation on imported goods. But that same taxation was absent in Northern Nigeria, which accounted for the low development situation in that region. That trend has remained till today—more development in the south than in the north, a seed sowed by Lord Lugard. For Lugard, the taxation was a form of punishment; hence, the northerners were spared. Consequently, the north was bequeathed with the wrong development paradigm, which persists till today. The reverse is the case in the south where the people were made to work hard and drive development. The difference between the two regions is glaring.
Even though, the country has managed to survive for over 100-years, the events of the past 58 years since independence show that a reexamination of the entire Nigerian structure as conceived by the colonists (not Nigerians) is needed. That is the only way Nigeria would make headway. By now, Nigeria ought to have become a black super power but she has failed woefully.
I must not fail to say that the British, to a large extent, laid a buildable foundation that could have provided the springboard for development just like the Asian Tigers but all those have been destroyed in the wake of post-independence ethnic rivalry and mistrust. The people do not seem to agree with the British and the post-colonial Nigerian leaders that the grafting of two autonomous entities into one by Lord Lugard was the right thing to do. The two regions had led viable economic foundations for development before they were merged in 1914. It would have been superb if this experiment had worked. Nigeria’s diversity could have been her greatest asset; but alas, it has turned out to be her greatest undoing.more details http://thebeaconewsnigeria.com/2018/08/lovers-and-haters-of-nigeria/

A coded joint in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital where men and women go to hire men to give them good quality sex has been discovered. Investigation carried showed that the joint which is three months old, is located in the government reserved area and is owned by a lady who resides in the UK.

The joint which operates like a bar, has well over 30 men, some of whom are undergraduates in tertiary institutions in the state.

Pretending to be making enquiries on behalf of her female boss, a Punch reporter visited the joint and met with Patty, the lady that operates the joint on behalf of the owner who lives in the UK
“My madam wants a clean and neat guy to keep her company. Is it possible to get one here?” the reporter told the lady manager.
While responding to the question, Patty rolled out their array of services and how they have helped satisfy the needs of many of Port Harcourt’s ‘big’ and ‘lonely’ women and men. According to Patty, they offer only ''take away services'', meaning they only give men to take home for service, they do not provide rooms for the doing...lol
“While others mainly supply women for the satisfaction of men, we do the reverse. Whichever specification of men you need to make you happy in bed, we have them. Communication on the type of man needed and other issues like payment is always discreet. Everything is done through the telephone while the client does not necessarily need to come to this place. As part of our mode of operation, we do not give out rooms here for clients to be attended to; we run a ‘takeaway’ service, so they are expected to meet at a hotel of choice of the customer.
“Our clients need not be scared about the possibility of being blackmailed because all our guys are well-trained and are not allowed to communicate directly with the women needing their services. They are not also availed of the identity or contact number of the client, so the chance of such happening is very remote.
“The type of service to be rendered by our guys depends on how much the client can afford. Our charges are reasonable and negotiable but the standard fee for an entire night service is N40, 000.
“Before any client pays, she must have selected from a number of photos of our guys that we send through the Internet. It is after the person indicates interest in one that we proceed with payment and other things,” she said.
The lady manager said undergraduates make up the large number of male sex workers that help bring happiness to many of the city’s rich and Hot females.
“We have a guy here now; he is very clean but not as tall as you want. He is a university student and very good in bed,” she said with a sense of pride.
“There is another one around now too, he is a graduate. I know them very well. They all earn good money for their performances. We usually run medical tests on them to make sure that they are free of any disease, especially HIV/AIDS. But if the client wants an additional test, she will pay for such'' she said
Asked if they have as much as 20 men for a night of pleasure for various women, Patty made an enquiry from her madam and confirmed that they have enough men available.
“I just spoke with our director who is abroad through a senior colleague. She said there are enough guys for the task and that as many as could be needed would be made available on request. I want you to come through the company so that I will not get myself into trouble. She (director) will be the person that will give you the persons that you want no matter how many of them you need. She is not in the country; she is overseas but knows how to handle everything from there because she knows everything we do here. If she knows you are coming from my side, she will not bill you too much,” she said
She also revealed that their director also organises men for gay men.
“Yes, even the other guys (gays) have been coming too,” she said. “We have one or two who can attend to their needs for the right price. We are here to make everyone happy,” she said..more details
Patty said she has no idea how the men are selected. An email from the owner listed the sexual activities provided to any customer.
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Information reaching our political desk indicates that one of the newly registered political parties, the Advanced People’sDemocraticAlliance (APDA) has made approaches to the Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Prince Chibudom Nwuche, to contest for the Rivers State governorship on the platform of the party.
APDA, which is widely seen by many as the third force in Nigerian politics, has constantly said that its doors are open to only credible Nigerian young leaders and politicians who boast unblemished records of service and contributions towards the development of the country.
Sources within the party disclosed that Hon. Chibudom Nwuche, who currently is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is nationally recognized as a politician without blemish, who served as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives between 1999 to 2003. The sources disclosed that the APDA has researched Hon. Nwuche and came to the conclusion that not only is he credible, but also widely acceptable in Rivers State.
“Prince Chibudom Nwuche will be a great asset to APDA given his wide acceptance and enormous respect he commands among voters. APDA will be honoured to offer its governorship ticket to such an uncommon politician”, the source said.
When contacted the National Chairmen of the party, Malam Shittu Mohammed and the state chairman, Pastor Warigbani Ezekiel, neither confirmed nor denied the story.
Our sources disclosed that APDA has zero tolerance for godfathers, but will give all members a level playing field. The same source revealed that all the members of the party are all automatic delegates in the selection of candidates for all elective posts.
“We have no godfathers, we have no moneybags; ours is a level playing field for all members,” the source said.
Our investigations revealed that APDA will likely offer a credible political platform to many politicians in APC and PDP who may likely be schemed out of the power equation through manipulations and imposition of candidates, for which both parties have become notorious.
A source who pleaded anonymity disclosed that many credible politicians will be shut out in both APC and PDP as candidates for all positions in the two parties are already known.
“ There is nothing like credible free and fair primaries in the two parties. Godfathers have already penciled down the names of their loyalists for elective positions. Other party members will only be hoodwinked into buying their expensive nomination forms, to enrich party leaders”, the source said.
Speaking further the source said, “ look at the APC in Rivers State, the party has been destroyed in a battle for supremacy between rival godfathers over who will control allocation of elective positions. The same scenerior is playing out in PDP, where the governor has pocketed the party in alliance with a coterie of greedy party leaders. People are not happy in PDP but are not speaking out for now. Look at the State Assembly by-election in Port Harcourt Local Government. The candidate of PDP was imposed against all moral and ethical standards. But nobody can complain, because the party now belongs to a few individuals”.
As INEC timetable for the sale and purchase of forms kicks in, the coast is clear for credible politicians who might receive a raw deal from APC or PDP to capitalize on the window offered by APDA to test their popularity in the polls and perhaps defeat the APC and PDP juggernauts.
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