₦airaland Forum

I need urgent help, som1 shud pls help me out: I registered two courses in both xam and course reg, now the courses are irrelevant to me, I want to drop dem but there is no link to drop registered courses in the students' portal, only the ''drop registered xam'' is showing in my portal, yet its not working. Pls house any idea hw 2 go about it?

PDP raises the alarm over S’West states’
debts
about 1 day
Tweet 0
• Flays sealing off of Kalu’s property
• Taraba leaders bicker over Suntai
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in the
South West geo-political zone yesterday condemned
what it called the tragic debt situation which the All
Progressives Congress (APC) government was
plunging the South West states.
This happened just as some stalwarts of the PDP in
Taraba State Sunday exchanged hot words over
when and how the Acting Governor, Garba Umar,
could become the substantive governor of the state.
Also, the PDP through its acting National Publicity
Secretary, Mr. Tony Caesar Okeke also condemned
the sealing off of a property belonging to former Abia
State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu for criticising the
recent deportation of Nigerians from Lagos State,
describing the development as “reminiscent of the
infamous Decree No 4 of 1984.
In another statement by its national auditor, Alhaji
Adewole Adeyanju, the party called on Nigerians to
be very wary of the actions and sayings of the APC
governors and lawmakers on the issue of the local
government autonomy.
The PDP described the sealing off of Kalu’s property
as a clear signal of the dictatorial and inhuman
treatment to be expected from an APC controlled
government.
The South West PDP leaders who attended a
reconciliation meeting of the party in Abuja
disclosed at the weekend that the least indebted
state in the South West at the moment allegedly
owed at least N60 billion.
They also confirmed that the PDP in the zone had
begun serious strategic and coordinated moves to
snatch Ekiti State away from the All Progressives
Congress (APC) next year.
To this extent, the PDP chapters in the six states said
they had established a joint consultative forum that
is charged with the responsibility of identifying and
addressing critical political challenges for the party
within the zone before the 2014 Ekiti governorship
polls.
Secretary of the forum and chairman of PDP in Ondo
State, Ebenezer Omotayo Alabi, lamented that more
than any other regime in the past, the present set of
governors in the South West had thrown the zone
into alleged huge indebtedness.
According to Alabi,” the APC states in the Southwest
are the most indebted states because of the bad
economic policies in place. No state in the South
West today is not indebted, the least indebted state
in the South West is allegedly owing at least N60
billion”.
Chairman of the forum and Ogun State PDP
chairman, Adebayo Dayo, disclosed that the joint
action was not targeted at only Ekiti governorship
but the entire South West.
According to him, the reconciliation exercise
embarked upon by the national leadership of the
PDP would only complement the peace process,
which had reached an advanced stage in the South
West chapters of the party.
Dayo’s position was supported by his Oyo State PDP
counterpart, Abdul Kareem Yinka Taiwo, who
disclosed that a lot of house mending measures had
already been taking to make the take over of South
West by PDP in 2015 a success.
“We are starting from Ekiti and Osun from where we
will intensify the campaigns to take the remaining
four South Western states in 2015.
The South West PDP leaders expressed satisfaction
that many aggrieved PDP members in the zone had
embraced the reconciliation measures.
Osun State PDP chairman, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwole,
confirmed that the PDP had become more united in
Osun at the moment than it was in the past.
“We have made a declaration for 2014 and we have
made it clear that we are sending Aregbesola out
next year. They are counting on pockets of
disagreements within the PDP but they will be
disappointed because we are in very strong unity in
Osun PDP now,” he said.
PDP members in Taraba State yesterday exchanged
hot words over the health condition of Governor
Danbaba Suntai.
A chieftain of the party, Alhaji Baba Adi, faulted a
statement credited to Senator Emmanuel Bwacha
that only the death of Governor Danbaba Suntai
could turn the acting governor into a substantive
governor.
Senator Bwacha who represents Taraba southern
senatorial district had in an interview stated that
President Goodluck Jonathan only became
substantive President after the death of former
President Umar Yar’Adua and that the event at the
national level was a precedent that should be
applied to the Taraba situation.
But Adi, in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday
said the senator’s statement was a deliberate
twisting of relevant provisions of the constitution,
clarifying that the constitution mentioned
permanent incapacitation and death for a governor
to cease to hold office.

www.theguardianmobile.com/readNewsItem1.php?nid=16529

Although am alredy employed, I do want to put my 2cents to dis group, atleast I av frnds dat are unemployed(Ezekiel, representing Asaba, south-south 08106779778)

Tweet
APGA appeal panel upholds disqualification
of Soludo, others
2013-08-17 23:09:08
Tony Ojielo-led appeal panel of the All Progressive
Grand Alliance on Saturday in Abuja dismissed the
appeal filed by a former governor of the Central Bank
of Nigeria, Prof. Charles Soludo, and five others
challenging their disqualification from the Anambra
State governorship election for lack of merit.
Six persons who were disqualified by the party's
Governorship Screening Committee had appeared
before the panel to contest their disqualification by
the committee.
The appeal panel which has Tony Ojielo as chairman,
Bala Bako (Secretary), Dr. Mic Adams, Ogometu
Ukpenetus and Hadiza Gogori as members, had
earlier promised to make its decision known within
24 hours.
But a source in APGA told SUNDAY PUNCH on
Saturday that "all the appeals were dismissed for
lacking in merit."
The screening panel of APGA had on Friday
disqualified six of the party's aspirants, who showed
interest in the November 16 governorship election in
the state.
A statement by the chairman of the governorship
screening panel of APGA, Tayo Sowunmi; Secretary,
Mr. Ifeanyi Mbaeri and a member, Onwuka Ukwa, had
stated at the conclusion of the panel's sitting that
some of aspirants failed to scale through the test.
The six aspirants that failed the screening were Mr.
Emmanuel Nweke; Ogbuefi Nnaechetta; Mr. Chinedu
Idigo; Dr. Chike Obidigbo; Mr. Oseloka Obaze and
Soludo.
However the panel said seven aspirants were
successful. The successful aspirants are, Mr.
Chukwuemeka Nwogbo, Mr. Paul Odenigbo, Mr. Uche
Ekwunife, Mr. Willie Obiano, Mr. John Nwosu, Mr.
John Okechukwu Emeka and Nwachi Patrick
Obianwu.
It was learnt that some of the reasons given for not
clearing the aspirants ranged from non-presentation
of voters card, lack of evidence of financial strength
to execute the campaign, incomplete certificate and
their inability to submit tax clearance.

mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/apga-appeal-panel-upholds-disqualification-of-soludo-others/

2015: We ‘ll stop APC in South East – Igbo
youths
on August 08, 2013 at 1:02 am in News
BY ANAYO OKOLI
UMUAHIA—THE youth wing of Igbo Socio-cultural
organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has vowed to stop
the All Progressives Congress, APC, from winning
elections in the South East geo-political zone in 2015.
Rising from a meeting in Enugu, Ohanaeze youths
advised the APC to concentrate in the North and
South-West as the South-East zone was a no go area
for the party.
Organising Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth
Council, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, who spoke on
the resolution adopted at the meeting, said Igbo
youths would never be associated with a political
party that had exhibited ethnic and religious bias as
the APC.
According to him, the Yoruba/Hausa alliance which
the new party epitomizes has never favoured Ndigbo
since independence and cautioned Ndigbo against
embracing the party.
Isiguzoro said: “APC should therefore concentrate in
the North and West. We (Ohanaeze youths) will make
sure that APC does not win even a councillorship seat
in the South-East. The party was formed out of
acrimony. We will not tolerate any gang up in the
South-East”.
He also said Ndigbo youths would not give President
Goodluck Jonathan a single vote in2015, “unless they
sit with him and take stock of what his
administration has done or not done for the zone.”
Isiguzoro said Igbo youths resolved at the meeting
that Abia State governor, Theodore Orji, should be
the link between them and the Presidency, since he
had shown enormous concern for the welfare of
youths across the entire Igboland.
He said: “Governor T.A. Orji is the only person we
have confidence in. Governor T. A. Orji is the reason
why we have remained calm in spite of the bomb
attacks targeted against Igbos in various parts of
Northern Nigeria.
“We have also been restrained by our brother who is
the Chief of Army Staff. We are therefore giving the
President 28 days to call us for a roundtable so that
we can take stock or else, we will not guarantee him
of even a single vote in 2015.”


www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/2015-we-ll-stop-apc-in-south-east-igbo-youths/

2015: Buhari’s ambition splits APC
Our Reporter August 8, 2013 4 Comments »
…Presidency, PDP blast new party
From IKENNA EMEWU and TAIWO AMODU, Abuja
Former presidential candidate of the defunct
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major
General Muhammadu Buhari(rtd) may after all
contest the presidential ticket of the newly-
registered All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015.
It was revealed that in spite of the entreaties to the
national leader of the CPC and one of the prime
movers of the new party to drop his ambition for a
younger politician with a considerable national
appeal, his insistence on fighting for the party ticket
has unsettled his loyalists.
Recall that before the consummation of the merger
deal by the opposition parties, the former military
head of state had in a recent media chat said he
could drop his ambition for a better candidate.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu
Tambuwal, is being touted as a more marketable
candidate by the concerned Buhari faithful in the
APC.
“By our calculations, a younger and vibrant politician
should run as our candidate so as to give the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) a good fight; but from the
way things are, we are stocked in between telling
Buhari out-rightly not to run and allowing him to
continue with some ripple effects coming our way
later,” a Daily Sun source revealed.
But this is coming as the PDP yesterday accused the
APC of lacking in a politician of pedigree among its
rank for the 2015 presidency.
The party was reacting to the Tuesday’s call by the
acting National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande
at its maiden press briefing on President Jonathan to
abandon PDP for the new party.
Acting National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Caesar
Okeke, declared that for asking President Goodluck
Jonathan to join its fold, the APC has admitted that it
has no presidential material in its fold.
The PDP claimed “ the leadership crisis rocking the
opposition party just a few days after registration is
an indication that the APC is a party of desperate
power mongers whose only aim was to satisfy their
egocentric interests”.
The ruling party further claimed that the APC has
confirmed to Nigerians that” it does not believe in
the leadership abilities of its prominent leaders,
General Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu”.
Also, the Senior Special Adviser, Public Affairs to the
President, Dr Doyin Okupe, in a statement, noted
that the widely reported invitation by the APC on
President Jonathan to join its fold clearly justified its
earlier stance that” the opposition political party
lacks the human resource to provide good and
effective governance for the Nigerian nation and will
always have to depend on the Peoples Democratic
Party for leadership in all ramifications”.
Okupe queried the rationale for the invitation to a
sitting president to dump his party for an opposition
platform.
“ While it is not out of place for political parties to
make overtures to those they believe have the
capacity to assist them gain greater acceptability
among the electorate, it is noteworthy that this
invitation is being extended to a sitting President
who was elected on the platform of another political
party and whose unquestionable performance in the
last two years have often been derided by this same
political cynics.
“It is noteworthy that in extending its invitation to
the President, the National Chairman of the APC
made reference to what it called “crisis rocking the
PDP”; forgetting that the real test of leadership is
not in running away from crisis but in resolving them
firmly and fairly. The very nature of democratic
politics envisages conflict of ideas, interests and
aspirations which must be aggregated for the overall
good of the public and which all true leaders must be
mentally and emotionally prepared to tackle,” Okupe
said


www.sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/2015-buharis-ambition-splits-apc/

babarazy: you and who?

As u wch him death, death shall visit u......say amen if u don't wch Tinubu quick recovery

Why I dumped APGA for APC – Okorocha

Our Reporter August 5, 2013

From GEORGE ONYEJIUWA, Owerri

In an apparent reaction to the suspension slammed
on him by the national leadership of the All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), for alleged anti-
party activities, Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas
Rochas Okorocha, has , again, explained why he
joined the newly resgistered All Progressives
Congress (APC).

He stated that the future political fortunes of Igbo
were better served in the new mega political party.
He also stated that APGA lacked the national spread
to enable Igbo to achieve the desired political impact
in the country.

Speaking during the 2013 national convention of the
Imo State Congress of America, in Atlanta, United
States of America, Okorocha said the well-being of
Igbo remained paramount in all his actions and
would continue to take steps to assist Igbo to regain
their rightful place in the political equation of Nigeria.

“APC remains the best vehicle to promote the
interest of our people. PDP has marginalised the
South-East and has nothing to show for all its years
in power,” he said.
Okorocha urged Igbo to embrace the APC because it
guarantees equity and political opportunities denied
by the PDP.

He pointed out that the purported action of a faction
of APGA was of little political consequence, as the
party lacked the national spread to ensure that Igbo
make significant headway in the political leadership
of the nation.

The governor described the APC as a national party
made up of progressive elements determined to
ensure equitable distribution of political offices to all
tribes in the country.

He also noted that APC was set to redress injustices
meted by PDP to Igbo race, which is one of the tripod
on which the country stands, while urging all
progressive South easterners to line up behind the
new party and ensure it produced the next leaders of
the country at all levels.

“Igbo have not produced the president, vice
president, Senate president, Speaker of the House of
Representatives or the Chief Justice of the
Federation, but I am confident under APC, one or
more of these positions will come to the South-East.”

www.sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/why-i-dumped-apga-for-apc-okorocha/

Anenih Woos Danjuma, IBB,
Abdulsalami

By: George Agba, Chibuzo Ukaibe on August 5,
2013 - 3:24am

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Tony
Anenih yesterday pleaded with political leaders
to assist President Goodluck Jonathan in
tackling the security challenge in the country.
For his part, President Jonathan said the time
was ripe for politicians in the country to put an
end to ethnic politics.

Anenih, who spoke at the celebration of his
80th birthday in Abuja yesterday, urged former
president Olusegun Obasanjo, former military
president Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, former head
of state Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar and former
minister of defence Lt-Gen. TY Danjuma to join
hands with Jonathan over the security
challenge in the country.

“I am looking forward to a day when IBB,
Obasanjo, Abdulsalami will sit down with
Jonathan for dinner or breakfast in the villa;
then I will go home and sleep,” Anenih said.

“Nigerians look up to TY Danjuma for help. As
we embark on another political journey,
Nigerians look up to you sir. I hope you will not
fail us.”

Speaking at the ceremony, Jonathan said
inflammatory comments made by certain
individuals were worrisome, even as he added
that Nigeria needs more nationalistic
politicians in the mould of Anenih.

“We can learn from him because he has always
been a nationalist. From him let’s learn to sing
the song of unity and use our cleavages for
good and not to promote dis-unity. Some
provocative statements have come from elder
statesmen who witnessed the civil war. But
Tony Anenih has never made such statements;
this explains why the hall is filled to capacity
today,” Jonathan said.

Obasanjo had earlier led a long list of PDP
bigwigs to Our Lady of Nigeria Pro-Cathedral,
Area 3 Garki, for the thanksgiving service held
for Chief Anenih’s birthday.

In his homily, Cardinal John Onaiyekan called
on public officeholders to stop neglecting the
poor, even as he urged them not to condone
acts of greed which he blamed for the high
level of corruption in the country.

Describing Anenih as an elder statesman and a
major political player, Onaiyekan further called
on leaders to emulate the commitment to
service which he has displayed over the years.
In his vote of thanks, Anenih insisted on the
need for forgiveness, just as he enjoined
former and current leaders to learn to forgive.

He said, “The leaders are gathered here today
and this is why we have to ask ourselves, why
can’t we forget the past and move forward? I
must confess that I was thrilled that President
Obasanjo came to the church. This is the kind
of forgiveness leaders have to show for the
country to move forward.”

Urging past and present leaders to jettison any
grievances and support the current
administration, Anenih said, “Abdulsalami
Abubakar and IBB are here; they can give us
peace. I believe that if all of us here put our
hands behind him (President Jonathan) and
genuinely advise him, even our worst enemy,
Boko Haram, will be afraid.”

Former defence minister TY Danjuma described
Anenih as a patriot who loves Nigeria with
strong commitment to unity and progress of
the country. He advised politicians to emulate
his leadership qualities.

Top politicians, captains of industry as well as
highly placed government functionaries graced
both venues for the birthday celebration. They
include Senate president David Mark, Gen.

Dannjuma (rtd) who chaired the reception,
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State,
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State,
Bauchi State governor Mallam Isa Yuguda, and
co-ordinating minister for the economy Dr
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Others are Dr Alex Ekwueme, former chief
justice of Nigeria Alfa Belgore, Governor Aliyu
Wamako (Sokoto), Aliko Dangote and Femi
Otedola.


www.leadership.ng/news/050813/insecurity-unity-anenih-woos-danjuma-ibb-abdulsalami

PDP, APC trade words over relocation of non-
indigenes from Lagos


* New party decries alleged politicisation of
issue

* Reverse policy, Babatope tells Fashola,

Igbo groups give ultimatum

THE People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned
the alleged forceful relocation of some indigenes of
Anambra State by the All Progressives Congress
(APC)-led Fashola administration.
However, the APC has described as a very dangerous
game that could threaten the nation’s unity
Governor Peter Obi’s alleged sensationalisation of
the recent “home return of 14 (not 72 as widely
claimed)” Anambra indigenes from Lagos.
In a statement issued in Lagos Sunday by its interim
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
the party said instead of reaching out to his Lagos
counterpart as he has done on less important issues
in the past, Governor Obi fired an “over-dramatised
letter” to the Presidency and leaked such to the
media, thus setting off an avoidable friction between
the Igbo and the Yoruba that will not augur well for
Nigeria’s unity.

Meanwhile, former Minister for Transport, Chief
Ebenezer Babatope, Sunday urged Governor
Babatunde Fashola to reverse the policy. Also,
South-East Ndigbo Lagos, an umbrella body of all the
major market associations and Igbo professionals in
Lagos State threatened to take legal and economic
action against the government within 21 days.

A statement issued by PDP Acting National Publicity
Secretary, Tony Okeke, Sunday described the
relocation as “inhuman, abominable and callous”, as
it was a violation of their constitutionally-guaranteed
rights to reside in any part of the federation. The
measure showed the wickedness of the APC-led
government and portrayed the party as one with the
agenda to promote sectionalism and stoke the fire of
division among Nigerians, it claimed, adding that it
was a dehumanisation of innocent Nigerians by the
state.

APC, however, maintained that Obi’s “resort to
media campaign, which has triggered a vicious
Lagos State/Yoruba bashing, is aimed at gaining an
undue advantage ahead of the forthcoming Anambra
governorship election, instead of being borne out of
sheer altruism.”

‘’Equally guilty of indiscretion at best and deliberate
peddling of falsehood at worst are the various
‘analysts’, ‘commentators’, out-of-luck NGOs and
organisations that have jumped onto the bandwagon
of Lagos bashing over the issue, mischievously
tagged ‘deportation’ instead of what it is (home
return for proper integration), when they could have
sought the truth from the Lagos State Government.

‘’Even some of the respectable Igbo socio-political
organisations failed the simple test of fairness by not
unearthing the truth before making
pronouncements. Even if they do not trust the Lagos
State Government, they could have at least inquired
about what happened from their son, who is a
ranking member of the cabinet of Lagos State,’’ APC
said.

Babatope said: “I have read all arguments on the
deportation of some Anambra State indigenes living
in Lagos State by the Fashola administration. I
submit that the Lagos State’s action is highly
unfortunate. It is undemocratic, illegal as well as
being a grand assault on the fundamental rights of
the affected Nigerians under the Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“Governor Fashola must urgently reverse this
disturbing policy with apologies to the affected
Nigerians. Fashola has a good record of performance
in office but his present action will destroy his
credibility. All well-meaning Nigerians must
denounce this obnoxious policy.”
A statement by South-East Ndigbo Lagos Public
Relations Officer, Chidi Nwafor, stressed that the
illegal deportation, repatriation, relocation, or any of
such similar treatment of Ndigbo anywhere in
Nigeria is totally unacceptable.

They, therefore, urged Fashola to redress the
unpleasant situation or else they would have no
option than to “demonstrate our sadness legally and
economically after 21 days.”

“Ferrying humans overnight in trucks only brings
back sad memories of the many years of slavery
when Africans were packed like sardines and
inhumanly shipped abroad. There is absolutely no
justification for this very degrading and inhuman
maltreatment of Ndigbo. Curiously, this indecent
treatment came from a government which Ndigbo
hold in very high esteem and had always hugely
supported; a government which has
unprecedentedly transformed Lagos State and
respected human dignity and rights. Ndigbo
therefore, find it difficult that Governor Fashola’s
government should be linked with this indecent act
more so when Ndigbo have lived harmoniously with
the good people of Lagos,” the group stated.

www.theguardianmobile.com/readNewsItem1.php?nid=16058