₦airaland Forum

Mynd44:
Just 3 women in 21...not good enough. Hopefully, more will emerge.

Kemi Adeosun and Amina Mohammed are technocrats in their rights and hopefully they will proof themselves and do well as ministers.

new2020:
Yoruba mind.

macolino:
Simply Known as Ghost worker.

powerfulsettingz:
Wow so interesting....... Insane nans

The Senate leadership will adopt the formal procedure for the screening of ministerial nominees behind closed doors on Tuesday (today). It may also involve anti-graft agencies such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission in the screening of those nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari to become ministers under the present administration.

A principal officer, who craved anonymity, disclosed this during an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Monday.

He said the Senate at the close-door meeting would discuss whether to give special considerations for former senators and other members of the National Assembly nominated as ministerial candidates by Buhari.

The principal officer, explained that the meeting became necessary in view of the fact that the leadership of the Eighth Senate had vowed to do a thorough job to ensure that persons with questionable characters were not confirmed as ministers.

He said, “As far as we are concerned, everybody should be equal but at the same time, we have a convention that gives special considerations to former and serving senators or members of the House of Representatives, yet we say there won’t be the usual take a bow approach.

“We also have another convention that says two senators from a state must approve confirmation of the nominee from their state, what happens if the senators are in the opposition party with the nominee?”

Speaking with some journalists in his office, the Peoples Democratic Party member representing Abia North Senatorial District, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, said President Buhari must appear before the Senate if he wants to be Petroleum minister.

Ohuabunwa said, “The constitution is clear and we will follow the constitution and the laid down rule. I don’t think the President’s name will be on the list and I also don’t think that the President will say he is a minister.

“If you are a minister one of the conditions is that you must be subjected to screening and approval of the Senate. He, as the chief minister, can be there to supervise any ministry but he cannot be a minister. Whoever is advising him to be a minister is not advising him rightly.”

But the Deputy Senate Leader, Bala Ibn Na’Allah, disagreed with Ohuabunwa on the appearance of the President in the Senate for screening before he could function as a minister.

Na’Allah, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, explained that the President and his vice, had been given constitutional powers to carry out all the functions in the executive arms of government without necessarily asking for the permission of the legislature.

He said, “The President does not have to appear before the Senate before he could perform as a minister or oversee any ministry. He has the executive powers to carry out necessary functions alongside the vice president. “

Ohuabunwa, however, added that the Senate might reject the presentation of the ministerial list in batches because “it is unconstitutional.”

He said, “I expect that the list will be complete for us to move on because the constitution never said in batches and the constitution has said one minister from every state, so if you are screening and the other states are not been represented how can you explain that because nothing says that the President must submit list in batches.

“The list will be unveiled tomorrow if the Senate President (Bukola Saraki) keep to his word that the envelope will remain sealed until tomorrow. We know that all we have been reading could be speculations until it is opened. It will be read on the floor of the House and we will know.

“Even the 21 names that people are speculating will be ascertained tomorrow on the floor.”

The senator assured Nigerians that the Senate would be guided by the constitution and the rules of the Senate in screening the nominees.

He added that it would be against the Senate and indeed against the President and Nigerians for the upper chamber to see a very strong allegation of petition on corruption and throw it away.

He said, “Definitely we will not ignore allegation of corruption against any nominee. If we see a strong petition, definitely we will look into it and follow it to a logical conclusion.

“If it requires writing to the anti-graft agencies such as the ICPC or EFCC to give us a report on such a person, we will do that because that is what screening is all about. Screening is not a tea party.

“Integrity is very important. If you have in one way or the other soiled your hands, it will be unfortunate because the Senate will not just say carry go.”

On whether the Senate would waive the painstaking process in order to curry favour from the Presidency, Ohuabunwa said the Senate would not be cowed because of any consideration.

jejemanito:
Nigeria is a failed State
[s]It's either we break up or we go back to regionalism[/s]

Quote me anywhere

No fewer than 600 teachers have been killed and 19,000 others displaced since terror sect, Boko Haram, began its violence campaign in the North-East, the Nigeria Union of Teachers said on Monday.
The President of NUT, Michael Alogba, stated this in Abuja during the commemoration of this year’s World Teachers Day, with the theme ‘Empowering Teachers, Building Sustainable Societies’.

At the event, President Muhammadu Buhari, represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, assured the teachers of his administration’s commitment to initiating policies that would reposition teachers education in the country.
According to him, government will continue to give priority to education as part of efforts to address challenges of illiteracy.
The low-key event was, however, wrapped up with the presentation of the President’s award of a brand new car to Mr. Alade Taiwo, a teacher at Dominic’s Primary School, Ondo State, who emerged as the best teacher in Nigeria for the year 2015.
According to the NUT, 308 teachers fell to the insurgents’ attacks in Borno State alone; 75 in Adamawa; 18 in Yobe; 25 in Kaduna; 120 in Plateau; 63 in Kano and two in Gombe State.

This year’s event was, however, different as only a handful of teachers across the country turned up for the annual event.
The NUT lamented the inability of the government to uncover the whereabouts of the missing Chibok girls more than 500 days after they were abducted by members of the Boko Haram.

Alogba said, “Insecurity in and around our schools is antithetical to the delivery of quality education in our school system. As teachers of primary and secondary schools, who are at the heart and foundation of education delivery and care to our children, we are devastated by the damage the atrocious activities of the Boko Haram sect have done to the education system as well as the lives and future of thousands of children particularly in the North-East of the country.

“The memory of the Chibok girls and thousands of others, whose potential and lives have been truncated remains traumatic and demoralising. Mr. President, it is on record that over 600 teachers have lost their lives to the terror attacks. These include 308 in Borno, 75 in Adamawa, 18 in Yobe, 25 in Kaduna, 120 in Plateau, 63 in Kano and two in Gombe State.
“This is in addition to over 19,000 teachers that have been displaced and are suffering great loses due to the barbaric activities of the insurgents.”

The NUT President also criticised the lopsided policies of the Federal Government on education, adding that the trend had encouraged undue commercialisation of education, rather than safeguarding the citizens right to quality education.

Speaking on the bailout funds to indebted states, Alogba said government should not hesitate to probe any erring state found to have diverted the funds to other sources.
He said, “A number of states are yet to pay the backlog of salaries owed teachers. Such States argue that the money released to them is not a bailout fund for salaries but a normal loan to states meant to be utilised in any manner that pleases them, particularly in areas that will yield financial returns, which will guarantee their repayment.

“This argument is absurd and deceitfully too far from the truth as it is aimed at subjecting the workers to perpetual suffering. We therefore implore government to monitor the disbursement of this fund and not to hesitate to bring to book any government functionary, who diverted, misapplied or misappropriated this bailout funds.”

Before you talk about the profligate spending of politicians in your state capital or Abuja, you need to talk about how student leaders budget millions of naira for phantom phone calls.”

joseph1832:
I bet if OBJ had the twisted sense he has now back then he wouldn't have handed over power to Shagari. He would have ensured that he became the Robert Mugabe of Nigeria.

Obiagelli:
No it should have been image of them in sambisa forest

donholy28:
Hmm OK but it doesn't look like him at all

Obiagelli:
Day 536

Horlufemi:
I agreed. What is good for the goose is good for the gender.

Evolution and atheism must not be taught too.

Atheism is absense of God and Evolution is more like a fable than theory (a lot of scientists believe it though) but as far as I'm concerned "it takes more faith to believe in evolution than to believe in a God"

Paloma555:
This picture shows what the interiors of Facebook office in London looks like.

The office is decorated with flags from every country where Facebook is used.

A British Facebook employee posted this image yesterday, in honour of Nigeria's 55th Independence Celebration.

She captioned the picture: "Can you spot the Nigerian flag?"


Pretty cool, right?




http://www.sugardaily.ng/nigeria-55-nigerian-flag-spotted-mounted-at-facebook-office-in-london-how-cool/

Crown01:
Blunder on Saraki's supporters posters as displayed in the National Assembly today

TonyeBarcanista:
Baba, want to ruin everything. Tam West don enter one chance

Beremx:
Are boko haram members aware of the racism in Saudi Arabia? What are they fighting for then when the Saudis hate their blackness? Smh

This incident will discourage many black Muslims from going to hajj again.

Racism is evil!!

ceejay4real:
U ar a big FOOL!