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President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged that his administration will take all necessary actions to maintain and improve the National Youth Service Corps scheme as a functional vehicle for the promotion of national unity and integration.
Mr. Buhari gave the assurance after receiving briefing from officials of the Federal Ministry of Youth Development, led by the Permanent Secretary, Rabi Jimeta.
Meanwhile, the Director-General of NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, also told the President that there are plans to make the scheme voluntary so as to reduce the corps population and sustain it.
The president affirmed his confidence and trust in the scheme, saying that the objective for which the scheme was established in 1973 was still very relevant for national development.
He said, “I firmly believe in NYSC and I think it should remain a national programme to promote integration.
“Whenever I go home to Daura, I look out for corps members from Lagos, Aba and other parts of the country.
“I am always thrilled to learn that except for the NYSC, some of them have never left their states of origin to visit other cities in the country.”
Ms. Jimeta had informed the president that the increasing number of NYSC members was a challenge to the scheme due to dwindling revenue from the national budget to cater for their needs.
She also told the president that the annual enrollment of corps participants had increased from 2,364 at inception in 1974 to 229,016 in 2014.
She added that “given the increasing number of tertiary institutions, our projection is that the number of participants may rise to
300,000 by year 2020″.
(NAN)

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The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) have condemned the decision of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) policy to fix cut-off marks for students seeking admission into Universities at 180 and for those seeking admission into Polytechnics and Colleges of Education at 150.
The General Secretary of the NUT, Obong Obong disclosed the position of the union via a statement signed by the union, which describes the policy as obnoxious and highly discriminatory because it fills the education faculty with less intelligent students.
NUT explained in the statement that the policy is targeted “at demeaning and lowering the professional status of teachers with its concomitant negative effect on the attainment of quality education in the country.
“It is of great disservice to the education sector where the best brains and students of distinction are placed in other courses while those with lower grades are pushed into teaching,” he said.

The union further called for immediate reversal of the policy adding that the government must ensure only students of distinction are admitted to be trained as teachers in all educational institutions in the county.
Mr. Obong pointed out that in most advanced and developed countries, it is considered that a teacher’s ability to disseminate knowledge to students is dependent on his sound intellectual capability.
He explained that the government deliberately sourced for people with lower educational content to become teachers only to turn around and blame them for poor delivery.
“If this is allowed to stand, government should take full responsibility for the resultant short comings that may be observed in our educational institutions in future from those teachers,” he said.
He further stayed that NUT has in abundance very brilliant and effective teachers currently in service who should be nurtured for effective service delivery.
“We however wish to warn that the teaching profession must not be made an all comers affair,” he said.

Ghen ghen

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon Arase, on Tuesday, dismissed a suit filed by Senator Gilbert Nnaji (PDP/Enugu East), seeking to stop the police from investigating the alleged forgery of the 2015 Senate Standing Order, as ridiculous, laughable and mere waste of time of the court.

The Senate Rules being investigated by the police was allegedly used for the election of the leadership of the 8th National Assembly, which produced Senators Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu as Senate President and Deputy Senate President respectively.

The IGP, while responding to the suit, on Tuesday, through a counter-affidavit, said no court of law in country has powers to stop the force from performing its statutory functions of investigating crimes.

He said nobody in the country, including the 74 political office holders covered by provision of section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), is immune from investigation.

Aresa argued that the principal officers of the Senate have no constitutional or statutory immunity from investigation.

The police boss urged the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, to dismiss the suit for want of jurisdiction, adding that investigating the allegation of forgery in the Senate could only strengthen the integrity of the upper legislative house and its leadership.

The police, while confirming the Senate Standing Order 2015 (as amended) was forged, said in its counter affidavit: “The present Senate has not enacted any standing orders yet.

“As at the time of inauguration of this present Senate, no standing orders had been made.
“Till date, no such standing orders have so far been made.

“The practice is that at inauguration, the incoming Senate uses the standing orders of the preceding Senate. The immediate past Senate did not amend the 2011 standing orders and the 2011 standing orders have not yet been amended.”

The document, which was deposed to by Joshua Yohanna, of the Legal/ Prosecution department, Force CIID, further averred as follows:

“I know that the plaintiff cannot prove that the so called 2015 standing orders were passed by the preceding Senate. “That the so called 2015 standing orders were never made nor passed by the immediate past Senate.

It said plaintiff knows that the present Senate leadership was not in a position to have passed the 2015 Senate Standing orders before its inauguration.

“The plaintiff knows that it is only after inauguration that the current Senate could pass the Senate standing orders.
“That what he is bandying about is not an authorised Senate standing order.”

The police then urged Justice Gabriel Kolawole, who was the presiding judge, to throw out the suit as it simply constituted a nuisance.

It argued that the matter at hand raise issues of criminality and the police owe Nigerians the duty to unearth the truth behind the allegations of forgery.

The police stated that every Nigerian citizen could be investigated for crime as there is no immunity against investigation in all civilized countries, Nigeria inclusive.

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A welcome development

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The Peoples Democratic Party caucus in the House of Representatives has warned against a further postponement of the resumption of the House.
The PDP lawmakers said they would resist another postponement in the resumption date of the House.
The caucus noted that the 360-member House had hardly settled down for any serious legislative business since the House was inaugurated on June 6, owing to the raging leadership tussle in the caucus of the majority All Progressives Congress.
Speaking for the caucus in Abuja, former House Deputy Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor, said the PDP members were ready to work and could not afford to continue to wait for their APC colleagues because of their internal crisis.
The lawmakers had embarked on a four-week forced break after a free-for-all on the floor of the House on June 25 over the leadership tussle in the lower federal legislative chamber.
The members were scheduled to resume on Tuesday (yesterday), but the date had been shifted by another one week.
“The two parties have not resolved their differences. The issue of where the Majority Leader and other principal officers will come from has not been resolved.
“There were fears that had the House resumed on Tuesday, any camp with more members in attendance could have taken any decision”, one National Assembly official told our correspondent in Abuja on Tuesday.
Ogor, who is poised to become the Minority Leader of the 8th Assembly, stated that his caucus examined the implications of frequent postponement of sittings and resolved that the next resumption date (July 28) must remain unchanged.
He said, “The new resumption date should be a day that is non-negotiable because resumption must take place on that day.
“We are ready to work; we were elected to come and legislate for our people and there are lots of issues that have started having some level of negative impact, even in the society.
“We take it as a matter of fact that the APC as a party should please urgently put their house in order so that they can come to the floor and carry on with their legislative business.”
The caucus also decried the alleged “harassment” of officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission by operatives of the Department of State Services in Rivers, Akwa Ibom and other states over electoral matters.
The APC Loyalists Group, which is led by former House Minority
Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, had told Odigie-Oyegun that the South-East zone was not qualified to hold a leadership seat because its two members were “new” and would be in breach of House rules to hold such a position.
The group had written Odigie-Oyegun to insist that the original zoning of principal offices recommended by the APC must be adhered to as a mark of party supremacy.
The party had zoned the majority leader to the South-West; deputy leader to the North-West; chief whip to the North-East; and deputy whip to the South-South, leaving out the South-East.
However, the 8th Assembly Consolidation Group, led by the Speaker,
Mr. Yakubu Dogara, in its own letter to Odigie-Oyegun, argued for an even spread of the principal offices to include all the six geopolitical zones of the country.
Dogara had proposed that the majority leader should go to the North-West; deputy leader to the North-Central; chief whip to the South-South and the deputy whip to the South-East.
In its letter dated July 21 and signed by Mr. Austin Chukwukere on behalf of the South-East caucus, the zone said, “The APC South-East Zonal Caucus aligns itself completely with the position of the
Speaker, House of Representatives, Dogara Yakubu’s letter to the national chairman of the APC on the issue of election of the principal officers of the House.”
It said it considered as “marginalisation” any move aimed at
sidelining the zone from the sharing of principal offices in the House.
The group also claimed that the rule on “cognate experience” referred to by the Gbajabiamila group became irrelevant soon after the inauguration of new members.
Dogara’s consolidation group also reacted to the letter by the Gbajabiamila group on Tuesday, urging the party’s leadership to “disregard” it.
The spokesman for the group, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin, said in Abuja that much as they remained loyal to the APC, they still supported the sharing of principal offices as proposed by the Speaker in his letter to Odigie-Oyegun.
Jibrin announced that the group had adopted a lawmaker from Kano State, Mr. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, as the majority leader of the House in line with the zoning arrangement proposed by Dogara.
Ado-Doguwa, a key supporter of Gbajabiamila, was the one nominated by the APC as the deputy majority leader in the letter Odigie-Oyegun sent to Dogara on June 23.mailto:editor@today.ng

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Ki ti fam ji sata li month kafm...lolz can u imagine...

Lionel Messi was recently in Gabon to lay the first stone of a new stadium, the Port-Gentil stadium which will host African Cup of Nations Matches in 2017. Well, after Messi laid the foundation stone which he was reportedly paid £3.5million for, an angry man kidnapped the foundation stone. He is now demanding 3m CFA as a condition to release it.

We know already..datz y we imbedded our trust in him to rescue us from this comatose situation of ours

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Washington – President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday that the Federal Government was examining pieces of evidence that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of some former ministers and other government officials for looting and stealing of Nigeria’s crude oil.
Buhari said this at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington while answering questions at an interactive session with Nigerians in the Diaspora.
He lamented that some of the affected officials were involved in illegal sale and diversion of crude oil monies belonging to the Federal Government to multiple private accounts abroad.
“We are now looking for evidences of shipping some of our crude, their destinations and where and which accounts they were paid and in which country.
President Muhammadu Buhari and Secreatry of state, John Kerry in Washington DC on July 21st 2015
“When we get as much as we can get as soon as possible, we will approach those countries to freeze those accounts and go to court, prosecute those people and let the accounts be taken to Nigeria.
“The amount of money is mind-burgling but we have started getting documents.
“We have started getting documents where some of the senior people in government, former ministers, some of them had as much as five accounts and were moving about one million barrel per day on their own.
“We have started getting those documents. Whichever documents we are able to get and subsequently trace the sale of the crude or transfer of money from Ministries, Departments, Central Bank.
“We will ask for the cooperation of those countries to return those monies to federation accounts and we will use those documents to arrest those people and prosecute them. This, I promise Nigerians.“
The President frowned at the way and manner the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was being managed, saying his administration would check the excesses of the corporation.
He said that his administration was carefully studying the issue of oil subsidy.
He said that he would not be a party to taking decisions that would further impoverish Nigerians in the name of removing oil subsidy.
“When people ask you to remove subsidy ask them to define it. Who is subsidizing who? Let me make it clear. The people are gleefully saying `remove subsidy`.

I have a university diploma in banking and finance and i'm doing my degree already in the same course from kogi state university...can i start Ican nw or suld i wait till after graduation. and lastly is kogi state university accredited for ican

Presidential Election Results in Kogi State - Total

APC-264,851

PDP-149,987

INEC Official Results (Presidential) - 4
Ajaokuta:
Aderibigbe Yinka Wasiu give his results from Ajaokuta
Ajaokuta has 14 Wards. Registered Voters is 49,798. Accredited voters-21,797. ACPN-39. ADC-45. APA-35
APC-12,197. PDP-8,139.

Omala:
Mr Olutide Temitope is the CO for Omala LG.
The LG has 11 Wards. Registered Voters is 52,264. Accredited Voters is 16,910.
APC-7,378. PDP-7,857. ACPN-17. ADC-18. APA-30.
Valid Votes-15,377. Rejected votes-576. Total votes cast-15,953.

Ankpa:
We have Mr. Opoola Emmanuel is the CO for Ankpa LG
It has 13 Wards. Registered voters-120,742.Accredited voters-41,691.
PDP-10,742. APC-21,806. ADC-40. APA-72. CPP-45. AA-30.
Valid votes-32,928. Rejected-2,110.Total votes cast-35,038.

Yagba East:
Atodo Ocholi Wilfred, CO for Yagba East LG.
Yagba East LG has 10 Wards. Registered voters-33,630. Accredited-12,717.
APC-7,013. PDP-3,856. ACPN-84. Accord-132. ADC-92. CPP-55.
Valid votes- 11,388. Rejected votes-730. Total votes cast-12,114

Lokoja:
Dr. Stephen S. Okpanachi is CO for Lokoja LG. Wards-10. Registered Voters-112,218.Accredited-35,535.
APC-24,658. PDP-5,112. ACPN-64. AA-48. AD-45. ADC-50. APA-152. NCP-37.
Valid votes- 30,341. Registered votes-855. Total votes-31,196.

Ijumu:
Mr Peter Danjuma is the CO for Ijumu LG
He report that Ijumu has 10 Wards. Registered voters-44,598. Accredited voters-17,274.
PDP-6,271. APC-8,904. AA-129. ACPN-91. CPP-114.
Valid votes-15,718. Rejected votes-680. Votes cast-16,398.

OKene:
Mr Olufemi Bioku is the CO for Okene LG
Okene has 11 Wards. Registered Voters are 114,290. Accredited voters is 40,295.
PDP-3,728. APC-34,293. ACPN-80. ADC-48. CPP-41.
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INEC Official Results (Presidential) - 3
Ibaji:
With 10 Wards in Ibaji, Registered voters is 66,227. Accredited is 23,488.
APC- 6,076. PDP- 13,358. ADC-32. ACPN-12. APA-28.
Valid votes- 19,607. Rejected-994. Casted votes-20,601
Koton-Karfe:
Ibrahim Wuye Yusuf returned with results from Kogi/Kotonkarfe. 11 Wards. Registered voters-45,567. Accredited-21,451.
APC-15,358. PDP-2,735. ACPN-22.
Valid votes-18,213. Rejected votes-638. Casted votes-18,851.
Olamaboro:
Anoh Kelvin Usman, RO from Olamaboro. Wards 10. Registered voters-68,699. Accredited-21,388.
APC-10,419. PDP-7,788. APA-61. CPP-37. KOWA-25. ACPN-39.
Valid votes: 18,516. Rejected-864. Casted votes-19,380.
Ofu:
Mr Jude Kofar is the CO from Ofu LG
Ofu has 11 Wards with Registered voters of 76,744. Accredited voters- 25,729.
APC-12,998. PDP-9,204. APA-79. ACPN-64. ADC-66.
Valid votes-22,296. Rejected-1,372.Casted votes-24,068.

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Official Result by INEC (Presidential) - 2
Mopamuro:
10 Wards with Registered voters of 17,303. Accredited-7,773.
APC-3,881. PDP-2,793. ACPN-61. CPP-72.
Valid votes-6,976. Rejected-273.
Bassa:
With 10 wards and Registered voters is 50,743. Accredited-18,412.
APC-7,412. PDP-9,964. PPN-035.
Dekina:
12 Wards they have but elections took place in 11 wards
Ogani/Inigo ward, Hoodlums hijacked, destroyed and wounded INEC staff after leaving their RAC. Materials seized at that ward. One person (not INEC staff) wounded severely and later died.
For the elections, registered voters-139,522.Accredited-40,271.
APC-18,189. PDP-13,885. APA-102. CPP-89.
Kabba:
With 15 Wards, it has Registered voters-58,422. Accredited-20,723.
APC-8,737. PDP-9,009. ACPN-105. CPP-64. ADC-49.
Valid votes-18,132. Rejected-1012. Cast votes: 19,144. —

Presidential)
We have the collating officer from Ogori-Magongo, Dr Yahaya Ocholi
Reg. Voters- 14, 169. Accredited- 4541. APC- 2321. PDP- 1934.
From Adavi Local Govt- APC:22,659. PDP:7767. Accredited votes-31,996. Reg Voters-81,234.
Okehi LG- Registered Voters-65,769.
NB: there are differences in the total number of Reg Voters
INEC's figure is 67,696.
Accredited voters from Okehi is 25,042
APC-17,801. PDP-5,808. ACPN-38. APA-44.
For Presidential poll in Okehi LG, APC wins
Most of the ROs are yet to arrive. Some have issues with computing their details in INEC data
Reg voters in Yagba West-34,014. Accredited-14,763.
APC-6,231. PDP-6,639. CPP-94. Valid votes is 13,299. Rejected-643.
PDP narrowly win Yagba West LG
In Igalamela/Odolu, 10 Wards. Registered voters-52,263.
Accredited voters is 16,336.
APC-6,075. PDP-7,285. ACPN-47. APA-44.
PDP wins Igalamela-OdoluLG with less than a thousand votes
Idah LG has 10 Wards with Registered Voters of 46,950. Accredited voters is 18,707
APC-10,445. PDP-6,113. ACPN-40

Which north central are u talking abt i doubt if pdp cn get 20% especially here in kogi

You just go collect ur phone from aboki for junction and u come nairaland they comment Gej till forever...my guy u r definitely cursed

You no see light iron ur cloth and u r are shouting power....U no well

You graduated five years ago without employment and you are still shouting pdp...U r definitely cursed

Because u are old already doesn't mean others are old also.i dnt know y Nigerian doubt everyone's age. We still hv some young people out there who get famous at a young age

ROZZAYY:
happy baiday to Mrs Johnny on her baiday as she clocks her football age today.

ShowYourCertificate:
Kogi is already in PDP's bag. Jonathan will win massively in Kogi as well as other states in the middle-belt. This is how to campaign and not to go to Chatham House. I hope APC is learning.

He go shock u,
Who go vote mad man Wada and his party
oga u beta wake up from ur dream

#Babawhileyouwheregone
fayose was busy eating amala at iya kareem's bukar

Jst give me a good reason to vote for GEJ
Is it because of our sinking economy ?or
because of my 4years degree program turning to six
and many more jst give me one gud reason to vote for him