SmartPolician:
It seems Femi Otedola wants to bring a brutal leadership style to First Bank..

But then, there's nothing wrong with owing a bank. What's actually wrong is defaulting on your repayment plan.

Did you see the word "Deliquent" there?

NFF be like: "Shebi you still dey come for international duty with your big head"

9jahotblog:



[ARCHIVES] Supreme Court upheld candidates must win 25% votes in 24 states, plus 25% in FCT in Buhari v Obasanjo [2005]



The clarity came from a Supreme Court ruling in a case involving Muhammadu Buhari of the then All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Olusegun Obasanjo of the then Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday, July 15, 2005.



In its ruling, the apex court had upheld that presidential candidates must win 25 per cent of all votes cast in 24 states, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.



READ: https://news.band/archives-supreme-court-upheld-candidates-must-win-25-votes-in-24-states-plus-25-in-fct-in-buhari-v-obasanjo-2005/

The second comma in your last paragraph is indeed mischievous and totally alters the context of the sentence

ArewaNorth:


I have the videos of the drowned BH terrorists with me and many other attacks carried out by NM. It doesn't make sense the way you people are angry about every development Nigeria has especially in the areas of security and outrightly accept all fake news that are baseless and fu'' of ethno-religious biases. Nobody ask you to believe the news!

Omo! I tire

justicechichex:
Was watching 'sex education' series. And for the 1st time, i had something called 'binary'. They're not referred as he, she, him, her.


Like wtf is that? Are this people okay?

Non-binary

Hmmm

In the 2000s, Calabar emerged as a tourism hub in Nigeria but all that good work has now been rubbished by heaps of litter.

Calabar, Nigeria – Each day, just after dawn in the sleepy southern Nigerian city of Calabar, Hannah Edet sets up shop within the perimeter of a mountain of rubbish right in the heart of Watts Market, or Urua Watts as locals call it.

She dangles a thick bunch of fresh pumpkin leaves to passing commuters and vehicles, advertising to them in her native Efik language, ignoring the stench of decomposing rubbish in the air. The refuse, which piles up to four feet high, has spilled over onto the main road, slowing down traffic. Drivers, winding through the route, spit out in disgust while pedestrians press their palms tightly to their noses.

Edet’s voice is croaky as she laments to Al Jazeera: “This thing [the smell of the rubbish] has blocked my nose and throat. I’m not feeling comfortable.”

In the mid-2000s, Calabar, a former slave port during the days of British colonial rule, emerged as a tourism destination for local and foreign visitors attracted to its beautiful green scenery, rich culture and proximity to the Atlantic Ocean.

Between 2003-2006, former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was fleeing his country on allegations of war crimes, lived in exile in a seaside villa in the city with his family.

The city’s annual Christmas carnival, once hailed as Africa’s biggest street party, played host to a range of notable performers, including the South African composer and trumpeter Hugh Masekela and Senegalese-American rapper Akon.

In 2007, a report by The New Humanitarian, then part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, declared: “Of the many towns and cities on the African continent, Calabar must be one of the cleanest.”
These days, the city has lost its allure.

A trickle-down effect
In places where a plush line of trees once existed, pockets of trash dot the scenery instead. In some areas, rubbish trailing the streets now hosts a formidable breed of houseflies and scavengers.

Within the metropolis, the gutters are awash with refuse or thick with overgrown weed. Dan Archibong Memorial Park, which sits adjacent to the city mall, is under lock and key but also home to weeds and a mass of fallen leaves.

A number of Urua Watts traders maintain that the central landfill at Lemna on the outskirts of the city – Calabar’s major solid waste dumpsite – has reached maximum capacity and that the refuse overflow could also be the result of a boycott by garbage collectors over unpaid salaries.

And that has had a trickle-down effect on the pockets of residents like Edet, a 45-year-old single parent to five children – and their health.

“Last week, my neighbour was terribly sick [and] just recovered,” she said, her eyes becoming misty with tears. “In fact, it’s him that advised me to take some antibiotics and Paracetamol to help me a little.”

According to her, the garbage collectors last came to evacuate the waste on April 8.

“Most times flies from the refuse perch on the pumpkin and this scares customers away,” Edet told Al Jazeera, gesturing at her scant vegetables. “That’s why I didn’t buy as much market as I used to because when they [buyers] come, they cover their noses and run. Formerly, it wasn’t like this, especially in the time of Donald Duke.”

Between 1999-2007, the governor of Cross River State was a suave saxophone-playing gentleman called Donald Duke. Under his administration, the state capital, Calabar, flourished as a tourism hub.

Taking a cue from his predecessor Clement Ebri (1992-1993) who focused on landscaping and nurturing ornamental plants around the city, Duke upped the ante. He established resorts and parks and set up agencies responsible for cleaning and evacuating waste in the capital and for beautifying the state.

It was part of a strategic ecotourism agenda, said Duke Emmanuel, a radio host and product manager at independent radio station Hit 95.9 FM Calabar.

“During Donald Duke’s time, the focus of the state was basically tourism,” he told Al Jazeera. “It was typical to find waste bins and baskets at strategic points within, say, 100 meters and they were regularly cleared, compared to what we have now.”

“Because tourism was at the heart of the administration, the salaries of the waste management guys were promptly paid,” Emmanuel said. “In fact, there were reports that Donald Duke would drive incognito to inspect the city’s cleanliness. It’s just crazy what Calabar metropolis has degraded into now.”

Effiom Duke (not related to Donald Duke), deputy national coordinator of Green Code, an environmental and human rights advocacy group, blamed the deterioration of standards on a “lack of strategic planning” for a population boom and called for the present dumpsite to be closed.

“We shouldn’t have a dumpsite close to where people live,” he told Al Jazeera. “Go and see the level of decongested water that drips from the dumpsite and flows to the river where the state’s Water Board pumping station is.”

“It’s a disgrace to the state and government,” Effiom added. “During the time of Donald Duke, it was impossible for you to find refuse on the road. There were taskforce agents around strategic points. If you dropped litter on the road, they’d arrest you and charge you to tribunal.”

For Uquetan Ibor, senior lecturer in environmental pollution at the University of Calabar, the situation is only a “worrisome” beginning of something much worse.

The accumulation of rubbish on the streets has pushed residents into disposing refuse in the gutters, thereby blocking the narrow drainage corridors and resulting in flooding of depressed areas he told Al Jazeera.

“Most times you can’t even enter these neighbourhoods when it rains,” he added. “It’s so bad you see people using elevated bridges to get to their houses.”

Scavengers, Uquetan also added, are now in the mix, spearheading an unintended ripple effect.

“They [scavengers] pick these bottles from those unsanitary conditions and sell to market women for ridiculously cheap prices,” he said. “These [market] women in turn reuse these bottles to sell palm oil, Zobo and tiger nut drink to residents … some of these bottles contained products made from mercury and cyanide.

“Some of them are even petrol products, like engine oil and such. As you know this can result in lead poisoning, posing serious health hazards for the end-users in the future.”

‘I can’t breathe’
Upon assuming office in 2015, current State Governor Benedict Ayade stressed his intention to maintain cleanliness standards in Calabar as the cleanest city nationwide. He also constituted a special task force called Green Police – later renamed Green Sheriff – as an environmental watchdog.

Four of Ayade’s more than 2,000 special advisers are specifically assigned to waste management and in the 2022 state budget (PDF), 1.1 billion Nigerian naira ($2.6m) was approved for the waste management agency

This has barely translated to anything on the streets because of indifference on the part of the government to effectively deal with the problem of waste, said Effiom Duke. “Time and time again our government has shown that they can’t be accountable. Of all the money allocated to waste management, only a tiny fraction is released … that’s the problem.”

Edet said the task force has been more preoccupied with identifying houses with inadequate sewage systems to get bribes from defaulters rather than maintaining proper sanitation in the metropolis.

“When it comes to keeping the environment clean, you will never find these people,” she told Al Jazeera.

The manager of the Cross River State Waste Management Agency did not respond to requests for comment. Sunday Oko, director of waste management at the state Ministry of Environment, told Al Jazeera: “Where’s the refuse? There’s no dirt anywhere. We’re working.”

Back on the streets, Edet has one earnest desire: “I only wish they’d come and clear this refuse,” she said. “I can’t breathe anymore.”

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/5/13/the-decaying-underbelly-of-calabar-nigerias-cleanest-city?sf164826923=1&sf164699998=1&sf164826637=1

tommy589:
They should not stop at granting full autonomy to Local Government alone but let LG election be organized by FG or the LG. Create opportunity for independent candidates to contest too

I'm sure you didn't read it through.
Independent candidacy is among the items that the rep members voted In Favour of.

Zonefree:
Russia sent only 4 delegates, Ukraine pack 7 come

Body don dey tell them

internationalman:


The man probably can't get his dîck up or can't sustain it for long when it's up without porn..

That's what too much of porn consumption does to the brain

This is very true.
What could be done to reverse this though?

mrvitalis:

Middle belt oga they have said it they are not north they are more south than North

Do u understand that the area being referred to as middle belt includes Southern Kaduna, taraba and parts of gombe and Bauchi too?

mrvitalis:


Yam is from Benue , veggies like carrot n the rest ...come from pleatue ...so what exactly do north contribute

So Benue and plateau belongs to what part of Nigeria?
This your bitter tribalistic rant is not well coordinated at all.
You will only succeed in displaying your ignorance about some realities in Nigeria.
The largest onion market in Nigeria is in the North East (just to mention a few).

If there is any foundation past Northern leaders laid for their people, it is their robust irrigation system.
They have always been a source of AFFORDABLE foodstuff for every part of the country.

I got this too

VirtuousDJpost=109777596:

Yes. The mail i got

Dear Candidate,

You have been shortlisted for the next phase of the Selection Process for the Leadway Assurance Graduate Traineeship Programme.

This serves as a Notification that a Pre-Selection test from MasterMindsHRSG Consulting would be sent to your email from this same email on or before 12noon, Monday, January 31, 2022, and you would be required to answer and send your answers to the email that would be provided, latest by 8pm of same Monday, January 31, 2022.

Regards,

Sabastine N. Okeke; PhD, FCMI, FCIPM, MNIM

CEO
MasterMindsHRSG Consulting/CEMAR

Ola17:
Either drilling fluid or the layer of soil they are drilling is rich in iron and thereby infested with iron bacteria.

Just an educated guess.

CrownOfClay724:
If the place is an industrial area, chemicals

Memberclub post=109716542:
If na blood e go dark

and industrial wastes must have leached into the soil.

If it is not, then that's likely a case of severe iron bacteria infestation.

If you check, the water will have an odd smell like rotten egg (sulphuric), and would have this petroleum or condemned-oil feel to it.

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But it's good you take a sample to a lab. A functional one.
Only them can determine what truly is wrong.

.. Nice one

One Werey say na blood of innocents, and thus kind of people envy the development of advanced countries (as if it was achieved with dogma and superstition)

Bubu..
Thanks God say no be medical tourism this time

teeezy00:

Please can you send it for me too.
dankhay00@gmail.com

Please kindly forward the PQ to me when you receive it

No response after the aptitude test...
Obviously I didn't make the cut
Good luck to those who made it

We move (to the next vacancy thread)

itzdharmie:
Hi everyone, is there anyone who has gotten a feedback, a friend of mine got a mail for the next segment, please who else has gotten? Thanks

If anyone on this thread gets invited for the next stage btwn now and Tuesday. PS kindly inform the house.
I no really fancy all these "my friend said.."
I know for sure that some of us on this thread will pass through and give Ur concrete proof

No be so we dull reach na

Idrismusty97:
Did this, they didn't reply but i just received another assessment link from Jobberman for tomorrow. Guess they reschedule. What's the cognitive test about please?

I'll advice you to drill yourself well with logical reasoning questions.
You might get just 5mins to answer 10 questions in that part

Bandits 4 - 0 Chinko Ekun
*spits*

Wiifesnatcher:
if I'm the Governor of Lagos state, I won't have a word with the police chief publicly, I will silently make calls to the AGF the acting president and the IGP while I request to see the CSP in my office on the subject matter



the police Boss never disrespect Sanwoolu, Sanwoolu disrespect himself by having a private conversation publicly. I know he's trying to be compassionate but he should have just promised the Residents that the state govt is on top of the matter then leave immediately and not this show of shame


as a matter of fact, the CSP is the one being disgrace here with Sanwoolu questioning him the figures of his men, Reno is senseless

You too much abeg!

vanbonattel:
So, killings and Ethnic cleansing under a lopsided police and army is the best?

Under the present circumstances, 95% of the police commissioners are fulani people. The IGP is a fulani man. Over 60% of the DPO and DCO are all fulani.

With all due respect sir, you are such a horrible liar!
How did you come up with these stats
95% commissioners!
60% DPO and DCOs!!

Haha?!

Any information regarding the next batch that haven't done the cognitive test?

Idrismusty97:
That's the point, I didn't receive that invitation mail but recieve the subsequent Jobberman mail. Like they are 3 mails in total. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd. I did not receive the "2nd" so how can i would i be expecting anything from Jobberman? Anyhow it's done.

Oh!
That's bad
I'm sorry

You should still try to contact their helpline anyway?
"For all its worth"

Idrismusty97:
I received the first but i didn't receive the second mail. I would have been expecting a mail from Jobberman but guess what? I just check my spam and realized i did received the assessment link from Jobberman, but it's too late. I receive 100's of mails from Jobberman so i hardly even check. I miss this because of unprofessionalism from their end and wonder what the work culture is like. Would have probably still missed it since the mail came around 2pm anyway. God knows best. We move.

But the invitation mail from heirs specifically told us to check the spam folder in case we do not see the test link in the inbox.
It's unfortunate that this had to happen

Monique60:
I am unable to my authenticate my details

Has same issues too
I had to click on the link directly and enter my name in the same order as it is in the invitation mail from heirs

toolluu:
Those questions hard small o

the time too small...
Especially for that logical reasoning part

Marcus2:
I expected nothing less than absolute denial from him.

Abeg if u no believe am, you fit go attack him village by yourself... Since u love getting choke-high on bad news and calamity

Person wey get village say dem no attack am, and u wan dey cry for here
Na wa o

SpecialAdviser:

And they stupidly collected it before realizing.
Wouldn't it have been better to check what they were given Mr FG defender?

Oga.. you Sabi read at all

Did they not state their reasons for accepting the vaccines in the first place

Una go just dey rush for FTC without having a grasp of what is posted