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It’s Katsina not Kaduna. This seems deliberate to make sure that kaduna is perpetually on the bad news.

https://punchng.com/southern-kaduna-killings-el-rufai-inaugurates-peace-panel/


Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday inaugurated a 22-member interfaith group, known as ‘House of Kaduna Family’, at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House to find lasting peace in the state, especially in Southern Kaduna.

Members of the group comprise religious leaders as well as leaders of thought.

El-Rufai said diversity of faith should not be a reason for division and violent conflict across the state.

The governor stated, “The decision to gather leaders of faith in a joint endeavour for peace and harmony in our state reflects our belief that religion does not have to divide.

NBA has reinvited El-rufa’i!

CAN hails El-Rufai’s decision to save 110-year Kaduna Church from demolition
Published


Godwin Isenyo, Kaduna

The Kaduna State Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria has commended the Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s government’s decision to save the 110-year St. George Anglican Church, Zaria from demolition.

The CAN Chairman in the State, Rev. Joseph Hayab made this known to our correspondent on the telephone following Friday’s clarification by the Director General of the Kaduna State Urban Planning Development Agency, Ismail Dikko that the Church won’t be touched because of its historical value.


https://punchng.com/can-hails-el-rufais-decision-to-save-110-year-kaduna-church-from-demolition/

BREAKING: 123 Northerners detained, stopped from entering Lagos
by SHITTU SHOLA August 30, 2019
123 Northerners detained, stopped from entering Lagos on Friday August 30, 2019
123 Northerners detained, stopped from entering Lagos on Friday August 30, 2019
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One hundred and twenty three petty traders from Northern part of the country have been intercepted and detained by Lagos State government for “mass movement” into the state.

The Lagos State Government confirmed the arrest and detention of the petty traders on its verified Twitter handle, the youths, who were majorly commercial motorcyclist, were arrested while trying to enter Lagos.



The chairman of Lagos State Taskforce, Yinka Egbeyemi, said the trailer was accosted in the wee hours on Friday, after a security alert from the public.

He said his team swiftly responded to the information, which led to the seizure of the truck and its occupants at Agege area of Lagos.

“While my team was on operation, we got information from the public that some people had entered into Lagos in trailer loaded with over 300 people. We swiftly responded to the alert and trailed the truck from Berger area to Agege. We eventually intercepted the truck which carried no few than 123 men and 48 motorcycles.

“We have interrogated most of the truck’s occupants; from the information we gathered, some of them said they were coming from Jigawa State, with 48 of them claiming to own seized motorcycles. The rest of them said they came to Lagos in search of greener pasture.”

Mr Egbeyemi said the Lagos Police Command had directed that a fact-finding panel be constituted to profile the detained occupants of the truck, but he added that nothing incriminating was found on them apart from the motorcycles.



One of the detained occupants, Shuaibu Haruna, said he left Jigawa State to work in Lagos with his motorcycle. He claimed to have a wife and a son, but said he needed to double his income to cater for his family.

Mr Haruna said he intended to stay in Isolo area to which he had already paid N7,000 as accommodation fee.

Another occupant, Mohammed Ibrahim, said he left his base in the Northern part of the country to keep himself busy after finishing his farm work. He said he was going to Badagry to join his brother.

DAILY NIGERIAN checks show that there is currently no ban placed on commercial motorcycle service in Lagos.

nuc-notice-of-illegal-operation
https://dailynigerian.com/breaking-123-northerners-detained-stopped-from-entering-lagos/

Please house I need your help.
I have trying to buy apps and pay for subscription on apple store using Naira Denominated Master Card (of GTBank, Stanbic IBTC and First Bank) but the app store is rejecting them all.
I really need your suggestion on which one I can use.

Thank you.

Please house I need your help.
I have trying to buy apps and pay for subscription on apple store using Naira Denominated Master Card (of GTBank, Stanbic IBTC and First Bank) but the app store is rejecting them all.
I really need your suggestion on which one I can use.

Thank you.

I have account with Diamond Bank, but I’m not sure if I will continue using the account after it becomes Access Bank

Could This be NOne transaction that caught the interest of stakeholders in recent time is the merger between Diamond Bank and Access Bank. What started as a rumour in late 2018 and then metamorphosed into denials by both parties has now finally into a reality. For industry watchers, the deal is a long-anticipated one.

Last week, the court eventually legalised the process of the two financial institutions becoming a single entity.

A few weeks ago, Brand Spur reported that the management of the two banks had agreed to have a new corporate identity, which will reflect the two brands in line with Access Bank’s aggressive growth strategy to become the number one bank in Africa as outlined in its 2018-2022 Strategy presented to stakeholders in December 2017.
A moment ago, an industry watcher source gave us what looks like the new brand logo of the enlarged bank.

Read: Luminous Inverters Offers Affordable, Flexible Payment Plan
Based on the image of the logo seen, there is a fusion of Diamond Bank into Access Bank, with the Access Bank’s iconic arrow.ew Access Bank Logo After Merger With Diamond Bank?

https://brandspurng.com/2019/03/25/could-this-be-new-access-bank-logo-after-merger-with-diamond-bank/amp/

How claims of Atiku’s employees don’t add up – Did he employ more than Dangote, Shell?

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By 'Kunle ADEBAJO On Nov 10, 2018

Atiku Abubakar

ON Thursday, Mohammed El-Yakub, who is the Managing Director of Gotel Communications, Atiku Abubakar’s Adamawa-based media organisation, said his boss had approved minimum wage for all staff of his companies. He also put the total of these beneficiaries at “over 100,000”.

“The N33,000 new salary scale, which takes effect from November 2018, includes domestic servants and all categories of workers on the former VP’s payroll,” El-Yakub told Sahara Reporters.

This claim is coming shortly after the committee on the review of the national minimum wage recommended N30,000 as the new national minimum wage to the federal government.

Among Atiku’s known companies and organisations are Adama Beverages (producers of Faro water), American University of Nigeria (AUN), Gotel Communications, Rica Gardo & Standard Microfinance, Prodeco, ABTI International Secondary School, and Intels Nigeria Ltd. He is also said to have once ventured into maize and cotton farming.



In Atiku’s defence, Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, said in October that only three of Atiku’s companies, including the AUN, have created up to 50,000 jobs. The All Progressive Congress “is silly to say Atiku must list jobs he created,” he tweeted. “Their focus should be jobs @MBuhari created.”

“Let me humor them. From just American University of Nigeria, Faro, Rica Gardo & Standard Microfinance. Atiku created 50k jobs, to mention a few. APC, list Buhari’s jobs!”

While The ICIR could not verify how many persons work under the beverage and finance companies, it can report that the staff strength of AUN is just slightly above 1000.

Responding to a recent enquiry e-mailed to the school on the subject, Daniel Okereke, the university’s Executive Director of Communications and Publications said the staff strength of the school constitutes of 1,082 Nigerians, over 80 foreigners and an additional temporary staff of four.

Bigger employer than Dangote, Shell?

A good number of companies, reputably larger than those established by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, are known to have employee populations which are lesser than 100,000. One of them is the Dangote Group of Companies, a multinational conglomerate owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man.



The conglomerate, the largest in West Africa and one of the largest on the continent, comprises Dangote Cement, Dangote Sugar and Dangote Refinery, and is reported to employ only over 30,000 people, as at 2017, generating revenue in excess of $4.1 billion. Dangote Cement alone has operations in up to 10 African countries.

Another great example is Royal Dutch Shell PLC, a British-Dutch oil and gas company with headquarters in the Netherlands, and the sixth-largest company in the world according to revenues in 2016. The company also has operations in over 70 countries. Nevertheless, as at 2016, Shell employed an average of 92,000 workers, as stated in its 2016 sustainability report.

ExxonMobil, a United States-based multinational oil and gas corporation and the world’s ninth largest company by revenue, also employs far less people than Atiku Abubakar, if the claims of his associates are to be accepted.

As at 2017, the company had only 69,600 employees globally, according to Statista, an online statistics, market research and business intelligence portal. The company’s staff strength declined compared 2001 when it employed 97,900 people.

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (RB), a British multinational consumer goods company which produces Dettol, Strepsils, Air Wick, Durex among several other products and has operations in 60 countries across the globe, had as at 2017 only 37,000 employees.



Further checks revealed that Shoprite, Africa’s largest food retailer with over 500 outlets has “a current estimate of 130 000 employees”. Nestle Nigeria has a staff strength of just over 2,300 direct employees.

Also, according to the Nigerian Banks Financial Transparency Report of 2010, 14 top banks in Nigeria including First Bank, Zenith Bank and United Bank for Africa (UBA), had a total staff strength of 59,807 as at 2009, leading to a wage bill of N265 billion.

The 2013 annual reports and accounts of Nigerian Breweries PLC, which has several large-scale breweries across the country, put its staff strength at 3,195 — a reduction from the 2012 figure of 3,214.

Interestingly as well, the total number of Nigerians employed by the Lagos State Government only surpassed 100,000 in 2017, when it grew to 100,433 after an additional recruitment of 5,000 persons that year. This was according to Olabowale Ademola, the State Head of Service, who spoke at a ministerial press conference in Ikeja.

Based on the staff strength of leading multinational companies, it is obvious that the claims of Atiku having over 100,000 employees are open to questions. And it is most unlikely that he has such number of staff.

https://www.icirnigeria.org/how-claims-of-atikus-employees-dont-add-up-did-he-employ-more-than-dangote-shell/

Foenix:
Can CAN confirm or dispute these please ?

Is this true between 1999 and 2018?

1. 2 CHIEFS OF ARMY STAFF

We have had 9 Chiefs of Army Staff, (Victor, Alex, Agwai, Azazi, Luka, Dambazau, Ihejirika, Minima and Buratai) only Dambazau and Buratai are Muslims. The both have spent 5 years of the close to 20 years which means Christians held that position for 15 years. Christians 75%, Muslims 25%

1.3 CHIEFS OF AIR STAFF.

We have had 8 Chiefs of Air Staff, (Isaac, Jonah, Dike, Petirin, Dikko, Alex, Amosu and Sadiq). Only Sadiq and Dikko are Muslims and both have spent 5 years of the close to 20 years. Christians held that position for 15 years. Christians 75% Muslims 25%.

1.4 CHIEFS OF NAVAL STAFF.

We have had 8 Chiefs of Navy Staff (Ombu, Afolayan, Adeleke, I. Ibrahim, S. Ibrahim, Ezeoba, Jibrin and Ibak). Only Jibrin who seved 2 years and one of the Ibrahims is a Muslims, both Ibrahim served 2 years each, so Muslims served 4 years. Christians 16 years, Muslims 4 years. Christians 75% Muslims 25%.

1.5 CHIEFS OF DEFENCE STAFF.

We have had 9 CDS (Ogohi, Ogomudia, Agwai, Azazi, Dike, Petinri, Ibrahim, Alex and Abayomi). Only Ogohi and Ibrahim are Muslims, not so sure of Petinri. Both Ogohi and Ibrahim spent 5 years. Meaning Christians have spent 15 years, and Muslims 5 years. Christians 75% and Muslims 25%.

1.6 DIRECTORS GENERAL OF DSS

We have had 6 DGs of DSS (Are, Gadzama, Ekpeyong, Lawal, Mathew and Bichi). Only Lawal and Bichi are Muslims. Both of them have just spent slightly above 3 years out of nearly 20 years. Christians 85% and Muslims 15%.

Afe Zele Afe

Had it been that the reverse is the case, our christian brothers wouldn’t have allowed us drink tea and keep cup. This would have been trending on social media, almost all the churches across the country would have turned it a topic of preaching every sunday and all the pastors and reverend fathers would have declared 40 days prayers and dry fasting.

But now they will see and pretend not seeing.

The biggest scam which not everyone knows is, they will send you birthday wishes sms on your birthday and later deduct the money for the text.

Diesel1:
lool.. first time I'm seeing hausa dwarf

But none among them is Hausa. In fact most of them cannot speak Hausa. As they are Kanuri so their lingua franca also is.

BeeBeeOoh:





Same here, I'm still waiting patiently for the day I'll see an Hausa albino

But none among them is Hausa.

nwaanambra1:
no bro!
the reason why you people don't migrate is simply because it is not in you to mingle - the Hausas and Fulanis are generally a shy people and find it hard to withstand competition - that is why they easily resort to violence to suppress superior intelligence. hence their reason for remaining in their domain no matter how difficult the situation is.

thou the younger generation seems to be overcoming that shyness - hence the reason why you see them in all states of the federation now in very large numbers - even at that they still find it hard to drop their violent side - hence their constant clashes with their host communities.

The poster made the post without any negativity or hate, but surprisingly most comments here are hate ladden.

I can’t agree with you that we don’t mingle. Because the neighborhood I was born and brought up comprises different ethnic groups. We grew up and schooled together.

In my university days, i never stayed in a room without any member of other tribes.

In NYSC camp, I was the only Hausa in our room, the rest are Yoruba and Igbos.

In my postgraduate days, all my clique members are not Hausa.

In my office currently the people we are working in harmony 1 is Igbo, 1 calabar and 1 is Ijaw. In fact my boss name is Onwukwe who is always proud of me.

We actually travel that’s why I’m here.

Moreover it’s not always good to generalize. Beacuse the north is very wide comprises different ethnic groups with different cultures.

Our reasons are not far fetched;

1. We are contented with the little resources we have.

2. We respect our personal dignity which makes us not to be desperate for going to any country by hook or by crook where we may end up being persona-non-grata.

3. Even with the tragedy of Boko Haram in the northeast, we still enjoy security in the region.

4. Cost of living is very low e.g food, clothes, shelter and transportation.

5. Education is more or less free from nursery up to university level.

John McAfee

It’s now Electra Coin

“Emir of Yorubaland”: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Term “Emir”

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.


The Oluwo of Iwoland in Osun State, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, said on March 31 that he should henceforth be addressed as "Emir of Iwoland" (he later declared himself “Emir of Yorubaland” before saying he only meant that Hausa people could call him that if they wanted). This provoked a gratuitous cyber fight between Yorubas and Hausa Muslims. The Oba was derided by Yoruba people as taking on a “Hausa title,” and Hausa people became the target of derision. This, of course, ignited strong reactions from Hausa people.


This intervention is merely linguistic; it is not intended to justify the Oba’s choice of “Emir” as his title. I personally think that the Oba is either being deliberately provocative or is literally out of his mind. When I watched a video of him insulting a whole host of people and wildly gesticulating in ways that, in my opinion, demeaned his status as the king of a people, I thought he needed more help than attacks.

Having said that, his use of the term “emir” to refer to himself isn’t nearly the linguistic sacrilege his critics think it is. Here is why:

1."Emir" is NOT a Hausa word. It's actually an English word by way of the Arabic "amir," which simply means ruler or leader or commander. So, in a literal linguistic sense, every Oba, Obi, Sarki, Suno, Tor, Ochi, Olu, etc. is an "emir."

As I pointed out in my June 15, 2014 column titled, “A Pragmatic Analysis of ‘Emir,’ ‘Sarki,’ ‘Oba’ and ‘Chief’ in Nigerian English,” the word “emir” didn’t come directly into English from Arabic. It was first domesticated in French as “émir" before it was loaned to the English language in 1593. (As the reader can see, the English rendering of the world is unaltered from French, except for the dropping of the grave accent on the letter “e.”)
So “emir” has been an English word for more than 400 years, that is, at least 200 years before the Usman Dan Fodio jihad and about the time Islam became widespread in Hausaland, Yorubaland and elsewhere in Nigeria.

Another prominent, widely used derivative of “amir” in English is “admiral.” It is derived from the Arabic "amir-ul-bahr,” which translates as “commander of the sea.” (Amir ul or amir al translates roughly as “commander of”). So if you think “emir” is a Hausa word, what do you think of “admiral” since it shares the same lexical origins are “emir”? Like “emir,” admiral was also first domesticated in French as “amiral” and came to English as “admiral” around the early 1200s.

It should be admitted, though, that although “emir” is an English word with lexical roots in Arabic, it’s often associated with Muslim rulers, and evokes connotations of Hausa-Fulani Muslim overlordship in Nigeria. I think that’s the basis for the resistance against the title among Yoruba nationalists. The successors to the prophet of Islam (called khalifa or “Caliphs” in Islamic literature) were often called “amir-ul- muminin,” which roughly translates as commander of the faithful (i.e., Muslim faithful).



(Interestingly, Hausa people don’t call the most prominent traditional ruler in the Muslim north the "Sultan of Sokoto"; they call him “Sarkin Musulumi,” which translates as leader of Muslims—obviously a domestication of “amir-ul-muminin”; it’s also more natural for Hausa speakers to say “daular Usmaniyya” than to say “Sokoto Caliphate”).

2. Hausa people call their traditional rulers "Sarki," not "Emir." (Ironically, "Seriki," the Yoruba domestication of Sarki, is a common Yoruba personal name, and even appears in titles like "seriki adinni of Yorubaland," which means the leader of religion/Islam in Yorubaland). So both the Oba and his critics are wrong in thinking that “emir” is a Hausa title. The ethnic binaries Yoruba nationalists erect to call attention to the absurdity of his change of royal title would have been justified if he had addressed himself as the “Sarki of Iwoland” or the “Sarki of Yorubaland.”

3. It is unnatural for Hausa people to call their traditional rulers "emir"—or even the original Arabic "amir"—when they speak Hausa. It was British colonialists who introduced the words "emir" and "sultan" to northern Nigerian royal lexical repertoire, but the words haven't even been domesticated in the Hausa language, showing that the people aren't quite enthused about them. Saying “emir” or “sultan” while speaking Hausa is generally understood as code-mixing, that is, interspersing a conversation with foreign words.

4. Similarly, in their quotidian conversational encounters, Ilorin people call their "emir" Oba, even though the "Oba" traces ancestral descent from Fulani people. The market near the emir of Ilorin's palace is called "oja oba," which means "market of the oba" in Yoruba.

The following was my recounting of the sociolinguistic complexity of the term “emir” in Ilorin in my June 15, 2014 column:

“That is why Yoruba nationalists who want to ‘reclaim’ Ilorin resent the labeling of the traditional ruler of the town as ‘Emir of Ilorin.’ Every so often, Yoruba cultural nationalists spearhead the advocacy for the appointment of an ‘Oba of Ilorin.’

“When I was a reporter for the Weekly Trust in 2000 I was assigned to cover a controversy over the calls for an ‘Oba of Ilorin.’ In the course of my investigation, I spoke with people from all classes of the Ilorin society.

“One thing that struck me throughout my stay in Ilorin for the story was that everybody in the town, including members of the ruling family, called their traditional ruler ‘Oba’ when they spoke in Yoruba. ‘Emir’ sounded strange, even forced. Like Hausa people up north, the Ilorin people don’t relate well to the word ‘emir’ unless they are putting on airs or speaking in English.

“A particularly insightful encounter for me was an interview I had with an old, uneducated man who identified himself as a descendant of Afonja, the Yoruba founder of Ilorin who lost power to the progenitor of the current ruling family. I asked him if he wanted an ‘Oba of Ilorin.’ He was genuinely befuddled. His response, in Yoruba, was: ‘What are you talking about? We already have an Oba.’ Using the categories that have been popularized by the Nigerian news media, I said, ‘No, you don’t have an Oba; you have an emir.’ His comeback threw me off. He didn’t know what an emir was. ‘Kilo je be? [what is that?],’ he said.

“That was when it dawned on me that ‘emir’ is an English word that only western-educated northerners use to refer to their traditional rulers when they speak in English. Just like Hausa speakers call their traditional rulers ‘sarki,’ Ilorin people call theirs ‘oba.’ Every Ilorin person calls the emir’s palace ‘ile Oba’ (which literally translates as ‘the Oba’s house’). The biggest market in Ilorin, which is close to the emir’s palace, is called Oja Oba,’ which translates as 'the market of the Oba.'

“So ‘emir’ is rarely used in Ilorin—as in other northern Muslim places—outside official communication and in English-medium conversations. A more appropriate question for the old man should have been “do you want an Oba who is Yoruba rather than this Oba whose ancestors are Fulani?” I actually did rephrase my question like that after realizing that the old man couldn’t relate to the term ‘emir.’”

5. The roots of Islam in Iwo go back to several centuries. The town had sharia courts and was the center of Islamic scholarship several decades before many northern Muslim communities. Perhaps it is the basis for the Oba’s decision to bear the title “emir.” The colonialists who imposed the term “emir” on northern Muslim traditional rulers could have called Muslims obas in Yorubaland "emir" if they wanted to, and it would have stuck.

Consider this: The very name “Yoruba” isn't native to the Yoruba people, as I've written in several columns; it's a colonial imposition, which Ajayi Crowder helped to popularize. The colonialists actually toyed with the name "Nago" (the name of a Yoruba subgroup in Benin Republic) but later chose “Yoruba,” which is the corruption of Yoruba, the Songhai exonym for people in the old Oyo Empire.

Even the Oduduwa myth of origin that Yoruba people cherish about themselves came about as a colonial project to foster a sense of oneness among members of the cognate but nonetheless disparate language groups that now fancy themselves as Yoruba. (The colonialists wanted to reduce Nigeria's ethnic and linguistic complexity to just three ethnic groups, which was unsuccessful. They also promoted the Bayyagida myth and several other myths of origin in Nigeria. I know this will be hard to accept, but it's true).

Anyone who chose your very collective name and fostered a collective identity where none existed before could have done anything. The colonialists (although it's the Portuguese) called Eko "Lagos," and that's what we still call it today. The colonialists decided that Yoruba people in parts of what is now Kwara and Kogi would be northerners, and that's what they are today. So don't discount the power of colonialists to shape identities. Had they chosen to call obas emirs, that's what they would have been.

https://www.farooqkperogi.com/2018/04/emir-of-yorubaland-sociolinguistic.html?m=1

35k

"epitome of peace" what a paradox! somebody who had been oppressing his neighbors for years. Good Riddance !

30k?

Dous?

65k

Is it global version?

Cntd

Lagos Port Complex has been grounded since 0400 hrs today by the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria for fear of massive retrenchment if the Ports and Harbour Bill 2015, which is currently on the floor of the Nigerian Senate is passed.
Everything is at standstill nobody is allowed to enter.

Am interested. What's ur last price?

Hi Oga Gazzuzz,

I doff mu hat.

Pls Can mobile super 1000 be used in replacement of 5w-20? If yes, is there no any long time consequences?

Pls what are the security tips for Honda Accord 2005?

Gptech:
Still available

40k serious buyer.