If Governor Rochas could approve a whopping sum of N600,000,000.00 ( Six hundred Million Naira ) for common decorations while Dokpesi collects N2,100,000,000.00 ( Twenty-one billion Naira ) for the Presidential campaigns election, I now put it to you, who is the bigger thief here ?
A lion which escaped early Wednesday
from a wild life park in Jos, Plateau
State, has been killed.
An official of the Plateau State Ministry
of Tourism, in charge of the park,
Abdullahi Abe, told PREMIUM TIMES the
animal had been shot dead.
He said the body of the lion would be
taken to the National Veterinary
Research Institute, Vom, Jos south Local
Government Area the state, for
preservation.
Mr. Abe said the lion did not harm
anyone as speculated. He did not give
further details.
The police spokesperson, Abuh
Emmanuel, said officers had hoped to
recover the lion alive.
“We had dispatched our men with
experts in search of the lion with the
intention to recover the animal alive,”
he told PREMIUM TIMES.
The escape of the lion caused panic in
the town as many residents stayed
indoors for fear of being attacked.
Docars Gwani, a resident at the federal
low cost housing estate near the park,
said they were afraid that the animal
could attack anyone.
The general manager of the park, John
Doy, had said the lion, which had been
kept since 1972, “slipped through the
gate of the cage when it was opened for
its routine feeding”.
“The animal is still within the vicinity of
the park but our fear is that the park is
not fenced,” he had warned.
Nigerian Student Studying in
Ghana Jailed 15 years For
Stealing iphone 5
A Nigerian student, Ephraim Okoro was on
Friday sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for robbing one Olabunie Oqundele of his mobile phone GH₵ 2,000.00.
Ephraim who pleaded not guilty to the charge was found guilty by the court presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandor after full trial.
Mr Tandor noted that the assertion by the
convict that he did not engage in the act of
robbery but only accompanied his accomplice Chineze who is now at large was an afterthought and was to throw dust into the eyes of the court.
He said according to the prosecution witnesses, the convict was the one holding the machete
while his accomplice was wearing a max, and
stole the items exerting force on the
complainant.
He said in sentencing Ephraim, he took into
consideration his plea for mercy, the fact that he
was a first time offender and that the item was
retrieved.
The court ordered that the retrieved items be
given to the complainant.
Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police
(ASP) Patrick Adzadza told the court that, the
complainant is a Nigerian National and a student
of Ghana Technology University and resident of
Atico, Bubuashie, while Ephraim and his
accomplice are all Nigerians and students of
Golf City University, Dansoman.
He said somewhere in January, Chineze
informed a witness in the case that life is so
unbearable for him in Ghana and that he would
engage in robbery activities to earn a living.
He said on October 1, the convict armed himself
with cutlass and mask, went to the house of the
complainant, forced the door opened and
attacked him and asked him to surrender his
money and mobile phone or he would kill him.
The prosecution said the convict subjected the
complainant to severe beating and succeeded in
collecting his iphone 5, however the complainant
raised the alarm and a witness in the case called
Odorkor Police Patrol Team.
He said the team responded swiftly and
managed to arrest Ephraim at the scene but
Chineze managed to escape. The mobile phone
was retrieved by the police.
ASP Adzadza said when the convict was
interrogated he admitted the offence and told
the police that it was Chineze who called him
assist him to attack the complainant.
5 New Things About $2bn Arms Probe Every Nigerian Should Know The media has been awash with reports about
the probe of the past Goodluck Jonathan regime for fraudulent practices in procurement of arms.
Ex NSA, Sambo Dasuki, about 20 military
personnel and a host of other Nigerians have been arrested of recent for their connection to a $2bn fraudulent arms deal.
Here are new information concerning the ongoing investigation into the matter according to The Nation:
1. Sambo Dasuki has opened up (a can of
worms), naming ex governors and PDP chiefs who also made some cash from the deal
2. The probe will be extended to the seizure of the $9.34m cash smuggled into South Africa.
3. Most of the people in EFCC custody have admitted to collecting huge sums of money from the office of the NSA
4. Some of the diverted funds have been traced to a bureau de change owned by a former member of the staff of the ONSA.
5. EFCC doesn't want to release the suspects in order to prevent
them from running to the court and stopping the investigation
More people are expected to be arrested or brought in for questioning in the next few days.
Shey Na like this we go dey go ?
With Buhari’s victory, I’ll surely go on
exile – Bode George.
Former Deputy National Chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George says he may be going on exile following the victory of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Maj-Gen
Muhammudu Buhari (retd). Bode George
George had said in an interview that he would proceed on exile if the APC wins at the federal level.
Speaking with Vanguard, on the PDP’s defeat at the polls, the PDP chieftain said “What will I be doing here? I can decide to go and live anywhere. Look at everyone surrounding him (Buhari). ”So, I am not joking about it, what will I be doing here? At 70, what will I be doing here? All
we have been doing to restructure the country has been lost. We have been trying to ensure balance in the polity but all that has gone. What else will I be doing here?”
As for me, he is saving his demonic skin.
Yesterday, a Muslim military man opened fire on a student in Onitsha accusing her of being Biafran and saying he is tired of the Biafran protests. His fellow military men protected him and hid him
away.
Her Name ; Nkiruka Anthonia Ikeanyionwu
From Adazi Nnukwu Anambra state
Schooling at Fedral College of Education UMUNZE ,Anambra State
Age 21 years old
We will never forget her! Her brothers and sisters will live to enjoy Biafra ( maybe when you are all dead ).
This is a fight that is baseless and the originator Ojukwu is dead long ago with that dream. Let's learn how to live as one and stop this tribalism madness.
May her soul rest in perfect peace!
Why Buhari didn’t appoint Igbos as
Service Chiefs — Oyegun
July 25, 2015 at 8:46 pm in News
By SIMON EBEGBULEM, BENIN-CITY
Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the National
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), has been on the hot seat since his party emerged as the ruling party in Nigeria. Seeing the former Permanent Secretary, last week, at his residence in GRA, Benin-City, you will behold
a troubled man. He bared his mind on the
leadership crisis in the National Assembly.
According to him, those accusing the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of being slow are unfair.
Oyegun also spoke on other national issues. Excerpts: People are complaining that this APC government is slow. What is happening? No, I don’t think the government is slow. Like I always say, we are not talking of 16 years, we are talking of over 50 years. Since independence,
this country has been ruled by the same
tendencies. So, it is good to go with deliberate speed, deliberate steps, make as few mistakes as you can in the appointment that will come. So, I think that process is nearing the end now.
As you can see, appointments are being rolled out, the activities people thought were slow are taking place, even the implementation of some aspects of the program of the party that we promised are already underway.
I think all that is left now is the list of the
ministerial appointees and it will come out
anytime from now and we will be up and
running. So, there is the need for us to be
cautious, given the fact that this is our first experience in governance. There is the need to be careful given a totally different nature of our manifesto and the social welfare promises that
Senate proposes 2-year jail for
offenders of abusive statements on
social media –Or option of N2 million fine
By Henry Umoru & Joseph Erunke
ABUJA–A bill seeking a two-year jail term for any person who makes allegation or publishes any statement or petition in the newspaper, radio or medium of whatever description against another person, institutions of government or any public office holder, passed second reading in the Senate, yesterday.
The bill also prescribed that anybody or group of persons who send any false text message or post false message on the social media against another person shall be jailed for two years upon conviction by the law court.
The bill, tagged: “A Bill for an Act to Prohibit frivolous Petitions and other Matters Connected therewith”, sponsored by Senator Ibn Na’Allah, APC, Kebbi South, compels petitioners to accompany their petitions with sworn court affidavit, failure of which attracts a six- month imprisonment upon conviction.
But the bill provides for an option of N4 million for persons convicted of false newspaper, radio and television statements and N2 million for offenders of false phone text messages or messages on Facebook, twitter, Instagram, or
WhatsApp. “Where any person in order to circumvent this law makes any allegation and or publish any statement, petition in any paper, radio, or any medium of whatever description, with malicious intent to discredit or set the public against any person or group of persons, institutions of government, he shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction, shall be
liable to an imprisonment term of two years a fine of N4,000,000.00”,the bill specified.
I wonder what our senators are talking about, yet they are maddened and silent over the huge amounts of money stolen for campaign uses
BREAKING: Faleke sues INEC,Asks
Court To Declare Him Gov-Elect
The deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the November 21 election in Kogi State, James Faleke, on Tuesday filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Abuja, demanding his declaration as governor-elect.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared the election inconclusive. It ordered a supplementary
election which will hold on December 5.
Mr. Faleke had on Monday threatened to go to court following the adoption of Yahaya Bello by the APC national
leadership as the governorship candidate of the party in the supplementary election.
He also wrote INEC demanding the removal of his name as the running mate to Mr. Bello in the supplementary
election. Mr. Bello’s adoption at the meeting of the National Working
Committee of the party followed the death of the former governorship candidate, Abubakar Audu, on November 22.
The party immediately forwarded his name to INEC as replacement for Mr. Audu and that of Mr. Faleke as his running mate. In the suit filed by his counsel, Wole Olanipekun, Mr. Faleke, a serving member of the House of Representatives, said contrary to the claim by the electoral body, the election was conclusive and that as
the running mate to Mr. Audu, he should be declared winner.
Dokpesi: Money I Received
Was For Publicity And Media
In Political Campaigns
Dokpesi explained to the EFCC officials that
the N2.1 billion that he collected from the
former NSA was payment for publicity and
media political campaigns during the 2015
General Elections.
In a statement signed by the management of
DAAR Communications Plc, he said that around
2.00pm that day, the Ag. Chairman of the EFCC,
Alhaji Ibrahim Magu, through a phone call,
invited him to the Commission.
On getting there, he was requested to, “shed
more light on some payments that were made to
him through the office of the erstwhile National
Security Adviser to the former President, Malam
Sambo Dasuki.”
Dokpesi explained to the EFCC officials that the
N2.1 billion that he collected from the former
NSA was payment for for publicity and media
political campaigns during the 2015 General
Elections.”
High Chief Aleogho Dokpesi “made his statement
on the various media exposures and campaign
transactions which were dutifully carried out
based essentially on contractual obligations/
relationship.”
The statement however did not explain how the
office of the National Security Adviser became
the cashier office for the payment of campaign
expenses and the source of the money.
A special panel and the EFCC are probing how
trillions of naira budgeted for defence were
spent in the last eight years. An interim report by
the panel already reported phoney contracts in
excess of $2 billion.
Olashile grew up in Ogun state. He went to law school in London. After his studies, he decided to come back to Ogun, because he could be a big man in Ogun. So he opened his new law office. The first day, he saw a man coming up to his
office & decided to make a big impression. As the man came to the door, He pretended to be on the land-line phone & told the man to took a seat.
Olashile said while on the phone: "No.
Absolutely not! You tell those clowns in New York that am not traveling all the way that side to settle the case for less than a million bucks".
"Yes! The Appeal Court has agreed to hear the case next week. l will be handling the primary argument & The other members of my team will provide support.
"Okay. Alright....Give the State Prosecutor my regards and.. Olashile smiled"
The visitor sat patiently as he rattled instructions.
Finally, Olashile put down the telephone & said:
"I'm sorry for the delay, but as you can see, I'm very busy. What can I do for you?"
The man said: "I am from NITEL and I've come to connect your land phone because it is not working Sir.
Good luck to you all and Let's stay real!!!!
Kaduna governor budgets N166billion for 2016. PDP queries el-Rufai; Kaduna receives about N2.4billion a month from the Federation Account, where are you going to get that money from?
Let me volunteer an answer.
A typical example; tax collectors from the LG come every year to harass my friend who owns a shop. They force him to part with 5K. They would pocket the money and give him a receipt they printed, not govt receipt. That's the PDP way.
This time around the shop owner is going to pay the tax into the TSA account in a bank and show the tax collectors the receipt when they come around. The money has gone straight to govt coffers instead of private PDP pockets. That's
how the govt is going to raise N166billion. That's the APC way.
Education is an investment that pays off any time anywhere. And in a world of crumbling economies and turbulent times, where investors spend sleepless nights trying to figure out how their stocks are doing, investing in education becomes
even more paramount.
By investing in education, governments, corporations, communities, NGOs and individuals can help prepare the youths for
the challenges ahead. If children are really the leaders of tomorrow, then it is time we started investing in them!
Regrettably , Illiteracy has come to stay in many developing countries of the world, including Nigeria, and has continued to pose a threat to many such nations. On this my blog you will learn more about education in Nigeria and the future of those pupils who are not opportuned to
further their education after leaving primary school.
At the dawn of the year 2002, Nigeria is
still uncertain where it is headed. In
other words, her destination is still
unknown. The Nigerian world has
blamed the woes of Nigeria, and in
particular that of the educational sector,
to the many years of military misrule.
There is the common feeling that the
military neglected the universities
because of their opposition to military
rule. But with the re-emergence of civil
rule the nation's educational
institutions are still in shambles today,
with university professors still not
being paid on time. (Some may argue
that the universities have started to
claw their way back to normalcy with
the reprise of civil rule ) and is that true ?
If, strictly speaking, there is no such
thing as democracy in Nigeria, it is
because its past as well as its present
history has become so interwoven into
crises, which has often left the common
man in constant struggle for survival.
But for the riches and powerful corrupt
politicians, things are very rosy. The
role of the ordinary person in Nigeria
in the making of democracy is, generally speaking, not regarded or not known at all, after casting his or her vote. And often the positive contributions of the people who
struggled, and are still struggling, for
the sustenance of democracy in the
society have escaped the eyes of those
who managed to rig their way into
political offices.
This is a terrible deviation from the norm . Nigeria is suffering terribly for that, with socio-political and economic crises strewn all over the society like a straw hut in a
typhoon.
Education in Nigeria: A public-health
issue?
The role of education in the development of a society has been vastly documented in academic journals, and we do not intend to revisit it here. This section will
concentrate on the need for Nigerian
leaders to pay close attention to the needs of the educational sector, and treat it as a public-health issue, because the sociopolitical and economic development of a nation and is, in many ways, determined by the quality and level of educational attainment of the population.
Political leaders should take politics out of
education, as the continued neglect of this sector would lead to social paralysis. The youth should be given the appropriate quality academic training and an environment that would enable them to reach their full potential.
Nigeria has toiled with some educational programs, which have only served as conduits to transfer money to the corrupt political leaders and their cronies. For instance, the nation launched the Universal Primary Education (UPE) in 1976, but as noted, the program failed due to lack of fund necessitated by corruption, among other factors. Nigeria has again
launched another mass-oriented
education program, this time branding
it the Universal Basic Education (UBE).
The President, Olusegun Obasanjo,
declared during the launching of the
program in Sokoto that the nation
"cannot afford to fail this time around."
However, not long after that, the
federal government reported that the
falling standard of education in Nigeria
is caused by "acute shortage of qualified
teachers in the primary school level." It
is reported that about 23 percent of the
over 400,000 teachers employed in the
nation's primary schools do not posses
the Teachers' Grade Two Certificate,
even when the National Certificate of
Education (NCE) is the minimum
educational requirement one should
posses to teach in the nation's primary
schools . What a pathetic country.
If one may ask: with the troubling
revelations of the shortage and "half-
baked" teachers employed to teach in
the nation's schools, how are we certain
the current UBE program will be
successful? Has the government trained
the required number and quality of
teachers needed to successfully
implement the program? Are the
teachers going to be motivated to
perform their duties well? Are the
classrooms and seats ready, or are the
pupils going to sit on bare floor? Are
the books and other teaching materials
ready? .
But the leaders do not seem to want to listen!
Today, there are about 48,242 primary schools with 23,796,078 students in public schools and 2,965,517 in private schools in Nigeria. In addition, Nigeria has 7,104
secondary schools with 6,768,981
students, Most of these schools are in dilapidating states. This shows that Nigeria has a weird value system: it is a society where priorities are turned to their heads.
For instance, the salaries of the less
educated local government counselors
are higher than that of university
professors; it is a place where well
known rouge, a 419 person, is
applauded for donating money to local
communities and churches; it is a place
where nobody cares about how one
makes his/her money; it is a place
where the roads leading to million
dollar homes are filled with potholes;
and the society is a place where the
streets in capital cities are littered with
hips of thrash. And nobody cares!
Something is obviously wrong with any
society that does not take her
educational institutions seriously.
Nevertheless, the increased need for
higher education during the oil boom of
the 1970s in Nigeria, coupled with
political pressure, led to the
establishment of many universities in
the society. And 'an explosive
expansion in enrollments' during this
period marked the beginning of 'the
decline in quality' of education in the
society. In two decades, the number of
university students increased eightfold,
from about 55,000 in 1980 to more than
400,000 today ( what a mess).
As the ugly tradition of corruption
persists, the public tertiary institutions
have been left to rot away. Some of the
loans received from the World Bank
toward education during the 1990s
were used to purchase unnecessary, and
"expensive equipment" that "could not
be properly installed or maintained,
and many institutions received
irrelevant and useless books and
journals". All these, including ubiquitous corruption, have contributed to the decline in the quality of Education in Nigeria's
educational institutions that were ones
highly regarded.
With the news of corruption still filling the pages of Nigeria newspapers and magazines, the apparent war on corruption in the society seem an impossible task, since those wagging the corruption-war are themselves as corrupt as a parrot.
For the success of any democratic
system (which Nigeria now fiddles with)
depends on the individuals' ability to
analyze problems and make thoughtful
decisions. And democracy, it has been
argued, thrives on the productivity of
its diverse constituency - a productivity
fostered by free, critical, and creative
thought on issues of common interest.
But democratic values are nurtured on
the fertile ground of basic education – a
functional education with the right
focus and correct scope (Marzano, et. al,
1988)
With everybody chasing the shadow of
money, and with the pittance sum
invested yearly on education, how could
the system produce the critical and
creative minds Nigeria needs to guide
and manage democratic system and
survive as a viable nation? If the society
continues to neglect her schools, it could
not educate her citizens.
Consequently,the political landscape would be littered with illiterate politicians, and the society would be incapable of gathering and maintaining a reasonable database for national planning and other
development programs. To avoid this,
the political leaders should begin now
to re-order their priorities, as their
priorities have so far been dictated by
how much they will gain from any
policy decision (by ways of contracts),
and not how they will benefit the society as a whole.
Thus, lack of good education and
unemployment in Nigeria would
contribute to many social ills, including
crime, prostitution, and the break down
in law and order. For this, the society
should invest more on the youth, and
educate them to differentiate rights
from wrong before they become adults.
Therefore, to move forward the
government should adopt necessary
policies to destroy the current bad value
system in the society, and create
conducive environment that would
enable the educational institutions to
engage in healthy competitions, raise
funds through private donations and
grants, and attract and retain qualified
students financially positioned to pay
tuitions. On my note, Higher education in Nigeria should not be free. If one would pay for any service, one could afford to
complain, or move to an institution
where he/she could get the money's
worth of service. This, however, does
not mean that diplomas should be sold
to the highest bidder.
Also the universities should develop a system whereby students could transfer to schools of their choice (and change
their major) if they are qualified,
without it adversely impacting their
studies. And university admissions
should be based strictly on merit,
without ethnically and state-based
criteria, which have unfortunately
colored the system. All these are not
available in system currently. If these
suggestions are implemented they
would, among other things, help the
institutions of higher learning to
prepare grounds for more intense
academic competition, and to attract
better quality teachers by "rebuild [ing]
a culture of scholarship which has been
eroded by under funding" so as to
motivate them to be more productive.
And any institution that cannot survive should be allowed to wither. Improving the
condition of things in this sector would
pave the way to the nation's prosperity.
It is known (at least in the developed
world) that education determines, not
only earning capacity, but also the very
quality of human life (even longevity
has relationship to education). In a
society that appreciates educated class,
those with good education tend to earn
higher incomes; they also are in a
better position to live a better and
healthy live. Higher education gives one
a greater sense of how to reduce risks
in life and change their behaviour.
Comparatively, many uneducated
people, in general, have myriad bad
habits that cause or lead to illness. For
instance, they can smoke or drink more
than it is necessary, and tend to have
more children, some of the less educated and unemployed villagers I have come across with have about eight or more children. And they are proud of that – but the children are suffering. Many of them drink and eat whatever that is offered to them without limitation and cognizant of the health consequences).
Higher education could be an important part in the solutions to the ills of the society. As noted earlier, how much a nation progresses has a lot to do with the
quality of education and educational
attainment of its citizens. That's why
Nigeria should build and maintain good
schools and treat the sordid state of
education as public-health crisis in
society. May God bless this country Nigeria
I am just human , I was shown love from all over the globe, yeah I know it's like that. I may have stepped on toes but the truth is I really recognized you all that took a pinch of your hard earned time to say me a happy birthday. May God almighty remember you to for good and keep blessing you as always. Thanks to you all. TDK loves you all
