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President-elect inaugurates 19-member Transition Committee

The President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday in Abuja inaugurated a 19-member Transition Committee to liaise with its Federal Government counterpart to ensure a smooth transition.
A statement issued in Abuja by the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Committee (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the terms of reference of the committee include to develop a clear framework for liaison with the out-going Administration for purposes of a smooth hand-over/take-over and to receive hand-over documents from Ministries, Departments and Agencies and itemise the most important or most urgent issues confronting the in-coming government
It said the committee is also saddled with reviewing and making preliminary assessment of the balance sheet of government with particular emphasis on the status of assets and liabilities of government; cash flow position of the government; quantum of public domestic and external debt of government and their deployment; government’s out-standing contractual obligations and its ability to meet such obligations and the status of implementation of capital projects.
The committee is also expected to undertake a preliminary assessment of the security challenges facing the country and the counter-insurgency measures taken by the government thus far; the counter policy measures being implemented in the Niger Delta to deal with unrest and major economic crimes in the area. In particular, the status of the Amnesty Programme, the readiness of the Police and other national security and intelligence agencies in addressing threats to law and order and provide a brief over-view of CBN, NNPC, NCC, Customs and
FIRS.
Other terms of reference of the committee include to suggest “quick fixes” which will result in tangible, visible and practical measures so that CHANGE will be seen after 30 days, after 100 days, after 6 months of the Administration taking office, and to make any other observations which in view of the Committee would be helpful to the transition and take-off of the new Administration. The committee has two weeks to conclude its work
Speaking at the inauguration in Abuja on Wednesday, the President-elect charged the committee to ”assess the information provided to you and advise me on its quality and accuracy. It is a simple matter that you must have the right information if you are to shape appropriate policy decisions.
”Needless to repeat, that your Committee – and indeed our Government – are not on a witch-hunt or engaged in fault-finding. We want the facts and nothing but the facts. What has been done can not be undone. Our job is to learn from the mistakes of the past and attempt to avoid similar.”
Gen. Buhari hailed the calibre of the committee’s membership, saying they represent some of the best Nigeria can offer. He described the committee chairman, Malam Ahmed Joda, as one of the few surviving links between First Republic civil service to the present day, a man whose versatility includes farming, industry and 21st Century IT and one of Nigerian’s precious assets.
Full list of Transition Committee members:
1. Mal. Ahmed Joda – Chairman
2. Dr Doyin Salami – Vice-Chairman
3. Mr Boss Mustapha
4. Mal. Muhammad Hayatuddin
5. Alh. Abubakar Malami SAN
6. Brig. Gen. Lawal Jafaru Isa
7. Sen. Hadi Sirika
8. Sen. Audu Ogbeh
9. Barrister Dalong
10. Mrs Bola Adesola
11. Mr Wale Edun
12. Mrs Nike Aboderin
13. Dr Ogbonnaya Onu
14. Mr Festus Odimegwu
15. Chief John Oyegun
16. Gov. Rotimi Amaechi
17. Dr Tam David West
18. Alh.Lai Mohammed
19 Mal Adamu Adamu – Secretary
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Abuja, April 29th 2015

Please vote for Nigerian Star, Asisat Oshoala Nominated For BBC Women's Player Of The Year Award

Nigerian Star, Asisat Oshoala Nominated For BBC Women's Player Of The Year Award.

Our very own football prodigy, Asisat Oshoala who currently plays for Liverpool FC, has been nominated
Where other BBC Women's Footballer of the Year nominees have a long line of achievements behind them, Asisat Oshoala who has two prestigious titles of the CAF Female Player of the year & CAF Youth Player of the year, is just beginning a promising career.
by the BBC for the first edition of the Women's Footballer Of The Year award.
To Vote For Her
Voting is open now and closes on 11 May at 10:00 BST.
Fans can vote online through the BBC website or by SMS.
To vote online, & chose Asisat.
click here
To vote for BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2015 by SMS, text the number of the player you wish to vote for to +44 7786 20 20 04. Text for Asisat Oshoala. 5
Asisat was named along with Brazil's Marta, Spain's Veronica Boquete, Nadine Kessler of Germany and Kim Little of Scotland in the inaugural BBC Woman Footballer of the Year award billed to be announced on May 26 after a poll from listeners from across the globe.

IGBO SLAUGHTERED THEMSELVES The Fallacy Of Ethnic Gang Up Against President Jonathan?

IGBO SLAUGHTERED THEMSELVES
The Fallacy Of Ethnic Gang Up Against
President Jonathan?
First it was Asari Dokubo who said President
GOODLUCK Ebele Jonathan’s defeat was a
‘gang up’. In his words “the voting pattern has
clearly shown that the Gambari North and the
Yoruba are united in the conquest of the Niger
Deltans and the Igbo of defunct Biafra with the
Middle Belt now used as pawns”. Then Daniel
Elombah in his very bias piece titled “Goodluck
Jonathan,the coward that led the Igbos to the
slaughter” said there was no elections on May
28 and the whole elections was just a decision
that President Jonathan be replaced by a
Northern Muslim. For all they care the
southwest voted for APC because of Osinbajo,a
yoruba man and the North voted APC because
of Buhari, a fulani man. Doyin Okupe gave the
‘gang up’ theory another dimension when he
wrote on his facebook wall that President
Jonathan lost because of “national and
international conspiracy”. To them President
Jonathan’s failed re-election bid has nothing to
do with his poor scorecard as an incumbent.
When do they intend telling Mr President the
truth? Chinua Achebe said in his last book that
“…part of the way to respond to confusion in
Nigeria is to blame those from other ethnic
groups or the other side of the country”.
Let’s not mislead people or try to misrepresent
this historic moment because we find ourselves
on the wrong side Of history. President
Jonathan failed everybody including the Niger
deltans and Igbo people. Can anybody in these
places sincerely say they are better off as a
people since Goodluck became President? The
Niger deltans and the Igbo people could easily
forgive him to continue because he is “their
brother” [sincerely I don’t understand how he is
the brother of the Igbos] but the rest of Nigeria
couldn’t and that is the summary of the
Presidential Elections. Let us quickly look at the
voting pattern in the 2011 and 2015 Presidential
elections in some geo-political zones to put to
bed all the noise about ethnic gang up.
In 2011 Presidential election,General Buhari
didn’t even come second in the southwest with
a yoruba man as his running mate,so why will
the yoruba people suddenly decide to vote
Buhari because of Pastor Osinbajo? President
Jonathan lost in the north-central states of
Kogi,Benue and Kwara,these are places he won
last term with a landslide. It’s hard to believe he
lost all these states because of a gang up. While
in 2011,President Jonathan won in Taraba and
Adamawa,he lost one of the two states this time
around and then went ahead to win with a
landslide in south-south and South-east geo-
political zone. If he won with a landslide as
expected in his stronghold then he shouldn’t
complain if General Buhari won with a landslide
in his stronghold of North-east and Northwest.
If the President lost in many states he won last
time to become President,the first thing to ask
is if he fulfilled his campaign promises to them
and if he did, that’s where a ‘gang up’
conspiracy can sell. President Jonathan failed to
fulfil his campaign promises. He didn’t show
sympathy or empathy when boko haram
kidnapped,butchered and burnt school children in
the North-east but expected to get their votes
and the votes of other Nigerians? In a country
with 112 million poor people,our President was
spending N1billion on food alone and he
expected people to vote for him. Under his
watch,young people were exploited and killed in
the name of NIS recruitment exercise. Did Mr
President think we have forgiven him for
increasing the price of petrol in the name of
subsidy removal? How can we forgive a
President that went partying in less than 24hrs
after the Nyanya terrorist attack? While Mr
President was telling us about almajiri
schools,the number of illiterates increased to
35million. Mr President told us we are now the
largest economy in Africa but states are finding
it difficult to pay salaries and unemployment is
still very high. He sacked a government official
who said huge amount of money was missing
and gave presidential pardon to a treasury looter
but expected us to believe he is fighting
corruption. Mr President lost because he failed
to discharge his responsibilities as a President.
The many sins of President Jonathan are too
numerous to mention.
In 2011,he came to Nigerians as a very humble
man,telling whoever cared to listen that his
ambition is not worth the blood of anybody but
in 2015 he came back to us for re-election with
the burden of broken promises,squandered
goodwill and gross incompetence. Maybe he
thought it was possible for him to manipulate
his way by using ethnicity,religion and dollars.
The ethnic card was always going to work
against him because he was from a minority
ethnic group. He couldn’t use religion again as
APC were a step ahead of him by choosing Prof
Osinbajo(a pastor of the Redeem Christian
Church of God) as the running mate of General
Buhari. By the time he started dollarizing the
political landscape,it was too late. If tomorrow
President Jonathan wants to know why he failed
in his re-election bid,he should look within and
not outside. His government was too business
as usual and as the looting of our common
wealth increased to an unimaginable level,so
also did poverty,hunger and frustration increased
on the side of the masses. The people couldn’t
take it any more and APC capitalised on this.
Those 15,424,921 votes that sent President
Jonathan packing were not votes against ijaw or
the south-south,there were votes against an
incompetent President.
I find it difficult to believe that anybody
supported President Jonathan because of his
performance. They supported him out of
selfishness or ethnic sentiments or both. He was
no Lee Kuan Yew,he was neither Nelson
Mandela nor a Martin Luther King,he is the
perfect example of a failed President. No matter
how you try to twist this historic moment,it will
not change the truth. Under President Jonathan
Nigeria was heading for destruction and the only
way to restore hope was to vote him out and we
did exactly that. This is the beginning of a new
dawn. Let’s stop preaching unnecessary hate
and division,its time to join hands and build a
great nation.

World Bank gives Nigeria N99.5b to improve maternal health

World Bank gives Nigeria N99.5b to improve maternal health
The World Bank said it has released N99.5 billion ($500 million) for the Nigerian government to improve on maternal and child health and nutrition.
In a statement, the World Bank said the fund was approved by the World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors through the International Development Association. The fund is expected to “significantly” improve maternal, child, and nutrition health services for women and children in Nigeria.
Through this funding, an improvement in the access of higher quality health service in order to achieve Nigeria’s “Saving One Million Lives, SOML, Initiative,” a project is paramount.
The SOML initiative was launched by Nigeria’s Ministry of Health in October 2012 to save the lives of the more than 900,000 women and children who die every year in Nigeria from largely preventable causes.
Nigeria accounts for 14 per cent of all annual maternal deaths worldwide, second only to India at 17 per cent. Similarly, Nigeria accounts for 13 per cent of all global deaths of children under the age of five years, again second only to India at 21 per cent.
The World Bank’s funding support for the initiative will utilize the Program-for-Results, PforR, instrument to encourage a greater focus on results, increase accountability, improve measurements, strengthen management, and foster innovation.
This program will help strengthen Nigeria’s health system and development says, Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly, Nigeria’s Country Director.
Ms. Marie-Nelly said the program will also provide an important tool for bringing both government and development partners together around a commitment to achieve specific, tangible results.
These funds, World Bank said will only be disbursed to the Federal and State governments for independently verified improvements in key services such as vaccination coverage among young children, rates of contraceptive use, Vitamin A supplementation and skilled birth attendance.
Others include: HIV counselling and testing among women attending antenatal care, and preventing new malaria infections among children by using insecticide- treated bed nets when they sleep.
Also, Federal and State governments receive incentive payments for better tackling governance and management issues in the health sector and for improving the quality of basic health services.
SOML will be implemented under the Federal Ministry of Health, in close cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Finance which will provide the financial oversight role while new health operation is expected to start implementation on August 1, 2015.
The operation will end after four years, in December 2019