2015: INEC redeploys RECs

Ahead of the 2015 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Monday announced a major shake up in the commission. The electoral body moved round all the Resident Electoral Commissioners in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. INEC, according to its daily in house news letter, “Daily Bulletin” said news on the redeployments was contained in a letter signed by the Secretary to the Commission, Mrs. Augusta Ogakwu. The scribe directed that all handing and taking over formalities be concluded by December 31. The RECs and their new postings are listed below: Prof. O.E. Onukaogu from Abia to Enugu; Prof. Tukur Sa’ad – Adamawa to Bauchi; Ahmed Makama – Bauchi toTaraba; Mike Igini – Delta to Edo; Selina Omagha Oko – Ebonyi to Abia; Edwin Offor Nwatarali – Enugu to Anambra; Sadiq Abubakar Musa from Kaduna to Sokoto; Jibrin Ibrahim Zarewa – Kano to Kebbi; Hussaini Ahmed Mahuta – Katsina to Kaduna and Abubakar Umar Garba Wara – Kebbi to Zamfara. Others are – Emmanuel Onucheyo – Kogi to Kwara; Rufus O. Akeju – Lagos to Oyo; Abdullahi Umar Danyaya – Niger to Nasarawa; Timothy A. Ibitoye – Osun to Ogun; A.L. Ogunmola – Oyo to Osun; Barito Lenusikpugi Kphagih – Rivers to Bayelsa; Haliru A. Tambuwal – Sokoto to Jigawa; Kassim Gana Geidam – Yobe to Gombe; Ibrahim Bagobiri Marafa -Zamfara to Katsina and Aniedi Ikoiwak- Akwa-Ibom to Delta. The remaining redeployments announced by INEC are – Habu Zarma- Gombe to Yobe; Akin Orebiyi- Ogun to Lagos; Hussaini Halilu Pai -FCT to Kogi; Kwanga Godwin Mbatsavbee- Benue to Plateau; Sylvester Okey Ezeani – Anambra to Cross River; Minkaila Abdullahi – Jigawa to Kano; Lawrence Azubuike – Imo to Ebonyi; Sam Olugbadebo Olumekun – Ondo to Ekiti; Istifanus Ishaku Dafwang- Plateau to Benue Gesila Khan – Bayelsa to Rivers; Samuel Madaki – Taraba to Borno; Gabriel Ada – Cross River to Imo; Jacob Shekwonudu Jatau – Nasarawa to FCT; Baba Abba Yusuf- Borno to Adamawa; Segun Agbaje- Ekiti to Ondo; Nasir Ayilara- Kwara to Niger and Austine Okojie – Edo to Akwa-Ibom. source > thenationonlineng.net

NYSC Online Registration:Stakeholders Demand OutrightCancellation Of Fee

A cross section of parents and prospective
corps members have called for an outright
cancellation of the National Youth Service
Corps (NYSC) online registration fee.
The stakeholders made the demand in
separate interviews with the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday.
They said that the online registration fee was
too exorbitant for prospective corps
members to bear.
They also said the increasing economic
hardship in the country and other socio-
economic factors should be put into
consideration by the appropriate authorities.
Mr Jonah Ugwu, a parent resident in the FCT,
said the idea of making NYSC mobilisation
electronic compliant was a good one, but
noted that it was ill-conceived.
He said the initiators of the policy did not
consider a lot of factors before coming up
with the cost and other logistics for the new
method of mobilisation and registration.
“The idea is a wonderful one but the timing
is wrong, where will these young graduates
get N4,000 to register for the scheme.
“I am not against the new format for
registration, but it should be made free in
the first instance then subsequently the
corps could be levied a token,’’ he said.
Mr Dairus Akaleku, also a parent, decried the
measure adopted by the NYSC to introduce
the new system of registration.
He said the entire process has been marred
by the high charges fixed for the exercise.
According to Akaleku, the online registration
is a good initiative, but frowned at the high
fee as the same result could be achieved at a
cheaper rate.
Akaleku advised the NYSC management to
reverse the fee to N500 or at most N1,000 to
enable all prospective corps members buy
into the new method.
Mrs Ijeoma Okeke, a businesswoman in the
FCT, said government should realise that the
fee for the registration would be an added
burden to parents without any
commensurate increase in their income.
“Where are the parents going to get the
money from, business is not booming and
there has not been increase in the income of
those working in government
establishments.
“This is absolutely unacceptable and
unnecessary, can’t there be some other ways
of introducing the new format other than
asking the jobless graduates to pay for the
call up letters, it is sad,’’ she said.
A prospective corps member resident in the
FCT, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity, told NAN that he could not afford
the said amount for his call up letter.
He told NAN on condition of anonymity that
the idea was novel and preferred it to the
manual method.
But corps member said he had to save
money to get other needs to participate in
the scheme.
He appealed to the authorities to make it free
for all prospective corps members.
He stressed that making it optional was not
in the best interest of the registration
process.
Another prospective corps member, who also
did not want her name mentioned, wondered
why government could not make adequate
provision for the new initiative.
She said the NYSC management could liaise
with the mobilising institutions to get the
needed data about the graduating students
and feed same to the NYSC for the electronic
registration.
“As far as am concerned NYSC does not need
to embark on a separate data capturing
exercise for the sake of mobilising corps
members.
“Most schools now register students online,
so the schools can arrange for special
registration for graduating students which
they can transfer to the NYSC for the purpose
of mobilisation.
“This will save us the stress of paying any
amount for the registration,’’ she said.
NAN recalls that the NYSC stakeholders’
conference endorsed the online registration
process at its end of year meeting, but
suggested a downward review of the cost.
(NAN)

FG finally sells nitel-mtel for N252m

Council on Privatisation(NCP) chaired by Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Thursday ratified the sale of the liquidated Nigeria Telecommunication Plc and it’s subsidiary, M-tel, to NATCOM Consortium for $252. The ratification was one of the decisions taken at the NCP meeting at the Presidential Villa. Chairman of NCP’s Technical Committee, Atedo Peterside, told newsmen after the meeting that NATCOM beat one other bidder that was also prequalified to clinch the deal. He said this now ends the entire bidding process and what is now left is to conclude the necessary documentation, he stated. This transaction is different from what happened with sale of power plants sale because Nitel is not an ongoing concern but a liquidated one no longer in business. In view of this, the liquidator will through the court pay some verified claims of creditors of Nitel/ M-tel, which therefore sidesteps the issue of third party creditors but it does not preclude the Government from settling any obligations it feels like, Peterside explained. Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Musa Sada, pointed out that the ultimate objective is to have the moribund firms resuscitated and work better for Nigerians, not just to sell them off. Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Benjamin Dikki, announced that Indorama Eleme Petrochemical Limited has passed the performance evaluation administered on it. It means that Indorama has fulfilled the sale purchase agreements it signed with BPE and is therefore freed from a five-year probation/monitoring period. Source: www.withinnigeria.com

THERE ARE 5 PRESIDENTS IN NIGERIA MORE POWERFUL THAN JONATHAN SAYS OBASANJO

Despite a court order obtained by Kashamu Buruji, a
close associate of President Goodluck Jonathan,
stopping the publication of former President Olusegun
Obasanjo's controversial autobiography, the book.
My Watch, was unveiled at the Lagos Country club
Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday, December 9, 2014.
Extracts from the three volume autobiography of
Obasanjo insinuates that Dame Patience Jonathan,
Madueke Allison Diezani, Stella Oduah and Okonjo
Iweala are the most powerful women in Nigeria.
Obasanjo wrote that there are five presidents in
Nigeria, which include the above mentioned four
women and Jonathan is the weakest of them all, PM
News reports.
Obasanjo wrote: It was the same elder statesman who
reportedly tried to jolt the president into action by
telling him that there were five presidents in Nigeria.
These were his wife the first lady, Diezani (Alison
Madueke), Stella (Oduah), Ngozi (Okonjo Iweala) and
the president himself, and that he was the weakest of
the five.
1. Patience Jonathan.
She is the current First Lady of Nigeria who recently
resigned her position as a permanent secretary in
Bayelsa state.
She is married to the President of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan.
2. Madueke Allison Diezani:
She is the Minister of Petroleum. She has been
constantly accused of sleazy practices within the oil
sector.
There were allegations that she spent N10 Billion
hiring aircraft within two years.
One of the most controversial policies introduced
under Alison Madueke is the government's plan to
remove subsidies on fuel prices.
3. Stella Oduah.
She was a former aviation minister.
She has been involved in numerous controversies
ranging from being accused of purchasing BMW bullet
proof cars without following due process as well as
allegations that she lied about how she obtained an
MBA degree from St Paul's College.
4. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala:
Finance Minister Okonjo Iweala
She is the finance minister. On January 1, 2012, the
Nigerian government removed the fuel subsidy.
That action triggered a nationwide riot which had Dr.
Iweala in the cross fire.
She got the blame more than any other public servant
for the removal of subsidy.
The launch of the three volume book was stopped by a
court injunction secured by a former friend of
Obasanjo, Prince Buruji Kashamuon, on Friday,
December 5th, but lawyers to Chief Obasanjo advised
him to go ahead with the launch.
5. GoodLuck Jonathan.
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, BNER, GCON
is a Nigerian politician who has been President of
Nigeria since 2010

10 Confirmed Fact About S*x and Why You Should Have S^x Often

1 . Having sex relieves headaches. Every time you make
love , it releases the tension in the veins of the brain.
2 . A lot of sex can clear the stuffy nose. Sex is a natural
antihistamine . It helps to fight against asthma and spring
allergies .
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have discovered that when a woman has sex , it produces a
large amount of estrogen that gives shine and softness to
hair.
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strengthens the muscles of male and female body. It’s more
enjoyable than swimming 20 laps in the pool and there is not
need special shoes!
5 . Make love slowly , smoothly and in a relaxed way reduces
the chances of suffering dermatitis, skin rashes and acne .
The sweat produced cleanses the pores and makes your skin
glow .
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accumulated during the romantic dinner before bedtime.
7 . Sex is a divine remedy for depression. It releases
endorphins into the bloodstream , creating a state of
euphoria and leaving women and men with the feeling of
being unique.
8 . Sex is the tranquilizer and muscle relaxant to a safer
world . It is a thousand times more effective than Valium .
9 . Sexually active body releases more pheromones.
10 . Kissing each day will keep you more time away from the
dentist . Kissing is an art which makes the cleaner teeth and
saliva reduces the amount of acid that causes tooth decay .
This prevention eliminates many problems , in addition to
offering a breath constantly renewed