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Fixation:
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lol.. no one is happy abt the nysc..its waste of time

Meeloreh:
I'm not very happy/ excited bou the nysc thing. (y is it not optional sef) Well, I'll be going with the first batch in 2016, and I hope I get posted to Kaduna if God permits

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i know its a long ass story but its worth reading..





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ON Monday, July 13, 2015, at two separate events, two elected prominent, influential and powerful public officers, one a Governor, the other a national legislator, made similar policy advocacy on fundamental aspects of the economy, which could determine the direction of civil society-government relationship in the coming period. They are the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara.
Riding on the wave of anti-corruption concerns, the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, in his lecture at a Wole Soyinka Centre event, advocated the scrapping of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, arguing that “if you don’t kill NNPC, it will kill Nigeria”. He justified his call by making reference to the undeniably monumental corruption in the NNPC. He revealed that “the NNPC only remitted about 58 per cent of the monies earned between 2012 and the first half of 2015. A company with the audacity to retain 42 per cent of a country’s money has become a veritable parallel republic!”
Parallel republic
This means that, as he rightly pointed out, the NNPC alone retained more money than what the Federal Government, the Federal Capital Territory and the State Governments put together shared from the revenue accruing to the NNPC.
However, it is important to understand the ultimate goal of Governor Nasir El-Rufai, from the standpoint of implications for national development. His concerns appear not to be limited to tackling corruption. It appears Governor El Rufai has, in fact, given up hope that corruption can ever be fought successfully in Nigeria. Rather than insisting that the Federal Government under President Buhari should set in motion the process of bringing to justice all former top s, Ministers and Directors who had played a role in looting NNPC, Governor El Rufai merely lamented that “No one has been successfully prosecuted for this scam.” Rather than distinguishing the role of all past top looting-managers of the NNPC (such as Ministers) from the role of ordinary workers, Governor El Rufai put the burden of corruption in the NNPC on the entire workforce of “less than 1,000 employees of the corporation” who as he put it, are “feasting” on the collective wealth.
The ultimate goal of Governor El Rufai tends to be the privatization of NNPC and removal of fuel subsidy. According to online newspaper reports, El Rufai argued that “with his experience as a former Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, it was possible to destroy a bad organization and turn it into a good firm”. Thus, according to El Rufai, “the country should demonstrate a new purpose by slaying three huge dragons” which he identified as “fixation with public ownership”, “oil subsidy” and the NNPC. He was reported to have argued, that “oil subsidy regime had neither grown the Nigerian people nor guaranteed stability of refined products’ supplies”.
If the call by Governor El Rufai that the NNPC should be “killed” because of its intractable corruption should be followed to a logical conclusion, it amounts to saying that because corruption permeates all levels of government in Nigeria, from the Federal to the Local Governments, including the legislature, then, all the tiers of government should be “killed”; the Executive, Legislative and Judicial arms of government should all be dissolved. That would ultimately mean that there would be no office called the office of the Governor of Kaduna State, which El Rufai occupies today. This analogy reflects the depth, or lack of any depth, in the call by El Rufai for the abolition of NNPC on the of pervasive corruption.
El Rufai is, however, not alone in the recent advocacy for removal of fuel subsidy. Apart from the promptings by spokespersons of world imperialism, the US Government, the APC Transition Committee, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has added his voice in of the pro-subsidy removal advocates. No dissenting voice has been heard from his colleagues, either in the House of Representatives or the Senate. They appear more preoccupied with who occupies the leadership positions in the National Assembly to be concerned with policy debates.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has been busy researching and advising on “the most legal way to do it so that subsidy can go permanently”. Hon. Dogara’s concerns are not about how to bring relief to the masses of our country but about how the “stomach infrastructure” of dealers in the oil industry can be strengthened through fuel subsidy removal. On the same Monday, July 13, 2015, when Governor El-Rufai made his call for the abolition of the NNPC, Hon. Dogara was equally advising a delegation of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) to mount pressure on the Executive arm of the Federal Government to inaugurate the price control board under the Price Control Act, which could, in exercise of its powers, remove petroleum products from the list of items whose pricing is subject to regulation. Alternatively, the IPMAN, according to Dogara’s advice, could pressurize the National Assembly to either repeal or amend the Price Control Act by removing petroleum products from the list of items whose pricing is subject to regulatory control. The IPMAN delegation had sought the of Mr Speaker for the “approval of government to engage in the swapping of crude oil for refined products” under a pricing regime in which petroleum products are not subject to regulated pricing.
The critical concern is for how long would President Buhari be able to resist the powerful pro-subsidy removal forces in the APC? President Buhari has good reasons to continue to resist fuel subsidy removal.
Apart from the understanding already displayed in President Buhari’s statement quoted above, “killing” NNPC will have implications for job losses which will compound the unemployment situation and associated criminalities in social relations. The fundamental raison d’etre for the existence of social institution called government is not only for providing physical security but also economic security. Removing fuel subsidy, privatizing NNPC, and so on, will exacerbate the already harsh socio-economic conditions of the most vulnerable classes rather than attenuate their material wellbeing.
The unfolding trends of policy advocacy on the management of the petroleum industry, including pricing policy on petroleum products, have shown clearly that two dominant forces are in contention within the ruling APC. One trend is for discarding public ownership, price control and fuel subsidy removal. The other is for retention of some level of public ownership and exercise of governmental control on pricing and retention of fuel subsidy regime. By the recent public pronouncements depicted above, the anti-public ownership trend is represented by the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara and the APC Transition Committee.
The pro-public ownership trend appears to be represented by President Muhammadu Buhari. The trend that finally prevails within the APC-controlled Executive arm of the Federal Government and the entire National Assembly will determine whether the Buhari istration (and by extension, the entire APC) will go down in history as a pro-people ‘change’ government or a continuation of governance by declaration of war against the interests of the downtrodden.
Let President Buhari be consistently clear about it: no government, even the most brutal military dictatorship, has ever succeeded in muscling and silencing the Nigerian working people in the face of crippling economic policies, particularly, increases in the prices of petroleum products. Just as there is a direct relationship between removal of fuel subsidy and increases in the prices of all other goods and services, there is a relationship between the degree and momentum of popular resistance struggles and increases in the prices of petroleum products. In what appears to be inevitable impending social conflicts around the issue of fuel subsidy removal, President Buhari should lean on the outcries of the masses against the pressures of business and contractor dealers in and out of government circles.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/the-logic-and-significance-of-el-rufais-call-kill-nnpc-or-nnpc-will-kill-nigeria/#sthash.KwuDPFxE.dpuf

Operatives of the Lagos State Fire service are battling to put off a raging fire on two buldings at 155 BDG, Abule Ado, on Mile 2 – Badagry expressway.

The inferno began at about 3am affecting two warehouse buildings belonging to Choice furniture company.

When Vanguard got to the scene at about past 7am men of the Lagos state fire service were already on ground battling to put off the inferno.

The cause of the inferno could not be ascertained as at press time




: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/breaking-news-fire-razed-two-buildings-in-lagos/#sthash.hXblk7jv.dpuf

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A middle aged man (name withheld) was allegedly beheaded at the weekend by one Mr. Ogo Nwaji at Amanato Community in Onicha Igboeze of Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
The community was thrown into a state of shock and disbelief when it discovered the headless body of its son lieing along the road in the community.
Vanguard gathered that the deceased was beheaded at night when he was returning home from a popular drinking t.
A source close to a security outfit in the area revealed that what led to the incident was as a result of an irreconcilable differences between the deceased and his assailant over the debt of N200.
It was learned that Ogo Nwaji allegedly confronted the deceased where they were drinking a local gin and requested that the deceased pay him the N200 debt he was owing him but the deceased according to an eyewitness claimed he was not owing him (Nwaji) any money.
This development apparently led to the duo exchanging words of abuses and threat to each other in the presence of those around.
Our correspondent further gathered that Ogo Nwaji who left the scene angrily, got to his residence, brought out a sharped cutlass and waylaid his victim at night and cut off his head as he was returning from a drinking t.
Following the unfortunate demise of the deceased, a source hinted that the vigilante group in the community was immediately alerted and Ogo Nwaji was arrested, paraded and handed over to the police for prosecution.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/man-beheaded-over-n200-debt-in-ebonyi/#sthash.5bcnmcY4.dpuf

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A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday granted an application by a former Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, seeking urgent hearing in a fundamental rights enforcement suit he filed to challenge his impeachment.

Olanusi was impeached on April 27, 2015 by the Ondo State House of Assembly after been pronounced guilty of gross misconduct by a seven-man investigative , headed by Mr. Olatunji Adeniyan.

On Monday, Justice Mohammed Idris granted Olanusi’s application for urgent hearing after his lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, had argued that the suit would be overtaken by events and become academic if it was not so heard.

Ogungbeje had told the court that though the case was filed before the Akure Division of the Federal High Court, it had to be transferred to Lagos as the presiding judge in Ondo State, Justice I.N. Sanni, had proceeded on vacation which would last till September.

Idris, after hearing Ogungbeje, granted Olanusi’s application for urgent hearing and adjourned further proceedings till August 3.

Olanusi is seeking an order quashing the proceedings and the report of the Adeniyan-led seven-man impeachment which recommended him for impeachment.

He is also seeking an order nullifying his removal as the Ondo State Deputy Governor by the state House of Assembly on April 27, 2015.

The former deputy governor, through his lawyer, Ogungbeje, is contending that “the sitting, conclusion of proceedings and submission of report by the within one day” denied him of his right to fair hearing as enshrined in Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution.

He is seeking a declaration that “the failure of the 1st respondent to oblige the applicant adequate time and facility, as guaranteed under the constitution, to defend the allegation of misconduct is a breach of his right to fair hearing and fair trial as guaranteed under Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution.”

He also alleged that the Adeniyan-led failed to personally serve him with the notice of the allegation of misconduct and thus urged the court to declare the notice as null and void.

The two respondents in the suit are Adeniyan and the Inspector General of Police.

In a six-paragraph affidavit filed in of the suit, the deponent, one Oladimeji Temitope, said, “The rules of natural justice were not observed by the respondents in the proceedings of the 1st respondent and the removal of the applicant as the Deputy Governor of Ondo State.

“The applicant was shamefully removed and disgraced out of office without fair hearing, regard for due process of law and the sanctity of the law and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“The applicant’s right to fair hearing and fair trial have been unfairly and oppressively trampled upon by the respondents.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/impeachment-court-grants-ex-ondo-deputy-gov-urgent-hearing/