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CalvinGaye:
Work as an online Teacher.

Earns BTW $3000 to $7000 monthly.

It worked for me.....I have ed my letter

Please @Ezenwa, I am unable to locate my PPA it doesn't appear to be located within my local government area of residence.

What do I do?

I am considering applying for redeployment but still, I will need to be rejected (evidence must be shown) by the PPA assigned to me first before applying for redeployment.

Please hiuse, what do I do?

I have followed those steps, it's not working.

kizsis:
Are you an N-Power Batch C applicant trying to to the N-Power/NASIMS portal and constantly faced with the "invalid " prompt highlighted in red?

Probably where you wrote down the cannot be located.

Do not worry, an N-Power Batch C applicant can always create a new and still into his or her N-Power/NASIMS dashboard.

The following steps below can be used to recover your N-Power lost successfully

Step 1: An affected N-Power Batch C applicant should "Click" on on the NASIMS/N-Power website.

Step2: An N-Power Batch C applicant should click on the “” option to recover his or her .

Step3: An affected N-Power Batch C applicant should chose the N-POWER application email or preferably the N-Power Batch C applicant can go for the N-POWER application ID.

Step4: The affected N-Power Batch C applicant should enter the information required as selected.

Step5: The N-Power Batch C applicant should Click on “Reset ”

Step6: The N-Power Batch C applicant should enter his or her new and click "proceed".

The N-Power Batch C applicant can now with his or her created few minutes ago or with your N-POWER application ID.

I have followed those steps, it keep saying: "the nasim portal has been closed for profile updates"

Hello house,
Please I received congratulatory email from NASIMs-Npower

But the problem is that O can't because I forgot my .

I clicked on the "" button and after entering my email, the response will read "the NASIMs portal has been closed for profile update".

Please is anyone here experiencing this, how did you go about it?

Which Ebonyi?

The one in southeast where I live or where you are typing from

garfield1:
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You lie.amechi and odili spread or decentralized their projects compared to wike.over 60% of their projects were outside ikwerre land and mostly in the rural areas.go deep into ogoni,ahoada,abolga,opobo,andoni you will see amechi or odili projects.over 80% of wike's projects are in ikwerre land esp ph and obio akpor.

Since past governors already spoilt ph with projects,common sense dictates that wike should locate his projects outside ph.let's take cross river for example.Donald duke concentrated on calabar and other urban areas,imoke concentrated on the rural areas.same thing in akwa ibom and ebonyi

I am always impressed and proud of SERAP.

I particularly commend the director and the deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, they are doing a marvelous job.

They are about the only Active CSO/CLO that constantly keep watchful eyes over goverment economic and social actions and are always quick to bring out fundamrental defects and profer very sound solutions.

WhY are you like this?

light099:
At least, the thread looks organized and calm.

If the guy were an Igbo man, I can't imagine what immature noise this thread would turned to by now.
It would have turned into immature noise and petty chestbeating as usual.

Things Yorubas don't count as any achievement, if East side achieves one-quarter of it, everywhere would be noise epidemic.

UmuezeOzoagba:
This is the present state of development of Abakaliki mall. It’s finally taking shape

Weldone ooooo
I hope they are paying you well for this..... Na only we we live for Ai know what's up.

You be TA abi Na STA self?

Hoephase:
The government is beginning to release result one at a time.

Wonder Why they haven't released any all these while

It will be terrible for this state....
They will have to things to fight at the same time: hunger and Coro. And since fighting Coro brings hunger...
God help them

Breaking and Sad!

Ebonyi records first COVID-19 case!

The Victim is a-31 year old transporter from Ukawu, Onicha LGA. He has been isolated alongside his three engers.
The first COVID 19 index case is a 31 year old man from Ukawu in Onicha Local Government area of ebonyi state. He rode’s a higher purchase business with his sienna vehicle which he uses to carry food items to ore in ondo state.

Usually after selling his food items, he use his vehicle to carry engers back to south East. He has made two journeys this year, one on 29th of March and returned to ebonyi on 1st of April and second one at about 12th Of April. While in ore, he couldn’t get engers to bring back to south east and he had to wait for sometimes in ore, sleeping in motor parks and filling stations.

And when he could not, and he started making his way back to south east. On his way, he saw 3 ebonyians that was speaking ebonyi language and he had to stop and they told him that they were going back to ebonyi state but they were stranded.

They called the parents and the parents agreed that he should bring them back that they will pay him while in Ebonyi state. He picked the 3 ebonyians together with himself and they started coming back. And that was about 15th of April Till about the 24th of April when they got to the boarder of Ebonyi State.
Stay safe.

@Op......
I am short of words, I should couldn't hold down thw tears flowing down my cheeks as I read this act of kindness by you and your partner...
With people like you, mother earth will be happy to send blessings and happiness on the surface of the earth.
Gid bless you richly

You nailed it

Dpharisee:
It's called Aku lue Uno or Aku rue ulo depending on the Igbo dialect.
It's a new mantra among the Igbos which means bring the wealth home, in recent past these kind of mansions used to be built only in Lagos, Kano and elsewhere the Igbos reside and do their businesses or work.
But frequent attacks, jealousy and envy even on forums like Nairaland have made them to start thinking home by putting up these magnificent structures in their hometowns (even if they may not spend more than 2 weeks in a year in them).

In the process jobs are created and the economy is boosted at home as most of the building materials are
sourced locally from their people.

Also, as an Igbo man, you won't be respected no matter how rich you are without a house in your village, if you can't afford a house they will understand, but don't pride yourself with the mansion you own in Lagos or Kano.

Congratulations to Kaycee

Sorry madam, didn't say I look great OBO. ....a friend rather. However, we ain't dragging anything I respect y'all opinion

misspresident:


Don't worry i will get some for you. imma say it to you once again....you don't look even a tiny bit like davido.

xxxtedyxxx:
omo eye dey really pain you oh

More photos. ......spot the resemblance

Abeg share me if you get ......lol

misspresident:
Op i think you need an eye drops.

This guys name is Innocent Promise, he lives in Portharcourt. ...we have worked together on a project, we usually call him OBO

As copied from OGBO AWOKE OGBO facebook wall: it answers most of the basic questions on restructuring.


AN OPEN MEMORANDUM TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ON BEHALF OF THE LOWER NIGER CONGRESS AND IT’S MNN ALLIANCE PARTNERS, IN RESPONSE TO THE RESTRUCTURING QUERIES RAISED IN PARIS, NOVEMBER 12, 2018.

At an Interactive Session Held with Nigerians resident in , November 12, 2018, on the sidelines of the World Peace Forum in Paris, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was reported by the Media as saying the following:

“There are too many People talking lazily about Restructuring in Nigeria. Unfortunately, People are not asking them individually what do they mean by Restructuring? What form do they want Restructuring to take? Do they want us to have something like the Three Regions we used to have? And now we have 36 States and the FCT. What form do they want? They are just talking loosely about Restructuring. Let them define it and then we see how we can peacefully do it in the interest of Nigerians. They are just saying that they want Nigeria Restructured and they don’t have the clue of what the form the Restructuring should be. So anybody who asks you about Restructuring in Nigeria, ask him what he means and what form he wants it to take”.

Putting aside the Unfortunate Condescending Haughtiness of describing the Protagonists of Restructuring as Lazy and Clueless, and for the purpose of Clarity, the elaborate Queries embedded in these Comments credited to Mr President could be Summarized into Two Broad Questions:

(1) WHAT EXACTLY CONSTITUTES A RESTRUCTURED NIGERIA?
(2) HOW PRECISELY SHOULD THE RESTRUCTURING EXERCISE BE UNDERTAKEN?

Let us note that QUESTION-1 relates mainly to the CONTENTS of Restructuring in of what should emerge as the Structure of Nigeria after the Restructuring Exercise while QUESTION-2 relates mainly to the PROCEDURAL PROCESSES by which the Restructuring Exercise could be successfully Prosecuted.

Before engaging these Two Broad Questions, a few preliminary remarks would be necessary to establish the baselines for this Intervention with a view to dissecting and bringing Clarity and Perspective to the entire Restructuring discourse, in a manner that is capable of advancing the difficult dialogue to the Threshold of Actionable Common Ground:

(i) Let it be recalled that after many years of Government’s prevarication on the subject of appropriate Constitutional Arrangements for Nigeria, a critical mass of Thought-Leaders who had a thorough grasp of what the real issues of the Sick Nigerian State are and what Potent Remediation Options are available for its cure, came together from across the Ethnic and Geopolitical Divides in Nigeria, (including some of your Contemporaries in the Nigerian Military), and took upon themselves the daunting task of mobilizing the Peoples of Nigeria towards a Consensus that would generate more workable and more acceptable Constitutional Arrangements for Nigeria in place of the unworkable Unitary Constitutional Order that was unilaterally foisted by Military Fiat between 1966 and 1999, on a Nigeria that was designed to be a Federation.

(ii) The said mobilization efforts led to the Convocation of the Peoples’ Sovereign Conference of the Ethnic Nationalities of Nigeria by the Enahoro-Led Pro-National Conference Organisations, PRONACO, 2005-2006, which successfully brought together Delegations from the various Ethnic Nationalities across Nigeria, Civil Society and the Leaderships of the Various Regional Self-Determination Agitations of that period (some armed), including the Oodua Peoples’ Congress, OPC as Led by Gani Adams, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB as led by Ralph Uwazuruike, the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteers Force NDPVF as led Dokubo Asari amongst others.

That Conference after almost two years of exhaustive deliberations in an unfettered atmosphere successfully by-produced The Draft Peoples’ Constitution in August 2006, anchored on the Regional Drafts of the Various Regional Delegations within the Self-Determination Rights of the Nationalities, being the Constituent Components of the distressed Nigerian Federation.

The Processes that produced the said Draft Peoples’ Constitution had and still have the potential to peacefully guide Nigeria’s return to its Federal Basis had the Federal Government of that time engaged with the Processes (Former President Obasanjo had actually declared that we were committing Treason for Convening A Sovereign Conference of the Peoples of Nigeria).

(iii) Having been a part of the wider spectrum of Leading Political Actors from Northern Nigeria involved by way of Consultations in the PRONACO Pocesses, Mr President would recall that I had in a Meeting at Ikeja between Yourself, Myself and Chief Enahoro, handed to you the Hard Cover Edition of the aforementioned Draft Peoples’ Constitution in February 2007, when you came to intimate the arrowheads of PRONACO of your bid for the Presidency of Nigeria in the 2007 Electoral Round. If there be any need for reminders on the events 2005-2006 as outlined herein, Mr President, I have no doubt that your current APC Compatriots, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, (then Governor of Lagos State), Babatunde Fashola (then Chief of Staff to Governor Tinubu) and Yemi Osinbajo (then Attorney-General of Lagos State) will readily be available to refresh your memory.

(iv) Let it also be recalled that Post-PRONACO, the arrowheads of PRONACO including Chief Anthony Enahoro and Prof Wole Soyinka and Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, amongst other Plaintiffs, had, under the aegis of the implementation phase called the Movement for New Nigeria, MNN and in furtherance of the PRONACO CONSENSUS, Instituted Suits between 2007 and 2009 at both the Lagos and Abuja Divisions of the Federal High Court, Challenging the Legitimacy of the 1999 Constitution on the Grounds of Fraud and Forgery, seeking the Termination of its Operation and the immediate initiation of a Transitioning that would distil the successor Constitutional Arrangements, just as South Africa had to do to ease itself out of the obnoxious Apartheid Constitutional Order between 1990 and 1994 under the Leadership of Courageous President Frederick W De Klerk.

(v) Further implementation steps followed in 2011, when by the MNN LAGOS DECLARATION OF JUNE 30, 2011 the MNN Alliance Partner-Organisations tly Repudiated the 1999 Constitution as the basis of Nigeria and Mandated the said Regional Partner Organizations to help galvanize the Various Peoples of Nigeria into Regional Constitution-Making Processes ahead of the inevitable Constitutional Reconfiguration of Nigeria (Restructuring).

Those Regional Processes have since advanced the Constitution-Making tasks and have between 2015 and 2018 yielded Formal Regional Proclamations across the Southern and Middle Belt Territories of Nigeria, Repudiating on behalf of the Peoples of each Regional Bloc, the 1999 Constitution as the Basis of the Federation of Nigeria and respectively Declaring their Desires to Explore other available Options for the future of their various Peoples within context of their Universal Right to Self-Determination, since Nigeria had for over 50 years (from Aburi of 1967), refused to address the Self-Determination Questions arising from the Grave Constitutional Grievances of its Constituent Components.

This review of recent and ongoing actions and exchanges amongst the Peoples of Nigeria on the subject of Restructuring is to assure Mr President that there is a body of knowledge and know-how which the distressed Federation of Nigeria can immediately leverage to salvage itself from the free fall and debilitation it now finds itself as a viable Political Union, and that contrary to Mr President’s charge that the Proponents of Restructuring are Lazy and Clueless, it is the Federal Government of Nigeria that has been mystifying and obfuscating the straightforward subject of returning Nigeria to its Federal Basis, and presenting itself as Frightened and Confused every time the word “Restructuring” is mentioned, with many failed attempts by Federal Government to short-circuit the requisite Processes by way of the Unitary-Style National Conferences in 1994, 2005 and 2014.

HERE IS A FURTHER HISTORICAL BACKGROUND FOR THE ANSWERS WE ARE PROVIDING TO QUESTIONS 1 & 2 AS CRAFTED.

A FEDERATION IS A UNION OF CONSTITUTIONS and Nigeria became One Country at Independence in 1960 when the Three Regions of the time (Northern, Eastern and Western Regions), which already had their own Constitutions made out between 1957 and 1959, Met, Negotiated and AGREED to Federate themselves into One Political Union at the Lancaster House Conferences of 1959.

The Crux of their AGREEMENT and the Federation Model it Produced was the High Degree of Autonomy it guaranteed for the Federating Regions in which each Region Owned and Controlled it’s Assets, Contributing an agreed percentage of its income (15%) for the upkeep of the Center (Federal Government), to finance the limited functions tly delegated to the Center by the Regions, meaning that the Center was a Creation Of the Regions to Service Specified Collective needs.

It will be recalled that when in 1953, Anthony Enahoro moved the First Motion for Independence, the Northern Delegates Opposed, Blocked and Defeated the Motion, on the Ground that the Northern Region was not yet ready for Independence. It will also be recalled that following the collapse of the said Independence Motion of 1953, the 8-Point Demand raised by the then Premier of Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello as Conditions for the Northern Region to the other two Regions as One Country into Independence, had to do with the Degree of Regional Autonomy which the North wanted and these took between 1953 and 1959 to emplace and eventually Defined the Autonomy Level Adopted in what became the Independence Constitution in 1960.

The Coups of January 15, 1966 and the Counter Coup of July 29, 1966 which brought the Military to the arena of Political Power, resulted in the toppling and jettisoning of the 5 Constitutions that Defined the Federation of Nigeria (4 Regional and 1 Federal) and the imposition Of Unitary Constitutional Instruments by Military Decrees one of which by May 27, 1967 broke up the erstwhile 4 Regions into 12 States and swept away the Autonomy of the Regions whilst Hijacking and Confiscating the Assets and Rights of the Regions. Most Governmental Powers and Responsibilities of the Regions were forcefully taken over by the Federal Government in this Period.

From that point in May 1967, Nigeria ceased to be a Federation. It became and has remained a Unitary State to date, fractured into 36 largely impotent States that grovel at the feet of an omnipotent but grossly inefficient Federal Government, holding to itself 68-Items on the Federal Exclusive Legislative List as encapsulated by the Imposed 1999 Constitution (which is a wholesale carry-over of the equally Imposed 1979 Constitution, despite the bogey called the 1977 Constituent Assembly since the 17 Amendments introduced by Obasanjo’s Supreme Military Council in September 1978 overrode the Clean Draft of the Constituent Assembly of 1977) and that is what has brought Nigeria to the sorry it currently is in, becoming the leading Global example and case study of a Failed State and also emerging the Poverty Capital of the World despite its huge endowments in Human and Material Resources.


(1) WHAT EXACTLY CONSTITUTES A RESTRUCTURED NIGERIA?

Shorn of all embellishments, a Restructured Nigeria in of CONTENTS of outcome, is that Structure of Nigeria that would emerge:

(a) When the Sub-Nationalities being the Constituent Components of each Federating Bloc decide the Geographical Formation in which they would be Relating (Federating) with the rest of the Union, having first Agreed Internally on what would best Guarantee Internal Cohesion in their Bloc within the context of the Universal Right of Each Sub-Nationality to Self-Determination.

(b) When the Federating Blocs Decide what Items of Governmental Responsibilities/Rights they would Cede to the Federal Government, What they Keep Exclusive to themselves and What they may Concurrently undertake with the Federal Government, with all Residual Powers (i.e. anything not Listed under any of the aforementioned 3 Categories) preserved for the Federating Units.

Referendums and Plebiscites are to be deployed as Ratification Mechanisms as appropriate at each Stage in Keeping with and in a manner consistent with the Imperatives of Self-Determination for each Sub-Nationality.

The number of Federating Units will also have to be a function of the Consultations Agreements of the Sub-Nationalities (in Stage-1 of the Two-Stage Process outlined in Question-2 below) and not by the kind of whimsical dictates that brought Nigeria to the current 36 States quagmire.

(2) HOW PRECISELY SHOULD THE RESTRUCTURING BE UNDERTAKEN?

Guided by the fact that a Federation is Union of Constitutions, and looking back at what truncated the Basis of Nigerian Federation, the Logic of the Situation dictates a Two-Stage PROCESS undertaken in a certain sequence.

(a) Stage-1 would be to distill the REGIONAL CONSTITUTIONS of the Proposed Federating Units (as outlined under Question-1) that would Federate in the Second Stage (as was done by the 3 Regions between 1957 and 1959 ahead of the Lancaster House Conferences of 1959).

(b) Stage-2 would be for the Proposed Federating Units, already armed with their respective Regional Constitutions as distilled from Stage-1, to Meet, Negotiate and AGREE on the of Federating themselves into One Political Union (as was done in the Lancaster House Conferences).

Referendums and Ratifications are to be deployed as Ratification Mechanism as appropriate at each Stage in Keeping with and in a manner consistent with the Imperatives of Self-Determination for each of the Sub-Nationalities.

May we point out Mr President, that it was the failure of all the Governments of Nigeria since 1970 to abide by this simple LOGIC OF A FEDERATION, that is responsible for the failure of all attempts to rework the Constitutional Arrangements of Nigeria, starting with the Constituent Assembly of 1977, to all the National Conferences of 1994, 2005, and 2014 and so anything short of this Two-Stage Process is bound to fail yet again, no matter how well intentioned the Conveners may be.

Now that we know in broad outlines WHAT Restructuring Means, Mr President may be asking: But HOW do we begin, from where we are now especially with the 2019 Elections so near?

The best guide on HOW to proceed from where Nigeria is right now is to look at how South Africa eased itself out of the quagmire of the Apartheid Constitutional Order between 1990 and 1994 under the Courageous Leadership of President Frederick W De Klerk when the Apartheid-era South Africa arrived at the very situation Nigeria has now arrived at under the Imposed Master-Servant 1999 Constitution that has been Repudiated and Rejected Countrywide, but to which a tiny band of Political Merchants across Nigeria hold tenaciously, for skewed humongous personal and group benefits, even as the People, the Country and the Society sink deeper into misery, decay and retention.

The Government of South Africa saved and began the healing of their dying Country by telling itself the Truth in 1990 : namely that the Apartheid Constitutional Order could not carry the South African Society any further and therefore it announced a Definitive Plan to Terminate the Operations of the Apartheid Constitution, and immediately set in Motion the Transitioning Process called CODESA, which midwifed the Processes that birthed the wholesale replacement of the Repudiated Apartheid Constitution. Nigeria is in that Station at this time that require this turnkey Constitutional Reengineering, Reconfiguration and Reconstruction which has acquired the street name of “Restructuring”.

Mr President, Nigeria is very sick and we present this Memorandum to you as Concerned Statesmen who have taken the trouble to fully DIAGNOSE the actual ailment of the sick Nigeria, and to locate the most potent PRESCRIPTION for that ailment and now invite your Government and other Stakeholders to commence the emergency TREATMENT to the life-threatening ailment of Nigeria over and above the ineffective palliatives that Partisan Politicians had offered the dying Union for over 50 Years now including Elections that only throw up new drivers to steer the Vehicle with a Knocked Engine which Unitary Nigeria has been since the 1966 collapse of its Federal Foundations.

Whether we it it or not, Nigeria is now a thoroughly disputed Project Site and Further Construction is not only a monumental waste, but makes a Peaceful Resolution much more difficult and much more costly. We were encouraged to raise this Memorandum to you by the part of your Comment in Paris in which you stated, concerning the Restructuring demand: “Let them Define it, and then we see how we can Peacefully do it in the Interest of Nigerians”.

This is a much better tone and language than the previous dismissive and unnecessarily combative disposition of Mr President to the demand for Restructuring.

We have defined it. The ball is now in the Court of Mr President and as Custodians of the body of Knowledge and Know-how required to Undertake this Inevitable Reconfiguration and Reconstruction of the damaged Constitutional Foundations of Nigeria, we will stand by to offer our guidance to the Process.

With every sense of responsibility, and as already being campaigned for by the LNC and it’s MNN Alliance Partners, it is our Conviction that the situation calls for a Public Acknowledgement by you, that the 1999 Constitution is the source of the Misery of Nigeria and Nigerians and this should be accompanied by a Formal Announcement deferring the 2019 Elections, as well as the immediate Initiation of a Timelined Transitioning Process with the balance of your Tenure along the Paradigms outlined in this Memorandum, in place of further National Elections in 2019 under the Repudiated 1999 Constitution which can only worsen the situation of Nigeria as was the case in the 1964/1965 Elections that landed Nigeria in the catastrophes of 1966–1970.

May God Grant you the Wisdom and Courage required to steer the troubled ship of the Nigerian State in the present turbulent waters.

Enquiries : +234-810-056-9448

For and On Behalf of the Lower Niger Congress and it’s MNN Alliance Partners.

Tony Nnadi
November 16, 2018

But I thought Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are defined to be non partisan?

Are they not the same people that will form the independent monitoring and observer groups?

This political marketing evangelism is really making some political jobbers loose understanding of basic concepts. ...

Anyway Ebonyi people. ...una don hear am na

.read her story copied from her facebook wall .......

.."Good evening fellas,its been a while here
I hope you all have been doing well?
Today I just want to share with you my experiences these past weeks, I graduated from uni after 5 official long years and practically 6 years due to an unorganized school system in October 2017 and since then have been struggling to get really out of my Alma mata due to what I see as lawlessness, and just about a month ago I abandoned all my activities to come down to Ebonyi State University with hopes of being mobilised for NYSC but to my greatest disappointment my immersion program result from Togo since July 2016 was not yet online, I rallied around to ensure that the school s it and gets us mobilised but all to no avail, most annoyingly at the dying minute our progress sheets were printed and none of us had our results for our projects and the entrepreneur course we wrote in final year.

Now I don't want to bother you with my boring story but what I can't understand is the wickedness behind the faces on virtually all the responsible desks.

Since my first year in school I ed my predecessors to write to school management to ensure that they leave when they should and also that I and those after us don't suffer this fate of wasting practically 2 years after graduation.

But now I feel my fears are hunting me, anyway what I cannot understand is why Ebsu can't keep their portal running properly or better still employ competent hands at their database. All the staff concerned with ing these results are just very comfortable with seeing us hang around and ghost around like we don't have a thing to do.

I wonder sometimes what they discus at their board meetings if an Issue that affect the destinies of their fellow countrymen this much can last for more than five years unattended to, perhaps because their wards are not affected.

it pains my heart that all they told us was to take it as God'swill and I thought I could but I know it isn't Godswill but Ebsu will and I just feel same as I felt when Buhari asked Nigerians to pray against herdsmen.

I may not go for youth service this year but i must see that this deliberate wickedness ends with us the existing victims. They won't allow you access to the school head and they won't attend to you but all I know is that this evil will end.

You know,the more I try to let go the more bittered I become. I sure can't take this incompetence from Ebonyi State University perhaps it's time to really get the media involved."

cc:
Lalasticala
Fynestboi
Ngeneukwenu

AKK. ...Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline
Please where will the gas come from?

Niger Delta abi?
Chai

In my second year in the university studying Economics, we were mandated to go for SPSS and E-Views practical classes.

The first class actually triggered my interest in data analysis...procuring data, arranging it in desired patterns, cleaning the data following specified economic and statistical theories, queuing the data into the system using SPSS, E-Views. .....

The most demanding skill in data analytics is ability to read and derive insightful meaning and knowledge from data patterns and test results.

Thanks OP for this info.

I have keenly observed issues concerning the Permanent Voter's Card (PVC), and I have come to the conclusion that most Nigerians who have voter's card did not get it for voting purpose . ..but as KYC documents for bank transactions and means of identification forgive other dealings"

I encourage predegree and undergraduate students to attend the BEYONDBARRIERS HOLIDAY BOOTCAMP holding at Uyo. ....you will be glad you did. You will meet a swarm of emerging young professionals on a selfless journey to mentor and raise a new generation of leaders
See you there. ..

@Fynestboi. ...do you still @ogbonnajoe. ..of nairaland inter-school debate 2013? ......pls take this to front page.

Details below will shock you

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The National Common Entrance Examination [NCEE] Board has published the Entrance Exam Cut-Off Mark of Each State for the 2017/18 session.

*Below is the Current National Common Entrance Examination [NCEE] Cut-Off Marks Of Each State In The Federation.*

Male Female

Abia 65 65
Adamawa 40 40
Akwa-Ibom 63 63
Anambra 66 66
*Bauchi 18 18*
Benue 60 60
*Borno 33 33*
Cross-Rivers 54 54
Delta 65 65
Edo 63 63
Enugu. 65 65
Imo 66 66
*Jigawa 37 37*
Kaduna 52 52
*Kano 34 34*
*Katsina 37 37*
*Kebbi 35 35*
Kogi 61 61
Kwara 62 62
Lagos 65 65
*Niger 49 49*
Ogun 65 65
Ondo 64 64
Osun 64 64
Oyo 63 63
Plateau 52 52
Rivers 62 62
*Sokoto 15 7*
*Taraba 19 19*
*Yobe 20 20*
FCT-Abuja 57 57
Bayelsa 51 51
Ebonyi 60 60
Ekiti 62 62
*Gombe 37 37*
*Nassarawa 42 42*
*Zamfara 14 12*

*The funny thing is, those with lower cut off marks from the north will be the ones to run the govt tomorrow. They will be appointed judges, chief Justice, controllers, central bank heads, and heads of government agencies and ministries.*

*Are you still wondering why some want out of this evil forest? Why Nigeria is at the bottom of all good things and top of most bad issues in international/global ratings?*
Why our health, education, electricity, waterworks, refineries, petroleum distribution, etc. are in tatters?
*The above is a very graphic justification of the urgent need for Restructuring, at the very least!*

*DISTRIBUTE TO ALL FROM SOUTH-WEST, SOUTH-SOUTH & SOUTH-EAST NORTH CENTRAL ZONES OF NIGERIA* *WHO STILL THINK. CONSIDER THIS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA!!!*
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*© Steve Awa

FANTASTICALLY CORRUPT. The story below was shared by a lawyer:

I travelled out of my state of residence to do a transaction on behalf of a client. Things went relatively well until I needed to take out an affidavit in court as one of the final stages of the transaction.

So I walked into this court, a federal high court, to do the affidavit. I had in mind that a day earlier , someone had told me in my office how she spent #4 000 to do an affidavit in court. I was furious . I know that only #100 of that #4 000 will go to government purse , the rest will go to some thieves who pose as government workers.

So I stepped into this court wishing that the thieves would try to play pranks on me. I file affidavit regularly in court but I have never experienced such extortion. May be it is because the court workers in my town of residence know me to be a lawyer. May be now that I am out of jurisdiction and dressed casually, the ones here will try to play a fast one on me. Just May be.

So In the court, I was directed to a certain lady. It Seems she is always the first person in this web of extortion. I entered the room. She asked me to sit. She was attending to someone, a captive I should say . The man was begging that he did not come with 4k, but the lady would have none of that. She asked the guy to go and come back complete. I was eavesdropping. The guy had just lost his certificate and wanted to make an affidavit to that effect. This is what is supposed to cost him N100. The guy even begged to pay N1000. But she refused. She insisted on the "full price".. In the end, the guy left to use Atm and come back. I was next in line!

I hold the belief that even if one should extort me, it should not be in court. The very thought of being extorted by a non- Lawyer in court is annoying to me. It is like a civilian slapping a Soldier in the barracks! If you must slap a soldier, must you do it in the barracks ?

So I took my turn in front of her. 'What do you want to do, sir? She asked.' Affidavit, of course, I replied. She asked what type of affidavit , bringing out a plain sheet of paper and pen, with an air of fake seriousness. She said she needed to know the type of affidavit because they will help me to type it.

At that point, I brought out a copy of the affidavit as typed by my secretary a day before I traveled. I told her that all I needed was to make the oath before a Commissioner for that purpose. Seems she was taken aback. Seems see didn't expect me to come with my affidavit already written and typed out. She excused me and left with the document. I guess she went to consult with her superiors.

She did not stay too long.

'sir, are you a Barrister'?
'Yes, does it matter'?
'I mean a real Barrister '?
Silence.
' sir are you based here in town '?
Silence.
' Sir'?

I think she wondered if I was really a lawyer as they have not seen me in their court before . May be her superior had suggested that I just claimed to be a lawyer in the affidavit just to evade their extortion.

I told her to go straight to the point. That I still needed to travel back. I told her to show me where to pay and get the oath Commissioner's stamp. At that point, she cut a piece of paper and wrote on it. She signed a complicated signature. She made the stealing to seem official. Unlike how she handled the guy before me, she didn't say a word about the amount I was to pay. She could not speak to me about it . She wrote it down and signed and then showed me where to take it to.

So I took it to whom I was directed. The man took the piece of paper from me and studied it as if it was a graph or some complicated map . Then,as if he had suddenly deciphered a hidden code, he said out loud : 'two thousand'. I paid the two thousand Naira and waited. The man stamped on the document and wrote on it with red ink. I noticed that he did not write the amount received by the Court on behalf of government, as is the custom. He directed me back to the lady who sent me to him . He said she is the one to take me to the Commissioner for oaths .

I was irritated by the unnecessary back and forth, but I was determined to see the end of it .

After the Commissioner had put his stamp on the affidavit, I went straight back to the guy who took 2k from me and demanded a receipt. He looked lost when he saw me again.

He said they don't give receipts. I said its not possible for the federal government of Nigeria to take #2000 from me and not give any evidence of payment. He then said their receipt has finished. I told him to use his red pen and write 2000 on the affidavit. He Shrunk his shoulders, as if to say 'God forbid'.

I told him, Point blank, that he has trouble on his hands. That he should not think that I will leave without evidence of payment. That if he can not handle it he should bring in his superior. I threatened to go to the court Registrar if he continues to waste my time. It Seems the mention of the Registrar was frightening to him. He said to me 'please sit down' and stepped out, running.

He returned with a woman I presume is his unit head, a woman in her late forties by my estimation. She asked what was the problem. I told her there was no problem. That I am surprised the guy brought her. That all I want is receipt or some evidence of payment.

She said that their receipt has finished. She brought out a big book and said they enter all the payment entries made by everyone and at the end of the day, they issue one receipt!

Hear lie. One receipt to whom? She did not even seem like an intelligent thief to me. Seeing that her explanation meant nothing to me, she collected the affidavit from me and looked. The next thing I heard was :

'who typed it? Who asked you to type it?'
She said they will give me my money back and take 'their affidavit'. That I should go elsewhere and make the oath.

At this point, I lost my patience and temper. It became clear to me that I was dealing with an ignorant crook. Who told her that she had the power to stop me from doing the affidavit? Who told her that private affidavits must be typed by the Court. I mean she made it so clear with her actions that she is fantastically corrupt.

I stepped out of their office and headed to the Registrar's office. They started pleading. The guy who took the money started running helter skelter.

He took me to the office of another oga. The oga was polite. Cool office. He took the affidavit document from me and read. He screamed : 'did they not even read this thing to see that this man is a lawyer'? He stormed out and left me alone in the office.

It became clear to me that the oga was not necessarily angry at what they did. He was angry that they did it to a lawyer. He felt they were daft to do so to a lawyer. They should have done it only to other of the public. They should have known that a lawyer is "bad market".

The oga returned with the woman and asked her to apologise for saying I should get my #2000 and go elsewhere to do the oath. She did. And I accepted the apology.

The oga thought that was all. He looked happy, as if everything has been settled. As if he had just resolved a conflict between Iraq and Kuwait. I brought him back to reality by saying that I am still waiting for receipt. You can't extort me and apologise and bid me farewell, without a refund.

At that point, he asked the lady to excuse us. As soon as the room had only Me and him, he removed the masquerade. He said :"BUT BARRISTER, YOU AND I KNOW THAT THIS THING IS HUNDRED NAIRA. How do we give receipt for 2 thousand "?

I did not bulge. I told him that it was either he gave me the receipt for 2k or I go to the court registrar.

At that point, he went out quietly without a word. I did not know if he went to get the receipt or my money. I looked through the window and saw him outside calling the staff to gather my money. It was then I knew that the loot had already been shared (it was close of work and I was the last customer). They had to send someone to call one of the staff at the gate to bring his part before entering a taxi home.

The oga soon returned to the office with my #2000 and asked for hundred Naira. I gave him #100. They wrote #100 on the affidavit with red ink and gave a receipt reflecting #100. The same receipt they said they didn't have.

I walked out of the court feeling sorry for the country. I mean this is a court of law! A place you would expect to see the strictest adherence to probity. Yet people openly engage in extortion. Government charges #100 for something, but corrupt government workers make it #4000 (I believe I was charged #2000 cos I had mine typed already).

People no longer do subtle corruption in this country. Corruption is the norm. They make you look stupid if you don't in. Every sector is involved, not just the political class. The civil service stinks.

And someone wants me to believe that Nigeria is not fantastically corrupt. Please keep sharing until it gets to the right people. Nigeria must be saved.

No way..!!!!

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The traditional institution in Ebonyi State has being bastardized, ....see how the governor's campaign pictures are plastered on the cars he gave to traditional rulers

Nnaemeka Trump, I see that your business is booming. Anyway, I want to let you know that this kind of goodies are ephemeral, enjoy it while it lasts but be rest assured that all of you Umahi paid media ranters who promote cosmetic decoration as against real development in Ebonyi state will soon come to enjoy it just as all of us are enjoying the change we brought into Nigeria.