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PRESS STATEMENT BY PRINCE TONY MOMOH, NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, CONGRESS FOR PROGRESSIVE CHANGE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF SATURDAY APRIL 16, 2011

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Gentlemen of the Press

My party, the Congress for Progressive Change, would like to praise Nigerians who have shown more enthusiasm to pick the leaders of their choice than many involved in moderating the elections have exhibited. It will be most unfortunate if at this stage of so much craving for free, fair and transparent elections we have at this time those who have refused to accept that we need irreducible minimum standards of behaviour to persuade the world that we have indeed chosen the path of honour in obeying the rules that promote peace, order and discipline in any polity.

Last week, there were obvious lapses we drew attention to in the elections we held to the national assembly. A lot of anomalies were recorded between the voting centres and the collating stations. The figures would just not add up. And as people have always been told, let them go to court. It is our view that elections must be won at polling centres through the people’s vote. The final outcome in other climes has been and should also here be that what happens at collation centres is the simple totalling of what the voters said through the ballot.

Reports reaching us from most polling stations from some zones of the country show clearly the trappings of freeness and fairness in the elections. Much as we concede to the INEC the obligation in law to announce results, we have access to the results posted at the various voting centres and we believe and insist that what we are given as results will be the totality of the votes cast.

We draw attention to the need for openness in the collation stage of the elections because of disturbing reports we have of massive infusion into our electoral process of the results of illegal ballot papers that have been discovered countrywide in the control of those who have no business having them. This is a clear breach of INEC directives which seemed to have been so very confidently obeyed in the breach than the observance.

Reports from the field show that there was a large turnout of voters in three geo political zones – North-East, North-West and North-Central. There was low turnout in the South-South, South-East and South-West. Free and fair on the face as the elections were in many places, they were characterised by large circulation of ballot papers/boxes and result sheets outside the approved polling stations before and during the elections.

There were violations of processes of the elections by INEC itself nationwide. These violations include the non-disclosure of the volume of electoral materials to political parties at national, state and local government levels; the absence of elections in many rural areas in places like Rivers. Akwa Ibom, Delta States, and most parts of the South East. There were also late commencement of elections in some places including Nanya and Lugbe in FCT, Jos North Local government, and Kashere in Gombe State. Most embarrassing was the non-release of results at polling stations, and where released, not pasting.

One area to which attention must also be drawn was the freighting and distribution of electoral material printed by identified presses of known party men. Sensitive materials of this nature should not only be carefully handled but should be seen to be so.

As we issue this statement, we are aware of intensive moves to mutilate results of the elections. The pattern of voting countrywide is being tracked and posted on the net. We plead most sincerely that no one should embarrass this country by manipulating results through imposing on the people what they did not say through the vote that represents the only power they have to show that in them and only in them does sovereignty reside.

Sgd

Prince Tony Momoh

National Chairman, Congress for Progressive Change

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The man Alex Anene

Mr. Alex Anene is the Chief Accountant of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

He was the Anambra Central Senatorial zone returning officer who declared the former Governor and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) senatorial candidate, Dr. Chris Ngige winner of the National Assembly election for the zone held last week Saturday.

Since the result was announced Monday night at the Tourist Gardens Hotel in Awka amidst tight security, Anene has been making the headlines.
But who actually is the man? Prof. Emeka Ezeonu, a former Dean Student Affairs of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, described him thus: "he is a very strong and formidable character, he is stubborn and unyielding on matters of principle."
One of the senior staff of the institution who spoke in confidence said Anene is a hard working staff and no nonsense person in the institution and outside.
He described him as a focused person who has never been associated with any scandal in the institution.
An old lecturer in the institution, who spoke in confidence was emotional about the saga. "Why is everybody talking about this man, is it because we are in Nigeria where truth cannot be told?


"Why are people so myopic that they cannot differentiate between truth and falsehood? We are talking of a man who told the world nothing but the truth. Why do they want to kill him. All I know is that in no distant time, Nigerians and indeed the entire world will know the truth about the Anambra Central Senatorial election debacle

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Arkilla Gwiwa Lowcost ward- PDP 2,666_ ACN 180, CPC 15,119.

U/Kaji Sani Zango Daura's house CPC 903 PDP 4.

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For gandu ward in sokoto north local govt:

 

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Results on form EC 8A for Kofar Baru III polling unit in Sarkin Yara A ward in Daura LG, where Buhari voted:
Registerd voters: 764
Accredited and voted- 510
CPC: 494
PDP: 0
ANPP:4
ACN: 2
ADC: 1
NCP: 1
BNPP: 3
Rejected ballots: 3 Spoiled ballots: 2 Unsused ballot paper: 170 Total Ballot papers issued to polling unit: 700
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAGOS: Ibasa riverine community(PU 01) - ACN 71; ADC 01; ANPP 01; CPC 07; PDC 02; PDP 140 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BAYELSA: Jonathan's ward at Otuabula: Registered - 931; accredited - 480; voted - 424; invalid - 11; PDP - 413 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CPC leads in all the seven polling units in Kano government house scoring 2478; ANPP - 456; PDP - 234; ACN- 41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Result from Sambo's Camp Road Voting Unit ACN 5, ANPP 1, CPC 436, PDP 208 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENUGU
Okpara Square ward 5: PDP - 289; ANPP - 1; CPC - 11; CAN - 1 Okpara Square ward 7: PDP - 216;CPC - 6; ACN -1 Okpara Square ward 8: PDP - 266; CPC - 10 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAGOS: Fashola's polling unit in Surulere: PDP - 141; CPC - 90; CAN - 140 Afo junction, Alausa unit: ACN - 166; PDP - 140; CPC - 27 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KWARA
Ilorin East St John unit: PDP 271; ACN 18; CPC 18; MPPP 1; PDC 1; PMP 1; PPP 2 
St John LGEA 3: PDP 219; ACN 11; CPC 28; LDPN 1; MPPP 1; NCP 1; NTP 1; PMP 1 Magaji area 2: ACN 14; ANPP 1; PDC 1; NCP 1; CPC 14; PDP 196 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Presidential Election Results: Joseph Shyngle/Shitta/Ogunlana/ James Robertson Surulere 1. 038/07/1.
PMP 1, ACN 47, CPC 46, Fresh 1, PDP 153, PPP 1, ANPP 3, NCP 1, Void 14 Total: 267
Faro Ojora/Shitta/Ogunlana/Surulere/James Robertson. 036/07/020/. PDC, 2, PMP 1, ANPP 4, ACN 18, CPC 49, PDP 112. Void ballots 3. Total: 189 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Presidential election results in four wards in Kosofe, Lagos LA/13/06/064
PDP 133
ACN 79
CPC 29 LA/13/06/065
PDP 152
ACN 69
CPC 31 LA/13/06/061
PDP 156
ACN 52
CPC 19 LA/13/06/062
PDP 246
ACN 90
CPC 50 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BENUE: Government house polling unit: PDP - 299; CPC - 80; ACN - 17; PDC - 2 ADAMAWA: Command polling unit: PDP -188; CPC - 182; ACNN - 6; APS - 2; NCP - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ward 4: Oduduwa Crescent, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos LA/09/11/021.

Registered voters:1,054

Accredited voters : 286

Total number of votes: 268

>>PDP-152
>>CPC-78
>>ACN-28
>>APS-4
>>ADC-3
>>ANPP-3
>>PPP-1
>>PNP-1
>>PDC:1
>>Invalid:15 ............................................................................................................................................................ Presidential election result at GRA, Ikeja/police barracks Ward 2:
LA009/091/124.

Total votes cast: 195

>>ACN-29
>>PDP-118
>>CPC-41
>>PDC-3
>>FP-1
>>ADC-2
>>Invalid: 1 ........................................................................................................................................................... Result at polling Unit Ayangburen road, Ward 007, Ikorodu, Lagos.

PDP-85
ACN-61
CPC-10
ANPP-1
PDC-1
NCP-1
MPPP-1 .......................................................................................................................................................... Presidential election result at GRA, Ikeja/police barracks Ward LA01/11/09/025a A total of 168 votes cast.
>>CPC-29 >>ACN-41 >>PDP- 73 >>PPP-1 >>PDC-1 >>Invalid:12 ..........................................................................................................................................................

 

Fashola, Tinubu Lose Wards To Jonathan

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and former Governor Bola Tinubu have lost their wards to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential candidate, Goodluck Jonathan.

 

P.M.NEWS checks revealed that in most of the polling units in the governor and Tinubu’s wards, Jonathan swept the polls in the results announced at the polling units by ad-hoc officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

 

Fashola of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, lost his polling unit to Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC.

 

In Fashola’s polling unit, Jonathan scored 141 votes; Buhari, 90 votes and Nuhu Ribadu, 77 votes.

In other polling units in Fashola’s ward G3, Jonathan swept the polls in all, closely followed by Buhari while Ribadu came third.

 

At polling unit 002, in Fashola’s ward, the PDP got 64 votes; Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, 30 and ACN, 8 votes.

 

At polling unit 003, PDP polled 102 votes; CPC, 58 and ACN 26 votes. In polling unit 004, PDP got 152 votes; CPC, 63 and ACN, 25 while in polling unit 005, PDP got 142; CPC, 68 and ACN 31.

 

 

 

 

 

Early results from some polling centres across the country showed President Goodluck Jonathan and Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) in a tight race in the presidential election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission across Nigeria on Saturday.

While Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party is believed to be having the upper hand in the South-South, South-East and South-West, Buhari led in many wards in the North-East, North-West and North-Central.

But Buhari, who contested the poll under the umbrella of the Congress for Progressive Change, has already alleged foul play in the conduct of the exercise. 

A confident President Goodluck Jonathan, after casting his ballot at Otazi Playground Polling Unit in Otuabula Ward 13, Otuoke Bayelsa State, promised to quit his position as president if he fails to win the election.

Malam Nuhu Ribadu of the Action Congress of Nigeria and Ibrahim Shekarau of the All Nigerian Peoples Party also assured that they would accept defeat if the election was devoid of malpractices.

Jonathan and Buhari performed excellently well in their wards, while Ribadu and Shekarau were floored in theirs.

For instance, out of the 480 people that were accredited in the Otubula, 413 voted for the President. 

Ribadu and Buhari scored no votes. Eleven votes were voided, while the remaining 56 accredited voters left without voting because of the long queue at the centre.

The President had impressive showing in Lagos, Ogun, Rivers, Oyo, Plateau, Ekiti and Ondo states, where results from some polling centres indicated that he had the upper hand.

Almost all the results from the South-East had not been made public as at 9 pm on Saturday. But results from three wards in Abia State indicated that Jonathan won in two, while the CPC won in one.

In Sarkin Yara Ward, Buhari, a former Head of State, who on Thursday announced that Saturday’s election would be his last shot at the Presidency, scored 496 votes, while the PDP had no vote. The ANPP scored two and the ACN, two.

The CPC floored the PDP again in Vice-President Namadi Sambo’s polling booth in Kaduna State. It scored 435 votes, while the PDP had 208.

The PDP was said to have lost to the CPC in many polling booths in Kaduna, Katsina, Borno, Kogi, Abuja, Niger, Kano, and Gombe, where results were made public as 8 pm on Saturday.

Ribadu scored only 85 ballots in his ward in Yola town. The CPC had 260 votes, while the PDP had 64 votes.

Jonathan had while casting his vote promised to use himself as an example to teach sit-tight leaders in Africa that political power belonged to the people.

He said the result of the presidential poll would not cause political mayhem in Nigeria like in Ivory Coast, where Mr. Laurent Gbagbo refused to relinquish power after losing the November 2010 poll.

The President said that for democracy to be consolidated in Nigeria, politicians must learn to respect the power of the ballot.

He warned that democracy would be erected on a weak foundation if politicians attemptted to render the ballot paper useless.

Jonathan, however, said he was happy that the country’s democracy was being consolidated on the power of the ballot, observing that the ongoing elections had restored people’s confidence in the electoral process.

He recalled his involvement in elections conducted in 1999, 2003 and 2007 and concluded that Nigerians had shown more interest and commitment in the 2011 elections than they did in previous ones.

According to him, the massive turnout recorded on Saturday had further emphasised people’s belief in the credibility and transparency of the process.

Describing the conduct of the election as a new dawn in Nigeria, the President who was accompanied by a retinue of security officials said it was high time politicians realised that power belonged to the people.

He said as part of his insistence on a transparent process, he had refused to interfere with the operations of INEC.

Jonathan, who was accompanied by his wife, Patience and his mother, said he gave INEC freedom it required to give Nigerians their chosen leaders.

When asked his opinion about the possibility of a run-off, he prayed against such development.

Referring to the country’s large population and cost of organising another election, he prayed that the winner of the presidential election should emerge in the first ballot.

According to him, deciding the winner in the first ballot would reduce the tension in the country and minimise cost.

He said, “I’m indeed happy that we’re consolidating democracy. Democracy must be built on a solid foundation. Foundation of which democracy is built on is the power of the ballot paper. If the ballot paper means nothing, then there is no democracy. Nigeria is now experiencing true democracy where we the politicians have to go to the people because the power belongs to the people.

“The power does not belong to the politicians. It belongs to the people as expressed in ballot boxes. People have shown high degree of commitment so you can describe it as a new dawn in our political evolution. 

“I promised I would contest the election as an incumbent president and I would not influence the electoral process. And that has been demonstrated in previous elections.

“I don’t know whether it will go into run-off. But I pray that we don’t go into such because of its implications. Nigeria is a very big country to conduct another round of election.

“If I lose. I will leave because that is what we are talking about.”

Buhari had before the results started trickling in alleged that thumb-printed ballot ballot papers were airlifted to different states in an attempt to compromise the presidential election. 

He claimed that when one of the planes landed at the Katsina Airport, supporters of the CPC were chased away before the ‘consignment’ was off loaded.

“One of such planes came earlier this (Saturday) morning to Katsina airport, and our people were driven away from the airport before the consignment was off loaded and driven straight to the Government House,” he said.

The CPC presidential candidate however said he would not go to court to challenge the outcome of the election. 

He stressed, however, that if he was taken to court, his party would rise to defend him.

In Kano, Shekarau said he would accept the outcome of the election so long as it was free, fair and credible. 

Shekarau, while speaking with newsmen after casting his vote, advised that the winner and losers should take the result as it is.

“It is normal in any election where two or three people contested, a winner and a loser must emerge,” the Kano state governor said.

At Bako Ward in Yola-South Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Ribadu said he will concede victory to any winner if the process is adjudged to be free and fair.

The ACN candidate, who cast his ballot around 1.15pm, assured Nigerians that he would be the first contestant to congratulate the winner.

“I will be the first person to congratulate the winner. I will be ready to join forces with him to move the country forward,” he added.

The election which witnessed mass turn out of voters in most parts of the country was described by foreign observers as an improvement on the April 9 National Assembly election. 

One of the observer groups, the National Democratic Institute, led by a former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark said, “Things seem to be quite orderly.”

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As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Nigeria is conducting 2011 presidential elections today, Saturday, April 16, 2011, Huhuonline.com brings the situation reports and updates for Presidential Polls at the various polling booths across the country..


The presidential election kicks off across the country as accreditation of voters was reported to have started as early as 8:00 am.

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BAYELSA:

In Otuoke, in Bayelsa, country home of President Goodluck Jonathan, reports say that the President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was accredited alongside his wife, Patience, his mother, Eunice and several other aides at about 8:15am at his Otuoke polling unit, in Bayelsa State.

It is also reported that there are more turn-out of people queuing up for accreditation and voting.

 

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DELTA:

The turn-out of registered voters in Delta state is impressive as accreditation started as at 8:00 am. At Uzoigwe Primary School, Asaba, the state capital. A number of persons have been accredited waiting to vote as from 12 noon at the various polling stations visited.

Uniformed policemen had mounted check points at strategic places to curb unusual movement of persons and vehicles.

 

At Ugborikoko, in Warri, the situation today, has become tense as security operatives have taken over the place following, Friday’s near attack on Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and his campaign train when some youths denied him entrance into the area suspected to be a stronghold of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP).

Uduaghan was on a consultative visit to elders in the area when the crisis erupted. The chaos later resulted in the destruction of over 12 vehicles and scores of persons were reportedly injured at about 11:00 pm on Friday.

Reports also have it that Governor Uduaghan has been accredited at his home town, Abigborodo in Warri North local government area.

 

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The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal on Friday stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting the April 26, 2011 governorship election in Sokoto, Kogi, Adamawa, Bayelsa and Cross River states.


It held that since they took oath of office and oath of allegiance in 2008, the tenure of the five governors in the affected states would not expire until 2012.


But a lawyer to INEC, Mr. Hassan Liman, said that it was only the electoral body that would decide whether to challenge the court of appeal decision at the Supreme Court.


Delivering judgement in an appeal filed by INEC against the decision of Justice Adamu Bello of a Federal High Court in Abuja on the tenure completion of the governors, Justice Garba Mohammed Lawal, said it should be determined by the outcome of the rerun conducted in 2008 and not on the 2007 election, which was voided and set aside by election petition tribunals and competent courts of jurisdiction.


He therefore upheld the judgement of the FHC delivered on February 23, 2011 that something could not be built on nothing.


The appellate court agreed that INEC was wrong in law in its interpretation that the tenure of the five governors started in 2007 when in the eyes of the law, the purported governorship elections were not conducted in the five states, having been declared null and avoid by competent court.


The judge held that INEC erred when it held that the amendment done to the 1999 constitution by the National Assembly in 2010 took retroactive effect and affected the five governors who were legally inaugurated in 2008.


The appellate court stated that there was nowhere in the constitution that the amendment shall take retroactive effect, adding, “Since the amendment was signed on July 16, 2010, its take-off date shall be July 16, 2010 and not 2008.”


Justice Garba said that section 180 of the constitution as it affects the tenure of state governors was not ambiguous and that the Supreme Court did not need to shout its self hoax before a simple interpretation could be given to the section of the constitution.


He therefore ordered INEC not to conduct governorship elections in the five affected states until the tenure of the occupants had expired in 2012.


The governors – Ibrahim Idris (Kogi); Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto); Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); Timipre Sylva (Bayelsa); and Liyel Imoke (Cross River) – had sued INEC at a Federal High Court, where they applied for an order to stop the electoral body from conducting governorship election in the affected states.


They had maintained that their tenure would not expire until 2012 because they took their oath of office and oath of allegiance on different dates in 2008.


They submitted that INEC had no power under any the law to conduct governorship election in their states until next year.


The arguments of the governors were on February 23, 2011 upheld by Justice Adamu Bello, who ordered INEC not to conduct governorship election in their states until next.


It will be recalled that INEC, not satisfied with the FHC decision, approached the Court of Appeal, Abuja, with an appeal seeking to set aside the judgement of the lower court on the ground of wrong interpretation given to section 180 of the constitution and the amendment constitution.
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Mr. Victor Famuyibo, the Executive Director, Human Resources, Nigerian Breweries Plc, has cut a niche for himself in HR profession. In his desire to become a well-rounded expert, he read law and as he tells ADEOLA BALOGUN, legal education has been of tremendous help




Can you share some of the challenges you face as the human resources manager of a large organisation like the NB Plc?

Human resources management itself on a generic level comes with all kinds of challenges, especially in our country Nigeria. In HR, what you are doing really is making sure that you have the right number, calibre and quality of people who together can help you to achieve the set objectives and deliverables of the organisation. When I say people, we’re looking at people from cradle to grave. So, right from how you bring them in which is what we call attraction, recruitment and selection, to how you manage them while they are in the organisation, how you up-skill them, how you give them the right level of competency, so that they can be useful to the organisation; to how you plug the various holes, the vacancies that occur; putting the right people in the right positions at the right time so that you are always right on time in order that you can then deliver the objectives. If you look at that broad spectrum, it comes with a whole lot of challenges, especially in our country because right from the point of recruitment, attraction or selection, your main challenge is how to attract the right people. You can say how can we have a problem like this when we have more than a hundred public and private universities, polytechnics, technical colleges? There is a difference between quantity and quality, so for us, the challenge is getting the right quality of people. We have had interviews over and over again where people who have been through the university appeared before you and you start wondering if they have been to secondary school. And if you are a company that will not compromise on a standard – and we don’t at NB – the fact that you appear before us at interviews is not automatic. Our recruitment and selection is very fool-proof; it is watertight, you can’t influence it, no matter how big or highly-placed you are either within the company or outside the company. So, people will go through those decision gates based on set criteria, and therefore, if we have a hundred people coming and they still don’t meet the requirements, we don’t take. So for us, that is a major challenge but we have a way around it.

How?

We try to look for a way around it. For example, those coming in to the core operation (brewing and engineering), over the years, we have invested heavily in an in-house training school where the curriculum is so highly-developed and tailor-made to suit our operations. We look for the raw materials through our selection process; we bring them in raw but they have to go into our training school.

Are you implying that they don’t get enough training in the various universities?

The universities are grossly underfunded. The universities have lost a lot of focus. The university programmes are every now and again disturbed by incessant strikes, either by the lecturers or by the students; so there is always one dislocation or the other, there is no continuity in the learning experience of the people who go through our universities. And therefore, sometimes, they have half of the ideas theoretically, what they need to complement that practically is always absent and we then take it as part of our responsibility to ‘finish’ them. So for us, they come into our technical training school, which is about 12 months and 18 months, depending on whether they are into brewing or engineering. It is fully residential, where we not only pay your full salary as a training manager, we give you everything. The whole idea is, let us take all the problems of the society away from you so that you can concentrate adequately and all you are doing for those 12 months is a combination between classroom learning and practical attachment in the brewery. So, if you look at that, there is no way anybody would have been through this kind of learning experience and would not be thoroughly ‘finished’ after 12 months. By the time you are getting your first assignment, believe me, you are very good. Our experience is that some other employers even come to poach because they don’t want to spend money on their employees.

But would it not be better to collaborate with some universities and recruit directly from there?

That is what we do but we don’t want to limit ourselves to just one school. In everything we do here, we always want a national flavour to it; therefore, we spread our tentacles. We have a campus management scheme where we visit universities in all the geopolitical zones of the country. We go into the administration and ask for the top performing students who are in their penultimate year; those who are likely to end up with first class or second class upper. So, our engagement is very well spread out and national because one of the pride of this company is our diversity. As I said earlier, we don’t care who you are; as long as you are good, you can’t only get into the company, you can also rise to any level. Maybe another challenge we have is occasionally, keeping our best hands because when you have invested so much in them both here and abroad, when you have such people and other employers out there who are not prepared to invest so much money, they want to pay a premium to come and get your people. So, managing the career of our people in such a way that they don’t become victims of poachers is another major challenge. Again, we’ve done very well because the voluntary resignation rate is not embarrassing. It is within our defined parameters, but on top of that is the fact that we are able to always fill our talent pipeline adequately such that at any point in time, we don’t have a big gap in the system.




Why would anyone want to leave after the heavy investment in their development or is it that you believe they have become your property after the training and can decide to pay them anything you like?

Not that they would want to leave, they are approached to leave at a higher price. If I’m currently paying N20m to a manager who is very well trained; and another company comes, they invite him to dinner and ask him how much he is being paid, and he says N20m, they say, ‘Guess what, I’m giving you N30m,’ let’s be honest, we’re human beings. That is always the lure. Occasionally, they are lured away but as I said, it has not been embarrassing. It’s been very minimal. Once in a while, you also have a few people who are asked to leave for one thing or the other. As far as we’re concerned, there is no regret in that because in an organisation, you will always want some people to leave so that you can bring in fresh blood into the system.

Have you had any experience where somebody with a first class got in here and you discovered that the first class was a fluke?

No, it has not happened. You can have first class but you really have to be first class for you to go through our recruitment process and succeed. So, if your first class degree is questionable, we will also know because our recruitment is very competitive. We put you in a basket with so many other first class holders and you have to be very good. Because we will give you aptitude test, we will give you professional test; we will bring you into an assessment centre, which is a full day where we will do all kinds of testing; we invite professionals who are like consultants and they are sitting around the panel. So, by the time you arrive here to discuss with me, I don’t even have to check whether your first class is good because you will never get here unless your first class is spot on.

You were in the University of Ibadan as a student; how would you compare your days there with what goes on there today?

The conditions have changed significantly. I have been back not only to UI, but also other universities The learning environment has changed significantly compared to when we were there more than 30 years ago. When we were there, it was a citadel of learning as it were. Once you entered through that gate, you knew that you had entered into a different place. I miss that today. Even the way the learning is organised, I’m not sure it’s the same as it was then. Lecturers were very dedicated; they had no other calling but to teach and to research. But today, you see a whole lot of distractions to lecturers. They are involved in politics and everything all geared towards survival. So, there is a rat race in the larger society and it has affected events on campus. In those days on campus, you were proud to be a lecturer; it was something to behold. Even those of us who were students, we were envious of their status, their lifestyles. All of that has disappeared completely and if you look at the facilities on campus at that time, they were of international standard. When I go in there now, it is a different ball game. You will easily find university chemistry laboratory without reagents, without water. In those days, it was unthinkable. Every laboratory on campus had everything that a student needed for his learning. Sometimes, you had your own micro private lab as a research student on campus. These days, you only read it on the pages of books and handouts. What happens now, lecturers sell handouts and if you will not buy, then your future is compromised. So, there are so many reasons things have become very different. With all due respect, I honestly don’t believe that this country needs as many universities as we have now. We don’t have the infrastructure to support such because we are thinly spread out easily. People who in those days, would be struggling to be senior lecturers, are now professors. What have they contributed to research that is deserving of professorial appointment? The only reason is because there is another new university which should have professors, that is all. So, I’m afraid things have really changed for the worse and it is a pity, a shame that many of us who benefitted from the best in terms of university education in those days are no longer proud to send our children to those schools. We are now proud to send our children abroad or Ghana. I have been to one or two universities in Ghana and you can still feel the same flavour of the ’60s and ’70s in those universities.

You said that we probably don’t need as many as the universities we have now but you discover that only 20 per cent of about one million candidates who write the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board exams are absorbed. So, what happens to the other 80 per cent?

Because there has been a distortion in our educational system, that is why a million people will end up writing JAMB all wanting to go into the university, which is not necessary. But we’re a country that prides itself on paper qualification. We’re very happy to flag the next certificate; we create so many universities because we want all of these one million to be fixed in, so what happens when they graduate? Where are the jobs? We don’t need so many universities; we don’t need so many students being channelled to go into university. We need an educational system that will separate people into where they should go to like vocational skills. Who says that if you are a fantastic carpenter, that you can’t be richer than a fantastic university professor? I have lived in another country where people are diverted into the areas that they have their best competency and not necessarily into the university environment because for those who go to the university, what you are saying is that they are the theoretical people. But there are people who are best at using their hands, why don’t we channel them appropriately into vocational schools, give them the right tools and wherewithal to set up their own businesses and see whether they will not make better human beings? I think in the end, they are better off with that than going through years in the university and only at the end of it finding out there is nothing to do. Last week, we did a test for brewers and engineers and the minimum qualification was second class upper, about 4,000 applied and we tested 1,700. It is not necessary because this can only happen when there has been a distortion in the economy. We’re pushing so many people through university but at the end, there is really nothing. It is a challenge that this country has to resolve and the earlier the better.

Today, you are being referred to as an HR expert; did you go into the university to train as an HR person? How did it happen?

It happened by coincidence. I went into the university to study political science. In the first year, I started having a change of mind; I found another sister discipline in the faculty, which appealed more to me and this was sociology. Therefore, I decided to switch over from political science to sociology in 1976 at UI. I found out that I was interested in what made human beings tick. I started developing affinity towards the science of society from my second year. I went for the National Youth Service in Minna, Niger State, which was just created and my primary posting was to the Niger State Water Board in the HR division. They didn’t give us a lot of work to do. As a youth corps member, they gave you a house, a driver to pick you up to the office but they didn’t give you much responsibility. The fact that I didn’t have a lot to do gave me time to reflect; to watch how people were being managed. It set me thinking on what I would like to do post-NYSC and I then started to think more towards HR (then it was personnel management). I picked it up from there and later after going into core personnel management, I found that there was something I could also do that would help even more and this was law. Because, every now and again, in HR, you come across some issues which are very legalistic and only a good understanding of the legal basis would help more. Therefore, I made up my mind to delve into law after my post-graduate studies and I must say that I’m very glad that I did. Now, I have a very well rounded perspective to any topic around HR that is being discussed, even if it has a legal flavour; I know exactly what it is, where it is coming from and what it is all about and how it should be solved. It is something I recommended to quite a lot of friends and they took the advice.

What was then your first job or was it HR?

Yes, it was HR but more into administration and this was about 11 months spent in the office of Governor (Lateef) Jakande at that time. I was directly working with one of his key permanent secretaries, Mr. Tunde Fanimokun, who was like the eyes and the hands of Jakande. We were responsible for building all the Jakande houses. My boss was directly in charge of that, managing also the LSDPC and I was like his admin person, which gave me great insight into administration and how you could get things done by pushing people. I saw it live; all our countless meetings with the governor and I took all the minutes, I was in all the discussions, all the site visits, monitoring what was going on. That was my first job. Obviously, I didn’t want to be a civil servant but it was a great experience. I didn’t stay long enough because I didn’t think I was cut out for civil service job but where I was at the time for the 11 months was not civil service as such. It was running outside of civil service framework because Jakande was in a hurry to make a mark on the society. He knew that if he put the department under the civil service structure, things would get stuck in bureaucracy; so, what he did was putting it directly under himself with Fanimokun in charge reporting directly to him and I was supporting him. So for me, that was a great public sector experience in the civil service but 11 months later, I moved on to a private organisation in Ikeja, where I then became a personnel manager as it were and I worked there for six years before I moved to NB almost 25 years ago.

Having worked so closely with somebody like Jakande, were you not tempted to delve into politics?

No, I knew that politics would always be politics; it would come to an end someday. He was a political head but he was very efficient and very self-driven. I just knew it would come to an end and it is not when it would come to an end that I would have to leave, I probably would have been transferred into another department but I knew my career did not belong there and had to move on.

What would you attribute the success of the labour force at NB to?

It is simply because everything we do is on world class standard. We operate locally, but we behave globally. Two things help us; we control everything that happens. We’re performance-driven, we track people based on their contribution; we reward people based on their contribution; so, it is not a typical Nigerian company where it is a case of man-know-man. Here, we set target for you and we either smile or frown with you based on how well you have done with your target. So, we use the carrot and the stick approach to get people to contribute their own quota. Everybody here has their core objective they are working towards. People are supported to contribute at their maximum and we reward adequately when you contribute based on agreed objectives and penalise you based on objective criteria. For us, it is not good enough to simply look at what you have contributed, we also look at how you have contributed it. We target the objective as well as the behaviour; we don’t want somebody who says he delivers his targets and he has a very dishonest behaviour.

Everybody says Nigeria is a dangerous terrain for business but NB has been here for 61 years. Is it that Nigerians so much love to drink to be able to sustain you or what?

In any case, Nigerians don’t even drink enough; we have a way of enjoying ourselves in this country and we’re very moderate in our drinking pattern. Consumption per head when you compare Nigeria with any country in Central Africa, we’re in fact less than a third of what is consumed there. So, generally speaking, Nigerians don’t overdo it when it comes to drinking and we support that. I’d been working in Amsterdam for seven years with Heineken, our parent company and I know what happens in Europe when you talk of binge drinking. In my last job in Amsterdam before I relocated to Nigeria, I was human resource director for Africa and Middle East for Heineken and in that role, I travelled extensively and if I compare the drinking pattern of people in that region to Nigeria, we don’t drink enough. For NB, what has sustained us is that we do business in the right way, being a good corporate citizen. All we need in a country of 150 million is for one person to open one of our brands per day or even per week.
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Two officials of Skye Bank Plc, Agodi, Ibadan branch, have been arraigned before a chief magistrate’s court on a three-count charge of forgery and stealing. According to the charge, the bank officials, Funmi Adekanbi and Adebukola Ademola, were accused of conspiring to commit felony including forgery and stealing, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 516 of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Voll. II Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria 2000. They were accused of forging the name of Kazeem Oludare Olukunle on a Western Union Money Transfer form to receive money with the intent to steal, contrary to and punishable under Section 467 of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Voll. II Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria 2000. They were further accused of unlawfully and fraudulently stealing $3,300 being property of one Rotimi Onadipe and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 383 and punishable under Section 390 (a) of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Voll. II Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria 2000. The accused pleaded not guilty to the charges and were subsequently granted bail by the chief m agistrate, Mrs. O. Oyediran. They were granted bail with two sureties having two years tax clearance and N500,000. The case was subsequently adjourned till April 27, 2011. Onadipe, who is the Chief Executive Director, Pure Honey Ventures, Ibadan, had earlier petitioned the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido, and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, over the alleged Western Union Money Transfer fraud in bank. Onadipe, in the petition dated December 27, 2010, a copy of which was made available to our correspondent in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, claimed that he lost $3,300 in two instalments of $1,800 and $1,500 each to the nefarious activities of some officials of the Agodi branch of the bank in Ibadan. He said the amount was sent to him on March 13, 2009 by his Malaysia-based business partner, Dr. Matthew Sebastian. The money, he explained, was meant for some consignments of honey to be supplied to Sebastian. Onadipe said he was shocked when he could not access the money at a branch of another bank in Mokola, Ibadan. He added that upon investigation, it was revealed that the money was picked up at the Agodi branch of Skye Bank about 21 minutes after it was sent.
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Dehinde Fajana, 9ice’s manager has refused to trade words with Toni Payne, the estranged wife of the crooner who claimed Fajana was one of the people that made her marriage to crash.

In some reports, Payne had described Fajana as the brain behind the breaking up of her marriage, saying that the manager never liked her.

Fajana, however, said he wasn’t ready to react to the allegation.

“She has freedom of speech. I am not ready to exchange any words with her. All I can say is that she knows the truth and I know the truth as well. She is free to do whatever she likes and say whatever she wants to say as well,” Fajana said.

Commenting on the news that 9ice is a new father of twins, Fajana said his artiste has been busy and is still very busy.

“I still will not say anything on the matter. As I am talking to you, we are in the studios. When we are not in the studio, we are travelling all over, performing at shows. My artiste is a busy man. That is all I can tell you,” Fajana said.
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Away from the speculation and trials of politics, fresh news is about to start making the rounds about former presidential adviser Mr Andy Uba.

He is being presently identified as a comfort provider for house of assemble member, Nnenna Elendu Ukeje.

And according to those behind the news- the scenario is definitely not a new thing to clinical followers of the ways of the Senatorial candidate presently engulf in controversy over whether he won the recent election or not.


Just like the case of Abuja pastor Faith Vedelago that allegedly delivered a baby for him after he was booted out as governor of Anambra state- those behind the latest news claimed that Andy and Nnena have being an item for a while now.

He is alleged to have a thing or two to do with her election into the federal house of representative based on the relationship between them.

Though unlike the case of Pastor Vedelago, bearers of this latest news are silent on whether the alleged romance has any effect on his home front or not.


Nnena Elendu Ukeje is generally viewed as a vibrant member of the house of representative.

While Andy Uba is from Anambra state- she hails from Abia state.

The two  in the alleged romance are both members of the People’s Democratic Party.
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Nineteen new KFC Quick Service Restaurants will be opened across the country this year as part of the investment plan of the franchise holder, Devyani International Nigeria Limited. 




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The Chief Executive Officer, Devyani International, Mr. Vishal Kapur, made the disclosure while unveiling KFC's the 'More Food, More Gifts' Easter promo in Lagos on Tuesday. 
The 19 new service centres, according to him, will gulp over N1.5bn. 
The KFC promoter said the company had since opened seven outlets since entering the Nigerian market in December 2009. 
He noted that KFC came into Nigeria through a franchise arrangement between RJ Corp of India and Chellarams Plc, giving birth to a new company, Devyani International Nigeria Limited. 
Since KFC joined the Nigerian market, it had continually upped the stakes in the provision of freshly made food that met international quality standards, he noted. 
Kapur said that the company had put in place a promotion during the Easter celebrations to reward its customers as well as encourage more customers to visit its outlets. 
Speaking on the promo, he said, "We are inviting all our customers to come and enjoy the 'so good' experience of KFC. Nigerians will always enjoy the same quality of delicious meals from KFC as obtained anywhere in the world. This is our promise." 
The Head, Marketing, Devyani International, Mr. Vikram Varma, said, "We appreciate our consumers and will like to join them on the occasion of the Easter celebrations. So, we have decided to add more fun and excitement to their eating-out experience." 
The promo, which starts on April 22, 2011, according to him, gives customers the opportunity to win various gifts such as movie tickets, Pepsi soft drink, KFC branded diary and caps, among others. 
Varma added that customers would get instant gifts vouchers on every purchased meal worth N2,500 and above.
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Sammy Okposo acquitted in Aberdeen


The Aberdeen Sheriff Court in Scotland has reportedly discharged gospel artiste, Sammy Okposo, in a case bordering on racially aggravating behaviours during an infraction that occured at a Chinese restaurant, Jimmy Chung's, at the Aberdeen Beach Esplanade, Scotland, last July. According to a statement from the singer's publicists, "Okposo was discharged and acquitted of all charges on April 8 at exactly 11:30am by the presiding judge who said the evidences brought against Sammy are insufficient, incoherent and baseless. The most surprising aspect of the court proceedings was that Okposo wasn't called upon at any time by the judge to step into the witness box. The judge pronounced his judgement after Okposo's lawyer, Ms Val Bremmer from Mackie and Dewar Solicitors, cross examined the manager and the assistant manager of Jimmy Chung's and discovered that their testimonies were incoherent."

Okposo was honeymooning with his wife in Aberdeen when he was arrested after he got into an argument with one of the attendants at Jimmy Chung's which operates an all-you-can-eat menu. He was supposed to appear in court last September for the first hearing but E-Punch could not ascertain whether he did. This acquittal is happening about two weeks to the commencement of Okposo's Out Of Africa, North American 2011 Tour.
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WARRI – SUSPECTED political assassins have shot dead a 55-year-old woman, Mrs. Gloria Ewenode and her 37-year-old daughter, Miss Joy Owolo after raping her at Effurun in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State. 

  
The son of the deceased, Mr. Aghogbo Ewenode, told newsmen in Warri, yesterday, that her mother and sister were shot dead on Tuesday at their residence, 12, Petroleum Training Institute, PTI. 
"I am now homeless. I have lost my mother and sister. Where do I begin from? I am now a bad luck to my family; my conviction to remain in DPP has caused me sorrow," Ewenode lamented, saying his family members were slain because he rebuffed the threat to join a political party in the state. 
His words: "I was told that some thugs have killed a woman and daughter in our area, I was shocked and I demanded to know but I was told it did not concern me. Later my brother called me that our mother and sister have been killed. 
"I rushed to the place and saw both of them in their pool of blood. We rushed them to hospital and my sister died at about midday but my mother died on Wednesday night at the Warri Central Hospital after bleeding so much." 
Amid tears, he stated: "It pained me so much, my sister that just completed her NYSC and waiting for job was raped by the thugs and after that, was shot twice through her private part. I feel bad. Is it by force that you must join the big party? I have a choice to choose which party to belong and because of that they have killed my family." 
Aghogho disclosed that before his mother and sister were killed, there was a long standing disagreement between him and some members of the party and they threatened to kill him and members of his family if he refused to support their party. 
According to him, "the group came to tell me to work with them instead of the DPP where I belong. I have been agent to the DPP man since 2003. 
"They beat me up in February because of this same issue where I sustained injuries. It was the police that came to rescue me on that occasion. 
Because of their threat, I packed out from my mother's house in Effurun to our house in Warri. Even after that, they called me to say that I should remember that my people are still in Effurun that if they can't get me, they will erase my family from the surface of the earth," he said.
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jonathan-5[1].gifDrama, as Nollywood stars reject Jonathan’s biscuits By AZUH12166308694?profile=original AMATUS 

A mild drama was witnessed recently at an interactive session between President Goodluck Jonathan and members of the entertainment, arts and creative industries.

 

The well –attended event, which held at the posh Expo Hall, Eko Hotel and Suites, was further amplified by the intimidating presence of several Nollywood stars and their musician counterparts. 

To the consternation of many, mid way into the gathering some people started sharing cartons of customized Goodluck Biscuits, from Deli Foods, with the smiling image of Mr. President boldly emblazoned on it. However, painfully for Jonathan and his team, several of the stars angrily turned down the embarrassing gift from Mr. President. And their reason was simple. Why would Mr. President give them biscuits at a corporate event like school children? buharicondom.jpg?width=234chrisokotienoodles.jpg?width=234

“That was a very embarrassing gift my brother. Are cartons of biscuits our problem in the industry? We came here to rub minds and interact with Mr. President on how to move the industry forward and they were busy sharing biscuits to us as if we were school children. I and several other stars on our table rejected the biscuits; in fact, we did not bother to touch it where it was kept. We need ideas and supports on how to move the industry forward and not cartons of biscuits. 

They should have told us to come with our children since biscuit’ sharing was their main reason for conveying the meeting, sincerely, I and several of my colleagues felt insulted,” blasted this visibly angry star in Nollywood. ribadumilk.jpg?width=234

Another stakeholder who spoke with us on the condition of anonymity maintained that the Goodluck Biscuits gifts, shows how unserious those at the corridors of power sees and treats Nollywood. “Mr. President consulted widely with other stakeholders and professional bodies in the country and didn’t insult them by sharing cartons of biscuits. But when it was our time they started sharing biscuits to us that goes to show how unserious they regard us despite all our efforts at helping to rebrand the nation with our movies. 

On a lighter note, I think they decided to use the so-called N200 million Dollar loan to buy biscuits for us, since in their own thinking we are very hungry, quite appalling.” 
We will definitely keep you darling readers posted as more reactions pour in.

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FORMER Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, was yesterday extradited to the United Kingdom (UK) after the London Metropolitan Police reportedly foiled an alleged attempt by the former governor to flee from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through a series of complex legal steps.

Ibori was re-arrested in his Dubai home and taken to an extradition processing centre from where he was later flown to the UK.

It was learnt from UAE government sources that the former governor was accompanied by officers of the UK Metropolitan Police Proceeds of Crimes Unit.

Ibori will face three separate trials in the UK relating to money laundering and theft. Some of his accomplices, including his wife, Theresa, his sister, Christine Ibie-Ibori and his friend Udoamaka-Okoronkwo (nee Onuigbo), are already spending various prison terms in the UK.

On April 1, his UK lawyer, Bhadresh Gohil, was given a 10-year sentence. The sentence will run concurrently with a previous seven-year conviction.

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jokes : emekas goodluck

Jokes  to Tickle the Funny Bone.

                emeka owns a mechanic and repair shop somewhere in Akwaibom.  emeka has a pally named fidelis, and emeka and

fidelis like to get together from time to time and play kashi or cards.  Well, one day they were doing just that, and emeka

was not doing well - he was about N10,000 down.

                fidelis brought up an old argument.

                "I still don't think you know tuface," says fidelis.

                emeka replies, "I tell you say know tuface."

                Now emeka is the type that insists that he knows everyone, and he and fidelis argue back and forth for a

while as to whether or not emeka really knows tuface.  Finally, they agree to settle it once and for all.

                fidelis says "Okay, nna tell ya what.  I'll bet you, double or nothing, that you don't know tuface.

                emeka: "You have a deal."

                So, they run out back and hop on emeka's taxi and take off towards lagos.  As they are getting to lagos at

lekki, emeka points out dbanj's place and several others.  When they finally get to tuface's house, emeka rings the doorbell

and the butler answers.

                "Is 2baba in?" emeka asks.

                "Who may I say is calling" returns the butler.

                "Just tell him emeka is here," replies emeka.

                The Butler turns and closes the door.  In a few minutes, to fidelis's astonishment, tuface himself comes

barreling out the door and wraps himself around emeka.

                "emeka!!  How in the world are you?  How have you been?"

                They spend a good while laughing and catching up on old times, and then they take their leave.

                On the way back , fidelis turns to emeka.  "nna Okay, you win that one.  So you know tuface.  But I bet I can

come up with someone you don't know."

                "Okay, shoot."

                "I'll bet you don't know jim iyke ."

                "Man, jim and I are old buddies!"

                "No way.  Double or nothing you don't know jim iyke."

                "It's a deal.  I'll take you to his restaurant." " he get restaurant  ? i tink say na actor" ? said fidelis

emeka replied "jim likes to cook . "

                So, emeka and fidelis head for jim iyke's celebrity restaurant at ogba .  When they arrive, emeka grabs a

waiter and asks him if jim is in.

                'Who's asking'

                "Just tell him emeka's out here."

                The waiter disappears, but in a few seconds out comes jim, jumping tables and knocking people out of the way.

                "emeka!  HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?"

                They laugh and talk about old times over a free meal.  fidelis is simply dumbfounded.  Later, back in the

car, fidelis asks for one last chance.

                "Look, emeka, I'm about N30,000 in the red.  Give me one last shot, and I will think of someone I am CERTAIN

you cannot know."

                "Okay,pally.  I'm just making lots of money off of you.  One last chance."

                "Okay.  I know there is absolutely no way that you can know goodluck jonathan."

                emeka bursts into laughter.  "Man, ebele and I have known each other for years.  We be old paddy."

             "There is absolutely no way.  You cannot know GJ."

                So, emeka gets  plane tickets  and they head for abuja.  They arrive at asokoro it is election time , and

emeka stops fidelis. "Now, you will have to wait out here.  The security here is very high.  They know me, so they'll let me

in, but you will have to stay out here.  So, will it be good enough for you if GJ and I come walking out on the balcony arm

in arm, smiling and laughing, and we pick you out of the crowd and wave at you?"

                fidelis thinks a minute and replies, "Yeah, that will be great."

                "Okay, stand out here, right in the center of the crowd here , so we can find you."

                emeka enters aso rock, and presently he and the president appear out on the balcony, arms around one another,

smiling and laughing.  They search the crowd, and emeka points to fidelis, and they smile and wave.

                fidelis smiles and waves, but in the next instant he faints dead away.  emeka, alarmed, excuses himself from

the GJ and goes running down to fidelis.  As emeka approaches, he grabs fidelis and begins shaking him.  "fidelis, fidelis,

are you okay?"

                fidelis opens his eyes and says, "I bin dey kampe when you knew tuface.

                And I could even handle it when you knew jim iyke.

                But when I was standing there waving  and the guy standing next to me in the crowd asked
        

        "Who's that guy in the black cap with walking stick standing next to emeka ?', I just couldn't take it anymore!"

 

 

We pray by 2015 goodluck jonathan will not be this popular That is if he wins tomorrow  ! 

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12166303467?profile=originalThe gossip on board says Wizkid has dropped out of school in pursuit of his musical career.
Wizkid whose real name is Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, is a student of the Leedcity University.
The 200 level student of International Relations stated in a recent interview that he could not continue with his school studies as it gave him less concentration on his musical career. Though he promised to go back to school sometime in the future
He started off his singing career at the early age of 11(Eleven) in church under the name Lil Prinz before rebranding in 2006 from being an inspirational act to secular artiste and ever since then, his being able to carve a niche for himself in the industry.
Now we are beginning to see the real "Badt Guy". Money too large "we drop out of school gonn"

 

culled from nairaland and amebor website .

 

confirmation coming soon  ! 

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World's oldest man dies at 114

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Walter Breuning was born in 1896 and put his longevity down to eating just two meals a day and working for as long as he could

Walter Breuning, the world's oldest man and second-oldest person, has died aged 114.

Breuning died of natural causes in a Montana hospital, said a spokeswoman for the Rainbow retirement home where he lived. Breuning was admitted to hospital at the beginning of April with an undisclosed illness.

Breuning was 26 days younger than Besse Cooper of Georgia, whom the Gerontology Research Group in Los Angeles lists as the world's oldest person.

In an interview last autumn, Breuning attributed his longevity to eating just two meals a day, working as long as he could and always embracing change, especially death.

"We're all going to die. Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die," he said.

Breuning was born on 21 September 1896, in Minnesota and spent his early life in South Dakota. His family had no electricity or running water.

He lied about his age and got a job in Minnesota with the Great Northern Railway in 1913 at age 16. He moved to Montana two years later and worked on the railway for 50 years – the rest of his working life. He married his work colleague Agnes Twokey in 1922 and stayed with her until her death in 1957. The couple had no children and Breuning never remarried.

He earned $90 a month – working seven days a week – at the beginning of his career. He said this amount was "a lot of money at that time".

In 1919, he bought his first car, a $150 secondhand Ford, which Breuning remembered spooking the horses when he drove around the streets of Great Falls.

He and his wife bought property for $15 and hoped to build a house, but their plans never came to fruition because of the Great Depression.

"Everybody got laid off in the 30s," Breuning said. "Nobody had any money at all. In 1933, they built the civic centre over here. Sixty-five cents an hour, you know. That was the wage, big wage."

Breuning remained in his job until 1963 – the year the Beatles released their first album – when he decided to retire at the age of 67. But he kept working, becoming the manager and secretary for the local Shriners, a group similar to the Freemasons, a position he held until he was 99.

He moved into the Rainbow retirement community in 1980, calling home a spare studio apartment with bare walls.

Breuning would spent his days in an armchair outside the retirement home director's office in a suit and tie, sitting near a framed Guinness certificate proclaiming him the world's oldest man.

He would eat breakfast and lunch and then retire to his room in the early afternoon. He would visit the doctor twice a year for check-ups and the only medication he would take was aspirin, director Tina Bundtrock said.

With most of his relatives gone, Breuning said his real family was there in the Rainbow. He received letters from admirers from around the world, and he kept up with world events.

"Everybody says your mind is the most important thing about your body. Your mind and your body. You keep both busy, and by God you'll be here a long time," Breuning said.

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Gaddafi's daughter whips supporters into a frenzy with speech in Tripoli




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Aisha Gaddafi addresses a crowd of her father's supporters at the Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli. Photograph: Pier Paolo Cito/AP

They gather nightly, ready to die for the Brother Leader. Wrapped in loyalist green, waving flags, chanting slogans, holding aloft portraits of their "Guide", singing, dancing and praying, they are Muammar Gaddafi's human shields against Nato air strikes.

In the early hours of Friday morning, exactly 25 years after US forces bombed Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli, thousands gathered in defiance of the new international coalition against the Libyan regime's brutal efforts to suppress the uprising from the east.

Whipped up by loyalist chants led from loudspeakers and patriotic songs, they were already in a state of fervour when Aisha Gaddafi, the Libyan leader's daughter, appeared high in the skeleton of a bombed-out building.

Against a backdrop of the shattered facade and draped in a flowing headscarf of green and gold, Aisha pumped her fists at the crowd as they roared and ululated their approval.

Just a few hours earlier, Nato warplanes had flown sorties over Tripoli. Explosions and responding gunfire and anti-aircraft fire echoed around the capital, destroying at least one military site and causing blast damage to a nearby university cafeteria.

Aisha's message was one of uncompromising defiance. Referring to the strike in 1986, she said: "They rained down on us their missiles and bombs, they tried to kill me and they killed dozens of children in Libya. Now a quarter of a century later the same missiles and bombs are raining down on the heads of my and your children."

Below her was a statue of a giant golden fist crushing a western war plane in its grip. The throbbing crowd – mainly men, but including hundreds of women separated to one side – appeared intoxicated on love and loyalty.

"Talk about Gaddafi stepping down is an insult to all Libyans because Gaddafi is not in Libya, but in the hearts of all Libyans," Aisha told them. "Gaddafi said if the Libyan people don't want me I don't deserve to live. The Libyan people responded, 'He who doesn't want you does not deserve life'."

Half a dozen of Gaddafi's fabled female protection guards stood to the side as Aisha spoke, some with their faces covered, amid an atmosphere akin to a hyped-up football crowd crossed with a rock concert.

The cult of Gaddafi is evident across the capital. Huge portraits of him – saluting with a stern expression, beaming with his hands clasped, silhouetted against the rays of a rising sun – hang from buildings. Many in the crowd on Friday night wore miniature laminated versions on green ribbons around their necks.

"I love him more than my husband," said Randa Mohamed, 28, her voice hoarse from shouting and chanting. "We will never leave him. I will do anything to protect him."

This overt display of loyalty fractures when rare opportunities for rushed conversations out of earshot of the ubiquitous regime minders and informants arise. "He must go for the sake of Libya," is a view expressed in whispers. These few glimpses beneath the surface are always accompanied by visible fear at the possibility of being overheard and punished.

But in the Bab al-Aziziya compound, there was only one message: devotion to Gaddafi and hatred of Nato and Libya's rebel opposition. "We will never give up. Victorious or we die," ran one chant.

As the foreign media were escorted from the compound at the end of Aisha's speech, the "Zenga Zenga" song blared from speakers. The words are taken from a speech by Saif al-Islam, Aisha's brother and Gaddafi's son, early in the conflict, in which he pledged to hunt down the rebels.

"House to house, room to room, alley to alley, person to person we will disinfect the whole country from filth," it goes. "Zenga Zenga" – alley to alley – has now become part of loyalist Libya's lexicon, a chilling term of approval among people in Gaddafi's grip.

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Amara3-349x336.jpg?width=149I treated this topic sometime in 2009, after which I received endless comments and questions on sex and the woman’s body. The sad thing is that a good number of these comments are from the male folk; they are either talking about their girlfriend or their wives.

I believe that men don’t always like to discuss such issues and for a man to be the one worried about these problems, it is either of two things: the woman has refused to do something about it or the man is too timid to say it out.

I remember getting a message from a woman who was in pain and on the verge of losing her relationship due to this very problem. I gave my own solutions to it, but sadly I didn’t get any feedback from her.

From the numerous conferences I have held and from my counselling meetings with women, I have concluded that the major problems our women are faced with are Vaginal Odour and Slacked Vaginal Muscles. I will start with the problem of vaginal muscles.

It is a natural thing for a woman to lose her vaginal muscles at a certain stage of her life. But there are cases where we have young and vibrant women having weak vaginal muscles. This is a very serious issue that calls for concern.

I am not a medical doctor, but from my meetings with people and secret interviews with girls who are faced with this problem, this is caused by some reasons:

Lack of vaginal exercise

Inactive lifestyle

Promiscuity

Like I said last week, a lady who was in a relationship with a former VP of Nigeria confessed to this. She spent her life allowing such a dirty man to have sex with her from the anus. Any man who finds pleasure in veering off the natural path and wants to enjoy himself through a woman’s anus is devilish and dirty.

This lady now lives in pain as even the money she made from this evil man cannot help her out. She has gone through series of surgeries and now her pride is gone and every young man who loves her look and wants to get into something serious with her runs away the moment he sleeps with her.

Talking about inactive lifestyle, I see women destroying their lives simply because the money is there. These ones sit in front of the television watching Africa Magic from morning till night. When you don’t move your body the way you should, your muscles slack with time.

There is a particular exercise for the vaginals called the Kegel exercise. If you are one of those who believe exercise is just for weight loss, you are wrong. Exercise does a lot when it comes to your sex life. The best exercise to improve sex is the Kegel squeeze-basically strength training for your PC muscles which hold up your vagina, uterus, anus, bladder, and urethra. The stronger the muscles are, the more intense your orgasms will be.

Many people talk about Kegel without even knowing what it is, and this makes them do it the wrong way. Some women squeeze their pelvic area while standing or sitting believing that is Kegel. It is a part of it, but definitely not all of it. To do Kegel the right way, try stopping the urine flow when you pee. Hold the squeeze for five seconds, then release. Continue with your other forms of pelvic squeezes while you cook, stand, and sit.

Doing fifty to hundred Kegel squeezes thrice weekly will help keep those muscles in good shape. Don’t make this a daily habit as it could lead to urinary tract and bladder infections.

To take care of your vaginals, I am sure you will find the following tips helpful:

Choice of underwears:

That a particular under wear is beautiful doesn’t make it good for you. Avoid panties made from synthetic as these inhibit the free flow of air around the vaginal area, creating the ideal damp, warm condition for bacterial growth.

Cotton is by far the best fabric to wear and if you enjoy wearing silky underwear, save it for occasional rather than everyday use. Also avoid the regular wearing of tight fitting trousers, girdle, and panty hose.

Poor Hygiene:

Another thing that makes you have vaginal odour and infections is poor hygiene. I see women go to bed without having a night bath. What on earth will make a woman go to bed without properly cleaning up? I see celebrities and young girls publicly confess to this. They talk and care about their face more than their private part.

You go to the bathroom just to wash off make-up and apply your night cream, but you are too tired to get into the bath and wash properly. We see your beautiful and groomed face, but your man sees the private area and that is what pushes him away and makes him lose interest in love making. Smelling good outside doesn’t mean neatness inside.

I keep saying this, that we pray unnecessary prayers most times. We keep disturbing God when we should be doing something reasonable to help ourselves. This is why I always tell our Pastors and Imams to tell us the truth. A woman comes to you for prayers against her husband’s girlfriend and for her husband to return home.

You know her look and carriage are part of the problem. You have never seen her house properly arranged. If you really care about her, you should please tell her to go do something about her looks because you can’t help wondering what some women look like down there just by the condition of their hair and body.

Douching:

It would do you a lot of good if you can stay off those douching products in the market. Douching happens to be one of the major causes of vaginal itching. Your vagina doesn’t require excessive cleansing. Repetitive douching disrupts the normal organisms in the vagina and can actually increase the risk of vaginal infection. Drop that mentality which makes you believe that douching helps clear up vaginal infections.

Scented and Harsh Soaps:

Avoid those scented or harsh soaps such as those with deodorants and anti bacterial action. There are several ranges of feminine wash in the market and they are soap free and gentle for your vagina.There are very common ones like Sebamed, Femfresh, Summers Eve, Beauty Formula. It is very sad that women who should know better are the most guilty of this. Please avoid using Lactacid in your vaginal area.

Also avoid scented tampons and sanitary pads. I know you want to use spray all over your body to impress the guy, but please keep it away from your vaginals. If you wash and keep your vaginals in good state, there won’t be need for anything artificial as that takes away the natural, God-given smell.

Coloured toilet paper and bubble bath should also be avoided. White toilet tissue is the best for you. I know you enjoy having a bubble bath, but it could be one of the reasons for your constant application of Canesten. I can authoritatively tell you that if you live a very healthy lifestyle and use the right products, you won’t need Canesten and those antibiotics that weaken your immune system.

Public Toilet:

Reduce and if possible, stop the use of public toilets. I have maintained that as a policy to stay away from public toilets and if I go into someone’s house, I must check out your environment before deciding on what next to do.

Too much of fried and spicy foods are not good for your vaginals. Also make it a habit to take yogurt regularly. If you have the problem of this foul odour emanating from the vaginal area each time your man sleeps with you, you really have to do something before it wrecks your relationship.

Learn to wash your vagina well with tepid water using feminine wash. Insert your finger properly into your vagina and clean up. This is all you need to keep clean. Some ladies, especially young girls, use alum and other very harsh products for cleansing; please put an end to this.

Eat the right foods with enough fruits and vegetables. Take your milk and yogurt regularly. If you have the itching, try applying fresh, natural yoghurt to your vagina like thrice daily. Keep your vaginal skin dry always.

Sex is very necessary for a good love life with your spouse.Vaginal odour is there to stop your happiness and you must deal with it before it deals with you. If you have this problem of vaginal odour and constant itching, no amount of prayer can help you. Please help yourself by doing something to enable the man breath effectively during love-making.

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