Why I Like Exposing My Body - Singer, Emma Nyra

Iyanya’s protege, Emma Nyra who is known for always dressing sexy
explained her reason for showing off a little skin photo
“When it comes to fashion, I’m a person who isn’t scared to take risk. I tell people you won’t be young forever, so I don’t mind taking risk and showing off a little skin.

When I’m older and married I won’t
even want to allow myself show off my husband property but right now, I’m single, I’m singing and I’m young so I want to be as comfortable and fashionable as possible. It’s 2013 and people are accepting new trends! I’ll take judgments from some views but
that’s part of being an entertainer, you want people to talk.”

PHOTO: Check Out Actress, Yvonne Nelson Topless Photo

Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson
posted this photo below on her
instagram page with caption “There
is beauty in simplicity”.

2013/2014 UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN TEACHING HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING

SCHOOL OF NURSING
UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN TEACHING HOSPITAL
2013/2014 ADMISSION

This is to notify the public on the sales of forms for admission into the School of Nursing, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Ilorin Kwara State. The order of the entire admission process for this 2013/2014 session is as follows:

Ø  Download application form from www.uith.org from 29th July, 2013 to 13th September, 2013.
Ø  Submission of completed form with the original and photocopy with payment of N5,000 (Five Thousand Naira Only) Bank Draft obtained from First Bank Nigeria PLC in favour of “School of Nursing, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin”.
Ø  Completed forms and relevant credentials MUST ALL be submitted on or before 13th September, 2013. To the Principal School of Nursing Old Maternity Hospital, Ilorin.
Ø  The Computer Based Testing (CBT) Entrance Examination holds:

On:                21st September, 2013
At:                 COMSIT CENTER, University Of Ilorin Permanent Site, Ilorin
                      Time:            8:00am prompt

Ø  Oral Interview holds:
On:                24th September, 2013
At:                 School of Nursing, UITH School Complex
                       (Old Maternity Wing Amilegbe, Ilorin)
Time:            8:00am prompt

NOTE:
Ø  Prospective candidates are advised to adhere strictly to the information on this advert and application form.
Ø  Any application received after the closing date shall not be processed.

For more information please call this number 08060276618.

Thank you.

PRINCIPAL
School of Nursing, UITH, Ilorin.

Click here to download School of Nursing form
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2013/2014 NNPC / MPN ( Mobil ) Undergraduate Scholarship

NNPC / Mobil (MPN)  Undergraduate Scholarship 2013 / 2014 application process. Application process has commenced; interested and qualified members of the public can now start submitting applications.

2013/2014 NNPC / MPN Undergraduate Scholarship Programme Application Details

Applications for the NNPC/MPN Undergraduate National Scholarship Awards are based on the following criteria:

Scholarships  2013 Geographical Coverage

The 2013 Scholarship Awards will be made to qualified and suitable students who are currently admitted in Nigerian Universities irrespective of state of origin including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Disciplines Eligible For The 2013/2014 NNPC / MPN Undergraduate Scholarship

Applications in the following list of approved disciplines are considered:

1. Petroleum Engineering


2. Chemical Engineering


3. Mechanical Engineering


4. Electrical/Electronics Engineering


5. Civil Engineering


6. Geology/Geophysics


7. Medicine (MBBS Only)


8. Agricultural Science (and related fields)


9. Computer Science

Other Criteria for Scholarships Eligibility:

• Candidates interested in applying for the NNPC / MPN Undergraduate Scholarship 2013 / 2014 Awards must be holders of the SSCE or its equivalent with at least six subjects passed at a sitting


• Applicants must be registered full-time undergraduates in their 1St or 2nd year of study in any accredited Nigerian University


• Students who are currently on similar scholarship awards from other oil and gas companies should not apply


• Dependants of employees of Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, Mobil Oil Nigeria plc and Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited are not eligible for this scholarship

Application Closing Date 
All NNPC / MPN Undergraduate Scholarship 2013 Applications must be submitted on or before Thursday, August 22, 2013.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified person who wish to apply for the NNPC/MPN Scholarship 2013 / 2014 (Undergraduate Category) should click the following link to apply online:NNPC/MPN Undergraduate Scholarship 2013 / 2014 Application Online 

Shortlisted candidates will be required to upload the following documents along with their application in the application portal:

• Current University Identity Card


• Evidence of admission into a Nigerian University


• Evidence of current year of study


• Evidence of SSCE result or its equivalent


• Current Passport Photograph


• Evidence of State of Origin obtained from the appropriate


• Local Government Area and duly signed by the Chairman or Secretary.

Names of short-listed candidates for the qualifying test will be published in National Dailies. The candidates will also be contacted with details of the qualifying test via SMS text and email
Fraud Alert Notice:
Exxon Mobil Upstream Affiliates in Nigeria (Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited and Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited) do not use placement agencies that charge scholarship applicants an advance fee of any kind (e.g. application fees, placement fees, test fees, etc.)

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"I Suffered In My Marriage, Had A Miscarriage" - Actress Chika Ike Opens Up

Nollywood Actress, Chika Ike whose
divorce has been finally dissolved
pens an open letter to her fans,
opening up about the physical abuse
she suffered in the hands of the man
she called her husband for five years.

Read below

The past three years has been a very emotional period for me. I focused my energy on work and to build back my self esteem. its been really hard for me to come out straight and talk about this because sometimes I pinch myself to wake up and not believe that I was a victim of domestic violence.

I’ve been through a lot in my life, faced a lot of challenges but this is one topic I’ve tried so hard to avoid and have been waiting for the right time but I have come to a resolve that there’s really no right time because every second of the day,lives are being lost due to domestic violence. I was a victiim of domestic violence in my marriage and that was the singular reason I left my marriage, aside other reasons.
Growing up as a girl.

I was always known as the sweetest kid on the block, before I got married, I have been through some relationships and for once no man had ever laid a finger on me. The first time it happened in my marriage I didn’t understand it because I am not the type of woman a man beats but I guess there are no types. It just happens and no woman deserves it.
As a young girl I
thought it was love or his way of
expressing his emotions,after every
beating he pleads , cries and says it
won’t happen again, once again I thought it was love and made excuses for him.

Over the years when it kept happening consistently I started looking for other definitions for it. I started loosing my self pride,self esteem , self worth, and most painfully I lost a pregnancy (Miscarriage) I almost lost my life in the process then I realised how serious and abnormal it really was.

I have heard and read a lot of
accusations from ignorant people who don’t know my story,I guess that’s why they are ignorant. I was 20yrs old and very naïve to the world when I got married .”
They said I married for money” LOL. I was married to a
corporate guy, who had a 9-5 job in anbank, Lives in a rented 2 bedroom apartment at Egbe.. So do the maths! . I married for love. I did a traditional wedding. A white wedding and a court wedding.

So that’s how much I wanted to be
married forever. For five years I hoped, prayed & wished that one day it will all change.
But the last straw that broke the carmels back was during a heated argument he threw a glass jug to my face and I dogged it and it shattered on d wall. I saw death flash before me and I made a decision to save my life. I left my
marriage.

Am not saying this to draw pity from anyone because we are entitled to our opinions and believes.
I am not also saying this to discourage people from falling in love because its a beautiful feeling and I still believe in it. I am saying this to educate, share and talk about my experience as a victim of domestic violence because it is real.

PDP will win if APC picks Buhari in 2015 –Presidency

The Presidency has said that if the newly registered All Progressives Congress picks a former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as its presidential candidate, the 2015 election will be a walkover for the Peoples Democratic Party.

The Presidency was apparently hitting back at the APC, which earlier said that it would be a disaster for any party to field President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 election.

The Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, stated this in a telephone interview in Abuja on Thursday.

He also commented on other APC leaders, including Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufa’i.

He said, “As far as that merger is concerned, the calculation of the Congress for Progressive Change elements is that Buhari will stand for the election. If he stands for the election, it is a walkover for the PDP; so, we are praying that they field Buhari.”

While stating that he had information that Tinubu was not interested in the presidential race, Gulak added that El-Rufa’i did not have the qualities that could qualify him to contest the presidential election.

He said, “Tinubu is not interested in the presidential race. I have it on good authority that Tinubu is not interested.

“El-Rufa’i is not a politician. When we are talking about politicians who are likely candidates, we don’t talk about people like El-Rufa’i. We are talking about political politicians.

“But in all, the President has yet to declare his intention whether he will re-contest or not. When the time comes in 2014, we will know whether he will offer himself for a second term or not. As of now, we are here to work for Nigerians.”

Gulak said that the APC was too young to decide the fate of the President if the PDP fielded him for the 2015 presidential election.

He said since the APC had just been registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, its leaders must first learn the political ropes before commenting on who should be fielded by the PDP.

He said, “The APC that was just born yesterday should not have the mouth to talk.

“They should mind their own business and face the struggle ahead of them. They should stop focusing on what PDP will do or will not do, that is none of their business.”

The presidential aide said so far, the APC did not have any potential presidential candidate that could give a Jonathan sleepless night if he decided to re-contest in 2015.

FG To Replace 9-3-4 With 1-6-3-3-4 education structure

The nation’s education policy of 9-3-4 may soon be replaced by another one, as the Federal Government has almost concluded plans to change the existing policy to a 1-6-3-3-4 education structure.  The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqquayat Rufa’i, while announcing the imminent change, said the proposed structure would be a re-modification of the 9-3-4 system of education which came into being in 2009 only when the old 6-3-3-4 was dropped.

This new system, already proposed to the National Assembly, it was learnt, is being planned to include the exposure of five-year-old learners to one-year of Early Childhood Education before they proceed to the six-year basic education.
According to Rufa’i, it is sequel to the recommendations of the Presidential Task Team on Education, which President Goodluck Jonathan had already approved.
According to the minister, 1-6-3-3-4 signifies that the first year of education will be for a child of five years.
The six-year component will be for primary education, while the other three, three and four years would be for junior and senior secondary schools, and tertiary education respectively.
Before this proposal, the nation’s educational system had gone through many modifications.  In the late 70s and 80s, it was the 6-5-4 system that was in place. This system represented six years in the primary school, five years in the secondary school and four years in the tertiary institution.
Again, a shift in policy later came up, and it gave birth to Higher School Certificate, popularly known as HSC, which gave another  two-year stop gap of learning to pupils after  secondary school, before they proceeded to the university.
Later, several shifts in policy thrusts on education had emerged. Nigeria has had 6-3-3-4, and 9-3-4 systems of education.
The 6-3-3-4 indicated six years in the primary school, three years each in junior and senior secondary schools respectively; and four years in the higher institution.
The 6-3-3-4 was modified in 2009, which led to the present 9-3-4 system of education. This was done with the view to including the components of basic, technical and vocational inputs into the curriculum, as pupils were expected to complete the first nine years before proceeding on a career path in the next three years of secondary education.
These modifications, as far as government is concerned, are all aimed at giving Nigerian pupils and students qualitative and pragmatic education. But whether that has been achieved or not is a story for another day.
Stakeholders are, however, divided over the proposed system of education.  While some are in support of the policy, others are opposed to it. Those in support note that it is good as it is already being practised by private school owners; while those opposed to it argue that there is nothing wrong with the existing system. They say it will result to another policy somersault, which they claim had been the bane of education development in the country.
The Proprietress, Mindbuilders Schools, Lagos, Mrs. Bola Falore, says she is worried by the inconsistency in policy formulation in the educational sector. She notes that the government has yet to tell the populace what was wrong with the 6-3-3-4 or the 9-3-4 before proposing another one.
She says, “I believe they introduced the nursery system into primary education for five-year-old children. In advanced countries, children start learning from between ages three and four, and by the time they spend two years in school, they move formally to the primary school.

“Is this what they are trying to copy? My worry is: for how long would they practise this policy if it eventually sails through?”
The Principal, King’s College, Lagos, Mr. Dele Olapeju, says it is a right step in the right direction, stressing that the system started from a private initiative, in which children from ages four and five were enrolled informally in school until they were mature to proceed to primary school at age six.
He says, “It started from the private operators of education in what the Yoruba called Jeleosinmi (which literally means let the household have some peace), in which children were enrolled from age five into the school informally. From there, they start acquiring education, and when they clocked age six, they moved to the primary school formally.
“I think now the Federal Government wants to make it universal, which means it will be a policy for both private and public schools.”
A Lagos-based teacher, Mr. Omoniyi David, agrees with Olapeju, arguing that it is improper to have children of between four and five years already in the primary school, which, he notes, is now prevalent in some private schools.
He says there is the need for such children to have been prepared before they are enrolled in primary school.
He states, “There is need for parents to stop enrolling those children that are not yet six years into primary school. Some of these parents are in such a hurry that they enroll their children straight into the primary school from ages four and five years.
“This set of children create problems for teachers, because many of them do not know their right from their left. This new arrangement (policy) will definitely address this problem to a large extent, if it is implemented in both private and public schools.”
Meanwhile, many Nigerians also have taken to the social media to make their contributions on this new education policy.
A visit to the nairaland.com, one KX querries, “Is the 1-6- 3- 3- 4 going to turn the flooded classrooms to model classrooms? Is it going to provide textbooks and reading materials to the pupils and students?  Is it going to pay the N18,000 minimum wage to the teachers? Is the revised 6-3-3-4 system what the educational sector needs more than the enabling environment for teaching and learning?”

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Chris Brown Suffers Seizure At Studio

Los Angeles recording studio Record Plant called 911 early Friday morningafter 24- year-old R&B singer Chris Brown suffered
a seizure.
When the Los Angeles City Fire
Department arrived, Brown, who
experienced seizures as a child, refused to be taken to the hospital, TMZreported.
Calls to Brown’s publicist and Record Plant were not returned, but the LAFD confirmed to E! Newsthat an emergency
call was placed from the studio at 1:09 a.m.
After the seizure scare, Brown’s on-and- off girlfriend, Karrueche Tran
tweeted”Prayers all day.” Seven hours later she tweeted again: “A lot on my mind today… I need a hug.”

2shotz' Wife Reacts To Beverly Osu's Battery Allegations

Ascon Consult LTD Seeks Waiter/Waitress: Ekiti

Waiter/Waitress in Ekiti

A recruiting firm in Ekiti requires the services of suitably qualified individuals to fill the position of  a waitress/waiter in its organization.

Responsibilities:

·                    Ensure effective service delivery to guests. and also ensure required service level agreements are met, and customer satisfaction.

·                    Perform all necessary tasks to serve food and beverage according to the service standards and operating manuals of the hotel.

·                    Maintenance and up keep of all service equipment / materials.

·                    Responsible for getting stock for stores and maintaining hygiene standards in storage.

·                    Ensure minimum wastage, spoilage of food and drink.

·                    Preparing tables for a meal.

·                    Taking customers’ orders.

·                    Serving drinks and food.

·                    Cleaning up before, after and during servings in a restaurant.

Qualifications and Requirements:

·                    Minimum of SSCE

·                    1-3 years experience in a similar role

·                    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

 

Stunted potentials hobble our nation

By: Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai.

Our country is in the news these days often for the wrong reasons. Nigeria is a country devastated by poverty, insecurity, corruption and terrorism. The governance challenges are immense, while much of public policies now deliver poor outcomes. The budgeting process is a fictographic art, featuring much drama and a growing disconnect from the imperatives of development and the needs of the majority.

True to that tradition, the 2013 budget is by August still a matter of unsettled contention between the executive and legislative branches of government. In spite of this, the nation’s savings account – the Excess Crude Account is being rapidly drawn down, probably unlawfully, such that it is likely to fall from about $11bn in February to zero by October 2013!

Yet this sorry impasse, governmental incompetence and impunity do not define Nigeria. Our diverse peoples are an energetic, often optimistic lot trying to build our lives despite the trammels imposed by governmental incompetence and paralysis. Ours is Africa’s largest country and second largest economy. It could easily be the continent’s largest economy and market if a congruence should emerge between politics, government action and national aspirations.

Such congruence was in the works from 2004-2007, when a variety of reform measures began to improve government finances, shrink the participation of the state in business by privatizing many state-owned enterprises, create a modern national identity system, strengthen the banking system and getting the ports to be more efficient. Our nation was even poised to launch a national mortgage system to reverse its embarrassing 17 million units housing deficit. A series of gas-based thermal plants were contracted to improve the patchy electric power generation levels.

For the first time, a coherent roadmap for a potential boom in the solid mineral sector emerged alongside efforts to reduce the cost of governance through right-sizing and monetization of fringe benefits. The personnel cost of the entire executive arm of the federal government was about N600bn, while the maximum running cost of 469 members of the national assembly used to be less than N50bn annually. The pay-as-you-go pension system was reformed and transitional roadmap to a fully-funded contributory pension scheme legislated.

The success of our foreign debt relief campaign reflected the international community’s confidence in the soundness of the economic programme then being feverishly pursued. Nigeria did not suddenly become an Eldorado. But it was clearly beginning to get to grips with its problems using solutions that were pragmatic and largely market driven; propelled by a vision that the government should provide the infrastructure, security and the guaranty of law and order that can give people confidence to invest, grow and unleash their talents.

The vision of that Obasanjo administration was to make this the last generation to merely speak of Nigeria’s potentials. We were determined to realize those potentials, confident that we had the talents to create wealth from the vast natural and human resource endowments of the country, leveraging the energies of its young people and latent assets in the Diaspora.

Why then the stasis since late 2007? We will attempt an explanation.

Political power must always be tied to national purpose. The inheritors of power post-2007 were strangers to that conception, and did not feel obliged to uphold the reformsthey inherited, and where they did, did not demonstrate sufficient political will to see them through. Even conceding to the ever changing dynamics of life, the broad thrust of the programmes our governments need to implement is obvious: the 2004-2007 reforms are unfinished. They should constitute a new starting point for development- focused governance and the agenda for the next government.

Perhaps that will be the single agenda item for the All Progressives Congress in post-Jonathanian Nigeria, as it is clear that the current leadership is unwilling to proceed on that road less travelled. We will nevertheless outline what obviously needs doing. It is not rocket science but requires a competent team led by a president that has been tested and transparently honest. The next president must possess unquestionable personal integrity, character and will, propelled by the anger to change our currently-unacceptable conditions – qualities that appear to be in great deficit in the current leadership across the board not only at the top but even at the levels of ministries, departments and agencies.

On a macroeconomic level, the government has to both shrink and become more efficient. The public service is in many ways unfit for purpose, with a mismatch between the skills required and the excess personnel it carries. A set of incentives needs to be arranged to once again make the public service an attractive career for our most talented.

Certain sectors of the service also need to grow. Nigeria needs more police officers, health workers,teachers and judges and the infrastructure to support them. But the share of national income consumed by government has to reduce. The monetization policy has to be revisited and strictly implemented so that securing a public service job, or getting elected to a post stops being a license to live like a monarch, well above the austere circumstances of ordinary Nigerians.

The expense on human capital has to both grow and be more efficiently allocated. The failure rates in the final secondary level exams show that we are not equipping our youth with the skills needed for the 21st century. Our tertiary education is also mired in mediocrity, and the emergence of private universities merely glosses over, rather than addressing the problem.

Access to basic healthcare is also problematic, and we continue to record scandalous rates of maternal and infant mortality. The vote of no confidence in the healthcare system is seen not merely in the N4 billion Nigerians spent in 2010 on medical tourism, but also in the fact that the government makes provisions to send its top officials abroad for healthcare services.

Spending priorities and the allocation of resources have to be calibrated to reflect the urgent necessity to build infrastructure and capacity in Nigeria. The personnel and overhead cost of governments should no longer dominate budgeting; which must begin to prioritize about 70% of budgets for capital expenditure in national and subnational appropriation acts. Having a healthy and well-educated population that is able to compete in today’s global village is more important than the perks that seem to occupy and distract many public officers.

The abandoned efforts at developing a national mortgage system should be revived to create a source of sustainable, long-term financing and a basis for a veritable housing revolution. This would help create better planned neighborhoods in addition to the civic pride, social stability and sense of security that home ownership fosters.

Unleashing entrepreneurial energy also requires that strong regulatory competencies be developed across the board. As our banking system so notoriously demonstrated, effective supervision and enforcement of rules and regulations are critical to the overall performance of the nation’s economy.  The culture of corruption and impunity must be confronted no matter whose oxen are gored.

The ambivalent and highly politicized efforts to tackle insecurity and terrorism must be reassessed and redesigned, and then implemented with all seriousness to end the  kidnapping, crude oil theft, armed robberies and the Boko haram insurgency that plague our country. The commendable clean-up of the judiciary initiated by the current illustrious Chief Justice must be intensified and sustained.

None of these is easy but we have little choice if our 170 million people are to have a future. If we continue to make at least 6 million babies per annum, by 2050 Nigeria will be amongst the three most populous nations on earth. We have a duty to do what is necessary to avoid short-term anarchy or sate failure in the medium term when the oil prices are driven down by discoveries all over Africa, and improvement in fracking technologies producing more and more shale oil and gas in Europe and the Americas. We have only a small window to get things right, and we can. Indeed, we must!

When we do, Nigeria has room for an economic explosion, a revolution in development with tectonic consequences for Africa and the Black Race. While we concede that even today, enterprising investors can still make money from the chaos that is the Nigerian economy given the reservoirs of unmet needs across many sectors, real progress that creates jobs and opportunities on a sustainable basis are possible only within the framework of leadership qualities and policies described above. But all these depend on getting the politics right by ensuring we have clean elections between now and 2015. Anything sort of that is sounding the death knell of Nigeria’s progress, and Africa’s emancipation, and that will be very sad indeed.

Lola Alao Gets Married Again

ouple of years after divorcing her ex husband, Popular controversial
Yoruba and Nollywood Actress Lola
Alao has tied the knot again to the
man of her dreams.
The mother of one married her US based fiance Wale Ajibola, in Atlanta yesterday.

Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Technical Aid Corps (TAC) Massive Recruitment 2013

Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Technical Aid Corps (TAC) Massive Recruitment 2013 (Over 1000 Positions).

Directorate of Technical Aid Corps, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abuja, invites applications from suitably qualified Nigerians for the recruitment into the Nigerian Aid Corps Scheme for the 2013 – 2015 Biennium.

The Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme is a viable volunteer programme operated by an African country across ACP countries. From independence, aid and technical assistance have been at the core of Nigeria’s foreign policy objectives. TAC began in 1987 to complement direct financial aid from Nigeria to ACP countries through skills exchange towards strengthening international understanding and cooperation.

The Federal Government of Nigeria in 1987 established the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme as a foreign policy tool that would serve specific national interests.

The statute establishing the scheme – Decree 27 – was signed into a law on 22 January 1993 and officially documented on 5 May 1993, thus giving it a legal backing and framework.

As an instrument of Nigeria’s foreign policy, the TAC programme is an alternative to direct financial aid for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations. It is designed, not only to provide manpower assistance in all fields of human endeavour, but to also represent a practical demonstration of South-South cooperation. (South-South refers to underdeveloped and developing countries in the southern hemisphere).

Objectives:

Key objectives of the scheme are:

o Sharing Nigeria’s know-how and expertise with other ACP countries

o Giving assistance on the basis of assessed and perceived needs of recipient countries

o Promoting cooperation and understanding between Nigeria and recipient countries

o Facilitating meaningful contact between youths of Nigeria and those of recipient countries

o Complementing other forms of assistance to ACP countries

o Ensuring a streamlined programme of assistance to other developing countries

o Acting as a channel through which South-South collaboration is enhanced

o Establishing a presence in countries which, for economic reasons, Nigeria has no resident diplomatic mission. Nigeria Technical Aid Corps (TAC) Massive Volunteer Recruitment 2013

Applications are hereby invited from suitably qualified Nigerian professionals for the recruitment into the Nigerian Aid Corps Scheme for the 2013 – 2015 Biennium. The scheme is designed to provide manpower assistance in specific area, on request, from African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Prospective candidates are therefore expected to be highly competent in their respective professions and of impeccable character. Applications are invited from the following professionals:

1.) Medicine Professionals needed include General Practitioners, Cardiologists, Orthopaedic Surgeons, Pathologists, Pharmacologists, Hematologists, Histopathologists, Surgeons, Micro-biologists, Radiologists/CT-Scan, Urologists, Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Paediatricians, Psychiatrics, Forensic, Medicine, Physicians, Epidemiologists, Entomologists, Dermatologists, Neurologists, Anesthesiologists, Plastic Surgeons, Physiologists, Anatomists, Physiotherapists, Ophthalmic Retinal Surgeons, Optometrists, Occupational Therapists, Dentists, Endoscopists, Pharmacists, Radiographers, Radiologists, Laboratory Technologists, Laboratory Technicians, X-Ray Technicians, Chemical Pathologists, Medical Electronic Engineers, Lep/TB Specialists or MO with Lep/TB Background, Health Planners/Administrators and Clinical Chemists

2.) Nursing And Midwifery: Midwives, Nurse Anaesthetists, Psychiatric Nurses, Theatre Nurses, Nurse Tutors, OR-Nurse and Public Health Nurses. Etc

3.) Teaching: Teachers in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, English Language, Agriculture, History, Christian Religious Knowledge, Islamic Religious Knowledge, General Education, Home Economics, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Economics, Arts & Crafts, General Science, Vocational/Technical Education, Food Science Technology, Hotel Service, Tourism Studies specializing in travel operations, Special Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Curriculum Development, Childhood Education, Technical drawing, Economics, Business Education, Marketing, Purchasing, Banking and Finance, Accounting, Information technology, Geography and Health Science.

4.) Lecturers: Lecturers/Teachers in English Language, African Literature, Modern African History, English Literature, Linguistics, Theatre Arts, Library Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Architecture, Textile & Weaving, Music, Art & Crafts, Quantity Surveying, Land Surveying, Chemical Pathology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mass Communication, Organic Chemistry, Banking and Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Coaches/Instructors, in Football, Basketball, Boxing, Athletics, Physical Education, Biochemistry, Computer Programming & Technology, Geography, Sociology and Social work, Anthropology, History, Genetics, Botany, Zoology, International Relations, Comparative Government/Politics, International Law, Policy Analysis, Urban/Regional Economics, Urban Transportation Planning, Planning Theory, Environmental Planning, System Dynamics & Technology Policy, Research & Planning, Educational Administration, Curriculum Development, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Psychology, General Agriculture, Soil Science, Animal Science, Agriculture Economics, Wood science, Forest Science, Bio-diversity, (Environmental Management), Criminal Law, Torts, Family Law, Legal Research, Labour Law, Human Rights, Beef Cattle Production, Water resources, Animal Ecology, Rangeland management, Irrigation Agronomy, Tropical seed, Technology, Biometrics, Crop Protection, Plant Biotechnology, Cooperatives, Economics, Econometrics, Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Economics/ Policy, Experimental Physics, Theoretical Physics, Bio-statistics ecology, Food Microbiology, Entomology, Environmental Microbiology/ Biotechnology, Vector Biology/ Parasitology, Quality Assurance and Laboratory management, Toxicology.

5.) Engineering: Water resource/Hydraulic, Thermal Machine Design, Industrial, Manufacturing, Mineral Processing, Agriculture, Mining, Geology, Electronics, Automobile, Communication, Microelectronics, Road and Transport, Applied Mechanics, Computer, Highway, Electronics or Nuclear Physics, Sanitary, Food Technology, Process Control and Instrumentation, Chemical process, Re-inforced Concrete, Control System, Plant Layout and Production Planning, Engineering Materials, Garment Technology, Fashion Design, Textile Chemical Process, Quality Control in Textile, Physical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Geo-physics.

6.) Health Science: Surgery, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, radiology, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy, Biopharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Technology, Human Anatomy, Stress Physiology, Embryology, Histology, Physiology, Biochemistry, Adult Care Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, Dental health, Physical pharmacology, Pharmacology, Community health science, Psychiatrist/Mental health, Occupational health specialist, Immunology, Haematology, Chemical Nursing (Medical surgical), Peadiatric Nursing, Public nursing, Midwifery nursing, Environmental/occupational hygiene, Anesthesiology, Pychiatry, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Medicinal Chemistry.

7.) Veterinary: Anatomy, Farm animal anatomy, Physiology, Immunology/Phraseology, Animal Health.

8.) Others: Production management (with engineering background), Management science, materials Management, Management Economics, Public/Social Service/Industrial Economics, Cooperative Studies; (Theory and Practice, Legal systems, Organization and Management, Agric Cooperative Management, Auditing and Accounting), Business communication, Risk Management and Insurance, Hotel and Tourism Management, Hotel Food Production, Hotel Economics, Management Information Systems, Accounting Information Systems, Auditing Zoology.

9.) Law: Lawyers, Prosecutors, Magistrates and Legal Draughtsmen.

10.) Agriculture: Doctors of Veterinary Medicine, Agric Extension and Development Officers, Nutritionists, Agronomists, Livestock production Experts, Horticulture.

11.) Artisans: Carpentry and Joinery, Plumbing, Welding, Automobile Mechanics, Brick-laying, Tailoring and Vulcanizing.

Requirements:

o Candidates must be in possession of a OND/HND/First degree or its equivalent in designated disciplines from recognized universities.

o  2 years post NYSC experience is an added advantage.

o Candidates applying as Artisans must possess Full City and Guilds certificate and other professional certificates in their respective trades.

o Lecturers in all disciplines must possess Masters degree while Teachers must possess Bachelor of science with a minimum of 2-3 years lecturing experience.

o Knowledge of ICT is compulsory.

2013/2014 Imo State University, Owerri Post UTME Screening and Schedule

Imo State University, invites all candidates who have chosen the institution as 1st choice or 2nd choice for the 2013/2014 Post UTME Screening Exercise scheduled to take place from Wednesday, August 14 to Friday August 16 2013

Eligibilty: candidates that scored 180 and above in the JAMB UTME

Day 1 – Morning Session

Date: Wednesday  August 14, 2013

Time: 8 – 11 am

Faculty/Department

Faculty Of Science

• Computer Science


• Microbiology


• Industrial Microbiology


• Biochemistry


• Animal & Environmental Biology


• Statistics 


• Chemistry


• Industrial Chemistry


• Mathematics


• Industrial Mathematics


• Physics


• Industrial Physics


• Plant Science & Biotechnology

Faculty Of Agriculture & Vetenary Medicine

• Agricultural Economics


• Animal Science & Fisheries


• Crop Science & Biotechnology


• Hospitality & Tourism Management


• Soil Science

Afternoon Session

Time: 12 – 3 pm

Environmental Science

• Architecture


• Building


• Estate Management


• Urban & Regional Planning


• Quantity Surveying


• Surveying & Geoinformatics


• Fine & Applied Arts


• Education Geography


• Education Fine Arts

Engineering

• Agric. Engineering


• Civil Engineering


• Electrical & Electronics Engineering


• Food Science & Technology


• Mechanical Engineering

Day 2 – Morning Session

Date: Thursday  August 15, 2013

Time: 8 – 11 am

Faculty/Department

Faculty Of Business Administration

• Accountancy


• Marketing


• Insurance


• Management


• Banking & Finance


• Education Accountancy

Afternoon Session

Time: 12 – 3pm

Faculty Of Humanities

• French


• Linguistics


• Religion


• Philosophy


• Theatre Arts


• English


• History

Faculty of Social Science

• Economics


• Mass Communication


• Psychology


• Political Science (GPD)


• Education Government


• Geography & Environmental Mgt


• Education Economics

Day 3 – Morning Session

Date:  August 16, 2013

Time: 8 – 11 am

Faculty Of Education

• Library & Information Science


• Education Library Science


• Education Guidance & counseling

Afternoon Session

Time: 12 – 3 pm

Faculty Of Medicine

• Medicine & Surgery

Faculty Of Health Sciences

• Medicine Laboratory Science


• Nursing Science


• Optometry


• Nutrition & Dietetics

Requirements

• Candidates are required to come with the following items for the screening exercise, 2013/2014 original examination UTME result slip showing candidates photograph, pencil, eraser and a ball-point pen

Note

• Impersonation is a serious offence and anyone caught impersonating will be handed over to the Law enforcement agent.


• Any candidate who fails to take part in the screening exercise automatically loses his or her chance of being considered for admission.


• GSM handsets, calculators or any other extraneous materials MUST NOT be brought into the screening venue. Such materials if confiscated will not be returned.


• Early commencement of registration is advised to avoid web congestion in the dying hours.

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How N10 cigarette landed man in police cell

A twenty four-year-old middle aged man, Kunle Oyebanji, who allegedly stabbed a petty trader  and attempted to kill him around Idimu area of Alimosho in Lagos State, over a disagreement on N10 cigarettes, has been arrested by the police.

The suspect, who allegedly escaped from the scene of the incident, was arrested by operatives at Idimu police station, after the victim, identified simply as Musa, was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was treated.

Oyebanji was, until  the incident, a regular buyer of cigarette at the victim’s kiosk at 1, Pipeline Street around Idimu  Egbeda  and he had reportedly, on several occasions, bought sticks of cigarettes, without paying to the victim

The police have since arraigned the suspect before an Ejigbo Magistrate Court, where he was granted bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties.

Crime & Security gathered that the arrested Oyebamji had, on the day of the incident, approached Musa and asked him to give him a stick of cigarette which the latter refused, insisting that the suspect paid the earlier money owed.

A police source at Idimu, while speaking with  Crime & Security the victim in his statement, had accused the suspect of buying provisions on credit from him and that his efforts to get the money had been futile.

Musa reportedly  told the  police  that he had stopped demanding for his money following the series of threat and constant assault from the suspect, who insisted that he would get what he wanted from the victim, with or without money.

“The victim told us that the suspect came to his kiosk on the particular day and asked to be given a stick of cigarette, worth N10, but the he refused, insisting that he (Oyebanji) must pay, before he could be given the cigarette,” the police source said.

He added that Oyebanji forcefully picked a packet of the cigarette and picked a stick and a lighter and sat beside the kiosk and smoked, even while Musa was trying to make him pay for the product.

An attempt by Musa to collect his money led to a serious argument and a brawl between the suspect and the victim , prompting Oyebamji to bring out a knife from his pocket and stabbed Musa repeatedly in many parts of his body

The suspect, on seeing the victim on floor in the pool of blood, escaped from the area but residents who were watching the scenario quickly rushed Musa to the hospital, where he is currently receiving treatment.

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Pop star Rihanna posted her photos molar jewellery clipped over her front teeth. The singer risked sparking controversy by posing with a gold AK 47 tooth grill.

MBGN Heads to Miss World Beauty Contest, as NDLEA Completes Formalities

The needed
formalities for Nigeria’s most
beautiful girl 2013, Miss Anna Ebiere Banner’s trip to Jakarta, Indonesia, for the forthcoming Miss World Beauty contest, have been finished by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
Miss Anna Ebiere Banner visited the NDLEA headquarters in Ikoyi Lagos together with the Principal Manager Human Resources of Silverbird Group, Emmanuel Amadi and Rights Acquisition
Manager, Silverbird, Patricia Ndubuisi.

The NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Ahmadu Giade, congratulated her on winning the 2013 national beauty contest
and wished her success at the global. beauty pageant.
These warm regards
were passed by the Head of Public
Affairs, Mr. Ofoyeju Mitchell.
He said, “On behalf of management, I welcome you to the agency’s headquarters. This crown is well deserved and I congratulate you for being the best by winning the 2013 beauty contest. I wish you flying colours at the Miss World Beauty Pageant.
I am optimistic that you will fly the country’s flag high above others and ultimately make us proud.”

He added that Banner’s request for visa clearance certificate was approved on merit having met the stipulated requirements.

Sallah Tragedy: Auto Accidents Took Lives of 12

Yesterday, at the very end of
Ramadan (Eid-el-Fitri) at least 10
people died yesterday while 24 others were injured in multiple accidents along major roads leading to Gusau, Zamfara State capital. At the same time two people were killed in another crash in Ogun State.

The first accident occurred along
Bungudu-Maru Road in Zamfara as a
result of head-on collision involving Golf
and Toyota cars where seven people died
instantly, others sustained serious
injuries.
The second crash occurred along Damba, a few kilometres to the state capital where nine passengers of a vehicle were injured while a housewife, Malama Rabi from Biyabiki village in Tsafe Local Government Area died on the spot.

According to a source, 19 passangers who were travelling in a bus along Maru town were involved in an accident. Two people lost their lives with several others sustaining serious injuries. All the victims of the multiple accidents were on their way to meet up with the Sallah celebration in their various towns and villages.

The bodies have been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre, Gusau, while those injured were at various nearest hospitals. Spokesman of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Zamfara State command, Garba Lawal, confirmed the death of 10 people.

The FRSC spokesman attributed the
accidents to over-speeding and
dangerous overtaking by drivers.

Meanwhile, two people were killed while 12 others, including a pregnant woman, were injured during a fatal auto crash when two vehicles collided at Iperin area of Ijebu-Ode/Ibadan Road on Tuesday.

The vehicles, a Toyota Serena bus
marked SMK 760 AP and a Mercedes Benz lorry with registration number XV 353 MUS. The bus which took off from Ijebu-Ode was heading towards Ibadan before its front tyre bust, causing the driver to lose control.

He had a head-on collision with the on- coming Mercedes Benz lorry
The driver and the passenger in front of the bus died immediately while passers- by rescued 16 other passengers in the two vehicles. They were taken to both Ijebu-Ode General Hospital and Roona Private Hospital in the town.

One of the survivors, Rebecca John, said four members of her family were travelling to Ibadan to attend the convention of the Gospel Fa
ith Mission International (GOFAMINT) when the accident occurred.
Though weak, she said the victims were members of GOFAMINT in the Waterside area of the state.
The Chief Medical Director, Ijebu-Ode General Hospital, Dr. Wellington Ogunsanya, confirmed the accident.

#IntelOpinion: Al-Mustapha: May We Be Spared This Shameful Show, Please! – Chinedu Ekeke

 

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, Abacha’s former Chief Security Officer, isn’t a convict, at least in the court of law, or do I say, at the appeal court. The feeling is, however, different, in the court of public opinion.  I don’t think he should be treated like a convict just released from Kirikiri. Yet, that doesn’t justify this orchestrated offensive launched at our sensibilities by a cross-section of the North whose view of life and living only circles around region and ethnicity. It is really a shame that we are being forced to re-write history, or even erase it completely just because we see ourselves in a contest for regional supremacy or ethnic rivalry of a sort.

What do we call that hero’s welcome given to Mustapha in Kano the moment he was released? In almost deifying Al-Mustapha, did the people involved even remember that a woman, someone’s mother, a life, was the bone of contention?

I understand the excitement in Mustapha’s immediate family. Irrespective of the offence their father and breadwinner was accused of committing, his family still owe him love. Even if it was proven that he was guilty, his family would understandably plead for mercy and seek him to remain alive and around. But in such situations, the excitement that comes with the release of a guilty loved one comes hushed and nuanced, not loud, daring and mocking. And that is even for the immediate families of the accused. When an entire region goes thunderous in celebrating a man accused of gruesomely taking the life of another person, then it becomes necessary to question what is important to us.

Let me repeat: I haven’t said Al-Mustapha killed Kudirat Abiola. But we must ask a question that the Major’s worshippers have refused to ask themselves. Are we proud of the regime that Sani Abacha ran in Nigeria? For the records, it must be said here and now, that Sani Abacha’s five-year reign represented a period of unprecedented brutal and dictatorial rule in Nigeria, characterized by numerous cases of assassinations and incarcerations. And Al-Mustapha was a principal player in that regime. He was, as many argue, the closest aide to the dreaded dictator, furnishing him with strategies on how to silence voices of dissention.

Recall that Sani Abacha it was who hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa against the plea of the whole world. What happened to Shehu Yar’Adua, a man who, by far, was better – in every sense of the word – than Abacha and Al-Mustapha? Yar’Adua was incarcerated on trump up charge of coup plotting, and he died in prison. How about the attempt at the lives of citizens by Abacha’s killer team? The wonder is that we’ve all forgotten so soon.

Those who celebrate Al-Mustapha, and by extension Abacha, are quick to compare the economy of Nigeria now with what it used to be under Abacha. And their conclusion has always been: it was much better. Well, this is not true.

The rot we see today is a reflection of the mess Babangida and his Abacha threw Nigeria into. A kobo stolen under Abacha – and there were trillions of kobos stolen under him – is worth more than a naira today. I have tried to explain this in previous essays. It is called the time value of money. Because money has the capacity to grow, time increases the value of money. Therefore, a billion dollar stolen under Abacha is much more than a billion dollar today. This is why it is erroneous to try to praise Abacha today because during his reign, the naira was stronger against the dollar than it is today.

Back to Al-Mustapha; why I thought to comment on this – in spite of the meanings some sections of the country will read to it – was the latest news in the Al-Mustapha drama. Leaders in Bayelsa paid him a visit to seek his support. It came across as a foolish move because Al-Mustapha shouldn’t have what it takes to sway the Northern votes in favour of anybody. Actually, he doesn’t. Who is he anyway? Isn’t it just funny that the so called elders consider Al-Mustapha more of a political asset than the real heroes from the North: Buhari, Ribadu, El-Rufai, Col. Umar?

And then he goes on rambling, believing the image his worshippers have created of him, forgetting his true self: the Major behind Nigeria’s deadliest ruler. My candid advice: Al-Mustapha and those who deify him should spare us this absurdity. Nigeria is trying so hard to move on from the era of gruesome killings which their reign reminds every one of us.

Chinedu is on twitter as @Nedunaija

Dr Sid and Simi Osomo get engaged

The Mavin artist proposed to his
fashionista girlfriend Simi Osomo
yesterday in Venice, Italy.

Why Okonjo-Iweala should resign now!

BAYO OLUPOHUNDA.

She was recently listed as one of the most powerful women in the world. Her name conjures up the image of an Amazon who symbolises excellence and the height of intellectual achievement. She is by no means a role model and a worthy example of the level Nigerian women can attain if given the opportunity to excel. There is also no doubt that the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is one of Nigeria’s proud exports. One cannot but admire her simplicity and self-effacing demeanour. Personally, I am in awe of her spartan fashion style. It portrays a woman not given to vanities or the mundane. For someone who has achieved global acclaim, one would expect her to wear her achievements like a diadem as most Nigerians of even lesser status are won’t to do. But not so for our finance minister who is found to usually spot her simple Ankara fabric and trademark round head tie jauntily placed on her head. She seems not to take herself too seriously.

That Okonjo-Iweala is loved and spoken of in fond terms by ordinary Nigerians is also not in doubt. This outpouring of love was displayed in 2012 when she contested the position of the President of the World Bank. Many Nigerians rooted for her. Her quest to be African’s first woman to head the Breton Wood institution became a national obsession. With the media rooting for her candidacy, her fellow citizens thought she was qualified to lead the foremost global financial institution. When she lost, Africa was disappointed. Prior to her 2003 appointment by Obasanjo as finance minister and head of the Economic Management Team, only a few Nigerians knew her. As a finance minister, she was known to have tenaciously used her influence to negotiate a deal with the Paris Club to pay a portion of Nigeria’s external debt (US $12bn) in return for an $18bn debt write-off. Her role in the deal was widely acknowledged.

During this time, the Harvard-trained economist was also known for her insistence on accountability in public spending and budgeting. Among many of her well-known achievements was the practice of publishing each state and local government’s monthly financial allocations in the newspapers. This went a long way in increasing transparency in governance. She was also instrumental in helping Nigeria obtain its first ever sovereign credit rating (of BB minus) from Fitch and Standard & Poor’s. Nigeria then was considered as having defaulted on its sovereign debt in 1983 (debt rescheduling is considered a type of default by rating agencies).

In spite of the controversy that beclouded her removal by Obasanjo, Okonjo-Iweala left with her reputation intact as one of Nigeria’s most hard-working and celebrated ministers of that era. She returned to the World Bank having been appointed as the Managing Director in 2007. To underscore the importance of the role she played in her first term, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed her as Minister of Finance with an expanded portfolio as the Coordinating Minister for the Economy in 2011. But how well has she performed in her second coming? Has the Jonathan administration provided the enabling environment for her economic policies to impact positively on the economy? As a coordinating minister, Okonjo-Iweala has extensive influence in shaping the direction of Jonathan’s economic team and the transformation agenda. But that is as far as it goes. In this largely corrupt administration, she has shouted herself hoarse on the need to reduce Nigeria’s bourgeoning recurrent expenditure which accounts for a large chunk of the national budget. She has harped on capital projects to reduce the worsening unemployment rate which she once said gives her sleepless nights. But the government she serves has so far not listened or does not seem to “give a damn”.  In spite of all her efforts, the economy is still in doldrums; poverty has worsened. This makes it strange that Okonjo-Iweala remains in a government that is on record to explicitly encourage corruption by not fighting it. Doesn’t she feel a sense of frustration that her efforts at bringing the economy back have so far been a resounding failure? Does the minister not know that nothing she does will matter in the present political climate that encourages corruption and waste by public officials? Is she not concerned by the lack of political will by the President to fight economic crimes that are inimical to economic development? Okonjo-Iweala should know that no economic initiative will work in a country where corruption pervades the fabric of governance.

How can interventions such as hers work in a corrupt country such as ours where public funds are stolen in a brazen manner by government officials with impunity? It is for this reasons that her efforts at reviving the economy will continue to hit a brick wall. No matter how sound the economic decisions she makes, they will be subverted somewhere along the line by economic and political saboteurs in and out of government. It is worse that the President allows them roam freely and gleefully. There is massive corruption in the land. The government is losing billions to oil thieves. This government is bloated which makes its running expensive.

Instructively, no situation best symbolises Okonjo-Iweala’s dilemma than the worsening unemployment rate. The figure released by the National Bureau of Statistics shows that unemployment rate has risen to 25 per cent. Historically, from 2006 until 2011, Nigeria’s unemployment rate averaged 14.6 per cent reaching an all-time high of 23.9 per cent in 2011 and a record low of 5.3 per cent in 2006. Yet, it was in these years that Okonjo-Iweala was a minister. What has gone wrong? Let us not be too quick to blame it on global unemployment rate. The minister must be courageous enough to tell this government the home truth. I suspect the credibility she has built is at stake if she stays on to serve this government.  How can a first class global technocrat like her be comfortable in a government that has refused to fight corruption; where the ruling elite engage in conspicuous consumption at the expense of the suffering masses? And, where a very few ruling class appropriate a large chunk of the treasury in outrageous salaries and allowances? Where is the economic and moral justification?

It is also an antithesis that she is the finance minister to a government that encourages indiscriminate borrowing when she was known to have worked hard to make our country debt-free in her first coming. The Jonathan government is on a borrowing binge, ironically, at a time the country is earning huge oil revenue like never before. Now, the minister is defending this administration’s N251bn debt-for-infrastructure debts. Something is definitely not right here. Recently, the Debt Management Office raised the alarm on Nigeria’s debt profile which it says may hit $25bn (about N3.75 tr) by 2015. Our domestic debt also stands at more than N6tn, while foreign debt at the end of 2012 was more than $6.5bn. Even the governor of Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi, is alarmed. Hear him: “We are borrowing more money today at a higher interest rate while leaving the heavy debt burden for our children and grandchildren.”

Is the minister listening? Okonjo-Iweala should know that Nigerians hold her in high esteem. They also want her to succeed. But it is doubtful if this is possible with this licentious government. She must find the courage to resign if her efforts are being deliberately sabotaged, as they appear to discerning Nigerians. She should not continue to lend her hard earned name to this charade called Jonathan’s administration. There is no use rescuing a sinking ship whose captain lacks the will to steer it in the right direction.

Any party that fields Jonathan’ll lose —APC

The All Progressives Congress  on Wednesday continued its war of words  with  the Presidency and the  Peoples Democratic Party over the suitability  of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan  for the presidential election.

While the APC believes that  fielding  Jonathan as a candidate would be suicidal for any party, the Presidency and the PDP argued  that he remains the best to contest and win a presidential poll in the country at present.

The latest war of attrition  was spurred by   Tuesday’s invitation  to the President by the APC Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, to join the newly formed political party if he was fed up with the crises  in  the PDP.

Akande  had said,  “We (the APC) don’t even close our door to the PDP. If Jonathan is tired of the crises in the PDP, he is welcome in the APC.”

The Presidency however reacted immediately  to the  invitation, saying   it was  an acknowledgment by the APC  of Jonathan’s sterling leadership qualities.

But in  a telephone interview, the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,  said it was bad  that the Presidency   did not read the statement credited to Akande before reacting.

According to him,     the invitation was not a compliment.

Mohammed  said, “When we say the man (Jonathan) should come and join us, we mean that he should come and see how to run a crisis- free party.

“But unfortunately, his handlers like himself, are unable to read between the lines.

“Fielding President Jonathan will be disastrous and it would amount to political suicide. The PDP itself also knows that it would be a double jeopardy if it fields the President in 2015.

“This is because, having lost the moral ground to face the electorate in 2015, the performance of the President since the past years is even appalling.”

But the Presidency on Wednesday  reiterated its position that  the APC’s  invitation of Jonathan was an indication of  his national acceptance.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, said that the Presidency viewed the invitation as a compliment.

Abati insisted that   the  invitation had shown clearly that the leaders of the APC were also aware of the fact that Jonathan was  the best man for the job at present.

He,  however,  ruled out the possibility of Jonathan joining the APC because “he  is  happy where he is.”

The presidential spokesman  said some people formed  the new party   only to realise that they  had no  credible candidate for the position of the President.

Abati said, “I think it (the APC’s invitation) is a compliment. What Chief Akande has said in essence is that President Jonathan is the best man for the job.

“They formed a party only to realise they don’t have a candidate. We thank him for his acknowledgment of the President’s leadership qualities, but he (the President) is happy where he is.

“We thank Chief Akande for his expression of confidence in President Jonathan’s credibility but the President is happy where he is, as a member and leader of the PDP to which he remains loyal, and under the umbrella of which he is leading a transformation agenda for the betterment of the lives of  Nigerians.”

Fenerbache Signs Nigeria's Emenike

Fenerbahce announced on Wednesday that it had come to an agreement with Russian side Spartak

Moscow to sign Nigerian striker Emmanuel Emenike.

The club also announced that Slovak winger Miroslaw Stoch is likely to be sent to Greek club PAOK on a one-year loan deal.

In a statement, Fenerbahce said it had come to a deal with the Russian club to sign Emenike for 13 million euros.

Emenike is expected to arrive in Istanbul on Wednesday night to go through a health check and if his license to play with Fenerbahce comes through in time, he could have the chance to play in the Turkish Super Cup game against Galatasaray on Sunday.

Emenike left Fenerbahce when the Turkish football match-fixing scandal, in which he was implicated, broke on July 3, 2011.

The Nigerian player’s stint with Fenerbahce ended abruptly after the match-rigging allegations emerged. After having joined Spartak Moscow in 2011, Emenike was acquitted in the match-fixing case in April.

Fenerbahce’s statement to the KAP added that Fenerbahce had started negotiations with PAOK to send its 23-year-old Slovak winger Miroslav Stoch on a one-year loan deal.

12 Die In Building Explosion; Authorities Suspect Gas Leak

Leaking gas was likely
to blame for an explosion that killed at least 12 people, injured 60 more and brought down part of a building in Argentina on Tuesday, state media reported Wednesday.

A man who was working at the scene in the city of Rosario before the blast ignited at 9:15 a.m. local time has been taken into custody, said the Telam news agency, which cited investigator Juan Curto.

The explosion gutted one multi-story residential building, and destroyed at least one other building next to it, while
blowing out the windows of surrounding structures, images broadcast by CNN affiliate Canal 9 showed.
A swath of white smoke and dust
dominated the skyline of the city, located about 200 miles northwest of the capital, Buenos Aires.
Firefighters swung extended ladders around to upper balconies and windows to rescue residents stranded on top floors.

Rubble and shards of glass filled the streets below, as fire engines arrived Tuesday to douse the blaze, and medical teams tended to bleeding victims.
Rescuers are still searching for over a dozen people who were in the residential building at the time of the blast, local newspaper Clarin reported.

#IntelOpinion: Let’s Forget About Aid & Let’s build Entrepreneurs –Lanre Olagunju

 

Coming from the perspective that you don’t ask an addict to stop an act without encouraging the replacement of a more beneficial practice, Africa must forget about aid and then build entrepreneurs if she must grow and become prosperous. Since it’s a known economic fact that entrepreneurship aids the economy in such a way that foreign aid can’t, be it in a developed or developing economy, African nations must encourage market as a better replacement for this economic addiction that has so far done more harm than good to the entire continent.

Entrepreneurs through innovation create new businesses that generate jobs, first for themselves, and then those they employ, and by so doing they give security to many. Small businesses in the United States for instance provide over 70 percent of the new jobs added to the American economy each year. In fact small businesses represent over 90 percent of employers in the United States.

Entrepreneurs are world changers, basically because their input to a large extent goes far beyond creating jobs and paying wages. At the point of solving problems, they drive quality innovation that enriches the life of the people by making life much easier and enjoyable. They provide us with services and products for needs we never knew we had. For example after the invention of computers and mobile phones, we really never considered that we would need ipads and other mobile tabs, but today, our lives greatly depend on them. Entrepreneurs discover new products and services that open new businesses that broaden citizen participation in the society.

Entrepreneurship by itself has a magnificent way of creating and increasing healthy competition. And in an environment where there’s healthy competition, productivity increases. All these and many more are the basic requirement that African nations need to foster sustainable economic prosperity and development.

Aid agencies should rather look into ways in which their funds can make market efficient in Africa, ways in which small businesses can break barriers and boarders by building permanent structures that connect local producers and exporters to global consumers in international market – something that can actually benefit both parties economically. They can as well be of special assistance to small and medium scale businesses, which ultimately are the building block for growing economies.

African nations must come to the reality that the most powerful tool to eradicate poverty is strengthening local entrepreneurs in the nooks and crannies of the city, towns and villages. All they need is an opportunity and environment to compete. They can bring massive turn around to any poor nation.

Major barrier to the progress of market in many developing nations is overbearing policies and inadequate infrastructure to enhance businesses. Governments need to set the environment to make it conducive for people to innovate and become entrepreneurial.  It was Dr. Cheick Diarra, a former executive for Microsoft Corporation, who made it clear that entrepreneurs can only build wealth only if bureaucratic obstacles are removed. I sincerely agree with him over and over again. Looking into Nigeria’s case for instance, the 2012 Ease of Doing Business Index ranks Nigeria 133 out of 183 other economies. In terms of starting a business at all, Nigeria ranks 116, in getting electricity 176 and then in terms of access to credit 78.

Without an enabling environment, aspiring entrepreneurs struggle and waste so much effort within a corrupt and bureaucratic system and that doesn’t encourage entrepreneurial progress and innovation.  Even when some individuals thrive in such an environment, healthy competition that promotes market growth still remains alien in to the entire system.

Out of the over I billion people in Africa, the World Bank says nearly 70% is actually under 30. Nigerian youths constitute a large part of that 70%, since two-third of the 160 million Nigerians are under 30. This large number of youths represents a promising demographic dividend for Africa, provided it will be harnessed for economic prosperity and growth; provided the youths have an enabling environment to develop their entrepreneurial skills.

It starts with education, seeing to it that courses like Business Studies and Entrepreneurship are included in school curriculum. And to those who are not in for formal education, they should be encouraged to get involved in vocational trainings and apprenticeship.

Until all these structures are put in place, asking African nations to drop their begging bowls is like asking a blind man to do away with his walking aid, while he walks alone.

I am @Lanre_Olagunju on Twitter

2013 WaterAid vacancies

 WaterAid is a UK registered international nonprofit organization working to transform lives by improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in the world’s poorest communities. We support local organisations to manage low cost, sustainable projects and also influence policy makers to secure the right of
poor people to affordable water and sanitation services, If you are inspired to make a difference in the lives of people, this is an opportunity for you at our office in Abuja, Nigeria in the following roles:

JOB TITLE: Programme Manager
The role will coordinate support and coordinate activities of implementing partners towards delivering quality programmatic service delivery targets in water, sanitation and hygiene. The ideal candidate will have strong competencies in building and strengthening collaborations and partnership with community based organizations towards achievement of programme objectives.

Candidates for this role should have a university degree in the natural, engineering or social sciences and minimum five to seven years experience in a development program management role gained preferably in a non profit context. The ideal candidate will be required to demonstrate excellent communication and report writing skills, a sound understanding and experience working with and managing partnerships with civil society and governmental stakeholders to implement development projects.
Location: Ekiti
Experience: 5 year(s)

JOB TITLE: Finance Officer
This role requires a candidate with experiences that reflect a good understanding of how to promote a strong financial control environment while ensuring that organizational systems and processes are fit for purpose. The candidate will demonstrate experience with preparing timely and accurate financial reports; processing payments to staff, statutory authorities and vendors and with providing direct supervision to line staff.

Our ideal candidate would possess a university degree in accounting and be registered as a student of any internationally recognized professional accounting body. The candidate would have at least five years experience performing finance or accounting responsibilities in a structured organization.
Location: Abuja
Experience: 5 year(s)

JOB TITLE: Finance Assistant
This role will support the Finance Officer and the Coordinator, Management Accounts in ensuring timely processing of payments to staff, statutory authorities and vendors; completeness and proper storage of financial documents for easy retrieval; preparation of timely and accurate financial reports and liaising with financial institutions on cash management issues.

The idea candidate would possess a degree in Accounting and between two to five years experience in a similar role. Candidates would also demonstrate strong experience and ability to successfully maintain relationships with both internal and external customers.

Method of Application
Qualified and interested candidates should access the application pack on our websitewww.wateraid.org/jobs and fill out the application form, Candidates who do not meet the minimum requirements for the positions need not apply.

Completed Electronic Appllcation Forms should be e-mailed to hrnig@wateraid.org .

Please note that ONLY applications submitted on WaterAid’s application forms will be considered
Deadline for submission of applications is 20th August 2013.

WaterAid is a UK registered international nonprofit organization working to transform lives by improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in the world’s poorest communities. We support local organisations to manage low cost, sustainable projects and also influence policy makers to secure the right of
poor people to affordable water and sanitation services, If you are inspired to make a difference in the lives of people, this is an opportunity for you at our office in Abuja, Nigeria in the following roles:
JOB TITLE: Programme Manager
The role will coordinate support and coordinate activities of implementing partners towards delivering quality programmatic service delivery targets in water, sanitation and hygiene. The ideal candidate will have strong competencies in building and strengthening collaborations and partnership with community based organizations towards achievement of programme objectives.
Candidates for this role should have a university degree in the natural, engineering or social sciences and minimum five to seven years experience in a development program management role gained preferably in a non profit context. The ideal candidate will be required to demonstrate excellent communication and report writing skills, a sound understanding and experience working with and managing partnerships with civil society and governmental stakeholders to implement development projects.
Location: Ekiti
Experience: 5 year(s)
JOB TITLE: Finance Officer
This role requires a candidate with experiences that reflect a good understanding of how to promote a strong financial control environment while ensuring that organizational systems and processes are fit for purpose. The candidate will demonstrate experience with preparing timely and accurate financial reports; processing payments to staff, statutory authorities and vendors and with providing direct supervision to line staff.
Our ideal candidate would possess a university degree in accounting and be registered as a student of any internationally recognized professional accounting body. The candidate would have at least five years experience performing finance or accounting responsibilities in a structured organization.
Location: Abuja
Experience: 5 year(s)
JOB TITLE: Finance Assistant
This role will support the Finance Officer and the Coordinator, Management Accounts in ensuring timely processing of payments to staff, statutory authorities and vendors; completeness and proper storage of financial documents for easy retrieval; preparation of timely and accurate financial reports and liaising with financial institutions on cash management issues.
The idea candidate would possess a degree in Accounting and between two to five years experience in a similar role. Candidates would also demonstrate strong experience and ability to successfully maintain relationships with both internal and external customers.
Method of Application
Qualified and interested candidates should access the application pack on our websitewww.wateraid.org/jobs and fill out the application form, Candidates who do not meet the minimum requirements for the positions need not apply.
Completed Electronic Appllcation Forms should be e-mailed to hrnig@wateraid.org .
Please note that ONLY applications submitted on WaterAid’s application forms will be considered
Deadline for submission of applications is 20th August 2013.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
WaterAid is an equal opportunity employer; women and persons with dlsabilities are particularly encouraged to apply;
– See more at: http://www.jobstoday.com.ng/ngo-jobs-in-nigeria/wateraid-recruitment-2013/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+jobsinnigeriatoday%2Fmain+%28Jobs+In+Nigeria+Today%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail#sthash.vLrgarah.dpuf

WaterAid is a UK registered international nonprofit organization working to transform lives by improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in the world’s poorest communities. We support local organisations to manage low cost, sustainable projects and also influence policy makers to secure the right of
poor people to affordable water and sanitation services, If you are inspired to make a difference in the lives of people, this is an opportunity for you at our office in Abuja, Nigeria in the following roles:
JOB TITLE: Programme Manager
The role will coordinate support and coordinate activities of implementing partners towards delivering quality programmatic service delivery targets in water, sanitation and hygiene. The ideal candidate will have strong competencies in building and strengthening collaborations and partnership with community based organizations towards achievement of programme objectives.
Candidates for this role should have a university degree in the natural, engineering or social sciences and minimum five to seven years experience in a development program management role gained preferably in a non profit context. The ideal candidate will be required to demonstrate excellent communication and report writing skills, a sound understanding and experience working with and managing partnerships with civil society and governmental stakeholders to implement development projects.
Location: Ekiti
Experience: 5 year(s)
JOB TITLE: Finance Officer
This role requires a candidate with experiences that reflect a good understanding of how to promote a strong financial control environment while ensuring that organizational systems and processes are fit for purpose. The candidate will demonstrate experience with preparing timely and accurate financial reports; processing payments to staff, statutory authorities and vendors and with providing direct supervision to line staff.
Our ideal candidate would possess a university degree in accounting and be registered as a student of any internationally recognized professional accounting body. The candidate would have at least five years experience performing finance or accounting responsibilities in a structured organization.
Location: Abuja
Experience: 5 year(s)
JOB TITLE: Finance Assistant
This role will support the Finance Officer and the Coordinator, Management Accounts in ensuring timely processing of payments to staff, statutory authorities and vendors; completeness and proper storage of financial documents for easy retrieval; preparation of timely and accurate financial reports and liaising with financial institutions on cash management issues.
The idea candidate would possess a degree in Accounting and between two to five years experience in a similar role. Candidates would also demonstrate strong experience and ability to successfully maintain relationships with both internal and external customers.
Method of Application
Qualified and interested candidates should access the application pack on our websitewww.wateraid.org/jobs and fill out the application form, Candidates who do not meet the minimum requirements for the positions need not apply.
Completed Electronic Appllcation Forms should be e-mailed to hrnig@wateraid.org .
Please note that ONLY applications submitted on WaterAid’s application forms will be considered
Deadline for submission of applications is 20th August 2013.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
WaterAid is an equal opportunity employer; women and persons with dlsabilities are particularly encouraged to apply;
– See more at: http://www.jobstoday.com.ng/ngo-jobs-in-nigeria/wateraid-recruitment-2013/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+jobsinnigeriatoday%2Fmain+%28Jobs+In+Nigeria+Today%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail#sthash.vLrgarah.dpuf

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Graduate Assistance Programme (GAP) Trainees Enrolment Phase II

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for enrolment as Trainees in the AKS-NNPC/MPN & KPL/IBM Graduate Assistance Programme (GAP) Phase II.

TRAINEE ENROLMENT

Location: Akwa Ibom, NG

Description

Sponsors

• The programme is sponsored by Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN), operator of the Nigeria Nationnal Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)/MPN joint venture in collaboration with Akwa Ibom State Government (AKSG) and knowledge partners Limited (KPL), a business partner to international Business Machines (IBM), as part of its community assistance programmes aimed at boosting capacity building.


• Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN), a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation has a long history of operating in Nigeria. The company maintains a robust and active community relations programme that impacts its areas of operation.

Programme

• The program is a non-residential training in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as well as Entrepreneurship skills targeted at boosting capacity building among unemployed graduates of Akwa Ibom State origin with few opportunities given to indigenes of other states of Nigeria.


• 450 graduates will be trained in batches of 50 each receiving Instructor led Training (ILT) for 3 months and on the Job (OTJ) placement for 3 months to apply skills. Akwa Ibom State Government as partners provided VADOC 2 as facility for GAP.

The program seeks to address among others the following;

• Reduce unemployment amongst graduates/youth in the state through ICT skills that enhance employability.


• Build entrepreneurial capacity amongst graduates/youth in the state to catalyze a thriving SME sector through skills acquired.


• Fill the yearning gap for ICT skills experienced by both public and private sector  employers in the state.


• Provide the base of skilled personnel to support the vision of Akwa Ibom State to establish a technology park in the state.

1.) The training is conducted in batches of 50 trainees and over a six months period each, comprising three (3) months instructor-led-training (ILT) in the well equipped state of the art facility used and three months on-the-job (OTJ) development through internship placements in reputable private and public sector organizations. The purpose is to ensure trainees apply knowledge acquired in the ILT during OTJ and imbibe good work culture in line with the program objectives.

2.) Course contents on ILT cover office productivity tools-  MS word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access & Database concepts, PC basics- assembling and coupling PCs, troubleshooting, installation of device drivers etc, Windows XP and Linux administration, HTML & Webmaster training, Networking as well as Project Management & Entrepreneurship Development.

3.) The Program is non residential and the trainees are paid monthly stipends to aid in transportation and lunch.

Enrolment Requirements

Applicants as Trainees for AKS-NNPC/MPN & KPL/IBM Graduate Assistance Programme (GAP) Phase II must:

• Be University  or Polytechnic Graduates (B.Sc or B.A) with a minimum of second class lower or Higher National Diploma (HND) lower credit, in any discipline.


• Have completed the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)


• Be successful in the competitive GAP Aptitude Test & selection interview to be conducted later.


• Be aged between 21-35 years.

Application Closing Date

19th August, 2013

Nigerian girl makes FORBES Magazine history

Ten year-old Nigerian girl Zuriel Oduwole has made history as the youngest person ever to be interviewed in Forbes, the global iconic magazine title.

The interview with the award winning documentary film maker, conference speaker and writer is featured in the August 2013 edition of Forbes Africa.

Touted by some as the next Larry King, and ARISE News at the next Oprah Winfrey, Oduwole  is  reportedly committed to  Rebrand Africa by showing the positive things in about the continent, and making  the case for education the Girl Child in Africa and Emerging Markets.

As an invited guest to the recent African Union 50th anniversary celebrations in Ethiopia, she has in her quest of pursuing her goal interviewed leading African business, political, and sports personalities, including eight  current African Presidents, Africa’s richest person, Aliko Dangote and Tennis super stars – Venus  and  Serena Williams.

Zuriel (which is Hebrew for God is my Rock) believes if she can walk a mile, then there are girls who on seeing her work and progress made, would walk a mile and half.

That, she believes is one simple way to inspire the African Girl Child, and show the world the need to educate the  continents often forgotten Girl Child, of which Zuriel is one.

Nation

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