GBENGA OBASANJO ALSO DIED IN THE PLANE CRASH THIS MORNING

Gbenga Obasanjo, son of the former president Olusegun Obasanjo, has reported dead in the plane crash that happened in Lagos this morning.

BREAKING NEWS:'' DEAD BODY GET ACCIDENT...YEE PA'

A passenger plane crashed on takeoff near Airport Toll Gate in the early hours of Thursday, October 3, 2013. According to eye witnesses, the crash occurred at the local wing of the Lagos airport close the JET-A1, where plane fuel is stored.

The aircraft, an Associated Air plane, was Ondo State bound.  Carried the remains late ex-Governor Olusegun Agagu, and some of the family members of the are said to be inside the crashed plane.

Among the dignitaries on board are: wife of the late ex-Governor Olusegun Ogagu, who was been taken home for burial, his son, Chief Obasanjo's son, Gbenga, Chief Olu Falae's son, Deji, the owner of MIC Casket, Mr Okusanya.

According to an information at least 8 passengers fear dead in the crash. 

NIGERIAN BILLIONAIRES: POLITICS OF WHO KNOWS WHO ........PART 1

FOLORUNSHO ALAKIJA

ABDUSAMAD RABIU

EMEKA OFFOR

BOLA SHAGAYA

ALIKO DANGOTE

MIKE ADENUGA

JIM OVIA

FEMI OTEDOLA

TONY ELUMELU

The rich are getting richer, while the poor are getting poorer everyday in Nigeria. It is only in Nigeria,  you will see that only the children of elites, either a serving government officials or ex-political this or that are at the top of the ladder.

If you are not from  a very influential figure in Nigeria, or you are not connected to corridors of power,forget about it; because your rise to affluence and power is attributed to parental or family influence.

Despite the fact that economy of the country remains on the promissory notes, the economist and all the financial guru were unable to proffer any solution, people are still making billions. Nigerian i hail thee.

Lists bellow are some of well connected super rich Nigerian that are doing good:

Aliko Dangote

 Aliko Dangote is the richest man in Africa. He is the founder, Dangote Group, West Africa’s largest publicly listed conglomerate with diverse business interests such as sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, real estate and salt processing. Dangote Cement, Dangote Foods and  Dansa Juice

Mike Adenuga

Mike Adenuga built his fortune in business from banking, mobile telecom service and oil. He founded Globacom, He expand his fortune during the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida . 

Jim Ovia

Jim Ovia ,building his fortunes when he founded Zenith Bank Group in 1990. The bank has grown to become West Africa’s second largest financial service provider by market capitalisation and asset base. His sources of wealth are banking, telecommunication and real estate investment.

Abdussamad Rabiu

 Abdulsamad Rabiu is a son of Khalifa Isiyaku Rabiu, made his fortune in importing basic commodities such as rice, sugar and cement .

Folorunsho Alakija

Billionaire oil tycoon, fashion designer and philanthropist.In May 1993, Mrs Alakija   got  an allocation of oil prospecting licence (OPL) to explore 617,000-acre block granted to her company, Famfa Oil Limited.

Tony Elumelu

 Tony Elumelu (CON) was born in Jos on March 22, 1963, a renowned economist, banker, investor and generous philanthropist. Elumelu is a recognised African leader in corporate business. After leading United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc to a higher level with the acquisition of Standard Trust Bank (STB) during the consolidation of the banking industry in 2005, he retired from the management of UBA in July 2010.

Hajiya Bola Shagaya

Bola Shagaya is the CEO of Bolmus International Limited. Around 2005, she became the managing director of Practoil Limited and, in 2011,she founded another exploration company, Voyage Oil and Gas Limited.

  She has interests in several sectors ranging from oil and gas, banking, cash crops export, real estate, fast-moving consumer goods and photography.

Femi Otedola

Femi Otedola , son of Chief Michael Otedola , former Governor of Lagos state ,is the CEO of African Petroleum Plc. Femi Otedola is the Nigerian president and chief executive officer of Zenon Petroleum and Gas limited.

Emeka Offor

Sir Emeka Offor,  has  diverse interests in Oil and Gas, Finance/Investments, Telecommunications, Insurance, Maritime, Destination Inspection, Real Estate and the Power Sector.

EDUCATION DESERVES BETTER FUNDING ........EDUN

Grace High School, Gbagada, Lagos State has won this year’s Information Communication Technology Whiz kid competition organised by the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS).  The administrator of the school, Mrs. Iyiola Tokunbo Edun speaks on salient issues on education. Excerpts.

What is still needed to give quality education to Nigerians?
Governments in other countries invest heavily in education. I was particularly impressed with Singapore when I went there. I saw the best schools, not privately owned ones. In fact, it is Ivy League Schools in Nigeria that can be compared with government schools in Singapore. I hear that schools in Malaysia are also well funded. These are countries that gained independence around the same time as Nigeria. Their governments invested so much in educating the people believing that it will help to boost their economy through innovation and investment and it is working for them. They have educated their citizens so well that they don’t have to call Julius Berger to build their bridges.

The recent World Forum Report on Education rates schools in Singapore as one of the best in the world, closely followed by Belgium, Finland, Canada, New Zealand, France. This is because the governments of these countries invest heavily in educating their citizens.
In Nigeria, there is lack of literacy and half baked education. For example, some Boko Haram agents are given N5,000 to set schools and churches ablaze. Some might not even get anything. I think that if these people were educated and enlightened, they would not be doing this. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

This also applies to miscreants, touts and area boys we find all over the country. They are the repercussion of our government’s failure to adequately fund the education of its citizens. A government that does not invest in the education of its populace is sitting on a time bomb. Even at the tertiary level, Universities are not properly funded so we have a lot of half baked and unemployable graduates walking our streets.

Many school owners have complained about various taxes, levies being demanded by government. What do you have to say on these issues?
The effort of the private schools are not well appreciated all over the country. For example, at the state level, we are seen as money making machines, we are slapped with all sort of taxes and levies. This is not so in countries where education is highly appreciated, where the government supports investors in education with subventions and other tools. That is not the case in this country. Can you imagine schools being charged twelve million naira and above as tax? Even loan to build or provide equipments for schools, the bank rates are appalling. Some banks charge between 17%-28% interest on such loans. When will we ever finish paying the money? For a school bus, you need to obtain different documents from the local government. There is advertising permit, road worthiness, LASA certificate, Local government mobile advert for which fifteen documentation papers are required, gaseous emission loading and off loading permit and environmental permit. You can imagine the numbers of duplication of documents you have to cope with if you have eight buses. These are the issues the government really has to address if they really want the private sector to help develop education in Nigeria. There should be low interest rates of about 3-5% for private schools when they want to embark on major projects.

What are your recommendations for the much desired improvement of our educational system?
We just have to show more commitment to educational development. I am afraid, if we continue like this our children with be at a disadvantage in comparison to their peers all over the world. At this stage we still do not have enough chairs, enough libraries, and enough books. Our government should make school environments conducive for learning. It is very important for our leaders to keep in mind the fact that human resource development is vital to all other aspects of our development efforts. If we continue to have a very high level of illiteracy, extremely high level of poverty, poor and inadequate infrastructural facilities, development may become a tantalizing mirage.

If we keep showing this poor commitment to the education of our children, if we keep sustaining high level of corruption, this pervasive mismanagement, I am afraid we maybe unable to come into full modernisation, democratise governance and full scale development. It is absolutely essential for leadership at all levels in this country to depart from this way of funding. At a time when some people have looted the fuel subsidy fund, university lecturers cannot get adequate funding for the Universities. I mean this does not portray us as a serious nation.

What is your advice for parents who want the best for their children?
Let them make up their minds to search for the best schools with up-to-date facilities. They should not settle for just any school just because it is cheap. To my mind it is better you pay for quality service wherever you can get it. What does a parent stand to gain if at the end of secondary school, you still have to send your child to a computer school to acquire computer literary whereas a good secondary school should have those facilities.

Don’t you think students can abuse the use of ICT/internet?
There is a control measure. You can restrict children from visiting certain websites. That is what we do here. If they log on a certain prohibited website, they cannot get through because we put a barrier against such website so they can only log on to websites that have educational value.

How was Grace School able to win the national ICT whiz kid competition at the national level?
We have invested heavily in information Technology. We have hired very competent ICT teachers who have done a lot of work to impart the latest techniques to the children. At Grace Schools we are on top in this ICT aspect. All our operations are computerised.

Our boards are interactive. We have E-libraries and internet enabled computers which our students use for research work. With commitment and hard work, we participate in the competitions at all the levels from the zonal to national level. It is not a surprise to us that we eventually emerged overall best because, with all modesty very few schools can surpass the latest technology we have acquired as far as ICT is concerned. It is therefore with a sense of fulfillment that we accept our prize as the number one in ICT in Nigeria. Our High School came first in the south west Zone. We then went on to win the prize at the national level. And we are grateful to God for this achievement.

What is your advice for school owners desiring to get to the heights attained by Grace Schools?
Well they should be honest and humble, ready to learn from those who have experience because you will find out that no one has a monopoly of wisdom. Hard work and creativity are also necessary.

I will also advice school owners to bring their children into the system and get a written plan of how the school will continue after their demise. This will ensure that the vision will continue after them. The children being trained to take over must be well educated, must understand how the education sector operates and must have been part of the system. Such a child must love the job and must not be a spend thrift who will siphon school fees immediately they are paid to buy exotic cars and fund a bogus lifestyle. This is because running a school is a delicate business. You have to be able to manage three terms and the school fees for twelve months, this is because salaries and maintenance has to be carried out, facilities have to be upgraded, bills have to be settled on time or the whole structure could collapse. So my advice is that with discipline and adequate succession plan a school can exist from generation to generation

source: tribune ng

MAHEEDA: PROSTITUTE IS ALWAYS A PROSTITUTE.

Take a pig, bath him, dressed him up, use Jewelries on him...and take him to muddy site, the pig will jump inside it.

 That is the case of a self confessed prostitute, turned born-against..Sorry born- again gospel singer Maheeda. A prostitute is a prostitute any day any time.

This controversial gospel singer Maheeda has shared photos she took of herself to celebrate Nigeria’s independence on her instagram and tag it ‘INDEPENDENCE PICS’’.

NEW IMPROVED JIM IYKE

 

Jim Jim. Born James Ikechukwu Esomugha, now Jim Iyke, is  always on the news, either on  a positive issues or negative one. Jim, an  actor and performer, one of the highest paid actors in the Nigerian movie industry ,Nollywood and cultivated the name “Nollywood bad boy” for himself.

He is also founder of “Jim Iyke Foundation”, CEO of Untamed Productions and Untamed Records .

However, on Sunday 29, September, 2013, Jim was claimed to have been delivered from the evil spirit that had tormented his life at the Synagogue Church of All Nation (SCOAN) It was gathered that it was this demon that was the  root cause of his setback and disappointment. And it was also the reason he could never marry.

In a swift reaction to this ‘deliverance’ thing, Segun Arinze , also a top Nollywood actor,reacted on his Blackberry when he wrote:"This Jim Iyke's deliverance video at the Synagogue trending looks too contrived. It's a big embarrassment. Has anyone ever seen demons come out live and speak? Una fit stand demons? Una carry Nollywood enter Church, abi? How much did he get paid? I'm just wondering. Make una stop all these nonsense play. Haba. Stranger than fiction!

Moreover, with a lot of reactions generated by this deliverance show at SCOAN ,while  some people  see  the whole ‘deliverance’ as another ‘abracadabra’, Jim himself twitted that. “lol witchcraft?! It’s imperative I underscore that people are oblivious to what transpired [during my deliverance]. Ignorance is no excuse. Tailor your opinion to who you know.”.

In my own comment, deliverance is a private thing, and it is a business between the person concern, the pastor and God. This camera of a thing is just another Nollywood acting to me.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE...WILL THEY ALLOW THIS COMMITTEE TO PERFORM?

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the membership and terms of reference of the Federal Government’s Advisory Committee on National Dialogue/ Conference.

In a statement  on Tuesday night by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, in Abuja , Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, named;  Senator Femi Okurounmu, committe chairman, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, Dr. Akilu Indabawa,Secretary; a former Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Prof. George Obiozor; Senator Khairat Gwadabe; Senator Timothy Adudu, Col. Tony Nyiam (retd), Prof. Funke Adebayo,  Dr.  Mairo  Amshi,  Dr. Abubakar Sadiq, Alhaji Dauda Birma, Mallam Buhari Bello and Mr. Tony Uranta.

The committee which has one month within which to conclude its assignment, will be inaugurated by Jonathan at the State House on   October 7.

The terms of reference of the committee are:

·         to consult expeditiously with all relevant stakeholders with a view to drawing up a feasible agenda for the proposed national dialogue/conference; 

·          to make recommendations to government on structure and modalities for the proposed national dialogue/conference; 

·          to  make recommendations on how representation of various interest groups at the national dialogue/conference will be determined,

·         to advise the government on a time frame for the national dialogue/conference;  its  legal framework,   legal procedures and options for integrating decisions and outcomes of the national   conference into the constitution; and

·          to advise the government on    any other matters that may be related or incidental to the  conference.

Jonathan said he decided to set up  the  advisory committee   to establish the modalities for the  national dialogue or conference.

 “I expect the report to be ready in one month, following which the nation will be briefed on the nomenclature, structure and modalities of the dialogue/ conference,” he added.

The announcement was well received by the  pan-northern socio-cultural organisation , the Arewa Consultative Forum,  the  Afenifere,  Ohanaeze Ndigbo,   the Ijaw National Congress and the two Peoples Democratic Party factions.

The Arewa Consultative Forum National Publicity Secretary,   Mr. Anthony Sani, said, “You would note that ACF has made it clear that it is not opposed to a national dialogue so long as the aim is to strengthen the unity and diversity of this country, since the concept of nationhood presupposes that the people can come together and unleash their synergy by living up to collective challenges for public good, provided such a dialogue is not in the form of SNC  that amounts to  a vote of no confidence in our democracy and its institutions, which no group has the right to do.”

 Chief Seinde Arogbofa, Afenifere Secretary in his own comment said, said, “We don’t have to pre-empt the terms of reference of the committee. We must appreciate the head of state for allowing Nigerians to talk about our problems.

“We should be talking about issues of security, youth unemployment and the right structure. We believe that with a true federal system, all other things will automatically fall into place. The issue of resources will be taken care of if we have the right federal structure.”

  While the Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. Joe Nwaorgu, said  that   “all peace-loving Nigerians must commend”  Jonathan for the initiative.

 He said, “He has pulled Nigeria back from the brink. Jonathan has saved Nigeria by choosing a forum for talking rather than shooting. It is a welcome deviation from the past when former Presidents were foot-dragging on the issue.

 “Let us restart our association envisaged in the 1914 amalgamation statement. Let us kick- start the system so that all Nigerians can very truthfully say they are Nigerians.” and   “ bring an end to the abracadabra  in the country since 1966,” since it would give the  people  the opportunity to  “discuss and say how we are to relate with one another.”

However, it will be important to allow the committee to do their job; there should be no limitation to what should be discussed.

Elder Joseph Fagbola, an elder statesman in his own contribution made it clear that, ‘’we need to wait and see how this National Dialogue differs from the previous ones held during the administrations of Gen Babangida and Chief Olusegun Obasanjo respectively. The issues at stake are clear and they must be included in the agenda to be drawn by the Committee for discussion and agreement of the National dialogue.

Among these are:

I.             True Federalism.

II.            Devolution of Power to the states

III.          Fiscal Autonomy &Discipline At All levels of Governance 

IV.           Rule of Law

V.            State Local Government & Neighborhood Police 

VI.            National Security 

VII.          Social Justice and 

VIII.        Census 

Manipulation, arrogance and mediocrity must not come to play, and the agreements reached must be submitted for referendum and thereafter promulgated into law as the Constitution’’