Former Governors Who Are Now Senators

Group, under the aegis of Friends in the Gap Advocacy Initiative, has expressed concern over the growing number of former state chief executives, who retire to the Senate after their tenure as governors. Executive Director of the group, Mr. George Oji, who stated this in a statement in Abuja, on Sunday, said the trend, if not immediately halted, would lead to the complete hijack of the upper chamber by the ex-governors. Oji noted that the numbers of ex-governors rose from six in 2007 to 11 in 2011 while the recently concluded National Assembly poll had shot the figure to 16. The ex-governors, who would be inaugurated in the 8th Senate on June 4, according to Oji, include Theodore Orji (Abia); Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); Sam Egwu (Ebonyi State); Jonah Jang (Plateau State); Adamu Aliero (Bauchi State); Isiaka Adeleke (Osun State) and Aliyu Wamako (Sokoto State). Others are Joshua Dariye (Plateau State); Kabiru Gaya (Kano State); Abba Bukar Ibrahim (Yobe State); Danjuma Goje (Gombe State); Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa State); Ahmed Sani (Zamfara State); Bukola Saraki (Kwara State); George Akume (Benue State) and Shaaba Lafiagi (Kwara State). Oji noted that experience had shown that “once in the Senate, instead of settling down to serious legislative work, the ex-governors busy themselves from day one with the politics of the leadership of the institution.” He said, “We are concerned that most of these former governors retire to the senate as a resting place as well as to continue to seek political relevance. “We are also concerned that the invasion of the senate by these ex-governors has led to the loss of quality representation in the red chambers as the incoming governors have had to retire some of the very experienced and articulate lawmakers in order to attain their individual political ambitions. “It is our further concern that rather than provide quality legislation in the senate, the former governors see the red chamber as a platform to play all manners of ethnic and regional politics.”

Decline Naira

According to ASSBIFI: we‘ll insist on due process, we vow The fall in the value of the naira, may soon start taking its toll on the banking sector as lenders may axe jobs to cut costs, especially on pay cheques. Already, some workers in the banks have started looking inwards, exploring what they described as option B should the unexpected happens. Some of them said economic realities are negatively affecting the bottom line of the lenders, fearing that their jobs were on the line. Confirming this development, President, Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), Mr Olusoji Salako, said banks would look at what they could do to reduce their expenses, adding that job loss would be one of the first steps. He pledged to ensure that the banks follow due process in laying-off their workers and paying them off. He said: “You know in Nigeria, we don’t have good temperament for economic summersault. If somebody invests and things are not working fine, the next thing is to remove people working with him. In other climes, people will persevere but here in Nigeria, people don’t persevere when it comes to such issue. “We are, however, bracing and also monitoring the employers to ensure that if become necessary to lay off their workers, due process must be followed and people affected must be well compensated so that they can function in any part of the economy.” He said though the economy has witnessed interventions by the government apart from the austerity measure, the common man on the street is feeling the pain ýbecause nothing is really working now. He said: “The government is just trying to make money to pay salaries and nothing is left for any infrastructural development or any other intervention in the critical sectors of the economy. This is as a result of fall in the oil price. “The question would be that when we have the price of oil rising in the couple of years back, what did we do with the excess money we made? “We just squandered the money and you know anything that goes up must come down. If we have been managing our resources prudently, it is likely we would not have experienced this kind of problem. All we need to do is deep our hands in the excess crude account and use that as an intervention measure to augment what we have. “Now, we are faced with the reality now that things will not be as easier as before and to worsen the situation every effort of government is to make the rich richer and the poor people poorer because if you have few dollars, you become richer in naira wise and the average who wants to anything will use foreign currency and will pay more.” Transparency is ours.

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It seems to start here, an open secret that Jennifer Igwegbe has virtually seen it all in the beauty and pageant industry with regards to her glaring and glorious antecedents. Her profile is not only impressive but indeed commendable. ‎ Jennifer rose to stardom from her first attempt at Queen of Aso Nigeria pageantin 2009, made remarkable impacts with her crown and hit headlines with high budget projects that were human interest oriented.‎ ‎The Anambra state born ex- beauty queen shone like a million stars when she went for Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria pageant and was decorated as MBGN Ambassadorin 2011. The title gave the opportunity to represent Nigeria at Miss Africa NAIADES, an African based pageant held at Benin Republic involving over 20 countries. ‎Her reign as Miss Africa NAIADES recorded historical international bilateral relationship amongst Africa nations as she projected the positive image of Africa's most populous nation. Even when she thought she was going to build on that record with the launching of Queen Jennifer Foundation, which is geared towards Girl education and empowerment in Nigeria, her fans beckoned on her again to give a tourism oriented contest a try. ‎ Looking every inch like a beauty queen that she was and still is, her uniqueness and elegance stands her out especially in public functions. Little wonder her beauty was described by an orator as a "mystery of divine creativity and a perfection of her porter's hand"‎ ‎ ‎The graduate of Mass Communication eventually applied for Miss Tourism Nigeria and just as she always come out top, she emerged winner and further went to represent Nigeria at Miss Tourism World at Malabo Equatorial Guinea in 2013 ‎ ‎ ‎Just as the record speaks, Jennifer Igwegbe has impacted so much on the young generations of beauty queens, great thanks to her heart of simplicity and humility which she has displayed in the course of her reign. ‎The pretty damsel who is in a happy relationship with Mr Ayobanks has bagged several awards and does not hide her love to her first pageant family, the Queen Of Aso Nigeria management, a ladder she used to achieved her fame and fortune. She has also shown that her media PR Alex Nwankwo has not been found wanting in his role especially in planning her programs and image making.‎ According to Alex during a recent interview with the press about her, he hinted this "We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open"‎ ‎ ‎As at writing this record, plans are on ground for her to give an international contest her last shot.....but lets see what happens..‎ http://www.alexreports.info/2015/02/yes.html?m=0 most famous 1 Like 1 Share Re: Jennifer Igwegbe Sparkles In New Classy Photos by molydonhenry(m): 5:25am On Mar 09

Top most richest in africa

Bless Africa is endowed with abundance of human and mineral resources. There are about 1 billion people inhabiting the continent and still abundance of oil reserves, gold, platinum, tin, diamond and other precious metals and minerals that drive the global economy. While the majority of Africans are barely getting by financially, African presidents are known to be among the wealthiest individuals in Africa and there is a general understanding that it is the office that swells up the bank accounts of African presidents and their families. In this article, we explore the Richest African presidents and how much they are worth as originally published by Richestlifestyle based on information from Forbes.com, ForeignPolicy.com, CelebrityNetworth.com and Cabinda.net,. a lot can be derive from world most research.

I Will Probe Missing $20 Billion

Recall that Former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanisu Lamido Sanusi, who is now the Emir of Kano had raised alarm that $20billion was missing from the coffers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, NNPC.

Muhammadu Buhari has announced that he will probe the case of allegeddly missing $20billion.

Speaking in Hausa while addressing a delegation of Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC who paid him a congratulatory visit at his campaign headquarters in Abuja, Buhari said,


''On the issue of corruption, I heard that some people have started returning money. I will not believe it until I go and see for myself.

''You all know what the Emir of Kano talked about when he was the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. He said $20 billion dollars, not naira, $20 billion dollars, was unaccounted for; they said it was a lie. Instead of investigating it, they sacked him. And God in his infinite mercy made him the Emir of Kano. In any case, that is what he wanted. And since this was documented, the new administration will take a look at it

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Student Who Got Nine F9 In WAEC Result

See enogough F9. Niger Education nawaoo,  Even F9 for yoruba language wey be national anthem for Lagos. The rate of failure this year’s WAEC is extremely alarming.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) released the results of the May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) 2014, in which approximately 70% failure was recorded. 145,975 out of 1,750,976 candidates’ results are being withheld on the grounds of examination malpractice. These malpractices were reported during both the conduct and the marking of the exams.

Lawmakers In Bayelsa Dumps PDP to APC

A member of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Alfred Egba, and other members of the Peoples Democratic Party have dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress. Egba, representing Yenagoa Constituency 1, announced his defection to the APC on Friday. Other members of the House who were denied tickets to return to the Assembly were said to have perfected plans to leave the PDP before May 29. During the PDP primary election last year, no fewer than 16 lawmakers said to be loyalists of former Governor Timipre Sylva failed in their bid to clinch the party’s tickets. With the victories of the APC at the federal and many states, there appears to be noticeable cracks in the PDP in Bayelsa State.

A member of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Alfred Egba, and other members of the Peoples Democratic Party have dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress. Egba, representing Yenagoa Constituency 1, announced his defection to the APC on Friday. Other members of the House who were denied tickets to return to the Assembly were said to have perfected plans to leave the PDP before May 29. During the PDP primary election last year, no fewer than 16 lawmakers said to be loyalists of former Governor Timipre Sylva failed in their bid to clinch the party’s tickets. With the victories of the APC at the federal and many states, there appears to be noticeable cracks in the PDP in Bayelsa State.

Man Who Trekked From Lagos To Abuja Meets President Elect Gen M. Buhari

 

 Hashimu walked from Lagos to Abuja. Now, he has received a presidential handshake from General Buhari. According to Hamishu He trekked from lagos to Abuja for good 18 Days from 6am to 6pm everyday, and every village he reached people always trek with him.

Ten Reasons Why Diezani Alison-Madueke Must Go To Jail

To say that corruption under Goodluck Jonathan exceeded epidemic level is an understatement. Under Jonathan’s Presidency, we witnessed an unprecedented level of reckless acts of corruption. It was thus not surprising that a 72-year-old former dictator-General Muhamadu Buhari (GMB)- capitalized on this singular factor to win a historic presidential election with the slogan of change. You can now understand why those of us that voted for the General way back in 2003 (knowing fully well that he was not going to win) are tickled with this victory. Though we are thrilled, we are also cautiously optimistic, conscious of the fact that tackling corruption in this present Nigeria is a tall order.