OSOGBO — Government offices and business institutions in Osun State were shut yesterday following a public holiday declared for adherents of traditional religions.
Many workers in the public and private sectors were unaware of the public holiday until they got to their offices.
Miss Dupe Oluwadare, a staff of the state House of Assembly, said she was not aware of the holiday up till the close of work on Monday.
Oluwadare, however, said she would spend the day resting and doing household chores.
Mr. Alfred Folayan and Mrs. Doyin Ajayi, both bankers, said they would spend the day at home for private engagements.
Mr. Toyin Alatiba, a businessman, who was at a bank on Old Governor’s Road to make a deposit, expressed surprise that the holiday could affect financial institutions.
The two local government secretariats in Osogbo, the state capital, Olorunda and Osogbo, also wore a desolate look as workers stayed away to observe the public holiday.
The public holiday was announced, late Monday, on the state broadcasting station by Mr. Sunday Akere, the Commissioner for Information.
Akere said the public holiday was to celebrate the world’s traditional religions on a day known as Isese.
According to the commissioner, Governor Rauf Aregbesola declared the public holiday in the spirit of equality among the various religious groups in the state.
Isese Day, among traditional religion believers, is the celebration of the peak of festivity in Yorubaland known as Odun Nla.’
“Hence, the holiday was given to them to celebrate with members of their families,” Akere said.
Mr. Sikiru Ayedun, the state Commissioner for Home Affairs, Culture and Tourism, said, yesterday, that the holiday was to be observed annually in the state.
He said: “It is a further proof of the fact that Governor Aregbesola respects the freedom of all citizens of the state to practice their beliefs.
“Christians have Christmas, Muslims have Sallah. It is not too much for traditional religion worshippers to have their own holiday in the spirit of equality.
“The traditional religion worshippers had made a presentation for the holiday to the government.”
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Rising from its meeting at the NFF Secretariat, Abuja on Tuesday, the Technical and Development Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation announced that it has recommended the constitution of a caretaker coaching crew for the Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons.
Acting General Secretary, Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme stated that the committee made the recommendation, pending the ratification of the NFF Executive Committee, in view of the two international friendly matches against the Senior Women’s Team of Japan, coming up in two Japanese cities on 22nd September and 26th September respectively.
Edwin Okon, who led the U-20 Women’s Team, Falconets, to the semi finals of last year’s FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, incidentally hosted by Japan, will be assisted on this caretaker basis by Christopher Danjuma, with Bala Mohammed as goalkeeper coach.
Ikpeme said: “The duo will have charge of the team for only the friendly games, as substantive coaching crews for the Super Falcons, Falconets (U-20) and Flamingos (U-17) will be constituted in due course.”
The committee also recommended that the NFF Executive Committee approve for four-time African Woman Player of the Year, Perpetua Nkwocha to proceed on a coaching course.
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ABUJA — TROUBLED by the crises his party and the emergence of more political parties, President Goodluck Jonathan has entreated former President Olusegun Obasanjo to throw his weight behind him to surmount the opposition to his re-election in 2015.
Vanguard learnt that Jonathan has also sought the forgiveness of Obasanjo over unbridled attacks unleashed on him by some of his aides in recent times.
This came as the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has scheduled a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting tomorrow where issues like recent registration of opposition parties, reconciliation efforts, Anambra, South-West crisis and ratification of convention date are expected to top the agenda.
It was gathered that Jonathan met privately with Obasanjo and solicited his assistance towards dislodging mounting opposition, particularly from the North, towards his re-election.
Competent presidential sources said that Jonathan initiated the meeting with Obasanjo following the withdrawal of the former president from the administration as a result of some irreconcilable differences.
The meeting was also said to have been necessitated by the complaints of five PDP governors against President Jonathan and the PDP leadership to Obasanjo and their claim that the nation and the party were adrift and needed urgent rescue.
The five governors were said to have given some stringent conditions under which they would back Jonathan, a move that was said to have jolted Jonathan and Obasanjo.
An impeccable source said that Jonathan, who felt slighted by the action of the five governors and worried that they could also sway their support to the opposition, appealed to Obasanjo to use his fatherly disposition to call the ‘rebel’ governors to order so as not to rob him of victory in the next election.
Rebuilding of PDP
Jonathan reportedly begged Obasanjo to ‘come back’ and help rebuild the party so that it would not be disgraced by the rampaging opposition.
The source said that at the meeting, Obasanjo drew the attention of the President to the spate of attacks unleashed by his aides on him despite the fact that he facilitated his emergence as President and asked him to call his aides to order. The former ruler was said to have, however, accepted Jonathan’s plea to step into the political imbroglio and bail him out.
According to findings by Vanguard, it was after the meeting with Jonathan that Obasanjo invited the five Northern governors to meet with him at the Presidential Villa to ‘sort out areas of disaffection’ with the President.
Although Jonathan was not directly involved in the meeting that stretched for two days and ended in a deadlock, he nonetheless, provided the platform for his mentor to gauge the feelings of the five governors and their Rivers State counterpart, Rotimi Amaechi.
Findings also showed that apart from meeting the aggrieved governors of the party at the Villa, Obasanjo also advised President Jonathan to take urgent steps to meet with former leaders of the party, one of them Dr. Ahmadu Ali, who was the chairman of the PDP under Obasanjo.
The former President also asked Jonathan to reach out to influential leaders from the Middle Belt to speak out against the clamour by the North to clinch the Presidency in 2015, a suggestion that the President bought into.
Reaching out to Middle Belt
“It is true that the President also met privately with Ahmadu Ali in his house in Abuja a few days ago and pleaded with him not to stand aloof while the party was boiling,” a source close to the meeting of the two men said.
“You can also see that many Middle Belt leaders, who have been tapped by the President to help him secure a second term ticket, have been taking turns in the media to castigate the core North of being hasty in taking another shot at the Presidency.
“The other day it was Ameh Ebute and today you may have seen the interview by General Lawrence Onoja arguing that it was not time for the North to take over power.”
But the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) said yesterday that it was aware of the recruitment of some Middle Belt leaders to speak against the core North so as to prevent them from clinching the Presidency in 2015.
A waste of time — Northern Elders
Secretary General of the NEF, Prof Ango Abdullahi, noted the resort by the Presidency to cheap tactics to divide the North for selfish political gains ahead of the 2015 election.
The former ABU Vice-Chancellor said, however, that the plot by the Presidency against the North will fail, as the tactics being employed do not add up.
“I can tell you that those Middle Belt voices speaking against the North know their limitation and that what they are doing will not help them in any way.
“In any case, time will tell if the Middle Belt can stop the North from getting the Presidency in 2015,” the NEF leader stated.
PDP holds emergency NEC tomorrow
Meanwhile, the PDP will tomorrow hold an emergency NEC meeting at the Wadata Plaza, National Secretariat of the party.
It was gathered that at the meeting which will have President Jonathan, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and other members in attendance, will deliberate on the crises rocking the party as well as assess the successes recorded so far by the Governor Seriake Dickson-led National Reconciliation Committee.
The PDP NEC will also strategize on the August 24 governorship primary election for Anambra State, the election itself and that of Ekiti.
The meeting which is a follow up to the one held on June 20, will have its members ratify the August 31 date fixed for the Special National Convention.
It will be recalled that NEC at its last meeting approved July 20 for the Special Congress but the Professor Jerry Gana-led Special Convention team changed the date to August 31 and will require NEC to approve it.
As gathered, members of NEC will discuss the crisis currently rocking the South-West zone of the party.
It became imperative for the NEC to discuss the South-West PDP political quagmire against the backdrop of speculations, yesterday, that some stakeholders have obtained a court injunction from an Osogbo high court stopping the special congress scheduled to hold in the zone this weekend.
Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the former National Secretary of PDP had obtained an injunction restraining the PDP from conducting the South West zonal congress on the grounds that he still has a pending matter at the Court of Appeal.
The court ruled that the status quo be maintained, pending the determination of the case.
The sacked National Auditor of the party, Chief Bode Mustapha, it will be recalled, is also challenging his removal from the party’s NWC at the Supreme Court.
He was sacked for violating the PDP constitution for holding the position of National Auditor of the party without being a professional accountant.
With the coming on board of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the recently approved Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), President Jonathan, PDP governors leaders and stakeholders are also expected to review political developments in the party with a view to positioning itself for the 2015 general election.
The NEC meeting was confirmed in a memo signed by the PDP Acting National Secretary, Dr. Charles Akintoye.
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, disciplinary committee constituted by the National Working Committee, NWC, has commenced deliberations on cases of alleged indiscipline by senior party members, it was learnt, Tuesday.
The commencement of deliberations is despite the fact the committee headed by Alhaji Umaru Dikko was yet to be inaugurated. Dikko is hospitalised and is outside the country.
The informal meetings, authoritative sources told Vanguard, were informed by the need to dispose pressing disciplinary issues currently facing the party.
Other party sources, however, alleged that the rush by the committee was to provide the legal backing for the expulsion of some governors from the party. including Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, who had been suspended.
Governors and other members of the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the party can only be expelled from the party upon the recommendations of a disciplinary committee.
It was gathered, yesterday, that the activities of some prominent members of the party, notably some governors may have been presented to the committee.
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One of the worst violations of most Nigerian military dictators is preying on young male professionals and showering them with gifts, money, and federal job opportunities.
In a country where being GAY is a felony, offenders may turn out to be those who preached against it.
International Guardian documentary due for publication in September will highlight The GAY life of Nigerian elites, and how SOME YOUNG MALE PROFESSIONALS slept their way to the top; exposé reveals how ex-government officials travel to Europe for gay sex, and how they prey on teenage girls under hidden camera and video tapes. Watch out – It’s a DATE!!!
HonestLy, this FFK issue is getting way off the line people are out to bury him the more. Its quite obvious this photo here is a badly done photoshop… But serves him right anyways… FFK kpatara nku ahuhu indeed!
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BENIN — THE resident doctor of the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo State, Dr. Edeawe Osahogie, who was abducted on August 12, 2013 while returning home from the hospital has been released by his abductors.
President of the Association of Resident Doctors, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH), Dr. Charles Gigi in a statement, yesterday, confirmed that Osahogie was released Sunday night after over a week in captivity.
Gigi who did not say whether any ransom was paid, noted that the release of his colleague followed a protest march by members of the Association of Resident Doctors, MDCAN, private medical practitioners in the area and other doctors with the Chairman of the Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in attendance.
Gigi who was full of praises to God for the release of the abducted physician, expressed the appreciation of the resident doctors in the hospital to those who offered prayers for his release.
He also expressed thanks to the Chairman of the Board of Management, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Hon.(Chief) Boyelayefa Debekeme for the role he played during the harrowing experience even as he expressed his gratitude to the hospital management for their support to the resident doctors during the ordeal.
“The resident doctors have been re-invigorated to continue to do their utmost to cater for the health of the populace by this act of God’s mercy and call on government to ensure our safety as we help humanity,” he said.
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The traditional ruler of the Nri Ancient Kingdom, His Royal Majesty Igwe Obidiegwu Onyesoh, MFR; yesterday confirmed that President Goodluck Jonathan recently directed traditional rulers in the South East geo-political zone to bring out an additional state to him from the zone for possible proclamation.
Igwe Onyesoh who disclosed this to members of Ogirishi Igbo Foundation during his inspection of the on-going stadium project at the Rojenny Games Village, Oba, Anambra State, maintained that it was during a recent meeting between Jonathan and South East traditional rulers, during which they pressed their demand for the much agitated creation of an additional state from the zone, that Jonathan honestly promised to accept any state they unianimously brought out for necessary processes.
He therefore urged Ndigbo to harmonize themselves and agree on a state to be forwarded to Jonathan for processes, because according to him if we fail to agree on one state, then we should have ourselves to blame and not Jonathan or federal government.
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NGOZI Okonjo-Iweala has two designations. She is Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy. Without intending to be perverse, I wonder what the differences are between both titles. What would a Finance Minister of a country such as ours be doing if she is not responsible (call it coordinating, managing, overseeing or whatever) for the entire economy?
Could the tautology of these titles be the Jonathan administration’s way of telling would-be adversaries, be it in the Central Bank, the Internal Revenue Service, etc, that the authority of the Minister of Finance on economic matters cannot be questioned?
This should be understandable as ours is a strange country in which supremacy battles are quite routine among public office holders. The era of the Super Permanent Secretaries belonged in the 1970s. This might be the epoch of the Super Ministers who must be above the Ministers who are in turn above the Ministers of State. More on this in the third part.
But Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has told us this past week that government cannot afford the N92 billion (ASUU says its N87 billion) that striking university teachers are demanding as ‘earned allowances’. Her joining the Gabriel Suswan-led Federal Government negotiating team, which Suswan thought was very important as it would give a clear picture of the economy, has truly changed the tempo and tenor of the negotiation between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and Abuja.
The change Okonjo-Iweala brings to the discussion is however not so fundamental, for the song she’s singing is an old one that has left Nigerians jaded. It ranked top of the chart of past ASUU/government negotiations. Like a repeating clock, we shall be back here again soon when the contrived truce that would eventually end the ASUU/Government disagreement again breaks down for non-implementation. Even if the strike is called off as I write this, the damage to the academic calendar is already done.
It’s obvious Okonjo-Iweala’s message won’t sell in the ears of ASUU. And it can’t and shouldn’t sell when it’s clear that the same economy that we are told cannot sustain the lecturers’ demand somehow takes care of the claims of a grossly bloated government of seat-warming executive and legislative officials; so-called democracy that is by universal assent the most expensive and, one might say, irresponsible in the world.
It’s unfair, as the minister has observed, that the country’s revenue should be spent entirely on recurrent expenses of just three per cent of our entire population of 160 million. Nigerians have made a lot of sacrifices, smiling and living in a state of want and squalor amid the nauseously ostentatious and unearned living of public office holders, people who construct two-kilometre roads and drill a few boreholes that are powered by generators in city centres and roll out the drums in celebration.
Nigerians have borne the tragedy of seeing the promised transformation of their country’s potential at independence remaining just mere potential in nearly 60 years. They’ve seen their hopes go up in bursts of wind so often they now turn on one another in hateful ethnic strife and contest of superiority, measuring poverty against poverty in a bid to determine which ethnic group has helped itself most to our fast diminishing resources. Indeed, Nigerians have played the fool when they could very reasonably have demanded more of their leaders. We are all witnesses to the roiling ethnic battles and inanities that are being waged in the media over the deportation/integration and dismissal from service of persons of different ethnic groups in the last couple of weeks.
Matters that have stared us all in the face long before now but about which we have done and said nothing until we have become victims of their suppurations. We’ve taken hardened positions of recrimination and counter-recrimination in contest for scarce resources following the mismanagement and looting of the little that is available by persons in authority and their cronies in the private sector.
It’s now a zero-sum game that has turned us all enemies of one another. It’s in the midst of this that the same government is calling for more sacrifices from lecturers who belong in one of the most abused and neglected sectors of the polity.
Of course, university lecturers are not entirely blameless in the rot engulfing the land. But let’s be clear on one thing: If more sacrifices are to be made by Nigerians, they must commence from Abuja down to the states and local governments where public office holders, civil servants, legislators and members of the executive arms continue to squander the resources and wealth of this nation in criminal and inhuman neglect of the vast majority.
The mantra of ‘we cannot afford earned allowances’ of lecturers, as are other services and duties that responsible governments the world over execute on behalf of their citizens, would take nobody anywhere. It can only polarize the country along sectarian and ethnic divides, deepen the fissures of suspicion among the different religions until it blows up in our collective face.
In ‘The ICPC Report on the Nigerian University System’, two-part editions of this column that ran on 10 and 17 April this year, I ex-rayed the report of the outcome of the survey conducted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on Nigerian universities and the problems confronting them.
These two-part series had been preceded by a series titled ‘The ICPC/NUC report and sexual harassment in Nigerian universities’ which was published respectively on 20 and 27 March 2013. These March editions of the column had reacted to a statement which turned out to have no basis in the report it supposedly emanated from, credited to Mr. Ekpo Nta, the ICPC chair, to the effect that sexual harassment ranked ‘extremely high’ among corrupt practices in our universities. The statement, reported by the Punch had prompted an editorial in the newspaper.
I had in my submissions in these articles called attention to the more fundamental problem of decayed infrastructure or non-existent infrastructure including ill-equipped laboratories, libraries filled with outdated books, crowded classrooms, dinghy offices, poorly trained and poorly motivated personnel, teaching and non-teaching alike, etc.
These problems, I argued, create the condition that make it possible for mischievous and irresponsible lecturers to perpetrate criminal acts including ‘sexual harassment’ and irresponsible students and their criminally-minded parents to seek to pervert standard academic procedures for their own benefits. But the gist of my submissions was that our universities as they presently exist are far from being able to meet their statutory obligations of teaching and research.
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CHIEF Ishola Filani is the South West caretaker committee chairman of the People’s Democratic
Party, PDP. In this interview with Vanguard, Chief Filani lampooned former Deputy National Chairman, South, of the PDP, Chief Olabode George, describing him as the major problem of the party who has singularly impeded the party’s chances of election victory in Lagos State. Excerpts:
How far has the PDP gone in settling differences within the party in the Southwest?
We actually set up a six- member committee per state and I must confess that I am very impressed with the outcome of their exercise. When their report was submitted to us, we also set up a review committee under the chairmanship of Professor Femi Okubanjo.
They have come up with their report, but one thing that is interesting is that even without the report, the kind of appeal and discussions that members of that committee had with stakeholders in each state, you will discover that there has been a lot of improvement in all the states particularly in Ondo, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti and Ogun. I am also happy that the National Working Committee and the new reconciliation committee under Governor Seriake Dickson adopted our position.
The matter in Ekiti has been settled and everybody is now living in peace. In addition, the Ekiti State chapter was made to understand that their executive has no right to set up a reconciliation committee because it is only the NWC that has the power to do it and at the appropriate time. They will set that in motion if it is the best thing to do in the circumstance.
In Lagos State, we had reports that their congresses were not the best and we do not know what the status of the delegates from Lagos State is now until we hear a pronouncement from the NWC. But the state chairman recently addressed a press conference where he said the state chapter had no issues with the congress. I am not aware of that but what we are aware of is that there are nine states and Lagos is one of the nine states (with issues).
I am not concluding on anything but all I am saying is that it is because of those nine states that we are now repeating the convention to correct the anomaly. So, I do not see where one state will be singled out. The only problem we have in Lagos is leadership problem.
What do you mean?
A situation where the leadership in Lagos State has not been responding to the hopes and aspirations of the members of the party. We held elections in 1999 PDP lost, we held in 2003, the PDP lost, we held in 2007, the PDP lost, we held in 2011, still the PDP lost under the same leadership.
That is why we have all these problems and everybody in Lagos is complaining. Everybody is saying please come and assist us. We could win elections in Lagos State because it could have been the easiest state for us to win because of the fact that it is a state that comprises of every ethnic group in Nigeria but we have not been able to win because of bad leadership. That is as far as Lagos State is concerned.
How can that be corrected?
The only way you can correct that is to sensitize the people, review their leadership strategy and structure. Strategize it by reviewing the structure of the leadership which can only be done by the Lagos State PDP. We hope and pray that the scale on their eyes will be removed in the name of God so that they can come together and get a leadership that will be acceptable to all of them. All other states are in order.
There cannot but be one problem or the other in a party like the PDP that is democratic in nature. We are not the kind of party that has somebody commanding us from the top; everything you have to do in the PDP has to be discussed and accepted before it is implemented.
You talked about the absence of leadership in Lagos PDP, but Chief George has always been seen as the leader, how do you reconcile that?
You see it is a system that is wrong, it is system that is autocratic and that is why we are having problems.
What is responsible for the rift between you and Chief Bode George?
Bode is a drowning man and he is just looking for anybody either to save him from getting drowned or drown with him. That is why he is mentioning all kinds of names, in one form or the other. Bode’s grouse against us is he is saying that because we are caretaker committee, we cannot contest. Let him supply to us the context of the law or rule of law or any instrument whatsoever that says we cannot contest.
Prophet of doom
I have better cause now to sympathise with him and what Bode requires not to drown completely is prayer and I will continue to pray for him.
Do you think the PDP stands a chance to win elections in Osun and Ekiti states in 2014 with the coming on board of the All Progressives Congress?
The APC is not a party even though they have now been registered as one political party. They are a conglomeration of distinct political parties with distinct ideologies and principles, they will continue to exist within that party as individual parties and I am not a prophet of doom but one thing I want you to understand is that by the time they want to start their nominations in Ekiti and Osun states, it is then you will see that they are all kinds of people who just want to oppose the PDP which has 23 states.
You can see that it is only 10 governors that came together to form the APC. At the end of the day, alignment has never worked in Nigeria. The time has come to reveal the lies and get our people out of oppression. All these statements will be justified because the APC is not a threat to us.
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MAKURDI —Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, has described the newly registered All Progressives Congress, APC, as an amalgamation of diverse interests that have nothing to offer Nigerians insisting that the party lacks the capacity to dethrone the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Moro who spoke, yesterday, in Ugbokolo, Benue State, said: “There is nothing new in the APC. The only thing you can say is that it is an amalgam of separate interests pretending to have the capacity to wrestle power from the PDP, and to effect any change. If you look at the characters or the persons that are in the ship, you’ll want to ask yourself some fundamental questions. Are they new persons, are they angels from somewhere that have not participated in the ruins that Nigeria is today; who are they?
“There is no single person that is there that has not been an active participant in the political process of Nigeria. A few of them that are the henchmen of the APC have been men who at one time or the other assumed the highest positions in this country. I continue to insist that we are where we are today because those yesteryears leaders of the country failed to do those things they should have done to take us to the next level.
“Why are we having issues with roads today? Because somebody that was in power yesterday failed to fix the roads. Why are we having issues with electricity today? It’s because the person who was in charge of government yesterday was unable to fix power. Why is our education going down the drain, because somebody did not have the proper road map for education in Nigeria, that is where we are today.
“So, when you now pretend to have assumed a new life to be able to effect changes in this country, it is barely a desire to change leadership, nothing more. What is the vision of the APC? Apart from them saying that the PDP is not performing and that the APC wants to come and change so that they can perform, what programme have they brought out for Nigerians to see.
“What is their programme, what is their vision for Nigeria? What is their mission? They don’t have. And so when people gallivant around and profess a new name, APC, yes we have seen it before, we had ANPP, we had ACN, APP and the rest of them before; same characters. And they are here again hoodwinking Nigerians to believe that they have the magic wand, it is too bad.”
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