COURT FIXED MARCH 21st FOR SANUSI LAMIDO'S MOTION

         March 21st have been fixed for motion hearing of Impeached CBN Governor (Malam Sanusi Lamido) by Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday fixed  to hear a motion filed by the  seeking enforcement of his fundamental right.

          Lamido had filed the suit through his counsel, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo (SAN), seeking an order restraining the police and officers of the State Security Service (SSS) from arresting, detaining or otherwise harassing him. Joined as first to third respondents in the suit are: The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Inspector General of Police (I-G) and the SSS.

         When the case was mentioned on Friday, Justice Ibrahim Buba adjourned it to March 21 for hearing, following an application for adjournment moved by counsel to all the respondents. Counsel to the AGF, Dr Oscar Nliam, holding the brief of Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), informed the court that his office had just been briefed on the matter. He told the court that they were yet to receive all the processes filed by the applicant, and therefore prayed the court for a short adjournment to enable him collate all processes. Counsel representing the I-G, Mr Chukwu Agwu, on his part, informed the court that he was only notified last night by his boss from the Force Headquarters that the suit will be coming up in court. He said that the second respondent was yet to receive the processes and also prayed the court for an adjournment to enable him look at the processes when they arrive.

        In the same vein, counsel representing the SSS, Mr Ahmed Musa, also aligned himself with the submissions of his colleagues, adding that an adjournment will be to their favour especially as parties were still within time of filing.

      Counsel representing the applicant, Mr Kola Awodehin (SAN),, did not object to the prayers for adjournment, but noted that the suit bordered on fundamental rights enforcement and ought to be dealt with expeditiously. Justice Buba, however, in a short ruling, adjourned the case to March 21 for hearing.

            The court had on Feb. 21, granted an interim order of injunction, restraining the respondents from arresting, detaining or harassing the applicant, pending the determination of the motion on notice. The interim order was sequel to an affidavit of urgency filed by the applicant on the same date.

BOKO HARAM TENDS TO RUIN JONATHAN'S REGIME

The Islamic terrorist has vow to ruin Jonathan administration with their daily killing. The president Ebele Gudlock Jonathan on Friday said the country was at war with Boko Haram, apparently backing off previous claims that the Islamist rebels were on the run and desperate to destroy this country.

         Jonathan has termed the ongoing military offensive in Boko Haram north-eastern stronghold a success and maintained that normality will be restored to the embattled region by May. Though people have been criticizing President Goodluck Jonathan's administration over its handling of the conflict, both for its inability to stop massive attacks on powerless civilians and for what some have described as mixed and contradictory messages on the severity of the crisis.

         On Friday, president's spokesperson Doyin Okupe told the private Channels television station that the Boko Haram conflict was a "war situation". "We are dealing with a very, very serious enemy," he said. We are engaged in a war that has been internationalized," he added in an apparent reference to Boko Haram's reported but unconfirmed presence in neighboring countries like Cameroon.

        The conflict has killed thousands since 2009 but many argue the plight of civilians in the northeast has worsened since the military began its operation in May. Since then, nearly 300 000 people have been displaced in the region, according to the UN, and more than 1 500 people killed, according to the UN and figures compiled by AFP. "It is very difficult, very costly in terms of lives lost. But we will overcome," Okupe said. "We are in the dying phase of this insurgency."

         The ministry of defense on Thursday said the insurgents were "desperate" to escape Nigeria because of military pressure and would be "degraded towards elimination shortly".With all this, we need to be at alert.

REASON BEHIND THE ASUP STRIKE -ASUP PRESIDENT

     

  The Nigeria Education has become toy between Federal Government and ASUP, based on the fact that student's career are in danger. in an interview with the ASUP President - Kuni Tyessi:

 Polytechnics have been on strike for almost nine months now and it is clear ASUP as a union is agitating for certain things to be done, what really are the issues?

                 Yea, principally, the issues can be summarised in three areas generally. One, the issues go to address the strengthening of the legal and the institutional framework of Nigeria’s polytechnic system. They also go to address the issue of deepening the capacity of academic personnel in Nigerian polytechnics to equip and position them properly so as to be able to meet the objectives of the agenda of training the polytechnic graduates. Thirdly also, is to really restore integrity and dignity to the products from polytechnics.

                    But if you look at them as individual items, we can mention some of them very clearly. For instance, in 2009 we entered an agreement with Nigerian government and that agreement provided in itself that by 2012 it would be re-negotiated and since 2012 we have been asking the government to re-negotiate the agreement it agreed to re-negotiate and up till now they’ve just been a mirage, government has frustrated the process.

              Also, we are looking at the discrimination against polytechnic graduates in public service and generally in the Nigerian labour market and we are saying that, this system has become anachronistic in the global world now that we don’t discriminate against people’s career choices just because of where they went to school. Also, we are asking for proper comprehensive NEEDS assessment of Nigerian polytechnics, this hasn’t been done and we know that it has been done for Nigerian universities and we are asking that government should also do that. We are also asking government to set up a commission to clearly cater for Nigerian polytechnic education just as there is a commission catering for Nigerian university education and another commission catering for colleges of education.

          We are also asking for a comprehensive funding portfolio period for the polytechnics; we are also asking government, actually we have started the process but it’s very slow, to review the Federal Polytechnic Act; we are also asking the government to ensure that there is parity in conditions of service in Nigerian polytechnics irrespective of who the proprietor is; we are also concerned that some of our state polytechnics have deteriorated to the extent that we can’t even guarantee the quality of certificates our people are awarding in those areas.

              So principally, these are some of the areas we are looking at and we are also asking government to take care of the peculiarity of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, that is the centralised payment system in such a way that it will take care of the peculiarity of the tertiary sector which government has not done and government is trying to forcefully enrol us into the system and we are trying to say no, let’s do these other ones and try to see how it works out; and we are also asking government to release the white paper on the visitation that happened in federal polytechnics about one year nine months ago and that white paper is still being withheld for reasons we do not know.

             So these are the areas we want the government to look at and come to terms with us and we are also talking about migration, the full funding of migration of staff on an elongated salary scale that happened in 2009 and in 2010, whereby a small number of staff were migrated and the larger majority of the staff in the polytechnics were not migrated. So, in effect what it means is that from 2009, the major cadre of staff in the polytechnics has been under-paid by the government and now we are asking the government to pay up and implement the migration properly so that people will not be short-changed any more.

How has it been with the struggle as the ASUP president?

              Mr Kuni Tyessi said; in one word, I would say the challenges could be described as intriguing from several angles. It has been an experience in learning, it has also been an experience in understanding how the structures of bureaucracy work in Nigeria, and on the whole it has also been a mixture of frustration and certainly suspense and failed expectations.

Nigerians were made to understand that the 13 issues you presented to the federal government have been cut to 4 key areas. To what extent has the government fulfilled the key areas?

               Let’s give this issue a proper perspective because it has been an issue for government propaganda. When the supervising minister of education, Barr. Nyesom Wike said they have done 90 percent of our demands, it is practically not true. When in 2013 we came to government, we came with portfolio of 13 demands and when we started discussing with government on the 13 issues that we brought, at a point we had several stakeholders intervening and at a point the federal legislators, the joint education committees of the Senate and the House  of Representatives intervened in the matter and during the negotiation predicated on their intervention, what happened was that, government now appraised the 13 issues and actually suggested that since it was not possible, because there were some of the issues we had to categorised, issues that you could resolve in the long term and issues that you could resolve in the short term, so because we were on strike, and the agreement was that everybody should do something that will immediately reopen the schools, so the government asked us if they could chose those issues that could be resolved within a short period so that we could go back to classroom while we continue discussion on the other issues.

NFF LAUNCHED NEW JERSEY FOR 2014 WORLD CUP

           The Nigerian football federation today launches a brand new jersey for the 2014 FIFA world cup

which will take place in Brazil.

The new jersey,  will be officially launched on March 5th when the Nigerian national team meets Mexico in a pre-world cup friendly taking place in Atlanta, Georgia

Head of the marketing department, Mr. Adama Idris has described the jersey as a 'climacool' designed to fit into all weather as the Brazilian weather changes over time depending on location.

         The colour of the jersey is lemon green, a totally different one from the green color typically associated with   the Nigerian national flag.               Though many fans has been complained about the colour of the new jersey which is a little bit different from previous jersey.  Some people believed that jersey colour determine the performance of Super Eagle.

FRAUD vs AUDITOR

In our society where the business culture has been overridden in recent times with fraudulent practices penetrated by management and employees, the lack of clear understanding of the duties of an auditor in relation to fraud detection has often led to unjustifiable criticisms of auditor’s role. Auditors are known to be competent, honest and independent professionals who express unbiased opinion on the truth and fairness of the financial statement as presented by management to members of the company. The accounting profession has over the years built a reputation, which encourages others to rely upon the opinions auditors express. If these opinions are unclear or even unreliable, serious consequences may and indeed have resulted.

                  It has been observed that “Government spending has always been big business, but it has become so massive today that the public through its legislators is demanding to know whether the huge outlays of money are being spent wisely or whether they should be spent at all.” Officials and employees who manage public sector activities are by virtue of that duty, required to render adequate accounts of their activities to the public.

                 The incidence of fraud continues to increase across public sectors and across nations. Fraud is a universal problem as no nations is immunes, although developing countries and their various states suffer the most pain. Fraud includes all the multifarious means human ingenuity can devise that are resorted to by be individual to get an advantage over another by false suggestions or suppression of the truth. It includes surprises, tricks, cunning or dissembling, and any unfair way by which another is cheated.

CHELSEA STRUGGLE FOR DRAW

Chelsea finally picked up a draw from Mancini's side after Torres netted in a dominant first-half

display, only for Roberto Mancini's side to produce a much improved performance after the break as poor defending allowed Aurelien Chedjou to strike home. Having seen all teams from England Manchester United follow Arsenal and Manchester City in losing their last-16 first-leg ties 2-0, the west Londoners refused to wilt under the intense pressure brought by the raucous Turk Telecom Arena crowd.

            Mourinho named an attack-minded line-up and was rewarded after just nine minutes when fine play down the left ended with Fernando Torres sweeping home Cesar Azpilicueta's measured cross.
It was the first goal by an English side in Europe since Dec. 12 and one Burak Yilmaz thought he had cancelled out as half-time approached, only for his strike from a quickly-taken throw-in to be disallowed as there were two balls on the pitch. The other was under John Terry's arm and the Chelsea captain was booked for his part in the bizarre incident, which saw him booed off the pitch at half-time by the irate home support.
             Galatasaray's fanatical support would soon be thanking Terry, though. Minutes after Selcuk Inan hit the post, the Blues centre-back let Aurelien Chedjou out of his sights as he fired the hosts level to see the tie level when the teams resume battle in three weeks.
             Didier Drogba facing his former club said this was a match of many a sub-plot, varying from Chelsea favourite for the first time to former Manchester City boss Mancini coming up against Mourinho, the man who succeeded him at the Inter Milan helm. However, the build-up focused on trouble in Istanbul as anti-government protests followed a night in which Chelsea confirmed their fans were involved in two incidents, with police warning the 1,300 travelling contingent that it was "not safe" for them to use the Metro to and from ground.
                It was far from the ideal preparation -- nor was the leaking of private comments from Mourinho on Samuel Eto'o and his strikers - although those that made the trip could have few complaints about the manner in which Chelsea started.
              

The Enrollment of Your Genius Female Offspring Within the Fantastic Boarding School

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Never go hastily for a boarding school for girls as a result of 2 basic reasons. Firstly, it is a expensive affair. Secondly, you would like to endure lots of formalities at the time of admission and withdrawal.
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Squeeze the list: create the list shorter, only 1 or 2 choices. raise a number of inquiries to yourself. Does one need co-education or solely girl institute? Is there any reservation against specific spiritual believes? Will your female offspring want special college? Wht is the ranking of hill school for girls? Would you prefer to enroll during a specific institute backed-up by some charitable trust/ organization?
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Select the most effective private school for women in Asian country and enroll your female offspring. These organizations square measure sure higher than the standard ones!

You have finally determined to send your girl child to the best boarding school for bright future. Currently it is the time to pick out a decent structure. You simply can’t afford to commit mistake whereas looking a right organization. Specialists say that a lot of folks opt for wrong organizations and later discontinue. The institute they choose is not inferior; however it does not meet their expectations. Typically the girl is not able to cope-up with the teaching vogue or setting. You will need be able to imagine the agony and frustration your child will have to go true. Therefore, it is higher to require your time before you fill within the enrollment type.
Never go hastily for a boarding school for girls as a result of 2 basic reasons. Firstly, it is a expensive affair. Secondly, you would like to endure lots of formalities at the time of admission and withdrawal. Typically folks take admission in high-profile establishments. The girl child is not able to cop-up with it. The parents are forced to change the school ultimately.
What is the way to establish the right school?
Be careful whereas choosing girl residential school for your female offspring. Search, investigate, compare so choose. The vital steps square measure given below:
• Analysis and review is important: forever pay considerable time after you choose the highest private school for women. It is a long method and Cana be done nightlong. Therefore, begin it a number of months before the particular date. Explore each attainable chance to gather info. Ask peers, friends and relatives. Consult with the colleagues and explore the web. Bear varied journal posts, opinion sites and forums so you create a balanced opinion regarding it.
Find out the location: the highest residential faculties for women in Asian country square measure placed within the northern states. Uttarakhand, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh host majority of them whereas province and Rajasthan additionally host a number of. Some folks like northern states as a result of scenic beauty and weather. Some folks like different states as a result of higher accessibility. However, it is strictly a personal preference.

 If attainable, visit the college: No web site will provide higher plan regarding the highest residential school for women in Asian country. Visit the premises and appearance at the facilities in person. Check the infrastructure, workers and different facilities. you need to visit science and pc labs to assess the technical advancement.
 Know the admission method: Check each minor details of the admission process before filling within the enrollment type. Create an inventory of documents needed, admission formalities and fee structure.
Select the most effective private school for women in Asian country and enroll your female offspring. These organizations square measure sure higher than the standard ones!