Senate Begins Probe of Power Sectors

The Senate will on tuesday begin investigation into alleged unwholesome practices in the power sector from 1999 till date.

The probe is to be carried out by an Ad-hoc Committee on Power, inaugurated by Senate President, Bukola Saraki on August 28.

The committee is chaired by Abubakar Kyari (APC, Borno North).

In a statement on Monday, Clerk of the Committee, Cletus Ojabo, said the probe would take the form of investigative hearing/interactive session with stakeholders in the power sector.

According to the statement: “The investigation will centre on funds appropriated for the power sector since 1999 to the point of unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and all matters connected therewith.”

"all heads of state and government, governors, ministers, permanent secretaries will have to declare their assets " Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that governors, ministers and top civil servants must declare their assets

Buhari said the imperative for elected public officials and top civil servants in the category of permanent secretaries was a constitutional obligation. .

The president, who had last week made public his assets, threw the challenge in Accra, Ghana, yesterday where he had gone on a one-day working visit to President John Dramani Mahama.

The Nigerian leader was responding to a question from the Ghanaian press during a joint press conference with Mahama after bilateral talks at the Peduase Lodge in Aburi on how he could impress it on other African leaders and public office holders to emulate him by making assets declaration a priority in governance.

Buhari said assets declaration had been engrained in the Nigerian Constitution, saying he had done such four times since 1975 that he had served the country in various capacities. 

His words: “I recall that in 1975 when late Murtala Mohammed became the Head of State, we were lined up in the corridor – governors, ministers, members of the Supreme Military Council – and officials of Ministry of Justice were brought and every individual was made to declare his assets.

“So right now, all heads of state and government, governors, ministers, permanent secretaries will have to declare their assets because it is a constitutional requirement. 

“In Nigeria, it is a constitutional issue and that is why I am blaming you gentlemen of the press. If you really want to do investigative journalism, you don’t have to worry me at this stage; I have declared my assets four times.

“When I was governor in 1975, I declared. After being Minister of Petroleum and as a member of Supreme Military Council, I declared. When I was Head of State and now as a President, I also declared.

“I have declared my assets and all that I have four times, and you (the media) have the right to go and demand for my declaration. Instead, I am being harassed.”

Buhari also challenged Nigerian journalists to go and look for details of his assets declaration instead of harassing him with further questions.

He said since he had declared his assets four times since 1975 that he had served in different capacities in the country, the journalists could be more investigative in their work if they could fish out the details.

Buhari said journalists who had been heckling him to publish the details of what he recently declared could do better by just using the law to dig up the records of his four separate declarations since 1975.

On security challenges, the president said the military was gaining ground and lot of progress was being made on the fight against Boko Haram to the extent that the terrorists were now isolated in the Sambisa forest, and would be routed very soon.

He said: “The first thing I did after I came into office was to re-organise the military and clear terms were given to them in terms of retraining, re-equipping and redeployment of troops.

“In the north-east, the military is gaining ground and Boko Haram has been severely limited to the Sambisa Forest.

“Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who moved out because of insurgency are gradually moving back to their constituencies and they are being integrated into their respective communities.”

He further assured the public that he would unveil other members of his cabinet before the end of September this year, failure of which Nigerians could then start to ask him questions.

“After I was sworn-in, I said I would have my cabinet in September and I expect that Nigerians should ask me questions after the 30th of September if I do not do that,” he stressed.

In his remarks, President Mahama commended Buhari’s efforts at galvanising West African nations to support their Lake Chad Basin counterparts to quash Boko Haram through the Multinational Joint Task Force.

He pledged to ensure Ghana plays her part well, including sharing relevant military intelligence with Nigerian authorities.

On the difficulties faced by Nigerians doing business in Ghana, Mahama explained that the law requiring them to pay capital/registration levy of $300,000 would be amended by the Ghanaian parliament as soon as the already approved biometric registration of ECOWAS traders, which begins next year, is completed.

Primary Source: http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/09/govs-ministers-must-declare-assets-buhari/

How to Make Girls Play Less Hard To Get.

Hey bro…

You are special, you know it. You are a blessing to women, and you know it.

So how dare a girl reject you? How dare her say she doesn’t feel anything for you? 

Now, stay with me. 

The biggest problem most Nigerian guys face in their love life is when they walk up to a girl, tell the girl how they feel about her and the girl out rightly rejects him. It is painful.

As in, the girl looks you in the face and tells you that she can’t date you. That she doesn’t feel anything for you. Sometimes the polite ones would lie to you that they have a boyfriend, just to put you off.

The wicked ones will give you hope then allow you to spend on her and her friends before calling you up one day to tell you she can’t continue with you. 

In Fact; there is one sentence a girl uses when she wants to play hard to get and that sentence is: “I will think about it”. When a girl gives you that line, her hard to get mode is on.

You tell her how you like her and how you would want to date her and, bam, she tells you she will think about it. Then the next thing she does is to start avoiding you.

If you’ve experienced this in the past or is going through it now, I’m about to show you, right away, what causes a girl to play hard to get and how you can avoid it and make sure a girl finds you irrestible. 

Let’s take it one by one:

THE MAJOR REASON WHY A GIRL WILL PLAY HARD TO GET 

See, I want you to really really understand what I’m about to show you. So I will show you an illustration. Just to make it clear to you.
Stay with me, this is important.

Now, imagine you are interested in buying a land from a man. 

So you walk up to the man and say: “Hey, I like that land your are selling. You are selling it for 2 million naira. I have 3 million naira for the land but I will try and get you to sell it to me for 1.5 million naira”

What do you think would happen? Think about it.

Very simple, you will never get that land at 1.5 million naira. In Fact; the man would probably increase the price.

Why?

Because he already knows what you are thinking.

Now. Case two; Let us assume it happens the other way round, you walk up to the same man and you don’t tell him how much you have; you just start negotiating the price to beat it down to 1.5 million naira

Consider the two cases and you will agree with me that the chances of getting that land at the price you want is higher in the second case 

HOW DOES THIS APPLY TO THAT GIRL WHO IS PLAYING HARD TO GET FOR YOU?

If you are smart then you already get it. But I will explain.

Stay with me.

When you meet a girl, she doesn’t know zip about you. She doesn’t know you, she doesn’t feel anything for you. Somehow, some really “jonsing” guys feel that the best way to get the girl to like them is to just tell them how they feel and ask them to date him. Hoping that, somehow somehow, the girl will feel the same way…

…Just because he told her how he feels about her.

Just think about it, does it make sense?

It is like showing the games and cards you have to an opponent when playing Whot (bridge). It is dangerous to the outcome of your game.

Why? 

Because girls are trained to play hard to get, they are trained to never give in to a guy easily. If they give in easily to you they will feel cheap. So when she knows you are interested in her, she will shut down and lock up her feelings for you – it is a natural reaction. Then the shakara will start. Then she tells you she will “think about it”, so you can put more effort.

When this shakara starts, the natural reaction is for the guy to start chasing the girl. To try to get the girl to like him by all means…
And that is where the mistake starts; 

You start trying hard to impress the girl. I mean, that is the same thing you see in the movies, right. Movies seem to paint that girls fall for guys who worship them and go crazy about them.

So you go crazy about her, you show her how bad you love her by Buying her things, calling her up regularly, always telling her you love her (even though she never says she likes you, talk more of loving you), you keep asking her weather she loves you, you keep asking her why she 
doesn’t love you, you almost beg her to return the feeling you have for her.

I[b] WILL GIVE YOU ONE SECRET:[/b]

All these things will kill every single chance you have with that girl. Just think back to everybody who has ever tried hard to impress you, as in, really hard to impress you – chances are that, although you liked the attention, you never took that person as an equal.

A girl you do all those things to will never take you as an equal. You have to approach a girl like she is your equal and not a goddess to be worshipped.

A girl will never feel attracted to a guy she has absolute control over. A girl wants a man. Someone who is in charge of the relationship. A girl doesn’t want a worshipper – she wants a real man and not a guy who allows her take charge of the relationship

I will also tell you another secret; telling a girl that you like her before she feels anything for you RARELY works. It is the main reason most girls have been turning you down. You are showing her what you think before she gets to think the same thing.
I know what you are thinking.

You are wondering how you can get a girl to like you when you don’t make your intention known to her, right?

THE RIGHT WAY TO WOO A GIRL

The right way to woo a girl, funny enough, always stare right at us when we watch American movies. A guy and a girl meet, they get to know themselves – they kiss, then before the “I love you” talk.
Understand the process.

The correct step is; meet a girl, make her fall for you first before you show her that you are interested in her. A girl will find it harder to reject a guy she already likes than a girl she doesn’t like already. if you show her you are interested first before making her fall for you then you are making a big mistake. 

So how can you get a girl to fall for you, how can you get her to feel some form of interest in you?; it is super easy (trust me) – you can achieve this by reading all my articles here on Nairaland and using the strategies in them (just click my username to see a list of my articles) – I exposed some powerful secrets in most of them. You can also read some more articles on my website (see my profile for the address of the website).

If you want more advanced secrets that you can use to get a girl crazy about you, I compiled and packed them all in my eBook, The Bang Rule. In it I explained the easy to use effective secrets that most players you know use to effortlessly get the girls they like to like them back (see my profile for numbers to contact to get it now)

To be continued....

Primary Source : Nairaland.

Senate Begins Probe Of Obasanjo And Yar adua and Others Over Fund Mismanagement

By Henry Umoru

ABUJA—THE Senate will today begin an inquest into alleged mismanagement of funds appropriated to the power sector from the Olusegun Obasanjo civilian administration to date In a statement, yesterday, by the Clerk of Senate ad hoc Committee on Power, Cletus Ojabo, the power sector probe will be in the form of investigative hearing/interactive session, just as there was an indication that former ministers of power will also be in attendance.

According to Ojabo, the investigation would centre on funds appropriated for the power sector since 1999 and the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, adding: “ It is expected that all those who played key roles in the power sector since 1999, including ministers and heads of government departments and parastatals, will appear before the panel.”

It will be recalled that Senate President, Bukola Saraki, had last month announced a 13-man ad hoc committee to carry out a holistic investigation into the management of funds appropriated to the power sector from the Olusegun Obasanjo civilian administration to date.

Senator Saraki had urged members of the committee to consider their reputation and integrity and come up with a report that would be acceptable to Nigerians. He lamented that a lot of money had been spent on the sector with no results, while Nigeria is still faced with the challenge of power supply.

The committee, which has Senator Abubakar Kyari, (APC Borno North) as chairman, was also saddled with the responsibility of looking into irregularities in the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN and to also probe how the Obasanjo, Umaru Yar‘Adua and Jonathan administrations managed funds allocated to the sector.

The committee was charged with the task of looking into the entire power value chain including generation, transmission and distribution with a view to identifying what the problems in the sector are.

Saraki, who noted at the inauguration of the committee three weeks ago, that the task before the panel is huge, had however, frowned at the continued absence of regular supply of electricity despite the country’s huge investments in the sector.

Kyari, in his remarks during the inauguration, detailed the nature of the investigation his committee is saddled with,saying, “ To have a close look at the entire power value chain (generation, transmission and distribution) calls for a review of our policies in order to obtain optimum performances across the board.

According to him, “the abysmal performance of the generation segment is no longer news in view of the current deteriorating power supply which hovers around 4,600MW for a population of over 170 million people, despite the huge resources committed into it.”

Primary Source ://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/senate-begins-probe-of-obasanjo-yaradua-others-over-power-funds-mismanagement/

"You Are Anti-Christ" Emeka Ike tells Chris Okotie

Nollywood actor, Emeka Ike, says Chris Okotie, head pastor of Household of God Church, is not a man of God but an anti-Christ.

Ike was speaking to TheCable after learning of Okotie’s reaction to his claims that the pastor was abetting the crisis in his marriage to Suzanne Rero.

The feud between the actor and his wife had deteriorated to the point that his wife filed a divorce suit before a customary court in Lagos. Specifically, she is seeking dissolution of her 12-year-old marriage over alleged assault by her husband.

After Ike made the claim, Okotie spoke through his media aide, saying he would not “dignify Emeka Ike with a response”; and the actor has now questioned the pastor’s popularity and spiritual calling.

“I think his (Okotie’s) comment is a clear indication that he lacked the evidence to fault my allegation,” Ike said.

“Is Pastor Okotie well-known and popular as I am? How can he say he will not dignify me with a response? His comment actually confirmed my suspicion that my wife is being manipulated either through blackmail or spiritual enchantment to say she was opting out of her marriage after 12 years.
“For instance, at the last proceeding on the divorce suit, my wife said it in the open court that she was willing to abandon her four children and go out of the marriage. Which woman will say she was abandoning her four children if not under a spell? It is clear to me that Okotie is not a pastor but an anti-christ.”

He accused Okotie of hiring a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) for his wife, just for the purpose of destroying his home.

Ike alleged that Okotie gave his wife about N500, 000 for her mother’s burial and also bought her a blackberry porch phone. He accused Okotie of calling his wife and other single women out in church every Sunday and directing that gifts should be given to them.

He further alleged that Okotie and another man in the church helped his wife to secure a job without his consent. This other man, he said, recently experienced problems in his own marriage as well, over a love message from Suzanne.

“I want people to look into this issue critically. I’ve never beaten this woman in my life. When she ran out of home, I called my pastor and they took us for counselling. For one week, I was begging her every day; I would go home alone and she would go home alone as well,” Ike added.

“At a point, pastor asked us to write five things we like and dislike about each other. The pastor said that maybe we could work it out. I wrote mine, she wrote hers and she never said there that I used to beat her. I still have that document with me. She gave me what she wrote and I gave her what I wrote.

“If I used to beat her, she could not have left it out from that then. Any man that beats a woman is a coward. I know that someone somewhere must have done something to her. How can I beat a woman I adore so much? I love my family and this is very unfortunate. Her children have been begging her to come home, and she has refused.”

Secondary Source:Nairaland

Primary Source: https://www.thecable.ng/emeka-ike-okotie-not-a-pastor-but-an-anti-christ

"What's the big deal in 'Going to London to see or Shake the Queen" Afrocandy to Stephanie Linus Okereke

Nigerian born porn actress » , producer and some time musician, Judith Mazagwu , popularly known as AfroCandy , has surely bitten more than she can chew after she decided to take on much loved Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke-Linus, after the multiple award winning actress posted a photo of herself shaking the hands of the Queen of England.
The producer of the porn movies » , Destructive Instinct and Queen of Zamunda, did not see that as any achievement worth celebrating and took to her Facebook page to blast the movie producer with the words:

"Africa my People and Brain Washing! What's the big deal in 'Going to London to see or Shake the Queen'

? If you make it your Life Time Goal you will achieve it, and that doesn't mean you're going to Heaven.
Fact is, most of us don't even think it's that Important. Me, I'm too busy "Shaking My Bum Bum o nobi to go see the Queen of England dey do me so abegi make I hear word!
These people you are looking at Kept Nigeria the way it is Today, Wake up from your Slumber Nigeria, dem nobi God!"

But apparently, some fans of Stephanie did not take the attack funny and poured their venom on AfroCandy.
See the post here:
Read some of their responses to her vituperation:
Adewunmi Olabode : 'I never knew you are this low in reasoning, you mean you can pass a message of this sort to steph? that's too childish of you...itt aint jealousy, its stupidity.'

Bauer Scoffield : 'Madam Judith...U r just being silly and foolish as well...U shud wake up frm ur slp and stop beefin oda people who r much more beta dan U r...kip shakin ur bum bum ehn...until d whole world knws its smelly and rotten.'

Tony Obinna : ' Afro candy Abeg stop hating, na her time. Make she shake the Queen, May be years after 2015 it will be your turn.'

Pradah O. Lambano : 'Shake" is d word here,steph shook d queen,afro shakes her ass.all shake b shake lol #jusayin'

Kenneth Makoli : 'Jealousy'

Onuoha Frank : 'Which one be ur own dere Afrocandy? Everybody get their desire in life...!'

Justin Brown: 'You just sent a post shouting you change your house...it's a biggest deal to shake queen's hands...I'm imagining if could have the privilege jealous dirty ass!'

Chidera Chi Nigeria : 'Even with all your shaky bum bum and Unclothedness ... Northerner sef doesn't want to meet you so I understand why you are vexing.'[img]
Nigerian born porn actress » , producer and some time musician, Judith Mazagwu , popularly known as AfroCandy , has surely bitten more than she can chew after she decided to take on much loved Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke-Linus, after the multiple award winning actress posted a photo of herself shaking the hands of the Queen of England.
The producer of the porn movies » , Destructive Instinct and Queen of Zamunda, did not see that as any achievement worth celebrating and took to her Facebook page to blast the movie producer with the words:

"Africa my People and Brain Washing! What's the big deal in 'Going to London to see or Shake the Queen'
? If you make it your Life Time Goal you will achieve it, and that doesn't mean you're going to Heaven.
Fact is, most of us don't even think it's that Important. Me, I'm too busy "Shaking My Bum Bum o nobi to go see the Queen of England dey do me so abegi make I hear word!
These people you are looking at Kept Nigeria the way it is Today, Wake up from your Slumber Nigeria, dem nobi God!"

But apparently, some fans of Stephanie did not take the attack funny and poured their venom on AfroCandy.
See the post here:
Read some of their responses to her vituperation:
Adewunmi Olabode : 'I never knew you are this low in reasoning, you mean you can pass a message of this sort to steph? that's too childish of you...itt aint jealousy, its stupidity.'

Bauer Scoffield : 'Madam Judith...U r just being silly and foolish as well...U shud wake up frm ur slp and stop beefin oda people who r much more beta dan U r...kip shakin ur bum bum ehn...until d whole world knws its smelly and rotten.'

Tony Obinna : ' Afro candy Abeg stop hating, na her time. Make she shake the Queen, May be years after 2015 it will be your turn.'

Pradah O. Lambano : 'Shake" is d word here,steph shook d queen,afro shakes her ass.all shake b shake lol #jusayin'

Kenneth Makoli : 'Jealousy'

Onuoha Frank : 'Which one be ur own dere Afrocandy? Everybody get their desire in life...!'

Justin Brown: 'You just sent a post shouting you change your house...it's a biggest deal to shake queen's hands...I'm imagining if could have the privilege jealous dirty ass!'

Chidera Chi Nigeria : 'Even with all your shaky bum bum and Unclothedness ... Northerner sef doesn't want to meet you so I understand why you are vexing.'[/img]
Nigerian born porn actress » , producer and some time musician, Judith Mazagwu , popularly known as AfroCandy , has surely bitten more than she can chew after she decided to take on much loved Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke-Linus, after the multiple award winning actress posted a photo of herself shaking the hands of the Queen of England.
The producer of the porn movies » , Destructive Instinct and Queen of Zamunda, did not see that as any achievement worth celebrating and took to her Facebook page to blast the movie producer with the words:

"Africa my People and Brain Washing! What's the big deal in 'Going to London to see or Shake the Queen'
? If you make it your Life Time Goal you will achieve it, and that doesn't mean you're going to Heaven.
Fact is, most of us don't even think it's that Important. Me, I'm too busy "Shaking My Bum Bum o nobi to go see the Queen of England dey do me so abegi make I hear word!
These people you are looking at Kept Nigeria the way it is Today, Wake up from your Slumber Nigeria, dem nobi God!"

But apparently, some fans of Stephanie did not take the attack funny and poured their venom on AfroCandy.
See the post here:
Read some of their responses to her vituperation:
Adewunmi Olabode : 'I never knew you are this low in reasoning, you mean you can pass a message of this sort to steph? that's too childish of you...itt aint jealousy, its stupidity.'

Bauer Scoffield : 'Madam Judith...U r just being silly and foolish as well...U shud wake up frm ur slp and stop beefin oda people who r much more beta dan U r...kip shakin ur bum bum ehn...until d whole world knws its smelly and rotten.'

Tony Obinna : ' Afro candy Abeg stop hating, na her time. Make she shake the Queen, May be years after 2015 it will be your turn.'

Pradah O. Lambano : 'Shake" is d word here,steph shook d queen,afro shakes her ass.all shake b shake lol #jusayin'

Kenneth Makoli : 'Jealousy'

Onuoha Frank : 'Which one be ur own dere Afrocandy? Everybody get their desire in life...!'

Justin Brown: 'You just sent a post shouting you change your house...it's a biggest deal to shake queen's hands...I'm imagining if could have the privilege jealous dirty ass!'

Chidera Chi Nigeria : 'Even with all your shaky bum bum and Unclothedness ... Northerner sef doesn't want to meet you so I understand why you are vexing.'

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