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THE WORLD IS AWARE OF SICK RACIST LIKE THIS ONE BELOW. HENCE THEY "IGNORE THEM".

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@GraigB
THANK GOD FOR WHITE PEOPLE LIKE U, MAX,JOHNNY GLEGG AND MANY MORE.[b][/b]

@Blackchris
YOU'RE WELCOME HERE "IGBO POEPOL" You're a STROND like ur forefathers.

YOU WILL REMAIN AN A$$LICKER TILL JESUS COME BACK.

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@Blackchris
IGBO kitten this is how they/WHITE RIGHT WINGERS see u.

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dark_rosaleen will become famous soon enough Default Re: Nigerian denied right of residency to sue McDowell

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Please, let's get ONE THING straight here....Nigerians may look/behave/smell/eat/breed etc, like baboons, and have all the same educational and work skills/social graces/morals as apes, but they do have ALL the cunning and cleverness of a big sack of weasels!! They have found a Nirvana here in Ireland, free Welfare/AIDS Treatment/Housing/Education/Plenty of cheap fried chicken/Cola and a great place to "play the Race Card"!!

Do you seriously think that these simians are about to give up this haven in Ireland, and return home without a fight? Would you, if you were a Nigerian?

I have the mis-fortune to have been seconded to work in Tallaght, on a 1year assignment, and it makes me ill, to see the swamp-land of Negroid effluent that Tallaght has become. OK, I will admit, Tallaght was a ghetto to begin with, but, at least it used to be a White/Social Welfare/Council/Corpo dumping ground, and the shopping centre was a nice place to go. Now, all the lovely, newly-built Private and Council houses and apartments have been over-run with the monkey people, and the Square Shopping Centre resembles the Black Townships. Plus, the addition of several 1000's of Asians, Roma gypsies, Russians, Albanians, etc etc, has turned the place into a total toilet. It's absolutely horrible...DO avoid it...at all costs!!

As regards the Nigerian in question, in this posting....? Sure, he'll probably stay true to form, and ...make 4 woman pregnant...infect them, and another 6 more, with AIDS...then, be allowed to remain on "Human Rights" grounds, live for another 30 years on Anti-Viral Drugs and Marks+Spencers food, and cost the Tax-payers a Zillion..!!

And, guess what's EVEN worse?? NOT ONE person...will say or do, a damn thing to stop him!! [/b]

@AGAUGUST YOU WERE PROUDLY TELLING US ABOUT NIGERIAN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND A MILITARY FEAT (MILITARY BALLON) BUT WHAT YOU FORGOT WAS TO MENTION THAT IT WAS 19 CENTURY TECHNOLOGY USED BY AMERICANS DURING THE CIVIL WAR.

The Nigeria Army said it has developed intelligent devices that will tackle the Boko Haram insurgency.

The Nigerian Army boasted that it has developed hi-tech devices capable of gathering information and intelligence to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency and other acts of terrorism across the country.

The General Officer Commanding, 2 Div., Ibadan, Ahmed Tijani, made the disclosure at a lecture held at the Army formations headquarters in Ibadan.

Mr. Tijani, a Major General, said the sophisticated devices, in form of balloons, were unveiled in 2012.

During the American Civil War, from 1861-1865, hot-air balloons – the forerunners of spy planes and today’s satellites – were used by both the Union and the southern Confederacy, in present day United States of America, to monitor troop movements and regiment size, and gather intelligence.

According to Mr. Tijani, the technology has been upgraded and has a 84 kilometer launch into space.

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Commander of the United States Africa Command, Gen. Carter Ham, has confirmed that the US has deployed its intelligence machinery to support Nigeria in fighting the threat posed by violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

Ham, who spoke in an interview session with a Nigerian media delegation in Stuttgart on Friday, said the support followed a request from the Nigerian authorities.

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95 Per Cent Of Nigerian Police Officers Fail Intelligence Test

Statistics seem to have finally proven what many citizens had suspected all along that many Nigerian police officers are incapable of passing a standard intelligence gathering assessment test.
READ MORE: http://news.naij.com/33018.html

The commander of the Military Joint Task Force, JTF, fighting North Eastern Nigeria’s Islamic uprising has admited that 12 soldiers and seven police officers were killed in recent attacks.

The military had earlier said only two soldiers and one police officer were killed when suspected members of the Boko Haram terrorist network attacked a military base and police outpost near Nigeria’s border with Cameroon on August 4.

Maj. Gen. Jah Ewansiah made the admission Saturday when he spoke to the Borno State governor and journalists present.

He said despite the losses, the task force “is resolute and committed to ensure that peace is completely restored in Borno state, even if it means losing our lives.”

Thousands more troops were sent into North Eastern Nigeria after a state of emergency was declared mid-May.
READ MORE: http://news.naij.com/43221.html

NIGERIA ELECTRICITY PROBLEM ONE OF THE REASONS @AGAUGUST LEFT THE COUNTRY

Nigerians on Monday condemned the poor supply of electricity across the country in the last five days. While some described the development as a setback to the ongoing reforms, others wondered if the Federal Government was ready to address the rot in the system.

This is coming as officials of the Federal Ministry of Power made no comments when newsmen requested to know the amount of electricity currently generated in the country.

Meanwhile, newsmen also gathered that the abysmal power situation in the Federal Capital Territory was due to the 25 per cent drop in the supply of electricity to the Abuja Distribution Company from the national grid.

Speaking on the development, Mr. Cheta Nelson, a trader in Ojo, Lagos, said business in his area had been slow following series of interruptions and outright blackouts witnessed in the last five days.

He said, “Considering the many hiccups in the power sector lately, do you think the government can achieve any tangible reform in this industry?

“We have been running our businesses on diesel lately and this is not good for small business owners at all.”

In Abuja, Mr. Tony Philips, a resident of Kubwa, said power supply had been poor in the area since Friday.

He said it was high time the government stopped giving excuses as to why the country repeatedly recorded electricity collapses.

The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, had on Saturday said power generation fell to as low as 2,628.6 megawatts, a sharp contrast to the over 4,000MW previously generated.

Reacting to the development, the Public Affairs Manager, Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Mr. Adegoke Adebowale, told newsmen that until the issue of gas leakages as stated by the minister was addressed, the situation might not improve.

agaugust:

i defeated you and @crazeB with WAEC and NECO source weblink facts. go kiss a cockroach

You defeated no one. It won't go away idïot. Look at the source that YOU volunteered as credible.

Is this what you want to be proud of?

Different year

You are a 98% failure rate nation. There's nothing that you can say to erase that. It's a proud achievement of your people.

[size=15pt]98%[/size].

Is this denied or not? Yes or no.

The 80% failure rate last year as contained on your own source. Is it denied or not? Yes or no.

Nation of idîots.

98% failure rate brains.

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YET ANOTHER MASS WAEC FAILURE

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It’s time to declare a state of emergency in the educational sector

It is now a recurring decade-old national embarrassment, that the Nigerian National Office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) will release the results for its November/December West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) showing mass failure rate. The results for this year show that out of a total of 406,108 candidates who sat for the examinations, and whose results were processed, only 62,295 candidates obtained credits in English language, Mathematics and at least three other subjects. This represents an 80 percent failure rate, in terms of meeting the minimum performance requirement for candidates to be deemed to have passed the SSCE examinations.

It is possible to speak of marginal improvements in the results when compared with that of 2010 and 2011, but a student who improves from 16 to 20 percent in an examination has still performed woefully. The products of the Nigerian educational system have consistently performed below par in all competitive examinations, suggesting that there is something fundamentally wrong with the system. While we admit that the situation is emblematic of poor academic standards, we also note that an environment that consistently churns out illiterate young boys and girls, all of them presumably leaders of tomorrow, must be saddled with more than just a dysfunctional educational system.

The inspectorate function of the Federal Ministry of Education should be interrogated on teacher quality, content and learning outcomes. The so-called Unity Schools, regarded as centres of excellence, do not parade better results than many village schools all over the country. Over the years, summits upon summits have been called by many officials but they have been doing that with obviously the wrong conceptual framework and working tools.
Those in authority at all levels have only been paying lip service to the improvement of public education system, while the advent of highly expensive and difficult-to-afford private schools (at all levels) has effectively sealed the fate of poorly funded public schools. It is mostly unqualified (and distracted) teaching staff that populate them, with trade union disputes and trading taking the place of teaching and learning.

We therefore maintain our earlier call that government should declare a state of emergency in education, via concrete actions that must include a review of the roles(s) of the Federal Ministry of Education, and its agencies. Too much of the education budget goes into procurements and overheads. A review of the budget of the Ministry and its agencies over the last 12 years suggests repeated and often avoidable expenditures where pooling and the attendant economies of scale will make all the difference.

The capacity of teachers at all levels should be improved, through training and retraining; and their working conditions upgraded. The schools themselves must be equipped to meet basic standards to adequately prepare students, especially in the sciences; but that should be after detailed inventory of how often government has budgeted and spent money for the same needs in recent times. Unless something drastic is done, and urgently too, the future of the nation's human capital will be irreversibly compromised.

T[b]he 2012 SSCE results is not just an indictment of secondary school education in Nigeria. It is[/b] an indictment of the pre-primary, primary, Junior and senior secondary education system and managers in Nigeria, showing that the end product of over ten years of sustained effort has been an exercise in futility. The government can begin by ascertaining what has not been done with its own extant road map, which is being played down by seminar and conference mongers, who drain the till with nothing to show for it.

Tags: Editorial, Featured, WAEC FAILURE

kwame tut: @GraigB
THANK GOD FOR WHITE PEOPLE LIKE U, MAX,JOHNNY GLEGG AND MANY MORE.[b][/b]

There's lots like me. Proudly South African whities.

agaugust:

this is our big proof that south africans lie a lot on this forum. below is the english translation of what @msauza said in Afrikaans language.


Suid Afrika se mense ek wil hulle maar net fok rond, die is nie waarheid nie.

South Africa's people I want them to just f..u..c..k around, that is not true.




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That's my simple response. South Africa/ns!!!

The Nigerian Army has commenced investigation of over 60 of its officers in connection with leakage of the lieutenant to captain promotion examination.

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paniki:

University of Cape Town which is in the top 100 universities in the world has a lot of white foreign students, and the fees are less than $10 000 nowhere near the $100 000 you quoted.

And how many Black South Africans are able to afford $10,000 per year without rendering his/her immediate and future family lineage bankrupt and permanently poverty stricken? How many graduate South Africans have paid up their education loans several years after graduation? We can go further on this debate if you wish!!

@AUGUSTUS YOU WERE PRETENDING THAT NIGERIAN MILITARY ARE ENGELS WHEN IT COMES TO CORRUPTION.....HERE ARE THE FACTS:

A multi-billion naira scandal is brewing in Nigeria’s Ministry of Defence over failure of the ministry to announce the winner of last year’s tender for the supply of 6 Mi-17SH Military helicopters.

The helicopters are meant to beef up military surveillance against Boko Haram’s menace. So, instead of speeding up this
process, the country is awash with cheap Algerian made bomb detectors which are grossly ineffective against Boko Haram’s
bombs.

In December 2011, the Ministry of Defence invited eight companies to bid for the supply of six brand new Mi-17SH
Military Helicopters.

However, seven months after the completion of the tender’s process, the ministry is yet to announce the winner. Many
believe that the money for the purchase of the helicopters may have been looted. And the delay could have been lack of money in which officials hope to put in 2012 budget.

As the nation endlessly awaits the winner of the bid, Our Reporter conducted a research on the prices of the similar
helicopter and found that Russia has sold to date about 12,000 of these helicopters and recently USA bought 21 units of the same type of helicopter in 2011 for $17,500,000 each.

Also India wants to buy 71 units of the same type of helicopter IN 2012 for a little over $17,000,000 each! It must be noted that these acquisitions are open government tenders by the relevant Ministry of Defence for each country exactly the same as the Nigerian case.

In the tender, our investigation revealed that only two companies out of the eight really have the capabilities to supply the helicopters based on their tract records in the business but the moves going on behind the scene suggest that these companies might lose the bid for a less competent one.

These proxy companies we gathered might be asked to inflate the price but a Russia company that wants to sell these
Helicopters is not likely ready to sell a military product at a grossly inflated price in which the company considers a sale of a $17,500,000 helicopter for more than $20,000,000 as gross profiteering and could be tantamount to scandal.

For the fact that the winner of the tender has not been announced seven months after the completion of the tenders
underscores lack of transparency and the fact that some powerful cabals have hijacked the process.

Our source expressed fear that just like a typical tender process in Nigeria, powerful cabals would eventually use a
proxy company to win the bid, a scandalous move that some military experts believe could erode the image of the country’s military.

“Before the harm is done by these cabals in the purchase of these helicopters, it is important to inform the public on the moves to undermine the purchase of the six new Mi-17SH Military Helicopters.” our source explained.

Our source also said an excuse of lack of money to buy the helicopters could not hold waters because the fund is donated
by the United Nations to support the country's efforts to combat terrorism and other security challenges. The question now is where is this fund? And what is delaying announcement of a tender conducted over seven months ago.?

The following companies tender bid for the purchase of the helicopter. Joint Aviation Services Ltd, Euro,159,765,930;
Solicom ltd, N24,822,952,000; Global Intact & Sons Ltd, N23,893,542,777; Verbetyn Nigeria ltd, N22,553,475,000; Motyn
Nigeria ltd, N18,143,9280,000; Asset Management Corp Ltd. N17,670,000,000; Dalhatu Construction Ltd, N11,280,000,000
and GNY Management & Consulting US$13,594,000.

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paniki:

What made you leave your motherland?

Is this really a question? Your own South Africans permanently scattered around the world can provide you with an array of answers to your question!!

HAHAHAHAH NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES ARE THE BEST:

The Vice Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Boniface Egboka, is being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for the mismanagement of billions of naira meant for the institution, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, Nigeria is reporting.

Mr. Egboka allegedly misappropriated the funds through the award of bogus and inflated contracts to fronts and cronies; selective bidding; and fraudulent contract cost variations.

The University head was recently arrested and questioned by the EFCC and has made statements about his involvement in the alleged fraud. He was thereafter released on administrative bail.

History of Investigation

A group of lecturers of the university, in March this year, petitioned the EFCC, slamming a litany of allegations including fraud, abuse of office, inflation of contract, using fronts to get contracts, and high handedness against Mr. Egboka.

The EFCC confirmed that it was investigating the allegations against the University boss. Wilson Uwujaren, the commission’s spokesman, said that the petition was already being investigated by its Enugu office, adding that the lecturer has already been invited for interrogation and had made statements to investigators.

Independent investigations of the allegations by icirnigeria.org indicate that Egboka might be in deep trouble except he can explain many actions he took which bother on misappropriation of funds.

Violating due process

Our investigations revealed that the vice chancellor spends university funds like his own personal resources without recourse to rules and regulations, awarded contracts without due process and without open tenders, an infraction that earned him a query from the Bureau for Public Procurement, BPP in April.

For example, in October, 2011, on a trip to America with other officials, Mr. Egboka ordered for two 2011 Toyota 4 Runner jeeps worth N27 million for himself and the Pro-chancellor of the university, who was also on the delegation. He made the order without any bidding and without the approval of the tender’s board and in spite of the fact that he already had a Prado jeep as official car while the pro – chancellor used a Toyota Avensis. He also claimed to have committed the institution by making a deposit from his own pocket.

Upon returning to Nigeria, the VC tried to perfect the purchase by causing the registrar of the institution to award a contract for the purchase of the vehicles. Since the contract could not be awarded to a foreign company, Mr. Egboka directed that it be awarded to a local firm, Grech Resources Limited.

Going through the motions of a contract award, the bursar wrote an award letter to the company claiming that the tenders’ board at its 30th meeting held on Wednesday, October 12, 2011, approved the award for the supply of the two vehicles.

However, the bursar refused to release funds for the purchase because there was no proof of tender, forcing the V.C. to write an undertaking where he explained the irregularity attending the purchase.

Vice Chancellor exhibited nepotism

Investigations also showed that the vice chancellor, without due process and against regulations, selectively awarded contracts or just merely invited whosoever he wanted and handed contracts out to them.

In many of these cases, the contracts were awarded to family members. Apart from that, variations were illegally granted to the companies, raising costs outrageously.

For example, in August 2011, Porras and Oliva, a company allegedly owned by Mr. Egboka’s son–in–law, got a contract for the renovation and furnishing of the university auditorium for N20 million. The contract was awarded through selective tendering and given to Porras and Oliva which quoted N2million in spite of the facts that there were lower bids.

However, halfway into the job’s execution, the company requested for a variation of N80 million in the contract sum which was granted at the sum of N58 million. In a letter written to the company on December 5, 2011, the registrar of the university stated that the tenders’ board at its 35th meeting of December 2 approved the sum as “completion sum” for the project, thereby granting more than hundred percent variation cost.

A series of violations

Porras and Oliva got several other contracts without going through due process. These include an N8.4 million contract for the reticulation of the university foundry; N5.2 million for furnishing of the VC’s office, and a N5.9 million contract for the fencing of the university auditorium.

Another questionable contract was the one awarded to Regibel Limited, another company which is alleged to be a front for the VC. The company was awarded the contract for the construction of a 676 metre road for N92.6 million. Apart from the suspected inflated contract sum, icirnigeria.org learnt that Mr. Egboka developed a relationship with the company which makes him give directives to it to execute projects running into several millions.

For these projects, there were no tender or agreement between the parties. Acting on the VC’s directive, Regibel executed the projects and sent a bill to the management which is rubberstamped, approved and paid.

On December 14, 2011, the university management got such a bill for the sum of N122 million for the construction of a 7.1 kilometre walkway. No details were provided about the exact location of the walkway.

There was never any tender process, agreement or any other document concerning this walkway contract. But the university approved and paid the company the money it asked for.

In the same manner, on December 16, 2011, Regibel sent another bill of engineering measurements and evaluation for N78 million for the construction of a 412 metre road – the Joy Emordi Road – which it built based on a directive from the VC. There was no bidding or agreement before it got the contract. Again, it was paid the full sum it demanded.

Inflating contact costs

Unilateral variations in contract costs appear to have become the hallmark of project execution in Nnamdi Azikiwe University. There is virtually no contract that does not suffer an upward review in costs.

The contract for the construction of the Art Faculty complex is a good example of this. Initially awarded to Chyfon Limited for N559 million, the cost was later adjusted to N625 million. More upward variations to the contract sum were to follow however.

On December 22, 2011, N7.6 million was granted to the contractor, being variation resulting from “relocation of library”. The same day, another N9.6 million variation was granted for the use of vitrified tiles instead of terrazzo in the construction work.

Yet again, on February 27, 2012 another N73 million variation was granted the contractor for “evaluation and assessment fluctuations”.

The petitioners allege that the amounts approved for variation were siphoned by officials of the university administration. In fact, it is alleged that all kinds of disingenuous methods are employed by the administration in December of every year in order to mop up unspent funds so that money is not returned back into the treasury. Interestingly, as if to prove the petitioners right, many of the approved variations came in December.

The PPP fraud

Another contract unconventionally awarded by the vice chancellor is the public private partnership, PPP, students’ hostel project. In January 2010, Egboka committed the university to a memorandum of understanding, MOU, with Elmada Consulting Inc., a company purported to be based in Canada, for the building of hostels on the main campus.

The MOU which was signed on behalf of the university by the VC and a Nigerian representative for the company, states that the institution’s equity to the project would be 40 per cent while the company would contribute the remaining 60 percent.

With a total cost of N239, 400,000.00, the institution was expected to contribute N97, 760,000.00.

There are several curious and suspicious developments about this PPP arrangement which has sent tongues wagging. First, the Nigerian representative of Elmada who signed the MOU on behalf of the company is alleged to be another of Egboka’s sons – in – law.

The alleged son – in – law is the sole project manager of the project which is being executed through a joint account managed only by him. The VC never disclosed his relationship or any conflict of interest that might arise, to the university Senate.

What is more, the only document binding the two parties together is the MOU. No binding agreement spelling out details of contractual and legal commitments has been signed.

Besides, the cost has been reviewed upwards to N400 million and there are allegations that the university has solely funded the two – phased project. When our reporter visited the school’s main campus in Awka, it was observed that the project had been nearly completed.

The nail on the coffin

However, the project that has gotten Mr. Egboka into real trouble is the contract for the construction of the bio sciences and physical sciences faculty complex. The university lecturer has already been queried by the BPP over the manner the contract was awarded.

The contract for the construction of the twin identical complex, housing the faculties of biosciences and physical sciences, was awarded by selective bidding to Bechtel Nig. Limited on December 22, 2011 for the sum of N994 million. In a similar fashion, without following due process, on February 27, 2012, the contract for the construction of the central facility linking the two structures was also awarded to the same company for N288 million.

For the project(executed at a total cost of N1.2 billion), the VC abandoned all due process such as open bidding and just called on a contractor of his choice to execute the project. This jettisoning of due process irked some members of the institution’s management who petitioned the BPP, which on April 4, 2012, wrote to the VC demanding that he furnish the bureau with all the original bid documents in respect of the contract.

The letter signed by Emeka Ezeh, the bureau’s director general specifically asked for copies of the advertisement of this procurement; technical and financial tenders of all bidders; bid return sheet; evaluation report of the bid; scope of work; and all other documents relating to the procurement.

Sources in the university and at the BPP confided that no such documents exist and the VC has been unable to provide them to the bureau. Consequent upon this, the school administration has been forced to cancel the previous contract and has now advertised the contract in newspapers, asking for bids from interested companies.

Our reporter observed that the structures which were still in foundation level had since been abandoned by the contractor.

Shady appointments

Mr. Egboka’s sins are not limited to financial mismanagement of the university’s resources as he has also been accused of administrative recklessness, abuse of office and not following due process in appointments; which he allegedly dishes out to family and friends as he wishes.

Two of the VC’s children, Nkechi Egboka and Dr. Egboka Chioma Mmazulu, were employed by the university last year and their names have been on the payroll since then. While Nkechi was employed as an assistant lecturer in the department of geological sciences, Chioma was appointed medical director of the institution’s medical centre.

However, none of them had resumed work when our reporter conducted checks in their departments about two weeks ago.

Also, Uchenna Okeke, wife of the deputy vice chancellor (DVC), administration; and Godwin Orji, alleged to be a friend of the DVC, academics; were employed against laid down rules. Okeke appeared before the governing council’s appointments and promotions committee, A&PC, and was found unqualified for the position of assistant lecturer for which she applied. However, she was still offered an appointment as an assistant lecturer after the council was dissolved.

Orji was interviewed for and appointed to the position of technologist. However, although he never appeared before the A&PC, as is required in the appointment of all academic staff, his employment was unilaterally converted to lecturer by the VC.

Mum is the word

When our reporter visited the main campus of the university and requested to speak to the VC, he was said to be out of station. And when he was reached on the phone to answer questions relating to the petition, Mr. Egboka declined, saying that “the matter is under investigation and I cannot make any comment.” The VC dropped the line and subsequently refused to take calls from our reporter.

No other official of the university was ready to speak on the matter. The office of the registrar referred our reporter to the VC’s office. The couple of lecturers, who spoke to our reporter on the corruption allegations against the VC, did so, on the strictest assurances of confidentiality, as Mr. Egboka is said to be very vindictive.

He is also vindictive

Several academic and non – academic staff of the institution who oppose the University head have been allegedly victimised since the investigations into his management of the school’s resources commenced.

For example, a source told icirnigeria.org of the story of a professor friend of the VC who had written him warning him of the consequences of some high handed actions he took. The professor had questioned why Mr. Egboka employed six consultants for the medical centre when requests for needed staff such as doctors, nurses and pharmacists had been repeatedly denied. The friend also warned that the lack of due process in the employment of the consultant could land the VC in trouble as it had sent tongues wagging on the campus. Rather than listen to his friend, the VC transferred him to the Nnewi campus where he has been rendered virtually redundant.

Sources in the EFCC said that investigations have reached advanced stage on the corruption charges against Mr. Egboka, and that enough evidence might have been obtained to institute a case against him in court soon.

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HAHAHAHAH NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES ARE THE BEST:

The Vice Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Boniface Egboka, is being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for the mismanagement of billions of naira meant for the institution, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, Nigeria is reporting.

Mr. Egboka allegedly misappropriated the funds through the award of bogus and inflated contracts to fronts and cronies; selective bidding; and fraudulent contract cost variations.

The University head was recently arrested and questioned by the EFCC and has made statements about his involvement in the alleged fraud. He was thereafter released on administrative bail.

History of Investigation

A group of lecturers of the university, in March this year, petitioned the EFCC, slamming a litany of allegations including fraud, abuse of office, inflation of contract, using fronts to get contracts, and high handedness against Mr. Egboka.

The EFCC confirmed that it was investigating the allegations against the University boss. Wilson Uwujaren, the commission’s spokesman, said that the petition was already being investigated by its Enugu office, adding that the lecturer has already been invited for interrogation and had made statements to investigators.

Independent investigations of the allegations by icirnigeria.org indicate that Egboka might be in deep trouble except he can explain many actions he took which bother on misappropriation of funds.

Violating due process

Our investigations revealed that the vice chancellor spends university funds like his own personal resources without recourse to rules and regulations, awarded contracts without due process and without open tenders, an infraction that earned him a query from the Bureau for Public Procurement, BPP in April.

For example, in October, 2011, on a trip to America with other officials, Mr. Egboka ordered for two 2011 Toyota 4 Runner jeeps worth N27 million for himself and the Pro-chancellor of the university, who was also on the delegation. He made the order without any bidding and without the approval of the tender’s board and in spite of the fact that he already had a Prado jeep as official car while the pro – chancellor used a Toyota Avensis. He also claimed to have committed the institution by making a deposit from his own pocket.

Upon returning to Nigeria, the VC tried to perfect the purchase by causing the registrar of the institution to award a contract for the purchase of the vehicles. Since the contract could not be awarded to a foreign company, Mr. Egboka directed that it be awarded to a local firm, Grech Resources Limited.

Going through the motions of a contract award, the bursar wrote an award letter to the company claiming that the tenders’ board at its 30th meeting held on Wednesday, October 12, 2011, approved the award for the supply of the two vehicles.

However, the bursar refused to release funds for the purchase because there was no proof of tender, forcing the V.C. to write an undertaking where he explained the irregularity attending the purchase.

Vice Chancellor exhibited nepotism

Investigations also showed that the vice chancellor, without due process and against regulations, selectively awarded contracts or just merely invited whosoever he wanted and handed contracts out to them.

In many of these cases, the contracts were awarded to family members. Apart from that, variations were illegally granted to the companies, raising costs outrageously.

For example, in August 2011, Porras and Oliva, a company allegedly owned by Mr. Egboka’s son–in–law, got a contract for the renovation and furnishing of the university auditorium for N20 million. The contract was awarded through selective tendering and given to Porras and Oliva which quoted N2million in spite of the facts that there were lower bids.

However, halfway into the job’s execution, the company requested for a variation of N80 million in the contract sum which was granted at the sum of N58 million. In a letter written to the company on December 5, 2011, the registrar of the university stated that the tenders’ board at its 35th meeting of December 2 approved the sum as “completion sum” for the project, thereby granting more than hundred percent variation cost.

A series of violations

Porras and Oliva got several other contracts without going through due process. These include an N8.4 million contract for the reticulation of the university foundry; N5.2 million for furnishing of the VC’s office, and a N5.9 million contract for the fencing of the university auditorium.

Another questionable contract was the one awarded to Regibel Limited, another company which is alleged to be a front for the VC. The company was awarded the contract for the construction of a 676 metre road for N92.6 million. Apart from the suspected inflated contract sum, icirnigeria.org learnt that Mr. Egboka developed a relationship with the company which makes him give directives to it to execute projects running into several millions.

For these projects, there were no tender or agreement between the parties. Acting on the VC’s directive, Regibel executed the projects and sent a bill to the management which is rubberstamped, approved and paid.

On December 14, 2011, the university management got such a bill for the sum of N122 million for the construction of a 7.1 kilometre walkway. No details were provided about the exact location of the walkway.

There was never any tender process, agreement or any other document concerning this walkway contract. But the university approved and paid the company the money it asked for.

In the same manner, on December 16, 2011, Regibel sent another bill of engineering measurements and evaluation for N78 million for the construction of a 412 metre road – the Joy Emordi Road – which it built based on a directive from the VC. There was no bidding or agreement before it got the contract. Again, it was paid the full sum it demanded.

Inflating contact costs

Unilateral variations in contract costs appear to have become the hallmark of project execution in Nnamdi Azikiwe University. There is virtually no contract that does not suffer an upward review in costs.

The contract for the construction of the Art Faculty complex is a good example of this. Initially awarded to Chyfon Limited for N559 million, the cost was later adjusted to N625 million. More upward variations to the contract sum were to follow however.

On December 22, 2011, N7.6 million was granted to the contractor, being variation resulting from “relocation of library”. The same day, another N9.6 million variation was granted for the use of vitrified tiles instead of terrazzo in the construction work.

Yet again, on February 27, 2012 another N73 million variation was granted the contractor for “evaluation and assessment fluctuations”.

The petitioners allege that the amounts approved for variation were siphoned by officials of the university administration. In fact, it is alleged that all kinds of disingenuous methods are employed by the administration in December of every year in order to mop up unspent funds so that money is not returned back into the treasury. Interestingly, as if to prove the petitioners right, many of the approved variations came in December.

The PPP fraud

Another contract unconventionally awarded by the vice chancellor is the public private partnership, PPP, students’ hostel project. In January 2010, Egboka committed the university to a memorandum of understanding, MOU, with Elmada Consulting Inc., a company purported to be based in Canada, for the building of hostels on the main campus.

The MOU which was signed on behalf of the university by the VC and a Nigerian representative for the company, states that the institution’s equity to the project would be 40 per cent while the company would contribute the remaining 60 percent.

With a total cost of N239, 400,000.00, the institution was expected to contribute N97, 760,000.00.

There are several curious and suspicious developments about this PPP arrangement which has sent tongues wagging. First, the Nigerian representative of Elmada who signed the MOU on behalf of the company is alleged to be another of Egboka’s sons – in – law.

The alleged son – in – law is the sole project manager of the project which is being executed through a joint account managed only by him. The VC never disclosed his relationship or any conflict of interest that might arise, to the university Senate.

What is more, the only document binding the two parties together is the MOU. No binding agreement spelling out details of contractual and legal commitments has been signed.

Besides, the cost has been reviewed upwards to N400 million and there are allegations that the university has solely funded the two – phased project. When our reporter visited the school’s main campus in Awka, it was observed that the project had been nearly completed.

The nail on the coffin

However, the project that has gotten Mr. Egboka into real trouble is the contract for the construction of the bio sciences and physical sciences faculty complex. The university lecturer has already been queried by the BPP over the manner the contract was awarded.

The contract for the construction of the twin identical complex, housing the faculties of biosciences and physical sciences, was awarded by selective bidding to Bechtel Nig. Limited on December 22, 2011 for the sum of N994 million. In a similar fashion, without following due process, on February 27, 2012, the contract for the construction of the central facility linking the two structures was also awarded to the same company for N288 million.

For the project(executed at a total cost of N1.2 billion), the VC abandoned all due process such as open bidding and just called on a contractor of his choice to execute the project. This jettisoning of due process irked some members of the institution’s management who petitioned the BPP, which on April 4, 2012, wrote to the VC demanding that he furnish the bureau with all the original bid documents in respect of the contract.

The letter signed by Emeka Ezeh, the bureau’s director general specifically asked for copies of the advertisement of this procurement; technical and financial tenders of all bidders; bid return sheet; evaluation report of the bid; scope of work; and all other documents relating to the procurement.

Sources in the university and at the BPP confided that no such documents exist and the VC has been unable to provide them to the bureau. Consequent upon this, the school administration has been forced to cancel the previous contract and has now advertised the contract in newspapers, asking for bids from interested companies.

Our reporter observed that the structures which were still in foundation level had since been abandoned by the contractor.

Shady appointments

Mr. Egboka’s sins are not limited to financial mismanagement of the university’s resources as he has also been accused of administrative recklessness, abuse of office and not following due process in appointments; which he allegedly dishes out to family and friends as he wishes.

Two of the VC’s children, Nkechi Egboka and Dr. Egboka Chioma Mmazulu, were employed by the university last year and their names have been on the payroll since then. While Nkechi was employed as an assistant lecturer in the department of geological sciences, Chioma was appointed medical director of the institution’s medical centre.

However, none of them had resumed work when our reporter conducted checks in their departments about two weeks ago.

Also, Uchenna Okeke, wife of the deputy vice chancellor (DVC), administration; and Godwin Orji, alleged to be a friend of the DVC, academics; were employed against laid down rules. Okeke appeared before the governing council’s appointments and promotions committee, A&PC, and was found unqualified for the position of assistant lecturer for which she applied. However, she was still offered an appointment as an assistant lecturer after the council was dissolved.

Orji was interviewed for and appointed to the position of technologist. However, although he never appeared before the A&PC, as is required in the appointment of all academic staff, his employment was unilaterally converted to lecturer by the VC.

Mum is the word

When our reporter visited the main campus of the university and requested to speak to the VC, he was said to be out of station. And when he was reached on the phone to answer questions relating to the petition, Mr. Egboka declined, saying that “the matter is under investigation and I cannot make any comment.” The VC dropped the line and subsequently refused to take calls from our reporter.

No other official of the university was ready to speak on the matter. The office of the registrar referred our reporter to the VC’s office. The couple of lecturers, who spoke to our reporter on the corruption allegations against the VC, did so, on the strictest assurances of confidentiality, as Mr. Egboka is said to be very vindictive.

He is also vindictive

Several academic and non – academic staff of the institution who oppose the University head have been allegedly victimised since the investigations into his management of the school’s resources commenced.

For example, a source told icirnigeria.org of the story of a professor friend of the VC who had written him warning him of the consequences of some high handed actions he took. The professor had questioned why Mr. Egboka employed six consultants for the medical centre when requests for needed staff such as doctors, nurses and pharmacists had been repeatedly denied. The friend also warned that the lack of due process in the employment of the consultant could land the VC in trouble as it had sent tongues wagging on the campus. Rather than listen to his friend, the VC transferred him to the Nnewi campus where he has been rendered virtually redundant.

Sources in the EFCC said that investigations have reached advanced stage on the corruption charges against Mr. Egboka, and that enough evidence might have been obtained to institute a case against him in court soon.

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Mr. Bukola Saraki, a serving senator, and former governor of Kwara State, will on Friday be a guest of crack detectives of the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police in Lagos, who wants him to answer questions relating to an N11 Billion financial scandal at the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc.

SFU officials refused to make comments on their would-be guest when Premium Times telephoned their information desk some minutes ago, but usually reliable sources with deep knowledge on the investigation said Mr. Lekan Alabi, former chief executive at Intercontinental Bank is already in detention over the same case.

Detectives are trying to understand how jumbo loans running over N11 Billion found its way into the subsidiaries of an oil marketing company, Joy Petroleum, owned by one of Saraki’s former aides, now deceased.

The detectives, according to our sources, also want Mr. Saraki to help them understand how choice properties in the up-scale markets of Ikoyi and Victoria Island in Lagos connected to him were used as collaterals in the multiple loan schemes that were not repaid but had been substantially written off and the properties relieved of their collateral status.

“I can tell you that Mr. Alabi is being interrogated for this same reason,” said our source who stated that he also believed the current governor of Kwara State, Mr. Abdulfatai Ahmed, will eventually be invited too since a lot of the money transfer was done under his watch as finance commissioner in the administration of Mr. Saraki.

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Another N1 Billion Scandal trail Danbazzau, other sacked Army Chiefs …Budgeted N55 Billion for Non-Existing Simulation Center

Sacked former COAS, Gen. Danbazzau

Fresh facts have emerged how sacked former Chief of Army Staff, General Abdulrahman Danbazzau and other sacked service chiefs ensured the released of N1 Billion under the pretext of purchasing military equipment that already exist in the military warehouse.

Danbazzau in a letter in May 2011 demanded the immediate release of the N1 Billion for the purchase of parachutes and musical equipment for the last Army Day celebration, Pointblanknews.com has learnt from available documents.

The former Army chief and the former Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral A. I. Ibrahim, Principal General Staff Officer and Rear Admiral Dele Uzoba with the full cooperation of Secretary to the Government, Ahmed Yayale and the Defence Minister, Adetokunboh Kayode had planned a whooping N500 Billion Defense contract for companies believed to be owned by General Ibrahim Babangida and Mr. Yayale as reported exclusively by Pointblanknews.com.

When Pointblanknews.com exposed the scandalous contract which had been previously awarded in 2009 for N178 Billion, the presidency was said to have been miffed and immediately ordered a probe.

Sources within the Military hierarchy informed Pointblanknews.com that former Chief of Defense Staff, Air Marshall Paul Dike was mandated to investigate the N500 Billion contract meant to boost the financial fortunes of General Babangida ahead of his Presidential campaign and also find out how the classified documents leaked out to Pointblanknews.com

But rather than investigate, Air Marshall Dike, treated the high profile corruption with kid glove, attempting to sweep the allegations under the carpet.

Unknown to the Military, sources informed pointblanknews.com that one of the fronts for Yayale’s Doyatechcom, a major Defense contract firm, had already owned up to the contract scam during an interrogation in the Presidency.

It was discovered that most of the items listed in the N500 Billion contract are all fake. For instance, the Nigeria Army School of Infantry, NASI, has no Simulation Center, yet Danbazzau and his colleagues budgeted N55 Billion for “modification of weapons.”

Pointblanknews.com gathered that the only simulation center owned and operated by the Nigeria Army is located that the Command and Staff College, CSC, Jaji and has only four officers and 66 soldiers.

Also, the Armored fighting Vehicle, VBL which was included in the contract proposal for a staggering price of N99 Billion was not necessary according to sources within the military as such equipment was recently rejected by the United nations for peace keeping because they are substandard.

Sources also hinted that the VBL were first purchased by IBB for his dream National Guard before the Army took them over.

However, as the underground investigation went on, officials discovered a recent release of N1 Billion to the Army for the purchases of parachutes, musical equipment and training. Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the N1 Billion was shared by top military brass as the parachutes and musical equipment were never purchased.

“Those stuffs were never purchased I can tell you that for sure. Those people just pocketed the money and that is not the first time they are doing that,” a military source told pointblanknews.com.

In a letter written by the former Chief of Army Staff to the minister for Defense, Dambazzau had specifically requested for the release of N1 Billion for “Nigerian Army Day Celebration and Nigerian Army Activities for Nigeria’s Golden Jubilee Celebration.”

In the letter with reference number AHQDAPP/G1/300/102, signed by Major General A.A. Atofarati on behalf of Danbazzau and dated May 12, 2010, the army chief said “in the above quoted reference, AHQ requested the Honourable Minister to kindly assist in facilitating early release of fund to procure parachutes, musical instrument and commence training for Nigerian Army Day Celebration 2010 and Nigeria’s Golden Jubilee Celebration. The details of these requirements are listed below

“Infantry Weapon/Airbone Display,N47,652,120.00; Nigerian Army Mass Band Requirement,N290,394,750.00; Purchase of Parachutes/Airbone Equipment N752,763,539.00 totaling N1,090,810,409,.00.

“Honourable Minister Sir, Please accept the assurances of the highest esteem of the Chief of Army Staff”, it read.

Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the minister for Defense swiftly authorized the released of the funds.

Efforts to reach the Minister for Defense and the sacked Army Chiefs were abortive as several calls put through by pointblanknews.com did not go through.


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NaijaPikinGidi:

And how many Black South Africans are able to afford $10,000 per year without rendering his/her immediate and future family lineage bankrupt and permanently poverty stricken? How many graduate South Africans have paid up their education loans several years after graduation? We can go further on this debate if you wish!!

Imbecîle!

We have TEFSA in South Africa. Read about that and go home.

I repeat: South Africa is not Naai-geria.


98% failure rate Naai-gerian. Jou poes.

CraigB:

You defeated no one. It won't go away idïot. Look at the source that YOU volunteered as credible.

Is this what you want to be proud of?

Different year

You are a 98% failure rate nation. There's nothing that you can say to erase that. It's a proud achievement of your people.

[size=15pt]98%[/size].

Is this denied or not? Yes or no.

The 80% failure rate last year as contained on your own source. Is it denied or not? Yes or no.

Nation of idîots.

98% failure rate brains.

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In your dream ... you'll keep tormenting yourself with hopes that Nigeria will change its standard pass benchmark like your South Africa has done just to fraudulenty allow for a higher national pass rate!! NO WAYS!!! If you cannot make six credits (Mathematics and English being compulsary) you will have to study harder and better to retake the exams till you eventually pass!!! No shortcuts, no middle grounds like in your South Africa that reduces its matric passmark to 33% mainly to give majority of your dullard South Africans a false sense of academic competence!!

You can comb the internet all you want ... Nigeria will not compromise education and assessment standards/benchmarks just for senseless statistical ratings!! A person must score 50% and above to earn the least Credit score ... just as 49% will continue to be adjudged a FAIL in Nigeria until Jesus Christ returns!

For your information:

53% of 2013 WAEC candidates made six credits and above!
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/national-news/129242-waec-releases-results-53-makes-six-credits-

WAEC Examination standards and grading criteria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Senior_School_Certificate_Examination

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No matter how much mudslinging you try to do on this issue ... you are consigned to your 33% brain capacity because your government has decided so!! In South Africa 33% is a pass and we all know why!!

CraigB:

Imbecîle!

We have TEFSA in South Africa. Read about that and go home.

I repeat: South Africa is not Naai-geria.


98% failure rate Naai-gerian. Jou poes.

You can have TEFSA or NFSAS ... the story remains the same!! Try something better!

NaijaPikinGidi:

In your dream ... you'll keep tormenting yourself with hopes that Nigeria will change its standard pass benchmark like your South Africa has done just to fraudulenty allow for a higher national pass rate!! NO WAYS!!! If you cannot make six credits (Mathematics and English being compulsary) you will have to study harder and better to retake the exams till you eventually pass!!! No shortcuts, no middle grounds like in your South Africa that reduces its matric passmark to 33% mainly to give majority of your dullard South Africans a false sense of academic competence!!

You can comb the internet all you want ... Nigeria will not compromise education and assessment standards/benchmarks just for senseless statistical ratings!! A person must score 50% and above to earn the least Credit score ... just as 49% will continue to be adjudged a FAIL in Nigeria until Jesus Christ returns!

For your information:

53% of 2013 WAEC candidates made six credits and above!
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/national-news/129242-waec-releases-results-53-makes-six-credits-

WAEC Examination standards and grading criteria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Senior_School_Certificate_Examination

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No matter how much mudslinging you try to do on this issue ... you are consigned to your 33% brain capacity because your government has decided so!! In South Africa 33% is a pass and we all know why!!

Fôol.

The question is not about how much must be scored. Learn to read!

The question is about how many people fail!

98%! Only 2% Naai-gerian pass.

And then, last year, a whooping 80% failed!

Read below. With compliments from Mr Seleka, who shot himself in the foot.

[size=20pt]98%[/size] failure rate brain.



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YET ANOTHER MASS WAEC FAILURE

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It’s time to declare a state of emergency in the educational sector

It is now a recurring decade-old national embarrassment, that the Nigerian National Office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) will release the results for its November/December West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) showing mass failure rate. The results for this year show that out of a total of 406,108 candidates who sat for the examinations, and whose results were processed, only 62,295 candidates obtained credits in English language, Mathematics and at least three other subjects.

This represents an 80 percent failure rate, in terms of meeting the minimum performance requirement for candidates to be deemed to have passed the SSCE examinations.

It is possible to speak of marginal improvements in the results when compared with that of 2010 and 2011, but a student who improves from 16 to 20 percent in an examination has still performed woefully. The products of the Nigerian educational system have consistently performed below par in all competitive examinations, suggesting that there is something fundamentally wrong with the system. While we admit that the situation is emblematic of poor academic standards, we also note that an environment that consistently churns out illiterate young boys and girls, all of them presumably leaders of tomorrow, must be saddled with more than just a dysfunctional educational system.

The inspectorate function of the Federal Ministry of Education should be interrogated on teacher quality, content and learning outcomes. T[b]he so-called Unity Schools, regarded as centres of excellence, do not parade better results than many village schools all over the country. Over the years, summits upon summits have been called by many officials but they have been doing that with obviously the wrong conceptual framework and working tools.[/b]
Those in authority at all levels have only been paying lip service to the improvement of public education system, while the advent of highly expensive and difficult-to-afford private schools (at all levels) has effectively sealed the fate of poorly funded public schools. It is mostly unqualified (and distracted) teaching staff that populate them, with trade union disputes and trading taking the place of teaching and learning.

We therefore maintain our earlier call that government should declare a state of emergency in education, via concrete actions that must include a review of the roles(s) of the Federal Ministry of Education, and its agencies. Too much of the education budget goes into procurements and overheads. A review of the budget of the Ministry and its agencies over the last 12 years suggests repeated and often avoidable expenditures where pooling and the attendant economies of scale will make all the difference.

The capacity of teachers at all levels should be improved, through training and retraining; and their working conditions upgraded. The schools themselves must be equipped to meet basic standards to adequately prepare students, especially in the sciences; but that should be after detailed inventory of how often government has budgeted and spent money for the same needs in recent times. Unless something drastic is done, and urgently too, the future of the nation's human capital will be irreversibly compromised.

The 2012 SSCE results is not just an indictment of secondary school education in Nigeria. It is an indictment of the pre-primary, primary, Junior and senior secondary education system and managers in Nigeria, showing that the end product of over ten years of sustained effort has been an exercise in futility. The government can begin by ascertaining what has not been done with its own extant road map, which is being played down by seminar and conference mongers, who drain the till with nothing to show for it.

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Another N1 Billion Scandal trail Danbazzau, other sacked Army Chiefs …Budgeted N55 Billion for Non-Existing Simulation Center

Sacked former COAS, Gen. Danbazzau

Fresh facts have emerged how sacked former Chief of Army Staff, General Abdulrahman Danbazzau and other sacked service chiefs ensured the released of N1 Billion under the pretext of purchasing military equipment that already exist in the military warehouse.

Danbazzau in a letter in May 2011 demanded the immediate release of the N1 Billion for the purchase of parachutes and musical equipment for the last Army Day celebration, Pointblanknews.com has learnt from available documents.

The former Army chief and the former Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral A. I. Ibrahim, Principal General Staff Officer and Rear Admiral Dele Uzoba with the full cooperation of Secretary to the Government, Ahmed Yayale and the Defence Minister, Adetokunboh Kayode had planned a whooping N500 Billion Defense contract for companies believed to be owned by General Ibrahim Babangida and Mr. Yayale as reported exclusively by Pointblanknews.com.

When Pointblanknews.com exposed the scandalous contract which had been previously awarded in 2009 for N178 Billion, the presidency was said to have been miffed and immediately ordered a probe.

Sources within the Military hierarchy informed Pointblanknews.com that former Chief of Defense Staff, Air Marshall Paul Dike was mandated to investigate the N500 Billion contract meant to boost the financial fortunes of General Babangida ahead of his Presidential campaign and also find out how the classified documents leaked out to Pointblanknews.com

But rather than investigate, Air Marshall Dike, treated the high profile corruption with kid glove, attempting to sweep the allegations under the carpet.

Unknown to the Military, sources informed pointblanknews.com that one of the fronts for Yayale’s Doyatechcom, a major Defense contract firm, had already owned up to the contract scam during an interrogation in the Presidency.

It was discovered that most of the items listed in the N500 Billion contract are all fake. For instance, the Nigeria Army School of Infantry, NASI, has no Simulation Center, yet Danbazzau and his colleagues budgeted N55 Billion for “modification of weapons.”

Pointblanknews.com gathered that the only simulation center owned and operated by the Nigeria Army is located that the Command and Staff College, CSC, Jaji and has only four officers and 66 soldiers.

Also, the Armored fighting Vehicle, VBL which was included in the contract proposal for a staggering price of N99 Billion was not necessary according to sources within the military as such equipment was recently rejected by the United nations for peace keeping because they are substandard.

Sources also hinted that the VBL were first purchased by IBB for his dream National Guard before the Army took them over.

However, as the underground investigation went on, officials discovered a recent release of N1 Billion to the Army for the purchases of parachutes, musical equipment and training. Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the N1 Billion was shared by top military brass as the parachutes and musical equipment were never purchased.

“Those stuffs were never purchased I can tell you that for sure. Those people just pocketed the money and that is not the first time they are doing that,” a military source told pointblanknews.com.

In a letter written by the former Chief of Army Staff to the minister for Defense, Dambazzau had specifically requested for the release of N1 Billion for “Nigerian Army Day Celebration and Nigerian Army Activities for Nigeria’s Golden Jubilee Celebration.”

In the letter with reference number AHQDAPP/G1/300/102, signed by Major General A.A. Atofarati on behalf of Danbazzau and dated May 12, 2010, the army chief said “in the above quoted reference, AHQ requested the Honourable Minister to kindly assist in facilitating early release of fund to procure parachutes, musical instrument and commence training for Nigerian Army Day Celebration 2010 and Nigeria’s Golden Jubilee Celebration. The details of these requirements are listed below

“Infantry Weapon/Airbone Display,N47,652,120.00; Nigerian Army Mass Band Requirement,N290,394,750.00; Purchase of Parachutes/Airbone Equipment N752,763,539.00 totaling N1,090,810,409,.00.

“Honourable Minister Sir, Please accept the assurances of the highest esteem of the Chief of Army Staff”, it read.

Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the minister for Defense swiftly authorized the released of the funds.

Efforts to reach the Minister for Defense and the sacked Army Chiefs were abortive as several calls put through by pointblanknews.com did not go through.


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You have no clue what you have as usual cut and paste!! You sure patronise lots of gossip dailies!

CraigB:


Fôol.

The question is not about how much must be scored. Learn to read!

The question is about how many people fail!

98%! Only 2% Naai-gerian pass.

And then, last year, a whooping 80% failed!

Read below. With compliments from Mr Seleka.

[size=20pt]98%[/size]



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Desperado ... showing the real reason why [size=24pt]33%[/size] is a passmark and why there is such a dangerously false pass rate in your South Africa! You want to sell to the world that majority of the entire matric candidate population achieved an excellent level of academic competence whereas it is not the actual case?

It cracks me up to see your desperation as you scramble for dirt to sling around in order to make a point! Sadly for you this article: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/national-news/129242-waec-releases-results-53-makes-six-credits- is the evidence that will perpetually contradict and counter whatever silly tales you will come up with, now and in the future!

Enjoy your world of Lunacy!

NaijaPikinGidi:



Desperado ... showing the real reason why [size=24pt]33%[/size] is a passmark and why there is such a dangerously false pass rate in your South Africa! You want to sell to the world that majority of the entire matric candidate population achieved an excellent level of academic competence whereas it is not the actual case?

It cracks me up to see your desperation as you scramble for dirt to sling around in order to make a point! Sadly for you this article: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/national-news/129242-waec-releases-results-53-makes-six-credits- is the evidence that will perpetually contradict and counter whatever silly tales you will come up with, now and in the future!

Enjoy your world of Lunacy!

Don't waste my time. Not even all the results are in. I don't have time to waste today.

It doesn't even matter. Just answer clearly:

Is the 98% and 80% failure rate denied?


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THE 98% FAILURE RATE NATION - THE WORST IN WEST AFRICA AT THIS SITTING

SMH

WAEC Upgrades its 2011/2012 Results
AUGUST 30, 2011 NEWS 29 COMMENTS
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WAEC Upgrades its 2011/2012 Results
The West African Examination Board-WAEC, has out of consideration following the intervention by various governmental and non-governmental bodies decided to upgrade the scores of candidates who participated in her 2011/2012 May/June WASSCE across West Africa.

This unbelievable, but yet welcomed upgrade of scores is the first of it’s kind by the Examination Board (WAEC). This upgrade could be seen as a solution from above to prayers of Nigerians. It was gathered according to WAEC report, that Nigeria recorded the worst performance across West Africa.

Where is the junk song that you posted yesterday?

Let me find it...

Here. Eat your shyte, 98% failure rate monkey:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G2TLhuIMgw

Yes or no, please.

98% 80%

Denied or not?

CraigB:

Don't waste my time. Not even all the results are in. I don't have time to waste today.

It doesn't even matter. Just answer clearly:

Is the 98% and 80% failure rate denied?


[size=17pt]98%[/size]

Good thing you read some very good sense into your thick skull from that news report. You have now cut the waste of your time by 80%. All the results are not yet in, so what makes you think that the percentage of examination candidates with 6 straight Credits will not have increased in the final analysis? You are a pathetic dull brain! [size=24pt]33%[/size] it is!!

NaijaPikinGidi:

And how many Black South Africans are able to afford $10,000 per year without rendering his/her immediate and future family lineage bankrupt and permanently poverty stricken? How many graduate South Africans have paid up their education loans several years after graduation? We can go further on this debate if you wish!!

Please try to think before you post. The National Student Financial Aid Scheme of South Africa(NSFAS) funds teriary education for the majority of SA students. Upon graduating, 40% of the loan amount is converted into a bursary and the graduate only has to pay back 60%. However, when Zuma became president he made this happen www.nsfas.org.za/news/good-news-for-final-year-university-students.htm

And besides all of that, graduates end up earning more in one year than their total cost of study over four years, so paying back the loan is not a challenge. I'm one of them, that's a firsthand account.

CraigB: Where is the junk song that you posted yesterday?

Let me find it...

Here. Eat your shyte, 98% failure rate monkey:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G2TLhuIMgw

Yes or no, please.

98% 80%

Denied or not?

You must have been tormented by the aptness of that song by Lagbaja! The Afroclasssical jazz rythym and vibe must have kept you deliriously sane all of last night. Nice try!! You will continue to post that song going forward!!