President Buhari approves #208 Billion for development in public tertiary institutions

President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday said he has approved N208billion as part of 2019 intervention through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund for infrastructural and teacher development in public tertiary institutions

The president said the intervention was part of his administration’s effort to address the deficiencies in all the segments of our educational system.

Buhari disclosed this at the 23rd convocation of the University of Abuja on Saturday.

Represented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr Sonny Echono, Buhari said his administration would continue to provide funding that would address some of the challenges in the nation’s public institutions.

The President said that the university system must continue to search for solutions to the nation’s developmental needs.

Buhari said: “There is no doubt that Nigeria will be a global player in the emerging knowledge economy. What is required is to ensure the quality of our human capital and also maintain the desirable balance for sustainable national socio-economic growth and development.

“The present administration will continue to improve on the infrastructural facilities in the universities, promote teacher development and curriculum review.

“It is in furtherance of this that I recently approved the disbursement of N208billion to public tertiary institutions under the 2019 intervention of the TETFUND.

“The government will continue to look into the issues raised by the universities especially regarding physical development and will equally monitor the universities closely. I also seize this opportunity to reiterate the commitment of the Federal Government to addressing youth unemployment.”

Buhari noted that for the country’s education system to favour it, the curriculum must focus on the development of entrepreneurial skills of the individuals and encourage research and innovations.

He said the National Universities Commission has put in place motion to address the country’s curriculum and the minimum qualification for university teachers.

According to him, the combined effect of these measures should improve the quality of “our school system and graduates as well as prepare the products of our educational system to meet the challenges of tomorrow’s work place.

“This certainly impact greatly in the effort to generate employment, reduce the high rate of poverty and the incidence of social deviance in the country,” he added.

Buhari said that his administration would not rest until youth unemployment was reduced to the barest minimum.

Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof Michael Adikwu, said a total of 4,946 students graduated from the institution.

Prof Adikwu said the university awarded 24 First Class Honours

El Rufai, Osinbajo, Oshiomole playing key role in Ministerial Appointment

Saturday Vanguard has reliably gathered that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-rufai and the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole are currently playing key roles in the selection of ministerial nominees to ensure that competent party members are appointed.

It was gathered that the three strong men have the ears of President Muhammadu Buhari in his determination to appoint people, who would truly deliver in their respective portfolios. “But he (the President) is doing that separately and not as a team, so each of them may not know what the other is suggesting,” a source close to the Presidency said.

Multiple sources told Saturday Vanguard that the President was not only concentrating on competent party members but also on credible people in the private sector, who would drive the implementation of pro-people policies to be formulated.

One of the sources said the trio has identified some party members among who are the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-Usman, immediate past Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, former Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, ex-Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, among others.

The source said: “President Muhammadu Buhari is considering merit this time because he wants results from his ministers. That was why he is listening to the Vice President, APC party chairman, and Governor Nasir El-rufai to assist in choosing competent hands among party members and from the private sector. He does not want noise makers but those who can do the job. 

The Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman and Rotimi Amaechi may make the list because they possess the qualities needed. Another person is Fashola.”

Saturday Vanguard had reported that unlike the usual practice of placing party and other considerations above merit in the appointment of ministers, President Buhari’s cabinet members could emerge strictly on competence.

The development was informed by the perception of underperformance by most of the immediate past ministers, especially heads of key ministries, and in-fighting among junior and senior ministers which characterised the activities of the ministers.

These resulted in the absence of synergy that could have emanated from interministerial interface.

The situation informed sustained calls from the public for the rejigging of the cabinet and even outright sack of some ministers.

Such calls were not heeded by Buhari, who only witnessed the resignation of five ministers and the death of one.

The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Abba Ibrahim, had resigned on February 16, 2019, to run for an elective office in Damaturu/Tarmuwa/Gujba/Gulani Federal Constituency of Yobe State.

Alhaji Ibrahim Jubiril also resigned his appointment as Minister of State for Environment following his declaration as an Emir.

Hajiya Amina Mohammed, on February 24, 2017, resigned as Minister of Environment following her appointment at the United Nations as Deputy Secretary-General.

The incumbent Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi also resigned on May 30, 2018, to contest for the governorship position of his state.

Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Alhassan, also known as Mama Taraba, resigned from the cabinet and from the APC, hinging her resignation on her disqualification in the screening for the 2019 Taraba State governorship election by the party’s National Working Committee.

In September 2018, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun resigned as the Minister of Finance as a result of allegations that she falsified her National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Exemption Certificate.

In March 2016, Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Mr. James Ocholi ,SAN, died in a road crash that occurred at Kilometre 57, along Kaduna-Abuja highway.

Some ministers gave a bad face to the President’s anti-corruption fight. But they survived. There were ministers who were even so petty that they applied and collected estacodes of aides for trips the aides never made. There were some who collected full estacodes and paid their aides half or even less. One aide even went public with corrupt activities in his ministry.

There were also some the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC simply failed to investigate allegations brought against them. They all survived a Buhari administration that allowed the ministers so much freedom and didn’t do enough to monitor them.

All that, we gathered, may change in this second coming they have tagged The Next Level even as some ministers may be retained while some may be re-assigned to other ministries.

OMG: A lady slapped a man to receive a staggering slap in return. See nigerians' reactions

A video of a lady and a man exchanging Slaps in a place that appears like a bank counter has sparked serious arguments online.

In the video, a lady and a man had argument over misunderstanding, the lady slapped the man, the man retaliated and gave her a heavy slap that saw her staggering.

Nigerians that saw the video are divided over it. While some are blaming the man for retaliating, others are supporting the man. Some are of the opinion that no matter what, that the man shouldn't have slapped the woman back.

Instagram user, Hotdealzdirect said:

"It's wrong to slap a woman, no matter what. He is not a gentleman."

Then another Instagram user, Ozzyemmanuel, fired back:

A lady

"@hotdealzdirect why did she slapped him In the first place?"

Another Nigerian man, Tubonomi, said he would have simply 'walked away' if he were the man.

If you were the man, what would you have done in this kind of situation?

See more reactions to the controversial Video from Nigerians.

iam_darey_: "She got what she deserved. No one has a right to beat up someone else and not expect a retaliation."

mathiaschristopher7: "She actually got what she bargain for ���"

chamacobasil: "Very good my man"

igbinobachukwuma: "All the virus in this woman brain has been formatted by this slap"

tony.ojie.3: "In the first place the woman lack home training. She got what she deserves. Next time she will not do it again."

miebakaaggo: "He was never going to slap her after she slaped him, he only slaped her because the silly woman was not ok with the first slap, she wanted to give him a second one, so he did the needful"

djlapel: "What if the man used his front hand, how will the woman feeling right now.... just thank ur God"

eghsrevb: "Was she posses after back hand slap in retaliation, good one next time she would know how to respect men."

iche_ice: "Never touched a woman before. But, I've got to say, in this world where we are advocating gender equality, no woman or man deserves to be assaulted. Thus, she had no right to physically assault another person. He retaliated. Case closed, or arrest them both (two fighting). Gender equality�"

african1.warrior:" This guy most be a tennis player.His backhand stroke na die."

pastor_dike:" He acted in self defense"

zubysparks: "The slap turned her 360... Angle at a point... Lmao"

laptopshop_lekki: "Bad up bringing. Do not disrespect men."

Advice me please: My marriage is shaking because of what my wife's sister wears

I really need help and strategies to handle this matter. My wife sister came three weeks ago to live with us. She is 22 yrs. My problems now is her dressing mode which my wife is not careful about.

This lady always wear see-through singlets and night gowns. She has big breasts and always displaying them. I don't know how I will tell my wife to talk her sister to cover herself. She may feel bad that I'm attracted to her sister.

During the sallah holiday, I was with her alone because my wife don't holiday in her place of work, I have to leave the house and stay in the accommodation given to me in my place of work.

This morning, I carried my undies to wash, she crossed me and told me to give it to her to wash, the towel she tied because she was going to bathroom before was removing and showing her full breasts and she never worry about that.

Our marriage is just one year and I never cheated on my wife and she trusted me but her sister is really giving me emotional trauma. Can you imagine, yester night, my wife went to a programme, I was with her. So I called her around 8 pm that we should pray and go to bed. This lady came with a see-through night gown with a push up bra that put all breasts outside. Even her pant color was visible. I tried to control myself....

Even this morning, she came for prayer with the same gown and my wife did not caution her.....

How can I handle this matter?

Wife pours hot water on Husband's apprentice

A housewife, Mrs. Chiamaka Emecheta Madueke, may need to explain more on what transpired between her and her husband’s 21-year old apprentice, Lotanna Emmanuel, which infuriated her to pour hot water on him around 2am in their house in Lagos.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Akanro Street, Ilasamaja area of Lagos where they reside.

Full story: http://pmexpressng.com/housewife-pours-hot-water-husbands-apprentice/