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  • Nasarawa increases retirees’ pension to N5,000

    The Director-General of Nasarawa State Pension Bureau, Mr. Abdullahi Sani-Oseze, said on Saturday the state government has increased the minimum pension of retirees to N5, 000.

    Sani-Oseze, who disclosed this in Lafia, said government made the adjustment in order to make life more meaningful for pensioners in the state.

    He said some workers, who retired from active service before the implementation of minimum wage in the state, were receiving as low as N1, 000 as their monthly pension.

    Sani- Oseze said: “So we consider the plight of this category of pensioners and reported to Governor Umaru Al-Makura, who directed that there should be an upward review of their pensions.

    “No pensioner today in the state receives less than N5, 000 as his monthly pension.”

    He said the Bureau had taken measures to address issues of some pensioners, who had not benefited from any payment since the inception of Al-Makura’s administration in 2011.

    He said the agency had, through the media, directed that any pensioner, who had not received any payment since A-Makura came on board, should come to the Bureau’s office with necessary documents.

    “We have given them one week to come forward with their documents and the response has been impressive.

    “Those who were unable to come as at December 22 can still bring their documents after Christmas; we will still attend to them,” the pension bureau chief said.

  • $40,000 missing from NFF coffers, Ex-President’s Sister fingered

    A woman working as an intern in the Nigerian Football Federation has allegedly stolen $40,000 with the intention of returning the money after doubling it via voodoo.

    The lady who allegedly stole the money and who is said to be a sister to an ex-president of the Nigeria Football Federation, picked four bundles of $10,000 and took to her heels leaving her handbag at the scene of the crime.

    The lady whose name was not mentioned then handed the money to two men who assured her of doubling the money to $80,000 within 48 hours.
    “Yes two middle aged men have been arrested in connection to the money theft at the NFF.
    The men confessed to the Police of being money doublers and confirmed that the lady actually gave them the money to double for her”, a top source at the NFF said.

    You would recall that the Nigeria football Federation is in huge debt as it continues to make plans and source for funds for the World Cup. And that only recently the Sports ministry said it needed N3billion ($8340000) to persecute next year’s World Cup.

    You would also recall that this is not the first time money especially foreign currencies will go missing in the NFF. In March 2009, the accounts department of the NFF was broken into, and $200,000 was carted away from one of the drawers.

    In 2012, $80,000 was alleged to have gone missing, but the NFF denied such ever happened. Ironically, the NFF is yet to issue an official statement since the latest incident happened.

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  • Nigerian man swallows $90,000 concealed in condoms

    Nigerian man swallows $90,000 concealed in condoms

    Nigerian man has been arrested in eastern France after being found with condoms stuffed with 79,000 euros ($90,000) hidden in his stomach, customs officials said Monday.

    The man, arrested Saturday in Strasbourg, had another 13,000 Swiss francs (11,900 euros, $13,500) concealed in his clothes, the officials said.

    The man told customs agents that he lived in Spain and worked as a dishwasher at a restaurant in the Balearic Islands.

    But a sniffer dog detected marijuana on the banknotes hidden in his clothing.

    That led to an X-ray that revealed the presence of nine condoms stuffed with bank notes in the man’s intestines.

    He has been charged with laundering drug money and lying to customs authorities.

     

    AFP

  • More than 10,000 candidates caught cheating in Anambra – JAMB

    More than 10,000 candidates caught cheating in Anambra – JAMB

    The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) says more than 10,000 candidates caught for examination malpractices in the ongoing UTME in Anambra have been handed over to appropriate authority.

    Lynda Nwachukwu, the Coordinator of the board in Anambra, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Saturday.

    NAN reports that the all computer-based testing (CBT) mode 2017 UTME, which started on May 13 in 642 centres nationwide, ended on May 20.

    Ms. Nwachukwu said the examination, which took place in 28 centres in the state, was successful.

    “There was no disruption of the exercise in any of the examination centres,’’ she said.

    The coordinator said the candidates adhered strictly to the requirements of the examination, adding that JAMB provided all the materials required for the examination.

    NAN correspondent, who monitored the last batch of the examination, reports that some parents complained of system failure in some CBT centres in the state.

    Eucharia Okonkwo, a parent, said her daughter, who wrote the examination at the St Mary’s High School Ifite-Dunu centre, could not complete the examination due to the faulty computer and network failure at the centre.

    According to her daughter, many candidates could not complete the questions in record time because of the faulty system.

    Ms. Okonkwo advised JAMB to plan well for examination in subsequent years to avoid the technical hitches that could give the candidates psychological trauma.

    Mose Mojekeh, Head, Department of Marketing at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, told NAN on telephone that such system failure in UTME was not acceptable.

    According to him, the hiccups could potentially deny young people from Anambra State university admission.

    Mr. Mojekeh advised JAMB to urgently collate the number of candidates affected and set another examination for them.

    He also decried the practice whereby JAMB sends officials from one state to supervise examinations in another state.
    “Experience has shown that such officials do not care much about the candidates when problems arise, as they leave them to their fate,’’ the lecturer said.

    He called on the management of schools, whose candidates experienced the computer failure, to take their complaints to the State Ministry of Education to present their cases.
    JAMB concluded the 2017 CBT UTME on May 20.

    (NAN)

  • FG begins cash transfer of N5,000 to 1 million indigent Nigerians

    FG begins cash transfer of N5,000 to 1 million indigent Nigerians

     

    The Federal Government has commenced the payment of N5,000 under its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme to one million indigent Nigerians.

    The programme is under the government’s s Social Investment Programmes (SIP), which earlier saw the payment of N30,000 monthly stipends to 200,000 youth under the N-Powere programme which began in December 2016 and the School Feeding programme.

    The commencement of the payment under the CCT was announced on Monday in a statement from the Office of the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo.

    The statement, signed by the Vice President’s spokesman Laolu Akande, on Monday said the first batch of payment would cover nine states.

    He said some of the beneficiaries had started receiving their payments as from Dec. 30, 2016.

    He said funds for the payments to beneficiaries in Borno, Kwara and Bauchi were released last week to the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), the platform that hosts and validates payments for all government’s SIP.

    He added that the funds for another set, which include Cross Rivers, Niger, Kogi, Oyo, Ogun and Ekiti, would follow soon to complete the first batch of beneficiaries.

    Akande said the nine pilot states were chosen because they had an existing Social Register that successfully identified the most vulnerable and poorest Nigerians.

    He said the registers emerged through a tried and tested community based targeting (CBT) method working with the World Bank while other states were developing their Social Registers and would be included in subsequent phases.

    Akande said the Federal Government would actually commence community mobilization for the creation of the Register in more States to expand the scope and reach of the CCT across the country.

    He said that Plateau, Jigawa, Adamawa, Anambra, Benue, Enugu, Katsina & Taraba had so far complied with the stipulated framework provided and were set for the community based targeting method for the development of their Social Registers.

    According to him, those states would be followed by Delta, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Imo and Ogun.

    “All the funds approved for the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes, SIP, are domiciled with the Ministry of Budget and National Planning.

    “In addition, the payment information and processes for all beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s SIP are hosted at NIBSS, as the Consolidated Beneficiary Register.

    “It is to ensure and fortify efforts at authentication and verification, as well as for effective and efficient programme management.

    “With the commencement of the CCT, the Buhari administration is now implementing four of the Federal Government’s SIP,’’ the release added.

    The release added that the Buhari administration had commenced the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, (GEEP) where soft loans ranging from N10,000 to 100,000 have been designed for artisans, traders, market women among others.

    “Already, thousands of cooperatives, market women associations, farmers and enterprising youths, have been identified and registered for the purpose, on an ongoing basis.

    “The disbursement of the soft loans through the Bank of Industry started since Nov. 25.

    “At the last count, for the first phase, beneficiaries have been drawn from the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abia, Adamawa, Bauchi, Delta, Imo, Kwara, Kano, Katsina, Lagos, Osun, Oyo, Ogun and Kogi,’’ he added.

    Akande said that the expectation and plan were that by month-end disbursements would have been made to 33,000 beneficiaries.

    Regarding the 200,000 beneficiaries of the N-Power programme he explained that about 50 per cent of the graduates had been physically verified and had started receiving their monthly stipends of N30,000.

    Akande announced that a second batch of 300,000 unemployed graduates would be selected early this year to make up the half a million target set by the Buhari administration.

     

  • Don Jazzy gives fan N250,000

    Ace producer and head of the Supreme Mavin Dynasty, Don Jazzy once again showed his benevolent side on Twitter today.

    A certain Twitter user with the name @Folasheycrown22 requested for Don Jazzy to ask her what she needs. Don Jazzy obliged her and she said she needs money to start her business.

    Read the conversation below

    Lol that’s very true. And I appreciate. Oya what do u need? Don’t cut my head o. I wee run https://t.co/pAt70k05di

    — DON JAZZY (@DONJAZZY) December 23, 2016