Monday, December 3, 2012: In continuation of his tour of all the Secondary schools, returned by Anambra State government to their original owners, Governor Obi yesterday toured another six schools namely Girls Secondary School, Oba; Girls Secondary School, Onitsha; Comprehensive Secondary School, Onitsha; Dennis Memorial Secondary School, Onitsha; St. Monica’s Secondary School, Ogbunike and Ogidi Girls' Secondary School. At each of the schools, he tasted their food, visited their refectory, conveniences and other facilities and gave them N10 million Cheque each out of the N20 Million they will get for the rehabilitation of the schools for 2012.
Obi said he could have easily delegated his Commissioners to tour these Schools but he decided to do it on his own in order to see firsthand the state of these schools to determine the extent of support the government would continue to render to them. YOU CAN FIRE YOUR BOSS
He expressed general satisfaction on the neatness of those schools but regretted how government ran them down after taking over from the Missionaries. With apologies, he assured that government must continue to do everything possible until the schools are returned to their former glory. He also expressed satisfaction that there is marked improvement since the schools were returned to the Missionaries. ( Continues below..... )
Photo Above: Gov. Peter Obi handing over N10m cheque to Bishop on the Niger, Most Rev. Dr. Owen Nwokolo yesterday, for the rehabilitation work at Girls' Secondary School, Onitsha, being first of 20 million Naira for rehabilitation of schools in Anambra State.
In his own remarks, the Anglican Bishop on the Niger, Most Rev. Dr. Owen Nwokolo, who accompanied the Governor to those Schools, expressed surprise that a Governor could make out time In Nigeria of today where governance has been bastardized to visit schools, taste students’ food and personally access the infrastructure in the schools. The Bishop commended the Governor for his interest in all the sectors, especially his partnership with the Church to restore education and improve health care delivery. He said that however the situation that what kept recurring was Governor Obi’s genuine interest in the development of Anambra State.
He recalled that the governor had earlier provided schools in the State with computers, Internet access, and buses; provided them with boreholes, generators and above all, equipped their laboratories. He assured the Governor that the Church will continue to remember him in prayers.
In her own remarks, the Anambra State Commissioner for Education, Dr, Mrs. Uju Okeke described Obi’s government as a glorious era for the State. She said that the level of development in the State could only be achieved by no other person than Governor Obi who she said was exceptionally committed to making the State the number one in Nigeria. She commended the Governor’s prudence which she said made it possible for the level of development to be achieved.
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Outrage over INEC’s bid for more powers
IF opposition political parties have their way, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will never get powers to disqualify candidates.
INEC is seeking more muscle —full independence, power to bar candidates and timeline for pre-election matter, among others — in a proposal sent to the National Assembly’s Constitution Review Committee.
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress of Progressive Change (CPC) and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) said yesterday that INEC should not have the power to disqualify candidates.
The parties were immediately backed by the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) and erudite lawyer Chief Niyi Akintola (SAN).
But the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supported the INEC proposal, which its chair Prof. Attahiru Jega is pushing as part of the amendment to the constitution.
ACN spokesman Lai Mohammed said: “INEC wants to usurp the role of the courts and political parties with the request.”
In ACN’s view, the role of INEC “is to provide the enabling environment for elections to be free and fair and not to be seeking to take powers that it does not deserve”.
Mohammed said “eligibility or otherwise of a candidate is a matter for the court, the extant laws and the political parties”.
He said INEC should have no role in it.
According to him, “it is sad to know that progressively, the power of political parties to nominate candidates is being usurped by INEC”. MAKE MONEY WITHOUT WORKING
Parties, he said, should be free to choose their candidate the way they deem fit as long as it is within their own laws and such laws are not in conflict with the Constitution.
“Is there primary in the United Kingdom or Israel? Parties are like clubs, guided by rules,” Mohammed said.
ANPP National Secretary Tijjani Tumsah, said INEC should focus on undertaking its responsibility in a way that could not be interfered with by government.
To him, INEC should be an impartial judge and not be involved in the selection of candidates.
‘’That kind of power the INEC chairman is asking cannot be granted to any independent institution because by so doing, it will result in the pollution of the polity in totality,’’ Tumsah said.
The CPC and the CNPP accused Jega of dancing to President Goodluck Jonathan’s tune.
They warned Jega to be careful by not taking wrong decisions ahead of the 2015 general elections.
According to a statement in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary Mr. Rotimi Fashakin the CPC said: “The maturity of a political system determines the sophistry of its laws. This, of course must be situated within the socio-economic environment of the clime. So, Prof. Jega believes more powers (even to disqualify candidate) is the immediate need for him to function as an electoral umpire?
“It is utterly not correct, without mincing words, with the current arrangement, Jega shall only transform into the clobber man for the president being the appointive authority. What is still maintaining some modicum of sanity in our electoral system is that the power to disqualify candidates is vested in the courts. If the truth must be said, Jega has not used his position well as an unbiased umpire. For instance, how many times did the courts overturn the candidates that Jega’s INEC imposed on CPC? Succinctly put, this proposal by Jega’s INEC should be jettisoned unreservedly.”
The CNPP, through it National Publicity Secretary, Osita Okechukwu, said:
“Prof. Attahiru Jega has shown his dictatorship fangs by the seeking power to disqualify candidates; rather than working towards conducting free, fair and transparent election. We are yet to forget how Jega in collusion with the PDP, cancelled the National Assembly election in April 2011, an election PDP lost in many constituencies on the flimsy ground that result sheets were not available in some polling units. Then, we asked why didn’t Prof Jega postpone the election when by Thursday the result sheets were not in his custody?
“Prof Jega, by the day, vindicates the Uwais Elections Reform Committee Report which recommended that the appointment of Electoral Commissioners should be open and not by Mr President.”
Akintola (SAN) believes that the commission was asking for too much, in view of rulings by the Supreme Court on disqualification of candidates. He said INEC should not be totally free from check by government institutions.
Pro-democracy campaigner Mashood Erubami said the commission spoke the mind of stakeholders. He called for the approval of Jega’s proposals.
Akintola insisted that the commission should not be given powers to disqualify candidates. He said such power should be retained by the court.
On full independence for INEC, the legal luminary said there must be a check, adding that absolute power is dangerous. “Not even the judiciary should be left without check. Every government institution must be checked,” he said.
Akintola also spoke against tribunals, saying there should rather be constitutional courts to handle election cases as proposed by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
But Voters Assembly (VOTAS) chairman Erubami said INEC should be given such powers to disqualify and ban candidates convicted of electoral offences, stressing that they are part of the holistic electoral reforms being agitated for by civil society groups and some other stakeholders.
He said: “The power to disqualify is not an unusual thing. We have been agitating for it to be part of the electoral reform. Now that it is coming from INEC, it will help to produce more credible, transparent and legitimate election.”
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP Chief Olisa Metuh welcomed the request by the electoral body for powers to disqualify candidates and N1 million penalty against political parties of errant candidates. He urged the National Assembly to back INEC.
Metuh said: “We support the position of INEC in respect of having powers to disqualify errant candidates and levy one million naira penalty on the offender’s political party.
“As a matter of fact, this is one of the cardinal programmes of the leadership of the party and President Goodluck Jonathan. We welcome every move that will curb electoral violence and election rigging.
“With his handling of elections since he assumed the presidency, it must have been obvious to the Nigerian people that President Jonathan will never support electoral manipulation.
“We have his own election and the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states where opposition parties won without the PDP making any fuss about it. So, we are comfortable with arrangements aimed at sanitising the electoral process in the interest of democracy and the country in general.”
Metuh, however, declined comments on the requests by INEC for autonomy and the setting up of the Electoral Offences Commission. According to him, as one of the major players in the political space, the PDP will not stick out its neck on the two proposals.
He said: “Being one of the key players in the politics of the country, the PDP would rather leave the issue of autonomy for INEC and the Electoral Offences Commission for the National Assembly to deal with.
“We strongly believe those aspects should be left for the National Assembly to deal with strictly on merit.”
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Nokia 707: concept of Windows Phone 8 with a very special body
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The Nokia 707
is an interesting concept Windows Phone 8 that is capturing the
attention of people on the network. Its author, Edgar Mkrtchyan, chose a
very original design for the body of the device. The form factor of the
terminal is characterized by curved lines, which could make the grip
more comfortable, even if they, too “innovative” than the design so far
exhibited by the Nokia Lumia. Leave you the final judgment after viewing
the entire gallery of photos available after the break.
The spefiche technical of this Nokia 707 would include:
* Screen curved AMOLED Clear Black 4 inch with a resolution of 1280 × 768 WVGA
* Dual-core CPU 1.5 GHz
* 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash
* Front camera 2MP
* 16/32/64 GB internal memory expandable with micro SD
* Battery 1800 mAh
* Connectivity: Micro USB, Bluetooth, NFC, jack 3.5 “AV
* Available in four colors: black, white, pink and cyan
The technical characteristics appear
plausible for a terminal Windows Phone 8, but the detail that attracts
most is the particular curvature of the body, making it undoubtedly very
attractive and original. Being a simple concept it is highly likely
that the Nokia 707 will never see the light, the fact remains that, in
anticipation of the arrival of the real devices Lumia Windows Phone 8,
the imagination of the designers and their creations are a good way to
pass the time.
Nokia Lumia 920t: made in China with the most important national carrier
Gadget News.
Nokia Lumia 920t
was officially introduced in the Chinese market December 6, 2012. The variant of
the Nokia Lumia 920 with connectivity TD-SCMA to work with the networks
of China Mobile. It is the largest Chinese mobile operator that relies
on a user base of about 650 million users (in constant growth). The
partnership with China Mobile is one of the most important results
obtained from Nokia regarding the marketing of Nokia Lumia and is one of
a number of investments that the Finnish company is making in the Asian
market to grow the popularity of its smartphones.
The Nokia Lumia 920t will be available
for purchase later this year and will be distributed in four colors:
yellow, red, white, black. The price will be around 560 euro. The
terminal will be equipped with both the Windows Phone application store,
and the store of China Mobile, Mobile Store, which will contain content
addressed to users of China. Nokia Lumia 920t is the first Windows
Phone device to be compatible with the TD-SCMA networks of China Mobile
and that fact allows them to exploit a competitive advantage over the
competition. Unchanged in other specifications than the model sold in
our market.
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