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Eliminate Barriers Hindering Women Development - Aisha Buhari

The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has called for the elimination of all barriers limiting the progress of women farmers in the country. .

The Osby Blog Is Back

Hi! Am back again after being away for a while. Your favorite ‘The Osby Blog’ and Newsbytes is here again to serve you and keep you updated on current and breaking news you can’t find anywhere.

We'll Return Bill To Buhari for Assent - Dogara.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has disclosed that the fourth constitution amendment bill would be re-transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent.

Getting The Most Out of eBooks.

Do you know you can turn your ideas into an eBook? It’s easy if you know how to go about it. This Book will show you how.

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Turn Your KNOWLEDGE Into Digital Product


One of the BEST ways so many people are building an expert career these days is by “Monetizing WHAT you know” through Digital Information Products.
For anyone who DON’T know what digital products are, and who has NEVER created product before, it might look very difficult a task to embark upon. But, you know what? It’s NOT That Hard.
Creating digital product is the easiest thing to do, if you know how to go about it.
And it is one of the easiest and fastest paths to build a full-time income online, no matter your current skill level, age, sex or experience.
This post shows you a simple and proven system to creating digital information products like eBooks, video or audio courses and programs, even if you’re a complete newbie with no experience.
There are so many different kinds of digital info products that you can write and when you mix and match them with different “topics”, you can create dozens upon dozens of highly desirable resources to sell online.
There are also different styles of presenting your digital products, but I want to show you one of the simplest methods anyone can do. It is called “How-To” Tutorial.
The “How-to” Tutorial is designed in a way that it shows people how to do something to get a desirable outcome. This style of digital product is organized in a systematic, step-by-step approach to accomplishing a task. The steps are most commonly organized in chronological order like Step One is…, Step Two is…, or Part #1…, Part #2…, or Method#1…, Method #2… etc. These are generally known as “systems”, “formulas”, “checklists” or “blueprints”.
Here are a few examples to get you understand what I’m actually talking about:
1. How To Design A Website In 5 Easy Steps
2. How To Get Started With Writing Press Releases
3. How To Lose 10 Pounds In 10 Days
4. How To Monetize Your YouTube Account
5. How To Teach A Sunday School Class
6. How To Plan A Successful Wedding Event
7. How To Meet The Woman of Your Dreams
8. How to Make Your First N100,000 Online
9. How To Make A Fortune Online With Information Products
10. How To Monetize Your Podcast
The topics are endless, and I can go on and on…
People want to learn how to grow their business, how to soothe a sunburn, how to eat healthy foods, how to get rid of lice, how to manage stress, how to design websites, how to use social media, how to speak English, how to speak Igbo, how to speak Yoruba, how to speak Hausa, how to design mobile apps, or even things they might have missed in school.
People want to learn stuff they can use to improve their lives. People have an insatiable curiosity to learn for all kinds of reasons.
It’s your job to create these products and fill the market need.
The thing is, if you possess the knowledge of how to create your own digital product, grow and profit from it, you can pretty much write your own ticket any time any day.
There are thousands of people out there that will gladly pay you high prices to learn from you – they are yearning to learn from you how to improve their lives and businesses from the knowledge that you have already.
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It could be just what you need to achieve your income goals or even double your income this year.
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To your info business success!

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

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Friday, March 16, 2018

The Osby Blog : Dr Stella Alhassan Advocates Prominent Roles For W...

The Osby Blog : Dr Stella Alhassan Advocates Prominent Roles For W...: The Deputy National Women Leader of the Re-build Nigeria Party (RBNP), Dr. Stella Alhassan, has described lack of prominent roles fo...

Dr Stella Alhassan Advocates Prominent Roles For Women



The Deputy National Women Leader of the Re-build Nigeria Party (RBNP), Dr. Stella Alhassan, has described lack of prominent roles for women in politics as “the bane of political crises in the country.” 

Dr. Alhassan, who spoke during a consultative meeting with the party’s states women leaders in Abuja yesterday, said women, considering their importance and expertise, should be considered for key positions.

“It is time for us to rethink about the role of women and consider them as co-labourers in the field of rebuilding Nigeria,” she said, adding that the party was educating women not to be intimidated. 


She said educated women were the best to rule Nigeria, adding that there was need to rebuild the country’s economy and fight corruption.

The women rights activist and grassroots politician called on Nigerian women to come out from obscurity, speak out and join hands with their fellow women to build the Nigeria of their dream.  

Also speaking, the Kwara State Chairman of the Re-build Nigeria Party (RBNP) and Chairman of Chairmens' Forum, Mr. Sunday Ajileye, who called for unity of purpose, urged Nigerians to stand up against bad governance and underdevelopment.


Thursday, June 30, 2016

Clerk Reveals How Senate Rules were ‘amended’ for Saraki, Ekweremadu’s elections

The deputy clerk of the National Assembly, Benedict Efeturi, confirmed to police investigators that the senate’s standing orders used for the 2015 elections of Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu as senate president and deputy respectively, were different from the 2011 version which should have been in use at the time, details of police investigation seen by PREMIUM TIMES show.

Mr. Efeturi made the disclosure to the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department of the Nigerian Police, which investigated allegations that the rules were forged to help Messrs. Saraki and Ekweremadu to their posts.

He however said the alteration, which some senators denounced as illegal as lawmakers were not informed about, was based on the directive of the former senate leadership, led by its president, David Mark.
He said the amendment was done “by convention and practice” and not be “procedure”, as previous versions of the rules were amended by the same method.

Messrs. Saraki, Ekweremadu, Efeturi and a former clerk of the National Assembly, Salisu Maikasuwa, have been charged with forgery. They were arraigned on Monday before a High Court in Abuja.
They deny wrongdoing. The senate president and his deputy accuse President Muhammadu Buhari of bias, and argue that the case is a violation of the independence of the legislature.
In his statement to the police, Mr. Efeturi, who is also the Clerk of the Senate, said the leadership of the seventh Senate under Mr. Mark ordered the 2015 Standing Rules be amended “not necessarily by procedure” but “by convention and practice”.

According to the report, he “stated that the leadership of the National Assembly of the 7th Senate ordered the 2015 Standing Rules as amended by their convention and practice. (He stated) that the Senate Standing Orders 2003, 2007 and 2011 followed the same procedure as that of 2015. He emphasized that in the Parliament, amendment of the Standing Orders is by practice not necessarily by procedure.
“He further stated that during the ruling of the Senate President on the 24th of June 2015, that the Senate Standing Orders of the Senate 2015 is authentic, final, relevant and cannot be challenged. He attached a copy of the debates of the Senate on Wednesday, the 24th of June where the Senate President ruled (that) the Senate Standing Order 2015 as authentic Standing Orders of the 8th Senate.”

“Fraudulent amendment”


Mr. Maikasuwa, who conducted the elections of Messrs Saraki and Ekweremadu, said he did not refer to any Senate Standing Rules, rather, he said he only performed his duty using “normal procedures for the opening of a new parliament”.

He said, according to the police report, “that before the election, he called on the Deputy Clerk to the National Assembly who is also the Clerk to the Senate to read out the guidelines for the election”.
He denied knowledge of the existence or production of an amended Senate Standing Rules 2015, saying he had no business in the daily activities in the Senate.

He told the police Mr. Efeturi was “in better position to know of the 2015 Standing Orders as amended”.
The report says a number of Senators, including Suleiman Hukunyi, Kabiru Marafa, Ahmed Lawan, Abdullahi Gumel, Gbenga Ashafa, Robert Boroffice and Abu Ibrahim, were invited during the investigation.
In their separate statements, they said the seventh Senate did not amend the 2011 Standing Rules and thus, the amendment rules used for inauguration of the eighth assembly was fraudulent since there was no compliance with the requirements for amendment of Senate Rules.

Mr. Lawan, who contested and lost the senate presidency to Mr. Saraki, said, “The procedures for election into the two presiding offices are clearly stipulated in Order 2 (2(i) of the Senate Standing Rules 2011. That contrary to the provision of the above order, the Clerk to the National Assembly introduced and used order 3(3) e (ii) of the purported 2015 Standing Order”.

The report also noted the submissions of some former lawmakers like Ita Enang, who was chairman, Rules and Business in the seventh senate. Mr. Enang, now President Buhari’s assistant on senate matters, told the police that the previous Senate did not amend the rules.

Mr. Ekweremadu accused the police of bias in its investigation. His spokesperson, Uche Anichukwu, told PREMIUM TIMES that only All Progressives Congress Senators in the Unity Forum—a group opposed to the election of Mr. Saraki – were invited for questioning. He queried the basis for his arraignment as he was neither questioned nor indicted by the police.

In the summary, the police’s CIID said the contents of the 2015 Rules “are substantially different from the Senate Standing Order 2011 as amended” and that “Sections 2(iv), 3(3)EI,ii,iii,G and H, 5 and 7 of the Rules are different in the two Orders”.

“The allusion of the Clerk of the Senate to procedure of amending the Standing Orders of the Parliament through ‘practice and not necessarily procedure’ is a misplaced analogy and undemocratic because the Nigerian Senate has clearly laid down without a proviso, the procedure to be adopted in amending its standing orders as contained in the section 110 of 2011 Senate Standing Orders,” the police said.

It added that, “This practice where some group of senators amend the Rules of the Senate without following legal procedures is not only criminal but portends danger for growing democracy”.
The report, dated July 14, 2015, was forwarded to the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to determine “if this conduct constitutes crime or should be treated as an internal affairs of the Senate”.

Saraki, Ekweremadu not mentioned or indicted

In the report, no complaint was raised against Mr. Saraki. He was not indicted. Although Mr. Ekweremadu was also not expressly indicted by the report, he was part of the seventh Senate leadership which Mr. Efeturi said gave orders for the rules to be amended. Mr. Ekweremadu was deputy senate president under Mr. Mark.
The criminal charges came about a year after the report was submitted to the Federal Government.
Mr. Saraki and the  other three accused persons were arraigned before an Abuja High Court on Monday, triggering a war of words between Mr. Saraki and President Muhammadu Buhari.

“That is what infuriated the Senate,” Mr. Anichukwu said. “How could you prosecute Saraki and Ekweremadu who were neither questioned nor indicted in the Police report.”

Source: PREMIUM TIMES
 

Abia State: INEC issues Certificate of Return to Samson Ogah as new governor

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has issued Mr. Samson Ogah Certificate of Return as the new governor of Abia State, three days after Governor Okezie Ikpeazu was sacked by a court, the News Agency of Nigeria has reported.
A Federal High Court in Abuja had on Monday directed Mr. Ikpeazu to immediately vacate office after convicting him of tax evasion.
The court also ordered INEC to issue a certificate of return to Mr. Ogah, who contested the governorship ticket with the governor on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Mr. Ikpeazu had said through his Chief Press Secretary, Enyinnaya Appolos, that he remained the governor because he was challenging the judgment in a higher court.
As an appointee of Abia State Government from 2011 to 2014, he argued that his taxes were deducted at source.
He also argued that the state Board of Internal Revenue in 2014 issued him with valid tax receipts shortly before he contested the governorship election in the state.

Friday, May 6, 2016

At Last, Buhari Signs 2016 Budget



Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed the 2016 budget of N6.06 trillion into law.
This is just as he said he was not unaware of the hardship being faced by the people because their cries get to him.
‎While signing the budget, Buhari said it gave him great pleasure to sign the first full-year budget of this administration into law.
He gave the assurance that he would be speaking in details about the budget, its implementation and the over-all national economic and social policies of the government in his address on May 29th.
While thanking the leadership of the National Assembly, for their cooperation in making this a reality, Buhari said: ‎ “As I said in my New Year message, living in the State House does not in any way alienate me from your daily struggles. I read the newspapers and listen to the TV and radio news. I hear your cries. Share your pains”.
According to him, the budget was to signpost a renewal of his administration's commitment to restoring it as a serious article of faith with the Nigerian people.
He said, “This administration is committed to ensuring that henceforth the annual appropriation bill is presented to the National Assembly in time for the passage of the Act before the beginning of the fiscal year.
“Through the 2016 budget, aptly titled 'Budget of Change', the government seeks to fulfill its own side of the social contract. The Budget I have signed into law provides for aggregate expenditures of N6.06trn. Further details of the approved budget, as well as our Strategic Implementation Plan for the 2016 budget, will be provided by the Honourable Minister of Budget & National Planning.
“In designing the 2016 budget, we made a deliberate choice to pursue an expansionary fiscal policy despite the huge decline in government revenues from crude oil exports. This is why we decided to enlarge the budget deficit at this time, to be financed principally through foreign and domestic borrowings”.
The president said that all borrowings would however be applied towards growth-enhancing capital expenditures.
Buhari said that N350 billion would immediately be injected into the economy.
He said “The signing of the budget today will trigger concerted efforts to reflate the Nigerian economy, a key element of which is an immediate injection of N350bn into the economy by way of capital projects.
“To illustrate our renewed commitment to infrastructural development, the 2016 budget allocates over N200bn to road construction as against a paltry N18bn allocated for same purpose in the 2015 budget”.
Buhari said that ‎despite the current difficulties, his government would work extra hard to achieve his revenue projections.
He said: “Our revenue generating agencies are coming under better management and are being re-oriented. The implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) is expected to contribute significantly to improving transparency over government revenues.
“Our determined fight against corruption is resulting in improvements in the quality of public expenditure. The work of the Efficiency Unit, as well as other public financial management initiatives, are also contributing in this regard. The continuing efforts to reduce recurrent expenditures should hopefully free up more funds for capital expenditure in 2017 and beyond.
“We are experiencing probably the toughest economic times in the history of our nation. I want to commend the sacrifice, resilience and toughness of all Nigerians young and old who have despite the hardships continued to have hope and confidence of a great future for Nigerians.
“But permit me to say that this government is also like none other. We are absolutely committed to changing the structure of the Nigerian economy once and for all.
“We are working night and day to diversify the economy such that we never again have to rely on one commodity to survive as a country. So that we can produce the food we eat, make our own textiles, and produce most of things we use. We intend to create the environment for our young people to be able to innovate and create jobs through technology.
“I cannot promise you that this will be an easy journey but in the interest of so much and so many we must tread this difficult path. But I can assure you this government you have freely elected will work with honesty and dedication day and night to ensure that our country prospers and that the prosperity benefits all Nigerians.
The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki also spoke with journalists after the budget was signed. He said:‎ “First congratulations to all of us, to the Government of Nigeria and the legislative arm.
“Like I said in my remarks, the passing of the appropriation bill is the most difficult all over the world.
“Even America that we copy sometimes the government is shut down, we didn't see that in our case, it is a first time, is a new government so these sort of challenges are rare.
“But I'm happy we are all here to see that we have passed the budget and the president has ‎signed it and what we await now is implementation.
“I want to assure Nigerians that from the comment from the mouth of the president, our commitment is to see that the budget is implemented. It is not just the assent; it is now the implementation that is when Nigerians will begin to see the benefits.
“Like I said let's focus on the good part and pay less on the controversy that is behind us now and I want to assure Nigerians that the benefit expected from this budget is implemented”.
Shortly after the budget was signed, the Minister for Budget and National Planning Udoma Udo Udoma and the Minister of State, Hajia Zainab Ahmed ‎briefed journalists.
Udoma said‎, “The budget size that the legislature came out with was just slightly lower figure than what the executive submitted. So, it was N6.06 trillion, just slightly lower.
According to him the revenue assumptions of the budget passed by the National Assembly were the same.
Udoma said the budget had 2.2 per million barrels a day at $38 dollars.
Present at the budget signing ceremony yesterday were the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, among others.