Buhari finally presents certificate

 


After the Press conference today where the APC Presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari addressed the nation on the ongoing controversy concerning his eligibility to contest for President because he failed to present certificates for his claimed qualification has finally presented his Secondary School leaving certificate. Buhari, during the Press conference said he had informed his secondary school management to make the copy of his certificate that is with them available, this became necessary after the Nigeria Army said they are not in possession of Buhari's certificate.

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Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has finally cleared the air on the controversy surrounding his School certificate result.
Buhari, in a briefing Wednesday, said, he would have dismissed the certificates issue as sheer mischief but for the concern expressed by many of his supporters and other well-meaning Nigerians.
According to the former head of state, he sat for the University of Cambridge/WASC Examination in 1961 with examination number 8280002, and passed in the Second Division.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/buhari-clears-air-certificates/#sthash.p5Pjzmtx.dpuf

I will address Certificate issue on Wednesday, says Buhari

APC Presidential aspirants, General Muhammadu Buhari has promised to speak on the controversy concerning his certificate on Wednesday, Jan. 21 in Kano.  Buhari, through Garba Shehu, Director of the APC's Media and Publicity, says he will address the issue at a press conference at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow.
Shadedreflects will bring the details tommorrow,
  

How to identify a fake recruitment outfit

                                               
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                                                                Moruf Kolawole Nasir
                                                           
One of the many hurdles fresh graduates have to scale through in their quest to getting job is that of fake recruitment outfits. Unfortunately myriad of graduates fall victims of these fraudsters every day. This is, in no small means, affecting the job of Human Resources Professionals, as job seekers occasionally find it difficult to differentiate fake from real recruiters. To help exposed these dubious practitioners, below are some yardsticks.

1.      CHARGES: The first indicator of a fraudulent recruitment outfit is charges. Irrespective of the nomenclature given to collecting money from you, extortion is extortion, either at the beginning of the process, middle or end of the exercise. As soon as you notice any kind of charge in a bid to getting you job, make a U-turn. Some of them hide under the guise of being outsourcing firms and that they run their business with the ‘token’ charged their clients (job seekers). Far from it. REAL outsourcing firms don’t make a dime from job seekers; they make their monies from their clients-employer.


2.      LENIENT SCREENING PROCESS: Apart from the usual unprofessional ‘man-know-man’ screening for ‘special’ applicants, in any recruitment screening process where you have a walk over, where everything is waived, and at the end of it, the recruiter still offers you the job, be cautious as such recruiter is a likely suspect of fake agency.

3.       MEANS OF APPLICATION: The means of application for job says a lot about the recruiter. You can get to tell a serious recruiter from a fake one through how their adverts expect you to apply for the job. You shouldn’t expect anything serious from a recruiter who requires you to apply for an opening through SMS. Similarly requesting application through any other unconventional way is a sign of fake recruitment outfits. That is not to say all recruitment outfits that require you to apply through the conventional ways are genuine, some of them try as much as possible to imitate the normal recruitment process only to lead you to a point where your moral is at its peak and then demand for some money with pleasant description.


4.       CONTENT OF THE INVITE: There is a minimum requirements in the content of any interview invite: The name of the recruiting/employing firm, the position you are being considered for, the location of the interview, the time and date of the interview. Whenever any or some of the above is missing in any job interview invitation you get, please be double sure before you head to such destination. Many job seekers have fallen prey of kidnappers in a bid to earn a livelihood. But with these, you are at least 50% sure of not getting into the wrong hand. That is not to say some scammers won’t scale through this test and that some genuine companies won’t fall short of this minimum requirements due to the ignorance of the person in charge of their recruitment. But with this and other points being considered you are sure of not going wrong.

5.      UNPROFESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE: For those who are used to receiving mail from the Internet scammers you will agree with me that one of the ways of identifying that scam mails is through their blunders. They are prone to bad grammar or careless typos. Same thing is applicable to fake recruitment outfits. Because they are not professionals, their correspondences are always fraught with blunders.


6.      YOU DID NOT CONTACT THEM THEY CONTACTED YOU: For recruiter to contact you, you must have some special skills, knowledge and experience that is next to none, this is headhunting, but in a situation where you are just the usual job seeker out there and some funny ‘firm’ come with the story “we found your resume online” they either offer you a job right away or invite you for their final interview stage right away; in such situations, shine your eyes.

7.      SHABBY ENVIRONMENT: Trust me environment says a lot about an organization. If a recruitment firm or company claims to be a going concern and legal in its operation, one will naturally expect some level of serenity in their location of operation, but in a situation where the office is not too different from village Head-Master’s office, there is cause for concern. It is likely such entity is not operating legally, or hiding under legality to extort unsuspecting innocent citizens.

8.      PRODUCT OR SERVICE MARKETTING: Any firm which tells you that marketing a product or service (in whatever guise) is a pre-requisite for offering you a job is likely enslaving you so think twice before embarking on such mission. Even if the job you are applying for is for the post of a marketer, ask if there is no probation period in their employment policy and why you have to start working before getting hired.


9.      FACELESS OR BAD IMAGE: This being the last is by no means the least; in fact it is one of the key determinants of fake recruitment firms. As soon as you gain access to ANY information about your prospective employer (be it the name of the company or the address of the company), Google it straight away and use the information to know about the company, trust me if they are scammers you will get hint about them on the internet and that should be an eye opener for you to tread with caution, and if throughout your search you still did not get any information about them, then the likelihood of such recruitment firm being fake is high, you can then apply the other yardsticks raised above.

Send  your questions and enquiries to shadedreflects@gmail.com or nmkolawole@gmail.com or comment in the comment box.

Fayose's death-wish advert on Buhari

Nigerians woke up this morning to a provocative advert placed in major print newspapers across Nigeria by Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state practically wishing death on General Muhammad Buhari (rtd), the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The advert which were placed on the front pages of Punch, the Guardian and several other national newspapers, titled “Nigerians Be Warned” started with a quote from the book of Deuteronomy in the bible talking about life and death.
Fayose then listed three former Nigerian head of states from the Northwestern part of Nigeria, who have died tragically and the placed Buhari at the end with a question mark placed over his photograph.
The advert followed several desperate efforts by operatives of President Jonathan to hang a prostrate cancer diagnosis on Buhari over the last few days. The group went as far as concocting a laboratory report claiming Buhari had been diagnosed with prostate cancer at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital. The hospital later denied the existence of the laboratory report and its writer.
Also, Buhari personally addressed a press conference yesterday and denied visiting ABUTH in the last five years.
culled from Sahara Reporter

FG reduces pump fuel price to N87 per litre

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, said at a press conference at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Sunday that the new price regime would take effect at midnight today.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke said the N10 reduction in fuel price was necessitated by the reduction in crude oil prices in the international market.
The Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency [PPPRA] and the Department of Petroleum Resources [DPR] have been asked to enforce strict compliance with the new pricing regime as soon as it becomes effective, the minister said.
The new measure is a reversal of government’s policy on the matter.
The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had insisted on December 17 that Nigeria would  not reduce the pump price of fuel despite falling oil prices at the international market, until the revenue crisis occasioned by the dwindling oil rates is over.
Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said at the time that the decision to review fuel price either upwards or downwards would only be taken after the current crisis in global oil prices had been settled.
But five days ago, on December 13, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, called on the government to implement immediate price reduction on fuel products to reflect the downscaling in global oil prices.
Speaking through his campaign organization, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Mr. Buhari asked the government to “stop stealing from Nigerians and allow them enjoy the relief that has come to consumers of petroleum products globally”.
The APC candidate had said, “The price of diesel which has been deregulated since 2009 still sells at the pump price of N150 and N170 per litre, the same pump price when the international benchmark per barrel of crude was over $100. Now that the international benchmark has dropped to $47.5 (USD) per barrel as at Monday, we ask: where is the deregulation and the relief which it ought to bring to local consumers of diesel?
“For the Nigerian consumers, unfortunately the collapse of crude oil price since October 2014 has not translated into any change in diesel, kerosene and PMS prices across the country.
“We challenge the federal government to reconcile the information on the website of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency, indicating the maximum open market price of diesel per litre in December 2014 as being at N111.6 and the fact that the price has come down to less than $50 (USD) as at Monday.
“We want to posit that that the maximum indicative benchmark open consumers of diesel should pay is at a margin below N100 per litre. Therefore, Nigerians are being short-changed by about N50 to N70 on every litre of diesel sold by government.”
The Trade Union Congress [TUC] had earlier on January 5 asked the government  to take advantage of the falling oil prices to reduce retail prices of petroleum products.
The TUC had argued that the best time to review the retail pump price of petrol was now, in line with the argument put forward by government in 2012 when the price was adjusted from N70 per litre to N97.
culled from premium times