Main Local news LOCAL NEWSLATEST POLITICS NEWS Buhari reportedly signs executive order to prevent foreigners from getting jobs Nigerians can do 3 months ago 129305 views by Nurudeen Lawal - President Buhari reportedly signed Executive Order 5 to improve local content in public procurement - The executive order also reportedly prohibits the Ministry of Interior from giving visas to foreign workers whose skills are readily available in Nigeria - The order, however, consideration shall only be given to a foreign professional, where it is certified that such expertise is not available in Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, June 3, in Abuja reportedly signed Executive Order 5 to improve local content in public procurement with science, engineering and technology components. According to The Nation, the Executive Order is expected to promote the application of science, technology and innovation towards achieving the nation’s development goals across all sectors of the economy. The president, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the constitution, ordered that all ‘‘procuring authorities shall give preference to Nigerian companies and firms in the award of contracts, in line with the Public Procurement Act 2007.’’ READ ALSO: Legit Poll: Nigerians consider Gbajabiamila best qualified for speakership race The Executive Order also reportedly prohibits the Ministry of Interior from giving visas to foreign workers whose skills are readily available in Nigeria. It, however, notes that where expertise is lacking, procuring entities will give preference to foreign companies and firms with a demonstrable and verifiable plan for indigenous development, prior to the award of such contracts. In the proclamation entitled ‘Presidential Executive Order 5 For Planning And Execution Of Projects, Promotion Of Nigerian Content In Contracts And Science, Engineering And Technology, President Buhari also reportedly directed Ministries, Departments and Agencies to engage indigenous professionals in the planning, design and execution of national security projects. It adds that ‘‘consideration shall only be given to a foreign professional, where it is certified by the appropriate authority that such expertise is not available in Nigeria.’’ PAY ATTENTION: Install our latest app for Android and read best news on Nigeria’s #1 news app Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that popular human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has said that President Buhari cannot approve state policing just by his decree. Speaking during his guest appearance on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, June 6, Falana said that the issue of state policing is a constitutional issue. The SAN said that for state policing to be created, the bill calling for its creation has to first go to the National Assembly, adding that the bill can originate from either of the national houses. NAIJ.com (naija.ng) -> Legit.ng. We have upgraded to serve you better EXCLUSIVE: Be patient with President Buhari, Femi Adesina tells Nigerians | Legit TV Source: Legit Newspaper TAGS: Read more: https://www.legit.ng/1242035-buhari-reportedly-signs-executive-order-prevent-foreigners-jobs-nigerians-do.html?fbclid=IwAR25GFJFXXp88OzHZCgRocSs21tSesaDE0QmX8BFeVjLe9z5e3bMIbMn6yE
The former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Francis Short has stated that people who venture into politics should use their power to make decisions based on their understanding of the common good.Justice Francis Emile Short
He said those decisions should serve the office holder's constituency, that is those citizens who voted for him or her adding that decisions should not be made, nor should they appear to be made, based on the financial self-interest of the officeholder.
Any such decision undermines the status of citizens as sovereign as well as the trust they have in the government, he said.
He condemned the practice of people getting into the political office just to enrich themselves.
In an interview on Accra FM, he stated that "In Africa, too many people go into politics not to serve the people but to benefit themselves, to benefit the party and party supporters."
He opined that the only time legislators from both parties (New Patriotic Party and National Democratic Congress) in Parliament unite is when it is in their collective interest.
"You hardly have consensus between these two dominant parties” but “the only time you would get consensus is when they introduce a policy that will benefit both Members of Parliament of the political divide," he noted.
Did you know Dr. Joseph N. Jackson invented the remote control?
Dr. Joseph N. Jackson is one of the most famous Black inventors in
America. Jackson joined the United States Army at the age of 18.
In 1975 he completed his degree in Business Administration from Columbia College, Columbia, MO. Jackson holds a Doctorate in
Applied Science and Technology from Glendale University in Santa Fe, NM.
He holds a Doctorate in “Applied Science and Technology” Glendale
University, Santa Fe, NM Jackson’s early efforts led to the creation precursor of the V-Chip,
which is used to block inappropriate content for children.
He also
created the Programmable Television Controller. and other innovative
devices for the television industry.
In 1993 he founded Protelcon, Inc. market
and distributes, the TeleCommander, the first empowerment television
accessory designed to give parents control over the viewing content and
habits of children.
Dr. Joseph N. Jackson holds six U.S.
Patents in the area of telecommunications (Programmable Television
Receiver Controllers, Fertility Prediction Devices (female) as well as
several copyrights, trademarks, and Pending Patents in the area of
Aircraft Security and Tracking Systems.
Black Family-Owned Business Launches Their Gluten-Free, All-Natural Fish
Fry on "Good Morning America"... and It Was an Instant Hit!
Some of the family members during a recent appearance at the ESSENCE Music Festival
Joseph and Maranda Dowell are the genius entrepreneurs behind the
popular Atlanta-based Black family-owned business that sells a very
tasty and golden light fish fry! Their product, a seafood breaded
mix called Joe's Gourmet Fish Fry, is available in two styles - one is
made with wheat flour, and the other is available as a gluten-free mix
made with yellow corn flour. With either option, all you have to do to
make your seafood amazing... is just dip and fry!
Just recently, they were blessed with the opportunity to debut their gluten-free fish fry to the world on Good Morning America,
and it was an instant hit. Millions of people in the U.S. are allergic
to wheat flour, and gluten-free products have grown tremendously in
popularity over the past few years.
Why this fish fry is so different
In addition to having a gluten-free alternative, what makes their
product so different is that the mix doesn’t absorb as much oil, and
brings a light, delicious crunch that brings out the best in food
without having to overpower it with salt.
Even more, for the taste, they don’t rely on just flour and salt like
traditional fish frys do. They use a handpicked variety of delicious
herbs and spices to bring maximum enjoyment to their customers' dining
experience.
Making big moves
In addition to their appearance on Good Morning America, earlier this year Joe and his family were also featured on ABC's Shark Tank and landed a deal with Daymond John for $150,000 in exchange for 25% of their company.
Now their products are available in several grocery retailers across the
country including Walmart, Publix, Kroger, Winn-Dixie, HEB, Lund’s,
Festival Food, Rouse’s, Nam Dae Mun, Northgate Trading, and Wayfield
Foods.
They literally went from 7 local stores to 1,200 nationwide in less than 3 years!
The
latest available figures from StatsSA show that there are about
3.3-million South Africans aged 15 to 24 who are not currently in
education, training or employment, and about 3.9-million South Africans
aged 25 to 34 who are unemployed.
These
numbers represent a vast amount of energy, education and skill that is
going to waste instead of being put to use to help grow our economy, and
we all know that high youth unemployment is a time-bomb for any country
in terms of crime and civil unrest. At the same time, the
majority of sources agree that SA’s housing backlog is still well over
2-million units and growing at the rate of about 178,000 units a year.
And according to the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM), it
would take about R400bn annually to fix this problem over the next few
years, while the annual budget of the Department of Human Settlements is
only around R32bn currently. In fact, the DHS itself estimates
that the 25 “catalytic” housing projects it is currently overseeing will
deliver less than 500,000 subsidised and partly-subsidised homes by
2020.
Simultaneous solution
So, South Africa needs
homes and its young people need employment that will ultimately enable
them to buy their own homes instead of depending on the State for
subsidised accommodation. Surely we can find a simultaneous solution to
these problems? My suggestions is a high-profile and well-funded
national work programme or community service programme specifically for
housing construction that will provide young people with training and
the opportunity to gain practical work experience while also helping to
alleviate the country’s huge housing backlog. President Ramaphosa
has spoken recently of the preparations that are going ahead for a
National Jobs Summit, during which government, business, labour and
civil society are expected to find innovative and rapid ways to create
jobs on a massive scale. In short, they are expected to make our
“New Dawn” as successful as President Rooseveldt’s “New Deal” - the plan
which pulled the US out of the Great Depression. And I believe one of
the quickest and easiest ways to reach that objective would be to create
a national housing task team authorised to cut through red tape and
hierarchy and mobilise whatever public and private resources it needs
(such as land, services, training facilities and materials) for a
concentrated five-year home building programme.
Skills development
This
would enable young people in SA not only to build homes and help to
uplift poor communities but also to gain the practical, business and
leadership skills they need to be employed or self-employed in those
communities in the future. The potential benefits of such a plan
are indicated by the results of a recent study done by the National
Association of Home Builders in the US, which revealed that 69 permanent
jobs are created for every 100 single-family homes that are built in a
given area, in addition to the 394 job opportunities that are created
during construction. The new homes also have the potential to
generate an ongoing R13m a year in taxes and revenues for the local
municipality and some R62m a year for local businesses, and one can just
imagine the boost such results would give our morale as a country, as
well as our economy.
About Berry Everitt
Berry
Everitt is the CEO of the Chas Everitt International property group,
which is one of the top five estate agency companies in South Africa and
widely recognised for its innovative marketing methods, its
technological leadership - and its absolute dedication to achieving
exceptional customer service.
Everitt is the youngest son of the group's founders, Charles and Tilla
Everitt, and has been involved in the business since it was established
in 1988.
It is reasonable to argue that the South African Schools Football Association (SASFA) is a bedrock of Youth Development and social cohesion in the country.
Sasfa has been in existence for the past 24 years.
But before this, Sasfa had to undergo a metamorphosis from unity stage when fragmented Schools Sport bodies from the previous order Education came together in 1994 to usher in Unity, Participation and Integrated Development under the aegis of the then United School Sport Association of South Africa (Ussasa).
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According to Sasfa, “Football was part of the 25 active sporting codes. With the demise of USSASA Mother Body, USSASA Football then had to undergo change and was later known as the SA Schools Football Association.”
Sasfa says, schooling, learning and teaching become ineffective when the umbilical cord between academia and extra- mural activities is cut.
“The natural process of schools being the honing ground for the holistic development of the child loses meaning since it has been proven that an active body produces excellent results. It is on this basis that SASFA continues to be catalyst in fostering effective learning and teaching, promoting the culture of education through sport. The creation of sound school football programmes seek to assist in this regard.
The era we live in today necessitates that together as a collective work hand in glove in assisting our future citizens to be organised, responsible to work as individuals as well as part of a collective team. The skills that the child learns in the field of play are guaranteed to help them when they are adults. For example when they gather from various schools, bonds of friendships are cemented and maybe relied upon in the real world at a later stage.”
The SA Schools Football Association runs a number of programmes that seek to introduce all children of South Africa to enjoy participating in organised football whether recreational, motor coordination, developmental, competitive and to keep fit.
The various partnerships that we have forged over the years have yielded positive and impact legacies for the participating schools and players alike. “We have witnessed the upgrading of infrastructure of class rooms, buildings, sports combos, upgrade of security systems and some even went on to purchase vehicles to ferry learners to school tours, games etc,” Sasfa notes.
Sasfa is also very much proud of the history and relationship that it has fostered with SAFA, Department of Basic Education, Sport & Recreation South Africa, SASCOC, and Sasfa’s commercial partners since inception being KFC for the KFC Cup; Cadbury for Chappies Little League; MTN for the MTN u/16 Cup; loveLife Games; Spur Masidlale.
Sasfa’s current sponsors include Danone South Africa for Danone U/12; Nestle for Milo Champs u/13; McDonald’s South Africa for the SASFA McDonald’s U/14 School League; Coca – Cola South Africa for the Copa Coca – Cola U/15 Cup; Metropolitan for the Metropolitan u/16 Cup and the Motsepe Foundation for the SANLAM Kay Motsepe Schools Cup.
Moreover, the association attests, through the above partnerships and collaborations, SASFA programmes have given an opportunity to play an active role to many educators that served as officials in administration and technical aspect of the game, learners as participants and match officials.
The lucky ones went on to ply their football skills in the National Junior Teams, PSL & NFD outfits some even made a mark in the various international tournaments and events.
Meanwhile, even though relations between Sasfa and the mother-body Safa may be at their lowest point, it still does not change the fact that a vision to develop football from grassroots is alive.
SAFA President, Dr. Danny Jordaan says their aim is to see about 5.3 million children involved in football within five years.
SASFA President, Mazibuko says, “People are talking and trying to mislead the country around the number of schools participating or that should participate. The truth is that we have 25 000 schools in the country. However, out of that number, there are not more than 6 000 high schools that participate in the development programmes.
He adds that not all of the 25 000 schools play soccer as there are those that play other sports such as rugby, cricket and hockey.
“You know, we don’t have girls’ leagues in the country or girls’ programmes in the schools, so you don’t use that as a ploy to say that Sasfa is not touching enough schools. What are you doing as a mother body to assist your associate member?” he asked, referring the question to Safa.
Since the election of the new SAFA executive in 2013, Sasfa and Safa have been doing battle over the running of schools football. With SAFA, the mother body, taking the decision to withdraw recognition of the former in 2015.
The matter is currently before the courts.
Speaking last October during the Copa Coca-Cola tournament in Bloemfontein, Sasfa president Mandla “Shoes” Mazibuko said the organisation was open and ready to work with Safa.
“There is no reason we can’t work with Safa. Whose interests are we serving if we are not working with Safa?” he asked.
“This is more about politics than what meets the eye, but, as far as we are concerned, we are working with everybody you see around here [at the tournament], including the departments of education and sports, stakeholders and the teachers’ union. There is no reason we should not work with Safa”.
In 2003, the Chappies Little League, which was relaunched with a R3 million per year sponsorship by Cadbury, surpassed the initial target to register about 2 500 primary schools around the country and amassed 6 023 schools.
As a result of that early success, veteran sports sponsorship consultant Geoff Wald flew to London this week to register the tournament with the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest soccer tournament ever.
The current record-holder listed by the Guinness Book of Records is a tournament held in South Korea that drew 5 000 teams.
“The response by schools was overwhelming and it gives us courage to think what we can do to expand and cover almost every school-going kid in the country,” said Wald.
Not your normal everyday 5 year old child, Kennedy O’ Neal is the author of Adventures of Super Kennedy which she and her dad, Chris O’Neal, released in mid-March to a positive reception – both locally and nationally.
After her recent appearance on Good Morning America, the Sales of her debut book, The Adventures of Super Kennedy: Saving and Investing, have surpassed more than 10,000 copies.
Kennedy, who is a kindergartener at Faith Baptist School, had always been fascinated with shiny coins and “the green” while in diapers. She truly has a passion for earning and saving money as well as investing it which was the source of inspiration for her book. In her debut book, the 6-year old morphs into “Super Kennedy” to teach kids creative ways to save and earn money on their own. Once she has enough money saved up, with her parents help, she buys an undesirable house to fix up and collect rent. The book is geared toward 5 to 14-year olds.
Since the book’s release, Kennedy was recently featured as a guest of Steve Harvey and Taylor Thomas’ Tots to Teens Expo in Prince George’s County in Maryland in May. Kennedy and her family have also made it their mission to take part in local literacy events to discuss the importance of saving and investing money at a young age. Presently, she’s touring local schools and talking to students about the importance of saving. She is currently looking for additional schools to add to the tour.
As little as she is, Kennedy is very passionate about helping other kids learn the value of saving money. She knows that it’s the key to building a more stable, secure future. She loves kids her age but gets concerned when she meets other children who do not know that they should be saving their money. Her father says she is hoping to turn the book into a cartoon and even release a second book focused on financial freedom.
According to her father, her ultimate dream is to eventually appear on The Steve Harvey Showand Ellen.
Staff Writer 
