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gadgetplanetng:
How much is their 90/100ah?

Arik Air, a commercial airline in Nigeria, has refunded N76,000 to Kingsley Kwem, a resident of Imo State for a failed Lagos-Owerri flight.

Kwem told FIJ that the company credited his account with the air ticket fee on March 27, 2023.

“I am glad to let you know that Arik Air refunded my money on Monday. I was really surprised by the alert. I am grateful to FIJ,” Kwem said.

FIJ earlier reported how the airline company failed to refund the ticket fee after it canceled its scheduled operation for the Lagos-Owerri route on October 25, 2022.

Alienwarfare:
My phone and laptop can't see the 5ghz wifi but my ipad can even though all of them supports 5ghz

Sirchiboy:
How do you solve it

7bucklife:
Did you mean I wasted money buying ngk spark plugs. Pls where can I found this type of spark plug. I don't want to look like a novice in market since I will be changing my coils soon. Pls help me sir.and also I used only distilled water in my radiator.i check it on Google and I saw corrolla,matrix,toyota,lexus. Pls I want to be sure,I don't want to buy 4pkugs spark plugs forv6 engine o

With a population of 220 million people, perhaps we should have about 150 million eligible to vote in the first place. How does this get prised down to 93 million, and then 25.2 million on election day – a figure lower than what we had 30 years ago? The key factor that has changed over time, is the efficiency of technology. We struggle so hard not to comply with it but it gets us all in the end.

Then to complete the triangle, we could look at bank records. Nigeria has 54 million bank verification numbers, which are supposed to be unique, though I understand some Nigerians found ways to obtain multiple BVNs. Our National Identification Number (NIN) – another unique number – has about 90 million registrations. This NIN number, mind you, is for everybody, from a child born today. So, that number approximates Nigeria’s population, give or take another 20-30% of people who simply refuse to register. The gap between the NIN and BVN could be put down to those who refuse to open accounts.

So, why do we claim 220 million? Is it because, like they say about Texans, Nigerians like big things? Could we somehow get a more reasonable number with the coming census? Is it possible for Nigeria to wake up one day and tell the world ‘sorry, we have been getting our stats wrong and our population is 120 million’? I think if we could present with a more accurate figure, we shall have a lot to gain. First, we should be taken out of the inglorious list of countries populating the world. We would also get reclassified off the list of some of the poorest people on earth, as everything per capita suddenly shoots up. That could earn us some respect. The numbers of Nigerians in multidimensional poverty will also get reclassified and we should get some positive vibes going on among out people, rather than this pervading – even if attractive – pull to despair. We may have boxed our minds into a dark corner with our false numbers over the years.

‘Tope Fasua is an economist, author, blogger, entrepreneur, and recent presidential candidate of the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP).

My concern today is our election numbers. I have discussed this with a number of people but the explanation they give does not convince me. Let’s look at this very scary phenomenon. In 1993, the total number of voters in the general (presidential) election was 25.4 million. In 1999, the number rose to 30 million. Good. In 2003, the number further rose to a whooping 42 million. But since then something different has been happening. We saw a reduction to 35 million in 2007, then it rose to 39 million in 2011. In 2015, the total votes were a total of 29 million. While in 2019, the number fell to 27 million. Surprisingly, in the year 2023, with so much information dissemination, awareness and youth participation, when there was indeed a surge in new registrations (9.5 million), and the electoral commission (INEC) had 93 million people on the register, we couldn’t manage more than 25.2 million votes. This number is less than what we had in 1993, 30 years ago.

As the elections are being rounded up, some people have complained about rigging and I wonder how. When these folks see the numbers, they talk about voter suppression. I wrote this as the governorship and state assembly elections were being conducted and I could see from all the reports that there was far less enthusiasm around these sets of elections than the presidential one. I doubt if we had up to 15 million people in these latter elections. My experience with the presidential election was that a lot more people came out. In my polling unit in Abuja, the numbers were much, despite the unit having been split into four. I believe that riggers are more interested in having large votes than managing to scrape a win. But we should note that the drop in the number of voters has been almost consistent since after the 2003 elections, so it’s not a new phenomenon. I will want to put that within the ambit of technology, which appears to be catching out our lies. It is however true, from what we have seen as evidence so far, that our politicians and their supporters added to their election numbers where they could get away with it. This means that even the 25.2 million number has an element of vote inflation. If we backed that out, will we be talking of about 18 million votes or less? And given the youth enthusiasm and the turnout in my polling unit, I don’t want to buy that idea that there was apathy. If despite all the issues that should draw them out, 80-90% of eligible voters in Nigeria just plainly refused to come out to vote, then we are as good as not having them as citizens. I just don’t buy this.

I remember that day in 2011 when the world population was said to have hit seven billion. I was passing the lobby of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel and the TV at the reception was on BBC. I paused to listen to the momentous news before moving on to the nearby bank. The BBC reporter was in Accra’s Agbogbloshie market, and the camera would zoom in and out on black pregnant women, as the reporter ran commentary about how the world population had exploded, and all the dangers that came with that. I found it very distasteful that they would choose to locate their news coverage in Africa and then focus on pregnant black women. The general gist that the BBC was silently passing across to the world was that black people were the ones populating the world indiscriminately.

Nigeria is the biggest culprit in Africa, and these days we put our population at around 220 million. Nigeria’s population growth rate is put at between 2.6% and 3%, and the other day some global body put out the statistics that Nigeria’s population will hit 500 million by the year 2050. The general idea out there is that all we do is procreate in this country, and we have not put out any counter-narrative to this effect. We sort of just assume that ‘up North’ they are having so many children. But chances are that our women are a lot more educated today and are having fewer children per head, and the economic situation is also preventing so many men from having so many children, North or South. The overall figure that we declare is certainly contaminated with our politics of prebendalism and patronage, whereby politicians find ways of inflating the population of their constituencies because that also enables them to collect larger allocations from the Federal Government, among other undue advantages. We certainly aren’t given to a high level of veracity in our public accounting; at least not yet. There is therefore a reason to look at these figures more intently.

This is more so as Nigeria is supposed to have another census this coming May. We had the last one in 2006, and it was rather inconclusive. I recall the controversy in 2013 when the then Chairman of the National Population Commission, Dr Festus Odimegwu was asked to resign for making some derogatory comments around our census figures.

But we have to consider these issues dispassionately if we are to make some progress as a nation. In research and statistics, it is usually advised not to obtain data from a singular source, but that your research would be stronger and more credible if you are able to triangulate your data. This means that you should strive to compare data across at least three sources. When we compare the number that we claim as our population with some other sources, it just doesn’t add up.

7bucklife:
The name on the spark plugs is ngk bk6e and it's consuming petrol. Pls what's the correct spark plugs to buy for lexus gs 300 2004 model.

lecowas:
Lol. Give Source and sauce it up with more info

Olamak1:
They only allow you to waste your data gathering coins but at the end of the day, you'll discover that those coins are useless. As I type this , I've got over 10,000 coins in my account which I gathered about 3 years ago but can't use.

Peterdrp:
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damilola1978:
My good people, please can you share your experience on how you were able to get your refund from Arik Airline. All options I have attempted are not working, I am tired

Please help with information.

@Mods help push this to front page please 🙏

Seun:
Does anyone here actually love the Oro festival?

Also, can you post the actual video of him talking about the Oro festival?

Nwakannaya1:
Can you share link to a copy of this petition?

Zaria LGA
APC – 41,432
PDP – 62,260
LP – 3,634
NNPP – 8,729

Valid votes – 118,489
Rejected Votes – 4,352
Total votes cast – 122,841

Zaria LGA
APC: 78,659
PDP: 47,091
LP: 672
NNPP: 2,567

Registered voters: 326,068
Accreditied voters: 136,493
Total valid votes: 131,730
Rejected votes: 2,248
Total votes cast:133,978

Ladiesdoctor:
How can the Total Valid votes be higher than the Total Accredited votes?
The total valid votes 1,548,000 is more than the Total Accredited votes of 1,481,662
calculation that is not realistic.
The question is, How would total valid votes be more than the accredited votes?

SanctifiedSista:
The interest rate .does it mean my savings deposit in bank..if I dont touch it..I will earn 18 percen interest per mth

GeneralPula:
You wanted SP, yet you were playing anti-parties..

You delivered for yourself, but you decided not to deliver anything for Apc at the nationals..

It's all fairness, SS or NC should have the SP..

IyaebeTheGreat:
Orji has borrowed Asiwaju’s slogan . Well, he can borrow it, he has been a very loyal Asiwaju’s boy.

blamingthedevil:
APC wins 15 states,
PDP six,
NNPP takes Kano

Ebubu2:
Dare? is he yoruba?

madridguy:
Zamfara was a huge loss but only God knows wat plays out there.

Congratulations to the Governor elect.

Dauda Lawal has defeated Bello Matawalle, the incumbent governor, in the Zamfara governorship election.

Lawal, flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Zamfara, has become the first governorship candidate to unseat an incumbent in the 2023 elections.

Declaring the winner of the election in the early hours of Tuesday, Kassimu Shehu, the returning officer, said Lawal polled 377,726 votes.

“That Lawal Dauda of political party PDP, having satisfied the requirement of the law, is hereby declared the winner of the election,” he said.

The returning officer announced that Matawalle, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), secured a total of 311,976 votes.

The upset caps the takeover of Zamfara by the PDP.

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party has been returned the winner of the 2023 governorship election in Rivers State.

Sim Fubara scored 302,614 votes to win the election in the Niger Delta state, INEC officially declared on Monday after collating results from all the local government areas at its state headquarters in Port Harcourt.

Coming behind Mr Fubara, Tonye Cole of the All Progressives Congress had 95,274 votes while the SDP governorship candidate, Senator Magnus Abe came third with a total number of 46,981 votes. Beatrice Itubo of the Labour Party scored 22,224 votes to come fourth.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has issued certificates of return to Bello Matawalle as governor-elect of Zamfara state.

Matawalle and Mahdi Gusau, deputy governor-elect, both of whom are of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), were presented their certificates of return at the Electoral Institute in Abuja on Monday.

Also presented with their certificates of return were the three senators-elect and seven members-elect of the house of representatives from Zamfara — also of the PDP.

The supreme court had on Friday voided votes of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in the state in the last elections. It ruled the party did not hold valid primaries.

The Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, on Tuesday, formally defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) after months of speculation and denial.

Mr Matawalle announced his defection late evening at the Gusau Trade Fair Complex at an event attended by APC governors, ministers and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.

However, sources said the state’s deputy governor, Mahdi Aliyu, and the member representing Talata Mafara/Anka in the State House of Assembly, Kabiru Yahaya, have decided to remain in the opposition People Democratic Party (PDP).

Ayinlaokin1971:
Not Court but he won through election. He contested under the PDP platform & won.

Muktar Idris of All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged winner of Zamfara governorship election held on Saturday.

Muktar secured 534,541 votes out of the 810,782 votes cast across the 14 government areas of the state.

Announcing the result, the Returning Officer, Prof. Kabir Bala said “Muktar Idris of APC having met all the requirements of the law and scored the highest votes is hereby declared as the winner and returned elected as the governor of Zamfara State.”

He said that Bello Matawalle of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 189,452 to emerge second while Sen. Saidu Dansadau of National Rescue Movement scored 15,177 votes and Sani Abdullahi of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) had 3,865 votes.

The Supreme Court on Friday nullified the elections of all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State in the 2019 general elections.

Delivering a unanimous judgment of the five-man panel led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, the apex court declared the first runners-up in the 2019 general elections in the state as the winners of all the posts earlier declared to have been won by the APC and its candidates.

Justice Paul Galinje, who read the lead judgment upheld the decision of the Sokoto Division of the Court of Appeal to the effect that the APC did not conduct any valid primary election and as such had no candidate for any of the elections in the state.