ivandragon:


the amended electoral act made it a requirement for copies of credentials to be submitted to INEC.


in previous elections, the candidate only had to 'state' what qualifications they had without need to submit documentary evidence...

I know what the amended electoral act states.
Question is, are you aware that it makes a provision for the submission of an affidavit in lieu of any missing documents?

(c) By substituting for subsection (5) a new subsection "(5)" –

"(5) Any person who has reasonable grounds to believe that any information given by a candidate in the affidavit or any document submitted by that candidate is false may file a suit at the Federal High Court, High Court of a State or PCT against such person seeking a declaration that the information contained in the affidavit is false".

jchioma:


Ogbeni AnyoneButAtiku, are you still there?

I dey kampe.
Always ready to take nitwits to school.

duality:


Now that he now has his own "unpoliticised army" he should be able to bring out the certificate now.

Too satisfy the whims and caprices of @duality who can't think rationally?
You must be off your rockers.

P.S - Buhari has been contesting elections since 2003, so why did the issue of a certificate suddenly assume life-form under Jonathan's politicised but largely ineffectual army?

Says Brigadier-General Olajide Laleye of Jonathan and Dasuki's politicised army.
Ekitigate comes to mind.

talktrue1:


Then let him submit the Masters certificate. He should submit whatever he has. You guys should not be supporting what is bad.

People use Awaiting Result to get admission into higher institutions, but after a while the school calls for clearance and you must submit the certificate. If not you will be expeled from the school

You clearly have no clue about what is bad.
The 'monoculture of thought' which holds minds like yours in a stranglehold, it is.

“I was not doing President Muhammadu Buhari any favour, I must say that. I was being faithful to the laws of the land. That was the duty expected of me. If you call that sympathy, so be it. But I didn’t do him a favour,” Mr. Adoke said.

He said he didn’t yield to pressure not because he didn’t have the power to file charges against Mr. Buhari, but because he could not see a tenable case of forgery against the president at the time.

“There was pressure to issue a fiat to charge him to court for forgery. But I made my position very clear that I could not see any forgery at all.

“The law did not require you to submit any certificate to INEC and Buhari did not submit any certificate.

“The law only said you must have a minimum qualification of so so and so.

“Therefore, where was the forgery? If he didn’t submit a certificate, where was forgery? There is no police report, no investigation. No responsible attorney-general will issue any such fiat based on the record before me.

“But I could have been reckless if I wanted to be reckless. I could have been irresponsible if I wanted to be irresponsible. I could have issued the fiat,” Mr. Adoke said.

I resisted pressure to charge Buhari with certificate forgery, Nigeria’s ex-Attorney General Adoke says -- https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/229031-i-resisted-pressure-charge-buhari-certificate-forgery-nigerias-ex-attorney-general-adoke-says.html

Joevics:
Lol, We don't care about his strategic studies. Just give us Waec biko.
If its Adeleke now, The NPF would have issued arrest warrant.

There was no WAEC at the time he sat his school leaving exams, fool!

yerokunphilips:
Saying PMB don't have have a school leaving certificate is insulting the entire Nigeria Army

Without a shadow of doubt.

sorom4:
It's not just about the certificate...its also about lieing under oath that he had one.
And we all should know that all those military courses that he got are invalid because WAEC (which he doesnt have) was the prerequisite which he used to train on those.

He lied under oath?

Are you just naturally wired to be obtuse?

chymystique:
All these sources them no get name? Sounds more like beer parlous gist. Make them no start wetin them no fit finish.

Was this not the same manner some of you declared the Chibok girls 'beer parlour gist' bah?
Was Dasuki's heinous theft of money designated to help fund the military campaign against Boko Haram also 'beer parlour gist' bah?

You need to hide your head in shame.

A state of emergency needs to be declared in the educational sector now.

If our nation values its corporate existence, it cannot afford to raise another generation of under-educated and maladjusted 'yoot'.

soke02:
My credentials are also with military inec should take
note for future purpose

Why you ever enrolled in the military?
Or are you posting your puerile opinions for cheap 'likes'?

h

DoyenExchange:
A new style has 'entered' into Nigerian politics!

Wetin be your point?

sean1000x:


He hasn't finished nah. If you yorubas continue to propagate your propaganda, he will resume again with you people.

Mumu, NK is clearly reposed with more intelligence than you credit him with. You on the other hand need to enrol for my basic course in 'strategy and tactics' for nitwits.

Vamooz make I see better climate.

One thing is clear in this speech - Nnamdi Kanu no longer sees any merit in directing his spleen at other ethnic groups in Nigeria.This one is really a rallying call to the troops and thus, a clear departure from the vitriolic outbursts we have seen in the past. Did one of those Afenifere hunchos just get a name check as well?

Nuzo1:


Some of you don't get it.

First, just like Atiku; Nnamdi Kanu is a monumental fraud. Most of us Igbos and other Nigerians are very much aware of this.

While Atiku is getting popular for the seat of presidency because Buhari has failed woefully. Nnamdi Kanu is also getting popular because there has been an obvious and crass discrimination against a section of Nigeria since the sixties.

I will never vote for Atiku neither will I ever take Nnamdi Kanu serious. But where there's intentional INJUSTICE, any fraudster and rifraff from anywhere with a message of hope and redemption will always attract the sympathy of the people being unjustly treated.

No country has ever developed with INJUSTICE. A sitting president who is always verbal about "one Nigeria" has the guts to publicly divide Nigeria into 97% 5%.

I am for one Nigeria, but Nigerians are not ready. And so far they are not ready, fraudsters like Atiku and Kanu will always get more popular.

I hear you bro.

Right, he is prepared to have his day in a competent court of law as opposed to one staffed by kangaroos.

Preamble continues...

Bastardino troops from Zoogeria terminated the life of Jack - the family dog.

Damn NK is on heat

Fayose gets a mention.
I and all Biafrans stand with him in his hour of prosecution.
Asari Dokuboh gets acknowledged too.

Wait a minute, FFK no get name-check?

Thanks for welcoming I, AnyoneButAtiku, IPOB leader.
Now can we cut to the chase - we are 17 minutes in already, damn it.

Keenly listening to the 'gospel of redemption'.

Nnamdi Kanu cadence don change mehn
Bruthaman sounding more and more like a Southern Baptist minister.

1x2x3:
We will still vote him. If you like show me his video stealing from cbn.

^^^Nah dem dem.
Pikin wey refuse to learn the right things at the right time.

sarrki:
Atiku is a crook

He’s a criminal followed by criminal minded followers

Nah persin wey no get conscience go wan Atikulate.

Say no to Atikulooter CONtinua.

Bunkering:
However, the cheap price of the subsidised fuel in the Nigerian market has promoted another type of stealing. This is called 'bunkering'. Originally this bunkering covered the theft of crude oil. Every day the Nigerian economy loses between 150,000 and 320,000 barrels of oil. These are stolen by 'bunkerers', who have small tanker vessels which load the oil in the Delta and tranship this stolen oil to offshore tankers which deliver this stolen oil to other West African states. Further inland illegal tanker trucks load their stolen oil and refined products and drive these into neighbouring countries for black market sale. At the current price of around US$50 per barrel this amounts to a 'leakage' of around US$7.5 to US$16 million a day for the sale of crude oil. The sale of refined products adds to the total. On a monthly basis this amounts to around US$365 million or US$4.4 billion a year.

This illegal trade was pioneered under President Abacha when Akhigbe, Victor Ombu and Ibrahim Ogohi perpetrated the smuggling of petroleum products from Port Harcourt and Warri to neighbouring West African countries. When a real effort at anti-corruption was undertaken by the journalists of the 'Insider', retribution was swift and severe. The editor-in-chief, Chucks Onwudinjo, and Janet Mba-Afolabi, both executive editors of Insider, a weekly magazine, were picked up by men of the State Security Services. Their arrest and detention were on the orders of Atiku Abubakar, the vice-president. They were arrested on Monday, November 24, 2004

While the nation enjoyed Ed-el-fitri public holiday, the trio cooled their heels at the Panti Police Station in Yaba, Lagos where they were detained for a story the Insider ran in its November 24 edition. The story, which made the magazine's cover alleged that Abubakar and a close colleague were behind a bunkering ring recently smashed at the Forcados and Escravos Creeks.

Specifically, Atiku was accused of being behind three of the vessels, MT Gloria. MT Tina and MT Sara, which had about 4,000 metric tonnes of crude oil aboard, while his colleague was allegedly linked to two vessels, MT Berinelo and MT Breton 1 with 17,800 metric tons aboard. The eight ships captured in the bunkering deal collectively had about 124 million barrels on board valued at N35 billion.

On August 30, security officials attached to the Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, attacked and beat into coma, Akintunde Akinleye, a photojournalist with the Daily Independent newspaper. He was eventually compensated in a face-saving mission by the Vice President. He received $1,900 and N 56,287.00 cash.

This bunkering has continued despite the efforts of the Joint Task Force and other law enforcement officers largely because bunkering has the blessing of the local state governors and the high federal officials who condone and prosper from the bunkering operations.

Source: http://www.ocnus.net/artman2/publish/Editorial_10/Where-Has-Nigeria-s-Money-Gone_printer.shtml

No longer business as usual.

@OP nah straight up gangsta
See as him expose fowl yansh.

Atikulooter must not CONtinua.

Racoon:
How can Buhari sign it when he have no iota of experience in how economy work.A man with F9 in Economics & Maths?
Believe will only sign whatsoever that have to do when cattle/fulani & corruption are concerned.

Racoon wey get limited intelligence and zero business acumen think say him sabi pass him masters? Nothing my eye no go see

Africa Free Trade deal: Why manufacturers are adamant

CHIKODI OKEREOCHA On: August 31, 2018


The Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations says Nigeria is almost ready to sign the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement. But this flies in the face of the stiff opposition of the Organised Private Sector (OPS), particularly manufacturers, against the deal. The OPS is worried by what it calls the absence of a study to determine the impact, benefit and downside of the agreement, among others. Assistant Editor CHIKODI OKEREOCHA writes.

His expertise in trade policy and negotiations is widely acclaimed. Prior to his appointment as Director General/Chief Negotiator, Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations (NOTN), Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe was Trade Adviser at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, where he provided technical advice on trade policy and structural reforms to the Federal Government.

He was also a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during which he served at the Permanent Missions of Nigeria to the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations in New York and Geneva.

Educated at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), Oxford (United Kingdom) and New York University, from where he obtained his PhD, Osakwe is also an Adjunct Professor on a leave of absence from the International University in Geneva on International Trade Policy, Diplomacy and Negotiations.

With such intimidating resume and wealth of experience, Osakwe’s charge at NOTN, where he is expected to coordinate the formulation of a cohesive negotiating strategy for Nigeria especially in the controversial African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, ordinarily, should be easy.

But it is doubtful if his efforts at NOTN to harvest interests and concerns of various stakeholders and actors on trade and turn them into technical positions and national agenda at the negotiation tables are enjoying a smooth sail.

Already, there are indications that NOTN, which was established by the Federal Government in May, last year, as the standing negotiating body for Nigeria, may not be on the same page with members of the Organised Private Sector (OPS) especially the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) with regards to Nigeria joining the AfCFTA.

The Nation learnt that convincing the OPS to endorse the controversial trade liberalisation deal appears to have remained a hard nut to crack for the renowned international diplomat. The deal may have become a hard sale to the OPS.

AfCFTA, as adopted by the 18th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in January 2012, was designed to create a continental trade bloc of 1.2 billion Africans, with a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of about $3 trillion.

The agreement was seen as an important milestone in promoting Africa’s regional integration and helping to increase intra-African trade, which was about 17 per cent, by more than 52 per cent, worth about $35 billion yearly.

AfCFTA commits African countries to phasing out tariffs on 90 per cent of goods, with 10 per cent of “sensitive items” to be phased out incrementally. It will also liberalise trade in services, while also signaling a step towards building strong regional value chains.

Forty four out of 55 African leaders ratified the AfCFTA at an Extra-ordinary Summit of the AU Assembly in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 21. Nine other AU members, including Nigeria and South Africa delayed accent to the treaty.

President Muhammadu Buhari was earlier scheduled to travel to Kigali to ratify the trade deal, which is easily the largest trade agreement since the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1994. But he backtracked on the opposition of the OPS who said they were not consulted.


Specifically, the OPS decried poor preparations, lack of consultations, and non-inclusion of inputs by key stakeholders as regards market access and enforcement of rules of origin as major reasons why signing the agreement will jeopardise the nation’s economy.

Consequently, the president, on March 27, set up a committee to review the CFTA framework agreement. The committee has since swung into action to strengthen its consultations with critical stakeholders and determine how various sectors of the economy will benefit from the proposed agreement.

The committee is said to have explained to the various stakeholders the contents of the 250-page document, which some of them did not read. It has also been working assiduously to allay the fears of the private sector, specifically on issues dealing with the particular tariff lines that shall be liberalised.

“What we are doing is to establish a technical working group on goods market access, consisting MAN, Ministry of Finance, National Bureau of Statistics, NACCIMA. We asked MAN to give us the list of products they would like to see in the 10 per cent. They have sent since last May 11.

“In other words, everything MAN asked to be included in the exclusive and sensitive list (10 per cent not for liberalisation) has been done,” Osakwe told reporters, in Abuja.

http://thenationonlineng.net/africa-free-trade-deal-why-manufacturers-are-adamant/

Say No to #AtikulooterCONtinua.

Evablizin:
What are you saying?

Come on, you need an IQ higher than a single digit...

wideawaken01:
Senator Seidu Dansadau, a governorship candidate in Zamfara State, says former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is not corrupt even as he accused clerics and the media as the main blocs of influencers of the erroneous but unsubstantiated accusation that Atiku is corrupt.

 •Sourced from Vanguard report

Who dash this Senator forensic skills?
When proper dossier dey Yankee, who this one wan deceive?

Neoteny:


One glaring fact Atiku is only out to steal:

He wants to "restructure" which is a herculean task

And he wants only one term to do it, a mathematical impossibility

I don't like buhari, but atiku would end up being the worst mistake Nigerians could ever make. PDP will never change.

He is out to revamp his troubled companies...much like the Atikulooter-in-Chief - our nation's renowned farmer in O**.

Cry me a river, Atikulooter Fani-Kayode.

Anyone who has been following the news knows that neither you nor Fayose has been able to travel Westwards for several years now, due to your earlier antecedents of Atikulooting.

Presidential Executive Order No. 6 has merely provided you with another outlet to vent! Whereas what is closer to the truth is; we are talking about a surplus to requirements in your case. Have you not long being declared a 'personan no grata' by saner countries, as a result of money laundering activities? .

Stopping #AtikulooterCONtinua - the task that must be done.

jonuel1:



what about the issue of NOI not yielding to sharing moves and Obi not spending lavishly...can you see that we are the cause of our woes.

That matter is tangential to my trail of thought

Stopping Atikulooter from CONtinua is the task that must be done. To make am plain, that nah my primary focus.

By the way, since you asked; Peter Obi nah bad market.
He will be reminded about various instances he has played the ethnocentric card, when the electoral campaigns kick into full swing.
Nah then we go sabi say echo chamber pass echo chamber

kahal29:


Am telling you

Atikulootor wey dey crisscross our political terrain since 1999 like persin wey no get clear direction.
Atikulootor wan chop and clean mouth again

But FFK no fit travel abroad from time now?
I beg leave matter for pipu wey the ting really consign.