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In Chapter VIII, Part VI of the 1999 Constitution, Section 318 (1) gave a lucid interpretation to what the constitution meant by “School Certificate or its equivalent” thus:

“School Certificate or its equivalent” means-

(a) a Secondary School Certificate or its equivalent, or Grade II Teacher’s Certificate, the City and Guilds Certificate; or

(b) education up to Secondary School Certificate level; or

(c) Primary Six School Leaving Certificate or its equivalent and -

(i) service in the public or private sector in the Federation in any capacity acceptable to the Independent National Electoral Commission for a minimum of ten years, and

(ii) attendance at courses and training in such institutions as may be acceptable to the Independent National Electoral Commission for periods totaling up to a minimum of one year, and

(iii) the ability to read, write, understand and communicate in the English Language to the satisfaction of the Independent National Electoral Commission; and

(d) any other qualification acceptable by the Independent National Electoral Commission.”

In essence, constitutionally, a presidential contestant is eligible even if the only educational qualification he/she possesses is a mere “Primary Six School Leaving Certificate” or “the ability to read, write, understand and communicate in the English Language” or “service in the public or private sector in the Federation in any capacity acceptable to INEC for a minimum of ten years” or “attendance at courses and training in such institutions as may be acceptable to the INEC for periods totaling up to a minimum of one year.”

This is the present position of the law. Nigerians are however free to propose its amendment if there is a general believe that we need to increase qualification standard for would be presidential aspirants in Nigeria.

Based on the highlighted alone, of what relevance was certificate when ability to read and write alone guarantees your candidacy?

What about years in public service? Buhari gave us decades of public service right?


It's just sad how the PDP keep using the same regional spoilers and willing tools to distract and destabilise the country. The same set of people were used to form the fake APC....smh..

brownlord:
You just need to wonder the kind of people we have in this part of he world, from the onset, the buharist have always kicked against anyone asking buhari to speak up on this issue or have him provide the original certificate just to clear the air.

They resort to some senseless rant about buhari rising to become a general, attending war college and all nonsense.

If i use a fake certificate to gain admission into the university, the fact that i completed the programme without the school noticing this suddenly makes my forged certificate, the admission and degree i later obtain valid.

Smh

1. The case wasn't going anywhere to start with regarding his qualification and ability to contest the last election simply because there was no such unitary certificate requirement. You can not sue and win any case against GMB since he didn't violate any election laws and INEC also stated that he did not violate any election laws so exactly what are you suing for?

2. There are countless requirements including ability to read and write, 10 years of public service and so on so of what relevance was certificate?


That was a shameful and pathetic fools errand that wasn't going anywhere.

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omolami:
All hail our Hero; Jonathan who continue to save nigerians from bloodshead. If d court had pronounced buhari guilty the same faith that Jonathan avoided by conceding defeat could have played out again. It is fact that APC supporters are Almajiris, urchins and buchers looking for who to kill. Jonathan is noble and peaceful he went further by withdrawing the suit. What a great mind and a hero of our time. God bless Jonathan and family.

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This hero thing is pathetic and shameful jare. Damn. It's getting old stale and meaningless..

MzJackBaueress:
Jonathan's administration made his loyalists to be anti-buhari. You can't really blame the minister.

Don't be surprised you hear tomorrow that the Agricultural minister has been sacked because Buhari recommended his to ADB.


Jonathan is still mourning his loss and he will make sure others are affected by his loss to Buhari.

Very very possible.

dustydee:
You mean like this:

That disgraced and discredited joker is what you call shameless and deceitful walking contradiction.

I won't click on your silly blog link or visit that worthless trash, but I'll address and deal with whatever rubbish you post on NL..

Is it even possible for the luckiest man alive to be a loser?


He's party not only won, but also fought the Aso Rock clown, his police errand boy, his crude and crass wife, engineered his defeat and effectively sent the dullard back to otuoke whole still standing on his 2 feet and destined to hold a better position of influence at the National level while the otuoke dullard and his wife laments in the creeks?


I know you TaNOIDS are yet to get the memo that election is over, that Amaechi and his party won, that the dullard is heading back to the creeks as planed, that you still have to deal with amaechi and GMB for the next 8 years, but I know TaNoids are slow learners so your sad, clueless and pathetic situation is understandable...

Another fayose in the making...

Smh..

abduljabbar4:

Ladies and gentle men I present to you the most foolish nairalander. So who cares about your criticism? Mtcheew. You are saying that we are giving you attention, do you know that Shekau is famous and listed as one of the most influential people on earth but yet nobody respects him? You are only a celebrity because of your foolishness

Wikid.. Drops dead..

Thank You all for your contribution in making this "barcanista brand" an online celebrity!!!!

Failure, shamelessness, lack of credibility and political prostitution is what losers like you call celebrity these days? Lousy comedy must be one of your many failed and pathetic skills...

Your brand means failure and lack of credibility

This disgraced and discredited barca loser again.

This must be before Aso rock crumbs enter pocket.

Useless political prostitutes with no sense of self worth and belonging...smh.

This disgraced and discredited barca loser again.

This must be before Aso rock crumbs enter pocket.

Useless political prostitutes with no sense of worth and belonging...smh.

In personality structure the typical Igbo has traits of paranoia, narcissism and antisocial personality. He is paranoid because aware of his lack of existential worth, and instead of accepting that reality, he masks it with pretended worth; he pretends to have fictional worth.


http://www.igbofocus.com/html/the_igbo_problem_can_be_fixed.html

Typical traits...smh

kaydkay:
To all those Pessimists/PDP supporters wishing/praying for Buhari to fail you should know that "Impossible means nothing to a very focused man". There was a time when State Governments couldn't generate up to 10million IGR for the whole year (Lagos inclusive) until some right thinking and smart people did the right things.

I saw a report in the papers and on TV last week that Lagos State IGR is now in the region of 23 BILLION (TWENTY THREE BILLION!!) MONTHLY.

Now whoever thought Lagos could generate such huge sums? The money has been there all along but it wasn't properly harnessed.

We all keep labeling Nigeria as a Potential Super Power -Economic wise but despite this potentials, we haven't amounted to anything because of lack of political will of those in government.

I believe Buhari will do well.
I believe it will not be business as usual for those running the country down economically.
I believe some you praying for the down fall of the incoming Government will be alive to see the greatness of these great nation.
I believe the Poster and some of the "PDP never see anything good in buhari" people will soon eat their words and run away with their tails between their legs in shame as the man Buhari puts this country on the path of greatness again.

Just my 2 cents.

Very well said.

leofab:
Icounter him intelligently if you are educated and not calling names..

leofab:
you be gooat!!!! Do you think Sambisa is a Town? Go and capture a virgin forest as large as twice the land mass of Lagos State...

Coming from this same hypocrite who just insulted another poster instead of sane and rational counter views..


Please keep quiet...

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barcanista:
PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ

This thread is in response to the Thread by Obiagelli's https://www.nairaland.com/2265908/buharis-social-program-very-possible. In her bid to defend the Social policy of Mr Buhari, Obiagelli insulted the intelligence of Nigerians with respect to what is accrued to the Federal Government in revenue per fiscal year. Let us start by putting things in order...

Nigeria's Revenue:
Nigeria's revenue is accrued through oil export, non oil export, oil tax and non oil tax. The Federal Inland Revenue Service is statutory responsible for the collection of both oil profit tax and non oil tax. The money for oil export goes directly to the Federation Account via the NNPC. The money generated via non oil export goes directly to the federation account through relevant Agencies.

Oil Revenue:
The total sum realised through Oil export(after operational cost) and oil profit tax is known as "Oil Revenue"

Non Oil Revenue
While the sum realised through export of other commodities(after operational cost) and the money realised from non oil profit tax is called "Non Oil Revenue".

What Did Nigeria Earn Between January 2014 and January 2015?
Nigeria Total Earning:
Jan 2014 - June 2014 = N5.109trn

June 2014 - Jan 2015= N3.676trn

Total: N8.785trn

Total Oil Revenue (Oil Export Earning + Oil taxes)
= 70% of Total Revenue ie N6.15trn

*Total Non Oil Revenue (Non Oil Export + Non oil taxes)
= 30% of N8.785trn ie N2.635 trn

Jan 2014- June 2014 = N1.08trn*
July 2014 - Jan 2015= N1.556trn [N2.635trn]

Understanding FIRS 2014 Report:
FIRS announced that the sum of N4.69trn was generated in 2014. The report indicated that N2.45 trillion, representing 52.96 per cent, was collected from petroleum profit tax while N2.24 trillion, representing 47.04 per cent, was collected from non-oil taxes during the period.
Analysis
This sum(N4.69trn) is not independent of the published N8.785trn that Nigeria was said to earn between Jan 2014 and January 2014. It is a part and parcel of the total revenue.

How Much Did FG Get In 2014?
There is a consolidated Sharing formula between FG, States, LGs and Oil Producin States(13%) after operational and other associated cost has been deducted.
FG Earnings In 2014
1st Qtr: N912 billion
2nd Qtr: N864.2 billion
3rd Qtr: N924.68 billon
4th Qtr: N617.186 billion
Total 2014= N3.318trn

2014 Budget: N4.6trn
FG Projected Earning for 2014= N3.73tr
Real Earning = N3.318trn
Deficit in 2014 Fiscal Year: N1.282trn

What this means is that the money accrued to the FG was not even enough to fund 2014 budget. We had a deficit of N1.282trn.
Also note that the fall in oil price affected our earning.

Looking At 2015 Budget:
The 2015 budget(as adjusted) stand at N4.3trn.
Projected Revenue For 2015= N3.603trn
Deficit: N1.297trn (N4.3trn - N3.603trn)

This means the 2015 budget will be run on deficit of N1.297trn (as confirmed by the Senate).

Looking At Buhari's Proposal
With Buhari's proposed N1.89tr Social program, it invariably means an additional N1.89trn will be added to the projected deficit of N1.29 trn ie N3.187trn if he is to go ahead with paying of N5000 to 25 million unemployed annually, from where will he be able to make up the HUGE deficit?.

Analysing The Argument of The Pro-Buharis
Some Pro-Buharis claim that the project will be done in phase of 5m people per year. However, the problem of "How to identify these 5m beneficiaries" and what will be the for selection?
Anyway, that is for another day. Let's go by their argument...
Unemployment benefit: 5m * N5000 = N300 billion.

*The N300b is for the payment benefit alone*. Add that to logistics, overhead and operational cost that the program will incur (approx 50% ie N150billion) annually.

Total: N300b + N150b = N450b

Feeding for 40m Public School Children = N373 billion.

Subtotal: N823 billion.

Where Will Buhari Source For the estimated N823 billion?

- Remove Subsidy? Total package for petrol and kerosene subsidies plus SURE-P fund = N166.5b. That is clearly not up to 30%.

- Invest All Capital Expenditure + Subsidy? This will be a very silly move though. But adding Capital Expenditure and Subsidy will total N866.9 billion. Just a little above the projected N823billion.
Going this route means there will be no project for road, no infrastructure and other capital projects. In fact, it is synonymous to eating the present away.

- Will He Borrow? Borrowing to fund Social Welfare program is synonymous to eating away the future. That means indebting our future and a panacea to economic collapse likened to what happened to Greece if not worse. It also means increasing our already projected deficit of N1.29 trillion

What is the fate of this Social program? Feasible, Laudable or Laughable?

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This is the sad truth about snake oil peddling jokers like you, you don't know when to quit, you just keep jumping from one failure and losing battle to the next with the same failed and discredited rants.

You personally are a failed and discredited loser. You sat here on NL with your thoughtless, misguided and condescending pre election analysis stating dubious, ignorant and infantile rubbish per how the people of Nigeria shall vote, but the people of Nigeria not only proved you wrong, they discredited you and the crooked, corrupt and incompetent people you run errands for.

It really doesn't matter how many failed rubbish you litter the internet with, you are a failed and discredited losers, your pre election nonsense just like this crap failed you so of what relevance and importance is another bogus and ignorant analysis by the same discredited loser?

Thank God the people of Nigeria relegated you and your masters to failed and loser level.

New and better Nigeria is here and it doesn't matter if you and your type are part of it or not.

ocelot2006:
Work ongoing. Happy now?

Work going on where? Please show us the link or where the pics came from...

taharqa:
OLODO ×2

Must you call people what you call members of your household..? Unintelligent Internet nuisance...

atlwireles:


[b]Cutting the cost of government means sacking thousands of civil servants, [/b]there is no two ways about that. Reducing fraudulent business acts, is best imagined in this country. We refuse to restructure, so we are paying the price for inefficiency. Any form of Tax increase MUST AND WILL BE VIGOROUS OPPOSED. You will not tax hard working regions to fund loads of lazy poor people. Increasing any form of tax must be done at the state level.

Let APC take the same revenue as is today and perform their miracle, they promised Nigeria before the election.

Cutting cost means saving billions we pay out in form of fraudulent estacodes and other official looting schemes. Governors, agency directors, ministers and even the presidency organizes jamborees for themselves and their personally hired cronies specifically to pocket estacodes. Many government officials make almost same like their official salaries in one year off estacodes alone.

Cutting cost means instead of flying to Abuja with tons of aids and collecting estacodes for officials engagements including security council meetings, let them do it via video conferencing.

All the ministries practically seek conferences to jamboree to every month just to loot and collect estacodes. Cut out unnecessary travelings to attend irrelvant conferences.

Cut out embassies in places like Mali budgeting for railway and boats that doesn't exist

Cut out foreign ministries budgeting millions for fuel and generators in countries where they have uninterrupted power supply.

Cut out ministries and SGF offices looting billions every year by replacing thousands of computers and overcharging for 2 dollar softwares. Computers shouldn't be replaced every year unless absolutely necessary..

Cut out re furnishing, rebuilding and reflowering VP's, speaker of the house's and the senate president's residence every year.

Cut out ministries and agencies hiring consultants/ cronies with billions just for the consultants to send the money back into their pockets to do everything instead of government officials within the ministry sitting on their assess doing nothing..

Hiring consultants is the new and most profitable looting scheme in Nigeria today.

This is why the government spends 90% of the yearly budget maintaining themselves while Nigerians scrambles for the remaining 10% that they still loot anyway.

This is the reason why they can not spend anything on any project or program to better the people, the money is just not there.

Nearly everything GEJ awarded was done with loans from china from billions of dollars to on kpangolo railway to repainting airport, power plant, $500 million abuja cctv toy scam and so on.

We still have subsidy scam, oil theft, revenue diversion, unaccounted fees collected by federal agencies and parastatals and so on..


No, they don't have to lay off any civil servant to save billions and even trillions....

barcanista:
This is how things work....

Nigeria Generates revenue from Oil export...

Nigeria PAY Oil companies their own share for Operational Cost (mind you Nigeria is even owing these people).


Na wa 4 you o

What's your post about oil got to do with the fact that The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) generated N4.69 trillion from taxes for the federal government in 2014 and not the the oil you keep repeating blindly?

barcanista:
@Obiagelli: I have tried to break it to your level pls re-read my comment. The money declared by FIRS is inclusive of ALL earnings accrued to the FG. Where do you think the 4.67trn came from? Lol.. Or you expect the FG to take all 5trn? Do you you think the Oil Companies and other players are Charity organisation? Do you have an idea how much in percentage is for the government? Abeg no fall your hand jare... de

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) said on Thursday that it generated N4.69 trillion from taxes for the federal government in 2014.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/firs-generates-n4-69tn-revenue-in-2014/200484/

Generated from taxes/IGR and not oil?


Why do you people argue blindly, ignorantly and deceptively?

https://www.imostateblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/382751_10150489201908884_654228883_8860982_30438140_n-300x300.jpg



No more 1 billion food budget. Good riddance to the creek clown....

XBLadez:
Save ur breath and energy. All these silly rants will do you no good. You're APC for a reason and we're PDP for our own reason. You're now in power but u have no right to kick against criticism or hate comments from the opposition; not even when we have good reasons. You did the same when we were in power, so don't be so pained. One good turn deserves another

1. To start with, no soul under the surface of the earth is above credible and valid criticism including GMB himself and even as his supporter, I'll criticize any wrongdoing on his part before you GEJ till 2019 TaNoids do so save the silly crap. We are not dummy see no evil and hear no evil supporters like you TaNoids.

2. What are you and the unintelligent OP criticizing? The only thing you are criticizing is your own made up loser nonsense since GMB is only the president elect and not the president of Nigeria.

3. He hasn't done anything as the president of Nigeria, no instituted official policies yet, you don't know who the ministers are or the members of his administration, none of the policies you are crying about are in effect or tested so what are you criticizing?


You are right that you are a TaNoid for a reason since TaNoidS think and act like TaNoids..

Desteenee:
Barcanista my broda, APC is an overhyped concept bound to fade away in the shortest time. A party built on lies , deceit and propaganda cannot be trusted.
Soon ALHAJI LIE and his big eyeglass will face the camera and deny that they never made these promises.

APC will implode

APC won't last

APC wont see 2014

APC this and that....


...but the same APC sent your otuoke dullard back to his fishing and ogogoro drinking duties in the creeks..


We've heard the highlighted before so save that crap for your kind...

MizMyColi:
Well, I see right through what you're trying to do, that's pretty much what Josef Stalin did to the Russians of his time.

"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."

Blackmail (emotional and direct), Oppression and Suppression, Intimidation (threats if necessary)...

Now that I've listed part of your MO, I must say that I'm disappointed if this is the best tactic you could come up with to put me down. You may now give it your best shot.

While at it, Be rest assured you will be
iGnored!

What's your pointless and meaningless rubbish got to do with the fact that you are a GEJ till 2019 TanOID running game commentary before game time and even before players are selected? Your rubbish is based on what exactly? On mental laziness and need to spew rubbish about a non existing government at least not till May 29th. Where is the sense and wisdom in that?

This is nothing but the typical mentally lazy TaNoid senseless and thoughtless nonsense.

sarahatuba:
Its funny how y'all are already criticizing someone who is yet to be sworn in.......it is well

They call them TaNoids for a reason...

MizMyColi:
I just downloaded, read and took a screenshot of all 20 pages of said APC roadmap.

I would be quite callous to expect them to deliver on all those. Those were actually written and graphicalized by good copywriters who had very vivid and idealistic sense of imagination.

I have always praised the PR and Media arm of APC, I hope they come up with some form of abracadabra to turn off to an appreciable level, the level of expectations Nigerians have bestowed on the incoming government.

My heart goes out to Buhari, who might not be able to handle these pressures and when they start pouring in, really I fear for his health.

Why has Osinbajo gone silent?

Why are there more news filtering in on Jonathan's loss and his campaign funds. Could this be a propaganda to quell the masses demand for 5k and free meals with the excuse that Jona finished all our money on elections (which might as well be a lie)?

Why is Buhari so party conscious, this is the same path Jona took (trying to placate everyone) and lost popularity with most of the populace.

The social media painted to me, an image of a man who is ruthless, who takes no prisoners....having read his recent interview, I must say this, I am not impressed, I have to point out though, that he made some statements that showed his selflessness and will to do the Nation good.....I hope his willpower sustains that.


Well, these are mostly random thoughts and I hope things pan out for the better in the near future.
Despite my convictions about the APC, a huge part of me still looks forward to a better Nigeria, a changed Status quo.

So help us God.

MizMyColi:
It's the people at the helm of APC affairs I don't like

I like PDP because of GEJ
I don't trust most PDP politicians either

*in Temitemi1's voice*

GEJ my HERO!! True DEMOCRATS My ROLE MODELS!

Always funny when TanOIDS and GEJ till 2019 people like you try to sound sane when in fact it's still the TaNoid in you still blabbing...


Funny 419 and deceptive jokers..

superstar1:
Is this what being an opposition is?

You are just starting. You need to brush up your skills.

If some states have done it on a lower scale, it will be replicated on a larger scale at Federal level. Simple.

We have seen it done before at lower scale. That means it is possible to upscale to a larger quantum at central level.

Opposing his ideas, when he has not even taken over the mantle of leadership, clearly shows some people are still too pained about the loss of March 28, that they are yet to move on or they just want to be holding on to straws and be criticism irrationally.

I won't even call them opposition simply because they are not up to the task, they are even still mentally buried and possesses zero vision or any form of rational or credible reasoning.

Every doable think is huge task and rocket science to lazy, incompetent and mentally bankrupt people.

It's even worse with these jokers because they are a bunch of self defeatist people with zero sense of worth ....

No wonder Nigerians got rid of their useless, corrupt and incompetent masters... Good riddance to bad rubbish..

Even the otuoke dullard and his shipo wife's 1 billion Naira food bill will go a long way...

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tomakint:
Like the slave mentality you have always portrayed here, what do you stand to gain in this janjanweed government

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Trolls and TaNoids bore me...