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National Open University of Nigeria. Can your school beat that?

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ON NIGERIA'S MISSING OIL REVENUE BILLIONS BY EMIR OF KANO, SANUSI LAMIDO
Just over a year ago President Goodluck Jonathan suspended me from my position as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria after I questioned an estimated $20bn shortfall in oil revenues due to the treasury from the state oil company. As I said then, you can suspend a man, but you cannot suspend the truth. The publication last month of a PwC audit into the “missing billions” brings us a step closer to it.

When I was central bank governor I raised three broad questions. First, did the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation remit to the government the entire proceeds of its crude oil sales? Second, if it did not, is there proof of the purpose to which the unremitted amounts were applied? And third, did NNPC have the legal authority to withhold these funds?

Just over a year ago President Goodluck Jonathan suspended me from my position as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria after I questioned an estimated $20bn shortfall in oil revenues due to the treasury from the state oil company. As I said then, you can suspend a man, but you cannot suspend the truth. The publication last month of a PwC audit into the “missing billions” brings us a step closer to it.When I was central bank governor I raised three broad questions. First, did the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation remit to the government the entire proceeds of its crude oil sales? Second, if it did not, is there proof of the purpose to which the unremitted amounts were applied? And third, did NNPC have the legal authority to withhold these funds?

Contrary to the claims of petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, the audit report does not exonerate the NNPC. It establishes that the gap between the company’s oil revenues between January 2012 and July 2013 and cash remitted to the government for the same period was $18.5bn. And it goes into detail about the NNPC’s account of how it used that money, which raises serious questions about the legality of the state oil company’s conduct.

The auditors say a significant part of the unremitted funds is supposed to have gone towards a kerosene subsidy that had been stopped two and a half years earlier by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua. His decree never appeared in the official gazette, leading some to question whether it ever had legal force.

Evidence disclosed in the report suggests this is a sideshow. The executive secretary of the agency charged with administering subsidies confirmed that, acting on Yar’Adua’s orders, it had ceased granting subsidies on kerosene. There was no appropriation for such a subsidy in the 2012 or 2013 budgets.

Throughout all this, Nigerians paid 120-140 naira a litre of kerosene, far more than the supposed subsidised price of 50 naira. Yet the state oil company withheld $3.4bn to pay for a subsidy that in effect did not exist. I have consistently held that this was a scam that violated the constitution and siphoned off money from the treasury.

The second major item raised in the report relates to the transfer of oil assets belonging to the federation to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, a subsidiary of the NNPC.

NPDC has paid $100m for these assets, from which it extracted crude valued at $6.8bn but paid tax and royalties worth $1.7bn in the period scrutinised by the auditors. PwC was unable to establish how much of the remaining $5.1bn should have been remitted to the government. But the report showed that, along with the private companies NPDC partnered with, it was extracting crude worth billions of dollars but yielding very little revenue for the treasury. I was investigating related transactions when I was suspended.

The third major item is a claim of $2.8bn by NNPC for expenses not directly attributable to crude oil operations; PwC said “clarity is required” on whether such upfront deductions from remittances to the federation accounts are allowed, or whether the money should have been remitted to the government. Finally, there are duplicated ex­penses, “unsubstantiated” costs, computation “errors” and tax shortfalls; a total of $1.48bn has to be refunded.

Of the $18.5bn in revenues that the state oil company did not send to the government, about $12.5bn appears by my calculations to have been diverted. And this relates only to a random 19-month period, not the five-year term of Mr Jonathan, the outgoing president.

Nigerians did not vote for an amnesty for anyone. The lines of investigation suggested by this audit need to be pursued. Any officials found responsible for involvement in this apparent breach of trust must be charged.

* Sanusi Lamido is the nanswered Questions on Nigeria’s Missing Oil Revenue Billions By Sanusi LamidoEmir of Kano and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria​
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FIGHTING FOR YOUR FUTURE
Fight for your future, or destroy it. This is a choice everyone must make.

We, Students from the National Open University of Nigeria are about to embark on the first of its kind national struggle to end, once and for all, the unjustifiable discrimination of our distinguish institution. This is a pursuit of justice and we are determined to resist any intimidation from any quarters. Our destiny is at stake, we won’t allow anyone jeopardize it.
As a result of our coming together under the platform of Congress of Noun Students, we are about to make a national statement that indeed, our institution cannot be discriminated. Congress of Noun Student is a group of Open University Students from every study centre across the federation.
If you are yet to be committed to our struggle to end discrimination of National Open University by Law School, NYSC and other bodies, here is another reason for you to re-think for your own benefit.
Using myself as a case study:
I was admitted into the National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja Study Centre in 2007.
Before I applied to NOUN to seek admission, I made proper inquiry about Law School, NYSC and others to be sure that everything Is fine.
During my inquiry, I mean in 2007, I was told by NOUN management that NOUN would go to law school, Noun would go for NYSC etc.
But today, 2015, after 8years. I mean, after I have graduated from this same institution without going for any Nysc, and now, almost completing my Masters degree, NOUN is yet to go to law school, it is yet to go to Nysc.
But still, if you go to NOUN management about law school and Nysc, they would still tell you in confidence, Noun would go to law school, it would go for Nysc.
This means that, as far as Noun managements are concerned, they will continue to use that sweet words to deceive students and prospective students alike.
Let me inform you once again, NOUN will never go to law school, it will never go for Nysc, UNLESS WE ACT and STOP the discrimination. UNTIL THE STUDENTS ACT, NOTHING WILL CHANGE.

Let me also inform you that, if NYSC, Law School and others continue to discriminate against NOUN without the students taking the right steps now to correct it, you are destined to face many more discrimination after graduation. Though, you may not know now.
I therefore call on every Noun students irrespective of your location to join the struggle to liberate Noun from internal and external discrimination.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO SUCCEED.
BE COUNTED.
CONGRESS OF NOUN STUDENTS

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NO NIGERIAN DESERVE TO OBEY TRAFFIC RULE IF THE PRESIDENT WON'T DO SO.

I fault the below argument.
Buhari's Order On Escorts, A Security Risk- Akinyemi

FORMER Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, yesterday, faulted the instruction given by President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to his motorcade to obey traffic instructions at all times.

Buhari had, on Wednesday May 6, 2015, ordered all security personnel attached to him as well as his official escorts to obey traffic rules, a directive which the Director of Media and Publicity of the All Progressives Congress Presidential campaign council, Mallam Garba Shehu, in a statement, described as a demonstration of Buhari’s leadership style.

The president-elect specifically said his administration would be guided by obedience to the law, as the ordinary citizens would become copycats of the lawlessness of their leaders “without leadership by example.”

But Akinyemi, a professor of Political Science, who was deputy chairman of the 2014 National Conference, described the President-elect’s decision and directive to his motorcade as potential threat to national security.

In his May 9, 2015 ‘open letter’ to the President-elect, Akinyemi argued that Buhari was wrong on his security instructions. “There is no country in the world where the motorcade of a President, or Prime Minister or Head of State is subject to traffic regulations.

I have just watched the motorcade of the British Prime Minister on his way to Buckingham Palace. Traffic was stopped and his outriders ensured that the motorcade was not impeded,” Akinyemi explained.


He disclosed that he initially refrained from commenting on Buhari’s instruction to his official escorts and security personnel, but stressed that his reaction became even more important following the bombing episodes in Potiskum and gun attacks along the Damaturu-Kano Road.

“When you announced on Wednesday May 6, 2015 that you have instructed your security motorcade to obey traffic instructions, my immediate reaction was to write you this letter.

I refrained because I did not want to subject myself to the abuse on the social media that passes for criticism. “But after the bombing episodes in Potiskum, Yobe and gun attacks along Damaturu-Kano road, I changed my mind because of the implication for national security of your decision.”

Referring to the events of 1975/76 after the overthrow of General Gowon’s military administration, Akinyemi recalled that General Murtala Muhammed became Head of State in 1975 after the overthrow of General Gowon and abolished the motorcade for himself, governors and military ministers in reaction against what was perceived as the security excesses of the Gowon regime.

‘‘You were a military governor in that regime. You would recall what happened next. General Muhammed was gunned down while his car was waiting at a road junction.”

According to the Political Scientist, Nigeria and the world have become a more dangerous place than in 1976 when Muhammed was assassinated. He, therefore, urged the President-elect to recall the attempt on his life just last year when his motorcade was attacked in Kaduna.

“There is no country in the world where the motorcade of a President, or Prime Minister or Head of State is subject to traffic regulations. I have just watched the motorcade of the British Prime Minister on his way to Buckingham Palace.

Traffic was stopped and his outriders ensured that the motorcade was not impeded.” Akinyemi further argued the issue at stake should not be about General Buhari’s personal safety alone, but also that of the “Nigerian national security.’’

“You would recall the controversy that followed the ascension to the Presidency of the then Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan following the death of President Yar’Adua because some people felt the ascension breached the principle of rotation.

“In fact, this was what led the 2014 National Conference to recommend a constitutional provision that in case of vacancy in the President’s seat, a Vice-President from the same zone should serve out the term of the incumbent.

This…shows the extent of the sensitivity about the seat of the President. “We cannot continue to take chances with the peace and stability of Nigeria and depend on God to bail us out,” Akinyemi said, urging the President-elect to reconsider his decision, “not for your sake but for the sake of Nigeria.”

Akinyemi was appointed Minister of External Affairs by former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida in 1985, during which he originated the Technical Aid Corps (TAC), a programme that sent Nigerian professionals overseas to engage in volunteer work.

He also headed numerous Nigerian delegations, including those to the United Nations General Assembly Session (1985), the Organisation of African Unity, Council of Ministers Session (1986), the Non–Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference (1986) and the United Nations General Assembly Annual Session (1986).

Akinyemi also headed the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the Critical Economic Situation in Africa (1986), the Budget Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity (1987), the Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity (1987), the United Nations General Assembly Session (1987), and to the Extra–Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity devoted to African debt (1987).

Akinyemi, in 1987, stated his support for Nigeria developing nuclear weapons, referring to the proposal as the “black bomb.” The Wikipedia quoted the professor as having said: “Nigeria has a sacred responsibility to challenge the racial monopoly of nuclear weapons.”

I am also doing my Masters in Open University. i will be thru this coming semester.

barbiegirl4luv:
Under ur canopy! LMAO.
U might even want to say NOUN is one of the best if not the best university in Nigeria.

I do not know your school, but i can assure you that an average student in Open University is better than the best student in school. Quote me anywhere.


If you doubt, i will personally facilitate a debate or competition between your school and Open university to clear your doubt.

No school can be compared to Open University in Nigeria in term of academic grinding....This is the only university where your mark equals your work. Write your exam now, get your score now. No seeing lecturer, no this, no that. its almost a zero % mal practice....

Even those exams you write on paper, they mark it like WAEC.. write exam in Lagos Study centre, its being marked may be in Kano, or calabar.

I repeat, no school can be compared.


every student who eventually graduate from Open University cannot be compared

Also, i have equally read that some people claim that school is basically meant for adults, but this is another false notion.

Open university is meant for everyone, young, old, adult, teenager etc. It is a school for all those who seek education irrespective of their status, location or financial capability. It is flexible and open to accommodate all your contrains.

It has been brought to my attention that some people who knew nothing about Open University continue to speak ignorantly about the school being a part time school, No...you are wrong.

Open University is not a part time school, it doesn't run part time programme, it has never been.

Open University is full time school...FULL TIME. The mode of learning is Open and distance learning....Not part time. BE EDUCATED instead of speaking out of ignorance.

Buhari's Anti-Corruption Regime: Saraki, A Misfit.

By: Ogah Simeon

Date: 2015-05-09

Since the results of the March 28th National Assembly and Presidential elections where the All Progressives Congress (APC), took lead, there has been a saturation of the media waves with the issue of who occupies the number three position and is chairman of the National Assembly.

With the APC in majority, it is evident that this position will surely go to one of the lot. In the course of the discourse three major contenders have been mentioned amongst which are Sen. Ahmadu Lawan from Yobe State, Sen. Bukola Saraki from Kwara State and Sen. George Akume from Benue State. While many issues and sentiments to justify their selection have been thrown up to include but not restricted to religion, zoning, ranking, tribe and even god-fatherism.

However at a period when the nation is supposed to be going through a period of renaissance of a sort, when the government is on a journey to rebuild the peoples’ confidence in the government and also reduce the corruption level of the nation to a negligible ebb, it is pertinent that superseding the already mentioned criteria is one that is scarcely mentioned while considering candidature- Corruption and uprightness.

The mere mention of Bukola Saraki’s aspiration for the position of Nigeria’s number three citizen not only soils the country’s image but will also make nonsense of Buhari’s avowed zero tolerance for corruption. The former governor has been amongst those pencilled down by anti-graft agencies for alleged and obvious corruption charges but has been using legal gymnastics to frustrate efforts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to make him account for such.

Senator Bukola Saraki should not be considered for the leadership of the National Assembly because he has a lot of questions to answer. For instance, some Nigerian families lost their money to the Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria (SGBN) which collapsed under Bukola Saraki amongst which is the alleged conversion of such public property like Shonga Farms, Kwara Cargo Terminal and Kwara Metro Park into personal use Various agencies of government have blamed the collapse on alleged monumental fraud perpetrated by the bank’s authorities. And as Nigerians read these investigations for alleged misdeeds related partly to his two-term tenure as governor of Kwara State by the Nigerian police and Nigeria’s flagship anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are still ongoing.

EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde said in various newspaper reports of March 23, 2015 that Bukola Saraki (was) still being investigated including but not limited to his headship of the SGBN and tenure as Kwara State Governor between 2003 and 2011, even as Saraki has repeatedly sought to stop these investigations by always rushing to the court to seek injunction against the Nigerian police and other agencies of government from investigating, arresting or prosecuting him.

One of such cases is Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/131/12 pending before the Federal High Court in Abuja, after a similar failed attempt before the Lagos judicial division of the same court.

It would appear that he merely filed the suit to tie the hands of the police from prosecuting him under the guise of lis pendis, as there has been no appreciable progress since the commencement of the matter almost two years ago.

Also in Suit No. KWS/74/2015, obtained vide a Motion Ex-parte before the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin an order of injunction to restrain at least 14 frontline media houses from publishing anything against him. Of course, he was granted his prayers even without any justifiable urgency, and further hearing in the Motion on Notice and the substantive suit has been stalled as the judge is said to be on Election Petition Tribunal assignment.

In the said case pending before the Federal High Court in Abuja since April 2012, the police filed a counter-affidavit, which revealed tongue-wagging details of humongous frauds against Kwara people and the Nigerian state. We refer the APC leadership to the affidavit dated April 23rd 2012 filed by the Nigerian Police. This affidavit detailed not just involvement in a N21 billion Intercontinental Bank loan scam but also how Kwara State assets were used to guarantee loans for private companies.
This affidavit detailed how personal aides allegedly made unlawful withdrawals from accounts belonging to a company owned by the deceased aide.

It is worthy to also mention a January 2nd, 2013, petition on the opaqueness surrounding ownership of the much-vaunted Shonga Farm was forwarded to the presidency. Documents and facts were supplied to implore the central government to save Kwara from the frauds called Shonga Farm. With hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money and thousands of hectares of lands seized from the affected community in the guise of setting up a commercial farm in partnership with so-called Zimbabwean farmers, Kwara government has now told the people of the state that Shonga Farm is now owned by ‘private concerns.’

It is common knowledge that under his watch, the CBN declared Kwara State unbankable arising from the huge debts taken partly to fund this same Shonga Farm. And up till date, Kwara state allocation is still being deducted from source on account of Irrevocable Standing Payment Order.
In the same petition was detailed, the dubious ownership structure of Kwara Cargo Terminal and Kwara Metro Park, all white elephant projects set up with Kwara funds but are now being called private businesses. Also, the International Aviation College and the Kwara Diagnostic Centre which like the two above were funded from N17bn bond taken in Kwara’s name are now said to be owned by private concerns. All of these clearly raise serious integrity questions.

Also worthy of mention is a petition dated May 22, 2013, by a group called Kwara Action Against Corruption forwarded to the EFCC, detailing how over N1bn Kwara State fund (including loan obtained in Kwara name) and 30,000sqm of community land to the Kwara Mall (Shoprite) project without the state having shares legally linkable to it. Indeed, going by the record at the Corporate Affairs Commission, a copy of which was made available to the EFCC.

Nobody on the board of the company can be said to represent the interest of Kwara State. The 30% shares purportedly allocated to Kwara State Government was credited to Harmony Holdings, a company fully owned by private individuals.

Senator Saraki may not have been convicted of any of the alleged offences and therefore be deemed innocent until proven guilty by a court of law, but for his qualification for the esteemed office of Senate President, it will be morally proper and for the sake of transparency, Senator Saraki clears himself of those charges.

It is important that he or anyone else with allegations of such magnitude against them should not be considered for that high office. The President-elect, being a man of the highest integrity and upon whom the eyes of the whole world is set should have a strong interest in this matter lest his anti-corruption efforts be ridiculed.

Ogah Simon is the National Secretary African Arise Network For Change"

Culled from IlorinInfo Kwara

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OPEN UNIVERSITY: BARRED FROM SERVING THE NATION
Abdulrazaq O Hamzat

Let me begin by asking a question, is it right to bar some citizens from serving the nation without the basis of law? I think not, but as it stands, graduates of the first of its kind National Open University of Nigeria has been officially barred or excluded from serving our father land. This should be a source of concern to all meaning Nigerians. After the end of the Civil War, the leadership of the country thought of a way to re-unite the country in an effort to bridge the fracture caused by the civil war, and after much deliberation, the National Youth Service Corp was given birth to. According to SECTION 1 of the NYSC decree, it states that, there is hereby established a scheme to be known as the National Youth Service corps (in this Decree referred to as "the Service Corps". The decree states that, the objectives of the service corps shall be: • to inculcate discipline in Nigerian youths by instilling in them a tradition of industry at work, and of patriotic and loyal service to Nigeria in any situation they may find themselves • to raise the moral tone of the Nigerian youths by giving them the opportunity to learn about higher ideals of national achievements, social and cultural improvement • to develop in the Nigerian youths the attitudes of mind, acquired through shared experience and suitable training, which will make them more amenable to mobilization in the national interest • to enable Nigerian youths acquire the spirit of self reliance by encouraging them to develop skills for self employment • to contribute to the accelerated growth of the national economy • to develop common ties among the Nigerian youths and promote national unity and integration • to remove prejudices, eliminate ignorance-and confirm at first hand the many similarities among Nigerians of all ethnic groups • to develop a sense of corporate existence and common destiny of the people of Nigeria In order to achieve the objectives in this decree, the service corps shall ensure: o that the Nigerian youths are exposed to the modes of living of the people in different parts of Nigeria o that the Nigerian youths are encouraged to eschew religious intolerance by accommodating religious differences. The above are the reason for the establishment of NYSC. However, it was a surprise that today, the same NYSC which was founded to bridge divide has now resorted to discrimination without basis. This is against the principle of the scheme. Going through the NYSC decree, those qualified to participate in scheme were well spelt out. SECTION 2 of the decree states that: Subject to the provisions of this Decree, every Nigerian shall: • if, at the end of the academic year 1972-73 or, as the case may be, at the end of any subsequent academic year, he shall have graduated at any university in Nigeria ( ANY UNIVERSITY IN NIGERIA) Since this law has not been changed or the decree amended, it is a gross offense and flagrant disobedience of the laws of our land to exclude Open University graduates from the NYSC. Here we can see that, nothing in this decree indicate that students from Open University are not qualified, it only informed us of the purpose of this scheme which is to build capacity of the Nigerian youths and imbibe the culture of national service, tolerance and accommodation in them. However, rather than admit graduates of Open University into the NYSC scheme to serve their fatherland, the National Youth Service Corps governing council without any basis, continue to exclude the first of its kind institution. They designate Open university as excluded, and the graduates are given what they call, exclusion certificate to indicate that they have been officially excluded from serving our nation. This is a grave injustice. Let me note that, this exclusion certificate was alien to the NYSC Act. What the act recognize is exemption certificate, but only some categories of people are qualified for the exemption. Exemption certificate is different from Exclusion certificate. According to amended NYSC act: Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this act, with effect from 1st August, 1985, a person shall not be called upon to serve in the service corps if; at the date of his graduation or obtaining his diploma or other professional qualification - • He is over the age of thirty. • He has served in the armed forces of the Federation or the Nigeria Police Force for a period of more than nine months. • He has been conferred with any National Honour. • He is member of staff of any of the following, that is: i. the Nigerian Security Organisation ii. the State Security Service iii. the National Intelligence Agency iv. the Defence Intelligence Service As we can see in the above, these are the only categories of people that are qualified for NYSC exemption certificate, nothing like exclusion certificate was ever mentioned in the NYSC act, but because the governing council of the NYSC are bent on denying our institution equal rights of participation for reasons best known to them, they introduced what they call exclusion, which they dumped on the faces of distinguish NOUN graduates. It is quite disappointing that, after 4 years of academic grinding, plus hard work in an institution with no equal, where you have obtained the best of knowledge under a properly guided system devoid of any form of examination Mal-practices, what you get is discrimination from some government establishments. It is important to note that, Open University is a federal university, accredited by the same National University Commission which accredited other institutions in the country. For no reason should her graduate be sidelined,as this would discourage prospective students from enrolling in the institution,thus defeating the purpose for which it was created.

We have seen all over the world that graduates of Open Universities are accorded front seat roll, they are seen as people who deserve first class treatment. Nigeria shouldn’t ignorantly relegate this noble institution and its distinguish graduates, they cannot be relegated. Many students from this university feel pained when they see other graduates in the youth corps uniform moving about their places of assignment. They wish that one day, it would be them in those uniforms, holding their head high in service to their fatherland, but this dream seems to be under threat, as graduates after graduates, the discrimination yet continues. I therefore call on those in authority to desist from this discrimination, failure of which the students would be forced to drag the NYSC to court for legal redress. Finally, we are aware that the president have the power to resolve this issues without further delay, as the NYSC act states that, the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces may, by Order published it, the Gazette, extend the application of the provisions of subsection (1) of this section to other categories of Nigerians who shall have obtained such diplomas, certificates or other qualifications as may "be prescribed in the Order from universities, colleges and other institutions of higher learning within or outside Nigeria, and the Order may specify different dates for call-up in relation to different categories of those affected or to be affected by the Order. Therefore, the president should as a matter of urgency, intervene to correct this unjustifiable exclusion of Open university graduates from National Youth Service.

Abdulrazaq O Hamzat Congress of Noun Students

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More than 200,000 UK ballot papers stolen by van thieves



A van carrying more than 200,000 ballot papers for next week’s parliamentary and council elections has been stolen.

The papers had been printed in London and were being taken to two constituencies – Hastings and Rye, and Eastbourne – before voting in the general election on 7 May.

The Metropolitan police, which are investigating the theft of the vehicle from Dagenham in east London, has informed Hastings and Eastbourne councils.

Officers found nothing to suggest the white Mercedes van had been targeted for its contents or that the theft was an attempt at electoral fraud. They told the local authorities they believed it was a coincidence the stolen van contained ballot papers. The theft took place overnight.

The vehicle contained 72,300 voting slips for Hastings and Rye, and 130,000 for Eastbourne. A Hastings council spokesman said: “We have been in touch with the Electoral Commission and, following their guidance, we have put a process in place which will ensure that these ballot papers are not used for fraudulent purposes and cannot be included in the count.”

A spokesman for Eastbourne council said replacement ballot papers were being printed on different coloured paper to the original batch, so any stolen papers placed in ballot boxes could be easily detected and removed.

The Electoral Commission said it was liaising with council officials.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/29/uk-election-ballot-papers-stolen-van-thieves-london

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since you said you don't know about the kwara state civil service, its fine. So, why don't you know attempt a search instead of saying what said wasn't right?

the N100million is known to all, it was even enacted into law at the kwara state house of assembly.

inquire, not speak out of ignorance

since you said you don't know about the kwara state civil service, its fine. So, why don't you know attempt a search instead of saying what said wasn't right?

the N100million is known to all, it was even enacted into law at the kwara state house of assembly.

inquire, not speak out of ignorance

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WHY SARAKI SHOULDN'T BE SENATE PRESIDENT
Some of my associates have been asking why I am against the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as the senate president. They are of the view that, omo eni o ni se idi bebere, ka wa fi ileke si idi omo elomi, meaning that, we should always support our own. But for me, I cannot a support a bad candidate because he his my own.
Governance is not about self, but about the society. We should not support our own simply because they are our own, rather, we should support the best available irrespective of where they come from. For Saraki, he his a bad example of a change agent.
For the records, I understand that Senator Bukola Saraki, the former Kwara State governor is the most strategically positioned to become the next senate president, though he his not the most ideal personality for that exalted position.
He has the backing of the G5 governors who defected from the People Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress (APC). As reports have it, the G5 governors have not been able to get any meaningful position in the ongoing zoning arrangement, even the SGF position which is being proposed for Rotimi Amaechi has been reportedly zoned to South East.
So for now, the only major position that could be claimed by the G5 governors for risking, investing and sacrificing so much for the emergence of Buhari is the senate president. This informed their decision to support Bukola Saraki and they are willing to do all they can to get this one major position as compensation.
Again, we all recall that Saraki once declared his interest in contesting the APC presidential primary election. He suspended his participation few weeks to the primary election and eventually worked for Buhari’s emergence.
It is my view that, Saraki did that strategically to brighten his chances of emerging as the senate president should APC emerge victorious. Now that they have emerged, he could use that to negotiate with Buhari, noting that he stepped down and mobilized support for the former head of state.
Also, considering the fact that many zones are lobbying for the position within APC, the 45 senators elected on the platform of the PDP may back Saraki to have certain influence in the new Government.
Reports have it that, the PDP senators want a repeat of Tambuwal situation, where PDP choice, Mulikat Akande was defeat by Aminu Tambuwal as speaker in 7th national Assembly. As a former PDP member, PDP senators seems to be ready to give Bukola a block vote to spite APC should APC refuse to annoint Bukola as their candidate for the post of senate president.
However, It is my view that, considering the agenda before the president elect, General Muhammadu Buhari needs a kind of legislative house that desired change as much as he does, and the National Assembly should be led by someone that shared Buhari’s ideal about fighting corruption and other ills affecting our dear nation. But in my view, Bukola Saraki is not that kind of person. His history points to the other direction.
Saraki lack the integrity, he lack the patriotism and also lack the will and zeal to pilot a progressive legislative house. Should such kind of individual assume the position of senate president, APC and the entire Nigerian would regret that decision.
Let us get it straight once and for all, a man with several corruption cases with EFCC cannot help the president fight corruption. A man who publicly frown at asset declaration as canvassed by the president elect can never assist him in ensuring transparency and accountability. A man who see’s himself as overlord over the people of his state will never ensure equality.
This is the man who first ensure the enactment of pension bill for former governors in Nigeria. He currently receives N100million every month for doing nothing, while the highest civil servant workers in the state earn less than N100,000 per month.
This man cannot promote pro-peoples legislation, certainly, he his a capitalist politician who see’s every other person as beneath him. Should he emerge senate president, that will drag Nigeria 10years backward.
SIMPLE.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu may end up being stranded in Buhari's presidency!!

Despite his enormous sacrifice to railroad Buhari to becoming APC Presidential Candidate which was the pedestrian upon which the General got elected for the first time in his entire life, Asiwaju Tinubu may have been confronted with a feign hope of becoming relevant under the incoming presidency of the Northern cabals with careful aid from their age long Confidant in Yoruba land.
The Owner of Lagos is allegedly facing test of his life with the surreptitious Use and Dump fate starring Tinubu on his face.
Whoever wish to confirm this development should find out why Buhari or the North is not assisting Tinubu to crown his anointed Candidate as next Senate President of Nigeria. Tinubu had been mobilising his all to enthrone the outgoing Senate Minority Leader until he was stopped by the bloc built around Senator Bukola Saraki, Former Governor of Kwara State. Again, his alleged choice Femi Gbajabiamila for the covetous office of Speaker is loosing out of permutations by the day.
Tinubu's ordeal also has to deal with his less influence on the transition and inauguration committee formed by the President Elect where the Southern caucuses other than the Southwest has eminently positioned themselves. No thanks to Rotimi Amaechi and Rochas Owelle Okorocha.
Tinubu has been under-popular and strategic to Buhari like he used to be before March 28th,
Worried about this dangerous fate against the Lion of Bourdillon, Oba Rilwan Akinlolu of Lagos is having sleepless nights to save Tinubu. At the valedictory program for the successful tenure of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola held in Lagos, The Oba of Lagos we can reliably inform to have lamented thus: "All Lagos Residents should pray the labour of Tinubu should not be in vain. A lot of things have been happening now. Some people have been telling Buhari all sorts of things. Awujale and I have decided to meet Buhari because Lagos and Southwest States must benefit from the General Buhari administration-Oba Rilwan Akinlolu, Oba of Lagos".
Meanwhile, major upset is secretly ravaging Osun chapter of APC over the choice of who becomes Minister from the State. While the Governor may be double checking on his Predecessor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola over the dangers attributed to his strong loyalty to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who has become potent threat to Aregbesola's Godfather in Tinubu, Aregbesola is reluctantly favouring Pa Bisi Akande out of political exigencies, APC Home base Politicians and major PDP Defectors are clandestinely plotting to ensure that Oyinlola picks the plum job. It was gathered, however, that the jailing of Bisi Akande by Buhari under military is coming up again in Abuja due to military connection.
The game is on and dribbles also unending. Maybe it is history that Awolowo's party must not transform meaningfully beyond regionalism and it was very late for the One they compare with Chief Awolowo to imbibe this lesson.. Interesting times ahead...

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LAW SCHOOL FOR OPEN UNIVERSITY: WHY NIGERIA CAN’T BE DIFFERENT
Abdulrazaq O Hamzat

Going by history, Law school study by correspondence has existed in the United States since 1890 when Sprague Correspondence School of Law (which eventually merged with Blackstone Institute, and later was known as Blackstone School of Law) was established by William C. Sprague in Detroit, Michigan.Among the school’s early graduates was Antoinette D. Leach, early Sprague Law Correspondence Law School graduate and first woman attorney in Indiana, who in 1893 became the first woman admitted by the Indiana Supreme Court to practice law in Indiana. The school and others (including American Correspondence School of Law of Chicago; Columbian Correspondence College of Law in Washington D.C.; New York Correspondence School of Law in New York; and others) were innovative for the time in providing many poor, working-class, women, and ethnic minorities educational opportunities. Among the La Salle Extension University graduates who went on to make contributions in law and politics are governors Harold J. Arthur and Eurith D. Rivers, Senator Craig L. Thomas, U.S. Representatives John S. Gibson and William T. Granahan, and African-American leaders Arthur Fletcher, Jessie M. Rattley, and Gertrude Rush.
For years, many have been wondering why the impact of education is not being felt in Nigeria. It was observed that, as the country continue to produce more professors, more doctors, more graduates etc, so the level of educational impact is declining. This according to observer is not unconnected to our attitude towards learning.
It is my view that, many Nigerians including those in authority confine themselves to the past, failing to see reason in what is obtainable in the present. As other countries including those who gave us our present system continue to embrace change and moving along with it, we continue to wallow in ignorance, holding unto the non-existing standard while depriving our citizens the benefit of the modern opportunities.
While some have blame it on lack of proper education, others blame it on the inability of individuals to make adequate use of their acquired education.
Being from the Open University myself, I have no doubt what soever that the quality of learning taking place in this institution far supersede that of many conventional universities, but it was a surprise to read that the law graduates of this first of its kind University are being denied a chance at the Nigerian law school without any justifiable reason.
Let’s face fact, the non-recognition of Open University law degree is another example of how education has failed once again, to make effect even among those in legal authority.
The policy of the Council of Legal Education and the Body of Benchers, which are the statutory bodies vested with the regulation of training and admission of aspirants to the Nigerian Bar, is that the study of Law must be undertaken on a full-time basis in recognized and accredited institutions. To them, only through such process can law be adequately learned.
But come to think of it, is the Nigerian legal system not tailored after the British legal system, just as the Nigerian Open University was after the British Open University? So, if the British Open University can offer law degree through correspondence and is well recognized, why should the custodian of legal practice in Nigeria blindly assume that such cannot be replicated in Nigeria? Or are we now saying the Nigerian legal standard is of greater standard to the British legal standard?
If our government and educators continue to make references to best practice across the world, why should they ignorantly reject the best practices of Open University as seen across the world?
Here, we know that the CLE none-recognition of NOUN is as a result of politics. However, what the CLE should tell us openly is that they want to restrict the number of lawyers in Nigeria because as far as we are concerned, NOUN posses all requirement if not more. I challenge the CLE to evaluate their performances through NLS and compare it with other university students.
It was obvious that those against noun students admission into NLS are for their selfish interest/sentiment.
For the records, the law degree of Open university in United kingdom is the most popular law degree in in that country with over 6000 students. Upon completion, they are 100% guaranteed acceptance in their law school and to practice as lawyers.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
In the United States, many state institutions offer law degree through this process and they are well recognized. One of the state that offers an ability to practice law via successful completion of a mandated 4 years of law school through either a correspondence or online law school is California. Once a law student has successfully completed his first year of law school, Business and Professions Code section 6060 requires the student to take and pass the First Year Law Student Examination, commonly known as the "BABY BAR," within the first three attempts of becoming eligible.
GERMANY
Distance legal education in Germany is available through FernUniversität Hagen, a public university similar to the British Open University. The graduates receive LLB or LLM degrees.
CHINA
Distance legal education in China is available through Beijing Foreign Studies University through a partnership with Spirit of Law School of Law.
SOUTH AFRICA
Even in South Africa, Distance legal education is an acceptable method to become a lawyer in South Africa, and is available through the University of South Africa (UNISA).
UNITED KINGDOM
Distance legal education in the United Kingdom is accepted by the Law Society of England and Wales as a qualifying law degree and one of the possible ways to become a solicitor or a barrister.
In several other countries influenced by the British legal heritage, legal education can be obtained through distance education, including India, Indonesia, Australia etc.
I am of the view that, if the entire world is moving forward by catching up with modern practices, Nigeria shouldn’t be left behind. Not recognizing Open University on the basis of non-existing barrier will hurt our dear nation and rob it of the gains of the 21st century. W must be concerned with the nations progress, not our selfish desire.
In Present day, Northwestern California University School of Law is the oldest existing correspondence law school in the United States. It was founded in 1982 and began presenting its correspondence program entirely online in 2002. It is the first online law school to offer Internet based and faculty led videoconferencing sessions for students for some courses.
In 1996, Abraham Lincoln University began a hybrid in-class and correspondence approach to law school, designed to offer scheduling flexibility to students, before adding an online component in 2004.
The first law school to offer a degree program completely online was Concord Law School, a unit of Kaplan, Inc., which started in 1998. As of 2006 Concord is the largest of the seven distance learning law schools. Concord graduated its first class in November 2002.
The California School of Law, founded in 2007, is the first law school to utilize synchronous technology in all courses. Such technology provides direct communication between professors and students in live “real time” virtual classrooms.
If these respected institutions across the globe can offer law degree using correspondence, what gives the Council of Legal Education and the Body of Benchers the impression that such cannot be done in Nigeria?
Rather than condemn Open university without basis and unfairly deny its graduate, the Council of Legal Education and the Body of Benchers should give the Open University graduates a level playing ground to showcase themselves.
Only through such an avenue, can the quality of this noble institution be properly appreciated.
Let me conclude by warning that, NOUN cannot be prevented from law school without cogent reason. I advice those in authority to stop this politics and quickly retrace their steps. Should the law school continue to deny our law graduates, we shall not relent, but seek legal redress.

Abdulrazaq O Hamzat
Congress of Noun Students

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