Is walk-in available for priority visa in Ikeja?

Does anyone knows how globaypay works, is it synonymous to Western Union and can I use it to pay my tuition deposit if my school accept it?

Fredisbavk:
Good day House,

A friend wants to go do masters in graphic design in the UK. What schools do you suggest she should apply to.

PS: She is looking for an easy school that she won't stress too much. Tuition is not an issue.

She should check University of Arts, London (UAL) Their resumption is October.

Prettiyruth:
I also got an offer from Swansea, hoping to pay my deposit by month end.

Do you have any advice or anything I should take note of?

The school needs POF before issuing CAS. You can start the deposit now before paying.

Bighgggg:
If I credit the account now. Can they still treat it or I should reapply and wait for another one month.(UBA bank)

September 2022 intake

Your advice please...

When did you apply for this one that got rejected?

lavida001:


I’m getting confused by this new method. People I know in the past pay before 28th day and they got visa. Can Gloryah and duchess shed more knowledge on this new development

The simple analogy is that don't pay for Visa and IHS until your POF matures. The fact that people were lucky with it in the past doesn't mean things cannot change.

femmykenny:


Run away from UBA
Ther service is terrible now

Oh!

Do I need to open account with any of the other banks you listed before I can use them for Form A?

femmykenny:
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Stanbic
Union
Fidelity
Globus
Fcmb

How about UBA? I initiated mine with them few days ago

Fehgur:
Did you go through a pre-CAS interview with Swansea university?


me i am waiting for my visa to go there. Did you get a discount??

Swansea doesn't require Pre-CAS interview. Once your deposit has been confirmed, fill the CAS- Shield and you are good to go.

After indebting the state, Aregbesola still awarded contract to his cronies. These politicians no dey fear God.

Who is afraid of the youth?

Any unsuspecting member of the public would mistake the lowering of the age of eligibility to contest for public office through the passing of the “Not Too Young Bill” as an act or sign of encouragement or inclusion in political participation of the Youth by the Federal Government through its agency, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Nothing could be further from the truth. INEC is desperately, shamelessly and vehemently against the participation of the youth in politics. It is a fact: INEC’s continuous victimization of the Youth Party; the dodgy clause 78(7) in the Electoral Bill where it seeks to restrict the democratic space to two big parties; and its refusal to conduct a year round continuous voter’s registration since 2017 until 28th June, 2021, which would have made citizens who turned 18 years of age after the last registration process (April, 2017) eligible to vote and voted for, speaks volume to the same end. INEC is morphing into an enemy of democracy. Currently, all new registered voters who are largely youth (65% plus) have been banned from voting in the impending the Local Government Polls in Lagos and Ogun States by administrative fiat. And, they have already been disenfranchised from all the local government elections conducted since the last registration.


Youth Party commenced the process of registration in December 2016, and INEC was against us from the onset. We had to get a Court Judgment to be considered for registration at all. Essentially, we had to get a judgment to get an application form. A process that should not take 3 months according to the law took more than 2 years with dire consequences. Eventually, our Party was not registered until 14th August, 2018, just a few days before the commencement of primaries for the 2019 general elections. This was despite a judgement of the Federal High Court delivered on 20th October 2017 directing INEC to register the Party. This late registration of our Party affected our ability to perform at the 2019 general elections. Meanwhile, INEC was busy sponsoring the amendment of the Constitution in a manner that would empower it to deregister the Party immediately after the 2019 election. INEC sponsored the amendment of Section 225A of the Constitution, whilst delaying our registration. The said Section 225A was amended to require performance of parties at election, without giving any period to allow the parties to grow organically. Nonetheless, we fielded 11 (Eleven) candidates for House of Representatives and States Houses of Assembly all over the country in those elections.

Immediately after the 2019 election, INEC threatened to deregister our Party.
Consequently, we commenced a court action against INEC in January 2020, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. All other political parties that sued INEC were left off the deregistration list and the Commission cited pending litigation but not Youth Party.
INEC resorted to self-help unbecoming of an unbiased electoral umpire.
Subsequently, judgment was delivered in our favour on 12th October, 2020.

The dictum of Honourable Justice I.E. Ekwo of the Federal High Court in his judgment, in Youth Party v. INEC, is profound, where he held that:

“the Defendant is not above the law. No person or parties to an action isallowedto resort to self-help when an action is pending in Court. The claimthat theDefendant has power pursuant to S.225A(b) & (c) of the 1999Constitution (asamended) to de-register a political party does not justify theaction of theDefendant while this action is pending. The Defendant mustunderstand that theconstitution is not an author of confusion. I condemn theaction of the Defendantas a wrong exercise of might. Therefore, the deregistration of the Plaintiff duringthe pendency of this action by the Defendantis illegal, null and void, and liableto be set aside. Consequently, I hereby makean order setting aside the deregistration of the Plaintiff”.

Subsequently, INEC appealed against the decision of the Federal High Court, Abuja and the Court of Appeal held, through a unanimous Judgment delivered by Hon. Justice T.Y. Hassan,J.C.A., that our purported deregistration was illegal, null and void, holding that:

“This Court will not hesitate to sustain the decision of the Lower Court whichpulled down and dismantled the edifice that the Appellant built on self help whenit deregistered the Respondent not only during the pendency of the Suit butwhenit had been served with and had reacted to the motion for interlocutoryinjunctionseeking to restrain the Appellant from the very act it helped itself toactualize extrajudicially. To say the least, we find the Appellant action veryreprehensible, theLower Court as any court of law would have done, actedcorrectly by setting asidethe deregistration of the Respondent. We have noreason to interfere with theorder made by the Lower Court and same besustained”


Despite the subsisting judgment of the Federal High Court that was upheld on appeal, which has neither been set aside nor stayed, INEC has refused to list our Party on its website as a registered Party or allowed us to participate in any election in the Country. INEC is in continuous flagrant breach of the universally and constitutionally protected human rights of our members to freedom of association.

We have delivered several letters to INEC to allow our Party and its members participate in a number of bye-elections and local government elections, to no avail. Specifically, we were illegally and unfairly excluded from the bye elections in Lagos, Abia, Zamfara and Bayelsa; and the LG polls in Ondo, Sokoto, Bayelsa, Ekiti and Oyo States. INEC’s disgust for the Youth Party extends to rejecting any letter from them.

Currently, the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) is about to conduct local government elections in Lagos States State and our Party wishes to field candidates and participate in the election. However, INEC has refused to confirm the status of our Party to LASIEC despite the judgments of Courts. Thus, Youth Party and its members are being denied the right to freely participate in the said upcoming local government elections in Lagos State. Most importantly, INEC’s actions are contemptuous and if allowed to continue, erodes public trust and belief in the Country’s electoral and judicial system as it now sits on appeal on Court’s judgements relating to Youth Party’s judgements. It chooses which judgement to obey like it just did with swiftness against Prof. Soludo in Anambra State. Fairness and justice are important for the progress of our Nation.

Consequently, our Party, again, approached the Federal High Court in its bid to ensure participation in the forthcoming Lagos Council Election fixed for 24th July, 2021, and compel INEC and LASIEC’s to respect the rule of law, particularly obedience of judicial decisions. This Country belongs to all of us.

The Federal High Court, Lagos, in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/625, before His Lordship, Honourable Justice Akintayo Aluko, granted an order of injunction in a case filed by the Youth Party on Monday, 12th July, 2021. The Court ruled and granted our prayers after the application was argued eloquently by Chief Bolaji Ayorinde, S.A.N., wherein he narrated the “travails of the Youth”, that:

‘INEC and LASIEC are restrained whether by themselves, their agents, privies, employees, officers or anyone whosoever acting for them and on their behalf from conducting the forthcoming Lagos State Local Government elections scheduled for 24th July, 2021 or any other elections whatsoever to the exclusion of the Applicant.

In essence, any election conducted to the exclusion of Youth Party would be illegal, null and void: an exercise in futility.

But the shamelessness and desperation of INEC is unabated. INEC filed a notice of appeal and application for stay of execution at the Supreme Court on Thursday, 15th July,2021, after it has refused to obey the judgment. Now, every lawyer knows that a notice of appeal is not an appeal. An appeal is only entered when the records of the lower court has been transmitted to the appellate Court. Also, an appeal does not amount to a stay of execution. Most importantly, there is nothing to execute in the judgment as it is declaratory in nature and an application for stay is manifestly inapplicable

It is noteworthy that until the judgment against INEC is set aside, the position of the law is that Youth Party remains a registered political party in Nigeria and it is entitled to all the rights and privileges of a registered political party in Nigeria. Most importantly, INEC’s position is in flagrant breach of our members’ fundamental right to freedom of association as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution and as guaranteed by the United Nations Declaration.


Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) is an exercise meant for the registration of citizens who turned 18years of age after the last registration exercise; or those who for one reason or another could not register in the previous exercise. INEC released the modalities for running this exercise all year round through the local government offices in 2017 but none was done aside from the token exercise carried out in 2017 before the last election in 2019 (4 years ago).

Now, INEC opened up the registration process again on 28th June, 2021, where people can register but THEY CANNOT VOTE. They are to register online and come in for the capturing of their photographs on 25th July, 2021. Elections are happening in Lagos and Ogun States and it is only people registered before the 2019 elections that can vote. Lagos local government council elections are fixed for 24th July, 2021-a day before your photograph can be mischievously captured.

These new registered voters are mostly youth. A glance at the statistics of registered and registering voters reveals that the youth consists of more than 65% of the total voters. The newly registered voters have been precluded by devious administrative fiat. INEC ensured that no CVR took place before now and ensures that the voters’ register to be used is the pre-2019 registers.

The proposed provision which INEC is desperate to push through to kill the organic growth of political parties in Nigeria and subject everyone to the whims and caprices of APC and PDP requires a new party to win the presidency, governorship, national or State House of Assembly seat to continue existing. A party would not need to crawl before it walks? How would any newly registered party fulfil this requirement? How? They should just state that they are banning registration of new parties and deleting the constitutional provision for freedom of association instead of registering parties with the sole aim of deregistering them afterwards in bad faith.

Also, the desperation extends to breaching the extant constitutional provision on deregistration of Parties.

It will suffice to state that Section 225A of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Fourth Amendment), gives INEC the powers to deregister a political party for Breach of any of the requirement for registration; Failure to win at least twenty-five percent of votes cast in- One state of the Federation in a presidential election; One local government of the state in a governorship election. Failure to win at least- One ward in the Chairmanship election; One seat in the National or State House of Assembly election; or One seat in the Councillorship election.

The conflict between the constitutional provision above and the said Section 78 (7a) of the Bill is easily resolved in favour of the Constitution. But INEC based on its antecedents would deploy the illegal law and ask people to go to Court, which they have no respect for anyways. Furthermore, limiting required winning to the Presidency, Governorship, National or State House of Assembly seat is bad policy as it will constitute a further restriction of the democratic space.

Also, deregistration of political parties which fail to meet constitutional requirements should be done through the Court. Not through an agency run by people appointed by their opponents. Deregistration is like taking life of a political association and it should not be done casually. Only a court can withdraw a banking license, not the Central Bank of Nigeria. We cannot complain that most political parties are an assembly of strange bed fellows, and at the same time discourage the organic growth and development of serious political parties that are committed to growing over a reasonable period of time. What is the issue with allowing political parties at least 5 years to win a seat? Why is INEC reducing the functions and performance of Parties to ONLY winning elections? And we complain about desperate politicians when their regulator is creating the atmosphere. The functions of political Parties include developing policies and ideas to move the country forward and acting as an effective opposition to the government of the day. Government is only as good as its opposition.

Right to freedom of association is a constitutionally guaranteed fundamental human right pursuant to Section 40 of the Constitution. It should not be taken away without fair hearing as required by Section 36 of the Constitution. Failure to adhere to the spirit and letters of the aforesaid constitutionally-guaranteed rights would not only continue to restrict the democratic space but lead to avoidable and needless litigations. People with different political ideologies are being systemically forced to merge or die as they are not allowed to grown on their own, if INEC is allowed to have its way. For

Whilst the number of political parties in Nigeria, which stood at 91(Ninety-One) at the last election, generated a lot of concern, it is noteworthy that more advanced electoral systems have similar numbers, for instance South Africa has 93, Brazil 33, USA 32, Ghana 24 and even the UK has 18 political Parties. The number of Parties is not a problem but the lack of proper and unbiased oversight. For example, many of the parties registered by INEC did not have verifiable offices as required by law and their officers were place holders. Similarly, many of the parties don’t file their financial records as required by law. We would not have had many unworthy parties, if INEC was carrying out its oversight role diligently. Waging war against the Youth is a bad omen for the Country and INEC should be called to order.

In summary, INEC should be advised to allow the youth to participate in the political space in the interest of the Country: obey court orders by allowing Youth Party to participate; allow the youth to vote after registration; and, withdraw Section 78(7) of the Electoral Bill. The resort to tokenism of lowering the age of eligibility or asking for quotas in the bigger parties can only help, if there is a level playing field. INEC should also be advised to play its statutory impartial role as electoral umpire instead descending into the arena of political contests. On our part, we are committed to democratic processes and the respect for the rule of law. Most importantly, we believe in the expansion of the democratic space, where plural voices are encouraged. Sadly, the converse is the case today in Nigeria.

Francis Akinlotan, Trustee, Youth Party

Total counted votes at the moment is 1093.


The rest are going to Jegede.

Do the calculation, Jegede has won

engineerboat:
Olabode ayorinde Next

Banji Okunomo recorded how many votes?

bigdammyj:
Was it a direct primary?

Indirect

GoggleB:
400 and still counting

Still counting?

If Ajayi should have less down 700 votes, then he will lose to Jegede

As the July 2 and 25 date set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for primaries to hold for the gubernatorial elections in Ondo coming up later in the year moves nearer, the All Progressive Congress (APC) is having not less than 11 aspirants jostling to be the party's flag-bearer.


Apart from the fact that the incumbent governor, Arakunrin Olurotimi Akeredolu is trying hard to secure the party's ticket to seek his reelection, there are also a lot of challenges mounting pressure on him.

There is a formidable team called "Unity Forum", which comprised of strong politicians in the state waging war against the incumbent and it is going to be an herculean task for governor Akeredolu to beat the Unity Forum aspirants to the party's ticket.

Meanwhile, there are not less down 8 aspirants in the Unity Forum vying for the party's ticket and it might be difficult for them to have a consensus candidate, owing to the fact that they are all strong politicians capable of leading the state.

Below is the full list of all the aspirants vying for the APC ticket in Ondo State:

The Ondo State APC Unity Forum aspirants:

1. Olusola Oke


Olusola Alexander Oke is a Nigerian lawyer and politician. Oke was born on 7 April 1956 in Ilowo, a coastal town in Ilaje Local government Area of Ondo State.

Olusola Oke was a top contender for the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for the state Governorship election in November 2016 before he decamped to the Alliance for Democracy (AD) after the APC primaries. He lost to the incumbent governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and eventually decamped back to APC after the election.

2.Chief Bukola Adetula

Adetula is also a law practitioner, who also hails from the same town with the incumbent governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.

He was the former Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the entire United States of America.

3.Ife Oyedele

Oyedele was born on October 8, 1958, in Okitipupa, Ondo state. He graduated from University of Lagos in 1982 with a BSc in electrical engineering.

Ife Oyedele is an electrical engineer and political associate of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Oyedele was appointed as the executive director of engineering and technical services at the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC) by Buhari in 2016.

4. Olusegun Abraham



Olusegun was born and raised in Ikare-Akoko, Ondo State. Olusegun Abraham, born 24 December 1953, is a Nigerian politician and businessman

He was one of the two aspirants under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who ran for the office of Governor at the 2016 Ondo State gubernatorial election, but lost out to Oluwarotimi Akeredolu at the primaries.

Other aspirants jostling for APC ticket in the Unity Forum are: Olaide Adelami, Akin Awodeyi, Kazeem Olanrewaju and Jimmy Odimayo.

However, there are a handful of other aspirants who do not belong to the Unity forum and they are:

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu

Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN, born 21 July 1956 is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who is also the Governor of Ondo State.

He is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) who became president of the Nigerian Bar Association in 2008.

Akeredolu was awarded ticket to represent the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2016 elections for governor. On Sunday, 27 November 2016, he was declared winner of the keenly contested Ondo State gubernatorial elections.

Isaac Kekemeke



Hon Isaac Kekemeke is a former Minority Leader of Ondo State House of Assembly, the pioneer Chairman of National Examination Council, NECO, Secretary to the State Government and, until recently, the Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo.

Joseph Olusola Iji

Joseph Olusola Iji or Comrade Sola Iji (born 7 November, 1956) is a Nigerian from Barate Quarters of Igbobini in Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State,

He is Lawyer, a Politician, Trade Unionist and The Ambassador, Embassy of The Federal Republic of Nigeria to The Republic of Togo.

SOURCE: https://cdn-af.feednews.com/news/detail/2fa309034291f39aadd353ba7b00aec8

I need the link for the live streaming please

jennyblash:
Dear Candidate,



Thank you for taking the time to apply for our advertised position online. This is to inform you that you have been scheduled for a Relationship Officer Interview at Workforce group.



Kindly find the details of the interview below:



Role: Relationship Officer

Date: Tuesday 24th September 2019


Time: 8.am (Prompt)

Venue: The Zone, Plot 9, Gbagada Industrial Scheme, Beside UPS, Gbagada Expressway, Lagos.

Contact Person: Recruitment Team



Is there anyone going for this from Ibadan?

Hello, please how did this go? Cause I got an interview scheduled for Thursday, and also for the same role.
Does it involve marketing and meeting a target?

FarahAideed:


Almighty God justice is never handed in any corrupt human court of law

Go get it!

AccessME:
Atiku I'm with u

Niyi Oyedeji


CLAIM: A viral post claims that newborn babies were made to sleep on plastic chairs due to insufficient beds at a Nigerian hospital.


CONCLUSION: FALSE, newborn babies were made to sleep on plastic chairs in Uganda and not in Nigeria. The Ugandan government has reacted to it.

FULL TEXT: 

On August 15, a Facebook user posted on her wall with an accompanying picture to the claim that new babies somewhere in a Nigerian hospital in the South-South were laid on plastic chairs due to insufficient bed.

Her post reads: No more beds for the new babies somewhere in a Nigerian hospital in the SS !!! Where is the 13% derivation

CC : Ayo Ojeniyi

Meanwhile... the governor of this state will be proud to be a governor

And they will go abroad for every little thing including foreign investments. See the babies in that state.

The post which gathered 51 likes, 28 comments and 26 shares does not end there, as another Facebook user, who referenced the earlier poster, also claimed that the photo shot was taken in a Nigerian hospital, somewhere in the South-South geo-political zone.

His own post reads: SHAMEFUL!

This is put simply despicable. Imagine that there are no baby cots for these new born babies. The end result is that plastic chairs are shamefully being improvised in place of baby cots.

Unconfirmed reports say this shot was taken in a Nigerian hospital somewhere in the South-South geo-political zone.

Question is, where is the '13% Derivation Find'? 

(Copied from Rita Umeh's Wall)


Also, on August 17, the claim was posted with the same accompanying picture on the front page of Nairaland, a popular online news platform in Nigeria, with the headline: “Newborn Babies Sleep On Plastic Chairs Due To Insufficient Beds At A Clinic”. Some other Nigerian blogs like Naijaloaded, irfanrashid, praizenews and abujareporters also published this claim on their platforms. 


VERIFYING THE CLAIM:

Our findings show that photo of the newborn babies laid on plastic chairs was actually not from any Nigerian hospital but from Kawempe National Referral Hospital, Uganda and the Ugandan government has reacted through the Ugandan Ministry of Health.

CONCLUSION: Although the picture is TRUE as the picture emanated from Kawempe National Referral Hospital, Uganda, the claim is nonetheless FALSE, because it did not happen in any Nigerian hospital. We advise that any information that has not been reported by various notable print or electronic media in Nigeria should be consumed with scepticism.


SOURCE: https://tribuneonlineng.com/factcheck-false-newborn-babies-not-made-to-sleep-on-plastic-chairs-in-nigeria/