₦airaland Forum

BMCs have received their September salary

See as them plenty for these thread they support their master

Walahi poverty Issa disease

Lemme be going before they attack me

Abeg give us update about Lagos apc governorship primary

Used and Dumped

MyVILLAGEpeople:
With the way she is doing that her hand ehhn.. I think she is teaching that girl how a big black erected dicck should look like, how to do cow girl and give head very well. It's just my observation ooo..

Airforce01:
I'm from Ogun State , seems I will have to follow Davido foot step in getting myself a neat , beautiful , intelligent and super sexy Igbo girl for a serious relationship, since the girls from my state are non of that .


My names are TaofeeQ Abiodun Tejuosho.

enemybulldozer:
I didn't see buhari with trump together what happened??
Na question I ask o!

geometricaxis:
Saraki's twitter account is verified you slowpoke!

the real fools are the ones who do not recognize a fake Saraki account. if you need to create false stories in order to win, then maybe you need to take a look at yourselves, it's a sign your candidate has nothing to speak about. Buhari is easy to defeat if you have a credible candidate, the problem with you people is you dont.

Hey zombie that is FB for goodness sake


:Dnow we know the real fool

Naijaguy12345:
God bless you thanks.

Everything may God, may God

But you can still use that handicapped hand of yours to type God bless you

HoluwarTohbar:
APC and double standard are like buhariguy and poor written English.

See uppercut

Tomorrow morning sarrki buhariguy ngeneukwenu butterflyleo and others coming to these thread like

Mandynews:
More update via MandyNews.com

Lazy blogger

Get the Bleep outta here

Thursday is here already





Meanwhile me to whosoever comment like for pdp and share for Apc


I will kick you out of nairaland

LadyExcellency:
Buhari can't write that thing. He would have being sending consolatory messages to our fallen heroes killed by Bokoharam.

This is a typical expo, he isn't capable of articulating some nice and congratulatory sentences.

Shut up

Zombies after seeing the official result

dbos11:
So what's now my own business

lemme take cover b4 dem zomb**s start stoning me

Lemme go and call dem

Don jazzy right now

Cc Lalasticlala Mynd44 Dominique

ICYMI: Kemi Adeosun shot in the foot[b][/b]


Lekan Sote

After a long silence, Kemi Adeosun resigned as the Minister of Finance last Friday. Many had expected that she would have provided forthright information to enable the fair-minded to determine her motive, or error of judgment, in obtaining a fake National Youth Service Corps Exemption Certificate on time. Alas, it was delayed.

This delay shows the poor quality of her public relations handlers. She also didn’t seem to have a good legal team that should have given a clinical assessment of her status, and prescribed an appropriate legal position.

This reminds one of the argument of some management experts who insist that personnel is key to the success or failure of any enterprise. Nigeria’s public service is replete with those who occupy positions – the same way air just occupies space – and have no clue of what is expected of them.

Section 2(1)(a,b) of the NYSC Act requires a Nigerian graduate to serve “if, at the end of the academic year 1972-73, or… at the end of any subsequent academic year, he shall have graduated at any university in Nigeria… or, if, at the end of the 1974-75 academic year… or subsequent years, he shall have graduated from a university outside Nigeria.”

Vide Section 13(3), “Any person who fails to comply with or comply with, or contravenes, or causes, or aids, or abets another to contravene any provision of this Act… (is) liable to a fine of N5000, or imprisonment for a term of two years, or both to fine and imprisonment.”

Section 2(1)(a,b) also provides that “Every Nigerian shall… make himself available for service for a continuous period of one year from the date specified in the call-up instrument served on him.” They could however, be exempted under certain conditions.

These conditions, in Section 2(2)(a,b,c,d), are: if the Nigerian “is over the age of thirty… has served in the armed forces of the Federation or the Nigeria Police for a period of more than nine months,” works with the intelligence services, or “has been conferred with National Honour.”

Though born outside Nigeria, Adeosun is a Nigerian vide Section 25(c) of the Constitution: “Every person born outside Nigeria, either of whose parents is a citizen of Nigeria,” or Section 26(2)(c), which provides that “every person of full age and capacity, born outside Nigeria, any of whose grandparents is a citizen of Nigeria.”
Vide Section 13(3), “Any person who fails to comply with or comply with, or contravenes, or causes, or aids, or abets another to contravene any provision of this Act… (is) liable to a fine of N5000, or imprisonment for a term of two years, or both to fine and imprisonment.”

Section 2(1)(a,b) also provides that “Every Nigerian shall… make himself available for service for a continuous period of one year from the date specified in the call-up instrument served on him.” They could however, be exempted under certain conditions.

These conditions, in Section 2(2)(a,b,c,d), are: if the Nigerian “is over the age of thirty… has served in the armed forces of the Federation or the Nigeria Police for a period of more than nine months,” works with the intelligence services, or “has been conferred with National Honour.”

Though born outside Nigeria, Adeosun is a Nigerian vide Section 25(c) of the Constitution: “Every person born outside Nigeria, either of whose parents is a citizen of Nigeria,” or Section 26(2)(c), which provides that “every person of full age and capacity, born outside Nigeria, any of whose grandparents is a citizen of Nigeria.”

Sir Darnley Alexander, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, was a citizen of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. Can the privilege granted by Nigeria’s judiciary to Sir Darnley as a Commonwealth citizen be granted by other arms of government, whereas Section 131 of the constitution says, “A person shall be qualified for election to the office of President (of Nigeria) if he is a citizen of Nigeria by birth?”

Adeosun explained: “I was born and raised in the United Kingdom… My visits to Nigeria, up until the age of 34, were holidays, with visas obtained in my UK passport. (However), I obtained my first Nigerian passport at the age of 34!”

So, as a British citizen, she was ineligible to serve, unless she retained her dual citizenship. Her “associates” and the NYSC staff should have told her that being British made her ineligible to serve, and she therefore didn’t need exemption!

The NYSC not only qualifies you for employment, it is a statutory requirement of citizens only. Section 13(2)(a) of the Act says, “Any person who, under the provision of this (Act) is not eligible to participate in the service corps, so participates, or attempts to participate, is guilty of an offence.”

It appears Adeosun opted not to be an expatriate, but become a Nigerian and undergo the NYSC, and her counsellors took advantage of her. Musician Orlando Owoh said, “For a wise man to die in the backyard of a foolish man, there must be reasons.” Adeosun put herself into needless agony by being too trusting and undiscerning.

She failed to interrogate the process through which she was to obtain the exemption, in order to take a logical and sensible decision, and thus became an unwitting victim of a compromising culture and value system.

But if the rumour is upheld that the veracity of her NYSC Exemption Certificate surfaced when she was being confirmed as minister by the Senate, and it was deftly downplayed, then she had what happened to her coming.

If she was complicit in such criminal conspiracy, she should not wince, but chin up. And the Human Rights Writers’ Association of Nigeria that suggests she should not just be allowed to walk away, but have the law books thrown at her and her confederates is right after all. This should deter others, and provide an opportunity to test the laws.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s social media Man-Friday, Reno Omokri, urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to sweep (Adeosun’s) forgery under the carpet. Maybe, it is now morning to poke those governors, ministers, and legislators, who the rumour mill suggests were born, or at least bred, overseas, and absconded from serving.

And those senators, and officials who were allegedly aware of Adeosun’s inadequacy, but chose to compromise, for financial considerations, should be herded into gaol for this blatant rape of due process.

However, it is now being said that Adeosun was a sacrificial lamb, victim of high wire smear politics aimed at President Buhari. Well, the response to that is no more than a sorry for Adeosun’s failure to look well before leaping.

Now that Adeosun has done the needful, some think that President Buhari must now slay the dragon of the allegation that Obono Obla, his Special Assistant on Public Prosecutions, is parading a fake West African School Certificate.

But you must respect Adeosun’s decision to toe the path of honour, and resign as Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In resigning, she said, “As someone totally committed to a culture of probity and accountability, I have decided to resign…” She walked her talk, rather than whine.

That this naïve woman, who however chose to act honourably, has set a precedent for others who may find themselves in such a catch-22 situation in the future is but a conjecture.

–Twitter @lekansote1



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Thebabenextdoor:
U and stupidity

Shameless ipob hoe

Ipob miscreants should go and find a solution to dat

My church mind is telling me dat it is one tyrant and lifeless politician that is involved