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The Australian Electoral Commission, AEC, a body that maintains the country’s electoral system notes that the eligibility for voting is from 18 years old.

The commission under ‘Enrollment under the Electoral Act‘ states that “An ‘elector’ is someone whose name appears on the electoral roll. The Electoral Act requires Australian citizens aged 18 years and over to be enrolled.”

It also added that voting is compulsory “Failure to vote in an election is an offence under subsection 245(15) of the Electoral Act unless the elector has a valid and sufficient reason for that failure (see subsection 245(15B) of the Electoral Act.

Similarly, subsection 45(1) of the Referendum Act provides that: ‘it is the duty of every elector to vote at a referendum’.”

Those who are unable to vote on the election date at a polling unit are given alternatives such as early voting or postal votes. There is also mobile polling service except the citizen is moving abroad indefinitely. Even, with this exception, the AEC has a system that enables its citizens overseas to re-enrol for voting so far the individual would return to Australia and reside at his or her residence for a month.


A page from an AEC publication ‘Voting in Australia’ meant to support teaching and learning
about Australian civics and citizenship.
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Failure to partake in the voting exercise would often attract sanction such as fines.

The AEC produces a range of products and resources to support teaching and learning about Australian civics and citizenship. In one of such publications titled ‘Voting in Australia’, responding to the question What happens if I don’t vote? It states that “After each election, all non–voters will be sent a letter requesting they provide a valid and sufficient reason for failing to vote, or pay a fine.”

It also added that voting was made compulsory in 1924 in response to low voters turnout, while noting that the country now gets around 94 per cent voters turnout.

Source: https://factcheckhub.com/is-voting-compulsory-in-australia/

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Lets hope so

abramelin11:
Hope say no be borrow?

TREP is a strategy which is expected to rehabilitate and expand the nation’s (electricity) transmission infrastructure in order to stabilize the grid for optimum performance, in line with international best practices, through massive investment. TREP is also expected to expand the capacity of the Transmission Grid to 20,000MW by 2021, says a Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) document on the project.

In 2018, the Managing Director of TCN, Usman Mohammed, when he presented the company’s 2018 scorecard to State House correspondents in Abuja, said “We have established transmission, rehabilitation and expansion programme. The main objective of this is to rehabilitate, stabilise and expand the delivery capacity of TCN to at least 20,000 megawatts by 2021 and we are on track”.

This was prior to the commencement of Mamman’s tenure as the Minister of Power. He was appointed by President Buhari in August, 2019. He took over the Ministry of Power from Babatunde Fashola, who was the then Minister overseeing the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing (FMPWH) during the first tenure of the democratically-elected Buhari presidency.

In addition, the TCN published a scorecard titled “Milestones from February 2017 to September 2018,” which shows detail of the funding support two years before Mamman became the minister.

The $1.6 billion donor support was from the World Bank, African Development Bank (AfDB), and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) while the French Development Agency also supported with a $170 million commitment for the Abuja Transmission project.

The “Northern Corridor Transmission Project to be financed by French Development Agency and EU ($245 million and €25 million). The appraisal of this project was completed on September 28, 2018 and is expected to be approved by the Board of AFD and EU in November 2018. ”

From the TCN documents, it can be deduced that even though plans were on ground, not all the fundings were available as $210 million was approved by the AfDB for NTEP in November, 2019.

More : https://factcheckhub.com/did-sale-mamman-raise-1-6billion-for-trep-within-one-year-as-nigerias-minister-of-power/

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That's another cute angle

daddytime:
Don't say, please.

The entire 200+ million Nigerians are living in abject poverty and in this shiit together, trust me but the cursed thieves dey always forget.

No be the apish imp nearly die for road accident 2 days ago?

Na all of us must either pack the smelling shiit wey we throwey for middle of village square or jejely relass and enjoy the putrid smell together.

We have heard you

SmartProf:
The present govt is working so hard to raise that figure to a point where it will be difficult for any govt in the world to break the record.

Lol another angle

simpleseyi:
Former CBN deputy governor who was silent when our Treasury was being looted is talking to fellow looters like him.

Lol you for ask me again o

abramelin11:
Who we go blame, Buhari?

Ex-presidential candidate Kingsley Moghalu via his twitter page revealed that there are 90 Million Nigerians living in extreme poverty, this is due to the fact that we lack brilliant economists and our politicians are all frauds.

This is claim is true because according to the the World Poverty Clock, – a web tool produced by World Data Lab – shows half -50%- of Nigeria’s population are living in extreme poverty based on the $1.90 benchmark.

The result says “102, 125, 917 people living in extreme poverty,” and of these number “51,623,790 are males, while 50,502,127 females.”

As at August 30, the tool placed Nigeria’s population to be over 205 million (205,323,504).

Worldometer, a reference website that provides counters and real-time statistics gives a slightly higher number at 206 million (206,139,589) as at August 30.

A look at the World bank ‘Poverty & Equity Data Portal’ poverty headcount ratio shows that Nigeria has a record of having half of its population living in extreme poverty. The portal shows that 53.5% of the population were living below the poverty line in 2003 and in 2009. It gives Nigeria’s population as 190.9 million and 195.9 million in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

Read More: https://factcheckhub.com/are-90-million-nigerians-living-in-extreme-poverty/

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