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I am giving my 100% support. I am a petitioner like you.

Oliviaarims:
I can't believe this. Sounding so full of yourself.

My description of beauty tho..

Lmao!! See bashing!

I'm used to all...

Dele Giwa is now calling him.. You like it or not you must join him. Evil men committed lives with em!

Yeah! You talk about the world. But do you know what nigeria would look like with the shitty leaders we have now?
Please, just imagine where Nigeria would look like.

Son come and see lies. And son be like Dad its true I can see post with many lies. Hahahaha!

My dear if you cannot cater for yourself after graduating from school and if your parents were still taking care of you during your service year then you are not yet a man.
Men started taking care of themselves immediately they graduated from school.

WHAT IS A PETITION AND A PETITION DRIVE?
A petition is a collection of signatures from people supporting your issue. The petition is then presented to decision-makers that have the power to create the change you want.
A petition drive is the method you use to collect your signatures. This can be a useful tactic to influence others to implement, change or cancel a regulation or action.
Example: Your group might petition the fast food restaurants in your community to post the nutritional content of their menu items in their restaurant, or you might petition the local government to install crosswalks at a particularly dangerous intersection.

WHAT TYPES OF PETITIONS ARE THERE?
Not all petition drives are the same, however. There are two basic types--governmental, and non governmental. Here's the difference:
The governmental petition: These are most often petitions to local government, or sometimes to state, or federal government levels. Some uses of these are:
To put a particular issue on the ballot, such as through a ballot initiative, or through a binding or non-binding referendum.
A ballot initiative is used to submit a proposed ordinance, resolution or order to the voters in the community. This does not create the change itself, but puts the change up for voting.
A non-binding referendum is used to advise local government on a specific issue or public policy, but does not actually create or change laws.
A binding referendum does. It is used to have a legal ordinance, resolution, order, or vote enacted, suspended, or repealed by the elected government or other public agencies, such as school boards.
To support the placing of a candidate for office on the ballot.
To recall a candidate from office.
To support or oppose proposed legislation or regulations.
Governmental petitions have their own rules-- local council, state, or federal, as the case may be. Clear procedures for taking out, collecting signatures for, and submitting such petitions are legally in place. In order for the petition to be effective, they must be followed with little leeway. If they are not, your petition could be declared invalid.
On the other hand, once these procedures are followed, your petition -- if it has the proper number of signatures automatically becomes successful.
For example, the initiative or the candidate must legally be placed on the ballot.
The non-governmental petition: These are petitions to non-governmental organizations, such as businesses, industries, or private organizations. They differ from governmental petitions in that:
They vary much more in content.
There are few or no official rules for how signatures are collected, or for how the petition is submitted.
Once the petition is submitted, there is no guarantee that further action will occur.
Non-governmental petitions are meant to show an organisation or person the amount of support you have grass-roots or otherwise. The implication is that a lot of people support your cause, and that the
recipient of the petition should act on what the petitioners are saying.
Example: A group of consumers didn't like the fact that the local restaurant took low fat items off its menu. Their interest in healthy dietary choices
for everyone led them to conduct a petition drive asking the restaurant to restore the healthy choices.


WHY SHOULD YOU CONDUCT A PETITION DRIVE?
The main reasons that you should conduct a petition drive are:
To heighten community awareness of your issue.
To bring visibility and recognition to your group.
To lead you to new members and future contacts for your group.
To demonstrate widespread community support for the changes you seek.
To help bring about the changes you are seeking.
Petition drives are a possibility when others hold the
decision-making power on an issue you care about, and when you need those others to create the changes you want. By addressing the petition to those decision-makers, you can involve a large
number of people relatively easily.
Beyond that, some good indicators for a petition drive are when:
There is strong, or at least significant, public support for your issue.
You believe that a petition could sway key decision- makers.
Petitioning has not been an overused tactic in your particular setting.
There are enough people available to collect the necessary signatures in the time you have available.
By itself, a petition drive is not usually a sufficient tactic. However, you may want to start a petition drive when you and your group are conducting other
actions and tactics to create the community change you want. For example, combined with a boycott of a
particular corporation, a strongly worded petition would convey a powerful message to the leaders of that company. Or, if you were lobbying your local
government for a particular law or regulation, a petition with many signers would show community support for that action.


HOW SHOULD YOU CONDUCT A PETITION DRIVE?
Conducting a petition drive does not have to be difficult, especially if it doesn't take too many signatures to do the job. But it does involve a little
more than just asking people to sign a piece of paper supporting your cause.
First and foremost, you have to decide "What are you trying to accomplish?" Who is the petition aimed at,
and what is your group asking for? Be clear about what it is you want done, and who needs to do it.
If you and your group want the president of a local paper products company to start using recycled paper in 75% of it products, instead of just 50%, this needs to specifically be stated in your petition.
If you and your group want the city to help control the traffic flow through your
neighbourhood, you might draft a petition for a stop sign to be placed at each intersection, or for the speed limit to be reduced to 20 m.p.h.
Secondly, include the rationale about why you are trying to accomplish this goal. What are the positive economic, social, or environmental impacts of your
change? How might these changes benefit the people being petitioned? And what could be the consequences of no action being taken on your issue?
Example: Your group's goals are to reduce the amount of waste sent to the landfill. An increase in usage of recycled products would result in less landfill space being used, as well as fewer natural resources being used to produce completely new products. You should include both of these advantages in your petition.
Once you have answered these questions, the rest of the petition will depend on the type of petition drive
you are conducting, and on many of your specific circumstances.


GOVERNMENTAL PETITIONS
Success in conducting a governmental petition drive is to follow the rules set out by the governmental authority. To start with, you will have to know what
the rules are before you begin. For example:
How many signatures will you need?
Must all signatures be on certified petition sheets?
How should people's names be signed (printed, by signature, or both?)
Should addresses or wards/precincts be included?
What other information must be included by the signer, or by the submitter?
Are there limitations you must adhere to, or quotas you must meet (for example, signatures per district?)
When must the petitions be returned, and to whom?
What happens then? If you are collecting signatures for this type of petition, find out the answers to these questions in
advance. The petition drive is important to you and your cause so the last thing you want to happen is for your petition to be disqualified because you have not
followed the rules. The more your petition deviates from established opinions, the more important it is to make sure you follow the rules exactly. Your petition could fail to be certified because of a technicality, especially if the petition certifiers don't happen to like what you stand for. It has happened
before. Don't let it happen to you.
Therefore, it is important to dot all your i's, cross all your t's, and get advice from local people who have conducted petition drives in your community before.
And also: Make sure the petition is clearly worded.
Make sure all petition signers are eligible to sign the petition.
Make sure each signer signs legibly, with the full information required.
Signatures should be legible and identifiable with a specific person (for example, not just "Mrs. Smith," but "Helen J. Smith".
Collect more signatures than the minimum required, even up to 50% more. Petition certifiers are likely to check each name and make sure the
signer is eligible to sign (e.g., is the signer a registered voter?) They will look for duplicates, and for illegal signatures.
Be sure to keep a copy of the petition and its signatures (usually the original petition is the one that is submitted).


NON-GOVERNMENTAL PETITIONS
For governmental petitions, you must follow the rules, but for non governmental petitions, the "rules"
are largely up to you. In other words, the
circumstances surrounding your petition may be at least as important as the number of signatures on it.
You will need to publicize the petition, and present it to the decision-makers in a way that gets their attention and cooperation. You will gain by taking
advantage of other events occurring at the same time. Finally, you are going to want to follow up the petition with other actions. Here are some tips to use
in organizing this type of petition drive (some apply to governmental petitions as well):
Make sure the target of your petition can take action on the change you want . Do your homework and choose carefully! Petitions take a lot of time and effort. It would be quite disappointing to discover that your petition was ineffective simply
because you targeted the wrong organization.
The content of the petition should not only express sentiment. You may want to make requests or demands for a particular action to be taken by a specific date.
Publicize the petition drive. Use the petition drive as a public relations tool to gain visibility and support for your organization and its cause. By
doing this you may give your target time to counter your move, but the target may also recognize the strength of your organization and take action in your favor, or make concessions. Present the petition in a dramatic manner. You
could call a press conference, create a news release, or hold a demonstration. Ideally, the petition drive should be presented in person by as many actual signers as possible. The key point is to
attract attention to your cause.
Engage in advocacy actions in addition to the petition .
The petition alone should not be expected to get you everything you want. For example, you may want to combine your petition drive with a
letter writing campaign--the petition signers can write individual letters as well. In another example one group that had members write a short, personal, comment about the issue, together with
their petition signature. Follow up your demands persistently. If your request or demands have not been met, you may
need to take other steps. The recipients of the petition should know you are not just going to go away, but that you will persist until you get what you want. If your petition is not met with satisfactory
results, your group may want to consider stronger responses, such as boycotts or other visible public actions.


GETTING PEOPLE TO SIGN THE PETITION
The points above compose an important first step in conducting a petition drive--you definitely need to think about and decide on your petition strategy in
advance. Once you and your group have figured out what you need and want from your petition, you can start recruiting people to sign it.
Certainly you want people from your organization to sign your petition--that's easy. But many potential signers are going to be citizens "in general," perhaps
people on the street, and many will also be strangers to you. But if your petition is to be successful, they, too, will need to take pen in hand and write down their names. But how do you find these willing
strangers? And how do you get them to sign?
Here are some basic steps:
Decide how many signatures you want or need.
Obtain enough copies of the petition to capture at least that number of signatures. It's a good idea to have more copies than you think you will need. If
it's a government petition, make sure all of the copies are legal.
Identify your target audience, and think about where it might be found. For instance, are there existing groups already favorable towards your cause? And will they be meeting before your
petition deadline? If so, this would be a prime opportunity for signature collection--it's time- efficient, and you are almost ensured a fairly large amount of signatures. The right local conference
could also be a good opportunity. As a rule of thumb, however, it's easier to collect signatures indoors than outdoors.
Find and recruit enough petition carriers to collect signatures. You can figure out exactly how many you need by estimating a reasonable number of
signatures each carrier could probably collect in your given time frame, and divide the total number of signatures needed by that estimate. For example,
if you need 500 signatures, you might estimate that one carrier could collect 50 signatures, which would give you a recruitment target to of 10 to shoot for.
And a few extra carriers wouldn't hurt either.
Train the carriers in both the petition rules and guidelines, and in how to collect signatures.
A group meeting would be a good place to initially train, supplemented with specific written instructions.
Assign the carriers to locations. Think "indoors" if you can--signatures are usually easier to collect.
However, if you will be collecting outdoors, choose settings where crowds are relatively dense and where people will be most likely to give you their
attention. Scheduled outdoor events are one possibility, such as picnics, parades, or athletic events. If this is not an option, choose places where people are usually not in a hurry--in front of post
offices, libraries, or courthouses, for example.
Shopping centers are also possible, if local conditions permit.
When approaching potential signers, some common-sense guidelines apply:
Be dressed appropriately, though probably not "dressed to kill." Smile. Make eye contact.
Be assertive and polite in your approach. Both are equally essential.
Explain your general purpose, as well as what the specific petition is intended to do. Plan your opening words carefully, as the first words you speak are probably your most important in convincing someone to sign.
ASK IF YOUR TARGET PERSON WOULD BE WILLING TO SIGN THE PETITION. A BASIC FRAMEWORK MIGHT BE:
Excuse me, (sir or ma'am), we are collecting signatures to ___________. The petition will be presented (or sent) to ______________, and our goal is
to _______________.
DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO SIGN THE PETITION?
Remember: If it's a governmental petition, you would also need to verify that your target person is eligible to sign.
Answer questions, but be brief. It's not a good use of time to get into long conversations--and it's neither efficient nor effective to get into arguments.
If someone opposes your petition, and some people will, say "thank you" and move on. In petition drives, rejection comes with the territory. Don't take
it personally.
For people who are interested in your issue, but unwilling to sign, you might hand them a short piece of literature elaborating on your organization and its intent. You never know--you might catch the very same person the next time around.
Example: A petition drive can be effectively combined with public education. However, if the public is generally uninformed about your issue,
you might consider doing public education before actually starting your petition drive.
Finally, make sure that the petition carriers know where and when to return the completed petition forms.
There may be other pointers that apply to your particular situation, but these should be enough to get a successful petition drive started.
Remember, the most important thing you need to do is make sure people know what your issue is, what you are trying to accomplish, and that you are
conducting a petition drive--make yourselves and what you are doing as visible and specific as possible.
Note: Expect how to press charges for criminal act from Dminister soon!

All these is all about media threat and media propagandas . Make an arrest first before you jail stupid propagandists.

why witch hunting the south south electoral officials because you loss elections there. I can only see only the South South electoral officials being investigated and alleged of their involvement in bribery. What happened in the North? Are you directly saying in the north there was no electoral malpractices and also the North electoral officials did not take bribes to manipulate election results in favour of APC?
I think APC members and their Bubu are still pained about their loss.
APC government is government of media arrest without prosecution. Ask them how many they have sentenced since the Bubu's fight againt kworoption!

Ok let me add mine.
8 signs he's just a booty call and not your boyfriend.

1. He doesn't visit you in your house probably because he doesn't want your people to see him as your boyfriend.

2.When he is with his friends in his house, you call to visit him and he refuses that's because he doesn't want you to meet his friends.

3. When he tells you let's keep it low key for now and the low key thingy getting longer.

4. When he doesn't let you hangout with him

5. He calls you only when he needs something from you like when he is lonely,bored and seemingly want sex.

6. He doesn't talk so romantic to you both on and off the phone. He only does when he needs you to come be with him in his house especially when he wants sex.

7. He doesn't even take a minute to discuss with you about relationship when you guys are together.

8. He always smooth talk you into having sex with him in his house and after everything he starts telling you "may be you should start going home now, I will call you." Then you are his BOOTY CALL!

She was very careful not to let you see it and you probably saw it.
Lesson for ladies: Don't ever see your entire body as too precious like gold to be seen by a man cos you might be unconscious and later regain concious only to see the man you hate most looking at your naked kitten.. Girl!

How is this a news? Is he not a being like me?
Very soon you would post how he is drinking plastic water and moreover because he is a musician doesn't make him different from any being.
Nairaland is now a joke!

This post is very childish.

God knows the very day I catch my wife speaking with her ex on the phone the same day she goes back to her parents.
Its only woman who has an intent to cheat does that. Arrant nonsense!

God knows the very day I catch my wife speaking with her ex on the phone the same day she goes back to her parents.
Arrant nonsense!

Dangote only supports whoever is in power. Go and check his romance records with past leaders then you will discover he supports whoever in power for government policies to favour his business.
Don't forget as 2019 approaches, Dangote would support Buhari for his second term campaign as he did to Jonathan.
No word from him interests me at all may be because of his monopolistic tendency.
We talk about protecting local industries by not allowing importation of Dangote's alike products into the country when in the real sense we are protecting a one man business.
Go and check the economist view points for its implications then you would have known the common man suffers most.

The questions here are very simple. All you just have to do is to engage in exhaustive explanations accompany with social scientific reasoning, theory application and political science terminology.
This is the step to get an A in any course in political science.
First you define the term Military then you refer back to the military as a level of discourse in political science by listing its functions and factors determining military intervention in politics and disengagement in politics.
Ask what is industrial by justifying the meaning of industrial then you come to industry. Define industry as well and provide it functions and give a short note on what complex is with characteristics.
Link the three words military, industrial and complex together then define Military industrial complex.
Start exhaustive explanation on the subject matter including in your explanation its modus operadi, its strategy, nuclear proliferation policies, cold war, post cold war, power elite citation from Mills and Dwight D. Eisenhower who contributed and developed the theory of industrial complex. How the military industrial complex promote war for profit and how the defense industry align with the military to plan wars for profit.
You can also refer to conspiracy theory as it is also part of the discourse.
Make sure you include in your explanation how the military industrial complex arose in Britain, France and germany between 1880s and 1890s.
Finally, make your conclusion very good by shooting the professor saying as long as unwarranted influence continue to grow, conspirators will continue to trigger interactions between states on the world stage for profit and so, war is inevitable.

tomakint:
@ op, be sincere it was not this bad under Jonathan, mind you the shortage of fuel towards the end of Jonathan's tenure was a grand manipulations from the detractors of his government just to whip up sentiments from the already angry electorates who are hell bent to get him out. Jonathan's government had the singular honour of stopping our seasonal December 24th-28th shortage of fuel we witnessed for 6 years under Obj's eight years.... This is the noble truth.

From my observation, you have said the truth and so will your comments continue to earn more likes even more than the op's comments here.
Comments with lies are trash and are suppose to be thrown to the lawn man!

This is what happen when a lady decide to mingle with man- boy instead of fully grown man.
Everything that happened in the bedroom between a man and a lady should remain very private even when they call it quit and not the other way.

opedaydydx9:
uhmmmm.

No Calambo first

azimibraun:
Parents! Ensure you and your kids watch Channelstv Live, NTA, AIT, CNN, BBC, ALJAZEERA Live and read National dailies traditionally first before going to Twitter FB and the social-media in all for info. I know all the above mentioned news network are also on the social-media but the traditional broadcast and interviews tells better government policies and programmes and genuine opposition views and reactions. Just an advice. So that our lives don't become Twitter life of any true or false can be posted.

oh! its now you realise Twitter life and Fb is a major concern right? You have forgotten how these two giants social medias dominated and ridicule jonathan's administration thereby orchestrating his sack from office. Tell me who were those behind it? as long as these two social medias helped us to personally analysed jonathan's administration leading to the citizens voting him out of office so shall it be applied to Bubu's one chance administration if zombies like or not.

dahmie2013:


Too bad, it is only God dat can console her! But sincerely I do say sumthing, pregnancy is a choice. Science has tried, if u 4got 2 use a condom, postinor is dere, all dese abortn nonsense irritates me cos I don't see d need 4 it.

Nywys, as 4 d guy, he has just seen d most turbulent part of his life. I have a neighbour who put a girl thru dis, 2wks after his wedd, he lost his job, till 2moro he keeps running 4rm pillar 2 post. He has been duped several times&wen he travelled he was deported. He runs 4rm church 2 church yet no avail. He is a shadow of himself, d irony of it is he has 2kids&d wife has no job.

Men pls be careful!

She is running him down already.

Achorise:
Thank you sir for finding time to reply me.I wanted to say ,I hardly get early morning erection,Hope it works for it too.

yes it does!

Must he eat food? May be the guy is like me that doesn't like to eat rice outside especially fast food. I sometimes do same. If I want to eat lunch I just order for anything swallow and not rice. He took what he preferred not because he doesn't have the money.
Op mind ur business the guy isn't like you.

Achorise:
Thank you sir,for this,I will practise all.But hope age isn't a factor.And hardly get morning erection.

age isn't a factor at all. If you can continue it then you should changes in your body system as well.

Every girl has a button either blue, red, pink or white. You are to study her then press and activate her button. Every other thing will be added to your control.

Before I visited Ekpoma, I stayed Uniben for two years when I was running diploma programme and what I noticed is that the campus is very cool and calm. Its only the off campus students especially confra guys make threats and oppress the jews.
I extended my visit to Esut where I stayed one year for my direct entry admission pursuit. I noticed the campus very irregular,threatening, fights, kidnapping and all sorts happen both off and on campus. I had to leave the school after I was admitted because I discovered lecturers teach in Igbo language and due to this reason I could not comprehend their teaching.
I was later admitted into AAU the following year. Hmmm! AAU campus both on and off was always a threat, intimidating, oppression infact people receive slap in the classroom, boys attend lectures with cut to size. The only university were swag is priceless.
I rate AAU as first cos dem no get mate. Second is Esut, third is Uniben and fourth is Uniport cos I served in Uniport during NYSC.

Richy4:
No... The schools u mentioned were really solid in terms of Academics back then.. I said before that we were not known for academic excellence..... there was a report in year 2000 by a foreign media that shook the foundation of that school that time, (U know internet was not as common back then as it was now.. They just Print and sell papers)

I was a freshman in that school then......The report stated that the institution was the second most dangerous in the world after one Russian school which was first...The school authority took the matter really serious. The school invited priest and pastors to come and pray for the school... No lectures that day....every one was at the arena ground both lecturers and students pretending to pray....Some cultist came out and renounce publicly...like 62 of them...

The next semester it became really worse.... I remembered my Final Year Examination, The school gave all the 3rd year to first year one month break.. The police in that institution then almost out numbered the students.... No one to celebrate with us because the students have all gone home.... but no record of Death was registered during the exam... The school was in the Eastern part.... And it was a state University.

Ekposki! Ekpoma too dangerous for children even till now. Ekpoma is where brave men are made. if you can survive Ekpoma and graduated successfully you are a soldier anywhere in the world. I love AAU!

If this is your campaign strategy then how do you intend to win your primary and the election without the support of oshiomole who happen to be prominent APC member among other members to project APC candidate for the election?

Please stop fooling the uneducated and innocent people of Edo state.

Kyllahmc:
Black + yellow... You should be able to do the math if you are qualified to know.

Aye you don wale?... Lol!