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Barack Obama does not hold dual citizenship. In fact, the Kenyan constitution does not allow for dual citizenship. Ditto for the American Constitution, it does not allow for anyone who wants to occupy the oval office to hold dual citizenship. That was why Senator Ted Cruz had to renounce his Canadian citizenship when he was contesting the republican party nomination. Most Countries in the world do not allow political office holders to hold dual citizenship because of divided loyalty and conflict of interests. The Nigerian constitution also has a provision barring people with dual citizenship from holding political offices, but we don't follow this law just as we violate all other laws of the land.

Regarding the appointee into office of NIA DG holding dual citizenship...I think we should be looking at the larger issues of nationality versus ethnicity. Africa as a continent suffers from this phenomenon which was caused by the colonial masters, this way they partitioned the continent. Apparently, Africa and the different countries have refused to integrate to the extent which national interests overrides ethic considerations.

The PMB government since inception has shown it's hands that it favours hausa-fulani ethnic hegemony and domination over any other national considerations. The implication of this is that it sends a message to all of us that nothing binds us together. The contraction called Nigeria only exists as a vehicle to promote agenda of whatever ethnic group in Power. This is why proponents of restructuring have a superior argument.

The current political cum economic structure of Nigeria requires leaders who are nationalists and see the entire country as their constituency. If God delivers us from the current administration, never should we ever elect tribalist and ethic bigot.

Called the New York agency. I was told a needed to do a declaration that we have not received the SSN. but could only get appointment on Friday

From what i have been reading, u cant process passport without ssn again o. seems like a recent thing. when i had my baby in July in Illinois i had to post a declaration saying we hadnt received ssn. Looks like they have stepped up the game now again sef[/quote]

She is in New Jersey...

My DW is in Ney Jersey. The nearest Passport Agency is New York.

she can't travel with the baby without a US passport. ETC is to enable the child enter Nigeria just like the Nigerian passport.
US passport can be obtained same day if she walks into the passport office with her flight ticket after booking an appointment via phone. Also, you can process the US passport without SSN
What city is your wife?[/quote]

feddy27:
how does she intend to bring the child back without the US passport?

feddy27,

I had thought she can travel with the ETC without the US passport, except am wrong..... My line of reasoning is that baby can travel with either US passport or Nigeria Passport. The ETC is in lieu of the Nigeria Passport. US passport can be processed in Nigeria once she arrives

Kindly educate me on this.

Thanks

I had thought she can travel with the ETC without the US passport, except am wrong..... My line of reasoning is that baby can travel with either US passport or Nigeria Passport. The ETC is in lieu of the Nigeria Passport. US passport can be processed in Nigeria once she arrives

Kindly educate me on this.

Thanks

Morning People,

I need urgent help on emergency travel certificate. DW is in NJ and needs to travel this weekend. we have not been able to process US passport due to delay in social security and we cant continue to wait. is there any one that can help with expedite or I just need to do it myself, send the necessary documents to the Nigeria embassy in DC. Just wanted to be on the safe side, and get the ETC before Friday.

Make una help me I beg. You can PM with any contact that can help

Cc: Justwise, desoul



Change of intent letter issue addressed by the VO here:
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It is difficult to dismiss the fears and concerns expressed by poster of this tread...much as some people may want you to believe that the country can never be islamized or northenised, there are ongoing and subtle attempts to achieve this.

For all those who cares, you need to understand Islam as a religion and a political movement. You can't separate Islam from politics and the state. that is why muslims all over the world want to be govern under Islamic law, and not only them, they want this to apply to other citizens who are non muslims. in Islam, there is no separation between religion and the state. even when they find themselves in a seemingly secular state, they agitate for adoption of laws that suits there preferences. we have seen this trend is so many countries. This is why you have the ISIS, Boko Haram and Al-Shabbab of this world... though they are taking a violent and radial approach, but the end is still the same; to have an Islamic Caliphate.

If you are discerning, you will see a dangerous trend and entrenching of Islamic bias in some of our government institutions and instrument of government. However, this is the early phase and is being slowed down by outcry, awareness, NGO, social media and a whole lot of factors. christians must thanks there lucky stars that Saraki, moderate muslim and Dogara, xtian emerged as Senate President and speaker of HoRs. Otherwise, the agenda would have moved faster. check out the military, most of the top posts are occupied bu Hausa-fulani Muslims. what about the civil service, DSS, feelers from the seat of government is that policies that have Islamic propagation get support. that is why the anti-corruption war is weak and ineffective because it is being sacrifice for a parochial and sectional agenda. Even the herdsmen issue has some element of this. Even the economy is being gradually twisted from capitalism propelled to socialism. The economy is loosing to so many private sector jobs, mostly southerners and xtians and creating a lot of jobs in public sectors and these jobs get filled up by northerners and muslims. in most cases, these jobs are filled without advertisement and due process.

we need to wake up and be politically awake. we need leaders who are nationalist, non tribalist and who will not elevate religion as a tool to create advantage for a section of the country. the country is not working for all the citizens and attempt to pursue to any parochial and sectional agenda will polarise and pauparise the country. We cant all run away, so that is not the solution, rather all xtians should be mobilised both home and abroad to come to demand equality, fairness and right to be govern as they preferred.

I rest my case

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Fashola: The Man Who Ended Ebola
C. Don Adinuba

The immediate past Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, was on Wednesday, November 11, 2015, appointed the Minister of Power, Works and Housing. He could well have been named the Minister of Infrastructure. Electricity, roads and housing rank among the most critical of infrastructure everywhere, but they are awfully in short supply in our country. By saddling him with the tremendous responsibility of making these key facilities available and working throughout the nation, President Muhammadu Buhari has demonstrated stupendous confidence in Fashola the kind difficult to match anywhere.
No one doubts that the former governor will deliver the goods. He remains the most decorated state governor in Nigeria’s history, honoured by research groups and think thanks across the globe for exemplary and far-sighted leadership. Commendations have come from such international media as The Economist, Financial Times, CNN International, BBC, Time magazine as well as Daily Telegraph of London. His leadership has also attracted the attention of postgraduate students and researchers at such world class institutions as the University of Liverpool.

Still, there is an important achievement which Fashola recorded as a governor but not quite acknowledged: the heroic and successful battle against the Ebola pandemic. The anti-Ebola war is now on the front burner for at least three major reasons. It was one of the considerations for bestowing on Fashola the globally prestigious Stephen J. Solarz Award on October 28, 2015, by the Belgium-based International Crisis Group at its 20th anniversary in New York. And it is now one year since the World Health Organisation (WHO) on October 24, 2014, certified Nigeria free of the Ebola virus which Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian national, had brought to our nation in July, leaving in its trail a harvest of deaths. What is more, Adaora Igonoh, one of the medical doctors who survived the Ebola attack at the First Consultants Medical Centre in Lagos, was delivered of a baby in far-away California in the first week of November, 2015, without any trace of the dangerous disease in her blood or that of her new baby.

The defunct federal administration of Goodluck Jonathan did go to great lengths to take credit for the Ebola fight, probably because of the impending generation election. The administration did establish an effective communication network to sensitise and mobilise the public. It did little beyond that. The high public officer who rolled up his sleeves and got cracking immediately, as could be expected of an effective leader in a crisis situation, was Fashola. He was abroad when Ebola broke out, and so he cut short the trip and flew back home the same day. Diving straight into the heart of the matter, an isolation centre sprang up overnight at Mainland Hospital for victims. It was complete with ambulances, doctors, nutritionists, pharmacists, nurses and other health providers. All Ebola victims, including the popular Dr. Stella Adadevoh and Ada Igonoh, were treated here. In a daring move reminiscent of the kind of inspiring leadership which Rudy Giuliani provided as New York City mayor in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, Fashola visited the facility in broad daylight with his closest aides to express solidarity with the victims and to assess the centre’s effectiveness first hand. The centre worked so well that the majority of victims treated there survived; even the wife of a doctor from Anambra State who contracted the virus while treating an Ebola patient secretly in a hotel in Port Harcourt was sent all the way from Rivers State for treatment there.

Meanwhile, Jonathan’s Minister of Health, Christian Onyebuchukwu Chukwu, a professor of medicine, kept away the isolation centre. He even kept away from First Consultants hospital to this day. Worse, he did not give the hospital, which lost over 400million naira to Ebola, even a kobo, despite the fact that the Federal Government set aside a whopping N1.9billion to fight the Ebola scourge. In contrast, Fashola called out top officials of the state government to receive on September 18, 2015, all five Ebola survivors, including Dr. Igonoh, Dr. Morris Ibeawuchi and D.r Akiniyi Fadipe, who came with Mrs. Kelechi Enemuo, widow of the Port Harcourt-based doctor, and Dennis Echelonu, husband of nurse Justina Echelonu Obioma who contracted the disease on her first day at work while treating Sawyer, the Liberian index case. Fashola received the survivors in public to show solidarity with them but also to assist end the social stigma against them.

Even when First Consultants had been certified completely free of Ebola, patients and even business partners like suppliers still kept their distance. To cause patients and others to return to this foremost health facility in the country, Fashola visited First Consultants on September 20, 2014, in full public glare and promised to help defray the enormous cost it incurred when it was closed down and its equipment either discarded for fear of contamination. On December 2, 2014, he donated N50m to the hospital and N26m to individual Ebola victims, including the wife of the Port Harcourt-based doctor from Anambra State who had nothing to do with Lagos State other than being was rushed to the Ebola isolation centre at Mainland Hospital in Lagos immediately the husband died of the virus in Rivers State.

Though the founder of the First Consultants Medical Centre, Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri, is from Orlu in Imo State and the overwhelming majority of the Ebola victims are from the South-east, all five state governments in the region and Igbo organisations like Ohaneze have completely ignored them to this day. Not even a word of praise to the hospital and its staff for battling professionally and heroically to stop the spread of the virus in Nigeria. As already stated above, the then Igbo Minister of Health, Dr. Chukwu from Ebonyi State, neither visited the place nor gave the members a kobo from the N1.8bn which the Jonathan government set aside to combat Ebola. This development is reminiscent of how South-east governments and Igbo organisations have utterly ignored Josephine Ugwu, a cleaner who found about N12m cash at Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Ikeja earlier this year and promptly returned it to the owner. On the contrary, Fashola honoured Ms Ugwu as a role model and caused the Lagos State House of Assembly to hold a special session in her honour. Of course, she received an undisclosed amount from the State.

Quite remarkably, the international community, as represented by the International Crisis Group, recognises it was Fashola, and not the Jonathan administration, that ended the Ebola pandemic in Nigeria. Indeed, in his Nigeria’s independency anniversary of October 1, 2014, Fashola mentioned one by one over 30 citizens and institutions, including First Consultants, that led the battle against Ebola. In fighting the Ebola war, he did display acute crisis management skills and generosity of heart; he, in addition, took considerable risks to his life. As the scripture says, “there is no love greater than the fact that a man could lay down his life for the benefit of his people” (John 15:13). It is the kind of leadership Chinua Achebe would describe as leadership by personal example, which is the hallmark of successful societies.

With the likes of Fashola now at the centre, Nigeria may well be about to change.

.Adinuba is head of Discovery Public Affairs Consulting.

NLs

I have compiled the full list of the 36 Ministerial Nominees with information on their education background, Experiences and Interests; Specialisation; State of Origin, Sex and their Religion. I have also assigned a rating btw A- C based on their education, antecedents, recognition and public/private sector records. Those in Category A are most likely to make Federal Ministers, Those in B category would fit into either of Federal Ministers or State Ministers and those in C category are most likely to be made State Ministers. I will share likely Portfolio in a later post

CC; Lalasticlala; Tonye Barcanista

I have compiled the full list of the 36 Ministerial Nominees with information on their education background, Experiences and Interests; Specialisation; State of Origin, Sex and their Religion. I have also assigned a rating btw A- C based on their education, antecedents, recognition and public/private sector records. Those in Category A are most likely to make Federal Ministers, Those in B category would fit into either of Federal Ministers or State Ministers and those in C category are most likely to be made State Ministers.


S/N NAMES STATE EDUCATION EXPERIENCE/SPECIALISATION TIER SEX RELIGION
1 Okechukwu Enelamah ABIA MBBS, MBA Accounting and Corporate Finance A M CHRISTIAN
2 Muhammadu Bello ADAMAWA LAW PILGRIMAGE MANAGEMENT C M MUSLIM
3 Chris Ngige ANAMBRA MBBS CIVIL SERVICE; POLITICS
AND GOVERNANCE A M CHRISTIAN
4 Udoma Udo Udoma AKWA IBOM Commercial Law Corporate Governance B M CHRISTIAN
5 Adamu Adamu BAUCHI Journalism Journalism and Public Policy B M MUSLIM
6 HEINEKEN LOIKPOBIRI BAYELSA Law PARLIAMENTARY MATTERS C M CHRISTIAN
7 AUDU OGBE BENUE Education Farming B M CHRISTIAN
8 Mustapha Baba Shehuri BORNO Sociology Business and Parliamentarian C M MUSLIM
9 Usani Usani Uguru CROSS RIVER GEOGRAPHY Former Comm for Youth & Sports
and Agriculture C M CHRISTIAN
10 IBE KACHUKWU DELTA Law Oil and Gas A M CHRISTIAN
11 OGBONNAYA ONU EBONYI Chemical Engineering Academics, Governance A M CHRISTIAN
12 OSAHON EHANIRE EDO MBBS CONSULTANT SURGEON B M CHRISTIAN
13 KAYODE FAYEMI EKITI INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Foreign Policy, A M CHRISTIAN
WAR STUDIES
14 Jeffery Onyema ENUGU Law and Political Science Intellectual Law, B M CHRISTIAN
15 Amina Mohammed GOMBE Architecture/Construction Economic / International A F MUSLIM
Development, Policy Formulation, MDGs, SDGS
16 Anthony Anwuka IMO Education Education, Former SSG IMO State B M CHRISTIAN
17 Suleiman Adamu JIGAWA Civil Engr, Project Management Construction and B M MUSLIM
Infrastructure Delivery
18 ZAINAB AHMED KADUNA Accounting, MBA Accounting & Finance, Public Policy B F MUSLIM
19 Abdurrahman Danbazau KANO PHD Criminology Military and Defence A M MUSLIM
20 Hadi Sirika KATSINA Pilot Aviation B M MUSLIM
21 Abubakar Malami KEBBI Law Legal Matters B M MUSLIM
22 James E. Ocholi KOGI Law Legal Matters B M CHRISTIAN
23 LAI MOHAMMED KWARA Law Journalism &Public Relations B M MUSLIM
24 BABATUNDE FASHOLA LAGOS Law Governance and Delivery A M MUSLIM
25 Ibrahim Usman Jibril NASARAWA Education & Geography Land Administration C M MUSLIM
26 Abubakar Bawa Bwari NIGER Geography; Urban & Regional Planning C M MUSLIM
27 KEMI ADEOSUN OGUN Economics; ACCA Accounting and Finance B F CHRISTIAN
28 Claudius Daramola ONDO Education and Sociology Academics B M CHRISTIAN
29 PROF ISAAC ADEWOLE OSUN MBBS Obstetrics and Gynaecology B M CHRISTIAN
30 Adebayo Shittu OYO Law and POLITICS C M MUSLIM
31 SOLOMOM DALONG PLATEAU Law Prisons Administration C M CHRISTIAN
32 ROTIMI AMAECHI RIVERS English Politics and Governance B M CHRISTIAN
33 Aisha Abubakar SOKOTO Politics & International Studies; Development Studies B F MUSLIM
SME; Micro funding Women & Family Development;Public Policy
34 AISHA JUMMAI AL-HASSAN TARABA Law Judicial Administration & Legislative Matters; Politics B F MUSLIM
35 KHADIJA ABBA-IBRAHIM YOBE Bsc Business Studies and Sociology Legislative Matters C F MUSLIM
36 Muhammad Mansur Dan-Ali ZAMFARA Engineering; Public Policy & Administration Military B M MUSLIM

macorondo:
@Ochioraumu Hmmm! Can understand what you went true. You said they claimed they contacted your uncle, my question is how did get his phone number to contact him

Wife had same experience in Houston. Her visa was cancelled and she was sent back at entry point but thank God we got the visa back and she even had another baby in the USA last year. Good thing is you withdrew ur application, so technically u are eligible for another visa. But I can tell you that you need prayer and lot of luck. The good thing is you were not deported which give you a five to ten year ban. Do reapply and prepare to put forward ur justifications. All the best

Its is a tragedy when the president is being deceived by members of his party. It reminds me of the last United States presidential elections when advisers and pollsters of Mitt Romney, the Republican Party candidate, kept telling him he is winning the election. In fact different opinion polls results from his campainers show him winning most if the swing states i.e Ohio, Florida, Virgina, Colorado, Nevada etc,. This was contraty to other public polling was showing and the Democratic party polling results. The democratic party and Obama Campaign kept doing their home work and we saw what happened eventually. Obama won most of the sing states. it Fact the moment Obama won in Virginia, I knew it was all over for Romney.

Instead of PDP to admit that this is a close election and very high probability they might loose. This is time for them to do some introspection and come out with some magical moments in this campaign that can sway voters to their candidate. Time is ticking and the closer we are to the election the more GEJ, his party and the campaign organisation are damaging his prospect of re-election. No doubt, APC has ran a more effective campaign
If and when GEJ loses this election, he has no one to blame than Himself, his party and the handlers of this campaign.

tola9ja:
AND YOU WILL JONA

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Going by PVCs collection per Geo political zones, It is clear who has the ace

Northwest - 10,172,480
NorthCentral -5,859,562
Northest - 5,678,678-
southwest -5,910,661
SouthSouth-6,214,977
Southest-3,156,327

GMB will clear all the states in Northwest and probably all in Southwest, at worst loose either Ekiti or Ondo. By the way I was in Ekiti last week and going by the pulse and my interactions with people, dont see how GMB will loose in Ekiti. GMB will win not less than 4 states in North east and thats being comservative.

GEJ will win all the states in Southeast. He would also win South South, However EDO States is a swing state and comes into play.
North Central is almost equally split: GMB will win Kwara, Niger and Nasarawa. GEJ will win Plateau, Benue and likely Kogi, which is also a swing state.

Overall , I see GMB wining at least 19 states while GEJ would probably win 17 states. Herein lies the key decider. Turnout and Voters per Geo political zones. Voters by Geo-political zones already in APC advantage....... except something dramatic happens, its difficult seeing GEJ winnihg this election.