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6. He Is A Coupist: Buhari has no moral ground to stand for an election in Nigeria because he’s a destroyer of democracy and can never benefit from it. He overthrew a duly elected govt and ruled illegitimately until he was kicked out. For those that claim he was invited, go read the recent interview by Chief Ebenezer Babatope on why Chief Solomon Lar was imprisoned by Buhari.
7. He Doesn’t Talk or Act Like An
Elder-statesman: He makes provocative statements that are capable of putting the country in crisis. This attitude caused the death of over 800 innocent lives including about 10 Corp members after he lost the 2011 elections. A man who considers himself as an elder-statesman and wants to rule Nigeria again should not be talking this way: “God willing, by 2015, something will happen. They either conduct a free and fair election or they go a very disgraceful way. If what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and baboon would all be soaked in blood.” – M. Buhari
“2015 will be bloody…” – M. Buhari
Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Buhari knew how important reconciliation is to the stability of democracy, yet he refused to appear before the panel.
8. He Cannot Formulate A Good Economic Policy: True to that, Buhari is the only former Head of State without a legacy. Not even one, despite ruling with iron-fist for 2 years. Someone said, Environmental sanitation is his legacy LOL and I ask, how has that improved our economy? Or is Nigeria now the cleanest country in the world with a booming tourism industry? And again, those that attended his declaration were disappointed as he couldn’t present a manifesto on how he can solve the numerous problems confronting Nigeria. We keep hearing from the Buharists: “I will fight corruption; I will stop corruption; I will end corruption.” How? By mouth?
Recall what BBC said about Buhari’s economic policy: “Buhari’s attempts to re-balance public finances by curbing imports led to many job losses and the closure of businesses. These losses were accompanied by a rise in prices and a decline in living standards.” His economic policy started the devaluation of naira. During Shagari/Ekweme’s regime, $1 = N0.550 but before the end of his tenure in 1985, $1 = N0.894.
9. He Clamped Down On The Press: With the infamous Decree 4, he closed down Newspapers, arrested and jailed many journalists such as Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian Newspaper on stories that were factual. He told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail. At a point Tai Solarin became the only voice who could speak as he stood at the road corner and was distributing leaflets detailing the various atrocities of Buhari. He arrested and jailed him. In prison, he was denied his asthmatic drug. He was released by IBB and later died of complication from the torture he suffered in prison.

........3. He Introduced Kidnapping And Smuggling Into The Nigeria System:The story of Umaru Dikko is already well known that repeating it here amounts to tautology. However, Buhari and his ADC Col. Mustapha Jokolo supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash against the protests of Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku (an APC bigwig), was the former DG of Customs. Do you still need to know why Buhari has never accused Atiku of being corrupt?
4. He Is Not A Man of His Words: Buhari cried in public and said he won’t contest elections again, yet couldn’t keep his words:

“This campaign is the third and last one for me; since, after it, I will not present myself again for election into office of the president.” – M. Buhari (April, 2011 at the Int’l Conference Centre, Abuja). Then again in 2014, he swallowed his words with this: “I humbly present myself to all Nigerians and to God, seeking to be elected as APC’s presidential candidate.” - M. Buhari (Oct., 15, 2014 Eagle Square Abuja)

5. He Is An Ethnic Bigot Who Thinks That Vendetta Is Fighting Corruption: After Buhari and his boys overthrew the govt of Shagari with the sole reason that the govt was highly corrupt, he locked up Dr. Alex Ekwueme – the then VP in Kirikiri maximum prison but left Shagari – the president and Head of govt in his mansion. Ekwueme was tried by the tribunal set-up by Buhari and the tribunal declared that he was even poorer than he was before he came into office. Yet, Buhari jailed him and allowed Shagari to relax in his mansion. He gave Dede Sam Mbakwe 100- year jail term for stealing nothing
and also went after his wife. Ambrose Ali was tried for an undeveloped plot of land and he was jailed for 75 years with heavy torture that led to blindness and later death. Jim Nwobodo and Lateef Jakande were jailed for 100 years for stealing nothing. Adekunle Ajasin was tried by a military tribunal and found innocent. Buhari ordered a fresh trial, he was found innocent again. Buhari changed the tribunal and tried him again. He was still found innocent. Buhari still jailed him. But, Buhari left his personal friend – Awwal Ibrahim – the then highly corrupt governor of Niger State who was arrested at Heathrow airport with £14 million. Awwal was never jailed. He was placed under house arrest in his mansion like Shagari for just two weeks and indeed released.

Millions of Nigerians have been rejecting buhari since 2003 despite his ‘popularity’. There is a reason for that. He is an old lizard that cannot change. Nigerians are not ignorant of what Buhari did l who he is. The recent certificate saga shows he hasn't change one bit:

1. He Is A Hypocrite And
Sanctimonious: Buhari is a self-
acclaimed anti-corruption Czar,
yet he served under late Sani
Abacha without complaining of
corruption. In the same period
Buhari served as PTF Chairman
under Abacha, Nigeria was named the 2nd most corrupt country in the world in 1996 by Transparency International; the most corrupt country in 1997 and 3rdmost country in 1998. Buhari didn’t resign or protest. He dismissed the TI Report with a wave of the hand. Can he do the same if such report says Nigeria is the most corrupt country in 2014? I know that Buhari would protest and call President Jonathan names.
Buhari as a man of integrity as he
claims should have done what Tai
Solarin, Duro Onabule and Ebitu
Ukiwe did under IBB’s regime.
IBB’s attempt to take Nigeria into
the Organization of Islamic
Countries (OIC) made his Chief of
General Staff, Ebitu Ukiwe to
resign. Ukiwe maintained that
Nigeria, as a country, should not
be a member of a religious
organisation. Individual organisation can take up membership of religious organisations, but not the country. IBB made Tai Solarin the chairman of Peoples Bank with no fund and power to run it; he resigned and tendered his apology to Nigerians.
Buhari has not apologized to
Nigerians for working for the
most corrupt govt in the world
then, but he still maintains that
Abacha didn’t loot Nigeria dry
even as Abacah loots are still
being sent back to Nigeria.
When he took over power by the
gun, he supported rigging
because it favoured him. But now,
he is shouting of rigging. Hear
him:
“The last general election was
anything but free and fair. The
only political parties that could
complain of election rigging are
those parties that lacked the
resources to rig.” - M. Buhar (First
Speech after Military Coup, 31
December, 1983)
2. He Is A Religious Fanatic And
Extremist: Buhari believes that his
religion is superior to other
religions and that Koran
supersedes our constitution. In
2001, he gave his total support for
Sharia with this statement:
“I will continue to show openly
and inside me the total
commitment to the Sharia
movement that is sweeping all
over Nigeria. God willing, we will
not stop the agitation for the total
implementation of the Sharia in
the country.”- M. Buhari (August
27, 2001)
He made the above statement
after he had gone to BBC
Hausa Service to condemn the
then Vice President, Atiku
Abubakar for urging Muslims
states who adopted Sharia to
return to the status quo.
If you think that these statements
mean nothing, then envision what
would happen if a notable
Christian political leader from the
south make the same statement
about spreading Christianity
across Nigeria.
Prior to the 2003 elections, he
made another shocking
statement:
“Muslims should only vote those
who will promote Islam. We are
more than the Christians if you
add our Muslim brothers in the
West.”- M. Buhari (2003)

Buhari is a destabilisation agent and far worst than Obj - Tinibu 2007.

As ex-coup plotter, Buhari in not qualified to rule - Momodu 2011.

Buhari should retire, it is time for a new generation of leaders - Elrufai 2011.

From the witness of two or three, a matter is settled.

Buhari is not d type of change we are looking for. A leopard cannot change its spot.

Reading Section


Directions: These sample questions in the Reading section measure your ability to understand academic passages in English. You will read one passage and answer questions about it. In a real test, you would have 20 minutes to read the passage and answer the questions. Candidates with disabilities may request a time extension.


Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur Extinction


There is increasing evidence that the impacts of meteorites have had important effects on Earth, particularly in the field of biological evolution. Such impacts continue to pose a natural hazard to life on Earth. Twice in the twentieth century, large meteorite objects are known to have collided with Earth.

If an impact is large enough, it can disturb the environment of the entire Earth and cause an ecological catastrophe. The best-documented such impact took place 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period of geological history. This break in Earth’s history is marked by a mass extinction, when as many as half the species on the planet became extinct. While there are a dozen or more mass extinctions in the geological record, the Cretaceous mass extinction has always intrigued paleontologists because it marks the end of the age of the dinosaurs. For tens of millions of years, those great creatures had flourished. Then, suddenly, they disappeared.

The body that impacted Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period was a meteorite with a mass of more than a trillion tons and a diameter of at least 10 kilometers. Scientists first identified this impact in 1980 from the worldwide layer of sediment deposited from the dust cloud that enveloped the planet after the impact. This sediment layer is enriched in the rare metal iridium and other elements that are relatively abundant in a meteorite but very rare in the crust of Earth. Even diluted by the terrestrial material excavated from the crater, this component of meteorites is easily identified. By 1990 geologists had located the impact site itself in the Yucatán region of Mexico. The crater, now deeply buried in sediment, was originally about 200 kilometers in diameter.

This impact released an enormous amount of energy, excavating a crater about twice as large as the lunar crater Tycho. The explosion lifted about 100 trillion tons of dust into the atmosphere, as can be determined by measuring the thickness of the sediment layer formed when this dust settled to the surface. Such a quantity of material would have blocked the sunlight completely from reaching the surface, plunging Earth into a period of cold and darkness that lasted at least several months. The explosion is also calculated to have produced vast quantities of nitric acid and melted rock that sprayed out over much of Earth, starting widespread fires that must have consumed most terrestrial forests and grassland. Presumably, those environmental disasters could have been responsible for the mass extinction, including the death of the dinosaurs.

Several other mass extinctions in the geological record have been tentatively identified with large impacts, but none is so dramatic as the Cretaceous event. But even without such specific documentation, it is clear that impacts of this size do occur and that their results can be catastrophic. What is a catastrophe for one group of living things, however, may create opportunities for another group. Following each mass extinction, there is a sudden evolutionary burst as new species develop to fill the ecological niches opened by the event.

Impacts by meteorites represent one mechanism that could cause global catastrophes and seriously influence the evolution of life all over the planet. According to some estimates, the majority of all extinctions of species may be due to such impacts. Such a perspective fundamentally changes our view of biological evolution. The standard criterion for the survival of a species is its success in competing with other species and adapting to slowly changing environments. Yet an equally important criterion is the ability of a species to survive random global ecological catastrophes due to impacts.

Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to random violent events that were unsuspected a few decades ago. In 1991 the United States Congress asked NASA to investigate the hazard posed today by large impacts on Earth. The group conducting the study concluded from a detailed analysis that impacts from meteorites can indeed be hazardous. Although there is always some risk that a large impact could occur, careful study shows that this risk is quite small.







1. The word “pose” on line 2 is closest in meaning to

a. claim

b. model

c. assume

d. present









2. In paragraph 2, why does the author include the information that
dinosaurs had flourished for tens of millions of years and then suddenly
disappeared?

a. To support the claim that the mass extinction at the end of the
Cretaceous is the best-documented of the dozen or so mass
extinctions in the geological record

b. To explain why as many as half of the species on Earth at the time
are believed to have become extinct at the end of the Cretaceous

c. To explain why paleontologists have always been intrigued by the
mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous

d. To provide evidence that an impact can be large enough to disturb
the environment of the entire planet and cause an ecological
disaster


3. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 3 about the
location of the meteorite impact in Mexico?

a. The location of the impact site in Mexico was kept secret by
geologists from 1980 to 1990.

b. It was a well-known fact that the impact had occurred in the
Yucatán region.

c. Geologists knew that there had been an impact before they knew
where it had occurred.

d. The Yucatán region was chosen by geologists as the most probable
impact site because of its climate.


4. According to paragraph 3, how did scientists determine that a large
meteorite had impacted Earth?

a. They discovered a large crater in the Yucatán region of Mexico.

b. They found a unique layer of sediment worldwide.

c. They were alerted by archaeologists who had been excavating in
the Yucatán region.

d. They located a meteorite with a mass of over a trillion tons.
5. The word “excavating” on line 25 is closest in meaning to

a. digging out

b. extending

c. destroying

d. covering up


6. The word “consumed” on line 32 is closest in meaning to

a. changed

b. exposed

c. destroyed

d. covered


7. According to paragraph 4, all of the following statements are true of
the impact at the end of the Cretaceous period EXCEPT:

a. A large amount of dust blocked sunlight from Earth.

b. Earth became cold and dark for several months.

c. New elements were formed in Earth’s crust.

d. Large quantities of nitric acid were produced.


8. The phrase “tentatively identified” on line 36 is closest in
meaning to

a. identified after careful study

b. identified without certainty

c. occasionally identified

d. easily identified


9. The word “perspective” on line 46 is closest in meaning to

a. sense of values

b. point of view

c. calculation

d. complication


10. Paragraph 6 supports which of the following statements about the
factors that are essential for the survival of a species?

a. The most important factor for the survival of a species is its
ability to compete and adapt to gradual changes in its
environment.

b. The ability of a species to compete and adapt to a gradually
changing environment is not the only ability that is essential for
survival.

c. Since most extinctions of species are due to major meteorite
impacts, the ability to survive such impacts is the most
important factor for the survival of a species.

d. The factors that are most important for the survival of a species
vary significantly from one species to another.


11. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the
following sentence?

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Yippee!
GEJ till 2019!!

GEJ till 2019!!!

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
The guy shld go for thanksgiving.

Oahray:
Lol. Damn!

That guy is fortunate mehn!

I tell you...very fortunate indeed.

Saw this on facebook....

busuyem:
Yes, I used Opera mini browser. Which one is phone native browser, abeg?

Your phone browser.

busuyem:
The form finally opens this morning but I coudn't type my date of birth inside the form. And I couldn't go to the next page because of this, what could be the cause pls?

U are likely using opera mini. Use ur phone's native browser or better still use a computer.

Pls kindly respond...
For those who have successfully applied, how did u manage to upload more than one educational and professional certificates, and that of LGA of origin and state of origin. Because I am seeing only one upload space for either of them. Pls respond asap. Thanks in advance.

All these nay-sayers, spreading negativity in this house, keep your bad news to yourselves. As for me and everyone that believes, we shall collect our appointment letters soon and the doubter shall hide their faces in shame.
2015! Continuous Congratulations!!

emusmith:
In case you've forgotten, I'm the Op, Mr.Smith. Where is my...#i am derailing o#

No u're re-railing.
ezibless don't mind the Op joor

emusmith:
You , you are forgiven, but after you do small frog jump, from Your place to PH...

Mr 3D derailers-watcher

Ezibless:
Shoot
Errrmmmmmm....










Bullet don finish

Reload na!
I'll wait.
Agbakwala oso...

Ezibless:
Believe me,you don't wanna know...









It's complicated
:p

Try me!
Shoot, I'm all ears.

Ezibless:



I said ''could'' ooo

How do u xpress ur own love na?

Ezibless:
Lolzzz


Wetin happen to all our beloved NL babes na? #NotSmilingAtAll



Ok choose among those your ladies that ''love in d laughable ways'' na,some of them could really love genuinely o

Ezibleble how'll one know the genuine ones, educate me...

I chose to praise God, I must end this year in laughter & celebration as regards this ginvest job.

marieolae:
do u expect a dwarf to marry a dwarf

He's not a dwarf

Off to church to worship my Father.
See you later!
*singing I live to worship you* by Darlene Zchech

There'll never ever be boredom in heaven. Don't forget that the maker and builder(architect) of heaven is God. The same God that endowed man with an awesome creative mind. How can u say heaven will be boring? A place designed by God Almighty Himself, haba! There's always activity in heaven, there's work, there is technology.... Unimaginable wonder and bliss.

Heaven is not some mythical place where we do nothing but float in the cloud lazily.
Heaven is more real than reality itself.
It has a landscape and vegetation and divers species of birds & other animals, & flowers.
There are buildings in heaven (houses, mansions); Jesus said, "in My Father's house, there are many mansions..."
In all these, remember there is perfection. No dust, no dirt, no rust, no rot & offcourse no sun or moon, for the Glory of God illuminates the endless landscape of heaven.

But as it is written, "No eye has seen, no ear has
heard, and no mind has imagined the things that
God has prepared for those who love him."

For this perishable body must put on the
imperishable, and this mortal body must put on
immortality.

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and
the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to
pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed
up in victory.”

Obj this ur book is cock and bull story, no substance at all. By the way, na must to write book? Its obvious u're doing all dis abrakadabra becos GEJ sidelined u. Nigeria hasn't recovered frm d atrocities of ur government.
Last bullet: Dear Mr former president, pls remove d plank in ur eye first before trying to remove d speck in GEJ's.

Vivly:
I will never attempt squats ever again!
I looked it up on YouTube, did like 15 at a go and 7 later.
For three days, I couldn't walk properly. What's worse, my room is on the second floor. Climbing stair cases became a nightmare. Thank God it's back to normal now. Goodbye squats.

Vivy, ur signature cracked me up real hard.

Alphaoscar:
beautiful women in APC fold. we are a party with class and swag.

We don't want a party with class and swag or beautiful women, we want performance