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When JAMB is tired of grandstanding, two things might happen:

i Release the allegedly battered result OR

ii. Plead with the candidates to come for a retest.

The second option is likely impossible.

JAMB promised to make the results available this week. Therefore if today ends without JAMB releasing the result as promised, then the candidates need no soothsayer to tell them that something has happened to their results.

With each day passing, the credibility of JAMB and the result it will eventually release keep diminishing.

JAMB can do whatever pleases it with those involved in the malpractice. But hey, stop toying with the emotions of the innocent candidates.

Same Oil that Saudi has in abundance. It has to be something bigger and greater than oil, if anything at all.

Of course, the conspiracy theorist must thrive. No thanks to the opaque governance that fuels suspicions.

But for now, let's give kudos to those deserving of it until further credible information reveals reasons to do otherwise.

Gistok4:
The Ekiti State Government has communicated its status to survey the system that prompted the enlistment of no less than 2,000 new specialists into the current administration by the quick past organization of Mr. Ayo Fayose.

The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that the new arrangement of laborers had consistently dissented their non-recognition as bonafide government workers by the present government, just as non-installment of their compensations seven months after their commitment.

The State Commissioner for Information, Tourism and Values Orientation, Mr. Muyiwa Olumilua, revealed this in Ado-Ekiti on Monday while tending to a gathering of physically tested individuals additionally influenced by the activity.

Olumilua noticed that that none of the arrangements, including different classes of individuals experienced fair treatment, mainly as it included biometrics. He said the enlistment was quickly done, even up till the very night of the day of exit of the previous senator.

The official said it was on the premise of that the Fayemi’s organization set up an advisory group headed by the Deputy Governor, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi to audit the arrangements. He said the advisory group was likewise to decide the genuine, accessible opportunities inside the open administration.

Olumilua unveiled that the advisory group had finished up its task and would before long take the definitive decision on the issue, so those included could see no their destiny.

Giving a breakdown of the aggregate of 2,000 arrangements, the official said that 600 instructors were enrolled into the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) while 400 workforces were utilized into the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and 1,000 infused into the Ministry of Establishment.

READ MORE: https://gistok.ng/fayemi-to-investigate-fayoses-last-minute-recruitment-of-2000-workers/

One can only plead with Gov. Fayemi to retain those of them that are qualified.He won't be hurting Fayose in anyway if he sacks these workers. After all they are Ekiti indigenes and there are spaces in the civil service for them to fill.

In 2011, Gov Amosun of Ogun State wickedly disengaged 2000 workers employed by his predecessor without paying them a dime after working for three months. He is leaving office this month and he also wants to employ 1000 workers this month. What hypocrisy!

I had thought the disastrous venture of the late business mogul and philanthropist, Bashorun MKO Abiola, into politics meant that wealthy businessmen shouldn't get close to politics but a certain Donald Trump proved that wrong.

I do not however subscribe to the idea of 'begging' or prevailing on people to contest. Such people always flop since they aren't prepared for the task, examples are abound.

Good luck to him.

There is indeed a need to shove politics aside and commend the FG on the quick intervention and release of the lady presumed to be innocent.

I therefore suggest that the unscrupulous officials who allegedly planted the drug in her luggage should be bundled to Saudi to face the hangman's noose.

If the office of the Auditor Genera of the Federationl had been strengthened, EFCC and ICPC would have been less burdened.

Come to think of it, here is a man who was assumed to have suffered from electoral malpractices in the previous elections and now being in power couldn't even initiate any executive bill to correct the anomaly in the system. The one initiated by the NASS, he killed it.

toluxa1:
The new minimum wage and the old minimum wage seems to be the same thing. I wondered whether we have a labour Union in this country.

Price of fuel was 87 naira and minimum wage was 18,000 naira.
18,000÷87=206.8965517 litres ( meaning the minimum wage can only buy 207 litres of fuel)
30,000÷145= 206.8965517 litres (meaning the minimum wage can only buy 207 litres of fuel), exactly the same amount even to the last decimal point.

My question: Is this coincidental or deliberate?


lalasticlala, mynd44, dominique

206.89655172 Even to the 8th decimal place!

It couldn't have been a mere coincidence.

This will provide an opportunity for the government to douse the tension it has created by keeping the man and his wife in the expensive 'protective custody' .

This seems very much like a subtle escape route agreed upon by the parties involved. I hope it won't be bungled for the sake of peace.

JAMB should just quit the grandstanding and release the result before some of these candidates die of high BP.

What is JAMB going to do with a couple of their questions without options at all or with incomplete or wrong options entirely.

How I wish the entire Yoruba race will present a common front. Aren't there enough eminent royal fathers and figures that can unite these waring factions?

The more the bickering between the Tinubu group and the Afenifere, the more the hope of a common Yoruba agenda become elusive.

Same thing Late Yaradua's handlers said back then that was roundly condemned by everybody including the current praise singers and turncoats at the corridors of power.

It's obvious Nigeria is just going round in a circle and these jesters are merely passing us round.

It always start like a rumor which they usually deny.

But why would he refer to other members of the party as tenants he is accommodating. Aren't they supposed to be co-owners of the party?

Good luck to him.

94 years? God bless his new age. Agbako means trouble

Who remembers the advert of his cinemas back them with the shout of 'E wa pade Agbako ni Cultural Center' which literally means "come and meet trouble at the Cultural Center'.

It was both scary and funny.

Let's see if this new IGP will respect the institution of the Senate. A rubber stamped legislature is a weak link and an albatross towards attaining an egalitarian society deeply rooted in democracy.

The Senate shouldn't however play to the gallery because it seems they are majorly concerned about the unfortunate death of the Briton. The reason for the invitation should be widened to include the senseless and unabated killings in Kaduna, Zamfara and other parts of the country.

Ok

Here is the write up by the erudite professor. I wonder why the OP refused to post it here.

The law of attraction says like attracts like, which explains why Muhammadu Buhari is a magnet for mediocrities. Almost all his appointees are, like him, underwhelming, intellectually incurious rubes.

It’s no wonder that even the lawyers he assembled to defend his unprecedentedly audacious electoral robbery are also risible dolts.

Take, for example, Festus Keyamo, Buhari’s reelection campaign spokesman and one of the lawyers defending his stolen mandate.

In the run-up to the presidential election, Keyamo took self-righteous umbrage at scientific polls that predicted that Buhari would lose the election, and his point of attack against the polls was that pollsters merely sampled a little over a thousand Nigerians even though Nigeria’s population is close to 200 million! He wondered why neither he nor anyone he knew had been polled!
Apparently, Keyamo has no earthly clue that scientific opinion polls base their snapshots and predictions on something called sampling and that 1,000 is a fair sample to make predictive statements about potential voting behaviors. Gallup, which has accurately predicted American presidential elections since 1944—except in 1948, 1976, 2004 and 2016—polls no more than 1,000 people.

You don’t poll every member of a population to make generalizable predictions about the population in research.
Every first-year Nigerian university student learns about random sampling in introductory research methods classes.

But a self-important lawyer who is defending presidential electoral fraud is clueless about this.
It isn’t only research illiteracy that plagues members of Buhari’s legal team.

They are also constitutional and historical illiterates.

Their constitutional and historical illiteracy is instantiated by their claim that PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar should never have been allowed to run for president because he “is not a citizen of Nigeria by birth” since he was born in what was called British Cameroons, which later became the Sardauna Province of Northern Nigeria in 1961.
Many lawyers have already pointed out the scorn-worthy constitutional illiteracy that that sort of reasoning evinces.

The Nigerian constitution unambiguously accords the same rights and privileges to people born in British Northern Cameroon as it does to those born in the defunct Southern Nigeria Protectorate and the defunct Northern Nigeria Protectorate.

In any case, Atiku’s paternal and maternal forebears migrated from what is now Sokoto and Jigawa states respectively to what later became British Northern Cameroon.

The Nigerian constitution recognizes anyone who is descended from any of the ethnic groups that are indigenous to what is now Nigeria as a Nigerian.

Atiku’s paternal forebear came to the Jada area of what was later British Northern Cameroon from Wurno in present-day Sokoto State, which has historically been inhabited by Fulani and Hausa people.

By our patrilineal traditions of descent, Atiku isn’t even truly native to Jada; he is from Wurno.
For the sake of argument, let’s assume that Atiku’s ancestors had always lived in British Northern Cameroon.

Well, Buhari’s lawyers betrayed historical illiteracy in thinking that British Cameroons is and has always been synonymous with modern Cameroon.

In the 19th century, the German Empire, like other avaricious European powers, expropriated a huge swathe of land in west and central Africa, which it called “Kamerun.” However, in the aftermath of the First World War (which is actually more properly a First European War), Germany was dispossessed of Kamerun along with other lands it had exploited.

In 1922, the League of Nations divvied up Kamerun between Britain and France. France renamed its own portion of the territory “Cameroun” and Britain renamed its own “Northern Cameroon” and “Southern Cameroon.”

The two territories are non-contiguous. Britain retained control of Northern Cameroon and Southern Cameroon in 1946, the year Atiku was born, after the United Nations, which replaced the League of Nations in 1945, reclassified the Cameroons as “UN Trust territories.

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On February 11, 1961, “subjects” of British Northern Cameroon, which had been governed by the same British colonizers that governed Nigeria, voted to join newly independent Nigeria.

In other words, an independent British Northern Cameroon never existed at any point in history, and no one was ever its “citizen.”

So which country do Buhari’s nescient lawyers expect people born in British Northern Cameroon to go and be president of? Or do they expect them to be stateless—or be second-class citizens in Nigeria— because of the historical accident of once being governed as British Northern Cameroon?
People born in British Northern Cameroon were never part of French Cameroun, which became independent in January 1960.

They were even different from British Southern Cameroon, which voted to become part of French Cameroun the same day that British Northern Cameroon voted to be integrated to independent Nigeria.

In fact, both northern and southern Cameroons were administered from Nigeria, a reason a prominent pre-independence Nigerian political party was called the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons.

It’s transparent that Buhari’s lawyers are merely clutching at straws to salvage their client’s indefensibly reprehensible electoral heist.

When a theft is as blatant and as easily detectable as Buhari’s, you can’t invoke the resources of knowledge and logic to defend it.
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When Atiku’s legal team first pointed out that INEC’s own data, stored on its server, showed that Buhari lost the election to Atiku by nearly two million votes, Buhari’s lawyers—and supporters— made fun of the claim.
However, they stopped laughing when they were confronted with overwhelming evidence.

They went from laughing to claiming that Atiku’s agents had “hacked” into INEC’s server to gain access to— and “manipulate”— it, and even called for the arrest of members of the Atiku team.

Meanwhile, INEC, which got hundreds of millions of naira to maintain a server and train staff to operate it, was told to say that it did not have any election results on its server.

Well, how can Atiku’s agents “hack” into and even “manipulate” data on a server that has no record of election results? Let us, for now, not even ask what INEC did with the hundreds of millions of naira it budgeted for a server to house election results.

Where does it keep the record of the last election? Why is it reluctant to give its record of the results, if it has any, to the Atiku team even when the election tribunal says it should? This is downright conscienceless villainy.

Now that Atiku has enlisted the expert intervention of Microsoft and IBM to authenticate his claim that the electronic record of the presidential election stored on INEC’s server is inconsistent with the results the compromised and morally putrid chairman of INEC announced, there is panic in the Presidential Villa, and Buhari’s ignorant lawyers are engaging in comical, illiterate rhetorical antics for the sole purpose of diversion.

There are also unconfirmed reports that the DSS has arrested a whole host of INEC’s IT staff members on suspicion that they were the conduits through which the Atiku team got access to the authentic results of the presidential election, which shows that Buhari lost to Atiku.

So the Buhari team went from vain boasts of triumphalism, to vacuous laughter when their electoral robbery was exposed, to panic when firm, irreproachable evidence of this robbery was presented, then to comical diversions, and now to illegal arrests of INEC’s IT staff.

What’s next? Strangulation and intimidation of the judiciary, which started before the election with the illegal firing of the Chief Justice of Nigeria. The judiciary is now practically impotent. This is undisguisedly full-blown fascism.

QuickStandard:
I have no time now to into details, cos am on my way to church.

But if you take a deeper look, from the scripture you quoted, you will see that Paul only expressed his own human views

The bigger problem is therefore how to identify Paul's personal human views and differentiate such from God's view.

At the end we might end up classifying all his Epistles as 'his own human views' especially when such views are at variance with our views.

We can't cherry-pick as far as God's words are concerned.

Can't imagine everyone sees an ATM in Alhaji Atiku so much that Agbaje cornered some funds at the detriment of his own election. He must be a pretender and a guyman if this is true.

PDP will need someone in the mould of Funsho Williams as their guber candidate if they hope to make a good show in Lagos.

Sanni shouldn't be the butt of the jokes by anyone as far as English Language is concerned.

This is just a slip and could happen to anyone.

In complete reflection of the significance of the day, all bars, nightclubs and casinos operators should close shops today.

Can we just pretend to be sober and somber for once? :


Just thinking aloud

There's bound to be clashes of interests in sharing of the spoils of 'war'.

SanwoOlu would be wise enough to avoid the travails of his predecessor.

But would he bold enough to say enough at some point? Time will tell.

Facts are sacred.

Instead of hurling insults at an entire tribe, whoever has contrasting facts should dispute the OP.

Federal government workers should wait for Garba Shehu or Femi Adesina to authenticate this news before they wear the dancing shoes.

Some state and local government workers would need to hold their governors by the jugular henceforth.

The writer really need to do a lot of editing to this epistle.

That said, why should we be disturbed about the clash of interest between two politicians? Let whosoever has been indicted and charged by ICPC go to court and clear himself.

Enough of media trial.

He knew in the heart of his heart that he never meant those words.

Kachikwu need not resign for this glaring failure, he'll be naturally eased out by May as the next level commences.

His expose on the contract bazaar by the NNPC's Baru will likely stand against his being reappointed as a minister.

Tail or head, APC and PDP are both sides of the same coin as far as refinery and subsidy scam is concerned.

queiii:
this is true. how do we get their attention on this?

They can't claim to be oblivious of such issues.

I expect JAMB to acknowledge its shortcomings in the exam and make efforts to rectify such. But no, it has to heap all the blames on some scapegoats.

A couple of the science candidates I have interacted with complained of having questions with no options at all or some with entirely wrong or incomplete options in Physics and Chemistry.

"The commission stated that the states that had commenced remittance of pensions to workers’ Retirement Savings Accounts and were funding their accrued rights were Lagos, Ogun, Kaduna, Niger, Delta, Osun and Rivers"

I don't think Ogun civil servants will agree with this. They've have been groaning for years under unpaid deductions and pension remittance

The high handedness of those in authority. I can bet that given the same opportunity, some of these people will be worse than military dictators they love to chastise.

If a university will be so intolerant of critism and be this harsh to democratic tendencies, how then do we intend to build an egalitarian society where rule of law is the entrenched? Shame.

I sincerely believe that this is not true.

This couldn't have been the defense of the APC

If this is not Wike taunting him, Ameachi will do well to reconsider this hand of fellowship in the interest of his people at Rivers State. After all he was a good friend to Wike before interest tore them apart.

What would a man gain by setting his home on fire just to impress outsiders? Not even now that he seems to be losing relevance with these 'outsiders'