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Why are people so stupid.. what does it take to carry out a paternity test? Baby looks like Alex Ekubo

imagine a caucus meeting on live TV.. tHEY HAVE SEEN THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL

The Lawless and Reckless talk from APC top stalwarts continues.

Summer to all this long talk ? IF IS THE KEY WORD!

This guy is stupid too much

Imagine two football teams already in the dressing room and the referee coming to announce postponement of the match because there is no BALL.

The PDP has refused to accept Staggered election

That question is a synonym for ~Can Buhari Rig the elections~

thats funny how Mr president looks at his Campaign travels this year.. Everybody know that if not for the fear of the impending defeat looking worse that it would be, Buhari and the APC changed plans from campaigning in the Geo-Political zones to going state by state, even Mr VP had to go house to house. Was his own stmina in question?? Fear of election outcome made you do that, nothing to do with stamina sir

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You are midful of the fact that is a federal road ryt? You expect him to construct it himself right?

ednut1:
have u plied kogi roads before It has claimed many lives. What did he do to fix it. Well he can die too for all i care

:oIts not your place to say, best to shut up!

ednut1:
Kogi roads are a deathtrap. It would have made sense if he died as he had d powers to get it fixed

For those who are seeking to study abroad, it is compulsory to first authenticate your academic certificates and credentials (such as WAEC or NECO certificate, degree certificate and in some cases examination transcripts) at the Ministry of Education before presenting them to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for authentication as described above.

Unfortunately, the process for authenticating educational certificates and other academic documents at the Ministry of Education is even more stressful and time-consuming than what you would later encounter at the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

First, you have to take your academic documents to the 8th Floor of the Federal Secretariat Building in Abuja (where the Education Ministry is located), present a print out of your WAEC or NECO certificate, and obtain a form which you must fill to begin the process of authentication.

For those who want to travel to Malaysia for studies, there is an extra retirement known as the Letter of Eligibility which will be issued by the Ministry of Education alongside legalization after evaluating your First School Leaving Certificate, Testimonial, and other associated documents. This can take a considerable amount of time to sort out.

Subsequently, you will be asked to go and make payments via REMITA in any commercial bank for each of the documents to be authenticated. The official cost or each document is about N300 – N500 per page currently. The total cost would be computed to let you know exactly how much you need to pay at the bank. Being a REMITA payment, you would have to first generate a REMITA payment ID that will be used to designate your payment to the appropriate government account.

After making payment, you have to make a photocopy of your payment slip and take the original to the Revenue Office of the Ministry of Education. Afterwards, you would submit it along with your certificates and wait for instructions pertaining to when you should return for the authenticated certificate(s). Be prepared for many frustrating ‘come today, come tomorrow’ delays,, only you choose to follow the unofficial process which is discussed subsequently.

Note that the Ministry of Education only attends to issues relating to authentication of academic documents on Mondays to Thursdays, so Fridays are out of it.

First of all, authenticating documents in Nigeria does not exactly involve 'Apstille Stamp' in the strict sense of it, because Nigeria is not a member of the Hague Apostille Convention (which legalizes and validates documents for international use). However, the equivalent of an Apostille Stamp in Nigeria is the authentication seal appended on documents by the country's Ministry of Foreign Afairs. This oficial authentication is also internationally recognized just like the Apostile Stamp.

The official process for 'apostilling', or in effect, authenticating and legalizing your certificates and other documents at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is seemingly straightforward on paper but is quite cumbersome in practice.

1. Depending on the document or certificate you'd like to authenticate and the country you’re presenting the document to, the first step is to contact a certified Notary Public to notarize the document for you. This is not always required, but you need to check with the embassy to be sure.

2. After the document has been notarized (if required), the second step is to take the document with you to the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja and ask for assigned officers of the Legal Services Division (LSD), to whom you should directly submit the documents – usually between the hours of 9 am to 12 noon on Mondays to Thursdays.

3. The cost of the document authentication varies depending on the number of pages of document you want to legalize, but you'd be required to make payments at the bank and then follow a string of procedures as instructed by the LSD officers.

This guy and Lie Mohammed can’t win their ward for APC

you voted with your family members Abi?

This post deserves a Ban! It’s is Racist and Tribalistic. Mods should take action

This man is senseless.. You suspicion is baseless , selfish and stupid.. Instead of allowing the security outfits to investigate you always have some stupid rhetoric to spew every time. And you are supposed to be a Lawyer.

See ya self

What we've seen over the last 4 years is unfortunately sadly being a change for the worse. Only within the last 2 years unemployment has gone from 18% to 23%, if you poll Nigerians who are going to vote Corruption is actually only third on their list of what counts. What counts is employment and what counts after that is poverty. the ATIKU/OBI government has got to get the finest financial fiscal and monetary policy tweaked in such a way that it is coherent and that it is pro-business compared to the austerity measures introduced by the BUHARI LED APC. So that SMEs can start creating jobs. A real place where they will create jobs will be in the agro industry at the moment, Nigeria doesn't feed itself and yet it has marvelous soil that is waiting to be exploited to that end it doesn't need major large roads it needs rural roads that gets products from the small farms to cooperatives to market. Quite simply

The Buhari presidency has failed to show a coherent macroeconomic policy that rests on a clear regulatory regime,and rule of law The Chief Justice of Nigeria was suspended by the president unconstitutionally. putting a damper on any form of foreign direct investment which has indeed dropped by 20 percent. Access to foreign exchange is almost impossible so how do the investors trive in that situation? Since President Buhari declared Boko Haram technically defeated 22000 people have been killed so lets be realistic this change is only going to get worse if we reelect or reward this bad government.

Atiku Abubakar wins a fair contest
Business Day (Nigeria)13 Feb 2019OPEYEMI AGBAJE opeyemiagbaje@rtcadvisory.com

There are large incumbency advantages in Nigeria’s politics stemming from control of the electoral agency (inspite of it been nominally designed to be an “Independent” National Electoral Commission INEC), police, armed forces, Department of State Security (DSS) and NNPC! More than any of its predecessors, the Buhari Presidency (or more accurately the unelected clique led by Mamman Daura which has seized control of it!) has shown a willingness to pervert the institutions of state, including or especially security services to maintain an otherwise tenuous hold on power. In spite of these incumbency advantages, which are supplemented by the propensity of our elite to support (Any Government in Power) “AGIP”, our analysis suggests it is virtually impossible for incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC to win a free and fair elections against his main opponent, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku of the PDP!

Our analytical model starts from the numbers of registered voters provided by INEC-13,366,070; 11,289,293; and 20,158,100 from the North-central, North-east and North-west regions respectively and 10,057,130; 12,841,279; and 16,292,212 from the South-east, South-south and South-west respec- tively. In the absence of data on numbers of collected Permanent Voter Cards (PVCS) from INEC, we proceed to make projections for voter turnout in each of the regions ranging from 60% in the South-east; 55% in the North-east; 50% in both the North-west and SouthSouth; and 35% in the North-central and South-west. These projections reflect historical trends and produce a national voter turnout of 46.6% which compares favourably with 2015 in which INEC recorded a voter turnout of 43.65%. These projections of voter turn-out also take into account our estimates and analysis of potential PVC collection, voter enthusiasm, voter roll inflation and socio-political conditions in each of the regions.

We then estimate voting trends across the country based on a multiplicity of local, regional and national factors including party popularity, candidate popularity, ethnic/regional/religious affiliation, voter sentiments and behaviour, political trends, campaigns and campaign feedbacks and our analysis. Based on these factors, we make very conservative assumptions about the performance of the two dominant candidates, marginal third-party candidates and undecided voters. In our model, the undecided portion has shrunk dramatically over the last 60 days from as high as 15% of the electorate to about 2.5% of voters. Third-party candidates perform poorly in the framework, scoring not more than 1% of overall national ballots cast, confirming that this 2019 election is a straight Buhari (APC) versus Atiku (PDP) affair. Votes for third-party candidates are negligible and they fare best in the South-east and South-west with 1.5% and 2.5% of votes cast.

We project Atiku Abubakar to win in the North Central by 51% of votes cast to Buhari’s 47%. Buhari has lost the MiddleBelt of Nigeria, who have been the victims of the horrendous murders and pillage attributed to herdsmen. Buhari’s performance in the region should infact be weaker than we projected but for lower turnout by traumatised residents and pro-buhari votes in some of the nonChristian parts of the North-central. Overall Atiku scores 2,385,844 votes in the North-central to Buhari’s 2,198,719. In the North-east, we award victory to Buhari by a margin of 52% to Atiku’s 46% translating into 3,228,738 votes for Buhari to Atiku’s 2,856,191 votes. We expect Buhari to win in Borno and Yobe, while Atiku is strong in Adamawa, Taraba and Gombe.

We also award the North-west to Buhari even though we expect Atiku to also perform strongly in that region. Indeed recent campaigns especially in Kano (which were conducted after we completed our analysis suggests we may have underrated Atiku’s strength in the region and the impact of the Kwankansiya-atiku affiliation. We project Buhari winning 55% of the votes (5,543,478) to Atiku’s 44% (4,434,782). Even though the total number of votes in the South-east and South-south are lower relative to other regions and particularly the North-west and North-east, they will be significant in this election because one candidate, Atiku Abubakar will have an overwhelming proportion of those votes. In the South-east we expect Atiku to get 83% of votes cast, and 80% in the South-south to Buhari’s 15% and 17.5% respectively. In terms of numbers these amount to over 10 million votes to Atiku in the two regions compared with just over 2 million votes for Buhari. The net differential from those two regions is large enough to offset Buhari’s modest advantage from the North-west and North-east in which votes are essentially shared.

In the South-west, the percentage of undecided voters is the highest in the country, with 10% of South-west voters still undecided (as at January 31st 2019) with the region also giving the highest votes (2.5%) to third-party candidates such as Fela Durotoye, Kingsley Muoghalu and Omoyele Sowore. We project Buhari to win with the South-west with 47.5% (2,708,580) of the votes, but Atiku recording a strong 40% (2,280,910) of votes cast. It also seems the momentum is in favour of Atiku and he may secure a greater proportion of undecided voters.

Overall our analyses suggest victory for Atiku Abubakar of the PDP by 56.5% of the votes to Buhari’s 40.2% representing a healthy victory for the opposition candidate. Our analysis is based on the assumption that the election, though not perfect, will be reasonably free and fair, and will reflect the will of the voters in each of the Nigeria’s regions. Our analyses will, of course, be irrelevant in the context of a blatantly rigged process!

*This article is based on research and analyses conducted by Opeyemi Agbaje and Kehinde Ayanbadejo both of RTC Advisory Services Ltd based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Overall our analyses suggest victory for Atiku Abubakar of the PDP by 56.5% of the votes to Buhari’s 40.2% representing a healthy victory for the opposition candidate

LOL this is laughable, but its expected. Clear signs of a dying horse.. I know the MODs on here are mostly APC supporters hence my ban for 1 week.. But the forcast has not changed within that time.. For your eyes only a win is sure and it will shock yall.. It will obviously be a thight race as it was in 2015 but PDP will win.. Sadly it difficult for most of the APC zombies to understand that nigerian political space has grown immensely since GEJ's actions in 2015 nobody is swayed by propaganda.. Lets tolerate ourselves as nigerians and the futer will be bright

Atiku is working

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