blueto:
No surprise since these same northerners are appointed by Buhari into key sectors of the economy with their botched and incompetent administrations.

I wouldn't be surprised if Buhari fails the same test.

ademoladeji:


Lmfao!!!


Keep dreaming oga

According to multiple reports, the Anambra State
nominee, Vivian Nwunaku Okeke also failed the test. Will you then edit your comment to include the South-East?

Nigeria is here to stay either you like it or not. I guess there wouldn't have been this agitation of separation if Oga Jona had won't the election.

blueto:
No surprise since these same northerners are appointed by Buhari into key sectors of the economy with their botched and incompetent administrations.

I wouldn't be surprised if Buhari fails the same test.

laksides:
Even Senate president will fail this test also

lonelydora:
All of you trying to recite the National Anthem to see if you still know it, God is watching all of you.

lonelydora:
All of you trying to recite the National Anthem to see if you still know it, God is watching all of you.

tinsel:
To be honest, how many us commenting here can recite the National Anthem?

medpren:


See yoruba, Mrs okeke only missed/skipped a word or which I do sometimes too (because it's been a long time I sang it regularly). The Abookis own was so catastrophic the Reps had to burst out laughing.

[s] Abokiis don't give a damn about this country, they are only intrested in taking taking and taking while moronic yorubas like you (who they don't a damn about) defend them like your life depends on it.

One of your yoruba muslim brother said he will rather die for fulani than die for yoruba christian. Who cursed you lot with this slavery? [/s]

Qmerit:


But one okeke from Anambra also failed it.
Help yourself here........There was however drama as two of the nominees who appeared before Senator Monsurat Sunmonu led Committee on Foreign Affairs failed to recite properly stanzas of the National Anthem and the pledge.
One of the Ambassadorial nominees, Vivian Okeke from Anambra State faulted when she was asked to sing the National Assembly.
During her screening, Mrs Okeke was asked by Monsurat Summonu, the chairman of the committee to the National Assembly.
Mrs Okeke during the screening mumbled the last stanza of the National Anthem but was aided by a member of the Committee, Senator James Manager.

fujirice:

Abeg, which one be national assembly again?
Meanwhile I find it insulting, very insulting that some members of the committee found this amusing.

CFCman:


Wow!
Thanks for the info. I hereby crown you Nairaland's official encyclopedia.

MELAA:
Shocker! Ambassador nominee can?t recite National Anthem

There was mild drama yesterday in the senate as the ambassadorial nominee for Anambra state Mrs Ijeoma Chinyere failed thrice to recite the national anthem and pledge respectively.

The nominee who is said to be a wife of serving Ambassador also failed to name the capital of Jigawa state, when asked to do so yesterday by the screening committee.


Daily Champion gathered that the poor performance of the nominee at the panel may deny the Ambassador designate her confirmation by the senate.


Senate had in the past stopped a former ambassadorial nominee who failed similar test on the floor .


Trouble started yesterday when the Senator Jubril Aminu led committee asked the beautifully looking nominee to recite both the national anthem and pledge,


Thrice she was asked to do so, thrice she failed. In-fact, she declined comment when one of the committee member asked her to name the capital of Jigawa state.


The atmosphere became charged when the chairman of the committee told the nominee that the committee was in for a serious business. Even the charming look of the female nominee could not disarm the senators as the committee insisted that the Anambra state nominee must go for a crash program for national anthem. Chairman of the committee in an outburst that may have unsettled the nominee?s associates said: "This not a joke, there is a problem".


The lawmakers wondered how a Nigerian who cannot recite the national anthem will represent the country in a foreign land.


Their worry however, turned to awe and consternation when the nominee declined to list correctly, the means of diplomatic communication. She listed memoranda, and notes as diplomatic means of communication.


President Goodluck Jonathan had two weeks ago presented a list of 24 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for consideration. The nominees are mainly career diplomats who are either in the foreign mission already or are with the ministry of foreign affairs. Mrs. Chinyere was said to be a wife of the Nigerian envoy in France.

ekubear1:
By Emmanuel Ogala
March 17, 2011 01:46AM
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The Senate has confirmed the ambassadorial appointment of Ijeoma Bristol, who could not recite the national anthem when she appeared before it a fortnight ago, on compassionate grounds.

Mrs Bristol, from Anambra State, had failed to impress the senate committee on foreign affairs at a screening of ambassadorial nominees. She was not able to recite both the national anthem and the pledge. She could also not say the capital of Jigawa State.

“She demonstrated fair knowledge of the job and what is required of her as an ambassador,  but was not knowledgeable on specific and general issues concerning the diplomatic concerns of Nigeria,” Jubril Aminu (PDP Adamawa State), head of the senate committee on foreign affairs, said in his report to the senate.

“She was nervous during the interview,” Grace Bent, another member of the foreign affairs committee added.

Despite her shortcomings, the senate’s foreign affairs committee recommended that she should be approved for the job “so that she will retire as an ambassador”.

Mr. Aminu told the senate that even though he was personally against Mrs Bristol’s approval for the job and had advised that she go and learn about Nigeria first, majority of the committee members were lobbied to approve her.

“I was in the minority,” he said.

He said that in solidarity with the wish of his committee members the nominee should be approved with “benefit of the doubt” because she is a career diplomat and next in line for the position.

The stance of the committee divided the senate with many arguing that Mrs Bristol should be dropped. The opposing senators argued that competence, intelligence and courage should not be sacrificed for age or affection.

“We cannot continue to allow mediocrity,” Olorunmibe Mamora (ACN Lagos State) leader of the opposition said. “It is not helping us; we cannot allow this lady pass.”

“Temper justice with mercy”

The leadership of the senate, however, pleaded with their colleagues to “temper justice with mercy”.

“Her case is a case of what we call poor pass,” the senate president, David Mark, said.

The senate president however was optimistic that if given the opportunity, Mrs Bristol would learn about Nigeria. He added that the resentment expressed by senators would deter President Goodluck Jonathan from sending incompetent nominees to the senate in the future.

Mrs Bristol was confirmed alongside 25 others.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5683742-146/senate_confirms_ambassador_who_failed_anthem.csp

blueto:
No surprise since these same northerners are appointed by Buhari into key sectors of the economy with their botched and incompetent administrations.

I wouldn't be surprised if Buhari fails the same test.

medpren:
These fulas don't give a damn about nigeria they are just intrested in the oil. Na southerners carry this one nigeria thing for head pass yet they are more burdened by it.

I will be surprised if anyone is suprised that the Dulllard of Daura himself can't recite the Anthem.

It is job of the conquered educated foool in the south to recite it, while the north carts away the resources therein. Fooolish 'one nigerianist' southern bufoons.

bright007:
[size=20pt] On behalf of Name Checkers association, International headquarters ( inside my toilet)...

we have checked the name of specimen X and here is our verdict... Specimen X is a product of northernization, hence we are not surprised. [/size]

360command:
everyone shud know it.it is a must. In mexico, if you are spotted as a black and claim to be afro mexican and can't recite the national anthem, it is straight deportation... This man in question is seeking to become an ambassador and can't recite a national anthem is an embarrassment to the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There are some things you are to know within your field just like this case given.

Qmerit:


But one okeke from Anambra also failed it.
Help yourself here........There was however drama as two of the nominees who appeared before Senator Monsurat Sunmonu led Committee on Foreign Affairs failed to recite properly stanzas of the National Anthem and the pledge.
One of the Ambassadorial nominees, Vivian Okeke from Anambra State faulted when she was asked to sing the National Assembly.
During her screening, Mrs Okeke was asked by Monsurat Summonu, the chairman of the committee to the National Assembly.
Mrs Okeke during the screening mumbled the last stanza of the National Anthem but was aided by a member of the Committee, Senator James Manager.

blueto:


http://dailypost.ng/2016/07/26/shock-ambassadorial-nominee-fail-nigeria-national-anthem/