I have a dream that before November, Adebayo Shittu will be replaced by Alhaji Danguruma Dansaki Musa

Lobatan!

This country is a complete joke and a shithole as described by Trump.
How can someone who attempted WAEC and failed woefully without having 5 credits including English that qualifies a student to get admission into the higher institutions of his/her choice be allowed to be a governor, senator or REP.

Then someone with 5 credits, got admission into higher institution, graduated with result then be disqualified for skipping NYSC.

The ladder of this nation is in descending other...

Youths that went through the crux and crussible of the scheme cannot get jobs but certificate forgers and maneuverers are ruling us... This is the worst government ever unleashed on nigeria. Zombies lick my ass

they have gang up against yoluba . just because ordinary commissioner gather mind sack dss boss

Dull duller dullest!

[quote author=nawtyme post=71419651]The National Youth Service Corps has dismissed the claim by the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, that taking political office had compensated for his deliberate refusal to take part in the compulsory national service.

The spokesperson of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Adenike Adeyemi, said the minister’s juxtaposition of holding an elective office and undergoing the obligatory national service is an error.
Since PREMIUM TIMES busted his cover as an NYSC dodger, on Thursday, Mr Shittu has been advancing the argument that his election into the Oyo State House of Assembly immediately after his studies substitutes the mandatory service.

Lawyers who spoke to this newspaper on the issue said Mr Shittu’s justification for skipping the scheme is flawed and ludicrous.

Mrs Adeyemi concurred with the explanation of the lawyers who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on the unmistakable cases of exemption allowed by the law in Section 2 of the NYSC Act.

The referenced section exempted only four categories of Nigerians from the national service.

Those exempted are those who graduated after their 30th birthday, those who have served in the military or the police for at least nine months and staff of intelligence agencies. The last set of those eligible for exemption are persons who have obtained a national honour.

Speaking to Tribune newspaper, the NYSC spokesperson said the provisions of the Act are very clear, and there are no exceptions for any person like Mr Shittu who became a lawmaker at the age of 26.
She said “Serving in the National (or state) Assembly is not one of them (conditions for exemption from national service)”.

“You have read the Act and you can see the circumstances where someone is exempted, you analyse it if he [Shittu] was exempted duly or there is a reason why he should have served. But the Act is very straightforward on the grounds for not coming up to serve.

“If you are a graduate locally trained or foreign trained, as long as you graduate before the age of 30, you are expected to serve. Whether foreign or locally trained, the law is the same. Our youths should be rightly guided that if you were able to complete your studies and as of the date of graduation, you are under 30, you are eligible to serve,” the NYSC spokesperson said.
Mrs Adeyemi insisted that the NYSC law gives no preferential treatment to Nigerians other than those exempted by Section 2 of the Act, emphasising that
“The NYSC was set up to mobilise all eligible Nigerian youths. The Act does not talk about VIPs or children of VIPs. Anyone who is a Nigerian youth, who has a first degree and under the age of 30 must serve, the issue of VIPs or their children does not apply.

“However, if there is any reason why a corps member needs a concession, the corps member applies and concession is given, for example, for marital reasons and on health grounds. Everyone is treated the same and where concessions are to be given, it is treated. So, VIPs or children of VIPs do not come into the Act and we do not look at that,” she said.
Legal position

Lawyers who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on the Shittu scandal said the minister is in the breach of the NYSC law for skipping the national service.

“His membership of the state assembly is not the same as national service,” said Huwaila Mohammed, a Kano-based practitioner. “He needs to serve, because the section of the law dealing with exemption did not include political office holders like him.”

Another lawyer, Abdul Mahmud, agreed with Ms Mohammed’s position, saying the minister “is a dodger who is in breach of the law”.

He said by the provision of Section 12 of the NYSC Act, Mr Shittu ought to have presented his certificate of national service before he was cleared as minister.
“The provision is clear,” Mr. Mahmud said. “It says (you must serve) before you get any job in the federation.”
Mr Mahmud, who chairs the Abuja-based pressure group, Public Interest Lawyers League (PILL), said Mr Shittu’s “case is worse than that of Kemi Adeosun because he deliberately refused to serve”.

“If we assume as a member of the Oyo House he (Mr Shittu) served, did it not defeat objective 4 (b) stated in Section 1 (4) (b) of the NYSC Act? Members serve in states other than their own,” he said.

The lawyer said Mr Shittu should be arrested immediately by the police and made to face the law.
“All positions he has held are illegal and he should return all monies he earned from those posts to government coffers,” Mahmud said

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/285179-nysc-replies-minister-shittu-says-political-office-not-replacement-for-na wat of part time students pls

nawtyme:
Nigeria is a funny country. You can be a president or governor, by attempting SSCE. Yet you cannot be a minister despite being a graduate for failing to serve NYSC.

The funny thing is that this non performing minister who is a lawyer by profession, would be fired by a president who does not have an SSCE Certificate.

That's how most nigerians want it. Else, they would have revolted.

Minister Shittu is a bad advertisement for the great University of Ife, now OAU! A lawyer that cannot distinguish between lawmaking which is optional and national service that is compulsory! Very shameful and irrational! Kemi Adeosun is guilty circumstantially but Shittu is guilty by deliberate act of dodging. He should be relieved of his appointment and be made to have his day in court! The entire human race is watching and waiting for Jimoh Mosood and his master, the IG, to act fast as they did in Adeleke's case in Osun

he should do the honourable thing, RESIGN, Nigerians will always want to prove their way is right

nawtyme:
The National Youth Service Corps has dismissed the claim by the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, that taking political office had compensated for his deliberate refusal to take part in the compulsory national service.

The spokesperson of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Adenike Adeyemi, said the minister’s juxtaposition of holding an elective office and undergoing the obligatory national service is an error.
Since PREMIUM TIMES busted his cover as an NYSC dodger, on Thursday, Mr Shittu has been advancing the argument that his election into the Oyo State House of Assembly immediately after his studies substitutes the mandatory service.

Lawyers who spoke to this newspaper on the issue said Mr Shittu’s justification for skipping the scheme is flawed and ludicrous.

Mrs Adeyemi concurred with the explanation of the lawyers who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on the unmistakable cases of exemption allowed by the law in Section 2 of the NYSC Act.

The referenced section exempted only four categories of Nigerians from the national service.

Those exempted are those who graduated after their 30th birthday, those who have served in the military or the police for at least nine months and staff of intelligence agencies. The last set of those eligible for exemption are persons who have obtained a national honour.

Speaking to Tribune newspaper, the NYSC spokesperson said the provisions of the Act are very clear, and there are no exceptions for any person like Mr Shittu who became a lawmaker at the age of 26.
She said “Serving in the National (or state) Assembly is not one of them (conditions for exemption from national service)”.

“You have read the Act and you can see the circumstances where someone is exempted, you analyse it if he [Shittu] was exempted duly or there is a reason why he should have served. But the Act is very straightforward on the grounds for not coming up to serve.

“If you are a graduate locally trained or foreign trained, as long as you graduate before the age of 30, you are expected to serve. Whether foreign or locally trained, the law is the same. Our youths should be rightly guided that if you were able to complete your studies and as of the date of graduation, you are under 30, you are eligible to serve,” the NYSC spokesperson said.
Mrs Adeyemi insisted that the NYSC law gives no preferential treatment to Nigerians other than those exempted by Section 2 of the Act, emphasising that
“The NYSC was set up to mobilise all eligible Nigerian youths. The Act does not talk about VIPs or children of VIPs. Anyone who is a Nigerian youth, who has a first degree and under the age of 30 must serve, the issue of VIPs or their children does not apply.

“However, if there is any reason why a corps member needs a concession, the corps member applies and concession is given, for example, for marital reasons and on health grounds. Everyone is treated the same and where concessions are to be given, it is treated. So, VIPs or children of VIPs do not come into the Act and we do not look at that,” she said.
Legal position

Lawyers who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on the Shittu scandal said the minister is in the breach of the NYSC law for skipping the national service.

“His membership of the state assembly is not the same as national service,” said Huwaila Mohammed, a Kano-based practitioner. “He needs to serve, because the section of the law dealing with exemption did not include political office holders like him.”

Another lawyer, Abdul Mahmud, agreed with Ms Mohammed’s position, saying the minister “is a dodger who is in breach of the law”.

He said by the provision of Section 12 of the NYSC Act, Mr Shittu ought to have presented his certificate of national service before he was cleared as minister.
“The provision is clear,” Mr. Mahmud said. “It says (you must serve) before you get any job in the federation.”
Mr Mahmud, who chairs the Abuja-based pressure group, Public Interest Lawyers League (PILL), said Mr Shittu’s “case is worse than that of Kemi Adeosun because he deliberately refused to serve”.

“If we assume as a member of the Oyo House he (Mr Shittu) served, did it not defeat objective 4 (b) stated in Section 1 (4) (b) of the NYSC Act? Members serve in states other than their own,” he said.

The lawyer said Mr Shittu should be arrested immediately by the police and made to face the law.
“All positions he has held are illegal and he should return all monies he earned from those posts to government coffers,” Mahmud said

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/285179-nysc-replies-minister-shittu-says-political-office-not-replacement-for-national-service.html

This is the end of his gubernatorial ambition. APC will not dare to present him as their candidate. With this flaw, he is a sitting duck for PDP or any other party at the tribunal, incase he wins

I watched Shittu over the TVC News and how he ignorantly drove nail into his own coffin.

Laws can only catch and deal with the poor but can only encourage the rich to do better in their evil in this country. This is one of those cases,just like plea bargain.

Pls a friend is 30 and he has finished his exams these year,but the cert will be out next year is he still eligible to serve.
He told me he is goin to reduce his age to 29 by going to court to swear an affidavit,is it still a fraud.

nawtyme:
Lol. This man who is a lawyer by profession would be sacked by someone without SSCE for not having an NYSC Certificate

Is Nigeria not a wonderful country?

That’s how low Nigeria has sunk.
Because of the politics of tribe and religion. Everything condemnable has become permissible.

LadySarah:
What is paining me most is why the only pic that is being used on his reports recently is that of the Igbo is I agu.
Aren't there other ones,bikonu?

I taya oh!

Funny enough, some disgruntled lawyers would interpret NYSC acts other way rounds

Did shittu tender any NYSC certificate or exemption when he was being screened as minister, if no then he will retain his seat as there no law that said you must have NYSC certificate before bring appointed into political office as even wassce holders can aspire to the highest office in the country

But of he has tendered a certificate it is fake and should be sacked and prosecuted for it.

miqos02:
Huuu


But that can't stop his political ambition. He attended secondary school

The problem is that he is not eligible to use any certificate that is HND or BSc and above because not having Nysc discharge certificate or exemption letter renders that certificate invalid in Nigeria. so he should have applied using waec only from the start and not a BSc or HND or MSc. So he is still guilty

This matter is simple. The man has served his country and that should cover up for NYSC.

If servicemen can be exempted, why not political appointees? Shey service no be service? After all, NYSC service and political service are both services to Nigeria.

Scandium:
The problem is that he is not eligible to use any certificate that is HND or BSc and above because not having Nysc discharge certificate or exemption letter renders that certificate invalid in Nigeria. so he should have applied using waec only from the start and not a BSc or HND or MSc. So he is still guilty

I disagree sir, his BSc certificate is proof of education while nysc certificate is proof of service to the nation. Not serving does not invalidate your BSc certificate.

NYSC sef are doing eye service and partial. When it was Kemi's time they were deaf and dumb. They could not say anything to counter the the allegations for the fear of Booharry. Now they have mouth to shout upandan.

BluntBoy:
This matter is simple. The man has served his country and that should cover up for NYSC.

If servicemen can be exempted, why not political appointees? Shey service no be service? After all, NYSC service and political service are both services to Nigeria.

Can you see how roguish we can be as a nation, how can a Legal practitioner in his right senses equate a 1yr Mandatory NYSC to an elective national position. Later we start shouting Allah Akbar, In Jesus name, Allah Akbar, HalleluyaH deceiving each other up and down. Whereas so many youths sufferd to pass through school because of their future & still suffering with no food on the table whereas these law breakers keeps ruling & foisting their stooges in high offices and sabotaging the future. Later we shout "na God they bless". May thunder fire you all!

And it too Buhari good 6months to appoints these same ministers... Nawa oooo

KenModi:


To be elected to office (such as the Presidency) SSCE is enough but to be appointed a minister, you must have graduated for a tertiary insitutuion and completed the NYSC program or hold an excemption certificate.

My earlier notion keeps getting confirmed more by the day, Nigeria as an entity doesnt make any sense except to the political elites because it gives them an opportunity to keep enriching themselves.

Even the amalgamation of Nigeria only made sense according to the British cos it was profitable to their colonization business; how can a fura da nunu drinking Hausa man in the desert and a fufu eating Igbo man in the rain forest region be brothers; there is no closeness or similarity in culture or religion. Infact the Hausa as closer in culture and religion to Niger, Chad and even Mali. And you wonder why Buhari speaks about the Chad Basin with so much gusto.

When I ask the “one Nigeria” chanters to explain how Nigerians are one, all they do is mumble words that make no sense.

You are missing the point. The law still makes sense. If you only acquire your Senior School Certificate, you can be a minister and NYSC certificate would not be required. But so long as you graduated from a University or obtained a HND before the age of 30 and do not fall into the exempted categories, you are required to go through the NYSC programme and present evidence of it to qualify for any elective or appointed position

Buhari spent six months to look for criminals to serve in his useless government, shame on him and his cabinet

nawtyme:
Lol. This man who is a lawyer by profession would be sacked by someone without SSCE for not having an NYSC Certificate

Is Nigeria not a wonderful country?

Nigeria is not a wonderful country but it is like a Zoo where so many wonderful creatures live.
Nigeria does not need intelligent & hardworking person. Nigeria is like a Casino where gamblers, mafia, touts & area boys hold sway.

NYSC certificate that people without service possess. Many people registered for it but only show face on POP day. Many people work their postings to States of their preference. Many people work postings to their fiance or parents companies . Only the poor people without option served wherever they are posted. Many northerners from rich background that attended institutions abroad are posted to North. Most of them never served.

In Nigeria, things can never get better. It is bad beyond redemption. Nigeria is a Casino. You must be smart and bold. Intelligence & hardworking have no place in Nigeria. It is in Nigeria a President can give exemption order to override constitution when it is not a case of prerogative of mercy. It is only in Nigeria a requirement for elected position does not require particular certificate despite the fact that the politician submitted it as part of his resume.

nawtyme:
Nigeria is a funny country. You can be a president or governor, by attempting SSCE. Yet you cannot be a minister despite being a graduate for failing to serve NYSC.

The funny thing is that this non performing minister who is a lawyer by profession, would be fired by a president who does not have an SSCE Certificate.

Why didn't he keep his degree cert and presented only ssce for ministerial position like president and governor who attempted ssce alone.