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dotuntayo:
JT Rawlings pass on at the age of 73 years few hours ago. He is the president that brought Ghana to where they are today.

RIP Papa J

Honbright:
Mali’s former president Amadou Toumani Toure, who led the Sahel nation for 10 years before being ousted in a coup, has died in Turkey aged 72, a family member and a doctor said on Tuesday.

“Amadou Toumani Toure died during the night of Monday to Tuesday in Turkey,” where he had been taken for health reasons, his nephew Oumar Toure told AFP.

Toure was Mali’s President from 2002. He led the Sahel nation for 10 years before being deposed by a military coup in March 2012 led by General Amadou Haya Sanogo.

Toure's life, in many ways, symbolised the stop-start nature of democracy in the West African country, where his successor, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, was overthrown in another coup this August.

Widely known by his initials ATT, Toure was a former paratrooper who seized power in 1991 after military ruler Moussa Traore's security forces killed more than 100 pro-democracy demonstrators.

He organised democratic elections the following year and handed over power to a civilian president, earning him the nickname of “Soldier of Democracy”.


Details here...https://www.voiceairmedia.com/2020/11/breaking-mali-ex-president-toure.html

easzypeaszy:
dey won't let us...u no want mk political analyst eat...u go strt see theories

anastasius:
Oh, I get it now.
Just like saying our senators are electors. 3senators per state, whichever candidate wins a state, the total number of senators would vote for him.

hakeemhakeem:
read more bro Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota will voided the vote

hakeemhakeem:
Moreover if the electors go against the rule the vote is faithless

Ezehrobinson:
The lockdown that commenced this week means that we had to work from our hole again. In-order to avoid the loneliness that I felt during the March lockdown, I escaped to my friend’s house. So, na work and gist we go dey do.

We ran into Dr Dipo’s Insta-live talk on the above subject. The conclusion of our deliberation are thus;

The general definition of literate is “ability to read and write”. This skill required to be literate can be acquired through primary and secondary education. Basic education is fundamental human right. Hence, it is government’s responsibility to ensure fundamental human rights are provided. Primary and secondary education should be compulsory and mandatorily delivered by the government.

University education is a choice and not compulsory.

In Nigeria, primary, secondary and tertiary level education are ran both by government and private bodies. At all level, government heavily subsidize the cost. Most Nigerians subscribe to privately ran schools for primary and secondary because that of government is mostly dysfunctional while most tend to favour government’s tertiary institution because of the exorbitant cost of the private tertiary schools.

The government’s primary and secondary schools are dysfunctional because more of the education budget is channel to tertiary level.

Given that tertiary education is not compulsory, we are of the view that government needs to divest from this and use the whole budget to appropriately fund the primary and secondary education which are compulsory. To achieve optimal result, the curriculum of these basic education should be refined to include life related courses like philosophy, logic and introductory to vocational skills.

Students that graduate from secondary schools are to assess whether they would like to proceed to tertiary institution, go to vocational acquisition centres, learn a trade or join the emerging sector such as IT that does not require university education.

For those that need to go to the university, government could work out modalities for student loan with financial institutions. This move would have these benefits;

- Schools would no longer be shut because of loggerhead between ASUU and FG over funds that government claim they don’t have
- Indigent parents won’t have to bear the brunt of schools fees anymore. The kids that would assume this would be serious as they would be responsible for repaying for their education in the near future
- Private entities would manage the school better while government regulates it

Should government continue subsiding tertiary institution, Nigerians would see tertiary education as a right and would keep pushing kids to tertiary institution without thinking of other alternatives. It is expected that our population might hit 300m by 2050, this means government have to be expanding the public institution and increasing salary of lecturers. We all know that government’s revenue will not increase in proportionally with this expected population. Hence, we foresee further decay in infrastructure and more strikes as government would not be able to meet up with the liability of funding the school

Yes, in the 1960’s to 2000’s the best solution was for government to fund tertiary institution as more capable citizens with speciality were needed, however, now, we have to re-think the strategy as our revenue cannot support such anymore.

anastasius:
Ok, so if there are 538 electors, why do people need to vote? I'm trying to get it.

Joe Biden to become the 46th president of the United States, CNN projects

(CNN)America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, CNN projects, turning to a veteran voice who has projected calm and compassion, promised a more empathetic and scientific approach to the pandemic, and pledged to stabilize American politics after four years of Donald Trump's White House chaos.

Biden, who turns 78 at the end of this month, will become the oldest president when he is inaugurated in January in the midst of the worst public health crisis in 100 years, the deepest economic slump since the 1930s and a national reckoning on racism and police brutality that is still unresolved.

His election will end Trump's tumultuous hold on Washington and condemn the Republican, who has had a lifelong obsession with winning, to the ranks of chief executives who lost after a single term.

In a cinematic twist, it was Biden's boyhood state of Pennsylvania that put him over the 270 electoral vote threshold and delivered the White House. Trump had held a wide lead over Biden on the night of the election, but as election officials counted hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots, the race shifted dramatically in Biden's favor, infuriating Trump and his allies, who knew the President's path to the White House was over without the commonwealth.

That the Keystone State was the last hurdle in Biden's path to the White House was a fitting end to a hard-fought race given that the former vice president has long cultivated his image as "middle-class Joe" from Scranton. In a visit that now seems almost prophetic, he had made a final trip to his childhood home in the city on Election Day after spending much of the campaign promising to prioritize the livelihoods of the many working-class voters whom Hillary Clinton lost to Trump in her 2016 bid.

On one of the living room walls in the house where he grew up, he wrote: "From this House to the White House with the Grace of God," signing his name and the date,"11.3.2020."

In the final days of the race, Biden's team redoubled their efforts to rebuild the Democrats' "blue wall" -- and that gambit paid off with Biden winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, according to CNN projections, while holding Minnesota, which the President made a priority in his reelection push.

As he watched his hopes of reelection being strangled with each tranche of votes in Pennsylvania, Trump lashed out on Twitter during the tense vote count, attempting to undermine democratic institutions with demands like "STOP THE COUNT."

The President falsely claimed the election was being stolen from him as many mail-in ballots, which were often counted after Election Day votes, landed in the column of his opponent.

Facing a deeply polarized country, Biden had tried to project comity and patience, and his desire to unite America.

"There will not be blue states and red states when we win. Just the United States of America," Biden said Wednesday afternoon. "We are not enemies. What brings us together as Americans is so much stronger than anything that can tear us apart."

Biden again asked for patience from his supporters on Thursday afternoon. "Stay calm. The process is working," he said in Wilmington, Delaware. "Each ballot must be counted. ... Democracy is sometimes messy. It sometimes requires a little patience, as well. But that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years with a system of governance that is the envy of the world."

Part of Trump's frustration stemmed from the fact that his campaign's finely tuned ground game did in fact succeed in turning out many more of the so-called "hidden Trump voters" than expected, making the race a much tighter contest than pre-election polls suggested.

Ultimately, Biden carved out his route to 270 Electoral College votes by holding most of the states that Clinton won and adding Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to his column. Ballots are still being counted in the key states of Nevada and Arizona.

Trump continued to cast aspersions on the electoral process -- wrongly suggesting that there was something nefarious about the fact that the vote count in key states continued well after Tuesday night, as is customary in US elections. Meanwhile, his team mounted a series of lawsuits in several states, including Pennsylvania, looking to stop vote counting in some areas while challenging how closely observers can monitor officials counting the votes in others. The Trump campaign also said it would demand a recount in Wisconsin, where Biden led Trump by some 20,000 votes, even though historically a margin of that magnitude is unlikely to be reversed.

aoofbeautifulme:
Sorry but today is 23rd and it's Friday

Yameater:
OK but why was he in a hurry to post such vital information online without verification?

Yameater:
Please is Saturday 23rd or 24 th ?

morikee:
Which one be Saturday 23rd Hmm Saturday na 24th.

FLASH: Governor of Lagos State, Mr @jidesanwoolu has announced the easing of the the curfew from tomorrow Saturday 23rd October 2020 ... from 8am to 6pm.

#HealingLagos
#ForAGreaterLagos
@drobafemihamzat @gboyegaakosile @drobafemihamzat @gbenga_omo

FLASH: Governor of Lagos State, Mr @jidesanwoolu has announced the easing of the the curfew from tomorrow Saturday 23rd October 2020 ... from 8am to 6pm. #HealingLagos #ForAGreaterLagos @drobafemihamzat @gboyegaakosile @drobafemihamzat @gbenga_omo pic.twitter.com/bUUSihghgg

— The Greater Lagos Project (@GreaterLagosNG) October 23, 2020

Chizybrown:
The website of the Central Bank of Nigeria is down.
Anonymous, the online network known for cyber attacks against government institutions has claimed responsibility for the attack, in solidarity with the #EndSARS protest.

READ MORE

https://www.naijatalkzone.com.ng/breaking-news-the-website-of-the-central-bank-of-nigeria-hack/