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sweetgala:
He became VP because Obasanjo wanted a fool he could control. Well he had one of his wished he hystvnever got the other.

Otherwise Obasanjo would have taken Donalk Duke or so many more competent SS or minority iindividuals.
He was taken because there was no overbearing desire for power, well his lack of self assurance shone forth when he had that power with the type of people whom he choose as advisors and how he acted on their advice.

that is federal character in action ......

sweetgala:
Are you suggesting that excellence should be jettisoned. When Jonathan was voted and he won by a respectable margin in 2011 across the whole of Nigeria the last thing voters had on their mind was zoning and FEDERAL CHARACTER. Young men and women have to learn to work hard and be honest to gain relevance, many people voted for the shoe less boy in 2011 had less to do with where he came from

how/why did he become vice-president in 2007??
What took him to the exalted post ?

sweetgala:
The constitution of Nigeria is flawed in many sections due to the purpose the military heads in 1999 and subsequent corrupt governments after it have designed. It is such flaws lawyers use to abuse the laws and political parties also use it as a tool when they see fit.
One of the very flaws is the FEDERAL CHARACTER aka AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

federal character is not a flaw
if it where Jonathan will never have been president or Vice-president

omogidi234:
When you bring appeal against a ruling or judgement of a lower court to an upper court, the appeal in itself cannot operate as Stay to the said ruling or judgement. The proper thing is for the appellant to bring an application for Stay of execution for the ruling or judgement being appealed. Of course it one thing to file it is another thing for the Court above to grant. The Court above must look at the Merits of the application vis a vis the guidelines for granting a Stay. These are the things I expected a legal mind to postulate rather than coming to say the CA would not grant the Stay application. That was why I asked to cite your Authority in support of your position.

i hate typing for too long and i prefer speaking to typing my words/opinion
You still haven't said any judicial authority and obviously i didnt ask for a stay of execution definition or metamorphosis . Saraki would be arrested before Monday and even if not arrested the CCT would definitely sit before the Appeal court and number 2 most of Sarakis premises are faulty and not tenable for example looking at the premise that the AGF is needed before a suit can be filed or charges brought is bewildering as the Supreme Court killed this controversy to rest more than a decade ago in AG Federation v ANPP (2003) 18 NWLR (Pt. 851) 182, by holding that the office of the Attorney General is a body corporate with perpetual succession, and continues to function, irrespective of whether there is a sitting AG or not.
The federal High court can also not have a binding precedent on the code of conduct tribunal and his frivolous motions are mostly ballons being fired as cannonballs and only a very biased Appeal court will listen to his appeal or order a stay of execution based on a dispute he created with the aid of his lawyers

sweetgala:
One of the most important problems we have in Nigeria are the many flaws in the judicial process and the sections of the constitution that are relevant. Such things as immunity and the ability to stay legal proceedings on a criminal investigation is a most corrupt and dishonest thing.

The day a US senator or UK MP tries to do even a quarter of these absolutely improper things is the day his family name would be rubbished on all news media and he/she disgraced out of office.

Only last week all the UK MP who had "managed" to by error or ignorance owe the parliament accounts a combined total of 2500 pounds between them all were publicly named, shamed and made to apologize on Sky news; I kept thinking all this people do was not fill reimbursement declaration forms correctly,a certain MP who owed the tax payer all of 27 pounds was made to give an interview while our Nigerian local counselor steals the treasury dry without concern

the flaws are not much
lawyers simply interpret what their client wants and people create unnecessary problems

chukwudi44:
What if it is sitting as we speak!!!

Judgement through the backdoor and the NJC is not sleeping due to recent criticism of its protection and failure to deal with corrupt judges

Cc seun lalasticlala OAM4J, Afam4eva

For the following reasons the code of conduct Bureau has not committed any wrong in charging Abubakar Bukola Saraki the Nigerian senate president and neither is the code of conduct Tribunal an inferior court.

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1. Saraki was not brought before the Code of Conduct Bureau, but the Code of Conduct Tribunal.The Code of Conduct Tribunal is by no means inferior to the Federal High Court in the constitutional organogram. First, both courts are both created by the constitution. While Section 249 creates the Federal High Court, section 15 of Part 1 of the First Schedule gives birth to the CCT. They are both offsprings of the constitution and recognised by it. The FHC is not superior to the CCT in our hierachy of courts as presently set up(aparo kan o ga ju kan lo). This is particularly so when the constitution makes appeal from the CCT lie directly to the Court of Appeal, side-stepping the Federal High Court. Viewed from another perspective, assuming for a minute, but without conceding for a second that the CCT is nothing but an inferior court; in all common law jurisdictions(at least that I am familiar with), the appropriate procedure to strip an inferior court of its jurisdiction is by way of certiorari - an application for judicial review, where a superior is asked to quash the proceedings of an inferior court. Again, I do not concede that the CCT is an inferior court. To so submit will be an open to constitution qua judicial anarchy. It would mean that a FHC, sitting anywhere, can stop proceedings before an election Tribunal and summon its members! That is the destination of that argument. While an election Tribunal is an ad hoc court, the CCT is not. It's Chairman is someone qualified to be a Judge of even the Federal High Court. He/She, alongside other members are even appointed by the President on the recommendation of the NJC.
2. On lis pendes(pending Litigation) , I am yet to see any authority that applies the doctrine to courts of record. Can a court of law be said to be interfering with the processes of another court? Of course. But that situation is christened abuse of court process, and not lis pendes. Starting from[i] Ojukwu v Gov.of Lagos[/i], leading to the decision in Olowoleeni, and crystallizing in Ezegbu v FATB, the doctrine applies to litigants and not courts. A party's constitutional right to approach a court can never be a violation of the doctrine of lis pendes. On abuse of court process, it is trite that if one suit is abusive of another, it is the latter in time that will be dismissed. Here, the latter is the one before Mohammed of the FHC. Even at that, I think the principle is of remote applicability here.

Finally, how can any court and/or any counsel submit, in good conscience, that the fact there is no AG means no action can be brought in the name of the AG. Haba! The Supreme Court laid this controversy to rest more than a decade ago in AG Federation v ANPP (2003) 18 NWLR (Pt. 851) 182, by holding that the office of the Attorney General is a body corporate with perpetual succession, and continues to function, irrespective of whether there is a sitting AG or not. Although I do not agree with GMB's approach of "searching for anti corruption judges", I think I now see his point. Except the judiciary is populated by judges who are deeply soaked and well versed in law and treat corruption like the Egyptian plague; lawyers who will eschew arguments that will favour their clients and destroy the judicial system; court clerks who will do their jobs, and not hide files because of a ridiculous 'tip', the war against corruption is a non-starter; dead on arrival.

By Akintunde Iseoluwa esq
http://www.mustardpressng.com/blog/legal-opinions-on-the-validity-of-the-ccb-charges-against-saraki-and-cct-as-a-superior-court-of-reckoning-by-akintunde-iseoluwa/#

omogidi234:
Can you cite your Authority please?

you a law student/graduate/lawyer you cant expect me to cite my authority when you didn't'

chukwudi44:
Lolz says who? What sort of law did you study

Old man get a life cant you see ellipsis
besides the Appeal court cannot sit on weekends neither will it sit before the CCT on Monday...
stop bringing your ignorance to public foras such as this

manny4life:
Thank you... If this is the case, why did Saraki's lawyers file a case before the FHC? Or is it because according to them it's constitutional? Then the next question is, what's the question before the FHC?

Also, if FHC and CCT have the same powers, I know the Court of Appeals can halt the order of the FHC but is that also applicable to CCT?

yes the CCT can be halted by the AC if it oversteps its boundaries and limits, the FHC has no control over the CCT....
Saraki's lawyers are gasping for straws and are seriously delaying the inevitable.........
Saraki's lawyers have a right to go to court i cannot tell you if they were right in going to court

chukwudi44:
Oya go arrest am naa!!! See your mouth like arrest!!.At worst Saraki would simply make himself unavailable until Monday when the appeal court sets aside the CCT ruling

Who told you the Appeal court can set aside the CCT RULINGS??
Saraki's premises are as strong as a 10 Naira Balloon

omogidi234:
You meant dumb. Anyway, in this kind of situations, you cannot say a lawyer is dumb. It is always allowed that you should defend a person until the Court has found him/her guilty. I understand how you feel but like I said earlier in other threads, they are just looking for a way to buy time.

And like other folks have mentioned above, Appeal does not Stop an order of court being executed. It is only when you have an Order for Stay of Execution pending Appeal and in the word of the dbanj, Saraki is on long thing. Before he perfects all these applications, he would have been arrested. Excepts he chooses to stay outside of Nigeria until the Order for Stay of Execution is granted.

The court of appeal cannot grant a stay of execution yet ......

manny4life:
Is the Tribunal higher than a Federal Court or yet, the Supreme Court?

I am just confused as to the twist and turn of Nigerian Judiciary...

Why couldn't Saraki obey the Judicial subpoena and go before the Bureau?
Does the Constitution grant the Tribunal all these powers that an order cannot restrain the Bureau?

Indeed these are troubling times, too many questions yet little answers.

The FHC and the CCT have the same level on Nigeria's hierarchy of courts

honeric01:
So you think only northerners marry more than one wife?

Expand your horizon, it happens in other countries too including the west.

There is nothing wrong or silly marrying more than one if you're okay with it, can afford it and the women in it are okay with it.

Which is better, a man with multiple wives and the one with one but multiple concubines we have all around?

Some with one wife with series of divorce history dey too.

As long as it's not against the law, do not call other people's decisions silly.

Its against the Law, but nobody ever gets prosecuted for it

When in 1973 the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) was introduced, it was to ensure unity and integration between the mainly Muslim northern parts and mainly Christian southern parts of the country in the aftermath of the 30-month long civil war. It was also to ensure the participation of youths in national development. From an annual enrolment of 2,364 participants to the scheme at inception in 1974, the scheme now has an annual enrolment of 229,016 participants with a projection to hit 300,000 participants by 2020.

Forty-two years have since gone since the scheme was introduced. But calls for its scrap have gained currency recently more than any time in the life of the scheme. Politicians, celebrities, and even ex-corps members have joined the growing antagonists of the scheme. As a young graduate participating in the mandatory one year national service in Benue State, I think I should join this all-important debate.
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The extent to which the scheme has fostered national unity is certainly debatable. While some have argued that the scheme has achieved national unity, others have differed. I do not think the scheme has done perfectly well in fostering national unity. But the scheme’s failure in fostering national unity could be attributed partly to the Nigerian factor. Prospective corps members and their parents have over the years connived with some corrupt NYSC officials to influence their postings. Some prospective Corps members even know well beforehand states, and institutions or organisations where they would be deployed for the national service! The failure of the scheme to foster national unity therefore stems from the willingness of its officials to subvert the system and not a defect in the original plan of the scheme.

Fostering national unity is however not the only goal of the scheme. The NYSC has facilitated infrastructural developments in many places in the country especially in rural areas. This may not be clearly seen if one evaluates developments brought by the scheme in the mega cities of Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. It is however important to note that the number of places where government presence is felt in Nigeria is less compared with those with government-funded infrastructures. Corps members have through personal initiatives instituted and completed developmental projects such as boreholes, street lights, classroom blocks, renovation of health and educational facilities etc. It would have been difficult, if not impossible for indigenes of these communities to succeed in enlisting the support of the locals for such projects given that corps members are seen as people of integrity and could come under sanctions from the NYSC management should they mismanage such projects. Many of these societies are poorly governed and have little or no government attention. Such projects provided by the corps members go a long way in ameliorating the plight of the people of their host communities.
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The involvement of the corps members in national exercises such as the conduct of elections, census and immunization exercises etc is another milestone in the series of achievements so far recorded by the scheme. The scheme has in years past provided ready adhoc staff for such exercises. The NYSC has become the last resort for the supply of qualified manpower needed for such exercises. Moreover, the existence of sixteen Community Development Service (CDS) Groups in the scheme has taken its relevance to the peak. Some of them include the disaster management group, MDGs, anti-corruption group, road safety group etc. The main tool used by many of these groups in actualizing their developmental efforts is advocacy and sensitization exercises. In a country characterized largely by dysfunctional agencies like Nigeria, the NYSC scheme becomes the agency at the grassroots through which people at that level could be reached. Many of the government agencies saddled with handling such issues already being tackled by the NYSC CDS groups unfortunately do not even have offices in many of these remote areas where corps members are posted to. Corps members have successfully filled the gap created by these docile governmental agencies. The corps members themselves learn in the process of the advocacy programmes.

Education, especially primary and secondary in the remotest parts of this country would have suffered were the scheme to be scrapped. Government and proprietors of schools in a bid to save cost have persistently resorted to employing inadequate number of teachers despite burgeoning number of new intakes in primary and secondary schools. In these ‘corps members-driven’ communities, much of the teaching staff are corps members. In some of these communities, the teachers are not just inadequate but also improperly trained. Corps members have been filling this gap to say the least.

For the corps members themselves, the scheme has become an empowerment scheme through its entrepreneurial programme which gives loans to corps members with good business proposals. The Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Scheme (SAED), which forms part of the three weeks pre-deployment orientation programme is another avenue to provide skills to the corps members. The SAED programme has the capacity to reduce drastically unemployment in Nigeria if properly coordinated.

President Buhari’s recent assertion that the Federal Government would not scrap the scheme is heart-warming. While I am on the same page with the President on this, I think the scheme should keep on evolving with a view to making it a truly 21st century organization that is biometrics-driven to reduce incidences of ‘ghost corps members’. More innovations should also be adopted by the scheme’s management to make more Nigerians benefit from the services rendered by the scheme as a development agenda driven by the youth is bound to be successful. Scrapping the NYSC will amount to throwing the baby away with the bath water.



Osita Odafi

Benue Makurdi, Nigeria.

Twitter: @thisisosita
http://www.mustardpressng.com/blog/in-defence-of-the-nysc-by-thisisosita/

fergus0n:
Askinq myself wen will nollywood ever grow up?

Simple reasoning you dont have.
May God Grant you sense In Jesus Name

Orikinla:
[size=18pt]Na Okoro man Igbo Kwenu commercial.
It shows the poor education of both the owner of Peace Airline and the advertising agency. [/size]

its owned by Mama Peace
i no sabi anything oo

First runner-up in the just concluded All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship primary election in Kogi State, Yahaya Bello may have perfected plans to defect to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in order to contest the November governorship election in Kogi State.

Bello in a short message to his supporters pledged to be on the ballot in the election saying his determination to give leadership to the State can no longer be delayed.

He stated: “I, Alh Yahaya Bello shall be on the ballot in the forthcoming Governorship election of Kogi State, Insha Allah. The coast is clear and the time is NOW! Details soon. Many thanks to all.”

The aspirant who hails from Kogi Central came second to former governor, Prince Abubakar Audu who won the primary election to fly the APC’s flag in the election.

Recall that also incumbent governor, Idris Wada also won the primary election of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to contest. Both Audu and Wada are of the Igala ethnic group of Kogi East.

Bello may have considered this option in order to give life to the agitation of his Ebira ethnic group for a power shift from the Igalas who have dominated the Kogi State political scene since the creation of the State.

A close ally of the aspirant who gave the indication that he may to run on the platform of the SDP also said some key leaders of both the PDP and APC are working together on the project to make power rotation a reality.

Source : http://www.mustardpressng.com/blog/kogi2015-yahaya-bello-set-to-defect-to-sdp/

Emmalez:
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Governor Ambode of Lagos state received Korean Ambassador, Noh Kyu-Duk at his office today September 14th. Continue to see more photos.

http://www.reportnaija.com/2015/09/photos-ambode-receives-korean-ambassador.html

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source
http://www.reportnaija.com/2015/09/photos-ambode-receives-korean-ambassador.html

cc lalasticlala

loooool
Ambo

eneji50:
Certified ebira boy



Navo oooo

Wa Me etere

GabrielSuswam:
All These Analysis of Peeps who have never stepped a foot in Ganaja junction..

Wada has lost already if he's the candidate PDP is presenting..

The Kogi Central (Ebira) and Kogi West(Okun land) are in full support for Any APC Candidate if Wada remains the PDP Candidate..

The Igala zone might split votes.... But there's just no Hope for PDP and Wada...

Analysis from Ayetoro Gbedde & Ayeh Gbedde

The ebira may support echocho since the party seems not to gain anything from APC, unless yahaya bello chooses an okun person as his running mate under another party......
The ebira are the beautiful bride now...

itsIYKE:
Worst photoshop ever....where's the leg?

tot i was the only one seeing one leg

skytreader:
Thank you, Adavize. Lol...I taya o. 100k students indeed. "Post-graduate, master's, and PhD". One wonders if master's and PhD students are nt post-grads. And who put them under the student union? How u dey?

am good ooo how your side ?

kokoA:
Only 5

where you expecting 50

Finally frontpage

frankyychiji:
....so what do you guys think, will Buhari forget the past just because of the political "bad belle" and witch hunting of Fashola and Amaechi sponsored by pained wailers?







Is Tinubu and Ambode now Wailers too? The last time I checked, the allegations against Fashola emanated from Ambode's office, even when Tinubu tried to deceive Nigerians by pointing accusing fingers at Lagos PDP, they (pdp) quickly came out to dissociate themselves from Fashola's ordeal. Even a new born baby knows why Tinubu is after Fashola!
As for Amaechi, he must go to jail. If Buhari shields him, we will wait for him on the streets and pelt him with stones till he takes his last breath.
OP, why can't you recommend yourself for ministerial job, or don't you have credibility?

Fashola nailed himself Ambode just helped him by removing it

bushdoc9919:
Hi God, how are you doing?

Ever heard of Federal Character Commission? And.....Buhari has appointed more Northern minorites than Fulanis and Hausas.

Ah well......

southern minorities nko or na only Igbo and Yoruba dey south ?

oluwadanie1:
The SUG is meant for only the undergraduates which i don't even think are up to 50,000.
Masters and phd students have their own bodies.

Cc: fynestboi

30,000
each student pays 300 naira as union due
#ifelaw

jaundiced report

Plot by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Tukur Buratai to help the Rivers State APC Governorship Candidate, Dakuku Peterside at the tribunal suffered a major setback as his representative, Captain Garba Sani told the Rivers State Governorship Election Tribunal that the Nigerian Army did not participate or assist the PDP in any rigging activities in Tai Local Government Area as alleged by the petitioner.

Captain Sani said that he received a signal from the Chief of Army Staff instructing him to testify on behalf of the Rivers State APC.

Who brings Scam news Post to front page ??
Seun you need to vet your mods, how can a mod move such pothole riddled posts to nairalands front page ? When did a subpoena become a plot
Next time put Scamnews alongside the header on the frontpage

More witnesses from the Nigerian Army who testified on Thursday at the Rivers State Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja, insisted that the April 11 gubernatorial polls did not hold in the state contrary to the claim of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Nyesom Wike.

Compelled by subpoena, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) who sent three other army officers to testify at the Justice Suleman Ambrosa led tribunal , maintained that election did not hold in virtually all polling centres assigned to them to provide security.

Corroborating what Captain Garba Sani testified on Wednesday, the three army officers who led different deployments on the order of the Nigerian Army said that political hoodlums and thugs carted away the election materials after the would-be voters had allegedly been scared away with gun shots.

The three army officers who covered different local governments for the army are captains Abubakar Mohammed, Captain Fred Bala and Captain Isa Almakura.

Almakura who covered Ikwerri local government along with 30 other soldiers claimed that the entire council was tensed up right from April 10 when his team arrived the area to provide security for voters.

This is from thisday http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/rivers-more-army-witnesses-insists-no-election-took-place-on-april-11/219887/

Foolish ebira people

chimoskyg:
It the Governor duty not the president

ermm Unilag is a Federal institution subject to many federal authorities and not the state government although both the FG and LASG should endeavour to be more reactive on touching issues such as this