₦airaland Forum

kcnwaigbo:
30 days is already counting!! We are left with 28 days before the NASS takes a vote to pass the amendment into law.If the president does not veto it,it automatically becomes law in 30 days time and no new vote will be needed

It seems you are ignorant about a lot of things.

GEJ left more than a 100 bills already passed by the National Assembly behind without assenting them.

Some have been passed as long as 2012. None of them have become law. None of them have become an Act, even though some have been passed by the National Assembly for the past 4yrs.

GEJ did not even bother to inform them if he was assenting or withholding assent. He just left the bills unattended to.

People are already lobbying PMB to assenting some of those bills and he doesn't have the time. I think he assented some few ones last year.

Keballl:
What's with this silly post of yours. You are obviously too ignorant not know the Appeal Court is listening to the case now.

So appeal court is siting and you guys are wailing up and down. Oga sit your ass down and await the ruling of the appeal court.

Stop littering the cyberspace with wailings.

Keballl:
He knows the truth, but he is just been mischievous and pained to know Justice Abang and gang will be shamed.

You are the one who seems pained. Why bringing sentiments into a purely legal issue.

It's not today that Appeal court has been overturning the judgement of a High court. It's not a big deal.

Supreme court also regularly overturns the judgements of the Appeal court. It's not new.

Instead of whining and making noise online, you guys should go and appeal that judgement. It's as simple as that. Eyitayo Jegede is a SAN, he should know this.

I just don't understand why they always go to another high court to counter Okon Abang's judgement instead of going to the appeal court.

Everybody, every layman knows a high court cannot counter the judgement of another high court.

eyeview:
You seem learned so please answer this simple question. I believe you have a good knowledge of the required guidelines by inec(primaries witnessed by inec,must take place within the state,returned by the party's NEC etc). Please, tell us if Jimoh Ibrahim met any of the stipulated guidelines that warrants he being recognised by inec.
What is simple is simple. When people like you start trying to make it complicated,it shows that you have turned a blind eye to the truth

I already posted this on the other thread.

Is INEC not bound to obey a consequential order of a competent court of law??

There is actually no big deal here, all they have to do is to go to a higher court to prove their case. If a higher court rules in their favour, INEC will also follow that ruling.

If the case proceeds to Supreme court and they also give their ruling, INEC will also simply obey that ruling. INEC is a 'zombie' to a competent court judgment.

Justice Okon Abang has always been ruling in favour of Sherrif faction since the beginning of these their wahala.

What I don't understand is why they have not gone to a higher court to vacate any of those his rulings all these while.

Justice Okon Abang cannot rule against himself. Any case brought to him as regards PDP faction wahala, he will always rule in favour of Sheriff to maintain consistency in his judgements as he has earlier done.

It's only a higher court that can rule against him and as such compel him to rule in like manner in similar cases

It as simple as I expressed above. INEC is simply obeying a court order. If Appeal court rules tomorrow affirming Jegede, INEC will replace Jimoh Ibrahim's name.

It is only a court that can decide if Ibrahim was not validly selected as a candidate.

In the absence of any other superior court judgment, INEC will obey the subsisting judgement.

The implication of Justice Okon Abang's judgement is simply that INEC was wrong not to witness the primary where Ibrahim emerged.

That in itself may not nullify the process except if a competent court judgment rules thereof.

Let them appeal the Judgment of Okon Abang speedily and also ask the appeal court for accelerated hearing. You can ask for accelerated hearing on high profile cases.

eyeview:
I expected your counter.
You dont get listed in inec list by court rulings. There are laid down procedure and guideline for being recognised by inec as a party's authentic candidate. Now,go back and read the legal dept's rulings slowly. Jegede met all of it and Jimoh met none and yet despite having fulfilled all legally accepted pricedure,he got substituted by an illegality.
Also,by law,the primaries took place in ondo,why did amina zakari chose the ruling of the abuja high court to over ride that of ondo where the jurisdiction is.
And since zakari wants to 'follow court rulings',there is a subsisting court ruling that had earlier declared the sherriff led faction as illegal and hence any of its activities as null and void ab-initio. Why didnt she and her corrupt inec obey that.
Since the corrupt amina zakari and her uncle all of a sudden want to obey court rulings,yesterday,pdp got an injuction restraining her and her corrupted inec from substituting the name of jegede that had been on their list all the while. Why didnt she obey that.

I hate when adults will see the truth and place it upside down because of petty sentiments and party leanings. A true man should be able to stand for the truth,no matter the parties involved.
Very disappointed

Which legal department? You guys formed a press release from your rooms and you are calling it INEC legal department memo.

Why not post the memo itself if indeed the person that wrote that trash had access to it.

Post the memo itself for validity. Otherwise, all these are speculations and fictional conjectures.

IsThisChange:
INEC was acting on the instruction of Power from Above to do otherwise against the Advice of INEC Legal Department (which advice INEC not to substitute Jegede name)

But because the Power that be from Oga-the-top prevail on INEC to do their bidding not minding the resulting consequences of their action..

Anyway Appeal court is sitting today and tommorrow.

Is INEC now different from INEC legal department?

Are you a member of INEC legal department to know their deliberation??

INEC is not INEC without its legal department and other departments. The legal department and other departments is what makes up INEC. Stop misinforming the public.

Is INEC not bound to obey a consequential order of a competent court of law??

There is actually no big deal here, all they have to do is to go to a higher court to prove their case. If a higher court rules in their favour, INEC will also follow that ruling.

If the case proceeds to Supreme court and they also give their ruling, INEC will also simply obey that ruling. INEC is a 'zombie' to a competent court judgment.

Justice Okon Abang has always been ruling in favour of Sherrif faction since the beginning of these their wahala.

What I don't understand is why they have not gone to a higher court to vacate any of those his rulings all these while.

Justice Okon Abang cannot rule against himself. Any case brought to him as regards PDP faction wahala, he will always rule in favour of Sheriff to maintain consistency in his judgements as he has earlier done.

It's only a higher court that can rule against him and as such compel him to rule in like manner in similar cases.

Keballl:
You are simply in a state of confusion and tongue twisting escapades. GEJ was undertaking one of the biggest privatization in Nigeria history and any blemish would have rendered the entire process to naught. Relieving Nnaji was a little sacrifice to pay to improving investor confidence and bidding process.

The sabotage in power sector was responsible for the poor power situation last year. An experience we all had earlier this year when the avengers were laying carnage to gas infrastructures.

Alright, you that is not confused, I don hear.

GEJ is already history now, no point going back and forth, no time sef.

Keballl:
When GEJ excused him you all went on rampage slating him for selfish political reasons.

The circumstances is different now. Eventhough majority of people did not know Barth before he was appointed, GEJ will definitely know that he has vested interest in that industry, yet he went ahead and appointed him. Nobody complained when he was appointed, or let me say majority did not complain.

Now after the man was appointed and everybody started seeing visible changes in the industry chiefly due to his management acumen; it was that time GEJ deemed it fit to fire him, claiming he has vested interest.

Why change the winning team in the middle of a crucial competition?? That move by Jona was a wrong move, and majority was right in criticising the sack as later events even vindicated the people that questioned the sack as Barth Nnaji's visible achievements nose-dived after his exit.

Assuming GEJ left that man in the saddle, the power situation would have been better today.

kahal29:
No nah... On a more serious note if listens to this advice and appoint Barth Nnaji the man will certainly make the difference. The man understands the dynamics and challenges of the power sector.

Although Barth Nnaji is sound and up to the task but appointing him to that position will be a mistake.

Barth is an operator in that industry, an active one sef. You cannot make an operator the Head of the regulatory Agency.

There is bound to be conflict of interest. He will definitely dance more to the tunes of the. Industry players and not the consumers.

That is part of the problem we are always having with our CBN governors. We should not start making the same mistake in our ailing power industry.

bbbabes:
This government is simply stupid... Even the US imports what they don't have.
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Seriously I must confess, me and my family do not feel this recession in any way. Maybe it's simply cuz I looked for an alternative to get extra income.

It seems it's you that is stupid and not the govt. Who told u Nigeria does not import rice? Why do some of you guys run your mouth without having your facts? 60-65% of rice we are consuming is being imported. The govt only banned rice importation through the borders.

Rice is still being imported through the ports for your information.

Is the spokesman nameless?

All these fake news sef. APC does not have a spokesman presently.

Happy birthday tonyebarcanista. God bless u.

Smithkafors:
We are getting there gradually. Soon we'll be self sufficient. My opinion though, minister of agriculture is not as proactive as the former one.let's hope that things changes.

The man is doing quite well. He has been attracting funding and travelling up and down making himself physically available for agricultural programs.

[quote author=Sensie post=50380935][/quote]Yes na, carry your negative thinking outta here.

Sensie:
Something that will never see the light of the day... Mtcheww


My people, Hello from the other side jare

Pessimist enemy of the nation. If Anambra and Ebonyi rice can succeed in feeding only their states 100%, then that is a success!

This success will spurn the CBN to release more money to them for investment and from there, the entire SE can achieve rice production sustainability which can even still spill to other parts of the country.

Don't come and infect us here with your negative thinking abeg.

This is good! Let the CBN loan the funds in the TSA to farmers. This will go a long way in supporting the economy than the erstwhile practice of commercial banks loaning it for importers to import things we can produce here and invariably killing off the local production.

Commercial banks in Nigeria has over time refused to invest in the real sectors of the economy. Preferring to get bigger margins at low risk investments. Now that govt funds has been removed from them, a lot of them are totally confused and bereft of ideas to move their businesses into earlier profit margins.

Let the CBN loan the cash in the TSA directly to Agricultural projects and to Manufacturers Association of Nigeria through the Bank of Industry.

It will go a long way in reducing our import bills and as such reduce the pressure on the naira. This is to be followed up by strict enforcement of policies and border controls.

Any corrupt customs officer seeking to sabotage govt policies due to personal greed should be shown the door! Citizens should be encouraged and even given incentives to carry out whistle blowing on corrupt customs and CBN officials.

If we can successfully limit rice imports, and then reduce fuel imports by the time Dangote refinery and others come up, our naira will get out of this mess it has found itself.

comshots:
This is more of an ethnic cleansing than fighting corruption under this regime.Why are their names not published?

Oga keep quiet! Ethnic cleansing my foot. You agreed no names were published, yet you are still alleging ethnic cleansing.

Failures always resort to excuses of religious/ethnic bigotry.

This is one of the most corrupt agencies of govt committing economic crimes against the nation and its policies. Instead of you to be happy for this bold move, you are talking nonsense.

Everybody knows customs are highly corrupt, and everybody also know they have been operating unhindered since God knows.

This is a good move that should tell the other guys that we have a new sheriff in town. The corruption in customs is not isolatary, it is supported and encouraged by corrupt individuals seeking to circumvent the law and due process, so it won't be surprising to see some people looking for avenue to wail for their crooked friends in customs.

sanfranka2:
who is fooling who

You guys better maintain a stance. Is it that there was no kidnap at all or there was kidnap but no rescued 21 girls?

Today you'll say no kidnap.

Tomorrow you'll say, one of the girls already escaped in 2014, showing us a blurred picture without a reference to where u got the picture from.

Nonsense incomplete report, and some people are already taking it as the absolute truth. Something is definitely wrong with the thinking faculty of some people.

Now it is Aisha Buhari's friend? Lol. Eventhough Buhari has told them where they belong, that they don't belong to dictating who he appoints to offices.

Yet, some people believes Aisha Buhari's friend is capable of influencing the emergence of 2 FAAN directors.

Abi, no be only 2 directors that has been announced?

Some people are petty. They think it is when they repeat and repeat the same arguments that it will be regarded as the truth.

Conspiracy theorists would soon bombard this thread with their incredulous assertions.

I hope the killer driver is in detention?

RIP to the dead.

Sibrah:
Was he involved? I can't see any connection yet.

The project was enmeshed in a lot of legal issues; and he played a major role in the resolution of those issues.

CSTR13:
You must be high.
What has fashola got to do with a company investment that predates his govt.?
Let him go and add 1MW to Nigeria's current generating capacity and then maybe you can worship the clueless man then.

It seems you were deaf and dumb when the previous govt was frustrating this man's investment right? Fashola has come now to help sort out all the knotty issues and you have suddenly remembered to give Berth Nnaji alone the accolades. Where were you when Jona and his wife Patience frustrated the man's investment due to vested interest of another party (Emeka Offor)??

Good work Fashola.

stevehans:
This unfounded report by so called reporter with no traceable address is in no doubt sponsored by some members of the community that made some demand which was refused.

I am an Engineer on this project at Ramotu/Erejuwa street in Makoko and I would love to invite you Hon. Oladele Rufus Adekanye, representing the Lagos Mainland Constituency I in the Lagos State House of Assembly and other well-meaning Lagosian who appreciate and support the laudable efforts of His Excellency, Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode on this 114 roads which is the first of its kind in the whole country to take a visit to this site and access the beautiful project of this road in Makoko.

The flood on some portion (20m) of this road was caused by tides couple with the opening of river Oyan (17/09/16). This caused the water level of the lagoon (about 40m) close to the road project to overflow and spill on the road. This was possible because the road drainage system link directly into the lagoon and there was a backflow.

On experiencing this and in agreement with the community with the CDA, the contractor decide to increase the size of the drainage to accommodate larger volume of water, that was when the so called reporter from “insidemainland”came took the pictures and posted it online.
Once again, I challenge anyone that love the truth to take a visit to the project site and have a first-hand information.
Here are some of the picture before and after the project work.

You mean that picture is indeed from the project area? Are you serious??

What we are seeing there with those broken gutters and rusted reinforcement rods dont look like recent work. Are you sure you guys completed the work or you did it half-way, took pictures of the half way work from special angles and then took off.

I am really interested in that place. Please describe the place from that Roundabout. I may even go check it out.

cindyrocks:
When will this blame game stop?


I can't believe they are now blaming the 'Aso Rock spirits' for their actions and inactions.


Lmao.


Nigeria rocks.

People that would be accusing other people of propaganda are the worst culprits.

Funny enough, people can see through your lies and abuses; though they may not reply.

Is it not your Reuben Abati after having nothing else to wail on, that has shifted to wailing that there are evil spirits in Aso rock due to plenty human sacrifices that has been carried out around the place.

The GEJ administration is blaming evil spirits for their massive failure and you are trying to turn it around.

The defeat of that 2015 election will still end up giving some of these GEJ boys nervous breakdown. Because as the days go on and they open their buccal cavity, they keep yarning nonsense and more nonsense.

I'm sure this kind of person when they were in power instead of tackling issues intellectually will tell GEJ it was evil spirits and that it was prayers they need.

https://www.nairaland.com/3407433/spiritual-side-aso-villa-reuben

nothing wey person no go hear for Naija.

White House has been there for more than 200 years. Na there senior evil spirits supposed dey sef.

Buckingham Palace has been there for more than 300 years. With all the atrocities of the British all over the world, no be there demons supposed dey pass??

Well, experience is the best teacher so they say. Make I no talk too much as I never sleep inside the villa.

But the General and the Pastor should be able to fight the spiritual battle na??

Mynd44, OAM4J, Lalasticlala pls we need more opinions on this.

The spiritual side of Aso Villa



People tend to be alarmed when the Nigerian Presidency takes certain decisions. They don’t think the decision makes sense. Sometimes, they wonder if something has not gone wrong with the thinking process at that highest level of the country. I have heard people insist that there is some form of witchcraft at work in the country’s seat of government. I am ordinarily not a superstitious person, but working in the Villa, I eventually became convinced that there must be something supernatural about power and closeness to it. I’ll start with a personal testimony. I was given an apartment to live in inside the Villa. It was furnished and equipped. But when my son, Michael arrived, one of my brothers came with a pastor who was supposed to stay in the apartment. But the man refused claiming that the Villa was full of evil spirits and that there would soon be a fire accident in the apartment. He complained about too much human sacrifice around the Villa and advised that my family must never sleep overnight inside the Villa.

I thought the man was talking nonsense and he wanted the luxury of a hotel accommodation. But he turned out to be right. The day I hosted family friends in that apartment and they slept overnight, there was indeed a fire accident. The guests escaped and they were so thankful. Not long after, the President’s physician living two compounds away had a fire accident in his home. He and his children could have died. He escaped with bruises. Around the Villa while I was there, someone always died or their relations died. I can confirm that every principal officer suffered one tragedy or the other; it was as if you needed to sacrifice something to remain on duty inside that environment. Even some of the women became merchants of Love Machine because they had suffered a special kind of death in their homes (I am sorry to reveal this) and many of the men complained about something that had died below their waists too. The ones who did not have such misfortune had one ailment or the other that they had to nurse. From cancer to brain and prostate surgery and whatever, the Villa was a hospital full of agonizing patients.

I recall the example of one particular man, an asset to the Jonathan Presidency who practically ran away from the Villa. He said he needed to save his life. He was quite certain that if he continued to hang around, he would die. I can’t talk about colleagues who lost daughters and sons, brothers and uncles, mothers and fathers, and the many obituaries that we issued. Even the President was multiply bereaved. His wife, Mama Peace was in and out of hospital at a point, undergoing many surgeries. You may have forgotten but after her husband lost the election and he conceded victory, all her ailments vanished, all scheduled surgeries were found to be no longer necessary and since then she has been hale and hearty. By the same token, all those our colleagues who used to come to work to complain about a certain death beneath their waists and who relied on videos and other instruments to entertain wives (take it easy boys, I don’t mean nay harm, I am writing!), have all experienced a re-awakening.


Everyone who went under the blade has received miraculous healing, and we are happy to be out of that place. But others were not so lucky. They died. There were days when convoys ran into ditches and lives were lost. In Norway, our helicopter almost crashed into a mountain. That was the first time I saw the President panicking. The weather was all so hazy and he just kept saying it would not be nice for the President of a country to die in a helicopter crash due to pilot miscalculations. The President went into a prayer mode. We survived. In Kenya once, we had a bird strike. The plane had to be recalled and we were already airborne with the plane acting like it would crash.

During the 2015 election campaigns, our aircraft refused to start on more than one occasion. The aircraft just went dead. On some other occasions, we were stoned and directly targeted for evil. I really don’t envy the people who work in Aso Villa, the seat of Nigeria’s Presidency. For about six months, I couldn’t even breathe properly. For another two months, I was on crutches. But I considered myself far luckier than the others who were either nursing a terminal disease or who could not get it up.
When Presidents make mistakes, they are probably victims of a force higher than what we can imagine. Every student of Aso Villa politics would readily admit that when people get in there, they actually become something else. They act like they are under a spell. When you issue a well- crafted statement, the public accepts it wrongly. When the President makes a speech and he truly means well, the speech is interpreted wrongly by the public.

When a policy is introduced, somehow, something just goes wrong. In our days, a lot of people used to complain that the APC people were fighting us spiritually and that there was a witchcraft dimension to the governance process in Nigeria. But the APC folks now in power are dealing with the same demons. Since Buhari government assumed office, it has been one mistake after another. Those mistakes don’t look normal, the same way they didn’t look normal under President Jonathan. I am therefore convinced that there is an evil spell enveloping this country. We need to rescue Nigeria from the forces of darkness. Aso Villa should be converted into a spiritual museum, and abandoned.


Should I become President of Nigeria tomorrow, I will build a new Presidential Villa: a Villa that will be dedicated to the all-conquering Almighty, and where powers and principalities cannot hold sway. But it is not about buildings and space, not so? It is about the people who go to the highest levels in Nigeria. I really don’t quite believe in superstitions, but I am tempted to suggest that this is indeed a country in need of prayers. We should pray before people pack their things into Aso Villa. We should ask God to guide us before we appoint ministers. We should, to put it in technocratic language, advise that the people should be very vigilant.

We have all failed so far, that crucial test of vigilance. We should have a Presidential Villa where a President can afford to be human and free. In the White House, in the United States, Presidents live like normal human beings. In Aso Villa, that is impossible. They’d have to surround themselves with cooks from their villages, bodyguards from their mother’s clans and friends they can trust. It should be possible to be President of Nigeria without having to look behind one’s shoulders. But we are not yet there. So, how do we run a Presidency where the man in the saddle can only drink water served by his kinsman? No. How can we possibly run a Presidency where every President proclaims faith in Nigeria but they are better off in the company of relatives and kinsmen. No. We need as Presidents men and women who are willing to be Nigerians. No Nigerian President should be in spiritual bondage because he belongs to all of us and to nobody.

Now let me go back to the spiritual dimension. A colleague once told me that I was the most naïve person around the place. I thought I was a bright, smart, professional doing my bit and enjoying the President’s confidence. I spelled it out. But what I got in response was that I was coming to the villa using Lux soap, but that most people around the place always bathed in the morning with blood. Goat blood. Ram blood. Whatever animal blood. I argued. He said there were persons in the Villa walking upside down, head to the ground. I screamed. Everybody looked normal to me. But I soon began to suspect that I was in a strange environment indeed. Every position change was an opportunity for warfare. Civil servants are very nice people; they obey orders, but they are not very nice when they fight over personal interests.

The President is most affected by the atmosphere around him. He can make wrong decisions based on the cloud of evil around him. Even when he means well and he has taken time to address all possible outcomes, he could get on the wrong side of the public.

A colleague called me one day and told me a story about how a decision had been taken in the spiritual realm about the Nigerian government. He talked about the spirit of error, and how every step taken by the administration would appear to the public like an error. He didn’t resign on that basis but his words proved prophetic. I see the same story being re-enacted. Aso Villa is in urgent need of redemption. I never slept in the apartment they gave me in that Villa for an hour.


http://m.guardian.ng/opinion/the-spiritual-side-of-aso-villa/

The yahoo yahoo complainant better watch his back. Naija police are very mean and wicked. They can arrange to have someone take him out.

charix:
Many times I wish God could punish the deceivers on the spot to set examples. Some posters have become experts in the craft because too many nairalanders are gullible. A lot of nairalanders refuse to believe facts but always swallow lies wholeheartedly, it's a sad case.

Really sad.

While I condemn this senseless act of brutality by our security forces, I won't swallow this wholly to represent the recent violence in Jos until more facts are released.

People are so dishonest these days. They will just pick a video from somewhere and tag it to an unrelated event.

That was how someone purportedly released a video of APC rigging in Edo state and people were already running their mouths before it was revealed by another person with concrete evidence that the video has been on the internet for years.

Lovely simple woman.

These kind of women looks harmless but they can be very stone-hearted when in position of authority.

Mess with them at your own peril.