₦airaland Forum

SalamRushdie:
US deadline for payment shouldn't be and excuse to breach our laws , the US won't breach it's laws because another country gave it deadline so we should not

It all depends on the side of the divide one falls and the importance of what is at stake. US presidents have also breached their constitution in order to hasten some actions. Evidence abound on the net on several times Obama and recently Trump violated laws.

sorom4:
You are one of the persons OBJ is talking about. Irredeemable!!!

Oga go and sit down. He has a right to his opinion just like Obj and people like you have a right to yours. Why must he be railroaded into your own line of reasoning?

SalamRushdie:
So are the planes here now to tackle Boko Haram? I hope you know the earliest delivery dates for those plane is October 2020 and by then Buhari would be long gone ...I hope you know there are already rumoursbmaking rounds not the entire over 400 million dollars was paid to the US... can you tell me why Buhari was in a hurry to illegally release funds for a plane who nearest delivery date is more than 2 years away which defeats your excuse that he did it it save lives from Boko Haram ( a Boko Haram Buhari even claims tibheva defeated )

He already told you the US gave a deadline for payment. Why not make your findings to ascertain that from the US govt?

rozayx5:
pangolo jets


nonsense


with millions of graduates without jobs

half a billion dollars can build thousands of firms and help reduce poverty


but a goat thinks our major problem is this useless plane which a toy gun will bring down

Smh

Patrinus:
Tucano ko tuscani ni.....we can't even boast of an outdated F16

Countries are buying F32 raptors and we can't even boast of F15 or F16.... simply too bad!

Defence decisions are taken strategically not by emotions gotten from movies.

Based on cost and other factors, the Tucanos are strategically more important to Nigeria at this time.

The plane is especially good for training and security, surveillance, reconnaissance and counter-insurgency missions.

The armaments the plane carries are quite impressive.

The plane will be a good economic/strategic choice to patrol the vast areas of land in the NE with very modern offensive weapons.

What do you think is the cost of blazing an F15 or F16 to fight an imaginary enemy? Are they not primarily for aerial combat? Are we planning to combat boko haram in the air or from the air? you lots will just be throwing words carelessly up and down.

fergie001:
Good,but he won't win all the NE,he will lose Gombe.
He won't get near 25% in the SE and SS,save for Edo
Kwara will be dependent on where Saraki leans

fergie001:
Now it's going to be North v North,and the dankwambo factor;unless he sabotages

I never said he will need s/s or s/e votes to win or did I?
,or didn't you read the OP's statement,25% in 24 states.

Well, my reply was in response to your earlier comment quoted above that he wont get 25% in the SE/SS. I simply reiterated that he does not even need that for win.

As I alluded earlier, he will get the needed 25% in 24 states from the NW, NE, NC and SW states.

Buhari is more popular than Dankwambo in all parts of the North.

fergie001:
Good,but he won't win all the NE,he will lose Gombe.
He won't get near 25% in the SE and SS ,save for Edo
Kwara will be dependent on where Saraki leans

Why do you imagine so? He has never lost Gombe before.

Does he need 25% in the SS/SE states to be President? The answer is no. He would get the needed 25% from the NW, NE, NC and SW states.

BabaRamota1980:
OSUN people must not forget the injustice and biased treatment of their indigenes in the Yoruba/Hausa clash in Ife. 2019 is payback.

Don't get yourself worked up.

Osun is the only state in the SW that Buhari has no qualms. He will win the state easily. Mark my words.

aribisala0:
He needs to get 25% of the votes in 24 out of 36 States


I think He Will Struggle in the SE/SS

1 Abia
2 Anabra
3. Ebonyi
4Enugu
5 Imo

6 Akwa Ibom
7 Bayelsa
8 Cross River
9 Delta
10 Edo
11 Rivers

I think he will get Edo = 1/11


Remaining 23 from 25

Middle Belt
12. Benue No chance
13 Kwara ( Hmm) I don't see this
14. Taraba Again no Chance

15 Kogi Riggqable
16 Nassarawa Probable
17 Plateaua Riggable Riggable
18 Niger Babangida's state
That leaves the NW and SW and NE
19 Sokoto
20 Kebbi
21 Zamfara

22 Kaduna
23 Katsina
24 Kano

I think these are all riggable

25 Adamawa
26 Borno
27 Gombe
28 Yobe
29 Bauchi
30 Taraba very doubtful

think he will get these too

Once again he needs the SW . He needs every single state. I do not see this happening in
31Ekiti and
32Ondo
BUT
33 Lagos he will get


34 Ogun
35Oyo
36 Osun
These 3 states I think will be shared
You

Buhari will win the following states in the NC

Nassarawa
Niger
Kwara
Plateau
FCT

In the SW, he'll win:

Osun
Oyo
Ogun
Ondo
Lagos
and Ekiti (if APC wins the coming gubernatorial election)

Excluding Ekiti if APC loses the election.

In the SS, Buhari will win Edo.

In the North East and North West, he'll clear it all.

In the SE, he will not win any state.

This above is the result of the 2019 election. You are all free to bookmark this.

omohayek:
What a load of rubbish! Would you have been invited to the wedding in the first place if Yorubas were as full of hatred for Igbos as your paranoid imaginings indicate? Here you are at a Yoruba wedding in Yorubaland, waiting to be served free food and drink along with everyone else despite your Igbo origins, and the one thing that comes to your mind is how Yorubas hate Igbos, simply because one woman (allegedly) mentioned Biafra! For all one knows, she probably didn't even mention the word, and you only imagined she did because of your tendency to project onto others the blind ethnic hatred you clearly harbor within your own heart.

I pity the poor families who extended their generosity to a snake in the grass like you, only to have their open-mindedness rewarded with vile slanders of the foulest sort. Had they acted in line with your fantasies about how Yoruba people must be, you'd never have been allowed onto the premises in the first place, and everyone would have been the better off for it in your case, as you are obviously the type to see malice in anything Yoruba people could ever do for you.

Well said. He didn't even consider it that a lot of people in the SW equate biafra to civil war. Anytime some hear biafra, it's only the war that comes to their mind.

If the woman indeed said that, her prayer is simply saying war will not come to the couple.

Why can't his reasoning follow the least hateful assumption??

sod09:
This is viper, very venomous

Specifically, Puff Adder. Indeed very poisonous with enormous quantity of venom.

NairaMaster1:
You mean they will boycott the SP part? Your sentiment is unpresidented. You know that the whole exercise is a fraud. Yes you know.

Today it's Dino, power doesn't last forever it may be you tomorrow.

Or you think you can't become a senator? May be a kind of rubber stamp senator.

Let us condemn evil. This is democracy.

unpresidented

You that is hopeful the SP will not perform his constitutional role of following the wishes of Dino's electorate, is your sentiment not unpresidented??

eagleeye2:
She is on bail because they are trying to settle out of court and the family is asking for 200 million.

No sir. She was granted bail on medical grounds. A popular line used by people of means in Nigeria to escape justice.
Moreover, the case is between her and the state. Not the family.

Manslaughter: Ibinabo Fiberesima gets N2m bail – Punch Newspapers
http://www.punchng.com/manslaughter-ibinabo-fiberesima-gets-n2m-bail/

Justice Oseji said he was inclined to exercise discretion in Fiberesima’s favour in view of her health and because there was no record that she had jumped bail in the past.

The judge said it would amount to injustice if after Fiberesima had been kept in prison, the Supreme Court later, after about three to four years, decided that the five year jail term imposed on her should be set aside.

Justice Sidi Bage, who presided over the proceedings, aligned himself with the lead judgment but the third member of the panel, Justice Y.B. Nimpar, dissented.

Justice Nimpar said the ill health grounds upon which Fiberesima anchored her application for bail was untenable.

The judge noted that there was no record before the court that Fiberesima had suffered any complication since February that she underwent surgery for breast cancer and April when she brought her application for bail.

Besides, Justice Nimpar said there were adequate medical facilities in the prison to cater to her health needs, adding that the prison hospital could also give her referral for consultancy in the event that she has any condition that could not be taken care by the prison hospital.

eagleeye2:
No matter the verdict, it cannot bring back the death.
Even if she is sentenced to death, it will still not bring back the dead.
It was an accident. And unless you have never been involved in one, will you judge her harshly. What will 200Milion do for the family? Bring back their dead brother?
I think having fame and wealth cones with a great risk in this country. Cos if Ibinabo has been a poor danfo driver, this case would have dragged this long? You want her to confess to drunk driving and she says NO. that means she is arrogant?
So, the sister is the one telling the truth? oh well their case, their life.

She is walking free today because she is not a danfo driver. Otherwise she'd have been in jail.

Have you ever heard that someone convicted by the appeal court of a crime is on bail?? In fact, her case is the first of such I'll hear of.

Which Danfo driver will get such benefit? So stop being sentimental. Her status has equally given her some benefits. Cases usually take long in Nigeria.

Go and read the Punch report on Supreme Court of the dead, dying and living cases part I, II and III and you'll be shocked how long it takes the Nigerian judiciary to complete a case from start to finish at the Supreme Court.

The report says it takes btw 15 to 30 years on the average.

GeneralShepherd:
When people say overspeeding in Nigeria I laugh.. do we have speed limits in Nigeria. Show me 5 roads besides some highways that have road signs displaying speed limits.

Nigeria is a dead country... the family should hold the government accountable

Continue laughing and be involved in a road crash that becomes a court case, the shit will get real when a senior VIO and FRSC official comes to testify on the speed limit of the road you were driving on.

Even leaving speed limit, Nigeria Road traffic laws says you must drive responsibly and not endanger other people's lives. This is open ended and subject to the interpretation of Road Safety officials and eye witnesses. It's not difficult to fry someone driving anyhow. Everybody detests such driving. Especially pedestrians and bystanders.

Chuksonyeike:
Easier said than done.It is the SP that will complete the recall process of a senator and not INEC

The same way the Senate President was there to stop them from cuffing his hands to hospital bed?

Chuksonyeike:
My dear it is the SP that will declare the seat vacant and not INEC.Besides Melaye will claim the process was flawed and go to court again.The SP will defer till the end of the court case

There is nothing like 'declaring seat vacant' during the recall process.

It is only when a legislator switches party that the constitution talks about the Speaker/Senate President declaring such seat vacant.

HAH:
By Uche Anichukwu

I have followed the mixed opinions on the comments by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu on how very difficult it will be to recall Senator Dino Melaye from the Senate. Some claim that the 1999 as amended does not envisage any role for debate in the entire process. However, this position is constitutionally flawed.

Anichukwu is an Aide to the Deputy President of the Senate

Biased opinion.

You still don't get it right? Once INEC completes their process and it is not in favour of Dino, police will move in and ensure his shadow doesn't get close to the National Assembly.


Before all the cases will get resolved, the 8th senate would have been over.

HAH:
there is no where in the process above where inec withdraws certificate of return, there role only ends at issuing the senate president certificate of recall, it is senate president that will finally effect recall at plenary or otherwise

Either ways, the issuance of a certificate of recall presupposes that his certificate of return has been invalidated. It is same thing.

HAH:
the inec cannot declare the seat vacant until the last process of recall is done which is asking the senator to step down, from the step listed inec will only send certificate of recall to the senate president, it is only when the senate president decides to do his role that the process is complete and a bye election is conducted

Read the process again.

Once INEC withdraws his certificate, he is no longer a senator. It is after INEC withdraws his certificate that they will inform the Senate President that somebody over there with you is no longer a senator.

INEC withdrawing his certificate comes before the role played by the Senate President. Once his certificate is withdrawn, legally speaking, he is no longer a senator and can be barred from the hallowed chambers.

In this particular scenario, the power of recall is with INEC, not the Senate President.

Section 68 (1) (h) of the Constitution (as amended) provides that a member of either of the Houses shall vacate his seat if “the President of the Senate or, as the case may be, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, receives a certificate under the hand of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission stating that the provisions of Section 69 of this Constitution have been complied with in respect of the recall of a member”.

Clinton9000:
I'll cut off my dickk if Saraki ratifies the Maleye's recall. It will never happen, and all senators will reject the move except Tinubu's wife, whose Husband and ACN chieftains are behind Maleye's ordeal. The senators are not mugus. There is what we can precedent. If this is allowed to happen, Buhari and his clique will use it to even recall Saraki himself...hahaha. DON'T FOOLED, THIS WILL NEVER EVER HAPPEN!

HAH:
he will simply put it in his drawer tell everyone that he will to it at the right time and may be do it on the last plenary of the 8th senate, this is because the constitution did not stipulate a timeframe for the recall

Once INEC withdraws his certificate of return, the police, DSS and other security agencies have the legal backing to declare him persona non grata in and around the National Assembly complex.

And with his recent altercation with the police, they'll gleefully carry out the action to the letter.

Don't forget that all the security forces manning the National Assembly report to the Executive.

INEC will also Elect a new senator to that position and issue a certificate of return to the newly elected senator. The new senator will equally present himself at the National Assembly to be sworn in as the senator for Kogi West brandishing his INEC issued certificate for all to see.

There is no where in the constitution that says the Senate has to ratify the recall process. As per the snippet posted above, the Senate President will show him the door. Either he is shown or not, does not invalidate the recall.

Either ways, it's a lose lose for Dino. What makes it more complicated for him is the fact that Saraki is reluctant to declare open war with Buhari. Saraki is being careful and it's his foot soldiers like Dino that will bite the dust.

As it is, Dino is on his own! Till all the legal battles that may arise from the recall, and the others he is presently facing are over, he'll be effectively kept away from the National Assembly. And in essence making whoever he has issues with to have achieved their objectives.

MYHUBBY:
.let that devil push APC to pick fayemi then kolapo shouldn't campaign much, fayemi defeat would be one the most disgrace defeating in the history of Nigeria


he's exhausted politically, if APC want to pull weight, segun oni should be consider hence all the rest would become history


ekiti still like segun oni, he's a listening man

I have been hearing same from a lot of Ekiti folks that Segun Oni is very much popular and is the only candidate that can win the state for APC.

I really dont know what Fayemi is still looking for.

attention seeker

kingkakaone:
It was 17k during spar easter promo but normal price is between 18k -22k depending on the type.

The open market price is cheaper than that of Spar in Lagos. I believe it should be same in PH.

I dont want to believe rice will be cheaper in Spar than the open market.

kingkakaone:
That's serious o.
50kg in PH is more than that o.

The price cannot be same. Lagos must definitely be cheaper. But the price difference should not be too wide.

So how much is 50kg from the cheapest market in Port Harcourt?

flavnwokem:
Everyone knows that INEC has the power to fix the date of elections,NASS never tampered with the dates of elections, they changed the sequence of the elections, the Judgement affirmed what we all know.

So INEC can fix date, and another person can fix sequence? Is that not introduction to anarchy?

The power to fix date conferred on INEC by the constitution inherently has the power to acertain the sequence of the elections.

What the NASS can do is to amend the constitution and insert the sequence of elections directly in the constitution.

slotA4:
So NASS don't have power to amend act again? Rubbish

Is that what is written up there?

somehow:
Post the picture of the bag if possible so that we can be sure it's Nigerian rice. We really need to massively start patronising Nigerian rice.

I didn't say it's Nigerian rice. I said I bought a bag of rice. It is Caprice.

kingkakaone:
For real?
25kg or 50kg.

Yes for real. 50kg. I bought it at Iddo. I wasn't having the time to negotiate well because I didn't park well so I just bought from the first shop I went.

I believe I can even get it for 12k if I go to the inside shops to negotiate well with them.

kingkakaone:
All presidents since return of democracy from 1999 till date have always used these agencies (DSS, EFCC, NPF, etc) as their lapdogs to run down whoever is a threat to them.
Obasanjo did his, Jonathan did his, ie, Tambuwa, Amaechi, and today same thing is happening.
I fear more because successive governments become worse than their predecessors .
Bag of rice was about 2.5k during Obansanjo, became 7.5k under Jonathan and now it has become about 18k in this regime.

Sometimes I just wonder what went wrong for this nation to face this ungodly direction.

What breaks me most is that these same politicians have supporters here and are fighting dirty over those who cannot effect a change on their destiny.

Quote with Ur brain if u want to mention me instead of trying to please Ur paymaster who doesn't care where Ur next meal will come from.

Bag of rice is not 18k, I still bought one bag last week for 12,800.

faceURfront:
Shoprite is selling 25kg for 10k. And some people are telling us the price of rice has fallen. In on thread someone claimed to have bought a 50kg bag for 13k or so.

I bought a bag of rice yesterday at Iddo, Lagos for 12,800.

TheKingIsHere:
That is not t he point of argument.

Mynd44 says because she is an Ex-convict she can't vie for a political position which I am correcting such impression.

Also take note that a bill was filled in 2010 seeking amendments to the constitution which will allow Ex-convict to contest for political positions without waiting for 10years.

It might have been approved without us knowing

A bill is first passed by both Senate and House of Rep before being sent to the president for assent. An important bill like that cannot be passed into law without a lot of people knowing.

Moreover, an Act of parliament is an inferior law to the constitution.