₦airaland Forum

newmaster:
When invited to make his allocutus after reading the judgment, Folorunsho’s counsel, Mr. A Olagoke told the court "the defendant is a man of about 60 years old and have served this country for about 35 years during which he never received a query or any punishment. He is a family man who believes that life is sacred. Ironically, this led to his present situation. Justice is a three-way traffic: for the victim, the society and for the accused.

newmaster:
"The defendant had never shot anyone before the incident in this suit. I believe he has learned his lessons in a very hard way, so also his colleagues who are still in the police force. He has been in detention for over four years. If he is able to go back to the society, he will impart the positive knowledge he has acquired on the society.

newmaster:
"The victim cannot return to life. Taking the life of the defendant will not compensate the family of the deceased. I passionately appeal to the court to temper justice with mercy and minimize the sentence due to the defendant. He should be given the opportunity to educate the police from his experience. The society will benefit more from this than from taking his life," Olagoke reasoned.
Counsel to the state who prosecuted the case, Mrs. E. Alakija in her response enjoined the court to allow the law to take its natural course.

newmaster:
In the course of her decision, Justice Wiliams condemned efforts by the Nigeria Police Service to frustrate the case saying "the defendant’s colleagues who were also eye witnesses to the crime did not attend court to testify. The defendant sought to unsuccessfully cash in on this syndrome which occurred in this trial when he claimed that failure to bring the defendant’s colleagues to testify was fatal to the case of the prosecution. Fortunately in this case, there were other eye witnesses who testified and the intransigence of the police could not defeat the ends of justice."

walata44:
Am I bothered? No I don't. What about the poor masses that lost their lives on Nigeria road everyday on the death trap called road. They hardly made it to newspapers front page.

Sam Milla:
I want to say something. This is called politics.
Lagos state gave 1 million dollars. Despite  that it was a goodwill gesture, it was out of other.
No state jumps over its federal government on such issues.
Lagos should have consulted the federal government to know their plans before throwing money around.

Japan is thousands of times richer than us.
The donated 5 million dollars. before individual wings come in.

There are also countries that donated nothing.
Its not fair though but sometimes we have to check how the affected country respond to such issues as well before doing anything.

All in All, Lagos state shouldnt have donated that money before federal government.
They now make federal  government look wicked and careless.
Nigeria is in leadership crisis. Everyone including Fashola should be aware of that.

I guess he jumped and donated that money to make himself look very good to ordinary people of Nigeria.
He succeeded but in some World Govt, he could have been suspended from duty.
Just that Nigeria is not working.

ReachRich:
Corruption both in the public & private sector.

Cheap car from India could cost $8,000 in US

DETROIT (AP) -- The world's cheapest car is being readied for sale in the U.S., but by the time India's Tata Nano is retrofitted to meet emissions and safety standards, it won't be that cheap.

Tata Technologies Ltd., the global engineering arm of the Tata group conglomerate, brought the tiny car to Detroit as a publicity stunt for the engineering group.

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Before it can be sold here, the car's two-cylinder, 623cc engine would have to be engineered to meet stronger U.S. pollution standards, he said. Airbags would have to be added, the roof strengthened and the front bumper lengthened to meet U.S. requirements to limit damage in a 5-mph crash.

deb:
Confront him about the voice mail.

Get him to admit to it first

Then tell him about what you did too.

Then you both start on a fresh note.

I can almost guess your hubby still cheats on you now.

Bokoharam:
My brothers, I wonder! I'm worried; more than anyone else. We're in trouble in 9ja. Can't 9jarians reason 4 once? The same reason things re nt working here,

marutimon:
You people are clueless,

He is faultless when he defends and provides a big threat going forward.

None of yesterday's goals were his fault (blaming him for the deflection is silly). It is not the fullback's job to cover center strikers. And Amodu had two DMs to cover for Taiwo when he goes forward. Thats how ALL coaches deal with this. Where were they during the first goal? He never loses out when defending and saved Yobo's and Obinna's backside at least twice yesterday.

Taiwo DOES NOT make NEEDLESS mistakes. Anyone with any Ligue 1 knowledge knows that.

Only in Nigeria would the most classy defender be constantly attacked,

otukpo:
The poster definitley does not know the cousin well. No matter will set out to tarnish the image of her daughter. Most mothers wld do anything to cover their daugthers and paint them as good even tho bad.

The girl is just 16, and she is def moving in the wrong direction. Why talk of marriage now and by the way, who is sending her to guiness?

Depilot:
Some of us are obviously frustrated and hopeless; a very very bad and deadly combo. This combination seems to place us in the darkness of no return.

Hey, Obasanjo is not my cup of tea, but I must give him this one. Yes, he has been very quiet lately, he has done all of us wrong and he's still the bully of all time, but I think he got this one right.
He came out at the right time to say the right thing.

It is sad that [b]our stupidity as citizens [/b]has placed most of us into an absurd state of mind, to the point that basic thinking is now very challenging.
It is ok to hate the man, it is ok to criticize the man, it is even fine to stone the man, but we must not allow the past to take away from the future. Obasanjo has done the right thing. He was very prudent during this speech and I think he nailed it ([b]for a minute I thought Babangida [/b]was the one that made the speech).

Obasanjo has my kudos for the first time for making this courageous move at this time. Let us hope that this will rub off to other old thieves in our country.

michelin89:
4. They says she dates an older guy. But this guy went with his family to my cuz's mother for an official introduction. It's not like she is hiding it. The mother is aware of everything and supervises everything the girl does. But she has never really questioned her about her intentions in the relationship or else she'd know how serious minded and noble they are.

michelin89:
1. My cousin is 16, a very delicate age for a girl.

2. Her Church members (especially the women) have taken it upon themselves to look at everything she does as wrong and never done before. I have told her to stop confiding in those girls she sees in church because they are extremely bitter and useless. After pretending to help you, they'll go around gossiping about you.

3. They have been saying she is a wayward loose girl. But I can vouch she is a virgin and she intends to remain so until her wedding night. How can people be so jobless? It is so bad the poor girl can't even say hello to any guy. They'd assume she is sleeping with him.

4. They says she dates an older guy. But this guy went with his family to my cuz's mother for an official introduction. It's not like she is hiding it. The mother is aware of everything and supervises everything the girl does. But she has never really questioned her about her intentions in the relationship or else she'd know how serious minded and noble they are.

5. She has never done anything that girls of her age don't do. She is adorable, sensitive and sweet. She doesn't deserve all that they are putting her through.

The last stroke of when at a part she was asked by someone to collect a bottle of Guinness. The moment they saw her with the drink, they started saying she was a drunkard. You may say I am paranoid but I believe they are trying to ruin her reputation. Maybe they are jealous because she is pretty, but the situation is so bad that even my mother who is my mum's best friends believes she is loose.

If I didn't know her to be a chronic liar, because she did the same thing to me, I'd believe it was true because that's what everyone is saying. You know if nobody stands to contest a lie, the moment is spreads it is taken for granted that it is true.

AmakaOne:
Is there not a difference between scotch egg and egg roll?

OAM4J:
Anybody can get a cheap award in Nigeria.

Just get some silly sycophants to form an association, dash them few coins and they give you any award you want.

Fhemmmy:
I never knew that building shitters could get someone an award.