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EbolaParasite:
What kind of rhetorical question is this. If you are based abroad and come back to Nigeria and receive money, won't you convert it back to the currency of your home/base country?
I don't know anything about the woman but if she received Naira in Nigeria, do you expect her to take NAIRA back to the UK? Wouldn't she just change it at the BDC and take it along?

There are many VALID and LEGAL means to transfer monies to UK from Nigeria. Those legal means are always available!

If she then decides to Change the currency via Black Market means, the legal thing to do is DECLARE the amount at the airport. Not declaring anything higher than $10K is an offence in practically every country in the world!

EbolaParasite:
Are you aware that the current CBN policy makes it nearly impossible for one to do that. Even if the banks in Nigeria accept the money in a dom account, it will take her years to withdraw it when she gets to her destination due to the ridiculous daily and monthly withdrawal limits

Did she receive the rent in Nigeria in foreign currency?

brainbucks:
you been dey sambisa when CBN announce say we no fit make foreign currency deposits anymore??

According to her, the money is from RENT received from tenants and jobs done while in Nigeria. Was she paid in Dollars for rent or the work?

Was she in Sambisa when CBN announced that all transactions must be in Naira, and thus her tenants would have paid in Naira and she can then dutifully transfer them to pay her so called children's school fees anywhere in the world.

We owe this country a duty to read, understand her laws and not just be supporting criminal acts.

goldmond:
The same way I dont understand how Timipre Silva is now part of the change APC is preaching. If Timi Silva is change in Bayelsa; I wonder what we are changing to.

It is because of RULE OF LAW and DEMOCRACY!

The Rule of Law states that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty, thus APC cannot legally prevent Silva from buying the nomination form and thus vying for primaries.

Democracy is the rule by the wishes of the People. The people of APC in Bayelsa state chose Silva to represent them. There is nothing the party can do!

Once you choose to live by the rule of law and are governed by democracy, you can't want to then have autocratic parties. Every happily married person knows to live with the flaws of his/her spouse.

Duru1:
The Muhamadu Buhari's tribunals are setting Nigeria dangerously backward. APC has no prima facie to tell the PDP or even disagree on how the PDP conducts it primaries or challenge PDP's manifestos. The challenge of PDP primary conducts should come from a disgruntle PDP candidate or INEC but not APC or its candidate. It is unheard of that another political party takes another party to court because the opposing party did not like how it conducts its internal affaires or deposits it money in the bank. What is wrong with Nigeria?

You actually write from a position of ignorance. The Supreme Court has already ruled that the "qualification of a candidate from the primaries" is an election matter. So from the position of the law, how PDP selects its candidate is not only for PDP members/candidates but also for all parties involved in the elections.

It is simple, even in your Final year at the university, if it was discovered that you forged your school certificate, it won't make a difference that you are now bright or even if you are the brightest in the school, you will be sent away.

SenseiX:
Actually the Tribunal has dismissed the case. If the Taraba case holds then PDP has very strong grounds for appeal. I think the Supreme Court needs to be clear on whether primaries are grounds for declaring an opponent victory rather than fresh primaries and elections as specified by the electoral act. It amounts to outright robbery, Taraba is a strong PDP state and even GEJ floored Buhari here. This will only exacerbate the tensions between the mainly Christian and animist Jukun( the largest tribe in Taraba) who back the PDP and the large Hausa minority who lean towards the APC. There were already reports of tensions in Wukari yesterday.

Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State yesterday dismissed the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Terhemen Tarzoor against Governor Samuel Ortom of All Progressives Congress (APC).

Tarzoor had challenged the emergency of Ortom as governor and prayed that the governor was not qualified to contest the 2015 governorship election because the APC did not conduct the governorship primaries
http://www.leadership.ng/news/462233/tribunal-dismisses-pdps-petition-upholds-ortoms-election
Cc TonyeBarcanista the tribunal has ruled already. Double standards I guess .

The PDP in Benue and APC in Taraba both went to the Tribunal with the same claims, however APC was able to prove its case in the Taraba incident while the Tribunal held that the PDP did not prove their case in the Benue incident.

See extract from the same report you are alluding to

Justice Karatu ruled that Ortom was duly qualified to contest the April 2015 governorship election in accordance with section 138 (1a) and section 177 (c) of the 1999 constitution. She held that the petition did not provide evidence to convincingly uphold that the governor was not nominated by the APC.

According to Karatu, “the APC membership register was not provided by the petitioner as evidence and the discrepancy in the serial number as questioned by the petitioner is immaterial in the petition.”

“The tribunal however hold that the petition is therefore dismissed and the certificate of return of the first respondent is hereby restored,”she stated.

All cases are judged based on PROOF! You ahve to proof whatever you claim.

Duru1:
There was no conduct of primaries by APC in Imo State yet the Muhammadu Buhari's tribunal upheld the election of Okorocha. In fact, the report reaching us had indicated that Okorocha's son in-law was named not nominated as APC candidate Imo State. Nigeria is a joke and it seems worse everyday.

You COULD be very correct HOWEVER the crux of the matter is that, PDP did not go to the Tribunal to challenge HOW Okorocha became a governorship candidate rather they were challenging the fact that he won!

APC lawyers were smart in this case as the issue is not whether PDP won or not but that PDP had no candidate. Tell Ikedioha to get Madam Taraba's quality lawyers next time. The courts can't grant or decide on what you didn't bring up for adjucation.

ochejoseph:
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ABUJA – ‎A coalition of over 60 Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, in Nigeria, yesterday, decried what they termed “steady and continuous decline of the Nigerian economy” under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari.

‎Aside PLAC, other members of the Situation Room that met in Abuja yesterday included CLEEN Foundation, Action Aid Nigeria, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), Enough is Enough Nigeria, Wangonet, Partners for Electoral Reform, JDPC and Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth & Advancement (YIAGA), CWAE. Others are Development Dynamics,Human Rights Monitor, Election Monitor, Reclaim Naija, Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Centre LSD, CITAD, Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), CISLAC, WREP and Proactive Gender Initiative , among others.

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PLEASE is there anyone that has heard about these groups before today?

I want to set up my own group too, do send in nominations.

Firefire:
85% of APC members are with PDP since 1999.

The CHAGE slogan is FAKE!

100% of Pastors were sinners before being born again! Is the Gospel Fake??

vigasimple:
Even APC ASSOCIATION OF PROPAGANDIST CONFUSIONIST apologists knows and accept that Saraki trial is political because he became SP. If he just remain quite as a senator, APC will have left him alone. It was Tinubu who was behind the mud slinging of all his 'enemies' .

The question OBY should have asked. APC is that 'Why did Apc allow Saraki senatorial ticket and given the party structure in Kwara state' ? Or are they claiming not to know Saraki well documented history? APC is a bigger fraud than Saraki.

And APC are using both the media and the judiciary to 'persecute' Saraki. Saraki in return is using his office as SP and super majority to send messages to the executives and the judiciary.

OBY should therefore stop running one sided Twitter commentary. Saraki unlike Tinubu knows how to play political chess in Abuja. Tinubu only know how to play Ludo in Lagos.

People like you are a disgrace to sensible and educated folks.

Let me ask you, would it matter to you if an armed robber that raided your house and raped your daughter was caught while investigating another case of quarrel between friends? Would you say as he wasn't caught during the investigation of the robbery, then he should be let go?

Once you commit a crime, however the reason why that crime was dusted is immaterial. Do not be in that position: DO NOT COMMIT ANY CRIME! Simple!!!

obakore20:
"@bukolasaraki I speak for Citizens who like me just simply wish for a TRANSPARENT judicial DUE PROCESS on your case with CCT. #Institutions


You speak for your self alone. don't include other people to seem as if you are a voice, which we all know you are not. You are just seeking unnecessary attention. Shame on you Oby Ezekwesili

Bros, it is obvious you do not reason like her, which is why IF you had looked very well at her statement, she wasn't counting you among her people in the first instance. She was referring to people with a deep sense of integrity and what it means to separate "Person" from "Office".

So no need complaining. Be rest assured you did not count in her reckoning.

SeverusSnape:
See the below image...
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2102459_apcteam_png6dc9407cdcc2b68174c445361fc3e4c9
They were all PDP members.

Should we then say all Pastors are not genuine and should be removed since they were all sinners before?

porka:
[size=14pt]Governors don't vacate their seats till the case is determined by the Supreme Court.

The old electoral act was used by Salami to install Oshiomhole, Fayemi, Mimiko and Aregbesola and it was at the Appeal Court.

That law does not apply again now. It was amended for that reason. Election cases now terminate at the Supreme Court.

Plus, no election tribunal can replace a governor with another candidate again. The era of Salami's judicial impunity is long gone. They will go for a re-run. We operate on laws, update yourself. [/size]

Please when was the Constitution amended? The Constitution is the law that deals with how to ELECT or REPLACE elected officials.

The Electoral Act is how to CONDUCT Elections to elect people into electoral offices.

I am aware that the electoral act was amended, but please I'd appreciate knowledge of when the Constitution was amended.

kennes10:
there is no stay of execution in election petition. Stop displaying ur ignorance and being a fool on top of it.

You just confirmed how much of a lazy lawyer you actually are!

So if there is no stay of execution, on which basis did you then say the PDP guy will continue to be a Senator pending the determination of the suit by the Appeal Court?

You need to return back to school!

chukwudi44:
Except the APC chose not to appeal against the judgement(which i doubt) or the appeal court has already validated the Judgement,he would not be sworn in.That is the position of the law.

Sorry, you got it mixed up. The Appeal Court is not required by law to validate any judgement of a lower court or tribunal. The Appeal Court only makes judgement WHENEVER any party to a judgement files an appeal to it. The judgement of an Appellate Court can either be to AFFIRM the ruling of the lower court or DISCHARGE the ruling of the lower court.

Now the subsisting judgement is that the PDP guy vacates, that is the only judgement to be enforced EXCEPT if the Appeal Court decides that it will issue a Stay of Execution but in the last quarter of 2015, the SC had directed that such should not be issued on electoral matters again as there is nothing injurious to be suffered during the appeal process.

kennes10:
i'm a lawyer and d senator wil remain on seat until the court of appeal which is d final court rules on the matter

What this post says is clear: You are NOT a bright lawyer!

Note, every single case lost at every single court, was lost by a lawyer. So you being a lawyer does not mean anything, and on this, it just shows your ignorance.

The only way he can remain a Senator is IF the Appeal Court grants a stay of execution, otherwise he will be removed. I will try and fish for the ruling from the SC that has however advised that no such stay should be granted anymore in election matters.

MCMLXXVI:
You can be from Aguata Local Government or Nri Kingdom. That will still not change the fact that your are a high-functional nincompoop.
Do you even know how official protocols work or are you just another drooling zombie who relies on SaharaReporters for her daily education?
Was it her fault your dimwit of a President was more interested in packing a motley crew of consumate m0rrons like Amaechi and co at the expense of an ACTUAL CABINET OF SEASONED TECHNOCRATS?
You brain-dead worshippers are so lost in your cacophony of sttupidity you fail to realise that there exist posts such as PA, Chief of Protocol, and Foreign Affairs Minister. Oh, I forgot - your septugenarian dunce of a president had already written ministers off as "noisemakers" all to the most iddiotic applause from his slow-witted supporters.

Maybe tomorrow, his propagandist minions and hirelings would come again to foolishly regale us with tales on how LEAN his delegation to the USA was. "Oh, just 22 delegates! Revolutionary hero!"
Focusing on peripheral non-issues while your economy crumbles.

It is people like you that give education a very bad name!

The number of delegates to the UN has nothing to do with missing a function. The President or any of the 22 members of that delegation or even a member of the Nigerian High Commission Office to the UN could have attended the meeting on behalf of Nigeria.

The issue is simple: That meeting was clearly NOT raised as of importance and flagged to the Nigerian delegation and thus NOT included in the schedule of functions to be attended by the delegation.

Now the After Action Review would be a)What went wrong; b) Why was the meeting not flagged for importance c) Is there to be a change in the Meeting selection criteria d) Who is to blame?

The President will ALWAYS depend on the inputs and schedule drawn up by our Representatives to the UN, that is their job and that is why they receive salaries.

Note, the Representative to the UN actually holds a Diplomatic status in US and therefore she is our Ambassador to the UN.

rabbaba:
Muslims are people of low mentality. How many wife? And ur wedding him bokoharams

People like you give Christianity a bad name. I suggest you read the Bible very well and pay attention to the ages that the women were being married off.

While at it, pay particular attention to how many Prophets had more than one wife.

Nothing says your way is the only way, let other people practice their beliefs and cultures, practice yours!

Of Ethiopian Airlines, Cut Off Marks and Patriotism
08 Sep 2015

Guest Columnist: Ben Murray Bruce

In my last back page article for THISDAY, entitled ‘If you Build it They Will Come’, I had evangelised for Nigeria to develop some of the potential foreign exchange earners we are currently not tapping and for which we have a very good comparative advantage. I had singled out the aviation industry and tourism. I wrote in that piece about how certain nations had shifted their economy away from resources to services, writing that “by opening up her borders to the world, the UAE’s economy has more than doubled and though she is an oil rich nation, over 30 per cent of her Gross Domestic Product (GDP) comes from her aviation industry. Between 10-12 per cent comes from the tourists industry. This is a total of over $180 billion per annum!

Since I wrote that article, there has been a positive development that vindicates what I had written. Only yesterday (August 24th, 2015), Ethiopian Airlines announced a revenue of $2.27 billion. To put this in perspective, this is more than the total budget of Nigeria’s richest state of Lagos. This amount also dwarfs the total projected income from oil that Ghana expects to earn in fiscal year 2015 ($1.5 billion).
The announcement by Ethiopian Airlines corroborates the statement I made in that last article to the effect that “to put things into even more perspective, oil is not a renewable resource. It has a shelf life. It will finish one day or lose value sooner than that. But tourism is a renewable resource. It will always exists. As an economic mainstay, it is safer than oil!” Indeed, tourism and its allied industries like aviation, are indeed safer than oil as an economic mainstay.

The question however is what is Nigeria doing right at this pivotal moment in our history to generate such headlines as that generated by Ethiopian Airlines for Ethiopia? Everywhere Ethiopian Airlines flies to (including to Enugu and Abuja), she is positively projecting the image of Ethiopia. As I have previously written before, no one buys your product until and unless they buy your culture and there is no better way to spread your culture than with a national carrier. I dare say that Ethiopian Airlines does more for Ethiopia’s diplomatic ambitions than any or perhaps even all of her embassies combined. The question is, why can’t Nigeria build and sustain her national carrier? The answer, to my mind, is the ‘Nigerian Factor’!

Yes, the Nigerian factor. Do some research on Ethiopian Airlines and you will find that it is professionally managed with its board chosen without regard to ethnicity and religion. It is run in a businesslike fashion. Ownership is separated from management and the result has been growth that has resulted in Ethiopian Airline becoming the most successful airline in Africa, making 300 per cent more profit than South African Airways and more money than all the other African airlines combined! But Ethiopian Airlines did not write this playbook for airline efficiency. No! They learnt it from Dubai.

Emirates do not even employ the best the United Arab Emirates has to offer. No. They employ the best the world has to offer. Fly on any Emirate Airlines flight and you will be impressed by the quality of their air host and hostesses. They always boast that on each flight, they have nationals from multiple nations.

Even the Chief Executive Officer of Emirates Airlines, Sir Timothy Clark, is not from the UAE. He is British! That is how far the UAE has placed professionalism over ethnicity and the result is that professionals have built their airline and their aviation industry from a tiny airline that started off in 1985 with two airlines leased from Pakistan International Airlines to become perhaps the most successful aviation industry in the world with over 500 planes and operating over 3,300 flights a week from the Dubai International Airport. Even though it is foreign professionals that built their aviation industry, who is the money made from the industry coming to? It comes back to the people of the UAE.

What killed Nigeria Airways and almost every other national corporation that should have been a national asset? We brought in ethnicity and religion into these organisations and staffed them on the basis of federal character rather than on the basis of national interest and as a result, we went from a fleet of 30 aircraft in 1982 to bankruptcy and a debt of over $60 million by 2000! In rebuilding Nigeria and positioning her for life without oil, which is a matter of when, not if, Nigeria must slay the monster of ethnicity and promote merit as the only yardstick for the management of her economy.

Recently I asked a question on Twitter. I tweeted ‘How can youths be loyal to a country where their cut off mark in JAMB and Common Entrance depends on their state not their intelligence’? I also tweeted another question thus ‘How do you explain to your child that his cut off mark for Common Entrance Exam is 65 while that of the neighbour’s child is 7’? That by the way is a true story!

If you go to the Wikipedia page for Nigeria Airways, it shamefully says that “corruption and mismanagement” killed Nigeria Airways. Why won’t corruption thrive in an environment where upward mobility depends on your state of origin rather than your state of intelligence? Why won’t mismanagement thrive in a nation where you are from rather than take preeminence over what you know?

Recently, I was reading about a Nigerian who was running a major government agency in America and doing such a good job and my sadness was that I know for a fact that if this fellow had been in Nigeria, he was very unlikely to rise very far because he is from an area that is considered educationally advanced and would have to struggle to get the few positions zoned to his geo-political area. This is the real reason I condemned those accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of not balancing the appointments he has made so far, in that they complain that an overwhelming majority of his appointees are from the North. I condemned that argument on Twitter and a few people called me a betrayer, saying that as a Southerner, I should not have such a mindset.

My traducers fail to realise that they are making the wrong arguments. Where those appointees are from should not be the argument. The argument should be whether or not they are the best Nigeria has to offer. If they are the best we have to offer in terms of merit, then it does not matter to me if President Buhari appoints all his appointees from one village. Nigeria must make progress “though tribe and tongue may differ” and the only way we can do that is by saying bye to ethnicity and hello to merit. Until we do that, our development goals will remain a pipe dream.

My name is Ben Murray Bruce and I just want to make common sense.

• Mr. Murray Bruce is the senator representing Bayelsa East in the Senate and the Chairman of the Silverbird Entertainment Group

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/of-ethiopian-airlines-cut-off-marks-and-patriotism/219618/

5starmilitant:
https://www.nairaland.com/2084392/buhari-earns-23million-naira-per
You a very big foooooooooool, read and kill ursef....... You evil slave

With this I can conclude that you are a person taking away by headlines and not able to read details and comprehend ACTUAL information.

One, that was a proposal from a House of rep member in 2010. Nothing says that motion was passed by the HOR, or that the Senate also passed the same motion for it to be able to take effect.

Two, the salary and emoluments of ex-Presidents are fixed by the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission (RMFAC) and not the National Assembly.

I will advice that you improve yourself, read widely, comprehend deeply and employ logical reasoning to ensure you decipher the connections between things.

Berrylite:
For the blind Nigerians, he declaring his assets has exonorated him of any financial misappropriation. Y didn't he declare his assets before being elected? So now that he has declared his assets, he is saint. What follows asset declaration, will you monitor his income and expenditure? Who will probe his account after he leaves that office? Will he declare his assets again after he finishes tenure? Nigeria lacks the mechanism to monitor financial ecceses of past leaders. To all educated illiterates and APC attack dogs, get enough fact before you start barking. The worst part is your boss whom u fight, and kill for, will throw you into prison if you disobey the laws of this country.

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Seems you are part of the "educated illiterate" bunch as well based on this your contribution. Can you point us to the part of the constitution that stated someone should declare his assets BEFORE being elected.

To the other wailings, it seems you have not imbibed that fact that things are changing in Nigeria, the PMB government is trying to correct those anomalies that you have come to take as normal. Ensure people declare assets when they assume office as well as when they leave office. Should he now leave office and not declare, the incoming government has a duty to probe and possibly jail him as required by law.

And for your education, I am happy to be jailed should I break the law! It is the expectation that the law will take its course always that makes a sane and progressive society.

5starmilitant:
I always tell pipo that good girls are bad girls that have not been caught.
Take it or leave it, Buhari is richer than what he declared.......or maybe he's also suffering from numerical diarrhea.....
ex presidents of Nigeria are paid N23 million monthly, plus added allowances..........later the lying liars came and deceived their slaves that the brainless messiah was only collecting 10% of his own salary that was why he couldn't afford the ticket...........


#mtchewwwwwww, yeye dey really dey smell......

Hmmmm, na wa o! So you couldn't even grasp the fact that at 23Million monthly, that would imply that an ex-President is paid higher than the current President!

Your mumu no get grade!

This is what you get when you have law makers that know chilch. They confuse immunity from prosecution with investigation.

A governor can be investigated at any time. Plus the agents of the Federal Government of Nigeria can search any place in the nation, outside of foreign embassies, so long as they have the requisite Search Warrant.

Guyman02:
little brain! The office of the governor is constitutionally covered by immunity from prosecution.

So in your big brain they prosecute government houses / lodges / guest houses!?

That was how una talk sey Amaechi was transferring money to an address in Trans Amadi.

coolitempa:
As someone who strongly backed change.......I must say I am feeling very short-changed at the moment..... .....How can you claim to want to be President of Nigeria and then claim you are only able to work with people from your section of the country.....All his campaign promises are being backtracked on and no new policies have been tendered or are being suggested.....All we have heard is to fight corruption even that one.....we never see nada.....

Did you back CHANGE so that your person (Southerner) could be appointed? If so, why didn't you back GEJ since he was a Southerner?

Don't let your focus on what you want changed be distorted by tribal or parochial sentiments. If you voted because you wanted to develop, then do not be bothered about who is in Buhari's kitchen cabinet so long as they deliver what you wanted.

BTW, how many have stopped buying Dangote cement in Bayelsa, did the appointment of Orubebe as NDAM change the state of the East-West road? Did the appointment of Bart Nnaji as Power Minister flood Aba with electricity?

My people, focus on what is important: DEVELOPMENT FOR YOU AND YOUR COUNTRY!

huangcheng:
Then shut the fvck up and stop making blanket statements like "looting the country and aiding corruption for 3 long years?" The rest of your rants are irrelevant.

Thank you.

I guess you'd also STFU and stop saying same about Tinubu, Atiku, IBB and Abacha since there are no cases of corruption against any of these people. Ah hah ha!

Anyone know if there is an issue with using Glo BIS (BBCMONTH) on the BlackBerry Passport? I've tried to use it on 2 passports now and it just won't work. Once I put the SIM back into a Z30, all BlackBerry services return back.

Anyone know anything, is Glo blocking its use on the Passport?

ikombe:
section 140 states that , A person elected to the office of president shall not begin to perform the functions of that office until he has declared his assets and liabilities as prescribed in this constitution. Which president buhari hasnt done yet

Read to get educated! PMB has declared his assets to the requisite authorities, it is only the request for it to be made Public that you can talk about.

PMB has satisfied the constitutional requirement.

nunzk:
U r either unemployed or a ciivl servant. if not u would know how serious the effect of this delay is.

Please what effect has this delay caused employed folks?

Kindly share with us the Ministry that has stopped working in Nigeria, or the parastatal or MDG that is not functioning because we do not have Ministers. Is NNPC, EFCC, NDLEA, NCS, NIS or other agencies not working? Or has the telecoms, Oil & Gas or manufacturing companies stopped working because there are no Ministers?

agitator:
Good post , my problem is with the south south and south east youths, who can not smell the coffee.

Fashola gave them a hint of what would happen should oil eventually dry up or become less valuable like coal.

People were deported from Lagos only reason why those from South South weren't deported is because of the backlash the SW people who are the majority workers in the Oil and Gas sector would get from the indigenes of the oil producing areas

It is either the SS.SE people rise and fight or remain cowards afraid to die and eventually suffer in future.

Olodo! So the destitutes deported to Akwa Ibom were not South South people abi?

wiseoneking:
Lazy fool, how dare you tell Nwabueze to shut up his mouth, in your whole state do you have one as noble as him. He is old to be you grand father. He is the foremost Nigerian CONSTITIONAL LAWYER and a professor at that. You have shown your ignorance. You just lick all the butts and shits of buhari and refused to be civil. You even call your self a genius without recognising your likes. Are Genius fowl? Why others are Genius Eagle.

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How many Constitutional Cases did he win at the Supreme Court? Because one dey teach for uni doesn't make him infallible, for this one, the Prof goofed!