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Politics / Re: You Need 25% In Abuja + Other Requirements To Be President. Mike Ozekhome by AyakaDunukofia: 1:12am On Mar 29, 2023 |
Very good legal research. It remains to be seen how an EXPRESSLY worded sub-section of a section would impliedly, and instantly be repealed by the following sub-section, in the absence of amending it procedurally. . If the result assigned to Tinubu does not fit into the full implementation of S.134 (2) (b) by the courts, then the national assembly should begin the process of expunging it. Given that It would amount to a global mockery of a nation's legal system, particularly her constitution 5 Likes |
Politics / Re: Peter Obi Applauds LP for Reviewing Imo Governorship Nomination Form by AyakaDunukofia: 12:08am On Mar 29, 2023 |
ggood: NOT WITHOUT A PROPER AND ROBUST MECHANISM TO CHECKMATE RIGGING. IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO JUST TYPE. |
Politics / Re: How Many States Did Obi Win? by AyakaDunukofia: 6:32pm On Mar 28, 2023 |
famology: It remains to be seen how an EXPRESSLY worded sub-section of a section would impliedly be repealed by the following sub-section, in the absence of amending it procedurally. A Nigerian senior lawyer foresaw the quagmire and called on the electoral body for clarification in order to avoid an absurd and unjust outcome. There may not be anything to talk more on this as the ambiguity has created the opportunity for the highest bidder. Saner climes avoid constutional crises. If the result assigned to Tinubu does not fit into the full implementation of S.134 (2) (b) by the courts, then the national assembly should begin the process of expunging it. Given that It would amount to a global mockery of a nation's legal system, particularly her constitution. |
Politics / Re: How Many States Did Obi Win? by AyakaDunukofia: 10:09am On Mar 28, 2023 |
famology: My friend, FCT does not have all the paraphernalia of a state, hence my use of the phrase special state. And that was the essence of the infusion S.134 (2)(b) "A candidate for an election to the office of the President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being more than two candidates for the election – he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja". In context. A plantation owner mandates his workers to fetch a basket of minimum of 24 green mangos and which must contain an additional 1 yellow ripe mango. That was the requirement to be made a foreman. At the end of the shift, James who claimed to have plucked 30 green mangoes but without the additional yellow ripe mango, insisted he be declared the foreman given that his numbers have superseded the need for the required additional ripe mango. Remember the requirement: GREEN AND YELLOW MANGOS. |
Politics / Re: How Many States Did Obi Win? by AyakaDunukofia: 12:05am On Mar 28, 2023 |
In context. A plantation owner mandates his workers to fetch a basket of minimum of 24 green mangos and which must contain an additional 1 yellow ripe mango. That was the requirement to be made a foreman. At the end of the shift, James who claimed to have plucked 30 green mangoes but without the additional yellow ripe mango, insisted he be declared the foreman given that his numbers have superseded the need for the required additional ripe mango. Remember the requirement: GREEN AND YELLOW MANGOS. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: How Many States Did Obi Win? by AyakaDunukofia: 11:11pm On Mar 27, 2023 |
famology: Victory at the FCT serves as a confirmatory testimony to the legitimacy of a any presidential contestant who claims to have gotten 25% of 24 states. The objective of the drafters of the constitution is that such a diverse victory SHOULD reflect the mini Nigeria which the FCT represents. And rightly so. And that is why they EXPRESSLY mentioned "AND" FCT. In conclusion, yes, it is a state but a SPECIAL STATE that must be won by any presidential contestant that must be declared a winner. It must not be substituted with another state in that context. The constitution made it special. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: LAGOS -Non Igbos And IGBOS Reject CENSUS by AyakaDunukofia: 5:52pm On Mar 27, 2023 |
Ireportlive: But they collected just a small number of PVCs and the result was a seismic shift in Lagos presidential election. What did you do next? You resorted to barbarism. |
Politics / Re: The Supreme Court Has Resolved The Nigeria President & 25% Fct, Abuja Quandary S by AyakaDunukofia: 9:25pm On Mar 26, 2023 |
Sunmolar:It must be understood that a constitutional statue is superior to a case law. And must be constructed literally so as to achieve the objective(s) of the drafters. It is common sense that the purpose of the drafters of the constitution vis-à-vis the 25% requirement of the FCT was to ensure that a president elect who is deemed to have gotten the 25% of 24 states reaffirms the legitimacy of his victory in the multi ethnic FCT- a litmus test. I believe that was the reason the drafters made the express statement “AND” FCT. It was about votes. “Just, reasonable and sensible” should be weighed against the backdrop of the context, considering the facts of the respective cases. |
Politics / Re: Igboland And Its Hidden Tributaries To The Atlantic by AyakaDunukofia: 1:23am On Mar 26, 2023 |
Denoh68: No direct access. Contrary to what many Igbo think. The PH wharf was built on Bonny River 50 miles to the sea. Ikwerre had to traverse the Kalabari to get to the sea 9 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: Igboland And Its Hidden Tributaries To The Atlantic by AyakaDunukofia: 12:58am On Mar 26, 2023 |
The knowledge has been in public domain that Abia state's tributary at Obuaku is nearer to the Atlantic Ocean than the Port Harcourt's. King Jaja actually used the maritime pathway to haul palm oil down the beachhead. Having stated that, the ports at Port Harcourt and Akwai Ibom, If allowed to operate at maximum capacity, would solve Igbo merchants' problems. The outcome would be that: a) the proximity of these ports to the Igbo hinterland is very negligible. b) the long distance from the east to Lagos which precipitated the need to reside in Lagos would not be there anymore. Most Igbo merchants would enjoy doing their businesses in the comfort of their palatial mansions in the east currently left for the cockroaches. c) The city of Aba would by default become one of the biggest container terminals in Nigeria given her proximity to Port Harcourt. A distance that is about that of Tin Can Island to Oshodi. d) Most Igbo businesses would wind down to maintaining subsidiaries in Lagos. e) Land patronage by the Igbo in Lagos would decline. f) the need to buy land from these contiguous port cities would not increase from what it currently is. g) Upsurge in real estate business in Igboland h) the removal of railtracks from the "Exclusive list" to the "Concurrent" would put SE states under pressure to link the states with rail lines. i) More air traffic at the well-built Anambra airport. And as well as Imo and Enugu etc. 20 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: Profile Of Alex Otti, Abia Governor-Elect by AyakaDunukofia: 10:26pm On Mar 22, 2023 |
Donvictor2015: And what does that mean? Respect where he said he come from? You guys have REFUSED to learn your lessons in the face of the unnending accusations against the Igbo. Spits! |
Politics / Re: How Igbos DESTROYED Our Darling Lagos By Princess Adaeze Emejuru by AyakaDunukofia: 10:20am On Mar 21, 2023 |
melonsgroup: What about the lands on which these church branches were built? There are so many of them in Igboland! Were they not bought from the Igbo land owners? Then, where is this accusation that Igbos don't sell lands to non indigenes coming from? There are many things I don't understand in this whole bullshit! |
Politics / Re: Alaba International Market by AyakaDunukofia: 4:10pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
IDENNAA:Jesus!! |
Politics / Re: Alaba International Market by AyakaDunukofia: 4:02pm On Mar 20, 2023 |
gabbytabby: Having interacted with you over the years on property section with my previous moniker, I couldn't believe what am reading from you. Are you this low? Shouldn't you be promoting at home those norms that helped you survive overseas? Strengthen those values which made Nigerians enjoy the right of citizenship; right of residency, right of employment, right of property ownership and the right of political aspiration overseas. We have Kemi Badenoch, Chuka Umunna etc. all soaring in the UK's political circles. Please, eschew ethnic profiling. Promote love and peaceful coexistence. |
Politics / Re: Soludo Spends One Year In Office by AyakaDunukofia: 8:28pm On Mar 17, 2023 |
He promised years ago that if given the chance to be governor, he would build a Lekki-like city on the Omambala River plains. He'd already promised to link the whole local governments in the state with rail tracks and other eye popping promises. He must start them within the remaining three years. "The Dubai and Taiwan of Africa" must be seen to have been started. So, Ndi Anambra must not allow him to escape the promises. As a "big brain" in economics, he's expected to show the superiority over Mbadinuju, Obi, Nigige and Obiano. |
Politics / Re: Soludo Spends One Year In Office by AyakaDunukofia: 8:27pm On Mar 17, 2023 |
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Politics / Umaru Altine, The First Elected Mayor Of Enugu by AyakaDunukofia: 7:58pm On Mar 17, 2023 |
Premium Times Opinion Umaru Altine, a cattle dealer, had left the Sokoto province to sojourn in Enugu. There he married an Igbo Lady, Esther, and was president of the Enugu branch of the youth wing of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC). He was a completely detribalised Nigerian. Benjamin Cardozo, an American jurist and philosopher, has said, “history, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.” The story of Nigeria is a deep, intriguing and enchanting metaphor. Its glorious past sharply contradicts its current political conundrum. A Fulani man from Sifawa in the Sokoto Caliphate, Mallam Umaru Altine, was elected as the first mayor of the city of Enugu, the heart land and heart beat of the Igbo nation, in 1952. He was in office till 1958. Enugu is the capital of the old Eastern Region of Nigeria. Umaru Altine was a product of Dr. Azikiwe’s political nationalistic and cosmopolitan outlook. He was a pan-Nigerian. His faith in one Nigeria was unshakable and unquestionable. He was Altine’s guide, pathfinder and mentor. As a descendant of Uthman Dan Fodio, Altine could have equally emerged as Sultan of Sokoto, one day, but he preferred the life of trading, travel and adventure. He had earlier joined the Army and worked briefly with the Railways. He had also played politics in the Tambuwal District of the Sokoto Province, before his eventual sojourn in the coal city of Enugu. He was handsome, always dressed impeccably and had a magnetic aura. In Enugu, he wore the popular babariga, with a turban, and on some occasions he wore suits, as the functions of office, demanded. In Enugu, he went to church, when his duties as mayor demanded this, and he also went to do the kick off at stadia as mayor, whenever invited. Without losing his identity, he smoked, loved the native Igbo Nsala Soup with fresh fish, and according to his wife, Esther, he had a high sense of personal hygiene and good command of English, Fulfude, Hausa and Igbo languages. Umaru Altine’s feats would have been unattainable, but for the encouragement and supports of the NCNC leader, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who was a consummate politician, and a cosmopolitan and urbane pan-Nigerian. Azikiwe wanted to use Altine’s story, or his entry into Enugu politics, to teach a lesson and tell the story of a Nigeria that could only grow, and prominently too, without ethnic, religious or tribal divides. Azikiwe’s life had equally been chequered. He was born on November 16, 1904 in Zungeru, in present day Niger State, to Obed-Chukwuemeka Azikiwe and Rachel Chinwe Ogbenyeanu. Obed was, at the time, a clerk in the British colonial government. Zik started his elementary school education in Zungeru, and ended up in Onitsha where his father had sent him, in order to learn, understand and speak his indigenous Igbo language. He later attended Hope Waddell Training College, Calabar and ended up at the Methodist Boy’s High School in Lagos, for his Secondary education. In Lagos, he courted the friendship of children of prominent Yoruba aristocrats like George Shyngle, son of Egerton Shyngle; Francis Cole and Ade Williams (a son of the then Akarigbo of Remo). These connections were, thereafter, of immense benefits to his political career. Azikiwe travelled to America for his University education and obtained various degrees from Howard University in Washington D.C, the University of Pennsylvania and Colombia University, respectively, before returning to Nigeria in 1934. He became an active member of the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM), the foremost nationalist organisation in the country then, and supported Adeniran Akisanya, as the NYM candidate, for a vacant seat in the Legislative Council in 1941, which had been vacated by Sir Kofo Abayomi, who resigned from his position to pursue further studies in Ophthalmology in the United Kingdom. The leadership of the NYM had supported Ernest Ikoli, an Ijaw man, to succeed their former president, Kofoworola Abayomi. Azikiwe, disappointed by this choice, resigned his membership of the NYM and accussed the leadership of disdain for the Ijebu members. In the Western Region, Umaru Altine had a soul mate in Emmanuel Ebubedike, an Igbo man from Ozubulu town, in present day Anambra State. He was the honourable member representing Ajeronmi/Ifelodun/Badagry Constituency in the Western Region House of Assembly. Interestingly, Obafemi Awolowo, Samuel Ladoke Akintola and a host of other youths supported Ernest Ikoli, against the choice of Adeniran Akisanya by Dr. Azikiwe. Akisanya, bemoaning his subsequent loss, described Awolowo and Akintola as “misguided youths.” He later became the Odemo of Isara. Zik became a co-founder of the NCNC in 1944 and its secretary general in 1946, with Dr. Herbert Macauley as the president. Dr. Azikiwe took an active part in Lagos politics and his newspaper, The West African Pilot, was very prominent during that period. The militants in the Zikist Youth Movement, as led by Osita Agwuina, were Raji Abdala, Kolawole Balogun, M.C.K Ajuluchukwu and Abiodun Aloba, whose pen name was Ebenezer Williams. In the politics of Lagos and its environs then, the Igbos and Zik’s acolytes held sway. Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu (Penkelemesi), Chief Theophilus O.S Benson, Chief Adeniran Ogunsanya, Chief Olu Akinfosile, and Chief Richard Akinjide, were distinguished and notable Yoruba politicians in their life-times, and were equally close confidants of Dr. Azikwe. T.O.S Benson (who later became Nigeria’s first minister of Information) had earlier won the Yaba Federal seat for the NCNC and in 1964, he ran again as an independent candidate, to defeat his former constituency secretary, Maduagwu Moronu, an Oba man of the Igbo nationality, as a candidate for the Yaba Federal seat. Zik won a seat to the Western Regional House of Assembly, representing Lagos, and would have been the first premier of the Western Region in 1952, as he was already coasting home to victory, if the Action Group had not boosted its memberships with the support of the Ibadan People’s Party, the Ondo Improvement League, the Otu Edo People’s Party and other splinter groups, to secure a majority in the Western Region House of Assembly, following the advent of the Macpherson Constitution of 1951. The Ibadan political maverick, Adegoke Adelabu, Dr. Olorunimbe and T.O.S Benson, were his ardent supporters. As a result of this loss, Zik returned to the Eastern Region, and by displacing the Ibibio man, Professor Eyo Ita, who was majority leader of the Eastern Region House of Assembly and leader of government business, he succeded Ita. With the election of 1954, Zik became premier of the Eastern Region. Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe became the governor general of Nigeria on October 1, 1960, with Abubakar Tafawa Balewa being the prime minister, and he was the first Nigerian appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and the first president of Nigeria in 1963, when the country became a federal republic. In Enugu, a Northerner, Babasule was equally prominent in politics about this time and was president of the Stranger Elements Movement in Enugu. He synergised and supported Altine’s cause. In 1956, a group in the NCNC had also presented D.T Inyang as a candidate to run against Altine, in the election to the Municipal Council. Inyang was easily trounced by Altine to continue in office as mayor of Enugu Municipal Council. Interestingly, he won re-election as an independent candidate. He was also, at that time, still very close to the Sultan Sadiq Abubakar of Sokoto, who went on to reign for 50 years (1938 to 1988). Umaru Altine had grown up in the Sultan’s Palace. On November 10, 1956, Umaru Altine was elected as president of the NCNC branch in Enugu without any opposition. He was in office, comfortably and confidently, until 1958. In the Western Region, Umaru Altine had a soul mate in Emmanuel Ebubedike, an Igbo man from Ozubulu town, in present day Anambra State. He was the honourable member representing Ajeronmi/Ifelodun/Badagry Constituency in the Western Region House of Assembly. In May 1962, he was the member, who on the day of the crises in the House of Assembly, prominently pitted his support for the continuation in office of Samuel Lodoke Akintola as premier of the Western Region. The crises that erupted on the floor of the parliament eventually led to the dissolution of the parliament and government of the Western Region, followed by the setting up of the Majekodunmi Emergency Administration between May 29 and December 31, 1962 by the federal government and the Tafawa Balewa administration. Dr. Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi, aside from being a member of the Senate of the National Assembly, was also Tafewa Balewa’s friend, confidant and private medical doctor. Ibadan, as a result of its rising growth, economic development, and its accommodating nature, became a colony of large migrant populations. The Igbos settled in Mokola, Ekotedo and Inalende in the early 1920s, whilst Sabon-gari was planned in 1917 and completed in 1920. The overcrowding of Sabon-gari, originally meant for the Hausas, had led to the development of Mokola, to settle Nupe and Igbira migrants from northern Nigeria. The late Waziri Nupe, Alhaji Bello Muhammed Bagudu, grew up and settled in Mokola, Ibadan, until in later life when he relocated to Bida. He was a member of Ibadan Municipal Council in the 1950s. His son, Senator Isa Mohammed, who also grew up in Ibadan, attended Igbo Elerin Grammar School, founded by the late Ibadan monarch, Oba Odugade Odulana. He was a senator representing the Niger Central Constituency of Niger State in the National Assembly, between 1999 and 2007. As an interesting corollary, a non-Ibadan native, J.M. Johnson (1912-1987), born in Lagos of Lafiaji/Brazilian extraction, returned to civil life in Ibadan after the Second World War and became a bank clerk and later a business man. He eventually joined politics, through which he got elected into the Ibadan District Council and later became the first and only non-indigene to serve as chairman of the council. From his political life in Ibadan, Johnson became a federal minister in 1956, and served in Internal Affairs, Labour, Social Welfare and Sports ministries. He also acted twice as prime minister in the NCNC and NPC coalition government. He was instrumental to the first World Boxing Title fight in Africa, which took place in Ibadan, Western Nigeria, between Dick Tiger and Gene Fullmer at the Liberty Stadium in 1963. In the same year (1963), he retired from politics by declining to contest in the general elections. Nigeria is a very complex country. Our problems did not start yesterday but about 1894. Lord Lugard came here as Major Lugard and he was not originally employed by the British government, but by charter companies. He was first with the East Indian Company, then with the Royal East Company, and thereafter the Royal Niger Company. It was from the latter Company that he transferred his services to the British government. According to Agu, “our history before that time did not reflect its towering achievements in terms of Nigerian unity. I was going to name a public institution after him, but time did not allow for that…” But Gab was glad to note that, “a street was named after the late mayor somewhere in the coal camp in the city of Enugu during the First Republic.” The interest of the Europeans in Africa and indeed in the enclaves later known as Nigeria was purely economic. Even till date. Nigeria was created out of territiroes that were British spheres of interest, for business. In 1898, Lord Lugard formed the West African Frontier force, initially with 2000 soldiers. He then became an imperialist. When Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force, about 90 per cent of his recruits were from the Middle Belt in Northern Nigeria. His dispatches to London between 1898 to 1914 were quite interesting. A number of these dispatches led to the amalgamation of 1914. The Order-in-Council was drawn up in November 1913, and this was signed and came into force in January 1914. In those dispatches, Lugard said a number of things, which are the root causes of significant problems in Nigeria, yesterday and today. Mary Shaw, a journalist, was Lugard mistress, and she actually suggested to him, in the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates, the name, Nigeria. The British needed railways, from the Coast to the North of the country, in the interest of British business. The amalgamation of the Southern and the Northern protectorates became of crucial importance to this business interest. Benin was conquered in 1896. This made the creation of the Southern protectorate possible on January 1, 1900. Sokoto was not conquered, until 1903. After the conquest, the British were then in a position to create the Northern Protectorate. Unfortunately, what the British amalgamated in 1914 was the administration of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, and not the people. Obafemi Awolowo once called Nigeria “a mere geographical expression”, while Sir Ahmadu Bello called the country, “a mistake of 1914.” In the furtherance of British economic interest, the colonial administration started railway services from Iddo, Lagos in 1896 and the line got to Ibadan in March 1901, when the Dugbe Train Station was opened. And from there, the rail line went North, exiting at Nguru, in what was known as the Lagos to Nguru line. As a result of the discovery of coal in Enugu in 1906, by an engineer, Mines Albert Kitson, the British developed a city port, known as Port Hacourt in 1906, and developed a rail line from there to Enugu, for the evacuation of coal from the Enugu mines, back to the port, for onward shippment to the United Kingdom, in 1913. As at 1956, there were about 8000 miners in Enugu. Then coal was like crude oil, as an essential economic commodity. There are hardly any miners in the coal city presently. The Port Harcourt rail line traversed Enugu and ended or exited at Kaura Namoda in Maiduguri. Port Harcourt was actually named after Lord Lewis Vernon Harcourt, former Secretary of State for the colonies (1910 to 1915). Both Lagos-Nguru and Porthacourt-Kaura Namoda rail lines have a total span of 3506 kilometres of narrow rail track. In fond memory of the first ever mayor of Enugu, Umaru Altine, Agu Gab, in his capacity as chairman of Enugu North Local Government, invited the Umaru Altine family to Enugu in 2004, to celebrate the achievements of their late father. According to Agu, “our history before that time did not reflect its towering achievements in terms of Nigerian unity. I was going to name a public institution after him, but time did not allow for that…” But Gab was glad to note that, “a street was named after the late mayor somewhere in the coal camp in the city of Enugu during the First Republic.” Alhaji Umaru Altine, certainly deserves more. Despite the history of its birth in 1914, its hiccups and challenges and leadership deficits, coupled with its inability or refusal to restructure, despite strident and trenchant calls, Nigeria has certainly come to stay. And in the fondest memory of pan Nigerians like Mallam Umaru Altine, there may be need to re-echo with relish and undisguised affection, and deep nolstagia, Nigeria’s old National anthem: https://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2020/10/29/mallam-umaru-altine-first-mayor-of-enugu-municipal-council-1952-1958-by-femi-kehinde/ 2 Likes 1 Share
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Family / Re: “My Husband Is Gay, I Still Beg Him For Sex – Woman by AyakaDunukofia: 1:41pm On Mar 16, 2023 |
Princessdainty: If you can't show any medical journal to support the position, then ascribe the hypothesis to your person. |
Politics / Re: IPOB Emerges 10th Deadliest Terror Group In The World - IEP by AyakaDunukofia: 4:08pm On Mar 15, 2023 |
Antiurchins: I endorse this post. 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: IPOB Emerges 10th Deadliest Terror Group In The World - IEP by AyakaDunukofia: 3:49pm On Mar 15, 2023 |
If the news is authentic, it should be something to rejoice about. They've spilled the blood of the people they purport to liberate. They've introduced values and practices that were alien to Igbo; BEHEADING. And finally crippled the economy of the region through the coercive "sit at home". I welcome the development. 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: I Have No Issues With Tinubu; He Is Somebody I Regard As A Father - Peter Obi by AyakaDunukofia: 7:15pm On Mar 13, 2023 |
Abass07: It's a statement laced with legal reasoning. It may be well above your understanding. IF THE COURT ACCEPTS THAT THE PROCESS WAS FLAWED, THE OUTCOME BECOMES, BY DEFAULT, FLAWED. |
Politics / Re: Ikwerre Is Not Igbo, It’s Crazy How people Feel Inferior, Learn Pls by AyakaDunukofia: 11:13am On Mar 11, 2023 |
I urge every Igbo person or friends of Ndigbo to NOT contribute to this discussion. Must you be trapped each time? 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Obasanjo Is Not A Yoruba Man?(photo) by AyakaDunukofia: 11:19pm On Mar 08, 2023 |
Absolute rubbish. What if Obasanjo was adopted...Would anyone stand in his way to claim any entitlements due to his adopted family or excercise his rights and priviledges as a legitimate son of the soil? Here, the mother was Egba or Yoruba! It is his right to choose to be Yoruba or Igbo if this story is true. This is bunkum. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: The Punch Interview With An Historian On The History Of Lagos State by AyakaDunukofia: 9:16pm On Mar 08, 2023 |
princemillla: "No, the Awori (already) had a kingdom. We don’t know exactly how it came that the Edo had a part in the government of the Awori kingdom". Sir, at the bolded, in your attempts to revise history, you injected a doubt in your very submission. Lagos Island was founded by the Edos, simple 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Why Is It That True Lagosian Always Bear A Foreign Or English Surname ? by AyakaDunukofia: 6:48pm On Mar 07, 2023 |
renderme: For God's sake, what is important about liking or disliking Akiolu? |
Politics / Re: Why Is It That True Lagosian Always Bear A Foreign Or English Surname ? by AyakaDunukofia: 4:13pm On Mar 07, 2023 |
renderme: I don't join issues with minions. The history of Lagos is way above your comprehension. Direct your anger, rudeness and horrible upbringing to Akiolu the Oba of Lagos. [img] https://guardian.ng/sunday-magazine/lagos-oba-traces-origin-to-benin/ [/img] |
Politics / Re: Why Is It That True Lagosian Always Bear A Foreign Or English Surname ? by AyakaDunukofia: 3:31pm On Mar 07, 2023 |
VeryWickedGoat: Lagos is not a no man's land. Original Lagos Island indigenes were Binis. However, the island is geographically closest to the Yorubas. It's history is that of migrations and cross migrations. Most of the slave returnees can be found in port and river port cities in Nigeria. In Onitsha the Doherty, Williams, Costa, Kuti, Moore, Venn, Johnson families etc formed the ninth village called Ogbe Otu. These families were related to their name sakes in Warri and Lagos. However, the modern descendants no longer nuture the affinity. |
Politics / Re: Meet Labour Party Lead Attorney To Challenge 2023 Sham Of Election by AyakaDunukofia: 5:18pm On Mar 05, 2023 |
Learned colleague Dr Ikpeazu is overly qualified to retrieve the mandate of Nigerians. However, operating in a society with weak institutions, riddled with a compromised legal system is very difficult. |
Politics / Re: FCT: S' Court's Judgement In 2008 Mandated A Candidate To Score At Least 25% by AyakaDunukofia: 1:24am On Mar 04, 2023 |
In fact the current political scenario will shake the foundation of the Nigerian legal system and its constitution. Whatever is the final decision would make a historical legal precedent. The status of the FCT obviously would be tested. Civilised nations often avoid its institutions from triggering constitutional crises. And here is INEC doing precisely that 1 Like |
Politics / Re: FCT: S' Court's Judgement In 2008 Mandated A Candidate To Score At Least 25% by AyakaDunukofia: 10:26pm On Mar 03, 2023 |
In saner climes, the Supreme court can ONLY depart from its previous ruling if two similar cases presents different facts. Does it apply in this matter? NO. The facts have not changed; Abuja demands that a winning candidate must win 25 percent of her popular votes. The apex court reaffirmed this as recent as 2008. It is a statutory requirement which was as well reaffirmed in a case law. 25 Likes 4 Shares |
Politics / Re: Six States Ask Supreme Court to Declare Tinubu’s Victory Null and Void by AyakaDunukofia: 9:32am On Mar 03, 2023 |
OneNigerianist:It would have legalised the purported victory in the states APC are claiming... |
Politics / Re: To Wike That Stranger You Sold Your Brother To Will Not Trust You by AyakaDunukofia: 9:14pm On Mar 01, 2023 |
stevnwigw1:We must stop all these clannish statements. What about the Yorubas that voted for Obi? So, they sold Tinubu as well? Obi was and is a Nigerian project. Yusuf Alabi the teenager boy who stood in front of Obi's convoy represents the diversity of Obi's voters. Hence I am begging Ndigbo to not emotionally divert this election to an Igbo thing. It is NOT. And the majority of Igbos understood it. They are pushing you people to the ethnic trap, understand it. |
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