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You're right about the general thingy because I believe in taking taking the battle to the real enemy, not innocent maiguards at Atlas Cove like you and I wey dey try to make ends meet



Seriously,

My solution is to revert  to the regional system of government (Western, Southern and Northern Regions) Let each region handle it's own destiny and resources or just split up completely.

As things stands right now, Nigeria is not going anywhere developmentally with the North in charge or part of the equation. Illiteracy, redundancy and anti social ways and belief system within Northern elites and populace is not good for the country, it's just unsustainable.

epiphany don hit you ni? whatever happened to all your anti yoruba and OPC rants.

Sorry maifried, we're not into running around inside canoe and blowing up innocent people

At last, Reps endorse bill to immortalise MKO Abiola

Idowu Samuel and Bola Badmus, Abuja - 31.07.2009

AFTER a prolonged rigmarole, laced with ethnic politics, the House of Representatives on Thursday finally endorsed a motion to immortalise the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola by naming the National Stadium, Lagos, after him.

Only last week, the House had vehemently opposed a similar call to immortalise the June 12 symbol as members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the North spoke against it on the claim that the election was annulled by the military regime for a good reason.
Those who opposed the motion argued that if Abiola should be immortalised at all, his opponent in the presidential election, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, should equally be immortalised, including the current President, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua.

However, the sponsors of the motion seeking the immortalisation of Chief MKO Abiola had carefully avoided politics by hinging their interest solely on the contributions he made to the progress and development of sports in Nigeria and Africa.

According to the motion supported by 37 members of the House, Abiola deserved to be supported in view of the keen interest he showed in sports, beginning from when he launched a division one football club; Abiola Babes which recorded remarkable achievements both in Nigeria and in Africa.

Presenting the motion, Honourable Friday Itulah from Edo State stressed that a posthumous honour given to Abiola would have a positive effect in encouraging more rich Nigerians to follow in his footsteps by investing in sports.

He urged the Federal Government to name the National Stadium after Abiola on the basis that he was a recognised Pillar of Sports in Nigeria and Africa.

The motion, which was opposed by only one member, was supported with favourable arguments by Honourable Gbenga Elegbeleye, Ezeuche Ubani, Umar Kurfi, Aminu Tambuwal, Betty Apiafi and others. Ubani, in his contribution, said Abiola meant so much to sports in Nigeria and that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) named him Pillar of Sports in Africa.

Apiafi mentioned the generosity of MKO, concluding that since many Nigerians benefitted tremendously from his large heart, it would not be out of place for his fatherland to recognise him with a befitting honour, such as naming a national monument after him.

It was the fourth attempt by the pro-Abiola members of the House to get their colleagues to support his immortalisation; the previous attempts were thwarted by members who did not feel that Abiola deserved such an honour.

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Igbo people will never leave hausa people alone, they have some kind of co dependency thing going on from the days of zik to the likes of their current leaders like ekwueme, nwobodo and the new hausa bingo abi boy boy , what's his name, the imo guy wey just jump ship run under mallam babariga, they hate yoruba people but den love dem hausa masters as long as the masters keep throwing bingo money abi make I call am dogyy bone, awon follow folow



like I said, we did fine without oil/blood money before so no biggie, keep that shit.

Igbo and hausa folks can have the oil and delta. yoruba once developed the west without 1 kobo of oil/blood money and den fit do it again.


yoruba folks built the 1st highrise in Nigeria without oil/blood/money

they built the 1st tv station in Nigeria without oil/blood money

they built the first university in Nigeria without oil/blood money

they built the first modern stadium in Africa without oil/blood money

they built the 1st and only industrial estate in Nigeria without oil/blood money

they construct the first Government Secretariat at Ibadan


all within 8yrs without oil/blood money



please, keep the oil, keep the delta.


Thank you and God bless.

There's a huge difference between fighting for your country and running around inside canoe at night like cowards and blowing up innocent people. dummies

na so the tin pain you reach? lame yeye people dey feel bad and important because den throw grenade inside oil barrel for fuel depot and kill some maiguad,

Bleep dem rag tag mend and the canoe they rode on,

Like I said before, if your goals are genuine, noble and you wanna be taken seriously, go blow up your looting, stealing, oil bunkering and corrupt leaders in the delta fist and quit killing and terrorizing innocent folks.

dumb ass Tools of Extortion  and idiots.

delusional folks,


how in the hell the people wey you forcefully invade and occupy their land and mistreated go happily join you to form a single nation? it's like israel asking palestinians to follow join the state of israel,



abeg comot with that yeye map,



[b]The Igbos should understand that the crisis facing the South today was directly or remotely caused by them. But because their leaders had not been sincere to them, they have continuously propagated the lie that the West is responsible for their problem. A few facts should illuminate this:

1. In 1957, the North threatened to secede if independence was granted to Nigeria because they were not ready. Zik, was supposed to have reached an understanding with Awo to let the North go. But to Awo’s consternation, Zik formed an alliance with the North which succeeded in delaying independence and allowed the North to get ready.

2. In 1966, a group of young Igbo officers planned a coup that killed only non-Igbo politicians. Included among the politicians was Ahmadu Bello who was a god-like figure to the Northerners. Before you could say Jihad, all the Sabongaris were on fire and the pogrom that would lead to the civil war has started,

3. Instead of trying to seek immediate political solution to the crisis, the Igbos declared Biafra. They war lasted for 30 months. The Igbos lost everything. The Hausa-Fulani oligarchy took this defeat of Biafra as the conquest of the South. Since then, they have transformed the privilege of leadership into that of a birthright and they have used it not only to stunt the growth of the South but also to subject their people to a state of perpetual servitude and feudalistic iniquities.[/b]- Orette

We all know say naija gov' just dey play around with dem rag tags cos na the same idiots dey finance and arm dem, one single jet fit wipe out their camps and blow their canoes into pieces,

It's one tin to dey run around with rifle inside canoe terrorizing people and blowing up maiguad at fuel depot, it's another tin to get blown up from the sky with one single missile,  

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Violence cuts both ways,


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see as pot dey call kettle black.


the idiot sabi release looters name but she no sabi jail them. useless people.

I'll be back, I'll let your Prozac kick in and calm you down.

LOL @ social studies,  negro please.


Now back to the topic at hand. See, that's the point is, yoruba people are aware per the bad elements within the yoruba community and they keep them at arms length , trying to knock yoruba folks because of OBJ is a serious no starter, Yoruba people don't trust him and they don't want him.

So where are they from? Please lecture me, I really want to know. SERIOUSLY.

Anyways, what about the rest and the main trust of the argument? ekwueme is, uba is, nwobodo is, jus to name a fews.

Of what use is old news?

Leaders doesn't necessarily = Governors. We're talking about Igbo statesmen/leaders like ekwueme, nwobodo, ogbeh, uba, kalu, Anenih,

These are your all stars, your Cream of the crop,

People just dey throw out the kitchen sink left and right sha. Wetin yoruba people get to do with the actions of pesin like OBJ wey yoruba people never give a shit about, yoruba people don sabi since say OBJ dey carry water bottle for his hausa masters, na only Igbo people never realize, that's why nearly all Igbo leaders are knee deep inside PDP and hausa cest pool with zero independence, one of them just defected sef after OBJ flew in to pat am for head saying good boy good boy like bingo. Nothing tribal because, I yarn this with full affection.

Hausa boys are plotting their moves and moving everything up north right under our noses and we're here worrying about old and useless non issues,

Lets attack his policies and failures, not his disease and looks.

They are laying the ground work for total separation, na preemptive moves,

walakolobo,


It's obviously the other way around. e be like you dey reside inside cave for Afghanistan or you just like to hear your self talk meaningless nonsense wey no match wetin 18million lagosians dey yarn,

^^^Dude, you ain't making no damn sense.

ain't stuttering son,

Yar adua got schooled by Fashola. Fashola is the real SAN with brass balls.



[b]
While we await the National Assembly’s discharge of its responsibility, the doctrine of separation of powers requires that each arm of government should be allowed to operate without interference from any other arm of government.
It will be pre-emptive for the Executive arm of Government to take any position that would prejudice the exercise of the power of the Legislature to discharge its responsibility, when there is no competent challenge to the validity of the Laws passed by the Lagos State House of Assembly that can in any way affect the administrative entities created there under.

Respectfully and contrary to Your Excellency’s assertions, I must caution that any steps taken outside the due process of the law by the Nations’ Executive against a sub - national government such as Lagos State in this matter will pose a grave threat to constitutionalism, our democracy and good governance, because it will amount to a usurpation of constitutionally guaranteed State autonomy and a violation of the Constitution.

“the Federal Government felt aggrieved by Lagos State creating more loco’ governments, the best solution is to seek redress in a court of law, without resorting to self _ help. In a society where the rule of law prevails. self help is not available to the executive or any arm of government”
An unavoidable fact is that the legal advice you have received seems to be rooted in disparate (I believe patently wrong) interpretation of the decision of the Supreme Court referred to above. While the actions of the Lagos State Government have been dictated by our belief that the decision supports the actions that we have taken, the Federal Government apparently has a contrary view.

As Your Excellency is aware, the interpretation of Laws is the constitutional preserve of the Judiciary. Where parties are in genuine controversy as to the legality of an action, the rightful course is to approach the Judiciary to seek authoritative pronouncement on the legality of disputed actions.
Permit me to draw your attention to the advice of the Supreme Court in Attorney General of. Lagos State v. Attorney General of the Federation as follows:

I respectfully urge your Excellency to reappraise the advice given on this matter.
In a constitutional democracy the Federal Government does not enjoy the prerogative of compelling a state entity to conform with its will _ however well conceived - except where that will conforms with the law.
The Federal and State Governments are autonomous entities within the sphere of authority and competence vested in each Government under the Constitution. In Attorney General of Lagos State v. Attorney

“But I do not need to repeat that Nigeria operates a federal system of government. Section 2(2) of the 1999 Constitution reenacts the doctrine of federalism. This ensures the autonomy of each government. None of the governments is subordinate to each other. This is particularly of relevance between the State Governments and the Federal Government, each being, as said by Nwabueze in his book, The Presidential Constitution of Nigeria, page 39-42, an autonomous entity in the sense of being able to exercise its own will in the conduct of its affairs within the Constitution, free from direction by another government”.

Should your Excellency take further and alternative legal advice as respectfully urge that you now do; you will find that where any party. Particularly the Federal Government is of the opinion that the Lagos State Government has acted contrary to the decision of the Supreme Court. It should follow the procedure for the enforcement of that judgment as stipulated by the rules of court and certainly not to employing the use of Federal “, organs of state to , preserve the authority of the Federal Government” as stated in your letter. This is the practice that will be consistent with the Rule of Low.
Finally, Your Excellency, at this time when our economy is challenged and our people are expectant and looking up to us for leadership and direction, our Country can do without a political or constitutional crises over a matter, which constitutionally and demonstrably constitutes no threat to our Nation.
To persist, as Your Excellency threatens in your letter will suggest that this is a deliberate political crisis and not one of necessity.

However let me continue to assure you of my unwavering commitment to constitutionalism and the due process of the Law; you will find that my office and the Government of La.gos state will remain Willing partners in development and amicable resolution of disputes when called upon.
Your Excellency, please accept my best wishes and sincere compliments.
Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN Governor of Lagos State[/b]