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Kzinne: Jonathan or Abacha? Who would u pick?

Abacha! PTF and other good reasons.

Warning to all mini wearing damsels - madam-at-home can legitimately get you fired for tempting her husband, your oga. Make up your mind: are you in the office to work or titillate?

Nelson vs. Knight
The Case of the Irresistibly Beautiful Woman
by CHRISTOPHER BRAUCHLI
Faithful readers know that I do not normally use my knowledge of the law to expound upon its virtues and flaws. Occasionally, however, I feel it incumbent upon me to explain intricacies that seem peculiarly suited to a matter of current interest to non-lawyers among my readers. This is true with respect to the now famous case of Nelson vs. Knight, a case from the Supreme Court of Iowa.
The case involves an apparently irresistibly beautiful woman, Melissa Nelson, and her easily distracted employer, James H. Knight. Jim is a dentist and Melissa was one of his assistants whom he fired because of her beauty after she had worked in his office for 10 ½ years. The problems she presented to Jim were well described by the court in its opinion. It said that during the 1 ½ years preceding her firing Jim had complained to her that “her clothing was too tight and revealing and ‘distracting.’” During the trial Jim said: “I don’t think it’s good for me to see her wearing things that accentuate her body.” To help him avoid the distracting sight he sometimes asked her to put on a lab coat, presumably on occasions when her body was being particularly accentuated by her clothing. Melissa did not think her clothing was particularly revealing and nor did she think her clothing inappropriate. Jim tried to help her understand when it was inappropriate by telling her that “if she saw his pants bulging, she would know that her clothing was too revealing.” It is not clear from the court’s opinion what Jim expected her to do on such an occasion although presumably she could ask to be excused to return home and put on clothing that did not have an untoward effect on Jim’s pants. On another occasion Jim told the court that Melissa had made some reference to infrequency in her sex life and that he, apparently being a car buff as well as a connoisseur of beautiful women, told her “That’s like having a Lamborghini in the garage and never driving it.” There is no indication in the opinion whether Melissa objected to being compared to a car.
In 2009 Jim took his children on a vacation and during his absence his wife, Jeanne, discovered that Melissa and Jim had exchanged text messages. She demanded that Jim fire Melissa “since she was a big threat to our marriage.” She and Jim went to their pastor who agreed with Jeanne. Shortly thereafter Jim called Melissa into his office and in the presence of another pastor from his church, read Melissa a prepared statement that said she was fired. He then handed her an envelope containing one month’s severance as reward for her 10-½ years of service, a sum the court described as “rather ungenerous.” Melissa was not happy at having been fired. She sued Jim saying she had been fired on the grounds of gender discrimination. And this is where my offering readers an instruction on the law comes into play.
Would-be-lawyers will assume that Jim defended himself on the grounds that Melissa was an attractive nuisance. Clearly Melissa was attractive and being attractive and, in the eyes of Jim’s wife, a threat to their marriage, she was a great nuisance. The layperson would, therefore, assume that Jim would defend himself saying Melissa was an attractive nuisance and that would be the end of the matter. That is, however, not how the law works.
People can never be attractive nuisances. That doctrine, reduced to its simplest terms, only applies to a hazardous object or condition on real estate and then, only if the injured person is a child. If a dangerous piece of equipment is located on a piece of property and a youngster is injured playing on it, the owner of the property may be liable for injuries the child incurs as a result of playing on the equipment even though the child was trespassing. An adult can never be an attractive nuisance even if, for example, a person as beautiful as Melissa, sunbathing in the nude caused someone in a neighboring swimming pool to execute a dive imperfectly and sustain an injury because of being distracted by the sunbather. The sunbather will never be convicted of being an attractive nuisance. For the foregoing reasons, Jim’s defense was not that Melissa was an attractive nuisance, as attractive as such a defense would seem to the non-lawyer.
Melissa sued Jim under an Iowa law that “makes it generally unlawful to discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee because of the employee’s sex.” After examining many cases involving firings of members of the opposite (and sometimes same) sex, the court concluded that Melissa’s firing because his wife thought her a threat to her marriage, was an employment decision based on personal relations, not gender-based nor based on factors that might be a proxy for gender. She lost. Jim’s attorney described the outcome as a victory for family values since Melissa was fired so Jim could save his marriage. Melissa, it turns out, was a sacrificial lamb rather than an attractive nuisance.
Christopher Brauchli is an attorney based in Boulder, Colorado. He can be reached at: brauchli.56@post.harvard.edu.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/11/the-case-of-the-irresistibly-beautiful-woman/

Apparently no labourers employed by YLCDA who can wield a cutlass

A bit more info and a correction.

Jubilee and Tweneboa fields are in Ghana with Jubilee being the big one discovered a few years ago which is already producing.

Aje discovery is well known but I still think its development has been too slow and sub optimal at least from the point of view of the naija / Lagos economy. Chevron, its technical operator, has been more inclined to pipe the gas off to Ghana to help it fill the WAPCo (WAGP) pipeline which it is the dominant partner in.

A more beneficial plan for naija would have been the use of that gas domestically especially as he bane of power generation in the SW is the constant breaking of ELPS and the lines that feed it. My hope over the years, which I have expressed online before now, is that LASG would encourage the owners to pipe that gas to Badagry and set up an IPP there which would at least take care of the western axis of the state instead of watching while we give even the little we have to Ghana which is already richly blessed, at least relative to naija, in the power sector.

There are already massive discoveries in Benin Republic with Shell even buying into a venture there. It would be very unusual if the oil deposits that started offshore Angola all the way to Cote d'Ivoire and beyond were to somehow skip over the Lagos / Ogun / Ondo coast. Even Togo is busy prospecting for oil. So why haven't we found fields as massive as Ghana's Jubilee (about 1billion BOE) in the SW already?

I have considered various conspiracy theories but in the end it looks more like the usual naija disease - we are all too busy eating the billions from the ND to bother about the arduous and risky task of establishing the presence of possibly larger blessings not only in the Dahomey basin but in our various inland basins. Apart from the liquid / gaseous stuff, bitumen deposits have been long established in the SW (Edo inclusive) with our perfunctory survey showing the presence of 30b tonnes which essentially equals our known crude deposits. After almost a century we still produce NIL barrels a day from that blessing while Canada, despite its inhospitable environment, produces hundreds of 1000s of barrels a day from similar deposits.

I believe it would be way too generous to believe our misrulers have any grand plans to develop these 'stranded' assets when naija breaks up. In my view they have all been just too blinded by what they are stealing now to break any sweat unlocking more wealth even if it will primarily be for their own theft.

Took a walk yesterday and saw this dispiriting 'project' sign board. It was such a new low for naija's misgovernance that I had to take pictures of it and share with nairalanders. Who will save us from these vultures in office who now think the best they can offer us is the weeding of a privatised cemetery? I live in Yaba and this is the first project notice I have seen in a long time aside the one for the LCDA building being put up at the LCDA office beside Panti police station.

Is Yaba LCDA saying it has nothing more significant than this to announce for 2012? In which universe does the weeding of a cemetery, which you have privatised and in which each grave costs almost N1m, deserve mention much less a signboard? Whatever happened to the couple of hundred million naira you get monthly as federal allocation before we discuss your share of tenement rates, market and motor park dues and the constant filching from okadas and kekes? Do we really need a 3rd layer of government that does absolutely nothing while consuming almost 20% of federal consolidated revenue?

While still ruminating on this disaster on my way to work this morning I heard over the radio that the chairman of the neighbouring Surulere LCDA had announced, nay, was celebrating, the purchase of brand new cars for his councillors! Not new school buildings, clinics, mass transit buses, markets, roads, drainage, low cost housing or anything remotely beneficial to you and I but brand new cars for the councillors to replace what I expect would be other cars they would have received from the same public purse less than four years ago! When do we say Enough! to this whole madness?!?

And a govt that is intent on reducing cement prices allows this? Dangote is holding on to his 100% mark-up, pioneer (non taxpaying) status, power sector gas prices and other advantages yet has the mouth to complain about a little bit of competition and blackmail us all by shutting down Gboko and laying off workers? Maybe his bluff should be called: end the pioneer status (it was obtained by dubious means as we have been making cement locally for over 50 years) and let him pay industrial sector prices for gas (he is an industrial user and, again, dubiously obtained the power sector classification). Contracts? ALL contracts fail to the extent that they offend public policy / good.

That is only 'completion cost' but I know they have been completing the house for a couple of budget cycles now so fully expect more multi billion naira allocations up till 2015. Make dem continue. One day go be one day. Impunity go born revolution.

I used to have a picture of this at my desk just to remind me how far behind we are. No wonder some of us cry publicly and privately.

http://www.google.nl/search?q=Magdeburg+Water+Bridge&hl=nl&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=yyyaUJrPJOqO0AWozYHAAQ&ved=0CDIQsAQ&biw=840&bih=441

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_Water_Bridge

If you are desperate and heartless enough there is always money to be made and the role of the money ritual, I believe, is to help you cross the Rubicon of heartlessness. We all would agree that money can easily be made from strip clubs, brothels, baby factories, fake drugs, illicit drugs, oil, cement and other cabals, general corruption etc but we all would baulk at doing most of those things because we consider them seriously immoral. This is where the money ritual comes in: once you have been made to do something totally off the morality scale like killing your parent, child or some stranger in a ritual you basically shed all moral inhibitions and become an amoral agent perfected for making money any-which-way; victims and consequences be damned.

This I believe is how the devil acquires for keeps some like those seeking money by all means even on this thread: a psychological trick by the devil’s agent, the medicine man, to push the greedy into that zone where any and every degenerate path to wealth is explored. And many indeed strike it rich as a result though one can’t say how many of the beneficiaries appreciate the process. Surely we all agree that the fewer scruples you have the more millions you make. A quick survey of Naija will confirm this: from office holders to cement trillionaires the same basic character dominates.

Garrison – Trans Amadi dualisation will cost about the same as the 50km Lekki Expressway?!? Is the terrain any more challenging? And we now employ foreign teachers in Rivers because all Rivers graduates have been gainfully employed?

Oil wells crisis about 2015 election, says Amaechi

Posted by: Bisi Olaniyi and Clarice Azuatalam, Port Harcourt Posted date: November 06, 2012 In: Featured, News | comment : 2

A new twist has been added to the oil wells dispute between Bayelsa and Rivers states.
It is all about 2015, Rivers State Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi said yesterday in Port Harcourt.
“There is rumour that they are emasculating me because of 2015. It is unfortunate. It is a non-issue,” Amaechi said at a press conference.
He added: “For now, I have no plan for 2015. I was shocked to hear of Lamido/Amaechi 2015 campaign, with branded vehicles in the North and many people are panicky.
“I am exhausted. I have not attended any 2015 meeting. If they are taking Rivers oil wells because of 2015, they should leave us alone.”
Amaechi said President Goodluck Jonathan had ordered a ceasefire in the dispute.
But, according to the governor, Rivers has just lost 46 oil wells to Abia State.
This is besides the ceding of five of Rivers oil wells in Soku to Bayelsa State.
It would have been worst, said the governor, but for last Monday’s protest in Abuja by Kalabari leaders from Akuku-Toru, Asari-Toru and Degema local government areas. About 71 oil wells in Abonnema, Akuku-Toru council areas would have also been ceded to Bayelsa State that day, Amaechi said.
The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) said President Jonathan called and directed him and his officials to stop speaking with journalists on the boundary dispute and oil wells. The same message was to be passed to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, to ensure peace, according to Amaechi.
It was gathered that both governors have been invited to the villa in Abuja by the President on Friday.
The Abuja protest was followed by a massive protest and news conference in Port Harcourt, with the Kalabari declaring that the move to cede their communities, oil wells and Soku Gas Plant to Bayelsa would be vehemently resisted.
Amaechi said: “46 oil wells belonging to Rivers State have just been given to Abia State. Soku is a Kalabari town in Rivers State. Mr. President directed this (yesterday) morning that we should stop addressing the press on the oil wells’ dispute with Bayelsa, if not for the journalist’s question on the issue.
“Seventy one oil wells in Abonnema (headquarters of Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State), would have been given to Bayelsa State on the same Monday the Kalabari people went to Abuja to protest. They were not sponsored. They protested on their own. The boundary between Degema and Brass is not in dispute.
“If I am not the NGF chairman, I would have known what to say. As a people (Rivers) with one destiny, we will fight for our rights. Rivers people are happy with President Jonathan.”
Amaechi said the state government had no information on the disputed oil wells, adding that lawyers and stakeholders from the communities supplied the information.
President Jonathan is to meet next week in Abuja with stakeholders from Rivers and Bayelsa states on the boundary dispute and oil wells.
On the controversial Rivers State Contributory Social Services Levy (CSSL), which workers have been complaining about, Amaechi, who earlier yesterday met with the civil servants at the State Secretariat Complex, said he had ordered the stoppage of deduction from their pay.
He expressed displeasure that the deductions were made before Christmas, without considering the hardship the workers would face.
The governor said allocations of Port Harcourt, Obio/Akpor and Ikwerre local governments areas had been seized in the last two months over their refusal not to ensure a clean environment, especially for being unable to curtail the dirt from auto mechanics.
As soon as the mechanics’ workshops and the local government areas are kept clean, he would direct the release of the allocations, said the governor.
According to him, the action is to ensure a clean Rivers state, especially the state capital and its environs .
Amaechi said the government, next month, would obtain a N100 billion bond, to fund the 2013 budget.
But, he promised not to leave any debt for his successor.
The governor stated that the monorail project, for now, would be from the old Port Harcourt Township, popularly called Town, to Waterlines Bus Stop on Port Harcourt-Aba Expressway, which he described as economically viable.
The dualisation of the Garrison-Trans-Amadi Road in Port Harcourt has been awarded for N47 billion. Ada-George Road and the road off Peter Odili Road, which is to link Ogoni axis and Aba Road were his priority road projects.
The NGF chairman said Port Harcourt roads were being rehabilitated and would later have asphalt overlay to last for 15 years, with the reconstruction beginning immediately after the rains.
Amaechi noted that he targeted the construction of 750 model primary schools, but he decided to slow down a bit to furnish the completed 250 model primary schools. New ones would be storey buildings because of land constraint.
He assured that three of the model secondary schools in Eleme, Etche and Saakpenwa would soon be admitting students. The foreign teachers have arrived, with the local teachers being hired. He said schools would be completely free.
On power, the NGF chairman assured that the promise of uninterrupted electricity supply in Rivers State next month would be fulfilled, stressing that his administration was having challenges with the Power Holding of Nigeria (PHCN), which did not allow the state government to hook up to its system.
The governor said there had been improvement in the security situation in Rivers State, with no successful robbery in Port Harcourt in the last two months.
He, however, admitted that there had been security challenges outside the state capital, especially kidnapping.
Many policemen have been sent to Omoku, headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/oil-wells-crisis-about-2015-election-says-amaechi/

Omase o! Oduduwa don waste sperm. If you don't kill Afghans in their beds you can't walk along the Nile? No be your mates dey honeymoon / holiday there? Did Afghans ever invite you and your masters to come build roads for them? Is that the lie that lulls you to sleep after the atrocities? Ego ne the handshake with Obama? E never late for you o. At least you dey literate enough to find your way to nairaland. Life has many better options than this alapata work you dey do o.

bidemi12: ef yu say so. . .like i said money is not everything. . .experience is. ever halo'd out of a plane? ever walked by the nile? ever helped build a bridge in afghanistan? ever shook your presidents hand. . .i don't think so. all this fro free. experience baby experience.. .sorry for bad english testing from phone/ / /

He is not even a puppet. Just a warm body. A mercenary who does not consider the people he is killing human. Money has always bought such yet it is extreme poverty of the spirit that makes them think that is the only way to make money. Evil will always find those ready to serve it. Hitler had his minions even among the Jews so why shouldn't the yanks recruit their hired killers from the 3rd world? Person who go Harvard never get job finish but this one dey dream say him go parlay his artisan certificate into a life of luxury after being discharged with maybe half body but definitely no soul. Help me tell am say I dey take care of the wife and pickins of gainleslly employed runaways like him here.

jehovahnoni: ure in captivity,stop raisin shoulders wit dat ur bongo uniform wey b like sac,d uniform no even resemble u.s army own...e no smart at all,u pick am neh?! . See,let me tell u...as far as america is concern,ure a puppet to dem,,let me ask u...DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE THEORIES OF CONSPIRACY AND THE CONSPIRACY ITSELF ?,DID U ALSO KNOW ABOUT THE WAR GOING ON BETWEEN THE FORCES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS...TOGETHER WITH THEIR AGENTS ?,i bet u dont...cus if u do,u will knw ure jst lyk an advert,i have a handful knowledge of everytin..includin their mode of operation and targets,i knw little but much about dis conspirators,,,,dont b surprise...ure part of d conspiracy bcus ure in dem . No offence .

BTW how do you sleep at night after killing all those innocent Afghans in their own country? Is that what you call a job? Did it occur to you that you could earn more by being a hired killer here in naija and probably wind up with less blood on your hands for more money?

bidemi12: if you say so . .but know this. . .all i have to do is cash in my degree and certifications obtained in the army to completely squash you and whatever money you're making right now. but life is not about money, but experience and accomplishment. small boy. . .lol. . .now i'm bored again. . .next!!!!

You wan steal am? US statistics tell me only 10% of yanks EVER earn one third what I earn so who will dash African reject that kind money? Anyways the yanks relieved us of another potential armed robber / kidnapper by giving you hired killer job so its all good. If na naija army u join sef you for at least still get faint hope of planning coup one day but for yankee NOTHING FOR YOU!

bidemi12: if you say so . .but know this. . .all i have to do is cash in my degree and certifications obtained in the army to completely squash you and whatever money you're making right now. but life is not about money, but experience and accomplishment. small boy. . .lol. . .now i'm bored again. . .next!!!!

Anyways you guys are useful for securing new reserves for my industry. You take the bullets and I make the money. If that works for you who am I to save you from a delusion that has served you so well to date? When you finish killing innocent Afghans in their beds you will one day be brought to naija to kill your kith and kin. Your mates dey do brain surgeon for yankee but you dey do glorified corporate bouncer dey rejoice. When an IED puts you in a wheelchair I hope you can keep making the mouth you are making now. I no get discipline and focus is how I make multiples of your chickfeed from playing with computers without leaving naija. You couldn't hack naija and could only get suicide duty in yankee but na you get focus.

bidemi12: you might right. . .yes you just might be. . .but guess what? i'm 100 times better as a person since being a soldier. i'm not talking material stuff. i'm talking as a human being. disciplined. . .focused. . motivated. . detailed. . .driven. i'm sure these are words that escape most nigerian but i thank God i found it. I feel kinda sorry for some of you'all. if only you could experience what i experienced as a soldier and the opportunities for personal develpment that abounds then maybe you'll understandl....but till then, keep the bad belle rolling.

Yes o. This is some poor sap paid less than my tax contributions to BRF but who is so overwhelmed by the goodness of the massah that he can't help Uncle Tomming himself all over this thread. Abi no be same US soldiers who leave the army to squat on the streets? That's what he left his fatherland to go and do - gunslinger for a demented and crumbling empire? This is what 30 years of NPN, IBB, Abacha and PDP have turned this nation into - a country whose young people are inordinately proud of lying, fighting, cheating and dying to get into the slave boats. Most have never known a different naija so one can't even get across to them the craziness of the whole situation. Those who do una like this no go die well.

cap28: you mean i havent said anything to make you feel good about the fact that you are nothing more than a black pawn trained to kill other non white people and assist in the plunder and destruction of resource rich non white nations in order to enrich the multinationals and oil companies owned not by black people but your white massa?

This is not a new program or unique to the US Army. The CIA began recruiting native SPEAKERS of sundry African etc languages years ago especially after 9/11. Makes snooping on such people easier or what is the point of gathering all the world's voice calls / internet traffic if you can't understand the Yoruba, Yoruba spoken? Nothing to do with courage. Just need people who are happy to snoop on their own people or lead the enemy into their own land for a mess of pottage - US passport. Apparently they already have enough Yoruba traitors - I am Yoruba - so dont need any more in the current recruitment round.

ifyalways: How this take concern Jonathan?

Unless I read the report wrongly, the major culprit here is the man(the girls dad) who inspite of his exposure and education is still reasoning through his anus. He obviously knew before hand and consented to this rubbish.

Old story, btw.

How e no concern Freshair? Was he not governor of that state? The law prohibiting the act was made by Sylva and not Freshair BTW. apparently Freshair never noticed what was going on or did not see anything wrong with it. Today he is president and still can't do anything to bring his tribe into the 21st century. Abi what is the meaning of leadership? He can dictate every Dicksonian policy including civil service appointments but can't provide leadership to a state of 1.5m people.

In the same vein a story online says OBJ went to harass Jimoh Ibrahim a few weeks ago in the company of three Arabs over how he had mismanaged Air Nigeria which JI apprently holds in trust. Another story says Diezani just floated an airline in partnership with someone. If the 'trustees'' are already showing the owners pepper while alive we can imagine what will happen when the owners die.

Andy Uba, Arthur Eze at war over N250m Enugu property
From PETRUS OBI, Enugu
Two Anambra State businessmen and political heavyweights, Senator Andy Uba and Prince Arthur Eze are now at war over two property said to belong to one Major Emmanuel Okwuosa also from the State. An Enugu State High Court had ordered that the said property be sold to enable Arthur Eze recover the one million United States dollars owed him by Okwuosa.
However, Senator Uba, representing Anambra South in the Senate, is claiming ownership of the two property namely, Plots M17 and O/19 Independence Layout, Enugu, which the state Chief Judge, Justice Innocent Umezulike, ordered to be attached for sale in favour of Prince Eze on October 10, 2012. The court had granted an ex-parte application brought by Obi Orakwue, counsel to Prince Eze pursuant to Section 44 of Sheriffs & Civil Process Act, 2004; Order IV Rules 1 (2) & 16 (1); Order VII Rule 7 Judgment Enforcement Rules and ordered the attachment and sale by private contract of the immovable property of Okwuosa, who was indebted to the applicant to the tune of US$1 million.
But following the issuance of the Writ of attachment and sale against the said property by the court, in suit number E/147/2012, Senator Uba filed an application as an interested party/appellant. Uba, in his application, claimed that the two property in question were bought for him by Major Okwuosa from one Chief R. O. Nkwocha family in the sum of N250 million. Uba, while appealing against the decision/order of the court urged the court to make an order halting the sale of the property.
In the seven grounds of appeal set out by Uba through his counsel, Chuma Oguejiofor, he told the court that Okwuosa had purchased the property for him and with money he had provided to the knowledge of the prior owners of the property, R.O. Nkwocha family of Enugu Ukwu, Anambra State, adding that he actually made available N250 million for the purchase and registration of the property.
Uba said that he had confronted Okwuosa severally to submit the title document to the property but he informed him that they were still with the lawyers and later with officials of the Lands Registry, Enugu, adding that he had a shock of his life when he learnt that “fraudulently and without his consent, that the 2nd defendant/respondent (Okwuosa) had registered the property in his own name at the Lands Registry Enugu.” Uba contended that Okwuosa could not have registered “validly property that does not belong to him in his own name” and as such could not also confer on any person, title he never had on the property.
In a 26-paragraph counter affidavit opposing Uba’s motion, dated October 19, 2012, Prince Eze’s counsel, Orakwue, told the court that Uba was not the owner of the two property but Okwuosa, who had his interest duly registered in his names at the Lands Registry vide Irrevocable Power of Attorney and Deed of Assignment. He insisted that Okwuosa and his company, Major Concepts Limited, were in physical possession of the said two plots.
“I believe that the applicant (Uba) had no funds to have acquired the two immovable properties said to have been bought in the sum of one hundred and twenty million naira only (N120, 000,000) given his past positions as mere domestic servant of former President Obasanjo, and a taxi driver in Los Angeles, United States of America,” the affidavit said. Urging the court to refuse Uba’s application, Eze further stated that it was rooted in bad faith and designed to frustrate him as the plaintiff/judgment creditor from reaping the fruits of his judgment.
However, when the case came up last Wednesday before Justice Umezulike, Uba’s counsel, Chuma Oguejiofor sought for time to reply Eze’s averment in the counter affidavit, which he said, touched on Uba’s character and doubted his source of wealth, prompting the judge to adjourn the case to October 29, 2012 for definite argument

PDP has done so well over 13 years that this is now a recurring decimal. The space is big enough for a human or a 100kg bomb
sad. The guy wasnt spotted in naija and his body wasnt spotted at JFK. So much for Homeland Security.
Niger
ian Stowaway Dies in Arik’s Undercarriage

By Chinedu Eze

The dead body of a young Nigerian man was discovered Friday in the wheel well, the undercarriage compartment of an Arik Air aircraft, after it returned from a flight to New York, United States.

One of the airline’s officials who spoke to THISDAY said the deceased might have hidden himself in the wheel well for days and was crushed to death while the flight was airborne to the JF Kennedy Airport, New York, from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

The official who spoke to THISDAY said the dead body was found during a check on the aircraft panel as it was being prepared for another flight and that the undercarriage compartment of the Airbus A340-500 is big enough to accommodate a person, besides the space for the tyres.

"He probably might have hidden himself there some days and died while the aircraft was on its way to New York. We found him when we were doing checks on the panel; the aircraft probably came back with him dead," the official said.

The source said that it is out of ignorance that people hide in the wheel well and plan to stowaway because "the compartment is not pressurised like the cabin of an aircraft and it is not heated, so survival is rare even if the person is not crushed by the wheels."

Pilots and aeronautical engineers familiar with the wheel well compartment said it is roomy enough to contain a human being, but it is highly unlikely that any one who hid there would come out alive after a flight that took several hours due to lack of oxygen.

The official attributed the incident to porous security at the airport, noting that "if having access to the airside is stringently prohibited, anybody that is not an official of airlines, handling companies and Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria would not gain access to the tarmac."

Another source said: "The security at the airport is very bad and that explains why somebody can gain access to the airside and inside the aircraft and no one will know.

Security around the cargo area is even worse and from there anybody can take anything into the tarmac. Now, it is a human being that is smuggled in; one day a dangerous object will be smuggled in."

THISDAY investigations revealed that stowaways connive with ground handling companies to access the airside and the wheel well.

"The handling company workers and the security operatives indulge in a lot of illicit activities at the airport and over the years there have been efforts to put a check on such excesses but every effort has so far failed," said another source.

In March 2010, a Nigerian, Okechukwu Okeke was found dead in the nose wheel compartment of the United States carrier, Delta Airline, Boeing B777 aircraft parked on the tarmac of the Lagos airport.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigerian-stowaway-dies-in-arik-s-undercarriage/128849/

Has anyone heard the voice of Jonathan or his wife on this phenomenon abi even this one is too big for them to handle?

How woman lose 2 kids to circumcision in Bayelsa

Written by Hope Abah, who was in Yenegoa Saturday, 27 October 2012 05:00
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After one of her daughters bled to death after circumcision and another went missing for fear for being circumcised, a mother of three was told by her in-laws that she must also be circumcised if she must remain their wife.
Despite the fact that the Bayelsa State House of Assembly had enacted a law prohibiting female genital mutilation, many communities in the state are allegedly still engaged in the practice, which many say violates women’s rights.

The state Assembly had during the last dispensation through a bill sponsored by the then only female member, representing Southern-Ijaw constituency 1, Vivian Imananagha-Ere, promulgated a law to sanction erring families who forced their female relations into circumcision.

The federal government had also frowned at the practice, therefore, prescribing a seven year jail term for any offender. In the case of Bayelsa State, anyone who indulges in the act would be liable to two-year-imprisonment or a fine of N20, 000.

But many women are still secretly telling their story of pain and anguish of how they fell victims in the hands of their natives, who forced them into circumcision against all odds.

One of such women is Patience Youngbo who lost her daughter to the “barbaric” culture in Amassoma, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state. Patience is still nursing the trauma of how to find the other daughter who fled home to escape the “cruel hands of the initiators.”

The victimized girls – Patricia Youngbo (18), Joy Youngbo (16) and Success Youngbo ( – were said to have traveled home to celebrate the last Christmas with their grandmother while their mother was far away in United Kingdom.

Mrs. Patience Nmgbor Yougbo, mother of the three children said, when she returned from the UK on June, 27, 2012, was informed by her husband that their three daughters went to Amassoma in Bayelsa to spend Christmas holiday with their grandmother but were subjected to the inhumane treatment.

According to her, she agreed to travel home in company of her husband to bring back the children, but on reaching home, it was discovered that one of the daughters, Joy Youngbo, who was forcefully circumcised on January 3, 2012, died two days later from excessive bleeding.

Her elder sister, Patricia Youngbo, out of fear, absconded from home since February 14, 2012 to Lagos which was expected to be her destination, but has not been found up till date.

The development, Patience narrated, propelled the relations, who did not make any contact to acquaint her over the incident to send her third daughter to an aunt’s place where the worst fear of her life manifested real.

The family members insisted that she (mother) must be circumcised alongside her remaining children and her husband consented to it because it is a family tradition and also as part of sharing the inheritance left behind by her husband’s father.

She stressed that due to pressure from the family members, her husband decided to succumb but promised his kindred that they (himself and the wife) would come back for the ceremony on August 25, 2012. To secure her release, she was also taken to a village shrine called Ogbaro to swear to an oath that she will come back for the circumcision ceremony.

“When I returned to Lagos, I reported the matter at the police headquarters in Ikeja, where the officers in charge said it is a family matter and I should go back and settle with them. Till date my daughter Patricia is still missing while my husband and his family are still mounting pressure on me to be circumcised,” the woman said.

When contacted on the matter, Secretary of the Civil liberty Organisation (CLO), Morris Alagoa in the state confirmed that the primitive practice still exists in the state, adding that he actually heard of Youngbo’s case but was yet to dig deep into the matter.

http://www.weeklytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10995:how-woman-lose-2-kids-to-circumcision-in-bayelsa&catid=41:news&Itemid=30

How is this other incident qualitatively different from Aluu? We really need to adopt constant principles if we want this country to 'move forward'.

Soldiers go haywire …kill 30, burn 50 houses in Maiduguri to avenge army officer’s death
OPERATIVES of the Joint Task Force, made up of soldiers, on Monday went haywire in Maiduguri, Borno State, and killed 30 persons in reprisal for the attack on their patrol vehicle in the town.
Most of the victims, The PUNCH learnt, were civilians.
The soldiers were also said to have burnt at least 50 houses, shops and vehicles in the Gwange area of the town.
Some of the victims were reportedly burnt inside their houses beyond recognition.
An Improvised Explosive Device believed to have been planted by member of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, hit the JTF vehicle in the early hours of Monday and killed the leader of the patrol team, an unnamed Lieutenant and injured other members of the patrol team.
The incident occurred along the popular Lagos Street in the Borno State capital town. Maiduguri is believed to be the base of Boko Haram
In retaliation, tens of soldiers were said to have stormed the street and shot indiscriminately at the residents and motorists on the busy road leading to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.
The PUNCH learnt on Tuesday that some of the dead victims were killed inside their houses while their corpses were set on fire by the angry soldiers.
About 50 vehicles parked along the street and in front of houses were also set ablaze.
Maiduguri witnessed a similar incident last Sunday when soldiers reportedly killed and indiscriminately set properties on fire to avenge the murder of two soldiers, one of them a Lt.Col.
Reports indicated that some members of Boko Haram died in the soldiers’ rage on Monday but no one could give a specific figure even as the area was cordoned off.
An eyewitness told journalists that more than 50 persons, including some suspected terrorists were killed, while hundreds of houses and shops belonging to residents of Gwange were razed down in the incident.
During a visit to the area at about 3pm, the Deputy Governor, Alhaji Zannah Umar Mustapha, said the government would address the situation when the governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, who was on a foreign trip to India, Pakistan and Turkey returned home.
The Deputy Governor appealed to Boko Haram members to lay down their arms for peace to prevail. He added that anytime the sect struck, the innocent always bore the brunt of retaliatory attacks.
Confirming the incident, the JTF Spokesman, Lt. Colonel Sagir Musa, in a text message sent to journalists in Maiduguri said that members of the some Boko Haram sect detonated an IED on a Hilux Patrol vehicle of the JTF, injuring two soldiers aboard the vehicle.
[b]How is this other incident qualitatively different from Aluu? We really need to adopt constant principles if we want this country to 'move forward'.

Can I ask an unpopular question? Can everyone bloviating here swear they have never participated in lynching or even publicly beating 'thieves' before? Are even the parents of the victims or the victims themselves free of this very naija sickness? Simple question o and food for thought. If my question makes us all think I would have achieved something for today. For myself I can say I once had opportunity some 20 years ago to rescue a lynching target in Mushin and have never been part of this madness. That is more than most of us can say for ourselves but we still shamelessly come to nairaland to make ill considered statements. The same people condemning this act will move to another topic to advocate wiping out of all ‘Boko Haram’, the droning of Pakistan or vengeance on the Yorubas for ‘Awo’s betrayal’. Naija ronu. [b][/b][color=#990000][/color]

Man arrested for having sex with donkey in Enugu

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Written by Jude Ossai, Enugu Tuesday, 02 October 2012

A middle aged man, Anayochukwu Okarih, has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a donkey belonging to one Mrs Nnedi Moses of Umuhu, Eha-Amufu in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State.

An eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune in Enugu that the suspect, who hails from Umujovu, Eha-Amufu, was handed over to the police after he was allegedly paraded naked around the town at the weekend.

Reports said the slaughter house where the suspect was alleged to have committed the act had been deserted shortly after the suspect was taken to Ikem Divisional Police Station for further interrogation.

However, the complainant, Mrs Nnedi Moses, who spoke to reporters, said she became apprehensive when she caught the suspect fumbling with his manhood, adding that he might have contracted HIV and was looking for a way to spread the disease.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amarizu, said the suspect had confessed to the crime but asked for pardon, saying that he did not commit it with his right senses.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/48505-man-arrested-for-having-sex-with-donkey-in-enugu

Three important points:

The SUN on Saturday carried three stories on this issue and one of them was interviews of the deportees. Only one of them had a non ibo name and considering he claimed to hail from 'Ójuelegba, Western Avenue' we all can think up interesting theories about him.

Secondly Abia state sacked non Abia civil servants particularly those from Imo state last year and any ibo person claiming not to be aware of that fact must be viewed with suspicion.

The SUN stories also gave the chronology of deportations from Lagos and they indeed started with yorubas deported to Ibadan and Abeokuta probably as part of the ACN / PDP rivalry back then. There were also deportations to Kano and Kaduna - I just discovered that myself. Important point however is that our people east of the Niger did not exert themselves in like fashion back then until the matter hit close to home. That isn't principled politics.

An aside: since ibos have long claimed to dominate Lagos, indeed the SW, economically and population wise and threatened that the day they depart to go develop their homeland naija will collapse; shouldn't they use this LASG given opportunity to trial that great idea? Abi di tin na just shakara all this while? If the latter then ibos going forward might want to learn to keep a lower, less mouthy profile so they don't keep rubbing their generous hosts the wrong way. If you have issues in the North, SW, SS and even Ghana shouldn't you ask yourself what you might be doing wrong? Is it so reasonable to believe instead that the whole world hates you?

BTW I have a thesis on why you are the way you are and might share it someday on NL so I do not hold anything against you. In summary I believe that environmental and historical forces have shaped the ibo we all know today. Understading these forces and their influences would help us all live together in peace.

Our Wives Have Gone Mad Again

Imagine Obama and Bush’ wives fighting over land. Imagine even Fasola’s wife and Tinubu’s fighting over anything. Some things simply shouldn’t happen.

Ghana lost Atta Mills yesterday and regular folks were shedding tears on the streets. Are we sure even Patty go shed tears if Bros peme tomorrow? She might cry for the lost power sha.

Na wa! Who wears the trousers in Aso Rock? And Turai sef get N13b to spend on just one venture? At least she can hide behind sponsors but what is that balderdash about not being able to change the venue of whatever conference (has the house even been built)? And why would you use another person’s property as address for your event? To think this specious argument issued from the mouth of our AGF. Maybe his wise counsel pushed Patty into this unwise step to start with. Too bad he isn’t willing to test his bright idea in the courts. And the FCT Minister of course wilfully created this whole mess in a desperate effort to seek Oga Madam’s grace. Wahala dey for Naija o! 1 day 1 (avoidable) trouble.

Turai vs Patience: FG opts for out-of-court settlement of land dispute
ON JULY 24, 2012 • IN NEWS
10:51 pm
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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA — In a bid to save Nigeria from further embarrassment, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, Tuesday, urged an Abuja High Court sitting at Bwari to discontinue further hearing on the lingering land dispute between Dame Patience Jonathan and wife of late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua, Turai.
The two women had plunged into cold war after the Certificate of Occupancy for a parcel of land originally allocated to a Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, “The Registered Trustee of Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation, WYEF”, a pet project initiated by Turai Yar’Adua, was revoked by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, and re-awarded to Patience Jonathan for the construction of a secretariat of the “First Ladies Peace Mission.”

Turai Yar’Adua and Dame Patience Jonathan
Specifically, the Registered Trustees of WYEF had applied and was granted an allocation of Plot 1347at the Cadastral Zone A00, Abuja, after paying N184,529,438 as statutory Right of Occupancy and was duly issued with the C of O by the FCT Minister.
Meanwhile, under the terms of grant, the plaintiff was given three years to develop the property based on approved building plans.
After the payments of the various levies, the plaintiff paid additional N76, 936,210.00 as building plan fees after which the grant and approval of the building plans were made and given in line with the master plan for Abuja.
The plaintiff told the court that shortly after it engaged a building company, Al-Cooks Nigeria Limited, to develop the property for N13, 516,013,797.58, the FCT Administration led by Bala Mohammed, on November 1, 2011, asked it to pay additional N18,529,438, which it said was also paid.
It, however, lamented that after the various payments were made, the FCT Minister, without reason, issued a notice of revocation of the said property which it allocated to the plaintiff for the purpose of building public institution (Training/Vocational Centre). It noted that the said letter of revocation was backdated with effect from October 27, 2011.
Meanwhile, Turai’s NGO stressed that it decided to seek redress in court upon discovering that the same piece of land was re-allocated to another organisation sponsored by Jonathan’s wife.
Also joined as defendants in the suit with No. FCT/HC/CV/2591/2010 included the AGF, FCT Minister and the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS.
Sequel to the suit, the court presided by Justice Peter Affen, issued an order barring the FCT Administration, AGIS and the AGF from carrying out further activities at the site.
However, while the order of the court was still subsisting, the defendants in defiance of the said order mobilised people to the site to commence construction work.
The action prompted counsel to WAYE, Innocent Lagi, to initiate contempt proceedings against the respective defendants.
Nevertheless, before hearing could commence on the contempt charge, the AGF, last Friday, approached the court, asking it to vacate the restraining order.
Though Justice Affen ordered that all the necessary parties must be put on notice, the AGF, yesterday, re-approached the court, begging it to allow the matter to be settled-out-of court.
Counsel to the AGF, Mr Baba Sa’idu further told the court that his client had already reached out to the aggrieved party for an amicable settlement of the dispute.
After listening to his submissions, Justice Affen adjourned till September 24 to receive the report of settlement.
Meanwhile, the case been adjourned till September 24, 2012 for report of settlement.
Adducing reasons why the case should be discontinued, Adoke earlier told the court “the previous allocations were duly revoked and a fresh allocation made out to the African Peace Mission in overriding interest.”
“The invitations to the members of the African Union’s First Ladies Peace Mission had already gone out and it would be most humiliating for Nigeria in the diplomatic circle to make an about-turn at this time, given, the time constraint to effect any other changes in venue,” he added.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/turai-vs-patience-fg-opts-for-out-of-court-settlement-of-land-dispute/[b]Turai vs Patience: FG opts for out-of-court settlement of land dispute
ON JULY 24, 2012 • IN NEWS
10:51 pm
2
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA — In a bid to save Nigeria from further embarrassment, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, Tuesday, urged an Abuja High Court sitting at Bwari to discontinue further hearing on the lingering land dispute between Dame Patience Jonathan and wife of late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua, Turai.
The two women had plunged into cold war after the Certificate of Occupancy for a parcel of land originally allocated to a Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, “The Registered Trustee of Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation, WYEF”, a pet project initiated by Turai Yar’Adua, was revoked by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, and re-awarded to Patience Jonathan for the construction of a secretariat of the “First Ladies Peace Mission.”

Turai Yar’Adua and Dame Patience Jonathan
Specifically, the Registered Trustees of WYEF had applied and was granted an allocation of Plot 1347at the Cadastral Zone A00, Abuja, after paying N184,529,438 as statutory Right of Occupancy and was duly issued with the C of O by the FCT Minister.
Meanwhile, under the terms of grant, the plaintiff was given three years to develop the property based on approved building plans.
After the payments of the various levies, the plaintiff paid additional N76, 936,210.00 as building plan fees after which the grant and approval of the building plans were made and given in line with the master plan for Abuja.
The plaintiff told the court that shortly after it engaged a building company, Al-Cooks Nigeria Limited, to develop the property for N13, 516,013,797.58, the FCT Administration led by Bala Mohammed, on November 1, 2011, asked it to pay additional N18,529,438, which it said was also paid.
It, however, lamented that after the various payments were made, the FCT Minister, without reason, issued a notice of revocation of the said property which it allocated to the plaintiff for the purpose of building public institution (Training/Vocational Centre). It noted that the said letter of revocation was backdated with effect from October 27, 2011.
Meanwhile, Turai’s NGO stressed that it decided to seek redress in court upon discovering that the same piece of land was re-allocated to another organisation sponsored by Jonathan’s wife.
Also joined as defendants in the suit with No. FCT/HC/CV/2591/2010 included the AGF, FCT Minister and the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS.
Sequel to the suit, the court presided by Justice Peter Affen, issued an order barring the FCT Administration, AGIS and the AGF from carrying out further activities at the site.
However, while the order of the court was still subsisting, the defendants in defiance of the said order mobilised people to the site to commence construction work.
The action prompted counsel to WAYE, Innocent Lagi, to initiate contempt proceedings against the respective defendants.
Nevertheless, before hearing could commence on the contempt charge, the AGF, last Friday, approached the court, asking it to vacate the restraining order.
Though Justice Affen ordered that all the necessary parties must be put on notice, the AGF, yesterday, re-approached the court, begging it to allow the matter to be settled-out-of court.
Counsel to the AGF, Mr Baba Sa’idu further told the court that his client had already reached out to the aggrieved party for an amicable settlement of the dispute.
After listening to his submissions, Justice Affen adjourned till September 24 to receive the report of settlement.
Meanwhile, the case been adjourned till September 24, 2012 for report of settlement.
Adducing reasons why the case should be discontinued, Adoke earlier told the court “the previous allocations were duly revoked and a fresh allocation made out to the African Peace Mission in overriding interest.”
“The invitations to the members of the African Union’s First Ladies Peace Mission had already gone out and it would be most humiliating for Nigeria in the diplomatic circle to make an about-turn at this time, given, the time constraint to effect any other changes in venue,” he added.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/turai-vs-patience-fg-opts-for-out-of-court-settlement-of-land-dispute/[/b]Turai vs Patience: FG opts for out-of-court settlement of land dispute
ON JULY 24, 2012 • IN NEWS
10:51 pm
2
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA — In a bid to save Nigeria from further embarrassment, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, Tuesday, urged an Abuja High Court sitting at Bwari to discontinue further hearing on the lingering land dispute between Dame Patience Jonathan and wife of late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua, Turai.
The two women had plunged into cold war after the Certificate of Occupancy for a parcel of land originally allocated to a Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, “The Registered Trustee of Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation, WYEF”, a pet project initiated by Turai Yar’Adua, was revoked by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, and re-awarded to Patience Jonathan for the construction of a secretariat of the “First Ladies Peace Mission.”

Turai Yar’Adua and Dame Patience Jonathan
Specifically, the Registered Trustees of WYEF had applied and was granted an allocation of Plot 1347at the Cadastral Zone A00, Abuja, after paying N184,529,438 as statutory Right of Occupancy and was duly issued with the C of O by the FCT Minister.
Meanwhile, under the terms of grant, the plaintiff was given three years to develop the property based on approved building plans.
After the payments of the various levies, the plaintiff paid additional N76, 936,210.00 as building plan fees after which the grant and approval of the building plans were made and given in line with the master plan for Abuja.
The plaintiff told the court that shortly after it engaged a building company, Al-Cooks Nigeria Limited, to develop the property for N13, 516,013,797.58, the FCT Administration led by Bala Mohammed, on November 1, 2011, asked it to pay additional N18,529,438, which it said was also paid.
It, however, lamented that after the various payments were made, the FCT Minister, without reason, issued a notice of revocation of the said property which it allocated to the plaintiff for the purpose of building public institution (Training/Vocational Centre). It noted that the said letter of revocation was backdated with effect from October 27, 2011.
Meanwhile, Turai’s NGO stressed that it decided to seek redress in court upon discovering that the same piece of land was re-allocated to another organisation sponsored by Jonathan’s wife.
Also joined as defendants in the suit with No. FCT/HC/CV/2591/2010 included the AGF, FCT Minister and the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS.
Sequel to the suit, the court presided by Justice Peter Affen, issued an order barring the FCT Administration, AGIS and the AGF from carrying out further activities at the site.
However, while the order of the court was still subsisting, the defendants in defiance of the said order mobilised people to the site to commence construction work.
The action prompted counsel to WAYE, Innocent Lagi, to initiate contempt proceedings against the respective defendants.
Nevertheless, before hearing could commence on the contempt charge, the AGF, last Friday, approached the court, asking it to vacate the restraining order.
Though Justice Affen ordered that all the necessary parties must be put on notice, the AGF, yesterday, re-approached the court, begging it to allow the matter to be settled-out-of court.
Counsel to the AGF, Mr Baba Sa’idu further told the court that his client had already reached out to the aggrieved party for an amicable settlement of the dispute.
After listening to his submissions, Justice Affen adjourned till September 24 to receive the report of settlement.
Meanwhile, the case been adjourned till September 24, 2012 for report of settlement.
Adducing reasons why the case should be discontinued, Adoke earlier told the court “the previous allocations were duly revoked and a fresh allocation made out to the African Peace Mission in overriding interest.”
“The invitations to the members of the African Union’s First Ladies Peace Mission had already gone out and it would be most humiliating for Nigeria in the diplomatic circle to make an about-turn at this time, given, the time constraint to effect any other changes in venue,” he added.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/turai-vs-patience-fg-opts-for-out-of-court-settlement-of-land-dispute/