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who gives a shit where anyone resides

@poster

now are becoming very childish

so Mr Linxon - what do u have in mind

Are u really a Ghanaian. I dont think you are educated at all. The fact that you have met bad people does not necessarily make everyone bad. For your information i have met quite of number of dodgy Ghanaians but i will not stereotype as i believe every one should be given a chance to prove themself.

londoner:
Nigerians can not do much about the current electoral system. However they can stop the willingness to be used in preventing it from working properly.

I feel Nigerians have to take their share of the blame for the leaders they have. Its like saying Ghanaians or Americans had no say or responsibility for their new governments. They did, and they realised it at the critical time. In both countries they snatched power away from the ruling party, to elect two individuals who were relatively unknown when compared to their opponents.

The majority spoke in one voice. The only people speaking with one voice and one goal in Nigeria are the ruling elites, and today they are more powerful than the populace who outnumber them by hundreds of millions.

Until Nigerians realise it is their collective lack of responsibility that has helped keep the status quo, they will continue to suffer. Thats fact.

You have spent to much time abroad and now you are seeing  london bridges in your dream.  Please let me remind  you.  Your so called elites have deprived the people so much that we have lost our ability to think thus leading the same confused people to go back to the elites to beg for food.  Dear friend it is a hopeless situation.  Nobody wants to die it is far easier for me and you to say to the people "go and fight for your rights from overseas. " I stongly believe that the elites have systems in place which weakens one's might

@ikey

please apologise - u can go round calling people "slowpoke" u will derail the thread

thanks

@kobo

what is your point? We all know everything u highlighted. Until she comes out with a press statement nobody knows.

thanks

I suspect the only reason why she resigned without announcing the result: she simply feared for life. I am sure pdp wouldnot have tolerated her any longer.

where is becomerich when you need him . Igbos are claiming nobody owns lagos. Please come quickly. LOl

Treetop20:
i think it is actually worth that and even more.

plain looking video - no special effects at all - u must be her manager.

this thread is full of perverts. I am sure this girl is only 15 or 16

McKren:
I am one of those who think putting our electoral woes on Maurice Iwu alone is an over simplification of the matter.

But on the merit of his reaction to the Ekiti Saga, and the role he seems to be playing . . . . . . . . . I think it is time for Prof. Iwu to give way for another person to try.

He should either resign or be fired by the appropriate authorities.

i feel your pain iwu is just a pawn and would simply be replaced by another pawn. I argued until we fix certain underlying factors (such as having an independent chairman not appointed by the president) Nigeria can never get it right.

That News brings little hope.

Kobojunkie:
Doctored results? I suspect that even if they were not doctored, we would somehow claim they are.

@Poster, so what if there are PDP supporters out there? Anywho, I have asked this question so many times now. Is there proof to support all the claims made so far of elections being rigged? I mean we seem to jump to conclude that the elections were rigged if our candidate of choice were to loose, but knowing now that there are actually people who support the other side, do you still believe this?

I speak for Ekiti and not the rest of Nigeria -  It is clearly known fact that the people choice in Ekiti is Kayode fayemi.

Truequest:
Sad! Sad!! Sad!!!,
What is History meant for please?
Don' our leaders read History?
If they do, why have they learnt nothing?
Khaki boys are watching ooo!
But God forbid that they truncate this democracy sorry civil rule.

at this rate of madness - i will be happy to have them back.

why is she pushing the wall?

63 wards causing all this drama . No hope for 2011 highest rigger wins

ibto75:
it is better she resigned.
it is  now very hard for them to announce the result because everybody know  what happened.
Nigeria need prayer  otherwise this democracy will collaspe.
Now that she has resigned , who is qualified by LAW to announce the result

do you actually think this people care? -

toba1909:
BREAKING NEWS!!!

The REC chairperson of Ekiti State, Mrs Adebayo has resigned amid threats to her life.

Whats democracy turning to in Nigeria?

It is over if this is true - the bad have triumphed over good.

thanks

what ide are u using .

desgiezd:
At all times, this country continues to work against the interest of her citizens. Since they are soldiers, are they now supposed to behave as zombies even when their allowances were diverted and shouldn't ask for same? They left their families and put their lives on the line for other people who are not even citizens of their countries and the reward? Life imprisonment. This is too emotional for me, I'm really fighting back tears here. Why does justice keep walking on its head in this country? I am sure the senior ones among these soldiers would have long collected their own allowances for the same operation they went for. This injustice should not stand.

Lord have mercy!!

Well said.

please dont waste your tears. Some argue " dont tag Nigeria as a failed state" but Nigeria is behaving like a failed state.

Please people manage your expectations - what  do you expect from a bunch of corrupt political officals to do.  They way this thing is being currently staged it looks likely that the Oni has won the election.  We can either turn to the following 1. Civil Disorder  or 2.  the Justice system.

no comments yet - waiting for others to post a comment

can you recommend any good asp.net books

@luca

what is happening 0- that is a big Reply - need to get my glasses and dictionary to dissect and digest it

lol

asha 80:
It is not a matter whether he is praying for it to happen.More will happen.

no doubt we all know bad things will happen if the underlying factors are not corrected but do we have pray for it to come quickly

it is well.

more laws but no effective implementation strategies on ground.

toni o.:
Shame on INEC shame on PDP shame on Yaradua, sometimes i feel like weeping for this country does it mean that INEC and the Nigerian Police with all their assumed preparation and noise cannot hold a credible election in 64 wards and 200,000 people. This was the same INEC that said they are more than capable of holding elections in 36 states.
I thot that within hours the results would have been announced beyond doubt and complaints by any party, Alas how wrong i was, the REC is sick, the remaining elections will be held indefinitely, these pple think they are fooling NIgerians but it only shows how foolish they actually are, God help Nigeria, as 4 me, i've given up!!!!!!!

please dont waste your tears - for Nigeria to get back some underlying factor needs to be corrected. it looks like people have high expectations from a crooked bunch. which is sad .

Hello No - I believe it just a mere execrise as along you are chanting any incantations

udezue:
That is what Nigeria should be like.

Would you stop having fantasies

I am so worried about the above - it might breed an atmosphere for Coups.

The Brig.-Gen. Ishaya Bauka-led court martial on Monday sentenced 27 former United Nations peacekeepers to life imprisonment for protesting the non-payment of their peacekeeping allowances.
Some of the soldiers sentenced to life imprisonment while arriving for judgment at the 323 Artillery Regiment, Akure, Ondo State ,  on Monday.

The convicts include three female members of the peace operation.

The court, however, discharged and acquitted one of the 28 accused soldiers, Lance Corporal Bala Aliyu, for want of evidence.

The female soldiers, Yetunde Olanihun, Mary Idoko and Esther Nkawor, and other convicted soldiers who have been in detention since July 2008, did not betray any emotion as the court handed them the maximum punishment for their offence.

The defence counsel, Mr. Femi Falana, who appeared briefly during the judgment, described it as a charade, saying the soldiers would appeal the judgment.

Falana had accused the president of the court martial of bias during the hearing.

He claimed that Bauka had said that no matter what, the soldiers would be punished for protesting. The human rights lawyer and the president of the court martial had an altercation during the hearing which led to Bauka walked away from the court.

In a judgment that was read for more than five hours, the president of the court martial said that the prosecution team, led by Lt.-Col. Sampson Nurseman, proved beyond reasonable doubt that the 27 soldiers, who served in the United Nations Mission in Liberia, were guilty of a one count charge of mutiny levelled against them.

The court held that the soldiers violated Section 12 subsection 2 of the Armed Forces Act of 2004.

It added that the punishment prescribed by the law was life imprisonment for the offenders, subject to the confirmation by the superior authorities.

The 27 soldiers jailed for life include Sergeant Oliver Akwara, Corporals Princewill Onwunari, Corporals Abass Saliu and Paul Maikudi.

Others are Lance Corporals Umar Abdukadir, Musa Salisu, Paschal Steven, Ibrahim Yusuf Loveday Nnadi, Yomi Ibukun, Bello Zaharadeen, Okani Pope, Wanogho Shadrack, Lawal Abubakar, Innocent Egbuna and John Felix.

The rest are Kabiru Mohammed, Chukwudi Onwukanjo, Samuel Ogbe, Jonathan Komo, Adaraloye Olalekan, Salisu Ibrahim, Anthogah Jonathan and Kelechi Anukan.

All the soldiers served under Lt. Col.-Godwin Umelo in NIBATT 15 at the United Nations Missions in Liberia.

Bauka held that the soldiers disobeyed the order of the commanding officer of the 323 Artillery Regiment, Akure, Ondo State, where they staged a public protest to press for the payment of their compulsory savings.

Bauka said, “A junior serving personnel is bound to obey the order of their superior once the order is legal. The refusal to obey the order fails to meet the military standard.”

The soldiers had during the trial said that they were arrested at random, adding that one of the officers collected a bribe of $150 from some of those arrested for the same offence.

They stated that the officer freed those who paid the bribe and refused to let go those of them who refused to cooperate with him.

But while the soldiers were jailed for life, the officers who were responsible for the mix-up which triggered the protest were given a very light punishment.

The Army paying team, led by Lt. Col. Paul Baba, who was the Deputy Director at the Army Finance Corps, Abuja, was said to have wrongly paid the allowance of the convicted soldiers to members of NIBATT 14, including the commanding officer who were drawn from the 72 Para-Battalion, Makurdi, Benue State .

Baba and other paying officers and the former Commanding Officer of 72 Para-Battallion, Col. A. Awotoye, were charged with cheating, stealing and negligence of duty before the same court martial. They were, however, punished by demotion, while the 27 soldiers were jailed for life.

Falana, while praying for freedom for the soldiers, told the court that the prosecution failed woefully to prove the offence of mutiny against the accused persons.

He said that although the ex-peacekeepers protested the illegal diversion of their allowances, none of them engaged in violence or any act capable of putting the Nigerian Army in imminent danger. The lawyer added that the accused persons did not conspire with foreign forces to subvert the sovereignty of Nigeria.

Falana also told the court that the accused persons had constitutional right to protest as provided under Section 38 and 40 of 1999 Constitution, arguing that as soldiers, they could not be denied of this right as citizens of Nigeria.

He said, “ The conduct of the accused persons cannot be classified as mutiny. By virtue of Section (52) (3) of the Armed Forces Act, a mere protest by soldiers is not a mutiny because ingredients of the offence of mutiny have been judicially defined in the case of CPL Segun Oladele and 22 Others versus Nigerian Army (2004)”

He said that Oladele’s case had to do with a similar protest by 23 soldiers over the illegal seizure of their estacode and lack of adequate medical treatment after serving Africa in ECOMOG Peace Keeping Force in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The 23 soldiers were tried, convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, including life imprisonment, but the Court of Appeal set aside their conviction and the sentences passed on them.

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200904283573534

emmydee:
@ poster

dont even go there. nigeria is a failed nation, so these and more are d sort of things found in a failed state.
u have seen anything yet.

Are you by any chance praying for more bad things to happen?