₦airaland Forum

So..
In Summary..

It is not Really MANDATORY (it's not even necessary in any way) for the Nigerian Government to have any input towards the independence of any of the part of its territory that is seeking independence --- no matter what the Nigerian Constitution says.


All that matters is for there to be a New Constitution for the new Independent Territory, and a new Government which takes its strength and functionality from the new constitution.

THE PROCESS OF SELF-DETERMINATION --
(Political Philosophy)

**(Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.)

Self-determination, the process by which a group of people, (usually possessing a certain degree of national consciousness), form their own state and choose their own government.

As a political principle, the idea of self-determination evolved at first as a by-product of the doctrine of nationalism, to which early expression was given by the French and American revolutions.

In World-War-I the Allies accepted self-determination as a peace aim. In his Fourteen Points -- the essential terms for peace -- The U.S. President Woodrow Wilson listed self-determination as an important objective for the postwar world; the result was the fragmentation of the old Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires and Russia’s former Baltic territories into a number of new states.


After World-War-II, promotion of self-determination among subject peoples became one of the chief goals of the United Nations (UN). The UN’s predecessor, the League of Nations, had also recognized the principle, but it was in the UN that the idea received its clearest statement and affirmation.

The UN Charter clarifies two meanings of the term self-determination.
First, a state is said to have the right of self-determination in the sense of having the right to choose freely its political, economic, social, and cultural systems.
Second, the right to self-determination is defined as the right of a people to constitute itself in a state or otherwise freely determine the form of its association with an existing state.

Both meanings have their basis in the charter (Article-1, Paragraph-2; and Article-55, Paragraph-1).

With respect to dependent territories, the charter asserts that administering authorities should undertake to ensure political advancement and the development of self-government
(Article-73, paragraphs-a and b; and Article-76, paragraph-b).

Source:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/self-determination

DissTroy:
For remote workers or people who work a lot from home, use co-working spaces at intervals. Asides shielding you from nosy envious neighbours, it helps you connect with people with like minds to balance your social life.

Work some days at home and work in co-working spaces on other days. Or if you have friends who are also techies living close to you, you guys can work some days rotatingly at each other's apartments. One week or three days rotation. Helps balance your social life too.
You can talk about the fine girl your friend just met , or some crazy thing politicians are up to, or some Twitter trend while you work. Fun too. Then you go home to your nosy neighbours not getting into your business.

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SOCIAL LIFE.

IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH NOSY NEVER-MINDING-THEIR-BUSINESS NEIGHBOURS.

nlfpmod:
....
.…..“the leader took me to one corner and started giving me lectures on how wrong it is for me to resist a police officer.”....

Credit: Omo GbajaBiamila

He forgot to complete this line.

He forgot to add “a police officer on duty”.
And police officers on duty wear their full uniforms with their force-numbers and name tags clearly visible..


If they were on an tactical operation,, then, they should be wearing their tactical gears.
And they should have an official police badges.


If they were on a spy mission...
Even though they wore mufti,, they should all have their official police badges too.

WeNoGoDie:
Who is we. Please speak for yourself. 80% of Africans struggle under the poverty line and you guys make a blanket assumption based on the 20% that are living larger

You say 20% are living large?

18% are within the average.


Only 2% are the actual ones living large.

MALLEOLUS2017:
And you came back under Tinubu's government Ah!!!. Seems your inactivity will soon be reactivated oooo.

And then,, that his Sanity which he was protecting would finally sanitize well well

TheAdvocate:
The case will not be against the judges but the court. The Chief Registrar is the chief accounting officer that tells you something.

Ok..

So, in summary, it is very possible to take the Supreme Court to Court?

They voted wisely sef to start with??

Mynd44

Lalasticlala, Seun, Nlfpmod.

ijustdey:
https://punchng.com/alleged-sexual-harassment-army-detains-female-soldiers-son-after-punch-interview/

Once I saw that video on TIKTOK,, I immediately knew that this woman's story will be veeerryy looonngg..

They will still wipe her off when the tides are down, and make it look like suicide.
And the news will be everywhere that she committed suicide.

dettolgel:
I dey europa. The thing is this is a faceless forum that is the joy of it. It I drop my number na im be say the cat is out of the bag. I no go fit dey knack some rude people akpoko for nairaland again. I hope say u understand my position.

Many of them had been trying seriously to use coded style to get my number in the guise of chatting better with me on whatsapp..

Iffaaii-hear.!!

dettolgel:
.

Konji owe you? enter town if you stop four chicka today you go fit collect at least 1 number. If you play your card well before the week runs out you go chop clean mouth.

I no wan laugh abbegg

...

But wait ooo..!!


If the Auditor-General takes the Supreme Court and the Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC) to Court,, sheeyy the case will still later get to the same Supreme Court.??

AND THEN,, THE SAME SUPREME COURT JUDGES WILL STILL HEAR IT AND PASS THE JUDGEMENT.??

***This is supposed to be within the Buhari’s Regime, if I'm correct.

THE NIGERIAN SUPREME COURT SPENT N12BN ILLEGALLY IN 5 YEARS, AUDIT REPORT REVEALS.



Nigeria’s Supreme Court spent over N12 billion in breach of financial regulations for five years, the latest audit report of the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (OAuGF) has revealed.



The funds should be recovered and remitted to the treasury by the Chief Registrar of the court, the audit report, released in December 2023, recommended.


The report essentially covers the expenditures and finances of ministries, departments and agencies of the federal government for the 2020 fiscal year, but for the Supreme Court, it stretches forward and backwards to touch on some major payments and transactions executed from 2017 to 2021.


The current Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Hajo Sarki-Bello, assumed office in 2021, a year after the alleged infractions took place under Hadizatu Uwani-Mustapha.


Mrs Uwani-Mustapha, who was the Supreme Court’s chief registrar for most of the period when the flagged transactions took place, retired from the court as Chief Registrar in June 2021.

Walter Onnoghen, who was the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) between 2016 and 2019, and his successor Tanko Muhammad, who was CJN between 2019 and 2022, oversaw the Supreme Court during the period of the controversial payments and transactions spotlighted by Nigeria’s auditor-general.

Mr Muhammad abruptly resigned from office, citing health issues in June 2022, amid a raging, unprecedented protest from his colleague justices of the Supreme Court about his handling of the finances and other affairs of the court at the time.

Highlights of the issues raised concerning the transactions totalling N12.335 billion in the 2020 audit report include – payments for contracts without budgetary provisions, diversion of government assets for private use, inflation of contract price, irregular award of contracts and overpayment to contractors, among others.


In one of the key violations of extant regulations, the report revealed that the Supreme Court appropriated and received the sum of N645 million for the procurement of broadcast equipment in 2017.

However, the court failed to produce “relevant documents such as vouchers, vote book, store receipt vouchers, store ledger and invoices” for audit.

Following the silence of the court to provide any explanation for its failure to tender the documents, the audit report attributed the “anomalies” to “weaknesses in the internal control system at the Supreme Court.”

Also, the report said, contrary to constitutional provisions and financial regulations, the court funnelled over N10.223 billion through 124 vouchers to “various beneficiaries” in 2020. But the paid vouchers and other supporting documents were not presented for audit, the report said.

Citing a case of irregular award of contract and overpayment to a contractor, the report requested the Chief Registrar to justify the sum of N826.75 million to the National Assembly.

In addition, it asked the Supreme Court’s chief registrar, who is the accounting officer of the court to recover the N826.75 million and remit it to the national coffers, as failure to do so would attract statutory sanctions in the Financial Regulations (2009).

Narrating the circumstances around the issue of overpayment to a contractor, the report revealed that a contract was awarded for the construction of an access road to justices’ quarters (Yellow Houses) in Abuja in April 2021, the twilight of Ms Uwani-Mustapha’s exit from the Supreme Court.

The contract was awarded at the cost of N990 million (N990,494,207.80 in total). The level of work done was valued at 50 per cent, which should have amounted to N495 million (N495,247,103.90).

But “the contractor was paid N827 million (N827,075,713.04 in total) being 83.5 per cent of the contract sum resulting in an overpayment of N331,815,559.61,” the report said, adding that the court offered no explanation for the violation.

In another instance, the court awarded contracts totalling N371.5 million (N371,541,636 in total) for supplies, works and services in 2017 without budgetary provisions.

However, payments amounting to N112 million (N112,117,106.37) were made in 2018, 2019 and 2020 “with no evidence of appropriation.”

The report also uncovered the sale of four landed properties belonging to the court in Lagos.

The plots of land located at 72 Alexander Avenue, 2 Club Road, 20 Cameron Road and 15 Ikoyi Crescent, all in Abuja, were “disposed of without following due process.”

It added that “evidence of the disposal such as authorisation, report from board of survey, engagement of auctioneers, advertisement, proceeds from disposal, among others were not produced for audit.”

In a case of illegal possession of government property, the report said the Supreme Court paid over N3 billion for 45 vehicles between the 2017 and 2021 fiscal years.

Giving details of the vehicle purchase, the report disclosed that 18 of the 45 vehicles costing over N515 million were attached to seven justices of the Supreme Court for official use.

But after the justices retired from the court, the official cars attached to them were not returned for inspection, a scenario the report described as “diversion of government assets for private use.”

In the myriad of violations detailed by the audit report, the court management responded to the issue of justices’ retirement with official vehicles attached to them.

“The vehicles are part of Supreme Court justices’ entitlements,” the court responded in the report.

But it kept mum on other egregious violations in the report.

Lawyers and anti-corruption activists have questioned the illegality of the National Judicial Council (NJC) in concealing the judiciary’s budget details from public scrutiny, even sometimes doing so in resistance to Freedom of Information requests.

The extent of NJC’s desperation to keep details of its finances away from the public became clearer in 2022, when the then Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, challenged it to open its budget for the sake of transparency.

Amid the secrecy of the budgets and finances of the judiciary which the NJC helps to sustain, allegations of corruption and mismanagement of funds, sometimes coming from highly placed insiders, hover over the judiciary.

In May 2022, a retiring Justice of the Supreme Court, Ejembi Eko, in his valedictory speech, lamented the corruption in the handling of the finances of the judiciary.

He, therefore, called on anti-graft agencies to probe the financial records of the judiciary.

“Nothing stops the office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, the ICPC and other investigatory agencies from opening the books of the judiciary to expose the corruption in the management of their budgetary resources,” Mr Eko had said.

“That does not compromise the independence of the judiciary. Rather, it promotes accountability.”

It would take just a month after Mr Eko’s invitation to the anti-corruption agencies to probe the finances of the judiciary for internal rumblings about corruption and suspicions of financial mismanagement within the Supreme Court to implode.

In June 2022, in an unprecedented protest letter to then CJN, Tanko Muhammad, 14 Justices of the Supreme Court demanded “to know what has become of our training funds,” and asked rhetorically, “Have they been diverted, or is it a plain denial?”

Later that year in September, one of the justices who authored the protest letter, Abdu Aboki, took advantage of his valedictory speech while retiring from the Supreme Court bench, to press for financial transparency and accountability in the judiciary.

Under the part of his valedictory speech which he sub-titled, ‘My valedictory messages to the nation and judiciary in particular,’ Mr Aboki called on “those in charge of administering the funds allocated to the judiciary” in Nigeria “to be prudent, transparent and accountable.”

In a more direct and critical tone, another Justice of the Supreme Court, Dattijo Muhammad, while retiring as the second most senior justice of the court in October 2023, alleged widespread corruption in the Nigerian Supreme Court and down the hierarchy of the judiciary.

Mr Muhammad was one of the 14 Supreme Court justices who authored the protest letter sent to then CJN, Tanko Muhammad, in June 2022. But as of the time of Dattijo Muhammad’s retirement in October last year, Olukayode Ariwoola, who led the pack of the 14 protesting justices more than a year earlier, had taken over from Tanko Muhammad as the CJN.

Turning on the handlers of the funds allocated to the judiciary in his valedictory speech last October, Dattijo Muhammad said despite the “phenomenal” increase in the judiciary’s budgets over the years, there had been no commensurate improvement in the welfare of judges.

He similarly called for a probe of the judiciary’s handling of its funds.

He said, “unrelenting searchlight need to be beamed to unravel how the sums are expended.”

With the Supreme Court’s silence over the infractions highlighted in the latest audit report, Nigeria’s auditor-general’s office requested the chief registrar to account, recover and remit the funds into the federation account.

It specifically asked the chief registrar to show proof of compliance with the recommendations to the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly.

But this is not the first time the office of the Auditor-General of the Federation has indicted ministries, departments and agencies of government over serious violations of financial regulations.

But the recommendations of the audit reports are never implemented by the National Assembly, or taken up by Nigeria’s law enforcement agencies, a development that has emboldened public institutions to perpetrate grand corruption in the form of diversion of public funds.

Source:
https://thenigerialawyer.com/nigerian-supreme-court-spent-n12bn-illegally-in-5-years-audit-report-reveals/

zadokchidi:
Depend on area...in my area ozara oru West imo state is 300k

This 2024?

femi4:
250k

Well??

Or Borehole?

Make I learn.

..


.

dettolgel:
I be man wey straight

Ok.

I been think say na woman

dettolgel:
My brother I understand you position I be 042 boy too. I love 042 and my mind no dey sweet for all the yeye things wey don dey happen for 042. Nobody want make their states be like Imo state for sure Even APC member wey dey support Hope them too no go want make their state dey like Imo state.

Where you be dey hang when you dey 042?

You be mail?
Or abi na fimail?

AntiChristian:
They are sinless just like Jesus!

Ok.
Case Closed

Ibrahimcoomasie:
In a reply to this front page post below. INEC debunked the news 17 hours ago that the said man is not an INEC staff.


Mynd44 fergie001 nlfpmod

THE SIMPLEST QUESTION IS THIS..

HOW DID THE MAN GET HOLD OF THE ORIGINAL BALLOT-PAPERS.??
HOW DID HE EVEN GET HOLD OF THE ORIGINAL RESULTS-SHEETS WHICH THE ENUGU STATE REC SAID THAT WAS MISSING.??

WAS HE THE SO-CALLED E.O WHO TOOK THEM AND ABSCONDED.?

Why are they not making efforts to arrest the imposter??

You see, things are not adding up here.

Released?

Or

Rescued??

NIGERIA POLICE FORCE SAID THEY WERE RESCUED,, and that they arrested the Kidnappers.

dettolgel:
Was it not from this your same mouth you people asked them to vote and go through the system to ask for referendum through elective representatives?

No wonder people say that Yorubas have tongue like snakes - speaking from both sides of the mouth.

Relaxx..

The Yorubas quickly forget what they said some days ago.

This election just exposed them in full.
Onanuga, FFK, Keyamo, etc..
Don't ever trust them.

They can always change their direction anyhow without remorse.

AntiChristian:
Na true. Igbos will still speak up against Ojukwu and Nnamdi their two gods!

Wetin Ojukwu do?
Wetin Nnamdi do?

Say it all out,, and we will call them out mercilessly.

APCNig:
So it is Yorubas that are rigging elections in Enugu. Take your drugs oooooo, because the psychiatric hospitals are full

Wait.
Is “Agbado People” the same thing as “Yorubas”.??

Answer this question first before I can comment further.

mrvitalis:
If I ever run for an election I would tell my supporters

1) make sure INEC staffs uploads the results before leaving or force them to cancel the election.. If they refuse beat them like a thief 100% jungle justice let DSS do their worse

2) don't go home escort your votes to the ward level , don't allow INEC go alone follow them escort them to the ward

Make sure u view the ward results for your unit

3) March from the ward to LGA head office block everywhere till you all confirm your ward results in the LGA results

Snap the LGA results, video the INEC officers read out the results

After this allow them go to the state they can't do anything again

This means,, any candidate that doesn't have enough money to pay to many party-agents to cover the whole process is as-good-as CHEATED.!!

yussybenayu:
your agents may not stand for you if you don't have the resources to match what they might have been offered by the ruling party. It is for this reason BVAS was introduced but sadly greedy judges refused to give it legal backing because of behind closed doors arrangements between then and the ruling class. Only the judiciary can stop this obvious mess

See Surulere..
They didn't have money to pay for party agents.
And thus, whatever they announced, we must take, because there are supposed to be party agents who would have prevented any attempt at wrong-doing.

HardMirror:
misleading. They took the ballot box inside to protect it. this is a lie from obidients. That is not snatching. Please watch the video


Obidients and

Lies

Lies

Lies

Sensationalism

So protecting the ballot box from the roudy crowd is ballot snatching. What are the police supposed to do? Just stand there and watch?




Fact.
All polititicians are same. All of the are liars. Beats my imagination that obidients think they are better. Look at them spreading propaganda. How is this box snatching?

According to the Electoral-Laws...
Are the security personnel supposed to TOUCH the Ballot Box??

HardMirror:
wetin concern agbado here. Did you not see it is pdp rigging and it is igbo man doing his brothers

Agbadorians love supporting evil political mechanisms..
(No matter which side it is coming from)

Harbay0101:
Kinikan kinikan APC rigged the election already, but the filled result sheet is announcing PDP

Who mentioned APC anywhere there?