₦airaland Forum

chichar1:
Is Dave Umahi doing it with personal money? Is South East people no longer pay tax?

May God really have mercy on you all here, because it's not your fault. Myopic People every where.

EmperorCaesar:
When a group arent civil enough in their dealings, you treat them like rogues


If you arent seeing what Umahi is doing, then you have a big psychological issue


God bless Nigeria

thesicilian:
The fact of the matter is that whether they work together or not, no one can dislodge Tinubu from that seat in 2027. It's just common sense.

A Rivers State high court sitting in Port Harcourt has nullified the congresses of the All Progressives Congress in the state.

The court nullified the congress which produced Chief Tony Okocha, following a contempt of court proceeding filed by the camp of the reinstated chairman of the party in the state, Chief Emeka Beke.

The court had earlier issued an order stopping the conduct of the congresses in the state, but the APC went ahead to hold the exercise.


The embattled members of the party, who had secured the order, had returned to court, notifying it that the party had conducted the congresses despite the valid court order.

Justice Godswill Obomanu, after listening to the presentations and submissions of the counsel, nullified the congresses of the party.

Justice Obomanu expressed dismay at the party for going ahead with the congresses after a court had ordered that status quo be maintained in the matter.

He held that what the APC in the state did was trying to steal a match from the claimants.

The court stayed further proceedings in the matter and adjourned indefinitely.

kedeojo:
It is the foolishness of you people to sit at home out of fear that made ipob members to continue thier atrocities. So until FG security killed those terrorists, you people will still be sitting at home on Mondays. Una too fear joor. It can't happen in south south or south west, when someone not even in Nigeria will be directing and commanding alot of people with few of his boys to kill people. Seyi makinde went so hard on those so called Yoruba agitators. Sunday Igboho was taught a lesson.

IBADAN —YORUBA elders under the auspices of Kaaro Oojiire ÌmÍ Oodua Foundation, KOOOF, yesterday, expressed worry over the rising cases of ritual killing and body parts harvesting in the South West.

The Yoruba elders, in a statement by their Vice President/Diaspora Counsel, Gbenga Adewusi, wondered how cases of human decapitation and harvesting of human bodies have now become a daily occurrence.

Adewusi said: “The recurrence of the activities of those involved in the human ritual in the Southwest is indeed a shameful episode that should no longer be ignored and or swept under the carpet by all stakeholders in Yoruba land.

“What makes the news alarming is the regularity of the sordid and inhuman activities, and the various types of people involved – from Muslim imams to Christian pastors, from teenagers to old and young men and women.

“If urgent actions are not taken it will ultimately affect the peace, tranquillity, progress, and development of the Southwest because no investor wants to invest in an area where citizens are regularly and gruesomely murdered to harvest their body parts.

“The current evidence gleaned from news reports indicate that the majority of those caught by the security services have been Muslim Alfas and Christian pastors. However, this simple fact is not an excuse to exonerate the Yoruba people from the menace of ritual killing because all those caught by the authorities were mostly sons and daughters of the Southwest soil.”

While condemning the act, KOOOF insisted that something urgent needed to be done to bring the scourge to a halt.

“We are all aware that there is a false narrative about ritual killing in the Southwest. The false narrative is that ritual killing is practised by the traditional Yoruba religious believers. This false perception is neither supported with available evidence nor is far separated from the truth.”

“We, members of KOOOF boldly state that there is no money ritual at all. Those engaged in ritual killings for money are not practising the authentic Yoruba tradition.”

Paraman:
If Okpehbolo is in the LP, obidients will be supporting his action

cr7lomo:
Nnpc under this yoruba Ronaldo government are bunch of thieves ... I got fuel in festac when I went to visit a relative for 1025 in an independent filling station...only for me to see fuel at 1065 at NNPc in lekki ikota area ... NNPC has never been more expensive than any filling station since inception over 15yrs ago ...

Wyttcat:
Shut the hell up! The word 'bolekaja' is not what you kobokobo can be throwing around.

maasoap:
Lol. What about the ones who didn't come from APC or PDP and the ones who were not defeated and not mercilessly beaten black and blue but have nonetheless dumped LP?

JASONjnr:
My concern is a better Nigeria which he's promised.... And looking at the steps so far, I believe he will achieve it.

Man is very intelligent and knows how to romance the entire North.


I doubt iff any Southerner will be able to handle the North the way Tinubu is doing.

No wonder Kenneth Okonkwo left Peter Obi,...

The creation of the regional commission is a step forward to regional government.

Racoon:
Hian! No the SE is the most unsafe and militarized region in Nigeria.

illicit:
That's very smart and tactical

Insurgents and separatists might have planned to ambush him hence the low profile


Sense...

The 18 suspended local government chairmen in Edo State on Wednesday dared the State House of Assembly, insisting that they can’t be suspended or removed from office.

DAILY POST reported that the council chairmen were on Tuesday suspended for two months by the House over alleged misconduct.

The lawmakers took the decision while acting on a petition by Governor Monday Okpebholo against the council chairmen.

The LG chairmen, under the aegis of the Edo State chapter of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria, ALGON, kicked against their suspension at a press briefing in Benin City.

Newman Ugiagbe, the chairman of Orhionmwon LGA, who briefed the press, stressed that their purported suspension by the House of Assembly on Tuesday, December 17, 20204, was a violation of court orders.

Ugiagbe, who is also the Edo State chairman of ALGON, said the tenure of the council chairmen who were sworn in on September 4, 2023, would only come to an end in 2025.

He posited that their purported suspension from office by the State House of Assembly was unconstitutional, ultra vires, null and void, and of no effect whatsoever.

According to him, the Edo State High Court had in suits filed against the state government and the House of Assembly ordered the defendants not to dissolve the democratically elected council executives on or before the expiration of their three-year tenure.

The state ALGON chairman averred that the association on December 17, 2024, served a reminder on the Speaker of the House, to inform him of another suit numbered B/3070s/2024, instituted against the governor, Okpebholo.

He said in the suit, the state High Court 2, granted the chairmen an interim order restraining the defendants from interfering with, obstructing, and disturbing the claimants of exercise of their constitutional rights over all assets and funds allocated to them from the Federation Account.

He added that the courts restrained the defendants from suspending, removing, redeploying, meddling, or in a manner interfering with them in the administration and management of their councils.

Ugiagbe further referred a Supreme Court judgment in a case between the Attorney-General of the Federation and that of Abia State and 36 others where the apex court removed the powers of the 36 state governors and House of Assembly, or acting through their privies, to dissolve or interfere in local government administration or management by using state powers derivable from laws enacted by the House of Assembly or (anyhow so-called or executive orders/other actions (anyhow so-called).

“From the foregoing, the 18 Local government elected in the election of September 2, 2023, and sworn into office on September 4, 2024, remain the executive chairmen of our respective local government councils and we are going on with our constitutional responsibility as the chief executive officers of our councils.

“From the foregoing, it is given that the action of the Edo State House of Assembly on Tuesday, December 17, 2024, in response to the request from Governor Monday Okpebholo, suspending the chairmen/ vice chairmen is ultra vires and therefore a nullity because it is based on nothing in the eyes of the law. It is also a contempt against the orders of the courts,” he said.

Ugiagbe called on security agencies, and other institutions of government saddled with the responsibility of enforcing law or order to protect all assets and buildings of the local government councils.

He requested the deployment of security personnel to all 18 Local government secretariats in defense of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, that is being allegedly impeded by the Edo State House of Assembly.

Ugiagbe noted that the deployment of security personnel would help to create an enabling environment for the smooth discharge of the functions for which they were sworn in as duly elected political office holders.

DAILY POST recalls that the Edo State House of Assembly had on Tuesday, December 17, 2024, at the plenary suspended the 18 Local government chairmen and their deputies following a petition written against them by Governor Monday Okpebholo.

The governor had in the petition accused the council executives of insubordination and gross misconduct.

He alleged that the council chairmen refused to submit the financial account statements of their various local governments to the State Asset Verification Committee.