₦airaland Forum

axortedbabe:
This one dey Instagram..
How him go take concentrate for him studies..
Anyways..their pack of cabin biscuits

na him parents go de handle the account.

So? Whose father is not the best?

whizbee:
finally,a celebrity with a reality intuition talks, time for people to receive sense

nothing about her has ever been this deep. Nice one!

Toto dik-related news? Seun's crush. Na fp get this tori so. Make I tanda gidigba for hia first.

God knows I prefer 'sons' more, but if I'm blessed with 'cuties' like these, I thank him.

What's 'naked' here when I can't even see the main things?

In their father's houses.

Christianity as a religion has now assumed that comedy ingredients due to actions of some pastors and the adherents of the religion .



When it comes to religion ,the blackman is stvpid!

That's good.

Scam!

All of the above( hit and miss)!

sameer1212:
The earlier IPOBS/Wailers realise PDP is dead and buried,the better for them.

God bless Nigeria.

In another news, Awon Leicester ti take EPL over.

*I missed sir Alex ferguson*

I can't wait for them to take over.

gentlezypher:
always finding loop holes to endorse electoral Malpractice!!! supreme court=tennis court

MrBendel:
But is there a procedure for accreditation in the electoral act? Even though manual? The supreme Court cannot assume that even voter in the voter register will vote on election day. So in hindsight, they are giving room for rigging, until the docile national assembly decide to make it in hr law to use the card reader. This will remain mess. Your country

I expect INEC to have gone to NASS to seek amendment of the electoral act with a view to incorporate the use of card reader and other technologies before the elections in Ondo and Edo.

ogmaskman:
But this has nothing to do with the violent part of the elections. Many pple lost their lives and nothing was said about that. Recall the elections petition tribunals of akwa ibom and rivers moved to abj because of violence during the elections. Having explained the reason for discarding the card reader they shuld do same for ignoring the violence and over voting which characterised the elections in some disputed states.

I think I'm just being soft on them as regards the use of card reader, but as for violence and non-compliance with guidelines, SC misfired on that.

vsaintchigs:
lols non laws students or lawyers would not understand hence the bashing taking place below,however i will give an abridged version later

the lines in bold makes it easy for anyone to understand the position of the SC.

ozoigbondu:
Jega should be jailed for wasting millions to purchase a useless thing

cos he helped to unseat his 'lordship in corruption' aka ineffectual-B?

Go and die

Angelberry:
wow! very long but I'll try and read it

yeah, it is, but you have something to learn from it. I had to put it all out here cos as much as I hate the judgements , this report changed my thoughts about them.
I don't think if you read this, you have any reason to wait for details that will be released on 12th of this month.


Where's lalasticlala and mynd44 sef? Keneking , help me call them abeg.

Hab you reforted yourself at Magun’s oppice?

this got me laughing.

likila:
this man must be illiterattte.
so because you did not find address you say it does not exist.
so because you could not find a person, you say the person is fictitious?
which school you go to at all?

read the whole report again.

The Supreme Court, yesterday, explained why it has not accorded any probative value on reports from Card Reader Machines that were deployed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, during the 2015 general elections.


The apex court, yesterday, maintained that though the use of the Electronic Card Reader Machine for accreditation of voters was provided for in the Approved Guidelines and Regulations for the conduct of the 2015 general elections, it said the device was never “intended to supplant, displace or supersede” the Voters’ Register.
It observed that the issue had resulted to various Divisions of the Court of Appeal, giving divergent interpretations on election disputes that were brought before them by appellants.

“True, indeed, the Card Reader Machine traces its paternity to the above Guidelines and Regulations. Regrettably, its probative pedestal in the vocabulary of electoral jurisprudence has generated conflicting interpretations from Their Lordships of the different Divisions of the Court of Appeal”, the Supreme Court noted.

“Prior to the authorisation of its use by the Guidelines and Manual (supra), the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended), in sections 49 (1) and (2), had ordained an analogue procedure for the accreditation process. As a corollary to the procedure outline above, section 53(2) of the said Act (that is, the Electoral Act) enshrined the consequences for the breach, negation or violation of the sanctity of the actual poll sequel to the consummation of the accreditation procedure in section 49 (supra).

A seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court, led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, made the position of the court on the matter known, while adducing reasons why the election of Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State was upheld.
According to Justice Chima Centus Nweze who delivered the lead judgment, “With the intervention of this court, in its recent decision in Shinkafi v Yari (supra), it is hoped that practitioners and all other courts will begin to appreciate the position of the said Card Reader Machine, and the Reports generated therefrom, in election litigation.

“With the advantage of hindsight, INEC, pursuant to its powers under the said Electoral Act, authorised the deployment of the said Card Readers.

[b]“Even with the introduction of the said device, that is the Card Reader Machine, the National Assembly, in its wisdom, did not deem it necessary to bowdlerise the said analogue procedure in section 49 from the Act so that the Card Reader procedure would be the sole determinant of a valid accreditation process.

“Contrariwise, from the Corrigendum No 2, made on March 28, 2015, amending paragraph 13(b) of the Approved Guidelines, it stands to reason that the Card Reader was meant to supplement the Voter’ Register and was never designed or intended to supplant, displace or supersede it.


“Indeed, since the Guidelines and Manual, which authorised the use and deployment of the electronic Card Reader Machine, were made in exercise of the powers conferred by the Electoral Act, the said Card Reader cannot, logically, depose or dethrone the Voters’ Register whose judicial roots are, firmly, embedded or entrenched in the selfsame Electoral Act from which it )the Voters’ Register). Directly, derives its sustenance and currency.

“Thus, any attempt to invest it (the Card Reader Machine procedure) with such overreaching pre-eminence or superiority over the Voters’ Register is like converting an auxiliary procedure- into the dominant procedure- of proof, that is, proof of accreditation.[/b]

“This is a logical impossibility. Indeed, only recently, this court in Shinkafi vs Yari, confirmed the position that the Card Reader Machine has not supplanted the statement of results in appropriate forms; hence, the appellant still had the obligation to prove petition relating to accreditation of voters and over-voting as enunciated in several decisions of this court”, Justice Nweze added.
More so, using the Ebonyi state gubernatorial dispute as an instance, the apex court panel noted that the Head of Unit, ICT Data Management at INEC headquarters, who testified as the PW-8 before the tribunal, explained that the Card Reader performed two roles, namely, the verification of the Permanent Voters Card, PVC, and the authentication of fingerprint.
It observed that the witness, who generated a Card Reader Machines Report for Ebonyi State Governorship Election, had admitted that it was not a complete report covering all the details of Polling Units in the state as some Polling Units were not uploaded and thus not included in the report.

The witness said the report she tendered before the tribunal represented data that were successfully uploaded before the chairman of INEC gave an instruction for the server to be shut down.

According to the Supreme Court, “Her trenchant responses, clearly, demonstrate that the Card Reader Machine Reports were neither inviolable nor sacrosanct as a host of intervening mischievous human variables could impinge on their reliability.
“Against the background of the testimonies of PW8, it is, actually, surprising, that learned counsel to the appellant chose not to utilise the Voter’ Register, to show the entire gamut of the voters, but rather built his case on what, in the unanswerable words of the lower court was an exhibit that was not accurate, sufficient and comprehensive enough to be relied upon in proof of the allegation of non-compliance with the Electoral Act, 2010, as amended.


“That is to say that the appellant (as Petitioner) failed to weave his case on the Voters ‘Registers and a fortiori did not produce such registers because if he had produced them, their contents would have been unfavourable to the allegations he made in the petition and hence his decision to withhold them.

“Thus, the appellant laboured in vain in the spirited attempt he made before this court to have the findings of the lower court vacated. He was, indeed, attempting the impossible given the anaemic evidence he adduced. In my view, the lower court, rightly, affirmed the findings of the trial tribunal in this regard”. Besides, the apex court held that the appellant, Edward Nkwegu Okereke, who was the candidate of the Labour Party during the April 11, 2015, governorship election in Ebonyi state, could not lay credible evidence to support his case against governor Umahi of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The court said the case of the petitioner failed owing to “irreparable damage of the testimony of witnesses” that testified for him at the lower tribunal, who it said were “thoroughly discredited in cross-examination”.
It will be recalled that though the Supreme Court dismissed Okereke’s appeal on January 27, it however reserved its reasons for doing so till yesterday.
Aside the CJN, other members of the apex court panel that also agreed with the lead judgment were Justices Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, Kumai Bayang Aka’ahs, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, John Inyang Okoro and Amiru Sanusi.



https://www.today.ng/news/national/75968/why-we-ignored-card-reader-reports-in-election-cases-scourt

Some bankers, who allegedly aided a former Governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, to divert about N1.16bn ecological funds meant for the state in 2001, have been convicted by a Federal High Court in Kaduna, an official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Bamanga Bello, has told a high court in Abuja.
Bello, a member of the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering at the EFCC and a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Dariye before the FCT High Court, said this as part of his testimony on Thursday.
The witness said the All States Trust Bank (now defunct) and some of its officials aided Dariye in manipulating bank transactions and concealing information about the identity of the owner of an account, which was allegedly used in siphoning Plateau State’s fund.
He said the bank and its officials involved in the alleged fraud, were found to have violated the provision of Section 5 of the Money Laundering Decree 2005.
Led in evidence by the lead prosecuting counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), the witness said that both the bank and the employees were successfully prosecuted by the EFCC.

Bello said he had over 10 years’ banking experience, having worked with Habib and Standard Trust banks, and risen to the level of branch manager.
Detailing the activities of his team of investigators, Bello said the fraud perpetrated by the bank was uncovered by analysing the documents relating to the account allegedly opened by Dariye, using an unregistered company, Ebenezer Ritnan Ventures.
He said, “Sometime in 2004 I was co-opted to investigate a case of alleged conspiracy, abuse of office, misappropriation of public fund and money laundering against the former Governor of Plateau State, Chief Joshua Dariye.

In the course of investigation, I was given the account opening documents of Ebenezer Ritnan Venture to analyse. I did the analyses and discovered so many irregularities in the documents. From my analyses, proper documentations were not made. Wrong account opening documents were used and wrong information was used to hide the real identity of the real owner of the account.
“The account opening application form is for an individual current account, but the name of the account is written as Ebenezer Ritnan Venture, which is not an individual. The date of birth was written as July 27, 1957. Ebenezer Ritnan is not an individual and cannot have a date of birth.

“For nationality, it is Nigerian. Ebenezer Ritnan is not an individual and cannot have a nationality. For occupation, it was written as businessman. By the time the account was opened, the real owner was the Governor of Plateau State. Then, he was a public servant, not a businessman. For employment, it said self-employed. As of the time the account was opened, the real account owner was not self-employed, he was a public servant.
“The signature on the form was confirmed to be that of Dariye, the Governor of Plateau State. The address given was found to be fictitious because it could not be located. I also looked at the signature specimen card. The office address of Ebenezer Ritnan Venture was not written, but there must be address of an account holder before an account is opened.
“One of the signatories of the account of Ebenezer Ritnan was found to be fictitious, while the other was the signature of Dariye. There was no picture of the account owner; there was no means of identification of the account owner.

“All this information is required before an account could be opened by a bank. In this same case, the bank and its staff that were involved were charged before FHC, Kaduna, and I testified before Justice Liman. The bank and those involved in the opening of this account were convicted by the Federal High Court, Kaduna.”
Under cross examination by Dariye’s lawyer, Garba Pwul, Bello said thbank negligently proceeded to open the account without sufficiently establishing the identity of the customer.

He said, “There was an approval for waiver. The request for waiver was made by Obesa and it was approved by the Executive Director, Northern Operations. The waiver granted, without the actual identity of the customer, violated Section 5 of the Money Laundering Act, 2005.
“During the course of investigation I interviewed Odesa, who said the real owner of the account did not want to reveal his identity and he promised to help him obtain waiver.

The application for the account opening was made on December 12, 1999.”
Dariye, who was Governor of Plateau State between 1999 and 2007, is now the Senator representing Plateau Central in the National Assembly.
He is being prosecuted for allegedly diverting the sum of N1.61bn, which he was said to have requested from the Presidency in 2001 for the reclamation of some areas of land devastated by past mining activities in the state.
The trial judge, Justice Adebukola Banjoko, will later fix the date for further hearing.


https://www.today.ng/news/national/75988/bankers-who-aided-dariye-to-divert-n1-16bn-convicted-witness

Purej:
Mr. President wants Nigerians to look inward and consume our own goods and servies, but here is the same man travelling to UK for medical treatment.

Is it that we dont have good Doctors here, He's deceiving himself big time.

The expected change we voted for is vanishing into the air and our patience is running thin

I just don't know what you guys want. When in his first budget, he gave the clinic in aso rock some allocations to avoid traveling out for treatment, you guys still complain. I know you didn't vote BUHARI.

Progressive01:
What the Ineffectual Buffoon did to this country is unpardonable honestly. They screwed things up so badly especially in the last days before their departure to foreclose any chances of Baba succeeding. It was their game plan to sabotage his efforts ahead of time and use the seeming failure to blackmail APC out of Aso Rock.

This is why I insist Baba hits them harder and harder to ensure PDP as a party NEVER rises again.

Baba is being too democratic for my comfort.

somebody needs to make this happen. We shouldn't forgive Gej or pdp.

With the monumental corruption perpetrated by pdp and its cronies, that Nigeria is still standing today is a mystery to me.

Wow!

Hope he doesn't go back to the street behaving mad in suit again .


May God help BUHARI to transform Nigeria in this order .

U see..