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MelaninSkinGirl:
Studies show married men are happier and live longer than their single/divorced/widowed counterparts. Single/Widowed/Divorced men are more depressed and suicidal than their married counterparts.

On the other hand, studies show that Single women live longer than their married counterparts, they also retain their figures and beauty longer than their married counterparts.

These studies show that the main benefactors of marriage is the Men. Make of that what you want!!!

I think you are wrong. The fact remains that most single old ladies are very irritable unlike their male counterparts. Old single men are fun to be with.

Old single ladies are extremely desperate for love and attention unlike their male counterparts and that is why they are vulnerable to be scammed than the male counterparts.

Also statistics has shown that married men are prone to committing suicide more than single men.

Marriage in the short and long run benefit the women most because by nature they are supposed to be taken care of by their husband (other things being equal) and in the long run by their children who will naturally want to show them love and attention as mothers more than their fathers.

You, your dad and your sisters need to get a restraining order against your little brother and your mum. Your brother or your mum has no right to debar you or your sisters from coming to your father's house. That house is not theirs. That is the position of the law.

Ope88:
Please don't read and pass, also Pardon all my typo, I'm typing out of duress.

I am from a family of six, 3 girls, 1 boy including my parents.
I had a horrible childhood experience, My Mum (no thanks to her) was something I can't quantify, I can't start writing every of the things she did and I can't say If the religion she practiced contributed largely to the devilish attitude she put up while growing up.

My mum has no good record anywhere, in the church, with the neighbours, with her siblings, we the children, her in laws and even at work, She was always at war with people, if she dreams that someone was trying to attack her in the dream, if she sees the person the following day, she was ready to attack the person.

Also, she would curse her children at any slightest provocation and leave only my brother out(last born and spoilt), She doesn't have any good relationship with her siblings and won't allow my dad visit his family member, I remembered them (Mum and dad) always saying this (don't be unequally yoked together with unbelievers). To them anyone who isn't a Christian (deeper life) is not supposed to be associated with.. My dad on countless occasion will call his mum a witch just because she was a Muslim and one of the oloyes of allasalatu(Muslims will understand this) and had nothing to do with his family members.

This went on and on like this until my elder sister moved out of the house and in the process of trying to find her feet, she got pregnant and my mom practically tormented her life, she later got married to the man, and for that act alone, she's always at logger heads with my sister and her husband..

Later, I got married and then my younger sister followed suit, leaving my dad, herself and my younger brother (whom I have disowned).

Ever since the three of us got happily married, and left the home, my dad slipped into severe depression. Although he has been depressed given lots of things he encountered, job loss, no social interaction, unforgiveness amongst others, it became severe when all his female children left, then from severe depressgion, he started having mental issues, he would wake up and leave the house talking to himself, or start preaching and going out of point with anyone he finds on the street, sometimes he would leave and come home at night, my younger brother who is supposed to comfort and help him, treats him with disdain, my mum who is supposed to check mate his excesses would leave him to his folly and now he has started standing up to her and everyone else in the house..

At 26, he doesn't know his bearing and obviously we have been seeing signs of him wanting to inherit the houses my father built in the same compound.. (and we have noticed that my mum has been making him understand that every of the property belongs to him).

The last straw which broke the camel's back happened one week ago, my elder sister ( who is 9 year older than him) took advantage of the lockdown and visited my father, he is usually exited when we are around him whc helps his severe moodiness. There and then an argument broke out between my sister and my brother, she asked why my brother was insulting our mum for an action that happened in the compound, he beat my sister up and her three children and boasted that, the rest of us (my sister and I) dare not do anything and that by the way we must stop coming to the house, that if he sees any of us He will beat us up, My mum who was supposed to resolve the matter started blaming my sister, asking her why she always love to come visiting, that she's supposed to be in her husband's house or father in laws place and immediately called her hubby to come pick her.

Its been one week my sister left for her house, my daddy who enjoyed her company when she was present started misbehaving again at home. He started roaming, he started cursing everyone.

The reason I'm writing is this, my dad is no where to be found, he left the house yesterday Friday 15th May 2020 and was last seen in ITAMAGA IKORODU, we keep trying his number but he is not picking and now his number is switched off, I'm sure he is still wandering about.

My sisters and I have decided that even when he is found(by God's grace) we do not what him to go back living with my mum and brother.

What other alternatives do we have to care for him, as his own siblings are not happy with him either for abandoning them and their mum (his own mum),, when they needed him the most..


I AM SO SORRY FOR THE LONG POST.. PLEASE HELP ME.



Modified..... My dad has been found today Sunday, 17th May 2020, my sweet mother (elder sister) found her, she has been on her feet since he went missing, luckily he was found but in a terrible state, I saw him via video calls and I wept, he can't recognize even my sister again, and just muttering some words we don't understand, he closes his eyes while saying this and asked everyone to go and leave him, he looks so faint and weak and would not leave where he his...My sister has called his siblings and she's waiting for the next line of ACTION from them.

I'll keep updating the house with reports from our end..

You mean if I have dollars in my domiciliary account, I cannot transfer it?

OsuIgboIpob:
CBN is indeed very stupîd under Buhari.
The present governor must be a retàrd.

How can you continue to shroud something and not expect it's value and scarcity to increase


They stopped all transactions and transfer on Forex accounts since. Even if you have a domiciliary forex account, YOU CAN NOT TRANSFER IT TO ANYWHERE.
The only thing you can do with Forex card account with existing fund is to pay for international transactions or purchase something with it online.
The only way you can fund the account is to buy Forex From bureau de change and go to the bank to deposit it.

What kind of stupîdity is that?

Since the implementation of that nonsense, naira has continued to devalue.

Is it only Nigeria that Corona virus or lockdown is affecting?


USELESS leaders.

Should churches donate money to government?
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It is a dangerous precedent for religious organizations in Nigeria especially churches and mosques to be making donations to government and more so, announcing same in the media and taking pictures of the donations. Are churches and mosques now profit making organizations? These monies they are donating, where did they come from?

Monies which members gave as donations, offerings and tithes to God in churches are not meant to be given to government under any guise. The Bible is explicit on what tithes, offerings and donations collected by churches should be used for. It is also very incongruous for the churches to raise special offerings or donations for government needs no matter how dire. Instead of giving money to government, churches should by themselves utilize those monies and commit them to the same tasks they want the government to utilize those monies on.

The churches are closer to the people than the government. The clergy, pastors and imams know the people and their needs more than the politicians. Even in advanced climes, churches do not give money to governments rather it is the other way round. As rich as Roman Catholic church is, it has never been reported that it donated money to government rather it is the other way round. As powerful and wealthy as the Anglican Communion is in England, they still get funds from the UK government and not the other way round.

Churches by nature are constituted to cater to the needs of the poor, the vulnerable, the downtrodden and the marginalized in the society. Churches are also constituted to cater to the spiritual, physical and even the eternal needs of people. Governments are constituted only to cater to the physical needs of people. Between the churches and the government, the churches need funding more than the government and not the other way round.

No matter how altruistic the intentions of the church leaders who have given church money to Nigerian government are, it is very wrong for them to do that. It has no precedent in the Bible, it has no precedent in church history and it has no precedent in the present day world.

By Lawrence C. Nnoli
11th April 2020

Buhari’s Chinese Medical Experts: Are Nigerians guinea pigs?
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Fifteen Chinese medical doctors and experts were recently imported from China by Buhari's administration to "help" Nigeria in its fight against COVID-19. China as at 10th April 2020 has an official record of 3,214 deaths of its citizens arising from COVID- 19 incidence while Nigeria has recorded less than 6 deaths from the same menace within the same timeframe.

As widely known, COVID-19 originated from Wuhan, China. It is reported by analysts from Australian Strategic Policy Institute that the virus was transmitted from animals to humans there in China from where its spread took off to all parts of the world including Nigeria.

Though the fifteen Chinese medical doctors and experts were ferried into Nigeria by a Nigerian owned air carrier- Air Peace, the 'importation' cost of these Chinese medical doctors and experts into Nigeria put at over one million dollars was reportedly borne by the Chinese government.

China has an unenviable negative record of being a country whose real intentions behind every of its good deeds are purely for its selfish gains. In this period of COVID-19, this belief about China was brought to the fore. Beginning from the way China hoarded vital information on the malicious nature of the virus to the publication of accurate figure of fatalities it recorded within its territory, China not only birthed COVID-19, it incubated it, escalated it and unleashed it on the rest of the world. The United States Vice President Mike Pence lent his voice to this belief about China and said that “the reality is that we could’ve been better off if China had been more forthcoming” about the virus.

While the economy of the entire world is on life support with IMF predicting global recession worse than what the world witnessed in 2008, China’s economy is making steady recovery from the blow of COVID-19 with much of its earnings coming from filling the orders for production and exportation of vital medical supplies, test kits and medical information to the rest of the world. Not only that, it has also gained for itself massive unfair geopolitical posturing as it is the only super power in the world at the moment rendering help to other nations hit by COVID-19.

At the wake of the pandemic, quite a number of countries that had looked up to China for help or medical supplies got the highest casualty rate thereafter the ‘help’ came namely: Italy, Spain and even the US. Some other countries that have received medical supplies and test kits from China such as Netherlands and Slovakia discovered to their horror that a large percentage of those items and medical supplies they received from China were either faulty, defective or failed basic integrity test. It got so bad that the prime minister of Slovakia, Igor Matovic while rejecting China’s relief items ordered that about a million test kits already received from China be thrown straight into the ‘Danube’. Danube is a river in Slovakia.

With all these news making rounds, Buhari’s administration is cautioned not to be too eager to receive medical supplies from China and where it has already received same, to subject those medical test kits and supplies to strict medical scrutiny. Buhari’s administration should also not be seen opening its hands in warm welcome to Chinese medical doctors unless it wants to further prove to Nigerians that it has entered into pact to use Nigerians as guinea pigs for COVID-19 vaccines as is been rumored in some quarters.

Exactly a year ago, Buhari’s administration through its minister of Labour & Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige informed Nigerians that Nigeria has surplus doctors and medical experts and that Buhari's administration is not bothered by the massive emigration of Nigeria’s indigenous trained doctors to other parts of the world.
For a government that does not care a hoot about the mass exodus of its indigenous trained medical personnel to other countries to now welcome with wide arms Chinese doctors at this time that the entire world is wary of China would leave the Nigerian masses with no other conclusion than that Buhari’s administration really means ill for Nigerians.

While China’s offer of free medical supplies, free test kits, and free experts' assistance could have fueled the desires of Buhari’s administration to welcome these Chinese doctors and medical experts into Nigeria against the backdrop advice of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) and other well meaning organizations and Nigerian citizens, Buhari's administration should be wary of these medical freebies from China for nothing is free even in Freetown.

Instead of salivating at these freebies coming from China and putting the lives of Nigerians at risk, Buhari's administration should take stock of Nigeria's rich incalculable large human capital in the area of medicine and extend respectful hands of invitation to the over 4000 doctors of Nigerian descent practicing medicine in the United States, to the over 5,000 doctors of Nigerian descent practicing medicine in the UK and to the over 27,000 doctors of Nigerian descent practicing medicine in Australia, Canada, Europe and South Africa most of whom are leading experts in the medical field. It is strongly believed that with good offers made to these Nigerian doctors abroad, majority of these individuals will respond positively to the request and come home and render the much needed medical help to our dear country.

Also legally speaking, the Buhari’s administration is reminded of the provisions of Sections 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17 and 18 of the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act Cap M8, LFN, 2004 which principally provide that it is an offence punishable by fine and imprisonment for anyone who has not been licensed and registered by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria to practice medicine in Nigeria. These imported Chinese doctors and experts are not licensed by Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and are precluded from coming into Nigeria to practice medicine in the name of assistance. If at all the government is insistent on having these Chinese medical doctors and experts render medical assistance to Nigerians and practice medicine here in Nigeria, they must fulfill the provisions of the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act else their activities here are illegal.

With all these valid hues and cries against the importation of Chinese medical experts and doctors into Nigeria at this dangerous time, it is hoped that President Buhari will listen to the voice of good reasoning and send back the Chinese doctors and medical experts to China for we do not need them.


By Lawrence C. Nnoli
10th April 2020

Attorney General of Lagos V. Funke Akindele (Jenifa)
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Speed at its Peak
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The speed at which the Police received the complaint from the public.

The speed at which Police though “unmobilized” rushed down to the accused person's residence, arrested the accused person and her husband.

The speed at which Police commenced investigations, concluded the investigations, wrote their investigation report, tidied their police casefile and sent the duplicate casefile to the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution for prosecution all on the same day.

The speed at which the Lagos state Director of Public Prosecution resumed duty the following day despite the public lockdown, studied the police casefile, painstakingly reviewed the investigation activities of the police, okayed their “fantastic” investigations and then preferred a charge against the accused persons and informed the Attorney General of Lagos state.

The speed at which the Lagos government opened the magistrate court registry in defiance of the order of President Mohammadu Buhari and that of the Chief Justice of Nigeria that all courts in Nigeria including Lagos State are to remain closed till 14th April, 2020 and that all civil servants in Lagos state are to stay at home save for those on essential duties.

The speed at which the Lagos government called up the clerk and the registrar of the Chief Magistrate court and ordered them to report to work despite the directives of President Mohammadu Buhari and that of the Chief Justice of Nigeria on closure of all courts and non entertainment of all matters save for those matters that are urgent, essential or time-bound according to Nigerian laws.

The speed at which the charge sheet and the proof of evidence were filed at the court registry on the same day, served on the accused persons on the same day, case was listed in the court’s cause list on the same day, accused persons were produced in court on the same day; arraignment, trial and judgment all happened on the same day.

The speed at which the Attorney General of Lagos appeared in person against the accused persons.

The speed at which the creme de la creme of the Nigerian media numbering over twenty-five (25) media houses were actively mobilized for the media show at the court house.

The speed at which the trial went on in court with the Attorney General reviewing the facts of the case and asking the Chief Magistrate to descend on the accused persons with the prescribed maximum punishment.

The speed at which the Chief Magistrate delivered its judgment against the accused persons bringing down the whole weight of the law and its maximum prescribed sentence against the accused persons despite a passionate plea of allocutus from the accused persons’s counsel.

The speed at which the Nigerian Media, the Attorney General of Lagos, his officers and men of the Nigerian Police numbering over twenty-five (25) persons later converged for a press conference in defiance of the same regulations and law which Jenifa was convicted of.

The speed at which the happenings of the court’s proceedings and the press conference hit the news wave

The speed at which NCDC denied ever knowing Funke Akindele (Jenifa) who was before now their brand ambassador.

The speed, that speed…


Written by Lawrence C. Nnoli

Nigeria's current biggest problem is not COVID-19
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My eyes saw him,
A full grown man of about thirty-years,
Garbed in oversized faded shirt and faded blue denim jeans,
So emaciated in body size with his neck as slim as the neck of a deprived chicken,
All the veins in his face shooting out and taking positions where flesh should have occupied.

He was worn out in body and worn out in spirit
He has come to see his elder brother for provisions
Provisions for COVID-19 forced holidays declared by Buhari.

His elder brother, an acquaintance of mine obviously tired of continuous demands from him, Says to me, "Please help me look for job for my younger brother", He is a "maiguard". He studied Political Science at the University and graduated in 2017.
"A maiguard? A graduate of Political Science", the words escaped my mouth in utter disbelief and horror
"Yes a maiguard. There is no work. He has to make do with that." Says his brother.
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The above episode is a real life story.

Before the incidence of COVID-19, Nigeria's unemployment rate was estimated to reach 33% this year from 23% that it recorded last year and which same was confirmed by the current Minister of Labour & productivity, Dr Chris Ngige. Now with the incidence of COVID-19 which was not foreseen as at the time the estimate was made, one can only imagine what our unemployment index will read after COVID-19 incidence.

Did you know that six (6) out of every ten (10) Nigerian graduates that graduated from 2017 till date are totally jobless? Apart from this figure, it is now confirmed that over 40% of Nigerian youths are not doing anything to earn a living. Buhari's government claimed it is implementing a lot of programmes to reduce the unemployment rate in Nigeria yet the figures keep rising by the day.

One major sector of the Nigerian economy that can easily absorb these unemployed youths and also be the panacea for the ugly high rate of unemployment in Nigeria is the Agricultural sector. Agriculture holds the magic wand to the problem of unemployment in Nigeria but this magic wand can only work if the menace of Fulani herdsmen attacks is urgently nibbed in the bud.

While everyone including the government is currently busied with activities to curtail COVID-19, these marauders are still sacking our farming communities mostly located in the North- East, North-West, North-Central and South-West parts of the country.

The federal government and several state governments claim to be implementing a lot of programmes in the agricultural sector in their bids to encourage existing farmers and to also attract unemployed youths to the sector thereby reducing the unemployment rate. However it is apposite to mention that the most important programme that any reasonable government should implement in Nigeria’s agricultural sector is the programme of protecting the lives and properties of farmers. This exactly is what the current Federal government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari is not doing with the incessant recurring episodes of Fulani herdsmen attacks on farming communities.

If the lives and properties of those already in the agricultural sector are continued to be seen as lives and properties that do not matter much, if the nefarious activities of Fulani herdsmen- terrorists are not urgently checkmated and these men brought to book, if we continue to witness mass blood-shed of our farming communities, then not only would the massive public funds used in implementing governments' programmes in the Agricultural sector amount to waste, famine will stealthily come upon us and our worst fear- the consequences of having an army of unemployed youths in Nigeria would soon become our worst nightmare.

Indeed, the fears of COVID-19 would be little compared to the kind of havoc that an army of unemployed youths would unleash in Nigeria in a very short time.


By Lawrence C. Nnoli

Lawrence C. Nnoli Versus Lagos State Government and 3 others (SUIT NO: ID/3819GCM/17)
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JUDGMENT

Honourable Justice T.A.O Oyekan-Abdullai of the High Court of Lagos State in her judgment on 19th November 2019 has held that the Lagos state government acting through its Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA) does not have the power to prescribe, impose and collect Motor Vehicle radio license fees from vehicle owners.

It would be remembered that the claimant, Lawrence C. Nnoli who is a lawyer approached the High Court of Lagos state in 2017 challenging the action of the Lagos State Government in introducing and collecting motor vehicle radio license fees through its Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA). In his Originating Summons, he averred that the introduction and collection of the Motor vehicle radio licence fee by the Lagos State Government through the Motor Vehicle Administration Agency is a violation of Section 7 and the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) which vest the introduction and collection of such taxes on the local governments.
In its reply, the Lagos State government averred that the Sole Administrators of the entire fifty-seven (57) Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas of Lagos State have already transferred to the state government their powers to impose and collect such taxes through a resolution dated 28th February 2017 and signed by the entire fifty-seven (57) sole administrators of the local governments and local council development areas and as such, it has the right and powers to prescribe, impose and collect such tax on behalf of the local governments and local council development areas.

In his reply on points of law, the claimant, Lawrence C. Nnoli replied that the sole administrators as appointed by the governor of Lagos state cannot legally administer the powers and authority belonging to the local governments. He further contended that all rights and authority vested on the local governments by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) are the exclusively preserved rights of the local governments as run by their democratically elected officials and that even Section 2 of the Taxes and Levies (Approved List for Collection)Act, Cap. T2, LFN, 2004 expressly prohibits any tier of government including the local government from delegating its powers and duties of collection of taxes to another entity whether it is to individuals or to another tier of government.
Agreeing with the submission of Mr Lawrence C. Nnoli, the court was of the opinion that “collection of the radio license by the Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA) on behalf of the local governments is illegal, unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect”.


https://www.excellawchambers.com/law/2020/01/14/court-bans-lagos-state-government-from-collecting-motor-vehicle-radio-licence-fee/

Justcome:
I will make this as short as possible

There is this tenant that we gave quit notice since 2018 because of inability to pay the house rent. Up till now he has not moved out, we handled the case legally and its still in court till now.

This is the 3rd year that the man and his family have stayed without paying 1 naira because of our poor judicial system, we are still hoping the court will eject them this year.

Now there is another tenant that is very close to the man's wife, she did not pay 2019 rent and she was given quit notice 6 months ago to leave before December 31st, up till now, nothing has happened, we think she wants us to open a legal case so that she can stay for some more years free of charge like her friend.

Please what can we do concerning the two tenant situations?

The house is situated in Lagos. Ayobo area to be specific

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Nigerian Landlords are kings!

Did you know:
In the absence of a clearly written agreement, a Nigerian landlord can at anytime ask the tenant to vacate his house even if the tenant’s rent has not expired.

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Ten (10) most landlords non-friendly states in Nigeria
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1. Lagos
2. Anambra
3. Imo
4. Abuja
5. Rivers
6. Enugu
7. Delta
8. Ogun
9. Oyo
10. Cross Rivers

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lopsoj:
This is to seek for your honest solution to this situation, no insult pls.

My younger sister is very friendly, and cynical, but this attitude of hers, is always to the extreme, she mostly lived with our elderly sister and her husband, while they leave her alone at home with their children often, this continue for long. During this time, i was away from home, because my work took me out of town.

before my return, i was informed that my sister was pregnate for a thug she met whenever she was sent on an errand. according to her, this guy always waylay her on the road threating her to have sex with him, but she said it happened after she frolic with him and some other firends around the neigbourhood, before he started making advances toward her. she is in her early twenties

to cut the story short, how they get to become intimate was a surprise to us. because right now she is with a child and he want the child to be born, yet he has no regard for any of us in our family, he insult us at will, and he is also a muslim.

recently his family came over to apologise for his misconduct and demand we release the mother and the unborn child to them. meanwhile we do not want to have anything to do with a thug, that has no regard for the family with no sign of remorse. what do you think we can possible do on this issue

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sp749513:
Good moring nairalanders.

I want justice pls.

I was jailed 4 years ago when i was arrested,tried and sentenced for fraud.

I was not a criminally minded person but do to the economic hardship and how to provide for my wife and daughter I went into fraud.

My wife was supporting our union with her trade which the income was very low and to feed was war.

To cut the long story short when i was in prison she do visit occasionally but during 3 years spent already she stop visiting.

When i was freed last 2 months and to know what ups I went to where we live and learnt from a neighbour that my wife has parked out from our 2 rooms apartment and is now living with a man.

I got the address,went their and lo and behold she was heavily pregnant for the man.

I felt like fainting that moment and to make matter worse she said it to my face that she can't live with an ex convict.

My 5 years old daughter wants me back but my wife and her family are fighting against that.


I still love my wife despite her betrayal but the pregnancy and her refusal to give me back my daughter is giving me problem.

I want justice against the wife snatcher and i want back my wife and daughter.



Please what is the best ways to go about it so as not to go against the law.

Mods,I want justice.

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Lawrence C. Nnoli Versus GTBank Plc
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UPDATE

The court case filed by Lawrence C. Nnoli against Guaranty Trust Bank plc came up today before Honourable Justice R. M Aikawa of the Federal High Court, Lagos with Guaranty Trust Bank admitting in its statement of defence some of the claims as filed by the claimant. Specifically, it admitted owing the claimant some money which it has subsequently issued a banker’s cheque in his favour. The bank was represented by its counsel Mr Osemudiamen Umane.

Following the settlement of pleadings by parties, the court today slated the matter down for trial and adjourned same to 17th December 2019.

As it would be recalled, trouble started when the claimant noticed some illegal deductions which the bank made in his bank account. Upon noticing this, he reported same to the bank’s management. After making the report, the bank acknowledged the illegal deductions and refunded the monies it illegally deducted from the claimant’s account. However, few months later, the claimant started noticing various discrepancies in his account prompting him to write the bank requesting the immediate closure of the account in December 2018.

Instead of acceding to the claimant’s request for the closure of his account, the bank made another similar illegal deduction from the claimant’s account claiming it is money it failed to deduct from the claimant’s account in 2017. This according to the bank was an accounting error on its own part.

All efforts by the claimant to get the bank to reverse the illegal deduction fell on deaf ears prompting the claimant to approach the court for specific reliefs and exemplary damages against the bank.

sarrki:
Supreme Court Judges Struggling To Shake Hands With Yemi Osinbajo-photo

Struggling to shake hands with him!!! Osinbajo today in Abuja !!!

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, attends Supreme Court Special Session for 2019/2020 Legal Year in Abuja. 23rd September, 2019 !!!

These are not supreme court justices. These are the newly elevated senior advocates of Nigeria. Moreover there is nothing like Supreme court judges rather they are called supreme court justices.

glorybasseymma:
The painful part is that, yesterday morning when she came to work.
She playfully told me to give her all the login details of the social media pages, and I did.
Even the phone, she gave me to use for Posting, she collected it from me and refuse me to delete my details from it and also refuse to give me my sim card.
It was one of the security, that beg her to give me back my Sim. My email, WhatsApp etc are in that phone.
Pls guys, I want this post to reach the home page.
Cause right now ,am depress. All my suffer, leaving my children with someone still sometimes 10pm bfor I get home.
And it was part of that money I was main to add to my children sch fees.

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Robert Mugabe, what we should still remember about him
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In every bad man, there could be something good and justice will not be well served if a dead man is judged only by his misdeeds while his very good deeds are entirely forgotten.

Such is what the Western media houses are struggling with all their strengths to do to the vestiges of Robert Mugabe's good legacies.

Robert Mugabe, the undoubted father of Zimbabwe is a man loved by many and also hated by many. Saved for his penchant to hang on to the allures of power by all means towards the latter part of his life, he would have beaten Nelson Mandela as the best African president.

Mugabe's guts and courage in resisting the overbearing influence of the West in Africa and especially in his own country is legendary. And that trait of his sadly doubled as his Achilles heel. He did not know where and when to press the brakes when it became imperative. He believed so much in the self sustaining viability of Africa and especially his home country Zimbabwe that he did not know when he has served his enemies (the West) with Zimbabwe's economy for their lunch which they ate with relish.

However, despite inadvertently throwing his country into the valley of economic despair, he still managed to get Zimbabwe retain its position as one of the African nations with high literacy level among its masses. He never played with his citizens' right to education. Infact, education was declared a basic human right by Mugabe in Zimbabwe. He himself was a lover of education with about seven degrees from reputable higher institutions of learning. Not even the vaunted giant of Africa, Nigeria got near to Zimbabwe's level of literacy even during Zimbabwe's economic and political downtimes.

While Mugabe's misdeeds may have made his good deeds to pale into oblivion, Robert Mugabe still deserves a place of some honour in the annals of history when the story of Africa's brave men are told.


By Lawrence C. Nnoli
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Babaflenjor:
Good morning Nairalander and happy Sunday. Pls I seriously want to know the process and cost of ADOPTING a baby in Nigeria, particularly Lagos thanks.

xangerar:
Edu Nnoli.

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The Risk of reporting a debtor to the police
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MUSA DAIBU Versus INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, AND THREE OTHERS: A Case Study.

The applicant, Musa Daibu filed an action in court bordering on infringement of his fundamental human rights by the Inspector General of Police and three other respondents which included the investigating police officers and the actual complainant. In the action, the applicant alleged that the 4th respondent Mr O (name withheld) had a business transaction with him which did not go as planned and following which he became indebted to him to the tune of millions of naira.

The applicant further alleged that following his inability to pay up his debts to the 4th respondent, the 4th respondent reported the matter to the Inspector General of Police who assigned the case to the 2nd and 3rd respondents who are police operatives working in the Special Fraud Unit of the Police Force.

The applicant further alleged that the 2nd and 3rd respondents while investigating the matter, arrested him, paraded him in the public and subsequently detained him for a long period.

Because of all these, the applicant filed the action at the Lagos State High Court presided over by Honourable Justice Olukayode Ogunjobi.

In court, the applicant claimed the sum of ten million naira as damages against all the respondents jointly and severally.

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd defendants did not attend court sittings and never put up any defence despite being served with all the court processes. The 4th respondent was represented by Lawrence C. Nnoli who raised two points as issues for determination in defence of the 4th respondent:

The two issues are

1. Whether the applicant has sufficiently shown that the actions of the police in molesting him, parading him and subsequently detaining him were actually at the behest of the 4th respondent especially when the petition was not produced before the court.

2. Whether the applicant is precluded from criminal investigation and arrest and is covered by immunity as provided by Section 304 of the Nigerian Constitution.
Also counsel to the 4th respondent, Lawrence C. Nnoli argued that the 4th respondent is empowered by law to report a perceived criminal act to law enforcement agents instead of taking laws into his hands and cannot therefore be punished for doing that.

Judgment

Among other things, the court held that the police have no business in enforcing debt obligations or helping parties to settle or recover their debts. The remedy for such breach of contract according to the court is in civil action for damages and (or) specific performance. The court further held that since the applicant did not produce the petition written by the 4th respondent to the police, it would be difficult for it to determine the exact complaints of the 4th respondent to the Police and thus it cannot speculate on the complicity of the 4th respondent with the Police to infringe on his fundamental human rights.

The court went further and awarded judgment against the 1st, 2nd and 3rd respondents exempting the 4th respondent.


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Lawrence C. Nnoli VERSUS Guaranty Trust Bank Plc
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A Nigerian lawyer, Lawrence C. Nnoli has dragged Guaranty Trust Bank Plc before the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos over illegal deductions made on his bank account domiciled with the bank.

Trouble started when the plaintiff noticed some discrepancies in his statement of account. Upon noticing this,he reported same to the bank. After making the report, the bank acknowledged same and promised to settle the discrepancies and which they did.

However some months later, the discrepancies resurfaced making the plaintiff to write the bank requesting the closure of his account in December 2018. But instead of closing the plaintiff's account as requested and paying out the closing balance to the plaintiff, the bank quickly made another illegal debit from the plaintiff’s account claiming it is money they failed to deduct from the plaintiff's account in 2017 as a result of system error.

All efforts by the plaintiff to get the bank to reverse the illegal debit fell on deaf ears prompting the plaintiff to approach the court for specific reliefs and exemplary damages. Though the bank has been served with the plaintiff's originating court processes, it is yet to file its defence.

autonomous22:
Rivers state... My dad's case with urs is not exactly the same, it's just similar...my dad's own was money left on his bank account...

I paid some percentage tp court, about 10% or so.... it was removed directly from the account

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patogist:
A Fish farmer and undergraduate of University of Benin has taken to social media to cry out after purchasing an Iphone 6 from Jumia store. He claimed he bought the phone for 75 0000 naira but unknown to him it was a Refurbished Iphone 6 that was sent to him.
the Undergraduate of UniBen wrote,

“My name is Joshua Ekanem, the phone i bought from Jumia on Jan 11 2019 after using for two months with some issues, like the phone getting hot”

“I know so many people will laugh about this, but i am so depressed because i have saved for this phone after working hard”.

“Why i came online is because I’ve been tackling this issue with jumia for three weeks and have not been getting a good response . I’m a fish farmer and also a student of University of Benin”.

“If Jumia has price tagged it 100k I could have saved for it. For me to recently find out that no new Iphone 6 in the market” .

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Lawrence C. Nnoli VERSUS Lagos State Government
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CASE UPDATE:

The judgment in the suit filed by Lawrence C. Nnoli against the Lagos state government over the arbitrary introduction and collection of car radio license fee for all cars registered in Lagos state has been adjourned indefinitely by the Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere.

Parties to the suit adopted their written addresses on 4th December 2018 following which the court adjourned the matter to 28th February 2019 for judgment.

On 28th February 2019, the case was omitted in the court's cause list for the day. Upon enquiry by counsel to parties, the registrar of the court informed parties that their judgment is not yet ready. The court registrar then asked counsel to parties to write down their names and phone numbers on a piece of paper and submit same to her and that she will get back to them as soon as she gets word from the Honourable Justice T. Oyekan- Abdullai who has been hearing the case. This was done by all counsel to the parties yet the court failed to get back to the parties or to their counsel.

On 25th March 2019, the claimant sent a letter of reminder to the court enquiring when the judgment will be ready. Till date, the court is yet to respond to the letter sent to the court by the claimant.

As it would be recalled, the claimant, Lawrence C. Nnoli has gone to court in 2017 to challenge the action of the Lagos State Government in introducing and collecting motor vehicle radio license fee. In his Originating Summons, he averred that the introduction and collection of the Motor vehicle radio licence fee through the Lagos State Motor Vehicle Administration Agency is a violation of Section 7 and the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) which vest the introduction and collection of same on the local governments.

In its reply, the Lagos State government averred through their counsel George Okeke Esq that the Sole Administrators of the entire 57 Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas of Lagos State have already transferred to the state government their powers to impose and collect such tax through a resolution dated 28th February 2017 and signed by the entire 57 sole administrators of the local governments and local council development areas.

In his reply on points of law, the claimant, Lawrence C. Nnoli replied that such power is the exclusive preserved right of the local governments run by their democratically elected officials and that Section 2 of the Taxes and Levies (Approved List for Collection)Act, Cap. T2, LFN, 2004 expressly prohibits any tier of government including the local government from delegating its powers and duties of collection of taxes to another be it individuals or another tier of government. He further asked the court in his written address to declare as unconstitutional and ultra vires the resolution made by the 57 sole administrators vesting the powers of the local governments to the state government.

6 dangerous mistakes a Nigerian landlord must never make
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1. Not giving his tenant a tenancy agreement.

2. Collecting more than one year rent from his tenant in areas where it is prohibited.

3. Getting his tenant to pay taxes chargeable to him as a landlord without a prior written agreement with the tenant.

4. Leaving his property to decay and to be in uninhabitable condition.

5. Allowing his property to be used for brothel or for other criminal activities.

6. Resorting to self-help in evicting a tenant.

Please Note:
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For Numbers 1, 3, 4 and 5 above, a tenant is permitted in law to rebel against the landlord.

For Numbers 2, 4, 5 and 6, a landlord stands the high risk of losing his house to the government and even going to jail.

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WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR STOCK & SHARES?
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1. Do you have shares in any Nigerian company and do not receive dividends?

2. Did you buy shares in the Nigerian stock market sometime ago and cannot remember which company shares you bought or what has happened to those shares?

3. Do you have deceased relatives who you suspect of owning shares in some companies but you don't know which company they have shares in or how to go about it?

If YES, then click http://www.sec.gov.ng/non-mandated/

Type your surname or the surname of that deceased relative in the link provided above and you will see whether you or your deceased relative have any unclaimed shares.


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starring:
Good day fellow Nairalanders

I met this girl last year July through a good friend, while I was oversees, we started e-dating and everything went smoothly although, we had series of misunderstandings during December last year but we resolved it afterwards

She called me and told me to me about a particular guy that comes to sleep at her room (she's still schooling), she said the guy was her cousin. I had to believe her because according to her, he is a cousin and I don't think they will be romantically involved in anyway.

The guy slept in my GF's room 3 different times that I'm aware of. He spent 5days the first time, the second time he spent close to a week, the third, he slept and left the following day. She told me each time the guy was visiting, this made me trust her and believed that the guy was her cousin.

My GF and I had a serious argument and misunderstanding this January, my girlfriend's brother had to step in and begged on her behalf. GF's brother and I spoke at length and I used that opportunity to ask my GF's bro about the guy my girlfriend introduced to me as her cousin.

Her brother told me they are not related by blood in any way, that they are JUST close family friends and nothing more and moreso, the guy in question once asked my gf out but due to the closeness of the family, my guy's mum playfully declined the request. Immidately he said this, my blood pressure increased, my heart beat increased 100x faster, one million and one thoughts ran through my head.

Though, I once asked her why the cousin always come to her room and stay longer period of days before leaving, the answer she gave me was that the guy is a serving corps member and whenever he wants to visit his family, he branches to her place and spend some time with her before going home (when I was in Nigeria, I do visit my cousins and spend time with them before leaving so I had no issues with the guy coming over if truly they are related)

To cut the long story short, I asked her about the true identity of the guy, she told me the truth and she swore that they did nothing during her so called 'cousin' numerous sleepovers in her room. I forgave her for lying to me and we moved on.

I got back to Nigeria last month and a source disclosed to me that my GF and her 'cousin' had sex more than five different occasions. (I don't want to reveal my source, my gf is an active nairalander)

I called her and told her about what I heard. She denied at first but later told me that they had sex 4 different times while I was away. (I'm dead sure it must be more than 4 times) She said they made out when we had issues during the December time. If this is true, they had sex 4 DIFFERENT OCCASIONS within the space of 31 days. (if not more than 10 times sef)

I'm so devastated right now. We saw over the weekend, she wasn't feeling too well, I picked her from her school to the school hospital and later brought to my house. She spent the night at my place and begged me all through the night for me to forgive her and that she is truly sorry for the pain she caused me, she also begged in the car with tears and mucus all over her face while I was dropping her off to her place. She said she is a changed person and that her life will be meaningless if I leave and that everybody deserves a second chance.

I honestly don't know what to do at this juncture. I don't tolerate infidelity of any kind more reason why I'm straightforward and loyal to her. I told her I have forgiven her because she wouldn''t leave my car if I don't forgive her. She kept crying and crying making passers-by wonder if I'm trying to kidnap her or something, I felt uncomfortable with the whole situation. The truth is that my heart is far from her the very moment she admitted to having sex with the guy while in a relationship with me. I find it highly disturbing.

How do I leave her without making her hurt herself because she may get herself killed once it's obvious that i am gone for good and secondly, if truly she's changed, is her sin really forgivable and forgettable?

Just Run! Don't look back.

Court hearing has begun in the case filed by the claimant, Lawrence C. Nnoli against Sergeant Sunday Shaibu and the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos.

This was after the Magistrate court of Lagos sitting at Ikorodu magisterial district on Monday 11th March 2019 struck out an application for stay of proceedings and also dismissed an application for leave to appeal which were all filed by the defendants against the court’s ruling.

The court has earlier ruled and upheld the argument of the claimant opposing the appearance of one Mr Z. Arekhandia for the defendants. Mr Arekhandia is a policeman and also a lawyer in the legal department of the Nigeria Police Force. The claimant’s argument which the court agreed with and upheld is that the appearance of Mr Arekhandia for the defendants is improper and offends Rule 8 of the Rules of Professional Conduct 2007 which bars lawyers in government employment from acting as counsel to no other person except their employers. The defendants in this case as held by the court are not the employers of Mr Arekhandia and therefore he cannot enter appearance for them.

The facts of the case are that the claimant who is a lawyer visited Zonal Intervention Squad (ZIS) Ikorodu which is under the command of the Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos on the 29th September 2017. The visit of the claimant was premised on a frantic phone call he received from his client, Late Mr. Ralph Ihedioha who before his death was arrested on allegations of fraud and was taken from his office to the office of the ZIS.

After receiving the phone call from his client, the claimant went to the office of the Zonal Intervention Squad in Ikorodu to put in legal representation for his client. At ZIS, the Investigating Police Officer, Sergeant Sunday Shaibu while refusing the claimant access to his client assaulted him and called him derogatory names.

Following this incident, the claimant filed an action in tort for assault, battery and defamation against the Investigating police officer and the Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 2. He is seeking an award of ten million naira as damages against the defendants jointly and severally and also a letter of apology.

The matter has been adjourned to 9th April 2019 for cross examination of the claimant

http://www.excellawchambers.com/police-brutality-case-update-2/

Tinubu’s Bullion vans in the eyes of the law
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On 22nd February 2019 being the eve before Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential election, a couple of bullion vans were sighted entering the official residence of the National leader and Co-chairman of the Presidential Campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Speculations were rife that the bullion vans were conveying cash that would be used by the party chief for the election.

These speculations (as to the contents of the bullion vans and their mission in the house of the APC National leader) were brought to the attention of the APC National leader himself the following day at the polling booth where he went to cast his vote. A journalist asked him what the bullion vans were doing in his house a night before the presidential election. In his answer, the APC national leader said:

…If I have money to spend in my premises, what’s your headache? If I don’t represent any agency of the government and I have money to spend, if I like, I give it to the people for free of charge as long as not to buy votes. Who are those watching my house and looking at Bullion vans?

In view of the above comments of the APC national leader, it is good to examine the position of the law as regards to an individual having enormous cash in his possession and deciding to spend it however he likes.

It is pertinent to note first that in Nigeria, no law forbids one from having in his house as much cash as he could lawfully earn or receive from genuine sources. What the law actually and vehemently forbids is one’s decision to spend it in a manner he likes. Nigeria’s criminal laws forbid one from using his money for illegal actions and even in legitimate transactions, the Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2012 specifies how payment of such legitimate transactions should be made. That law specifies that cash payment above a particular amount must be made or received through a financial institution.

For individuals, the law is that all payments made or received by anyone in excess of five million naira ($13,736 at the current rate of N364 per dollar) must pass through a financial institution; while for a company, it is ten million naira ($27,473 at the current rate of N364 per dollar). What this means is that while one can decide to save his money in his house, any payment from that money to another person in excess of five million naira must pass through a financial institution. It also means that if one has decided to be his own banker and save his money himself, he must not receive in one transaction, cash exceeding five million naira. Anything short of these makes one liable for the crime of money laundering.

Having said these, so what actually are the squabbles about Tinubu’s billions in the Bullion vans?

First of all, for the fact that the billions arrived through bullion vans presupposes that the cash came from the banks. So nothing is wrong with him receiving billions in cash through the banks. However where the problems lies is when he decides to give out cash in excess of five million naira to anybody without making the payment through a financial institution. Section 1 of the MONEY LAUNDERING (PROHIBITION) ACT, 2011 forbids him from doing so and in fact makes it a crime punishable by a forfeiture of an amount not less than 25% of the excess cash given.

Secondly, if the APC party leader decides to spend all that his money in the bullion vans in a way and manner not antagonistic to the law, he is free to do so.


Written by Lawrence C. Nnoli, a lawyer based in Lagos, Nigeria

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midolian:
1 million for breakfast

When the cameras are taken away, expect Arthur to say "bia, where the 1 mirrion wey I say make you keep for me"

It's obvious you don't know Arthur Eze.

Seun2019:
I joined this company in Lagos about 3 weeks ago. To be frank I did not apply to the company. I was directed there by the recruitment company that interviewed us in another company. In the first company, I applied as a Secretary. When I got to this second company, we were interviewed and I told them I had worked as a Secretary/Admin executive in my former company.

To cut the long story short, I was offered employment. In the offer letter, they wrote PA as my post. I called the HR before resumption that I can not do the work of PA as a married woman because I know what it entails. I was told not to bother that they used a template to prepare my letter.

In the offer letter, I was to be on probation period of 6 months and to give them 2 months notice of resignation or 2 months salary in lieu of notice.

I was to present a medical report of fitness. When I told them that it is the responsibility of the company to fund this, they insisted to go any government hospital and foot the bill myself and present it. I did that.

I was also told to present two guarantors who will go to court to swear to an oath. On N80,000 job o!

When I resume, I was told that my post is Admin officer and I will be in charge of general admin and logistics. The first time I went out on duty, I was told they don't pay transport money that I should take any car when I am going out. I told the MD I don't know most route in Lagos and besides my driving licence has expired. (Please note that I was interviewed as a Secretary to the MD). I explained that even if there is car, it is the work of driver to take me around and not me driving around. The MD insisted that they don't do that and as long as I am in the company, I will be using my money to go out, if I can not drive the company car.

It was stated in the offer letter that you resume 8 and close 6 and 9-2 on Saturday. However, I discovered when I joined them that you can not leave the office until the MD closes, even on saturdays. This is a man that will be coming to the office around 2 and may not close until 9/10pm. So, you dare not leave the office until he leaves. Whenever it is 7:30pm, I will pick my bag and go to him to bid him farewell. I learnt he complains each time I leave. I have three kids for goodness sake and I don't get home until 9/9.30pm.

One day, the MD told me I will have to be travelling once in a while but I told him I have children and husband, so I could not travel out of Lagos. I had told them this even during the interview.

Another problem with the company is the rate at which they sack people. The HR lady that sent me my letter was sacked a week after my resumption and I was told that is the usual occurence there. There is no week a worker is not sacked or left on his/her own. The MD was even boasting that he has sacked his daughter before, so no one is indispensable.

When I resumed, I attended to all the outstanding Admin work and whenever I report to the MD, he will be complaining that I am too lenient with "these people". He will be saying that is why he does not want to employ a woman. He wants me to be leing and be telling people come today, come tomorrow. When you bring the issue of drivers and logistics staff to him, it has always been war. He was just not nice to his workers.

Yesterday, I was sent an email that they have observed that company driver has been taking me to places for me to accomplish my task and that I could not cope with the nature of their job. Because of this, I should hand over the company property in my possession to one staff member.

I am yet to be paid, but I am sure they will pay me that. But, if I should give then 2 months salary in lieu, what is good for the geese should be good for the gander. Imagine resigning in one company only to be sacked 3 weeks after resumption. Imagine. I have the intention of taking him to the court or the industrial court. I want an honest advice or recommendation.

Thank you.

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