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ChimaAdeoye:
Please stop responding to that Afonja. The more you do, the more he thinks you are dumb and he has deceived you by merely claiming he is igbo. Let him use google translate to also write Igbo and think nobody knows about that too. Biko, Stop being deceived by their antics to be Igbo this or that. Just ignore them to spew their bitterness and hatred. We share a country with horribly hateful fellows we call "compatriots"

If you scroll back this thread a few pages, you will see where they argued Enugu was more expensive. Then they argued, ET was unsafe. Now they are arguing it has layover. They are sooooooooooo bitter. You could see for yourself that they mischievously closed down the airport in it's busiest week in December. Please do not let them deceive you by claiming they are Igbo this or that. The same people that conspired to kill Onitsha seaport using similar deceitful and totally false talk are having sleepless night with AIIA, Enugu. They want Igbo to have no access whatsoever to the outside world without first going to their region. That is why you must ignore their silly excuses and just do what needs to be done.

I have flow that route from USA about 4 times now and you rarely stay in Addis Ababa for more than 3-4 hours. Notice that he deliberately chose to begin his trip on Tuesday or Thursday so that he would have missed the Enugu bound flight and would then have a long layover. If you book such flight on ET website, they immediately suggest alternate days for your trip. If he could start a trip on 13th, he could very well start it on the 12 or the 14th and he won't have any long layover, but he chose 13th because he was very mischievous to claim there is a long layover. I started the trip on March 12th instead of 13th he mischievously chose. You can see for yourself that it is only in the return flight that you have more than 3 hours layover.

Layover at Addis Ababa is the shortest compared to using Air France or Virgin to Abuja or Lagos from USA. Infact in one trip i almost missed the Enugu flight because the layover was just 30 minutes from when the plane that brought us from Washington touched down in Addis Ababa. Usually the one hour layover from Washington DC is like 30-40 minutes because the Washington flight is always delayed.
Please don't let these wicked people deceive you. NEVER believe any word they say. They are out to deceive you out of their senseless undiluted hatred.

cascarino:
Biafran suit in America: US rejects Nigeria’s defence of immunity
 February 8, 2018  Administrator
– From Duncan Odey –
In a counter Motion filed on February 6, 2018, the US-based lawyers for the Biafran plaintiffs who brought suit against some Nigerian officials have strongly urged a United States federal court to proceed to trial on the merits, stressing the damning fact the the US State Department has rejected a request from the Buhari-led Nigerian government for the State Department to intervene and stop the suit based on the sovereign immunity defense.
At Page 4 of the 35-page Motion obtained by this reporter, Plaintiffs lawyers stated that “Despite an overture by the Government of Nigeria, the United States Department of State has refrained from suggesting any Defendant is immune from Plaintiffs’ TVPA claims under federal common law or otherwise. Neither has the State Department suggested that any Defendant is a head of state in Nigeria”.
The counter Motion was necessitated by a motion filed by defence lawyers to dismiss the suit based on grounds that included the act of state doctrine, lack of jurisdiction and sovereign immunity. Dr Bruce Fein and associates, lawyers to the Biafran Plaintiffs argued in-opposite that such defenses are not allowed under the Statutes upon which the suit was brought.
Plaintiffs’ counsel also argued that defence Motions are questionable because the defense lawyers are, before the court, fighting amongst themselves as to who should be recognized to represent the defendants.
The case is pending before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against sixteen Nigerian officials for their direct or indirect complicity in the extrajudicial killings of IPOB members/Biafrans who had launched peaceful protests in the wake of arrest and detention of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
The officials are: Tukur Yusuf Buratai; Lawal Musa Daura; Ibrahim Attahiru; M.I. Ibrahim; Kasim Umar Sidi; Issah Maigari Abdullahi; Solomon Arase; Ibrahim Kpotun Idris; Okezie Ikpeazu; Willie Obiano; Habila Hosea; Peter Nwagbara; James Oshim Nwafor; Hosea Karma; Bassey Abang; and Johnson Babatunde Kokomo.
In the counter motion, counsel to Plaintiffs argued, amongst others, that jurisdiction has vested through service of the summons and complaint by certified international courier on all defendants.
The Suit is grounded on two muscular United States’ statutes – the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA or ATS – the Alien Tort Statute); and the Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Both laws have extraterritorial reach, meaning that they allow US federal courts to assert long-arm jurisdiction that extends beyond the borders of United States.
Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) provides that ‘the district courts shall have original jurisdiction on any civil action by an alien (foreigner) for a civil wrong committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States’. Since 1980, courts have interpreted this statute to allow foreign citizens to seek remedies in US courts for human rights violations for conduct committed outside the United States.
Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 is a statute that permits civil suits in the United States against foreign individuals who – acting in an official capacity for any foreign nation – committed torture and/or extrajudicial killings.
In the suit, Plaintiffs lawyers argued that ‘The factual case against the Defendants is convincing. The world already knows of the widespread beatings and slaughter of protesting Igbos/IPOB by elements of Nigerian security forces at various locations after Nnamdi Kanu was arrested. Amnesty International and other credible foreign sources have confirmed those killings and torture’. Those reports were filed in Court.
Beyond the latest processes, and at the ensuing trial, Defendants will be required to personally appear before the US court to testify under oath and probing cross-examination that will dwell on the details of the IPOB killings and the complicity of other unnamed Nigerian officials.
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http://africanheraldexpress.com/blog8/2018/02/08/biafran-suit-in-america-us-rejects-nigerias-defence-of-immunity/

InvertedHammer:
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The biggest setback for US-ENU flight is the total time of travel. The layover duration at Addis-Ababa airport is too much. I wonder who will waste 12hrs layover in Ethiopia. The same goes for Virgin Atlantic. They have almost 24hrs layover in London in LOS-LAX itinerary. Ethiopian airline is competing with Turkish airline on which will waste passengers' time on unnecessary layover hours. But Air France, KLM, Delta will get you to your destination with minimal layover hours. That means a lot. It seems that people on the East coast have better luck with Ethiopian airline.

Ttipsy:
state govt can do that

melodyogonna:
is it Op that published the report?

sarrki:
Pmb please speak with a strong voice

IamaNigerianGuy:
At least 35 people were killed by the Nigerian military’s air raids on villages last month, according to the human rights organisation Amnesty International.

Witnesses described Nigerian air force jets bombing houses and targeting civilians trying to hide in five villages in raids that a military spokesman said at the time had a “positive effect” in tackling communal violence.

Launching the attacks in December, the military said that it was targeting “hideouts of miscreants” in the villages, referring to herdsmen whom it said were armed.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a5cf5895256ba47af5f736068f7c8501e56c9a27/153_0_4541_2726/master/4541.jpg?w=300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=d02e0ac1c3fe3f27c3085f061176b493

Thousands of people have died in a bloody conflict between herdsmen and farmers that has intensified in Nigeria’s middle belt over the past 10 years.

“Launching air raids is not a legitimate law enforcement method by anyone’s standard,” said Amnesty’s Osai Ojigho. “Such reckless use of deadly force is unlawful, outrageous and lays bare the Nigerian military’s shocking disregard for the lives of those it supposedly exists to protect.”

A farmer from the village of Shafaron said a helicopter and a jet launched their air raid just after the herdsmen arrived. “The helicopter and the jet started releasing bombs,” he said. “Houses started burning. Children started running for their lives. Mothers packed up their children and escaped with them. We men were unable to fight back and we started running too. This jet burnt our houses and properties to ashes.”

A traditional ruler of one of the villages, whose house was destroyed in the air raid, also described how the aircraft arrived shortly after the herdsmen. He said: “As we were trying to hide we saw a helicopter and a jet arrive and start shooting and bombing houses. When they saw somebody trying to hide, the jet would just blast them with bombs.”

Several Nigerian states have passed legislation banning the open grazing of cattle, in an attempt to stop the clashes that result from pastoralists’ animals trampling agriculturalists’ crops.

In November, as the new law came into force in Benue state, the governor told Nigerian media it was necessary because “for close to five years, herdsmen have killed thousands of Benue people and it was almost becoming a pogrom.”

But others see the legislation as discriminating against the Fulani, a minority west African group who are traditionally herders – and to which the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, belongs.

The federal government has not approved of these laws. Last week, Nigeria’s defence minister Mansur Dan Ali said that a major reason for the clashes was that traditional grazing routes no longer existed.

“If those routes are blocked, what do you expect will happen?” he asked. “It is just like one going to block the shoreline, does that make sense to you? These are the remote causes of the crisis. But the immediate cause is the grazing law.”

“These people are Nigerians and we must learn to live together,” he added. “Communities and other people must learn how to accept foreigners within their enclave.

Earlier this month Buhari ordered the inspector general of police to relocate to Benue, following intense criticism within Nigeria that the presidency had been passive in dealing with an escalating crisis. Several units of police forces and counter-terrorism officers have been deployed to Benue this month following the attacks.

Last week the Department for State Security claimed to have uncovered a network of Islamic State militants in Benue and other Nigerian states, explaining that they were also behind the recent killings.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/29/dozens-of-villagers-died-in-nigerian-air-force-raids-says-amnesty

talk2emma:
Where are they bringing them from

shervydman:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/256775-buhari-signs-eight-bills-into-law.html

life2017:
Key point on APC Restructuring panel Report headed by El Rufai.

1. Resource control be approved for Onshore oil, gas and all other mineral resources be controlled by states.

2. Offshore oil, gas and all other minerals resources to be controlled by federal govt.

3. Local govt should be scrapped and be removed from Nigeria constitution. Let every states decide how to manage it's communities.

4. State police should be created.

5. Independent candidates be approved for election if they meets INEC conditions.

6. States share of revenue allocation should increase while that of federal govt should reduce.

7. Some states should be allow to merge. No additional states should be created.

8.State of origin and local govt of origin be abolished and to be replace with place of residence.






https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/apc-ctte-restructuring-recommends-resource-control-state-police-others/

investnow2013:
Liberty Estate NKWELLE EZUNAKA IN OYI LGA OF ANAMBRA STATE( NEW ESTATE)

Limitednow:
Source: https://www.headlineng.com/south-east-apc-leaders-beg-buhari-support-igbo-presidency-2023/

okosodo:
Imo state people are very foolish to still allow this man to be their governor

Kingspin:
Taraba - A helicopter suspected to be loaded with arms and ammunition was Saturday night reported to have landed in a village called Jibu, in Wukari local government area of Taraba State.

Governor Darius Ishaku’s media aide, Bala Dan Abu has told newsmen that the arms and ammunition are allegedly meant for a militia group that may be planning attacks on Taraba villages.

Police spokesman, David Misal, said a surveillance team has been directed to the area to get to the roots of the matter.

http://thenationonlineng.net/aircraft-loaded-with-arms-lands-in-taraba-village/

Icecomrade:
This is a typical APC response to bad governance.
Lies and deciet .

Someone or Something to blame for the worse governance in the history of Nigeria.

The colossal failure is staring you in the face. You cant challenge the facts. You cant deny this.

APC is pathetic.

angels09:
who sabotaged the chopper