₦airaland Forum

Nellybii:
If only the Ndigbo can just pull their resources together behind one candidate, I believe they've got the numbers. The big question is can they?

logicab:
It was not a gift; it was earned due to the sacrifice of Abiola. Once an Igbo man can win an election and then denied and murdered, feel free to look for a "gift" to other Igbo men.

logicab:
Simple logic that eludes you: Abiola was Yoruba. Yorubas were placated. Try again.

logicab:
In a democracy, power is won and not handed over in gift wrappings.

Godprotectigbo2:
u beter do

Godprotectigbo2:
i mean the picture of the propsed plan




e b like say u don dey follow EL fai they drink fura and brukutu

Godprotectigbo2:
thanks put picture of the highlighted project pls

asha80:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/ugwuanyi-pioneers-industrial-revolution-enugu/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

This story is more about that supposed Chinese led industrial zone

Godprotectigbo2:
OP add picture to shame haters

Opakan2:
do you have comprehension problems?

I hate noisemakers who are so confused to stand by anything and make it work.. over a year now and still this bullshit talk, no action
yet all your traditional rulers have gone to Aso rock to butt-lick fulani president you lots love to hate

I'm sure other serious and intelligent people here are fed up too.. so take several seats boy/girl and stop quoting me

Progressive01:
Baba, i wish it were possible for you to use some executive fiat to carve out that 100by100 piece of land they occupy and hand it over to them so the rest of us can live happily with no one waking up every single day with a stomach swollen with hatred and looking for people to puke on.

I wish they can just fvcking keave!

Largas:
Nice one. What does plant use to generate power?

Israeljones:
If by anymeans with wah yu rote up there,, yu mean by waiting for hw he is going to be put behind bars for the rest of his life is a way of bin interested in the life of that miscreant...
You are not far from the truth... .

balo2rule:
upon all the noise of the Flat Head Youths, non of them is ready to volunteer to celebrate xmas with him at Kuje!

Israeljones:
If by any possibility yu were referring to nairaland as google.. Well,,, yu are not far from the truth because i get every information about that miscreant here on NL..
So are yu happy now?

Israeljones:
I use google for something more productive and not because of biafra issue... Bros abeg tear

Israeljones:
I have no idea what yu talking about bruh

Israeljones:

.. To the ipobs this wud sink to their bone marrow..
Treasonable offences are not offences a countrys govt overlook.. They take such sewious...

Hes(Nnamdi Kanu) just gottn started...
They didnt tell us when the next hearing was adjourned to..

GTkester:
Expected. But we aren't giving up!!

ABUJA—–Trial Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, Thursday, declined to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on bail. Director of Radio Biafra and Leader, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu as he appeared before Justice Ahmed Mohammed Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, 23/12/2015 Justice Binta equally refused bail applications made by three other pro-Biafra agitators, Mr. Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi, who are facing trial alongside Kanu.

The four defendants who are answering to an 11-count charge bordering on treasonable felony and their alleged involvement in acts of terrorism, had through their lawyers, pleaded the court to release them on bail pending the determination of the charge against them. Their separate bail applications were predicated on sections 158, 162 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, as well as section 35 and 36 of the 1999 constitution, as amended. The defendants contended that charges against them were not only bailable offences, but also not felony punishable with death. Arguing that the presumption of innocence under the Nigerian constitution was in their favour, the defendants said their release from detention would enable them to properly defend the charge against them. Besides, they insisted that their right to self determination was guaranteed both by the Nigeria constitution and Article 20 of the Africa Charter on Peoples and Human Right. They maintained that IPOB which they said has been registered in over 30 countries, has not been proscribed or declared as a dangerous organisation under any law. They defendants expressed their readiness to produce reasonable sureties before the court. However, FG, vehemently opposed release of any of the defendants on bail.

Government lawyer, Mr. Shuaibu Labaran, told the court that the defendants would constitute “a threat to national security”, once freed from prison custody. Labaran, who further applied to the court for protection of witnesses billed to testify against the defendants, drew attention of the court to the fact that the 1st defendant, Kanu, has dual citizenship. He argued that Kanu who he said has both Nigerian and British passports, would escape out of the country if released on bail. While praying the court to allow the defendants to attend their trial from Kuje prison, FG, stressed that Onwudiwe was a major threat, saying he was the only one facing a particular count of “preparatory to commit an act of terrorism”. Meanwhile, in her ruling, Justice Nyako, held that charge against the defendants “are very serious in nature”, and therefore not ordinarily bailable. “Irrespective of what the charge is, the court has to exercise its discretion on way or the other”, the Judge held, adding that some of the charges against the defendants could attract life imprisonment if proved by FG. Justice Nyako also dismissed contention by the defendants that President Muhammadu Buhari had openly directed that they should not be released on bail.

The Judge held that President Buhari, being a citizen of Nigeria, was at liberty to exercise his freedom of speech. She maintained that the President lacks the capacity to influence the decision of the court, saying the defendants did not place any new fact or law capable of persuading the court to reverse an earlier ruling of the court that denied them bail. “The offences are serious in nature and carries very severe punishment if proven. “I hereby therefore refuse bail of the applicants. But in the alternative, I hereby order accelerated trial of this matter to almost commence immediately, but not later than two months”, the Judge held.

Immediately after the ruling was delivered, FG, applied for all the witnesses to be allowed to testify behind screen. It also prayed the court for identities of the witnesses not to be revealed in any record of the proceeding. The defendants however opposed the application, contending that granting such request would amount to a gross violation of their rights to fair hearing. “We vehemently oppose secret trial of the defendants. They were accused in the open, we also request that they be tried in the open. The defendants need to see those testifying against them eye-ball-to-eye-ball. We are ready for this trial”, Kanu’s lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor submitted. Specifically, FG had in the charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/383/2015, alleged that the quartet conspired to commit treasonable felony contrary to and punishable under section 516 of the Criminal Code Act, CAP. C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2014. FG alleged that they committed the offence along with others now at large, on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015, in Nigeria, London and United Kingdom.

It told the court that the defendant conspired among themselves to broadcast on Radio Biafra which is monitored in Enugu and its environs, preparations they were making for states in the South-South zones and other communities in Kogi and Benue states, to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into a Republic of Biafra. Whereas FG identified Kanu as the arrow-head behind the “hate broadcasts”, it fingered Onwudiwe as the National Coordinator of the IPOB movement.

The defendants had on November 8, pleaded not guilty to all the charges against them, even as the court adjourned to hear their bail applications. Kanu was previously facing a six-count treason charge with Madubugwu and Nwawuisi, before FG amended the charges to include Onwudiwe as one of the defendants. Justice Nyako is now the third judge to handle the trial. It will be recalled that the former judge handling the matter, Justice John Tsoho had on September 26, disqualified himself from presiding over trial of the defendants. Justice Tsoho who earlier denied the defendants bail, premised his decision to hands-off the case on a petition pending against him before the National Judicial Council, NJC. Kanu and his co-accused persons had in their joint petition, alleged that Justice Tsoho indulged in act of “judicial rascality”, by delivering conflicting rulings on the same subject matter. They alleged that the judge summarily reversed his previous ruling that barred the Federal Government from masking all the witnesses billed to testify against them. The defendants maintained that the Judge denied them fair hearing on the day he gave FG the nod to produce “masquerades” to testify against them.

Justice Ahmed Mohammed who was the first judge Kanu was taken to by FG, had in a bench ruling he delivered on December 23, 2015, also distanced himself from the matter. Kanu who was hitherto the Director of Radio Biafra and Television, ‎has been in detention since October 14, 2015, when he was arrested by security operatives upon his arrival to Nigeria from his base in the United Kingdom.

The defendants were alleged to have committed treasonable felony, an offence punishable under Section 41(C) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria. FG alleged that they were the ones managing the affairs of the IPOB which it described as “an unlawful society”. Kanu was alleged to have illegally smuggled radio transmitters into Nigeria, which he used to disseminate “hate broadcasts”, encouraging the “secession of the Republic of Biafra”, from Nigeria. The IPOB leader earlier denied the charges, even as the court, on January 20, ordered remand of the defendants at Kuje prison ‎in Abuja. Count one of the charge against the defendants read: “That you Nnamdi Kanu, ‘M’, Onwudiwe Chidiebere ‘M’, Benjamin Madubugwu ‘M’, David Nwawusi ‘M’ and others now at large, on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in Nigeria and London, United Kingdom, did conspire amongst yourselves to broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu and other areas within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, preparations being made by you and others at large, or states in the South East and South South zones and other communities in Kogi and Benue States to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into a Republic of Biafra and you thereby committed an offence punishable under section 516 of the Criminal Code Act, CAP.C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2000”.

bashydemy:
sorry bro wailing is no more a paying job so don't vent your anger here.

Onijagidijagan:
Afonjas saving us since 1900, if not 4 Afonjas awusa wud have turned on to their toilet rolls

Chukwu okike obiama

Elbowroom:
Come out to make noise na
U will know how fast that rusted gun will send you to hell fire

centboy123456:
U re right na so war tell dey start oh

Funlordjnr:



Nnyamiri savage! See your bloda chukwudi's passport from indonesia!


Stop waiting for that alert oh? Your flat headed, rotten akpu munching, snuff snorting, drug peddling, ritual loving sibling has been nabbed just like your dilector!


Such a cute animal! Lol.....

Funlordjnr:




Useless ipob tout, why are you pained? Is kanu the bleached bonobo monkey your father?


Come on getaway from hia!

Progressive01:
Do you know his family And how is your own family feeding right now?

He calls nnamdi names, you attack his family. Why not him personaly?

Na so unaa go just dey talk nonsense all over the place.

Smh.