₦airaland Forum

Oro. Oro Nigeria. The dude's Fbk page says he's from ondo town

Esseite:
So they also said the state govt gave them guns?... really where did you read that?

Meanwhile the policeman whom was arrested amongst the thugs said it was vengance against police but now its saraki?

Anything goes with you guys really..

Are you aware that the chief of staff to the governor is presently cooling off with the police as of this moment and so also the PA (political) to the governor, hope that should tell you much and are you aware of their alleged roles?
Before you put your case forward, reason it well next time.

veekid:
Saraki don buy market
Buhari don fail APC
PDP will be glad to welcome saraki back




Dino right now

Welcome him back in prison

Esseite:
These are campaign cars... can you hold Buhari on atrocities caused with them?

Cars are constitutionally recognized electoral materials, guns by thugs are not, use your sense next time you are coming for an argument

Esseite:
What i dont understand is why saraki who is a multi billionaire,
a proxy director with multiple banks,
a senate president,
a wealthy royal family,
a one time governor,
a personal friend with the governor of kwara would bankroll a bank robbery killing 33 people, for what reason really?
To disstabilize the state he controls?
To hurt the loyal governor his friend?
To steal the bank monies he has in abundance?
To kill policemen who protect him?

What really?
This war is personal...

May a single member of your family or yourself be a victim of such so that you will know how painful such thing is

Exwizard:
Just imagine


Where did we missed it in this country


People building a police station themselves

And someone is saying we should not pray they arrest Saraki. Him and his father are the very deepest root of the town's stagnant underdevelopment

contigiency:
The hoodlums did not say they went for the rubbery at the instance of those indicted. Rather, the matter here which is why Saraki was invited is that the criminals said they are being nurtured and sustained by the duo because they use the gang members to carry out other crimes. to substantiate their claims, they are showing evidence of gifts and cash given to them by saraki, the governor and others associated to them.

Thank you, may God bless you for your open mindedness

You see, all of you people saying Saraki is not the one that makes criminals to proliferate Kwara, may your neighborhood and ancestral homes and home towns and abodes experience the kind of pains Offa people have experienced because of one man's gluttonous ambition.

SOFTENGR:
Someone wrote on Nairaland some days ago "why I will not apply for FRSC job" just because he's not "connected". That's the reality today. Merit had its place then, but now it's simply man-know-man.

It can't be truer than that, it's now a norm but something very sad

SOFTENGR:
Today, the dream of an average Nigerian will end as he will not be allowed to work with government without strong political connections. Rather, he would be tagged "lazy youth".

People of that generation had it really easier if you just know what you are doing

RIP justice, one of the few men I genuinely respect in nija

A former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Mustapha Adebayo Akanbi is dead.
Akanbi who was former Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) died about 1am on Sunday morning in Ilorin, Kwara State.
One of his children, Barrister Kabir Akanbi, who spoke with our correspondent at 4.25am, confirmed the death of the and foremost jurist. He will be buried later today.
Akanbi was born on 11 September 1932 at Accra, Ghana.
After completing secondary school, he worked as an Executive officer in the Ghana Civil Service. He was also active as a trade unionist. Moving to Nigeria, he worked in the School Broadcasting Department of the Ministry of Education.[1]
He obtained a scholarship to study law at the Institute of Administration, now Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, followed by legal studies in the United Kingdom.

He was called to the English Bar in 1963, Nigerian Bar in January 1964 and joined the Ministry of Justice where became a Senior State Counsel in 1968.

In 1969, he set up in private practice in kano but was appointed a judge of the Federal Revenue Court in 1974. In January 1977, he was elevated to the Court of Appeal Bench. In 1992 he was made President of the Nigerian Court of Appeal, a position he held until retiring in 1999.[1] His son is also a successful Lawyer, becoming Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin Branch.[2]

In 2000 President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Akanbi as Chairman of the newly established Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC). Four years later, the ICPC had failed to make any significant convictions. Akanbi publicly questioned why the government had set up the ICPC and appointed competent people to run it “only to frustrate it from performing by starving it of funds”. He said that another issue was that the law forbade it from investigating corrupt practices dating before the creation of the ICPC.[3] In March 2004, Justice Mustapha Akanbi urged parliamentarians to ratify the United Nations and the African Union Conventions Against Corruption, which would greatly assist the struggle against corruption.[4]


people but had only secured two corruption-related convictions. Commenting on this record, Akbani said he suspected that some judges had been paid off to toss out cases.[5] In September 2005 Akanbe said, “Corruption has been described as a cankerworm, a malaise that has afflicted our nation and done havoc to our corporate existence”. He attributed the problem to lack of will by past military leaders to fight corruption, inconsistency in government policies, and reluctance by law enforcement agencies to arrest and prosecute “sacred cows”.[6]

Akanbi retired in 2005 on completion of the first term of office, and was succeeded by Emmanuel Ayoola.[1] He joined the board of the Justice and Law Enforcement Reformation Organization, a non-profit organization that aims to eradicate corruption and poverty from the perspective of the Judiciary and Law Enforcement agencies.[7] In 2006, Akanbi established the Mustapha Akanbi Foundation in Ilorin, Kwara State, dedicated to strengthening civil society groups, governmental agencies and private business concerns and helping them imbibe a culture of transparency and accountability.[8]

In August 2009 he called on Nigerian Muslims to shun the ideas of the Boko Haram sect, which teaches that non-Islamic education is a sin. He said that both Western and Islamic education were germane to the development of mankind.[9]

Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/ex-court-of-appeal-president-akanbi-is-dead/

This kinda reports saddens one's heart so much

OP you raised a salient point nd you even amazed me cos you know the right thing to do, pls go ahead with the petition.

Guess instead of always complaining about most things in this country, if we can actually be taking bull's horn by taking decisive actions, in no time, we will be better for it.

I think we just seriously need to regig all this our ecowas whatever if we must have an headway with our internal security and economy.

Gobe

[quote author= post=68065084]He is an Igbo man[/quote]Congrats if your assertion is right. Hope that will give you a great night rest

GuyWise:
Are you daft? is Delta state a tribe?

Tell us how Tony Elumelu is Igbo

DREAMZZZ:
when did delta become a tribe in nigeria ...reduce your intake of green algae hydraulic soup una no go hear

Kai slowpoke come and take grass make u manage use take dinner. omugo

So the ish not only a northern ish, my dear Nigeria. There was a country!

Saraki intentionally spearheaded it cos of his son Sheni turning 25 soon. Those who knows know

GuyWise:
Igbo man representing as usual.... with that said...

How is Delta man an igbo man again , famzing

PearlStreet:
Are you serious?
Even the Queen of England won't try that!

That's the owu prince for you lol

PearlStreet:
It's not him.
It's the Eletu Odibo brothers.

Those ones are mad. It's any car that the President uses as official vehicle) that they use. The President changes his car, they change theirs.

Why would you say it's not him, am I not the one that saw him or is it your see?
But on a serious level he's the one, he numbered them Bolu 1, Bolu 2,.......,Bolu 10.

I one day last year saw this guy on 3rd mainland with his convoys of Rolls Royces, I was amazed.

Pray these our keepers don't turn to another Karius Sha . Runs outta thread.

magoo10:
Convicting one corrupt politician out of so many shows this govt still have a long way despite the huge noise made about fighting kwaruption even though we know it is not the final verdict and will still be appealed.

There is a lot of politically exposed criminals including those in this govt out there whom buhari and his propaganda cohorts need to successfully put in jail before they can be taken serious. We need the ball to keep rolling nonstop

Na d president b d judges for d courts ba?

SalamRushdie:
Why don't you show me the verse I asked for instead of being a spokesman for the pope ... well I don't even consider this one my pope right from day one

This is one of such quotes for you, only if you will open up your mind
“O You who believe! Enter absolutely into peace (Islam). Do not follow in the footsteps of satan. He is an outright enemy to you.” (Holy Quran: 2, 208)

SalamRushdie:
You are being very shallow with the truth ...why don't you show me one verse on the Koran that preaches unconditional love ? Just one just one

You wanna see right? I will BRB with barrages of quranic verses where love is preached for you.
Pope is saying the undiluted truth cos he's aware and he knows the truth.

“God does not forbid you from being good to those who have not fought you in the religion or driven you from your homes, or from being just towards them. God loves those who are just.” (Surat al-Mumtahana,

Clearly it's no more business as usual. Thou the first amongst many of such cases but important we start from somewhere.

Kockane:
Interesting times in kogi politics. I am okun, and I follow happenings back home. I must say it's been long coming though, as Yahya Bello has the APC apparatus locked down and his recent bromance with Smart Adeyemi only goes to buttress the "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" narrative.

Dino has done well to decamp. He is young, vibrant, has the power of incumbency and presents a much stronger candidature than Smart who people don't really like for his pomposity and tight-fistedness.

Question is, can he triumph over the combination of Yahya Bello and Smart? His presence in places like Egbe, Odo Ere, Isanlu, etc is also very weak.

Interesting times indeed.

Baba you understand Kogi politics die. Funny but somehow true, Dino might be an ultimate loser at the end of the day because, like you rightly pointed out, he's not well loved among his Yoruba Okun kinsmen, he was able to won the 2015 elections because of the bloc votes he got from Lokoja -Koton Karfe axis and those ones voted APC in 2015 cos of Buhari tsunami not Dino Melaye's credibility, now that he's lost all that, it will be a great feet for him to win reelection come 2015 for that same seat.
Caveat: Dino gone, waiting for Sheu Sanni and his Co travelers. But I don't think Bukola Saraki may be towing that path cos he knows that he has more at stake and he's way smarter than to risk it just like that cos there's no assurance for him on the other side.

We r getting there, by the end of June/July all those that want to defect would have d defected finish and then the proper permutations can be in earnest