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 Politics › Court To Decide New Applications On Buhari’s Eligibility by depson(op): 8:58pm On Mar 24, 2015 |
A Federal High Court in Abuja will on Wednesday rule on fresh applications by intended parties to join one of the suits challenging the eligibility of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), to contest Saturday’s presidential election. The existing defendants in the suit are the Independent National Electoral Commission, Buhari and the APC. Justice Adeniyi Ademola fixed Wednesday for ruling after hearing the intended parties’ applications on Tuesday. The suit was filed on January 26, 2015, by a lawyer, Chukwunweike Okafor, asking the court to declare Buhari ineligible to contest in the presidential election slated for Saturday over his (Buhari’s) alleged failure to submit his certificate of academic qualifications along with his Form CF001 to INEC. Earlier on Tuesday, the judge ruled that he would on Wednesday hear both the main suit and Buhari’s preliminary applications challenging the court’s jurisdiction together. Those whose applications for joining the suit as defendants were heard on Tuesday were Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, Chukwuma Ochu, Sunusi Musa, Ahmed Maitarki and the Fiscal and Civil Rights Enlightenment Foundation. Plaintiff’s counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), had, in his objection to the applications of the intended defendants, described the applicants as interlopers. Buhari and the APC had also challenged the mode of service of the plaintiff’s originating summons on them. Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), who is representing Buhari and Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), counsel for the APC, had while opposing the plaintiff’s prayer to quickly hear the suit, argued that there there was no law stipulating that pre-election cases must be heard before the conduct of the elections. There are about 10 suits instituted against Buhari’s eligibility to participate in the presidential election slated for Sarturday. They argued that failure of Buhari to submit his certificate of academic qualifications to INEC contravened provisions of sections 131 and 318 of the 1999 Constitution and section 31(3) of the Electoral Act, 2010. |
| Health › Re: Please Help! How Can I Help Him Stop Smoking Weed? by depson(m): 7:47pm On Mar 21, 2015 |
[quote author=Catered4 post=31863112]A week ago, I smelled something like cigarette on him though I wasn't sure because I've never seen him smoke and he doent look like someone that smokes. As in, no trace of it in him. The smell was so strong that I was forced to ask him. Me: Did you smoke? Dele: No, why? Me: Are you sure? Dele: No I didn't Me: But I smell something like cigarette in you Dele: I didn't smoke I was so convinced that he smoked but I had no strong evidence to prove that he smoked. The next day, in the afternoon precisely, I perceived that same smell on him which wasn't so in the morning. I was forced to ask again. Me: You smoked today again. Don't even deny it. Dele: *Speechless* Me: I knew you smoked yesterday but I wasn't so sure of what I smelled in you. Today that same smell is on you and its so strong. So tell me, Do you smoke? Dele: Yes but not cigarette. Me: What? Dele: Skunk (don't know if I got the spelling right) Me: What's Skunk? Dele: He explained though I didn't understand any of his explanation since I was hearing it for the first time. Me: For how long have you been smoking Skunk? Dele: For years. I wasn't like that before not until some circumstances pushed me into the street. Mumsy and everyone doesn't know I smoke. No one knows. Me: Please I want you to stop smoking. I don't feel comfortable with smokers. How can I help you stop? Dele: I'm not an addict. I can stop right away. I was so happy that I thought it was that easy to stop. Right there I believed he had stopped smoking skunk. A day after our discussion, I saw him with something that looked like grinded grass or dry leaf wrapped in a small white nylon. I was so curious to know what it was, so I asked. Me: What's this? Dele: Thyme Me: what kind of thyme is this? Dele: Its Thailand Thyme. Its used in cooking soup and its also medicinal. When you use it to cook, you will like it. Me: wow, I will like to try it. Can I have some? Dele: (This time around, laughing out), its weed ooo. Me: you mean Igbo? Dele: Yes Igbo. Its also called Weed. Me: (Not suspecting he smokes weed too) is it the same Igbo that is being mixed in hair creams? Dele: Yes but not this one. If you want that one, I will get it for you. This one is being put into tea or chewed. Its medicinal. Dele explained the medical benefits of taking weed (In tea or chewing). I never knew he smokes weed not until a day he went out with his friends, his eyes was bleeding blood like he was given blow in the eyes. His eye balls were out and scaring. This time around, I walked up to him and asked if he had been smoking and he said Yes. I was furious. He promised to stop smoking skunk but I was surprised when he told me it wasn't skunk this time around but weed. I was so down. He promised to stop again. Just yesterday, I caught him smoking. He didn't know I was coming. I saw him smoking the white paper. I was heart broken. I was speechless. I ran inside. He came in, he knew I was angry but he didn't know what to say. Not long, he slept off. I searched d whole house. I found wraps of weed in a nylon. I also found some in the varandah under a chair. I threw them into the water closet and flushed them. I placed the wrapper closed to where he will see them. He woke up and saw the wrappers emptied. He asked and I told him I ate them all. He didn't believe but I insisted that I ate them all since that's what he likes doing too. Ever since then, I've been keeping to myself. I want to help him stop his smoking habit. I don't want him to damage his health due to excessive smoking. I'm afraid if he continues this way, something bad might happen to his health. Please fellow Nairalanders, I need him to quit smoking, how do I help him stop. Matured advice only. Thank you. The only assigment you have is on your kneen Pray for him that God should have an encanter with him 1 Like |
| Crime › Re: Landlady Strangled Over Electricity Bill by depson(m): 1:10pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
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| Politics › PDP, APC: Your Promises Are Vague by depson(op): 11:56am On Mar 17, 2015 |
PDP, APC: Your promises are vague on march 16, 2015 at 1:35 am in broken links Facebook Share Twitter Share During the student union election in 1979/80 at the University of Benin, Mr. S.A. Tella, now a professor of Economic and Statistics department taught the university community how sacred facts and effective statistics can be used for electioneering campaign. Buhari and Jonathan Tella entered the race for the student union election to the office of Student welfare two weeks to the election. When he announced his candidacy to the class, he was taken as a joker. He neither printed posters nor embarked on elaborate campaign like others. He simply went to the library and took stock of the seats available in the library. He did the same for Hostel accommodation and the cafeteria. What he did next was to ask from the authorities the number of students in the school and what was the ideal facilities the students were supposed to have in the various places named above. He got the data and was armed for the manifesto night. When it was his turn to speak, Tella just told the student body the number of seats in the library and how many were supposed to be there, he said the same of the hostel accommodation, the cafeteria and what the students were missing by the university not providing adequate facilities for them to study without tears. Before he finished, the man who nobody gave a chance, was endorsed by all the students with the chant, “Tella, you have won, Tella you have won.” I decided to reflect on this experience in my student days based on the hollow nature of the electioneering campaigns going on in the 2015 bid for the various elective posts. Nigerian politicians have left the substance and are chasing shadows while our country men watch helplessly. These politicians are not making any measurable promise to the electorate. They are just dancing naked to amuse the electorate. Each time they mount the rostrum, they speak vague and foul language devoid of facts and figures. There is no new idea of how to deal with the economic and social problems that have plagued the nation. “I will deal with corruption.” What is the level of corruption you plan to deal with? In what sector or arm of government do you have this high level of corruption? How much is Nigeria losing per year due to corruption? The parties have not conducted any study, they have no idea how much is being lost and how to block the loopholes. What are the new plans to deal with corruption? Nigerians are not being told; yet we clap our hands for vague speeches made on soap box. Nigerians know that the major development challenges facing the country today are corruption, insecurity, the economy – unemployment/poverty, power, infrastructure, health and education etc. The ongoing campaign shows that the two political parties do not understand the depth of the economic problem facing the country. They both have no credible agenda to deal with the issues, especially within the context of the evolving global economy and Nigeria’s broken public finance. A look at what happens in other parts of democratic world, party and leaders who do their home work usually come up with policy framework where programmes and policies they intend to pursue ie Party manifesto, are fully costed and strategies to finance and implement them are spelt out. Neither APC nor PDP can make such claim. To any economist, any plan without the cost outlay is nothing but a wish-list. They are not telling us how much each of their promises will cost and where they will get the money to run them. None talks about the broken or near bankrupt public finance and the strategy to fix it. Each talks about agricultural revolution, what type of agriculture are we planning to implement? What are the value chains the agric policy will pursue? What light industries are coming on stream and where are they to be located? How are they to be financed? What is the cost estimate for such projects? How many jobs are to be created from the sector per annum? These are questions that they are not ready to answer. What is the export strategy for the surplus that will be created from investment in agriculture? Which market is Nigeria targeting for export? And what plans are in their manifesto to free Nigeria from dependence on import especially petroleum imports in order to save the naira from continued devaluation? In response to the question of where the money will come from, some Nigerians, journalists inclusive, are quick to say that the problem of Nigeria is not money but the management of resources. This is far from the truth. To deliver an efficient national transport infrastructure alone according to available estimate, will cost $3.05 trillion in the next 30 years, about $25 billion per annum even by corruption-free, cost-effective means estimated by National Economic Council. These politicians should stop lying to Nigerians and tell the nation how both parties would fund their programmes. This crop of politicians should learn a lesson from Chief Obafemi Awolowo who was asked in 1978/79 electioneering campaign about his promises of free education and free medical services. He, Awolowo reeled out figures about the amounts he would save from various ‘waste’ including the tea/coffee served in government offices. The issue here is that he would always do his homework before making any pronouncement. Evidently, from what the two major political parties are offering, it does not seem that they are offering Nigerians any serious deal. |
| Politics › Re: Aisha Buhari and Dolapo Osibanjo Visit Ilorin Government House (Pictures) by depson(m): 9:26am On Mar 17, 2015 |
klem93:Nothing can change mmy mind Gej till 2019 If u like waka go sambisa    2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Three Men Beheaded By ISIS Militants With Sword For Being HOMOS3XUALS(PHOTOS) by depson(m): 11:32pm On Mar 16, 2015 |
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| Romance › Re: Tonto Dikeh Shares A Photo From The Bath Tub by depson(m): 11:24pm On Mar 16, 2015 |
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