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What is this riot act. Its seems that this act was historically used by tyrants in power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Act. From the little I got from articles on-line, the law was passed down by the british monarchical officers that invaded us. It seems to be prohibiting even the peaceful gathering and protest of law abiding citizens. What is this still doing in Nigerian law. Every government official is busy reading it out to people. (links below). I think this law should be significantly amended or better still repealed.


http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=riot+act+nigeria&source=web&cd=22&ved=0CFEQFjABOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.punchng.com%2Fnews%2Fajimobi-reads-the-riot-act-to-hoodlums%2F&ei=bc6lT4b-BaWXiAfnjLXXAw&usg=AFQjCNELb6RVw6ax4bOk8L5Fy_PpFYW1iQ&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=riot+act+nigeria&source=web&cd=23&ved=0CFIQFjACOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nigerianbestforum.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D95663&ei=bc6lT4b-BaWXiAfnjLXXAw&usg=AFQjCNH_iMpZorZGGxzJkkyjdCF8j9PW0w&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=riot+act+nigeria&source=web&cd=24&ved=0CFMQFjADOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsbreaknigeria.com%2Fnews%2FNigeria%253A%2BFG%2BReads%2BRiot%2BAct%2Bto%2BDiplomatic%2BMissions%2B-%2BAllAfrica.com&ei=bc6lT4b-BaWXiAfnjLXXAw&usg=AFQjCNG0WF62NE1Od81XEy3Tg6uUuXmggQ&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=riot+act+nigeria&source=web&cd=25&ved=0CFUQFjAEOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalizenigeria.com%2F2012%2F04%2F17%2Foshiomhole-reads-riot-act-to-contractors%2F&ei=bc6lT4b-BaWXiAfnjLXXAw&usg=AFQjCNGMSNmA1XPvqlALp_xZGQFXvq237g&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=riot+act+nigeria&source=web&cd=27&ved=0CFcQFjAGOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.channelkoos.com%2Findex.php%2Fnews%2F953-ribadu-reads-riot-act-to-oil-industry-players&ei=bc6lT4b-BaWXiAfnjLXXAw&usg=AFQjCNF22BtUpXSpLxtN9YFRa7dXJz9iWw&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=riot+act+nigeria&source=web&cd=30&ved=0CFoQFjAJOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fallafrica.com%2Fstories%2F201203210551.html&ei=bc6lT4b-BaWXiAfnjLXXAw&usg=AFQjCNEJ3Wsp6cDVchdeJUAB_YtUo98XgQ&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=riot+act+nigeria&source=web&cd=12&ved=0CFYQFjABOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnigerianpilot.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D5205%253Apolice-read-riot-act-to-cultural-groups%26catid%3D39%253Aafrica%26Itemid%3D193&ei=T8-lT9PuL6-hiAeFrbmtAw&usg=AFQjCNHLWUR6Zai04o4iM2_l8xg8GLVEsw&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=riot+act+nigeria&source=web&cd=19&ved=0CF4QFjAIOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zimbio.com%2FNigeria%2Farticles%2F_iwApFHW8et%2FSubsidy%2Bscam%2BSenate%2Breads%2Briot%2Bact%2BEFCC&ei=T8-lT9PuL6-hiAeFrbmtAw&usg=AFQjCNEZBXvvfylYnmLEFJntvyjKXGGBNA&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=riot+act+nigeria&source=web&cd=10&ved=0CFsQFjAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpremiumtimesng.com%2Fnews%2F4417-nigeria_senate_reads_riot_act_to_mali_coup_plotters_weighs_milit.html&ei=ss-lT9uDPM-PiAfCwPyuAw&usg=AFQjCNF-hEPK07MzZuSqnA3h3a-ae8g-og&cad=rja

God created man and gave him fruits for food. Before the fall of man, man lived on food. Man started farming animals after the fall of man (this is all according to your bible). God, according to the bible, put man in charge of animals, he didn't instruct them to eat animals. Man started eating animals, out of the wickedness of their own hearts.

Man's addiction to meat is wrong. Killing animals for your enjoyment is wrong. Animals where not created for you to slaughter. Be kind to animals and treat them with respect. Animals are not for food.

mpumalanga: A nation can not make role models out of murderers and rapist and turn around and start complaining when the youths start to follow their footsteps. danjuma,murtala and others became statesmen through murder and boko haram want to be like them and some are waking up to cry murder and fire as if murder is not a noble cause of action in somalia and its brother nigeria.

Thank you bros, you just summarized it all. If you think a murderer of defenseless women and and children, is your hero, don't worry; we are about to add another hero to your list; the murderer of your sisters, mothers, and children. How can you praise Ty danjuma and condemn boko haram, what is the difference between those two. Evil would never go unpunished. Evil doers (and their sons and benefactors) starting from the british, the russians, the egyptians, the hausa fulani, the Yoruba, the middle belters, and some minority tribes; help perpetuate these heinous crimes would pay; if they don't repent and condemn their evil doings and those of their fathers'. Like someone said before, we don't need to carry out vengeance on our enemies, because that would just create a cyclic loop of wrongdoings. Vengance is mine, says the lord.

He is so right on education. Education is best taught with your language. But the truth is that they have already started failing. Their last survival moves would be a total disaster. It is our responsibility to get our children cultured in their ecosystem and learn things that would help them solve their own problems. Any society that teaches its children with a foreign language has mental illness. communal poverty is a disease that we must acknowledge and fight to eradicate.

alj harem: eerrrrmmmm, Yorubas aka Yoruba and the abokis were the first group to apologise, but of course you do not know that do you ?

My friend go and sit down.

cool those guys deserve even more from us.

Lazy civil servants. They should buckle up and work instead of spending their time booing their governor. They think they can just be lazy and receive heaps of money. Reduce expenditure; sack redundant staff.

Please list their chairmen and major stock holders, then we would be talking. Enough of this people hiding behind co-operations. It is unacceptable. This belief that a co-operation is a legal person, is a fraud and its unacceptable.

Dude if unfortunately Nigeria dissolves, then it is all our fault. Most people are calling for referendum and not dissolution. It is only people that have something to hide that are afraid of this. Anything that would divide this nation is not profiting to any of its member states. However if the solution to boko haram killings, massive corruption and an unworkable and over bloated,overstretched federal government is disintegration. So be it. And may the God and deities of our forefathers bless us all.

Did any of my forefathers agree to a unitary system of government. The Answer is No. Therefore Nigeria to me and its constitution is Null and void until we go back and have an agreement. Anything short of a referendum is a cow dung induced hallucination.

How can we call for the resignation and prosecution of justice Marcel Awokulehin. Is there anybody here that can help do that. And what does it entail. These people need to be disgraced and punished, so that others would know that we would not continue to tolerate their corruption.

igbo2011: I am not corrupt nor do I have an inferiority complex. I loe myself and Nigeria. I really wish that I was president, I would have an African rennasaince.

Change the image of Jesus to black and force all people to worship a black jesus instead of a white one.
Change the education system to have our people uplifted and learn about our great history.
Ban CNN, BBC< and FOX and only have media that tell the truth and show postive sides of Africa.
I would get all the artists to wear Nigerian clothes and I would promtoe Nigerian clothes in business, this will develop the economy by more tailors.
I would change the offical langauge to an African one. I think all of Africa should choose one langauge. As long as it is African then I don;t care.

The problem with the black race is the midset. Media, religon, and history can affect the mindset. We must change this to liberate ourselves.

Yes I agree with you.I will also add one thing, which is; we must trade in our local currency.We must come back to mama Africa (Metu), if we want to forge ahead as a sane people. You can't beat the devil (colonialist and neo colonialists)in his own game, you must make him play yours.

Nigerian leaders have inferiority complex because they are a subset of Nigerian people, whose inferiority complex is arguably the grandest in the world. Nigerian leaders are corrupt because the Nigerian culture is corrupt (or more appropriately, has been corrupted). Nigerians, lets listen and be truthful to ourselves. Our leaders are a direct reflection of ourselves. There are more than 20 million people => the IBBs, Abachas, Iboris, Iwealas, Atikus, Buhari, Sanusis etc; in psychopathy, lust and wickedness; waiting to take over from them as soon as they can. Nigerians are corrupt, that is why every institution in Nigeria is corrupt, sparing none. From PHCN, SCHOOLS, NPN, NPA, ARMY; to the senate, house of representatives, and the Nigerian justice system. So before you condemn the likes of IBB and co, look at yourself, and the little corruption you contribute to the Corruption den called Nigeria.

God bless Umuigbo

Nigeria's GDP would double just by a introducing a mere policy change. Every Local government must fend for itself. As we are speaking, local government councils are mere money collecting machines and dispensers. The amount of Government workers should be greatly reduced too. States and local governments have so much potential and are left untapped. This partly because the roles of these offices have been strictly described, informally, as that of consumption. People should seriously start demanding that their local government work to bring development in their communities. Because government office in Nigeria do not demand any form of work from its occupiers, it attracts the worst eggs in the basket full of bad eggs called Nigeria.

ulonnaya21: Recently, in a chat with genuine APGA (very many pretenders to the throne are springing up) Chieftains, His Excellency; Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State berated the Governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha. Obi’s public outburst stemmed from the selfishness of the Imo State Governor who was the only Governor in the South East who refused to contribute to the central purse during the burial of Late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

We would have ignored the Governor’s outcry but for his substantiating the claim that Rochas does not live the ideals of a core APGA man nor does he reflect those fundamentals in his relationship with his supposed fellow party men nay brother South East Governors. Rochas it is understood subtly fuels the ambers of disunity using dissident members of APGA to either abuse incumbent South East Governors or promote ill feelings. Gov. Obi was particularly bemused by the senseless fraternity between Rochas and Reagan Ufomba, the only APGA candidate cursed by the late Ikemba.

Rochas is in new found alliance with Ochiagha (?) Reagan Ufomba, APGA’s Gubernatorial candidate in the 2011 elections in Abia State. Little is known of Reagan but it would be important to highlight his background and say why we feel he should be placed under strict surveillance by peace – lovers and Igbos in particular who desire the strategic repositioning of the region in Nigerian body politic.

1. Reagan claims to be from Isiala Ngwa in Abia State whereas history of the area records that he actually has Ogoni blood and is therefore Ogoni by both blood and descent.
2. He was dismissed from the Seminary after the sacrilegious and heinous misconduct of impregnating the Catechist’s daughter
3. All his frivolous claims of affluence notwithstanding, he is known to live in a three bedroom flat in Lagos, explainable in the level of insolvency he is experiencing now
4. He is still hugely indebted to Diamond Bank, same reason he approached the Governor of Abia State to help hime offset the debt.
5. He was the only APGA Gubernatorial Candidate in South East who the late Ikemba did not join his campaign trail.
6. Reagan was also the only candidate who was cursed by Ojukwu for grossly violating agreements guiding the use of campaign funds. Ojukwu was irked by Reagan’s shameless act of stealing funds. Till Ojukwu’s death, Reagan had the stigma of a man cursed by the Eze Igbo himself.
7. Rochas is deploying Imo State funds to finance dissident Reagan who he (Rochas) has also used in ensuring that South East Governors are maligned.
8. Reagan wants to rule Abia State by fire and by force come 2015
9. Reagn has been holding series of meetings with Okey Ahaiwe (Kikason), the oil services magnate and Founder of the Ngwa Patriots. He wants Okey to adopt him as the sole Ngwa Candidate come 2015
10. Reagan does not hold anything on trust for too long, otherwise hobnobbing with Rochas would have been enough for him and not flirt with Kikason, in such a desperate manner

OUR OBSERVATIONS

Whereas Rochas is entitled to his mad choice, it is important to remind him that the first cardinal principle of a gentleman is to follow the path of honor and integrity. By fraternizing with a man who constitutes himself into a nuisance, abusing and disrespecting sitting Governors of the South East, Rochas is making the statement that he is part of the problem and not the solution.

We strictly note as follows that:
1. Reagan does not represent the true personality of a Patriot and selfless Igboman
2. The man Ojukwu rejected cannot be allowed to also destabilize the unity existing amongst brother Governors in the South East
3. Ukwa Ngwa should not just deny having anything to do with him, they should practically quarantine Reagan politically as evidence that the area has no accommodation for traitors and charlatans
4. A man who has started prostrating and genuflecting for a boy he is over ten years older than, is sure planning to take us back to dark days of yesteryears where paupers were railroaded to the government house only for them to hand over the State funds to their godfathers
5. “Onye Ukpa, anaghi abu Eze”, meaning that you do not crown a hungry man king else he eats what belongs to the gods

We do not intend to overflog this issue, but humbly submit that those who incense disorder, hate and acrimony do not deserve our respect. We also wish to state that the man who failed to honour Ojukwu while he lived does not deserve our attention. If Reagan Ufomba is the best Ngwa people have, then quality of Igbo leadership is sure at the precipice and obviously doomed.

Guy,tell your oga that if he intends to deceive people, he should hire more competent and less conspicuous people. Changing IDs would not cut it for us.

afam4eva: You have a point there. But you have to know that there are niches that Igbos are not into that other tribes can take advantage of. For instance, there's no reason why a Yoruba man cannot own the biggest taxi service company in Aba or Onitsha. There also no reason why an Aboki cannot own the biggest bureau de change anywhere in the east.

LOL, not to be rude, but you actually have to go to school to run a legal bureau de change. Illegal money exchange is a criminal activity, and any person can do it. Doing it legally, and in scale is a whole other level.

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Honestly, the east is a very saturated market, it takes serious competition in that business environment. Land is significantly more expensive in the east too. We need more manufacturers in the east though, and easterners are a mostly likely suitors to feel the manufacturing gap.

If you use Big and IBB in the same sentence, then you must be worth less than Ten kobo. IBB is a low life criminal, selling His people out to their sworn enemies. God save us all.

Very Very Likely

LO fucki#ng L. Funny Chimps in power.

LOL

If the best publicist that T.A orji could find is you, then Abia is even in bigger soup than we thought. Just imagine your equivalent as commissioner for works. Men, Abia is bleeped until this man leaves the position of governorship. Abia, especially ABA should go for APGA next time.

bittyend: MASSOB guys are the new Boko Haram in town..

When the Nigerian Army descend upon you guys in your small Igbo enclave - please don't scream genocide again.

MEND had the creeks as their hideout... Boko Haram has the large desert in the North as their hideout... I wonder where MASSOB will hide when the Nigerian Army get serious with them, with the huge population in Biafra land.

I feel sorry in advance for the innocent Igbos out there.

We don't run, we fight full scale wars. Don't mistake us for your kind.

If we revert back to regions or states with political, military and fiscal autonomy. If we pay more attention to the scams pepertated by the pinkies with a d&ick on their faces, the chinks, the boko haramic muhammeds and the curry boys. If we fortify our local currency and sell our products in naira, If we think about our children's future whilst selling our scarce natural resources.

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Spot on mam

NOI is running for her own reasons. Being president of world bank is just like any other directorial job; it has no benefits for Africa or Nigeria. This is another freak show by the world against Africa. We didn't beg America to elect Barack Obama, but you are all witness to the major freak show that traversed in major western news station; they made it into a major racial freak show. This is another freak show by the west again. We are watching.

Simply go back to Nigeria. We really need to start frustrating south Africa's interests in Nigeria. That is the only way they would learn.

I second this. Stop sending pan African threads to racism/tribalism

Angola is bleeped, 130000 foreigners Portuguese, 1000000 Chinese. Soon they would be claiming land like in the RSA. Another almost lost African territory. And my Africans continue to sleep.