₦airaland Forum

Outstrip:
Was it his responsibilty to hold the prisoner or not? I am not sure why it was treatede as a criminal case. It was his responsibilty and he let one of the most dangerous people in Nigeria escape. He might not get jail time but he failed and as such punished. he did not even get demoted. This is sad. It sends a message that Nigeria is still not taking this Boko Haram situation seriously

Reacting to the judgment, the lead defence counsel, Mr. Femi Falana, described it as contradictory in law for a court to discharge and acquit an accused and, at the same time, slam a sentence on him.

He said: “After exonerating the general in its verdict, the special court martial, which sat in Jos, turned round, in a rather bizzare manner, to frame a new charge of conduct prejudicial to service discipline contrary to section 103 (1) of the Armed Forces Act against him.

“Without asking the accused officer to plead to the new charge and defend himself, he was convicted and sentenced to a three-month loss of seniority. Thus the special court martial turned itself into the accuser, the prosecutor, the witness and the judge in a criminal case, contrary to all known canons of natural justice.

manny4life:
I think a lot of people on here are getting it wrong; a company with an employee size of 400 definitely will NOT cripple Lagos obviously; however, the $100 million activity that the company engages will is what cripples Lagos. Take for instance they employed 400 people, assuming that each employee earn an average of $12,000 annually (convert that to Naira and do the math), that's a payroll of $4.8million the company is contributing in terms of employment wages to the state. That's a benefit (No.1), and if the company pays local payroll taxes say 5%, that's a $240,000 lost revenue.

Keep in mind that we haven't talked about company generating activities that private companies engage into, by the time you take all this into consideration, a move will cost the company (DIRECTLY) about $2million annually and an indirect cost is just too unmeasurable.

Therefore, losing one company WILL NOT hurt, but losing 10 companies will hurt the purse of the govt in the long run. This is simple supply and demand (services) in economics. Will the company transfer 400 people along with relocation expense to PH? That's some of the questions that need answered because sooner or later, one move spurs other companies moves. Again just my own opinion.

odumchi:
Don't derail this thread. Let's not turn it into what it's not. Focus on the topic at hand.

Quote from: macjive01 on Today at 01:55:04 PM
lagos greatest asset is not fashola or awololo or any other godamnit name but its position as a formal FCt of which was built into the nations commercial nerve by amongst all the SEAPORT.

The relocation of nlgn no doubt will have a little effect, but what will bring lagos to its kneel wud be a deep seaport in Portharcourt or Akwa-ibom, linked to an Aba and Onitsha inland container port, and then  Nnewi and Aba EPZs,  that in place LAGOS will seize to exist, southwest will time-travel back to 1967 into an agrarian society, low standard of living, possibly renewal of slave trading ( trading their children- this time knowingly). 

Every other step in that territory will be littered with high powered concentrated juju, rituals will be the order of the day.  no more igbos to abuse hence they will turn on themselves, firstly to Ijebus ( as the black sheeps), then to Abeokwuta - for overshadowing the rest. soon the awori man wud declare his true status and ethnicity.

just imagine Lagos losing west-minister and all those tank farms !, yes, 78% of the contents of those tanks travel outside Lagos and SW, would it not be more judicious to transport it by a barge from portharcourt or Akwa-Ibom deep seaport to Onitsha oil tank farm, then proceed to lokoja tank farm - which wud cater for Abuja consumption , then to niger tank farm - which wud in turn cater for the north west. Onitsha wud also cater for the middle belt and the rest of the north.

MackDealer:
So let me get this, NLNG a company formed in 1989 with about 400 employees in Lagos a city of 15million people is moving it's headquarters to PH and all of a sudden the economy of Lagos will be crippled, am I missing something?

If most people on Nairaland is what Nigeria has to offer, it will never develop, it's not a curse, it's a fact, everybody seems to just think out of their behind

Gbenge 77:
My friend  just got involved with this chick.And of course,they are both from a particular Nigerian state.But this guy`s tribe in that particular state has an unsavoury reputation .so,when the girl demanded to know his tribe,he had to lie about it.

he later informed me that,had he told the truth about his tribe,the chick would have shown him a red card.And,to be honest,this guy qualifies as an absolute gentleman.so,how important is one`tribe in Nigerian relationships?is it appropriate for people to generalise that if one is from a particular tribe with a damaged reputation,he is bad?

peruso:
INSULT UPON INSULT! IS WHAT WE ARE MEANT TO RECEIVE ABI?

THIS IS A MAN THAT IS THE 'NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER' OF A NATION YET WE ARE LIVING UTMOST FEAR WITH NO SENSE OF security, I ALWAZ THOUGHT THAT HE WAS TOALLY UNDESERVING OF THIS APPOINTMENT, BUT THE PRESIDENT ONLY GAVE IT TO HIM AS A KINSMAN IN OTHER TO HAVE SOMEONE WATCH HIS BACK DUE TO THE SENSITIVE NATURE OF THIS POST AND DUE TO THE FACT THAT ALL THE PAST PPLE AT THE HELM OF AFFAIRS ALWAZ PUT PPLE THEY CUZ TRUST.

BUT FROM WHAT IS HAPPENING I TINK WE CAN AGREE THAT THE POST OF A NSA IS NOT FOR A 'KINSMAN, OR 'PADDYMAN' BUT FOR SOMEONE SEASONED IN THIS FIELD. A NSA IS SUPPOSED TO BE PROACTIVE IN ISSUE OF SECURITY AND THE LIKE, BUT IN THIS CASE WHAT DO WE HAVE WE HAVE A NSA THAT IS A POLITICIAN WE ALL HEARD -NOT JUST HEARD(BUT WERE FIRST HAND WITNESSES IN SOME STATES TO SOME OF HIS ATTROCITIES). YET WE HAVE A BOKO HARAM, MEND, BAKASSI BOYS THREANTENING THE CITIZENS AT WILL.

A VERY RETORICAL QUES TO ALL;
SINCE THISMAN WAS APPOINTED HAS OUR NSA, HAS SECURITY SITUATION BECOME BETTER.
YET HE PREFERS TO BE A POLITICIAN AND GIVE POLITICAL SPEECHES SO AS TO BETTER HIS POLULARITY.
I KNW THAT MOST NSA USE FEAR AND LIES AS A TOOL TO MAKE THEIR PRINCIPALS KEEP THEM ON THE JOB. BUT THIS WILL COME TO AN END ONE DAY.

I DO NOT HOLD BRIEFS FOR ANY GOVERNOR BUT TRUTH BE TOLD THOSE THAT ARE TRYING ARE TRYING I DONT EXPECT MAGIC FROM THEM; I AM SEEING CHIBUIKE AMEACHI OF RIVERS STATE EMBARK ON MASSIVE INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTS, I HAVE SEEN GODSWILL AKPABIO OF AKWA IBOM DONE GREAT THINGS, I COULD HARDLY RECOGNISE YENAGOA BAYELSA STATE WEN I WENT THERE RECENTLY AFTER NOT BEING THERE FOR MORE THAN A YEAR THAT MEANS TIMIPRE SYLVA IS DOING SOMETHING, SULE LAMIDO OF JIGAWA HAS EMBARKED ON PROJECTS THAT HAS MADE AN IMPACT ON THE COMMON MAN IN HIS STATE.
I KNOW THEY COULD ALL DO BETTER BUT I FOR ONE IM NOT EXPECTING magic FROM THEM

LET US ENCOURAGE THOSE OF THEM WE CAN ENCOURAGE AND CRITICIZE CONSTRUCTIVLY WHERE NECESSARY. FASHOLA IS TRYING HIS BEST YET IT WAS AN ACN GOVERNOR HE TOOK OVER FROM WHAT WAS THE DUDE HE TOOK OVER FROM DOING LETS ASK OURSELVES SOME HONEST QUESTIONS, IN AS MUCH AS FASOLA IS TRYIN IF THE GUY HE TOOK OVER FROM DID WHAT FASHOLA IS DOING TODAY THEN FASHOLA CAME IN TO CONTINUED CAN U IMAGINE WHERE WE WOULD HAVE BEEN TODAY MIND U LAGOS IS STILL THE COMMERCIAL CAPITAL OF NIGERIA, SO ITS OUR JOINT RESPONSIBILITY TO SEE TO IT THAT LAGOS WORKS.
AS FOR EDO STATE I SURLY KNW HE COULD DO BETTER CUZ I STAY IN BENIN, AND ONCE IT RAINS UGBOWO AND THE OTHER PART OF BENIN BECOMES TWO WORLDS ALL TOGETHER,  I COULD GO ON AND ON.

BUT BOTTOM LINE THIS MAn AZAZI IS NOT A HONESTMAN AND IS NOT DOING THE JOB HE WAS BROT IN TO DO.
MR NSA KEEP TELLING LIES TO MR PRESIDENT CONCERNING THE SECURITY SITTUATION IN OUR COUNTRY BUT I ASSURE YOU ONE DAY HIS EYES WILL BE OPEN.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA AND HAPPY INDEPENDENCE.

Abule oshi:
This is for everyone askin if i called with my number. She has two lines and i call her regularly on one particaluar line. But that day, i tried dat particular line and she didnt pick. Because i had important info 4 her, i called her other line and thats when i heard d rubbish. my take was since i hardly called that line, she didnt expect a call from me on dat line and mayb thats the line d "Darling" calls often and they probably spoke shortly b4 my call came in. And in d excitement of expecting d "Darling" she didnt bother to look at d name calling. i have dated her 4 a while now, and if d darling meant nothing she would have spoken up instead of keepin silent. when she said wat she said i called my name 4 her to know it was d wrong person she was talkin to,i did dat to get an explanation, instead she went cold and silent before hangin up.
[/b]YOU never understand life, cos wen i met her she said she had to pack up her last relationship cos her former boyfriend cheated on her recklessly. So for someone who knows how it feels to be cheated on to engage in acts dat are suspicious,whether real or fake is funny. Lastly she is not d type dat drops darling randomly!
So she is guilty as charged.
CALL THE NEXT CASE!

Owu gal:
Dear Emmatok,
thank you so much for your perfect analysis ( if not complete) of the situation. You are right, he does come from the village or at least had a not so priviledged upbringing. and its true he eats a lot and when he first came to my house did not know how to do a thing. I mean he broke the brooms he was trying to use to sweep or kill a fly (I know he broke one broom while trying to use it to swat a fly).

I think he will mature to be responsible, but right now its painful to live with him and also very expensive. this holiday time around he broke no tv, but ate all the food and damaged the iron and a few minor appliances, which thankfuly i have spares of and decided to hide.

You cant imagine how scared I was when he told his brother to teach him how to drive? I immediately informed my husband not to think of using my car. and because of that myhusband never taught him. but to be honest, his brother takes less interest in him than I do. and never even thought of getting the boy a bank account or even ID card. I was the one pressing for it. I would have even got him all that if it wasnt that his family didnt coperate in releasing his birth certificate.

marriage is not easy. so for all the young women out there wishing to get married, I can tell you that its like wishing to learn how to charm a snake. it can be dangerous, tricky and it requires constant vigilance. half of the time I am so resentful of my husband and inlaws. and even my parents for suggesting I learn to tolerate it. I cant tell you the number of times I want to get out of it. Even now as I type I want to get out of it. but  for "hope" that deceiver and yet good thing is making me believe that there is something good to be gotten out of this.

Orikinla:
If your boyfriend is not man enough to protect you, then he is not worthy to be your boyfriend. On calling the cops? Not in Nigeria. The men in Jos went to get the cops and soldiers, but before they returned their wives and children were already murdered. I have seen where cops took to their heels instead of responding to distress calls. There was a case where two young ladies escaped from rapists and ran to the police station during campus riot, and guess what happened? The cops wanted to violate them overnight! They had to run away from the cops.

Owu gal:
at outstrip thanks for the empathy. now that i think about it, maybe i should have physically removed the milk from his hands too. i wonder what he'd have said. but i think he got the message when he would see me buy milk and not put it where i used to put it, but in my wardrobe. i know he looks through my wardrobe and stuff, for what i dont know, but when he saw the milk he probably got the message. i would have fought him if he  removed the milk cos then i could accuse him of going thru my stuff. i have not really spoken to my husband about his behavior except that i have corrected his brother in front of him, like the time i mentioned earlier that i corrected my BIL for spreading his clothes in front of the front door.
one time i suggested he not use the brooms because of the so many he keeps breaking.

but i am afraid of saying anything more than that because one time i mentioned  to my husband how his bro broke the tv and he said no it must have been an accident. but i knew he knew it wasnt a simple accident because later he left the broken dvd payers and electronics in the living room and  put the ones that still work, with the exception of one tv ( which he left in the living room) in our bedroom. and cautioned his bro against using it.

@ chaircover, the pot of stew had twelve pieces of meat and he ate it all. i know it had twelve pieces because i became reduced to counting meat in the pot when i would make a pot full of meat fish etc and come back home and see it all gone. i began to think that perhaps i was delusional and didnt actually put meat in the pot so i started counting.

thank goodness though he has left a few days ago. now i have food and property peace. i was relieved to see him go.

 i wish my life was different and that perhaps i married a white man and maybe family wont come over to disturb my peace. but all i can hope for is to become so wealthy that i wont care when family comes over and eats or destroys property. i also hope that i would be to busy to even bother with anyone. and perhaps live in an area to flashy that they wont want to come and disturb me.

but there are those great inlaws who come over and you dont want them to leave, like my hubbys cousin who cooks, cleans and is so well brought up, i wanted to invite her to live with us except that she is kinda expensive and has expensive tastes and i cant afford right now,( situations will change), some of the gucci she wants to be owning.

but as it is i am a sucker for the dark skin and so my life is as it is.

Blazing88:
the reason why he aint married cos no woman can put up with him. @ 46 not even a child? Jeez!

2mch:
[b]You will be surprised that this two cannot do without each other. The arguments and fights have now become part of their daily life. They give everybody around them high blood pressure but they remain healthy because this keeps them going. They also know that no one except the both of them will be able to put up with their characters. [/b]If you have a brother, tell him to invite dad over for a month or two, and mom should go for a month or two to another siblings house. You will see they will start stalking each other, because the excitement they get is no longer there. Some people have very strange marriages. . If they didnt kill each other 20years ago, trust me they feed off of each others wahala. Both of them are the same. If one dies, the other will follow or start talking about dying.lol.

omoekoni:
sorry your plan backfired, no church money for you .

executinal:
Not news

Outstrip:
You are right. I remember when I first joined nairaland from some of the things I read it was clear to me that young Nigerian guys (I am assuming they were young) do not understand that NO is NO. I remember a specific topic where a guy was mad at a girl and he came on here to ask if he could just go ahead and violation her to teach her a lesson. Even the responses he got from people shocked me then. In another case another talked about how he and his friends had forced a girl. My friend also told me how it almost happened to her too when she was in UNIBEN. I happen to know some of those guys and honestly you would not think of them as rapists if you see them today but unfortunately they probably violated girls in their college days. Some of them think it is just for fun and at the end of the day it is a man forcing himself on a woman against her wish which in one way or the other is what these men see on a daily basis even right from their homes.

The contractor has retained Gloria Allred of the Los Angeles-based law firm Allred, Maroko & Goldberg as her attorney. Allred confirmed she is representing the woman, who she declined to identify, and also said in a statement that "[b]we wish to make clear that there was no affair and no intimate intimate relationship between our client and Mr. Hurd," throwing the exact nature of Hurd's "close personal relationship" [/b]with the woman into doubt.
Allred is one of the more famous intimate harassment lawyers in the business, taking high-profile cases and popping up in the media on a regular basis. She also declined to comment on any pending litigation against Hurd or HP.


Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20012944-260.html#ixzz1YuXPWYDJ

Mcfemad:
Are married men more responsible than single men?
Why do ladies prefer to marry/date married men when single ones are always available at their disposal?
Do married men offers something that single men do not?

Please, can answers be provided for the above questions

PS: I have seen/heard of single ladies getting hooked up with married men not minding the "Jersey Number" . Some are married as 2nd, 3rd, and in cases 7th wives.
I can mention names, but the list is endless.

Thank you.

coogar:
then it's damn difficult to expect the nigerian police to crack the case
and knowing how dodgy the police in that country is, they would soon pick up innocent people and pin it on them.


edited to remove the faces of the perpetrators but they didn't edit the face of the victim?
nice try!

please, please. . . . .stop making your own argument and don't drag me into a pointless debate.
there's no where on this thread i mentioned the s[i]e[/i]x was consensual - how the hell could that have been a consensual s[i]e[/i]x.
what i said was it could have been a hoax video!

coogar:
you were fathered by a tool who you then inherited his genes.
no suspects have been arrested - he said one of them have been identified. they are yet to make any arrest. they need more evidence to make an arrest. this  does not even know the difference between identifying a suspect and arresting one.

intellectual father and he foolishly claimed the minister mentioned the incident took place in abia state.
show us anywhere in that article where abia state was mentioned as the crime scene?
idiotic dunce!

chamber2's idiocy is better. . . . .yours is so chronic. there must have been poison in the nuts of the man who fathered you!
some of the names already mentioned are some of the leads? cheiiii - this boy was born a tool! where did the article say that? 3 names were mentioned, minister said only one was identified. only one!  you have embarrassed your father's name here for so long. if he reads what you have typed here - he would take you to a court and have you disowned!

they would mention your father's name in due time. this is why i want them to find the victim. i am sure she knows your dad was involved!
let me repeat it to you donkeys. . . . . .there can be no conviction until the victim is found!
you bunch of window-lickers.

The minister said, “More than 70 per cent of the information we have on the violation will not be said here for obvious security reasons. But I can tell you we have information on it.


“The girl is not a student of Abia State University. She was violated in an off-campus residential area of students.

Slyr0x:
Really i dunno where the argument is coming from.

This is NO CASE!

1. What is preventing the young lady from coming out and telling us who violated her?

2. How come we know why she was violated and yet do not know the victim or the rapists?

3. If the girl is not willing to come out and tell us what happened assuming she is still alive then there is not much anybody can do?


It is still very immoral and cruel to gang violation any person tho, buh these are unanswered questions.

chamber2:
ANG OF 5 RAPISTS – ABIA STATE UNIVERSITY (ABSU) - AN UPDATE

I have taken the decision to provide the details of 3 of the 5 ALLEGED, and I repeat, ALLEGED Abia State University Gang of 5 rapists.

1. Ifeanyi Ogu Justin

2. Jonah Uche (final yr or extra yr accountancy).

3. Zaki ( Duberville Lodge ABSU)

These names have been identified as SUSPECTS only and it is for the APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES to take these names as leads….abi?

I am on my knees right now praying this indeed happens…….

Better still, these students may as well eliminate themselves by reporting to the nearest POLICE STATIONS to them……

http://babajidesalu./2011/09/21/exclusive-revealed-identities-of-3-exclusive-revealed-identities-of-3-suspects-of-the-alleged-gang-of-5-abia-state-university-absu-the-alleged-gang-of-5-abia-state-university-absu/
Cries from NIGERIANS to do it the WESTERN WAY, the CIVILISED WAY……right……like we have been doing since independence huh……?

aromi saja:
in naijapal somebody post name and picture of some of the guys that violation the girl