u want 2 identify me - go to google!

@aniola, obviously u must a clown!

aniola01:

Now i knw u av serios issues to deal with! pkshewwww!

seems u want 2 get a Jack Bauer treatment!

aniola01:

How much were paid to say this?

Nothing advertizes sin like hypocrisy. i knew daft pple lik u ar always on a site lik dis one, 4 ur information, dis section is meant 2 discuss TV/movies and other related matters. better go and sit down, If this were to be in the days of Napoleon, Nothing sure for you pass Guillotine!

Jack Bauer is a Federal Agent working for the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit. Bauer has been known for his non-compromising, erratic behavior but also as a highly effective operative,  watch d epic movie "24" season 1-8

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mama-gee:

It'll be of great Value if you stop spamming the whole forum with this topic.

Nothing advertizes sin like hypocrisy. This mama-gee of a thing is becoming a nuisance on NL. If this were to be in the days of Napoleon, Nothing sure for you pass Guillotine. u ar perpetually against everything dat has 2 do wit research and intellectualism

patemy:

I agree with a lot of people that some women carry ill luck around while some go with goodluck.there are some women you meet/date and nothing good will come your way again while some have the opposite effect. Now my question is this, is it possible for a woman to truly love you & want the best for you to still be the cause of your ill luck albeit unconsciously.pls serious & honest responses are needed.

so far, there is no scientific proof to justify d aforementioned hypothesis, bt then it shuld nt b used as a platform for suspicion or witch-hunting, at best, d trend cn b reversed prayerfully.

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the african man! the african man! he is utterly doomed. his mindset perpetually blackened, averse 2 science and it's methodology. wat is d big deal in d question above. and 2 all of u dat has made intelligent and educative response, thanks, u remind me dat in d midst of a mad market, there ar pple wit adequate sanity.

check dis out

@poster, Stupendous insight. Disarmed truth! u ar d total embodiment of all that is wrong with the Nigerian personae, a pathological poke-noser bereft of moral certitude. go and sit down. pple respond 2 d article and all of a sudden, u descended into lunacy, wat's wrong wit u.

@poster, Stupendous insight. Disarmed truth! u ar d total embodiment of all that is wrong with the Nigerian personae, a pathological poke-noser bereft of moral certitude. go and sit down

this is good news of d day!   he is a spent force.

Import/export....global haulage system.....stock exchange

dam

none of d above is applicable. our country at dis in point in time require an extraordinary intelligent being, mentally alert, purpose-driven leadership in d mould of obama to drive this nation in the emerging world order.

give it anytime, any day to dr. reuben abati. highly intelligent and mind-blowing articles. what's more, he is humorous in presentations. 1 million gbosa!

kindly send healty tips required for a pregnant lady

Embassy Displays Abacha's 1996 Booklets
Written by Hakeem Babalola
Friday, 05 June 2009

Embassy Displays Abacha's 1996 Booklets

By Hakeem Babalola

News Article

The Embassy of Nigeria Budapest has offered its apology for displaying old booklets containing Ex-Nigerian dictator's photo during the celebration of Africa Day.

In an effort to woo Hungarian investors and business executives, the Embassy of Nigeria Budapest officially displayed booklets containing ex-dictator Sani Abacha's photo as the Head of State and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The incident happened at this year's Africa Day celebration that took place at the Hungarian Military Museum on May 26, which was attended by the Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister and many other officials.

The booklet titled, "SOLID MINERALS DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA" was published in 1996 when the dictator ruled Nigeria with a tempestuous heart; maiming, torturing and killing anyone that criticised his brutal regime.

The Ministry of Solid Minerals Development was created in 1995 under Abacha 'to encourage private investors to take advantage of the opportunities which abound in mining, prospecting, exploitation and down-stream processing of minerals".

It was gathered that only Nigeria presented old booklets out of the ten African countries that showcased their countries' resources to the Hungarian officials, business executives and invited guests.

Although an embassy official regretted the error, many Nigerians described it as ridiculous and disappointing. "This is ridiculous and disappointing," quipped a Nigerian woman. "It is a slap on Yar'Adua and our country in general. How can this happen?"

Also, a Ghanaian who picked up a copy of the booklets was equally discomfited saying, it's unbelievable to see the picture of the late dictator in official booklets being distributed to invite investors to a democratic Nigeria.

Responding to a question sent to the embassy on "What is Sani Abacha's photo doing inside a Nigerian booklet displayed on Africa Day in Budapest, Mrs. Abimbola Samuel Reuben, First Secretary/Consular, who spoke on the phone offered her apology on behalf of the embassy saying, ”It was a terrible mistake on our part and we regret the error".

Abacha ruled Nigeria for five years until he died in 1998.


D big question is what's going on in Nigerian embassies.

A Judge Beaten In His Own Court PDF Print E-mail
Written by Reuben Abati
Friday, 05 June 2009
A judge beaten in his own court

By Reuben Abati

A RECENT incident reported by The Punch newspaper ought to attract public outrage but in the absence of this in a society that is already shocked beyond further shock, the implications of the developments for the health of society and its moral fibre should not be allowed to pass unremarked. What exactly is wrong with us in this country? Is our country a large mental ward or just another land?

See The Punch, May 30, pp. 3 and 20, an interview titled: "While policemen beat me in court, their senior officers laughed - Wilberforce Meigbope, the magistrate beaten by Lagos policemen for granting suspects bail." Mr. Wilberforce Meigbope, the Presiding Magistrate of Court 8, Botannical Garden, Ebute Meta, Lagos, alleges in the newspaper interview that on May 19, he was beaten up in his court by policemen, while their senior officers laughed. He had made in the eyes of the police the terrible and unforgivable mistake of granting bail to 25 suspects who had been brought in on a three-count charge of conspiracy, allegation of demanding N15 million and being members of an unlawful society known as the Niger Delta Coastal Security.

These are bailable offences under Nigerian law and the duty of the judex is to apply the law. But the police had insisted on influencing the judge. When he refused, they resorted to self-help. The tragedy of it is that police men are part of the justice administration system with the court of law at the apex. The police have no powers to issue judgements: the role of all players within the justice dispensation system is well outlined. But when policemen begin to behave like thugs in a court of law, then the entire machinery of justice is derailed. The idea of policemen beating judges is preposterous. I guess it points to the continuing failure of Nigeria as a state. Mr Meigbope's experience had all the elements of the bizzare.

The facts of the case as reported by the Magistrate are as follows: On April 14, the accussed persons had been granted bail, but only one of them was yet to perfect her bail conditions. The police prosecutors had registered their objection to the bail on the grounds that "the matter is serious". On April 28, the police applied to withdraw the case, but the magistrate refused to grant the application. On May 19 when the case was called again in court, the police requested that the case should be adjourned till July 27 at 12 noon. The magistrate granted both requests. Meanwhile the bail that had been granted by the court on April 14 was still in effect. But as soon as the magistrate moved on to "other matters", hell broke loose.

The magistrate paints the picture himself: "About 10 minutes later, some lawyers just broke into the proceedings and said that despite the court order, the police had been arresting the 25 accussed persons, because on that day, the lady that was not able to meet her bail condition also came from Kirikiri. After listening to them, I rose and went out. I met with the policemen and said: 'Please comply with the court order.' They ignored me. They refused to stop. One of them even told me that he would shoot me. Before I knew what was going on, the accussed persons started jumping down from the two buses which had been hijacked for the purpose of rearresting them. Some jumped through the window and landed on my shoulder, some rushed out through the door. They held my hands and legs and started pleading, 'Sir, help us, you must help us'. The policemen started punching them against me and in a twinkle of an eye, I felt all manner of blows over my body. In the melee, my shirt was torn and three buttons fell off my suit."

His Worship was eventually rescued by "judiciary staff." "All the senior police officers that came to court that day were inside their cars within the court premises. It was raining. They saw the scene but they did not do anything. I believe they gave the order that led to the mayhem, Before I went to the buses that they hijacked, I told them (officers) to talk to their boys to comply with the court order. They did not even do as if they heard me. They were just laughing."

Commenting further on police behaviour, His Worship says one Inspector Julius Okoedo during the arraignment of the matter kept making noise in court and although the magistrate told him to stay where the lawyers were, the policeman told the magistrate that "he had no right." Meigbope reports that the Inspector, "the one who called himself a lawyer" had advised him not to grant the suspects bail, but "I refused. To play police game? That means you are already dead, I am here to maintain justice even at the point of death." For standing firm, Mr. Meigbope now suffers a lot of pains. "Now if I want to sleep at night, my heart would be throbbing. Whether it is broken, I don't know. Then my shoulder, my hips, my thigh where those people held me and they were beating them and beating me".

We sympathise with His Worship. His story should be read by all judges and magistrates for it raises not just the obvious issue of the lawlessness of the police, but also the conduct of the judex. The Honourable Magistrate in this instance abandoned his Bench and jumped into the arena with his hands and feet and mouth, and hence he found himself in the undignified position of being assaulted and threatened. He should have stayed on his Bench. And who are those jankara lawyers who rushed in to plead with the magistrate to come out and physically enforce his own order? And he too rushed out of the court, like a militant, to meet with the policemen to tell them 'please comply with the court order'! And he got beaten in the process, and he lost three buttons and his shirt was torn. He should thank his stars he didn't lose some teeth.

His Worship could have been shot and the police would have reported the matter as a case of accidental discharge. Strange things happen in the Nigerian magistracy, but this must go down as one of the funniest. The magistrate became a policeman, threatening to enforce his own orders "at the point of death", and the police whose original duty is to enforce the law became law breakers in court premises. What happened in front of Magistrate Meigbope's court on May 19 is a complete breakdown of law and order, with His Worship as the protagonist of a sordid drama. It could have been really sad still if the learned Magistrate had also tried to retaliate by hitting a policeman in return. Judges must realise that the best protection that they have is within the province of the law not physical exertion.

When the lawyers came to His Worship, he should have told them to take the appropriate steps to ensure compliance with court order. Those lawyers should know what to do and if they don't, it is not the duty of the presiding judge to act on their behalf by embarking on a rescue mission. Meigbope is a very articulate man and the interview that he has granted The Punch newspaper is quite entertaining, but he must be told that it is not in the place of judges to behave like village chiefs. He has brought the Bench to great ridicule and he lays himself open to charges of partisanship. He says he has reported the incident to the Lagos State Judiciary. The first response from above should be to take the case away from him, to prevent the absurd situation of further physical conflict in his court in this matter.

In the same interview, Meigbope points out that the Lagos State judiciary can boast of "well certificated judges, experienced and learned judges who are prepared to make sure that justice is done". Yes, but not through physical involvement, and certainly not through newspaper interviews! Meigbope's experience confirms the need for the training and retraining of the judex at all levels. Now, he says he will submit the bill for his medical treatment to the state for reimbusement,

But there is no doubt that the police in this case are useless and that their conduct, including the senior officers who laughed as the law was being broken is reprehensible. We have a police force, as Meigbope points out, where many of the officers are lawyers, and yet the police is the leading law-breaking institution in Nigeria. This points to the general collapse of values and standards in the land, and the failure of the police as an institution.When lawyers and judges exchange altercations in the court room and the police insist on over-ruling judges, with the accussed clinging to the trousers of the judge for physical help, it means that our society is lost. The judiciary fails in its function as the last hope of the common man and the reign of impunity is encouraged. We are unfortunately growing a society where there is widespread disregard for the law at all levels.

As I read Meigbope's interview and the accompanying Lagos State Police PRO's dismissal of the incident as mere "rumour", I thought of the riotous behaviour by voters, electoral officials and the police in the recent election in Ekiti State, the alleged execution of suspects in police cells, the number of awaiting trial persons in Nigerian prisons, and the well-reported menace of policemen on Nigerian roads, all in a country where the incumbent President says his primary ambition is to enforce the rule of law.

The Inspector General of Police and the Lagos State Police Commissioner, both of whom are lawyers should take personal interest in Magistrate Meigbope's case. Who are those policemen who threatened to shoot the learned magistrate? Was there a breakdown of communication on the bail process and why, if so? And is it possible that the accussed persons were being arrested for another offence different from the case already before the court? It is about time the Nigerian Bar Association and the Body of Benchers began to take a keen interest also in cases of this nature: errant lawyers who turn court premises into an arena for combat should have their names struck off the register, be they men of uniform or not. The Nigerian judiciary must also invest in the training of its officers, with special emphasis on decorum.

NA WAO, WATS WRONG IN ASKING ABOUT A LADY HAVING A SAGGED BOOBS. DATS WHY MOST OF U AR DULLARDS. U LAZY AROUND WITHOUT BEING INQUISITIVE ABOUT CERTAIN PHENOMENON. TRY TO BE SCIENTIFIC. ACTUALLY, 4 UR INFORMATION, SOMEBODY (A YOUNG GUY OF 24) WALKED UP TO ME AND THREW D POSER.

Has Nigeria Lost The War Against Corruption?
Written by Joel Nwokeoma
Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Has Nigeria lost the war against corruption?

By Joel Nwokeoma



“We are determined to intensify the war against corruption, more so because corruption is itself central to the spread of poverty…”- President Umaru Yar’Adua



Were Nigeria to be a country where the success or failure of its leaders are measured by how they fulfill the promises made to their citizens, it would be difficult to identify any Nigerian leader who can be said to be successful. No doubt, the country is in this current depressing and distasteful state because its leaders, at various levels of government over the years, have perfected the art of saying one thing and doing another almost at the same time. And, when any efforts whatsoever are made at all, it is, almost always, at variance with the promise made.

If , however, there is one promise the current administration of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has made a meal of, it is its purported commitment to wage a frontal war against corruption, whatever that means. Interestingly, if there is any promise that it has also dithered, and looks simply unwilling to fulfill, or totally lacks the capacity to fulfill, it is the selfsame promise to prosecute the war against corruption.

On his inauguration exactly two years ago, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had, among other things, expressed his determination to intensify the war against corruption, as quoted above from his inaugural address, a war which many critics of the previous administration had then dismissed as being too “selective”. According to the President, his intensification of the war against corruption stems from the centrality of the vice to the spreading poverty in the country, which in a recent estimate of the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Economic and Social Research (NISER), Prof Tunji Akande, stands at 80 per cent of the population. Another report even reckons that poverty has shot up in the country from 46 per cent in 1996 to 76 per cent presently, (a recent World Bank study noted that 18 million Nigerians would be added to the population by year end) sadly at a time when a study conducted by the United States Energy Department ranked Nigeria among the poorest countries in the world despite raking in $55 billion from oil exports in 2007 alone.

And, like every other promise President Yar’Adua made on that unfortunate day, none has been, and may never be fulfilled. It would therefore not be strange if in the years to come, he, not uncharacteristically, volunteers that he was not in office to fight corruption in the same manner former President Olusegun Obasanjo said recently he was not elected to provide electricity. He had earlier promised to declare a state of emergency on the country’s power sector immediately he assumed office, something he has not done two years after even with the economy in a more parlous state today than in 2007.

There is no doubt that President Yar’Adua was spot on in linking corruption to the inexplicable and unspeakable poverty that struts the Nigerian landscape as a monk would a monastery, but what is in doubt is if the same president is not overwhelmed by the war itself, or does not just want to belabour himself fighting a war he is not sure of winning. Any thought to the contrary is mere pretension if some events reported in the media in recent times are anything to go by, the recent improved rating of the country by the Transparency International notwithstanding. What this has shown is that it takes more than issue-identification, in this case the corruption-poverty nexus in Nigeria, as done by the President himself, to be on top of the situation. It takes practical and well meaning efforts.

Many analysts are of the view that if the Obasanjo administration was “selective” in the anti-graft war, President Yar’Adua has simply failed, two years in office, to dispel the widespread observation that he lacks the steel and political will to prosecute the war and do the mortal damage, as they say, on corruption itself . This was given more credence by the way the government has handled corruption allegations involving top officials in the country in recent times as well as how the corruption charges against past governors in the previous administration had been handled . For instance, it took a sustained public outrage over the gale of convictions by foreign courts on the graft cases involving top Nigerians in the now infamous twin Halliburton and Siemens scams before an evidently embarrassed Federal Government could be forced out of its self imposed “see-no-evil-say-no-evil” posture.

On the $6 billion Halliburton bribe-for-contract scam, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aondoaaka, widely accused of being a cog in the wheel of the anti-graft war, belatedly announced the “Federal Government’s intention to explore all diplomatic channels to get the United States to release to it the list of the officials known to have received the bribes” from the group, when this is public knowledge to all. To put gloss over its farcical undertaking, the Federal Government has since set up a panel headed by the Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro to investigate a matter that had long been investigated overseas and those found culpable sanctioned.

As I write, former governors who have cases of graft hanging over their heads like the proverbial Sword of Damocles are dining on the same table with the one who has “intensified the war against corruption”. Two years into this “intensified war”, not one single conviction had taken place, yet evidence of graft abound. A statement from the British High Commission announced that stolen funds seized from Mrs. Joyce Oyebanji an associate of a former governor of Plateau state, has been returned to the Nigerian government. According to the statement, “1.28 million pound stolen assets have been returned to Nigeria since 2006” following “investigations into the financial dealings of Joshua Dariye and the former governor of Bayelsa state, Diepreye Alameiseiyegha”. It further disclosed that some 40 million pound more may be returned subject to successful UK court judgements”. The confiscation order against Oyebanji totaled 198, 045 pounds of which 150, 000 pounds was previously returned to Nigeria by the Lord Major in May, 2008.”

Beside receiving the returned stolen funds from Britain, no word has been heard on the matter again by Mr. Aondoaaka, yet his principal has “intensified war against corruption” two years ago. A former minister of energy was recently convicted by a French court on money laundering charges linked to the Halliburton scam, yet no word from the government.

Evidently, it is this lack of conviction of any one from its numerous corrupt prosecutions that seems to embolden many in perpetrating various forms of graft in the country in recent times. The media is awash with such disclosures recently such as when top officials of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) were arrested over alleged N5 billion fraud in the commission. The nation had hardly come over the story when it was reported that the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Power, Nicholas Ugbane and two officials of the Rural Electrification Agency were arrested, and still being detained, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged N5 billion contract scam. This was followed some days later by the arrest of three members of the House of Representatives for their role in the same scam. According to media reports, the Senate and House of Representative committees on power were alleged to have smuggled the controversial N5 billion projects into the 2009 budget without the knowledge of the Presidency. Almost at the same time, over six directors of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) were arrested over an alleged N1.7 billion contract scam.

It is instructive that the number of arrests made is not a measure of the success of this “intensified war”, but in the thorough prosecution and conviction, where necessary, of those deemed culpable. But Nigeria being what it is, no one would be jailed even if the combined foreign reserves and excess crude account of the country are swept dry by some thieving public officials. When the President says he has intensified war on corruption, nobody believes him simply because he has no history of successfully prosecuting any. Have we then not lost the war given all these realities?

my babe is extremely busty lacking firmness in her breast. she denied any form of way-wardness in her past attested to by her family and neighbours. can it be a function of hormonal structure. educate me better.

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i believe it's high time we begin to do things in dis country d right way. but it has to b done decently. honestly, i've problems wit d pictures posted