₦airaland Forum

1United1: election don dey reach, jonathan don begin wear Yoruba attire! Clueless drunkard!

SMH4U

rman: Did Someone hack this account?

Maybe

The truth shall be told one day!

berem: ...And they sent bombers to kill people in a school in Kano to distract Nigerians about the shady and illegal arms deal. Don't be suprised if another bomb blast happens just to make sure Nigerians are totally distracted.

Well done! I, see your too much learning... Continue!

Nigerian government should come out Clean. Let us call a spade spade.

$9.3m transaction for any reason should not be moved by CASH! That is Approx #1.6Bn, this is NOT ACCEPTABLE.


We are watching and waiting.

Sloan: What are you going to do or say now you PDP? By 2019, may your life be 100 times worse than the Chibok girls who were never rescued by this useless man you are eating his balls called GEDaftEbele.

You and Lair Mohammed who get mouth pass

PhockPhockMan: Where are they?
Demdem, Cleverly, caseless, MzJackBaueress/berem , obiagelli, aresa, cramjonse, barcanista, Egift, donphilus, koboko69, ngeneukwenu, GenBuhari.

The problem of nigeria, APC, has been captured.

More to be capture in coming days... by Fire by Force!

harrysterol: do you know the Revenue lagos state is generating? Is more than enough to make all the roads look like UK roads

Please tell them to wise up and stop playing dirty with their future.


APC is a BIGGER SCAM

speechless

ACN now APC have outlived their usefulness in Lagos.


We must not allow this to continue, NO! Enough is enough.




Imagine, the road leading to Fashola/Tinubu BRAND NEW Leki-Epe Airport flooded like this



APC Lagos should give us the result of their stewardship for the past 15 Years in Lagos. {AD => AC=> ACN => APC} The Time for Change is here… Vote OUT Tinubu’s Party in 2015.

P-TBJ, Let the expert investigate what happened, please keep your pictures.


Thank you.

The War is coming to an end soonest.

Alhamdulillah ... Thank you Jesus.

diresimdi: Chai! El rufai will not be happy with this news. Sorry sir! Boko haram is gradually being exterminated. Hope you and APC will not shout...extra judicial killing?

I believe they would keep shut this time.


This madness must END!

[quote author=barcanista][/quote]http://www.punchng.com/news/fayose-secures-sss-foreign-affairs-jobs-for-ekiti-indigenes/

Congrats to the newly employed...

Lagos—The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, yesterday said it will arrest and prosecute a Nigerian Professor of Ophthalmology at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, for what it described as unverified cure claim for Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, using native vegetable, Ewedu.

Meanwhile, the Agency has quarantined over 104 brands of sanitisers even as it arrested three Nigerian businessmen for alleged importation of expired hand sanitizers and fake Ebola test kits into the country.

Making these revelations in Lagos, the Director General of NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii said the various pronouncements by some medical and pharmaceutical professors at these precarious times in the history of the country were more dangerous.

Orhii, who lamented the psychological trauma Nigerians have gone through in the last couple of weeks warned that the case of the professor at LUTH will serve as a serious warning to other Nigerians intending to mislead or cause panic through such bogus claims.

“One consequence of these unsupported and possibly fraudulent claims is that people may be misled into a false sense of invincibility on account of eating Ewedu or bitter kola and drop their guards. This is a national embarrassment and the Agency will not take such uncorroborated claims by supposedly learned people lightly,” he stated.

“These professors should not be patronised by Nigerians. Anybody who claims to have a cure for Ebola should come to NAFDAC, the Ethics Committee or the Treatment Research Group set up by the Federal government than causing more panic in the country.
”NAFDAC will immediately arrest and prosecute any Nigerian making such unverified claims as that could mislead the public.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/ebola-nafdac-prosecute-ewedu-cure-claimer/

Read the rest story here:

http://www.punchng.com/news/military-fires-goc-attacked-by-convicted-soldiers/

He said, “Mutiny is a serious crime in the military in the world over. If it is tolerated, it will lead to serious chaos and breakdown of law. In fact, it will even lead to the overthrow of the central government.

“I say this with every sense of responsibility, taking into account the security condition in the country and the very obvious fact that soldiers are daily crying that they have not been well kitted to fight the Boko Haram insurgents.

“In spite of that, however, the way the young men took the law into their hands by shooting at the car of their commander should not be tolerated under any circumstance.

“Having said that, I will still say that the President should exercise his prerogative of mercy under section 175 of the constitution to pardon them with a strong warning that he will not pardon any other person who does that. I say that because the morale of the military personnel on the ground should not be dampened.”

Agbaje said if the soldiers were not pardoned, the judgment could dampen the morale of others currently fighting insurgents in the country.

Agbaje also explained that the Armed Forces Decree did not stop the convicts from appealing against the judgment at the Court of Appeal.

He said, “They can go to the Court of Appeal where the judgment of the court martial will be subjected to judicial scrutiny and review. Nothing in the Armed Forces Decree can override the clear provisions of the 1999 Constitution particularly sections 6 and 36, dealing with judicial powers and fair hearing.

“It is not too late in the day if the issue of prerogative of mercy is also considered by the President now that the court martial is now functus officio.

“The president should come in to exercise his prerogative of mercy. If the president does not intervene through clemency it will dampen the morale of other soldiers in the battle field,” he added.

Ubani, who expressed concern on whether the soldiers had been given fair hearing as proceedings of martial courts were “conducted in secrecy,” insisted that the soldiers had a right of appeal.

He said, “The soldiers still have the right of appeal. Even if the Court of Appeal goes ahead to agree with the tribunal, I am still of the opinion that the approving authority must look at this case once again. Under what circumstance was this mutiny committed.

“These people had alleged that they were not properly equipped. They had alleged that they were not properly taken care of.”

Also, the NLC, through its General Secretary, Dr. Peter Ozo-Esan, said it could only appeal for clemency since the military had its own judicial process.

It said, “You know the military all over the world has its judicial process. We believe that the sentences are still awaiting the approval of the Army Council. It is when that process is completed that the full details and the circumstances would be taken into consideration. Where it is possible, some degree of clemency should be shown.We therefore appeal for some degree of clemency by the Army Council.”

Military authorities have retired the former General Officer Commanding the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, Maj. Gen. Abubakar Mohammed.

Investigations by The PUNCH revealed this on Tuesday just as the Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress and human rights lawyers pleaded for the pardon of 12 soldiers who were sentenced to death by a military court on Monday.

The soldiers, who had on May 14, 2014 fired shots at Mohammed, in Maiduguri, were convicted for mutiny and other offences such as insubordination .

Investigations revealed that Mohammed was retired after he was recalled to the Headquarters of the Nigerian Army without posting for months after the soldiers’ attempt on his life.

It was gathered from a top military source in Abuja that the Army authorities quietly retired him last month.

The source said, “The Maj. Gen. has been retired; you don’t expect that to be made public; issues of retirement especially in the military are confidential. The man was at the Army headquarters for some time. He was awaiting posting then but he was eventually retired about a month ago.”

Meanwhile, the NLC, TUC and human rights lawyers have urged the Presidency and the Army Council chaired by the Minister of Defence to prevail on the military authorities to spare the lives of the 12 soldiers.

The lawyers are three Senior Advocates of Nigeria–Olisa Agbakoba, Femi Falana and Sebastian Hon – as well as Fred Agbaje and Monday Ubani.

In fact, Agbakoba, who flayed the judgment threatened to go to court to seek justice for the convicts.

He said that the process through which the court martial passed the sentences on the soldiers was unconstitutional.

The SAN, who maintained that the composition of the court violated the principle of natural justice, said he had asked his lawyers to approach the convicts for the purpose of lodging an appeal against the military authorities.

He said, “The court martial system is totally unconstitutional. They (soldiers) have the right to go to court and appeal the judgment. Actually, I have asked my lawyers to approach them and afford them our services to lodge an appeal.”

Agbakoba submitted that the offence for which the soldiers were tried and found guilty was undefined. He stated that Section 38(12) of the 1999 Constitution stipulated that all offences must be defined.

He said,“I have represented a number of soldiers at court martial. In particular, I represented Gen. JOJ Okulagu and my point at the court martial was that a process that allows the commander to appoint the investigator, the court martial president, members and the judge advocate is clearly contrary to all principles of natural justice.

“The basis of justice is that everybody who has the power to decide has a duty to act fairly. Without prejudice to the offence, whether the person is guilty or not, he is entitled to a fair trial.

“The Army Act that defines the work for the court martial system is unconstitutional because the basic offence contained in the Army Act is that you are charged for an offence said to be prejudicial to service discipline.

“That is what the law says–conduct prejudicial to service discipline. But conduct prejudicial to service discipline is an undefined offence contrary to Section 38(12) of the Constitution and the court has said that offences must be defined.”

Falana and Hon, who acknowledged the severity of the offences the soldiers were accused of, said pardoning them was necessary in view of the circumstances informing their action.

Falana said the soldiers were erroneously charged under S ection 52(1) of the Armed Forces Act Cap A 20 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 as Mohammed whose car was shot at by the soldiers was not killed.

“The soldiers were charged with attempted murder which does not attract death penalty. In the circumstance, the 12 convicts should have been charged under Section 52(2) of the Armed Forces Act which provides for life imprisonment,” he said.

The human rights lawyer called on the Army Council not to confirm the verdict but to commute it to imprisonment.

Rotimi, you see your life, when you cannot control your tongue.

Firefire: “... It is only a lion that can tame a leopard. I tamed the leopard in Port Harcourt; each time he remembers my face, he would remember how I tamed him,” Mbu said, drawing loud laughter from the audience.