₦airaland Forum

Na wao. all off a sudden Atiku now Knows solution to all the problems of this country

i hope he does not forget that the US vice president is also the senate president and that we need operate that in Nigeria also. But is that the problem of Nigeria instead of thinkong on how to move Nigeria out of reccession

Mr Bello they are lot of jobs for you to do in the office, Civil servant salary payment,pensioners pension, lack of water in lokoja,the road safety dont need your help

zendy:
Atiku is just as bad as the rest of them but there is one thing that sets him apart. He is one of the few Northern leaders who has said that he supports true federalism, resource control, fiscal responsibility and maybe regional autonomy.

Should Nigeria still be together in 2019, and the choice is between Buhari and Atiku, it makes more sense for Southern Nigerians to vote Atiku than continue with the clueless Buhari and his abysmal performance in office provided Atiku can promise to bring back regionalism/federalism.

However, I hope above all things that me and my fellow Igbos have become free before then.

Politician will always play the tune you want to hear to gain your attention but when they get there they sing a different song entirely was he not the VP for eight years,was he not there when uwazurilike was arrested?

tolastikha:
Good morning fellow Nigerians.

Are we in this forum too young politically to know why former President Obasanjo hate and turned himself to life enemy of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar?
Have we forgotten so soon the tenure elongation movement of the then President Obasanjo?
Have we forgotten so soon how former vice president Atiku Abubakar vehemently opposed Obasanjo with the rider word " Nigerians will not forgive us if we turn ourselves to life presidency"?
If we are in this same generation and we witnessed all of that, and we now keep quiet allowing Obasanjo to destroy Atiku Abubakar for taking the boldness to defend us at that time, certainly history will not treat us fairly.

That is the driving spirit behind National Atikulate Movement 4 Emancipation.


Adm. Tola Ajimisogbe (ACIA)
Convener.

He was not doing it for Nigeria, he had is motive and that motive is to be the President of Nigeria which has made him a political prostitute from PDP TO ACN TO PDP TO nPDP TO APC

he was vp for eight years and was Chairman of privatisation selling almost all Nigeria assets to himself and cronies.

why not give out the names and contact of all focal persons and where to meet them

When people lost confidence in their law enforcement agents and do not trust the Judiciary,then people take laws into their hand resulting in mob action and jungle justice

boman2014:
Sally has been asked to handover the affairs of NTDC to the next most senior officer.


The removal of the DG was contained in a letter dated November 27, 2016 was signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Engr. Babachir David Lawal.


The letter was titled “Notification of de-secondment from the Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC).


The letter reads: “I refer to the attached letter, Ref. No. SGF.6/S.23/1/568 of 8th October, 2013 in respect of your secondment from the Keystone Bank Limited to serve as Executive Director/ Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) for a period of two years with effect from 6th May 2013.



Consequently, you are to handover the affairs of the corporation to the most senior officer on or before Wednesday, 30th November, 2016.”


https://www.naij.com/1067791-breaking-president-buhari-removes-sally-mbanefo-dg-ntdc.html?source=index_main

Nigerians dont even read she had a two years appointment and was appointed in 2013 and the 2years elapsed in 2015, instead of leaving she stayed till 2016 and had to be told to go.She overstayed the duration of her appointment

Only in Nigeria leaders punish the populace for voting them.Am begining to believe that Buhari is deliberately heartless and punishing Nigerians for loosing election all this while, If not, why the hike in price for everything

dont forget to advise your governor, Yahaya Bello

That is not emefiele

Melanie Trump need not worry about that, i recommend Mrs Boglo Valerie owner of Valisimo fashion home in Nigeria

This is what happens when people lost faith in its law enforcement agent and its judiciary,they result to jungle justice.
Nigeria wake up

i think this is hypocrisy, you had eight years in office as president and you never promoted made in Aba

KOGI HAS A ONE EYE GOVERNOR

kOGI HAS A ONE EYE GOVERNOR

i think you are sick fashola,check into the next available hospital

Whereas in Kogi specifically lokoja the capital, the APC led government of YAHAYA has failed to continue with the water scheme built by Ibrahim Idris

I salute your courage, you are a conqueror.

Are you people not tired,about Buhari hating IGBO,He hate Igbos but chose them twice as his vice president when he contested,and the igbos still rejected him

they should go the clean ones will remain

Did he say that,and all the while he was the deputy senate president

Nine Philadelphia judges arrested on charges of corruption

Jim Avila and Serena Marshall
ABC News
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:57 UTC
Image
© RON TARVER / Staff Photographer
William J. Brennan (left), the attorney representing former Traffic Court Judge Willie Singletary (center), takes questions from reporters before entering federal court.
The charges are essentially grassroots corruption -- that an entrenched system in Philadelphia fixed the tickets of connected drivers while severely punishing drivers with no clout.

Nine traffic court judges, virtually everyone who wore the robe in the city's traffic court between July 2008 and September 2011, were arrested today and forced to stand on the other side of the bench and be accused by federal prosecutors of cheating the average citizen out of a fair shake.

Among them, the judges face charges of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, perjury, making false statements to the FBI, and aiding and abetting. They could be punished by 60 to 490 years behind bars and face millions of dollars in fines.

Defendant William Hird, who could face 315 years in prison and a $4.5 million fine on nearly 20 criminal counts, said only "no comment" today when leaving his arraignment. But his lawyer said the former judge was "being indicted for essentially doing his job."

FBI Acting Special Agent-in-Charge John Brosnan had a different perspective, saying at a news conference that "justice in any courtroom requires fairness."

One of the nine judges, Willie Singletary, in what prosecutors characterized as a brazen sale of justice, was captured on a video meeting with a motorcycle club called the Philadelphia First State Road Rattlers, saying: "There's going to be a basket going around because I'm running for Traffic Court judge, right, and I need some money. I got some stuff that I got to do, but if you all can give me $20 you're going to need me in Traffic Court. Am I right about that? ... Now you all want me to get there, you're all going to need my hook-up, right?"

Singletary faces charges that could add up to 490 years in prison and $6.5 million in fines on 27 counts, prosecutors said.

Another judge, Michael J. Sullivan, owner of a local Philadelphia tavern, allegedly instructed his friends and political cronies to put their tickets in a box behind the bar for the fix. He faces a potential penalty of 440 years in prison and a $5.5 million fine on 23 counts.

Judge Gary Glazer is in charge of reforming the court, brought in as a result of the on-going FBI investigation.

"It's a great sense of sadness that an institution can be corrupted," Glazer said. "It's a great sense of embarrassment that judges can operate in a way that's essentially lawless."

Just how far do authorities say the fix was in? If you had a connection through family, a state supreme court report found that you had an 85 percent chance of getting your ticket dismissed or being found not guilty, while the average person in that same courtroom had a mere 26 percent chance of being found not guilty.

Glazer said judges would be alerted in advance when "particular people were interested in particular results for particular parties appearing in court," in order to ensure those cases were handled with special treatment.

"It is such a widespread practice that, unfortunately, the court has become, to paraphrase Jon Stewart, the whoopee-cushion of the judiciary. It's become a real problem," Glazer said.

That same report accused Democratic U.S. Rep. Robert Brady, who was not charged today with any legal wrongdoing, of being a frequent requester of courtroom favors.

"You call me to try and get you help because you know us, because you're involved in politics or you're a Democratic committee person. We give you an attorney and the attorney goes down," Brady told ABC News. "Sometimes you're guilty and sometimes you're not."

When ABC News pressed the congressman, asking if he had ever called in a favor, Brady vehemently denied it, saying "never at all."

Brady added that he "doesn't approve" of the Philadelphia judges' alleged behavior.

"My philosophy is that if somebody has a problem with traffic court, we do not call the judge, we do not talk to a judge. Never do that for any judge, for anybody. I would not do that," he said. "All I do is get an attorney, supply an attorney for them, which happens once a month, once every two months."

Besides Hird, Singletary and Sullivan, the six judges charged today are Michael Lowry, Robert Mulgrew, Thomasine Tynes, Mark A. Bruno, Henry "Eddy" Alfano and Robert Moy.

The Philadelphia case is just the latest in a series of big-city courtroom corruption cases. In New York, cops deny accusations that they fixed tickets. In Detroit, an officer pleaded no contest to accusations he ticketed a driver and later promised to get the tickets overturned "for a price." He received two months in jail and two years probation. In San Diego, a 27-year veteran pleaded no contest to destroying seatbelt violations given to district attorneys and subsequently resigned.

It is a problem so pervasive, the FBI says public corruption is now its No. 1 criminal focus.

enough of this stories

Is she now the power minister?why not face the economy and the country finance

no sms and tried to log in but not successful

May God save Goodluck Ebelechuku Azikiwe Jonathan from this wife called Patience Jonathan

Mr President you are not voted to complain about the past we have heard enough of PDP escuses you are given us, we know that is why they were voted out. So please stop the complain after 16 months you are yet to do nothing, With obasanjo we had paris club debt settled,Excess crude account increased,democracy which you truncated as a military man, we also had GSM. PMB wake up

Am i suprised? yes, why ship bitumen into a country that has large stock of bitumen that has not been harnessed,ondo state has a large reserve of bitumen.