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The calculation is very obvious. The battle between Saraki and the APC godfathers is an all-loser battle, no matter the outcome.

Should Saraki be removed, PDP will capture the Senate presidency/leadership; should Saraki remain in office, any ministerial nominee emanating or related to the godfathers will never scale through.

Smithkline555:
The last time I checked, september will end on the 30th and not 27th. You guys should really be constructive in your criticisms. The way you wailers are going about it, it is obvious that all wailers can't wait for PMB to fail but it is audible to deaf and visible to the blind that PMB will succeed in this national assignment. Let's join hands together and make Nigeria great, it will be beneficial to you and I.

It will be better if you stop seeing unfavourable but factual analysis of the Buhari's administration as wailing and such Analysts, as wailers.

I never voted for Buhari and couldn't have done so but I must tell you that I have absolute confidence that Buhari will succeed, or at least surpass the previous presidents that ever governed the nNigerian state.

However, it is unfortunate that he is surrounded by people who are hell bent on misrepresenting him and giving a wrong impression of him. Most of the things Nigerians are attacking Buhari for, never emanated from PMB but his media Aides.

Instead of managing his public image and advising him aright, they are obstinately insistent on compelling him to make unrealistic statements with unnecessary deadlines.

As a public office holder, anything you say, must be analysed to the last, even your tenses.

The deadline to "form" his cabinet latest end of September, was absolutely unnecessary and the deadline was unrealistic because you can't "form" your cabinet when Senate was yet to start screening.

At best, PMB can only SELECT candidates for screening, and can only form the cabinet with successfully screened candidates.

There is no magic that will make Buhari swear in his ministers on 30th September and that constitutes mendacity that was avoidable. So we can't have a cabinet but perhaps, may have proposed list of ministerial nominees for screening.

I support and pray for him to succeed because it is better for you and I.

bossto:
hmmm!!!..wat the simple solution??

Its very simple and it's something you can do alone, perhaps with a little guidance.

I had a brilliant colleague who had same problem (pronouncing LIKE as NIKE) but today she is even more fluent than most of us.

It will cost you NOTHING. Just contact me and I will tell you what you need to do.

Shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn-in as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he reiterated his commitment towards fighting corruption and the resuscitation of our moribund economy.

The anti-corruption war was to reflect in his body-language and the quality of people to be recruited to his team, and this implies that the president needed to be careful so as to appoint only credible, competent and honest people.

He didn't disappoint as he showed flashes of his commitment with such unprecedented sacrifices as offering to accept 50 percent pay cut and rejecting a proposal for a new presidential fleet.

When Nigerians started questioning his competence and accusing him of running a solitary government, based on his delay in forming his cabinet, his response was that, it is better to be careful in his selection to avoid errors. In fact, he joked that it was better to be slow and steady, when he was nicknamed "BABA GO SLOW" by Nigerians.

The President had on September 07,2015 in Ghana, promised to form his cabinet before the end of September 2015, but I suspect that he said that "ONLY" to suppress the pressure from journalists and other concerned vocal Nigerians.

Now aside the agitation and frowning by observers based on the suspicion of another premeditated perfidy, which is only going to add to the numerous breached promises made to Nigerians at different platforms, there are so many questions begging for answers.

If Buhari is finding it difficult to get honest and competent people within the APC for over 100 days, what does this say about the APC and Buhari?

Is Buhari's search for credible and competent people restricted to a particular region or circle? What does this say about Nigerians---if YES or NO?

Obviously, we can't have ministers this month as he was yet to even send names to the Senate for screening, so what will be the excuse this time?

Does his statement that ministers are "noisemakers" connected to his reluctance?

Going by the reasons advanced for the delay in forming his cabinet, is it that Nigerians are mostly incompetent and dishonest or Buhari is incompetent and dishonest about finding them?

Today is 27th of September and Buhari is yet form his cabinet. He hasn't even sent the names to the NASS for screening.

swhite22:
1.3 serious buyer

Why is the registration numbered covered?

We lack words to describe Buhari and his administration so far.

Lies and premeditated perfidy in everything.

bossto:
I have an accent that has been discouraging me to the extent that i'm too shy to speak in the public.

For instance,"light and night" sound alike to me, I mean i can't differentiate them perfectly, but whenever I converse with my friends or put those aforementioned words in sentences, they (my friends) do not correct me...But I always doubt if I had pronounced them correctly.

Other words I have problem in differentiating are: snap/slap, lame/name. Though no one has corrected me on these.

So the main issue here is "IS THERE MUCH DIFFERENCE IN THEIR SOUNDS?
Pls be honest!!

You are obviously from Nsukka. The good. News is that there is a solution, and very simple too.

ValerianSteel:
Same can be said for animals that have gone extinct already.

What do we stand to gain for preserving snakes and what are we likely going to lose if snakes go extinct?

johnpalmer774:
Well you have a very good Point but you failed to mentioned the Procedure Blunders that CCT has Violated regarding to the Proceeding so that we can all learn from your point because from my own point of view no law was violated by CCT Unless you are looking for Technicalities and it was that same Technicalities Saraki used in becoming a Senate President initially what their constitution says is that all Members should be in attendance before the commencement of the Election but that same constitution also says in a situation were all members are not present the 2/3 which is about 73 of Members could could go ahead with the election and that was what Saraki relied on knowing fully well that his Colleagues will still make it down to the Senate but he hide under that Technicalities and went ahead with the election for his own selfish reasons.


I assumes this might be the Blunders you are referring to......Saraki said the Constitutions says only the AGF that is permitted to institute such petition against him but he has forgotten that the same constitution also says the AGF office is an Institution that must continue Functioning with or without AGF....To my own Opinion Saraki is fighting a Lost Battle my only advice for him is to resign and look for a way to meddle fences with His Party Leadership so that they can save him from the Humiliation is about to face comes OCT 21, 22 And 23 when his trial resumes.

I agree with you that Saraki has a case to answer and it's obvious. I share the same feelings that he might be removed because I think Nigerians are more interested in the merit of the case than the technical blunders by the CCT.

Now here is my fears for APC------- the APC does not have overwhelming majority in the Senate. The Senate is almost equally shared by both APC and PDP.

If Saraki is removed, his faction are most likely going to align with PDP.

Now what happens if PDP decides in unity, to present a candidate for the Senate presidency?

And just to correct you, the Constitution stipulates that 1/3 of the total members of the Senate forms a quorum and not 2/3. But it's only 2/3 of the quorum can reach a decision.
You can find it under the composition of the NASS in Chapter 5, section 54 (1) of the 1999 constitution of the FRN as amended.

NairaMode:
If you run, it is not in the armies code of conduct to shoot any civilian whatsoever.

If someone runs and you chase them and cannot meet up, you are obligated to call the police ASAP.

Apparently, they were scared maybe by their threats or taunts and that was why they ran. They did not have any weapon so my assertion must have been the case.

This is not the fault of this young man but an absolute fault of the army officer.

If you actually read this story, you may have reasons to justify the Army Officer and applaud him for a job well done, especially in not killing the fleeing suspects. Except you are saying that an Army Officer is not supposed to shoot ANY civilian under any circumstance.

How innocent are they, that they move about at midnight under the influence of marijuana? How innocent are they, that they resort to running away upon sighting security personnel instead of explaining themselves?

Anytime you are stopped by any officer of the law enforcement agencies, it is part of your duties to answer reasonable questions to ascertain your identity and mission. Imagine a situation where you were being flagged down on the road by army officers and you decide to speed away---------you can only be lucky to be alive because you have triggered suspicion.

Security is all encompassing and a patriotic Army Officer will not allow a fleeing kidnapper, rapist, bunkerer etc to escape and then go back to call the police.

madridguy:
Amateur Journalism. Upcoming artist, yet his name is not disclosed. Why do you have to run away when you don't have any skeleton in your cupboard, meanwhile, thank your head that you're still alive.

It is regulatory requirement in journalism that names of victims be protected because of undue stigmatization by the larger society.

xwolverine:
Nature abhors a vacuum, the mere fact that the High court and the supreme court rejected his pleas should give him a message that this battle is lost already. But Saraki seems to be a stubborn person, hence his refusal to listen to the voice of reason and salvage what is left of his political career. No matter how hard he tries, I don't see him surviving this.

I sincerely think that Saraki has a case to answer. When a lawyer begins to explore legal technicalities instead of focusing on the merits of the charges against his clients, then there is a problem.

However, it is also important to note that the CCT has committed some procedural blunders that could vitiate the proceedings.

More so, the Appeal Court refused granting Saraki’s stay-of-proceeding request, not for lack of merit, but because there had not been any sitting on the matter.

So, I am certain that the Appeal Court will grant further request either for a stay-of-proceeding or Appeal of Judgement.

Lastly, contrary to what some people think, whatever be the outcome of this case is dangerous to the Nigerian state. This is because, the NASS is divided into three------the United PDP and two factions of the APC. Now, if a faction of the divided APC decides to join forces with PDP, this then gives the PDP, majority status.

I fear that APC may lose the Senate presidency if Saraki is removed, except PDP decides not to contest.

Lol

If you don't know the name of a car you are selling, even when it's conspicuously written on it, how can we believe the rest stories?

There is something wrong with every public servant. The difference is wether the government wants to indict or ignore you.

Every public office holder has done something wrong.

But there is nowhere in the article where it's proven that they stole the tricycle.

It is still in the realm of allegation.

floragregs:
@ number 3, what if the family moved without sam at the age of 4?

It is still incorrect, except you are modifying Sam's family and not Sam. And that will also mean that Sam's family was aged 4.

Well deserved for the tout called diego costa. Even Mourinho deserved a ban also for saying football has to be played like that.

Mourinho has to know the difference between boxing, Karate, wrestling and football.

Every successful person must have a story to tell and this is yours. Don't get frustrated because you are destined for greatness.

Very soon you will look back at this situation and laugh. Mark my words.

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Isheri Oshun Police Division, identified as Kenneth, has been redeployed over the killing of a mother of four by a police corporal attached to his station. Kenneth was said to have been queried by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, while the other team members are facing orderly room trial.

It was learnt that Owoseni ordered the DPO’s redeployment after the ugly incident that claimed the life of the woman and injured her husband, Sunday Godwin, who is still lying critically ill at the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Mushin.

The corporal identified as Aremu, who shot Mrs Comfort Godwin, the wife of tricycle operator at Isheri Oshun area of the state, had been charged for murder at Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court and remanded in prison custody. Before his arraignment in court on Friday, Aremu was given a day orderly room trial, found guilty and dismissed from the police.Godwin, a tricycle operator, wife (Comfort) and four children, were returning from a church programme at Jakande area of Lagos while the policemen on a ‘stop-and-search’ duty flagged them down and demanded a N50 bribe.

But Godwin, who was not carrying passengers but family members, told them he had no money. Angered by his response, Aremu was said to have corked his gun and opened fire on the family. While Godwin and his wife were short, their four children, among them an 11-year-old baby, escaped death by a whisker.

The policemen were said to have jumped inside their patrol van and fled. Passers-by and fellow tricycle operators rushed the couple to the hospital. The woman was said to have died in the process. Speaking on the incident last week, Owoseni said the police would foot Godwin’s medical bill and take care of his children. He also promised that the trigger-happy corporal would be charged for murder while his colleagues would be disciplined. It was learnt that Aremu had, before the incident, taken Monkey Tail (a local gin mixed with Indian hemp). He was probably acting under the influence of alcohol.

Sources from the tricycle operators said Godwin’s colleagues would visit him today at the hospital. “He is one of us; we cannot leave him in his moment of need. We are going to the hospital to check him because since he had been rushed there, we have not been given access to him,” one of them said. When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Joe Offor, confirmed that the DPO had been redeployed. He, however, did not say it was in connection with the killing.

http://newtelegraphonline.com/dpo-removed-over-killing-of-mother-of-four/

This post should be removed and the author banned for baseless and mendacious publication.

olaric:
Your story is one sided. That it is a church doesn't mean they should blindly sign without thinking about it. By the way did you even tell them you were not coming to their parish again?

Shouldn't they have called him to find out why he suddenly stopped coming to their parish before going to his office to do something that was capable of sacking him?

Hidentity:
I think that I have observed this for quite a while and I think that it need be said.

I expressed my concern on why Nigerian youths remain leaders of tomorrow even till tomorrow to someone a few years back, and he suggested that I become a member of a few social media outfits. I did- Nairaland is one. He didn't say more, but I have seen more.

E-friends, it is easier to trap the water in an ocean in a glass cup than it is to see one reasonable comment on a page on Nairaland. Is it that hard to just ignore a topic if one has nothing intellectually benefiting or wise to say than insult the feelings of a tribe, religion or sex?

Look at it from here, a lot of unemployed youths are here lamenting and the story continues year in and out. If you were an employer, are you likely to take someone on a forum like this serious to conduct the affairs of your business or firm? These things matter, but it seems we either don't know or we just deny that we don't. There are people of incredible and distinguished personalities here, but with these comments fanning the embers of ethnic war, can youths like us be left with sensitive issues like nation building?

We can't lament that we are being sidelined when we lack the diplomatic tact and mental credential to make a simple remarkable comment. Insult me for this, I don't care- people take to insult when they are short of logic. But it is saddening that these e-children of ethnic war are thought to mirror the rest of us who are not in the bandwagon of victims of social, moral and intellectual decadence.

I expected that Seun or the mods would fashion out a way to halt this madness. The truth is that not paying attention to little details has lead to several wars and disasters. If this trend of singling out an ethnic group as criminals, rapists or ritualists subsists, we all may not be able to tell the story of the consequences. We can choose our actions, but we cannot choose the consequences, why don't you just keep quiet or type something worthwhile?

I am a proud Yoruba and a Christain, but I know that in my formation process, I became human first before becoming a Yoruba or a Christian and as long as the next person is human, I should be fair to him. Why can't we just live and let live? The leaders of tomorrow are just more terrible than the ones of today.

If an Igbo person is caught for doing drugs, it is not because he is Igbo- it is because of the inherent criminal nature in every human which he didn't curb. If one Hausa man is caught for terrorism, it is not because Hausa people are terrorists, it is because of the inhumane part of every human he did not restrict. If a Yoruba man is caught for raping, it does not make Yoruba people rapists, it is because that particular Yoruba man failed to control the animal instinct in him. Committing crime is never an identity of any tribe or ethnic group because speaking English does not make one a Briton.

The future awaits us- we cannot succeed in giving it the best with the way we reason, comment and react here.

Thanks

I must thank you for this very timely article because a lot of us share this view.

Nairaland was supposed to be a forum for ideas diffusion, General unity and purposeful education.

Unfortunately, both Seun and the moderators are dangerously lenient to the antics of ethnic bigots and uneducated religious disciples, who are flagrantly fanning the embers of War and division using Nairaland.

I have personally reported a few of these dangerous statements but I kept seeing the same people regurgitating same almost daily. Sometimes, issues that needed to be discussed intelligently and exhaustively, end up being ridiculed with extremely repulsive and infantile comments.

I understand that some members, after being banned, registers again using another email address instead of serving the ban with remorse and repentance. I would like to suggest, that registration should contain the phone number and in the event of gross misconduct, such member should be banned using the phone number provided. Such that the particular phone number can't be accepted for registration again.

It is either Nairaland is not concerned about the quality of the forum or those saddled with the responsibility to moderate the forum needed to do more.

This forum needs meticulous moderation because I understand we have all kinds of persons including Nursery school pupils or those who think like one.

Very apt and concise.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is currently investigating the alleged human rights violation of a lady motorist and her family by a convoy of the Nasarawa State Governor, Alhaji Tanko Almakura, along Lafia-Akwanga road.

Earlier, the Nasarawa State office of the commission had received a complaint on the matter and a team of investigators have since interrogated the complainant and her sister who was driving along with her when the incident occurred.

The commission is presently expecting response from the alleged violator and the Nasarawa State Governor’s team any moment from now.

The Executive Secretary of the commission Prof. Bem Angwe has assured that the incident will be given prompt and thorough attention adding that all parties involved will have an opportunity for fair hearing.

Prof Angwe called all parties that the commission is in the position to address their complaints in line with its mandate.

According to him, the commission will be firm and fair in resolving the issue including inviting them to assist the commission for thorough investigations.

He implored Nigerians to follow lawful channel in addressing their grievances to the commission as Prof Angwe admonished everyone to be law abiding to stem the tides of human rights violation in the country.

http://www.peoplesdailyng.com/rights-commission-probes-violation-by-nasarawa-govs-convoy-exe-sec/

Political supremacy and witch hunting.

Wow!

oluwaSmith1:
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has called on Nigerian Christian community, particularly those in North East states to forgive members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect.

The Speaker, who is the first northern minority Christian from the core north to hold the highest political office in Nigeria, made this appeal yesterday in Abuja at the Christian Ecumenical Centre, during the diamond anniversary lecture of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/18/dogara-urges-nigerians-to-forgive-boko-haram-members/

So, the Speaker of the House of Representatives is now the HIGHEST political office in Nigeria?