₦airaland Forum

MadPolitician:
Why was the State House Marina handed over to the Lagos state government without any serious consultation with other states? That was a very important federal asset, and why are they trying to hand over the National Stadium and The National Theatre to the same Lagos state government?

Next presidentia lelections, someone born yesterday will say Tinubu built all those.

National monuments built by the federal government as collective assets of all states! All these while Lagos continues to get the lion share of federal allocations, inspite of her massive tax earnings, arising from the dividends of the enormous federal investments in infastructures when Lagos was the federal capital

Has Nigeria not done enough for Lagos?

Ojiofor:
How come only Yorubas are qualified for the job?
Tinubu is out doing Buhari in tribalism and bigotry.

Ojiofor:
Na Yoruba man get this company because all the appointees are all Yoruba.

omooba969:
Would you say a whistle-blower is also committing a crime?

omooba969:
This is it, I've had enough. You guys can't be saved.

Bye 👋

omooba969:
Guy, your hypocrisy stinks so much that you choose to blatantly ignore the corruption and rot in the system, that's being exposed, and rather flog VDM's actions...wow! 😣

So you mean to say that VDM's action has more gravity, and therefore overrides the institutional corruption in the EFCC, our courts and the prison system.

It's dangerous to allow people like you to continue to use the internet...really dangerous!

Phew!!!

Lamasta:
Are you now supporting that its only the poor that should go to prison why the rich bribe their way out...

Are you supporting corruption in our already corrupt institutions cos all what you wrote are all centered on your support for corruption and victimizing someone trying to expose corruption in the system

omooba969:
Did you just say 'illegally obtained'??

In your sane mind, would you rather sweep the exposé under the carpet?

Inibehe Effiong
@InibeheEffiong
DEFAMATION OF FEMI FALANA

Saying that you expected Femi Falana to write to Bobrisky and not you who actually published the defamatory matter, is just a demonstration of your acute lack of knowledge of the law of libel.

Even if you want to plead the defence of fair comment in court, your personal and highly prejudicial comments makes it improbable for you to prevail.

Emotion is one thing, law is another.

In the law of defamation, innuendos are actionable. You don’t need to mention names or be direct. If reasonable and right thinking members of the society can deduce from your statement that you were referring to the claimant, and that the claimant’s estimation is lowered on account of your statement, you are liable.

It is elementary law that there is a distinction between the writing or authoring of a defamatory matter and publication of a defamatory matter.

Publication arises when what is said or written is brought to the notice of the whole world or third parties. That is what gives rise to a cause of action and not the mere authoring of the matter.

Assuming the audio is credible, the person who recorded it only authored it. I am using the word “assuming” intentionally because Falz has strongly disputed the substance of his conversation with Bobrisky.

Bobrisky did not publish the audio.

The person who published it is primarily liable for the injury suffered by those affected by it.

When articles are written in newspapers, those who are aggrieved will ordinarily sue the newspapers, and may decide to also join the author(s) of the article(s).

Asking Falana to approach Bobrisky and not you is ludicrous. The law does not work that way.

I am passionately interested in sanitizing our country’s institutions. I know that the Correctional Service in Nigeria is corrupt and requires radical reforms. However, if you’re going to accuse a lawyer or anyone for that matter of aiding a prisoner to avoid jail time or to serve imprisonment outside the custodial centre, you should have solid facts to substantiate it. If you’re going to propagate that a lawyer wanted to pervert the cause of justice through bribery or any other way, you should have more than ‘courage’.

You didn’t just publish the purported audio, you went ahead to offer personal opinions and commentaries which has adversely impacted the reputation of Mr. Falana.

You even said you’ve lost respect for him, and that someone who defended Fela shouldn’t be involved in such act. Is that still within permissible limits of fair comment?

The fact that many people online have made negative comments about Falana on account on your publication is evidence that his reputation has been lowered.

If Bobrisky wanted a pardon and briefed Falana to make the application on his behalf, is Falana supposed to do so pro bono? Now that Mr. Falana has denied ever having such discussion with Bobrisky, you are still grandstanding and asserting that you haven’t defamed him.

Suggesting that Falana demanded for N10 million to bribe someone to facilitate application for pardon is a grave allegation.

By the way, the said audio is not from a phone conversation between Bobrisky and Falz. It is supposedly between Bobrisky and a yet to be identified third party. This makes the case of defamation more compelling. If you have the voice record of the call between Bobrisky and Falz that substantiates your assertions and innuendos, put it out for everyone to listen to. If you don’t have it, you will need more than grandstanding to succeed.

I support NBA’s call for an independent investigation into Bobrisky’s case.

However, the man whose reputation you’ve lowered has every right to seek redress.

By the way, when you received the audio, did you make any effort to verify it? Did you confront those mentioned in it before you published it? If all that you wanted was for investigation to be carried out, why did you make highly prejudicial comments on the matter?

It is easy to play to the gallery.

omooba969:
You're a very funny individual.

You're trying so hard to paint the Nigerian courts like their western counterparts...lol

Funny how you avoid touching the bone of contention but spending your energy on VDM who has chosen his course already. You must really think VDM is not resolute and doesn't know what he's doing.

Hahahaha 😂

omooba969:
Is this supposed to mean that VDM would not get a fair hearing, or would be denied his inherent human rights bcoz family of lawyers are involved in this mess?

It appears that you're the stvpid fellow here, bcoz the actions of VDM on this matter don't constitute a conviction of those people involved.

This is what we call an exposé[.

Abeg getat!

Nigerian law protects phone call privacy. Recording someone without consent could violate the NDPR and Constitution's privacy protections. It is also a crime under the Cybercrime Act (Sections 24 and 37), with a potential fine of not more than N7,000,000.00 or imprisonment.

Nigerian law protects phone call privacy. Recording someone without consent could violate the NDPR and Constitution's privacy protections. It is also a crime under the Cybercrime Act (Sections 24 and 37), with a potential fine of not more than N7,000,000.00 or imprisonment.

CommonSense1967:
Mumu ode. Does it look good for any minister to allow anyone to hold him and use him like that in public?
I support VDM but it's not a good look for the minister
Low IQ mumu mumu you be.

id4sho:
Falana will be pissing in his pampers now

Nigerian law protects phone call privacy. Recording someone without consent could violate the NDPR and Constitution's privacy protections. It is also a crime under the Cybercrime Act (Sections 24 and 37), with a potential fine of not more than N7,000,000.00 or imprisonment.

Zool6:
Lmao
VDM is in procession of Audio Call from Bobrisky himself that morethan evidence. ,,Fala u for go with that little dent than browning it open the more

Nigerian law protects phone call privacy. Recording someone without consent could violate the NDPR and Constitution's privacy protections. It is also a crime under the Cybercrime Act (Sections 24 and 37), with a potential fine of not more than N7,000,000.00 or imprisonment.

haffaze777:
Nah Every secret you go dey leak

ElevationD:
Which party publicly declared the election accounts between APC, PDP and LP?

Has PDP ever made public their election accounts?
PDP lost since 2014 owing to accusations of huge embezzlement of public funds for 16 years.
If PDP was competent and organized, they would not keep losing elections and supporters to APC in such numbers.

Reno Omokri is part of the party accused of embezzling public funds for over 16 years and here he is playing the innocent man. Is it not a shame?

If not for his foolishness, he would have realized that all over Abia state are bus stops, just like everywhere. The governor simply started building better structures as resources have been coming more.

We want a new and better Nigeria, free from horrible leaders[b][/b] and party members like Reno. We want our societies to work. We want our homes and roads to be safe. We have witnessed the massive failures of APC and PDP. Now we want better and more responsible leaders who will move us forward.

Lordsugar:
This is an informative post.

Edo State, Please Vote For Any Party But Labour on Saturday, September 21, 2024

I urge the people of Edo State to look at Abia State, the only Labour Party-run state in Nigeria. Just recently, Abia State celebrated building its first modern bus stop. Who in their right mind celebrates a bus stop in 2024?

Meanwhile, Benin and the Midwest Region, which later became Bendel, had modern bus stops fifty-eight years ago.

Edo state began paying ₦70,000 minimum wage in May 2024, whereas Abia is struggling to pay even the old minimum wage of ₦30,000 and is owing salaries.

Then, look at the Labour Party itself. In shambles. Factionalised. Neither Peter Obi nor Alex Otti are in control. They have two national chairpersons. When asked to name the authentic Chairperson, Peter Obi said only the Independent National Electoral Commission can do so.

How can you vote for a party suffering from multiple personality syndrome?

Then, look at the matter of transparency in accounting for funds donated to the party. Accusations and counter-accusations. Their accounts are more opaque than the government's finances. At least you know how much the President and his vice are spending. The media can run stories on the finances of the First Lady's travels.

But who can say where the millions of dollars donated to the Labour Party's Presidential campaign went?

No wonder Obi, who once said he would never fly private jets, began flying private jets during and after the campaigns. Edo, do you want your state funds to pay for Peter Obi's private jet soirées?

If the Labour Party cannot manage their own party and finances, if they cannot pay the new minimum wage, if they are celebrating bus stops in 2024, then evidently a vote for Olumide Akpata and the Labour Party on Saturday, September 21, 2024, is a vote for backwardness, division, low wages, and opaque finances.

And then, ask yourselves what Peter Obi and the Labour Party said when some people insulted our beloved Omo N'Oba N'Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II.

Remember that the revered Oba of Benin had to rebuke Olumide Akpata when he falsely claimed to be a "son of the Palace”. Imagine what such a fellow could do if he becomes Governor. He has learnt disrespect for elders and authority from Peter Obi and his cronies.

Vote for Labour and Edo may be the next "no man's land".

Yes, Edo no be Lagos. But it is better for Edo to look like Lagos than to resemble Abia!

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.