₦airaland Forum

Eziachi: You made some good points that required good attention but this is not about Abiola as person in my opinion. The biggest stakeholder of any institution like UNILAG are the students and the school management, I wonder how much they were told about renaming their university before hand?

Most people send their children to a certain school because of the brand name of the institution, my son/daughter both went to Cambridge University and I can tell you you that it cost me a lot to send them there because I wanted them to have the name Cambridge on their CVs because it worth a lot. I am sure that is the intention of my parent that sent their lot to UNILAG
My children possibly, may not have got the kind of Jobs they got after their studies, if they don't have their alumni as Cambridge. So if tomorrow they learned that they are no longer graduates of Cambridge but some John Major University, its not going to be funny and whoever did it will be over-washed with law suits.
And it got nothing to do with Mr Major as a person or his achievements in life or merit. This is the point of the argument, the issue is neither about Abiola nor Yoruba people. That is my opinion.

Beaf: Na wa o! Many things in this dear country of ours freak one out.
I for one do not believe there is any hypocrisy in the Yoruba for kicking against the name change. It is wrong to tar people with a general brush.

Beyond that, the fact remains that the demonstrations are a political exigency to save face by those politicians who feel caught out by GEJ's action. Afterall, lagos is an ACN state and as a bigoted party, it is embarrassing to them.

Funny stuff!

ojaxe: Why does dis mad man want to mar 50yrs of Excellence wit a statement made under the influence of sapele water and sheer stupidity? UNILAG is synonymous with excellence and class, not some backyard tribalized institution associated with dumb losers like MKO

Biyi1471: Please guys and gals help me out, we used to say 'Great Akokiites', with this new name, what do we call or how do we hail MAU students?

toluxa1: D way some Nigerians think is just ridiculous. MUST WE DO EVERYTHING LIKE THE WEST? So because there is University of Manchester, all our Universities too should follow suit. Rubbish!!!

Chinom: Now, they've made the name of the University sound like MKO himself. I could never understand him when he speaks. I mean MKO was probabaly educated but he mumbled when he spoke.If he had succeeded in being the president, he would have been our own "George Bush". He was so incoherent in his speaches. He does not deserve an institution of higher learning named after him.

Frostyzone: I'm of the opinion that iphone is still a platform to beat. Their OS is superbly fast, design sleek and elegant as well as durable. Applications too numerous to choose from.
Andriod Samsung on the other is just a pretender that is currently making waves because it knows it will not last. Limited apps, inferrior casing material, but to name a few.
Buy Samsung S3 at your own peril.

ifihearam: What is wrong with all those protesting? Is their fathers the owner of the school? Are they the ones that will tell the president what and when and how to name a school? Wether they protest from now till nightfall nothing can be done to reverse or rescind the decision of the president.
And if they persist they will be arrested and heaven will not fall

PHIPEX: What goes around truely comes around, am not happy about this change of a great name like Unilag but I remember that some persons on NL were asking for the change of UNN to Ikemba Ojukwu University (IOU) when the NA was asked to immortalise him. Beware of what you wish for others because you may have it first. The beautiful word "Unilag" is hereby deleted from the global dictionary but ABU should take note because Umaru Yaradua University maybe given birth to by the next administration.

euphoria: This is utter rubbish. He is not a millitary head of state like IBB to change the name of a University without consulting with the school authorities. There is a Professor on STV right now that is very mad at the President's decision to make such a change without consulting the school's senate. They are mourning the past VC at the moment with the burial scheduled for Thursday. GEJ needs to consult with stakeholders before making decisions that affect them. This is DEMOCRACY!!!

Gabsreal: www.channelstv.com/home/2012/05/23/court-says-falana-has-no-right-to-challenge-lawmakers-jumbo-pay/


A Federal High Court on Tuesday ruled that lawyer and Human Rights activist, Femi Falana lacks the locus standi to challenge the powers of Federal lawmakers to award jumbo salaries and allowances to themselves. Mr Falana had filed a case challenging
the members of the National
Assembly of fixing scandalous
emoluments for themselves in August
2010.
In the substantive suit Mr Falana sought a declaratory relief to the
effect that the members of the
National Assembly are not entitled to
receive any payment outside the
salaries and allowances determined
and fixed for them by the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation
Commission (RMAFC) pursuant to
Section 70 of the Constitution. In support of the originating
summons, Mr Falana accused the
Legislators of usurping the
Constitutional powers of the RMFAC by
taking advantage of passing
Appropriation Bills into law to rank themselves the highest paid
lawmakers in the world. While relying on the case of
Fawehinmi V The President (2008)23
WRN 65 Mr Falana urged the court to
appreciate that the anachronistic
doctrine of locus standi was discarded
by the Court of Appeal when it declared illegal and unconstitutional
the payment of salaries of two
Ministers in dollars. The plaintiff also submitted that his
legal standing to promote good
governance has been constitutionally
guaranteed. In opposing the suit, the Attorney-
General of the Federation and the
National Assembly through their
counsels, Alex Izion and Kenneth
Ikonne respectively, challenged the
locus standi of Mr Falana to question the salaries and allowances of the
Federal Lawmakers. The defendants’ lawyers described Mr
Falana as a busy body who has not
shown that his personal interest has
been affected by the jumbo pay of the
legislators. They therefore urged the trial court to
dismiss the case on the authority of
Abraham Adesanya V The President
(1981) All NLR pg 1. Both the RMFAC
and the Accountants who were joined
in the action did not defend the suit. In his judgment, the presiding judge,
Justice Ibrahim Auta, held that Mr
Falana lacked the locus standi to
institute the case as he did not prove
that he had suffered any greater
injury than other Nigerian citizens as a result of the action of the
lawmakers. However, in striking out the suit the
Judge said Mr Falana ought to have
complained to the RMFAC and that if
the body failed to act he could then
sue to compel it to carry out its duty
under the Constitution. Reacting to the judgment, Mr Falana
said he would study the judgment and
then decide whether to lodge a
complaint with the RMAFC on the
illegal jumbo pay or challenge the
judgment on appeal since the learned Chief Judge of the Federal High Court
conceded that it is the constitutional
duty of the RMFAC to determine and
fix the salaries and allowances of the
legislators. The reliefs sought by the plaintiff in
the suit were: 1. A DECLARATION that the 1st and
2nd Defendants are entitled to receive
such salaries and allowances
determined by the 3rd Defendant
pursuant to Section 70 of the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999. 2. A DECLARATION that the allowances
provided for the members of the
National Assembly in the
Appropriation Act, 2010 are illegal,
unconstitutional, null and void by
virtue of Section 70 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, 1999. 3. A DECLARATION that the 1st and
2nd Defendants are not competent to
increase the salaries and allowances
of members of the National Assembly
through the Appropriation Act in any
manner whatsoever and howsoever. 4. A DECLARATION that the President
of the Senate or the Speaker of the
House of Representatives is entitled
to not more than the following six
vehicles:
(i) 2 official cars (ii) 1 Pilot
(iii) 1 Protocol Press
(iv) 1 Ambulance
(v) 1 Security 5. A DECLARATION that apart from the
Senate President and the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, no
other member of the National
Assembly is entitled to an official car. 6. AN ORDER of PERPETUAL
INJUNCTION restraining the 4th and
5th Defendants, their agents, privies
and servants from further paying
unauthorized salaries and allowances
to members of the National Assembly. 7. AN ORDER directing the 4th & 5th
Defendants to deduct and pay into the
Consolidated Revenue Fund of the
Federation the unauthorized salaries
and allowances received by members
of the National Assembly since May 29, 2007. 8. AN ORDER directing the 4th and 5th
Defendants to retrieve all official cars
from members of the 1st and 2nd
Defendants apart from the Senate
President and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives sell them and pay the proceeds to the
Consolidation Revenue Fund of the
Federation forthwith.

Logic Mind: No sir.
Those are the symptoms of the disease.
The cause is almagamation of diverses nations into one useless country called nigeria.
We need to de-amalgamate to get better.

Logic Mind: I say
FIGHT THE CAUSE OF THE DISEASE.

Sweetlemon: ak47mann, Onlytruth, and Logic mind. from your recent posts it's obvious you guys do not understand my message here. Or maybe you underate me because I'm just a young woman? Ok, let me summarise my msg here:
WE SHOULD NOT FIGHT OURSELVES BUT OPEN OUR EYES TO SEE THAT IT IS THE LEADERS WHO HAVE PUT SO MUCH HATE IN US THAT WE SHOULD BE DIRECTING OUR ANGER AT AND NOT OURSELVES. BOKO HARAM IS FUNDED BY POLITICIANS SAME WAY MEND AND MASSOB AND WHATEVER MILLIATNT GROUP ARE POLITICAL. ^{FIGHT THE DISEASE AND NOT THE SYMPTOMS!} AND WHILE WE ARE AT IT, LET US WORK ON OURSELVES. MOST NIGERIANS ARE NATURALLY SELFISH AND THAT IS WHAT GAVE BIRTH TO CORRUPTION! LET US WORK ON THIS BECAUSE THIS SAME PROBLEMS WILL COME TO HAUNT US IN OUR NEW COUNTRIES. And that is the bitter truth.

Logic Mind: [b]All countries in europe [/b]has at one time or another fought for independence from other nations that wanted to dominate them. When they finally came to their senses, they decided to remain independent countries but cooperating willingly with each other.
Nigeria is made up of nations cooperating forcefully with each other. It has not worked. It is not working. It will never work.

Logic Mind: You refuse to answer my questions but I will answer yours.
Me and my family will make sure the enemies of Biafra die instead in your bloody war.
We in Biafra will hold our biafran leaders accountable because we all, including any opposition, are biafrans, instead of supporting corrupt people because they are from our region which is what is happening in nigeria now. Yes I am 100% sure of that.
Oh, I do see things from the point of view of other and it's a pity that your point of view is keeping the status quo which is not benefiting any region.

South Korea
India
Even pakistan is better than nigeria
Austria
Northern france
Scotland
Ireland
Vietnam
U.S.A.
Algeria
Russia
Ukraine
Lithuania

Beaf: You mean the way he was witholding money for Lagos councils, as an example? The President should be lawful. Simple as, bro.
We need to restructure the country instead of praying for Presidents that ride the law roughshod.

all4naija: PROPAGANDIST!

Gbawe: Koruji, who will carry out a "complete restructure of federation to make it workable" without executive and legislative power? This hopelessness is even more compounded in the face of the realisation that many citizens do not understand that power to bring change is in their hands.

Let us stop any romanticised notion of how we think Nigeria will make progress. Let us face reality.

We know the PDP is entirely devoted to a central system plundering the wealth of Nigeria . This is why the PIB cannot be passed when we have a PDP President, VP, Senate President, Deputy Senate Preisdent and Speaker house of Rep - plus upper and lower house majority !!!!!

Everything the PDP does and is devoted to happens to work against the progress of Nigeria. This is why, year in year out, it is essential for the Party to vote in a "business as usual" President who is simply a tool. Do you not see how noise of an SNC or constitution amendment to aid "true federalism" is all lost on GEJ while he pursues tenure elongation and other frivolities? What does that tell you vis-a-vis the power of the Presidency to aid or impede the progress of the Nation?

The first thing that must be done is for the PDP to be voted out at presidential level. While the Party controls the number 1 executive position in the land, Nigeria is going nowhere. A simple case study is Ghana. Rawlings realised that some had to go for his beloved nation to make progress. He knew, at the time, his people did not have the requisite political sophistication to get rid of these enemies of progress. Rawlings did what he had to do and the rest, as they say, is history. Nigeria is exactly where Ghana was i.e with a failing Nation held to ransom by vacuous looters and plunderers yet its people cannot rescue themselves because they lack the political nous to understand "people's power".

I am not going to talk about whether Buhari should run or not but what I will say is that those who see the big picture and know that the PDP must be defeated will not attempt to desenfranchise the voice of Buhari. His influence cannot be overlooked and he will be important in the effort to dethrone the PDP. Effective politics requires a level of pragmatism and with all due respect, let us not be acting/talking like the Soyinkas and Fawehinmis of the world when the people you are speaking for lack even basic political sophistication to understand a Plan B let alone carry it out.

The only option, first and foremost, and given how things stand, involves a joint project to remove a Party that is regression personified.

Martini101: . Bros. Which level. Na Ur Manifesto abi na Presentation 4 ministerial screening be dat?

wesley80: Don't pee in your pants just yet, wait till he's kicked and bundled like a hopeless egufe into the back of a black maria b4 u start spewing your BS like a sick reetard. A major commander of a group terrorizing the entire country seems to have been caught and all u can do is sit your scraggy bum down and shout Beaf and PDP? All of a sudden it doesn't matter that a major breakthrough could have been made in the fight against terrorism simply because a Yoruba man from Osun state is involved isn't that so? Answer me You hopeless O-eediot!