₦airaland Forum

We are all reeling out the problems with Nigeria. That is very good. But ask yourself this question, "can I correct these ills, if by divine providence, I find myself in a position of power"?

Interesting.

Too bad he missed.

Okija Juju wake up, is that all you can do?

Sure, Nairaland is even worse than Nigeria. Reason? Nairaland parades analytical minds that are already alligned to the defense of their "own".

Herein lies the problem with nigerian youths - dongonturanci backed with ironclad skeptism.

Whatever that means, at least, it should send chivers down the spine of some thieving governors to repent.

This is not just another gibberish . That goat sheep is a humanbeing. Why has nobody in that town or its environs come forward to claim ownership? The Police should stop feeding the clown. In fact, set ablaze the idiot .

Good talk. Let me see action .

Because nigerians are animal politicians (and not political animals).

Consider also the headache of being a billionaire's wife, other women chasing your husband, family disturbing you, you have enemies because people are envious, and the biggest one the stress of spending all that money

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Whether one has money or not there will always be problems. But It is better to have the wherewithal to solve them .

How do you fight? Who do you fight? these are the questions that remain.

How can we fight when our brothers will rise against us. Only Okonkwo can stickout his neck in this situation. Things have fallen apart .

How can you tell which lizard is suffering from stomach ache when all lizards lie prostrate on their belly?

My stand is that the Lagos State government has done well by installing CCTV to monitor activities in the metropolis and to track criminals.

The problem with Nigeria is nigerians. Nigerians have turned every good (positive) thing to evil (negative) and now accept evil as good.

All this na delay tactics, abeg .

You mean Clifford Orji is in prison? Or are you kidding?

All of them be robbers , thief ,ole, Barrow.

Abdusalam is a silent rogue
OBJ is a hypocctitical crook
Odili is an unrepentant thief.
Alamco is a convicted fraudster

EFCC Seeks NBA’s Help Over Stalled Cases

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Chief (Mrs.) Farida Waziri has called on the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA to prevail on its senior members to assist the Commission in the prosecution of high profile cases stalled in various courts across the country.

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The call was made by the Chairman of the Commission, Mrs Farida Waziri when she led management staff and members of the board of the commission on a courtesy visit to the National Secretariat of the NBA in Lagos.

Waziri who was received by the NBA President, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN lamented that some of the commission cases in court had dragged unnecessarily and blamed the situation on the antics of some senior members of the bar whom she said, were in the habit of exploiting the weakness of the nation’s judicial processes by filling frivolous applications to frustrate the trial of suspects for corruption and money laundering.

The situation, according to her, was frustrating as rate of conviction was an important yardstick for measuring the effectiveness of any law enforcement agency. “When you fight this kind of war without achieving conviction, the impact is not felt”, she said.

Waziri also frowned at the activities of some unscrupulous lawyers who fraudulently obtain money from their clients under the pretext of delivering same as bribe to officers of the commission to ‘kill’ cases under investigation. She urged the leadership of the NBA to invoke the code of ethics of the association against such errant members.

Explaining the reason for her visit, the EFCC Chair, said it was to familiarize herself with the new leadership of the bar and to solicit their support for the success of the anti graft war.

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Speaking further on the challenges of prosecuting corruption and money laundering cases, Mrs. Waziri explained that the Commission had had difficulties engaging the services of top notch legal luminaries due to the high legal fees demanded by them but noted that EFCC needed the muscle of such representation to match the defence in high profile corruption cases. She therefore appealed to NBA to recommend good lawyers that could join the Commission’s prosecution team.

Responding, the NBA President, Chief Akeredolu, SAN thanked Waziri and her team for the visit. He assured that the NBA was fully committed to the fight against corruption and financial crimes. “NBA is prepared to cooperate with EFCC in all respect so that we can win this war”, he declared. He said the NBA frowns at the activities of some of its members who stall the fight against corruption and financial crimes, assuring that definite action would be taken against such members at the association’s National Executive Committee meeting coming up in February.

In the same vein, Chief Akeredolu urged the EFCC to report lawyers caught collecting money from their clients ostensibly as bribes for EFCC ; assuring that the association would waste no time in de-listing such members.

Akeredolu also expressed relief over Waziri’s explanation that she was ‘betrayed’ in the plea bargain arrangement that culminated in the conviction of former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion. Otherwise, he said he would have been scandalized as plea bargaining presupposes that the parties had reached some kind of understanding. To avoid such confusion in the future, he suggested a workshop on Plea Bargain that would be jointly organized by the Commission and the NBA.

He also advised the commission to appeal against the Court of Appeal, Kaduna ruling in the James Ibori case that suspects are better tried in places where the offence is committed as it could have negative effect on the prosecution of persons currently standing trial for corruption and money laundering.

The NBA President promised to recommend competent lawyers that could bolster the legal team of the Commission but warned against the practice of appointing as prosecutor, a lawyer that was already defending a client against the commission to avoid the conflict of interest that could arise. “We know of one or two people today who are prosecuting and defending. That is not right”, he said.

Werrin dey ma pipulz?

Sista, plenty plenty gist dey 00 . Ok, make I yarn you some. The sheep whey e wanted to steal mazda car still dey for guardroom. Dem wan even sell the sheep sef. Aunty, you go buyam ? There is also 2 owls when dem enter court go rescue accused. People come run for their dear lives, so tey the judge come adjorn case. Sista, no be small thing o. Abeg make I stop here. Other pipple go yarn you some gists too. Bye bye, aunty .

Boss,
u see how we will progress in nigeria. el ruffai citted studies as his reason for not honouring efcc's invitation and ribadu is citting fear of his life as reason for not coming to court. so who are those ones that they drag like common thieves to court? they are not citizens and they do not have reasons?
all these dramas are writen in otah farms and the actors are really playing according to the scripts.
Ibb refused to honour oputa panel for security reasons and till date nothing happened. tell me what will happen to alams if he had for one day told ribadu he was not going to court because of security reasons.
WHICH WAY NIGERIA? ribadu is showing how intelligent he is but in all, he is the real criminal.

_{NOOOO. Iam not laughing o. I am crying o}. [s]Seun should please add crying faces to these things naa [/s]

@Muza
You don't have to be sarcastic about this.
You could as well maintain a sealed lip. If you have experienced the pains
of loosing large chunk of money in a bank you entrusted it with, then you would
understand what people are going through daily.

True talk. Many depositors have developed high BP, that is if some have not died of poverty or shock.

Yes, some people sure know the root of their problems and they are taking the bull by the horn. For once I can see paper qualification being practicalised. Chase them crazy bald heads, eating your share of national cake, out of town, my sistren and brethren. Jah guide .

See how the paper vomitted expectation like reality. Na by fire by force to entertain us with gists . I fear this "Dem say, dem say" journalist o.

Habba, people try and encourage the NPF for once now. When they paraded thieving humanbeing -turned goat -sheep, you called them names. Now, they used the original oyibo ojuju technology to catch robbers ( that did not turn into goat) and you are trying to rubbish their scientific efforts. Na wa for una sef. Wetin police go do to impress una now Meanwhile, the thieving sheep is still in the guardroom .

repeated episode

Sorry please. If this son can rattle me into confusion on paper, I wonder what the mummy that is physically with him is undergoing .

My wife, because she is the mother of my children. Can a woman forget the fruit of her womb?

Am still laughing

Which Rilwanu Lukman? The same one that has been in oil for over 20 years in the same country? The same man that headed NNPC back when I was still in primary school and has remained up there for so long? This I have to see.

My brother, na the same man o. The same man you read about in Social Studies class those days o .

Son has stopped crying though not happy with mummy for eating Juniorinstead of garri. Son continued to wonder how Junior will come out of mummy's tommy. He then asked mummy.
Son: mummy, are you going to shit Junior out through the anus?
Mother: No (Mummy confused by this question).
Son: Will Junior smell of poopoo?
Mother: No(Mummy is unsettled by these barrage of questions from the son and regretted starting the conversation).

am MAY 25 ,any birthday mate

Yeah. I am too.