₦airaland Forum

The return of the looting lout . Scrne 2, Act one

we should change our name to Goodluck

Area boys politics

This is how most Nigerians are now treated at Foreign airports

[flash=535,325]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/A4Ou87VtFvM[/flash]

Yes presidential duties indeed, albeit ceremonial like laying of wreaths and not signing of budgets or swearing in the CJN. Who is fooling who? Nemesis will one day catch up with PDP.

Such draconian measures would be difficult to implement in a country where 419 scam is not regarded as a serious crime. Imagine people attacking and throwing stones at EFCC officicials during a raid on a cybercafe!

[flash=535,325]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/ISMgGdaGOJM[/flash]

Yes I would like to be a Nigerian, but as Tunde Idiagbon

A similar raid by EFCC on cybercafe catching scammers red handed.

[flash=535,325]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/ISMgGdaGOJM[/flash]

Perhaps our Ghananian friend should read this article written by his own Ghananian people and tell me why he thinks Ghana is going to be the next big thing.

[size=18pt]More children dropping out of school to work[/size]
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, June 2, Ghanadot - Though the government and some private entities are helping in curbing the issue of school dropout in Ghana, the situation is getting quiet serious as the streets of Accra are still recruiting more ice water sellers.

About 70% of the iced water vendors are school dropouts who are on the street selling as a result of poverty, parental neglect, and being orphans.



Some are also students who sell only on vacations, weekends and holidays. They are mostly girls and a few boys who are between the ages 10 and 15 years.

Efia is 15 years old and a student. She lives with her parents at Kasoa and comes to sell in Odawna market every vacation, alongside her father who sells cassettes and her mum who sells ladies underwear.

Akose sets off early in the morning from Mataheko with her mum to Odawna. She then walks to Newtown where to buy her supply bagged water already in a fridge to sell. She goes back and forth for fresh supplies during the day. By 5:00 PM she ready to leave for hom with her mother.

In spite of the fact that basic education is free; these school dropots, mostly young, have ready credit to start their day much older partenrs. The pick up their supply, after credit and guarantor are established at the market.


A 12 years old Mansa who is a school dropout told GhanaDot that she did not have the capital to start the iced water business so a friend introduced her to a woman who gives the water out on credit, “so I went to her and she gave me GH2 worth of iced water and after selling it I paid later.”

With the introduction of the School Feeding Programme, many thought the problem of school dropout would be the thing of the past, but as it stands matters are getting worse and every day, more children come out of school to work.

Some Ghanaians are questioning whether the leaders in this country truly believe that children are vulnerable and marginalized group in the country because there is the need for targeted interventions which will take these children off the streets.

The minister of Women and Children’s Affairs, Akua Sena Dansua thinks the the leadershi, at least hers, is already working on the matter. She has assured the general public that her ministry is prepared to create harmonious society with equity and equality between male and female sexes in which the survival, protection and development of the child are guaranteed.

She said issues pertaining to children will be reviewed to assess the extent of its implementation and effectiveness to chart a future cause for the school children.

Can you believe this? Our senators are bleeding us to death for doing nothing. I stumbled on this Youtube video posted sometime ago and I was amazed, Folks this is not a joke, these people must be told to review their earnings to be in line with other hard working Nigerians. This is just over the top

[flash=535,325]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/pVybRW9ZXBw[/flash]

I think we are in a mess since the judiciary has decided to be part of all this nonsence going on.

na wah o

Mr Vice President' The Vice Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces' Your Exellency
Please could you answer these Questions:
1. Who is your deputy?
2. Can you send our troops on mission or declare a war?
3. Can you hire or fire any minister?
4: why didn't you sign the supplimentary budget?
5. Why didn't you swear in the CJN?
6. Do you think you've got full executive power or do you still need orders from the above?

I am not worried. Its just a matter of time when PDP will suffer an implosion and die suddenly by internal bleeding. The death of the adventurous monkey will come from its foolishness. They claim that there is a difference between the 'VP acting for the president' and the 'VP as Acting President'

MrCrackles:
Can someone please let me know when Jonathan takes over. . .
Otherwise, pleas dont wake me up from my sleep. . .

Then you are in for a long long sleep

jtkoko9:
whom God has blessed no man can curse, it's time for the south to rule.

They will try every trick in the book to frustrate that reality.

'Nigeria's vice-president can perform all duties for the sick president, but is not formal head of state, a court rules' - BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8456688.stm

[size=24pt]It's a lie: The Abuja Judge did not declare Jonathan to be sworn in[/size]

[size=24pt]Read:[/size]

Desperate measures: Chief judge Abutu's court says no vacuum in Aso Rock, Aondoakaa undercuts Goodluck Jonathan again!

In what may be Nigeria’s most bizarre judicial charade of the season, a Federal High court in Abuja presided over by Chief Judge Dan Abutu this afternoon endorsed the current vacuum created in the country by the continued absence of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua from his post. Goaded by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mike Aondoakaa, who was personally present in the court along with Mr. Amobi Nzelu, an Abuja based lawyer, the court declared that there is no vacuum whatsoever in the discharge of the functions of the President’s office. Contrary to at least one report, it did not declare that the Vice-President should now be sworn in.
The strategically-heard motion and hurried verdict, pundits believe, was deliberately and carefully orchestrated with the objective of scuttling the three critical related cases pending before the same judge which come up tomorrow for hearing.  They were filed by the Nigeria Bar Association, Mr. Femi Falana and Hon. Aliyu Faruk and relate to the current political vacuum created by the non transmission of the statutory letter to the National Assembly by Yar’Adua before his trip to Saudi Arabia for medical attention.

Amobi Nzelu, purporting to be acting as counsel to one Mr. Christopher Onwukwe, who is curiously a fresh graduate of the Nigerian Law School working in his chambers, approached the court to determine whether  the Vice President, under the provisions of Sections 5(1) and 148
(1) of the Nigerian Constitution, can exercise the executive powers vested in the President in the absence of the President and whether the Vice President can lawfully discharge any or all of the functions of the President in the absence of the President in the interest of peace, order and good governance of the federation pending when the President resumes and takes over.

Nzelu urged the court to declare that going by the combined provisions of those two sections, the Vice President can exercise the executive powers vested in the President in the absence of the President and that the Vice President can lawfully discharge all the functions of Mr. President in the absence of the President for the interest of the country pending when the President resumes and takes over.

In the supporting affidavit to the originating summons, the plaintiff confirmed that the President did not transmit any written declaration to the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and that the Federal Republic of Nigeria currently does not have a head of government. He also stated that if the declarations sought are not granted that the country will be heading for social and economic chaos and constitutional paralysis as there will be no functioning government.

The seeming altruistic posture of Mr. Amobi Nzelu ended at this point and the real intention which he sought to achieve became apparent as the Abuja lawyer ignored the counter-affidavits filed on behalf of the Attorney General by Mr. Abdullahi Yola, the Solicitor-General of the Federation.

In the counter affidavit, Aondoakaa stated that the President is not in any manner incapable of discharging the functions of his office and that the absence of the President has not affected the smooth running of the polity. He also stated that the Federal Executive Council has reviewed the health condition of the President and declared him capable of discharging the duties of his office and that there has not been any failure on the part of the President in the performance of the functions of his office to warrant the transmission of any declaration to the National Assembly.

The Attorney General also stated in the counter affidavit that there is no statutory requirement that the President must transmit a written declaration to the National Assembly whenever he is traveling out of the country.

A lawyer of Amobi’s standing certainly recognizes the need to controvert an assertion in an affidavit through the filing of a better and further affidavit but he tactically neglected to do this.  By leaving the assertions of the Attorney General to go unchallenged, he created an easy loophole for the court to make a decision that was favourable to the Attorney General.

As if on cue, the Justice Abutu held that statements not controverted are deemed to be true and declared that the Vice President had been lawfully discharging the functions of the President’s office on the strength of the delegation of the President of his duties to the Vice President.

Today’s hurried legal manoeuvres come one day after thousands of Abuja demonstrated in Abuja calling upon Yar’Adua to resign, and one day before Aondoakaa is due to return to the same court following adjournments in the three motions mentioned above.  Analysts say it is evidence in itself that there is growing panic in the options left to Yar’Adua’s kitchen cabinet, and a measure of their desperation.

http://www.saharareporters.com/

Don't you know he has so many things to tidy up before Jonathan takes over?

Bur an assault rifle, then keep a vigil for any bleeding roach.

Please Oga Jona no more of 7 points Agenda, just only one Agendum -[size=24pt] Power[/size]. As for the rest, we will do our best. 10,000mw during your term would be a milestone achievement.

Your assertion ain't good enough withouta proof

.

stand up for your rights

honour the rule of law rhetorics

@poster and choco

IGNORANCE. That is what is worrying you. Do you think life is rossy abroad? If there is a group of nigerians that have the love of the country at heart most, they are those living abroad. I should have loved to be in Nigeria now enjoying the good weather and the friendly family enviroment , but the only way I can provide adequatelfor my familiy members both close and extended, here and in Nigeria is to work 18 hours out of 24 everyday of the week. I bet you have never left the shores of Nigeria. That is why you are ranting without reasons.

These pictures are taken recently in East London

t

Good idea as long as there are no tribalist incursions

This story has no iota of truth. I live in the UK and work in a public establishment as a civil servant. I can assure you that nothing has changed. The British public are so much civilised and understanding than to visit the crime of a foolish 23 year old on all law abiding Nigerians. This is a fictitious write up.