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publicenemy:
Stop fooling yourself and buy that kid a computer game... Computer games develop a kids brain faster than you can imagine.

Bros, but why you deh para like diz nah? You n d op deh quarel or you sabi am before? Shuoo! ejoor ma broda. Public Enemy indeed.

Negro1986:
@Jesona,,, I pm u already,, I'm interested in that ur biz if u don't mind,,, holla me

Hey bro! Ok, i have responded to your pm. Contact me via my email.

Negro1986:
@Jesona,,, I pm u already,, I'm interested in that ur biz if u don't mind,,, holla me

Hey bro. Ok, i have responded to your pm. Contact me via my email.

@Sureestsam. I appreciate your gesture. Points are well noted.

Alright bro.

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Venzal, you are the real deal.Thanks for your inputs on here. keep it up bro.
Gracias

Package is confirmed.

SirAweezy:
A woman will always be a woman... and he a man should always remember he is a man... the fact that my mum, my wife or my younger sis threw tantrums at me is not suppose to make me lose my cool. My silence will always remain Golden and with that I am still in control. All say about him being barred from SW (I don't know abt it thou). Is just a mare threat... no one can take laws into his/her hands tinubu or no tinubu.

I admier your approach in such kind of situation.

SirAweezy:
As far as I am concerned, Dino is a friend though... but I think this bahaviour of his is just plain stupid... so because you are in lagos you expect lagos people to mob you? Arrant nonsense!

Perhaps it is.

brownlord1:
Shut up and stop making noise, he was formally banned from the whole of Sw and now he is in Lagos daring tinubu and you're here still making noise. Must he visit oduduwa shrine before you take action?

Abeg, u deh mind that guy? Hunger is truly bad nau, it can cause many defects in ones brain. The guy is on a faceless forum ranting! All na noise.

hope4nigeria:
shut up dia! What they ask u is! Can you lie down under that armor Tank for Buhari? Answer Now.

You deh mind that guy? l

HRich:
If you can't control yourself before women then you are not worthy to be a Man.

Bros, just take a moment and analyse the matter.

EvilSeeed:
Next time you say something like this, ask the PDP Chieftains about Jagaban.

Ehn no dey use gragra do ehn own, he will fhuck Dino up constitutionally.

Mark My Words.

Ogbeni, I wanted to ignore your post on here, but; Wake up bro

Dino Melaye actually should not have used those words, as been stated if it is true o! Rather, I had expected that he responded to her in a more matured way than that.

Bull crap from a certified zombie

Hmmmm, nice

God bless all ye of good will

WELL DONE PEOPLE

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Vendoor:
Please add paragraphs to your writeup.
Regards

ok, thanks

By Obi Nwakanma
Let us think of the Deputy President of the
Nigerian Senate as, like a co-pilot. His hands
are on the same lever with the president of
the senate, navigating the nation through the
storms of nation-build. That is right: nation-
building does not happen at the executive
office, it happens in the chambers of the
nation’s legislative houses.

This is a fairly clear axiom of democracy:
without the parliament, there is no republic.
It is the parliament that legitimizes a free
democratic state. It is the very source of all
powers of governance. The parliament of the
land is the most powerful institution of
state, not the office of president, as most
Nigerians, still steeped in military-era
mentality tend to think. The President is a
servant of the elected, and constituted
National Assembly.

While the National Assembly is both the
voice, the ears, and the eyes of the public in
the system of democratic rule. They do not
answer to any other person – neither to the
courts nor to the president – but to the
people. That is why, whenever there is a
coup, the first institution that is abolished is
the parliament of the land. For as long as
the parliament is in session, the nation
exists. But wherever a parliament is
abolished, the nation goes into a hiatus. In
that instance, the president answers to no
one. That is the meaning of absolutism.

The only power parliament accounts to is the
people. I need to emphasize this again.
Which is why I was both startled and
personally horrified this past week on
reading the silly letter to the US Congress,
the EU, the UK, and the UN, by the Deputy
president of senate, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu,
complaining that Nigeria’s democracy is
threatened. I am horrified that the Nigerian
press that consented to dignify such a
middling letter by publishing it, did not go,
as part of its obligation to the public, to ask
Mr. Ekweremadu what he expected the UN,
the US Congress, the UK, and the EU to do
with his letter of complaint. I do not
especially recall that the Speaker of the UK
Parliament wrote to Nigeria, or the AU, or
the US Congress, or the UN when the “Yes”
vote carried on the Brexit referendum, or
whenever the Labour Opposition fought with
the ruling Conservative party in the
Commons. Nor have I even heard, or seen
any self-respecting African nation misusing
its sovereign mandate so much as Nigerians
in making such silly appeals to the
“international community.” Yes, Africans now
call Nigeria: “the big fool.” It is such a
remarkable transition, from the “giant of
Africa” to the “big fool of Africa” because
Nigerian public officials are colonized,
sanitized, hypnotized, and perhaps in fact,
lobotomized so much that they misconstrue
their place on the world stage.

Nigeria is currently an inferior nation
because she is run by inferior men and
women. Many of us feel utterly ashamed by
the quality of individuals that we have
managed to hand over the sovereign
mandate, and it is my view that the full
measure of Ike Ekweremadu as a legislator
and politician can be taken in the weight and
significance of his letter. The US Congress or
the UK government or the UN does not have
voting rights in Nigeria. Ike Ekweremadu did
not write to his constituents whom he
represents in Enugu, nor to the Nigerian
people, whose views and actions, and
interests, matter in this question. He did not
write a straight and unambiguous letter to
the president to back off. He did not write
to his legislative colleagues to drive home
the necessity of protecting the republic from
the intrusion of a rampaging elephant in a
China shop.

He wrote to some alien powers whose
opinions are really inconsequential to
whatever might become of this rapidly
evolving situation. And I’m sorry to say that
Ekweremadu’s letter only proves that he has
no business wearing the shoes of mighty
men. He has also proved the average
Nigerian politicians utter disrespect of the
Nigerian electorate from whom they derive
their mandates. He has also demonstrated
that he lacks a basic grasp of the nature of
his own mandate as a senator of the
republic. Perhaps I should outline this
basically by saying that the president’s
actions, for instance, in these anti-
corruption probes, usurps the power of the
legislature. President Buhari has no mandate
to probe corruption or misuse of public
funds.

The only institution mandated by the
constitution to probe any person or any
institution of government is the National
Assembly and the various Houses of
Assembly. Here is what the Nigerian
constitution says without ambiguity: “ 85.
(1)
There shall be an Auditor-General for the
Federation who shall be appointed in
accordance with the provisions of section 86
of this Constitution.

(2) The public accounts of the Federation and
of all offices and courts of the Federation
shall be audited and reported on to the
Auditor-General who shall submit his reports
to the National Assembly; and for that
purpose, the Auditor-General or any person
authorised by him in that behalf shall have
access to all the books, records, returns and
other documents relating to those accounts.

(3) Nothing in subsection (2) of this section
shall be construed as authorising the
Auditor-General to audit the accounts of or
appoint auditors for government statutory
corporations, commissions, authorities,
agencies, including all persons and bodies
established by an Act of the National
Assembly, but the Auditor-General shall -

(a) provide such bodies with -

(i) a list of auditors qualified to be appointed
by them as external auditors and from which
the bodies shall appoint their external
auditors, and

(ii) guidelines on the level of fees to be paid
to external auditors; and

(b) comment on their annual accounts and
auditor's reports thereon.

(4) The Auditor-General shall have power to
conduct checks of all government statutory
corporations, commissions, authorities,
agencies, including all persons and bodies
established by an Act of the National
Assembly.

(5) The Auditor-General shall, within ninety
days of receipt of the Accountant-General's
financial statement, submit his reports under
this section to each House of the National
Assembly and each House shall cause the
reports to be considered by a committee of
the House of the National Assembly
responsible for public accounts.

(6) In the exercise of his functions under this
Constitution, the Auditor-General shall not
be subject to the direction or control of any
other authority or person.”

The National Assembly can also summon
anybody before it, including the president of
the republic, as well as cause the removal of
anybody from office by impeachment,
including the president or his Attorney
General. The National Assembly can mandate
the Attorney General to try the president for
treason, if it finds the president to be a
threat to the republic. The National Assembly
can defund the office of the Attorney
General, the EFCC or any statutory office of
government, or cause it to go into abeyance.

The National Assembly can stop the functions
of the federal government by de-authorizing
any presidential expenditure. That is the
extent of the power of the legislature. With
regards to the current distraction of trial for
“forgery” of the president and deputy
president of senate, one is thoroughly
shocked that these gentlemen consented to
appear in court! No court of the land has
the authority to summon any legislator to
court on questions around procedures,
discussions, or actions carried out within the
chambers of the National Assembly. This is
the practice all over the world.

The allegation of “forgery” of senate rules is
a distraction because the rules of senate are
subject to change, and is what it is, when a
sitting senate votes to use, amend, or
discard it as the case may be, as its guiding
frame. It is not subject to the intrusion of
any court, much less the presumption of
crime by the Attorney General. This, Mr.
Ekweremadu and Dr.Saraki ought to know,
and should be properly advised, as an act
honoring their mandate, to desist from
appearing any further before any courts on
this matter, and take charge of their
legislative duties.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/president-no-constitutional-mandate-probe-corruption/

I vote Ivvy.
cc. NLjega