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Their is a saying about cars..

Two types of cars in the world .. Mercedes Benz and the others

Thief na Thief .. But no where in the world you probe campaign funds!! APC should forget they will be out of power too ... and then it will be them turn

they got no experience web guys... a simple DDOS will take down the website or maybe it is being hosted by one of this admin whom has being threatened or bought off... simple way to have ur unouchable is get a dedicated server with the Chinese or Russian underground with flux network , get a reverse DNS to your server and go through cloud-flare easy..

Trendishine:
my broda , its obvious that they are some very myopic n practically sick pro-PDP e-rat individuals on this forum including the o.p that wld want to translate every stewpid scenerio 2 sooth their PDP leprous ego jst 2 make relevance of some of the most irritating behaviours of their shameless politicians n conotates every single happenings to a support of their percieved head bruiser the apc doin everything to disdain facts , truths or even common dailouges, jst fighting blind on tins that are'nt there, wen they have been crushed already n its even gettin more annoying abt them when u keep hearing revelations of gruesome looting n destruction of a country's common wealth by their glutton,clueless party n politicians who have been in government for 16years with d only sole aim of perching on the country's coffers like leeches sucking wateva they can lay their fangs on. u cannot expect anytin better 4rm them. the have so forgotten that the election has been far won. n their crooked high jacked party closed down... forever.. they act n respond so scorned, n yet they shldnt even be talkin on social media as they have trivialised everytin into crooked politics..they are still pained abt past elections n wld wanna keep trivialiasing for the most stewpid reasons.. i smh for dem

Brother it shouldn't be about PDP OR APC... it should be about Nigeria .. onovo nailed it and thats how it should be the country needs to move forward with direct physical plans as businesses are really suffering at this moment...

channels haven't uploaded the video yet ... lol... na wa oo

Nice Post OP

I haven't posted anything on NL for long because Alot of youth turned themselves into what i cant explain ... with no research ... just google it!!!...

First The economy is in shambo , the budget is a fraud you cant survive with such budget , When people keep blaming past government i laugh because you cant fight corruption when you still have same laws that harbors corruption and getting bail doesn't mean you have returned the money.

No country at this era can survive the way oil is going down without looking into other areas like Agriculture , Research , tourism and other minerals. Russia and saudi had a budget bench mark projection of 30-50 but since the price keeps going down and iran coming into the physical scenario most have gone back to get their bench mark for 18-27 as projections.

Nigeria can survive it if they take some steps like Agriculture , Powering Small business through SME but should be done at interest rates of 4-10% because if a small business gets loan and pays 24% how do you make profit and how would you employ people , government can restructure the SME which is currently Zero since this administration took over , at least i know 2-3 Ywin from past administration , as small business boast any economy more than Big companies which would also curb out unemployment ... because it more-less like we have no middle class anymore.

I advice the president to look at Modi The PM of India what he did to curb stolen money , In india they have what they call black money , Indians are more corrupt than Nigerians especially evading taxes and stealing government money , he traveled to swiss and held a meeting with Indians and swizz government , they give this corrupt politicians time frame to bring back the money , by imposing 30-35% capital tax for the government and this money Most be used for capital Projects , Back in 2009-2011 delhi had no much infrastructures , but now alot of sky scrapers and good roads and people are still returning it while is trying to get capital punishment for politicians who steal government money . You cant win corruption with same law and structure which this people still use..

True federalism will still remain the answer to major Nigeria problems.

We need more money to pumped into Education , Research , industrialization this is what grows any country to meet up the world top nations

I still believe in Nigeria , But we as youth need to come with one voice and get this old men ruling us since 1960 out of the chair

wrongsec

Seriously Alot of Nigerians are blind to what is happening in Nigeria , Why do i say so is.. they north is the architect of BH and they have planned it properly .. Northern leaders are lazy and really dont want their people to grow in anyway that's why they keep doing what know how to do best hold everybody to standstill but one day their people will be liberated and it will backfire back at them

The truth is having IT Cert doesn't guarantee you capable to the Task... I went to do CISSP .. in the process i found out its all stories ... I passed but still doesn't satisfy my needs as someone whom is being in the business for long... I still believe the best hackers are always underground.. they once writing codes , Discovering new Exploits.. Hacking stuff and selling them online... Yea there alot of good hackers with this certification no doubt but majority use dumps to pass.. when u give them offensive security Certs ..OCSP they fail.. becos its real time... Anyway best of luck to them I am watching

We watch them from the underground!!!

stupid banks... while people with great Ideas to turn around middle class lack loans from this banks... they give big names loan and end up like this ... Nigeria Banks needs to be overhauled totally .. because they ideology they use in doing business is so weak.. how can a country grow when middle class , average people and market women dont get loan to do there respective business.. ... it serves them right..

Text of speech delivered by Professor Sagay (SAN), former Head of Law Department of University of Benin, at the fourth sensitisation programme organised by the Ibori Vanguard at the Lagoon Restaurant, Lagos.

IN the beginning, there was no Nigeria. There were Ijaws, Igbos, Urhobos, Itsekiris, Yorubas, Hausas, Fulanis, Nupes, Kanuris, Ogonis, Gwaris, Katafs, Jukars, Edos, Ibibios, Efiks, Idomas, Tivs, Junkuns, Biroms, Agnas, Ogojas and so on. There were Kingdoms like, Oyo, Lagos, Calabar, Brass, Itsekiri, Benin, Tiv, Borno, Sokoto Caliphate (with loose control over Kano, Ilorin, Zaria etc) Bonny, Opobo, etc. Prior to the British conquest of the different nations making up the present day Nigeria, these Nations were independent nation states - and communities independent of each other and of Britain.

Prelude to the Creation of Nigeria

The bulk of what is now Nigeria became British Territory between 1885 and 1914, although some autonomous communities were not conquered and incorporated in the protectorate until the early twenties. Between the 15th and 19th Centuries, European relationship with West African States were trade/commercial, with little or no political undertones. The Europeans depended on the coastal rulers not only for securing trade, but also for the safety of their lives and property. Thus European traders went out of their way to ensure they were in the good books of Native rulers.

It should be noted that the main commodity during this period were human beings. This was the era of slave trade. It was in a bid to protect the lives, properties and trade of British traders that the British Prime Minister, Palmerston appointed John Beecroft as British Consul in Nigeria in 1849. This was the beginning of piecemeal British colonisation of the independent nations of what later became Nigeria.

This was followed by:

* Gunboat diplomacy for the enforcement of one-sided agreements for the protection of interests of British traders and

* The signing of the notorious 'protection treaties' which led directly to colonialism

A typical 'protection treaty' would contain the following clauses:

* "The British majesty hereby undertakes to extend to them (Protected Peoples) and to territory under their authority and jurisdiction her gracious favour and protection."

* 'Protected' people were prohibited from entering into any correspondence, agreement or treaty with any foreign power or nation except with the knowledge and sanction of Britain.

* Britain had exclusive jurisdiction, civil and criminal over British and British protected subjects in the protected territory and authority was exercised by the British Consul.

* Any disputes between the 'native' chiefs themselves or between them and British or foreign traders had to be submitted to the British Consul.

* Native chiefs were bound to act on the advice of the British officers in matters relating to the administration of justice, the development of the resources of the country, the interests of commerce or in any matter in relation to peace, order and good government and the general progress of civilisation.

* Meanwhile, the European colonists organised the Berlin Conference, 1885. A conference in which Africa was carved into spheres of influence amongst the powers. The aim was primarily to eliminate friction amongst them in their commercial and colonising activities in Africa. The Nations in the territory now called Nigeria were parceled off to Britain at the Conference. Based on the protection treaties and the Berlin Conference, the British in 1885 proclaimed the establishment of a protectorate of the Oil Rivers, which later became the Niger Delta Protectorate.

As various quarrels and disputes arose between British traders or British officials on the one hand, and the Rulers of the States of the Niger Delta on the other hand, the latter territories were invaded, conquered and colonised, individually.

* Jaja's kidnapping -1886

* 1894 - Nana War - The fall of the Itsekiri (Benin River and Warri) Kingdom

* 1894-1914 - Push and control of Urhobo and Isoko country; Efunrun (1896), Orokpo (1901), Etua 1904; Ezeonum (1905), Iyede (1908); Owe, Oleh, Ozoro (1910)

* Igbo and Ibibio lands were taken over without war between 1890 and 1905 and only Okrika (1895) Aboh (1896), Aro 1901-2, Ezza (1905), gave the British any resistance.

* Lagos fell in 1861; Ijebu, 1892; Egba, 1914;

Much of the North was under the Sokoto Caliphate in the 19th Century, with the exception of Borno and Middle Belt.

* The Royal Niger Company operated in the North until 1899 when their charter was abrogated and a protectorate of Northern Nigerian was proclaimed in 1900 to forestall German and French occupation of those territories.

* The British now engaged in the progressive conquest of the Northern states.

* Lord Frederick Lugard was made High Commissioner of Northern Nigeria in 1899 and British conquest followed thereafter, in the following order;

* Bida -1901, Adamawa - 1901, Bauchi and Gombe - 1902, Zaria - 1902, Kano - 1902, Sokoto - 1903.

* The fall of Sokoto meant the effective end of the independence of the states of the present North-Western Nigeria.

* 1903 -1906 was a period of British consolidation in the present North. In fact the protectorate of Northern Nigeria had been proclaimed before the Northern states were conquered. The Protectorate of Southern Nigeria was proclaimed in 1900.

* In 1906 the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria was amalgamated with the Colony of Lagos. And in 1914 - the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, was merged with the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria.

The Pre-Independence Constitutions

Governor as the sole Executive and Legislature

During the period 1900 to 1906, the Governor of the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, exercised full executive powers and was also the legislature. This applied to the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria from 1900 to 1914. The Governor in each case made laws by proclamation. Such proclamation was, however, subject to approval by the British Government. In 1900 the Southern Protectorate and the Colony of Lagos were amalgamated under the title "The Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria." In the same year, a Legislative Council was created for the protectorate. At this sage, the Legislative Councils were, however, constituted by officials of government.

In 1914, the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, and the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria, were amalgamated, and ruled by one Governor-General, Lord Lugard. The Legislative Council of the Colony was restricted to making laws for the Colony alone, whilst the Governor-General made laws for the whole country.

The 1922 Constitution - The Clifford Constitution

In 1922 a new Constitution revoking the 1914 Constitution was promulgated under Governor Clifford. Under this Constitution, a Nigerian Legislative Council was constituted, but its jurisdiction was limited to the Southern Provinces, i.e. the Colony of Lagos and the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. The Governor continued to be the legislative authority for the Northern half of the country. Also an executive council was established for the whole country.

The 1946 (Richard) Constitution

In 1946, Governor Arthur Richards promulgated a new Constitution which came into effect on 1st January, 1946. Prior to this Nigeria had been divided into three Regions in 1939, the Northern, Western and Eastern Regions. The following features of the 1946 Constitution are worth noting:

The new Council was composed of the Governor as President, 16 officials and 28 unofficials (the latter including the four elected persons). This meant that for the first time the non-officials were more in member than the officials.

The majority of the non-officials were elected or nominated by the Regional Legislatures which the 1946 Constitution also brought into being. This meant that the unofficial majority were not subject to the Governor's control.

The Regional Houses were not competent to legislate, even for their own Regions. They could only consider bills affecting their regions, and make recommendations or pass resolutions for the central legislature in Lagos to consider. It was the latter only that could pass legalisation.


The 1951 (MacPherson) Constitution

The 1951 Constitution was the one that really introduced fundamental changes into the Imperial/Native relationship and the relationship between the Native Nigerian groups themselves. The following points need to be noted:

The 1951 Constitution came into being after an unprecedented process of consultation with the peoples of Nigeria as a whole. In accordance with the directives of the Legislative Council, meetings and consultations were held at (a) village (b) district (c) divisional (d) and provincial levels before the (e) regional and finally (f) the national conference.

The reports of each region from village to the regional level were then submitted to the Legislative Council. These reports and recommendations were published in October 1949 and reviewed by a drafting committee of the Legislative Council.

On 9 January, 1950, a General Conference of representatives from all parts of Nigeria started meeting in Ibadan to map out the future system of Government in Nigeria with the recommendation of the Regional Conference as the working documents.

The General Conference was composed of 25 unofficial members drawn from the earlier regional conferences as representatives of the three regions, 25 unofficial members from the Northern Legislative Council, 3 official members and the non-voting Chairman who was the Attorney-General of Nigeria. The Conference rose on 29 January, 1950 with recommendations which were accepted and implemented by the Governor of Nigeria.

The new Constitution represented a major advance on the existing state of legislative competence of Nigerians by (i) introducing elected majorities in the Central Legislature and (ii) in the Regional Houses of Assembly (iii) endowing the Legislative Houses with independent legislative power in many areas of state activity (iv) and establishing a Federal System for Nigeria for the first time.

The elected majorities in each Regional House were as follows: North - elected 90, non elected -14, West - elected 80, non-elected - 7, East - elected 80, non-elected 8.

The modes of election were a combination between direct and indirect elections. The Central Legislature had 136 elected members and 13 nominated members. Of these, 68 were from the North and 34 each were from the East and West. The representatives of the Regions in the Central Legislature were elected by the Regional Legislatures from amongst themselves.

This marked the first formal introduction of Federalism into Nigeria. Thus the Conference noted that: "We have no doubt at all that the process already given constitutional sanction, and fully justified by experience, of devolution of authority from the Centre to the Regions should be carried much further so that a Federal System of Government can be developed." And that:


"The Central Legislature and Executive must retain both residual and overall powers, but since the Central Legislature and Executive will themselves be made up of representatives of the Regional Legislatures and since the policy of greater regional autonomy is so widely accepted, we do not fear that there will be any desire at the Centre unnecessarily to interfere with purely regional legislation or administration".

In his book, "History and the Law of the Constitution of Nigeria", Dr. Udo Udoma noted that for the first time in the history of the foundation of British-Nigerian relationship and the establishment of Nigeria's regions by the Richard's Constitution of 1946, Regional Legislatures were granted powers to legislate over a variety of subjects within the Region. These included: Local government; town and country planning; agriculture and fisheries; education; public works for the region; public health in the region; forestry; veterinary services; land; welfare; local industries; native courts; (subject to central legislation regarding appeals to courts outside the regions); direct taxation (other than income tax and companies tax).

The General Conference was of the view that over-centralisation would be a grave error "in this vast country with its widely differing conditions and needs", and that the policy which had received enthusiastic support throughout the country was the policy of achieving unity at the Centre through strength in the Regions. It was confidently expected that when the Regions felt that they had wide powers to run their own regional affairs, they would be more likely ready to co-operate with the other Regions through their representatives in the Council of Ministers and the House of Representatives in serving the interest of Nigeria as a whole".

More http://www.waado.org/nigerdelta/essays/resourcecontrol/sagay.html

Why cant people be honest in Nigeria ?? hilarious!!! i find hard to believe people will put achievement of PMB even on Boko Boys common men- thats why we aint moving forward .. Lies upon lies from News Papers to Online medias but noting last forever.

I need the guys contact pls

Please can you give me your email

Bad Moves from the government!!!!

Why insulting each others?? well for me i feel to be real with this issue let PMB publish the handover notes as requested or arrest GEJ for leaving empty treasury it is simple .. we seem to want change and if change is what we want there should be some level of transparency to guide us and make things move forward.. Publish the Hand over notes or Prosecute GEJ

Its fake, If you want i can do a due diligence on that account and also can reveal where the person is contacting you from... a guy messaged me too like that i warned him and asked him to check my profile and see ... i did tell him i will hack him and give his own Hard disk details to the Police.. he didnt come back again

People are just delusional.. why didnt you include USA or INDIA and lets see whats the difference

America will always be America... they will never let PacMan win... its obvious and most hyped ..for May the dude just keeps running around ..

Anyway they are both rich after the rounds

kastonkastrol:
mr man you should stop bothering yourself about people deserting aso rock, but you should start thinking about the years you will spend in prison. if i dont see jonathan, diezani, abba moro, ffk in jail by september this year, then buhari will no longer earn my respect.

#gejmustgotojail

Na you wan send am go Jail... How many Nigeria pass leaders have u seen in Jail since democracy... till simply not happen becos alot of vested interest at the top.. same people different party

That was why Bokoharam was formed... Now lets see how it goes.. good development

The truth still remains the USA not happy with GEJ Government that's why they connived and bullied him out!! the greatness mistake GMB would do is get the USA military to involve in our Military as the plan to hold Nigeria as a key Nato ground in Western region is intensifying due to world politics. Rather GMB should Develop our internal strength of production to Build our Weapons from Fighter Jets to Military equipment and Drones , India has done it , We can do better because we have the manpower , the Money and Intelligence. Bringing the USA to our military affairs will further more Mess Nigeria military. We should learn from countries like india which builds its own Fighter Jets , its not rocket science the truth is some political groups and venture capitalist in the US wants to Get the contract to equip Nigeria Military as it didn't succeed with the present administration as they always rip us off.

I pray he God bless him with the Wisdom to do better and move Nigeria to greater heights!! as much as i didn't vote for him i still love my green passport

aba will be a state ...i am from umuahia but i think aba deserves more ...aba , nigwa , some part of ph needs to be a state

kastonkastrol:
hear this clueless mofo/drunkard of a president talking about visions Gej, you better start planning how you will spend your next four years in jail.

Nigeria
Sai buhari

Click like for buhari, share for osinbajo and dislike for jonathan

u know i know that if you are given 50 people to manage you cant... say your point without insulting the president of Nigeria... Thank you

The problem is Lagos state governor failed to tell people that he gets Monthly Allowance for security of the state very open .. Him blaming GEJ is just so daft.. he should be asked how much is his security Votes for each month? Dont mind this politicians... GEJ is the President of Nigeria .. We normally compare ourselves to USA , if Obama is going out in the US in any state , i dont need to tell u how many police are outside for him , from snipers to Field OP's to FBI , to CIA to State Security Service..to state troopers. He should stop playing Politics and take responsibility of Lagos in his hands .. Person Shit na GEJ , Person Pee for 3rd Mainland Bridge na GEJ... He should hide his head in Shame... Be informed .. GEJ bad or Good he is still the president of Nigeria

Nigeria Politicians are they worse humans....Have they heard that Bush Junior or any of the worst American government or Obama taken to ICC for what him and his France cohorts do to Libya its totally insulting seeing only Africans going to ICC because of Greedy politicians..

itetemi:
biggest economy indeed with how many of your population living in abject poverty.


abeg it shows the level of shame they ave brought on the nation.

Moroco aint better than Nigeria... there people do ashewo work pass self... them plenty here

Yes Jesus is Black ... and the Israelite the bible refers to is Africa as a whole .. Look at history and whats going on Africa you will understand

I still stand on my grounds... You think 20Billion is 20Million... this is not about GEJ or GMB... Money of such cant be missing in any society in the world and noting happens... read about the rescission and what caused it with Bernard Madoff and understand what happen... so pls lets not be miss informed .. this figures re just for attention..seekers

Nigeria situation is still based at the foundation , GMB cant fix the foundation because of the mentality that is coming out of the northern part of Nigeria but GEJ has the chance to fix Nigeria Foundation..with the concluded National Conf.. Corruption is not even our problem... the US is more corrupt than Nigeria but its called Lobby!! they dont say in the News but they are more corrupt than any country in the world... the Foundation has issues which needs to be revisited... once that is fixed Nigeria will key it place .. Same foundation made Ojukwu declared biafara .. we still here because the foundation is still messed up .. once the foundation is fixed the center wont be attractive as it is now..

we should try and much as possible to do alot of research before making comments!!

egift:
Most of those money are missing for real. Like the one from NNPC as exposed by Sanusi, after hiding some of the money on different things, the Federal Government still cannot find an excuse for $10.8 billion - It is part of what we are hoping to see in the recent Forensic Audit.

Fact is if the wealth of Nigeria is utilized in empowering and developing Nigeria, you did be surprise where we would have been by now.

if all this money are missing there wont be a country called Nigeria... Russia which is a super power needs 35Billion dollars for its current bail out because of the fail of oil prices and US sanctions ...somethings are said on news paper ... but in real life is not real...

egift:
$49 billion, $20 billion, $10.8 billon (from NNPC), N1.7 trillion (Illegal Subsidy payments), N21 billion (illegal donation), N10 billion (Allison's illegal flights), $49 billion per yr (AU figure of Nigeria's loot under Jonathan), and many other figures are now trademarks of Jonathan looting spree.