₦airaland Forum

I feel sorry for PDP at this hour!

Nigerians truly deserve the change they're yearning for!

I hope APC would give us the "much desired change"!

We're watching!

Up Lasgidi!

Eko oni baje o!

This your story be as e get o!

This must be fiction!

Tambuwal! So you mean to say your "anti-party" activities earned you the position of "Speaker"!!


WELL DONE!

jerflakes:
He's really not guilty?

Its a very good development!

The International Criminal Court has withdrawn charges of crimes against humanity against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Fatou Bensouda, ICC prosecutor, filed a three-paragraph notice withdrawing the charges against Kenyatta but added that she reserved the right to file charges again should she get more evidence.

“The evidence has not improved to such an extent that Mr Kenyatta’s alleged criminal responsibility can be proven beyond reasonable doubt,” Bensouda said on Friday in a document filed at the Hague-based court.

Fergal Gaynor, the lawyer representing the victims, told Al Jazeera the Kenyan government had done their utmost to obstruct the case.

“Frankly the victims have been trying to get justice in Kenya, and failed. They tried to get justice from the ICC, and they failed. It is a sad day for them,” he said.

Prosecutors have repeatedly complained that Kenya has blocked their case by not cooperating in their investigation. Judges at the court this week also said Kenya’s cooperation “falls short of the standard of good faith cooperation”.

In a written statement, Bensouda said the lack of cooperation had a “severe impact” on the case.

“It has deprived the victims of their right to know the full account of what transpired in 2007-2008,” she said.

“It has further undermined my ability to carry out a full investigation. And finally, it has prevented the Judges from carrying out their critical functions of assessing the evidence and determining the truth.”

Kenyatta faced crimes-against-humanity charges for allegations that he helped instigate violence that followed Kenya’s December 2007 presidential election, when more than 1,000 people were killed.
The decision comes after his lawyer on Wednesday called for the judges to drop the charges and acquit his client while Kenyatta himself said prosecutors had “nothing” on him.



http://www.punchng.com/news/icc-withdraws-charges-against-kenyatta-2/

Its sponge and soap from neck to toe! Then finally I use only soap to wash my hair (head) and face!

My format since childhood!

Nigeria my beloved country!

The possible breakup of Nigeria brings on the bone-shaking shivers doctors call rigors. Many writers have detailed how Nigeria is bursting at the seams with ethno-religious, political and economic problems waiting to explode. However, the apostles of one Nigeria have repeatedly denied or dismissed the notion and tried to nudge us out of that zone.

By definition, a failed state is one that has simply ceased to function. Going by this definition, Nigeria is a failed state. Nigeria is a divided nation. Nigeria is a collapsed state and her breakup is imminent. The signs are all over the place.

The historic rivalries between east and west, south and north, oil states and non-oil states, Christian and Muslim communities, democrats and autocrats, and soldiers and citizens that have bedeviled Nigeria since its founding are pulling us apart to the extreme. We’re closer to the breaking point.

The elements of traditional prejudice of the three major tribes – Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba – continue to ignite enmity, distrust, and hatred. The three tribes have remained incontestably hostile – forever. Today, there is more animosity than there is collegiality. The three tribes are full of expression of self-hate, suspicion, and intolerant of each other.

Our history proves that ethnic unity is more of a dusty artifact of ancient political arrangement than the outcome of genuine political incorporation or enhanced cohesion among the different ethnic groups. The fragile state of affairs has been held together by tsunami of lies and misrepresentations in whose wake the country is reeling perpetually.

Successive governments were dominated by evil and murderous perpetrators of crimes. Ethnic fragmentation and persistent hotbeds of political criminality were encouraged and sponsored by the rulers. As a result, we were submerged in ethnic hatred, and rabid nationalism that swept throughout the nation like a disease. The absence of a true democracy to ensure devolution of the federal power is a powerful incentive against unity and cooperation.

Nigeria is convulsed by internal violence. It can no longer deliver positive political goods to her citizens. The government is fast loosing legitimacy. The government has become illegitimate in the eyes and hearts of a growing plurality of 170 million Nigerians.

Nigeria sinks deeper and deeper into chaos and calamity. The north-south divide remains the greatest obstacle to a strengthened democracy and a workable union. We’re battling economic confusion, continued corruption, and mismanagement.

The scale of corruption dwarfs any brazen robbery of public treasury in recent memory. Our world has been turned into a medieval hellscape. Corruption flourishes on unusually destructive scale. Our corrupt ruling elites mostly invest their loots overseas, not at home, making the economic failure of the country much more acute.

Our rulers siphon funds from the state coffers. They dip directly into the coffers of the shrinking state to pay for lavish residences and palaces, extensive overseas travel, and privileges and perquisites that feed their greed.  Nigeria has failed to grow economically and its citizens have failed to flourish. For many years, Nigerians have been trapped in irreversible debilitating cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

The paralysis of our democratic structures have illuminated further the mockery and the failure of our democracy. The twice forgotten man in Nigeria has always been the poor. The government response to the abject poverty that has defined the lives of the poor is zero. Our political leaders are not chosen on the merit of mass support. Most are selected by god fathers, elevated to position, supplied with resources and as expected subjected to the king maker’s control.

The Presidency and the National Assembly are inarticulate giants with uneasy gait, subjected to abuse and confuse in their responses to national issues. Checks and balances that are part of a healthy democracy have been deleted in our system. It’s no surprise that our representative democracy is nothing but a disguise in name. It is no exaggeration to say that there are no legislatures in Nigeria. If they exist at all, they are rubber-stamp machines. Our judiciary is a derivative of the executive rather than being independent. Nigerians know that they cannot rely on the court system for redress or remedy.

The mass poor of our people nurtures a healthy suspicion toward these manufactured leaders. It’s an open secret that money is the chief argument these leaders are offering to induce and buy loyalty. These manufactured leaders lack personal integrity, commitment, and ability. Tragically, they’re not fighters for a new life for our people but figureheads of the old.

They are not impressive or illustrious to their constituents. We’re all too familiar with their impotence and remoteness from the problems that have made life unlivable for the people they profess to represent. Many in their constituencies are among the legions of the lost and have been crushed by the weight of many years of poverty. These leaders do not evoke affection, respect, and emulation.

Our democracy have slid towards autocracy, maintaining the outward appearance of democracy through elections, but without the rights and institutions that are equally important aspects of a functioning democratic system. Our constitution is not robust enough to promote long-term stability, reduce discontent from minorities against the government, and bolster the fight against corruption.

Our democratic system is based on economic coercion. People are forced to do what they don’t want to do. The effect of this is lack of innovation[BO1]  and technological progress.  Our bureaucracy has long ago lost its sense of professional responsibility and exists solely to carry out the order of the executive, and in many ways oppress Nigerians.

We have deteriorated or destroyed infrastructures. Our education and health systems and other public facilities are decrepit or neglected. Civil servants are paid late or not at all. Economic opportunity is only for a privileged few. Those around the president or around the governors grow richer while the rest of us starve.

Our economic insecurity is engineered by our rulers in order to maximize their own fortunes and their own political and economic power. Unemployment is dangerously high and persistent. Regional inequalities remain the rule. Economic decline is accompanied by a diminished confidence in the federal system. Our currency falls out of favor.

It is common knowledge that nations don’t breakup overnight. The seeds of their destruction are sown deep within their political institutions. Some nations fall as a result of total collapse of institutions. Examples abound: In Afghanistan, after the Soviet withdrawal and hanging of President Mohammed Najibullah from a lamppost. In Sierra Leone, the long Civil War erased all traces of existence of government. This form of slow death of institutional failure is responsible for the sub-living standards in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America in contrast to what obtains in the western world.

Nigeria is not going to fall or explode as a result of war and violence, but the refusal or failure to capitalize on the enormous potential for growth and for pursuing a policy that condemned their citizens to a lifetime of poverty.

In the case of Nigeria and like any other failed state, the failure is by design. The institutions are designed to fail by the elites who are the beneficiaries of such design. As we have seen in Nigeria, such elites benefit from rigged political institutions. The system is built on exploitation. And any system propped on exploitation is doomed to fail leading to immeasurable suffering of its citizens.

Nigeria is operating on a tilted plain field. The big men get greedy. The elites control the economy. They use their powers to create monopolies and block the entry of new comers. A good example is Dangote cement and salt. The privatized industries end up in the hands of the elites. The privatized power sector is a case in point. These elites with their fraudulent companies received protection from the state, got government contracts, and large bank loans without needing to put up collateral.

The greedy big men and their businesses could be described as “whales.” Their stranglehold on our economy had created huge windfalls for them and blocked opportunities for the vast mass of Nigerians to move out of poverty.

A successful economy must have effective government. Law and order and the mechanisms for resolving disputes are possible and applicable in a truly democratic system with apparatus of enforcing the laws. Nigeria is yet to create or operate on a set of nationally respected laws or rules.

The absence of the central government is felt throughout the 36 states. The federal government is unable or unwilling to exert control over the whole country. With Boko Haram on the offensive, territories have been federated and annexed. The absence leads not only to lack of public services such as roads, healthcare, electricity, jobs, safety, but also to lack of well-defined institutionalized structures.

Without a responsible and responsive central government, there can be no law and order. Without law and order, there can be no real economy. And without a real economy, a country is doomed to fail. Competition in the coming 2015 presidential election could break the already tattered ties that keep Nigeria whole.

With stagnant economy, Nigerian quagmire, Boko Haram terrorism, ethnic fragmentation, local nationalism, lack of economic incentives, incendiary nationalism, bleak future, and leadership vacuum, the breakup of Nigeria is assured.

The writer is Bayo Oluwasanmi. Email: byolu@aol.com

These demons are vicious and heartless criminals!

They are just using "islam" to cover their heinous acts!

Very true!

They are "retrogressive" elements!

She no try at all!

Vicious and heartless criminals using "islam" as "cover"!!

DieeDiee:
That's exactly what submissive is. The act of submission is to have someone lord over you. It is a power relationship where the lord has all the power and the submissive has none. The fact that those guys also expected me to work harder on the r/ship than my bf and to make sure I don't upset him reinforces the slave-master relationship.

I just don't understand how you guys justify this kind of r/ship in your mind. What makes you think it's right/fair/just?

It is a very big "error" for any man to think he has "the right to lord" over any woman in a relationship! "Ignorance and wrong upbringing" is a major cause of this societal "anomaly"! A relationship is naturally suppose to be "mutual"! Both parties contribute "equally" to make it work! At least, there should be a "healthy balance"!

Christ Jesus is a Part of The Almighty Creator!

HE is The Love of The Almighty Creator!

HE is The Inborn Son of The Almighty Creator!

HE is Part of The Trinity of THE GODHEAD!

Our Lord Christ Jesus was sent to this World by THE ALMIGHTY FATHER HIMSELF 2000 years ago to come and "liberate" the World from "darkness"!

Please, do not quote me! Kindly make you individual contributions to the topic! Thank you!

Amen! Its just a painful irony!

Abomination!

I personally feel "Submissiveness" is NOT like being a "slave" to a man! That should NEVER be!

To me, the most important thing is "mutual respect" as accorded to each gender naturally!

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kelechiMarie:
what if the girl com beat you :p

Hahahaha! Chai! Impossicant!

About 335 officials of ‎the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences  Commission , were yesterday, presented with certificates for weapon handling and intelligence gathering.

Speaking at the ‎presentation of certificates for weapons handling by the commandant of the 177 Guard Battalion at the ICPC headquarters, the Chairman of the Commission, Ekpo Nta said with the training, the officers and men of the Commission were better equipped  to tackle crimes as law enforcement agents.

The chairman further explained that when he assumed office as the chairman of the Commission, members of  staff were operating without proper field expertise as it would always require the services of other security agencies to handle cases.

He however, pledged  ‎that further training would  be intense as the Commission had made arrangement for 250 computers for the e-leaarning centre and arrangements were  also in place for the implementation of physical exercise as compulsory for the staff of the commission.

While commenting on the importance of the training, the secretary of the ICPC, Elvis Oglafa noted as an agency that required intelligence gathering, the training would  aid the Commission in handling some of their cases where its staff were  sometimes, faced with attacks and hostility associated with the nature of the job.

He also noted that the training would improve the aspect of discipline in the commission as the staff had now be trained to behave and respect seniority  as it is obtained in security agencies.

While congratulating the members of  staff for successful completion of the three months training that held between November, 2013 through February, 2014; representative of the commandant of the 177 Guards Battalion,  Ben Ikpolo said the training re-enforced  the need for improved security in the face of the current security challenges.



http://247nigerianewsupdate.co/335-icpc-officials-trained-to-handle-weapons/

Mediocres in government!

SMH for my country Nigeria!

They should just "tread with caution"!

So many problem on ground already!

If she tries such, I would discipline her on the spot!

I do not "condone" nonsense!

True! But there are times when you'll need someone to cuddle and lean on!

"No man is an island"!!