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[quote author=St_Ichimaro.Gin]so with ur skewed opinion, an Ashanti man cant rule in his domain?
im as old as ur springer's mates. ...ooh, dont be a junkie pls.[/quote]from ur post alone I can see that ur the junkie Here.its only a junkie that would post all this trash uve been posting.when whatever u took clears from ur head come and read the aticle again.maybe then u would understand the aticle well.for now make I use u dey catch my groove....as u keep exposing ur ignorance

[quote author=St_Ichimaro.Gin]pls Mr, id like u stop cropping up ur own assumptions & premises everynow and then without taking into account who the "someone" might actually be, whether ibo or not?

Tell me, where is it in the article that there was a king in the so-called area in Accra inhabited by ibos?....

and @ the bolded

pls AGAIN, point to where it states in the article that Ashantis dont seek to be king over other non-Ashantis in a land of his fore-fathers[/quote]we know its ur opinion but stop embarrassing urself. So in your own shallow thinking, AN ASHANTI MAN WANT's to install himself as king of ibo's in ghana. I wonder how old u are.

Egypt: Islamists hit Christian churches

HAMZA HENDAWI
Published: 41 minutes ago

CAIRO (AP) - After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like "prisoners of war" before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.

In the four days since security forces cleared two sit-in camps by supporters of Egypt's ousted president, Islamists have attacked dozens of Coptic churches along with homes and businesses owned by the Christian minority. The campaign of intimidation appears to be a warning to Christians outside Cairo to stand down from political activism.

Christians have long suffered from discrimination and violence in Muslim majority Egypt, where they make up 10 percent of the population of 90 million. Attacks increased after the Islamists rose to power in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that drove Hosni Mubarak from power, emboldening extremists. But Christians have come further under fire since President Mohammed Morsi was ousted on July 3, sparking a wave of Islamist anger led by Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.

Nearly 40 churches have been looted and torched, while 23 others have been attacked and heavily damaged since Wednesday, when chaos erupted after Egypt's military-backed interim administration moved in to clear two camps packed with protesters calling for Morsi's reinstatement, killing scores of protesters and sparking deadly clashes nationwide.

One of the world's oldest Christian communities has generally kept a low-profile, but has become more politically active since Mubarak was ousted and Christians sought to ensure fair treatment in the aftermath.

Many Morsi supporters say Christians played a disproportionately large role in the days of mass rallies, with millions demanding that he step down ahead of the coup.

Despite the violence, Egypt's Coptic Christian church renewed its commitment to the new political order Friday, saying in a statement that it stood by the army and the police in their fight against "the armed violent groups and black terrorism."

While the Christians of Egypt have endured attacks by extremists, they have drawn closer to moderate Muslims in some places, in a rare show of solidarity.

Hundreds from both communities thronged two monasteries in the province of Bani Suef south of Cairo to thwart what they had expected to be imminent attacks on Saturday, local activist Girgis Waheeb said. Activists reported similar examples elsewhere in regions south of Cairo, but not enough to provide effective protection of churches and monasteries.

Waheeb, other activists and victims of the latest wave of attacks blame the police as much as hard-line Islamists for what happened. The attacks, they said, coincided with assaults on police stations in provinces like Bani Suef and Minya, leaving most police pinned down to defend their stations or reinforcing others rather than rushing to the rescue of Christians under attack.

Another Christian activist, Ezzat Ibrahim of Minya, a province also south of Cairo where Christians make up around 35 percent of the population, said police have melted away from seven of the region's nine districts, leaving the extremists to act with near impunity.

Two Christians have been killed since Wednesday, including a taxi driver who strayed into a protest by Morsi supporters in Alexandria and another man who was shot to death by Islamists in the southern province of Sohag, according to security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.

The attacks served as a reminder that Islamists, while on the defensive in Cairo, maintain influence and the ability to stage violence in provincial strongholds with a large minority of Christians.

Gamaa Islamiya, the hard-line Islamist group that wields considerable influence in provinces south of Cairo, denied any link to the attacks. The Muslim Brotherhood, which has led the defiant protest against Morsi's ouster, has condemned the attacks, spokesman Mourad Ali said.

Sister Manal is the principal of the Franciscan school in Bani Suef. She was having breakfast with two visiting nuns when news broke of the clearance of the two sit-in camps by police, killing hundreds. In an ordeal that lasted about six hours, she, sisters Abeer and Demiana and a handful of school employees saw a mob break into the school through the wall and windows, loot its contents, knock off the cross on the street gate and replace it with a black banner resembling the flag of al-Qaida.

By the time the Islamists ordered them out, fire was raging at every corner of the 115-year-old main building and two recent additions. Money saved for a new school was gone, said Manal, and every computer, projector, desk and chair was hauled away. Frantic SOS calls to the police, including senior officers with children at the school, produced promises of quick response but no one came.

The Islamists gave her just enough time to grab some clothes.

In an hourlong telephone interview with The Associated Press, Manal, 47, recounted her ordeal while trapped at the school with others as the fire raged in the ground floor and a battle between police and Islamists went on out on the street. At times she was overwhelmed by the toxic fumes from the fire in the library or the whiffs of tears gas used by the police outside.

Sister Manal recalled being told a week earlier by the policeman father of one pupil that her school was targeted by hard-line Islamists convinced that it was giving an inappropriate education to Muslim children. She paid no attention, comfortable in the belief that a school that had an equal number of Muslim and Christian pupils could not be targeted by Muslim extremists. She was wrong.

The school has a high-profile location. It is across the road from the main railway station and adjacent to a busy bus terminal that in recent weeks attracted a large number of Islamists headed to Cairo to join the larger of two sit-in camps by Morsi's supporters. The area of the school is also in one of Bani Suef's main bastions of Islamists from Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and ultraconservative Salafis.

"We are nuns. We rely on God and the angels to protect us," she said. "At the end, they paraded us like prisoners of war and hurled abuse at us as they led us from one alley to another without telling us where they were taking us," she said. A Muslim woman who once taught at the school spotted Manal and the two other nuns as they walked past her home, attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.

"I remembered her, her name is Saadiyah. She offered to take us in and said she can protect us since her son-in-law was a policeman. We accepted her offer," she said. Two Christian women employed by the school, siblings Wardah and Bedour, had to fight their way out of the mob, while groped, hit and insulted by the extremists. "I looked at that and it was very nasty," said Manal.

The incident at the Franciscan school was repeated at Minya where a Catholic school was razed to the ground by an arson attack and a Christian orphanage was also torched.

"I am terrified and unable to focus," said Boulos Fahmy, the pastor of a Catholic church a short distance away from Manal's school. "I am expecting an attack on my church any time now," he said Saturday.

Bishoy Alfons Naguib, a 33-year-old businessman from Minya, has a similarly harrowing story.

His home supplies store on a main commercial street in the provincial capital, also called Minya, was torched this week and the flames consumed everything inside.

"A neighbor called me and said the store was on fire. When I arrived, three extremists with knifes approached me menacingly when they realized I was the owner," recounted Naguib. His father and brother pleaded with the men to spare him. Luckily, he said, someone shouted that a Christian boy was filming the proceedings using his cell phone, so the crowd rushed toward the boy shouting "Nusrani, Nusrani," the Quranic word for Christians which has become a derogatory way of referring to them in today's Egypt.

Naguib ran up a nearby building where he has an apartment and locked himself in. After waiting there for a while, he left the apartment, ran up to the roof and jumped to the next door building, then exited at a safe distance from the crowd.

"On our Mustafa Fahmy street, the Islamists had earlier painted a red X on Muslim stores and a black X on Christian stores," he said. "You can be sure that the ones with a red X are intact."

In Fayoum, an oasis province southwest of Cairo, Islamists looted and torched five churches, according to Bishop Ibram, the local head of the Coptic Orthodox church, by far the largest of Egypt's Christian denominations. He said he had instructed Christians and clerics alike not to try to resist the mobs of Islamists, fearing any loss of life.

"The looters were so diligent that they came back to one of the five churches they had ransacked to see if they can get more," he told the AP. "They were loading our chairs and benches on trucks and when they had no space for more, they destroyed them."

http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=4GrPlyRy

Boss13: What do you mean by poor people. Please change that word to regular people.

There is no drainage in ikoyi and a suspended bridge was built (that does not even alleviate the traffic problem). The drainage in V.I is also in poor state. However, some people are here to deceive many. Do they go out at all?

nice write up but that bridge is not a suspended bridge.i go through that bridge almost everyday is another lagos state propoganda if that bridge is suspended,then 3rd mainland bridge is also supended too.

Shine u Eye: You're easily manipulated maybe you're naive. Lets assume you can use the internet, the least you could do would be to google this story to see how old/new it actually is.

Because I think you'd be too schmuck to find your way back, here are some links to this breaking story.

http://sunnewsonline.net/news/tunde-bakare-blasts-new-apc-party-they-are-bunch-of-looters

http://news.naij.com/43896.html

http://www.naijalatestnews.com/pastor-tunde-bakare-blasts-new-apc-party-they-are-bunch-of-looters/

http://naijagists.com/pastor-tunde-bakare-blasts-new-apc-party-members-bunch-of-looters/

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/tunde-bakare-disses-apc-says-it-is-not-a-party/

why did u even bother replying them.they are in disbelief that their one time super hero can say this.at topic bakare this is what most nigerians already know, is just unfortunate that you just realized it.very soon BAT would send his boy fashole to seal off ur church.

deeptesting: Stick to the facts mentioned by CACOL, it is about LASG and not FG,i am one person who is not been deceived by the media hype and praise singers of the governor as over performing; that is not to say that he is docile but few points mentioned are worth considering:

1.We have undertaken an assessment of the 57 councils in the state and it has proved that the LASG is over-hyped for doing very little.”

2. The group’s hypothesis had shown that the budgetary impact on infrastructural development in the state was not accessible.

3. “The budget of the state is in excess of N20bn monthly with little to show for it..

this is what fashole's ora esa's (praise singer's) on nairaland are known for when fashole is found wanting the try to divert attention to the fg or gej.on the topic,this is what we've known and have been saying here on this forum that the lagos state government is running a wash wash government.very soon he would send his boys to go and seal off their office and their houses.cos of this press release

President Goodluck Jonathan has been conferred with the Grand Crois of the Nationale by the interim president Diangunda Traore in the presidential villa, and it is said to be the highest honour of the Republic of Mali.

Before decorating the President Jonathan, the visiting interim president said the honour was for Jonathan’s pivotal role in the restoration of peace and security in that country.

Professor Traore described the crisis as one that shook the entire nation for many months and thanked the Nigerian president for not hesitating in sending human, financial and material resources to rescue his nation.

In his response, President Jonathan said that what he did was a confirmation of the commitment of Nigeria to conflict resolution in the African continent.

He said that inspite of the loss, Nigeria remains committed in supporting the course of peace in Mali.

The President also congratulated Mali’s President-elect, Mr. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on his victory in last Sunday’s run-off Presidential election in the country.

He commended the people of Mali for successfully conducting the elections and taking a major step towards the full restoration of democratic governance to their country and that he is looking forward to the conclusion of the process with Mr. Keita’s inauguration as President in keeping with the wish of the Malian people as expressed at the polls on Sunday.

The President said he believes that for Mr. Keita to have served as Prime Minister capably for many years, Mr. Keita will assume the Malian Presidency with the requisite experience, knowledge and wisdom needed to guide the country towards a speedy return to peace, normalcy, political stability and further development.

President Jonathan assured Mr. Keita of the support, assistance and cooperation of Nigeria, ECOWAS and the African Union as he prepares to assume the burden of leading Mali away from political strife and instability, to national peace and progress.

He wished the Malian President-elect a very successful tenure in office.

www.channelstv.com

[quote author=I-B.]Since the Op has made it a party thing, I think the high debt profile of states in southwest is the handiwork of those in power in previous eight years(PDP) before the present ACN governors got into power, except for Lagos state which is expected of her. Being the most populous state(16-20million) in Nigeria, Lagos' population is more than the combination of Rivers, Anambra, Oyo and Akwa-Ibom. Lagos is the highest contributor to the nations economy, but she is not receiving 13% derivative like the oil producing states are from their contribution of mineral resources. Let's assume Lagos is receiving 13% derivative like these oil producing state, do we think Lagos would have had an high debt profile. Lagos is the first choice of any graduate in Nigeria to get job, which makes the state to have too many people to cater for, yet no reasonable special consideration is given to lagos by the federal government in the monthly allocation. Lagos has a population of around 20million, yet Akwa-Ibom that has a population or around 3million plus has a higher monthly allocation, due to special consideration for oil producing states.

Enough of the stories, let's come down to My Ibadan, Oyo state.
Oyo state (APC) owes $76.6million, from the list the op gave.
And from this report below, Oyo has not borrowed anything since Ajumobi cam into power. Meaning the $76.6million that Oyo is owing is solely the work of those before him, the PDP governors.


https://www.nairaland.com/1316546/oyo-hasnt-borrowed-money-2

And nothing is different about that of Ogun state. Gbenga Daniel from the PDP borrowed millions of dollars with nothing to show for it.
Can we comapare those two guys, as in who has brought meaninful development to ogun?
I don't know of the PDP in other states, but PDP is SouthWest is a curse.[/quote]what of lagos state , the State with the highest debt in the country!! Was the state also run by PDP?..thank God pdp governors were in place in the states u mentioned!!! From your own analogy if AC.N had been in power in oyo and ogun state for the 14 years they've spent in lagos by now those state would be place second and third behind lagos on the list of states that has the higest debt which has also increased Nigeria's national debt. and we've not forgotten that before pdp took over those states it was ran by AD governors. AD later became AC then AC.N and now APC!! And the borrOwed. As well so just don't pin the depts of ogun and oyo on PDP alone.

gramci: where is this clown from, from being ready by 2012 to still under construction. Dream on bro, it's good for your health

that is what they are known for. I've asked him to produce the picture of the airport under construction, but he has been runing about and beating around the buch and abusing GEJ which the hypocrites on nairaland are known for... In 2014 if the mod dont delete this thread we would remind them again.according to the article na 2 million ghost dem dey transport now.I can't wait for 2015 when we lagosians would speak with our vote.were tired of all this deceit this is how they promised that the light rail would start june this year and the work is no near completion..

agbameta: Common sense should tell you that what's under construction is no longer a dream but reality, not that you are smart enough to draw a full circle talk less figuring that out. . You are indeed very related to the Aso Rock Dullard In Chief.

show us picture and stop the lies. show us what is on ground and stop abusing GEJ the thread is about ur lying governor who promised that epe-lekki airport would be ready last year

agbameta: Fashola started and completed more projects than any government in the histroy of Nigeria including your FG and ff you get liver and ready to compare your air strip repainting GEJ with Fashola, why not let us state their started and completed projects side by side srarting from GEJ as a governor just like Fashola and let's see who is really clueless and incompetent.

And that's if you get liver..

yea he completed more flower planting project and streetlight and patching and erecting toll gate for his master... Keep blabbing like I asked u earlier if u know ur no shameless. Show us the picture of the so airport...fashola is going to his 6th year as governor while GEJ barely served as governor for 1 years plus and u want me to compare his work to the flower planter that has served for 6 years... No need to blab just provide the picture of the airport let us see how far they've gone shikena!!

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gramci: Shame on you, MM2 is up and running. Please enjoy your flight on your imaginary airport

don't mind these shamless people

agbameta: To start with, this is a private investement that's under construction as we speak regardless of any delays so your rubbish doesn't bother me.

Fashola started and completed more projects than any government in the histroy of Nigeria including your FG and ff you get liver and ready to compare your air strip repainting GEJ with Fashola, why not let us state their started and completed projects side by side srarting from GEJ as a governor just like Fashola and let's see who is really clueless and incompetent.

And that's if you get liver..


Clear road with that rubbish abeg..

all I ask of is picture and ur busy ranting and trolling on this thread simply show the picture of the lekki epe airport let's see the stage they are in after 2 years of the supposed take off unless of course there is non!

agbameta: Building a new world class international airport from scratch with private funds and repainting a village airstrip with tax payers money no be the same thing abeg.

so ur oga fashola didn't know that before he opened his mouth to tell us that the airport would be fully operational last year? So he must be clueless. But u want gej to fix the 50 year old mismanagement of nigeria economy, deliberate neglect of the infrastuctures in nigeria by past leaders under 2 years. Pls since u know much about the airport, if ur not an hypocrite, show us the picture of the airport let's know what stage they are in now. This pronoucement by fashola would be 2 years old by novermber of this 2013 ...

[quote author=Dudu_Negro]This is an eye opener to those waiting for FG to give them international airport in Enugu. Your governors should combine resources and do what benefits your people and your land. You go wait tire for FG.[/quote]are they not lucky the FG has kept its promise ethiopia airways is starting operations at the ENUGU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT on the 21th of august 2013. While the one promised us by tinubu and his boy to start fullY in 2012 is still in the pipeline!! Isn't it ironic....

OAM4J: ^If it is the FG that is proposing this, like the electoral promise of an airport in ever state, I wont even bother to read.

But Lagos has been known over the years to follow through every project they announced, or show me one project Fashola has ever announced that he has not followup with actions

And take note of Lagos projects, they come with expected date of completion unlike FG announcement of blueprints/roadmaps with no dates.


Eko o ni baje o!

mr man were still waiting for the airport u claim would be ready. since is fashola that made the pronoucement according to u they keep their word while if its federal government u won't bother to read!!! FG promised to make enugu airport an international airport the same time mr fashola made this pronouncement and by 21th of this month ethiopia airline would commence flight from enugu airport just like GEJ and FG promised but the lekki airport is still a white elephant project and we are at the tail end of 2013 no airport... Abi 2012 neva reach bunch of hypocrites....

Watch as this new fades away unlike the fake rumour about his removal that made front page

The African Peoples Congress has commenced moves to seek a court order to stop the independent National Electoral Commission from fielding any candidate under the APC Acronym in the Anambra state governorship election.

Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja, the national chairman of the party, Chief Onyinye Ikeagwuonu explained that there is an on-going litigation over the acronym, which the party instituted to challenge the registration of the All Progressives Congress.

Chief Ikeawguonu wants only the APC Acronym to be featured on the ballot paper so that any of the parties that wins in court will inherit the mandate if the APC wins the Anambra governorship election.

commenced moves to seek a court order to stop the independent National Electoral Commission from fielding any candidate under the APC Acronym in the Anambra state governorship election.

Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja, the national chairman of the party, Chief Onyinye Ikeagwuonu explained that there is an on-going litigation over the acronym, which the party instituted to challenge the registration of the All Progressives Congress.

Chief Ikeawguonu wants only the APC Acronym to be featured on the ballot paper so that any of the parties that wins in court will inherit the mandate if the APC wins the Anambra governorship election.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/08/01/rival-apc-seeks-redress-against-apc-registration/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Mr Aboki: Like I said..






Bros Chidi d' Mace man...

Nothing Mega!! Rivers State AG will drop the case next week..
We the People of Rivers State are not interested in prosecuting you!!



Amaechi wins!! Flawless victory!!

Rivers State Jet will be waiting at the Airport to fly you to the Bahamas for Medical treatment next week... https://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m85pqofb3K1rv0p9yo1_400.gif

so if the chief judge of the state sets him free and the case goes to appeal court, I hope the chief judge of the state would also come and set him free too?. Or let's say the case even gets to the supreme court which is the apex court in the country would the chief judge of the state be there to set him free also?

mini summit.

This, the organisation says is to “further give support to the initiative by President Goodluck Jonathan on the fight against HIV/AIDS and malaria in Africa”.

This was disclosed during the FEC meeting, chaired by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku said that the UN is supporting the recent effort by African countries to ensure that Africa is able to overcome the diseases that have been raving the continent.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/07/31/un-general-assembly-chooses-nigeria-to-co-chair-next-mini-summit/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

No the police did not stop them they don't have enough supporters. To safe face they are claiming that police stopped them!!.the same police that could not stop the subsidy protest or is it the same police that has not bothered the Very corrupt loud mouthed serial protester dino.I wish they would have tried and succeed so that their supporters would witness the collapse of this country.buhari is just wasting his time the north and their bokoharam tactics has failed now is protest let's wait and see this is not eygpt.

When GeJ said this some months ago ,some never see no Good in this administartion asked us to wake them up when it starts.well hypocrites WAKE UP! just like gej promised , ethiopian airways is starting the first international flight from enugu international airport JUST LIKE GEJ promised.

Handle Problems Facing Your Region– Group Advises Northern Elders


date: July 26, 2013
A group known as Arewa Peoples Patriotic Front has faulted the northern elders’ forum insistence that President Goodluck Jonathan should not seek for re-election in 2015, saying there is no constitutional provision prohibiting the president from having a second term in office.

At a news conference in Kaduna, national chairman of the forum, Mr Sunday Ibrahim said rather than the elders calling for presidency to return to the north, the elders concern should be how to handle and address the series of problems facing the region and the country at large.

While accusing the northern elders of being responsible for the problems facing the region, the group  also described agitation for zoning the presidency to a particular region as unconstitutional and a plot to destabilize the country, adding that what Nigeria needs at the moment is not a regional president.



http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/07/26/handle-problems-facing-your-region-group-advises-northern-elders/

date: July 26, 2013

The federal government has pledged to support small scale refineries to develop the oil sector.


The Minister of Information and Communication Labaran Maku told a news conference that government’s support will only be available to indigenous refineries who make their technology available to government through legal channels.

He advised Nigerians to desist from hiding under the guise of illegal bunkering to claim lack of support for government for their illegal activities.

Officials of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Subsidy Reinvestment programme, Sure-P, and the Petroleum Development Trust Fund at a news conference to give score cards of their performance in the last two years.

First to make his presentation is the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission.

The Minister of Information attributes the achievements of the government to the doggedness of the administration  of president Goodluck Jonathan to make the revenue of the country count at all times. He urged Nigerians to hold governments at every level accountable to ensure that the effect of the country’s revenue is felt at all levels.

Mister Maku also urged oil thieves to take advantage of government’s polices in the NDDC to stop their illegal activities especially in the oil sector.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/07/26/federal-government-pledges-to-support-indigenous-technology/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

When gej said this some months back. Some hypocrites said he was wooing igbo votes.watch how this route would would be so profitable to ethiopia airways that other airlines would want a piece of the action.

Rochas would soon start screaming that the president is after him and the 4 northern governors and his fellow APC saints would pay him aimless solidarity visit wasting tax payers money.

By 'Tunde Babalola, Abuja.

Legal luminary, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN Tuesday threatened to sue the National Assembly and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), over absence of Christian/Ecclesiastical Courts in the Constitution. FrontiersNews exclusively gathered that Mr. Agbakoba gave the lawmakers seven days within to remedy the anormalies or face legal action in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Mr David Mark, a copy which was sent to the AGF. The former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) said it is afront and total insult on the sensibility of Christians in Nigeria for the country to have Customary, Islamic and Sharia Courts without anyone for the Christian faith noting the 1999 Constitution recognized Nigeria as a multi religious society. He believes it is a violation of Section 42 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which prohibits discrimination on account of religion. Here is letter containing the petition.


16th July 2013

The President of the Senate
National Assembly Complex,
Three Arms Zone
Abuja

Dear Distinguished Senator David Mark,


ESTABLISHMENT OF ECCELESIASTICAL COURTS

I am a Christian and Catholic by faith.  I have read the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 and have observed that no provision is made for Christians to have their religious/spiritual affairs adjudicated by persons adequately learned in Ecclesiastical laws/ biblical jurisprudence. 

Islamic and Customary practitioners are well recognized and accommodated in the Constitution by the establishment of the Customary and Islamic court systems in Sections 260, 265, 275 and 280 but  no corresponding provision is made for Christians or Ecclesiastical Courts. Christians are forced to resort to Customary and High Courts which are manned by persons of little or no knowledge of Ecclesiastical law and jurisprudence.

This in my view violates Section 42 of the 1999 Constitution which prohibits discrimination on account of religion. It is for this reason that I write to recommend that in the present Constitution alteration process, provision be made for the establishment of Christian/Ecclesiastical Courts.

Nigeria is a multi religious country and faith is personal. I believe matters of faith should not be contained in the Constitution as provided by Section 10 which prohibits state religion.  But if we must retain customary and Islamic law systems, and I have nothing against this, then provision must be made for Christian/Ecclesiastical Courts.

It occurred to me that it may well be an oversight that the present system violates Section 42 of the 1999 Constitution which prohibits discrimination on account of religion which is why I am giving this notice.

I have attached for your consideration a draft bill for the establishment of the Ecclesiastical Court of Appeal for the Federal Capital Territory Abuja as received from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).  I have also forwarded a copy of this letter and draft bill to the Attorney General of the Federation.

However, if after seven (7) days, issues raised are not addressed; I will initiate legal proceedings.


Sincerely,

Olisa Agbakoba SAN


CC:   Attorney General of the Federation
Federal Ministry of Justice, Abuja.

 http://www.frontiersnews.com/index.php/business/37-business/4435-former-nba-president-agbakoba-threatens-to-sue-national-assembly-over-christian-rights-to-court-

Horus thanks alot