₦airaland Forum

IyaIode:
Jonathan was real ineffectual buffon

sambisaman:
By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South- South

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, had withdrawn the security aides approved for Tompolo by the Federal Government since 2009 under the leadership of late President Umaru Yar’Adua.
Vanguard learned that the security aides, who had been with Tompolo for nearly six years, were withdrawn soon after Justice Ibrahim Buba issued the first bench warrant against the ex-militant leader, last month.

menacetosociety:
Oshey!!!My beloved IPOB apologist!Bla bla bla drop the bong man this IPOB thugs make it easy for people to hate and trample on them!Calling a President a sort of useless names,hating on other people who don't believe in their ideologies!But as a typical IPOB apologist u would never see that!big hypocrite

NgeneUkwenu:
Nye m efe nwokem! All the threads you IPOB Charlatans litter Nairaland to insult your President, Hausa and Yoruba people kwanu?

Hypocrite...

menacetosociety:
IPOB youths are miscreant but don't worry the thread will be put down

NgeneUkwenu:
Bundle The Useless Man Out Of That Place!


Nonsense!!

Dheartless:
the questions are there, I asked clearly and I also stated I do not do sentiments on answers given, that is why I stated " both sincere and and sentimental answers are welcome", I am learned to the extent of diffrenciating/separating right from wrong.


thank you ma

Flexherbal:
I think he meant, non sentimental.

Enesi47:
is t not same north you appoint as national Pdp chairman? Your ignorance and tribalism will make north rule you till kingdom come

OneManLegion:
I need you to remember that the Supreme Court did not premise their judgment on just the issue of the card-readers because that was not the only point raised by the Plaintiffs/Respondents(Dakuku/APC). While you do have a point as regards the evidence act and the electoral act's non-acknowledgment of the card-readers, we must not forget that the same card-readers were a veritable tool in the conduct of the elections and ignoring or downplaying their importance because some antiquated statutes did not make provisions for it is a bit ridiculous. You must also take note that I speak, not as an APC member, but as an apathetic observer and if that was what the decision of the SC in the Ambode case was premised on, then I disagree too.

The Supreme court, inter alia, also stated that the respondents failed to prove their allegation of violence in Rivers state and this what I find most incredible. I mean, we were all there when several security officials who oversaw the elections testified that there were scores of electoral offences including snatching of ballot boxes at gun-point, wanton killing by political thugs and generally, disruption of peaceful conduction of the electoral process. I regret to say I didn't follow the testimonies and the cross-examinations very thoroughly but on the surface, it would seem to me that proving the massive violence that occurred in the Rivers state elections shouldn't come hard to anyone.
Lastly, the SC also claimed that Wike was denied fair hearing and that therefore it was one of the grounds of validating the appeal. I wouldn't talk much on this because even you refused to mention it so I presume you know how feeble that sounds. How do you uphold an election that was fraught with violence and retrogressive power-play because someone was denied of fair-hearing? Wow! Just wow! Whatever happened to ordering for a fresh tribunal? It's no doubt that the principle of fair-hearing as propounded by the Latin maxim "Audi alterem patem(hear both sides" is one of most important maxims in the determination of a case and jurisprudence generally, but it's no excuse to excuse the kind of blood-bath that passed for election in Rivers State.


God! Who gave me the strength and patience to type all that? I try o.

tuale4u:
because d constitution recognised substantial compliance. 100% compliance is not requirement by the constitution. Less than 25% conmpliance on a guideline cant be called substantial.

tuale4u:
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The electoral act gave INEC power to make guidelines. The supreme court deliberately choose to overlook that part of the electoral act. On that basis it is probative.

Just like d post is trying explain, the leaning of d Judges decide how controversial issues are Judged. U cant completely say d so called "legalese" being claim is not a deliberate bias.

tuale4u:
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The electoral act gave INEC power to make guidelines. The supreme court deliberately choose to overlook that part of the electoral act.

tuale4u:
The concept of substancial compliance can clearly differenciate lagos case and rivers state.
There was reasonable compliance to Card reader in lagos state. In lagos it was more than 60%. In rivers state it was less than 25%

OneManLegion:
Justice has not been served.
The courts are given sizeable discretionary powers in the interpretation of statutes because the legislators are aware that no statute can possibly foresee and take care of all possible loopholes in a statutory provisiom. This explains why there are several rules of interpretation of statutes allowed the courts by law among which we have
The direct rule

The golden rule

The mischief rule; and

The Ejusdem Generis rule.

The justices deliberately refused to employ the right rule of interpretation because of whatever reasons. You don't bungle justice on the altar of legalese.

You seem to be in the legal field, now ask yourself, "Is this what Lord Denning M.R would have decided?"

CyberWolf:
OP, why are you afraid of quoting Kenny987? .. You don't want her to take you to the cleaners this morning. Agbaya hypocrite

tuale4u:
Are u saying Nigeria Judiciary or supreme court are more objective than that of United State! Please can u clearly defend that?

Toybreezy:
Looking at the leading causes of conflicts in our country today, their inception can be traced back to few years after the independence. Tribal wars, civil war, economy issues, corruption, injustice, crime. These things didn't just start few years ago.

Let's betray our parents and quit tribal wars
Let's bretray our parents and avoid a new civil way
Let's betray our parents and refuse to be used as killing instruments.
Let's betray our parents and shun propaganda
Let's betray our parents by shunning political parties..we youths can unite and be our own political party.
Our parents have failed us, do not let us fail ourselves or yet those coming after us.

Stop being manipulated, stop mindless protests. Do not judge tribes on the stories your parents tell you. Rather consider your classmates, friends from other tribes look at how you people get along regardless of your cultural differences, then you'll realise tolerating each other isn't that difficult.

Its my first article in a while pardon my irregularities.