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mrvitalis:
Let the senator present the bill to amend the constitution lets see those who would vote against its

Enough of the noise

If the senator brings the bill to the NASS, it is most likely to be thrown out of the window through massive rejection by northern legislators.

Creating a whooping number of 20 states in one northern region but only 17 states in the two southern regions incapacitated politicians from southern Nigeria.

Desire for equity in a country formed by diverse regions is the criterion to use when creating new political units like state or province or local government areas.

The criterion is never land mass or population statistics.

That's why no one can divide the large and populated US states into more states, but leave the small and least populated US states as they are.

itspzpics:
Watch The Video => HERE

Creating a whooping number of 19 states and Abuja in one northern region, but only 17 states in the two southern regions, by northern soldiers, makes northern region draw undue large number of political representation to the National Assembly, to shout down any southern legislator asking for political restructuring, or in this case, condemning the 1999 constitution supervised by northern Nigeria's military dictators.

Land mass or population statistics is not used as yardstick to determine where and how many new political units can be created in a region in a country formed by diverse regions.

The yardstick is equity at last between the forming regions. There should have been more states in the two southern regions than in the one northern region after the last states were created by Abacha.

This is why after 20 years a group of soldiers wearing AK47 rifles practically dictated what could be or not be in a constitution and imposed the constitution upon Nigeria, we still use the constitution.
This is not obtainable in any other modern country.

Courageous Senator Adeleye has stirred the country up to rise to do away with a 1999 constitution not subjected to any referendum, make another constitution for Nigeria by first restructuring the country's skewed political structure.

dainformant:
A traditional ruler has reacted to the trending video of Nnamdi Kanu and his wife in bed. Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), was filmed having a romantic moment with his wife, Uchechi Okwu Kanu.

The viral video (watch below) sparked debate among Nigerians as some condenmed the couple over the footage while others said they are legally married and that nothing can change their love for the couple.

A traditional ruler identified as Emeka, who witnessed the wedding of the couple in 2015, shared pictures from the ceremony with the below caption.

Kanu We Know, Kanu We Love. He Is The First Among Equals. Haters, keep making him popular. You are ignorantly promoting and contributing to the struggle. The name Biafra will hunt you all, until your last days.

How has a video of a man and wife, got to do with the poverty rate in Nigeria, killings in Zamfara, bombings by Boko Haram, slaughtering by the Fulanis, etc.

If you don't like Ohamadike Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the best thing to do is to hug a transformer, you won't die because there will be no light, just jump into a moving train, or find a rope. You can never be like Ohamadike Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and it's also a fact.

See more; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2019/04/traditional-ruler-reacts-to-nnamdi-kanus-viral-video-with-wife-in-bed.html

Those who don't like Biafra restoration are fooling themselves. This time, they unwittingly made Nnamdi Kalu more popular by bringing inline his family romance mode.

Crude oil has washed out the grey matter of most indolent citizens of Nigeria who foolishly believe that crude oil is there for a country to survive on.

Good job.

Here is the fire station in gov Okorocha's Orlu senatorial constituency.

After eight years in office, eight years of cruelty in govt, and seven years of abandoning Orlu fire service, Okorocha says he wants to represent Orlu zone in the Senate.

Lizzysamuel:
The women in Sudan led a revolution, forcing out the corrupt government of their President Omar Al-Bashir out of office.

The 22-year-old lady who wasn't chanting songs or rapping in the below video seriously called out her corrupt President and forced him out of office with her massive protest.

She and her friends used Whatsapp, IG and FB groups to assemble and mobilise themselves before hitting the streets for Nation wide protest which shutdown the whole of Sudan till the Military pursued the wicked President out of Office.

Watch the video
https://zenithnaija.com/photos-of-the-lady-that-led-a-massive-protest-that-removed-sudans-president/

Irrelevant for Nigerians. Nigeria is not a nation.

No such protest can take place in Nigeria to oust a leader because of the divisions in the major ethnic groups that are forced to be in one dysfunctional Nigeria.

koolcat:
very annoying bro.....tarnishing the name of the nation in the global map.

What nation? Nigeria is the only country in the world where dead bodies of killed youths are a daily constant.

After trillion dollars gained from crude oil, you don't have pipe borne water and electricity, the two most common things even the govts of the poorest countries provide for citizens.

Do you know the meaning of nation?


Is Nigeria a nation?

@correctkidabc

You belong to one of the most miserable and hungry countries in the world.

You who sabi research for Igbo things,

please find out the video on how Nigeria had wasted N13 trillion fighting insurgents who are fighting for a country to be governed through Islamic Sharia criminal laws;

the same Sharia criminal laws adopted by 12 northern Nigeria's states.

Nigeria can't even provide common electric light.

To deviate you from the ugly realities of Nigeria, stories bashing Igbo become the order of the day.

Misplaced priority and waste of space.

Nigerian govt has spent N13 Trillion to fight insurgents from northern Nigeria, insurgency brought by Muslim religious extremists in northern Nigeria
The country can't even have electricity.

No Nigerian on NL had made a video on how Islamic extremists of northern Nigeria and the insurgents they brought have bled Nigeria to near comatose state, one of the most hungry and miserable countries in the world.

Drag Igbo to Nl for bashing because of two criminal gangs abroad.

royallord1:
I hope this 8th senate would in this short time they have left, offer selfless service for the good of our country. I wish they make laws towards a one indivisible and prosperous Nigeria...

No to selective political restructuring.


For twenty years, the south has asked for extra states and local government areas, the north refused.


State police must come with equity in the distribution of states between the north and south regions.

The inequity in the number of states between north and south makes southern politicians near slaves to northern politicians in Nigeria's political process.

There must be restructuring of the political process before state police comes up.

Nigeria is not a country where only what suits northern Nigeria can be done.


Southern Nigeria has been asking for political restructuring for years.

We don't want you and your father-in-law who was so vindictive to tell us: "I am building our dear state capital city to international standard,"
you tell us : "I am the architect of Owerri Urban Renewal." Meanwhile Orlu and Okigwe decayed. Flood wrecks Orlu but none of you cared for eight years.

ijustdey:
Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri

The Imo State governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in the just concluded election, Uche Nwosu on Thursday raised the alarm, saying that his party had discovered what he described as high-level of irregularity in some local government areas during the governorship election.

He noted particularly that what transpired in the four council areas of Aboh Mbaise, Ahiazu Mbaise, Ezinihitte and Ngor-Okpala was not proper for the nation’s democracy.

Nwosu who recently got the nod of the tribunal to inspect election materials stated that he was confident that he would reclaim his “stolen mandate.”

According to him, “my mandate will be reclaimed; Emeka Ihedioha never won the election; we have got the leave of the tribunal to inspect the sensitive materials used for the election and what we saw was alarming and a lot have been revealed, the illegitimate declaration will soon be reversed.

“If you subtract the bogus votes the PDP candidate allocated to himself in the three Mbaise LGAs and Ngor-Okpala, you will notice that I actually won the election but I have faith that the tribunal will do the right thing and annul that election.”

Nwosu also blamed the irregularities on the ad hoc staff, especially the university professors and lecturers whom he said compromised the governorship election.

The AA candidate, therefore, called for a review of the use of the academia in subsequent elections, describing their alleged complicity on electoral fraud as a huge threat to the nation’s democracy.

He maintained that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)’s, Emeka Ihedioha never won the election because he never met the constitutional requirements to be declared governor-elect.


https://www.sunnewsonline.com/imo-guber-weve-made-alarming-discoveries-nwosu/

Which mandate?

Mandate to reduce Imo state to become Owerri;
then show us photos of developments in Owerri and tell us Imo state is developing.
Rest of the state remain miles of underdevelopment behind Owerri.

Go home

ChangeIsCostant:
Imo governor, Rochas Okorocha's admiration towards a female police officer didn't go unnoticed during a recent event at the government house in Owerri, the state capital.

The governor decorated the beautiful police officer after being promoted to her new rank. He was joined by Brigadier General commander of 34 artillery brigade in Obinze, Brigadier Y.I Tukura.

The governor was seen admiring the police officer whom he reportedly takes as his daughter, according to the sister Genevieve who shared the pictures online.

According to Genevieve who was full of praises for the governor over his philantropic nature to the less-privileged and compassion as a father to needy, Rochas Okorocha was excited while decorating her sister because he was proud of her achievements.

See more; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2019/04/rochas-okorocha-admires-pretty-female-police-officer-in-owerri-photos.html

You mean because of hole that can pass double barrel gun, that's why you brought this Rochas Okorocha show here?

Everyday Rochas in bad light. No body to defend him.

Because Rochas has no respect for people of his senatorial constituency while he serves as gov.

Rochas scrapped roads in his Orlu area. Still left the roads till today since 2013.
No haste to mend fences by Rochas.

PrecisionFx:
Gowon ended regional government n resource control in Nigeria.

Yes. Gown stopped regional govt system.

Regional govts still existed intact when Ironsi was killed.

elmodee7:
look at the pig Ur idiots a ready to die for. your god king cownu with a cheat prostitute. the childish fool. idiotic pig's of biafia how market. cownu is using Ur money flexing, bunking prostitutes in UK and Isreal while u gullible idiotic pig's and piglet's cheer on.

You are ready to drink crude oil because of Biafra.
Kwontinue with your useless blackmail.

ishawlar:
Iphone people. Oh sorry ipob people see una president dey enjoy for another peoples country nd he dey fight for freedom for mumu people.

Your most hate-filled Nigeria with most uncivilized leaders who think crude oil is all there is for a country to be, made him leave.
Your most uncivilized leaders who order soldiers to open fire with live ammunition on flag waving IPOB youths made him leave.

Nnamdi Kanu and wife. You are great people.

You have told the most lazy and indolent dependents on crude oil that diamond is not gonna be forever.

See fools running up and down, confused, secretly recording a man and his wife on bed --- and worse, uploading the photos and videos online.
Tufiakwa.

Why not when they were naked? As if it is a big deal for a man and wife to make love.

There is nothing the smell of crude oil cannot cause these people blackmailing agitators for restoration of Biafra.

Lemme tell you: crude oil in the Niger delta is the only thing that binds you and Nnamdi Kalu Biafra people together.

Lemme tell you: the most wealthy countries in the world have no crude oil.

Lemme tell you: crude oil is not all there is for a country to survive.

Let Nnamdi Kalu continue to be your nightmare.

RichBoy247:
Senator, go and change your house Constitution first.

As for State Police, have you imagined the Police being under the control of a State governor like Yahaya Bello, Chibuzom Wike, Ajimobi the Constituted Authority, Nasir El-Rufai, Rocha's Okoroawusa, Adams Oshiomole? In less than a month, Nigeria will be in flames.

Yahaya Bello would have directed his Police Commissioner to go and lock up anybody that bears Dino in Kogi State. Chibuzom Wike would have locked up all the people in Rotimi Amaechi's village. Ajimobi the Constituted Authority would have locked up all students of LAUTECH. After destroying Yinka Aiyefele's Radio House, Ajimobi would have also have gone to destroy Yinka Aiyefele's family house. By now, Adams Oshiomole would have locked up all PDP supporters in Edo State. As for Rocha's Okoroawusa, if you don't have APC membership card, then you cannot even walk on the streets of Imo. Tinubu the Jagaban too would have deported all Omo Yeebos back to Biafran land and dumped them at Upper Iweka.

The crisis of the First Republic started when the idiot called Ladoke Akintola who was the Premier of the Western Region started using the Region controlled police to harass and intimidate Awolowo's supporters. Many Awolowo's supporters and their properties were burnt alive by Akintola's thugs. That was where/when the slang "wetie" came about meaning "wet him/her with petrol and burn him/her". The aftermath effect of the crisis consumed the traitor Ladoke Akintola and ultimately lead to the end of the First Republic.

I support community policing and not police controlled by State or Local Governments.

True federalism necessitates state police, or regional police, for states that shall agree to congregate as region.

Boko Haram and so-called Bandits violence could have been a thing of the past if northern soldiers and police who understand the language of Boko boys/Bandits, and what they truly want, are up against Boko Haram.

Boko Haram wants a country to be governed with Islamic Sharia criminal justice system. It's the same unconstitutional Sharia criminal justice system adopted by twelve northern Nigeria's states beginning 1999, as a veiled protest against the emergence of the "unbeliever" Obasanjo, as president.

No amount of federal police or armed forces can defeat Boko Haram/Bandits.

Governing Nigeria under the present quasi unitary governance system is like postponing the EVIL DAY for all in Nigeria.

Leave the confines of Nigeria first and come back, so that you can't be pouring out this type of your retrogressive suggestions on the public space.

Is your Community Police you suggested and beat your chest immune to abuse by whoever wants to use them?

A constitution supervised by soldiers from northern Nigeria, soldiers hiding AK 47 rifle while dishing out orders to the drafters of the constitution on what should be, or not be included, in the constitution, a constitution imposed upon Nigerians without any REFERENDUM...

Nigeria's 1999 Constitution, as amended, is a joke taken too far.

Stallion93:
Nigeria Is the Only Country in The world That Owes Health workers, Very Unfortunate indeed. Life Of course has no Value in this unfortunate Country

In Imo state, the governor even did everything possible for the health workers to go.

But even as a dictator, Omar El Bashir never sent Operation Python Dance like squad to go and kill his country men en mass in South Sudan.

Nigeria consumes the lives of people in Nigeria to remain one Nigeria.

Chai. So Sudan still has brave soldiers, after 30 years of one dictator in power?

joshchisimdi:
A Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) officer who went off on rampage, reportedly killed his colleague and an expatriate over non-payment of salary. The NSCDC officer who was identified as just Francis, was reportedly deployed to guard LADOL Free Zone in Lagos and sources revealed the incident occurred on Monday.

The NSCDC officer reportedly killed his colleague on first shot at the SHI-MCI FZE yard, then the expatriate before going after his other colleagues who all managed to escape.

While Francis was apprehended after running out of bullets, the Korean expatriate who was working with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), later died at the Lagoon Hospital, Ikoyi, on Wednesday.



https://unclesuru.com/2019/04/11/nscdc-officer-kills-expatriate-and-colleague-over-non-payment-of-salary/

Gunman on killing spree
Copied from America.

Abagworo:
The bolded is enough to invalidate the fraud. It's like declaring Buhari winner after scoring 25% in only 15 Northern States while gaining majority votes with only 3 States like Kaduna, Kano and Katsina rigged to the extreme.

It's not yet time for you to tell Okorocha to start to mend fences in Orlu zone for his Senate aspirations.

Let Okorocha asphalt the roads he deliberately scrapped and abandoned in Orlu since 2013 for a beginning of fence mending.

Too many people are connected to powers that be, but Okorocha thought it was only him connected with Abuja in Imo state.

The road to IMSUTH Orlu abandoned by Okorocha for eight years is doing havoc on Okorocha politics.

Nd'Imo.
Let's allow the Mbaise man to govern.

But once he shows us that only Owerri is worth developing by govt in Imo state, we shove him off.

Okorocha lavished eight years of the federal allocations of the 27 local government areas in Owerri.

If Sam Mbakwe airport in Imo state is international airport,that means Calabar airport is super international airport.

Opinionated:
By Dr Charles Omole

In a previous article, I revealed some of the ways judges and court staff are induced by litigants to “buy” verdicts. Judicial corruption is a global phenomenon, although its worst manifestations are in developing countries.

By 2015, Transparency International (TI) found that 28% of citizens across Sub-Saharan Africa who had contact with a judge or court official paid a bribe. I am sure that is more like 80% in Nigeria. There is no one way to reform the Judiciary and we must find what works for Nigeria rather than simply copy what other nations did. A corrupt judiciary means that the legal and institutional mechanism designed to curb corruption generally will be handicapped. The Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct have been an important reference for the development of codes of conduct, there is increasing recognition of the limits of self-regulation by judges. In order to uphold judicial integrity, it is vital to balance legitimate concerns for the independence of the judiciary while keeping judges accountable and minimise abuses.

The judiciary is the public institution that is mandated to provide essential checks on other public institutions. A fair and efficient judiciary is the key to anti-corruption initiatives. There are willing are unwilling victims amongst these judges, but let’s explore some solutions.

Like I stated before; judicial corruption is not just about the judges. The clerks, registrars and admin staff in the courts are the worst culprits in most cases of corruption experienced by the public when dealing with the courts.

Firstly; the judiciary sadly will reflect the condition of the nation as a whole. We cannot have an honest judiciary in a largely dishonest nation. So what we can do is reduce occurrences. Corruption in the judiciary is a complex problem and needs to be addressed using variety of approaches.

Here are 11 ways we can reform:

REMOVE ALL PROSECUTORIAL POWERS AWAY FROM THE POLICE


There should be a reform that limits the job of the police only to investigating crime and passing the files to a separate prosecution agency for determination of whether to prosecute or not in ALL cases.

The police use their power to prosecute some crimes badly at the moment. They use it to fleece Nigerians and also to corrupt the Judges, especially at the Magistrate & High court level.



NEW JUDICIAL GUIDELINES MUST SET TARGETS FOR ALL JUDGES

Judges MUST obtain special permission from the Head of their respective courts if their performance misses the target is all cases. These targets will include for instance; how long it takes for a case to be completed, limit on how many adjournments can be granted etc. These must be targets with consequences.

FAIR & INDEPENDENT APPOINTMENTS PROCESS

Garbage in is garbage out. If the appointment of judges are not based on merit; corruption would have been introduced from the very beginning. Such judges will feel emboldened to continue with the corruption that brought them into office in the first place. Selection criteria should be objective and appointment decisions well documented, with public access to information on the decision-making process.

THREE-YEARLY 1-2-1 REVIEW OF JUDGES

All judges must have a one to one performance review every three years. This must be made compulsory and poor performing judges sacked. This will have the effect of strengthening internal oversight within the judiciary.

DIGITISATION OF THE COURT PROCESS

The governmentt should get rid of the mainly paper-based court processes & embrace modernisation via electronic judicial platforms. You can never get rid of papers in the court process; but you can reduce it drastically.

BETTER PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY OF CASES

There should be better public access and information on all cases in the spirit of Open Justice. The more the public know, the less chance of some backroom deal taking place.

REGULAR INDEPENDENT PUBLIC SURVEY OF COURT USERS

There should be surveys and consultations with court users measuring trends and reports of abuses. This MUST be done by a body independent of Courts and such public engagement will lead to more responsive service from the court staff.

STRONGER SENTENCING GUIDELINES

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The more fixed guidelines judges are made to work to; the more consistent judicial verdicts will be and many room for corruption will be blocked. In the UK, anytime a judge wishes to deviate from the sentencing guideline, you are required to write to the Head of Court to explain why. A Strong sentencing guideline will reduce judicial discretion but it has the effect of creating consistency.

BETTER PAY FOR COURT STAFF & JUDGES

Given the salient work they do, judges and court staff deserve better pay and remuneration. This will help reduce inherent temptation to demand bribes.

BETTER & REGULAR TRAINING FOR JUDGES

https://media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2017/11/National-Judicial-Council.jpg

Every judge must undergo yearly training and regular appraisal. Better and regular training will ensure that reform is seen as capacity building & not as a threat. These training exercises will need to emphasize judicial codes of conduct.

BETTER PROACTIVE INTERVENTION BY THE NJC

NJC’s current laid back posture must end. They will need to be more interventionist to protect the integrity of judicial processes.

NJC must be more muscular in disciplining judges and initiating investigations even if there have been no complaints. NJC should take on a monitoring role of judges and step in to query any abnormal or unreasonable verdicts.


Actually I have over 30 ideas of what we can do to minimise corruption and reform our judiciary in Nigeria but I will stop here for now. I hope there is enough said in this thread to give hope and help initiate needed reforms. The success of any reform efforts is predicated on strong political will and national ownership. Eradication of corruption from the justice system is a joint task involving not only judges and members of the legal profession, but literally all stakeholders, including all branches of government, the media and the civil society.


Source: Some Remedies to Judicial Corruption in Nigeria

Judicial Corruption in Nigeria is a fall-out of the corrupt and roguish unitary governance system in Nigeria.

You can't treat one in isolation of the other.

Restructure Nigeria to fiscal federalism. Judicial corruption shall stop.

You did not see the unitary governance system which breeds and feeds corrupt practices in Nigeria.

You decided to beat about the bush.


How did you not expect hyper corrupt practices in Nigeria's feeding bottle govt system where a few politicians form govt in Abuja, collect revenues from all over the country, retain a huge chunk of the revenues to themselves in central government, then share rest to the states and local government areas?

The earlier some people understand that crude oil proceeds are not what make countries rich and advanced, the better.

Continue to chase shadows but leave the substance.

Recover the stolen mandate.

The guber elections nationwide show that the presidential election was heavily rigged in favour of President Buhari.