₦airaland Forum

djon78:
■ Will your brain recognize the news when you are aloof Mtshew...... During Buhari era I remember a girls school based in Anambra won awards in silicon valley California Vice president osibanjo welcomed them back Another girl's school based in Anambra won another award overseas So stop yarning what you are ignorant of

What the heck is this gobbledegook abeg! Stop already! 😣😣😣😣

DamnnNiggarr:
I am deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Hon. Ekene Abubakar Adams, a member of the Labour Party in the House of Representatives from Kaduna State. On behalf of our Party and the Obidient family worldwide, our heartfelt condolences go out to his wife, family and loved ones.
His untimely death at the age of 39 is a tragic loss to the nation. It is in addition a blow to the much needed youth input into our political space as a nation. This tragic loss has come at a time when there is a nationwide clamour for increased youth participation in our political leadership. As Chairman of the House Committee on Sports and Representative of the Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency, Hon. Adams has already, in his short tenure, made significant contributions to the development of sports in Nigeria.

Leave all of this matter abeg! How much damage did the man do to Nigerian people and how can Nigerians recoup their losses even over his dead body o'jare!

WriterNig:
“Those behind sponsoring the chaos in the Republic of Kenya, shame on them because they are sponsoring violence against our democratic nation,” Ruto said at an event in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru on Monday.
“I want to ask the people of US Ford Foundation how they will benefit from the money they give to sponsor violence.”
“We are going to tell them if they are not interested in democracy in Kenya, if they are going to sponsor violence in Kenya, if they are going to sponsor anarchy, we are going to call them out, and we are going to tell them that they either style up or they leave.” The president stressed.
The Ford Foundation, which aims to promote social justice and democratic values, has not responded to Ruto’s allegation.

If Africans never blame America, the US government, and maybe even Bill Gates, dem never talk finish! The delusion is real ooo!

justmondris:
How much loan have we collected so far all in the name of this Solar power scam?

It go don pass over $10 billion in the last 25 years o. Nigerians are in serious gbese! No be joke at all! The scam is real ooo!

DMerciful:
■ You're the one asking people to use cucumber if they can no longer afford tomato. The anticorruption agencies were setup to fight corruption. Citizens must get them to fight corruption instead of citizens to take that responsibility. You think prosecuting people who have a lot of money from stealing state resources are easy to prosecute?
I told you earlier, you don't give practical solutions but textbook solutions

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Thank goodness the Kenyan Kids have helped prove to the world that the over 200 million Nigerians living in Nigeria are instead the cowards of Africa! 🤣🤣🤣

IfnobeGod20:
■ I think you're misconstruing issue. The House Assembly have no power to singlehandedly remove a chairman but can recommend his removal, just the same way the national assembly cannot remove an elected official at the national level but can recommend to the executive or president for the removal or discipline of such person.
■ Put in mind we are operating a federating unit. The third tier is directly under the control of the second tier of government.
■ No doubt there is no half autonomy but in principle that is what the local government areas are enjoying. You cannot say you give autonomy to a local government areas but the second tier of government will still be the one controlling it and even organize its election, then, where lies the autonomy?
■ The governor will always determine who and who will be the chairman by only handing over to the chairman of the state SIEC who he wished the chairman should announce as the winner while the state assembly regulate their activities by formulating laws to guide them and exercise oversight functions on them.

1. The State and the National House of Assembly are empowered by the Constitution with the right to remove elected leaders from office including the President himself.

2. If you pay close attention to section 162, you will, again, find that control over the LG(third-tier) is ceded, not to the State Governors but to the National House of Assembly and the State House of Assembly. The only interaction the State has with the LG is in maintaining the Joint account where funds are dropped for all LGS in the State — nothing else.

3. I don't know what exactly you mean by half autonomy at all. And again the Governors are by law granted no control over LG matters and funds.

4. Not according to the Constitution which instead has it that the LG Chairman's are elected by the people. Please visit section 7 of your Constitution for more on this.

IfnobeGod20:
■ You're very wrong here my brother. Each 774 local government areas in Nigeria have its stipulated allocation for each month. No local government that doesn't have an aggregate amount allocated to it by federal allocation but they are aggregately sent together with the state allocation to a joint account mainly manage by the state governor.
■ The local government areas generate its own IGR and spend. Have you heard before about local government tax collectors. They are many all over the local council areas in Nigeria. You will see them with local government tickets that they use to collect tax about and on the road.
There was a time I have the spreadsheet of allocation to state and local government but I have lost them now.

1. Section 162 of the Constitution instead has it that the account is maintained, not managed, by the State Governor.

2. The LG-generated IGR generated is not a part of the topic of discussion here at all.

OlujobaSamuel:
I never used the word sue, there is difference between sue and charging to court for criminal proceedings.
Sue is for civil matters.
Criminal cases are prosecuted, you can't prosecute someone as an individual, only the govt can, even if you report a case to the police with a criminal dimension, eg, fraud, the police will charge it to court, court refer it to DPP, DPP takes up the case, you the complainant then turn to prosecuting witness

What in the world is this one now rambling on about for Pete's sake!

blowjohn:
∆ And the backups are what they are. For backup trips.

Ah, I see! You decide that they are backups and that is how it should be? wow.. the programming is for real! 😀😀😀

DMerciful:
We should not be providing alternative to our suffering.
We should get EFCC and ICPC to do their job instead bending ourselves to accommodate their ineptitude

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blowjohn:
∆ Speculations. Backups are not for everytime use na

You are the one who claimed they were to be used as backups without evidence.

Decotecho:
∆ All talk. What actions have you been part of that succeeded in modifiying the political/legal landscape?
All I'm hearing is the usual, "they should do . . . ", "you people should do". Easier said than done.

If you lived here, you would have seen me among those working to collect petitions and rally people to vote and more. I don't sit back and allow injustice fly in my community.

blowjohn:
∆ It's possible through 2 planes are the ones he and the VP will fly in na.
The others are for backup/security etc

Who told you the supposed backup planes are not put to regular use?

djon78:
∆ Check the scores of Anambra based students in national exams
Anambra based students have won awards in the West
I remember the one won in sillicon valley California and other overseas based competition won by Anambra based students
All to previous investments by Peter Obi in education

Stop yammering abeg! The state is best known for school completion rate and that is what is available.

ezekuche:
which tribe in Nigeria is more tribalistic?

There is King among Racists.

Umuinyioku:
Not nonsense my brother. Deliberately posted to draw attention of the public to her plight.
She needs help.

Nonsense!

DMerciful:
That would be a busy body citizen that has excess money to waste

That is just you are concerned with? You are robbed daily of your right and mandate in that country problem is being construed as a busybody citizen by people whose opinions should not even be worth a Kobo?

Bennycollins:
The truth is Nigerians mostly rejected the APC on the ballots. There is a reason why over 80 percent of the results on the IREV can't be read.
Sadly, they will still snatch and run away with it in 2027.

They snatched it once and the response is to let them snatch it again? Una no fit snatch am back like the Kenyans dey do now? Why are they not waiting until Ruto's first term expires to do something about their mandate? They are not as "wise" as Nigerians, abi ? Ugh!

vikiphy89:
However, the governor said that records available to him showed the state is paying N30,000 minimum wage.
So APC miscreants no see this statement?

So, the governor no dey interact with his own people at all to know what is it that they are dealing with? I mean telling us that a Governor is unaware of how much his own office pays for minimum wage is telling us the government is removed from the problems of the people.

April4th:
∆ I've said it before. Somebody or a group of people at the Abia state ministry of finance has been diverting part of the workers salary. The state government needs to look into it properly, even the state accountant general is a big suspect.

Wetin be this tales by moonlight abeg!

OlujobaSamuel:
∆ A private citizen can't initiate a criminal proceedings against anyone, that's why the case is always between the state and individual/group/company

A private citizen cannot sue an individual/a company/or government agency?

ElevationD:
∆ Have we been practicing federalism in the true sense? Did you take your time to read the decision of Justice Agim?

It is not magical system or driven by spirits. It depends a great deal on the people working together to make the system work.

Paraman:
I never said LCDAs are created by the Nigerian constitution

The creation or not of LCDAs do not matter.

Paraman:
What's your point exactly?

LCDAs do not matter as fad as the Constitution is concerned.

ITbomb:
■ I am not against LGA autonomy but it is not the duty of the supreme Court to add or subtract anything in the constitution that is the work of the legislature
■ When you suspend State LG Joint account as prescribed in the constitution (subtraction) and Create a third tier of government (addiction) without enabling laws on how the allocation will be channeled. That is an aberration.
■ For the education of those who may not know, Fed govt do not share allocations, any money from the federation account must be agreed by the States and the FG before one Naira is shared. Federal then take their share, states take their share and that of the LGA in the joint account So what the Supreme Court did was to give FG the powers to sign on behalf of the LGA and take their share of the allocation which is more of centralizing instead of moving towards federalism.

1. Abeg make you tell our people oo! The ruling by the Supreme Court— which I still hope it will reverse— contravenes, not interprets, the content of the constitution.

2. Not to add that the supposed suspension takes away power and control from the National and State Houses of Assembly in this case—subsections 4, 5,6, 7, and 8 of section 162 in this case — prescribed in the Constitution over the account.

3. This equally breaks the separation that currently exists between the 3 tiers of Government, handling direct control and power over the 3rd tier to the FG, thereby creating more problems for the people who elect them.

Paraman:
I disagree with The Punch, state government still have the power to create LCDA. Otti is owing LG workers at least 11 month arrears.

LCDAs are state-level creations. They are no recognized by the Constitution and so do not matter except to the States that have them for state-level reasons.

IfnobeGod20:
■ The local council have no financial autonomy because their allocation is sent into a state joint account manage and control by the state governor. The governor only give whatever he likes to each local council.

This is wrong! The account is called "State Joint Local Government account". That it is called that does not then mean it should be interpreted as an account that belongs both to the state and the Local Government. Rather, it is merely an account were the aggregate Federal allocations and State IGR meant for all the local governments are to be deposited. The National and State Houses of Assemblies decides how much each LG gets from that account.

IfnobeGod20:
■ It seems you don't know what is going on in this country. The state assembly regulate the activities of the local government areas. Anytime any of the chairmen have issue with the governor, the governor used the instrumentality of the State House Assembly to invite the chairman to the House Committee on local government affairs and before you know it, the same House Assembly will recommend the removal of the said chairman.
■ All this half autonomy will not give us the desired result until the constitution truly separate the local government areas away from the state hand and make it truly third tier of government. Let their counselors form their own House Assembly and formulate laws for them and control the local council oversight. If the governor have a bit of control of it, it would not work.

1. Oh, I know what is going on in the country. My concern was that your previous statement was not in fact accurate. It is the House of Assembly that has the power to remove an elected LG official, not the Governor at all since the Constitution is clear that the Governor has no power or control over the LGs, who are elected officials. The abuse of power by the Senators who are paid by the Governors is an entirely different issue.

2. There are no half-autonomies. The system defined in the Constitution almost mirrors what we have here in the United States where the three tiers of government function in pretty much the same way. Yes, there is rampant abuse of power and crime in the Nigerian situation and this is to be expected. Why? Because the drivers in a democracy, the Nigerian people, are nowhere to be found in the driver's seat. They seem to have taken a backseat to their democratic system and that cannot work at all since democracy is a system of Government for the people by the people.

Maxymilliano:
So long as JAC remains, no autonomy for LG yet. Relevant sections of the Constitution will need to be amended but the question now is, will the governors allow it to succeed?

Stop repeating the stewpid lies fed you by the very same politicians stealing from you lot. The illegal access of the State Governors to an account they have no authority granted them by law to is the problem, not the account itself.

bixton:
■ There has always been financial autonomy in the constitution. What the court just did is to place emphasis on it.

It emphasized it right before it then turned it all on its head by granting FG direct access to all 774 LGs.

FreeStuffsNG:
■ It matters because of sociological perspectives which now defines the definition of federalism on the account of their history. If our democracy had come before their own, perhaps the definition of federalism will be 3 tiers of constituents and we may now be questioning their own with 2 tiers. This is social science so there's nothing absolute.
■ I can argue that we are not even Federalist if we are to adopt the American definition of federalism. It's either federalism or not Federalism. We are a democracy with 3 tier constituents, whatever word that defines that is what we practice.

That is bullsheet and you know it.

2. No you cannot since these things are not based on your private delusions but on established ideas and structures. Stop rambling abeg!

FreeStuffsNG:
■ Rather than chasing shadows at the Supreme Court, the Bola Tinubu Administration should focus on the political and economic restructuring of the country along the lines of true federalism. Federalism, as envisioned by the founding fathers, was intended to balance power between the central government and the constituent units, ensuring efficient governance, fostering development, and accommodating the country’s vast ethnic, cultural, and regional diversity.
The journey towards federalism has been fraught with challenges, inconsistencies, and deviations from its core principles. Nigeria’s federal structure was designed to prevent the concentration of power at the centre and promote regional autonomy.
The principle of federalism was meant to allow each region to govern itself while contributing to the collective unity and progress of the country. This was seen as essential for a country as diverse as Nigeria, with over 250 ethnic groups and many cultural identities.
Despite having the constitutional framework for federalism, Nigeria operates more as a centralised system. The Federal Government wields significant legislative and executive powers, often encroaching on areas that should fall under state jurisdiction. With 68 items, the Exclusive Legislative List entrenches the impunity of the Federal Government.
■ States should stop the illegal practice of dissolving elected councils and appointing caretaker committees. Local elections should be free, fair, and credible to ensure accountability.
The journey to true federalism in Nigeria requires a collective commitment to restructuring the current political and administrative framework. By bridging the gap between the theoretical foundations of federalism and the practical realities, Nigeria can harness its diversity, foster development, and build a more united and prosperous country.

So we agree that the Supreme Court ruling was in violation of true federalism as defined in the Constitution? OK!

2. Glad you pointed out that the actions of the Governors in trying to usurp power and control over the LGs are illegal.