₦airaland Forum

simplycarro:
Yoruba have changed
Kanu you are a bastard!!!!
I repeat you your father and mother are factory fitted bastards for bringing the Yorubas that gave your forefathers another chance in life after they were almost annihilated during your Biafran senseless war.
Bastards

alas

RRWraith:
John Terry leaving Chelsea (6 league titles) to join a bigger club Aston Villa (7 league titles). Amazing upgrade.

Honestly

Statsocial:
There is no such thing as NUC ranking. This is 41cu ranking based on popularity of websites. You ppl should stop this nonsense abeg.

Even the mods here seem a bit clueless about university rankings. This 4icu rankings were released months ago, even before webometrics. but no Nigerian university published it because they understand that it is completely non academic unlike webometrics which is a research ranking which uses four indicators which includes presence, impact, excellence and transparency. The transparency indicator measures total citations of all research publication on the web for open access publications while excellence measures total citations by top researchers in 26 disciplines. Webometrics gives an estimate of a university's research capabilities by using web tools to investigate how each universities research work is being used globally.

Even though webometrics is controversial in Nigeria, all universities accept it as an indicator of research relevance of some sort. But the most acceptable rankings of all is the Times Higher Education rankings which measures Teaching, Research, Citations, International outlook, Industry income and whose results are audited by PWC

well versed

Papiikush:
Money is never the root of evil. The love (worshiping) of money is the source of evil.

couldn't agree more

RIP to the eloquent orator!

STILL ON THE APPEAL TO KOGI STATE GOVERNMENT TO BE RESPONSIVE AND SHUN POLITICISING ISSUES OF GOVERNANCE.

By: Abdulmalik Hadi Adinoyi.


Just as helpless as we have been rendered with the situation at hand which is further compounded by deliberate attempts to stop every move to Publicly Demand for that which is our fundamental Human Right , Our decision to remain neutral in the ongoing lingering crisis between the Government of Kogi State and ASUU-KSU has obviously been seen and taken as ignorance of what we truly deserve as legal citizens of this state near collapse. Today being the 3rd of July, 2017 makes it exactly five Months that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Kogi State University Anyigba Chapter embarked on a total and comprehensive strike action to press home their demands from Kogi State Government on two count Charges which were as at that time(1) Immediate reconstituting of the University's Governing council (2) And the payment of Salary arrears to all categories of Academic Staff Members. I wouldn't waste time to explain how embarrassing it is to note that despite the importance of a Governing Council, the Government has to be requested to reconstitute it having dissolved it by herself. On the Salary arrears issues, the still yet to be Useful Staff Verification Exercise embarked upon by same government is said to account for why members of Academic Staff in a University can be owed up to as much as 5 months minimum. These were the demands of ASUU and as well as the most likely first remark by anybody who cares to know why the strike action was first of all embarked upon.

Not minding the unwillingness of government to accept the fact that it was a great mistake to have allowed business of the University to be carried out for as long as One year without a Governing Council which is of great importance in all ramification to the development of the Institution, we had a deep breath of relieve when the Governing Council was Reconstituted earlier with the hope that the council will be in a better position to educate those at the Corridors of power as to how a University and Perhaps Tertiary Institutions of Learning should be Run. We were full of hopes that soon, our story shall be that of a two bird killed with one stone. We had thought that with the obvious lack of due and deserving attention of government for so long towards the University, the governing Council will in all sincerity give satisfactory advise to those that are involved. Regrettably, after two months of Inauguration we are yet to see Practical effects that the new governing council have made in the quest to resolving the lingering crisis, what we can't tell is if their advises to the Visitor of the University is swept under the carpet as used to or the council itself lacks the Proper Technical Ability to resolving the crisis.

The category of Lecturers with the highest number of months of unpaid salaries are those employed in 2015, employment tagged by the Yahaya Bello government as Political Patronage. How? No one has been able to give a sincere and matured answer to this question. Some even alleged that some sections of the state were sidelined in the employment processes and as such lopsided. Wondered if people know that what we are talking about is the Job of Lecturing , enough to justify these employment is in the recognition of the fact that they were made based on needs. That the University is different from the Civil service is one big Fact that this government in the hands of seemingly Administrative Miss-Informed Fellows are yet to accept . The bone of contention as it is , is the refusal of Kogi State Government to sincerely address this issue. Isn't unwise for anyone to think that these Lecturers will return back to classroom after Five months without the main aim why they embarked on the strike action addressed ?

Unfortunately the people of Kogi came out enmass in 2015 to demand for change of government unknown to them that they were in for one chance. The Youths vehemently lead the struggle and clamoured for active youth participation in governance, little did they know that what they were venturing into is a struggle that will totally collapse the state. A government lead by Youths conveniently sitting and watch the only University owned by the State on Strike for five months after three months of similar situation in the preceding year is a total embarrassment and show of lack of sincerity of purpose.
Where are not too blind to see the fingers trying not only to frustrate our efforts as students to bare the inconvenient learning environment for learning a much difficult one but also doing everything possible to finally collapse a system that has long been protected from same.
Our voices may not be heard immediately but undoubtedly time defines everything and we are so sure that definitely it must be heard.

With ASUU coming out to clearly state their main point of request which is the payment of all outstanding arrears of Salaries, One is caused by Conscience to sympathise with the body and request of those who have rendered the Educational sector Epileptic to do the meaningful. If those employed in the Health Sector can be reinstated , what then is the offence of those employed similarly in Kogi State University. ASUU as a body as I believe is not out to persuade government to do that which is wrong. But that the reasons given for the withdraw of the services of these persons is not convincing. Indeed Kogi State Government have choosen the path of Politics and media propaganda spearheaded by jobless youths who less deserve positions of authorities that they have been mandated to handle, Peeps who are not close to having idea of how a University Administrative system should be are adding more pains to the injury already caused by carelessness by constantly accusing Leadership of the Union of affiliation with perceived opposition members of the state government to frustrate every effort to develop the state and do what is right. One wonders if the request of ASUU is not clear and meaningful enough to struggle for such that they need the help of an outsiders to remind them. A guilty conscience they say fears no accusation. This believe of theirs stems from their inability to put their house together notably. The rationale behind instructing students to get back to school without the readiness of their tutors to resume work is still unclear to us. Needless to remind government and every other stakeholders who Participated in this kangaro arrangement the implications of the presence of students in school without academic activities. The house rent paid by students have been wasted in a half way, frustration indeed can lead to crisis , that we are at home figuratively up till this time already indicates that the half-way graduands are automatically exempted from their NYSC this year.

Conclusively, like I have always said, a Union can not be more than a state government and instead of going about that the Union is being used by certain persons to truncate efforts of the state government which we have not seen should be taken away and let the main issue of concern be treated objectively and with all sincerity.
God Bless Kogi State.

notoriousbabe:
Evil things full north

bigoted savage

It is a public knowledge that indians do dedicate on the streen. you even perceive urine in the walkway of the Taj Mahal. there's need for india government to build public or mobile toilet all over india.

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi


The place of euphemism or genteelism, that is, intentionally indirect expressions that help us avoid causing offense or saying uncomfortable facts, is well-established in language use. But scholars of language have ignored a more subtle sort of genteelism, which is the use of geographic labels to give cover to our prejudices, to help us make willfully opaque references to ethnicity and race. I call this geographic or cartographic genteelisms.


In this week’s column I call attention to both international and Nigerian geographic genteelisms.


1. “West” : Although the term “West” is a cartographic referent and is one of the four cardinal directions in English, it really isn’t a strictly geographic referent when it’s used in international relations. It’s simply a word that helps people to avoid saying white, (culturally) Christian or post-Christian, industrialized or post-industrialized societies.


A society that is advanced, industrialized or post-industrialized, but isn’t racially “white” or culturally Christian or post-Christian is never referred to as being part of the “West.” Japan, for instance, isn’t in the "West." Nor is South Korea. Turkey is white, developed, geographically in Europe but isn’t in the “West” because it’s Muslim. The United States and Canada are in the North American continent, and they are in the “West,” but Mexico, another North American country, isn’t in the “West.” Apartheid South Africa, meanwhile, was regarded as being in the “West” (see “sub-Saharan Africa” below).


I think President Bill Clinton came close to admitting the terminological inexactitude of the notion of “the West” when he said, in a November 15, 1999 speech to the Turkish Grand National Assembly, “…a community we loosely refer to as 'the West' is an idea, it has no fixed frontiers. It stretches as far as the frontiers of freedom can go.”


Clinton was right that the “West” isn’t a faithful geographic referent, but he was wrong that it is delimited by “freedom,” which is an empty signifier, as semioticians (i.e., people who study the function and meaning of signs and symbols) call words that denote things or concepts that have no fixed, stable meaning or that “may mean whatever their interpreters want them to mean,” to quote Jeffrey Mehlman who wrote a seminal treatise on empty signifiers in 1972.


2. “Sub-Saharan Africa”: “Sub-Sahara” literally means “below the Sahara,” “sub” being a Latin prefix that means “below,” “under,” “lower,” etc. But “sub” also means “inferior,” as in “substandard,” “subaltern,” “subpar,” etc.—a reason some Africanists resent the term “sub-Saharan Africa.” They say it slyly connotes that black people are sub-human.


“Sub-Saharan Africa” is merely a geographic gentilism for “Black Africa,” that is, the part of Africa demographically dominated by and under the majority rule of black people. It’s a less racist-sounding way to distinguish “white” North Africa from the rest of Africa. Interestingly, South Africa wasn’t considered a part of “sub-Saharan Africa” until white minority rule ended in the early 1990s.


Out of Africa’s UN-recognized 54 countries, 46 are designated as “sub-Saharan” African countries by the UN Development Program, although four of the “sub-Saharan” countries—Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Chad— are actually not below the Sahara. But they are “black.”


A Wake Forest University scholar by the name of Tatenda Mashanda didn’t mince words about the racist underpinnings of the term: “[It] is a way of saying ‘Black Africa’ and talking about black Africans without sounding overtly racist,” he wrote. https://www.africanexponent.com/bpost/rethinking-the-term-sub-saharan-africa-36


3. “Inner city”: In the United States and Britain (particularly in London), black neighborhoods in big cities are called inner cities. The expression insulates white people from the guilt of saying “poor black neighborhoods.”


4. “Hood”: The short form of “neighborhood,” it’s a euphemism in American English to denote “inner city,” that is, a place where poor black people live.


5. “Ghetto”: This technically means a restricted part of a city where socially disaffiliated people live. It initially referred to the secluded settlements of Jewish people in Europe. Now it’s a synonym for “inner city,” and “hood.”


6. “Urban”: Although this term literally means concerned with or about a city, “urban” now means, at least in American English, “black” or “African American.” People who want to avoid saying “black” or “inner city” or, worse, “ghetto” now say “urban.” “Urban culture” now simply means black culture. “Urban violence” now means black-on-black violence. “Urban music” is now a synonym for hip-hop music. This is because most African Americans now live in urban areas.


7. “Rural”: This is now routinely used for poor, working-class white Americans. So the expression “rural folks” has now become a convenient shorthand for poor white people. This is an interesting reversal. Generations ago, black people were associated with rural America. They were sharecroppers in rural areas. After slavery ended, they moved to urban areas in droves and changed the demographics and culture of American cities forever. This instigated what has been called “white flight,” that is, it led white people to flee urban areas. Poor whites went to rural areas and financially secure ones went to the outskirts of the city. See next point.


8. “Suburban”: A suburb is a place affluent white (and a few black, Asian and Hispanic) people live. The word “suburb” and its inflection, “suburban,” are now linguistic markers of wealth and prosperity. To say someone lives in a suburb is a linguistic cue to say they are wealthy or at least middle class. I know this sounds counter-intuitive to Nigerian English speakers who know suburban dwellers to be mostly poor people who can’t afford to live in the city center.


9. “Global South”/Global North”: In international relations, “Global South” refers to developing countries while “Global North” denotes wealthy nations, but these are actually geographically meaningless expressions because it’s impossible to impose a cartographic order on the distribution of wealth and poverty. That’s why although the United States, the world’s most prosperous nation, is considered a part of the “Global North,” it’s geographically close to poor South American countries that are in the “Global South”—in common with African and Middle Eastern countries.
Synonyms for “Global North” and “Global South” are “First World” and “Third World.” These terms started out as ideological constructs during the Cold War between the USA and the USSR. “The First World” consisted of the capitalist bloc led by the US, and the “Second World” was the communist bloc led by the USSR. The “Third World,” also called the Non-Aligned Nations, identified neither with the USA nor with the USSR.
Over the years, however, these terms acquired approbatory and pejorative connotations. The “First World” has come to mean “white,” industrialized and post-industrialized “Western” societies, and the “Third World” has come to mean societies that are not the “West.” Second World is now barely used, but when it is, it’s used to refer to societies that are thought to be more economically prosperous than the “Third World” but nonetheless behind the “First World” in developmental terms. Because of the imprecision of the terms, the Associated Press Stylebook discourages the use of “Third World.” It recommends “developing countries” instead.


10. “Middle East”: This simply means Arabs or Arab-speaking people. Although Israel is geographically in the Middle East, Israelis aren’t often thought of, or even referred to, as Middle Easterners in popular discourse. That’s why Donald Trump told Israeli leaders (in Israel!) on May 22, 2017 that he “Just got back from the Middle East,” referring to his trip to Saudi Arabia.
But Berbers who are in North Africa are easily identified as Middle Easterners. Even Egypt, which is geographically in Africa, is considered “Middle East” because it’s predominantly Arab and Muslim. There is even a “Greater Middle East,” which includes countries like Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and predominantly Muslim Central Asian countries like Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. In other words, “the Middle East” is almost becoming synonymous with “the Muslim world.”


11. “Core Northerners”: In Nigerian English, this term basically means culturally/ethnically Hausa or Hausa-speaking Muslims. An ethnically Hausa Christian isn’t a “core northerner.” Nor is a non-Hausa Muslim northerner. Initially a neologism of the Lagos press, it has been embraced by Hausa Muslim northerners since at least the year 2000 in response to President Obasanjo’s apparent preferential treatment of non-Hausa, non-Muslim Northerners in political appointments between 1999 and 2007.
Hausa Muslim Northern elites, who had dismissed the notion of a “core North” as a Southern media rhetorical strategy to “divide” the North, appear to have now accepted the marginality of other Northerners when it comes to the tokenistic benefits of “northernerness.”


12. “Middle Belters”: On the surface, the term appears to refer to Nigerians who are caught in the mid region of the country. But that’s deceptively misleading. It actually means Northern Christians who are not ethnically Hausa. It excludes non-Hausa northern Muslims and Hausa Muslims in Nigeria’s central states. It also excludes Hausa Christians, although they are more welcome to this identity marker than Hausa Muslims. That’s why a non-Hausa Christian from southern Borno, or from southern Kebbi, which is as far north as you can get, is considered a “Middle Belter,” but a Hausa Muslim from the central state of Niger isn’t.
Middle Belt intellectuals try to explain away this contradiction by drawing a distinction between the “geographical Middle Belt” and the “cultural Middle Belt.” But this is merely a tediously roundabout way to say a Middle Belter is a non-Muslim, non-Hausa northerner.
In other words, just like “core north” is a geographic genteelism for “Hausa Muslim North,” “Middle Belt” is a geographic genteelism for a Christian ethnic minority from what colonial cartographers designated as the “north” since the early 1900s.


13: “South-southerners”: This basically means southerners who are neither Igbo nor Yoruba. In other words, it means southern ethnic minorities.


http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2017/06/geographic-genteelisms-how-we-use.html?m=1

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi


In a recent TV interview, Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed said he had never lied. That’s a lie, Lai’s latest lie. “I have always asked anybody to come out and say Alhaji Lai Mohammed, this is what you said at this point and we found it to be a lie and nobody so far has come out to say anything,” he said . “You can fault me on emotions, but you can never fault me on facts and figures.”


I initially thought this was a fake news quote, similar to the one that claimed Lai said President Buhari was taking Nigerian drugs in his London hospital, so I dismissed it. But when even people I respect began to share the quote on Facebook, I decided to look it up. It turned out that Mr. Mohammed actually said it.


No non-partisan, independent-minded person would dispute the fact that Lai Mohammed’s entire career as Minister of Information and Culture has been defined by a bewilderingly extravagant fondness for willful and easily falsifiable lies. His first name doesn’t just share an uncanny phonemic kinship with “lie”; he actually embodies lies in the most audaciously disreputable way imaginable.


All government information managers lie, but Lai’s lies are unmatched in their coarseness, brazenness, vulgarism, and disdain for the intelligence of Nigerians. It is impossible to chronicle the countless lies Lai has told in the last two years, but several writers have taken it upon themselves to list the most notable ones. See, for instance, Ọlaọha Ezeja’s “ Top 50 lies of Lai Mohammed. ” https://ezeja.com/top-50-lies-lai-mohammed/


I do not agree with all the items in the list, but at least 20 of the examples given in the article are accurate, and only one example needs to be accurate to give the lie to Lai’s recklessly bold claim that he has never lied.


Here is an example of a particularly impudent and cheeky lie that still rankles many Nigerians. In June 2016, Lai Mohammed told ChannelsTV that Boko Haram was singularly responsible for the tomato scarcity that gripped the nation.


“People talk about the price of tomato but they forget one thing: that the price of tomato today is a direct result of the fact that we have lost two years harvest to Boko Haram insurgency,” he said. “Most of the people you see riding Okada in Lagos are people who would have been in the farm to produce consumable items.”


That was a transparently intentional, not to talk of offensively disrespectful, lie. The truth was that the tomato scarcity was caused by a pest called “ tuta absoluta ,” which destroyed up to 40 percent of tomatoes in some northern states. Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Audu Ogbe said the disease affected tomatoes in Kaduna, Plateau, Jigawa, Kano, and Katsina states—states that are not, in fact, beset by Boko Haram insurgency.


On February 8, 2017, Lai Mohammed said Buhari was “hale and hearty” and in no health hazard of any sort. “I can say it without any equivocation, Mr President is well,” he said. “He is hale and he is hearty. No question about that. I want to assure you, Mr President is well and he is in absolutely no danger. Mr. President, like I said elsewhere, is probably a victim of his own transparency.” Another big, fat lie.


It was President Buhari himself who punctured Lai Mohammed’s obnoxiously cocksure mendacity when he returned from London. “I couldn’t recall being so sick since I was a young man, including in the military, with its ups and downs,” the
president said. “I couldn’t recall when last I had blood transfusion. I couldn’t recall honestly, I can say in my 70 years.”
How does this admission by the president square with Lai Mohammed’s wildly farcical and dishonest claim that the president was “well,” “hale and hearty,” and “in absolutely no danger”? And this man said he has never lied and that no one has ever brought evidence of his lies to him?
Is Lai Mohammed being knowingly mischievous? Or is he the victim of a psychiatric disorder called “pseudologia fantastica” or “mythomania,” that is, chronically compulsive lying that causes liars to believe their own lies? I leave that to Nigerian psychiatrists to determine.
But I do know that the current APC government is founded on outright lies, so it’s only logical that its spokesperson will invariably resort to lies to defend the government’s interminable lies. You can’t deploy truth to defend lies.
American service delivery, in both public and private sectors, is anchored on the philosophy of “under-promise and over-deliver.” That’s why the postal service here, for instance, tells its patrons that their mails will be delivered in eight working days, but it actually ends up being delivered typically in three days. I told a friend sometime ago that Nigerian service delivery philosophy appears to be the opposite: “over-promise and under-deliver.”
But the current APC government has upped the ante: its entire being is anchored on the premise of “over-promise and un-deliver.” We thought “overpromise and under-deliver” was bad, and the APC government came along and pushed Nigeria to the lowest watermark of “over-promise and un-deliver.”
That isn’t the only philosophy of negativity and nothingness that the Buhari government has inaugurated and executed in the last two years. While past Nigerian governments were “ill-prepared,” the current APC government isn’t even ill-prepared; it is simply unprepared. While past governments misgoverned; this government is un-governing.


When you have a government that is anchored on negatives, on nothingness, on barefaced mendacity, it is too much to expect its spokesperson to be anything other than a self-deceiving “lying liar,” to imitate Femi Adesina’s absurdly pleonastic “wailing wailer.”

If anything less than a life jail term happens to Evans, half of our population will become Kidnappers by 2040, the other half Kidnapped.

Definitely not a big fan of his analogue staff verification exercise and some of his political expeditions. But this thread is misleading.

Its not just this transformer he commisioned but the flag off of a programme he tagged 'rural electrification'. a scheme aimed at providing electricity to communities that never had access to it. there are over five transformers and other electricity materials designated to that community. They just used this one as rallying point not the only project.

Definitely not a big fan of his analogue staff verification exercise and some of his political expeditions. But this thread is misleading.

Its not just this transformer he commisioned but a programme he tagged 'rural electrification'. a scheme aimed at providing electricity to communities that never had access to it before. there are over five transformers and other electricity materials designated to that community. They just used this one as rallying point not the only project.

MaziOmenuko:
It haff begun. In case you are not yet up to date, here are the 10 steps involved in recalling a senator:



As it is, steps 1 - 4 has been achieved. The verification involved in steps 5 and 6 are near formality, I am sure that INEC will do that one with ease.
So the major step remaining is step 8 which is just like an election; but in this case, it will be a vote to recall and majority will win. I think the hard part has been achieved. The next step should be easier.

It will be interesting to see how Dino scales thru this one. Will he:

A. Go to court to stop the process or wait to see the end?
B. Lobby to have more voters on the day of actual referendum (this is the riskiest step)

His only move will be to go to court and try to frustrate the process. From the lower courts to appeal and to supreme while a court injuction is given to hurt the process until the final judgement.

It just 22 months till the end of his tenure, I guess he would go to court.

But then, this is interesting for our democracy.

are you a carpenter?














coz you nailed it!!!

I couldn't agree more, True fedralism and regional control is the way to go if Nigeria must move forward and remain as one. Restructuring is the key word.

the fact is that Nigerians has never been out of ideas on how best to run this country, the challenges had always been implementation problem.


The burden of of governance seemed overwhelming for The federal government. And the idea of sharing national resources has rendered the state government lazy and local government redundant.

enough has been said on this issue. implement the thing already!

What of Gov. Yahaya Bello of kogi state?

this Gov. is ridiculing himself in all front. state governors are the bane of Nigeria

GregJo:
subscene.com should be your friend

sorry bro.. i dont get it. i downloaded few episodes from the site but it doesn't seemed to be working on the episodes i already have. pls how do i go about it?

iamnlia:
Addic7ed.com
Every damn tv series

thanks buddy! will check it out

pls help a brother out.. how do i download subtitle for series or movies? anybody

hmmm

Clown

Are those politicians animals? welfare of the governed isn't a priority no more.

From all indications, this Ortom guy lacks vision

Hmmm. Jungle justice, a bane to our legal system in Africa

So what?

joe4real12:
Stop sharing what is not beneficial.

u are really bitter.. go and sleep

joe4real12:
Misplaced priority.
Yahaya Bello has not been impeached, Dino is your headache. Have you told your Gov to pay salary?

Useless OP

ain't you getting ahead of your self with this bitterness? i came across it online and decided to share. why the insult?

do u even know if I'm a kogite?

PRESS RELEASE


We the combined peoples of Kogi West Senatorial Zone of Kogi State are here today to initiate the process of recall for Senator Dino Melaye. We are here to pick the forms to commence the process from INEC.


Let is be known that all of the Local Government Areas comprising Kogi West Senatorial Zone are united in their resolve to recall Senator Dino Melaye and remove the disgrace he has become to all us.


We represent the following LGAs:

Yagba West

Yagba East

Mopamuro

Ijumu

Kabba/Bunu

Koton-Karfe

Lokoja


We have compiled the key reasons below to show the world that Senator Dino Melaye’s recall is not only long overdue, but the right thing to do in the best interests of Kogi West Senatorial Zone, Kogi State, Nigeria, and in fact the institution and dignity of the distinguished Senate of the Federal Republic Republic.


ATROCITIES BY  SENATOR DINO MELAYE FOR WHICH HIS CONSTITUENTS NOW SEEK HIS RECALL


He has not deemed it fit to have a Constituency Office in Kogi West Senatorial Zone even after 2 years in the Senate, meaning he has no presence in the Zone and we have no way of reaching our Senator.

He has no projects initiated in the constituency after 2 years in the Senate.

He is known for a continuous flow of irresponsible utterances which embarrass the constituency. For example: ‘I will beat…impregnate you’ referring to a fellow Senator and the wife of the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu.

Violence, thuggery and other Electoral Offences against our people during elections.

He insulted former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
6. He insulted President Muhammadu Buhari.

He not only insulted Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, but he travelled all the way from Abuja to the leader's home in Lagos looking for a fight.

He insulted the Sultan of Sokoto,calling him an Islamist with a Muslim agenda in Kogi State, simply because His Eminence visited to celebrate the 1st Anniversary of the Government of His Excellency, Governor Yahaya Bello.

He routinely insults other leaders, elders and personalities.

He persists in portraying our Senatorial Zone as hostile to the Administrations of His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari and His Excellency, Governor of Yahaya Bello of Kogi State respectively, for no just cause and not minding the impact on us.

He is notorious for conduct unbecoming of a Senator in the way and manner he relates to the Senate President as if he were a bodyguard or houseboy instead of a full Senator representing a proud constituency like us.

He is enmeshed in a pending certificate scandal - we now believe he lied to us about his academic qualifications, part of the basis of which he sold his candidature.

He has brought home no dividends of democracy to our Senatorial District.

He paints our dear Kogi State bad in the Press at every opportunity he gets for his own selfish political interests, many times without even a clear understanding of what he is talking about.

His source of wealth is questionable to us and certainly not the model we wish our youth to emulate.

He is indecent and deliberately corrupts public morals, for example, he routinely gives youths in the constituency who approach him for help N1000.00 or less, telling them to use it to buy condoms.

He is notoriously corrupt and has been caught on video scheming steal the resources of Kogi State among himself and a few cronies calling us elephants to be killed and shared.

He is an electoral fraud and has been caught on audio offering a Judicial Officer money to decide an electoral matter in his favour.

He has no respect for Party democracy, and routinely flouts lawful decisions and directives of even his own party leadership.


Dino Melaye has breached multiple codes of conduct by his deliberate acts and omissions and it is time the authorities acted to enforce the laws and the Constitution.


Whether the appropriate authorities act or not, we the people of his constituency who are at the receiving end of his shameful deeds have run out of patience and are resolved to recall and replace him with a decent and people-oriented Senator.


We understand the requirements of S69 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 regarding the recall of such a member of the National Assembly and hereby assure everyone that Kogi Central Senatorial Zone is united in this and will achieve it.


We hereby give the Kogi State Government notice that we are going through with this and if they will not help us, they must also not try to stop us or put obstacles in our way, in particular, everything the Law requires to be done by the Administration in Lokoja in aid of this process must be done with despatch.


God Bless Kogi West Senatorial Zone. God bless Kogi State.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


Thank you



http://thenigerialawyer.com/just-in-constituents-protest-to-inec-demand-recall-of-dino-melaye/