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Ournaija: How are we sure they were sacked for the afore mentioned reasons? Something tells me that they were sacked because there are PDP members.

SimonAndal: No Nigerian name, that's for sure. If I had a say in the matter, my 'rents wouldn't've given me a local (Igbo/Nigerian) name, seeing as they both have English names. :-C
I like these names (they sound exotic):
Stefan
Lucian
Maximillan
André
Alexei
Yugo
Yuri
Alistair

How old are you?

ronkebp: Really? is it not the same person that ruled and it was as if Nigeria did not have a president due to his illness, abi am i missing something here

salaksmana: @Bontee nothing is wrong when it happens to be a country known for mass investment in Agric. Do Nigerians really need a foreign expect to teach them how to farm? don't we have enough experts around here (even in mechanize farming)? What we are saying is enough of all these travellings and talks, let start something (we already saw Oyes and Omeal o) then we can now see reasons for all those travellings.

emiye: ^^^ No it wont.

The FG is so skilled, and undoubtedly the best in the world in signing MOU's.

This wont fly unfortunately and painfully, time would confirm

Beaf: He might or might not turn out to be Yoruba. As far as I am concerned, that is absolutely immaterial and of zero consequence; the simple fact is that a boko haram commander has been arrested. It is plainly id!otic to argue about that along ethnic lines.

Why Salami should be reinstated – Uwais C’ttee report


On February 2, 2012 · In Law & Human Rights

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By Paul Odenyi, Abuja

The Justice Lawal Uwais Stakeholders Judicial Reform Committee has indicted the National Judicial Council, NJC, of the Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu era of high handedness and abuse of procedure in its recommendation for the suspension of the Justice Ayo Salami, former President of the Court of Appeal, PCA.

The Committee therefore, in its recommendations which had been submitted to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher asked for the recall of Justice Salami from suspension.

In asking for the recall of Salami, the committee noted that the reconciliation between the former CJN, Katsina-Alu and the former PCA was critical to the renewal of the good reputation of the Judiciary in the country.

A special sub committee of three comprising Justice Mamman Nasir, Justice Umaru Kalgo and Prince Bola Ajibola which was mandated to deliberate on the issue said in its recommendation that to maintain integrity of the Judiciary, restore confidence in both the Bar and Bench, the new Chief Justice of Nigeria and his National Judicial Council, NJC, should revoke the suspension and restore Salami to his position as PCA.

The report also said effort will be made to ask Justice Salami to withdraw his suit against the NJC and Katsina-Alu, while reconciliation between the two should be promoted .

Giving reasons for its recommendation, the sub-committee said it reviewed the reports submitted to the NJC by the Justices Babalakin and Umaru Abdullahi as well as the one by Justice Ibrahim Auta, chief Judge of Abuja High Court on the matter.

According to the report of three committees set up by the NJC to look into the matter, non found reason to indict Salami and wondered how the recommendation for his suspension (Salami) was contrived.

“This sub-committee does not intend therefore, to go into them in details. Suffice it to say that when this matter arose and it was realized that it would damage the integrity of the judiciary, the NJC appointed a committee from its members to reconcile the parties and maintain the status quo ante. The Committee included those of Justices, B.O Babalakin, A.B Wali, A.I Iguh, E .O Ayoola and A.A. Akanbi.


Justice Isa Ayo Salami and President Goodluck Jonathan

“The committee completed its assignment after going through all relevant documents from the Chief Justice and President of the Court of Appeal and found no misconduct on the part of Salami, PCA. It said further that the CJN as chairman of the NJC has no express powers in the constitution or in any law to interfere with any proceedings in any court. “ the report noted.

Since the motive of that committee was to promote amity between the two principal officers and save the judiciary of imminent public perception blunder, the NJC accepted the report, while elders of the profession who were members of the Babalakin Committee prevailed on Salami to withdraw his case. However, another incident occurred which was the proposed elevation of Justice Salami as Justice of the Supreme Court.

The proposal initiated by the Katsina Alu at the joint meeting of the Federal Judicial Service Commission and the NJC was turned down by Salami who said he did not wish to be considered for appointment to the Supreme Court. The proposal was later withdrawn.

The Justice Abdullahi Committee report

The Uwais Judicial Reforms Committee noted that the second committee headed by Justice Umaru Abdullahi considered and deliberated on all petitions brought before it by the NJC, adding however, that, like the previous report “ the Abdullahi Panel found, on the totality of the evidence before it, that neither the CJN nor the PCA was guilty of any misconduct on the petitions submitted against them.

[b]However, it established that the CJN (Katsina-Alu) wrote a letter as chairman of the NJC to the Justices of the Court of Appeal dealing with the Governorship Election Petition in Sokoto that they should “put on hold” the delivery of judgement in the petition until the petitions against them were cleared.

The Abdullahi panel said Katsina Alu was motivated more by apparent urge to protect the administration of Justice and avoid breach of peace. It wondered however, how reference to a breach of peace was made when the judgement of the tribunal which was to be delivered in Sokoto had not leaked.

In conclusion, the panel noted that if there was any possible threat to peace because of the pending decision of the Tribunal , the presiding Justices of the Court of Appeal in Sokoto was in the best position to know about it. In any case, it noted that “ Katsina-Alu CJN’s administrative decision that the case be put on hold should not as found by the Babalakin panel, be made by him. The CJN should not have in the first place written direct to the Justices in Sokoto judicial division as the power to do so lies in the President of Court of Appeal.[/b]

The NJC had noted the Justice Abdullahi panel’s report that “ be that as it may, the panel had no difficulty in holding the view that under the constitution and the laws of the land, no apparent power has been bestowed on the NJC of which the CJN is the chairman to interfere in any proceedings before the legally constituted court.

The NBA Panel report

Regarding the panel set up by the Nigerian Bar association, (NBA), the Uwais Committee further noted in its conclusions that no case of wrongdoing or misconduct was established against Salami; and that indeed, his answer to the query by the CJN to him was fully justified.

The NBA committee was able to establish that Senator Umaru Dahiru, Senate Committee Chairman on Judiciary in company of Yahaya Mahmud, SAN, had visited Salami in his chambers during which period they tried to convince the PCA to interfere with the functions of the Sokoto Court of Appeal judges in the governorship election petition but without success.

The Justice Auta panel report

The Uwais committee was curious that after the Justice Abdullahi panel’s report was submitted the NJC again constituted a third panel, this time headed by Ibrahim Auta, to consider the report of Abdullahi and make recommendation for the consideration of the whole house. Apart from Auta, Justices Kate Abiri (Bayelsa) and Philip NC Umeadi (Anambra) were the other members.

The Auta committee merely adopted all the findings of the Abdullahi panel except the one relating to the code of conduct for judicial officers. In Auta committee’s view, Salami’s action of speaking to the media to “ ventilate his difference with the Chief Justice Katsina Alu,” contravened the provision of Rule 1 (1) and Rule 2 (9) of the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers.

However, the Uwais Committee noted that the Auta panel recommendation was faulty because no where in the report of the NJC on the Abdullahi panel submission were allegations made against Salami for talking to the press or disclosing official information to the public.

Concluding, the Uwais committee said: “ on the whole, there was no evidence to show any form of misconduct on the part of Salami, PCA; to justify any sanction or punishment. It is not clear what other evidence was used or relied upon by the NJC at its emergency meeting of September 8, 2011 to suspend Salami from performing his duties as president of the Court of Appeal.

It is also pertinent to observe that the order for suspension was made when his matter was sub-judice.
“In the circumstances and in order to maintain the integrity of the Judiciary and to assuage public feeling and restore confidence in both the Bar and Bench, this committee therefore strongly advises the CJN and the NJC to reconsider its earlier decision on the suspension of Justice Salami PCA and reinstate him to his position as soon as possible and in that way assure the public that the suspension of Justice Salami as President of Court of Appeal is not ill motivated.”

Abagworo: I understand that some of his actions are undemocratic. Like personally deciding on several issues without consulting the legislature. He consults directly with the masses and that is why people are happy with him. I'm not saying its a good thing but God bless any house member or politician that will in anyway disrupt the progress of Imo State by slowing Rochas down. Not even Rochas but the entire Imo people will rise against such member.

PapaBrowne: But really, I don't understand how the whole of the south west survives without any functional airports. Ibadan and Akure Airports are as good as dead.

The South East at least has Enugu and Owerri and they function at very healthy capacities.

The south south on the otherhand has 6 very functional airports all of which are booming. Asaba, Benin, Calabar, Port Harcourt, Uyo and Warri. And don't tell me its oil money because Benin and Calabar don't have oil!
To put things in perspectives Benin Airport alone flies more passengers than all the airports in the southwest put together!!

How do south westerners survive without airports?? Isn't there no middle class in the region??

Airport Statistics
b]Airport No of Flights(2009)[/b]
Lagos 85,558
Abuja 41,524
Enugu 6,286
Owerri 4,362
P.Harcourt 22,188
Warri 12,989
Calabar 7,657
Benin 7,330
Kano 6,206
Kaduna 3,453
Sokoto 1,286
Maiduguri 1,896
Katsina 726
Jos 1,124
Yola 1,952
Minna 574
Makurdi 680
Ilorin 3,004
Ibadan 1,258
Akure 974

He should hurry up and build the airport. The South West needs it badly!

eGuerrilla: Gbawe Sir,

If we accept that plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own, how else do we qualify Osundefender's sleight-of-hand approach?

doctokwus: D part where I knew dis clown got it all muddled up is where he inferred dat d visit of some church leaders is an endorsement of his stewardship.Some religious leaders in nigeria can b bought ova sir,as long as dere personal,selfish interests are served,dey are evn ready to worship d devil.

Borntoreign: There is nothing wrong with each state having its own anthem and flag. However, the Nigeria anthem, flag and emblem are superior to those of any state.
To be honest, in my opinion, ACN is as corrupt as PDP. I challenge Gov Aregbesola, the self proclaim "omoluabi" to answer the following questions:
1. How did you get money to finance your campaign in the first place??
2. Who are the donors that donate to his campaign and legal battle afterwards?
3. In the spirit of transparency that you claim to represent, can you (Gov Aregbesola) publish the name of all such donors and how much they contribute to your campaign and the legal battle followed? This can be published on the internet for everyone to see.
4. Can Gov Aregbesola list all the companies that have get any contract under his administration and the board of those companies on the website?
5. Can Gov Aregbesola tell us how many days he actually spent within the boundaries of Osun State since he became the governor of Osun State?

Gov Aregbesola, you mentioned that you want to give tablet computer to every senior secondary school students in the state. I think that money should be put to better use than the tablet. We need to renovate the buildings in public schools first and make sure that is electricity connections in the schools. The teacher needs to be trained on how to use the tablets as well so that they can teach students in turn. What exactly are the students suppose to use the tablet for? Does Gov Aregbesola ready to provide the software that are needed for physics, chemistry and so on? May be Gov Aregbesola is technologically challenge. What good is a tablet without internet connections? Even if you provide internet connections in every schools (which is impossible), what about the internet connections at home? How many parents are even computer literate enough to help the student do the homework on the tablet? Who will provide the technical support for all these technology?
This will end up to be another failed project in Osun State. I dont believe that government should be computer for all students. Parent can do that if they can avoid it. What we need now is the mass renovation of all public schools in Nigeria not tablet computer.

ayox2003: Four people ate a meal of 85k and we are all shouting. Do the math.