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well this is very difficult but not impossible, there is a turning point in the history of every nation and how soon that point comes depends on the people.

Big B1:
Even Donald Runsfed visited Saddam's palace several times during the 1980s after the genocide without any regards to the people of Iraq; up on-till the middle of 1980s Saddam was still one of American's friends; how come America didn't probe him during this period?

Any leader who know what they are doing dont need to be friends to US and UK. They only associate with people they benefit from. Dont you see the Chinese and Indian leaders. Their relationship with the west is just cordial and I think that is enough. the utmost concern should be how to deevelop your nation and not romancing the west. If your nation is developed you will earn their respect. But if you think you can lobby for the respect of the white man when you are worth nothing, like frank nweke jr. is doing, you are waisting your time.

It bothers me that some people are trying to use this thread as an avenue to propagate hate and attack muslims. I believe your faith does not encourage you to do this.

Only God knows what you were getting at with that, the tribune has said it that there is security tension and you can not doubt it. Do we have to wait for someone to die before we act?
If people have reacted to mere cartoons then you can understand my fears. Bioye no point putting up a baseless argument take the responsibility call someone you know and advice them to discourage whoever cares to listen from attacking fellow country men cos of middle east politics.

The President of the West African Bar Association, Mr. Femi Falana and a Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Ebun Adegboruwa, on Tuesday, faulted the bid of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehinero, to extend his tenure.

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Inspector-General of Police, Sunday Ehindero

The legal practitioners who spoke during separate interviews with our correspondent in Lagos, insisted that Ehindero‘s move was illegal and unconstitutional.

Ehindero was said to have approached President Olusegun Obasanjo and applied for extension of his office.

But our correspondents’ investigations revealed that Ehindero had attained the mandatory retirement age of 60 years.

Sections 214 and 215 of the 1999 Constitution which make provisions on the appointment and tenure of the office of the Inspector-General did not provide for extension of the tenure of office.

Section 214 (2) of the Constitution, provides ”Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Nigeria Police Force shall be organised and administered in accordance with such provisions as may be prescribed by the Act of the National Assembly”

Section 215 (1) (a) also provides ”An Inspector-General of Police who, subject to section 216 (2) of this Constitution shall be appointed by the President on the advice of the Nigeria Police Council from among the serving members of the Nigeria Police Force”

Our correspondents also discovered that the two legislations in this regard, viz, The Police Act and the Civil Service Regulations did not provide for tenure extension.

Falana said, Section 215 provides ”An Inspector-General of Police shall be appointed by the President on the advice of the Nigeria Police Council from among the serving members of the Nigeria Police Force”

”Under the law, a public servant that has turned 60 or puts in 35 years can no longer function or seek to hold office.

”Ehindero turns 60 last March, he ought to have retired before now, but the President had illegally extended his tenure. Any other extension will be a continuation of illegality.

”Now, we need the police chief that will fight the rising wave of armed robbery and other dangerous crimes. Any attempt to extend Ehindero‘s tenure now will be fought by the civil society.

“At this moment, we have no Police Service Commission, the tenure of the last one has expired and the Senate is yet to ratify the list of the new nominees sent to it. But why extending Ehindero‘s tenure? Are there no other capable police officers?

”Ehindero who could not guarantee the safe conduct of the party primaries? How do we trust him to guide the nation through this year general elections. His tenure is over and extending same will be an illegality.”

Adegboruwa said there was no basis for extension of Ehindero‘s office.

He said ” Under Sections 214 and 215 of the 1999 Constitution, the Inspector-General of the Police is a civil servant. Under the Police Act, he is also regarded as a civil servant.

”His appointment is guided by the Civil Service Rules and the Police Act. There is no legal basis for Ehindero‘s bid for tenure extension.

“Legally speaking, Obasanjo has no power to extend the tenure. He can only engage him on contractual basis but not as a substantive IG for the nation.”




”So the rule of 35 years in service and 60 years of age also apply to him. Once you have spent 35 years in service or attain 60 years of age, any IG has to leave the stage for other young, dynamic officers.”.



AM BEGGINING TO BELIEVE OUR ARGUMENTS ON THIS SITE ARE SEEN BY THOSE THAT MATTER

that will not make any difference cos some people are even living larger in Nigeria than abroad.

Frankly Buhari as far as am concerned remains a coupist who truncated Democracy and should not benefit from it. Yaradua looks a lame duck but he is worth giving a try so as to bury the ambition of the recycled leaders and old folks including Atiku.

Adconline is absolute spot on I think you can pass as Chris Uba's biographer. Are u from Uga?
Please every Anambra indigene owes it as a responsibility to himself and the state to stop the Uba family somehow.

Bioye shame on to you for your contribution and no apologies for that. Arabs don't like us africans and so it makes no sense for any Nigerian to attack a fellow Nigerian in the Name of Saddam or Religion, people on this thread both christains and muslims criticized how saddam died never mind he did worst things to his fellow iraqis and muslims for that matter.
You know what Bioye if people begin to kill others because of christainity I will criticize them and if they don't change[b] I will denounce my religion[/b]. Its as simple as that.
If muslims can't call their muslim brothers to order or begin to take the lead in bringing the fanatics among you to order then you [b]guys need to explain to us what Islam is all about.[/b]The life of a Nigerian who is your compatriot is more important than those of 1million Arabs in middle east, you understand?

Alex Akinyele has told fans of IBB what they want to hear!!! good you guys can start celebrating your job is not gone yet but guys find something else and dont take alex akinyele seriously. Most of this people talking about IBB have not seen him for the past 3months.

Abu Fari of NDP is saying he is holding forth for IBB, after IBB's failure in the PDP Abu Fari sought to have a meeting with IBB to offer him the NDP ticket he was not even granted that meeting. It boils down to the question what is the motivation of these IBB suporters even when its obvious the man has chickened out.
People should find out if some are coning others with IBB's never ending ambition.

feelgood:
IBB 2 contest 2007 presidential elections - yeah, Atiku is also preparing to take charge of NASA's space station in US
Any more 'hot' news out there somebody?

OBJ has no ambition and is leaving in may. Let it be said as long as Atiku has a case of fraud before the court of law, guilty or not guilty, he stands disqualified. This has nothing to do with the INEC being independent but everything with the Nigerian constitution and what is says.
You guys in Turaki vanguard have an idea of interpreting the constitution as it pleases you and thus anything else is undemocratic.

The truth is that Nigerian public officials and politicians dont know the least bit about diplomacy. Why cant that INEC official say the screening process has not started and thus can not comment on that. Why screen Atiku even before the screening process or is Atiku simply heating up the polity? Is he trying to bring the credibility of INEC to question thereby rendering the electoral process unacceptable even before the election commences?

Can someone tell Atiku that the future of 140million Nigerians is more important than than the ambition of one man.

their market has been rejuvinated

eddygirl don vex withdraw her statement, Please I am so sorry if you are embarrased. Please never meant it that way.

e be like say na people wey get "man" for their name now na him babes dey hail, maybe I go change my name to Mackman.

Even a warlord will cry if he loses his daughter.

I can see you are trying to tell off your ibo boyfriend and think if you say it in ibo it will make more sense. Here you go

English -- Get off my life
Igbo ---- achurum gi na ndum

English ---- I hate you
Igbo --------ife ina eme na masi mu
or ------- ahurum gi na anya

Me think the topic is not clear, some people slap on different parts of the body when in , ? is that included?

samsick:
Hi Sewani try and listen 2 music or probably watch movies or better still read nouels if they tickles your fancy.And u can give me number so i will call u.

Why are you making the guy feel so hopeless? cant you understand he needs a girlfriend?

iice:
Haba, some of us have sex only with the person we are involved with at the moment. Some of us don't have have sex with anyone be it in a relationship or not.

Story!  storeyyyy!! stoo--oooo, ,     I mean everything you have said in this conversation is right, 

RESIDENTS of some parts of the country are now gripped with fear over the threat by some fanatics to protest the execution of the former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that various Islamic groups in Plateau, Yobe, Kano, Borno, Sokoto, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and many other states were now organising themselves to unleash terror on non-indigenes in those parts of the country.


Non-indigenes of the area and some Christian leaders, the Nigerian Tribune gathered, were also making plans to seek refuge in some security quarters in the states to protect their lives.


Intelligence reports from the security agencies also confirmed that some Muslim fanatics were planning mayhem on non-Muslims all over the country.


Police Commissioner of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Lawrence Alobi, disclosed to the Nigerian Tribune in a telephone interview in Abuja on Monday that “the fanatics also planned to attack churches and properties of non-Muslims.”


He, however, said that the police were ready to curtail the potential insurgence and advised residents of the FCT and other parts of the country not to panic, but to go about their normal daily activities.


He said security had been beefed up around all churches in Abuja following the intelligence report.


In Plateau State, there was a wild display by some youths while coming from the Muslim prayer ground on Saturday. The youth, who rode in trucks, threatened inhabitants with cutlasses, clubs, spears and swords.


Nigerian Tribune gathered that residents of Ahmadu Bello Way, Abattoir Road, Bauchi Road, Terminus area and other parts of Jos were disturbed by the threats of the fanatics.


In Yobe State, a group called Shittes planned demonstrations in Potiskum, threatening to stage a vengeance protest against the execution of Saddam.


The protest in Potiskum was, however, nipped in the bud by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Eugene Njepu, and the Emir of Potiskum. The situation in Kano State was calm on Tuesday after threats by some Islamic fundamentalists.


But, the Nigerian Tribune gathered that the group had only postponed its action. Nigerian Tribune gathered further that the Federal Government had sent a signal through the office of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, that security be beefed up across the country to prevent a situation where the security forces could be caught napping.


According to another source, police formations across the country, together with other security and intelligence agencies, had fortified their various states. Saddam, who ruled Iraq for about 30 years, was overthrown four years ago after the invasion of the country by forces led by the United States.


Meanwhile, a Lagos-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Human Rights Watch (HRW), has condemned the execution of the former Iraqi leader, saying “Saddam Hussein was responsible for massive human rights violations, but that can’t justify giving him the death penalty, which is cruel and inhuman punishment.”


Speaking through its director of International Justice Programme, Mr. Richard Dicker, it stated that HRW had for more than 15 years documented the human rights crimes committed by Hussein’s government, and had campaigned to bring the perpetrators to justice”, stressing that this did not mean that Hussein should be executed.


The group, in a statement, said it was opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances, noting that “increasingly, governments are abolishing the death penalty in domestic law. “The test of a government’s commitment to human rights is measured by the way it treats its worst offenders”, said Dicker in the statement, noting that “history will judge these actions harshly.”


Hussein was tried by a tribunal for crimes against humanity. The tribunal, which was backed by the United States, passed a death sentence on him in November for ordering the execution of about 140 Shiites.


Saddam was hanged on Saturday which incidentally fell on a Muslim festival and this angered some Muslims around the world. Immediately after his execution, Libya declared three days of national mourning for him just like Saudi Arabia which disrupted its aviation and telecommunications networks, while in Nigeria, the execution elicited mixed feelings among Muslims.


A report issued in November 2006 by Human Rights Watch identified numerous flaws in the trial of Hussein for the Dujail executions. The 97-page report, “Judging Dujail: The First Trial Before the Iraqi High Tribunal,” according to HRW, was based on 10 months of observation and dozens of interviews with judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers.

If this one happens again in Nigeria I will personally join protest calling for division of Nigeria. How long shall we continue like this? why should the death of Sadam Hussein even warrant insecurity in Nigeria? how does it concern Nigeria? If this happens then those who say Nigeria is never one and should not be one is not wrong afterall.

RESIDENTS of some parts of the country are now gripped with fear over the threat by some fanatics to protest the execution of the former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that various Islamic groups in Plateau, Yobe, Kano, Borno, Sokoto, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and many other states were now organising themselves to unleash terror on non-indigenes in those parts of the country.


Non-indigenes of the area and some Christian leaders, the Nigerian Tribune gathered, were also making plans to seek refuge in some security quarters in the states to protect their lives.


Intelligence reports from the security agencies also confirmed that some Muslim fanatics were planning mayhem on non-Muslims all over the country.


Police Commissioner of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Lawrence Alobi, disclosed to the Nigerian Tribune in a telephone interview in Abuja on Monday that “the fanatics also planned to attack churches and properties of non-Muslims.”


He, however, said that the police were ready to curtail the potential insurgence and advised residents of the FCT and other parts of the country not to panic, but to go about their normal daily activities.


He said security had been beefed up around all churches in Abuja following the intelligence report.


In Plateau State, there was a wild display by some youths while coming from the Muslim prayer ground on Saturday. The youth, who rode in trucks, threatened inhabitants with cutlasses, clubs, spears and swords.


Nigerian Tribune gathered that residents of Ahmadu Bello Way, Abattoir Road, Bauchi Road, Terminus area and other parts of Jos were disturbed by the threats of the fanatics.


In Yobe State, a group called Shittes planned demonstrations in Potiskum, threatening to stage a vengeance protest against the execution of Saddam.


The protest in Potiskum was, however, nipped in the bud by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Eugene Njepu, and the Emir of Potiskum. The situation in Kano State was calm on Tuesday after threats by some Islamic fundamentalists.


But, the Nigerian Tribune gathered that the group had only postponed its action. Nigerian Tribune gathered further that the Federal Government had sent a signal through the office of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, that security be beefed up across the country to prevent a situation where the security forces could be caught napping.


According to another source, police formations across the country, together with other security and intelligence agencies, had fortified their various states. Saddam, who ruled Iraq for about 30 years, was overthrown four years ago after the invasion of the country by forces led by the United States.


Meanwhile, a Lagos-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Human Rights Watch (HRW), has condemned the execution of the former Iraqi leader, saying “Saddam Hussein was responsible for massive human rights violations, but that can’t justify giving him the death penalty, which is cruel and inhuman punishment.”


Speaking through its director of International Justice Programme, Mr. Richard Dicker, it stated that HRW had for more than 15 years documented the human rights crimes committed by Hussein’s government, and had campaigned to bring the perpetrators to justice”, stressing that this did not mean that Hussein should be executed.


The group, in a statement, said it was opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances, noting that “increasingly, governments are abolishing the death penalty in domestic law. “The test of a government’s commitment to human rights is measured by the way it treats its worst offenders”, said Dicker in the statement, noting that “history will judge these actions harshly.”


Hussein was tried by a tribunal for crimes against humanity. The tribunal, which was backed by the United States, passed a death sentence on him in November for ordering the execution of about 140 Shiites.


Saddam was hanged on Saturday which incidentally fell on a Muslim festival and this angered some Muslims around the world. Immediately after his execution, Libya declared three days of national mourning for him just like Saudi Arabia which disrupted its aviation and telecommunications networks, while in Nigeria, the execution elicited mixed feelings among Muslims.


A report issued in November 2006 by Human Rights Watch identified numerous flaws in the trial of Hussein for the Dujail executions. The 97-page report, “Judging Dujail: The First Trial Before the Iraqi High Tribunal,” according to HRW, was based on 10 months of observation and dozens of interviews with judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers.

If Nothern governors and leaders in general can't stop this one I will personally join any protest calling for the division of Nigeria. The other time it was a cartoon in far way denmark this time its faraway Iraq. Issues that have nothing to do with Nigeria.

I dont even understand why people are arguing who is more populated and who is not. This argument does not make sense in my view, if they increase the allocation of any state today because it is more populated the thieving governors will only have more money to steal and it will not improve the lives of the people so why the argument.
The same motivation for this argument is why northerners open their border to alamanjiri from Niger republic and chad without taking care of them. At the end of the day Government use them to make bogus claims.

whether Adeboye or whatever, they should stop predicting and encourage their members to vote and defend their vote.
All man knows adeboye is OBJ's ally.

FORMER Secretary of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) and Chairman, Citizens Popular Party (CPP), Chief Mazi Okwu, has warned Nigerian electorate not to vote for anyone who had been involved in a coup plot as the nation's president.

Okwu said such people had no business in asking for people's vote as they had worked against the collective wish of the people before by overthrowing democratically elected government.

He said presidential hopefuls like Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), who was part of those who truncated democracy, should not be supported to become the president of the country.

Okwu said Buhari has "no moral justification to aspire to the exalted position of President" and should thus not be voted for by Nigerians.

He described his (Buhari's) participation in a military coup in 1983 as an act which could be likened to an insurrection against the Constitution.

Okwu said that no coup plotter should raise his head in public life in any civilised society, adding that his opposition against past military rulers bothers on "principle and not sentiments."

"That is the question that I have asked Nigerians. Why must all these military leaders that sabotaged Nigeria and shot themselves to power against our very wishes and with our own tax money, suddenly get empowered, like those who stole our money to build mansions and those who values were added to their profiles because they were minister or head of state through military coup want to return to power?" he asked.

The CPP presidential candidate charged Nigerians to vote only military leaders who did not hold public offices while in active service.

According to him, most of those in public life got empowered through questionable circumstances and should not be allowed to get back into public office which they ravaged through the barrel of the gun.

To the argument that Buhari's emergence as a military Head of State was circumstantial, Okwu said: "There is no way you can rationalise that. You can't because we have seen the example of Abacha who made the announcement that disturbed us in 1983, disturbed us early in the morning and said 'me and my colleagues'.

"By the time he left in 1998, he was the biggest looter of government funds in the history of the whole world."

Tinapa Ready for Business
From Ernest Chinwo in Calabar, 01.02.2007

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The major contractor to the N45 billion ($350 million) Tinapa Business Resort, Calabar, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, has commenced the handing over process of the complex where shop fit-outs would now begin. The official opening of the complex has been fixed for March.
The handing over of the major construction milestone followed the completion and handing over of Emporium B with its line shops and ancilliary facilities to the Cross River State Government by Julius Berger.
Already, Asian retail and wholesale giant, Flamingo and South Africa’s Shoprite have taken up shops at the Resort and ready for business.
At the symbolic handing over ceremony of the completed portion of the shopping area Sunday, the Project Manager of Julius Berger, Mr. Artur Wagner, said the completion of the section was in keeping with the work programme of the contract.
He said according to the contract, Emporium B with its line shops and ancilliary facilities are through.
He expressed satisfaction with the efforts of the company and its sub-contractors to meet the target date for the completion of the entire project and assured that the project commissioning deadline would be met.
The Technical Adviser, Tinapa Business Resort Lim-ited, Mr. Daniel Ologunleko, expressed satisfaction with the speed and quality of work done in the project.
He said the construction companies had adhered to the terms of their contracts and assured that the project would be completed on schedule.
Receiving the Work Completion Certificate and the key to the Emporium, Governor Donald Duke of Cross River State described the event as symbolic in the attainment of the goals of the Tinapa Business Resort.
Duke said since the contract for the project was signed on January 14, 2005, this was the first handing over of any section of the project to the government.
He expressed satisfaction that the contractors were able to deliver the milestone on schedule, as their failure to do so would have attracted penalties in accordance with the terms of the contract.
He said the Tinapa Business Resort project is basically private sector driven and that the state government only conceived and promoted it, and also provided the necessary infrastructure for its take off.
He disclosed that the project is being funded by private concerns and institutional investors like the ECOWAS Regional Development Fund.
Duke described the project as unique and first of its kind anywhere in the world as it provides a Free Zone for both business and leisure.
He said the essence of the project was to drive traffic into Calabar for the economic resurgence of the state.
The governor said the project had so far provided employment for thousands of Nigerians but noted that his joy lied in the skills acquired by the employees through their involvement in the project.
"The joy is not just in their employment but actually in the skills they have acquired which will remain with them for the rest of their lives," he said.
He expressed optimism that the project would be commissioned on March 31, as scheduled, considering the extent of work done on the project.
After a tour of the project, the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Professor Dora Akunyili, who witnessed the ceremony, described the project as one of the best things to happen in Nigeria.
"I am very excited. I have never seen anything like this before. Governor Duke has written the name of Cross River, and by extension Nigeria, on the map of the world," she said.
THISDAY checks reveal that out of the N45 billion cost of the project, the Cross River State Government provided N13 billion while private concerns and institutional investors provided N32 billion.
On completion, the project would have emporia, movie theatre and studios, restaurants, a 300-bedroom hotel, a lake and recreational facilities with an independent water and power plant.

THAT IS HOW TO MAKE A NATION GREAT, RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP

streetcyph:
nobody is claiming anyhting.

i mean, are you lot blind? jeeez

This is the problem with all these guys in Atiku and IBB camp, if they don't tell you you are blind they say you are gullible or can't you see?. Well am not suprised that was how Micheal Howard of Britain kept on asking "are u thinking what we are thinking?" until election passed nobody in britain wished to think what he was thinking.
The Nigerian public will not see what Atiku is seeing because he is a directionless person who has nothing else to show except to claim he is Democracy personified such  that if he does not emerge President then democracy has been truncated.

WesleyanA and 4play

there is no better word to describe whats going on being you two than old skool romance.

But why cant we have an all year round registry so we can have accurate stat./