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2019 Election: Nigeria Bloggers flag off campaign to get voters involved
https://mrrightsng..com.ng/2018/03/2019-election-nigeria-bloggers-flag-off.html

Guild of Professional Bloggers of Nigeria (GPBN) has embarked on sensitisation campaigns to mobilise Nigerians to register in the on-going Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) ahead of 2019 general elections.

The campaign tagged #GetInvolved, is part of strategies adopted by the association to ensure every eligible voter in the country is mobilized to register in the ongoing voters registration exercise.

In a statement issued by GPBN President Chris Kehinde Nwandu, the campaign started on Thursday 15th of March 2018 and it is aimed at ensuring stakeholders plan the electoral process for a hitch-free 2019 general elections.

The month long social media campaign, which is one of the 2018 projects conceptualized by the guild is to ensure every Nigerian #GetInvolved in the process. The President said.

tobisco29:
Who epp

So, tell us, who you epp?

tobisco29:
Who epp

Lilkesh, Adekunle Gold, Viktor, Temmie Ovwasa, Davolee, Lyta, etc

Mr Rights
Olamide becomes first music act to own TV Station in Africa
https://mrrightsng..com.ng/2018/03/olamide-becomes-first-music-act-to-own.html

Science Student crooner, Olamide Adedeji has launched a Television Station named Voice of the Street (VOTS). The YBNL Boss is the first music act in Africa to own a TV station.

The Rapper who recently announced proposed marriage to his long time baby mama made this known via his Instagram page on Thursday, March 15, 2018, which is also his birthday.

"It's been all joy and blessings for me since I started my journey to being the man I dreamt to be. Though I had a lot of hurdles and setbacks, I kept moving because I was certain of what was inside of me. Today is another special day marking the beginning of another special year in my life and I also have the privilege of owning a T.V station that would change the face of entertainment in Africa.

"As one of the first African entrepreneurs to own a channel, I am giving out 100 decoders (PLAY TV) to the first 100 people to get to PLAY TV's premise today. Each decoder comes with a fully paid one-year subscription to say thank you for standing by me. Thank you for your love and support. We shall celebrate more greatness," The rapper who recently signed a deal with Plat Tv wrote.

Olamide also promise to give out 100 decoders to fans who can visit the Tv station head quarters in Lagos.

hum

23 year old rapper gets 3 years jail term for rapping about Corruption
https://mrrightsng..com.ng/2018/03/23-year-old-rapper-gets-3-years-jail.html

It’s not unusual for an artist to come under fire for controversial lyrics. Just recently, Nigerian Rap King and YBNL Boss, Olamide was severly criticized for his hit track song titled Science Students over what some people assumed was promoting drug abuse, a claim the rapper strongly defended.

However, Mr Rights have learn that one Spanish rapper is facing legal consequences for lyrics that appeared in songs he shared on YouTube.

The Spanish rapper, Josep Miquel Arena has been sentenced to three and a half years jail term over the content of his rap lyrics. Josep Miquel Arenas, popularly known by his stage name Valtonyc, was given the jail sentence in the Spanish Supreme Court last week.

Sixteen of Valtonyc’s songs, including “Facism is Cured by Dying” and “They Should be Afraid 2,” were exhibited as evidence in court. They call out the King and other members of the royal family and members of government for repression and corruption, with references to real events and their imagined consequences, with lines including “The King has an appointment in the town square with a rope around his neck and let the weight of the law fall on him.”

During the hearing, the rapper said that he conceived the track as a proposal of Podemos' leader Pablo Iglesias, for his weekly program La Tuerka.

Iglesias also expressed his support for the musician in a tweet saying “Impunity for the corrupted, and jail for creating a song. Rapping about the King should not be a crime.”

The song included lyrics suggesting that (nationist leader) Jorge Campos, head of the Circulo Balear Foundation, “deserved a nuclear bomb,” and “Monarchy is his ideology ... I'll see you in the Royal Palace with a Kalashnikov,” adding that “we want death for those two.”

“All I've said about the King, is in the media: the fact that he killed his brother, that he had lovers, that he killed an elephant ... so which insults are we talking about if everything was already published in newspapers?” he asked El Español.

In one of his songs titles Tuerka Rap, Valtonyc criticises Spanish monarchy, saying ‘’the situation worries me quite a bit, how to support two families: mine, and the royal one’’.

Other lyrics of Valtonyc’s that were presented in the court case included ‘we want death for these pigs’ referring to Spanish corrupt politicians. He also referred to an armed conflict between Spain and the Basque National Liberation Movement that lasted from 1959 to 2011 rapping ‘may they be afraid like a [Spanish] Guardia Civil police officer in Euskadi [the Basque Country]’.

According to reports from Spainish Newspaper Catalan News, the court ruled that his lyrics glorified terrorism, was slanderous, defamed against the crown and made threats.

This isn’t the first time a rapper has been given a jail sentence in Spanish court for their lyrics. Pablo Hansel was sentenced to two years in prison by the Spanish National Court in 2011 over charges of glorification of terrorism connected to the Basque Conflict.

Breaking News: Assasination Attempt On Palestine Prime Minister failed
https://mrrightsng..com.ng/2018/03/breaking-news-assasination-attempt-on.html

The Palestine Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah escaped an assassination attempt on his life few hours ago, report says.

The Palestinian Prime Minister's Convoy was Hit By an Explosion in Gaza,sparking fears of an assassination. The Prime Minister was unharmed, but his Palestinian Authority quickly accused Gaza militants of trying to kill him.

Three of vehicles in his convoy were damaged, their windows blown out. One had signs of blood on the door.


Who tried to assassinate the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Rami Hamdallah, and the head of the PA’s intelligence services, General Majid Faraj, immediately after they arrived in the Gaza Strip?

really?

hum

Good to know

farouk0403:
They have big reason to worry.




But unfortunately Nigerian youth are just empty barrels....

If they are empty barrel, what are you?

thesicilian:
If only the youths can rally up support for a truly young, dynamic, visionary presidential candidate.

The process has started already. The question is, what are you doing to support the movement?

Political elite worried over growing popularity of young presidential aspirants
https://mrrightsng..com.ng/2018/03/political-elite-worried-over-growing.html

Political elite in Nigeria are getting worried over growing popularity of young presidential aspirants Mr Rights investigation reveals.

In what seems to be a turning point in the Nigerian political system, young Nigerians in their large numbers are beginning to get more involved in the political system, thereby causing panic and apprehension within the political class.

In the past, what usually dominate the political discuss in this time of the year is determined by the political elites, but fortunately or unfortunately, that is no longer the case. A careful view of the political trend has shown that, young Nigerians are now talking more about their own aspiration than about the aspiration of older people.

Apart from the growing involvement of youths at the state and local level, many young Nigerians have indicated their interest and working actively towards participating at the national level. Some of them have actually declared interest in running for the number one office in the country among which include Jaye Gaskiya,a veteran civil right activist, Mathias Baba Tsado, an engineering and advocate of quality leadership, Omoyele Sowore, an investigative journalist and social justice advocate, Fela Durotoye,a motivational speaker and host of others.

However, among all the young presidential aspirants, the one that has caught Mr Rights attention is Mathias Baba Tsado (MBT), who is running under the Action Democratic Party (ADP).

Mathias Baba Tsado (MBT) is the Executive Director of Matrust Nigeria Limited, a successful Engineering firm based in Kaduna State and he is also the Convener of Hope Platform Initiative, a young leadership mentoring organization.

Unlike other young aspirants who are doing so much talking on the media without corresponding efforts at the grassroots level, Mathias is doing it differently. He is not only proffering workable solutions to Nigeria’s numerous challenges; he is equally walking the talk by creating sustainable structures at the grassroots level.

Few weeks ago, the Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir Elrufai said 2019 election cannot be won on Twitter or Facebook, which was in reference to the growing popularity of young aspirants gaining wide publicity on social media. However, unknown to Elrufai, there are young aspirants who are not only popular on social media, but are equally doing the ground work needed to make their dreams a reality. One of them is Mathias Tsado. In December 2017, Mathias inaugurated his presidential campaign team in the 36 states of the federation, building a mass grassroots based structure to aggressively spread the gospel of his campaign across the nokes and crannies of Nigeria. Mr Rights is of the views that, by the time people like Elrufai would realize what is happening, the world would have changed.

Owing to the growing popularity of some of these young presidential aspirants, the political class are really getting worried that the youths are gradually freeing themselves from the hold of the career politicians. While some people are already complaining that too many youths are now declaring to run for president as if it is a tea party, they are not aware that the more the number of youths that indicated interest in such a high office, the greater the level of young people that would participate in the political process, because each of these young aspirants will mobilize more youths to get involved and at the end, not many of them would eventually run, but their friends and families that had been mobilized would continue to participate in the process to the betterment of the country's democracy.

Still talking about what interest Mr Rights in Mathias Tsado, the 41 year old recently released one of the most daring, most progressive and most ambitious manifesto that has woe the social media as well as unsettled the political class. The manifesto was titled ‘’The Difference’’.

In this short document that has since gained considerable attention on the social media and whose content is being actively debated on several fora, Mathias proposed the removal of police from the executive arm of government. He said the police should be run by the judiciary, not the executive. Isn’t this amazing? In the same manifesto, Mathias supported the clamor for state police. However, not a state police that would be controlled by the governor, but the judiciary. He argues that, if the police, either federal or state is controlled by the president or governor as the case maybe, that will always leave room for abuse.
In his own words, ‘’ I believe the law enforcement should work together with the judiciary which is the custodian of our laws, such that no body is above the law, even the president of the country. The same should apply for the states too, so that we can have state police that would not be used by the state executives to bully the opposition and dissenting citizens’’

Mathias also proposes the commercialization of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in such a manner that the corporation will be listed on stock exchange market and every Nigerian is able to own a share in the company. He argues that, this will force the company to be transparent, accountable and responsible.

Reacting to Mathias proposal on pension, an online commentator, Gbenga Akinruli who was so intrigued by Mathias manifesto stated that, ‘’on a positive note, your initiative to push for pension act reforms that allow for cash backed collateral so as to secure housing loans from the Federal Mortgage Bank (not commercial banks because of high interest rates), to me is your most important selling point and should be your battle cry".

These and many more interesting qualities have endeared this young presidential aspirant on the youths of Nigeria who are now volunteering for his campaign.

No wonder a youth led civil society organization recently announced that it is willing to sponsor a public debate between Mathias Baba Tsado and President Muhammadu Buhari. The organization threw out an open challenge, urging president Buhari to accept the challenge in the interest of the people. It argued that, by the ideas being proposed by Mathias, which seems to be extra ordinary in outlook, there is need to host him alongside the president who is more in line with the practical situation.
However, President Buhari is yet to accept the challenge and Mr Right hope he does.

Mallamkay001:
this group of people failed to demand for buhari's certificate, no question abt how buhari got admired into NDA without SSCE.
They have not questioned d Ag president on the report of d corruption case against d Suspended SGF and NIA DG or better still charge them to court.
Y is it only saraki? All these guys are the same. Don't exonerate one above the other.
Buhari's anti corruption fight is dead before arrival.
These are jst another set of political jobbers.

Mallamkay001:
this group of people failed to demand for buhari's certificate, no question abt how buhari got admired into NDA without SSCE.
They have not questioned d Ag president on the report of d corruption case against d Suspended SGF and NIA DG or better still charge them to court.
Y is it only saraki? All these guys are the same. Don't exonerate one above the other.
Buhari's anti corruption fight is dead before arrival.
These are jst another set of political jobbers.

Did Buhari certificate steal your money?
What do you have to do with his certificate?

Group calls for Saraki’s re-trial, wants Sagey, Falana as prosecutors
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKJUN 19, 2017

A civil society group, Citizens Action To take Back Nigeria (CATBAN), has called for the immediate re-trial of the Senate President, Mr. Bukola Saraki, for false assets declaration. On June 14, the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) upheld the no-case submission of Mr. Saraki, discharging him of the 18 charges filed against him by the Federal Government, which alleged that Mr. Saraki made false/anticipatory declaration of assets before the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), operated foreign accounts while in office as Kwara State Governor between 2003 and 2011 and collected the salary due a governor for four years after his tenure ended.

The alleged crimes, CATBAN noted were committed in active connivance with the Kwara State government, which owes its position to Mr. Saraki and remains under his control.

The CCT, in its judgment, held that the evidence proffered against Mr. Saraki by the Federal Government was insufficient to sustain the charges against the Senate President.

In a statement signed by Ibrahim Wala Garba, co-Convener of CATBAN, the group said it wants the re-trial to be handled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and urged the agency to hire, as prosecutors, Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, and Professor, Itse Sagay, Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC).

CATBAN said the Senate President was merely discharged not acquitted contrary to media reports.

“We call on the Federal Government and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to immediately re-arraign the Senate President for proper prosecution for his numerous abuses. We are also calling on seasoned anti-corruption and courageous lawyers like Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), Professor Itse Sagay (SAN) and others to offer pro-bono service to the Federal Government and assist in prosecuting these high-profile cases of corruption to ensure the accused is brought to book,” said CATBAN.

The proposed move, CATBAN argued, is the only way to restore confidence, both at home and abroad, in the anti-corruption efforts of the President Muhammad Buhari administration.

CATBAN described the judgment of the CCT bizarre, unfortunate, laughable and a calculated effort by the elite class to promote criminality.

“We say this because never has a case been so straightforward as this and we make bold to say that in the course of prosecution, clear evidence were presented regarding the several atrocities committed by Mr. Saraki. The whole world also saw very clearly, evidence of bank transfers to foreign accounts, multiple salaries as shown by his bank statements, fraudulent deposits, and several others were made before public glare and we believe those evidence were more than enough to get the Senate President convicted,” the group reasoned.

It noted, as part of the weighty evidence, an N375million loan obtained by Mr. Saraki from Guaranty Trust Bank in 2010, which he subsequently converted to £1,515,194.53 and transferred to the United Kingdom as full and final mortgage payment for a London property. It described the evidence for this transaction incontrovertible.

It equally observed that Mr. Saraki’s bank statements provided proof of the allegation that the Senate President continued to receive salary and emoluments as Governor of Kwara State after the expiration of his tenure and at the same time, from the Federal Government as a Senator between June 2011 and October 2013.

In addition, CATBAN stated that the prosecution alleged that during his time as governor, Mr. Saraki operated foreign bank accounts and failed to declare the foreign accounts to the CCB.

“Despite all these clear evidence of criminality and culpability, as shown in his account and other evidence tendered, the tribunal claimed Mr. Saraki has no case to answer. This is a travesty taken too far and we have cause to believe the SaharaReporters’ story, which claimed that the Tribunal Chairman, Justice Danladi Umar was bribed with a whopping sum of $2million,” said the group.

CATBAN pointed out that it has been creating awareness for high-level judicial corruption through a social media campaign known as #VerdictForCash. It added that the CCT judgment looked a lot more questionable, when the tribunal gave, as one of its reason to discharge Mr. Saraki, that the prosecution failed to call the Kwara State Accountant-General as a witness to testify against his principal.

It described this as laughable and unreasonable, given that the prosecution provided clasping evidence that Mr. Saraki was receiving salaries after leaving as governor.

“With the above, it became clear why justice was compromised,” said CATBAN.

The group praised the prosecution counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), saying he did his best to prosecute the case but was intimidated by his former boss Mr. Kanu Agabi, a former Attorney-General of the Federation, and the huge number of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) representing the Senate President.

“No doubt, if Barrister Jacob had succeeded among these sharks of lawyers including his former boss, that would have been a miracle. We had expected that when the Senate president replaced his team of lawyers with more experienced lawyers with larger-than-life personality like the former Attorney-General of the Federation, the Federal Government would do the same to ensure the prosecution team maintained a very high legal luminary that cannot be intimidated by the defence, but this wasn’t done, leaving the Mr. Jacob-led prosecution team overwhelmed, intimidated and outnumbered,” CATBAN reckoned. http://saharareporters.com/2017/06/19/group-calls-saraki%E2%80%99s-re-trial-wants-sagay-falana-prosecutors

Indeed. Very nonsensical

lol

You are probably sick...I am sure you are one of those saying #FreeEvans

Meanwhile, Kwara is not like Lagos


We wish your leaders stealing money from your state are bringing it to Kwara, like they are taking it to Lagos.

CCT DID NOT ACQUIT SARAKI, AS KWARA MUST CHANGE CALL EFCC FOR RE-PROSECUTION
....Says Senate President not acquitted.

Kwara Must Change has carefully gone through the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) judgement delivered on Wednesday 14th June 2017, which discharged the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki over his false asset declaration and we find the judgement to be very questionable, nonsensical and out rightly unreasonable.

For the records, it is important to point out that we did not find the judgement questionable simply because it discharged the Senate President; we are far above such myopic consideration. However, we find it nonsensical and out rightly unreasonable because it is riddled with unreasonable considerations which beats any sane imagination.

For example, the CCT claimed as one of its reason to discharge Saraki, the failure of the prosecuting counsel to produce Kwara State Accountant General as a witness to testify against the Senate President, knowing fully well that the Accountant General of Kwara State was a boy installed by Saraki’s lackey and stooge governor, Abdulfatai Ahmed. It is more like asking the prosecuting counsel to call Saraki himself to testify against himself or asking the Kwara Accountant General to commit suicide. The Accountant General would rather die than serve as witness to testify against Saraki.

We therefore make bold to say that the discharge of the Senate President based on this meaningless claim and others like it are questionable, unreasonable, condemnable, unacceptable and even make mockery of the whole judicial process. No wonder President Muhammadu Buhari had once said that the judiciary was his greatest headache. A judiciary that allows violators to benefit from their violation.

Kwara Must Change shall in the coming week, forward a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to take up the matter once again and ensure the Senate President is re-prosecuted based on the same allegations, specifically based on the mountain of evidences.

We believe that the evidences presented are too much to be thrown away in a waste bin like the CCT tried to do. The prosecuting counsel presented account statement clearly indicating that Saraki continued to receive salary as Kwara State Governor after his tenure had expired between 2011 to 2015, while also receiving salary as Senator of the federal republic. His account statement confirmed this. The prosecuting counsel also presented clear evidence of transferring Kwara scarce resources abroad during his tenure, another bridge of the country’s law. All these resources belong to the people of Kwara State and it must be recovered.

Additionally, let us clear another false narration going on in the media.
Although, we understand that a person (Bukola Saraki) has been discharged by CCT.

We also understand that a person (Bukola Saraki) has been not been acquitted. He cannot be acquitted, because he didn’t enter any defense. You cannot be acquitted without defense; neither did the CCT acquit him. Nothing in the judgement claims anything close.

Since the discharge of Senator Bukola Saraki, several concerned people from across the state as well on the social media have been reaching out to us, demanding our position on the matter. However, we deliberately delayed our position till after we have properly studied and understood the basis of the judgement and we are confident that the judgement is nothing to write home about. This judgement cannot free Dr Saraki from his violation of the law, it only delayed the deliverance of justice.

By this, it means that, Senator Bukola Saraki was not cleared of any wrong doing. As a matter of fact, he can be picked up today and re-prosecuted for the same allegations. Being merely discharged cannot take away the matter and the numerous evidences available.

An Acquittal is traditionally defined as the act of releasing someone from certain charges brought against him/her. From a legal perspective, an Acquittal is understood as representing a “judicial deliverance” from a crime, based on the verdict or decision of a court. The word ‘deliverance’ is vital in understanding the definition of Acquittal in that it signifies an absolute release or freedom from some particular thing. An Acquittal, therefore, is an act that follows a verdict of Not Guilty. The discharge of Dr. Saraki doesn’t amount to not guilty; it only means that the court doesn’t consider the evidences due to technical grounds, hence the need for our call for re-prosecution on the same allegations.

We are therefore calling on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to immediately wade into this matter by helping Kwarans re-prosecute the Senate President and recover all our resources that had been corruptly siphoned.

Abdulrazaq O Hamzat
Kwara Must Change

really unfortunate

It has been banned in India

Why address a judge as my lord? Judges should be addressed in courts in a respectful and dignified manner, but it is not compulsory to call them "my lord", "your lordship" or "your honour".
Addressing judges as "my lord or your lordship" in courts is a relic of colonial era and a sign of slavery.
"To address the court what do we want. Only a respectable way of addressing. You call (judges) sir, it is accepted. But my lord is not. "Don't address us as lordship. We only say address us respectfully." Extracted from a Supreme Court ruling in India.

What should be the right heading?

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Why won't I? I read every word

Hum