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https://www.nairaland.com/1566372/foi-not-binding-states-lagos

Now fowl nyash don open. This thread is from 2012 when Fashola refused to open his books

justtoodark:
you easterners still dont get it....

we nigerians dont care about icc....

When Buratai and all the officers involved are found guilty by the ICC you nigerians will get it.

Nigeria is a signatory to the charter establishing the ICC. It is bound to honour whatever the court decides. Even if Nigeria toes the line of pariah countries that are not and formally opts out, the army officers can be arrested when they travel abroad. Even countries like Ghana would be risky for them to go to

Nigerian states have no powers to reject requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FoI), the Court of Appeal has ruled.

In a March 27 decision at the Akure Division, the Court of Appeal ruled that the requests for information, especially around public expenditure, under the FoI, are made in public interest and should be honoured by all states.

The decision came in an appeal filed by Martins Alo, a journalist, against the Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly and Auditor-General of Ondo State.

Mr Alo had demanded the audited report of Ondo State Government between 2012 and 2014 to properly access how public funds are utilised in the state. But the request was rejected, prompting him to seek judicial redress.

The Akure Division of Ondo State High Court had previously ruled in 2016 that Mr Alo had no right to demand how the state was spending money, saying the FoI was not applicable to states and the request was not in public interest to begin with.

The judge, Williams Akintoroye, also said Mr Alo should pay a damage of N10,000 for wasting time and resources of the state.

But Mr Alo’s lawyer, Femi Emodamori, appealed the ruling on behalf of his client, arguing that Mr Akintoroye erred in his judgment and that his client was acting in public interest.

A three-member panel at the Court of Appeal rejected Mr Akintoroye’s ruling and agreed with the appellant that the FoI was applicable to states and it was in public interest for the state government to release its audited report.

The Court of Appeal judges who sat on the matter included Uzo Ndukwe-Anyanwu, Obande Ogbuinya and Ridwan Abdullahi.

Mr Ndukwe-Anyanwu wrote the lead opinion, saying Mr Alo has a right to act on behalf of the public to obtain the information from state authorities. He also quashed the N10,000 fine imposed by the lower court.

“In a democratic dispensation, such as the Nigeria’s, the citizens have been proclaimed the owners of sovereignty and mandates that place leaders in the saddle,” Mr Ogbuinya said in his concurring opinion.

The citizens have a right to know details of “expenditure of public funds generated from their taxes,” Mr Ogbuinya added.

Several states, including Lagos, Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom and Ondo, have been rejecting FoI requests relating to their activities since the law was signed in 2011 by former President Goodluck Jonathan.

[[s]quote author=ERockson post=66658866]No doubt if you want Ndigbo to love you and earn their political support in Nigeria, Just ensure you use these statements and they will automatically like you and ready to kill and die for you.

(1) Igbo are the most marginalized tribe in Nigeria.

(2) Igbo are the best in all ramification.



https://www.nairaland.com/4448024/igbo-remains-most-marginalised-tribe[/quote[/s]]

The two words we are ready to die for are :-

1. Referendum
2. Restructuring

Shame awaits Buratai, Buhari and the buharideens

Slowly but surely it shall happen

horsepower101:
Python dance in a region that the UN declared the safest in Nigeria. We need to deal with the sabos amongst us for real. Fck the presidency.

The untold, secret number of Igbos killed in python dance on top of the other atrocities will be on buhari's head for life.

Imagine voting for Buhari after python dance. Young harmless boys drowned in the mud. Alu!

mbos:
THESE WRITERS WHO RARELY VISIT HOME.

ALL IGBOS WANT IS BIAFRA PERIOD.

The writer lives in the HEART of Aba. You no read am well...

NOC1:
if elections are won on social media, i dont think APC will be in existence today how much more of producing the president. politics goes beyond ranting, every good politician knows the need of every region and they come to you with a promise of making it available to you. when the real politics sets in many Igbos will buy this fake drug that is been advertised today, the yorubas will equally give him a block vote with the plan of there son succeeding him, Majority of the northerners out of self pity and brotherly mugu will still vote for him.
some days back i sat inside my toilet(fountain of Knowledge) to analyze the possibility of PMBs failure come 2019, but after holistic thinking devoid of ethnicity and religious sentiments i breath out and said only God can stop him because all political odds favor him.

It is not an issue of Buhari may win, I suspect the man will win in 2019. North and South West will vote heavily for him again

The issue is that APC is flying a kite that Igbos should vote Buhari in 2019 so they can benefit from a turn by turn arrangement where an Igbo president can emerge as APC candidate in 2023. We say tufiakwa! Even if Buhari wins our votes will not be part of it.

The truth is I don't think Tinubu is capable of rising beyond his monstrous greed and ambition. He will deliver South-West, Buhari will win and the Fulani will teach Tinubu the final lesson in politics. Whether Osinbajo succeeds Buhari or not...

gidgiddy:
Only a very stupid Igbo man will be thinking about Igbo Presidency when the same Presidency did not benefit those who held it in the past.

Either a very stupid one or one that has a selfish agenda...

chivic:
Is like they believe that they are likely to loose vote from south west,north central and so they want to lobby the "insignificant few" (south east) for vote.

South east will not vote Buhari.If you like talk from now till tomorrow.why have they suddenly decided to talk nicely to south east?

South West will surely vote for Buhari as usual. They KNOW they have lost north-central totally so they are desperate to get more from the east to balance up.

horsepower101:
In the past, desperate igbo political jobbers and Nigerian politrickcians will use the promise of Igbo presidency to entice Igbo masses. That spell has been finally broken.

If you go to the public gatherings of igbos today especially the youth and ask them if they care about Igbo president. Overwhelming majority will say No.

The Igbo man is the most pragmatic man in Nigeria. He always assess the cost/benefit ratio in all his endeavors. When something is not making sense, he will try his best to warn the rest of Nigerians. But he has come to realize that they won't listen to him because of blind hatred.

He has looked at other regions that have produced the presidency in the past and realized that they are not better off. In fact various statistics that are from neutral sources show that igbos are actually doing better on average than most Nigerians.

The Igbo man has finally realized the fundamental truth as once said by Former Governor Peter Obi

"A car with a knocked engine will never move forward even if you put the best driver in the world in it"

Chineke nalu ekene

Ndi Igbo were born woke

THE POISONED APPLE DANGLED BEFORE THE IGBOS

The Secretary to the Govt of the Federation Mr Boss Mustapha, yesterday told the Ebonyi state delegates of the APC that supporting Buhari's re-election is the shortest way to Igbo presidency and that they should go home and tell the south easterners to support the president to return in 2019.

After reading what transpired in Abuja, I asked myself the way forward for the Igbos as a nation. First of all, has producing the president favoured any people in Nigeria?
The north has been in power for a longer period of time more than any region since independence, yet the north is the most backward region in Nigeria, with diseases, illiteracy, insecurity, hunger and religious intolerance ravaging the region.

The presidency of Obasanjo did not confer any special advantage to the people of Ogun state. Otueke did not become a haven when Jonathan was the president. There is no evidence that Daura or even the entire Katsina state has become better just because Buhari is the president.

The way the Nigerian presidency is structured, being a
president or producing a president does not confer any
special benefit to any region. Although it is true that a
president can use his powers to cause a development to
his zone, but in Nigeria, how much development can a
president unlawfully corner to his region without procuring the wrath of other regions?
The truth is that this silent promise to the Igbos which has no seal of official pronouncement, is to me, the kind of promise a man makes to a woman he wants to sleep with. Once the man succeeds in what he wants to do, he forgets the promise. If the woman tries to make him to
keep his promise, he will tell the woman that he can't even remember when he made the promise.
Any Igbo person who believes that the APC peopled by the likes of Tinubu, Amaechi, Buhari etc will present the
presidency to the Igbos after the tenure of Buhari when the Igbos are clearly a minority in the APC, did not suck the breast of an Igbo woman. Those who sucked the breast of Igbo women as their mothers can never be deceived by such fake promise.

Also, there is what we call character evidence. Buhari and the APC have never kept any of their electoral promises. If we judge them by their character, why should we believe that they will keep this promise ( if in fact there was any promise binding at all) after the tenure of Buhari? The truth is that such a promise is not likely to be kept. Also, is Buhari and the APC feudal lords that can give the presidency to anyone they wish?
Does the Nigerian president or the party in power have the power to give the presidency to whoever they desire? If the president and his party have that power, why did Jonathan lose the election despite the fact that he and his party were in power?

The truth and fact is that for anyone to be a president, he
needs the cooperation of at least five geopolitical zones in Nigeria to do that and if the APC fields Igbo candidate and the regions in Nigeria reject the candidate, the Igbo presidency will remain a pipe dream. We also forget the fact that the Igbos may not vote that candidate. It happened during the time of Obasanjo when most people of the South West chose not to vote for him.

What exactly do the Igbos want?

The truth is that most igbos are divided into two thin and
blurred lines: those who want an independent country of
Biafra and those who want the country to be restructured so the regions can stand and develop on their own without depending on the federal govt for survival.

Although the idea of an Igbo presidency is not unwelcome in the south east, it is not the solution to the problem of the people of the region and anyone who is using it to entice, lure, or manipulate the Igbos into voting to continue the most incompetent, sectional and unproductive govt of Muhammadu Buhari should know that majority of Igbos are too intelligent to fall for that prank.

Very interesting angle. If elders buy into this agitation it will become another thing

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Explosion Kills One Person In Osun



One person has reportedly been killed in an explosion which pulled down a storey building around More area in Ile Ife town in Osun state.

The incident was said to have occurred late on Saturday night when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED)exploded in a pharmacy along More road in the state.

An eyewitness explained that a man who was injured was rescued from the back of the building and rushed to the Obafemi Awolowo Teaching hospital, where he later died in the morning.

The community due to this incident was thrown into confusion after residents heard the explosion suspected to have emanated from the building in the neighbourhood.

The explosion, however, affected several other adjourning buildings as the Osun State Emergency Service is expected at the scene for evaluation.

Meanwhile, only two policemen have been sighted at the scene of the incident.

This is why I detest Ohaneze. They haven't said a word about that quota Arewa PHD holder that said Igbos are responsible for the rate of drug abuse in the north. Despite the fact that the lieis pure hate speech that could invite violence against Igbos in the far north.

Unserious people

Obdk:
some claim it was tafawa belewa. others claim it was built by Eastern regional government...


who really built the bridge

It was built after negotiations between the Federal Givernment and the Eastern Region and was done under the 2nd National Development Plan (1962-1968) The plan was collaborative between the FG and regions so in a way it was done by both.

AustineE1:
@Ileke Idi was a strong nut to crack,quite good,i give it to her....may have changed her moniker!

She, dayokanu, eko ile and the rest of their group are the ones responsible for the crazy level of hate you see on nairaland today. They pioneered the posting pictures of dying igbo children in the civil war and they used to celebrate when Boko Haram was new and used to kill mainly Igbos. They made the hate here explode

By the time the "beef" they cooked became too much for them to finish eating they quietly changed monikers

They should help us ask them if the soak-away pits wey northern youths dey sniff to high are also filled with Igbo ppl poo? Or the lizard poo they dry and smoke is also sold to them by Igbos. Thunder fire Lugard

Northern elite and intelligentsia are just lazy and lack ideas to ease the crippling poverty and illiteracy that drives drug abuse in their region . I am not surprised they would come up with this to divert attention.

Tinubu then rewarded Pa Adebanjo by destroying the Alliance for Democracy and eventually brought Nigeria to its lowest point by 2015.

Terrible mistake

joeyfire:
Yoruba guys in SA like other Nigerian criminals do drugs, 419, armed robbery etc Your hypocrisy notwithstanding. Do you want me to bring up the news article of your Oba caught abroad with drugs? Be my guest

No mind that Yoruba Muslim. He will soon run away like a rat. Just watch

author=5thElement post=66416121]

quote author=nku5 post=66395563]

Rwanda ni Limpopo ko.

Blackmailing Yoruba Christians by questioning their yorubaness is an expired tactic. They now know that Igbos have never been and will never be their problem.

You think they have not noticed how quiet you lot are when Fulani herdsmen are inching deeper and deeper into the SW?

You think they don't know that it is you people that have done the desires of the caliphate and continually damage relations with their southern neighbours.

You think that the issue of the arbitrary scrapping of the 1000+ year old Yoruba traditional royal office structure by this Oluwo of Iwo clown can be swept under the carpet because you play the worn-out "Igbo are the enemies" card?


Your eye go soon clear[/quote]

5thElement:
And I hope for the unborn generation you are actually an aborted foetus typing on here, but I guess that's too much to hope for.

We only have to wait and see as your generation rue the day you were born.

This is your reality

"At plenary on Tuesday, the lawmakers said some violent groups — “sometimes consisting of insurgents and foreigners from neighbouring countries” — have been camping in over 200 villages in the state for about three weeks.

They said while some of the insurgents rob and kidnap people for ransom, some of their counterparts “storm villages to maim, loot and even kill in search of food, money and shelter”.

The deliberations were sequel to a motion of urgent public importance raised by Bosun Oladele, from Oyo state.

Oladele said villagers and farmers living in the affected villages have fled the area and taken cover in neighbouring communities.

He said eight persons have died from the attacks while “more than 15 persons have been kidnapped for ransom, some resulting in fatalities and gunshot injuries”.

[quote author=5thElement post=66409240][/quote]I hope for your sake you are actually a little kid in high school

If you are actually an adult then wahala dey

Reelectbuhari:
He wondered why drug abuse was not prevalent in the South-East region.


http://dailypost.ng/2018/04/03/drug-abuse-north-handiwork-igbo-people-bayero-university-lecturer-muhammad/

Same reason why extremely low poverty and illiteracy levels are not prevalent in the South East

Anumpam

5thElement:
Why are you so concerned?

Why don't you mind your fvcking business?

How does this matter impact your own life that you now want to kill yourself on top the matter?
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According to the Emir of Kano Sanusi he said you people have proved incapable of rising above narrow interests. Almost every literate Nigerian adult has read this Sanusi piece. Or do I need to Google it for you. These narrow parochial interests almost always affect EVERYBODY else in this country. We have large investments in Lagos so we must keep admonishing you people to wipe your nyash well after poo-poo

1. The Nigerian civil war can be traced to the madness of the Western Region Crisis when you people were doing operation wetie and Awo and Akintola supporters were burning themselves by the thousands.

2. The Kano riots that claimed the lives of plenty of innocent southerners in 1953 was caused when Northern Reps were jeered and booed in Lagos by your people

3. You people in recent times helped put Buhari the calamity in office at the expense of your southern brother

You guys need supervision

There was a beautiful plan for the East. I wish oil had never been found ....

Another feather of shame in buhari's cap.