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koruji:
It occured to me recently that YOU are one of the Nigerian "intelligence" agents on this forum - probably SSS

[size=16pt]Nigerian Eboe-Osuji, 4 others sworn in as judges of ICC in The Hague[/size]

New York - A Nigerian, Chile Eboe-Osuji, was among five new judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) sworn in at a ceremony held at the seat of the Court in The Hague.

The other judges were Howard Morrison (UK), Anthony T. Carmona (Trinidad and Tobago), Olga Herrera Carbuccia (Dominican Republic) and Robert Fremr (Czech Republic).

They were elected at the latest session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (ASP) in December, 2011, for nine-year terms.

Speaking in New York shortly after the swearing-in ceremony, Eboe-Osuji thanked Nigerians for the wonderful support they gave him.

“No one succeeds into international positions such as this without strong support from his or her government.

“And I did receive extremely strong support from the president, the Federal Minister of Justice and the minister of Foreign Affairs and the permanent secretaries and senior functionaries in those ministries.

“I particularly thank our ambassador at the UN in New York, our ambassador to the Netherlands and our ambassador in Switzerland, as well as their colleagues in Addis Ababa, Stockholm and other parts of the world.

“Without the strong support I received from them and the diplomats in their missions, this would not have been possible. I thank them all,’’ the judge said.

Eboe-Osuji and Morrison Howard of the UK were elected during the final rounds of the ICC election at the UN headquarters in New York.

Eboe-Osuji recorded 102 votes, while Howard recorded 72 votes out of the 117 votes to meet the two-third required majority before a candidate could be adjudged elected as a judge in the ICC.

He had served as Legal Advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.

Also he worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), where he served as Principal Legal Adviser to the Chambers between 2008 and 2009.

Eboe-Osuji was also a Senior Appeals Counsel at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) and a Senior Legal Officer in the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICTR.

There he worked on the case of Bagosora, Nsengiyumva, Kabiligi and Ntabakuze, and the Semanza case.

He taught International Criminal Law at the University Of Ottawa Faculty Of Law in Ontario, Canada and had also appeared in several civil, constitutional and criminal cases at all levels of court in Canada, as a barrister. (NAN)

Uche2005:
how this did happen.

chi-ste:
by omonaijanimio

"Interesting thread. I am Nigerian. Live in Nigeria. Love it! Visited 11 countries in almost all continents. Worked in 3 countries (including SA) deploying technology on behalf of my global energy company (180 countries bro). Citizens of the world commit crime and also do good things wherever they find themselves. Most South Africans dont know this cos they're very simple and local. Please travel some. Why do South African women marry Nigerian men? Ask them why,  hope your ego survives the answer.[size=14pt] There are 400 SA companies here in naija. [/size]We also have several small and medium scale Nigerian companies in SA. We support the SA medical system with skilled and experienced doctors. Is SA a beautiful country? Yes. Would I live there? NO. Nigeria is also very beautiful and has limitless opportunities with the biggest market in Africa. Can Nigeria survive MTN and co leaving? They only got here yesterday. Will nationalize them in a minute. We did well without them and would continue to do so. We also have home grown Telcos (Glo, etc.) giving MTN a run for their money and also operating in other West African countries. Do we care if all Naijas in SA are deported? We are 160 million people. 4 in 10 black men is Nigerian. Who cares about illegal immigrants? Will Nigerians retaliate if even the illegals in SA are mistreated rather than being repatriated properly, if needed? Ask your government. They know. Can Nigeria go toe to toe with SA diplomatically? Ask Britain. We recently halted BA flights for messing with Arik airlines, and we kicked out the British and Nationalized BP in the 70s because of your sorry Black asses being enslaved by the Europeans. We need no favors from SA. We are no beggars - ask your women. We will survive and thrive anywhere - ask your women again. We are very loyal and proud,  and SA is too inexperienced globally to mess with us. Our President is a PhD, while yours takes a bath and eats beetroot to prevent AIDS. BTW, after reading this comment, scoot to the front page of The Sowetan and see the abuses, murder, corruption, paedophilic and gerontophilic abuses being reported, were those also committed by Nigerians? Always looking for someone to blame are you? We are not Zimbabweans or any other panhandling SADAC folk. We will hit back where we can. A Nigerian did not become the richest African through BBE or apartheid era stolen lucre. Watch and learn fuckas".

sholasys:
PLS READ AND CONTRIBUTE

The controversy stirred by Dr. Junaid Mohammed on possible break up of Nigeria is yet to die down. Leaders of Kogi and Kwara, two Middle Belt states the Second Republic legislator threatened to drag along with the North have reacted. Group Political Editor BOLADE OMONIJO, EMMANUEL OLADESU and ADEKUNLE JIMOH present their angry responses:

THE political and social elite of Kogi and Kwara states are angry that a section of the North is threatening to hold them as bargain in the event that Nigeria disintegrates. Perhaps taking a cue from Karl Meier’s contention that “this house has fallen” and the foreign prediction that the country can only last a few years given the current sociological pressure, Junaid Mohammed told a Sunday newspaper that the North was not afraid of a break up. He, however, added that this would only be allowed if Kogi and Kwara states were ceded to the North.

But, furious at the sheer thought, David Jemibewon, a retired Major General, fired three questions in one minute: “On whose mandate is he talking? Whose interest is he representing? Who authorised him?”

Jemibewon, a founding member and leader of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hails from Kogi State. He found it insulting that Mohammed could conceivably be speaking for the people of Kogi and Kwara states.

The former military governor of the defunct Western State who reacted on the phone, said Mohammed lacked the mandate of his people in Kogi to speak on such a sensitive issue.

He added: “If it’s his personal view, which I cannot query, there is no problem. But if he claims to be speaking on behalf of the North, who gave him the mandate?

“I don’t think he represents my interest until he gets my mandate. If he has been authorised, I don’t have the right to query him. But who authorised him?”

[size=14pt]Jemibewon was too angry to continue with the interview.[/size] But Rotimi Obadofin, another Kogi politician would not want to contemplate such a development. He said Mohammed was wallowing in self-deception and self-delusion, pointing out that the two states would not go with the North, if there is a break-up.

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egift:
Onlytruth, mba. Ojukwu and Buhari got along very well and both remain my Heroes.

EzeUche:
I would prefer our nations look like this.

https://wikitravel.org/upload/shared/e/e8/Nigeria_Regions_map.png