₦airaland Forum

Is state creation Naija problem?
How many did we have during Buhari/Idiagbon regime,yet their govt was better than 36 state we have now.
Create state to give some some sense of belonging one would say.
Rob peter to pay paul.
Peter would grow up one day nahh then u will rob me to pay Peter.
Vicious cycle. mschewwww

link :

http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62682:money-laundering-moves-to-bug-lines-unsettle-senators&catid=672:top-stories&Itemid=794

SENATORS yesterday expressed anger over moves by some anti-corruption campaigners to enact a law which will mandate operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to monitor phone calls of Nigerians.

The monitor-phone-call option is to tackle the money laundering scourge in the country.

But, to some Senators, if the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Bill becomes law, the rights of Nigerians to privacy would be infringed upon.

The fear, which is being entertained by the Senate, is derived from Section 13 of the bill which seeks to empower the EFCC, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other regulatory authorities to, by an ex-parte order from a Federal High Court, place bank accounts and telephone lines under surveillance.

The Section reads: “The commission, agency, Central Bank of Nigeria or other regulatory authorities, pursuant to an order of the Federal High Court obtained upon an ex-parte application supported by a sworn declaration made by the Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Nigeria or other regulatory authorities justifying the request, may, in order to identify and locate proceeds, properties, objects or other things related to the commission of an offence under this Act, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act or other law:

• Place any bank account or any other account comparable to a bank account under surveillance;

• Tap any telephone line or place it under surveillance;

• Obtain access to any computer system;

• Obtain communication of any authentic instrument or private contract, together with all bank, financial and commercial records, when the account, telephone line or computer system is used by any person suspected of taking part in a transaction involving the proceeds, of a financial or other crime.”

The section only passed after Section 13 (b) was amended to read “tap any suspected telephone.”

Contributing to the debate, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Umar Dahiru, said the human rights implication was obvious with the power given to the agencies to place accounts under surveillance.

He said: “This is democracy; we are not in the military regime where you can just get into people’s privacy. I want to enjoy my freedom. We have to take a critical look at this section. If we allow it, it may be unfair,” he said.

Senator James Manager called for caution in allowing the section to pass as it was, maintaining that the situation in Nigeria was peculiar and different from what obtains in developed countries.

He said: “I have warned that this bill is very technical and dangerous. We don’t have to make a law against ourselves, especially to give agencies the powers to tap telephone lines.”

But, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Anti-corruption, Senator Sola Akinyede, argued that the preponderance of technologies and their applications in business transactions had made it imperative to monitor their uses.

He noted that some criminals use telephone to perform transactions that would need to be tracked.

After a minor adjustment on the Bill, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who presided over the plenary, managed to get a simple voice vote to get the section through.


Clear conscience they said fears no accusation. For Me If they like make them listen.wetin be my own

wachya fink felas ?

I want to know if the wait of buying it from UK is worth it.
Whats the price in UK ?

kai inside source said yaradua don be vegetable
naim make madam no won make person see d gbeskemuke

se if d man see u,e go begin laugh histerically.

yes like a mad ,

Recent devlopment has shown that Jonathan doesnt have his cabals.

otherwise can somebody tell  me why Turai had to ask him to cancel FEC meeting so that He briefs "HER" first b4 calling FEC meeting.dispatched securities to airport without his consent.

Is Jonathan afraid to tell her he's not answerable to her but her husband?

Can Turai try this shit if it were Atiku?
Even the beef OBJ had with Atiku,OBJ could not summon the courage to chose anoda VP for 2nd term.


shame on u JONA-less 4 alway accepting a weeping dog.  dumbass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

keskelafio ?
vs 22.keepin ma fingus crossed

A Nigerian engineer, Jude Igwemezie, has won a $500 million contract to build a monorail network in Iraq.

Mr. Igwemezie trained and lives in Canada; he also heads TransGlobim International, the engineering company that won the bid. The contract is to construct what is described as “a viable rail transportation network” for the city of Najaf. The network will connect three Islamic holy and historic mosques in Imam Ali, Kufa and Sahle.


HAPPY INDEPENDENT ?


Mr. Igwemezie, who said he has been involved in negotiation with Nigerian officials in the last 18 months to construct several rail lines in the country, disclosed that it took “only two months to get the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) executed with Iraqi officials”.

Hinting at his frustration to offer his services to Nigeria, Mr. Igwemezie said, “as a Diaspora person, I kept coming back, knocking, to help Nigeria. On the other hand I can’t knock forever.”

Problem of railway in Nigeria

Mr. Igwemezie, who wants to build a standard guage railway system from Lagos to Calabar, believes that Nigeria is a place where railway service is going to be “profitable and successful because of its size and population and because we have a demography similar to that in Europe”. However, he said, the bane of railway in Nigeria is that “we have brought the wrong people to help us”.

Gains of railway

Mr. Igwemezie, who lost his father in a road accident, believes that the railway line will take pressure off the roads and rid them of the unnecessary delays and loss of lives associated with road travel.

He described the Benin-Ore road as “a killing field”, and said with the construction of the East-West corridor, there is no reason why someone who lives in Benin cannot work in Lagos since it will only take two hours on an express line to get to Lagos from Benin.

Bible talk say wetin u no like make anoda person do to u, dont do it to him.
Arsenal fans read ur Bible.

waaaaat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oga run pass Usain Bolt ooo!. heeeh. like my place where we have "nso-ala" if u touch a married woman, your pendulum will swell-up(Ibi) such that u wont be able to work again. Tell her u have "Omenala" in your village.I don talk finish

My uncle told me Jim rushed to UK to sale a mansion he acquired there 2gether with anoda in USA. I no no ohhhhh

Its disheartening to see how people rejoice over this CEO/MD's sack.Dont have problem wt dat but the manner they were booted out smacks lack of indebt  analysis of after-effect of this choreography.I whither  4 this country. If Jimoh,Otedola,Rosco construction,Transcorp,dangote's etc should pay back to avoid EFCC wahala, all I mean all the companies will go under.The effect? that your small job u thing is not paying well will be keenly contested for.
Think  twice,

@ INCISOR I will like to have the material ;oshtronic@yahoo.com
Actually going through your post tells me u've got some potentials and will like to share.daz gud of a gesture.keep it up

truely dis site is bouncing back how is use to be.gud job man. but wait a minute,most of the deadlines for application are 2006.how reliable is this ur info?