₦airaland Forum

Beautifulday:
he is the best senate president this country has ever produced.

I agree

VillageBus:
Instead of increasing production.
The forex wey we no get enough Dem wan reduce the inflow.

This is just a short term solution, on the long run, there will be an increase in production

xynerise:
Some of the features of New Generation men:

1. Prefers the latest and trending fashion, culture and lifestyle
2. Loves to test (sex) first before marriage
3. Easily gets emotional
4. Kneels to Propose marriage to their girlfriend/Fiancée
5. Very active on social media.
6. Doesn't have time to volunteer in community services and join community meetings
7. Prefers the latest technology and more technology.....


Some features of Old fashioned man:
1.Doesnt care what's trending. He just want to look smart and matured and he respects the old tradition and culture.

2. Getting married before sex
3. Doesn't get emotional easily.
4. Straight to business of marriage. Meet the necessary people and do what's right. No time for drama.
5. Doesn't have time for chit-chat and gossips or look who is trending. Except for business sake.
6.Volunteers in community services and partake in village meetings

7. Less technology.


I am among the old fashioned men 😉

except from number 2, I'm part of the old fashioned men but

Ezewuzie01:
With the way the economy has tanked, it is indeed wonderful that Nigerians are grinding on with so much zeal and hope for the future. Guinness world records have to award Nigerians the most resilient people on earth.

Are you not a Nigerian?

It's not by force you marry nah. Make money, foock a man you love and enjoy yourself

Why dem just dey do am now wey I don give out my playstation 4 🙄🙄🙄

Johncuppa:
Refined crude
The person that said you do not know what you're talking about is correct.

so you have never heard the word refined crude oil before? Well, google is your friend. I will have to start snubbing dull comment like yours on nairaland now.

Nah every wyere go dey claim to have sense on social media.


Ask Google what a refined crude is

TheOgaBoss:
is it dangote refinery that nnpcl does not supply crude oil to that u are waiting for? or u want them to refine water?

NNPCL has supplied and will still supply crude to Dangote. And Dangote have the option of also buying from foreign suppliers.

NairalandForumo:
That's why I said you may not say the same thing you said for this one in Abuja if it was Abia state considering the cost

Only obidients are known to do what you're accusing me of

NairalandForumo:
it is not owned but it is getting support from the FG so you are also doing your own support, Imagine if it was Abia state government that unveiled this with this price, your talk may have been different....

I'm not an obidient.

NairalandForumo:
You are already justifying the cost even when no one has said it is expensive here because you know it is expensive all because of Party support

Is the hotel owned by the Nigerian government? I was stating how it is all over the world.

lastempero:
You dont have one naira in your bank acct or to your name if not you will understand why people are buying dollar with the floating naira.

Make i clear your eye small. If you deposited 1million in the bank 7months ago, that one million is now worth less than 500k just like that. That is why cordoso n his co travellers are educated do keys for not factoring the fact their stupid policy will not only destroy the economy but also people's hard earned money.

shey you're not one of the people complaining that the naira is crashing sha?

Every hotel within and around an airport is going to be expensive

Some economy saboteurs will be busy buying the dip right now 😡 it might still shoot up before 12am

Govt should kuku ban the trading of cryptocurrency in Nigeria.

Just like peter obi, abure is a fraudster

The spokesman for Labour Party, Obiora Ifoh, on Wednesday, said that the party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure, was arrested following a petition written against him by a faction of the party.

Ifoh disclosed this in a statement released few hours after Abure and Edo chairman of the party, Kelly Ogbaloi, were whisked away by policemen in Benin, the state capital.

According to him, the national chairman and his Edo state counterpart were arrested after having a meeting with a team of Department of State Services and police officers.

He said, “The Labour Party on Tuesday had a very successful delegate election in Benin ahead of the party lrimaries scheduled to hold on Friday. The party chairman only this morning along with party governorship aspirants also kept a scheduled security briefing with the Department of State Services. Abure was however arrested after the meeting by a combined team of DSS and police officers. Abure, Ogbaloi and their aides were also manhandled.


“However, a police source informed the party officials and other governorship aspirants at the gate of the police headquarters that the arrest was in connection to a protest letter by one of the expelled members of the party loyal to Apapa dissident camp.

“The source also confirmed that the arrest was not unconnected to the ongoing party primary and the possible candidate that will emerge which the state government is opposed to. He informed us that the arrest was to frustrate the primary process and possibly interrupt the party’s participation in the governorship election.”

Spokesman for the Lamidi Apapa faction, Abayomi Arabambi, had earlier explained that Wednesday’s arrest was in connection with some petitions written against Abure by some aggrieved party candidates.



https://punchng.com/just-in-abure-arrested-over-lamidi-apapa-factions-petition-lp/?amp

I agree with gowon, he needs more time

Go on with one Nigeria

Odewaleadesoye:
- The black hole has a mass roughly 17 billion times that of our solar system's sun



DAILY MAIL

so everything that was illustrated in the pictures happened 12 billion years ago abi?

fineboynl:
Petrol is officially 1k. Anywhere they sell less meter has been tempered .

I bought 10k fuel at the rate of 700. My meter gauge did make as it use to do before. About half of it was cut from it.

Make hardship loading.

Which petrol station did you buy it for 1k? Where's it located?

nairalanda1:
When is gandollars next?

summit your evidence to the EFCC

God bless tinubu and gowon.

Go on with one Nigeria

yinkabeauty:
So is the military government that accumulated the debt in just few months!?😠 I beg DON'T PLAY!

reXurrectionZA

Whether they accumulated the debt or not does not matter. The Niger government borrowed the money.

A lot of Nigerians who need it do not have a bank account

nairalanda1:
So when is gandollars next?

summit your evidence to the EFCC

nairalanda1:
If this is true, when are they going after the dollars man of apc?

If you have anything against anybody in the APC, pay a visit to the EFCC and tender your evidence. Someone like you with evidence against Abure tendered his evidence to the NPF and that's why Abure was arrested

When I said people buying and keeping the dollars at their homes are part of the people putting pressure on the naira, someone told me I was wrong and do not know what I was talking about. I think the person is I volt or so.

When will the PH and Dangote refinery start selling refined crude gan na? The CBN will be getting dollars from the NNPCL when the NNPCL stop importing refined crude with dollars.

reXurrectionZA:
i wanted sent you a screenshot with my last message but ive not been able to upload pictures

You don't need to show me any screenshot. Just show me a source from a reputable news agency like Aljazeera that claim the civilian government defaulted


https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/2/19/niger-defaults-on-debt-payments-again-as-post-coup-woes-pile

I'm waiting

reXurrectionZA:
the figure you see there is the TOTAL DEBT of the country. Included within it are debt owed to world bank and even Ecowas since 2020, some have accumulated intrests over time. ECOWAS funds part of Nigers budget and they pay up gradually, this payment was discontinued since the military regime took over. maybe you think Nigeria is the only African country with over due debts.

Can you show evidence the civilian government in Niger was not able to pay their debt?

Agbegbaorogboye:
Sorry sir.... You are parachoco

Alright!

Life

A bill seeking the amendment of the 1999 Constitution to empower governors to appoint state commissioners of police scaled second reading on the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.

In the alteration to the constitution under consideration, a commissioner of police appointed from among the serving policemen in the state will head the proposed state police in a long-awaited move to decentralise the Nigeria Police Force which has failed to address the spiralling security crisis confronting the country.

The country has been under assault by bandits, kidnappers, and other nefarious characters that daily launch violent attacks on citizens, many of whom are kidnapped, killed, or maimed.

Though the police authorities had initiated various security operations and also deployed more operatives across the country to tackle the insecurity, the crime wave had yet to abate as gunmen operated freely in several urban areas and rural communities.

Titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to Provide for Establishment of State Police and Related Matters,’ the bill, sponsored by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Benjamin Kalu, and 14 others, put the police on the concurrent list.

In the 1999 Constitution, policing is on the exclusive legislative List and therefore, under the direct control of the Federal Government.

Leading the debate on the general principles of the bill, the co-sponsor and member representing Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency, Tolani Shagaya noted that the primary purpose of government as enshrined in section 14(2)(b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, is the security and welfare of the citizens.

He added that in the past few years, the nation’s collective security had been greatly challenged, noting that as a result, state police had become inevitable to augment the efforts of the Federal Government to make the country safe for all.

Highlighting some of the key innovations in the proposed alteration bill, he said, “The transfer of police from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent list, a move that effectively empowers states to have state-controlled policing; the introduction of a comprehensive framework to ensure cohesion as well as accountability and uniform standards between the federal police and state police; the provision of prescribed rigorous safeguards preventing unwarranted interference by the federal police in state police affairs, emphasizing collaboration and intervention only under well-defined circumstances.’’

Shagaya further listed other key provisions of the bill to include the establishment of the state police service commissions as distinct from the Federal Police Service Commission with clearly defined roles and jurisdictions, a re-calibration of the National Police Council to include the chairmen of the state police service commissions, emphasising the collaborative and consultative nature of policing in our federal system.

Other provisions are the recognition of the possible financial challenges that may be faced by state police which would require the Federal Government to provide grants or aid, subject to the approval of the National Assembly, thus ensuring adequate resources for effective policing.

The proposed amendment also provides that the appointment of the state commissioner of police by the governor shall be on the recommendation of the Federal Police Service Commission and the state assembly’s approval.

CP’s removal

However, the CP can be removed by the governor on the recommendation of the Federal Police Service Commission, subject to two-thirds of the state assembly.

Section 215 (4) of the bill provides that, “A state police shall be headed by a commissioner of police who shall be appointed by the governor of the state on the advice of the Federal Police Service Commission from among serving members of the state police subject to confirmation by the state House of Assembly.’’

Section 216 (3) read, “A Commissioner of Police of a state shall only be removed by the governor upon the recommendation of the Federal Police Service Commission praying that he be so removed on the grounds of (a) misconduct in the performance of his official duties (b) breach of policing standards, law, regulation, and code of conduct (c) conviction of any offence involving fraud or dishonesty by a court of law or tribunal and (d) bankruptcy and mental incapacity.’’

It stated that the governor or commissioner under him may give the commissioner of police lawful directive but if considered illegal, the police commissioner may refer the order to the state service commission, which is empowered to take the final decision.

“The governor or such other commissioner of the government of the state as he may authorise on that behalf may give to the commissioner of police such lawful directions concerning the maintenance and securing of public safety and order as he may consider necessary, and the commissioner of police shall comply with those directions or cause them to be complied with.”

Furthermore, the National Assembly shall do certification of the state police service commission bi-annually to make sure it meets national standards.

Section 216 (b) of the bill empowers the state police to bear such arms as may be determined by an Act of the National Assembly.

In all, the proposal contains 18 clauses to alter sections 34, 35, 39, 42, 84, 89 and 129 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as altered).

The bill also seeks to alter sections 153, 197, 214, 215, and 216 as well as Chapter IV Part III, Second Schedule, Part II of the Third Schedule, and Part III of the Third Schedule of the Constitution.

Federal police

In the proposed legislation, section 214 of the Constitution (Establishment of Federal and State Police) is altered to distinguish the federal from the state police.

Section 214 (3a) reads, “The federal police shall be responsible for the maintenance of public security, preservation of public order and security of persons and property throughout the federation to the extent provided for under this Act or by an Act of the National Assembly; and


“(b) be responsible the maintenance of public security, preservation of public order and security of persons and property within a State to the extent that the State has power to make laws under this constitution.’’

Subject to the provisions of the constitution, the bill states that the federal police shall not interfere with the operations of any state police or the internal security affairs of any state except to contain serious threats to public order where it is shown that there is a complete breakdown of law and order within a state and the state police are unable to contain the threat.

The federal police can only intervene where the governor requests their intervention to prevent or contain a breakdown of law and order in the state.

Section 216 (1) of the Constitution was also altered to provide the basis for the removal from office of the Inspector General of Police.

Contributing in support of the bill, Ahmed Jaha representing Damboa, Gwoza/Chibok Federal Constituency, Borno State, stated, “It is not the responsibility of the military to help in the maintenance of internal security. They are involved because of the breakdown of our internal security mechanisms.’’

Also speaking, the member representing Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Lagos State, Babajimi Benson, noted that it is the job of the police to maintain law and order.

According to him, “The about 400, 000 policemen we have today cannot effectively cater for the over 200 million Nigerians. If the 36 states of the federation feel they have the funding, they should be allowed to establish state police provided such is not used to perpetrate political ambitions.’’

Other lawmakers who spoke in support of the bill included Aliyu Madaki (Kano) Ademorin Kuye (Lagos) and Bello Kumo (Gombe).

But the member representing Jibia/Kaita Federal Constituency, Sada Soli, expressed misgivings, citing the financial implication of state police at a time when many states were struggling to meet their financial responsibility to their workforce.

Ex-police commissioner

Speaking on the bill, a former Assistant Inspector General of Police, Ali Amodu, stated that while there were fears about the powers being granted to the governors to have control over the state police, it would strengthen the powers of the judiciary, noting that in the end, the citizens would benefit more from giving control of the police to the states.

He noted, “The constitution even provides that they are the Chief Security Officers of their states. If they should have control over the police, the judiciary will be so strengthened that if the governor wants to use the police against his opponents, his opponents will go to court and seek redress.

“My view is that we should not be afraid, we are having a lot of security challenges today, and we should not be afraid of testing this because it is happening in other countries. But of course, it will need an amendment of the Constitution.’’

Endorsing the control of state police by the governors as proposed by the lawmakers, Amodu said any abuse of the police could be addressed by the court.

“Yes, there is no doubt that there are going to be instances of abuse, but this abuse can be taken care of, if we seek redress in court. We have to experiment with this thing. You will see the advantages and disadvantages of anything you want to experiment with.

“But I say in conclusion that the advantages we are going to have from allowing the states to have control of their police, and provide them with equipment, the citizens tend to benefit more,” he said.

In his contribution, a retired Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Ojukwu said, “State police or no state police, it is a matter of the constitution. Our constitution says that there shall be only one police force.

“If Nigeria wants to have state police, they should amend the constitution and they should go ahead and create the state police. But right now, every state has police of its own but they are not called police by law. That is why we have Amotekun, etc. If we amend the constitution and allow the state to call them by name, such as Kano State Police, etc, no problem.

“Governors already have these avenues working. A good number of them in the state are armed and licensed by the police to hold arms. If all they want is for state police that have been created to begin to have sophisticated weapons, no problem. It is all Nigeria.

“The Federal Police as of now is not as efficient as it should be because the Federal Government that is funding the police is not giving it what it needs. If the states create their police and give it what it needs, there will not be any problem.”

On its part, the Rivers State Government supported the bill on the state police.

The state Commissioner of Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, in an interview with one of our correspondents on Tuesday, said the bill would strengthen policing and improve security.

He further said the state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, was privy to the meeting with the President recently when the issue of state Police dominated discussions.


https://punchng.com/state-police-governors-to-appoint-police-commissioners-bill-lists-conditions-for-cps-sacking/?amp