₦airaland Forum

I haven't gone to the office this week.
Everyone is moving to fully hybrid. It's the logical thing to do.

These people will never be truthful.

How does this affect transporters. Dem wan tell this ancestor and everyone else say people dey treck massively now?

Awón werey...

Whatever happens, na we the people dey feel am.

Even the unnecessary tariffs everywhere in the country, na passengers dey pay. Or you think one transporter go dey nice enough to cut his profit for you? Go figure, they'll make additional profit as the fare increases.

So someone like me wey e neck don face one place, I no fit agree with this kind falacy. The write-up is nonsense and does not speak about the real people suffering from their nonsense. As usual, there's always something to hide but the masses no dey always dey aware.

Smh

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No big deal.

A 10kg bag of rice will solve the problem.

I pray that it gets to N2000 per liter.

The ones that litter the APC convention in Abuja, how did they get there?
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DeclanR:
See, Nairalanders, I'm tired of my life. This is no joke. I'm tired .

If I type quarter of what Is happening to me on this platform, the mods will eject me. I'm just a walking corpse.

Much worse is, none is going to give listening ears .

Can I just sleep and exit quietly?

“For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.”(Ecclesiastes 9:4).

Mosco100:
“For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.”(Ecclesiastes 9:4).

Really?

DeclanR:
Really?

“ For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. ”(Job 14:7-9).

Wether you like it or not APC is going to rule for the next 50 years, and Tinubu is going for the third term if not for life because 2nd term is a walk over already; sebi una Dey madt, enjoy your APC till at least 2076🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mosco100:
“For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. ”(Job 14:7-9).

That's the biggest mistake you guys make.
Why quoting scriptures unnecessarily?
To what end.
Pls stop it . It's illogical pls. It's becoming annoying now

DeclanR:
That's the biggest mistake you guys make.
Why quoting scriptures unnecessarily?
To what end.
Pls stop it . It's illogical pls. It's becoming annoying now

“ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”(Matthew 7:6).

What a balablu
Beyond price shocks, Nigeria needs energy security and independence!

I'll tell you what I use to tell mum. God is not coming to save us

Tenses:
These apc people no get shame at all. You put Nigerians into untold hardship yet unah get mind won gather to select another set of thieves in Abuja.

God, surely apc must gather tomorrow but the gathering is not of God they must scatter.

God prove to your servants that you still reign in the affairs of men.

Send down brimstone and fire let it consume the 32 and over 8,000 criminals including that wicked strategist of failure.

Master strategist my ass.

Through out this week I no show for office, did everything from home. Unfortunately not all job support that. It crazy out there honestly.

DJperdurabo:
The fact that you have the means to still access the internet and have the "energy" to comment on this thread speaks to the fact that all is well with you.

Walk the streets of Lagos (not even ghettos) so you realise that you are actually living "large".

You're a corpse and still have the ability to be on the internet...please!!!!

Shut your mouth. Those are the basics required for survival. Do you even know what "all is well" means"?

DeclanR:
See, Nairalanders, I'm tired of my life. This is no joke. I'm tired .

If I type quarter of what Is happening to me on this platform, the mods will eject me. I'm just a walking corpse.

Much worse is, none is going to give listening ears .

Can I just sleep and exit quietly?

Hey bruv, please take it easy on yourself. You are much stronger than you think and you don't need to exit quietly because you still have a great future ahead, if you will just hold on to hope and God's word. We can talk about anything you are going through, a problem shared is half solved.

Flangelo12:
If you cannot see how the issue in the Middle East brought about by Trump's action has led to a global spike in the price of oil and its derivatives, you have a lot of growing to do.

The excuse y'all keep making for that man called the president

He has already messed up the country before Trump's actions. The war is just an icing to the cake.

Haydens:
If they like make them no vote out this empty brained APC come next election.

Suffer no dey tire some Nigerians.

Lies .... APC aren't the cause of your suffering....

Get educated and properly informed, this govt is the best in many years .... They did the proper thing and are still in the process of repairing the country ....

Like you have Been told , Grow up

Flangelo12:
If you cannot see how the issue in the Middle East brought about by Trump's action has led to a global spike in the price of oil and its derivatives, you have a lot of growing to do.

See Premium Gaslighting lol

1144AK:
Lies .... APC aren't the cause of your suffering....

Get educated and properly informed, this govt is the best in many years .... They did the proper thing and are still in the process of repairing the country ....

Napep to my house before was N200,Now it's 400 (Though treckable)

Thank God I just bought my bicycle. Na to find somewhere dey park am. Though I've insured it comprehensively against unforseen circumstances.

Tinubu has opened our eyes

DeclanR:
See, Nairalanders, I'm tired of my life. This is no joke. I'm tired .

If I type quarter of what Is happening to me on this platform, the mods will eject me. I'm just a walking corpse.

Much worse is, none is going to give listening ears .
Can I just sleep and exit quietly?

Why sleep and exit quietly when you can find a location to act on Akpabio’s mocking advice, and risk death in stampedes



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIdtxSZDQoY

Omooba77:
The association, in a statement on Sunday by the NAS Capn, Dr. Joseph Oteri, said these needless deaths, a grim reflection of the desperation gripping many Nigerians, underscore the rising hunger and economic hardship that has engulfed the nation.

The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) says it is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of over 60 lives in Oyo, Anambra, and Abuja during recent palliative distribution stampedes.

The association, in a statement on Sunday by the NAS Capn, Dr. Joseph Oteri, said these needless deaths, a grim reflection of the desperation gripping many Nigerians, underscore the rising hunger and economic hardship that has engulfed the nation.

“While we commend the government's effort to alleviate the plight of vulnerable citizens through palliatives, it is evident that these measures have been marred by inadequate planning, poor coordination, and lack of accountability,” it said.

According to the group, the chaotic scenes that led to the fatal incidents are an “indictment of the systemic failure to address the root causes of hunger and poverty”.

The group noted that rising hunger in Nigeria is a national emergency that demands urgent action.

“Failure to act decisively will deepen the crisis, with devastating social, economic, and political consequences,” it said.

“We mourn with the families of the deceased and demand that the government ensures accountability for this avoidable tragedy. Hunger should never be a death sentence in a country blessed with abundant resources.”

“It is time to rise to the challenge of ensuring that every Nigerian can live with dignity, free from the scourge of poverty and hunger,” it added.

Therefore, the association called on all levels of government to urgently prioritize sustainable solutions to the hunger crisis.

It said, “Palliatives must reach the intended beneficiaries without endangering lives. Transparent and well-organised systems, with the involvement of community leaders and credible NGOs, should be put in place to avoid chaotic distributions.

“Beyond temporary relief measures, the government must develop long-term strategies to enhance food production, support local farmers, and stabilize food prices.

“Programmes aimed at addressing the needs of the most vulnerable must be scaled up. Access to affordable healthcare, education, and social safety nets is critical to lifting millions out of poverty.

“Policies that create jobs and enhance income-generating opportunities should be fast-tracked to reduce dependency on palliatives.”

The association noted that two of its chapters in Edo State (Area 3) recently had successful palliative programmes, during which over 2,000 underprivileged persons were fed.

It added that one of the key components of the programme was orderliness.

https://saharareporters.com/2024/12/22/deaths-oyo-anambra-abuja-food-sharing-stampedes-are-sign-hunger-economic-hardship

coolbode1:
Napep to my house before was N200,Now it's 400 (Though treckable)

Thank God I just bought my bicycle. Na to find somewhere dey park am. Though I've insured it comprehensively against unforseen circumstances.

Tinubu has opened our eyes

Has city boy also opened your eyes to lawlessness for loyal members of his Agbero Poverty Congress, APC where sins are forgiven once you join, according to comrade Oshiomole

Racoon:
Appeal Court Removed ‘Illegal’ NURTW President ‘MC Oluomo’, But He Won’t Quit Office

Musiliu Akinsanya, a former chairman of the Lagos State Parks and Management Committee, has continued to disregard the law in acting as national president of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), a trade union of transport workers in the country.

In November 2024, a Court of Appeal in Abuja affirmed an earlier National Industrial Court of Nigeria judgment pronouncing Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa as president of the union. Baruwa had served for four years and he was to be serving his second term, having been reelected in August 2023, three months to the termination of his first tenure as enunciated by the union’s constitution.

But some members of the union, led by Najeem Usman Yasin, a former president of the same union and current chairman of its Board of Trustees (BoT), disputed Baruwa’s re-election, causing the police in the Federal Capital Territory to arrest and detain him many times.

Yasin unilaterally dissolved the National Administrative Council led by Baruwa and then facilitated the setting up of a National Caretaker Committee to administer the union. At this point, Baruwa and 13 others, including the NURTW as a juristic personality, headed to the National Industrial Court.

INDUSTRIAL COURT’S CONCLUSION
Baruwa and others, referred to in the case as claimants, filed their case, marked NICN/ABJ/263/2023, on September 28, 2023, against Yasin and six others referred to as defendants. After arguments by both parties, the court delivered a judgment in favour of the claimants on March 11, 2024, according to a certified copy of the judgment obtained by FIJ.


Justice O. O. Oyewumi of the National Industrial Court collapsed the 10 and 11 distinct issues for determination submitted to the court by the claimants and defendants separately into four.

ISSUE ONE: The first issue to be ruled upon was “Whether the Claimants’ action as presently constituted is competent to give the Court the necessary vires over this action? If this is answered in the positive”.

The defendants argued that the court was incompetent to hear the case because it was commenced through an improper application. But the judge rejected their opposition, saying they failed to attach an affidavit to disclose the facts they were advancing.

“Failure of the defendants to file an affidavit to back up their grounds of objection which has delved into the facts of the case having left the realm of the law is fatal to the objection,” Justice Oyewumi ruled, dispensing with the first issue.

ISSUE TWO: Are the names of the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th and 14th claimants are liable to be struck out from this action?

In the course of the proceedings, the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th and 14th claimants (Bello Adamu, Eugene Eze Job, Prince Isah Dahiru Usman, Suleiman Adamu, Muhammed Bello Madu and NURTW) sought to pull out, saying they did not consent to the case. It was based on their withdrawal application that the judge formulated the second issue for determination.

In his ruling, the judge said that even though the law permits a co-claimant to challenge the inclusion of their name in a case, there are exceptions. Where that person is a necessary party “without whom an action cannot be effectually and effectively determined”, the challenge becomes a nullity.

“Thus the application to strike [out] the name of a co-claimant will not succeed automatically, as it was not a matter of course to allow a co-claimant to withdraw and have his name struck out at any time,” the judge ruled.

Furthermore, the judge found that 9th claimant Muhammed Bello Madu appeared in the early stage of the litigation and identified himself in court, without equivocation, as the 9th claimant. Therefore, his claim that he did not give his consent to the case was surprising.

“If he never gave his consent and was not aware of the pendency of this suit, then what was he doing in court on the 24th day of October, 2023 and identified himself as the 9th claimant?” the judge asked.

As far as the second issue was concerned, the judge found that those seeking to be removed from the suit were indispensable to the proper determination of the case, “hence the need for them to remain parties in this suit”.

“It is settled law that the main reason for making a person a party as stated earlier is so that he would be bound by the outcome of the action and in which case the questions to be determined in the action would be such that could not be effectually and completely fairly settled without him,” the judge stated on Page 32 of the judgment, specifically adding in Page 33: “Issue two is thus resolved against them [the six claimants claiming to be unaware of the suit].”

ISSUE THREE: The arguments on the third issue: Whether paragraphs 13, 15c, 17, 29, 30 and 31a and b of the defendants’ counter-affidavit are liable to be struck out, were treated briefly.

Baruwa and his co-claimants implored the court to strike out paragraphs 13, 15(c), 17, 29, 30 and 31(a) and (b) from a counter-affidavit filed by the defendants for containing “extraneous matter including legal conclusions, arguments, speculative conjectures and opinions irrelevant” against Section 115 (2) the Evidence Act, which states: “An affidavit shall not contain extraneous matter, by way of objection, prayer or legal argument or conclusion.”

The judge concluded that those paragraphs truly offended the provision of the Evidence Act and were struck out accordingly. In the same vein, he held that expunging them from the records would “not inexorably have dismal or caustic consequence on the Counter Affidavit” because its remaining paragraphs were enough to sustain the defendants’ position.

ISSUE FOUR: The last issue, “whether or not the claimants have proven the questions posed for determination of this court to be entitled to the reliefs sought”, which was the livewire of the case, was treated extensively.

The claimants argued that Yasin’s role as chairman of the NURTW BoT was advisory alone, per their constitution, and as such, lacked the power to dissolve the administrative council or take far-reaching decisions on the daily affairs of the union.

Article 6 of the NURTW Constitution says that the BoT at various tiers “shall include” offering “advice on the administration and policy direction of the Union in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution”. It shall also mediate in misunderstandings that may arise from time to time between the Union and any government or security institutions.

The claimants argued that Yasin’s BoT had not been inaugurated at the time he presided over the meeting which illegally dissolved the Baruwa-led council. But the court rejected this argument.

The court also found that the decision to constitute the caretaker committee was not taken at any BoT meeting and “the decision to constitute a Caretaker Committee cannot be imputed to the 1st defendant [Yasin] as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees going by the content” of the supplied exhibits. “I so hold,” the judge ruled.

The judge considered whether Baruwa and others were validly elected for a second term. Elected national leaders of the union emerge, per the constitution, through what is called “Quadrennial National Delegate Conference”. The defendant alleged that no such conference was held to produce the Baruwa-led council.

Baruwa is from Ogun State in the southwestern region of the country, where most states had proscribed the NURTW. For this reason, according to the defendants, he could not have been validly nominated from the zone for the position of the president.

The court trashed this contention by referencing its settled position that the suspension of the union’s activities by some governors in the zone does not invalidate the rights of members from the zone to unionise and participate in the activities of the union.

Justice Oyewumi found that Baruwa was validly elected.
“The court also finds that contrary to the position of the defendants in their counter affidavit, the 1st claimant [Baruwa] was validly nominated and elected for the position of President of the Union at the Quadrennial National Delegates Conference,” the judge wrote in Paragraph 58.

https://fij.ng/article/appeal-court-removed-illegal-nurtw-president-mc-oluomo-but-he-wont-quit-office/

How can the whole country be thrown into darkness and at the same time fuel rises by 80% ...and Nigerians haven't taken to the street in masses to demand that the president should step down .... this is no longer mouth talk .... people should take action

Visit me on X, let's talk. https://x.com/OzehC77521

Flangelo12:
Shebi Donald Trump is helping the world.

His supporters will come for you o😂😂

Pedyson:
Nigerians should kill this spirit of adaptation…

Thank You so much, I wish I can see you to buy paper soup for You. How can we be suffering where we are supposed to be enjoying and just people who are not up to 1000 will decide to turn our fate upside down and we all are just keeping cool like nothing happened..

DeclanR:
See, Nairalanders, I'm tired of my life. This is no joke. I'm tired .

If I type quarter of what Is happening to me on this platform, the mods will eject me. I'm just a walking corpse.

Much worse is, none is going to give listening ears .

Can I just sleep and exit quietly?

Bros be positive, try Jesus he never fails. He said me from terrible depression and from mental illness without any medication.

On major remedy is to forgive everyone who has hurt you and to find someone you can love. Always remember to love yourself more. You can buy a bible and start reading. YouTube has a wide variety of pastors you can listen to Like Kenneth Hagin, KC Price or Matthew Ashimolowo

I trek some distance then make sure I price the normal amount before boarding. I can't work the whole year for transport companies and landlord.

When petrol price is coming down you people did not reduce transport fare. You are lamenting now but dangote have started the reduction gradually it will be less than a thousands soon

No vex which wan ve dat ?
And how does paper soup taste

digitalafricon:
Thank You so much, I wish I can see you to buy paper soup for You. How can we be suffering where we are supposed to be enjoying and just people who are not up to 1000 will decide to turn our fate upside down and we all are just keeping cool like nothing happened..

DeclanR:
See, Nairalanders, I'm tired of my life. This is no joke. I'm tired .

If I type quarter of what Is happening to me on this platform, the mods will eject me. I'm just a walking corpse.

Much worse is, none is going to give listening ears .

Can I just sleep and exit quietly?

Search for Ameliasocurvy and Sade Johnson they will give you the strength you need. Forgiving your enemies and loving wisely also helps.