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laudate:
Oga, you are just dribbling and trying to rigmarole your way out of the whole issue. Are you a divorce lawyer that you are now citing the matrimonial causes act, in a situation that has to do with international law? Oga, go and educate yourself on what international law is all about.

You are clutching at straws by citing "the place of domestic legislative instruments (the constitution inclusive) and positive international law especially jus cogens." Did the judges at the ICJ rely on domestic legislative instruments of Nigeria or Cameroun, in order to pass judgement, or did they apply principles of international law?

I had told you what made the ICJ rule in favour of Cameroun in the Nigeria vs Cameroun case, but from your response you certainly did not read the judgement, which is why you are talking about the argument put forward by the Nigerian side. What did the judges rely on, before they granted judgement in favour of Cameroun? Was it Nigeria's argument or the proof and documents placed before them, including old colonial maps and evidence of Bakassi being located within Camerounian territory?

My friend, what's with you and evasiveness? You just keep yapping about maps and Bakassi location in Cameroun. If you've read that judgment you would know that so many issues came up before the court for determination beside this your maps and Bakassi location. One of such issues was the argument by Nigeria using Nigerian domestic arrangement as a basis to escape its international obligations....

Abacha's case is another case where attempt to use the absence of an item in the Nigerian constitution as a basis to deny the inalienable rights of every human being. Go and read it and be better informed.

Forget about what you heard or read in the papers and stop being clever by half. It won't do you any good. It only magnifies your ignorance the more, in spite of your attempts to appear learned or smart.

This babe fine sha, if not for that nose ring that makes her look like she always has mucus sipping out of her nose. Wonder why she has that blemish on her beautiful face.

ogunwalea:
Being spiritual does not mean that you should suspend your brain"

Pastor Sam Adeyemi just hit the nail on the head with this statement... Most Christians now are so engrossed with this spiritual thing that they forget that they are humans. Can you just imagine, a lady who caught her fiance having sex with his blood sister and still went ahead to marry Him claiming God will change him later. After the wedding, he was caught on several cases with the maid and other ladies. Now the lady wants a divorce. It's just not making sense...

Bishop Oyedepo once said "The reason why God gave us brain is for us to disturb Him less..."

My fellow Christians, let's stop disturbing God with prayers over silly things that common sense can solve... God has better things to deal with rather than dwell on your stupidity...

I won't want to talk too much. On this note, I rest my case! I'm sorry if I'm too harsh with my words.
Happy Sunday guys!

Bros, you are not too harsh. You merely stated the obvious.

Some times you need to be harsh to drive your point home.
We need more people who reason like this, especially in Nigeria.

mbhs139:
At the bold part, they don't need the advice of "international law experts...", what is the work of their Senators and House Members? This is to tell you that they are mere bunch of joker's.

Believe me, all these Biafra, IPOB and restructuring noise and brouhaha will fade away the moment Buhari and his APC loses power at the centre. Go and write it down. Then Nnamdi Kanu will now become a political big wig in the South East, who will be determining who gets what from the political booties of this present battle; he's only preparing the ground. Watch it.

Nobody is writing anything down and nobody will "watch it". You already sound like a primary school teacher giving out assignments.

It's good to know that you are prepared for the inevitable eventuality of Buhari not remaining in power beyond 2019 after all his devisive gragra thinking he is God. But God has shown him that he is a mere mortal incapable of deciding his own fate much less that of an entire race.

laudate:
Sir, you are the one bereft of sound knowledge of international law. You chaps are insulting the professor for telling you the law as it is, if the UN clause on self-determination is reviewed within the context of the Nigerian constitution. Are you aware there is also a UN article that recognises sovereignty and territorial integrity? If you go to a Nigerian court today, to file a case asking for self-determination based on the UN Charter, how do you think the judge would rule?

Go back & study the ICJ ruling on the Nigeria vs. Cameroun case before you come in here to start misyarning. Did the Bakassi people of South Cameroun go to the court asking for self-determination? Gowon had ceded the portion of Bakassi that was in contention to Cameroun when he was Head of State, so from boundary delineation, colonial maps and the agreement Gowon made earlier, the ICJ ruled in favour of Cameroun. Documents released by the Camerounians, also clearly placed Bakassi under Cameroonian Territory as a consequence of colonial era Anglo-German agreements. Get your facts straight! :

Please go and read the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. It contains several articles that are in favour of the Indigenous People and their rights. But in Article 46, that same declaration includes a caveat:

Thank you for calling in aid the provisions of the UN Charter especially article 46. But it would seem that you failed to see the essence of that caveat, as you put it. I don't want to believe that you would want the UN to recognize a right, affirm it and still go around to affirm principles that would defeat the same rights. And you don't expect the charter to be seen to encourage dismemberment of states in a manner that could cause chaos, especially in view of the concept of uti posidetis juris which discourages division of boundaries established after independence of a state from colonial rule.
However, for you to understand why the so called caveat was made you can draw analogy from matrimonial causes:

The matrimonial causes act and rules including the marriage act cannot be said to encourage divorce, can they? But they recognize the rights of a spouse to exit a marriage regardless of the 3 years period or the grounds that marriage has broken down irretrievably.
The charter merely says it does not want to be seen to be encouraging upheavals or acts aimed at dismemberment of states, it does not say it abhors it or does not recognize dismemberment of states as a result of self determination. Recognizing and affirming the right to self determination on the one hand and encouraging on the other hand are entirely different matters. Try and understand the niceties and nuances in interpretation of legal instruments.

Self determination as a right of indigenous people is not litigable as such talking about going to court to enforce rights to it or referendum is missing the point.

I referred you to the Abacha case and Cameroun case for you to understand the place of domestic legislative instruments (the constitution inclusive) and positive international law especially jus cogens. If you read those cases and appreciate arguments put forward by parties, especially by the Nigerian government, and the reasoning of the court, you will better appreciate the point I am making. It's not necessarily about what Gowon did or didn't, colonial maps and all that.

laudate:
Is there a clause on referendum within the Nigerian constitution? If you believe there is, then kindly cite it here, quoting the relevant sections. Prof. Oyebode has just told you guys, the position of the Nigerian law as it is, with respect to the UN clause on self-determination, not the position of the law as it ought to be. And you are still here comparing Scotland, Brexit, Catalonia etc., with the Nigerian situation. Scotland has provisions for referendum in its laws, Nigeria does not! Your focus should be how to get your own international law experts and constitutional lawyers to give you advice on how to insert a clause on referendum into the current constitution!

You sound like a lawyer, my friend, though one bereft of sound knowledge of international law in contradiction to domestic legal instruments. Make further findings so you can know the reach of basic human rights and discover if domestic legislative deficit can be a ground to rob it its due expression.

The case of Abacha v. Fawehimi; Nigeria v. Cameroun will give you some insight. Happy reading.

Dumaknesset:
Have you read the thesis, tell how you know it was read upside down.

Because he misrepresented the usefulness of referendum. He claimed referendum is only necessary when a colony decides whether to stay colonized or be independent. But you and I know that Nigeria and other African countries did not have to do any referendum to gain independence.

Again events clearly show that the opposite of Oyebode's position is the case. Eg Scotland, Brexit, Catalonia, etc. These countries have resorted to referendum in recent times to decide whether to be break away or not.

Dumaknesset:
Call any iPod intellectual to meet this consummate egg head, if they will not be nuked. Best things Iife are often free.

Didn't you hear that the source of his argument is a thesis researched by an Igbo professor even though he read the thesis upside down.

Who knows prof Oyebode? He is just seeking relevance riding on NK's back.
Lie lie professor.

If referendum is only necessary to migrate from colonialism to independence, pls prof., tell us who conducted the referendum that led to Nigeria's independence and the independence of other African countries?

The only time there was referendum in Nigeria was when southern Cameroun needed to decide whether to remain in Nigeria or join northern Cameroun.

It's is obvious, therefore, that referendum is necessary when a people have to decide whether to remain in a country or not; it has nothing to do with independence but self determination.

All these lie lie professors sef.

rofanx13:
And someone wil rate ambode d best governor?

Were you in Lagos in 2011 when houses were submerged, lives and properties lost, etc?

Oh lawd!

Ambode my mannest man.

Cutie.

Sall:
I can't believe I just watched the entire video of this KANU of a guy. Jesus Christ himself might be jealous of KANU with the way he was able to attract and command such a massive crowd .

Pls leave Jesus out of this, biko. The Almighty is a jealous God.

You need that implement wey badoo guys dey use. Wettin be im name..... em em em...

GRINDING STONE. Yes!

ElSherriff:
Bros you wicked o. Na this thing you wan sell 380k? I recently got a nissan primera, clean as hell for 350k. go and throw it in the river sir.

Don't mind him. He is even giving fraudulent condition. Onyoshi.

Plz note if prices are negotiated on phone they are deemed as final price and would not be re - negotiated any[/quote]Which kain condition be that? You are not serious.

Prominent Igbo lawyer and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr . Olisa Agbakoba ( SAN ) , on Tuesday condemned the call for the country’ s restructuring , describing it as a political calculation by the elite to grab power in 2019 .
Rather , Agbakoba justified the demand for self - determination by the Nnamdi Kanu- led Indigenous People of Biafra , which is seeking a referendum to achieve same.
Agbakoba , who rejected the declaration by acting President Yemi Osinbajo that Nigeria ’ s sovereignty was not negotiable , said IPOB ’ s quest for self - determination was lawful and found justification in Article 1 (2 ) of the United Nations Charter and Article 20 (1 ) of the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights , to which Nigeria was a signatory.
He said the Federal Government must immediately initiate a process to put the continued existence of Nigeria as a sovereign entity to a debate , stressing that restructuring was not the road map to federalism .
The legal luminary addressed journalists in Lagos on Tuesday at his Ikoyi office on “ The future of Nigeria . ”
Agbakoba said , “ I see every politician now says restructure but I disagree . I also think the acting President was wrong to say that Nigeria is insoluble . There is nothing sacrosanct about Nigeria . It can blow up anytime. It’ s an artificial creation , which was made in 1914 and when it was amalgamated we were not there . It was amalgamated in the interest of the colonialists . ”
Agbakoba said it was unfortunate that since 1914 when amalgamation was thrust on the people, there had not been any home - grown process to resolve the will of the people to co -exist .
Agbakoba , who had once sued the Federal Government for neglecting the South- East , argued that the Federal Government goofed by charging the IPOB leader with treasonable felony for seeking self -determination .
He said , “ For me , the best that he can be charged with is unlawful assembly and an act capable of breaching public peace. Those are the things he can be charged with , but not treason; because Nigeria is a signatory to the United Nations ’ Charter, which recognises the right for self -determination . ”
When asked whether he aligned with IPOB ’ s call for a referendum towards self - determination , Agbakoba , who said he had nothing against Kanu, responded, “ Absolutely ! What is sacrosanct about Nigeria ? Nothing . What is sacrosanct about Nigeria is our agreement to be part of Nigeria . I ’ m not suggesting that Nigeria should not exist but to say that Nigeria ’ s sovereignty is not negotiable , nobody should talk about it. ”
Agbakoba , who was a delegate at the 2014 National Conference , also said implementing the resolutions of the conference would not quell the various secessionist agitations in the country.
He argued that while it was politically incorrect for the Arewa youths to give the Igbo living in the North a quit notice , there was no legal basis to call for their arrest .
He said , “ Did they commit any crime? They just said , ‘ leave our place, ’ that ’ s all. It’ s not in the criminal code that if I tell a man to leave my house I have committed a crime . I have a right to tell you , this is my house , leave . It’ s politically incorrect to tell the Igbo to leave but I don ’ t see any crime . And let’ s be clear , we should not make this thing sound legalistic… it is political.

It's possible. But it's unlawful to do so in Nigeria.

Good. But is that all?

I enjoyed the introductory part of the post. Tho.

Comic relief from Buhari's economic brouhaha. Gbam.

Q

Asari has spoken.

Lol.

This is no news. What if you took such oath? What came of it? You didn't keep to it, so why still bicker about it?

Sexina851:
Nobody is distracting anybody from hardwork, all d hard work u been doing what has it yielded to? U don't necessarily have to comment on every post, u can just ignore, instead of finding fault in everything people do.

My friend, I merely asked a question; if you lack understanding and answers to the question, just keep quiet. You are not obligated to react.

phlamesG:
so because he dozed off during an Interview, awon bloggers just concluded it's one night stand?

All I see is an hardworking young man, putting all his time and energy to make his music stand out

Bros no mind those busy bodies. They think it's easy to be a celebrity. They don't know countless sleepless nights these guys experience just to fine tune their beats in the studio.

Yeye dey smell.

This suit is just..... busy body thing.

Nothing will come out of it.