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Na where una put Sienna, Sultaan, Inspired, Viperman and all dem other regular and sometimes controversial guys in the auto section?

aisha2:
Musa Sada is a Technocrat well known to us in the development world. Professional, competent and committed arethree words i can use to describe him. Keep the flag burning

I believe the word you are looking for is "flying." As in: Keep the flag flying.

Guess

Think Close 8, S.R Quarters, Navy Town

reptyle, tell dem o. u must know me den.stayed in navy town too

I know u very very well

aieromon:
Your title is misleading.

^^^^^^^You took the words right off my finger tips

@ OP

So how did MI saying he is better enter this your gist?

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This story was published in newspapers since last year circa August. There was no accompanying photograph to the story then for obvious reasons. (too gory for public viewing) About 6 months down the line, an obscure blogger gets hold of the picture by whatever means and publishes them with a new twist to the tale.

Since we are nation besotted with the bizarre, the story spread like wildfire and has continued to spread due to poor information management by the police and our natural inclination for weird conspiracy theories. A routine search on the internet will give you several sources of this story as reported last year. For example, click on the link below:

http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/12546/1/22-crushed-to-death-on-Sagamu-Benin-Road/Page1.html


I don't know about anybody else o! But if I was a bus driver and I was asked to drive over people by robbers, I would rather have them shoot me dead and do their dirty job themselves. I would not drive over 22 people just to secure my own life, especially when there is no guarantee that they wont end up putting a bullet in my head or worse still, tying both my hands behind me and setting me ablaze while they pop champagne and cheer loudly. Afterall they were sadistic enough to watch a bus drive over people now weren't they? Puhleeeeze!!!! Let us not allow our emotions overtake our sense of reasoning.

@ El-Razur

I don't know about you but if I was driving along Benin - Ore or any other Nigerian highway for that matter at night, I would not be driving slowly even if I was driving an armoured tank. I also do not know what effect the sound of an AK47 or any other automatic or semi-automatic firearm shots would have on you. But for me, I think it would jar my nerves badly, cause me to panic, affect my sight and cause me to want to get out of there as fast as possible.

My brake would be the last thing on my mind at that particular time. Matter of fact, if my car or truck has turbo boosters, be sure I'll be thumbing the switch without a second thought. So don't blame the truck driver. He only naturally switched to survival mode as I am sure you would too if you were suddenly thrown into a similar situation. Abeg cut the guy some slack.

Chei! Fully American. Bros na how much?

I hope those Nigerians will heed the warnings and get out now while they can. Before zimbos start roasting Nigerians on the streets of harare like South Africans did to their fellow Southern Africans a few years ago. A word is enough for the wise.

I wish Fashola can visit Nairaland and see the kind of confidence that the citizens of Lagos repose in him. I pray to God to grant him the political will to justify this outpouring of emotive support by delivering even more on his election promises. Tinubu needs to back off and realize that his influence in Lagos has been whittled down tremendously by Fashola's drive so far. If those dishonourable members of the house of assembly want to face the wrath of Lagosians, let them try anything funny and see if we will not strip them and Tinubu their father, naked on the streets of Lagos.

A word is enough for the wise!!!

Eko oni baje lai lai!!!! Amin o!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aimans:
@ Reptyle; There is no any attachment to your post doted @ Justcool. Pls, I also need it; softcopy of 1999 Constitution.

Sorry, Nairaland said the attachment was too large so I posted a link to it instead. Pls click on the link below and then you can download to ur computer:

http://www.chr.up.ac.za/indigenous/documents/Nigeria/Legislation/Constitution%20of%20Nigeria.pdf

I knew it would only be a matter of time before one busy body will run to the courts. More cases like this will be filed over the next few days and we would have a worse logjam on our hand. As desirable as it is to have Jonathan in power to fill the vacuum created by Yaradua's absence, the procedure that put him there is flawed. There is a clearly defined procedure for investing Jonathan as Acting President but our "Law Breakers" in the Senate will continue to do the wrong thing so as to stall this country's progress and checkmate Jonathan's drive for power. May god help us

EX LAWMAKER CHALLENGES GOODLUCK’S ELEVATION AS ACTING PRESIDENT
Written by Onye Nkegi
Friday, 12 February 2010

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had been called upon to declare that the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria lacks the constitutional powers to pass the resolution which they passed last Tuesday; 9th February, which elevated Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to the Acting President and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces.



The plaintiff, Mr. Aliyu Farouk; a former Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, filed the suit today following the assumption of the duties of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as the Acting President of Nigeria. He was irked that the Senate went beyond their constitutional powers by mandating Goodluck to assume full Presidential Powers as the Acting President pending the return of the sickly President from Saudi Arabia.

The visibly angry Farouk is also asking the court to declare that the requirements of section 145 of the 1999 Constitution were not strictly adhered to by the Senate in passing their resolution of last Tuesday.

He further asked the court to make an order of injunction restraining Goodluck Jonathan from parading himself as the Acting President and Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The former Minority Leader is also seeking for an order of the court invalidating the resolution of last Tuesday as passed by the National Assembly.


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Utali:
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The Nigerian Constitution is hosted on a South African site lol

That is the story of our life. Foreign webhost, foreign coach, even foreign president gan sef!!!!

MrCrackles:
I dont even know. . . .

The initial info was that he was sacked outrightly. Later in the day, all the major news channels both local and foreign, including NTA carried the news that he was redeployed to Special Duties.

77ken:
aondokan whatever the heck his name is, got it coming supervising the stock level of madam turai`s mary kay, ensuring there is enough meat in aso rock, ensuring the dogs eat b4 he does sound like a job cut out for the mutallab of an attorney he won`t resign cos he has notin to fall back to except represent thieves and crooks. next should be ojo mad man eke he should be made minister of statet first lady affairs.

No, Ojo alias ANY-GOVERNMENT-IN-POWER should be made a senior special assistant to the new Minister of Special Duties!!!! Now that would be karma

I-Dont-Care has become a minister of miscellaneous affairs For this singular move, I could kiss Jonathan(No Homo )

If Adoncar has any honour, he should resign. But he wont!!!! He would rather bear his humiliation as long as it will keep him in the corridors of power. The Minister of special duties has no office, no subordinates, no permanent secretary, nothing!!!! he reports to the Aso Rock chief of staff because he is actually a staff of Aso Rock. He could be sent to represent the President at such trivial events as naming ceremonies, fund raising, launching, etc.  

Anacondaaaaa wasn't even considered fit to swap ministries with his replacement as SGF. Rather, the erstwhile Special Duties Minister was elevated to Works and Housing while Idonkia was demoted to special duties

Oops! My attachment was too large

Alright, click on the link below to access the constitution online:

http://www.chr.up.ac.za/indigenous/documents/Nigeria/Legislation/Constitution%20of%20Nigeria.pdf

@ Just Cool

Pls click on my attachment. It is a soft copy of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. Pls pay particular attention to Sections 143 and 144. Those are the sections that deal with appointing and removing a President from office. After you have done that, run it by what this Senate has done and tell me if it is legal or not.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, what the Senate attempted to do is to find a POLITICAL solution to a CONSTITUTIONAL impasse. By so doing however, they have DELIBERATELY refused to plug legal loopholes that will in turn prove to be the achilles heel of Goodluck's presidency. What Jonathan is doing right now is like walking through a minefield blindfolded. It is only a matter of time before he steps on one of them and KABOOM!!!!!!!!!!! Like a poster mentioned earlier, a minor slip in the oath administered on Obama led to him having to take it all over again. That was because some crazy politician or citizen could ride on that singular slip to undermine his government in future.

Jonathan needs to get his loyalists in the executive council to move a motion pronouncing the President temporarily incapacitated, so that he can legitimize his government. Otherwise, the new AGF should prepare himself for the backlash of frivolous cases challenging the acting president's authority .

vigasimple:
Our constitution is NOT the problem, it is those that are trying to interpret it that are the problem


By the way, as our constitution stands today, only the FEC and possibly the court can declare Yar A'dua unfit and for the VP to become President or Acting.

NASS can impeach, they do not have the power to make anyone Acting President. ( AGF idonkia may be a fool but he is right on this).

Well said!!!

blackmann:
It took all my willpower and patience to read thru the replies to this thread, i can come to one conclusion - [b]Nigerians are hard to please no matter what. i'm pretty sure it was most pple here that had been shouting in the past that yaradua is a lame president, and he didn't hand over power, his cacus wants him hold on to the presidency at all costs. now that the VP has been empowered, these same pple are saying otherwise -  he will be a figurehead, a lame acting president, all under 24 hrs of his swearing in. like ebenezer obey said "ko si ogbon ti o le da, ko si iwa ti o le wu, ko si ona ti o le mo, ti o le fi te aye l'orun"(there is nothing in this world u can do that will make u satisfy everybody).[/b]

I speak for myself when I reiterate that at best, what this Senate has done with its resolution is to slip a banana peel under the VP's feet. It is like asking him to build a skyscraper on a foundation made from styrofoam. If the process that saw his emergence as acting president goes against the dictates of the constitution, as it unfortunately is presently, then any action he takes can easily be voided by a court order filed by any interested party. Otherwise, it sets a dangerous and illegal precedent.

What is worth doing is worth doing well. This politicians know the law. it is written down in black and white. Why can't they simply follow the prescribed procedure. If they start the process today, Jonathan can legally assume that role by Friday. it is not such a difficult process. Yorubas will say " Eje ka se bi won shen se, koba le ri bo tin ri!!!"

Dede1:
Before grinding a flawed analogy to stupor, I must submit that there was no election conducted for my job and the code of conduct for the staffs made it clear the “If you are sick it is imperative to notify appropriate quarters by calling in or sending email to that matter. In addition, I do not have a vice who could step in as the acting person”.

Unlike the Section 145 of Nigerian constitution that says;

“Whenever the president transmits to the President of the senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a written declaration that he is proceeding on vacation or that he is otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office, until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary such functions shall be discharged by the Vice-Presidents as Acting President”.

The three key words in the above paragraph are “whenever” very infinite in real time and “until” indication of end time and “contrary” opposing the content of such letter.  There is no compelling clause in the paragraph that will dictate a time limit when the President had to transmit such letter and what action to be pursued if the president fails to do so.  

The issue is discharging functions as Vice President or Acting President.

You got ur job by passing thru at least some form of interview. The president got his by election. Bottomline is that he has been entrusted with a job to do and he has grossly and woefully failed to deliver on the mandate that was ENTRUSTED to him. He has not even been able to deliver on 1 out of his own self assigned 7-point agenda! No light, no water, no fuel, Nigeria has been labelled a terrorist sponsor and internally, the country is crises prone from religious extremists, militants and even the military.

Though the constitution does not stipulate a time frame for transmitting a letter to the Senate as you rightly pointed out, I do not think one needs a degree in nuclear physics to know that the country is drifting because Mr. president, by reason of his ill-health is not just incapable of discharging his duties, but also incapable of transmitting the required letter to the Senate. That is why the executive council should have invoked section 144 of the constitution in the interest of the country.

I feel for Yaradua. But the fact is that the country cannot be allowed to go to the dogs because he is incapacitated. The constitution prescribes clear ways of getting out of this logjam.

Don't know if it is true o!!!! But I just read a newsflash on Sahara reporters that I-Don'T CARE the minister of INJUSTICE has been booted out with immediate effect!!!!! I say halleluya if it is true.

Next to be booted? Ojo Maduekwe Alias ANY-GOVERNMENT-IN-POWER!!!!!!!!!


http://saharareporters.com/real-news/sr-headlines/5119-aondoakaa-removed.html

Dede1:
Good a thing that I am not due in Nigeria for long time to come. Few Nairaland intellectuals have informed the general public that being sick, health-wise, is a culpable offence in Nigeria and would attract impeachment machination if the person is the country’s President.

I could longer wander why many sick Nigerian are rudely killed in the institutions meant to save lives and cure of people of their ailments. What a cesspit that passes as a country.

I take it that you are not based in Nigeria going by your post. Now I don't know where you are based but I take it that going by your post, you do not agree that absconding from your duty post without following due procedure to ensure that the job you are entrusted with does not suffer, is very ok, provided you are sick Strange conclusion if you ask me.

Is that how it works in the country where you are based? Is that how it obtains in your place of work, that you can just up and leave your duty post for days without informing your employers and perhaps handing over your duties to a relief person? Perhaps you are a student and you decide to play truant for a semester or a session without informing the authorities; What do you think would happen to your scholarship in that school?

For your information, no one has called for Yaradua's sack because he is sick, but because HIS SICKNESS HAS RENDERED HIM INCAPABLE OF PERFORMING HIS DUTIES AS PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He has refused to speak to Nigerians who "elected" him and refused to at least temporarily hand over power to his deputy until he is physically able to withstand the rigors of the presidential office once again. If you are employed to do a job and you find along the line that due to one reason or the other, that you are unable to discharge your duties, the honourable thing to do is to resign. if you do not resign, it is only a matter of time before your employer notices your incompetence and force you out of that position!!!

Falling sick does not constitute "gross misconduct" as explained by the constitution. Thus ill-health is not a ground for impeachment, until it starts to impact negatively on your work as it is currently doing to Yaradua.

^^^^By law, he is actually empowered to do and undo as an "acting president" he exercises FULL executive powers and can decide to suspend or sack the present cabinet and appoint a new set of people. When the substantive president returns, he can decide to reverse all decisions taken by his deputy while he was acting as President. Jonathan has, however, displayed some "lily-liveredness" so I doubt if he will be willing to rock the boat that badly.

^^^^You should take your own advice

This is just another delay tactic and I am afraid that Jonathan is in on this charade this time. If he wasn't, he would not have accepted this lame offer by the senate. The constitution prescribes TWO clear ways by which the VP can become an acting president. The first option is for the President to forward a letter to the Senate president stating that he is handing over power to the vice-president for whatever reason. He failed to do that.

The second option is one that is designed to take care of the peculiar situation we find ourselves in Nigeria where the president has absconded from his duty post and is manifestly UNABLE to send a letter to the Senate. The onus in this case lies on the FEC who by a resolution of at least two-thirds of its membership, are supposed to declare the President incapable of discharging his duties and convey such to the Senate president. The senate president and Speaker of the House are then supposed to set up a medical board of five eminently qualified medical personnel including the president's personal physician to investigate and report back to them. It is based on this feedback that the Senate can do what they have done now. As it is now, the Senate has inadvertently over reached itself and created yet another fertile ground for freak court cases that will further worsen the logjam we are in now.

The Senate should have invoked its powers as enshrined in Section 143 of the 1999 constitution and commenced IMPEACHMENT proceedings against the president. In my opinion, Yaradua fits the bill for impeachment because of acts of "gross misconduct" as described by Section 143, Sub-section 11 of the 1999 constitution, by his singular act of absconding from his duty post for 78 days without informing the senate.

I know this charade will end some day soon. God bless Nigeria!!!



http://www.chr.up.ac.za/indigenous/documents/Nigeria/Legislation/Constitution%20of%20Nigeria.pdf

honeric01:
one more thing, Amodu achieved most of what he achieved alone with no mercenaries helping him out unlike some of our local coaches boasting now.

Amodu's style of play is that of a traditional italian style of football, anyone's familiar with the old italian style of coaching would understand Amodu, the only problems he's got are his choice of players, the lack of adventure and risk taking.

No be only Italian football, na spanish football!!!

Truth be told, Amodu is one of the most clueless football coaches that ever existed. Watching the SE play during the qualifiers and even during this recently concluded ANC, can you honestly say you saw a team that was playing under a coach that had a well thought out strategy? Going by your post, when you remove a coach's ability to make a good team selection and his spirit of adventure and willingness to take risks, what else does he have? Oh, and do not forget Amodu's obvious lack of technical depth in the area of match reading and lack of control over his players. The only thing Amodu has going for him is luck. In the past, Nigeria used to win some and lose some. Regardless of the result however, the SE used to play good football. Now we have to watch with bated breathe while teams like Kenya, Benin and Mozambique (no disrespect to these countries intended) make mince-meat of the SE on the field!!!

In the spirit of fairness, Amodu should have been allowed to take his team to the world cup and get chucked out in the first round with a basket full of goals. If for nothing else, at least he would have learnt the difference between playing some ill-prepared African teams and playing the likes of Argentina.

asha 80:
yess ooooo

Yar’Adua : Youths vow to resist call for mass action
Latest News Feb 5, 2010 By Henry Umoru

ABUJA — YOUTHS under the aegis, Future Nigeria Group, yesterday warned members of the Civil Society Organisations and opinion leaders to discard plans to embark on mass protest geared towards forcing President Umaru Yar’Adua to formally hand over  power to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.

According to the group, which was led by a former aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo, Kolade Victor Akinjo,  at a rally in support of Yar’Adua in Abuja, yesterday,  most of those calling for the exit of Yar’Adua from office are not being fair to the country, and urged the likes of  former President Olusegun Obasanjo to allow their utterances to be governed by the provision of the nation’s constitution and not their emotions.

In a letter entitled: “Symbol of our democracy should be protected” which was delivered to the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, when the group made a stopover at the party’s national secretariat, the group warned against throwing the nation into any form of crisis.
According to them, “those masquerading under the guise of opinion leaders calling for mass actions against the system should be wary of their actions and should forthwith stop overheating the polity

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/02/05/yar%e2%80%99adua-youths-vow-to-resist-call-for-mass-action/

This is the same idiot who wrote on his facebook wall: "Obasanjo has chose (sic) to break his silence by calling on President Yaradua to tow the path of morality and resign. nice one, only if he listens! God save Nigeria!"

What a bundle of contradiction?!! This facebook update was on January 21, 2010. I am wondering what suddenly happened to get him "marching for Yaradua." Once again I say, MAY IT NEVER BE WELL WITH YOU AND YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OhGrey:
Are you sure its the same guy? cos the guy on face book posted this in his  wall in FB:
Emeka Okoroji  , Obasanjo has chose to break his silence by calling on President Yaradua to tow the path of honor and morality and resign, nice one,only if he listens!God save Nigeria!

It is indeed the same "Emeka Okoroji" If you read further down his wall, you will see where he wrote "Future Nigeria Group is coming your way. Watch out peeps." You will also see where someone was commending him for appearing on AIT. I have already sent the idiot a friend request for one sole reason - So that i can gain access to his wall and place a direct curse on him and his generation. After which I will remove him from my friends' list. The beast!!!!

To Emeka Okoroji and all those hungry Nigerian "youths" that staged this deception, deciding to sell their souls for a mess of porridge, I say may it be unto you as you have planned in your heart for this country. If you genuinely believe in the cause for which you staged your match to the Senate, then may it be well with you.

But if you were paid to do this in other to further perpetuate the ongoing looting of the resources of this country by the privileged few, then may the money you received be your nemesis. May you use the filthy lucre you have received to treat an incurable disease. May your case be worse than that of Judas Iscariot. May you not live to see the positive change that is coming to this country soon. May it never be well with you and yours to the 10th generation. May the blood, sweat, sorrows and tears of all those who have made far reaching sacrifices to see this country progress continue to haunt you and yours all the days of your life. May help be far from you and yours forever more.

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