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 Politics › Endsars: Nigeria Police Requests Court To Stop Judicial Panel Probe by SAMAJ(op): 3:20pm On Dec 03, 2020 |
The Nigeria Police Force has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order stopping the various states’ judicial panels of enquiry probing allegations of rights abuses and other acts of brutality of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police tactical units. The plaintiff in the suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/1492/2020, urged the court to restrain the Attorneys-General of the 36 states of the federation and their various panels of enquiry from going ahead with the probe focussing on police impunity. The defendants, totalling 104, who were sued by the NPF, comprised the Attorney-General of the Federation, the National Human Rights Commission which set up the Independent Investigative Panel sitting in Abuja, the Attorneys-General of the states, and chairmen of the states’ panels. The decision to set up the various panels of enquiry was taken by the National Economic Council with members including the 36 state governors and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, in the aftermath of the recent nationwide #EndSARS protests demanding an end to police brutality. The NPF, through their lawyer, Mr O. M. Atoyebi (SAN), argued in the fresh suit that the state governments lacked the power to constitute the panels to investigate activities of the police force and its officials in the conduct of their statutory duties. According to the plaintiff, the state governments’ decision to set up such panels violated the provisions of section 241(1)(2)(a) and Item 45, Part 1, First Schedule to the Constitution and Section 21 of the Tribunals of Inquiry Act. It argued that by virtue of the provisions of 241(1)(2)(a) and Item 45, Part 1, First Schedule to the Nigerian Constitution only the Federal Government had exclusive power to “organise, control and administer the Nigeria Police Force”. It, therefore, urged to, among others, declare that “the establishment of a panel of enquiries by the governors of the various states of the federation of Nigeria, to inquire into the activities of the Nigeria Police Force in relation to the discharge of her statutory duties is a gross violation of the provisions of Section 241 (1)(2) (a) and Item 45, Part 1, First schedule, 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) and Section 21 of the tribunals of inquiry Act. The plaintiff also urged the court to declare that “having regard to the circumstances of this case, the attitude of the governors of the various states of the Federation of Nigeria, in this case, is unconstitutional, illegal, null and void and of no effect whatsoever”. It sought an order of perpetual injunction restraining the 3rd to 38th defendants (the state Attorneys-General of the 36 states) “from making or conducting any investigations, sittings, and inquiries and/or from making or conducting any further investigations, sittings and inquiries in respect of matters affecting the Nigeria Police Force, and or further setting up any panel of inquiry in any state whatsoever in the country”. |
| Crime › Lagos Police Inspector Rapes Undergraduate, Threatens Suicide by SAMAJ(op): 6:17am On Nov 27, 2020 |
A police inspector attached to the Agbado Police Station, Lagos State Police Command, Adelakun Amubieya, has been arrested for allegedly raping an undergraduate, Joy (not real name), in the Ipaja area of the state.https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/lagos-inspector-rapes-undergraduate-threatens-suicide/%3famp=1 8 Likes 4 Shares
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| Christianity Etc › Re: Prophet Israel Oladele Ogundipe Jailed For Defrauding A Woman by SAMAJ: 8:59pm On Nov 18, 2020 |
AntiChristian:The woman can still institute court action against him to recover the money now that he has been found guilty of fraud 2 Likes |
| Health › 15 Year Old New Mum Stranded In LUTH Over N53,000 Bill by SAMAJ(op): 6:25am On Nov 14, 2020 |
A 15-year-old girl identified simply as Fatima is troubled at the moment being at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital Idi-Araba a month after giving birth. She was said to have been taken to the hospital by a woman, popularly known as Iya Kamoru, whom she lived with as a maid in the Mushin area of Lagos. The hospital reportedly cancelled Fatima’s N151,000 medical bills and asked her to pay N53,000 feeding expenses incurred as of November 10. City Round gathered that the hospital was also hesitant to discharge her and the baby because she did not want to return to Iya Kamoru’s house. Our correspondent learnt that the girl’s tortuous journey began when she was brought from Cotonou, Benin Republic to do housemaid work in Lagos. A worker at the hospital, who hinted our correspondent about Fatima’s situation, said the girl moved from one place to another until she ended up at Mushin where she was defiled by an unidentified man at night. The worker said, “The girl said her mother is dead and that she was brought to Lagos as a housemaid from Cotonou. She ran away from her master and the woman (Iya Kamoru) saw her wandering around. She took her in and was helping her to hawk sachet water. “According to her, she was outside with the woman one day when she slept off on a bench. The woman left her and went inside. While she was asleep, someone covered her mouth and raped her. It was dark and she could not identify the person. It was three months later that she realised she was pregnant. “She was brought to the hospital in October by the woman. Yesterday (Thursday) made it one month that she gave birth. The woman could not pay her medical bill which is about N150,000. The hospital has waved it and she is only required to pay for feeding which is about N53,000. Apart from this, the girl has nowhere to go. She said she did not want to return to the woman’s house.” The Coordinator, Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network, Mr Ebenezer Omejalile, said the organisation had met with the welfare unit of the hospital to seek help for Fatima. He urged the Lagos State Health Service Commission, and the state’s Ministry of Youth and Social Development to come to Fatima’s aid pending when she would be reunited with her family. He said, “The girl was brought to Lagos at age eight to work as a maid. The guardian whom she lived with is popularly known as Iya Kamoru who resides in Mushin. “We met with one of the welfare officers from the welfare unit of LUTH in person of one Mr Michael, who was receptive. He was able to throw more light on the efforts the unit has put in on behalf of the girl and her child.’’ The LUTH spokesperson, Mr Kelechi Otuneme, said the management was already taking action on Fatima’s case. |
| Politics › Re: Former IG Tafa Balogun Urged Policemen To Return To Duty by SAMAJ(op): 9:37pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Imagine!!! Ex Prisoner talking in the Society. Only in Nigeria. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Former IG Tafa Balogun Urged Policemen To Return To Duty by SAMAJ(op): 9:35pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
Former Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun, has appealed to officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force to return to their statutory duties after they were displaced from their stations during the #EndSARS protests. This was contained in a statement from the ex-IGP on Thursday. Balogun was quoted in the statement as saying, “I urge all members of the Nigeria Police in our country to return to their duty posts and continue to provide the much-needed security to our dear country, Nigeria; not minding the recent brutal attacks, arson, and acts of intimidation against the Police. “The Nigeria Police remain the first line of Internal Security as guaranteed by the Nigerian Constitution. Therefore, it behoves all and sundry not to betray the spirit of the Constitution. “I sincerely appeal and urge all my brothers and sisters in the Police Force to put the past behind us as the Federal and State Governments, as well as the police authorities, are positively and aggressively addressing the unprecedented provocative attacks on the police institution. We all love you. “Please, once again, I appeal to all of you to return to duty without further delay.” Rampaging hoodlums, who hijacked the #EndSARS protests against police brutality last month, had attacked cops and burned down scores of police stations in the country. The situation had dispirited police officers across the country who were targetted during the violence. |
| Celebrities › Re: Charly Boy Proposes To His Wife, Lady D, Again After 45 Years Of Marriage by SAMAJ: 12:59pm On Nov 12, 2020 |
mimilogs:rather say every good woman deserves to be celebrated. 3 Likes |
| Politics › Northern Leaders Only Interested In Controlling Nigeria – Odumakin by SAMAJ(op): 3:08pm On Nov 07, 2020*. Modified: 4:32pm On Nov 07, 2020 |
Spokesman for the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Mr Yinka Odumakin, tells why the South is opposed to the resolutions made at a recent meeting of northern leaders, Inspector General of Police, etc. in Kaduna State Some leaders from the North, including governors, serving members of the regime of the President, Major General Muhamadu Buhari (retd.); and traditional rulers met in Kaduna State on November 2, 2020, and, among other things, described the recent #EndSARS protest as one that was subversive and had a separatist agenda. What is your reaction to that? The whole idea of the meeting is divisive, diversionary and an attempt to maintain that Nigerian protectorate. We are not fools. You can see the way Buhari has northernised power in the country and now sits on the rest of us and begins to teach us about how Nigeria is indissoluble, indivisible and all that kind of nonsense. That they could not even see anything wrong in holding that meeting the way they held it shows that we have a great problem as the people we call fellow countrymen are not on the same page with us at all. Look at the way the #EndSARS protest was carried out. It is not unusual that the protest was stronger in the South because southern youths were the victims of profiling by the (disbanded) SARS operatives. SARS was led by mostly northern officers who came into a different culture. SARS operatives were not doing any serious investigation; they would just profile you and say because you wore earrings or had a kind of hairstyle, you must be a fraudster because their own (northern) youths dress differently, which does not mean that they are better. But if they were people with an idea of how to build a modern society and who believe in inclusiveness, there was no way they would have held that kind of meeting at this period in time or call a meeting of governors, traditional rulers and bring all the northern mafias in the Federal Government, and take them to Kaduna. In 1999, when Afenifere invited Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as a president for a meeting in Lagos, I was surprised that when Obasanjo came, the people that came with him were Fulani people. I saw it that he would not want to be accused of holding secret meetings with Afenifere. But we have a President who cannot see that it is wrong and it is an assault on our unity for top government officials to go and sit in Kaduna on a Monday morning for a sectional meeting. Even in their communiqué, they left a space for the Federal Executive Council to have nominees in their committees as if they are the ones to run the country and the rest of us would just fall. It was reported that the meeting was also attended by the Inspector General of Police. What impression did that create for you? It is all clear that they don’t care about the rest of us. They need the rest of us to go and put our thumbprints on ballot papers for them. But once they have power, they take this country as their own – ‘our power’. The rest of the people are just instruments to be used. They don’t see other Nigerians as equal partners. If they did, they would have more respect for us and not do such a thing. That is why it is important for us to get to the bottom of the Lekki killings to know those who are responsible and where they are from. You kill human beings and think you don’t owe us any explanation. They didn’t have a word of condolence for those who died; they were only abusing them. The northern leaders condemned what they described as the ‘subversive actions of the #EndSARS protests’, adding that ‘other change-regime actions outside the ballot box soon took advantage of the peaceful protests to push for their separatist agenda’. Why do you think they were strongly concerned about preventing a change of government at the federal level? It is all about this ‘our power’ concept. They are talking about their conquest of Nigeria. Look at what Buhari has been doing in the last five years. Look at all the appointments in security, finance – all northerners. Now, they are saying that they are ready for a census. Why? When the Council of State met and approved somebody as the chairman of the National Population Commission, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation announced the person – a man from Nasarawa. But on national news at 10, the man the Council of State approved was changed to a Muslim man. Now, they are saying we are due for a census. The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders, in a communiqué in reaction to the Kaduna meeting, wondered where Nigeria would be if they (SMBL) decided to call their own meeting with southern governors and top government officials. But based on the current political alignment of most of the governors, do you think you will get the needed support from them? We just mentioned this, but it does not make sense for us to go and behave in an irrational way because some people are not behaving rationally. Holding such kinds of meetings now means we are getting to the end of the road. We have made tremendous sacrifices to keep this country together. Those who are calling for an indivisible Nigeria now were the ones who were killing people in Kano when the motion for independence was moved. Today, because they are reaping all the benefits to the exclusion of others, they can sing songs of indivisibility and indissolubility of Nigeria. When they are talking about the indivisibility of Nigeria, what they mean is the conquest of Nigeria. That is what they are celebrating, not unity. But does it not appear to you that most of the southern governors may not align with your objectives if they clash with their political interests? A lot of the people we call governors here are their (northerners’) agents in our midst. They remain governors here and are exploited to be their agents, not to serve. Like you said, if we call for our own southern meeting, many of them (governors) will give excuses not to come because their masters are up there. That is what we are mindful of; we have said that we have got to a point where we are not ready to go for any other national election except we restructure this country. Hold a million elections under this system and you will have the same result, nothing will change. Northerners are concerned with the conquest of Nigeria and see southern leaders as their tools. Yes, of course. If they see us as equal partners, how can the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria behave like the President of a section of the North? Look at the meeting the northern leaders held where they could not even show compassion for all the young people on whom money was spent for training were killed like fowls. These are political leaders who keep their cows better than human beings. Are there any herdsmen on trial today for all the atrocities that they have committed? They are shielding them. They are now criminalising young people who had genuine protests, labelling them and urinating on their graves as if they were not human beings. The Arewa Consultative Forum faulted your allegations, saying that every section of Nigeria had the freedom to express itself in a democratic setting. What is your reaction to that? We don’t take them seriously. The ACF is the mouthpiece of the oppression we are fighting against in Nigeria. So, when such a group makes such a statement, responding to them dignifies them. Many Nigerians see the move to regulate the social media, as supported by the northern leaders at the Kaduna meeting, as a priority of the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government which claims it is used to promote hate speech. What do you think about that? They want us to talk about hate speech when we know what led to the killings in the North in 2011. It did not come from social media but from inciting speeches made by political leaders at political grounds. We know the number of corps members that lost their lives. Nobody has been brought to justice. When they wanted power in 2015, what did they not say? They want to take us to the dark ages, talking about regulating the social media as if we are in some emirate in the 16th Century. This government is preparing the stage for #EndSARS II, with the way they are behaving. Instead of looking for ways to alleviate the problems and douse tension, they are still bringing out the things that can cause crisis because they don’t know any other way to behave. That is in their DNA. They cannot also run a modern society. That is why anybody can say in this age that they want to ban social media because they don’t belong to this age. Many of them behave like medieval men. What implications will a bill regulating the social media have on Nigeria’s democracy, if passed by the National Assembly? There is no democracy; we are just deceiving ourselves. It is autocracy that we have. It will only further strengthen autocracy and reduce the democratic space. They are closing the society; they are averse to open society. So, Nigeria will cease to be an open society. But they should know the implications of what they are doing. When Boko Haram started, it was an open organisation. When they did what they did against them in 2010, they went underground to acquire weapons. It is Nigeria now that is begging them with amnesty. So, when you tell young people who have different views about their country that the Boko Haram way is the way to go, what will be the end of the country? The proponents of social media regulation are enemies of open society and agents of fascism and dictatorship. The managers of the Lekki Tollgate said their closed circuit television cameras did not capture the shooting and some Nigerians have expressed doubt in getting justice for the victims through the judicial panel set up by the Lagos State Government. What is your opinion on that? I know that they are trying to cover up what happened. What happened in Lekki was a deliberate, wilful murder of young people. So, with respect to the panel, what they want to achieve is the ‘unknown soldier’ (a situation whereby the government will say it doesn’t know the soldiers who committed a crime) kind of situation. That is why from the beginning, we the southerners have asked for an international enquiry. We have asked for the International Criminal Court to look into this because we have no faith in these people. All they are trying to do is to cover up crimes. Are you saying that only a panel of enquiry can give the victims justice? Of course! Members of the panel of enquiry wanted access to the military mortuary but soldiers said they couldn’t see it or summon them. So, what enquiry are you doing? You heard the attorney general of the federation saying the protesters could have been killed by hoodlums who wore military uniforms. He is supposed to resign if under him, someone can get military uniforms and shoot protesters like that. And you say this is a government? What kind of government is this? For Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, I expect a more robust rebuttal of the statement of the army that he was the one that invited them to come and kill people, than the neither-here-nor-there civil defences. The army indicted him in a way. But his inability to come out clearly shows that the Lagos State Government has some complicity in the crime that occurred at the Lekki Tollgate. The former Lagos State governor (Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu) said those who died had cases to answer. Let him go and exhume them from their graves and take them to Igbosere Magistrates’ Court. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: FRSC To Carry Guns – House Of Representatives by SAMAJ: 5:36pm On Nov 06, 2020 |
This country called Nigeria is a joke. Guns needed to implement road safety laws? Nurses also wear uniform and they will soon be given guns to force patients to take injection. 2 Likes |
| Crime › Re: Man Beaten By Soldiers Who Mistook Him For Someone Else In Oyigbo, Rivers State by SAMAJ: 6:17pm On Nov 02, 2020 |
May we not resemble someone that soldiers are looking for. |
| Crime › Lawyers, Parents Return 24 Edo Fleeing Prisoners by SAMAJ(op): 5:29am On Nov 02, 2020 |
Following the expiration of the October 30, 2020 deadline handed down to 1,181 prisoners, who escaped from the Benin and Oko medium correctional centres to return, a source at one of the facilities has confirmed that 24 inmates have been brought back by their parents, lawyers and relations. The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, had ordered the return of the prisoners after thousands of hoodlums armed with AK-47 rifles and other weapons had under the guise of #EndSARS protest attacked the two correctional facilities in Benin and freed all the inmates. The source disclosed that as of October 30, 2020, Oko correctional centre had received 24 of the inmates who were escorted back by their parents, lawyers and relations. “We are expecting that more will return. Those we have received so far are inmates who have few months of their jail terms while the hardened and condemned inmates have yet to return. Majority of those out there are awaiting trials,” he stated. Earlier, a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Communication Strategy to the Governor, Crusoe Osagie, had read, “The extension of the ultimatum is as a result of the positive response from the prisoners.” |
| Politics › Amos Iyari Monye: I Beg To Feed Despite Working Under Buhari, Obasanjo, Gowon by SAMAJ(op): 4:32am On Oct 31, 2020 |
I beg to feed despite risking my life for Nigeria, working under Buhari, Obasanjo, Gowon –Retired Capt. Monyehttps://punchng.com/i-beg-to-feed-despite-risking-my-life-for-nigeria-working-under-buhari-obasanjo-gowon-retired-capt-monye/ 9 Likes 3 Shares
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| Politics › Re: Enough Is Enough: Obiano Urges Youths To Defend Anambra From Hooligans by SAMAJ: 4:03pm On Oct 26, 2020 |
@Governor Obiano, please let your children lead the Youth. |
| Politics › Re: Adamawa Youths Loot Government Tractor by SAMAJ: 3:58pm On Oct 26, 2020 |
Northerners didn't participate in#ENDSARS protest but participated in looting. What a backward set of people. 1 Like |
| Politics › Cacovid Palliatives by SAMAJ(op): 11:53am On Oct 25, 2020 |
*Dr Sola Adeduntan, MD/CEO First Bank* Good afternoon Sigma Chief, Old Chiefs and Loyalists. As a no of Sigmites may be aware of, I sit on the Steering Committee of the Private Sector Coalition Against Covid 19 christened CaCovid. The other members of the SC are 1. Aliko Dangote, 2. John Coumatorous, 3. Jim Ovia, 4. Tony Elumelu, 5. Abdulsamad Rabiu, 6. Segun Agbaje, 7. Herbert Wigwe and 8. Godwin Emefiele (CBN Governor). We set up the coalition to pull resources together to support the Government to combat Covid 19 pandemic. Having successfully provided health facilities, diagnostic kits and medications to all the states and Abuja, we realised that the pandemic has destroyed the economic power (whatever that was worth pre Covid) of most Nigerians. We decided to provide food to 1.7m most vulnerable families across the country and we put a substantial resources behind the initiative. The food items we intend to purchase included rice, pasta, noodles, gari, sugar and salt, etc. The challenge was how to purchase those items worth about N15bn without driving inflation. We had to contract this out to various manufacturers and that took time for them to deliver the goods to us. It was only in September and early October that we handed the goods over to the various state governments and FCT. Its therefore a fallacy that the State Governments or Dangote have hoarded those foodstuffs. As Sigmites it is important that we interrogate information received thoroughly before we share or comment on such information. Significant amount of misinformation are trending on SM. We must be discerning and probing hence we join the fifth columnists in pushing our dear country on to the road to Kigali. I sincerely pray not This is from Dr Sola Adeduntan, who is the MD/CEO of First Bank |
| Politics › Alakuko Lagos Police Station About To Be Attacked by SAMAJ(op): 7:58pm On Oct 23, 2020 |
Hoodlums are trying to attack Alakuko Lagos Police Station.Some Area Boys with OP MESA soldiers are trying frantically to prevent the attack. |
| Politics › Hoodlums Attack Nation Newspapers by SAMAJ(op): 7:48pm On Oct 21, 2020 |
The head office of Nation Newspapers at Matori, in the Mushin area of Lagos State, has been attacked by suspected hoodlums. A video of the incident posted online also showed a car on the premises set ablaze by the attackers. A reporter with the paper confirmed the incident, adding that there was no casualty. Earlier in the day, Television Continental, aka TVC, in the Ikosi area of Ketu was also set ablaze. The two media houses were reportedly attacked over their rumoured connection with a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. |
| Crime › Re: EndSARS Protesters Attacked By Hoodlums At Lekki Toll Gate, Their Cars Destroyed by SAMAJ: 1:11pm On Oct 16, 2020 |
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| Health › Re: Friday Osadolor Commits Suicide! Edo College Of Education Lecturer Hangs Himself by SAMAJ: 8:26pm On Oct 03, 2020 |
Obaseki, how wicked you are....owing 13 months salary and they still voted for him though. 2 Likes |
| Celebrities › Re: Area Scatter : Nigeria's First Crossdresser - Imo State (1970), Before Bobrisky by SAMAJ: 4:14pm On Sep 29, 2020 |
This cant be the first cross dresser in Nigeria. I remember Funmilayo Ranco in Ilesa Osun State. A woman who always dressed like a man in early 60s. 2 Likes |
| Romance › Re: Woman Flaunts Her 2 Husbands, Says 'Marrying 2 Men Is Greater Than Marrying One' by SAMAJ: 10:49pm On Sep 23, 2020 |
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| Career › Re: What Was Your First Salary Ever?? by SAMAJ: 8:33am On Sep 18, 2020 |
N300 as a fresh graduate in October 1989 at Opebi Lagos. I did the job for one Year. I was able to save to rent a one bedroom flat at Abule Egba. Furnished the apartment and bought a14 inches tv and video. Late 1990, I got a new job for N650 per month. I nearly went crazy. Too much money. Nigeria don finish. |
