₦airaland Forum

drskyfly007:
Head of Appeal court is married to an APC senator elect..

So it was expected..

Any one challenging the FG should just forget about the appeal court and pray for a miracle at the supreme court.

Edodefender:
They are so many but don't have a since house of representatives member not to talk of senate? They are not governor or deputy or speaker or chief of staff?

Even delta state now has a Muslim senator but not Edo state.

Islam come to Edo state to die.

GavelSlam:
Exercise in futility.

Your resignation is belated, reactionary, dubious and disrespectful.

Your actions have been duplicitous and cowardly.

Your resignation as an afterthought would handled as an afterthought.

Suegbe.

He said; “We are not accusing him of having $300m in his accounts. What we are saying is that he failed to declare his assets on his appointment as Justice of Supreme Court and that he operated domiciliary accounts since 2009 and 2010 without declaring them.”

soulpeppersoup:
First you don't know what an office mean. What you see is a man but what the law and those whom you think were trying to frustrate the government saw was the sit where the man was sitting.

They tried to prevent a humiliation of the sit of the CJN. What you people applaud today will be what other will use to destroy this nation.

The law always make references to support their point of view. In respect to humiliating the sit of the CJN, the have seen one.

9jatriot:
The case against Onnoghen if we are to believe the media onslaught is becoming watering. He seems to have iron cast alibi for all the accusations.

Yet something does not seem right. First of all, he suspended the meeting of the NJC indefinitely, the meeting was not even going to be primarily about him but a routine meeting that could probably, I mean probably had have a look at the allegations against him and act on it based on the merit of the allegation. Yet he did not just postpone the meeting to another day, instead he postponed the meeting indefinitely.

Then rather than show up at the tribunal, he deploy all the techniques we have come to associate with politicians, people like Melaye, Metuh and FFK. He even went as far as saying he could not come to court because of tooth ache. Then when the case finally starts he seems to suddenly have a defence for all the allegations. Something just does not add up.

Now I am thinking, it is possible the man really has skeleton in his cupboard that he thought the FG had discovered and so he was reacting to that only to discover that all that the FG had was the far lesser charge that he could explain. I am likening it to when a parent shouts the name of his kids in a manner that suggest that the parents has discovered he bashed his car, and the child comes to the presence of his parents ready to beg for forgiveness only for the parents to be angry that the sitting room is not well arranged. Although not arranging the sitting room in this context may be considered an offence, but it will be an offence the child will gladly accept than the more serious offence of having dented the family car.

I think the FG were probably very close to discovering something about Onnoghen which he initially thought was what they had on him otherwise this whole process makes no sense.

yaki84:
i dnt need to google what step means...

likewise dnt need to google wht a fool is....

u dnt expect me to google simple n basic things.


i might be dull in understanding ur foolishness but u r too foolish to knw u r dull.

ciao

ImDStar:
I can't agree less with your submission, I have said this several times that the slot belong to the East, are they not part of this country again?
I expect my people to support Igbo Presidency in the spirit of fairness jare, let's be sincere with ourselves once in a while pls.

SW 8 years Presidency + another possible 8years of Vice President, and you think SE region don't deserve it ?

God forbid, I can't be supporting such evil against my fellow man in the name of regional interest.

pauloman:
I just read this Piece (From Sahara Reporters) thought i should share.Please leave your comments on this write up. Enjoy...





I am a citizen of Canada.


I came to Canada in 1998.

I have been living in Ottawa since 2006.

Ottawa is where I pay my taxes.

I am uncomfortable in my skin because a lot has been happening here in Ottawa lately that do not reflect my values. I am always feeling like a fish unaccepted by the water it calls home.

Take the recent case that has seen two Ottawa City Councillors get into trouble. It all has to do with what the two politicians are calling “election expense gaffes” and “clerical errors”. But the public prosecutor and the tax payers think that what happened may be more than expense gaffes and clerical errors.

Here are the broad outlines of the story. In retiring his expense account for the 2010 election, one of the two Councillors reported that he had no election deficit whereas he was $5, 121 in the red. In other words, he had overspent on election by about six thousand dollars and was trying to cover it up (or failed to report that deficit due to “clerical errors” as he claims). The other Councillor in trouble has a slightly different story. Someone on his campaign team failed to report a $100 nomination fee refund as income and his campaign team as whole misreported a $1,754 bookkeeping fee.

The newspapers are reporting that the electoral officer of Elections Canada – the body in charge of elections in this country – must decide whether to accept the explanations of these Councillors that they made an honest mistake or whether to prosecute them for fraud and corruption. Because we are dealing with tax payer dollars and tax payers tend not to joke with how public officers spend their money in this country, the Councillors will in all likelihood be prosecuted.

And this is why I have nearly reached the conclusion that Canada is not the place for me. This is why I am seriously considering renouncing my citizenship. My values are at odds with the values of this country. I feel very embarrassed that the capital city of a major Western country is disturbing the peace of the rest of the world for corruption figures of less than ten thousand dollars. One of the Councillors even has somebody on his team being investigated for one hundred dollars!

These are not my values. When I say I care about my tax dollars, I mean that only “clerical errors” or “election expense gaffes” of half a billion dollars and above should cause concern and be investigated. If Canada is not prepared to embrace my values and improve on her standards of what constitutes corruption that should reasonably elicit outrage, I don’t see what I am doing here. It is a violation of my right to sleep and peace to be disturbed whenever a politician cannot account for one hundred dollars.

After nearly two decades in this country, another thing I still don’t understand is why politicians must retire campaign expense funds after an election. Retirement of campaign funds means that a thorough independent audit of campaign expenditure must be undertaken. How much did a campaign raise? How was it raised? How was it spent? Were campaign finance laws adhered to? What is the account balance of the campaign? People here treat campaign expense audits as a right. They even act like they have the right to know. That, also, is contrary to my values. I don’t think I can ever get used to it. It is better to renounce my citizenship than being made to feel that anybody owes me any explanations as to how they raised and spent their campaign funds.

I also do not like the fact that everybody is treating the investigation of the two Ottawa Councillors as a straightforward case of institutions and process. Nobody has risen up to defend them in public. Nobody has carried posters to support them. Nobody has threatened Elections Canada with doomsday scenarios should the two Councillors be prosecuted for corruption. What if they are being witch hunted because they do not belong to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political party? Would they have been investigated at all if they had donated the disputed funds to Prime Minister Trudeau’s campaign? Are the two Councillors Christians? Are they Muslims? What is their ethnicity? Are they the only ones who have had “clerical errors” and “election expense gaffes” in the political history of Canada? Why single them out for persecution? Why now? Why not extend the investigation of financial wrongdoing to the formation of the Federal Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867? Is that not the only way to ensure impartiality?

These are the kinds of questions that inform my world and my values. By not asking these kinds of questions, Canadians are being hostile to me. They are telling me that my values don’t count. They are rejecting who I am. I need to move to a country where I’d feel at home. Can you suggest a country where my values would not make me a minority?


SOURCE:PIUS ADESANMI

aylagos:
This is to some of our Igbo brothers that Yoruba know politics and know when to remove a particular government or person not the way of forcing and abusing Lagosians to vote against APC, I want to tell you guys today that it is not your fight and not your region because we know how to take it back anytime we want. Without you votes in Oyo and Kwara State Yoruba get it done and with your votes every four years you can’t change Lagos government because we re in control and we are comfortable with APC in Lagos at least for now.

You can’t tell us when to change Lagos government we will do that when we are ready but before then do your biz and pay your tax.

IvarTheBoneless:


Group A: Anthony Joshua, Larry Ekundayo, Israel Adesanya and this guy....

Group B : female dress stealing make-up wearing warriors : Zik , Ojukwu & Kanu.

Who would want to defend you & your country?

PS - i don't want tears from any chest-beaters

samstradam:
Presidential:
Abia: PDP
Adamawa : PDP
Akwa Ibom: PDP
Anambra:PDP
Bauchi : APC
Bayelsa: PDP
Benue: PDP
Borno : APC
Cross River: PDP
Delta: PDP
Ebonyi:PDP
Edo: PDP
Ekiti: APC
Enugu: PDP
FCT: PDP
Gombe : APC
Imo: PDP
Jigawa : APC
Kaduna: APC
Kano: APC
Katsina: APC
Kebbi: APC
Kogi: APC
Kwara:APC
Lagos:APC
Nasarawa: APC
Niger : APC
Ogun : APC
Ondo: PDP
Osun:APC
Oyo : PDP
Plateau: PDP
Rivers: PDP
Sokoto: APC
Taraba: PDP
Yobe:APC
Zamfara: APC



Senators:

Abia: APC 1 PDP 2
Adamawa : APC 1 PDP 2
Akwa Ibom: APC 0 PDP 3
Anambra: PDP 2 YPP 1
Bauchi: APC 3 PDP 0
Bayelsa:APC 1 PDP 2
Benue: APC 0 PDP 3
Borno: APC 3 PDP 0
Cross River: APC 0 PDP 3
Delta: APC 1 PDP 2
Ebonyi: APC 0 PDP 3
EDO: APC 1 PDP 2
Ekiti: APC 3 PDP 0
Enugu: APC 0 PDP 3
FCT: APC 0 PDP1
Gombe: APC 3 PDP 0
Imo: APC 1 PDP 1
Jigawa : APC 3 PDP 0
Kaduna: APC 2 PDP 1
Kano: APC 3 PDP 0
Katsina : APC 3 PDP 0
Kebbi: APC 3 PDP 0
Kogi: APC 1 PDP 1
Kwara: APC 3 PDP 0
Lagos: APC 3 PDP 0
Nasarawa: APC 3 PDP 0
Niger: APC 3 PDP 0
Ogun: APC 3 PDP 0
Ondo: APC 1 PDP 2
OSUN: APC 2 PDP 1
Oyo: APC 2 PDP 1
Plateau :APC 1 PDP 1
Rivers :APC 0 PDP 3
Sokoto: APC 3 PDP 0
Taraba: APC 1 PDP 2
Yobe: APC 3 PDP 0
Zamfara: APC 3 PDP 0

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/the-cjn-saga-and-the-role-of-lawyers-in-nigerias-democracy/

The CJN saga and the role of lawyers in Nigeria’s democracy
On February 28, 20194:23 By Edo Ukpong

Nowadays the battle to control the messaging space has produced a subconscious antenna in most readers to look at the by-line first to foretell the message or the motivation. Therefore, since the by-line to this piece will most likely not offer many clues or at best, be misleading, let me be helpful upfront. I am a commercial law practitioner who has been exclusively engaged in legal practice since my admission to the Nigerian Bar in 1985. My agenda is the survival of the relevance of the legal profession in Nigeria. Admittedly, the ‘CJN Saga’ has prompted this intervention. The attendant divisive reactions and commentary on the saga has seriously polarised the country. Onnoghen Suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen Lawyers have joined the fray on the different divides but I do not get a sense that there is the awareness, that it is our profession and its relevance in our society that is on trial. Every collection of human beings, who by the exigencies of geography find themselves interacting with one another, will need structures to superintend their relationships inter se. These will involve duties and responsibilities to themselves and to the society as a collective. This arrangement, which is necessary for harmonious and orderly coexistence in any society, is what is termed as governance. Over time, principles and policies have developed to guide governance and whilst no uniformity exists, some of these principles and policies have gained universal recognition as forming the bedrock of meaningful governance. Lawyers play a key role in formulating and applying these principles and are accorded due recognition as being indispensable to the governance process. A fundamental principle of meaningful governance is the broad concept of justice. In order for democratic governance to thrive in Nigeria, there must exist an atmosphere where the citizenry collectively subscribe to rules, universal obedience to those rules and uniform and fair enforcement mechanisms. Whereas lawyers are critical to the maintenance of this atmosphere, more critical, however, will be the perception of the citizenry in general terms as to the fairness and efficacy of the state of justice administration. As Hubert Humphrey, former American Vice-President opined, “we cannot expect to breed respect for law and order amongst people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.” READ ALSO: Onnoghengate : Saraki, Young lawyers back Buhari, shun NBA boycott The society has developed by design that entrusts to the body of lawyers a pivotal role in maintaining a justice system that functions fairly and for the common good. My fear, borne out of years of experience and keen observation, is that the body of lawyers in Nigeria has not developed the group consciousness to appreciate the enormity of this role, let alone the uniform gravitas to work to justify the expectations of society. Let me digress to the situation in Pakistan some years ago when then President Pervez Musharraf suspended the Pakistani Constitution. Pakistani lawyers stood up as a body to defy the suspension. Images of lawyers in huge numbers on the streets locking arms and being forcibly carried away by police officers must surely remain ingrained in the memories of a grateful and appreciative Pakistani populace. The action of the Pakistani lawyers is representative of my views and assuredly, that of a vast majority of lawyers worldwide on what lawyers can and must do to earn the respect of society and hence, maintain group relevance. The body of lawyers in Nigeria does not have many secrets. As a member of that body, I find the general perception of the body as being generally composed of selfish, myopic, unscrupulous and greedy fellows as largely representative of the reality. I use the term ‘largely’, very advisedly in the sense that I am of the conviction that a vast majority of lawyers in whatever station, are honourable and professional in the discharge of their calling and duty to society as guardians of civilisation. The problem is with the leadership of the body of lawyers. The leadership in the sense of this piece will include both the formal and informal leaders or if I may borrow the much used and abused but nebulous term – senior lawyers. The soul of the body of lawyers has been hijacked by a group of senior lawyers who are exploiting the uncharacteristic resigned posture of the majority to form a loose but enriching circle of corrupt influence and control. The obvious corruption in the judiciary is symptomatic of the corruption in the society as a whole but the complicity of the judiciary lays bare an existential dilemma for our country. In the event that the democratic governance we seek to entrench, provides for a justice administration system that should protect our commonwealth, what happens when the judiciary is seen as complicit in the plunder of our commonwealth? Nigerians have generally witnessed corruption cases being conducted unendingly, trivialised by absurd theatrics and usually ending in suspicious and unconvincing acquittals or at worst, apologetically lenient sentences. With the mounting evidence of different standards of justice, might it not get to the point soon, where the suffering masses identify corruption as the cause of their suffering, feel helpless and resort to mob justice? It is time for us lawyers to come to terms with our broken justice administration system and take the bull by the horn. If we do not act fast, courageously and selflessly to insist on remedial action, the matter may be taken out of our hands by tendencies without our level of appreciation for the niceties of technicalities and due process and it will not be pleasant. Lawyers as guardians of civilisation must first build uniform opinion on the essence and nature of the civilisation we must project and protect. We must also ensure our compliance with the spirit and intendment of the civilised conduct we seek to entrench in our body polity. We must hearken to the immortal words of Earl Warren, former Chief Justice of the USA – “It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.” Corruption is undoubtedly an existential threat to the fabric of our society and if our primary responsibility is to create a civilised atmosphere, it means that lawyers must be at the forefront of the fight against corruption. In this light, therefore, the civilisation we ought to promote in our society cannot in any form or shape support the reaction of our group of senior lawyers to the CJN saga. Upon the public revelation of the contents of the charges against the CJN, the body of lawyers ought to have taken an immediate public stance different from that which we witnessed. For the sake of good order, the CJN should have been advised to step aside pending the outcome of the matter at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. There can be no justice without orderliness and the jumping of the correct order to focus on politics and the technicalities of due process when we have ourselves not advised the CJN to follow due process, is a grave error. The error was bound to result in more shambolic actions and reactions. There is no interpretation of the concept of justice in a civilised society, which will allow the CJN to maintain the authority of his office under the weight of such damaging accusations, to preside, even if remotely, over a process in which he is the accused. Moreover, as unpopular as it may seem now, there is no responsible government as the custodian of the people’s mandate to govern, that will helplessly allow that anomalous situation to prevail. The optics of over 50 senior lawyers, literally elbowing their way to gain visibility as defenders of the embattled CJN, unfortunately paints the picture of a group protecting ‘one of its own.’ The duty of the body of lawyers should rather be to protect the society from the consequent damage to its judiciary. Unfortunately, the optics of the CJN saga has solidified the impression of lawyers as promoters of corruption in the consciousness of Nigerians. The intervention by another faction of 20 senior lawyers, who appear to be focused more on the rot in the justice administration system, rather than the defence of an individual, is welcome but will not provide the needed solution. The CJN saga provides a great opportunity and can be the defining moment, where the body of lawyers embarks on self-cleansing and rebrands itself. It is time for younger progressive elements in the profession to organise themselves, articulate and define values for the body that will align with the needs and expectations of our society. Senior lawyers are too shackled by stakes, suspicious of each other and constrained by unhelpful inherited traditions to lead the charge to save the profession. Let me close by suggesting that we bring back Rule 14 of the Rules of Professional Conduct in the Legal Profession 1979. “Nothing operates more certainly to create or foster popular prejudice against lawyers as a class, and to deprive the profession of that full measure of public esteem and confidence which belongs to the proper discharge of its duties than the false claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defence of questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his client’s cause. …. The office of a lawyer does not permit much less does it demand of him for any client, violation of law or any manner of fraud or chicanery. He must obey his own conscience and not that of his client.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/the-cjn-saga-and-the-role-of-lawyers-in-nigerias-democracy/

samstradam:
Presidential:
Abia: PDP
Adamawa : PDP
Akwa Ibom: PDP
Anambra:PDP
Bauchi : APC
Bayelsa: PDP
Benue: PDP
Borno : APC
Cross River: PDP
Delta: PDP
Ebonyi:PDP
Edo: PDP
Ekiti: APC
Enugu: PDP
FCT: PDP
Gombe : APC
Imo: PDP
Jigawa : APC
Kaduna: APC
Kano: APC
Katsina: APC
Kebbi: APC
Kogi: APC
Kwara:APC
Lagos:APC
Nasarawa: APC
Niger : APC
Ogun : APC
Ondo: PDP
Osun:APC
Oyo : PDP
Plateau: PDP
Rivers: PDP
Sokoto: APC
Taraba: PDP
Yobe:APC
Zamfara: APC



Senators:

Abia: APC 1 PDP 1
Adamawa : APC 1 PDP 2
Akwa Ibom: APC 0 PDP 3
Anambra: PDP 2 YPP 1
Bauchi: APC 2
Bayelsa:
Benue: PDP 2
Borno:
Cross River: PDP 1
Delta: APC 1 PDP 1
Ebonyi: PDP 1
EDO: APC 1 PDP 1
Ekiti: APC 3 PDP 0
Enugu: PDP 2
FCT: APC 0 PDP1
Gombe: APC 3 PDP 0
Imo: APC 1
Jigawa : APC 3 PDP 0
Jigawa: APC 1
Kaduna: APC 2 PDP 1
Kano: APC 3 PDP 0
Katsina : APC 3 PDP 0
Kebbi: APC 1
Kwara: APC 3 PDP 0
Lagos: APC 3 PDP 0
Nasarawa: APC 2
Niger: APC 3 PDP 0
Ogun: APC 1
Ondo: APC 1 PDP 1
OSUN: APC 2 PDP 1
Oyo: APC 2 PDP 1
Plateau :
Rivers :
Sokoto: APC 1
Taraba: PDP 1
Yobe: APC 3 PDP 0
Zamfara: APC 1

samstradam:
I stopped reading after the first sentence.

For the umpteenth time , NO ONE HATES GEJ (except maybe Patience nowadays) , Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is a difficult man to hate for normal human beings

Just to make it clear, what LAZY IPOB YOUTHS and PDP apologists term as irrational hatred for GEJ in 2015, was simply fanatical LOVE for Buhari by core northerners (which they've always shown) and disdain for all things PDP in the SW and to an extent in the NC in 2015.

Until you recognise that GEJ was not the problem in 2015, all your analysis and political calculations will remain doomed.

Presidential:

Ekiti- APC
Ondo- PDP
Osun-APC
Kwara-APC
Nasarawa- APC
Yobe-APC
Ebonyi-PDP
Kogi- APC
FCT- PDP
Lagos-APC
Imo- PDP
Anambra-PDP
Enugu- PDP
Sokoto- APC
Kano- APC
Delta- PDP
Katsina- APC
Plateau- PDP
Ogun - APC
Adamawa - PDP
Gombe - APC
Akwa Ibom- PDP
Bauchi - APC
Niger -. APC
Abia-. PDP
Jigawa - APC
Kaduna- APC
Kebbi- APC
Borno - APC







Senators:

Abuja- APC 0 PDP1
Ekiti- APC 3 PDP 0
Ebonyi-
OSUN- APC 2 PDP 1
Abia- APC 1 PDP 1
Kwara- APC 3 PDP 0
Ondo- APC 1 PDP 1
Ogun- APC 1
Anambra- PDP 2 YPP 1
Enugu- PDP 2
Gombe- APC 3 PDP 0
Niger- APC 3 PDP 0
Imo- APC 1
Kano- APC 3 PDP 0
Oyo- APC 2 PDP 1
Bauchi- APC 1
Jigawa- APC 1
Lagos- APC 1
Cross River- PDP 1
Akwa Ibom- APC 0 PDP 3
Benue- PDP 2
Kebbi- APC 1
Bauchi- APC 2
Adamawa - APC 1 PDP 2
Jigawa - APC 3 PDP 0
Kaduna- APC 2 PDP 1
Nasarawa- APC 2
Katsina - APC 3 PDP 0
Delta- APC 1 PDP 1
EDO- APC 1 PDP 1
Taraba- PDP 1
Sokoto- APC 1
Yobe- APC 3 PDP 0
Zamfara- APC 1

Presidential:

Ekiti- APC
Ondo- PDP
Osun-APC
Kwara-APC
Nasarawa- APC
Yobe-APC
Ebonyi-PDP
Kogi- APC
FCT- PDP
Lagos-APC
Imo- PDP
Anambra-PDP
Enugu- PDP
Sokoto- APC
Kano- APC
Delta- PDP
Katsina- APC
Plateau- PDP
Ogun - APC
Adamawa - PDP
Gombe - APC
Akwa Ibom- PDP
Bauchi - APC




Senators:

Ekiti- APC 3 PDP 0
OSUN- APC 2 PDP 1
Abia- APC 1
PDP 1
Kwara- APC 3 PDP 0
Ondo- APC 1 PDP 1
Ogun- APC 1
Anambra- PDP 2 YPP 1
Enugu- PDP 2
Gombe- APC 3 PDP 0
Niger- APC 2
Imo- APC 1
Kano- APC 2
Oyo- APC 2 PDP 1
Bauchi- APC 1
Jigawa- APC 1
Lagos- APC 1
Cross River- PDP 1
Akwa Ibom- PDP 2
Benue- PDP 1
Kebbi- APC 1
Bauchi- APC 1
Adamawa - APC 1
Jigawa - APC 3 PDP 0
Kaduna- APC 2 PDP 1
Nasarawa- APC 1