₦airaland Forum

Seeks N1 Trillion Compensation
Former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, has filed an application before a Federal High Court in Enugu, challenging what he called the total neglect of the Southeast zone.

He is also asking for the sum of N1trillion as damages to be shared among the five Southeast states.

The fundamental rights class action, which is before Justice A. R. Mohammed, is on behalf of himself and the Southeast zone on the grounds of discrimination, pursuant to Section 42 of the 1999 Constitution (as amendedAgbakoba is asking these on the ground of total neglect of the geopolitical zone by the Federal Government, in terms of infrastructure and general federal presence.

He also said the Federal Government has left the Niger Bridge to collapse and failure to build the ‘Second Niger Bridge,’ making the applicant feel isolated from other parts of the country and causing him apprehension about disaster on crossing the existing bridge.

Agbakoba is also seeking an order directing the Federal Government to forthwith put all its machinery, including, but not limited to legal and political apparatus, in motion, with a view to urgently create two additional states in the Southeast geopolitical zone.

This, according to him, would bring a balance with the seven states in the Northwest, and thereby bring to an end the discriminatory practices against the Southeast zone, in terms of legislative representation, political and judicial appointments and not federal allocation accruing to the zone.

No date has been fixed for the hearing.

What will cause the separation of Nigeria isn't the present clamour for Biafra.

Technology will be the main cause of our separation. Technology is ending the petrol state system of government we've been running since 1970.

Just yesterday, Britain (or England) marked the first day they didn't use a single coal to power there country since the industrial revolution. Let's not forget how technology gave birth to Shale revolution in USA.

Nigeria as we are constituted cannot survive without oil.

But if we really wanna still be One nation, we have between now and 2023 to change our constitution and restructure Nigeria.

abouzaid:
honestly, i feel sorry for benue state, fayose or wike would have a far better governor there than ortom.[/b]this Gana of a guy and his group should have been employed as his response to the Fulani herdsmen[b]. that's what wike or fashola usually does but ortom is more interested in pleasing the cabal in Abuja than defending his people.lalasticlala,mynd44,seun.please let move this quickly to the front-page in order to balance the previous story.

Simple.

This is what every well meaning leader should have done.

There's no better alternative now.

Ikeme is injury prone and Akpeyi is always jittery.

We need our best to represent us at all times and Vincent is our best.

#TEAMBRINGBACKENYEAMA

Rumor has it that thus gana and his gang retaliates when ever the Fulani militia strikes in Benue. He's also motivated his kinsmen to defend themselves.

People are asking for Police squad led by Kyari to go capture him. You don't send a boy to a man's fight. Ghana is a warlord operating from the forest & Tompolo is a warlord operating from the creeks, it's suicidal sending NPF men into such terrains.

That's how it starts before we know it, each tribe will have warlords that'll battle and even hold their heads high like Boko Harum. Then we'll say bye to Nigeria.

Maybe he's the reason Suswan is still being detained since February.

makahlj2:
Nope, except donor sperm. Sorry.

This is serious and sad.

This kind of case is not caused by STI or STDs?

The freedom of Speech that we took for granted under the past administration has been gradually taken away from us.

The APC used the Freedom of Speech took advantage of it to defeat the PDP.

Now under this APC, Bloggers and Journalists are being arrested. One even lost his life.

At this rate by 2019 elections all social media platforms maybe taken away from us.

By God's grace we will really learn.

When will these guys to start getting endorsements.

Like play like play they've started fading from our memories, by August nobody will remember that BBN just ended this April.

Nwodosis:
"Who's the presidency?" Suspended SGF knew why he asked that question.

Exactly!!!

Its becoming clearer, the rumors are true. There are different cabals controlling the Presidency.

A different cabal exonerated Lawal earlier in the year but now another cabal have suspended him for the same crime.

It can only happen in 1 country

NIGERIA

These people are not serious or is it that the report isn't complete.

Nigeria cannot give any state 100% control of its resources atleast for now. They were supposed to be asking for atleast an increase of their derivation allocation from 13% - 23% (adding the 10% oil producing community fund). They should ask for what is possible nah.

They didn't even talk about economic integration of the 2 zones. Like asking the FG to hands off rail and FG roads for it to be concessioned to REPUTABLE FOREIGN FIRMS WITH YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. We can also tap into the diaspora funds to develop the infrastructures of the zone.

Not even a word about a viable working seaport close to Aba, Nnewi and Onitsha market clusters.

This report is rubbish.

mmsen:
It's just like the borehole requirements that were laid out. Lagos needs to protect the water table, you can't have everyone drilling boreholes as and when they please without expecting environmental destruction but no one wants to think of that instead they want to cry about the process being formalized.

They want development without change.

How many people in Lagos have seen Water pipeline?

Population outgrew the water and power utilities in Lagos (Just like the whole of Nigeria).

I maybe wrong but 1st instituting Borehole tax before providing the water infrastrutures is akin to placing the cart before the horse (again thats how all our poliical elites think, its not limited to Lagos )

bigtt76:
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See job eh! Import fuel for one year to test run ....issssssorite!

Jeez!!!

Guess what FG will subsidise the importation for 1 year

I bet 99% of Nairalanders never understood that part.

I didn't even read the story i must confess

hermosa7:
Politics will mess him up. Let him just remain a businessman.

Remember MKO Abiola.

Naahh.

You forgot that MKO won the election.

You also forgot that Dangote is a first class citizen.

Dangote is Fulani.

If he contests he'll likely win

Dangote is pne of the reasons i doubt the seriousness of this administration in really giving out licenses for modular refineries in Niger delta.

Dangote and his share holders ( comprising of top power brokers in Nigeria) cannot spend all these billions and watch mushroom refineries cut their market share.

Impossible.

deomello:
Governments don't build seaports, private entities does.

2 deep seaports are under construction in Lagos and they are both largely private.

Let your state governments make the case for seaports before investors and see where where it gets you.

The market place decides, not emotions, sentiments and tribal pride.

Lagos and the SW is the largest market in Nigeria so where is the sense in shipping to the SE or SS, then turn around and ship to Lagos. You've already added extra cost to your goods and services.

Which private company built Apapa and Tin can ports?

Yes of course I know private companies build seaports now sha

bantudra:
look...the problem is not about building ports all along the atlantic..the problem is if this ports can sustain themselves alone...

if the lagos port couldnt sustain itself it would have shut down along time ago...

ports started with the slave trade...their was a slave trade port in the east too...but it shut down....why??...

building ports is not beans..its very expensive..thinking if you build a port and it will turn to new york,hongkong port overnight is ridiculous....

That's why I said viable seapprt.

But I think its mental laziness on our part (especially our leaders)to think that only 1 seaport can be viable in a big country as ours

I know there's so much economics, environment and business that must be taken into consideration before a seaport is built. I recently heard that's what has been delaying Ibom ibaka deep seaport but they'll soon for all the i's and cross all the t's.

I'm for opening up of every single hamlet in this country to trade and commerce and one sure way of doing that is through transportation (Sea Port)

mywells:
no state can competes with Lagos

Of course no state can compete with Lagos atleast for the foreseeable future. Lagos will continue to be the Financial, Entertainment, IT, etc capital of not just Nigeria but West Africa.

But having a viable seapprt elsewhere not Lagos will make life easier for Nigerians. Even if it means taking 30% of all Shipping/maritime businesses from Lagos to the other state with a viable seapprt that will really ease the population troubles of Lagos state.

Make no mistake, Lagos will still be numero uno in them maritime industry if it happens.

I don't even blame Lagos State Government.

I blame FG for refusing to make other seaports viable especially in SS, so we wouldn't all be in Lagos State.

I also blame all the SS state elites for not putting enough pressure on Abuja to either construct a viable seaport or make the available ones viable.

Even if the rumours are true, i heard Ondo has access to sea. Please build another seaport in Ondo state since you don't want another region to have a viable seaport.

Nigeria needs another state to compete with Lagos state.

Ambode wehdone sir

The only hope for Nigeria to still remain as one is TRUE FEDERALISM. We have less than 30 years to coexist with this our current system.

Anyway, the center is becoming weaker and all the tribes will have this serious talk in a round table whether a section of Nigeria likes it or not.


Men of 1966/67 are getting old, these men are sworn unitarianists. Obj, Buhari, IBB, Gusau, Danjuma etc are getting weaker politically and physically. Their last political fight will be in 2019, by 2023 they won't be able choose who the president will be because they must've lost their powers by then either due to old age,ill health or death.

We must devolve powers from the center to the states if we must survive and thrive as a nation. Failure to do so will give birth to more deadly Tompolos from all the tribes in Niger delta, many different militant sect in the core north, Christian militant sect in the north/middle belt, Nnamdi Kanu successor who'll convince Igbos to carry the arms again and a well armed OPC.

The geographical space called Nigeria will be led by different warlords if we don't change our system now



Whether we admit it or not, our military is getting weaker. Boko Haram war wearing them out and they are active in almost all the states of the federation.

It all started like a joke but look at Boko Haram now. That's how Nigeria will slowly disintegrate if our elites don't do something fast

RIP to the dead

But 33 children?!

uruba23:
I really don't see it as a good strategic move,what I see are lazy marketer planners with due respect to all of them.Indomie didn't capture the market over night it took them a long time buying up the minds of young generations who are now the baby boomers today.Rather than chicken out of the market,what they need do is focus on long term strategy, to start with the product is even hardly available, when indomie stupidly increase there price that was the best time for them to hit the market,rebrand and do a lot of guerilla marketing.Anyway there is nothing wrong in focusing on core strength though but I think it make a lot of sense to start planting the seed of your product to the new generation now,because they are babyboomers of tommorow.

Beautiful post.

However, maybe Dangote doesn't really know how to compete without FG's help .

No comment

Look at the Saboteurs that surrounded GEJ.

This man should be hunted down, put in a crate and shipped to Kirikiri.

We just need a seaport (Ibaka) closer to industrial and trade clusters of Aba, Nnewi and Onitsha.

Reports have it that the freed Chibok girls are yet to be reunited with their families.

We should ask why the FG are now keeping them hostage?

I'm happy that this lie has been shut down.

BMC can look for another corruption scandal and rope GEJ and PDP in but as for this Ikoyi fiasco, it did not work and it won't work. Go back to the drawing board.

Abudu2000:
my brother let 2019 just come abeg, i wanna see how gullible nigerians truely are if they will still vote this useless government for #1500

They will oh.

They'll do so free of charge sef. Our leaders know Nigerians well.

Don't underestimate the gullibility of Nigerians.

BMC and Sahara reporters have been trying to pin this money on GEJ and PDP. Unfortunately for them the money has been traced to be owned by one of their masters in APC.

What more evidence do we need before we know that there's no fight against corruption going on under the administration of "messiah" Buhari. This is the final burial of anti corruption fight under Buhari.

Nigerians don't be deceived by BMC agents on Nairaland. The Ikoyi money is owned by a chieftain of APC.

Meanwhile, Magu is going. He'll be used as scape goat. He has shown he's more incompetent than we even imagined.

Like I've always said, Nigerians love corruption once the corrupt person is from his/her tribe but hate it once the corrupt person is from another tribe.

The same people who are defending Jagaban will be the first to label Atiku or Gej as corrupt men.

leepest:
Like Kaduna, $50m dollars was found in
the Ikoyi house of former PDP chairman
Adamu Mu'azu.
[/b]In another development, the previous administration sold an oil well that is
worth $500b at a price of $1.4b[b]. Money
exchanging hands through the back
doors, hence the kleptocratic nature of
African leaders, all they are after is self
aggrandizement. This is the greatest
disservice ever done to a nation. Nigeria
was raped to coma, this explains the
deep shit we are in today.
Most of our politicians have
disappointed us, they rode on the SAK
syndrome to power and today is a
different story from what they told us
during the electioneering campaign. The
Nigerian system is elitist where
politicians are protected once they are
in the helm of affairs. You can agree
with me when you take a look at the
cumbersome process and procedure of
recalling an underperforming senator or
a representative member. However
times are changing, they never
anticipated what a card reader is
capable of doing and I must commend
the 8th national Assembly for legalizing
the card reader which is the weapon we
gonna use to flush out the
unscrupulous elements inside the
system.
When something is wrong those with
the responsibility to take action should
do so. Am talking to the youth, our
future is at stake if we do nothing we
will see nothing. The future belongs to
us, if we do not take it no one will give
us, our destiny is in our hands we are
masters of our faith.
God bless Nigeria.

I stopped reading here. You are so misinformed.

steppins:
Propaganda machine is on fire! What else would you do, if you have a failed economy and a bunch of clueless old men as ministers?

My brother Nigerians are criminally naive.

You have to give it to BMC though. I mean they've succeeded in distracting most Nigerians yesterday and today.

I mean how can a whistleblower not tell you the owner of the "money". I'm tired

Diezani is kwarupt my foot.

This lady is as corrupt as every single person that have been appointed as Min of Petroleum from 1970 - Date. She's not different from her predecessors.

Her crime is that she served under GEJ and that makes her more corrupt than every other Nigerian that occupied that post.

Like i'll always say, Nigerians have no problem with corruption except you're from a different tribe.