₦airaland Forum

GoroTango:
Spot on. When the army of dispossessed igbos from the north arrive alaigbo and descend on the IPOB leadership, Nnamdi kanu will already be on a first class plane ticket to Heathrow airport. Doesn't that remind you of someone?

He reminds me of a man who cared more in escaping with his luxury car than escaping with just one hunger ravaged Biafran child that was not his own.

Amarabae:
Don't be afraid O Israel, your God will deliver you from Egypt.
Plagues will descend on Egypt,
Pharaoh will ask you to leave but will come after you to wipe you out.
Fear Not, Your God will crush them at the Red sea because the Egyptians that we see today, we shall see them no more!
The Darkest Hour comes before the Dawn.

Of all the propaganda of IPOB, the one that baffles me most is the allusion to religious ideals to evoke religious sympathy.

What has Biafra got to do with God or Religion or the war mongering old testament?

Fight your political fight and stop all this irrelevant deliverance from pharaoh bullshit.

Even the Israelis do not depend on religious delusions in defending their appropriated territory from the resultant aggressive region it has found itself.
When they need to dialogue they do so.
When they need to use missiles they do so.
When they need to chase after their enemies to the end of the world, they do so.

GoroTango:
See as ordinary peaceful call for igbos to vacate the north don dey make IPOBS tremble with fear of the unknown. Some of us know exactly what is going to happen to IPOB once the millions of igbos driven from the north converge on an already overpopulated alaigbo. The first order of business will be to lynch every flat headed, IPOB supporting miscreant starting from Kanu himself, hence their current apprehension. The north has succeeded in calling their bluff

You have managed to see a future I also forsee.

By the time Biafra becomes a mecca of frustrated refugees, the same hate infested and angry youths will pounce on the miscreant director.

Guess what? He will either run to Nigeria evoking his already lost citizenship, or he will run to the UK with his own family and continue with a peaceful life in total disregard of the chaos he has caused for his own people.

As for me, I maintain the promise I made 2years ago, that any Biafran who is cash strapped in the SW and requires funds to return home, I am ready to foot as many bills as are willing to return to their homestead.

This one na palm oil and cooking gas firm.

Let her concentrate on her business, or get someone to run it while she collects her feeding allowance salary from the oil firm, if she is okay with the long work schedule and distant location.

Doctor turn banker turn politician. Does he still remember his vocation?

I thought it was an Igbo traditional marking like the short line marked at the two sides of the eyes. I doubt if it even exist among Yoruba, Benin, Ijaw, Urhobo or Hausa/Fulani

Always wondered why it was, now my ignorance is resolved.

We are all waiting for the robust reply, instead he continues to reply with articles of vanity.

CEO of COZA finance corp, we ernestly await your reply.

OLADD:
Very funny. What has demand and supply got to do with the point of discuss? I insist you're dull.

Dude just accept you made a foolish submission as regards rendering the uncooperative staff jobless and increasing the pool of the jobless, when the newly recruited would be coming from the same labour market and not from a bread oven, hence no increase to the statistics of the jobless, but a change of ineffective labour.

You really embarrassed yourself.

Chuksonyeike:
Ithought the APC has been feeding us with stories of Dasuki's alleged confessions what is wrong in allowing him continue his confession on the dock

While dismissing the application, Justice Abang held that Dasuki was not a “compellable” witness.

The Judge said there was no evidence before the court to show that Metuh applied to the Department of State Service, DSS, which has Dasuki in its custody, and such request was turned down.

He said it was not the duty of a court to compel a witness to appear and testify for a defendant.

“The first defendant cannot come to the court first when he had not approached the DSS”.

The Judge held that Metuh’s request was in bad faith, stressing that Dasuki was not included in the list of witnesses the defendant earlier submitted to the court.

Why do you need to compel a witness who was never sought or requested?

Walahi! Justice Okon Abang is a beautiful mind on the bench.

Chuksonyeike:
Why exactly is buhari and his useless government scared of Dasuki mounting the dock to say his Own side of the story? They keep feeding us stories about him yet they won't allow us hear from him

You want Dasuki to come testify that he indeed gave ONSA money to Metuh as directed by Jonathan?

Did Olisa Metuh not know that Dasuki could testify before he tendered the list of defence witnesses?

Why the late request and a desperate bid to delay his own trial despite demanding to be taken to court at the onset, rather than just paying back the N400m to government purse?

Why was he and his lawyer later demanding that they no longer want a court prosecution and should be allowed to return the money he previously refused?

Criminals like Olisa Metuh take the rules of this country like a joke, now he knows this is not a joking sturvs.

“We are not confident that the court will give us Justice in this matter”, Ikpeazu added.

Consequently, Metuh’s lawyer asked Justice Abang to disqualify himself from further presiding over the matter, a request that was also dismissed by the court.

Lol!

Metuh is a clown who is not ready for trial.

Why does he need the court to compel Dasuki when he could have actually sought Dasuki's cooperation and he would have appeared voluntarily as a defence witness.

But who expects Dasuki to come and testify that he indeed gave state funds meant for security to Metuh for a political party and president's media propaganda?

Jonathan would be calling Metuh's lawyer now like he was calling Osinbajo, wondering why they want to incriminate him with Dasuki's testimony.

In the end, all man for himself.

Chuksonyeike:
my dear.The only way to convict Justice Ademola and Joe Agi will be to also convict Buhari's lawyer and order a retrial of the certificate case.Buhari was stupid to have pushed Justice Ademola to trial knowing he has such a thing against him.The way it is Justice Ademola will walk although he might end up been reprimanded by the NJC.

I am wondering what will happen when the trial proper of the supreme court justices begin.No wonder Buhari has been hesitant in allowing Dasuki an open trial.A lot of dirts will be unearthed.This is just the beginning.

Whatever be the outcome of the case and whatever dirt is unearthed, I certainly do not have any sympathy for anyone found culpable in acts of corruption.

Plaetton's argument that the obvious conflict of social relationship versus professional ethics between the judge and the lawyer should have in itself made either one excuse himself from the case, is certainly the case winner of this argument.

Again, this shows that many have no appreciation of the ethics of their profession. I also insist that culture plays a lot in this problem, same way the African family culture also makes corruption of the office holder a problem that is difficult to tackle.

Chuksonyeike:
my dear.The only way to convict Justice Ademola and Joe Agi will be to also convict Buhari's lawyer and order a retrial of the certificate case.Buhari was stupid to have pushed Justice Ademola to trial knowing he has such a thing against him.The way it is Justice Ademola will walk although he might end up been reprimanded by the NJC.

I am wondering what will happen when the trial proper of the supreme court justices begin.No wonder Buhari has been hesitant in allowing Dasuki an open trial.A lot of dirts will be unearthed.This is just the beginning.

Whatever be the outcome of the case and whatever dirt is unearthed, I certainly do not have any sympathy for anyone found culpable in acts of corruption.

Plaetton's argument that the obvious conflict of social relationship versus professional ethics between the judge and the lawyer should have in itself made either one excuse himself from the case, is certainly the case winner of this argument.

plaetton:
It is not conceivable that a learned, experienced SAN would be oblivious to the glaring ethical implications of GIFTING a judge presiding over an important case of which is he, the SAN, is the defending counsel.

Even the stupidest, the most ignorant layperson would understand that a Senior Advocate, one who is assumed to know and be the champion of legal ethics, should not under any circumstances, have outside courtroom contacts, talkless of giving a GIFT, even if a Penny, to a judge presiding over a case, a very politically important case of great national significance, of which the Senior lawyer is the defending lawyer.

No layperson could make such a thoughtless, monumental error, talkless of a legal luminary representing a presidential candidate, unless the senior lawyer knew exactly the nature and envisaged reward for the GIFT giving .

Your argument is very factual and logical, yet you ignore that culture and friendship demanded that the lawyer support his friend financially for an event that would not be postponed to avoid such conflict.

Except you can prove that no social relationship previously existed between the two?

Except you can prove that N500k was too much a gift between two accomplished mature friends for such a high society wedding?

Except you can prove that Buhari wired same money to the lawyer who then forwarded same to the Judge?

Emassive:
Mumu. Who give the parents of a liability aged girl gifts on her behalf?? Are u dumb. All my wedding gifts 5yrs ago came directly to me and my wife and even from those in America. Don't be stupid please.

If you were Yoruba or you know the culture, you won't have made this stupid remark.

Close family and close friends of the parents of the bride and groom give money to the parents, even if they will still buy gifts for the couple.

Chuksonyeike:
Stop talking nonsense 500kk is not a small money in today's naija. In fact someone committed suicide because he lost 300k wedding money to mmm.BTW bribe money is bribe money whether it is N1k or N20m

That someone is a poor man.

Many have millions in that same MMM and have moved on to other economic pursuits without thinking of taking their lives over the loss.

N500k is an appropriate gift from a rich lawyer to a highly placed judge who is a close friend and who happened to be father of the bride.

Leave Buhari out of your desperation to perpetuate corruption.

OKDnigeria:
Then why was Ozekhome's bank acct frozen for having #75 million in the acct. The money is now being suspected to be a proceed of corruption. Is it because it was paid by Fayose?

Same issue of convenience or coincidence of the event with a case or client at the same time.

But can Ozekhome have that much in his bank account with the calibre of high profile briefs he now handles after he jettisoned social activism? The answer is a resounding yes.

The paper trail of the frozen funds will determine if he will regain it or not. If it is determined that whoever paid the money got it as a proceed of corruption, then despite having earned it legally for his services, the money must be returned to the public purse while the client looks for his own private money to pay his private lawyer.

Some lawyers just help review contracts etc and make tens of millions. Afe Babalola once made around N500m just advising PDP briefly as a legal consultant during OBJ's reign. It caused an uproar then, but the legal luminary cared less about lay man opinion on what he considered was his duly agreed fees.

Some go to supreme court to argue electoral cases and make enough money to have their own mansion in Lekki.

Many top law firms make a revenue of over N1b annually. How they manage the costs that brought in the income, determines how much profit they make eventually.

Note however, the senior partners in these law firms are the ones enjoying most of the profits with first class air tickets and holiday getaways in Europe for a large family, while the junior lawyers who do all the research and prepare the briefs only for a so called legal luminary to go shine in the glory of a court victory, earn a pittance as salary till they can move up drastically in the firm or have their own firm and briefs.


If N500k is what it takes for a high profile case of a presidential politician to be adjudicated favourably at a federal high court, then I reckon magistrates would as well be taking bribes of recharge cards to give justice to its buyer.

OKDnigeria:
A wedding gift of 500K? The lawyer must be earning a million for every appearance in court to able to afford dat. And not to the celebrant himself but his father..

And Buhari chose a lawyer who is a 'close friend' to a judge who is presiding over his case to represent him.
Too much coincidences

Are you telling me parents don't give their fellow parents who are friends or family such amount when celebrating their birthdays or their children's wedding?

How much do you think it cost to rent a hall for a social engagement for people in that social class? A hall on the mainland of Lagos ooo, not even on the Island or highbrow areas of Abuja?

We are not talking about a local government gate man whose daughter is getting married and whose friends are also languishing in poverty.

If the lawyer who also happens to be Buhari's lawyer at that time, had given the judge N20m or N50m, then we would all have no doubt it was a bribe given under the excuse of a convenient wedding gift. But not a paltry N500k gift. Is that suppose to be money for Suya or for the judge to buy a plot of land at Ifo?

It seems you don't even know how much lawyers charge politicians in this democratic era of electoral disputes and corruption suits. Ask the likes of Mike Ozekhome how much he charges for retainership, talkless of charges for the actual briefs. Then imagine how much most of the notable tier1 lawyers charge. You think every lawyer is a charge and bail lawyer that's why you think N500k is big money for a wedding gift to a parent.

Reno is grasping at straws.

The lawyer has already disclosed his close friendship to the Judge, and has stated he gave a wedding gift to the Judge who happened to be the father of the bride.

N500K sounds about right as a gift for the calibre of people involved in the giving and the receiving.

How this is related to Buhari is what I am yet to understand with the apologists of corruption fighting tooth and nail for survival.

Nothing will stand in the way of the fight to rid Nigeria of corruption.

If he had won the Bayelsa governorship in 2012, he would have paid off his N11b debt with public funds, and would have had no regrets about being in government.

Take me to court - Olisa Metuh

Now Olisah no like court again, dey beg FG make dem let am return the N400m.

All of a sudden, the mighty Olisa Metuh has been reduced to a shy stuttering child.

As the great Justice Abang rightly opined, the lawyer ought to have applied for a reschedule at the other court, while appearing at this particular court and case.

But we know it is just part of Olisah Metuh's delay tactics. Like the law school classmate issue he brought up with another judge. All of a sudden, Olisah Metuh begin form familiarity with a judge he never cared to even associate with before, when all the time he hobnobbed with the PDP government, he was in the same Abuja as the judge.

22nd February, hearing without fail, we await what gimmick Olisah Metuh and his lawyers will pull.

Karlman:
...mercenaries fightin for biafra? lol ...with egyptian pilots and sixteen million pounds from britain and WW2 left over weapons from same britain to keep this contraption together. ...NIGERIA HAS NEVER AND WILL NEVER WIN A WAR.

You should have said that to Gowon in 1970. Some are still crying over 20pounds till today.

Your mercenaries are well documented in video evidences, no need trying to revise history.

zendy:
Anyone who looks at that picture well will see that it is 'staged'

They just brought a group of boys and asked them to stare at a newspaper and raise their hands.

The picture is fake!

I wonder if anyone saw the little white boy in the picture?

I guess unconditional surrender of Biafra was staged too?
Ojukwu running off to Ivory Coast was staged too?
The numerous mercenaries fighting for Biafra were staged too?

Ok

abouzaid:
all the best leaders of America were men who professed their religion even in their political lives.

Fallacy!

Even the great founding fathers like Washington and Jefferson, and the likes of Abraham Lincoln did not carry any bible in their breast pocket before appealing to the citizenry with brilliant common sense argument, unlike the stubborn idiocy that exist abundantly in the myopia of a religious society.

If anything, they were suspicious of religion and did their best to ensure the secularity and supremacy of the state over the church, in a bid to avoid the chaos, catastrophe, calamity, and carnage that religion had wrought in Europe they had all just migrated from.

laudate:

Wow!! You mean all this drama took place there, and people outside that area didn't hear about it? I must take the next cab to Akure to observe things for myself. I didn't know those Akure chaps could be so tough!

For your reading pleasure.

https://www.nairaland.com/2666239/akure-youths-flogged-eze-ndigbo-out

https://www.nairaland.com/2666893/how-eze-ndigbo-flogged-deji

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/191989-ndigbo-in-akure-eats-humble-pie-begs-deji-over-misconduct-of-eze.html/amp

http://www..ng/2015/10/15/akure-youths-flogged-eze-ndigbo-out-of-deji-of-akure-oba-aladetoyinbo-palace/

Because religious activities have never erased the reality that man is the architect of his own fortune and misfortune.

Please, not Igbo this time ooo.

Please, Igbo disappoint me.

Airforce1:
too long

No time to read all that
Sorry

Coming from a nairalander who is yet to attain upcoming artiste status after 3yrs of promising album loading?

Maybe if you took the time to read relevant information you consider too long, you might learn something about finally breaking into the limelight.

Chuksonyeike:
The ezendigbo of ondo state across the 18 LGA of ondo states is not one of the chiefs of ur insecure deji.stop making wild assumptions

Eze Ndigbo who was also appointing chiefs?

By what authority was he appointing Igbo chiefs in Akure that already has a sovereign called Deji?

When summoned to the palace, asides the way he was dressed before the king, he had the audacity to be talking back at the king, and saying he had somewhere else that he had to be so the king and his council should hasten the meeting.

Akure Youths taught him a lesson of his life.

He went to mobilize his Igbo kin who closed down their own shops and were protesting. The Deji then gave traditional backing to their shop closure and declared them forever closed. They were the ones that begged the king to allow them to re-open their shops.

So I welcome this move by the Deji, and I know that Ohaneze Ndigbo had also condenmed this Eze Ndigbo rubbish by title loving commoners.

vanbonattel:
Correct talk. I will like to know the qualification of the deji. Sultan of sokoto comes to Enugu on January and is seen with his full regalia everywhere he went and the masses waved and cheered him to show him we are all the same people. Yorubas are so so insecure.! Why?

Sultan of Sokoto is a king of his own domain, Eze Ndigbo is a nobody leader of a social/cultural organisation who was voted.

The Obi of Onitcha or any other king from the East would always be treated with the same respect that the Sultan got. So stop comparing the non-entity cultural organisation president with a traditional king.

Apples and oranges.

I fully support the Akure monarch. Those of us who know the history of this problem are in full support.