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No, no button for me.

Just like Naija power supply, my modify button disappears.

Not so sure where that modify button is



With the recent space of overturned state elections, I wouldn't be surprised if 2007 presidential elections is overturned far before 2011 even arrives.

In that case things will get really fun.

ABUJA—The last may not have been heard about the controversial 2007 presidential election held nationwide which produced Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as the number one citizen in the country.

This is so because a full panel of the Supreme Court yesterday ordered the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Abdullahi Umar, to immediately constitute a fresh panel of justices to hear, de novo (afresh), the election petition filed by the Hope Democratic Party [HDP].
The petition is challenging the emergence of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as the winner of the April 21, 2007 presidential poll held nationwide.

A five-member Court of Appeal which sat as Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja had, on August 20, 2007, struck out the HDP’s petition for being incompetent.

The court had said that the petition was not only inelegantly drafted but that the political party joined parties unknown to law like the ‘Nigerian’ Police Force and the ‘People’ Democratic Party.

The court had said that the petition was not only inelegantly drafted but that the political party joined parties unknown to law like the ‘Nigerian’ Police Force and the ‘People’ Democratic Party.

The court had said that the constitution recognised Nigeria Police Force and not the Nigerian Police Force as spelt in the petition. .
The court had also said that the statute recognised the Peoples Democratic Party and not the People Democratic Party.

The court had also said that the petition was drafted outside the provision of section 145 of the Electoral Act 2006 as there was no ground of challenging Yar’Adua’s election therein.

In fact, the court presided over by Justice James Ogebe had said that there was no way it could consider the issues raised in the petition on their merit because it was fatally defective.

Five other petitions filed by different political parties alongside their presidential flag-bearer had suffered the same fate.
But most of the petitioners whose cases were not heard on merit took the decisions of the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court for review.
HDP whose appeal had been at the Supreme Court since last year succeeded yesterday in annulling the verdict of the Court of Appeal which held that its petition as filed was not triable.

The apex court ordered that the President of the Court of Appeal which has the statutory power to convoke panel of justices to hear election petition must not waste time to set up a new one to re-hear the HDP’s petition.

The order came three months after the apex court dismissed two major petitions that survived the pre-trial ordeals of the Justice James Ogebe-led Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.

The said two major petitions which many had feared might unseat President Yar’Adua were instituted by Alhaji Muhamadu Buhari of ANPP and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Action Congress.

Justice Francis Tabai read the leading judment in the cas yesterday but it was prepared by Justice Walter Onnoghen
Reading the lead judgment yesterday as prepared by Justice Onnoghen, Justice Tabai said “I must confess that the petition is not well or elegantly drafted particularly as it did not separately state the grounds for presenting the petition under separate heads or subheads.

“But it is clear from the paragraphs of the petition that it contains a ground recognized by the relevant section of the Electoral Act 2006 particularly section 145(1) (b) which states “that the election was invalid by reason of corrupt practices or non-compliance with the provisions of this Act” he added

Justice Onnoghen maintained that “the fact on which the ground of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2006 is based was also pleaded.

“In the circumstance, I am of the view that the lower court was in error when it held that the petition was not based on any ground known to law and did not disclose any cause of action.”

He further held that the omission of ‘National’ in the nomenclature of the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] by the petitioner was an error which ought not to have been used by the lower court as a reason for striking out the petition, because out of five documents filed at the registry of the lower court as required by statute the error occurred in only one document,

He said that the letter’ S ’ which was not added by the petitioner in his petition to make it Peoples Democratic Party and the letter ‘N; which was added to Nigeria in Nigeria Police Force is too trivial an error to be considered.

The apex court said that election petitions are ‘sui generis’ and they deal with political rights and obligations of the people, particularly those who consider their rights injured by the electoral process should be given avenue to ventilate their grievances,” he said.

Other justices who sat on the panel include Justice Dahiru Musdapher, Justice George Oguntade, Justice Ikechi Francis Ogbuagu, Justice Francis Tabai, Justice Christopher Chukwua-Eneh and Justice Muhammad Coomassie who all agreed with the lead judgment.

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/content/view/32155/41/

With recurrent expenditure accounting for more than 50 percent of budgets of all tiers of government, reducing the cost of governance is one major challenge presently facing the country taking into consideration the reduced revenue allocations from the Federation Account arising from low oil prices and revenues since the last quarter of 2008.
State governments have been particularly traumatised by the unfolding trend of dwindling revenues. One area that has perennially attracted official concern is the high wage bill of state governments and the challenge of guaranteeing that the huge bills are worthwhile and not fictitious.
Recent revelations confirm that many states may still be expending enormous revenues paying salaries to ghost workers i.e. phantom workers who have been listed on the state’s payroll through the fraudulent instrumentality of certain officials in government, who actually pocket the salaries.
[Gbenga]

Gbenga
The recent case of Kogi State where the governor, Ibrahim Idris, insisted on a thorough staff audit by a consulting firm despite pockets of opposition from highly placed state officials is instructive. So far, the audit has sent jitters into the rank and file of officials who may have been instrumental to the listing of ghost workers and certain arrests have been made in connection with the complicity of certain government officials.
Reports monitored by BusinessDay revealed that the chief of staff at the state’s Health Management Board was arrested for allegedly distributing to persons forged letters of appointment which were backdated. Also, one Sunday Abu of the State Teaching Service Commission who was said to have been behind the listing of over 5,000 ghost workers was equally nabbed by the law enforcement agents.
So far the staff audit exercise in Kogi State handled by a consultant and with the aid of biometric data capturing technology has revealed that up to N1 billion had been wastefully expended paying salaries and emoluments to ghost workers. Not surprisingly, considering the complicity of some highly placed officials the staff audit consulting firm had revealed that they had been approached by certain persons who have the intent to wrongfully manipulate the staff audit exercise.
As at mid 2008, Niger State government through a similar staff audit discovered that it had been paying salaries and emoluments to about 4,000 ghost workers. The state which once had 37,000 staff now had their staff strength realistically reduced to 33,000 staff. In a similar case, BusinessDay investigations revealed that Bayelsa State had saved up to 400 million naira from a staff audit exercise that fished out ghost workers. Equally, Ogun State government under the administration of Gbenga Daniel had through the appropriate computerisation of staff salaries and pensions payment process saved up to N50 million on a monthly basis, which hitherto had been going into the pockets of the ghost worker network.
With many states expending over 50 percent of their annual budget on payment of salaries, emoluments and pensions, it is worthwhile that all the states begin to focus on determining their realistic staff strength in order to discontinue the wasteful expenditure on ghost workers fuelled by a corrupt cabal in the civil service. The state governors must resist any form of blackmail from their political constituencies and muster adequate political will to pursue a proper staff audit taking into consideration that there are entrenched corrupt networks in the state bureaucracies that have over the decades benefited from an unrealistically bloated civil service which had drained the states of enormous revenues.

Source: http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4024:ghost-worker-phenomenon-as-bastion-of-treasury-looting-&catid=129:corruption&Itemid=312

Thank you for the thread. Democracy no matter how flawed has brought more of transparency in politics. An analysis of the players, and those who dealt them the cards.

Damn, that's alot of weed.

Chinese customs getting high tonight.

EARTH HOUR??!!!!!!!!!!


Earth Hour in Nigeria all day, sometimes for 3 days!

See what happens when we get half a desent leader. Imagine every state had a Fashola? Imagine our FG had a president like Fashola?

We multiply far more than the Chinese. And we'll get in their women's asses pretty fast. Chinese can't self segregate within african society. It's not in their nature.

Read about Chinese Jamaicans, they intermarried with the ex slaves pretty quickly.

The same will happen in heavily chinese populated areas in a few generations.

blacksta:
all of us. IBB has unfinished business - some scores to settle

Unlooted funds to take care of.

If someone asked in 2007 whether I would vote of goal-less, hapless, visionless Yar'Adua, or an idol worshipping homesexual with a vision to turn nigeria into an industrialized nation, i'd pick the homo.

Cops or thugs, ?

2 party democracy,


not bad

I don't blame America for what it did.


I blame the victims for allowing it to happen.

Nah, life expectancy is too low. People will die before we reach 400 million.

Stop being so simple minded. Global recession is an act of incompetence on behalf of central bankers and investment firms.

Excess global liquidity is hardly divine intervention to a fuked up world.

So now we need a team of goons to do one goon's job?

*fvck*, we're screwed!~

Not without anything to show for it.

Hahaha good.

Privatize the PHCN already.

They could throw hard rock kasava at his face, but it's all good.

He did what he did as president, and as sad as I am to say it, he was our best president.

That speaks volumes of Nigerian leadership standards.

THIS IS HILARIOUS, !!!!!!!!!


The hypocrisies of this situation. A governor who rigged elections can't pay up so they want him dead.


My goodness.

I love it.


You reap what you sow asshole.

It would be nice if we tried to produce our own.

Maintaining foreign, and often second hand equipment is really expensive.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=246524.msg3597547#msg3597547 date=1237060564]Human beings should stop using their hands to eat cos ANIMALS don't use their hands. . . .
What a moronic way of proving the normalcy of homosexuality. . . . . .[/quote]Homosexuality is NOT normal. However, because it is not normal does not mean it is your concern.

Gays should be able to do whatever the Bleep they want to do. It's their lifestyle its not up to the rest of society to pass judgment on them.

jamace:
I 'm ok, brother.

But those lesbians are no babies. I detest lesbianism.

My stand is that, in life and according to circumstance, sometimes it is necessary to use "evil" deeds/actions get good results.

Why? It is already proven homosexuality is genetic and not a choice.

How would you feel if a white or arab person said "I detest black" and supported mass murder or rape against us?

ode remo:
dont we have enough of them already.?

Actually we don't. They're convoluted.

Steal public funds = treason charge.

5 years minimum for stealing more than 10,000N, 10 for 50,000N, 15 for 100,000N and life for anything above.

Those who benefited (family and friends) should be tried as co-conspirators and tried charged for obstruction of justice and thrown in prison to varying degrees of years.

Game over.

Perhaps it's time to make kidnapping a federal offense that carries death penalty.

I say let them marry. With 140 million Nigerians, gays marrying isn't really a top concern for our society.

Power, sanitation, and economic reform, top priority.


What gays do, is somewhere REALLY low on the list of "things to get done" by the FG and State Govs.

South Africa is slowly turning into "Africa". ~~

Diasporas should stay away from politics. Don't need to be in politics to exert influence.