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Five Thousand and twenty five new lawyers were on Thursday delivered to the nation following their call to the Nigerian Bar.
In the ceremony which held at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, the Chief Justice of Nigeria CJN, Justice Mariam Aloma Muhktar counseled the new lawyers to observe the code of ethics for lawyers in carrying out their duties as ministers in the temple of justice.
She reminded the new wigs that they had an obligation to the court and the society and noted that they have a duty as officers of the court to assist the court in the administration of justice and to observe court decorum and etiquette.
“As lawyers, honour comes first and fees second; the profession has a code of honour which it requires its members to be obedient and it is a code which demands on the part of every lawyer, strict probity and the faithful discharge of his manifold duties which includes, duties to the community, duties to the public, duties to the client, duties to his professional colleagues and above all duties to the court.”
The CJN urged the new lawyers to be punctual in all court appearances and whenever possible, should give prompt notice to the court and other counsel in the case of any circumstances requiring their tardiness or absence.
She further called on them to always conduct their case in logical sequence, thus assisting the court to follow the case with ease adding that they must also show seriousness of purpose, frankness and honesty.
The Director General of the Nigerian Law School, Dr. Tahir Mamman, on his part, charged the new wigs to be good ambassadors of the law profession by distinguishing themselves in conduct within and outside the court

http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/news/general/324060-nigeria-calls-5-025-lawyers-to-bar.html

Has anyone taught the policeman might be casting his vote?

A flashback into our political history has revealed that the subversion of the will of the people has always ended in a catastrophe for our nation, thereby drawing back our quest for development.
The collapse of the first and second republic political experiments are pointer to the dangerous path we are treading once again.
We, in the All Progressives Congress (APC) cannot be cowed, for this is a time that calls for all brave men and women to rise to the desperate call of the silent majority to rescue our nation from the assured perdition of a PDP led government at the Federal level.
If you recall, the 2011 National Assembly Elections were cancelled due to the failure of your commission to achieve the right parameters for a credible election. Our position is that if you could cancel an election that has already commenced and voting was ongoing due to flaws in that electoral process, your assertion that you do not have the authority to cancel an election that you have acknowledged as flawed and “messed up and sabotaged” cannot be sustained.
The observed flaws in the election were deliberately planned as a strategic conspiracy of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rig the Anambra Governorship election in favour of their surrogate party, the PDP faction of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA).
With your acknowledgementof these far reaching vitiating factors, your grandstanding to uphold the outcome of the flawed election and your haste to conduct what you call a supplementary election, without first correcting the innate flaws in the electoral process is unacceptable.
We have lost confidence in the ability of INEC as it stands today to organize a free, fair and transparent election anywhere in Nigeria if the Anambra style is repeated.
OUR REQUEST
An outright cancellation of the Anambra Election, having been marred by serious irregularities and non-compliance with the Electoral Act.
INEC should discard the present fake multiple voters register and produce one authentic voters register that will not disenfranchise any voter and be published 30 days before any election can take place in Anambra state.
The suspension and prosecution of all officials of the commission who have ever been indicted for electoral perfidy to purge the commission of such compromised officials.
The immediate redeployment and investigation of the current Anambra Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor Chukwuemeka Onukogu.
We, as a party, we demand honesty and transparency! If our requests above are not acceded, it will confirm that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is deliberately (by either gross incompetence or more suspicious means) interfering in democracy.
Finally, we demand for the outright cancellation of the manipulated November 16th Gubernatorial election in Anambra State.
Yours Sincerely,
Chief Bisi Akande,
National Chairman,
All Progressives Congress (APC)

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APC PROTEST LETTER TO INEC
28th November 2013
The Chairman,
Independent National Electoral Commission,
Plot 436 Zambezi Crescent,
Maitama District,
FCT, Abuja,
NIGERIA
Dear Sir,
Re: ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION: A CALL TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY.
The above subject refers. On the 16th November 2013, the good people of Anambra State woke up with great aspiration and expectation to cast their votes to elect a new Governor for the state.
Prior to the date for the Election, the ominous signs of an election that was pre-determined to favour specific interests against the run of the electorate support were already clear.
When our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) noticed these foreboding signs; we immediately drew the attention of the electoral umpire and the whole world to them.
The issues, which our party complained about through official correspondencesand various press releases, are several. These include:
The unholy conspiracy between the electoral umpire (INEC) and the presidency/PDP to rig the Elections to rig the election in favor of APGA.
Mass disenfranchisement of voters through use of multiple voters registers,
Deliberate delay in the distribution of electoral materials in the opposition strongholds,
The disappearance of electoral officials and result sheets meant for opposition strongholds,
The sudden creation of about 3,00 voting units, of which our polling Agents did not receive Tags,
The unconstitutional 22-hour curfew, which was a ploy to give the riggers the leeway to actualize their rigging plans while the vigilance of the Electorate was inhibited by the curfew already in place.
The unlawful deployment and use of the military during election and purely civil activities.
Our complaint about the Anambra Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor Chukwuemeka Onukogu and other Federal Commissioners who had proven to be biased through his conduct in previous elections.
Despite INEC getting information of our complaints, we were doubly assured that our fears were founded.
The elections that were superintended over by your commission was grossly below any acceptable standard, whether local or international. The deliberate tactic to prevent democracy and serve the two parties’ interests, PDP and particularly APGA in this case cannot be democratic and in the voters’ interest.
And the only face saving decision for you and your commission in this circumstance is to cancel the charade, which you want to reinforce of the electorate as a credible election.
We cannot gloat over the dangerous signs and the gathering storms that portend a coup d’etat against the yearnings and aspirations of our people.
The reasons why we cannot accept this infamy of your commission as regards the Anambra election are as follows.
The Manipulation of the October 12th Delta Central Senatorial District bye- election.
The refusal of INEC to conclude the election started since July 29th 2013 in the re-run election to the Imo State of Assembly in Oguta, in spite of the fact that there was a clear winner.
The abnormality displayed in the State House of Assembly by-election in Ringim Constituency of Jigawa state.
The danger that the shenanigans, the conspiracy and the subversion of the will of the people signifies to our democracy.
The question our generations’ yet unborn will ask and their judgment if we refuse to do what is right to arrest the drift of our nation to the straits of destruction which have dire consequence for our people.

Pres. Jonathan is learning from ameachi. But he should be aware that one state university. Rivers state university of science and technology is different from an entire federal government university system.

Soldiers, riot policemen and other security agencies on Thursday confronted the leaders of the All Progressives Congress during their march to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja to protest against the November 16 Anambra state governorship election.
After a strategic meeting in the APC’s new secretariat in Wuse 2 in the Federal Capital Territory, which lasted about three hours, the party leaders took to the streets and embarked on a procession to INEC’s office in Maitama District.
The protesters however met a stiff resistance from stern-looking security operatives comprising the Police, soldiers, SSS and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.
An Armoured Personnel Carrier, marked NPF 6359 C, measuring about 40-feet long, was used to barricade the entrance to the commission’s office, while the driver of the truck and police officers were pelted with sachets of water by the APC youths.
In their separate speeches, the APC national Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande; National Leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; former chairman of ANPP, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu; and ex-Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), called for the sacking of INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, with immediate effect for his handling of the Anambra State governorship poll and the recent Delta State Senatorial by-election.

http://www.punchng.com/news/soldiers-police-stop-tinubu-buhari-others-at-inec-office/

Pres. Jonathan will not allow anything come between him and his 2015 agenda. All hands must be on deck. Even that of criminal militants.

If ameachi is smart and pro-active, he will turn rivers state to lagos politically. Where come 2015, the people of rivers will vote for jonathan and vote for ameachi's APC governorship candidate. To achieve that he has to institutionalize the APC in rivers. He must keep buhari, tinubu,akanda,etc..from port harcourt so that the PDP in rivers state won't brand APC as a sell out. Yoruba and hausa men party coming to take over rivers. He must populate the rivers APC with credible new faces and he should continue his good work as governor. So tomorrow when he put's forward a freshed face senator magnus abe or prince tonye princewill as his succesor. Someone that will continue his great work and then the PDP will put forward the washed out publically known crooks like wike,sekibo,etc...we all know how rivers people will vote. And the ameachi who they said committed political sucide will be the godfather of the new rivers political structure.

This is surreal, i can't belive rivers state is now an APC state. A state were buhari could'nt even gather a crowd to fill issace borrow park during his campaign for president in 2011. Now the state is now APC. Amazing! I don't even think they have a secretariat in the state.

one.east:
So GEJ is now the cause of the age long neglect of NNPC? Nwokem think before you say anything. I didn't create this thread to blame FG, but the relevant authorities responsible for maintenance and running of the facility. Am sure funds are usually set aside for the running of the facility, but they chose to siphon it than use it for its purpose.

other hausa and yoruba presidents are responsible for the years of decline. But it is expected that jonathan. A son of the niger delta make such things his priority. He should right a majority of the wrongs that have been done to the treasure base of the nation. If he does'nt then why do we have him there? What is his use to the niger delta people? Why does he and his political cronies think every niger deltan should swear eternal allegience to him when the most basic of their problems has'nt been addressed. He should be carefull because after him only God knows when the niger delta will ever produce a president and history look upon him with scorn for being complacent in the suffering of his own people and wasting a golden opportunity.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, fellow nigerians!! Grab a seat and some refreshment we are about the watch the implosion of nigeria's greatest parasite that has feasted on it for over a decade. The PDP!!!

Lordsonempire: Na u b him gay partner. He is wiser than u a million time.

wiser than me a million times? Akpabio who borrows to pay for formerly borrowed money? The debt burden the children on akwa ibom will inherit will be epic. Thanks to their loud mouth, dollars sharing, dull governor.

Chei ya! Stella oduah must think nigerians are a bunch of simpletons. This is the length you'll go to justify your having amoured cars. You must have a fetish for those cars. Don't worry. You have convinced us. The nigerian army will soon dash you one tank. I'm sure that's even safer that amoured BMW's.

No doubt about it, goodswill akpabio is the most stupid man in nigeria. I don't know why he loves jonathan so much, is he gay? He underestimates the name lapdog.

berem: drinking responsibly I agree. Drinking to stupor and landing in hospital is what I hate. The two are different.

ma'am, that claim has been proven, it's an allegation not a fact.

agbameta: 1. Obviously, Obama don't drink to get drunk like the Aso Rock Ogogoro master

2. Obama didn't have international and official engagement to attend to the next morning on behalf of the people or America

3. Obama did't check himself into Walter Reed Med Center for Violent abdominal problems after ingesting tons of Ogogoro

4. Obama doesn't develop stomach problems every time he's in London on official engagements like the Aso ROck dullard

5. Obama doesn't come up with chicken excuses to dodge giving speeches and his presidential obligations...

your well ochestrated list would have made sense if their was concrete undisputable evidence that the president is a drunk. This news agency has'nt produced a single evidence to back up their claim like actual pictorial evidence of the party in london were he supposedly drank like a fish, his medical records from king edward viii hospital or even a comfirmation by a presidential insider or an attendee of the alleged party. Rather they go and dig for blured pics from the 90's as evidence to back up their claim. That is the lowest most amatuerish type of journalism there is.

This girl is in for an extreamly difficult time. With nigeria as it is, it'll take the grace of God to get her out, the funny thing is the bank that put her up to the act which abandon her at stay clear from the case so as not to hurt their image, the lazy nigerian police too won't bother their selves with an investigation, they'll just pin it all on the girl as an easy way out.

Which snacks? Lagos traffic were i can buy ingredients and cook a pot of soup and pounded yam.

berem: Oh, that's lovely!

so obama has a drink and it's "lovely" your president does the same and he is a drunk. How pathetic!! Cheap shots like this on this man undermines his failures as president and make his critics like you small in the eyes of nigerians.

stebell: My guy take am easy yu hear.
yu see dat state govt helicopter, na Rivers State govt get am.
Yu see dat NNPC helicopter, na Federal govt get am and as such de man Wike who happens to be a minister can use de govt property de way he deems fit.


we in de South South are anxiously waiting dor Amaechi to decamp. we are tired of his noise every where. I tot he said he wants to consult with de president b4 joning APC why is he still in PDP.

The president has told him to go ahead n join de APC no need for consultation.







My guy

congratulations!! You are a very intelligent person@ so since NNPC is is federal corporation, wike has the right to use it's facilities as it likes? The presidential iir fleet is federal property, why does'nt he use it as he likes? Have you ever heard of the petroluem minister who is closest to the NNPC using their aminities?

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utumunta: Just as Amaechi use the private jet that allegedly, belongs to Rivers state to gallivant with Tinubu and his band of brigands, in the name of progressives.

Who fuels that jet?

that jet is property of the rivers state government meant for the governor of rivers state and ameachi is the governor of rivers state so he is at liberty to welcome anyone he wants to on board and fly it anywhere and anytime he wants. Just like the presidential fleet.

That helicopter belongs to the nigerian national petroluem corporation(NNPC). Who is wike to use it? Is he a staff or senoir nnpc official? What connection does the mnistry of education have with NNPC. You think you're smart.

Flygeriansteve: I find this amusing. You admit the problem but you're angry that a foreigner could these bitter home truths. But you should expect more to come. If we don't fix our Nigeria, Goodness knows Mugabe will still tell us these things!

i'm glad i could amuse you, and if foreigners see the need to comment on nigeria, i will always be here to remind them of their dirt laundry back home. Goodness knows if mugabe opens his pie hole to comment on nigeria i'll remind him that in his country 100 billion zimbabwe dollars worth only 3 eggs.

emorse: I was just about to ask the same question. The truth is, we hate the truth. The man has raised some salient points. Points we can't disprove. We're supposed to ponder and act no them but what do we do instead? We start shifting blames and calling names. We truly deserve the leaders we get.

i just said boldly on my post that i am a major critic of nigerian corruption and underdevelopment but i don't mbeki to tell me.

I love this comment. It should be sent to all state governors because they think alike. "your state allocation is not your pocket money".

A minister now uses NNPC helicopter to campaign against his state governor. You see how incompetent this federal government is? You see the raw and utter stupidy? We're watching.

Obama has destroyed syria's chemical weapons, and is now preventing iran from having nuclear weapons. I guess the nobel peace prize commitee say the future before awarding him the prize.

Look at how a whole secretary to the government of the federation is dressed to welcome his boss. Ayim pius is a disgrace. Can't he take a cue from emeka ayogwu?

Why does'nt he advice his buddy? Jacob zuma to stop lavishing s.a money on his four wives and 20 kids? Why has'nt he called out julius malema for all the ill gotten wealth he has enmassed as ANC party youth leader. Why has'nt he penned articles about his fellow ANC leaders who continue to steal public money, and they will continue winning elections by hiding behind the stardom of nelson mandela. Rubbish!!!!

seedord247: Must you be this dumb??

cant you think with your brain for once??

ASUU has been on strike for almost 5 months...

24 hours electricity is still a myth in Africa most populous Nation..

bross nor lemme continue cuz i dey vex.

you can continue cause your comments and barage of name calling shows your IQ level. Nigeria has problems so does south africa. I'm a major critic of nigeria's problems but i don't need mbeki to lecturer my country on development. He should keep it to himself. What moral high ground does he have to make such comments? And what has the comments achieved? Has what he said made anything better?