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If we are serious on tracing crime this should be a good case, since he left his phone number. Though the line seem to have been switched off.

Big B1:
I knew from day 1 that Yar'Adua wasn't going anywhere.
Don't be a fool, the big man is still in control!
And do not get it twisted, it wasn't up to OBJ anymore.

On the other hand, David Mark knows why he was sent home and I'm not sure if the decision can ever be reversed.
It's a done deal!

There are some ambiguity here Big B1 can you expantiate please, this is really getting interesting.

The same kind of rigged election that made Atiku number 2 during Obasanjo regime is now what he is now contending. I still support Nigeria than any politician. Common sense than any politicians seeking for selfish justice

Very good point though I had wished we start from some point to get it right, We just cannot continue like this;
Meanwhile let's celebrate wth Yara,

Buhari's Lawyers said that they will be taking the Judges on violation of oath of office.
They claimed to have been bared from calling their wittnesses only for them to in turn
use same against them while delivering their verdict.

On those who felt it is good for common sense, yah I agree but when will we get it right.

@ Afam
I think I share in your love for Yar'dua but what I'm yet to come to term with is the basis of the judgement and the allegations as in the report from Sahara reporters. Look at it this way; Is it possible that those long speeches as made by the panel were intended to explain away certain realities? Don't get me wrong bros, but I'm just currious. I may not neccesarily fancy Atiku and Buhari but why not a re-run to correct the percieved inconsistencies. Just for the good of our Country, our image and what have you.

What is left now is for the Judgement to be published so that we can study it
to know why it went the way I see it now. Other things calling for answers are:
why was that Judge promoted at this time? Wouldn't it have been better to do
that say two months after this judgement? With this judgement are we making
progress? What of all the land slide achievement of the judiciary in the recent past?

Democracy and Nigeria na wa ooooo!

globalaid:
The Judge is still reading his address but it is obvious from the way the whole thing is going he has given their case TKO

I can't but commend your effort, you are beating me to it, all the way from shanghai, men na waooo!

globalaid:
SHOCKING: The petition has been dismissed. Act 1 now the Judge is now reading Act 2

globalaid:
SHOCKING: The petition has been dismissed.

I saw it coming from onset that it will go in Yar'adua's favor.
Questions: Is it over now? Or are we just getting started?

I choose to keep quiet and watch for some time before further comment.
This day can not but remain historical.

Yar'dua may have it, from what I've listened to so far but you never can tell. There are so many technical things going in his favor

It is on going don't let's speculate as it could be misleading at this point but what I'm hearing is like a very long law lecture. Trust me as soon as they drop the gavel I will get you guys informed.

blueband:
The fact that Emmanuel Ogebe was mentioned in the write up discredits it totally.Emmanuel does not,I repeat does not influence his father.

hmm! I know my dad listens to me sha.
Right now the judgement is being delivered
I'm following it live!

As the Presidential Elections Tribunal approaches the D-Day for the delivery of its judgment regarding the flawed April 2007 elections, feelers from the seat of government in Abuja shows an air of over-confidence by Umar Musa Yar'adua over the impending verdict of the tribunal.

Many Nigerian lawyers and political pundits expect the tribunal will cancel the polls that illegally put Yar’adua in Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of power. But in a move that underlines his over-confidence, Yar'adua has decided to leave for China on Tuesday evening on a state visit to the Asian country, even though the state visit is scheduled from February 28 to March 2. A source in the presidency attributed the early departure to time difference between Nigeria and China.

But another source in Yar’adua’s inner circles disclosed to Saharareporters that Mr. Yar’adua’s decision to hop off to China reflected his confidence that his operatives had softened a majority of the tribunal members to grant victory to the resident of Aso Rock

Over the last few months and weeks, Saharareporters has detailed serious efforts by Yar’adua’s camp to compromise the tribunal members as they settled to finalize their judgment. We specifically reported attempts by the Attorney General of the Federation, Michael Aondoakaa, to reach the Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice James Ogebe, through his US.-based son, Emmanuel Ogebe.

Several sources have revealed to us that the nomination of Justice James Ogebe for the Supreme Court days before his tribunal’s ruling was meant to reassure the Benue-born judge that the Federal Government was serious about fulfilling its own end of a deal.

Justice Ogebe’s son, Emmanuel Ogebe, was seen with AGF Aondoakaa on February 4th 2008 at the premises of the Presidential Elections Tribunal in Abuja speaking in confidential tones just as striking judicial workers put the premises in a lockdown.

While Ogebe is a senior jurist and widely regarded as knowledgeable about the law, many have viewed his sudden elevation to the Supreme Court as a suspect maneuver.

“It’s a move out of [former President] Obasanjo’s script,” said a senior advocate, who demanded anonymity. “It speaks volumes about what may have gone underground to appease the chairman of the tribunal as a final means of getting him on board to rule in favor of Umar Yar'adua.”

Apart from Justice Ogebe, our investigations also revealed that direct efforts were made to induce other tribunal members and their families. We have learned, for example, that Justice Uwani Abba-Aji has been pressured with substantial financial inducement. Justice Abba-Aji, the panel’s only female jurist, hails from Borno State, the same state as the Secretary to the Federal Government, Baba Gana Kingibe. Saharareporters found out that Yar’adua contracted former Senator Abba-Aji to spearhead the campaign to woo the justice.


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I had always wished Yar'dua succeeded at the election tribunal, but if that report is true,
then we are not in in anyway going to get better in the nearest future. I expected the
president to be a man of his words. Go through the processes and if need be go for a re-run
thereby giving Nigerians the oppurtunity the to appreciate the moves he has made.
But that report goes to show the same desperation we have always seen among our
leaders. Imagine the senate president   trying to pull down the roof of the tribunal for
declaring what they saw in his case.

Generalization is not always right. How on earth can Kobo say that Zik spent his life destroying Nigeria pse give an instance. May be you know somethings we don't know.

There is a trend within Nigeria to create legality from illegality amongst public officers. The most recent apart from Soludo & his ban on spraying(By which authority or legal instruments??)

Go read the Nigerian constitution as ammended by the senate, Soludo did not formulate any law he is merely encouraging adherence to an existing law. Senate made the law not CBN, as the later has no loco standi to do so.

A co-pilot died during a flight from Britain to Cyprus at the weekend but the plane diverted and landed safely in Turkey, the airline, GB Airways, said on Monday.

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The captain of the GB Airways Airbus A320, which had 156 passengers on board, landed at Istanbul airport after he was forced to divert due to a "medical emergency".

The flight left Manchester at 2:20 p.m. on Sunday for Paphos in western Cyprus.

"GB Airways confirms that yesterday's flight BA 6826 from Manchester to Paphos diverted to Istanbul due to a medical emergency on the flight deck," the airline said in a statement.

"On landing, it was confirmed that the first officer (co-pilot) had died during the flight. At no time was the aircraft, passengers or crew in any danger."

It gave no details of the co-pilot or how he had died but said his next of kin had been informed.


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080225/tuk-uk-britain-flight-death-fa6b408_2.html


That's an ariel death, if you ask me. I feel for the family ooo!

Why can't these "unfortunate" people buy simple fire extinguishers?

Extinguisher Who will use the extinguisher by 1.00am, 2.00am, 3.00am and so on.
I think those fires are rather dubious.

Wetin concern you with Pakistan. Abi Pakistan dey Africa now?

No hard feeling I can see your new on the forum, it might be neccesary you to try
and understand what the forum is all about.

The '''students' arrested were Ex-students
they were expelled earlier
and they even went to confess
with their own legedis benz

So they were indeed at CU some time past.
This is incredible, all I can say is mercy Lord!

The main party backing President Pervez Musharraf has admitted defeat on Tuesday after elections, leaving the party of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto and other opponents headed for a crushing win in Pakistan's elections. The two main opposition parties, the PPP of late PM Benazir Bhutto and the PML-N, led by another former PM, Nawaz Sharif, already have a clear majority. The Pakistan Muslim League-Q saw its chief and several key members lose their seats in Monday's polls and unofficial results announced on state television showed they could not attain a parliamentary majority. With counting in from 257 constituencies, PML-Q and its allies had taken a total of 57 seats. Even if they won all the remaining seats not yet counted, they would not be able to attain a majority in the parliament, which has 272 elected and 70 unelected seats. "This is the basic spirit of democracy," Azeem told AFP. "We believe the elections were free and fair and everybody must accept the decision for the betterment of Pakistan. "If they form a coalition with a two-thirds majority in parliament they could impeach Mr. Musharraf. The full scale of the defeat inflicted on the pro-Musharraf PML-Q is expected to become clearer as more results come in.


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What interest me most about this pool is the way PML-Q(Musharraf's party) accepted defeat. The fact that Pakistan is a third world country makes it more interesting. No one attempted to create one magic to subvert the will of the people. I can't hardly wait to see the day a party in power will be roundly defeated in a national election in Nigeria.

Lagos On Fire!

Over the past few months it has become normal in Lagos to hear that buildings in public places especially markets have been burnt. The rate at which this fire occur is becoming worrisome and it seems there is no end for such fire incidents. Each of these fires leave in it's trace deaths and destroyed lives. For those of us that hear on the news, you may not understand what it feels like to build from scratch, only to be send back to the scratch again by one misfortune. My question is this what is the cause of these fires? I bet you LAGOS want to know and so do I.

One of the sports *hiefs received a national award today,
make you hear that one before you go de call them names.
Till today no solution for eagle's manager quesition, all we
hear is this meeting and another meeting with nothing real
being said. Our world cup qualifier agianst a fast improving
South African side with the best Manager in Africa, is fast
approaching. If care is not taken then our tears is just
gathering because, we will cry more.

Check out the attachment Ribadu goes to school

In the latest FIFA ranking released in Zurich a few hours ago, Nigeria is now ranked 45 over all. Her west African neighbour Ghana is now the no 1 team in Africa and 14th over all, Cameroun 17th and 2nd in Africa, CIV 3rd in Africa, Champions Egypt are 4th, Senegal 5th and your Super Eagle 6th in Africa and 45th over all. Some 26 steps backwards. Congratulations to the one and only BERTI VOGTS.  That man should not come to back Nigeria again, else we may get back to 100 or there about.

What do you mean by this statement.Are the people who who contributed for the building of the School saints or whats your point of view? Are their kids saints? Well the News is just developing,we will hear more.

Not at exactly but then point was made in support of positions taken by a few contiributors in another thread that the school was built by the poor majority members of the church to serve the rich within and outside the church.

Lies!

CU students indeed

That's ok but why not tell the police I guess they'll be interested.

Detectives however, declined to release the names of the students, describing them as sons of influential figures in the society and that releasing their names could jeopardise their investigation

This is one of the reasons why I refused to fault 4Him on the other thread:

sons of influential figures in the society

I can bet you that they are most likely not the members who contributed for the building of the School but those who fancied what is there and can afford tthe high cost.

Two students of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State and four others have been arrested by the police in connection with the Thursday, January 31, 2008 robbery attack on four banks at Canaanland, Ota. Canaanland is the sprawling complex containing Winners Chapel, Covenant University and other missionary groups owned by Bishop David Oyedepo, the popular exponent of Christian faith.

The banks attacked are also located inside the complex.

P.M.News investigations this morning revealed that the suspects were arrested by a crack team of the Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad, Adeniji Adele at different locations in Lagos and Ogun states.

The two varsity suspects, detectives told P.M.News, were arrested at their hideouts in Lagos.

Detectives however, declined to release the names of the students, describing them as sons of influential figures in the society and that releasing their names could jeopardise their investigation.

Sophisticated guns, including AK 47 rifles were recovered from the students at various locations in Ogun State following information supplied by the students.

They were arrested at about 11:30 p.m. last Friday.

Investigations further revealed that detectives have launched a manhunt for four other suspects and a lady who participated in the attack.

Two policemen were killed by the robbers during the raid on Canaanland wile several people suffered various degrees injuries.

One of the robbers was also shot dead but was taken away by the robbers to conceal his identity.

Millions of naira was carted away from the vaults of the banks during the operation.

The suspects are still being detained in the cell of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji Adele, Lagos Island as at the time of filing this report.

Inspector-General of police, Mr. Mike Okiro had ordered federal special anti-robbery squad to fish out the culprits involved in the siege on Canaanland.


http://www.thenewsng.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4219

Just what I was addressing on some other thread that we need more of from those journalists

Oga Kobojunkie, can you explain please

Ten unidentified gunmen attacked officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and over 40 journalists in Ibadan at about 2 a.m today. The gangsters, who wielded AK47 rifles, stormed Development Support Centre, Iyanganku, venue of a training programme tagged: “Capacity Development Training on Investigative Reporting for Nigerian Journalists.” The programme was organised by the Wole Soyinka Award For Investigative Journalism in collaboration with EFCC whose officials are the resource persons.

Some of the victims who spoke with P.M.News on phone from Ibadan this morning, said the gunmen were shouting “where is the man from EFCC?” ( Dapo Olorunyomi) intermittently immediately they gained entrance into where the journalists working for local and foreign media, lodged.

During the room-to-room raid, the gunmen used the butt of their guns to beat and injure Dapo, the Personal Assistant on Media to the Chairman of EFCC.

Others victims manhandled were Ibim Semenitari, the publisher of Business Eye who lost her wedding ring to the gunmen, Dr. Doyin Mamoud, Mr. Steve Aborisade, Dr. Shola Olorunyomi, Sade Adeboye of Tell magazine, Barrister Jiti Ogunye, etc.

The gangsters reportedly took away cash, eight lap tops, jewelry, cell phones and other valuables.

When Dapo went to report the incident at the Iyanganku Police Station, there was no light neither was there any operational vehicle to convey the cops to the scene of the incident.

The police came after the gunmen had gone.

The owner of the Development Support Centre, who is a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, was grateful to God that no life was lost during the attack.



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will Arsenal throw away this wonderful oppurtunity to go 5 points clear? If they do,
they may not get that trophy, though I think they'll be too grateful to do that,
after such a wonderful gift from Man United yesterday.
Arsenal vs Blackburn Rovers 9.00pm watch out!

Villa got a penalty, Carr handled the ball in the vital area.
Meanwhile Obafemi was not listed just like Agbolahor who
is injured.
Carew scores the penalty 4 goals to 1
It is 90' game over y moment from now!