₦airaland Forum

madridguy:
Is this a joke or what? Why not use the same energy to rescue Nigerians in the den of kidnappers.

People should be reasonable. This is the only country where some people rejoice because a government official fell sick.

The other time it was celebrated that Wole Edu was down with stroke and that he was on wheel chair. Meanwhile the was in an arts gallery in the UK.

Who cannot be sick and who will not die?

Kukutente23:
You're thinking like Igboho
You need to understand the basic tenets of democracy before you start gassing
Democracy is built in checks and balances, separation of powers and limitations
The essence of the constitution itself is to place limitations and boundaries
A situation where a court is handing over limitless powers to the executive is not envisaged in a democracy
Secondly, you need to understand what a federation means. The federating units are the constituents that make up the Federation. To imply that the head of the Federation can sack any of the constituent's governance is to imply that the federating units owe their existence to the Federation instead of the other way round. A bigger issue is that this summarily shows that the SC does not believe in its own judgement or gave last week where it claimed that states are independent of the Federal govt and the LGs are also independent of the states. It just established an hierarchy of subservience between the states and the Federal. Most importantly, the idea of state police is dead with this declaration.

Nigeria as presently constituted is a flawed federation.

I agree and I have said it that there is need for clear limitations but like any other law there's need for provision for necessity .

Is the doctrine of necessity expressly in any of our statues. The answer is no. But it saved us from major constitutional crisis in the past.

Think through this scenario:
A state governor having major issues with the legislature. Everything has been primed to impeached him. Finally he and his deputy were impeached. The speaker took over and was impeached. The state chief judge took over and the legislature totally refused to cooperate with him. No budget approval etc. Infact there was no governance of any type. So much constitutional crisis.

What would a president do knowing very well that the country is a federation? Whatever action the president eventually took would it have been better to be preemptive and take it earlier or wait till after so much crisis?

On a lighter note: avoid gutter language. It's a sign of indecency. Look at your earlier statement.

spencekat:
We hereby call on the National Assembly to urgently initiate constitutional and legislative safeguards that clearly define and limit the scope of emergency powers of the president, to prevent imminent abuse and preserve Nigeria’s federation


Supported!
These were exactly what I earlier said.

I have issues with the PDP but I support the tone of the release. While the judgment is useful but limitations and definitions must be clearly made as requested by the PDP. This is to avoid abuse in future. It's not about the one that passed but the future that we don't know.

Kukutente23:
Very shameful judgement written amidst mouthful of corn 🌽 and glasses of whiskey 🍷

You are talking like Kanu. Abusing the highest judges of the land. Read the PDP statement very well. It is very clear that their concern is mainly the possibility of exploitation. They didn't abuse the judges but stated that the limits of such power should be clearly stated either by express provision in the constitution or further clarification by the supreme Court. I totally agree with them on this.

They know that they have done it before. It's not about today and the occupant of the office. It's about the future.

You must learn to read well and pick understanding. Operate with an open heart. That's the essence of education and exposure. I must not hate everything you say or do whether right or wrong.

helinues:
The issue with this EFCC boss is his gra gra. Just like Yahaya Bello, the case will die slowly.

Instead of the charade media persecution, negotiate with them to return the funds embezzled. Win win for everyone.

The EFCC prosecution have not been working for money embezzlement or money laundry as the politicians will either bribe their way at the court or use political instrument to get pardon

There are things that you don't know:
The present efcc chairman has complained many times how the wealthy are using the porous Nigerian legal system to delay cases till eternity.

He has rather focused more on recovery than jailing them. Nigerians will turn round to complain that the corrupt are buying their way to freedom. That they are not being jailed.

To date within the time frame that he has been in office, no efcc chairman from ribadu to date has recovered the value and volume that he has recovered. Counter this with concrete facts. I will not reply unnecessary and irrelevant arguments.

If it had been in Nigeria that this type of comment came from the president concerning one of his major critics, hell would have been let loose. Opposition would have said that the president sponsored the killing. No investigation would have been believed.

esnbrutality:
The revolt will be so much that St Lucia will abandon him.

Even France and UK are fighting a silent war over NIGERIA and anything is possible now.

Anyway, Agbadorian RONU-bandits will suffer if they don't have Oduduwa Republic.

Did Abaribe win his election? Show evidence.

SisterAnn:
Even tinubu himself knows this sacred truth, that's why he's buying everyone over including Reno small goat his worse critic.

Who won the election?

ddippset:
No Emergency rule was necessary in Rivers, there was no serious security issues like we've seen in Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina, Benie, Plateau.

Stop defending absurdity and illegality..

If Tinubu felt the Governor was at fault all he had to do was allow for his lawful impeachment and another Governor brought in.

If the assembly was at fault all that was needed was for the Senate and Reps to assume the legislative functions of the state and work with Fubara..


Stop giving hypocritical excuses for Tinubu's impunity.


And by the way who's going to remove Tinubu for all the insecurities that have claimed thousands of lives under his watch?

Abi was he elected to be God of Nigeria who can only remove Governors?

If a Governor can be remotely not a President?

Have you heard fubara thank PBAT for saving his job? If fubara was impeached do you think that his supporters and lovers would have kept quiet. Wouldn't there have been major crisis in Rivers? Wouldn't it have been better to be proactive and avoid losses?

FOLYKAZE:
Dangote reduced his price to corner the people, their sympathy and every other things to himself. He then systematically attack NMDPRA, choosing the head, Farouk, for his hits. This guy is simply playing a kind of resistance as it is played out in the movie Money Heist. (simply make the established system the villain, give the populace some goodies to earn their sympathy, then direct them to destroy the enemy, the establishment). In this case NMDPRA which gave licence out to importers to scout refined products from Russia is the establishment. The question is that why should Dangote lose sleep if anyone choose to import their productd and sell at lose? Why should Dangote cry if importers chose to import and spill their products all over the sea?

Another question people fail to ask, what magic happened now that made Dangote reduce the price of his product? Has crude oil price in the international market crashed? Did FG waived import duties or the shipping cost suddenly reduced? All along, Dangote is manipulating the market selling exhorbitantly to Nigerians and now that he sees some guys ar going out to bring in fuel which could compete with him, he panicked, rush and reduced price, and now attacking NMDPRA for issuing licence for importation. What he has been doing is profiteering which is a crime.

Nigeria should wise up, the Greek gift and sudden Santa gifting from Dangote is to weed out competition. And the importers are here to stay. If they can get fuel at a reduced price from anywhere, they should be allowed to do it.

Why should Dangote be worried? You invest $20 billion dollars and allowed traders to just go anywhere in the world to source for substandard products and bring into the country.

With our hard earned fx you use it to export labour and import unemployment. Why shouldn't he as a patriot be worried?

Some of them have been in the business of petroleum importation before Dangote ever thought of it but they didn't remember that it will be more beneficial to Nigeria to refine our products. They preferred quick profit business of importation and they want it to continue.

Between them and Dangote who adds more value to Nigeria? Who has swindled Nigeria more all these years in the petroleum industry?

njokuuche77:
Look at the energy Bayo used to write this epistle. If the same energy went into fixing the economy, insecurity, and cost of living, Nigerians wouldn’t be this angry.

The same energy that the opposition writers used if they had used it to do the right things when they were in power Nigerians wouldn't have been this angry.

LagosOrigin:
Yes
You will keep improving in your insults and enabling of terrorism.

What has this government achieved aside insulting people, forcing governors to defect to APC and treating terrorists with kid gloves hmm

These your governors must be extremely weak that all of them are forced to defect. None can put up any resistance at all. Even those of them that belong to other parties are forced to come close and have good working relationship with the president.

I guess Adeleke that was rejected was forced to defect to accord party.

ddippset:
So you still don't know that people are not against the declaration of SOE but they are against the removal of the Governor?

Is it that you don't know or you are just pretending??

Would you ask the governor to stay but insist on the legislature going? Would you declare a state of emergency and ask both to stay and run normal apparatus of government? What is the difference? Would you ask the governor to stay but you strip him of his powers. What is a statement of emergency with the governor and legislature exercising normal powers?

Nteogwuija:
Precedent is now set. Successive presidents have taken note.

On a second thought, why are our laws open to discretions and loopholes for circumvention?

Lawyers and others conversant with the law, could you be kind to educate us?

The primary aim of law is the good of the society. There is no law without gaps. Some have more but many are tighter.

Can you imagine where there's no law that allows for declaration of state of emergency and there's a political chaos in a state. What will the country do? What will the president do? Stand aloof and watch destruction everywhere? This is not the intention of the law.

During Yaradua's death the country was confused because there was no precedent. The country then invoked the doctrine of necessity. This will guide the country in future.

aceman88:
It should be on records that a particular ethnic group destroyed this country as a result of greed and nepotism.

Continue to protect the interest of your kinsman over and above the interest of the country.

That's why he positioned his kinsmen in every critical and sensitive sector of the country, from military to economy, to judiciary, etc. continue.

Go and rest. Were they positioned overnight. When others were striving to be in charge of professions you were busy importing and exporting, buying and selling, clearing and forwarding. You forget that the professions control power. Power can reduce a billionaire trader become poor overnight by just one decision. Dey there de shout money 🤑 na water.

armadeo:
After the deed has been done. They are giving verdict which supports the deed.


Medicine after death. This is just ludicrous.

You don't know law.
By this decision this has become part of our case law. That's the importance.

tishbite41:
You're already boxed in
It's a pity

Wike will forever like to be a political student of PBAT. PBAT made good deal with Wike. Wike delivered. Mockers waited to see him betrayed. PBAT kept his part of the deal. Wike became the only governor in Nigeria that has a third term.

Not only the above. Mockers mocked wike's friends in G-5. Wike was able to get good offer for his friends even though none played a part in PBAT's victory. That's why majority of politicians even opposition like to come around PBAT.

esnbrutality:
You are truly smart and a deep thinker. That is what I have always been saying about this people. They don't think things through before displaying their embarrassingly poor thinking.

They aren't proactive, they are reactive in nature.

As you rightly said, a child that passes all papers and fails a single critical exam. What happens to that child?

Anyway...we have seen sophisticated people and Governance in full glare and their failings are epic.

Very pathetic

You are claiming to know all. Look at your reasoning. Has it got anything to do with what the ministry said? The ministry is talking about transfer and you are talking about repeat. ❓❓❓

Dogalmighty17:
God of man has spoken.
Nigerians help me consider this. It is an error to pastor a church for years and you become richer than the congregation you pastor. There is no prominent pastor in Nigeria that started ministry with up to 300 naira in their account. I'm not talking about the Jerry Eze set of pastors. Even his set non of them started ministry with up to 5 million of personal funds in their accounts.

Majority of these pastors are billionaires now. Just last year, a group of them donated 500m each to buy a Rolls Royce for their spiritual father. The most prominent one among them didn't even have transport and a place to sleep when he first stepped foot in Abuja. His church office was an abandoned molue bus he covered with wrapper at the windows.

But they are billionaires today. So my question is, how many billionaires have they raised if at all? How many through their teachings have become billionaires? This upward vacuuming of wealth from those in desperate need to those who are already comfortable is a stain on the church.

Primate Ayodele is boasting of a 150 million naira shoe, which of his members can afford that? What business is his church engaged in that he can afford that?

There is a prominent pentecostal Church headquartered in Abuja that a pastor of one of the branches, his wife and some members got kidnapped by bandits within the week. The assistant pastor was shot dead. The blogs aren't carrying it and everyone is moving on as if nothing serious has happened.

Do churches exist just to benefit the GO and his family? This is an error!

None of them had up to #300 in account when they started ministry. This is empty and inaccurate statement. Do you want to tell us that a senior lecturer with PhD in sciences back in the 70s wasn't very comfortable? To leave that level to embark on a journey of known for the love of Christ, was it not a major sacrifice?

I understand what you are saying. There are a lot of fakes now. For there to be fake there must be original. I can tell you that there are many committed and altruistic men of God. They are more than the fake. The society celebrates bad news more than good news.

Burruchaga71:
Not only Peter Obi every Igbo loves MNK and he has never committed any atrocities in Igbo land.

Every whaaaaat. Am I not igbo? Did I tell you that I loved a cultist?

gidgiddy:
He was, back in the early 2000's when he still believed that Nigeria might work. There are even videos of him leading protests in London, calling for the end of herdsmen killings in Nigeria, warning that if the killings continued, it would affect the unity of Nigeria

Nnamdi Kanu later realised that Nigeria was never going to work, and time has since proved him right

The man is a hussler. Just try this and try that hoping that one will work. Finally IPOB and radio Biafra gave him the wealth that he never dreamt of.

nairalandankrah:
Like other innocent people, he thought NIGERIA was a nation built to work..
But then he realized, Nigeria was all about SNATCH IT, GRAB IT AND RUN AWAY WITH AS MUCH LOOT AS YOU CAN.
Dude wasn't cut out for that life of crime..

Have you forgotten that he's a cultist. What can be worse.

ogawisdom:
What are we going to get in return for paying tax, nobody wants to address this critical aspect or are we paying for politicians to loot as usual

This is the critical question that Nigerians should be asking and not complaints against paying tax.

Dogalmighty17:
Imagine! Government that hasn't in anyway contributed to my life now wants to dip its hands into my bank account? Am I the one who pushed Amoda into cocaine?

Don't you ply on the road. Was it not built? You call the police and the military for protection. Wouldn't you pay for it.

SmartPolician:
It's funny how people think that what they do or write on social media will affect Obi's political decision. When Peter Obi left PDP and joined LP, did he consult anyone? It was shocking to many netizens.

The fact of the matter is that the man has a cult-like following who believes in his unique political ideology. Anywhere he goes, people will vote for him; forget the social media rants.

Cult like following? Watch out in 2027. In 2023 so many factors walked in his favour.
Buhari and APC worked in his favour.
Endsars worked in his favour.
Element of surprise worked in his favour.
Fear of Muslim Muslim ticket worked in his favour.
Emefiele worked in his favour.

These factors have been neutralized. So watch out.

Hedonisco:
Stop disturbing us with this senseless and tone deaf talk about "he should contest primaries". People like you who play the ostrich are the biggest problem.

Making noise all over the forum pretending like you don't know that contesting the primary means playing the corruption game with sleazy characters.. Bribing delegates with which money, just like your bat did. So Peter Obi should go against the very thing that his reputation is built on (prudence, accountability and squeaky clean corruption track record) just to please vultures like you?

Didn't he contest primary to become Anambra governor? Was he hand picked?

obonujoker:
So after all the subsidy removals, your government is still borrowing up to trillions?

Isn't it a shame?

If you want to expand your economy you must borrow. Borrowing for investment doesn't mean that you are broke. Obi talked about meeting revenue target and still borrowing. A deficit budget means that your expected revenue is lower than your expected expenditure. The difference is deficit. The deficit is financed through borrowing. So if I have met my budgeted revenue target, it doesn't mean that I have covered my deficit.

Sometimes when Obi talks I don't know what to call it. That's why in Anambra he said that he saved money but he had debt and no development. That's village economics. In contrast Lagos floated bonds invested and developed and today is the fifth largest economy in Africa.

Emeskhalifa:
Just an honest question that needs an honest answer

Why can't these refineries be built in other states of the country?

Lagos is extremely congested already while other states literally have nothing

It's a private sector decision.
They need friendly environment.
They need security.
They need large pool of manpower.
They need infrastructure.
They want to see governments that are investor thirsty and friendly.
Proximity to ports and big markets.
Besides Lagos is the Europe of Nigeria.

ambale:
First off, I'm not the cause of your misfortune in life

TIN is not an evidence of corruption, the government is not feeding me, I dey hustle my way ni, so why should I pay them for finding and funding my own way and if the government deems it that they need the TIN, make them assign am to the job wey dem give us, abi no be so them dey do for other countries??

You don't pay tax and you are an adult earning income. You are not entitled to complain and enjoy anything in this nation. In those nations you hail they will jail you if you evade tax. FYI tax evasion is a criminal offence. Start the corruption fight from yourself.

LagosOrigin:
Tinubu pardoned a killer, Sanda , what a useless president.

Killers don't deserve pardon.
Whoever that kills by the sword will die by the sword.

So Tinubu should change kanu's sentence to death by hanging because he killed ooo.

ambale:
Are you a corrupt official??

Why is my comment troubling your destiny?🤣

You that's looking for ways to cut corners. Show me your TIN. I'm sure that you don't have any? That's corruption. You can't try this in those societies where you think that there's corruption. It will jail straight.

ambale:
Why do they put limitations to it?

Research and find out. I will not teach you because you are not ready to learn. You have a set mindset.