₦airaland Forum

iretiland:
It is only in Nigeria that this Mohammed Adoke can be an ordinary lawyer, let alone a senior lawyer. Adoke is as corrupt as they come with all the mis-interpretations he has given to Nigeria's constitution. There was the perception that Aondoakaa was bad and corrupt during late President Yar' Adua's time, but he is no match for this Adoke.
How come the so-called "noble profession" have so many dishonourable men in their senior rank ?

With a good primary school education and zero knowledge of law, one will know that Adoke's directive to CJ of Bayelsa state is null and void in a federal system of government. The NBA should try rederming it's image by leting the likes of Adoke, Aondoakas, etc form their own rogue legal assiciation.

And where was the NBA all this while when Rivers Lawyers were being denied their legitimate right of livelihood and hundreds of thousands of litigants their right of redress in court

torkaka:
[b]. . . . . . . . .minion, I know you went to night school hence the difficulty you find comprehending . . . . . . . . . .or the person for the time being respectively appointed to exercise the functions . . . . . . . . .the constitution compliments itself . . . . . . . .what does chapter 7 part 2 section 271 say? . . . . . . . . . .goon, the governor is freely allowed to appoint in acting capacity without recourse to NJC . . . . . . . . . . . . . the word 'appoint' is the key and the constitution has clearly stated who can make the
'appointment' . . . . . . . .the governor can continue appointing in acting capacity every 3 months so long as its not the same person . . . . . . . .dull boy, appointments of judges are not tied to whether the courts are shut down or not, it is tied to the person with the title 'judge'

. . . . . . . . .hope I have learnt? . . . . . . . .nizzo, we are not on the same plane in that angle!!! . . . . . . . .democratic sructures in Rivers state have not been set aside, hence it is almost impossible for the executive arm of the FG to legally interfere with executive, legislative & judicial arms of the state . . . . . . . . . . . .your head is surely too blank to understand this . . . . . . . . . . .you need more protection!!![/b]

I am sure you are not full abreast of the situation in Rivers state, the judges can't even gain access to their offices, the last time they tried unlocking the gates to the courts, the nuisance in brick house sent his goons to manhandle them

TRUTHTOPOWER:
The rules of interpretation forbids importation of scenarios to a broad provision like this. I agree that Wike must be sworn in. but how. choosing the CJ for rivers as in this case is laying a precedent that the FG can just move in based on her own construction of the constitution. these are the kind of avoidable errors that characterized this administration. that the constitution doesn't specify does not mean anyone without a prior appointing authority can arrogate power to appoint to himself. As far as rivers is concerned the appointing authority is the chief executive on the recommendation of NJC. As I said earlier in my first post, the president only has power to declare a/state of emergency. remove the incumbent Gov and appoint an administrator who will then appoint acting CJ. and the deed is done. even this you will only be stretching the constitution. but for AGF to appoint is legally monstrous! it just like adding a section to the constitution instead of stretching the existing provision.

You people are quite funny, what other options are there to avoid a constitutional crisis? The framers of the constitution never anticipated a situation like this, where a tout, with no sense of proportion , reckless to a point of insanity , would preside as the executive governor of a state. What the AGF is proposing is akin to the doctrine of necessity, we can't allow a vacuum and create anarchy cos of a constitutional lacuna

Akadile: It's obvious we''ve all lost our ways. FFK is obviously a gaffer in the president's pockets. How can he be defending such reckless act & calling it normal? The money was moved physically in order to avoid a trace. Why was there breakdown of communication with S.A. authorities? So many inconsistencies & coincidence s that cant be ignored. He should have just shut up his mouth. So many issues at stake here. Who will speak out? Definitely not ffk.
the president is busy giving National honours to 305 people including his cook without remembering any of the fallen heroes of this deadly disease. He didn't even send a condolence message to the family of late Dr. Adedevoh during her funeral. If we do not speak out, who will? The churches that are supposed to be the voice of conscience of the nation are in his pockets(remember Rev. Oritsejafor's escapades lately who is the CAN president). Pleases let's put sentiments aside & face facts. Our present leaders are insensitive. My only regret is that Dr. Ada Igonoh & her courageous colleagues who walked through the valley & shadow of Ebola will soon be forgotten & business is already back as usual. Time for sober reflection on the way forward for this nation

What should detain us is the purpose the arms are meant for and not the way and manner they are using for procurement. If the aim is to fight Boko haram and stop the bloodletting going on in the North why should anyone be concerned with how we go about getting the arms? These are extra ordinary times in Nigeria and it requires extra ordinary measures to stem our descent into anarchy . Those who keep emphasising the ownership of the plane used are the real enemies of this country, trying to give a religious connotation to the whole saga.

sigolisis: Think straight bro, why are you biased in your mind, what is his initial calling? Is he contesting, what is wrong if a religious leader whose members are badly affected is giving back up and encouragement to the president to win the war against insurgency. If other pastors can't go to visit the president frequently, can't CAN president also go. How do you want to fight your own good fight of faith, is it by carrying weapons? Or should we wait until boko haram restricts all christians from worshipping their God. Have you ever listened to Shekau talks about the christians? Is it bcs you are in the south and you are least affected by insurgency attacks, have you ever seen any of the videos of the people that were slaughtered like chickens for being christians or is it an offence to have a christian president in nigeria? Haven't you seen the sultan of sokoto with mr president before?

Boko Haram is a common enemy that threatens the unity of nigeria and genuine muslims are against killings of innocent fellow human beings but sadly you are not. I have relations that are muslims and christians alike and I am not ready to loose any of them to terrorism bcs they are so dear to me, but remember that some people loose husbands, wives, parents, children, etc daily to insurgency attacks.

Pastor Ortsejafor's involvement has been clearly stated, if you can't comprehend it yet, then keep quite and stop inciting sane people on this thread.

The millitary chiefs came out to say they need supplies of ammunitions urgently and that america and other countries are not responding well due to protocols and other logistics involved, should the millitary retreat and tell nigerians that they can't protect us again because they have no arms. When some people came out months ago to say that shekau men are more equipped than the millitary, you know what you said at that time, when the FG applied for loans to buy fighter jets recently, people like you said what for that they should account for the ones collected earlier (fine, some top officers may be corrupt which is not acceptable) but won't you drive away the fox first before dealing with the fowl.

One should just do what is right and ignore people like you, you can't be satisfied

May God increase your intellect and bless u abundantly. The NSA is a muslim, a scion of the caliphate, the Minister of the defence is a former army General, a muslim from the North, the minister of state for defence is a Muslim, the vice president is a Northern muslim, are we to assume they are in cahoot with Jonathan and the Can president to destroy their region and their religion?

The janjaweedians have seized the narratives once more, so many aspiring Robert Ludlums inundating us with their illogical badly written conspiracy thrillers. same theme, different plots, wonder when they are going to wean themselves off tales by moonlight. FFK has raised valid points that should be put under consideration but as usual, for lack of appropriate response they've resorted to name calling. The main boko sympathisers and sponsors must be laughing their lungs out at the sheer depth of stupidity of most Nigerians, and why not, they've succeeded in taking our eyes off the ball.
Its only in a country like Nigeria revisionist in the north and their southern counterparts would succeed in their stupid attempt at labelling innocent people as terrorist and sponsors of terrorist , even when the truth is self evident and some morons would go along with it. If we are to believe their version of the truth, Jonathan, Oritsejafor, ihejirika are the main sponsors of boko haram, what an asinine supposition. The Northerners created a monster and and at infancy fed it with the blood of xtians and strangers, the monster is fully grown now and has become indiscrimate in its consumption , devouring both friends and enemies

Pervasive delusion, the NSA is a fulani man, scion of the Sokoto caliphate, a staunch muslim. The substantive minister of defence is Notable Northern elite, former chief of army staff/ NSA under Obasanjo. If these guys knows nothing about the arms purchase and they are sure there is a covert operation to destroy the northern muslims, it behoves on them to have resigned and let the public know of the govt sinister activities. The trajectory of this conflict is quite ominous and i hope those deliberately fanning the embers of religious hatred will be around when the sh.t hits the fan. El Rufai and his cohorts are known political opportunist and there only interest is to grab political power no matter how obnoxious the means. We should all try and rally round our security agencies, inspite of their obvious laxity, in defeating this murderous islamic sect.

May God help this country and deliver us from the machinations of these janjaweedians doing all in their powers to obfuscate the real issue of boko haram. wonder who they are going to accuse next as boko sponsors, my guess, Ojukwu, Nzeogwu, Victor Banjo all (all supplying Shekau arms from their graves)

set up, mistaken identity cant be ruled out here. if indeed he committed the crime, too bad. It would be nice to see the evidence against him as there was no eye witness to the crime, if however there is enough evidence to convict him, i pray he rots in jail

lawrsmith: unfortunately no signs of the hilux jeep claim to be recovered, those claimed to have died non of their pictures is uploaded.feed up the whole news

Go to Bama and Michika, you may even be lucky to be employed as a grave digger

ALISMILE: The issue is that trut is now falsehood while falsehood is trut. Nigerians don't want to be realistic. Now anybdy or media that says we are loosing d war is branded a sympathizer of BH.

please don't be naive, propaganda is an integra part of war, times like these require some sense of civic responsibilities from our media houses. Why do you think Youtube, twitter and most of the social media platforms are being cautioned about showing gory images of ISIS decapitations of their western victims? media houses like cnn, BBC etc hardly report any news during wartimes without clearing from pentagon and their Bristish counterpartsk before making it news

there must be police stations in all of these north eastern towns being ransacked by Soldiers of Allah, how come we never read about police men assisting these gallant soldiers in repelling them. if na to force innocent citizen wrongly accused to write dictated statement so they can collect money for bail, they would never be found wanting.
kudos to our gallant men in uniform, death to deluded virgin seekers

seems we've ran out of folklores and na Oyinbo wan re introduce tales by moonlight now for NTA . May fruit bats infested with ebola virus shit on that stupid Australian for trying to sell us albino as a white man, pure water as eva, for trying to package Ruth Benamesia for us Ms Nnaji. US employs water boarding, rendition, sleep deprivation and other extreme and illegal interrogative means to extract the minutest information from Soldiers of Allah in their custody and this fuctard from Australia wants to convince us that the Haramist commanders he spoke with, not pressured by any means , in the comfort of their sanctuary vonlunteered such vital information that could jeopardise their source of funding and scare away other prospective sponsors away.

litetias: I hate Boko Haram for what they stand for. Religious extremity. However I also know that they are much better prepared and armed than the Nigerian Army is. Therefore I do not beleive stories that allege the victory of the army. Does not mean I'm not patriotic, it just means I'm not a child. I also know that alleging victories such as this one will never make us defeat BH. We were once told that BH leader had been killed. All of a sudden he rose from the dead like Jesus. I have never seen a country except Nigeria, where the people want to be lied to. It baffles me.

Can we assume you were once with the army and later switched allegiance , thats the only reason you can assert with so much authority that the boko boys are better trained.

wellmax: Who is deceiving who? And you f00ls on NL are here apportioning blames.
I am not in support of anybody but a supporter of peace and tranquility.
If Bama was not overrun, show us pictures and videos, if not, we will believe those who say it was overrun.
Did I read 15 suspects arrested? show the world their faces or STOP this BULLSHIT

And you are ready to believe those who alleged the town was overrun without holding them to the same standard of proof? smh i need not know you to know where your support lies. sometimes i wonder why people who hate this administration cant distinguish btw grave national challenge and their utter disdain for jonathan. When the shit hit the fan, we the common people and not Jonathan would bear the brunt. what we need now is to rally behind our gallant men in uniform whose sacrifice is the surest guarantee for our safety and cherished values

Opiosko: GEJ rocking till 2019

Opiosko: GEJ rocking till 2019

My humble presido go like doggy style like craze, if nightfall meet them for dat rally that woman positioning her yansh suggestively for hear am

The Pdp govt at the centre has prosecuted/ prosecuting people at the fed level found wanting (although they need to do more in the fight against corruption) however, APC has controlled Lagos state since the since 1999 and not a single councillor , commissioner , house member , LG chairman has been found wanting talk less of being prosecuted, I guess the most upright Nigerians work for the Lagos state govt >