₦airaland Forum

fergie001:
If a Governor is impeached for example, rightly or wrongly, then a new Governor is sworn-in....

When that impeached Governor approaches the Court, he doesn't file the suit as Governor... No

For example: When Peter Obi was impeached, he approached the Court to challenge that, as Mr. Peter Obi v Balonwu & Ors

When Governor Ladoja was impeached, he approached the Court as Mr Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja.

So for all intents and purposes, Fubara as Governor is suspended and cannot approach any law Court, as Governor of Rivers State. That is not to say it is right or wrong. For me Luke I have always held, suspending elected officials is very unconstitutional.

What a lot of us are saying is that a governor just like the president cannot be suspended. Removal of a governor from office is covered under section 188 and 189 of the Nigerian constitution, anything other than that is an illegality, its akin to a coup. The supreme court should not be entertaining an usurper. The is no provision for a sole administrator in the constitution. It only talks about governor.

fergie001:
I have read that 2006 judgement, Fubara does not have the locus because by law, he isn't signing the cheque in Rivers.

However, any Governor can proceed to the Supreme Court to test its constitutionality and join both Fubara & the new administrator as parties to the suit.

I made same observation here earlier...
https://www.nairaland.com/8373114/rivers-national-assembly-duly-consulted/2#134605407

In reading the constitution, does the term sole administrator appear any where therein? Does a sole administrator have the locus to be signing checks? Are the civil service and commissioners now to take orders from the sole administrator or the administrator is to administer solely?

AMI3:
People get mind oo to even cut the power cable.

No wander we have not been getting light in our area

People cut 330,000volts transmission line? You cannot even get 10m close to it before being electrocuted.

Read the report, the line snapped on its own. If there was power on the line when the line snapped, everything closer than 25m would be electrocuted. That's why they tell you to observe a 25m setback to a transmission line.

CodeTemplar:
I hope no gadgets too inside because they can explodes or start a fire if faulty.

Exactly. Phone dey explode? A/C compressor dey explode, even generator dey catch fire. That means say we no go use electricity for landlord house.
Even sef candle or kerosene lamp dey catch fire.

Rhassidy360:
Otiyaware si jesu lorun

Read Ephesians 9:5

There is no hell (and heaven), these concept were invented by the Roman catholic church to scare the poor masses into accepting exploitation by the rulers and their conniving priests.

According to Ecclesiastes 9:5;
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten"

Engr. Dr. Saturday Genuine Ebigenibo, an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Port Harcourt, has responded to misleading claims regarding the performance of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) sourced from different filling stations. He urged Nigerians to disregard the rumor that PMS from one station may burn slower or perform better than that from another.

Imagine a professor of Thermofluid engineering making such ridiculous statement. Different grades of PMS burns at different rates depending on its blending. Those with higher ethanol content will of course burn faster than those with lower or no ethanol content.

Instead of the professor to conduct his own experiments to counter the one made by the other guy, he is just making unsubstantiated statements. Professor indeed.

zero8zero:
She controls all the market in the country, it was the position she inherited from her late grandma. There's no news here at all. Even the Oba approved the appointment at the request of Shade Tinubu, case closed.

False. Her late grandma was not the Head of all markets in Nigeria, she was not even the Head of all markets in Lagos. She only controlled markets in Lagos, by Lagos I mean lagos Island. Alhaja Abibat Mogaji did not control markets in Ikorodu, Epe or badagry. Markets are under the control of the local government and the Oba/King/Obi of that local government. That Tinubu's daughter is controlling all the markets in lagos is a gross abuse of power.

MufasaLion:
Adding "the First Daughter of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)." in the letter is so irrelevant. We don't need that information. Your position as the market leader is enough to get the attention of the king.

Market leader of where? Is it marker leader of Lagos, market leader of Edo or market leader of Kano.
I had thought markets are under the control and responsibility of local governments? So which one condern Iya oloja of lagos with Benin markets?

phemmyfour:
I don't pay tithe

You also didn't donate to VDM

phemmyfour:
Scammer
No statement of account of what was spent and what's left. Believe him at your own peril

Do daddy GOs you pay your tithes and offerings yo present you with statement of account?

ClearFlair:
Third semester?

Shouldn't it be third trimester?

MrIcredible:
Teaching that to your sisters and daughters.

How would you like to walk your daughters down the aisle?
As a virgin or a Whørēs?

Virgin or where, doesn't matter. Even in the bible numerous where became heroines and received the blessings and approval of Yawweh. God never punished any man or woman in the bible due to fornication.
Elevating a girls virginity to a religious doctrine is only a massage of fragile male ego. Many men feels intimidated knowing some else has passed through the eye of the needle and rendered it wide than a canal.

nelsonose:
I do not agree that the use of AI is plagiarism. AI is a tool, just like calculator, Autocad software, and others that aids learning and research.
The African mind, regrettably is laced with hard life, "Suffer" that is the reason anything that tend to bring ease to humanity is rebuffed and criticized.
Years back, to earn a University first class degree was a mirage but today the story has changed yet we condemn AI.

That's because our colonial mindset sees education as "cram and regurgitate" words and sentences written by others. With the advent of AI, you could get any information at your finger tips at any time. It renders craming and remembering obsolete. The new educational philosophy is problem solving. It trains you to use information acquired directly or through AI to solve complex problems.

Bibleteacher:
You better obey 😁. You must be virgin self .

Sex is one of greatest sin that attracts death according to Bible :

But if this charge is true (that she wasn’t a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father’s house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)

🚶‍♂️

So why have Christians (and jews) that follow the Bible (old testament that is) not been obeying this divine instruction and be stoning their daughters, sisters and other female family members to death? Why pick and choose which biblical injunctions to follow?

Barrywilly:
Ai written essays or academic writings are very easy to detect. It produces the same line of thoughts without referred sources. Also, the absence of human reasoning and thoughts is a giveaway. Ai can only work for a take home assignments. Turnitin is also a game changer as it will detect all these.

Not exactly true. It depends on the prompts used in generating the AI responses. With correct and innovative prompts your can generate unique responses tailored specifically to meet your style and needs. It's only lazy students using similar or basic prompts that will get similar responses. That's why people should take prompt engineering more seriously if they intend to master AI.
Besides there are other AI models, most people don't explore beyond ChatGPT.

stanluiz:
How did the ijaws refuse and stop the project ?

So you are saying that ijaws are now powerful to stop a FG project ?

I need explanation on how ijaws stop the project.

Read these reports to get some historical education on the subject;
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2001/11/05/irin-focus-plans-dredge-major-rivers

https://allafrica.com/stories/200305200738.html

https://www.nairaland.com/271718/ijaws-oppose-river-niger-dredging

emmanuel596:
As it should be...a decent person would have even slapped him or gave him a serious warning

In the US you could actually end up in jail for that kind of "adjustment". Trump did not do that much "adjustment" to E. Jean Carroll to be liable for 88 million dollar damages.

greenermodels:
within yourself, you should know that lack of political will/deliberate actions is what is holding back other ports in Nigeria (including other ports in the southwest and the northern Baro Port in Niger state) Lagos residents are suffocating under the over concentration of port activities in the state,the only people benefitting from the revenue are the political class,a president from Ogun, Delta,Edo,Always Ibom, Rivers etc would make it a priority to make ports in his home state or region operational. The colonial masters had ports in every part of Nigeria, there's nothing special about Lagos ports.

I speak from a position of knowledge and not of speculation or emotions. I am from Warri, my village is 20mins away from Koko port.
Inland ports are very difficult to maintain, that is if you intend it to ferry huge cargo ships and ocean liners. You have to constantly drag to ensure the river is navigable by big ships. Apapa is a natural harbour that requires very little dredging, that's why the FG sited two ports there.
Then there is the problem of restlessness of the tribes along the river leading up to the inland ports. They have to give you permission to dredge and allow passage of ships through their water ways. Abacha attempted to dreg the
River Niger all the way to Onitsha. The Ijaws refused and stopped the project.

MasterJayJay:
Na olodo go believe Oyo generated more than SE. Jmoore clearly explained that the stat is wrong. Do you even understand the meaning of point of sale?

Pathetic to see so much ignorant people spewing rubbish.

If the statistics is wrong, why has the governors of the south Eastern states not provided their own statistics?

greenermodels:
Very correct, under a neutral president, even Lagos domination of shipping and airport activities would collapse.

What do you mean "under a neutral president, even Lagos domination of shipping and airport activities would collapse"?. Are you insinuating that the Portuguese and British that sited Lagos as the main shipping port into what is now known as Nigeria were un-neutral. Maybe the Azikiwe-Tafa Belewa government of 1960 were un-neutral as they did not move the main sea port from Lagos.
Lagos has numerous advantages for seaport over all other ports in Nigeria. It's faces the Atlantic directly. It requires little or no dredging to keep it navigable. It is the nearest Nigerian port to Europe and the Americas (where until recently were our biggest trading partners).
I am not saying we should not expand and upgrade other ports including the Onitsha port, but knowing how lazy and corrupt our government officials are, they just can't be bothered to do the wahala.

blueAgent:
I hope you blacks and poor whites where not counted as citizens in US during the early days of independence?

I honestly don't understand what you are getting at. It was the 14th amendment that granted children of slaves citizenship rights and therefore the right vote.

TWoods:
Spend more time reading the Senate records when the bill was being passed. It does mention foreigners. In fact, those records are where we learn that children of diplomats do not obtain birthright citizenship. This case will turn on the original intent of the writers of the amendment, not the amendment itself.

Why not post exerpts from the Senate records so we can understand what you are talking about.

Did the bill (or the eventual amendment itself) differentiate between children after foreigners and children of citizens when granting birthright citizenship?
Children of Diplomats born outside of the US was not mentioned in the 14th amendment, those were later additions or interpretations.

Always referring to the original intent of the constitution writers instead of the texts and substance of the constitution itself is disingenuous. How can you determine the intent of 13 men that died over two and a half centuries ago, unless expressly written down. This means the constitution is very fluid and therefore useless.

The legal fireworks has began

Calitoscassius:
I agree. i guess abolishing birthright is within Trump's executive orders power to abolish hence his action.

Then you guess any other constitutional rights is within Trump's executive orders to abolish.

Calitoscassius:
Well... Every Countries constitution can be re written including the US. If it appears the true reason for the previous constitution is been abused. The Democrats want the same but they want Trump to be blamed for stopping birthright citizeship in America.

Then let the US constitution be rewritten to abolish birthright citizenship. Till then any executive order or act abolishing birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.

Calitoscassius:
Long overdue. The British banned that scam many years ago. Pregnant women from Africa risk their lives just to come to the UK and dump their babies in the care system. When they become 15, 17 or 18 years old they become drug dealers, stabbing and shooting themselves.

US constitution is quite different from UK constitution. UK is a constitutional monarchy while US touts itself as a democracy built on the shoulders of immigrants and slaves. Birthright citizenship was not enshrined in UK's unwritten conconstitution, it was a major pillar of US constitution. Most US citizens from inception except a few that became citizens by naturalisation, obtained their citizenship through Birthright.

TWoods:
Neither is the child of an illegal alien in the constitution. At stake is whether the 14th amendment should be applied to them or not. The court has argued the case before... it isn't new.

The 14th ammendments never talked about aliens or parents, it expressly mentioned birth, and naturalisation. The 14th ammendment only recognised citizenship through birth or naturalisation. Naturalisation is under the control of the executive, birth is not.

OneOnland:
Presidential system of government is shitty. One man makes decisions that are important, often based on their whims and biases without subjecting it to representative's debates or their millions of citizen's opinion. Presidential system of government is shitty, nonsensical and more like demi-god-ness over citizenry.

It's not necessarily about the presidential system per se, it's more about trying to replace the monarchical form of government with something similar but gives limited powers to the people. It's more like the Animal Farm scenario whereby you replace one set of oppressors with a different set, but thus time the new oppressors are your own people.
The US is having pre 18th century nostalgia, where you have an all powerful king issuing decrees and orders to citizens.

TWoods:
You're viewing this from the lens of 2024. It's not the first time this case has come to the Supreme Court and in fact, the 1899 Wong Art Kim ruling is how we understand the 14th amendment today. If the court could overturn Roe v. Wade, they can overturn Wong's ruling.

Roe V Wade was not a constitutional issue, abortion rights is not stated in the constitution. In fact the main reason the Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade was that it was not backed up by any legislative law, and advised that it should be taking to Congress to make it law.

TWoods:
That same court essentially made the president a king and agreed he could kill his political enemy and get away with it, as long as he says it was in the national interest. We all said they would not overthrow Roe v. Wade... and here we are. You vastly overestimate this court.

What you'll find is justices reverting to what the framers intended, not the most liberal interpretation of that phrase in 2024. If they went that direction, the EO likely stands. The best way to reverse the EO is to have no one challenge it for 4 years, and how a Dem wins in 2028.

I beg to differ. I believe executive orders that impinge on the very fabric of the US constitution should be challenged at the supreme court. If not the executive would get bolder and bolder and issue executive orders eroding the very fabric of the US democracy, and in 4 years, might refuse to leave. Challenging it all the way to the supreme court will take time and energy, and keep trump and his team too busy from doing too much damage to the constitution in 4 years.

Let me add.
I believe the supreme court would not be bold enough to jettison birthright citizenship and would refer the matter back to Congress. It will then get stuck in Congress until Trump leaves as republicans would need a 3/4 majority to change the constitution.

GiZcorp:
Shut up! You asked a question instead of stopping there you decided to go ahead and disgrace yourself

I don't respond to shallow people who resort to personal insults when debating public matters online with strangers.