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Franking:
Highway security levy nko?

National Security Levy ni.

Lexusgs430:
What was he thinking about before, when you placed his assent on the bill....... Clueless politrickcians........

What of the national assembly? How did the bill pass through the rigorous process in the national assembly and members of the same national assembly are the ones calling for a suspension of the bill?

ijebosb:
Technically, they didn't need Stormy to testify, but the Prosecution has a good case why her Testimony was necessary. It was a good decision.

1.) Trump's attorney's made a tactical mistake. In opening statements, they argued that Stormy was lying about having sex with Trump. Because they did that, it allowed the Prosecution to go into further details/description of what happened to rehab their witness and prove she wasn't lying. Trump's attorneys could have easily stipulated that they did have Sex and left it there and the Judge wouldn't have agreed to further details coming out. I think the decision was borne of both not having a defense and Trump probably telling them to attack Stormy. He was worried more about the political optics of admitting he slept with a Porn Star while his wife was pregnant than the court case. And it hurt him.

2.) Trump has claimed he didn't know about the payment to Stormy and at the same time if the payment was made it was made for Personal reasons not Political reasons. So, by Stormy telling her story, it allowed the Jury to understand why Trump was so concerned about letting the story come out weeks before the election. Look at the uproar it's caused now.. imagine if it was right after the "pussy grabber" tape was released. So, her details bolstered their case - He paid her off to hide it for political reasons.

That's what MAGA members would never understand. Since Trump and his defense insist that no sex took place, it became imperative for the prosecution to prove that sex indeed took place. And to prove sex did take place, stormy Daniel would need to provide the circumstances that led to the sex and even details of the sex itself. I was even expecting her to give us the exact shape and size of his Dìck.

The defense played into the hands of the prosecution.

bemeruca:
How does proving sex have anything to do with the falsified document charge?
The charge is not about hush money, trump is not disputing paying stormy. Please keep up. Must you feed on any BS as long as its against trump?

Why did Trump pay the hush money since he kept insisting he never has sex with the woman? And why was the documents falsified to cover up the payments.

I know Trump is your role model. I would never let someone that holds trump as a role model near my daughter or even any member of my family.

bemeruca:
You sound like you have been living under the rock. He has been stripped off his royal duties. In fact, he rejected it. He is here for the camera but you choose to live under a rock.

You seem to be very hateful person, you just hate for no reason.
Prince Harry was never stripped of his royal duties, he took permission from Queen Elizabeth II that he wants to quit working as a royal, because he was tired of the intense scrutiny of his private life and the intense criticism of his wife by the British press, and the hostility from other members of the Royal family, and also because he want to relocate to the US with his wife to live a quiet life.

Whenever he travels back to the UK, he is still treated as a royal.

He travelled to the UK three days ago for a thanksgiving service for the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games and he was well received by the London crowd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIkAtCpJty8?si=YBj7z-HoW41hG0H1
Harry's problems are with the British press and the Royal family. Their main grouse is him marrying a divorced black American. This reminded the Royal family of the scandal their great uncle King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne in 1939 to marry an American divorcee. I don't think the British royal family has not gotten over that trauma.

Vulcan24:
He's on his own

He is not. Did you not see many British officials following him everywhere he went?

DonroxyII:
I thought he was expelled by them because he wanna be with Markle !

Please read up on an issue before commenting.
He was never expelled. He voluntarily asked the Queen for permission to stop working as a royal.

bemeruca:
That's old. Why bring that when it is not relevant to the case? If you are in a court for armed falsifying documents, how does a bathroom talk you had decades ago connect with it?

How does all this you mentioned connect with the document even if Eugene Carol did not actually prove he raped her according to the jury?

What evidence did she show to prove sexual assault? But again, how is that connected to this case?

In the case of Stormy Daniel (and Karen Mcdougal), it was important that the prosecution prove thar sex (consensual) did take place. Because Trump has been lying (as usual) that he never met that woman. If no sex took place, then it would be difficult convincing the jury that the women needed to be hushed in the first place. It then becomes an extortion or blackmail. So the prosecution need to provide the reason why the women needed to be hushed.
Next they would then need to provide evidence of how the money was paid, and how it was covered up as campaign expenses.
The only way Trump can escape is to feign ignorance. Saying he was not aware that the payments was for hushing up the women or that he was not aware that the accountant made the mistake of putting the money under campaign expenses.

bemeruca:
The ruling monarch can be stripped, abolished or replaced. King seized being king and his family becomes ordinary citizens. The you will go from he is a prince to he was a prince. Whether he was born a prince will not matter anymore.

Who has the power to do that? In the UK, the parliament can make a constitutional change, a public referendum can change that too. So this your he was born a prince therefore he is a prince forever is highly too simplistic.

We are not talking of a hypothetical case. In a hypothetical scenario, anything can happen. A nuclear bomb can be dropped and wipe out England or UK tomorrow. We are discussing reality on the ground right now.

bemeruca:
Her testimony was irrelevant to the case. They are just trying to make trump look bad. The defence brought this and the partisan judge still brought her in. Her testimony or cross examination was a disaster to the prosecution but we are in New York.

At the end of the day trump will appeal. This is just to keep him from campaigning.

Trying to make Trump look bad?
Trump does not look bad, he prides himself in being bad. He "grabs em by the pusay", he is liable for raping Eugene Carrol, he is being accused of by 2 dozen women of rape/sexual molestation , he bleeped a IndecentStar raw just a few weeks after his wife gave birth, he had a one year affair with Karen Mcdougal, a playboy model, less than one year after getting married to Melania.

sonofsteven:
I no even understand

Why you go just enter naija to come dey visit soldiers and shake hands,take pictures and go

Because he is the organizer of the Invictus Games, a kind of Olympics for injured soldiers around the world. The games have become very popular in the 10 years since Prince Harry has been organising the games. He is considering hosting the next edition in Nigeria.

bemeruca:
What's the point of a prince that cannot represent his kingdom? He does not have any official capacity. That's the important thing here.

Which is why Nigeria is wasting its time with a fake prince. He is a prince, but a prince of nothing. Not a prince of England, Sussex or the United States.

He is first an foremost a prince by virtue of being a son of the ruling monarch of England. Secondly, he is the Duke of Sussex a title conferred upon him by Queen Elizabeth II. He had not be stripped of that title.
I was just reading on Quora that even the King does not have the powers to strip him off that title.

So even if he choose not to be a working royal, he is still treated as a Prince and the Duke of Sussex anywhere he travels to in the world.

bemeruca:
This is a simple Google search

Same thing I was saying, Titles can be stripped, but with or without a title, the son of the king/queen is a prince.

bemeruca:
He was born a prince, so he can be a king? He wasn't born a king right? Don't you think prince is a title and titles can be stripped? This is why I am asking for your common sense.

Yes, technically he can still be king. He is fifth in line to the throne. If anything should happen to king Charles, Prince William and his three children, he becomes automatically next in line unless of course he chooses to abdicate the throne then his sone Prince Archie becomes next in line.

Yes his title of Prince of Sussex can be stripped, but his title of Prince cannot be stripped. He was called Prince Harry the day he was born even before he was given prince of Sussex by Queen Elizabeth.

Ubanz:
There are certain comments you don't need to respond. There's lot of mental health problems in the land.
If not for poor mental health, how can anyone be exited on his ancestors slave master's visit.

As Prince Harry said, we all have our own mental health issues, it's just that some choose to display it here and on social media.

It's not about poor mental health, it's more about colonial mentality. We have been completely subsumed by our colonial master in terms of culture, language, religion and way of life. So you can blame us for admiring them.

bemeruca:
Yes, just as he became a prince n can be a king, he can be a normal citizen as titles can be stripped. Do you not have common sense?

Display some maturity and quit spewing insults on mundane issues.
He did not become a prince, he was born a prince. He had been called a prince since the day he was born. He could be conferred with any other title the king chooses, but that cannot strip him of his princeship.

DonroxyII:
That's why he left the Brits Royal .. He Couldn't handled the Politics Therein

Our Politicians dey try same as most leaders .. You have to make Decisions that can even be against Your own Tolerance for Wickedness & Decisions That would compromise Your Humanities

But You still have to be There & Hold Yourself together or Fvcked Up Then Get yourself Killed While Your Heritage Might Never Accessed Powers Again Due to Immaturities & Holiest Than You Attitudes....

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It's gonna be Owkay, but No be By Rush !

He never left the British royals, he is a British royal by birth and not by appointment. He only stepped back from royal duties. He can decide to start royal duties in future. He is still a British royal as his father is the king.

ceejay80s:
Fhe is no longer a prince so why these eye service headlines.....

What do you meanby "he is no longer a prince"? Can a real Prince be "de-princed".

Christlike01:
Chinedu,you should be concerned about what's going on in Ebonyi! What's it with you guys from that tiny enclave and Lagos actually ? This senseless obsession with Lagos often makes all of you Igbo look so stupid!

Says someone that left his village in Ogun state or Ekiti and started claiming Lagos.
For your info, I am not Igbo. I am from delta state bit closely related to Yoruba.

You guys from Ekiti villages are so obsessed with igbo.

Lanrelagboi:
See pictures of the fake news

Lanrelagboi:
Actual pictures of Eric Moore Junior High School, Surulere

From the pictures you posted, the job looks scanty and substandard. Why not show details pictures of the classrooms including furniture. From the pictures posted, it seems the whole school is a block consisting of 2 or 3 classroom blocks. Is this all the Lagos State Government can show for its N20 billion monthly IGR?

ElevationD:
LP finally is obviously the opposition party, with Obi as the opposition leader.

That's how democracy is supposed to work, you have the government and you have the opposition party that scrutinises and criticises government policies. Without an opposition party, its no longer democracy.
Wike's PDP has become a faction of APC, so only Peter Obi's Labour Party can provide any meaningful opposition.

I have been searching online for this so called CYBERCRIMES (PROHIBITION, PREVENTION, ETC) ACT that permits Ribabu to order CBN and the banks to start collecting cybersecurity levy. I was only able to find the 2015 act, but the circular from CBN made reference to the CYBERCRIMES (PROHIBITION, PREVENTION, ETC) ACT, 2024. I was not aware that a new cybercrime act was passed by the national assembly and assented by the president this year. When was the act passed?

Here is the link to the 2015 act - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.nfiu.gov.ng/images/Downloads/downloads/cybercrime.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi589_-4f2FAxVIQ0EAHU-WDgwQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3YfiHSl8fhfMM1iMjwPwn9
In it I found nothing in reference to a cybersecurity levy, not to talk of it being paid to the office of the national security adviser.

I am pleading with Tinubu's media people here to furnish us with the updated act so we can confirm things for ourselves. Nigeria is still a democracy and not a dictatorship, everything action of government must be backed by law.

WantsandMore:
Just because government creates policy doesn't mean they can always assume alpha and omega and drown every policies down our throat. Democracy allows for feedback mechanism. The government and the citizens aren't both static.

This is what you get when the people have been beaten to submission. The people have become so week and docile that the governments both federal and state can get away with anything. The government don't even need laws to govern anymore, they can just be spewing directives like decrees. The tolerance level of the Nigerian is truly infinitely elastic.

Why is Tinubu taxing only digital transactions, he should go the whole hog and tax all transactions- both digital and physical, or is Ribabu telling us physical movement of cash is more secure than digital ones? Physical cash too needs to be secure to avoid theft from bank officials and armed robbers.
We should be paying physical security levy also to the banks to enable them secure the movement of cash between the banks and between the banks and CBN.

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ijebosb:
I mean who amongst us hasn't been thinking of their daughter while banging a prostitute raw? He's just an everyday regular guy.. lol (that was sarcasm)

It's wild. Trump is lucky that this wasn't televised.
And he was signing the hush money checks from the White House.
This is the Christian Rights standard bearer.

With republican values.

budaatum:
I must wonder if Mechan has the balls. He so doesn't want to have to be made to jail dump but he's not being given much choice.

That's exactly what Trump wants. He is trying to push the judge to jail him, so he can continue his narrative of persecution and claim political prisoner. He will also claim street credibility among blacks and further claim to be comparable to Martin Luther King.

RenaissanceGuy:
When will Nigeria organize a Nigeria-North America Business Summit?? Africa should arise from these ashes of chasing after foreign investment and learn to build our country ourselves.

The US is late to the party. It was Xi Jinping's idea to periodically organize China - Africa summit, where China can do business with Africa as a whole. Putin followed suit by to get a slice of the action by organising a Russia -Africa summit. Biden is coming in late in the day, after all the spoils must have been shared. I wonder what the US can now offer Africa outside Democracy, aids and LGBTQ.

bemeruca:
Biden was leading in the polls. Trump was constantly talking about the silent majority, the left in Fear of Trump winning wanted to burn down the United States. Prominent democrats like Hillary wants war if Trump wins by saying Biden should not even concede. The fact that you people see things only one way is sad.

The polls were all over the place depending on when and where it was conducted, and who conducted the polls. That is the same situation now. Then you guys were so sure that Trump would win because of large turn out at rallies and Biden choosing to do more of online campaigns. You guys even labelled Biden as hiding in his basement. Some of you guys boasted here that Biden can never win Trump. You touted the very same propaganda you have started pushing again - Burisma, hair sniffing, child molestation, dementia, old age, border invasion, and lots of other rubbish.
At the end Trump will lose, you guys will scream rigged elections once again. The difference is that if you guys attempt to stop the certification of results using violence instead of legal means, many more MAGA lives will lost.

sanpipita:
It's a common strategy to boost enthusiasm of their voters and make them think they have the numbers, American media are also in complicit they do this always maybe to help create buzz, i remember how they predicted doom for democrats in mid terms, democrats should just ensure they hold the line and go out and vote.h

Trump's strategy goes beyond boosting enthusiasm, he and right wing media are prepping their base not to accept any result unless Trump won. This same strategy is used to undermine the credibility of all US institutions - all government agencies, particularly the security agencies, the media. Even the judiciary, any judgement against Trump is corrupt, but judgements in his favour is fair.
Any polls that shows Biden ahead is faulty or manipulated, but those that shows him ahead in indicative of his popularity and assurance of winning the elections.

bemeruca:
You are lying. 2015 Hillary was ahead in the polls and she lost, 2020 Biden was ahead in the polls and he won. Why do you lies so much?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exkF-wIs8U8

My error, I meant to say 2020. I was very busy and somehow distracted while writing that post that I made an error. You should have noticed that I was referring to Biden throughout and never mentioned Hillary Clinton.

Obrigardo:
There's this porn addict cum hard drug user who always quotes me when criminal trump gets a bump in these "artificial" polls.

I really don't know why deranged maga cultists think polls will be their savior, when these same polls have never saved them since 2018 till date, amirite basilico loco?

Polls flunctuate like gas prices every now and then, what matters is massive voting which the republiqans are trying every bit to stifle.

This is the same MAGA strategy they employed in 2015 2020. The use dubious and bias polls to overwhelmingly put Trump ahead in the polls, and at the same time plant doubts on the sanity, health and ability of Biden for the office of the president. By election day, they would say Trump is so popular and Biden so unpopular that the only way Trump can lose is by Biden cheating. Of course MAGA would swallow this hook, line and sinker. If Biden does win, Trump would then scream rigging and election irregularities, and urge his MAGA cult movement to violence in order to take back the country.
They are just laying the ground work for another attempted coup.

gidgiddy:
So with all you have written, it is now crystal clear that Ironsi did not abolish the 4 Region's Nigeria had, nor deny them resource control. It is now left for you people to go and find out at what point resource control disappeared after the 4 Region's also disappeared

You have been desperately trying to convince others that it was your arch enemy Gowon that abolish regionalism in Nigeria and not your hero Ironsi. You have not even been able to convince yourself talk much less of others.

Read the opening paragraph of General Ironsi's decree 34 (very slowly so that the brains will have enough time to decipher its meaning).

Decree 34 of 1966 opening paragraph -

Subject to the provisions of this Decree, Nigeria shall on 24th May 1966 (in this decree referred to as ‘the appointed day’) cease to be a Federation and shall accordingly as from that day be a Republic, by the name of the Republic of Nigeria, consisting of the whole of the territory which immediately before that day was comprised in the Federation.

The main difference between a Federation and a simple republic is in the autonomy of the constituent parts. A republic is a country belonging to the people, whereas a federation is a form of government where by regional divisions are not branches of the central government. Thus, a federal republic has power divisions and regional governments fall under the power domain of the national government.

I honestly don't understand how someone will be arguing about something that's written in black and white with no ambiguity.