₦airaland Forum

leofab:
you are very foolish to insinuate this,/' talking from experience ; I know how much I spent on diesel everyday to power one dredger and have not even dredged up to 100 SqM for almost two years now.. no to talk to dredging from Ajakota to Onitsha.. or he meant 100M to drive the dredgers from Ajokuta to Onitsha? Do you even know how dredging works?

You type rubbish and still get likes? wonderment.

Which experience are you talking about? do you know what 100square metres is? That is a 10m by 10 metres piece of land. A plot of land in Lagos is 648sqm. You spent two years to dredge 100sqm?

To much ignorance on this forum.

hokafor:
Amaechi forget story, good luck maybe crook but how can u possibly dredge riverniger with 100million? Have u started campaigning for 2019? Nigerians are wiser now, change format.

Amaechi already stated the how in the article, but if you have problems reading and comprehending English language, get an interpreter to interpret in your local dialect.
Here is how amaechi said he would dredge the River Niger with N100 million;

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“The NIWA MD told me the agency has dredgers, but it’s been hired out to somebody in Port Harcourt. So, we had dredgers, but the previous administration hired them out to some persons in Port Harcourt while paying a contractor billions of naira to use privately owned dredgers at a very high cost.

“I told the NIWA MD that I will look for money to fuel their dredgers, and work has started. That is why we are dredging the River Niger with just N100 million,” Mr. Amaechi said

Flyingngel:
wirinet post:
You want the Oil Companies to relocate to a region where their staffs are likely to be Kidnapped for ransom, their infrastructures are likely to be bombs and Youths always extorting money from them at will?

A business concerns makes decisions based on Security, Profit and ease of doing business. Provide a secure environment and the companies will fall over themselves to relocate.





Guy this your comment is very regrettable. You mean that the oil fields are located in Lagos or Abuja? Or the oil field here is being drill by robots which is impossible to be kidnapp or kill by militants? If they can drill oil here and sell it without their platform being bomb, then i see no reason why they shld not relocate to the state that the oil is gotten from.
I knw you are not from Niger Delta.

I am from an oil producing area in Warri. I know first hand the issues of oil production and associated environmental and social problems. Most people claiming "our oil" have never seen a drop of crude oil or an oil sleek.

oruma19:
I would not have answered u but I just feel I should remind u that when hausas bring up anoda pattern to oppress u from the West, nobody should complain. Nigeria is a country full of deceivers and hypocrites. I don't think Yorubas with allow anyone locate the hq of any company whose original source of business is in Yoruba soil. Nigeria is not one. We need to go our separate ways.

Bone that thing. As long as Nigeria is one country, you cannot force any country to locate its office anywhere it does not want to. If a shipping company wants to locate its office in Sokoto, that is its prerogative. It is Security, Costs and ease of business that determines where a company decides to locate its offices.

Nearness to source of raw material is an economic principle and not a political one.

Ekinematics:
You just like writing without thinking.
Compare the rate of kidnap in the west to Niger Delta, before you rush to post without proper reasoning.

And you are thinking without writing.
Compare how many foreigners that have ever been kidnapped in the west (Lagos especially) and those that ever been kidnapped in the Nigerdelta.

Look at the two pictures below of Mark Zukerberg and Richard Quest jogging on the streets of Lagos, can they try such any where in the Nigerdelta? Do you know the publicity value of such pictures?

ICEFLAME419ja:
When there's kidnappings and all you mentioned gets down, can't you use your head to know that it's because there's no development there? When you suck niger delta oil you use it to love-vendor the other states, don't even start saying the oil states are the highest paid, answer this out of all the oil blocks in Nigeria is it not true that 95% are owned by North andAss? Or abi them no dey follow kidnap for FCT, shift abeg

The bolded is a lie.Nigerians owns 52% of allocated oil blocks in Nigeria while foreigners owns the remaining 48. Over 55% of oil blocks in Nigeria are yet to be allocated.However this statistics can be very misleading, Nigerian companies contribute about 6% to Nigeria's oil production, International Oil Companies contribute 95% of Nigeria's total crude production. If Northerners owns 95% of oil blocks in Nigeria why are you people so fixated on International oil companies relocating their headquarters to the Nigerdelta, your anger should be directed at oil companies owned by northerners.

The Director, DPR, Mr. Osten Olorunshola, who made the clarification last week in Lagos, said, “The Federal Government does not allocate oil blocks and marginal fields to individuals and corporations based on region or where they come from. So, DPR does not ask if an individual is from the North or South when allocating the fields.” Ownership controversies Pressed further, on which region owned more of Nigeria’s oil assets, Olorunshola, who spoke at the launch of the Nigeria Oil and Gas, NOG Intelligence, a weekly print and online industry newsletter, insisted that “The DPR has no records of 83 per cent Northern ownership of oil blocks anywhere.” According to him, Nigerians currently own 52 per cent of the country’s 173 active oil blocs, while foreign oil companies own 48 per cent. He added that of the total of 388 oil blocks in the country, only 173 of them have been awarded to individuals and corporations, while 215 blocks were yet to be awarded. Broken further, of the 173 so far awarded, Nigerians owned 90 blocks while foreigners owned 83 blocks. He, however, lamented that all the 90 blocks awarded to indigenous players account for only six per cent of the country’s total crude oil production, while the 83 awarded to foreign oil companies account for 94 per cent of the total output.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/how-we-award-oil-blocks-fg/

Is it the oil companies that suck Nigerdelta oil and use it to love-vendor other states? It is your governments - Federal, State and local, that is responsible for the development of their people. The oil companies came to do business and their main motivation is profit. It is the governments that allows the oil companies to get away with all the rubbish they do in Nigeria. Learn to hold your government responsible instead of exonerating them of any responsibility. I have not been told that the oil companies are not paying their dues.

I am not defending the oil companies because i believe they are complicit in the problems of the oil producing area, what i am saying is that our people, including the kings, community leaders and the youths have more responsibility in the underdevelopment of the oil producing areas.

dadavivo:
then they should remove all their pipelines from the unsafe region and take it to where their headquarters is that is safe. APC government think they are wise, they're just buying time for the bigger fight that will soon start in the Creeks

The oil companies did not locate or relocate their headquarters from the oil producing area under APC government, most have had their headquarters in Lagos for decades. Mobil, elf and Chevron have always had their headquarters in Lagos.

naptu2:
That's primarily the jurisdiction of the SSS, not the NIA.

Not exactly correct, especially concerning Book Haram. Book Haram has the backing and sponsorship of foreign organizations. It claims affiliation to ISIS, and lots of its fighters are foreigners.
Boko Haram concerns NIA as much as SSS.

You want the Oil Companies to relocate to a region where their staffs are likely to be Kidnapped for ransom, their infrastructures are likely to be bombs and Youths always extorting money from them at will?

A business concerns makes decisions based on Security, Profit and ease of doing business. Provide a secure environment and the companies will fall over themselves to relocate.

denko:
His only crime against the arab was his religion

False. I hate playing the religious card to cover up for taking responsibility for your errors and mistakes.

Why was Obasanjo's crime not his religion for the 8years he ruled Nigeria?

What was his crime against Chad, Niger and Cameroon? They accused him of not cooperating with them on Boko Haram. What was his crime against South Africa?

ucheo:
Forces against GEJ was too much..starting from being a minority, taken up leadership during the turn of Northerners, back stabbing, not being a former General, weak enforcement of laws, chibok saga...etc

Not true. These same forces were there when he won overwhelmingly in 2011, despite being a minority and not being a former general. He was weak in managing corruption and the fight against Boko Haram. Another major contribution to his election loss were the incendiary and inciting statements from his core supporters including his wife, his tribesmen and his party. They were blackmailing Nigeria and promised to cause mayhem if Jonathan was not reelected.

denko:
Stealing is actually not corruption, but we are too lazy to read. corruption encompass all vices including stealing. they are not equal

In one sentence, you are making a contradictory statement. You said stealing is not corruption and then said corruption includes stealing.

This statement (including "how much did Jim Nwobodo stole" and his non nonchalant attitude towards the Chibok girls cost him international support. Jonathan was not in good terms with our neighbours, the Arab world and the west, even the hugely corrupt South African government did not want to have anything to do with the Jonathan administration.

Billyonaire:
Science is always looking for a fancy name to call the beginning. Big bang really isnt the name I will like to call the expansion from the Singularity. But since that is the name Science puts it, I will adapt it, but my research goes has gone to what happened before the so-called Big Bang.

You ask how I come to know these ?

I went back in time, and Observed how it all began. I am a God-Realized Entity. I am Man.

Oga billy, did you enter the akashic records? Are you able to enter at will? That was my goal when I was into spiritual stuffs back in the day.

felaismyhero:
actually,im wit u on dis.they knew it was xtian skul before going there.and every organisation has rules,that wud have been since its inception,so if u dnt like,u take oda alternatives.but bros,why do u have to be so mean and harsh?,i dont see how he deserved that.

Are you people deaf (blind) or simply unable to comprehend written English; Covenant University is not a Christian school, it is a Nigerian university owned and run by a Christian organization.

enairaprof:
OP, are you one of the suspended students? If NO, why take a pill for another man's head ache? If yes, are you not aware if the core values of the institution before accepting the offer?

If you are pained, please go to government owned university where you won't attend even classes and nobody will disturb you. Worst is that you won't write the exam. Have you heard about SIM CARD? Thats the core values of covenant university. Stop ranting.

Is it the Nigerian constitution that pays their bill or equip their laboratories? Is it the Nigerian govt that brought to Nobel Laureate to come and teach in the school?

If you cannot change it, change yourself for it.

I'm a graduate from a federal university so don't think I'm support CU because I'm one of them.

Anyone that is pained should go and set up his own institution and allow students to do as they like?

Please state the private university you attended and course of study, so I can gauge your level of reasoning, because you talk like someone who attended more fellowships than lectures.
You are talking as if CU is a charitable organization like living Faith church and that the students are not paying for the services being offered by CU.

awoluyi:
Reading through the legal submission I am tempted to believe and to say that it is an error on the part of government to have approved establishment of religion-based institutions. The implication of this is the assumption that any student admitted to a faith-based institution belongs to that particular faith and the student has no choice than to obey the rules and regulations of the school. The failure of public schools has led the country to some illegalities we are witnessing in the private institutions.

I doubt these universities applied for licences as faith based universities. They applied for and were given licences to operate standard universities giving out regular degrees. They only behave as they like after obtaining licences.

enairaprof:
Let me remind some people of this Nigerian senator who married a 13 year old girl and people said it was child abuse.

He said according to his religion Islam, it is acceptable to marry a girl of such age. And since Nigeria has accepted Islam as one of the religion, anything he does under the instruction of the religion is constitutional.

Can you read that again?

It is a nauseating habit that Nigerians always attempt to defend one illegally with another perceived illegally. Instead of presenting sound arguments, they justify one crime with another crime.
The Nigerian senator was wise to exploit loopholes in our constitution, he did not technically break the constitution. The constitution and even the marriage act did not provide a marriage age in Nigeria, what it provided for is age of consent. So unless you can prove that Senator Yerimah slept with his new bride before the constitutional age of consent, you have no case.
Furthermore the constitution muddled the legal pond further in Section 29 (4)(b) which specifies that “ any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age”
So you cannot use the Senators marriage of an underage girl to justify CU's breach of the constitutional rights of its students.

bezimo:
It depends on how you see it.I hope the Management of the school reconsider their stand however one must understand that CU is not like a conventional university, it's a faith based institution with a vision to instill discipline in her students among other things.

Religion seems to operate only on our reptilian brain. It switches of critical thinking of the neo cortex and triggers aggression, fear and basic instincts. This is the only reason I can see for people defending barbaric acts of religious authorities and people are ready to commit suicide or murder and lie for their religious beliefs.
CU is a conventional university and not a faith based university. It was given a license by NUC to offer conventional degrees and not faith based degrees. It collects fees from the public to offer services of providing university education to the public - both Nigerians and foreigners. It cannot and I repeat cannot impose its religious views on anybody. If a Muslim or even an atheist meet all criteria for admission, it cannot be refused admission based on religion alone. It would be violating both the Nigerian constitution and the international charter on freedom of religion which Nigeria is a signatory of.

I understand students sign an undertaken to adhere to all rules, regulations and instructions as determined by the school when they are admitted to the CU.

You understand wrong. All universities give students an undertaking to adhere to all rules and regulations when they are admitted into universities, that does not give universities blank check to make rules and regulations that infringe on the liberty, rights and dignity of its students. Any rule and regulation that is inconsistent with our constitution is null and void.

So why would a student sign an undertaken to adhere to school rules and flagrantly disobey it...there will be problems and repercussions.

Maybe the students did not read the undertaking in the first place or maybe they read it but know that the contentious parts of it are null and void.
I doubt covenant university will put compulsory attendance of all religious activities or compulsory conversion to a winners church member in their handout. If they did, they would be legally implicating the institution as violating the constitution and hence their condition of license.

TonyeBarcanista:
Restructuring has to do with decentralising powers that hitherto lies with the center. A restructured Nigeria to capture fiscal federalism will see federating units solely responsible for revenue generation, distribution and project implementation without looking up to Abuja, while contributing their respective quotas to the centre for the FG to carry out some statutory responsibilities.

Federating units Can create as many LGAs as they deemed fit to bring government closer to the people and by the people. It allows for federating units to take full control of education, road, security, healthcare etc, and will also allows LGAs to exercise their own autonomy also.

It is insane for everybody to be looking up to Abuja for everything even as little as road construction when the people in Abuja have no clue about what is going on in states.

Let me state that the issue of states will be redefined in the event of restructuring as several states were drawn without recourse to the feelings of the people. The people MUST decide for themselves for sanity to reign.


As for Midwest, I think you should go back and see the gains they had after gaining autonomy. Sadly, the military came and reversed virtually everything.

i agree with you totally on Fiscal Federalism and resource control. But but i believe restructuring is much more than that. The most important question on this restructuring is; how many federating units will we have, what is the basis of dividing the federating units and how are the rights and interests of minorities in the federating units going to be protected? Minority rights have always been a problem in Nigeria from colonial times.
How do you avoid nepotism, tribalism and greed by politicians in the federating units?

Observant:
Whatever behaviour exhibited by Nigerians can be found everywhere in the world.
System both political and social keep these human attributes in check.

Nigerians are no where near the greed of the Europeans but its kept in check by their existing systems and nothing else

I disagree with you sir. Nigerians exhibit many deviant behaviours not found anywhere else in the world.
Nigerians are the only ones I know that celebrate known and convicted thieves. Nigerians are only ones I know that would put a tyre around a petty thief and watch a live human burn to death. Nigerians are the only ones l know that would give a testimony of buying a multimillion naira car and building a house within a very short period of time without a job, winning a lottery or gaining inheritance and everybody would celebrate the person.

TonyeBarcanista:
My brother, the beauty about restructuring is that the people will understand that they and their elected leaders are to blame should their society go wrong instead of looking for blame game of the north or some elite. It solves the agitation against marginalisation as no group will hold the other responsible for their underdevelopment anymore. Because there will be state Police with locals, it helps solve crime and investigation without the usual tribal coloration. People will also cooperate with security agents knowing that These agents are their own brothers and sisters.

I agree with you on the need for change in values and I also insist that restructuring is very necessary especially at this time.

I still ask; what do you understand by restructuring? If what you mean by restructuring is dividing the country into smaller political units - countries or states, then you will only exacerbate the problems. Remember that is the same argument that made Former Bendel break off from the Western region in1963, was bendel any better off than when they were in the western region? No! Did the break up of Bendel into Edo and Delta make life better for its citizens? No!
Do you think those same problem will marginalization will not present if Rivers State is made an independent country? Will you advocate that only Ijaw security agents and police should investigate crimes in Ijaw parts of Rivers state instead of agents from other tribes?
Even among the Yoruba's, there are cries if marginalization in Ogun State between the Egbas and Ijebus, which will still be there if Ogun is made a sovereign country.
The problem of Africa is like the problem of ancient Greece or medieval Europe, there are too many tribes and Sub tribes with different identities. It was consumption and assimilation of smaller tribes into larger ones that allowed larger political units with similar identities to emerge.

TonyeBarcanista:
It's obvious that a lot of people don't know the effect of a working system in a society. Unfortunately, you are among this group.

Why would an educated man play down the importance of restructuring simply because of unfounded fear that the new system won't be of favor to him even when such is unfounded?

For the sake of emphasis, a restructured Nigeria that operates Federal system will solve problems of continuous cry of marginalisation by almost every part of the country, it will help tackle insecurity, it will open the eyes of citizens to elect leaders that are capable because they know that doing the contrary will spell doom on them since no free money will come from anywhere, it will also lead to development of federating units.

Even thought I agree that we need to restructure the country, restructuring is not a magic wand that will solve all our problems. Our values also need restructuring else the same problems will beset Rivers State if it were made a sovereign country.

We need to also define what we mean by restructuring. If restructuring means the number of regions or states we want to divide Nigeria into, then we are simply multiplying the problems.

criminalmindz:
u see the way the north behave, brotherly love. them down settle but the south Judas amaechi felt too big to beg gej. the man who wanted to be vice President ended up as minister for agboro. shame on ameachi and those who betrayed the south

Bone that thing. You are still exhibiting pains of election loss. There is nothing like betrayal in politics, it is a game of personal and collective interests.
Jonathan betrayed Ibori by hounding him out of Nigeria and helping the British jail him. Since Ibori came bake Jonathan has not met with him. Most south south and south east politicians betrayed peter Odili when he wanted to seek the PDP presidential candidate position in 2007. Most Igbo politician betrayed Ekweme in 1999. Most Hausa Fulani politicians betrayed Buhari and Ribadu and supported Jonathan in 2011.

Please you guys get over Jonathan's loss.

why Jacob Zuma and wife and not Jacob and wives. President Zuma has 4 wives so why make it look as if he is married to just one wife.
i hope President Zuma went to LFMA2017 to give his life to Christ and change his sinful ways.

babyfaceafrica:
The lawyers will lose....if any lawyer is sure of him or herself,they should do the service pro-bono..and let's see the result

The lawyers cannot lose.
Even if the obnoxious laws and guidelines are written at the gates and road leading to covenant university, they cannot stand in a law court, because they violate Section 38 (1) of the 1999 constitution.
Section 3 of the first part of the constitution states;
If any other law is inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution, this Constitution shall prevail, and that other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void.
Covenant university cannot make laws that forces people to attend church services.

This issue is similar to the environmental sanitation law passed by the Lagos State Government more than 10 years ago restricting movement on the last Saturday of every month. I had always argued here on nairaland that that law violates chapter4 section 41 of the constitution that guarantees free movement. I knew that once somebody takes the matter to court, the law would be thrown out, and that was exactly what happened. The law was ruled unconstitutional, null and void.

naijajobx:
I thought it was in the sch policy

What school policy? School policy that all students must attend all winners chapel programs, including Sunday and Wednesday services, all special services, night vigils, cell meetings, unit meetings, etc.?
What about tithes, offerings and sacrifices, are these ones in the school policy too?

Americana90:
In as much as I am not happy about their suspension, I think they ought to understand the institution they are in. It is a religious one for crying out loud!!!! If they never wanted all these they wouldnt have applied in the first place. Its COMMON SENSE!! It is a religious school and should be respected and seen as one. You want secularism? Go to federal, State, or other private secular schools like APTI. Its just COMMON SENSE. They werent forced to enroll

Covenant university did not register as a religious school, it registered as a secular university. If it wanted to promote winners church doctrines, it would not have needed NUC certification to issue secular degrees.

Americana90:
The school is a "CHURCH SCHOOL" To attend YOU MUST BE CHURCHY! Hate being "CHURCHY"? Don't bother enrolling

False! The school is not a church school, the university is a Nigerian registered university accredited to run degree programs by Nigerian University Commission. It was not granted license to run a church school.
I think Nigerian University commission needs to look at the terms under which licenses were issued to Nigerian private universities, because soon we would have ISIS universities.

Statsocial:
Seun

A lawyer and President of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Mr. Malachy Ugwumadu, also advised the students to sue the school if they were sure there was no express provision in the school’s rulebook that they could be suspended for up to a year if they didn’t attend the institution’s religious activities.


He said, If there is an express provision that the students can be suspended for a year because they fail to attend an activity, they might not be successful in the court of law.



A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome, appealed to the institution to temper justice with mercy and recall the suspended students, in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ, on whom the school was founded.

He said, “In Nigeria, there is freedom of religion, according to Section 38 of the Constitution. It provides that no citizen shall be discriminated against on the basis of their religion, sex and others. If, for instance, a Muslim was denied admission into Covenant University, they can sue the school.

“ But once you become a student, you are bound by the contract you have entered into to obey the school’s rules and regulations . The law is called “voluntaire non fit injurie,” which means no person can complain of any harm caused by a contract to which they agreed to.

This is why Nigerian can never progress socially technologically or economically, we treat university student like kindergarten students. Why does the students have to wait for their parents to sue the university, are they not of legal adult age?
I am surprised a SAN like mike Ozekhome can spew the rubbish attributed to him in the article, even though I am not s lawyer, common sense should tell you that you cannot sign your fundamental human rights away.

Section 38 (1) of the 1999 constitution and Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Right states;
“ Every person shall be entitled to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, including freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom (either alone or in community with others, and in public or in private) to manifest and propagate his religion or belief in worship, teaching, practice and observance.

And the constitution states that any law that is in conflict with the constitution is null and void, so no document that the student filled can take away their rights of freedom of worship.
Imagine the stupidity of the whole episode, you suspend students because they did not attend a religious program, what will they do if the student should backslide, change church or even change religion.

voluntaire non fit injurie does not apply here as the contract was null and void in the first place. You cannot sign a contract to allow Your head to be cut off. Likewise a contract to sell your children is null and void.