₦airaland Forum

lascos912:
the company only have a right to sue her not to arrest her

Sue her for what exactly? She did not say the product was spoilt or poisoned, she only complained of too much sugar.
Customer reviews are part and parcel of marketing, some companies pay millions of naira to obtain customer reviews. Erisco should gave used this negative review to their marketing advantage (that is if what the lady said was false). They should have engaged her by stating the exact percentage of sugar in their product. Arresting her will bring negative publicity to the product and the company as a whole.

Except it can be proven that the lady had malicious intent, the case us dead on arrival.

Benwallt:
The sacking is very well in order. Evidence plenty so no need to explain

The sacking was in order but the upholding of Senators Akpabio's and Lawan's election was also in order, abi? Did Senators Senators Akpabio's and Lawan's participate in their primary elections?

emmy512:
This lands have been allocated a long time ago, and it was agreed that is should be developed within a certain period.

In my village sometime in 2014 I got land for just 250k at a nice area developing and was told I had to develop within 1 years or else loose it

Same thing goes

That kind of agreement is not really practicable. It is fraught with complexities. What is the definition of development? Is putting up a fence considered development? Is building a gate house development or it includes building to foundation level or roof level? If you build to lintel level and leave it for 20 years thereafter, will they still seize your land and resell it without compensation? These issues are legally complex, but Nigerians don't take these issues to court because they don't trust the courts and the judicial system.

Having said that, embassies are a different ball game. Once a land has been bought or allocated to a country's foreign mission, it become the property of the home government, you can revoke such land without diplomatic backlash.

emmy512:
How is wike chasing them away.
He's only revoking their c of o and giving it to someone else willing to develop the land.the embassies can still remain and keep renting since that's what they want

Are you aware that these countries can also revoke the C of O of the land where our own embassies are situated in their countries if the want to follow the diplomatic practic of tit for tat?

gare:
Don't mind the Dundee, will those embassy tolerated that in their countries.

The agreement they signed when they got that land is clearly spelt out, so why are we crying more than the bereaved. They know they have deflauted.

Agreement diplomatic missions have signed? Gosh there is too much ignorance flying around here.

ceejayluv:
Oya na, let's start by enforcing existing laws na.

How many laws are being enforced in Nigeria? Are the appropriation laws we pass each year being enforced? Are Nigerians rights to protection of live and property bring enforced? Are Judgements against governments - both state and federal being enforced?

So it's only supposed law forcing embassies to develop land allocated that pains you.

So what happens if they don't develop these land within 3 months? The worst the FG would do is revoke the allocations. Then when these countries start a tit for tat response (as that is the diplomatic tradition), who will suffer most. Besides, if these countries actually really need to build an embassy, they can buy any land they wish. Most of them give Nigeria more aid than the cost of the land.

Let me inform you that in international relations your country's laws to not apply to foreign embassies. They mainly operate under international law. That is why you cannot arrest a vehicle with diplomatic number even if they break traffic laws.

EXOUSIAng:
So is this your valid reason for allowing embassies to disrespect us?
Are you thinking?

How are embassies disrespecting US? By not immediately building their Abuja office as ordered by Wike?
If you say foreign embassies are disrespecting Nigerians with the way they treat us as shit when applying for visa, I will concur. If you say they are disrespecting us by not having at least once office in the East/Niger delta (barring security concerns), I will agree.
If you even say they are disrespecting us by charging exorbitant fees for visa and then not refunding unsuccessful visa applications, I will totally agree. But to say they are disrespecting is just because they are refusing to develop lands allocated to them as ordered by emperor wike, I think you have your priorities wrong.

jimade:
Is this a genuine reason for the so called foreign country to disrespect your country and constitution?

So you mean embassies choosing where and when to situate and operate their own offices is now against the Nigerian constitution? You guys say absurd things just to defend the politicians you support.
Israel had been asking foreign governments to move their main embassies to Jerusalem for decades, it took diplomacy under president trump for the US andba few countries to move their embassies from Telaviv to Jerusalem.

Thomas464:
Now, the question I want to ask is, who allocated those to the embassies?
Am sure they won't just get land allocation any how without the government's approval.
Am pretty sure some of these cases would end up in court.
Wike is forming busy body. Am sure there're countless projects in Abj other than trying to revoke lands up and down and looking for properties to destroy because it's still the same government that sold these lands

The land had been allocated to these embassies for over 20 years. Most embassies have refused to move to Abuja due to security and infrastructural concerns. Ordinary Abuja airport has been a mess.

The embassies had been threatened many times since the days of Obasanjo to move their operations. Some embassies opened Council office in Abuja mostly in rented houses, but still maintain their main office in Lagos.

As I said this should be a diplomatic issue and not a gra gra issue like Wike is doing. Its just not feasible for foreign governments to start building their Abuja office under 3 months because of Wike"s threats. Besides, I dont think its diplomatically possible to just revoke lands already allocated to a foreign government for their embassy.

Eteka1:
The Laws of the FCT prohibits leaving land undeveloped for specific period after purchase. Laws are meant to be obeyed/implemented. Wike didn't enact those Laws I guess.

So what happens if no one develops the land? Will the FCT develop it? Will the FCT refund the money paid to purchase the land before reallocating it to another person?

Such laws should be challenged in court only if Judgements can be won and executed against governments in the Nigerian judicial system.

It's like a Law mandating a groom to consumate the marriage after paying the bride price else the bride will be forfeited back to the parents.

EXOUSIAng:
This your slavery mentality will destroy you.
Those same countries will kick you out if you don't comply with their standards in their own countries, was it not small Ghana that kicked us out of our embassy in GH some years ago.
You want to be respected in their country but you can't even respect yourself in your country.
I pains me when Nigerian talk the way you talk.
So it's okay for them not to follow our rules here in our capital.
If I dey near you right now I fit slap you, I dey easily get irritated by people with lowself esteem

You carry a Nigeria passport and your are talking about low esteem. Nigeria has one of the lowest if not the lowest esteem in the world right now. Ghanaian and Benin Republic passport has more esteem than nigerian passport. My wife's friend spent lots of money and effort to get a Benin Republic passport last year, because Benin republic passport has far more esteem than Nigeria passport.

cutepaul:
How can u send back some one that isn't present.....lands have been allocated to them....but they're yet to develop the land.......this gives them an ultimatum to start building........ basically still investing...I don't think it's a bad idea....unless there's more to it than meets the eye....Naija way

It's a bad idea. You can't force people to develop lands they bought legally with their own money. Its not even legal. You are not in their pockets. A sane government should provide incentives like loans, mortgages, grants, etc, to developers, if they are desperate for rapid development of a place. Dubai did not force developers and foreign investors to develop Dubai within 30 years.

Eteka1:
Do you think you can buy a plot and leave it fallow and undeveloped in the center of Washington DC? The authorities there won't permit that for sure. Hence Wike is doing the right thing.

You guys are simply ignorant on how cities, communities or countries evolve. You can't force people to develop a place. Development happens naturally when incentives are available. No one force or threatened anybody for Lagos to develop and continue developing at a rapid rate. If there is first and foremost security, followed by infrastructure and finally economic opportunities, development would come whether you like it or not. How can people rush in to develop Abuja when it is surrounded by Fulani Herdmen, Boko Haram and other terrorist groups. I hear you cannot travel outside Abuja city centre without the fear of being kidnapped. If you think all these gra gra Wike is doing will actually help Abuja develop, then you are highly mistaken. Mallam El Rufai did something similar, he huffed and puffed, be threatened embassies, he revoked and reallocated thousands of plots (mostly to his cronies), what happened? Did that lead to people rushing to develop Abuja?

Abuja started dying socially and economically more than 10 years ago. Even most politicians leave Abuja on weekends and public holidays for Lagos and other socially and economically viable state capitals.
What's is the Ministry of Abuja doing to improve the security of Abuja? What are they doing in terms of incentives to improve the socio economical life of Abuja. All the minister of Abuja both past and present knows is allocation and revocation of lands, that's apart from demolition of peoples houses.
Maybe Abuja truly needs a governor that will have a stake in actually developing Abuja.

Ade1177:
Omo

That's just his 2 weeks salary ba

And he has been playing for how many years

52wks per Yr

Let's even say average of 200k per week

I'm sure he can buy another one

He doesn't need to buy a new one, the vehicle is most probably insured, so all repaires will be carried out at no additional cost to him. If the car is damaged beyond repairs, a new one will be issued still at to additional cost. Only his insurance premium will go higher.

ceejayluv:
Upon all the money they're siphoning from Visa applicants.

Are Nigerians being forced to apply for visas? Since you feel Nigerians are being siphoned by visa fees, the have the choice to stop applying for visas.

Not that I support the way the embassies and even foreign countries are treating Nigerians, but if we learn to stay in our country and develop it instead of trooping to foreign lands and start constituting nuisance, we would be treated better.
Also note that the embassies need to maintain their diplomatic staff and infrastructure. They pay their staff the same salary and allowances in as they would have been paid in their home country. They pay the same running cost as every other Nigerian business ie NEPA bill, fuel, generator, water, etc.

Dennisbulkan:
Average Nigerians like you are lawless & have no regard for rules & order. People like you are the reason Nigeria is a shithole. Nigeria can never progress with regressive Monkees like you in it.

You guys are talking about rules and order when you are talking about foreign embassies cum diplomatic relations with other countries? It seems you guys are ready to cut your nose to spite your face, just for political, tribal and other stupid sentimental reasons.
Now if the Canadian French and other embassies designated for revocation of their land decides to leave Nigeria, who will suffer the consequences? Not wike, not the political elites and definitely not president Tinubu, most of them including their children families and households already have Canadian, British, US, French, UAE, etc., passports. It is the ordinary Nigerians that wants to japa, do business or school in these countries that will suffer. Already ordinary Nigerians are banned/prevented from travelling to many countries of the world because of the green passport. If these countries should close their embassies, you and I would have to travel to Ghana (with all the inconveniences and cost) to obtain visas.
Thus the reason I support a law that would ban anyone with dual citizenship from becoming a president, Governor or minister. If wikes and his family have no where else to japa to they would be more responsible in making policies.

Such issues are handled diplomatically and not through threats and blackmail. The ministry of foreign affairs along with the president should be the ones engaging the country in building befitting embassies in Abuja, in order to improve diplomatic relations. Besides, such decisions as building embassies is taken by the home government and has to be appropriated. Wike can't possibly expect such budget to be approved, money released and construction started under 3 months.

Stoplying:
The British government removed the brother of the grand father of the current king of England from the throne, does that mean the king of England works for the British prime minister ?

(Stop assuming you are talking to someone at your level, mathematician over here)

The British government removing a king in England? That's a sacrilege. The British government cannot forcefully remove any monarch from the throne. If that happens, that would be a coup. The British government, the armed forces and the British subjects all pledge allegiance to the King/Queen. The worst they could do is all officers of government resigns from his/her majesty's government, and the UK would be without a government.

In the example you gave Edward VIII was given there options; give up the idea of marrying Miss Simpson (an American divorcee); marry against the church and his ministers' wishes (but face resignationof the whole cabinet); or abdicate. He choose to abdicate.

The Prime minister works for the king in the UK. The reverse was the case here, kings/warrant chiefs worked for the officers of the British government.

HydraFeeds:
I get your point it still doesn’t makes sense that a candidate will get 100% of other 36 states but got disqualified because he didn’t get mere 25% in the FCT .

The best way out is to get their own governor or minister of FCT comes from FCT always .

The constitution (as interpreted by President Tinubu's distractors) did not talk of disqualification, it says a rerun shall be held between the two leading candidates, and anyone with a simple majority in the rerun becomes the president. They interpret it as 25% the states of Nigeria on one hand and 25% of Abuja being a representation of the whole of Nigeria on the other hand. And also due to the fact that the president automatically becomes the governor of Abuja.

HydraFeeds:
with your logic ,25% is not mandatory there then cos for instance,LP cleared southeast with over 75% votes same way other parties clear some other states with over 75% votes. Are we going to say because the declared president doesn’t have 25% in few states then he should not be declared?

You still don't get it. We are talking about the misnomer in mixing the Governorship election and the presidential election in one vote for Abuja only. No other state has that problem. When Abuja residents and indigenes go out to vote in the presidential election, they are also voting for their governor. You would expect under a democracy that the person that hopes to govern a people would at least have a minimum number of votes from the same people.

HydraFeeds:
great input ,the Abuja residents should fight for governorship as well but not four heads which is not even their idea to start with .

Abuja residents and indigenes are not fighting for four heads, they are asking for their votes to count in determining who governs them, just like all other states (since in terms of votes they should be regarded as a state)

Princedapace:
Law does not have sentiment. Law no dey do like this. Law is a law. Just as the law still gave the INEC opportunity to decide at anytime to transmit result electronically or not. This gave INEC upper hand to decide to change the format of transmitting result even few seconds to the election and INEC would win. Is that right? No. But unfortunately, law does not apply sentiment.

The law gave Abuja that special status becus it is seen as no man's land and belongs to all Nigerians. It sees Abuja as a place where all Nigerians have same and equal right and the sit of power. That is a loophole. If Nigeria is working, that alone would nolify the result for Tinubu.
Law is law! What u are applying is sentiment. If law is sentiment, law will not send a hungry thief caught for stealing becus he or she was hungry
Two things the law needs to fix here: Make Abuja another state or retain it as it is.
Secondly, mandate INEC to transmit result electronically to reduce malpractice. As long as the law still gives INEC the power to decide how to transmit result even if it is to change it few minutes before or after election, it simply means that the new electoral law is wack.
In law there is something called loophole. The Abuja case is one. The electronic transmission of result and still give INEC right to decide or not to use it is also a loophole.

In effect you are advocating ignoring the electoral act passed by the national assembly before the conduct of each general election. INEC in his wisdom makes recommendations to be included in the electoral act. The national assembly debate and pass the act and the president signs it into law. You and the appeal court days INEC can decide to change the way it conducts elections few days to the elections and ignore the electoral act because it has the discretion on how it chooses to conduct elections.

About Abuja. Is it not a paradox that Abuja is a state in conducting elections only and not a state on how it is governed? The Governor of Abuja is the president, but is not required to obtain at least one vote from the residents and indigenes. How is that Democracy? Why should Abuja residents come out and vote at all in the presidential/Governship elections when their votes don't count at all?

iswallker:
We are under policed

Nigeria is not UK.

It's not about under police, it's that the police do not know their constitutional responsibility. They see their responsibility as protecting the government and the elites, instead of protecting the citizenry.

It's not underpolicing that makes the Nigerian police collect bribes on the road and in police station. Fela had been calling police stations banks and DPO bank manager since the mid 70s.

The police is more underemployed than understaffed. Most police responsibilities have been given to other parastatals of government leaving the police with road blocks and errant boys for politicians and the rich. Drug crimes has been given to NDLEA, Financial crimes have been given to EFCC, traffic offences have been given to FRSC. So the only responsibility left for the police are violent crimes and maintaining law and order.

Not only UK. Even Ghana and Benin republic do not require to write a petition before police comes to your house to investigate a complaint. Nigeria's case is unique.

Nwagod26:
No be small oooo. It makes me laugh hearing or reading how people chase clouts just to make news. So many of them haven't even bothered reading properly into the lifestyle and habits of the late young man. As long as the majority has one to take blames,oya let's all take it out on the person

It's not about lifestyle and habit, it's about a suspected murder, except you are advocating for the murder of anyone that takes drugs and have lifestyle you don't approve of.

iswallker:
Yeah sure - not a few people are in jail for false 911 calls. If he made a call while the attack was ongoing or while he was still at the scene of the attack it's a different thing - but he went home and wrote a letter to police. Subsequently he did not follow up.

In a functional society, you don't need to write a letter to report a threat to your life or any other concern you may have. A simple phone call will get police at your door step in less than 20 mins. In the UK if a nosey neighbour reports you of living above your means, they would not ask the person reporting to write a letter, the police will be at the persons doorstep in less than 24 hours to investigate.

You need to leave Nigeria to see how things work in a proper country.

How many people do you know that are in jail for false 911 calls? So you mean the police will throw someone in jail based on a 911 call without carrying out any investigation? Or a court will jail someone solely based on a phone call without any evidence of a crime?

iswallker:
If you write a detailed petition - you will be invited to make a statement in official police document and format - a file will be opened and you will append your signature - this us to ensure that you wrote the petition in the first place.

Investigation will proceed from there. If you don't show up - the case will not proceed. QED.

So before police can carry out their constitutional duty of protection of life and property, the citizens are required to first write a petition, then have a file opened, be invited to the police station in person, before an investigation can proceed? So a simple phone call or an emergency verbal report to police in a police station or even on the road is not enough for Nigerian police to carry out preliminary investigation?
It seems Nigerian police operate differently from other police of the world. In Japan a simple phone call will get a police officer in your door steps in 10 minutes.

iswallker:
Na naira Marley go burry am....

Were the protesters accusing naira, dollar or even Bob Marley of burying him?

stacyadams:
useless youths..


You will not protest for stable economy
You will not protest about corruption
You will not protest the increment in fuel price and dollar
You will not protest to make Nigeria a better country but will prefer to Japa

The police and army should shoot all those idiots on the street constituting nusiance

Everyone protests issues that they feels strongly about. Ashawos protest that they should be allowed to do their business without harassment. If you feel strongly about those issues you listed, no one is stopping you from protesting. You cannot sit in your house and expect people to protest issues that is disturbing your mind.

Roboto11:
The average Nigerian doesn't know what's important.

A drug user that likely died from drug abuse is who people are protesting over.

So because he was a drug user, he should be allowed to die and buried in mysterious circumstances? Nigerians have a weird sense of justice. I don't know Mohbad, in fact until his death, I never heard of his name, but the circumstances surrounding his death and burial is heart wrenching.

aklid:
Buharis own na play
Atleast he maintained it at 460-470 for a long time

But this one boom from 460 to almost 1k now?
All these things is caused by Nigerians obsession with the US dollars just like Argentinians.. considering it to be assets buying and keeping them.. deep down there are many wicked Nigerians that pray for the naira to continue declining against the dollar…

Nigerians are already missing Buhari.

aklid:
Buharis own na play
Atleast he maintained it at 460-470 for a long time

But this one boom from 460 to almost 1k now?
All these things is caused by Nigerians obsession with the US dollars just like Argentinians.. considering it to be assets buying and keeping them.. deep down there are many wicked Nigerians that pray for the naira to continue declining against the dollar…

And what is the cause of our obsession with dollar? Our obsession with imported fuel, food, medicines, electronics, and medical tourism and foreign education of course.

kherlly:
With some comments above I realized I am not the only one who hate frsc even if your papers are intact they will still look for something so you can pay them.

I dont even stop for them anymore. One day after spending two days obtaining a Road Worthiness Certificate from VIO office, one FRSC jump in front of my car trying to force me to stop. No one told him to jump off the road to avoid getting knocked down. After lagos state governments has certified my car road worthy, FRSC officers would be asking for all sorts of papers and inspecting my car again. The most annoying one is Speed Limiter. FRSC officer's have extorted me numerous times for not installing a speed limiter on my vehicle, on the streets of Lagos. Instead of them to get a speed meter to catch over speeding vehicles, they arrest vehicle owners without a speed limiter.

olatade:
This corporation has become more of a revenue generating agency than a safety compliance organisation. Their mission is to book motorists only without necessarily stopping the offences. I think their whims and caprices in generating revenue to their office have explicitly defeated their purpose of existence. They are now a nausea on our roads, a danger every driver fears. There is no justification for their continued existence presently as portrayed.


Rest in peace sir

Concur 100% FRSC should be on our highways helping and monitoring interstate travel, but alas, they mount roadblocks in conjested roads with states. IBB created them to help reduce accidents on our interstate highways and help accident victims. They have now become a revenue generation agency.

They have outlived their usefulness. It's annoying the way they jump into your car and some jump in front of cars and even trucks in order to extort money from drivers.