Maobichek:


Both NAFDAC and SON confirmed that Erisco tomatoes is good and edible; who then will defend her?

Freedom of speech is entirely different from what she did, there are records ok. She agreed to apologize but later decline and dare Erisco to go to Court.

Court will not pass judgement base on sentiment and emotion; she had the opportunity to free herself but she was headstrong and this is the reason why we all are still here, thank you.

Once again, HER OPINION.. Her opinion has nothing to do with NAFDAC or SON.
Nigeria has not descended to a level where an opinion can become a crime.

CaptainGo:


What truth?

She said Erisco tomatoes was killing people, she has to show the people that have died from consuming the product.

How hard is that?

You have no idea what it takes to build a business in Nigeria just for some clout chaser to spread that sort of false allegation.

I am tired of educating you guys on the simple principle of law. You are are either highly ignorant or choose to be highly ignorant.
She does not need to show anyone thar people have died consuming the product, she only needs to show that that she believes that the sugar in the product is capable of killing people. Please not the word believes (or in other words her opinion)
The main plank of a crime in criminal law is intent. Did she start out intending to demarket the product? Erisco lawyers must present evidence that the lady deliberately wanted to harm Erisco tomato and the company. They have to present evidence that maybe she is an agent of a rival company, she has a grudge against the company or that she knowingly lied against the company in order to harm then.
Where Erisco lawyers made the mistake is filing a criminal case. In a criminal case they would have to prove premeditation and malicious intent for her posts, and beyond all reasonable doubts. If it was a civil case, these conditions need not be met, all Erisco has to prove is that her posts caused grave damage to the company. This is why someone can be found liable for a crime but not criminally. Trump was liable for raping Eugene Carrol but not criminally guilty. Same with O J Simpson and his murdered wife.

This case is a no brainer and instituted just to lock the lady up.

nony43:




Where should she be? Has she proven that the tomatoe paste killed people? You don’t know you can go to jail over a fake review?

She should be home while the case is still in court.

She does not need to prove the tomato killed people, she only need to genuinely believe that sugar in the tomato kills people.

Show me examples of where people are jailed for fake reviews in Nigetia or any other country in the world.

Calitoscassius:
No justice for the poor in Naigeria. I wonder what the tomato company will gain from this waste of time and money, they shoulda just donated the money they are wasting to pay their lawyers to charity and give poor people free tomatoes and their image will be promoted even more. They are disgracing their company by taking her to court


Are they seeking to sent her to jail or compensation? She doesn't look like someone with millions in the bank.

Don't mind the Erisco man, and I use to admire the man for his entrepreneurial and Nigerian spirit. He us letting his overblown ego get the better of him. What does he exactly hope to gain by jailing the woman? Will jailing the woman be a good advertisement for the tomato product he claims he is trying to protect? Will jailing the woman increase confidence and thus sales of this tomato products? How much exactly is he ready to lose in order to prove the point that he is very powerful and should never be messed with?

nony43:





That was a slander and not a review.

Slander( or libel) is still a civil offence. The woman has no business being in jail.

tunde1200:
Did you own a company?

Yes I own and run a company.

Automolite:

Bad review and false review na 2 different things.
If u say.. Samsung phones battery don't last, na bad review bdat.

Even if its a false review, does that elevate the issue to a criminal offence, whereby someone is locked up for more than 6 months without trial?

If u say Samsung phones the cause cancer or explode and kills pple, what kind of review bdat.
Imagine if person wake up one morning post review say u dey use children blood do ur products, how u go feel.

How many reviews from people that claimed cause cancer or explode and kills people? Just Google the term "Samsung factory cause cancer", you will see tones of claimed just because one factory worker died of cancer. It hebooves on the responsible inspection agency to investigate the claims. No one went to Jail for these claims.

I no go show mercy to anybody wey accuse me falsely or wan bring me down oh.

Then you have no business getting hear public office. Jonathan, Buhari and even Tinubu is being insulted daily on social media and they go on with their lives. You and Erisco are lilly livered and have very thin skin.

DeepSight:


You people dont deserve to live in a free society. You simply dont understand the concept of freedom of speech, freedom of thought and conscience.

Don't mind them. They are yet to to recover from Stockholm Syndrome left over from slavery and colonialisation, whereby you rever and worship your oppressors, the only difference being the slave masters and colonial administrators have been replaced by the political and powerful elites in their minds.

tunde1200:
Your write up is biased
Seems you don't know what she did to erisco and the consequences.

Oya yarn me what she did to Erisco that is not common all over the world?

Maobichek:


Good morning, having data doesn't give anyone the privilege to destroy another person. Apologize, she refused and now see where she is. If she was right, why would her 2 accomplice be at large?

Most comments here in Nairaland deserve this treatment; we must verify our opinion before coming to the public, thank you.

Why should she apologise when if that is her honest opinion? According to the constitution there is freedom of belief and opinion. People insult governors and even the president all the time, does that warrant arrest and being locked up for months? Unless Erisco can prove that she had malicious intent , it would be impossible to prove a crime. Remember the threshold for a crime is extremely high, you have to prove premeditation and intent beyond all reasonable doubt.

Why would the other 2 not run? Remember this is Nigeria where the rich and powerful control the justice system. They know they would be locked up indefinitely without trial.

Vulcan24:
Where I live, ppl gossip and talk bad about me in my absence. I ignore it. Where I work I have experienced backbiting and pulling down lots of times but I ignore and focus on my dream and vision.

You can't expect love and elation from serving the public all the time. You should learn to take the good and bad views.

I tried reading Chioma comments, it wasn't a crime, she used and the product and gave her opinion, it's basic reaction! I don't know how going after her correct anything cos presently I can't even bring myself to buy that product after reading she lost her baby cos my wife had passed through such.

As for me, I don't think this is right in any way

Abuse of judiciary. Rich and powerful people using the courts (corrupt judges for that matter) to oppress ordinary masses. This should have been at worst a civil offence. When someone publishes false statement about a person or product, that is termed libel and its a civil offence. How it escalated into a criminal offence whereby someone was held in prison without bail for over 6 months is gross abuse of the judicial system. It can only happen in Nigeria.

delpee:


Are we sure he stole a phone? Could be so and could be a cover up for the punishment meted out for whatever reason.
Even if so, wise and well bred students should have reported him to the authorities.

To me this looks like a cult related incident, maybe he refused to join a cult or he has offended the cult boys. The excuse of stealing a mere phone looks like a cover up. Because even if he did steal a phone, other fellow students would have stepped in from to prevent him from being brutalised and the school security would have been alerted.

Max24:

Is Sanusi the first King to be detroned for disrespecting the governor? Kings has been removed since Colonia days. A gov is the emirs boss according to the law but you can only remove for a just cause. Can you openly criticize and disrespect your employer and expect not to be sacked? One of the laws of power is Never outshine your master. Even Sanusi himself removed bank owners from their banks when he was gov - Cecilia Ibru and Erastus Akingbola we're his scapegoats.

It seems decades of military rule has traumatised some Nigerians so much so that they can't grasp the basic tenets of democracy. A governor is not the master of the citizens, not to talk of traditional rulers thar are the custodians of the people. In fact in normal democracies, the governors and president are subservient to the people and their representatives.

The governors and president are still hunged up on colonial rule and think they simply replaced the colonial administration.

Max24:

But when there is crises, whose problem is it? When Kano goes in flame now he would run to Tinubu, NSA and DSS to quell any riot. Never start what you can't finish. What was Bayeros offence? At least everyone knew why Sanusi was dethroned. He publicly criticized the gov and Buhari. Has Bayero done same publicly? What was his offense? The gov is starting a crises in his state just because he dislikes Bayero.

If there is a riot, it is constitution requirement of the DSS, military and police to quell the riot and forestall any brake down of law and order. It not in their business to determine who is Emir or not. What was the offence of Lamido Sanusi before Ganduje dethroned him in the first place? Criticising a government or governor is not an offence under democracy.

Max24:
This governor is overreaching himself. Obsession for irrelevant issues.

It's Ribadu, DSS and police that are overreaching themselves. Traditional and chieftaincy titles are the exclusive preserve of the states, in fact they are under the local government administrations.

T9ksy:



Finally, we are making progress albeit, at snail's pace.

So, you agree that decree 34 was just a civil service Order with the sole purpose of uniting the entire civil services in the country.

So what instruments do governments around the world use in ruling or governing their countries? What organ of government do they use to execute or implement policies?

DMerciful:
There is currently no region in the 1999 constitution!

Ironsi changed the name from regions to provinces or states but the boundaries were left intact. Its like renaming a town. If the next govt dont like it, they revert.

What Gowon did is dividing the town into wards and giving different people to control. That made it almost impossible to reverse.

You know the truth but arguing blindly

He unified the civil service and thus the whole country. That was why it was called the unification decree.

DMerciful:
This is a lame argument you people refused to recover from because you wanna push Igbo hate.

Firstly, he stayed in power for 5months and unify the civil service 45 days before he was assassinated. If Nigeria did not want that policy, who enforced it after he was killed? Why did the new government not repeal the decree?

Why would he unify the civil service of a confederation if not to appropriate and control all of the resources to himself?

Secondly, when Ironsi was killed, it was still 4 regions renamed as 4 states. Why did Gowon divide the 4 states to 12 states making it impossible to reverse?

To dilute and divide the unity of the south east and at the same time further weakening the strength and size of the states all in preparation for war.

BondRiv:


Even as the FCT Minister, he is outperforming the clueless neophyte in Rivers State. No one is holding Fubara. He is just incompetent.

That's for the Rivers State people yo decide, not wike. The River's people that supposedly elected Fubara can decide not to reelect him again for a second term.
Wikes performance is for the president to decide. He can sack him tomorrow is the president is not satisfied with Wike's performance.

Is the proposed grazing route even constitutional? I had thought that the land use act and the 1999 constitution gives the ownerships of all land except a few km to the sea to the state governments. The state governments then lease the lands for a period of time, usually 99 years. So who will claim ownership of this grazing route? The federal government or the herdsmen?
Nothing stops the northern governors from allocating a grazing route in their respective states, but can a law be imposed on governors to surrender lands for a proposed gracing route?

xile:
All I know is that Fubura will serve only one term as governor, marking the end of his political career. You don't challenge your mentor. Just ask Ambode for update.

Even if he serves as a one term governor, he will still hold his head high as a defacto governor and not a boy boy to anybody. Jonathan was a one term president and his integrity remained intact.
Mentorship does not mean slavery. Mentorship is by respect and not intimidation and threats.

Ambode was an exception rather than the rule. Almost all past governors that tried to Lord it over their successors failed. Tinubu himself tried it with Fashola and failed. Ambode should have defected to PDP and use executive powers to challenge Tinubu in Lagos.

Eteka1:
Small children's talk. In other words, Wike should retire from politics because he made Fubara governor and he has been appointed Minister.

Very annoying talk. So OBJ not gave retired from the governance of Nigeria because he made Yaradua president?
Buhari should also not retired from the governance of Nigeria because he made Tinubu president? Can Tinubu take a quarter of what Wike did to Fubara?
You Wike apologists are behaving as if Wike was the first governor of Rivers State for that matter. Other governors have come and gone, he cannot continue to rule Rivers State from Abuja, that's an insults to the people of Rivers State. Let him be satisfied with his new responsibility as minister of Abuja.

bemeruca:


Trump made a request they rejected, then they lied he never made the request only for the truth to come out. Your response is this?

Budaatum, you can just accept the revelation rather than try to shift the goal post.

You guys just talk rubbish without even caring about think of how senseless your claim is.
Who has the authority to reject a request by the president to deploy National Guard in the US? Where is the evidence Trump made such a request, or can Trump make a request just by thinking about it like he claim he can do with classification of documents?

bemeruca:


The Jan. 6 congressional committee allegedly falsely claimed it did not have evidence that showed former President Trump’s administration requested National Guard assistance, according to a report detailing a "hidden transcript" that was recently released.

False and misleading statement.
This is what the Cheney led Jan 6 committee said that they had “no evidence” to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops.
Mr Anthony Ornato told the Jan 6 committee that Trump requested for 10,000 National Guard troops without presenting any evidence.

Mr Ornato is a Trump official, his testimony is simply a claim not evidence.
In addition Trump's own defense minister denies receiving any order to deploy 10,000 national guard. At least any order by the commander In chief to deploy National Guard would pass through the defense minister.

Was it Pelosi or is it Bowser that prevented Trump from deploying the national guard for four hours while the rioters ransacked the Capitol building itself looking for Pelosi and Mike Pence to hang? Are you aware that it was actually the Vice President against constitutional provisions that ordered the secretary of defense, Mike Miller to deploy the national guard to the capitol?

descartes400:


Don't worry about Russia, worry about the west who blew up Russia nord stream gas pipeline.
The Nigeria-morocco gas pipeline project should focus more on africa market than europe.

My exacts sentiments. We are behaving as if we are still under colonialism, where our main purpose for existence was to supply raw materials to develop European economies.
Why can't we prioritise and promote trade within ourselves? It will help promote development, stability and cooperation between African states.
Africa as a whole has a population of 1.2 billion people, we have all natural resources we have ample land as the second biggest continent in the world.

Why should the presidency care about Atiku/Obi alliance when they have Yakubu Mahmood in their camp?

CheapHomes1:


which politicians use crypto to move stolen funds? all the politicians funds in banks, are they in crypto?

Are you not aware that Abacha and Deziani Allison stole their billions of dollars using crypto.

peekspot:

Olukoyede narrated how he was informed by a friend in the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, that dollar bills across the world can be tracked with technology.


https://punchng.com/terrorists-using-cryptocurrency-traders-to-fund-insecurity-efcc/

This statement is the dumbest statement ever made by a government official. How can the FBI track every one of the trillions of dollar bills printed. With what technology? Is there GPS transmitter in every dollar bill?
Nigeria has the dumbest government officials in the world.

bemeruca:


biden is senile and the teleprompter might glitch.

Same narrative you guys propagated before the last elections.

bemeruca:


He also thinks tariffs boost exports 😂
He does not understand tariffs are their to protect domestic products from foreign products at the expense of the people.

For me, trump shouldn't have accepted the debate. We all know what will happen. That's my problem with trump, he is always taking stupid risks.

Biden is far better at debates than Trump. Even Trump himself acknowledged that before their last debates in 2020.

Teenaira:
When are they going to talk about agric.This country should be able to feed itself. Agric is the new gold mine if security can be guaranteed.

To me Agric should take second place to Education. Education is backbone of a modern society. You can predict the future of a country by its present level of education cum literacy. Nigeria educational standards is falling at an alarming rate. The government did not plan to build one new classroom block not to talk of one new school.
Then power, I would have expected Tinubu to complete the Mambilla power project in order to boost our energy supply. The Mambilla dam can add 3,000 Mw to our power grid.

It seems the Tinubu government has no agenda, no developmental or economic plan. They are just planing projects haphazardly without a preconceived goal.

patrickcollins:
Tinubu can't get anything right, the same thing was said about Buhari and he got nothing right

Buhari spread development around the country and did not just concentrate on Lagos and Abuja. Even the South East that hate Buhari so much felt his presence.