Hear the other side! The world these days is full of foolish career and non career women who are locked in battle for superiority with men at the workplace and their husbands at home and still expect to be treated as “the weaker sex”🤔🧐. It doesn’t add up when a wife squares up to her husband in an equality poise and still expects him to treat and perceive her as the “weaker sex”. However, that scenario will in no way justify domestic violence from either party to a marriage. Meanwhile, truth is, respect is the number one need a man has! Doubtful that it is one of the aims and objectives of the Association to look into members’ domestic affairs.
They will fail and fall. What do they have to offer Wagner? Uranium? No! Wagner is a pick up and go organization. Maybe they’ll go looking for North Korea! Misguided folks!
The flotsam and jetsam of the Caucasian family need State protection. They are targeted by African men who are in dire need of a meal ticket to escape the hazards of living in Nigeria and access the Caucasian community.
IVORY2009: The truth of the matter is thst this governors sharing boundaries with Niger would never tell him the truth, the only option left is dialog, and Dialog could only come from someone the Nigerian soldiers respect, and that person is the former president Goodluck Jonathan. Even Tinubu himself will not be respected by the coup plotters, reasons that he is like them, he took power by force.
Dialogue with coup plotters 🤔. Who does that. The language they understand is overwhelming force and a court-martial so they can have their day in front of the rifle nozzle! That is the military culture!
gerrardomendes: You are fighting for a minority Arab in Niger to remain president yet you live in a country ruled by a criminal Yoruba man just because a "minority" Igbo man is not seen as being good enough to be president. What do you have to say about that. What's the difference between Coup d'etat and Ballot d'etat. Tinubu has taught Africans that power is not served a la carte. ... and for those of you quoting me and spewing ethnic trash, I'm not igbo. Thanks,
I just showed you how much the British ROBBED YOUR COUNTRY BLIND FOR A CENTURY AND BUILT NOTHING.
The same people your DUMB HEAD is praising for ''good governance''.
What is their track record of governance in YOUR COUNTRY?
All those black leaders you listed did 100 TIMES MORE FOR Africans than the best colonial regime.
Mobutu built thousands of schools.
Abacha ran a good economy and built infrastructure.
EVERYTHING YOU ARE TODAY is due to BLACK PEOPLE.
Without blacks, you would be an illiterate BEGGAR.
THIS SAME YOU THAT IS FEELING SO POMPOUS AND TALKING DOWN AT BLACKS RIGHT NOW.
You are only a generation removed from impoverished village illiterates who shat in pit latrines.
You would have been an ILLITERATE VILLAGE BEGGAR without black people coming to power.
Have you ever felt an OUNCE of gratitude for that?
Or even for the Nigerians who fought for YOUR independence?
No.
All you have is SPITE and DISDAIN for black people who raised you from the dust of village primitivity and illiteracy, where the ''white man'' dumped your grandpa and would have dumped you.
You now sit there, educated away from illiteracy by blacks, and looking down on the same blacks.
HOW DARE YOU?
How many of the countries you worship today became advanced after 50 or 60 years of independence, for you to demand that ''by now we should have....''?
If it takes those blacks who lifted you from illiteracy and primitivity another 100 years before we can all be like Japan or USA, SO BE IT.
What can YOU do for THEM after what they did for YOU?
Be proactive and build on your present status. Colonialism is largely in Africa’s past. What are African leaders doing for Africa now! That is the issue. If Abacha built 99 schools and stole one dollar it is misgovernance. Now I see the bent trajectory of African mindset about corruption- “so long as you offer some semblance of good governance you can steal from the public till. That is not the way to go. In the developed world it is not so!
But ''the white man'' ruled Nigeria for a century, exporting your resources to the tune of TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS CUMULATIVELY IN TODAY's MONEY.
AND AT THE END OF HIS RULE IN 1960..
Your grandfather was a village illiterate.
Your grandmother was a village illiterate.
Footpaths led to your village.
Dirt roads if you were lucky.
Owning a BICYCLE was the sign of middle class luxury.
Industries: ZERO
Infrastructure: ZERO
(Which is why you are still having to build BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE TODAY, 60 years after they left)
Not ONE power plant was built by ''the white man'' in Nigeria.
Your first power plant was KAINJI DAM, commissioned in 1964 by the Balewa administration.
The British colonialists had simply used big ass generators to power areas THEY were staying in - Ikoyi and GRAs
That was all the electricity there was, till independence!
In fact there was no national grid till after independence!
Literacy rate was 4% at independence in 1960, AFTER NEARLY A CENTURY of British rule.
Today it is over 74%.
COURTESY OF BLACK RULE.
Do you ever ask yourselves what the British did with all the money made from exports of your cocoa, iron ore, timber, palm oil, coal, tin, rubber, groundnuts for a CENTURY?
At independence in 1960, there wasn't ONE single full-fledged UNIVERSITY in Nigeria.
NOT ONE!
Today, courtesy of black rule, and black leaders who built thousands and thousands of public schools across Nigeria which educated your parents who educated you.
NEARLY 300 UNIVERSITIES today, courtesy of black rule.
WITHOUT INDEPENDENCE AND THE BLACK RULERS YOU INSULT, EVERY ONE OF YOU ON THIS THREAD WOULD BE A STARK VILLAGE ILLITERATE WITH ZERO PROSPECTS, just like your forbears were under colonialism, walking or cycling on DIRT ROADS and footpaths, not driving SUVs on expressways and flyovers to fancy shopping malls and nightclubs.
And then with the heads of utter dullards turn around now to say white people will rule you better.
WHY DIDN'T THEY RULE YOU BETTER WHEN THEY RULED YOU?
OR YOU FORGOT THAT THEY RULED YOU?
Will the self-hatred and racial inferiority complex they imposed in you allow you to appreciate your own achievements?
Appreciate how far you've come as a people?
Even the Japa syndrome you complain about is a sign of GREAT PROGRESS.
Could your village grandpa under colonialism Japa?
Did he know what an airport was?
Did he go to school?
He was stuck to his farm.
YOU - courtesy of black rule - can wake up tomorrow and say you want to go to America, China, Germany, UK, Japan, anywhere, knowing that you have what it takes in terms of education and exposure to succeed anywhere on Earth.
IT WAS BLACK LEADERS THAT GAVE YOU THAT POWER, which your forbears never had under ''the white man'' whom you worship like a friggin' airhead DONKEY.
All you have passed across to the www is how abusive, indecorous, raw and uncouth a personality you are. Your lack of capability to engage in decent conversation as a normal human being is not in doubt. All I set out to do is to highlight the manifest lack of capability of the political class in Africa to provide good governance largely because of their corrupt tendencies. That is the bane of Africa. Not rate of literacy rate! The colonialists left a long while ago and we should have done better for ourselves in all that while till now. Imagine the much Abacha stole from Nigeria. Mobutu did same in Zaire. Idi Amin was ni different in Uganda while Jacob Zuma regularly zoomed into corruption while SA Head of State. I could go on. That is not what you find the white man doing where he provides political leadership. Their institutions work well and corruption is not the order of the day among them not because some of them don’t fancy corruption but they know that they will pay when caught as surely as they would be! We must stop blaming colonialists for our woes and admit our failure to provide good governance in Africa. The outcome of Peer review mechanism for World Heads of States should make African Heads of States fade away in shame from the World stage photographs they appear in alongside performing world leaders.
mickyeddi: They own all the diamond and gold mines. They own vast amount of land black people can dream off, they even own several exclusive communities for themselves only. Whilst they are not ruling South Africa, they literally own most of the resources, that's why they won't leave anytime soon.
Blacks have not proven themselves capable of managing the gold and diamond mines. But for the whites SA would have been like present day DRC!
AfroBeatDiary: Up to 80% of South Africans farmland belongs to the white including their mines. You know it's painful seeing vast land belonging to people who has a questionable origin while you with traced origin has nothing so you're forced to work for/under them
What’s painful in that when you fail to demand good governance from your leaders. What is happening in Nigeria where the land is not owned by whites but by corrupt leaders who vote 70billion Naira to buy vehicles for themselves and mum is the word from the citizenry!
Botragelad: See. Racism is a nasty thing that can affect anyone, no matter what colour, creed, or culture they belong to. It's not just a one-way street, where only one group can be the victim or the perpetrator.
This act by those people is an open display of racism, and it should not be tolerated or accepted. They should be ashamed of themselves
Most irresponsible conduct. Asides 🇷🇼 few African countries are well governed. SA has the semblance of a well governed space largely because the whiteman had the reins of power before now. With the whites out of power infrastructure has become imperilled with power cuts becoming the order of the day.
Grit2943: SAO PAULO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - On their tenth day at sea, the four Nigerian stowaways crossing the Atlantic in a tiny space above the rudder of a cargo ship ran out of food and drink.
They survived another four days, according to their account, by drinking the sea water crashing just meters below them, before being rescued by Brazilian federal police in the southeastern port of Vitoria.
Their remarkable, death-defying journey across some 5,600 kilometers (3,500 miles) of ocean underlines the risks some migrants are prepared to take for a shot at a better life.
It was a terrible experience for me," said 38-year-old Thankgod Opemipo Matthew Yeye, one of the four Nigerians, in an interview at a Sao Paulo church shelter. "On board it is not easy. I was shaking, so scared. But I'm here."
Their relief at being rescued soon gave way to surprise.
The four men said they had hoped to reach Europe and were shocked to learn they had in fact landed on the other side of the Atlantic, in Brazil. Two of the men have since been returned to Nigeria upon their request, while Yeye and Roman Ebimene Friday, a 35-year-old from Bayelsa state, have applied for asylum in Brazil.
"I pray the government of Brazil will have pity on me," said Friday, who had already attempted to flee Nigeria by ship once before but was arrested by authorities there.
Both men said economic hardship, political instability and crime had left them with little option but to abandon their native Nigeria. Africa's most populous country has longstanding issues of violence and poverty, and kidnappings are endemic.
Yeye, a pentecostal minister from Lagos state, said his peanut and palm oil farm was destroyed by floods this year, leaving him and his family homeless. He hopes they can now join him in Brazil.
Friday said his journey to Brazil began on June 27, when a fisherman friend rowed him up to the stern of the Liberian-flagged Ken Wave, docked in Lagos, and left him by the rudder. To his surprise, he found three men already there, waiting for the ship to depart. Friday said he was terrified. He had never met his new shipmates and feared they could toss him into the sea at any moment.
Once the ship was moving, Friday said the four men made every effort not to be discovered by the ship's crew, who they also worried might offer them a watery grave.
"Maybe if they catch you they will throw you in the water," he said. "So we taught ourselves never to make a noise."
Spending two weeks within spitting distance of the Atlantic Ocean was perilous.
To prevent themselves from falling into the water, Friday said the men rigged up a net around the rudder and tied themselves to it with a rope. When he looked down, he said he could see "big fish like whales and sharks." Due to the cramped conditions and the noise of the engine, sleep was rare and risky. "I was very happy when we got rescued," he said.
Father Paolo Parise, a priest at the Sao Paulo shelter, said he had come across other cases of stowaways, but never one so dangerous. Their journey paid testament to lengths people will go in search of a new start, he said. "People do unimaginable and deeply dangerous things."
benjackugo: Candidate of the Labour Party in 2023 Lagos State Gubernatorial election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (a.k.a GRV) has called for the immediate suspension of the Chief Medical Director (CMD) and the Facility Manager of the Lagos Island General Hospital following the death of Doctor Vwaere Diaso in an elevator accident which occured at the hospital, IGBERETV reports.
Justice KM Akano is a Nigerian Judge who is not known to suffer fools gladly. She got no joy when the table is dressed in the wrong colour! That is who she is!
garfield1: Fireworks are expected today at the Kaduna Governorship Tribunal as Governor Uba Sani moves to terminate the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Mohammed Ashiru Isa, against his election. The tribunal, on Monday, last week set today to hear the latest motion by the governor’s legal team led by former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bayo Ojo, SAN, to end proceedings in the petition, based on the latest pronouncement of the Court of Appeal.
The principle of stare decisis, a Latin term that means “let the decision stand” or “to stand by things decided” makes it compelling for lower courts to line behind decisions of superior courts.
Read Also: Open letter to Governor Uba Sani To this end, decisions of the two appellate courts; Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, are binding on election petition tribunals, where facts in cases are similar.
Sani is calling for an end to the last petition standing against his victory, by pointing to the July 18, judgment of the Court of Appeal in the case of the All Progressives Congress (APC), against Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, knocked off at the preliminary stage due to a fatal error by the petitioners, in applying for the crucial pre-hearing notice.
The Supreme Court had held in many instances that either premature or late filing of the all-important Notice, would deem the petition abandoned and terminable.
The unanimous judgment of the three-man panel headed by Justice Olubunmi Oyewole held that the appeal brought by APC’s Uche Nnaji against the dismissal of his petition at the preliminary stage wasn’t meritorious because the filing of the pre-hearing Notice out of time, had dealt the entire petition a fatal blow.
Sani said the three justices holding the petition had become abandoned by the reason of the late filing of the said Notice, adding that Justice K.M Akano-led Enugu Governorship Tribunal was right under the law, to dismiss the petition in the course of proceedings.
Oyewole in his lead judgment held that “as found by the trial Tribunal, the application for the issuance of pre-hearing notice filed by the Appellants on June 6, 2023, prior to the service of the final pleading in the petition on all the parties, was incompetent.
“Election proceedings are sui generis and the stipulated procedure must be scrupulously complied with, otherwise a defaulting Petitioner or party would only have himself to blame.
“The moment the Appellants failed to activate the issuance of pre-hearing notice within the stipulated period, they had abandoned their petition and there was nothing before the trial Tribunal upon which it could adjudicate any further. Taboola “This is different from objections contemplated by Paragraph 12 (5) of the First Schedule, Section 132 (7) of the Electoral Act and 285 ( of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) in respect of which ruling would be delivered along with the final judgement.”
Oyewole went ahead to allude to Justice Olatokunbo Kekere-Ekun, now a senior Justice of the Supreme Court, in the case of Azudibia V INEC (2008) 4 LRECN 705 at 126 where she said, “a process filed prematurely is a mere piece of paper without any legal consequence.”
Armed with the very consequential judgment, Sani is asking the Justice Victor Oviawie-led Tribunal to revisit his earlier motion during the pre-hearing stage, that Isa and PDP had abandoned their petition and be dismissed.
Another pre-hearing motion from the governor also called for the dismissal of the petition for being filed out of time.
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While the PDP petition bore official imprints of being filed at 11:45pm on the last day allowed by the extant laws, 9th of April, 2023, both the computer-generated payment evidence for the filing and the receipt issued by the Tribunal secretariat, bore 10th April, 2023, showing the petition was filed out of time.
Both receipts, showing N14,300 paid, had the name of Mr. Samuel Atung, a Silk.
Pleading an early end, Chief Ojo said “The nature of the application argued is such that could bring this Petition to an end. The Court of Appeal has recently terminated a petition based on an application that is on all fours with the one already argued by the 2nd Respondent (Sani).
In the motion referenced by the governor’s legal team, the Tribunal had said ruling would be taken alongside the final judgement in the Petition.
The APC team is contending that the latest Court of Appeal judgement had declared such wait, unnecessary, with Justice Oyewole saying an abandoned petition can be terminated at any point in the proceedings and could be suo moto, done, by the Tribunal.
In the Motion for dismissal, Chief Ojo, argued that the petition, having suffered incurable procedural error, is deemed abandoned by laws guiding petition adjudication.
He cited several legal authorities in his written address, especially decided cases of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, to show the petitioners had procedurally defaulted.
In Maku v Sule, the Supreme Court held that petitioners cannot file pre-hearing notice, either prematurely or out of time.
Where this happens, the apex court’s position is that the entire petition should be dismissed.
“In a long line of cases, it has been stated, restated and reiterated what the consequence of not applying for the issuance of Form TF007 would portend and that is the dismissal of the petition” the court had ruled.
PDP and Isa however kicked, insisting that they applied for pre-trial on 26th May, 2023 and not 16th May, 2023, adding that a competent application for the issuance of pre-hearing notice, was made.
The response, taken out by S.K Musa, SAN, said the application for dismissal, “proceeds from an erroneous assumption that the application for pre-hearing of 16th May, 2023, is the only application made by the petitioners, without considering that there was a subsequent application made at the close of proceedings.”
Relying on the established precedents, Chief Ojo however, drew the attention of the Tribunal to the petitioners’ defence, as an attempt to correct the anomaly in their filings, which according to him, also failed to regularise the defective procedure they adopted.
In the further and better affidavit, the governor’s legal team leader said: “The application dated 26th May 2023 being an attempt by the petitioners to re-open pleadings is still invalid, as there was no application or an attempt to withdraw the application dated 16 May, 2023.
“Whichever way, there is no competent application for the issuance of a pre-hearing information sheet, placed validly before this Tribunal.
“The petitioners are under an obligation to apply for the issuance of a pre-hearing information sheet within seven days after the 30th day of May, 2023.
“We submit from the judicial authorities related thereto that the sole meaning that is derivable from the provision of paragraph 18 of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act, 2022 is that the application for the issuance of the pre-hearing notice can only be made upon the close of pleadings and not earlier or before.”
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Armed with the very consequential judgment, Sani is asking the Justice Victor Oviawie-led Tribunal to revisit his earlier motion during the pre-hearing stage, that Isa and PDP had abandoned their petition and be dismissed.
Another pre-hearing motion from the governor also called for the dismissal of the petition for being filed out of time.
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While the PDP petition bore official imprints of being filed at 11:45pm on the last day allowed by the extant laws, 9th of April, 2023, both the computer-generated payment evidence for the filing and the receipt issued by the Tribunal secretariat, bore 10th April, 2023, showing the petition was filed out of time.
Both receipts, showing N14,300 paid, had the name of Mr. Samuel Atung, a Silk.
Pleading an early end, Chief Ojo said “The nature of the application argued is such that could bring this Petition to an end. The Court of Appeal has recently terminated a petition based on an application that is on all fours with the one already argued by the 2nd Respondent (Sani).
In the motion referenced by the governor’s legal team, the Tribunal had said ruling would be taken alongside the final judgement in the Petition.
The APC team is contending that the latest Court of Appeal judgement had declared such wait, unnecessary, with Justice Oyewole saying an abandoned petition can be terminated at any point in the proceedings and could be suo moto, done, by the Tribunal.
In the Motion for dismissal, Chief Ojo, argued that the petition, having suffered incurable procedural error, is deemed abandoned by laws guiding petition adjudication.
He cited several legal authorities in his written address, especially decided cases of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, to show the petitioners had procedurally defaulted.
In Maku v Sule, the Supreme Court held that petitioners cannot file pre-hearing notice, either prematurely or out of time.
Where this happens, the apex court’s position is that the entire petition should be dismissed.
“In a long line of cases, it has been stated, restated and reiterated what the consequence of not applying for the issuance of Form TF007 would portend and that is the dismissal of the petition” the court had ruled.
PDP and Isa however kicked, insisting that they applied for pre-trial on 26th May, 2023 and not 16th May, 2023, adding that a competent application for the issuance of pre-hearing notice, was made.
The response, taken out by S.K Musa, SAN, said the application for dismissal, “proceeds from an erroneous assumption that the application for pre-hearing of 16th May, 2023, is the only application made by the petitioners, without considering that there was a subsequent application made at the close of proceedings.”
Relying on the established precedents, Chief Ojo however, drew the attention of the Tribunal to the petitioners’ defence, as an attempt to correct the anomaly in their filings, which according to him, also failed to regularise the defective procedure they adopted.
In the further and better affidavit, the governor’s legal team leader said: “The application dated 26th May 2023 being an attempt by the petitioners to re-open pleadings is still invalid, as there was no application or an attempt to withdraw the application dated 16 May, 2023.
“Whichever way, there is no competent application for the issuance of a pre-hearing information sheet, placed validly before this Tribunal.
“The petitioners are under an obligation to apply for the issuance of a pre-hearing information sheet within seven days after the 30th day of May, 2023.
Truth needs to be spoken to power. What manner of leadership are Ecowas leaders providing in their countries? You don’t wield power just for the sake of it!
Why not! When politically elected leaders are corrupt and insensitive to the public interest. The people who appear powerless in the face of assaults by poverty will swing as the wind blows! Imagine Nigerian lawmakers splashing 70 billion on new cars to be purchased with forex when innoson vehicles are available at lesser costs.
Sicilyjoe: U got it correctly, see Simon Ekpa response
The Nnamdi Kanu known to YouTube could not have written that letter! Forget it! The Igbo now know that the location of the real Zoo will be known to all during and after the two weeks sit at home and they are on a cover up mission. Pathetic!
Crime › Re: Optometrist Died After Scuffle With Her Husband by zoedew: 5:32am On Aug 08, 2023*. Modified: 8:01am On Aug 08, 2023
of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) in respect of which ruling would be delivered along with the final judgement.”