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Vance is slated to attend the G20 in stead of Trump. If Tinubu would attend the summit, it means there's still some credibility to that initial report about Tinubu meeting with JD Vance.

Personally, I like the fact that the US is putting the frighteners on the Tinubu administration. The fact that they are so riled up and are desperate to have talks with The White House is definitely a something to take pleasure in. Nigerians have been crying out for military intervention from the FG over the persistent terrorist and banditry attacks. It has all been crickets from the FG. All it took is for the US president to lord his country's might before the FG could get its act together.

On the other hand, I doubt Trump would actually carry on with the 'invasion' regardless of how tough he sounds. Trump rode on the principle of isolationism to get elected. What he's threatening runs against that principle. So he might as well just be blowing hot air.

Nigeria's journalism is no more than rage baiting. It was too good to be true that Tinubu would be going on an official visit to the US only to meet with the US Vice President and not the president himself

SisterAnn:
Hahaha 😃

Sanwo Olu would have since relocated to peckam.

I didn't mention anybody's name ooh 😂😂

But I remember a certain governor who changed his reelection campaign strategy to include going to naming ceremonies, wedding parties, etc because the presidential candidate running on his party's platform had been defeated in that state, which coincidentally happened to be his home state.

All US elections are conducted on the same day. I see no reason the same can't happen here.

The only reason most would be opposed to this is because of the possibility of upset victories that tend to occur a lot when you conduct down ballot elections simultaneously with higher races. The popularity of candidates running for higher offices tend to push candidates contesting for lower offices across the finish line.

Imagine if the 2023 elections were all conducted in February. The outcome for most elections, especially governorships, would have likely been different than what it eventually was

Which Supreme Court judgement is that?

ajalawole:
don't say this one again. If it's not politics forget it. Same governor that deploy army to offa Erin ile border.

Governors can only request assistance of troops presence from the FG. A Governor cannot just stand up one day and be issuing directives to military units positioned in his state. Governors lack that power.

For this Kwara State, it may be possible that the governor is making efforts to seek assistance, but the problem is coming from the FG. I once heard that the FG said there's not enough soldiers to deploy

nedu666:
A governor has no power to deploy army

They don't even have exclusive power over policing, let alone the army.

This institutional centralisation of power in the FG is big part of the problem

This advice is only valid and should be taken so long as it applies both ways. In other words, if your male or female suitor insults you, then don't marry them.

Anything other than that is a one-sided take and should be discarded with

dederocs:
The victims are yorubas, get sense.

The victims are "only Yorubas", yet most of the attacks have been carried out in communities in Kwara North.

Go and get that sense you want me to find and give it to yourself.

Bandits are unrelentlessly terrorizing both Yoruba and non-Yoruba communities. Period. Stop all these Fulani agenda conspiracies

HydraFeeds:
Lol ,man get updated before you openel your mouth in public.

Over 70% of Kwara is Yoruba and the video making round yesterday where vigilantes were killed were Yorubas, even if other victims are not Yorubas ,they're probably Ibaribas .

It is obvious, even from this writeup, that you're the empty-headed one and need to get "updated".

This is not a discussion of which ethnicity dominates Kwara or whatever nonsense deflective statements you made up there.

If you, yes you, are "updated" about current events and not neck deep into your ethnic conspiracies, you'd easily recognise that both Kwara North and Kwara South have been consistently under heavy attacks in recent times

HydraFeeds:
Dont be a joke .

The attackers are Fulanis and the victims are Yorubas .

You are the joke here.

The community that was attacked here is not a Yoruba-speaking community

netricoin:
These look like a tribal war between d bandits and yorubas. D bandits who do not like d BAT APC FG have been attacking d yorubas in d NC
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For goodness' sake, what's wrong with you people that think like this? Must you attach ethnic undertones to every single issue that pops up?

Did you even read the news report? They attacked a non-Yoruba speaking community in a non-Yoruba LGA, yet you're here spewing ethnic cleansing conspiracies

HydraFeeds:
It's a coordinated attack ,it's not a bandit attack but ethnic cleansing.

This kind of thinking is shameful. Please, receive sense. They are killing people. They don't give a rat's ass what ethnicity their victims are.

Judolisco:
oga it's all thesis or dissertation... It's jst the depth of the work that differs... At undergraduate level it's usually less extensive..... Go and check the meaning of thesis itself

Project - undergraduate
Dissertation - master's
Thesis - phD

It is only here that this distinction in terminology is made. Like you said, they all describe the same kind of work. The terms simply distinguish the increasing depth expected at each stage

LordIsaac:
What an article! Just verbatim with no central theme.

Thank you very much. Someone had to say it. Poor journalism. The reporter/writer just churned out verbosity without purpose nor insight

ajalawole:
how old is the emir Mr emir speak person. Has the Governor or even the emir do or speak against all the killing in Kwara north

I don't disagree with you. The government is not acting aggressively to tackle it.

All I'm saying is, people should stop making it about politics

Rootprof:
My people i keep shouting help kwara north, Edu and Patigi are becoming tough to live everyday. Don't know/see what the govo is doing concerning insecurity in our land. Gbugbu international market can't be accessed for month now due to insecurity now Yikpata camp too. What's left then. Rural settlers are leaving their homes and properties in numbers, millions lost, crazy crazy crazy.

It's so terrible.

I don't understand why the governor has not taken decisive action yet. This thing has been going on for months now. Kwara North and South is terrorised at this point.

Only Kwara Central is a bit calm

mastermaestro:
Stop living in self-denial. Someone just opened your eyes to the true picture, unfortunately you still choose to continue lying to yourself. Reality will clear your eyes in the coming days.

What self-denial? What are you saying? Why must you people always politicize terror? These bandits are killing everybody, Yoruba, Nupe, Hausa, Fulani and what-not.

They don't give a rat ass who is Emir or who's governor or whatever political spin you people are adding to it

ajalawole:
the insecurity is likely a game plan bro. The current emir is old, and most Yoruba may not want another Fulani emir, Fulani may also not want Yoruba emir or oba so those guys maybe taking position in time for the eventualities. The government may not know this, but is likely.

What's with you people and these narratives that the emir is old, that there's dislike for Fulani or Yoruba Emir blah blah blah.?

SarkinYarki:
Na lie , nothing concern Trump with external elections , he is not Obama ....

Oh yeah? Check Ireland's election where he's pushing Connor McGregor to run for president.

However, I do agree with you in the sense that Nigeria is too inconsequential for Trump to care who's president.

We are mistaken to think the US rates us like that. Even Ghana here has more geopolitical significance in West Africa than mother Nigeria.

How much is the councillor's salary himself?

Unless he collects allowances for aides, he'd be personally responsible for their renumeration.

Kwam 3 in the making.

The only problem is, there'd be nothing to trade it off with, unlike the first two Kwams

ryloy:
BREAKING: 19-year-old APC candidate wins councillor seat in Rivers State.

There is a question of eligibility hanging over this. Is a 19 year old eligible to run for a councillorship?

Ideally, it depends on what is provided under the Local Government Law of the state. For most states, a person must be 25. But again, the laws of every state vary. So it might be different in Rivers

Kobojunkie:
You are right. I learned that Judicial interpretations/opinions, even in Nigeria, are not absolute— they can be challenged and overruled/overturned, hence the importance of knowing the details of the Law itself.

Now, can we move on?

Say hi to Chat Gpt for me.

So people now rely on Chat Gpt to give responses in conversations? Wonders of all wonders

Kobojunkie:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This coming from someone whose language so far more than establishes him as one sitting on exactly that... a high horse. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Abeg, waka pass me with your particular issues.

You just accurately summed up your attitude. Thank you for saving me the stress of doing that.

At any rate, I'm glad you learnt something new about the legal system. It gives me joy that I updated your outdated knowledge.

Cheers

Kobojunkie:
I prefer to focus on learning what the Law instead says.
[quote author=Kobojunkie post=136611406]Again, pay close attention to what is being said so you do not keep needing to go off on these meaningless rants.

[/quote]Perhaps, you need to drop off your high horse and read my response, as it clearly addresses this

Kobojunkie:
This is the only part I will bother broaching at this point since I made myself clear in previous comments on why I prefer to focus on learning what the Law instead says.

Yes, Judicial interpretations can have the force of law. However, as you also hinted at there in the last part of your post, they are not absolute and can be challenged.

Mister, you can pick up the Constitution, an Act of the National Assembly, a Law of a State House of Assembly, or even delegated legislation made by statutory bodies, and you might understand some of the provisions.

But UNDERSTANDING the law is not limited to just reading statutes. You are still straitjacketing your understanding of what “law” truly entails.

Like I said, case law adds flesh to statutes. You can't understand the law if all you do is to read statutes but don't read judicial decisions on how those laws apply

Kobojunkie:
...... Knowing what I know of Nigerian judicial decisions and how they tend to violate/contravene even the Law of the land from time to time, I rather focus m learning what the Law in fact says.

And no, your court decisions are not intended to form part of the Law. Rather, Court decisions are meant to comply with the Law. Otherwise, they violate they are in direct violation of the Law and ought to be done away with. That is why any right minder person should insist on knowing what the Law says before investigating other opinions.

This is such a flawed take. I didn't even understand most of that. And you clearly don't know a lot about the Nigerian legal system.

Again, the court's pronouncements constitute our corpus juris (body of laws). When there's a dispute as to the interpretation of provisions of a legislation (which appears to be the only form of law you know), the court is the avenue to give correct meaning to it. It is their interpretation that adds flesh to legislation

There are rules to statutory interpretation. Sometimes, when the court interprete legislations, you'd be surprised at how the law can be stretched or restricted so that it can be applied to fit the circumstances of a case.

I suppose that's why a layman like yourself can arrogantly state that "judicial decisions violate the law of land".

Let it be known to you today that, whatever authoritative interpretation the courts give to a statute acquires the force of law. The only ways such interpretation will cease its authority is if It's overturned by higher courts (eg Supreme Court overturning the Court of Appeal judgement) or by the same court in future cases (eg Supreme Court reversing its decision on a point of law it had decided in the past) or through legislative amendment (eg when the court interprete a statute, it may expose some weaknesses in that legislation, so it behoves on the legislature to amend that legislation so as to cure that deficiency. Go and read about Amaechi V INEC where the Supreme Court held that votes belong to the candidates and not the party. And in response, the NASS quickly ran to amend the section 141 of the Electoral Act, 2010)

Kobojunkie:
Why not include a image referencing the actual record and section of the law where these ideas are recorded?

The OP cited a landmark case law where the Court of Appeal made the pronouncement. That forms part of our laws and all lower courts must apply it as it is. Laws are not only recorded in statutes. The court's pronouncements(case law) forms part of law too

I take it as his own version of corporate social responsibility (CSR), since most of our companies here hardly believe in CSR at all

Lord knows I love biscuits.

But one pattern I’ve noticed with locally produced biscuits (especially the ones from Yale) is that, whenever they launch a new product, the first few batches come out with good quality. After that, it’s as if the standard falls, and what follows is a watered-down version of the original

DEROX:
Native Americans and red indies have a deep hatred for Democrats let's wait and see

Well, they were, rightfully, saying the same for Latinos. But in recent months, the tide has been moving in a different direction