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Fineman2:
Vice President Kamala Harris just landed another major endorsement as she barrels toward the Democratic nomination: former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.




https://africa.businessinsider.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president/8k75qkj

Finally! Though I'm curious why this didn't happen earlier on. The likes of Obama, Shumer Hakeem Jefferies and other top Democrats seemed to be holding off their endorsements.

JuicyStar:
This is just paper victory. By the time appeal is entered and heard, new government don take over.

He is fighting for his entitlements post-tenure. Typical Nigerian politician. The constitution actually says that if a governor or his deputy is impeached, he shall not be entitled to pension and gratuity.

LegendHero:
Anything cannot be deemed to be offense. It will be unjust on the part of the people that made the law. That is why the court will interpret.

If I suddenly say “Shuaibu abuse the governor verbally” arrange my house and justice to impeach him on that. Will that be a fair thing?

Can I just trump up any offense to impeach anyone as I want? Then that means all governor can easily impeach their deputy as they deem fit anytime because that law just turn them to emperor.

The law is what it is and not necessarily what it should be.

Unfortunately, this is not the United States where impeachment and subsequent trial of the president must be on grounds of treason, bribery or contain at least some form of criminal element inappropriate for the president.

Every impeachment case that has been upturned in Nigeria has been on the basis of some procedural defects, not on the ground of the nature of the allegations. Maybe in the future, the Supreme Court will expose this seeming flaw by giving a liberal interpretation. But until then, this is the law.

Besides, on what basis was Balarabe Musa impeached in the 2nd Republic by the Kaduna state House of Assembly ? Simply because he had a different ideology with the opposition party which happened to be the majority party in the Assembly at the time. That was his "offense". The 1979 constitution which was in operation at the time had the same impeachment provisions (including the ouster clause) as the extant 1999 Constitution. The case reached the Supreme Court and his impeachment was upheld, as there was no breach of due process.

His case still stands as a precedent for courts to decline jurisdiction on impeachment matters.

senatordave1:
Lol,gross misconduct must be a grievous offence and all the offences mentioned were petty offences...infact,there was no misconduct actually.removsl of an incumbent is a serious issue and courts do not easily remove them...
Have you noticed that in all similar matters of impeachment of incumbents,the courts usually rule in their favour?

Yes, it is a serious matter. Yet, the court's jurisdiction to entertain any matter on the impeachment proceedings is expressly ousted under section 188 (10).

The court will only entertain a matter on impeachment when there's a breach of due process.

BleedingPen:
•orders IGP to immediately restore his security



https://metrowatchxtra.com/2024/07/17/breaking-court-reinstates-philip-shaibu-as-edo-deputy-governor-metrowatch/

Impeachment is a political matter anyway. A governor or his deputy can only be impeached on allegation of gross misconduct.

Now, S188 (11) of the constitution actually gives the state house of assembly the discretion to determine what can amount to gross misconduct. The provision itself only gives a sketchy definition of gross misconduct.

"In this section - “gross misconduct” means a grave violation or breach of the provisions of this Constitution or a misconduct of such nature as amounts in the opinion in the House of Assembly to gross misconduct."

Ideally, anything can be deemed to be his offense as per this provision.

The ouster clause on the court's jurisdiction on impeachment matters extends to the nature of the the allegations. It's not the court's business to ascertain the merit of the allegations.

Even in the said Inakoju's case, one of the instances cited by the court which can amount to gross misconduct is changing of political parties (defection).

So if defection, as politically contentious as it is, can amount to gross misconduct in the opinion of the house, why can't ordinary aspiration of a deputy governor to contest for the governorship under the same party be counted as same?

I feel this decision was given per incuriam and will be upturned on appeal.

ogbe88:
U made no sense.

He is the incoming president.

Now, it is you that has made absolutely no sense. Read your comment again and carefully examine it. He is the incoming president as per? Election has been conducted and the votes counted?

Or are you into crystal gazing? You should indicate if you are into prophecy at least.

You are just, I guess, one of those Trump supporters who are incapable of having a rational discussion.

israelmao:
With this act and happening presidential victory is done and dusted in favour Trump even with bloody ear Trump was still able to muster strength to pump his fist into the air.

This sort of observation. Lol.

Maybe it will strengthen his support among his MAGA base.

But for the swing, more rational voters, nah. The whole fist in the air thing would not sway any reasonable undecided voter.

Who misses an alleged assassination attempt only to conduct himself in a way to give the idea that he is a hero?

Thiefobi1:
Republican are the problem with America.

Democrat have been campaigning for gun control over the years.

Republican big wig owns major gun factories in the US and are directly creating an unsafe environment. Imaging walking down the street of New York and people display guns as if it a souvenir.

No restrictions nothing.

Something should be done to reduce the number of guns in circulation with civilian population.

This should serve as a warning to them.

Thank you very much for this apt and thoughtful opinion.

Why some people here are putting the blame on Democrats and the "deep state" whatever (even though there's no single evidence to buttress that), I would never know.

No one has stoked more violence than Trump himself. This is likely the result of his own divisive rhetorics over the years.

In fact, in the footage, you literally see him pushing through his security details, raising his fist and mouthing "fight, fight"— all in an effort to sell the narrative of being an "hero".

Dude, you just missed a shot and the only thing you can think of is how to sway the media optics to your advantage. Just pathetic!

Kobojunkie:
Please go read your Constitution abeg before you continue yammering! Sadly, most of you are simply parroting the same delusions that have been fed to you by your politicians who use you lot to further what are their illegalities. See how you are busy arrogantly broadcasting what is ignorance of your laws without even realizing what you are doing.

FG has no right by Law to withhold money from States, the same way States have no right to withhold funds from the LGs. Nigerians keep saying they want true federalism but here you are all asking for the alternative by handing power over states and LGs to the FG. I don't understand why you people switch off your brains. Those states implicated are guilty of illegally accessing LG funds. It is up to the people of Nigeria to punish those governors and the people can do so by calling for their impeachment and then prosecution. Trying to solve a problem of illegality using another illegal act is a sure way of promoting corruption and ineptitude.

It seems you're confused. What those provisions of s162 you are adducing is saying is, the NASS (in respect of funds in the federation account; subsection (5)) and state HoAs (with respect to the state's IGR; subsection ( ) shall determine the percentage of revenue the LGs will get.
Their roles are limited to determining the proportion of revenue to be allocated to the LGs.

So, your point again?

Kobojunkie:
Please go read your Constitution abeg before you continue yammering! Sadly, most of you are simply parroting the same delusions that have been fed to you by your politicians who use you lot to further what are their illegalities. See how you are busy arrogantly broadcasting what is ignorance of your laws without even realizing what you are doing.

FG has no right by Law to withhold money from States, the same way States have no right to withhold funds from the LGs. Nigerians keep saying they want true federalism but here you are all asking for the alternative by handing power over states and LGs to the FG. I don't understand why you people switch off your brains. Those states implicated are guilty of illegally accessing LG funds. It is up to the people of Nigeria to punish those governors and the people can do so by calling for their impeachment and then prosecution. Trying to solve a problem of illegality using another illegal act is a sure way of promoting corruption and ineptitude.

Perhaps you should demonstrate your own "knowledge" of constitutional law by acknowledging the fact that in every federal system government, the federal government remains the most powerful among the three tiers, notwithstanding the level of devolution of powers.

And by the way, in this particular LG financial autonomy case, you haven't provided a cogent explanation as to how the SC is "handing over power" of LGs to the FG simply because the SC ruled that the FG should temporarily withold funds as means of enforcing the provisions of the constitution.

You are the one that talking about the possibility of governors' failure to observe the judgement. If the SC doesn't rule this way, perhaps you might be right.


Please, find something else to say!

Kobojunkie:
The so-called enforcement would be in violation of the Constitution and would only shift more power over the LGs into the hands of the FG. It is anti-True federalism.

I suppose you are among the bandwagon of people that are saying the SC has rewritten the provisions concerning the LG in the constitution.

What the SC has simply done is give a liberal interpretation in which case, it has reinforced what the original drafters of the constitution have in mind.

The FG's sole role at the moment is just to withold the funds of states with caretaker committe, pending the period when elections will be held to install a DEMOCRATICALLY formed LG. Of course, this is just to give effect to this judgement for now. Going forward, governors will be hands off LGs and their allocations will sale through without undue interferences. It's not like as if the FG will continue to withold funds whenever it feels like.
The FG will not have a reason to withold funds of LGs in the first place, so long as it is democratically constituted.

fergie001:
Tinubu will not withhold it, the Govs are a powerful unit so much that when they gang up, it is almost impossible to beat them.

The best Tinubu will do is give them time before the end of the year to conduct LG elections.

I don't get why some are downplaying the enforcement of the SC judgement. It is the highest court of the land and it has decreed that this should be so. The judgement must be obeyed without demand. This idea that governors would not obey is just moot.

Musauzor:
You have started being afraid of Trump already , the slayer of terrorists and their sympathizers

Trump? Slayer of terrorists? Lol

Obrigardo:
President Biden hosted a record breaking fundraiser, raising $25m and had Past presidents Obama and Bill Clinton in the event.
Here's a pic of the three in a warm exchange after the event.

At least, Democrats are united behind their candidate, unlike the twice-impeached disgraced, convicted, liable rapist, proven racist, conman, fraudulent ex president Donald Trump, whose fellow partymen are sick of. Even his own vice president doesn't support him; he hasn't endorsed him. Thasts how bad of a candidate Trump is.

TopNotchTrends:
Davido’s New Lawyers Write Dammy Krane, Give Him 24 Hours Over Viral ‘Murderer and Cheat’ Post

Davido's new lawyer is currently working pro bono. First Davido sues his babymama Sophia Momodu, now he is sueing singer Dammy Krane Over Defamation of character and false accusation of murder.

Remember that Dammy Krane has been all over Davido in recent times, making uncontrolled tweets and publicly dragging Davido over the internet.

A suit from Davido has now been shared online and which was also delivered by email to Dammy Krane requiring him to explain the murder which he accused Davido of.

Find the lawsuit attached below.

What do you think guys?

This single act of his (ie the tweets) constitutes both a civil wrong and a crime.

Defamation is the civil wrong and if the action is successful, he will be forced to pay compensation to Davido in addition to deleting those tweets.

His claims and the persistence with which he pushed them amounts to Cyber stalking, which is criminalised by the Cybercrime Act, in which case a successful prosecution will land him in prison and/or with fine. Even without Davido and his people filing an information, he can arrested.

The other option is for him to simply just do as requested, which is to delete the tweet and save himself from the imbroglio that will prevail out of his failure to do so, unless of course, he has credible proof to back up his claims.

Francis500:
Realgist

This is awesome! Kudos to him.

However, op, this headline is misleading. Nowhere in your post did you even mention anything relating to the wife expressing regret.

Tflex01:
As a governor Tinubu gave more power to the Local Government and even created more (LCDA) because he believed that is the way governance can easily get to the people although this caused a big fight between him and Obasanjo then.

With Tinubu's antecedents, I won't be surprised if he swiftly assent to the bill that will return Nigeria to regional Government but that's going to offend the Northerners a lot.

This bill seeks to alter the constitution in which case, the approval of the both houses of the National Assembly and 2/3 of all state houses of assembly is needed for it to scale through. Neither TInubu's nor any state governor's assent is required, as per S9 of the constitution.

The relevant questions to ask now is, is it feasible to get 2/3 of all state legislatures to approve of this? Is the NASS in cahoots with the state legislatures? Is the whole NASS even on board with this?

People mistakenly think that this bill will have a hasty passage just like the national anthem bill, nayyy. This time around, it's a whole lot different.

Davidic1999:
Allahu akbar

72 virgins awaits him in heaven, he couldn't wait to enjoy

At least, if you want to submit hypocritic, senseless, brain dead comments, do well to read the article thoroughly at first. It is clearly stated there that the deceased was an "hajia", meaning that the person was a woman.

STEWpid:
Chai..






The new President is always the cause of the problem.


What we're seeing today are accumulated catastrophes.


Hence, we expect Mr. BAT to use his magic wand tool as promised.

You call a year and a day old presidency new?

I would assume the only thing making him "powerful" is his ability to impeccably rig the election. That's it. The man is just unpopular. If the election were to be conducted today and rigging was factored out, there's no question that Tinubu would spectacularly lose.

hammer567:
U ARE WHAT WE CALLED A TIME WASTER.


IS THIS HOW U PEOPLE DESTROYED LAGOS STATE?


ALWAYS TALKING NONSENSE AND MAKING THREATS, FOLLOWED BY CRIMINALITY?



YORUBA SHOULD TRY AND CHANGE.




RIVERS STATE MATCHING FORWARD, UNDER FUBARA. NUFF SAID!

Lol

You are just saying what pleases your ears. It's obvious that the only time waster here is you. You are incapable of a rational discourse. Who says I'm from Lagos?

hammer567:
WHEN U WRITE ENGLISH LANGUAGE YOU SOUND LIKE SAY, YOU GET SENSE BUT AS A YORUBA MAN, U NO GET ANY SENSE, JUST CRIMINALITY.




LET ME CORRECT BOTH YOU AND FALANA NOW, SINCE YOU PEOPLE ARE INCOMPETENT IN GIVING UNSOLICITED ADVICE.



RIVERS STATE GOVERNMENT CAN PROVIDE THE STATE ASSEMBLY WITH TEMPORARY VENUE FOR THE LEGISLATIVE FUNCTION INVIEW OF THE EMERGENCY NATURE FOLLOWING THE FIRE INCIDENT.



IT IS LEGAL AND WITHIN THE DUTIES OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT.



IT IS STILL THE STATE GOVERNMENT THAT WILL BUILD THE NEW ASSEMBLY BUILDING.

Okay, sir/ma.

Going by your choice of words, yes, as you've said, the Rivers State *GOVERNOR "can", not MUST, provide an alternative venue. I am glad you at least acknowledge that the governor is not duty bound to decide where legislative business should take place.

But if you still disagree, furnish me with any statutory authority to support your assertion.

darikhua:
But the house is been renovated, where should the lawmakers sit, in your house mr. Falana?

Indeed, it is! However, Falana's contention is that there's no constitutional provision to the effect that the governor, being a member of the executive, can decide where the house should sit. That's purely up to the House to decide, not the governor. His executive order lacks effect.

teekaykes:
Anambara state no dey... Weytin soludo do you

He was elected in 2021

Can I get admitted for Law with the following grades:

English B3
Maths A1
Literature A1
Economics B2
IRS C5
Civic B3

What are the newly recommended literature novels for Jupeb?

Please I'm desperately in need of it!

Please, does anyone know how the scores of WAEC GCE is arrived at.

Is everything added up and multipled by 100?

For instance, if obj is 50 and theory is 100, will the total score be over 150 * 100?

Hello!

I've been trying to sign up for Trove but it keeps saying BVN verification failed. Could the problem be from them?

Clementoons:
Not really just a beginner, are you a pro? You know maybe you can teach me

No, I'm not an expert. I'm still learning, but I can teach you what I've learned.

Clementoons:
I am 17yrs old, how can i learn a gold trade by reaching to you

I'm almost the same age as you. Have you thought of going into stocks?

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Hey!