Well, another platform for corruption has been raised again. Who is trying to hide the amount being paid? Pfizer of course! They're hoping they can offer some few officials a few hundred thousand dollars and lay the issue to rest, but it won't happen. This matter has carried on for about 13 years now and will still be on till justice is done.

Most people believe that 11 children were killed and 181 injured because of the drug test while about 12,000 died of meningitis. Wake up and smell the coffee people. 12,000 children died and their deaths could only be blamed on meningitis because there was no other explanation to what was happening. When was it discovered that Pfizer was testing drugs? How was it discovered? How many children had Pfizer experimented on before they were found out? How come it's the year that pfizer came to use our kids as guinea pigs that such a record of 12,000 children decided to die of meningitis?

Pfizer killed more than 11,000 children in their experiment. It was only 11 that had physical eveidence of trovan in their blood. It was when a massive number of deaths continued to be reorded that local health officials decided to test patients for the drugs they were being given.

Pfizer committed mass murder and no matter what, they will never escape this one.

Morpheus24,
You mean that morphology of organism has nothing to do with the use of organs? Have you ever tried to put your lips on the ground to walk with them? Do you hug people on their feet? Please don't call common sense daft. Only a madman would.

Homosexuality and Lesbianism are not natural human traits. They are not Genetic. What are the genes that transmit Homosexuality? At least we know the genes that transmit other conditions. The fact that some gay scientist went into the jungle to try to train two male chimps for years to engage in sex with each other does not prove their claim. In fact it disproves it.

That aside, rape is far worse than homosexuality. In fact a lot of lesbians have ended up on that path because of beign raped as children. There's no justification for this. Women should not be ashamed to press charges for beign raped because there nothing like a lesbian beign raped or a homosexual being raped or a hterosexual being. It's all rape!

Then again, we should not gleefully jubilate that South Africa is getting worse we should sympathise with them and try to proffer solutions and let's remember that when people outside the continent read this kind of news, they will refuse to differentiate between a Ghanaian and a South African, they just know that these Africans have started again. So whether we like it or not, it's our problem.

The only legend I see there is Olusegun Obasanjo. Most people who are young see Obasanjo as a man who just ruled Nigeria twice, but there's more to him. When we realise how he brought the Nigerian Civil War to an end even when the Federal Government and Biafran Leadership wanted to keep it lingering, then we can appreciate him as a war hero and defender of our motherland. See the way John McCain was beign celebrated as a war hero during his election campaign in the USA when he didn't even play any significant role in the Vietnam war. And yet we want to bury the memory of our greatest hero in the mud with the likes of legal towncryers who never win cases and fantasy writers.

Dangote has tried as a hardworking citizen.

Olajuwon is not a Nigerian, but he's a legend.

Emeagwali is not a Nigerian anymore too, though also a legend. He has no presence, interest or patriotism whatsoever to Nigeria.

Tosyn always gets it right. One way or the other, she does the cool stuff that everybody else doesn't notice. I'm keeping a date next Thursday.

Yippeeee!!! At last some wisdom.

We have the right to protect and defend ourselves and our properties. But that is not the only thing that better gun laws will bring. We will also have the ability to protect our liberty. As I have said in other threads previosly, if 20% of the Nigerian populace owned licensed arms, do you think any group of soldiers will try to capitulate a legitimately elected governement?

For those of you that are shouting about violence that will follow, realise that the right to carry arms does not mean people will just wake up and rent a gun to go rob or kill like it happens today (when we don even have any gun rights yet). It means gun will be licensed to qualified members of the public. Licensed guns are not used to commit crimes, unlicensed guns are. Can anyone tell me that the robbers and asassins roaming the night today is as a result of lax gun laws?

Please, we need guns. I personally to defend my human rights. In the name of the Gods, we all have private power stations, private water works, use private healthcare and have private education. We already have private security so all we're asking is the right to enhance it. Just like once upon a time we relied on candles when NEPA struck, but now we have generators so also we're beginning to learn that these "mai guards" are not enough. We want guns.

WHY AGAGU COULD NOT HAVE WON AT THE ELECTION PETITION
TRIBUNAL

Sequel to the torrents of sponsored political propaganda and misinformation from Dr. Olusegun
Agagu and his henchmen in the Ondo State government, since the Ondo State Election Petitions
Tribunal, led by the courageous Justice Garba Nabaruma, delivered his well considered and
widely celebrated judgement in the petition of Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, against the purported and
pyrrhic victory of Dr. Olusegun Agagu, it has therefore become pertinent to bring to the fore
and debunk in clear terms some of the crying insinuations of the Agagu government vis-à-vis the
historic judgement:

1. Through multi-media analysis, ninety thousand (90,000) of the so called
“disenfranchised” people, whose “votes” were cancelled by the Tribunal included
the Vice President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan; the Chief Justice of Nigeria,
Legbo Kutigi; Apostle Ayo Babalola who passed on to glory fifty years ago; the
musical legend, Michael Jackson; world boxing heroes like Mohammed Ali and Mike
Tyson; Gen. Oladipo Diya; Mrs. Cecilia Ibru; Mr. Sam Omatsheye; Governor of
Lagos State, Mr. Raji Fashola,; Senator Musiliu Obanikoro; then National Chairman
of PDP, Senator Ahmadu Ali; INEC Chairman, Prof. Maurice Iwu; Governor Peter
Obi of Anambra State; infants and under aged children; palm kernels and other
objects. And they ALL VOTED in Ondo State for Dr. Agagu at the April 14, 2007
elections!

2. Prior to the determination of the governorship petition, Dr. Agagu’s men, in the
petitions that went through full trial, had lost seven of their fifteen House of
Assembly seats and six of their eight House of Representatives seats, as well as the
only contested Senate seat of the Central Senatorial District, to the LP. This is in
contrast to the fact that ALL of the petitions brought against the nine seats won by
the LP in the House of Assembly elections by the Agagu men were dismissed for
lacking merit. Meaning the LP won clean and clear in the areas where lawful
elections took place.

3. Five of the Assembly seats lost by Agagu’s men were out of the six seats from the
Southern Senatorial District which constitute the main area where unlawful
governorship “votes” were nullified. It is instructive to note that all of these seats
were voided by the second Tribunal, headed by Justice Joseph Ikiegh.

4. None of these judgments, in both Tribunals, had any dissenting voice. All were
unanimous, implying that there were fundamental reasons that made the
cancellation of invalid votes inevitable.

5. Twenty two (22) public office holders, against Section 46, sub section 1 of the
Electoral Act 2006, signed result sheets across the disputed areas. These include
Mr. Ayo Ifayefunmi, then Agagu’s Commissioner for Agriculture who signed the
overall result from Irele Local Government; Mr. Agboola Ajayi, Chairman of Ese-
Odo Local Government at the time of election also signed results from Ese-Odo
LG; Barrister Enikuomehin, Special Assistant to Dr. Agagu, signed results from Ilaje
LG; Mr. Ola Oguntimehin, another Special Assistant to Dr. Agagu also signed
results from Okitipupa LG; and Mr. Yemi Alao, the Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, who ordinarily as the State’s Chief Law Officer was
expected to understand the law, signed result sheets in Akoko North-West, his
Local Government.

6. None of these men who signed the result sheets considered their principal’s case
good enough to defend it because when the Tribunal invited them to defend
themselves, none of them showed up. They all bolted away and melted into thin air.
In fact, Secretary to the State Government, Isaac Kekemeke, who was subpoenaed
to give evidence, was within the Tribunal premises until a few minutes before he
was to be called, only for the judges to be told that he was pressed and had to go
and ease himself. He never showed up at the Tribunal! In fact, no notable witness
was called by Agagu to defend his case. For example, Yejide Ogundipe, a lawyer and
Local Government Chairman of Ile Oluji-Oke Igbo, one of Agagu’s witnesses,
abandoned the 30-page affidavit she deposed to.

7. Whereas Dr. Mimiko engaged internationally acclaimed forensic and finger print
experts, including the world renowned Adrian Forty, with 32years experience at
Scotland Yard, to prosecute his case, Dr. Agagu, could only field one Professor,
who turned out to be FAKE. He was immediately denounced by the Lagos State
University , LASU, and the University of Lagos , UNILAG, where he claimed to
have gotten his professorship from. Agagu’s second expert witness, one Dr.
Temidayo Apata from the Joseph Ayo Babalola University , JABU, capitulated under
cross examination, abandoned his statement on oath, and asked that his
evidences/reports be discarded. The third “expert”, Prof. Charles Akinyokun, of
the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, abandoned his statement on
oath and refused to appear at the Tribunal.

8. Whereas Dr, Mimiko, LP’s gubernatorial candidate, now Governor-elect, and the
LP State Chairman, Dr. Olaiya Oni, personally gave evidences before the Tribunal,
neither Dr. Agagu nor Dr. Tayo Dairo, PDP State Chairman, who has now
embarked on spurious advertorials, could muster the courage to appear before the
Tribunal

9. Whereas Dr. Mimiko deployed internationally renowned forensic experts to prove
his case, Dr. Agagu got permission to do forensic examination but he chickened
out, when he was confronted with scary discoveries made by his own forensic
experts.

10. Going by the inability of most of Agagu’s witnesses to replicate before the Tribunal,
the signatures on the statements/affidavits they were supposed to have earlier
deposed to, it became evident that, contrary to the law of the land, the
statements/affidavits were done and signed on their behalf.

11. Most of the nullified unlawful votes were those endorsed with the stamps of the
defunct FEDECO, NECON and NEC. Worse still, the stamp of the National Union
of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, and that of DEXSO, a furniture making
outfit in the State were used on results in most parts of the Southern Senatorial
District where unlawful votes were voided

12. Out of the total figure of two hundred and seventy six thousand, nine hundred and
thirty eight (276, 938) votes declared in the petitioned areas, only One hundred
and fifty two thousand, four hundred and seventy four (152, 474) ballot papers
were physically counted during the recounting exercise ordered by the Tribunal.
This translates to a false declaration of One hundred and twenty four thousand,
four hundred and sixty four (124, 464) excess votes for Dr. Agagu. Dr. Mimiko was
able to prove through this that votes were merely allocated for Agagu.

13. Dr. Mimiko was able to produce unused voter cards where Dr. Agagu claimed to
have scored, in many cases, a hundred percent votes. Through this, he was able to
prove that registered voters were not allowed to vote in the affected areas,
thereby making purported votes declared for Dr. Agagu to be invalid, in line with
Section 179, sub section 2, of the Electoral Act 2006.

14. Whereas Dr. Mimiko tendered more than two thousand (2000) documentary
evidences to prove how he won the election, Dr. Agagu could only tender less than
twenty (weak and mostly irrelevant) documents to defend how he won the
election.

15. Dr. Mimiko clearly won where lawful election took place. For instance, his 34,209
votes in Akure, the State capital, where election observers monitored the process,
was more than the 28,500 votes scored by all the other seven contestants,
including Dr. Agagu, put together.

16. Rather than concentrate on prosecuting his case at the Tribunal, Dr. Agagu chose
some other unconventional ways which ultimately failed because of the strength of
character of members of the Tribunal. It is on record that Justice Ikiegh, the
Chairman of the second panel openly castigated “some people” trying to bribe
them with N100million. If Agagu’s team lost fourteen (14) of the eighteen (18)
cases that went through full trial, then it’s obvious where the desperate bribery
attempts were coming from.


Conclusion

As noted by Mimiko’s lead counsel, Dr. Agagu’s defence at the Tribunal was like a motorcycle,
which could not have stood on the way of Dr. Mimiko’s moving train of evidences. It was simply
a battle meant to be lost by Dr. Agagu.
Rather that engage in its present show of shame (of the discredited rent a crowd syndrome;
wasting public funds on spurious advertorials; abuse of the Nigerian Judiciary, etc,) which is
borne out of frustration, Dr. Olusegun Agagu should go ahead, if he thinks he has any ground of
appeal, and file his appeal against the judgement. We have no doubt that Dr. Olusegun Mimiko
will be sworn-in as the Governor of Ondo State, hours after the verdict of the Court of Appeal.
Facts, they say, never lie. The people shall win again.

Dr. Olaiya Oni
Chairman,
Labour Party, Ondo State .



I just searched this on http://mimikoforgovernor.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/why-agagu-did-not-win.pdf     I haven't even read it yet but I guess it sheds some light too.

Here is a lesson for all of you. Whether right or wrong, always hire a damn good lawyer!

, And the Nobel Prize for Economics goes to Jimoh Ibrahim who just propounded that the recession can be turned around if Central Banks simply printed more currency. Hurray!!! The global economic crisis ends today.

Anyway, more seriouly, economists are here and there, on the papers and TV screens, trying to enlighten us on the current global financial crisis. They’re so busy inventing fancy terminologies, catch phrases and euphemism to describe the hot pot we’re in that they all forget to mention one slight detail. The last time the world economy was so bad, it was the Great Depression; and the last time it was the Great Depression, it ended up in World War II. So while we’re all busy credit crunching, bailing out, stimulus planning and rescuing, a war is brewing right under our noses.

The different bailout plans by governments all over the world will come with anti-freetrade conditions, which will try to better them off by making their traditional business partners worse off. Nothing quite different from the “beggar-my-neighbour” policies most European countries employed during the Depression. The bailout will come with a lot of borrowing of which few will be able, if at all willing to pay. The rescue plan will be shrouded in total dubiety that has already seen at least one government being scammed by its own corporations to the tune of $70 billion. A lot of lenders and taxpayers are already getting very pissed to put it mildly.

Massive capital flight will lead to nationalization of foreign firms and producing nations will fight against any stimulus or rescue plan intent on denying them a market for their commodities. Already, the E.U has taken the U.S.A to the W.T.O over clauses in their bailout plan that show bias to firms that will stop importing European raw materials. Then of course, there’s another part of the U.S stimulus plan with dedication towards cutting importation of crude oil and reliance on other fossil fuels. This won’t make Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Iran any happier than we’ve ever seen them.

This issue of seeking alternative energy is one of those reverse engineered failure schemes. Solar works fine but needs some improvements, however, any attempt at large scale production of biofuels equals to food crisis which is the bane of the global recession we’re seeing today. Sometimes we forget to link events, but not long ago, when the biofuel craze was on, Italy complained about less wheat to feed, Nigeria cried for more rice and we realized the world was in food crises. Did we produce more food? No. Households dedicated more revenue to feeding and less on paying their loans and mortgages. So here we are today, no more food crises its economic crises. Why should we go through this again 360 degrees? Because Obama says so?

To me though, the most ridiculous part of the American stimulus plan is the one targeted at import substitution of Chinese goods in order to create jobs and reduce trade deficit. Is this really wise? China gets most of its revenue from exporting finished goods to the U.S.A. This same China has also lent hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S government now the U.S wants to utilize a large chunk of that cash in making sure China has a lesser share of its market in the future thereby drastically reducing revenue to the Chinese government, causing unemployment, poverty and winding down industries. I don’t know if China will get the joke.

At the end of World War I a similar scenario played out when factories in Japan and America went into a massive production frenzy hoping that a Europe just coming out of a devastating war would have to rely on imports. However, when Germany, France, Russia and England preferred to go through with the baptism of fire by getting back on their own feet especially with loans they had obtained mostly from Japan, Switzerland and the U.S.A, it was a complete disaster for the creditors.

The truth is, there’s nothing new under the sun. The history books may teach us that how the Second World War began because Adolph Hitler went psycho, but as events unfold, the entire history will replay. Already, Nicolas “the mouth” Sarkozy declared as E.U president that Europe should pool together a Sovereign-Wealth Fund to save industries all over Europe and Germany has vehemently rejected any such plan, knowing full well who will be responsible for footing most of the bill. So what was is now being.

Today, the two power blocks have already been formed already; the E.U, U.S.A and Australia on the one hand, and the P.R.C, Russia and India on the other. Africa and Latin America will remain neutral as ever but will come out of the crisis none-the-better. At the end of the day, the solution is either war or drastic change. Not the change of throwing money recklessly at a problem that started by throwing money recklessly.

Even Nigerian banks with an interNational Cake mentality are beginning to call for bailout from this world economic crisis, which they claim led to the stock market crash. But really, did defaults on mortgage in the U.S.A cause the NSE to crash? Did subprime lending in America cause Nigerian banks to bloat their share prices? In fact, my own theory is that the crash of the NSE contributed to the global recession. If the American economy was ailing yet the Nigerian Stock market was performing the wonders it did in 2007, businesses would not have pulled out the funds from the NSE. In fact, they would have even pulled out from other economies and lined up to invest in our stock exchange. Nigeria caused its own problems; end of story.

Please somebody, where’s the IMF? I thought this was their area of specialization? Where are they hiding? Don’t they have all their programs and policies and austerity measures anymore? When it comes to Zimbabwe, their expertise will shine through and they will be able to tell a broke government how to spend $500 billion at a 20% compound interest annually for 50 years in order to have a 1% growth. Now that the countries it was initially created to help are back in economic turmoil it’s all silent from the Monetary Fund.

It’s becoming sort of monotonous that I keep going back to China, yet China is the only country that has produced a bailout plan with a backbone. One that focuses on infrastructural development, with enough cash to back it up without having to borrow a dime, a stimulus plan for agriculture, transportation, housing and more power generation. The exact kind of plan that Nigeria needs but will never put together.

Crude oil price is plunging at a period when temperate countries are seeing their worst winter in decades. Summer will bring in worse crude oil revenue, probably unit price per barrel before the year runs out, still there’s absolutely nothing being done. Nothing. No refineries being built, no railroads being constructed, no new ports or jetties, no water purification plants, even the Independent Power Projects built 2006/2007 and already commissioned are yet to generate a Watt. Vision 20-20-20 will forever remain a vision.

So back home, no matter what route the world takes in solving the global recession, everything remains the same here. Nigeria has never survived by planning and strategy, it’s been pure luck; good and bad. So I see no reason why we can’t start our own war over here and hope for the best. By the way, I’m just as glad to see Rilwan Lukman again as the Americans would be to see George Bush back in power come 2012.

@chidichris,

I never told you that Nigeria was operating a True Democracy. What I'm trying to Tell you is that Nigeria is operating a democracy and in a democracy, the power is in the hands of the people. Nobody gives it to them, the demand it because it's theirs. But if they as you all have refused to demand it, the selected few are using it to oppress you.

Thank you for showing yourself as a standard example of the cowardice we're talking about. You have already promised us certain death if we try to deliver power back in your hands from a minority group. Do you actually believe that 80,000 Nigerian foot soldiers would conquer 139,920,000 citizens, or you're just too scared of being among the few who might die? How many died in Indonesia?

@chidichris,

In true democracy, power lies in the hands of the people. The executives cannot take action unless ratified by the votes of legislators and the votes of legislators is decided by referendums in their various constituencies. That's in True Democracy O! Most people look up at the USA when they think of true democracy but at a time when a USA president was having less than 30% approval rating, he was still smiling in office meanwhile in Japan that would not be possible. And it is a very wrong statement when we continue to say "X" president is ruling us, or is holding on to power. He never had power. The power remains with the people. The president is just a manager, a mediator and not a power wielder. The word president comes from "to preside" which is like to moderate. He's just a person we trust to act fairly in decision making relating to the entire polity.

Please everyone has been talking about this move but I don't know if I should get it. I hate rubbish. And since I work in Multimedia production, I know rubbish when I see it. You guys better not make me buy this movie and realize it's crap.

The problem with Nigeria is not bad leadership but bad followership. Imagine a nation like Nigeria with population of more than 100,000,000 people in the 1990s being harassed and kicked around by less than 100,000 military men. It's just sick. In most other countries, leaders are not transparent just because. The reason is that there's a VIGILANT populace willing to take action against it when necessary. There's a country where citizens are constitutionally allowed to bear arms and today most citizens of that country don't know why and Here in Nigeria however, there are only few freedom fighter who will be slaughtered and the rest cower in fear. Besides, the leaders come from within the populace it's. They're not imported from Mars. So it's not our leaders that are bad, it's the citizens who are ignorant, lazy, unserious, tribalist and sheepish.

Ojukwu, the man who ran abroad "in search of peace" after squandering millions of lives of Nigerians in vain.

People, please stop this. If this match ever too place, FIFA would have records of it.

The worst football scores ever gotten at a FIFA level are:

Australia 22–0 Tonga

Australia 32–0 American Samoa


Abeg, me sef hear the Nigerian-Indian lie when i be small pickin all the way for Kano. Absolute fallacy.

Global Warming is just a complete sham. I thought I was the only one that knew. But really I just search this "cow fart tax" thing. Obama is one of those pushing for it. Are you sure these people are not crazy. A tax for you cattle to mess. Na wah O!

@free2rhyme


Read the thread you will understand why a goat robbed and we are seeing the pic of a sheep. ONLY IN NAIJA!

I'd buy them a beer.

Lucky me. Definitely I will.

She is my rock.

I've really not been to Nairaland much lately, but when I logged on last weekend and saw this story, I almost laughed myself to death.

You just gat to love Naija cos it only happens here. How won't we be the happiest people on earth when even the police can unearth this kind of comedy unscripted.

Well, I know most of you haven't heard that in addition to this Goat suspect, there's also a Yam suspect detained by same Nigerian Police in Agege, Lagos. http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial_opinion/article02//indexn3_html?pdate=250109&ptitle=The%20Trial%20Of%20A%20Goat&cpdate=250109
My own concern right now is that they don't put the Yam and goat suspect together in one cell 'cos I trust that such a criminally mined goat will not fail to eat up the yam in a most cannibalistic murder. And that on it's own is an entirely new case.

Soul Calibur IV on XBOX 360 and Mob Wars on Facebook.


davidylan, texazzpete, it's nice to know you're both still on the forum.

The World Cyber Games (WCG), the recognized blue chip leader for international video game competitions, has announced a partnership with mobile electronic front runner, Samsung. Through the agreement, the WCG held once again showcase the highly successful Mobile Challenge at the World Cyber Games events in 10 countries around the world including major National Finals in the USA , Korea , China , India , Singapore , UK , France , Germany , Italy , Russia and the world championship Grand Final in Cologne , Germany in 2008. This marked the largest ever number of SMC events, with three times more countries last year.







The World Cyber Mobile Challenge will showcase the new mobile games. Each national representative for the at the Grand Final will be determined through an open competition in all 10 participating nations; providing players, spectators and mobile gamers with an opportunity to become respective national representative and earn a trip to the Grand Final.





With well over one million players from more than 70 countries, the World Cyber Games is widely regarded as video gaming's premier tournament. Vodacom in South Africa is already in talks with the WGC to ensure that a South African representative is part of the action at the World Cyber Mobile Games 2009 and Zain Nigeria has also swung into action and will be putting together a National Mobile Games Championship in order to get a representative for Nigeria in the World Cyber Mobile Games Grand Final.




For more information on World Cyber Games or to register for the 2009 World Cyber Games regional tournaments, visit www.mobile-nigeria.com.com

Mail : info@mobile-nigeria.com

The World Cyber Games (WCG), the recognized blue chip leader for international video game competitions, has announced a partnership with mobile electronic front runner, Samsung. Through the agreement, the WCG will once again showcase the highly successful Mobile Challenge at the World Cyber Games events in 10 countries around the world including major National Finals in the USA , Korea , China , India , Singapore , UK , France , Germany , Italy , Russia and the world championship Grand Final in Cologne , Germany . This marks the largest ever number of SMC events, with three times more countries than last year.







The World Cyber Mobile Challenge will showcase the new mobile games. Each national representative for the at the Grand Final will be determined through an open competition in all 10 participating nations; providing players, spectators and mobile gamers with an opportunity to become respective national representative and earn a trip to the Grand Final.





With well over one million players from more than 70 countries, the World Cyber Games is widely regarded as video gaming's premier tournament. Vodacom in South Africa is already in talks with the WGC to ensure that a South African representative is part of the action at the World Cyber Mobile Games 2009 and Zain Nigeria has also swung into action and will be putting together a National Mobile Games Championship in order to get a representative for Nigeria in the World Cyber Mobile Games Grand Final.




For more information on World Cyber Games or to register for the 2009 World Cyber Games regional tournaments, visit www.mobile-nigeria.com.com

Mail : information@mobile-nigeria.com

If I read this thread to the very end, Osun will not forgive me. I've been on Nairaland for almost two years now and this is the single most idiotic subject I have ever come across. The only person who attempted to elaborately dissect the subject is the "semi-illiterate" banom and it quickly became evident as to why.

This is serious O! Thank God I haven't paid any taxes this year.

Uncle Sege really tried and he knew just what to apply to this unique Nigerian Democracy, but his time is up and we must now learn on our own.

How to stop the madness is by shoot-at-sight.