bong4:


Waooo!!! this act is so evil. Although the quick response of the government in this particular case is really heating the polity considering its approach in past cases, Nigerians should really look into this issue of set up by drug cartels at the airport.

Why don't we canvass for a system that gives a passenger an input into how your luggage are tagged?

Listed among the items on the tag, the number of luggage a passenger is carrying should be indicated on the tags. for example if i have 3 luggage; bag one should be 1/3; bag two should be 2/3; bag three should be 3/3 etc. The passenger should also have a copy of these tags.

If there is an additional bag, definitely the passenger can't have 4/3 as the case may be.

Was the government response that quick? Zainab was arrested on 27 December 2018 and was in detention till the end of April 2019.

She was apparently not charged by the Saudi because the case against her was not really watertight.

Note that she travelled with her mother and sister and they had already entered Saudi Arabia, left the airport town of Jeddah for Medina before the Saudi drug agency went to their hotel room in the evening alleging that a bag tagged in her name was left unclaimed at the airport but the family insisted that all their luggage were with them in the hotel.

Olukat:
Why so much noise about Sen. Saraki losing election?
Only fools will accept how APC treated Sen. Saraki and those they deceived to join them from PDP
If president was from CPC, VP. from ACN what's wrong with nPDP having the senate president?
Otege nonsense! Kwara is a conquered territory that should be your real battle whoever rules tie them to a tree

You didn’t get it. Saraki was not fought by the Kwara Must Change movement because of his struggles at the federal level on NASS leadership but to loosen his grip on the political fate of Kwarans.

Note that the pioneer leader of the anti-Saraki movement before 2015 elections was Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo who was the PDP Chairman in Kwara. In fact, the movement had banked on PDP’s federal might support in that 2015 elections to wrestle Kwara from the hands of Saraki who had decamped to APC from PDP but the attempt failed.

It was that failure by the Akogun led movement in 2015 that gave birth to Kwara Must Change movement under new leadership.

Hedonini:


Abuja Sheraton is a dead zone. Not that it was ever really alive in the first place. It has always been a poor substitute for the Hilton.

But it's even worse now. Nobody reckons with it anymore. This so-called luxury business takes no prisoners.

Hilton is actually helped by federal government patronage. Many rooms are permanently booked by government whether occupied or not.

Occupancy rate of “4/5” star hotels in Abuja is not high to make them profitable. That is why they shine only in the first year of opening and after that, they begin to look like brothels.

Supported.

The palaces are already being given 5% of the revenue of the local governments under their jurisdictions without any obvious functions.

They should work for the funds they currently receive.

seunpas:
Is the picture actually from Kabba?
I don't understand!

Kaaba in Mecca, not Kabba where the VP tumbled

It is surprising that up till now, nobody sees anything wrong with the pictures vis-a-vis the headline.

Do those pictures depict a convocation scene? Why is nobody in academic gown?

It was actually an occasion for presentation of Chinese scholarships to outstanding 2nd year students based on their 1st year academic results.

The scholarships is worth N100,000 each and donated by the Chinese Embassy.

Those students are potential first class but not yet first class graduates.

@ myuniben LordsApostle MrHistorian StarUp Rasheed02 Yankee101 helpee. Uyi168

Only Saraki can declare his seat vacant possibly on account of absence for more than a half of total annual legislative sitting days.

Buhari has nothing to do with this.

PrecisionFx:


What is wrong with these Nigerians?

Nigeria uses her crude oil export sales to maintain relationships with several countries and that is why they MUST export. It is the only thing the country has to export. Selling all 1.2 million barrels of crude oil daily to Dangote means Nigeria as a nation would now have almost zero exports.

THEY MUST EXPORT.

Is there a law that requires you must export oil as crude and not refined?

So you think our oil is being sold to foreign governments rather than companies in those countries?

If it is to maintain relationships with countries, how come we have several unsold cargoes even presently that we have to offer deep discounts in order to sell?

I don’t know whether you are deliberately trolling or your knowledge is embarrassingly limited.

PrecisionFx:


Nigeria produces less than 2 million barrels per day.

The foreign oil companies that mine our crude oil take 40% of the crude oil and give FG 60%.

Leaving us with 1.1 - 1.2 million barrels.

Some crude oil will be looted.

FG would have to sell some as well to generate funds.

The remaining crude oil will be far less than 600k barrels daily, which Dangote needs.

He also has the Niger deltans to contend with to get crude oil he needs.

The emboldened part means what?
The money Nigeria gets from selling crude to Dangote is different from the type of money it will get by selling oil to foreign refineries or who do you think the buyers of oil are?

PrecisionFx:


Dangote would have a lot of problems sourcing over 500k barrels of crude oil everyday for his refinery to process

Why would he have problem sourcing for half a million barrels per day?

Nigeria produces 2 million per day. It is to Nigeria’s advantage that it now have a ready market for a quarter of that production. Note that whatever Dangote buys from Nigeria is regarded as part of its agreed opec production quota.

Now supposing something happened to Nigeria oil wells and Nigeria cannot produce, Dangote will simply import all the crude it needs from other producing countries. Even USA will gladly fill the vacuum. It won’t stop production even for a second.

prince3009:


OPEC has ordered that Nigeria should reduce their barrel-per-day (bpd) production from 6,000 to nothing more than 2,500. This is in the bid to drastically reduce gas flaring and save the environment. The world is turning to alternative energy solutions that don't need petrol.

If Dangote had envisaged this about 4 years ago before he started the refinery project, I am sure he would have halted it!

Just like he recently sold his flour mills, I know he will sell the refinery to the highest bidder with an underpriced amount in the nearest future.

And talking about safeguarding his investments, I am sure the oil wells that caught fire in Ondo were well safeguarded right?

cescky:


Very sensible post

Truth is if Dangote where to be in a civil society he won't amass this type of wealth...his wealth is gotten by fg chaining his competition and allowing him freedom.

With his type of money if he looked into green energy, he would only make more money in years to come and would have greatly propelled Nigeria... but as competition node he won't think on his feet

Why are you people easily taken in by senseless propaganda?

6,000 barrels per day to 2,500 bpd? When Nigeria is producing 2 million barrels per day. Don’t tell me you meant 6 million barrels because Nigeria doesn’t even have capacity to produce 3 million.

Secondly, what concerns opec with gas flaring? Perhaps you think it is all oil wells in world that have associated gas to be flared? That is peculiar to very few countries. Gas is not under opec purview, that is why Qatar withdrew its membership because it now sees itself as a gas country not oil producing country.

Thirdly, opec exempted Nigeria from production cut because Nigeria could even hardly meet its assigned quota. By the way, the production cut is to reduce oil glut so as to artificially raised the prices when oil prices crashed. The re-imposed sanction on Iran by the USA means the production cut will be reviewed even though Nigeria was never included.

2019elections:
I don't know why some people reason like fowls. How would you present a budget without details? Can someone just ask you for money and you give without telling you what he or she wants to do with it.

Let's be logical.

This is why we can't move forward as a nation. Does that mean because its their duty to pass d budget, they shouldn't scrutinize it? Nigerians always channeling blame wrongly.

I hope you realise that the detail being demanded is not from the executive but from the appropriations committee of the senate that collated the the reports of various sub-committees.

With the increase from 18,000 to 30,000 for Grade 01 Step 1, those above that level must have their salaries adjusted because a lower grade cannot earn than higher ones.

However, the degree of adjustments for all levels from 01 to 17 will not be the same and not in proportion to the increase in the minimum wage.

Gracealone:
This is unnecessary alarm. No bank is in trouble here. The garnishee order will not request from the banks beyond what Imo govt has with them.

Don’t mind the ignorant reporter.

Yyeske:
Access bank? Just can't believe this.
If all these useless banks are mentioned, access should never had been be on the list na. So disappointed

You should have sought understanding of the issues involved. The creditor can only attach Imo state government funds in those banks and that is why almost all the banks in Nigeria are listed in the hope that the total balances in all the Imo govt accounts in all the banks will be up to N1 billion. If at the time the garnishee order is made, Imo has only N10 in all its bank accounts, that is the only money the creditor will have access to. Not a single kobo of the banks is going to be used to settle the judgement debt of Imo state.

Aieboocaar:
@O.p Please is there a civil way of saying "THUNDER FIRE YOU"

Lightening strike you

martineverest:
but the originality is gone.... that building was historic

The present Notre Dame is not substantially the original one anyway.

It was significantly damaged during the French Revolution and rebuilt. The iconic Spectre that fell down during the fire incident yesterday was only added in the 19th century.

faceURfront:


No sir, they can't. After a second rejection, such a person stands rejected. He can only continue to be what he is now..."acting".

While he has all the powers a substantive chairman will have, he will just go down in history as an acting EFCC chairman. Psychologically, it will hit a feather or two off his ego.

What law supports your assertion?

Even the current senate can confirm him if re-presented. You heard Saraki saying political solution should have been sought by the executive through lobbying.

fairfora:
How can a Muslim be Senate president and another Muslim the speaker in a religious sensitive nation like Nigeria? Apc must have smoked weeds. Their religious intolerance isn't hidden. It's well with Nigeria

fairfora:
yea. Our constitution must be respected. That's what's keeping us as a country

1979 - 1983

Alex Ekwueme Vice President (SE)

Joseph Wayas Senate President. (SS)

Edwin Ume-Ezeoke / Chaha Biam Speaker. (SE)/(NC)

Atanda Wiliams/ George Sowemimo Chief Justice (SW)

All are Christians. The election of David Mark as senate president in 2007 did not prevent the election of Patricia Etteh as the Speaker on the same date.

Nigeria history did not start yesterday.

sweetjohn:
this is not disinformation, there were clear signs and actions taken to effects that plan, if not for CAN outcry and other concerned Nigeria you will ve become Islamist Jihadist by now.

Just exactly how? Enlighten me.

I have lived in the north including the so-called core north for donkey years now. Nobody has ever come to preach to me or invite me to mosque. The only people disturbing my peace are those who claim to know Jesus more than his mother.

Just like many people were ‘disinformed’ about Buhari’s purported plan to Islamise Nigeria.

He didn’t go for Pope. He was running toward his own king.

Blue3k:


Lol I wonder if NASS will punk out like usual or overide his veto. They were passionate about this issue and seemed like they had numbers.

They don’t have the numbers. Remember that the bill was sponsored by the Speaker who everybody must try to be in his good book then, not now.

The executive wanted to get foreign investors to fund the completion, all of a sudden, the Speaker visited the place and thereafter organized a stage-managed stakeholder meeting inside the chamber which the executive boycotted. It was at meeting that the house passed a vote of no confidence on Fayemi - the then minister of mines and steel.

Buhari’s major angst with the bill is that it requires part of our foreign reserves to be used to finance the completion of the project. The executive see government further participation in the project as a drain pipe.

Elvis778:

I personally agree with you,
but,
can you say any of these reasons apply to his rejection of the Electoral Act amendment?? Ofcourse we all followed up the news then, he delayed a bit after which he rejected it. Does that not mean something?

You should ask why didn’t National Assembly override it.

One of the flaws is a clause that requires voting to be electronically transmitted but was silent on the need to count the votes first. Ordinarily, you would think that counting is a given logically but in law, some smart lawyers will pounce on the lacuna to prove that what is not expressly required by law is discretionary. Also does it mean we should use electronic voting or vote manually and result must be electronically transmitted to a server.

Realdeals:
PDM has a valid case, even though many may consider the party inconsequential.

ThankGodEdeh:
This guy has a valid case. I am surprised that from all the comments, no one is talking about validity of his case. As long as his party is registered and satisfied all the requirements of been listed on the ballot paper, ommiting them amounts to negligence on the part of INEC and it's enough reason to void the election.

otokx:
If true the INEC Chairman and his entire team needs to be sacked for negligence.

shanaka4u:
In law,it is actually a strong reason to have an election set aside.But I doubt if the court will take in such point and order for a fresh election based on the prevailing situation and the need to prevent political instability.

PDM presidential candidate does not have a valid case and it is an abuse of court process.

Electoral Act requires inec to publish the names of eligible contestants in any election at least 30 days before such election.

On January 17 2019, that was 30 days before the February 16th previously scheduled for presidential election, inec published the final list of 73 presidential candidates and their running mates. PDM was not on the list and he didn’t challenge this in court. Why would he expect his party name to be on the ballot paper?

See the final list as published by inec on 17 January
https://cdn.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/17164402/2019-GENERAL-ELECTIONS-FINAL-LIST-OF-PRESIDENTIAL-CANDIDATES.pdf

Obi1kenobi:


Tighter regulation of religious groups doesn't lead to extremism. On the contrary, it promotes secularism. Communist states were usually hostile to religion, and there is less religious conflict in places like Russia or China. Rwanda's President has passed laws cracking down on religious groups in the country and it hasn't led to any extremism. Rwanda is probably Africa's most peaceful country today.

Don’t mind them. They praised Rwanda president’s action making a degree in theology minimum qualification for you to preach, yet criticized Kaduna government that want to set up a religious body to regulate practice of religions

Was it not the same bill that made pastor Suleiman predict death for el-rufai about 4 years ago and el-Rufai challenged him to specify the exact date of his death?

Why is this pastor just raking it up again?

Elvis778:

now listen to the true history, on the 1st of October 1963, Aguiyi ironsi led a coup which resulted to the death of tafawabelewa and some others, ZIK was on the run, as he wanted to safeguard his own life. Aguiyi took over power, and ruled for only 3 months, Note: he maintained the 4 regional government.
Shortly after, the north retaliated, Gowon lead his own coup which saw to the assassination of Aguiyi. He assumed government, abolished the 4 regional government and then came up with Federalism, which lead to the creation of 12 states, 1966.
So where are all this your lies coming from?

What did you drink before writing this thrash? Your history tutor surely owe you a refund.

1. There was no coup on 1 October 1963. The first coup in Nigeria was on 15 January 1966
2. Aguiyi Ironsi didn’t rule for only 3 months. He ruled for 7 months from January to July 1966
3. It was Aguiyi Ironsi that abolished the regional government through the Unification Decree [Decree 34] that he issued on 24 May 1966 and he replaced federal government with Central government while restructuring regional government as Group of Provinces. Provinces were equivalent of local governments
4. Gowon didn’t create 12 states in 1966 but in May 1967.

Decree No. 34

[24th May 1966]



THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows:

Subject to the provisions of this Decree, Nigeria shall on 24th May 1966 (in this decree referred to as ‘the appointed day’) cease to be a Federation and shall accordingly as from that day be a Republic, by the name of the Republic of Nigeria, consisting of the whole of the territory which immediately before that day was comprised in the Federation.
2.

As from the appointed day—

the Federal Military Government and the Federal Executive Council shall be known respectively as the National Military Government and The Executive Council;
the Federal territory shall be known as the Capital territory;
the provinces, including Kaduna capital territory, in schedule 1 of this Decree which immediately before the appointed day were respectively comprised in Northern Nigeria, Eastern Nigeria, Western Nigeria and Mid-Western Nigeria shall be known respectively as the Northern group of Provinces, the Eastern group of Provinces, the Western group of Provinces and the Mid-Western group of Provinces;
for the purpose of administration each group of provinces shall subject to the authority of the Head of the National Military Government, be under the general direction and control of a Military Governor appointed by the Head of the National Military Government;
Act No. 20 of 1963 (that is to say the Constitution of the Federation) may be cited as the Constitution of the Republic.

HomeOfMe:
IBB's fourth child was also born while he was still the of state. But what I can't ascertain is if the sit of power was still dodan barracks obalende or if it had moved to ask rock.

Ibb daughter Halima was born in Lagos in the late 80s while her parents resided in Dodan Barracks

Hoodbilonia:
I rem 2006 wen dis woman still dey struggle with nta
Very ugly and leaner then
Wayback

Struggling in NTA in 2006?
She was House of Representatives member between 2003 and 2011, so how come?
She actually made it big when she was attached to Maryam Babangida in the early 1990s as special correspondent to the First Lady, so she wasn’t struggling even when she was in the Newsline crew in the later part of 90s.

That is Kwakwanso’s constituency oo

Osyxcel:


With regards to sub-section 5 above, let's wait till April 23. If the court continues to adjorn, it's the loss of the acting CJN.

MetaPhysical:


Nothing stops the President from replacing him with the next most senior Justice. He will still get his 2/3 in Senate. Senators are looking for his goodwill and will dare not oppose him at this critical time in political transition.

ashjay001:


No wonder. We're on a waiting game

The NJC, is planning to wait out the 3months. Odili, might end up as acting CJN

Probably, what that looting camp, are hoping on

What will happen on April 23? If by then, the court has not decided on Onnoghen case for him to be removed or reinstated, Tanko WILL be re-appointed as the Acting CJN.

The only further requirement for Tanko to be re-appointed instead of anyone else is that NJC will now recommend him to the president as required by section 231(5) which you earlier quoted. Perhaps you missed this opening clause of that section which reads
”Except on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council,…”

The same scenario happened when Salami was suspended for more than 3 months. It is what Tanko meant in that his reply that NJC has no role in initial appointment of acting CJN but in renewals of such acting appointment.