BREAKING NEWS!!! Anti Buhari Protest on the Streets of Abuja (Happening Now) PHOTOS
Reports just coming into our Newsroom is that anti Buhari protest is
ongoing on the streets of the capital city Abuja. The ‘Save Nigeria
JUDICIARY’ protest in now marching to Aso Rock villa.
You can join them now if you’re concerned about the systemic collapse of Nigeria Judicial System.
Wike vs Dakuku : Tension as Supreme Court Set to Rule on Rivers Guber – LIVE UPDATES (See Photos)Rivers Tribunal
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Counsel to Wike, E.C Ukala, relying on recent judgments of the SC
argued that the card reader without the presentation of voters register
makes the evidence a nullity. He said that in the instance, the Rivers
APC tendered voters register from only 11 LGAs. He therefore appealed
that their appeal be allowed.
Responding, counsel to Dr. Dakuku Peterside, Chief Olujimi, urged
their lordships to discountenanced their appeal and dismiss it. He
further argued that the case of the APC was not based on only card
reader. He alleged the issue of non compliance and other corrupt
practices by electoral officers and their agents. He also refered the
court to the in-house report of INEC condemning the election in its
entirety, the evidences tendered by PW 40 and 49 who spoke life into the
documents they tendered to straighten his argument. He finally urged
the court to most humbly dismiss the appeal for lack of merit.
In supporting his argument, the counsel to APC, Yusuf Ali, debunked
the authorities Ukala cited, he insisted that the authorities were
misleading in its entirety. As he was a lead counsel in that suit.
Although parties brief of arguments has earlier been adopted. The court has stand down the matter to hear PDP v DAP
JUST IN!!! Buhari’s Lies Against Kanu Exposed by Human Rights Coalition (Must Read) PHOTOS
PARIS, JANUARY 26, 2016: (DGW) – Contrary to claims by
President Muhammadu Buhari that the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu
travelled to Nigeria from the United Kingdom without any international
passport, a coalition of Human Rights Organizations has launched an
in-depth investigation into the accusation made by the president and
findings have indeed shown that President Muhammadu Buhari lied.
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafran leader, Nnamdi Kanu has dual citizenship and could not have got on board any aircraft to Africa or the country of his nativity without a valid international passport.
Below is the Press Release made available to OUR CORRESPONDENCE by the Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations:
(ONITSHA, NIGERIA, JANUARY 26, 2016)-It is the authoritative
information of the Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights
Organizations (SBCHROs); comprising International Society for Civil
Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety), Anambra State Branch of
the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), Center for Human Rights &
Peace Advocacy (CHRPA), Human Rights Club (a project of LRRDC)(HRC),
Forum for Justice, Equity & Defense of Human Rights (FJEDHR),
Society Advocacy Watch Project (SPAW), Anambra Human Rights Forum
(AHRF), Southeast Good Governance Forum (SGGF), International Solidarity
for Peace & Human Rights Initiative (ITERSOLIDARITY), Street Law
Africa (LawAfrica) and Igbo Ekunie Initiative (pan Igbo rights advocacy
group) that detained Citizen Nnamdi Kanu had never returned to Nigeria
or traveled to other parts of the world including his second home-State
of the United Kingdom without following and applying legitimate
diplomatic processes and procedures.
Specifically, he did not return to Nigeria via Lagos, Southwest
Nigeria in October 2015 without international passport of Nigerian
origin. By convention or treatise (international law), which is
applicable in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, Citizen Nnamdi Kanu is a
member of international, Nigerian and UK citizenship. Also by the
provisions of Chapter Three of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu is a citizen of Nigeria by birth or parenthood and by the
provisions of the relevant laws of the UK; he is also a UK citizen by
birth or naturalization. Generally, in the eyes of international law, he
is a dual national of UK and Nigeria.
Further, by relevant treaties of the European Union and the ECOWAS,
Citizen Nnamdi Kanu can enter, leave, stay or live in any member-State
of EU or ECOWAS; provided he has UK (EU) or ECOWAS (Nigerian) passport.
Citizen Nnamdi Kanu as an international citizen of UK and Nigeria
backgrounds is entitled to and has two international passports of UK and
Nigerian citizenship and they are fully and steadily used when he is
traveling out of Nigeria to UK or coming to Nigeria from UK.
Traditionally and specifically in Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s case; visa is
not required of him when he is leaving UK to Nigeria with Nigerian
Passport or when he is traveling to UK from Nigeria with UK Passport. By
law, Citizen Nnamdi Kanu is mandated to show his Nigerian Passport to
UK immigration officials at any UK international airport enroute Nigeria
and to Nigerian immigration officials on arrival at any Nigerian
international airport; likewise using and showing his UK Passport to
immigration officials when traveling to UK from Nigeria.
By law, Citizen Nnamdi Kanu is under no legal or moral obligation
whatsoever to show or surrender all or either of his two international
passports to anybody including the DSS operatives in his hotel room. His
right to privacy and protection of his property including his two
international passports is sacrosanct and unquestionable. Production of
Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s international passport (s) can only be ordered by a
court of competent records. Neither President Muhammadu Buhari nor his
DSS operatives has any legal or moral power or authority to coerce
Citizen Nnamdi Kanu into showing or surrendering his international
passport(s) under the guise of arrest or investigation; except by
personal volition of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu. This is more so when Citizen
Kanu’s violent arrest was carried out hours, if not days after he had
returned to Nigeria and checked into a hotel.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s assertion on 30th December 2015 that
“are you aware that that man called Kanu holds two UK and Nigerian
citizenship and entered into Nigeria without a passport”, is nothing but
a clear case of “presidential ignorance and falsehood derived from
unprofessional and falsified intelligence reports”. The falsehood is
today compounded further and transformed into “investigative perjury”to
the extent that the Federal Ministry of Justice had adopted it as its
main ground of counter affidavit and opposition to the application filed
by Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s defense lawyers before an Abuja Division of
the Federal High Court. The Federal Government’s claim that “Kanu had
admitted (to them) that he is a British citizen and that he sneaked into
the country”, and that “there is the possibility of him sneaking out if
admitted to bail”; is fallacious, vexatious, unfounded, spurious,
intimidating, insulting, coercing, magisterial and totally untrue.
Why Citizen Kanu Should Be Granted Humanitarian Bail: Today marks 102
days since Citizen Nnamdi Kanu was arrested and detained by DSS on 14th
October 2015 without conditional or unconditional release. In the
history of democracy in Nigeria, no citizen except Citizen Nnamdi Kanu
had been arrested and detained for 90 days without trial or release on
pretrial bail. There is a difference between a suspect-citizen detained
on orders of a court of competent records while undergoing trial and a
merely accused citizen detained in long pretrial captivity without
pretrial bail release or trial. That is to say that Citizen Nnamdi Kanu
is the first and only citizen arrested and detained for over 90 days
without trial or pretrial bail or unconditional release under the
present 1999 Constitution or since the 1999 Constitution came into force
in 1999. Citizen Kanu is also the first citizen to be detained under
the same Constitution in gross breach of its Section 35 (4) (a) (b) by
being detained for over 60 days without trial or released on bail. Four
consequential court orders associated with his right to personal liberty
including bail and unconditional releases were flouted by DSS and
President Buhari with reckless abandon.
This is also the first time in the history of criminal justice
administration under Nigeria’s democratic pluralism whereby pretrial
case files of accused citizens are recklessly duplicated and leaked to
media before judicial arraignment and trial of the accused citizens. The
stark case in point is the case file of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu & ors,
which has been made hazardous and recklessly polluted by DSS and its
hired hostile media outfits. Information contained in the case file
including the accused citizens’ confessional statements are also
strongly believed to have been tempered with and doctored or
manipulated. To the extent that the case file of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu
& ors, who are merely accused persons yet to be put on trial or
convicted; is duplicated by DSS investigators and handed over to hostile
media elements for purpose of spreading falsehood and propaganda;
requires urgent judicial attention, notice and intervention.
It is on these grounds that we call on Hon Justice James Tsoho of
Court Three Division of the Federal High Court in Abuja, to courageously
grant Citizen Nnamdi Kanu and ors humanitarian bail on Friday January
29, 2016 during his much awaited ruling on their bail application.
Though by virtue of Sections 158 and 162 of the Administration of
Criminal Justice Act of 2015, accusations of treasonable felony and
unlawful possession of firearms leveled against them are bailable; but
it is our considered opinion that Citizen Nnamdi Kanu in particular has
brazenly been denied the Constitutional protection, rights and remedies;
having being held in manner and circumstances frowned at by the
Constitution. By humanitarian judicial bail; we mean a bail condition
accorded to a prisoner of conscience facing State persecution for
expressing his political thoughts without use or advocating of violence.
Suchhumanitarian bail condition(s) include self recognition, liberty
inviolate undertaking from UK High Commission or judicial deposition of
his UK and Nigerian Passports. We also call for the speedy and fair
trial and of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu and ors.
Signed:
For: Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations (SBCHROs)
Emeka Umeagbalasi
Board Chairman, International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law &Coordinating Head, SBCHROs
Mobile Line: +2348174090052
Email: emekaumeagbalasi@yahoo.co.uk
Aloysius Attah
Chairman, Anambra State Branch of the Civil Liberties Organization & Media Coordinator, SBCHROs
Mobile Line: +2348035090548
Email: attahcomrade@yahoo.com
BOMBSHELL! We’ll Massacre Everyone in N. Delta as Obasanjo Did in Odi – Buhari’s Associate, Rtd Col. Hassan (Video)
President Muhammadu Buhari’s friend and stalwart of the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC), Col. Hassan Stanislous-Labo has called for a
military invasion of the Niger Delta communities where pipelines were vandalised a few weeks ago.
Colonel Hassan, as he is popularly referred to, made this call on
Channels Television, Monday, January 25, 2015 where he said that the
Nigerian Army should invade the communities
in Delta State and massacre the people of the communities as the
military did to the community of Odi during the President Olusegun
Obasanjo regime. According to him, “the communities that refuse to
produce the militants should be levelled”.
In 2013, a Federal High Court ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay N37 billion damages to the residents of Odi for the act of genocide perpetrated by the Nigerian Army.
In the disturbing segment, the retired military colonel dismissed the
Channels TV anchor who reminded him that a genocide was an abuse of
human rights.
Stanislous-Labo is a leading media surrogate of the Buhari government who hasset an agenda for the APC-led federal government. He is president and chief executive of Hakes Group.
BREAKING!!! Blood Flows in Rivers as Police, Navy Clash (See How Many People That Got Shot)
One person was injured on Tuesday when a group of Mobile policemen
from MOPOL 19 clashed with some operatives of the Nigerian Navy in Port
Harcourt.
The incident, which took place at about 6:20pm around Mummy B axis of
GRA in the Rivers State capital, caused commotion as motorists
scampered for safety.
It was gathered that a vehicle carrying a group of Navy operatives was held up in a gridlock along the ever-busy Mummy B road near the GRA junction.
Not satisfied with the development, some naval ratings were said to
have alighted from the vehicle and moved to the point where they met a
group of Mobile policemen controlling the traffic.
An eyewitness said the Mobile policemen had told the Navy operatives
not to worry because they (Mobile policemen) were already on the ground
to clear the gridlock on the road.
“Surprisingly, an argument ensued between both of them and one Mobile
policeman, who was in mufti, fired teargas and in the confusion one
Navy operative was shot.
“There was blood everywhere around that point. But I believe the
person that was shot must have been rushed to the hospital,” the source,
who did not want his name mentioned, said.
Ahmad said in a text message to our correspondent that there was no casualty during the clash.
“It has been resolved. No casualty at all,” the text message read.
Also contacted, the Public Relations Officer, Nigerian Navy Ship
Pathfinder, Lt.-Cdr. Hammad Ahmed, said he was still being briefed on
the matter and promised to speak as soon as he had the full details.
When contacted the State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad
Mohammad, confirmed the incident, but added that the matter had been
resolved.
Don’t Be Fooled! Buhari’s Economic Misadventure are Deliberate and Calculated (Photos) By: Olu Bidemi
NSE composite value wiped off $10bn in 6 months and still falling.
The NSE has witnessed nearly 50% loss since may 29, 2015.
Have you asked who is dumping shares and in return who is mopping them up?
Most of the shares being dumped come from foriegn investors who see
the economy as a train heading for disaster and most of those buying
them are northerners. As the foreign investors dump their shares it
creates a ripple effect leading to most southerners dumping theirs which
makes the shares cheaper for adamus to buy into.
As for the naira, the strict rules in place are just hogwash since
the black marketers who are mainly northerners still have back door
access to dollars from the CBN.
This move is meant to cripple southern business and in turn make the northerners control the forex market.
When I say sense is not part of the south una go begin curse una father.
Let us give a round of applause to all the omowalabis who voted chain and bondage.
Biafrans Keep Dream of Independence Alive as Nigeria Clamps down on Peaceful Protesters – BBC
In a quiet, dusty and fairly
secluded corner of Enugu city, south-eastern Nigeria, a group of men
unfurled a homemade flag and then sang.
“Biafra will live forever. Nothing will stop us,” was the gist of their anthem in the Igbo language.
They were not exactly belting it out and instead of hoisting the flag
up a pole, it was tied to a metal gate. But there is good reason for
discretion – in the eyes of the authorities the gathering is illegal.
On 5 November, 100 men and women were arrested as they marched
peacefully through the city’s streets after raising the Biafran flag.
They were all imprisoned and accused of treason but then released
when the charges were dropped. It appears the government is determined
to ensure any agitation for secession is not allowed to gather momentum.
ALSO READ: Biafra Will Be Achieved Without Violence
Forty-two years after the end of the devastating civil war in which
government troops fought and defeated Biafran secessionists, the dream
of independence has not completely died.
“No amount of threats or arrests will stop us from pursuing our
freedom – self-determination for Biafrans,” said Edeson Samuel, national
chairman of the Biafran Zionist Movement (BZM). Image captionIgwe Anthony Ojukwu says the Igbo people feared being wiped out
“We were forced into this unholy marriage but we don’t have the same
culture as the northerners. Our religion and culture are quite different
from the northerners,” he told the BBC.
he group broke away from the better-known Movement For The Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob).
The 1967-70 civil war threatened to tear apart the young Nigerian
nation. Ethnic tensions were high in the mid 1960s. The military had
seized power and economic hardship was biting.
With the perception that they were pushing to dominate all sectors of
society – from business to the civil service – and while they were
prominent in the military, the Igbo people were attacked.
Thousands were killed, especially during the clashes between
northerners, who are mostly Muslim, and Igbos. To save their lives,
Igbos fled en masse back “home” to the east.
“People used to meet fuel tanker drivers who allowed them to hide
inside the tankers – some survived that way,” remembers Igwe Anthony
Ojukwu, the traditional ruler of Ogui Nike in Enugu State.
“As we were licking our wounds… it dawned on us that we could not
just stay at home as they would come and fight us and that would mean…
extinction,” he said, adding that this prompted the move to declare
Biafra independent. Image captionThose who surrendered were issued with cards saying “defunct Biafra”
Today on the streets of Enugu you can hear songs about the war.
Booming out from a stall selling CDs and DVDs I heard a song praising
the late Chief Emeka Ojukwu – the man who raised the Biafran flag in
1967 and was the leader of the breakaway nation that existed for 31
troubled months.
“It was very terrifying. In the market place you hear a bang and you
find limbs flying, people lying dead and others running helter-skelter,”
said war veteran Chief Nduka Eya, recalling the aerial bombardment by
the Nigerian forces.
At his home he showed me the small card he was given after the
Biafrans surrendered. It reads: “Clearance certificate for members of
armed forces of defunct Biafra.”
“Naturally when you lose a war it can be very depressing but what can
you do? We took it. But history shows Biafra is defunct out of
surrender,” said Chief Nduka Eya who is now the secretary general of
Ohaneze Ndigbo, an umbrella group representing Igbos around the world.
In the bottom right-hand corner of the card is Olusegun Obasanjo’s
signature. The man who later became the president of Nigeria played a major role in the civil war, fighting on the federal government side.
Although no-one knows the true number, more than one million people
died in the war – some from the fighting but many more from the
resulting famine in the east.
In an effort to repair the bruised nation, the Nigerian head of state
General Yakubu Gowan spoke of “No Victor, No Vanquished” and also
promoted a policy of Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation.
‘Willing to fight’
But to this day, many Igbos complain that they were punished
economically after the war and still speak of being marginalised. The
fact that no Nigerian president has come from the east is a source of
much rancour.
The prospect of an independent Igboland now seems impossible,
especially as secessionists would want the area’s lucrative oil fields.
While those publicly clamouring for independence are a very small
minority, it is not hard to find young people who feel they would be
better off as a separate nation. This ought to be of great concern to
the government of Nigeria.
“If this present government does not have the solution for us
upcoming youth here, I’d rather the nation breaks,” said one young man
playing football in Enugu near a statue referred to as “The Unknown
Soldier” holding a gun aloft.
“We are willing to fight for our rights. Without sacrifice there will
be nothing like freedom. We have to pay the price if we want
independence and we are ready to do that again,” he added.
“Islams (sic) don’t want the east to rule the country and our
opportunities and rights are denied so we are better off as an
independent Biafra sovereign nation. Nothing is impossible,” another man
in his 20s added.
The renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe recently released his
memoirs of the war entitled “There Was a Country.” The book includes an
insight into what life was like for his family fleeing the city of Lagos
and heading east.
His account has angered some – especially non-Igbos – and has caused a
stir in the Nigerian media as well as on the internet where there are
plenty of reminders that ethnic divisions still run deep.
Towards the end of his book Achebe asks: “Why has the war not been
discussed, or taught to the young, over 40 years after its end?
“Are we perpetually doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past because we are too stubborn to learn from them?”
Today Nigeria faces massive security challenges – top of the list
being the Islamist insurgency in the north that many Nigerians believe
is being fuelled by politicians.
Many would argue that some of the root causes of the civil war were
also triggers of the rebellion in the north as well as the militancy in
the Niger Delta.
“Three words – injustice, inequality and unfair play,” says Chief
Nduka Eya who, like Achebe, believes it is essential for young Nigerians
to learn about the war.
“If you think education is expensive try ignorance,” he says.
“Ignorance is a very damaging disease. Our boys and girls need to
know what actually happened. ‘Why did my father go to war?’ Someone in
the north will ask: ‘Why did we go to fight them?'”
Image caption A new beer called “Hero” with a rising sun on the label echoes Biafran nationalist sentiment
Sitting on his throne and holding his ox tail staff of office, Igwe Anthony Ojukwu calls for the war to be studied in schools.
“The experience of Biafra should be shared so that people outside
Biafra will know when they are cheated and when they should start to
fight for their own destiny,” says the traditional ruler.
“The risk of not studying Biafra is that we will continue to subdue
the subdueables no matter how justified they are in their demands. We
will continue to live a life where the stronger animal kills the other,”
he says, although he stresses that he is against further efforts to
secede.
“I think it is important that Nigeria stays together. Those who are singing for disintegration are doing so for selfish ends.”
Forty-two years after the war, a beer has just been launched in
eastern Nigeria. The choice of name, “Hero”, and the logo on the bottle
of a rising sun similar to the one on the Biafran flag were no accident.
These days “Bring me a Hero” is a popular call in the bars of Enugu
where people have not entirely given up on the dream of raising a glass
to “independence”.
