What should be the role of the armed forces when a country in peace times when the country is not at war - to engage in military operations or engage in farming, construction of houses, bridges and clearing drainage?
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In spite of widespread condemnation of Operation Python Dance II in the South East, it has been reported that the Military has declared that it would not only continue the operation in the South East but that Operation Crocodile would be launched in the South West and South South.
CONTINUED ATTACKS ON CHARLEY BOY AND THE #RESUMEorRESIGN# MOVEMENT: THIS DEMOCRACY HAS COLLAPSED AND FEMI ADESINA SHOULD BE REMOVED AS PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN
The continued violent attacks on Charley Boy , # ResumeOrResign # and the # OurMumuDonDo # movements have shown clearly that under the APC-controlled Federal Government, Nigeria’s so called democracy, which is intolerant of dissent, has collapsed.
SUMMARIZED COMPUTATION OF MONETARY VALUE IN THE CHARGES IN THE CBN CASES PENDING BEFORE THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT, IBADAN, INVOLVING ALLEGATIONS OF CURRENCY MUTILATION SCAM IN THE COURSE OF BRIQUETTING EXERCISES IN SUIT Nos FHC/IB/31C – 37C/2015 .
PERPETUAL HEARINGS AND DELAYED JUSTICE IN CORRUPTION CASES IN NIGERIA: CAUSES, EFFECTS AND WAY FORWARD
INTRODUCTION Permit me to thank the leadership of the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, for inviting me to share ideas on the all important theme of today’s discourse – perpetual hearings and delayed justice on corruption cases in Nigeria: Causes, effects and ways forward. The topic, it must be admitted, is very wide in scope. A meaningful discussion can be undertaken only if the individual discussant restricts his/her inputs to a small aspect of the topic. For this reason, I have chosen to examine the topic, using the suits involving some bank workers (in CBN and six other banks) as a case study. The suits involving these bank workers are usually reported in the media under various captions such as “CBN Currency mutilation scam/fraud”.
"It is really the crude manner by which the security agency(ies), as the case may be, went about the invasion that is wrong. From constitutional provisions, nothing stops anti graft agencies from bringing to book, by following due process, any person, public officer or not, in the alleged commission of a crime, where the relevant control bodies, such as the NJC fails, neglects or refuses to exercise disciplinary control. But the failure of NJC to act does not justify SSS/DSS from usurping the roles of regular Police and/or the anti graft agencies created MORE OR less out of the NPF. The reported roles of the DSS/SSS MERELY CONFIRM that the invasion is more a political act of impunity rather than a demonstration of commitment to the fight against corruption. A regime that elects to be deaf and dumb to allegations of corruption by relations-dominated cabinet should not be applauded when it humiliates a co-equal arm of govt. The repression of Supreme Court justices by the EXECUTIVE ...