On Sat, Mar 28, 2026 at 10:41 AM, Chukwuemeka Okala<reu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:The case Of Singapore And BotswanaEmeka Reuben OkalaLondon, UK"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."
On Sat, Mar 28, 2026 at 5:55 PM, Kayode Adebayo<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Gullible Pastor Called Emeka Okala:Botswana has only 2.5 million people, yet it is still a developing country with that masive diamond deposits. A country with that little population and plenty of diamonds supposed to have developed by now. Compared to Nigeria with 235 million people.Singapore with 6 million people is a developed country today, because it's a city-state. It's population is less than 1/3 of the population of Lagos, so it's easy for it to be developed today, due to its location and investments from several countries. It's also refinery center for oil producing countries.
While their leaders work hard with vision, their main advantage is their small populations. If they have Nigeria's type of population, it would be hard for them to have high per capital incomes.If Nigeria was that small, it would have developed today. The large population is weighing down Nigeria and unless Nigeria introduces birth control, it will be hard for Nigeria to develop.
Kwankwaso, who registered with the ADC at his Miller Road country home on Monday, under registration number 000201, said Nigerians have a duty to free the country from the shackles of misgovernance and to go out on election day with serious-looking faces.
“For you to understand what I’m talking about, from today I will not allow anybody to pass the gates of my house without ADC and INEC registered cards; therefore, go out and ensure that you register accurately with our party and INEC,” he said.
Speaking, the national chairman of the ADC, Senator David Mark, said the day marks a defining moment in the history of the nation’s democracy. He added that it marks a special day in the journey to make Nigeria a better country and a more united nation.
“We stand together today, not just as one political party but as people united to make our dear country, Nigeria, a better nation. Nigeria can be better and must work better for all Nigerians.”
Mark explained that Kwankwaso is highly welcome, along with millions of his supporters, to the ADC. He said they have come together in unity of purpose, conviction and vision.
“Your coming to ADC is not merely a political statement; it is a deliberate response to the clarion call by well-meaning Nigerians for all opposition leaders to be united and present a common front to protect our democracy.”
Fellow Nigerians:
Something Is Wrong With The Kings Of The Jungle Called Igbo People?
Igbo people who have no kings in Igboland and who are homeless and being given shelter and fed by good people all over the world, after devastating their Igboland are Oliver Twists. After receiving shelter from good people, they start establishing their hegemony in another man's land. They start calling themselves kings of another man's land, until they get deported. The Igbo did that in Lagos, America, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin Republic and now South Africa. Igbo people are greedy people. They give Nigeria bad name all over the world.
Only Igbo People! What A People!!
Kayode
Sahara Reporters
Tensions have escalated in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province following a controversial coronation of an Igbo traditional ruler, as protesters stormed the streets demanding the immediate deportation of Nigerians linked to the event and warning of possible violent resistance if authorities fail to act.
The protest, led by members of the political group ActionSA alongside traditional leaders and community members, comes amid growing outrage over what demonstrators described as an affront to the sovereignty, constitutional order, and traditional leadership structures of the province.
Speaking to SABC News during the demonstration, one of the protesters declared solidarity with local traditional authorities while condemning the coronation, which reportedly took place in East London, also referred to as KuGompo City.
“First of all, we are here in solidarity with the traditional leadership of the Eastern Cape, all of the traditional leaders, and also the people of the Eastern Cape,” the protester said in a video making the rounds on the internet.
“Let me just put up front that ActionSA's policy about illegal immigration is very clear. If you are in this country illegally, and you do anything illegal, you are going to be sent back home.
This is a sovereign nation. It is our nation, we love it, and we are protected by a constitution.
“There is nowhere in our constitution that makes provision for a Nigerian from the Igbo tribe to come and become coronated as a king of the Eastern Cape.”
The protester further alleged that statements made during the coronation heightened tensions, accusing organisers of attempting to establish a parallel authority structure within the province.
“But beyond that, the utterances that were made at that coronation is what really galls us as a party, as ActionSA.
“The utterances were that they are establishing a kingship in the Eastern Cape and a homeland.
We have a history of homelands in this province, a painful history of the homeland of the former Siskind, the former Transkind, where people were moved in there after being expropriated, having their land expropriated.
“They had limited opportunities, they are still some of the poorest people in our province, and we are not going to tolerate the establishment of another homeland.”
Drawing parallels with apartheid-era policies, the protester warned against any perceived attempt to recreate ethnically defined territories.
“They went further, though, and they said that they are going to encourage their brothers and sisters in Nigeria, in their hundreds of thousands, to come and establish a homeland in this province,” the protester said.
That is not going to happen, because this province is not up for the taking. Here are our traditional leaders behind me.
“We respect them, there are five kingships that are respected by the president, inaugurated and recognized by our President and our constitution.”
The protester also dismissed claims reportedly attributed to the Nigerian diplomatic mission that the coronation was merely symbolic.
“So, I want to go further to say that the embassy of Nigeria said that it was just a customary thing, it wasn't much, and they do it all over the world. It is not true,” the protester said.
We have taken great exception to the disrespect and the provocation of this coronation, and we want the Nigerian government to come out strongly against it.
“More importantly, we want our government to make an unambiguous statement about their respect and recognition of our existing traditional leaders, and that they will never respect a kingship belonging to the Igbo nation in the Eastern Cape or in South Africa.”
In a separate address, Prince Xhanti Sigcawu from the Amathole House of Traditional Leaders, reinforced calls for immediate government action, describing the incident as a direct violation of South Africa’s sovereignty and legal framework.
I want to highlight that our sovereignty is true to the statutes and dictates of the Constitution of South Africa and the laws governing this country,” he said.
“No one can come from wherever that person comes from and come here and undermine the authority of this country, especially this kingdom.
“We are led here by King Vululu Andesandi, who is the great-great-grandchild of King Palo Kakos.”
Sigcawu demanded the expulsion of all individuals involved in the coronation, regardless of their immigration status.
He said, “We are really appealing to our government to see to it that whoever participated in this illegal coronation of the so-called king is removed from the borders of this country with immediate effect, whether that person came legal or not.
Thirdly, in the rural villages, we have people who are running spaza shops and hardware stores who are also foreign nationals.”
He warned that failure by authorities to act could trigger unrest among local communities.
“We are appealing to the law enforcement authorities to immediately deal with those before people can take the law into their own hands. No one can undermine our authority,” he said.
“We have been visiting various countries in the world, and we have never undermined anyone's authority.”
Sigcawu accused foreign nationals, particularly Nigerians of Igbo descent, of undermining traditional leadership structures and destabilising the region.
This event of the past week really shows that these foreign nationals, especially the Igbo people from Nigeria, undermine the authority of our kingship, and they want to see this country in turmoil,” he said.
“We want to avoid turmoil because we will really take up arms if this is not immediately attended to.”
Reiterating the demand for deportation, the protester stressed that the coronation had no legal or cultural legitimacy within the context of South Africa’s traditional governance system.
“Hence, we are appealing to our government to take these people out of the borders of this country, especially those who participated in this uncalled-for event of coronating a king in another.
The issue here, which a lot of people had raised, and of course, traditional leaders had raised, was that what had happened in the previous weeks, seeing that video of a so-called Nigerian king being installed in his position here in East London or Kokombo City, showed you know that it was undermining traditional leadership in the Eastern Cape.”
Sigcawu described widespread anger among local traditional institutions, saying the incident had deeply offended indigenous authority structures.
“Indeed, we are really pissed off with the circumstances of the past weeks,” he said.
“We really feel undermined because there is no one who can really undermine someone's sovereignty.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 12:12 PM, Chukwuemeka Okala<reu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
DAILY POST reports that El-Rufai, standing trial over alleged corruption, had just concluded a hearing on his bail application filed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission ICPC, when DSS operatives bundled him into a waiting vehicle and drove him away, reportedly heading to Abuja.
There was a heavy presence of DSS operatives around the court before the hearing, which had fueled speculation that the former governor might be taken into custody.
DAILY POST had earlier reported that El-Rufai had arrived at the court at about 9:05 a.m. in a Hilux van, drawing attention from security personnel and observers.
Meanwhil, Speaking to journalists after the proceedings, lead defence counsel, Oluwole Iyamu, SAN, confirmed that the court had fixed April 14 for ruling on the bail application.
The bail application was argued and responded to, and the ruling has been fixed for April 14,” he said.
On Mar 30, 2026, at 7:34 AM, Nebukadineze Adiele <nebuka...@aol.com> wrote:
Only a thoughtless sadistic maniac would expect Trump to attack a nuclear weapons-possessing North Korea or any other nuclear power, what would be the purpose, to get millions of people killed in both countries? The purpose attacking Iran is to stop it from obtaining nuclear weapons technology; Trump would have attacked North Korea in the 1990s or early 2000s to prevent it from obtaining were he in office then. Presidents Clinton and Bush did not toe that line because North Korea played them in obtaining sanctions lifting and generous food supplies in exchange for abandoning nuclear technology. North Korea deceived them by continuing to work on its nuclear projects while the West stupidly thought they were dealing with an honest county.No one will attack North Korea today because it is too late, it already has nuclear technology. It is only an idiot and a sadist who would conclude that not attacking North Korea means that the US is afraid of North Korea, it simply means that the US has no interest in starting a nuclear war, which will kill millions of people in the West (not just the US) and will lead to the evisceration of North Korean from the surface of the earth, and the result of which South Korea, Japan, and China might feel.Having said the above, I no longer support Trump's action in Iran now that it is convincingly certain that Israel conned Trump into attacking Iran with falsehood. The reason to attack Iran would be to prevent it from having nuclear technology, since Iran is too radical that it would use the nuclear weapon on Israel, in addition to providing it to terrorists, including their sleeper cells in Nigeria and the Sahel. In other words, it would be in the world's best interest that Iran never obtained nuclear technology, but Israel lied and used falsehood to lure the US into attacking Iran this time around. The US and Israel were wrong.
Nebukadineze Adiele
On Monday, March 30, 2026 at 03:27:46 AM EDT, Chris Udoh <cus....@gmail.com> wrote:
ONE FIGHT AT A TIME....NO ONE HAS THE CAPABILITY TO FIGHT EVERYONE AT THE SAME TIME
On Sun, 29 Mar 2026, 22:31 Kayode Adebayo, <kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Meanwhile, Trump closed his eyes to North Korea with Nuclear capability an imminent danger to the US and the entire world, which has just tested its nuclear transportability of ICBM's that can reach any part of America, using a solid state fuel just yesterday, compared to Iran that's yet to develop one at all. Trump behaved as if nothing had happened.
Talking about misplaced priority with far reaching economic doom and consequences for the US and the entire universe.When will America ever wake from slumber to the real and immediate threat to humanity and stop pretending?
The commission also said it would not recognise Nafiu Bala Gombe, who is seeking to be declared national chairman through the courts.
INEC announced on Wednesday that it would suspend recognition of all factions within the party and refrain from monitoring any conventions or congresses organised by groups aligned with the affected leaders.
The decision, it said, will remain in place pending the final determination of a substantive suit before the Federal High Court.
The development follows a leadership crisis within the ADC and a recent judgment of the Court of Appeal in Suit No. CA/ABJ/145/2026, which has further complicated the dispute.
In a statement, the National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Mallam Mohammed Kudu Haruna, said the Commission remains committed to neutrality.
He urged political stakeholders to avoid actions that could disrupt preparations for the 2027 general elections.
INEC disclosed that it had received a letter dated March 16, 2026, from Suleiman Usman SAN & Co, warning against any recognition of Nafiu Bala Gombe as acting national chairman while legal proceedings are ongoing.
The Commission also confirmed receiving a separate “Demand for Enforcement” from Summit Law Chambers, representing Gombe, which called for the removal of Mark and Aregbesola from INEC’s records and urged the Commission to stop engaging with them or recognising any activities conducted under their authority.
The conflicting legal demands from the rival factions have deepened the party’s internal crisis, prompting INEC to halt all official dealings with the contending groups until the courts resolve the matter.
Gbam! I just told you two days ago to be preparing for an unprecedented uproar, crisis and disruption to ADC, because Atiku and his gang of hijackers (David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola) who hijacked ADC from the original owners of ADC would be upended, as the marathon movie of ADC's turmoils has just begun, and it has started to unfold just like I said it would, with court case and INEC now deleting the hijackers' names and their factions from its register because they're illegal members.I told you last year that Atiku and his gang illegally hijacked ADC from the original owners and that would spark crisis in ADC. Your Peter Obidiot's candidacy in ADC is now hanging on the roof. Their fate will be determined by the original owners of ADC.
They are dummies. Instead of them to go and register a new political party afresh, like APC did when it formed a coalition of political parties, they decided to short cut and steal an existing party from the original owners, because their so-called coalition died a natural death before it could see the light of the day just like I said it would and this is part of the consequences. You don't steal someone's party, just because you have money that you stole from Nigerians to bribe.
Tinubu also announced that the Federal Government would deploy 5,000 security cameras to Plateau to boost intelligence gathering, surveillance and rapid response to security threats.
The directive came as the President arrived in Jos to commiserate with the government and people of the state over the deadly gunmen attack in Angwan Rukuba, Jos North, which claimed over 28 innocent lives on Palm Sunday.
Condemning the attack, Tinubu said he was elected not to create widows and widowers.
Speaking earlier, Governor Mutfwang welcomed the President, noting that his visit came at a time when the state was enjoying relative peace and attracting local and foreign investments before the Sunday incident.
Mutfwang said the attack represented a temporary setback but expressed confidence that, with the support of the Federal Government and security forces, the state would overcome the challenge.
He commended the gallant efforts of security agencies, who prevent many attacks that often go unnoticed, and disclosed that he had convened a Security Council meeting where far-reaching decisions were taken.
The governor recalled that the security problem had persisted for nearly three decades across the tenures of previous governors Joshua Dariye, Senator Jonah Jang and Simon Lalong, but noted that President Tinubu’s leadership had provided a new platform for unity among Plateau leaders.
Jang warned against attempts by some individuals to sabotage upcoming elections and expressed confidence that, with Tinubu’s support, ongoing sensitisation efforts would succeed.
Our correspondent reports that there were goodwill messages from Senator Simon Lalong and the Gbong Gwom Jos Da Jacob Gyang Buba.
The Cable
The decision of the Comment (INEC) not to recognise any faction of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has deepened the party’s leadership crisis, with conflicting claims and counter-claims continuing to trail a recent court ruling.
At the centre of the dispute are David Mark, former senate president; and Nafiu Bala, who was one of the deputy national chairmen of the party — with both men laying claim to the leadership structure of the party.
The current crisis is rooted in efforts by opposition figures to build a broader political coalition ahead of the 2027 elections.
In a move aimed at consolidating forces against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), political leaders across different platforms began pitching tent with the ADC in 2025.
Aside from Mark, some of the coalition members include ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; Uche Secondus, former PDP national chairman; Babangida Aliyu, former governor of Niger state; Sam Egwu, former governor of Ebonyi; Aminu Tambuwal, ex-governor of Sokoto; and Liyel Imoke, former governor of Cross River.
Others are Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna; Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the LP in 2023; Rauf Aregbesola, former minister of interior; Rotimi Amaechi, former minister of transportation; Solomon Dalung, ex-minister of sports; Odigie Oyegun, former chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC); Bolaji Abdullahi, a former minister of sports; among others.
On July 2, Ralph Nwosu, the party’s founder and former national chairman, announced the resignation of the national working committee (NWC), paving the way for an interim leadership structure headed by Mark.
However, the arrangement was soon contested by a faction within the ADC.
Bala, who was the vice-national chairman of the party, maintained that he never resigned his position and argued that, following the exit of the party chairman, he ought to have assumed leadership in line with the party’s constitution.
He then declared himself party chairman, vowing to go against the Mark leadership in court.
On September 2, 2025, Bala approached a federal high court in Abuja (Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1819/2025), seeking to stop Mark’s team members from parading themselves as party leaders.
He also sought an order to restrain INEC from recognising them and to compel recognition of himself as acting national chairman.
He further filed motions seeking to stop the party from holding meetings, congresses, or conventions pending the determination of the suit.
The motion ex parte was heard on September 4, 2025, and Emeka Nwite, the trial judge, directed that the respondents, including INEC, be put on notice to show cause why the motion ex parte should not be granted.
Dissatisfied with an interim ruling, David Mark filed an appeal challenging the jurisdiction of the federal high court to continue to hear Bala’s suit.
However, on March 12, 2026, the court of appeal dismissed Mark’s case in its entirety, holding that it was incompetent and unmeritorious.
A three-member panel of the appellate court, led by Uchechukwu Onyemenam, found that there was no substantive ruling by the federal high court on the ex parte application, as the trial judge merely ordered that parties be put on notice.
As such, there was no valid decision upon which an appeal could properly be anchored.
The court further faulted Mark for relying on an enrolled order rather than the actual proceedings and ruling of the trial court, noting that only the judge’s pronouncement constitutes the authentic record of the court.
It also held that the appeal arose from an interlocutory step, for which Mark failed to obtain the required leave before approaching the appellate court.
On the issue of jurisdiction, the court of appeal noted that the question was still pending before the federal high court and could not be determined at the appellate level at that stage, describing the appeal as premature.
Having dismissed the appeal, the court proceeded to make preservatory orders aimed at safeguarding the subject matter of the dispute.
It directed parties to maintain the status quo ante bellum and refrain from taking any action capable of undermining the proceedings before the trial court.
The court also ordered an accelerated hearing of the substantive suit and awarded costs of N2 million against Mark.
In effect, while the court of appeal rejected Mark’s procedural challenge, it did not resolve the underlying question of who is the legitimate leader of the ADC, leaving that determination to the federal high court.
In a press release dated April 1, 2026, INEC said it had received conflicting demands from both sides.
After reviewing the court judgment and filings, Mohammed Haruna, INEC commissioner for information and voter education, said the commission will refrain from engaging with both groups or monitoring their meetings, congresses, and conventions.
The commission said at its meeting on Tuesday, it resolved “to maintain the status quo ante bellum as directed by the court of appeal based on the facts and position of the parties existing before 2nd September 2025, when the case was filed by the plaintiff”.
INEC added that it would “refrain from taking any step or doing any act capable of foisting a fait accompli on the court or otherwise rendering nugatory the proceedings before the trial court”, in line with the appellate court’s directive.
Meanwhile, Bolaji Abdullahi, national publicity secretary of ADC, has said the party will go ahead with its congresses and convention whether INEC shows up to monitor the events or not.
>>.... Before 2nd September 2025, ADC has been superintended by Hon David Mark as its National Chairman and Rauf Aregbesola as its National Secretary - including all other functionaries of the party. The maintenance of that existing structure before Nafiu Bala approached the court on 2nd September 2025 is what the Court means by reverting the situation to a status quo ante bellum. << (Chukwuemeka Ọkala)
On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM, Kayode Adebayo<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Pastor Emeka Okala:Continue to give your own interpretation to please yourself. Law is not Business communication. It's Law.
Allow me to lecture you on Law, you discombobulated Pastor of London. The legal phrase 'status quo ante bellum' in law, means the state or status of things before the conflict or crisis started in Law. We also have what we call 'status quo' which denotes the state or status of things the way they currently are.
Pastor Emeka Okala:By the way, I meant to write 'status quo' not 'status quo ante'. 'Status quo' means the way things currently are in Law, while 'status quo ante' means the way things were and 'status quo ante bellum' means the way things were before the conflict or crisis.
Kayode
On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM, Kayode Adebayo<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Pastor Emeka Okala:Continue to give your own interpretation to please yourself. Law is not Business communication. It's Law.Allow me to lecture you on Law, you discombobulated Pastor of London. The legal phrase 'status quo ante bellum' in law, means the state or status of things before the conflict or crisis started in Law. We also have what we call 'status quo' which denotes the state or status of things the way they currently are.The crisis in ADC started when the hijackers called Atiku, David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola without invitation, forced themselves on ADC from PDP and orchestrated a coup d'etat, bribing and using Nwosu to dismantle the Executive Council of ADC to which Bala Gombe was the Vice-National Chairman and Nwosu the National Chairman, by asking them to resign, instead of registering a new political party.
According Bala Gombe, he was not party to the Executive Council dissolution. He did not give his consent, but Nwosu went ahead anyway, forging his signature. To apply the legal phrase 'status quo ante bellum' to this legal issue, it means the state of affairs at ADC when Nwosu was the National Chairman and Bala Gombe was the Vice-National Chairman which was before the hijackers hijacked the Executive Council of ADC without invitation. Your half-baked interpretation would only apply, if the court had asked the parties to maintain 'status quo' which means the way things currently are.
Bwala said Obi lacks the characteristics of a person who wants to be president of Nigeria.
Featuring on News Central TV’s 60 Minutes with Mr Kay on Friday, Bwala said: “Peter Obi will never be president. He will never cross the central business district that will lead Aso Villa.
Anybody that would be a president, there are characteristics that you will see.
“The person must be visionary, the person must be grassrooted, organic grassrooted, not manipulation, and the person must be sincere for whatever he is but won’t present a picture for what he is totally the opposite for who he is, Peter Obi will never be.”
The presidential aide also noted that the former Anambra State governor lacks grassroot support.
He also accused Obi of selling fake narrative to the Nigerian church during the past administration of the late former president Muhammadu Buhari.
“Peter Obi does not have a grassroot, what Peter Obi did is that he went to the church with a narrative when Buhari was in government that the church is being disenfranchised and it’s time for the church to take back their country.
"....From the day he tendered his resignation and that resignation accepted, he ceased to have locus standi to act for and on behalf of the party. The court should have struck out that case filed by him immediately<< (Chukwuemeka Ọkala)
Sahara Reporters
Nigerian masses and the civil society must rise and march to Aso Rock and protest against the recent plot to destabilize the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Clearly, the recent maneuver by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cripple the ADC is not an administrative error; it is well calculated. That is the renewed hope agenda at a critical hour. That is the political assassination attempt of the entire opposition at a critical juncture. It is the pivot of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ongoing plot to tighten its grip on the throat of Nigerian democracy, moving us closer to a suffocating one-party state. It is the final hour of the renewed hope agenda of President TInubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stand unopposed in the forthcoming 2027 elections, despite enthroning the worst regime in national democratic history.
But the protests this time must be different to succeed. The way and manner to protest against the TInubu Tyranny must change, if we need true change.
First, instead of protesting at the INEC or the National Assembly as has been the case in the past, the valid venue is the Aso Rock where TInubu lives and works. The agencies like the INEC or the other branches of government, such as the Legislature and the Courts have become mere rubber stamps to carry out Tinubu’s evil policies.
For too long, the Nigerian masses and the civil society have been trying their hardest but have continued to play a losing game. We typically march to the gates of INEC; we shout at the walls of the National Assembly or complain at the Courts. But it is a common knowledge that these agencies are basically lifeless extensions of the executive's will. Those agencies or the other branches are the tail of the beast. If we are serious about stoping the predator, we must not step on its tail; we strike at the head.
The time for performative protests at agency headquarters ought to be over. The source of this democratic decay is the Aso Rock, the very seat of presidential power. That is where the policies are forged, where the strangulation of multipartyism is plotted, and where the mandate of the people is being diluted into a single, autocratic voice.
If we are to save the soul of this nation, the protest must move to the doorstep of the power-broker-in-chief. We must occupy the seat of power, not its shadows.
The ADC is just the latest victim; tomorrow, it will be the very idea of a free Nigeria.
Also very important, WE NEED A BOLD AND VISIBLE OPPOSITION. The time has come for the opposition leaders to broadly adopt the SOWORE style by leading from the front, leading the protesters. Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, Mr. Peter Obi, and Mr. Atiku Abubakar have joined in recent months but the presence of the opposition leaders must be elaborate sustained.
SKC Ogbonnia, former APC Presidential Aspirants writes from Ugbo, Enugu State