
WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?
The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.
A HERO IS BORN.
I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.
IT IS WHAT IT IS.
"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.
WORD!
A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.
NOW, YOU KNOW.
When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.
JUST THE FACT.
In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle
DO YOU?.
“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.
HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.
Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.
OUR SHARED HUMANITY.
Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.
WORD.
"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.
#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.
"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.
RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.
"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.
WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS
“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ
EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.
"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)
ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?
“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
NIGERIAN NATIONAL LEGISLATURE, THE NUMERO-UNO QUESTION?

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IT took only a combined time of 22 minutes for a 10-year-old tradition of the National Assembly to give way. Amid laughter and backslapping, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, by proxy, at separate sessions of the two Houses, presented year 2010 budget.
ReplyDeleteTraditional presidential presentation of the budget to a joint session of the National Assembly was aborted over a seniority feud between the two chambers, a stalemate resolved dramatically when Yar'Adua left for Saudi Arabia on Monday for medical check-up.
The President's absence had elicited criticisms and fears but as far as the Senate is concerned, Yar'Adua is fit to run the country, and his going abroad for a scheduled medical appointment is no big deal.
In answer to a question from journalists yesterday on whether the Upper House would not sympathise with the President, Senate spokesman, Senator Ayogu Eze, said: "We do not need to sympathise with anybody because even members of the Senate go for medical check up every now and then. During the holiday I went for medical check up and did all the test that I needed to do. So what is strange about going for medical check up, why should we engage our attention."
Prodded further, Eze added: "Unfortunately the constitution did not provide for you to stay in your house and estimate the health of the president. The health of the president is a constitutional issue and it is only a health board of enquiry that can determine the fitness or otherwise of the president, the composition of that board is very clear. And there is no indication for us whatsoever that the president is unable to discharge his responsibility. So far we do not have any evidence that the president cannot do his job so why should we pry into that."
In the Senate, it took just five minutes for Yar'Adua's Special Adviser, Mohammed Abba Aji, to present the Appropriation Bill. But in the House of Representatives, it took 17 minutes because opposition members put up some resistance when it was observed that the adviser came in with an entourage that was not recognised in the motion allowing him to lay the bill.
However, after a new, re-phrased motion, and a futile attempt by opposition party Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, Aji, laid the bill, and stepped out of the House.
Senate spokesman and Chairman of its Committee on Information and Media Affairs, Ayogu Eze, who briefed journalists at the end of a closed-door session that preceded the presentation of the budget proposal, that the Appropriation Bill would receive thorough treatment.
First, senators locked themselves behind closed doors for one hour during which the Senate President, David Mark, provided details of why the budget could not be presented by the President and had to be sent through a presidential aid.
And shortly after the Senate returned to plenary, Senate Leader, Teslim Folarin, moved that Order 17 of the Senate Standing Rule be invoked to allow the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Aji, enter the chamber and lay the budget document.
Having been allowed entry into the chamber, Aji bowed to the Senate President, laid the budget on the table, turned and bowed before senators and left with his entourage, smiling and waving at the senators.
Meanwhile, following the ruling of a Federal High Court that some House members could sue to ascertain whether both the Senate and the House are distinct but equal houses of the National Assembly by virtue of Section 4 of the 1999 Constitution, the Senate may be considering approaching the nation's highest court to determine which of the Houses is senior.
At least, three senators and a principal officer said yesterday that members were going to the Supreme Court to interpret the constitution.
"It is too serious a matter to be left to a high court; it is the duty of the Supreme Court to interpret the country's rule book. We are exploring that option and they will hear from us soon. We are discussing it, I can assure you," a senator, who preferred anonymity, said.