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Courts in Orlu (Imo West), will be shuttered for the remainder of this week as lawyers, magistrates & judges protest insecurity that is endangering administration of justice. The protest cld affect all legal & judicial business all over Imo State
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In this year alone, the Secretariat of @NigBarAssoc in Orlu located inside the High Court premises has been burgled as have the Exhibit Rooms of 2 Magistrates Courts. Separately, the archives of both the Magistrates & High Courts in Orlu were both set ablaze by unknown persons
Then, sometime during the night of Friday 23 Nov-Saturday 24 Nov, the lifeless body of an adult male was discovered along the Nkume-Amucha road, near Orlu. It appeared to have some tyre marks on the torso & had been dumped by persons unknown (Viewer discretion pls)
That lifeless body belonged to Remy Ogu Jr., a young & respected judicial officer who worked as a Magistrate in Ubulu in Oru-West LGA of Imo State. Remy was widely tipped as having a bright future in judicial office. He lived in Owerri & commuted daily from there to Ubulu
Remy Ogu, Jr. was last reported alive sometime around Thurs 22 Nov. His WhatsApp timed in last activity at 23:01 on 21 Nov 2018. He was due to visit his dad around 24 Nov b4 heading to Abuja for a training course. His official car is reported missing, as is his telephone handset
#Nigeria's rising insecurity endangers lawyers & judges. Around Aug 2018, a Justice of Appeal ws kidnapped in Onicha-Ugbo, Delta State & later released for ransom. Early Nov, Ex-chair, Auchi branch of @NigBarAssoc Mr. Itemuagbo was abducted in Ehor, Edo State. His wife was kille
In Sept 2018, Emeka Agundu, Chair of Obollo-Afor Branch of @NigBarAssoc in Enugu State was killed by unknown persons.

Adeola Adebayo, Secretary of Ikole-Ekiti Branch of @NigBarAssoc, abducted 17 Nov remains in captivity despite ransom reportedly paid nigerianbar.org.ng/index.php/news…
In some states in #Nigeria, Magistrates & judges are reportedly refusing assignment of some cases for fear of their lives & the lives of their loved ones. Insecurity is clearly affecting the administration of justice adversely & fueling the rise of vigilantism & self-help
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It never easy to estimate the depth or extent of damage done by military rule. It's corrosions never go away. It's like we're in a civic #StockholmSyndrome - folks who get trampled by military abuses & misadventure often have an infinitely elastic capacity to ask for more abuse
It's terribly unfortunate that ppl who claim to be "constitutional" lawyers will justify soldiers ransacking a newspaper house, abducting journalists & confiscating computers, none of that procured with a court order or search warrant - basic niceties of rule-constrained process
The constitutional guarantee of free speech allows for limitation but that can only be done "by law reasonably justifiable in a democracy". Soldiers are not law unto themselves & it's not reasonably justifiable in a democracy for soldiers to go abducting ppl or ransacking media
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Over 1 week since #DRCDecides2018, the world still awaits the results as election officials in the country have decided to postpone presidential election results while the Catholic Church says there has been a very clear winner theguardian.com/world/2019/jan…
Meanwhile, following a well-worn pattern of rigging #AfricanElections & to enable it control the results process in #DRCDecides2018, the govt in the DRC has imposed a shutdown on digital services, including SMS, micro-blogging & WhatsApp theguardian.com/world/2019/jan…
The #InternetShutdown in #DRCDecides2018 has triggered 2 related fears. One is that the govt of @Plaid_Kabila has a “plan to obscure the truth of the ballot box” & the other is that there'll be serious violence (PEV), once manipulated results are announced
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It's bn a brutal holiday season in many parts of #Nigeria. In the NE, #BokoHaram ambushed a military convoy monday, on highway linking Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, with Damaturu in neighbouring Yobe state, killing 13 soldiers & a @PoliceNG officer
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Unsurprising, reports emerged shortly thereafter indicating that up to 167 @policeNG personnel in preparation for posting to counter-insurgency frontlines in NE #Nigeria have absconded before deployment, taking their weapons with them
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Q #2527
“There is a place for everyone”
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💥 JULY 2017

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💥 JANUARY 2018

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Americans want to be popular & on the edge of fashion / technology etc . That people will bring devices into theirhomes 🏡. Allowing themselves to be listened too at will .
Facial recognition selfies. Now we all know the reason behind them.Yet no one will stop using them .
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#clothes - #homes - #cars - #schools - etc

Who are the #people telling the rest of us how & what we should have to look like we are successful.
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Week 2 CFB. Gonna go down the rotation and talk ACC and SEC:

GT @ USF (+3.5/63) Color me surprised by side and total here. Expected USF to be slight chalk but hasn't been the case. Total feels about a TD too high to me here but this is a very high variance game, IMO.
Not much to be gleaned from either team's Week 1 games against Elon and Alcorn State. I'll start with GT, I think they could be a candidate for improvement this year. I think the big upgrade was getting rid of Roof at DC and hiring Woody. Simplifying things is usually good.
Didnt' see GT week one but appears they are still trying to get Marshall to throw more and he's still throwing like the A-Back he played prior to QB. Earlier this week USF LB was asked about GT and he said, "Navy with athletes". Last time they played Navy, 52-45 win in 2016.
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Welcome to the #Metpolice

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It's a criminal offence to falsifying a legal instrument. But if the #MetPolice / #LBRUT do it, then there is not even an investigation. 12 years of silence. Evidence to prove it - ukcoverup.com/search-warrant-

#skynews #lbc #theresamay #uk #bbcnews #coverup #c4news #worldnews #ukgov
Welcome to the #Metpolice who also changed & falsified my arrest details. Have a look at the evidence here ukcoverup.com/arrest-details as it's all easy to prove & that's why it's never addressed

#R4today #corruption #coverup #leadership #values #corevalues #bbcnews #skynews #itvnews
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