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Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by ababoy1(m): 8:18pm On Apr 08, 2006
I don’t know how many of you in the UK read the Daily Mail. I don’t, but my attention was brought to an article on Page 19 of today’s Daily Mail (Sat 8th April, 2006).

The Column “Platell’s People” has an article on Damilola Taylor – “Sorry, Mr Taylor, but Britain’s not THAT bad”.

Anyway, she goes on to say “In Nigeria, wife-beating is legal, child labour widespread, health care nonexistent and the criminal justice system is deeply corrupt”

Is wife-beating legal in Nigeria? If it is not then an apology from Ms Amanda Platell will be in order.
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by Zahymaka(m): 8:56pm On Apr 08, 2006
It's not legal but it's accepted as a "norm." Aren't there wife-beaters in US and in the UK?
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by Kave(m): 9:10pm On Apr 08, 2006
Its legal because if a wife goes to the police and report ha husband am sure the police guys wud laugh and b confused on wat to do because its like a normal tin here.
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by kenshin(m): 10:07pm On Apr 08, 2006
actually it is illegal, if the incident is reported as assault and battery then the husband could be arrested.
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by JosBoy4Lif(m): 10:09pm On Apr 08, 2006
How many of these incidents actually make it to the police?
And do the police actually give a damn about these family affairs, i thought all NPF wants is settlement
How u go settle this one?
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by kenshin(m): 11:05pm On Apr 08, 2006
yes  @JosBoy4Lif u are right, most times the police end up squashing the case if adequately 'settled' but then am yet to see any police force  in the world that can claim to be without it's own issues of corruption
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by JosBoy4Lif(m): 11:07pm On Apr 08, 2006
word!
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by Zahymaka(m): 11:26pm On Apr 08, 2006
Nigeria's own is too much. You have a non-entity having police escorts for his children. Police also act as security guards for others.
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by JosBoy4Lif(m): 11:28pm On Apr 08, 2006
as long as you have the "peppas", e go do cool
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by Ynot(m): 12:54am On Apr 09, 2006
Kave:

Its legal because if a wife goes to the police and report ha husband am sure the police guys would laugh and b confused on what to do because its like a normal tin here.


The police man probably kicked the living day light outta his wife before showing to work that morning.
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by Rhodalyn(f): 12:47pm On Apr 12, 2006
dis is pathetic!! shocked shocked shocked shocked
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by babymine(f): 12:59pm On Apr 12, 2006
Of course not! shocked
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by kenshin(m): 1:29pm On Apr 12, 2006
only cowardly men beat their wives
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by JosBoy4Lif(m): 5:39pm On Apr 12, 2006
I second that Kenshin
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by Ynot(m): 5:49pm On Apr 12, 2006
What do we say of husband beaters? I'm sure there are women out there who beat their husband.
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by curiousNja(f): 9:50am On Apr 22, 2006
Why woul you think of something like that in the first place?
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by babymine(f): 10:52am On Apr 22, 2006
Its not right!
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by mamaput(f): 11:36am On Apr 22, 2006
Police my ass.
The Police are not fools, they know very well.
No family will support their "Wife/Daughter" going to police and carrying family matter out of the house.
A woman that goes to police (without her family) has lost the case.
No one will listen to her story again.
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by eveseh(f): 8:04pm On Apr 27, 2006
not only in nigeria everywhere in africa
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by Seun(m): 8:31am On Jan 17, 2007
If only women were not too foolish and too passive to enforce their rights, things will be better.
Until then, woman abuse will continue. You will be mistreated and your daughters in future generations too.
All the laws in the world wil not help a woman who thinks her husband has the right to beat her.
That's why spousal abuse is as common in countries like the US that have more specific laws against this.
If you don't have a sense of dignity, you'll be beaten like the worthless sack that you are in your mind.

Nonsense. How can the women of Nigeria be more tolerant of spousal abuse than men? Mumus all of you!
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by Easyy(m): 2:04pm On Jan 17, 2007
Its legal because if a wife goes to the police and report ha husband am sure the police guys would laugh and b confused on what to do because its like a normal tin here.

How does that make it legal?
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by Easyy(m): 2:08pm On Jan 17, 2007
There's no country in the world where some unthinking men dont beat their wives. It happens a lot in the UK and the wives dont usually leave the men. They only leave the men when they realise the guy doesn't even want them again. It's pathetic but it's only stupid and silly women who would find themselves in such situations in the first place.

To the poster of this, IT IS NOT LEGAL TO BEAT YOUR WIFE IN NIGERIA. It's assault!!!
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by sammyjl(f): 1:58pm On Jan 29, 2007
angry In which country is it legal to batter your own wife? It sure aint where I come from.
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by oyinboaja: 2:03pm On Jan 29, 2007
na wa oh
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by Maneater1(f): 10:15am On Jan 31, 2007
Wife beating is practised worldwide,
but lets just say the police are not as responsive as others in the matter here.

but it is not accepted in the society.
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by JosBoy4Lif(m): 5:00am On Feb 01, 2007
o yah, it is acceptable and normal in some societies oh
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by solo2(m): 5:26pm On Feb 01, 2007
He did not know anything, How can wife beating be legal in Nigeria?Please it very very very illegal to beat a wife Nigeria. it is only madman that will want to beat up his wife.
Re: Is It Legal In Nigeria To Beat Your Wife? by Radiant(f): 6:52pm On Feb 01, 2007
If beating a woman means it's legal, then I guess it's legal everywhere to beat a woman, including Britain!

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