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Good to see that Gov Pontius Pilate has finally woken up...
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Donaldoni:
Does state law supersede federal law - the constitution

It does not...
But there are NO federal laws (or constitutional provision) on the subject matter.

Btw, the Constitution is NOT part of federal laws...
Instead, both federal and state laws are SUBJECT to the Constitution.

While federal laws are notionally “superior” to state laws....
Such laws cannot encroach on territory reserved by the Constitution for states.
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Donaldoni:
I concede! What of other states of the country

If there is a clash between federal and state laws, which prevails

1) The Child Rights Act of 2003 applies automatically in the FCT (Abuja)...
2) It has been ‘domesticated’ (enacted by the State Assembly) in 25 of the 36 states thus far.
3) All of the 11 states have failed to domesticate the CRA thus far are in the North...
4) Furthermore, in a federation, states can set their own individual age of consent...
5) Accordingly, all states have stayed with 18 years, EXCEPT for Akwa Ibom (16 years).

These are the reasons I kept stressing that the offense was committed in Lagos and thus governed by Lagos’ CRL 2007.
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Donaldoni:
Nothing concrete came up from that link.

And why is the Lagos state law not splashed over the internet

Check under “The Laws” subsection of that website.
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Donaldoni:
Are you kidding me How can any valid constitution not specify an age of consent

So where did https://www.ageofconsent.net/world/nigeria & https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/age-of-consent-by-country/ get their information from

You are the person citing them...
So the question should be directed at YOU!

Not everything on the Internet is true...
But feel free to reference ANYWHERE in the Constitution that lists 11years as the age of consent.... we’ll wait!
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Donaldoni:
I have visited it the link. It says absolutely nothing about the age of consent. I also tried to download the PDF but it's asking me to pay.

What a joke! I smell scam...

And if you want to see the entire law itself (Lagos State Child Rights Laws of 2007)...
Feel free to go the OFFICIAL website of the Lagos State GOVERNMENT’S Domestic/Sexual Violence Response Team.

https://www.dsvrtlagos.org/

No excuses for defending PAEDOPHILES left.
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Donaldoni:
I have visited it the link. It says absolutely nothing about the age of consent. I also tried to download the PDF but it's asking me to pay.

What a joke! I smell scam...

Always glad to do the heavy lifting required to educate and enlighten the masses...
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Donaldoni:
Are you giving up on your phantom "Child Rights Acts of 2007" already

Where did you now get the PC you are using to browse?

Come on, I didn't come up with the links. They are all over the internet. I didn't create ageofconsent.net neither am I it's editor.

So why should I doubt its content

What of all the numerous pressure groups calling for the age of consent in Nigeria to be raised from 11 to 18, are they fools

I am no paedophile and I hate them. But a wayward, experienced young girl should NEVER be used to punish a mature emotionally weak man in the name of "statutory rape"...

They are NOT campaigning that the age of consent “be raised from 11 to 18”....
They are campaigning that the Constitution provide for a SPECIFIC age of consent (which they want to be 18).

That’s a distinction with a difference...
Because the Constitution cannot “raise” (or “lower”) something it did NOT specify in the first instance.

Meanwhile, please do NOT swallow everything on the Internet hook, line and sinker...
There’s a reason that NO constitutional references were cited by your age of consent.net site - NONE exists!
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Donaldoni:
The link you quoted landed me nowhere.

Only in your head does this "child right law 2007" exist.

I don google am taya, nothing shows up...

I went ahead to check this link - https://www.dsvrtlagos.org/Child%20Protection.html - nothing came up. Even the https://www.dsvrtlagos.org is mainly addressing domestic violence with a couple of questions and answers.

Don't fight me, fight our constitution that needs to be changed. The age of consent in Nigeria is 11. Chikena!

The “If-I-Cannot-Find-It-on-Google, It-Doesn’t-Exist” Defense?
Fortunately, I am kind enough to do the heavy lifting for you: https://laws.lawnigeria.com/2018/03/01/child-rights-law/
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Donaldoni:
What is the Nigeria Age of Consent?
The Age of Consent in Nigeria is 11 years old. The age of consent is the minimum age at which an individual is considered legally old enough to consent to participation in sexual activity. Individuals aged 10 or younger in Nigeria are not legally able to consent to sexual activity, and such activity may result in prosecution for statutory rape or the equivalent local law.

Nigeria statutory rape law is violated when an individual has consensual sexual contact with a person under age 11.

https://www.ageofconsent.net/world/nigeria

Do you know better than those asking for the law to be changed

https://www.change.org/p/it-s-never-your-fault-raise-the-age-of-consent-in-nigeria-from-11-to-18

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/668/826/312/change-the-age-of-consent-law-in-nigeria./

I googled your child rights law and found out that it's still an act. And the section 23 was talking about marriage.

No act supersedes the constitution.

Even your MODIFICATION to make it seem there’s a constitutional provisions remains erroneous...
NOTHING in either link contradicts my earlier assertion that “there is NO constitutional age of consent in Nigeria”!

Section 29(4)(b) merely provides any married woman shall be deemed “of full age” (a legal lacuna, at best)...
So why the RANDOM age of 11? Why not a 3 year old baby or even a 3-day old toddler betrothed/married under native custom?

Meanwhile, the victim here was NOT married to the arrested PAEDOPHILE...
So your continued references to Section 29 of the Constitution is baffling and frankly IRRELEVANT to this case.

Please quit defending PAEDOPHILES...
If you are lucky, one day you might have an 11-year-old daughter or younger! SMH
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Donaldoni:
What is the Nigeria Age of Consent?
The Age of Consent in Nigeria is 11 years old. The age of consent is the minimum age at which an individual is considered legally old enough to consent to participation in sexual activity. Individuals aged 10 or younger in Nigeria are not legally able to consent to sexual activity, and such activity may result in prosecution for statutory rape or the equivalent local law.

Nigeria statutory rape law is violated when an individual has consensual sexual contact with a person under age 11.

https://www.ageofconsent.net/world/nigeria

Do you know better than those asking for the law to be changed

https://www.change.org/p/it-s-never-your-fault-raise-the-age-of-consent-in-nigeria-from-11-to-18

What exactly about rather basic criminal law apparently confuses you?

There is NO need for a theoretical dissertation or multiple Google research....
When there is a SPECIFIC law providing for a SPECIFIC offense that the suspect will be charged.

When the parties are in court, NOBODY will be citing Google to the judge...
The CONTROLLING LAW in Lagos, where the actions took place, is the Child Rights Law 2007.

However, since it seems you only believe what you see on Google...
I have taken the trouble of digging up a copy of the Lagos CRL 2007 for you (see Section 27).

https://www.dsvrtlagos.org/pdfs/Child%27s%20Right%20Law%202007%20(2).pdf

Please note that it is a STRICT LIABILITY offense (ie, no legal defense)...
And even the supposed “consent” of the child is NOT a valid defense (see specially, Section 27(2)(b).
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Nothing UNITES Nigerians like a COMMON criminal enterprise ..
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seangy4konji:
What does small girls are doing

U see them in school uniform with ass shaking...wearing tiny pants and visiting small boys having orgies..

Dos small girls ehn...hmmm. Make person just quiet.

DISGUSTING, DISGRACEFUL AND DESPICABLE comment...
Sounds like yet another PAEDOPHILE in the making (that is, if your not already one)...SMH
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Uniquekriss:
read the story again. The girl didn't report d case, her mom found out. If d mom didn't find out they would possibly be knacking @d moment

mannyranking:
the truth of this matter is I shared the same cell with the suspect udeme late last year ..the girl is not 11yrs she is a ss1 student and they both had consensual sex nothing like rape was attached to it...fear Nigeria police and bloggers in this country

Birds of the same criminal/dubious feather?

So long as she is under 18, it’s a CRIMINAL offense...
See Section 27 of the Lagos Child Right Laws, and even ignorance or mistake is NOT a defense.
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Donaldoni:
Just google "Age of consent in Nigeria"

Until our constitution is amended, that is what it is.

So Google is now “our constitution” (as you put it)?

FYI, there’s NO constitutional age of consent in Nigeria, and thus unsurprisingly your Google reference cites NONE...
The only uniform law covering age of consent in Nigeria is the 2003 Child Rights Act, which puts it at 18 years (Section 23).

Specifically, in this PARTICULAR case (because the Child Rights Act is domesticated state by state)...
In Lagos (where the offense occurred), the Child Rights Law 2007 specifies 18 years, without no ambiguity (see Section 27).
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Bilabong:
Ayade is scamming

Oh sorry working

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NLReposter:
Why you they disturb my mention?

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Davash222:
Forget, this Oshiomhole ugly o.

Na wa o! Anybody that can make Bubu look halfway decent in comparison...
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PRIMITIVE ZOO!
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NLReposter:
Even Buhari no want die

Meanwhile

www.nairaland.com/attachments/11199994_es3o37xqaakgmb_jpegebac88d902e77197994dddb8855cdfc1

And here’s another Dotard...smh
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dre11:
https://149366101.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Buhari-and-Osinbajo-in-elbowshake-on-Wednesday.-CBN-governor-Godwin-Emefiele-enjoys-the-spectacle--e1583965761649.jpg

Bubu can make just about anything look DUMB...smh!
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gurunlocker:
“I did not attack President Muhammadu Buhari, I was emotionally attached to his outstanding virtues of honesty and craved to shake him”


This part is funny, dunno people still believe this in 2020

The highlighted part is obvious proof of his derangement...
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Nigerian governors and Audio industries...

Meanwhile, Coronavirus probably has a presence at that Trade Fair.
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SUCH A DUMB GOVERNMENT!

Use this opportunity to discard the useless and corrupt subsidy regime, and use any extra cash to fund social infrastructure (schools, hospitals, public transportation) and the so-called Social Investment Program. Instead, they’re running around borrowing $500m hard currency for NTA.

Funny how the petroleum products that affect the economy (and thus the masses and the poor) most is NOT being subsidized. Kerosene, diesel (used by truckers to ferry goods around Nigeria) and aviation fuel (used to ferry cargo and people across Nigeria) are NOT being subsidized, but only petrol is being subsidized - and who buys the most cars every year? The GOVERNMENT (federal, state and local governments)! SMH
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Unconfirmed reports on Premium Times is 15 bodies recovered thus far.

RIP to the dead...
Thoughts and prayers for all victims.
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atobs4real:
One administrator died in that school. Just confirmed it.

RIP
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Unfortunate:
Lagos is congested.
They should free Lagos.
Lagos will diminish come few years.
Lagos is not developing anymore

Mainland perhaps...
The Island-Lekki axis is BOOMING (no pun).
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emeijeh:
If any guy had borrowed an expensive car from his friend to show off this morning, and the car was parked around the vicinity where the explosion took place, SORRY IS HIS NAME

Insurance?
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WHERE’S GOVERNOR ‘PONTIUS PILATE’ SANWO-OLU?
He should have already been there, LEADING from the front!

Meanwhile, thoughts and prayers for any and all victims.
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Malami is probably the WORST A-G in Nigeria’s history (arguably even worse than Aondoakaa)...
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