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christee:
she will carry it to full term, that baby will be born

...Amen!
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So the UNBORN kid is already richer than many long-ago-born Nairalanders...

Anyway, here’s wishing safe delivery for mother and child.
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Btw, Afrione devices were discussed here on Nairaland as far back as February 2017...
https://www.nairaland.com/3637924/n-power-devices-why-chose-afrione

ilochidi:
The ongoing N-Power initiative has given people the opportunity to own smart devices as part of its empowerment initiative.

I decided to go for AfriOne 2in1 cos of the reasons below.

1. It's serves a dual function for me. A tab when I remove the detachable keyboard and a laptop when it's attached.
2. I stand to receive my 30k stipend monthly untouched with no deduction
3. The device's specifications are so awesome.
4. These device is manufactured here in Lagos, Nigeria and this gives me the opportunity to partake in their mobile engineering skills training which I learnt is in conjunction with Laspotech to train and place graduates firmly in the society as I read online. http://thenationonlineng.net/laspotech-firm-build-phone-assembly-lab/ I wouldn't let that pass me for anything, hopefully end up working for one of the first mobile phone plants in the country.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/4889770_afrioneblack0020170219092431_jpegc75156099c753c41e6c23ee4da79b445

Generalnomercy:
Story.

A phone manufacturer that doesn't even have pictures of the produced phones.

Blame the Nairaland OP...
Not the phone manufacturer.

https://i1.wp.com/toptechblitz.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/images-3.jpg?w=259&ssl=1
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Spatta:
OP I hope you are not fooling yourself that this location is in Nigeria? It look similar to what Rwanda was celebrating online Yesterday. The Nigerian Government is still so crude and they don't know anything apart from their old craft corruption. Investors are going to East Africa and ignoring Nigeria because of the bribery culture of our wicked impostors and the lack of security to do business
Police Bribery and a lot of challenges are chasing investors to more saner African countries I hope you are not presenting a Lie to Nairalanders?

See Television news stories from MORE THAN 2 YEARS AGO on this Lagos plant...

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ta1Dty_BZwI/maxresdefault.jpg

See also CNN news story about the plant via the link below...
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/10/27/marketplace-africa-afrione-is-creating-nigerias-first-smartphone-a.cnn
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SoNature:
When it starts production and show some seriousness, it could give the market's leading brands a run for their money around West Africa.

Subsequently, Samsung, Infinix or Tecno may just acquire it

It started production ALMOST 3 YEARS AGO in about 2016 or so...
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0KNM:
My cousin married her lecturer... so?

Congrats to her, but after she left school I hope...
Many schools actually have policies explicitly prohibiting such relationships.
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Fisher007:
I totally agree with your second paragraph. That self control and self discipline is key. That is why I stated in my comment that no one can force you to do what you don't want to especially if you have strong will ( Now this goes for both lecturers and students).

But your first paragraph on power dynamic not been equal is wrong. So you feel the power students have is lesser than that of the lecturers. That is where you are getting it wrong.

Infact students have more power than the lecturers. I have seen students who are strong will and who know their right that don't participate in such acts. They record, (audio and at times videos) and report such incident to their parents and authority. Why because they are the one who decide what happens?

For example, it might sound funny to use this example in this case, a woman decide who she wants to have intercourse with in the dating world. Not the man. If you think as a male because you are woeing her and giving her lavish gift made her accept you, then you are in la la la land fantasy world. She still need to accept you even if she changes her mind. The power is in her hands. She can take all your gifts and praises and still end up with someone who gave her nothing. It is the pure truth. That is why most men are always complaining that after all they gave or did for her she didn't even look at them.

I believe this same point is valued for both students and lecturers. Even if you sweet talk the students, threatening the students, or the students approach the lecturers. It is still the students that will determine what happens. It is the lecturers that have a lot too loose in terms of employment, reputation, social status, marital status, and religious status. The students have more power to destroy the lecturers especially when they are discipline, determined and know their rights.

Simple.

What if the student is MALE?
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UdyOgwoUde:
But I don't blame all these lecturers, in as much as some of them might be foolish. Some of these girls appeal the lecturer's to sex them for grade, (at least I've witnessed it). You will see a girl who knows she failed an exam going to the lecturer's office, not to beg the lecturer to help her pass the course, but to ask him; "Sir, what can we do about it"?

Please desist from creating/perpetuating a FALSE EQUIVALENCY...

The power dynamic between lecturer and student are disparate and unequal, and always skewed in favor of the lecturer...
If a student (female or male) comes to a lecturer to exchange sex for good grades, it’s the latter's FIDUCIARY duty to refuse/report.
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0KNM:
Why can lecturers not ask out a student they genuinely have feelings for? Are they not humans? These are adults ffs...

Because there’s a high susceptibility to conflict and nepotism...
And what if the student declines, would she be protected/comfortable in the class?

If a lecturer’s feelings are that “genuine”, s/he can always quit and go find another job.
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Iamvjdamilola:
After this can we discuss sex for iPhone's, sex for apartments, sex for shisha, sex for 2 Indomie and 1 egg, sex for things you'd be surprised doesn't even make sense

Keep comparing apples with oranges...
In fact, you should even add sex-for-marriage! SMH
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UNILORIN: A certain Dr. Muhammed Idiagbon was caught on tape sometime ago and resigned...
UNILAG: Dr. Afeez Baruwa is currently being prosecuted in court for sexual harassment and rape.
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Bridget95:
VAT;Value added tax ,increases the value on products and services and indirectly affect investment choice.
Tanzania like many African countries for instance ,placed over 25% VAT on everything goods and services consumed there,this made everything expensive.
VAT is a micro Portion of TAX on companies spread on goods and services which is shouldered by end users.investors run away from countries with high taxation.Tax policies are often made by dept redden countries to impress their creditors that they can service their loans ,but the indirect implication is decreased foreign investment.

Not disputing that higher corporate taxes often work to deter investment...
But yet again VAT is NOT a tax on investment because it’s not borne by the investor.

It may serve to increase the value of goods/services, but not necessarily so as other cost elements can be used to keep prices down...
Eg, distribution and other costs and/or margins can be cut to reduce the product price and thus ameliorate the price hike to the consumer.

Furthermore, since VAT is administered by merchants, the threshold for VAT registration is a crucial factor...
In Nigeria, it will be annual turnover of N25 million, which means most MSMEs (who will be the retailers, NOT the investors) will not levy VAT.
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Meanwhile, don’t quite get the point that you were struggling to make about “tax policies” being made by debt-ridden nations to “impress” their creditors, since EVERY country employs “tax policies” (including tax-free jurisdictions, because the absence of taxation is actually a “tax policy”). In fact, contrary to your assertion, countries like Nigeria (which albeit cannot be rationally described as debt-ridden) use TAX HOLIDAYS (which is available in EVERY free-zone in Nigeria, as well as for so-called ‘pioneer’ industries) to seek to attract investment.

Finally, Nigeria is not raising the levels of VAT taxes to “impress” creditors. The reality is Nigeria presently has (and always had) by far the LOWEST VAT rates among the 15 ECOWAS nations, because public finances have largely lazily relied on the rent “windfall” derived from crude oil sales rather than taxes as is the case with most of its peer nations (eg, S/Africa’s tax-to-GDP is almost 30%, Ghana’s is about 20%, while Nigeria’s is less than 6%). Since a large part of the is informal (or off the “tax grid”), VAT accords a shortcut to a broader tax base.
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hisgrace090:
Can this rubbish ever end in Nigeria?

sallazlee:
I don't think so, because it now rife among the teachers and students, Nigeria education is on gun powder

Sadly, it's not unique to Nigeria...
It fact, in the US, it is often FEMALE teachers that are 'defiling' young male students. SMH
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tagmichael:
On a serious note it's so sad that such is happening but have you take time and hide maybe by the side of the road which your child take home and observe what she does or who she walk with? Most of our females kids are so spoiled they wear shot skirts do all kind of provocative things sexually to bring about such to themselves.please parents watch and observe your kids especially from SS1 that's when such tendencies springs up..but the principal should be held to face justice.

So you are saying KIDS do stupid/silly things? Who knew... SMH
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SIRKAY98:
abeg make we stop all this overdue news jare. what was the 17 year old girl doing after the act? that she is just bringing bringing the issue now to arrest.
abeg if i give her and the police that arrest a better slap...thier brain go reset mtweeeh
give us the bastard tha was probably caught in the act this month or last week.

Abegi, quit making excuses for paedophiles...
There's a reason that we do not allow minors to vote or make contracts, even though they PHYSICALLY can do both!
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tiredoflife:
Next time read to comphrend not to comment

Dude, I fully COMPREHENDED both points you made...
My point is that the first point is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT!
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samorobo:
Nigerians should not talk about tax cos we don't pay tax... we have one of the lowest tax to GDP ratio in the world...I am willing to pay so long as I would see that money work most especially in infastructure and health care

You can say that again...

That's why I like that the Ambode government usually puts a "Your Taxes at Work" sign on most Lagos projects!
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Bridget95:
How can African economies encourage investment when thye increase tax, multiple taxation scare off investors.

VAT is NOT a tax on investment (but rather on consumption)...

Nonetheless, one has strike a careful balance in respect of tax policy. It should be too high as to depress consumer spending, but properly applied and employed it could be used to direct investment in certain areas and industries, and to generate additional revenue to support investment in infrastructure (including soft infrastructure in education, healthcare, etc.) that would in turn support private investment.
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ibnzubair:
Exempted? Was it VATable before?

It never was...
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Fisher007:
The truth is bitter.
I hope you are all ready to swallow it.

Firstly let me commend their effort in this video. It was great and I am happy this is an eye opener which we already know about it.

Now my problem is the story is just one-sided. And I don't like one-sided story to make people feel good or convince themselves.

Our parents, grand parents, great grand parents knew about this sex for favours or marks thing. Even our uncles and aunts or boses still practice this on the younger ones. Keep your eyes open and don't come here and form you don't see it.

Now it is a choice if you want to get involved or not. It has practically been existing eversince. And yet some of us didn't get involved or participate in it. Not because we are holy (trust me we have our own bad habits). But we choose not too. Simple.

One thing I have learnt in life is you can never be used or influenced into doing what you don't want especially when you have a strong will and conviction.

The story is one-sided and it gets on my nerves. Do you know that the amount of students (both male and female student ) that offer themselves voluntarily for this sex for grades is way more than the ones the lecturer force or convince too.

Trust me you all will be amazed that most students even seduce, pay for hotel rooms voluntarily for lecturers to sleep with them. They purposely track lecturers, visit their lodge and practically rape this lecturers. This then makes most lecturers think all students want to be involved in this scheme.

Everyone here on nairaland are mostly hypocrites. You all want to tell me you didn't know about this even in your university years in Naija uni. To the extents some of you even knew your friends both male and especially female who will never attend lectures but will come out with grade A and B. You knew they did it from year one to year four. Even final year project was still through this scheme.

Do you want to tell me all lecturers force them to do it all through those years?

We are all just hypocrites and we are lying to each other. The truth is it will not stop. Especially with the current economy.

Am sure to gain admission now in Nigerian universities they will do the same scheme, with the high population of students that cannot gain admission every year because we lack institutions to admit them. Hmm.

Well I will end my case here. Accept what you see. There is nothing happening that is new under the sun. It might just have be upgraded or modified, but it is not new.

Simple truth but hard to swallow.

Please desist from creating/perpetuating a FALSE EQUIVALENCY...

The power dynamic between lecturer and student are disparate and unequal, and always skewed in favor of the lecturer...
If a student (female or male) comes to a lecturer to exchange sex for good grades, it’s the latter's FIDUCIARY duty to refuse/report.

Any lecturer, employer or person in a position to directly influence the grade/career of another person (and that goes for both male or female) has NO business whatsoever sleeping with such person, however much you may believe that the subordinate “willingly” want to. If you have NO moral compass (or self-control/self-discipline), you are NOT fit to hold a fiduciary/supervisory position.
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LONGPREEK:
nonsense. fck bbc. as if na gold dey the toto. do you know that some of these hoes try to seduce these guys and fram them up. she went to the hotel to read bible? iff he tells you to pay for it with your smelling k[ekus wey boys don Bleep scatter, u can say yes or no. u useless oloshos.
u clearly gave him greenlight , and acted like an olosho and he took advantage of that now u are saying he used you. na thunder go fire una

As usual, crude misogynists are never far behind...

Any lecturer, employer or person in a position to directly influence the grade/career of another person (and that goes for both male or female) has NO business whatsoever sleeping with such person, however much you may believe that the subordinate “willingly” want to. If you have NO moral compass (or self-control/self-discipline), you are NOT fit to hold a fiduciary/supervisory position.
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realestniggah:
Issues like this are only taken seriously when foreign media house report on them.

We are fucking_ hypocrite in this country.

Maybe if the BBC do a documentary on the state of electricity in the country and the cabals sabotaging the country electricity grid.. We are finally going to have an answer to our problems.

It been 59 years since independence but we still wait for a UK media house to fix our shit_ for us.

When the OAU Ife Prof was caught on tape and generated widespread furor (and his subsequent prosecution), was that "foreign media"?!
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Osobi32:
Why bring up this old news again...... I read this news about 2months ago here

Because it's now in court?
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tiredoflife:
This doctor can lie oh
Two years old rape
Yet forceful penetration with hymen still remain
Well they paid him to say what he must say

The case should be attacked from their age
That they are below 18 and twin sisters
With student principal relationship
Not the lie of forceful penetration after two years

Rape does NOT require 'forceful' penetration...
It merely requires non-consent, and minors cannot give legal consent.
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donstan18:
t was a mutual and consensual sexual relationship.

Legally, a minor CANNOT grant consent...
That's why you cannot enforce contracts against minors.
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OgboAto:
Ode folks.
I already indicated it was a joke. What is with the anger. You both hold too much toxic energy within. Are you doing well in real life? Are you OK? Is everything alright with you both?

My bad, missed that...
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Wantedmiller:
And they won't expose our Criminal politicians

Welrez:
Pls, can the same be done to our politicians?

When Gandollar’s Babanriga banking was exposed on tape...
Didn’t the President “punish” him by campaigning for and supporting him?
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Edusouls:
Expose all of them well done bbc, show the world what we are made of,in a society were men are fraud,lawless and highly indisciplined, were women are worse off they are dull,dull, empty, myopic upstairs, they see their private part as a answer to all their problems in fact gold that can get them anything, most Nigerian girls are partially brain dead so these lecturers take advantage of it and mind you these girls see it as an easy and normal way to go through school, tomorrow they blame Buhari..Nigerian citizens especially the youths are a complete disaster...

GrabHisBalls:
This menace is a two way thing. While some stupid lecturers demand sex for marks, some girls willingly go looking for lecturers who they would give sex for marks.

The good thing about this documentary is that this practice among our lecturers will reduce.

Please see my comment at the top of this page...
It is incorrect to characterize it as a “two-way” thing.

The power dynamic between both groups are DIFFERENT and always skewed in favor of the lecturer...
If a student (female or male) “willingly” comes to you to exchange sex for good grades, it’s your FIDUCIARY duty to refuse/report.
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OgboAto:
So when are we going to get a documentary on female students who willingly want to fuxk/date their lecturers?

Knew that crude Nigerian misogynists are never far behind...

Any lecturer, employer or person in a position to directly influence the grade/career of another person (and that goes for both male or female) has NO business whatsoever sleeping with such person, however much you may believe that the subordinate “willingly” want to. If you have NO moral compass (or self-control/self-discipline), you are NOT fit to hold a fiduciary/supervisory position.
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frenzyduchess:
One would expect the fact that he is a pastor to make a difference from other corrupt lecturers. Smh

Wasn’t the one exposed on tape (and subsequently prosecuted) at OAU Ife also a ‘pastor’?
In Nigeria, conmen increasingly use that appellation (aka ‘Man of God’) to disarm potential victims.
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midnighter:
Lol come on! Youre comparing secondary school bullying to systematic victimisation of academic scholars on a daily basis?

I laugh in calculus

Well, you can laugh in Kanuri if you want...

But, first, you did not specify “academic scholars” but made a generalized statement...
Nonetheless, if you are referring to “academic scholars”, scores of them are virtually canonized in Nigeria (from Wole Soyinka downwards).

There is even a Nigerian National Merit Award dedicated solely to academic scholarship in Nigeria.
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