₦airaland Forum

AmalaAtiEwedu:
Nnamdi kanu is doing steady beans in custody
dem no d gree anybody come even give am food
make him no try suicide o! I need to see how e go be after 2031 when tinubu come down from office

AmalaAtiEwedu:
Nnamdi Kanu will up the game with sniper

AmalaAtiEwedu:
dead Nyamirarians don't count

Neoteny:
Damn you're so stupid it's unbelievable.

The monarchy is symbolic for the purpose of culture and tourism and nothing else. The king has absolutely no say in government, even the house of lords is largely impotent as it's the house of commons, an elective position, that's the functional part of the government. The party with the majority in the house of commons gets the prime minister, and the PM visits Buckingham Palace as a mark of respect. The royalty does not choose the government, the cabinet, the party leaders, the shadow cabinet, or anything government-related.

You're just a dumb ass.

Royal Navy doesn't mean the Navy belongs to, or is controlled by, the monarchy.

My gawd, nairaland is really infested with incurable idiots.

ABUJA, NIGERIA — 

Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest of the country's record cost-of-living crisis. Four of them collapsed in court due to exhaustion before they could enter a plea.

A total of 76 protesters were charged with 10 felony counts, including treason, destruction of property, public disturbance and mutiny, according to the charge sheet seen by The Associated Press.

According to the charge sheet, the minors ranged in age from 14 to 17 years old.

Frustration over the cost-of-living crisis has led to several mass protests in recent months. In August, at least 20 people were shot dead and hundreds more were arrested at a protest demanding better opportunities and jobs for young people.

The death sentence was introduced in the 1970s in Nigeria, but there have been no executions in the country since 2016.

Akintayo Balogun, a private lawyer based in Abuja, said the Child Rights Act does not allow any child to be subject to criminal proceedings and sentenced to death.

"So, taking minors before a federal high court is wrong ... except if the government is able to prove that the boys are all above 19 years," Balogun said.

The court eventually granted $5,900 bail to each of the defendants and imposed stringent conditions they are yet to meet, Marshal Abubakar, counsel to some of the boys, said.

"A country that has a duty to educate its children will decide to punish those children. These children have been in detention for 90 days without food," Abubakar said.

Yemi Adamolekun, executive director of Enough is Enough, a civil society organization promoting good governance in Nigeria, said authorities have no business prosecuting children.

"The chief justice of Nigeria should be ashamed, she is a woman and a mother," Adamolekun said.

Despite being one of the top crude oil producers in Africa, Nigeria remains one of the world's poorest countries. Chronic corruption means the lifestyle of its public officials rarely mirrors that of the general population. Medical professionals often strike to protest meager wages.

The country's politicians and lawmakers, often accused of corruption, are some of the best paid in Africa. Even the president's wife — her office is nowhere in the constitution — is entitled to SUVs and other luxuries funded by taxpayers.

Nigeria's population of over 210 million people — the continent's largest — is also among the hungriest in the world and its government has struggled to create jobs. The inflation rate is also at a 28-year high, and the local naira currency is at record lows against the dollar.

On Thursday, Nigeria was classified as a "hotspot of very high concern," in a report from United Nations' food agencies, as large numbers of people are facing or are projected to face critical levels of acute food insecurity in the West African country.

DEROX:
but you know him, anyway tinubu sef no try

dododawa1:
not only Moslem and Christian AND herbalists

Neoteny:
Classic hallmark of an impotent ignoramus: spewing further ignorant nonsense and jejune insults as he sinks deeper into the quagmire of his rank stupidity whenever his asinine comments are called out.

Cocolatti:
like Margaret Thatcher you mean?

Neoteny:
The royal family is largely ceremonial. They've no influence on party politics, the parliament, or government.

ElSudani:
Perhaps your mother and all the women in your family are lunatics, that is not so for everyone.
The women in my own family are intelligent and accomplished women.
It is obvious you are a product of a wretched hag, that is your own reality not mine.
You are empty upstairs. You are trying to argue about what you know nothing about. You don't even know how to write Falkland and you are try to argue about what Thatcher did and why all women should be held accountable for that.
Are you really dumb or just drunk?

ElSudani:
So, Falkland war and the Northern Ireland were the only events throughout her time as the prime minister?
And which of the two crisis did she start? Read and stop being ignorant.

Kaiser20:
So sorry, Boy, you need Therapy ASAP so that you can handle the Phobia and live a decent life again. I can help for free.

ElSudani:
Margaret Thatcher nko?

Kaiser20:
Did your mother poison your Daddy back then