₦airaland Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hwwtL-ZIK4

Way to go

We have bad leaders and followers in Nigeria.

uridadole:
KOGI STATE DOES NOT OWE WORKERS THAT HAVE NO ISSUES. THOSE WITH ISSUES LIKE FAKE CERTIFICATES, AGE FALSIFICATION, WORKING IN DIASPORA, ISSUES OF FRAUD IN THE PAST AND POLITICIANS CHILDREN WRONGLY ENLISTED ON KOGI PAY ROLL ARE THOSE BEING OWED. THOSE WITHOUT ISSUES CAN TESTIFY.

You are a shameless liar

My father does not allow me to study in Madeenah university.


Question: I got accepted to the Islamic University – and all praise belongs to Allâh. My father, however, does not allow me to go to Madeenah, because he thinks that studying Sharee`ah is a waste of time – and he told me that he is free from me if I go there. What should I do with a father who does not pray – nor is he interested in religion in general?

Answer: Don’t listen to him; go, study and learn – and all praise belongs to Allâh. He ordered you to commit a sin, not to be obedient – and there is no obedience to the creature in disobedience to the Creator.

Sheikh Sâlih bin Fawzân al-Fawzân

http://salafi.eu/father-does-not-allow-studying-at-the-islamic-university/

Mynd44 Seun

nemesis2u:
i remember u

u were one of the first guys to like my posts on nairaland

plz do visit now and then

ur posts/comment r very much welcome here (i did run across ur posts the few times i went outside the foreign section)

i will confirm the answer later

and thanks

I can proudly say I'm one of your students bhai. Respect Sir/Ma.

Nigerians are inherently violent regardless of their religious or ethnic background.

nemesis2u:
thanks

TO EVERY VISITOR

anyways just for some mental jogging let me post a puzzle for u guys see if u can figure it out.


suppose u r a spy and have tasked to find out about the progress of a nations nuclear fuel enrichment program , which according to u is the best place to look for clues

1.cafeteria/canteen near the nuclear facilities
2.hotels/motels near the nuclear facilities
3.barber shops near the nuclear facilities
4.brothels near the nuclear facilities
5.sewerage treatment plants near the nuclear facilities
6.laundry shops near the nuclear facilities


it is very easy, figure it out and also give a reason for ur choice.

I will look at no 5 because nuclear waste will be disposed off at the sewerage treatment plants.

dacoza007:
u dey suffer oooo....how person go dey satisfied wearing those tins in the sun, if naa ur Allah tuk am, e wicked big time ....
must u suffer for this one life??biko

What is the function of hypothalamus again? Isn't it for regulation of body temperature?

I do and I was a kid then

Russia Confirms Eagerness for Ajaokuta's Resumption

Beloved Nigerians, Please read the Russian Ambassador's interview on the importance of strengthening bilateral relations between Nigeria and Russia.

Dear Hon. Fayemi,

I hope this meets you well. The Ambassador has just confirmed the authenticity and eagerness of the Original Builders of Ajaokuta TyazhPromExport (TPE) to resume works for the completion and operation of Ajaokuta steel company. This goes contrary to your words that the Russian Company TyazPromExport doesn't exist and isn't interested in the participation of Ajaokuta's resuscitation. Just in case you have forgotten, please watch your self speak here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LazxtcXt1UE . How can a company not exist yet communicate their lack of interest towards Ajaokuta?
You also mentioned at an interview recently that 3 Russian companies are interested in bidding for Ajaokuta's resuscitation... I laugh. Sir, there is ONLY ONE company recognized by the Russian and Nigerian government as the builders of Ajaokuta. The Ambassador mentioned ONLY TPE in his interview attached. Please don't encourage Chinese pseudo companies with a Russian name... we, the good citizens of Nigeria know the extent our leaders can go to manipulate Chinese investment processes in order to fatten their pockets for elections. Mr. Minister, please read and listen to HRM's Sanusi Lamido's interviews on China colonialism of Nigeria and don't fall us deeper into that messy category.

Nigerians, don't let anyone deceive or tell you lies. The original builders of Ajaokuta and willing, able and ready to revive Ajaokuta in other to create jobs and wealth for you and I. Russia has been a true and trusted friend of Nigeria and Africa as they didn't participate in the slave trade instead the secretly and sometimes openly helped African countries fight the colonial masters for independence

Nigeria must forge strategic alliances with countries that mean well for Nigeria. Not countries that participate in economic slavely and neo-colonialism.

Nigerian, stand up for the Nigeria that you deserve!!!

God bless us
Natasha Akpoti.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/russia-eager-for-resumption/194591.html

chinkichun:
Being religious does not mean humans have to hibernate their common sense. How did you even feel posting this? It's very ridiculous when people publish these kind of nonsensical extremist views about any religion... whether Christianity, Islam or what have you.

All religions must come to terms with current realities around culture, technology and the society generally.

Apply common sense OP. Please!!!

Calm down and read the post with an unbiased mind and understand what the OP has pointed out. Islam is not against the use of technology as we have Muslims all over the world connecting with scholars of Islam in other places via video calls but what the OP is against is using video technology to perpetrate acts that aren't in line with Islamic tenets.

Nice thread OP but next time include the name of the writer. He is Aboo Bannaat

This is pure evil, wickedness and savagery.

God bless the OP and the other contributors who contributed meaningfully. As for the issue of disintegration there are many grey areas some people aren't aware of.

fabselad:
I have never said cutting internet in SOUTHERN region of my country isn't marginalization but when such utility is used to spread false rumors and create an atmosphere of hatred and fear what do u expect the government to do. Just a simple question to my naija brothers, in 2014 when BH was ringing bells in the north what did your government do as one its main actions to curtail BH actions. The shutting down of internet services is deplorable but as a southern Cameroonian some people were using this to do more harm than good. This actions where done by so called leaders in the diaspora who are free to move and their kids go to school while ours are sitting home because a group of people threaten kids if they to go to school.
I stand for a DECENTRALIZED REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON But i would never stand in for a break away nation. This fight had made us loose a lot and we have also gained also in some aspects which are; The government has decided to leave the anglophone system of education to be run by anglophones, the creation of a common law branch has been created in the supreme court of Cameroon, the promotion of bilingualism has been greatly emphasized on by the government, a common law branch has also been created in the school of administration in Yaounde.
Remember this isn't only an anglophone problem its a Cameroonian Problem. South West Region of Cameroon has one of the best road infrastructures in Cameroon, a brand new stadium, and 4 annex stadiums, a student Hospital is been built in Buea and would be run by anglophones.The only anglophone region which had been neglected was the NORTH WEST REGION and it's capital Bamenda. How many regions in Cameroon can boast of such infrastructures. Even the presidents village does not have road.
I don't support the actions of the government but when peace and stability is at stake the government has the RIGHT to take any action. all I have to say again is WE ARE ONE AND WE WOULD REMAIN ONE.

Respect Sir/Ma.

Way to go my Indian brothers.

I see nothing wrong in interethnic marriage if I find the qualities I'm looking for why won't I marry her. I dey look for an Igbo woman to marry and a Yoruba plus Hausa to complete my One Nigeria agenda. Ngozi123 react to this

Some of my southern kinsmen are Grade-A hypocrites, they're all over this thread masturbating and sucking up the hypocrisy. Was Sodom and Gomorrah not destroyed as a result of their homosexual practices? Governor Yari is right from the angle he viewed it from because there is a Prophetic narration that supports his statement. SLS should have seek clarification instead of refuting Yari without evidence.

The incessant, unrestrained, no-holds-barred public commentaries that are becoming some sort of trademark of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, are nothing short of an ill affliction. However, unlike in illnesses where a physician is required to cure one, in this affliction it’s self-cure that is needed.
The series of open attacks and public rebuke that the emir chooses to throw at every opportunity of grabbing a mic is by all good intents condemnable. The needless feather ruffling has risen from comments on the federal government’s economic policies, the urging of women to return slaps from their husbands, to the recent and unfortunate public flaying of his governor.
A lot of us welcomed the appointment of Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as he then was, onto the exalted throne of his forefathers. We saw it as something that would be a big plus for Kano State, of having a modern emir well versed in both Western and Islamic learning; and who was also a well-connected technocrat that could use his connections to attract developments to Kano. Alas, all we got from the controversial ex-banker is showmanship at public events – both locally and internationally, the denigration and belittling of the throne, queer fatwas, an unreserved and overly forward nature, etc. All of these have not added any value whatsoever to the people of Kano State or even to the centuries old and highly respected emirate council, which he leads.
What started as some trendy bend toward radical progressive tendencies, having an emir of a powerful town as Kano lending his weighty views to social issues bedevilling his people, soon transcended into full blown economic epistles that have now become largely political treatises, which are totally unbecoming of a royal father.
A lot of sentimental observers, made up largely of young and impressionistic minds, have formed an army of support for the emir’s ‘unroyal’ conduct. To their idealistic minds, the emir is a reformer, a progressive in aristocratic garb and one standing out of the pack to tell truth to power. They cheer him on, as he goes about firing on all cylinders condemning everything and everyone. To the applause of his cheerleaders, he is behaving like the market place dan tauri, doing what no one else would do, and playing with the sword around his stomach to attract crowds.
When an emir abandons his basic duties for theatrics and performances, who then is he aspiring to become? The palace jester, wawan sarki? Time will surely tell.
The emir’s foot soldiers forget, or rather choose to ignore, that not all of us can be everything at the same. There is a purpose for the social order, and when one attempts to muddle things up in an attempt to please people as an all-rounder, the ensuing confusion may end up consuming one. Muhammadu Sanusi II wants to be a Jack of all trades – from an emir, to an economist, an Islmaic scholar, administrator, and to even a public commentator – but unfortunately he is perfecting none of these as a master.
In one controversy after the other, Emir Sanusi has been throwing his royal gown, without caution, to the wind of spectators, in making pronouncements that in all objective reading go contrary to the royal codes of etiquette.
In the known custom of traditional authority, at least in Northern Nigeria, dignified silence occupies a frontline position. When the emir has an opinion but rather choses to keep quiet – when he could have disparaged an action of government or that of a group of individuals publicly or even react to some affront thrown at him, yet decides to get these addressed by other means – there is inestimable respect that comes with that.
From attacking the federal government, Emir Sanusi has now taking on the Kano State government by criticising one of its major and well-thought out projects. This pertains to his comments at the recently concluded Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit, where he rubbished the proposed construction of the Kano Light Rail Project and directly attacked Governor Ganduje, when he could have easily reached out to the governor to offer his advice on the best way of handling the project. It was quite unfortunate that he chose to ridicule the governor on a platform such as the Kaduna Investment Summit. Could there be something unbeknown to many in this public criticism of a cardinal government project? Beyond this, the emir even used the same podium to engage in a belligerent censuring of the chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State. Supposing Kano is of concern to Mallam Sanusi, what relationship has he got with Zamfara or Yari? In Islam, there is a direct prophetic saying for one to shun that which does not concern him. And this said injunction aims at protecting one from the backlash of such, for if the mouth knows what it utters, it surely does not know what reply awaits it. Imagine the media handlers of the Zamfara governor deciding to go dirty in tackling the emir’s verbal assault on their principal, and thereby dragging in mud and desecrating a privileged royal throne!
Now, as an emir, Sanusi has direct access to the people he routinely takes on in public. This would make one wonder why then go public with his criticisms of their actions, even if supposedly well intentioned, when he could have channelled his concerns more strategically. The reason for this might not be farfetched – the man is used to playing to the gallery in order to impress.
Aside his attacks on leaders, the emir also seems to hold his people in high contempt. I have never heard any Oba, Obi, Ooni, Lamido, Atta, Gbong Gwom, etc wash the dirty linens of his people in public, but Sanusi’s stock in trade is disparaging his people in order to take the shine off other traditional rulers. Since the beginning of his now over two-year reign, he has never said anything good about the well-behaved, industrious people of Kano. The part reserved for us is always the rebuke. As one who has himself raised a polygamous family over the years, the emir now stands on his own ‘crimes’ to see that of others by always attacking the polygamous nature of the Kano family.
Our expectations on the choice of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as emir of Kano are fast waning. What we get, instead of the prosperity we thought we were in for, are endless and needless controversies, and the attendant negative press. Unlike the Ooni of Ife, who has within a short period of time been identified as a promoter of youth entrepreneurship globally, Emir Sanusi with his abundant contacts within the financial sector, has refused to generate economic opportunities for the people of Kano State. What he generates are none other than attacks and censures.
Lastly, whether anyone likes it or not, as an emir, Sanusi is an employee of the government and is therefore bound by public service rules. He has already provided the government with enough rope to hang him, and had it been the man who appointed him is still the one in the Government House, the story would have very likely been different by now. That same governor who appointed the emir had to query him before leaving office in 2015. The emir should be mindful of history repeating itself in Kano. And when that happens those who cheer him on now would not do anything but mumble words of sympathy to him. A stitch in time, they say, saves nine.
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2017/04/15/emir-muhammadu-sanusi-ii-reformer-palace-jester/

I won't say anything sha

snapscore:
Amoto94
Are u abu bannat?

La! We are friends and also neighbours.

NO GAMBLING IN MARRIAGE.
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Many people think that simply because the famous hadith mentions "deen", so every muslim is now a marriage material!
If that was the case, then there would be no need for istikharah and istisharah anymore, we'll just marry just anyone who prays facing the ka'bah, simple.
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HELLO,
As much as all that glitters is not gold, all that's fade is not also advisable to be purchased, a faded item does more harm than good.
If a man has been practicing sunnah for 5years and he still says:
"Astanga-fruullah"
Is that a sign of a serious person who is willing to learn? Such is an unserious students of knowledge and it shows he is far away from the scholars and gatherings of knowledge.
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Don't think that people will suddenly improve after marriage, the way people are before marriage is the way they will be after marriage, nothing changes overnight, except in extremely few cases. Do not take that risk.
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Imran bin hittan was a scholar among the tabi'een, he was very eloquent and there is no person he admonishes except that the person would embrace islam.
So he wanted to marry his cousin sister who was one of the khawarij, so that he will change her to the sunnah, but when they got married, she was the one who changed him and imran became a khawarij and later became the amir of the khawarij of their time.
(Siyaaru alaamin nubalaa).
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This is what we are saying, if a sister promises you that she would start wearing hijab after marriage, do not take the risk, let her start wearing it first out of the fear of Allah not for your sake, before you marry her.
If a brother tells you he will stop partying or living a gangster life after marriage, don't accept his proposal, until you see the changes in him, even at that, do your istikharah, it maybe that he is only pretending for a shortwhile.
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There is no management in marriage, do not marry anyone out of pity or out of mere hopes that they would change.
This is why we see some niqabites married to niggas today, some brothers are married to slay babes today.
You don't have the unseen knowledge, it may turn out positive or negative, the risk is not worth taking, marry a man who is better than you not worse than you.
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Sheik uthaymeen said,
People do say:
"I will marry a woman who is not religious, perhaps Allah will guide her through me"
We say: you have no knowledge of the future, it may be that you'll marry her hoping that Allah will guide her through you but she would rather change you to her wayward lifestyle
(Sharh al mumti, kitabun nikah, 14)
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When we buy fruits, we choose the best, when we buy clothes, we go for the best, when we cook, we prepare it well, when we take drugs, we go for the best, when we marry, we even go for blood test so that we don't endanger the health of our kids, but when it comes to religious commitment and aqeedah, we marry anyhow.
We go for blood test but we don't examine the aqeedah of the person.
Marriage is a lifetime contract and your partner will either mar you or make you, so do not go for anything less, there is no management in marriage.

I stand with Prof. Ango Abdullahi on this one.

This is a good move to boost the economy as SMEs makes an economy to tick.

I don't have the patience to argue back and forth with people that have already have their minds made up. Some of the pious predecessors warned against debates to avoid fitnah.

The Trump administration will move forward with the sale of high-tech aircraft to Nigeria for its campaign against Boko Haram Islamic extremists despite concerns over abuses committed by the African nation's security forces, according to U.S. officials.
Congress is expected to receive formal notification within weeks, setting in motion a deal with Nigeria that the Obama administration had planned to approve at the very end of Barack Obama's presidency. The arrangement will call for Nigeria to purchase up to 12 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano aircraft with sophisticated targeting gear for nearly $600 million, one of the officials said.
The officials were not authorized to discuss the terms of the sale publicly and requested anonymity to speak about internal diplomatic conversations.
Though President Donald Trump has made clear his intention to approve the sale of the aircraft, the National
Security Council is still working on the issue. Military sales to several other countries are also expected to be approved but are caught up in an ongoing White House review. Nigeria has been trying to buy the aircraft since 2015.
The Nigerian air force has been accused of bombing civilian targets at least three times in recent years. In the worst incident, a fighter jet on Jan. 17 repeatedly bombed a camp at Rann, near the border with Cameroon, where civilians had fled from Boko Haram. Between 100 and 236 civilians and aid workers were killed, according to official and community leaders' counts.
That bombing occurred on the same day the Obama administration intended to officially notify Congress the sale would go forward. Instead, it was abruptly put on hold, according to an individual who worked on the issue during Obama's presidency. Days later, Trump was inaugurated.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said this past week that he supported the A-29 deal to Nigeria as well as the sale of U.S.-made fighter jets to Bahrain that had been stripped of human rights caveats imposed by the Obama administration.
Under Obama, the U.S. said Bahrain failed to make promised political and human rights reforms after its Sunni-ruled government crushed Arab Spring protests five years ago.
"We need to deal with human rights issues, but not on weapons sales," Corker said.
The State Department said in a 2016 report that the Nigerian government has taken "few steps to investigate or prosecute officials who committed violations, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in the government, and impunity remained widespread at all levels of government."
Amnesty International has accused Nigeria's military of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the extrajudicial killings of an estimated 8,000 Boko Haram suspects. President Muhammadu Buhari promised to investigate the alleged abuses after he won office in March 2015, but no soldier has been prosecuted and thousands of people remain in illegal military detention. Nigeria's military has denied the allegations.
The A-29 sale would improve the U.S. relationship with Nigeria, Africa's largest consumer market of 170 million people, the continent's biggest economy and its second-largest oil producer. Nigeria also is strategically located on the edge of the Sahel, the largely lawless semi-desert region bridging north and sub-Saharan Africa where experts warn Islamic extremists like the Nigeria-based Boko Haram may expand their reach.
The aircraft deal also would satisfy Trump's priorities to support nations fighting Islamic uprisings, boost U.S. manufacturing and create high-wage jobs at home. The A-29 aircraft, which allow pilots to pinpoint targets at night, are assembled in Jacksonville, Florida.
"It's hard to argue that any country in Africa is more important than Nigeria for the geopolitical and other strategic interests of the U.S.," said J. Peter Pham, vice president of the Atlantic Council in Washington and head of its Africa Center.
Once Congress is officially notified of the sale, lawmakers who want to derail it have 30 days to pass veto-proof legislation. That's a high hurdle given Corker's support. Sen. John McCain , R-Ariz., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, also said he backs the sale.
"We've really got to try to do what we can to contain them," McCain said of Boko Haram.
In Trump's first phone call with Buhari in February, he "assured the Nigerian president of U.S. readiness to cut a new deal in helping Nigeria in terms of military weapons to combat terrorism," according to Buhari's office.
A Feb. 15 White House statement that provided a summary of the call said "President Trump expressed support for the sale of aircraft from the United States to support Nigeria's fight against Boko Haram."
Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said in mid-February he was "leery" of the sale because of the Nigerian military's impunity. Cardin said this week he's not trying to block the deal.
"Ultimately we hope that the sale goes forward," he said. "But there is progress that needs to be made in protecting the civilian population."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-sell-attack-planes-nigeria-boko-haram-fight-46697894

I wish to on behalf of the family of the late former MD Radio Kogi Alh. Abu Onaji and my late mother Madam Adizetu Abu Onaji, unambiguously disassociate the onaji family from the publication and post by a certain individual Mr Usman Austin Okai who was alledging that the ongoing screening of pensioners in Kogi state was responsible for the death of my parents. That is a blatant lie and it's condemnable in its entirety. Mr Austin who has so far apologised to the family for trying to leverage on my parents death to get at the Gov. Bello led administration is neither a member of the family nor a friend and never had any contact with the family hence he was speaking for himself and his cohorts. For the record, my late mum was at no time a civil servant so I wonder how Mr Okai and his co travellers came up with the information that my late mother died as a result of the non payment of 7 months pension being owed her by the kogi state government; My parents died peacefully in their sleep as they always wished and as muslims, we strongly believe they both left at God's appointed time. We urge kogites and Nigerians the world over to join us in condemning this malicious affront on our privacy. The family is deep in mourning and our need to do so should be respected. Regards. Abu M. Attah.

5oyad:
Pls share just one post of his to buttress your senseless post. What is shameful is your attempt to tarnish the whole Ebira tribe with the smelling colours of bello's daylight robbery and cruelty

I have read his posts in the past and I won't mining his posts just to satisfy a vain glorious buffoon like you. The burden of proof is upon you not me. He's made disparaging remarks about a tribe and you're here defending the scoundrel, my statement has already been corroborated by others if you care to know. I don't care about Yahya Bello you can view my profile to verify my views about him.

"The Right to Freedom of Expression

In every democratic society, each and every member of the society is granted the right to freedom of expression. In Nigeria, this right iscontained in the provision of S. 39 of the 1999 Constitution.

However, this right comes with its own limitations. If this freedom is left unfettered, it is sure to be abused by members of the society. This is why it is provided for in S. 39 (3) and S. 45 (1) of the Constitution that the provisions of S. 39 would not invalidate any law that is reasonably justifiable in a democratic society.

Also, in determining the extent of a person’s right to freedom of expression, the court per Ademola CJ in the case of DPP vs. Oby[1]stated:

A person has every right to discuss any grievance or criticise, canvass and censor the act of government and their public policy. He may even do this with a view to effecting a change to the party in power or to call attention to some of the weaknesses of the government so long as he keeps within the limits of fair criticism.

It is clearly legitimate and constitutional, by means of fair argument, to criticise the government of the day. What is not allowed is to criticise the government in a malignant manner as described in this case. For such attacks, by their nature, tend to affect the public peace.

It is due to this reasoning by the court that the offence of sedition has to be put in place.

What is Sedition?

Sedition can be aptly defined as any act, speech or publication that is done with a seditious intention. Seditious intention has been defined by the provision of S. 50 (2) of the Criminal Code. It provides:

50 (2) A “seditious intention” is an intention-

(a) To bring into hatred or contempt or excite disaffection against the person of the President or of the Governor of a State or the Government of the Federation; or

(b) to excite the citizens or other inhabitants of Nigeria to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any other matter in Nigeria as by law established; or

(c) To raise discontent or disaffection amongst the citizens or other inhabitants of Nigeria; or

(d) To promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different classes of the population of Nigeria

In determining the actus reus for sedition, the court in the case of IGP vs. Anagbogu[2] held that the act of writing an article with a seditious intention is enough to amount to the offence of sedition.

The provision of S. 51 (2) further makes arrangement for situations in which would not be regarded as constituting seditious intention. It provides:

But an act, speech or publication is not seditious by reason only that it intends-

to show that the President or the Governor of a State has been misled or mistaken in any measure in the Federation or a State, as the case may be; or

(ii) to point out errors or defects in the Government or constitution of Nigeria, or of any State thereof, as by law established or in legislation or in the administration of justice with a view to the remedying of such errors or defects; or

to persuade the citizens or other inhabitants of Nigeria to attempt to procure by lawful means the alteration of any matter in Nigeria as by law established; or

To point out, with a view to their removal, any matters which are producing or have a tendency to produce feelings of ill-will and enmity between different classes of the population of Nigeria.

It is further provided for in S. 50 (3) that in determining whether an act was done with a seditious intention, such person would be deemed to intend the natural consequences that would flow from his actions.



The Punishment for Sedition

The Criminal Code in S. 51 provides for the punishment in the offence of sedition. The section states:

51

(1) Any person who-

(a) Does or attempts to do, or makes any preparation to do, or conspires with any person to do, any act with a seditious intention;

(b) utters any seditious words;

(c) prints, publishes, sells, offers for sale, distributes or reproduces any seditious publication; (d) imports any seditious publication, unless he has no reason to believe that it is seditious; shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction for a first offence to imprisonment for two years or to a fine of two hundred naira or to both such imprisonment and fine and for a subsequent offence to imprisonment for three years and any seditious publication shall he forfeited to the State.

(2) Any person who without lawful excuse has in his possession any seditious publication shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction, for a first offence to imprisonment for one year or to a fine of one hundred naira or to both such imprisonment and fine, and for a subsequent offence to imprisonment for two years; and such publication shall be forfeited to the State.

It should be noted that prosecution for the offence of sedition must be commenced within six months after the offence is committed[3]. Prosecution for the offence of sedition cannot be carried out except with the written approval of the Attorney General of the Federation or of the State concerned[4].

It should also be noted that when it comes to the uttering of seditious words, a person cannot be convicted on the uncorroborated testimony of just one witness[5].

References

[1] 1961 Vol 1 ANLR

[2] 1954 vol 21 NLR

[3] S. 52 (1) of the Criminal Code

[4] S. 52 (2)

[5] S. 52 (3)"