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God bless you!!!
It is a real shame. Some countries would not have allowed such a sale to go through.

"With MainOne in the hands of the foreign investors, it is all complete: Nigeria has zero representation in the core infrastructure of its digital future."

https://www.facebook.com/100047989968078/posts/398465715096424/

Zooposki:
Africans selling themselves to the west. SMH for the weak Black man.

suffering:
Maltina cares.

How do you know, nobody cares?

suffering:
Nobody cares.

Lol. hijab is not compulsory

Peace081:
Where is her hijab?

She actually looks older than 28

suffering:
Beautiful woman. Happy Birthday. I forgot she was so young.

What causes stretch marks?

Breaking Bad

How does this help Nigeria?

How does this bring out the restructuring of Nigeria, and the practice of true federalism?

Seun:
DETAILS ON BILL TO CREATE ADDITIONAL SPECIAL SEATS FOR WOMEN IN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, STATE HOUSES OF ASSEMBLY

Mr. Speaker, Honourable Colleagues, permit me to lead the debate on the general principles on A Bill for An Act to alter the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to create additional special seats for Women in the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly. You would recall that the Bill was read for the first time on Thursday 22nd April, 2021 in this hallowed Chamber

Mr. Speaker, my respected Colleagues, this bill seeks to alter the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 to remedy the low representation of women in Legislative Houses by providing for the creation of additional separate seats to be contested and filled by only women in the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly as a temporary measure to promote women’s representation. The provision is subjected to a review after four general election cycles of sixteen years for the purpose of either retaining, increasing, or abolishing the temporary measure

The Bill is comprised of six major clauses that seeks to alter Sections 48; 49; 71; 77; 91; and 117 as set out below-

1. Alteration of Section 48
Section 48 of the Principal Act is altered by substituting the existing section 48 with a new section “48” –

“48. Composition of the Senate
(1) The Senate shall consist of:

(a) three Senators from each State and one from the Federal Capital Territory; and

(b) an additional Senator for each State and for the Federal Capital Territory, who shall be a woman.

(2) Notwithstanding the provision of subsection (1) of this section, nothing shall prevent a woman from contesting for any of the senatorial seats referred to in subsection (1) (a).

(3) The provisions of subsection (1) (b) shall commence after the current life of the National Assembly and shall be reviewed after 16 years from its commencement notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution.”

2. Alteration of Section 49
Section 49 of the Principal Act is altered by substituting the existing section 49 with a new section “49” –

“49. Composition of the House of Representatives
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the House of Representatives shall consist of:
(a) three hundred and sixty members representing constituencies of nearly equal population as far as possible, provided that no constituency shall fall within more than one State; and

(b) two additional members for each State and for the Federal Capital Territory, who shall be women.

(2) Notwithstanding the provision of subsection (1) of this section, nothing shall prevent a woman from contesting for any of the seats in the constituencies referred to in subsection (1)(a).

(3) The provisions of subsection (1) (b) shall commence after the current life of the National Assembly and shall be reviewed after 16 years from its commencement notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution.

3. Alteration of Section 71
Section 71 of the Principal Act is altered by inserting immediately after sub-sections (1) (a) and (b), new subsections “(2)” and “(3)” –

71. Senatorial districts and Federal constituencies
(1) Subject to the provisions of section 72 of this Constitution, the Independent National Electoral Commission shall –

(a) divide each State of the Federation into three Senatorial districts for purposes of elections to the Senate;

(b) subject to the provisions of section 49 of this Constitution, divide the Federation into three hundred and sixty Federal constituencies for purposes of elections to the House of Representatives.

(2) For the purpose of section 48 of this Constitution, a State shall constitute an additional senatorial seat to be occupied by a woman.

(3) For the purpose of section 49 of this Constitution, the Independent National Electoral Commission shall divide each State of the Federation into two Federal constituencies to be occupied by women.

4. Alteration of Section 77
Section 77 of the Principal Act is altered in subsection (1) by substituting the words “every Senatorial district or Federal constituency” in lines 1 and 2 with the words “every Senatorial district, Federal constituency and the additional seats”–

“77. Direct election and franchise
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, every Senatorial district, Federal constituency and the additional seats established in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Chapter shall return one member who shall be directly elected to the Senate or the House of Representatives in such manner as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly.”

5. Alteration of Section 91
Section 91 of the Principal Act is altered by substituting the existing section 91 with a new section “91” –

“91. Composition of the House of Assembly
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, a House of Assembly of a State shall consist of:
(a) three or four times the number of seats, which that State has in the House of Representatives divided in a way to reflect, as far as possible, nearly equal population; and

(b) one additional member from each of the three senatorial districts in the State referred to in section 48 (1) (a) of this Constitution, who shall be a woman.

(2) Notwithstanding the provision of subsection (1) of this section, nothing shall prevent a woman from contesting for any of the seats in the constituencies referred to in subsection (1)(a)

(3) The provisions of subsection (1) (b) shall commence after the current life of the State House of Assembly and shall be reviewed after 16 years from its commencement notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution.

Provided that a House of Assembly of a State shall consist of not less than twenty-four and not more than forty-three members.”

6. Alteration of Section 117
Section 117 of the Principal Act is altered in subsection (1) by inserting immediately after the words “every State constituency” in line 1, the words “and the additional seats”–

“117. Direct election and franchise
Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, every State constituency and the additional seats established in accordance with the provisions of this part of this Chapter shall return one member who shall be directly elected to a House of Assembly in such manner as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly.”

My respected Colleagues, Women has only 4.4% percent representation in the 9th National Assembly, you may wish to note that Nigeria has been identified as the worst performer in women representation in parliaments, in the West African region and one of the lowest in the whole of Africa. This is evidenced in the most recent Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) ranking of women in parliaments where Nigeria ranks 179 out of 187 Countries Worldwide. Eritrea is the only African Country ranked lower than Nigeria and this is because there have not been national elections since its independence in 1993. The situation is worse at the States Houses of Assembly level, where a good number of our States do not have a single woman in their State Assembly. In some of these States, men chair the Women Affairs Committee because there is no woman available to take the role.

Currently more than 130 Countries have adopted some type of special measure (or quota system) to address women’s under-representation. Over 75 percent of these cases were introduced in the last 20 years – particularly since 2000. Strikingly, the majority of Nations that have adopted special measures/quota systems are low or middle-income countries – many of them in Africa. A very good example is South Africa, where the introduction of quotas in the 1994 election by the African National Congress (ANC) party resulted in 27% of women in their very first democratic election. Currently South Africa has 46.5% of women in their lower chamber and is one of the top ten Countries for women in parliament. Rwanda is the world leader in women’s political participation with 49% of women in their lower chamber. This followed from deliberate constitutional efforts taken to include women in government to foster re-building of the Country post-genocide in 2003.

Even conservative countries are beginning to realise the usefulness of political inclusion of women. For instance, women in countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, the State of Palestine and Tunisia have successfully lobbied for the introduction of various measures, such as electoral quotas, to increase and strengthen women’s political representation. Between 2010 and 2017, the majority of countries in the Arab region have seen an increase in the representation of women in their parliament. In 2013, it may also interest you to note that for the first time, 30 women were appointed to Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council (advisory body), representing 20 per cent of seats as of 2021. In Algeria, the proportion of female members of parliament (MPs) tripled, from 8% to 32% in line with a quota introduced in 2012. In Afghanistan, women now make up about 27 percent of the upper and lower houses of parliament and were active in drafting the country’s new constitution. This was facilitated by a male President who signed and supported declarations of women’s rights and in 2005 appointed the first female governor. Our West African neighbour, Senegal, adopted a parity law in their Constitution in 2012. This was facilitated by then President, Abdoulaye Wade and resulted to an almost 50-50 balance between men and women in the Senegalese Parliament. Nigerian women are not even asking for 50-50 but 35% which is what is indicated in our National Gender Policy and several international Treaties that we are signatory to. The number is identified as the “critical mass/number” of women required to achieve impactful results.

Mr. Speaker, my respected Colleagues, I would like emphasis that women’s inclusion in politics is not just a women or human rights issue, but also an issue of reflecting our history and traditions in our governance process, and I truly believe that this Bill has potential for improving women’s political representation, therefore I urge all my respected Colleagues to support that the Bill be read for the Second Time and committed to the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of the Constitution for further Legislative action.

Thank you.

Rt.Hon [Barr] Nkeiruka Onyejeocha
[Sponsor of Bill]
Deputy Chief Whip
House of Representatives
Federal Republic of Nigeria

Download this to learn more: https://placng.org/i/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Special-Seats-for-Women-in-the-Nigerian-Legislature.pdf

Tomorrow the caterer would expect people to patronise her?

Look if you don't have integrity, honesty, and you're not responsible no matter how good your work is, you would find it difficult to move forward in life.

Who would want to hire a caterer that steals from her clients?

Fellow Nigerians we need to wake up oh! Especially those of us that are running our own businesses; hair dresser, barber, plumber, generator repairer, electrician etc.

Be honest, be responsible have integrity, you would see money would be chasing you. All these petty petty ₦1000, ₦3000, ₦7000 illegal gains you get here and there from your unsuspecting clients can never help you move forward.

I like it like that.

ILoveDemMANNA:
Na u nah

The first 2 pics who is that?

Why would they bruise him?

ultiabaz36:
Make him drive am come iyana ipaja if mc oluomo Boyz no go bruise am

Lol. it is an old style.

Beebah2000:
Omo, Davido trouser choke ooo!!

It is not just Nigerian teachers, even in the US that Dickson178 mentioned, things are bad in American public schools. go to youtube and search for "teachers losing their temper" you would pity some American teachers.

A man I follow on Quora Matthew Bates who is a teacher, but in a Catholic private school in Chicago, has written a lot of answers regarding the discipline issues facing public schools in America.

Discipline is the bedrock learning. If you are not disciplined you can never learn.

EmmyOD:
Nigerian teachers are the most insulted, abused, underpayed and underappreciated. Its quite unfortunate how both parents and guardians abuse teachers for using cain on students and you still want them to be well behaved !

Don't mention the US. The standard of education in the US is gradually eroding due to undisciplined students. Discipline is important and if discipline is missing in any organisation, it is only a matter of time before that organisation collapses.

That boy should be given life imprisonment for the murder of the teacher.

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Dickson178:
For me I support the guy that beat the teacher.. but I don't support him killing the teacher . In US they don't flog a student! No teacher can force anyone to learn , is by you not by the teacher . Stupid Nigerian with useless teachers everywhere claiming that they can teach. Go to US and see what is study

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Stupidity of the highest order. He should be given life imprisonment

okay, thank you

Easy5265:
Don't know how to. You may have to stick to your earlier method of bill payment.

Lol. I doubt Dubai is the goat in terms of construction. You should check out pics from China.

innotutorial:
Dubai is the GOAT in the construction world.

Hello, Please have you used the app to pay nepa bills?
The steps are confusing. Especially that "biller account details".

Normally on other Bank apps, for NEPA bill payment you put in your customer unique number/Meter number and then your phone number. Those options aren't there on the SC app.

At least for airtime I've understood that "biller account details" is where you put in the phone number you want to recharge.

I've also searched online for videos to help me understand the app, but the videos are generic.

Easy5265:
Payment, One time bill payment or Pay to Saved Biller then you choose mobile recharge. You could also use *977# ussd code.

Lol. you are wrong.
This is a thread calling for caution on the side men that want to get married.

Whether you like it or not, if you marry the wrong woman whether superstition or no superstition you would regret your existence.

So if you like, rant about the post being about superstition and ignore the real message of the post which is to, investigate the background and the past of your potential spouse before proposing.

This also applies to women

CandyOps:
Another thread for superstitious folks. A thread for people wey there brain no dey function well because spiritual matter done take up memory space

Imagine this unfortunate spineless man blaming his wife for his misfortunes in business and life in general without even pointing fingers to the main cause- himself.

Nothing dey vex me like when adult go blame spirit for him misfortunes and bad luck because him no say spirit no fit talk or defend themselves. So instead of taking responsibility and handling his finances like a man him go rather blame juju.

Religion is wrecking havoc on us.
No where in this long post did the OP ask the man how he spends his money and how much he makes... No financial responsibility whatsoever recorded.

I've gone from earning 2m monthly to zero.
I was suicidal. Started doing weed and ashawos just to take my mind off things.

But it only gave me temporal relief till I took the bull by the horns and tackled my demons head-on. The more Africans and Nigerians keep relying on spirits for something as simple as a financial growth the more we sink into backwardness and rot.

Religion done kill our willpower and thought process. Na why one old hag of man or woman go tie red cloth or hold Bible do small acting for una tell una say una wahala na spiritual una go believe because we are too weak to hold ourselves responsible.

Weak spineless men wey no sabi their roots everywhere. I just feel complete utter disgust for this fellow not because he is lost but because he doesn't even know how far lost he is.

Money/income does not have a spiritual connection. If it does Nigeria would be the richest country on Earth. Right diagnosis is half the cure.

Why on earth will a man in his right senses consult a witch doctor or a priest for financial advice when we have people who's actual job is Financial Accounting??

It's like having the manager of a football club consult a DJ for technical advice on how to win the football league.. its all shades of wrong and makes no sense...

Yet we do this every single day and expect some kind of magic to happen. Sometimes I'm forced to think we aren't ready for any real change in Nigeria and Africa but then I understand the bigger picture -- keep them illiterates, uneducated, religious and divided. So the looting and syphoning of our nations wealth will keep on.

No wonder Boko Haram agenda na to kill education in it's totality. This country is already boiling over. Those kids born without proper education in the North years back are all doing big business as Kidnappers and bandits today

Na them de influence the elections and political decisions of this country. Yet una still dey fuel superstition and backward religious beliefs over free-thinking, understanding the importance and capabilities of the human brain when fully empowered.
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.this continent (not just the country) is completely exhausting. Nothing is structured to help you evolve and grow.

yes, it can lead to sudden death to those of you that refuse to scrutinize your potential spouse.

jericco1:
May God help us all

Marriage in this current age is a mirage. It can lead to sudden death

The bolded, should be common sense, but unfortunately common sense is no longer common when it comes to women's matter

SSpeter:
Dear Guys

I am writing to formally inform you to ensure you painstakingly and meticulously examine the type of guys your girlfriend has dated in the past. Please and please don't fall for the scam of " my past stays in the past". Dig the past, scrutinize all you have unearthed before you finally propose.

I saw a former colleague recently and he was almost a shadow of himself. He narrated how he is just recuperating from all his loses. He said his Church revealed to him that his wife is a pipe that keeps sucking his wealth and remitting his resources to the yahoo guy that performed the ritual on her. He explained how his logistics company crumbled and I almost cried. He said the court officially dissolved their marriage on a Friday, on Wednesday (the following week), a small reputable company gave him an offer to head their supply chain unit.

Please and please do not touch any lady that a Yahoo boy/man has touched. Fortunately they no longer hide their rituals. Please as an ambitious young man, dig into your potential wife's past. Know her dating history and the type of people she has dated.

Approximately 5 years ago there was this guy that invited us to a treat after his wedding while we were chilling someone asked him how did you meet your spouse he said "we met on a plane". To cut to the chase, the guy met a lady that a sugar Daddy was sponsoring to Dubai and "wifed" her. How can you meet a lady in business class who has no real job and the parents can not afford a 1999 Toyota and you say na she you wan marry? Although him body tell am and he advised himself.

As an ambitious young man the final trap ahead is your partner. Guide your steps towards marriage jealousy. The signs are always there. Your downfall begins when you marry an unfortunate person. I have seen someone who earns 650k monthly dismissed because of cheque issued on an unfunded account (No be juju be that?) He said the pressure from his wife was becoming unbearable. This was same wife that was catered for by a Sugar Daddy before the mumuni "wifed" her.

Finally, I will advise you to take this piece of advice: start digging. Never date a yahoo or sugar Daddy by-product. Your college girlfriend is using a premium iPhone and you know quite well that the parents are poor and she often calls you for bailout funds and you think one magical uncle gave her the phone?

Lol

LesbianBoy:
A decent bad gyal is one who is an "omokomo", who does and says freaky tinz but doing them na wahala because they would refuse you

In your dictionary?

anewchapter:
Wizkid dey Bleep up that's sexual harassment

Which one is decent bad gyal again?

Charmingrascal:
She is not a cheap wh*re like Tiwa.


Even Wizkid catch the sub and he jejely respect himself


Tems is a decent bad gyal.

I wonder what would have happened if Tems had fallen on him.

You guys don't know much about the entertainment industry(I don't claim to know it all) but,having sex and getting dumped is the norm.

IamGblaize:
Dude just wants to have a taste of tems...will be wise for tems to keep declining him .... Thats if they don't have something going on already.... Wizkid will just have sex with her and dump her normal level...

You are right though, network marketing business has lost its glory.

brosom:
The glory of these networking business has long gone.

I would say it was those that started it in late 90ths and early 2000 enjoyed it most, more especially products like TIANSHI, etc.

But now it's more of a slave work with unattainable promises.

Monkey dey work baboon dey chop.

Tianshi menhh!! Tianshi was mad!
My mum actually went to Dubai, London, New York, she even won the BMW car too.

Tianshi was the best network marketing business ever.

brosom:
The glory of these networking business has long gone.

I would say it was those that started it in late 90ths and early 2000 enjoyed it most, more especially products like TIANSHI, etc.

But now it's more of a slave work with unattainable promises.

Monkey dey work baboon dey chop.

Not really. But the tactics to get people to come for their seminars is suspect

Anieke77:
Are they scammers for real