₦airaland Forum

Alanpoza007:
So you're saying people should be allowed to accuse others of rape falsely without any kind of repercussions. You don't care about the emotional torture, image dent and possible loss of job that person must have faced when he was falsely accused?

In the handling of rape issues, the society has to tread on eggs. The effects of false rape accusations can be devastating and efforts should be made to reduce them. However there is also a need to ensure that rape victims are not discouraged from reporting. The essence of organized society is to protect the weak.

The first basis for a rape case is if a sexual encounter occurred. If no sexual encounter occurred then such allegation is clearly malicious and should be punished. If a sexual encounter occurred, statutory rape is automatic where a minor is involved.

The reason why society made harsh laws against rape is because it acknowledges the greviousness of the crime. We should therefore be careful not to make it difficult for genuine victims to report simply because some unscrupulous people are trying to exploit it.

qualityovenbake:
The family want to control the narrative and sweep the matter under the carpet.

Because the girl is a minor, she should be a responsibility of the State and not the family. The family lacks the right to withdraw the case. The essence of the law and organized society is to protect the weak. She has been failed by the State, the Society and her family.

Nigeria is full of evil not because of those who do evil but because of those who support evil in various ways as family matters, ethnic matters, tribal matters, religious matter and what have you.

blackboy:
Very good . She cant just be let go like that. Example should be made to deter others

It is not a good development. In the USA and developed world generally, alleged rape victims are not prosecuted. Rape is a grevious crime that takes a lot of courage to report by victims. Now when there is a penalty for reporting it in any form, it discourages TRUE and GENUINE victims from reporting the crime.

It is like the Police asking a community for information on a crime with the proviso that if you give wrong information you will be jailed. How many people do you think will now come out to volunteer information?

The solution to reducing false rape allegations is to investigate the facts thoroughly before bringing charges against the accused, not that you penalize the accuser for any reason!

That is why since false whistle blowing was criminalized by Nigeria, people stopped blowing whistles and looters are happy for that. The purpose of whistle blowing has simply been defeated.

Jayslicky:
If busola dakolo continues this case, she may end up being jailed or she may commit suicide from excess trolling on her on social media.

What is the basis for your statement? The fact that Fatoyinbo was allowed to go on bail shows he has a case to answer! Was Busola Dakolo granted bail? No. So you need to speak to facts and not just what you think.

mmadu5:
if you dont want the baby why dont you give it to an orphanage home or sell the baby off to a hospital i know most hospital that can be 200 k and above for a baby instead of killing an innocent child , people get mind sha

It is a criminal offense to sell a human being. It is called Human Trafficking and you can go to jail for that.
The only thing legal for her to do is take the baby to an orphanage.

Elchicolo:

Obaseki said, “This visit is a solemn event. We came here to pay homage to a great Nigerian statesman. These are people who served this country who meant well for this country. They had all the opportunities to make all the money. When they served it was not the spirit to acquire for themselves otherwise he would have bought the whole streets of the state.

“But these were people who understood what public service meant, people who sacrificed for this country. People who had access to state treasury but they had a discipline that money for the state was meant to develop the people and not individuals.

"He should be emulated and that’s why I had taken time out to come and pay homage to him and commiserate with the family and to say that we are proud of their father and the work he did and to advise and encourage them to sustain his legacies.

This simply means Nigeria was better with military dictatorship than the current trend of democracy and greedy selfish politicians we have today. This a serious indictment for the politicians of today!

GogobiriLalas:
She was 17, age of consent in Ilorin back then was 16

There was nothing in her narrative that showed she gave consent. That you do not shout and raise alarm does not imply consent. You can psychologically threaten someone the way you can also do it with a weapon.

Tolexander:
It was a mutual consent between them.

There is no mutual consent with a minor!

Chief Executive Officers of secular companies in sane worlds have been relieved of their positions for sleeping with secretaries under them.
Unfortunately in Nigeria, some Christians see nothing wrong in Pastors and Heads of Churches repeatedly committing adultery, abusing trust and sleeping with their congregants and vulnerable people under their care.

A Pastor committing consensual adultery is better than one commiting adulterous rape, right? Because he fears the judgement of the secular world on a criminal case than that of God which comes only on Judgement day??

TechCapon:
From all indications there is actually a server in inec office and results were transmitted to the server. If they grant atiku access to the server wahala go dey for the country

The way the law works, if something is not permitted by law and admissible, it may have well not existed at all. The INEC Server whether it exists or not is not known to the Electoral Law. Atiku is just wasting his time if his case depends largely on the INEC Server.

Guzel:
This lady suffer pass onoghen but no media to hear her gist.
But why lie when u are a judge

You have only heard one side of the story which is not even backs by visible evidence. If their claims are true they would have forwarded her case to the NJC.

kareemkamil:
The day of judgement, Muslims are the people Almighty God will granted Paradise, you Christian will be a loosers.

Where did you get the basis for your statement?

Quran 2:62 states: "Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians,- any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve."

Heaven in Islam is not exclusive to Muslims only.

tuniski:
Were you expecting 176000 witnesses or critical witnesses? Abegi it is not by number but quality of witnesses.

It is by number that you can prove the substantial non-compliance that is required to overturn elections in Nigeria. The truth of the matter as Falana said, is that Atiku faces a serious uphill task. I seriously doubt his ability to win, particularly when Onnoghen is out of the equation.

Isn't it surprising how Freeze the Confused doesn't blame the girl and doesn't blame the Sheeple movement but finds time to blame Covenant University and Living Faith or Orthodox churches that the girl previously attended?
How warped can people's reasoning be at times!

Earthkumy:
When Nnamdi Kalu called Buhari Jubril

How many went to court

Fools in action

Merely saying Buhari is Jubril from Sudan without any facts is not enough to go to court with.

Here it is a fact that Atiku was naturally not born as a Nigerian. So he is not a Nigerian by birth but by naturalization after the Northern British Cameroon joined Nigeria in 1961.

And the constitution states that only a natural born Nigerian can be President. So the case has some merit.

Vixlot:
"When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men will use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket"-Unknown

The quote is actually by Ayn Rand.

flejnr2:
The NBA-NEC Emergency meeting which was held today, the 28th of January 2019, ended with some resolutions.
it was held that lawyers all over Nigeria boycott all courts in the land for two days starting from the 29th day of January, 2019.
SUMMARY OF RESOLUTIONS OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (NEC) MEETING HELD ON MONDAY, 28TH JANUARY 2019 AT THE NBA AUDITORIUM, NBA HOUSE, ABUJA.

1. NBA Condemns in strong terms the Unconstitutional Suspension of the CJN.
2. NEC resolved that Members should boycott all Courts for the next 2 days starting from tomorrow the 29th to 31st of January, 2019.
3. NEC Ratified the Constitution of a 3 Man Committee (which may be expanded) made up of Former Presidents Olanikpeku, A. B. Mahmood and President Paul Usoro to interface on the issue.
4. NEC adopted and ratified all actions and statements earlier issued by the President on the Prosecution and Suspension of the CJN.

Paul Usoro that has a corruption case of money laundering on his neck, yet he has the audacity to still be head of NBA and in a committee to interface on Onnoghen issue? Well, we will soon throw decorum to the winds.

frankmoney:
So what does it mean ? The cjn remains suspended ?

Don't mind all of them. The judiciary is fielding various players in a theatre of absurdities.

You cannot go to an appeal when there is no judgement of the lower court that you want to appeal. However, Onnoghen and his co-players went to appeal court when their Industrial and Federal High Court orders where ignored because they are of coordinate jurisdiction with the CCT. Please ask them what judgement or ruling are they appealing? Just abusing court processes for personal gain and disrespecting the judiciary whose integrity they are supposed to uphold!

hucienda:
Is that not hypocrisy on the part of Tanko? He was part of the Justices who removed a judge at the state level for committing exactly the same offence he is now guilty of at the federal level.

The same hypocrisy on Onnoghen's part when he is part of the NJC that has been suspending judges with corruption cases since 2016 but when it came to his turn he indefinitely postponed the NJC meeting.

The same Onnoghen also ruled as JSC that Appeal Court orders cannot stop CCT from performing its constitutional duty but when it came to his turn he went shopping for an order at the Appeal Court to stop CCT.

The lesson in it all is we have a lot of selfish people in high places who don't mind undermining the system for their own gains when it comes to their turn!

Where was Agbakoba when GEJ suspended Ayo Salami as President of the Appeal Court and Sanusi as CBN Governor in violation of the constitution?

Have we become so debased as people and a nation that we will argue for the retention of a corrupt CJN because of procedural issues and political differences? Was the constitution made to foster corruption or for the benefit of the people?
Party affiliations are not static; you may be in PDP today and APC tomorrow but what happens when your sense of morality is not static is that it eventually becomes dead.

PurestBoy:
I saw it on my way to Babcock today, now he reconstructed the place on whose account?

Apparently on the State Government account. That is one example of how the Governors/State Dictators in Nigeria waste the resources of the State without question.

In saner climates the House of Assembly and the Courts would have been asking the Governor the basis for the demolition and whether due process was followed.

Told him I wasn't ready for any relationship because I was tired of the way guys do break my heart and I was tired.. Then he was like even if we don't date can we be doing stuffs I pretended like I didn't understand and just laughed.. we talk everyday day....

He said what he wanted all along, but you pretended not to know. So why cry now?

Reno apparently has no rebuttal to Tolu's exposition on his "Leaked Amaechi Tapes" and has therefore resorted to maligning Tolu's image. That is fighting dirty and not fighting on facts!

If the Army's classified information can be obtained by a journalist and published well before the planned attack, it is then little or no wonder why Boko Haram knows their plans ahead!
I am sorry to say but the Nigerian Army is a big joke wasting the lives of our young men.

dunkem21:
Check GEJ's comment and Buhari's no comment and see the type of mistake Nigerians made.

#Never again!

In Buhari's action I can see honesty and sincerity. You can't honestly have genuine eulogies for someone whose government you truncated due to widespread corruption which was acknowledged by history.

Goodluck's statement is not backed by sincirety because he never really knew Shagari well enough to say some of the things he said. And history clearly shows there was massive corruption during the Shagari era contrary to any accolades of them laying good democratic foundations for the country. If they laid good foundations, we would not be in the category of mess we are today as a country.

It is good not to speak ill of the dead. But it is better to keep shut than lying.

harmless011:
There is a lot of sense in what Saraki is saying, this subsidy thing is the greatest scam ever.
Investor confidence in Nigeria is very low at the moment and without direct foreign investment we may not get the needed money to revamp the much needed infrastructure.
I just dey fear for Nigeria because daily crude oil is losing it's value and APC will continue borrowing to fund the budget.
The bad thing is Buhari is more interested in covering up his incompetence instead of appointing technocrats to help him.

Saraki has no point because these matters are always brought before the NASS for appropriation. They can always reject it or call the NNPC or Petroleum Ministers to come and explain. To now be raising issues on the pages of newspapers after the NASS, which he heads as Chairman and Senate President, has approved the matter is the height of stupidity.

We didn't have a meaningful Democratic dispensation during the Shagari era. It was full of looting and mismanagement of the Nation's resources.

If not that it is common norm not to speak ill of the dead and for Political reasons, I doubt if Buhari would eulogize Shagari in anyway!

People like Shagari are not the people we need to honour bases on their contribution to the mess we find ourselves in.

If all our past leaders are good and honourable and worthy of eulogies when they die, then it simply means their legacy for us is good and they have have built an eviable world for us!

If you consider your husband as a nobody and yo married him nonetheless, then you must be the biggest of fools!

Some ladies really have a terrible mindset. And more than often, this mindset is their undoing whether they realize it or not.

thesicilian:
Atiku has suddenly become a saint among Nigerians.

When you see a man that is too free with promises, it is either he doesn't know the meaning of promises or he does not intend to keep the promises.

Atiku is like a guy with a huge dose of konji who is willing to say anything just for access to a girl's honey pot. He can say anything just to have access to the Nigerian treasury.

Gratefulheart01:


I'm sure this babe go get young guys wey do dey straff am side ways, just stayed with the old king for money sake.

Staff her at your peril! A word is enough for the wise...

ayzTIGER:
Osibanjo is no match for Peter Obi on leadership and economic matters. Have you observed that since this debate PDP are praising Obi for his great performance while APC knowing how terrible Osibanjo performed lean on blaming and castigating Peter Obi.

Those praising Obi should understand a VP has only one constitutional role: to replace the President if need be. Any input the VP has is at the instance of the President. With Ezekwesili's confession of Atiku's dislike or hatred for the establishment of Due Process, Obi's value may be no more than for election purposes. We all know how our politicians utilize the wisdom of senior, special and not so special advisers!

9japrof:
The truth was that in 2015, people wanted anyone but Jonathan and that's how unfortunately we had Buhari. There is this saying that no matter how many times a snake changes its skin, it doesn't make it less a snake. That is exactly who Buhari is, despite the repackaging from the likes of tinubu and the rest in 2015, time has proves that Buhari remains the same in being a tribalistic, nepotistic, fanatic individual who remains economically unsound, no wonder during his stint as head of state in the 1980's we had recession, and the same thing repeated in 2006.

The truth is Buhari has blind followership in the north, same nepotistic, tribalist, and economically unsound individuals litters the north, they view him as demi god, no wonder he plays to the gallery, by giving them more appointments and turning blind eye to their misdemeanors. The same people who voted out Jonathan under the guise of failing Nigeria would not vote out Buhari even though Buhari has done worse.


Personally I don't like the Atiku candidacy because of some credibility issues he has, but the truth is that looking at the other candidates for the presidential race, Atiku looks the likeliest with the clout and grit to wrestle power with Buhari, don't tell me the boolsheet of saying "What if we all support Kashim, what if we all support Moghalu, what if we all support Sowore" the truth is that there is no way those ones are smelling that seat, they are not going to win, with the orientation and voting pattern done by hungry Nigerians, there is no way they are going to win, they wouldn't indulge or have the capacity to do a nationwide vote buying, bribing of voters by doling out money or consumables on that day to voters, enough wherewithal to fund the campaigns and elections.

Nigeria is at the lowest low it can go, there is no any lower we can go lower than we are presently. Atiku is a sound business man, and can apply that business temerity in revamping Nigeria. The so-called corruption fight is a hogwash, have you been close to goverment circles, the same high level of looting is still going on unabated, so why would we under the guise of the so-called corruption fighting be kill yourself with hunger.

Any Nigerian that wants Buhari out should settle for the Atiku option, Obasanjo had no option, having weighed everything, weighed the realities on ground had no option than to go back to his vomit in endorsing Atiku, it wasn't easy for him, so if he could do that, I think majority of Nigerians should toe that line, the rest of the candidates even though are young, intelligent, economically sound( like one chika Ukaegbu, the acclaimed youngest presidential candidate) are just vote splitters, Buhari is happy them being in the race, cos his core fanatical, nepotistic almajiris are on lockdown, but down south and the sound northerners would now be split with voting for Atiku and the rest of the mushroom presidential candidates.

Let's every right thinking Nigerian please think about the Atiku option, he is the only realistic solution to the quagmire we brought ourselves into, don't be decieved by the noise of the other Presidential candidates who lack party structures across the 36 states of the federation, they are nothing than vote spliters

Forget your lengthy appeal for Atiku. He is not an option. Atiku's claimed business acumen is rooted in corruption. Most if not all the businesses were established with looted funds or corrupt leverage (i.e. ABTI, INTELS). He is corruption personified.

At this point, what is clear is that Nigerians are yet to find a credible alternative to Buhari. Our inability to go for Durotoye, Moghalu or Sowore also shows that Nigerians are powerless to install an alternative of their pure choice against a prevailing system that only make tainted choices "reasonable" or "the most likely".
We need to wakeup to the illusion of choice we keep having during election period. Atiku is not a choice or an alternative!

lonecatt:
Tradermoni a sophisticated way of buying votes

Since it was approved by the Presidency and the National House of Assembly, it simply means we are all guilty if your assertion is right.

Heartbender:
Since when did legal fees become "questionable funds" and subject to investigation? Na wa o

Since when you use State Government money to pay personal legal fees!

A law should be made that State Governors who abuse their office like this should be removed immediately because being allowed to continue in the name of immunity is not to the benefit of the People.

Serving the People without unnecessary interruption is the basis of the immunity enjoyed by the Governor, so it is clear he cannot enjoy that immunity while harming the People and betraying their trust!