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I know her and her family. A very lovely girl. This is just so sad.

She was studying for her PHD at 26years. Very intelligent and pretty.

I just got the news this morning and i have been so sad.

[quote author=Okija_juju]Yeah!! I did post the law myself.

Now since the law is clear, on what basis did the Okada man get a 15 year sentence and the student getting the death penalty?!
They were both armed, they both robbed their victims and they both got arrested and brought before the same judge..

So why the differing sentences?![/quote]I now get where your confusion is coming from. There are two stories in there of two separate crimes.

The first crime is of the student who robbed a woman at gunpoint with some other accomplices (one died of gunshot wounds). He was sentenced to death as per the above. This was outright armed robbery and not the stealing the mischievous poster wrote.

The second crime is the one the okada rider committed which was with a toy gun thus his was a lesser offence. This was stealing.


Are you clear now?

njokusboy: How can a law that was imposed during the military era of thuggery and barbarism still hold water in a democratic government? Am sure you would be screaming foul play if dat guy was even remotely related to you...

Most laws we have now came from the military era. If you want it upturned, your senator/house of rep member should sponsor the bill to have it struck out of our law books.

God forbid but if my family member should take a gun, rob people and even be involved in a shoot-out then they should be shot and then shot again.

[quote author=Okija_juju]ROBBERY AND FIRE ARMS SPECIAL PROVISION ACT of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

ROBBERY AND FIREARMS (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

1. Punishment for robbery.

2.Punishment for attempted robbery, etc.
3.Punishment for illegal possession of firearms.


An Act to make comprehensive provisions for matters relating to armed robbery.

[1984 No. 5. 1986 No. 28.]

[29th March, 1984]

[Commencement.J

1.Punishment for robbery
(1) Any person who commits the offence of robbery shall upon trial and conviction under this Act, be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than 21 years.

(2) If-

(a) any offender mentioned in subsection (1) of this section is armed with any
firearms or any offensive weapon or is in company with any person so armed;
or

(b) at or immediately before or immediately after the time of the robbery the said
offender wounds or uses any personal violence to any person, he offender shall be
liable upon conviction under this Act to be sentenced to death.[/quote]2(a) says if he is armed or in the company of someone that is armed OR (b) causes violence.

My English teacher taught me that "either or" means one or the other. He was armed thus he should be sentenced to death (you posted the law yourself).

[quote author=Okija_juju]Alot of people here are really misinterpreting the law or just quoting laws out of their asses..

Now in both cases reported here, no injury was established. Even if the robbers hit their victims in the process of robbing him or her, its still not murder. Now I have seen some people saying that the fact that they had guns makes it a bigger crime.. Thats funny as the law does not consider a gun to be a bigger or deadlier weapon than a stick or a knife. If a boxer goes into a mans house with brass knuckles, beats him up with his hands and robs him, that is still armed robbery. The choice of weapon used in the robbery has no impact on the ca

Now this is a case where nobody was killed or even r|aped. And even if he raped his victims, rape in Nigeria does not even carry the death penalty. Even if he beat her during the robbery, thats ‘aggravated assault’ and even if she was severely injured, thats ‘grievous bodily harm’ and still not a capital offence.

Death Penalties are reserved for cases involving;

1. 1st degree Murder
&
2. Treason
Not even Manslaughter sef carries the death penalty.

This Judge is officially mentally deranged.[/quote]1. Armed robbery carries the death penalty in Nigeria. Once a person is armed even if they didn't succeed in robbing the person of N5, they will still be condemned to death. This was during the military era and it is still a law in Nigeria.

2. There were two men that went to rob but the second person was killed in a shoot-out and he was arrested. Do not mind the sensational reporting. The guy deserved his punishment.


I think people should be agitating for harsher punishment for money laundering, public officers who steal our commonwealth etc not siding with a criminal that deserves to die for his crimes.

GboyegaD: What happens when she is transferred?

there is just one Zenith branch in Akure so if she is transferred, they will have to move out of the state. Why don't they just move close to her office now and save the stress except he is saying it's not distance causing stress.

@Efemena, for her to drive to and fro work will be adding to her stress (which is the opposite of what we are trying to achieve). I think the reason changing the daughter's school might not be effective is because there will be no one to drop her off at school as they all have to leave very early in the morning.

Mrs mansson: You are soooo on point.maybe he is one those Nigerians who say"No stranger/nanny in my house.

He won't be wrong in saying that because he does everything else. Cooks breakfast, bathes the kid, etc. The wife doesn't come home and start cleaning and cooking, she watches tv while sitting on a couch so how will a nanny reduce that?

The answer is "About Nairaland, the Nigerian forum" on March 14 2005 5:19pm by Seun.

Hope the gift is still available?

Why are they parading the uncle of a suspect? That is so unfair.

RollingFella: And if the wife place of work is in a high brow area were the house rent and school fees might be beyond the reach of the man, what will the man do? Just trying to be objective.

They can stay closer to the island not necessarily on the island. Also, bank staff are not transferred so regularly. I mix with bank people and i am yet to hear of being transferred annually not to mention every 6 months.

@ Coogar, you just saved me having to reply. That is exactly what i wanted to say. Stay closer to work and reduce the stress. Let your money work for you. Poor child. I just wonder what time she gets home and can play and sleep.

A very touching story no doubt but quitting your job to be a full time homemaker is not the solution. That is just a reactionary measure. There will be times that you will be apart. He will have to go to school, church, playgrounds, visits, vacations, etc. He cannot be with you 24 hrs of the day. You need to teach him to be aware of sexual exploitation. That he needs to shout and report to mummy/daddy anytime someone touches his pee pee etc etc.

There are a lot of things to do to equip him to help himself. You as a parent, need to be more aware. Ask him questions about his day, if anyone touched him, taught him something new, etc. 4 years old is not too young. I have a lot to say but don't have the time. I think more research will be beneficial.

adetunrayo: Hi beautiful mums,pls I need to know why my 8mths old baby is runnin temp off and on she has been taken to clinic and was given pcm and injectn,I was told not to worry but am still worried.

Please ask them to run tests. They cannot just be giving pcm. High temperature is a symptom not an illness. What if it is really serious like chicken pox or measles, God forbid? Please. do not just give your child pcm, find out what is the cause.

bobolathefirst: Hmmm...can't someone write this assessment for someone...just saying o

There is usually a verification test for those who pass at their office. No chance to cheat.

twaintoy: I'm telling you. I rejected offers from two banks cuz of this. No rest of mind, no future.

twaintoy: Apply for a bank job? Nah! I gave pple my cv when i was still searching for job, some of them told me they dropped my cv at the branches of some banks. Guess i was called as regards that.

So, you did not "reject offers from two banks", you just did not write the tests. There is a difference between the two.

Your family needs to call a family meeting where it is documented that the bride price should be returned and the bride is also in agreement. Then you have to go to customary court to get it annulled. Usually, the court will advise you to drop it at the "groom's" local government and inform them in writing before and after you do so. Then you guys are free to go.

Make sure you involve the customary court since it is not an amicable break-up.

Can you speak only when you're spoken to?

donroxy: Sharrap there, stay there and form civilised when tis just a barbaric attitude !!!

Nobody is blaming the Dad nor the Kids but In Africa and Most especially in Yorubaland, it is quite frown @ !!!
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All Those Little-Little things when Not checked begets adverse disrespect !!!

If Those kids should call their friend's father by his firstname then, Hot slap is what they got from their friend !!!
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Ur Children should be trained to fit into the Moral Situations in the society not to be @ odds with them in the name of advancement/civilisation !!!

Oh boy, See as Ann Coulter use style abuse all the Nigerians living in USA.

TO SPEAK TO A NIGERIAN PRINCE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH CARE, PRESS '1' NOW

In a weird confluence of the nation's two most pressing issues -- Obamacare and our insane immigration laws -- this week we found out that the tens of thousands of "navigators" hired by the government to enroll people in Obamacare will include convicted felons.

Despite some "navigators" having already been exposed as having arrest warrants against them, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has no plans to screen out the criminals. (But rest assured: If your identity is stolen as a result of trying to sign up for Obamacare, no one will be more upset about it than President Obama.)

Maybe it's a blessing that the Obamacare website has crashed more often than the Soviet Union's commercial air fleet did.

In addition to convicted felons, navigators are drawn from labor unions, community organizers, former ACORN staffers and front-groups for the Democratic National Committee.

Call right up and give all your private financial and medical information to those guys! What could go wrong? (Before Obamacare was even online, Minnesota's health exchange emailed the Social Security numbers and other identifying information for about 2,400 Americans to a man applying to be a "navigator."

If you call today, you can sign up for Obamacare plus learn about a Nigerian prince in exile who's willing to share his vast inheritance with you in exchange for your bank account numbers.

Which reminds me, federal health insurance programs have long been a prime target for scammers and con artists.

To much fanfare, in 2006 Medicare announced that only 7 percent of its payments were a result of fraud. Two years later, The New York Times reported that it was actually 31.5 percent -- and that Medicare had aggressively hidden the fraud from outside auditors.

Do you think a privately run insurance company would take three years to notice that one-third of its payouts had been obtained by fraud? But with federal programs, there's a powerful incentive not to look for fraud. That would merely vindicate critics of big government!

In 2012, Medicare's crack investigators noticed that more than a billion dollars in home health care payments for 2008 had gone to one single county in Florida -- more than all such payments made to the rest of the entire country.

Do you think it would take five years for a private insurer to figure out it had been scammed out of $1 billion by a few health care professionals in one county? Anyone else would notice being stolen from, but not the government. It's not their money.

Wherever there's a government program, there's a gigantic opportunity for criminals. A staggering percentage of the health care workers scamming Medicare and Medicaid are foreign-born -- much higher than their numbers in the medical profession generally.

Thus, in the Department of Justice's most recent press releases about criminal convictions for Medicare and Medicaid fraud against the taxpayer -- solely for the four-day period ending Nov. 7 -- we have:

-- Nov. 7, 2013

Mehran Javidan, owner of Acure, a home health care company in Oak Park, Mich., was paid more than $2.2 million from Medicare based on fraudulent physical therapy files he submitted between December 2008 and November 2010.

-- Nov. 7, 2013

Javed Rehman, Tausif Rahman and Muhammad Ahmad -- no relation to the Tsarneav brothers -- fraudulently obtained Medicare beneficiary information to bill Medicare for home health services, swindling approximately $13.8 million from Medicare.

-- Nov. 7, 2013

Eliza Lozano Lumbreras, San Juanita Gallegos Lozano, Manuel Anthony Puig and Romelia Puig used their operation of the Mission Clinic and La Hacienda Family Clinic to submit false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, stealing approximately half a million dollars from the taxpayers between 2001 and 2006.

-- Nov. 6, 2013:

Karen Kallen-Zury, Daisy Miller and Christian Coloma were convicted for receiving approximately $40 million from Medicare for patients not eligible for psychiatric treatment because they were not severely mentally ill.

-- Nov. 6, 2013:

Jose Rojo, Antonio Macli, Jorge Macli and Sandra Huarte in Miami paid patient recruiters to refer ineligible Medicare beneficiaries to their clinic for services that were never provided. They were paid more than $11 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare.

-- Nov. 4, 2013:

Godwin Umotong, Leslie Omagbemi, Munda Massaquoi, Comfort Gates, Ovsanna Agopian and Boghos Babadjanian were convicted of fraudulently billing Medicare of millions of dollars for office visits and diagnostic tests that were never performed, more than $1.3 million of which Medicare paid.

-- Nov. 4, 2013:

William Dale Sidener was convicted of submitting fraudulent bills to Medicare and receiving $4,677.00 in payments for services not performed.

These are Eric Holder's press releases, not mine.

Do you notice anything that stands out about the list of convicts? Would any of their names have sounded strange to Ben Franklin? Of 22 people convicted of defrauding American taxpayers by fraudulently billing Medicare or Medicaid, at least 17 have almost comically foreign names.

None of the scammers should be foreigners! We can't do anything about our native-born crooks, but why are we importing them?

Enormous, unwieldy corrupt government programs run by arrogant bureaucrats would be bad enough in 1950. But after decades of our Third World-only immigration policies, one can't help noticing that Medicare and Medicaid are beckoning Disneylands for foreign-born thieves.

The problem isn't their complexion, it's their culture. In America, we think only dumb people become criminals. That's not true in the Third World!

Nigeria, for example, leads the world in criminal enterprises. Every level of Nigerian society is criminal, with the smart ones running Internet scams, the mid-range ones running car theft rings, and the stupid ones engaging in piracy and kidnapping. At the University of Lagos, you can major in credit card fraud.

There were almost no Nigerians in the United States until the 1970s. Today, there are nearly 250,000 Nigerians in the U.S. (committing the cyber-crime Americans just won't do!). In 2011, we took in more immigrants from Nigeria than from the United Kingdom (9,246 from the U.K. and 9,344 from Nigeria).

Of course, Obamacare never would have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds -- they changed the voters. In order to pass Obamacare, Democrats had to bring in the Third World to vote Democratic.

The downside is that the country is now chock-full of people who come from cultures where criminality and government corruption is a way of life -- at the very moment that the country is expanding a government-run health insurance program already shot through with fraud and abuse.

Only confiscatory tax rates can support such a system.

Gosh, I sure hope our new Somali and Nigerian immigrants have German-style rectitude and are very honest about reporting all their income to the government.

COPYRIGHT 2013 ANN COULTER

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lawyer: If both of you have a cordial relationship, you could both apply to have the C of O made jointly in your name. It will be disasterous if you allow your neighbour's name be the sole name on the C of O because it could lead to so many complications in future in case you want to sell the land or your children want to inherit it or you want to use it for a loan. Your Architect is right and i would advise you to heed his words.

Someone once mentioned a deed of partitioning or something like that to take care of those fears. Can you throw more light on that?

If you are on hormonal contraceptives, this may be the cause.

How is it your business? The father is comfortable with it and you are here fuming and ranting about it.

Does it make you less of a person to hear your neighbour's kids calling their father's name?

Next time just cover your ears so you will hear no "evil".

mayapop: That poor baby tho, saw you you making out . Overacting sha..

You can see that the baby was not actually in the room. It was just edited to look that way.

The title of this topic has violated rule 21. Since "every" was used, "makes" should also have been used or "every" dropped and the "make" could then be used.

Can you post in health section?

I am sure you will get more responses.

Hardeshyna: oga oooo.... no genuine confirmation yet....

All the confirmations on this thread are not genuine? Why not go yourself to Shoprite and make it genuine. Mtscheew!

Why not try Swift or Etisalat?

You might be able to combine the two. There are mothers that are ED's in banks, etc. You have to prioritize. Try the high powered job for at least 2yrs, you may end up being able to cope. If you can't, it will be on ur CV that u did the job and may help u negotiate for higher pay.

@ Gbasky, the limit is 15million with 30% contribution . go to their website for more information

The learning place in Lekki phase one, Lagos is dedicated to such cases. This is their website http://www.tlpcentre.com/

The director is Mrs. Bolanle Adewole

ifyalways: Lmao

OP,whatever happened to getting a small foldable panties hanger and fixing it in her(and husband's) bathroom?

@ify, they all share one bathroom so its not possible.
@op, they should dry it in their bedroom where it can drip on the rug and smell.