₦airaland Forum

incandescentena:
Minister Kemi Osun comes to mind. That beautiful sound lady was just messed up in Nigeria politics

She didn't mess up anything. Her rise just proved NASS will confirm a glass of water for appointment. There's nobody checking to see if these documents are real because it's all theater.

ChybuzzDD:
Why's he 'the foolish one'?

I hope you have never paid for blood or made arrangements regarding that for any of your relatives in Nigeria?

If you have ever done that(i know Nigerians hate donating blood and prefer buying), you've committed the same 'offence', and are equally foolish.

Ekweremadu and the doctor did what typical Nigerians routinely do in Nigeria when they need tissues, blood, organs, etc for their relatives. The only difference is the environment

He's foolish because he went the UK to facilitate this illegal transaction landing himself in jail. If he went to Iran he wouldn't be in jail and his daughter could be helped. Lastly he was in office when the law you saw quoted was being debated and passed. He never publicly stated he wanted this organ transactions to be legal. This is what makes him foolish.

Creeper:
Lol, you might as well legalise cannibalism.

Are you Igbo? Lol

You liken Iranians to cannibals because they're allowed to sell organs for medical purposes as apposed to donations? I do not get how adding a financial incentive makes it cannibalism/murder. If you find it morally wrong to sell that's fine though.

No I'm not igbo.

marlow1962:
Black market will triple if that happens .
Make we first legalize good health care, before any other thing.

Black markets exist because commerce in that market is illegal or heavily taxed. There would be little in incentive to have a black market for cucumbers for example. Maybe legalize organ market later is your opinion?

Mynd44:
That number falls short of how many are killed in America per month

America is also bigger and these are only figures reported in the newspaper. What you would need to compare is per 100k numbers to get apples to apples comparison. When Nigeria stops hiding it's crime stats we could have a real discussion.

grandstar:
It would be a brilliant idea.

But the government should use it as a means to encourage medical tourism in Nigeria. Sale of kidneys could be leverage as a draw for many medical services

The necessary legislation would have to be created to make the market flourish and prevent abuse.

It would definitely encourage tourism. I would like to see this market researched. I have a few questions regarding how many lives it saves and who's lives it saves. I would also like to know how those sets of rules change people's behavior compared to donation only system.

From the looks of the comment section I don't think people would like it though. People sympathize with Ekeremadu's actions but don't want them to be legal for whatever reason.

Lol what a coward give her the max for being stupid. Hopefully the husband gets his 2nd wife while she's serving her sentence.

kingsways:
You will have issues of your own, for as long as dont care when it happens to others

If they killed 100 and nothing happened, why will they not go another place and kill 200

Again why should the whole nation come to a standstill? You're avoiding the question. I didn't claim nobody cares or doesn't care. I already said the main issue is law enforcement. That's the main concern not a hyper fixation on benue or plateau. There's a crime wave in general if you're not blind to it.

kingsways:
• I expect thousands of Nigerians to volunteer and join the security agencies in the hunt for the killers
• I expect all schools to close and remain so until the killers are found
• I expect businesses to close
• I expect public offices to close
• I expect the whole country to come to a standstill;
• I expect the whole country to focus on Plateau and Benue until these killers are
apprehended and made to pay for their crimes

I expect the whole country to focus on Plateau and Benue until these killers are
apprehended and made to pay for their crimes

You expect the whole country to stop watch benue and plateau because they don't have issues of their own? There are mass murders going on in other states with bandits, bokos haram, and "unknown" gunmen. Life won't stop because crime happens. What you should be worried about is how law enforcement is being handled.

there is absolutely no outrage anywhere, Nigerians are just going about their normal business as if everything normal

It's simply a statistic when the numbers go up that high. If Nigeria published crime stats regularly, you'd see this is probably the general trend. There's an obvious reason most states and federal government don't publish their crime stats.

Lol weren't these same people crying when the were getting beat up left and right?

STRI1:
If you believe America relationship with Israel is Religious then you Absolutely know ZERO NOTHING about america And her foreign policy. I'll have asked lots of questions but, you're just too ignorant.

Same American that closed it's borders to holocaust Jews post Holocaust. InfactAll countries including the British colonizing Pro-jew that gave them the Balfour Declaration. You just know nothing olodo.

You're functionally illiterate it seems. Again, where did I claim their political relationship is based on religion? You're just rambling like a mumu because you can't answer that question. I answered your questions. Why not ask me what I believe their relationship is based on instead?

STRI1:
You people are just too ignorant for God sake. Who told you American relationship with Israel is religion based. And who told you America cares about religion ? Abi LGBT is part of Christianity

Your reading comprehension skills are poor. Where did I claim America political relationship with Isreal is based on purely on religion? Yes, American Christian zionist care about religion. LGBT is not relevant to the discussion, but no, it's not part of Christianity.

I doubt they'd do anything that stupid. If news spreads the zionist Christian movement is dead. That means the money flow stops and some of their political power in America diminishes.

TheOgaBoss:
but revenue sources that should ordinarily belong to the state has been cornered by the federal govt, so where will the states get the money from?

Your pockets sir. Who do you think your government is going to squeeze the money out of?

Parachoko:
The FG will stop feeding them from Jan 1 2024

That's true, but there's other cost to running a prison other than food. There's staff, utilities, clothes and vehicles etc.

KingPure:
I am really finding it hard to come to terms with your logic. So, you're invariably saying that people should commit crime in another State should be granted safe-landing by their 'Own' States. This is grossly deficient in content when you put to context the situation of Nigeria. People just copy almost everything hook, line, and sinker from everywhere outside Nigeria and think same will reciprocate in results and outcomes, forgetting the peculiarities of Nigeria as a deeply-rooted ethno-centric society. I'm waiting for when a Sokoto beggar (with children) sentenced by a Lagos State Court for 6months in a correctional centre would not be granted FULL pardon as soon as she's deported to Sokoto. Somethings can't just work in Nigeria. Begging remains legal and scripturally backed up up North, but Lagos State sees same as an offence when done carrying child(ren) even though the proceeds of the act was going to be used for the child/children upkeep.

Here's another example do you think Southern states are going to enforce Sharia judgments for Sharia states? This will be especially interesting with death sentences or life in prison. Lol this why I said the burden of enforcing laws will be on those states.

oz4real83:
have u ever checked the revenue sharing formula? Why is there so much power and resources at the centre? The resources are so much that a person can afford to steal one hundred billion naira which is more than the budget of some states in Nigeria. The level of mismanagement and thievery at the centre is too much, the federal govt is transferring their responsibilities to states because it feels it has less resources, which is obviously false.

I have looked at the formula and acknowledged taxing powers. The states ratified the constitutional amendment so why complain now? Who's responsibility should it be to house prisoners? It doesn't make sense to have state laws, courts, and prosecutors, but not state prisons (or police). I don't get why you believe the cost of housing state law offenders should be shared with the whole nation.

oz4real83:
A federal govt that is always unwilling to share powers and collects revenues that states are supposed to be collecting, but still wants to transfer its constitutional responsibilities to states, is that not wickedness

How is it wickedness if prisons are in the concurrent list and 90% of inmates are state law offenders? If you want states to have more taxing powers that fair.

“It is also hoped that State Governments will take advantage of the constitution amendment recently signed by President Muhammadu Buhari which makes corrections a concurrent affair. It is on record that more than 90 per cent of inmates in our facilities are state offenders.

Lol why hope when you can force the issue? Just stop accepting state law offenders after a certain date. If they don't care to after that charge them double the normal rate or simply let the consequences if their actions catch up with them.

FreeStuffsNG:
The states are actually in a better position to feed the prisoners. When this happens, non indigenes who commit crimes in other states can be convicted and deportedly shipped to their own states to serve their sentences. You can not abandon your job as parents and think other states should keep feeding your wayward children by other states.

Lol, you guys have weird ideas about government and family. The government isn't your family or owners. It's going to be up to the states to pay and enforce their laws. Other states aren't going to shoulder the financial burden. I'd be surprised if you'd get a state willing to do it.

It's going to be same regarding warrants. If a person has a warrant in Kano State for Tickets. Do you think Delta going to should the cost of transferring that individual. If Kano doesn't collect its not their problem.

lhordspy:
Same with the NBC. What the court is trying to say is before the NBC can sanction, they have to seek the court. Instead of the erring media houses taking the matter to court after the sanction is placed on them


Do you get it now?

I still don't agree but we'll see if the appeal court sees it your way. The judge said they tried to play judge jury and executioner. This is what he probably means by imposing fines without recourse to law.

He said the court would not sit idle and watch a body arbitrarily imposing a fine without recourse to the law.

He said that the commission did not comply with the law when it sat as a complainant and at the same time, the court and the judge on its own matter.

Do Sharia states have less traffic incidents on average 🤔? If Sharia works so well there should be evidence showing it those states. How many traffic incidents are even handled by Sharia court? Why can't the state introduce stiffer penalties without sharia law? What's the logic behind this request?

“If stiffer penalties are being attached to road traffic crash offenders, it will go a long way to help us stem all drivers and other road users and make them drive carefully to avoid crashes,” Abdullahi said.

lhordspy:
Maybe i am This doesnt make sense. NBC is a regulating commission/body, it should have power to be able to sanction erring broadcasting organisation without having to rely on the judiciary.

Instead it is the broadcasting organisation that should file a case at the court if they are not satisfy with the sanctions impose on them.

It is more like telling LASTMA, ROAD SAFETY or other precautionary and regulating agency to seek court intervention before impounding your vehicle for going against the law or NCC trying to seek court intervention before imposing sanctions on erring network providers. These are regulatory bodies, it is one of their main responsibility taken away from them while rendering them incapacitated.

Court process takes too long. We all know NBC is the only thing holding this mischievous and overly sentimental media houses by the balls and checkmating their excesses. If not, journalism would have been an insane crazy affair in this country. It should be the other way round. Anyone who is not satisfy with the sanctions should go to court not the regulatory body seeking court intervention and interpretation before imposing sanctions.

I disagree because if a policeman gives you a ticket you still get your day in court to argue. The agency just like the police aren't judge jury and executioner. Read your ticket its not an admission of guilt when you sign one. It's just a promise you'll show up to court. If you choose to pay it without arguing your lack of guilt that's your business.

Karlovych:
As an Osun indigene I envy these people, despite Awo's plan to relegate them to the abyss of financial ruins they keeping succeeding and growing wealth, kudos to the people of Abia state.

Lol who talks like this?

googi:
The best we can do is go back to three Regions in the North and three in the South.

Until we finally break up into whatever.

What makes this option the best and how does it create more unity? I won't claim creating more states creates more unity but it does create less conflict internally. I sat the latter because similar people in terms of tribe, cultures and ideology live together.

gidgiddy:
A Muslim/Muslim ticket won the Presidency in Nigeria, could a Christian/Christian ticket ever win the same?

No, because Christians told us same faith tickets are bad. Unless alot of them changed their minds I don't see how.

A crisis is brewing between Rivers State and Bayelsa State governments following an eviction order served on workers occupyin

I love how every political disagreement is labeled a crisis. They tear your building it's just another day that ends in y. They tear down their's it's a crisis.

It's a good thing Prisons aren't in the exclusive list anymore. The FG should shift this burden to the states ASAP. By 2025 don't accept any more state law offenders.

ruffhandu:
But come to think of it. Is there any reason why the Nigerian workers' salaries should be delayed? Honestly, it should be criminalised. Does it happen in other places?

I don't disagree with you. Most private sector employers pay their workers on time in full every pay period. It's nothing special or complicated. The only reason it's delayed is because they don't care and plan their budget badly. I'm sure you can find examples if you search them up.

ruffhandu:
My brother, in Nigeria civil servants won't shout yet if the salary is just 10 days gone, especially for those not used to being paid at all, or paid half. I think Nigeria should criminalise delay in payment of salaries. Any state that does not pay on the agreed date should have its governor lose his or her immunity. Because it is actually a crime against humanity.

Lol it will be hilarious when they start sacking people left and right. The other option will be aggressively collecting taxes.

This statement is a non sequitur. Even if the health system was perfect organ sales are illegal. He would still be in jail if the man reports him to the police. Logic like just shows how irrational people are.

National Health Act.

53. (1) It is an offence for a person:-

(a)  who has donated tissue, blood or a blood product to receive any form of financial or other reward for such donation, except for the reimbursement of reasonable costs incurred by him or her to provide such donation; and

(b)     to sell or trade in tissue, blood, blood products except for reasonable payments made in appropriate health establishment for the procurement of tissues, blood or blood products

(2)     Any person found guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on conviction to a fine of N100,000 (one hundred thousand naira) or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both fine and imprisonment.

Allocation and Use of Human Organs.

totit:
You still ranting, shifting the goal post and have failed to answer a simple question. Upon all the so called praises over Alambra airport report says ' it has failed among others to live up, what's your take?

Focus on the OP;

I don't think he can answer that question. FAAN and or Anambra haven't released that data.