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gidgiddy:You obviously don't know much about the law. There is a difference between words of mouth and words of mouth together with other acts. For instance, you go to a bank and say to the cashier, "I am going to rob you?" You have no weapons on you. The cashier might signal for help, but there is not so much the police can charge you by. But supposing you go to the cashier and say "I will rob you now" and you reach for a knife lying close by. Even if you didn't get the knife and so didn't end up robbing the bank, your act constitutes criminal threat as your verbal threat and your reaching out for the knife are evidence of an intent to commit the crime you have threatened to commit. You go to a gun seller and tell him, "I am going to rob a bank". That is a threat, but not a criminal threat. The law states that to establish intent, one or two acts must happen one after the other or simultaneously. So, saying you will do something is not criminal, and no intent is present. But supposing you go to the gun seller and say, "give me a gun, I want to rob a bank!" The intent to commit a crime is present. While you will have your time in court, you can be charged based on that intent. |
Joshua is still suffering from the concussion he suffered from the first fight. I hope he wins, though. |
gidgiddy:Read this, please: Therefore, a defendant can be convicted of soliciting, even though the person refuses and the solicited crime is never perpetrated, as long as the intent that that crime be committed is present. https://definitions.uslegal.com/c/criminal-solicitation/ |
gidgiddy:Tell me, what means of the law has Kanu utilized so far in his bid to get a referendum? |
gidgiddy:You don't have to get what you solicited for. Soliciting a weapon for the intent to commit a crime is criminal solicitation. Read more on criminal solicitation. |
gidgiddy:So, we should fold our hands and let another armed group join the ones already troubling the peace of the country ![]() Come on, we can't afford another terrorist group on our hands. If they had tamed Yusuf when he began his extreme Salafist teachings in Yobe, we won't have Boko Haram today. If Abacha had handled the Niger-Delta issue with tact, we won't have to deal with youth militancy in the Niger Delta. And if we had addressed the farmer-herdsman crisis a long time ago, we won't be reading news about killings and reprisals. Kanu is not a tactful person. If he is not dealt with, he would become another trouble. And as you know, it would certainly be the region he comes from that would suffer it. . If he wants referendum, there are better ways to get it. Buhari cannot give him referendum. Only the constitution can. And there is nothing like referendum in our constitution. |
gidgiddy:First of all, there is something called criminal solicitation. So solicitation can be a crime. You want a gun. Your intent for wanting to get the gun is to rob a bank. Robbing a bank is a crime. In criminal solicitation, intent can be everything. Your intent for owning a gun is to commit a crime. The law erases everything else and focuses on the intent to commit a crime which is present. You can be charged on that intent alone. |
gidgiddy:You talk as if Boko Haram, Niger Delta militants and killer herdsmen have not faced fires too. Even as at last year, militants were still being killed in the creeks and/or arrested and prosecuted. As for Boko Haram, the Nigerian military has been dealing ruthlessly with them with a combination of air and land strikes. Their activities have now been restricted to terrorizing villages many of which are far away from military posts. As for the killer herdsmen. Well, you don't follow the news at all, do you? There is nothing like killer herdsmen. If you mean Fulani militia, well, they have been taken care of long ago. RUGA is not to compensate killer herdsmen but to find a lasting solution to the herdsman-farmer crisis that has been occuring in the country even before many of us here were born. The herdsmen and farmers are both businessmen. Due to scarce resources, there are bound to be conflicts between them. Killing rampaging herdsmen since the 80s has not solved the problem. Do you want government to continue to use the same method when that method has failed time and time again? So, Buhari is looking for nonviolent ways to end the issue once and for all, but every suggestion he makes is frowned at by people who are preconditioned into believing that he does not mean good for the country. |
Tessie01:Which personal money? What does the man do for a living aside pastoring? |
The fund ought to belong to the church. Yet, it is the pastor who takes all the credits. Christianity has been reduced to nothing but pastors and church members. When Paul collected donations for the poor in Jerusalem, he offered the funds as contributions from fellow brethren. But today's church is a case of monkey dey work baboon dey chop. I am very certain Ibiyeomi has very little stake in the fund used for erecting those structures. As a matter of fact, project funds should go into secure accounts accessible to all stakeholders of the church, including all members or representatives of members, so that accountability can be emphasized in churches. And all projects should be marked as church contributions and not pastor's contributions. |
Oshidaguy:Birds of a feather!!! And, please be informed that it is not only professors that are expected to speak good English. I am a mathematician, and my English is only slightly above average, in my opinion, but there are some certain mistakes I shouldn't be making considering that I had all of my education in Nigeria where the language of instructions is English. Even mathematics classes are taken in English. So, no excuses. You don't have to speak like the Queen of England or like Barack Obama. But there are some certain mistakes that one shouldn't be making. |
rexchazy:Buhari does not speak bad English. The accent is the issue, not grammar. So, get your facts right. |
I wonder why people are surprised. We all know that Yak is not 37 years old. He is at least 45. Reminds me of Dele Ajiboye talking about watching and learning from Peter Rufai as a kid. The old man forgot that going by his age, he was not supposed to have watched or learnt from Peter Rufai. The Peter Rufai of 1998 was not a joy to watch. So, the age cheat must have been talking about the Rufai of the late 80s and early 90s. |
Ladyhippolyta88:Wedding is just a formality. Just a mere ceremony ![]() |
You people are still here? Even my wife too is here defending Tacha. |
adarayz:Was she expelled because of the image of the school or because she had sex? It is only in Africa and some hypocritical Asian countries like India that students get expelled for "tarnishing the image of the school". In my opinion, the judgment was rushed in Babcock's bid to react favorably to the surge of the news on social media. There were alternatives that they could have agreed upon rather than outright expulsion. That is why there are committees whose members are carefully selected for this special and sensitive role. I am sure that the code of conduct of the school does not cover sexual activities outside school grounds. Many codes of conduct emphasize the need to be good ambassadors of the school, but does consensual sex (even though premarital) make one totally a bad ambassador of the school? Does the law outside the school view consensual but premarital sex as a crime? In my opinion, anything other than expulsion would have been great. Expelling the girl does not make Babcock suddenly such a disciplined school to me. I know many of their graduates who are wayward and very bad ambassadors of the school in learning and overall conduct. But yet they graduated because they were able to hide their bad behaviors. So, what really is the point? A school is primarily a place of learning as well as discipline (Reformation where necessary). So, if a girl had consensual sex, why shy away from the primary task of counseling her? They took the easy way out by expelling her. |
Onijagidijagan:Shut up abeg. Until recently, tribalism was not that much pronounced between Yorubas and Igbos, at least not on social media (I don't suppose it exists really so boldly in real life). Tinubu was fair to Igbos during his administration. So, I don't see how the tribal angle you are trying to see things from can be taken seriously. |
oyatz:The question you should ask yourself is what informed Babatope into believing that Bode George as PDP chairman would stem APC rigging? A man who is bereft of strategies with which to even wrestle Lagos State from Tinubu is now expected to be capable of wrestling a varieties of opponents even as far away as Kogi state. What does anyone expect that Bode George would do differently other than divert funds meant for election planning and strategies? |
Sunisonflex39:Bro, you are towing the path of destruction by listening to that woman. She is a serpent who is out to destroy you. You made a pact with the boyfriend, be a gentleman and follow it to the letter. That girl would destroy you. If you insist, have that sex. But just know that she might end up doing the same thing to you with another guy should you decide to get serious with her. |
When I read the headline, I thought the story happened at the time when Teni was still upcoming, didn't know that the story happened only recently. |
solmusdesigns:Read my post again. I said Sugar was a boy beside Sunday Igboho. I didn't say he was Sunday Igboho's boy. Sunday Igboho is the most feared figure amongst them. He even has a traditional title that connotes warfare. Who be Sugar where dem dey talk Sunday Igboho ![]() |
helinues:Sugar was a small boy beside Sunday Igboho. |
Sakamaje:He has blood on his hands, but he is not really as bad as people make him. |
Jacqueline22: ![]() |
Jacqueline22:Snakes are beautiful creatures. I used to keep a python as pet. Her name was Mandy. Such a beauty. May God bless her soul. RIP, Mandy!! |
bayelsaowei:Ronaldo scored against Morocco. And, I don't remember anyone giving Portugal that much chance of winning the world cup. |
Ngirima:You are the one who would suffer such a terrible fate. It is this very same intolerance that you just exhibited that the people who killed this woman exhibited. Why can't you support whatever party you like and let others support theirs? You don't even know why this woman was killed? It might not even be related to the elections or to political party enmity. It might even be personal beef, and the post election tension was used to distract people from the original reason for the act. Someone said it must be Onoja who did it, and it appears like Onoja had some scores to settle with this woman. If that be the case, how does that concern APC as a party? Was it Oshiomole or Buhari or Tinubu who asked political thugs to go and eliminate the woman? If they could remove Bukola Saraki from the Senate without bloodshed, why should this woman ever be so much of a threat that needed to be killed? This looks more like a personal beef between two people rather than two political parties. |
eTECTIV:Bro, are you saying it is wrong for people to ask for evidence before believing stories? Would you train your children to just swallow up everything they read on social media? There was no need to curse. They were within their rights to disbelieve a story and brand it propaganda if the story does not have evidences. For example, when I hear a story or news, I first check the source. Even if you put all the pictures of this world in there, if the link is questionable, I will never believe until I see the story on two or more credible websites. Fake news is real and can kill as well. |
A soldier removing uniform to do what exactly? Very shameless people. |
DeeFlask:OK. If that is true, then he would get his punishment one day. |
SalamRushdie:Are you condemning the electoral process or the violence? Because free and fair does not necessarily mean that there won't be violence. |
SalamRushdie:I asked what was the need ![]() Even murder comes with a motive. That was why I asked what the motive was for eliminating a perceived threat when elections had been won and lost? At least, we know that when politicians eliminate politicians, the motive is hardly ever to celebrate an already won battle, but to eliminate threats perceived as capable of jeopardizing their chances at the polls. |
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