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@Poster,
Its a shame you called yourself a graduate and a simple con took 300k from you.Even with all the traceable detail she gave to you,you are still here soliciting for another con to rip you off of your life.
Don;t tell you graduated from a University,yet you can;t fish the dupe out.Shame Shame Shame.
You have this shameless attitude to display her Bank Account here,what NL do for you torecover your money.
ADVICE

Write a petition to the commission of police Lagos state and narrate your story,firstly report it to your nearest police station and get the crime report number in the petition.
If no response after 2 weeks send another reminder.

Step 2

After 3 weeks write a letter to the Bank Branch office and copy the head office of your story,and allege that the woman used the bank Account to defraud you of your money.(enclose copies of your deposit transactions).

Act as an educated person and stop seeking for sympathy.
Cheers

The minister should read this:


One year in prison for lottery conman
Submitted: 27/05/2008 10:53:29
A 42-year-old Nigerian man has been sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to his involvement in a fraud, which conned an elderly Guildford man of £80,000 during an elaborate foreign lottery scam.


Victor Ifejika is believed to have targeted his victim, 70-year-old Gareth Jones over a two year period, which started with a letter sent to Mr Jones’ home address from Spain informing him he was the winner of the £1,375,800 on-line sweep stake Elmundo Lottery.


Mr Jones was experiencing financial difficulties and thought the scam would be the answer to his prayers. Over the next two years, he set up a number of money transfers, totalling an estimated £80,000, at the request of a male only known as Carlos, an associate of Ifejika, who said the money would be used for security checks, administration costs and tax payments and to facilitate the transfer of Mr Jones’ lottery winnings.


Mr Jones then arranged to meet Ifejika who had provided false details to Mr Jones in attempts to protect his true identity .Mr Jones believed he would be presented with his winnings and travelled to Greenwich in London on March 19, 2008. The two men met at a hotel, where Mr Jones handed over £2,500 in exchange for a silver case allegedly containing his winnings. He was instructed not to open the case until final procedures had been completed.


Mr Jones travelled back to Guildford, where he was met by his wife at the train station. Having told her the whole story, she was immediately suspicious and contacted police. However, despite advice from police, his family and a solicitor, Mr Jones arranged to meet Ifejika the next day at the same hotel. At the hotel, Ifejika removed a handful of US dollars allegedly from the case in front of Mr Jones and asked him to change the money into pounds to prove that it was genuine. This amounted to £400.


Mr Jones was then told that to obtain the key to open the case and access his winnings, he would have to return to London on March 25, 2008 and pay a final sum of £11,500 for security checks.


Having been made aware and with the support of Mr Jones’ family, police set up a covert operation. On March 25, Mr Jones travelled up to London where he was again to meet Ifejika. He then received instructions to go a local bank to draw out the required amount but only had funds available to withdraw £5,000. Having withdrawn the money Mr Jones was escorted by Ifejika to various locations around London in attempt to disorientate him, eventually being taken by Ifejika to the Holiday Inn in Greenwich, where the money was handed over. Ifejika told Mr Jones he would return with the key in 30 minutes as he left the hotel room, leaving Mr Jones alone.


However, officers spotted Ifejika fleeing the hotel and arrested him on board a London bus making its way along Bromley Road. When they searched Ifejika, officers found £5,000 cash in his jacket pocket, as well as two silver lock keys which fitted the case, two mobile phones and paperwork confirming the hotel reservation at the Holiday Inn.


When the suitcase was opened, it was found to contain nothing more than bank note size sheets and cotton wool.


Detective Constable Steve Pott, who investigated the offence, said: “Ifejika is part of a gang which has systematically targeted an elderly and vulnerable victim, deceiving him of more than £80,000, over a period of two years. He has led Mr Jones to believe he was a genuine winner of the Elmundo Lottery when in fact he has conned him of his life savings and driven him to take out bank loans to line his own pocket.


“This was a despicable crime and I commend Mr Jones’ ex-wife in coming forward and alerting police. This meant we were able to carry out a police operation to catch Ifejika red-handed. It is notoriously difficult to identify the masterminds behind these elaborate lottery scams as they are usually conducted by post or over the internet, which makes it difficult to trace those responsible. However, on this occasion, Ifejika became over-confident in arranging face-to-face meetings with his victim and this was ultimately his downfall.”


DC Pott continued: “I would also like to pay tribute to the investigating team for their sterling work on this case and for demonstrating Surrey Police’s commitment to solving crimes and bringing offenders to justice.”


He added: “On a final note, I would just like to say that if you do receive a letter or email claiming that you have won millions of pounds in a foreign lottery and it sounds too good to be true – then it is. The best advice is to rip the letter up and put it in the bin where it belongs.”


You might like to search the website for other items to do with lottery.

http://www.surrey.police.uk/news_item.asp?area=1&itemID=9883&division=

@Nawa,

As a resident of Italy you should have known better on the route of citizenship.

@poster,
I will not want to go into the issue of illegal immigration because the name speaks for itself.
But on the issue of your place of birth and citizenship,unfortunately you are not qualified for citizenship by presentation of your your birth certificate without fulfilling the residency requirements.
Here is the rule as a guide:

Law 91 of February 5, 1992, specifies a number of different cases of acquisition of citizenship [cittadinanza italiana], some of which are automatic and others which apply only to specific conditions and/or are subject to a declaration of the eligible person expressing the wish to acquire citizenship:

Birth (the child of an Italian father or mother, even if born abroad or descendent of an Italian ancestor living abroad, only if the ancestor never gave up Italian citizenship).
Recognition or judicial declaration of paternity (for minors citizenship is automatic, while children over 18 maintain their citizenship but can, within one year of the recognition or judicial declaration, declare that they choose Italian citizenship).
Adoption (automatic in case of minors and, for those over 18, at the request of the interested party after five years of legal residence in Italy.
Descent (the father or mother are citizens, or one of the direct ancestors to the second degree were Italian citizens by birth who lost their Italian citizenship). In this case, to reacquire Italian citizenships, the following conditions are required:
Military service for the Italian government
Employment as a civil servant in an office of the Italian government (even abroad)
If, on reaching the age of 18, the person has resided in Italy for at least two years and expresses, by voluntary declaration before the nineteenth birthday, the wish to acquire Italian citizenship
Acquisition or reacquisition by a parent: the minors of persons who acquire or reacquire Italian citizenship also acquire it if they are living stably and effectively with the person at the time of acquisition or reacquisition. When they reach the age of 18, if they have other citizenship, they can renounce Italian citizenship.
Birth and residency in Italy: a foreigner born in Italy and legally residing in our country, without interruption, until the age of 18, can acquire Italian citizenship if, by the age of 19, he or she makes a declaration accepting Italian citizenship.

But Italy do have a work permit structure that is very liberal if an employer is ready to sponsor your application.
Wish you the best.

Certainly they are fooling most nigerians with interest in pursuing shadows instead of substance.Nigeria need the FOI it will help to debunk speculations and bring truth to light.

FYI

http://www.saharareporters.com/www/news/detail/?id=613

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200805282574262

lucabrasi:
ill suggest that fist like someone commented you should do everything through your family,and even at that make sure yoou don't trust anybody implicitly, try them with small amounts of money first and always make sure u don't let anyone know what you r woth or that u have a lot of money always haggle the price of every single thing and always question everything that has to do with money.
also ill advice you to get a job first at least for the first 6 to 12 months,not because you need the money but it will keep you busy and keep jackals and hangers on away from you,it will let you learn a lot about nigeria,you will make friends and your capital can generate some funds for you in a fixed deposit before you decide what to do,i have an uncle who s spent 22 years in the states and thats what he did and he actually left the job after 7 months but by them he hardly touched his money during that time,he didnt need to buy a car cause he sent his 4x4 from the states and he didnt need to buy furniture and house old stuffs as he shipped the ones in his house, try not to trust anybody at all with money and always dress down,don't display with money and if people don't know u just came back don't volunteer,if u have to then simply you have been out of nigeria,it might be ghana,sierra leone,gambia

Good advise.

Haunted by strange spirit for 8 yrs, this lady says:
My ordeal started @ Christ Embassy
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Sometime in year 2000, she wrote to Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Head Pastor of Christ Embassy, to pray for her concerning a pressing health problem.

In one of the replies from Pastor Oyakhilome dated February 24, 2002, inviting her to a teaching and healing meeting titled, “Total Experience,” she was assured that “ sickness, disease, poverty, failure, everything that blinds, hurts or demeans you is no longer necessary.”



•Toyin Sadiku
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But instead of the desired divine healing, Miss Toyin Sadiku, an Accountancy graduate of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, said she got additional problems.

For the past eight years, she has been contending with a strange beast with human body and the head of a dog in her dreams. In most cases, the beast that “talks like man” tries to make love to her.

Now, the Port Harcourt-based indigene of Shagamu in Ogun State who has since dumped the church, is cursing the day she took the decision to contact Pastor Chris Oyakhilome and his Christ Embassy.

“Just like Job, I curse the day I stepped into Christ Embassy and even attended its crusade.”

Narrating her ordeal during a visit to The Sun office in Port Harcourt, an embattled Toyin who said she contemplated suicide, at a stage, stated in a signed statement that her plight began after she wrote to Pastor

Oyakhilome asking him to pray for her concerning “a particular problem” that she had.

“He replied me twice. I remember how excited I was receiving his first letter because I felt an angel had replied me.

“When the beast started appearing to me initially, I took it lightly, thinking it was just a dream until it manifested before my eyes to the extent I was hearing a human voice and seeing the beast just as a human being is visible to the eyes.”

Toyin said although she had to leave the church in 2001, the nightmare has not ceased and she almost took her life.

“At a point I was almost going insane. Before my very eyes, I thought of suicide, as this affected me spiritually, physically, maritally, academically and mentally.”

She recalled that at a time, she was given a “spiritual ring” that suggested that she was married to the strange beast, a situation that is now affecting her chances of getting married.

“In the spirit realm, I had this spiritual ring that makes me look married and now people come to me for marriage but because of what I know within myself, I cannot go into marriage until I get out of this problem.”

Toyin who likened her plight to “jumping from fry pan to fire.” denied that she was merely out to blackmail the popular clergyman and the church.

“It is not a blackmail. I fear God above all and the fear of God is what is even making me to do what I am doing. Not the fear of man because man is liable to doubt, but God knows all secrets and he is the one that is giving me the go-ahead to speak out.

“I am exposing all this because God wants me to do so. For eight years, I have kept quiet and allowed what is happening to me but this is my time to speak out the truth.

“I am not afraid to speak because I know the Almighty God is the ultimate and no one can challenge his authority.

The word of God says ‘there is nothing hidden that shall not be made known’.

“I have no doubt that God allowed me to go through this so that I will be doing what I am doing now. I never could have believed that there is the possibility of things like these happening in this world, but I tell you the truth, it is real…… So, I am not so surprised because there are scriptural backings to prove the fact that these things are real.”

She said that her major concern is how to regain her peace and sleep well at night.

At the Psychiatric Road Zonal headquarters of Christ Embassy in Port Harcourt, Sunday Sun reporter was referred to one Sister Kate who expressed surprise at Toyin’s outburst.

“I am just hearing this type of a thing for the first time. Maybe it has to do with her faith because the scripture says that when one is born again, old things have pass away.”

The official later sought the assistance of Sunday Sun reporter “to enable us pay her a surprise visit.”

She denied any link of Toyin’s allegations with the Head Pastor of the Church.



http://odili.net/news/source/2008/may/18/510.html

lucabrasi:
as bad as obasanjo is,i believe he is has a few advice to give,he is not 100% bad as much as i dislike him and his govt, having said that i think both the people that invited him and others conferring honours and accolades know that he is still very powerful in government for now irrespective of his records and many people are looking for ways to get at all the cheddar the man has chopped

Good talk dude,there is no perfection in governance.Its a dynamic process which need to shape and change with time.

God is my provider.I DO NOT LACK ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN.
I have forgiven you my dear.God bless you.

@Sky Blue,
I can understand your frustrations,but,in criticising the OBJ as an individual leaves us in a subjective edge.I do not want to educate you  but want  you to understand and be able to separate an individual from an entity.We should be able to distinguish between a Cabinet collective responsibility and an Individual ministerial responsibility.The policy executions of the OBJ administration lies within the entire cabinet and the delegation of ministerial responsibility/authority lies on the OBJ.Now the failure/success of individual minister should be accessed and probed and not bringing OBJ to the gallery to be ridiculed.
If we continue in this way there will not be any policy continuation and that is the envisaged down side of this administration.Governance is a system that have to work together to achieve a goal.
I still stand that OBJ did his best.Its now left for Nigerians to create a comparism and see if his best was good enough.
Anenih is among the political elite that want to plant his sycophants in power and ridicule the human potentials of Nigeria.
Oh dear you need the FOI in Nigeria to enable us see facts and figure and eliminate orchestrated blames.

Lets be realistic,Nigeria is moving backward.OBJ has done his best with some short comings,but the new trend of the legislative organ engaging in over-sight function and leaving their primary functions is a set back.1/4 of their tenure was only spent of setting up 72 committees and initiating probes.

Not passing the FOI bill is a bane to the nation development and a fight against corruption.The senate/House of Rep should be called to order and help the nation move forward.
We need good policies backed up with enabling laws and not rely on individuals to bail the nation from the present situation.
The present President can only lead/rule a state like Kastina state.A society not as dynamic as a Nation-Nigeria.
take an example of Edo state,The former BOT chairman Tony Anenih is on the verge of hijacking the state and hand it over to his BOY Ugbesia.
The present Road situation in Nigeria is the hand work of Anenih.Ugbesia was the Solid mineral Minister and never added a value to that ministry during his tenure.Knowing fulling well we need Coal in the nation Power sector improvement.
Yes-NIGERIA IS MOVING BACKWARD.

donnie:
Really. . .

You wish. When next you set your eyes on him check if he looks like one who is battling with anything.

Continue your junk jounalism until you hear he is the owner of your little newspaper house. Like some TV stations and media houses have already discovered.

. . . Buy them up and teach them what good journalism is all about.

Hissssssssss.

Shameless follower,since when have God established Churches to become a business empire.This type of white wash followers can only be found in Nigeria.
If you are educated at all and can read the Bible,you should know that God/Jesus ask his followers to go and preach the GOSPEL.And not to turn your churches in Biz centre.

SENATOR JD:
if my African culture contradicts my christain views, then i'd let it go right away

Little minded man?Nigerians are hidden under the umbrella of Christianity to perpetuate their evil act.
Lets give an example,If you have to swear in court before giving evidence/statement and you swear with the god of thunder,god of river or god of iron,you will not add a single lie lie to your testimony.But if you swear with the Bible,hmmm,hell know what will constitute your testimony.
Christianity have washed our rich culture and respect out of this God created earth.
Pastors should teach/preach righteousness and not just prosperity.Prosperity is a by-product of righteousness.

Emeka Jnr,you are a true Nigerian.
I am happy it all end well,it won;t have been better.
Happy reunion and God bless.

yinkausa:
if they are cheap designer stuff, they are directly from china. they are not the real stuff.

FYI
You are not right,goods made for the EMEA(europe,middle east,Africa) are manufactured in down Asia.This is not restricted to clothes alone but to most electrical/computers/etc.Its a hand full of these products comes from Europe or America.

Da Junta/Ezin,

You guys are an epitome of modern civilization.
It sent a message out that we must always conduct ourselves in public places because it tells much about who we are.
Congrats and wish you all the best.

Web scam drove student to suicide
An inquest has been told how a university student killed herself after falling victim to an internet scam.

Jaiyue Wang, 23, gave more than £6,000 in the belief she had won half a million pounds in a lottery after being contacted over the internet.

She arrived in Britain last summer from Hainan in China to study at the University of Nottingham.

Recording a suicide verdict, Nottingham coroner Dr Nigel Chapman said her death, in April, was a tragedy.

Vulnerable woman

He said: "A young university student - doesn't speak very much English, her parents don't speak English - been coming across to one of the great universities but has taken her own life because of a scam from Nigeria."

Ms Wang was found hanged at her home in Beeston last month.

Jonathan Ray, a University of Nottingham spokesman, said: "Obviously anybody who hears this story will just feel that it's a despicable exploitation of a vulnerable person whatever their status or location in life.

"It's just deeply sad that the young woman was so badly hit by what happened to her just before Christmas."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7380093.stm

spoilt,

Hahahahahahhaha
You still remain my sister.
stay blessed.

spoilt:
we don't have laws in nigeria. im not kidding you. men people do what they want when it comes to marriage and divorce and numerous wives et al.
be careful. be very careful. some men will marry a foreign women whom they have never even seen just for the almighty american citizenship.

Its a shame that your shenaniganish thoughts is been displayed in a public forum like Nairaland.It best discribe the type of minds that rove around NL.There is no need exposing your ignorance in a bid to respond on a a topic.
As for the Traditional marriage it is covered by the customary law(that speaks for its self)

FYI
Nieria have a law on matrimonial matters.


Matrimonial Causes Act

Chapter 220

Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990




Dissolution of marriage





15. (1) A petition under this Act by a party to a marriage for a decree of dissolution of the marriage may be presented to the court by either party to the marriage upon the ground that the marriage has broken down irretrievably.



(2) The court hearing a petition for a decree of dissolution of a marriage shall hold the marriage to have broken down irretrievably if, but only if, the petitioner satisfies the court of one or more of the following facts-



(a) that the respondent has wilfully and persistently refused to consummate the marriage;



(b) that since the marriage the Respondent has committed adultery and the petitioner finds it intolerable to live with the respondent;



(c) that since the marriage the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with the respondent;



(d) that the respondent has deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least one year immediately preceding the presentation of the petition;



(e) that the parties to the marriage have lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition and the respondent does not object to a decree being granted;



(f) that the parties to the marriage have lived apart for a continuous period of at least three years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition;



(g) that the other party to the marriage has, for a period of not less than one year failed to comply with a decree or restitution of conjugal rights made under this Act;



(h) that the other party to the marriage has been absent from the petitioner for such time and in such circumstances as to provide reasonable grounds for presuming that he or she is dead.



(3) For the purpose of subsection (2) (e) and (f) of this section the parties to a marriage shall be treated as living apart unless they are living with each other in the same household.



16. (1) Without prejudice to the generality of section 15(2)(c) of this Act, the court hearing a petition for a decree to of dissolution of marriage shall hold that the petitioner has satisfied the court of the fact mentioned in the said section 15(2)(c) of this Act if the petitioner satisfies the court that-



(a) since the marriage, the respondent has committed rape, sodomy, or bestiality; or



(b) since the marriage, the respondent has, for a period of not less than two years-



(i) been a habitual drunkard, or



(ii) habitually been intoxicated by reason of taking or using to excess any sedative, narcotic or stimulating drug or preparation, or has, for a part or parts of such a period, been a habitual drunkard and has, for the other part or parts of the period, habitually been so intoxicated; or



(c) since the marriage, the respondent has within a period not exceeding five years-



(i) suffered frequent convictions for crime in respect of which the respondent has been sentenced in the aggregate to imprisonment for not less than three years, and



(ii) habitually left the petitioner without reason- able means of support; or



(d) since the marriage, the respondent has been in prison for a period of not less than three years after conviction for an offence punishable by death or imprisonment for life or for a period of five years or more, and is still in prison at the date of the petition; or



(e) since the marriage and within a period of one year immediately preceding the date of the petition, the respondent has been convicted of-



(i) having attempted to murder or unlawfully to kill the petitioner, or



(ii) having committed an offence involving the intentional infliction of grievous harm or grievous hurt on the petitioner or the intent to inflict grievous harm or grievous hurt on the petitioner;



(f) or the respondent has habitually and wilfully failed, throughout the period of two years immediately preceding the date of the petition, to pay maintenance for the petitioner-



(i) ordered to be paid under an order of, or an order registered in, a court in the Federation, or



(ii) agreed to be paid under an agreement between the parties to the marriage providing for their separation; or



(g) the respondent-



(i) is, at the date of the petition, of unsound mind and unlikely to recover, and



(ii) since the marriage and within the period of six ears immediately preceding the date of the petition, as been confined for a period of, or for periods aggregating, not less than five years in an institution where persons may be confined for unsoundness of mind in accordance with law, or in more than one such institution.



(2) Where a petition is based on the fact mentioned in section 15(2)(h) of this Act-



(a) proof that, for a period of seven years immediately preceding the date of the petition, the other party to the marriage was continually absent from the petitioner and that the petitioner has no reason to believe that the other party was alive at any time within that period is sufficient to establish the fact in question, unless it is shown that the other party to the marriage was alive at a time within that period; and



(b) a decree made pursuant to the petition shall be in the form of a decree of dissolution of marriage by reason of presumption of death.



17. (1) Where the petitioner alleges that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with him but the parties to the marriage have lived with each other for a period or periods after the date of the occurrence of the final incident relied on by the petitioner and held by the court to support his allegation, that fact shall be disregarded in determining for the purposes of section 15(2)(c) of this Act whether the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with the respondent if the length of that period or of those periods together was six months or less.



(2) In considering for the purposes of section 15(2) of this Act whether the period for which the respondent has deserted the petitioner or the period for which the parties to a marriage have lived apart has been continuous, no account shall be taken of any one period (not exceeding six months) or of any two or more periods (not exceeding six months in all) during which the parties resumed living with each other, but no period during which the parties lived with each other shall count as part of the period of desertion or of the period for which the parties to the marriage lived apart, as the case may be.



(3) References in this section to the parties to a marriage living with each other shall be construed as references to their living with each other in the same household.



18. A married person whose conduct constitutes just cause or excuse for the other party to the marriage to live separately or apart, and occasions that other party to live separately or apart, shall be deemed to have wilfully deserted that other party without just cause or excuse, notwithstanding that that person may not in fact have intended the conduct to occasion that other party to live separately or apart.



19. (1) Where husband and wife are parties to an agreement for separation, whether oral, in writing or constituted by conduct, the refusal by one of them, without reasonable justification, to comply with the other's bona fide request to resume cohabitation shall constitute, as from the date of the refusal, wilful desertion without just cause or excuse on the part of the party so refusing.



(2) For the purposes of this section, "reasonable justification" means justification that is reasonable in all the circumstances, including the conduct of the other party to the marriage since the marriage, whether that conduct took place before or after the agreement for separation.



20. Where a party to a marriage has been wilfully deserted by the other party, the desertion shall not be deemed to have been terminated by reason only that the deserting party has become incapable of forming or having an intention to continue the desertion, if it appears to the court that the desertion would probably havecontinued if the deserting party had not become so incapable.



21. The court shall not find that a respondent has wilfully and persistently refused to consummate the marriage unless the court is satisfied that, as at the commencement of the hearing of the petition, the marriage had not been consummated.



22. Where-



(a) a person has been sentenced to imprisonment in respect of each of two or more crimes that, in the opinion of the court hearing the petition, arose substantially out of the same acts or omissions; and



(b) the sentences were ordered to be served, in whole or in part, concurrently, then, in reckoning for the purposes of section 16(l) (c) of this Act the period for which that person has been sentenced in the aggregate, any period during which two or more of those sentences were to be served concurrently shall be taken into account once only.



23. A finding in accordance with section 16(l) (f) of this Act shall not be made unless the court is satisfied that reasonable attempts have been made by the petitioner to enforce the order or agreement under which maintenance was ordered or agreed to be paid.



24. A finding in accordance with section 16(l) (g) of this Act shall not be made unless the court is satisfied that, at the commencement of the hearing of the petition, the respondent was still confined in an institution referred to in the said section 16(l) (g) and was unlikely to recover.



25. On the application of the respondent made in the course of proceedings for a decree of dissolution of marriage, the court may, if it considers it just and proper in the circumstances of the case to make provision for the maintenance of the respondent or other provision for the benefit of the respondent, refuse to make a decree unless and until it is satisfied that the petitioner has made arrangements satisfactory to the court to provide the maintenance or other benefit as aforesaid upon the decree becoming absolute.



26. Except where section 16(l) (g) of this Act applies, a decree of dissolution of marriage shall not be made if the petitioner has condoned or connived at the conduct constituting the facts on which the petition is based.



27. A decree of dissolution of marriage shall not be made if the petitioner, in bringing or prosecuting the proceedings, has been guilty of Collusion with intent to cause a perversion of justice.



28. The court may, in its discretion, refuse to make a decree of dissolution of marriage if since the marriage-



(a) the petitioner has committed adultery that has not been condoned by the respondent or, having been so condoned, has been revived;



(b) the petitioner has wilfully deserted the respondent before the happening of the matters relied upon by the petitioner or, where those matters involve other matters occurring during, or extending over, a period, before the expiration of that period; or



(c) the habits of the petitioner have, or the conduct of the petitioner has, conduced or contributed to the existence of the matters relied upon by the petitioner.



29. Where both a petition for a decree of nullity of a marriage and a petition for a decree of dissolution of that marriage are before a court, the court shall not make a decree of dissolution of the marriage unless it has dismissed the petition for a decree of nullity of the marriage.



30. (1) Subject to this section, proceedings for a decree of dissolution of marriage shall not be instituted within two years after the date of the marriage except by leave of the court.



(2) Nothing in this section shall apply to the institution of proceedings based on any of the matters specified in section 15(2) (a) or (b) or 16(l) (a) of this Act, or to the institution of proceedings for a decree of dissolution of marriage by way of cross-proceedings.



(3) The court shall not grant leave under this section to institute proceedings except on the ground that to refuse to grant the leave would impose exceptional hardship on the applicant or that the case is one involving exceptional depravity on the part of the other party to the marriage.



(4) In determining an application for leave to institute proceedings under this section, the court shall have regard to the interest of any children of the marriage, and to the question whether there is any reasonable probability of a reconciliation between the parties before the expiration of the period of two years after the date of the marriage.



(5) Where, at the hearing of proceedings that have been instituted by leave of the court under this section, the court is satisfied that the leave was obtained by misrepresentation or concealment of material facts, the court may-



(a) adjourn the hearing for such period as the court thinks fit; or



(b) dismiss the petition on the ground that the leave was so obtained.



(6) Where, in a case to which subsection (5) of this section applies, there is a cross-petition, if the court adjourns or dismisses the petition under that subsection, it shall also adjourn for the same period, or dismiss, as the case may be, the cross-petition; but if the court, having regard to the provisions of this section, thinks it proper to hear and determine the cross-petition, it may do so, and in that case it shall also hear and determine the petition.



(7) The dismissal of a petition or a cross-petition under subsection (5) or (6) of this section shall not prejudice any subsequent proceedings on the same, or substantially the same, facts as those constituting the ground on which the dismissed petition or cross-petition was brought.



( Nothing in this section shall prevent the institution of proceedings, after the period of two years from the date of the marriage, based upon matters which have occurred within that period.



(9) In this section, a reference to the leave of the court shall be deemed to include a reference to leave granted by a court on appeal.



31. (1) A party to a marriage, whether husband or wife may, in a petition for a decree of dissolution of the marriage alleging that the other party to the marriage has committed adultery with a person or including that allegation, claim damages from that person on the ground that that person has committed adultery with the other party to the marriage and, subject to this section, the court may award damages accordingly.



(2) The court shall not award damages against a person where the adultery of the respondent with that person has been condoned, whether subsequently revived or not, or if a decree of dissolution of the marriage based on the fact of the adultery of the respondent with that person, or on facts including that fact, is not made.



(3) Damages shall not be awarded under this Act in respect of an act of adultery committed more than three years before the date of the petition.



(4) The court may direct in what manner the damages awarded shall be paid or applied and may, if it thinks fit, direct that they shall be settled for the benefit of the respondent or the children of the marriage.



32. (1) Where, in a petition for a decree of dissolution of marriage or in an answer to such a petition, a party to the marriage is alleged to have committed adultery with a specified person, whether or not a decree of dissolution of marriage is sought on the basis of that allegation, that per- son shall, except as provided by rules of court, be made a party to the proceedings.



(2) Where, in a petition for a decree of dissolution of marriage or in an answer to such a petition, a party to the Marriage is alleged to have committed rape or sodomy on or with a specified person, whether or not a decree of dissolution of marriage is sought on the basis of that allegation, that person shall, except as provided by rules of court, be served with notice that the allegation has been made and is thereupon entitled to intervene in the proceedings.



(3) Where a person has been made a party to proceedings for a decree of dissolution of marriage in pursuance of subsection (1) above, the court may, on the application of that person, if it is satisfied after the close of the case for the party to the marriage who alleged the adultery that there is not sufficient evidence to establish that that person ommitted adultery with the other party to the marriage, dismiss that person from the proceedings.



33. Where a decree of dissolution of marriage under this Act has become absolute, a party to the marriage may marry again as if the marriage had been dissolved by death.

Well be careful on the choice of your man.Na oyibo man do one of our sister this ooo


Nigerian woman in coma for 18 years in Vienna
Written by TUNDE AKINGBADE
Saturday, 23 February 2008
* Family meets victim, children

The family of the Nigerian woman, said to have been in coma for 18 years in Vienna after allegedly being battered by her Austrian husband, finally visited the victim penultimate week.

AFTER 18 years of being in coma, the family of Victoria Znidaric, the Nigerian woman who was allegedly battered by her Austrian engineer husband, Stankov Znidaric, finally saw her in pathetic state penultimate week in a nursing home outside Vienna, the Austrian capital. For many years the family in Nigeria had been informed that Victoria was dead. She was mourned at her village near Ekpoma, Edo State and this caused depression that people said eventually killed her parents.

No one in Nigeria had any inkling about the truth surrounding the matter until 10 years later when news filtered to Nigeria that Victoria was in a pitiable state at a nursing home in Austria. Since then, every attempt by any member of the family to visit her in Austria was rebuffed by the Austrian embassy in Abuja under different guises.

Then, Sunday Vanguard published the plight of the woman and her family in Nigeria .Penultimate week, a representative of the family, Mr. Arthur Iyere O., a graduate of mathematics and statistics who had been in the vanguard of inquisition to find out the state of Victoria and reconcile the two children of the marriage with their Nigerian root, finally saw Victoria and met her children - Christopher and Victor - through the intervention of the Association of Democracy in Africa and Worldwide (ADA) which confronted the Austrian embassy through the ministry of interior in Vienna.

Following the visit of the representative of the Nigerian family and the contact with the children of the battered woman 18 years after the incident and 22 years after her leaving Nigeria, the story hit headlines of no fever than five newspapers in Vienna with series of press conferences being organised in the country to highlight the plight and sorry state of the Nigerian woman. A fund raising is being organized to assist the woman who needs a wheel chair estimated at about 6,000 dollars. The children of the woman were very much excited to meet a representative of their mother’s family in Nigeria. They expressed delight in finally being connected to their Nigerian root and expressed hope of visiting in the near future.

Although the Nigerian family has not located the children’s father who allegedly battered their mother during a scuffle, Sunday Vanguard was told by the victim’s eldest sister Mrs. Justina Ehijiator that the family was not interested in pressing any charges against or fighting the Austrian man. “All we want is to see our sister’s children and let them know the family,” she said Today, Victoria lies in a nursing home outside Vienna and can only raise her head and left shoulder. Beside, she reacts at the presence of visitors with strange sounds and howls like a wolf.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3539&Itemid=123

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Reading through your post,i can understand your point of view based on your previous experience.Knowing fully well the nature of "your man" and "your liberated woman life style" having a durable relationship will be difficult except you adopt the franch motto Liberté, Equalité, Fraternité ("Liberty, Equality, Fraternity".
Don;t loose hope,because you have not meet "your man" except you are destined to be without a man.Set yourself free from that crazy idea of emacipation and flow with the tide based on your preconditions.
I wish you the best

Londoncool,
Good talk.

pahtahkee,

FYI

MD and CEO of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Tony Elumelu

A bullion Driver working in Economics department of a bank ??

Think twice on this and put the jigsaw together.

damatiti:
brownbonno and all others who responded.

What luxury could she possibly enjoy in this your bad roads, no nepa, fake drugs, fake food , let me not name them all.

FIRSTLY my friend came because he pestered her to invite him so he could migrate to her country for good and she decided to come see for herself why he so desperately wants to get out from this so called Great Giant of Africa.

SECONDLY she came because she wanted to prove to others that the bad image they hear about nja could be a lie. BUT NOW SHE WILL GO AND CONFIRM THAT ALL THEY HEAR ABOUT NJA IS TRUE AND EVEN WORSE.


What she saw here disgusted her so much, when she left she was vomiting from some bad bug she picked up in this YOUR so called good luxury hotels. she spent only 3 days in this your country. sha , I hope she did not pick up typhoid/ cholera , shame she may be quarantined like they do to dogs when she got home.

As for the dude who tried to 419 her, may he find some stupid white ladY in europe for a visa to go abroad. WHY DO YOU WANNA RUN AWAY FROM THIS YOUR COUNRTY . YOU MUST ALL STAY AND DEVELOP THE PLACE.

well I don
't need anymore of your blah blah blah I rest my case. THANK YOU.

I am not interested in your explanations.You have to apologize to Nigerians here in this forum.Or you have to pack off from the country.

[quote damatiti :Perhaps it is all a big lie perhaps the car and office are just a charade?  What is he hiding? Could there be a wife or girlfriend at home? Perhaps he does not trust her and thinks she may steal his silver?

Please give me your views.
[quote][/quote]damatiti,
What views do you request other than the ones you have already sum up ?You/your friend only came with a skimming intention,but to your suprise and disappointment the fella did not fall to it.
Simple question-Why did you indicate your location as ABUJA?Do you live in Abuja ?
Remember,he that seek for equity must come with a clean hands.
I wonder what type of Africanism you are,do you just get a stranger from the street to your house or family house like you said ?After you friend have enjoyed all the lux she ever dreamt of in life there Nigeria only to turn back to brand Nigeria as 419 cultured.
Well,may the gods in Nigeria(the ayelala,the ogun,osun river,the kukuruku,the onitsha bridge,the Ikom,the magun,asokoro rock,the okija change your dream pattern.)
I give you SEVEN DAYS to come with your apology otherwise the sango will change your night to day and your day to night.

omogidi234:
@brownbonno. God bless you for your observation. However, please note that for every positive there is a negative, the lawyers that you have seen presenting incoherent speech or what have you at public hearing were the ones who had the opportunity of getting there. If you are a Nigerian you should know that no matter how good you are if they do not want you there you can't be there. The best you can do is go on the pages of dailies and express your views which does not matter or in nairaland (where so many people who are not in touch with Nigeria{not you oh} express all manner of silly opinions, of course I keep saying it "opinion is the cheapest thing you can buy". The totality of this is that you will find the ones that are not good occupying sensitive positions and when the bubble burst the whole world blame the lawyers- remember INEC saga involving a SAN and the power contract saga where over 20 non-registered companies were awarded contracts, the list is endless. I strongly believe that this is a phase.

I appreciate your post which portray you are a professional and of sound mind.I am quite aware of possible barriers within the Nigeria social institutions,but,i must promise that is an apple opportunities for you you to shine as a lawyer.
1.Put your profession first before money/wealth.A typical example, Dr. Sam Amadi just a regular law student during our days in the Uni,he cut a niche for himself within the legal practice,now google his name and find out more about his success.
2.Go to your locality and pick up some cases of people innocently in prisons,see how you will go after that.
3.Be more open to communication,it will help brighten your horizon
4.Develop a hobby outside your profession

Personally i belong to an Immigration forum,where practical information/advise is given to people in critical situations.I am not a lawyer,but researches in law is my hobby and i am a member of standing in that forum.
The reason why lawyers are finding it difficult to move to a higher point (new lawyers) is because their services are very closed only available to the rich and not the low/middle class.Don;t forget a society without a middle class is doomed.
I like your last post and i am sure you will make it.

Pastor AIO:
That's an advantage for the imperialist. I think we are discussing what the advantage is for the enslaved to adopt the imperial religion.

Hmmm to the enslaved,if at all there is advantage,it only give a choice to alternative religion.What more ?

HAH:
Hi All
Am trying to get UK visa for my self and wife just for holidays this summer. am earning =N=6.5m annually and i presenly have like 2M worth of stocks and also a land in Abuja and i intend spending 800k for the 14 days trip. Now my problems are:
1,my wife is unemployed and doesnt have any source of income
2,though i have friend in uk i want to stay in a good hotel how do i do the booking and payment
3 how do i book and pay for tours

I really want to have fun. please i need genuine advice

This link might be helpful.
http://www.britainexpress.com/great_british_sites/tour-ops.htm

As per your other questions,your money in stock will be not be considered in the application.You have a good salary and if your a good Bank balance on your account will be ok.
*A leave letter from your employer
*marriage certificate to proof your wife relationship
*Hotel/tour booking/itinery
I am sure you will be fine.
Payments,that can be bank tranfer or your friends/family can make some deposit on your behalf.

babalase:
Londoncool,thanks a lot for your concern but are you telling me not to reapply? or what do you think i should do and honestly i have nothing doing in u.k rather than visiting.my boss told me that he has asked his lawyer to write the british embassy on y i was refused when he was the one sponsoring me and he provided all needed documents,all i need is what to do because i don't want my passport to be stamped the second time.
waiting to hear from you soon.

Why will you boss instruct his lawyer to write the embassy asking why you where refused when they have already given you a decision with the reasons.Tell your boss issuance of a Tourist visa is not a right but a privilage based on the ECOs discreetion on balance of probability.
Your boss should write a cover letter explaining further his intention to sponsor your trip and beg for a reconsideration.OR follow as previously advised by Londoncool and Vicjustice instead of spending another 20% of your month salary to apply for a visa.

vanesa:
@hantayo stop using the name of the lord for game and get a LIFE! If i might ask where is the boy father is he now handicap and can't travel to the place he left his kids? anyway nonsense and as i said earlier get a LIFE!

I hate using foul words,but i can;t imagine the kind of brain that exist in you.I thought a lot of Nigerians are educated and yet not learnened enough to behave in a public place.Especially those that are educated in academics but not in learning.
For your information not all people are gulable enough to a con.Just for the evil minded to believe every action of man is geared towards fraud.Perochial and close minded ideas.