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bukatyne:
If this their problem, then we need minister of marriage and not minister of s.ex. S.ex doesn't mean more babies.... well more babies but not the rate they want it.

A lot of women will be preggers after a while but will they keep the resulting babies if they feel it will infringe on their career?

Many of the women refusing to have children are married women. The statistics on women who refuse to have children in Spain have consistently shown that the phenomenon of choosing not to have children cuts across the spectrum from married women to single women. So a Minister of Marriage probably wouldn't solve the problem.

sweatlana:
Your dp is disturbing, Muslims will be offended. Please remove it.

When they remove that "I believe in Allah" rubbish, I'll change my DP. Until then, the DP remains.

Rachel Dolezal, the white former NAACP leader who believes she's black, is doubling down and solidifying her "black" identity with a legal name change to Nkechi Amare Diallo.

The 39-year-old filed to adopt the West African names in Washington State according to Daily Mail. Nkechi is short for Nkechinyere in the Nigerian language of Igbo, and translates to "gift of god."

Her new last name, Diallo, comes from the Fula people of West Africa and means "bold".

Rachel or Nkechi as she now wants to be called, maintains and still insists that she identifies as a black woman, even though her parents are fully white. She has changed her baby boy's name to reflect her change of name.

http://www.tmz.com/2017/03/01/rachel-dolezal-african-name-change-gift-of-god/

A HIGH Court judge in Harare, Justice David Mangota has outlawed corporal punishment against children at schools or at home by teachers, parents and guardians, saying the practice is a contravention of the country’s supreme laws.

The ruling followed an application by an aggrieved parent, Linah Pfungwa, who challenged corporal punishment at schools after her child was subjected to cruel beatings by her teacher last year for failing to do her homework.

It will be recalled that in 2015, corporal punishment was ruled unconstitutional after High Court Judge, Justice Ester Muremba, ruled that the practice was in contravention of the country's Constitution.

Justice Muremba was reviewing a lower court sentence on a 15-year-old boy who was sentenced to moderate corporal punishment of three strokes with a rattan cane for raping a 14-year-old girl.

The landmark ruling was, however, provisionally set aside by the Constitutional Court as former Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku cited the need for the court to hear opposing arguments before handing down a judgment.

Today's ruling would appear to be a definitive and final statement of law, however there are already plans to appeal against the decision.

https://www.newsday.co.zw/2017/03/02/corporal-punishment-outlawed-2/

The Ambassadors School, Ota, Ogun State is presently basking in the glow of being rated as one the top three secondary schools in Nigeria.

The school's success can in no small measure be traced to its founders: Dr. Samson Osewa and Mrs Victoria Osewa


Dr. Samson Osewa is a native of Ota in Ogun State who has distinguished himself having risen to prominent positions in the boardrooms of various high profile corporate outfits.

Osewa is the Executive Director of Pharma Production and Director Nigerian-German Chemicals PLC and Director of Ranbaxy Nigeria Limited which are two major players in Nigeria’s Pharmaceutical Sector.

Dr. Osewa, a first class Pharmacist, joined Nigerian-German Chemicals PLC in 1982 and rose through the ranks to become the Chief Executive of the Company. He has also served as President of the National Association of Industrial Pharmacists and also a distinguished fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria.

Indeed, Dr. Osewa has so distinguished himself in the Health Care and Pharmaceutical Sector of the global economy that the company of which he is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is one of very few African companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Dr. Samson Osewa is married to the charming Mrs Victoria Osewa who is also an intellectual giant in her own right.

A renowned scholar & loving mother, Mrs Victoria Olayemi Osewa is the God anointed woman who administers The Ambassadors Schools. She is a pharmacist with 28 years of experience in her coffers. She graduated from the foremost School of Pharmacy at the University of Ife (now OAU) in 1981. The indefatigable Mrs V.O Osewa is a professional of high repute who had handled many ventures successfully some of which includes:

SAMVIC Pharmacy Limited, Ota. (1986)
The Ambassadors Schools, Ota. (1998)

She has been a beneficiary of many educational conferences some of which she delivered a couple of lectures aimed at encouraging educational professionals on Good School Management Procedures in Today’s Environment. She has also attended many national & international conferences including the leadership seminar of the Haggai Institute. Mrs Osewa is a mother endowed with kindness & a relation to easily draw on affinity with children. Her prowess in the upbringing of children draws from the fact that she has successfully brought up children of her own who have become proud citizens of this great country.

A marriage counselor alongside her husband, Mrs Victoria Osewa takes delight in youth affairs & believes that the paradigm of education must shift in Nigeria in conformity with the international standard.

Dr. and Mrs Osewa’s happy union is blessed with children who have excelled in various fields of human endeavour such as social media innovation and content development, IT and affiliate marketing.

Congratulations to the wonderful couple.

yanabasee:
No matter how hard you want to justify yourself, its fulgently crystal that the BBN show is misleading...

The parental control discourse is an averment... Many homes do not subscribe to the DSTv parental control lock and kids go about viewing ill-breeding shows on DSTv...

The BBN is contributing one way other the in the many problems that we are facing as a country... daughters will want to run off parent's house to practice what they view on the show...

Many under-aged girls and boys are so addicted to the show....

Many under-aged girls and boys are so addicted to the show...

So who do we blame when underage girls and boys are allowed to watch shows like BBN? The organisers who intended it for mature mindes or the oblivious parents who fail to carry out their responsibiities? By your logic we would have to ban the internet to stop children from having access to x-rated materials, regardless of how beneficial it is for us in many other ways.

You may search in the Emir's Palace. These days a lot of missing young ladies always seem to end up in various Emir's Palaces across the North.

softMarket:
Our muslems brothers wont like this....

Am sure ISIS will be planing an attack on US soil but they dont know, if they come close to US border ehhh, Trump will show them hell on earth

The "muslems" are not the brothers of anyone but themselves.

martineverest:
u are just too childish for this comment...grow up

Not "too childish", but "too rooted in reality"

When you hear Nigerians, who tend towards pietism speak about the ongoing Big Brother Naija reality show, you would imagine that the casual debauchery engaged in by the youngsters on the show was the most depravity that could be told about Nigeria.

But that is far from the truth. Here is a country with loads of stories about baby-making centres where teenage girls are conscripted into random copulation with men and delivered of babies, who are mostly sold to ritualists or sometimes handed over to childless couples for a fee.

It is a country where the recurrence of bloodletting literarily bears the seal of the state, where agents of the state turn equipment of war on harmless citizens for exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to associate, where citizens lord it over other citizens, rampaging and ravaging without repercussion. A country raped into submission to hunger, disease and despair by successive leadership which, ironically, sometimes joins the self-righteous denunciation of indulgences that television programming like the BBN offers.

The argument is usually about the hedonistic nature of the show. People complain that nudity and free for all sexual tendencies of the youths are alien to our culture. And each time I hear that I wonder which of the hundreds of cultural inclinations of our country we mean in particular.

Just a few years back, Christian missionaries discovered a tribe of Nigerians who lived their lives oblivious of the need to clothe. And talking about sexual proclivity, the level of promiscuity even amongst married people of both sexes in Nigeria is left to the imagination. Didn’t a recent survey conducted by condom manufacturer, Durex, rank Nigerian women among the most unfaithful in the world? That is not to talk about men who when they do not keep loads of girlfriends are married to a battalion of women! So, how is what we find on the BBN different from the way we are?

But let us even pretend for a moment that this was a valid argument? That the BBN and the frivolous opportunities it offers its housemates are strange to us. Can it not also be argued that television, the medium through which this show is aired, is also an invention alien to Nigeria? If we did not create the television, how do we then expect the device to conform to our own culture?

In its essential functions of educating, informing and entertaining, the broadcast industry has also acquired its own ethos which governs its operations. This is why it is really difficult for you to accept the device and hope to deplore the attendant responsibilities that follow.

It is true that some of these governing principles are reviewed time and time again. But even if these reviews always take the commercial essence of operators into cognisance, they also respect the reality that society comprises of people with different demographics and persuasions, and as such, make room to respect the sensibilities of people.

This is why programmes are censored and classified into different categories. This classification is done in such a way that it leaves no one in doubt as to the suitability of the content of a programme ahead of any in-depth contact with it.

In the case of the programme under discussion, you have a restricted categorisation indicating that viewing is meant for adults-people who are above 18 years of age! This eliminates the viewership of children, the same way in which a lot of movies shown on a lot of other DSTv channels exclude children. And here, we should note that programmes like this reality show have the same categorisation even in societies that we self-righteously regard as depraved. This explains the universality of the principles that guide the television industry and the fact that every society respects the right of children to innocence.

In the case of the BBN, the content providers also availed subscribers of a parental control option, which allows parents to block the access of adventurous children who may want to explore the channel in the absence of their parents.

Not just that, I also read on the DSTv website that subscribers are offered the opportunity to opt out of having that channel on their decoders at all! Watching Big Brother Naija was therefore rendered a personal choice, which a lot of Nigerians have chosen, given reports about the phenomenal rating the programme is receiving.

You then wonder why the BBN has become so much a subject of interest that Nigerians do not only condemn but have even gone ahead to initiate petitions for its termination. Are those angry with the show worried about themselves, their children or people who choose to watch it? Is there a way in which the programme affects our collective fortune as nationals of the same country or are we just worried about the eternal fortune of the folks, who participate or patronise the programme, what exactly do people who live in a nation where religion is so often substituted for righteousness aim to achieve with shooting down an independent television programme that offers some youths the opportunity to actualise themselves even if falls short of our own moral gauge?

If the worry is only about moral purity, then why doesn’t every one of us take care of ourselves? First of all, ensure that you do not watch the programme to avoid the moral pollution attending it. In addition, restrict the chances that your children, wards and family members will ever get to watch the programme. You should also go a step further to ensure that you bring up your children to not place values the gains associated with such programmes. Having done all that, you can rest assured that the immorality of programmes like the BBN will never affect you and your immediate family.

If your concern is founded on bringing people closer to God however, you should do more about convincing people about seeing the value that God brings into their lives. With where our country is today actually, we could use a lot more of God and the holiness that he teaches through all the major religions that we practise in Nigeria.

At the centre of the faiths that are rooted in our country is the requirement for unconditional love for God and other human beings. If we all take that serious and don’t get spent on fighting unnecessary wars, none of the atrocities that were highlighted at the start of this piece and threatening to tear us apart as a people would have the hold that they have on us.

Making Nigeria a country of pride is a far more serious task than the corruption that the BBN brings or the spectacle that we make of it. Let every man and woman who preaches morality be found doing what they preach before we preach it to others. Then we will find that with our conduct; will win more people to us than our sanctimonious clatter would ever achieve.

http://omojuwa.com/2017/03/big-brother-naija-problem-niran-adedokun/

Mynd44; Lalasticlala

"IF YOU STEAL MY BOOK (OR PEN) GOD WILL PUNISH YOU"

AirstarKane:
The hausa/Fulani tribe is one is still respect for upholding their language. You seldom find any hause child without the knowledge of their language. Thumbs up to you guys. I dey find who go teach me sef. My love for them dey grow everyday since nysc posted me to one of their states

You mean those illiterates, beggars, maiguards, maishai people? You love for them will wane when you experience the first hand violence of their religious intolerance.

All Very True.

Because they only do copy and paste....

Runs out of thread screaming.........