i've always thought the french weird and wack...

Mrs Clinton is proud being the "wife" of president Clinton! i don know what this Adiche woman wants? maybe she is promulgating the expunging of that word "wife" from the english lexicon?

those who champion feminism should thoroughly understand that feminism is a choice first, before it becomes a way of life. if Mrs Clinton has chosen to grace her twitter handle with the appendage "wife", i don't see why anybody should be upset about that? it is her choice! moreover, that is what she is, a wife, a man's wife!

what do women want? what do women like Adiche want? to not be called a "wife"? Adiche should not have gotten married since she finds the word "wife" repulsive?

feminism is truly showing itself to be a catastrophe in the making; all with exhibitions like these, from one of its champion spokesperson.

Explorers:
This is Anthony Borges, 15.

He used his body to hold a classroom door shut, protecting 20 other students inside as the gunman fired through the door, hitting him five times

Florida highschool shooting

courage personified!

realmindz:


so God decided to show his ego by sinking the ship leading to death of 3000 people including children...Well god has been a great killer from the bible days killing millions of people at the slightest challenge and provocation.

Statistics have it that over 90% of people prayed to god before being involved in fatal accidents including plane crash, auto crash, ship wreck.
Over 85% of people prayed before finally giving up on their sick bed...
People scream a name of a god (Jesus!! Allah) before sudden death.

so whatz your point? a god that cannot save but kill people to show his might

stop reasoning like a cow!

so God says fornication is a sin, you bloody went ahead to fornicate and ended up contracting HIV, so you will say God inflicted the virus on you?

the maned wolf and the tufted dear looks like animals that were genetically engineered/modified.

i know of the unclad mole rat, the dugong, the aye-aye and a few of the others. they all look weird though.

thank God they've not totally lost their minds and senses.

kalufelix:

You May Have Attended Various Schools Of Different Levels And Categories ...But I'm Afraid You Still Need EDUCATION.

please educate me....

Billyonaire:


Your's is a strawmann's argument, and it does not work with me.

First off, do not import notions that are alien to my response into the argument as those are your mental conjectures. I never mentioned white man, black man diversification, or conjure Nigeria and abroad comparisons. Those are ripples of your mental masturbation.

My response was geared towards the very negative blow back this news has generated on this 'Nigerian' forum which I consider primarily ignorant, and that is the basis of my point of view. It does not mean that the 'white employers' who deny him jobs are smarter. Some white people are stupid too. You have forced me to use classifications and race to draw home my point. That will not be repeated as I am not a racist or a tribalist or even a Nationalist. I am a Human Being without borders. So I can state facts based on my truth and not with emotional coloration generated by the need to align with a local school of thought. I have no business aligning with a popular opinion. Majority of the people on this planet are stupid and we must admit this. Let us not assume that we have made any headway in mannerism. We are still timid here and it is why people are judged based on tattoo and other body arts. Such persons are low and they are many in number.

Any individual or corporate entity who sees tattoo as a vice is moronic, ignorant and biased. Any contrary opinion to this is just an opinion that needs to be re-screened and those with the mindset need education on how to reason properly.

stop arguing like a foọ̄l, if you love the idiot that much why not give him a job yourself?


you have to tatoo such heinous image on you bloody neck to show you love your DEAD father? well, his body, his bloody business! but he should'nt go round expecting sympathy nor favors looking so stupid.

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pryme:


Honestly you IPOB fanatics never disappoint when it comes to being shallow with your arguments.
Cant you guys give this a rest and focus being something reasonable for your family and future kids?

what annoys me is when young guys go out and cause mayhem and put their lives in harms way for some useless politicians.

if you think this baifra agitation is not political, then you are not very bright.



pls for the sake that i have known and met very good ibo brothers, am talking to you as a brother that is going the wrong way,
"go and do something reasonable with your life".

just see how foolish and childish you've just portrayed yourself. if you don't have a reasonable arguement to pose, why not just shut up? must you comment to show how bigotted and dimwitted you are?

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Opinion | Columnists

Nigeria’s toxic NGO Regulation Bill

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu | 27 July 2017 | 3:56 am









The NGO Regulation Bill is the latest among these measures to constrain the civic space and destroy dissent. It comprises 58 sections of extraordinarily bad drafting, jumbled thinking and un-concealed ill-will.

Nigeria’s House of Representatives is presently considering what perhaps qualifies as the most dangerous piece of legislation to come before the National Assembly since the return of civilian rule in 1999. It is the NGO Regulation Bill sponsored by the Deputy Majority Leader of the House, Hon. Umar Buba Jibril. The bill is stunning in its audacity, far reaching in its scope and a danger to elective government in Nigeria. It should not be allowed to pass.

There is a context to this NGO Regulation Bill which is important. It comes at a time when the Federal Government, led by the same party whose parliamentary caucus Jibril leads in the House, has signaled enthusiasm and desire to establish a commission to regulate social media content. This, despite the fact that a similar measure previously sponsored by Jibril’s counterpart as the Deputy Majority Leader in the Senate, Bala Ibn Na’Allah, had earlier failed to pass muster. Around many states of the country, social media activists are routinely persecuted. With the active encouragement of the Federal Government and the ruling party, free expression is being chilled and dissent criminalised.

The NGO Regulation Bill is the latest among these measures to constrain the civic space and destroy dissent. It comprises 58 sections of extraordinarily bad drafting, jumbled thinking and un-concealed ill-will.




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The Bill proposes to create an NGO Regulatory Commission, which will be headed by an Executive Secretary appointed by the President for five years and a 17-member Governing Board, led by a chairman, all of whom shall also be appointed by the President. The Board will have powers to licence all NGOs. Without the licence of the Board, no NGO can operate. The licence of the NGO Board alone (not registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission) will confer legal personality and perpetual succession on NGOs. However, such a licence must be renewed every 24 months. If not, legal personality is lost. Clearly, no one told Jibril that the idea of renewing legal personality defeats the entire purpose of corporate personality.

The Board can refuse renewal for no reason. It can also capriciously waive all the requirements of the law, including registration. The Minister (of Interior) can direct the Board at his whim as he deems fit, including, presumably, to register or de-register any NGO.

All NGOs must submit reports to the Board of their money, where they get it from and how much. Before an NGO spends any money received, it must secure the permission of the NGO Board. If it does not, it violates the law. That’s a crime under the bill. The board will also license NGOs on co-operation with international bodies.

The bill requires NGOs to comply not merely all laws but also with “all national and foreign policies,” whatever that means. Any violation of the Bill when passed into law is a crime punishable with up to 18 months in prison.

The Board will enjoy substantial immunities under law and from process and any judgement against it cannot be enforced except with the express permission of the serving Attorney-General of the Federation.

As if these were not enough confusion, the Bill proposes that the board will also oversee a Voluntary Code of conduct for NGOs to be adopted by “the first one hundred NGOs to be registered by the board.” The Code will be operated by a National Council for Voluntary Agencies.

The flaws in the bill are too many to be covered in the space available. Seven deserve to be highlighted. First, the bill will governmentalise NGOs in Nigeria. Second, it will suffocate NGOs with exponential bureaucratisation at a time when official government policy is to ease transaction costs for small entities. Third, filled with a cocktail of whim and caprice, the bill is a boon to official corruption. Fourth, it will militarise the civic space and make it impossible for anyone who harbours views different from those of the government to organise with legal protection around those views. Fifth, the bill interferes with constitutionally protected rights to freedoms of expression, association and assembly in a profoundly partisan and impermissible manner.

When he introduced the Bill in 2016, Deputy Majority Leader, Jibril, claimed that there was no existing framework “to supervise the mode of operations” of NGOs. This was deliberately misleading, wrong and inaccurate. It is plainly obtuse. This adds a sixth to the problems with the Bill – overreach. With no hint of modesty, the bill proposes to eviscerate the responsibilities of multiple Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), including the National Planning Commission; Corporate Affairs Commission; Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS); Customs Service; Immigration Service; EFCC; National Planning Commission and even the National Emergency Management Agency.




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Above all, at a time of poor public finances, it seeks to create yet another pointless parastatal and add to government overheads.As military ruler in 1984-85, President Buhari showed single-minded intolerance for dissent. When he ran again for the Presidency in 2015, he sold himself as a converted democrat.

A President and ruling party already under considerable suspicion for intolerance do not need the distraction of this bill. It has already passed first and second readings in the House and has been remitted to committee.

In September, the House of Representatives Committee on Civil Society will hold a public hearing on the bill. If the Committee does not kill the bill, it will label the President and his party as politically toxic at a time that neither of them needs that. This bill deserves to die.
Prof. Odinkalu chairs the Council of the Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
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that is what you get in a terminally ill country with a terminally ill president.

except they will limit or outrightly restrict my access to the app why should i bother myself with that?

neither should one take an exam on an empty stomach. the result will most likely be unfavorable.

Mary did you know - by Cee Lo Green.
it's an acapella and i'm just loving it.

"Adebayo said the challenges posed by the OTTs were not limited to Nigeria alone, as operators globally were also losing billions of dollars to them yearly."


thank God they know they're not the only ones affected. the shitty data services they're rendering us is bad enough and now they're clamouring for a removal of social media services? simply because they want to continue ripping us off? how can they even suggest something like this?


the world is moving forward and social media is big part of that movement, so they better wake up to the realities of time or get left behind!

i hope Buhari and Osinbajo are aiming their hate speech rhetorics at the Arewa youths? the hate speeches those northern nonentities have been spewing these past months, all in the name of trying to coarse IPOB into abandoning their pursuit of self determination, is quite appalling.

APC, always seeking ways to divert attention from their inadequacies. now they want to stylishly enact gag orders in other to silence the opposition. what happened to seeking redress in court if you feel you've been slandered or defamed? if your freedom of speech, which is a God given right, is taken away from you, all in name of curbing hate speeches, what then do we say of the people from the north who have been killing and maiming innocent people for just no reason? should'nt they face stiffer punishments?

but alas! nobody is questioned. no culprits arrested. no justice delivered.

if seeking justice in an enclave where injustice has been the norm is now termed hate speeches, then by all means, hate speeches are here to stay. we all know the phrase "hate speeches" was coined as a result of Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB seeking redress for a lifetime of marginalization and injustice suffered in the hands of nigerians.

abdeiz:
Please what is the Unique selling point of this phone?

exactly my thought! i sure don't see any.

you know eh, so many people from different parts of Nigeria are evil. that is why they enjoy the killings, but when the victims cry out it is termed "hate speech".

Nnamdi Kanu is crying out against oppression and injustice, some people call it hate speech. the Igbos are saying enough is enough with the marginalization and killings of their tribesmen in this country, some people say its hate speech.

every sane and peace loving human will agree that it is better we have hate speeches than outright killings. every sane person knows the so called hate speeches are as a result of unwarranted and wanton killings of some set of people by other set of people in this country.

until we desolve this entity called Nigeria, the hate speeches are here to stay. we have no cultural, religious or ideological similarities, so i don't see how we can live as one.

i, personally, cannot and will not agree to continue to share a country with a man who sees himself as a superior being even when his every actions shows he is nothing more than the scum of this earth.

we cannot continue to condone their every whim and caprice just so their bloated and false egos maybe salved.

cumbak60:
A thread that defeats its purpose. There will be no war in Igboland. All you Igbos that are basking and eulogizing violence will end up self-destruct. Why can't you guys calmly agitate peacefully until you get Biafra? Whats all this noise about war?
Who are you going to recruit to fight? Igbo youths? You must be crazy. Idiots. The ones you exposed to death on protest is not enough. Even the great Ikemba warned against this part. Ikemba will be turning in his grave right now, with way that media stunt man is leading Igbo youths to.
May the war you seek to bring to Igboland, rain and dance in your camp. Igboland shall be free from the violence you lots are desperately trying to attract.

as much as i tried, i could'nt help but to address your monumental stụ̀pidity.

who has been threatening war and brimstone? is it not your northern brothers? we are simply letting them know that fire will be met with fire. it's that simple.

we are seriously looking foward to october 1st, the expiration of your ultumatum. it will be a thing of great shame if you don't make good on your threats. we are eagerly waiting.

"those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent change inevitable"


be warned.

OP please talk about feasible and worthy investment opportunities and not this quarry biz. you obviously don't know what it entails

i read somebody up there saying it's all a conspiracy theory. i ask you: have you really pondered why you are they way you are?


have you ever tried to research why wars are fought?


have you taken time to understand why man as an entity has always tried to dominate and subjugate his fellow man, since the inception of time?

"man, know thyself!"
"it is better to be unborn than unthought!"

teshyberry:


What would you suggest?

Hotel is preferable right?

lol.., you're funny.

what i'm simply saying is that people should try and look beyond the man's act; it was reactionary, premeditated or not. we should instead focus on the REASON he acted that way.

i have received a lot of bashing on this tread simply because i've refuse to explicitly condemn the man, something i see as no fault of the his.


i can assure you that well over fifty percent of the male folks, under the same circumstance, would react the same way.

now, to answer your question, spousal infidelity is a crime against God if not humanity. she should have divorced him instead of betraying him like that.

otokx:
There may be nothing wrong with the President, old age is not a disease.

hahaha..., no it is not, its an infirmity rendering him senile and imbecilic.

these useless western nations, where were they when genocidal killings nearly wiped out an entire people?

whenever they perceive an african leader to be an anchor point in the development of africa, they start their evil propaganda to discredit and debase that leader. that was the case with Maumar Ghaddafi.

i hope that african leaders will open their eyes and see that most of these western nations don't have out progressive interest at heart. they want to keep us perpertually subjugated; a ready market for their willful exploitation.

hedonistic:
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It's not about cheating, it's about the unbearable disrespect and dishonour. You don't bring a man to my home, our home, to fuc.k you. You don't do that. Even men take their mistresses to hotels to Bleep.

If I'm your husband, and I come home to meet you naked in our bed with a man. I will kill both of you. If I have only one bullet, then I will kill you.

No questions asked.

my brother, some of these folks don't understand the extent of damage that woman's actions caused.

bringing a man who is not your husband to your matrimonial bed? the cheek of it!

LordReed:


I didn't say hers were rational either but 2 wrongs don't make a right and murder is the ultimate wrong cos now she can't make amends, she can't change her behaviour, she can't say I am sorry while he on the other hand will be persecuted, jailed possibly killed, lose his children, lose all the fruits of his hard work, never have the opportunity of the unfaithful wife vindicate him by apologizing. Nobody won with this decision even if the woman lost her life, he lost his too. This is what is irrational about it.

Talking about how to deal with matters of the heart, people need to learn to put things in perspective. So she cheating on you means the world has ended? Or that you can never have joy in your life again? LoL! Come on people! Nobody has the authority to stop your enjoyment of life like this, only you. I will never give up my power to enjoy life for any woman, man or child. You want to ruin your life? Go ahead but you ain't taking me with you. If your toto is scratching you so much my dick can't satisfy you, bye-bye! Life continues. I won't throw away my life because of nonsense.

i certainly agree with you that both made rash decisions; just as the woman bowed to the longings of forbidden passions, so also the man to unbridled rage. it's just unfortunate the woman gets to lose her life just as surely as the man has lost his.

my concern here is that most people are not interested in the actions of the woman, that led to her death, but would rather crucify the man for acting out an inevitability.

it's as if people are in support of marital infidelity!

LordReed:


You don't kill flies with nuclear weapons. Responses to situations should be proportional, killing her and her lover was an irrational act. If you catch your wife in the act of cheating the sane thing to do is get her out of your house and divorce her. It's insane to think killing someone because of sex is an appropriate decision.

seriously? irrational? you call the man irrational? what then do you call the wife who brought in another man to their matrimonial bed whilst the husband was out seeking the family's daily bread?

see, when it comes to sacred things of the heart, rationality is not always feasible. she should have thought of the consequences of her actions before embarking on such unholy carousal! or better still, she should have filed for a divorce instead of tarnishing the gentleman's image and integrity as much as she did.

bashydemy:



Well the man said he is fit to rule and only Fall sick and needed time to rest and get better..

Check the link up there and see list of America President that was sick and did not.. resign. Even some win reelection..

now, these are salient questions to answer.
is there a stipulated time frame a president is allowed to stay away from duty outlined in the constitution?
what should happen if a president overstays his allotted sick leave?
and finally, has he (Buhari) overstayed his allotted time?

now, if you answer these questions without equivocation, i'm sure we all won't have cause for further altercations.