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Upon returning home, her relatives tried to cajole her into a relationship with another man who had similar traits with her ex-husband. This time however, she was no longer that naïve child who was forced into marriage many years ago. She refused to marry him.

Years later, she got married to a man that she was attracted to, and the union produced four children. Life is not easy, and even though she was not able to achieve her dreams, Silvia refuses to dwell regretfully on the past. Rather, she views her children as her priced possessions and as her life’s accomplishment.

Mrs. Ayapine is forever grateful that she got a chance to be part of the Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion in Nigeria (RUSHPIN) Programme that was facilitated in her community by United Purpose. Issues addressed included breaking the barriers and taboos around menstruation and spreading the word. She now has a renewed determination to give to every girl-child a gift that nobody gave her, the gift of pre-menstrual knowledge, and the gift of recognizing without fear of being shamed, that menstruation is every woman’s pride.

In her community, Silvia also advocates against the practice of child-marriage and takes time to educate anyone who would listen, on the grave dangers of the practice.

Money-marriage

In the part of Northern Obanliku is the Becheve communities. Here, the practice of ‘money-marriage’ exists in the Becheve’s 17 communities of Katele, Amana, Ogbakoko, Belinge, Ranch, Ikwette, Imale, Ekor, Kalumo, Yindive, Makambe, Apambu, Belegete, Kajinga, Mangbe, Mbunu and Agusor.

Money-marriage is a custom in which a girl-child is sold out to a man by her parents as a wife in exchange for livestock like goats, farm produce like yams or foodstuffs, or to pay a debt. The practice ensures that once a girl becomes a ‘money wife’, she is considered dead by her family and must not return irrespective of how she is treated by her husband or his relatives.

Upon the death of the man, the woman is given to his next of kin as a wife. And if the ‘money-wife’ dies without a child, her parents are obligated by tradition to give another girl-child as a replacement.

Ruth lost her childhood at 12 years of age. She was married off to an older man in exchange for money. She was enslaved and kept to work on the farms, day in and day out. Raped and beaten, she had two miscarriages.

Her escape came one day while washing cloths by the river. She ran and never returned. She says, “I am angry because he was not my age. How can I as a small child go and marry someone who is over 60 years old”?

At age 20, Ruth is now a mother. Her child’s father is someone she chose and fell for. But in the community, she will always be known as the ‘money-wife’. Something that her child’s father could not cope with, and he left.

Speaking on why she sold her off, Ruth’s mother said, “I sold her because I needed money after the death of my own mother”. Ruth was sold for just N20,000.

According to a 2018 UNICEF’s database of Child Marriage in West and Central Africa, the prevalence of child marriage in West and Central Africa is 41 percent meaning that four out of ten girls and young women, that is nearly 60 million were married before the age of 18.

Africa is home to six of the 10 countries with the highest child marriage prevalence levels in the world, all six of which have a prevalence over 50 percent. Niger has the highest prevalence of child marriage in the world at 76 percent, followed by Central African Republic with 68 percent and Chad at 67 percent.

The prevalence of child marriage below the age of 15 years is also very high at 14 percent for the region, with Chad, Central African Republic and Niger all having prevalence rates over 25 percent.

As the most populous country in the region, Nigeria has the highest number of child brides. An estimated 22 million child brides live in Nigeria, which accounts for 40 percent of all child brides in the region. Niger, which has the highest prevalence in the world, has 4.1 million child brides.

Why the practice

Poverty has been identified as a catalyst in the practice of child marriage. Dr. Linda Ayade, wife of the Executive Governor of Cross River State, in an interview with Channels TV agrees with this stance.

Speaking on the prevailing and disturbing tradition of ‘money-marriage’ in communities in Cross River State, Dr. Ayade said, “We are trying to see how to bring them closer to us, we are trying to see how we will provide them with basic amenities.

“We are trying to see how to bring them from that level of poverty to a certain level where they will not begin to go down to those practices to sustain their livelihoods”.

In many parts of Cross River, the girl-child is viewed as an economic burden. Therefore, investing in her education or training is considered an ‘economic waste’, thus, the practice of marrying her off as a child continues. This stance is in part due to poverty, and ignorance of the fact that the girl-child like the boy-child, has a right dignity, to parental care, and protection.

Age-old customs like the one that exists in the Becheve communities that encourages the practice of ‘money-marriage’ even in this modern age also contributes greatly to this form of modern-day slavery.

For the affluent, the ritual of ‘money-marriage’ is seen mostly as a status symbol as it was believed that recognition is earned based on the number of money-wives acquired.

Child Rights Act

Whatever the case, victims of child-marriage in Cross River State like Silvia and Ruth could have been protected by the Child Rights Act (CRA), which Cross River state domesticated in 2009.

Part III Section 21 of the Nigeria Child Rights Act states that “No person under the age of 18 years is capable of a valid marriage, and accordingly, a marriage so contracted is null and void and of no effect whatsoever.”

Also, Part III Section 22, which prohibits the betrothal of children, says, “no parent, guardian or any other person shall betroth a child to any person.”

A contravention of either Section 21 or Section 22, attracts a fine of N500,000 or imprisonment for a term of five years or both.

Clearly then, their marriages are prohibited under Nigeria’s Child Rights Act (CRA), which bans marriage before the age of 18. But the federal bill is at loggerheads with certain State laws and age-old customs and traditions that encourage the practice.

Till date, about 11 States in Nigeria are yet to domesticate the Child Rights Act citing religion as a factor.

Lending his voice against the practice, Gov Ayade, in a recent event said, “When customs contradict morality, common sense and civilization conflict with our legal systems, then it should stop. Our laws say Nigerians, including a girl-child, have the right to freedom and dignity. Applying force to deprive her of that right is criminal. The Child Rights Act, which Cross River state has domesticated, prohibits it.

“But it is complex dealing with issues of customs and acceptable laws of the country. As a government, we cannot wield the big stick clamping people into jail. The people need education, enlightenment on the evils of these customs and that is where we are focusing on.”

Consequences

Maryam Uwais, a lawyer and child rights activist opines that “when girls are forced to marry early, it is a deprivation of formal and non-formal education which translates into restrictions on mobility, domestic burdens, the denial of sundry freedoms in respect of survival, development and participation, as well as the loss of adolescent years.

“Indeed, children of young, uneducated mothers are also less likely to attain high levels of education, perpetuating cycles of low literacy and limited livelihood opportunities.”

Child marriage, therefore, ultimately deprives societies of the intellectual and financial/livelihood contributions of girls, and of their offspring.

Many teenage mothers find themselves trapped in a seemingly hopeless state of poverty. Some must deal with the emotional aftermath of rape and violence.

None of this bodes well for the children of teen mothers. Says the book Teen Moms — The Pain and the Promise, babies of teen mothers “tend to have lower birthweight, more childhood illnesses, more infant mortality, poorer medical care, suffer more from hunger and malnourishment; they are exposed to more violence, and have more delayed development than children born to older mothers.”

Indeed, daughters of teen mothers are more likely to become teen moms themselves than are children born to older mothers.

Consequently, SDGs 1 (relating to eradicating poverty), 2 (zero hunger), 3.1 (to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio), remain unattainable goals, if the consequences and implications of child marriage are not confronted.

Projections

GirlsnotBrides.org asserts that globally, the number of teen brides is expected to reach 1.2 billion by 2050 if there is no reduction with one in three girls in the developing world married before age 18.

Solutions

Sustained Implementation of enacted policies that protects the rights of the girl child by ensuring child marriage is a national priority.

Governments should put in place an enabling legal and policy environment to combat child marriage. As part of these efforts, they should invest in the development and implementation of statewide and national strategies, costed action plans and legislation to address child marriage.

Continental and regional bodies such as the African Union, ECOWAS and ECCAS should strengthen their efforts at regional and continental levels to end child marriage in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the AU Agenda 2063. Existing global, regional and national level accountability mechanisms need to be used by countries to monitor progress and accelerate efforts to end child marriage.

These actions are also included in the Dakar Outcome Document from the first-ever High-Level Meeting on Child Marriage that was held in Dakar in October 2017.

Focus on improving the availability of access to education for the girl-child especially in rural areas.

Education is a powerful way to prevent child marriage as girls’ education, is strongly associated with delays in age of marriage and this was further reinforced during the Summit on Education that was held in Dakar in February 2018. Education represents a positive alternative to child marriage.

UNICEF agrees that addressing sexual and reproductive health needs of all young people, including through comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services, can lead to significant reductions in unintended pregnancies. This underscores the importance of investing in quality education – for girls, as well as ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health information and services for young people in order to reduce child marriage.

In September 2020, the European Union and United Nations (EU-UN) Spotlight Initiative in collaboration with African Centre For Leadership, Strategy and Development organized a capacity building event in Sankwala and Becheve communities against sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices with a view to bringing to an end the practice of child marriage.

Speaking during the event, His Royal Majesty, Uchua Amos Item, paramount ruler in Obanliku local government area, said “In the case of eliminating money marriage, we started from the roots we have gone from complex to the simplest and we have succeeded. We have made reference to the council legislators to enact a bye-law binding that completely”.

Undoubtedly, effective collaboration with relevant stakeholders at all levels including traditional leaders to implement policies at local levels is key to effectively reach rural dwellers. As traditional leaders as gatekeepers at the community level, they play a vital role in both educating and enforcing local laws that will help to keep the practice of child marriage in check.

Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) education for men and women in rural communities should also be introduced to educate rural dwellers on the ills of poor menstrual practices which births infection and a host of other diseases. The trauma and psychological effects of menarche on the Nigerian child-bride cannot be overemphasized. Provisions should also be made of adequate and affordable sanitary wares for the rural woman.

The plague of the child-bride in the Nigerian state is one matter that deserves serious attention. Pledges and commitments are not enough. The government as a matter of National urgency should devise proven strategies to turning commitments into tangible actions to transform the lives of the girl-child by ending child marriage.

They can do this by building the skills and knowledge of girls at risk of child marriage; supporting households in impoverished suburbs and rural communities with relief aids; strengthening the systems that deliver services (education, health, protection, justice) to adolescent girls; ensuring laws and policies protect and promote adolescent girls’ rights; and generating and using robust data to inform programmes and policies relating to adolescent girls.

Eradicating the plague of child marriage in Nigeria is both possible, and attainable.

Countries such as Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Somalia and Bangladesh, have set a minimum age for marriage as 18, in the acknowledgment that there are serious social, physical and mental health risks associated with child marriages.

As the most populous black Nation on the face of the earth, Nigeria’s over 22 million child-brides deserve a change in their narratives, a chance to grow with dignity, a right to education, and a chance to live as free moral agents without the shackles of this modern-day slavery.

Perhaps Nigeria as the giant of Africa will take a cue from her sister Nations who succeeded in eliminating child marriage.

Iwunze is a WASH, Solutions and Data Photojournalist.

Vanguard News Nigeria

Nigeria’s child-brides need saving. Even though it is the 21st century where education and scientific advancements have changed the face of modern society, age-old customs and traditions continue to encourage the practice of child-marriage.

This is the story of Mrs. Silvia Ayapine, now 55. She lives in a small village called Akorshi-Uwe in Bendi 1, located across the mountains in the western part of Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River State.

Before she turned 12, Silvia was forced into a marriage. Refusal to get married to a man who was as old as her father could result in her being thrown out of the house. With no formal education, her parents considered investing in her welfare as a liability, thus the decision to get her married off


Half a century after Silva’s case, the situation has not changed for many. Despite the efforts of concerned human rights activists, non-governmental organizations, humanitarian bodies like UNICEF, Save the Children, Amnesty International, UN Women etc., and even the international community, the plague of child-marriage in Nigeria continues to gather momentum.

The story of Nigeria’s child-bride becomes further complicated when one considers the fact that in many parts of the country, the process of menstruation is met with hostility because of age-long taboos and myths. The associated stigma causes fright, confusion, and embarrassment. Unprepared girls feel embarrassed by their first experiences and are likely to develop negative attitudes towards menstruation.

If that is the story of the average woman and girl-child, imagine the experience of the girl-child who was a victim of child-marriage even before menarche (first menstruation experience). Silvia is one of such.

Silvia said, “I did not even know what it meant to be married. My husband had a mistress who he kept in the same house for months. All I cared about was to play with other children of my age under the moonlight till we were exhausted and slept in any corner of the room.”

Since she was still a child there were limitations to what work she could do for her husband and in-laws. She would usually accompany them to the farm, and roast yams over the fire so that the workers could eat after working.

Menarche

She recalls her first menstrual experience. “I was at the farm with my father in-law assisting with roasting yams when I noticed blood flow out from my private part. I was confused and afraid. So, I ran to my father in-law and told him what I had observed. He asked me, are you sure you are not injured since you play like a boy? I was sure I was not injured and told him so.

“Then he exclaimed, ‘oh my daughter it is time, you are finally ripe!’ I was confused and asked, Papa, what time? He replied, ‘my daughter you will not understand. Go home to your mother in-law but eat some yams before going.”

Eating yams was the last thing on her mind as she burst into tears and ran back home to get explanation from her mother in-law as to what the blood flow meant. Silvia continues, “After explaining what had happened to me in the farm, my mother in-law also exclaimed, ‘oh my daughter it is time, you are ripe!’ That response left me even more confused and devastated.”

That experience left a lasting scar on Silvia who keyed into the popular idea that menstruation was not a topic for public discussion, as she involuntarily took her place amongst millions of women who feel they are lower creatures because of the ‘curse’ of menstruation.

Not long afterward, when she was about 13 years old, she became pregnant. Her labor was a traumatic experience. She recalls, “One sunny afternoon, I was in the kitchen pounding yam and cooking soup when I went into forced labor. Thankfully, my mother in-law was at home and took me to the back of the kitchen where I delivered.

“Because the baby was so big and I was just a child, I had severe tears in my vagina as I struggled to push the baby out. The wounds I sustained took a long time to heal because sexual relations did not cease despite my wounds. My brother in-law was a medical doctor and tried his possible best to treat me.”

Obstetric fistula

Dr Emeka Uwah, a gynecologist and family physician describes Silvia’s experience during childbirth as a medical condition commonly referred to as obstetric fistula.

“In developed parts of the world, a woman with this kind of obstructed labour would be given a caesarean section, but in developing countries this may not be available. Consequently, the pressure of the baby’s head for an abnormally long time on the blood vessels supplying the tissue of the vagina, bladder, urethra and rectum cuts off the supply of oxygen (ischaemia) and leads to the death of the affected tissue (necrosis). The dead tissue then sloughs away, leaving a hole between adjacent organs.”

“It can lead to abnormal continual leakage of the contents of one organ into another organ or to the outside of the body. In this case, the continual leakage of urine and/or faeces,” he concludes.

Silvia also had nipple fissures, a condition where the nipples are irritated, cracked, or sore. Her nipples were mostly bleeding and there was not sufficient milk for the baby to suck. She breastfed the baby anyway since she had no alternatives. She was young and inexperienced, and she was just a child responsible for the life and care of yet another child.

Before she turned 18, Silvia already had three children and two miscarriages. Life was hard as a teenage mother, and she had an irresponsible husband who spent most of his time outside the house chasing after other women, and not providing for her materially.

“One day my father in-law called me and told me that I could return to my family if I wanted to since my husband was irresponsible and had abandoned his responsibilities towards me. He said he could not take me as his wife since I was already married to his son. He did not want me to put my life on hold,” Silvia recalls.

After spending a good part of her childhood and teenage years with a man who kept her as a sex machine for procreational purposes, she was finally free.

She wondered what she would do with her new-found freedom. If she had any goals or dreams to pursue as a child, they died the very day she was sold into this modern form of slavery. Her being deprived of formal education was even more so a greater barrier. In her own eyes, her worth was simply nothing.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the six years of President Muhammadu Buhari administration as the worst in Nigeria’s history as an independent, sovereign state.

The party stated this in its message to Nigerians ahead of the 61st independence anniversary.

Addressing newsmen at the party’s national headquarters, PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said the push by the Buhari-led administration “to sink our nation to the precipices is evident in our daily lives; the lies, injustices, violations, state-backed violence, impunity, nepotism, treasury looting, harsh economic policies and accommodation of terrorism, but our nation has continued to survive by the resilient spirit of Nigerians.”

Accusing the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government of making life difficult for Nigerians, the party expressed hope in the ability of the country to bounce back stronger.

He said: “It is painful that all the gains made by our nation since independence in 1960 and especially during the 16 years of the PDP in office, including the entrenchment of national unity and cohesiveness, freedom and personal liberty of citizens, rule of law, credible elections, justice, equity, fairness and economic progress; the very elements of an independent state, have all been reversed by the APC and the Buhari Presidency.

“The Buhari Presidency and the APC have on all fronts taken our nation back to the pre-independence days with associated bondage mentality and frustration resulting in many losing faith in the system and leaving our country in droves within the last six years.

“Is it not an irony that our nation is celebrating independence in the face of subverted elections, brazen crackdown on the opposition and dissenting voices as well as other suppressive acts including the muzzling of free speech as witnessed in the ban on Twitter in Nigeria?

“Is it not also an irony that as we celebrate independence, thousands of our compatriots are falling victims to extra-judicial killings, arbitrary arrests and illegal detention in dehumanizing cells; which underscore the horrible situation under President Buhari and the APC, as even profiled by reputable international organizations including Amnesty International (AI) and US Department of State?

“How can we celebrate when the APC government has no answers to the murdering of our youths by security operatives as witnessed in the EndSARS protest killings of 2020 and, where those who demand for accountability in governance are being hounded, harassed and framed?

“Is it not painful that under President Buhari, our nation has been opened up to terrorists, bandits and kidnappers, who are wantonly killing our citizens while their known apologists are enjoying official cover with one of them even holding office as cabinet minister?

“The PDP holds as unpardonable that President Buhari has failed to secure our nation. In spite of the genuine suggestions by patriotic Nigerians including the PDP, his administration has remained lethargic and assuming a helpless situation.

“Nevertheless, our party celebrates our gallant troops who are making huge sacrifices to defend our nation, despite the daunting challenges they face.

“On the economy front, how can we celebrate when President Buhari and the APC have in a space of six years, wrecked our once robust economy and turned Nigeria into the poverty capital of the world, where over 82.9 million Nigerians can no longer afford their daily meals.

“How can we celebrate when the APC has plunged our nation into economic slavery with over N33.1 trillion accumulated debt, a 33 per cent unemployment rate, collapse of productive sectors and a weakened naira from the N167 to a dollar handed over to President Buhari in 2015 to a dismal N576 to a dollar today?

“Instead of ending its corruption and seeking ways to revamp the economy, the Buhari administration is busy doctoring the books with false indices that have no bearing of any sort to the harsh reality on the ground.

“Indeed, this is not the way to go. The incontrovertible truth is that there is no hope in sight under the APC and that is why there are no drums on the streets to celebrate Nigeria at 61.

“If anything, Nigerians are using the occasion of the 61st independence anniversary to further strengthen their resolve to take back their country from the stranglehold of the APC, come 2023.

“The PDP appreciates the confidence reposed on our party by Nigerians to lead the charge to rescue our nation in 2023. Our party acknowledges the flurry of goodwill and solidarity messages coming from Nigerians across board as further demonstrated in the massive interest by citizens in our ongoing registration exercise.

“The PDP congratulates Nigerians on the nation’s 61st independence anniversary and urges them to use this year’s occasion to further consolidate on our unity and resilience for the task ahead”.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/nigeria-at-61-buhari-led-govt-worst-in-nations-history-%E2%80%95-pdp/amp/

Pmedia7787:
cure yourself

first, field datas dont lie

Ok.
You can use your FBI stats.

Pmedia7787:
Just as seen

Lagos ,is about 3 times of kano, and kano itself is just about a few thousand above ibadan

But the stats according to our homes sources are different
I was on fbi page some times ago , providing infos about kano and ibadan
Which turned out to be same in population with ibadan having more roads and houses .than kano

The question is,why does the bereau Of statistics tell us a different story here

I was doing some marketing research when I saw this...so this isn't some tribal bashing

Visit Kano... Cure ignorance...

Loverofpeace:
Look at how they opened up his head probably with an axe or pump action ,if you are not new to seeing pictures of those killed in Kaduna and benue you should be able to know which terrorist group kills people this way,of course they are those Mass muderers from the sahel God judgement will soon come upon them..

If the mass murderers from the sahel are on the streets of Biafra, then Biafra is doom assured.

…Says country on life support


Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom has declared that all was not well with the country, stressing that those who believe in the contrary were simply deceiving themselves.

Dr. Ortom, who spoke while paying a condolence visit to the family members of the late Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, said Nigeria is on life support.

The governor extolled the virtues of the late consummate writer and technocrat in standing up for justice and truth.

According to him, “Dr Mailafia was fearless and he stood on the side of the truth. As the Bible says, ‘You should know the truth and the truth shall set you free.’ Our brother stood for truth and justice.

“Anyone saying that all is well in Nigeria is just deceiving himself. Nigeria is on life support. Nigerians have never been divided as it is today.

“Let everyone know that Nigeria is greater than any person. Nigeria is greater than all of us. We must team up and work. We must combine our faith in Nigeria with work in order to salvage our nation from those who seek to destroy it. Refusing to combine our faith with work is akin to pumping a punctured tyre.”

He stressed further that, “We are here to pay our respects to Dr. Mailafia and console the family. We appreciate God for giving us Mailafia and for all he did in his life time.

“Dr Mailafia lived a worthy life, and we are happy the Almighty God spared his life to enable him achieved what he was able to.

“The actions and memories he left behind shall ever remain alive. We the living shall forever continue to cherish his principles and the indefatigable spirit he demonstrated throughout his life time,”

Governor Ortom has bad news for those celebrating the death of the former CBN Deputy Governor: “Those who are celebrating his death are lying. What Dr Mailafia did in life will continue to germinate and bear fruits for many years to come. We appreciate him and thank God for his.

“I stand with Dr Mailafia even in his death. I appreciate his principles, and though dead, we shall continue with the struggle.

“I encourage our mother to be strong. When our time has come, there is nothing on earth that can stop it. Be strong in the Lord and know that “all things worketh together for good for those that are called by God,” Ortom consoled the bereaved family.

Welcoming Ortom to the Mailafia’s’ home, the National President of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Dr Pogu Bitrus, appreciated the governor for finding time out of his busy schedules to pay a condolence visit to the family Dr Mailafia who was one of Nigeria’s distinguished elder statesman and prominent son of the Middle Belt Region.

Members of the bereaved family who received the governor included the widow, Mrs Margaret Mailafia and some of the sibling of the former CBN Deputy Governor. They included Dr. Luka Mailafia; Professor Samuel Mailafia and Barr Abel Mailafia.

https://www-vanguardngr-com.cdn.ampproject.org/wp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/dont-deceive-yourself-its-not-well-with-nigeria-ortom/amp/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D

MOVES by the Senate to provide the legal framework for the empowerment and provision of jobs for poor Nigerians, got a boost Wednesday, as a bill to that effect scaled second reading in the Senate.

The Senate today considered a bill seeking to empower poor Nigerians in rural areas with guaranteed income and jobs that would provide 100 days of paid work per year.

The Rural Employment Guarantee Bill, 2021 was sponsored by Senator Mohammed Sani Musa, APC, Niger East.

The President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan thereafter, referred the bill to the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development for further work after passing second reading.

The Committee which is chaired by Senator Abdullahi Adamu was given four weeks to report back to the Senate.

In his lead debate on the general principles of the Bill, Senator Musa explained that the bill among others, essentially seeks to provide livelihood security in rural communities by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult member volunteer do skilled manual work.

According to him, the bill when passed into law would empower rural poor through the processes of a rights-based Law; ensure a strong social safety net for vulnerable groups; strengthen the natural resource base of rural livelihood; and serve as a model of governance reform anchored on the principles of transparency and grass root democracy.

He added that the National Rural Employment Guarantee bill aims to reduce poverty by providing extra work for those who need it, while also providing empowerment and insurance when other sources of work dry up.

Citing the Poor Employment Act of 1817 in Britain, and the New Deal Programs in the United States in the 1930s, Senator Musa explained that the piece of legislation was similarly intended to be an intervention that makes government an employer of last resort.

He noted that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development would monitor the implementation of the scheme in association with state governments.

Contributing to the debate, Senator Smart Adeyemi, APC, Kogi West who threw his weight behind the passage of the bill into law, said that having agencies backed by law to oversee the implementation of such schemes for the poor would ensure that they are not abused.

He said, “In our nation today, Mr. President, most of these palliatives that the present government has put in place has been abused, because you have a situation where names are duplicated.
“It is even difficult for you to know those who are benefiting.

“The bill my brother is seeking, is for us to have a formal agency for social security that will take care of all employment problems and even health problems of people who are not gainfully employed. It must be holistic.

“This bill is good, the intention is good, but I think this bill must go further to make it a holistic solution to the problem of unemployment in our nation, so that it is not abused, and so that in every local government in Nigeria, you have an agency in charge that will take care of unemployment of our people.

“In having the law, we must also have the punitive measures in place for those who would abuse it, so that people will know that this bill is intended to alleviate the suffering of people, and by extension, Mr. President, guarantee security of our nation.

“Most of the people who are into crime today, is out of frustration of unemployment. We have a large number of people who are unemployed.

“Today, we have up to two hundred universities and polytechnics producing graduates.

“So, I think we must advise our government. Progressive as this government is to palliatives, let us formalize these palliative measures by having a social security agency in every local government of Nigeria, and let us put a law in place to make sure that nobody abuses it.”

Kobojunkie:
1. Sure, Crime can be seen that way and society rightly has punishments for those. That is no reason to then impede on the freedoms of people. We have laws in place so those who try impose their will and freedoms illegally on others are punished.

2. There is absolutely no relationship between Salvation and man's idea of morality.

1. I don't understand.

2. WOW! I give up.

Kobojunkie:
1. Wrong! No one who Hears the Truth of Jesus Christ will twist His Truth in order to justify a falsehood.

In Matthew 13, Jesus Christ told Parable after Parable, explaining the Kingdom of God and what it is like to His followers. The Parable of the precious Pearl in Matthew 13 vs 44 - 46 , He told to explain that only those who sell all they have - abandon all their earthly treasures- can obtain the treaure that is Heaven.

Jesus Christ never considered a woman a treasure of any kind, not even to be compared to Heaven. Any woman who desires to be compared to a pearl probably does not need Jesus Christ but instead should need visit a psychiatrist, or better yet, adopt a belief that fills her head with such lies and deceit. For you see in Jesus Christ, there are no such things as virtuous women or chaste or the lot that men care about. There are only Children of God and every single one of them serves God and God alone.

2. Jesus Christ was clear that women were equal to men. He came to redeem mankind, even women, from the curse God placed on the in Genesis 3 vs 16, declaring that a woman is to be ruled over by her husband. So in Jesus Christ, a woman redeemed from the curse is equal to man, just as Jesus Christ made clear. It is the cultures and beliefs of men that compare women to animals and that has absolutely nothing to do with God.

The writer is wrong for attempting to twist lies into God’s word, commit an abomination against God, in order to justify her argument against the ideas of men.- Matthew 15 vs 1 - 14.

3. In Western culture that I know of, women are instead equally allowed to each chose their own part based on their individual beliefs instead. What you term moral decay is instead someone's freedom revealed. That a woman is for instance, free and chooses a life of prostitution, is her exercising her freedom as an equal member of society.

Jesus Christ did not come to condemn the world. He didn't send anyone of His to sit as judge against those who are of the world, who refuse to follow Him. He instead came to save those who will obey Him.

4. Your "moral values" have absolutely nothing to do with Jesus Christ though you pretend it does. Twisting the word of God in order to further a lie in the name of Jesus Christ is all you are attempting to do here, and nothing else.

Crime has no meaning?

Armed Robbers, Murderers, Bandits, Kidnappers, Unknown Gunmen etc are also exercising their freedom as equal members of a society.

Is there any relationship between Morality and salvation?

[46:13] Al-Aḥqāf-الْأَحْقَاف
"اِنَّ الَّذِیۡنَ قَالُوۡا رَبُّنَا اللّٰہُ ثُمَّ اسۡتَقَامُوۡا فَلَا خَوۡفٌ عَلَیۡہِمۡ وَ لَا ہُمۡ یَحۡزَنُوۡنَ ﴿ۚ۱۳﴾

Surely, those who say: ‘Allah is our Lord,’ then hold fast (to it) have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve.[/size][size=8pt]

Seconded.

fadal:
quran verse

Jazakallahu Khairan.

RightChannel:
Don't tell it was allah that directed you to the wrong path here

"Prove that there are more Afgans/Muslims in America or the West than there are in Afganistans or any Muslim country for that matter.

I am waiting..."

If the answer I gave here doesn't suit your ignorant question above, that means it is finish for you


Total population of Afghans in US as at 2019 was 156,434 while total number of Afghans in Qatar which is a Muslim country is 3,500.. Can you subtract 3,500 from 156,434?

The population of Afghans in US predominantly (Majority) are Sunni islam in a country that's not an Islamic state. They ought to run to Qatar since the state is for Islam to enjoy Shari'a Laws

But wait, are you not in cordial relationship with google.com? Stop disgracing Islam here please now

I am too big and too busy for your shenanigans.

Afterall, no be by force to teach you.

Continue basking in your arrogance.

I don goooooo!

RightChannel:
That is why you need to enrol back to primary school [/b]of your choice because I don't know [b]how you manage to Cross to secondary school with this level of your knowledge..

Clearly you have a complex problem.

Stop feeling inferior before me. I won't judge you by your inferiority.

Just feel free, to learn from me.

mhmsadyq:
Ok.

This is what it should be:

Prove that there are more Afganistan Muslims in USA than there are in Afganistan.
Then i will agree Muslims are running to the West.

RightChannel:
Total population of Afghans in US as at 2019 was 156,434 while total number of Afghans in Qatar which is a Muslim country is 3,500.. Can you subtract 3,500 from 156,434?

The population of Afghans in US predominantly (Majority) are Sunni islam in a country that's not an Islamic state. They ought to run to Qatar since the state is for Islam to enjoy Shari'a Laws


You don start again stop disgracing Islam here please.

Compare question and answer again.

RightChannel:
I asked you to name segregated schools in US, look at your blunders

In Nigeria:

St Finbarr's College
King's College
Queen's College
St Andrew's Secondary School
St Mary's Catholic Model School
St Peter's Secondary School and more....

Nigeria is US right? I am an ingrate for open wide your understanding?

Wetin you dey find go USA dey for Nigeria .

If you know you know. QED.

RightChannel:
Total population of Afghans in US as at 2019 was 156,434 while total number of Afghans in Qatar which is a Muslim country is 3,500.. Can you subtract 3,500 from 156,434?

The population of Afghans in US predominantly (Majority) are Sunni islam in a country that's not an Islamic state. They ought to run to Qatar since the state is for Islam to enjoy Shari'a Laws

Wetin dem ask you, wetin you dey answer?
Fail!

This question pass your level.

No wahala sha.

I go ask another trinitarian.

RightChannel:
After your brain was resets I should say thank you right? You funny ooo upon all your blunders

I will take this to mean you are an ingrate.

Anyways, i am not surprised.

RightChannel:
Now that you've listed many schools in US, which of them enforce the compulsory use of hijab because I'm heading to somewhere ?

Christians don't put on the hijab nah.

RightChannel:
This is your question, did you understand this your own question at all?

Prove that there are more Afgans/Muslims in America or the West than there are in Afganistans or any Muslim country for that matter.

I picked US as a Western country and Qatar as an Islamic country, so what else again

Ok.

This is what it should be:

Prove that there are more or Afganistan Muslims in USA than there are in Afganistan.
Then i will agree Muslims are running to the West.

RightChannel:
Your brain is coming back gradually to its senses, soon you will get to know where I am heading to

You no even get courtesy to say thank you.

You wey no fit define segregated schools after several plea from, na im no where him dey go? Lies!

Take another look at these:

a segregated school system
2. restricted to one group, esp. exclusively on the basis of racial or ethnic membership.

segregated education
4. discriminating against a group, esp. on the basis of race.

They will give you an idea where and how segregated schools came about.

RightChannel:

Yes it is, do you know there are segregated schools in America too or you want to be a hypocrite?

Muslims are not filthy like you lots, we believe in a segregated society which protects women!

Oga, these aren't my words.

RightChannel:
In your own mosque, your Alfas, Imams, gathered you to brainwashed you by telling you to always use question to answer question right? You never listed segregated schools in US but asking me another question. Meanwhile, you started this from the on-set, after you put shame on yourself and Islam as a whole you are now looking for how to cover up your shame..

Shey King's college and Queen's college are segregated schools in US? Please don't hesitate to enrol back to Primary school of your choice..

Secondly, you said I should Prove that there are more Afgans/Muslims in America or the West than there are in Afganistans or any Muslim country for that matter.

You have put Nigeria just because of the results I gave you earlier simply because you're not happy that you have more Muslims in US than Qatar that happens to be an Islamic country. Continue disgracing yourself as I don't care


Even from the pronouncements, SINGLE-SEX, You that don't even know the meaning of single-sex will know the meaning of segregation YOU ARE RIGHT Mr man, infact and indeed you're on track hope you will allow me to rest?

Why not use the effort to type the definition of Segregated School?

Are all the Muslims in America Qataris?

You are running from the inevitable. I think i should help from the circle.

segregated
in American English
(ˈseɡrɪˌɡeitɪd)
ADJECTIVE
1. characterized by or practicing racial segregation

a segregated school system
2. restricted to one group, esp. exclusively on the basis of racial or ethnic membership

segregated neighborhoods
3. maintaining separate facilities for members of different, esp. racially different, groups

segregated education
4. discriminating against a group, esp. on the basis of race

a segregated economy
5. set apart


List of schools founded as segregation academies Edit
School State Est. Ref.

Abbeville Christian Academy Alabama 1970 [47]
Autauga Academy Alabama 1969 [48]
Bessemer Academy Alabama 1969 [49]
Central Alabama Academy Alabama 1970 [48][49]
Chambers Academy Alabama 1969 [49]
Clarke Preparatory School Alabama 1970 [50][49]

Coosa Valley Academy Alabama 1972 [49]
Dixie Academy Alabama 1967 [49]
Edgewood Academy Alabama 1967 [51][52]
Escambia Academy Alabama 1970 [53]
Eclectic Academy Alabama 1972 [49]
Grove Hill Academy Alabama 1970 [49]
Houston Academy Alabama 1970 [54]
Indian Springs School Alabama 1952 [55]
Inglenook Academy Alabama 1970 [49]
John T. Morgan Academy Alabama 1965 [56]
Lowndes Academy Alabama 1966 [57]

Saint James School Alabama 1955 [62]
South Choctaw Academy Alabama 1969 [47]
Springwood School Alabama 1970 [63]
Sumter Academy Alabama 19 [64]

Trinity Presbyterian School Alabama 1970 [65]
Tuscaloosa Academy Alabama 1967 [66][67][68]
Wilcox Academy Alabama 1970 [69]
Bellaire Academy Arkansas 1970 [70]
Central Arkansas Christian School Arkansas 1970 [71][39]
Central Baptist Academy Arkansas 1970 [39]
Edgewood Academy Arkansas 1970 [70]
England Academy Arkansas 1970 [70]
Hughes Academy Arkansas 1971 [39]
Jefferson Preparatory Academy Arkansas 1971 [72]
Marvell Academy Arkans

RightChannel:
The question I asked you says

Name three segregated schools in American that even enforce the use of hijab if any

But your response goes thus:

In Nigeria:

St Finbarr's College
King's College
Queen's College
St Andrew's Secondary School
St Mary's Catholic Model School
St Peter's Secondary School and more....

So Nigeria is now American? you need sense here

After realising you made mistake, you came up with this question


Prove that there are more Afgans/Muslims in America or the West than there are in Afganistans or any Muslim country for that matter.

This is the answer I gave to this question, I expect you to refute if I am lying

For Muslims in USA is 3.3 Millions and For Muslims in Qatar is 1.17 Millions see the differences. Why are they not running to Islamic countries rather choose Western countries? The reason is because of Sharia Laws

I gave US and Qatar which happens to be an Islamic state as reference

You went further asking me same question just to cover up your shame

What is your definition of segregated school?
What is the difference between segregated and single sex education?
What is wrong with segregated school?
Are special schools segregated schools?
What is right with single sex education?

This is my answer

A typical slave!


Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education and gender-isolated education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in separate buildings or schools. while school segregation has often assumed that social interaction takes place, there were few quantitative studies on how students actually interact in school because direct information on social interactions will often not be available

But because of the level of your understanding, you kept asking me same question

I gave you this with a picture of a segregated class room

The only solution to your problem is to go back to Pry school.. The segregated classroom picture that I sent to you does it look like Single sex classroom? Can't you see male and female students separately seated in the same classroom? I don't think I can still help you further from here but please, go back to Primary school

Therefore, I don't know how I can further help you that is why I told you to go back to primary school which you accepted here

I shall consider your advice. Thank you.

BUT YOU KEPT ASKING SAME QUESTIONS WHICH I'M FED UP ANSWERING, so I wave you goodbye here

How many times am I going to give you the definition? Instead of disgracing yourself and the entire islam, make use of google please.. I sent you a picture of segregated classroom so as to help your understanding but still you have problem to comprehend. WHO DO YOU LIKE THIS? You took single-sex education as the same as segregated classroom, I don't know how many times I am going to correct you on this as well.

Thank you for consider my advice to go back to Primary school, on this note I say good-bye and do have a nice time while back in primary school

Islam has cause you great damages beyond control and unrepairable.


TAKE CARE AND BYE FOR NOW

The time and efforts you used to copy and paste these irrelevant rhetorics, could have been used to answer my questions nah.

These are the questions again:

If King's College, an all boys school can be tens and in some cases hundreds of kilometres away from Queen's College, an all girls school is not segregation to you, how then is a curtain partition between adults male and female in the same school, same class and same teacher a segregation.

Prove that there are more Nigerian or Afganistan Muslims in USA than there are in Nigeria or Afganistan.
Then i will agree Muslims are running to the West.

If i call single-sex education; gender segregated education, who says i am wrong?

What is wrong about your segregated school?

Are special schools segregated schools?


If only you can answer my questions, you go know whether Nigeria na America.

No wahala. I am very patient.

Waiting...

MaxInDHouse:
Even Judas Iscariot who stole money that was given to Jesus and his disciples never ran mad!

LNGKMD!

RightChannel:
How many times am I going to give you the definition? In[b]stead of disgracing yourself and the entire islam, [/b]make use of google please.. I sent you a picture of segregated classroom so as to help your understanding but still you have problem to comprehend. WHO DO YOU LIKE THIS? You took single-sex education as the same as segregated classroom, I don't know how many times I am going to correct you on this as well.

Thank you for consider my advice to go back to Primary school, on this note I say good-bye and do have a nice time while back in primary school

LNGKMD!

I don't think bullying can help you either.

You are only expanding the questions with your irrelevances.

Still on the unanswered question by you:


If King's College, an all boys school can be tens and in some cases hundreds of kilometres away from Queen's College, an all girls school is not segregation to you, how then is a curtain partition between adults male and female in the same school, same class and same teacher a segregation?

You are only expanding the questions with youe irrelevances.

Still on the unanswered questions by you:

Prove that there are more Nigerian or Afganistan Muslims in USA than there are in Nigeria or Afganistan.
Then i will agree Muslims are running to the West.

If i call single-sex education; gender segregated education, who says i am wrong?

What is wrong about your segregated school?

Are special schools segregated schools?



If you admit you don't know, i can gladly help you!

RightChannel:
The only solution to your problem is to go back to Pry school.. The segregated classroom picture that I sent to you does it look like Single sex classroom? Can't you see male and female students separately seated in the same classroom? I don't think I can still help you further from here but please, go back to Primary school

I shall consider your advice. Thank you.

I did not ask you for a picture, i want a definition of Segregated School.

You didn't answer any of my questions, yet you kept calling me daft as if that can confer intelligence on you.

Now, If you don't see anything wrong with single gender segregated schools like Methodist Boys High School etc. How is a partition between male and female in the same classroom [/b]a problem to you?
I can understand; your love for christians and your [b]hate for the Muslims

Again my unanswered questions:

Prove that there are more Nigerian or Afganistan Muslims in USA than there are in Nigeria or Afganistan.
Then i will agree Muslims are running to the West.

If i call single-sex education; gender segregated education, who says i am wrong?

What is wrong about your segregated school?

Are special schools segregated schools?


I hope you will help this time and not Wail over my questions.

This one na mad person nah.
Hope you are not mocking her condition?
May God heal her!

RightChannel:
Earlier I said you're daft but you admitted that you're not that daft but little daft. I asked you to name three segregated schools in American that even enforce the use of hijab if any but you came up with Single sex education as if segregated school is the same as single sex school.. I don't know how to help you again maybe you should go and help yourself

Below is a picture of segregated classroom maybe you will understand better cos I don't know how to help you further from this your absurd conditions. Thank you

Though you haven't still define segregated school.

But kindly help me with answers.
Thank you.

If i call single-sex education gender segregated education, who says i am wrong?

What is wrong about your segregated school?

Are special schools segregated schools?

RightChannel:
A typical slave!


Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education and gender-isolated education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in separate buildings or schools. while school segregation has often assumed that social interaction takes place, there were few quantitative studies on how students actually interact in school because direct information on social interactions will often not be available.

I still can't see you definition of segregated school.

If i call single-sex education gender segregated education, who says i am wrong?

What is wrong about your segregated school?

Are special schools segregated schools?