₦airaland Forum

Abagworo:
The guy did nothing other than paint himself and Igbos in bad light as secessionist when we are not. Societal failures look for non-existent factors to blame just like the fool with Biafran flag in a decent society. I'm glad his fellow Igbos beat him silly and disgraced him out.

That decent society called UK is holding yet another referendum to offer British people the chance to decide if they want to remain in the European Union or Exit.


That same decent British society recently conducted a referendum for the people of Scotland to decide if the want to remain in UK or Exit.


Meanwhile, Biafrans should die in silence. Biafrans will not be tolerated as Buhari says, so he sends the Army to murder thousands of armless protesters.

Can u see why Nnamdi refered to the like of u as Zooogerians and Nigeria a Zoo?

jonnieoneng:
I feel very sorry for u and your likes.Ur fathers be4 u made some wrong choices.Ur generation have now carried the wrong choice to an exponential level.The only sensible one amongst Igbos in person in person of Rochas Okorocha is being humiliated by his own people publicly.He happens to be the only acceptable Igbo man dat the rest of Nigeria can vote for as President.U can continue humiliating him.U're only passing on Igbo's chance at d Presidency.

We happily waka and pass una illiterate Nigeria presidency institution but not our right to self determination. That is not negotiable.

checkolatunji:
Did I hear you say "Our Oil Wealth?" OLE na hin you be. since when SS oil don become SE oil?

1. Tell me which SE state is currently producing oil?

2. When your so called Biafra hero contested for president, did you foolish followers vote him?

Oloshi, Oyinara, Ewu

The oil u are stealing is Igbo, Ijaw,Ogoni, Ibibio oil.

usmyak:
I thought the igbos are about progress , not known that they are just cash and carry bunch of idiot. Except a few that I can call intellectuals e.g ken Nnamani, Rochas,Ngige and co.

And they all happen to be APC members. Daft!

Demslayers:
Illiterate ipob tout.

Bros, if am IPOB then the whole igbos are IPOB.

Y insult and fight with me, wen u can easily go ur own way?

I never knew Niggas are like bitches until now.

Many People will die, but ultimately we will all go our ways, as it was before the arrival of the British.


#stop the homosexuality mentality, we were not created together.

dunkem21:
Hey, dem go ban you o

Dat person must go chatham house to ban the protester.

AntiMahdi:
In 2015, there were 4,028 killings and 198 church attacks that Open Doors was able to record. The figures recorded for the previous year were 2,484 killings and 108 church attacks.

The murders are not done without reason. In one of the cases, it is acknowledged that after marryng off the child, they made attempts to murder her parents. #

mbatuku1: 12:24pm
I really wish I can help free these girls. I don't want to live in a society where insanities like these occur with impunity.

Seun, lalasticlala did u hear dat?

mbatuku1:
Islam is just one religion that should be obliterated from this world before the next decade. What a religion that encourages perpetrators of crimes against humanity.

Aisha was married off as an underage girl to Mohammed. it's funny how they name all these kidnapped minors Aisha.

The truth is that since the redeem pastor daughter case and the inability of GEJ to demand the child should be returned to her parents, led to these other cases.

GEJ should just stand aside in 2019, he is too sluggish for presidency. There comes a time, u put your foot down and demand justice even if the sky will fall.

See the way God works, they went to his state to take Ese, becos as President wen a case was reported to him, he did nothing. He was not effective. A girl under captivity, fear and hypnotism was speaking and GEJ accepted. Y not order the girl to be brought to Aso Rock or repatriated to East, as was done for Ese? U would have heard something different.

mbatuku1:
Why most Ibo girls?

There are majority Northern Christian minority but i focused on the Christian southerners. The police must do more to return the children to their parents.

They should carry out investigation becos young girls is the reason for the attack. They like to murder parents and steal theirr young daughters.

The murders know exactly wat they are doing, it is not senseless or without purpose.

Vado:
This thread is rich in content. I see no reason why it shouldn't hit fp for better discussions.

Nairaland has an exclusive here, this is what legislators want, idea and intellectualism. No stone were left unturned here. I did not want to write for sahara reporters, sun or vanguard this time, as a nairalander of old.

drss:
dis kind thread no dey make fp

U dont know anything. U give up even before a fight. Dont make me call u name.

Seun and lalasticlala,this is a very serious issue and we must not rest until it is properly addressed to safeguard the rights of the girl child. Crime cannot be accepted as religion.


Our silence is consent and suffering for little 5 to 15 year old children. We have been silence for too long and that is why they went to School to abduct the girl child in Chibok, which drew the world attention. Rape of a child is the worst crime in the human race. The children are our future.

[size=14pt]History[/size]


In 1999, Twelve Nigeria's states that have Sunni Islam as the dominant religion chose to have Sharia courts as well as Customary courts.[2]
The following states that have instituted Sharia are: Zamfara State (January 27, 2000), Kano State (June 21, 2000), Sokoto State, Katsina State, Bauchi State (June 2001), Borno State, Jigawa State, Kebbi State, Yobe State, Kaduna State, Niger State (May 4, 2000), and Gombe State.

[size=14pt] Jurisdictional errors[/size]

The institution of Sharia as a main body of civil and criminal law violates the Constitution of Nigeria.


The Sharia Court of Appeals recognized as a federal court of appeals (the Unified Courts System), is the most controversial of the judicial system. The Sharia Court of Appeals reviews cases involving Sharia law, particularly in the North and Northeast regions of the country.

However, this has caused controversy because while the Sharia Court of Appeals interprets and reviews cases relating to Islamic law, they must also interpret the common and customary laws of the other regions of Nigeria.

In doing so, the Sharia Court exceeds its jurisdiction under the constitutional law which give federal and state governments various powers. It undermines the principles of separation of powers and the two level federal system of government in which an overarching national government governs issues that affect the entire country, and smaller subdivisions govern issues of local concern.


The Sharia Court going outside state powers and local confines is striking down federal law, on the grounds that it exceeded the Constitutional authority of National Assembly.


[size=14pt]Cases and Controversy[/size]

Ese Oruru v Sharia Hisbah Commission

Ese Oruru was taken away by one Yunusa Dahiru from her home in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State to Kano in August 2015 while she was still 13 years old and without the knowledge of her parents. While in Kano she was forced into marriage, converted to Islam and her name changed to Aisha.For months, efforts by the young girl’s parents to get their child back from Yunusa and the Kanohe District head of Kura, Sharia Hisbah Commission proved abortive, no action was taken until media attention was drawn to it. Ese held at the Palace of the Emir of Kano was discovered to be 5 months Pregnant after eight months captitity.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/my-role-on-ese-orurus-abduction-saga-emir-of-kano-2/

Rita Chinedu Ukeje V Sharia

Madam Jessy Ukeje, a 77-year-old grandmother from Eluoma Uzuakoli in Bende Local government area of Abia State, is in pains her granddaughter was given out in marriage by a top official of Zaria City Local Government area, without the consent of her family.Rita, an SS 3 student of Top Spring Secondary School, Zaria, Kaduna State, was abducted by a commercial bus driver, called Usman, who held her captive in his home, denying her the chance of sitting for the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) she had enrolled for.

Few weeks later, she stated, the council chief, who took her to his home and promised to make her available for settlement with the family, allegedly gave her out in marriage to Usman. The incident happened in Damagaji area of Zaria in Kaduna State, even as every effort made by the family to rescue the teenage girl from the clutches of her abductors have met with stiff resistance from the kidnappers. They took her into captivity after undergoing their Muslim rituals of bathing and feeding her with concoction as a way of turning her into a Muslim.

Then, they gave her to somebody to marry without the consent and knowledge of her parents. This is certainly against religion and against tradition

Mama Jessy, who could not hold back tears while narrating the abduction of the girl in her house in Eluoma Uzuakoli, alleged further that the girl’s abductors are after Rita’s mother, Joy Ihedinma Ukeje, for insisting that Rita must be sent back to her. She alleged that they had been sending assassins to her, forcing her to quickly run back to Uzuakoli from Zaria after several attempts on her life.

http://www.sunnewsonline.ng/another-15-year-old-girl-rita-chinedu-ukeje-abducted-given-out-in-marriage-by-islamists/


Ifeoma Nichodemus v he Sharia Court Kaduna

IFEOMA, now Aisha, is the daughter of Mr. Ndubuisi Nichodemus. She was living with her parents, in the midst of the Hausa community in Zaria, Kaduna State, until May, 2014. On that fateful evening, Ifeoma had left the house in protest against the authority of her moth­er to question her for returning late to the house on the day. She simply walked out of her parents’ compound into a neighbour’s house, and since 21 months ago to be precise, the family is yet to set their eyes on her. Ifeoma, now 16, have been converted to Islam and married off. The Sharia Court handling the mat­ter keeps adjourning the case and as a result, we are still where we were last year”
Speaking during an interview then, Ndubuisi Nichodemus, resident of Sabon-Gari, Zaria, Kaduna State, who appealed to the authorities concerned, to help rescue his daughter, allegedly in the custody of another man since 2014, said her daughter had come home late on that fateful day and felt, as responsible par­ents, she should be scolded

http://www.sunnewsonline.ng/father-of-igbo-girl-abducted-in-zaria-cries-out-says-i-want-my-daughter-back/

Charity v Sharia Court Minna

MINNA—MISS Charity (Aisha) Uzoechina, the lady that was allegedly forced to convert to Islam and kept in the palace of Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, for the past four months, will remain with the monarch until September 17. Charity cannot be released by the Emir to either the parents or anybody until the case instituted by Charity is vacated by the Sharia court in Bida, Niger State. The Sharia court kept adjourning the case the lawyer who handles her controversial case in Sharia court makes arrangement to marry her without the consent of her parents, but the Niger state Government called it off.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/charity-uzoechina-to-remain-with-etsu-nupe-till-sept-17/


Blasphemy and apostasy
A Sharia court may treat blasphemy as deserving of several punishments up to, and including, execution. In many predominantly Muslim states, conversion from Islam to another religion is illegal and often a capital offence.

In 2014 a Nigerian man, Mubarak Bala was forcibly committed to a psychiatric institution in Kano for eighteen days, where he was forcibly drugged after stating that he was an atheist. The International Humanist and Ethical Union took up the case, stating that Bala's human rights were violated.


Riots
There have been numerous riots over the implementation of sharia law, primarily involving non-Muslim minorities in the states which implemented the system. One such riot killed over 100 people in October 2001 in Kano State.


Executions

In 2002, the first execution of a man under Sharia took place in Katsina State; Human Rights Watch condemned the execution.



[size=14pt]The Supreme Court Solution via Judicial Review [/size]

The Supreme Court uphold and declared Sharia Court to be ultra vires in a narrow or broad sense. Narrow ultra vires applies if an administrator did not have the substantive power to make a decision or it was wrought with procedural defects.

Broad ultra vires applies if there is an abuse of power (e.g.,unreasonableness or bad faith) or a failure to exercise an administrative discretion (e.g., acting at the behest of another or unlawfully applying a sectional policy) or application of discretionary powers in irrational and wrong way.[5] Either doctrine may entitle a claimant to various prerogative writs, equitable remedies or statutory orders if they are satisfied.

Kidnap is a very serious offence and when it is done for sexual gratification, it is a heinous crime. The Sharia court is a form of customary court to the North. In that sense, it has no jurisdiction to hear cases of people not part of that culture. It is like a Igbo customary court hearing the case of a Yoruba, claiming they have converted to Igbo.

Custom refers to origin and ancestral linage, if a person does not have their roots in islam then Sharia court has no grounds to hold or hear the case. The Sharia system was introduced for people who customarily have followed the religion of islam.

It is illegal and unconstitutional to steal peoples child and claim forced conversion to islam, as a bases to Ra.pe and forced marriage/ conversion to islam, without any form of consent. Whilst handing out death sentence to Muslim that desire to convert to Christianity freely without abduction or coercion.


Why drag us Christian southerners into uncivilised and criminal customs? Why are u stealing our children and raping them? Is sharing a country a crime? Can u not face and marry your muslim children?

wen will media abuse end.

Dangote said the gas project from the South East to Western Nigeria would extend to Ghana, and would go a long way in addressing the energy needs of industries within the region, particularly those under the Dangote Group.

Which south east? Is it south east Kano?

Which gas is he sending to SW and Ghana? Dangote have started taking drugs!

Dey better do the feasibility study of an under water militant gas pipeline blast detonation. The Land owners are not smiling.

lalasticlala on point these are our social issues currently let us discuss and publicise to save lives.

make uan leave konji, dey man craze no start today.

confused royal fada!

nice one!

lalasticlala this is currently threading, kindly FP

Fine woman and fine address to the daura dulllard!

Seun lalasticlala, let us take this debate to the FP. please!

The discussion here are crucial becos the children are our future, they deserve a lot better.Is It Worth Sharing A Country With Northern Muslim Babarians? Abduction and Rape of Southern children in the North by men old enough to be their Grandfather? What kind of animals are we claiming one with? What century are we living in, or are the North cursed to remain backward? Why drag us Christian southerners into uncivilised and criminal customs?

The body Odour President.

There is time for everything, it is time to decide.

Animalistic act? lalasticlala, SEUN if this was your grandmother and the girl ur sister will u place the article on FP?