Ishilove: If indeed he is truly responsible after conducting a DNA test, he should be made to pay for the upkeep. They are two irresponsible adults who should be made to face the consequences of their irresponsibility. Whether it is a one-night stand or not, she didn't get herself pregnant so the one who knocked her up should face the sweet, musical sound of baby cries.
He is lucky we are not in the 20th century. The male members of her family would have beaten him silly and forced him to marry her.
Babasessy: Lagos criminal law: Abandon a pregnant woman, go to jail!, Lagos Govt to enforce law against errant ‘lover boys’
Lagos state has a new criminal law to regulate criminal conduct within the Lagos society. The law is revolutionary and some say “strange”. Strange in the sense that it contains provisions that represent a radical departure from the old Criminal Code Cap 17 Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria. The name sounds less frightening as people can relate better with the word “law” than “code” The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Ade Ipaye in an interview with National Mirror said that the new law repeals the criminal code law 2003 which was first introduced to southern Nigeria in 1914 by the British Colonial government to reflect mainly the values of the colonial masters.
To him, this reform therefore is the first of its kind in Southern Nigeria. Although the law has different sections, it rises stoutly in the defence of women and children in the society. Section 276 for instance, makes it a criminal offence for a man to desert a woman he impregnates. Furthermore, intimate offences including those against the child were brought together under Chapter 25. Also included in the chapter are offences which under the Criminal Code are categorised as offences against morality and unnatural offences. New intimate offences were created to expand the protection of the law.
These are: (a) intimate assault by penetration (Section 259) - this differs from violation in that it covers all forms of intimate assault which entails non-penile penetration of the womanliness, violation having been limited to its traditional understanding of penile penetration of the womanliness; and (b) intimate assault (Section 261) - this replaces the offence of indecent assault. The new law comes against the back drop of violence against women which has become very rampant in the society. Tola Rotimi, Director, Office of the Public Defender (OPD), in an interview with National Mirror in January this year said that the incident of violation cases in the state had reached an epidemic degree. She said :” We have discovered that violation is rampant in all these face-me-I-face-you apartment, especially in high density areas.
In such areas you would often find a woman leaving her girl child in care of another neighbour who would turn out to be the defiler of that particular child. It has become epidemic, in this office we treat intimate abuses or related cases of nothing less than ten in a day, you can now imagine the other units too, so all added together, we are talking of about 20- 25 intimate abuse cases in a day.
That is on the high side”. Francis Famoroti, a lawyer and Deputy Head, Judiciary desk, National Mirror believes that proving violation cases in court is usually a hard task for lawyers. “There must be evidence of penile penetration which must be total and complete. Besides, an examination that must be conducted by a qualified medical doctor, it must be proved that there is actual spermatozoa discharge into the womanliness before a violation case could be said to have taken place” This may explain why most cases are inconclusive in court.
Could this then be why the intimate abuse law was split into two viz: intimate assault (section 261), and intimate assault by penetration? Another lawyer, Jiti Ogunye believes that the new laws will make it easier to prove intimate assault, while proving intimate abuse by penetration could still be difficult. “ It means that even if an offender escapes conviction on intimate abuse by penetration, he may not escape being punished for intimate assault”. However, the law that has generated heated debate among lawyers and non lawyers alike is section 276 which makes it a criminal offence for a man to abandon or desert a woman he impregnates.
Although details of the law still remain sketchy, it has drawn flaks from people who believe relationships are moral issues that cannot be criminalised. In her view, the Executive Director, Women Advocate Research and Documentation Centre, Ms. Abiola Afolabi- Akiyode, said the law was a misnomer despite the fact that its sponsor might have had good intentions. She added that it has the potential for adverse consequences that would rubbish the good intention. She said: “I know the intention behind this law is apparently to checkmate irresponsible behaviour on the part of those who would like to take advantage of young women. But I don’t see a good piece of legislation. I have not got a copy of the law to study it in detail, but to the extent of the reported essence of the law, I can say it won’t work.
As a matter of fact it will create more problems than it will solve. Criminalisation of such thing would lead to a situation where people would impregnate women and run away with a view to avoid prosecution. Thus it will even promote the very thing it is trying to curb; the law is certainly one that ought not to have been made.” In a similar vein, the Chairman of the Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Adebamigbe Omole said “I know the intention is to protect pregnant women against desertion and by extension, protect the family life. But there are times people go into relationship with the agreement that this relationships is meant for mere friendship, although I do not encourage that.
But what if in the course of such mere friendship, pregnancy comes in and the two parties have realised that they are not compatible? “There is no way you can force unwilling people to go and marry just because there is pregnancy. I know that those behind the law have good intentions. But when you make a law you have to look at the workability of the law. I don’t know how you are going to force a man who is not ready to marry a woman to marry her. Marriage relationship is a contract and you cannot foist relationships on people.
Nobody should be forced to enter into agreement that will not be beneficial to him. In law, we say a contract or agreement is a matter of consensus ad idem” In his own view, the Executive Director of Advocacy for Democratic Dividend International, Chief Sola Ojeriakhi, condemned the criminalisation of abandonment of pregnant women on the grounds that the law does not take a critical look at the socio-cultural problems in Nigeria. Ojeriakhi said “There are certain issues which should belong to the moral parlance brought under the criminal law. We cannot criminalise everything we frown upon in the society.
We should leave certain areas of social behaviours to home and parental control. “ The issue of impregnation and desertion is a moral issue and we should employ the institutions like churches and mosques to educate and orientate our young ones on the right cause of action to take rather than throwing young people into jail for moral laxity. “I think there should be some re-thinking on this law”.
However, Ipaye, giving a general overview of the new criminal laws, believes that the state will be better off. He pointed to new features like suspended sentence, and community work as examples. He said: “The Law is a departure from old Criminal Code Law that only focused on imposition of custodial sentence and fines on the offenders. The Law now pro- I KNOW THE INTENTION BEHIND THIS LAW IS APPARENTLY TO CHECKMATE IRRESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOUR ON THE PART OF THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUNG WOMEN An attorney passed on and found himself in heaven, but not at all happy with his accommodations.
He complained to St. Peter, who told him that his only recourse was to appeal his assignment. The attorney immediately advised that he intended to appeal, but was then told that he would be waiting at least three years before his appeal could be heard. The attorney protested that a three year wait was unconscionable, but his words fell on deaf ears. The lawyer was then approached by the devil, who told him that he would be able to arrange an appeal to be heard in a few days, if the attorney was willing to change venue to Hell.
When the attorney asked why appeals could be heard so much sooner in Hell, he was told, “We have all of the judges.” vides for other forms of punishment which include compensation, restitution, community service orders and probation; Under this new Law, the Court may in addition to or in lieu of custodial sentence impose a non- custodial sentence like community service order.
This creates an opportunity for those convicted of minor offences to be useful to the society by engaging in acts like sweeping the streets; Another reason for change is that the old Criminal Code Law had become inadequate to address the challenges of contemporary criminality. Besides, the use of more contemporary language was adopted eliminating legal jargon, archaic language and drafting styles to make the law more user-friendly. Several sections of the Code that were found to be convoluted were redrafted and broken down into sub-sections for simplicity and clarity.
As the law comes into practice, time will determine its workability and acceptability. However, if the experience of the state on the reforms on the administration of Justice is anything to go by, the entire country may have to take a clue from the state again.
In 2001, the state increased the renumeration of judicial officers with 300 per cent. For months, this generated controversy with many questioning the intention of the state. Within a year, other states and even the Federal government implemented the Lagos reforms. Lagos may just have blazed the trail again.
Ishilove: If indeed he is truly responsible after conducting a DNA test, he should be made to pay for the upkeep. They are two irresponsible adults who should be made to face the consequences of their irresponsibility. Whether it is a one-night stand or not, she didn't get herself pregnant so the one who knocked her up should face the sweet, musical sound of baby cries.
He is lucky we are not in the 20th century. The male members of her family would have beaten him silly and forced him to marry her.
deluxecad: Fashola signs law against abandonment of pregnant women.
On August 9, 2011 · In News
By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS — Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, signed a bill into law, which allows for the prosecution and jailing of any man who impregnates and deserts any woman.
The bill presented to the governor by the state’s Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General, Mr. Ade Ipaye, at Government House, Ikeja, was among three other bills presented for the governor’s assent.
Other bills include amendments to provisions of the Emergency Management Agency, EMA, Law and the Administration of Criminal Justice.
Fashola, while assenting to the bills, said the various amendments to the laws were needed to tackle the problem of crime and delay in administration of justice in the state.
He said the enactment of the laws represented the commitment of the state government to building strong institutions, that could tackle crime and corruption, which had crippled the country.
He added that the country needed strong legislation to fight corruption and moral laxity.
Fashola explained that the Criminal Code Law, used in the state before now was enacted in 1914 by the colonial masters, saying that such laws and their provisions had since become obsolete and could not address challenges posed by present realities.
Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene asked the Dutch number 2 for a drink of water. The dutch girl refused (apparently for health reasons). This annoys Onguene. A Dutch substitute then brings a cup of water for Onguene, but she knocks it away.
Are Cars Melting in Arizona Due to a Heat Wave?Images showing "melted" cars in Arizona are real, but the extreme heat came from a nearby construction fire, not the sun.
Photographs show cars that started to "melt" due to extremely hot weather in Arizona.
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As a heat wave engulfed parts of the United States in the summer of 2018, a photograph purportedly showing cars that had melted in Arizona due to the extreme weather started making the rounds on social media:
A report from “The Round,” a publication based in the UK (which was experiencing its own heat wave at the time), also presented the image as if the pictured cars had melted due to extreme temperatures:
The heatwave in the UK has got plenty of people talking as temperatures hit 30°C over the weekend.
But in the state of Arizona in the US, the heat hit astonishing levels. This week weather forecasts suggest that the state will have temperatures of 44°C.
It’s been so hot in fact, that cars have actually started melting!
The photograph is real. However, the vehicles shown in the photograph did not melt because of the hot weather in Arizona. The damage was caused by a fire at a nearby construction site.
Tuscon News Now reported that the fire broke out at a work site near the University Vista apartments at the University of Arizona on the morning of 19 June 2018. In addition to the two pictured vehicles, at least a dozen more cars were damaged by the blaze:
A fire so hot and bright, it lit up the morning sky.
That’s what one student saw across the street from the construction site fire early Tuesday morning, June 19.
Danny, a graduate student at the University of Arizona, lives at the University Vista apartments nearby. He saw the fire and raced to get his car.
It was too late though, the fire was so hot and dangerous that he was not able to get to it in time.
His car was one of a dozen cars that had damage from the fire. According to Danny, the back bumper and his car cover melted from the intense heat.
This is his only car and right now and doesn’t know what he will do next.
We have not yet been able to determine who took this viral photograph, although a series of images from Tucson’s Kold News 13 appears to show the same melted vehicles. Here’s a comparison of the vehicle in the background of the viral photo (right) with an image taken by the local news station (left):
These cars truly did melt under the hot Arizona sun in June 2018. However, the damage was caused by the extreme heat of a nearby building fire, not the sun itself.
Despite a series of images showing melted street lights and trees on fire, the temperature in Kuwait has not reached 143.6°F.
DAN EVON
PUBLISHED 7 AUGUST 2017
Photographs show cars that started to "melt" due to extremely hot weather in Arizona.
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In July 2017, social media users shared videos and images of burning trees and melting streetlights, the purported results of a record-breaking heatwave in Kuwait during which temperatures soared to 62° Celsius (143.6° Fahrenheit).
First of all, a 62° Celsius day has never been recorded. The highest temperature on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization, was 56.7°C (134°F) on 10 July 1913 in Furnace Creek, California. The highest temperature in Kuwait, 54°C, was recorded in Mitrabah in July 2016. Although the footage of trees burning is likely real, the claim that these fires were caused by 62° Celsius temperatures is unfounded.
The weather in Kuwait hovered around 50°C during July 2017:
The web site Frontnews.eu shared one of the most popular videos of this claim, showing a tree burning on the side of the road along with the report that the temperature had reached 62°C in Kuwait:
In Kuwait, the air temperature in some places reached 62 degrees Celsius in an open area where there is no shadow.
Users of social networks share videos of burning trees, bushes, and also note that because of the heat, gasoline in the car tanks exploded.
This video was actually shot in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, and captured a palm tree that was struck by lightning, as the website alweeam.com reported (translated by Google Translate and edited for clarity):
A thunderbolt struck a palm tree on the famous Sultana Street in Madinah. Following the heavy rains in the region today and some of its provinces, the fire broke out in the entire palm before the civil defense fire brigade began its work.
A video clip was documented by a citizen. The burning process started gradually with the burning palm tree, and quickly spread to the whole of the surrounding area, causing danger to the firefighters before the fire brigade put out the fire in the palm and the surrounding trees.
A second video purported to show a plant burning due to Kuwait’s high temperatures:
Although this video was shot in Kuwait, we found no evidence to suggest that the plant burst into flame solely because of high air temperatures. Local news reports (translated by Google Translate and edited for clarity) noted the cause of the fire was unknown:
Firefighters extinguished a fire in a number of trees on the first ring road near the Martyr’s Park. In the details, a report was sent to the operating room stating that a fire broke out on the first ring road. The Shuwaikh industrial fire station was called and the fire was extinguished. Firefighters are currently investigating.
A photograph of a melting traffic light also appeared alongside the claim about the high temperatures:
According to the Kuwait Times, however, this image was manipulated. Meteorologist Adel Al-Saadoun, head of the Fintas Weather Observatory, explained that the temperature has never reached 62°C in Kuwait and that such reports were just “fake news”:
“Do not believe in fake news,” warned meteorologist Adel Al-Saadoun, head of the Fintas Weather Observatory, as he debunked social media reports that temperatures in Kuwait reached 62 degrees. “It is fake news – not true,” Saadoun told Kuwait Times. “Kuwait has only recorded temperatures of a maximum of 52 degrees centigrade. Never in history has the temperature in Kuwait reached 62. As we speak now, the temperature is 49 degrees Celsius (at 2 pm yesterday), but people have been posting images of 54, 56 degrees – the temperature inside the car is higher, but not as per our weather monitoring system.”
Saadoun said the mercury will continue to rise in the next few days till the end of July, but by the beginning of August, the heat will start subsiding. “This has been the usual weather in Kuwait. This period is called the summer solstice. This is the period when the sun is right next to us up there, and we expect such weather in July,” he said.
Here are some posts about the hoax (A Nairaland thread that stated that cars were melting in Kuwait has been deleted. This is a second thread about the same subject).
Fake News About "Melting Cars In Kuwait" Goes Viral.
The months of June and July are among the hottest months in Kuwait and this has led to a hoax that has gone viral every June and July since 2013.
Pictures of melting car parts, melting traffic lights and burning palm trees are often posted on the internet along with claims that these were caused by temperatures of 62 or 63 degrees celsius in Kuwait City.
A picture of the Fintas Weather Observatory in Kuwait is also often shared as part of the hoax. The photo shows the digital thermometer on the building indicating that the temperature was 62 degrees celsius. However, a meteorologist at the observatory says that the picture was photoshoped and that temperatures in Kuwait have never exceeded 52 degrees.
The pictures of the melting cars were taken in Arizona in 2018. A factory caught fire and these cars were parked at a hostel beside the factory. The heat from the fire melted parts of the cars.
The picture of the melting traffic light was taken in Kuwait in 2013. There had been a car fire near the traffic light.
The picture of the burning palm tree was taken in Saudi Arabia. The palm tree caught fire after it was struck by lightning.
Most of the posts claimed that the incident occurred in Kuwait, but some claimed that it occurred in Saudi Arabia, some claimed that it happened in Arizona, while one claimed that it happened in India.
The hoax has resurfaced in the past two days. People on Twitter and Nairaland have been posting the same pictures and claiming that the temperature in Kuwait reached 62 degrees yesterday.
Here are the temperature readings in Kuwait since Wednesday.
Many sports analysts said that Francisca Ordega was our best player in the game against Norway, but some fans were angry because she wore makeup and had long purple hair during the game, so they attacked her online.
She ignored them at first, but she later replied.
She didn't wear any makeup during the game against Korea.
Later (after the game) FIFA featured her in a video of people with interesting and beautiful hairstyles.
Family › Re: He Abandoned Me With Pregnancy.Please Where Can I Report Him For Child Support? by naptu2: 3:26pm On Jun 17, 2019
