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ashboy: just confirm from channels tv program this morning that the bulet prof suvs were bougth by the fgn last year and givlng to the general,on the advice of col dankiwa umar to the president

Yes and you'll notice that the law entitles them to 3 vehicles (most likely a pilot car and a back up car, in addition to their own car) and General Buhari said that he was in a 3 car motorcade.

WildChild00: [color=#000088] =N=1,000,000 One Million Naira monthly... [/color]

I think he's referring to the 1999 act which specifies 350,000 naira as allowance. The law has, of course, been amended many times.

Furthermore, that law only specifies the allowance that they are to receive. The constitution states that their pension should be equivalent to the salary of the current president.

http://www.placng.org/new/laws_of_nigeria3.php?sn=478

https://www.nairaland.com/545191/nigerian-congress-approves-pension-past

There's also a law in the US that states that US presidents and their spouses are entitled to Secret Service protection for the rest of their lives. The law was changed during the Clinton era, to limit the time frame to 10 years after they leave office, but the law has been changed again (probably because of the War On Terror) to reinstate the former time frame of "for the rest of their lives".

[size=14pt]FG to spend N3.1bn on Obasanjo, others in 2012[/size]

February 6, 2012 by Olusola Fabiyi and Oluwole Josiah

The Federal Government plans to spend N3.19bn on the pensions and allowances of former Presidents, Heads of State, their deputies, former leaders of the National Assembly and their families in the year 2012.

The proposed N3.19bn represents an increase of about N2bn from what was provided for the former rulers in the 2011 Budget.

The government also earmarked a total of N141.7bn for the pensions and gratuities, of retired civil servants, that are not captured in the contributory pension scheme.

The amount contained in the 2012 budget currently before the National Assembly is under Service Wide Votes. Our correspondents report that beneficiaries under this heading will receive a total of N414.4bn for the fiscal year.

[size=13pt]The Remuneration for former Presidents, Heads of State Act passed by the National Assembly in November 2010 provides for the remunerations of all former Presidents, Heads of State and their deputies, including the families of former leaders who are late.

Currently, those who benefit from the Act are former Heads of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon; Gen. Muhammadu Buhari; Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar; Gen. Ibrahim Babangida; former head of the Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan; former President Shehu Shagari; former President Olusegun Obasanjo; their living deputies; and former heads of the National Assembly.

Other beneficiaries are the widow of a late former President, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe; the widows of a former Prime Minister, the late Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; and the widows and families of former Heads of State, General Murtala Muhammed; and Gen. Sani Abacha.[/size]

When the N1.2bn bill was presented to the Senate in 2011, the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs queried the amount, saying that it was too high a price to pay for the comfort of former leaders who presided over the “economic retardation” of the country.

But explanations from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation showed that there were seven living former Heads of State, five Vice Presidents, six families of deceased leaders and two families of deceased Vice Presidents.

[size=13pt]Among other benefits, the former leaders are expected to get a five bedroom housing accommodation each in any location of their choice with telephone services; at least three vehicles; and salaries of personal staff.

Also, the law provides that government should cater for the needs of the former heads of state whenever they visit Abuja, as well as pay for their use of courier services.[/size]

Reacting to the provision, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Bassey Otu, said the Senate would take a look at the provision and ensure that the former leaders did not get beyond what they deserved.

He said the N3.19bn might be slashed in line with the new posture of government to reduce the cost of governance.

“Rest assured that anything that should be done to bring these budgets to their proper sizes, will be done,” he said.

But the President of Campaign for Democracy, Joe-Okei Odumakin, criticised the increase from N1.2bn to N3.19bn, saying it smacked of insensitivity.

She told one of our correspondents in a telephone interview on Sunday that voting more money for the care of former leaders suggested that the poor would remain poor while those who had misruled the country would continue to grow richer.

She said, “First and foremost, it is extremely outrageous. How can you explain an increase from N1.2bn to N3.19bn? It smacks of insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians. It is sad that this is happening when our citizens are impoverished.

“It means that all the mouthing that the regime will reduce their pay is cosmetic and hypocritical.”

Also, the All Nigeria Peoples Party said the huge budget provision was President Goodluck Jonathan’s way of preparing the ground for when he would leave office.

According to the National Publicity Secretary of the ANPP, Chief Emma Eneukwu, the government has no idea of how to move the country forward.

He said, “We keep on saying it that this government has no human face and that it does not care what happens to the people.

“It was telling Nigerians that it was going to cut expenses, yet, it went ahead to increase the budgetary provision for these leaders.

“This same government told us that the economy would collapse without the removal of petroleum subsidy. It did not tell us that the economy of individual would collapse.

“This government is proving it day-by-day that it is a government that lacks vision and cannot be trusted. Nigerians cannot be deceived forever. One day is for the thief, the rest are for the owners.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-to-spend-n3-1bn-on-obasanjo-others-in-2012/

They are also entitled to police and SSS bodyguards (at least 3), while former military heads of state are also entitled to military guards.

There are 3 types of casualty figures after any disaster: (1) The high figure(s). (2) The actual figure. (3) The low figure(s). These three types of figures are usually reported in Nigeria immediately after a riot, plane crash, bomb blast, etc.

1) High figures: A journalist once told his students, "If you are covering a riot and somebody collapses, do not report that the person died. Follow them to the hospital and make sure that the doctor certifies that the person is dead, before you report that the person has died, because the person may later recover at the hospital".

Unfortunately, many journalists do not take the time to verify if people are actually dead before reporting. A man collapsed during the Lekki Toll Gate protests and several newspapers immediately reported that he had died. That same man was treated at the hospital and discharged that same day. A man was hit by a teargas canister during the fuel subsidy protests. The media reported that he had died, whereas he was in the hospital receiving treatment.

2) The actual figure: It is extremely difficult to get the actual figures.

3) The low figures: The casualty figures released by the government are usually lower and many people believe that it's because of a cover up. This is not necessarily so. The government only reports casualties that it can verify. These figures are usually gotten from the police, hospitals, fire service, etc. Some injured people do not bring their injuries to the attention of the authorities for various reasons (including fear, severity, costs, etc). Some may choose to treat their injuries at home. Some people may also choose to bury their dead without involving the police, hospitals, etc. There is no way that the government will know about these people.

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The Nigerian Customs Service ran a public enlightenment campaign last year to educate the public that they DO NOT AUCTION CARS ONLINE.

Customs Exposes Auction Scammers

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/08/15/customs-exposes-auction-scammers/

Some of the scammers were also exposed and arrested in a sting operation by Saturday Punch.

Caught in the act: Saturday Punch sting operation nets fake Customs auctioneer

http://www.punchng.com/feature/saturday-people/customs-officer-duped-me-says-man-who-wanted-to-give-mum-a-car-gift/

And nairaland has also done a public enlightenment campaign to educate nairalanders about these fraudsters.

Nigerian Customs Do Not Auction Cars Online: Beware of FRAUD!

https://www.nairaland.com/1293073/nigerian-customs-not-auction-cars

firestar: Comical.

InesQor: Parenting is the most difficult task on earth, and beating a child is a sign of a frustrated parent / other adult whose reasonable judgement has failed.

Children can be reasoned with, but you can't start trying to reason with a child when his/her viewpoints on life are already starting to set. The parent's frustration will be less, and success rate will be higher, if they start reasoning with the children from the very earliest possible stages of infancy.

I put it to you that one reason "African parents" usually have to enforce their stance by beating their children is that they are not always sincere with their children, and they usually do not hold themselves to the same standards that they require of the children. These children observe all of this, and they make their own decisions. In frustration, the parent then resorts to beating them.

If one is always sincere with a child, and shows genuine respect for him/her, the child will often grow up making better choices.

I see parents that beat their children in no better light than people that beat their spouses. In fact, it is worse for the child because as minors they have few or no options to retaliate.

My mother (of blessed memory) only ever beat me a couple of times - but I was already about 10 and that could have been avoided with earlier instruction. My father never beat me. I have no children, neither am I married. But I know if I eventually have children I will neither beat them nor allow anyone else to beat them.

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[size=14pt]Lagos State Government bans flogging of students and apprentices.[/size]

[quote author=DGI-PLUS]http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52597:bravo-to-lagos-over-childrens-rights&catid=67:you-report-lagos&Itemid=583

THANKS to the recent legislation passed in Lagos State by the administration of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN, the caning, beating or physical torture of school students, and of workplace apprentices, has been outlawed entirely, and declared both illegal and criminally culpable throughout that state. This recognition accorded the basic human rights of Lagos State’s children, by Governor Fashola, is, without question, one of the most constructive, progressive and profoundly humanitarian initiatives ever set forth into law by any Nigerian elected leader, since the nation’s 1960 independence.

A simple internet search yields an abundance of thoroughly documented medical evidence, which unambiguously links the “punitive” beating of human beings to very severe and permanently debilitating injuries that range from blindness-inducing eye damage, to life-long paralysis of the legs, possible from SINGLE blunt-force cane impacts to the sciatic nerve, which runs close to the spine in the lower back, just beneath the skin. A research paper recently published by the Department of Ophthalmology, at the College of Health Sciences in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, cited a four-year study which concluded that an astonishing 30.3% of all eye injuries, presented at that hospital alone, by children aged between 5 and 15 years old, were DIRECTLY attributed to caning or whipping attacks that went horribly wrong, either in schools or at home.

From a purely medical standpoint, there is NO safe area of the human body suitable for assault with a stick or other blunt-force weapon. Just as easily as a cane-strike to the lower back carries the potential to inflict lifetime lower limb paralysis on the victim, an errant stick, whip or belt-buckle impact to the wrist is equally liable to fracture, deform or displace the delicate wrist carpal bones that articulate within very tight tolerances, thus degrading forever the wrist’s flexibility and range of motion. Caning the hands of a student, such that permanent bone injury and loss of flexibility to the hands results, would effectively END whatever aspirations the victim may have held of becoming a surgeon later in life. The disastrous effects of losing one’s sight or mobility to a caning incident would be no less life-destroying, and require no elaboration.

The injurious psychological effects, of exposing children to physical brutality in the name of discipline, can last a lifetime, but do also manifest behaviorally in the short term, as illustrated by the extremely high prevalence of school-yard bullying of juniors by senior students, whose own corporal punishment and physical torture by school authority figures imparts a misconception of normalcy to the use of violence as a tool to gain “respect” and the illusion of compliance. In nearby Ghana, by way of comparison, where all forms of corporal punishment have been outlawed for decades, school-yard bullying is virtually non-existent, while a very high level of orderliness and discipline is maintained in Ghanaian secondary schools, without any recourse to violence by school authorities. Unsurprisingly, the Ghanaian education system remains one of the best in Africa today, producing highly proficient graduates who are in great demand globally.

Governor Fashola’s administration has boldly righted a festering injustice that has for decades been perpetrated against Nigerian children enrolled in schools nationwide, as well as in places of trade apprenticeship. Once again, Governor Fashola lives up to his billing as a leader far ahead of his time, now by endorsing the imperative to safeguard the BASIC human rights of Nigeria’s most important citizens – her children. For the betterment of Nigerian youth enrolled in schools and workplaces across the entire federation, the stellar, inspirational example just set by Governor Fashola is one well worthy of emulation, as it stands to swiftly transform Nigeria’s primary and secondary educational systems for the infinitely better.

Striking any adult person with a stick or other weapon constitutes a violent criminal offence statutorily classified as Felony Assault and Battery, for which jail sentences can be imposed after a fair trial, under Nigerian law. On the unassailable premise that schools exist to prepare students for life as productive, civilized and peaceful citizens of law-abiding societies, that fundamental prohibition of violence against adults must be extended to govern all conduct towards children within schools and workplaces throughout any nation that embraces human rights for human beings of every age demographic.[/quote]https://www.nairaland.com/708677/lagos-state-outlaws-flogging-students