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RandomAfrican1:
The Central Regional Coordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) in Ghana, Superintendent George Appiah-Sakyi recently reiterated that by law, it is an offense for husbands to reject or refuse to eat their wives’ food because this constitutes a form of “emotional abuse”.

According to the police officer, such reculcitrants husbands could be charged for emotional abuse and which has the possibilities of getting them jailed for a maximum of two years or to a fine of 500 penalty units which is equivalent to GH¢6,000 or both when found guilty.
Source; https://africaatrandom.com/ghana-husbands-can-be-jailed-for-up-to-two-years-for-refusing-to-eat-their-wives-food/

J111333:
I've bookmarked this your comment for future reference.
Very soon, the same yorubas in this forum will attack some Igbo speaking folks in Rivers, Delta and Akwaibom states for wanting to be regarded as Igbos.

GarangDeMabior:
Zone them out of nigeria into Oduduwa.

People are talking of moving out of the current Federal arrangements, these ones are talking about moving into SW.

Mtcheew.

Dont get mad over nothing.
The message here is that the SW is the place to be!
Imagine, every minority wanst to dissociate from the S/East because they know how you people behave.

Within the SW, they can still move out of Nigeria

donestk:
Americans exist

French exist

British exist

The above are generic races


We are Nigerians does not exist.

Over 700 ethnic groups fused into one entity.

Even the British that fused us left the EU.

Truth be told, politicians steal with reckless abandon because they deeply know we dont have a longterm future together.

The worse kind of deceit is self deceit.

barnawilla:
Cheapest remedy! bath the dog daily for a week, rub engine oil and give the dog aledin/black palm kernel oil to drink, it work like magic.

Angel2006:
Am from ondo state and I know people are tired of Aketis government.. they are suffering and very angry .. stop saying nonsense and making yourself loook stupid.

Ofcourse, there are a few Vagabonds like you in Ondo State so that does not surpise me.
The bigger problem is your useless father who shirked his responsibility of using a Condom at the appropriate time, only to saddle Ondo state with an Omo'ale like you.

Angel2006:
Bros, you are MY FATHER a fool! Does this your nonsense add up. MY FATHER ti go ju!

saseremichael:
Hurray!!!
Nigeria is 60 Years old!
Celebrate the Diamond Jubilee with us!
Happy Independence Anniversary in advance.
www.instagram.com/vohnigeria

Rgade:
Na so. This one na just opening ceremony to reassure the Nigerian populace who were already feeling apprehensive,that this is going to be yet again another traditional APC headed election marred by irregularities.
It has to be done the APC way.

Exodora:
I hate it when people say indecent dressing is the reason why people rape .
How would you describe people that rape toddlers and over 80 years women . Some one that is old enough to be their grant Grandma.

Many Men have been Hanged because a Woman lied against them that they raped them or robbed them. That is a fact.
Some have spent the better part of their lIfe in Prison, only for their accuser to confess, decades later, that she lied against the innocent man.
Ofcourse, the Life that has been taken or destroyed, CANNOT be reversed.
That is why l will NEVER buy this "Once l shout Rape, just believe me and hang the Man" Policy that Women are trying to sneak on us, with all this "DOnt ask for evidence" crap

jaxxy:
Problem with osinbajo is he talks too much. While he is correct it’s not really his function. Work on the Systems of the country that has been failing for decades and worsening under his watch and see how everything will automatically be made easy and fall into place.

We tired of meaningless chitchats here and there.

He is just a mere V.P!
The constitution of Nigeria (1999) doesnot give him any Power to initiate any measure or project of hi sown, he serves only at the PLEASURE of his Principal, the Vice President.
Under such circumstances, any Vice President can at the best , JUS TALK, hoping his Principal will give him the go-ahead to implement his ideas.

"Our Nigerian Constitution1999" is the major Problem of Nigeria, it was writtne by Criminals, for the sole purpose of protecting and increasing the Power/Wealth of Criminals.

doeeyed:
This is rather "audio"

It does not take on board the different contexts or underpinning complexities.... Some of which have been described above!!

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magicminister:
I was once having sex with a girl and right in the heat of the moment, she asked me to stop. I persuaded and tried to continue but she insisted and I just started thinking of cold rotten akamu so my prickkk will stop gingering.


My brother, all I’m saying is that there is no excuse to rape a woman. No matter how much she teases and flirts with you, NO IS NO!!!!

Let’s love and protect our women and children as it is very hard being a woman in this part of the world.

Hathor5:
But it is natural to want to eat and feed your family so according to your flawed logic we should justify any means to get food.

Comprehension is your problem but it is too late now to start feeding you with Protenous Food in an effort to improve your Brain capacity.
I have given up on simpletons like you

milehigh06:
So glad people like you live in Nigeria....hope you don't take that mindset to a developed nation..space full jail

You be real Dindinrin!
If we combine the cost my previous Ticket fares, it would feed you and your family for two or three generations.
If you know, you know.

SaintOpzy:
I quite agree with the first paragraph...,

But the issue of evidence is almost impossible to present, especially in Nigeria's justice and even medical system..

Even in developed countries, substantial evidence is difficult,
they'd have to do tests, check the victim's organ(female in this case), check for sp*rmatozoan samples, collect samples from all her partners too, and check it in line with the accused...,

Video evidence?, of rape, that's next to impossible to get except in some extreme maniacal cases...

TheRareGem1:
Sexual harassment is a menace that need to be eradicated out of our society not only in the schools. It has deepen so deep that the society if filled with sexual predators who see women as sex object. And also the man get harassed government and individuals need to work hand in hand to curb this.

SaintOpzy:
True sir. But in today's world, there's almost no saying who's the victim...

There have been a lot of false accusations, and musjudgements nowadays that we're not sure who to believe anymore...

What would be nice though, is a departure from the stereotype that the first person to come out is the victim..., the public has to ensure that both sides are heard out before passing judgement...

Even after both sides are heard sef, there's still no saying what's the absolute truth..

IamWonderful:
Unless you want lecturers to be extremely hostile to female students, I remember a very boring, non vibrant lecture when i was, we usually wonder how he got the job, he normally come to lecture hall to taunt immoralities and ladies, he send ladies out his office like criminals, but later on he stopped and became timid for some weeks, we heard that one fair lady in the faulty of education seduced him and he fell, after the man join gang of randy lecturers, some lecturers don't come with evil mindset but they can resist the heat of seduction from ladies, some jezebelic ladies will do everything to seduce lecturers, when people see opportunity, they might not be able to resist.

milehigh06:
wow...and you call yourself a man..next time expensive cars will tempt you to steal them...lack of money will tempt you to do yahoo or ritual killing....abi

Onuoraijele:
I have lived in Benue state for over 20yrs now. That Gana has killed more Benue people. I don't know where you people are getting your informations from. That man is only after money and power. He has murdered alot of Agatu and Tiv people. Politicians in Benue state also use him to cause unrest. I don't know why you all seeing him as a Hero because they told you he is killing herdsmen

Softgamer:
rubbish, my friend is from igala, i bleeped his wife severally and he is still happy. i stopped fucking her because she was begiinging to talk of divorcing her husband and marry me and me get better oyinbo wey dey on board already. Bleep all these tradition shit

You are indeed a Shameless Scum.
You even have the audacity to call him "My Friend"!
People like you need to be Castrated faster than a Rapist.

banggy:
I think the plumber didn't do well
He can just protect the marriage by not revealing the truth of what is blocking the toilet
I hate seeing marriages collapse like nothing..
There is little we can do cos no man can take an infidel as a wife, or maybe simp guy Sha��

hardon1:
Something in me doesn't believe this story. Condone hardly block toilets, if it does easily then hotels will be calling plumbers every day.

Sperm in condom mixed with water doesn't look like fresh sperm after few minutes. The thing go don almost dissolve in the water

Next time fashion your lie very well

ludd2018:
Yorubas are very intelligent people with many professors and intellects but today cattle rearers are dictating for them because they allowed the hate for Igbos to becloud their sense of reasoning . Fulanis used them to conquer Nigeria . You continue to pursue igbos while fulanis continue to hold grip on Nigeria. SHAME

And who is dictating to Yiibos right now? COW-Angels, l guess.
You Yiibos are a special breed of (humans)?. I think you guys and Trump come from the same lineage.
Dr. Fauci described him as someone with "Negative Value of Intelligence".

Nchenches:
But it’s unimaginable that SW people can despise the Igbo quest for presidency, as SW talks about getting the presidency in 2023.

What happens to rotation through which the SW ever got the presidency in 1999?

Because without rotation, no SW candidate could have won the presidency in 1999 given the new political structure of Nigeria ultimately crafted by late Sani Abacha.

masseratti:
oga please stop this nonsense in the name of online argument... Am Yoruba what you wrote up there is very toxic and it will affect us all, igbo, ijaw Yoruba... This is not 1960,a Yoruba man must be above board in Nigeria.. Bring out your ọmọlúwàbí qualities, i stop reading where you said if the speaker pass the land grabbing act, do you think the Fulanis know the difference between an igbo and a Yoruba man? E je ki a sọ ara wa oooo... Please, thank you.

I AGREE WITH YOU 101%.
Omo'luabi must always remember and remain Omo'luabi, no matter the provocation.
Oruko ti ama'somo wa, inu eni ni'igbe.
Eeyin lo'oro.

ceaser:
I beg to differ. Yorubas have done well to move on away from the hurts and betrayals from their South Eastern brothers in the execution of the coup and even the civil war, to the effect that their properties were cared for and kept intact till their return after the war.

But a fact that has been established over the years is that the Igbos relish keeping malice as if they were the only saints in the war. They keep playing the victim up to this day. As if that was not enough, they looove to re-write history to suit their narratives and paint themselves in such saintly light.

Suffice it to say that this problem is mainly by the newer generation that did not witness the war; this is the generation that Nnamdi Kanu belong to and that is why it is so easy for him to insult and accuse the rest of the country without self-control. He declares renewed war with the Yorubas and twist the narratives of the war to his contemporary new gullibles who swallow all he dishes out unquestionably and without research. The elderly among the South East will tell the true picture of the story and will not be quick to beat the drums of war as you guys are won't to do.

Read this:

[b]My Rejoinder to Persistent Accusation Against the Yoruba by Our Igbo Brothers on a Pan-Nigerian Platform.

The answer to your question was that Igbo in cahoots with the North of the Nigeria country put Awolowo in prison, but Igbo became the greatest beneficiaries. I shall elaborate on that towards the end of this factual account of history.

Proverbially speaking, Igbo people will seldom appreciate you if they enter your house and you welcome them with your food and drinks. Their eyes will be on your wife too, and failing to offer her to them as well, would be seen as your unwillingness to appreciate their handsome selves who had cared to pay you a visit! That describes their attitude towards their best friends on earth: the Yoruba. Yes, Igbo people, sit down and survey your peregrinations across Nigeria and the world and you would find that Yoruba people are your best friends.

The Igbo/Yoruba dichotomy began with the false narrative of Chinua Achebe, which is their favourite account like the Cathecism, that Awolowo orchestrated "a daylight robbery" of Zik's "mandate" to be Premier of the Western Region in 1954.

Achebe said in his book "The Trouble With Nigeria" that he was a student at the University College, Ibadan, when the "daylight robbery" occured.

But what was the fact? It's worth repeating before the Igbo false accusers for the umpteenth time because their hearts seethe in that hatred borne of patent biased reportage of events that Awolowo usurped what was supposed to be an Igbo leadership mandate over Yorubaland and associated ethnic groups of the old Western Region.

Don't forget that the elections of 1954 was conducted by the British and it was six years away from independence. The fact of the matter was that neither Awolowo's Action Group nor Zik's NCNC had enough seats in the Western Region's Parliament in Ibadan to form a Government when the votes were counted and who won which seats became public knowledge. Both parties then had to resort to wooing candidates of the smaller parties like the Ibadan Peoples Party and Mabolaje Grand Alliance to form a coalition with them.

The Action Group, of course, went to work assiduously, promising the candidates cabinet positions. On the day the parliament was opened, the white governor of Western Region asked the parliamentarians to signify their affiliations for the records. That was how most of the smaller parties' candidates openly declared their alliance with the Action Group. That was how Awolowo became the Premier. Go to Federal Archives at the University of Ibadan. The election results and parliamentary hansards of the time are there in original forms.

But backtrack to recall that from 1951 to 1954, Awolowo was already a quasi-premier of the West with the title of "Leader of Government Busines". That's why in his autobiography he has a chapter titled "Eight Years of of Office". That is,1951 -1959. He was already a burgeoning legend among his people as a sterling performer. The Igbo had hoped to truncate our pace-setting advancement in education, rural development, industry etc, with Zik taking over from him. I'm sure most Igbo of this generation don't know Awolowo had led the West for about three years before ZIK sought to upstage him.

The lie that Chinua Achebe swallowed alongside his umunna who had converged around the parliament building in Ibadan wearing their ishiagu for the crowning of an Igbo King over Yoruba people was dished out by Zik. He lamented to the press outside the parliament building at the end of swearing in that he had been betrayed. That all those who teamed up with Awolowo were his political associates whose support he had taken for granted. He claimed they simply defected overnight and blamed it on cultic loyalty. Maybe they were Ogbonis. LOL.

Igbo people had to believe him then hook, line, and sinker. He was their political god just as Awolowo was to most Yoruba people.

But, no sir! Those coalition members won their seats on their own steam just as you, Zik, had won yours with Yoruba votes in Yorubaland. They had the freedom to associate with who they wanted. They opted for Awolowo and his Action Group not so much because they were even playing Yoruba ethnic card but because they had a deal! Politics is a game of interest. Chief Augustus Meredith Akinloye of the Ibadan People's Party, for instance, had been promised a cabinet position. Of course, he couldn't have been deceived because if that had happened he could defect and the Action Group ruling coalition would collapse. He became Minister of Agriculture, Western Region.

Meanwhile, Zik became the Leader of Opposition in the Western Region but he was soon pressed by his Igbo kinsmen to leave a region where he had won an election to represent Yoruba people for the Eastern Region where they went to lay the foundation of hatred and hostility between themselves and their minority compatriots of today's Southsouth zone by removing Prof. Eyo Ita, a NCNC leader in his own right, as Premier. The Igbo had majority seats anyway. Zik then became premier. A surrogate in the Eastern parliament vacated his own seat for him.

I return to my opening line. The real act of provocation, which could have led to attacks on Igbo in Yorubaland, were Yoruba not the hospitable and liberal people they are, and which set the stage for the collapse of the First Republic, was laid by the Igbo in cahoots with the north with which they had a ruling federal coalition in Lagos.

It was the NCNC/NPC coalition that framed up Awolowo in a phantom coup d'etat when they could no longer tolerate him as Leader of the Opposition at the Federal Parliament and, of course, to takeover his sphere of influence.

With Awolowo held in Calabar prison for no just cause, the Igbo quickly pressed for the issue of creation of new regions of which Awolowo was the chief advocate as laid out in his autobiography published in 1960 months to independence in October. But they only wanted the Midwest Region he had proposed. They didn't want the COR (Calabar, Ogoja, Rivers) region, equally in the proposal. That would have split their Eastern empire. And, of course, their senior northern partner wouldn't brook any suggestion of a Middle Belt region, also proposed by Awolowo.

Thus, we had a situation where the smallest region in the country was split, while the bigger ones were kept intact. The Igbo plot worked as planned. In August 1963, a second class Igbo (that's by Igbo standard) from Asaba, in the person of Chief Dennis Osadebey, an old boy of Zik's alma mater, the Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar, became Premier of the Midwest Region. Hurray, Igbo now had two premiers!

By that, it was believed Awolowo's sphere of influence had been diminished forever.

Then the Igbo went for the bigger goal. They wanted to upstage their Arewa partners from power. They then formed an alliance with the rump of the traumatised and divided Action Group of Awolowo. Earlier, in 1959, they had rejected the same alliance with Awolowo for Zik to be Prime Minister and Awolowo, Minister of Finance. They belatedly formed an NCNC/Action Group alliance known as the United Progressives Grand Alliance (UPGA) for them to control federal powers in addition to two regions.

D-Day was 30 December 1964 when the general elections were held. Meanwhile, the Arewa senior partners in the NPC had wizened up to the Igbo game and also formed an alliance with another faction of the Action Group led by Chief Akintola. They then had what was called the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA). They won! Chief Akintola, without Awolowo's support, had successfully launched a counter-coup on the Igbo splitting of the Western Region by aligning with the north. The ensuing cabinet produced only three Igbo as Federal Ministers as against seven Yoruba. The Igbos were Raymond Njoku, Jaja Wachukwu, and K.O. Mbadiwe. This development, northerners have quietly argued, was the beginning of the coup of 15 January 1966. It is argued that the Igbo political elites, who had lost out, instigated Igbo boys in the military to strike. And that was why no civilian or military casualties were recorded in the whole East during the coup. But Chief Akintola and his newfound northern partners were all eliminated.

I draw you back. You know Yoruba people fight on principles. They launched massive agitations against Akintola for selling out to the northerners. They were not appeased by seven cabinet positions that didn't have the blessings of Awolowo and his progressive lieutenants languishing unjustly in prison. Operation Wetie began in earnest, shaking Balewa in Lagos and Akintola in Ibadan. Somebody had put on the body form of my highly esteemed friend, Prof. Wole Soyinka, to attempt stoppage of the announcement of the election results at gunpoint at Radio House in Ibadan for which the real Soyinka (LOL) was tried and freed by Justice Kayode Eso. Go and read Justice Eso's memoirs titled THE MYSTERY GUN MAN.

Eventually, Aguiyi Ironsi came to power. Awolowo petitioned him for his release. He rebuffed him till northern troops removed him from power. Then Gowon released Awolowo and invited him to join his government and stabilised the country then careening into chaos.

Igbo declared secession. A civil war ensued. They lost. At the end, they picked their favourite scapegoat, Awolowo, for their defeat The accusations traversed the war operations to post-war settlement.

First, he betrayed them, having promised them that if they declared secession, Yoruba would follow. Ask yourself, on what grounds? An old man just out of prison! A civilian! To declare secession in confrontation with Gen. Gowon who had just pitied him and set him free! Something an Ironsi had refused to do! How does that add up? Well, since it's Awolowo who had prevented Igbo premiership of Yorubaland, it must add up.

Second, he starved them during the war. Of course, General Gowon must have been too naive as a British-trained military officer to understand the implications of giving an unimpeded corridor of food supply to enemy territory in war! Awolowo had to teach him that the food was being hijacked by the Biafran troops.

Third, and back to what prompted this recollections ab initio. The accusation of £20. Honest Igbo know the truth. First and foremost, records of Nigerian banks in the East had been destroyed during the war as banks were prime targets of unruly elements among combatants on both sides during the civil war. Hence, apart from their passbooks, most Igbo claiming they had money in the banks had no proof. Many had even lost their passbooks. It was an era when there were no computers to keep soft copies of records or backups. Everything was done manually and in hard copies.

It was a mark of the magnanimity of the Federal Government that it created a fund from which banks were to pay £20 each to any Igbo with some proof of bank account ownership. It was a blanket thing. Even if you had £1 balance in your account you would get the £20. But those who had proof, especially those in the West - Lagos, Ibadan, Abeokuta etc - where their banking records were intact, had their accounts reactivated.

If anything, the Igbo had, over the years, rendered evil as reward to the only ethnic group in Nigeria that had received them with open arms, including Zik, from the time this country was established till date. If anyone should be held back by the unkindness of old, it should be the Yoruba against the Igbo and not the other way round. It's the Yoruba, among whom Igbo have found accommodation and toleration more than anywhere else they had ever set their foot upon on earth, who should be talking of Igbo betrayal, Igbo unfriendliness, and Igbo selfishness.

But it's one of those ironies of life that the victim is made the accused by his traducers. The Yoruba cosmopolitan outlook and liberal-mindedness is what have kept Nigeria one till date. It's only the Yoruba who have never unleashed violence against other groups. Not that they are contented with their lot in Nigeria or because they're cowards. It's not just in their DNA to spill blood carelessly! The only times they've engaged in any major public disturbances that cost lives (their own lives) were mainly to protest oppression and injustice visited on them and it was limited only to their space. They never went after non-Yoruba as scapegoats. That was during Operation Wetie and Agbekoya Revolt in the 60s and June 12 demonstrations in the 90s.

Let us hope that one day, some sections of Nigeria won't have to look back and regret that they blew their goodwill with the Yoruba.

If you hear of anybody supporting Igbo presidency outside Igboland today, who is not Yoruba, please, tell me. The same thing applied to Igbo sympathisers during the civil war: the Wole Soyinkas, Tai Solarins, the Col. Victor Banjos, the Prof. Sam Alukos of this world etc. They were all Yoruba, and some of them got imprisoned for it like Wole Soyinka. Col. Banjo wasn't as lucky. He was rewarded with bullets!

And recall that Col. Adekunle Fajuyi had died alongside Gen. Ironsi in July 1967 when northern soldiers came for the latter in Ibadan because Fajuyi didn't want the impression to be created, as the northerners wanted it, that Ironsi's death was a Yoruba set up. He chose to be executed with his Igbo commander in-chief who wasn't gracious enough to release Awolowo, his fatherly kinsman, from prison when he had the power to do so! How common is such vicariousness?

The Yoruba are still open to forging a meaningful partnership with the Igbo to safeguard and promote a glorious future. I hope voices of historically false accusations would allow the detente to reach its denouement[/b]