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I watched the video. The abusive teacher didn't "slap", slap is often on the cheek. She repeatedly hit the boy's head from the side, and with her adult hands.

That's extremely abnormal.

And as for the mother being gentle and been taking things easy, life had happened to her to the extent that than reporting herself, she had to go through her pastor.

Justice for the assaulted boy indeed, and may they get the helps they need.

Wealthoptulent:
How many DOORS we LOOKING HERE?

When the last king down his lineage was on the throne, 142 women had diseases and died of neglect. To appease them, he'd have to knock 142 doors. It isn't me that said it, it is what "Ifa" said.🌞

West African countries affected by these jihadists could as well form coalition to tackle them head on, at once. But most importantly, clean up their countries of the brainwasher clerics, improve their borders and border controls (no influx of some North African Arabs/jihadists/stoker of jihad groups), re and very well re-educate their poor populations who are often handy tools in the hands of foreign interests seeking proxies to destabilize the region.

The West African countries should come together and with well strategies to deal with the terrorists. It's an eyesore/annoyance especially as they are not even actually embarking on any Islamic jihad to start with, just criminals.. ugh!

Testament that Nigeria has dullards in leadership positions, and close to them. 😂

Jovi10:
What do you mean by this statement? If a weapon is not battle tested how will you know it's efficiency?

It is not about battle tested solely. Plus, yes, it isn't about battle testing alone, there are other post-production testings, post-procurement testings. When the supposed battle-tested producers are extremely booked up and the Nigerian Army fails at procuring the hardwares, I guess we'd have to wait till Boko Haram and cohorts of terrorists kill the soldiers till there's 'none', waiting for battle-tested when there's a willing China.

Jonathan:
Evil zionists

WHAT USA IS MAKING EVIL ZIONISTS DO IN PALESTINE ARTIFICIALLY, GOD IS DOING IT WITH NATURAL DISASTER ON THEIR SOIL.




IS GOD NOT WONDERFUL?

What is this? California is now Israel? You lots would eventually self-destruct.

Goldberg criticized California Governor Gavin Newsom for failing to address the issue of forest management and clearing dry vegetation. "Donald Trump warned him to deal with the dry brush that’s a ticking time bomb, but he chose to ignore it," she said. "We barely get any rain here, so everything is extremely dry. Just one spark, and it all goes up in flames. Newsom’s negligence is criminal."

Someone has got to pay for this. Unfortunately, both their state government and they themselves are complicit. They were aware it's a environmental risky area.

Aaronsrod:
Trump and Hitler are both instruments of the Almighty.

Hitlers wars led to the return of Gods people to Israel. So shall Trump carry us to a New Jerusalem in Africa.

This I have seen.

Trust and obey.

Lol, yeah. Trump should be "utilized" well by those who know him. His presidency is like 'an opportunity comes but once'.

Jovi10:
Good. I would have preferred Russia tho because their weapons are battle tested already. Anyways anything not coming from USA or NATO members is highly welcomed

It's not about battle tested solely. China is reliable, is advanced in military technologies.

This is pleasant. China is quite valuable partner. Hopefully there'd be considerable knowledge exchange as well.

Yes. Humans are intelligent and capable of great innovations. And are always evolving.

Sterope:
These philosophers weren't atheists and there are many religious philosophers in ISlam and Christianity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_philosophers

It wasn't about the theism of the Greek philosophers, rather that they led the Greeks to start to question the very foundation of religion, religion in politics, and was breaking them from the chains that religion and absolute religious practices had on them. Also, leading them towards rationality and subsequently science.

There's nothing like religious philosophers. Philosophy is philosophy, the question of 'everything', or at least the theories of many things from the foundation. The philosophers' conclusion to theism may had been along the lines of "There is Gd because 'space is limitless'" or something. They came to their conclusions by themselves using logic, and so on and so forth, 100% independent of religion or any pre-conceived notions.

The freed atheist is said to "blaspheme" and/or un/re-brainwash people. Should he had been supported by people in the North, he may had just as well become the North's own Socrates, liberating them from their over-indulgence in Islam.

Omoawoke:
Why do Africans hate Hitler?

I love Hitler for one thing, he showed colonial bastards shege

He invaded France and made them slaves in their own country,
He made England pay through their noses…
Hitler was the enemy of our enemies.

If he had won and deal with those colonial bastards to the end, their wickedness and thieving nature would have been avenged
I wish he eventually won and gave those British and French bastards a true taste of pain and slavery

Now French and British bastards can invade others to colonize them but will protect their own boarders… awon Eleribu

I mean, Nazi Germany was really strong. It took the entire Europe, the US and conscripted soldiers from all across the world (colonized countries' conscripts and volunteers) to have defeated Hitler.

Unfortunately, however, Hitler wasn't exactly pro-black people either, and sooner, just as Polish people were quite turned to slaves by his government, if left unchecked and was undefeated, Africa may just had been next.

lexy2014:
Did you do all you listed above before you said this

Your name should be "Question", not lexy2014. Unless you're a bot.

Anyways, get out!

lexy2014:
why then did netanyahu allow the attack to happen even though he had credible intelligence that d attack was going to happen?

Book a flight, or maybe visit the Israeli embassy, get visa, book a flight, take Uber to the pm's office, walk into the building and knock on Netanyahu's door, wait 2 seconds and open the door, and ask Netanyahu your question.

Or you could as well ask his spokesperson.

Yes, let all hell loose on the middle east, and that never again should such evil befall Israel ever again.

The terrorists and potential terrorists that seek the hurt of Israel should learn vigorously and their mentality shattered.

This should have never been a political war, but a real war. And Israel needs to find its place in world affairs, not as an observer, never like spectator African countries, but as a leader. And if any leader, at least a leader for the continuous large interests of Jewish people anywhere they go in the world.

DaddyCoool:
You can't be a Socrates or Aristotke in Islam. The penalty for leaving Islam is DEATH

Yeah, Socrates and Aristotle also faced trials (though not death exactly), but that's the point of being a "hero". If he could be their liberator, he'd be ready to face the challenges that come with it.

UncleAyo:
All these fake imported religions have destroyed the normal mental processes of a lot of our people.

If you are following any of the two religion, you should know for fact that:

There is no heaven, there is no hell, there is no God (or god), there is no Allah, there are no angels, there are no demons, there are no spirits, there is no life after death, juju don't work, there is no eternal judgment, there is no karma, there was no historical Jesus. All those are figment of human imaginations and tools use by a very few some to control the very many others. The earlier you understand and accept these facts as facts, the happier and merrier your life and existence will be.

The religion you're currently claiming is the religion of your parents, if you were born into a different family of another religion (say Hinduism), that is the exact religion you will practice.

You were born without a religion in you, your factory reset has no religion in it. If you were to be a phone and they do factory reset on you today being a phone, there will not be anything found related to religion in your settings, files and file systems anymore; you learn religion only after your birth growing up.


Islam is idolatry and paganism, Christianity aswell is idolatry - All the world religion is idolatry, including all the Abrahamic religion. Holy communion is idolatory, bowing for a stone call Kaaba of the Bedouin tribes is also idolatory, killing of rams is idolatory, kissing or licking of a stone at mecca is idolatory, throwing of stone at pilgrimage is idolatory too.

Infact, Illah is what the Arabic call God and not Allah (the moon god). Allah was one of the diety been worshiped before the invention of Islam. That is why muslims will say something like "la ilah ila huwa" meaning Allah is one Illah (God). Have you ask yourself why Prophet Mohammed's father who was an idol worshiper and who lived before the invention of islam has Allah in is name Abdullai== Abdu Allah? It is because Allah has been an idol worshiped by paganists before the Prophet received his revelations.

All Abrahamic religion are idolatory, they only package them well and condemn your heritage as evil, whereas, Nigeria was better in terms of morality, honesty and integrity before they brought the foreign religions.

In peace loving, emotional intelligence, love for neighbor, respect for sanctity of life, we are even better than those who brought those religion with primitive leaders whose morality and characters are highly questionable.

With this post, you condemned idolatry. You condemned. So, whatever informed you in the first place that idolatry is condemnable? Answer? Religion. You yourself that you're saying others should be free from religion are by yourself a student of religion and you are using it to inform others.

His case be like those of Socrates, of Aristotle in the deeply religious Greece. Oftentimes, philosophers or philosophical persons like this break the chain of religious indoctrination in their community through the radical criticism of religion.

The North shouldn't lose its own Socrates/Aristotle. That man may be it, the key to their "liberation".

Cool point being raised! Elon Musk, a key and very pro-conservative US government official is strongly on the issue as well. Cool point, Kemi. Be 'friends' with the incoming US government and share its viewpoints concerning UK, to the reasonable extent. Starmer whatever, you're in for some hot oppositions!

Tragically, a mother and her child were among the innocent victims, having been struck by stray bullets during the clash.

Police authorities in Ondo State have taken 19 individuals into custody on suspicion of cult involvement, following a violent confrontation between rival groups in the town of Owo.

Tragically, a mother and her child were among the innocent victims, having been struck by stray bullets during the clash.

A former youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Fisayo Oladipo, also known as Fissey Ehin Ogbe, was also tragically killed in the cult clash in Owo, Ondo State, on Monday, January 6, 2025.

He was shot, along with another person, during the confrontation. The victims' bodies, including Oladipo's, have been taken to the Federal Medical Centre morgue in Owo.

The Ondo State Police Command spokesperson, Funmilayo Odunlami, said police officers have been deployed to restore peace in the affected community.

Ondo State Police Commissioner Wilfred Afolabi visited Owo to evaluate the situation and confirmed that 19 suspects have been arrested in connection with the clashes.

During his visit, Afolabi noted that his team is monitoring the town's compliance with the state government-imposed curfew, adding that “normalcy has returned, and there is calm across the town”.

He clarified that only four deaths have been officially confirmed, despite reports of a higher casualty count.

He reassured law-abiding citizens that they would be protected and provided with a safe environment, while warning those responsible for disrupting the peace that they would be held accountable and face the full force of the law.

https://saharareporters.com/2025/01/07/nigerian-police-arrest-19-suspects-over-cult-clash-owo
https://ait.live/owo-cult-clash-police-confirm-19-arrests/

Previous topic:
https://www.nairaland.com/8311197/ondo-cult-clash-apc-chieftain

Early morning sporadic gun shots emanating from an alleged cult clash in Owo, Ondo State, has led to the death of four persons. Several others sustained various degrees of injuries.

Those confirmed dead include a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Fisayo Oladipo and three others that were shot dead in Owo by unknown gunmen suspected to be some cult members.

Others are a mother and her child who were shot on the roadside by a stray bullet during a reprisal attack.

It was gathered that the ugly event was said to have occurred at around 2:00am on Monday when the gunmen stormed his house in Owo to perpetrate the evil act as confirmed by eyewitness

Already, the entire ancient town is gripped by fear as the clash, which started at a section of the town is spreading.

Eyewitnesses reveal that the violence is also traced to a long time feud which dates back to over a decade, during which several residents lost their lives in gang clashes.

It was revealed that only on Sunday, a 52-year-old man, Fisayo Oladipupo, was reportedly shot by unknown assailants, an incident which stemmed from unresolved disputes lingering for over a decade.

The source explained that “The man killed on Sunday knew his attacker, and that may have led to his death.

“Fifteen years ago, the father’s house of the alleged attacker was set ablaze by local youths. In a retaliatory act, the father’s house of the victim was torched on Monday, 6 January.”

In a viral video, a yet-to-be-identified man was seen lying lifeless on the road as residents fled for safety.

The remains of Mr Oladipupo have been deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre in Owo.

Another source stated that the deceased, a former youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was reportedly shot dead by unidentified gunmen.

The source said sporadic gunshots have rented the air following the killing of the party Chieftain.

“We thank God that students are not around because we have been hearing gunshots after it was heard that the former youth has been killed early this morning."

”The incident has thrown the community into mourning, with residents and party members expressing grief and concern over the growing insecurity in the area.”

Reacting to the incident, Ondo State Police Command spokesman, Funmilayo Ibklam, stated that: “We can’t confirm if an APC chieftain is affected, but four people have been confirmed dead.

“Normalcy has returned through the intervention of the Police, efforts are on to arrest perpetrators of the act.”

https://thesourceng.com/ondo-cult-clash-apc-chieftain-mother-child-shot-dead-in-owo/

nlfpmod

Israel had better be independent in critical areas of course. While the US is one-of-a-kind partner, that partnership apparently depends on the mood swings or wokeism of who's the president or party of the president in the US.

Israel's independence in military equipment sourcing and production would mean no beggy-begging US army generals, courting their politicians too much or holding themselves back in defending themselves so as not to annoy the 'college students' and 'college professors' in US.

Eventually, the one nation that cares about Israel is Israel.

They also need to pursue great degree of independence in the application of their research, among other critical areas that they almost absolutely depend on Europe or US for.

Israel is ever beautiful.

Elbit Systems also contracted to establish manufacturing plant for raw materials, in deals worth $275 million; Israel hopes to reach ‘full independence’ in munitions manufacturing

The Defense Ministry on Tuesday signed two major deals with Elbit Systems for the local arms contractor to supply the military with thousands of heavy bombs and establish a new facility to manufacture raw materials.

The deals were estimated at NIS 1 billion ($275 million), the Defense Ministry said.

The ministry said the agreements were “crucial for enhancing the IDF’s operational endurance and force build-up capabilities,” and represented a “central lesson learned from the war.”

Under the first agreement, Elbit was to supply thousands of heavy air munitions used by the Israeli Air Force.

This would apparently reduce Israel’s need to rely on the United States, which in late spring held up a shipment of heavy bombs.

Since the beginning of the war, the IAF has launched over 83,000 munitions in airstrikes, according to the military.

Under the second agreement, Elbit was to establish a “national raw materials plant to produce raw materials that were sourced mainly from abroad before the war.”

“The new facility will feature advanced production lines for energetic materials that Israel’s defense industry uses,” the ministry said, adding that the project is expected to “strengthen domestic manufacturing independence and reduce reliance on imported raw materials.”

Defense Ministry Director General Eyal Zamir said the deals were “laying the foundations for expanding manufacturing independence in two critical areas for the IDF’s operational sustainability: domestic production of heavy air munitions and establishing a national raw materials plant.”

“Both agreements will ensure sovereign capability in producing bombs and munitions of all types,” he said in remarks provided by the ministry.

“We initiated this historic move before the war but accelerated it during it. Under both agreements, initial capabilities will soon gradually expand until we achieve full independence in both areas,” Zamir said.

“This is a central lesson from the war that will enable the IDF to continue operating powerfully in all theaters,” he added.

The Defense Ministry said in August that the US has sent over 50,000 tons of armaments and military equipment to Israel since the war began.

The aggression against Israel throughout the Middle East, which has been described as a seven-front war, began with the Hamas October 7, 2023, massacre, which saw thousands of terrorists invade Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251.

In Gaza, fierce fighting in the north continues, with Hamas still demonstrating it is still capable of firing rockets at Israel after nearly 15 months of war.

In Lebanon, a delicate ceasefire holds as Israeli forces continue to uncover Hezbollah infrastructure in the country’s south.

Meanwhile, over the past month, Houthi ballistic missiles from Yemen have repeatedly sent millions of Israelis to bomb shelters in the middle of the night.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-locally-produce-heavy-bombs-reducing-reliance-on-us-after-shipment-holdup/

HartetarLee1998:
I need a place I can learn these two tech skills in Akure please, Graphic design and Web developer...

Imagine a tech company I get in touch with earlier is demanding 360k for the both courses for 5months duration

A very long time ago, 2023, I heard of some place in Ondo state, named the dome, and that trains tech enthusiasts free and provides co-working space too. Apparently, it was a state govt project.

Checking the internet again, I saw this: https://ondea.ng/trainings/
This should be it. Check it out or call someone that you may know around the the dome to help ask.

It appears Israel doesn't even care about its peoples. I still don't get how 5 million terrorists and potential terrorists are still in the Palestine. And how supposed Druze at Syria are thus Israeli citizens. Just leaving/breeding ground for future attacks, again. Evil never sleeps. Even if all the arms of the entire Arab world are destroyed today, in few years, they'd get more arms. Destroying their structures and demoralizing them through fear of the brutal Israel is the way to go.

Imagine, some Palestinian daring the IAF's incoming aircraft and the IAF actually moving away and postponing their mission.

Israel loves the Arabs, that's a given.

ivandragon:
Sorry, but you do not seem to have made any tangible point that points to any misconception on my initial comment.

You seem fixated in shoehorning your own perception and understanding on my viewpoint and I am beginning to wonder why.

Are you insinuating that the north does not have agricultural advantages over the south? Or that farm produce cannot be taxed? I really don't get your drift...

When people harvest yam and sell for consumption, what is that? If it was not something to be reckoned with at all for vat, why the emphasis on its exemption in the reform bill?

Like I said, I do not see what misconception you are clearing up. It seems more like you have a preconceived notion about how you want me to view the matter, rather than what the reality is.

You seem to have a problem with understanding. Or rather, you don't even have a purpose or remember the purpose of your initial post.

Have a great morning, please.

Raph82:
Thoroughly explained. U see, I don't understand the hypocritical game of these northerners. U don't collect vat because ur religion forbids it, but you are fighting hard for the vat collected from other hardworking states. U keep destroying the brewery products that come in to ur state tagging it haram, but u're claiming full entitlement to the vat collected on those products. Beer is haram, but the vat collected on beer is holy. Even in United Arab Emirate, they allow beer consumption. Tax reform bill or no more Nigeria, shikena.

The North is extremely hypocritical. They form religious, they use religion as tool but they are >70% the origin of corruption, public funds stealing in Nigeria.

This tax reform issue that they are hellbent on letting it not pass just reveals their parasitic yet hypocritical nature to full glare.

That one, the Borno governor was even insinuating that the bill should spend 20 years in the house. Fakely religious, hypocritical, backward and wanting drag others backward, that's deep North Nigeria defined.

Salubata:
IPOB idiot, what's that statement called in Court of Law?

A praise song?

Get off my mention please

The woman was laying curses.

Wait, this means that curse-laying people's can be arraigned and the court would grant the hearing? Cool to know! Even this case would be a proper precedence, confidence.

ivandragon:
I am yet to see, or maybe understand, exactly what point you are trying to pass across because you have not pointed out any contradiction in my initial comment.

If agricultural produce was not somehow a vital aspect of the VAT reform, then why is the bill specific on exemption of some agricultural related products?

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/10/29/proposed-tax-regulation-exempts-oil-and-gas-exports-agriculture-military-hardware-others-from-vat/?amp#:~:text=These%20included%20basic%20food%20items,and%20agricultural%20seeds%20and%20seedlings.

In my opinion, we are still on the same page, so I don't get the misconception you want to clear up. You probably made inferences based on your own understanding, but it's ok.

Ok, let me come again. Your initial post was about that the tax reform bill isn't attractive. And to ensure it is more attractive, ensuring something like (Ondo state, you'd get 60% of the bitumen you have [bitumen extraction royalties? Other taxes? Or the bitumen extraction company's income tax?]) be included in the said tax reform bill.

Also, you said that how would the bill even be attractive when agricultural produce, oil and gas are exempted from VAT, VAT in which is the entire topic of the tax reform bill especially when there are certain states that have comparative advantage in terms of agriculture, and thus wouldn't be so enticed.

Where I wanted to clear up misconception is thus the latter point that you raised. Whatever states that may have advantage in terms of e.g. agriculture is the largely the North. Now, I say that VAT-agriculture in the context of the North is quite untenderable because on the topic of VAT in the first place, the North has no advantage (vat is on consumption, final buy not manufacture/production/extraction). Had it been it was income tax-agriculture farms, then you may have raised that point. And because the North would know that even if oil and gas and agricultural produce are VAT'ed and the VAT'ing system is efficient, it is still Lagos State (the highest consumer) that'd get the most money.

So, I say, raise your suggestion, sound, but VAT-agriculture-agric advantaged states e.g. North don't align. Income-tax - agriculture-agric advantaged states e.g. North on otherhand aligns.

Deepthoughts:
I think the interview should have included an expert from the opponents of the bill to ask Mr Ayodele some critical questions bordering on their areas of concern or the interview organizers should have gotten list of questions from the opponents to ask Mr Ayodele so that the public can be properly informed about the tax reform issues,I have a very strong feeling that there are hidden but sticking points in this tax reform discourse that if not openly sincerely n adequately address might be the source of friction in the future.

From what I know of the bill, let me give you my own explanation.

VAT is tax paid on finished goods/services that reach the final consumer (e.g. turkey eventually consumed, hotel bills eventually settled, construction materials eventually used), it is based on 15% of retail price. Some add it to the price that final consumers are to see and so on. Final consumers then pay the retail price plus that tax.

Normally, this tax is to be remitted by the retailer. However, in Nigeria, because of some acute lack of organization in its part, it is even remitted by the manufacturers/distributors. And because of that, VAT is remitted by Lagos State (hq of the manufacturer) instead of in the various states in Nigeria and by the retailers.

FG wants to better organize the VAT taxing structure, and at that, wouldn't be collected by FIRS (FG tax collector), but by each state's IRS (each state's tax collectors) instead.

And further, rather than FG pooling the VAT tax revenue, and then sharing it to the states using the FAAC sharing formula, FG says the states having collected it by themselves would then take 85% of it and give the FG 15%. This is equitable, right? In almost all countries of the world, sales tax is the state's responsibility.

The North opposes it for these:
If your state's people are poor, and do not consume plenty things, or expensive items, or luxurious items, your state's VAT revenue would be low.
Also, if your state's tax collection is inefficient or sharia no tax-bound, your state's VAT revenue would be low.

So, the North believes that their people consume poorly and their VAT would be low compared to if Lagos State or River state share theirs with them for example.
Also, they don't collect taxes, except maybe Kano, and even so, little compared to other ever-tax-ready states of the South, so they believe their revenue would be low compared to if the inefficient VAT'ing system still sticks.


The FG continues to say that, no, eventually, there'd be benefits to those Northern states inasmuch as they encourage productivity and developments in their states, and in which increases incomes and increase consumption, hence high VAT revenue, but apparently, that seems like death sentence to some of those state's governor.


With the above, I hope I have been able to explain the tax reform bill, in the simplest way.


And PS: states like Ekiti state in South may also be badly affected by it, and that's the point, each state's government should also work on developments from the grassroot in order for them to reap high state revenues.

ivandragon:
I believe I was very specific when I said resource derivation which means I am suggesting it extends beyond just VAT.

Please try to understand my own viewpoint.

Lol. I was but trying to change the misconception that you may have on VAT in order for you to properly position your suggestion.

The part specific on "agricultural produce is what some states produce and no incentive, etc. cause they are non-VATable". Then I told you that on VAT (besides your resource derivation suggestion), it is remitted/paid based on who sells to final consumer not manufacturer in the first place. So, even if agricultural produce were VATable, still no inherent benefits to the agricultural producing states that you mentioned. And at that, you shouldn't include the misconception in your suggestion.

And on your viewpoint, including resource derivation. Cool! But wouldn't that be more controversial? The North doesn't want South-South's oil tax revenue to stop flowing to them, but Zamfara state's gold for example belongs to them alone. That'd be like "war on North". Perhaps the FG is taking baby steps starting with vat, or perhaps not. Nonetheless, your suggestion is sound!