₦airaland Forum

If the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) would not tell us the names of the banks, they should not bother releasing such a report.

Seamtri:
He urged the CIA to collaborate with the agency in the fight by making sure that they administer their affairs in a corruption-free manner.

Is this a subtle way of asking for funds from a foreign government?

So, it is true that the United States government sponsors EFCC activities; no wonder EFCC is far more active in financial crime that affects United States citizens than in financial crime that affects Nigerians.

FrLukas:
Cultistism should carry the death penalty. Same with kidnapping.

What is cultism?

The penalty for kidnapping should not be the same as the penalty for murder.

Death penalty for kidnapping gives no incentive for the abductor to keep the victim alive.

Is the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) talking about renewal (of an expired card) or replacement (of a lost or damaged card)?

As several have mentioned on this thread, many of us are yet to get the identity card, so the issue of renewal or replacement does not yet arise. Or is this a subtle way of asking everybody who wants to collect his/her card to pay N5,000 under the pretext of "renewal"?

Why do several federal government agencies like to serve United States interests?

NwaAmaikpe:
I'd say the judge was really lenient but the question to EFCC is, was it worth the stress?

EFCC serves foreign interests.

What matters to EFCC is to get as many convictions (for financial crime which affect foreigners) as possible to justify any donations it receives from foreign governments.

Registration of births is not enforced in Nigeria.

Many parents do not bother to register the birth of their children until it is time for the child to go to secondary school or a tertiary institution, or to apply for a passport. This time lag gives room for all sorts of manipulation of dates and figures.

In several other countries, registration of birth must be done within 60 or 90 days after the child is born.

"Declaration of Age" is still accepted in Nigeria, regardless of when the person was born.

People mention whatever age or date of birth they are comfortable with, because the Nigerian system allows it.

[quote author= post=83075958]We don't disappoint in everything, we always break record legally and illegally, if its legally, Oyinbo will claims its their people by birth or citizenship but if it's illegally, Na Nigeria even if he was born there with mix oyinbo and naija parent[/quote]It is not stated anywhere in the report that Daniel Fakoya is a Nigerian.

The reference to a "Nigerian" was only mentioned on the Nairaland front page.

From the actress' narrative, her mistake was not in having cosmetic surgery, but in broadcasting it on social media.

Nobody needed to know about any cosmetic adjustment she was going to have.

She should have just had the surgery quietly, recuperated, and moved on as though nothing happened.

How he was dressed was his business.

Lightning would not strike a person within a hotel room without any building or property damage?

The fact of the story is that someone died in a hotel room.

It is for the relevant agencies to determine whether the person's death was as a result of natural causes, an accident, suicide or murder.

Itakpe, which is close to Okene, is in Kogi State. What is the distance in km from Abuja to Itakpe?

If the distance is 260 km, and the cost of the railway construction is $3.9 billion, that would translate to $15 million per km. This cost is fair if it is light rail built to international standard; otherwise it is outrageous.

doris00:
Speaking in Abuja during the signing ceremony, Amaechi said that the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreement states that Nigeria will take care of 15% of the cost, while CRCC will handle 10% of it.

The minister also stated that the remaining 75% will be borrowed by the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) which the federal government will pay back in a period of 30 years after which it will take back ownership of the assets.

What or who is the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)? Are they a group of Nigerian companies or foreign companies?

Even though the expenditure is for a capital project, is it really wise to borrow 85% (10% + 75%) of $3.9 billion, which is approximately $3.3 billion, to be paid back over a period of 30 years with compound interest?

Sexual harassment laws should be inclusive of every workplace, not just tertiary institutions.

A sexual relationship between a lecturer and his/her student should be viewed as professional misconduct, and should be handled by the school authorities.

A five-year jail term for sexual harassment is too harsh. Sexual harassment is not as severe as rape. A prison sentence of six months, with an option of fine, is appropriate.

Nksleek:
When passed into law, vice chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics and other chief executives of institutions of higher learning will go to jail for two years if they fail to act within a week on complaints of sexual harassment made by students.

This part should not be included at all. Criminal investigations are the job of the police and the Ministry of Justice (state and federal). Those who work in these institutions do not have jail term threats for not acting within a week after a complaint has been lodged.

Imagine if there are five hundred sexual harassment complaints within a space of five days; and the chief executive of the institution must act on each and every complaint or face jail term! What if some complaints do not get to the vice chancellor's desk within a week?

The bill, if passed as it is stated, will only encourage brain drain.

Nksleek:
Senator Omo-Agege believes that students, regardless of age are incapable of giving voluntary consent to unwelcomed sexual advances or demands for sexual favours by lecturers in any student-lecturer fiduciary relationship.

The age of consent is 18 years. Being a student from the age of 18 years does not turn him/her into a minor. However, the lecturer could still be liable for professional misconduct.

Did the person who carried out the procedure have the relevant professional training and qualification?

Why was the stretch-marks removal not, first of all, performed on a small patch of skin to determine whether the client would be able to tolerate the procedure?

Regardless of anybody's political aspirations, telling an ethnic group to go to h*** is hate speech.

How can lightning strike a person within a hotel room without any building or property damage?

The fact of the story is that someone died in a hotel room.

It is for the relevant agencies to determine whether the person's death was as a result of natural causes, an accident, suicide or murder.

Everybody has a right to defend himself against any allegations.

Whether the accused is guilty or innocent is a different matter; but to say that a person should not defend himself is totally off.

EFCC generally serves foreign interests. It is almost as if foreign governments or companies tell EFCC what to do.

In this particular case, a South African company has used EFCC against Nigerian citizens.

planetx:
No the new law is for people already living in the US trying to bring their spouses, children or parents over not for people applying for tourists visa.

Thank you for your response.

Does this mean that the United States Embassy will insist that visa applicants must pay for health insurance before submitting their application?

It is for the state governments to encourage primary and secondary school education.

The word "hijab" is not mentioned in the letter.

In fact, there is no reference to any dress code in the letter.

B3sty:
Na wao! Seems EFCC only Job Schedule is to go after Yahoo Boys Now...
What about our Politicians who are Milking Nigeria? They are the Main Yahoo Men!

EFCC serves foreign interests.

If the activities of some persons, who are allegedly "milking Nigeria," have no adverse effect on foreigners (especially United States citizens), EFCC would show little or no interest.

The audio/video is not in English.

Someone who understands the language should kindly provide a transcript of the conversation in English?

SenecaTheYonger:
Why is rain still falling in October?

In the southern part of the country, the rainy season begins in the late weeks of February/early weeks of March and ends in October.

[url]legit.ng/1128716-months-rainy-season-nigeria.html[/url]

aguele:
According to the legal practitioner, the COAS never in anyway suggested using spiritualism to fight insurgency rather called on religious leaders to support the Nigerian Army in eradicating ideologies fuelling insurgency in the country.

It was okay for the Chief of Army Staff to ask religious leaders to eradicate ideologies which encourage insurgency.

However, including the phrase "Spiritual Warfare" in the title and theme of his message was an error, which was obviously going to have various interpretations and result in him being quoted out of context.

One of Southern Cameroon's greatest mistakes was choosing to join La République du Cameroun instead of Nigeria in the 1961 plebiscite.

Nigeria may have its issues but Anglophone Cameroonians certainly would not have been harassed in the present manner if their region had become part of Nigeria.

A survivor of the Nigerian "torture house" raided by police has described being there as "living in hellfire".

"If you are praying they will beat you. If you are studying they will beat you," Isa Ibrahim, 29, told the BBC.

Nearly 500 men and boys were rescued from the building in Kaduna, which was being used as an Islamic school and correctional facility.

The police said it was a place of human slavery, with many detainees found in chains.

Some of the victims had been tortured and sexually abused, the authorities say.

The BBC's Ishaq Khalid, who visited the school in northern Nigeria, says there are concerns that similar abuse may be occurring in other such institutions.

Many families in this mainly Muslim part of the country can't afford to send their children to school and those that can often enrol them in poorly regulated Koranic schools like this one, he says.

Seven people, including some teachers, have been arrested. The government says it will investigate other schools.

Isa Ibrahim's ordeal
Mr Ibrahim said he was sent there two weeks ago by his family, apparently to "correct his behaviour".

He said he had tried to escape the day before the police arrived.

He described being chained up to an old generator and also being subjected to a particularly cruel punishment, known as "Tarkila", where his hands were tied up and he was left hanging from the ceiling.

"I have many injuries. Almost all parts of my body have injuries," he said. "Even if you are sleeping - they'll use [a] cane to wake you up."

He said he had been starved and was only given plain rice to eat. People kept at the centre "lose all of our energy", he added.

Children as young as five were among those rescued from the school, which is believed to have been operating for several years. Most of the men and boys in the school were from northern Nigeria but two were reportedly from Burkina Faso.

Abandoned chains at a 'house of torture'
The Daru Imam Ahmad Bun Hambal facility was supposed to be an Islamic school, as well as a correctional home for children and young people with behavioural problems. But there were clearly far darker things going on behind its walls.

The facility has been shut and taken over by police. The pink two-storey building is a prison-like structure surrounded by high walls and barbed wire. It has an imposing gate, with more than a dozen rooms, with small windows for ventilation.

When I visited, the compound was littered with abandoned household items like mattresses, buckets, clothes and books - apparently left in the wake of the police raid.

Kaduna state police spokesperson Yakubu Sabo told me most of the captives had been rescued with their shackles still on but I could still see some abandoned chains, as well as car wheels and petrol-powered generators to which the victims had allegedly been attached.

People living nearby have been left bewildered - some told me they couldn't believe the shocking discovery.

The "students" did not go to out to beg on the streets as is the usual practice with traditional Koranic schools in this region. Nor had they been forced to do hard labour - some said they had not seen the outside world for years.

Torture was used as a form of discipline - to correct perceived bad behaviour.

Relatives are being reunited with their children at a camp in Kaduna where the victims were taken after being rescued.

Some said they had been prevented from seeing their children at the school.

"If we had known that this thing was happening in the school, we wouldn't have sent our children. We sent them to be people but they ended up being maltreated," said a parent named Ibrahim, who had identified his son.

The Kaduna state government says it will now carry out checks on all Koranic schools across the state.

"This is an eye-opener for us," said Hafsat Baba, Kaduna State Commissioner of Human Services and Social Development. She added that if this scale of abuse was happening in the main city, she didn't know what might be going on in rural areas.

"We have to map all the schools. And we have to make sure that if they violate the government orders then they have to be closed down completely," she told the BBC.

"If we find any facility that is torturing children or is harbouring these kind of horrific situations that we have just seen, they are going to be prosecuted."

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned reports of shocking abuse at the institution.

He also urged religious and traditional leaders to work with the authorities to "expose and stop all types of abuse that are widely known but ignored for many years by our communities".

[url]bbc.com/news/world-africa-49869804[/url]

Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused and tortured, Nigerian police said.

Children as young as five were among those in chains at what was thought to be an Islamic school, officers said.

Kaduna police chief Ali Janga told the BBC the building was raided after a tip-off about suspicious activity.

He described it as a "house of torture" and a place of human slavery.

Eight suspects, most of them teachers, were arrested. The police chief said the detainees - some with injuries and starved of food - were overjoyed to be freed.

The detainees said they had been tortured, sexually abused, starved and prevented from leaving - in some cases for several years.

"I have spent three months here with chains on my legs," Bell Hamza reportedly told Nigerian media.

"This is supposed to be an Islamic centre, but trying to run away from here attracts severe punishment; they tie people and hang them to the ceiling for that."

Some of the children told police that their relatives had taken them there, believing the building to be a Koranic school.

Two of the children freed by police said their parents had sent them from Burkina Faso. Police believe the rest are mostly from northern Nigeria.

Islamic schools are popular in the region but there have long been allegations of abuse in some schools, and of pupils forced to beg for money on the streets.

One parent told Reuters news agency that they did not know their children would face "this kind of harsh condition".

The captives are sheltering at a camp where their families are arriving to identify them. Hafsat Muhammad Baba of the Kaduna state government told the BBC the government will continue to provide medical care for the men and boys.

[url]bbc.com/news/world-africa-49850408[/url]

sotall:
How can you mistakenly cut off someone's kidney?


Is he blind ni?

I really don't understand; not one kidney, but both mistakenly cut off!

Well, the report does not give us details of the case.

If the doctor is not satisfied with the judgment, he can appeal.

Does Tanko Muhammad have a qualification from the Nigerian Law School?

alexistaiwo:
Serial killer that is caught within a week of capturing his face, is that one a serial killer

Any person who commits four or more murders on different occasions, with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behaviour pattern, may be regarded as a serial killer.

The real issue is that tattoos are permanent.

It is far easier to print a tattoo than to remove a tattoo.

Each person is the owner of his (or her) body, so in a way whether he gets a tattoo printed on himself is his business. However, having a tattoo may come with consequences, and such a person should be prepared for such.

As implied earlier, when a person is about to get a tattoo, he should realize that there is almost no going back. It is not like having an unusual hairstyle, then changing to a regular style after a few weeks.

In addition, he should realize that there could be social consequences, whether for the right or wrong reasons. If for example, he puts a tattoo on his face and he becomes a subject of social ridicule or he finds it difficult to secure employment, then he should simply accept responsibility for his actions.