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Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by fman(m): 10:17am On Mar 18, 2025
Mynd44:
You must be a proponent of the now popular saying "school na scam"
U r not fit to be a moderator.
You are so biased in reasoning and comprehension.
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by DARLYNBOI: 10:32am On Mar 18, 2025
kosiebe:
This looks to me like another Natasha. They just want to create unnecessary issues from nothing.
Did you just say NOTHING..huh
You mean nobody from your state is affected by the hardship in d midst of the abundance and commonwealth that God gave nigeria.
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Obaaderemi2: 10:33am On Mar 18, 2025
I'm
Blazetrailer:
Damage control. He actually meant death penalty.
No, he did not. He doesn't have a good grasp of the language but then his saving grace was including "under NYSC" in the sentence. Is there death penalty under the nysc?
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Obaaderemi2: 10:35am On Mar 18, 2025
A moderator should be a mediator if anything at all. He shouldn't take sides. This OP doesn't fit in as a moderator of a site as important as NL
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Bede2u(m): 10:42am On Mar 18, 2025
Mynd44:
You must be a proponent of the now popular saying "school na scam"
capital punishment derives from Caput which means head.
It means decapitation. You go school so? You that single-handedly ruined nairaland with infantile bigotry in the name of moderating opinions
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by sajjadhasan08: 10:43am On Mar 18, 2025
Temitope Ajayi, the Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, recently addressed the importance of accurate reporting following a controversy involving his comments on a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member's social media post. The corps member, Ushie Uguamaye, had criticized President Tinubu, leading Ajayi to suggest that such actions should attract the "full NYSC disciplinary measures." However, his use of the term "capital punishment" was misinterpreted by some as advocating for the death penalty. Ajayi clarified that within the context of NYSC regulations, "capital punishment" refers to the maximum penalty of expulsion, not bodily harm. He emphasized that his comments were misrepresented and stressed the need for responsible journalism to prevent the spread of misinformation.

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Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by OctavianAC(m):
Let that ill-breeded girl be cautioned in the service.
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Image123(m): 10:52am On Mar 18, 2025
Sheuns:
I’ll ask this question.

Which of NYSC rules did the lady break?

Everyone saying as a corps member you’re not allowed to criticize or make comments about the country or government should provide the place in the rule book where this is written.
The NYSC is a paramilitary arm of the FG. While they may not have updated laws, your orientation takes care of these basics. You SIGN, sing and pledge for the government, not against. That means you can be disciplined by them as long as you are a corps member. If you want to criticize them or the government, then you wait till you are no more a corps member. Until then, you are literally government property. Under the sun and in the rain, they reserve the rights to send you to warfront.

Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Blazetrailer: 10:58am On Mar 18, 2025
Which is what makes it more compelling that he meant death sentence. There is nothing like capital punishment in NYSC codes. The maximum you have is expulsion from the service.

However, there is only one definition of capital punishment worldwide and it is far off from expulsion.

Stop excusing the choice of words by people put in leadership.

Obaaderemi2:
I'mNo, he did not. He doesn't have a good grasp of the language but then his saving grace was including "under NYSC" in the sentence. Is there death penalty under the nysc?
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Blazetrailer:
NYSC is not a paramilitary service. Read the act that established it first before coming to speak about what you dont know here. Just like the Nigerian foreing aid corps, NYSC was established for service. Nothing more.


Image123:
The NYSC is a paramilitary arm of the FG. While they may not have updated laws, your orientation takes care of these basics. You SIGN, sing and pledge for the government, not against. That means you can be disciplined by them as long as you are a corps member. If you want to criticize them or the government, then you wait till you are no more a corps member. Until then, you are literally government property. Under the sun and in the rain, they reserve the rights to send you to warfront.
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Image123(m): 11:18am On Mar 18, 2025
Blazetrailer:
NYSC is not a paramilitary service. Read the act that established it first before coming to soeak aboit what you dont know here. Just like the Nigerian foreing aid corps, NYSC was established for service. Nothing more.
Okay, thanks for the information.
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by MrNipplesLover(m): 11:41am On Mar 18, 2025
The end is near for the NYSC bullshitt...

It's time eyes are opening to see the uselessness of serving as corps in strange lands where u know nobody and ur life is endangered...

This NYSC will be scrapped soon...

Illiterate bastards who are ruling this country shall be doomed...

E no go better for all of una together!
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by TemmyT002(m): 12:42pm On Mar 18, 2025
The writer of this trash deserves ten rounds of accurate dirty slaps
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by kingthreat(m): 3:13pm On Mar 18, 2025
Agbegbaorogboye:
Can you share a link for this definition
The Ajayi guy has always shown poor command of English
But you who are defending him are the biggest disgrace
Lol, jerks have always seen me has a disgrace. I'm used to it.
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Kdon2: 5:22pm On Mar 18, 2025
Sheuns:
I’ll ask this question.

Which of NYSC rules did the lady break?

Everyone saying as a corps member you’re not allowed to criticize or make comments about the country or government should provide the place in the rule book where this is written.

The mugu even said expulsion from NYSC. NYSC does not expel anyone, the worst is they will ask you to do the service year again and may be without pay.
Obviously you never went to school. So it's impossible to explain education related matter to you.
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Sheuns(m): 5:29pm On Mar 18, 2025
femi4:
You are not allowed to make video against the authority
LOL. When did you add this to the list of rules?
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by femi4: 5:33pm On Mar 18, 2025
Sheuns:
LOL. When did you add this to the list of rules?
Not be rude to constituted authority
Any member who is rude to constituted authority shall be tried by the Corps Disciplinary Committee and, if found guilty, be liable to extension of service for a period not less than thirty (30) days with half pay
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by gaskiyamagana: 6:19pm On Mar 18, 2025
lonelydora:
Capital punishment has only one meaning.

But he has explained what he meant.

Truth is that girl made a mistake with her video.

Una go push that girl into more wahala o. NYSC is a paramilitary under the Nigeria Army.
Which mistake? You mean saying the truth about tinubu, his policies and government were not terrible just less than two years?
Which Nigeria Army that is chicken before Boko Haram?
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Sundaymessi: 8:44pm On Mar 18, 2025
Mynd44:
Not my problem. That is between her and the NYSC's vague rules.

NYSC have rules that bans press statements by corp members and they take it a bit too seriously since social media is not the press neither are the corp members civil servants
Stop trying to twist facts!
There is NO LAW that prevents a corp member from expressing her opinion on an issue.
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Sundaymessi: 8:49pm On Mar 18, 2025
lonelydora:
Capital punishment has only one meaning.

But he has explained what he meant.

Truth is that girl made a mistake with her video.

Una go push that girl into more wahala o. NYSC is a paramilitary under the Nigeria Army.
The same NYSC in its pamphlet encouraged corps members to be ready for ransom money in case of kidnapping! Which paramilitary organization has ever done that right from the garden of Eden?
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by MIKOLOWISKA: 3:26pm On Mar 20, 2025
Mynd44:
Not my problem. That is between her and the NYSC's vague rules.

NYSC have rules that bans press statements by corp members and they take it a bit too seriously since social media is not the press neither are the corp members civil servants
does govt pay them salary. They are civil servants
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by MIKOLOWISKA: 3:27pm On Mar 20, 2025
Mynd44:
You must be a proponent of the now popular saying "school na scam"
define capital punishment
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by MIKOLOWISKA: 3:29pm On Mar 20, 2025
Didijiji:
Did she liehuhhuh

Why are we not looking at that part?

Let’s not be eeediots pls

Current state of APC and Tinubu’s Nigeria is one that calls for mass cry. Corpers can help us with this case to maybe force the leaders to do better
why corpers
You no get mouth or data?
They should support their colleague let’s see if government will sack them all.
sack ke
They will just repeat another year without pay
Who lose
The mumu LI self trying to punish her may not have food at home to eat
is the mumu complaining
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by MIKOLOWISKA: 3:49pm On Mar 20, 2025
emkz:
No, school is not a scam. Many of us are just so much in a rush to be heard and expose our own limitations. The presidential aide had no business talking about this matter. He is even giving the girl more relevance to go and seek asylum abroad that the Nigerian government threatened her life. It is NYSC matter. NYSC have their media people and PR experts. That a presidential aide put his mouth tells us the amount of time on their hands.
what else should they use their time for
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by emkz: 7:23am On Mar 24, 2025
MIKOLOWISKA:
what else should they use their time for
Promote the president's agenda and programmes. Some of them need to be stationed where FG projects are ongoing and report them to us.

During Jerry Gana's time, he was going all around the country promoting FG projects. Work is ongoing on the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway. One of them needs to be there. NNPC refinery is undergoing rehabilitation. Put someone there. Put one of them to promote the tax reform bills. Put one of them to be with the minister of interior and amplify progress.

They have no business sitting down in the office in Abuja.
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by MIKOLOWISKA: 6:21am On Mar 27, 2025
emkz:
Promote the president's agenda and programmes. Some of them need to be stationed where FG projects are ongoing and report them to us.

Why



During Jerry Gana's time, he was going all around the country promoting FG projects. Work is ongoing on the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway

Is this Jerry gana time


. One of them needs to be there. NNPC refinery is undergoing rehabilitation. Put someone there. Put one of them to promote the tax reform bills. Put one of them to be with the minister of interior and amplify progress.


And of they don't
What will you do

They have no business sitting down in the office in Abuja.
go and make them stand nigbana
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Konquest:
emkz:
https://www.nysc.gov.ng/downloads/nysc-bye-laws.php
NYSC BYE-LAWS (Revised 2011)

3. CODE OF CONDUCT

III. DURING THE PERIOD OF PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT

Not be rude to constituted authority
Any member who is rude to constituted authority shall be tried by the Corps Disciplinary Committee and, if found guilty, be liable to extension of service for a period not less than thirty (30) days with half pay.
The bye-laws will definitely be made stiffer to guard against any future unguarded abuse.
Re: Temitope Ajayi, Capital Punishment: The Need For Accurate Reporting by Konquest:
emkz:
Capital punishment does not have any meaning in NYSC context. It means capital punishment, i.e., decapitation.

The presidential aide was wrong, and an apology would not be out of order.

As for those asking about the NYSC rules flouted, NYSC bye-laws are publicly available. Go to the website and read where it talks about insubordination to constituted authority. You can ask what constitutes insubordination.

Assuming you argue that calling the boss of her institution terrible does not amount to insubordination, when she was asked to delete the video, did she obey immediately?

She claimed to have been threatened. How many have asked her to explain what constitutes a threat?

She wasn't threatened. She is playing the victim here
, just like Senator you know who.

They said she posted a video that NYSC considered to be in bad taste. Ordinarily, Tinubu would not even care. He himself said he didn't read social media because they abused hell out of him. When NYSC asked her to delete the video, it was probably more to protect her and ensure there is discipline in the scheme. By telling a lie that she was victimized, she has blown a simple case that has given her negative publicity. She'd enjoy the fame, then what next?

These social media urchins want to blow. Are they ready to manage the "blowing"? Temporary social media fame is like gas that escapes when you open fizzy drinks. Once it goes, it will never come back, except you continue doing more things to produce more gas. Do you want this type of depressing life?

Do not let the likes of Omoyele Sowore, Deji Adeyanju and Inibehe Effiong deceive you. They'd milk your foolishness to enhance their public image and leave you to dry to move on to the next exciting public matter.
Nicely put.

Your submission above is about the BEST I've read on this thread.

Effective communication is key here. What the Presidential aide really meant in his original statement was capital "PUNISHMENT" with ONLY the word "punishment" in capital letters and NOT "capital punishment" which in absolute terms means the "death penalty."

However, some words or phrases can be used metaphorically OR colloquially by certain in-house institutions or sports clubs in the United States and elsewhere in the world such as the phrase "death penalty" which is simply a code phrase or colloquial term meaning you have been "penalized" for an offense and NOT a real death penalty.

So, the Presidential aide should have made himself CLEARER in his original communication to prevent his words being misinterpreted by the largely gullible public who easily get manipulated based on their primordial biases, by the relentless defamations and deliberate disinformation being published by the highly dubious Peoples Gazette, Fij, Omoyele Sowore, online trolls and the insidious secessionist groups.

Last but not least, I listened fully two days ago to the excerpts of that NYSC girl's rants and she irresponsibly and CLEARLY said "the President is terrible." The idea of scapegoating just one man (just like many semi-literates and ignorant people who lack creative problem-solving skills and critical thinking have been doing) for the state of artificial inflation and high cost of foods and transportation revealed her deep naivety as a so-called Uni graduate. In reality, it's the Governors of states such as Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, or the ones in Ogun and Kano, etc, (who are much closer to the masses) that are largely responsible for ensuring that the price control of food items, transportation and services are regulated locally. Price regulations of transportation and food items is largely within the PURVIEW of all these Governors and NOT President Tinubu alone. Even before the so-called 2023 subsidiary removal, I've always advocated for the use of CNG-fueled food trucks and CNG-fueled cargo trains to bring foods cheaply to the urban areas via the railway system. CNG is far cheaper at about N250 per standard cubic ft of CNG than the more expensive PMS or diesel from Dangote Petrochemical Refinery. PMS will NEVER help in reducing the cost of transportation, food items and production because crude oil sales is tied to FX being that crude oil is an international commodity. ONLY CNG fuel will lower costs in 2025 and the state Governors must lead the way here by LEASING many CNG-fueled food trucks to bring foods cheaply from the agricultural hinterlands of their various states OR from the North of Nigeria to the South of Nigeria and vice versa. The Nigerian Railway trains and passenger ferries in Lagos State's water ways can be converted to use dual CNG-diesel fuel as well. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and other Governors have to act fast on these while working to lower the cost of food items with all the market unions to prevent the usual hoarding by very greedy market people when prices begin to drop. The solution to artificial inflation is so simple! Enough of the pussyfootings.
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