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I v posted important topics on Nairaland but I never get to see it published. See trash topic that they posted. Nonsense!!

glimpse33:
40 Traditional Rulers (Juju Men) Against One Man

If I Was Rochas, I would step down as Governor for the sake of my dear life!

Please fellow Nairalanders, am based abroad and I need to have a cheap means of withdrawing money from my banks in Nigeria for biz purposes.but I've held master cards from couple of banks in Nigeria, but it seems that their charges are just too high with small limited amount to withdraw per day. .please I want to if anyone has an idea of d bank that issues master card with minimal charges. Thanks in anticipation.

Cc: lalasticlala. Please help me post this.

Another mind game, please I believe 101% in the powers of God, but don't believe this man trying to hoodwink people.

Shadow criminals

Please move on, it's old stuff abi na effects of unemployment ni?

Hmmm.one way trip to a waste land. I pity this dude that insisted on a gal who sees him as second best,only to face matrimonial crises later. Dear Sis don't feed ur heart with unwanted food, it ll create problem sooner than later. Still say no if he asks u again. This is why many marriages failed because people get married nowadays for the wrong reasons.

And I ask, are we going to witness any meaningful positive changes if this beefing continues to linger in APC?

Consult a medical Dr.

This is a country Nigeria government is looking up to.
Maybe in time people ll begin to understand that it's only that can save us.
Signs of dying Generation

Biafra is a shadow that ll always hunt Nigeria down for the injustices they meted on Us. U cannot beat a child n tell him not to cry.its never done. After 45 yrs of civil war, what has Nigeria state done to appease Biafrans? Nothing but treating them like an outcasts n second class citizens in their own country. America waged war against East America,since after the war East America has produced 6 American president to show a genuine move to integrate n appease Eastern Americans. What has d Igbos received from Nigeria as a measure to appease, integrate and give them a sense of belonging in Nigeria project?
Only Dullards laced with venomous tribal hate instilled in them by their fathers ll attack me for utterly this bitter truth.

Biafra must survive like Israelites survived from d cruel hands of Pharoah

dmola:
Well saidbruv,I think I agree with u

You are welcome

Is this what Nigerians voted for? Everyday Northern elders and Tinubu this or that, is Tinubu an elected officer of Federal Republic of Nigeria? We are done hearing about Obasanjo, it's now Tinubu. No meaningful program on d ground.naira now 225-230 per dollar. Smh

ArchEnemy:
Why not sit down and have a 'heart to heart ' discussion with your husband. You need to dig deep to know the reasons for his action. And kill that lust Sister before it kills your home

Seconded

Leem4:
[b]i was born in the mid 90s. At birth i am a very healthy child according to my mum and relatives. My mum said, she can count the number's of time she took to the hospital.

It all started, when i am six years old, i started having crises. Majorly rheumatic pains in my body.
When these become convesant, our doctor told my, parent to carry out genotype test on me. As per the result of the test, i am SC. Since i am young, i dont have the knowlegde nor understanding about these.

Some month ago, a program is being aired in regards to advice to youth, base on genotype.
Then i voiced out to my parent, that as an literate , WHY did they get married to each other when they knew they will give bith to SS. WHY did they give birth to me to make me suffer. WHY do i have to live my life like these always, (they dont allow me to get involve in many activities ). As the conversation ensued, my mum said, during her time, the awareness level is low, and people dont even mind it.

Six years ago, for rougly two years, i didnt go the hospital, talkless of having crises. Am very healthy, but since last year, the crises and many health issue erupt again.

We relocated, then we changed our hospital, the doc the said my parents and i should go for genotype test and blood group test.
THIS is where the problem lie's, my mum is AA and my dad is AC. Regarding to the bloog group test, all of us are A+. With my little, knowledge, about genetics, if AA and AC is cross breed, they will give rise to AA AC AA AA. And they are both A+ they will give birth to A+. When i showed my mum these mistake, he told my dad, then we went to another hospital to retake the test which is still the same.
Now my question is this possible,? Is there any scientific backing about these, or are the not my parent, but i have physical resemblance to my dad.
Please i need your answer's
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Truly u need answers but what ever u get here can never solve ur problem,rather it ll complicate it more . It's better u take ur health condition in good fate, in as much as ur Mum is AA, there's no way she ll give birth to SS offspring even if I should suggest that she cheated on ur Dad to have you. But whether they r ur biological parents or not ll never solve d problem, learn to manage n live with it so that ur days ll be longer. Worrying ll only create more problems. God bless you.

vizkiz:
I think your dad wants some
E still dey body!

Lol.young Puna dey sweet everybody

Buhari and APC should know that governance comes with a huge challenges, even America as developed as they are today, is facing lots of challenges. Enough of this complaints n blames here and there. What would he say if he had inherited Obasanjo's Rotten Government?

VOICEOFTHEMASES:
This the governor of imo state whom has been shouting to high heavens for bailout from buhari. I know someone reading this post will be tempted to insult me but ask yourself how far the N7million cost of hiring this jet will go in the lives of poor imolites that has not received salaries for close to 7months.it is on record that the governor has never used commacial airline since he become governor both when going overseas.

Indeed imo is in the hand of God.

@OP, why did Imolites vote for him again nah?

This Saraki na handsome man

WE REACHED OUT TO SENATOR CHRIS ANYANWU REQUESTING SHE TOOK TIME TO INTERPRET THE SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL IN A LAY MAN'S LANGUAGE THAT ALL CAN UNDERSTAND.
SHE HEED OUR CALL AND HAVE JUST DONE THAT IN THIS DETAILED INTERVIEW. THANKS SEN. CHRIS ANYANWU. EC

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

One of the landmark bills the Seventh Senate passed was the Sexual Offences Bill sponsored by Senator Chris Anyanwu. The bill seeks to protect people of different categories, minors, teenagers, the aged and people with disability from being sexually assaulted. But there has been a misconception in some quarters that the bill tried to encourage defilement of minors. In this interview, Senator Anyanwu says she was misquoted and puts everything in its right perspective while hoping that the President assents for the bill to become law. Excerpts

The Sexual Offences Bill has recently generated a lot of controversy, can you throw more light on what it is all about?

The Sexual Offenses Bill is one that has gone on a very long journey. It started in the 6th Senate, where half way, I did not go the whole hug and when I was re-elected in the 7th Senate, it was the first thing that I brought before the Senate. In fact, it was in 2011 that we did the first reading while the second reading was in 2012 and it has been sitting there ever since.

But it went through a very thorough process and scrutiny because it went through a public hearing that was well attended by judges, Attorney-Generals from the states of the federation, Attorney-General of the federation office, the judiciary and all interest groups. This law was the result of three weeks of intensive work by about 20 young lawyers. They camped at the Law School in Abuja where they did the research and produced this document.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, I believe, had some consultants who scrutinised this Bill. The arguments were made and there was nobody that was against the bill during the public hearing. Judges told us about their experiences, the kind of nightmarish stories they hear from victims and wanted the laws updated. In the Senate itself, on the two occasions we had debates on the bill, there was 100 per cent approval.

Chris Anyanwu
Chris Anyanwu
There was nobody from the north, south, Christian or Muslim that was against the law. The only thing that they talked about was jurisdiction, which was the reason the law was passed in Abuja and to be adopted by all the states of the federation, bearing in mind their peculiar differences.

When you now say that this law, which was primarily meant to protect children, adults, old people or those with disabilities, will turn against the people it is meant to protect, then, you should know that there is a problem somewhere.

There is a lot happening in this country and I do not need to tell anybody living in Nigeria what is going on because we read them every day in the papers. I cannot recall any day that I picked up a paper in the past three years that I have not seen a horrible crime story relating to sexual offence. The one that threw me off balance was the story of a girl who was raped to death and then, set ablaze recently.

This law became imperative because while we have a lot of laws covering different aspects of sexual offences, many of them were outdated, many were carried over from the colonial government. Imagine laws of 1948 and 1958 still being applied up till now. The result is that if somebody commits a crime , the punishment is like a slap in the wrist.

If you penalise someone by asking him to pay N5,000 for raping a three-year old child, of course, before you bite your eyes, he has committed a more heinous crime ten times over. We have laws but they have encouraged crimes more than deterred them.

I think it was a mixture of mischief and ignorance and could be a case of someone who did not know how to read legal documents. Many people, including those that work at the National Assembly may not have been preview to the documents and the way they are set out in the second reading and the third reading which is a general debate. Third reading is the real law making process where you take it clause by clause and when you read it, if you are not very familiar with it, you can make a serious mistake.

WHAT THE LAW SAYS

In the third reading document, there is a column for clauses, for the provisions of the bill – what was initially proposed, a column for what the committee recommends and then, the remarks. If you change what was proposed and you say what you want, you will state the reason you change it. My thinking is that someone who was not familiar with the document came to clause six. The opening paragraph reads in Clause Six:

Sub-section One: The person who commits an act that causes penetration with a child is guilty of an offense called Defilement. That is the definition of defilement. The punishments are:

Sub-section Two: A person who commits an offense of Defilement with a child age 11 years or less shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for life –

Sub-section Three: A person who commits an offense of Defilement with a child between ages of 12 and 15 is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for life.

Sub-section Four: A person who commits an offense of Defilement with a child between the ages of 16 and 18 years of age is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for life.

What the committee handling the bill said was that the punishment is the same – life imprisonment and as such, there was no need to stagger the ages because whether it is zero to 11 or 18, the punishment is for life. Therefore, you need just one sentence covering all the ages and when they lifted the first one, which deals with 11 years or less, they did it to cover the whole and we found out that if you leave it as “ a person who commits an offence of Defilement with a child of 11 years or less shall upon conviction, be sentenced to imprisonment for life”, it would be as if you are approving going to bed with children, 11 years.

That was the reason, if you look at the line across that sentence – that is the law making process, what you do not like, you rule it out and we have ruled it out. Then, they stated clearly that sub-sections three and four were deleted because the punishment is the same irrespective of age difference.

So, somebody looked at it, saw that it was ruled out and still went out to say I encourage defilement of minors, is it not a mischief? What was ruled out was “with a child age 11 years or less. Automatically, what is then approved in the Votes and Proceedings for that day is the definition of Defilement and then, “the person who commits an offence of defilement shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for life”.

We have to know what we are doing in this country because people have the predisposition to condemn and attack anybody that is doing anything good. Nobody can do right in this society and if we continue this way, we will be killing the spirit of those who want to do good. After all, I would have gone through those eight years without proposing a bill. There were people who did that because the law-making process is so slow and the time is so short. About 591 bills were proposed by Senators in the last Senate but only 123 were passed.

So, there are so many proposals struggling for space and when some people look at it, they do not even want to try because there is too much hassle. Yet, those of us who pleaded, lobbied, spent money and energy and pushed until the end are rather attacked than appreciated. I said, ‘please, do not leave me empty handed, let us not have this kind of world, where parents cannot leave home because they are afraid that something might happen to their children; they are afraid the teachers might abuse them, that pastors and Imams may abuse them or that Professors would go after them if they go to the university’.

Even in politics; there is no where to hide. The only deterrent is a very strong and stringent law that curtails those conducts and this bill is a revolutionary bill.

There is no aspect of sexual offence that it does not cover. It updates those colonial laws that are still applicable in our society today and brings them up to international practices . It also deals with crimes that are not already in Nigeria but which we know that because Nigeria is well hooked to the international high way, World Wide Webb, those crimes will eventually come here.

Is there any guarantee that President Buhari will sign the bill into law?

President Muhammadu Buhari is a good and very experienced man. He knows about the private cries of men and women in their homes. Anybody whose child has been abused is ashamed to speak out it because of the social stigma that it attracts. This law aims at covering people so that if one is a victim, the identity can be covered and investigation done privately. Even the trial can be done in the office of the judge and the people standing as witnesses are protected so that people can speak out and crimes punished without the dignity and names of people being tarnished.

Mr. President knows that insanity has gone beyond belief and that there is need to have a firm hold on our society, otherwise, this place will be too hostile to live in. So, I have the belief that if the President understands the full import of this bill, he will be very happy and welcome it.

How effective can the enforcement be if signed into law?

Implementation has always been a problem but part of this law is suggesting that the Police should set up a special Corps that is specially trained to investigate these matters. Part of the problems is that when people know and report these cases, the kind of outrage and treatment they get from the Police make them want to commit suicide and it does not help.

Therefore, if we are going to have people actually come clean and report cases such as this, the Police must have trained Corps set up to handle sexual offences and there are lots of agencies willing and ready to offer special training to the Police if they want. It is not every Policeman carrying a gone that should be brought into sexual offence case. It is a very sensitive matter and should be handled by people who are trained and are sensitive enough to understand what it is about. And we will not have the case of attorney general coming in and instructing that the case be stopped.

The law gives the power to Police and as such, the Police have to put their house in order and I think it will not be too much to hire people with such background to help implement this, otherwise, all of us would be affected including the Police. A crucial part of the bill also is that when people have been established as dangerous sex offenders and they have been convicted, their names will go into a national data bank of dangerous sexual offenders so that when they are looking for jobs, they cannot be allowed to have teaching jobs where they deal with children.

It appears that the bill gives the Nigerian Police the whole powers to implement, how will they be checkmated to avoid abuse of office?

They will not have the full right to deal with sexual offences. It is just that they are the central agency involved in it. I am sure that eventually, the Minister will work out a mechanism involving social welfare officers or another body for it. Those are administrative things that the Minister in this area will have to work out.

Did you also make provision on its domestication in the 36 States of the Federation?

I will want to say that if nobody wants to do the advocacy, I would be ready to carry on. I will visit the state assemblies, state governors and first ladies. I will even start with the current national first lady and encourage her to adopt it as one of the plans for the change they want to bring about because it is change that touches everybody in this society.

If we have such high profile people adopting and pushing it, I have no fear that other states will domesticate it. Lagos State has something similar but it is not as comprehensive as this. This is the first time we are having all sexual offences related law aggregated in one place.



- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/what-they-misread-in-sexual-offences-bill-chris-anyanwu/#sthash.2U6OobKC.dpuf

jaynipez:
Hi everyone, I'm called Jennifer.. Let me start by saying I'm not the type to post my problems online but I really need as many advice, opinion and information as I can get.

My brother's name is Jeffrey, he just finisged his OND at marine time academy oron. I last spoke to him on the 3rd of October 2014 after sending him the money he has being asking me for. On the 7th of October, a friend of his called me asking if I had seen or heard from him, I said no and he said my brother Jeffrey left his house at Uyo on the 5th of October with his brother Allwell (who is a very close friend of my brother and also stays with his family at uyo) and that he has not heard from them since then. He said my brother went with his phone but his own brother didn't. I called my brother's line countless times but it was switched off, I also called all of his friends I knew but no one had seen him. The next day my mum travelled to Uyo in search of him. She met with All well ' s parents and they went to several police stations to make their complaints, posted their pictures in the newspaper and did all the necessary things even went as far as visiting mortuaries. All to no avail. After a few days my mum came back to lagos and started visiting pastor's, prophets just to hear from God. They all said my brother is alive but that he is in pains. No one could tell us where exactly he is or what to do to get him back. We just kept on praying and believing God. Also checked online on all the social network sites he is a part of but he has not been online.

A few days later a boy called my mum, he said he saw my brothers picture in the paper and that my brother is not missing. According to him, my brother and his friend Allwell confided in him that they were travelling out of the country by road and that they would not tell any of their family members until they get there. When I heard this I was a bit shocked cos I am very close to him and I felt he would've told me and also because his passport was amongst the things he left behind. The only thing missing was a few clothes and his school OND certificate. Jeffrey had always wanted to travel to Qatar. according to him, in Qatar, life was a bed of roses and you make a lot of money within a week. But my dad asked him to finish his HND first.

Between December last year to March this year, my mum and I kept receiving strange calls from different international numbers but when we pick we don't hear anything and if we try calling back, the numbers don't connect. I browsed on the numbers and some were Somalia, some were Libya..different numbers kept calling and deep down I knew it was Jeffrey trying to get through to us.

Since April, there has being no strange flash or call from any international number, it was much better when we kept receiving those strange calls because at least we knew he was alright but now we don't know what is happening. I've browsed online, checking for details on travelling out of the country by road, the risk and all.. its 9 months since he went missing and no word at all from him or his friend.I heard if one is caught, you would be deported back to your country within a month. I feel he has being caught but what I don't know is why he has not being deported. Or why they have not called his family. Just last week, we were still told by a man of God that he is alive but in pains.

He is the only boy and my mum is barely keeping it together. Please anyone who knows anything at all about how this thing works should please comment, I need your advice and opinion on what to do or what to think. Thank you.

Dear sis, honestly I feel d pains n trauma u n ur Mum is going through and am also short of words, but what more can I say than to keep ur head up n try to keep d faith, hope n faith is d only thing that see us through in this horrible life. But be that as it may, the common truth and facts about going to abroad by foot is that it comes with lots of high risk, it simply means trekking to oversea through d deserts, but from d previous facts gathered from people that tried this method were scary, they normally left in groups of say 50 persons, but at the end, only a few ll survive it cos most of the time de run out of water, n food, alas, DE resort to drinking their urine and at d end so many of them get dried up n die in d desert.some ll be devoured by wild animals. Am not telling u this to scare u but u needed to know cos u asked for it. Nevertheless, nothin is impossible for God to do, ur family should never relent in praying for him. If it's really true that what his friend told u guys is true that he told him(his friend) in confidence that he intends going abroad by foot, God willing, he ll be among d few survivors of this horrible venture. God could send them a rescuers. Pray hard n try to keep your faith.

Please my fellow Nairalanders, let no one ever try embarking on this fruitless journey in quest to travel abroad cos d experience is horrible n life threatening.
Don't even try staying abroad illegally not to talk of going to abroad through d desert by foot.

luvinhubby:
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala tried unsuccessfully to draw Nigerian's attention to the gross wastages & financial mismanagement by the state governors but our gaze was too fixated on Abuja & blinded by bigotry fuelled by propaganda that we failed to see the crookedness & senseless waste of resources by these governors.

Good a thing that the subject of the media spin GEJ is out of the way & now, Nigerians welcome to the DANCE OF REALITY

God bless you, well said

This is better alternative to PMB 's proposed monthly 5k payment to youths. wait a min... What am I even saying, To under aged al Majiris that voted him in power.

Cow no know say u be president oo,so be careful

This is barbaric. Involve d authority n stop this madness

64??

I thought Yusuf said he's not PMB'S son?

Goat head dey cause purge ooo

Ok

This Obby Ezekwesili wowo no be small, is she Obasanjo's sister?

ceejay80s:
Ogun means juju, from South West

Lol.u r very funny