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A lot of people discuss politics and the way you'll discuss if your interview that is meant to be published will be different from when you're just hanging out and talking. For example, you may say some things you're not 100% sure about.

look at that aspect in which he was addressing Sowore about intelligence; does that seem like part of an interview to you?

[sigh] Hot-angel has spoken so authoritatively on something she knows nothing about. [/sigh] this thread is doomed.

Yes oh! Next thing we're going to be asking after First Daughters and First Sons!

There is nothing particularly bad about 2 small banks or a consortium of banks coming together to grant a loan for a mega-project that a single bank cannot finance. All you need to do as a regulator is to facilitate the process to make it smoother.

And for the daily fluctuations in the deposit level of a bank, there is the inter-bank or short term loan market arrangement in which banks that temporarily have excess money in their coffers can lend it overnight to other banks that temporarily have a shortage of money. So even if all the banks are small, they can fearlessly participate in large transactions and borrow extra money any day in which a lot of withdrawals happen to coincide.

Mergers and acquisitions are happening all over the world but they are not forced. Bank managers will only merge when they can percieve that this will give them an advantage over other banks. What the CBN has done is simply not right. It is bad for smaller banks that were doing well.

I am still not happy that a bank like UBA, instead of being driven out of the market or being forced to render a higher level of service, has been given the opportunity to swallow a progressive bank like STB that didn't really need their money.

The Nairaland Forum website in it's current form is designed to be managed by one full-time administrator/moderator, and for a long time that has been me. The site has done consistently well and it now achieves a level of traffic that slightly exceeds my original (conservative) target. So I think the time has come for me to move into new projects that will also grow to become as succesful as Nairaland. Such as Naijarita News.

I want to offer a full-time position to a someone who has what it takes to be the administrator of this forum:
- Your work will start at 8am in the morning and end at 5pm on Weekdays and 2pm on Saturday.
- You will be paid based on your proven ability and at a competitive rate. You will be paid well.
- You will be expected to edit or delete anyl posts that do not conform to our standard - correcting spelling, grammar and formatting errors, correcting bad titles, responding to innapripriate posts, providing support by email to members who need help, moving threads to their correct locations, cautioning members that are being disruptive, dishonest or aggressive, etc.
- You will not be expected to participate in the forum while you are on duty. You will be expected to always work in the background.
- From time to time you will be assigned extra tasks which will be given priority over your daily duties and which you are expected to work on while you're on duty.
- You will not have to worry about electricity supply or Internet access during your tenure as administrator
- Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
- Other details will be communicated later; feel free to ask.

Best Regards,
Seun.

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Joint account is different from asking a wife to submit all her money to her husbands for him to decide how to spend it, though if the man is dominant in the family it is basically the same thing because the "head of the family" can veto all her opinions about how their "jointly owned" money is to be spent. I think the main problem is this idea of the woman "submitting" to her husband because I know that young men my age will take advantage of such submission in a selfish way. This issue of asking for the woman's money is just one example.

alheri: If you have a good marriage and are a good man, you wont cheat just cause your wife is aging.

How do you know this for sure? Are you a man?

Give us her number; we would like to examine her on your behalf.

Hello Guys,

Thanks for all the suggestions (including the illegal one that I had to delete). The best way to help Nairaland is to reduce my workload by following the rules. The second way is to suggest someone I can employ to take over from me as a full time admin/moderator of this site on a modest salary. That would be a way forward.

I recognize that the democratic tendencies of any community which people are starting to see as a 'home' clashes with the autocratic style that one would follow if the forum is considered as a business (which it is), but I have not been able to create any middle ground.

Anyway, I want to employ someone that would do 90% of what I've been doing on the site. How do I go about that?

Seun.

Ok, diasporites, I have heard your rebuttals. Sorry.

What I'm just saying is that this is a case of cunny man die, cunny man bury am. Ladoja, Adedibu are birds of the same feather. This news is not as dramatic (or tragic) as their earlier gun battle which claimed lives!

It is easy to say all these things when you are enjoying yourself in the UK. Those of us in Nigeria are more cautious and we pick our battles. This event is mostly a non-issue.

Wow, this is cool. So I'll have to pay in order to give them additional publicity by featuring them in an interview. I don't like celebrities for that reason.

Of course she's out of the limelight, presumably enjoying herself in her husband's mansion and presumably interfering in the lives of her children like any other respectable mother/mother-in-law.

What did you expect? What is the question?

Nferyn, is it possible that the cold weather in your country is partly responsible?

kellygirl: Don't worry, you will find someone else.

Because Nigerian men are better at telling lies!

The rule probably doesn't apply here because the reason he is doubting the relationship is not a serious one.

I think the mistake you are making is that you are assuming that men are impressed by the same things that impress women. This list looks like one composed by a lady for her own benefit.

You did not mention anything about taking an interest in sports which most men are crazy about. You didn't mention anything about being proud of your man's work and aspirations, and the use of praise or the use of statements like "I'm so proud of you".

Sorry, dear, but when you want to compose a list about men you should ask men first. Men don't want to know you "care"; they want to know you're proud of them.

[s]It's huge, but you know the revenue the government gets comes from the taxes paid by the oil companies.[/s] Ignorance.

Don't make height an issue. Your relationship is going to experience far more serious difficult problems and indeed the likelihood of success is already slim before one now factors in this artificial problem of height differential.

If you're dating a girl that's tall and pretty, other guys will envy you, won't they? Because you have something they can't have!

I won't be particularly interested in meeting BillGates unless he's prepared to give a honest answer to every qustion he is asked, which is unlikely because of the risk of lawsuits when careless statements are made. However, I will feel very honoured to meet some of his money!

The world as reached a point in which you don't need to fly such people in your country to recieve seminars from them. You can just subscribe to their blogs. If you don't enjoy their blogs, you will probably not enjoy their seminars either!

Some husbands make such silly demands because of this yeye idea of "submission". I am upset with some of the things men do. What pains me most is when you see the wife so cool and peaceloving but the husband is a bully and one looks at the situation and says it's just not fair at all. I don't understand why I would take someone as my wife and want to be treating her as my daughter or something. It's just not right and very offensive to think about.

Hungry men lusting for a pretty babe from abroad.

I'm sure that TeeTay also knows it's wrong so I wonder why she's asking.

I prefer it. If you don't enjoy the thrill and the fulfilment of being the one making the most important decisions and being the one to blame when anything goes wrong then neither self-employment nor entrepreneurship is for you.

Send me one of your plays and let me see what I can do with Nairaland exposure.

Anyone wants to debate this one on one?

KADUNA, 11 Jan 2006 (IRIN) - As visitors approach the death row block at Kaduna’s central prison in northern Nigeria, a sea of hands waving tin cups automatically jerk through the bars of the dark cells.

“Get back!” shouts the prison guard at the 118 detainees crammed inside a dilapidated building originally meant to house 33. Up to three inmates live in less than four square metres of space. An overpowering stench of urine and mould billows out into the courtyard.

In the turmoil of the shouts some of the prisoners draw back to their spots on a tattered mat on the floor that aside from a few plastic bowls is the only object in the cell.

But the guard is jumpy and cuts short the visit, prohibiting any further interaction with the detainees.

Rights organisations working in Nigerian prisons - and even prison officials themselves - say the conditions of death row inmates do not fulfil even minimum international human rights standards.

In Kaduna prison, death row inmates are locked up all day long, said Festus Okoye, executive director of Human Rights Monitor (HRM), a group based in the northern city.

“They are allowed out only rarely, for a few minutes, one by one,” he said. Meanwhile some prisoners collect the buckets used as toilets.

Most of the death row inmates are utterly alone and never receive visitors - their families living too far away and having abandoned them for fear of being associated with their crimes, rights group sources say. Some simply cannot pay the ‘visiting rights’ fee charged by the wardens.

Nigeria this year acknowledged the sorry state of its jails, announcing plans to free some 25,000 inmates still awaiting trial - some for as long as 10 years - in a bid to relieve overcrowding and bad conditions.

The move could ease conditions for those left waiting on death row for years. Since Nigeria legalised capital punishment in 1999, only one prisoner has been executed by the state in northern Nigeria, with authorities openly reticent to carry through with executions, according to HRM.

Nigeria countrywide has 548 prisoners awaiting capital punishment - 10 of them women - among a total 40,000 detainees, according to Ernest Ogbozor of Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA), Nigeria’s largest prisoners’ rights organisation.

Under Nigerian law, crimes punishable by death include armed robbery, murder and treason. Islamic Sharia law, in force in 12 northern Nigerian states, also calls for the death penalty in other crimes such as adultery.

Lack of food

If conditions for death row inmates are harsh, they are hardly any better for other prisoners. For the sick and weak, incarceration can be tantamount to a sentence to death.

“The two main problems in Nigerian prisons are overpopulation and lack of food,” said Hassan Saidi Labo, assistant to Nigeria’s prison inspector general.

Kaduna is a clear example. In December 2005, 957 detainees were crammed in 10 buildings designed for about 550 people.

Labo says some prisons hold up to four times their capacity.

In such conditions, just surviving is a daily battle, according to 54-year-old Felix Obi who was condemned to 27 years in prison in 1986 for drug trafficking. He spent 13 years and three months behind bars in the economic capital, Lagos, before benefiting from an amnesty in 1999.

“You fight for a scrap of blanket, a piece of soap, a bit of food or medicine if you get sick,” said Obi, who now works with PRAWA.

“Prisoners fight for space on the floor to sleep, they fight not to become depressed, and not to be victims of violence. They fight to survive.”

Monitoring by outside groups has had some impact. Since prisons were opened to religious and humanitarian organisations more than 10 years ago, the prison death rate has fallen from 1,500 per year in the late 1980s to 89 deaths in 2003, according to authorities.

Still the risk of death in prison remains high, particularly because of lack of food, said Harp Damulak, the Kaduna prison hospital doctor.

The daily ration generally consists of a bowl of beans in the morning then cassava in the afternoon and evening. Prisons have a budget of 150 Naira (US $1.15) per prisoner per day.

But this small amount does not necessarily get to all prisoners. Supply is in the hands of subcontractors who - poorly paid, acknowledge prison officials - sometimes dip into the goods, according to PRAWA and HRM.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says a prison employee earns about 6,000 Naira ($45) per month at the start, earning a maximum of about 40,000 Naira monthly at the end of a career. As a consequence corruption is common.

Conditions favour disease

Lack of food moreover aggravates already poor hygiene conditions. Damulak said that malnutrition makes prisoners highly vulnerable to infectious diseases such as tuberculosis or skin diseases caused by lack of hygiene.

The situation is the same for women inmates in Kaduna prison, where 18 women live in two cells, sleeping on iron beds stacked one atop another, some without mattresses. The bathroom has long been without running water.

“We are devoured by mosquitoes, we all suffer malaria but don’t have bed nets and the hospital has no medicine except paracetamol,” said Zainab, 32, who has been incarcerated since April. “There is nothing. Even sanitary napkins - we have to share one between two women every month, or even every two months.”

Prison conditions weigh heavily on the detainees, often causing depression and other psychological problems, according to Damulak. And prison personnel are not trained to handle such issues, he said.

To survive in their environment, some prisoners have taken things into their own hands.

“They have created a veritable government,” HRM’s Okoye said. “One prisoner is president, another police chief, another head of justice.” He added that some prison officials see the initiative as a positive thing because it helps foster order in the institutions.

Former prisoner Obi said, “Some [prison ‘leaders’] invent rules that are impossible to follow.” Punishment generally comes in the form of an order to do chores, such as washing the clothes of 'chiefs,' but often prisoners pay for misdeeds by being beaten or even sexually assaulted.

Despite efforts by inmates to impose some sort of organisation, prison riots are common, PRAWA’s Ogbozor said.

“In the past six months we have seen five riots in prisons across the country - all linked mostly to the lack of food for detainees.”

Under the recently announced plan to release prisoners, those who have spent three to 10 years awaiting trial will have their cases reviewed for immediate release. Also eligible will be the elderly, the terminally ill and those with HIV, as well as people locked up for longer than the prospective sentence for their crime.

Among those who have languished in prisons for years, human rights activists say, are some who were picked up by mistake or for very minor infractions and simply could not pay a fine.

Source: http://www.irinnews.org/print.asp?ReportID=51047