₦airaland Forum

It is so pathetic watching all this stupid, disgusting, senseless, ghastly reactions whenever any critisim is leveled against fashola. What nonesense. Is he about it? That is why he is so full of himself and stupid enough to laugh at some of his opponents during the previous gubernatorial debates. One day these bunch living in a fools paradise will wake up and see lagos for what it was, what it is and what it will forever be!! Trash!! Eko oni baje my foot!

Move over abraham, there is a new father of many nations. His name is "2face idibia"!!

What's this anti-women frenzy going on? Jonathan sacks female immigration chief and replaces her with a man and now akpabio is sacking two females from his administration. By the way what does "commisioner of women affair" have to do with organising "armned forces remembrance day".

Two people died and eleven people injured. It's a sad story, it was a mistake and clumsy as there was a thick fog over london and the pilot was flying too low and hit a crane on a skycraper without seeing it. It's sad and thankfully no oned died cause that is an extremely busy part of london especially at rush hour.

Considering all the controversy during her stay i'm not surprised at her sack but i really has hoped her replacment is also a woman. The top brass of the nigerin military and paramilitary has turned to a boy's club!!

Do these brand ambassadors actually do anything to help their sponsors? A good example is glo who has virtually every nigerian star as a current or former ambassador but they are playing second fiddle to mtn and even newcomers like etisalat.

If this is true..then she must be incredibly composed cause i saw her lay her wreath and did a couple of interviews afterwards. Don't blame her!! Stuff happens..

I watched a news report on france24 where a couple of french guys were holding a party to celebrate getting a job to teach in a private nigerian university. It was facinating to watch what the eurozone crisis has done to these high and mighty euopeans.

This is really sad!! I hate all this dopping scandals. It breeds a "do or die" attitude to sports. What is really sad about lance is his story as a cancer patient to a multiple tour de france winner, his story inspired lots of kids and now with this their hopes are shattered. It's pathetic.

I see amusement in a lot of comments here This is'nt funny. This is a problem. Why the the north insulated from the constitution? Making little kids Begging is child abuse, marrying off little girls to old men is child abuse. But everyone is turning a blind eye. This is disturbing!!

When will "nigeria" not "africa" be the center piece of nigeria's foreign policy?

Let's not overhype china. China is not santa claus and they do nothing for free. Whatever they give to you is to advance their own interest, the west has to move from aid grants to free trade aggrements. But nobody should dare say china has done more than the west for africa. The west has given africa usaid, kind fund, bill and melina gates foundation. And countless other programs. Apart form trade and advancing their interest what humanitarian aid has china given africa?

Why do you equate "refreshments" to merryment. People eating in a burial does'nt mean one is celebrating. It's just there to simply refresh attendies who might be hungry or travelled from a distance. It's that simple.

When things like this become frontpage material...nairaland inches ever closer to irrelevance. Ghastly!

Why is france so committed to it's former colonies while the united kingdom is so alof!! The french helped the cameronians against us during the bakassi debacle but the brits stood aside. And funny enought the french has no organisation of it's former colonies but the brits have the commonwealth. I really don't get her majestys british government foreign policy.

Why won't she get such a money! The greed existing amongs those jacksons is disgusting. Look at how they were prawling on their late brother's wealth, it was shamefull.

julius2825: illegalising it is a nice idea,if it is legalised,the act would be performed publicly,in the seeing of our children,though idea it is legalised or not,it is yet been performed,but could not be publicated,it's legalization is as a national dishonour,people myth do it,but would face the consequences personally and privately.

i keep asking this same question. Before all the fanfare for this stupid bill, how many gays do you see walking on the streets holding hands or kissingor whatever. This is a stupid bill that is unconstitutional. And i'll advice you to protect your child from other things in this horrid nation. Not something non-existent.

julius2825: it starts from one place,then it gradually spreads,and get publicated,if you can't plea for it to stop now,you won't be able to stop your children from addicting to it,other peoples problem has to be your problem,because there problems could be conjured to the air,inwhich we all breath in

really? Tell me how many gay people you know or have met or seen in nigeria? Or in your area? This is extremely stupid. How many people do you think this law will convict? Do you think this will stop gays from doing whatever they are doing in the privacy of their homes and bedrooms? Or the nigerian police will set up road blocks in peoples bedroom to catch gays? This is lunacy.

lacidi: Some of these people think that Nigeria is made up of fools. The rights being referred to here are the right to 'freedom to private family life' and 'freedom from discrimination'. I will take them one after the other:

1. Private Family Life - The right to private family life presupposes that you are LEGALLY living a family life. It does not mean that you can commit Bigamy and then claim that you have a right to family life. You also cannot marry a 10 year old and claim you have a right to family life. The definition of what amounts to 'family life' has to be derived from other laws of the country and case laws because the constitution does not define 'family life'.

So to define family life, we have to look at laws relating to marriage, child custody and divorce etc. Does the constitution define these laws? These laws are captured in the marriage act etc. So you do not need to amend the constitution, all you need to amend is the laws that define marriage and family.

The definition of family in one region differs from another region. For e.g. a Muslim in the north can marry 4 wives legally, but a Christian who marries under the marriage act cannot legally marry another wife while the 1st marriage is subsisting. Can he then sue to claim that his right to 'Private family life' has been breached if he is stopped from marrying additional wives?

2. Freedom from Discrimination - first of all we have to ask what discrimination is. The constitution mentions 'Discrimination on the basis of sex' and NOT on the basis of sex.ual preference. So the discrimination covered under the constitution is the one that deals with your natural sex i.e. man or woman. So if you are being discriminated against because you are a man or because you are a woman, then you have a right to sue under the constitution. The constitution does not cover discrimination due to SEX.UAL PREFERENCE.

E.g. when someone is arrested and jailed in the US for Incest, is he being discriminated against? Note that the Incest in question is between two adults - father & daughter, mother & son, son & daughter. Also when someone is arrested and jailed in US and Europe for Polygamy, is he being discriminated against? Note that Polygamy is between an adult man and 2 of more adult consenting females. Sex with animals is legal in Germany, but a crime in most other countries. So people that practice sex with animals in these other countries, can they sue for discrimination?

What of pedophiles who it has been scientifically established that they cannot control their desire to have sex with infants. These people are acting outside their control. So why are they being jailed? Is this discrimination?

So using the constitutional provision on discrimination as grounds is total rubbish.

I rest my case.

you rest your case on baselessness. So in summary, according to your first point. The constitution allows child abuse whereby old men in the north marry female kids who are defenceless but when concerting adults decide to be gay, it is a criminal offence? The nigerian constitution is a bloody story book. I don't even belive the members of the national assembly know anything inside.

This issue always makes me laugh cause it's pathetic! How does people becoming gay affect you? You seek 14 years imprisonment for what someone decide to do in their bedroom but no consequences for someone who loots and steals from the public! This law is stupid and won't stand, if the senate wants to do this, they should repeal the "freedoms" claus of the constitution, so we will know we are now a totalitarian policce state at the mercy of our government.

Exactly!! This is what i've been saying for ages. If this stupid law passes then the supreme court and all the judges are clowns. What right does a government have to tell people what to do with their private lives. If they want to grow through with the law they should just strike out the entire claus from the constitution so we will know that we now live in a totalitarian state, wherethe government is free to dictate how you run your life.

obitrac: We ve got powerful friends,let us call US and british even china to help us

the united states of america has no friends, only interest- henry kinsinger

Funny!! This is big buisness and there is a massive demand for such second hand products in nigeria. I watched a documentary on discovery where some guys were tracking toxic wasye disposal around the world. So they put tracking devices in ten televisions from the u.k and disposed them with a company handling such waste. After some months these guys tracked 8 of the 10 tv's to lagos,nigeria and the remaning two at benin republic. How sad!

This is quite small cause it might be a mistake compared to some kfc and mcdonalds staffs confessing or being caught spitting inside peoples burger. Using burger buns to wipe their faces and other grotesque acts. That's whi i'm incredibly skeptical eating public food.

Ghastly house!! Looks like my gatehouse.

Ghastly display of meger wealth. This is just a crappy residence in the surbubs. Why did'nt he buy a home in los angeles. Places like malibu,beverely hills or calabasa. Rubbish.

This should be sorted out immediately to avoid any diplomatic row..i'm a little disappionted that jonathan completely abandoned the foreign policy of late pres. Yar adua by departing from countries like russia, china, and the other brics and rather facing the west whuch have nothing to offer us.

This man has always been unstable. He was a traditionalist then became a muslium and now a citizen of benin. Well..let's see what comes next.

Why won't you commit sucide when you're dating "something" called horney cocaine. R.i.p!!!

When religion turns stupid!!!!...i empatize with the farmily of the dead.

Why are so guys so afraid of "race". You can't run from it nor hide it cause it existed and still does. What's wrong with the word negro? Martin lutter king always use it to describe himself and his fellow blacks. The film reminds people of the evils of the slave trade and i'm happy that grim part of history is'nt covered up. It should be there for the future to remenise on.

An oil exporting nation, prominent member of opec gets to import fuel because we can't run refineries. What a shambolic country. And in the mist of the abnormality and ticking debt bomb all the nigerian national assembly thinks of is presecuting gays..hey what the heck, as david mark said we are a "moral nation"