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Crime / Re: Nigerian Army Colonel, Manu, Killed By Bandits by Tango123: 9:01pm On Sep 26, 2020
Mintum:
Buhari can't even secure his home state

What does that tell u about this government?
Education / Re: School Birthday Will Make Your Child Greedy by Tango123: 10:00pm On Sep 24, 2020
kingxsamz:


You're very funny.
This is the internet.
If the Op feels he made the right decision and that's his choice and you also feel we should live our lives while he lives his, then why did he come to a public forum to tell us?
I don't even understand your point.
Like I said it's poverty mentality and inferiority complex combined that made the Op do what he did.
And you and the op seem to reason alike, so I'm not surprised.
If it was 1million naira that was given to his child, we won't be having this conversation. undecided

Sir i respect ur opinion. Let us agree to differ

I hope i dont sound disrespectful. Because that is not my intention.

Because nairaland.com is no full of young people . I enjoy reading their opinions and having a laugh but sometimes, i challenge them.

I seriously wonder if you are up to 60. If you have not raised a child, trained that person through primary, secondary, Nd university, then u wont understand my opinion

That is why i said when u have done that, when you have raised a kid and trained them up to university or set them up in life, we can have this conversation again.

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Education / Re: School Birthday Will Make Your Child Greedy by Tango123: 7:53pm On Sep 24, 2020
kingxsamz:

Yeah that's what we're saying.

Na poverty mentality.

O yea. Live ur life and allow him live his.

O yea, when u become a father and begin to raise children, up to through university, we can have this conversation again. Until then, bye
Education / Re: School Birthday Will Make Your Child Greedy by Tango123: 6:28pm On Sep 24, 2020
Martinez39s:
If people expect you to spend beyond your means, will you spend? As long as no one can force you to pay, people's expectation shouldn't be a problem.

In an ideal world, you are correct

In the real world, it is different. Because his daughter will be called nes and bullied, that she acvepted from others but cannot give. These are what the man is trying to avoid

Hang your cloth where your hands can reach. That is what the man has done.

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Education / Re: School Birthday Will Make Your Child Greedy by Tango123: 6:26pm On Sep 24, 2020
kingxsamz:


Did his daughter's school make it mandatory that he must return the favor when it's his daughter's birthday?
Is his daughter the only child in that school?
Hasn't his daughter been receiving stuff during other children's birthdays in her school?
So why does he think he is in a competition?

He has taken his decision to make sure no one expects qn expensive souvenirs from him. Live with it.

Or is it your decision?

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Education / Re: School Birthday Will Make Your Child Greedy by Tango123: 6:24pm On Sep 24, 2020
Finemoore:


You are wrong.. The op has made his intention know that he can't afford d same gift when it is time for his daughter's birthday.. Truly he has point there, the parents of pupils who shared d expensive gift will be expecting something more sophisticate in return.

Don't accept what u can't return as favor especially when it is a do me I do you parole.

Thank you

Going tru this thread, u will see a lot of unmarried young people saying he should accept it.

They do not know what it takes to rake a decision as a man, and to run a family

If youncannot afford it, you cannot join a social club where people spend 100k on Saturdays hosting each other. Because it will surely come to ur turn, and u will be expected to host others

If you go to bar with your friends and people are buying drinks for everyone. If you cannot afford to buy for everyone, better say you dont want to drink. If it is temporary lack of funds, your friends will understand. But if it is such that you really cannot afford to buy for all yoir friemds yoi drink with, better stay home, or buy ur 2 bottles from Funke on the street and go homw and drink on ur own.

Hang your bag where your hands can reach.

Op, kudos to u. You are a man

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Education / Re: School Birthday Will Make Your Child Greedy by Tango123: 6:15pm On Sep 24, 2020
Martinez39s:
This is not right. There are more productive ways to teach them about greed. If their uncle or aunt bought them a PS4 on their birthday, would you ask them to take it back just to teach them your own lesson on greed? You just unnecessarily stifled their happiness for the time being. Poverty chop elbow. cry

The right thing to do, if you care, is to locate who bought them the gift. Confirm that the person's parent(s) is(are) okay with lest we have a case of someone using his/her tuition fee or stealing his/her parents money just to impress our of peer pressure.

Did u read what the op wrote

It was a souvenir at a birthday

When hus daughter birthday comes around, other parents in the class will expect him to also spend huge on souvenirs. That is why he returned it

I think he did right.

Another thing he could have done is keep it, but refuse to give expensive souvenirs when it gets to the birthday of his daughter

As a man, op has made his decision.
TV/Movies / Re: Erica Threatened By Chidi Mike Cars As She Rejects His N2M Prize & Car Gift by Tango123: 3:42pm On Sep 23, 2020
Felixalex:
Dammmn nigggaaarrr

IT IS NOT ORIGHT

Thank u for putting 'IT'

So many educated people now speak and write like illiterates.

It is wrong to say or write 'is alright'.

The correct thing is 'It's... (or is it its)' or 'It is...'

The T is important

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Politics / Re: 2023: Sam Nwanti To Contest For President Under APC by Tango123: 2:18pm On Sep 21, 2020
Encounterr:
IF YOU ARE IN PORTHARCOURT AND YOU HAVE A UNION BANK VISA CARD CURRENT ACCOUNT. (savings can also be accepted but current acct is the best), WE ARE DESPERATELY IN NEED OF IT
THIS IS NOT TO SCAM ANYONE AND ITS 100% SAFE AND LEGIT WITHOUT ANY SECURITY THREAT, THIS IS WHY I AM POSTING IT PUBLICLY BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING TO BE AFRAID ABOUT.

WHAT WE WANT TO USE THE CARD FOR IS THE AID THE LOADING OF HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY. WHICH THE CARD OWNER WILL BE GIVEN HIS/HER OWN PERCENTAGE OG OVER 1MILLION NAIRA.

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST BE IN PORTHARCOURT OR VERY CLOSE OR WILLING TO COME TO PORT HARCOURT. BECAUSE THE TRANSACTION IS GOING TO BE IN THIS SAME PORT HARCOURT.
IF YOU HAVE THIS CARD, KINDLY SEND A WHATSAPP MESSAGE OR CALL ME VIA.
O81O 8 5 17 7 5 3

Scam alert

If you are legit, go into the bank and open an account in your name. Shikina.

You sound like someone looking for a fall guy.

My opinion though
Politics / Re: 2016 Vs 2020: Data Shows Oshiomhole Was Inconsequential In Edo Gov Elections by Tango123: 10:43am On Sep 21, 2020
TimeManager:
Osho baba will always have my respect all day every day. Sad that whenever a great leader goes through some rough patch, even those beneath him would have the guts to say all sorts. Buhari could have lost three times prior to 2015, does that make him irrelevant?. He brought Obaseki out of obscurity & for which he would forever be indebted to Oshiomole. Obaseki will never come close to Osho's political landmarks. When Obaseki ends his tenure, he would go back to being a school boy just like Peter Obi.

kiss the truth!

What if he likes being a school boy, just like Peter Obi you quoted

Peter Obi is not begging you for an appointment. He has his life to live. He has his vision. You hv not yet axhieved a fraction of what he achieved. And unlike other politicians, he is not desperate for office or power

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Politics / Re: Dino Melaye: Oshiomhole Is No Longer Oshobaba. He's Oshopikin (Video) by Tango123: 10:07pm On Sep 20, 2020
madridsta007:


LOL. What concerns Igbo man in an Edo election? Or in a what is a Lagos State Tinubu? On a thread focused on Edo State politics?
No respect for the Edo man. Must you take the shine off the Edo man? They've proven they are not slaves to anyone- why not respect that?

You non-Igbos should resist the urge to show your cowardness everytime. Face your APC and Buhari and Tinubu and leave Igbos alone.

Dont mind that idiot telling us to join those who oppress us. Whether you are igbo, youruba, edo, hausa, if u love Nigeria, u should be happy today

I am not for apc or pdp. I just want people's vote to count. In this election, i have no reason to believe that people's vote did not count. I believe that Edo people chose obaseki. Good or bad, he is their choice for today

If people's vote continues to count, if obaswki becomes bad, edo people will retire him also

Telling me to support an oppresor is like telling me to support an armed robber in my house. I may be calm and gentle for the robber to leave. But i shall surely not support the robber. I shall be calculating for the best way to protect my family and retake my property.

Nigeria belongs to Nigerians. Not to the political elite, no matter the party that elite belongs to.

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Politics / Re: Official Results Of Edo Governorship Election 2020 As Announced By INEC by Tango123: 2:36pm On Sep 20, 2020
ehiblessing:


They would have you would have to show them, I wouldn't have been able to leave with my conscience.

God bless u madam. God bless u nyafunyafu.

I am not from Edo. I am only speaking for Nigeria as a whole

Nigeria will only be better when people stop selling their votes, and vote who they really want to lead them. May we have more Nigerians like u

God bless u forever

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Politics / Re: Official Results Of Edo Governorship Election 2020 As Announced By INEC by Tango123: 11:16am On Sep 20, 2020
ehiblessing:
Have never voted in my life but yesterday I had to, I refused collecting 2k to vote for Apc in my ward. Few other people refused too.not that obaseki is a saint we just wanted to proof to that walnut eye that he can't keep enforcing people on us and behaving like the almighty.



Esan oyeeeeee
Oyeeeeeeeeeee

Kikikikikiki

If you collected it and voted pdp, would they have known. I am just curious

But honestly thank you for voting with ur conscience. God bless you for me

People who sell their vote for 2k forget they have sold their future. I wish i could hug u virtually. God bless u

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Politics / Re: Official Results Of Edo Governorship Election 2020 As Announced By INEC by Tango123: 11:15am On Sep 20, 2020
ehiblessing:
Have never voted in my life but yesterday I had to, I refused collecting 2k to vote for Apc in my ward. Few other people refused too.not that obaseki is a saint we just wanted to proof to that walnut eye that he can't keep enforcing people on us and behaving like the almighty.


If you collected it and voted pdp, would they have known. I am just curious

But honestly thank you for voting with ur conscience. God bless you for me

People who sell their vote for 2k forget they have sold their future. I wish i could hug u virtually. God bless u


Esan oyeeeeee
Oyeeeeeeeeeee

Kikikikikiki

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Romance / Re: How Do I Refund My Mum's N30,500 Before She Finds Out Next Week. by Tango123: 3:09pm On Sep 18, 2020
femi4:
Go n work in a bakery or construction site

Best advice so far

After you have suffered to raise the money, u will learn

Anyone that bails u out is not doing you any favour. You need to pay for your crime by doing manual labour to raise the money


In that way your brain will be reset, and you will never gamble or play with money again, and you will know that there is nothing like free lunch, nothing like easy money. In that way you will learn that free money is either that you are robbing someone else or you are the one being robbed

If u want to be a mumu, play tje so called sure odds people are suggesting for u here. That will be the remaining money gone.

My advice is get a menial job. Confess the truth to your mum. Pay her back from the menial job.
Romance / Re: How Do I Refund My Mum's N30,500 Before She Finds Out Next Week. by Tango123: 3:02pm On Sep 18, 2020
lefulefu:


.99 percent of so called money doublers are scammers and theives

Wromg sir!

100 PERCENT OF MONEY DOUBLERS ARE SCAMMERS

Where are they getting the extra money with which to double it from

Why do they need your money to double it for you. Why cant they double their own money

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Romance / Re: Please I Need Your Advise by Tango123: 6:49pm On Sep 13, 2020
mikeget804:
The truth is that, d guy no get sense to be thinking of marriage with 25k take home.

You shld be d one begging for marriage not him. Let him know I said, marriage will not add any value to his life.

Infact, call the guy for me, I have something for him.

Give that thing you have for the guy (flogging) for a graduate who is sitting on her bavkside doing nothing. Perhaps watching bb naija. She deserves it more than the man

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Romance / Re: Please I Need Your Advise by Tango123: 6:45pm On Sep 13, 2020
Moyinoluwa35:
I see how frustrated you are, and beside I told you am currently waiting for my nysc this as stop me from working, the covid19 issue holding me, you guys always claim the alpha but deep down you are broke, humble yourself please

You can sell pure water while waiting for nysc. Get off ur backside and do something

U can be a sales girl

U are sitting doing nothing, waitijg for nysc that may not happen until God knows when. How do u recharge ur phone. Probably ur so called boyfriend. Bleeding him dry already. Tufuakwa

U are a definition of liability

He is doing u a favour by even staying with u as his girlfriend. Get off ur backside and do a business u can take with u anywhere, even to nysc, and in that way u can look after yourself.

I am sorry for ny harsh words. But u need to grow up and be an adult and be able to care for yourself

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Food / Re: Expect 50% Increase In Prices Of Bread - Bakers Tell Nigerians by Tango123: 1:27pm On Sep 13, 2020
Edusouls:
Increase the price of bread by 50% and watch Nigerians boycott eating bread, then una bread industry would be running a colossal loss that would force cutting of workers, then finally the closure of the bakery, every time price of things increases in Nigeria, there’s never a time it decreases, we Africans are under a serious spell..

Instead of u to engage with the factors leading to increase in cost for the bakers, u seem to be blaming them

How do u want them to recover cost.

The prices of:

Electricity has gone up

Diesel has gone up

Flour has gone up

Sugar has gone up

Yet u want them to keep prices stable.

Next election, use ur vote wisely. If not, this will continue to happen

When u hear that our leaders are patronising foreign companies instead of local ones like Innoson and Proforce, if u support them, this is what happens. It leads to higher forex costs, which affects everyone, including u.

I hope u are not among the tribal warlords on nairaland.com that rejoice when innoson and Proforce and other local companies lose a contract. Because as u rejoice, our money is going to foreigners and paying their workers, while we are here and the price of bread is increasing

All nairaland.com tribal warlords, enjoy ur bread price increase.

Whether u are igbo, yoruba, hausa,efik, tiv, etc, u will suffer the same price increases.

Apc and pdp loyalists, u will all face the same
Crime / Re: Castration As Punishment For Rapists In Kaduna Approved By House Of Assembly by Tango123: 8:43pm On Sep 10, 2020
Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Very good

False accusations....

What if someone is falsely accused....

No recompense as xastration is permanent

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Jobs/Vacancies / Re: 'Indians Only' Job Advert In Abuja by Tango123: 11:04am On Sep 10, 2020
donestk:
Their specification, their wahala

But when the jobless boy in ur street becomes a criminal and comes to ur home armed, dont complain.

Reason and think deep please
Romance / Re: My Girl Is Too Attached To Me, How Can I Stop That? by Tango123: 8:41am On Sep 09, 2020
Zealoy:
Hello guys pls I will like some advice from mature minds here, there's this girl am dating she's very pretty, sexy and hard working, she loves me so much that each day that she didn't hear my voice it will seems to her as if the world is coming to an end

The problem is I didn't love her equally the same way she loves me, initially I only wanted her for sex but she's getting too attached to me, and there's one certain man of God that warmed me to dump the girl am dating, which is her, my problem is how am I going to let her go without actually hurting her feelings cuz I know quite alright that she might hurt herself if I end the relationship between us. She's dangerously in love with me and I fear it will end in tears for her.

If u leave the girl because u want to, or because u are seeing bad habits and behaviour in her, that is understandable

But saying a (god of man) man of God told u really makes me wonder

How sure are u that the said god of men (man of God) is telling u the truth. Why are you mortgaging your future on what a human being like u said? Are you a man of Lucifer yourself? Why privilege the statement of a human being?

Many have been led astray by so called statements from gods of men (men of God). Many gods of men are evil, although there are a few good ones. But even those few good ones are not always right. They can make mistakes. Their past experiences and human qualities can cloud their judgments, and make them misinterprete any sign they receive, that is if they did receive any in the first place.

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Career / Re: Naptu2: Why Nigerians Need To Stop Attacking Firefighters by Tango123: 10:17am On Sep 05, 2020
SLAP44:
grin

Firefighters are a part of the failed government, giving them a brain resetting beating is a way the people pass the message that Nigerian government is useless.

Imagine waiting so long after calling fire service and they turn up to a raging fire with an empty tank!

Wonder how long it will take the government to get the message.

Did u vote in last elections. Who did u vote. Did u vote with ur conscience. Or did u vote along tribal and ethnic lines.

How we vote and who we vote for, are all things that make the govt to never get it

Next election, at all levels, use ur vote wisely if u want to see change.

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Travel / Re: FG Bars Air France, Lufthansa, KLM, Others by Tango123: 8:48pm On Sep 03, 2020
solmusdesigns:
angry



What are they feeling like ??

Denying Etihad for Emirate is just a big scam to make flyers pay more for same service and keep racking money for Emirates

Abudhabi Airport beats that of Emirates Dubai hands down, Etihad airways service is cheaper and better than Emirates by far..

Why is Nigerian government hellbent on scamming Nigerians



.

The passion ubare using to compare and defemd the airlines of other countries, please can u use some of that to attack the evils in Nigeria, and or develop something that will be beneficial to Nigeria

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Romance / Re: As A Man, Which Of These Women Will You Go For? by Tango123: 4:17pm On Sep 02, 2020
I choose the peaceful no 1. I can cook
Religion / Re: Is A Reverend Father Qualified To Give Advice On Marital Crisis? by Tango123: 9:55am On Aug 30, 2020
Sodiquinone:
If singles really know what marriage is about no divorce will happen, Reverend father has no personal experience and therefore not qualified

So a doctor who has not had cancer should not treat cancer?

So a man cannot be a gynaecologist?


Dear OP, a priest, depending on his training and specialist qualifications, which he may get from seminary or from somewherr else, can be a good marriage counsellor.

Having said that, i didn't mean qll priests automatically are good marriage counsellors. Just like not all doctors are gynaecologists, not all nurses are diabetic nurses

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Romance / Re: I Saw My Primary Sch Class Mate In Prison But I Wasn't Surprised. See My Reasons by Tango123: 10:41pm On Aug 26, 2020
skimena:
Friday was my class mate from primary 3-6. Coincidentally, he lived in the same area with me. Though his house was a little bit far from mine but it was trekable. Friday's aunty just brought him from the village to the city newly that was how he was registered in our school so he could acquire formal education. Friday was older than us all in the class with at least 4 years. I remember the first time I saw pubic hair was the day Friday and I went out to ease ourselves during break session. As my eyes turned towards Friday's pipipi I saw hair all over the place and out of shock and surprised, I asked him what was that and he just replied that with time I will get to understand. Long story made short. We left primary school same year but Friday and I were no longer friends with reasons which I will give later. when I was in JSS1, Friday had already started working with a bus driver as a conductor. We hardly see him in the area because of his new job. he goes out very early and closes very late at night. The day I stop by at his aunt's house to check on him as old friend I was told that he no longer stays with her, he's chosing quick money over his future and that he now associate with bad friends. For close to 10 years me and Friday never saw each other. I had already forgotten if I ever met or knew anyone like him. I had finished my secondary school, gained admission to UNIBEN faculty of education. in my 3rd year in sch I was posted to Oko prison in Benin City to teach in the prison adult education center. One beautiful morning as I was walking majestically to the literacy center. I saw a young man with handcuff in his hand and was being ordered around by the prison warder. when I turned to look at his face, behold it was my old friend Friday. When he saw me, he bowed his head in shame. I called his name but he shamefully refused to answer. like a blink of an eye, he was escorted away by the prison warder. when I got to my class I couldn't concentrate for some minute. I was just wondering what on Earth could possibly be the reason why he was in prison? Then I remembered some of his life style during the short period we were friends then I was no longer surprised that Friday finally landed in prison.
1. Back then in primary school, one day he asked me to follow him to where they sale buns, eggroll etc. when we got there, he just pointed to the headmaster's office from a distance that the head master asked him to come buy 2 egg rolls that when he's less busy he will send someone to bring the money. the gullible seller just gave Friday 2 egg rolls. when we left he gave me 1 and he ate the other. That was when I knew Friday deceived the man. But what to do? if I dare report Friday it means I'm in for a big trouble.
2. That buns seller wasn't the only 1 Friday deceived. That was how he was busy visiting different shops where they sell things deceiving them in the name of the head master and head mistress. Friday was also bringing huge amount to sch back then. I believed he was stealing from his aunt's provision shop because he was the one managing the shop after school. Of all his activities in primary school, the 1 that really shocked me most was the day we finished our promotion exam to primary 5. Friday asked me to wait for him that he wants to see the class teacher. I didn't know his intention but I had to obey. when all the pupils had left remaining me, Friday and the teacher, then Friday went to meet the class teacher telling her that he didn't perform well in the exam and that the teacher should promote him that he was ready to pay the teacher if she agrees. The class teacher was really mad at Friday. She started shouting and insulting my friend. he walked Friday out of her sight. Friday would have really influenced me negatively if not for the timely intervention of my parents that adviced me to stop associating with him because of some behavior he was exibiting. I wanted to use the advantage of the fact that I was working there temporarily to plead with some of the prison warders who were my friends to give me the opportunity to see him so we could talk one on one even if it's just 10 minute. But then, I couldn't remember his surename. hence identifying him from other Fridays in the prison wasn't going to be an easy task. Only God knows what actually led Friday to prison and my prayer for Friday is for God to intervene, show him Mercy and give him a second chance.

Even now, i will advice u to bqck off. Dont associate with him

He can put u in trouble. He can send people to u who will force u to bring something contraband to prison for him. If u are caught, na gobe, trouble for u

The guy seems to be a career criminal. He has chosen his path in life. Until he retires or hangs his boots, no one can help him

Take it from me. I know what i am saying

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Religion / Re: Primate Ayodele: No President, No Governor, Nobody Can Take Over My Church by Tango123: 10:50am On Aug 25, 2020
I wish those supporters of this law can read it. Guys take time to read rhat document

Even u, a private histler is not safe. Private businesses are not safe. They can take it from u with this law, or replace u with their own man

Read below. Copied from somewhere

*State Theft, Cronyism and Civil Right Violations: Inside the Hidden Horrors of the CAMA 2020 Bill*

Published
 2020/08/16

By David Hundeyin

Imagine you woke up from a bad dream yesterday, only to find out that you are in another bad dream today. Then you wake up from it tomorrow, only to find yourself in another bad dream, which gives way to yet another nightmare and so on in that manner, like an everlasting set of Russian dolls. No matter how varied the subjects of the nightmares are, they always end with the same conclusion – the Nigerian government wants to take away all economic and civil rights by hook or crook.

This is one way of describing what an examination of the recently ratified Companies and Allied Matter Act 2020 reads like. Here we go again.

Over the past year, NewsWireNGR has published at least four separate deep dives into new and proposed laws and regulations put forward under the Buhari administration, that all pursue the same holy trinity of legislative and regulatory agenda – attacking freedom of speech and the civil space, abrogating property rights and economic prospects and instituting regulators, offices and bodies that exist above the jurisdiction of the court system.

This bill, which is supposed to be a harmless bill about ease of doing business follows the exact same playbook, with the added bonus of now being the law following the President Muhammadu Buhari’s signature on August 7.

Over the course of its 870 sections spread out over 604 pages, the bill has at least four clauses containing these anti-democratic policy directions strategically hidden in plain sight.
Among other things, it empowers the government to forcefully take over civil society organisations at will and expropriate their property. It also contains an unbelievable clause that expressly names a private business belonging to an All Progressives Congress (APC) member, effectively giving state backing to the revenue-generating activity of a politically-connected private entity. 
It then criminalises freelancers alongside the entire Nigerian grey economy in an audacious regulatory power grab that opens the door to Nigerian citizens having their money seized from their bank accounts at the whim of the Nigerian State.

Finally it contains a clause that is as comically unconstitutional as it is brazenly anti-democratic, purportedly preventing any individual or organisation from taking legal action against it unless it gives them permission to. This is the inside scoop on CAMA 2020, the Buhari administration’s latest successful attempt to smuggle 1984 into 2020.

*CAMA 2020: NGO Bill in Disguise*
In 2019, one of the bills that NewsWireNGR delved into was the ‘Bill for an Act To Provide For The Establishment Of The Non-Governmental Organizations Regulatory Commission For The Supervision, Co-ordination And Monitoring Of Non Governmental Organizations,’ popularly known as the ‘NGO Bill’. Originally introduced into the House of Representatives in 2016, it generated a huge uproar and was eventually put on ice when it became politically impossible to force it through.

The provision of the bill that caused the loudest uproar was the proposed ability of the government to direct or even take over the activities of NGOs and civil society organisations (CSO).
Without raising as much as a whimper however, CAMA 2020 has got this very provision of the NGO Bill passed into law. According to Section 839 of the bill, the government now has the power to remove the management of any such organisation and replace it with whoever it wants based on nothing more than what side of the bed it wakes up on.

The highlighted sub-clause (iii.) can be explained in plain English as follows: “The commission may remove and replace the trustees of a CSO if it determines that it is in “the public interest” to do so – in its sole opinion and based on criteria nobody else has access to.” In other words, the Buhari Administration or any of its successors can now legally take over Amnesty Nigeria, SERAP or any similar organisations it has previously antagonised openly, if their definition of “public interest” means “the government must not be embarrassed.” 

*Legislative Cronyism Hiding in Plain Sight*
Section 704 looks like a boring, bog-standard section about company law and the process of liquidation and insolvency practise. A closer look however reveals something very unusual that meets all the criteria for what can be described as “corruption.”

The Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN) is expressly named as the preferred government-recognised body which insolvency practitioners must be registered with in order to practise.
The problem with this is that BRIPAN is not in fact a government-recognised professional body like the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), which was established Act of Parliament No 15 of 1965. BRIPAN, it turns out, is a private company limited by guarantee registered in 1994 as a non-profit association.

It also carries out revenue-generation activities including sale of membership forms and organising membership trainings and Fellow workshops for N90,000 and N250,000 respectively.

What this means is that someone somehow got their private revenue-generation activities written into law and effectively mandated as a pre-condition for Insolvency practise in Nigeria, as though their private company were a government-affiliated institution. A peek behind the veil to see who this super-connected individual behind BRIPAN is revealed this:

Once a member of President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Vision 2020 Steering Committee, Abiodun Ismail Saka-Layonu is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) with over 38 years of experience as a lawyer. He also sits on the board of Stabilini Visinoni, a civil engineering company, and Bi-Courtney Limited, the embattled concessionaire of MM2 Airport and the Lagos – Ibadan expressway. Layonu is a card carrying member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and he took part in the 2018 Osun State gubernatorial race alongside eventual winner Gboyega Oyetola.

In other words, CAMA 2020 has taken the private business of a ruling party member and written it into law, effectively forcing anybody who wishes to become an insolvency practitioner in Nigeria to pay money to said party member’s “non-profit organisation.”

*Criminalising the Informal Sector – 21,000,000 Nigerians are now Criminals*
According to the Bank of Industry, Nigeria’s informal sector contributes up to 65 percent of the country’s GDP. This sector is generally made up of rural small scale farmers, urban small scale retailers, artisans and freelancers. The idea of a Nigerian government in its current situation attempting to criminalise 65 percent of the country’s economy with a stroke of a legislative pen would ordinarily be seen as somewhere between horrifying and hilarious, because it is both profoundly unwise and utterly unenforceable. Yet this is precisely what CAMA 2020 does with this clause in section 863.


As terrible as the idea of introducing potentially unenforceable legislation is, the real trouble perhaps exists because of how unenforceable it is. Specific figures from Nigeria are unavailable, but Sub-Saharan estimates put the informal sector’s share of people in employment at anything from 72 percent to 90 percent. If we conservatively extrapolate that 72 percent of working Nigerians are informally employed, and we conservatively estimate that half (36 percent) are the sole proprietors and partners described in this clause, this means that at least 36 percent of Nigeria’s 58,527,277 people currently in any kind of employment – 21,069,819 Nigerians – are now apparently committing a crime by running a private business or income-generating activity outside of the government’s control.
The ugly danger inherent in this wide criminalisation of the very backbone of Nigeria’s economy can be inferred from the specific line of the clause underlined below:

“A fine prescribed in the Commission’s regulations from time to time.”
In other words, the government is now legally empowered to impose any fine at all it wants on at least 21 million Nigerians at any point in time. Social media content creators, freelance programmers and writers, itinerant musicians, roadside hawkers – nobody is spared. By classifying all unregistered economic activity as illegal, the door has also been opened to arbitrary garnishing or expropriation of private bank accounts of any individuals criminalised by this law using their readily-accessible Bank Verification Number (BVN) information.

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*The CAC is Now Above the Law – Literally*
Finally and most concerningly, the new law contains a clause that was also observed in the Social Media Bill, Hate Speech Bill, NCDC Bill and the recent 6th NBC Code amendment – a clause to place a Nigerian government organisation outside or above the constitutionally mandated jurisdiction of the Nigerian court system. In the case of the Social Media and Hate Speech bills, the legislation was to the effect that legal action cannot be brought against the relevant ministry, but rather an unelected bureaucrat at the ministry who has no legal jurisdiction to hear legal appeals would make all final decisions. The CAMA 2020 iteration of this unconstitutional clause is less in-your-face, but no less obnoxious.

According to the clause, the jurisdiction of the Nigerian court system to hear a legal complaint is somehow subjugated to the CAC’s unilateral directive to allow it 30 days to prepare for a lawsuit before it is filed. In other words, if any individual or organisation is affected by any of the afore-mentioned clauses, their constitutional right to immediately seek legal redress is somehow suspended and they must notify the CAC in writing of their intention to sue, their name, their home address and their desired reliefs, and then wait 30 days, presumably for the CAC to pay them a nice home visit to share tea and cookies.
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*Bonus Clause: All Foreign Companies Must Register. Except Chinese Ones.*

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Romance / Re: . by Tango123: 11:36pm On Aug 24, 2020
MJBOLT:
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For what. App owned by who, regulated by who

Stop deceiving the gullible
Romance / Re: My Neighbor And Sex Romp by Tango123: 11:29pm On Aug 24, 2020
PIXSPEAKS:

chaii this life no just balance oo.
I hear some guys say that em babe had one relationship/boyfriend before am and in his mind,the body count is commendable.
My brothers,it doesn't matter oo.
Before now,I had a thought that if I don't get a virgin,I might settle for a girl with less body count but this my neighbor has changed my mind.
My neighbors girl came around March from univ, a girl of 22 at most before the lockdown.
From march till date, she has been around
(of course,thats not the problem).
the problem is from that date till now, a day hardly pass without a round of loud sex.
I live in a 2 room self con apartment and same with my neighbor in the compound(only us)
While trying to work with my system in the evening,babe go dey shout.(Oga has big #200 cucumber size gbola) Night,the same..

One thought keeps running through my mind, who will inherit this girl later?
they will say sheepishly'My babe had one ex, do u know how many time the pussy was bleeped recklessly'
A girl that will not say no to at least a day off, can she be trusted to stay while you travel?

So I would advice girls, keep your milage low for you future hubby..
Chaii each time I sees this babe,I feel like vomiting..its too much.

They have started for night shift now.. So annoying..



Mind ur business sir. She is a mature adult. So is the man. Its their life

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