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The kind of mothers we would have troubles me...

There is nothing wrong with having fun, but imagine we grew up seeing our parents doing sort of things.

I cant blame us... The world has really changed. Its globalisation, and no one is really innocent.
#God help us

Its quite unfortunate that this tantrum between the US and North Korea is fast becoming a reality.

I have read how people have been begging both countries to allow them watch season 7 and 8 of the Game of Thrones - to see how Khaleesi will ascend the throne - before they initiate a WW3.

Some others have questioned why US should be the adjudicator of what country should keep nuclear bombs or not.

Quite unfortunately, there are far serious reasons not to have a WW3 in this age. There are more sophisticated nuclear and chemical weapons in the arsenal of many countries now than there ever was - and this could be the end of humanity.

Someone should please remind the US and North Koreans of our shared Humanity, and most importantly, of the evils of WW1 and WW2 - there will never be Winners.

If anything, Christians, Muslims - everyone - should tie their girdles and pray against this evil from becoming a reality.

More importantly, we should be prepared for the worst, but hope that it never comes to fruition.

Judithjovial:
How genuine is the data company?

You are beautiful... I just had to say it. Apologies in advance.

Reminds me of that Nigerian gods, Esu lalu ogiro oko.... "O be lekun sukun keru o ba elekun, elekun nsunkun laroye nsun eje"

kingzjay:
UK IS NOW SYNONYMOUS WITH KILLINGS...................ESPECIALLY THE BLACKS!










THIS ISSUE OF RACISM IS GETTING OUT OF HAND.
WHAT'S THE WAY OUT?

This has nothing to do with racism. I know the guy, he was a very good friend and he is even more British than Nigerian. He is not homegrown and Most of his friends were whites... He doesnt even roll with Nigerians as far as I know.

His death: people generally fall into a fight and its not uncommon for a party to die, especially when they are both drunk.

I feel sorry for him though cos I used to work in this night club the last I saw him.

Like someone said earlier.... His watch has just ended! Lets avoid the racism or cultist stigma pls.

I know very little about the Nigerian legal market. I have heard Abuja is a good place to do the Bar, but quite unsure of the law practices in the capital.

I need an informed opinion please. I am sure your advice will be useful to many prospective law graduates who have studied abroad.

Many thanks in advance.

One of my friends on FB shared this on his page recently and it got me really cracked up. Some surnames are just so funny. I have shared a couple of the names and I was hoping you guys could relate your experiences as well.

NIGERIA’S economy shrank by 1.5% in 2016, its first annual contraction in 25 years. The president, Muhammadu Buhari (pictured, left), recently spent six weeks seeking medical treatment in London. And the country continues to be roiled by Boko Haram jihadists in the north-east and by unrelated militants’ attacks on oil facilities in the Niger delta. Yet investors don’t seem to mind: last month Nigeria issued a 15-year, $1bn eurobond—a bond in a currency other than that of the country issuing it—that was eight times oversubscribed. A second issuance is expected, possibly this month. It will probably be met with similar enthusiasm. What makes investing in Nigeria so attractive?

Nigeria is benefiting from pent-up demand for African sovereign debt. Emerging markets started last year on a very bad footing: depressed currencies, looming interest-rate increases and uncertainty over British and American votes put investors off risky trades. African sovereign bonds suffered more than most. Yields—which move inversely to prices—peaked in February. They dropped gradually throughout the year, but too slowly for many nations to borrow at affordable rates: only three sub-Saharan governments—South Africa, Mozambique and Ghana—sold dollar-denominated debt in 2016. Yet with interest rates in the developed world still low, asset managers remain hungry for returns. Credit funds focused on emerging markets received nearly $10bn in the first two months of this year, almost double the amount pulled out of them in the same period last year, according to EPFR Global, a research firm.

More specific factors have also put Nigeria on investors’ radars. In early February, the country’s finance, budget and central-bank chiefs toured the world’s financial capitals to provide an update on their agenda for reform. A more detailed plan was published earlier this month. After two years of denial, the government admitted that the economy needs deep adjustments. Investors are cheered by efforts to reduce opportunities for sleaze, such as the introduction of biometric records in the civil service and the merger of multiple treasury accounts into a single kitty, which Nigera started attempting to implement in late 2015. They also liked measures to end wasteful fuel subsidies, improve tax collection and increase VAT. Such pledges make it more likely that the World Bank and the African Development Bank will agree to lend Nigeria a combined $3.5bn to support its 2017 budget.

It is not a one-way bet. External factors cloud Nigeria’s prospects: further rises in American interest rates, following last week’s increase, would strengthen the dollar and make debt repayment more expensive. Fortunately, Nigeria remains one of Africa’s least indebted nations. Should Yemi Osinbajo, the technocratic vice-president (pictured, right) who ran the show while Mr Buhari was unwell, retain authority to drive policy changes, investors will probably keep on giving Nigeria the benefit of the doubt.


http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/03/economist-explains-14

A trip is often defined by its surprises, so here are my biggest revelations from six days in Lagos, Nigeria.

Most of all, I found Lagos to be much safer than advertised. It is frequently described as one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Many people told me I was crazy to go there, and some Nigerian expats warned me I might not get out of the airport alive.

The reality is that I walked around freely and in many parts of town. I didn’t try to go everywhere or at all hours, and I may have been lucky. Yet not once did I feel threatened, and I strongly suspect that a trip to Lagos is safer than a trip to Rio de Janeiro, a major tourist destination. (In my first trip to Rio I was attacked by children with pointed sticks. In my second I found myself caught in a gunfight between drug lords). Many Lagos residents credit the advent of closed-circuit television cameras for their safety improvements.

So if you’re an experienced traveler, and tempted to visit Africa’s largest and arguably most dynamic city, don’t let safety concerns be a deal killer.

Nigeria’s Horrors and Hopes

The surprises mount. For all the negative publicity, many parts of Nigeria, especially Lagos, could and should serve as exemplars for religious tolerance.

The reports of Boko Haram and terror killings are well known, and they reflect the interlocking and sometimes deadly combinations of regional, religious, sectarian and ethnic identities in the country, not to mention extreme inequalities of income and opportunity. Yet Nigeria has about 180 million people and is larger than Texas. The violence is the most frequently reported story in the West, but the underlying reality is far more complex and shows positive features.

For instance, the city of Lagos is in many regards a marvel of religious tolerance. Nigeria is about 50 percent Muslim and 40 percent Christian, and the area surrounding Lagos is also highly mixed in terms of religion. That may sound like a recipe for trouble, but in matters of religion Lagos is almost entirely peaceful. Religious intermarriage is common and usually not problematic, as is the case in many (not all) other parts of Nigeria as well. Many top Nigerian politicians have married outside their religion, kept two separate religions in the family and enjoyed continued political success.

Consider the scale and speed of this achievement. Lagos, with a population of about 20 million, is larger than many countries. It is the most commercially oriented part of Nigeria, and it grew so large only in the last few decades, as it attracted entrepreneurially minded people from many parts of Nigeria and other African countries. By one estimate, 85 new residents arrive every hour. That may sound chaotic, but in essence Nigeria has in a few decades created an almost entirely new, country-sized city built on the ideals and practice of religious tolerance. The current president, Muhammadu Buhari, is a Muslim who was supported in his election by many Christian leaders, on the grounds that he would fight corruption more effectively. His running mate served as a Pentecostal pastor.

The recent history of Nigeria, Lagos in particular, is also a counterweight to some recent Western political trends. Many Westerners today fear resurgent nationalism, as illustrated by the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump.

In Nigeria, nationalism is largely a progressive force, bringing the country together and allowing nation-building and infrastructure development. However imperfect or backward these processes might be -- Nigeria has at least 270 distinct ethnic groups and 370 languages -- in Nigeria one is rooting for nationalism to succeed. And it’s in Lagos, the country’s largest and most important window to the outside world, where the understanding of the importance of a common and stable national identity has made such progress.

Many Westerners used to consider much of Africa backward in this regard, but we Westerners are learning again that national cohesion isn’t always so easy. Perhaps the political spectrum in many Western countries can realign itself in a direction analogous to some features of Nigeria, to ally liberalism and nationalism once again.


https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-03/nigeria-could-teach-the-west-a-few-things?cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Recently, I have come to realize the power of the social media and the change it can effect. I think we the next generation leaders of this country need to have a say in the type of future we would inherit and pass to our children.

May be we havent realized the problem. Permit me to restate the underlying problem.

Problem?
Irrespective of recent news in the federal reserves...the Nigerian Economy is too unstable...to say the least, and the Market, particularly foreign investors, dont like unpredictability.

The federal government and the CLUELESS, Senate and HoR... Are not chunning out good economic policies and regulations that encourages investments. The Naira is on a free-fall and I dont even believe all this tabloid news on increasing federal reserves.

Most of our graduates are unemployable as we know next to nothing about how businesses can run and stay competitive in the highly advanced modern world.

Lack of a stable electricity and security makes it difficult and expensive for companies to run effectively and maintain cashflow.

Crux?
I am not an economist neither am a business analyst; I am only a law student. Still, I know that no economy will grow, and indeed neither will foreign companies be attracted, to a society where

1.There is no sound regulatory system to regulate the formulation and running of businesses: even Barbing Saloon, food sellers, drug sellers etc should be regulated. They have to meet international hygeine standards if our country will ever grow.

2. Where there is no good/fair Judicial system to ensure parties get adequate redresses in cases of breach or contractual disputes

3. Where the pool of talents to hire is minimal due to the porous and jack of all trade system adopted by our education policy makers

What to do?
Many things are wrong with the country... But first... I think we need to look inward and suggest to the government or parliament what bills or ideas we think they can legislate on to improve our various business and the economy.

Personally;
I think they should overhaul our electoral system. Its high time we increase threshold for parliamentary positions to Degree holders and a minimum of 10 years experience of working professionally.

The earlier the better. No nation can be better than the laws and policies it implements.


Hopefully, someone in the government will be reading this and who knows...they might get one or two ideas from us.

Thanks,
Psalm.

These sort of news are good... At least to encourage foreign investors. But the Nigerian Economy is too unstable...to say the least and the Market, and particularly foreign investors, dont like unpredictability.

The federal government and the CLUELESS, Senate and HoR... Are not chunning out good economic policies and regulations that encourages investments. The Naira is on a free-fall and I dont even believe all this tabloid news on increasing federal reserves.

Most of our graduates are unemployable as they know next to nothing about how businesses can run and stay competitive in the highly advanced modern world.

Lack of a stable electricity and security makes it difficult and expensive for companies to run effectively and maintain cashflow.

Crux...
I am not an economist neither am I business analyst; I am only a law student. Still, I know that no economy will grow, and indeed neither will foreign companies be attracted, to a society where

1.There is no sound regulatory system to regulate the formulation and running of businesses: even Barbing Saloon, food sellers, drug sellers etc should be regulated. They have to meet international hygeine standards if our country will ever grow.

2. Good Judicial system to ensure parties get adequate redresses in cases of breach or contractual disputes

3. Where the pool of talents to hire is minimal due to the porous and jack of all trade system adopted by our education policy makers

Many things are wrong with the country... But first... I think we need to overhaul our electoral system. Its hight time we start encouraging trained professionals to via for senatorial positions.

The earlier the better. No nation can be better than the laws and policies it implements.

Psalm!

He was my best friend at GSCHS.. Meiran. Its quite unfortunate that fate took a bad one on him.

I really cant believe he is dead. Not really been able to process the news since I heard this afternoon.

He used to be that very nice, funny dude that you would sneak out of the school to play video games and football match with.

I am deeply sad to lose you. Everyone sees you as that dreaded cultist. I see you as the innocent friend who made my high school a memorable day.

Others see a culprit, I see a victim... A victim of the self-damaging society.

RIP my dear friend.

Ajiwokewu Oluwadamilola.
General Bebo
Don Jazzy
The 7 star general.

A senior Indian politician has been ridiculed over images which show him being carried through ankle-deep water while inspecting deadly flooding.

At least 40 people have died and hundreds of thousands have been evacuated as floods triggered by monsoon rains hit central and eastern India.

During a visit to a village hit by flooding, Shivraj Singh Chouhan was pictured wearing white trousers and being held aloft by two policemen in shallow water.

The photo of Mr Chouhan, chief minister of the Madhya Pradesh state, was splashed on newspaper front pages in India and sparked a backlash on Twitter.

One post read: "Shame on Shivraj Singh Chouhan. So embarrassing, wet your feet my man."


Another user joked that the picture showed Mr Chouhan "celebrating with coaches and staff after defeating (Michael) Phelps to clinch gold in 400m swimming."

Others accused the minister of abusing his position, while some drew comparisons to the treatment of British officials during colonial times.

The Hindustan Times reports that security officers lifted Mr Chouhan after he "hit a hard object in the mud".

Other reports suggest that the minister was hoisted over concerns about snakes in the water.

On Twitter Mr Chouhan posted pictures of himself surveying flood damage in barefoot, next to a man holding his shoes.

He omitted the image of him being carried through floodwater.

In Madhya Pradesh at least 17 people have died from drowning, electrocution and injuries from house collapses.


Mr Chouhan said: "The administration is alert and I have ordered them to provide food and clean water to the displaced.

"Weather warning administration will take adequate steps when needed."

Disaster management officials said that days of heavy rain have caused the Ganges River to rise above the danger mark in 20 districts.

Floods occur in many parts of India during the monsoon season, which runs from June through September.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/indian-minister-mocked-over-flood-photo/ar-BBvU6lh?fullscreen=true#image=1

Africans never have rest...

Even at death...they still continue to work as Ancestors...

Robert Mugabe

It's official: Yahoo's days as an independent company are over.

Verizon has agreed to pay $4.83 billion for Yahoo (YHOO, Tech30), the companies said before markets opened Monday.

The sale completes Yahoo's evolution from influential search pioneer and web portal juggernaut to, in the end, a once-dominant brand that lost its way.

Parties as diverse as Warren Buffett and The Daily Mail were interested in buying Yahoo. But after a sale process that dragged on for months, Verizon (VZ, Tech30), long viewed as the frontrunner, is walking away with Yahoo's more than one billion monthly active users.

Current Yahoo shareholders will keep the company's lucrative investments in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. They will be spun into a separate, yet-to-be-named, publicly traded company. The deal also excludes some patents and Yahoo's cash.

The Verizon deal must be approved by regulators and is expected to be finalized in the first quarter of 2017.

The sale puts an end to Yahoo's 21-year history as an independent company. Yahoo will now be integrated with Verizon-owned AOL under Marni Walden, an executive vice president at the telecom company.

It also ends a turnaround effort by Marissa Mayer, who joined Yahoo four years ago and promised to revitalize the company. Verizon and Yahoo have not commented on who will lead Yahoo once the deal is complete.

It's unclear what Mayer will do after the deal closes. A spokesman for Yahoo said it's "too early to say" whether she will stay on as CEO, accept a new role at Verizon, or step aside. Meanwhile, Mayer says she will stay on to see Yahoo through its transition.

"For me personally, I'm planning to stay," Mayer wrote Monday in a memo to employees posted on Tumblr. "I love Yahoo, and I believe in all of you. It's important to me to see Yahoo into its next chapter."

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told CNN's Poppy Harlow that he and Mayer are focusing first on getting "the strategy right, and then the structure and the roles right."

"I've known Marissa for almost 20 years," Armstrong said. "The press has tried to make it a little more of drama camp, but we come from similar backgrounds."

On a conference call with analysts after the announcement, Mayer repeated that line before adding, "A lot of the integration discussions are still ahead of us."

Mayer also tried to frame the deal in a positive light on the call. She touted Verizon's potential to "accelerate our revenue stream in digital advertising" and repeatedly said she was "excited" for the future.

"The single biggest thing this whole deal is about is scale," Armstrong told Harlow. "We will essentially end up being one of the largest portfolios of consumer brands in the world for digital."

Mayer, like Armstrong, previously worked at Google (GOOG) before taking over the top spot at Yahoo in 2012. She invested heavily in improving Yahoo's mobile products, expanding its audience through the acquisition of Tumblr and doubling down on premium media content. She brought in TV journalist Katie Couric as Yahoo's "global anchor."

But Mayer struggled to slow Yahoo's overall ad sales decline.

After reporting earnings last week, Mayer made what may have been her final case to investors and the public that she worked to "create a better Yahoo."

But the sale price suggests that Yahoo's glory days ended long ago. In 2008, for example, Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) was willing to pay more than $45 billion for Yahoo, an offer that was rebuffed by cofounder Jerry Yang.

Yahoo was synonymous with the Internet itself in the late '90s. But for Verizon, the deal is about more than just nostalgia. The telecom company has invested in digital content and advertising in recent years, buying AOL and the Huffington Post.

Investors were less than thrilled. Shares of Yahoo were down nearly 4% Monday afternoon.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/25/technology/yahoo-verizon-deal-sale/index.html?sr=fbcnni072516yahoo-verizon-deal-sale1133AMVODtopLink&linkId=26901306

ThePeacemaker:
Congrats bro......

I love like your friends, They ain't racist


Hope you're not cominq over here to look for JOB?? .

Lalasticlala FP ooh

And whats wrong if he does?

I have just been thinking.

Is there a scientific reason or whats the cosmic importance of planets apart from the EARTH?

Why are they lifeless?
How did they even come to be?

Or should we turn to religion for these answers?

Remember those days in the face me i face you house; when your mum will call the next door neighbour to pin you down just to brush your teeth.

Matthew 22:36-40
22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

22:38 This is the first and great commandment.

22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Matthew

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ALADE19:
that's my king... i rep Iwo. Odidere Iwo...omo olodo oba, omo ateni gbola; omo ateni gbore...

Nice 1 brov...

Iwo ti o ni ilekun... Eru ni won fi nsho ile baba won.

Unfortunately I ave never ben concerned abt my hometown. Hopefully, we will be the change to Nigeria as a whole.

Akorede Omotayo - The UK Immigration Act 2016 and What it means for Nigerians migrating to the UK.
By Adedunmade Onibokun 7:39 AM

On 12 May 2016, the Immigration Act 2016 came into force, making it officially UK law. The importance of this Act to Nigerians, and particularly Nigerian students, who lives or intend to migrate cum study in the UK cannot be over-emphasised.

The Act is designed to create an ‘hostile environment’ for those who require immigration permission to work and live in the UK but who do not have it.
Speaking about the new Act, Immigration Minister, James Brokenshire said:


“The message is clear - if you are here illegally, you shouldn’t be entitled to receive the everyday benefits and services available to hard-working UK families and people who have come to this country legitimately to contribute.
“Whether it is working, renting a flat, having a bank account or driving a car, the new immigration act will help us to take tougher action than ever before on those who flout the law.
“It will deter illegal migrants from trying to reach the UK by preventing them from accessing benefits or services in this country and make it easier for us to remove those with no right to be here.”

What are the key changes to the law?
The provisions of the Act that will affect Nigerians living or intending to live, work and study in the UK are summarized below.

· Working
Employers who hire illegal migrants and the workers themselves face criminal sanctions of up to five years’ imprisonment. Those who have leave and are allowed to work but who undertake prohibited types of work, for example, Tier 4 (General) students must not be self-employed or work as a professional sportsperson or as an entertainer.

The Home office has also announced that Employers who are Tier 2 sponsors will be charged a £1000 immigration skills charge when they sponsor individuals under these categories. The implication of this for those who seek Tier 2 Visa’s for graduate jobs in the UK is far reaching.

· Residential tenancies
A tenant who is required to have leave to be in the UK but who does not have it can be evicted. This will apply to tenancies entered into before as well as after implementation of this Part of the Bill. A landlord who has reasonable cause to believe his or her tenants have no 'right to rent' but who takes no action against them can be imprisoned for up to five years and/or be fined.

· Bank accounts
Banks and building societies will be required to check the immigration status of current account holders at a frequency to be set out in regulations not yet published. They will be charged for doing this, and presumably that charge can be passed to customers.
Migrants who are found guilty can have their bank accounts frozen.

· Driving licences
The Bill creates a new offence of driving when unlawfully in the UK. The penalty will be imprisonment and/or a fine, as well as immigration sanctions. People and premises can be searched for a driving licence.

· Power to cancel s3C leave
If the Home Office considers that a person who has applied for leave has failed to comply with a condition or used or uses deception in seeking leave to remain, that person's leave extended by virtue of section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 can be cancelled. This means that the individual will become an overstayer and will immediately be affected by all the measures summarised above, as well as usually being prohibited from study.

Also, the Government’s so called ‘deport first, appeal later’ scheme has been extended to all migrants (before it only applied to convicted criminals with no residency rights). Any migrant can now be removed to their home country pending the outcome of their appeal against the decision to remove them.

Furthermore, pregnant women can now only be detained by immigration authorities for up to 72 hours (and one week with special permission).

All in all…
With this huge new law, the UK government is again trying to clamp down on illegal migrants. Nigerians who lives in the UK or intend to migrate to the UK should be aware of these changes. A violation of any immigration rule means that their bank account may be frozen, driving licence revoked, and all rights to appeal can only be done after deportation to the home country.


http://www.legalnaija.com/2016/06/akorede-omotayo-uk-immigration-act-2016.html

Funny but true.... Nobody can run away from this... In the name of suicide.

A coalition of various Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of Citizens United for Peace and Stability, on Tuesday, stormed the premises of the National Assembly, demanding the immediate resignation of embattled Senate President Bukola Saraki.

The activities of the protesters numbering over 200 caused a serious gridlock as they forced the security operatives of the federal parliament to close the main gate from about noon till the time of filing this report.

The protesters, who arrived at the National Assembly complex with mats and foams, sat on the floor outside the main gate, chanting solidarity songs, not minding the scorching sun.

Our correspondent observed that the protesters underscored the seriousness of their mission as they had mobilised generators, cooking utensils and mobile toilets to the National Assembly.

The anti-Saraki agitators pledged to occupy the complex until their demands were met, vowing to ensure that the situation persisted till Thursday (tomorrow).

They insisted that Saraki should vacate his seat over the myriad of corruption cases preferred against him, which had necessitated his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal for alleged false and anticipated asset declaration when he was the governor of Kwara State between 2007 and 2015.

The protesters, including physically-challenged persons, also condemned the purchase of exotic jeeps for the senators at exorbitant price and asked them to return the vehicles.

The protesters marched from the Unity Fountain within the Central Area of the city to the National Assembly, a journey of about two kilometres and forced their way to the main gate, defying all security networks mounted by regular and riot police officers.

Some of the placards carried by the protesters read, “Revolution will not be televised. Keep yourself informed. Occupy Nigeria”; “Why we must occupy N’Assembly from April 26 to 28” and “Federal lawmakers working against Nigerians.”

Trouble started when the protesters forced the security operatives as well as the sergeant-at-arms to close the main gate, thereby preventing staff members, lawmakers and visitors from either entering or leaving the premises.

The development forced the visitors to abandon their mission to the National Assembly and return home while the members of staff, lawmakers and legislative aides had to access the complex through either the Villa gate or the gate of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

Addressing journalists on behalf of his fellow protesters, one of their leaders, Mr. Sadeeq Jidda, said the Senate President must resign because his integrity had been called to question with his ongoing corruption charges.

He stated, “We are here for a peaceful protest. We are not fighting anybody; we will sleep here today until our demands are met. Our interest is to see real legislative activities in action. Lawmakers are not expected to be contractors, they should face lawmaking.”

Reacting on behalf of his colleagues, Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, said the protesters by their action, were laying a bad precedent, urging Nigerians to condemn their action.

Ndume added that no form of protest could force anybody in the federal parliament to resign his position, arguing that the protesters were not the people who elected them in the first instance.

He explained that the call for the return of the vehicles was not necessary because the vehicles were meant for the senators to carry out their various committee’s works, noting that the jeeps remained the property of the National Assembly.

Ndume stated, “For instance, I contested to be senator of Borno South; I did not force myself on my people and therefore somebody out there, especially the one who did not elect me, cannot force me out because I didn’t come in by force.

“So if for example, I am short on performance and my constituents feel that they don’t have the time to waste, there is a clear cut process, that is, collect signatures and ask for me to be recalled.”

Meanwhile, another group, under the aegis of Save Nigeria Group, led by one Solomon Adodo, also staged a peaceful protest to the National Assembly on Tuesday, condemning the call for the resignation of the senate president.

Adodo, who is not a known leader of the SNG, maintained that the current prosecution of Saraki was an attempt to emasculate the red chamber.

He said the group believed the development would destroy the image of the red chamber on the long run.

http://www.punchng.com/protesters-storm-nassembly-with-mats-generators-demand-sarakis-resignation/

No fewer than 150 females were raped, while 31 babies were abandoned on the streets of Lagos in the last one year.

The Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Mrs. Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf, said this at a press briefing in Ikeja on Tuesday.

Akinbile-Yussuf explained that 150 reported cases of sexual and physical abuse were officially recorded, while five pregnant schoolchildren were assisted to access adequate ante-natal and delivery services and were also integrated back into school.

“Also, a total of 57,350 schoolchildren benefitted from individual and group counselling sessions to curb truancy, gangsterism and other social vices. About 150 reported cases of sexual abuse and physical abuse were treated. Five pregnant schoolchildren were assisted to access adequate antenatal and delivery services. They were also integrated back into school,” she added.

The commissioner further stated that 85 suspected rapists and paedophiles had been taken to court while the cases were still pending.

She said 31 babies, comprising 19 females and 12 males, abandoned by their parents, were rescued in the last one year on the streets of Lagos.

“The Child Protection Unit is responsible for the rescue and referral of all abandoned babies and children in the state to orphanages and homes. It also carries out child audit on the registered orphanages to decongest the homes and discourage institutionalisation. A total of 31 babies —19 females and 12 males — were rescued during the period under review,” she said.

She explained that 74 babies were released for adoption, while 81 adoptions were legalised through the family courts.

Akinbile-Yussuf said the government took 1,340 beggars, the destitute and the mentally-challenged off the streets of Lagos.

“A total of 590 rehabilitees were released and re-united with their relations for re-integration.

“The state government provides medical and vocational facilities to help in turning the lives of beggars around. About 147 rehabilitees are currently undergoing vocational training at the Lagos State Rehabilitation and Training Centre, Majidun,” she said.

The commissioner added that the state handled 634 juvenile cases in the last one year, out of which 26 juveniles were repatriated to their countries after due consultation with their embassies.

In the same vein, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Mrs. Lola Akande, said the ministry in the last one year treated about 589 cases ranging from sexual abuse, physical abuse and child labour cases.

She said the ministry also received 382 cases of domestic violence out of which 234 were successfully treated, which among others include physical and emotional pains, harm, injury, humiliation and degradation, permanent and partial disability, separation, divorce and needless loss of lives.

Akande asked members of the society to come up with useful information on sexual violence against women and men, as well as other social vices including any suspected illegal baby factory.

http://www.punchng.com/150-females-raped-31-babies-abandoned-in-lagos/

fowowe411:
If your plan is to practise in Nigeria then I advise you go for law of evidence. Intellectual property is a substantive law that you can easily read and understand your. The larger chunk of it is abstract at least in the Nigerian legal system, there has not been much navigation in the area. However Evidence law is a procedural law that you cannot afford to miss for anything except you aren't planning to go into full law practise. It is in evidence that you will learn procedures of tendering exhibits, proofs in court, admissibility and relevance of evidence, when to get a confessional statement and so all. Since you will still attend the Nigerian Law school, you can't afford not to offer evidence if you want to come out with something serious here.

Cheers Bro!

I believe you are right.. Although I have later found out that I have an option to do Evidence as a remedial course if and when I take the Nigerian Bar; I have decided to do Evidence now... and I will just attend Intellectual Property classes... since I might possibly do my Masters on it.

But I am surprised you said IP Law is not really developed in Nigeria... what about all those trademarks..copyright...patents...and passing off cases. Are there not much commercial disputes along this lines?

Tracing and identifying pattern is a very great skill in most profession.

Identify the Tap.

Hi everyone,

I seriously need the advice of a practicing Lawyer.

My name is Sam. I am currently studying Law in the UK. I need to pick my modules for my last session and I am seriously caught-up between;
Intellectual Property Law and Evidence.

Please... Is it really compulsory to do Evidence if I wish to practice in Nigeria....because I seriously dont want to miss IP Law for anything. I was thinking since I did Criminal Law.. Thar should make-up for Evidence.

I need an urgent advice please.

Thanks.