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4. WaleLamina
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13.busar
14.Neeyhmutate+2fwdz comin In Sha Allah
15.Abduljaleel

He's been a muslim n dint just convert((quote author=ilugunboy]...and this is the dude some deluded dolts were praising to the heaven not long ago on this forum.

Asari is a confused adult...torn between a religion he converted into as an adult and the belief-system of the environment that he spent his formative years.

Woe betides anyone that takes this guy serious.[/quote]

It is no longer news that the Senate has not been able to summon a majority enough to remove a clause in the Nigerian Constitution that grants the status “of full age” to a person who has been married.Section 29 of the 1999 Constitution says:

1) Any citizen of Nigeria of full age who wishes to renounce his Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation.

(2) The President shall cause the declaration made under subsection (1) of this section to be registered and upon such registration, the person who made the declaration shall cease to be a citizen of Nigeria.

(3) The President may withhold the registration of any declaration made under subsection (1) of this section if-

(a) the declaration is made during any war in which Nigeria is physically involved; or

(b) in his opinion, it is otherwise contrary to public policy.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.

 (a) “full age” means the age of eighteen years and above;

(b) any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.

According to Senator Yerima, who moved the motion against normal protocol for a re-vote, a removal of this section violates the religious tenets of Islam. I am not aware of any Muslim scholar who has risen to speak up against him. In fact, some have even pointed out a section of the Koran which seems to suggest that a girl has come of age after her first menstrual flow.

This article is not aimed at arguing whether Islam propagates girl child marriage or not. I want to believe that as with the slavery system practised by the Jews, and endorsed in the Christian Bible, there must be a valid reason why the Koran makes this provision. I also want to believe that every religious provision has a tendency of being abused. For this reason, every civilized and modern society, which, despite diversity, has come together under a social contract, makes laws that are as free from religious bias as possible and makes provisions that will protect all citizens’ rights.

For example, we do know that The Nigerian Constitution does not outlaw traditional religion. I am also aware that traditional religion often involves human sacrifice. Would a traditional religious worshipper, if represented in the senate, then ask that a provision be made for human sacrifice? Have people not gone to prison for being found with human heads even though they are using it to further their religion? Does not the constitution guarantee a freedom to practice your religion?

Evil has often been perpetrated in the name of religion.

Ten years before the writers of the Nigerian constitution sneaked in this and other spurious elements into the 1999 Constitution, the United Nations adopted The Convention on the Rights of the Child. This document stipulated among other things the age at which a person ceases to be a child. The OAU Assembly of Heads of States and Governments adopted the African Union Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (CRCW) a year later. Nigeria signed and ratified both documents in 1991 and the year 2000. In 2003, we adopted the Child Right Act.

The CRA stipulates that no Nigeria child shall be subjected to physical, mental or emotional injury, abuse or neglect, maltreatment, torture, inhuman or degrading punishment, or attacks on their honor or reputation. Yet, each state in the Nigerian Federation needed to domesticate and adopt the Act.  The Child Right Act 2003 makes it an offence punishable with up to five years imprisonment to marry an underage girl.  Senator Yerima is walking around free causing “mayhem and foolishness” partly because his home state of Zamfara has not adopted the CRA.

Ordinarily, the National Assembly should have tabled the Child Right Acts before all State Assemblies before it was adopted in 2003. For some reason, they did not do that. And so it is even more challenging at this time to begin to get the various states to domesticate and adopt these laws, especially those states where the religious sentiments are highly unfavorable to the adoption of the law.

 

Nigeria practices a “federal system of government”, therefore, each state has to domesticate and adopt the CRA. Perhaps, the fact that only 16 of the 36 States in Nigeria have adopted the Child Right Acts should have been an indication that it would be difficult to achieve a two thirds majority in the Senate to delete the clause in Section 29 (4b). Less than two thirds of states in Nigeria have adopted the CRA.

 Can this clause still be deleted?  Yes. Protocol has been broken once; we have a precedent that it can be broken again.

The more important question is: will it happen under the present senate? The answer? I do not know. 35 senators said it should not be deleted, 14 abstained.  So even though a majority of the senate does agree that this clause should be struck out, this majority cannot carry the vote.

Can the people get about 7 of the senators abstained to change their minds and support this cause? We need at least 86 of the members of the National Assembly to vote in favour of a deletion.

 

This Fact that a senator from Edo and another from Ondo voted against this clause being removed is instructive. Perhaps, we, the people, have not come to understand how important the legislative arm of government is. If we did, we would be more alert to the credentials of the people that are in the senate and what they spend their time doing there.

The senators can vote as they please, perhaps because, they do not feel accountable to the people.  Or perhaps, they are speaking for their people who they have kept poor and uneducated so that they can no longer find their voice. The problem is systemic.

 More importantly, this debate has brought to the fore once more the need for a constitutional review.  For example, Section 3(l)(e) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1970 makes a marriage void where either of the parties is not of ‘marriageable age’. But nowhere in the statute is the term ‘marriageable age’ defined. This has led people to recourse to the common rule. Thus, Marital Act 1949 which states that “marriageable age is fourteen years in the case of a boy and twelve years for a girl.

Now, more than ever, it is necessary that legal luminaries sit and sieve through the Nigerian Constitution and point out all inconsistencies and ludicrousness therein so that when the next assembly begins seating, we would have found work for their highly overpaid idle hands.

Subhanallah, this same airport road, INLWIR, lost an inlaw too last week, similar story, may Allah 4give dem all n grant dia families the fortitude 2bear the loss.

Who tha hell is Dickson?

Small tym now, dem go say men are cheaters , say women are faithful #shioorr

Yeppp

Av learnt , Jazakunllah ya'll ,gr8 thread I muz say

TO ME, ITS DAMN RUDE 2 GO WITH LAPTOPS TO INTERVIEWS OOO, U WAN GO USE DIA INTERNET 4 DERE NI, ABI U WAN CARRY EXPO, GOGGLE WETIN DEM DEY ASK U, 4GET COMPUTER AGE OO, LACK OF EXPERIENCE NIYEN O , COYS WUD AV HAD UR CV ALREADY N SOME MAY JES TELL U COME WITH UR OTHER DOCS, IF AFTER THAT , U START SHOWING DEM FROM UR LAPPY, ISNT DAT THE BEGINNING OF FAILURE.MY FONE RANG IN ONE OF THE INTERVIEWS I WENT TO, THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT DEMSEF N ME , I FELT BAD, AND ALREADY KNEW DEY WUD USE DAT AGAINST ME.NOT TALKIN OF TAKING LAPPY, .....IT A MISS OO...NO JES TRY AM AT ALL

Dt wisejoe guy is jes a clum$sy oaf, slow poke, blantant liar, a miscreant and a slowpoke

Gboliwe: Story! If the country is a mess, fix it. Cleanup the mess. Its your duty!
Just early this week you made the post below, today you travelled from Sokoto. Liar!
Your friend brought his employment letter to show you.
Mcheew. Small time now you will whine and complain.
Didnt you make this post on the 24th of feb.?

Tinzz lyk dis dey demoralize man pikin, u for no talk sef, buh are u really serious bou this,after all d wahala pipu did,anytin is poss in 9ja buh iys bad if ur story is true, heard dey wud start callin by april -i.e training starts by den buh results wud be out march , with these one wey u dey talk, na wah

wisejoe: It's a pity,after coming all the way from sokoto to write NIMC @ ibadan,I met a friend that showed me his employment letter,but he was mandated to write the aptitude test,so it therefore means that the aptitude test is a formality.This country is a mess

Please my bb is not bringin out email account management in the option on the message icon, aw else can I remove d sent frm my bb signature, tho I saw email reconciliation n email there, can't edit it(quote author=eimuhb]



Navigate to the Home screen on your BlackBerry. Click "Messages."
Press the "Menu" button. Click "Options." Click "Email Account Management."
Click the email account you want to remove the signature from and click "Edit."
Clear the "Sent from BlackBerry" text. Press the "Menu" key. Click "Save."

Let me know wassup.[/quote]

derommy vent: is that todays question?

dt was yesterdays question+ ecowas chairman, wen did 9ja go republic+ info n coimmumication minister+ meaning of frippery+senate duputy

Yes there is still test on thursday now, think dts d last day of the exercise

ifykole@yahoo.c:
are there Akure people writing today?pls help me,i beg.just help me find out if there is test thursday.tnx

The last digit is in degrees noWw, its a typo error, at least u shud av chossen d 2100, all d quest get answer ooo,

Drdreluv: you are right but the ans not in  options i saw 2100.....i just left it blank

Tot the question was just @wat age n aw much

Yea its diff, d DG is Chris onyemenam

econity: i think you are wrong on the answer to the second largest country in Africa.
By land area its Algeria while by population its Ethiopia.
'Correct me if am write'
please is the chairman of NIMCdifferent from the DG?

Where u hear 17500, its 1750

israel007: They sacked 4000 and they are looking for 17500 to employ.
Hmmm. GEJ is truly working

Where is kennedyiheme..? D guy don run

Lol, wetin happen na , u funny oo, who u do gra gra 4.

lucenzo: I'm lonelier than the north pole
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choi, na now I know wetin I do myself. gra gra no good oo


SAY NO TO GRA GRA

Keshi no even chill till dem reach home, I support his move tho,bomb dey nff head ni

We don't need a Valentine's Day. Because Allaah has given us everyday to love our partners."NO V̶a̶l̶e̶n̶t̶i̶n̶e̶D̶a̶y. I want to love my future wife everyday, not once a year."

[quote author=ifeomabernard]19months ODE[/quote. Lmaoooooo, ko farabale ni

Ahaaaaaa.......This is ALaka estate in surulere, and the building av been re-painted.....wonder wia op got d pix 4rm

Nairaland shaaa, i learn here a lot, 4me i see no harm in dt if the trust is there

We wey no kolet nadda nko......wetin make we do ooo, kini afe baa olorun faa

free2ryhme: they want all staffs to have "jedi jedi" before next year ...

lmao, so dat they wont return to work

Awww, so diz man was a Gregorian....

[quote author=walelamina]Alhamdulilah for a good session today, many thanx 2 majoroller 4 hosting us in such a serene environment, the meal was so superb and on point, really enjoyed it, its only اللَّهَ dat can reward u, may ur wishes come true, Jazakunllah, good lecture by maclatunji, may اللَّهَ continue 2broaden our knowledge, nice initiation by Jarus,our moderators dem, Eeman yin ooni yoro oo, twas so good 2 dine with my muslim bro n sistaz, may Allah continue 2place our feet on the ryt path of AL-Islam, it wud be 9ce if dose wu tuk pix can upload dem, Sucre n sum pipu did, i think, send my pikshur oo - walesofyankees@yahoo.com