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MufasaLion:
Adding "the First Daughter of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)." in the letter is so irrelevant. We don't need that information. Your position as the market leader is enough to get the attention of the king.

Market leader of where? Is it marker leader of Lagos, market leader of Edo or market leader of Kano.
I had thought markets are under the control and responsibility of local governments? So which one condern Iya oloja of lagos with Benin markets?

phemmyfour:
I don't pay tithe

You also didn't donate to VDM

phemmyfour:
Scammer
No statement of account of what was spent and what's left. Believe him at your own peril

Do daddy GOs you pay your tithes and offerings yo present you with statement of account?

ClearFlair:
Third semester?

Shouldn't it be third trimester?

MrIcredible:
Teaching that to your sisters and daughters.

How would you like to walk your daughters down the aisle?
As a virgin or a Whørēs?

Virgin or where, doesn't matter. Even in the bible numerous where became heroines and received the blessings and approval of Yawweh. God never punished any man or woman in the bible due to fornication.
Elevating a girls virginity to a religious doctrine is only a massage of fragile male ego. Many men feels intimidated knowing some else has passed through the eye of the needle and rendered it wide than a canal.

nelsonose:
I do not agree that the use of AI is plagiarism. AI is a tool, just like calculator, Autocad software, and others that aids learning and research.
The African mind, regrettably is laced with hard life, "Suffer" that is the reason anything that tend to bring ease to humanity is rebuffed and criticized.
Years back, to earn a University first class degree was a mirage but today the story has changed yet we condemn AI.

That's because our colonial mindset sees education as "cram and regurgitate" words and sentences written by others. With the advent of AI, you could get any information at your finger tips at any time. It renders craming and remembering obsolete. The new educational philosophy is problem solving. It trains you to use information acquired directly or through AI to solve complex problems.

Bibleteacher:
You better obey 😁. You must be virgin self .

Sex is one of greatest sin that attracts death according to Bible :

But if this charge is true (that she wasn’t a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father’s house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)

🚶‍♂️

So why have Christians (and jews) that follow the Bible (old testament that is) not been obeying this divine instruction and be stoning their daughters, sisters and other female family members to death? Why pick and choose which biblical injunctions to follow?

Barrywilly:
Ai written essays or academic writings are very easy to detect. It produces the same line of thoughts without referred sources. Also, the absence of human reasoning and thoughts is a giveaway. Ai can only work for a take home assignments. Turnitin is also a game changer as it will detect all these.

Not exactly true. It depends on the prompts used in generating the AI responses. With correct and innovative prompts your can generate unique responses tailored specifically to meet your style and needs. It's only lazy students using similar or basic prompts that will get similar responses. That's why people should take prompt engineering more seriously if they intend to master AI.
Besides there are other AI models, most people don't explore beyond ChatGPT.

stanluiz:
How did the ijaws refuse and stop the project ?

So you are saying that ijaws are now powerful to stop a FG project ?

I need explanation on how ijaws stop the project.

Read these reports to get some historical education on the subject;
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2001/11/05/irin-focus-plans-dredge-major-rivers

https://allafrica.com/stories/200305200738.html

https://www.nairaland.com/271718/ijaws-oppose-river-niger-dredging

emmanuel596:
As it should be...a decent person would have even slapped him or gave him a serious warning

In the US you could actually end up in jail for that kind of "adjustment". Trump did not do that much "adjustment" to E. Jean Carroll to be liable for 88 million dollar damages.

greenermodels:
within yourself, you should know that lack of political will/deliberate actions is what is holding back other ports in Nigeria (including other ports in the southwest and the northern Baro Port in Niger state) Lagos residents are suffocating under the over concentration of port activities in the state,the only people benefitting from the revenue are the political class,a president from Ogun, Delta,Edo,Always Ibom, Rivers etc would make it a priority to make ports in his home state or region operational. The colonial masters had ports in every part of Nigeria, there's nothing special about Lagos ports.

I speak from a position of knowledge and not of speculation or emotions. I am from Warri, my village is 20mins away from Koko port.
Inland ports are very difficult to maintain, that is if you intend it to ferry huge cargo ships and ocean liners. You have to constantly drag to ensure the river is navigable by big ships. Apapa is a natural harbour that requires very little dredging, that's why the FG sited two ports there.
Then there is the problem of restlessness of the tribes along the river leading up to the inland ports. They have to give you permission to dredge and allow passage of ships through their water ways. Abacha attempted to dreg the
River Niger all the way to Onitsha. The Ijaws refused and stopped the project.

MasterJayJay:
Na olodo go believe Oyo generated more than SE. Jmoore clearly explained that the stat is wrong. Do you even understand the meaning of point of sale?

Pathetic to see so much ignorant people spewing rubbish.

If the statistics is wrong, why has the governors of the south Eastern states not provided their own statistics?

greenermodels:
Very correct, under a neutral president, even Lagos domination of shipping and airport activities would collapse.

What do you mean "under a neutral president, even Lagos domination of shipping and airport activities would collapse"?. Are you insinuating that the Portuguese and British that sited Lagos as the main shipping port into what is now known as Nigeria were un-neutral. Maybe the Azikiwe-Tafa Belewa government of 1960 were un-neutral as they did not move the main sea port from Lagos.
Lagos has numerous advantages for seaport over all other ports in Nigeria. It's faces the Atlantic directly. It requires little or no dredging to keep it navigable. It is the nearest Nigerian port to Europe and the Americas (where until recently were our biggest trading partners).
I am not saying we should not expand and upgrade other ports including the Onitsha port, but knowing how lazy and corrupt our government officials are, they just can't be bothered to do the wahala.

blueAgent:
I hope you blacks and poor whites where not counted as citizens in US during the early days of independence?

I honestly don't understand what you are getting at. It was the 14th amendment that granted children of slaves citizenship rights and therefore the right vote.

TWoods:
Spend more time reading the Senate records when the bill was being passed. It does mention foreigners. In fact, those records are where we learn that children of diplomats do not obtain birthright citizenship. This case will turn on the original intent of the writers of the amendment, not the amendment itself.

Why not post exerpts from the Senate records so we can understand what you are talking about.

Did the bill (or the eventual amendment itself) differentiate between children after foreigners and children of citizens when granting birthright citizenship?
Children of Diplomats born outside of the US was not mentioned in the 14th amendment, those were later additions or interpretations.

Always referring to the original intent of the constitution writers instead of the texts and substance of the constitution itself is disingenuous. How can you determine the intent of 13 men that died over two and a half centuries ago, unless expressly written down. This means the constitution is very fluid and therefore useless.

The legal fireworks has began

Calitoscassius:
I agree. i guess abolishing birthright is within Trump's executive orders power to abolish hence his action.

Then you guess any other constitutional rights is within Trump's executive orders to abolish.

Calitoscassius:
Well... Every Countries constitution can be re written including the US. If it appears the true reason for the previous constitution is been abused. The Democrats want the same but they want Trump to be blamed for stopping birthright citizeship in America.

Then let the US constitution be rewritten to abolish birthright citizenship. Till then any executive order or act abolishing birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.

Calitoscassius:
Long overdue. The British banned that scam many years ago. Pregnant women from Africa risk their lives just to come to the UK and dump their babies in the care system. When they become 15, 17 or 18 years old they become drug dealers, stabbing and shooting themselves.

US constitution is quite different from UK constitution. UK is a constitutional monarchy while US touts itself as a democracy built on the shoulders of immigrants and slaves. Birthright citizenship was not enshrined in UK's unwritten conconstitution, it was a major pillar of US constitution. Most US citizens from inception except a few that became citizens by naturalisation, obtained their citizenship through Birthright.

TWoods:
Neither is the child of an illegal alien in the constitution. At stake is whether the 14th amendment should be applied to them or not. The court has argued the case before... it isn't new.

The 14th ammendments never talked about aliens or parents, it expressly mentioned birth, and naturalisation. The 14th ammendment only recognised citizenship through birth or naturalisation. Naturalisation is under the control of the executive, birth is not.

OneOnland:
Presidential system of government is shitty. One man makes decisions that are important, often based on their whims and biases without subjecting it to representative's debates or their millions of citizen's opinion. Presidential system of government is shitty, nonsensical and more like demi-god-ness over citizenry.

It's not necessarily about the presidential system per se, it's more about trying to replace the monarchical form of government with something similar but gives limited powers to the people. It's more like the Animal Farm scenario whereby you replace one set of oppressors with a different set, but thus time the new oppressors are your own people.
The US is having pre 18th century nostalgia, where you have an all powerful king issuing decrees and orders to citizens.

TWoods:
You're viewing this from the lens of 2024. It's not the first time this case has come to the Supreme Court and in fact, the 1899 Wong Art Kim ruling is how we understand the 14th amendment today. If the court could overturn Roe v. Wade, they can overturn Wong's ruling.

Roe V Wade was not a constitutional issue, abortion rights is not stated in the constitution. In fact the main reason the Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade was that it was not backed up by any legislative law, and advised that it should be taking to Congress to make it law.

TWoods:
That same court essentially made the president a king and agreed he could kill his political enemy and get away with it, as long as he says it was in the national interest. We all said they would not overthrow Roe v. Wade... and here we are. You vastly overestimate this court.

What you'll find is justices reverting to what the framers intended, not the most liberal interpretation of that phrase in 2024. If they went that direction, the EO likely stands. The best way to reverse the EO is to have no one challenge it for 4 years, and how a Dem wins in 2028.

I beg to differ. I believe executive orders that impinge on the very fabric of the US constitution should be challenged at the supreme court. If not the executive would get bolder and bolder and issue executive orders eroding the very fabric of the US democracy, and in 4 years, might refuse to leave. Challenging it all the way to the supreme court will take time and energy, and keep trump and his team too busy from doing too much damage to the constitution in 4 years.

Let me add.
I believe the supreme court would not be bold enough to jettison birthright citizenship and would refer the matter back to Congress. It will then get stuck in Congress until Trump leaves as republicans would need a 3/4 majority to change the constitution.

GiZcorp:
Shut up! You asked a question instead of stopping there you decided to go ahead and disgrace yourself

I don't respond to shallow people who resort to personal insults when debating public matters online with strangers.

TWoods:
An EO is not intended to change the Constitution, it is simply an Executive decision (that the executive branch of government must comply with - including those issuing US passports), so long as it does not violate any rights. The EO was intended to bait someone with standing to file a SCOTUS suit. The lack of standing is why no one has filed a 14th Amendment suit until now. They think they will have 5 justices to overturn the Wong Art Kim decision. At that point, it's game over.

The EO does not overturn the 14th Amendment. It is intended to force a court to reinterpret the meaning of "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." There is already information indicating that the writer of the amendment did not intend it to be interpreted broadly.

I honestly do not know any other way the term "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" can be interpreted in the statement "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside", other than the jurisdiction of the United States.
As I said the 6 - 3 republican majority supreme court will have to employ legal gymnastics of Olympic proportions to reinterpre that section of the 14th amendment.

CoronaVirusPro:
End of the road!

A lot of litigations will follow, but with a Republican parked SCOTUS, I kinda see it as a done deal.

Those morafvckers will flip anything for Trump.

The supreme court will have to deploy legalistic gymnasts of Olympic proportions to overturn what was clearly and explicitly writing in the US constitution

TWoods:
You don't. Understand how US law works.

You that understands how US law works explain to us how Trump's executive order aligns with the 14th amendment.

Yankee101:
Won’t stand in the Supreme Court
You need to change the constitution first

Exactly what I was saying. Trump is already feeling like a dictator, issuing executive orders up and down. Determining citizenship should not an executive function but a legislative one.

I doubt this would pass judicial scrutiny.

DrMB:
President Trump Exits U.S. from WHO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zijYruFKRUY

Trump Takes US Out of Paris Climate Agreement With New Executive Orders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxFGc_XGlgQ

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President Trump Signs Executive Order for Tiktok 50/50 Profit Sharing Formula https://www.nairaland.com/8322529/president-trump-signs-executive-order

Is the US not gradually slipping into a dictatorship? Can an executive order determine citizenship? Should that not be a legislative or constitutional change involving the legislative arm of government? Such sensitive decisions should involved the people and not just the order of one man.

Then about TikTok. Should registered companies profit sharing and operations be subject to an executive order? Is the US no more the bastion of the free market?

Different laws for the rich and powerful.

MrEverest:
"Preliminary investigations showed that Ikechukwu was involved in coding and online medical supplies of doubtful legitimacy. Two laptops, ipads, several recording devices were recovered from his apartment and his involvement in internet fraud is already established. Though currently in police custody owing to the murderous dimension of his case, the Commission will surely bring him to trial"

Since when did coding and online medical supplies become a criminal activity?

How is owning two laptops and iPad amount to criminal activity?

How can a country's supposed anti graft agency use the terms alleged, suspected, confirmed and established criminal to describe a suspect who is already known to be a practicing doctor? Are they now the prosecutor and jury at the same time?

Nothing was said about the modus operandi of scaling fence at the odd hours which the whole argument has been about all these while.

The Dr. shouldn't hesitate to hire reputable SANs to defend him in court and they should ensure the case is followed by all Nigerians.

We are in a banana Republic!

Don't mind them. The press statement is an embarrassment not only to EFCC, but to Nigeria as a whole.
Imagine stating they recovered two laptops, 2 ipads and some recordings device in the home of a medical doctor. As if that is strange. In my house, 2 of my children have laptops, my wife and I have laptops, and we have at least 3 ipads/tablets.
Then there is the stupid statement of a medical doctor being involved with medical supplies and coding, are you kidding me? As if that by itself is a crime.
This case will bring to the fore lots of EFCC's illegalities and excesses. Do EFCC need a warrant to seize and open citizens phones, tablets, computers and letters? Do they have rights to confiscate people's properties without a court order? Because before now, EFCC would just raid a compound particularly one with lots of young people, seize and search their phones and laptops and then go on to confiscated their cars, properties and expensive items, then leave never to be heard from again.

justtee42k:
So we now a time when criminal should be arrested

Yes, there should be reasonable time to arrest criminals, particularly for non violent crimes like Internet fraud. Breaking down people's doors while their kids and wife is still sleeping is barbaric, even if the husband is a fraudster.
There are more civilised way to effect an attest.