₦airaland Forum

eweqwatr:
Any office can acknowledge a letter. If you bring letter to my office now we'll sign a copy and stamp and give it back to you.

Mind you that letter was dated and sent December last year before these erring lawmakers decamped.

You just want Wike to win so they will not say Ambode failed. You old people here are disgraceful.

Akwamkpuruamu:
Why are you in support of this wedding? Is it a priority above empowering these women to a better life? Is life all about wedding?

Goodlady:
What should v been done first?
Empowering & educating the girls before giving them to marriage?
Concerned people worldwide from Medina to the Nigeria feel some of the husbands may be broke ass husbands that will breed almajiris?
The process is flawed and no one needs to bully the minister. She called worldwide attention to something fishy.
Tomorrow, people shouldn't cry that if those girls are in poverty! To sane people, most organized marriages in that side are recipe for breeding almajiris. The statistics are there. The items giving for them to survive for the marriages are there, and some don't v good source of livelihood. They are potential tools for terror & poverty. They ll say they are taking marriageable girls off the street to marry but to marry who? Another broke aboki husband?
Do population control measures, empower & do massive education for the youths and see the region growing to envy of others. Not all these food sharing empowerment during sallahs or sending people to pilgrimage. Recently them do am. See her: https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/hajj-five-states-with-n383bn-debt-budget-n9bn-for-pilgrims/%3famp
Money wey dem for use set up biz for people.
https://www.nairaland.com/8049694/2024-hajj-subsidy-statisense
Religion must be separated from governance if rapid growth is needed in a developing country like Nigeria. They should see examples from Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Qatar that has embraced modern reality. Food (source of income) must be available before marriage.
Nuff said!

CheapHomes1:
are these aliens?

SoNature:
Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, minister of women affairs, says the planned marriage of 100 girls in Niger state has been suspended.

Kennedy-Ohanenye spoke in Abuja on Friday after meeting with Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, speaker of the Niger state house of assembly.

The meeting was also attended by Mohammed Mu’azu, Emir of Kotangora.


Sarkindaji had last week said he would sponsor the wedding ceremony of the girls on May 24 as part of his constituency obligations.

The development sparked controversy on social media, with many saying the speaker should have channelled the money into giving the girls an education or skills.

On Monday, Kennedy-Ohanenye stepped into the matter and asked the speaker to halt his plans or face legal action.


The minister said she had petitioned the inspector-general of police (IGP) and sought a court injunction to stop the planned wedding.

Sarkindaji subsequently cancelled his participation in the event and asked the minister to take over.

The speaker said the parents and guardians of the girls, most of whom are orphans, could do whatever they wished with the resources he had provided.

WE’VE MADE PEACE
Addressing journalists after the meeting, the minister said she and Sarkindaji have reconciled their differences and are now partnering to seek better alternatives for the girls.

Kennedy-Ohanenye said she secured an injunction from the Minna high court to restrain the organisers from proceeding with the wedding.

She added that “the court injunction still subsists till we resolve all grey areas”.

“I want to let you know that as I speak to you now, I’m at peace with my royal father, Emir of Kontagora, Mohammed Bara’u Mu’azu, and I am in good terms with my brother, the Speaker. We have made peace,” Kennedy-Ohanenye said.

The emir also said he has suspended the proposed wedding and pledged his emirate’s willingness to partner with the ministry to provide a new lease of life for the girls.

EDUCATION, PHONES, HUGE MACHINES’ — MINISTER LISTS PLANS FOR MARIGA GIRLS
Kennedy-Ohanenye said, for a start, there will be a meeting with the girls to discuss their individual needs and preferences.

She said her ministry has taken “the entire village as a job,” promising to extend the opportunities for education and skill acquisition beyond the 100 girls to other orphans.

The minister described herself as a “protective mother hen” who is committed to defending the rights and safety of the vulnerable girls under her care.

“So, I have no problem with anybody. I have no problem with any religion, all I want to say is please don’t tamper with my children, don’t tamper with my women,” she said.

“My brother, the Speaker came to my office, and we have partnered (ministry of women affairs and the Speaker) to empower these women.

“The ones that want to go to school, we will send them to school. This ministry has taken up this village now as a job, and I am promising Nigerians. I am going to empower them with sustainable economic empowerment.

“By talking to them, I will know the kind of things they like to farm, and I will give them huge machines. If it is rice, beans, or corn, I will put one for a whole village to manage themselves and onboard them in the system on our portal.

“And whatever the federal government is doing for every other person, all of them will get it.

“I will go to the extent of giving them small phones—at least one in each family—to enable them to communicate and get involved in the portal so that they will be like every other woman.

“Because the speaker told me a lot of things concerning the village, like how they are always tormented by the bandits, everybody ends up there. If bandits want to hide, they end up there.

“But I am going to send them to this particular community, and these children will be able to go to school. We will empower them, teach them skills, and give them what to start off their skills with.

“I will equally help them on marketing whatever they will make out of their skills. We shall not, we will not abandon them.

“We are now working together to make sure we better the lives of these girls, not just the 100 girls but all the orphans, all the people that have been affected by this banditry and the insecurity we used to have before.”

The minister said her position on the matter reflects the wishes of President Bola Tinubu and thanked Nigerians for supporting her initiatives.


Source: https://www.thecable.ng/wedding-suspended-as-minister-niger-state-speaker-partner-to-empower-100-girls/amp/

chopnaira:
To think Seun was supporting "them" all through the election period..

Whatever they accuse you off, trust they are doing 10 times of it.

They would act as the victims and gaslight you all the time. If you are a mugu, you will fall for their deceit.

Obiedun:
They will still fail

DukeNija:
But they cannot defeat Ukraine in 2years. Una no get sense.

jiz:
What do you about international relations. Just face your confuse party APC

abibun:
to you, is your sentence correct

abibun:
How many do we have

Blaze14k:
How can the former governor wanted by efcc be in Nigeria and no know seems to know where he is or arrest him. Like seriously, these guys are playing us like we don't use brain. Honestly I genuinely thought this efcc chairman is out for a fight. My goodness now I remember what oba of Ife said. Chai this country is so corrupt.

Sixthsense2023:
Na bursted. Olodo feeling funky

PerfectStranger:
US is one man squad

Lizzysamuel:
Just as you guys are lying about imaginary achievements of Tinubu silently?

eweqwatr:
Obi won Lagos State, he should be much more interested in issues in Lagos as well or you disagree?