Wednesday, 24 July 2013
ROYAL BABY..........IS BOY GEORGE ALEXANDER LOUIS
FACE OF EGYPTIAN WIFE OF YERIMA
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| MRS SANNI YERIMA |
Yerima is a serial pedophile and he must be treated as such.He once married and under age 15 years old child who bore him a child before he went ahead ( as no eye-brow was then) to marry his Egyptians driver's 13 years old daughter and paid the sum of $100,000 as the dowry. He even went ahead to flew in 30-member of his in-law into Nigeria for the wedding.
My submission or question are that as advance as our country , no one can call this guy to order? Or can i frame it like this..Is it because child marriage that we are now having BOKO HARAM.., so that the country can degenerate into animal kingdom?
It is the high time we do something about this madness.
ATIKU ABUBAKAR CONDEMNED CHILD MARRIAGE
"As a father, I've never given out my daughters in marriage before university graduation. It's a personal decision. I had earlier stated my personal choices on the child marriage issue; I have always supported our women and children.
"For the avoidance of doubt, I do not support any constitutional provision which creates ambiguities about the age of consent for marriage. It's therefore very inspiring to see young Nigerians active and organized on ChildNotBride.
"I'm proud to see an engaged generation at work."
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
NIGERIAN ON DEATH ROW IN ASIA -PACIFIC
A Director in the Minister’s office, Sola Enikanolaiye, made this known to newsmen in Abuja during a one-day workshop for diplomatic correspondents.
He said that the visit was a follow-up to the February visit of the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang-Yudhoyono, to Nigeria, where the issue of clemency for Nigerians on death row was discussed.
At the time, the Indonesian president did not provide any definite answers to the pleas of the Nigerian government for pardon of its citizens in Indonesian prisons.
Mr. Enikanolaiye said: “You will recall that we have a lot of Nigerians on death row in that country (Indonesia).
“The honourable minister is concerned and is ready to plead for clemency with a bid to ensure that some of these Nigerians, if they are not pardoned, they can be returned under the Prisoner Transfer Agreement (PTA).
He said that the minister would discuss the PTA issue with Indonesia and noted that the last execution of a Nigerian in the country took place in 2012.
The director recalled that former foreign minister, Ojo Madueke, undertook a similar trip to the country in 2010 which resulted in a moratorium on the execution of those on death row.
A report published by Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman House Committee on Diaspora Affairs in February put the number of Nigerians on death row in Indonesia at 48.
TINA TURNER MARRIED HER LONG TIME PARTNER
Singer Tina Turner has married her long-time partner in a civil ceremony in Switzerland ahead of a Buddhist celebration at their home on the banks of Lake Zurich on Sunday.
The 73-year-old “Simply the Best” singer tied the knot with German-born record producer Erwin Bach at a registry office in the Kuesnacht suburb of Zurich where they live, a municipal official said on Wednesday.
“Turner had the civil ceremony a few days ago,” Kuesnacht official Hannes Friess
Turner, an eight-time Grammy winner known for songs like “River Deep, Mountain High” and “Private Dancer”, will celebrate the wedding with a Buddhist water ceremony at her lakefront mansion this weekend, Swiss newspapers reported.
The singer, who was born in Tennessee but has lived in Switzerland for nearly 20 years, was reported to have sent flyers to neighbors apologizing in advance for any noise from the residence where a small stage is being built for the party.
Turner enjoyed huge success in the late 1960s and early 1970s performing with her husband, Ike Turner, but the couple divorced in 1978 after a stormy marriage in which she was beaten. Ike Turner died of a cocaine overdose in 2007.
Their marriage was portrayed in the 1993 film “What’s Love Got to Do with It”, named after one of the hit songs that helped launch her solo career in the 1980s.
Turner retired from performing after her last tour, which ended in 2009, and became a Swiss citizen earlier this year.
Source: Reuters
Source: Reuters
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA AGAINST CHILD GIRL MARRIAGE
The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, is worried about the Nigerian Senate’s passage of a resolution to retain the provision of section 29 (4) (b) of the 1999 constitution which states that, “any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.”
Oritsejafor was particularly irked by the statement credited to Senator Ahmed Yerima, a former governor of Zamfara State, to the effect that the proposal for the deletion of section 29 (4) (b) is at variance with Islamic Law. The President of CAN found the argument offensive because “it presupposes that Nigeria, a secular state, is populated only by Muslims.”
He said “Yerima is again, advertently stirring up another controversy about the supremacy of Islamic Law to the Nigerian constitution after the one he raised when he introduced Sharia, the Islamic legal code, in Zamfara State. I think the problem is that people like Senator Yerima are approaching Qur’anic teachings from extremes and disturbing the balance. It makes me wonder the source of the emotions and thoughts that nurture them.
“As a senator whose case of marrying a 13-year-old Egyptian girl is still fresh in the memory of Nigerians, Yerima should only be seen and not heard in matters of this nature.”
“If he is now commenting on a case in which he has interest, it can only mean the action of someone trying to get himself out of the hook through some undeserved legislation.
“I appeal to individuals who have been educated along this line in the Senate not to use their rights as lawmakers to harm children below the age of 18, but to choose the interest of these children above their own. These girls should be allowed to develop, individually because this resolution, if implemented, would hound girls below 18 years into marriages they know nothing about. This is only one dimension of this tragic resolution.”
Oritsejafor was particularly irked by the statement credited to Senator Ahmed Yerima, a former governor of Zamfara State, to the effect that the proposal for the deletion of section 29 (4) (b) is at variance with Islamic Law. The President of CAN found the argument offensive because “it presupposes that Nigeria, a secular state, is populated only by Muslims.”
He said “Yerima is again, advertently stirring up another controversy about the supremacy of Islamic Law to the Nigerian constitution after the one he raised when he introduced Sharia, the Islamic legal code, in Zamfara State. I think the problem is that people like Senator Yerima are approaching Qur’anic teachings from extremes and disturbing the balance. It makes me wonder the source of the emotions and thoughts that nurture them.
“As a senator whose case of marrying a 13-year-old Egyptian girl is still fresh in the memory of Nigerians, Yerima should only be seen and not heard in matters of this nature.”
“If he is now commenting on a case in which he has interest, it can only mean the action of someone trying to get himself out of the hook through some undeserved legislation.
“I appeal to individuals who have been educated along this line in the Senate not to use their rights as lawmakers to harm children below the age of 18, but to choose the interest of these children above their own. These girls should be allowed to develop, individually because this resolution, if implemented, would hound girls below 18 years into marriages they know nothing about. This is only one dimension of this tragic resolution.”
Meanwhile, the Senate, on Tuesday, sought to douse the tension and dust raised by its failure to delete the controversial Section 29 (sub-section 4b) of the 1999 Constitution as it said child-marriage was not part of issues recommended for amendment in the constitution.
Thirty-five senators, led by Sani Ahmed Yerima had, last week, voted against the recommendation by the Senate Committee on Review of the Constitution that the sub-section which stated that a woman that is married is full of age be deleted as it was discriminatory against women in respect of renunciation of the Nigerian citizenship.
However, addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, the chairman of the Senate, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, said there was nothing new in that section of the constitution, having bern in existence since 1979.
“On the issue of Section 29, I want to appeal to Nigerians to please show understanding, to possibly read this section and understand that the issue has nothing to do with early marriage. It has nothing to do with Islam.
“Essentially, it has to do with the renunciation of citizenship. So, you have to give it a proper perspective. I want to assure them that in the future, we are ready to revisit it if Nigerians feel strongly about it.
“We have no Bill to approve early marriage. We are not sponsoring any Bill against Islam. This particular provision has been in our Constitution since 1979. Ours was an attempt to remove that aspect so that men and women would have equal footing regarding the issue of renunciation of citizenship. And we will never support early marriage,” he said.
Senate spokesman, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, who also addressed newsmen, said no interpretation of the sub-section can be found in the constitution, noting that what was done during the voting had to do with the issue of renunciation of citizenship and the manner and method by which it can be done.
“Prior to this time, if you are a Nigerian woman and you are married to a man who is a foreigner, the man cannot be a Nigerian citizen on the basis of that marriage. But the Senate has amended that. With respect to child-marriage, the National Assembly has a law, the Child Right Act which stipulates that marriage age is 18 years and above. A contradiction of the Act attracts a fine of N500, 000,” he said.
Thirty-five senators, led by Sani Ahmed Yerima had, last week, voted against the recommendation by the Senate Committee on Review of the Constitution that the sub-section which stated that a woman that is married is full of age be deleted as it was discriminatory against women in respect of renunciation of the Nigerian citizenship.
However, addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, the chairman of the Senate, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, said there was nothing new in that section of the constitution, having bern in existence since 1979.
“On the issue of Section 29, I want to appeal to Nigerians to please show understanding, to possibly read this section and understand that the issue has nothing to do with early marriage. It has nothing to do with Islam.
“Essentially, it has to do with the renunciation of citizenship. So, you have to give it a proper perspective. I want to assure them that in the future, we are ready to revisit it if Nigerians feel strongly about it.
“We have no Bill to approve early marriage. We are not sponsoring any Bill against Islam. This particular provision has been in our Constitution since 1979. Ours was an attempt to remove that aspect so that men and women would have equal footing regarding the issue of renunciation of citizenship. And we will never support early marriage,” he said.
Senate spokesman, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, who also addressed newsmen, said no interpretation of the sub-section can be found in the constitution, noting that what was done during the voting had to do with the issue of renunciation of citizenship and the manner and method by which it can be done.
“Prior to this time, if you are a Nigerian woman and you are married to a man who is a foreigner, the man cannot be a Nigerian citizen on the basis of that marriage. But the Senate has amended that. With respect to child-marriage, the National Assembly has a law, the Child Right Act which stipulates that marriage age is 18 years and above. A contradiction of the Act attracts a fine of N500, 000,” he said.
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