Who's going to enforce the minimum wage? Is it the government that is always complaining that it is broke? Is it private companies who must justify wages with declining income and the challenging economy?

Even if you are successful at pressuring private companies to pay such wages, what stops them from passing the costs to consumers who are also consumers of their products and services?

In short, increasing wages without increasing profits is a fool's errand.....Ofutufete!

Konquest:

I only referenced the DNA aspect for EMPHASIS. Let me re-edit that post so that folks don't misquote me.

I read the FULL article and saw that the lady distanced herself away from the bum of rapist like you have stated here. It's really emotionally draining for that woman to have been violated by a man she only had contact with once.

A good U.S. attorney should be to argue in favor of the woman because Lyft or any other rideshare firm should properly profile their drivers.

Lyft can only be held responsible here if the incident was reported, there is little evidence against Lyft especially if they can show that the trip ended hours before the incident occured. Lyft can't be held responsible for what their drivers do OFF trip! That's why their drivers are contractors not employees!

eyinjuege:
Left has over 4000 cases of their drivers sexually assaulting their customers..
Yet some men here are trying to blame the women/victims.
Whether she reported the case 5 years ago when it happened or now, that doesn't change the fact that she was raped . There's evidence with the birth of a baby

You stated 4000 as if that means anything, 4000 out of 40 million rides is what? About 0.01%, Lyft authorized over 40 million rides per year in the USA alone, so because of 0.01% chance of something bad happening, all accusations should be believed? You see why evidence is very crucial in cases like this!

Konquest:


When they arrived at her destination, the driver allegedly insisted on helping her inside, “purportedly due to her intoxication,” and despite her protests. Once inside, he assaulted her repeatedly, the complaint states.

My take on this: Simply run a full DNA test on all the probable Lyft drivers as of 2019 to detect the alleged rapist. If it matches the DNA of the baby, then you have the culprit. A boy has a right to know his real father though regardless of the circumstances surrounding his birth.

Women get intoxicated easily than men because they do NOT have the same amount of the body enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenase that men have more of. Women have to take it easy on drinking alcohol when out clubbing or partying to avoid getting drunk and getting sexually assaulted or even killed afterwards by serial rapists. Period.

Did you read at all? Paternity test already confirms the father, I'm guessing the guy is a bum hence the bigger money maker is going after the rideshare company.

mundi111:

So you are suggesting we should just start dropping bombs on all the east because of them

No you're not comprehending, you're justifying October 7th because you feel Hamas is fighting against injustice, so using that same ideology, Biafrans could also claim the same thing. Don't you see how ridiculous that sounds? You want to fight injustice with violence and expect peace? No be juju be that!

mundi111:

Same thing should we go to war with US because it is a terrorist state do you know how many Palestinians are killed every year for the past 75years do you know how many loose their house yearly for no reason because someone comes from Poland and claims his ancestors live there 3000 years ago. No one is fighting for them and when dey push back you called them terrorist no that not right

So according to you, if Biafrans should come into any Nigerian state and start kpaing people, they're justified becuase they've been marginalized and abused over the years? Violence begets violence right? So nobody should cry genocide, make all parties continue firing one another and let's see how it ends!

This would only be practicable if eviction laws are also updated! Failure to pay on the due date attracts 10% late fee and failure to pay 7 days after due date allows for automatic eviction with just one paperwork at the court. This is how it is done abroad and everyone is satisfied.

This might actually be the best thing for Nigeria.......If Tinubu is not ready to contest in 2027, he might just deliberately sabotage APC and give chance to a wildcard in 2027. Either way, I know Nigerians won't vote for the current VP hence WIN WIN!

COMPAQ:


UAE that's phasing it out gradually, when you go there, is this how their gutters and canals are filled with the stuff?

Their gutters are not left opened like 9ja......That's a forward thinking country that has its priorities straight, it does not leave anything to chance knowing fully well people stubborn and many are roaming mad!

stampo:
It's a good step on the right direction.

I guess this is rather coming late.

Nevertheless, implementation of the ban is what I look forward to see ..



We all need to support the government on this..

Take away packs have really caused enormous amounts of damage to our environment..


Imagine the blockage of our drainage system and depiction of the ozone layer when it's burnt 🔥🔥.

So our government thinks it is smarter than the U.S govt? Even UAE are gradually phasing it out by introducing alternatives but 9ja everything is done abruptly! Anyways anything that amplifies the suffering of the people is always the main aim of the Nigerian governemnt so we need not be SHOCKED!

Now compare a 20% growth of a Nigerian stock to a 10% growth of a U.S based stock, now tell me which one would be considered world's best according to the current exchange rate.

Let's stop celebrating mediocrity, a 20% growth in stocks should be weighted against inflation and the country's current FX rate, like someone said earlier, all these propagandas won't work much longer!

Very sharp kid, my IQ of 141 was also considered high....If only I didn't like woman too much in college, I could have made 150

Customer dada......2027 is around the corner, baba will donate as usual......

Those advising the OP to clean her up and live with it, you people are delulu! Someone described his wife with such disdain and irritation yet you expect him to magically turn those feelings into love? Una dey craze!

We've seen men who genuinely love their wife end up maltreating her, how much would it take for this guy to eventually turn the disgust into an excuse to emotionally and physically harm her?

OP get a divorce, your mama go dey okay, the girl go dey okay....You sef wa wa alright!

Very hard decision in this period of renewed shege but this single act could be the best thing to ever happen to the boy! Same people condemning her would condemn her more when the son is shown on Instablog being paraded by EFCC.

If the money is legit, he can show mama how he made it with enough evidence

callmevirus:



Yes it's getting harder and get more harder if care is not taking, you leave competence and you voted incompetence because of tribalism, now everyone is hearing weeeeeeeeeeei, you'll soon japa to Togo... Oteh

You're still deceiving yourself, majority of the people who won the election for Tinubu are not online and most definitely not on Nairaland. Until true opposition is able to reach these people una still DEY PLAY! Good or bad, these people will always pick the candidate that resonates most with them aka empty promises!

BreconHills:


Everybody does not have their truth. A truth is a proven fact. But everybody is free to have an opinion but Everybody is not free to call their opinion a truth.

If you were sitting next to a passenger in an open cockpit plane and he/she said, I am going to take over this plane forcibly, I believe I can shave an hour off this flight. If on getting up you asked " so you are a pilot?" And next he replies with " I haven't had formal training but it's my truth that I can do anything" would you say "go for it bro" or would you wrestle him to the floor. Or would you allow a nurse perform neural surgery on your family member because she believes she can?

Or maybe you want to light up on weed in a no smoking zone restaurant or even a plane and claim it is your truth. You will be rapidly exited/disembarked and face an access or flying ban.

It's not about Macaroni, it's about that idea that everybody has a personal truth that they must be free to live by. If you had said "personal opinion" I would not have blinked an eyelid. The idea of a personal truth is an oxymoron. For something to be respected as a truth in a public space it must be tested and approved by a generality of people and the law must cover it. If not it must be kept private.

Good analysis but you're mistaken! Personal truth does not have to be factual to the public but to the person making the claim. Example, you grew up in Mushin, saw people addicted to weed and so on, if tomorrow you said your personal truth is that weed is bad......Public facts might disagree with you but your personal truth still remains, you lived it, witnessed it and hence it is your TRUTH!

Even the example of the nurse and passenger still remains their personal truth abeit extreme, it is still their belief! It can be formed through experience, delusions etc. but it is still theirs.

People hold elaborate weddings, go to church and take the oath for better or worse, they enjoy the better but protest vehemently against the worst!

This situation is a case of a chronic gambler struggling with addiction, there's no sign of violence just a man that you knew was a gambler and you married him anyways, now you're acting all new as if his behavior is strange to you.

Now you want to leave him, take his offspring and leave him in a state where he's even more susceptible to his gambling demons.....Women!

Let me shock you some more, if this guy actually hammered from his gambling, I can confidently say that you wouldn't have problem with it, you wouldn't see it as a bad role model for your child and that in itself says a lot!

Now with that said, leaving him is probably the best solution for this situation. It will either break or make him! Since rehabilitation is a foreign concept to most Nigerians, the man must be baptized through trials and tribulations, there's simply no other way! He must hit rock bottom before iyanu can shele!

airsaylongcome:


Your final summary is the crux of all our back and forth really. Every other thing we are doing is just mental gymnastics. If the business doesn't see a need to, we go just "spoil" our voice shouting on each other. If they decide to go the phone number route, na bye-bye from me. Loads of forums to spend time on rather than one that wants my phone number. Many people seem to forget that this is a forum and not a Facebook or Instagram for example

That's right, at the end of the day, the owner must balance the cost and effect between people like you who would say bye bye and the risk of being shutdown again by a host or other regulatory body.

airsaylongcome:


MAC addresses will be spoofed. And this isn't from malicious attacks. iPhones can randomize your MAC for privacy reasons. I regularly turn it on. Add that to VPN and tools like Tor, that's going to be easy to beat

I write scripts and develop algorithms for a living, I can easily detect randomized MAC, VPN, any solution is better than the rubbish that exists now. My preference and the easier solution would be to require multi factor authentication for all users. Your Nairaland account is tied to your phone number, your phone number can never be a virtual or pseudo phone number(Google voice) but an actual number tied to a device but like you said it affects user base.

Ultimately, where there's a will, there's a way......The only person that can give a definite answer is Seun! Only he can say Niaraland is bringing so so in terms or frevenue and he's willing to spend so and so to sanitize it and protect it from trolls and spammers! You & I can argue all day but the ball's in his court!

airsaylongcome:


As far as I know, there are no such restrictions on reddit as a forum. Individual subredds may place a limitation of age of account being like 20 days or having say 100 karma. But bots get around that pretty easily. That's why you have karma farms there. That doesn't solve the problem, it only kicks it down the road.

As for tying each account to an IP address, I'm sure you know that no one gets a unique IP address. Tying accounts to phone numbers, kiss your user base good bye

Subreds are part of reddit hence I maintain my stance, there is some type of limitation. Further it is really easy to validate based on Ip address tied to a MAC address, the intention here is to limit bots/spammers and make the ban system more effective, if the system detects more than one registeration from a MAC address within a month, that address should be flagged and suspended, new accounts should be limited from sensitive forums like politics and religion, this will effectively demoralize Nairaland trolls......If Nairaland is to survive in this new age, it must combat this problem through technology and innovation!

airsaylongcome:


What value would verification add? Do more successful forums like reddit have verification? And what value add to the business would "individual profile beautification" bring? Understand that a business will only make changes if it brings quantifiable revenue.

Yes they do, Reddit for example, you are restricted from certian activities based on your registeration date and reputation. In fact certain subs can limit you based on other criterias. Verification is not just at time of registeration but an on-going process.

The single most effective solution for Nairaland is to tie each account to a verified phone number and an I.P. address, it is fairly simple to do and will reduce the spammers and abusers down to an acceptable level.

It burst my brain that some people are still so clueless how certain things work! Why would you travel from the USA and decide to do a cross country tour of Africa via road, ALL ALONE? Being a professor, surely he knew of current events and how dangerous things are right now, I sincerely believe the false sense of security and entitlement provided abroad made you think the same applies in Africa especially in Nigeria......Joker!

This is someone's grandfather, someone should have hinted him on just how bad of an idea this was, even those of us who were raised to be street smart still encounter difficulties when traveling to Nigeria not to talk of Professor dingbat that does not realize we have known and unknown gunmen in Nigeria, the known ones are the police and the unknown ones are the others......JI MA SUN!

Foolishness of the highest order, you knew all his atrocities but you kept quiet because it was still favoring you and your cohorts.....Now that things are no longer rosy again, GBAM,......You remember the people of Rivers.......WEREY

Definitely illegal money, no family carries that amount of cash to Nigeria, this is 2023 not 1999. Dorm accounts, wire transfers, crypto, Western Union etc. So many options but Ogbon Sodiq people dey always over calculate......Cheers Fam!

WE ARE NOTHING BUT PENCILS IN THE HANDS OF THE CREATOR........

Oluwatobiloba07:
You talk like an empty barrel you're, I'm a Corper, I teach chemistry and I know what I'm saying

God have help me that I have never and will never do such things because I have sisters. Everyone should just ask for God's grace whenever the situation arises

A sixteen year old girl asking, uncle are you not going to hotel for your birthday. I just laughed and called her to staff room and talk sense to her.

She opened up that she can't help the matter especially seeing someone she likes.

Assuming you are with knowledge, you won't say all this rubbish above.

Imagine a parents sending her daughter to you, just to give you food and the parents is aware of the rubbish the daughter is putting on to a single man house

Let me just stop here. Next time don't talk with your height because you're short of knowledge and understanding

Talk with sense and reality of life

Again you're daft! You're a corper arguing with someone that served almost 15 years ago, you see say you're mental? Which kind temptation you wan face wey we never faced before? Some of us live in a civilized country and the first thing they teach you about underaged victims is that the law will always expect the adult to be the voice of reason! Your excuses are just lame and foolish, temptation, what she's wearing blah blah blah.....Don't worry you'll soon be dropping the soap in the slammer, continue!

Oluwatobiloba07:
How do you cope when female students are the one begging for it

Uncle I want to know your house
Some even go ahead and write love letters

It takes God grace to overcome challenges like this.. it's not easy especially when you're single.

Men are moved by what they see

I'll tell you how you cope......When you think about the prison sentence and the damage to your reputation, that should be incentive enough......Of course since you live in a zoo country, the law is very slow to catch up or care but if na sane country, you would eventually meet your waterloo either via the law or a parent with 9mm aiming for the middle of your head!

Iamgrey5:
He is fighting common sense along with the Erelu.

Even in the palace of Oba of Lagos, Yoruba is used as the only language.

You know what they say, na over calcu dey worry most of us....Awon ogbon sodiq

Kukutenla:

Dummy. I meant that the British who met Yorubas in Oyo should be speaking Yoruba right now. What we're discussing is acculturation. It's not set in stone. The Romans colonised so many lands but deliberately did not allow most areas they colonised to learn their language as a distinction between rulers and the ruled.
The British and French on the other hand chose to impose their language on their colonies.
You can't use that to decide who met who or when

You're still ignorant, you just admitted cultures differs yet you compare the Romans with the British. Go back to your comment that I responded to, you were seemingly asking why Yorubas ended up speaking English but you failed to state as opposed to what exactly?

Kukutenla:

You're simply confusing yourself. Your claim before was premised on who ruled over the other.
The British met Yoruba in Oyo and today Yorubas are speaking English. How do you reconcile that

You mean we speak English before Yoruba? You're mental . Focus on the point made, if Yorubas met Bini, is it not proper that a large percentage of Yorubas in Lagos would speak Bini language as well?

KingOfAmebo:


Not knowing a leader has influence on his followers...no be juju be that?

Followers that have the power to overthrow a leader, those ones are the ones you want to completely influence? E.g. passing the budget without the SUV for the lawmakers, you want to start a riot?

It is easy to hide behind a keyboard and fantasize about theories but practical fit run you wotowoto.....When the country is serious for true change, it will come via a bloody revolution, for now make we all DEY PLAY!