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Comment on THE CHILD CRIES FROM PUBLIC DRAINS by writeasrain

writeasrain — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:55:02 +0000

I understand the need to feed a family. I understand having too many mouths to feed. But, to say it is all from women being too promiscuous is wrong. It takes a woman AND A MAN to create these babies.

Rape is not promiscuous behavior. It is sexual violence that is forced. When only the women suffer the consequences of a rape(becoming pregnant and responsible to take care of a child) these horrible situations continue. There must be heavy consequences for the men involved in rape or force. They must have to pay money to support the children they create.

Every child deserves to be born out of love…not rape and not sex-for-survival. It is not the child’s fault for being born. There should be safe houses for these children to be raised if they cannot be raised with their parents.

To throw away those babies is to spit in God’s face. Every life has value and has meaning. What this country needs is education and knowledge to prevent too many births.

Comment on THE CHILD CRIES FROM PUBLIC DRAINS by Mcneri

Mcneri — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:23:03 +0000

It is not the young girls that are to blame, neither is it their parents. The socila structure should have preventive measures to protect vulnerable families. Check this out: parents no education, inflation biting on their subsistence way of living, father a vulcanizer (thank god some tradeable skill), mother sells pure water. Okay no clue about family planning so the babies come as frequently as the couple sleep on the same bed. 7 mouths to feed after 5 years…….or maybe 4 years because they had twins! Then comes the anguish of having to work longer hours to make ends meet. Vulcanizer stays out till 9pm when it is dangerous to walk the streets; pure water sales and occassionally ‘down below’ to randy city dwellers to supplement what husband brings home. Then another child comes, chei! What will they do? Nowhere to get free healthcare for the baby, no support of even one tin of baby food. As the babies come, the distance between this family and the extended family ‘extends’ a bit more, as everybody is constantly reliving Shehu Shagari’s ‘austerity measures’. tell me it is the responsibility of this family to make sure that child has a life. At least at the dustbin, someone will pick the baby up, take her to the hospital as an abandoned child and the child will recieve care…..AND FOOD free!When our professionals garnish the truth with all sorts of big big grammar, I wonder. Yes I wonder: Am I the most intelligent person involved, or are these people just pretending not to see the truth. Blaming it on promiscuity is a farce. There are very few adults that do not have sex, very few. Empowering the individual elevates him/her above the sex-for-survival level. Until we do that, the worst is yet to come!

Comment on UNHEALTHY RURAL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS by Dorianoe

Dorianoe — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:39:15 +0000

well done, guy

Comment on REPAIRS:FRAGILE RURAL COMMUNITIES by Robert Giles

Robert Giles — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:04:24 +0000

The rural problems are abundant and similar world wide. I struggle to formulate solutions and have done so in a free book on the Internet with its link at http://www.RuralSystem.com. I work to implement the system and to expand it.

Comment on Mentoring by mcneri

mcneri — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:26:21 +0000

Mentoring is good, patnership is better. At any point in time we still have a lot to learn from one-another. Mentoring sounds like “Godfathering”. That suggests imparting one’s way about things on a junior one so much as to mold a new you (Remember the movie Mini Me?). Let us forge patnerships, network and build a better world, afterall the mentor could be wrong.

Comment on WHAT DO YOU THINK OF A BUS CONDUCTOR by Bukola Yinka

Bukola Yinka — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:48:46 +0000

There are days being on a bus like that in Lagos city that be like a healing to life stress experienced in a working day,I have seen a couple who were told to desert their personal vehicles to jump into and out of such commercial buses and taxes.It takes a lively bus conductor to evoke such enliven spirit among passengers,But there are very rude bus conductors.If you meet them once,you will pray never to meet them again.

Comment on SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF DESTITUTES ON STREETS by vivien joel

vivien joel — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:33:38 +0000

There are more dreadfull sight than you have tried to hightlight in your piece of the pitiable condition some women,men and youths live in by destitution.It is a function of poverty and lack of care for the weak in the society.The dimension it has taken now makes it a matter for all and sundry and not the government alone.But the government must take the lead,enforce its laws and become more human towards the untold hardship the citizens are experiencing.Such practical action, may be, could do some good

Comment on Poems&Qualities by I. Tamunopirisiki cyril

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Comment on EFCC NEEDS MORE ENCOURAGEMENT by Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:55:46 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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Comment on JOURNALISM:TECHNICAL WORKPLACE CAPABILITY by Steve Rosenbaum

Steve Rosenbaum — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:26:16 +0000

I’m looking at your post and I gave up. One massive paragraph with no spacing between sentences makes it almost unreadable. I wouldn’t be too concerned with the rules for paragraphs. Just consider breaking it up every three or four lines.

Take a look at any newspaper or magazine. Now imagine it was all one paragraph with no whitespace around the borders. You won’t find many because noone would read them.