Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Monday, 8 October 2012
THE GOSPEL OF PURPLE
At times, I wonder
- why people think it doesn't make sense for purplebolt to pay her subscribers for reading passages.
- why people think committing their time to read passages and demonstrating their good grasp of the passage content by answering the questions that follow is not worth getting paid for.
- why people have failed to realize that every advert out there needs their attention.
- why people never taught such adverts could also appear as passages on purpleboltng.com.
- why people have failed to see the endless opportunities in what we (purplebolt and her subscribers) are starting.
According to a write-up online, some 100BILLION naira was invested into advertisement in 2010 in Nigeria. 35% of this was spent on TV commercial adverts, some 20% on radio campaign, 15%, on billboard adverts, 12% on shows, and the remaining 18% on other means of advertisement. This does not include how much Nigerians spend on facebook and google ads.
Let us assume purplebolt was able to rake-in just 1% of this 100BILLION which is 1BILLION Naira coming 2013, then we will be having some 20MILLION Naira to disburst every week. Then come to think of the number of winners we will have every week if we pay each winner of our quiz 5 thousand naira. I'll leave you to do the math.
Then, if you believe that this approach to advertising can be more effective
- than TV adverts where you are not under any obligations to take note of what they are saying.
- than radio adverts where you can never see what is being advertised.
- than billboards where very limited information can be passed.
- than shows where the message about the products being advertised is usually being passed indirectly.
If you believe in the success of facebook and google, then, we can be more successful. Your attention is worth some cash!
OH YEE SUBSCRIBERS! IF YOU BELIEVE IN WHAT WE ARE STARTING, THEN YOU ARE A BELIEVER IN THE GOSPEL OF PURPLE AND IT SHALL BE PREACHED IN A MANNER THAT BENEFITS US ALL.
U and THE POLICE
Bail is a form of undertaking that an offender will make himself/herself available whenever he/she is needed until the investigation is completed.
Earlier, we discussed the three categories of offences which are
- Simple offences
- Misdemeanor
- Felony
If you are involved in a simple offence or misdemeanor, bail is almost automatic. The constitution specifies that bail should be granted to you within the first 24 hours of arrest. In other words, a suspect cannot be detained for more than 24hours when he or she is involved in simple offences or misdemeanor.
Well, what if your offence falls under felony? In that case, the police have the right to refuse granting of bail and also keep in mind that they are under the obligation to charge you to court as soon as possible. They are not supposed to detain a suspect unnecessarily, in fact, you have the right to request for bail and if the police won't be granting bail, you have the right to ask them to charge you to court immediately. This is regardless of the category of offence committed.
Police may also decide to grant bail in cases of felony but the condition that must be met before such grant is usually very stringent.
Moreover, bail is free. If you have ever paid a police officer to be granted bail, you have committed a crime that is punishable by seven years imprisonment for both yourself and the police officer that collected the money.
For simple offences and misdemeanor, the process of obtaining bail from police is to present a responsible person, probably a government worker with good post or a notable person in the society that will sign an undertaking for you. This undertaking will specify that you will not run away and will always make yourself available anytime you are needed during the course of investigation. Whoever signs this undertaking is known as a SURETY. Please note that the list of people that can stand surety for you is not limited to the two sets of people stated above.
YOU AND THE POLICE
YOU AND THE POLICE
As a kid, I witnessed some police officers beating up a by-stander and all everyone could do was stand and watch. When the beating got to a stage, some elderly people had to intervene and when they asked what the by-stander had done to warrant such beating, one of them responded "HE MISYARNED". There and then, I added MISYARNING to the list of crimes I can commit against a police officer. Moments later, a man identifying himself as a lawyer stepped up to the scene and told them to re-state the by-stander's crime and to my amazement, their zeal to keep beating suddenly vanished.
At some point, they started stuttering in their quest to explain what he has done exactly and after a while, he wrote down their numbers, and names and promised to report their inhumane actions to their superiors. He also took pictures of the by-stander with his head bleeding profusely and just as he was about to leave, they started begging.
Deep in my mind, I said to myself "OH MY GOD! SO THIS GUY DIDN'T REALLY COMMIT ANY CRIME".
Let me remind you that the elderly people that first intervened were begging them to leave this young man despite the fact that MISYARNING isn't a crime anywhere in the Nigerian constitution. This is why you need to know your rights as a citizen.
The amount of abuse Nigerians suffer daily in the hands of the same law enforcement officers that are paid to protect us is alarming but if you don't know your rights, how can you fight for it? Matter of fact, we leave in a country where we break the law regularly to earn our daily living. This has prompted me put something together in order to educate you on the level of trouble you are in when you are caught committing a particular crime.
Generally, under the Nigerian criminal law, offences are categorized into 3 namely
- Simple Offences
- Misdemeanor
- Felony
Simply offences are punishable with imprisonment of less than 6months.
Misdemeanor is punishable with imprisonment of more than 6 months but not more than 3 years.
Felony is punishable with more than 3 years imprisonment. At times a culprit could get a death penalty.
Examples of simple offences inlcude
- Unlawfully wearing the uniform of the armed forces or police.
- Disturbing religious service without justification.
- Cruelty to animal.
- Entering Ship or wharf without ticket.
Examples of misdemeanor include
- Forcible entry of land or property.
- Affray (taking part in fight in a public place).
- Threatening violence.
- Impersonating members of the armed forces.
- Insult to religion.
- Attempting to commit suicide.
Examples of Felony
- Rape
- Kidnapping
- Abandoning a child under 7 years old
- Rioting
- Receiving stolen properties
- Bribes to public officials
BE LAW ABIDING!
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
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