Mtcheeew.... ok... noted... continue..... now u want to be nice. After dey have died abi?

It's well.... All I need is peace in zaria

MASSOB! IPOB! SHEIKH! OPC! MILITANT! BOKO HARAM! O God which way Nigeria.

sounds like giving a dog a bad name to hang it

ZhulFiqar:
[b]Gumi is a Wahhabi hate preacher. He and his father are the heads of the Wahhabi movement in Nigeria sponsored by Saudi all over the world. This man makes inciting statements against everyone. He was the one who said igbos are taking over the army. he hates christians and non-sunni muslims, and also hates along ethnic lines. he is in no position to advice anyone. he lacks tolerance and wisdom.

he is against the Shiites trekking because that is their form of preaching and creating awareness among the Muslims in the north. that means Gumi will lose more sheep in his congreagtion to Zakzaky and the Shiites. ironically, the Shiites are not scared of losing sheep or from wahhabi teachings. you always find wahhabis being the intolerant ones who dont want others to preach for fear of spreading their beliefs contrary to wahhabi teachings.

This Sheikh Gumi, Nigeria's chief Wahhabi cleric, has been issuing inciting and sectarian statements against the Zakzaky's Islamic Movement in Nigeria and the Shiites generally for long. He called for them to be shot at sight for trekking and doing processions. His wish finally came through and he is still issuing inciting statements. He is one of those Sunnis, and a Wahhabi Sunni for that matter, who feel they are losing with the increased influence of Zakzaky and the growth of Shia Islam in Nigeria. Isn't this the same Gumi who was imprisoned in relations to Abdul Muttalab, the Christmas Day plane bomber? Would such a person have any credibility?

If he knows where the IMN is keeping weapons, then the army should please go and arrest Gumi. He should be investigated for making such claims. And if Yaradua knew that they had weapons, Yaradua not acting implicates him. But of course Yaradua is dead, so he cannot respond to Gumi's claims. And since the mosques and houses and cemetery of the IMN got demolished, where are the alleged weapons? Gumi should be arrested and investigated both for sectarian incitement and posing a threat to civil peace and making dangerous claims which he needs to shed more light on.[/b]

So Bokoharams are in Nairaland too

he has seen the result

EgunMogaji:


You're a great Nigerian and may your days be long on this earth.

Thank you.

Thanks buddy, funny enough I preferred to be called a Biafran than a Nigerian, but may your days be long too. It shows that Biafra and Nigeria can independently coexist in peace.

Coolgent:

So Bokoharams are in Nairaland too

Fool...boko haram are not Shi'ites. They are extremist Sunnis known as Wahhabis aka Salafists like Gumi, who suddenly is widely being quoted as a voice of reasoning. Nonsense.

ZhulFiqar:
[b]Gumi is a Wahhabi hate preacher. He and his father are the heads of the Wahhabi movement in Nigeria sponsored by Saudi all over the world. This man makes inciting statements against everyone. He was the one who said igbos are taking over the army. he hates christians and non-sunni muslims, and also hates along ethnic lines. he is in no position to advice anyone. he lacks tolerance and wisdom.

he is against the Shiites trekking because that is their form of preaching and creating awareness among the Muslims in the north. that means Gumi will lose more sheep in his congreagtion to Zakzaky and the Shiites. ironically, the Shiites are not scared of losing sheep or from wahhabi teachings. you always find wahhabis being the intolerant ones who dont want others to preach for fear of spreading their beliefs contrary to wahhabi teachings.

This Sheikh Gumi, Nigeria's chief Wahhabi cleric, has been issuing inciting and sectarian statements against the Zakzaky's Islamic Movement in Nigeria and the Shiites generally for long. He called for them to be shot at sight for trekking and doing processions. His wish finally came through and he is still issuing inciting statements. He is one of those Sunnis, and a Wahhabi Sunni for that matter, who feel they are losing with the increased influence of Zakzaky and the growth of Shia Islam in Nigeria. Isn't this the same Gumi who was imprisoned in relations to Abdul Muttalab, the Christmas Day plane bomber? Would such a person have any credibility?

If he knows where the IMN is keeping weapons, then the army should please go and arrest Gumi. He should be investigated for making such claims. And if Yaradua knew that they had weapons, Yaradua not acting implicates him. But of course Yaradua is dead, so he cannot respond to Gumi's claims. And since the mosques and houses and cemetery of the IMN got demolished, where are the alleged weapons? Gumi should be arrested and investigated both for sectarian incitement and posing a threat to civil peace and making dangerous claims which he needs to shed more light on.[/b]

You know him very well she!
It means you must be a non Sunnis

baralatie:

You know him very well she!
It means you must be a non Sunnis

That Gumi spews rubbish against everyone who is not Sunni. He does worse against igbos and Christians especially during his lectures in Sultan Bello mosque in kaduna. Literally feeding his congregation with hatred.

ayatt:
God bless you Gumi...Iran has been the major sponsor of Shiites since time immemorial.

The north cannot afford another boko haram in disguise.. enough is enough.. since those shiites cannot practice peacefully without blocking highways meant for Nigerian citizens then the army will do the needful.

God bless PMB

Its better to be a shia muslim than a wahhabi

Gumi is as divisive as Nnamdi kanu in his speeches and hates zakzaky so no wisdom can come from such an individual

Eziachi:
Boko Haram would never had grown wings if it was properly and severely dealt with at its infancy. Instead Jonathan spent almost the first 4 and half years of his government telling us that Boko Haram was about northerners not wanting him to be president but insanely forgot that Boko Haram predates his presidency and he decided ignored the threat as something far away from Abuja.
That allowed them to freely recruit, get financed and grown beyond control, only for Jonathan to wake up from his slumber 3 months before his dreamed re-election. But the gene is already out.
Once the gene is out of the bottle, it is difficult to put it back. If this Shiite group is not eliminated now, the next phase will be Shiite v Sunni (Boko Haram).

very lame excuse for ur duara prsesident who promised to wipe boko haram in two months.

I am surprised that a well respected Sheikh as Sheikh Gumi could make this statement at this time. It confirms that my fear that the massacre of the Shiites was a well-orchestrated plan by Sunni Muslims to eliminate a rival minority Muslim faction. The silence of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs about the whereabout of the Zakzaky also affirms it all. Anyway they(the Sunnis) should know that, 'they that sew the wind shall reap the whirlwind'.

freedom96:
Kaduna based renowned Islamic scholar, Dr Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, yesterday reflected on the recent bloody stand-off between security forces and members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, otherwise known as Shiites, saying he earlier warned their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, of the dangers of blocking the highways during Arbaeen.
He said the Shiite leader had been running a parallel government in most parts of the North in the past 40 years.
Gumi told newsmen in Kaduna yesterday that the Shiites had been undergoing military training and producing military cadets and soldiers, adding: “They are operating a state within a state.”
He said: “The Islamic Movement of Nigeria does not recognise the corporate entity of Nigeria and the group is not registered, they operate above the law and they get direct foreign aid.
“Former President Umaru Yar ádua had told me of the massive importation of ammunitions and weapons to different parts of the country, the president had mentioned Iran as  supplying  arms to the Shittes. The recent clash between the army and Shiites is a divine intervention to prevent a catastrophe like that of Boko Haram. It came suddenly and was so powerful to eradicate and uproot any plan that they must have been nursing to harm the society.
“I had written Zakzaky about a year ago, warning him of the dangers of blocking roads during the annual Ar’baeen trek, where his followers travel on foot from all over the country to Zaria,” he said.
The scholar warned that the North would continue to be underdeveloped if  the twin evils of Shiites and Boko Haram are not eradicated, adding that  the strife and unnecessary blocking of roads and shouting slogans on the highways increases tension in the region.

http://dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/i-warned-zakzaky-against-blocking-roads-sheikh-gumi/126675.html#xZyrwZaL7zBSLfos.99

Did he just call them Evil?

Coolgent:

So Bokoharams are in Nairaland too

Your statement is very derogatory. He gave you a different insight which I see as very educative. Refrain from such unsavoury statement.

kunle75:



Sir please can you tell us more of what you know about this organisation? because the boldened shows that you may know what the public dosnt know about this group.

These Islam sects has always been around, tolerated but contained. The wahhabi group use to be the most dangerous of the three groups. It led for years by the late Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, the father of the current Gumi, they are responsible for killing so many Igbos in past including Christopher Akaluka, whom they beheaded in Kano and spiked his head.
The other group is the Sunni group, that use to exist as Maitasinet group around Maiduguri in the 80s and responsible for killing many Igbos too until Buhari crushed them in 1984, and then ressutected as Boko Haram under Yar Adua and Jonathan docile governments watch.
The last group is the Shiite group. They had ruled the waves around the Zaria axis controlled by the Kaduna mafia for years. Militantly, they had been docile in the past as their leaders are allowed to run a sort of parallel government in Kaduna, just only in interested in making money and influencing governments until the new kid on the block El Rufai came on board and said no to power sharing for the first time since Balarabe Musa's government in the early 80s that also said no. This is the reason I believed, they suddenly want to flex their muscles.
Unfortunately for them, they now have a president they can intimidate with the Koran as he read it and understand it more than them.

Repent and accept Christ for your salvtion

Nigerians..!
Let's try encourage doing of Good Righteous deeds and Avoid Bad Evil Deeds

drss:
very lame excuse for ur duara prsesident who promised to wipe boko haram in two months.

Am stating a fact, unlike most of you that lives in fools paradise. Buhari is talking nonsense when he thinks that BK can be defeated by December. I should think that he deliberately did it to put the army hierarchy under pressure to do more eventhough he knows that it's unrealistic. Every businessman has set such a target for those that run their businesses.
If you didn't wipe them out in 6 years, how do you expect them to be realistically be wiped out in two months? Wake up to reality and let not PDP/APC political catfight loyalty teleguide your intelligent and reasoning.

Well, it's obvious som Buhari supporters are trading same path thinkin IPOB doesn't want Buhari as a president Dats y de r agitating 4getin Biafra struggle strtd b4 Bubu. It only got more relevance whn Nnamdi Kanu was arrested.
Only quoting ur statement

minwafor:
I am surprised that a well respected Sheikh as Sheikh Gumi could make this statement at this time. It confirms that my fear that the massacre of the Shiites was a well-orchestrated plan by Sunni Muslims to eliminate a rival minority Muslim faction. The silence of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs about the whereabout of the Zakzaky also affirms it all. Anyway they(the Sunnis) should know that, 'they that sew the wind shall reap the whirlwind'.

Well respected? There is nothing respectful about him and his late father. Because of Buhari, suddenly, someone you don't even know is well respected. Lol

[quote author=Eziachi post=41483665]Boko Haram would never had grown wings if it was properly and severely dealt with at its infancy. Instead Jonathan spent almost the first 4 and half years of his government telling us that Boko Haram was about northerners not wanting him to be president but insanely forgot that Boko Haram predates his presidency and he decided ignored the threat as something far away from Abuja.
That allowed them to freely recruit, get financed and grown beyond control, only for Jonath


Senselessness every where. Meanwhile, BH started in 2002 burst out during Yaradua's time and not jonathan's time. Thanks.

PMB is the best thing ever to happen to Nigeria.

Lasese:
MASSOB! IPOB! SHEIKH! OPC! MILITANT! BOKO HARAM! O God which way Nigeria.

Wetin opc do?

Eziachi:
Boko Haram would never had grown wings if it was properly and severely dealt with at its infancy. Instead Jonathan spent almost the first 4 and half years of his government telling us that Boko Haram was about northerners not wanting him to be president but insanely forgot that Boko Haram predates his presidency and he decided ignored the threat as something far away from Abuja.
That allowed them to freely recruit, get financed and grown beyond control, only for Jonathan to wake up from his slumber 3 months before his dreamed re-election. But the gene is already out.
Once the gene is out of the bottle, it is difficult to put it back. If this Shiite group is not eliminated now, the next phase will be Shiite v Sunni (Boko Haram).

You sound confused and evidently chauviniist bigot..... Bokoharam started under obasanjo.....he he "muderd" their learder, which is akin to cutting a tree branch and not expecting it to grow....fyi the north used bokoharam is a political strategy to fight jonathan, google is your friend. Afterall your change agent is the same person that declared that" war on bokoharam is war agaisnt the north.

Ok

cescky:



You sound confused and evidently chauviniist bigot..... Bokoharam started under obasanjo.....he he "muderd" their learder, which is akin to cutting a tree branch and not expecting it to grow....fyi the north used bokoharam is a political strategy to fight jonathan, google is your friend. Afterall your change agent is the same person that declared that" war on bokoharam is war agaisnt the north.

Keep telling your self that. The reality tells another story. I wasn't born yesterday, I knew Nigeria very well. Tell me why Boko is still fighting if it was because of Jonathan? Why are they bombing mosques? Killing their fellow Moslem because of Jonathan?

Eziachi:
Keep telling your self that. The reality tells another story. I wasn't born yesterday, I knew Nigeria very well. Tell me why Boko is still fighting if it was because of Jonathan? Why are they bombing mosques? Killing their fellow Moslem because of Jonathan?

(OPINION) Let’s save The Federal University Of Medical Sciences, Akpete-Akpa, Otukpo

By Nats Dr Echemeta Malo

In the dying days of the last administration in Nigeria, the College of Health Sciences, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, which was located at Akpete-Akpa in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State was upgraded to a Federal University of Health Sciences.

The establishment of that university made it the first of its kind in Nigeria; it was also in response to the growing need for medical institutions in Nigeria. There are university-based medical colleges in Nigeria, no doubt, but the trend in most parts of the world is a gradual movement towards the establishment of Universities of Health Sciences.

The Indian example is worth mentioning because that country attracts more than 18, 000 Nigerian medical tourists every year. India has 381 recognized medical colleges and 44 medical universities that are recognized by the Medical Council of India. The medical universities train doctors and other allied health professionals. Sixteen out of the 80 top universities in India are medical Universities. The health care industry in India earns revenues accounting for 5.2 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employs as many as 4 million people. According to reliable sources, India’s earnings from the health sector could reach $73 billion by 2020.

A report that was published in Leadership, one of Nigeria’s leading newspapers, November 21, 2015 shows that Nigeria loses three billion naira to medical tourism annually. Nigeria alone accounts for 42.4 percent of the medical tourism list of Africans going to India for medical attention. The Indian High Commissioner in Nigeria was recently quoted as saying that Indian hospitals received 18,000 Nigerians on medical visa in 2012 and about 15,000 in 2013. In monetary terms, Nigerians spend about $260 million annually in search of medical attention in India. India’s pharmaceutical exports to Africa equally increased from $247.64 million in 2000 to $3.5billion in 2014.

Other countries that have shown tremendous interest in the establishment of medical universities are Bangladesh, Pakistan, Austria, Ukraine, Libya, South Africa, Ghana, Uganda, Gambia, Kenya and Iran. Bangladesh converted its Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences into a University of Health Sciences and the university has attracted grants from other organizations including the University of Oslo in Norway, Rockefeller Foundation in the US and the World Diabetes Foundation, which is based in Denmark for various academic and development projects.

One of the most notable medical institutions in Pakistan is the University of Health Sciences, Lahore in the Province of Punjab. With about 60, 000 registered students and 72 affiliated institutes and colleges, the University of Health Sciences, Lahore is indeed the largest medical university in Pakistan. Austria has four medical universities just as Ukraine has 14 medical universities. Libya has only one privately-owned medical university, the Libyan International Medical University, just as South Africa established the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in 2014.

The Ghana example is even unique. With a population of twenty seven million people, that country has nine public universities including the University of Health and Allied Sciences established in 2011. The uniqueness of the Ghanaian system is that its Universities are established on the concept of unique specialization. Apart from the first three early general universities (University of Ghana, 1948, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 1952 and University of Cape Coast, 1961), the other public universities are uniquely defined (University of Education 1992, University for Development Studies, 1992, University of Professional Studies 1965, University of Mines and Technology, 2001, University of Health and Allied Sciences, 2011; and University of Energy and Natural Resources, 2012).

Uganda has eight recognized medical schools and an International Health Sciences University, which was established in 2008, just as the American International University of West Africa (University of Health Sciences), which was established in 2011 with students from 74 countries, is Gambia’s first private university. Iran has eleven medical universities while plans are afoot to establish a University of Health Sciences in Kenya.

It was therefore hoped that the Federal University of Health Sciences, Akpete-Akpa would join the league of medical universities that are consciously engaged in medical research and proffering solutions to health challenges in several parts of the world. It is therefore disheartening to learn that the Federal University of Health Sciences, Akpete-Akpa has been returned to the University of Agriculture, Makurdi as a college.

It is not easy for an outsider to fashion out the reason(s) for certain actions of government. But this writer is persuaded to believe that the reason(s) adduced for the change in status of this unique university could never outweigh the gains. Moreover, the decision does not appear to be in tandem with President Muhammadu Buhari’s resolve to re-invigorate the educational sector with progressive ideas and policies. Addressing some youths during a programme, which was tagged “Secure the Future: Discussing the Future with the Youth” in Lagos on March 13, 2015, Buhari promised to pursue policies that would empower them, saying the youth were the hope and future of the nation. He emphatically stated that functional education held the key to youth empowerment. The News Agency of Nigeria, which covered the event, quoted him as saying that no nation could develop without a functional educational system. He therefore promised to ‘evolve creative solutions to address some of the major challenges in the sector’.

President Buhari’s resolve to make functional education the focus of his educational reforms sits well with modern approach to education and national development. Indeed, the role of functional education in the development of the society cannot be over-emphasized. As noted by the Israeli, Yehuda Zeilberger, functional education takes root from the immediate environment of the individual, from the ward, to the village and would cover the individual’s daily experiences. In the US and Germany, functional education comes directly from the influence of the environment, but in Western Europe it comes from the child’s needs and uses the child’s interests as a mechanism for activating him towards his desirable activities.

The purpose is to develop the life of the mind that acts from the wholesome of organic life, with relation to practical life. Functional education is therefore a process through which an individual is transformed into a participant in the social and economic development of his immediate society. A functional educational system works in tandem with the dynamics of the labor market, and usually equips its products with the necessary skills and competences so they could be self-reliant and be in a fortified positions to contribute to the economic development of their society.

As this writer has noted elsewhere, national development is the ability of a country to improve the social well-being of its citizens through the provision of such amenities as medical care, infrastructure, quality education and other social services. A developed country can therefore be described as that country in which the citizens have access to social amenities that will improve their well-being, while a country without such amenities can be described as underdeveloped or developing.

There are some who argue that rapid quantitative expansion of educational opportunities does not guarantee equally rapid social and economic development. The indices are there: despite the increase in the number of enrollments in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in Nigeria, most graduates of tertiary institutions are unemployed or under-employed.

But as Professor Frederick Harbison argues, “human resources…constitute the ultimate basis for the wealth of nations” because while capital and natural resources are factors of production, human beings are the active agents who accumulate the capital and exploit the natural resources. Human beings also “build social, economic and political organizations, and carry forward national development”. According to the eminent professor, “… a country which is unable to develop the skills and knowledge of its people and to utilize them effectively in the national economy will be unable to develop anything else”.
There is therefore the need for the Nigerian government to invest heavily in the educational sector and in saying this one must draw from the experiences of other countries.

When Japan adopted modern educational standards in 1872, twenty-nine years after Western education reached Nigeria, its leaders adopted four principal aims, which became the propelling forces of their educational system. Japanese education was customized to contribute to the peace and welfare of humanity, develop the full personality, create love for truth and justice among students and promote commitment to academic freedom, equal opportunity and co-education. Japan’s emphasis on the development of the full personality, which in effect meant the development of its society, has impacted positively on the country. By 1952, the country was ranked as a less developed country, LDC; by 1953, its economy took quick, giant steps that saw it growing at eight percent per annum. The growth was so much that by 1968, Japan had become the world’s second largest economy. This phenomenal growth necessitated a major shift from reliance on agriculture and light manufacturing to heavy industry and services, thus accelerating the pace of urbanization. Such feat was attained because Japan was able to effect ‘a shift in employment from low productivity, primary pursuits to manufacturing and a skilled and trained labor force with a strong commitment to work’.

The enchanting growth of the Chinese economy also exemplifies how education can accelerate social and economic growth of a country. By 1985, China was still grappling with how to create a harmonious relationship between functional education and national development. Indeed, China took deliberate steps to engage its citizens in education and production; those who did not go to formal schools became apprentices, and in the final analysis, China moved elegantly into the position of a world superpower.

Today, China is the world’s fastest growing economy. By 2013, that country became the world’s second largest economy based on the nominal Gross Domestic Product, GDP, and the purchasing power parity, PPP. More over, China became the world’s largest exporter and importer of goods. The country also became a nuclear weapons state and the country with the largest standing army in the world. Malaysia has been investing heavily in education. As a result, all Malaysian children attend primary school, and well over 50 percent attend secondary school. That country combines educational investment with health expenditures and employment creation, thus achieving one of the lowest poverty rates (26%) among all Less Developed Countries, LDC.

There is no doubt that Nigeria has made phenomenal progress in the educational sector. As for primary school enrollment, statistics provided by UNESCO show that from a minimum value of 40.84 percent in 1970, the figure stood at 84.80 in 2010. Access to secondary school education has however been sluggish, with the value for school enrollment standing at 43.83 percent in 2010. Tertiary education has enjoyed tremendous boom, especially since the Federal Government granted licenses to individuals and organizations to establish universities and polytechnics.

Today, there are 40 Federal Universities, 40 State Universities and 61 privately-owned universities in Nigeria.
Despite the increase in the number of tertiary institutions in the country, many applicants are still unable to access university education because of the few available spaces. In the 2004/2005 admission exercise, for instance, 841, 878 people applied for admission into the institutions, out of which only 122, 492 or 14. 5 percent were admitted. The figure dropped further in the 2005/2006 admission year when 76, 000 or 8.4 percent of the 916, 371 applicants were admitted. The following year, 2006/2007, 803, 472 people applied for admission but only 88, 524 or 11 percent of them were admitted, just as 107, 370 or 11.8 percent of the 911, 653 applicants during the 2007/2008 admission exercise were admitted. There was a slight improvement in the number of people that gained admission during the 2008/2009 exercise when 200, 000 or 18.9 percent of the 1,054,060 applicants were successful. It is because of the available spaces in Nigerian universities that many Nigerians are trooping into neigbouring countries to acquire university education.

There is therefore an urgent need to create more room for applicants to enjoy university education in Nigeria. It is gratifying to note that the Federal Government’s 2016 budget proposals leans heavily in favor of opening up the educational sector. Allocating N369.6 billion to the education sector, the largest in the budget, is clearly indicative of the government’s commitment to improving on the people’s access to quality education.

It is on this premise that one is compelled to appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to reconsider his stand on the status of some of the universities established in the closing months of the immediate past government. On the surface, the cost of running the universities may appear daunting but so it is with every good thing; and university education is good for the country.

The beginning is always rough but in the final analysis, the country stands to gain from those universities because some of them are specialized institutions. From the antecedents of similar universities in other parts of the world, there is every hope that if it survives, the Federal University of Health Sciences, Akpete-Akpa, for instance, would revolutionize the health sector in Nigeria and bring to an end the endless search for medical attention in other parts of the world.

ayatt:
God bless you Gumi...Iran has been the major sponsor of Shiites since time immemorial.

The north cannot afford another boko haram in disguise.. enough is enough.. since those shiites cannot practice peacefully without blocking highways meant for Nigerian citizens then the army will do the needful.

God bless PMB

North just planted a seed and sectarian violence will be harvested. Northern leaders just pressed another self destruct button.

breeze have blown we have seen the yansh of the fowl

well I'm not a Nigerian, but I pity the shiites