isaiah4life:
I pray they finish it. The bond between government and abandoned projects can't be separated.

wesharetraffic:
I'm not impressed

Husiapo:


Honestly. It's not about starting but completion.

presidency:
We have good news of another investment milestone for Nigeria.

It was my pleasure today to virtually preside over the groundbreaking ceremony of the Africa Medical Center of Excellence in Abuja (AMCE), a landmark hospital project that will significantly transform the healthcare sector in West Africa.

The AMCE, a 500-bed specialist facility, is a 300 million US dollar investment that will provide services in the areas of oncology, cardiology, and haematology and will seek to address the significant shortage of clinical care options in West Africa.

It is being implemented by the African Export Import Bank - Afreximbank in partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria Aso Rock Villa; Kings College Hospital, London; University of Winsconsin Teaching Hospital, USA and Christies Hospital, Manchester.

The success of the AMCE will pave the way for future investments and partnerships in Nigeria’s healthcare sector while raising the local standard of healthcare and providing a blueprint for quality of services required to address Nigeria’s and Africa’s healthcare and economic challenges.

The AMCE indeed represents a return to fundamentals, and the understanding that there is no African development agenda without able-bodied Africans to execute our vision of transformation.

The AMCE demonstrates that Afreximbank is not only Africa’s trade finance partner, but also its development partner. Our appreciation goes to the Bank, under the leadership of Prof Benedict Oramah.

I would also like to commend the Ministers of Industry, Trade and Investment, Foreign Affairs, Federal Capital Territory and Health for their tireless support to ensuring this project comes to life. This was truly a team effort.

We are truly rebuilding Nigeria, one investment at a time.

isaiah4life:
I pray they finish it. The bond between government and abandoned projects can't be separated.

allahIsAnIDOL:
TEXTUAL HISTORY OF THE koran

Almost every Muslim is taught from infancy to cling to the notion that the Bible has been corrupted and changed, while the Koran is free from corruption, perfectly preserved since the time of Muhammad.
But a thorough study of the textual history of the Koran will show that it is not the Bible, but the Koran that has been changed. That is what Islamic historians themselves bequeathed to us. After the famous battle of Aqraba in 632 AD, during the Caliphate of Abu Bakr, many Muslims who knew the Koran by heart were killed.


As a result, Umar B. Al-Khattab advised Abu Bakr of the need to compile the Kor@n into a standardized text. Abu Bakr ordered the compilation to be made by Zaid Ibn Thabit from inscriptions on palm leaves, stones and from the remaining reciters.

When the compilation was done, it was kept by Abu Bakr until his death. His successor, Umar, then took custody of it. Afterward, it came into the possession of H@fsa, one of Muhammads widows (a daughter of Umar). The companions of the prophet also did their own compilations and produced other manuscripts for use in various provinces. There were court rival provinces, each using a different text of the Koran.


During the reign of Kh@lif Uthman (the third Khalifah), reports reached him that in various parts of Syria, Armenia and Iraq, Muslims were reciting the Koran differently from the way it was being recited by Arabian Muslims. Uthman immediately sent for the manuscript in Hafsas possession and ordered Zaid Ibn Thabit and three others, Abdullah Ibn Zubair, Said Ibn Al-As and Abdullah Al-Rahman Ibn Harith B. Hisham to make copies of the text and make corrections where necessary. When these were completed, we read that Uthman took violent action regarding other existing Koranic manuscripts: Uthm@n sent to every Muslim province one copy of wh@t they had copied and ordered that all the other koranic materials, whether written in fragmentary manuscripts, whole copies, to be burnt. (Sahih al-Bukhari Vol. 6 Page 479).

To eliminate variant readings and contradictions, @ll other manuscripts were indeed burned, but the Uthmanic edition itself was not perfect and met with a similar fate. When Marwan was governor of Medina, he ordered Hafsas manuscript to be destroyed. The only reasonable conclusion one can have is that during Uthman's time, some of the contradictions in Hafsaís text were so glaring that a total destruction of it was called for rather than a revision. From then until now, conflicting passages and historical inaccuracies exist within the kor@nic texts.


The Deedats, the Joommals, and the so-called Sheiks continue their unwarranted attack on the Bible while suppressing the fact that Khalif Uthman burned all the Koranic manuscripts apart from Hafsaís, and that Governor Marwan followed the example of Uthman by destroying the Hafsa text as well. Anyone with the slightest regard for truth would have to admit that the Textus Receptus of the Koran now in circulation is a far cry from the textus originalis! It is not too wild to suggest that were Muhammad alive at the time of these incidents, he would have received one of his usual revelations to back up those burnings. Contrary to Muslim belief, there were more than just language differences between Uthmanís text and the texts which were ordered to be burned. In every c@se, there were considerable verbal differences between them and the text Uthman determined (by whim) to be the final standardized version of the Koran.

These differences were real textual variants and not just language peculiarities as is often taken for granted. In several cases there were words and sentences found in some codices that were missing in others. In other instances, the variants concerned whole clauses and consonantal variants in certain words. No wonder Khalif Uthman had to resort to wholesale burning as his best option.

Evidence abounds to this day, that verses, indeed whole passages are missing from the Koran that is in circulation today. For instance, the second Khalifah, Khalif Umar, stated in his life-time that certain verses prescribing stoning for adultery were recited by Prophet Muhammad himself as part of the Koran: God sent Muhammad and sent down the scripture to him. Part of what he sent down was the passage on stoning. We read it, we were taught it, and we heeded it. The apostle stoned and we stoned after him. I fear that in time to come men will say that they find no mention of stoning in Godís book and thereby go astray in neglecting an ordinance which God has sent down.

Verily, stoning in the book of God is a penalty laid on married men and women who commit adultery. (Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasulullah p. 684) The verse on stoning, no longer to be found in the koran, is incontrovertible proof that the Koran as it stands today is not the same as the one spoken by Muhammad.


What the public does not know is that Jihad has many faces. Jihad is not just slaughtering people for Islam, but it is also a systematic suppression of truth and propagation of lies. If not, how can Muslims boldly assert (despite hard historic evidence to the contrary) that the Bible has been changed while the Koran has been perfectly preserved since Muhammad's time? You cannot tell me that Islamic scholars are ignorant of the many defects in the Koran, nor of the havoc that the various Khalifs have done to it.

We, ourselves, are not in any way amazed for the Bible has said: Such teachings [Propaganda] come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot (1 Timothy 4:2, NIV). The plain truth is that the Koran has been changed through upression and burning, and many of its passages have been deliberately removed or altered.

73BIG:
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