Meanwhile Sheikh Gumi is our Governor in Niger state.

Jamsal18:
What Reno need to understand is that Hijab is a way of life and part of every muslimah, and saying that everyone one should wear what they like is just like saying, they should wear their Sunday dress to schools too, not like the Hijab that is wear everyday, and wearing Hijab won't make the Christian less Christian, cuz i went to a sch where Muslim wears their Hijab and Christians wear their beret, and their is never a fight but coexistence. What i see hear is the fear of unknown instill in the founder of this Christian school, they just need to learn what really being a Muslim is.

can pagans wear their clothings too?
What if my religion tells me to wear pants on my head?

Ayilara1:
1. Hijab is not like other religious attire, Muslim wear that everywhere but you people wear your religion dressing to religion domain.

2. Hijab is compulsory on a Muslim lady just like a cloth is compulsory on a sane human, saying "there are Muslims that wear hijab but do ....." Is not a justification for anything. People have been using things the wrong way from time immemorial. Should we scrap off pastors or Catholic priest because some have misused there office?

3.please and please, no Christian should ever talk about tolerance when a Muslim says No on a particular issue relating to his religion. Nothing in the Bible says "hate hijab" but y'all are against it, so when a Muslims says "I can't greet you for Christmas" because giving birth to God is against my religion why do you people say he/she is intolerant?

4. Christians should take back their schools but in as much as it's Government funded school, hijab should be allowed else all Christian in Muslim named school should also be forced to wear hijab.

Even in European countries, students wear hijab to schools.

I won't reply emotional bashing but logical reasonings. Thanks.

does not putting hijab make them lesser Muslims?

Aventador2000:
Well for me i think the students should be[b] allowed to wear whatever they want [/b] in as much it doesn't affect other cos i don't know why this is a very big issue

like bikinis?

oluwaseyi0:




From my personal experience:

I attended high school in ogun state, the school uniform is very simple and straight forward no hijab, but beret, Catholic rosery if found on your neck will be destroyed, black belt or sandal will be seized only brown allowed

There's another school across the town know as Ahmadiyya high school ( those from Ago Iwoye or schooled in Olabisi Onabanjo University) ogun state will know, has hijab as there school uniform and all their girls wear trousers, no skirt - that's the uniform, even though the school is fully state funded and has more Christian students

Muslim started there issue and start forcefully make their girls wear hijab in my school, even though the school authority said splitting of uniform may lead to security issues as attacks can easily be targeted at Muslim or non Muslim because they are easy to identify but those Muslim will have none of that

Back to amadiyya school that have default hijab as its uniform this exact same people trying to force hijab on previously Christian School violently reject hijab to be removed as uniform for non Muslim in Ahmadiyya school


Islam is a religion that can't survive competition or neutrality, they force on others what they can't accept



Will hisbah in Kano only destroy beer belonging to Muslim sellers? The answer is no

They will force their Sharia on all religion including the traditional religion who sometimes need alcohol to complete their religious rite or procession



Back to my school, my school was finally arm twist to allow hijab but you will think that's the end of the matter but trust Muslim to always want more

The hijab was agreed to be initially short and should not cover beyond the Brest, but some alfas start wearing hijab that is almost reaching toes, far below the knees for their children, another issue start, how long of hijab is too long

another big and serious fight start on that before I graduated

I know very soon after hijab as been finally approved, the next fight will be fight if pudah




Some core Christians female do not wear trousers, but NYSC uniform is trousers, if it's Muslim that don't wear trousers they will have been burning down NYSC orientation camp in North and attack any corper wearing such, such is the troublesome nature of some Muslims

I'll really appreciate Muslims to quote me and explain what I've said above
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Please lemme know when you find an intelligent rebuttal

BRATISLAVA:


You've summed up the eras.

Truly there was a political era, the atheist era, we are currently in the misogyny, woke era. The one that destroyed everything was the political/election era where this forum became a campaign ground and toxic ideologies were spread like wildfire.

Wonder what the next one will be.

Gay 'nd Trans Era™

motymop:


The op is confused on who is an intellectual.

According to him, if you have an old account in nairaland, you are an intellectual even if your comments are filled with rage and anger

S

Lol what a time!

Seun I need more emoticons to express myself fully. Do you understand me? �

Obierika:


I hate scammers!!!

me too.

Klington:

[s]If you can’t be kind, don’t have kids. Stop bring children to this world to suffer. Parents should learn how to show their children love and affection, most times parents care only about physical health and not mental health.[/s]

Train your kids on how to withstand pressure both within and outside the family circle.

She's just dumb.

Also how to make sound logical decision even when there is no one to guide them.

She didn't weight the pros and cons before jumping to suicide. Now she ended only herself.

aloma007:
same way I was condemned by my biological mother over things I knew nothing about and she had to take it upon me and openly saying it she doesn't see me succeeding in the future and left me with inner pains and condemning me within all her family and relatives but left with myself and my family alone battling to survive hypertension after having a cardiac surgery in Wolfson hospital in Tel Aviv years back. Only pastors consoled me and only to realize my step brother and sisters are the one fuelling it all with their father. Life on my experience has being though and I hardly have a confidant except my wife. Even my so called Muslim friends have all shamed me because of what my mother told them about me all in the name of gain saying. Some mothers dont deserve honor. I'm battling with hypertension and several other heart ailments for isolation over uncommitted crime caused by emotional destruction. I had to convert to Christianity because I found peace and love within them and get to know Christ better before dieing anytime soon. Life's a mystery. I hope to overcome it if chanced though and if miracle truly exists.

I'm happy for you. Cheers!

akeeng:

You can chose to Love God, your neighbour and forget yourself. That one concern you

I didn't ask you to forget yourself. In fact if you take care of your self and manage your life well, you will be more productive to God and the society.

But your own gospel sounds very much selfish like our average politicians.
You said "love yourself FIRST"

Does that even sound right to you?

Kobojunkie:
Aware of what "spiritual" things? You are still speaking occult lingo pretending it has something to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ which it doesn't.

Nowhere in His teaching did Jesus Christ promise you your "spiritual eye" or even suggest that His Spirit in you will give you are such thing. Yet here you proclaim boldly that that which is typically of occult belief is yours. What do you expect me to think then?

Please find me the references in the teachings of Jesus Christ where you find these ideas

Bro. you are the one trying to forcefully attach occultic meanings to my words.
E.g I said spiritual consequences of things
And you changed it to spiritual things.

Where I say spiritual eyes I mean if you see people in church singing. You will not see them as mere humans making noise and wasting away time. but as believers in Christ/saints worshipping their creator as they would in heaven


In the same way. If you see sacrifice at a T junction, will you say this is food being wasted and go and eat it? No, you know they are demonic altars being set up.

If a woman marries an unbeliever. And the unbelieving husband forbids her from serving God. Is that not spiritual crisis for her?

Col. 3:2
Set your mind and keep focused habitually on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on the earth [which have only temporal value].

Kobojunkie:
Where did Jesus Christ include in His teachings that He will give you these "Spiritual eyes" you claim to have there? [s]Many of you have been hoodwinked into believing occultic teachings without even realizing it. [/s]

Having spiritual eyes means you're actively aware of the spiritual consequences of things around you. Nothing occultic/feltish about it.

Where in His teachings did Jesus Christ hint that you can be "spiritually yoked" with an imperfect being to begin with?
Where did Jesus Christ say that He doesn't want you to be "spiritually yoked" with an imperfect being?

2 Cor. 6 14
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

Does that answer you?

chival:
Many Nigerian parents are cold and stoic towards their children. I have never been able to understand why they can't seem to show love to their own offspring. That simple statement " You are a bad child" can tip a depressed person over.
Depression should never be belittled. I battled postpartum depression after the birth of my daughter and I understand. I have pleaded with people on social media and in person, do not make light of people going through depression or suicidal people. They need love, understanding and help.

One question please. Did you tell anyone you needed love, understanding and help when you were depressed? Or did you think you expect them to magically read your mind?

2. Since then, how many people have you distributed your own love, understanding and help to?

waleadeagb:
I have read how most people on this platform berated the young lady over the irreversible act she committed. Many feels like superman and superwoman and that such thing can never happen to them cos they love life and bla bla bla.......some even castigated her for not exiting the family and find her way out and survive on the street with friends or acquaintance.

Life is not what you guys assumed it is. Life is big and very complicated to understand. No one can understand this life at a go.

Also, people in this world aren't fashioned to accept pain or displeasure the same way. We were created differently just like a mother that gives birth to identical twins, but always turned out differently characterwise....

Some people have the gift to address depression very easily while some cannot. Some people become psychopath when faced with depression while some jump out from their abode and engage in a dangerous acts eg armed robbery, cultism, prostitution, criminality acts in general just to feel alive and fulfilled for that short period of time.

The extreme acts of depression is suicidal thoughts and going all the way to do it. It takes a brave person to commit suicide if I may tell you. Suicidal thoughts and acted people are very brave and highly energised but negatively energised and triggered. This act is a snapped in the brain that propel someone to do what you ordinarily wouldn't want to do. It comes with a strong force of authority and extreme strength with an unfathomable assurance of peace after the act. Victims hardly escape this extreme force of energy and abysmal peaceful assurance. It takes the grace of God and the undeniable genuine love of friends and love ones to over ride this thoughts and actions but sadly and often than not, most victims acted to the force before help comes their ways. Depression is real and ain't spontaneous but pilled up gradually, solidifying over time and events, strengthening your personal conviction that nobody can understand you, nobody loves you, you are just a mistake in this world, dying will give your love ones and friends relieve and a better lives.

We must always reach out to people around us, study each others mood swings and try to help out by asking questions and always showing love even though that might not be materialistic. We all need love and assurance, we need some hope of assurance and trust that we would survive this present terrible government we have. We need to lift each other up for everybody to see us and join hands to lift us also...we must be our brothers keeper and look out for one another......please, together we can make it and remain positively hopeful......No to depression, no to suicidal thoughts and no to untimely death of our you.g and vibrants heroes and heroines to suicidal acts......

I didnt read the whole epistle but please STFU! There isnt anything brave about what she did. She just acted merely on her emotions like most people do.

akeeng:
She was sitting, waiting for people to love her. But she never loved herself.

Love yourself FIRST...

Who taught you this one? Selfish human being!

The commandment is to love God and love your neighbor.

Ezmans:
I'll buy snipper @ 13:30 pm & latter shows snipper image @ 13:35p, those people are fake

abi? So she ran quickly to get the sniper.

kimco:


No he married a believer.

Get a new bible.

Kobojunkie:
Jesus Christ did not marry anyone at all. So, does that also mean you will never marry anyone at all too?

Where are your spirtual eyes? Oh ye men of little faith.
It means he doesn't want to be spiritually yoked with an imperfect being, let alone a bloody sinner like an atheist.

[s]

post=99991998:
So sad.
We feel your pains Okupe.

May God never give us the child that will bring shame and reproach to us in life....... and even death!

[/s]

Irresponsible kids everywhere. Correct koboko could have flogged nonsense out of him

Kobojunkie:
Is this what Jesus Christ taught you when He walked on earth, eating and drinking with sinners and publicans?

did Jesus marry a sinner?

budaatum:


Are you aware that some people call buda cattle?

Why don't you wait until your support is asked for before you slander those who have not yet even asked for your support?

What is this one saying sef?
Did you quote me by mistake?

6. Surround the Topic
I often think of the quote by Thomas Aquinas, “Beware the man of a single book.”

If you only read one book on a topic and use that as the basis for your beliefs for an entire category of life, well, how sound are those beliefs? How accurate and complete is your knowledge?

Reading a book takes effort, but too often, people use one book or one article as the basis for an entire belief system. This is even more true (and more difficult to overcome) when it comes to using our one, individual experience as the basis for our beliefs. As Morgan Housel noted, “Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what's happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works. We're all biased to our own personal history.”

One way to attack this problem is to read a variety of books on the same topic. Dig in from different angles, look at the same problem through the eyes of various authors, and try to transcend the boundary of your own experience.

7. Read It Twice
I'd like to finish by returning to an idea I mentioned near the beginning of this article: read the great books twice. The philosopher Karl Popper explained the benefits nicely, “Anything worth reading is not only worth reading twice, but worth reading again and again. If a book is worthwhile, then you will always be able to make new discoveries in it and find things in it that you didn’t notice before, even though you have read it many times.”

Additionally, revisiting great books is helpful because the problems you deal with change over time. Sure, when you read a book twice maybe you'll catch some stuff you missed the first time around, but it's more likely that new passages and ideas will be relevant to you. It's only natural for different sentences to leap out at you depending on the point you are at in life.

You read the same book, but you never read it the same way. As Charles Chu noted, “I always return home to the same few authors. And, no matter how many times I return, I always find they have something new to say.”

Of course, even if you didn't get something new out of each reading, it would still be worthwhile to revisit great books because ideas need to be repeated to be remembered. The writer David Cain says, “When we only learn something once, we don’t really learn it—at least not well enough for it to change us much. It may inspire momentarily, but then becomes quickly overrun by the decades of habits and conditioning that preceded it.” Returning to great ideas cements them in your mind.

Nassim Taleb sums things up with a rule for all readers: “A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn’t worth reading.”

Where to Go From Here
Knowledge compounds over time.

In Chapter 1 of Atomic Habits, I wrote: “Learning one new idea won’t make you a genius, but a commitment to lifelong learning can be transformative.”

One book will rarely change your life, even if it does deliver a lightbulb moment of insight. The key is to get a little wiser each day.

Now that you know how to get more out of each book you read, you might be looking for some reading recommendations. Feel free to check out my book summaries or my public reading list.


James Clear

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4. Combine Knowledge Trees
One way to imagine a book is like a knowledge tree with a few fundamental concepts forming the trunk and the details forming the branches. You can learn more and improve reading comprehension by “linking branches” and integrating your current book with other knowledge trees.

For example:

While reading The Tell-Tale Brain by neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran, I discovered that one of his key points connected to a previous idea I learned from social work researcher Brené Brown.
In my notes for The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, I noted how Mark Manson's idea of “killing yourself” overlaps with Paul Graham's essay on keeping your identity small.
As I read Mastery by George Leonard, I realized that while this book was about the process of improvement, it also shed some light on the connection between genetics and performance.
I added each insight to my notes for that particular book.

Connections like these help you remember what you read by “hooking” new information onto concepts and ideas you already understand. As Charlie Munger says, “If you get into the mental habit of relating what you’re reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.”

When you read something that reminds you of another topic or immediately sparks a connection or idea, don’t allow that thought to come and go without notice. Write about what you’ve learned and how it connects to other ideas.

5. Write a Short Summary
As soon as I finish a book, I challenge myself to summarize the entire text in just three sentences. This constraint is just a game, of course, but it forces me to consider what was really important about the book.

Some questions I consider when summarizing a book include:

What are the main ideas?
If I implemented one idea from this book right now, which one would it be?
How would I describe the book to a friend?
In many cases, I find that I can usually get just as much useful information from reading my one-paragraph summary and reviewing my notes as I would if I read the entire book again.

If you feel like you can’t squeeze the whole book into three sentences, consider using the Feynman Technique.

The Feynman Technique is a note-taking strategy named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. It’s pretty simple: Write the name of the book at the top of a blank sheet of paper, then write down how you’d explain the book to someone who had never heard of it.

If you find yourself stuck or if you see that there are holes in your understanding, review your notes or go back to the text and try again. Keep writing it out until you have a good handle on the main ideas and feel confident in your explanation.

I’ve found that almost nothing reveals gaps in my thinking better than writing about an idea as if I am explaining it to a beginner. Ben Carlson, a financial analyst, says something similar, “I find the best way to figure out what I’ve learned from a book is to write something about it.”

2. Choose Books You Can Use Instantly

One way to improve reading comprehension is to choose books you can immediately apply. Putting the ideas you read into action is one of the best ways to secure them in your mind. Practice is a very effective form of learning.

Choosing a book that you can use also provides a strong incentive to pay attention and remember the material. That’s particularly true when something important hangs in the balance. If you’re starting a business, for example, then you have a lot of motivation to get everything you can out of the sales book you’re reading. Similarly, someone who works in biology might read The Origin of Species more carefully than a random reader because it connects directly to their daily work.

Of course, not every book is a practical, how-to guide that you can apply immediately, and that's fine. You can find wisdom in many different books. But I do find that I'm more likely to remember books that are relevant to my daily life.


3. Create Searchable Notes
Keep notes on what you read. You can do this however you like. It doesn't need to be a big production or a complicated system. Just do something to emphasize the important points and passages.

I do this in different ways depending on the format I'm consuming. I highlight passages when reading on Kindle. I type out interesting quotes as I listen to audiobooks. I dog-ear pages and transcribe notes when reading a print book.

But here's the real key: store your notes in a searchable format.

There is no need to leave the task of reading comprehension solely up to your memory. I keep my notes in Evernote. I prefer Evernote over other options because 1) it is instantly searchable, 2) it is easy to use across multiple devices, and 3) you can create and save notes even when you're not connected to the internet.

I get my notes into Evernote in three ways:

I. Audiobook: I create a new Evernote file for each book and then type my notes directly into that file as I listen.

II. Ebook: I highlight passages on my Kindle Paperwhite and use a program called Clippings to export all of my Kindle highlights directly into Evernote. Then, I add a summary of the book and any additional thoughts before posting it to my book summaries page.

III. Print: Similar to my audiobook strategy, I type my notes as I read. If I come across a longer passage I want to transcribe, I place the book on a book stand as I type. (Typing notes while reading a print book can be annoying because you are always putting the book down and picking it back up, but this is the best solution I've found.)

Of course, your notes don't have to be digital to be “searchable.” For example, you can use Post-It Notes to tag certain pages for future reference. As another option, Ryan Holiday suggests storing each note on an index card and categorizing them by the topic or book.

The core idea is the same: Keeping searchable notes is essential for returning to ideas easily. An idea is only useful if you can find it when you need it.

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There are many benefits to reading more books, but perhaps my favorite is this: A good book can give you a new way to interpret your past experiences.

Whenever you learn a new mental model or idea, it's like the “software” in your brain gets updated. Suddenly, you can run all of your old data points through a new program. You can learn new lessons from old moments. As Patrick O'Shaughnessy says, “Reading changes the past.”

Of course, this is only true if you internalize and remember insights from the books you read. Knowledge will only compound if it is retained. In other words, what matters is not simply reading more books, but getting more out of each book you read.

Gaining knowledge is not the only reason to read, of course. Reading for pleasure or entertainment can be a wonderful use of time, but this article is about reading to learn. With that in mind, I'd like to share some of the best reading comprehension strategies I’ve found.

1. Quit More Books
It doesn't take long to figure out if something is worth reading. Skilled writing and high-quality ideas stick out.

As a result, most people should probably start more books than they do. This doesn't mean you need to read each book page-by-page. You can skim the table of contents, chapter titles, and subheadings. Pick an interesting section and dive in for a few pages. Maybe flip through the book and glance at any bolded points or tables. In ten minutes, you'll have a reasonable idea of how good it is.

Then comes the crucial step: Quit books quickly and without guilt or shame.

Life is too short to waste it on average books. The opportunity cost is too high. There are so many amazing things to read. I think Patrick Collison, the founder of Stripe, put it nicely when he said, “Life is too short to not read the very best book you know of right now.”

Here's my recommendation:

Start more books. Quit most of them. Read the great ones twice

budaatum:


Our ideologies, as in what would we all want our ideologies to be?

Can I suggest we start by adopting the ideology of respecting one another. I think it will be a very good and sensible place to start, don't you agree?

no way. I can't respect anyone who supports evil, praise murderers and believes in rehabilitating terrorists.