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I smell something. why are the members of this group Islam inclined. I hope they haven't concluded that Nigeria too is Islam inclined to have made her a member.

anything for the money

Expect some ladies in Nigeria to also start falling sick soon just to get same attention. in case you spot any tell them its fake

ppl are Almost stoning Zuma in SA, xenophobia all over under his nose, news of Police brutalising Nigerians in the Media becoming more popular than Buhari, but Zuma is celebrated as Mandela in Imo. if you want claps for Okorocha like, but if you want slap for Okorocha share.

You can't kill a spirit but you can silent it especially if the spirit is from a house that is divided

Anything imaginable is possible that's why we call the place Nigeria

They need some one to unload their burden yet they are deceived or allowed themselves to be deceived into carrying an extra burden for nine month resulting to an extra mouth to feed.
We may say ladies are foolish or they don't think before their action but I will say they are just vulnerable. only weak people take advantage of vulnerable people. the strong test their strength among the strong not the weak and vulnerable.

Are you trying to blame Allah for the Saudi authorities incivility?
well since anything they do, the mercy killings, the rapes, the slavery and etc they attributes it to Allah. then may be Allah has decided to do what the rest of the world is doing.
I hope Allah will become wise soon to know that its bad for females not to enjoy inheritance and that child marriage is bad.
If Allah can do this for them then I believe Allah really wants to be civilized.

That's good but the white man buys it only to use it for what it can do but the black man buys it to put it in the garage and upload the pictures on social media

this all boils to the fact that the Sultan doesn't support restructuring and the Yorubas are bent on having it.
I said it once and I will say it again, only the Yorubas has what it takes to be on their own in Nigeria. they have start displaying it.
I tell you the Oni and other top Yoruba Muslims will join this call cos they have one voice. all that remains is for the middle belt to find their voice and the Hausa man will understand the value of others

No one is there for Nigeria but for their pocket. Hope they won't take the life of the suicide bomber?

Dogs don't eat dogs

I see only whites what happened to the blacks

It is the IG that is to be arrested because since he took that saddle crime has grown under his watch from bad to worse, why victimise a DPO that is just taking after the lackadaisical attitude of his boss?

serves him right

ItsMeAboki:
I am not surprised that you will continue to feel unjust against the south because your mindset seems already programmed to twist the reality on ground along the lines the propaganda machinery of the Christian dominated southern media and beer parlour gist being fed to you - in sharp contrast to the education and independent thinking mind that you are supposed to have.

On the issue of Fulani attacks:
Let me say that this happens throughout the country; in the north it is usually treated for what it is i.e. as a criminal offence and resolved accordingly without unnecessarily turned into an ethnic or religious conflict and sensationalised by a biased pressed, who prefer to give only one side of the story without recourse to the other side.

On Cattle Rustling:
This is also not restricted to any region or tribe; there cattle rustlers among the Fulanis themselves and often within the local host communities - recently some Igbos rustlers were caught in the SW and made the headlines. Likewise, there are also evidence of local criminals disguising as Fulanis to commit crimes so as to cover their tracks - either for themselves or as agents of politicians foe the sake of propaganda.
The relative success of the law enforcement agents in arrest of rustlers over the herdsmen is simply due to the latter having more bush craft over the other: the herdsmen go into battle without their cattle and use stealth along with their intimate knowledge to the terrain to get away; while rustlers are saddled with they burden of the cattle they stole which slows them down leaving behind traceable footprints leading to them as well as being vulnerable to exposure and arrest while trying to sell off the cattle in markets because the Fulani cleverly mark their cattle making them easily identifiable.

The propaganda machinery (the southern press) would not want you to know that the Fulani are often also victims of attacks, extortion and deception by their host communities; often being duped large sums of money for fake grazing land or grazing rights.
Its funny you included Taraba, because Taraba witnessed the most recent wanton unprovoked attack on Fulani settlements, almost to genocidal proportion - where women, children, the old and the sick, including their cattle were massacred or injured - yet the press did not made much of it, probably because such story would not them more newspaper.

Not at all, the Arewa Youth declaration did not propose or support any violence; you may care to show me where in their speech contained violence; the governor could not effect their arrest because they simply did not break the law - though somebody had taken the matter to court, so lets just wait and see how he can get a conviction.

Note, the presidency did not take any action because it was being headed by an experienced lawyer at the time, the VP and a southerner, who knew better than base his judgement on sentiments; besides, it would have been ludicrous to have clamped down on the Arewa youths while Kanu was free and doing far worse.

I don't see how the alleged kidnapping of young Christian girls is related to this thread; however, even so, after all the press sensationalism of such cases you will often later find out that behind the story is one lie or the other which will never stand the test of the law.

Lastly when it comes to the issue of safety for Muslims against Christians, I can confidently say that the entire world is far more dangerous for Muslims - no thanks to Christians - Libya, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria etc comes to mind.

As I said earlier am not in support of any region but responding based on information and what I see.
I think the case of the recent violence in Taraba is more of a reprisal, but we have several other cases like killing in Kubwa and the woman in Kano that died a natural death in as much as Kwankwaso the saviour of the Northern criminals was around to use it as an opportunity to impress it on the North that he is their Messiah.
How many Herdsmen in Southern Kaduna involved in the massacre and land grabbing are convicted?
Hope you heard that Elrufai went to pay them off instead of finding a way to bring them to justice? what country does that?
And I wonder why you want to blame the Christians for the Mid east crises?
It is just like blaming the Christians in the south for the devastation caused by BH in the North east.
The Arabians hate one another, we can't take that from them cos they are good at that, they are allergic to peaceful coexistence and make do with every opportunity to die. i think it is the cause of the Norths problem because the heartless, pedophilic Arabians is the role model of an average Muslim in the North. Just as Saudi want to own and control Yemen and the Iranian want same for Syria so also the Fulani want to lay claim to every land they see themselves. Hope you hear the case of Morocco teenagers raping any thing with a hole for their Joy-stick from a mentally deranged lady to a donkey, in the Public, i mean in the Public and no one is punishing them for it. I bet you that will be the next line of news that will be everywhere in the North. Why because the Arabians are their role model. I will even be shocked if they don't take their bars above them by raping dogs and goats.
I still wonder how the Fulani man will have the guts to say he is from Benue and no one can restraint him to a grazing reserve- How can people just frown at development if they are not trouble makers?
Imagine people in Taraba coming to threaten a state house of Assembly in Taraba with weapons that there will be blood in the land when the state house goes ahead with the grazing reserve bill, what country will allow that? or would you say the press was bias too in that case? it is a typical case of of a privilege taking for a right. mind you no one from the south ever made such threat in the North, not even the Igbo's that help develop sabon Gari in Kano made such proclamation.
What you see in the mideast is a case of the west trying to drum sense into the head of two brothers bent on killing each other.
I am not in support of any region but the bias government and their penchant for defending criminals from the North is one of the major reason for this agitations every where

ItsMeAboki:
Before you point fingers at anyone, check the hypocrisy that filled your comment.
First of all, the Arewa Youth's ultimatum and the herdsmen attack are not related, so stop joining them together; the latter is simply a criminal act similar to many other inter and intra tribal communal clashes that unfortunately happen throughout the country.
Just because many of the perpetrators cannot be traced and brought to book (like in other communal clashes) should not amount to bias by the govt/police.
There are also many criminal killings e.g. by cults, armed robbery, kidnapping etc happening in the south, in which the culprits are never brought book; should we therefore conclude that the police are favouring criminals in the south; what about other high profile crimes involving southerners that seem to have gone under the radar e.g. two serious cases of illegal arms importation through the ports (involving one Oscar Okoro)?

Secondly, the Arewa Youth's declaration didn't threaten anyone; they made this abundantly clear in their several follow up clarifications/dialogues - well before completely withdrawing it; which cannot be said for Kanu who up to a few days ago was openly threatening the law enforcement agents with death should they attempt to re-arrest him for blatantly flouting his bail conditions.

Elrufai wanted to arrest the Arewa youths but that died down, why?
was it because the Arewa youths are not in the society? why is it that the presidency never mentioned it?
have you ever seen the Igbo man dragging land with the Hausa in the North? why should the Fulani drag their lands with them in the east?
You don't need any prophet to tell you that some fingers are more equal than the others in Nigeria.
The military are somewhat incapacitated to locate and arrest the Fulani herds men in the east and middle belt but they can easily locate the cattle rustlers in the north and get back Fulani cattle for them.
If you are a Fulani or Hausa ask your ppl why the cases in Kogi are always settled without military interventions? the answer is simple, you don't mess with them and go free. if the Igbo's and Yoruba's will adopt that in Nigeria I tell you Nigeria will be the most peaceful place on earth but most of their leaders will always run or wait for the center who are always bias towards the Hausa.
The heat is building and I tell you when its at the prime we will know who are the boys and the men?

ItsMeAboki:
Before you point fingers at anyone, check the hypocrisy that filled your comment.
First of all, the Arewa Youth's ultimatum and the herdsmen attack are not related, so stop joining them together; the latter is simply a criminal act similar to many other inter and intra tribal communal clashes that unfortunately happen throughout the country.
Just because many of the perpetrators cannot be traced and brought to book (like in other communal clashes) should not amount to bias by the govt/police.
There are also many criminal killings e.g. by cults, armed robbery, kidnapping etc happening in the south, in which the culprits are never brought book; should we therefore conclude that the police are favouring criminals in the south; what about other high profile crimes involving southerners that seem to have gone under the radar e.g. two serious cases of illegal arms importation through the ports (involving one Oscar Okoro)?

Secondly, the Arewa Youth's declaration didn't threaten anyone; they made this abundantly clear in their several follow up clarifications/dialogues - well before completely withdrawing it; which cannot be said for Kanu who up to a few days ago was openly threatening the law enforcement agents with death should they attempt to re-arrest him for blatantly flouting his bail conditions.

Clap for your self.
Know ye that am not in support of any region or group that perpetrate any form of evil. But ask yourself this questions:
The Govrment finds it easy to locate and arrest most of the cattle rustlers in the North but can't get the Fulani that kill and rape in Benue, Taraba and other south eastern parts of this countries, who is deceiving who? Would you call that communal clash? If you call it communal clash, How comes would the Fulani man say he is from the east and kill people with their farms.
It is Criminal for the Arewa youths to make such violent declaration in Kaduna that was why the Kaduna state Governor said he would arrest them, why didn't he? Who told him or what inform him to change his mind? Would you say that those ppl can't be fished out in the society?
Why didn't the peridency say anything?
There are several other cases where Christian girls are kidnapped and taking to the north where police men may not even have access and everyone know where they are located. If the reverse is the case and the South start taking young girls from your village to the south imaging what would happen.
This is simply a case where one finger is equal than the other. There is no how you will paint it that any one will accept that the south is not treated unjustly in this country.
Do you know that a survey was carried out and it was discovered that Nigeria is one of the most dangerous places to be a Christian? Can that be said of Muslim?
There are many things but hope you understand that am not in support of any unjust or evil elements in the society

Afam4eva:
Can you explain the emboldened.

It is like a rival you know borrowing your shirt to talk to your babe or let say you have a shop you sell shoes and someone is coming to advertise same kind of shoe that you sell in the same shop. you know its same kind of shoe bit the rival is bent at vilifying you in your shop so that the person can buy same shoe in your shop
Besides is Biafra a country?
isnt it illegal to sell the flag of a country not recognized by the international communities?
In as much as the police and government handled it wrongly I blame the so called Biafra s too

Dillusionist:
so it is wrong to sell BIAFRA flag in the south but not wrong to sell American flag ,Ghana flags,SA flag both in North and south? ?I smell hypocrisy

Is Biafra a country? and does it have any diplomatic ties with Nigeria? when mentioning countries whose flags are sold in Nigeria stop comparing them with entities or group of individuals that wish to be a country

Although it is wrong to sell Biafra flag in this country but the double standard of Nigerian Government towards those in the south and the North brings a lot to mind.
by allowing the Northern youth to roam the street after the ultimatum and the Police inability to arrest those that released the hate song make couple with the Fulani herdsmen that kills depending on their mood of the day makes one wonder if anybody that has a Hausa name can do what they like and go free.
One Nigeria will be treated as a statement of hypocrisy unless the Government start treating criminals as criminals in every area of this country

knowledgeable:
Yoruba way of thinking and logic sickens me I swear.

good guess but unfortunately you are wrong

dudebuck:
Bro, you dey talk rubbish, complete RUBBISH! You are not making any sense at all. Awusa people chasing us out of the zoo? BTW, did the brits contact your grandfather and say to him " come let us form a new country and he said yes? Well if they did, and your grandfather said yes, they did not do that to me or my grandfather, we never wanted to be part of this zoo in the first place. Go to the white man and lick his anus coupled with that of the awusa fulani. I am no part it.

The problem of the Igbo man is the Igbo man, The ultimatum to the Igbo's is supposed to serve as a good reason to start something but Igbo Elders went to beg. I mean beg. why I don't know.
Kanu would have gone very far with his pursuits but the division and the major drive in the east being money is the major sabotage, and that's how it will continue.
So I will pray with you that you get your heart desire but the better prayer should be how to keep it.
have a nice day, am just trying to drum some sense, cos my village is just about a kilometre from Nsuka, so when the worst becomes worst I can switch sides, I have nothing to loose with or with out Biafra. in fact I will gain more because my place will be the boarder.
Just make sure you are not leaving because you feel Nigeria is the Hausa man's property.

dudebuck:
We dont Give a rat's a55 about Hausa people.
The rest of your comment makes no sense at all. How is the need to be left alone be defeatist and cowardice? So it is best just to manage am so? I am sick and tired of the management. Travel even to small african countries and see for yourself okay?

I don't expect it to make sense to you. But maybe this may make sense to you:
instead of allowing Hausa chase you from Nigeria, why not chase them from Nigeria.
How sure are you that your new Union with the Niger Deltans wont scare you away from the Biafra that you intend to build.
let me tell you the Hausa's may be good with knives but the Niger Deltans are better with guns, you will tell me which is more dangerous.
my point is you will always have reasons to run away, if you start now because even the teeth and tongue quarrels but they settle, the only thing is don't allow your self to be cheated which the Igbo's are doing.
I tell you with this mentality, the Fulani will go and kill the Biafrans in their country and the leaders will want to avoid war by fronting for negotiations with Nigeria government.
I am not against anybody or people but I will maintain that Biafra is born out of the greedy intentions of some Igbo leaders and absolute cowardice of it followers

The better question should be why should Hausa stay in Nigeria?
Or let say who owns Nigeria and why should any body be denied been a part of the ownership of Nigeria.
I think Igbos Nursing the idea of Biafra is an expression of cowardice.
why should a father give his two sons a bed and mattress and one of the son will say give me a piece of the mattress and I will lie on the ground when the two have equal right to the bed?
why should one in any way have a kind of an upper hand?
My take is that Igbos are cowards that's why the Fulani will kill them and still be walking about freely in the east.
If the Igbos see reason to fight for their right in Nigeria that's when this country will be balanced.
Nigeria is derived from an English word Niger area, not an Hausa word and there are more Igbos that speaks English than Hausa, so why give up what you have serious stake on?

Am not going back to Egypt

This is what happens when they fail to give the necessary people their cuts.

there are illegal miners all over the country from plateau, to Nasarawa( na their own worst) kd to the Niger delta and nobody is talking.
Most construction companies in our country makes more money in illegal mining than what they make from their routine, who will talk to them none because they give cuts to the right ppl.

I will say it is not their fault but they took advantage of the corrupt tendency of the leaders and the citizens. those people where there since 2014, why now?
they did not sort the necessary people out

I won't be shocked if the President does what he said.

I think we won't need to ask who the real president is

to be continued

HAJIA BINTA FARUK’S CONVERSION STORY The Genesis of my conversion started in the University of Nsukka, i had a room mate called chinwe, this lady loved praises, she will sing like this; come and join me sing Halleluyah---- I was looking for a way to deal with her, one day while coming from the House fellowship, she kept her Bible on my bed and i said who kept the Bible on my Bed, she said sorry, Binta, i carried the Bible, i tore the Bible, then i beat her. She took a piece of the Bible and cried to the heavens, and called my name three times, Binta Jalingo, Binta Jalingo, Binta Jalingo, this Bible you tore, you will use it to preach the Gospel. Then i slapped her again, i said, it is your mother and your father that will preach the Gospel, she said, may the Lord have mercy on you, Binta. After seven years of the spoken words, i got converted, 25th September 1999, i was in the bedroom in
in shehu's palace, because i got married to the youger brother of shehu of Bornu,
I was born into the  Muri kingdom, which is mostly Fulani. My mother, Hajia Aminat Jalingo, is of the Kutep tribe. Contrary to the Islamic tradition of multiple wives, my father married  and maintained only my mother. I am the fifth of nine children. My father lived in many parts of Nigeria, serving in the Army till 1996. My mother also worked with the Nigerian Medical Corps until her retirement in 1992.

I attended the Army Children School, Ikeja Cantonment, Lagos, completed my secondary education at Government Girls’ College Enugu. I studied Mass Communication at the  University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). After my studies, in 1996, I worked as Programme Producer/Director with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Yola. I got married on April 27, 1997 and God blessed us with a set of twin boys – Hassan and Hussain.

I never believed that I needed salvation for whatever reason, because every Moslem is convinced that Muhammad was the last Prophet in the long line of those that Allah had sent before. The Islamic Hadith (Mishkat) speaks of about 124,000 people who lived at various times in history. Twenty-eight of them are mentioned by name and most are found in the Bible. Since each of them was sent with a word from Allah to warn the respective people not to practice idolatry, to live righteously and to consider the coming Day of Judgement, it is perceived by Moslems that Isa (Jesus), the one to whom is given the greatest prominence in the Qur’an, was like Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses) and most others sent to the Jews. Therefore, when I heard Christians call Him, Lord, I became mad at them.

As a young girl, in the secondary school, and even as an undergraduate, I would delightfully pack copies of the Holy Bible and take them to Kaduna  for destruction, I thought the Bible was demonic. Many are still doing it today, I became Vice President of the youth wing of the Jamaatu Nasril Islam. Very often, I saw Christians happy in every situation; yet, my success at school, which gave me the job at NTA, and brightened my chances of a good husband, could not bring me such peace and happiness, Several people had talked to me about  Christianity, but to me then, Muhammad was the final seal of the prophets. This was my pride as a Fulani girl who saw herself in the greatest religion of all time.

Qu’ran does not teach salvation in Jesus Christ, but it gives Him the greatest prominence. The wonderful statements in the Qu’ran are enough to compel one to search more about Him. The name Jesus (Isa)  occurs about 25 times in the Qu’ran, and the title Messiah is used 93 times.

I hated anything that had to do with Christianity. I was always happy seeing a Christian unhappy and enjoyed hearing that Christians were suffering, but on the 25th of September 1999, I was caught in a web. The day before, we attended the Friday prayers and all went well. At about 1:30a.m. suddenly, an unusually bright light appeared in the bedroom with a mighty wind blowing and throwing all the pictures and other valuables to the ground. My husband and I became afraid. He got up from bed, brought out charms, known in Hausa as “Hayaki”. He placed it on the ground, got hot charcoal and placed the charm on it, but the mighty wind threw it all down.

Before we could make out anything, a voice thundered, saying: “You have been baptized by the Holy Spirit. Go and be “Tabitha” unto my people”. I asked my husband if he could understand what the voice was saying, but he said that he did not hear any voice. He later concluded that I belonged to a secret cult, which accounted for my hearing voice that he could not hear. He thought that I wanted to sacrifice him or our set of twins. He got angry, took our twins to the guestroom  and abandoned me in the bedroom. I was very worried and couldn’t sleep. In the morning, again, I heard the voice saying: “Tell your husband that you have accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour”. I said “No, I can’t. What has a Fulani got to do with Jesus Christ”, I thought that demons were after me. The thing happened again on 28th and 29th, and each time, there was an invitation to “come and serve”. So I told my husband that I would go to Church the following Sunday. “Not in this house”, he retorted, He might have received my word with shock, yet joy and peace flooded my heart at that time. I knew what I was passing through and it would be disastrous for me not to do what God would want me to do for Him.

On Saturday, after speaking to him about it, I went ahead and bought for myself the first Bible I ever bought or read in my life, and hid it under my box. The next day, Sunday, I picked up my Bible, got into my car and drove to the nearby Baptist Church.

After the service, I came back and met my husband at home. I greeted him but he asked me where I was coming from; I wanted to lie, but heard a voice saying ‘what were you taught in the church today?’ It was “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” So, I told him that I was coming from the Church. He got up in anger, gave me a beating, snatched the Bible from me and wanted to tear it but I told him of the danger of tearing the Bible, so he stopped. He was shocked because he knew that it was my role in the past. So he dropped the Bible in anger and left till the evening. I brought out food for him as usual, but he kicked the food away and warned his sister that no one should eat the food I cooked in the house again for he had declared me an infidel and as a result, I would have nothing to do with the family, even with my own kids. The next day, he went to fetch my father from Makurdi. As I welcomed my father, he too, started beating me with his military belt and boots, until I was unconscious and was taken to the hospital where I stayed for three days. Wonderfully, on the third day, at about 2 a.m., the Lord appeared to me. I noticed a touch on my feet and I woke up trying to see who it was that touched me, but the face was shinning like the sun in such a way that I could not see his face. I only looked at Him from His feet to the chest. I was afraid and screamed for help. One of the nurses came, prayed with me and asked me not to be afraid again. As I said amen to her prayers, I began to speak in tongues for about three hours. I was saying things they could not understand. Some of them thought I was mad but a psychiatric doctor who was called in, confirmed that I was normal.

The figure appeared again. This time He said unto me, “Be bold, for this is temporary: you will overcome the temptation”. The fourth day, I was discharged from the hospital. On getting home, my husband gave me a divorce letter, which I collected with joy and told him. ‘I am married to Jesus.’

After that, I packed my things, including my two cars, kept them in someone’s house and travelled to Lagos. My husband took my twins to Saudi Arabia. Not done yet, my father had the man that I had kept my belongings in his house arrested on the grounds that he had abducted me from my husband’s house. On hearing that, I returned to Jalingo and arranged his release. Then, my father collected my cars and other belongings claiming that he bought them for me.

Kissing frogs could prevent theflu: study

Kissing a frog may not get you a prince — but it could help ward off the flu.

A compound found in the protective slime coating of Indian frogs has cured mice of fatal doses of the flu, and could potentially be turned into a remedy for people, a new study by Emory University researchers found.
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The amphibian’s mucus contains a peptide called urumin that targets H1 flu viruses, according to the findings published Tuesday in the journal Immunity.

H1 is one of the many subtypes of the influenza A virus, one of three strains that affect humans.

Researchers collected slime from 15 of the tennis- ball-sized frogs, a pecies discovered in southern India just two years ago, and found that urumin was nontoxic to human cells.

Flu subtypes H1 and H3 are currently circulating in the world, according to the World Health Organization.

Frogs naturally secrete slime to help protect them from bacteria and fungi.
https://acjgist..com/2017/04/kissing-frogs-could-prevent-theflu-study.html?m=1