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Letter of advocacy in HAUSA


Zuwa ga sanita.

Ina chikin damuwa da dimauchewa gurin rubuta maka wannan wasika dangane da rikichin jos ,ta plato ,da kuma ire iren hakan a wasu jahohi.Ina sane da chewa wannan damuwan ba sabuwache ba ta dade tana tafiyar hawainiyya shekaru da dama,na kuma sani chewa akwai abubuwa a kasa .

Sai dai bazan iya jurewaba ina kallo ana kasha yara kanana da mata har ma zuriya gabaki daya wanda basu san hawa ba bare sauka ,don haka me gwamnati ke yi don maganche wannan fitinu.

Da ALLAH ina neman chikakken bayani yadda za a kare wannan bala’I da kuma maganche faruwar wannan rikiche rikiche,kuma mai gwamnatin kasa takeyi donin agazawa wannan jiha domin ta koma jihar zaman lafiya da aka santa da shi da chan.?

Daga karshe mutane nawane suka rasa rayukansu a rikichin January 17,2011 ,kuma wache irin gudummawa zan bayar a matsayina ta yar kasa.?

Na gode da ka dauki lokachi domin karanta wasikar da ta kunshi damuwowina.

Ina mai sauraron amsar wannan wasikar .

Naka

LETTER OF ADVOCACY IN YORUBA

Asofin wa owon,_____________

Mo ko iwe yi si yin nitoripe o je edun okan fun mi rogbodiyan ati laasigbo ti o nsele lowo bayi ni Jos, Ipinle Plateau ati awon ilu miran kaakiri ile Naijiria. Mo mo wipe gbogbo wahala yi ko sese bere l'oni koda kii se oro ana, mo tun mo wipe bi ko ba nidi obirin kii je Kumolu, sugbon se a wa maa ya'ju sile ki talubo ko si? Se a maa ya'ju sile ki omo tuntun jojolo di omo orukan, ki iyawo asesegbe di opo osan gangan, ki ile ola di ahoro lai gbe igbese kankan?

Asofin mi owon, agbalagba kii wa l'oja ki ori omo tuntun wo, e jowo kini ijoba apapo Naijiria nse lati ran awon atipo ija Jos lowo? Kini iranlowo ijoba fun awon ti won p'adanu dukia, ebi ati ara ninu idamu January 17, 2011? Bi oko o ba jinna, ila kii ko, mo fe mo bi emi na gegebi omo Naijiria se le kun yin lowo lori oro yi. Kini e nba Ololajulo Goodluck Jonathan so lori oro yi?

L'aye Abiodun la fi igba di owo, l'aye Aole la di adikale. Oba to je ti ilu pare oruko re ko nii pare laelae, eyi to je ti ilu toro oruko re ko nii pare boroboro.

E seun ti e fi aaye sile lati gba oro mi ye wo, mo nreti idahun yin.

Tiyin ni tooto,

lLETTER OF ADVOCACY IN IGBO


Ezigbo Onye Ome Iwu _______________________:


Ndeewo!


A na-m edere gi akwụkwọ ozi a n’ihi na obi na-alọ m mmiri gbasatara ọgba-aghara di na Jọs, Plateau Steeti ya na kwa ọgba-aghara ndi ọzọ dịka nke a na-adapụta site n’oge rue n’oge n’ime obodo ndị ọzọ na Naịjiria. O doro m anya na nsogbu a abụghị ihe ọhụrụ kama na ọ bụ nke mbido ya, malitere ke mgbe ọtụtụ afọ. A ma m nke ọma na enwere ọtụtụ ihe butere nsogbu a kama obi agaghị ekwe m I nọ nkịtị na-ele naanị n’anya na-amaghi ihe gọọmentị na-eme iji kwụsị ọgbatuhie a jọgburu udele ma sigbuo nkakwụ n’isi ebe ụmụ aka obodo anyị, ụmụ nwaanyị na ezi n’ụlọ di iche iche na-agabiga oke ihe mgbu a kwa ụbọchị. Biko kọwaara m ihe a na-eme ugbua iji hụ na enweghi mmadụ ọzọ aga-egbu na Jọs. Olee ihe ọchịchị obodo Naịjiria na-eme iji nyere ndi gbanahụrụ ọnwụ n’ọgba-aghara Jọs ma ndi ezi n’ụlọ ha so na ndi egburu na Janụwaarị 17 2011, aka? A chọkwara m I mata ihe m nwere ike ime dịka nwa afọ Naịjiria iji kwado mbọ niile I na-agba n’okwu a.


I meela n’iwepụta oge gụọ akwụkwọ ozi a . A na-m ele anya inweta azịza gi.


A bụ m,

Aha

Adịreesị

Obodo, Steet

Tsiya:
Is it late now?

No Tsiya, it isn't late.

February 2011 is  "Healing For Jos" - Email - Your - Senator -  Month    It's not my creation

Throughout the month of February, we ask every caring Nigerian to email your Senator, asking them to support the children and families in Jos and other cities of Nigeria where terror and trauma from random killings are happening.  Below is an online list of all of the Senators of Nigeria.  Simply  locate your state and select your senator.  The senator’s email address is on the upper left corner.  When you click the email button, a window will open.  You only need to enter your message in letter form to him.(Below is a Sample Advocacy Letter that you are welcome to use or revise as you see fit.)

http://www.nassnig.org/nass/Princ_officers.php?title_sur=Sen

We are thankful to each of you for taking this opportunity to do something to make the difference. We need every senator to receive one from residents of his state.Together, we shall help end violence in Nigeria.  We understand that this is not just the government who has to do the work to bring peace, it is also our responsibility too.

We have translated the letter already in Igbo and Yoruba, just Hausa still missing.

13volts:
busy right now but i will by 9am 2morow

Great! I thank you very very much for your efforts in advance.

regards

mmhh, come on! No one there?

Dear Hausa Nairalanders,
please I need someone who is fluently in writing Hausa to translate a simple letter from English to Hausa for me. We have phrased a letter which people will use to send to their senator of their state and also will use it with the march on 8th February in Abuja. We thinK it will be much better when the letter is multilingual.

The text of the letter is as follows:

Dear Senator _______________________:



I am writing because of my grave concern regarding the crisis in Jos,

Plateau State as well as similar sporadic violence in other cities of

Nigeria.  I am aware that this problem is not new but has been mounting

for many years.  I realize that there are many issues that effect this

problem but I also cannot continue to watch Nigerian children, women

and families face this kind of brutality without knowing what our

government is going to do to help resolve this horrific matter.  Please

explain to me what is being done to prevent more killings in Jos, Nigeria? 

What is our federal government doing to help the survivors of Jos in

Plateau State, who lost family members in the killing spree of January 17,

2011?  I would also like to know how can I as a Nigerian citizen support

your efforts.



Thank you for taking time to read my concerns.  I look forward to hearing

from you.



Sincerely,

Name

Address  ??

City, State



Thank you in advance!!!

joeyfire:
@Ajali - thanks. that article is a masterpiece though a bit depressing.

@joeyfire
you're welcome. Yes, you're right it is a masterpiece. It details a lot of information that truly helps to understand the troubles we face today. As I read it, my heart did ache for everyone involved. I pondered on how things transform into insanity so quickly. Could this had been avoided, yes but it would have taken us to address it long ago in the 1990s. Perhaps we really would be separate nations today had we done so.

joeyfire:
@Ajali - The article has been deleted

No, it's still there. it's a 13-sited document (PDF) and explains the causes en detail.
maybe it takes a moment for loading but you can try it also here.

[url]http://api.ning.com/files/JSNuhaQH*bXR-WZ78e*Jlxx6Mc2GJ*RvJKF1wiQlyjTu5Jsaxw9qcFbbSRVyHc8jWkS*EzZMh*gos1Zigas6eM-N2GPSJiCK/JosNigeria.pdf[/url]

Kilode?!:
I got the link below from one of Gbawe's links

Nairalanders and ghosting guests, Since you are already online, you can as well click that link check out your nearest location and go register to vote, take your friends and relatives with you.

Our future is on our hands, your vote counts that's why they snatch ballot boxes to disenfranchise you.

Help Nigeria, help yourself, register to vote if you live in Naija.

Unfortunately the Yar'adua/GEJ and the PDP National assembly pissed on a request and bill sponsored by Nigerians living abroad, they said they don't have enough money and time to organize a voting and registration process for Nigerians-Abroad!

Although tiny Guinea did same for their own citizens living abroad! Nigerians living abroad are expected to travel to Atlanta and DC to register for the new E-passport? But it's too expensive and too hard to get them to register and vote abroad?

Shine your eyes my people. Register, Vote and protect your votes!

Here is another link which seems to be easier and better.

http://reclaimnaija.net/cms/electionguide/pollingunits

thx @chxta for this link.

If I've counted right GEJ has already passed the mark of 1783 votes. Can someone confirm?

@Toaskarity

I think what always saves us from deeper crisises is hour strong export sector. German goods, cars,
agricultural equipment, medical equipment and other machines are welcome everywhere.

malabite:
Questions
1. For the Germans, how many tribes are in Germany?
2. For the African-Americans, how many tribes are in USA?
3. For the British, how many tribes are in the United Kingdom?

What concerns the origin the German people is a mixed one with Germanic, Celtic and Slavic components.
German main tribes are the Bavarians, the Saxonians, the Swabians, the Franconians, the Thuringians,
the Frisians, the Prussians.

Due to immigration it has changed more and more.
According to a study from 2006 40% of the under-forty-years-old, i.e. almost half of the German population
is not originally German. All in all approx. 200 different ethnics live in Germany.

Ochi_Agha:
And can you give us one good reason why Nigeria shouldn't split? Nigeria is a failure. Has much changed since the days of Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello or Nnamdi Azikiwe?

It is not Nigeria but the manner how the government of the passt decades has done, respectiely has not done its duty.

invisible!:
Hello, which planet did you just drop from? Just go straight to jos and access the situation there, then come back and ask your question again.

Do you want to tell that Jos is representative for whole Nigeria?

@mukina2

Thank you very much for your explanations. It is really very interesting and I like it very much.
I hope you will tell us more, soon.

oyinda.:
wow wonderful topic. this should be on the front page as already suggested.


@ajali - the deutsch lady,
what is the relationship like between the European countries?
what do Germans think of the greek, spanish, irish, swedish etc I would looove to know.

Very good questions oyinda and not easy to answer.

The relationship between the European countries is above all what it ever was - an economic community. We learnt
that this days no one can be successful in the world by just cooking its own soup. But also the thought that a "family member" is not to attack easily, played a big role. Since the foundation of the EU like we know it today in 1992 the EU member states work together with the aim of a European-wide space of freedom, security and law also in domestic policy and justice politics. By the common foreign affairs and security policy they also take care of a common appearance with third countries. The European Union has observer status in the G8, is a member in the G20 and represents her member states in WTO. Today the EU has 27 member states but only 16 states have the Euro as common currency. The European parlament takes care of the European law and that it is regarded by any member but any state has still his sovereignty.

what we Germans think of Greek, Spain and so on?. . . . Well we, the tax payers are moaning and complaining about the billions our gouvernment has paid and will pay to help this countries but deep inside we know that it is necessary to stabilize the Euro and to go on. . . . there is no way back and it is good as like it is. Any member is unique and has its own style and getting them to pull on one string is really not easy. But we will make it, no doubt.

buzugee:
we all are the same but let me break down how a man can evolve over thousands of years from a black man into a white man

1, gondwanaland splits
2, your side of it drifts into cold no-sun europe
3, no sun means no vitamin D
4,  no vitamin D means that your body cannot absorb phosphorus from food
5,  no phosphorus means your body cannot form phospholipids
6. no phospholipids means your lips get thinner and your butt gets smaller and your body gets less chubby and supple
7, cold air means that you need to conserve all the heat you have so your nose gets smaller in order to conserve heat
8,  no sun means your skin lightens and with time looses its ability to form melanin


but we are all the same. no such thing as race. just different variations of the same being

thank you buzugee. You said it all!


The race theory in which the humanity is divided into different races today is an outdated theory. The races have been distinguished primarily on physical signs like the skin colour and the hairs, also differences in the character and with abilities were factors. These views are outdated since the 1990s, because genetic investigations proved that the differences are substantially lower between the putative races than the variability within these populations and that there is nothing like races in biological sense.

In this case sage is right when he says that there can be more differences between two people of the same "race" as between two people of different "races".

sage:
But you cant do that if you want to engage in a factual discussion unless we just want to just waste our time engaging in fantasy and delusions. If we are going to tell the story of a place like North Africa we need to stick with facts.

The genetic markers of Europeans and Asians are NOT indiginous to the African continent.

White Berbers on the other hand are. Stop trying to suggest that white Berbers being indiginous to Africa is similar to Chinese or Europeans because it is factually incorrect

It is more correct to say that white Berbers are indiginous as Igbos or Yorubas are

Im tired of repeating myself so il just stop

Sorry, but this is not true.
Do you know about the international HAPMAP project?
A project about the genes of humans around the world in which
the university of Ibadan is a part of it?
99,9% of our genes we all have in common. Africans, Europeans, Asians, Americans, Australians, simply everybody on this earth and the remaining 0,1% are different because of climate, environment  and thereof resultant different living conditions.
And when we think of the fact that the cradle of Humankind lies in Africa what else should we expect?

@sunch

Thanks for your interest and your good questions.
Hmm, Jar-ma-ny? I think I like it.

It is right, Germany lies with the consumption of alcohol worldwide in the top flight - after Luxembourg, Ireland, Hungary and Czechia on place five. Germany has just 82 million inhabitants and about 1.5 million people are known as dependent on alcohol. As well as the French or the Italian likes to drink wine with the food, it is with the German the beer. But also champagne and wine is drunk with pleasure.
I think, the average German doesn't drink excessively alcohol and many, like me also, drink none. Is true, unfortunately, that those who drink alcohol  really constantly consume so much that they spoil the German alcohol statistics with it. 

However, with bad water this has definitely nothing close. Our water is the cleanest what one can imagine and stands under constant control. In Germany no one needs to buy water in bottles, here you can drink from every tap, no matter whether in the bath, the kitchen or somewhere else. This is valid for private households as well as for public facilities. Simply everywhere.

In Germany there are currently just 1/3 Protestants, 1/3 followers of the Roman-Catholic church and 1/3 people without denomination (not to equate with atheists!). The Catholics have their main focus in the south and the west of the country, the Protestants in the north. 3.5 million or 4.2% of the whole population are Muslims.

I think there are more of those excessive drinking people in the group of the Protestants and the people without denomination than with the Catholics even when the Bavaria State in the south has the most beer drinking people. So yes, there is an implication. Who still believes in the father and practise the religion seriously will not drink too much alcohol.
But like everywhere, there are also here exceptions.

Hey Nairalanders!

I am German, . . . Where shall I start from?

Well, Germany is a rag rug

Germany is a very heterogeneous country with very distinctive regional differences. Germany exists as a state just since end of the 19th century and is marked till this day federalistic. The regional variety - from the rough sea in the north, the hills, lakes and rivers in the middle up to the alpes in the south - has had in the course of the centuries a strong influence on the life-style of the people.
It is said that we are very punctual and reliable. We are very exact and sometimes picky what concerns the work.
We Germans drown in laws and sections. For every Poo there is a law or an order.

All the same where one stays in the world the likelyhood to meet a German, is quite high. Since the Germans are "world champions in travelling". The average German can't simply renounce the annual vacation.

Berlin, my hometown, is a federal state as well as capital of Germany at the same time. It gives not only enough culture and history to discover in Berlin, but also all kinds of culinary. In Berlin the curried sausage extremely popular in Germany was invented, a red sausage with red sauce and curry powder. Meanwhile the doner kebab (crisply roasted meat in the spit) has removed the curried sausage as the fast-food number one. Brought by Turkish immigrants at the middle of the 20th century, it is made more turnover with it than with Mc Donalds and Burger King together.

Berlin is not only a cradle of popular fast-food dishes, but also other lusciousness. A typically Berlin thing is the Kassler (smoked and in salt brine matured piece of pork backs) as well as pork knuckle (cooked knuckle of pork) with sauerkraut.

Christmas is the most important holiday of the year for Germans where the whole family comes together. On christmas eve we are going to church.
The "Christstollen" is a traditionally cake which is only baked for the christmas time.
The long form as well as the dusted with powdered sugar "Christstollen" is a kind of symbolization of the Jesus' child wound in nappies.
It is produced of flour, yeast, butter, milk, eggs, raisins, currants, candied lemon peel, candied orange peel, almonds and rum.

New Year
The end of the old year and the beginning of the new year is mostly celebrated with friends. One meets for fondue and practises lead-pouring to forecast the future. Around 0:00 one cheers with champagne, one wishes all the best and welcomes the new year by fireworks. One wishes for the new year „A good slide“ what, nevertheless, nothing has to do with the verb "slide", but comes from the Yiddish and means beginning.

Feel free to ask whatever you still want to know about Germany or Germans. It will be a pleasure to me to answer.

Do you really think there is still something like I am Nigerian, I am Danish, I am British, I am German, I am American or what ever in second life?
I just wonder!!!!

Before you want to judge, about someone or someone's life, put his shoes on and go his way, pass through the streets, mountains and valleys, feel the grief, experience the pain and the joys. . . . and only THEN you can judge. . . .

There is nothing like a black African gene.

Do you know about the international HAPMAP project?
A project about the genes of humans around the world in which
the university of Ibadan is a part of it?
99,9% of our genes we all have in common. Blacks, Whites, Yellows, Reds (to say it in colours)
and the remaining 0,1% are different because of climate and thereof resultant different living conditions.

extrovert

As if Nigerians ever trust to somebody.

And the poll is a joke!

At the beginning of colonisation there were different reasons for it
depending on about which of the European country we are talking.

If it is about the Spanish, one must say: they probably craved only for gold.
The Spanish royal family even asked for it to be able to pay his wars in Europe.

If it is about the Portuguese: they also craved for gold and money, but not to pay any war.

If it is about the Englishmen: They wanted to carry on commerce with their colonies, so that the motherland could register profits.

If it is about the Dutchmen: They take an interposition between the Englishmen and the Portuguese.

In general one might say: Causes for the colonisation of other continents by the Europeans were:
1) Profit striving (like still today )
2) better life (for some immigrants)
3) More political power and with it linked control of strategically important harbours and sea ways
4) later also: Protection of resources ( gold, silver, iron, but also natural produce like pipe sugar, cocoa and also "human product" (slave)
The aims of the colonisation were:
1) Production of a supremacy
2) Foreign trade with profit (profit-laden trade)
3) Later, above all by the end of 19. century: Proliferation of the putatively developed civilisation

cap28:
I agree with some of what you ve said but you need to understand that this so called

1) foreign aid is actually a racket run by western so called aid agencies in order to enrich the donor countries and the corrupt african heads of state who are also involved in this racket,


a country like nigeria does not need foreign aid as it generates enough revenue to sustain its development. You should try reading a book written by an american economist the book is called economic hitman, it details how america and europe use its finanancial institutions to bankrupt african nations by offering them loans it doesnt need, nations who refuse to go down this debt black hole end up being isolated by way of economic trade blockades. Stubborn or nationalistic leaders who refuse to get involved in this scam are assassinated or overthrown.

2) Foreign aid is a racket it is the west's new tool for perpetual enslavement of so called third world countries.

cap28, read my post again.

to 1)
Donor officials earn, especially abroad, plenty of money, and many of those who take the help in reception knows to use it to their personal interests.

to 2)
De facto this are , after the colonial period, the new "occupying powers".

We are on same mind just use different words.

Who says they have left Nigeria and Africa in general

Today it has only another name!

Severe poverty, huge dependencies. Wrong development aid hinders the development initiative in Africa.  The system must be reformed, urgently. Because people are educated to inefficiency - and the developed countries have made beggars of partners.

The development aid for Africa is a blessing for all those who are involved in directly on donor and on recipient side. Donor officials earn, especially abroad, plenty of money, and many of those who take the help in reception knows to use it to their personal interests.

The aid of the passed 50 years has failed to a great extent.

We have arrogated too much responsibility for solving Africas problems ( most  made by ourself) and people are "educated" in such a way that it is easy to understand when they call with an emerging problem foreign aid workers first before they ask themselves what they can do for its solution.

This awareness runs deep in African minds.  This self-incapacitation is one of the worst results of the previous cooperation. Wrong development aid has made the people dependent, they get accustomed to the status of the ongoing assistance and impedes the formation of self-initiative. This damage done to the mentalities of the people is far worse than the huge material losses caused by failed aid. Also on our site, awareness has fixed that first and foremost we are responsible to develop Africa.  This is wrong and a big mistake!
This mothering attitude that is widespread for decades in the third world circles of the North is contrary to the principle of subsidiarity, which requires that helping agencies, private or public, should not take over tasks that even can be done from the developing country.
What is lacking, is basic understanding and applied principles of clarity. Though, that the North can not develop the South and that every person and every company can only do it itself, is part of the inexpensive faith of donors, in practice however, it is hardly to recognise.
Another violation of the subsidiarity principle is applied in the existence of not only the huge national and international development agencies, from GTZ [/b]to [b]World Bank but also the myriad of small and large private organizations that cover the continent with their charity networks.

De facto this are , after the colonial period, the new "occupying powers".

What we do can not be development of others. Only endogenous development worthy the name, that what make people and societies by virtue of their spirit and their hands out of themselves. No one can be developed from outside.
When water lines and roads in Africa are built with aid - it stimulates and strengthens the efforts of the locals? Or could it be that the opposite is true: The more we do, the more likely it is that our partners sit back, because things are governed to their satisfaction by foreign assistance.
If billions of dollars flow in environmental, AIDS and other funds, that may be necessary, but it has nothing to do with development aid.
The aid goes passing by to people.
The development aid has promoted own efforts in Africa not enough, and often hindered, because the aid was too little subject-oriented  but too much object-oriented. Too often, not the human  but the project or program stood at the center. This behavior has put large parts of Africa in an undignified state. The huge worldwide network of aid agencies will not relieve them no matter how much money they will spend.
This will succeed only with Africans on their own.

   
mmhh,  as much as I try to understand you all, I will never get it.
I have really tried but. . . . .