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In discussions about the reward of hur al-ayn in Jannah, many people today engage from a place of confusion, misunderstanding, or exposure to popular culture rather than authentic Islamic sources. Islam is a religion built on knowledge, not mere claims. Anything that is attributed to our deen must stand on two legs: authentic textual evidence and sound scholarly explanation.

The concept of hur al-ayn is not something fabricated by storytellers. It is directly mentioned in the Qur'an many times. Allah says:
كَذَٰلِكَ وَزَوَّجْنَاهُم بِحُورٍ عِينٍ
"Thus will it be, and We will marry them to women of pure beauty, with large, lovely eyes".
Allah also says:
حُورٌ مَّقْصُورَاتٌ فِي ٱلْخِيَامِ
"They will be hur, sheltered in pavilions." And He says: وَحُورٌ عِينٌ كَأَمْثَالِ ٱللُّؤْلُؤِ ٱلْمَكْنُونِ
"And there will be hur with beautiful eyes, like preserved pearls".

These verses alone are enough to establish that the idea of special companions in Paradise is not a later fabrication. It is a Qur'anic description of the bliss of Jannah. Paradise is described in ways that human beings can understand, even though the true reality is far greater. The Prophet Peace upon him said: "In Paradise is what no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and has never occurred to the heart of any human.” (Sahih Muslim). This means that even the descriptions we hear are merely approximations to help us understand the greatness of what awaits the believers.

The specific number "72" appears in a hadith of the Prophet Peace upon him recorded by Imam tl-Tirmidhi, where he mentioned the reward of the martyr. The narration has been authenticated by scholars such as Al-Albani in Sahih al-Jaami. However, it is important to understand something very crucial: the focus of Islam is not the quantity but the quality of Paradise. The reward of Jannah is beyond human imagination. The food, the joy, the companionship, the peace, the absence of fatigue, sorrow, jealousy, and pain, these are the real core rewards. The companionship mentioned is only one part of the delight of Paradise, not the central focus of the believer, and not the reason Muslims worship their Lord.

More importantly, when people today argue, “Why 72? Why not less?” they forget the most essential truth: Jannah is not like the dunya. Human limitations, desires, fatigue, and biological needs, all of them change entirely. The pleasures of Jannah do not bring stress, jealousy, or tiredness.

Scholars like Ibn Al-Qayyim, An-Nawawi, and Ibn Katheer explained that rewards in the Hereafter are symbolic of ultimate delight, not indicators of worldly lust. The early Muslims never made fun of these descriptions or questioned them, because they understood that Allah does not promise anything vain. Ibn Taymiyyah said that the descriptions of Jannah are "from the matters of the unseen which must be accepted with humility, because the human mind cannot fully grasp their reality."

Beyond the scriptural evidence, there is also a logical dimension that many people miss. When Islam speaks about Paradise, it uses language and descriptions that humans can relate to. If Paradise were described in purely spiritual or abstract terms, no human would understand it. So Allah uses examples from life, gardens, rivers, companionship, peace, joy to give us a picture that our limited minds can grasp, even though the actual reality is far greater.

The question many people ask is: "Why 72? Why a number?" From a logical perspective, specifying a number is not strange. Allah mentions numbers in many acts of worship: five daily prayers, seven rounds in Tawaf, two rak'ahs of Fajr, thirty days of fasting in Ramadan, and so on. Numbers are simply a way of providing clarity, not an indication of obsession with quantity. The reward in Jannah is based on Divine generosity, not human desire. If Allah gives a number, it is because He chooses to, not because humans are "in need" of it. Paradise is a place of honor, not burden.

Another logical point: human beings in this world are limited by time, energy, biological needs, and emotional weaknesses. This is why people think of "72" from the perspective of dunya fatigue, jealousy, tiredness, drama, maintenance of relationships. But these limitations do not exist in Jannah.

Another logical explanation is that almost every religion or culture describes Paradise in terms familiar to its people. For example, some religious traditions describe Paradise as a place of spiritual light, others as a land of peace, others as a banquet. In Islam, the descriptions are balanced with spiritual, physical, emotional, and social because humans are made of body and soul. Describing physical joys does not belittle Paradise; it shows that Islam recognizes the fullness of human experience. However, Islam does not reduce Paradise to these joys. The Prophet Peace upon him made it clear that the greatest joy of all is seeing Allah, which will make every other blessing seem small.

There is also a logical answer to the question: "Why not fewer or more?" The truth is that the number is not the essence. What matters is that the reward is beyond imagination. If someone believes in the Qur'an and the Sunnah, then believing in the unseen is part of that faith. And if someone does not believe, then debating the number becomes irrelevant, because the foundation, belief in Revelation has not yet been addressed.

Finally, it is intellectually unfair for a person to mock something they have not studied. The early Muslims, who were more intelligent, pure-hearted, and knowledgeable than us, never questioned these rewards negatively. Instead, they focused on pleasing Allah and striving for Jannah. When a person today mocks these descriptions, it often shows that they are reacting emotionally or based on modern memes, not serious research. A sincere seeker must ask: "What was the intention behind these rewards? What deeper meaning do they carry? Why were they described this way?" When these questions are asked with humility, the answers become clear.

Paradise is not a worldly extension of human desire; it is a completely transformed existence. Its descriptions are not childish fantasies; they are metaphors of honor, purity, and limitless joy. And the number "72" is not a sign of fabrication; it is a specific gift mentioned in authentic sources, layered with wisdom that becomes clear when a person looks beyond the surface.

Anyone who truly reflects, studies the texts, and listens to scholars will find that Islam's teachings on the afterlife are coherent, logical, balanced, and deeply meaningful far removed from the shallow mockery that appears online.

May Allah open our hearts to truth, beautify our understanding, and make Jannah our final home. Ameen.

Abdulwahab Yusuf

ʿUmar said;

‘There is no person except that he has footsteps he will certainly reach, provision he will surely consume, an appointed time he will surely attain, and a death he will surely meet.

Even if a man were to flee from his provision, it would follow him until it reached him, just as death reaches the one who flees from it.’

- Shuʿab al-Īmān 2/412
Translated By: Salah al-Iranee

“The Truth Is Not Known by the Majority.”

(Based on Qur’ān Al-An'am 6:116 and the statements of the Salaf)

The people of innovation are numerous, and while they may boast about their numbers, Allāh said: 'Were you to obey most people, they would misguide you.' [6:116]

▫️[Marḥaban Yā Ṭālib Al-ʿIlm, p. 457]

KingTom:
The situation was very tense when I came in in 2014 and although it eased up in 2017 when I eventually left, the scars of the past were very much visible and it took some time for people to adjust

FGYB really tried when it comes to securing lives.and properties especially in Okene though there were security breaches here and there but it reduced drastically compared to what was obtainable before he assumed office

GrammarNazi1:
Everyone knows Elon Musk is a genius.

Other social media platforms should adopt this feature.

The social media space needs sanitation.

It will spare us from the menace of impostors who finish 15k worth of ogbono soup at a go

KingTom:
This is true, I was there when 6 to 6 curfew was imposed in Okene

In 2012, soldiers were killed and their guns were snatched away, it took the intervention of Late Alh. Ado Ibrahim (the then king) by reaching out to fP Goodluck Jonathan that halted military onslaught as a result of the incident

reccy is a native and resident he knows the incidents I have mentioned

In 2015 there was a confrontation between some extremists and soldiers that led to the demolition of the mosque built by the group, before then there were cases of robberies and kidnappings linked to terror cells within Kogi and neighboring states.

I have spend quite considerable number of time dispelling the distortions coming from those who are affected by extremism at personal risk and harm both offline and online for years

iamoyindamola:
Was about to post this

In 2015 DSS cell was jail broken by ISWAP cells in Kogi freeing inmates held for terror links some were later arrested but many are still at large. Also, the Owo incident was carried out by ISWAP cell, the Nyanya bombings of 2011 were carried out by same set of people.

raumdeuter:
Amoto.94 izzou and

What do you think about what Sheikh Gumi said

https://www.nairaland.com/8567412/90-iswap-terrorising-kogi-ondo

Accurate statistician and data analyst don get the whole data

He is correct about that

My fellow Nigerians,

You will recall that I cancelled my trip to the G20 summit in South Africa to enable me coordinate the security efforts at home.

Thanks to the efforts of our security forces over the last few days, all the 38 worshippers abducted in Eruku, Kwara State have been rescued.

I am equally happy that 51 out of the missing students of the Catholic School in Niger State, have been recovered.

I am closely monitoring the security situation nationwide and receiving continuous updates from the frontline.

Let me be clear: I will not relent.
Every Nigerian, in every state, has the right to safety - and under my watch, we will secure this nation and protect our people.

—Bola Ahmed Tinubu
President & Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
Federal Republic of Nigeria

From ash-Shafi'ee rahimahuLlaah who said:

"I left something in al-'Irāq called at-taghbeer (musical instrument) which was invented by the heretics to lure the people away from the Qur'an".

(Sahih, related by Abu Nu'aym in al-Hilyah (9/146)

Note: At-Taghbeer (it is hitting with sticks, it is an musical instrument what accompanies the musical composition of songs (Al-Istiqâmah) so as to divert people from listening to the Noble Qurân.”

[Ibn Al-Jawzi, in Talbees Ibless p. 257]

Violence always comes home

It was July of 2009 when daring and brutal attacks by Boko Haram terrorist group in Maiduguri made news headlines. I was a sophomore in the University then, and we learnt that it all started from a funeral procession by the group at a checkpoint in Gamboru Gala, Maiduguri. They were stopped by security operatives of the then Operation Flush meant to provide security to the state. The stop was largely routine but the group resisted (I admit that I may never be privy to the full details of what transpired there). Till date there are mixed accounts on who took the first shot between the group and security operatives, but the clash lead to the killíng of some of them and injuring others. The retaliation ordered by their leader lead to the brutal attacks on security installations and government structures in about 4 Northern states. This was the first phase of events to unfold.

The founder of the terrorist organisation, late Muhammad Yusuf, started his activity publicly much earlier in around 2002, renouncing western education as well as the constitution-inclined Nigerian Government. So he had 7 years to preach, recruit and even arm his group (much later) and little was done about them. To be fair, they didn't start with violence, but extremism always has one inevitable end point - violence. The tell tale signs of the group's degeneration into violent confrontations had always been there from the beginning. This was why scholars took it upon themselves to protect people from their misguidance and also warn the government to nip them in the bud. Videos of Sheikh Pantami engaging Muhammad Yusuf in a debate are still out there. Sheikh Ja'far Mahmud Adam and Sheikh Muhammad Auwal Albani Zaria were also among vocal voices to stem the tide of their misguidance spreading. Unfortunately, the latter duo were gruesomely murdéred by the terrorists in 2007 and 2014 respectively.

You will wonder what the government did about them all these while? While you will expect a more proactive response, they (State government) were in fact caught in bed with the group. Mind you, in the early days there was no violence attached to their preaching and it was then sometimes simply referred to as the Yusufiyya movement. In 2003, a certain Governor (and yeah I am being cautious in my choice of words for obvious reasons) made a pact with the group for electoral purposes. If they supported his campaign, he promised to support their cause in various ways, and they did support him. Some reports even show that a member of their group was appointed as a commissioner in his government.

You see, the Nothern elites are one of the biggest reason for the backwardness seen in the North. By Elites here I am largely referring to the politicians and their cronies. Their own style of politics is selfish and self-centered, and they stand the greatest beneficiaries of a large population largely impoverished for it makes it easy for them to perpetuate themselves in Northern politics even if all they do is sprinkle crumbs on the populace. All you have to do is romanticise the people's religious and ethnic sentiments and point at other people as their enemy and you appear like a saviour. I have seen this play out in other regions of the country but the North is the worst hit in my humble opinion. People will rather blame the president for the inactions of their Local Government Chairman or Governor. I will always argue that sentimental attachments are vulnerabilities that make people more prone to indoctrination than a lack of education will. Have we not seen people in the South East support the actions of the so called Unknown Gunmen and even the recently convicted leader of the IPOB group despite irrefutable evidence for masterminding violent crimes? Are they also uneducated? Humans will support evil if it suits their biases and people with violent inclinations find such people and manipulate them. The South West dodged a bullet in swiftly arresting the Igboho agitation, and it is not as if they weren't also bedeviled by sentiments (many did and probably still do support him), the government was swift in response and the south Western elites who seem a little bit more progressive in thought than the other regions supported the FG.

Now you see how this connects back to my story. At a time when the extreme inclinations of a group should have been nipped in the bud, a sitting Governor was in bed with them, using them as political henchmen, making promises even he knew he couldn't keep, only to discard them later. After the Gamboru incident and the ensuing violence across some Northern States, soldiers stepped in to quell the unrest leading to the eventual capture of their leader, Muhammad Yusuf. The soldiers then handed him over to the police who, perhaps out of pain for what he and his followers did to other security operatives, summarily executed him without a trial. Rumours had it that his killing had other undertones, such as to prevent the naming of collaborators, who to this day I believe exist!

The executiòn of Muhammad Yusuf captured in a video that was later circulated, allowed his then deputy, Abubakar Shekau, to assume leadership and create a formal terrorist group that saw themselves at war with the government, partly in retaliation for the killing of their leader, and establishing their extreme Islamic ideologies. This is how we got here!

This post is intended to be a means of education, but I wouldn't end it without making some salient points.

1. Violence almost always consumes first the supporters and sympathisers while the real architects typically are spared because they are usually cautious. While others support it out of sentiments, the main actors do so out of vested interests so they take measures to protect themselves. The then Governor we talked about in this post is still very much around and probably still politically relevant, while the group he once used to attain his political ambitions has metamorphosed into multiple-headed hydra that has eluded all efforts of the Federal Government to quell. Who paid the price the most? Innocent Northerners, a few of whom may have had some sentimental attachment to the group even if in ignorance. Who have suffered the most from the actions of Unknown Gunmen? South Easterners. Be careful when you support and justify violence merely from a sentimental standpoint so you jettison all inclination towards knowledge, wisdom and what is right.

2. Amalgamation of Nigeria was a mistake and the basis for it was purely economics with the British as the sole beneficiaries of that merger with no consideration for our differences. We have struggled since then to keep this fragile unity, but there is too much deception buried underneath. I have traveled through all the regions of this country and I can categorically state that each region is still heavy with ethnic bias against other regions and we see it play out all the time on social media. If we really want to see ourselves as Nigerians we must stop the pretense and embody it. That is why Muslims and Christians will be unfortunate victims of the Boko Haram onslaught but some persons, out of personal sentiments and vested interests, will want to frame this a genocide against a particular religion. A very ridiculous thing to even contemplate.

3. Online, we argue a lot based on ideals, but in the real world it is all about power and who wields it. You can be a terrorist today, but if you win, you might just be regarded as a hero. Don't believe me? Ahmad Al-Sharaa, the current president of Syria was once a leader of Al-Qaeda and a wanted global terrorist, but he eventually captured Syria and he currently aligns with the interest of certain foreign interests. He was recently welcomed with open arms in the Whitè house! My point? If you want to have principles, they should be based on real ideals, not sentiments, and not what the world thinks, because the world is hypocritical, and global politics isn't based on ideals but personal interests. People that support a genocide lack the moral justification to lecture us on what a genocide looks like!

Be careful what you support out of sentiments, it just might consume you!

Abu Imrān

I strongly condemn the deployment of U.S. troops to Nigeria. This move is a dangerous overreach, one that risks reopening the wounds of colonial-era imperial interventions on African soil. We cannot allow newfound interest in Nigeria’s internal political affairs to become a convenient pretext for military involvement—especially when that same urgency was nowhere to be found in Sudan or the DRC.

As reporting from the New York Times shows, U.S. aid cuts under President Trump claimed more Christian lives than any jihadist group ever has. You don’t stabilize Africa with missiles and military boots. You stabilize it with schools, clean water, economic opportunity, and genuine partnership.

The path to lasting peace in Nigeria must be built on dialogue, development, and dignity not domination. America should strive to be a partner in healing, not a hammer looking for a nail.

—Rep. Jacks

Pope Leo XIV, head of the Catholic Church, has pushed back claims that Christians are facing genocide in Nigeria, emphasising that the country’s violence affects Christians, Muslims, and other groups alike.

Read more: https://dailytrust.com/nigerias-violence-affects-christians-muslims-pope/?noamp=available

Documents obtained from the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) reveal that a coalition of pro-Biafra groups is behind the campaign of the ‘Christian genocide in Nigeria’, leading President Donald Trump to declare Nigeria a CPC.
https://guardian.ng/news/biafra-lobby-network-fuelling-christian-genocide-campaign-in-u-s/

*THE WAY OF THE BELIEVERS*

Ibn Shihāb (may ALLĀH have mercy on him) reports: 'Umar Ibn Abd Al-‘Azīz (may ALLĀH have mercy on him) said,

*"The Messenger of ALLĀH (ﷺ) and the authorities (leaders of the Muslims, the Caliphs ) after him set certain ways and practices. To follow those ways is to believe in ALLĀH's Book and to complete ˹ones˺ obedience of HIM, and to be strong upon the religion of ALLĀH. It is not for anyone to alter those ways or change them for something else, and it is not for anyone to consider the views and opinions of those who contradict them. Whoever follows what ˹the Prophet and his Caliphs˺ laid down will be guided, whoever seeks enlightenment through it will be enlightened. But whoever contradicts those ways and follows a way other than the way of the Believers, ALLĀH the Mighty and Majestic will leave him in the path he has chosen and land him in Jahannam (Hell); and what an evil destination that is.'"

*📚 Sharḥ Uṣūl I'tiqād Ahlus-Sunnah (1/94)*

In this statement, Caliph 'Umar ibn Abd Al-Azīz (may ALLĀH have mercy on him) affirms a number of important points related to the creed and methodology of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamā'ah – orthodox Islam:

1⃣. The path of guidance, the Sunnah, is what was laid down by the Prophet, as understood and implemented by the Rightly Guided Caliphs and Companions.

2⃣. For a person to truly believe in the Qur'ān, and to be guided, he must adhere to this Sunnah and to it alone.

3⃣. A Muslim is not allowed to innovate in the religion or exchange any part of it for foreign beliefs and ideologies.

4⃣. True enlightenment and insight lies in adhering to this way.

5⃣. A Muslim is not supposed to be interested in and expose himself to the views and opinions of people who go against the Sunnah and way of the Salaf.

6⃣. Going against this way is to follow *"a way other than the way of the Believers"* and take a path to Hell; a reference to al-Qur'ān (4:115) where this principle is evidenced.

A Demand for Accuracy, Not Scapegoats for a Crisis We Created By Gimba Kakanda

The only caution we must all preach in confronting the Frankenstein’s monster that Nigeria’s security crisis has become is the need to tone down the growing conspiracy theories that foreigners masterminded our descent into this chaos. We are not here because of some CIA or Mossad agenda. My point is not to deny that there are agendas designed to widen our divides. Rather, it is to reject the false comfort of outsourcing blame for a crisis whose roots were watered by our own history, our own choices, and our own unresolved grievances.

I say this not as an observer from the sidelines but as someone who has lived in the North all my life and watched its disintegration into an unrecognisable habitat. I lived in Jos for years during one of the most perilous periods to do so, and I saw up close how a wounded community can pass resentment from one generation to the next, each side convinced it is the eternal victim. I saw how a single narrative of injustice, left to fester, becomes a story parents pass to their children, and those children, when grown, retell as truth. That tragedy is the perfect metaphor for Nigeria’s ethno-religious and resource-based tensions today, misunderstandings born from the absence of justice and repeated until they become inherited memory. It is this pattern, not foreigners, that animates so much of the suspicion and hostility that now colours our daily interactions.

We did not get here by accident. Cracks in governance allowed small time criminals to evolve into threats that required military deployment. Those were cockroaches who once barely survived the attention of even a rural police post. So foreign actors did not light this fire. We did. They only took advantage of the fault lines we created over generations.

We may seem like a peculiar study for anthropologists, but there is no grievance we experience in Nigeria now that has not been experienced and managed elsewhere in even worse scales. Boko Haram did not emerge from a vacuum. It was an ideology left to fester until it was too late. Yet its earliest casualties included both the Muslim clerical establishment, political and traditional rulers, from the Sheikh Jaafar Mahmud Adam, down through Major General Mohammed Shuwa, to the Emir of Gwoza, Alhaji Idrissa Timta. All of them were assassinated by those we are expected to believe share a common faith with them.

So no, foreigners are not the masterminds of our dysfunction as a nation. We can resist their attempts to manipulate our narrative without crediting them with a chaos they did not create. The tragedy we face is one of our own making, and no politician, no matter how adored, is insulated from its consequences. The only true profiteers are those hiding in the forests and those who weaponise, finance, and launder money for them.

Our healing begins not with conspiracies but with confronting our own invention and whatever support that comes with it should be accepted. There is no world in which telling a distorted narrative of a crisis that consumes all as one against just one group is a sensible advocacy for solution. That is an invitation for a new layer of chaos.

She said the violence affects both Christians and Muslims, asking the Nigerian government to do more to protect its citizens.

https://www.channelstv.com/2025/11/20/alleged-christian-genocide-trumps-military-threat-to-nigeria-is-reckless-congresswoman/

reccy:
I don't think the Kwara case has anything to do with one religion trying to wipe others.

We have some lunatics looking for a way to destabilize and kidnap people for ransoms. For umpteenth time, these people are Fulani, yes but how people ascribe Fulani to mean Islam or ascribe religion undertone to their actions baffles me.

We can do well by calling the right authorities to take actions and go after these murderers instead of pitching it to one religion trying to erase the other.


It's a disheartening situation that, despite repeatedly attacks and volatile nature of Kwara state, these terrorists operates for more than 30 minutes with no form resistance from security agencies which left one wonders what the kind of security measures the Governments (both state and federal) being implemented.


It's a sad situation!

In Yauri, Kebbi State the Amir of MSSN was abducted and killed by the kidnappers. Yesterday in Zamfara over 64 were abducted guess their faith? Last year when they kidnapped CUSTEch in Kogi State and killed some of them they did so indiscriminately.

The problem we have is the fact that there's no quick response to intelligence report provided by members of communities and intelligence agency, the other day I learnt that a community reported suspicious movements of people in their community but the authorities failed to act on such reports until an attack happened

KEBBI SCHOOL KIDNAP: GOVERNOR FUMES OVER ALLEGED FAILURE TO ACT ON CREDIBLE INTELLIGENCE

Kebbi State Governor, Mohammed Nasir Idris, on Monday night fumed over what he described as failure to act on credible intelligence by the Department of State Services (DSS) that the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area, was under the threat of attack.

Suspected gunmen had in the wee hours of Monday attacked the school, reportedly shooting dead the vice principal and kidnapping 25 female students. Three of the students managed to escape.

A top security source told http://Pointblanknews.com that Governor Idris, who arrived at the school at about 6.45pm on Monday, accused unnamed security agencies of sabotaging security efforts made by his administration.

"This is clear sabotage. We got credible intelligence from the DSS (Department of State Services) that this school was likely to be attacked. DSS further advised that we convene an emergency Security Council meeting which we did. And the decision was that we would provide round-the-clock protection for the students," said the governor.

He said the he took the DSS report seriously, bearing in mind that the failure to dutifully use a similar intelligence led to the December 2020 kidnap of over 300 pupils of a school in Kankara, Katsina State.

The governor lamented that deployments were made to secure the school. The heavily-armed security men spent time taking photographs with the students, only to abandon them 30 minutes before the attack.

The governor, who was accompanied by security chiefs in the state, announced the setting up of a special investigation panel to unravel how, despite the DSS intelligence, and efforts by the state government, the kidnappers still struck. The panel, which will also oversee the safe return of the kidnapped students, further said the governor, would be headed by the State DSS director.

One of the teachers who managed to escape, told http://Pointblanknews.com
that, given the several armed uniformed men who were deployed to the school on Sunday, and who spent considerable time interfacing with the students and teachers, teaching them emergency drills, he was shocked at the sad turn of events.

"The heavily-armed security men spent the entire night guarding the school. Sadly, for yet-to-be determined reasons, they reportedly left the school before dawn. About 30 minutes after they withdrew, the kidnappers struck, abducting the students," offered the teacher.

"I believe it was the accuracy and credibility of the intelligence supplied by the DSS on the school that made Governor Idris appoint their director to head the special committee he set up.

"The good news is that there is sufficient reason to believe that the girls were kidnapped, not killed. With ongoing efforts by the federal and state governments, we are hopeful that they will all be rescued," he declared.

People like this Paystack co-founder, Ezra Olubi, are inventions of a pop-culture socialisation that suggests you cannot be a genius unless you are unconventional or deviate from established patterns of behaviour. This Hollywood-inspired mythologising of talent has shaped an unfortunate image of those who rise above the ordinary. Yet one can be a genius and still dress conventionally, a genius and subscribe to mainstream beliefs, a genius and uphold common values, a genius and remain mentally stable, a genius and have a conventional sexual orientation, a genius and maintain the grooming and hygiene of an everyday person. We must stop fetishising people of high intellect and rare skill.

The second danger we have enabled is the delusion that one can be anything simply by declaring it. This has encouraged all manner of misfits, from paedophiles to zoophiles, to parade their behavioural flaws as evidence of exceptional intelligence, ability or sense. These performative distortions are what we now celebrate, and a legion of gullible admirers eagerly applaud them.

This warped script is exactly why you have someone like Ezra becoming so self-absorbed that he refers to himself as a “god”, with a cluster of women, either battling low self-esteem or seeking favourable proximity, calling him so. But then again, what sort of god rushes to deactivate his social media accounts for fear of outrage and accountability? Gimba Kakanda

PRESS RELEASE: Angola reminds the world of Murtala Muhammed, Nigeria’s role in Africa’s emancipation

The people and government of Angola recently bestowed an award of honour and recognition on Nigeria’s late former Head of State, General Murtala Muhammed.

The award event which held over the weekend in the Country’s capital – Luanda, was part of activities marking the country’s 50th Independence Anniversary.

The awards event which also had two other Nigerians, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Minister of External Affairs, Professor Ibrahim Gambari honoured with awards, recognised the historic contributions of Nigeria to Angola’s liberation struggle and Nigeria’s enduring commitment to African solidarity. The Cable

afrodoc2:
Yeah. That’s correct.

Christian Gourcuff

Troops rescue 15 kidnapped victims in Kogi

By: Zagazola Makama

Joint security forces led by the Nigerian Army rescued 15 kidnapped victims from the forest hideout of their abductors in Ajaokuta and Itobe areas of Kogi State.

Zagazola Makama learnt that the operation was launched based on credible intelligence of the victims’ location, with the use of tear gas to dislodge the kidnappers.

Those rescued included Joe Stephen (35), Gift Alex, Samaila Mohamed, Sani Mahamud, Abbas Sani, Abdullahi Aminu, Ibrahim Gambo, Ishaku Ibrahim, and Muhammed Salisu.

The remaining six victims were responding to treatment in hospitals. Statements were obtained from the rescued individuals, and investigations have commenced.

In a separate rescue along the Ayere–Kabba road, Usman (m, Nasarawa State), Isah Idris (m, Niger State), and Morina William (f, Gombe State) were retrieved from a forest hideout after being abducted on 7 November.

afrodoc2:
Yeah, he was meant to take over from Kaka at Milan and be Zidane's replacement with France. He was like a mix of both, but at a slightly lower level.

His dad is also a coach

Ellexy:
David Hundeyin legit sew thread on X about how the CIA had a hand in Ezra's depravity.

There is definitely an element of truth in what he wrote

Someone who should have been in rehabilitation center for proper treatment is allowed to roam free