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The guy is not an opposition figure as touted by the OP he's an ethnic bigot who hates the Ebira people of Kogi. He spreads lies and misinformation to the public.
I would have ignored him if I were the governor like how Buhari ignored Fayose .

ItsMeAboki:
Different perspective and different opinions for the same thing - had the Fulanis not been nomadic there rights to these grazing lands would have been more clearer.

By your logic it's safe to say that the actions of Zionists in Palestine is justifiable.
I do dismiss people's claim of herdsmen clashes with farmers as a ploy to decimate the population of their hosts and change the demographics of affected areas as mere propaganda, but your submission is making me to have a rethink.

ItsMeAboki:
Live and let live; the Fulanis have long been making use of free virgin unsettled land, as nomadic herders, wherever they come across it throughout West Africa well before colonial days - and in this way they too have ancestral claims to these lands.

Your post reeks of land grabbing and intrusion. Nobody is against the herdsmen grazing peacefully but claiming the lands of others is a criminal act.

The herdsmen/farmers clashes are often blown over the top by leaders of both sides instead of choosing the path of reconciliation and justice, they chose the path of retaliation and injustice leading to more loss of lives and properties.
In Nigeria everything is politicised and truth is sacrificed on the altar of political correctness/incorrectness.
To solve the crisis modern farming practices must be employed alongside community policing involving both sides of the divide.

Honesty NOA and NDLEA should start a media campaign about the dangers of drug trafficking. This is a national embarrassment

This OP can lie sha.

Over the years, intelligence has shown that with the assistance of the North Koreans, the Syrian regime has been able to successfully install chemical warheads containing sarin into its arsenal of Scud missiles, and that it also had VX and other lethal biological weapons in its armory.
Then on August 21, 2013, Assad’s use of such weapons was demonstrated, when his troops used rockets containing the chemical agent sarin against Ghouta, a suburban area of Damascus. When the missiles exploded in a heavily built up area, hundreds of Syrian civilians died, all in a most horrific way, and it was at this point the world seemed to wake up to the atrocities being carried out by the Assad regime.
In response to world condemnation of the attack, the US and France headed a coalition of countries that were preparing to carry out airstrikes on Syria, in retaliation for the attack on Ghouta. And for a short while, it seemed that Assad might be about to pay the penalty for his crimes.
Then on September 9, 2013, with the coalition preparing to strike, US Secretary of State John Kerry while giving a press conference in London, alongside Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague, let loose what appeared to be an off-the-cuff flippant remark. He suggested that if President Bashar al-Assad was willing to give up his entire chemical weapons stock in the next week, handing them over to the international community, he could avoid a military strike on his country.
Then, to the complete surprise of Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov quickly called his bluff, and announced that Russia would encourage the Syrian President to turn over his entire stock of chemical weapons to international control, for a guarantee from the US administration that it would not bomb Syria.
The deal's support
Following this declaration, it was soon announced that the Syrian Arab Republic welcomed such a deal. And with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon adding his support to the proposal, Kerry had little choice but to hammer out an agreement. The deal allowed for Syria’s chemical weapons to be moved to a secure place to be destroyed, all under the watchful eye of UN observers.
Although Syria had dragged its feet over the handover of these weapons, it was finally announced in June 2014 that the Assad regime had at last finished surrendering its stockpile of hundreds of tons of chemical warfare agents, and that the disarmament operation was complete.
But during the destruction of these stockpiles, President Obama had issued a red line of warning, threatening military action should Assad not go forward with the full destruction of the WMDs, or should he carry out such an attack again. As part of that deal, American retaliation was still on the table, just to insure that Assad would not cross that line, and if he did so, American bombers would move in.
But there was a fatal flaw in the handover process, as although Syria’s stockpile of chemical agents had so-called been removed, suspicions remained that the Syrian military had not declared a large quantity of its stockpile to UN inspectors. And there was also the case of 12 former chemical weapons facilities having been left intact, under a compromise deal that was devised in July 2014.
Under this proposal, seven of these facilities would eventually be demolished, while the other five, all of which were said to be underground facilities, would be dismantled by the Syrian state at a later date, after further negotiations had taken place. Then at the point of their destruction, some means of verifying the demolition of these facilities would be put in place by the UN, which would be brought into effect at the time the destruction was announced.
But since that time, Assad has used chemical weapons on several occasions, blatantly crossing that red line set by the Obama administration, and got away with it on each occasion. With the US showing it had no appetite whatsoever to punish Assad, it had emboldened him to go on to commit ever more despicable crimes against humanity, like the recent attack on a rebel held town in Syria’s Idlib Province on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in which scores of civilians died including children.
The Idlib attack
As far as the 2017 attack on Idlib is concerned, the victims being treated were very pale, sweating, their pupils narrowed, and they were struggling to breathe, all of which are the classic signs of sarin poisoning. In the Western press, photographs of children in a state of shock are in abundance, many shown with respirator masks on their faces. But as far as showing the rows of corpses, lined along the rubble-strewn streets, or images of victims presenting the most severe symptoms being treated in hospital, many of them children, most have not been shown or have been blanked out, as the reportage has been carefully sanitized for fear of offending the Western readership.
So with this recent attack on Idlib Province having been carried out with weapons grade sarin, it proves that Syria is still in possession of chemical weapons. The question remains just how much of its military arsenal still contains biological compounds such as mustard gas, botulinum toxin, anthrax, and ricin, which were known to be in Syria’s possession at the time of the deal to erase them, and how many could still be brought into use in a war situation.
So when you consider that these weapons are in the hands of a very unstable dictator, who the West allows to carry out horrendous crimes against his people with no fear of reprisal. With this latest attack killing dozens of innocent civilians, and the fact that both the Russian and Iranian governments are standing by him, no matter what atrocity he carries out, how much further is Assad likely to go?
But what makes this whole situation even scarier, is the ease in which Assad’s troops are able to use these sick weapons against their own people, while the whole world looks on, and does nothing except throw the odd verbal condemnation. On top of this, with Assad knowing to back several terror groups; including Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, in the same way as Iran does, it would not be inconceivable for these weapons to eventually fall into their hands, as an ultimate act of revenge against his enemies.
Right now this attack has proved that Assad still has such insidious WMDs in his possession, and not only is he bold enough to use them, whatever the condemnation thrown at him by the world at large, he probably has these weapons in abundance, and will be willing to use them again and again.
The deal for destroying Syria’s chemical weapons came from a weak position on the part of Assad, plus a massive guff on the part of John Kerry, and a crafty move by the Russian’s to save their monstrous friend. But once Assad was back on his feet again, propped up by his similarly inhuman backers in the form of Russia and Syria, who are now on the ground in Syria fighting alongside him, his former arrogant style of leadership has fast returned. So in the same way that Assad had reneged on the use of chemical weapons, he would no doubt be setting up the factories to produce them again, in order to top up his diminishing supply, and so now is the time for Donald Trump to step up to the plate to prove his mettle.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2017/04/08/The-farce-over-red-lines-Assad-s-chemical-weapons-stockpile.html
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Samuel Pierre wrote: Romance Romantic Actual meaning: "In the Roman manner". One of the reasons why I like Anthropological Linguistics. Are you Romantic? What did the Romans believe about love?

Long overdue.

AbdelKabir:
I added where it was taken from *that was how it was sent to me*.....

Taken from Qurratu ayn pg 112-113(unpublished).

Qurratu ayn by who? Books may have the same name but different authors. Like Usool us-Sunnah of Imam al-Humaydee and Usool us-Sunnah of Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (radyallahu anhuma).

OP you failed to include the name of the writer otherwise all what you posted is true.

Amazing Admonition From Yunus Bin Ubayd to Those Complaining About Poverty and Hardship! Some of our associates narrated to me that a man came to Yunus bin Ubayd (d. 139H) and complained of the hardship he was going through in his livelihood and of his anxiety because of it. So he said (to him), "Would you be happy to give up your eyesight for a hundred thousand (dinars, dirhams)?" He said, "No." He said, "Then what about your hearing?" He said, "No." He said, "Then what about your tongue?" He said, "No." He said, "Then what about your aql (intellect)?" He said, "No, [not] for any wants, needs." Then he reminded him of the favours of Allaah upon him after which he, Yunus, said, "I see that you have hundreds of thousands of (dinars, dirhams) yet you are complaining of need! Al-Siyar of al-Dhahabi (6/292). And the meaning here is that since you have placed such monetary worth on your faculties granted to you by Allaah, then you can't be that destitute like what you are claiming, and in reality, Allaah's favours and bounties upon your are abundant by your own self-admission.

Ngozi123:
I see no problem with it. Why do you ask?

Pointing to a good deal

We shall get there in due course.
Full-scale diversification of our economy where manufacturing of goods and offering of services will earn us more funds than we spend is the way forward. Drum it to those who have ears.

jamace:
Well, it is your opinion. The people deserve what they got because the genuine workers allowed the beneficiaries of the corrupt system to cajole them into resisting the power of the executive. I'm happy Gov Bello did not yield to any intimidation, to stop the screening exercise. The saboteurs are agents of the old brigade planted to thwart, rubbish and disorganise the govt of Gov Yahaya Bello BUT God pass them.

As a person, I like honest and brave leaders and I see one in Gov Bello. Kogi people should give him a chance to do his bit. Posterity will judge. Thanks.

The majority of genuine civil servants are against the ghost workers from their opinions and they were even the ones who advised the governor to conduct the screening exercise in the first place. The saboteurs are those appointed by the current administration but for political reasons the governor has refused to sack some of them to serve as deterrent to others.
My problem with people in government is that they don't like taking responsibility for their action instead they put the blame on others. Those appointed by the government did a terrible job and made of mess the screening exercise but the civil servants who are victims are to be blamed for government misdeeds.
Kogi is one of the most corrupt and underdeveloped state in the country no doubt but the government made mistakes in their quest to salvage the situation admit this and we are on the same page.

jamace:
I dont think I'm wrong bro. The first chairman nominated by Gov Bello had within a month completed the first phase of the screening but the civil servants kicked against this initial screening with reason that the chairman was going to sack all the workers. The workers cried to Gov Bello to change him and Bello sacked the first chairman. The workers now suggested another chairman to Gov Bello and Bello accepted the man. Unfortunately for Bello, the man was a disaster as the report he produced has more workers than Gov Bello inherited from previous administration. Gov Bello rejected the report and nominated another chairman, who produced what looked like a better screening report.

Still, some of the screened out personnel cried fowl. Gov Bello being a listening gov now brought in a neutral screening committee from the Administrative Staff College Of Nigeria (ASCON) to screen those who were not satisfied with the outcome of the 3rd screening committee. Like crooks who never accept the truth, those civil servants already genuinely screened out reappeared thereby causing confusion for the external screening team, hence the delay in completing the screening. Ghost workers, certificate forgers, diaspora workers, and those collecting multiple salaries abound. In fact, some inherited the certificate of their late families and enrolled to continue from where they stopped. Fictitious names used to syphon state funds were surplus. What about those workers with secondary school certificate and earning salaries of grade level 13 staff? What about over-aged workers who do affidavit/declaration of age to perpetually remain in service? Is it the pension office where some people were still collecting the pensions of late pensioners? So many anomalies were discovered during the screening.

In short, the screening exercise is prolonged by the civil servants who never wanted the screening to succeed as they did everything possible to ensure the screening failed just like they did to previous govts, but Gov Bello stood his ground that the screening must be done. I feel that Gov Bello made a fatal mistake by listening to the workers and sacking the first chairman who was already doing a good job. Gov Bello allowed crooks to nominate a chairman who was as corrupt as the civil servants, how do you think a good report will be produced?

Finally, I commend Gov Bello for being resolute and ensuring the screening is done. The corruption in Kogi state civil service is alarming, that no development could take place. I praise Gov Bello for the present development taking place in Kogi state.

Guy I'm from Kogi and live in the state and I'm telling you categorically that the first screening exercise was a sham likewise the subsequent one. What happened to civil servants who were cleared but received nothing for more than a year whereas those who were not cleared were receiving salaries? What about some pensioners who were cleared but received nothing but some of their colleagues who were not cleared but received their pensions?
Blaming the civil servants for the errors committed by the executive arm of the government is adding salt to injury.
The saboteurs are part and parcel of this administration I believe you're close to the government tell them to explain to us how comes some files was damaged using tap water inside Lugard house?

jamace:
The civil servants caused the delay. They rejected the person nominated by the gov to chair the screening committee. Can you imagine that?

You're wrong sir the screening committee members messed things up this is the third time the committee has been reconstituted but no success yet. We are waiting till the 3rd week of this month according to the government

olrotimi:
Baba that your bill would be dead on arrival. Even for the Kano wey you dey, your own Islamic clerics would rise up against you and tell you that it's unislamic and all sorts.
Good thinking though. One day northern Nigeria would be liberated from the shackles and retrogressive ideologies tied to Islam. They have dragged southern Nigeria backwards for too long in the spirit of one naijeriya and federal character.

How liberated are your southern kinsmen who swallow cocaine and commit advance fee fraud? In Colombia drug lords are practicing Christians and they kill at will how have Christianity liberated them? What about Calabar and Uyo where kids are killed for wizardry (which they're not) by Christians and it took the intervention of a Danish woman to save one of them? Some of you southerners are educated illiterates and hate filled bigot who come online to speak about that which you have no knowledge of. Islam isn't anti progress

jamace:
Most people here just comment on Kogi state based on what they hear. Sadly, most of the comments ridiculing Gov Bello are actually coming from those who have been ruining and retarding the progress of the state. I challenge those criticising Bello to go to Kogi State and see the transformation going on there.

Kogi people are so used to corruption, particularly the civil servants that Gov Bello's efforts at sanitising the state is a deviation from the norm hence their propaganda against the young dynamic governor.

It is already getting clearer who actually meant well for the state, Gov Bello or the civil servants backed by their political thugs.

I agree with you partially but the screening exercise is taking long than usual. People are dying and Kogi is a civil servants state and you know the economic impact of nonpayment of workers salaries can cause.

Joavid:
yeah yeah...Yahaya is a clown.


is Fayose your governor any better?
abi stomach infrastructure is development?

remove the dirt in your eye first.

My sister avor help me tell the shameless hypocrites.

Reciting Qur’an in a Phonetic Form

Question:

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

Is it allowed to recite the Quran in a phonetic form?

وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته

Shaikh Waleed Boghdady:

No, this is not allowed. You are not allowed to read or write the Quran in English. You have to learn Arabic in order to read or write the Quran because transliteration is not allowed. This is a link of a fatwa of Shaikh Ibn Baz prohibiting this;
http://www.binbaz.org.sa/noor/2490

The Shaikh stated that this is strictly prohibited. There are several letters in Arabic which cannot be transliterated or if you transliterate them it might give a different meaning.
For example the word “الضالين”,  in surah Al-Fatiha, if you write it “Ad-daleen”: It gives another meaning because it will be pronounced: الدالين
Another example: ذلك الكتاب usually transliterated as: Thalika Al Kitab, but If you read it you will say: ثلك

This is the link of a book named, “Prohibition of Writing the Quran with Non Arabic Letters” published by the Saudi Minister of Dawaa.
https://old.uqu.edu.sa/page/ar/84814

The book explains that transliteration opens the door to deviation of the Quran and anyone can write the words as he wishes.

The book also highlighted very important issues, such as, the non Arabic speakers are not encouraged to learn Arabic. I noticed that many Salafi sisters reverted to Islam many years ago and they still cannot read or speak Arabic.

smq002

http://www.muslims-qa.com/reciting-quran-in-a-phonetic-form/

ademusiwa3r:
What is kogi state doing with Sokoto.

Kogi state is division 2.. is west
Sokoto state is division . Is North
Kogi and Kwara use to be together. What newspaper have been written are not correct
If cross river Niger from Jebba and lokoja


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CEs7Vf3pig

He attended a function there

Ikwokrikwo:
This Bello has Yoruba muslim blood in him.
He is Fulani asslīcker

The same applies to all Nigerian Governors.

greatgod2012:
I really pity Kogi people for having this man as their governor!

You deserved to be pitied ahead of Kogites.

What is the best way for women to give da’wah? – Shaykh al-Albaani
[40] Question: What is the best way for women to give da’wah?
Answer: I say to the women: “Remain in your homes.” [Surah Ahzaab: 33]
And you should not concern yourselves with da’wah. I reject the use of the word “da’wah” amongst the male youth by them making it seem like they are from the people of da’wah – as if the word da’wah has become the fashion of modern times. So every individual that knows something about the Religion becomes a Da’ee (caller to Islaam)! And this matter did not stop with the male youth until it was carried over to the female youth and housewives. And in many instances, they have begun to turn away from fulfilling the obligations of their households and their husbands and their children, turning away from these obligations towards something that is not obligatory upon them, such as establishing the da’wah.
The general rule concerning the woman is that she is to stay in her home. And it has not been legislated for her to leave it unless she has a dire need. This is based on the statement of the Prophet,sallAll
aahu ‘alayhi wa sallam: “And (praying in) their homes is better for them”, i.e. than the (congregational) prayer in the masjid.”
Today we see a prevalent phenomenon amongst the women in that they go out often to the masjids in order to pray the congregational prayer, not to mention the Jumu’ah prayer. In spite of this, their homes are better for them – unless there is a masjid in which the Imaam is a scholar who teaches those attending some aspects from the sciences of the Religion. So in this case, the woman could go out to pray in the masjid in order to listen to the knowledge. There is nothing preventing her from that. As for the woman preoccupying herself with the da’wah (!), then let her sit in her home and read from the books that her husband or brother or other male relatives provide for her.
Furthermore, there is nothing preventing her from setting a day in which she calls the women to come to her house or she goes out to attend the house of one of them. That is better than a group of women going out (to her). One woman going out to a group of women is better for them than all of them going out to her. As for her moving about and traveling, perhaps traveling without a mahram, and she justifies that by claiming that she went out for the purpose of da’wah, then these are from the presentday innovations. And I do not specify the women only with that, rather, even some of the male youth speak excessively about the da’wah and yet they have very little knowledge.
[Al-Asaalah, Issue #19]
Fataawaa of Shaikh Al-Albaanee (rahimahullaah)
From Al-Asaalah Magazine Issues 1-21, Translated and Arranged by: Isma’eel Alarcon

Kogi Governor Hailed For Settling FADAMA Backlog

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has been hailed for settling the over N55 million FADAMA owed by the last administration of Governor Idris Wada.

Coordinator of the Kogi State Project (SPC), Mr. Paul Ogunmola, gave the praise at the opening of a two-day media visit to the FADAMA III Additional Financing (AF) sub-project sites.

He explained that Bello also settled the 2016 counterpart funding, which qualified Kogi for the final slate, before any possible review and extension of the programme by the World Bank.

“We appreciate Governor Yahaya Bello for paying the backlog of counterpart funding, which was last paid in 2014, and has continued to do so with over N55 million yearly,” Ogunmola noted.

http://onlinenewsplash..com/2017/04/kogi-governor-hailed-for-settling.html

vedaxcool:
And the youths aspire to be leaders with such mumurity?

Enebeni ah weak for them O. Our Governor is still struggling to complete screening exercise for more than a year now and they want him to help Debbie Beans clinch bbn price? Wallahi their mumu no get part two.

Good move to alleviate the suffering of the masses in the short-term as for the way forward full-scale diversification of our economy is the only way out which will take nothing less than 20years for it to take shape properly.

Imaam Ahmad bin Hanbal (d.241H)- rahimahullaah – said:
“All praise is for Allaah who, in every age and intervals between the Prophets, raises up a group from the People of Knowledge, who call the misguided to guidance, patiently bearing ill treatment and harm. With the Book of Allaah they give life to the dead, and by Allaah’s Light they give sight to the blind. How many a person killed by Iblees (the Devil) have they revived. How many people astray and wandering have they guided. How beautiful their effect has been upon the people, and how vile people have been towards them. They expel from the Book of Allaah the alterations of those going beyond bounds, the false claims of the liars and the false interpretations of the ignorant ones – those who uphold die banner of innovation and let loose the trials and discords; who differ about the Book, oppose the Book, and agree upon opposing the Book. They speak about Allaah and His Book without knowledge, argue about what is ambiguous in the Book, and deceive the ignorant masses with such ambiguities. We seek refuge in Allaah from the trials of the misguided ones.”

Fear North. But why do Northerners always drag our name in the mud? Say no to bigotry Nigerians

Nafizzey:
@bolded are you saying it is OK to fix my money into bank to get interest and then invest the accrued interest into charity course? Is it cool??

I don't know because I'm not an alim.