₦airaland Forum

helinues:
Stop following Dem say Dem say... Where is the man in the sky located?

Remember your lawd and saviour AlCameroonie is also a muslim

Osagyefo98:
Na only teachers all these governors go employ throughout there 8 years in office.


Something is highly wrong with Nigeria. God save souls.


The only thing they knows how to do na to employ teachers, nothingelse.

MetaPhysical:
Please i dont want to see any more tales about executed criminals dumped at sea and bodies washed ashore. That never happened in Nigeria.

helinues:
Relax, take a cold beer..

Who gives a damn about religion? Where is the man in the sky located? Alpha centurion, Kepler 16 B or Andromeda galaxy?

You better open your 3rd eye and see how religion, government, politicians are scamming you together at the same time.

What a burden!

budaatum:
A Christian hypocrite is a person who turns not the other cheek and does what the devil would do instead.

helinues:
Only an extremist behave like the way you are taking the muslim/christian states wahala..

Btw, Wike is not someone to defend when its come to Christianity... Is that not hypocrisy?

helinues:
Are you an extremist?

Ladiesdoctor:
Nigeria: Church looted and demolished in Kano State
4 Mar 2008
This happened during the Shekarau Regime

A mob armed with machetes set fire to church buildings belonging to the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) in Giginyu, Kano State, before looting and dismantling the property on Wednesday 27 February 2008.

Between 11.30am and 12.30pm, the mob set the church office ablaze before dismantling the church's zinc roof tiles, entering the building, and looting or destroying its contents. The church bus was destroyed; chairs, musical instruments, ceiling fans, building blocks and two generators were removed and sold on the streets at minimum prices; and choir gowns were handed to street merchants who wore them in mockery, claiming to be bishops. One Christian woman was assaulted and her mobile phone was taken when she attempted to call for help. Others who sought to intervene were chased away by the machete-wielding assailants.

The building, which was based in police barracks, had been earmarked for demolition, supposedly to make way for a new hospital. However the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had received assurances from Kano state officials that there would be no demolition until an alternative site and compensation had been provided for the church.

As tensions rose in the area following the demolition announcement, the state government initially provided police protection for the church buildings. However, this was withdrawn immediately prior to the attack, despite a promise by the Kano State Governor that the premises would receive 24 hour protection.

The day after the attack, the Kano State Commissioner for Information, Barrister Haruna Isa Denden, informed the press that the government had averted a religious crisis, and on behalf of the government took responsibility for the demolition. He also falsely claimed that the church had declined an offer of a new site and compensation, and later alleged that compensation had already been paid.

Following strong protestations by CAN Kano, the state government agreed to meet CAN representatives on 3 or 4 March in order to compensate the church for its losses. However, in an atmosphere strained by rumours and tensions, on Sunday 2 March angry youths from ECWA severely assaulted CAN Kano's chairman, Anglican Bishop Zakka L Nyam, as he attended an open air service in Giginyu. The attack resulted from false rumours that the Bishop had taken no action to prevent the demolition of the church.

For several years the Kano State government has regularly ordered the demolition of churches. A team from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is visiting the area and has been informed that following the destruction of the ECWA church, churches in the Badawa area of Kano have been served with notice to vacate their premises. "We are experiencing Christianity with bitterness" commented one of the ECWA church's pastors.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide's Advocacy Director, Alexa Papadouris, said: "It is unacceptable that a church which has sought to cooperate with the local authorities on this forced relocation has been treated in such an appalling manner. We urge the Kano State government to fulfill its undertaking to provide adequate compensation for every loss sustained by this church and to urgently find the church a suitable alternative site. Our prayers are also with Bishop Zakka, and we hope that the poisonous atmosphere created by rumours and tensions which now divide the Christian community will soon dissipate."

Nigeria: Church looted and demolished in Kano State
4 Mar 2008
This happened during the Shekarau Regime

A mob armed with machetes set fire to church buildings belonging to the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) in Giginyu, Kano State, before looting and dismantling the property on Wednesday 27 February 2008.

Between 11.30am and 12.30pm, the mob set the church office ablaze before dismantling the church's zinc roof tiles, entering the building, and looting or destroying its contents. The church bus was destroyed; chairs, musical instruments, ceiling fans, building blocks and two generators were removed and sold on the streets at minimum prices; and choir gowns were handed to street merchants who wore them in mockery, claiming to be bishops. One Christian woman was assaulted and her mobile phone was taken when she attempted to call for help. Others who sought to intervene were chased away by the machete-wielding assailants.

The building, which was based in police barracks, had been earmarked for demolition, supposedly to make way for a new hospital. However the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had received assurances from Kano state officials that there would be no demolition until an alternative site and compensation had been provided for the church.

As tensions rose in the area following the demolition announcement, the state government initially provided police protection for the church buildings. However, this was withdrawn immediately prior to the attack, despite a promise by the Kano State Governor that the premises would receive 24 hour protection.

The day after the attack, the Kano State Commissioner for Information, Barrister Haruna Isa Denden, informed the press that the government had averted a religious crisis, and on behalf of the government took responsibility for the demolition. He also falsely claimed that the church had declined an offer of a new site and compensation, and later alleged that compensation had already been paid.

Following strong protestations by CAN Kano, the state government agreed to meet CAN representatives on 3 or 4 March in order to compensate the church for its losses. However, in an atmosphere strained by rumours and tensions, on Sunday 2 March angry youths from ECWA severely assaulted CAN Kano's chairman, Anglican Bishop Zakka L Nyam, as he attended an open air service in Giginyu. The attack resulted from false rumours that the Bishop had taken no action to prevent the demolition of the church.

For several years the Kano State government has regularly ordered the demolition of churches. A team from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is visiting the area and has been informed that following the destruction of the ECWA church, churches in the Badawa area of Kano have been served with notice to vacate their premises. "We are experiencing Christianity with bitterness" commented one of the ECWA church's pastors.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide's Advocacy Director, Alexa Papadouris, said: "It is unacceptable that a church which has sought to cooperate with the local authorities on this forced relocation has been treated in such an appalling manner. We urge the Kano State government to fulfill its undertaking to provide adequate compensation for every loss sustained by this church and to urgently find the church a suitable alternative site. Our prayers are also with Bishop Zakka, and we hope that the poisonous atmosphere created by rumours and tensions which now divide the Christian community will soon dissipate."

Ladiesdoctor:
Nigeria: Church looted and demolished in Kano State
4 Mar 2008
This happened during the Shekarau Regime

A mob armed with machetes set fire to church buildings belonging to the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) in Giginyu, Kano State, before looting and dismantling the property on Wednesday 27 February 2008.

Between 11.30am and 12.30pm, the mob set the church office ablaze before dismantling the church's zinc roof tiles, entering the building, and looting or destroying its contents. The church bus was destroyed; chairs, musical instruments, ceiling fans, building blocks and two generators were removed and sold on the streets at minimum prices; and choir gowns were handed to street merchants who wore them in mockery, claiming to be bishops. One Christian woman was assaulted and her mobile phone was taken when she attempted to call for help. Others who sought to intervene were chased away by the machete-wielding assailants.

The building, which was based in police barracks, had been earmarked for demolition, supposedly to make way for a new hospital. However the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had received assurances from Kano state officials that there would be no demolition until an alternative site and compensation had been provided for the church.

As tensions rose in the area following the demolition announcement, the state government initially provided police protection for the church buildings. However, this was withdrawn immediately prior to the attack, despite a promise by the Kano State Governor that the premises would receive 24 hour protection.

The day after the attack, the Kano State Commissioner for Information, Barrister Haruna Isa Denden, informed the press that the government had averted a religious crisis, and on behalf of the government took responsibility for the demolition. He also falsely claimed that the church had declined an offer of a new site and compensation, and later alleged that compensation had already been paid.

Following strong protestations by CAN Kano, the state government agreed to meet CAN representatives on 3 or 4 March in order to compensate the church for its losses. However, in an atmosphere strained by rumours and tensions, on Sunday 2 March angry youths from ECWA severely assaulted CAN Kano's chairman, Anglican Bishop Zakka L Nyam, as he attended an open air service in Giginyu. The attack resulted from false rumours that the Bishop had taken no action to prevent the demolition of the church.

For several years the Kano State government has regularly ordered the demolition of churches. A team from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is visiting the area and has been informed that following the destruction of the ECWA church, churches in the Badawa area of Kano have been served with notice to vacate their premises. "We are experiencing Christianity with bitterness" commented one of the ECWA church's pastors.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide's Advocacy Director, Alexa Papadouris, said: "It is unacceptable that a church which has sought to cooperate with the local authorities on this forced relocation has been treated in such an appalling manner. We urge the Kano State government to fulfill its undertaking to provide adequate compensation for every loss sustained by this church and to urgently find the church a suitable alternative site. Our prayers are also with Bishop Zakka, and we hope that the poisonous atmosphere created by rumours and tensions which now divide the Christian community will soon dissipate."

Viergeachar:
Na by force to be emir
Because I am sure an outsider cannot be foisted on them.

MetaPhysical:
. Das all you have for response?

You have been printing pages long of tales, each over two hundred words long....now you are reduced to just five simple words!

Terrible!!

Khan2013:
here we go, resorting to insults because you are losing the argument.
let me give an example that your little brain may probably understand, take saudi arabia thats operated and governed by sharia islamic law and compare it to kano.
have you ever heard thief get amputated in kano or a fornicator stoned to death.

Johnnyessence:
it's dead on arrival. it will never see the light of the day. the good people of southern kaduna will protest against it. elrufai is a religious fanatics. he and his mentor buhari will be defeated and rejected at the poll. the good people of southern kaduna will never votes for Apc.

MetaPhysical:
Go and read the accounts in daily times archive now.

Or ask people who were old enough they knew what happened during Buhari.

There were two types of people that face execution at bar beach. Armed robbers and coupists. When armed robbers are killed they are released to families waiting at the prison to receive the body.

When coupists are killed i dont know what they do with their bodies .....but no failed coup during Buhari so there were no soldiers executed at bar beach.

So go back to your false spin about bodies of executed criminals washing ashore...and swallow it!

teufelein:
No Longer At Ease In Southern Kaduna As Fulani Emirates Illegally Displace Ancient Chiefdoms...
~ Professor Moses Ochonu

El-Rufai's Fascist/Forceful Emiratization of the Adara people....

Why is Nasir El-Rufai trying to out-Buhari Buhari in the area of ethno-religious bigotry and supremacy? Over the vehement objections of the Adara people, he forcefully created and hastily gazetted a Fulani emirate of Kajuru on the lands of the Adara, essentially killing or at least villagizing the exalted chieftaincy institution of the Agom Adara.
According to the gazette, the Chiefdom of Adara would now be reduced to the chiefdom of Kachia, with the creation of a new ahistorical emirate of Kajuru.

When the Agom Adara, Dr. Galadima, echoing the sentiments of his people, protested, he was kidnapped and later murdered. Insinuations abound about why he was murdered even after the demanded ransom was paid.
Since then, the state government have been implementing the gazette forcefully while well-armed Fulani militias have sought to create a fait accompli on the ground by effectively cleansing the areas designated for the Kajuru emirate of the indigenous Adara people, ancestral claimants to the land.

These devastating and well coordinated raids barely elicit press statements or acknowledgements from the state government. As we speak thousands of Adara are in IDP camps.

When the Adara people attempted to fight back, El-Rufai went to all national media platforms and giddily, all but called for "revenge" Fulani attack by wickedly declaring its inevitability. He excitedly sensationalized an incident of Adara attack whose magnitude remains in dispute and which turned out to have occurred in retaliation for repeated raids by armed Fulani militia, a fact El-Rufai erased in his one-sided exploitation of the crisis to serve as justification for his campaign against Adara sovereignty.

All the leaders of the Adara people, including Engineer Bawa Magaji, arguably their most prominent leader, have been arrested and detained without charges for protesting the annexation and emiratization of their land.
Below I reproduce the desperate cry of the daughter of Engineer Bawa Magaji, whose father was arrested alongside other Adara leaders and chiefs.

"There is a government gazette that shows Adara Chiefdom was scrapped and replaced with Kajuru Emirate and Kachia Chiefdom. So Adara people were to fall under either one based on where you fall under.
It seemed however, as if the government had already started acting in line with the gazette as the traditional council that consisted of my father and other chiefs noticed a change in how information was passed along.

The village heads and other Hakimis suddenly seemed to be taking orders from elsewhere and not the Agom, even though the Late Agom Adara did not agree with the gazette and made it known where he stands.

A few months later he was kidnapped and subsequently murdered. When the Kaduna State Governor went to pay his condolence visit to the Chiefdom, my dad, who is the Waziri and therefore supposed to stand in for the Late Agom until a new one is installed made it known to the Governor that they had seen the gazette and do not agree to the new arrangement as that will mean Adara as a whole will be no more. Including our tradition and way of life.

After a while with no word from the State Government, my dad wrote a letter seeking for audience with the Governor so that issues will be discussed and an amicable settlement will be reached. Silence.
He wrote a follow up letter to the Governor still asking for audience so the issue will be sorted. He took a copy of that letter to Emir of Zazzau and copied some other people. Still silence.

In the meantime, the government were already dealing with the Adara Chiefdom as if the gazette had been implemented. My Father as the Waziri only got to hear that a Fulani man was to be Chief of Kachia. (For those who don’t get the implication, this means the Agom Adara is to be replaced with a Fulani man).

The Adara people, spear headed by my Father and other elders then took the matter to court. The first hearing of that case was a week before the elders were rounded up and locked in prison for the killing of Fulanis in Kajuru. The case is still in court.
Just thought to give a background on the Adara matter. I am not a lawyer and I don’t know much about implementing policies. But so do millions of other Nigerians. This is to call on those in government and those who are enlightened to look into this matter and let us know what should or should not have been done in this case.

I am a concerned Adara indigene and my name is Alheri Bawa Magaji."

MetaPhysical:

Guy small small abeg!

Stop spinning tales here. Those executed during Buharis period of military rule were drug dealers and he had a different approach to it. Any drug dealer convicted would be taken to his family house and executed and left there. The intent behind that was that family will begin to police their own members against crime, particularly illicit drugs.

MetaPhysical:
He should have been released to his people for his burial. You lied when you say its common practice to pour acid on corpse of condemned inmates. Thats not true.

Khan2013:
why did he do that? ??
Islamization ?
when did he say that?

D1zion:
you no dey read well abi na the last place your eyes carry you go.he said they were killed in the gallow that is hanged before conveyed to were they soldiers dug a shallow grave poured the acid on them before burying them.

alphaNomega:
I am surprised you are taking his word for it.

SadMemories:
Thank God Yoruba is not involved in Ibo's fuckery and � evil them go Don blame us for all their life's history miseries

barrydee:
You are so ignorant and naive! Ogoni land & Niger Delta will never support your Biafra agenda. Have you asked why ken saro-wiwa turned his back on Biafra?
In 1966 when the war broke out, saro-wiwa was in the Biafra army fighting against Nigeria until he saw that ojukwu had a hidden agenda against Niger delta if Biafra had won the war. Go to Port Harcourt you will find some roads & streets in Diobu named Ilaobuchi, Nanka, Ijemanze, Ikokwu, Ojoto etc all the houses in these streets/roads were forcefully collected from their Rivers state owners by Biafrans & their original names were changed & they were given Igbo names. Note that these houses were later reclaimed by their real owners after the civil war.
When the war was going on, Ken saro-wiwa asked Ojokwu to show him the map of Biafra and his plans for the Niger Delta region & it was @ that point he knew that ojukwu & his Biafra cohorts were only after the newly discovered oil in the region & they had no plans for the Niger Delta other than loot & forcefully collect their houses & resources & call us minorities.
Ken-Saro wiwa had to make a U-turn & choose the lesser evil even if it claimed his life some years later.
Mark my words Biafra is dead and gone for ever.

alphaNomega:
You can't expect him to remember all that after many years incarcerated. Heck even some details in his account should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Mandeyy:
You lack sense! Are Umahi and Obi the same surname? Stop saying what you don't know. Major Obi is not Gov. Umahi's brother. Major General Umahi is Gov. Umahi's brother, not Major Obi. Niger Deltans are their own enemies. Saro Wiwa supported Nigeria against Biafra. In the end, he reaped what he sowed. Under Biafra, Ogoni people wouldn't have been marginalized. He chose to dine with the devil. Even today, the major opposition to Jonathan's administration came from Niger Deltans such as Keyamo, Sagay, Amaechi, etc. Leave Igbos alone!

tyup:
shut up fool if he was actually acting on command must he kill him in such a barbaric way

did he even kill him in a reasonable manner? No after that he poured acid on him and your here tell me rubbish about C in C and out of C

Ipobs are nonsense sect of people quote me anywhere

Khan2013:
thing is i don't know what happened in south kaduna, they probably broke the law of the state, but had he elrufai said kaduna is an islamic state after sacking the traditional christian rulers and replacing them with fulani muslim ones as alleged then we can understand his motive and i will most definitely condenm him, just like I'll not give a f*ck just because wike demolished a mosque because i know you can't just build anything you want everywhere. even kwankwaso demolished many mosques here in kano