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And it has degenerated to ethnic bashing.Nairaland never dissappoints

Beans and ripe plantain porridge

Is there anything like 'nigerian' culture?

spikedcylinder:
I need to clarify something about Maryam though. She was married with 2 kids before IBB, right? What happened to the kids?

Ask the character @hollandis.I think he knows because he mentioned something about it.

stillwater:
If the boy was now famous for something good, the socalled elders and youth of his village won't remember he schooled abroad o.

na so we dey see am

SEFAGO:
U must be kidding, throwing the name tribalist around like mekusxxx- well no, I am actually crazier than that, I am a pan-africanist, in my own opinion tribe and religion should be discarded and everyone should speak only one language Yoruba

I dont hate any tribe mate, I am in white mans land every black person is my friend

Your sig suggests otherwise.

Sefago are you a tribalist?

SEFAGO:
Doesn't really matter. Infact, that is probably why he did this. He likely came in contact with these terrorist when in london. They have a huge presence in london, and his extremist views were fed by his stay in Europe.

Agreed that in london there are breeding grounds for terrorists,it does not cut it for me by blaming it on 'foreign education'.Those guys that attacked christians in northern nigeria when a cartoon of Mohhamed was drawn in denmark,mainstatine guys and boko haram peeps are terrorists in the true definition of the word and these guys i seriously doubt if they had 'foreign educatio'.All they need is to step up their game to be identified as suicide bombers

Mariory:
Wait a minute! Where in that article did they blame WESTERN education. The only thing I saw was FOREIGN education. We already know he spent time in Yemen and Egypt.

He schooled in UCL london.That means it is western education.If he schooled in Yemen and Egypt then let us assume it is Islamic education in which hausa moslems prefer.Those maistainstine and boko haramites are they not adherents to islamic education?

I thought someone in this nairaland once said that western education is needed to stop islamic radicalism in nigeria?

Nigeria bomber's home town blames foreign schooling
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FUNTUA, Nigeria (Reuters) – For residents in his home town, it was Umar Abdulmutallab's foreign education, not his roots in Muslim northern Nigeria, that radicalized him and led him to try to blow up a U.S. passenger plane.

The 23-year-old London-educated Nigerian was charged on Saturday in the United States with trying to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas Day with almost 300 people on board.

The son of a highly respected banker, Abdulmutallab's actions shocked Nigeria's wealthy elite and residents in his family's predominantly Muslim northern hometown of Funtua.

"Everyone knew the Mutallabs and the father is honest, generous, helpful and above all a prominent banker. I cannot see why his son should be involved in this act," Funtua resident Ibrahim Bello, 65, said, close to the Mutallab family home.

Like other elders from the community, Bello said Abdulmutallab's schooling abroad meant he had been brought up outside the customs of northern Nigeria, a region with a history of moderate Sufi Islam.

"My only advice to the elite is to allow their children to mingle with the children of the masses so that he will have some of the traditional morals and values that (the elder) Mutallab himself enjoyed," Bello told Reuters.

Behind him, a group of elderly men were listening to the local Hausa language services of the BBC and Voice of America radio stations, eager to hear the latest developments.

FOREIGN SCHOOLING

Abdulmutallab is from a privileged background in Africa's most populous nation, where most of an estimated 140 million people live on under $2 a day.

His father, Umaru Mutallab, retired earlier this month as chairman of First Bank, the country's oldest, after a distinguished career in finance.

Like many children from rich Nigerian homes, Abdulmutallab spent his formative years abroad. Information Minister Dora Akunyili said he had been living outside Nigeria "for a while" and only returned on the eve of the attack.

"We were shocked when we heard a report from one of the international radio stations that the son of Mutallab is involved in an act of terrorism in the United States," said Ahmed Ibrahim, one of Abdulmutallab's contemporaries.

"But many of us did not know the children of the Mutallabs because they did not grow up here in Funtua," he said, sipping Coca-Cola under the shade of a tree.

The Mutallab home in Funtua, more than 250 km (155 miles) north of the capital Abuja, is a single-story brown and white building behind big gates, larger than surrounding houses but not ostentatious.

Abdulmutallab was educated at the British School in Lome, Togo -- a boarding school mostly serving expatriates and students from around West Africa -- before studying engineering at University College London (UCL), where he is believed to have lived in a multi-million dollar city-center apartment.

One friend who knew him in London said he kept himself to himself and always wore a skullcap, rare among young Nigerian Muslims who usually wear such caps only on religious occasions.

Nigeria's This Day newspaper said he had been given the nickname "Alfa" -- a local term for an Islamic scholar -- while at school in Togo, for his preaching to other students.

He also made two trips to Yemen during his student days for short Arabic and Islamic courses, according to a family friend.

PRECEDENTS

If Abdulmutallab was radicalized outside Nigeria as many of his compatriots believe, his case would have precedents.

Ahmed Saeed Omar Sheikh, or Sheikh Omar, who was sentenced to death in Pakistan in 2002 for the killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl and suspected of links to the September 11, 2001 attacks, came from a similarly privileged background.

Born in Britain in the early 1970s, Omar was the son of a wholesale clothes merchant from Wanstead in northeast London who went to an expensive school but dropped out of one of Britain's top universities, the London School of Economics.

Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north has seen bouts of religious unrest. But while some Western diplomats have expressed concern that its huge population and widespread poverty could attract foreign Islamic extremists, there has been no conclusive evidence of such a presence in the country.

Clashes between security forces and a radical Islamic sect called Boko Haram -- which wanted a wider adoption of sharia (Islamic law) -- killed hundreds of people in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in July.

But Islamic jurisprudence in Nigeria is based on the moderate Maliki school of Sunni Islam and Boko Haram's ideology is dismissed by the country's Muslim leaders and most believers.

Young Muslims who grew up in Funtua insist it was Abdulmutallab's life overseas, which they view as alien, not Nigerian Islam that gave rise to his extremist views.

"We the children of the masses in this country, we don't know anything about terrorism because our parents are poor. They don't have the money to take us abroad," said 25-year old student and Funtua resident Usman Mati.

(Writing by Nick Tattersall; editing by Robin Pomeroy)

Och77:
I still feel that the Babangida's made us strong, they thought us not to depend on government. Real self reliance. At least an average Nigerian can survive anywhere in the world now. What a hard way to learn. RIP

Who be this wey dey missappropriate yarns  

Nna sagamite u wicked oo

But i fear saharareporters.Those guys reported something similar this sometime ago but guys dismissed it.

My question is did she die yesterday or has she been dead for sometime?

Robotnik:
the guy probably defecated and started wanking, that usually takes a lot of time

dayokanu:
Possesion football was not Rijkaard's making its the a result of dutch coaching style of Johann Cryuff and Van Gaal. As a Bayern fan I can testify to this ideology Van Gaal coached Bayern into dominating possesion Bayern had almost 75% possesion in a game.

All credit to Pep Guardiola I rate him way over Rijkaard. Given Rijkaard fiasco with the Dutch team at Euro 2000 I don't rate him much, Though he is better than Wenger

The grand master was Rinus Michels,the coach of the holland 1974 and holland euro 88 squads.

woye77:
it's strange the guy has no positive predictions

Despite not being a big fan of these pastors what positive prediction are you hoping for naija?

My friend go and sit down.^^^

You nigerians are just cowards and fools.

It seems the word 'slowpoke' is the reigning word now .I have lost count the number of times different people have used it here

@pharoh

how do you manage to paste a source of a story without necessarilly putting the headline of the story itself as you have just done?i want to learn.Source

yeswecan:
I choose not to believe what your link suggest

I really do not know of what to make of that link is trying to say.

i go for Norton 360

very funny

http://pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=20&response=Confidence

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What do you think?

Genuflect:
Wetin Kel dey find for the list?

I say make i ask the same question.

It seems this is the real pic.Got this from sahara.It seems they have change it.

axeman85:
in as much as i support your view, BUT to be honest are these foreign media lying ? i dont think so. we have a president who hasnt been in office for nearly 1 month now and the economy is at a standstill, a known correput poliician ex gov just been discharged despite the whole public know he is guilty, media houses cant broadcast the true situation of things as they will be shut down just as channels was a while back. a popular ait presenter was replaced just becaise he was seen as a treat to the government. and now suicide bombing.

I was actually being sarcastic.

fuckmedown:
foreign media has changed our perspective about life, it has created a kind of hatred among us and we need to creat our own stations that really broadcast wht real africa and african is all about, tnx.

AIT AND MINAJ to the rescue.

axeman85:
what he is saying is that we should bring tribe into this issue or matter. and that he is nigerian.

We are even lucky he did not succeed.If not the internet attacks on hausa,muslims or north and vice varsa would have even being worse judging by what would have been the perceived reactions from americans.Post 9/11 comes to mind.

Where you dey since?Something that has been proved many hrs ago^^^^

enziga:
It just disappoints me mehn,
How quick and fast we nigerians are to disparage each other?
If the dude was successful, we would all claim him as being from Naija,
Now that is a terrorist we are tryin 2 cast an entire tribe as being terrorists,
Please let 'reason' prevail in this 2009/2010,
We are past this poo, a lot of u know good hausa ppl.
Are they terrorists? Come on now, use your sense,
Never let xenophobia come into whatever you are doing or saying,

Which kind cigar this guy dey yarn