and their website is hacked!

Dmayor7:
God of mercy!

What is this?.... Why is it that our government representative are always shaming us?

Just look at a whole Lawa school website of Nigeria.

Please, the person or people managing it should learn from my easy web design tutorial and do something fast about it.

He should check www.w3programs.com for the FREE tutorial.

In this our time when Wordpress and other platforms had made it easy for someone to setup a professional website even without being a guru, the person or people in charge of that website should be ashamed of themselves.

#my_humble_opinion

I really can't imagine that with all the great web developers in Nigeria, with all the great designers, an entire country of 180 million people, a Law School cannot find an 'average' web developer to create its website. Their website is an F9.

Hello Nairaland,

It's been a while since I posted on this forum, but something caught my attention today and I felt it is necessary for me to discuss with fellow Web developers on a very disgraceful work by the Nigerian Law School. By far, this is the most ugliest looking and slowest website i've ever visited (http://www.nigerianlawschool.edu.ng/index.html).

Nigerian Law School is one of the most prestigious institutions in Nigeria, they ought to have a functional, well built website. But what I see as their website even a beginner in Web design will do much better.

I am not going to compare their website with that of other law schools in other countries far away, just compare with Ghana School of Law (https://gslaw.edu.gh/).

I think something is very wrong with the way things like this are being handled in Nigeria, the saddest part is when millions are budgeted for this kind of ugly jobs.

Dear Web Developers, Web Designers, and Webmasters,

What do you think about this situation?
What should we do to bring an end to this situation of half-baked websites of Nigerian public institutions?
What is the role of Nigerian Computer Society in this kind of matters?
Is there any association of Webmasters or Web Developers that can bring sanity into this industry, at least in public institutions?
Should there be a regulation for practicing in this industry just as there is for Engineers and Doctors?

Honestly, this regalia should be stocked in the museum of royal history.

I thought he was going to modernize our traditional system a bit. All these seems clownish to people now, whereas in the old days, they are the norm.

Abun yayi yawa

What if her boyfriend/fiancee is very rich?

NOBLEDANDY:
Wetyn I wan comment Sef...

Op who wan be the president of Africa if we unite Africa without border or countries...

Be like say you dey like free things...

Democracy. We will vote.

PhockPhockMan:
After removing Jonathan from Aso Rock, what's the need for Arewa Republic again?

It started before GEJ.

Naijacitizen:
@OP, come and collect a jug of KununAya.

Godiya nake. I hope it's sweet.

For those who joined Nairaland Forum long enough, they will know that there was once an active campaign for the creation Arewa Republic from Nigeria. It was gathering momentum and gaining supporters daily, one of them even printed more than 3000 copies of an article I wrote and distributed in Kaduna, I had a chat with an SS on FB whom doesn't know I know he is SS because I was told he is going to contact me. I started receiving PMs of people showing their support and sometimes conversations gets hot until I slow them down. We even created flag, borders, etc. An anonymous caller even said they are ready to sacrifice their lives for the cause, and that they are waiting for my order, note the word 'they', which means the caller is not alone.

I and many others who campaign on this forum for the creation Arewa Republic are doing so entirely out of frustration from mostly Southerners calling us parasites, we do not intend to take the campaign any further, it was what you can call an empty campaign, no one will even believe what I was saying in the outside world because of the way I defend Nigeria so vigorously. I had to stop the campaign after the emergence of violent Boko Haram because it would have been very easy for the security agency to link up the campaign with the violent Boko Haram movement as a more dangerous narrative of the campaign started gaining momentum as well, that is Islamic Republic of Arewa.

While I have interest in having a country where I don't have to force anyone to share with my cultures and values, and also not be forced to share anyone's culture or value, I also accept that creating country is not a small task, it can lead to war, bloodshed, and loss of properties. I also thought it will be easier for Arewa to be a State under the proposed United Africa, than to be on its own, with its own currency, military, etc. I think that the most important discussion we should be having now is uniting Africa, not creating small countries that will fail in a few years. Think about it, a United Africa, where you can travel from Lagos to Zanzibar without borders, or from Tripoli to Accra without need for visa, think of the economic advantages, where goods manufactured in PortHarcourt can land in Dakar without customs or the fish in Morocco can be transported to Arewa by rail. Yes, it is just in my dreams, but a lot safer and more possible than creating a small country from Nigeria.

Africa can become a great country, afterall, lots of people thought Africa is a country.

ZUBY77:


You are right.
I sometimes believe this CBN new policy is aimed at punishing a part of the country.
How do you pay for your goods when the government closed every Avenue to send money to abroad.

The way out is the ATMs. Pay money in your naira account, withdraw in any part of the world with your ATM.
Unfortunately the banks allow only 300 dollars a day.
So to pay for goods worth 3000 dollars, you need 10 cards.

The Chinese government are not complaining. They see us withdrawing money with multiple cards all the time.

The old man from the North knows that his kinsmen don't do micro business like those in the south.
So he adopted policies that punish the importers.

The policy was implemented even before 'the old man' came into power. So keep the old man out of this. We all wait to see how the new Minister of Finance will handle the situation.

He got it.

180k Naira that is less than $950 monthly or $10,000 yearly before tax. The yearly gross income of an individual earning the lowest minimum wage in Canada is $20,000.

My advice: Go for the Masters in Canada.

I just tried to open the DMO.GOV.NG website but find it hacked and no information about why it was hacked apart from the reason that

"Your website has been hacked, because your security is very low.
You need to update this, soon, or I will back!".

For how long has it been hacked? Where are the website administrators?

Amnesty (from the Greek ἀμνηστία amnestia, "forgetfulness" is defined as: "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of persons, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of persons who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted." It includes more than pardon, in as much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense. Amnesty is more and more used to express "freedom" and the time when prisoners can go free. (from Wikipedia).

So Amnesty shall continue based on above only, not financial.

The full article is available here: http://www.gamji.com/article9000/NEWS9621.htm

I deliberately chose an American informal/colloquial expression in the title of this article to demonstrate from the outset, how ridiculous it sounds to hear people, that is, some Southerner Nigerians make the comment that Northerners believe that they are ‘born to rule Nigeria’.

In the last couple of years in particular, a lot of us Northerners have become quite familiar with this remark that, especially the so-called Hausa/Fulani have arrogated to themselves, the right to rule Nigeria. You could just see how the neck vein of the proponents of this belief swells to the size of a goiter as they launch into some eye-popping tirade when this subject comes up.

The issue was once again brought to my attention recently, via an email that has been making the rounds, which contained an article entitled “[ICAN-NG] THE NORTH AND THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF NIGERIA---A MUST READ! “. The article—which the author doesn’t seem too proud to claim by refusing to state his/her name upfront---made references to some comments purportedly made by Sir Ahamadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto, the late Premier of Northern Nigeria, in which he supposedly declared/revealed the “Northerners’ born to rule” manifesto. The evidentiary proof, according to the nameless author is the following:

“The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate from our great-grand father Othoman Dan Fodio. We must RUTHLESSLY prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities of the North as willing tools, and the South as conquered territories and never allow them to have control of their future”
This ‘fatwa-like’ remark was said to have been made by Sardauna on October 12, 1960, and the author claimed that the quote came out of a magazine called PARROT (what an apt name for a source of information of this nature) issued on the same day. As Nigerians will say, this is ‘arrant nonsense’!

In this article, I will engage in both qualitative (i.e. narrative) and quantitative (i.e. statistical) analyses of this alleged northern arrogation of power, in order to properly address this prevailing anti-Northerners, anti-Muslims, and anti-Hausa/Fulani acrimony pervading the country.

QUALITATIVE (Narrative) ANALYSIS

Sardauna was well known for speaking his mind, but even then, it is doubtful, if not inconceivable that he could have uttered the quote above. Apart from the fact that the remark lacks the kind of political sophistication that one would expect from the caliber of Sardauna, when put in the context of early 1960s Nigeria, this quote screams ‘utter insidious fabrication’ from someone too crude and inept, trying to sow mischief. I would say, this is a case of sending a boy to do a man’s job. Now I have to spend precious time poking holes in the shoddy job done by this dullard, while at the same time correcting the misinformation aimed at his/her intended audience.

First, let’s begin with the spelling ‘Othoman Dan Fodio’. Anyone familiar enough with Nigerian political history will know that the correct spelling should take one of these forms: Usman Dan Fodio (correct Hausa spelling); or Uthman Dan Fodio; or Usman Dan Fuduye (Francophone African spelling); or Usman ibn Fodio (Afro-Arabic spelling). So, where did this author get ‘Othoman’? From an Orientalist?

Secondly, when Sardauna made this remark, what were the responses of his southern counterparts after reading such inflammatory comment at this time of Nigeria’s formative period? Let’s keep in mind that even now, in the year 2012, some Southerners never fail to denigrate Northerners as illiterate, backward, unsophisticated, nothing but ‘cattle herders’, how much more in the early 1960s, when Sardauna supposedly made this comment? Wouldn’t the Southern Premiers have come out in full swing with their Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard education to ‘put our Mallam in his place’? But the author somehow failed to come up with any appropriate retort or fiery response from the “highly educated”, and “more sophisticated” Premiers of Western and Eastern regions. Not even belligerent Awolowo or the erudite Azikiwe came up with an equally apt and response? How could they have let this ‘Cattle Herder” get away with such derogatory, and provocative comment? The nameless author went on to add:

“Note that the 'do or die' election of 1959 did not give the North the required majority to form Government until Eastern Nigeria (Today's South-East and South-South) came to the rescue.”
So, here we have the author telling us that one year before Sardauna made the previous condescending remark; the Southerners had generously subjugated themselves to his northern party, by literally handing the party the votes needed to form majority government. What were they thinking, with all that advanced education? Were these Southerners just too magnanimous, and for what reason? The author of this diatribe apparently does not understand the concept of parliamentary system and coalition government. An agreement between two political parties (NPC and NCNC) to form a majority government in a parliamentary system was hardly a generous sacrifice on the part of the Eastern Nigerians.

The usual argument in support of this anti-North campaign is that for 37+ years, Northerners were at the helm of affairs in Nigeria. But, for the bulk of those years, Nigeria was ruled by the military--an organization that had members from both the North and the South. In fact, the very first military coup in Nigeria (January 1966) was carried out by Southerners (Ibos), who pointedly massacred polticians and military officers who were not from their own part of the country. Strangely enough, Nzeogwu, the cold-blooded murderous mastermind of the coup, was not only reported be the protégé of Sardauna, but, even he never mentioned that he was motivated by Sardauna’s ‘born to rule’ manifesto. In addition, the brutal killing of Sardauna was gallantly avenged partly by those “minority Northerners” that he supposedly had blatantly described with the condescending words “willing tools”. Furthermore, I am yet to find any citation, where even Ojukwu, in all his struggles for the state of Biafra, ever mentioned this purported remark by Sardauna.

Another point worth noting is that, since most of the 37+ years of rule by Northerners was achieved through military coups, what prevented the southern military officers from staging their own coup in the intevening years? Was it that the spirit of ‘born to rule’ was so much in favour of the Hausa/Fulani officers that their coup could never fail? Or were they just brazen, and brave enough to put their lives on the line, and bear the consequences, only to have their southern counterparts and their descendants come out whining and distorting history years later?

If indeed there was anything resembling Northerners’ ”born to rule” manifesto put together by Sardauna, and expected to be maintained by “Northerners”, particularly, Hausa/Fulani, then they must have failed woefully, or they never believed in it. Here is why:

ALONG CAME YAKUBU GOWON (1966)

Throughout the unfolding events of the July 1966 counter coup, Murtala Muhammed, a Hausa/Fulani man was one of the, if not ‘the central figure’ in this event. He was in the thick and thin of it all, barking orders and following his own game plan. However, despite reports of some heated exchanges between him and Yakubu Gowon, when the dust finally settled, it was Yakubu Gowon, a member of the minority tribe that was chosen as the head of state. Could these brave Hausa/Fulani soldiers who put their lives on the line, quickly forget the ‘born to rule’ injunction from Sardauna? They will just hand over the rulership to a non-Hausa/Fulani, when barely 6 years earlier; they supposedly have been instructed to arrogate power to themselves, ‘RUTHLESSLY’. Recall also that not only did these northern military officers fail to maintain that ‘born to rule’ agenda, but they also went to war under the command and leadership of a non-Hausa/Fulani head of state. Could the claim of northerners or Hausa/Fulani arrogation of power be anymore illogical?

ALONG CAME OBASANJO (1976)

In the 1976 failed Dimka coup, when Murtala Muhammed was lying in the pool of his own blood, and Shehu Yar’Adua and T.Y. Danjuma were busy putting down the coup, Murtala’s own second in command, Obasanjo was hiding under a rock somwehere (as he remained incommunicado for some crtitical hours). It would have been easy for the Northerners to excercise their ‘born to rule’ agenda, by simply handing the mantle of leaderhip to, say, Shehu Yar’Adua, or T.Y. Danjuma (who was actually urged to take over, but he declined, preferring to follow order of seniority). Instead, they waited for frazzled Obasanjo to crawl out of his hiding place, and appointed him as the new head of state. Not only that, they stood by him to steady his shaky hands and build his confidence. I wonder why the Northerners or the Hausa/Fulani did not dig up that ‘PARROT’ magazine to remind themselves of what Sardauna had instructed them?

ALONG CAME MKO ABIOLA (1993)

In the 1993 presidential primaries for Socical Democratic Party, M.K.O. Abiola, a Southerner defeated two Northerners (Baba Kingibe, and Atiku Abubakar) to secure the nomination for his party. He then went on to defeat yet another Hausa/Fulani, Bashir Tofa in the June 12, 1993 presidential elections. According to some accounts, Abiola was even well voted for in Tofa’s home state of Kano. I wonder what happened to that Northerners’ born to rule agenda?

ALONG CAME OBASANJO AGAIN (1999)

Let us remember that in 1998, a handful of Northerners (Rtd. Generals Babangida, Danjuma, Yakasai, etc.), Muslims and Christians went clear across Nigeria to a filthy prison in the dark crevices of the city of Yola to scrape up from the floor, a decaying convict of southern origin, and a Christian (Rtd. General Olusegun Obasanjo). Against everything that was right and just, they gazetted a pardon for him, and resuscitated his malnourished body with better than prison food; they made him shed that striped prison uniform and provided him with an assortment of quality clothing; they gave him seed money from their own ill-gotten wealth in order for him to run for election in 1999. They didn’t stop there, they made sure that this southern Christian was successfully foisted on Nigeria, even against the will of his own southern people. And we know how he rewarded these Northerners with generous amount of mischief and machinations.

Now, query: What happened to that purported ‘born to rule’ manifesto that Sardauna left behind for these Northerners?

THEN CAME JONAH (2010)

In 2010, when Goodluck Jonathan vacated his sense of honor, if he ever had any, and decided that his own party’s zoning arrangement did not apply to him, despite records proving that he was signatory number 32, Nigeria was suddenly informed that there had been a long standing Northern ‘born to rule’ mentality. We saw manipulative, passive-aggressive, callous serpent—Jonah played victim and dragged Nigeria into his own party’s zoning brouhaha, and the NPLF (Northern People Leadeship Forum), under the leadership of Adamu Ciroma, stupidly helped him foul up the air with their PDP in-fighting, with the result that the phrase ‘born to rule’ entered the Nigerian political lexicon. No doubt, the war of words between the two cretins--Ciroma vs. Jonah, was the one factor that brought these fighting words to the forefront.

In spite of Jonah’s willingness to wink at his people of Ijaw ‘nation’, and other Southerners, egging them on as they yelp ‘Northern born to rule’, the same two-faced, diabolic man was enlisting the help of Northerners to help him secure a win in the presidential election. And some of them obliged! With the tacit agreement, in fact, blatant acquiescense of some Northerners, Emirs included--some of whom could even trace their family lineage to Sardauna himself, we saw Northerners served as foot solders for the serpent from the South-South (By the way South-South is not a geographic point, it doesn’t exist even on a 16-point compass). The Northerners, including the likes of Haliru Bello, a Hausa/Fulani man from Sarduana’s own place of origin, who were supposed to have that ‘born to rule’ mentality engrained in them, became Jonah’s errant boys. They were frequently dispatched with “gifts/messages” to shameless northern traditional rulers, politicians, and other chief ballot riggers, so much so that when the elections were held, Jonah claimed that he secured close to 500,000 votes in the home state of Sardauna himself! .

These same ‘born to rule’ Northerners, worked fervently against one of their very own--Muhammadu Buhari, in favour of a southern Christian--Jonah. The level of acrimony the Northern elites displayed against Buhari was more than palpable. In fact, one of his most brutal antagonist was that self-loathing Sule Lamido, governor of Jigawa state, and a fellow Fulani! He even went as far as to declare that if Jonah was not elected president, Nigeria will break up! I wonder what the Southerners think of this remark, especially since they had tried to blame the post election riots on Buhari. Better yet, what does the SSS think of it?

Again, query: What happened to that purported ‘born to rule’ manifesto that Sardauna left behind for these Northerners?

If we were to believe that the 2011 presidential election was fair, then we will recall that Jonah claimed that he was able to get the required 25% of votes from many of the 19 northern states. Yet, not even one of the three Northern candidates was able to secure a win in southern states, except for Ribadu, who managed to win one state in the South West. Ironically, even Nuhu Ribadu, who was the flag-bearer for the ACN party could not secure a win in the southern state of Lagos, where his own party was head-quartered! It is therefore, amusing to note that despite the foregoing narration showing how the Northerners or Hausa/Fulani have collaborated with Southerners or the so-called “northern minority tribes”, some people are still ranting about Northern/Hausa/Fulani domination.

Another version of my own little contribution. Campaign purposes only ooo!

My own little contribution. Feel free to use for campaign purposes only!

I am supporting Buhari for the President of Nigeria, but I admit he or his campaign team made a huge mistake.
1. In the first place, he is supposed to have all his papers intact before submitting his formal letter of interest to INEC knowing well how Nigerians can escalate a little thing to become a huge matter and looking away from what really matters to focus on that little thing.
2. There is clearly some inconsistencies in the re-issued statement of result, I believed the statement was re-issued on 21st January (Yesterday). Opponents will use this as an opportunity to claim the statements were forged etc.
3. The requirements for running for president is not statement of result but Certificate of attendance, so if Buhari can produce Certificate of attendance then that suffices, all that he needed to produce was Certificate of attendance not statement of result.
4. While I think this will not affect Buhari's ambition, I believe circulating his results on sites like this can cause a huge stir online and make unnecessary calls for further investigations and so on. I can remember NNPC's immediate former MD was busted here on Nairaland and he was dismissed 2 months later, so this is very controversial site to be taken seriously.
5. Final advice to Team Buhari, keep cool and don't be intimidated by the opponents.

Yes, better than your Goodluck Jonathan and his wife

Gov. Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso looking at the prototype of the over N10 billion (2km) Sabon Gari flyover at the government house. Construction work has already reached an advanced stage.

True

No sane person likes war. We must sit on the table and negotiate the terms and conditions of coming together as a country, if we agree to continue as one country.

There is a video version watch from 0:30 sec..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSzPkXF0dc

SO, they want him back to PDP or what? Kwankwaso said no going back, change is here to stay.
I sense PDP (Boko Haram) at work here.

You all stop shouting, Abuja is my land, my property, and my children will inherit the land

DR PYGRU: “This New Nation called Nigeria, should be an estate of our great grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools, and the South, as conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.” ---Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto in THE PARROT of October 12, 1960

Propaganda tool used to justify the killing of the Sardauna by the Ibos.

Nice to see that finally some Governors are waking up to their responsibilities.

We await to hear this from the other states too.

Hon. SuQ Ma'DIQ:
I nearly agreed with the muslim MAN OF ALLAH but recalled that no boko haram attack happens without the shoults "ALLAHU AKUBA RU".
Man of ALLAH abeg go tell that to the JTF.

Allahu Akbar means God is Great. To their understanding, they are doing what God has command them to do. While they actually disobey God. The man is simply telling us that both religions have no room for those people killing in the name of God.

The cleric said Boko Haram represented no one.

The National Missioner of Ansar-ud-deen Society (ADS), Abdur-Rahman Ahmad, has declared the Boko Haram insurgency a collective embarrassment to all faiths in the country.

Mr. Ahmad, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday, in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, said the group represented no religious interest, adding that their objective had yet to be known.

He said that it was difficult to know in whose interest they were fighting as they had attacked all faiths.

“I state unequivocally that Islam is different from Boko Haram. We don’t know who they are, their sponsors and why they are killing people.

“They ought not to be killing Muslim scholars, if truly they are fighting in the interest of Islam,” Mr. Ahmad said.

He described the group’s action as anti-Islam, and ungodly, noting that Islam is a religion which appreciates knowledge and research.

“The Muslims were the front-runners in scientific education before the industrial revolution and would not have negated education.

“In this regard, the ADS and other notable Islamic organisations had contributed immensely to the nation’s educational development,” the missioner said.

Speaking on the use of hijab, Mr. Ahmad said that the Muslim community had designed one that was moderate for use in schools.

He stressed that everyone was entitled to his or her religious conviction.

Al Shaikh says perpetrators will ‘go to hell’

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah Al Shaikh branded suicide bombers as “criminals” who will go to “hell,” Al Hayat daily reported Thursday.

Suicide bombings are “great crimes” and bombers are “criminals who rush themselves to hell by their actions,” Al Shaikh said during a lecture in Riyadh a few days ago, according to Al Hayat.

Al Shaikh described suicide bombers as “robbed of their minds... who have been used (as tools) to destroy themselves and societies.”

In February 2010, Al Shaikh denounced terrorism as un-Islamic and condemned the killing of civilians, saying such attacks have nothing to do with the Muslim religion.

His latest remarks come after a preliminary inquiry into a December 5 suicide car bombing and assault on a Yemen defence ministry complex found that most assailants were Saudis. Fifty-six people were killed in the attack.

Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which was formed from a merger of the jihadist network’s Saudi and Yemeni branches, has claimed responsibility for the attack.

On Tuesday, a Saudi court jailed an Al Qaida-linked jihadist for 16 years for plotting to kill Shaikh and other clerics.

Al Qaida and other jihadists view the religious establishment of Saudi Arabia as an extension of the state and largely disregard its rulings.

Saudi jihadists have been accused of numerous suicide attacks in Iraq, and 15 of the 19 perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States were Saudis.