Car Talk › Re: How To Check If Your Number Plate Is Fake by bash673(m): 6:28pm On Mar 31, 2016 |
Agbaletu: Jut checked mine - This plate number has been produced by FRSC but yet to be assigned to any vehicle. After 3 years that I have been using this plate number! Mine after 4 years of use and I renew my particulars once it due. In fact renewed this March and I'm getting same with you. |
Health › Re: Pin found inside drug by bash673(m): 11:05am On Feb 10, 2016 |
The drug is not from Nigeria as you can see the hand there is of a white person. My little search took me to a Russian site with the said picture and what they wrote was translated as "Now make and sell in pharmacies paracetamol production of Israel which contains iron yadrvituyu wire that leads to death is very ask you to use to break the tablet to make sure that it is empty Send it to all you dear people....", - Said in a statement . [Author's spelling and style are the same.] As explained by the 9 channel on condition of anonymity, the representative of one of the Israeli companies, specializing in the export of drugs to the CIS countries, Israel really delivers to Ukraine restricted party "Akamola" - painkillers containing paracetamol. Its manufacturer is the world famous company "Teva". "Man, wrote this warning, could not fail to mention the name of the drug. But it is not mentioned, because it did not know. I have the impression that we are dealing with yet another anti-Semitic or anti-Israel an injection of. The objectives are commonplace authors. I would like to be clarified law enforcement agencies, but I'm afraid that in reality, illuminated DNI TV, it is impossible. "- commented the publication of our interlocutor. The fact that the publication of the DNI on TV has nothing to do with reality, you can also make "breaking" the photo through the Google search engine. A simple check shows that the picture for several days already actively spreading in the Arab Twitter segment with a warning about the need to verify the contents of the tablets. However, neither the product name nor the country of origin in these publications is not indicated"http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/pmos_nmos/tags/%EF%F0%EE%EF%E0%E3%E0%ED%E4%E0/ |
Health › Re: 3, 500 Male Sex Workers, Mostly Married, Discovered In Abuja - NACA by bash673(m): 2:55pm On Nov 27, 2015 |
Candybob: How did NACA come about this conclusion, what research methodology was employed? I smell rumour statistics! Go to NACA and verify. |
Crime › Re: 11-year-old Girl Impregnated By Three Teachers In Sokoto by bash673(m): 3:32pm On Oct 25, 2015 |
So someone from somewhere can just cookup a story and publish and people without verification can start calling up names. I wonder how someone will feel when he/she found out that it is all lies.
It didn't mention either the school or the teachers names. It didn't mention the school or the local government. They even had an interview with one of the culprits and failed to mention his name. All of us residing in Sokoto never heard of it with the way things are being reported in the social media now. And police were not involve but they are going for DNA test.
And who knows this Nigerian Pilot and their credibility? |
Romance › Re: Please Help!!!!! See What I Saw In My Gf's Bag by bash673(m): 4:55pm On Apr 21, 2015 |
firstEVA: really? why will a 21st century girl choose to use that type of cosmetic? strange Nothing strange, why will a 21st century girl still pound yam, use dadawa, or use traditional henna? |
Food › Re: 10 Reasons You Should Stop Eating Too much Instant Noodles (must See) by bash673(m): 5:27pm On Feb 23, 2015 |
blaze2cool: 1. Nutrient Absorption : Noodles inhibit the absorption of nutrients for the children under 5.
2. Cancer : The ingredient in the instant noodles called “Styrofoam’, is a cancer causing agent.
3. Miscarriage : Women who are Eating instant noodles during their pregnancy causes miscarriage, because it affect the development of a foetus.
4. Junk Food : instant noodles are enriched with full of carbohydrates,but no vitamins, fiber and minerals. This makes the instant noodles considered as a junk food.
5. Sodium : Instant noodles are power packed with high amounts of sodium. Excess consumption of sodium leads to heart disease, stroke, hypertension and kidney damage.
6. MSG : Monosodium Glutamate is used to enhance the flavour of instant noodles. People who are allergic to MSG consume it as part of their diet, then they end up suffering from headaches, facial flushing, pain, burning sensations.
7. Overweight : Eating Noodles is the leading cause of obesity. Noodles contains fat and large amounts of sodium, which causes water retention in the body and surely it leads to overweight, and obesity leads to heart problems.
8. Digestion : Instant noodles are bad for digestive system. Regular consumption of instant noodles causes irregular bowl movements and bloating.
9. Propylene Glycol : The ingredient in the instant noodles called “Propylene Glycol” which has a anti-freeze property. This ingredient is used because it prevents the noodles from drying by retaining moisture. It weakens the immune system of our body. It is easily absorbed by the body and it accumulates in the kidneys, heart and liver. It causes abnormalities and damage to those areas.
10. Metabolism : Regular consumption of instant noodles affect the body’s metabolism, because of the chemical substances like additives, coloring and preservatives inside the noodles. Please share to others, you can’t know all things so try to reach others. Thanks.
http://inspiredyouthng..de/2015/02/oh-my-goodness-10-reasons-you-should.html?m=1 When does instant noodle contain "STYROFOAM" to cause Cancer? |
Travel › Re: How Many States In Nigeria Have You Been To? by bash673(m): 2:07pm On Jan 07, 2014 |
Abuja FCT Kaduna Kano Katsina Kebbi Zamfara Sokoto Bauchi Borno Plateau Kogi Imo Akwa Ibom Lagos |
Politics › Re: Sanusi, His CBN Mistress And Their Escapades - Premium Times by bash673(m): 11:25am On Jun 03, 2013 |
clintwine: Twenty minutes to midnight on February 25, 2013, and a day before the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria was due to meet, Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi developed a craving for romance—he badly needed a kiss.
The governor, married with children, grabbed his mobile phone and typed out a message. “Maybe you should come kiss me before board meeting tomorrow,” Mr Sanusi wrote and then squeezed the send button.
At about 9 a.m. the next day, Mrs. Maryam Yaro, a married mother of two, an Assistant Director and subordinate to the governor at the CBN, arrived at Sanusi’s unnamed Abuja hotel, seeking to keep the date and help address his boss’ craving for a kiss. (Insiders say board members, including those who live in Abuja, are usually lodged in hotels ahead of board meetings).
But by the time Mrs. Yaro left the hotel to return to her official desk at the CBN, the duo had also struck out an arrangement to spend the rest of the week together in Lagos.
So, in the evening of Wednesday February 27, Mrs. Yaro flew to Lagos ahead of Mr. Sanusi and checked into a hotel in the city, skipping work, at taxpayer’s expenses, on Thursday February 28 and Friday, March 1.
To keep faith with Mrs. Yaro’s date, the CBN governor arrived Lagos, travelling on a chattered flight, on the night of February 28, and checked into the Federal Palace Hotel, passage and boarding all at taxpayers expenses.
Both Mr. Sanusi and Mrs. Yaro rendezvoused in the hotel till Sunday when both of them returned to Abuja, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.
“…I had such a wonderful weekend,” Mrs. Yaro confessed to the governor while aboard her Abuja-bound flight. “You have revived in me what I thought I lost long ago. I thought I lost the passion to love again,” she claimed.
“Alhamdulillahi. Love you,” Mr. Sanusi responded in a measured tone.
Insiders say repeated violation of the statutory code of conduct for public office holders such as hiring his girlfriends and mistresses without complying with public service rules, dating married and unmarried women within the bank, and flirting with them during official work hours have become defining characters of Mr. Sanusi’s governorship of the central bank.
An official of the bank spoke of how Mr. Sanusi had enthroned nepotism at the bank, arbitrarily hiring girlfriends and relatives and engaging in extramarital relationships with staff.
“This man (the CBN governor) is the most morally bankrupt governor the CBN has ever had,” the official, who did not want to be named for fear of retribution, told PREMIUM TIMES. “Forget all the pretences, he is a shameless man of loose character.”
Investigations by this newspaper revealed that Mr. Lamido hired his latest mistress, Mrs. Yaro, without complying with the CBN recruitment policy that stressed, “all appointments shall be made on the basis of merit, through a fair and open selection process.”
“The principles underlying the recruitment process are those of fairness, credibility, equal employment opportunities, merit and optimization of career prospects for currently employed staff,” the bank said on its website.
But Mrs. Yaro, insiders say, was hired in July 2012 without adherence to these principles. Those who should know say Mrs. Yaro, who was a staff at the National Programme on Food Security, an agency under the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, was brought into the bank as assistant director without “advert for the vacancy and after a kangaroo interview.”
When contacted, Mr. Sanusi said due process was followed in hiring Mrs. Yaro.
He said having worked for years in the ministry of agric, Mrs Yaro came highly recommended and qualified for the job for which she was hired.
The CBN governor continued, “I have known Dr Yaro since 1981. She was my student in Yola and she later came to ABU Zaria. We have been very good friends but this is not why NIRSAL took her. You may wish to check her CV against all the other CVs in NIRSAL. And she did go through an interview process with the NIRSAL CEO making the decision not CBN HR.
“As for the personal allegations, this is all strange to me but I have a personal policy of not responding to such allegations since in Nigeria anything can be published on any public officer without proof. I have limited myself to what concerns official allegations and leave you to your God and your conscience on whatever else you want to publish. Thank you for telling me though.”
Mrs Yaro however declined comments when contacted by PREMIUM TIMES.
“Be careful what you are saying,” she told one of our reporters on the telephone. “I have nothing to comment to you on anything.”
When asked if she would be willing to respond to specific questions about her trips to Lagos to keep dates with Mr. Sanusi, she simply said, “Whatever it is, I don’t know. Will you just let me be?”
But our investigations revealed that the governor’s claim was far from accurate. Through several interviews and review of records, PREMIUM TIMES was able to determine that Mrs. Yaro and Mr. Sanusi had dated each other for at least six months before she was hired.
Insiders say Mr. Sanusi repeatedly pestered the human resource department of the bank ordering it to bring Mrs. Yaro’s application to him for approval. And once the file reached his table, the governor wasted no time in treating it.
On June 25, 2012, Mr. Sanusi, who was travelling in South Africa at the time, telephoned Mrs. Yaro to break the news to her that he had approved her recruitment in what critics consider a clear conflict of interest and a violation of a provision of Nigeria’s Code of Conduct which stipulates that “a public officer shall not put himself in a position where his interest conflicts with his duties and responsibilities.”
Mrs Yaro, (whose businessman husband, Ahmed, is largely based in Kaduna but visits Abuja regularly) assumed duties at the CBN in the first week of September 2012 and was deployed to the Development Finance Department. The department then put her in charge of the bank’s Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System For Agricultural Lending, (NIRSAL), a unit that attempts to fix the agricultural value chain, so that banks can lend with confidence to the sector and, encourages banks to lend to the agricultural value chain by offering them strong incentives and technical assistance.
Sources said Mrs Yaro married Ahmed (or Shuaib, according to another source) six years ago after her first husband, Waisu Yaro Bodinga (then an executive director at the Nigeria Ports Authority) died in the ill-fated ADC plane crash of 2006.
The romance between Mrs Yaro and Mr. Sanusi became even hotter after she began work at the bank, with the two lovers regularly exchanging telephone calls and text messages during work hours to profess love for each other.
At times, Mrs Yaro would remain in her office far beyond close of work to enable her to keep appointments with the CBN governor, records show.
Sometimes, Mrs Yaro would raise concerns about Mr. Sanusi’s other girlfriends and mistresses (such as Sutura and Rose) and how they were blocking her from getting the governor’s full attention, but the relationship continued nonetheless.
Mrs. Yaro also began to have access to confidential information known only to top management and board of the bank, insiders say.
At a point, one source said, she began to strategise to corner contracts for one Goke Akinboro, the Chief Executive Officer of Lagos-based Cellullant Limited, an information technology company. Mr. Akinboro is also described as “very close” to Mrs Yaro.
On March 15, 2013, the CBN lovers headed to Lagos again for another weekend of fun. The initial plan was for the duo to fly to the nation’s commercial capital on Saturday, March 16, returning to Abuja on Sunday. But the trip had to be brought forward by a day after the lovers realized that the Area Council election in Abuja was holding that Saturday and that movement might be restricted.
Mrs. Yaro arrived Lagos on the night of March 15, and immediately checked into the Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel on Victoria Island. Mr. Sanusi flew from Kano to Lagos via chattered jet on the bills of the Nigerian taxpayers. He arrived at about 11 p.m., stopped by his Ikoyi home, before dashing to the hotel where Mrs. Yaro was waiting in a seductive dress in Room 23. The lovers spent that night and the next day together in the hotel.
As he flew into Abuja March 17 on a chattered jet, Mr. Sanusi sent a message to Mrs Yaro saying, “Love. Just landed in Abuja. Thank you for a wonderful weekend.” Mrs Yaro replied, “Alhamdulillah. I had a wonderful weekend too. I am able to get the 3:15 flight on Arik Air. Love you.”
But in-between these rendezvous in Lagos, Mr. Sanusi and Mrs Yaro also found time to get together elsewhere. They were to meet on March 11, 2013, in Makurdi but somehow Mrs Yaro could not make it to the Benue State capital. But earlier on February 14, (Valentine’s Day), the lovers had a good time together in Maiduguri. Although, the two of them travelled to the city on different missions, they somehow found a way to get together.
At a point, Mrs Yaro voiced open frustration when Mr. Lamido delayed in taking her calls as she tried, frantically, to track him down. “I’m thinking that one Shuwa girl has snatched you away from me,” Mrs. Yaro wrote in a message. “I don’t trust them (Maiduguri girls) with you.”
A velvet-ranking figure within Nigeria’s economic and political circles, Mr. Sanusi, is generally perceived as one of the intellectual anchors and moral conscience of this administration. When his five-year term expires next year, he has indicated he would not renew his contract. Mr. Sanusi has a well-advertised ambition to become the future emir of his native Kano, where he is already a top chieftaincy holder (Dan Maje Kano). Dan Majen Kano, a historic title, which means Son of Emir-Maje, is reserved for the royal family members from the Kano Habe dynasty.
A zigzag prospect to run for the Nigerian presidency is also believed to be floating in the horizon for Mr. Sanusi.
Multiple sources at both the CBN and First Bank, where Mr. Sanusi was managing director before his appointment to the central bank, describe the governor as an “incurable womanizer.”
“This guy seems unable to resist anything in skirt, and it is unfortunate that a lot of young people look up to him as an example,” one of Mr. Sanusi’s aides in Abuja said, expressing widely held concerns in banking circles that “It is sad that he wouldn’t even let married women be.”
Mr. Sanusi, 51, appointed CBN Governor on June 3 2009, is a smart economist and award-winning banker with a background in risk management.
He holds a graduate degree in economics from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and a diploma in Sharia and Islamic Studies from the African International University in Khartoum, Sudan. Today, Mr. Sanusi is also commonly regarded as an important voice in Islamic jurisprudence.
The Banker, the UK-based financial magazine honoured him in 2010 as global Central Bank Governor of the Year as well as African Central Bank Governor of the Year. In 2011, the TIME magazine listed Mr. Sanusi in its annual publication of 100 most influential people.
At the African Banker Awards gala dinner held Wednesday in Morocco, Mr. Sanusi also emerged the “2013 Africa Central Bank Governor of the Year.”
“There is no doubt that he is a fairly effective banker,” an official of one of Nigeria’s leading banks, who requested anonymity for fear his bank might be targeted, told PREMIUM TIMES. “But he is a man of zero morality despite his public posturing. It is really sad.”
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I used to think the British were gullible, but it seems Nigerians are beginning to tow the same line Can't we look at a story , analyse it, pick out the holes and decide if it is true or not? The items I have highlighted above, makes this so glaring that this is a script and a fiction brought about by the imagination of a writer Any one that has read British newspapers/tabloids, will know that this write up is patterned exactly as how they write to sell their stories ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* Who uses text messages nowadays when there is BBM and Whatssap? He may be involve with the lady but quoting the text messages and time makes it scripted. |
Autos › Re: Free Vin Checks And Reports by bash673(m): 10:02pm On Dec 29, 2012*. Modified: 8:54am On Dec 30, 2012 |
Please kindly help and check this VIN for me 1NXBR32E07Z890748. Thanks. |
Christianity Etc › Re: What Would Make You Believe There Is No God? by bash673(m): 9:26pm On Aug 04, 2012 |
cyrexx: ^^ you seem to always confuse atheism with evolution. Its obvious you know nothing about the established biological fact of evolution. You might as well reject every other scientific and biological facts.
Do you know that many christians subscribe to evolution and even interprete their creation story in light of scientific evidence of evolution.
You still have a lot to learn, that is, if you want to learn. Read my post very well again and you will see that i'm not discouraging you from your religion. Once again, best wishes. There are only THEORIES of evolution and no FACTS. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: UCL: Barcelona Vs Chelsea (2 - 2) On 24th April 2012 by bash673(m): 8:34pm On Apr 24, 2012 |
Ramires 2-1 |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Barcelona Vs Real Madrid (1 - 2) On 21st April 2012 by bash673(m): 11:15am On Apr 23, 2012 |
dabrake: Madrid can only win that match if and only if (1) c.ronaldo will not play : cr7 is virtually the spoiler of such game. This his i-am-better-than-messi attitude remains the exact reason why they appear so mediocre before fcb. The annoying thing is that messi no send am as him(LM10) go still dey play with him team. Cr7 is a camera player. Dani alves keeps halting his silly paces. Why not change your style? Cr7 will keep on trying his decrypted-passworded stepovers unlike messi. Close tackle him too much and he will withdraw to the middle . . . not till he releases that killer pass. (2) madrid should play like a team. They should stop playing like 11 individuals. Cr7 na him dey start this thing. When him do him own, di maria go join am (3) they shouldn't forget the 1st and 2nd rule (4) they shouldn't go contrary to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd rule And you are? |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Real Madrid Vs Real Sociedad (5 - 1)On 24th March 2012 by bash673(m): 9:13pm On Mar 24, 2012 |
Limaoscar: RM one goal up already through Higuain. JM is on suspension alongside a couple of His players.......I hope indiscipline do not cost them the League title. 5 Goals already, indiscipline or victimization. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Sevilla FC Vs Barcelona (0 - 2) On March 17th 2012 by bash673(m): 11:03am On Mar 17, 2012 |
If you held them 0-0 at Nou Camp, you can win this at home. Go Sevilla! You can do it. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Real Betis Vs Real Madrid (2 - 3) On March 10th 2012 by bash673(m): 11:11pm On Mar 10, 2012 |
CR7 first goal against Betis
Betis 1 Madrid 2 |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Europa League : Manchester United Vs Athletic Bilbao (2 - 3) On March 8th 2012 by bash673(m): 11:17pm On Mar 08, 2012 |
MeGaStReEt: Blackburn Rovers are 17th on EPL table, and if I can remember vividly, they defeated Manure with this same score line at Oldjoro Trafford last December. So, whats the big deal? The Big deal is they defeated the team that was at the Champions league final just last season and unable to come out of the group stages thereby entering Europa league. fans will expect them to show their class but class has level. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Europa League : Manchester United Vs Athletic Bilbao (2 - 3) On March 8th 2012 by bash673(m): 10:53pm On Mar 08, 2012 |
Is it not suppose to be outside the penalty area? |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Europa League : Manchester United Vs Athletic Bilbao (2 - 3) On March 8th 2012 by bash673(m): 10:51pm On Mar 08, 2012 |
La LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAA 3-1 |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Rayo Vallecano Vs Real Madrid (0 - 1) On Sunday February 26th 2012 by bash673(m): 11:06am On Feb 26, 2012 |
Hala Madrid! |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Osasuna Vs Barcelona (3 - 2) On Saturday 11th February 2012 by bash673(m): 9:56pm On Feb 11, 2012 |
Revenge against Levante will be super sweet tomorrow. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Osasuna Vs Barcelona (3 - 2) On Saturday 11th February 2012 by bash673(m): 9:50pm On Feb 11, 2012 |
5 minutes? |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Getafe Vs Real Madrid (0 - 1) On Saturday 4th February 2012 by bash673(m): 7:03pm On Feb 04, 2012 |
usbcable: Nairaland World Plot 1 Galacticos Avenue Lagos Dear God,
Please kindly make it be that barcelona drop points again today and make real madrid win its match against local neighbors getafe. Amin.
Yours faithfully USBCABLE. Amin |
Politics › Boko Haram Is Not The Problem by bash673(op): 9:39am On Jan 04, 2012 |
By JEAN HERSKOVITS Published: January 02, 2012 GOVERNMENTS and newspapers around the world attributed the horrific Christmas Day bombings of churches in Nigeria to "Boko Haram" - a shadowy group that is routinely described as an extremist Islamist organization based in the northeast corner of Nigeria. Indeed, since the May inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the Niger Delta in the country's south, Boko Haram has been blamed for virtually every outbreak of violence in Nigeria.But the news media and American policy makers are chasing an elusive and ill-defined threat; there is no proof that a well-organized, ideologically coherent terrorist group called Boko Haram even exists today. Evidence suggests instead that, while the original core of the group remains active, criminal gangs have adopted the name Boko Haram to claim responsibility for attacks when it suits them.The United States must not be drawn into a Nigerian "war on terror" - rhetorical or real - that would make us appear biased toward a Christian president. Getting involved in an escalating sectarian conflict that threatens the country's unity could turn Nigerian Muslims against America without addressing any of the underlying problems that are fueling instability and sectarian strife in Nigeria.Since August, when Gen. Carter F. Ham, the commander of the United States Africa Command, warned that Boko Haram had links to Al Qaeda affiliates, the perceived threat has grown. Shortly after General Ham's warning, the United Nations' headquarters in Abuja was bombed, and simplistic explanations blaming Boko Haram for Nigeria's mounting security crisis became routine. Someone who claims to be a spokesman for Boko Haram - with a name no one recognizes and whom no one has been able to identify or meet with - has issued threats and statements claiming responsibility for attacks. Remarkably, the Nigerian government and the international news media have simply accepted what he says. In late November, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Homeland Security issued a report with the provocative title: "Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the U.S. Homeland." The report makes no such case, but nevertheless proposes that the organization be added to America's list of foreign terrorist organizations. The State Department's Africa bureau disagrees, but pressure from Congress and several government agencies is mounting.Boko Haram began in 2002 as a peaceful Islamic splinter group. Then politicians began exploiting it for electoral purposes. But it was not until 2009 that Boko Haram turned to violence, especially after its leader, a young Muslim cleric named Mohammed Yusuf, was killed while in police custody. Video footage of Mr. Yusuf's interrogation soon went viral, but no one was tried and punished for the crime. Seeking revenge, Boko Haram targeted the police, the military and local politicians - all of them Muslims.It was clear in 2009, as it is now, that the root cause of violence and anger in both the north and south of Nigeria is endemic poverty and hopelessness. Influential Nigerians from Maiduguri, where Boko Haram is centered, pleaded with Mr. Jonathan's government in June and July not to respond to Boko Haram with force alone. Likewise, the American ambassador, Terence P. McCulley, has emphasized, both privately and publicly, that the government must address socio-economic deprivation, which is most severe in the north. No one seems to be listening.Instead, approximately 25 percent of Nigeria's budget for 2012 is allocated for security, even though the military and police routinely respond to attacks with indiscriminate force and killing. Indeed, according to many Nigerians I've talked to from the northeast, the army is more feared than Boko Haram. Meanwhile, Boko Haram has evolved into a franchise that includes criminal groups claiming its identity. Revealingly, Nigeria's State Security Services issued a statement on Nov. 30, identifying members of four "criminal syndicates" that send threatening text messages in the name of Boko Haram. Southern Nigerians - not northern Muslims - ran three of these four syndicates, including the one that led the American Embassy and other foreign missions to issue warnings that emptied Abuja's high-end hotels. And last week, the security services arrested a Christian southerner wearing northern Muslim garb as he set fire to a church in the Niger Delta. In Nigeria, religious terrorism is not always what it seems.None of this excuses Boko Haram's killing of innocents. But it does raise questions about a rush to judgment that obscures Nigeria's complex reality.Many Nigerians already believe that the United States unconditionally supports Mr. Jonathan's government, despite its failings. They believe this because Washington praised the April elections that international observers found credible, but that many Nigerians, especially in the north, did not. Likewise, Washington's financial support for Nigeria's security forces, despite their documented human rights abuses, further inflames Muslim Nigerians in the north.Mr. Jonathan's recent actions have not helped matters. He told Nigerians last week, "The issue of bombing is one of the burdens we must live with." On New Year's Eve, he declared a state of emergency in parts of four northern states, leading to increased military activity there. And on New Year's Day, he removed a subsidy on petroleum products, more than doubling the price of fuel. In a country where 90 percent of the population lives on $2 or less a day, anger is rising nationwide as the costs of transport and food increase dramatically. Since Nigeria's return to civilian rule in 1999, many politicians have used ethnic and regional differences and, most disastrously, religion for their own purposes. Northern Muslims - indeed, all Nigerians - are desperate for a government that responds to their most basic needs: personal security and hope for improvement in their lives. They are outraged over government policies and expenditures that undermine both.The United States should not allow itself to be drawn into this quicksand by focusing on Boko Haram alone. Washington is already seen by many northern Muslims - including a large number of longtime admirers of America - as biased toward a Christian president from the south. The United States must work to avoid a self-fulfilling prophecy that makes us into their enemy. Placing Boko Haram on the foreign terrorist list would cement such views and make more Nigerians fear and distrust America. Jean Herskovits, a professor of history at the State University of New York, Purchase, has written on Nigerian politics since 1970. Source: http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=888812&f=28&p=0 |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: El Clasico - Real Madrid Vs Barcelona (1 - 3) On Saturday 10th December 2011 by bash673(m): 10:36am On Dec 09, 2011 |
Hala Madrid |
Education › Re: Kano To Build N100M Hostel In Sokoto For Usman Danfodiyo University by bash673(m): 4:21pm On Dec 08, 2011 |
murtalaa: Arent there Kano state indigene studying in Sokoto? , and it is not a state University but a federal one of which Kano state is part of the catchment area. |
Culture › Re: Should African Men Stop Paying Bride Price? by bash673(m): 9:01am On Nov 10, 2011 |
It is not only in Africa that bride price is paid. |
Autos › Re: Total Cost Of Clearing A Vehicle In Nigeria by bash673(m): 1:34pm On Nov 04, 2011 |
acl200: @bash673 is your vehicle come through container? Or roro that person most be telling a Big lies I'm clearing Agent also for some1 to spend almost a month to clear just 2unite.try and find out what wrong we always be @ your service acl200@yahoo.com There are 4 vehicles in a container 2 for them and 2 for us. acl200: @bash673 what Terminal did your vehicle barth Tin Can gate 2 |
Autos › Re: Total Cost Of Clearing A Vehicle In Nigeria by bash673(m): 2:23am On Nov 04, 2011 |
Hello Femmy,
Please I have two vehicles that I was told landed Tin can and you told me the clearance cost 2003 and 2005 Corollas. I was initially told that they landed on 9th of October but still the person is telling me that there is a Port congestion so they are not out yet. How true is that port congestion please. Thank you |
Autos › Re: Avoid Custom's Wahala by bash673(m): 6:12pm On Oct 29, 2011 |
Hello, Please how much will it cost to clear a 2005 & 2003 Corolla from tincan respectively. Thank you. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: UCL: Real Madrid Vs Lyon (4 - 0) On 18th October 2011 by bash673(m): 9:26pm On Oct 18, 2011 |
4-0 |
Education › Re: Naija Result @51, Her Subjects And Grade by bash673(m): 6:23pm On Oct 01, 2011 |
lagerwhenindoubt: My dear this is a significant part of the solution - making sure citizens are reminded of their failures so they can forge ahead without being blissfully (and willfully) ignorant of sad realities of this nation - you cannot continue to hide your head in the sand like an ostrich hoping the dangers will fly by because you don't want to see it. No people need encourage so that they get moral boost not reminder of their failure cause that will only discourage them with the thought of even if we try we are not going to win. |
Christianity Etc › Re: Was Abraham An Arab Or A Jew? by bash673(m): 1:08pm On Sep 16, 2011 |
noblezone: Abraham was not a Jew, Abraham was not an Arab
Abraham was the father of both Ishmail and Isaac.
Ishmail was the father of the Arabs
Isaac was the father of Jacob who was the father of the Jews.
Koran's version of the tales was distorted. For example, Koran claims it was Miriam the sister of Moses that gave birth to Jesus. You statements are true except the last line. Do you have any evidence for the last line or you are just saying what you are not sure of? |