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I have observed that some men are of the habit of giving many women ring to trap them, though, they are not committed to them.

they just do this to get as many committed lovers as possible.

though, some do it genuinely but things later fall apart.


So i ask, how many women have you given ring or how many men have given you.. Did you give the ring because you are committed or just to trap her?

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you may help do that

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Chibok: Letter To Abducted SchoolGirls

07 Jul 2014 02:09
Written by Abdulrazaq O Hamzat
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I am not writing this letter out of joy, but rather, with sadness. I am sad because, despite knowing you are in the hands of insane terrorists who kill at will, I couldn't do much to save you than to protest. I wish I can do much more than that, but I can’t and I am sad.

On the night of 14–15 April 2014, a group of militants attacked your school(Government Girls Secondary School) in Chibok community and took over 200 of you away from the reach of your parents and loved one’s. You were taken away by bokoharam terrorists group without any trace, leaving all concerned people devastated.

However,since you were abducted, many Nigerians have been expressing their worries about your whereabouts including this writer which prompted this letter.

This writer is one of the many concerned Nigerians who are constantly worried about your continuous imprisonment by the inhuman murderers (bokoharam).

I am not writing this letter out of joy, but rather, with sadness. I am sad because, despite knowing you are in the hands of insane terrorists who kill at will, I couldn't do much to save you than to protest. I wish I can do much more than that, but I can’t and I am sad.

It is worth to also note that, I and the entire Nigerian people are not the only sad people, many across the world also share in our sadness and as such, they express their solidarity through global protest and offer of assistance.

Although, Ido not know what the terrorists want from you, neither do I know how it feels to be kidnapped in such a cruel manner, but one thing I know for sure is that you are sad and lonely, helpless and feeling abandoned. It is such a traumatizing experience you are going through and I feel so concerned and worried about your condition.

I am hoping that you are still living, healthy and hopeful to be rescued. Please don’t loose hope, God is with you.

My beautiful sisters, I do not know if you are reading this letter, but I know you are in the hands of God, he will never abandon you. Moreover, the prayers of the over 170 million Nigerians are with you, our prayers shall not go unanswered.

Just for your information, let me explain what has been happening since you were abducted 3 months ago and efforts made so far by all stake holders to secure your release.

When the news of your abduction was broken to the president of Nigeria who happens to be the commander in chief saddled with the primary responsibility of protecting your lives, he never believed you were kidnapped, neither did he take any action to prevent your abductors from succeeding in their plans. He simply faint ignorance of any incident and went ahead to kano for his political rally,where he danced ‘’first of all” with his fellow party men and women.

However,Many prominent Nigerians criticize such insensibility as it co-incidence with a deadly bomb blast which occurred in Nyanya, Abuja and claimed over 100 lives.

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo also criticize the manner the government is handling your kidnapping,saying the president thought it was a hoax.

According to former president Obasanjo,“The president did not believe that those girls were abducted for almost 18 days,” adding that the president’s initial reaction affected the operation.

“If the president got the information within 12 hours of the act and he reacted immediately, I believe those girls would have been rescued within 24 hours, maximum 48 hours,” he stated.

But the lack of prompt response by the president denied us any detail about your ware-about.

Until after 3 weeks of your abduction, president Goodluck Jonathan never made any public statement regarding it. He simply went about his normal activities as if nothing ever happened. Our government showed no sense of duty,sense of urgency nor sense of responsibility.

The lack of sense of urgency further manifests when Amnesty International later said it believes the Nigerian military had four hours advanced warning of your kidnapping, but they failed to send reinforcements to protect your school. Nigeria's armed forces also confirmed that the Nigerian military had four hour advance notice of the attack but that their over-extended forces were unable to mobilize reinforcements.

Furthermore, the military that should equally take adequate measures to secure your release after the abduction released a statement over the 19–20 April weekend, that said you all had been rescued. The nation went agog in jubilation upon hearing the good news, but that information was later proven to be false and the military statement was retracted on 21 April. If nothing, your continued stay in custody of the terrorist certainly prove the army were not truthful about their announcement and many begin to wonder why the army would engage in such an unholy proclamation.

While president Jonathan and the military continue to play politics with your lives, patriotic Nigerians under the aegis of bringbackourgirls have continued to demand for adequate government actions toward your release.

The brinkbackourgirls team is constituted by men and women from all walks of life,north, south, Christians and Muslims all working together for one purpose, bringbackourgirls.

As they continue to protest your abduction on a daily basis, our cries were heard all over the world from US to Britain, Saudi to Israel, Iran to Europe and all over the world. This ensures a global solidarity towards our cause and so far, almost every country around the world had joined the call to brink you back home, we shall not stop until you are back home safe.

In addition, Since you have been abducted, the bringbackourgirls team had been protesting at the unity fountain in Abuja, demanding you should be brought back home. We have protested, cried, grieved and prayed for your return,we are hopeful that you shall return no matter how long it takes. We won’t give up on you.

Let me also inform you that, it was reported that a journalist-brokered a deal to secure your release in exchange for bokoharam terrorists held in Nigerian jails , but this writer along with many other Nigerians objected to such exchange. The objection wasn't because we didn't care, but because we see it as posing even a greater danger for the nation.

For example, when the news of your abduction broke out, a deadly bomb blast occurred in Nyanya Abuja killing over 100 people. Investigation from security agencies indicated that the attack was carried by 5 boko haram terrorists. This writer reasoned that, if 5 terrorists could launch an attack that killed over 100 people, exchanging such terrorist isn't a wise decision, as it would empower the militant group with more man power to carry out their evil agenda.

If you were exchanged with 100 terrorist for example, the 100 terrorist could kill even a thousand people. Therefore, we think such exchange isn't right and I stood by that decision.

It is however regrettable that the Nigerian government which should ordinarily lead in seeking your return do not take you serious, they see everyone demanding your safe return as an enemy, or an opposition that should be silenced. If not,why will a ban be placed on protest to bring you back home?

The FCT police commissioner, Joseph Mbu declared that the bringbackourgirls team had been banned from holding any protest in regard to the abducted girls. He vow to crush and ruthlessly deal with anyone protesting about your condition. However, bringbackourgirls went to court to challenged such senseless ban which was a clear violation of our fundamental human rights as guaranteed in the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria and before our court case even commenced, the Inspector General of police, Alhaji Muhammed Abubakar reverse the ban since that was the right thing for any reasonable police officer who is guided by law and common sense.

With that reversal, the bringbackuorgirls team are still much protesting at the unity fountain to demand your safe return. We will keep intensifying our efforts until you are back home.

It is equally regrettable to note that the federal government under president Goodluck Jonathan which Nigerians voted for to protect lives and properties is not ready to do the needful. Instead of channelling all efforts towards bringing you back home, he his only concerned with winning 2015 election.

In an efforts to prevent bringbackourgirls from further protesting at the unity fountain,president Jonathan and his men had employed the services of some misguided citizens to disrupt the daily protest at unity fountain with their campaign for 2015 election. While you are in the hands of murderous terrorists courtesy of their failure to protect you as promised when they were sworn into office, they invaded #bringbackourgirls camp with music for Jonathan re-election.To them, it doesn’t matter if you live or die, what mattered is 2015 election.

They made it clear to all with their actions that, your life is worthless provided they are re-elected in 2015. Though in their words, they claim to be concerned about you.

Your parents whom apart from yourselves are the major victims of this cruelty have taken note of the insensibility of our government, all young girls in Nigeria also took note of it, and parents who know what it means to lost a child also took note. The entire Nigerian people have taken adequate note of this inhuman actions.

While we keep praying that God keep you safe wherever you are, we promise not to relent in our efforts to bring you back home safely.

We shall not be discouraged by the nonchalant attitude of our government, neither would we be frustrated by their tactics to force us to abandon our quest for your release, we shall continue to demand that “bringbackourgirls’’.

Until they bring you home, we will never give up on you.

AbdulrazaqO Hamzat can be reached on discus4now@yahoo.com

lol

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ARE YOU IN CUSTODY OF LOVE OR DETENTION OF MARRIAGE? In my view, a Wedding ring is a handcuff in the hand of those in the detention of marriage. It could also be a security to those in the custody of love. If you are happy in marriage, you are in custody of love, but if sad, in detention of marriage. What is wedding ring to you?

huh

why are they called ex

If indeed Ayo Fayose (Ekiti Governor elect) successfully enticed Ekiti electorate with rice, that means Gov. Fayemi kept the people hungry. Abdulrazaq O Hamzat. Do you agree with this statement?

hum

Can you marry your friend's ex? if yes, why? if not, why not?

lol

bribe? lol

how does ring signify love?

hum

Mai, noted your correction

I read an article few hours ago on nairaland where the writer is advocating for the elimination of African traditional rites on marriage.

According to her, the practice of giving bride price and other materials to the bride's family should be eliminated or made optional for those who wish to.

However, i feel such advocacy should be applied to all rites in marriage, be it traditional, court or white marriage.

For example in both court and white marriage, the groom is required to buy and give the bride a wedding ring. Why is that? What does it signify?

There are many other rites associated with court and white wedding aswell, if wedding rites should be eliminated, we must first look at the reasons why such rites are being done.

Indeed

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Is Fayose a Muslim or Christian?

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Nigeria plays through country's pain

BRASILIA, Brazil -- It is not often that the de-facto epicenter of human suffering on this planet prepares to play in a World Cup elimination game. So Sunday morning, at 9:15 sharp, I walked over to the two buses idling in the media parking lot outside the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha.

In a mass email sent by the FIFA Media Office on Saturday, the international media had been informed that shuttles would be chartered -- free of charge -- to ferry any journalists who wished to observe Nigeria's training session at a club team's field nearby. Fearing that I was late, I first checked the windows of the rear coach. It was empty. So I walked onto the bus in front, and found exactly two people sitting inside.

One of my fellow passengers was a bespectacled man in a black baseball cap named Adewale Emosu, the sports editor of the Nigerian Tribune in Ibadaban. He shook my hand when I entered, almost as if he was relieved to see another human being. Then, a few minutes later, when a female photographer who said she was from Ghana walked in, Emosu couldn't help himself.

"African solidarity!" he shouted.

"We are all we have," she replied, grinning.

The bus waited. And it waited. Outside, I could see a throng of people with backpacks and cameras gathering at the main security check-in, where they'd enter the stadium. France, Nigeria's heavily favored opponent Monday afternoon, had a press conference at 11:15; we'd be back well before then, FIFA had said. The doors of the buses, roughly a corner kick away, remained wide open. By the time we rumbled off toward the training session, the final number of passengers was five.

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On the ride over, I took out my iPhone and re-familiarized myself with a Word document I'd thrown together that was more or less a scrapbook of near-weekly nightmares. While we Americans have apparently seen the last gasps of the national, hashtag-inflected conversation around Boko Haram -- the terrorist group that infamously kidnapped almost 300 schoolgirls -- so much more tragedy has befallen Nigeria since. And that's true even if you simply look through the lens of this sport.

There was the story last month about Ogenyi Onazi, a midfielder on this Nigeria team, who was wandering through the main market in his hometown of Jos. Fifteen minutes later, two car bombs went off, successively, right where the 21-year-old had just been shopping. "Suddenly, people were just running," Onazi told the BBC. "There was chaos and pandemonium. There was smoke, I was confused, lost and just wondered what had happened." At last count, 118 people had been killed.

Three days later, there was another bombing in the same city -- this time targeting fans watching the European Champions League final. The assailant's improvised explosive device detonated prematurely, holding the immediate death toll to three.

Nigeria surprised many by making it into the round of 16. They'll face a stiff test against France with a quarterfinal spot on the line.

Then, less than two weeks ago, yet another car bomb went off, this time targeting an outdoor World Cup viewing party for the Brazil-Mexico game in Damaturu. The most recent tally showed at least 14 people dead and 26 injured.

In any other country, but especially the United States, the intersection of so much death with the national pastime would birth endless coverage. But for Nigeria, during this summer of endless disaster, all of that is just another set of headlines, buried by fresher reports of a mall bombing in Abuja that killed at least 22 people; the murder of at least 21 soldiers at a military checkpoint; and roughly 90 more kidnappings, some 60 of whom are women and young girls. Those three things occurred in the past seven days alone, as the Super Eagles were busy advancing to the third Round of 16 in Nigerian history.

When the bus pulled in, I walked to the field with Emosu and asked him about Boko Haram -- which had publicly taken credit for some, but not all, of these atrocities -- and the horrors I'd been reading about.

"It's disturbing," he said. "If you ask me, I don't know what those people are after. They kill indiscriminately, both the young and the old. What is the focus? What is their target? As a human being, you should be disturbed. If you have blood flowing through your veins, you have to be disturbed."

He shook his head. "Almost every day," Emosu told me, "I just pray something drastic happens soon that will wipe them out."

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When we reached the field, which stretched out under a cloudless sky in Brasilia, the mood leavened. According to the team's media officer, Ben Alaiya, Nigeria had been given what amounted to a day off. Sunday's preferred training method, in an attempt to minimize injury before Monday's all-or-nothing match, was to play team handball in front of one of the goals. The players, cheering, loved it.

I walked up to the fence separating us from the field and asked Alaiya if there was anything he wanted an audience of Americans, perhaps watching Nigeria for the first time Monday, to know about his country. "We want them to know that we've always been a footballing nation, a great one at that," Alaiya said.

He proceeded to remind me that in 1994, at the United States World Cup, Nigeria had made it this far, only to lose to eventual finalist Italy. "Americans should remember us," he said, smiling.

But when I asked about the news back home, his smile broke. He suddenly looked exhausted.

"It's sad," Alaiya said. "But there's nothing we can do about it. The players, the time these stories get to them, they are downcast. But what else can one do?"

Hours later, after the buses had taken us back to the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, the team's official news conference began inside the stadium. I'd been expecting a flood of questions more or less pulled from my iPhone. But they never came.

Maybe it was because they'd all been addressed before, prior to earlier matches in the group stage; maybe it was because, this week, an admittedly juicy mini-scandal had emerged wherein the team canceled a training session over a dispute about player payment, since resolved.

Messi Revisited Nigeria played Argentina to the finish, but couldn't overcome a two-goal outing from Lionel Messi.

I asked John Obi Mikel, who, like Onazi, is a midfielder from Jos, about how the team was coping with so much tragedy during a World Cup.

"It's been quite a tragedy, but we're here," Mikel said. "We've got a job to do. We've got to play the games. We have to get on with it. That's the job. The things that are going on back home, we shouldn't let them affect us."

Then he struck a more hopeful note. "We want to do well," he added, "and hopefully, if we keep playing the way we're playing, and keep progressing, football is what will unite everyone back home in Nigeria. Everyone loves football. As long as we keep doing well, football alone can bring unity to various places where we're having problems."

To be clear: I'd never presupposed that these players could help stanch their country's non-stop bleeding. Mikel, out of sheer enthusiasm or optimism, or both, had volunteered a solution to a question I'd never imagined asking. Reading it back now, it seems like an unbelievable burden to self-impose.

But as he said these things, I will admit: I found myself nodding along, sincerely. I found myself wanting to believe him.

What else can one do?

Nigeria plays through country's pain
http://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cup/4/blog/post/1922891/nigeria-plays-through-countrys-pain

misleading?

Aba, even Messi have not been scoring consistently in the world cup. in his entire career, he has only managed to score 4 goals in a world cup and he his 27, Musa on the other hand has 2 goals and he his only 21. Again, this is Messi's 3rd world cup, but Musa's 1st.

Musa's goals against Argentina is more spectacular than Messi's. I don't know what others think, but as far as i am concerned, Ahmed Musa's 2 goals against Argentina are more spectacular than that of messi. But as usual, many are celebrating Messi's goals without even mentioning Musa. Why is that? I don't know. I have also read people on nl complaining about the same thing on espn,fifa and others, but the truth is, we can't entirely blame them without blaming ourselves. Even Nigeria's coach, Stephen Keshi after the match against Argentina said, Messi is from Jupiter. He said that because of the 2 goals he scored against Nigeria. So, if Messi is from Jupiter because he scored 2 goals against us, where is Ahmed Musa from since he also score 2 more spectacular goals against them? If others can't celebrate us, atleast, we should learn to celebrate ourselves.

Tbaba, it is important that adab (wisdom) reflect in every word of a Muslim, but i fear that your word do not reflect that which is taught by Islam when you describe my post as 'nonsense'. This is most unfortunate from a Muslim brother. Having said that,i agree that the hadith you cited is indeed valid, but not superior to the Quran. Is it? No. Such hadith are words to encourage learning and reading, but Allah's directives to recite and the reason for such directive was clearly stated in the Quran. I shall spare time in coming days to present the quranic verses which taught us what to seek when reciting. Again, the main purpose for Allah's directive is so we could be educated and reminded, that is the primary reason. Every other reason is secondary. If you lost the primary reason due to misunderstanding, ignorance in Islam is not an excuse. Salam

STOP READING ARABIC
QUR'AN IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ITS MEANING

The Almighty Allah has indeed commanded every
Muslim,male,female,old,young,rich or poor to always read the holy Qur'an
as a way to remind them of the right path. As expected during Ramadan,
more and more people adhere to Allah's calling and seek his favor
through variety of worships, one of which is the recitation of the holy
Qur'an.

Allah in the holy Qur'an directed Muslims to always recite the Qur'an,
but the reason for such directive as established in the sacred book is
for all Muslims to be educated in the ways of Allah and be guided to the
right path.

Ignorance in Islam is not an excuse, therefore, Allah desire that every
Muslim read the Qur'an to understand and be reminded of its message.

However, it has been observed that in today's world, most people who do
not even understand the meaning of a single ayah in the Qur'an read a
whole Qur'an especially during Ramadan. This is contrary to the wish of
Allah.

It is my understanding that, Allah do not just want us to be reading the
Qur'an from page one to the last page without understanding what we are
reading, he singular reason for directing us to read is so we could be
educated and understand the meaning of its messages.

Therefore, if you do not understand the meaning of what you are reading
in the Arabic Qur'an which is the original language of the Qur'an,
reading the Qurán over and over again add little or no value to your
deen. Don't waste your time reading what you do not understand, it is
not adding any value to your understanding of the deen of Allah,neither
is it influencing your daily conduct as a Muslim.

Kindly drop that Arabic Qur'an you are reading now until you understand
Arabic. Get a translated Quran, preferably one with tafseer.

Read it, comprehend it,reflect on it and apply its teachings in your
daily lives. I am sure that anytime you read a page in it, you must have
learn a new lesson. That is the desire of Allah. He doesn't want anyone
to be misguided by others, education is mandatory on every Muslim, male
and female Prophet Muhammed said.

If you do this, be rest assured that your reward is guaranteed with
Allah.

As we enter the holy month of Ramadan, may the almighty Allah help us to
acquire his mercies and encounter his forgiveness.

Abdulrazaq O Hamzat