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Pro-Amechi Rally In Lagos

A coalition of civil society groups in Lagos this morning holding a solidarity protest in support of Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.

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Did they graduate only obj when he graduated?

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I do not like the allure of power. I am not carried away by the limitless reach of the presidency. My head does not swell when traditional rulers whose palaces I dared not enter without removing my shoes now stumble over themselves to pledge allegiance.

So what, if former presidents scramble to their feet when I enter a room? It does not touch me in the least. And there is nothing special about presiding over federal executive council meetings where we enrich new sets of friends weekly. It is our turn.

It is not my fault that governors tremble when I glare at them and are fighting in their own forum. That they all have to wait for me to arrive for meetings and stand up to greet me as soon as I enter does not make me haughty. The long list of diplomats, special envoys and CEOs of multinationals waiting to see me every day to curry favours in one form or another has not gone into my head, nor the fact that every news begins with me and ends with madam. It is our turn.

That every mouth rings out with raucous laughter when I tell dry jokes is only to be expected. I never had much sense of humour anyway. That some of the most powerful politicians in the land line up to croon my praises to high heavens is nothing exceptional. I know that what they really want is that juicy ministerial appointment; that powerful commission; that coveted ambassadorial posting or that much sought-after oil block.

That I can wake up one day and direct that a multi-billion naira airport be constructed in my state does not bother me in the least. It does not matter if I am the only passenger that will use the airport, nor does it trouble me that without even asking for it, a federal university is being built in my tiny hometown. How many villages have produced presidents before mine? It is our turn.

Oh yes, that by simply nodding, I can send the attack dogs called EFCC, ICPC and CCB after practically anyone I chose does not make me smile secretly with pervert pleasure. That I know the secret bank accounts and supposedly hidden properties and estates of many of all governors, ministers, law makers and judges does not give me any sadistic satisfaction, nor the fact that I can use the information when I need to – election time or not.

It is not my fault that entire neighbourhoods are cordoned off whenever I visit. That my presidential fleet of aircraft is among the largest in the world is only befitting. That madam has a jet or two at her disposal is her right. That I have no knowledge of the intricacies of economics and the fundamentals of management is not an issue. It is our turn.

Good thing I managed to kill off that fuel subsidy palaver quietly. Incidentally, who told them that the entire N2.6 trillion simply vanished into thin air? How did they suppose we oiled the campaign machinery that ensured such resounding success at the polls?

Now those noise-makers are making trouble about oil theft. They do not understand that making our turn worthwhile requires a less complicated route to the treasury without those meddlesome lawmakers. By that way, who told them it is theft? Can you steal what is essentially yours?

Meanwhile, Nigerians completely misunderstand my wife. The truth is, just like me, she has absolutely no interest in power. Did she not train to be a teacher? Was she a politician before the call to duty came? Come to think about it, what is it that she has done wrong? That she disliked the disrespectful governor of my state and recommended a more pliable candidate who promptly rewarded her with the position of permanent secretary? It is our turn.

And just when I thought the dust was settling, those busybody journalists are beginning to focus on her again, some even calling her Madam President. What effrontery! Is she not supposed to enjoy the fruits of our labour? Was she supposed to fold her arms while that pretender to the throne in the Garden City pours sand-sand in our garri? My wife loves serving the country so much that she will use anything and everything in her considerable armoury to ensure that Nigerians have the pleasure of our service until 2019, perhaps longer.

Can you imagine? They are saying I have no clues about solving insecurity, unemployment, decaying infrastructure, falling education and growing poverty and are asking what I have achieved since becoming president? What has that go to do with why I want to remain in office? Did I create unemployment? I am the inventor of corruption? What is my concern with poverty – was I not born poor? How can I solve Boko Haram when I didn’t create it?

They are all missing the point. I want to remain president for one reason: It is our turn.

http://www.nigeriaintel.com/2013/07/29/it-is-our-turn-salisu-suleiman/

so, why are people death sentence as if it has ever stopped anything?

when they want to use you, you are not hausa. when they finish using you, you are hausa. lol

WILL DEATH SENTENCE STOP CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA?

Killing a fellow human is a crime punishable by death in Nigeria, but despite that, people, especially ritualists and politicians kill people in this country on a daily basis. Do you think death sentence for corruption would make any difference?

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Asari Dokubo, previously and erroneously thought to hate the Hausa people of Northern Nigeria took time out to explain to whom his animosity is directed when a facebok friend of his asked him the following question after he had uploaded several pictures of the visit to him by Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha.

One Iyesuyi Erins, had asked, “Alhaji I thought you hated Hausa people?”

In response Asari responded thus-“I would have ignored you Iyesuyi Erins…. but since you are ignorant let me educate you… Gambaris are invaders from Futa Djallon.. .they are sometimes called Fulas or Fulanis. While the Hausas are indigineous people whose kingdoms were forcefully taking over by the Gambaris…. Today it is only in Suleja we have an Hausa Emir of the old pre-amalgamation Emirates. Hamza Al Mustapha is neither Gambari or Hausa….He is a Kanembu.”


http://www.naijapundit.com/news/i-have-nothing-against-the-hausa-it-is-the-fulani-who-invaded-and-enslaved-them-i-am-against-asari

Police abduct, incarcerate Nigerian businessman over online comments about PDP topshot, Emeka Offor

An online comment about a powerful controversial politician and businessman lands a South Africa-based Nigerian businessman in trouble: police harassment and prolonged detention.

On July 13, four days after arriving Nigeria from his South Africa base, Bonny Okonkwo was attending a business meeting in Surulere, Lagos when his phone rang.

The caller on the other end announced that he was a police officer from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. The officer ordered Mr. Okonkwo to race back to his Mushin apartment immediately for an arrest.

When he arrived his apartment, half a dozen fully armed and stern looking SARS officers were waiting with AK 47 rifles on their shoulders.

They dragged him from his car, pinned him to the floor, handcuffed and loaded him into the trunk of a waiting SUV and drove off, in commando style.

Defamation arrest

After he was offloaded at an Ikeja police station, a divisional police officer informed him, for the first time since his ordeal began, the reason for his abduction-like arrest.

A Nigerian ruling party politician and billionaire businessman, Emeka Offor, had petitioned the police complaining that Mr. Bonny defamed him in a contribution he made in an online discussion forum.

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, had ordered his arrest and detention after Mr. Offor petitioned the police boss through Fortress Solicitors.

The police dragged Mr. Bonny to the station’s counter, documented, stripped and pushed him into a holding cell where he spent six days in solitary confinement.

Philanthropist or fraudster

Mr. Offor, a wealthy Nigerian oil baron, recently donated $1 million to PolioPlus, an international polio eradication programme promoted by Rotary International.

Mr. Offor, founder and Executive Vice Chairman of Chrome Group, a Nigerian conglomerate with interests in oil trading, biofuels, dredging and logistics, made the donation during the 2013 Rotary International Convention in Lisbon, Portugal.

He had earlier in 2012 donated $250,000 to the humanitarians.

While the global giving community celebrated the emergence of another cheerful giver, Mr. Offor’s gift to the Rotary International sparked a heated debate among his folks, in an online forum for his kinsmen – a group e-mail forum, Mbala Obodo, hosted by an association of Oraifite indigenes known as ocean-anaedo on its website.

A good number of those who participated in the discussion praised Mr. Offor for the donation. Others were however not impressed, nicknaming him “Donatus Portugal” and criticizing him for the donations.

The dissenting voices also made reference to what they called Mr. Offor’s ugly past, especially his alleged history of bank loan abuses, and the poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment that lingers in his ancestral home.

Mr. Bonny fell into the later category.
Bonny Nwankwo

Bonny Nwankwo

“In part of Igbo where this fella comes from, I am sure there is no clean drinking water,no steady electricity, no hospital,” Mr Bonny said in his post in the forum.

“From my own point of view, this is display of the highest stupidity and wickedness at the international level,” Mr. Bonny said. “If Nigeria is like America or Britain, he will be arrested on arrival and taken to court for fraud. How can a man that defrauded one of the failed banks in Nigeria over 5Billion as loan, but refused to pay this money so that the poor depositors can get their money back, go to another country to donate one million dollar, and some people are clapping their hands for him on this forum? Even though I don’t know his state of mind when he was making such donation, I guess madness like.”

Mr. Bonny’s post stood out from all the dissenting voices in the forum and immediately drew Mr. Offor’s fury.

“Mr. Boniface Okonkwo simply went beyond the usual vulgar abuse characterizing their comments on Sir Emeka Offor to level criminal allegations and make fraudulent imputations against the man,” Godson Ugochukwu of Fortress Solicitors, Mr. Offor’s attorney said.

Mr. Offor got his attorneys to write him, demanding he retracts the post, publish an apology in three Nigerian national dailies and on the web. Mr. Offor threatened legal actions if his demands were not met within 24 hours.

Mr. Bonny, confident he had said nothing new about Mr. Offor, replied the billionaire asking for a date in court.

“All I have said are in public domain and can be defended in court,” he told the businessman.

Mr. Offor was indicted by the senate in one of Nigeria’s largest insider credit abuse that saw 13 banks collapse with N188 billion of depositors’ funds.

The businessman was a director in the liquidated African Express Bank Plc. He unduly used his position to acquire loans totalling N7.5bn, a senate report on failed Nigerian banks said.

Only about N3.6bn of the loan was recovered.

Mr. Offor is also a major financier of Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party and a major contractor with the government.

Anchoff Stronghold Limited, a subsidiary of the Chrome Group, has clients that include Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Power Holding Corporation of Nigeria, PHCN, Port Harcourt Refinery and Petrochemical Company, PHRC, Warri Refinery, and National Integrated Power Project, NIPP.

Prolonged detention

At the Ikeja police station, Mr. Bonny got nothing close to legal action. “He was denied access to his family and lawyer” Sylvanus Udedibia, his cousin said.

On the seventh day, he was moved to another cell out of Ikeja, where he spent another night before the police shipped him up north, to a cell in Garki, Abuja – Nigeria’s capital city.

After arriving the Abuja cell, on the ninth day in detention, he was given his first breather, a “restricted” opportunity to reach out to his lawyers.

All along, his family was only able to keep tabs on his changing location through snippets of information discreetly fed them by concerned police officers.

On Thursday, 13 days after he was arrested in Lagos, the Abuja police command dragged Mr Bonny before a magistrate court on the outskirts of the city, where he was charged for defaming Mr. Offor.

Mr. Bonny arrived the court in a police van, with police prosecutors, but without his attorney.

“The police did not inform us they were charging him that day,” Mr. Udedibia said.

At the court, Mr. Bonny informed the judge that the police had denied him access to legal representation. The judge suspended the case by 24 hours, ordering the police to allow the victim access to his lawyers.

The following day, his lawyers presented an application for bail. After hearing the bail application in the morning, the judge requested time to consider the case and rule on the application.

Hours later, just before the weekend kicked in, the judge sent a clerk to inform his lawyers and family that he was attending to a pressing matter and could not deliver judgment that day.

Mr. Bonny was dragged back to his cell where he would spend the weekend.

Illegal detention

The Nigerian laws permits the police to hold a suspect for only 24 hours – and 48 hours where there is no court within reach – before pressing charges.

Mr. Bonny was held for 13 days, eleven days more than what is allowed by the law.

But the police have, in several cases broken that law, holding victims for longer days, especially if the victims were up against influential accusers.

When asked about Mr. Bonny’s prolonged incarceration, Emeka Offor’s lawyer, Godson Ugochukwu, who signed the petition on which the police based its July 13 arrest of the businessman, was evasive.

Mr. Ugochukwu said the victim’s detention was a matter before a court. He also denied Mr. Bonny was ever held incommunicado.

The Federal Capital Territory police command, which is currently prosecuting Mr. Bonny curiously denied knowledge of the case. Its spokesperson, Altine Daniel, suggested the case was not been handled by her command.

Frank Mba, Force spokesperson also said he was not aware of the case. When pressed for justification for prolonged detentions, he argued that every general rule have exceptions.

“Each case is treated on its individual merit,” he said.

Mr. Bonny’s family and kinsmen in the Oraifite community of Anambra state are deeply saddened by the billionaire’s use of state authorities to intimidate and incarcerate Mr. Bonny, Fidelis Okonkwo, the victim’s younger brother, said.

“Whatever he is accused of, he should have been charged a long time ago,” Mr. Okonkwo added.
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/141816-police-abduct-incarcerate-nigerian-businessman-over-online-comments-about-pdp-topshot-emeka-offor.html

Hum

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GEJ,BUHARI,RIBADU,AL-MUSTAPHA AND 2015 ELECTION, A SIMILAR STRATEGY

In 2010, when President Goodluck Jonathan feared that General Muhammed Buhari may sweep the entire Northern region in the 2011 presidential election which would make his emergence difficult or impossible, he came up with a measure to reduce Buhari's influence in the north by bringing Nuhu Ribadu who was at that time scared to come into the country due to his case with efcc during Yar'adua's tenure.

Ribadu alongside Elrufai were granted pardon,but he Ribadu decided to do the presidents bidding by coming out as a candidate for the presidential election to break the northern support for Buhari while Elrufai decline to support the move and instead align with Buhari.

I could vividly remember my question to Nuhu Ribadu in 2010 before his official declaration, i asked him, ''It is a common knowledge that President Goodluck Jonathan granted you pardon which paved way for you to enter Nigeria after being away for many years since Yar'adua came on board, How do you intend to convince me that you are not being used by the president to achieve his aim? Ribadu replied, I am innocent. All the allegation against me were false.

I asked again,Since you now claimed to be innocent after being granted a pardon, why didn't you show up then to clear yourself in court since you are innocent? he replied i again, i am innocent. A new Nigeria is possible.

At this point, i knew Ribadu was not sincere, i knew he was being used by the President. He didn't answer the question.but instead covered it.

Now in 2013, Al-mustapha is back.........freed from prison after 15 years..

Al-Mustapha's Supporters held a rally in kaduna asking him to contest as Nigerian president in 2015. What a strategy.

na u sabi oo, if you no fit correct am, leave am like that

You may find this excerpt interesting " In any case, that incident has raised the issue of the logic behind a married woman’s adoption of her husband’s name as her surname instead of maintaining her father’s name. After all, in many parts of the world, as soon as a woman gets married she simply sheds her father’s name and adopts her husband’s name as her surname instead.

Incidentally the rampancy of this practice, which is said to have emanated from the west, gives the impression that it is a settled issue by all logical, moral and even religious standards. After all, some people who try to justify it argue that since surname in the western culture may not necessarily refer to father’s name, there is no issue in adopting someone else’s name as surname.

Though even if this is the case in the western culture, it does not in any way justify such practice, because surname basically refers to father’s name generally as it is also maintained in Islam.

Therefore, in as much as I wonder the logic behind this practice, I consider it a blatant manifestation of unfairness to both the married woman and her father alike. The father for instance, who had trained and educated her to the moral and academic standard good enough to impress the husband before he married her, is simply relegated by having his name removed as her surname, which constitutes not only an injustice but an insult to him also.

What particularly confirms that it is indeed an insult is the fact that, such name withdrawal/adoption practice is often done subject to the financial, professional or socio-political status of the father compared to the husband and vice versa.

For instance in a situation whereby a husband enjoys better social or financial status and fame, his wife automatically withdraws her father’s name, adopts and indeed flaunts her husband’s name as her surname. However, in case of vice versa, she retains her father’s name as her surname, and only close her friends and relatives may know her husband’s name.

Moreover, one can hardly find a married daughter of a serving or former governor, incumbent or former president, traditional ruler or extremely wealthy man, bearing her husband’s name as her surname, whereas once it is the husband who enjoys one of such statuses, and unless her father is higher than him, she automatically gets rid of her father’s name in favour of her husband’s name.

Interestingly enough, in a situation whereby both the father and the husband’s names are two important to be discarded, she cleverly combines the two names as her surnames, even though the still makes sure that the most prominent between the two names appears more conspicuous.

This identity manipulation obviously exposes a married woman to unnecessary embarrassment especially if she is a public figure, when she has to switch surnames in case of any divorce or her husband’s death, which inevitably gives room for unnecessary inquisition and even interference into her personal life, all of which would have been avoided had she kept her father’s name as her standard and permanent surname.

This is despite the fact that, some women go to the extent of maintaining their former prominent or wealthy husbands’ names as their surnames even after remarrying, unless if they happen to marry equally wealthy or famous husbands again.

Moreover, this practice is also unfair to the married woman herself in the sense that it undermines her natural pride, which her father’s name greatly represents, especially in this increasingly morally bankrupt world where a growing number people are born out of wedlock. Nevertheless, I have never heard any opposition against this phenomenon from women right organizations and activists.

Interestingly enough, in addition to married women, some men and women, whose paternal or maternal grandfathers enjoy better social statuses than their fathers or husbands, cleverly skip their less famous fathers’ or husbands’ names or simply mention them quite ambiguously only to highlight the adopted names of such famous paternal or maternal grandfathers at the expense of the names of their less famous biological fathers. Worse still is how some other people adopt even the names of their mentors, bosses and their benefactors as their surnames.

Anyway, though the prevalence of such practice could be attributed to lack of ample awareness about its implications, there is no sound logic or moral standard let alone religious precept to justify it whatsoever. As a matter of fact, it is to a great extent impossible to rule out the suspicion that, the vast majority of those who do it are motivated by some elements of disdain for their relatively socially or financially disadvantaged biological fathers.

It is noteworthy that, Islam is particularly against this bad practice as there is no circumstance whatsoever allowing a Muslim to intentionally replace his biological father’s name under any pretext. The apostle of Allah; Mohammad, peace and blessing of Allah be upon him was authentically reported to have warned that; “Whoever knowingly adopts someone’s name as his father’s name while he knows that he is not his real father, he will be denied entry into the heaven” {Sahihul-Bukhary, Hadith No. 6385}.

After all, even the wives of the apostle of Allah never adopted his name as their surnames despite being married to the best among the whole creatures. Instead even his wife Safiyya whose Jewish father; Huyay bin Akhtab was particularly notorious for his open enmity against the apostle of Allah, yet she maintained her father’s name as her surname anyway." http://qaddamsidq..ae/2012/10/the-married-womans-surname.html

which culture and which tradition? where did this practice derive it sources?

Someone asked me today, What is your view about women seizing to bear their fathers name after being married and i replied, why should a lady seize to bear her fathers name because she got married? Who said it should be so? Is it her choice or her husband's choice? or, a choice derived from the general public?

If it is her choice, good. if it is her husband's choice, wrong. if it is the choice derived from the general public, there is no compulsion in it.


As for me, I will not allow my wife change her surname when we get married. She should retain her fathers name, but would add mine as a plus,except she choses to change it to mine herself.

Why must women seize to bear their fathers name because they get married?

We are Often Unaware of our Indebtedness to the Islamic Civilization, says Hewlett Packard Chief

Carly Fiorina, the CEO of Hewlett Packard, recently gave a speech defining the relevance of leadership in today's world. Here is the quote from the final part of her speech.

"I'll end by telling a story.

There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world.

It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins.

One of its languages became the universal language of much of the world, the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands. Its armies were made up of people of many nationalities, and its military protection allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known. The reach of this civilization's commerce extended from Latin America to China, and everywhere in between.

And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the human body, and found new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration.

Its writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance and magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped in fear to think of such things.

When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others.

While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the civilization I'm talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent.

Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage. The technology industry would not exist without the contributions of Arab mathematicians. Sufi poet-philosophers like Rumi challenged our notions of self and truth. Leaders like Suleiman contributed to our notions of tolerance and civic leadership.

And perhaps we can learn a lesson from his example: It was leadership based on meritocracy, not inheritance. It was leadership that harnessed the full capabilities of a very diverse population–that included Christianity, Islamic, and Jewish traditions.

This kind of enlightened leadership — leadership that nurtured culture, sustainability, diversity and courage — led to 800 years of invention and prosperity.

In dark and serious times like this, we must affirm our commitment to building societies and institutions that aspire to this kind of greatness. More than ever, we must focus on the importance of leadership– bold acts of leadership and decidedly personal acts of leadership."

For the full speech, please go to:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/speeches/fiorina/minnesota01.htm

http://www.albalagh.net/current_affairs/hp_chief.shtml

the struck in the hadiths you quoted doesn't imply beating...It simply follow the same pattern as the above explanation.


this is what the prophet said concerning wives..


Narrated Mu'awiyah al-Qushayri: "I went to the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) and asked him: What do you say (command) about our wives? He replied: Give them food what you have for yourself, and clothe them by which you clothe yourself, and do not beat them, and do not revile them. (Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 11, Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah), Number 2139)"

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: "He who believes in Allah and the Hereafter, if he witnesses any matter he should talk in good terms about it or keep quiet. Act kindly towards woman, for woman is created from a rib, and the most crooked part of the rib is its top. If you attempt to straighten it, you will break it, and if you leave it, its crookedness will remain there. So act kindly towards women. (Translation of Sahih Muslim, The Book of Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah), Book 008, Number 3468)"

2. Question 2, The Quran says in Surah 38:44 - "And take in your hand a green branch and beat her with it, and do not break your oath..." Is a woman allowed to beat a man as well? Why would a man beat his wife? She is flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone.


Answer...

This Aya in the Quran was narating the incident which occured to Prophet Ayub...If you go back to 41,42,43 before the 44 you quoted, you will understand the quotation better.. pls, for the purpose of next time, don't just quote a section which has precedent from the previous chapters..

Back to the question,



Here Allah tells us about His servant and Messenger Ayub (Job) and how He tested him with sickness. These tests afflicted his body, his wealth and his children, until there was no part of his body that was healthy except his heart. Then he had nothing left in this world which he could use to help him deal with his sickness or the predicament he was in, besides his wife, who retained her devotion to him because of her faith in Allah and His Messenger. She used to work for people as a paid servant, and she fed and served him (Ayub) for nearly eighteen years. During this period, she did something to him, probably because of her work with people and Ayub (job), peace be upon him, got angry with his wife and was upset about something she had done when he was ill, so he swore an oath that if Allah healed him, he would strike her with one hundred blows.

When Allah healed him, how could her service, mercy, compassion and kindness be repaid with a beating because she did something? So Allah showed him a way out of his oath, which was to take a bundle of thin grass, with one hundred stems, and hit her with it once. Thus he fulfilled his oath and avoided breaking his vow. This was the solution and way out to avoid breaking his vow.

Allah says:

Truly, We found him patient. How excellent a servant! Verily, he was ever oft-returning in repentance (to Us)!

Ofcourse, what was said was not to hurt her in a way that would affect her, it is like someone you have promised to give 100 blows when you were angry, and when she comes, you just slightly touched her chicks.

Question 1, why are men allowed to marry 4 wives and women are not allowed to do so.

Thanks to you for asking such an open question.

For the purpose of this question, let me state that, If a woman have more than one husband,may be four and she becomes pregnant, who becomes the father of the child among the four husband? on the contrary, a man can impregnate four women without questions.

How can a woman fulfil her responsibilities to four men? If she is pregnant for A, B have to wait for years to get his own child, so is C and D? Can it work realistically? NO

Note pls: (apply this to since the time of the prophet till date)

On a more formal note, As much as men and women have equal rights in Islam, they have different roles and responsibilities. Just as Nigerians have equal right according to the constitution, but the duty of the president is different from the senate president and the citizens.

There is no any religion except Islam that put a limit on the number of wives a man can have, that is why we have prophets like Solomon in the bible having more than 50 as he wishes. before Islam came to limit number of wives to 4, there was no religion before it that addressed this issue.

Qur'an is the only religious scripture in the world that says 'marry only one' Qur'an is the only religious book, on the face of this earth, that contains the phrase 'marry only one'. There is no other religious book that instructs men to have only one wife. In none of the religious scriptures like the Vedas, the Ramayan, the Mahabharat, the Geeta or the Bible does one find a restriction on the number of wives. According to these scriptures one can marry as many as one wishes. It was only later, that the Hindu priests and the Christian Church restricted the number of wives to one.


So, the number of wives have nothing to do with equal rights...Just as a student studying English may spend 4 years and another studying law may spend 6.....is that inequality? a student studying accounting may spend 4 and medicine spends 7. is that inequality?.....NO..... the role of each differ and the number of year is in accordance to their roles and responsibility.


However, even though islam allow men to have at most 4 wives, there are conditions that must be met for such to be valid. The Quran clearly said, if you can't not be just between them, marry only one...

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We don’t need an election manipulator like you – Mugabe rejects Obasanjo

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has stated that Nigerian former president, turned cleric; Olusegun Obasanjo is a known election manipulator and not needed in Zimbabwe.

Mugabe took a swipe on the Otta farmer who got into the country against this weekend’s presidential election, stating that the people of Zimbabwe don’t need his assistance.

According to Mugabe, AU’ s choice of General Obasanjo as the head of the Commission’s Monitoring Delegation was not needed by Zimbabwean people.

He said, “Obasanjo is a known election manipulator whose democratic credential has always promoted left wing politics right from his days as the chairman of the Eminent Peoples Forum”.

http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/07/25/presidential-polls-we-dont-need-an-election-manipulator-like-you-mugabe-rejects-obasanjo/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=presidential-polls-we-dont-need-an-election-manipulator-like-you-mugabe-rejects-obasanjo

Pls note, if you could not find your answer in the thread about the status of women in Islam, you free to hold unto your ignorance....its a choice. However, if you have any meaningful question, feel free to ask.

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Yinka Ayefele Donates 50Million Naira Hall,Books To Alma Mata
July 25, 2013 10:22 am0 commentsViews: 153

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Apparently irked by the deplorable state of his alma mata, Dr, Yinka Ayefele, MON on Thursday made a donation of 5000 big notes to Ipoti Community Secondary School in Ipoti Ekiti where he left 28 years ago.
The popular musician also laid the foundation of a N50 million multi-purpose hall for the use of the school and the community.
Earlier in her speech, the representative of the state governor, Dr(Mrs) Eniola Ajayi, the Commissioner for Environment said the state want kind hearted indigenes of the state that can come back and improve their community to complement the efforts of the state government.
“The government of Dr. Kayode Fayemi has done a lot in terms of turning the fortunes of the state around. The government has done a lot in the areas of education.” She said.
The event which held at the school premises was attended by the Chairman of Ijero local government, Hon. Bode Agbeleye, the newly installed Onipoti of Ipoti Ekiti, HRH James Oladipupo Kolade.
Ayefele enjoined members of the community to always give back to the community saying “It is not that I’m very rich but I believe that with the little I have,i can contribute which will still go a long way in making some impacts” he said.
Reacting to the gesture, the Principal of the school, Mr. Bolarinwa Rufus Taiwo thanked the donor and enjoined other old students of the school to emulate Ayefele.
A release signed by his Publicist, David Ajiboye said Ayefele is also giving back to the society through the Yinka Ayefele Foundation where several less privilege has benefited immensely .
PHOTO ABOVE: Dr. Yinka Ayefele, MON making the presentation of the books to a student while the Chairman of Ijero Local government and the Commissioner for Environment, Ekiti State looks on.

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