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The President of Ghana, Dr. John Mahama Dramani is visiting Offa, Kwara State of Nigeria today as part of what a source described as "return to his family." A source close to the President of Ghana told the Nigeria Politics Online that the President had made his visit to Offa today as part of his itinerary to Nigeria where he was the Guest Lecturer at the University of Ilorin Convocation Lecture in Ilorin on Friday. Investigations by the Nigeria Politics Online reveal that the Ghanaian President's step mother who is late, was from Offa. The President of Ghana according to information gathered by the Nigeria Politics Online, is to be honoured with a traditional title in the town today as part of measures to make his visit memorable. He was said to have decided to use the occasion of his visit to pay homage to the burial ground of his step mother. The President himself was said to have lived in Offa for sometimes while growing up. He has close to his administration in Ghana, a daughter of the step mother, simply named Sherifat Dundu. The town of Offa is said to be agog as the Ghanaian president visits the town today. Other prominent sons and daughters of the town were also said to have been invited by the monarch, Oba Moruf Oloyede Gbadamosi.

duwdu:
I just tried it on the Glo number associated with my account... it did not work for me.

Thanks anyways, OP @Bimpe29, for the heads up.

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It is working on any network with which BVN was enrolled.

FREEDOM4BIAFRA:
Go to your chats and call settings, tick the box for data optimization, that will help. I made calls both with 3g and edge. I think we underestimate these things.

Alright. Thanks.

Mancity26:
Mr. Wike will still win the election.. All the APC plan will not prosper.. Go and fight Book boys GMB.. #funnyNation
comedian coming soon!

Dakuku! Dakuku!! My Governor! My Governor!!

In a way, OBJ contributed to the deplorable conditions of the road. Under his watch as nation's President for 8 years Lagos-Ibadan, Ibadan-Oyo, Oyo-Ogbomosho express road can't be completed despite huge annual budgetary allocation for that project.

Don't mind the busy body jare. Even if their speech is being paid, they will still not mind paying for rubbish. Has he violated any known moral or ethical value for eating sugar cane? Answer is NO

Haba! This tragedy is too many.

Atlantian:
"I will make Nigeria ungovernable" - DauraDullard 2011

Are you watching your back?

May Allah give us the ability to do so, and accept same from us as an act of worship ameen.

Hand of brotherhood it is!

Praise be to Allaah.

It is makrooh to single out Saturday for fasting, because of the report narrated by al-Tirmidhi (744), Abu Dawood (2421) and Ibn Maajah (1726) from ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Busr, from his sister, that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Do not fast on Saturdays apart from days when you are obliged to fast. If any one of you cannot find anything other than grape stalks or the twigs of a tree, let him chew it (to make sure that he is not fasting).” Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in al-Irwa’ (960). Abu ‘Eesa al-Tirmidhi said: This is a hasan hadeeth. What is makrooh in this case is for a man to single out Saturday for fasting, because the Jews venerate Saturday. End quote.

Ibn Qudaamah (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in al-Mughni (3/52): Our companions said: It is makrooh to single out Saturday for fasting … what is makrooh is singling out that day. If he fasts another day along with it, then it is not makrooh, because of the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah and Juwayriyah. If it coincides with a day that a person regularly fasts, it is not makrooh.

What is meant by the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah is the report narrated by al-Bukhaari (1985) and Muslim (1144) from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) who said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “No one of you should fast on Friday, unless he fasts (a day) before it or after it.”

The hadeeth of Juwayriyah was narrated by al-Bukhaari (1986) from Juwayriyah bint al-Haarith (may Allaah be pleased with her), that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) entered upon her on a Friday and she was fasting. He said; “Did you fast yesterday?” She said, “No.” He said: “Do you intend to fast tomorrow?” She said: “No.” He said: “Then break your fast.”

This hadeeth and the one before it clearly indicate that it is permissible to fast on a Saturday at times other than Ramadaan, for the one who fasts the Friday before.

It is proven in al-Saheehayn that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The most beloved of fasting to Allaah is the fast of Dawood; he used to fast one day and not the next.”

In this case it is bound to happen that he will sometimes fast on a Saturday on its own. So it may be understood from this that if Saturday coincides with a day that he habitually fasts, such as ‘Arafah or ‘Ashoora’, there is nothing wrong with fasting on that day, even if it is on its own.

Al-Haafiz stated in al-Fath that an exception to the prohibition on fasting on Friday is made if a person habitually fasts on a certain day, such as ‘Arafah, and it coincides with Friday.

The same applies to Saturday. We have quoted the words of Ibn Qudaamah concerning that above.

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

It should be noted that different scenarios may apply with regard to fasting on a Saturday.

1 – It may be obligatory, such as observing a Ramadaan fast during Ramadaan or making it up later on, or observing a fast as expiation (kafaarah), or instead of offering a sacrifice when performing Hajj tamattu’, and so on. There is nothing wrong with that so long as he does not single it out deliberately thinking that there is some virtue in that.

2 – If he fasts on the Friday before, there is nothing wrong with it, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said to one of the Mothers of the Believers who was fasting on a Friday: “Did you fast yesterday?” She said: “No.” He said: “Are you going to fast tomorrow?” She said, “No.” He said: “Then break your fast.” The words, “Are you going to fast tomorrow?” indicate that it is permissible to fast Saturday along with Friday.

3 – If it happens to be one of the days when it is prescribed to fast, such as Ayyaam al-Beed (the 13th, 14th and 15th of each hijri month), ‘Arafah, ‘Ashoora’, six days of Shawwaal for one who has fasted Ramadaan, and the ninth of Dhu’l-Hijjah. There is nothing wrong with that, because he is not fasting because it is Saturday, rather it is because it is one of the days when it is prescribed to fast.

4 – When it happens to be a day when he habitually fasts, such as a person whose habit is to fast alternate days, and the day that he fasts happens to be a Saturday, then there is nothing wrong with it, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said when he forbade fasting one or two days before Ramadaan begins: “except a man who (habitually) observes a fast, in which case let him fast.” This is similar.

5 – If he singles it out to observe a voluntary fast for one day only. This is what is forbidden, if the hadeeth forbidding it is proven to be saheeh.

End quote from Majmoo’ Fataawa wa Rasaa’il al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (20/57)

And Allaah knows best.

Many thanks to Femi Falana.