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Arrewa:
Deputy governor of Borno state receives protesters demanding reinstatement of #SARS.

The protesters that combined civil society organizations, youth , trade association, etc, marched on streets of Maiduguri condemning the recent disbandment of SARS considering its importance in restoration of peace in the state.

The protesters were received by H.E Usman Kadafur the deputy governor of Borno state at gate of Borno state government house in Maiduguri this morning.

Pictures by Borno community watch
https://www.facebook.com/637228206760552/posts/985764691906900/

you want security operatives that has turned to coming crimes against the people they swore to protect not just to continue to exist but to be brought to the North

Zzor:
Most Nigerian men have this mentality that a good woman should not like money, she should be ready to suffer with them (they will maltreat her after the money comes), she should also not see anything wrong with cheating as long as they are providing for the family.

Why must a woman undergo all these before she can be tagged a good woman? Is she your mother?

You have a wrong presumption about this. women can like money all they want, we only don't want them to like OUR money too much

EmptyGarden:
Abeg what race is Green & White?

so then you were referring to the flag. this seems like Mia-culpa.

EmptyGarden:
Lovely. These fellows are doing justice to our colours, true patriots.

That's a racist remark you made.

willybaby:
big long grammar when you can just say harvested unprocessed rice

It's sarcasm bro.

iretinyeee:
pls what is paddy rice

"paddy" is a word in broken English which means "friend". So, technically, paddy-rice should mean friend-rice or friendship-rice.

shariff84:
paddy or local rice?

is new paddy rice out yet?

ayenale1:
God created everything(all) from Gen-Rev extention to our present world including the good, the bad and the ugly. Because you don't carry AK-47 to rob bank does not say u don't do petty stealing at home (bad side of man) knowing fully well that both actions carries same weight before God then that don't mean that both of you don't love your neighbors(good side of man) then who created you both??God right. God created everything in u both good and bad behaviors only that something somewhere have not activated some bad behavior in you and that doesn't mean that you are immune to it.

Did God created the ak-47?

Enudapan:
Nna eh! No qualms
This is so unsophisticated

You're just poor and, not stringy.

you're giving her 40% your monthly take, that's a bit part of your earnings. it sounds big in percentage but, to be fair that amount is almost nothing when diced up for 4 people plus you, making 5 ( since you will come home for dinner).

So please don't fight your wife. find a solution, and do that quick before your kids start school.
You need to upgrade your hustle, and maybe help your wife get a job.

thesicilian:
Apart from telling the time, what else do these luxury watches actually do?

No, they tell you the time in a luxurious manner.

obembet:
MUFC in for Gabriel, Gabriel joins Arsenal MUFC in for Ake, Ake joins City MUFC in for Reguilon, Reguilon joins Spurs MUFC in for Bale, Bale re-joins Spurs MUFC in for Thiago, Thiago joins Liverpool MUFC in for Sancho, Sancho stays at BvB

sounds like a conspiracy.

Openbusiness:
You guys are always quick to label things with derogatory terms without even doing any holistic research on whatever claims he put out there. Jesus said, "whoever eats of his flesh...", and the religious people around said he was crazy for saying such. Same way, Galileo was labeled an heretic by the Roman Catholics for postulating a theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe and that the Sun didn't revolve around the Earth. Galileo said it was the other way around and it was the earth moving around the Sun. They killed him for it. But what do you know, later turns out Galileo was right. Many other cases like that in human history. So why not conduct your research to disprove or verify his claims first? Where's your research? Where's your counter postulations? None! Only insults. Nawa oh

So you did a "holistic" research and came to the conclusion that Galileo was killed by the church.
I'm sure Joseph1832 was describing you in body and spirit When he said "Idiots".

mayayinks:
Please how much can I sell 5 litres of liquid soap as things are getting more expensive

It depends on how much you're spending to produce 5 liters. my pricing formula is to add all the costs together and, devide it by the amount of litres produced then, multiply it by x2 or x3 depending on competition prices.

for example:
T.p 100
chemicals. 300 (for 5litres)
keg(container) 100= 500 X 2 = 1,000
1,000÷5= 200.

that's 200 per litre and 1,000 per 5 litres.
and it depends on how much your competitors are selling theirs or, the quality of your soap and how affordable you're looking to make sell it for.

axeman10:
What then happens to a woman who refuses to give her husband food? Is there a law on that?

Marriage isn't making sense anymore. you bought the food with your money, they cook it and refuse to give you.

What about wives who refused to cook for their husbands, or refused to indulge in "the other room"?

I wonder if the MOD that moved this topic to the FP lack simple comprehension or it is just ol incompetence.

FG plans to ban alcoholic drinks contained in small bottle is not the same as" FG has ban alcoholic drinks contained in small bottle".

on the OP; the idea of banning alcohol in smaller bottles for moral reason falls flats against commonsense. at the end of the day, those who are accustomed to buying 20cl bottle would need to buy a higher quantity of alcohol to satiate their craving, further aggravating their drunkery.

NDLA need to hire people with more than two digits IQ to vet their ideas before they air it in public.

Xmuslim:
the children indoctrination is one of the reasons why I constantly preach against religion here. I don't care what an adult use his life for. But forcing children to worship God is bad.

But when you tell Muslims, they will pretend and say nobody forced them. I had similar response from k4kenny yesterday

the brain tends to have a incredulous disposition of loving its torturer. with myriad of problems in the world weakening your mind to reason.

Immarnuel:
There is this Yoruba quote that goes, ”Ohun taye baso e da, wa n fibu e bo dola“ and it sort of translates to, “The world makes you then blames you for how you turn out”.


Aristotle said, “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”


We are born blank slate, “tabula rasa” and the society makes us (John Locke). Now, it’s left for the individual to figure out things for himself/herself because the collective is more useful to the society than the individual, hence, the indifference towards the individual.


In the meantime though, humane religions should still hold their places in Nigeria. With the passivity of our mindset currently, just try to imagine Nigeria without religions.

Worse is a people who are trying to raise a generation with morals that does not echo in themselves. that is a typical definition of most guardians.

kafeii123:
Its gladdening to see someone from your side reach this level of realisation, I'm sure you know by now though, that the other religion is no different. you see the owner of this very forum is himself e self profesed atheist. despite that his dad is a top member of one of the popular churches here in this country. and in realising his dream, he had to really fight till bis last breadth before his popsy eventually gave way.

but the best rebellion is not in becoming the very thing that the proponent of these religious practices swear by someone they have never met that their religion is capable of preventing. Rather, it is in growing up to be such a wonderful and progressive member of this society that your becoming it will astound whoever comes across you. Especially when they know you did it without adhering clutching to religion as a compass.

the truth is that morality is different from religion, and you dont need to be religious, in order to be moral. afteralll the millions being embezzled in this country right now is being stolen by people who are mallams, imams and pastors. People who hold who hold one top position or the other in a popular religion.

in short, you will have to grow out of a dependecy on drugs, weed or any external agents. Not that there's anything wrong in their use....especially when you do it for fun.... But that much as some folks cling to religion to guide them through life... you shouldn't replace religion with hard substances... it'll be akin to dumping one relgiion for another.... like PDP members cross to APC and vice versa... You will not be different from any of them...you will only be serving a different God from them.

And I will advice that when you have yur own children..... teach them personal discipline, responsibility and empathy.... do not now leave them to themselves...hoping that they will be able to make sense of the world by themselves.. it is still your responsibilty to give them scaffolds and constructs..only that you need make sure,....that the ones you provide them with is one which will not create monsters out of them like many religious people are now doing.

I am an academic myself....and I meet on many basis kids from such homes... it only takes a little while before they start rebelling..especially once they start earning a little something that frees them from financial dependence on their fanatic parents.

It was much easier to see other religions for what they are. I used to go to listen to religion debaters, of course, I was only there as a supporter of the Islamic cause. I was always in cahoot with Husain Yusuf Mabera.
truthfully, I often missed the comfort of religion. but, I'm consoled in that I'm not living in self deceit.

Christianity have passed a certain threshold in it shelf life. if you we're to throw your beliefs away; the worse anybody could do is excommunicate you. So people like Seun Osewa are a bit lucky. In Islam it's quite different, especially if you find yourself in a country overwhelmed by their population, coming out different would be tantamount to self injury. And, terribly not fond of martyrdom.
Your best bet as a Xmuslim is to work hard get ahead in life. if you own the ropes, nobody dare hang you.

Yesterday was friday and, as is usually a number thread from Islamic section made front page. One of those thread was trying to teach Muslim parents on how to guide and institute in their children the ritual of performing salat from their younger days.
https://www.nairaland.com/6111352/how-instill-spirit-performing-solah

It was a thread that brought down a shower of nostalgia on me, my mind went back and forth remembering all the extreme my parents went to put us in the way they believe is the right way.

Our days usually start at 4:40am when they would wake us from sleep to go to the mosque for morning prayer. It doesn't matter, in any extremity of weather; I was raised in the north. In the cold, well below 25°F we would still be on our way to the mosque, unless you're proven to be sick, come 4:40am, if you know what is good for you, you better be at the mosque. Or you would have to explain to a DORINA, whip that has been solemnly marinated in oil.

After praying, it is common sense for one to be heading straight home right? No!
There was this Na'ib (a position somewhat below the imam), whose is Mallam Idris, who would gather his kid around to teach them the Qur'an. My dad, the Führer, fancy that we must join his class. Which kept use engaged after prayer until sun-up.
Upon getting home after Mallam Idris class, no rest, we're on our little feets getting ready for breakfast and then it's school.
After school and all the totalitarian madness associated with it, which pretends to end by 2pm, we get to go home and make sure that we're ready within the next two hours for ISLAMIYYA.
If you forgot and went to play football, you get a to explain DORINA, both at home and in islamiyya the next day the register is called, except you're imaginative and can lie to save yourself. Still if you lie you're going to hell. It was like being between the horns of a great bull, either way you go you're gorge.

There is this teacher at the islamiyya who has intimate love for beating the hell out of his pupils with a motor belt. A kid would be coming home from islamiyya and all over his visible body is a discordant ridge tattooed all over his body. A artless illustration that he had been stubborn or didn't learn learn his Tauheed, or his attention was stolen by something outside of the classroom, or any other of the million infinite possibilities.

Oftentimes, a lot of kids rebelled, some in a very spectacular way, against such tyranny. Like Khalid, who managed to bloody his teacher's head with a well timed furious throw of a rock stone.
Others in a more subtle manner.
Some of use are closet atheist, like me. The triumph of reason, eh.
The son of Mallam Idris, who taught us Qur'an after morning prayer, is now a drug addict. Specialised in inhaling, injecting and ingestion of crazy substance into his body, and has grown to be a explosively violent person. Yet he still pray and definitely fancy himself a better human than anybody who doesn't.
Me; I always find myself awake 4:40am every single day. But, I have substituted my prayer routine with smoking of marijuana (just like I'm doing right now), reading and athleticism.

It's without doubts that our parents love us, even if basically as genetics would care about its print out, and hoped for the best for us. But realistically how many people are definitely sure of what is best, or for whom it's best for?
Children are subjected to fanatical upbringing in hope of raising men with astute personality devoted to pleasing God only to ended up marring their person and raising thoughtless monster.

I'm glad some of us grew beyond the question of who's God, and the quest to please him and not incur his wrath.
I hope that many more of us see reason and see religion for what it is, pitting people against each other.
Maybe it worked sometimes ago. But, it isn't working anymore. Why cling unto it.

I hope that we come together shed away our shackles and learn to be truly devine by helping one another.

Thank you for reading.

Firstorderwizard:
E better make everything destroy so that we will start afresh.
How will somebody be born with a silver spoon while some no go get spoon.
The worst be say untop the spoon we no get, dey come still born person for Nigeria

stop pushing the envelope. you could reincarnate as a mango tree?

motayoayinde:
IF HE PRETENDS TO BE MUSLIM JUST TO AVOID BEING KILLED, IT'S OK.

THE AIM OF SHARI'AH IS MORE PREVENTIVE THAN IT IS PUNITIVE

SOMETHING SIMILAR HAPPENED WHILE THE PROPHET WAS ALIVE. A MUSLIM KILLED AN IDOLATOR DURING A BATTLE WHILE THE LATTER WAS DECLARING THE ISLAMIC CREED(shahadatain) SO AS TO AVOID BEING KILLED.

WHEN THE MATTER GOT TO THE PROPHET HE WAS ANGRY AND DISTURBED THAT A MUSLIM HAD KILLED A MUSLIM.

HE TOLD THE KILLER THAT HE HADN'T BEEN ORDERED TO OPEN UP PEOPLE'S HEART TO SEE WHAT THEY BELIEVE.

AS TO WHETHER THIS IS ENOUGH TO DOUBT ISLAM, I'M HAPPY TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE JUDGEMENT OF ALLAH IN OLDER SCRIPTURES REVEALED BY ALLAH. IT'S EVEN MILDER.

SO IT'S ACTUALLY STRENGTHENED MY FAITH IN ISLAM AND I PRAY THAT I DOES SO FOR YOU TOO.

I wonder, sister, won't those who had it sterner have the basis to complain about favourism, that their law was rather too difficult?

NeoWanZaeed:
Idiot boi with insane logic...

Since you have renounce Islam.. Why are you still alive?

Laughing

I suppose it would please you to have him killed simply because he does not believe the same way you do.
it's a human nature to want to hurt people for some imaginary reasons or because someone said they should.
You want to see a closet murderer, look to religious People. they murderers just waiting for opportunities. the steeper you are into religion the deeper the traits is in you.

Xmuslim:
you nailed it. But are they ready for the truth. I doubt it

it's only lies that demand your conformity, the truth doesn't care if you deceive yourself.

wittyt98:
una take all this sweet words package "INDOCTRINATION"

reminds me of those days of compulsory 5 times daily prayers, getting flogged to learn arabic like say na me kill Muhammad I was even told Arabic is the language we'll speak in the hereafter when we die

those days when I'd fling the Tira away and my Alfa would beat the shit outta me I've always showed signs of not taking this religion seriously since childhood despite all the effort of my parents

Watch out, don't let them behead you.

Xmuslim:
@bolded. Why would sky need pillars? In fact, your point is one of the weakness of the Qur'an.

[b] Muhammad like any other 7th century man with limited scientific knowledge felt that the sky is a solid body that require a pillar. But we now know that sky is just a vast space.]

The sky is not a solid body [/b

The star are not attached to the sky like Qur'an claimed. Infact, many single stars are bigger than our planet

Please read about what sky means from scientific point of view for more details

The bolded call to question the story of Muhammad to have travelled through the firmament to heaven. if the story were true then he would have surely observed that the sky was a composite of gases which excuse any assertion that the sky needs a pillar; so either that or we have to question the observer's faculties.

although, there's a possibility of clouds being solid it would still depend on the gravitational configuration of a planet to determines whether it crashes down or not.

So the answer to why the sky (wether solid or gaseous) does need a pillar is simply "GRAVITY".

RELIGION IS DARKNESS.
ONE OUGHT TO LOVE SCIENCE.

obinrinrere:
I doubt if you have ever taken your time to study Islam. Anyway Allah guides whom he wills to the path of Islam.

So if it's the will of Allah that people become misguided isn't killing them a form of effrontery against the will of Allah? or is it just a game for Allah pitting people against each other?

BadRadio:
If the answer is yes... Why do soldiers die of bullet wounds when they engage in fierce gun battles while at war? These dudes are helpless in the battlefield.

Instead of safety helmets and bulletproofz, these guys should just meet one baba to do it for them nah.

it's the same thing with praying in churches and mosques, sometimes God work, sometimes he doesn't.

when you wear proper bullet proofs, it would work all the time. because science is better than imaginary shit.

Lukgaf:
Yes, there is no compulsion in religion before joining. But immediately you join the religion, you have accepted all the rulings including to be punished when you commit apostasy

it's very unlikely for people to know the the apostasy law before joining Islam. very unlikely

what about those who were born Muslim?

Lukgaf:
We do not think so. That is the truth. Islam is the true religion. Do your research wella

I don't think this is a about wether Islam is the true religion or not, that's entirely a different matter.
Think of the apostasy law as "treason", and Islam as a "state"; you can see that most countries justifies death as punishment for treason because of the danger it pose to their nation.

Those who come into your home, pledge allegiance to you, learn your way of life, then leave you (apostate) can be considered the most dangerous persons against you.
When you make people afraid of their life and livelihood they are most likely to kill you.

I have always seen Islam as very practical religion, not necessarily righteous.

plus what about there's no compulsion in religion?

felibrain:
7. Don't make God your enemy. You are dead without God.....

[/b]

9. Stop smoking weed. You will die young.
.[/b]
Did I touch any part of your life with this? Say No at your own
risk.

if you're following Jesus, you make Allah your enemy and vice versa - with any other God or religion-.
so Which of the Gods

And, seriously, weed

Eileene:
Due to the way I talk, walk and act people always see me as someone who was born with a silverspoon.If only they know,well sha it gives me hope for the future.
Secondly am always mistaken as a quiet person but if I open my mouth eh.

Well, at least you're one step ahead. for some of us, we'll also need to learn to be rich when we get rich.