₦airaland Forum

Ournaija:
We do not need to look too far to know those who are heating up the polity. The politicians has done more damage to this country while pretending to offer favour or protect the masses. Gov. Fashola is one of the few politicians I have respect for, but his recent utterances for his party is making me rethink if his intentions are genuine. His statements on this were not backed with facts, he must has been fed with lies. He transmitted same lies without verification.

As usual on that fateful day, I came down from one of the tall buildings on Marina to go visit one of the bukar joint in the hood tha I have been patronizing for years and was greeted with security men. I asked one of the passersbyers what is going on? Shey don wan carry money from CBN ni, I asked. No ooo, na Oga Jona dey town, he dey inside NSE, she replied. Na when him come town? I queried further. Dem say he sneak enter the place. Well that na im problem, I left the place to get my stomach filled by the next street.

From Union Bank border of Marina, we have 3 military personnel with 2 policemen controlling the traffic. From First bank end to Kakawa House we have 5 military personnel and from CBN to Tinubu Square we have about 6 military men. These men were courteous unlike our usual security men. There approach was very civil. I went round these places because, some street were blocked and you have no choice than to go round. And I must visit my favorite joint whether Jona like am or not. In all both visible and invisible security men for Jonathan were not up to 50. From my count policemen were not up to 10, the rest were military guys.

I wonder where this figure 2,123 came from . Could it mean that civilians and admirers were counted as security operatives. We do not need to lie to gain sympathy or support of our people. This shows that PDP media team is very weak. I expect them to have countered the claim with pictorial evidence.

onyenro:
old age and madness are synonymous sometimes.
pls call 112, I just saw a mad man tearing papers, guess he needs to be taken to yaba left. instead of ma-*dnes#s, he should commit suici/de at least Awolowo did same when he fell out with IBB
IS HISTORY TRYING TO REPEAT HERE

ducii:
President may soon expose ex-Head of State’s alleged personal demands, says PDP • Ruling party’s candidate likely to win, U.S. ex-envoy predicts

INDICATIONS emerged yesterday that the face- off between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan may be far from abating as the

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said that the latter would soon disclose all alleged personal demands of the former that he had turned down since 2011 that might have fuelled the lingering animosity.

The party also declared that its leadership would decide on whether or not to sanction Obasanjo over allegation of anti-party activities.

Meanwhile, former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has revealed that President Jonathan was the likely candidate to win the forthcoming elections, according to persecond news.com

Addressing a news conference in Abuja yesterday, the Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani- Kayode, described Obasanjo’s allegation that Jonathan was planning to perpetuate himself in power unconstitutional as reckless and pointing that the allegations were assertions that were “capable of derailing our democracy and creating chaos in the land.

“The truth is that he knows that Jonathan will win next month’s presidential election and that is why he wants to destroy the credibility of the whole process right from the outset. What he is trying to say in his latest contribution is that if President Jonathan wins, then the election must have been rigged right from the outset. This is not only wrong but it is also unfair and uncharitable.”

Fani-Kayode challenged Obasanjo to prove his weighty allegations by presenting them before the Council of State and take it up there.

He should also report to INEC itself and present the data of whatever sinister plan he believes that Jonathan has to stay in power ‘’by hook or by crook’’ to them. He should tell INEC whatever it is that Jonathan is doing in order for him to stay in power by all means and he should give them all the details. That should be the starting point.”

On Obasanjo’s allegation that Jonathan was playing out a script of perpetuating himself in power like former Cote d’Voire President Laurent Gbabo, Fani Kayode stated:

“Jonathan has re-affirmed his commitment to the democratic process over and over again and he has also said that the handover date of May 29 is sacrosanct. In view of these assurances, one wonders why Obasanjo is creating such a hue and cry over nothing. What has he seen that no one else can see? One wonders what his motives are. Does he have to rule every government by proxy? Must every leader take instructions from him? Is it a case of ‘’if I cannot control you and tell you what to do then you must go?’’

“President Obasanjo spoke about President Gbagbo and he claimed that President Jonathan was attempting to do a Gbagbo in Nigeria. The question that must be put to him is this: ‘Who got Gbagbo out?’ Was it not Jonathan’s government that played a key role in ensuring that democracy was fully established in the Ivory Coast and did he not play a key role in ensuring that the Gbagbo plan to ‘’stay in power forever plan’’ did not work?

“If anyone doubts this they should ask President Alhassan Outtara of Cote d’Ivoire the role that Jonathan and Nigeria played in helping to restore democracy and stability to his country.

“They should also find out the role that Obasanjo played in attempting to keep President Gbagbo in power at all costs and the deep friendship that exists between the two men. It is a matter of fact and public record that when he was President, Obasanjo, perhaps more than any other African Head of State with the exception of President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, propped up and supported President Gbagbo and it is an irony of fate and history that he is now condemning the actions of his old friend and accusing others of trying to emulate them.”

“Again it is ironic that Obasanjo has accused President Jonathan of having a grand plan to stay in power at all costs and by all means yet it is the same Obasanjo that tried to stay in power for a third term even though the Nigerian constitution specifically forbids it. He tried all he could to change the constitution but the whole thing failed and he was compelled to leave power.”

On Obasanjo’s alleged demands from Jonathan, Fani-Kayode stated:

“After Jonathan came to power, Obasanjo not only tried to control and teleguide him, but he also asked him to do a number of things that were simply wrong and unacceptable. It is for Jonathan himself to divulge those things and I am sure that he will do so at the appropriate time. Needless to say Jonathan refused to be teleguided and told what to do even though at all times he showed Obasanjo maximum respect and accorded him all the privileges, access and courtesies that is due to a former Head of State and a father and mentor. This continued to be the case even after Obasanjo consistently attempted to undermine his government and ridicule his efforts.

“Yet Obasanjo could not be appeased and was not satisfied. As far as he was concerned, he must either control Jonathan or Jonathan had to go. That is why he decided to secretly support the APC and became their ‘navigator- in-chief’. He was determined to pull the whole house down rather than allow Jonathan to return to power. This is simply because he believes that if he cannot control someone, that person must be destroyed. Control and domination is an obsession for Obasanjo. That is the bottom line. He is prepared to put even the devil in power provided he can control him. That is why he is so determined to stop Jonathan and put in place an interim government which he, or one of his surrogates, will head. That is his plan and he is determined to achieve it no matter what it takes.

“Obasanjo does not want genuine democracy. He only pretends to want it. What he wants is control and a stooge in power. It does not matter what type of government it is as long as he controls it and it is headed by his puppet. It can be a military government, a civilian one, a democratic one, an interim government or a government of National Unity. To Obasanjo it does not matter as long as he can control it. That is his objective. That is why he hates Jonathan so much and that is why he wishes to stop him at all costs.”

“The bottom line is this: “Obasanjo’s grouse with Jonathan is personal and it has nothing to do with Nigeria. He should leave Nigeria out of it and let us all be. If he has a personal score to settle with Jonathan, he should not do so at the expense of the peace and stability of Nigeria. If he wants to stop Jonathan then let him attempt to do so through the democratic process and through the ballot box and not through foul and unconstitutional means. We said it before and we will say it again: gone are the days that any president can be teleguided and controlled, because we have all come of age.”

On Obasanjo’s alleged anti-party activities Fani-Kayode said: “‎It is very difficult to say that he (Obasanjo) is a member of the PDP and he is saying these sort of things and doing these sort of things it makes things very difficult for us and I think with this, it is left for the party chairman and leaders to make their own determination on our part as the Presidential campaign organisation to ensure that President Jonathan gives a good fight in terms of the elections. That is our job, we need to take on anybody.... or any institutions or...but he has made his choice and we have made our choices and we intend to stand where we stand nobody will be pushed around or intimidate us.

“I sincerely hope and pray that Obasanjo pulls back and rethink and join forces with us against the opposition. It is never too late even if it will be on the eve of the election, to have him on our corner will be great privilege and honour. As long as he stands on the other side and continues to cast aspersions on the character of the president and raise questions on him, what the president wants to do and suggesting that the president wants to stay in power by hook or by crook and all that sort of stuff, we cannot possibly expect us to keep quiet. We have to set the records straight. We have to stand with our president and with our party.”

Campbell, a Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in a report titled, ‘Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Election: Contingency Planning Memorandum Update, the envoy said, “despite the strength of the opposition, Jonathan remains the likely—but not certain—winner.

According to him, the 2015 elections again might precipitate violence that could destabilise Nigeria, and Washington has even less leverage in Abuja than it did in 2011.

In his recommendations to the U.S government, he advised the Obama administration not to comment prematurely on the quality of the elections. Observers from the National Democratic Institute and the International Republic Institute are likely to issue preliminary assessments immediately after the polls close. So, too, will observers from the European Union, the Commonwealth, and the African Union. There will be media pressure for early, official comment. But, following a close election and the violence likely to follow, the timing and content of official U.S. statements should take into account the views of the vibrant Nigerian human rights community, which will likely be the most accurate.

The U.S Secretary of State in the wake of the elections postponement issued a statement declaring that the shift was unacceptable, a statement that has been rejected by some Nigerians as hypocritical.

Campbell further asked the U.S government to facilitate and support humanitarian assistance. The north is already in desperate need of humanitarian assistance, with the prospect of famine looming. If the postelection period is violent, there may be need for international humanitarian assistance in

many other parts of the country.

Campbell has been generally regarded a critic of the Jonathan administration, an ally of APC leader and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

Meanwhile, the Southwest Zone of the Presidential Campaign Council of the PDP has said that the

postponement of the elections was a crucial opportunity for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to remedy “ its apparent lack of preparedness to conduct a minimally credible presidential election on the earlier date of February 14th 2015.”

Also, the Chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the South West PDP, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has called on appropriate authorities in Nigeria to investigate, prosecute and imprison Obasanjo for alleged acts of corruption perpetrated during the latter’s regime as president.

Making the call yesterday during a press conference at his Lekki, Lagos residence, Buruji, who presented a researched ‎document entitled: ‘Obasanjo Wants to Rule Nigeria Again,’ which contained over 500 alleged corruption acts carried out during the latter’s administration, said the former president lacked the moral right to castigate Jonathan.

On his part, a former Deputy National Chairman, PDP South West, Chief Olabode George, eually berated Obasanjo for comparing President Jonathan with former president of Ivory Coast, Larence Gbagbo as an insult to Nigeria.

Addressing the media in his Ikoyi residence yesterday, George said Obasanjo was simply aiming to destabilise the country based on his selfish motive

George and Buruji accused the former president engaging in anti-PDP activities making unguarded utterances capable of heating up the polity.

In a statement yesterday in Ibadan by its chairman, publicity sub-committee, Chief Akin Oshuntokun, the campaign council said it was “a matter of great concern that INEC appears unconcerned about such potentially explosive and puzzling lapse of sharp disparities in the distribution of the Permanent Voter cards (PVCS) which it says, systematically puts a section of the country at clear advantage whilst pitting others at severe disadvantage.”

It went on: “A distribution pattern in which insurgency ravaged areas record over 70% collection rate of PVCS to the 40% average distribution rate in the relatively stable and peaceful South West calls for concern and most certainly requires a lot of explanation. More puzzling still is the surprising acquiescence of the All Peoples Congress (APC) leadership in the South West in an emergent electoral situation in which majority of voters in the zone would have been disenfranchised.”

Further, it said “there is no more eloquent demonstration of this tacit endorsement and connivance than the description of the postponement as a ‘coup against democracy’ by the APC national leader, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu.

“For the APC leadership to have referred to the postponement of the election dates as a coup against democracy, even as it became apparent that about 60% of the people of the region would not have been able to vote, is sheer wickedness and a coup against the people they claim to lead.”

It further queries “how a remedial postponement that responds to the electoral disempowerment of a less than 40% collection rate in Lagos state amount to coup against democracy, insisting that the INEC Chairman, Professor Atahiru Jega has not been able to convincingly justify the high rate of distribution of PVCs in areas of high tension and terrorist attacks relative to the security conducive Yoruba area where the PVCs have been barely available for collection.

The committee urges INEC to take urgent measures to eradicate the prevalence of underage voting in areas that have been clearly identified with such credibility eroding practice.”

It further stated that “the aggregate percentage of distribution of PVCs, by the figures released by the INEC, shows in an inexplicable manner that the South West lags behind, adding that the development would have disenfranchised more than 45% of likely voters on the average in the region.

“The argument that the high percentage would not have mattered because there was never a time that there is 100 per cent turn out of voters is reckless and should be discountenanced, insisting that the right to vote is inalienable to every Nigerian of voting age.

“The deliberate attempt to disenfranchise some set of residents as unravelled by the Resident Electoral Commission in Lagos recently is worrisome and deserves more than cursory attention stressing that the announced extension period is opportunity to make amends.

“We ask that the postponement of the election by six weeks be capitalised upon by INEC, to, as a matter of urgency, provide the PVCs and make necessary logistic arrangements for their speedy distribution

“The INEC chairman should endeavour to jealously guard the good track record and reputation he earned for conducting the credible 2011 widely adjudged to meet international standard. There is the need for him to disabuse the mind of the public of any misgiving and resolve to remain a fair and unbiased umpire.”

It thus enjoined “all residents of the zone to exhibit vigilance and dedication and wait to collect their PVCs so as to support PDP candidates across the zone and in the presidential election, even as it demanded that Nigerians should be vigilant and reject war mongers now masquerading as change champions through the power of the ballots.”

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/lead-story/198289-jonathan-obasanjo-feud-gets-messier

jerseyboy:
Governor Fashola should please release PVCS cards Igbo Lagos residents. Fashola a man that at times aspires to higher ideals must resist his God father Owner of Lagos Ahmed Bola Tinubu on this very issue. He must not allow himself to be dragged to the lowest of Nigeria's political gutters by disenfranchisement of your fellow citizens. Mr. Fashola you are better than that. Get the PVCs out of the hands of the Iyaolojas and party touts masquerading as local government employes asking people for voting inclinations or bribe before handing them out. This you must do in the name of fairness, justice and humanity. Our Igbo brothers and sisters might actually be galvanize by this sordid act that it might come back to bite you big time.

Fashola, release IGBO PVCs. NOW.

oziduru:
Comedian Alibaba has taken to social media to blast the controversial PDP Ad by Ekiti State Governor, Fayose.According to him,people who surround Jonathan puts him in a mess.

  "The sad part is, they will do things that will put GEJ in bad light, and begin to call people who raise issues based on the nonsense they have done as people who are not loyal! Ok, what is the import of that advert? Front page cover advert goes for About N20m and you can see to what extent some will go to mess up the chances of GEJ's incumbency. These are the same people who will advise MR President ABI!?"

Source: http:///7c9

bolliejay:
Agbaje is an empty vessel who does not have any thing to offer.
Other governors are creating Jobs daily, Mumu Agbaje is planing to send another 500people back to labour market
Other governors are busy planing our to increase the state internally generated revenue, Mumu Agbaje is planing to reduce it.
Other governors are busy planning on how to maintain road with the monies collected on it, Mumu Agbaje is planing otherwise.
Am not surprised because PDP has failed Nigerians woefully.
Will PDP scrap federal toll gate MMA too?

bolliejay:
Agbaje is an empty vessel who does not have any thing to offer.
Other governors are creating Jobs daily, Mumu Agbaje is planing to send another 500people back to labour market
Other governors are busy planing our to increase the state internally generated revenue, Mumu Agbaje is planing to reduce it.
Other governors are busy planning on how to maintain road with the monies collected on it, Mumu Agbaje is planing otherwise.
Am not surprised because PDP has failed Nigerians woefully.
Will PDP scrap federal toll gate MMA too?

NairalandOP:
This is how guys like Tinubu have been milking us dry. The Toll Gate should be scraped asap. Jimi Agbaje is the savior we need in Lagos. Agbaje will save us from Tinubu and his goons.

smartshadow:
I just came across this lovely picture of Bishop David Oyedepo and his family
The two men at the extreme are his sons with their wives and children while his two daughters are the ones behind
Aren't they such a blessed family
Live long Papa

teemanbastos:
PDP supporters pls prove me wrong. By May 29 1999, we had 23 PDP governors, 6 AD, and 7 APP. 8 years after, this is their story:

(A) PDP (23 governors):
1. James lbori - PDP Delta - in prison for looting
2. DSP - Alamieseigha - PDP Bayelsa - Ex- convict for looting
3. Lucky Igbinedion - PDP Edo - Ex-convict for looting
4. Peter Odili - PDP Rivers -In court for looting
5. Chimaroke Nnamani - PDP Enugu - In court for looting
6. Ayo Fayose - PDP Ekiti - In court for looting
7. Rasheed Ladoja - PDP Oyo - In court for looting
8. Alao Akala - PDP Oyo - In court for looting
9.Gbenga Daniel - PDP Ogun - In court for looting
10. Ikenna Ohakim - PDP Imo - In court for looting
11. Adamu Muazu - Bauchi (current PDP National Chairman) - In court for looting over N19 Billion from the state treasury
12. Joshua Dariye - PDP Plateau - In court for
looting
13. Jolly Nyame - PDP Taraba - In court for
looting the state treasury
14. Abdulahi Adamu - PDP
Nassarawa - In court for lootingthe state treasury
15. Boni Haruna - PDP Adamawa - (newly appointed minister by Jonathan) - In court forlooting the treasury
16. Saminu Turaki - Ex-gov. PDP Jigawa - In court for looting the treasury
17. Orji Uzor Kalu - PDP Abia - In court for
looting the treasury

(B). AD / AC, 6 governors. None has ever been taken to court for treasury looting. NOTE:- Tinubu of Lagos wasdragged to Code of Conduct Tribunal for having foreign accounts while in power against government policy of zeroforeign account for public officials. He was found not guilty because he had the accounts before his election to the office of governor. Case dismissed.

(C) APP - (ANPP) 7 governors:
1. Attahiru Baffarawa - APP Sokoto - In court for looting (he is now in a PDP member)
2. Prince Abubakar Audu - ANPP Kogi - In court for looting.
You may add the two ex-national chairmen of PDP, Ahmadu Ali and Bamanga Tukukur whose sons are facing multi-billion naira oil subsidy fraud charges.It's sad some senseless Nigeria still believe we do not need a change from this same PDP while they claim they can't see the difference btw APC n PDP. The difference btw them is like daylight to darkness. If you chose not to see may you remain blinded for eternity.

tintedtaf:
http://www.faanrecruitment.com/Jobportal/index.php/application-form

Bonkz:
A Lagos traditional ruler, Baale Abeeb Lawal, who heads Ikolalumo in Meiran/Ajasa command area Lagos state, has brutally assaulted his wife over a phone conversation on New Year day. It was said that he gave his wife a signal to end a phone conversation she was currently on, but she thought he asked her to lower her voice, so she did.


The baale who thought she purposely disobeyed him pounded on her severally and hit her with a said heavy chair he picked him. Not satisfied, he broke a bottle and stabbed her at the back. When the blood flow from her body won’t stop gushing out, she fainted and was then rushed to a private hospital by neighbours who had gathered watching the drama. Sadly in all, the woman was half naked in the whole fracas with her breasts in glaring eyes.

:http://www.bonkoscrib.com/2015/01/photos-lagos-traditional-ruler-beats.html

barcanista:
I don't understand. APC members registered more than once and it suddenly becomes the problem of DSS? Is the APC Database the same one INEC is using? Where are the cloned PVC? We want to know how they arrived at manipulating INEC database but showing us APC database. This is disgraceful from Marilyn Ogar. Who is DSS working for?

MuguliciousMUGU:
Dear Dele Momodu,

do you know that USA is a developed country where they don't lack anything atall, so even the old can rule and still make some changes, but NIGERIA is still a developing country, we are still behind that is why we need a young leader, i mean a young leader, who would bring development and changes to nigeria, we need young intelligent brains and not old illiterate brains, that way nigeria can compete with USA by 2020.

Tank U

yours faithfully,
mugulicious MUGU




meanwhile GEJ TILL 2019... Young and handsome brilliant leader...

MansaMoussa:
This Statement will only do more good than harm! A good Number of Catholics are still firm with GEJ, why lump them together with Mbaka now? Now you've officially asked them to go to Hell!
Must you respond to every slight?

One advise for Mr President! On your last day in office, get a Judge to issue a warrant of address for all your advisers!

Hormoniyi:
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday
said he did not expect Nigerians to
shower praises on him while he is still in
office.

He said it was normal that public office
holders would only be commended after
leaving office by the time his
achievements were being compared
with others.

Jonathan spoke while granting audience
to a delegation from his home state,
Bayelsa.

Members of the delegation led by
Governor Seriake Dickson were in the
Presidential Villa, Abuja to felicitate with
him on Christmas and New Year
festivities.

The President said notwithstanding the
various challenges facing the country, he
would do his best to make his people
proud.

He said, “I always say that I will not
even expect praises now because hardly
do people praise serving leaders. It is
when you leave, people will begin to
know.

“When you leave, people will begin to
compare what you have done over the
period vis-a-vis what others have done,
then they will compare you with
whoever takes over.

“Probably that is the time some people
will begin to say good about you. But I
will do my best to make sure that we do
change things.

“We are trying to create enabling
environment for our economy to thrive
irrespective of the challenges we are
having in the petroleum sector and the
security challenges we have.

“I will do my best so that by the time I
will leave, you will be able to say that
when our son was there, he served the
country well so that one day, another
son of Bayelsa may be given another
opportunity to serve Nigerians.”

Jonathan observed that it has become
the norm worldwide for people to be
lambasting their leaders, especially on
the social media.

He regretted that people are using
different things that have been created
by people’s knowledge for negative
purposes.

He cited an example of dynamite, saying
the inventor regretted when he realised
the destructive purposes people have
turned the item to.

The President added, “I assure you that
I am here by the grace of God and with
the willingness of Nigerians. If Nigerians
say I shouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t have
been here. We contested election in
2011 and Nigerians voted for us.
“I am your own, if I don’t do well, the
shame will be on you. If I do well, you
will have some kind of pride. I will do
my best.

www.punchng.com/news/nigerians-will-praise-me-after-leaving-office-says-jonathan/

mbahjohnpaul:
A 37 yr old Nigerian man, Ibe Godwin Uzochukwu has been sentenced to death by hanging in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia after he was found guilty
by a Malysian high court for trafficking 2,150.4 grammes of
methamphetamine. He was arrested with the drugs at KL
International Airport (KLIA), Sepang in 2011.

According to court documents, Ibe was arrested with the banned
drugs upon his arrival at the exit Route, KLIA Arrival Hall, at
4.30pm on July 1, 2011. After listening to the submission of the
prosecuting counsel, the judge who presided over the case, Datuk
Halim Aman, found Uzochukwu guilty and sentenced him to
death by hanging.




http://lindaikeji..in/2014/12/nigerian-man-sentenced-to-death-by.html?m=1

ayenny02: ISLAM is arabic word which means surrender to d will of God, Those who practice religion of islam are called Muslim. Muslim is an arabic word and which means worshiper of none except Allah alone.

Also Allah is an Arabic word which means God, Supreme Being. In Hebrew language God means ELOHA but jews use plural form ELOHIM. It is not subject to plurality or gender. It is confusing to use the word God as many English-speaking Christian still consider Jesus as God, even the word creator is also confusing, as many christians still maintain that jesus had created the world.

If u can access to Arabic Bible that those christian arabs are using, you will see that God in that bible translate to Allah

Not only the name of Allah is strange, but also the way muslims worship Allah with ablution, bowing, kneeling, prostration and fasting is strange to non-muslim, but not strange to all prophets.

While ablution (washing of face, arms, feet and moistening of d hair) prior to worship is abandoned by modern christian, it is still required by muslim and previous prophets, as seen in the following passages of the Bible: Exodus 40:31-32
31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:
32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses.

John 13:12-15
12 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.


Although Paul made many changes in jesus teaching, he was still faithful in respect to ablution(purification) as seen in Act 21:26;
26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.


Muslim Women perform their prayer with their head covered as 1 cor 11:5, 6 and 13;
5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?


Muslims worship with bowing, kneeling, prostration and without shoes as done by previous Prophet;
Psalm 95:6
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.

Joshua 5:14
14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant?

Nehemiah 8:4-6
4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people and when he opened it, all the people stood up:

6 And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

Matthew 4:10
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

And if all these be true!
Why has the so claimed Religion of PEACE failed to AFFIRM the LORDSHIP of PRINCE OF PEACE?

gabriel212: So our Honourables ar above the law?
What a country!

Ile-Ife:
[size=15pt]Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday disregarded a U.N. warning to avoid incendiary rhetoric and declared ahead of the annual General Assembly session that Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be "eliminated."[/size]

In remarks to reporters in New York, he also said he does not take seriously the threat that Israel could launch a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, denied sending arms into Syria, and called economic conditions in his sanctions-hit country "not as bad as they are portrayed."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted Israel could strike Iran's nuclear sites and has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's position that sanctions and diplomacy should be given more time to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Iran denies that it is seeking nuclear arms and says its atomic work is peaceful, aimed at generating electricity.

"Fundamentally we do not take seriously the threats of the Zionists. ... We have all the defensive means at our disposal and we are ready to defend ourselves," Ahmadinejad said.

He is in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly. His speech is scheduled for Wednesday.

On Sunday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Ahmadinejad and warned him of the dangers of incendiary rhetoric in the Middle East. Ahmadinejad did not heed the warning.

Ahmadinejad alluded to his previous rejection of Israel's right to exist. "Iran has been around for the last seven, 10 thousand years. They (the Israelis) have been occupying those territories for the last 60 to 70 years, with the support and force of the Westerners. They have no roots there in history," he said, speaking to reporters through an interpreter.

The modern state of Israel was founded in 1948.

"We do believe that they have found themselves at a dead end and they are seeking new adventures in order to escape this dead end. Iran will not be damaged with foreign bombs," Ahmadinejad said, referring to Israel.

"We don't even count them as any part of any equation for Iran. During a historical phase, they represent minimal disturbances that come into the picture and are then eliminated," Ahmadinejad added.

In 2005, Ahmadinejad called Israel a "tumor" and echoed the words of the former Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, by saying that Israel should be wiped off the map.

Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a brigadier general in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was quoted on Sunday as saying that Iran could launch a pre-emptive strike on Israel if it was sure the Jewish state was preparing to attack it.

Ahmadinejad said the nuclear issue was one ultimately between the United States and Iran, and must be resolved with negotiations.

He added, "The nuclear issue is not a problem. But the approach of the United States on Iran is important. We are ready for dialogue, for a fundamental resolution of the problems, but under conditions that are based on fairness and mutual respect."

"We are not expecting a 33-year-old problem between the United States and Iran to be resolved in a speedy fashion. But there is no other way besides dialogue," Ahmadinejad said.

U.S. President Barack Obama will underscore his commitment to preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and address Muslim unrest related to an anti-Islamic video in his speech to General Assembly on Tuesday, the White House said.

'BULLYING COUNTRIES'

Ahmadinejad also addressed a high-level meeting on the rule of law at the United Nations on Monday, saying states should not yield to international law as imposed "by bullying countries."

In the past, Ahmadinejad has used his U.N. speeches to defend Iran's nuclear program and to attack Israel, the United States and Europe. He has questioned the Holocaust and cast doubt on whether 19 hijackers were really responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.

Western envoys typically walk out of Ahmadinejad's speeches in protest.

Ahmadinejad said on Monday that Iran - under U.N., U.S. and European Union sanctions over its nuclear program - is used to economic restrictions and is not severely affected by them.

"The conditions in Iran are not as bad as they are portrayed by some," Ahmadinejad said, adding that his country can survive without oil revenues.

Ahmadinejad added that Iran's economy is in much better shape that that of the EU, which he said was "on the verge of disintegration and collapse."

Iran has held several rounds of talks this year on the nuclear issue with six world powers: the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council - the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain - as well as Germany. The six powers are represented by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said last Wednesday that he and Ashton had agreed to defer more nuclear talks until the latter had consulted the six powers on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly this week.

There will be high-level side meetings on Iran's nuclear program and the Syrian conflict during the General Assembly, but U.N. diplomats do not expect either issue to be resolved soon.

'WE SEEK PEACE IN SYRIA'

The United Nations and Western officials have accused Iran of supplying weapons to Syria's pro-government forces, while Syria's government has accused Qatar and Saudi Arabia of arming rebels determined to topple President Bashar al-Assad.

Ahmadinejad rejected the charge that Iran was sending arms to Syria. "The so-called news that you alluded to has been denied vehemently, officially," Ahmadinejad said in a response to a question. "We seek peace in Syria. We like and love both sides. ... We see both sides as equally our brothers."

"In Syria, the intervention and meddling from outside have made conditions that much tougher," Ahmadinejad said. "We must help to quell the violence and help ... (facilitate) a national dialogue."

A U.N. Security Council panel of independent experts that monitors sanctions against Iran has uncovered several examples of Iran transferring arms to Syria. The United States and Britain say they are providing non-lethal assistance to Syria's rebels such as communications equipment, but not arms.

Ahmadinejad also addressed the issue of a California-made anti-Islam video, "The Innocence of Muslims," that has sparked anti-American protests around the Muslim world. He appeared to reject Washington's position that while it condemns the video's content, freedom of expression must be upheld.

"Freedoms must not interfere with the freedoms of others," Ahmadinejad said. "If someone insults, what would you do? ... Is insulting other people not a form of crime?"

Since the controversy over the video erupted this month, some Muslim leaders have reiterated calls for a U.N. measure outlawing insults to Islam and blasphemy in general.

Ahmadinejad also was asked about a move by an Iranian religious foundation, in response to the "The Innocence of Muslims," to increase its reward for the killing of British author Salman Rushdie.

"Where is he now?" Ahmadinejad asked of Rushdie. "Is he in the United States? If he is, you shouldn't broadcast that for his own safety."

Rushdie, an Indian-born British novelist who has nothing to do with the video, was condemned to death in 1989 by Khomeini, Iran's late leader, over his novel "The Satanic Verses," saying its depiction of the Prophet Mohammad was blasphemous.

Iran has a two-term limit for presidents. Ahmadinejad, widely seen as out of favor with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ends his second term next year. "But that does not mean I will be separating myself from politics," he said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/24/us-un-assembly-ahmadinejad-idUSBRE88N0HF20120924

BlackBaron: Jeez. What rubbish! It's only because you live in a pseudo-sane society you are able to type such with your mangled fingers.

Developed societies will either suspend you immediately whilst under investigation or get sacked.

BlackPikiN: Apparently fed up with the incessant clashes involving them and farmers over grazing areas, some 12 million Fulani cattlemen have stated that their right to fend for themselves and their livestock as citizens of Nigeria are being infringed upon across many states because of their age-long nomadic way of life.

Consequently, they have now formed themselves into social groups to demand that the federal government address the issue of food security and grazing rights in the country, with a view to securing grazing land rights for the Fulani nationwide.

Commending the northern governors for setting up a committee to wade into the crisis between farmers and herdsmen, one of the seven groups, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria, asked that the committee’s work be extended to southern states where they also face grazing challenges.

The association lamented that 12 million Fulani herdsmen were currently living under the fear of losing their means of livelihood, as clashes between them and farmers continue to escalate especially in Plateau, Taraba and Kaduna States. The cattlemen said they were being arrested or expelled from their homes and settlements by the authorities.
see groving! very soon the fulanis will ask for Oil blocks in the Niger Delta. As you know they havent wade into oil biz yet.

In an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP WEEKEND, the protem national secretary of the association, Saleh Bayari, said: “The Fulani man has been at the receiving end of insecurity in this country. To say that the Fulani are marginalised is an understatement. There are 12 million cattle rearers whose children are not in school.”

Also, the executive director, Pastoral Resolve, Sale Momale, stated that “the challenges being faced by Fulani cattlemen have gone unattended to by all tiers of government for many years because of discrimination against them. The fact is that they are in remote rural areas and their high level of illiteracy makes it hard for them make formal complaints under the modern system of government.”

While desertification is forcing them to migrate southward, Bayari said: Fulani cattlemen do not have children as councillors, that is, at the lowest level of the political strata. They do not have a chairman of a local government or member of a house of assembly. They virtually have nobody in government.”

Debunking claims that Fulani have been the aggressors in some of the clashes involving them and farmers, Bayari said: “There is nobody who rears animals that wants conflict. Conflicts destroy lives, including the lives of animals. So, it is always very difficult for the Fulani person to go into any agitation that will at the end of the day hurt his livestock. He would prefer to suffer deprivation of all kinds than engage in armed conflict that will not spare his livestock.”

He stressed that the conflicts were taking a huge toll on the Fulani’s economic wellbeing.

The federal government, he alleged,“ has never sat down to address food security like other countries do. In Nigeria, thunder would strike a Fulani person and kill about 200 of his cattle. Flood, ethnic or religious crisis also continue to decimate the Fulani’s cattle without any compensation from government.

“That is what happened in Plateau where we lost about 3.5 million heads of cattle in the crises between September 2001 and January 17, 2010. Within a period of 10 years, we lost 3.5 million heads of cattle and nobody is talking about it; not Plateau State or the federal government.”

Bayari added: “You can imagine how much we have lost, even at N100,000 per cow which is the average cost. This is money that can take care of 5 to 10 million people. If the federal government had addressed the issue of food security in this country, then, the Fulani man would have come to the fore.

“But I think the government has begun to feel the pulse and realise that if something is not done, this country could erupt, in the sense that if you deprive 12 million people of their means of livelihood, then, you should be prepared for a very serious situation. We are beginning to see some people make some efforts.”

Momale said: “Discrimination against the pastoralists cuts across all tiers of government, even at the village and district levels. The modern system introduced since the colonial times gives priority to a formalised system for laying out grievances, which favours the educated elite.

“In 1990, only 0.02 percent of the pastoralists were literate. By 2005, after 15 years of nomadic education, their literacy level stood at 2 per cent. Right now, according to the Federal Ministry of Education, the Fulani pastoralists have three million children that are out school.

“With this level of illiteracy and the complexity of governance, they have nowhere to lay their complaint. The only government they know is the village head and the village head cannot influence policy. He has no say in the affairs of government. And with a government that is not concerned with reaching out to its citizens, you can understand why the problems of the Fulani have gone unresolved.”

http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/34438/2012/09/08/12m_fulani_herdsmen_demand_land_rights_36_states.html

miky: Doesn't matter,, as far as he gave in to something he shouldn't have.. If he was trying to help he could have driven the guy to a hospital to go get prescription... Here in the USA the police lure child sex offenders through Internet, only to charge them later and imprison them..

Larufa: The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced that it is going to introduce a N5,000 note into the system.

The faces of three prominent Nigerian female activists are to be used on the new note. They are those of late politician and social mobiliser, Margaret Ekpo (1914 - 2006); late politician and activist Hajia Gambo Sawaba (1933 - 2001) and late politician and women's right activist Funmilayo Kuti (1900 -1978).

Like one of the northern preachers said few weeks back. 'All good things in Nigeria were done by Moslems'while praising Sanusi for correcting the mess created by southerns at CBN. I guess this is one of it.


Source: http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/other-sections/lead-stories/175116-breaking-news-cbn-to-introduce-n5000-note