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A referendum is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to vote on a particular proposal. This may result in the adoption of a new law. In some countries, it is synonymous with a plebiscite or a vote on a ballot question.

Some definitions of 'plebiscite' suggest that it is a type of vote to change the constitution or government of a country.However, some other countries define it differently. For example, Australia defines 'referendum' as a vote to change the constitution, and 'plebiscite' as a vote that does not affect the constitution.In Ireland, the vote to adopt its constitution was called a "plebiscite", but a subsequent vote to amend the constitution is called a 'referendum', and so is a poll of the electorate on a non-constitutional bill.

In lay man's language it a process adopted by a people to decide on a critical issue. It's usually a YES or No vote. The last two referendums conducted in the world was by Scotland and Turkey. Scotland desires to leave Great Britain to form their own country. Turkish president Erdogan conducted a referendum to give his government more absolute powers.


In the case of Biafra, they desire a YES to stay and No to go vote in a referendum. The vote will be conducted for the Igbos while Nigerian government and international community are key observers.

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Well in-fact there are many countries which have put restriction on Islam and in some cases other religion and its practices. here is the list

Asia

Bhutan
Bhutan , also known as most peaceful country in Asia , officially does not recognise Islam as a religion. It only recognise Buddhism and Hinduism.

Myanmar

Officially Myanmar allows to practice any religion , but it emphasise mainly on Theravada Buddhism. Islam face tough persecution from the Government.

China

The constitution of China protects what it calls "normal religious activity", defined in practice as activities that take place within government-sanctioned religious organisations and registered places of worship. Muslims in Xinjiang province are banned to keep long beard and covering face(for women) , Ramdan is a banned religious act and Muslims worshiping independently have been detained and charged with conducting "illegal religious activities".
Recently China also banned certain Islamic name for the new born child. "Muhammad," ''Jihad" and "Islam" are among at least 29 names now banned in the heavily Muslim region of China.

North Korea

North Korea does not recognise any religion. Muslims and Christians are persecuted for following religion or conducting religious activities.
Africa

Angola

Angolan government does not legally recognize any Muslim organizations , as a result, mosques in the country have faced restrictions and many have been shut down by the government.
Europe

Slovakia
Slovakia has recently passed a law which bans construction of mosque , in the country.

The ban on religious services for Muslims and members of dozens of smaller religious groups in Angola caused an international uproar at the end of November. The international media came to see Angola as the first country in the world to ban Islam.

A total of 194 religious denominations, including the Islamic Community of Angola, plus various sects and religious associations that had applied to be granted legal standing, had their requests deferred by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. A statement issues by the ministry on 28 October said that for these denominations to continue religious activities would constitute the crime of disobedience on the part of all participants.

Since the Law on the Practice and Freedom of Conscience, of Faith and Religion came into force in 2004, the Angolan government has not granted recognition to any church or religious sect. The Angolan state requires that in order for a religious denomination to be recognised, it must present proof of a minimum of 100,000 adherents.

The last time the Justice Ministry granted recognition to new religious faiths was in 2000, through Executive Decree 74/00. The beneficiaries were the Igreja do Nazareno Internacional de Angola (International Nazarene Church of Angola), Igreja Messiânica Mundial (World Messianic Church), Centro de Devoção Rainha Santa Isabel de Luz (Centre of Devotion to Queen Saint Isabel de Luz) and the Igreja Evangélica Avivamento Bíblico (Evangelical Church for Biblical Revival).

Angola has a population of more than 18 million, while the number of Muslims in the country is not thought to exceed 50,000, most of them foreign nationals from West Africa. All of the 86 churches and sects recognised by the government are Christian. The Angolan state does not recognise Islam.

Muslims in various parts of the world expressed anger at the government’s measure that refused to recognise Islam as a religion that can be practised in Angola. The international community took up the issue through diplomatic contact with the Angolan government, which offered clarification. However, there is still very little concrete information available about the ban on Islam and other religious groups. Maka Angola has investigated the sequence of events that led up to the decision.

Islam as a threat

Maka Angola conducted a brief investigation into the debates with sovereign institutions concerning Islam, the presence of which was first officially recorded in Angola in 1978. The investigation also compiled a list of the various administrative decisions surrounding the authorization, closing and prohibition of worship and the demolition of mosques.

Because Islam in Angola is practised mostly by West Africans, it has escaped the control of political power. It has also been an easy target for negative stereotypes as a gateway for illegal immigration from elsewhere in Africa. References in the press and in public discourse link Islam to terrorism, slavery and other wrongs that “offend” a still undefined Angolan culture. These stereotypes have allowed the formation of a mutual understanding between the government, opposition, civil society and Christian churches regarding the need to keep out a supposed common ill.

These stereotypes have been nurtured in a society that notoriously lacks a culture of debate in the formation of public opinion. Such a culture would allow from the outset a basic public understanding of the necessity to separate faith from the acts of an individual.

Following the guarantee of religious freedom in the 1992 Constitution, the first attempts to use the law to limit or to prohibit the practice of worship by certain denominations or sects date from 1998, in the Culture Ministry’s Circular 4/98. This circular informed all provincial governments that they must prohibit the practice of religious activity by non-recognised churches.

In November 1999, the then Justice Minister and now Ombudsman, Paulo Tchipilica, sent a confidencial memorandum to the Council of Ministers with proposals for halting the spread of Islam in Angola. The weekly paper Angolense, revealed the content of the memorandum in which the minister reiterated that Islam was a religion that tended to fundamentalism and which was not recognised by the government. According to Angolense, the minister called upon the government to dissolve the institutions that were being used as a cover for Islamic practices, to make their officials criminally liable, and to demolish mosques. According to the newspaper, the working group of the Council of Ministers issued contrary instructions to prevent Tchipilica’s proposal from being implemented. Angolense wrote that “this group [of the Council of Ministers] refuses to consider the activities of Islam in Angola as being tainted by fundamentalism”.

https://www.makaangola.org/2014/04/why-islam-is-illegal-in-angola/

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61Penguins:
We amalarudeens believe Nnamdi Kanu is a "scam" for trying to emancipate igbos from northern slavery

All we need to do now is push our ewedu tongues a little deeper into our Fulani masters anus so that they can sh*t out our own share of national cake
Masha Allahu!
One zoogeria!

Which one be amalarudeens again

Name checkers....crime has no tribe

SACRED Fulani

Templerun95 was born in 1995. he is a kid and needs help

adetayo234:
That your friend is a fool if he didn't install tracker or has insurance.

Bro give yourself sense small na. When has it become a must that people must install tracker or have insurance.

Why call her a fool. Mind you, her father has replaced the car in less than 48hours while the police keep searching. If they don't find it. She has another rand new car. No need for the insult. Her life, her car, her choice.

Theft rate especially car theft has risen astronomically lately.

People should be on guard. If you are walking towards your car and sight two guys beside your car or behind you approaching....keep walking till you pass your car.

They wait till you press your remote and enter and they hop in with guns. And tell you to drive. And if in your car. Ensure doors are locked and wind up till you drive off

A friends 2016 hyundai was snatched last week. Till date no news.

Wish you recovery.

Nma

chinoxstock:
Why does you guys live outside the country. Why doesn't you guys came back home?

Rest in peace oh English

Comedians using God's name to crack jokes.

God's name is so sacred in Judaism that a Jew will kot call Yahweh without a serious reason.

This generation trivialises and abuse grace

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Caustics:
can you compare the level of development there to here?
Do they share budget money among citizens?

Mr man go and sit down

What is his offence or is he the one that said your leaders should be corrupt

NCC be like cult.
To get work there be like braking carnel with handkerchief

Awwww

IpobExposed:
This calls for his rearrest

I dont know you but will like to know

1. If you see Nnamdi Kanu in your dream.
2. Why you think that if Nnamdi Kanu dies today Biafra will die.

Wake up from reality. The Georges are not fools. They know Nnamdi will go to worship and the place of worship will certainly be more than 10 persons.


Please reason..and stop fooling yourself. You call Mods on all topics on Kanu and they hardly answer because they are reasonable people

The delusion in Nigeria is their denial of the fact that the commerce of this country is the hand if Igbos. They are the oil running our markets.

I will never deny this no matter the hate.

Imagine a typical Tiv man claiming North because they made you deputy leader

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divide this country into 7.

south south should be a country, although, IJAW will rule them.

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Mark my word. The south will later unite economically but not politically.

Igbos and Yorubas will be the best economic patters hips when we finally seperate.

These guys issued a threat yesterday and met again today to reassert their position. Police did not arrest them while meeting today. They are here reacting like propane to fire

Abeg who watch that Yoruba elder stateman that spoke at Politics today on channels TV. The guy made sense die. Everybody is tired of impunity

Nazeren:
It's happening!!! Begin to move your dirty trash NOW or have your throats slit.

You don't believe in the "zoo" the zoo don't believe in you too. Period! There's equity.

Vampire spotted.

lalasticlala come and share your experience

U.B.A:
That bank looks like a shrine.. Everywhere is just painted Red! And the bank is very stingy, they will never employ workers. It’s only UBA you will enter & see empty cashier seats… They will be up to like 2 employed but there will be only 1 Cashier who ends up delaying customers.

GTB:
This bank has the highest number of customers! The only bank that looks like aba ariaria market. U queue like mofedaku. The only difference is that you see people with suits and pen, they have their wahala but I like them shaa

Skye Bank:
Hian! This bank will just be looking like somebody’s bathroom. Very small bank, dem go jampack people like sardines! Their workers no dey even wear suit again probably because of heat… Everybody dey enter the bank with hand fan

Diamond Bank:
Only their Lemon Green Colour can make you open 18 accounts with them even if nothing is inside. That is the only thing good about them. They have few branches in cities, their banking hall is like onitsha main market place. But their transfer protocol be like American constitution, simple to transfer with ATM, u go first go sign Non disclosure agreement.

Zenith bank:
This one ehn…? The only thing dem know how to do best is to decorate their walls with mirrors. You will just stay at the front and be seeing someone behind you? Sometimes if you enter the bank, you will be confused, you won’t even know which road to follow because everybody is appearing two two for the mirror. I wonder if their CEO is a Crystal palace fan. Just carry crystal glass full everywhere!

Sterling Bank
Where do I start from, hmmm this bank looks like eatery, atimes I used to mistake it for where they are selling ice creams, ices and sharwama

Union Bank:
Chai! This bank ehn? I cannot fit yab dem because dem old pass my grandpapa!?
Sometimes, I begin to think maybe the children of Israelites have accounts with Union bank… Their security men sef na old old old papas dem be…. You go enter bank to pay na people with walking stick u go dey see ..

FCMB
They are just beautiful women with good attitudes only that all your incomes will just be going for aso ebi and ice cream

FIDELITY
That one na bank for retired teacher, the only issue in customer care na about pension, u reach cashier point, one old papa will be withdrawing #45,675, #5 naira will always appear. I wonder if no be that bank dey hold all #5 CBN prints. Infact, they are the only bank whose ATM has pension button.

FIRST BANK.
Ah ah ah, this bank can annoy somebody, their first wahala na their door, they will just be screening u like say na jamb office. If you enter nko, queue be like Aba road hold up for port Harcourt, Infact the most annoying tin is some of their workers behaviour, somebody will just be counting #7,000 with machine and #200,000 with ordinary hand. They can screen #1000 like keke people but the good thing about them is their ATM galleries. For that one them try.

Wema Bank
that one na fishermen and panel beaters dey go there recently.

UNITY BANK:
Make them just return their name back to BANK OF THE NORTH. Because how person go wan enter bank e go come be like say u dey enter Zaria city gate. , everywhere they smell Turare (perfume) even the cashiers speak Hausa with u because u wear Agbada.

Keystone Bank.
This bank looks like they are always on strike. The banking hall looks like they only attend to one customer at a time.

Heritage Bank:
that one looks like PDP Secretariat after 2015 election. Even their flag is worn out

Ecobank.
That one looks like NaijaBet office. Its always jam packed on Fridays only. With lots of branches and many people that speaks amny African languages especially in Lagos branch
Sometime I suspect that bank has something to do with Chelsea FC

Access bank:
Na shakara dey worry them. Their account opening process be like application for Canadian visa.

Stanbic IBTC.
The bank suppose to relocate back to south Africa. Everybody dey speak through their nose seff.

CBN...
I wont say it....You want EFCC to investigate me abii?

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Nigeria will never remain the same again. The pulse of Biafra is beating in the East so much so that people who never bought the idea are queuing up.

Danbazzau is largely part of Nigerias problem.
The condemnations by Northern Elites coming 24 hours after the Kaduna declaration is not out of Genuine concern but due to media lash on their silence.

Yinka Odumakin washed the Northern Elites today on Politics today on channels TV. So, expect many of them giving hypocritical condemnations.

We are watching.