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Iran just like to be in the news.

Open the strait or US will open it and open your existence for vultures

broIZ:
Why wasn't he rushed to Chapel for healing?

You think his parents are gullible?

Gullible parents dont put their children in private universities.

They paid because they believe in science.

You can take your children to chapel for healing.

I know you are trolling but for gullible ones here this is for you

Nearly

Almost

Close
At the tip

Naso Iran Dey win war

While Israel uses precision lol to eliminate

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.
It is obvious that you are ignorant of the reality of this war on them. Amount if people suporting the war had gone down and yesterday, thousands protested against the war!

lol.

What has that support done for Ukraine?

Iran keeps handing Israel fuel to burn them down.

Israel can not be more happier

Pro Iran are deluded.

Tell me why you are happy being lied to?

Netanyahu is dead dem Dey jubilate

Person wey ayatollah fear run enter bunker. Dem still smoke out


Iran is winning dem jubilate

USA is being defeated dem Dey jubilate

Trump na man ooo

After trump I need someone tougher than him.

Elusive001:
Just imagine for a moment, an Iran with nuclear weapons

A disaster we would not want to experience

At the end US was right

Russia never threatened their neighbors because of Ukraine or bomb them

Truly the US was right

But they show people during campaign and all

Be like this ndpc don mad

What will Africa do about it?

You just Dey find unnecessary talks from people who don’t matter.

Being rich does not make you matter. Well maybe for poverty stricken people

USA no send Kartoor or haboot

Cope harder

No be only 300 million dollars

After the war the Iranian oil will fix it

Apc money working

Obi never rule the country

Then vote your choice

If not you won’t see your name on the ballot verification

Do you know how many oloshos now have Data?

Now they advice everyone but themselves

Things are happening for real

They said mowe ibafo

Now Ogijo

Ogijo is far from ibafo like 2 hours

This girl will regret ever playing pranks on everyone

Those guys at the top of the comment chains

How do you guys just support him
Or maybe na chat bot


If tinubu eats roaches they will say

‘It is very important that we see cockroaches dead as they are a pest. Tinubu knows how to get rid of cockroaches in the most satisfying ways, meeeeen!’

Since telcos said they can transmit electronic results of election nationwide them no gree dem rest again

muykem:
I support electronic transmission but we need to ask ourselves some question. For example, if saboteur cut Anambra state off of Internet on election day, what happened to results there?

Will you commit suicide because you know you can be hit by a reckless driver?

So to avoid road accident the you decide to commit suicide. Will you do that?

Too funny

Moon sighting is the beginning of some religious fasting

Yo some people will never civilize in the next 100 years

They love the Stone Age

naptu2:
But do they fast? That's the question.

And how long does the fast last? How many hours in a day and how many days in a year?

You just dont know what to say.

You resort to mumu questions

naptu2:
Don't worry, I'll invite you to my next thread, but for now, what about Saturn? Do you think that they fast on Saturn?

What is the exact number of planets we have? Not discovered?

There difference between what we have and what we we have discovered

naptu2:
Do you think that the Venusians and Jupiterians also fast?

Petito principi

You are begging the question.

Give an answer first.

Are you ashamed of being a muslim?
Are you a Muslim?

naptu2:

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You are too ashame to say you are a Muslim

naptu2:

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Ladies and gentlemen, quick, come and see the type of people that I'm always talking about o!

Hahahahahahahahahaha

(We'll see more of them tomorrow).

Are you a Muslim or not?

Stop beating about the bush. Or are you ashamed to proclaim your faith?

naptu2:
Sun, moon, calendar, Ramadan and funny ignorance

These ideas were fully formed in my mind by 1987, but I have seen new and very funny examples of ignorance every year since then.

Ignorance

Someone wished another person happy new year (back in the late 1980s) and the person thanked her, but said that he was not a Christian. Many people that were around were shocked. They said that she was referring to the New Year and that it had nothing to do with Christianity. In fact, some of them asked me what the New Year had to do with Christianity.

They were wrong. It's got a lot to do with Christianity.

This second example sounded very funny to me because, luckily, I had learnt the science behind it way back in the 1980s, before I heard the ignorance in the 2000s. Someone referred to the moon sighting for Ramadan and said that it was evidence that Muslims worshipped the moon. I laughed at him.

I had never heard this crazy idea before I started reading Nairaland. I assumed that every Nigerian knew the truth. After all, it was announced on the NTA Network News every year (as far back as I can remember). Some crazy person said that only the Sultan of Sokoto could see the new moon and he questioned why it was only the Sultan that was allowed to see the new moon. I felt sure that he was mad.

Year, month, day

I am not going to be very detailed about this first part because it is almost 40 years since I read about it and I can't remember the minute details.

Between 1985 and 1987 I read all about how our modern calendar was created. The calendar is based on the earth's revolution around the sun. The earth revolves around the sun in 365¼ days. The ¼ leads to a full day every 4 years and that's how we have our leap year (the extra day is in February).

The moon revolves around the earth in 27.3 days (it takes around 29.5 for us to see the new moon). This gives us our month.

It takes 23 hours and 56 minutes (basically 24 hours) for the earth to rotate on its axis. This gives us our day.

Hold on a second. I said that it takes around 27-29 days for the moon to rotate around the earth and this gives us our month, but 30 days have September, April, June and November; all the rest have 31, except February alone, so what's responsible for the difference?

Gregorian Calendar

It's all about how our calendar was created. Various religious and political leaders manipulated the calendar to suit their needs. Julius Ceaser created July and made it the longest month, Augustus Ceaser created August and made it the longest month and Pope Gregory The 13th (Pope of the Catholic Church in the 1500s) rearranged the calendar into the form that we know today. It is called the Gregorian Calendar (that's right, it is a Christian calendar).

All these changes altered the number of months in the Gregorian calendar (there are more changes that I did not list, for example, January is named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, but as I said, I won't be detailed in this section).

You can easily tell that it is a Christian calendar because of the dates. We are in 2024 AD. AD means Anno Domini, which means, "In the year of our Lord". The full form is anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi", which translates to "in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ". It marks the time from the death of Jesus Christ and some refer to it as "After Death". The term BC means Before Christ.


The Gregorian calendar is not the only calendar that exists and is being used. There is the Chinese calendar, the Ethiopian calendar, the Hijri (or Islamic) calendar, etc.

National Concord newspaper wrote the dates in both the Gregorian and the Hijri calendars on its front page in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Hijri Calendar

The Hijri calendar is based on the revolution of the moon around the earth. A year consists of 12 lunar months, that is 354 or 355 days.

Just as the dates in the Gregorian calendar are marked by the death of Jesus Christ (AD and BC), the dates in the Hijri calendar are marked by the migration of Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina (this is known as the Hijrah).

It is because the Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar, that's why people are asked to look out for the new moon. They are not worshipping the moon, they are simply using it to tell the time. That is, they are using it to determine when a new month starts.

For example, Ramadan is one of the months of the Hijri calendar. Muslims are enjoined to fast during the month. That's why people look out for the new moon, because they want to determine when the month starts and ends.

Moon sighting

I am also not going to be very detailed in this section because this knowledge is from many decades ago.

All Muslims are asked to look out for the new moon that signifies the beginning of the new month. However, for the sake of unity and uniformity, Muslims are required to report a sighting to the leader in their area, so that the Muslim faithful can carry out the tasks (beginning of fast, celebration of Eid, etc) together. Anyone can sight the moon, but he is required to report such sighting to the leader who will announce that the moon has been seen.

In Nigeria, the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (SCIA) is the umbrella body for Muslims in the country. The Sultan of Sokoto is usually the president-general of the SCIA, while the secretary-general of the SCIA is usually a southerner (for a long time it was Dr Lateef Adegbite).

There is also a National Moon Sighting Committee. The National Moon Sighting Committee usually asks Muslims to look out for the new moon and it provides phone numbers that people can call if they see it.

Once it has been confirmed that the moon has been seen, the Sultan of Sokoto will make the announcement that the new month has begun and he will state where and when the moon was seen and who confirmed it.

This is all very simple and easy for a sensible person to understand.


Contact details of members of the Moon Sighting Committee for Ramadan 2026.

https://www.nscia.com.ng/nmsc/

So you are a Muslim.

Now I see where the bias you have comes from when it has to do with US and terrorist

Has poor resell value

Avoid double exhaust except you can buy fuel and don’t mind

Buy Toyota instead and get to resell it when you want to

In all of this

Not one did you admit you could be the problem

Or say anything good about him not even the fact that he tries not to be lazy

Wow

When I listen to people I try as much to see how they define the other person

That way I know how honest they are


Even demons have a lot of good to say about the devil


Anyways since you are stainless and perfect and your husband is the problem


Leave please


You want to cut him off from friends or helping them. Is the call the cause of his job loss

What makes you think that’s what caused it

What if the trauma from the marriage makes him psycho tanks to you

lol

SixSeven:
It's abnormal. Not every Nigerian likes the noise and they shouldn't! Nigerians grew up in the 70s and the power corporation will inform us through radio that light was going off. What's posh there? This must be Stockholm syndrome where the insane is now seen as sane.

Generator Republic is not sane. I wish you well as you cope.

There are many lunatic on this platform and country.

How can noise from generator be normal.

We are a living an absurd reality in Nigeria

Imaging scrambling to be AI merchant and software developer when we have not solved the laws of faraday and Tesla and Thomas Edison


We find ways to feel suffering is a good trait


I just hope I can build my own city where the basic of life is replicated.

seunowa:
What is being said is beyond your comprehension.

Well I don’t rate your type

If an estate or a school can generate light using generators for weeks and months

What happened to a national distribution of light hmm

Or the oil money is not the same Dubai and Saudi has

Seun

All the billions are for politicians

Subsidy what


Why not solve it once and for all