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Hundreds of people are expected to attend a memorial vigil for a cow which was shot dead by police marksmen.

The cow, nicknamed Bessie, was one of three which escaped Rising Sun Country Park in North Tyneside UK on Sunday.

A helicopter and six police marksmen tracked the trio - two were recaptured but Bessie was shot "in the interests of public safety".

The vigil is to take place at 18:00 BST on Friday, at a field in Chicken Lane, Wallsend.
More than 6,000 people have liked a Facebook page set up in her memory.

'Serious send-off'
Those attending are asked to wear a cow onesie and bring a candle.

Dave Turner, who set up the R.I.P. Wallsend Cow Facebook page, said: "It's not every day you get a cow getting shot in a field nearby. I think we need to mark this occasion with a serious send-off for Bessie.

"It wasn't doing anything, it was just eating a bit of grass - it probably got sick of the grass it was eating elsewhere, it heard about a nice new patch, went down and started grazing, and the next thing is police turn up and start firing at it.

"We are going to light candles and say a little prayer for her."

A Northumbria Police spokesman said Bessie was destroyed after becoming "increasingly distressed" and "causing dangerous and severe obstructions" on a major road.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-32800365

Personally I call it MADNESS!

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/83098000/jpg/_83098483_copper3.jpg

Vigil for Suya?

brownlolly:
If you're pro-biafran you're an enemy of the nation...if you're pro-ndigbo, you don't av a problem. Biafra was created during a war crisis and that is what that name will represent forever.

Rev King and all the biafran captives can go to hell.

SilvanusII:
Why darling, your father kicked your mother out of his house because of me.

SilvanusII:
Didn't think this story will come this late, But of course, this is exactly a display of the extents to which the Nigerian Police can be VERY daft. 122 condoms and no females automatically makes gay? Two days ago, in Edo State CULTISTS were boldly flying colors, killing ppl, nonsense NPF no talk. Na only for this kain frame-up mata dem dey get power. Awon Oloriburuku

Its even appaling to see some id.iots who have no rights to the internet enabled phones brand them 'gay' as well. So it is alright to arrest men who are being loud and raucuous at a bar for being gay shey? I hope the next time y'all be hanging out with ur buddies, they arrest you and brand u gay. SMH



Sharrap ya dirty mouth dia. If u must know, Igbos av the highest number of gay guys what with the crippling bride prices ur use.less ppl impose on their young men. Ode buruku

[size=14pt]Buhari calls for total Sharia in Nigeria[/size]
A former military ruler of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has called for the introduction of ‘total’ Islamic law across the country, reports said on Monday.
He made this call at a conference organized by the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in Kaduna.Buhari, who ruled Nigeria from a coup in December 1983 to his ouster in 1985, told a seminar in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, at the weekend that the strict Islamic law code known as the Sharia should be introduced in full across Nigeria.

“I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria,” Buhari said, quoted in press reports.

“God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country,” Buhari said.

Northern Nigeria is mainly Muslim but southern Nigeria is mainly Christian and has led criticism of the introduction of Islamic law in a dozen northern states in the past 18 months.

Africa’s most populous country has been shaken repeatedly in the past by religious unrest. In February 2000 between 2 000 and 3 000 people were killed by Christian-Muslim riots in Kaduna over the introduction of Sharia.

Call for Sharia across the country

Buhari’s comments were interpreted by the southern-based papers as a call for the imposition of Sharia all across the country, even in the mainly Christian south.

“Buhari calls for Sharia in all states,” was the headline of the respected newspaper The Guardian.

Buhari’s comments were defended by supporters as simply a call for the full implementation of Sharia in areas where Muslims predominated.

But the comments are the second by Buhari that have courted controversy after he called earlier this year for Muslims to vote at the next presidential elections only for someone who would defend their faith.

This was criticised by the press as a call for voting along religious lines, as well as an attack on the current president, Olusegun Obasanjo, who is a Christian.

Buhari made the latest comments at a seminar organised by the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, a newly set up body attended by northern state governments and Islamic scholars.

“It is a legal responsibility which God has given us, within the context of one Nigeria, to continue to uphold the practice of Sharia wholeheartedly , and to educate non-Muslims that they have nothing to fear,” he said.

“What remains for Muslims in Nigeria is for them to redouble their efforts, educate Muslims on the need to promote the full implementation of Sharia law,” he went on. – AFP
First published in 2001

after1:
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Coming from a jobless animal from the South East. A worthless tribe of human eaters, Yeeboes are cursed and so shall it be. I will always torment your miserable life until you stop insulting other tribes on every thread. A fool at 40, is a fool forever. Leave the village and stop depending on your aged mother for food, at your age you still live in that mud hut in the village with your mother. Be useful for once Ebuka Phils.

Alcatraz001:
I won't be drawn into this back and forth discussion with you so please let's not derail this thread.

Contribute to this thread and let's making it intellectually stimulating.

Alcatraz001:
We ALL know its the YORUBAS but our brothers from the east will not agree due to their innate hate and inferiority Complex.

Alcatraz001:
We ALL know its the YORUBAS but our brothers from the east will not agree due to their innate hate and inferiority Complex.

Without any sense of bias or favour, I award it to the YORUBAS.

Abayhormy:
STOP all these tribal javelins throwing. STOP all these hate campaigns, Whatever Negative resultant comes out all these your actions and inactions(especially if it results to loss of life), be ready to face it if you don't stop. Let God judge things and bad people for their actions, don't in anyway influence tribal war or intolerance, or else, you've implicate yourself in on the sight of God and humanity.

searching4lovee:


THANK GOD EVERY REGION NOW OWNS THE NIGER DELTA OIL AND MAY GOD BLESS THE NORTHERN AND SOUTH WEST REPS WHO PASSED THAT BILL. NIGER DELTANS HAVE BEEN OVER PAMPERED IN THE NIGERIAN STATE AND ITS HIGH TIME WE PUT A CHECK ON THEM. EVERY RESOURCES IN THE NIGERIAN TERRITORY BELONGS TO ALL NIGERIANS. WE CAN NOT CONTINUE TO ALLOW THEM CLAIM OWNERSHIP OF OUR OIL WHILE THEIR REGION WAS DEVELOPED BY MONEY FROM COCOA AND GROUNDNUT BEFORE OIL WAS DISCOVERED.

THIS IS THE CHANGE WE CLAMOURED FOR AND I'M GLAD CHANGE IS HERE. THE SOUTH EAST ARE VERY BITTER ABOUT THE BILL BECAUSE THEY ARE STYLISHLY LURING THE NIGER DELTA INTO THEIR BIAFRAN DREAM WHICH IS FUTILE FROM INCEPTION. I REALLY THANK THE NORTH FOR MAKING THIS GREAT MOVE. THE NORTH SHALL ALWAYS BE THE OWNER OF NIGERIA COS THEY HAVE THE HIGHEST POPULATION AND LAND MASS. WE SOUTHWESTERNERS ARE SOLIDLY BEHIND THE NORTH

[size=14pt][color=#006688]THE OIL BELONGS TO THE WHOLE NIGERIA

THE POWER BELONGS TO THE WHOLE NORTH.

THE COMMERCIAL CENTER LAGOS BELONGS TO THE WHOLE YORUBA PEOPLE.

AND YOU THINK THE NIGER DELTA WILL KEEP QUIET

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ocelot2006:
So it wouldve been better if we chose biafra were your town's men become overlords on the minorities? No fcking way.

TheSonOfMark:

AMONGST THE SOUTHERN GOVERNORS, AMEACHI IS THE BIGGEST LOSER.

In one fell swoop, he lost the entire political structure of the SECOND OR THIRD RICHEST STATE IN NIGERIA, got villified as a sellout and became South-South's public enemy numero uno.

HE ISN'T EVEN ASSURED OF A SIGNIFICANT POSITION AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL JUDGING FROM THE RECENT SCHEMINGS AND SHENANIGANS BY THE NORTH.

Rotimi 'Pawn' Amaechi.