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maclatunji: . . .Of all his wives, the Queen of Sheba was the stand-out babe. She had the looks, wealth and the power. Even she didn't convert Solomon to idolatory, he converted her from idolatory to Islam. . .

You made my day! Had to check again to make sure I was not in the jokes section.

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Choi!! I'll advice you go for dyslexia test. No offence.

Weren't those kinds of materials used for the opening and closing ceremonies of Eko 2012?

Seun: We do not want to alienate any ethnic group by shaming their widely respected role models. It's not worth it.

In 9ja, all ethnic groups are equal but some are more equal than others. SMH

News Tuesday, December 25, 2012

KANO (AFP) – Nigeria’s secret police on Monday arrested two journalists after a report of alleged abuses by troops battling Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, their newspaper said.

Agents of the state security service (SSS), in pre-dawn raids, picked up the editor of Almizan, Musa Muhammad Awwal, and reporter Aliyu Saleh, along with their wives, the weekly’s editor-in-chief Ibrahim Musa told AFP.

Saleh’s son was also arrested, he said. The arrests occurred in the northern city of Kaduna, where the regional newspaper has an office.

Their wives and the son were released later Monday, he said.

“Armed men from the SSS accompanied by soldiers broke into the homes of our editor … and reporter … around 4:00 am today and took them away along with their two wives and the son of the reporter after manhandling them,” Musa said.

“We believe their arrest was in connection with a story we published in our latest edition on the arrests of 84 people in the town of Potiskum in Yobe state by soldiers on suspicion of belonging to Boko Haram sect and denying their families access to them.”

During the raid, SSS officials took away laptops and mobile phones from the journalists’ homes, he said.

Secret police officials did not respond to phone calls.

Almizan, established in 1991 and published in the Hausa language spoken throughout Nigeria’s north, is run by the Shiite and pro-Iranian Islamic Movement of Nigeria.

Residents and human rights bodies have accused troops of abuses, including arbitrary arrests and killings of civilians, in connection with Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria’s northern and central regions.

Violence linked to the insurgency is believed to have left some 3,000 people dead since 2009, including killings by the security forces.

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/dec/25/302.html

Better late than never. These BH agents have for long been masquerading as pseudo-human rights activists. After terrorist attacks, they portray the government and security agents as incompetent, but are quick to cry wolf when appropriate measures are taken. The BH terrorists have so far been the major beneficiary in terms of propaganda. We have such agents on NL too with their six-letter user names. . .

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Ok, let me restate the 4 points I made in the hidden post:
1. I replied a post to the effect that persecution does not necessarily weakens one's faith.
2. I empathized and sympathized with the victims.
3. I wished the suicide bombers maximum enjoyment of those 72 . . .
4. I wished the denizens of Kano a merry Christmas.

You be the judge. Hope you read it before the mods do what they love know best.

ignis: You are very very wrong.
You are lucky you were not banned.
Innocent people loss their lives and you are here empathizing rubbish.

Oga, had you read my original post, you would not be feeling so smug.

[quote author=Bigboy 100%]...I dey vex Bajoga.[/quote]I dey feel you jare. Di papey wan fall our hand big time for reasons best known to him alone. . .

survival1: . . .was told it d hausa version of sum of d bible names lyk Musa 4 Moses, Dauda 4 David etc. Even wen i told dem it's arabic version dey still tuk their stand nd it also favour d xtain in terms of appointmt.

Go and read the Hausa bible before coming here to display your ignorance Mr. ITK.

Why should the mod hide my post? Am I wrong in empathizing with both bombers and victims? Smh

[quote author=omo_to_dun]Isn't that what this whole thread is about? Imagine someone saying that it was God who protected them from Boko Haram, while conveniently forgetting to mention the hundreds that they killed.[/quote]Psalm 115:17 Neither can the dead praise the LORD, nor those who go down into the silence of death.

Psalm 6:5 No one remembers you when he is dead. Who praises you from the grave?

When the servants of Allah struck on 25/11/12, the death toll eventually climbed to 20. My God preserved my life though I was at the scene. For that, I am much obliged.

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I thank God almighty that Allah can NEVER mislead me.

Beauty, brains and billions.
For now, I will make do with the first 2 qualities.

When BH terrorists (servants of Allah, the merciful, the beneficent) came like a raging flood, he lifted a standard against them in my defence.

miiraaj: ...Yet,Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world.

Well said. Through biological evangelisation. When a man is entitled to 4 wives, what else could you expect? We sure know that the 4 wives on earth are for the purpose of training in anticipation of the 72 virgins in al jannah.

Who says it doesn't pay to be woman wrapper diligent?

miiraaj: .....And u tink its religious when muslims are also killed by the so called "muslim terrorists"?

Have you heard of collateral damage?

. . .why are there no terrorists activities in the muslim dominated south west?

Because of western (hence christian) influence which unfortunately did not permeate into the northern muslims.

Why will the action of few ill-informed individuals be considered over those of the majority?

Because of the acquiescence of the majority to the aggressive minority, time after time.

Why will the once very accomodating north,turn out to start killing the christians?

False claim. Take Zaria for example, even the Hausas who wanted to convert to christianity during colonial period had to leave the City for Wusasa where the missionaries resided. Since my childhood, violence against kafirai has been the norm with brief respite during Abacha's rule.

Please,these guys aren't fightin for Islam, they are group of ppl hired by some elites to sabotage the North. But unfortunately, most of u fish-brains will not understand

Cry me a river. At least we understand that they are using the zeal for Islam as a means to an end.

because THE NIGERIAN CHRISTIAN IS THE MOST BIASED HUMAN BEING ON EARTH.

In the north, you would see churches barricaded unlike the mosques. You think that's for fun? We have watched Shekau's videos in which he clearly stated BH's intentions. Until we begin to see suicide bombers crashing into mosques during Jumaat prayers, we shall continue to remain biased. Please come up with something better.

mal·ice (m l s) n. 1. A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite. 2. Law The intent, without just cause or reason, to commit a wrongful act that will result in harm to another.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latinmalitia, frommalus, bad; seemel-3 in Indo-European roots.]

malice [mælɪs] n 1. the desire to do harm or mischief 2. evil intent 3. (Law) Law the state of mind with which an act is committed and from which the intent to do wrong may be inferred See also malice aforethought [via Old French from Latin malitia, from malus evil]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/malice

@OP, judging from these definitions, could it be assumed that you exaggerated with the your choice of words?

lain: Wat is their promotion based on... Is it on tacklin b.haram, or militancy, or kidnapin or their ineptitudeness to secure the ogonis.. COWARDS

Judging from the level of ignorance (and bellicosity) expressed above, would it be surprising if a typical soldier in exasperation calls your type a 'BLOODY CIVILIAN'?

Meanwhile about 40 generals have been retired too - Different strokes. .

vanstanzy: REST IN THE LORDS BOSOM, COMMANDER! MAY GOD GRANT UR FAMILY THE FORTITUDE TO BEAR THE LOSS.
On a lighter note, in that picture of the guys possing, the short guy looks like aki and paw paw, u know, the Chinedu guy.

That aki & pawpaw guy in the photo is the subject of this thread.

realsammie: . . .this aboki stuff call ' DEBINO' ( dnt knw the name in English ).

Dates

kevin08: Why are there only 2 caskets,I thought about 4 or 5 people were involved in the crash

Haba bros, reason it out. Two dead peeps from KD being conveyed back to KD in two coffins. Except if you want late General Azazi's remains to be interred at KD too.

freecitizn: Its symbolic. They want y'all to have a sweet xmas

And to eschew bitterness (such as the OP is exhibiting).

#1. We Are Instinctively Primed to Love Any Baby
. . .See, evolution has left nothing to chance. If something happens to the biological parents of a newborn and someone else is forced into care-taking without the benefit of the hormone surges to stay invested, babies still have another tiny, adorable card up their tiny, adorable sleeves: They're just so goddamn precious.

While this may seem completely intuitive to you, science deemed it worth exploring why we turn into cooing, smiling puddles in the presence of babies. Well, it turns out it's all in the face. Those big eyes, the tiny nose and the comically oversized head are all features we are built to treasure. For proof, look at literally any representation of cuteness in modern culture. Disney has built an entire multimillion-dollar empire entirely on those characteristics. It's called the baby schema, and it's not something we are conditioned to love --it's something we love instinctively. Studies have proven that just seeing a face that matches the baby schema will activate pleasure and reward regions in every human brain, which is part of the reason the Internet is flooded with pictures of baby animals.

So, lacking the muscle strength to even lift their own heads, babies are equipped with only one weapon, and that weapon affects us on such a fundamental level that we are powerless to fight against it. It's not just true of humanity, either; across the board, mammals are overwhelmed with the impulse to nurture babies of any species, even ones they would otherwise eviscerate. Knowing all this, I'm now on the side of those doped-up mothers wondering why anyone wants to do anything other than collect puppies and kids all day. It may sound overly simplistic to fire helmeted babies over the walls of our enemies, but holy shit has anyone actually tried it?

On a lighter note:

4 Ways Nature Brainwashes You into Taking Care of Babies

By: Soren Bowie Published: 12/11/2012 (www.cracked.com)

A baby is an anchor. I don't mean that in an abstract sense where it keeps parents grounded and appreciative of what really matters in life; I mean a baby is dead weight. In terms of pragmatic usefulness, a baby is about on equal footing with a moderately sized stone, if stones were prone to rashes and screaming and disgorging fluids. Where a baby horse can walk before the embryonic sack has had a chance to dry, and a newborn kangaroo can climb sheer vertical ascents to its mother's pouch without any hind legs, a human baby can't even flip itself over and will occasionally try to claw its own face off. Babies are simply not prepared for the world when they arrive, and it's up to parents to make sure they stay clean, their brains stay un-poked through their ill-formed skulls and they aren't carried off by coyotes or hawks. It's a big job for anyone, and even though we are a highly intelligent species that can see the importance of propagation, there must be moments when the haze of affection clears from a parent's eyes and he or she is tempted to pad a wicker basket and find the closest river.

Fortunately, nature's never willing to rely on the off chance that anyone will actually like their child. Through years of evolution, it has hidden elaborate fail-safes in our brains to ensure that we won't abandon our young. "But Soren," you harried and sleepless parents will cry in a voice just soft enough not to wake your tiny beast, "You have no children --what makes you think you know anything about raising a kid?" Well, you just answered your own question, Jack; only the childless can objectively see the spell you're under, a spell that's meant to look and feel a lot like love.

It's a big job for anyone, and even though we are a highly intelligent species that can see the importance of propagation, there must be moments when the haze of affection clears from a parent's eyes and he or she is tempted to pad a wicker basket and find the closest river.

#4. A Baby Is a Bong-Load of Oxytocin
One of the most calming and euphoric drugs you will ever feel massaging its way into your brain is oxytocin. Fortunately, you will never have to pay anything for it, because your own body is your dealer. Oxytocin is a neuromodulating hormone that's released after intimacy, when you fall in love and, for mothers, when a baby breast-feeds. In fact, any skin-to-skin contact between a mother and her baby, even gazing into her child's eyes, will trigger another dose of this bliss hormone, effectively turning the baby into a vehicle for a drug. Now, anyone who has seen or knows firsthand how protective and nurturing weed enthusiasts are for their vaporizers and pipes can get a sense of how nature has tricked mothers into essentially becoming addicted to their babies.

And like any drug, oxytocin can severely impair logic and judgment. It's at least partially responsible for every new mother thinking "Yes, babies are generally pretty adorable, but have you fucking seen MY baby? Why are people still fighting wars? Don't they know? Where are the news vans!?" Those of us without children have been forced to tolerate Facebook pages and Twitter accounts created on behalf of other people's babies, all while wondering how anyone could lose perspective so badly, how even close friends could become so grating and unrelatable in such a short period of time. The answer, of course, is drugs. But in this case, it's a drug that the mother doesn't even know she's taking. She's high on motherhood and can't conceive of a reason why everyone else isn't losing their shit over her newborn. Meanwhile, she spends every waking second scoring another fix, trying to snort the hairs off the baby's head like an addict huffing paint from a paper bag.

Now, that doesn't mean that each one of those moms is trying to pull a fast one on some unassuming guy in the hopes that he'll help share the load of her new tiny black-eyed nightmare. In fact, most of those mothers probably didn't even realize that their answers would change based on whether the father was in the room. Instead, it's an evolved response built into a mother's brain after thousands and thousands of years. See, while it may be in a father's best interest to know that a baby is his, it's in the best interest of the family and the species as a whole that the father stick around to raise the next generation, whether the baby is his or not. So when it comes to propagation of the species, nature is on the side of the sluts.

Evolution isn't stupid enough to make every newborn look like the father, because that would be disastrous any time a woman happened to swap forensics with a guy who wasn't her partner. Instead, nature conditioned the minds of mothers to insist, and even believe, that the baby looks like her partner just to ensure that he doesn't abandon her, or eat the baby, or whatever it is that cuckolds do.

#3. Newborns Look Like the Father (Even When They Don't)
On a purely biological level, a new father will instinctively look for indications that a baby is his. Regardless of how monogamous a relationship may be, the basest part of his brain will want to know that sharing two decades of energy, time and resources with a pink pile of flesh is in his best interest. A study in 1995 aimed to prove that newborns look more like the father under the theory that, evolutionarily speaking, it's advantageous to alleviate any doubt of paternity. The study had 122 people matching pictures of babies with pictures of parents based on facial features alone. The participants managed to match up about half of the fathers with their babies but were absolutely terrible at determining which newborn belonged to which mother. While that study should prove that babies are born looking like their dad, all other attempts to replicate the first experiment have since

So here's where it gets weird.

A separate study in 2000 asked new mothers and fathers which parent their baby most resembled, and the answer was resoundingly the father ... but only when the father was present during the questioning. Researchers asked 60 couples together and then 100 mothers alone whom the baby looked like, and when the mother didn't have to worry about the father overhearing, the paternal resemblance magically dropped 27 percent.

Now, that doesn't mean that each one of those moms is trying to pull a fast one on some unassuming guy in the hopes that he'll help share the load of her new tiny black-eyed nightmare. In fact, most of those mothers probably didn't even realize that their answers would change based on whether the father was in the room. Instead, it's an evolved response built into a mother's brain after thousands and thousands of years. See, while it may be in a father's best interest to know that a baby is his, it's in the best interest of the family and the species as a whole that the father stick around to raise the next generation, whether the baby is his or not. So when it comes to propagation of the species, nature is on the side of the sluts.

Evolution isn't stupid enough to make every newborn look like the father, because that would be disastrous any time a woman happened to swap forensics with a guy who wasn't her partner. Instead, nature conditioned the minds of mothers to insist, and even believe, that the baby looks like her partner just to ensure that he doesn't abandon her, or eat the baby, or whatever it is that cuckolds do.

#2. A Baby's Cry Can Change the Brain Chemistry of Fathers
While mothers are busy getting contact highs from their babies, fathers can feel a little left out, like designated drivers at a party who have to patiently wait on the couch as everyone else has an infinitely better time. But nature isn't going to risk the chance that he'll get bored and wander away to meet other women who are unencumbered by tiny shrieking meat sacks. That's why even the sound of his baby's cry will release a heaping dose of a chemical into his system that is basically the hormone equivalent of a cockblock.

A mother isn't the only one whose mind rewires in preparation for raising a child. During pregnancy and childbirth, the father's body is stockpiling prolactin to keep him from acting like an asshole once the baby arrives. Prolactin is like the antagonist to testosterone, and it's the reason men don't have multiple orgasms. After sex, it's responsible for that satisfied, sometimes sentimental but completely non-erotic sensation most men feel, and if you happen to be a new father, you'll recognize it as that overwhelming affection you feel every time you interact with your baby.

While the hormone helps a father bond with his child, its more important role is to crash his libido and keep him from trying to hump anything else. It's basically the baby's built-in safeguard ensuring that its father's attention isn't divided. But the strangest part is that a dad will only get doses of it when he can see or hear his child. Outside the sexless force field babies emit, the prolactin dams up and testosterone levels shoot back up to normal levels almost immediately. In other words, a baby is like a really adorable form of kryptonite to its father, if that father's superpower were fucking stuff.

damiso: . . .BUT my daughter really is kinda of almost manic when flying. . .She just screams and wails throughour.I dont know if its the cabin pressure or maybe she is claustrophic i dont know but its really bad. . .

Could probably be cabin pressure rather than claustrophobia (except if she exhibits the same behaviour in a car). Cabin pressure usually has painful effect on my auditory canals especially during takeoffs and landings. When such happens, I usually take a deep breath, block my nostrils and mouth and then attempt breathing out. This action helps in adjusting the pressure in my ears. . .

Birds of the same feather flock together therefore, a 'cheap' girl is one who associates with a 'cheap' guy - whatever 'cheap' connotes. . . .

The list includes some of the dons and doyens of ethnic and religious intolerance. Good enough. The list would however be near perfect with the addition of SAGAMITE - the lord of the uncouth tongue, slave to impulse and perpetual patient of verbal diarrhoea. Trust me, he'll prove that he is a slave to impulse soonest