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adamooye5: No fewer than 8,000 women on Thursday matched to the Zamfara Hisbah Commission, seeking the state government’s assistance to enable them to get married.

Led by the Chairperson of the Zamfara Widows Association, Hajiya Suwaiba Isa, and the patron, Alhaji Sa’idu Goshe, the women said they were not living a normal life and needed husbands to become whole.

“Many of us cannot afford two meals in a day because there are no men to support us,” they said.

The patron said the association had over 8,000 women, comprising 5,380 divorcees, 2,200 widows, 1,200 orphans and 80 others, whom he said, were looking for men to marry.

He said the women also needed assistance to purchase household items such as beds, mattresses and other basic necessities needed to move to their husbands’ houses.

Goshe appealed to the commission to assist the association in screening suitors for the women.

He said the screening would determine the suitors’ health status, source of livelihood and ability to maintain a family.
http://www.punchng.com/news/8000-zamfara-women-protest-over-scarcity-of-husbands/

yet yerima had to go to egypt?

fluid26: I disagree. The pastor is wrong on this one. Does it mean the girl would never get married? Or perhaps, he expects them to go 'delete' the embryo and return for approval? Or he is hoping for a natural occurrence to 'reset' the anomaly...a miscarriage ? Blighted ovum? Pre-emclampsia? What exactly did he advise as solution to something he identified as a problem.

He claims to be serving Jesus, but he doesn't fully understand the circumstances surrounding the birth of his Christ. Mary was pregnant before marriage [the method of conception here is irrelevant]. She was rejected by society, yet she was eventually married to Joseph. Why? It was Joseph who had the final say, not the society, not the church leaders.

What if the said girl had told the pastor that her conception was immaculate (like Mary's)? What if it was through IVF or other proven non-sex-related method? Would the pastor react differently?

I hate pastors and their ridiculously low mental capacity. Even if he lacks knowledge, he should borrow some common sense from past events and save himself this embarrassment.

read the post again before commenting. The wedding was cancelled because of premarital sex and not pregnancy. The pastor's action is very right.

magkhan: Op...are you saying that building an auditorium for the glory of God is not a worthy cause?
so it's better to just have a building where most worshipers will be exposed to nature hazard while worshipping God?
king David said 'God forbid that I should give the Lord something that cost me nothing '...
the pastor did not say steal and come donate,any who does that is only answerable to God...
Even if pastor Adeboye wants to build the biggest church in Africa,the gates of hell shall not prevail against him neither will it collapse because some people donate ill gotten money...
God said to Abraham if I Find 10 godly people,I will not destroy sodom...same with the church

wrong application of the scripture. You need more hours of bible studies prefarably in deeper life church or any of the so called old generation church where the truth is taught. Not the type of churches that only say what your itchy ears want to hear. .

Okoya: I will advice u to kneel down before ur God and ask for forgiveness. .. who are u to judge? huh? if daddy adegboye tells every1 to see his p.a, when do u think his p.a will finish with d collection? he tried to make d collection more easy and stress free and u come out here saying rubbish... besides can everyone hold his cheque book or dat kinda amount anywhere?

did he announced dat d blessings of those dat meets with d p.a will be higher dan those didn't?

abeg, u re jst so frustrated. ..smh 4 u!
tongue out
God forgive me!

completely brainwashed. Your case is very pathetic

Ganys: PDP/JANAN TAN are just looking for ways to rope & stain this man, But God pass you.
To Buhari & his Supporters>>>>
Wa Lahu Yahsi Muka Minna Nas!
Amin

so according to you jonathan caused the explosions abi? The monster created by your type to make the nation ungovernable by an infidel is gradually consuming your region. Talk about nemesis.

CAMNEWTON4PRES: [size=48pt]AS DAVID-CAMEROON CONTINUES HIS DOMINATION OF GOLIATH-NIGERIA[/size]

o you still remember the name of the national football team of The Republic of Cameroon especially after their disastrous outing at the Korea-Japan World Cup? As a Nigerian you cannot easily forget the Indomitable Lions, the perennial nemesis of the Nigerian Super Eagles! Ever thought of the real implications of Team Cameroon's name? Can you guess the country that has always fallen prey to the ever-ravenous lions of Cameroon? Of course, Cameroon has always considered Nigeria as fodder and prey in football competitions at least. But you might be surprised to learn that even in politics Nigeria has not fared any better against Cameroon. Cameroon is one country that seems to have figured out Nigeria's numbers in nearly everything. So in every competition, be it in politics or in sports, they seem to have both the trick and the ace to beat us. Cameroon named her football team The Indomitable Lions probably because she wanted the world to know that the self-described giant by her west side was nothing other than a conquered and devoured lamb. And this was not an empty boast. Cameroon had a lot of accomplishments against Nigeria to back up her boast. Nigeria and Cameroon have been playing the game of who-is-the-greater-of-the-two since time immemorial. And in the aggregate of victories Cameroon clearly has the upper hand. She seems always to be able to manufacture the way to have the last laugh over Nigeria. In nearly all their encounters Cameroon has always found the way to top Nigeria. Before there would be her unsurpassable victory in The Hague, Cameroon had recorded a landmark victory in 1961 when she capitalized on the UN-organized plebiscite to manipulate the citizens of the so-called Southern Cameroon to vote in favor of joining her in the Republic of Cameroon notwithstanding the fact that they would become in an instant the super-minority of English speakers in a nation of French-speaking hawks. Cameroon would repeat the same feat against Nigeria in the early 70's shortly after the civil war.

The great Ahmadou Ahidjo, the first president of Cameroon, saw firsthand the weaknesses in Nigerian leadership under the poorly equipped Yakubu Gowon and decided to capitalize to appropriate as much of Nigeria's territory as he could. Ahidjo manipulated the so-called Nigerian General and got him to sign away to his country a large chunk of Nigeria's territory in the now infamous Maroua Declaration of June 1st 1975. When the wiser Murtala Muhammed booted the inept Gowon out of office, there was a move to return to status quo ante. But Ahidjo and his Cameroonian political chase-masters were not the ones to be thus fooled. They stuck to their guns claiming, "What has been written has been written!" And that began the seesaw agitation that metamorphosed into the Bakassi crisis of today.

But Cameroon had not finished with Nigeria yet. The Cameroonians kept pressing to consummatewhat they had gotten free of charge from the shallow regime of Yakubu Gowon. But they were having a terrible time because Nigerian military leaders were coming from the no-nonsense pedigree of Murtala Muhammed rather than from the lackadaisical and unthinking clan of Yakubu Gowon. Having been frustrated for quite a long time by the hawkish Buhari, Babangida and Abacha; all of whom came from the school of Murtala Mohammed, Cameroon reclined back to her lab of diplomatic creativity. And when she emerged from there she took her case to the World Court in 1994 betting on her political and diplomatic wizardry to outsmart Nigeria. And that is what she has just done. Today Cameroon has embarked on a victory lap after a long fight that cost more in brains and strategy than bravado while Nigeria is confined to toeing the line of least resistance. Nigerians are today reacting in amazement and wonder simply because they have not been attentive enough to the all-round ingenuity and creativity of the Cameroonians in their relationship with Nigeria.

Believe it or not, Cameroon's victory in The Hague came as a result of her ingenious diplomaticinitiatives that included issues as mundane as her football team the Indomitable Lions. Have you been able to notice how she has been effectively employing her intimidating football team to mount a propaganda war against the self-portraying giant of Africa? Can you believe that the tiny country of Cameroon that is not worth more than two or three states in our nation has always beaten Nigeria in the game of international politics whose principal diplomat is her football team the Indomitable Lions? Did you notice that the American tennis superstar, the current world number one player, Serena Williams, proudly displayed the Cameroonian national colors during her magical run at the 2002 French Open? That was a major diplomatic coup by the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon with the help of their clothing company Puma against every other African nation at the World Cup. But it did not take a rocket scientist to discern that the ultimate object and victim of that diplomatic coup had been Nigeria. The Cameroonians in fact succeeded in letting it be taken for granted by the entire world that Cameroon is Africa's best, perhaps in everything. Do you notice how far Cameroon has succeeded in invading the present-day Nigeria with her flamboyant football antics? For the average Nigerians today the Indomitable Lions are like a bunch of out-of-space football wizards that have mastered the art of routinely humiliating our feckless football team that prides itself with an oversize misnomer, Super Eagles.

Did you know that it was the string of defeatsthe Indomitable Lions had inflicted on the Green Eagle that forced the hands of the National Football Association to decree the change of our national team's name from the soft-landing Green Eagles to the present tough-sounding Super Eagles? The NFA thought that Nigeria could use the magic of an awe-instilling name to turn around her fortunes against the "unconquerable" Cameroonians. They insisted on matching the horror-stirring Indomitable Lions with our own awe-inspiring Super Eagles. Hence our fragile Green Eagleswere accorded a super-name, the Super Eagles. And since then every national team in Nigeria has been given the lift of a super-title. You have today the Super Falcons and all what not. The Nigerian football officials obviously believed that Shakespeare could never have been serious when he said that there was nothing in a name!

But unfortunately for us, even after this transformation the Indomitable Lions have not ceased in finding their way to clip the wings of our nominally energized eagles. Many a time they behave as if they are taunting us saying, "give whatever scary name you may wish for your eagles, our 'unconquerable' lions must always have them for dinner." Isn't this frustrating? It is unfortunately the reality of the present-day Nigeria. I know that the Nigerian football officials must be grinding their brains about what else to add to the name of the Super Eagles to make them soar above the "unconquerable lions of Cameroon." I do not envy their position. I believe that Cameroon has shot far ahead in the mastery of the ways to beat Nigeria in all competitions, sports or politics.

Did you ever notice the propaganda of Cameroon at the last World Cup in Korea-Japan? The Indomitable Lions had gone to Korea-Japan toasting themselves as the best in Africa. And they deserved their boast. Having won in quick successions the two previous African Nations' Cup in Accra-Lagos and Mali, having taken African Nations' Cup in Nigeria for keeps, the Indomitable Lions had acquired a resounding bragging right in African football. But they would not be satisfied with just toasting themselves as Africa's best. They decided to carry it a little too far that it almost became a taunt and a put-down of the other African countries especially their neighbors, the Super Eagles, who had become their counterparts in the world tournament.

And together with his French masters and the collusion of Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the UN, Biya took Obasanjo to the city of light Paris, fed him with milk.... That was exactly the pattern and the same type of trap Gowon seems to have fallen into in the early 70's. In 1971 and 1972, Ahidjo had taken Gowon to his mother's village of Garoua and bamboozled him to promise signing away Nigerian territories around Bakassi.

Their German coach even went as far as boasting to their one-party parliament and their president-for-life, Mr. Paul Biya that his lion-hearted team was the only credible representative of the African continent in the competition. He stopped short of saying that Nigeria alongside the three other African representatives was a mere pretender-representative of the African continent. But perceptive Nigerians understood his coded insult nonetheless. They knew that the Cameroonian coach had unleashed a salvo of insulting propaganda aimed at the heart of the football-crazy Nigerians. And it did hurt! But insult and pride were not the real goal of the coach's boast. The Indomitable Lions, through their foreign coach, were talking directly both to Nigerians and the entire world about the superiority of the nation of Cameroon over Nigeria.

At the end of the day, it was clear that the little nation of Cameroon had succeeded in delivering a coded message to the entire world telling them to forget size and noises obviously from their neighbors in Nigeria and focus on skill and quality and they would realize that Cameroon and not Nigeria was the true giant of the African continent. Fortunately for Nigeria and unfortunately for Cameroon fate pulled a fast one on the unconquerable lions of Cameroon at the world cup. Like their disparaged counterparts from Nigeria, the Super Eagles, the Indomitable Lions became among the most dominated teams of the competition. Could you imagine the relief felt by most Nigerians on seeing the boastful Cameroon crash out of the competition alongside our own humble team that had not been expected to go anywhere in the tournament? It was not loathsome for many Nigerians to see the star of the Indomitable Lions dim at the world cup. In fact they were happy to see the African football backwaters Senegal steal the thunder from the prideful Indomitable Lions.

However, notwithstanding the consolation of a mutual defeat at the world cup, Nigeria's fortune over time has remained dim against the Cameroonians. Cameroon has not only outclassed Nigeria in the field of football play she has consistently outwitted and out-maneuvered her in politics and diplomacy of every competition. The long-reigning Issa Hayatou of Confederation of African Football is a clear testimony that the nation of Nigeria is secondary to Cameroon in matters of skill and politics in sports. And that should give you a little information about the history of our woes with the nation of Cameroon. In nearly every competition they have found a way to dominate us despite their paltry population, which is roughly the size of the state of Lagos, documented and undocumented residents counted.

Am I the only one discerning some kind of symmetry in the way Cameroon gets the better part of Nigeria in nearly everything? Think about it, among the factors that emboldened Cameroon to seek redress in The Hague was the successful manipulation of the Nigerian Yakubu Gowon by her legendary leader Ahmadou Ahidjo. President Ahidjo had seen Gowon as somebody he could make mince meat of any day. And that was exactly what he had done. President Ahidjo kind of invented the Cameroonian recipe for tackling what Cameroon often considers as the Nigerian nuisance.

The same pattern seems to have repeated itself in the year of our Lord 2002. I have the hunch that Paul Biya had considered President Obasanjo as somebody he could just dribble around and goad into a trap. Remember, President Biya was Ahidjo's deputy. He might have learned a lot of tricks from the Cameroonian political sage. Paul Biya, in his political and diplomatic wizardry, seems to have known well ahead of time how the ICJ justices were going to rule. Somebody in or closer to the court might have tipped him off long before the majority would finishwriting their verdict. I would be surprised if he was not intimated well ahead of time on the ultimate outcome of the case he had taken to the world court. So in order to place himself in a vintage corner in which he would be able to enlist popular support to put enormous pressure on Obasanjo after the ruling, President Biya seems to have conspired with his colonial masters to robe Obasanjo into agreeing before hand that he would abide by the ICJ ruling no matter how the chips fell.

And together with his French masters and the collusion of Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the UN, Biya took Obasanjo to the city of light Paris, fed him with milk, chocolate and some liquor to tingle his head. According to their version of events, Obasanjo thereafter signed on to their ploy to excise some parts of Nigeria alongside some Nigerian citizens and cede them to the government of Cameroon. As reports from the French and British angles have indicated, Obasanjo did promise that he would obey to the letter the International Court ruling no matter how it ultimately went.

That seems eerily familiar, isn't it? That was exactly the pattern and the same type of trap Gowon seems to have fallen into in the early 70's. In 1971 and 1972, Ahidjo had taken Gowon to his mother's villageof Garoua and bamboozled him to promise signing away Nigerian territories around Bakassi. In April of 1975, Gowon kept the faith with the promise he had made to Ahidjo. That was what got us to where we are today. I bet you, President Paul Biya was reading from the Ahmadou Ahidjo playbook when he took Obasanjo to Paris on September 5, this year. He succeeded somehow in boxing Obasanjo to a corner. In my view this proves only one thing. By tradition Cameroonian leaders are both politically and diplomatically smarter than their Nigerian counterparts.

How prophetic had the Cameroonians been with the propaganda they took to the last world cup! They have consistently bested Nigeria in these kinds of competitions. Following the World Court judgment against Nigeria these last couple of weeks, we may have to begin to tell ourselves the home truth that Cameroon may in fact be better than Nigeria in many ways. For a country of roughly 15 million people to have pulled off such an upset against a nation of nearly 120 million citizens required the type of diplomatic dexterity far superior to what is usually seen among the Third Word countries.

To say that Cameroon achieved a monumental victory at the expense of Nigeria is to greatly understate the whole thing. They had a David's kind of victory against a Goliath that is Nigeria. But the Cameroonian feat at the World Court says quite a lot about the political and diplomatic competence of the Nigerian political class. Our leaders indeed have a very long way to go in order to be able to match the skills of their counterparts in Africa and the world. The little nation of Cameroon has succeeded in telling Nigeria to stop fooling herself around comparing herself with the other great countries of the other continents. For Cameroon and perhaps for the Europeans that supported them at the ICJ Nigeria may be a big-for-nothing country!

The fact is a super-sized nation has some privileges over some of its smaller neighbors. But Nigeria no longer enjoys such privilege in the international arena for reasons bordering on her self-infliction of debilitating injuries during the military era and the diplomatic dexterity of her neighbors especially Cameroon. While Nigeria had dozed off on the laps of military dictatorship, Cameroon like Ghana and Ivory Coast before the recent upheaval quietly sold herself to the world as a more mature and organized African nation.

There is no doubt that if there was anything the world court judgment against Nigeria had proved beyond any shred of doubt it was that Nigeria no longer enjoyed the respect of the world. The ICJ verdict had provided one indisputable proof to the level Nigeria had sunk in international respectability. It proved that Nigeria, which has barely and in fact only symbolicallyemerged from her pariah status during the military era still has a long way to go in winning back her lost privileges and respect from the world. The world is yet to begin taking the democratic Nigeria seriously. That was the coded message the ICJ justices had delivered to Nigerians in their very suspicious verdict on the Bakassi peninsula.

http://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/ihenacho/102802.html

joblessness is a disease. What is the relevance of this essay with the topic of the thread?

A good husband is he that makes as much money as his wife can spend.

kuntash: sorry for the late response, check your email, Note: its the user's manual...

I also added the service manual for the transmission..

cheers

kindly help me with the manual. I have a C230 kompressor 2000 model. My email address is ochejaetu@yahoo.com. Thanks in advance

CFCfan: It's easy. Tottenham will win their next 2 games by 9-0 and 8-0 respectively

that can only happen in NPL not EPL

y.alwaysme:
A man was carrying that he paid 20k for a special center and his son score 115

what was the man carrying? With this type of english, how will you pass JAMB?

Ajibel: JAMB really messed up this year. I think the board should be overhauled. Everyone would blame the mass failure on laziness of the students,i think thats just a cover up. I heard JAMB deducted marks from students too

deducted marks from students? What would JAMB do with the marks deducted? Think straight my friend. My advice, Nigerian youths please spend more time reading your books than on social Media chatting. JAMB put your own house in order. Why the hurry to release results when all the grey areas have not been sorted out?

OsunOriginal: This will only appeal to already bigoted easterners like yourself. No sane person will even read beyond the first line of the junk.

but you read the post and even commented on it. Can I take it then that you are insane? Obviously you read beyond the first line.

Igbo gadi: By: Sadiq Abdulateef on May 7, 2013 - 1:34am

Again, the issue of Nigeria and her governance took a centre stage yesterday, with the threat by a former member of the House of Representatives and a chieftain of the Congress for Progressive Change, Hon. Farouk Adamu Aliyu that 'it is either a Northerner as President in 2015 or there will be no more Nigeria.

Aliyu's outburst in an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP in Abuja was a direct response to the ex-Niger Delta militant and leader of Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Mujahid Asari Dokubo declaration on Sunday that 'there will be no peace in the country, if Jonathan was denied a second term'.



Aliyu, who was the 2011 CPC governorship candidate in Jigawa State, said it is unfortunate and sad that Dokubo is still walking the streets a freeman after making such unguarded statement.

He warned that "if Jonathan, Dokubo and their people want to destroy this country, then we are willing accomplices".
The ex-lawmaker who claimed to be speaking for the people of the North warned that nobody has the monopoly of violence adding that such arm-twisting tactics as was exhibited by the Presidential Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs, Kingsley Kuku in United States some days ago,will not work.

"Few weeks back, Kingsley Kuku, the presidential adviser on amnesty programme in faraway America also went and made similar statements, which means President Goodluck Jonathan has already won the PDP primary election and the secondary election - that's exactly what they are saying.

"Let me also use this opportunity to say on behalf of us in the north that nobody has monopoly of violence and that on behalf of the people of northern extraction, there shall be no one Nigeria if a northerner is not elected president of this country, because politics is a game of numbers and the Ijaw people are not up to one million or two million or even five million.

"So if in a democracy, the President will allow somebody to say if he is not voted, there won't be peace – this clearly shows that they don't want peace and the president is not a democrat," he said.

http://radiobiafra.co/news/2015-it-s-either-a-northerner-or-no-more-nigeria-farouk-adamu-aliyu

Asari and this Aliyu, two of una be mumu. When una become God? Power de God hand. Na him go decide who e want give am to.

stjudas: Allahu akbar...... Allah may u guide ur own as they fight against those who fight against Islam. Thanks for protecting ur mosque.

goat

alnaijiri: The Muslim North Nigeria will not continue tobe humiliated by the Crusader government of the South. This is a wakeup call to all who think the Muslims of the North will be subjugated quietly.

However, I weep for the innocent victims. Can't there be a less blood-thirsty way to liberate our land from the unbelievers? Allah knows best.

goat

190:

what does she mean by she would do the pounding

please someone xplain

pounding is pounding. She wan pound yam for the man.

Justyaxx: Not again!!! These people are hell bent on destroying our north our pride. Allah ya tsine wa GEJ!

what did gej do that deserves God punishment? The monster created by northern elites to make the nation ungovernable for gej is gradually consuming the region.

Our lawmakers lack the moral justification to impeach jona. They are equally corrupt. Remember, dogs don't eat dog meat.

There will be no apc by 2015. Infighting occasioned by lack of consensus in the choice of flag bearers will lead to the disintegration of that party. Nigeria problem is not the political party in power but the politicians. the founders of apc are those that feel that they are not getting a fair share of the national cake under the current arrangement... Their aim is to grab a bigger share of the cake and not to give the citizenry good governance. God is watching.

okosodo: I have accounts with uba and diamond bank, all i can confirm to you is that uba are pure thieves, diamond bank is doing well. I am actively with both ans i see the difference

how uba take be thief?

Billyonaire: There is more to learn from Mike Adenuga and Dangote. I doubt if Buffet would have been a billionaire if he was born in the Nigerian terrain. Learn from your icons in your terrain and forget those white people in perfect business environments.

true talk

trix!:
So He lives in the old house he bought 55yrs ago when he wasn't so rich and He still works at least 18hrs every day?? So when exactly is he going to enjoy all the wealth he has gathered?

a substantial part will go to charity.

You will not go to hell on account of your sins. Neither will you escape hell on account of not commiting any sin. You will escape hell only if you accept christ as your personal saviour. John 3:16. Accept christ today before it becomes too late.

ba7man: Positive development. Let's see the candidates they'll field when its time.

I hope it won't be el-rufai. That one can not even win in his ward.

Aliyu please keep quite. What have u achieved in your little Niger state? After about 5 years in office, your state has the worst road network in the entire north. Fix suleja minna road for a start before u start talking of any baseless agreement.