₦airaland Forum

RIP APC.

leisuretym:
Yoruba should support Saraki, the only reason our brothers in the north dont want him there is because they believe his not a full blooded northerner, they are seeing him as a mole! if the Senate president was a core northerner, the Duara man would have finalized his mission long time ago! but this doesnt mean his a good man ooo, the Idoma people had to support David Mark because his the only man they have in government!

Onisokuso, so ro ni yen?

Emir Zulu is a puppet

That was how It was rumoured that Bukola slapped Fatai Ahmed in his palace and presence few weeks back and Zulu-Gambari could not react, what a puppet.

AbuMaryam1:
You want to preach.? Show your license or we linch you.

What? Linch

Are you a religious bigot, fanatics or terrorist?

TonyeBarcanista:
I have no issue with modath but she seem to have issue with my person. I don't know what her problem is but I've constrained myself from paying too much attention to her unsolicited and unwarranted attacks. If she has any problem with my posts, she should channel it to Buhari and her APC paymasters.

Please ignore her henceforth.

This is religious terrorism.

If you listen to a message in your car, you are guilty of an offence punishable by two years imprisonment.

Lalasticlala come see this one oooo, many Kaduna residence may he heading to jail soon....

CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


https://www.facebook.com/vanguardngr/videos

Apostle Suleman Curses El-Rufai – "Revoke Preaching Regulation or Die" [See Video]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQMsJNkWmA

KADUNA State governor, Mallam Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, who, in January 2013, allegedly insulted Christianity in a tweet and received bashing from adherents has, again, stirred the hornet’s nest as Christians, across the state, are voicing their opposition to an executive bill before the state House of Assembly, allegedly designed to restrict all forms of religious preaching in the state.

In recent weeks, the social media has been awash with reactions from Christians who have kicked against the Religious Regulation Bill, arguing that it is at variance with Section 38 of the 1999 Constitution which presupposes that every Nigerian has a right or freedom of thought, conscience and religion and a right to change religion.

The Religious Regulation Bill, designed to replace the Religious Regulation Edict of 1984, is geared towards regulating Christianity and Islam as it seeks to create an inter-faith Ministerial Committee to be appointed by the governor and exercise control over Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, and the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN.

Highpoints of the bill include:

*The ministerial committee shall issue licenses to religious bodies.

*Without such licenses, you cannot preach.

*No external preacher can preach in Kaduna without a permit.

*The committee has the power to refuse to issue licenses No criteria are given as to what will qualify one to have a license issued to him or for one to be denied a license.



While the law does not regulate traditionalists in the practice of their beliefs, they are to have a representative on the committee which regulates the Christian and Muslim religions.

The bill empowers JNI and CAN to keep records of churches and mosques including data of preachers. (The law does not stipulate what ‘data’ is required to qualify for license). The law criminalizes the use of religious CDs, flash drive and other communication gadgets except in churches, mosques or other places of worship or personal houses.

The implication is that you cannot listen to Christian tapes in your car or at any place except your house and in a church. If you preach without a license, you are guilty of an offence punishable by two years imprisonment.

If you hold any Christian gathering even in a church and use loud speaker (microphone) after 8.00 p.m, you are guilty of an offence punishable with two years imprisonment.

If you listen to a message in your car, you are guilty of an offence punishable by two years imprisonment. If you hold a crusade or any programme or any other kind of programme and use a loudspeaker at the said programme as long as it is not a church, you are guilty of an offence punishable by two years imprisonment.

The bill criminalizes the abuse of religious books and makes it punishable by two years imprisonment. (It does not define what ‘abuse of religious books’ mean. It criminalizes the use of derogatory terms in describing any religion and makes it punishable by two years imprisonment.

It does not define what ‘use of derogatory terms in describing any religion’ means.) Every preacher will have to obtain one year license (renewable every year) or risk two years imprisonment. If you invite any external preacher (i.e. preacher from outside Kaduna State), such a person must be licensed for the duration of his/her stay and the body issuing the license has the right to reject the external preacher if it feels he is not qualified to preach in the state.

Mr. John Achimugu, who represented Christians in 2005 when President Olusegun Obasanjo set up the National Political Reform Conference and in 2014 at President Goodluck Jonathan’s National Conference, shared his perspectives on the bill with Sunday Vanguard.

The Kogi born lawyer, who practices in Kaduna, is an advocate of freedom of worship, not only for Christians but for all people. “The bill that is before the Kaduna State House of Assembly, from its title, seeks to replace the Religious Regulation Edict of 1984. I have been in Kaduna for longer than that. That law has been only in existence on the pages of the statutes. It has never been implemented. And because it was not implemented, many people were not aware of that law till this bill came up,”

Achimugu stated, noting that, even through the religious crisis that engulfed Kaduna from the 80s to 2000, nobody has ever been prosecuted under that law. “So because it was not a law that was passed by parliament, there wasn’t anything like public hearing or people coming to understand the existence of the law or being aware of its existence because of the way it was made as an edict at that time.

So the current bill seeks to regulate religious preaching in Kaduna. And the regulation is to be done by four bodies. “The first one is the CAN and JNI Committee, members of whom will be appointed by CAN and JNI from the Izala and Dareka groups of Islam.

The members are constituted from CAN and JNI. And all the power they have is to issue license to preachers and also to keep records of places of worship within the state and list of preachers. That is all the power they have. If you look at the surface of it, it would appear as if the control of regulation is given to CAN and JNI Committee but that indeed is not true. “The second body responsible for the regulation is what they call the Inter-faith Ministerial Committee consisting of nine persons.

The chairman of that committee will be appointed by the governor upon the recommendation of the secretary to the government of the state. Other members will come from security agencies with CAN and JNI having a nominee each on that committee. And that committee has the power to grant approval upon the recommendation of the local government screening committee to grant approval for the issuance of license to an applicant who wants to be licensed as a preacher.

It supervises and controls the JNI and CAN Committee. That is where you now know that the power of regulation is actually domiciled in the Inter-faith Ministerial Committee. “From the name ‘Inter-faith Ministerial Committee’, one would be tempted to think that that would be a body constituted from both Christians and Muslims through JNI and CAN, but that is not true.

The members of the Inter-faith Ministerial Committee are appointed essentially from government and security departments. The name inter-faith is a deception as far as I’m concerned. If it is inter-faith, it will be nominees of CAN and JNI just as the CAN and JNI Committee as I earlier refered to as the first body that does the regulation through the issuance of license. But the JNI and CAN Committee cannot issue a license to any preacher unless there is the prior approval of this Inter-faith Ministerial Committee that is essentially a government committee. “Then the third body is the Local Government Screening Committee consisting of about six to seven persons with CAN and JNI nominating one member each. The traditional institution nominates one. Anybody wishing to be licensed has to apply to the local government where you want to be a preacher. Upon his application, the screening committee will consider the application. They might reject it or recommend it to the Inter-faith Ministerial Committee for approval. They can only screen and recommend. That’s the duty of the Local Government Screening Committee.” The lawyer further argued that the very serious issue in it is that the law does not stipulate the factors the Local Government Screening Committee must take into account in considering an application. “So you will find from the very clear pages of the bill that the process for either recommending or rejecting is purely subjective. There are no objective criteria specifically laid out on the basis of which the screening committee can either recommend or reject an application. The danger to it is this; what if you are in a local government and all the members of the local government screening committee are Christians and they say we don’t want the preaching of Islam in the local government and they reject your application.

The law does not provide a remedy for you or any fora where you can seek a redress of your grievances as to why you are denied a recommendation for the issuance of license. There is no remedy for you,” he pointed out.

Also reacting, the Zonal Chairman of CAN, Bishop David Bakare, described the proposed law as “satanic” and “anti-God”, not just for the Christians but also inadvertently for their Muslim counterparts for various reasons.

According to Bakare, who doubles as the National Vice President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, el-Rufai should remodel the Ahmadu Bello Stadium to accommodate the number of preachers who will fall victim to the legislation because the bill stipulates that offenders will be tried by customary and Sha’ria courts and there is nothing in the proposed law that says a Christian must be tried by a customary court. The bishop argued that the composition of the licensing committee shall be by the governor and made up of two members each from CAN and JNI while five other members could be security officers who are bound by the tenets of their personal religions, stressing: “Security officials in this part of the nation are mostly Muslims and are duty bound to vote against any Christian preacher they don’t like his face.” Similarly, Christian lawyers in Kaduna, after a meeting, voiced their opposition to the proposed bill. They said Section 4(1) of the proposed bill is discriminatory as it failed to recognize other religious groups that are not members of CAN and JNI. “The proposed bill is vague as to its application on use of tapes, cassettes or other recordings of unaccredited preachers outside Kaduna State and where they can be played. Moreover, it has restricted the use of Christian materials to only designated places (excluding cars, reception venues, schools, etc.) The composition of the proposed Inter-faith Ministerial Committee could easily generate disapproval of the society or a section of it”, the lawyers said. “

Finally, the proposed bill contravenes the express provisions of the Sections 38 & 39 of the 1999 Constitution which protect the rights of citizens to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and expression”. Asked if there were consultations before the bill was drafted and transmitted to the House, a lawyer, Mr. Maxwell Kyon, said: “Ordinarily, you would expect that a bill on such sensitive issue may have some sort of publicity. If not for some of us who have made it public in the social media, it wouldn’t enjoy any publicity at all. I think with the call and some other persons who either agree or disagree with the bill, we are hoping that there may be some sort of consultations by the House of Assembly in terms of public hearing before the bill is passed into law”.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/row-in-kaduna-as-el-rufai-moves-to-license-pastors-muslim-clerics/

Congrats!

In this case, Badeh opted to eat his own food and we have no objection to that.

TonyeBarcanista:
That is to tel you that I'm not a Zombie like some of you neither do I do Zombie-sm unike you.


Like I told a poster on a previous page, I thank God for your life and the blessings he bestowed on you. I pray for more of it. However, only you know those that sold their souls to politicians' crumbs(perhaps you negotiated the deal). But I shall always put it to you, Modath that you are filled with bitterness, bigotry and hustling for your pay. You possess such traits. I won't fault you, it is your life.


Nobody, not any born of a woman(or man) can accuse me of asking for "compensation". If I need to be compensated, I know how to go about it. Like I said, you are filed with anger and bitterness. A saddist that will always feeL agitated if one criticise her paymasters.


That is your problem. Nobody stops you from creating threads nor invited you to make "attention seeking comments".



You are not a critic, your comments are based on anger and wickedness always targeting to hit the person and not the issue.



That is your probem with him, not mine.



Good morning and learn to be a virtuous woman.... God Bless

Barca, you too can ignore the patriotic Zomby..

Oxenomy:
You this **** openly said on this forum that you're supporting this government because of what Yorubas will get and not for any fucking Nigerian.. Yes you said so and if you doubt it, I will pull out your post from my archive. So stop forming patriotism became you are only a patriotic Zomby..

****

Please ignore the patriotic Zomby..

ajebuter:
Gradually, Nigeria is turning into state of anarchy under this government

God dey!

Painfully!

We warned the ediots* not to vote for this evil change.

chiol:
Receive sense! How can Mr president hit the ground running without a budget? Your fellow looters in the national assembly are holding the budget to create an impression that PMB's government is a failure. I blame the over ambitious Saraki for this.

Almost all the governors have their 2016 budgets passed and the NASS are holding the entire country to a ransom for their selfish political interests.

We can only experience change when the budget is passed.

You want the Senate to pass the APC fraudulent budget ?

Bros think, and stop being a minion.

fraud alert!

Ibolt4m:
...?..what are u saying, buhari did nr fail anything, its ur PDP DAT ruin d country for 15yrs DAT fails

You are making mistake...

Congrats for your salvation.

cooldays:
www.nairasquare.com

Speechless.

Cc: Lalasticlala

chimah3:
PEE-DEE-PEE

POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


NATIONWIDE!!!!!!!!!!

Mr Ngene/Cleverly... how market ?

Goodnight, APC.

The Go-Slow for that area no go get part II.

harbdulrasaq88:
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo turned 59 on March 8. Pictured here are President Buhari and his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma toasting him during the State Dinner in Abuja. Photo credit: Laolu Akande, Snr Special Assitant-Media&Publicity to the VP.

http://www.newshelm.com/2016/03/caption-this-historic-toast-of.html

Why you come delete Bukola Saraki from the photo now ?

Fiwasayo:
Lol,seriously.

Yes na, Sister Fi'iwa'se'Ayo.

Iwa rere ni eso eniyan.

Ioannes:
[s]Walahi, I don't blame the south Africans at all. if not for Gej who fvcked us up several times last year during the Mandela burial and the illegal money laundering scandal, as well as our brothers from we-know-where who like carrying drugs upandan, why will South Africa, whom we helped liberate from apartheid some few years ago be making yanga at us.

issorite[/s].

Zombistic disease is eating people's brain since May 29th 2015.

I blame Jonathan.

The end of the useless party called APC is now in sight.


MBuhari, your failure to hit the ground running as promised is responsible for this continuous APC mass failure, coupled with the fact that you are a sectional leader.

seunmsg:
[s]I can see you ipob wailers are tired of criticising Kemi Adeosun, Fashola is your new customer. The way you guys descended on this thread says it all. It is straight from your whatsapp group to NL. Wail on guys, it's your thread. When you get tired of Fashola, you can move to the next customer.[/s]

Sorry oooo, oga Ade.

angels09:

arresa say chumchin

He got nothing to say, just wondering like a wonderer from one thread to another in search of fellow zombies to compliment. (All gone into hiding with full SHAME)

Kondomatic:
Buhari will soon probe the presenter.

I sense that too...

PDP, polled 10,977 votes to defeat his closest rival Unyime Ekwere of APC who scored 1,780 votes;

PDP won with a total votes of 10, 288, his APC contender, Mr. Gabriel Akpan scored 1,955 votes

The margin is just too wide... RIP to APC.

I see anger and aggression in the faces of those standing with Rotimi Amaechi.

Any misstatement can earn Amaechi mob action.