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I thought it was a Fulani thing? The rural Fulani, not the urban ones.

They have a festival where potential suitors get flogged. Whoever shows the most endurance, gets the girl.

Actually, I think the girl herself chooses the one who remains standing after the flogging. If the man shows pain while being flogged, he's considered a weakling who can't take care of a family. Its seen as a big shame.


I never actually witnessed one of these ceremonies but I heard about it from others.

There's also a description in one of these Nigerian novels- maybe Burning Grass, I think.

I can't honestly differentiate between hausa and Fulani and I heard the likes of Abacha,Babangida,Atiku etc are neither, which means they may not even be able to speak hausa language.

and i'm crazy about the guy for all his ideas, , ,

i was pleasantly surprised when i arrived lagos!

Fashola Rocks!

Fashola for president!!!

Fashola is uptight and very civilized.No argument here.

You have an unhealthy obsession with flatulence funmi

as for living with him, that's why houses have more than ONE bathroom and whatever I have to say will wait til he's done. Simple. Why would I intrude when I wouldnt want anyone intruding on me?

You obviously have not spent a night together because you may fart 10x during your sleep while he's wide awake enjoying the pungent odour.
I don't think those things should be an issue when it comes to a relationship, shoot, i fart on phone. I can't believe you have to cut off the phone just to fart. You can do that if you are speaking with anyother person but your boo, Flatulence is natural by the way and I don't see anything unhealthy in being comfortable with your natural bodily functions.

olabowale "captured" by jesus Grin Grin Grin

sounds like those UFO stories, is jesus now a kid(or man)napper?

Another unbeliever trying to be funny at the expense of Christians.

I keep my fellow female friends at arms lenght, probably because I can't deal with the drama besides, i've always played with boys from childhood. I prefer keeping men as friends to women. Every private information you give to a fellow woman will be not necessarily be treated as classified because she MUST leak it to someone that knows you, that's for sure.

[size=14pt]Sari-wearing women may face jail in Nigeria [/size]

Wednesday, 06 August , 2008, 12:39

Johannesburg: Indian women in their traditional saris with midriffs showing may find themselves falling foul of Nigerian law if a bill currently under discussion in that country is passed.

Tourists in towelling wraps and Nigerian women in traditional dress with their stomachs exposed could also find themselves behind bars for three months or subjected to fines of $100, according to the Media24 News Service here.

While women's rights groups have come out strongly against the proposed law, Muslim leaders are supporting the bill, proposed by Senator Eme Ufot Ekaette, who felt that nudity was driving men to engage in corruption and steal from the state in Nigeria.

"Nudity leads to corruption," Ishaq Akintola of the Muslim Rights Watch, a strong supporter of Akaette's proposal, told Media 24.

"Nigerians are fighting corruption, through which many of our leaders, mostly men, have stolen fortunes for their personal use. They build colossal homes in London, Rome and New York because they have to spend money on women and have to hide them in these big homes."



Akintola said scantily dressed women were luring men. "They are being misled every time by a naked woman."

Women's rights groups have called the proposed law "laughable", but are concerned that the House of Representatives in the capital Abuja may push it through, since the assembly has already considered it twice.

Onyinyechi Okechukwu of Alliances for Africa, a women's rights group, said the law would result in girls as young as 14 sitting behind bars in a country where police are reported to maltreat women regularly. The law would also be open to abuse because the police would have the discretion to seek out offenders on the streets, with the test being whether a woman's body was exposed lower than two inches above the neck or more than two inches above the knee.

"The police will have to carry tape measures around. How will a policeman know that my dress is two inches below my neck if he doesn't touch me? I'll slap him!" Okechukwu said, adding that it was unfair that men may freely walk around topless, while "it is certainly a turn-on for some women."

The Nigerian Feminist Forum said in a statement that more pressing issues in the country, such as female circumcision, the high infant mortality rate and rape of babies should get priority from the authorities.



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Sari Attire




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May be, our nairaland short stories will make a good film and the competition next year.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

[size=14pt]Nigerian nominated for short film competition [/size]

By Oluwaseun Akinyemi


A Nigerian filmmaker, Omelihu Nwanguma, is among the eight young African filmmakers shortlisted for this year’s Africa in Motion Short Film Competition.




The competition, which is part of the Edinburgh African Film Festival, is meant for young and emerging African filmmakers who have not completed feature-length movies.

Nwanguma’s 2007 short film, Area Boys, earned him the nomination. The film, which is about two street urchins based in Lagos is his third film and puts him in competition for the $1,000 prize money.

According to a statement issued by the festival’s organisers, “The films on the shortlist span fiction and documentary genres: a magic realist tale from Tunisia; a Moroccan story of childhood nostalgia; a single-setting short from Egypt; an edgy tale about two gangsters set in the high-octane Nigerian capital Lagos, a heart-warming love story from Mozambique; and three films from South Africa: a stylistically experimental documentary on anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko; an innovative stop motion animation short; and a fascinating documentary on two lovers and community activists in the Cape.”

All selected short films will be screened during the festival which starts on October 23, and the winner will be announced at a special awards ceremony after the screenings.


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[size=20pt]SHOOT ON SIGHT [/size]

, Gendarmes fire at in-coming Nigerian boats, as border remains closed to Nigerians

• Corpses at Ikang Jetty
From JOSSY IDAM, Calabar
Thursday, August 14, 2008

With more than five days to todays handover D-Day for Bakassi, Cameroon authorities slammed its border firmly shut to Nigerian entrants. And it remained so until today.


However, probably to further drive the fear of Cameroon into the spines of Nigerians operating around the disputed territory the gendarmes seem to have an order to shoot on sight any Nigerian who ventured anywhere around the troubled waters of Bakassi. The unwritten article appeared to be that, while Nigerian boats were allowed out of Bakassi, none was allowed to re-enter.

Gendarmes stationed in the Peninsula now had made sure any Nigerian who managed to vacate, did not come back into the territory for anything.

Those who dared, were shot, killed or wounded. A fisherman, Akpan Udoh who escaped from the place, told Daily Sun at Akpabuyo, Cross River State, that Cameroonian soldiers-gendarmes have gone trigger happy. Speaking through an interpreter, the fisherman said the gendarmes are massed at waterfronts, shooting, killing and destroying boats venturing into the peninsula.

Akpan also revealed that unidentified corpses recently washed up at Abana beach, the hitherto administrative headquarter of Bakassi Local Government Area.

As the today’s handover date of the peninsular drew close, Daily Sun learnt the gendarmes had made life unbearable for Nigerians living there. Another returnee who now lives at a temporary shelter erected by Cross River State government at Ikang, George Okon, accused the gendarmes of looting, raping and killing Nigerians in the peninsula at will.

“Not checked by anybody, there’s no Nigerian soldier or police in the area now to protect us. So, the gendarmes treat us like slaves. They take things by force – rape housewives and girls openly. So, no point in my staying there again,” the former school teacher said Tuesday.

A military source told Daily Sun that the gendarmes overkill may not be unconnected with the recent attack on the gendarmes by militants in the area. “It looks like a reprisal attack which has now gone out of control,” the military source said.




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American press believes in juju, suspicious of Nigeria’s victory

By Agency Reporter


Captain Isaac Promise on Wednesday had a tough time convincing the journalists at the mixed zone that Nigeria’s 2-1 victory over USA was not influenced by juju.



Promise scored the first goal while Obinna Nsofor grabbed the second, after the captain, who was substituted by Osaze Odemwingie, handed him the captain‘s band.

[size=14pt]But some of the journalists, mostly from the USA believed that there was something magical about the way the goals were scored. [/size]

Promise said, “This is not a magical band and remember it is my third match and I only scored today. We played well and deserved our win.”

Nsofor was also on hand to defend himself. He said, “That is not funny. What is magical about a match we fought so hard to win. Isaac is the captain and I was the closest to him as he was going out and he gave the band to me.

“The goalkeeper (Ambrose Vanzekin) is the vice-captain but he was just too far from him. I am happy I gave the band a good use with my goal. I scored against Japan without any band.”



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Nigerians should not cry over transfer – Gowon [/size]

By Jude Owuamanam, Jos


As Nigeria gets set to hand over the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroun on Thursday (today), a former Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon, has said that the ceded territory never belonged to Nigeria.




He also denied accusations that he handed Bakassi over to Cameroun because of its support for Nigeria during the Biafran war.

Gowon, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, said that the International Court of Justice at The Hague, which gave the ruling ceding the peninsula to Cameroun, was right.

He added that Nigerians living in that part had the choice of living there under Camerounian laws or agreeing to be resettled in Nigeria.

He said the misconception about the ownership of the peninsula arose when Nigeria was administering the western part of Cameroun as part of the United Nations mandate.

Gowon explained that when a plebiscite was undertaken, the people of Western Cameroun decided to go to Cameroun whereas the northern part decided to be in Nigeria.

He recalled that it took the ingenuity of the then Premier of Northern Nigeria, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, to convince the northern part of Cameroun to be in Nigeria while the Nnamdi Azikiwe-led National Council of Nigeria and the Camerouns (as it then was) did little to convince the western part of Cameroun to to remain part of Nigeria.

The former head of state said that the ICJ in its ruling, took into cognisance, the Anglo/German Treaties of 1885 and 1914, adding that at the dawn of independence, all African countries agreed to abide by the international boundaries agreed by the occupying powers.

Meanwhile, a professor of History of International Relations, University of Lagos, Yomi Akinyeye, said, “The handover is in order. The place called Bakassi never belonged to Nigeria in the first place. The issues and the ownership are so clear.

“We were only misled by so-called experts who were misguided and who deceived us into going to the International Court of Justice. We never stood a chance.

“The documents with which the ICJ reached the inevitable decision are in the public archives, we in Nigeria have them, others have them in their own archives.

“They are based mainly on Anglo-German Treaty of 1913 and at Independence in 1960. It was obvious that other agreements would have to be made but based on the original legal documents signed between the two colonial powers of Germany and Britain.”

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That's disgusting

I don't talk to anyone while they are in the bathroom.

Even on the phone sef. Once I hear "oh I'm going to to use the bathroom or I'm in the bathroom", I just hang up

Ew.

Are you going to run away from the house during "dump" exercises if you eventually live with him? So do you also hang up if you want to fart while on phone?

The other dude yesterday had his' standing erect like the eiffel tower. Eeeeewww,

cote d'ivoire go everly win now.

[size=20pt]Goodbye Bakassi[/size]
Written by Emmanuel Aziken & Inalegwu Shaibu with agency reports
Thursday, August 14, 2008
THE most contentious obstacle to Nigeria’s transfer of the Bakassi Peninsula was removed yesterday, after the Senate gave President Umaru Yar’Adua the go-ahead to proceed with the hand-over.




Not a few Nigerians had drawn the attention of the Federal Government to its failure, up to yesterday, to obtain the approval of the Senate in ceding the Peninsula as required by Section 13 of the 1999 Constitution.


The section says: “No treaty between the Federation and any other country shall have the force of law except to the extent to which any such treaty has been enacted into law by the National Assembly.”


Indeed, the endorsement was the reason for the resumption from recess, yesterday, by the Senate.


Just before the Senate gave the green light yesterday, the opposition Action Congress (AC) had issued a statement, asking the Federal Government to defer the handover “if indeed the government believes in its own rule of law and due process mantra.


Explaining the Senate action, following a closed door session, its spokesman, Chief Ayogu Eze, blamed the procedure adopted by the Obasanjo administration for the situation the country now found itself.


He argued that Nigeria could not afford to renege on its international obligations, stressing that the Senate was satisfied with considerations provided for in the Green Tree Agreement on the welfare of displaced persons from the area. He also expressed satisfaction that the agreement had been dressed in a way that would not impede the country’s military interests in the eastern flank.


Senator Eze, all the same, expressed the Senate’s distress at the loss of a part of the country. Nigeria, according to him, is obliged by its commitments to abide by both the ruling of the International Court of Justice and the following Green Tree Agreement.


Senator Eze who also said a fresh draft of the Freedom of Information Bill (FoI) would soon be re-presented to the Senate for consideration, said: “Nigeria is a signatory to the ICJ. Nigeria is a responsible member of the of the international community. Nigeria is an aspiring member of the Security Council. So we have to put all these into a basket.


“We put ourselves in a tight corner. What the President is doing is being careful by making sure that we don’t jeopardise the overall international interest and obligations of Nigeria on account of this unfortunate but avoidable mess in Bakassi.


“But we have already found ourselves there. Nigeria initiated the legal action. We took the matter to the ICJ. If we did not believe in the authority of ICJ, we should not have gone to court in the first place.


“Another view is that, having gone to court, and seen the way it was going, we should have pulled out but we did not do that. We stayed there and the judgement landed on our lap.


“This is a delicate matter and Nigerians should see it as such. There is nobody who is happy that any territory of Nigeria is going away. I know that even when southern Cameroun left, there was a hoopla in the country,” Eze said as he called for caution against entreaties to violence.


Giving the assurances received by the Senate on the issue, he said: “We have already been assured contrary to speculations that that part of Bakassi is not really very heavy with mineral deposit as alleged.”


Besides giving the country’s determination to sustaining the welfare of the citizens of that area, he noted the assurances given on the protection of the country’s military interests in the area.


“The item that consummated the agreement spelt out that on no account should Cameroun constitute an impediment to Nigerian military forces having access or exit from Bakassi into the Nigerian water. That has been the major security issue that was raised and that has been addressed in the Green Tree Agreement,” he said.


AC asks FG to defer Bakassi handover


Earlier yesterday, the Action Congress (AC) asked the Federal Government to defer to a later date the planned handover today of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroun “if indeed the government believes in its own rule of law and due process mantra.”


In a statement in Abuja, its National Publicity Secretary of the AC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the delay would give the government time to submit the Green Tree Agreement to the National Assembly for ratification, thereby ensuring that the laws of Nigeria are not breached just to satisfy the international community.


AC said it backed the argument that the handover of the peninsula to Cameroun would be in vain if the Yar’Adua administration failed to seek the ratification, by the National Assembly, of the agreement it signed in New York with Cameroun over the implementation of the 2002 ruling of International Court of Justice (ICJ).


It said Section 12 (I) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was unambiguous: “No treaty between the Federation and any other country shall have the force of law except to the extent to which any such treaty has been enacted into law by the National Assembly.”


The party said if the Yar’Adua administration failed to follow the country’s Constitution and went ahead to hand over Bakassi to Cameroun today, it would have broken the country’s laws and set the stage for the enthronement of arbitrariness and expediency over rule of law and due process.


“Even if the government has scoffed at the ruling of Justice Muhammed Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, restraining the FG from handing over the peninsula until the determination of the case brought by Bakassi indigenes, it cannot afford to trash the Nigerian Constitution.


“The temptation to go ahead with the handover, just to win some immediate favours from the international community, especially by an administration that is standing on one foot, is so great. But succumbing to it will bring more pain than joy at the end.


“We, therefore, join well-meaning Nigerians and organisations to appeal to the Yar’Adua administration to do the right thing before handing over Bakassi, in line with the ICJ ruling. Nothing is sacrosanct about August 14 that it cannot be deferred,” AC said.


Handover holds in Abana


Today’s handover is taking place at Abana, former headquarters of Bakassi Local Government.

The choice of Abana, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), was made after an intense security meeting on Tuesday between Cross River Government officials and the Presidency.


It was not clear yesterday the exact place in Abana where the event would take place.

Chief Florence Ita-Giwa, Chairman of Bakassi Resettlement Committee, could not confirm the venue on Tuesday but the Secretary to the Cross River State Government, Mr. Fidelis Ugbo, in a statement confirmed Abana as venue of the ceremony.


The statement, issued on Tuesday, explained that the handing over was in keeping with the judgment of the International Court of Justice at The Hague and in line with Nigeria’s desire to maintain its leadership position in Africa.


“It is also for the country to ensure peace and good neighbourliness in the continent and the world,” the statement added.

It said the Federal Government believed in the rule of law and appealed to the displaced people of Bakassi and other ethnic nationalities to remain calm.


“We urge you all to remain calm and cooperate with the federal and state governments to ensure a smooth and memorable handing over ceremony,”said the statement.


It reminded the people that they were known to be peaceful and hospitable and should live up to the rating. The statement also assured Bakassi people of the state government’s desire to integrate all Nigerians in the area into the economy “by providing ample opportunity for those willing to promote enterprise.”


The government also commended traditional rulers, political stalwarts and leaders of thought of Bakassi people for their understanding over the matter.


Ban Ki-moon hails handover


The handover is expected to put an end to a 15-year dispute over the territory believed to contain considerable oil and gas reserves.


Last week, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed Nigeria’s upcoming transfer as “a model for negotiated settlements of border disputes,” saying it would be “a landmark event.”


Nigeria agreed to transfer Bakassi, which juts into the Gulf of Guinea, two years ago but sporadic gun battles and political and legal disagreements have delayed it.


A Cameroun government official said today’s transfer marked “the end of a crisis” that began in December 1993 when the Nigerian army occupied a number of villages on the peninsula.


Cameroun first took its case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague in March 1994.

After a drawn-out legal battle, the ICJ ruled in October 2002 that the Bakassi peninsula be given to Cameroun. It based its decision largely on a 1913 treaty between former colonial powers Britain and Germany.


Cameroun and Nigeria then signed an accord, known as the Green Tree Agreement, in New York in June 2006 during US-facilitated mediation talks and in the presence of then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.


This paved the way for Nigeria’s withdrawal from Bakassi, which is expected to be completed in a flag-exchanging ceremony today.


But the handover has been threatened by last-minute legal challenges and a number of deadly attacks.

Last month, a federal court in Abuja granted an injunction preventing the government from handing over Bakassi to Cameroun by its agreed deadline.


Despite the move, President Umaru Yar’Adua insisted Nigeria would not abandon its international obligations.

The peninsula, which is believed to contain considerable oil and gas reserves as well as rich fishing grounds, has also been the scene of violent attacks in recent months.


Approximately 50 people have been killed in recent clashes between Camerounian soldiers and local armed groups opposed to the transfer in the peninsula that spans 1,000 square kilometres.


Last month, the Niger Delta Defence and Security Council (NDDSC) claimed responsibility for an attack at Kombo Ajanea, in which 12 people died, including two Camerounian soldiers.


The armed Nigerian group threatened further violence unless the transfer of Bakassi is renegotiated.

Although the peninsula’s official population size is not known, it is thought most of its inhabitants are Nigerian, while Camerounians make up the majority of the civil servants and military personnel.


A school head in Akwa, a Cameroun locality from where you can see Nigeria, said he welcomed the transfer. “We are looking forward to August 14 with a lot hope,” Bernard Ambeno said.


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Any person who contributed to the ceding of Bakassi to Cameroun, will rest with Satan in Hell. [size=14pt]Leaders of Western and Northern Nigerians sold Bakassi to Cameroun so that they can win Biafra war.[/size] As the Children of Bakassi shed tears today, so will their children and their dirty stinking soldiers stationed in N-Delta will soon shed tears.

Bakassi was ceded to Cameroun by Northerners to ensure they win the Biafran war, so i don't see how westerners came into this argument. Tribal sentiments should be flayed here because it's more advantageous to learn from our mistakes. Honestly, I wished other factions in the country stood behind Biafra and broke away simultaneously. I actually support you on the issue of soldiers maltreating the NDeltans today, one day we'll also pay dearly for that. Obasanjo too will soon pay for his crimes against ODI.

Can't they carry out an autopsy on the dead body to ascertain the cause of death?

You wan bring money for the autopsy?

I'm in dire need of help. My parents were born in Bakassi, Calabar. This makes me Nigerian by default. But since Bakassi has been handed over to Cameroun, I have been asking myself questions. Am I Nigerian? Is my Nigerian passport still valid? Should I meet with the Camerounian embassy? Will I get deported if I come to Nigeria?

No, I believe there should be concession in this issue for Bakassi residents. They've signalled to whomever cares to listen that they prefer to be Nigerians but either way, they should be deport proof.

I have made my point.
Just like DeepZone said,
Mutual Judgement is absolutely one sided in Nigeria.
Where millions still believe they have 100% power over women.
Men will do it and the girl will not cancel the wedding but women will do it and the wedding deserve cancellation.
Backward thinking!

Thank you Milla; I bet you the story will be different if a girl was caught cheating but if any woman tampers to cancel the wedding in Naija over this issue, her own mother will even curse her out. Backward thinking indeed!!!!

i love hausa food having lived and move with them. i have recipe in my ogbon but don't really have time to type them out (maybe after i marry mallam mai kudi i will show him my skill Smiley)

Lol, you dont wanna marry malam mai no kudi?

I love masa ooo great with just Sugar/yaji/miyan masa made from yakua (that sour leaf/vegetable)

Is sour vegetable same as ibo people's bitter leaf?

Originally Posted By Queenisha,
I don't care for those their tasteless meatless foods.
Their culture that appeals to me is the way they flog would be suitors
kai!!
they just line them up and flog the living daylights out of them while the drummers are drumming.
The wimps are weeded out and the brave one gets the chick
Southerners ought to adopt that culture
let's get rid of all the shemales attempting to marry wives.
If you can't survive ordinary 50 lashes of koboko, how can you handle a whole institution called marriage.


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Why do Hausa's flog suitors becoming giving him their daughter? Does that mean that all those that married 10 wives got flogged each and every time they marry? Can you bypass that culture in Hausa land either by giving them money or something else? Is this practiced everywhere in Hausaland?

Will you like your people to adopt such culture and of course apply it even after the man marries your sister and messes up along the line?

Do we start with some contradictory verses from your book?

Which verse in the bible is contradictory

@The Poster of the topic: No the Muslims do not speak in tongues! I do not want to elaborate any further so that i am not accused of Christian bashing!

You can continue your bashing because they all sound ridiculous to me.

Thanks Dad for making that happen.

Lol, your dad must be a terrorist. Can we borrow him for Hannibal and Eldee plz?

Jamah the stuff is on the internet!

He's probably using dial up internet.

Six in Maryland

I am going empty him out the day of the wedding. Annullment comes a couple of days later.

Yeah, some southern states like Texas and Lousiana are 10. It depends on how much money he has that you'll empty. If he has just his mere pay check that is about $2k, you can do that but not when he's a multi businessman, you can't rake him easily in a year without his bankers raising eyebrows and giving him a call.

They would have to find a way to get him to turn on me and report me to the police. Once my dad, brothers, uncles and nephews finish with him he wont open his mouth to say shit about what i did. He will gladly walk away from all of his money and possessions just to have his fucking life and be able to walk.

Thats how you deal wit a nigga like that.

You forgot that the marriage is annulled, therefore you have no right to his personal belongings so is he. That is the truth about annulment besides, you have to marry for a considerable amount of time for you to be eligible for your spouses belongings unless there is death. Even in America, you'll not receive any social security death benefit if you are not married to the man for a minimum of 10 years(varies from state to state tho). Hence, if you move his money after annulling the marriage, he'll move your azz to jail.

It's kind of funny that even the chronic cheaters here like Hannibal are shouting no way. That makes me wonder whether if this "no way" policy is adopted by all and sundry in Nigeria, who will actually suffer, the men or the women? That leads us to ask, why is forgiveness one sided in Nigeria?



It's only a crazy woman that will disrupt her wedding with that kind of BS; Men for sure can do it even before the wedding service.

Bros, i nor wan know wetin make am do the thing. It's better to let her go rather than live with the fact that she was caught cheating

Do you expect her to treat you that way if you were caught pants down?