₦airaland Forum

YourNemesis:
Nice ... But I don't really like it when someone or a group of people feel the need to measure their success against that of others. Everybody is unique in their own way.
This thread was brought up because of that Olumide guy's realistic paintings that made front page, earlier today. You could have at least waited a week na..... lol haba.

hrworld:
People like you are enjoying the amala politics Fayose is playing meanwhile the reasonable Ekiti people are lamenting lack of development in that State. You wake everyday and you start doing is direct attack on the President. A state Governor? It clearly shows that he does not have anything upstairs.

ladyF:
The man no get sense. Greater is He that is in me than he that is in masquerade. How will you allow another human being behind a mask beat you like this? I no go gree o, wetin sef?

It's [size=15pt]LadyF[/size] again

phantonce:
What more evidence do the wailers need to sink it into there skull that the war against terrorism is been won.

peaceloveworld2:
It is clearly visible to the blind and audible to the deaf that the Ese Oruru Saga is a heavily biased and one-sided reportage by Martin Ayankola (see attached picture), the Editor of The PUNCH Newspapers, the official face of the Christian sponsored anti-Islamic narrative and the emerging No 1 enemy of Islam in Nigeria. As of today, NO ONE, has interrogated Yunusa to get his side of the story. What has happened to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty? Does an accused not have a right to fair hearing? Yet, Martin Ayankola, a supposed brown-envelope journalist has usurped the role of the Judiciary by using his newspaper to try, convict and prosecute Yunusa and heavily maligned the image of Islam. And like a rabid dog, the Christian dominated media lapped on to the story and began disparaging the image of Islam.

That the alleged and yet unproven crime of one individual will be sensationalized and commercialized for cheap pecuniary gains by generalizing it as an Islamic phenomenon in order to denigrate the religion of almost 2 billion Muslim faithful is the height of the most irresponsible, shallow and indolent journalism. Put differently, Ayankola descended to the cesspit of gutter journalism all in a bid to achieve the preconceived agenda of the Nigerian Christian Community (NCC) which is to paint the image of Islam in a bad light, demonize its adherents, fan the embers of disunity and ethno-religious crisis in an already fragile polity. To further confirm this assertion, no Nigerian Christian has distanced Islam from the alleged act of Yunusa which implies that it was a preconceived agenda. Afterall, silence means consent and tacit support. The only Nigerian who has done that is Professor Wole Soyinka who interestingly, is a known non-adherent of both Islam and Christianity. Is this the level to which religious bigotry fuelled by hate-filled fellows like Martin Ayankola has degenerated to? “But they plan, and Allah plans. And Allah is the best of planners” (Quran 8:30)

‘Abduction’ or elopement

According to the one-sided reportage we have read, Yunusa was well known to the family of the Orurus. Ese herself confirmed that she used to ‘play’ with Yunusa and other customers of theirs who patronize them. The questions begging for answers among others therefore, are:
1. At what age was Ese deflowered and who was the first cradle robber?
2. Is Yunusa the first person to sleep with Ese and is Yunusa the only person she has ever slept with?
3. Were Yunusa and Ese already sexmates (repugnant) in Bayelsa before the sojourn to Kano?
4. Are any of Ese’s sister siblings, female friends and female colleagues virgins and is the under-age fornication a trend prominent among her colleagues in Bayelsa?
5. Does she and her friends sleep with Bayelsa boys or they only sleep with their Hausa customers?
6. When they got to Kano, did Yunusa sleep with her, was if forcefully, or by mutual consent?
For these questions to be answered, both of them should be placed face-to-face and interrogated by independent parties, not the likes of religious bigots and media outfits like Martin Ayankola and The PUNCH Newspapers respectively. With these, we shall be able to firmly establish if this is a case of ‘abduction’ by Yunusa or an elopement by the two lovers.

Yunusa’s alleged acts are very un-Islamic

Let’s even assume that the allegations are true, is Yunusa’s act in concurrence with the dictates of Islam? No! They are not un-Islamic for the following three reasons:
1. There are at least four conditions precedent to wedding or a Nikkah in Islam. They are the consent of the bride in question, consent of her parents or guardian, two witnesses and request for dower (the gift a bride requests from the groom). Were any of these conditions satisfied by Yunusa? Was there a Nikkah? So how could The PUNCH claim that Yunusa’s actions are Islamic? Allah said in the Glorious Quran, “O you who believe, you are forbidden to marry women against their will” (Quran 4:19)

2. Islam prohibits immoral sex (fornication and adultery) in all its ramifications. In actual fact, Islam encourages adherents to flee any signs of temptation. That is why in the Mosque and other Islamic gatherings, the men and women do not sit together so that unnecessary ‘body contact’ do not stir imaginations to begin to run wild? Allah said in the Glorious Quran, “The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah” (Quran 24:2)

3. Allah also said in the Glorious Quran that there is no compulsion in religion. “There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong” (Quran 2:256). So what doctrine or provisions is Yunusa following? If at all the allegation of forceful conversion is true because we have not heard Yunusa’s version of the story, can Yunusa be said to be following the provisions of the Glorious Quran as being speculated by The PUNCH?

Campaign of calumny and hypocrisy of Martin Ayankola and The PUNCH

Followers of the Ese Oruru Saga and readers of The PUNCH can testify to the intense and almost everyday maligning of the image of Islam by Martin Ayankola, the enemy of Islam and his newspaper, The PUNCH, the mouthpiece of Christian media pen terrorism. A look through The PUNCH magazine today shows that the papers is riddled with stories against Islam. The 2016 anti-Islamic agenda of The PUNCH is fast unfolding before our very eyes. The following are the some of the laundry list of anti-Islamic stories targeted at inciting the NCC against the Nigerian Muslim Community (NMC) currently trending in The PUNCH:

1. http://www.punchng.com/ig-shouldnt-have-waited-for-emir-before-freeing-ese-nigerians/
2. http://www.punchng.com/ig-girl-ese-and-the-culture-of-impunity/
3. Terrorism: Buhari confirms Nigeria’s membership of Saudi’s Islamic coalition
http://www.punchng.com/38715-2/
4. http://www.punchng.com/nigerians-carpet-ig-sanusi-over-eses-abduction-forced-marriage/
5. http://www.punchng.com/islamic-bank-offer-to-nigeria-excites-buhari/
6. http://www.punchng.com/buhari-plotting-turn-nigeria-islamic-country-fayose/
7. http://www.punchng.com/row-over-buharis-comment-on-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

What axe has Martin Ayankola got to grind with Islam? Who are his paymasters? What is their end goal? Are the agents of destruction and founders of Boko Haram (PDP) who lost out in the last general elections behind this? Is it an Igbo agenda or the agenda of the Yoruba Christians?

Double Standard (Ese Oruru versus the three Lagos School Girls)

We have observed that when a crime is committed and the alleged is a Muslim, the Nigerian media spearheaded by the hate-filled, extremist Christian and the insanely ethno-religiously bigoted enemy of Islam, Martin Ayankola and his Newspaper, The PUNCH will lap on to the story, sensationalize and commercialize it to achieved their permanent agenda to denigrate the Islamic faith. How could a bribe-hungry journalist rubbish a religion all in a bid to make a living? As Governor El-Rufai said recently, “what we cannot allow is the continuation of such blackmail, and the expectation that if you make yourself sufficiently obnoxious and incendiary the government will use public funds to settle you”. Is this how bad the worst President Nigeria ever had, Goodluck Jonathan, left the country such that the bribes paid to the pro-PDP PUNCH has finished and the magazine is desirous of patronage by the frugal Buhari administration?

But when the same crime is committed by a Christian, it is treated like an independent issue, with no references, overt or covert to Christianity. Nothing better evidences this than the recent abduction of three Lagos School Girls. Of the 12-member infamous abduction gang, three have been caught and their names are Emmanuel Arigidi, Lamamei and Clement Abanara Million. Even a teenager knows these are Christian names. Why didn’t Ayankola and The PUNCH shout to high heavens that the abductors are following the dictates of Christianity? The baby-factory phenomenon and kidnapping which have become stocks-in-trade of the South East (Igboland) has yet to be blamed on Christianity. The Baptist Church pastor, Camerius J. Mills who raped a 15-year old girl in the United Kingdom was not blamed on Christianity. The genocidal Uganda-based Christian terrorist group, Lord Resistance Army which uses the cross and hopes to establish a country run on the 10 commandments in the bible have been deliberately isolated from Christianity by the Nigerian and Western media. The recent case of the Ebonyi Pastor, David Ibe who raped a church member has yet to be blamed on Christianity. The case of gay paedophila tearing the Vatican apart has yet to be blamed on Christianity. The gay weddings in churches have yet to be blamed on Christianity. So much for the bible and Christianity! Why should Ese’s case be blamed on Islam by the Agent of Doom, Martin Ayankola?

Fanning the embers of discord and the ignoble quartet

With the way Ayankola and The PUNCH are going, they will tear this country apart. Like Adolf Hitler who rose to power on hate-filled anti-Semitic rhetoric and from which he eventually murdered 6 million Jews in the 1954 holocaust, same with the extremely hot-tempered, fraudster of a human and mentally unstable Donald Trump who is revving up anti-Hispanic, anti-African and anti-Muslim hate-filled campaign rhetorics, and yet same with the failure who calls himself Governor of Stomach Infrastructure (GSI), Ayodele Fayose who has started an anti-Islamic rhetoric, Ayankola is fast joining a dishonourable quartet who the world would eventually blame God for ever creating if they achieve their agenda. Does Ayankola want to turn this country to another Syria, Somalia or Sudan? Compare the campaign of hate against Islam by The PUNCH and the editorial (see below) by THISDAY Magazine who demonstrated rare professionalism by identifying the main issues in the Ese saga and not joining the bandwagon of extremist Christians like Martin Ayankola. http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/03/06/issues-in-ese-orurus-abduction/

Faith-based criminal tagging, way to go going forward?

Over the years, the NMC has endured and maintained dignified composure in the face of unwarranted provocation and attacks by the largely Christian Nigerian Media, Going forward, this will no longer be the case. We do not want to be pushed to the extent of combusting this country. Henceforth, we shall use all the means available to us to tag every criminal with their faith. We shall use the electronic and print media to highlight the faith of any criminal apprehended. With this, the NCC will have a taste of the fruit they have always served the NMC for decades. We shall use the social media platforms to highlight any crime committed by a Christian and quote supporting bible passages to drive home our point. Commit a crime and the image of your faith will be tarnished in the media. This generalization madness by the NCC has got to stop. The only way to stop it is for the NMC to respond in kind.

Pleas

In light of the above, the Nigerian Muslim Community (NCC) hereby call on:
1. the Presidency to wade into this matter by ordering a full scale and independent investigation into the Ese Oruru saga and expose all the truths and untruths. More importantly, Nigerians need to hear from Yunusa. If Yunusa is tried and convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction, he should be severely punished in line with the laws of land – No mercy!

2. the Presidency to commission an investigation into the cases of Muslim children being forcefully converted to Christians at the Edo IDP camps with the rhetoric, “accept Jesus or you will go to hell”

3. the Presidency, the National Assembly (NASS), the Ministers of Justice and Information, the Lagos State Government and the Nigerian Union of Journalist to please call emerging Agent of Hate, and the official face of extremist Christian ideologies in Nigeria, Martin Ayankola and his ignominious newspaper, The PUNCH to order.

4. the owners of the The PUNCH Newspapers and the Aboderin family to salvage whatever is left of the magazine’s lost glory and completely evaporated objectivity by relieving Martin Ayankola of his job before his agenda to throw this country into an avoidable ethno-religious crisis becomes full blown

5. the government to investigate, arrest, and and prosecute Martin Ayankola because he is no different from Nnamdi Kanu and proscribe The PUNCH newspapers which is the print version of Radio Biafra in order to prevent other religious bigots masquerading as journalists and media outfits to follow the ignoble part of fuelling hate-filled narratives to achieve preconceived agenda and God forbid, throw Nigeria into a needless ethno-religious civil war.

6. the Nigerian Christian Community should immediately, please call their Agent of Doom to order and desist from making a living by promoting prejudice and specializing in incitement.

7. the NASS should pass a bill mandating the age of consent/marriage as 18 for both sexes. Though this may be unpopular with the likes of SanI Yerima who once forced the NASS to jettison such motion in the past, President Buhari, Senator Saraki and Speaker Dogara should demonstrate strong political will to push through the bill so as to prevent a recurrence of the Ese episode.

NSCIA, NASFAT, MURIC copied.

ISLAM IS LOVE ETERNAL (On the truth we stand)

“Believers, be the supporters of justice and testify to what you may have witnessed, for the sake of God, even against yourselves, parents, and relatives; whether it be against the rich or the poor. God must be given preference over them. Let not your desires cause you to commit injustice. If you deviate from the truth in your testimony, or decline to give your testimony at all, know that God is Well Aware of what you do.” – Quran (4:135)

elopee3000:
ur a fulani u people came from guinea that why fulani people answers streets names or towns name cus they dont know thier name just like tofa of tofa town

fulanimafia:
You must think I have free time for iPod touts.

Show me where movement of coal from Enugu was mentioned or even hinted at in the article.

Osu.

rita25:
una for behead the drug baron to teach odas lesson

bonechamberlain:
na wa o .. y is it difficult to comprehend, its simple English, "is buhari the person pursuing the loot" of course he is the person, but he is still the same person that said abacha never stole. hope u understand now.

fulanimafia:
Quit that ogogoro Mr man and stop sounding like your gala sellers. Go back and read the article.

fulanimafia:
Don't be daft. I'm sure you read in the article that solar power would be the energy source, and nowhere was the movement of coal from Enugu mentioned...so stop portraying yourself as an irreverent bigot.

bonechamberlain:
is buhari the person pursuing the loot, cause he said abacha didn't steal.

fulanimafia:
This is a welcome development, I hope all those misguided 'yoots' that have been calling the Emir a bigot are reading this.

Kudos to Dangote and Emir Sanusi, spearheading the much needed energy revolution in Nigeria.

raker300:
Just wish someone could talk to Obiano about the price hike of land in Anambra.

Ma dad bought a land in Awka last year for 7mill. Now land is going for 13mil in the same location and 17 mill in some other strategic locations

I know of supply and demand but you can't ask igbos to return home and when they start to do, we begin to hike prices

seankay:
They are all looking frosh!

The North needs to wake up because while the Children of the Elites are getting quality Education,the Children of the Poor are married off to rich Alhajis at the tender age of 12.

Hence,Religious Laws are only meant for the poor!

repogirl:
Keyamo will still win in the elections, if the powers that be want him to win, whether no one supports him, that's the reality of this country.

So when asked to chose sides, obviously he chose the powers that be.

toludadon:
People like you are the reasons politicians take advantage of your people. .are you trying to juxtapose a misdeed with another? You are just pathetic. .

okedoyinolabisi:
mercy....one of the few stylish Yoruba actresses that can compete favourably wt the igbo counterparts wen it comes to fashion

toludadon:
I have been in Aba for about 3 days now and I can confirm to you that days of both Orjis should be termed locust years. .the roads are just too poor.. The roads leading to PH is a deathtrap, I wonder what the easterners actually benefitted from PDP govt

gbenga007:

elvisdaniels:
Don't mind the hypocrites , a friend in Malaysia converted his Muslim girlfriend to Christianity ,he was arrested immediately , flogged with but tam (leather kane )before been deported , these incident happened recently 3months ago.

AgbenuAnna:
its a taboo in the Idoma land for such to happen,it happened in the Tiv land long time ago but civilization has stopped that,hope u are cleared

AgbenuAnna:
yea i am idoma,y did u ask?

wirinet:
This is why i have been cautioning all those hate filled ethnic bigot, they have not heard all sides of the story and they immediately start spewing insults at other tribes, regions and religions, they even care less for Ese and her wellbeing.

The person with the most blame in this Ese saga are the parents, especially the father. His daughter was missing from home since last year's August and he is aware of where she is and has is still sitting cool in Yenagoa, i did not hear reports of him going to Kano or even Abuja to retrieve his daughter, it was the mother i heard that did all the travelling. in the Muslim north woman are not accorded much respect, so i doubt she would have attained much by herself unlike if it was a man that went. If it was my daughter that that was abducted and was told the location where she is kept, i would travelled there immediately and would raze the roof down. i would not leave there without my daughter. I do not understand how the parents would leave Ese in kano for over 6 months while they are sleeping in Yenagoa. I am sure the real truth is yet to come out as to what really transpired that led to Ese running away from home. What led to Ese being so unhappy as to find solace in Yenusa's arms and preferring instead to be abducted?

The situation has become infinitely more complicated with Ese's pregnancy. what now becomes of Ese and the baby? Will Yenusa and family be entitled to any responsibility concerning the baby? or do we assume the child will be a bastard (fatherless)? or even maybe Ese should abort the over 5 month's pregnancy?u be ewu his father went and ur people even want to beat him so close ur gworo teeth and know what u people saw in Christian girls

carinmom:
Hypocrisy is when someone believes Oruru's side and then refuse to believe Yunusa and his father's side of the story. Both sides should be given fair hearing.
And for those raining all kinds of insults on Islam and the northerners, may you be forgiven for your ignorance because Islam has nothing to do with actions of Yunusa.

Bigprozzie:
There are 2 sides to every story

So this means the young man lived with and probably started having an affair with the girl .

The girl like some teenagers is gullible and fell in love with the older guy. As much as I hold Yunusa responsible for this issue, the girls parents must share the blame because this shows that they have not successfully instilled discipline in their daughter.