₦airaland Forum

bykebyke:
Lmao

mehh people dey life oh

johnca:
We can’t shut our eyes to injustice.

Our country is a secular state, but the
Nigerian spirit teaches us to stand up for
justice, defend the weak, the repressed and
the oppressed. Nigerians are so fair-minded
that even in football, if our national team is
not playing well, we sometimes switch
support to the visiting team. We are also
quite religious; the Holy Books teach us to
be our brother’s keeper.
It is in this context, I think most of the
attacks in the social media against President
Muhammadu Buhari’s expressed support
for Palestinians do not reflect our national
spirit, are ahistorical and uniformed.
During his State Visit to Qatar, on February
28, 2016, he told Emir Tamim Bin Hammad
Al-Thani, “I want to assure you that we will
stand side by side with you, until our
brothers and sisters in Palestine achieve
their desired objectives…Our support for
various Security Council resolutions
restoring and respecting 1967 boundaries
with Jerusalem as capital of Palestine is firm
and unshaken.”
What President Buhari said is not a new
policy; this has been our position for
decades. I recall that when the National
Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on
December 14, 1982 adopted the Nigerian
Students Charter Of Demands, they pledged
to oppose “Zionism anywhere it raises its
head until it ceases its hostility to the
Palestinians and a home is created for the
struggling Palestinians” The Charter
demanded that “the Palestine Liberation
Organisation (PLO) be allowed to open an
office in the country…”
So great were the pressures from
progressive forces in the country, that
within months, Nigeria granted full
diplomatic recognition to the PLO which in
1984, sent Ambassador Samir Baker as
Palestinian ambassador. By the time he left
21 years later, Baker was the longest serving
envoy and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in
Nigeria.
Some of those who oppose the President’s
pronouncement, erroneously ascribed
religious motives. Let me clarify that
Palestinians, like Nigerians, are both
Muslims and Christians like the wife of
Yasser Arafat, Suha Daoud Arafat who was
Roman Catholic.
Secondly, Israel is not, and has never
claimed to be a Christian state. In fact, a
number of those who helped to create it,
were neither Christians nor evangelists;
they were atheists! They included Theodor
Herzel, the Austro-Hungarian journalist who
founded the Zionist Movement, David Ben-
Gurion (Green) founder and first Prime
Minister of modern Israel, Moshe Dayan,
former Defence and Foreign Minister, and
former Prime Ministers Golda Meir and
Yitzak Rabin. Hence, when the Israeli
constitution was being written and some
Judaists wanted to add a clause that the
God of their fathers brought them to the
new Israel, the leaders argued that he had
done very little for them, and therefore
deserve no mention. The atheists won!
The Palestine is homeland to various
peoples; Jews, Arabs, Palestinians and the
Europeans who became the Israeli ruling
class. Even before God called Abraham from
his father’s house in Ur of the Chaldees -
Present day Iraq- Palestine was homeland
to various nationalities.
It might be important to point out that the
Palestine was not the first homeland of
returnee Jews. Back in 1882, Mordecai
Manuel Noah had created one in the Grand
Island, in the Niagara River, United States.
In 1903, Britain carved 13,000Km of the
Mau Plateau (present day Kenya) and gave it
to the World Zionist Organisation to build
the Jewish Homeland. The Organisation at
its 1903 Sixth Congress in Basel , voted 295
to 177 votes to accept the British offer.
After exploratory visits, the Zionists
developed cold feet fearing that the
indigenous Massai population may resist a
huge influx of Europeans which was
essentially what the migrating Jews were.
The largest Jewish homeland ever
established before present day Israel was
the Birobidzhah given by the defunct Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) based
on the policy enunciated by its leader,
Joseph Stanley that there can be no nation
without a defined territory. The homeland
thrived with Jews across the world
migrating there until the Second World War
almost terminated the existence of the
Soviet Union itself. This homeland was
depopulated with the rise of present day
Israel. When the USSR was dissolved on
December 26, 1991, many of the Jews in
this homeland migrated to Israel and
Germany.
There is the issue of President Buhari
mentioning Jerusalem as capital of the
Palestinian State. First, this is the
international position especially by United
Nations and the 94 countries that recognize
the Palestinian State. Secondly, it is an open
secret that East Jerusalem is the ancestral
home of the Palestinians who occupied it
until 1967 when it was seized by Israel
following the Arab-Israeli War; the real
capital of Israel is Tel Aviv.
Those who read religious motives to the
issue of Jerusalem, need to know that it is a
Holy City to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
To Judaists, Jerusalem is its holiest city
where King Solomon built the First Temple
on the Temple Mount and Herod the Great
built the Second Temple part of which is the
Western Wall, better known as the Wailing
Wall because many Judaists often weep
there over the destruction of temples.
To Christians, Jerusalem is holy because
that was the city Jesus was brought as a
child to the temple, where he chased out
the traders from the temple, had the Last
Supper and was crucified. The Church of
the Holy Sepulchre is said to be built on the
crucifixion site.
The holy cities of Islam are Mecca, Medina
and Jerusalem. It was in Jerusalem Prophet
Mohammed (SAW) met the prophets,
ascended to heaven and was given the
instruction that Muslims should pray five
times daily. The Dome of the Rock, built on
Mount Temple, is a holy site of Islam.
Violence, begets violence; the violence
between Israel and Palestinians must end.
Jews cannot have a homeland and deny
their neigbours the right to theirs. The
Igbos say let the kite perch, let the eagle
perch; there is enough room for all; The
Yorubas say the sky is wide enough for birds
to fly without bumping into each other; the
world has enough space for the Israeli and
Palestinian States to co-exist.

wentin concern Nigeria,concern Palestine?,as this one wan take put food for my table

stale

buhari is a tourist na,dem need to dey take picture follow am

stupid military with zero intelligence,if na to beat civilian na dem go dey show themselves,why reveal this to the public

stupid news,stupid presidio,travelling around the world like marco palo

favouritesahaba:
We were created to complement each other. Not equal .

give evidence that god didn't create both sex equal

I feel like this is not the right time for this shit,let's face our economy

camp nou was water logged today,arsenal must have prayed to the gods

Ashgray:
U go sée as dem go do mago mago give us bayern

no oh that one na final,if I HEAR

Philawole:
Bayern is evil mehn!

the thing tire me

Ashgray:
As a barca fan Who u 4 like meet 4 quarter final
BAYERN OR JUVE

juve don comot,Bayern God forbbin,abeg make dem give us Wolfsburg or benfinca or realmadrid

Chelseafan1:
This goal wey Coman score ehn, Hazard no go even fit score am, e go dey find player to pass to.

I nor believe say na Chelsea fan dey talk this one

Ashgray:
Bayern don score oh!!! THIAGO ALCANTARA 5-4

am a barca fan I thought Bayern were out for good,the thing tire me

ollah1:
They are back in

mehn muller na player and Bayern have high mental character

ollah1:
That thread has long been dead but it wld be buried tonight.
If u are in support say
AYE
If you are against say
NAY

mehn Bayern are out oh

mehnn arsenal don enter one chance

dcdmad,bykebyke,eyonigger,ollah,plaasmaam today na today oh who dey organize this party,are we camping here or on arsenal's thread

slimmy2005:
When will Nigeria stop this insanity? What has school got to do with religious organization? They should scrap all this religious organizations and throw them out of the schools environment. School is for educational purpose not a place of worship. If you want to worship, go to the mosque or church. Using university classrooms for worship or fellowship is total bullshit.

What has the whole gathering of religious groups profit Nigeria? Infact, they should call the police to tear gas those nuisance off the schools complex.

you must be a violent soul,

kceewhyte:
and shit

and mess

fiizznation:
Look my friend, this ese/yunusa saga won't have regenerated to this point if reasonable people and junk mainstream media houses didn't bring politics, ethnicity and religion into it. Fortunately they have succeeded in making this two lovebirds story into a politically motivated story, that is; south versus north and Muslims versus Christians. And no matter what anybody will say or think, this is how this case will be viewed by majority of the populace.

A pastor recently abducted three school girls(all where minors), nobody knows whether he has carnally known them and nobody seems to care. We didn't hear people call for the pastors head as we heard every jack and Jill calling for yunusa's head. And why is this so?

At your second paragraph, may I also remind you that yunusa is an 18 years old teenager who is ignorance (though the law said ignorance is never an excuse) of the law that is not even properly defined? Yunusa didn't murder anybody. His actions and inactions were all base on negligence.

The girl in question is even 17yrs. Yes ESE is rightfully 17yrs old because she said it herself. No clarity is needed here whether with her original birth certificate or anything else. She "might have actually told yunusa that she is 17yrs before they eventually elope together

which pastor?,she is 17 yet she has an elder brother of 16

dmcdad:
I watch the game na. I dey wonder whether na Tottenham dey play abi na one Championship team.

Dortmund where just too superior,I be like when they trash Madrid for that iduna park in 2013

dmcdad:
EPL clubs just dey throw party anyhow sha. Those people go generous gan oooooo.

I swear nor be small thing u see wentin Dortmund do

ollah1:
Party is guaranteed on that thread. All thanks to de gea. They shld have discontinued the match.

I just tire,oh boy Dortmund na second barca

mehn where are all my barca niggas dcmad,bykebyke,ollah,homesteady,it is like we will have a party on man utd thread

shit oboy EPL is overated,see as Dortmund use Tottenham tey play lodo

dmcdad:
No mind am! Him no get any injury ooooo. No respect at all!

First leg na to talk rubbish the eve of the game. Second leg na to collect opponent jersey even though say you dey home, dey lose and no dey even play well sef.

The guy is outta Chelsea already.

I can't believe Chelsea no longer have warriors like before that fight to the end,football is becoming soft, heartless players everywhere.....

dmcdad:
My guy don know for him mind say him no go like finish the game. So him say make him kukuma use opportunity collect the jersey at HT before him go miss am for FT. Chai!

that guy na bench fit am

dmcdad:
When we say something e go be like say we dey hate. Them say make we comot goals and assists, we comot am yet the guy no still near Neymar. Na wa ooooooo.

Sotey match pass am e comot. Him no wound oooooo. The match just pass am ni.

he dey form injury,no respect for his club imagine swapping shirts at half time when your club is losing,Costa beter pass am ×100

bykebyke:
Was actually rooting for them to qualify and get destroyed in the quarters by MSN.

qualify ke,abeg who dey start this party,u see stupid hazard changing shirt with demaria at halftime,