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Out of the various media outlet, PMB chose to have an interview with Sarahareporters goes to show how well placed the media outlet has been in Nigeria.

One thing I like in the interview, he said that journalists show do more 'investigative journalism'. Most of our journalists in Nigeria are just too lazy to go the extra mile.

Bunch of jobless rented crowd - they have dented the hope of Saraki immersaly.

Whoever organised this protest on behalf of Saraki should be sacked!

tartar9:
there are both authentic and fabricated hadiths for your argument to be even considered simply use the authentic one's,simple!

Tartar9, please which of the hadiths is the most authentic one to use?

The intriguing part is why are the pilgrims both men & women dressed half-nakedd in white for the religious exercises in Mecca?

dearpreye:
Hmmm

This is not how to treat fellow muslims who have paid thousand of dollars to honour their faith.

It really shows the KSA have no regards for humans - dead or alive.

So sad to view the above picture. I think the dead will eventually be close to one thousand.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3247269/At-310-people-crushed-death-450-injured-stampede-Muslim-Hajj-pilgrimage-Saudi-Arabia.html


Very sad to see lots of people died in such a gruesome way.
RIP to the dead!!!

Justice Mu’azu Pindiga, chairman of the Rivers State governorship election tribunal, was removed after investigators from the Department of State Security (DSS) discovered that the judge had accepted a bribe of N200 million from Governor Nyesom Wike, the major defendant in an electoral case before the tribunal.

Our sources within the DSS said their agents confronted the judge as well as the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, with evidence of the bribe. Justice Bulkachuwa then decided to remove the tribunal chairman.

Justice Mohammed Ambrosa was then asked to replace the compromised Justice Pindiga, as the President of the Court of Appeal said there was no point swearing in a new judge.

Two lawyers representing clients whose petitions were before the electoral tribunal told SaharaReporters that they welcomed the firing of Justice Pindiga. “Apart from the fact that he has been exposed for being corrupt, he has not demonstrated any knowledge of electoral matters,” one of the lawyers said. “I can tell you that a number of lawyers who have appeared before him have found him wanting when it comes to issues pertaining to the electoral laws of this country,” he added.

Another lawyer echoed the sentiment. “We had protested to the President of Court of Appeal to replace the judge. He was a poor judge,” he said.

After learning about the replacement of Justice Pindiga, Mr. Wike’s lawyers launched a feeble protest, criticizing the reconstitution of the tribunal. However, their protest was silenced when they were told that the governor’s bribe to the removed judge had been exposed.

Governor Wike had made at least two attempts to see the Chief Justice of Nigeria to seek the CJN’s help to influence the outcome of the tribunal, but the nation’s top judge declined to meet with the governor, citing his fear of President Muhammadu Buhari.

SaharaReporters learned that Mr. Wike’s lawyers facilitated the collection of the N200 million by the ousted tribunal chairman.

Justice Bulkachuwa, who oversees the Court of Appeal, is mentioned in legal circles as a keen receiver of inducement in past electoral tribunal cases.


http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/11/governor-nyesom-wike%E2%80%99s-n200-million-bribe-behind-firing-governorship-election-tribunal

Richard Dawkins has lambasted Saudi Arabia's "sick" offer to build 200 mosques for refugees in Germany, as the Gulf state still refuses to shelter those fleeing war-stricken Syria.
Dawkins, 74, branded the news "either a sick joke or sick insult to German generosity" on Thursday after reports emerged that the wealthy Arab state offered to build the mosques in the European country, which is expecting to take 800,000 refugees this year.

While thousands of refugees make the perilous journey across continents to European countries, Saudi Arabia and five other Gulf states have offered zero resettlement places. Dawkins said the news was "certainly sick", adding he is "horribly afraid it might not be a joke". The atheist, biologist and author added that the only thing that could be "more useless to refugees in Germany than 200 mosques" was 201 mosques.

German newspaper, The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, reported the plans to build 200 mosques, quoting Lebanese newspaper al Diyar. Further details of how Saudi Arabia would build the 200 mosques remain unclear. Amnesty International reported, "From Asia to Europe, large wealthy countries have turned their backs on Syrian refugees. All six Gulf countries, Russia and Japan have not offered to resettle a single refugee".

Saudi Arabia joins Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain in failing to offer any resettlement places.

The Gulf States have received mounting criticism for their "deafening" silence over the refugee crisis.
Last month, Germany's interior minister announced that the country was expecting the arrival of as many as 800,000 refugees this year - four times as many as 2014.

Germany remains the top destination for refugees in Europe, receiving 43% of all asylum applications in the 28-nation European Union. The news was met with shock and disbelief on social media.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/10/refugee-crisis-richard-dawkins-saudi-arabia-mosques-in-germany_n_8115492.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Moses enacted a legal procedure to protect the wife (cf. Exod. 21:1-11). This legal procedure would have several requirements:

1. it took some amount of time
2. it took a priest or Levite to write it
3. it probably required the return of the dowry
Hopefully, these procedures would give the couple a chance to reconcile.

Biblical marriage is a religious covenant (YHWH Himself was a witness), not just a civil document (cf. Pro. 2:17). We must remember that promises we make in God's name are binding. Marriage among believers is possibly the best human analogy of covenant faithfulness. Another reference can be found in Malachi 2:16, where God emphatically said “he hates divorce”

Jesus confirmed the intent of God for marriage as one man, one woman for life (cf. Matt. 5:31). Anything else is not the ideal. The problem comes in how to balance Jesus' words in this context with His words of forgiveness in other contexts. The standard for Kingdom followers is high, but so too, is the grace of God! In this area a case-by-case approach is better than rigid legal rules.
We should reminded that Jesus commented that all Scriptural teaching on how to live for God is summed up in only two priority statements (cf. Matt. 22:34-40; Mark 12:28-34; Luke 10:25-28):

a. Deut. 6:4 – love God completely
b. Lev. 19:18 – love your neighbour (which surely includes one's family members) as yourself
Surely #b includes one's spouse!

So to the OP, your pastor is very economical with the truth and his interpretation of the passages he read out for justifying his action are very ‘suspect’

This is a serious issue for the 'Senator' if this is true.

They all went on a consolation mission to Otuoke.

Within the last 20years, the Indian government invested massively in information technology - real human capital development - where the likes of the world's best developers' and programmers' emerged from.

Now we have huge conglomerates and financial institutions like GM, Citibank, JP Morgan, Barclays, Ford Motors, Microsoft, CocaCola, Google, Apple Inc, just to mention a few hiring the best of these indians in IT. Most of the call-centres of major companies are also based in Indian.

Go to Bangalore today - known as the silicon valley of India - that state alone exports more IT professionals, so yes the Indian dude is right - we Nigerians import intelligence.

What kind of human capital development programme have any of our past governments embarked upon - nothing - except to embezzle and corrupt the education systems?

Also our orientation must fundamentally change - in the sense that an average Nigeria wants to get to the top and be rich by all means without 'grafting' for it. Hardwork and persistence are the keys to greatness, there's no shortcut.

I don't blame the Indian guys - they have told the truth - it's now left to us to make a clean change in our country.

ttmacoy:
Not smart?

How many Nigerians do we have heading global companies?

Should i list Indians for you? Pepsi, Microsoft, Deloitte, former Vodafone, former Citigroup, just past Deutche Bank. Should I continue?

If we are honest we know he is telling the truth.

We have a poor attitude to work a work always looking for the short cut and quick riches.

We can now add Google to the list of companies headed by an Indian!!!

The myriad number of issues facing Christianity sounds like a Top Rated Scandalous Reality TV Show. They have AshleyMadison, love jones, porn addictions, gay marriages, money schemes up the yazoo, church fights, church splits, adultery, molestation and that list is ever-exxxpanding.

And now? Now, the Gay Pastors who lead secret lives as heterosexual males, are feeling their panties and are starting to come out of their closets. The pioneers of this latest move of the GOD of the King James Version Bible are revealing their homosexual proclivities on the Iyanla Show on September the 19th, 2015.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-S8EYEyMs


Once a person becomes a Christian, they have way too many hoops to jump through.

They have to beware of MEN OF GOD molesting their children
They have to beware of false teachers
They have to beware of money grubbers
They have to beware of Pastors on the Down Low
They have to beware of pastors addicted to porn
They have to beware of pastors who use AshleyMadison.cum
They have to beware of false prophets
They have to beware of pastors addicted to: crack, meth, mollies, weed, cocaine, 8-balls, etc.
They have to beware of pastors addicted to alcohol
They have to beware of pastors addicted to adultery
They have to beware of pastors hired by Satan to pastor Christian churches
They have to beware of false doctrines
They have to beware of the watered down gospel

And that is the short list!!!

There is a 'cult' in our churches, bent on perverting the gospel of Jesus Christ, with their own forms' of gospel.
May God have mercy on us.

This just goes to show the level of unprofessionalism in the Nigerian Police Force.

The whole NPF will need to be re-orientated, re-trained & re-evaluated to become more efficient & effective.

Zimbabwe is the only country in the world with the highest number of billionaires.

As the crisis brews over Syrian refugees trying to enter European countries, questions have been raised over why they are not heading to wealthy Gulf states closer to home.

Although those fleeing the Syrian crisis have for several years been crossing into Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey in huge numbers, entering other Arab states - especially in the Gulf - is far less straightforward.

Officially, Syrians can apply for a tourist visa or work permit in order to enter a Gulf state.

But the process is costly, and there is a widespread perception that many Gulf states have unwritten restrictions in place that make it hard for Syrians to be granted a visa in practice.

Most successful cases are Syrians already in Gulf states extending their stays, or those entering because they have family there.

For those with limited means, there is the added matter of the sheer physical distance between Syria and the Gulf.

Not welcome?

This comes as part of wider obstacles facing Syrians, who are required to obtain rarely granted visas to enter almost all Arab countries.

Without a visa, Syrians are not currently allowed to enter Arab countries except for Algeria, Mauritania, Sudan and Yemen.

The relative wealth and proximity to Syria of the states has led many - in both social and as well as traditional media - to question whether these states have more of a duty than Europe towards Syrians suffering from over four years of conflict and the emergence of jihadist groups in the country.

The Arabic hashtag #Welcoming_Syria's_refugees_is_a_Gulf_duty has been used more than 33,000 times on Twitter in the past week.

Users have posted powerful images to illustrate the plight of Syrian refugees, with photos of people drowned at sea, children being carried over barbed wire, or families sleeping rough.

A Facebook page called The Syrian Community in Denmark has shared a video showing migrants being allowed to enter Austria from Hungary, prompting one user to ask: "How did we flee from the region of our Muslim brethren, which should take more responsibility for us than a country they describe as infidels?"

Another user replied: "I swear to the Almighty God, it's the Arabs who are the infidels."

'Let them in!'

The story has also attracted the attention of regional press and political actors.

The Saudi daily Makkah Newspaper published a cartoon - widely shared on social media - that showed a man in traditional Gulf clothing looking out of a door with barbed wire around it and pointing at door with the EU flag on it.

"Why don't you let them in, you discourteous people?!" he says.

The commander of the opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA), Riyad al-Asaad, retweeted an image of refugees posted by a former Kuwaiti MP, Faisal al-Muslim, who had added the comment: "Oh countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, these are innocent people and I swear they are most deserving of billions in aid and donations."

But despite the appeals from social media, Gulf states' position seems unlikely to shift in favour of Syrian refugees.

In terms of employment, the trend in most Gulf states, such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE is towards relying on migrant workers from South-East Asia and the Indian subcontinent, particularly for unskilled labour.

While non-Gulf Arabs do occupy positions in skilled mid-ranking jobs, for example in education and health, they are up against a "nationalisation" drive whereby the Saudi and Kuwaiti governments in particular are seeking to prioritise the employment of locals.

Non-native residents may also struggle to create stable lives in these countries as it is near impossible to gain nationality.

In 2012, Kuwait even announced an official strategy to reduce the number of foreign workers in the emirate by a million over 10 years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34132308


Well, so much for muslim brotherhood - other gulf states can't help their brothers, yet they are the first to tag the western countries 'infidels'.

This kind of lifestyle has been going on for many years...only that in the past few years it is now widely reported.
There's nothing new under the sun, especially in relations to 'some' nigerian female students.

PDP is a nothern party & the position of national chairman will eventually go to the north.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3216627/Koran-Birmingham-thought-oldest-world-predate-Prophet-Muhammad-scholars-say.html

HOW DID IT GET TO BIRMINGHAM?

The ancient pages were found bound alongside those of a younger copy of the Koran from the seventh century AD.

It is thought they had been put together because the Hijazi script on the parchment was similar.

They had been collected during the 1920s by a Chaldean priest called Alphonse Mingana who put together a huge collection of documents from the Middle East.

His expeditions to the Middle East were sponsored by Edward Cadbury, from the chocolate dynasty.

A special library was built at Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham, a group of colleges set up by a group of Quakers led by George Cadbury.

When the colleges were merged with the University of Birmingham in the 1990s, the collection was brought under the care of the Cadbury Research Library at the university.

The fragments of the Koran then lay undiscovered until they were sent for radio carbon dating at the University of Oxford.


http://national.deseretnews.com/article/5711/is-the-worlds-oldest-quran-older-than-muhammad.html

A former Works Minister under the Jonathan administration may be recalled to refund hundreds of millions of Naira of public funds, which he and his family members allegedly wasted under the guise of attending official trips while in office. Already, federal auditors looking into the books of the ministry, have discovered shocking details of how the minister siphoned millions of Naira in the name of sending top officials of the ministry abroad for official functions.

The checks have also unearthed how the minister signed and collected millions of Naira for what auditors describe as ‘ghost’ representatives of the Works Ministry. In a particular case, the said minister had smuggled the names of his wife and her sister into the official delegation of the ministry for a women’s leadership training programme in Dubai, United Arab Emirate and caused the ministry to pay for the full cost of their week-long stay in that country.

Details of the expenditure, which Vanguard obtained yesterday, indicated that the ministry paid of N6.5 million to the delegation that included the minister’s wife, her sister and three female officials. Apart from smuggling his wife and sister’s names into the official delegation, the minister also designated his wife and sister as the leader and deputy leader of the delegation to Dubai and approved Business Class tickets for them, while the three other delegates from the ministry sat in Economy.

While the minister’s wife was paid N1,475,023, her sister received N1,474,023 for the trip, which lasted from December 5 to 10, 2011.

Ticket money

Each of them spent N496,023 for the business class ticket, while each of the three other official delegate paid N250,000 for their economy class tickets. In approving the names of the delegates, the minister used the initials of his wife and sister’s names apparently to conceal their identities, but the account and audit personnel wrote the two names in full at the point of preparing the voucher and paying them, thereby exposing the politician.

In another trip, which the minister said he attended in Paris, France that same year, he requested for N20.2 million as ‘supplementary allowance’ for four ‘additional stakeholders’ to join him on the trip but did not disclose who they were even though the money was withdrawn from the ministry’s account.

The minister had written to the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, asking him to approve money for the additional stakeholders who were to participate in the World Infrastructure Summit in Paris and the approval was granted him within a day. The four undisclosed stakeholders got N4,057,220 for estacode, N5,433,400 for flight tickets and spent N10.8 million on participation fees for the one week stay in Paris.

However, auditors are angry that the names of the beneficiaries were not disclosed and would want the former minister to account for the huge amount, which he approved. A source in the ministry told Vanguard that the auditors would soon invite the former minister to account for the money, but did not say when he was likely to be summoned.

The discovery is coming at a time the former ministers have written to President Buhari, asking him not to label them as corrupt, since they did their best for the country. The former ministers also asked Buhari to give them due respect and credit for what they did well for the country during their tenure instead of vilification.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/auditors-probe-ex-ministers-travelling-allowance/

Any idea who was the Works Minister?

At least with all these early round of appointments, nobody can say that Tinubu is influencing PMB.

PMB is a man who likes to make his own decisions.

PDP & APC are just the same...nothing to differentiate between the two parties as a result of multiple party-crossovers...

Anyway, let's wait & see what APC can offer.

FORMER military administrator of Kaduna State Colonel Hamid Ibrahim Alli is being touted as the next chairman of the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC) after current chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde was implicated in a N1Trn fraud sources in the All Progressives Congress (APC) have revealed

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, will on Wednesday appear before the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions over an allegation that he criminally diverted over N1 trillion recovered from corrupt individuals and groups by the anti-graft agency

The fraud allegedly perpetrated by Larmode was said to have dated back to his days as the Director of Operations of the EFCC between 2003 and 2007, as well as an acting Chairman of the commission between June 2007 and May 2008, when the then chairman of the anti-graft agency, Nuhu Ribadu, was away for a course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos.

Col Alli, 60, who is originally from, Kano State, was the Kaduna State military governor between August 1996 and August 1998 during the Sani Abacha regime. Currently the chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Col Alli later became the secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum after retiring from the Nigerian Army.

Blue-blooded, Col Alli was a die-hard IBB boy who is reputed to have said he would follow General Ibrahim Babangida to war blindfolded. However, after Babangida annulled the June 12 1993 elections, they fell out, with him telling his principal that he was wrong, pointing out that Abiola should be sworn-in as president even if he was the devil.
Rumour has it that Col Alli would have been executed by General Abacha if not for the fact that he was blue-blood. He left the army and government unceremoniously without money or scandal and according to reports, he is into poultry farming and still drives a 504 Peugeot saloon car.

Apparently, Colonel Ali is currently undergoing State Security Service screening in preparation for his appointment. According to insiders, immediately there were feelers that he will emerge the next EFCC chairman, corrupt politicians went into panic, with some of them returning stolen funds.

President Buhari has made the fight against corruption the centrepiece of his policies and as such, whoever he appoints as EFCC chairman will be a key figure in his government. Whoever is EFCC chairman will be responsible for recovering the billions of missing dollars said to have disappeared from Nigeria’s oil earnings

http://breakingnews.ng/index.php/2015/08/25/former-military-administrator-of-kaduna-to-replace-lamorde-as-efcc-boss/

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Evolution says where there’s a want, nature will provide what’s needed. Really? In Natural Theology, Dr. William Paley writes: ‘To keep the eye moist and clean—which qualities are necessary to its brightness and its use—a wash is constantly supplied by a secretion for the purpose; and the superfluous brine is conveyed to the nose through a perforation in the bone as large as a goose quill. When the fluid has entered the nose, it spreads itself upon the inside of the nostril and is evaporated by the current of warm air which in the course of respiration is continually passing over it…It’s easily perceived that the eye must want moisture; but could the “want” of the eye generate the gland which produces the tear, or bore the hole by which it’s discharged—a hole through bone?

Let the evolutionist tell us who bored the hole…and laid a water pipe through it for the dispersion of tears.’ When it encounters darkness, your eye’s ability to see increases one hundred thousand times. The finest camera ever made doesn’t even come close! And what’s more, your eye will find the object it wants to see, and focus on it automatically by elongating or compressing itself. Both eyes moving in tandem must adopt different angles in order to fix themselves on what’s to be seen.

Evolution tells us when the eye got ready to create itself, it had forethought for its own protection and built a bony ridge of the brow, which provided a nose on which to position the glasses many of us need. Then it provided a shutter to protect itself from foreign objects. Perhaps it takes more faith to believe in evolution than creation! What do you think?

Why the ceremony just to get a road contruction started, why can't the ceremony be done after the contruction have been completed?

Espirit de corps...2 ex-soldiers helping themselves.

Actual fact remains, PMB have to keep OBJ busy, or else the old man will start to drip like a leaking tap...

I think FFK should just keep quiet for now, his relevancy in this new dispensation is next to zero!!!

The short-pigmy like man from NK will soon press the self-destruct button if the war should actually go ahead!!