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PretiEbony: " Temple of God" Sounds so funny

funny enough, i think iv heard d name b4, i think its a direct interpretation of a yoruba name.

Christian and Muslim leaders trade words over burnt Church in Ilorin

The Christian community in Ilorin has accused the Secretary of Nigerian Inter Religious Committee (NIREC) and former Vice-Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Professor Isiaq Oloyede of setting a church ablaze over land dispute.

Members of the Living Faith Church (a branch of Winners Chapel) along Airport road in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital woke up Monday morning to find their new church razed down by unknown people.

The new church building which was constructed about two months ago has been an issue of litigation between the church and members of Muslim Students Society of Nigeria in the city.

While briefing the press on the issue, the state secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Cornelius Fawenu alleged that the former Vice Chancellor of University of Ilorin had thrice threatened to deal with the worshippers, claiming that the land belonged to Muslims.

The clergy further alleged that Professor Oloyede had also threatened to dislodge them by all means if possible.

Reverend Fawenu also added that several efforts have been made to avert trouble as the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu Gambari, the state governor and the state Commissioner of Police were contacted to avert trouble.

Reacting, Professor Isiaq Oloyede fuming with anger denied ever being involved in the fracas and he threatened to sue the leadership of Christians in the state for damaging his name.

As the secretary of Nigerian Inter Religious Committee, Professor Oloyede said he will never be involved in what could lead to crisis in whatever form and urged Christians in the state to avoid dragging his name into mud.

A visit to the church reveals the total destruction of musical instrument and chairs in the church as remnants of burnt equipments litter the surrounding.

Although the church which is still under construction had been used on several occasion for worshipping.

All efforts to get the reaction of the police proved abortive as the state Commissioner of Police and the Police Public Relation Officer were not on duty despite several visits.

Source: http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/12/12/christian-and-muslim-leaders-trade-words-over-burnt-church-in-ilorin/

Otunbaworldwide: Bush, Toilet, Cat.

i have not heard of toilet as somebody's name!

Callotti: ONAJITE UKPUBULUKU! From one Urhobo/Itsekiri classmate in secondary school those days.
I never forgot that name!

what is the meaning of the name?

Otunbaworldwide: Name like- Shit, virgina

do people bear does names?

Localamos: "ffo" sounds funny to me

i think localamos is funnier

Hi Nairalanders, recently i saw some names in my area that sound funny to me.
Names like ThankGod, NaGod, Nigeria, Africa, (maybe someone may be bearing United States or Spain) etc. I will like Nairalanders to share some "funny" names you have ever heard.

Nigeria's Saheed Adepoju is a young man with big dreams. He is the inventor of the Inye, a tablet computer designed for the African market.

According to the 29-year-old entrepreneur, his machine's key selling point is its price - $350 (£225) opposed to around $700 for an iPad.

He believes that, because of this, there is a big market for it in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa, particularly amongst students.

He is also hoping to sell his tablet - which runs on the Google Android operating system - to the Nigerian government and plans to have at least one computer in each local government area.
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The Inye is a mobile internet device. It gives you access to the internet; it allows you to play media files and watch movies”

"The Inye is a mobile internet device. It gives you access to the internet; it allows you to play media files and watch movies. What we have is an 8-inch device, a device that is half-way between a laptop and a mobile phone," he told the BBC's series African Dream.

"You have the standard software applications that come pre-installed and then you have the ones that we are working with various local developers to bundle on," he added.

Among those local apps there is one designed to raise awareness about HIV and others related to water and sanitation.

"We work with local developers that have expertise in particular areas so that we don't end up doing so much work and we just have a collaborative way of doing things together," he said.
'Word of mouth'

Mr Adepoju has a background in software development and is a Sun-certified Java programmer.

After doing a first degree in maths and computer science in Nigeria, he completed another one in advanced computing by research at Bournemouth University, in the United Kingdom.

Upon graduation in 2009, he returned to his home country and started working for a consulting firm.

"Within eight months I got fired, primarily because of differences in approach to doing business. In the middle of all this, the Apple iPad launched, back in January of 2010, which inspired us to actually look to build such [a] product within the African marketplace," the entrepreneur told the BBC Africa's Chris Ewokor.

He said that, with that goal in mind, he borrowed money from friends and family, raising a total of about $60,000.

According to him, all of that went on the devices and the logistics - there was no budget for marketing, so early advertising was "word of mouth" on social media.

The first 100 units of the Inye, which means One in Nigeria's Igala language, were built in China and, after receiving feedback from its users, a second version was launched in May 2011.

Encipher Group, the company he cofounded with web developer Anibe Agamah, also offers customised IT services and products, including cloud computing, which are mostly based on open technology to keep costs down.
Raising capital

According to Mr Adepoju, the company and the apps it develops are focused on preserving local culture through technology and making products which are specific to the local market.

Another product that the firm has been working on is Encipher TV, a box where people can watch African television, plays and films.

However, he says that it has not been easy to raise capital in order to develop the business faster.

"Here venture capital (VC) is still in its infancy and most VC firms wound want to invest in tried and trusted companies that have gained some form of traction," he said.

"We face the challenge of getting people to listen to the various propositions. We've been to a number of private investors and also to the government," he explained.

Not surprisingly, his immediate plan is to "try and raise capital from whatever sources we can get - locally, internationally or privately - and to try and still to push the brand forward as much as we can".

Will his tablet computer succeed in such a competitive environment? Only time will tell but Mr Adepoju and his colleagues are adamant that it will, not only in Nigeria but also in other African markets.

source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18895366

odum desmond: I am Ben, am not dangerous, I won't hurt him I promise if he co-oporates with me!

you are under arrest. any thing u say or do may be used against u in the court of law. so cooperate with us.

give us your name, address and phone number.

coogar: of course, i am ben....
what a simpleton! the moment you argue for/against any motion then you automatically become the subject of discussion. you represent the few nigerians that not intelligent. task your brain and think outside the box for once in your life.

OP, are u sure Coogar is not d "Ben"?

just tinking!

OP, OP, OP!!!
How many times did i can u?
IF YOU LOVE YOURSELF. do not confront him, just silently go and report 2 d higher authority, u are even taking time, cus who knows if "Ben" is on NL reading your post. be very very careful with this guy, he must be a very dangerous guy.
OP, go and report d case immediately 2 d higher authority, Police, ICPC, Code of Conduct, Civil Service Commission.
Anybody advising you 2 confront Ben, i dont think the person really like you.

this is my hard earned advise for u.

Ludovic Mohammed Zahed is braced for controversy, maybe even worse. A gay Muslim and an expert on the Koran, Zahed plans to open Europe's first gay-friendly mosque in Paris at the end of this month. He calls it a place of shelter as well as a place of worship.

"We need to have a safe space for people who do not feel comfortable and at ease in normal mosques," Zahed told ABC News. "There are transgender people who fear aggression, women who do not want to wear head scarf or sit in the back of the mosque. This project gives hope back to many believers in my community."

"Common prayer, practiced in an egalitarian setting and without any form of gender-based discrimination, is one of the pillars supporting the proposed reforms of our progressive representation of Islam," he said.

"The Unity" mosque will initially operate in a Buddhist temple in a neighborhood in eastern Paris, and will emphasize "accepting everyone as equally God's creation....I hope straight men will pray together with gay men and women, everyone," said Zahed who declines to make public the address of the venue, due to security concerns.

Zahed's mosque will honor some Islamic traditions, like Friday prayers (Jumu'ah), and the Muslim marriage contract (Nikah) to bless same-sex marriage. It will also perform funeral rites (Janazah) for those who have been denied a traditional Islamic funeral based on Sharia law because of their sexual orientation.

"It is a safe place to worship," said Zahed, where no religious questions will go unaddressed. "Our imams will talk on any taboo topic." Zahed will be one of three prayer leaders, along with a female French convert to Islam and another man who is being trained.

"Current Islamic ethics may condemn this sexual orientation," Zahed said, "but in fact nothing in Islam or the Koran forbids homosexuality. Indeed, for centuries, Muslims did not consider homosexuality to be the supreme abomination that they do today."

According to Zahed, renowned Muslim poets wrote odes glorifying handsome boys. Some were interpreted as metaphors for loving God, but some also seem to reference gay intimate relations. Zahed argues that homosexuality became criminalized only under European colonialism.

"From the 10th to the 14th century, Muslim society used to be a far richer mix of the legal, the rational and the mystic," said Zahed. "They looked at sexuality as one aspect of life's many possibilities, and they saw in it the hope for spiritual insight."

"Even if this mosque is newfound freedom," said Nasser, an openly-gay Parisian, "gays will remain in a closet, worried about being ostracized at their local schwarma stand."

While it would be the first gay mosque in Paris, there are believed to be 21 other gay mosques sprinkled through the U.S., Canada and South Africa.

In countries where traditional Islam is dominant, like Egypt and Iran, punishment against homosexual activity, not to mention advocacy for gay rights, is very severe.

Zahed's Parisian mosque will be inspired by the work of Muslims for Progressive Values in North America, who practice common prayer, in an egalitarian setting and without any form of gender-based discrimination.

"We are already working very closely with them. The idea for our Paris mosque comes as a result of our conversations," says Zahed, whose future plans include "a progressive mosque in the UK and then another one in Denmark will follow."

Zahed believes, if the Prophet Mohamad was alive today, he would marry gay couples. He himself is the first gay man to marry partner in a Muslim ceremony in France. He is an Algerian PhD student writing his thesis on Islam and homosexuality, a subject he also addressed in a book "The Koran and the Flesh."

He has experienced anti-gay discrimination from Islamic groups, and Islamophobia from members of the French gay community.

Meanwhile there is a lot of controversy in France regarding both same-sex marriages and Islamic influence and practices. Ten days ago, tens of thousands protesters took to the streets against government's plan to legalize same-sex marriage, while several weeks ago, right wing protesters stormed an unfinished mosque to show disapproval of France's large community of Muslim immigrants.

source: http://abcnews.go.com/International/gay-mosque-open-paris-address-secret/story?id=17821887#.ULZP9lLcx2s

Lovely wedding, lovely gown, lovely suit, lovely church, lovely tradition, lovely people.
@OP, respect people's privacy, im sure u wont want people to giv such comments on your wedding pics (if u r married).

I want to wish everyone of us a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY and Long life.

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please lets share our experiences as birthday mates.

data analysis is a very interesting task. i use SPSS, Minitab and Statistical 4 my analysis. its 9c 2 discover dis thread.

Clemzy16: I'm not suprised. Despite the challenges we have in our educational sector Nigerian students are still the most intelligent in africa. Followed by south africans. So NEXT!!

u make sense, bros

By OLA AJAYI, Ibadan

Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Ghana, Ambassador Ademola Oluwaseyi, has expressed delight at the way Nigerian students are excelling in Ghana University of Technology.

According to the diplomat, Nigerian student emerged the best student for the 2010/2011 academic year.

This, he said, had proved the point that Nigerians have the capacity to excel anywhere they find themselves.

Based on the academic excellence of the university, the Nigerian High Commissioner said more efforts would be made at strengthening Nigeria-Ghana relationship.

He also advised all Nigerians seeking university education for their wards in Ghana to make this university their preferred choice.

He said these when a high powered delegation from the university, led by the President, Prof. Clement Dzidonu paid a courtesy call on him, in Accra recently.

The don commended the work rate of Nigerian students, their persevering spirit and dedication to their studies.

The Minister Counselor at the High Commission Hon. B.B Hamman, who is in charge of education affairs listed some challenges Nigerian students go through in the institution.

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/nigerian-students-excel-in-ghana-university/?fb_comment_id=fbc_190387377752593_475491_190423174415680

[quote author=padmore.ete2]Lol[/quote]Bros! is it funny?

Its God o. d source of my life, Jehovah Nissi, Jehovah Jireh, Jehovah Elohim, He is my father, my sustainer, my hope, my ALL. that reminds me of dis song in yoruba:

"sibe Oluwa daraaa
bo ti wu kole tooo
idamu aye lee poo
sibesibe Oluwa daara"

God has been faithful 2 me at all times. Thank God for His Holy Spirit in Me and His Son that lives in Me.

He has no bank account, his only asset is a Volkswagen beetle, He donates 90% of his salary to charity. What a lesson to learn from dis man.


it's a common grumble that politicians' lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the president - who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his pay.

Laundry is strung outside the house. The water comes from a well in a yard, overgrown with weeds. Only two police officers and Manuela, a three-legged dog, keep watch outside.

This is the residence of the president of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, whose lifestyle clearly differs sharply from that of most other world leaders.

President Mujica has shunned the luxurious house that the Uruguayan state provides for its leaders and opted to stay at his wife's farmhouse, off a dirt road outside the capital, Montevideo.

The president and his wife work the land themselves, growing flowers.

This austere lifestyle - and the fact that Mujica donates about 90% of his monthly salary, equivalent to $12,000 (£7,500), to charity - has led him to be labelled the poorest president in the world.

I've lived like this most of my life," he says, sitting on an old chair in his garden, using a cushion favoured by Manuela the dog.

"I can live well with what I have."

His charitable donations - which benefit poor people and small entrepreneurs - mean his salary is roughly in line with the average Uruguayan income of $775 (£485) a month.

In 2010, his annual personal wealth declaration - mandatory for officials in Uruguay - was $1,800 (£1,100), the value of his 1987 Volkswagen Beetle.

This year, he added half of his wife's assets - land, tractors and a house - reaching $215,000 (£135,000).

That's still only about two-thirds of Vice-President Danilo Astori's declared wealth, and a third of the figure declared by Mujica's predecessor as president, Tabare Vasquez.

Elected in 2009, Mujica spent the 1960s and 1970s as part of the Uruguayan guerrilla Tupamaros, a leftist armed group inspired by the Cuban revolution.

He was shot six times and spent 14 years in jail. Most of his detention was spent in harsh conditions and isolation, until he was freed in 1985 when Uruguay returned to democracy.

Those years in jail, Mujica says, helped shape his outlook on life.
"I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more," he says.

"This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself," he says.

"I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice."

The Uruguayan leader made a similar point when he addressed the Rio+20 summit in June this year: "We've been talking all afternoon about sustainable development. To get the masses out of poverty.

"But what are we thinking? Do we want the model of development and consumption of the rich countries? I ask you now: what would happen to this planet if Indians would have the same proportion of cars per household than Germans? How much oxygen would we have left?

In contrast, his vice president Danilo Astori's declared wealth of £173,000 includes a house and car worth nearly 10 times Mr Mujica's Beetle.

The leftist leader, who shuns formal suits and ties, was jailed for more than a decade for his guerrilla activities during the 1960s and 1970s.


You can get more info about this man on:

source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243493

The Football Association has been accused of "institutional racism" for not referring alleged comments by referee Mark Clattenburg to the police.

Peter Herbert, chairman of the Society of Black Lawyers, believes the FA has not done enough to investigate a complaint against Clattenburg.

"We think the FA is institutionally racist," Herbert told BBC Radio 5 live.

But FA chairman David Bernstein responded by calling Herbert's comments "ill-informed and unhelpful".

The referee denies using "inappropriate language" towards two Chelsea players.

The Metropolitan Police has dropped its own investigation into a complaint, made by the Society of Black Lawyers, that Clattenburg used a racially offensive term during Chelsea's 3-2 defeat at home to Manchester United on 28 October.
An FA investigation into that matter is ongoing, but Herbert labelled as "derisory" the punishments handed out by the governing body to Chelsea captain John Terry and Liverpool striker Luis Suarez for other incidents.

Terry was banned for four games and fined £220,000 last month for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand during a Premier League game at Loftus Road in October 2011.

Suarez received an eight-match suspension for repeated racial abuse directed towards Manchester United defender Patrice Evra during a league game played in the same month.

Herbert said: "What we're saying is that the FA has no hate-crime strategy. Now that, for anybody in the industry of dealing with criminal justice, means they've got no systematic way of dealing with hate-crime in sport.

"To give you an example, the penalties on John Terry and Luis Suarez were derisory.

"And then you have 104 incidents where players are sent off for racial abuse and not one of them is reported to the police, while you have 120,000 teams playing every weekend up and down the country.

"We think the FA is institutionally racist, has not got a handle on this issue, and its refusal to report this matter to the police looks like it is one of those football cover-ups, which is well-versed."

But FA chairman Bernstein dismissed Herbert's criticisms.
He said: "These ill-informed and unhelpful remarks are at odds with the progressive and responsible approach being followed by the game with the support of Government to deal with these serious issues.

"The FA will continue working to strengthen processes to eradicate all forms of discrimination in football."

In an earlier interview with BBC Radio 5 live, Herbert had accused both the FA and Chelsea of a "cover-up" for not involving the police.

He said: "It sounds remarkably like the football industry wanted to have this issue swept under the carpet."

Chelsea made a formal complaint against Clattenburg on 29 October. A day later, the FA opened an investigation into the allegation, part of which was that Clattenburg used racial language.

Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police began its own probe based on a written complaint by Herbert - not Chelsea or the FA.

It is understood Chelsea did not give evidence to the police because they felt the FA was the appropriate body to deal with the matter.

On Tuesday, the police investigation was discontinued because "no victims have come forward" and "without a victim and/or any evidence that any offence has been committed, the matter cannot currently be investigated".

The FA confirmed its investigation would proceed, but Herbert is furious that neither the governing body nor Chelsea have taken the matter to the police.

Herbert said the society would take up the FA's handling of the allegations with sports minister Hugh Robertson, who responded: "They are welcome to approach me but I cannot instruct Chelsea to make criminal complaints; that is an argument he needs to have with Chelsea.

"We had the Downing Street summit on racism in football earlier in the year and the FA are coming back to us before the end of the year and as soon as we have that response we will assess what to do next."

source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20321225

dey should start wit his daughter!!

dis sound like joke 2 me:

As we talk about the issue of unity in the country, a Fulani chief, Alhaji Gidado Ibrahim, the Ardo Fulani of Suleja, has called for inter-tribal marriages among youth corps members to foster unity among Nigerians. Ibrahim made the call in an interview when he visited the NYSC 2012 batch C corps members posted to Abuja at the FCT Orientation Camp, Kubwa.

Ibrahim said inter-tribal marriages among corps members’ would bridge barriers that existed between the various Nigerian societies. According to him, the marriages must be encouraged to bring people from different sections of the country together without recourse to thinking that something will happen to the spouses in a particular section of the country.

In his words, “My first child married a Yoruba lady, they are living peacefully in Sokoto with three children and they met during their NYSC primary assignment in Oyo State in 2003… My in-laws in the South never think of their child being killed or molested during any civil strife because they know that she is safe here,’’ he said.

The Fulani chief also called for the overhaul of the new NYSC policy of posting corps members to only four sectors: health, education, agriculture and infrastructure. He said: “I pity the state NYSC offices. Like in Abuja, how many agricultural outfits do we have that can contain at least 1,000 corps members that were to be posted to agric sector for their primary assignment.’’

source: http://www.informationnigeria.org/2012/11/fulani-chief-calls-for-inter-tribal-marriage-among-nysc-members-what-do-you-say-corpers.html

anataala: Qur'an 49:12
O ye who believe! avoid suspicion as much (as possible):
for suspicion in some cases is a sin:
and spy not on each other nor speak ill of each other behind their backs.
Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother?
Nay ye would abhor it...but fear Allah:
for Allah is Oft-Returning Most Merciful.

what is d relevant of this quotation to the subject matter?

I have been wondering & pondering on this for some time. I wonder why imam/Alfas don't own private jets in Nigeria just as some of their Christian counterparts flies different types. Can somebody explain why? Or could it be that Muslims dont take care of their Imams/Alfas like Christians?

What about ladies? How does a lady knows if she is overweight?

Thanks OP, i can see mine clearly and conveniently, up till d down part.