coogar: criminalising child marriage in nigeria is like criminalising islam. you won't get very far because nigerians are married to their religion. if muslims want their kids to get married at the age of 6, what's your damn business? these kids are married at a young age with the full consent of their parents and they limit their vices to their fellow islamic people - so why is everyone crying more than the bereaved?

no muslim woman in the north has condemned yerima and yet we have internet soldiers screaming against what does not concern them. i am not a muslim and i am for live and let live. i cannot decide how a certain group of people choose to live their lives. 99% of the nigerians screaming over this issue are hypocrites. only a hypocrite would condemn child marriage and openly patronises child labour.

The women in the North have no qualms about early marriage, but the people in the South devoted their energies protesting and lamenting more than the bereaved. I wonder what they intend to gain from this protest and marching. Has anyone in the South ever seen a man married to a child in the South before? Marrying kids is not what we do in the South, so why bother protesting to something that is way of life in the Northern Nigeria? There was no single protest or maching by women in the North yesterday. Mothers in the North have no problem giving their daughters out early for marriage.

As a matter of fact, the protest and marching has embolden the Hausas more. It will not deter them from marrying children.

talk2s:

U're a sadist.
U've a problem with ur state of mine.
Better grow up, lst, u die young!

Go to the closest dam and jump in it, punk! You bleeping militant sh.it! I pray you get killed by locomotive train. Amen!

Sincere 9gerian: @OP..,God bless you for this report. This is great news. I love DEVELOPMENT, and this is it. I would have danced Azonto now if not that I'm pregnant.

I'm particularly pleased about the train that'll soon commence services around the port area. The congestion that has been a problem along the Lagos-Kano route will also ease a bit.

This is a president that promises and delivers. One step at a time, we'll get there.

FRESH AIR everywhere you go!

President that promised and delivered what? Really? Where is the light we supposed to have by end of 2012? Where are the 36 new aiports? Where are the good roads? Where is the corruption fight promised? Where is the fresh air promised? How many of our rifineries working? Where are the 100 buses promised after the oil subsidy saga?


All we got so far is voodoo arithmetic; ala 5 greater than 29, 16 greater than 19, his wife harassing a sitting democratically elected Governor.

2015 is around the corner.

thoth:
Did i hear you say 4 years ? Once he is declared the winner of the presidential election you will be disappointed to see those thieves leaving the country even before Buhari acquires the official power to do anything.

If they run away, we should be prepared to help Buhari's Administration to hunt them down and bring them to justice. Operation return the loot!

Buhari is only needed to serve 4 years and give us direction once again. Corruption has eaten into Nigeria's fibre to the extent that people believe they can't make it in life except they resort into corrupt paractices. Buhari must come to stop this rot once and for all.

Sai Buhari 2015!

Buhari is the man we need at this moment in Nigeria to serve just 4 year and rid Nigeria of our one and only problem; corruption.

Sai Buhari!

Sunny_bobo: Dude, stop spamming. It's becoming annoying.

This is how Musiwa started.

Why are you so jittery? Does any of your family members have something to hide? If not, you have nothing to worry. Buhari is coming to clean out the corruption ravaginging our way of life.

Tell me how many corruption conviction recorded since Jonathan took office. Zero!

Under Jonathan, corruption has risen by 300%

Impunity must stop! We need someone in the mold of Buhari or Colonel Umar to chase these thieves around, arrest and prosecute them. We need Buhari to keep these thieves on their toes.


Operation Return the Loots!

Yerima does have some valid points but I am still not thrilled getting married to an under age girl. In some States in America, under age marriage is allowed with consent of the parents. States like Oklahoma, Utah, Missisippi, and few other states.

Aregbe will win in a landslide come next year.

Tolexander: Is ok

Was this in Nigeria?

franchizy: What God have joined together, let no man put assunder. With GEJ we must get to the promiseland

You are high on paraga overdose.

Garri the 1st: We need a new section for Lagos related threads as we do not want the flat-headed villagers and the creek fishermen to die of hate, jealousy and envy.

Eko oni baje oooo!!

Say what say what?

He is human afterall. Body no be firewood na.

kingoflag:

Look at the people looking at Fashola from the Balcony, do you see what Im seeing?

Yes, THEYRE ALL SMILING.

Why do you hate happiness?

The boy na enemy of progress. Typical militant on the loose in nairaland nation.

Rt FNJ: People like wole soyinka shouldn't be talking in this country.. A man who brot Cultism to our country, hw fa our youths today.. I keep wondering,he said he a prof,didn't he learn that wot ever you say to a married woman u r directly or indirectly referring it to her house band.. Were was he wen Abacha and his group almost finished dis country.. Now its GEJ everybody wants to be a political commentator.. Silence is d best answer for a FOOL.. Dats exactly wot GEJ is tell dem

I believe you were a kid when Abacha sent hired killers to kill Wole Shoyinka at his home in Abeokuta in 1995. Look at how you displayed your stu.pidity on something you know nothing about. Wole Shoyinka fought Abacha to stand still and he had to run to Rep. of Benin through the bushes. He later got asylum to stay in U.K. Keep worshipping Jonathan and the hippo wife. Ode oshi!

Fashola looks so Presidential; unlike the stoopid conman fisherman with hippo wife.

Freewilly: Fashola had constipation, took a dump and wiped his behind. Everyday Fashola, Fahola Fshola. The OP must be stalking

Fashola. Maybe the Mods need to open a seperate section for Fashola news. I'm tired of seeing fashola this, Fashola that.

Take a trip to Kanji dam and take a dive into it. Fashola shall give you nightmare for the rest of your life. The positive news coming from Lagos shall continue for forseeable future. Ode oshi!

Gbawes: Fashola has proven beyond reasonable doubt that he's more retar.ded than his retar.ded uncle Tinubu. Why would a SAN take a case as useless as the Ngf case to court. Fashola by going ahead with the case prooved he bought his SAN. I think he should be impeached.

I guess Fashola was hunting you in your sleep overnight. At this time when you ought to be in bed, you just woke up with your brain upside down or what? Abi won sepe fun e ni?

@Moderators

This topic and graphic contents in it are not appropriate for anyone to viiew; especially for people who are just waking up from bed. This guy called musiwa must be banned for life for his nonsensical posts.

View the post below:

https://www.nairaland.com/1363107/azkiwe-kill-balewa-because-nigeria

how much is the last price?

Nigeria at a crossroad.

Wow! Is this what you call democracy? Even Jonathan must stay away from this and distance himself immediately. Imagine police commissioner taking part in this illegality.

Afam4eva: PDP must not be allowed to tow the path of ACN. The traditional of conducting primaries must be maintained.

What is this clown talking about? Bloody PDP agent parading himself as moderator.

I expect the court to nulify the new speaker within days.

I expect the court to nulify the new speaker within days.

Warri _Pikin: Point of "Correction" Sir, we are witnesses to that event! It's too early to distort it.

Buhari was forced into mandatory retirement by then [size=15pt]Major General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida[/size] after the military coup of August 29th,1985.

Buhari was in office for only a few months. So why is he talking now about "promotion" ? As if he was ever due for promotion and he rejected it? IBB made sure that choice was never open to Buhari.

Are you okay? You said Buhari was in power for few months? He was Head of States for two fvcking years. Buhari is a discipline man to the core. IBB came in as a Brigadier Genearl and became a General by 1990. That was an unprofessional by him. Buhari had the chance to promote himself and become a General but he didn't. Even Idiagbon stayed on as a Brigadier General for two years Buhari was Head of State.

Itoroetti :
Abacha really dealt with this nation but not only abacha,so was IBB,Buhari,obj,etc.

You need to get laid in order to rid yourself of this lies and made up emotional stories without facts or substance. Say hi to a guy and tell him you haven't got laid for years.

Have you asked Jona and Allyson Maduekwe how much they've stolen from coffer of NNPC so far? Also asked them why have they been awarding oil contracts to companies who have no track record or companies who happened just opened for business. Allyson has been opening companies with no employees in order to award contracts to those companies on behalf of Jona. Abacha did exactly the same thing.

Satama: Who are Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists?
By Farouk Chothia
BBC African Service.

Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram - which has caused havoc in Africa's most populous country through a wave of bombings - is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.

Its followers are said to be influenced by the Koranic phrase which says: "Anyone who is not governed by what Allah has revealed is among the transgressors".

Boko Haram promotes a version of Islam which makes it "haram", or forbidden, for Muslims to take part in any political or social activity associated with Western society.

This includes voting in elections, wearing shirts and trousers or receiving a secular education.

Boko Haram regards the Nigerian state as being run by non-believers, even when the country had a Muslim president.

The group's official name is Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad, which in Arabic means "People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad".

But residents in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, where the group had its headquarters, dubbed it Boko Haram.

Loosely translated from the local Hausa language, this means "Western education is forbidden".

Boko originally means fake but came to signify Western education, while haram means forbidden.

Since the Sokoto caliphate, which ruled parts of what is now northern Nigeria, Niger and southern Cameroon, fell under British control in 1903, there has been resistance among the area's Muslims to Western education.

Many Muslim families still refuse to send their children to government-run "Western schools", a problem compounded by the ruling elite which does not see education as a priority.

Audacious
Against this background, the charismatic Muslim cleric, Mohammed Yusuf, formed Boko Haram in Maiduguri in 2002. He set up a religious complex, which included a mosque and an Islamic school.

Many poor Muslim families from across Nigeria, as well as neighbouring countries, enrolled their children at the school.

But Boko Haram was not only interested in education. Its political goal was to create an Islamic state, and the school became a recruiting ground for jihadis to fight the state.

In 2009, Boko Haram carried out a spate of attacks on police stations and other government buildings in Maiduguri.

This led to shoot-outs on Maiduguri's streets. Hundreds of Boko Haram supporters were killed and thousands of residents fled the city.

Nigeria's security forces eventually seized the group's headquarters, capturing its fighters and killing Mr Yusuf.

His body was shown on state television and the security forces declared Boko Haram finished.

But its fighters have regrouped under a new leader and in 2010, they attacked a prison in Bauchi state, freeing hundreds of the group's supporters.

Boko Haram's trademark has been the use of gunmen on motorbikes, killing police, politicians and anyone who criticises it, including clerics from other Muslim traditions and a Christian preacher.

The group has also staged several more audacious attacks in different parts of northern Nigeria, showing that it is establishing a presence across the region and fuelling tension between Muslims and Christians.

These include the 2011 Christmas Day bombings on the outskirts of Abuja and in the north-eastern city of Damaturu, a 2010 New Year's Eve attack on a military barracks in Abuja, several explosions around the time of President Goodluck Jonathan's inauguration in May 2011, followed by the bombing of the police headquarters and the UN headquarters in Abuja.

In a 15-minute video posted on YouTube, the group's leader Abubakar Shekau defended the group's targeting of Christians, saying this was revenge for previous attacks on Muslims.

He also said his group would not be defeated by the security forces.

The attacks have raised global concern, with a US Congressional report - released in November 2011 - warning that Boko Haram was an "emerging threat" to the US and its interests.

The report said Boko Haram may be forging ties with al-Qaeda-linked groups in Africa, but the group denies this.

Analysts say northern Nigeria has a history of spawning groups similar to Boko Haram.

The threat will disappear only if the Nigerian government manages to reduce the region's chronic poverty and builds an education system which gains the support of local Muslims, the analysts say.

Boko Haram: Timeline of terror[size=8pt][/size]

2002: Founded
2009: Hundreds killed when Maiduguri police stations stormed
2009: Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf captured by army, handed to police, later found dead
Sep 2010: Freed hundreds of prisoners from a Bauchi jail
Dec 2010: Bombed Jos, killing 80 people and blamed for New Year's Eve attack on Abuja barracks
2010-2011: Dozens killed in Maiduguri shootings
May 2011: Bombed several states after president's inauguration
June 2011: Police HQ bombed in Abuja
Aug 2011: UN HQ bombed in Abuja
Nov 2011: Co-ordinated bomb and gun attacks in Yobe and Borno states
Dec 2011: Multiple bomb attacks on Christmas Day kill dozens

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13809501

They are Northerners who happen to disagree with Jonthan from inception. They are all in PDP. Some of their names are Ango Abdulahi, Adamu Ciroma, Yakassai, Ali Ndume, and many others.

Em-my:

1. There is no formidable opposition
2. God wants his re-election

And what else God told you? You haven't told us everything God said to you.