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I went to a police station as a WITNESS for a fight. The DPO asked the IPO to charge me for CONSPIRACY, I managed to escape

Razgas:
bsc project is not dissertation

Sure now

A jobless ND holder from IBADAN, has been living an ADULTEROUS LIFE STYLE after taking family planning injections for 5 years, even when she's not under my roof.

She said she can't settle for LESS.

I asked who is LESS? a Master degree holder, working with the state government or a jobless ND holder

Razgas:
the difference is that Honours is gotten after an extra 1 year research dissertation while bsc is gotten after 3 years of coursework

Who told that B.Sc. doesn't require dissertation/project?

Exodus15v11:
Not if one party reconstructed/renovated it and funded the project himself.

That's sheer magnanimity, the one that renovated it was being magnanimous since the land belong to their father. The property is not exclusively his

Mr. Jafaru should relocate to one of the affected communities

Exodus15v11:
If your father has documents as proof that he reconstructed them, then they are his. Your obviously-broke Uncle is no different from a thief trying to reap where he didn't sow.

But they jointly own the land because it belongs to their father.

Playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has taken a swipe at the Emir of Ilorin, Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, for his role in preventing an Osun priestess, Yeye Ajesikemi Omolara, from holding an Isese festival in the state. The festival is to celebrate Ifa spirituality and practice.

Soyinka, who is the Akintalun of Egba and Giiwa of Ijebu-Remo, noted that such conduct turned, before our very eyes, a once ecumenical city like Kaduna into a blood-stained mockery of cohabitation.

He added that such conduct made it possible for a young Col-lege of Education student in Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, to be lynched in the presence of armed police on a mere allegation of having belittled the image of a revered prophet.

The Nobel laureate in a statement on Thursday titled, ‘’Isese festival: An open letter to Sulu Gambari,’’ noted “The greatest avatars that the world has known were not without human frailties, flaws, and errors of understanding. You are not omniscient. And you are not omnipotent.’’



Some Islamic clerics who were members of a Muslim group known as Majlisu Shabab-l-Ulamah Society earlier visited the priestess at her residence to tell her that the Emir of Ilorin sent them to warn her to desist from holding the three-day festival billed scheduled for between July 22 and July 24, 2023, in Ilorin. The priestess thereafter cancelled the festival through an online video, disclosing that her life was in danger having received several death threats.

The Akogun of Isara in the statement said, “Your Royal Highness, So soon after the Moslem season of spiritual purification, it is sad to see the ancient city of Ilorin, a confluence of faiths and ethnic varieties, reduced to this level of bigotry and intolerance, manifested in the role of a presiding monarch. The truncation of a people’s traditional festival is a crime against the cultural heritage of all humanity. Year after year, the Ramadan has been celebrated in this nation as an inclusive gathering of humanity, irrespective of divergences of belief. Not once, in my entire span of existence, have I encountered pronouncements by followers of any faith that the slaughtering of rams on the streets and marketplaces is an offence to their concept of godhead. Vegetarians hold their peace. Buddhists walk a different path. Prior to Ramadan, non-Moslems routinely join in observing the preceding season of fasting as a spiritual exercise worthy of emulation.

“Perhaps this is another occasion for self-introduction. I currently teach courses in Abu Dhabi in the Emirates. That is the region of origin, all others are mere appendages. I was there just before Christmas. I passed through again in the countdown to Ramadan. On both occasions, the streets, businesses, hotel lobbies and other public spaces were lit up with the same festive spirit. Only the symbols within the designs were different. The mood of celebration was equally pervasive and inclusive. Painfully, my mind could not help but travel back home, and some years past, recalling for instance how a procession of Corpus Christ was once attacked, some killed, by a brood of Moslem fanatics, for daring to process along the streets of that same Ilorin. Needless to say, such abominations have become routine. Community is sacrificed to bigotry.’’


The elder statesman further said that it might interest the emir to know that, in Abu Dhabi, numerous programmes were pursued, at government expense, for the evolution of a humanised community based on religious tolerance and mutual respect.


He stated, “By contrast here, several tiers removed from origin, must we turn the turban of enlightenment into a crown of bigotry? And in a society whose very constitution that supposedly governs us all guarantees freedom of belief, association and movement?

“Your Royal Highness, it is conduct like this that has bred Boko Haram, ISIS, ISWAP and other religious malformations that currently plague this nation, spreading grief and outrage across a once peaceful landscape, degrading my and your existence with their virulent brand of Islam. It is conduct like this that has turned, before our very eyes, a once ecumenical city like Kaduna into a blood-stained mockery of cohabitation. It is conduct like this that makes it possible for a young student, Deborah, to be lynched in the very presence of armed police, on mere allegation of having belittled the image of a revered prophet.

“It is action of this nature, perpetrated in obscure as well as prominent outlets of the nation that turns a young generation into mindless monsters, ever ready to swarm out and kill, kill, kill. Simply kill for the thrill of it, but under presumption of religious immunity. It is conduct like this that then nerves one extremist to wake up one day in a Scandinavian country, publicly announce his intention, and proceed to make a bonfire of copies of the Qur’an. Reprisals follow, equally mindless, trapping humanity in an ever-ascending spiral of costly but gleeful violence.’’

According to the essayist, this continent has endured centuries of disdain and despoilation at the hands of alien religions – Christianity and Islam at the forefront.

“Both religions have been sanctimoniously deployed as justification for unspeakable atrocities, for the dehumanisation of the black race. Do I need to teach you your own history, or is it that you prefer to forget? To encounter, in this century, a convert to alien spiritual dogma, appropriating the cloak of piety to impede the observation of our antecedent spirituality is not just racial treachery but an assault on civilised conduct as a universal aspiration of humanity, where every discovery, every new encounter usher in new propositions of enlightenment. Humanity builds on the past, preserving alternatives of world views, not destroying that past which, in any case, is indestructible,’’ Soyinka said.

He added, “Your conduct is an affront to my sense of racial being, and that holds true for millions beyond these national and continental borders, stretching into the Americas and the Caribbean. There you will still encounter Isese and allied spiritualities. There, Isese still exerts its hold on the human spirit. Visit Brazil, go to Columbia, explore Cuba, and be humbled by the tenacity of this spirituality among the descendants of black humanity.’’

Saying even the sturdiest of thrones crumble, the playwright predicted that long after he and the monarch were gone, generations would continue to endure the effects of present anomalies, pretensions, and hypocrisies and continue to harvest the bitter fruits of the seeds of discord being sown by their forebears.

He said, “I, therefore, urge you to rein in those agents of division, of triumphalist intolerance, such as the Majlisu Shabab Ulamahu Society. There is a thin line between power and piety. Call Yeye Ajasikemi OIokun Omolara to your side, make peace with her and make restitution in whichever way you can for this grievous insult to our race. We know the history of Ilorin and the trajectory of your dynasty – but these are not the issues. The issue is peaceful cohabitation, respect for other worldviews, their celebrations, their values and humanity. The issue is the acceptance of the multiple facets of human enlightenment.’’

https://punchng.com/isese-youre-neither-omniscient-nor-omnipotent-soyinka-tells-emir-of-ilorin/

NOC1:
Those that printed two results go and make moneyoooooo

U want to implicate them too

Blackestjunior:
Not bad


Make person show me way to make money online abeg...
Betting wan ruin me
Like dis if no way ...I wan go baff soap make i Start to dey press

Carry me along, pls

It's a mental illness. C an expert

There was a fight yesterday between two women, it took the intervention of me and some other people. One of the women is a wife of a friend. The husband came this morning to thank me, before he came to my house he first went to the other woman's house but the woman was not at home. The woman's house is directly opposite mine. I told my friend to go and report at the police station but he refused. The woman came back home and tore her daughter's clothe before she left for a police station. On getting to the police station, she accused my friend of rape, trespassing.

My friend's wife was arrested, my friend called me to serve as a witness. Truly my friend didn't beat the daughter.

We got to the police station, the DPO asked my friend why he went to the woman's house and beat up the daughter. I told Mr. DPO that he didn't. The DPO asked the IPO to charge me for CONSPIRACY. I managed to escape and informed my lawyer. While I was narrating what really transpired to my lawyer, a call came in that I should come back to the police station. I handed my phone to my lawyer and he spoke with the voice. They have been calling me to come but my lawyer he would bring me at his own convinient time. Now the police are saying that without me they would not release my friend but I don't trust the Nigerian Police Force.


What have I done to become a conspirator?
Does the NPF has another meaning for the word CONSPIRACY?

kindly push to the front page, I need the advice of NLders

Will this new policy affect the state ministries of Agriculture?

Loll! Soldiers were also given bicycles

Good evening NL.


Has Law been accredited in Kwara State University, Malete?

The report says 5 of them escaped and reported to a police station, the NPF said that they rescued 5. Naija POLICE and lies are 5&6

Good for them

Hyacinth: sounds botanical

Ekemeze:
I'm just pitying the desperate ad hoc staffs.. 😢😢😢 God please protect them..

Amen. I'm one of them

It sweet my belle

Somebody should assist by sending the link, I need the link

I have 2 brothers in the NPF, one is an Inspector serving in Ogbomoso and the other is a corporal serving in Ilorin. We are not in talking term, I just disowned them because of the way they have been gallivanting with their Ill gotten money (bribe).

Truth be told, I hate men in black uniform.


Alaso dudu ikeji ewure

If a secondary School girl could have that homongous amount in her bank account, then it's not ONCE as claimed by the Principal, the principal is not saying the truth.

Congratulations. The lady must be a virgin

PrinceOfLagos:
Tinubu is in Kano fooling himself while Kano Fulani herdsmen are in Osun wrecking havoc

Are u too lazy to read or u lack the ability to comprehend? To u Ondo state is the same as state of Osun

Blissguts:


You can send me a mail, so I send your contact to a group someone created for it. Or you can search here on nairaland for it. Good luck

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raheemibrahim02@gmail.com

Femiomoh:
Hi guys, I believe the first step is to get our documents verified I.e Bsc certificate and transcript of record.
I want to confirm if choosing Early year statement on ECCTIS is the right step to get this done.

What's ECCTIS?

Ayosman1:
What are the requirements for the QTS, what next stage after QTS?

Let's wait till February 1st, details still sketchy

chiefolododo:
Pictures of the sacrifice or I don't believe it

I'm on low cellular data, click the link

260 Ilorin

31st December 2022
SACRIFICIAL ENVIRON
By
Ayoola Olasupo
Kindly share this story:


Ayoola OLASUPO writes about the concerns of residents in urban centres who regularly behold open sacrifices at strategic places

Incantations uttered in hushed tunes accompanied with varied local songs at odd hours were no longer strange to the residents of Vono Street in Mushin, Lagos State. They have realised the acts signified the dumping of fresh sacrifices at a known crossroad in the street.

Stephen Oluwashanu is one of the dwellers concerned about the regular dumping of sacrifices in the area. When he relocated from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, sometime ago, to start driving a commercial bus, he didn’t know that the street located opposite Challenge bus stop in the Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State, is notorious for dumping of open sacrifices. The sacrifice bearers usually strategically placed the sacrifices to the irritation of the residents and passers-by.

Oluwashanu told our correspondent that the sacrifices were often garnished with assorted foods and dumped in the area at midnight.



He said, “What I know is that early in the morning we always see sacrifices. They bearers bring different pots of sacrifices every other day. We do not know the effects on whoever sees the sacrifices.’’

He further explained that he often felt disturbed beholding sacrifices most mornings. He stated, “When I’m driving around 6am, as early as that time, one will see pots of sacrifices mixed with several food items. I don’t know what the sacrifices are meant for really. But I do see them as a bad omen. We pray not to be unfortunate in our lives.’’

The father of four added that goosebumps usually seized his body after sighting the sacrifices. “What I have noticed is that anytime I see the sacrifices, I do have goosebumps. It’s a kind of feeling I cannot explain. I always try now to make sure that I am not the first person to go out every morning.”

Oluwashanu wondered how the sacrifice bearers always often have the temerity to dump the items at those areas without being challenged.

“There was a time they asked them to stop putting them by the roadside so they constructed a small place for them. Despite that they are still putting them at the T-junction at Challenge bus stop. We always attempt to chase them away from here too but the people collecting money from them prevented us from doing so,” he stated.

Our correspondent further visited Mushin, Itire and Isolo in Lagos State, and Agbado-Oja in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State where sacrifices often adorn crossroads.

Import of sacrifices
Online sources describe a sacrifice as a religious rite in which an object is offered in divinity to establish, maintain, or restore a right relationship of a human being to the sacred order. It is a phenomenon found in the earliest form of worship in all parts of the world. It is known as an act of surrendering a possession as an offering to a deity. Sacrifices are prepared with different kinds of items ranging from food and non-food materials. Traditionalists regularly prescribed the items for their preparation and presentation. Most of them are packaged in clay pots and calabashes.

In Yoruba culture, a sacrifice is simply referred to as ‘ebo,’ the offering of something to a particular deity or cult in communion with them or to seek favours. It is however a common belief that sacrifices have both the positive and negative effects. Residents and passers-by in an area where the practice is common are always surprised or irritated beholding them.

Fear mounts over open sacrifices
Another resident In Vono Street, Ahmed Muhammed, said the fear of seeing fresh sacrifices carefully placed along the street at midnight, fuelled his decision to always stay indoors until sunrise, noting that he was often unhappy sighting them.

He said, “I see the sacrifices at a T-junction in the area. I’m not always happy when I see them. I don’t pass the place in the morning because I am sure they would have put fresh ones there. If I see a sacrifice in the morning in that place, I do return home and immediately go to pray.’’


He added that apart from the unattractive and scary nature of the items, the foul odour from the items when rotten was offensive to the environment.

“People in the areas should not allow the sacrifice bearers to put those things there. It is not good for the eye and the odour that comes out when rotten is not pleasant at all. What I know is that it’s been 20 years since the activity has been going on in the area,” he added.

Also, a T-junction around Pako along Lawanson market in Itire, Surulere, Lagos, is popular for varied sacrifices. Our correspondent gathered that the sacrifices are usually placed beside a transformer located by the roadside.

A businessman, Ifeanyi Chimereze, stated that sacrifices dumped at the area ranged from food items such as raw head of a goat, boiled eggs to corn meal with palm oil among others.

He noted that sometimes in some other areas sacrifices were dumped in strategic places in the night, midnight or early in the morning, adding that sacrifice bearers operated in Pako at any time of the day even in broad-daylight.

He said, “They drop different kinds of things like goat-heads, boiled eggs, bean cakes, corn meal with palm oil, calabash filled with food among others at the spot. The odour too is not good for our health because when it starts smelling we cannot withstand it. They bring sacrifices to this area regularly. Maybe it is because of the T-junction here. I can only pass there when it is fresh because when the items become rotten I cannot withstand the odour.”

Chimereze stated further that most of the time the bearers remained unperturbed and faced the T-junction to offer prayers silently, adding that he was always scared anytime he sighted the sacrifices.

The businessman said he would always pray against the negativities attached to the sacrifices especially when he was not sure if he was the first person to have seen them.

“Well people doing it may see it the other way round but for me it is not good for sight. They drop different kinds of things such as goat-heads, boiled eggs, bean cakes, corn meal with palm oil, calabash filled with food among others on the spot. They use to bring the sacrifice in broad daylight and they will face the four corners of the earth praying on their knees. Mostly they come early in the morning or late at night. People do not disturb them because they believe it is their own religion and in the Nigerian law there is freedom of worship. I see that they place the sacrifices at T-Junctions. When I meet them on my way to my shop I use to pray because I believe whatever the sacrifices are meant for does not concern me,” he stated.

On his part, a resident of Agbado-Oja in the Ifo Local Government Area, Ogun State, Jamiu Owodeyi, said he heard that the first person to behold sacrifices usually face the consequences of whatever they were meant for. He claimed that before anyone could see the sacrifices at dawn, some powers would have fed on them.

He added that he always prayed whenever he saw them, noting that it was a troubling experience starting the day by seeing such items early in the morning.

Owodeyi said, “I don’t believe the first person to see a sacrifice will be affected negatively. I am of the opinion that when they dump those items at T-Junction, some spiritual powers would have fed on them before daybreak.’’

Another dweller in the area, John Agbabiaka, stated that it was frustrating that nobody had been arrested in connection with the eyesore that sacrifices had become in urban centres.

He said, “What annoys me more is when I see a sacrifice in the morning. I always feel bad. Something will seem wrong within me. Most times, I return home because my fear for that day will be that something bad will happen to me. We have heard different cases of people that attracted troubles into their lives after seeing a sacrifice. In the past, we know that forefathers took sacrifices to thick forests at midnight or at dawn. But nowadays, many people in urban centres carry sacrifices almost every day and place them at T-Junctions in open places. Nobody has confronted those bearing the sacrifices and we keep living with the situation. They dumped sacrifices at the location at midnight because they did not want everyone to see them.”

Also lamenting, a tricycle rider, Idris Olubanjo, complained that commercial drivers were at risk of seeing sacrifices because, according to him, they leave their homes early to start work. He added that many of them had encountered many sacrifices while on the road, saying there was nothing they could do but to ignore and drive on looking for passengers.


Olubanjo said, “We leave our homes early to scout for passengers. We often come across many things on the road while driving. I know that passengers also see many of those things as they leave their homes early to get buses to their destinations. But at times, drivers see a lot of things which passengers may not be conscious of. I am not saying that drivers of private vehicles don’t see some of these things. But we behold many of this because of stopovers and meandering of corners to beat traffic. Sacrifice is not a new thing to us because we always see it by the roadside.”

Besides, a mini bus driver at Agbado-Oja, Idris Yusuf, urged the government to look into tackling the irritating aspect of littering places with sacrifices.

He noted that the sacrifices would later become rotten without the bearers finding means to clean the places. He stated, “I can only say that sacrifices are real and government urge religious and community leaders to seek ways to end indiscriminate dumping of sacrifices at markets and other open places,’’

Similarly, different sacrifices are placed on the pavement around the roundabout at Joke Ayo, AIT Road around, Lagos State. Calabashes, black clay pots and plastic plates contained various food items and dead birds were left on the spot. Some of the black pots have been broken due to their long stay at the spot. Residents and passers-by in the area often wake up daily to find fresh sacrifices in the area.

Open placement of sacrifices is also in some states such as Delta, Edo among others. Our correspondent observed that sacrifices were no stranger to T-Junctions n the Asaba metropolis in Delta State such as Nnebisi road by Grand Hotel junction, Umuagwu Junction, Okwe Junction and Cable Point Junction.


Traditionalists, culture enthusiasts weigh in
Commenting on the issue, a popular Ifa priest based in Osogbo, Osun State, Chief Ifayemi Elebuibon, told our correspondent that sacrifices were often performed as propitiation and remedy to humans’ problems. He said it was a form of appeasement channelled towards the unseen spirits against every negative thing disturbing mankind.

Elebuibon said, The “I have done a lot on what is called sacrifice. Ebo is propitiation; a remedy to solve the problems of mankind. In Yoruba cosmogony, Olodumare mandated that we should make sacrifices on whatever we want to do because of unseen spirits disturbing existence. The places these sacrifices are taken to are T-junctions, walkways, backyards, tree base, etc. There are different spirits living in those places and after making divination, one will be told the materials to use and where the sacrifice should be taken to. People make sacrifices for different things from barrenness, safe delivery, job to healing from sickness, etc. People should pray or throw a stone at the sacrifice any time they see one so that the dangers in it will not affect them.”

According to him, sacrifices are ordained by the creator for sustenance of positivity in the lives of humans.

He added, “According to how God created the world, some are called belligerent (they are the warriors against man), the other ones are malevolent that save humans from dangers. Belligerent are sickness, failure, and death, ill luck among others. The sacrifices are prepared against the forces. Sacrifices mean a remedy to the problems. In Yorubaland, it is not a sin to make sacrifices. It is the duty of human beings to ensure that dangers do not superimpose positivity.’’

Also, Otunba Asa of Ido Kingdom, Osun State, Mufu Onifade, said that people placed sacrifices at crossroads and other strategic locations because those places were said to be the abode of the popular Yoruba deity called ‘esu.’

He further said that after placing sacrifices at the identified spots, esu would intercede on behalf of the bearer for whatever reason such person might have prepared the sacrifices for.

He said, “It is not only the traditionalists that do it. Christian and Islamic clerics do it too. They are the ones that see things in the spiritual realm and when people have problems they work up to them for a better life. Some will say when sacrifices are carried to crossroads it will affect the people. That is not true.”

“The crossroad is the home of ‘esu’ and that is why they call him ‘esu onile orita.’ The esu we are talking about is different from Satan. It is a messenger and a deity on its own. For acceptance of prayers, people have to take the sacrifices to a crossroad because that is the abode of esu. After it has been taken there in the middle of the night, what people now see in the day has become useless because the ingredients esu would require for intercession would have been taken already.”

Onifade stated that what people see around were mere physical items which did not necessarily have further implications on either residents or passers-by. The items, he added, were ‘physical remnants’ whose spiritual component had already been extracted by the esu deity for the purpose it was meant for.

He added, “What they see are the physical remnants. Esu would have taken the spiritual component of the thing to wherever it needs to get to.’’

‘He further stated that habitual placing of sacrifices by roadsides, crossroads and others were environmental misuse of those places, saying that mounting of barriers at various crossroads would deter sacrifice bearers of using open spaces. He also advised the government to secure those places used for dumping of sacrifices.

He added, “One cannot stop it because it has always been part of our belief system. I don’t see anything wrong in it. The only thing I detest in it is placing them at modern centres and crossroads. This is happening because the government has not protected those places. People will continue to do this as long as crossroads, roundabouts are left open. If those places are rounded with barriers nobody will be able to make use of them and people will not be complaining about environmental misuse of those places. Any crossroad that is not protected will always be useful to sacrifice bearers.”

In his comment, a culture advocate, Mr Akinola Akintoye, explained to our correspondent that every culture recognises the importance of sacrifices and appeasement, adding that sacrifice bearing itself was as old as human existence.

He said that the importance of bearing such sacrifices was essentially with varied reasons which might either be personal or communal.

According to him, an individual may be instructed to offer sacrifices to ward off a particular sickness or to attain some level of achievement in his work.

He said, “Every culture on earth recognises it but the mode of sacrifice and appeasement may be different from one tribe to another. There is no tribe in the world that is not making one sacrifice or the other. In Yoruba culture, if one wants to make it or break even in life, one has to make sacrifices no matter the religion because the belief is that whatever happens to a man is caused by the devil.

“People always do that against dangers. There are various reasons and types of sacrifices. Some are for treatment of a sick person, to ward off barrenness or elevation in an individual’s work and others. The materials to be used for such sacrifices would depend on the nature of what the person is seeking. Almost everybody believes that the person who was the first person to see a sacrifice would be negatively affected but that is not true. Many people would have died if that was the case. It’s different from a situation when the bearer is particularly instructed to do certain things.”

Also speaking, a culture enthusiast, Rashidat Ahmed, said that there was nothing wrong in displaying sacrifices in residential areas. She noted that the tradition of sacrifice offering should be preserved especially in Yorubaland, adding that there were no negative consequences on the people, rather people should be encouraged to partake in the activity.

She stated, “We all know that in Yorubaland our forefathers were mostly traditionalists and they have different things they did. Although foreign religions are taking over everything, people always benefit from the practice when they are devoted to it. Offering sacrifice does not have any negative consequences on the people and our people should be encouraged to do it.’’

Govt reacts
Contacted for his reaction, the Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, decried open placement of sacrifices by some people in the state. He said the act was a disfigurement of those places, adding that placing sacrifices by the roadsides, crossroads, among others would adversely affect the sensibility of passers-by.

He said, “Honestly, I haven’t seen them and you have found them in open places. Disfiguring such places is bad, especially putting them on public roads. Disturbing people from moving or assaulting their sensibility is a bad thing to do. People should not do that kind of a thing.”

The commissioner stated that the state government frowned at such, noting that legal actions would be taken against anybody found carrying out such an act in the state. He added, “Like I said, I have not observed it myself. The state government is against anything that is obscene and indecent and if anybody is found doing that, he or she will be taken to court.’’


https://punchng.com/lagos-crossroads-where-residents-wake-up-to-sacrifices/