₦airaland Forum

asala1: You live in the East and probably have not left there a longtime or ever.

Don't. This was considered based on many factors for past, present and future potentials of the states.

erniok: Those of you that believe that Barr bob wants to get justice for the girl needs to Have a rethink. He's only looking out for himself [fame and fortune]. Just imagine it was d poor girl and a lagos bus conductor.

If Oyedepo behaves like a bus conductor as you have posited, despite his status and accolades given by this same unfortunate sheep. Then he should be called for proper accountability for impersonation as man of God instead of a bus conductor.

bman2003: Why are you so foolish, are you sensible at all? how dare you talk about justice? have you been attacked by wickedness before? you want to burn in hell? dont be a fool!!

People like you are the reason this country and the world is in this state of confusion. Religion comes to establish justice and peace. One can't exist without the other, the reason Jesus Christ did not stone the prostitute to death. Man of God indeed!

celeboi: The Lawyer should sue this people in the Picture. That Broom in The Picture is for Flogging...which is even worst than SLAP.

Kindly show us where the broom is used for flogging.

You are Steupid for making that joke on me.

@tbaba1234, may Allah be pleased with you and reward you abundantly for your efforts, in this world and the next. Amin!

vedaxcool: after you failed, you did the above which took you mores than 2 weeks to achieves, using mordern technology , i wonder what the gods of atheism will think about you maybe the term olodo might not be far from their minds! who knows

Never mind these atheist. They will always jump around without coming up with argument of reasoning. They are frustrated, they will never return from this state, Allah (Subuhannahu Wa Tahalah) has remarked.

Billyonaire: I thought Koran was all about Jihad and 70 virgins, so koran actually talks about scientific related issues ? Then why is it that muslim focuses mostly on the question for celestial virgins via Jihad than explore space and matter as enshrined in the chapters you quote ?

Read about the contributions of muslims in Science World. Avail yourself of ignorance, re-school.

italo: Quran 2:216: "Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not".

This verse contradicts the myth that fighting is intended only in self-defense, since the audience was obviously not under attack at the time.  From the Hadith, we know that this verse was narrated at a time that Muhammad was actually trying to motivate his people into raiding merchant caravans for loot.

Right or wrong?

For your enlightement brother. The exigency of the portion you cited out of its context is further explained by the two verses in sequence-Quran 2:217 and 218. The Quran 2:218 read: "Those who believed and those who suffer exile and fought (and strove and struggled) in the path of Allah,- they have the hope of the Mercy of Allah: and Allah is oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. This verse throws light to the verse you earlier cited. This was revealed in the early stage of the messengership of the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) when muslims were oppressed, maimed and killed as the verse 217 has explicitly stated.
At this stage as well Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) escaped assassination. Despite the heights of this oppression, war was only commanded when Mecca infidels set out on war campaign to finish off muslims in Medinah after they have been exiled. Then, Allah (Subuhanahu Wa Tahalah) commanded the Muslims to war, evidence with the verses you cited and those in its category.

^^
Yes. It does. But to atheist, it does not.

Osundare's poem for 2012 London Olympics

Nigeria’s multiple award-winning poet and US-based Distinguished Professor of English, Niyi Osundare, is one of the poets whose literary genius will be honoured as part of a special broadcast series by the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) to celebrate the hosting of the 2012 Olympics by the City of London, Empowered Newswire reports

The broadcast series, tagged “The Written Word”, which is a joint venture between the BBC and Creative Scotland, a Scottish organization, will include a poems selected from each of the 205 countries which will be competing at this year’s Olympics.

Osundare’s poem, “Raindrum”, which was published in Selected Poems (Heinemann, 1992) will be broadcast in English and in Yoruba. The Yoruba version, translated by the author himself, is entitled “Gbedu Ojo”. All the selected poems from the other 204 competing countries will also be broadcast in their native tongues.

The selected poems from around the world were not entered in any competition by the poets. They were all chosen by the organizers of the event, confirming the international recognition and honour that the selections entail.

According to the letter announcing this selection to the former University of Ibadan professor of English Language, the broadcast of the “Raindrum” across BBC’s Public Services “will include, but not limited to, the poem text being made available online, as audio downloads, and supported with visual content where required. In addition, the texts and translations of the poems may be reproduced as postcards or posters…”

The organisers added that the project, which will include Osundare’s poem, “is educational in the widest sense”, while its “online resources will ensure that we leave a legacy of truly global scope.”

Besides, the organizers states that they regard the broadcast of the poets from 205 countries of the world during and beyond the period of the London Olympics as a “vast and ambitious project” which will provide an “opportunity to bond poetry from many nations into the lives of people who might not ordinarily be interested in it, giving them a reason to enjoy and explore a great art form.”

Osundare, former Head of Department of English Language at the University of Ibadan, is a playwright, linguist, critic, essayist, media columnist and public intellectual. He has published over 15 books of poetry, including Songs of the Marketplace, The Eye of the Earth, Songs of the Season, and Waiting Laughters, two books of selected poems, four plays, two books of essays and numerous scholarly works and reviews.

His latest work, City Without a People: The Katrina Poems (2011), based on personal and collective experiences during the Hurricane Katrina devastations in New Orleans, United States, where he teaches, has been gathering rave reviews around the world.

Osundare has won numerous prizes including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Noma Award, the Tchicaya U Tam’si Award for African Poetry, the Fonlon/Nichols Award for “excellence in literary creativity combined with significant contributions to Human Rights in Africa” and the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize.

A critic lauded Osundare’s poetry for the “synthesis of Western and African/Yoruba oral literary techniques” and the “adaptation of local language and traditional speech pattern”, while another, Megan Gribble, writing on Osundare poems on the rain, states that the poet “presents rain as a living thing that interacts with and affects the rest of the world around it.”

The author of The Word Is an Egg has also been praised for his socially-sensitive and “people-centred” poetry. In response to this, Osundare stated that “When you have a country and a continent and a world where … politics is being used to entrench poverty and enrich a few, then problems are bound to [a]rise. Poetry has become a tool for setting things right, for praising virtue… Genuine poetry raises political songs; political songs directly and indirectly. It tells kings about the corpses which line their way to the throne. It tells the rich ones the skulls in their cupboards.”

The acclaimed lyricist who approaches poetry as performance has performed his poems in many parts of the world. Also, his poetry has been translated into many languages including French, Italian, Slovenian, Czech, Spanish, Korean, Arabic and Dutch. He has been a recipient of honorary doctorates from the Universite de Toulouse-le Mirail in France and Franklin Pierce College in Rindge New Hampshire, USA.

mama-gee:
[color=deeppink]He manages the whole place, he makes the schedule for the workers, makes sure the employees are following the rules of the company etc.

Do you need Albert Einstein to tell you?
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He needs Newton Laws I think.

Ibadan is very good to raise a decent family.

Life is like morning glory

Its similitude is that of flower petals

In its tenderness

Radiating all beauty could not define

It threads an ample passage of time

It withers as passers-by shed tears

Tears to depicts once admirable glory

How tenderly is the life

What an agony!

Knowing its irreplaceable

What a loss!

As my pen is wet with the flowing tears

Which renders its ink blood letting

What a loss!

You are indeed a valour, a martyr

Simi, may your gentle soul rest in peace

Princess, we love you

God loves you much more

@ Sauer, the answer to you time question is 150 degree.

@Samystyler, you must be a celebrated FOOL indeed. English language remains an elitist language in our society today, believe it or go in contrary. What can he do with his already disarrayed education if he can't speak and write the language in discurse? The boy will write his final examinations in his mother tongue I guess. For your information, all those countries listed in your write-up learn English language as it remains a fillip in today's knowledge economy-21st century global economy.

Confused government, there is war in North(BH) and SE (Kidnap). The C-I-C fails to deploy intelligently. Now that BH has gone wild, he feels more of them is needed to secure Aso-Rock. Retardeen!