Cantonese:
Yeye talk.

Will he accept a Christian/Christian leadership in Kaduna state, or Christian/Christian leadership at the federal level.

They deeply entrenched this tribal/religious problem that the country faces. The complete hatred in tbe land sponsored by them.

No body is stopping any Christian/Christian ticket,if you have the number please come out and vote. You don't see us crying about Plateau state having Christian/Christian ticket.

ovie8200:
Why go to UK, a Christian well developed country. why not to go fellow Muslim country to relax/vacation. Nigeria should be rule by southerners only. The Northerners are not smart and can't leader either.


See the airport he is going through. Can he compare it to where he was coming from. Old illetrate Fool. Wasted 8 years of people life.

The the same reason there are more Nigerian Christians in U.A.E,Malaysia,Turkey,Qatar,than Nigerian Muslims. The moment all Iyamuris stop going to all the countries i mentioned. That day i will take the like of you seriously.

They have enough of the developers(Iyamuris).

If she is above 18 then she should be treated as an adult.

TemplarLandry:
Amina, let your hair breaaaf.
Don't suffocate the hair. (In Aşiwaju's voice)

Amd the people waering weg and hair extensions they ado they allow their hair to breath.

goodnessme1:
Seun people are taught from kid to hate Igbos, especially the Muslims ones.

Funny how 90% of the insults are directed at Muslims and somehow it's the Muslims that are rised to hate,you sir are a hypocrite.

rohangold:
What of Boko Haram and bandits...

Who will check their phones

Did you see any ever defending Boko Haram or the bandits,if any do they suppose be hang same as IPOB supporters,all are traitors.

Sweetrosie:
They are burning France right now...where ever the kettle carriers dey there's always chaos.


Allow the world breeeef pls

Maybe the Black lives Matter is also carry out by Muslims. Or maybe Since Anambara state is safer than Dubai since Anambara is 99% Christian. Or maybe Mexico is safer than Saudi. You see how stupid you sound.

She is lucky she didn't end up in prison cause 19year old is technically an adult.

BiafIntel:

Terrorist, Biafraland and it's people are not the north of your zoo and it's fulani hausa and kanuri people. If any of you terrorists cross into our land in your terrorist army uniform, you will go down and its happening already. Your zoo is lacking in army man power hence the reason why Buhari resorted to hiring asari dokubo and his incompetent rag tag aswanna group that are falling woto woto in our land.

Air force and Navy that are not functional. Terrorist, meet us in the Biafra theather field, it's happening already. Video evidences are all over the internet. Asari exposed how buhari hired his men to assist your zoo. It's not hear say. When your zoo resorted to hiring local mercenaries, it means that it's all over for your zoo. Biafra must be restored by force in this year 2023.

I am so sorry,i thought that i was talking to a normal person, going through your comments i realize that i am talking to a mental health ape. The thing is why are my even responding to a person whose ancestors were unable to build a single functioning kingdom or empire,i realize that i am talking to a person whose should be position at the same level as monkey. I apologize to you for engaging you in a conversation, it's time for me to live you in your la la land. Silence is the best answer to a f..l.

BiafIntel:

You are daft and probably dumb. I am IPOB and not the fools called obidients whom your zoo are controlling with your muslim/muslim nonsense.
We IPOB area a different people and we did not participate in your zoo nonsense called election because we know better. We are the reason why you are here panicking and sweating. Your zoo has fallen already courtesy of MNK, Mazi Simon Ekpa and all IPOB family.

😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 Same Mazi that is in a cage and some mentally disturb guy in Finland call Simon,what a joke. If you think you have a chance against the army,airforce and navy combine then you are not as smart as you think you are. I thought what happened to the north east will be a lesson for anyone with a functioning brain cell,what happened to the kanuri villages will be nothing compares to what will happen to you people if you make the mistake of pushing your luck. It is obvious that you are a IPOB terrorist and you are very lucky that president Tinubu is a nice guy,you won't have try this shit during Abacha regime.

BiafIntel:

With your name, you are the terrorist and your zoo is number 2 in the list of world terrorist countries known as terrorists. We IPOB does not recognize your zoo government, so listing IPOB as terrorists in your zoo is irrelevant.
Show us any other country apart from your zoo that designated IPOB as a terrorist organization and maybe you will start to make sense. Look at your name. A world renown terrorist name and you want me to share a country with g that bears such name? Haba!!

Typical frustrated iyamuri monkey,how does it feels knowing that people with names like my control you,your father and his father. How does it feels knowing that one day you will probably be under me or my son. How does it feels knowing that there is nothing you can do about it,it suck to be you. Remember how your like were barking like dogs saying Muslim/Muslim ticket will never happen,names like me dictate your future,you are nothing but our bit-ch. So cry,insult,it change nothing. You have no value,your words have no value,you are just fustrated ape.

ba7man:
Abeg take a sit and keep shut.

You guys were half naked, living in Hamlets, small collection of huts in bushes, not cities......and you never had Empires, non.

Cannibalism was/is highly common amongst you guys.

I think the problem is you guys were introduced to civilisation too quickly.

One moment, you're nekkid in forests playing with gorilla d1cks while chewing on human flesh........ next moment, you're going to schools, driving on roads and trading with people you never experienced before in your flesh chewing lives.

Seriously i think you are right,they were removed out of the jungle before their brains adjust to civilization,that is why their behavior is off.

BiafIntel:

You did not add terrorists in your list above. A name like yours in those listed countries will raise a red flag. And yes, we are the best people on earth and are proud to proclaim it.
Sharing the same country with you good for nothing terrorists and back-warders is an insult and a set back against us. Our freedom must be forced by us and it will happen this year. All thanks to MNK and Mazi Simon Ekpa.

Somehow in your head you manage to convince yourself that IPOB are not terrorists,which make you automatically one. You are lucky you live in a free country like Nigeria,in China people like you openly supporting a terrorist group online will end up in a dark cell. I wish DSS are doing their job cause 90% of the people that need a jail time can be found online,you are a very good example one one. Fu-cking terrorist.

Federal government have no business taxing the local market people,this should be left to local government or state.

BiafIntel:

We are tired of living together with you terrorists and limb cutters. How can i continue to share a country with someone answering a name like yours.

Like i said,toxic. I can bet my life that you are not currently living in any South eastern state,but quick to throw insults,as if you are the best people on Earth. From Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, everyone see you as a joke. Criminals,drugs pushing, prostitution, anything bad you ass-holes are leading,just sick and hopeless group. Please declare your Biafra already, nobody will fight to stop you from leaving this time.

Majority of Nigerians are just sick of this toxic/unappreciative people.

When they stop insulting other voters online.

Antiurchins:
Sahel dwellers nko?


Education is haram but occupying juicy and heading sensitive positions with degree in Islamic studies is not haram.



Give it to southners (southern head slamers not included) when it comes to education.


southners supposed to rule 32 years

Yes,stop us if you can.

This got to be a joke. 🤣😂🤣😂

taylor89:
Is that not Sanusi

North has really dealt with our paedophile mindsets

If this Was any part of the country nobody for argue but since it’s North there has been a mixed feelings

And the teenage girls getting pregnant in South is as a result of what exactly.

God1000:
Only him with three wives.

But it seems only African men marry plenty women, you will hardly see European or American man doing this, I'm not even sure.

Mormon Christians are Americans and some of them have more than one wife, Muslims in Africa,Asia,and Europe also have more than one wife,so it's not only an Africa thing.

Napata77:
Tinubu should step up our own manufacturing capacity in these areas.

I'm not happy with seeing our people going to Turkey to learn anything.

Who is Turkey?

We have more than enough engineers at home and abroad to build robust systems like attack helicopters and the like.

We need to step up abeg.

Turkey is a country that is able to produce weapons good enough for NATO members to buy. And are 100years ahead of your country technologically.

Yes Daddy audio 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😁

😂😂😂😂😂😂

33Solomonf:
(Veteran in the building)





Very Happy for them


But



But


But



But




This is Nigeria
This is North anything can happen




May God almighty help us northern Christian




Terrorist are everywhere now





Especially Shetima as VP





(Veteran signout)

Yes Muslim/Muslim team now,next 8years and the the one after,if you don't like it move to Mars.

Samunique:
The southern kaduna people rejected Tinubu bcs El Rufai, APC and Buhari.

Meanwhile, the man you're defending never hides his disdain for the christians in kaduna and Nigeria at large, so what are you defending here

He should show love for people that hate him. As if southern Kaduna are the only victims of the Fulani bandits,why are people not talking about birnin gwari,since 2009,most villages there are empty. Is it because they are Muslims and doesn't go with your agenda of of painting El-refai as leader of bandits that only target Christians.

Last time i checked the northerners are not complaining,as long as Tinubu is going to deliver let him appoint whe ever he like.

saintkel:
u guys will always support evil.....

So speaking Hausa is now consider to be evil, seriously you need serious help.

maestroferddi:
My brother I didn't mean to denigrate you but the time has come for you to do some research on your own and not rely on the falsehood you are fed routinely to forestall any attempt to get liberated.

George Bush could not have used the word Crusade in prosecuting a foreign which was even opppsed by many Americans including key Christian leaders.

Israel is not a Christian nation so make me understand better please...

You really need to study history to understand that the Jewish nationhood predated Islam by several centuries.

US sided with Iraq during the Iraq-Iranian War so why are you not talking about that?

Today the US is Saudi Arabia's most important trading partner so make us see better...

In any case, Jesus loves you...

Don't mistake me with an average southern youth,i 100% know that Isreal is not a Christian state,what i am saying is U.S supporting Isreal is base on religious affiliation,most conservatives in U.S believe that the world will only end if all Jews go back to Israel,that is why every politicians in U.S have to be loyal to Israel in order to get the conservative votes.
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The survey of 10,441 US adults found that two-thirds of Americans express at least a somewhat favorable view of the Israeli people. Americans under 30 are more supportive of Palestinians.
A view of the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem’s Old City, behind an Israeli flag, seen from the Mount of Olives on Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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(RNS) — Earlier this week, 12 Republican senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, asking to rescind the $1 million grants the State Department gives to “anti-Israel NGOs.”

The Republican senators’ staunch support for Israel is not surprising, according to a new Pew Research survey of U.S. attitudes toward Israel and Palestine. Republicans and those who lean toward the Republican Party express far more positive views of the Israeli people and its government than do Democrats — 78% of Republicans view Israeli people positively compared with 60% of Democrats.

But white evangelicals, most of whom are proud Republicans, have the strongest views of Israelis. A whopping 86% of white evangelicals said they felt warmly toward Israelis — more than any other Christian group. By comparison, only 58% of Black Protestants felt warmly toward Israelis.


Overall, the survey of 10,441 U.S. adults, taken in March, found that two-thirds of Americans express at least a somewhat favorable view of the Israeli people. But it also found a modest warming to Palestinians, among younger Americans, and a general lack of familiarity and support for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement, which aims to press Israel to change its policies toward the Palestinians.

As with so many other political issues (abortion, immigration, race, guns), white evangelicals stand out from other religious groups in their views. When it comes to Israel, those views appear firmly rooted in their faith.

The survey found that 70% of white evangelicals believe God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people. By comparison, only 32% of U.S. Jews felt God gave Israel to the Jewish people, according to a 2020 Pew survey, which asked a similar (but not identical) question.

A road sign leading to the U.S. Embassy is seen ahead the official opening in Jerusalem, on May 13, 2018. Monday's opening of the U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem, cheered by Israelis as a historic validation, is seen by Palestinians as an in-your-face affirmation of pro-Israel bias by President Trump and a new blow to frail statehood dreams. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A road sign leading to the new U.S. Embassy is seen ahead the official opening in Jerusalem, on May 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

“It’s important to their theological narrative,” said Arielle Levites, research assistant professor at George Washington University, referring to white evangelicals. “It’s important to their own sense of the arc of history.”

Many evangelicals view the creation of Israel in 1948 as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy that would usher in Jesus’ return, although the survey did not ask about this.


It’s perhaps not surprising that evangelicals scored lowest in their estimation of Palestinians (37%), even as some Palestinians are fellow Christians (the majority are Muslim).

White evangelicals are also the religious group most likely to express a very or somewhat favorable view of the Israeli government (68%), compared with Catholics (50%), white Protestants who are not evangelical (51%), Black Protestants (43%) and religiously unaffiliated people (31%). The survey did not have sufficient respondents from Jewish, Muslim or other faith traditions to report on their responses.

The survey, the second of its kind since 2019, also found a growing generational divide, with younger Americans feeling much warmer toward Palestinians. Americans age 30 and younger view Palestinians slightly more favorably than Israelis (61% vs. 56%). Overall 67% of Americans expressed favorable views of Israelis and 52% expressed favorable views of Palestinians.

"Wide partisan and age gaps in views of Israeli and Palestinian people" Graphic courtesy Pew Research Center
“Wide partisan and age gaps in views of Israeli and Palestinian people” Graphic courtesy of Pew Research Center

That generational change in U.S. attitudes toward Israel was reflected in another survey, commissioned by University of North Carolina at Pembroke researchers and carried out by Barna Group. That 2021 survey found younger evangelicals are much less supportive of Israel than older evangelicals. Support for Israel among young evangelicals plunged from 75% to 34% between 2018 and 2021.

“Clearly there’s more favorable views of Palestinians among younger people,” said Ariela Keysar, associate research professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. “I see it as a kind of generational memory. Older people see Israel pre-1948, before Israel was established as a democracy surrounded by hostile Arab countries. Younger people are shaped by current events. Many encounter anti-Israel views on campus. They encounter protests. Older people have not been exposed to that.”


Perhaps most surprising in the survey, 84% of Americans said they have heard “not much” or “nothing at all” about the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement.

The BDS movement, launched by Palestinian groups in 2005, states that “Israel is occupying and colonizing Palestinian land, discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel and denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes.”

Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, young and old, and of various Christian persuasions had relatively uniform views on BDS — that is, they professed ignorance.

“BDS gets a lot of heat among a very small percentage of people,” said Ari Y. Kelman, associate professor of education and Jewish studies at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. “It’s not galvanizing people as an organizational strategy, like divestment from South Africa managed to do for a much broader swath of the population.”

Overall, 5% of Americans say they support the BDS movement against Israel.

Asked about possible outcomes for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the survey found that 35% of Americans favored a two-state solution, in which the land would be split between Israelis and Palestinians, and 27% favored a one-state solution. More than a third — 37% — said they weren’t sure what the solution to the conflict should be.

The margin of error for the full survey of 10,441 respondents was plus or minus 1.5 percentage points.


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maestroferddi:
My brother I didn't mean to denigrate you but the time has come for you to do some research on your own and not rely on the falsehood you are fed routinely to forestall any attempt to get liberated.

George Bush could not have used the word Crusade in prosecuting a foreign which was even opppsed by many Americans including key Christian leaders.

Israel is not a Christian nation so make me understand better please...

You really need to study history to understand that the Jewish nationhood predated Islam by several centuries.

US sided with Iraq during the Iraq-Iranian War so why are you not talking about that?

Today the US is Saudi Arabia's most important trading partner so make us see better...

In any case, Jesus loves you...

a speech about the “War on Terror,” former American President George W. Bush referred to the “crusades” to describe his war against terrorism, recalling the wars waged by the Christian West against Arabs and Muslims in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries.

The connotation of “crusade” in English is still fairly positive in spite of recent Western scholarly reassessments of these wars, while in the East the term still has strong negative associations.

Moreover, Bush’s “axis of evil” speech strengthened this view since two-thirds of the axis (Iran and Iraq) he condemned were Muslim, and the organizations he classified as “terrorist” during the speech were all Muslim. Bush’s legacy of failure in Iraq, including the loss of the “common will” of Americans, paved the way to a new spirit and direction for US foreign policy, buoyed by the first African-American presidency in the US. The spirit of “change” born in post Bush-era America found its way to the Arab world, which has since then seen more calls for democracy and “change” domestically and internationally.

On the other side, in many of his speeches, Bashar al-Assad asserts that “the issue is terrorism. We are facing a real war waged from the outside.” Al-Assad’s regime insists on attributing the armed opposition in Syria to terrorist groups, which they claim come from the US, Turkey and Gulf nations. Terrorism in Bashar and Bush’s speeches is used to justify violence against civilians and to deceive the public through skewed use of language.

In both cases, citizen journalists succeed in uncovering state terrorism. In Iraq, we all remember the transformative role of Citizen Media and web video in the coverage of the war in Iraq. In April 2004, photos of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were broadcast, causing revulsion and anger throughout the world. The Bush administration had claimed the invasion of Iraq was to liberate Iraqis from tyranny, but the photos of torture and abuse suggested America was not living up to its espoused principles.

Nowadays Syria is attempting to get free and rid of the current regime by connecting citizen journalists who are also activists on the ground in Syria. In addition, they are not only documenting and trying to connect with as many activists as possible; they’re creating and providing possible solutions, specifically pushing for a no fly zone, along with other solutions to resolve this terrible conflict and to ultimately bring the senseless killing to an end as quickly as possible.

Armed conflict in the country is only escalating, and the opposition’s new tactics could be seen as terrorist in their nature but never so when placed in the appropriate context of guerrilla warfare. The nature of the conflicts in Syria, just like the one in Iraq after the American invasion, made the line between opposition and terrorist hard to draw, especially for Westerners, demarcating little more than differences in the ultimate goal for Syrian regime change. The perceptions of the West — and its silence over the bloodshed — in the dogmas of various opposing forces in Syria today could prove to be a major point of contention that will bear sour fruit in the months and years to come, whether or not Bashar al-Assad successfully asserts his authority in the short term.

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maestroferddi:
Someone was talking about bring educated enough in a comment above...

You people need a lot education indeed...

The state and the church are mutually exclusive in Christianity unlike in Islam where the spiritual and political leadership natural are interwoven..

Apart from possibly Jimmy Carter, no other American president since his reign can be called a practising Christian in the true sense of the phrase...

George Bush's led Gulf War cannot be termed a Christianity-led campaign.

Apart from the Vatican, which is even an Italian enclave, there is no Christian theocratic state unlike in Islam where dozens of countries have proclaimed themselves Islamic republics and kingdoms.

If you have a functional knowledge of Christianity, i have little doubt that you will have no problems becoming a Christian.

Are you sure about that cause Bush clearly stated on a speech that he was on a crusade. And why on earth do you think U.S is giving Isreal billions of dollars each year? Clearly you are the one that is not educated enough.