₦airaland Forum

Sorry that I have to ask this.
Over fifty Nigerian Students were killed overnight on Satuday/Sunday.
A Boat was said to have capsided in River Niger and a lot of lives were wasted.
All these, coupled with the incessant killings by the Fulanis.
To me, Yesterday (Sunday) and today are supposed to be declared "black days" Nigeria. (my opinion)
I was suprised the President could still make it to the TV sreen yesterday, while all government parameters were uninterupted.
What is going wrong with us as a people, or am I being over-emotional?
Your take pls.

egift: Jonathan is a Zoologist and a Fish farmer, what do you expect?

Which of his predecessors treated u better? Was it that of those bloody soldiers datvenslaved us fir years? was it the chief farmer in SW? or dat of d proffessional cattle rearer dat "relocated" even wen Nigerians were still complaining about d ambiquity of his "seven points agenda" and being too slow in handling issues of National importance?
Brethren, if nothing is done, I foresee inhumanity triving in dis country for a very loooong tym.
Btw, Even dose ones in alliance are not going to be difference.

jreyez: ** switch on the phone inside bus ** 'tu ru ru ru ru..... ttU ru ru' ** mehn some guys go cover the speakers with handkerchief

if u cud afford a "bigger fone", say Sammy S4 for like N90k; den what will u be doing in a public bus?
dont u see it as a misplaced priority?

LastApostle: They told him it's one Nigeria and he bought the deception. He went up north looking for greener pastures just like you will find an hausaman in his community selling onions, sugarcane, beans, carrot and other essential commodities. Even the fulanis with their herds grazes through his village for sure.

He probably may have a house in kano, a thriving business, his children scattered at institutions of learning in his abode and then scores of relatives at home dependant on him and you'd expect a full fledged man to pack from his abode and go. If I may ask, Go to where? To start all over again?

The truth is that the Nigeria government should convene a sovereign national conference to dialogue on this unholy union called Nigeria. A marriage of convenience instituted by imperial brigands. Thereafter referendum I suppose could address this inequality and stratification.

No one can say it better than u just did. The whole blame is on Southern leaders who should be negotiating a peaceful separation by now. but wat do we.have? sorry to say, most of them are blinded by some selfish gains dey make from d unholy marriage while their subjects are been slaughtered daily to appease dis demon of unity called nigeria. too bad. if anyone complains abt killings up north, wat abt dos unannaounced daily slughter in d south by d normadic fulanis?
what if it were d other way round, u tink dey will be silent?
wen d time comes, no one will remind us dat it is more heroic to die for something dan to live for nothing.
also remember dat only cowards die a million times before deir death.

tintingz: You are not making any sense IYA AGBAYA

Islam is perfect


Go face your religion

yeah, just as it is perfect in Afghanistan, iraq, egypt, parkistan, palestan, syria, etc.
Islam is a perfect religion just as Nuclear power was to japan, if u kno wat i mean.
The earlier u cub dat 'perfect', d beta 4 u all

I saw this on my facebook wall and think I shoild share it, perhaps it could "minister" to someone's need: This is my advice for all
Ladies.
I'm sorry If it will annoy you
but it's the Truth, you really
have to take correction now.
Dear ladies,
Firstly, if you are still
struggling to find a husband
at an old age because you
are looking for a perfect
man, Something is wrong with
you, Sorry to say that but it's
true. Your propaganda
magazine tells you that 'All
men are liars, cheats and
useless, but let’s be honest
here, which is more likely?.
Is it that there’s something
wrong
with about 70million
African men,
OR there is something wrong
with one African Woman?
Ladies, you certainly will not
get into a blissful matrimony
if you are always hanging out
with your so called girlfriends
every night at a beer palour
or bar and waiting for a guy
to buy you a drink and take
you home. Drinking yourself
to stupor every Friday and
Saturday nights does not
exactly make you look like a
marriage material. You want
a man?. Invest in a good
wardrobe, and dress
responsibly.
When a man comes to you,
smile and be polite, even if
he does
not fit your mental image of
your kind of man. Ladies
please and please, stop going
into a relationship with a
chip on your shoulder. If you
believe all men are bad and
all men are Dogs, then it will
become a self fulfilling
prophesy.
No man is perfect!. Even
you!.
You say you can't marry a
blue collar guy like a
mechanic
or carpenter. If a carpenter
was good enough to marry
MARY THE MOTHER OF OUR
LORD JESUS CHRIST", why
isn't one good enough for
you?.
Do not focus on where a man
is now, but look and see
where he has the potentials
to be. What’s the point of
being beaten to a pulp every
night by some rich, good
looking and non caring man?.
Do you want a future where
you will sit in a
traffic in your car with
sunglasses covering your
swollen eyes, you look out of
the window and see a
happy couple in a Tuk Tuk
holding hands and laughing
like newly wedded couple
even after 12 years of
marriage.
Please don’t fake pregnancy
or get pregnant to trap him.
Your perfect man is out
there, believe, work and pra'y
and you will get him.
Pls read and digest it properly.
have a lovely weekend.

busar: Subhanallah! Muslim pageant!! This is absurd and strange in islam.

what else is not strange?
is it d struggle to belong to d happening ones or d "copycatish" attitude of d whole religion?
ETT.

ayodeji752: D most interestin part is "25million Indonesian money = 2,200 dollars" Nigeria is indeed a great country

if na joke stop am jor. wetin?
...and someone is contesting for dat?
11,363.64 to a dollar?
abeg make we celebrate our own for once.
Up Naija!!!

President of the Senate,
David Mark, on Tuesday said
the call for national
conference by certain
sections of the country was
in order in view of the
discontent in the polity.
Mark, while welcoming
senators from their seven-
week annual vacation, said
every matter about the
union of ethnic groups that
made up the country should
be opened to discussion
though with the proviso that
the dismemberment of the
country should be a no-go
area.
He said that the country
could not continue to shy
away from discussing
national issues in view of the
discontent in the polity and
present global realities.
The Senate President said,
“We live in very precarious
times, and in a world
increasingly made fluid and
toxic by strange ideologies
and violent tendencies, all of
which presently conspire to
question the very idea of the
nation state.
“But that is not to say that
the nation should, like the
proverbial ostrich, continue
to bury its head in the sand
and refuse to confront the
perceived or alleged
structural distortions which
have bred discontentment
and alienation in some
quarters.
“This sense of
discontentment and
alienation has fueled
extremism, apathy and even
predictions of catastrophe
for our dear nation.
“A conference of Nigeria’s
ethnic nationalities, called to
foster frank and open
discussions of the national
question, can certainly find
accommodation in the extant
provisions of the 1999
Constitution which guarantee
freedom of expression, and
of association.
“It is welcome. Nonetheless,
the idea of a National
Conference is not without
inherent and fundamental
difficulties. Problems of its
structure and composition
will stretch the letters and
spirit of the Constitution and
severely task the ingenuity of
our constitutionalists.”
But Mark, in tandem with
the typical fear of those
already in power, wanted a
national conference
premised on existing
governance structure, saying
giving the sovereignty to an
“unpredictable mass” to
determine the fate of the
country “will be too risky a
gamble and may ultimately
do great disservice to the
idea of one Nigeria.”
He in fact said “it would be
unconstitutional to clothe
such a conference with
constituent or sovereign
powers.”
He said, “Let me counsel that
we make haste slowly, and
operate strictly within the
parameters of our
Constitution as we discuss
the national question.
“Be that as it may, such a
conference, if and whenever
convened should have only
few red lines, chief among
which would be the
dismemberment of the
country. Beyond that, every
other question should be
open to deliberations.
“The task of nation building
requires patience, faith,
scrupulous honesty,
diligence, dedication,
sacrifice, toil, labour,
assiduous application and
massive investments in our
future. The heights attained
by great nations were not
made by sudden flights.
“Our people long for a
country in which our
tremendous potentials as a
nation are transparently and
equitably nurtured and
realised; a country in which
law reigns supreme, and is
applied evenly and equally
to all, high and low.
“For our constituents, there
is no alternative to the
democratic project. What
they dread, and will never
want, is a nation trammeled
by impunity, brigandage,
banditry, insurgency,
rampant corruption, and
misgovernance.
“These expectations perfectly
dovetail into our core
constitutional mandate of
making laws for the good
government of our
federation, and all of its
parts.”
Mark lamented that despite
the fact that the 2015
general election was still two
years away, some “political
jobbers, sycophants, and
hustlers have prematurely
seized the political space,
and are being allowed to set
the tone of national
discourse.”
He described the
development as an
“unnecessary and avoidable
distraction by characters or
hirelings who are desperately
in search of relevance.”
He said those in the
forefront of the crisis were
only out to feather their own
nests and in the process
unduly overheat the polity.

my daughter is just 3 and in Nursery 1.
She can do some simple additions and subtractions.
she also reads and writes two and three letter words.
how abt dat?
Its END TIME THINGS. lol.

perhaps, oga d law's intention waa misdirected. amnesty for criminals? d solution is simple.
AN AMNESTY FOR EVERY GENUINE UNMPLOYED GRADUATE IN NIGERIA.
Settle dem with FIVE MILLION NAIRA EACH.
with dat, dey could start doing smtin reasonable.
pls hit d "like" botton if u support dis.

Sunny_bobo: If Obasanjo’s real age has not blurred his memory, I will like to remind him that.......

Pls Nlers, what is the meaning of this?
Is she suggesting that Baba also have "UNREAL" age?

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Uncle Jona is not d best for Nigeria come 2015, we all know. But who do u think is better? if ask me, I will giv it up for Uncle Jona.
with all due respect, was uncle OBJ better? wat abt late uncle UMY, was he?
GEJ has done bettr evendoh some pple in some quaters did lived up to their promise to "make blood flow in d streets and thereby, making the country ungovernable".
Aside dat, i will say, d man has done well.

Uncle Jona is not d best for Nigeria come 2015, we all know. But who do u think is better?

ammyluv2002: I don hear........ but seriously why are we like this? We no get sense? Person go just wake up one morning decide to make CD claiming all manner of things and people dey buy? *SMH* even with all the bible we don read , all the preaching we don hear yet we dont know our right from left.....na wa o!

It is nothing but stupidity of d highiest order. most pple read d The Holy Bible without understanding it.
How will somebody just come up with "visions " dat have no bearing with d word of God and u see people jumping at it.
"Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your Faith".
On bussiness side of it, assuming Sis Linda sells 10million discs in Nigeria, den she is a billionnaire.

Either way, Obama is winning.
Did u ever think Russia wud want to risk d consequencies of a retaliiatory strike on tje US just because of Syria? It's all game on d Arabs.
a way of syphoning funds from dem.

Marotzke: Shia Islam have always been diametrically opposed to Sunni Islam ever since the great split.(based on custom and traditions) not on the message. Just like the. eastern orthodoxy and Roman catholic split in Christianity before the reformation.Iran is the number one country that promotes Shia militancy and activism in the world. The only country with a stated goal of destroying Israel.It's immediate Neighbour Iraq used to be under Sunni control (Saddam Hussein) but is now under Shia majority control.Syria. is populated mainly by Sunnis(85%), but the irony is that the ruling class is composed almost exclusively of the Alawites , a subsect of Shia Islam.(you now understand the extreme viciousness with which the war is waged.) Saudi Arabia. Egypt, Pakistan, Libya. are Sunni controlled countries.. but funny enough Al Qaeda ,Talibans. Boko Haram are Sunni extremists . The term, Islamist is mostly used for Sunni extremists, but Muslim radicals or fundamentalists denotes a Shia extremist..So between a fundamentalist Hezbollah and an Islamist Boko Haram, what is the difference? they both kill , but for different reasons . An Islamist will kill if you if you don't fit into his. narrow and. extremists definition of Islam.and righteousness. Christians and other Muslims are slaughtered daily.(funny enough there have been few records of direct confrontation between Zionists and Islamists) On the other hand a fundamentalist will kill you if you are. associated to Zionism, western imperialism, or attack Islam in any way.Nigeria is predominantly a Sunni Islam dominated country.Sheikh El Zak Zakky, the leader of Shiites in Nigeria , was born a Sunni. He became a Shiite while in Bayero University in the 80s.Some other Islamic leaders from western Nigeria also have links with Iran, but they are in a minority. So routine slaughter of the innocents , leaders of the ummah being natural rulers not imams, tolerance of. western interests, as long as they don't challenge the authorities , are all. in tune with. "our" Sunni roots . no pun intended.

I must Thank u very much for this painstaking and careful analysis.

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This is a country lesser than Lagos State in population. So where do we stand as a country?
The article has also highlighted d quality of leadership we have in our government as a woeful one.
some of us complain of descrimibatory treatment from other countries. But we should be sincere here, can we do dat to an Israeli? it goes to show d quality/importance others attached to our lives as Nigerian.
we have a lot of untaped man-power just as much as dat of mineral resourses.
wat if these youths' are trained to become as useful as their Israeli counterparts instead of letting them waste away. And den, and only den, we would have sealed ourselves as GIANT OF AFRICA indeed.

Marotzke: How person go come public arena to exhibit crass ignorance abi na stupidity no go cease to amaze me. Dem say the boy and im father dey with free Syrian army, you still de halla Hezbollah. in case you no know, Hezbollah na Ogbonge Shia militiaWey come from Lebanon , and na Assad. government na im dem de support.. so no way the boy go ever turn Hezbollah, since from child hood na Hezbollah im de fight. Boko Haram! na people like you, na dem de halla pass everybody carry idiocy de annoy people. you no know say boko haram come from Sunni/ Salafist ideology/sect. How Sunni Islam and Shia Islam come mix you never tell us. One day in order to show people say you sabi, where as you no sabi anything, you go come de halla,"Al Qaeda American soldier" ," Zionist Islamist" " British Argentine" "Yoruba Igbo" . Then if someone tries to correct you, you will call the person an ignorant fool. A beg I no know book.

thanks for d educative analysis evendoh 'twas insultive to d quoted. But d issue u highlighted has elevated some questions:
are u arguing dat Shia and Sunni muslims are parallelistically cultured?
den y r our muslims here in Nigeria denying dis fact?
or are there ways where these ideological differences/inclinations are been compromised for their mutal benefits?
pls educate me.

lertee: little girls prefer the bad boys,when you know what you want and purpose in a relationship,you will never give a bad guy a chance. Who is even a bad guy.

little girls?
well choose the type of friends to keep while u r still "little", cos evil communication corrupt gud manners.
Permit me to chip dis in 2.
I tink its hightime our ladies droped dat ego of having to wait for d man to make d first move. if like a guy, go 4 him. dos who will appreciate u will do.

lertee: Good men are scarce,the ones ready for marriage are very few,the unserious rotten ones have taken over the society,may God help the good women around. I thank God for me sha

To some extent, u r wrong. A lady once told me that ladies prefer "the bad boys" to the humble and gentle ones. So why do u now complain wen d bad boy shows u how bad he can be?
Will dat crying lady tell me she has never bn 'toasted' by a serious guy. What did she do wit such opportunity? threw it away on a flomsy excuse (he is not from my village, he is not tall and handsome, most of all,; he is not so handsum).
Young ladies, pls get married once u r ripe and the right guy comes knocking so as to avoid dis "marriage one-chance".

Perhaps the leaders of the party never gave it a thought.
That can greatly militate against its success, if not corrected.

amusement park.

World leaders meeting
for the final day of the
G20 summit in Russia
remain divided over
military action in Syria.
Italian PM Enrico Letta said
the splits in opinion were
confirmed at Thursday's
working dinner in St
Petersburg.
A spokesman for the
Russian presidency said a
US military strike on Syria
would "drive another nail
into the coffin of
international law".
At the UN, the US
ambassador accused
Russia of holding the
Security Council hostage by
blocking resolutions.
Samantha Power said the
Security Council was no
longer a "viable path" for
holding Syria accountable
for war crimes.
The US government
accuses President Bashar
al-Assad's forces of killing
1,429 people in a poison-
gas attack in the Damascus
suburbs on 21 August.
The UK says scientists at
the Porton Down research
laboratories have found
traces of sarin gas on cloth
and soil samples.
But Mr Assad has blamed
rebels for the attack. China
and Russia, which have
refused to agree to a
Security Council resolution
against Syria, insist any
action without the UN
would be illegal.
The US and France are the
only nations at the G20
summit to commit to using
force in Syria.
The United Nations says it
needs another $3.3bn
(£2bn) to deal with the
Syrian refugee crisis up to
the end of this year.

'Divisions confirmed'

Ms Power told a news
conference in New York:
"Even in the wake of the
flagrant shattering of the
international norm against
chemical weapons use,
Russia continues to hold
the council hostage and
shirk its international
responsibilities.
"What we have learned,
what the Syrian people
have learned, is that the
Security Council the world
needs to deal with this
crisis is not the Security
Council we have."
US President Barack
Obama is thought to be
trying at the G20 summit to
build an international
coalition to back strikes
against military targets in
Syria.
But differences of opinion
became obvious when
world leaders - including
Mr Obama and Russian
President Vladimir Putin -
discussed Syria over dinner
on Thursday evening.
The Italian prime minister
said in a tweet that "the
G20 has just now finished
the dinner session, at
which the divisions about
Syria were confirmed".
President Putin's press
spokesman, Dmitry Peskov,
said after the dinner that
the G20 was split down the
middle, with some
countries seeking hasty
action and others wanting
the US to go through the
UN Security Council.
British sources say the
leaders of France, Turkey,
Canada and the UK gave
strong backing to President
Obama's call for military
action. The UK Chancellor
of the Exchequer George
Osborne said the Turks put
a "very strong argument
about how the world must
respond to the use of
chemical weapons".
But correspondents in St
Petersburg say opponents
of US military intervention
appear to far outnumber
supporters within the G20.
And the BBC's Bridget
Kendall says the views of
the G20 leaders on any US
action could be the least of
Mr Obama's worries, as
his real difficulties might lie
back in the US.
President Obama was
nearly an hour late for
Thursday's G20 dinner. His
aides said he had been
trying to find time during
the summit to call US
members of Congress, who
are due to vote next week
on whether to back Mr
Obama's call for a military
strike.
Mr Obama also cancelled a
trip to California on
Monday in order to lobby
Congress, as a poll
commissioned by the BBC
and ABC News suggested
more than one-third of
Congress members were
undecided whether or not
to back military action.
A majority of those who
had made a decision said
they would vote against
the president.
Syria's parliamentary
speaker has written to the
speaker of the House of
Representatives urging
members not to rush into
an "irresponsible, reckless
action".

Aid for Syria

The United Nations is
appealing for more aid for
the estimated two million
Syrians who have fled their
country. Another 4.25
million are internally
displaced.
The UN humanitarian chief,
Valerie Amos, told the BBC
that donor countries
should "look again" at their
contributions and be "as
generous as they can".
UK Prime Minister David
Cameron announced on
Friday that the UK would
give an additional £52m ($
80m) in aid for Syria -
much of which will go
towards medical training
and equipment to help
civilians targeted by
chemical attacks.
Some analysts say Mr
Cameron has been
sidelined at the summit
because the UK parliament
has already voted against
military strikes.
A senior Russian aide
reportedly dismissed
Britain as "just a small
island: no-one pays any
attention to them" -
comments later denied by
Mr Peskov.
Meanwhile, former Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev
told the BBC that Mr
Obama and Mr Putin
should meet in order to
find a solution to the
Syrian conflict.
"They must strike up a
conversation that will lead
to the improvement of
relations and stop the
things which are happening
now," he said.
The Assad regime has been
accused of using chemical
weapons against Syrian
civilians on several
occasions during the 30-
month conflict.
Some 100,000 people have
died in the two-and-a-half-
year-old conflict, according
to the UN.

I think whoever typed this should be more bothered about the quality of his English Language than that of the socalled "class" that he is complaing about.
A typical ........... attitude.

ActiveMan: WHY IS US INTERVENING?

ANYONE EXPLAIN TO ME

because they can.

frank3.16:
^^^^
What killed the man of God? Sickness or accident? How i wish he could have prayed to save his life.

Pls how do u feel knowing the man who healed u from a simpler tin as eye problem, couldnt save himself from a bigger tin as death?

And pls dont give me that God took him crap, because last time i checked God does nt kill people or does he?

Death is inevitable 2 all.
Mind u, I never said d MoG healed me. He only prayed 4 me and God did d perfection of His work.
The fact dat one is bn used by God 2 wrought miracles does not immune dat fellow from death.
by d way, hav u ever heard of Joseph Ayo Babalola and Prophet T. O. Obadare? They were great and true men of God and He really used them. 2day, they are no more.
Dont 4get, it will come knocking on ur door one day. D big question is:
WHERE WILL U SPEND UR ETERNITY?
just a food 4 thought.

This issue of Miracle Healing has been bastardly abused by many socalled "miracle workers" for one selfish reason or the other.
This been said though, it still hasn't reduce the efficacy of God's genuine miracle healings.
Some years back, I used to experience serious eyes pains which impeded me from seeing clearly, though My Dad took me to several Hospitals then, but all effort was to no avail. so I was given some herbals which were meant to mollify the pains i was experiencing alongside.
There's this Town in Edo State called Okpella where they observe an annual Christian program (Okpella for Christ) which I attended in 1996. it was held at Ogute-Oke Secondary School that year.
During one of the ministerations, one of the ministers made reference to my case. The description he gave was as if he was aware of my condition. He specifically said these words: "This alter-call is for just one person". Even at that, about six of us came out for the prayers.
When he got to me, as he placed his hands on my face and screemed "In Jesus' Name", it was as if a mask was been forcefully pilled of my face. I struggled to open my eyes but couldn't. I couldn't even listen to the rest of the prayer but once he shouted "In Jesus name I pray" and was removing his hands, it was as if some particles droped off my eyes.
That was it. I can tell you that after that inccidence, I have never experienced any form of eyes problem again.
Some years later, I heard the Man of God is late.
So I am using this oportunity to say these words:
"Rest in Peace, Pastor Peter Igbadumeh".

dplomaticVal: potential terrorist

Read d post again. He's Edolite, not a Northerner.