"Taraba is equally divided between Muslim and Christian, and also faces ethnic and religious problems."

Not that I am neat-picking over semantics, but why use words like "divided between so and so? What happened to "cohabited by so and so" or other related and positive expressions?

The idea of depicting election as a war between tribes and religious group is what I don't understand. Is that what the election is about?

Youth programme? hahaha... na lie jo!
The guy just take style dress as a youth to tell the ladies say he is back in the market o!!

5minsmadness:
OK let's face it. Modern marriages seem to be breaking down left right and center. All this "marrying the love of your life" etc seems to have been over-rated. a few days ago i might have been ready to stick my neck out in defense of modern marriages but right now I am having a rethink.

We all know that our parents and grandparents marriages lasted much longer than what we see nowadays. we try to attribute it to lack of 'open-eye' by the women or unavailability of statistics but I don't believe any of that. I firmly believe our grandparents marriages lasted longer because they knew what marriage was about and had many advisers in the form of extended, older and well experienced family members to go to for help in any grey area.

The white man is good at giving a dog a bad name to hang it. They show statistics and stories and movies of how arranged marriages were so wrong and how people ended up miserable not marrying 'their one true love', they show pictures of arranged marriages looking like two unwilling people that were forced together. I don't believe all that propaganda either. Arranged marriages were better than what we have now and i'll tell you why.

1. Your parents made sure you were mature enough to get married. its not like nowadays when we see kids marrying and breaking up for the littlest of things. in those days parents and in fact the community assessed the husband-to-be to be sure he had matured physically and more especially mentally before picking a wife for him. The same went for the woman.
(****please note this post does not include/condone child marriages that take place in the north and in certain religions. those guys are on their own)

2. Your parents made sure you were ready financially for the marriage. In my place, the man would be given a piece of land to till and also a small hut to take care of his future family before considering marriage. So there was shelter and sustenance prepared already for you and your new wife.

3. Your parents did a thorough interview and investigating of the proposed in-laws before even considering approaching them. this included the type of family, whether they were hot-tempered, whether the girl could cook, whether they were known for fighting their spouses, whether the men beat their women, whether there was mental illness, convulsions, barrenness, courtesy, industriousness, etc. by the time they were through most times the family going to pick a bride or accept a groom knew what they were going in for.

4. Both marriage partners had clearly defined rules of what their duties were in the house. There was no crossing of boundaries and each of the partners knew what they were expected to do t make the marriage work, if they failed in their responsibilities for any reason, they could easily be reported to the immediate or extended family.

5. Last but not the least, they were usually not blinded by love not to see each others bad sides. Falling in love is sweet and all, but it really makes you not to see the fault in your partner until it is too late. IN arranged marriages the love came afterwards. and it was a more matured and tolerant kind of love and not the mushroom love we see nowadays that can barely stand the pressures of everyday misunderstandings.

I think it is high time we revived the practice of Arranged marriages in our society.

Is this sheer nativity or do you have ulterior motive to this post?
Have you tried to investigate the cause of marriage break down?
Have you asked women whose marriage were arranged how they felt about it?
You seem to be the type that judge books by their cover. It doesn't put you I a good light.

5minsmadness:

I want to believe that you are a product of marriage. Your parents might never have had the bravery to bring you into this world is not for the assurance of this sacred institution(marriage). Have a little respect.

No one is a product of marriage. That's not to say the institution does not have its merits but we can survive without it.

You violated a minor and possibly may have infected her with STD and your only fear is her father? Guy you must be off you head!

There are so many of them out there whom their kind heartedness and generosity were turned to weakness and they ended up doing just like girls would have them!

It's a sad world - the good are squeezed life out of while the bad gets it all.

I sincerely don't see the sense in asking someone if they regreated their decision because their candidate lost an election. Why should they? If Buhari is going to ostracise them for not voting for him then he should be sure of having the pendant of stupidity hung around his neck!
Free country or not people has got to decide on whom to support. If Buhari wants their support, he should do more to improve the movie industry. It's a simple thing.

Ladies, what if your bf cheat on you with this musclewoman and spends so much money on her, what will you do?

Many-babies-from-different-ladies Seems like an emerging trend among our celebs. Is it a thing of status or sheer arongance of i-can-aford-it? Bro, the truth is that you may not be able to afford the stigma and psychological trauma from HIV AIDs that may result from this unprotected sex life style. Be careful guys, is all I'm saying.

skolars:
Love means Ifunanya.Tell me gold digger,BIRTHDAY,CELEBRATION and PHLEGM IS IGBO,HAUSA AND YORUBA

Ifunanya mean affection towards someone or something - could take the form of Love, likeness etc.

Gold-digger - Onye-uru-ahi! (lol) a particular form of greed where someone seeks an excessive gain - especially reaping where they did not sow.

Birthday - Mbochi omumu

Celebration - Emume or[b] mmeme[/b]

Phlegmatic - (in the form of stolidity) Ihu a to ochi !

Congrats o!

We can be too hasty in glorification! Haba!!
Four years ago.. GEJ was on almost everyone's lip... He quickly faded like a chewing gum that's lost its taste.
Today is MB.
I will congratulate GEJ for (no matter how it happened) taking the defeat maturely hence saving many people's lives.
I will wait till this time next four years to either count FRN's losses or gains and then spit out the faded gum in my mouth or chew it again renewed.

Equalizer:



http://www.punchng.com/news/what-jonathan-told-bu
hari-on-phone/

History in the making:-) Jona, please make the country governable for Buhari