TheLoneCitizen:
Be careful.

You are right that we must be careful

I didn't sign cause of the monetary part

I know organisations need money to run, but this one raises a red flag.

I completely support the cause of petitioning the government against those killers though

haslaw:
I condemn the killing of Deborah Samuel but we must also point out this evil attributes of Christian extremist who go about insulting Muslims at every given opurtunity.

There are no differences between the girl and her murderers. They are basically two sides of the same coin.

Christian extremist like Deborah Samuel should understand that it is not nice to be insulting or even making blasphemous statements about other people's religion as this are inflammatory statements that can quickly lead to religious crisis.

Christian clergy should teach their followers the doctrine of live and let's live.

Dear Haslaw,
I commend your equitable approach and fairness.
I condemn the killing of Deborah too like you.

But,
There are no Christian extremists. There are no bad Christians.
We can have fake Christians and Church goers but by that word alone you can't be an extremists.
The word Christian came from Antioch when the people in the society saw the believers of Jesus Christ and called them Christians because they behaved and acted like Jesus Christ.
Since Jesus would not have killed or insulted, anyone who does that does not represent or exemplify Him.

Do you know Haslaw that those who go about insulting Muslims and Islam also do same to Christians and Jesus Christ? They are not Christians I kid you not. They are fence seaters or church goers at best. They swing any way. They can be traditionalists tomorrow and attend Jumat today while they were in Church or a beer parlour yesterday!
For example when you hear of reprisal attacks in communities in Taraba, Benue, Plateau or other places even in the East, it's not Christians versus Muslims. In Taraba for example it may be Fulanis versus Jukuns. But since Jukuns are mostly not Muslims and Fulanis are mostly not Christian, you conclude that it's religious. Do you know that they are Muslim Igbos and Christian Fulanis?

It's very offensive and wrong for you to say Deborah and her murderers are alike. Please delete it. Why? When you see people complain about NEPA, GLO, NNPC, ASUU, Buhari and other things does it make them the same with these things and people they complain about? If you Haslaw have ever criticised Buhari or your own state government does that make you a killer, assassin or worthy of death? Buhari is someone's father. If you insult him does that give Yusuf justification to order a fatua or hit on you? Deborah criticised, complained but she shed no blood she didn't even incite. Haslaw you'd be surprised that they were other Christians in that WhatsApp group but did you hear that she incited them all to condemn? It was her personal opinion and she was wrong. But she did not deserve to die. She was wrong only for using the word nonsense. I schooled in the north for my PG and I was in a WhatsApp group. But the lecturer/admin/Muslim never allowed religious messages especially from the Muslims who were predominant. Do you know that it was the Christians that used to drop barka de sallah to greet fellow Muslim students? That's harmony not necessarily live and let live. Those Christian students didn't have to drop such felicitations, but did out of love.

There's no doctrine of live and let live. The only doctrine is love.
Would you live and let live if you knew Rev King or those religious people who killed, made human sacrifices and made their members eat grass and drink bleach? Would you? If you would then you have no love for you don't care that a religious sect in your neighbourhood is killing fellow humans who are their members or foes.

Finally, Haslaw in all all all honesty, not even mentioning the ones in public like El Rufai and others, but who blasphemes more?
Christians do not for these 3 major reasons -
1. Because they know Muslims can kill them for that, but the reverse is not so. Do you know any Muslim that has been killed for saying Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a sex.ual relationship? Did you see the crowd that endorsed Da Vinci code? Even among the fake Christians. Did you read what El Rufai also tweeted?
2. Because Christians know they serve a big God. We can't fight for our God, we can't feed Him, make Him great, shelter Him or describe Him completely! He's a might God, the I Am, the Omni, the Almighty Creator, God of powerful angels and Commander of fire, rain, hail, lions, locusts, armies of men, heat, flood, snow, moon and sun, and even time itself. The God Who can cause a standstill. How now? Any body claiming to fight or kill for this God is a fake Christian.
3. Because of our belief. We are told to love and do unto others what they should do to us. We are told to be seasoned in our speech. We are told not to curse but bless. We are told that even the great angel Michael in battle with Satan didn't curse but rebuked Satan. We are told that our tongue can set the world on fire so we should control our tongues. We are told that we should preach Christ Jesus not hate, not bigotry, not fear, not murder.

If Christian clergy should teach your view on live and let live, HASLAW what should your Muslim clergy also teach?
When you point, 3 fingers point back to you and one is covered!

Salaam

Gwan2:


This is emotional, kudos…but unfortunately, emotions or evangelism won’t quell or stop this barbaric act, until it is met with equal or higher brutal force.

The state of Isreal, and the Jewish population will have long been an extinct population that we read in our history books if they resorted to this kind of emotional writings or gospel evangelism.

Ideology especially from fanatics is ingrained and part of their DNA code…for peace to reign, they have to be aware that you are a superior threat and very fierce with your reprisals.

I kid you not Gwan I've always wondered what would happen or what the Holy Spirit would want me or you or others to do IF we ever face attack or threat.
Jesus put back the ear of Marcus who Peter had removed with a sword.
Jesus is the Prince of Peace.
I believe our weapons are not canal but mighty through God.
I've heard people fight evil with just speaking and declaring the Word of God and I long to be that kind of person.
I believe we must exercise our faith in Jesus in all circumstances.
May the Holy Spirit lead us a d God protect us from evil and evil situations in Jesus name, amen

This is a glimpse of how FIRM, UNBIASED, DETRIBALISED, HUMANE Atiku can be if He is president
That's a father's daughter
That could have been your daughter's teacher
That could have been your mother's daughter in law
That could have been your sister's bestie
That could have been your son's employer

But you see, there lies a charred corpse, what people call remains.
But that's not from a gas explosion or plane crash or oil bunkering gone wrong, or a thief caught in Jankara market...

That's a girl who wrongly used the word nonsense but was never given mercy to apologise. I apologise on her behalf. For if you use that word for my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ or our Father our Creator God, I shall not strike a match, but silently pray for your mercy.

But alas God Himself shows mercy on whom He will, and what if He doesn't show you? God is the God of justice and vengeance, but what if He chooses to strike everyone of those who killed Deborah dead or He chooses to use them like He used Paul of Tarsus?

What about those who have used worse words for Jesus, Mary, David, Moses, Abraham, angels, Elisha, Isaiah, Peter, the Holy Spirit and our Creator God?
Those in politics,
In movies
In cartoons
In series
In songs
In jokes
In slants
In exclamations
In books
In comics
... and here on nairaland?

What do we Christians do? What would you non Christians expect us to do or fear we would or could do? What would our actions or inactions result in at the end? Would you want a reprisal in the south? Would you want sanctions from the Western world? Would you want mass exodus of Christians from the north and boycott of businesses and products from Muslims?

If truly you think, do, and say what you would want another to do, say, and think about you, you would think before you think, say or do to others.

It took a split second thinking for people to carry stones to want to stone the adulterous woman in the gospel according to John, cause they were 'righteous and kissed off by such immorality and shame and sin of the woman. She must die, the book said so, Moses himself wrote it, and they believe it's an instruction from God Himself. So we moveee!
But Jesus bent down to write, to draw, to make patterns, to play with the sand.
And it took a split second for them to truly think when they heard, 'those without sin cast the stone' and without their initial aggression and self righteous and lack of mercy and a forgiving spirit, they took a look at the older ones and they threw down their stones.
The adulterous woman who truly had sinned, offended the law and could have been killed, WAS FORGIVEN AND GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE!

But not Deborah who used the word nonsense!
May she rest in peace and be buried with dignity.
May there be justice for Deborah and may Muslims, Christians, Others like Hindus, Buddhist, Trail, Have Krishna, Eckists, Traditional Religious Worshippers, Atheists, Free Thinkers and Agnostics and others not INSULT, USE DEROGATORY INNUENDOS OR REMARKS on anything religious whether their own or others religious beliefs.

Atiku played the ostrich and denied his convictions for state votes in Sokoto
But that's a father's daughter
That could have been your daughter's teacher
That could have been your mother's daughter in law
That could have been your sister's bestie
That could have been your son's employer

But you see, there lies a charred corpse, what people call remains.
But that's not from a gas explosion or plane crash or oil bunkering gone wrong, or a thief caught in Jankara market...

That's a girl who wrongly used the word nonsense but was never given mercy to apologise. I apologise on her behalf. For if you use that word for my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ or our Father our Creator God, I shall not strike a match, but silently pray for your mercy.

But alas God Himself shows mercy on whom He will, and what if He doesn't show you? God is the God of justice and vengeance, but what if He chooses to strike everyone of those who killed Deborah dead or He chooses to use them like He used Paul of Tarsus?

What about those who have used worse words for Jesus, Mary, David, Moses, Abraham, angels, Elisha, Isaiah, Peter, the Holy Spirit and our Creator God?
Those in politics,
In movies
In cartoons
In series
In songs
In jokes
In slants
In exclamations
In books
In comics
... and here on nairaland?

What do we Christians do? What would you non Christians expect us to do or fear we would or could do? What would our actions or inactions result in at the end? Would you want a reprisal in the south? Would you want sanctions from the Western world? Would you want mass exodus of Christians from the north and boycott of businesses and products from Muslims?

If truly you think, do, and say what you would want another to do, say, and think about you, you would think before you think, say or do to others.

It took a split second thinking for people to carry stones to want to stone the adulterous woman in the gospel according to John, cause they were 'righteous and kissed off by such immorality and shame and sin of the woman. She must die, the book said so, Moses himself wrote it, and they believe it's an instruction from God Himself. So we moveee!
But Jesus bent down to write, to draw, to make patterns, to play with the sand.
And it took a split second for them to truly think when they heard, 'those without sin cast the stone' and without their initial aggression and self righteous and lack of mercy and a forgiving spirit, they took a look at the older ones and they threw down their stones.
The adulterous woman who truly had sinned, offended the law and could have been killed, WAS FORGIVEN AND GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE!

But not Deborah who used the word nonsense!
May she rest in peace and be buried with dignity.
May there be justice for Deborah and may Muslims, Christians, Others like Hindus, Buddhist, Trail, Have Krishna, Eckists, Traditional Religious Worshippers, Atheists, Free Thinkers and Agnostics and others not INSULT, USE DEROGATORY INNUENDOS OR REMARKS on anything religious whether their own or others religious beliefs.

That's a father's daughter
That could have been your daughter's teacher
That could have been your mother's daughter in law
That could have been your sister's bestie
That could have been your son's employer

But you see, there lies a charred corpse, what people call remains.
But that's not from a gas explosion or plane crash or oil bunkering gone wrong, or a thief caught in Jankara market...

That's a girl who wrongly used the word nonsense but was never given mercy to apologise. I apologise on her behalf. For if you use that word for my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ or our Father our Creator God, I shall not strike a match, but silently pray for your mercy.

But alas God Himself shows mercy on whom He will, and what if He doesn't show you? God is the God of justice and vengeance, but what if He chooses to strike everyone of those who killed Deborah dead or He chooses to use them like He used Paul of Tarsus?

What about those who have used worse words for Jesus, Mary, David, Moses, Abraham, angels, Elisha, Isaiah, Peter, the Holy Spirit and our Creator God?
Those in politics,
In movies
In cartoons
In series
In songs
In jokes
In slants
In exclamations
In books
In comics
... and here on nairaland?

What do we Christians do? What would you non Christians expect us to do or fear we would or could do? What would our actions or inactions result in at the end? Would you want a reprisal in the south? Would you want sanctions from the Western world? Would you want mass exodus of Christians from the north and boycott of businesses and products from Muslims?

If truly you think, do, and say what you would want another to do, say, and think about you, you would think before you think, say or do to others.

It took a split second thinking for people to carry stones to want to stone the adulterous woman in the gospel according to John, cause they were 'righteous and kissed off by such immorality and shame and sin of the woman. She must die, the book said so, Moses himself wrote it, and they believe it's an instruction from God Himself. So we moveee!
But Jesus bent down to write, to draw, to make patterns, to play with the sand.
And it took a split second for them to truly think when they heard, 'those without sin cast the stone' and without their initial aggression and self righteous and lack of mercy and a forgiving spirit, they took a look at the older ones and they threw down their stones.
The adulterous woman who truly had sinned, offended the law and could have been killed, WAS FORGIVEN AND GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE!

But not Deborah who used the word nonsense!
May she rest in peace and be buried with dignity.
May there be justice for Deborah and may Muslims, Christians, Others like Hindus, Buddhist, Trail, Have Krishna, Eckists, Traditional Religious Worshippers, Atheists, Free Thinkers and Agnostics and others not INSULT, USE DEROGATORY INNUENDOS OR REMARKS on anything religious whether their own or others religious beliefs.

I'm saddened by this

This is not the first time.

While I can NEVER support the disrespect of religion, I want to tell fanatics that any random person in trying to cause problem can just lie and say some said something against your religion when the person never did, and you just go ahead and kill the person.

They never read Othello or heard of Iago.

People can lie but when that person is dead, she never be brought back when you hear the truth.

To think that I once stayed near that COE in fact those who know Sokoto know its proximity to The Government school Farufaru

May she rest in peace, amen. May her family and loved ones know peace and have fortitude.

May those like Saul while in sin who consented to the killing of Stephen, who sit behind their devices and support this dastardly act and those present who joined in the instigation, killing and burning of the security post know that God is the God of justice and vengeance belongs to God.

Jesus said pray for your enemies and those who hate you, so this is my prayer -

They shall not die,
like Saul they shall be converted to Paul,
and become useful in the propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour,
They shall receive justice and face the wrath of the law,
They shall know no peace on earth but rest in peace if they repent and die in Christ,
They shall hear the cry of her blood and the tears of her loved ones,
They shall bear the task left behind that she couldn't bear,
They shall see death and know remorse,
They shall rise against likeminded who kill as religious fanatics,
They shall use the remainder of their lives and resources to preach peace, harmony and salvation in Jesus Christ,

In Jesus name, amen

I'm saddened by this 3 months extension but I believe God knows best
God is good
It's a pity that those in position to answer ASUU are busy with election matters
Their children can NEVER be in any affected school with this kind of attitude, I don't care

Those affected it's well
No salary
No project
No classes
No admission
No resumption
No respite for campus businesses
No hope for landlords pitying their tenants
No defence

I beg is it true that ASUU has called off their strike

Up Man City

I'm supporting Liverpool just for fun

Hmm
This is great news
But we go hear word like this so

Its not about gender, religion or tribe


Or is it...

May God deliver Nigeria from chaos, anarchy and doom, amen

Too many fakes

May she rest in peace
God knows best
Even better than autopsy
But autopsy should be done
Condolence to her loved ones

Dear women following the case of Johnny Depp whats your take on men as victims of domestic violence with reference to Amber Heard?

Be honest and objective.

Remember you have brothers and sons... or you would

Someone does recreational cocaine and heroine on top acute asthma and you treat him and discharge him saying his condition was deemed 'uncomplicated'.

The man is suicidal and is jogging down a slippery slope.

The same route many many young Nigerians are towing.

Are you reading this and you are indulging and engaging in a careless lifestyle?
You smoke all sorts, drink all sorts to stupor, sleep randomly with strange men/women with or without condoms, binge on video games, TV, social media and lounge all day with no direction, purpose, eating well or even bathing? Then it graduates to boredom and attracts masturbation for temporary pleasure and serenade to sleep just for a little while?

Bruv/Sis you need help, you need love, you need the mercy and grace of God, boy/girl you need Jesus

@ mods mynd44, and co there are many fantastic topics getting lost and swallowed in new, recent and trending, but this is the second crappy story on masturbation you are pushing to fp.

Fear God

Tomorrow is Easter and like every other day, let's reference it and live with common sense and piety

One of the things my father never played with was our walking over soakaways.
Some are inevitable even in my own house.
Rest in peace to the man.
Fortitude to his family and friends.
In civilised climes, the government will pay heavily to the family.
It reminds me of the man who also died while they were fixing the lifts at the High Court in Benin,
I hope his family too was heavily compensated?
It's only in Nigeria where there's danger ahead and relevant people don't put signs, reflectors and barricades.
A big shame.
A man left home for free medics and got death.
What a wasted effort for a well meaning citizen.
He didn't choose the state or country.
It can happen elsewhere I agree but not this callously.
Evacuated him after 4 hours ogini?
Make I go another thread jor.
Nigeria matter eh walahi...

AWO & AKINTOLA (1962 - 60 YEARS AGO)
TINUBU & OSINBAJO (2022 - 60 YEARS AFTER)

JIMO'S HEAD #PENDULUMING

An acclaimed visionary leader, tested and trusted by his people. He had built several people into positions of influence. Has a protegee that he brought to lime light.

The protegee, a teacher, a pastor and a seasoned lawyer. The lawyer protegee had helped the leader in the administration of his tenure. A very capable hand indeed. Also a great orator.

When the leader had an opportunity, he put forward his protegee for the 2nd most important position in his land. The lawyer protegee took up the position.

Politics happened. The leader wants a position, the protegee also wants the position. The leader has one ideology, the protegee has a different ideology. Foot soldiers on both sides egging the leader and his protegee on. Discrediting one another. Forgetting that they are brothers from the same zone. One with federal might, the other, with grassroots support. Both sides being played by external factors.

"After all i have done for my protegee, he ought to accord me respect and listen to me", the leader thought to himself in his private moments.

"I have been loyal enough, and i deserve to retain this exalted position for myself", the lawyer protegee soliloquised.

The die is cast. A crack is created.

With the unrelenting supporters of both men, the crack became a schism. With the latching in of people of other ethnicities, the schism became a chasm. Yoruba land becomes the epicenter of a political war between 2 brothers that were once confidants.

No, i write not about those you think. I write about the great leader, Obafemi Jeremiah Awolowo; and his protege - the teacher, the pastor, and a cerebral lawyer, Ladoke Samuel Akintola.

These issues happened exactly sixty years ago in 1962.

That fight, ended the glorious years of yoruba people being the ones ahead of other ethnicities.

In contemporary Nigeria, the golden years of the yoruba people was between 1952 and 1959. The years Awolowo was premier of western Nigeria.

Those Were the years of our firsts - First Television station, Rediffusion, First Modern Secretariat, First Housing Estate- Bodija Housing Estate established in 1958, First Stadium- Liberty Stadium, First Dual Carriage Road- Queen Elizabeth-Secretariat Road, First Teaching Hospital (UCH) etc

By the time the brouhaha settled in 1966, Akintola's daughter had been killed. Awolowo sent to jail. Many houses burnt, and a coup that took the life of Ladoke Akintola.

The visionary leader never got there till he died. The Cerebral protegee died trying not to leave there.

We lost our regional leadership and even lost the regional governance. All because a visionary leader and a brilliant protegee didn't sit to reconcile themselves.

The ideological difference? Awolowo wanted an alliance with the igbos, Akintola wanted an alliance with the hausa fulanis.

Both sought alliance with others, but couldn't achieve an alliance between their own selves.

Sixty years later, Another visionary leader, another cerebral protegee who is a teacher, pastor and lawyer. A leader with the strength of the grassroots, a protege with the strength of the Federal government. Foot soldiers on both sides egging both on, in derisive manners.

Would the Southwest lose out again?

May afflictions not rise a 2nd time.
In line with the music of Hubert Ogunde that he released 60years ago and was banned, i repeat,.....

YORUBA ROO'NU O.. Reflect, O ye of Yoruba Ancestry.
Hmmmm, ọọrọ l'ẹyẹ n gbọ oooo,
ọọrọ l'ẹyẹ n gbọ oo,
ẹyẹ o deede ba loo'le ooo
ọọrọ l'ẹyẹ n gbọ o

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AWO & AKINTOLA (1962 - 60 YEARS AGO)
TINUBU & OSINBAJO (2022 - 60 YEARS AFTER)

JIMO'S HEAD #PENDULUMING

An acclaimed visionary leader, tested and trusted by his people. He had built several people into positions of influence. Has a protegee that he brought to lime light.

The protegee, a teacher, a pastor and a seasoned lawyer. The lawyer protegee had helped the leader in the administration of his tenure. A very capable hand indeed. Also a great orator.

When the leader had an opportunity, he put forward his protegee for the 2nd most important position in his land. The lawyer protegee took up the position.

Politics happened. The leader wants a position, the protegee also wants the position. The leader has one ideology, the protegee has a different ideology. Foot soldiers on both sides egging the leader and his protegee on. Discrediting one another. Forgetting that they are brothers from the same zone. One with federal might, the other, with grassroots support. Both sides being played by external factors.

"After all i have done for my protegee, he ought to accord me respect and listen to me", the leader thought to himself in his private moments.

"I have been loyal enough, and i deserve to retain this exalted position for myself", the lawyer protegee soliloquised.

The die is cast. A crack is created.

With the unrelenting supporters of both men, the crack became a schism. With the latching in of people of other ethnicities, the schism became a chasm. Yoruba land becomes the epicenter of a political war between 2 brothers that were once confidants.

No, i write not about those you think. I write about the great leader, Obafemi Jeremiah Awolowo; and his protege - the teacher, the pastor, and a cerebral lawyer, Ladoke Samuel Akintola.

These issues happened exactly sixty years ago in 1962.

That fight, ended the glorious years of yoruba people being the ones ahead of other ethnicities.

In contemporary Nigeria, the golden years of the yoruba people was between 1952 and 1959. The years Awolowo was premier of western Nigeria.

Those Were the years of our firsts - First Television station, Rediffusion, First Modern Secretariat, First Housing Estate- Bodija Housing Estate established in 1958, First Stadium- Liberty Stadium, First Dual Carriage Road- Queen Elizabeth-Secretariat Road, First Teaching Hospital (UCH) etc

By the time the brouhaha settled in 1966, Akintola's daughter had been killed. Awolowo sent to jail. Many houses burnt, and a coup that took the life of Ladoke Akintola.

The visionary leader never got there till he died. The Cerebral protegee died trying not to leave there.

We lost our regional leadership and even lost the regional governance. All because a visionary leader and a brilliant protegee didn't sit to reconcile themselves.

The ideological difference? Awolowo wanted an alliance with the igbos, Akintola wanted an alliance with the hausa fulanis.

Both sought alliance with others, but couldn't achieve an alliance between their own selves.

Sixty years later, Another visionary leader, another cerebral protegee who is a teacher, pastor and lawyer. A leader with the strength of the grassroots, a protege with the strength of the Federal government. Foot soldiers on both sides egging both on, in derisive manners.

Would the Southwest lose out again?

May afflictions not rise a 2nd time.
In line with the music of Hubert Ogunde that he released 60years ago and was banned, i repeat,.....

YORUBA ROO'NU O.. Reflect, O ye of Yoruba Ancestry.
Hmmmm, ọọrọ l'ẹyẹ n gbọ oooo,
ọọrọ l'ẹyẹ n gbọ oo,
ẹyẹ o deede ba loo'le ooo
ọọrọ l'ẹyẹ n gbọ o

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AWO & AKINTOLA (1962 - 60 YEARS AGO)
TINUBU & OSINBAJO (2022 - 60 YEARS AFTER)

JIMO'S HEAD #PENDULUMING�

An acclaimed visionary leader, tested and trusted by his people. He had built several people into positions of influence. Has a protegee that he brought to lime light.

The protegee, a teacher, a pastor and a seasoned lawyer. The lawyer protegee had helped the leader in the administration of his tenure. A very capable hand indeed. Also a great orator.

When the leader had an opportunity, he put forward his protegee for the 2nd most important position in his land. The lawyer protegee took up the position.

Politics happened. The leader wants a position, the protegee also wants the position. The leader has one ideology, the protegee has a different ideology. Foot soldiers on both sides egging the leader and his protegee on. Discrediting one another. Forgetting that they are brothers from the same zone. One with federal might, the other, with grassroots support. Both sides being played by external factors.

"After all i have done for my protegee, he ought to accord me respect and listen to me", the leader thought to himself in his private moments.

"I have been loyal enough, and i deserve to retain this exalted position for myself", the lawyer protegee soliloquised.

The die is cast. A crack is created.

With the unrelenting supporters of both men, the crack became a schism. With the latching in of people of other ethnicities, the schism became a chasm. Yoruba land becomes the epicenter of a political war between 2 brothers that were once confidants.

No, i write not about those you think. I write about the great leader, Obafemi Jeremiah Awolowo; and his protege - the teacher, the pastor, and a cerebral lawyer, Ladoke Samuel Akintola.

These issues happened exactly sixty years ago in 1962.

That fight, ended the glorious years of yoruba people being the ones ahead of other ethnicities.

In contemporary Nigeria, the golden years of the yoruba people was between 1952 and 1959. The years Awolowo was premier of western Nigeria.

Those Were the years of our firsts - First Television station, Rediffusion, First Modern Secretariat, First Housing Estate- Bodija Housing Estate established in 1958, First Stadium- Liberty Stadium, First Dual Carriage Road- Queen Elizabeth-Secretariat Road, First Teaching Hospital (UCH) etc

By the time the brouhaha settled in 1966, Akintola's daughter had been killed. Awolowo sent to jail. Many houses burnt, and a coup that took the life of Ladoke Akintola.

The visionary leader never got there till he died. The Cerebral protegee died trying not to leave there.

We lost our regional leadership and even lost the regional governance. All because a visionary leader and a brilliant protegee didn't sit to reconcile themselves.

The ideological difference? Awolowo wanted an alliance with the igbos, Akintola wanted an alliance with the hausa fulanis.

Both sought alliance with others, but couldn't achieve an alliance between their own selves.

Sixty years later, Another visionary leader, another cerebral protegee who is a teacher, pastor and lawyer. A leader with the strength of the grassroots, a protege with the strength of the Federal government. Foot soldiers on both sides egging both on, in derisive manners.

Would the Southwest lose out again?

May afflictions not rise a 2nd time.
In line with the music of Hubert Ogunde that he released 60years ago and was banned, i repeat,.....

YORUBA ROO'NU O.. Reflect, O ye of Yoruba Ancestry.
Hmmmm, ọọrọ l'ẹyẹ n gbọ oooo,
ọọrọ l'ẹyẹ n gbọ oo,
ẹyẹ o deede ba loo'le ooo
ọọrọ l'ẹyẹ n gbọ o

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Thinking Nigeria, But...
God Does Not Author Confusion.

A 14 year-old cannot be admitted into university to study, but a 13 year-old can be married.

A school certificate holder cannot become a director in the civil service, but a school certificate holder can become President and commander-in-chief of the entire country.

The country is among the major oil producing countries in the world, but it imports the fuel it consume.

The country has the highest number of foreign doctors in the UK and America, but its leaders travel abroad for their medical needs.

The country shoots armless protesters, but hold peace parleys with bandits, kidnappers, and terrorists.

The country rehabilitates terrorists, but their victims languish in refugee camps.

God did not create any country. He located human beings in different territories and gave them all empowerments to survive.

Whatever they turn out to be is entirely their choices and decisions.

UAE and Qatar are deserts converted to paradise.

Nigeria is paradise converted to hell.

Nigeria is epitome of confusion, and God is not the author of confusion.

Yet, we can right the wrong. It's our difficult but surmountable task. Yes, We Can...

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On election day, God willing, as in other years I'd walk to my polling unit and cast my vote as the Spirit leads. I'll do my part.

Dear nairalanders do you have your PVC are you going to make the effort and go and vote? Do not be an online warrior or street and newspaper stand wailer, take action and put moves and steps to your mouth and words and vote VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE whoever you are led by God to vote for. Even if it means voting against your father, mother, brother, sister, inlaw or town's person or fellow religious person.

Enough said oh... I don go another thread...

this period we have to be careful what we believe, hear and read.
Some politicians thrive on divide and rule.
Some use propaganda.
It could be Tambuwal today but who knows who it would be tomorrow

flokii:
As far back as 2006 if I remember correctly and remained guest for almost 10 years before registering.. school stuffs and all wouldn't even give me chance. We had others like naijapals, naijaloaded, getjar and co. then, just that those ones have options to upload and download files.

I sight you

High 5 jare

Believe it or not
2006

I don dey read and follow this nairaland since 2006.
But only joined years after

I celebrate women

Resist loans with all your power and might

And mind you get another source of income so you can augment your income.

I know what you're going through but it will end in praise dear

As copied

Dear women!

Today is our day, a day marked by the world to celebrate our gender...

I celebrate us who are defying all odds to make a life and make a living...

I celebrate us who were whipped, slapped, and trampled upon but still rose...

I celebrate us who had every reason to give up but kept holding on...

I celebrate us who are daring to believe in dreams that are bigger than us at the present...

I celebrate us who are daring to hope in hopelessness...

I celebrate us who have only ourselves and our creator to clutch onto for help...

I celebrate us who others have written off but we stood our grounds and refused to write ourselves off...

I celebrate us who others are watching with binoculars to see when we fail and fall but all we give them to see is our broad smiles and dancing feet...

I celebrates us that support other women...therefore I urge YOU, yes, YOU woman to celebrate your fellow woman, let’s not talk about the other gender now...

Don’t, as a woman think you’ll thrive by putting another woman down, thinking you’ll receive validation by demeaning another woman...

Don’t, as a woman gloat on the pain and shame of your fellow woman...

Don’t, as a woman go out of your way to size another woman up looking for where, in your warped mind you’re doing better than her...

Don’t, as a woman seek to take away the promotion due your fellow woman because she’ll become higher than you...

Don’t, as a woman wish another woman dead because you hate her guts...

Don’t, as a woman occupy yourself with competing with another woman trying to outdo or outsmart her...

Compete with only yourself...

Be you, celebrate you and celebrate other women...

You stalk another woman, go through her posts and pictures, you can’t like, you can’t comment, you’re filled with envy and jealousy that gravitates to hatred for no just cause because you know the woman you’re looking at is doing better than you in-spite of your expectations of her and she’s in her happy place... you can’t find happiness because the happiness of another woman is your pain...drop the hate, see the good in you and see the good in another woman and you’ll find your happiness!

This is the true meaning of “Women Supporting Women”!!!

Happy International Women’s Day Queens!!!

Dear Funnyandviral let's not be petty, depravity in schools where teachers sleep with their students has nothing to do with faith. It happens in every part and by every religious person. Won't it be coarse to bring in religion what happened to little Hanifa? The whole country came togtehr as one to condemn the act. We dont care that it was done by a Muslic cleric in a religious school.
So a clergyman rapes boys and you conclude it's only one religion.
A corps member sleeps with his student he must be from the other religion.
A church goer or invited guest wears mini skirt and automatically represents all Christians.
No sir we don't think Muslims' actions are biblical. The ogun worshipper won't lie on oath doesn't mean he's saying the truth based on the Bible. The atheists won't kill their neighbour because the Bible said so. So please if you are a Muslim don't advice your practises to the holy Book of Christians. A whole chapter of your book is dedicated to Mariam doesn't mean we'd need to read it to know about Mary. Your book urges praying 5 times doesn't mean we have to pray 3 times like Daniel did in the Bible. You dont make reference to Torah or the sacred books of Hinduism and Buddhism so why the Christian Bible? And you say Christians are hypocrites and pretenders? I think the mention of Christ and Christians ignite something even you can't explain... Maybe it's the dynamic in it, cause I don't see mention, refer to or discuss Amadioha and Olokun

You guys are the ones always pained, the Qur'an said it, whenever you see a true Muslim, we see satanic pains on your faces. What's the big deal in covering your hair, very simple stuff, but devil doesn't like it. Same school where girls turn their school uniform to miniskirts, nobody complains, even teacher will be sleeping with those students, but ordinary covering of hair, you guys will rather complain. Can you swear students of those school don't have sex, they even have sex with teachers.

You guys complain when Muslims cover their whole body, you shout hypocrite, but a Christain will wear mini skirt to church you say nothing.

That's why I said Christains do pretend they don't support covering of hair, I've never seen a Reverend sisters hair, is such holiness limited to them ONLY, you pretend as if you support drinking alcohol and smoking, you pretend as if wearing tight and sexy dress is biblical even your pastors don't complain, but deep down, you know all this things Muslims are doing is biblical

Thanks hunknall you don't have to accept what Seun and his goons put there they don't care for traffic but live in fear not caution. If not why stifle or block comments that can make your thread run into more pages because you put such clause. Seun mind you, if it were the other way around, I won't click yes either to any declaration to any church denomination, even if it's mine. Faith is a matter of conviction not force sir Seun. You're trying to avoid your site from being raved down by extremists like the French guy with his online news. But irrespective of trouble makers who'd want to speak any how to Muslims (which is absolutely wrong) your rule 2 should suffice now.

I had to accept that I'm a kusilm just to comment. Just see imagine the nonesense.

If Muslims can make Sharia law in their state then why can Christians make their own laws in their school..

This is a psychologic and ideological war.

Thanks thanks a lot
Imaima1 from the original thread

Remember we only want equity and true peace not confrontation or insults

You Muslims should be content with your own things. You built your schools, be content with them. You can as well wear hijab and the long robe in your schools. You can even teach the Qur'an instead of regular school syllabus.

But no, you must try to covert and dominate what belongs to Christians. Focus and building better standards of schools and send your children there. Don't always constitute nuisances in Christian schools.

From an anonymous contributor.

THANKS KEEP THEM COMING
I'll surely post them if you don't want your moniker to show on the thread.
But mind you comments here must be civil, unbiased and true.

Nigeria’s Constitution Allows Muslim Women To Wear Hijab – Minister

I'll do my best not to mention location, name or be personal because I'm a Christian. I am truthful and experienced and I way issues objectively whether or not it's my faith or blood relation or friend.

I have experienced religious bias from mostly Muslims and also some denominational Christians.
For denominational Christians my sister wanted a job in an hospital but wasn't given because she was no longer in their faith but the rest of us are. That was bad. She later got in another faith based hospital that she also doesn't belong to their church.
A denominational Christian once refused to do my hair because I wasn't in their faith, even when I offered money.
A denominational Christian refused me entering their church because of trousers. A decent trouser suit for a wedding!

Note that there are certain denominational Christians who insist on hair covering and go about with covered hair besides when they are in church. I'm not talking about the 'habit' worn by sisters.

For Muslims, hmm
1. I looked for accommodation and all I was told was that they don't give their rooms to Christians. They were specific. They didn't care or even mind if I was Ifa or an atheist (God forbid).
2. While transiting through a city we stopped to use toilet and I asked a woman where I could ease myself all she asked was if I were Muslim or Christian. I gladly said Christian and she showed me a ramshackle place where even my goats would frown at. No bush around I had to use it. But the one for the Muslims had tiles and running water.
3. Job, education, supervisor, where to sit in a public transport, to cover hair on the street, the location of the few churches available, buying land to build a church and many other instances have received bias and double standard from Muslims. Christians can't go to some parts of Saudi and I think Medina but such doesn't apply to Muslims in any location on earth.

But they want to marry a female so they have gained another member and have her children follow their faith.

Alcohol - I don't drink alcohol nor would I miss it if it's banned. But I'll pity bakers who need it for preservation and pharmacists who use it to make drugs, or local herbalists who use it with roots, or some denominational Christians who use it for their religious activities, or those who use it for occasions like weddings. So alcohol cannot be attacked by Muslims because it is not allowed by shariah.
21 days fasting was done by some denominational Christians recently but they didn't force non-members from participating. Some denominational Christians abhor alcohol even up to wedding ceremonies and cakes, but they don't force non-members from anchoring also.
Muslims in Kano and other shariah states why extend hatred for alcohol on people who are not Muslims? Does it mean that as Muslims wear hijab, marry early, pray 5 times and do sadat that non Muslims in Kano and others must comply?
I remember sucking orange one day around 2pm during Muslim fasting and the very man who sold it to me was asking why I was sucking it at that time? I didn't wear anything that suggested I was a Muslim so I was surprised at the question. Or was I to fast by association?

Hijab - when I taught briefly in a secular school, I never cared who wore hijab, I don't see bias. You wear hijab, habit, tie tortoise, wear red bandanna, draw lines with white chalk or do lali I don't care or notice. I will only inquire on your conviction and ask if you're an attention seeker or a blind bandwagon follower? I don't wear anything religious outwardly so people won't know my faith or where I attend. Not even car sticker or door sticker or anything on my inner rearview mirror in my car. So if hijab can be worn in schools especially Muslim schools or public schools no wahala, but in a private and faith based school where they have it in their prospectus you can't force them.
Muslims I'm sorry but why the insistence on hijab and not full covering to the ankle, socks, gloves and even buka (forgive my spelling if it's wrong)?
I see Muslim girls with hijab that ends on their shoulders and underneath are tight jeans trousers, torn jeans, mini skirts, transparent wrappers, lace gowns and funny immodest stuffs below the shoulders? Is hijab not for modesty?
Christians you make exposing your hair and freedom to dress a reason for non1Christians to misjudged and ridicule the faith. Even in church. Modesty is a key part of Christianity- boys and girls. I sat near guys in the church I attended last Sunday who had tattoos, cortex on their finger nails, dreads and others around town wear female clothing and artificial pink lips as in why? The females are worse because they have more of their bodies that are attractive. Christian girl you wear see through clothes, blue hair, claws for fingernails, bump shots on the street to buy noodles, ankle chain and waist chains and others. Why? Grannies and babies don't do this and they are living and breathing. You won't die or be less attractive when you dress modestly.

ASUU - Adamu Adamu you don't know that schools are on strike all over the nation but you know what is happening at Ijagbo? Strike is affecting me and it's not funny. But a Baptist school is painingthe Minister more. Not minister of state oh! Is he an educationist?

Models for others to emulate is what the woman who represented the minister said, so Christians pupils and students who open hair are doing wrong? That means those our African plaitings and beautiful cornrows known among little children is wrong, irreligious, immodest and sinful? My baby girl in Pry 5 and her sister in JSS 2 should as well go on low cut as their mother did way back then.

Also - He noted that all citizens are allowed to practise their religions as long as no harm or inconvenience is caused to other people.
Christians in the north and many other places where Islam wants to dominate are not allowed to wear skirts in primary or secondary schools. They wear trousers and compulsorily cover their hair.

I dedicate this piece to Leah Sharibu
(The only one they didn't kill but left to conquer her virginity, resolve, faith, deprive her freedom and education. The only one not released because of her faith. The only one who's not an issue because she's a Christian. The only one they didn't release baboons and dogs to rescue her because she's a Christian)