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DatNiggaAk:
Instead of going for a kidney transplant, I will advise OJB to set up a kidney dialysis center with the money that is raised for him. People with transplants don't live longer than 10-12 years before the kidneys fail and they would have to take anti-rejection drugs for as long as they live.

Living with a transplant involves spending a lot of money which would stress the family if they are not well to do. Dialysis cost about N3,000.00 normally in the USA but is probably more expensive in Nigeria because there are few of the machines available. Dialysis will make one live a full life as long as he follows the lifestyle change given by the doctor on what to eat and what not to ingest. It's done like twice a week and apart from the inconvenience of sitting down for a couple of hours with tubes stuck into the body, you're good.

Setting up a dialysis center will ensure OJB gets his dialysis done on time, he will generate income for himself, generate employment for his workers and provide extra machines for the teeming population who don't have ready access to dialysis even when they have the cash to pay.

Kidney failure has little to do with alcohol consumption. High uncontrolled blood pressure has a lot to do with it. Diabetes is another factor. So OJB, if you're reading this, a transplant is not the best solution. You are literate. Go online and research your best options. I'm not a medical doctor. I researched online because I don't want to suffer kidney failure after a friend had it. He went to India for a transplant and was advised by doctors to stick to dialysis...

No one should ever take this kind of advice. Dialysis is not an option, it is a stop gap measure pending when a Kidney transplant can be done. Dialysis is a terrible process. Just imagine having a tube stuck in your neck or arm for weeks, and having to sit for 4 hours to get an expensive dialysis process done 3 to 4 times a week!. It is horrific. The key word is if you are at risk of Kidney disease then watch out for the triggers. Govt. definitely needs to subsidise dialysis, we just have a bunch dumb asses in the Reps & Senates. These are the kind of issues they should be discussing. There is no reason why govt. hospitals shouldn't be flooded with Dialysis machines.

It is so sad, there is nothing like emergency response in this country. The man is still lying by the roadside, who certified him dead Accident victims are simply left to die with little or no help

It reads:

“My Brother, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky: it’s not too late to repent.



After registering my condolences to the recent loss of your three children who were gunned down by some elements in the military, I find it an obligation to help you see that some of your actions too are the contributing factors in this unfortunate avoidable tragedy.

What I fear most for you and your followers is that the consequence of this tragedy may further alienate your group from the mainstream society and create a cult -if it’s not already one – with disastrous consequences on you, your followers and the nation at large. For you especially, on the Day of Judgment you will account for your actions or deeds.

My brother, you have brought a lot of bad innovations among Nigerian Muslims that rather than unite the Muslims are further entrenching the divide without any added value to the worldly development nor the hereafter, but rather with serious theological implications in the hereafter.

What triggered my attention to your group now is the most recent close encounter I had with a procession of your followers on the highway from Kano to Zaria yesterday 8th Dec. 2014 on my way to Dutse. About four to six thousand youth and children trekking long distance for hours. I gave a two hour lecture in Duste and met them still trekking on my way back.

I cannot understand which civil or religious law gave you the right and liberty to block one side of the double carriage road forcing motorists to cramp each other dangerously on one lane. If your actions is to propagate your creed, I am telling you, you will only attract the poor young ignorant miscreants of the society. Never the sane except of course the disgruntled.
The delinquency of your followers and the disturbance of public peace is what makes you and them an easy target of the authority. This is happening when you can as well do very well without such unscrupulous public misbehavior.

Disruption of traffic flow is in fact a sign of unfaithfulness and lack of civilization. In a Hadith narrated by Muslim, the noble prophet -Alaihis Salatu was Salam- said: “Faith has seventy something or sixty something branches. The best of it is the testimony that there is no diety to worship except Allah and the least of it is removal of harm from the road and shyness is also a branch of faith.” And Al-bukhari narrated “that the prophet himself use to remove injurious things and dirt from the road”. All this to make the road and traffic safe and smooth.

This is the good example you should copy. But unfortunately, instead of that, you are doing exactly the opposite by blocking roads and forcing vehicles to dangerously face each other on one lane displaying arrogance and lawlessness. Young men brandishing knives and unsheathed swords, beating their chest, carrying inciting placards and chanting hate songs.
How can you be the good servants of Allah when you are exactly opposite of what the Quran described them? Allah said:
“And the servants of the Merciful Allah are they who walk on the earth in humbleness, and when the ignorant address them, they say: Peace. * And they who pass the night prostrating themselves before their Lord and standing. * And they who say: O our Lord! turn away from us the punishment of hell, surely the punishment thereof is a lasting * Surely it is an evil abode and (evil) place to stay. * And they who when they spend, are neither extravagant nor parsimonious, and (keep) between these the just mean. * And they who do not call upon another god with Allah and do not slay the soul, which Allah has forbidden except in the requirements of law and justice, and (who) do not commit fornication and he who does this shall find a requital of sin; * The punishment shall be doubled to him on the day of resurrection, and he shall abide therein in abasement; * Except him who repents and believes and does a good deed; so these are they of whom Allah changes the evil deeds to good ones; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. * And whoever repents and does good, he surely turns to Allah a (goodly) turning. * And they who do not bear witness to what is false, and when they pass by what is vain, they pass by nobly. * And they who, when reminded of the communications of their Lord, do not fall down thereat deaf and blind. * And they who say: O our Lord! grant us in our wives and our offspring the joy of our eyes, and make us guides to those who guard (against evil). * These shall be rewarded with high places because they were patient, and shall be met therein with greetings and salutations.* Abiding therein; goodly the abode and the resting-place.” Q25/ 63-76.

My Brother, you have already lost three children on this path to perdition and shirk, so please repent and don’t capitalize on the ignorance of our gullible youth to mislead them. If you don’t correct them now, when you die, Allah will not forgive you for whatever deviation they may add to yours.
“That they may bear their burdens entirely on the day of resurrection and also of the burdens of those whom they lead astray without knowledge; now surely evil is what they bear.” Q16/25.

My Brother, I write you this open letter for others also not necessarily in your sect to get admonition. It is never intended to trigger a sectarian argument. It’s about public order and mannerism.
May Allah guide us all to his pleasure and give us the courage to revert back to the truth and what is righteous. Amin!”(Edited).
BY Dr. AHMAD GUMI
http://abusidiqu.com/ahmad-gummis-letter-to-sheikh-el-zakzaky-in-2014-criticising-the-blocking-of-public-roads/

KingEbukasBlog:
What's the purpose of making fun of her size ?

Thanks for calling us back to our senses

What i wonder is: How do your parents feel? When they see their once innocent daughter selling her sexuality for money.

Geesarki:
The ppl that still think the army were aggressive didnt see the video footage where d army spokesman Col Kukah Sheka kept begging these touts while they kept chanting nd throwing stones to the contingent of number one soldier in Nigeria which includes many other generals. Infact; these ppl got less than they deserved. The military institution must be respected or else the sovereignty of Nigerian state would be put to question. You dont stay in Zaria to see the untold hardship ppl go thru wen ever these ppl are having their procession which happens regularly.

What Shiites did deserves to condemned in the strongest terms. I saw video, i saw them carrying sticks and I saw stones. But to be fair killing abiut 200 people under that circumstances is an over extreme use of force. Unless the figures I heard are an exaggeration. I saw the video that also showed the army clearing them at their base, there was no sign of combat confrontation, the army simply had a filled day executing them with little or no resistance. The army over reacted to be candid.

EdCure:
Do you blame people for complaining, based on how islam has been represented by its true adherents?

Who will hear the word islam, mosque, alla, muslims and not run for cover?

Even the moslems that are yet to be radicalised are more comfortable living in non-muslim environments than in an islamist dominated one.

It. is because of idiots like you that. Internet censorship is being considered. You can hate Islam and Muslims as much as u want, come and see christians leaving the east in their droves to come and live in the north, even they are many in Maiduguri. Islam remains the fastest growing religion in the world, even with people like you, you can't stop what God has ordained.

meforyou1:
why should anyone complain?

That's exactly the point!. But the issue is that many xtians would have complained, some wud have even cursed. Perhaps He was just trying to make people reason, that was why He raised it

callmenow:
The author failed to argue his 'point'. You cannot eat your cake and have it. If we want western democracy, then we must adhere to the rule of law in its entirety. Dr Okonjo Iweala has confirmed that she followed due process. She referred to a council meeting which was constituted according to our constitution, which sanctioned the expenditure through Dasuki. In other words, this was federal government decision, not merely Jonathan or Dasuki's. In other words, the money was NOT illegal. HOWEVER, I am angry that the money was not used judiciously to purchase the necessary arms to subdue boko haram. Although I UNDERSTAND the western governments refused to sell arms to the Jonathan administration. Just like they have refused to sell arms to Buhari administration, which means black market arms purchase. Inevitably, you will need to use cash to avoid western spies from monitoring the purchase and subsequent sanctions. The thing is that these things are rather very complex, yet simple minded people are arguing the matter in a simplistic manner, out of ignorance. Dasuki has defiantly stated that he will SEE the Fed in court next week. We will wait and see how the whole thing unfolds. The federal government is acting with impunity by arresting people Willy nilly. Dasuki, dalhatu, Kanu,etc. People are being picked off the street by DSS, EFCC, POLICE, etc. Then they are not charged. That is illegal by the government. It could be you tomorrow.

Your argument is filled with a lot of assumptions in favour of Dasuki. No. 1 Dasuki has been charged to court, it is normal procedure to first arrest a suspect which Dasuki is. No. 2 FG is privileged to more info. on this matter than you & I. Lets agree they had to purchase these weapons thru black market, then they should be able to produce the money or the weapons regardless of the source of purchase. FG's case against Dasuki, Dokpesi etc is completely legitimate, it is up to Dasuki, Dokpesi etc to prove otherwise. We the citizens should not concern ourselves with the allegations of witch-hunting, as long as the concerned parties are guilty let them face the law. When the PDP assumes power in future, let them also probe Buhari & do their own witch-hunting.

kwaraguy:
Pictures of before & now. It has to be plain for me to believe it

Well, how did the guy who supposedly got healed from bed-wetting know He had been healed!.

bigtt76:
Isssokay.... all those celebs with small nyansh and boobs ona don get hope be dat o! Boob job in Naija at an affordable price ..... miraculously without having to go under the knives

That's Oyedepo the business man for you!. He knows his target market well ahead.

These pastors are fast becoming comedians. Don't blame though, Nigeria is filled with gullible souls.

richidinho:
THANK GOD

Op, For taking that pix you get mind, take a bow and go


_{lalasticlala are u there?}

Na lie. That pix is of NNPC station in Mando, Kaduna

If found guilty. i recommend Life sentence

The sharing of money is not really the problem. Resource control will leave Nigeria far worse of. It is simple, Keep all the money in the Niger Delta and the Niger delta states will become super rich. And the rest of Nigeria will head there (just like people headed for Lagos, Abuja etc). In the long run, you would have a country with a few very rich states and many very poor states.

What we should clamour for is judicial spending of our resources. Govt's expenditure must be transparent, corruption must be reduced to the barest minimum. We must encourage probe of Govt. officials / spendings. We can't be building a road that cost 100 million naira for 1 billion naira and expect development. Our refineries can not be undergoing turn-around maintenance forever and yet not produce a single drop of PMS!!!. The citizens of this country must focus on the real issues and ask the real questions. Ben Murray Bruce will do better by asking the question "why are our refineries not working?"; "Why is it that after spending millions of dollars on turn around maintenance, our refineries are still not working?".

Why are we not having gas to power our Gas stations for electricity
Why are there not enough hospital beds in the General Hospitals

These are the questions to be asked.

espionagesavvy:
Dear Cynthia
I caught my husband of five years sniffing the panties of my 15 years niece. I don't know if I should confront him or let the issue lie.
I also think he bought my niece a new blackberry phone because the day I insisted on making my niece tell me where she got the phone, he became too overprotective of her and we almost fought over the issue.

My niece recently lost her father, making my sister a widow who let go of her children to stay with her relatives, that is how my niece came to stay with me,
On the 26th of November 2015, I saw him at the backyard next to the heap of clothes my niece brought out to wash, he picked up a pant, my niece's pant and sniffed it, I almost screamed where I was.
Also I keep noticing the look they exchange, very flirtatious.

Lastly my niece is acting like she is his wife, she dishes his food even before the children's food, doesn't knock before opening the door of our bedroom, and the most disturbing is, she asks my husband where he is going when he wants to go out as if she is his wife, my husband is 37 and this girl is 15, I suggested to my husband that we send her off to a boarding school, he rejected the idea and even got angry with me saying it will affect the girl psychologically, as if I want to dump her in a boarding house and run away. I want to confront my husband but I have no evidence, and for my niece I respect my eldest sister so much that I don't know what to do, I feel like an outsider in my own home.

P.S. My husband is a banker and also a pastor at our church.

I sincerely need your advice.
Thank you.

Sad depressed housewife in Ikeja

Talk to him. Tell him you have noticed your relationship is not as rosy as before, and it worries you. Discuss with him on how you guys can make things better. You may not talk to him about the pant issue, but you really have to sit your niece down and lecture her on how inappropriate it is for her to badge into your bedroom. Lecture her generally about womanhood, and observe things for a while.

This is a tough and sensitive issue to address; however if you fear that their relationship may already start going physical. Sit your husband down and let him understand you are not comfortable with you are seeing; if you are still not convinced send your niece home, it is better than allowing the devil come in between your marriage.

I just hope he signed service/maintenance contract for those vehicles, otherwise they will be all dead in 1 year.

Sagamite:
Explain to me why you think PMB has not been productive.

Tell me what achievements you expected in 6 months and which you have not seen.

I wait.

These are some of the achievements of the last 6 months:

1) Security: In the last 6 months, Buhari's Govt. have ensured BH remained on the back-foot. BH's control has been reduced severely and their capabilities dealt a big blow. B4 this Govt. BH was attacking our military and taking over barracks, the story is different now. BH's attack has been limited to sporadic suicide bombing, which is a sign of BH's frustrations. There is no gain saying in the fact that the war against BH is more in favour of the Nigerian military.

2) Financial Transparency & Management: Successful implementation of TSA is perhaps the biggest achievement of this country till date. The TSA is a unified structure of government bank accounts that gives a consolidated view of government cash resources. It is a system whereby all monies belonging to the government are domiciled in one account with the Central Bank of Nigeria; with payments out and collection into the account done via an electronic payment. The consolidation into a TSA paves way for the timely capture and payment of all due revenues into government coffers without the intermediation of multiple banking arrangements. This prevents leakages in terms of revenue loss and mismanagement by operators of all revenue-generating agencies.

N.B: This Govt. is still running the previous Govt's budget.

Smoke2015:
Look I saw this one legged approach to governance long before the elections. I tried to say it but my tiny voice was drowned by the baying mob of change seekers who refused to see beyond the emotional lynch mob who saw all the evil in the world in Jonathan.
We all failed to look at his past performance as a hamstrung military dictator whose main achievements where the war against indiscipline and the long prison terms that were handed over to hapless politicians. I knew it will come to this, I knew that the only song he could sing was that of the anti corruption lame song.
Even with that, I knew he would still be stunted. I knew he would not achieve much in a democratic state where he would just not be able to throw people into jail without recourse to the judicial system. He has cried out in frustration that the judiciary was aiding and abetting the corrupt officials. What did he expect, that he would just catch people and throw them into the gulag just like that? See the way Sambo Dasuki is embarrassing him in the courts and his personal vendetta against that one is so glaring that it's almost childish.

Look our problems today is much more than corruption. The way things are, I do not even care about any corruption again, I have even began to miss Jonathan's corruption. We need to reflate this economy, this Buhari's regime as presently configured does not have the capacity to understand that and is technically bereft to offer immediate solutions.

Did you all read that foreign opinion which circulated last week. Did you see how they insinuated that these gerontocrats archaic policies was driving away investors. No good news is coming out of our land. Foreign businesses especially South African businesses are being targeted. Just recently the huge Supermarket which employs thousands of Nigerians have been shut down claiming that they are selling expired products. This is a copy cat move by the Lagos government following the 'body Language' they have read from the Federal Government. The implications of this on Foreign Investment and the signal to the economy is lost on these useless marauders.

Today instead of a systematic policy of integration and a coordinated assault on the economy from both the fiscal and monetary angles what we get is a military type regime of fines. My brother at the last count, MTN, Guinness are suffering and I am sure a lot more is coming. This is bully economic tactics. How this will resolve long term infrastructural issues and worsening economic indices beats me.

Today anytime our lanky President speaks, it's about corruption, looters secretly returning the funds and how the judiciary is not helping him jail people. His advisers are left with nothing to proclaim but his body language as his achievements. Which body language can you read from a man who is almost permanently in the air. Fourteen foreign trips in six months, billions spent on the Presidential fleet, nothing fundamental coming out of those trips. The sweet smell of change is gradually turning into a foul smell of fart coming out of Buhari's backside.

We are hungry, we are loosing our jobs and crime is back with a vengeance, the rule of law is witnessing an unusual assault, small business is suffering the financial sector is in a comatose, ideas are drying up and the largest economy in Africa is on its knees in submission to a reformed dictator with no idea of modern economic trends surrounded by a band of advisers who remind me of drunken sailors in children fiction.

Kai, the Banks are beginning to show systemic distress. The CBN has come out to aggressively denounce it. They claim that no bank is in distress. That is the biggest lie from the pit of HELL. We know which banks are dying, we know which banks are no longer liquid and this thoughtless TSA policy is the main death knell to these Banks. The banks should have been given enough time to unlock their positions before this military type order which has led them to unraveling positions in almost a distress type sale to meet up the deadline and those who did not do that on time where slammed with monster fines. I can see that Baba is replacing long term jail sentences with world record fines. Laughter is my companion this Sunday morning as I write. Since the judiciary won't allow convictions, then let's slam Fines. Everything and everybody will be fined.

I saw this incompetence, I saw it very early and I shouted but like the lone voice in the wilderness I was not hearkened upon. Oh yea children of Nigeria, blood and sorrow will continue to be your plight until we stand up in one voice and shout the hallelujah by taking our own cross in our hands for we have no government.

The December deadline for the elimination of Boko Haram will certainly be another joke. I hear over 150 soldiers have been massacred recently. There has been no official confirmation so I will not comment, but whatever is the case, I still see the Boko Haram onslaught going far into our nearest future. The Biafrans are crying although misguided but the steam its gathering is being fueled by the frustrations of joblessness, fuel scarcity, harsh economic climate and rudderless leadership hence the seeming legitimacy of a very stupid and callous crusade.

Was Buhari prepared for this, I think not or why would it take him over six months to promulgate a cabinet of the usual suspects. If you were going to settle for Amaechi and Fashola why take that long. You see the mistake Buhari made was that unlike his predecessors Gowon and Obasanjo he never schooled himself after his overthrow. To the best of my knowledge he went back to Daura to his Cows neglecting to keep himself abreast with the happenings in global political economics. Obasanjo became a world statesman, engaging in various platforms of intellectual sagacity, delivering papers with global dimension and being respected for that. So when he came back, he understood the issues, the need for lesser government, the need to remove the subsidy on petrol, the need to create jobs, push for infrastructure and opening up the telecoms sector with little government involvement. What we saw was the foundations of the rebirth of the middle class and the continous push to the economic eldorado which crystallized in the Jonathan era.

Today what we are hearing is the over centralization of government. A policy of the 70s, a national carrier an idea that reminds you of cavemen tactics and a President who doubles as the Minister of Petroleum. We are back in the olden days of big government with its attendant inefficiencies, painfully slow policy formulation with little or no policy execution. The limiting of ground breaking ideas for fear of being clamped down or being totally ignored.

I saw it. I swear I saw it and I remain complacent fighting to keep a job that is being daily berated with thankless policies which continue to constrict the economy. Buhari, I thank you for the more people that Boko Haram has killed, for the businesses that have died and for the ones that cannot pay salaries, thank you sir. We will soon meet at the polls.

I saw this. I swear, I saw it.

Joseph Edgar is an investment banker, award winning writer/author, and non conformist.
He writes mostly from a satirical point of view and also comments on socio-economic issues.
He blogs at josephedgarng.bogspot.com

http://josephedgarng..com.ng/2015/11/buharis-incompetence-i-saw-it.html

All I see in this write-up is prejudice. Except you are expecting Buhari to perform miracles, I do not see much more He could have done in this little time. It is not enough to draw a long list of what is wrong with the Nigerian state, we should also include what brought Nigeria to this state. Buhari is certainly not guilty of the rot in govt. that saw us become an "under_developing" nation. I do not support in the idea of dwelling in the past because we have to move on as a nation, but if we can recover stolen loot for the good of this country I am definitely in support.

Where has Buhari erred In fight against corruption? The allegations against Dasuki are grave and it would be criminal to sweep them under the carpet. What should a responsible Govt. do Buhari has not put a sword on Dasuki's neck neither has He put a sword on Diezani's neck; all his govt. is trying to do is to prosecute them through our legal institutions, what can be wrong in this. Why should this even bother anyone

The fuel scarcity crisis can not be solved over night. Refineries are not built by mere wishes. I find it ludicrous that you would rather have us continue with the PDP govt. that had power for 16 years but had no answers to these same problems that have plagued us in the last 2 decade. But you want Buhari to solve them in a little over 6 months!!!.

TSA is a major achievement of this Govt. TSA is right and makes all the sense. All major policies anywhere in the world would have both positive and negative impact. In the long and short term TSA's benefits far outweighs its negative impact. Definitely, I expect CBN to rise to the task of preventing these banks from failing and I'll surely recommend the Sanusi's style. FirstBank today is listed among the banks under stress due to several bad loans including the ones they gave to Kola Aluko without collateral, but now you want to blame Buhari for their predicament.

If you really want to make an intellectual contribution, it would be best if you included "What exactly the Govt. is doing Wrong" and the alternatives i.e "What the Govt. Should have done Instead".

marquiseT:
@bookceleb
There are good people and there are bad people.. A wicked and unforgiving person will always be irrespective of his religion. they are human being first before they are Muslims.
I wish you will see what they did to you as bad and not put their religion in consideration. They did that to you not because of its what islam preaches but because of who they are. Its also nice to avoid ethnic, tribal and religious generalization.
SIWES is just a phase in life, let it go...Muslim or not, people will treat you the way you allow them treat you, carry yourself with self worth, don't give people the opinion you will take everything they dish out. Think about what your fault was in this matter and work on it to too. Don't EVER allow any one treat you like you worth less than you do, don't be overtly nice. Too much familiarity brings contempt... Ma salam

Good Advice. May I also add, never expect people to be nice or go out of their way to be good to you. That way when they fall short it doesn't hurt you. I understand you held these people in high esteem, so when they disappointed you it really hurt you. I am also an introvert, and I understand how difficult it can be when in a crowd not to talk of when it appears everyone is against you. Forget about it and just move on with your life, these people who hurt you so bad may not even remember or know what they did to you.

Source: http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/6-quran-quotes-teach-love-tolerance-freedom-religion/

Islam according to the Quran teaches love and compassion for every human being, no matter their religion, says author Adnan Oktar whose television show is watched by millions in Turkey and the Arab world. He believes the problem for the majority of Muslims is that some groups are following traditions and superstitions invented centuries after the Quran was first sent and the Prophet lived, and these have gotten more radical over time.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, Oktar published a book, Islam Denounces Terrorism. He argues that violent and intolerant beliefs about Islam go against the teachings of the Quran. Here, he presents six quotes that support his claim.

1) Peace is the cornerstone
The word “Islam” is derived from the word meaning “peace” in Arabic. Islam is a religion revealed to mankind with the intention of presenting a peaceful life where the infinite compassion and mercy of God manifests on earth. God calls all people to live by the moral values He sets so that compassion, mercy, peace and love can be experienced all over the world.

“O You who believe! Enter absolutely into peace (Islam). Do not follow in the footsteps of satan. He is an outright enemy to you.” (Holy Quran: 2, 208)

In the verse above, Islam intrinsically calls for peace and fosters a life in absolute sincerity and honesty before God. Therefore it is vitally important for an individual to believe in God with his own will and aspiration, and observe God’s commands and advice through personal conscientious contentment.

2) No one should be forced to believe in Islam
“There is no compulsion where the religion is concerned.” (Holy Quran: 2/ 256)

As stated in the verse, no one can be compelled to live by Islamic morals. Conveying the existence of God and the morals of the Qur’an to other people is a duty for believers, but they call people to the path of God with kindness and love and they never force them. It is only God Who guides people to the right way. This is related in the following verse:

“You cannot guide those you would like to but God guides those He wills. He has best knowledge of the guided.” (Holy Quran/28: 56)

3) Freedom of thought and religion are paramount

The Quran provides an environment where people can fully enjoy freedom of thought and freedom of religion and allows people to live by the faith and values they believe in. According to Islam, everyone has the right to live freely by his beliefs, whatever they may be. Anyone who wants to support a church, a synagogue or a mosque must be free to do so. In this sense, freedom of religion, or freedom of belief, is one of the basic tenets of Islam. There is always freedom of religion wherever the moral values of the Qur’an prevail.
That is why Muslims also treat Jews and Christians, described in the Qur’an as “the People of the Book,” with great justice, love and compassion. God says in the Qur’an:

“God does not forbid you from being good to those who have not fought you in the religion or driven you from your homes, or from being just towards them. God loves those who are just.” (Surat al-Mumtahana,

4) Compete with each other in doing good
Muslims who share these basic values believe in the need to act together with Christians and Jews. They therefore strive to eliminate prejudices stemming from provocations by unbelievers and fanatics. Jews, Christians and Muslims should strive together to spread moral virtues across the world.

God explicitly states that the existence of people from different faiths and opinions is something that we have to acknowledge and welcome heartily, for this is how He created and predestined humankind in this world:

“We have appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had God willed, He would have made you a single community, but He wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to God and He will inform you regarding the things about which you differed.” (Surat al-Ma’ida, 48)

In acknowledgment of this fact, Muslims have an inner love and compassion for people of all faiths, races and nations, for they consider them as the manifestations of God in this world and treat them with an heartfelt respect and love. This is the very basis of communities administered by Islamic morality.

The values of the Qur’an hold a Muslim responsible for treating all people, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, kindly and justly, protecting the needy and the innocent and “preventing the dissemination of mischief”. Mischief comprises all forms of anarchy and terror that remove security, comfort and peace.

“God does not love corruption”. (Surat al-Baqara, 205)

aleshmotors:
End time guy, may God forgive him for is foolishnes cos d plan of God 4 us is of good.Since 07 wey I graduate,i never use my certificate work nd I thank God 4 my life. If I seebuyer better buyer 4 d certificate I won selam.smh on dose silly lecturers

lol

How can someone take this seriously. Sugabelly's describes the incidence in a non-remorseful manner for lack of a better word. She doesn't sound sad or horrified by the incidence; but instead she repeatedly used the word "Bleep" several times like it would be done in a sex magazine. She was more concerned in describing the sexual act in graphic details. Of what use was it describing the sexual positions etc.

How can someone take this seriously. Sugabelly's describes the incidence in a non-remorseful manner for lack of a better word. She doesn't sound sad or horrified by the incidence; but instead she repeatedly used the word "Bleep" several times like it would be done in a sex magazine. She was more concerned in describing the sexual act in graphic details. Of what use was it describing the sexual positions etc.

VICKYE:
This is wrong indeed. There is no one Nigeria though. I feel the unity and love is triggered when everyone is using same uniform. That covering of face should be abolished and condemned. Those girls MAY not even be virgins. Hence, they should dress like others.

Why do you need them to share your dressing sense. Unity is when we accept others for what they are not what we want them to be.

tobillionaire:
Long hijab shld b disallowed... Are dy nt feeling heat sef

No problem. Do you also agree that the catholic sisters (Nuns), should be made to remove their head coverings and adorn normal attires

Kbs468:
Well done for this insight.
But as regard your question, I believe it must have been captured by the electoral act setting up INEC and its electioneering activities too

Tough Nut to crack. PDP may take advantage of this, because the election is not concluded yet. Had it been the election was conclusive then the APC Deputy Governor candidate will step in automatically. But as it is, it may turn out that in the eyes of the law, the APC has no Gubernatorial candidate and as such votes casted for APC are null and void.

Rotimi47:
State the good that Amin did to his people; Africans like you are the reason African countries make up most of the least developed countries in the world due to your reasoning.

Most of the stories people know about Idi Amin are those the west (his enemies) told about him. They simply made a monster of the man; yeah He was a dictator, that refused to be a western puppet, but He may not be as demonic as they have painted. But Idi Amin should serve as a lesson to western leaders, you can't force down change, you have to be diplomatic and clever. Mugabe also towed this line and Zimbabwe is still suffering the consequences till today.

A marriage built on vanity, would collapse because of vanity.

OUR PROPHET (SAAS) FORETOLD THE INCIDENTS HAPPENING
IN IRAQ AND ISIS 1400 YEARS AGO

All daily events unfolding in the Middle East that we follow everyday on media were foretold 1400 years ago by our Prophet (saas) with all their details. He described these incidents as if he saw them himself. This a great miracle.

1. THOSE WITH BLACK BANNERS WILL APPEAR FROM THE EAST
WHEN THOSE BLACK BANNERS APPEAR IN THE (EAST) in Khorasan... (al-Ghaybah Nomani, p. 228)

In the hadith the attention is drawn to a community who will appear with black banners from the East. As is known, al-Qaida appeared with big black banners from the East.

2. AGAIN FROM THE EAST, THIS TIME A SMALLER GROUP WITH BLACK BANNERS WILL APPEAR

... Once they proceed for a while, AGAIN FROM THE EAST, THIS TIME SMALL BLACK BANNERS APPEAR... (Hadith from the Compilation of Jalâleddin Suyuti, The Portents of the Mahdi of the End Times, p.61, hadith no. 7.77)

As is known, ISIS was once affiliated with al-Qaida, but then they separated their ways. That is, following the big black banners, this time ISIS appeared as a group with smaller black banners.

3. BEFORE THE APPEARANCE OF THOSE WITH BLACK BANNERS THERE WILL BE CONFLICTS IN SYRIA

“Following the three portents await the appearance of Imam Qaim (Mahdi)”
They asked him: “What are these portents?” The appearance of black banners from Khorasan and fear in the month of Ramadan.” (Bihâr al-Anvâr, 14)


4. THOSE WITH BLACK BANNERS WILL BE IN SYRIA
…And again WHEN A MAN WITH SMALL BLACK BANNER IS SEEN IN DAMASCUS (SYRIA)... (Hadith from the Compilation of Jalâleddin Suyuti, The Portents of the Mahdi of the End Times, p.61, hadith no. 7.

... Another portent of the (appearance of Mahdi) is that THE SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY WITH BLACK BANNERS knot THEIR HORSES TO THE OLIVE TREES IN DAMASCUS... (Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 23)

5. THEY WILL FIGHT AGAINST AL-ASSAD
... THEY FIGHT AGAINST A MAN FROM THE LINEAGE OF ABU SUFYAN (BASHAR ASSAD)… (Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 29)

The hadith refers to Hafiz Assad, who, throughout his power, had committed great massacres against Muslims and refers to him as Sufyan. Consequently the person who is from the lineage of Sufyan, against whom those with black banners would fight, is Bashar Assad.

6. THEY WILL HEAD FOR IRAQ AFTER SYRIA
BLACK BANNERS OF BEN-I ABBAS (IRAQ) appear…
(Nuaym bin Hammad,Qitab al-Fitan)

(Those with black banners) IN THEIR CITIES ON THE BANKS OF EUPHRATES, THEY WILL KILL THEM ON LAND AND IN THE SEA
(al-Ghaybah Nomani, p. 327)

7. THEY WILL OBTAIN RESULTS VERY RAPIDLY

While they are in that situation, banners will come from Khorosan, THEY WILL ACT SWIFTLY. (al-Ghaybah Nomani, p. 327)

They will come back from there with an army and will SEIZE Kufa and Basra IN ONE NIGHT… (Qitab al-Haft al-Sharif, p.174)

8. THE CITIES THEY ENTER WILL ALMOST BE PRESENTED TO THEM

Once something is not presented to them, they will gain a victory by waging war and WHAT THEY DESIRE WILL BE PRESENTED TO THEM. (Meclisi, Bihar al-Anwar, v.51, p.87))

9. THEIR HAIR AND MOUSTACHE WILL BE LONG

His (the commander of those with black banners) SOLDIERS’ HAIR AND MOUSTACHE WILL BE VERY LONG, their clothes are black and THEY ARE THE MEN OF THOSE WITH BLACK BANNERS. (al-Ghaybah Nomani, p. 303)

10. THEY WILL COMMIT MASS MURDERS

God will send someone hard-hearted and whose lineage is not known and he will have victories. THEY WILL MASSACCRE THEM (those opposing them) WITHOUT MAKING ANY DIFFERENTIATION. (al-Ghaybah Nomani, p. 303)

11. THEY WILL PROCEED TOWARDS KUFA.

THOSE WITH BLACK BANNERS appearing from Khorasan will COME DOWN TO KUFA…(Hadith from the Compilation of Jalâleddin Suyuti, Ahir Zamân Mehdisinin Alametleri, p.61, hadith no. 7.12)

12. THEY WILL TARGET JERUSALEM

BLACK BANNERS will appear from Khorasan and, nothing will stop them, UNTIL THEY ARE RAISED IN AYLIYA (JERUSALEM). (Hadith from the Compilation of Jalâleddin Suyuti, The Portents of the Mahdi of the End Times, p.61, hadith no. 7.3)

13. BECAUSE OF VIOLENCE AND INCREASE IN CONFLICTS, PEOPLE WILL START ASKING FOR MAHDI

A great war occurs. Ultimately black banners gain victory. The forces of Sufyan run away. THEN PEOPLE WILL START TO ASK FOR MAHDI AND LOOK FOR HIM. (Hadith from the Compilation of Jalâleddin Suyuti, The Portents of the Mahdi of the End Times, p.61, hadith no. 7.26)

14. BLACK BANNERS WILL ULTIMATELY ABIDE BY MAHDI and THEY WILL COME UNDER THE OBEDIENCE OF MAHDI. (Imam Suyûtî)

But they won’t accept it and GRANT IT TO MAHDI (AS) WHO IS FROM MY LINEAGE…(Mejlisi, Bihar al-Anwar, v.51, p.87)

15. AT THE TIME OF MAHDI WARS WILL COME TO A COMPLETE END AND NOT A SINGLE BLOOD WILL BE SHED

One of the main attributes of Hazrat Mahdi (as) is his never shedding a single drop of blood. It is not Mahdi who sheds blood, wages war or oppresses. Such fake Mahdis are doomed to failure.

(Mehdi) has such a vast justice that, EVEN A SLEEPING PERSON IS NOT AWAKEN AND NOT A SINGLE DROP OF BLOOD IS SHED. (Mejlisî, Bihâr Al-Anvâr, v.51, p.87)

THE PARTIES OF A WAR LAY DOWN THEIR WEIGHS [THEIR ARMS ETC.] No enmity will remain among anyone. All enmities, fights, envies will absolutely disappear. (Imam Sharani, Death-Doomsday-Hereafter and the Portents of the End Times, p. 496)

As it is seen, what our Prophet (saas) foretold comes to be true one by one. The incidents in the Middle East and the world proceed just as how our Prophet (saas) described.

It is a great miracle that these portents related in the hadiths come to be true with all their details. However these miracles are not mentioned by many Islamic scholars and they are ignored. Yet no matter how hard they try to conceal them, we are living in the End Times, in the last phase of the world.

By God’s will, the coming of Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) is near.

Source: https://web.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152782775073268

HaneefahRN:
Nice and intelligent post. I actually replied Misskiffy cos of the term backward she used and her relating it to Islam. In Islam there is no aayah in the Quran and no part of the hadith where a woman working is prohibited. She has her freewill to work if she pleases and not to if she wishes, she can't be forced to work neither can she be forced not to, if she wills. As long as the job is halal, no problem. [b]What I supported is the woman informing her husband and seeking his consent before taking up a job, of course the husband has no right to deny her of this. [/b]Women are encouraged to be Drs, nurses, teachers, whatever profession that will not involve lack of modesty and is halal.
Men and women are equal b4 God, and in the Quran it is said 'that ur wives are a garment to u, and u a garment to them', the husband and wife are expected to co-habit as partners in love.

Bro. Her husband has the right to refuse to allow to her work. Remember that it is obligatory to obey your husband unless he tells you to do something sinful. So if a husband tells his wife not to go out to work or to study, she has to obey him, and this will lead to her happiness and salvation. According to a hadeeth narrated by Ibn Hibbaan in his Saheeh, “If a woman prays her five daily prayers, fasts her month (of Ramadaan), guards her chastity and obeys her husband, it will be said to her: ‘Enter Paradise from whichever of its gates you wish.’” (Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’, no. 661).

But the husband should not exploit this right to hurt his wife’s feelings or ignore her opinion or go against her wishes. Rather he has to fear Allaah and try to consult with his wife and discuss with her, and explain the shar’i ruling to her, and give her permissible alternatives that will make her happy, develop her potential and achieve some of what she wants.

I don't know which Wife would not need her Husband's consent to work? . I mean there is already a problem in the marriage, if the Wife doesn't care if her husband wants her to work or not.!!!. If my wife must work, I must be okay with her place of work, I must consent to it.