₦airaland Forum

A year later, still nobody?

Abagworo:
The use of the word tribe and tribalistic has infected nigerians so much.this idea is such a great one looking at our dying textile industry.the uniforms could be a combo of cotton tops and adire skirts or trousers.the only thing that might seem funny is wearing agbada or bubu to school.

Orisirisi agbada, buba, kembe, soro. . .kai, that will be very funny o

I am a Yoruba man and a Muslim and I don't have any problem relating to people of other tribes and religions. I try as much as possible to be detribalized. I have defended Ibo and Hausa/Fulani on NL here in the past. I was labelled 'Fulani behind-licking guy' by somebody on NL. Of course, as a proud Yoruba man, I have genuinely defended my tribe from what undue bashing too.

I am a practising Muslim, and the moderator of the Muslims section on NL. I am even more active in Politics section, and sometime Sports, where I relate and agree with other non-Muslim political contributors on various issues. Ditto for other sections. Many people here did not even know my religious affiliation.

Ethnic and religious bigotry, I believe, cuts across all tribes and religions in Nigeria. I lost an election in the University because of my religious affiliation. I have met people that dislike me for no other reason than my religious affiliation. And in the same vein, I have seen people of different faiths and tribes that passionately defend me in matters some people would have allowed religious and tribal sentiments to override their objectivity. On NL here for example, popular Funmi Deepzone(I prefer to call her by real name cos she changes ID from time to time) is one of my passionate defenders, especially on that 'Kwara goat' thread that somewhere degenerated to Jarus/Ife-Eco-06 bashing some two years ago. And this is someone that dislikes my religion passionately. She doesn't let that becloud her sense of reasoning. Conversely, the only reason why some people dislike me on NL here is because I am a Muslim, so anything I say elsewhere, they look at it from religious prism and start attacking me.

In real life, I think it is not this bad, especially in Lagos. Lagos is very cosmopolitan and people hardly care about your religion and tribe. I work in an office that has many Hausa and Ibo and we all relate perfectly.

I'm not saying I'm totally immuned from the almost natural inclination to have religious and tribal sentiment reflect in one's action, but I try to nip in the bud before acting on the prompting. I will never deny a more quailified Christian or atheist or Hausa or Ibo a job or an opportunity because I share a different view from him/her. That's a no-no.

This is why ThisDay columnist Simon Kolawole remains my favourite analyst. Through his 'Simon Kolawole live' column on ThisDay on Sunday, he has been preaching one Nigeria, despite being a born-again Christian and an Ekiti Yoruba man.

Ivorian Didier Drogba has been voted BBC African footballer of the year, beating Samuel Eto'o and three others to the award.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/8448439.stm

'All-time' and 'in the last decade' are two different words with different words. 'All-time' and 'ever' are interchangeably used.

I guess you mean 'best striker in the alst decade'. I don't think that is debatable. Ronaldo De Lima has it.

But if you mean 'all-time', i.e 'best striker ever', that will be subject to debate and I don't think I can answer that.

[quote author=the_truth link=topic=20477.msg5275779#msg5275779 date=1262968222]@post:

The truth is Islam is a vicious faith and the origin of it is from the Quran.

The evidence of all these is there for all to see. Recently Farouk AbdulMuttalab attempted to blow himself up in an aeroplane bound for Detroit.

What type of religion will teach someone to blow himself up ? Certainly that religion does not come from God.[/quote]Hey, Islam did not teach Farouk to blow himself up.

FUNMZIE:
@ Jarus
I do not know the source. A friend sent it to me and I felt I should share.
Thanks anyway

You're welcome

justfash50:
@jarus & uplawal

Salam to both of u and all muslims on Nairaland.

You both have similar issue u r asking from ALLAH, why dont u hook up at least u r muslim and u share similar view in the DEEN.

Uplawal don get her alfa o . . .as yours sincerely is working out a work-in-process Hajia

Abuzola and toba's posts of threat deleted.

Abu Zola:
Jarus, many mocking thread or thread that is diverted to hurling insult should be lock, the religion section is upholding all this

I have always upheld it, except when I have not seen it.

iwaboy:
Muslim organisations make alot of efforts in educating ppl all over the country. I'm aware of the efforts of the TMC, the Deen Digest brothers in Lagos, the Markaz Dawah in Lagos, the Tadaomun in Ibadan, the Izalatu bid'a in the north, the MSSN all over the country and others that I may not remember to mention. One of the major hindrances is fund to put most of their programms on air.I agree with you 100% that nothing has changed with regard to the population of male-female with female being more than the males. If you are previleged to know what happens in organisations where there are males and females you will see many women who are needy of husbands. The fact remains that Allaah, Who knows ppl's condition has allowed polygamy has a solution to many problems.
Allaah knows best.

Nice input. These organizations are trying to return people to the path of pristine Islam as against the spread of innovative practices. I am personally a product a product of MSSN as the little I know about Islam was inspired by MSSN while in the Uni.

Why u no give us source now?
Thank God I ahve across it on Nigeria Voillage square: http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/dr-gary-k-busch/as-yu-sel-yusef-na-so-di-wol-go-bai-yu.html

Yes, but we will give a fiercer resistance. Obasanjo's assertiveness could be of help here.

MUNEER2:
Alhamdulillahi

I find it so difficult to finish Suratul Kaf today, my head is aching badly

Same here, half way already, but will struggle to finish b4 monghrib insha Allah.

Barka Juma'ah. Got to mosque quite early today, unlike previous weeks. The Imam prayed for Yar'adua and talked about Farouk.

Igba odun, odun kan

How real are you? Sorry to ask. If you can send a mail to jarusnairaland@yahoo.com confirming your realness, then I will link you up with correct guys.

It's another audit period. . . so got a lot to attend to these days.

Can TKB help out?

uplawal:
@jarus,honestly i cant wait but not pikin sha but child infact i want six or seven of them help me include it too in prayers,four boys and three girls or 3girls and3boys, i love large family

OK. . . . insha Allah, Allah will grant your wish of child, not 'pikin'.

uplawal:
pls brothers and sisters,pls remember me in prayers, i want to get married this year insha Allah and get pregnant too

u fit even born pikin ds year. . .

zayhal:
Jarus,

I sent a post to the thread 'What Faroul preahed' last night. A few minutes later, it's nowhere to be found. I resent again and the same thing happened, yet it's on my last posts profile. Ki lo nsele?

Are you talking about your post on that vanguard article? It's there now. You even posted it twice.

Ina lilahi wa inna ilaehi rajiun. . . just reading Babs' loss of dear one, even though it's been almost two years now.

We've started writing Egypt off again. . . as we did in Ghana two years back!

;d

Zimex:
Am a Business Analyst with an Oil and Gas company. My manager is still away on vacation and work is very slow. i spent major part of yesterday on the internet. Am trying to enjoy it as much as i can, because as soon as he comes back, pressure starts.

Yes, I catch you. So you spend the whole day on internet when I travel. I'll be back from vacation.

My dear bro, it's okay to be choosy, just do it rightfully.  For example, if you choose a muslim lady that doesn't pray (as she should) over a christian lady that claims to wannabe a muslim in order to marry u, you are RIGHT.

It's not possible. I wont approach a lady that doesn't pray or cover her head in the first place. That's the minimum.

But don't choose a lady simply because she is from Ilorin and not from Lagos (very typical of Ilorin people - my mother is from there and my father has Ilorin family ties too).  There are ladies in Lagos who are very religious, respectful, highly educated and BEAUTIFUL too.  I understand you are trying to please your parents in that regards but my dear, don't waste your time, most importantly don't loose a potential lifetime partner to tribalism.

I abhor tribalism in its minutest form. I passionately dislike this 'marry only Kwara' thing our parents do. I have been a rebel in the family because of this strange stance. I try to make them see reason that I don't care even she's oyinbo or Igbo, in as much as she's a Muslim. I told them they can't stop me. And in fact, if Hajara's had worked out, I would have stood my ground to standstill and I know after serious persuasion, they would finally accept and bless it. I was ready to break the tradition by marrying that Nupe lady but due to to tribalism in her own family too, it didn't work out.

So I don't subscribe to tribalism at all. I don't have any problem with Lagos ladies personally, but then, one needs to respect one's parent's wish and amke them happy, even as one tries to convince them that tribalism is not allowed in Islam.

diggler:
Now aint this something

Lil Ol'Me with the singular Honour of the First Post of 2010.

Welcome to the sunny side peeps.

Slow start to the Year as usual.

Keep up the Hustle.

Shout out to AjanleKOKO Master for is award.

Peaceful & Profitable days ahead.

Cheers

oh first post coming 5th day of the year, wetin happen

Jarus has been quite busy processing end of the year transactions and preparing schedules for auditors. It's operation zero tolerance for error as the whole finance up our game to ensure we have a hitch-free audit exercise. Yours sincerely can't afford to be left out too. So will be extremely busy all through the week, as we expect the auditors next week.

[quote author=9jii. link=topic=367745.msg5252596#msg5252596 date=1262693699]thats only in d south coz i grduat but i never speak English for more than five minutes b\c i m in the north.[/quote]

[quote author=@labiyemmy link=topic=376202.msg5252410#msg5252410 date=1262691957]if he did that - you and others will cry out that he is not serious and should get serious and solve the problems of Nigeria. Some people just simply write for writting's sake.[/quote]abi jare. Na wa for Nigerians.

While I see nothing wrong in a President engaging in some funny, amusing acts once in a while( a la Obasanjo), I don't think failure to do so has anything to do with performance.

Obasi confirmed in : http://www.kickoff.com/static/news/article.php?id=13118

Crackles hands down. Not unexpected.

Oh, sissy beats my Aisha2 

Congrats sha