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In thee bible, John 12:3-7

3 Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
7 “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. 8 You will always have the poor among you,[c] but you will not always have me.”

[b]Replacing Mary with "the congregation", Jesus with "Oristejafor", Judas Iscariot with "Nigerians", nard and perfume with "Jet", we have:

3 Then the Congregation took jet, an expensive jet; they gave it to Oritsejafor. And the house was filled with the delight of the jet.
4 But some of Nigerians, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this jet sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.[b]” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
7 “Leave them alone,” Oritsejafor replied. “It was intended that they should save this jet for the day of my burial. 8 You will always have the poor among you,[c] but you will not always have me.”

What has the man of God done wrong? OP, dig?

cheddarking: I have a tremendous fear of Ugly Girls...

Ugly girls terrify me...

I dont know why...

hmmmn

Horus: www.nairaland.com/attachments/880768_rob1_JPG46e9061d696c90ca0ebe35016fa27473

Notice how this policeman is contaminating the evidences. He do not wear rubber surgical gloves to touch the bullet case and put his own fingerprints on it. This is not a professional policeman.

Matters little. This is a bullet dude, not the gun! Unless u are insinuating the robbers fingers would have touched the "pellets" as they are being spewed out.

Bkl4real: Opposition Congress for Progressive Change, CPC  has described Doyin Okupe’s reaction to General  Muhammadu Buhari’s comment as unintelligent.The party said  the nauseous, intemperate and inane  mannerism of Okupe, the senior  special assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan as “a collective disgrace to us as Nigerians.”

“As a Party,” CPC said today, “we have often counseled that the churlish demeanor of Dr Doyin Okupe is deleterious to the Jonathan regime. The nauseous, intemperate and inane mannerism of Dr Doyin Okupe as a Presidential aide is a collective disgrace to us as Nigerians. Whilst it is understandable that there is usually a strong desire to desperately hold on to a rehabilitative Presidential appointment -in a clime bedeviled with festering deprivation and corruption- there is nothing noble in talking when there nothing to be said.

CPC added that, “the penchant for Dr Okupe in attacking whatever GMB says, with concomitant jettisoning of reason, is despicable and stands condemned. The good that the President can do to himself will definitely not be in pandering to the obsequious apologists around him like Dr Okupe but in properly distilling the well-meaning pieces of advice of acknowledged Patriots like GMB.

Read the full text of CPC’s statement below:

OKUPE’s unintelligent response to Buhari’s statement.

At the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), we have noted the cavalier, but utterly fatuous, statement by Dr Doyin Okupe, the Presidential Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, as a reaction
to the assertion of our National leader, General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB). It would be recalled that, at an interactive session with Journalists after the CPC Board of Trustees’ meeting on Wednesday,
November 07, 2012, GMB had unambiguously labeled this PDP government of President Goodluck Jonathan as the author of the political variant of Boko-Haram.
At a Channels’ interview session on Thursday, November 08, 2012, Dr Okupe abandoned reason as a tool for dialectical engagement (based on verifiable fact) and sounded like a broken record in mouthing the same over-used propaganda (not based on substantiated fact) that GMB incited his supporters to resort to violence during the 2011 electioneering campaigns. He said inter-alia: “during the election,
during the campaign, General Buhari himself campaigned for violence, so it is too late in the day to try to back track. Those who sow wind should not try and start and begin to look good.”  It was this same capricious but unfounded falsity that Dr Reuben Abati, his colleague in the business of image laundering project for President Good-luck Jonathan, wrote in his Guardian Newspaper column in May 2011; the
subject of a libelous litigation that Abati is desperately making attempts to untangle himself from.




For the sake of preserving the records from the desperate attempts of revisionists in the Nation’s power corridor, let us examine again the facts that stare us in the face about the consanguinity of this
PDP-led Federal Government of President Good-luck Jonathan with the Political Boko-Haram that had, in the last two years, inflicted incalculable damage on the essence of our Nationhood.

Fact one- Since the advent of the fourth republic which effectively started on May 29, 1999, aside the agitation of the Niger-delta militants for resource control, there had not been any structured infrastructure for mass attack on innocents and religious institutions as had been seen in the last twenty-five months. While Dr Good-luck Jonathan was still vying for the Presidential nomination of his Party, People’s Democratic Party (PDP), there was a bomb blast near the Eagle Square, Abuja during the Independence anniversary celebration on October 1, 2011. Whilst the dust was still settling on an infamy that claimed innocent lives with many others severely wounded and without any preliminary report from the security agencies on the incident, the President (Dr Goodluck Jonathan) spoke: “It is not MEND.”  A perspicacious check on the President’s statement would suggest that he had prior knowledge of the source of the blast. Of course, in the succeeding days, the Campaign Manager of one of the Political elements (from Northern Nigeria) that was contesting the party nomination with
him was invited for questioning by the Nation’s secret service as a way to deflect public gaze towards him. When he withdrew his candidacy, the president quickly incorporated his campaign manager
into the ‘Good-luck Jonathan campaign’ organization!

Fact two- In May 2011, Dr Reuben Abati, then Chairman, Editorial Board of Guardian Newspapers and Friday columnist of the same tabloid, wrote a piece in which he laid the blame of the post-election violence of April 2011 elections at the doorsteps of GMB. It did not matter to the writer that he had no empirical evidence to support his impudent assertion. Curiously, it was upon this decrepit literary predication that all other spurious attempts (on the Cyber-space and Nation-space) were based. After President Jonathan was sworn in on May 29, 2011, he replaced his former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ima Niboro, with Dr Reuben Abati! The question is: was this appointment a fitting reward to Dr Abati for the hatchet job of assisting to blacken GMB’s pedigree?

Fact Three- On Friday, August 26, 2011, the United Nations’ building in Abuja was bombed by a suicide bomber, leaving trail of several fatalities and many others with serious injuries. Asked if the attack
has adverse effect on the image of Nigeria, the president said, “Of course, wherever you have terrorist attack in any country, Nigeria is not an isolated case. Many countries have suffered from terrorists
attacks, may be it is the turn of Nigeria. But we are on top of the situation”.   On the first year anniversary of the bombed UN building, the government of Dr Good-luck Jonathan provided N3.2Billion to rehabilitate the UN house, made up of N2.6 Billion to start the building and N600Million to provide temporary accommodation, in addition to promised refund of $580,000 for the treatment of victims.
It did not really matter to this profligate PDP government that the United Nations, in its world-wide operations, has comprehensive insurance for its buildings and workers, even against terrorism! Was
the offer by the government of Dr Good-luck Jonathan made because, “it is Nigeria’s turn for terrorism?”

Fact Four- In January 2012, President Good-luck Jonathan told a bewildered nation, still smarting from the spate of murderous bombings in the Northern parts of the country, that his government has been infiltrated by Boko-Haram. The cogent questions are: How did the President know this as a fact? With the elaborate surveillance and espionage infrastructure under his watch, why has the Nation not been informed on the unmasking of these fifth columnists in his government? Since the preponderance of the cabinet members in his government consist of Party folks, has this challenge been finally resolved in
the usual PDP ‘family’ affair?

Fact Five- In February, 2012, Mohammed Ali Ndume, a serving PDP Senator from Borno South, was arrested for links with Boko Haram. In March 2012, the Senator deposed to an affidavit, wherein he stated that all his activities with Boko-Haram are known to the Nation’s Vice-President, Mr Namadi Sambo. There had not been any official rebuttal on the assertion, which realistically connotes acquiescence!

Fact Six- In April 2012, the erstwhile National Security Adviser to the President, General Andrew Azazi stated with a gusto that is devoid of ambiguity that Boko-Haram is PDP. It is a known fact that, as things stand today, President Good-luck Jonathan is the Leader of PDP!

Fact Seven- In April 2012, Henry Okah, the leader of the Niger-delta militancy group (MEND), deposed to an affidavit before a South African court that President Good-luck Jonathan was the sponsor of the October 1, 2011 bomb blast near Eagle square. There had not been any official rebuttal from the Nation’s Presidency!

Fact Eight- In October 2012, Mr James Ineh, an Assistant Director with the State Security Services (SSS), told a Federal High Court  that Senator Ali Mohammed Ndume gave Attorney-General of the Federation
(AGF) and Minister of Justice Mohammed Adoke’s telephone number to the Boko Haram. The raison d’etre for this reprehensible behavior was to ensure that the AGF influenced the Borno Election Tribunal to favour PDP’s cause!
As a Party, we have often counseled that the churlish demeanor of Dr Doyin Okupe is deleterious to the Jonathan regime. The nauseous, intemperate and inane mannerism of Dr Doyin Okupe as a Presidential aide is a collective disgrace to us as Nigerians. Whilst it is understandable that there is usually a strong desire to desperately hold on to a rehabilitative Presidential appointment -in a clime bedeviled with festering deprivation and corruption- there is nothing noble in talking when there nothing to be said. The penchant for Dr Okupe in attacking whatever GMB says, with concomitant jettisoning of reason, is despicable and stands condemned. The good that the President can do to himself will definitely not be in pandering to the obsequious apologists around him like Dr Okupe but in properly
distilling the well-meaning pieces of advice of acknowledged Patriots like GMB!
God bless Nigeria.

Rotimi Fashakin (Engr.)
National Publicity Secretary, CPC.
(Friday, November 09, 2012).



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Lastly, in reply to Henry Okah's normally-treasonable assertions, the FG threw an olive branch for an out-of-court settlement when the trial kicked off fully barely a month ago. And everything suddenly went dead on the issue. Why would FG waste the final opportunity to clamp Okah in jail for good for rubbishing the image and personality of the president of the federal republic?
Please don't tell me it's for security reasons for peace in Niger Delta because Henry Okah's dominion has suffered a huge set-back and his followership thinned as his lieutenant are now big money-baggers and contractors! They have made a life for themselves.

honeric01: Lol GMB must be related to the PDP government house issue in Bornu?
Ndume must be GMB brother
Azazzi must have been paid by GMB to lie too
Henry Okah is a member of CPC
Jonathan must have been drunk when he said his govt is filled up with boko haram members

Infact you get brain die.

What more can i add?! Common sense no common bro.

4 Play: http://saharareporters.com/article/budget-2012-5-defence-spending-nasir-ahmad-el-rufai

El Rufai wrote the above illuminating article at the start of the year. It's clear they need to downsize staff focusing on non-military staff to free up money to be spent on training and equipment. There should be an audit of the budget as it's clear wide scale looting is going on.

I read El-Rufai's highly researched article and truth be told. they very vital ingredients of national concern from which any good national leadership should borrow. El-Rufai did not sit on thee side and merely criticized, he suggested practical solutions which government should not be too arrogant to pick a few points from.
Back to Nigerian Army, it stinks is sufficient as summary. The glorious days of Abacha and Nigeria's regional military prowess is gone forever. Obasanjo's over-zealousness to exclusively keep power within his precincts killed our military! Again Obasanjo adds a feather to his already over-crowded crown.

Omen100: too bad , my people nor go ever get sense

We never get sense before. We were enslaved for 400 long years and couldn't even devise a sustainable self-defense plan.

Junk journalism!
Was he eventually arrested or released?
Was his bike impounded?
Nothing in the story detailed how he "evaded" arrest as the headline purported!

Vanguard Editor, dem suppose break bottle for u o!

[quote author=nna_bu_ike]I don't mean to spoil show here but there may be some connection with the price of garri here as follows:

1) people use money that they can save up to do beta thing and patronize onye njakili

2) onye njakili use his over valued position to buy big motor.

3) Over valued comodity is also known as arbitrage in financial economics. Arbitrage is never good for the ecomomy
because it makes it more volatile:

Now with regard to the matter on the affect of garri price

4)Money that could be spent buying garri is spent on frivolous overvalued onye njakili,

5) Price of garri drop because of artificial drop in demand. But as it is well known, there is constant demand for garri.

6) Drop in garri price kills biz for some garri hawkers. They get out of the biz therefore less competition.

7) Patronizers of onye njakili remember that garri is more important than onye njakili, they need to buy garri, but now there is less competition among seller and so they raise the price.

Conclusion: New BMW of onye njakili affect price of garri and also hurt the poor man because he don chop money for onye njakili and make price of garri go up. [/quote]LOL

Are you talking Niaja+Ghana only? Cos it's so narrow! Heaps of uncelebrated beauties in North, East and Southern Africa too.

I'm more interested in how many Billions they will claim for this tawdry effort.

One would think they should caution them on bogus lotteries in the name of promo too!!!
So much for a regulatory commission!

kingingkinging: People changing to Islam are getting worse- Michael Jacson-died miserably, Janet Jacson-career loss, Mike Tyson-career loss, Tupac Shakur-died mysterously,etc. I dont want any of the above. I was born a muslim but received the message of light of the Son Of God- Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life, if any man comes to me, though he dies, he shall live again. What an assurance from the master. Besides Jesus is not a religion but the way of salvation-any muslim who believes in his sonship, death and resurection shall go to paradise-like the thief at his right hand side on the cross.

Are you kidding me?! So all these guys are worse off?!

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer.[1] He initially converted from Christianity to The Nation of Islam to mainstream Sunni Islam.
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player[2]
Tariq Abdul-Wahad (Olivier Saint-Jean) - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings[3]
Thomas J. Abercrombie - photographer[4]
Éric Abidal (changed his name to Bilal) - French football player, currently playing for FC Barcelona, converted to Islam after marriage.[5]
Ivan Aguéli (Johan Agelii) - famous Swedish painter.[6][7]
Akhenaton - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.[8]
Muhammed al-Ahari born January 6, 1965 as Ray Allen Rudder is an American essayist, scholar and writer on the topics of American Islam, Black Nationalist groups, heterodox Islamic groups and modern occultism.
Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - former NFL player[9]
Sana al-Sayegh, dean of the Science and Technology Faculty at Palestine International University, converted to Islam in August 2007. Fatah has accused its political rival Hamas of forcing the professor to convert from Christianity, a charge Hamas denies.[10]
Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay), from Baptist[11][12] to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam.[13] Famous boxer.
Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley - British soldier and peer.[14]
Idi Amin - military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam.[15]
Ryan G. Anderson - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda[16][17]
Nicolas Anelka - French football player[18]
Farqad as-Sabakhi - an Armenian Islamic preacher who was formerly a Christian[19] known for his knowledge of Judeo-Christian scriptures.[20]
Aminah Assilmi - Formerly a Southern Baptist preacher, she converted to Islam in 1977 in college while trying to convert some Muslims to Christianity.
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Kristiane Backer - a German television presenter, television journalist and author residing in London.
Yasin Abu Bakr (Lennox Philip) - of Trinidad and Tobago, under trial for an attempted coup as of 9 March 2006[21]
Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker (Philip Barker) - professor of Urdu, former chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of South Asian studies and creator of the Tékumel fantasy world.[22]
Kevin Barrett - university lecturer and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.[23]
Abdullah Beg of Kartli - Georgian convert to Islam[24] who was a claimant to the kingship of Kartli.
David Belfield - American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident.[25]
Ronald Bell or Khalis Bayyan (born 1 November 1951, Youngstown, Ohio) is an American singer, composer and saxophonist
Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963–1969), Spain (1973–1976) and Morocco (1976–1983)[26]
Ibrahim Bey - an Egyptian Mamluk of Georgian Christian origins.
Art Blakey - American Jazz musician[27]
Wojciech Bobowski - raised Protestant, he was a Polish musician and translator of the Bible into Ottoman Turkish.[28]
Omar Bongo - Gabonese, President of Gabon.[29]
Claude Alexandre de Bonneval or Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa was an 18th-century French nobleman.[30]
Tawana Brawley (changed her name to Maryam Muhammad) - African American woman noted for claiming to have been raped by several white men, a claim determined to be a fabrication by a grand jury. Later in life she converted to Islam.[31][32][33]
Willie Brigitte - French convert to Islam who associated with al-Qaeda in Pakistan and was possibly involved in a plot to conduct a terrorist operation in Australia.[34]
Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - American musician.[35]
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was a Swiss traveller and orientalist.[citation needed]
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Torquato Cardilli - Italian ambassador, converted from Catholicism.[36]
André Carson - former Baptist,[37] second Muslim to serve the United States Congress.[38]
Count Cassius- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the Banu Qasi dynasty of Muladi rulers.[39]
Dave Chappelle - comedian and television star[40]
Benjamin Chavis - controversial former head of the NAACP; joined the Nation of Islam.
Chrisye - Indonesian singer. He changed his birth name to Chrismansyah Rahadi from Christian Rahadi
Hedley Churchward - English painter[41]
Aukai Collins - fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical book[42]
Jerôme Courtailler - one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists[43][44][45]
Robert D. Crane is the former adviser to President Richard Nixon, and is former Deputy Director (for Planning) of the U.S. National Security Council.[46]
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Ian Dallas - Abdalqadir as-Sufi — Sufi shaykh of Scottish origins.[47]
Olu Dara (born Charles Jones III in Natchez, Mississippi[1] on 12 January 1941) is an American cornetist, guitarist and singer
Snoop Dogg - Rapper, Joined Nation Of Islam.[48]
Mir Aadil Former Kupwara Protestant converted to sunnism.
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Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th-century explorer and writer[49]
Wadih el-Hage born to a Maronite Christian family in Sidon, Lebanon, a former al-Qaeda member.[citation needed]
Nathan Ellington - English football player[50]
C. Jack Ellis - Mayor of Macon, Georgia[51]
Keith Ellison - American, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, converted from Catholicism[52]
Yahiya Emerick - American Muslim scholar, President of the Islamic Foundation of North America, converted from Protestantism.[53]
Erekle I of Kakheti - Georgian convert to Islam[54] who ruled the kingdoms of Kakheti and Kartli.
Yusuf Estes - Former preacher and federal prison chaplain, converted from Protestantism.[55]
Chris Eubank - British boxer[56]
Emeka Ezeugo: is a former Nigerian football defender and midfielder played in 1994 World Cup. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeka_Ezeugo) Referencehttp://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2012-02-13&nid=50241)
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Shah Shahidullah Faridi - Writer of German descent born to a Christian family.[57]
Danilo Fernando - Brazilian Footballer. He changed his name become Muhammad Danilo Fernando
Firouz - an Armenian Christian convert to Islam[58] who served as a spy for Bohemund during the Siege of Antioch.[59]
Myriam Francois-Cerrah - a British actress, scholar and presenter who converted to Islam in 2003.
Radu cel Frumos - was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia, who converted from Catholicism.[60]
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Adam Gadahn (born Adam Pearlman) - al-Qaeda English language spokesman. Home-schooled Christian.[61]
George Galloway - British politician, author, journalist, and broadcaster, and the Respect Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West.[62] This is denied by Galloway himself[63]
Roger Garaudy - French philosopher who converted from protestant.[64]
George XI of Kartli - Saffavid commander.[65]
Christian Gonzalez - Indonesian-Uruguay footballer. He changed his name to Mustafa Habibi Gonzalez
Abdur Raheem Green - a British convert to Islam and is a founder of the Islamic Education & Research Academy.
René Guénon - French Author in the field of metaphysics, who converted from Catholicism.[66][67]
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Sir Archibald Hamilton, 5th Baronet - a distinguished British convert to Islam.[43][68][69]
Omar Hammami - American-born member of the Somali Islamist paramilitary group al-Shabaab. Known by the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki.[70]
Ryan Harris- football player for the Denver Broncos[71]
Joel Hayward, British scholar, author and poet.[72]
Murad Wilfred Hofmann - NATO official, converted from Catholicism[73]
Markus Horison - Indonesian Goalkeeper. He changed his name to Muhammad Haris Maulana.
Bernard Hopkins - American boxer[74]
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Silma Ihram - formerly a born again Baptist who is an Australian pioneer of Muslim education in the West, founder and former school Principal of the 'Noor Al Houda Islamic College', campaigner for racial tolerance, and Author.[75]
Ahmed el Inglizi - was an English architect and engineer who worked for the Sultan of Morocco Mohammed ben Abdallah in the 18th century and converted to Islam.[76]
T. B. Irving - An American scholar, author and translator
Iyasu V - Ethiopian emperor.[77]
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Gauhar Jaan-British-Indian Singer.[78]
Ibn Jazla - an 11th-century physician and Christian convert to Islam who later wrote to refute doctrines of Christianity.[79]
Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - Michael Jackson's elder brother & one of the original former members of The Jackson 5.[80]
Sarah Joseph - commentator on women's issues and founder of emel magazine, converted from Catholicism.[81]
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Elsa Kazi - German writer of one-act plays, short stories, novels and history, and one of the greatest poets of her time.
Nuh Ha Mim Keller - Islamic scholar who converted from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sunni Islam.[82]
Allahverdi Khan - general and statesman of Georgian origin who was Christian and converted to Islam.[83]
Mirza Malkam Khan - an Iranian Armenian proponent of Freemasonry who was active during the period leading up to the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.[84]
Michael Muhammad Knight - American novelist, writer, and journalist.[85]
Knud Holmboe - Danish journalist and explorer who converted from Catholicism.[86]
Koca Yusuf Pasha - a Georgian Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire who also served as the governor of Peloponnese.[87]
Köse Mihal - a Byzantine renegade, he accompanied Osman al-Ghazi in his ascent to power and converted to Islam.[88][89]
Esma Khammar - Swedish woman and blogger of Journal of a Muslim convert. She converted in November 2000, before the 911.
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Colleen LaRose - American citizen charged with terrorism-related crimes
Leo of Tripoli - a Byzantine Greek renegade who freed 4000 Muslim prisoners while attacking the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.[90]
Tage Lindbom (1909-2001), Swedish historian, PhD in Political science. He was a disciple of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon.
Germaine Lindsay - one of the suicide terrorists in the 7 July 2005 London bombings[43][91][92] in which 52 people were murdered.
John Walker Lindh - an American insuegent, known as the "American Taliban", who converted from Catholicism[93][94]
Alexander Litvinenko - former FSB officer converted to Islam on his deathbed.[95][96]
Loon - American hip hop and rap artist[97]
Badr al-Din Lu'lu', an Armenian convert to Islam[98] and successor to the Zangid rulers of Mosul.
Vincenzo Luvineri - American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks, converted from Catholicism.[99]
Lynn Massyn: Former Miss South Africa. Won the contest in 1976
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Daniel Maldonado - American Islamist convicted in the United States on charges of training with al-Qaida in East Africa. Raised Catholic.[100]
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood - British author, converted from Protestantism.[101]
Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006) who converted from Catholicism.[102]
Jacques-Francois Menou - French general under Napoleon I of France.[103]
Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup[104]
Mleh, Prince of Armenia - an Armenian convert to Islam from Catholicism,[105] he was the eighth lord of Armenian Cilicia.
Preacher Moss - American comedian who converted from Baptist Christianity[106] American comedian and comedy writer.[107]
Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin) - former boxer, converted from Catholicism.[108]
Peter Murphy - vocalist of the goth/rock group Bauhaus who converted from Catholicism.[109]
Sheila Musaji - founder of The American Muslim magazine.[110]
Ibrahim Muteferrika (original name not known) - From Unitarian Christianity, an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.[111]
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John Nelson - first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim.[112]
Adam Neuser - a German Lutheran pastor who criticized the doctrine of the trinity and was consequently imprisoned.[113]
Tech N9ne - an American rapper born to a Christian mother who converted to Islam during adulthood.[114]
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Robin Padilla - Filipino actor.[115]
Wayne Parnell - South African cricketer converted to Islam in January 2011.[116]
Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha - born to a Christian Croatian[117] family, he was an Ottoman general and statesman from Hercegovina.
Moralı Enişte Hasan Pasha - Greek Ottoman Grand Vizier.[118]
Judar Pasha - conqueror of the Songhai Empire.[119]
Omar Pasha - Ottoman general who converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.[120]
Raghib Pasha - was a Greek Ottoman politician who served as Prime Minister of Egypt[121] and who converted to Islam from Christianity.[122]
Suleiman Pasha - French-born Egyptian commander.[123]
Zağanos Pasha - one of the prominent military commanders of Mehmet II (Mehmet the Conqueror) and a lala, at once an advisor, mentor, tutor, councillor, protector, for the sultan.[124]
St. John Philby - Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence operative; converted from Anglicanism.[125]
Bilal Philips - Islamic scholar and author[126]
Marmaduke Pickthall - famous translator of the Quran.[127]
Poncke Princen - Dutch soldier and human rights activist who converted from Catholicism.[128]
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William Abdullah Quilliam - 19th-century British poet, ambassador and journalist.[129]
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Ilie II Rareş - prince of Moldavia.[130]
Ahmad Rashād - Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver.[131][132]
Richard Colvin Reid - shoe bomber (convicted terrorist)[133]
Franck Ribéry - a French football player. His name after he converted to Islam is Bilal.[134]
Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.[135][136]
Robert of St. Albans - an English templar knight who converted to Islam from Christianity in 1185 and led an army for Saladin against the Crusaders in Jerusalem.[137]
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Salman the Persian A convert from Christianity[138] who was previously Zoroastrian.
Ahmed Santos - Filipino, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman Movement converted from Catholicism[139][140][141]
Ratna Sarumpaet, Indonesian stagewright, director, and actress [142]
Brad Terrence Jordan ("Scarface" - American rapper[143]
Mario Scialoja - Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.[144]
Philippe Senderos- Swiss footballer, converted from Christianity.[145]
Betty Shabazz - wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.[146]
Zaid Shakir - American Muslim convert former Baptist to Sunni Islam, speaker, intellectual, author, Islamic scholar, and co-founder of Zaytuna College in the United States.[147][148]
Omar Sharif - Egyptian actor who converted from Catholicism.[149][150]
Ahmad Faris Shidyaq - a Lebanese scholar, writer and journalist who was a Maronite convert to Islam.[151]
Marcio Souza Da Silva - Brazilian Footballer
Anthony Small - professional boxer[152]
Cat Stevens - famous English musician, officially changed his name to Yusuf Islam
Sean Stone - Son of Oliver Stone and documentary producer.[153]
Daniel Streich - A Swiss military instructor, community council member and a former member of Swiss People’s Party who led the campaign for the national ban on the construction of new minarets. [154]
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Abu Tammam - 9th-century Arab poet born to Christian parents.[155]
Tekuder - Mongol leader of the Ilkhan empire who was formerly a Nestorian Christian.[156]
Joe Tex - soul singer and recording artist.[157]
Ahmad Thomson - British barrister and writer and also a member of the Murabitun movement.[158]
Danny Thompson - English double bass player converted from Catholicism.[159]
Joseph Thomas - Australian convert, acquitted of terrorism charges, placed under a control order under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005, currently pending retrial.[160][161]
Richard Thompson - British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting.[162]
Gabriele Torsello - Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.[163]
Mihnea Turcitul - was a Prince (Voivode) of Walachia. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Christianity.[164]
Anselm Turmeda - a Majorcan writer and a Franciscan friar who converted to Islam[165]
Mike Tyson - American boxer and Sunni Muslim[166]
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Ismael Urbain - French journalist and interpreter.
Abu Usamah - American-born Imam of Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, UK.Accused of preaching messages of hate towards non-Muslims in a UK Television documentary.[167]
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Bryant Neal Vinas - participated in and supported al-Qaeda plots in Afghanistan and the U.S., and helped al-Qaeda plan a bomb attack on the LIRR[168]
Pierre Vogel - a German Islamic preacher and former professional Boxer.
Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan. Later reverted to Catholicism.[169]
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Siraj Wahaj - Former Baptist.[170] African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate Brooklyn's drug problems.[171]
Alexander Russell Webb - Former Presbyterian.[172] American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.[173][174]
Suhaib Webb - American Islamic activist and speaker.[175]
Dawud Wharnsby-Ali (David Wharnsby) - Canadian singer/poet.[176][177]
John Whitehead - an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.[178]
Danny Williams - British boxer[179]
Sonny Bill Williams - New Zealand Rugby Union Rep player(All Blacks)& NZ Rep League Player(Kiwis),[180]
Timothy Winter - prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.[181]
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Malcolm X - was a leading African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. He converted from Christianity to The Nation of Islam and later to mainstream Sunni Islam.
Abel Xavier - former Portuguese professional footballer converted to Islam with his new name Faisal.[182]
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Khalid Yasin - Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a Shaykh currently residing in Australia.[183]
James Yee - previously Lutheran[184] and former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.[185]
Mohammad Yousuf - Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year, converted from Catholicism.[186]
Hamza Yusuf - American convert from Greek Orthodox to Sunni Islam; co-founder of the Zaytuna College.[187]
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Mohammed Zakariya - an American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp.[188]

Culled: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Islam_from_Christianity

When did "Happy New Month" become a custom?

Ajimobi’s Wife in London Police Net for Laundering N500m …..Oyo gov stands surety for wife ….Wole Olanipekun, 2 other SANs engaged
Junketing wife of the Oyo State governor, Chief (Mrs) Florence Ajimobi, has finally jumped into the net of London police authorities. Her offence: she was found in possession of Pound Sterling and United States Dollars totalling N500million about two weeks ago. Mrs Ajimobi was arrested by the Met Police during her 52nd trip outside Nigeria in the last 17 months that her husband became the chief executive of the Pace-Setter state. The development came barely a few months after Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State was arrested also in London on money laundering charges and was held for about 26 days in the United Kingdom. Governor Abiola Ajimobi has equally been out of the country for about 42 times on personal and official trips that have cost the people of the state fortunes in estacode and denied them the opportunity of a responsible government during times of sorrow, like the August 26, 2011 flood disaster that ravaged the state. The governor’s wife was held for a few days in London before she telephoned her husband who immediately flew out to the United Kingdom to save his wife and his administration from the embarrassment that the arrest could cause. NEWSLEAK gathered that the governor had to stand surety for his wife before she was temporarily released the weekend on her arrest. To ensure that the news does not get to public domain, Governor Ajimobi had to lie that he was travelling to Taiwan for “an emergency business trip”, and headed for London to stand surety for his wife. Met police authorities accept the surety-ship of a sitting high profile government official in cases of money laundering without which Mrs Ajimobi would have been declared wanted and Interpol sent after her. When Mrs Ajimobi returned to Nigeria two Sundays ago, she avoided public gathering, never honoured any invitation and cancelled all previous appointments. A community newspaper in London published the news of Mrs Ajimobi’s arrest with her picture lavishly used by the local daily. NEWSLEAK is making effort to get the photograph and use same on this website. According to investigations, Mrs Ajimobi is literally the human bank in charge of funds illegally deducted from the 33 local government councils in the state as well as the N110million security monthly security vote of her husband. Rumours that Mrs Ajimobi is the courier for public funds running into billions of Naira allegedly stolen so far by the Action Congress of Nigeria-led government in the last 17months were reinforced by the several contracts awarded to Mrs Ajimobi, including the poorly executed beautification project given to her for N1billion of taxpayers’ money. In addition, she has appropriated the State Action Committee on AIDS (SACA), which was hitherto under the purview of the Ministry of Health to her office and through this, she is sitting upon the $15million-Dollar World Bank funds released early this year for the control of AIDS in the state. To wriggle out of money laundering and sundry charges against Mrs Ajimobi, her husband has engaged the service of three Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) led by Chief Wole Olanipekun. Following the expiration of the week-long bail granted Mrs Ajimobi to prepare her legal team as the case will be charged t court soon, she left the country for London early on Sunday, October 28 (that is yesterday). Governor Ajimobi, it was scoped, has been running from pillar to post for face-saving strategies against the damning incident. He was said to have expressed determination to pay any price quoted by anyone that could be of help in preventing the scandal from becoming public knowledge as well as getting the “greedy wife” off the hook. The governor, NEWSLEAK is told, will be travelling out of the country this week to stand by her wife. It was also gathered that the senior lawyers are on their way out of the country for the legal fireworks in defence of Mrs Ajimobi. Via newsleak-ng.com

CULLED FROM
http://oladipomirinda..co.uk/2012/10/ajimobis-wife-in-london-police-net-for.html?m=0

I can bet my BALLS nothing's gonna happen! We heard same song about subsidy.

Yeah, that's "ina gizon yake". I cant get it anywhere online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haRwKZ4D4hI&playnext=1&list=PL6B156CABE8381AFD&feature=results_video

I relish my childhood moments with Funmi Adams songs - Highly enlightening, educative and challenges us kids to love and develop our country. She was a goddess of beauty and passes across such beautiful lyrics in English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba languages that have remained evergreen in our hearts. Some of her songs include Ahayye yaro, Inna gizon yake, Nigeria-My beloved country, Mama, Nike nike, Omo mi o, etc. But she suddenly disappeared into thin air.

Pretty sad that today's kids sing Shake ya bumbum, Sangalo, My dear... songs which have strongly contributed to the sad state of moral decadence in our society.

So where is good, old Funmi Adams? Where are today's Funmi Adams?

Let"s become terrorists. Let's blow up these guys assets one after the other!
They have sunk our generation already and our children's is not even guaranteed.

halfcurrent: Mr Timipre Sylva - former Bayelsa govt

Dem wound am from Aso rock nah. He didnt even make the primaries. Mscheew!

It happens regularly in Kano sha!

It worked for me - Lagos to Abuja and i'm getting married in a weeks.

Le Stylo: DOMINION AIRLINE - Let's get on the angel's wings!

I hope its better than AERO

ABAKA72: My Guy why na, you wan spoil market for AERO lol

ERRATUM: I hope its better than AERO DANA

DOMINION AIRLINE - Let's get on the angel's wings!

I hope its better than AERO

Mad Cow: SHUT THE F`UCK UP jor.. this your line of arguement holds no water..

So why do we arrest yahoo-yahoo boys?! Do they force you to fall for their scam?!

Abeg drex go far o!!

Q.E.D. Let Yahoo Boyz be free!

OkwaIfugo: When do we have this spirit to break records in Nigeria. when....

How dare you say that! Just for the records, Nigeria is only second to China in the purchase of private luxury jets. Yes Nigeria! Ahead of South Africa, Russia, Saudi, UAE, Brazil, S.Korea even America!
Is that no record?

pro01: Unfortunately, thousands more of them are working in government agencies, banks, and sundry public and private organisations, while more competent and brilliant graduates roam the streets and wallow in the misery of unemployment. No thanks to the menace of "who you sabi" as opposed to "wetin you sabi" that has ravaged Nigeria - a country where meritocracy has long been murdered in cold blood, cremated, and forgotten for good.

These corpers are merely unlucky, and probably do not have any connections whatsoever, otherwise we wouldn't hear a thing about them. I can't begin to count the number of 'graduates' I know personally that are, for instance, not sure whether London is a country or a capital; some of them are gainfully employed nonetheless - by no less a 'juicy' organisation than the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)! The whole thing is a terrible travesty, and it explains why Nigeria might never make progress.

You said it! Some of us made quick bucks back then helping out to fill forms for the dumbies! I think NYSC should consider entry exam into NYSC!