₦airaland Forum

HBV testing is made compulsory in some states before marriage, even though the hepatitis B Virus has no known cure yet, but there is a vaccination against it...should a vaccinated person not allowed to marry a carrier?

BuzyBrain:
It seems it's just the both of you from this house. Through which means were you contacted? SMS or electronic mail?

Both

Rori:
they ave started sending out msgs for interview on the 4th of october ooo hu else is with me?

Me...which state are you from?

Just got invited for one on one interview on the 4th Oct.
What shld we expect?
are they still going to shortlist?

Following the the directory issued by the Kano State Government to remove KWANKWASIYA Inscriptions on all government properties, the Residents of Kano State have taken it upon theirselves to put the inscription on their own private properties to show their support for the Ex-Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.

Nigerians can be funny sha...

DIKEnaWAR:
They only came to office to wear starched agbada, smile for the cameras and be called 'Your Excellency'. This is what an average northerner lives for.

A people who don't believe in merit, yet want to be at the top always. It is high time Niger-deltas are allowed to control their resources. If you want to be called 'Your excellency' in a flowing agbada, use your brain and create wealth.

So they Niger deltans created the oil wealth right? When the North financed the exploration and Drilling of Oil with the money gotten from sell of cotton and groundnut pyramids, the so called Niger deltans were still wearing leaves and catching snails in their creeks.

ALEGETEMITOPE:
I was posted to taraba in 2012 it was fun for me though I had the same thought but I was mingle with everybody in my platoon to become sub commandant of my platoon. Lucky for I posted to Iware A 30min drive away from Jalingo so I based in. Winner corper fellowship Jalingo just at back of orientation camp and used most of weekend in Zing where there is contact light but bad water there.

Camped there too 2012 batch B, which batch are you?

Yay or Nay

ND architects of their own misfortune...

please help, a Biochemistry student need help getting placement in Abuja

Morning Nlanders, My Sister is about to commence her SIWES by May, she asked me to help secure a placement for her in company in or around Abuja that a Biochemistry student can learn from. prefereably if the company is into production and has Laboratory.
Any help is highly appreciated. Thank you in aticipation for the help.

I grew up sucking my thumb as a child, dont know why i just drive some kind of pleasure doing that. whenever my right thumb is free u will find it in my mouth, be it in school or home, day or night. A neighbour adviced my mum that thumb sucking will affect my academic performance, that she should try and make me stop.
she first tried with scolding me which for obvious reasons did not work, she later came up with rubbing bitter leaf on my thumb while i was asleep, it slowed me down but not for long, i got use to that and lick out the bitter leaf then continue to fire on. The final method she adopted even though it was lcruel but effective, was to rub hot pepper on the thumb....o boy!!! if i say it was bitter experience it will be the bitter leaf method but this is a hot pepper experience. you will find me in the middle of the night struggling through the darkness to find my way to the kitchen to get water to save my life. to be honest i dont hw long that method lasted before i stopped....all i know is the method worked. and same method was applied to two of my siblings. thats my experience, share yours.

We are witnessing again the way that passion is easily mobilised to displace reason and subject society to danger when it comes to religion. This has been amply shown in the manner of responses to the proposed amendment to the Regulation of Religious Preaching Edict that has been law in Kaduna State since 1984. The hysteria has been incredible! The proposed amendment is said to be anti-Christian, anti-Muslim and discriminatory against other religions, that is when some adherents are not falsely claiming that it is targeted only against their own faith. Further proving the need for such a law, a preacher has come out to rain curses and decree death in a video clip that showed that he had not really read nor understood the legislation he professed to dislike. Ignorance is often made worse by bluster!

Lest we be distracted by all the display of piety and passion, let us get back to the edict and its proposed amendments. Air-Commodore Usman Muazu first enacted the law as military governor of Kaduna State in August 1984. This followed the Maitatsine upheaval in parts of the north of Nigeria, a convulsion caused by the unregulated activities of a preacher and that was quelled only by the intervention of the military. The 1984 Edict codified the principle of licensing of preachers, a practise that had in the past been enforced by the Native Authorities. It also restricted the playing of religious cassettes to homes, banned the use of abusive language against any person or religious organisation or religious leader and prohibited the playing of religious recordings in public places, the use of loudspeakers for religious purposes other than in a church or mosque, the abuse of religious books and the use of such terms as “infidels,” “non-Islamic,” or “pagans” in describing other religious groups. The penalty for violating the 1984 edict was two years’ imprisonment with an option of fine.

Then came the 1987 religious violence which followed altercations over a preacher’s comments during a student gathering in Kafanchan. The unrest reached Kaduna and Zaria, with soldiers having to be drafted to restore calm. The military governor, Lt. Colonel Abubakar Umar responded with a 1987 amendment to the 1984 edict, that removed the option of fine and extended the term of imprisonment upon conviction to five years. Colonel Hamid Ali further amended the edict in 1996.

Any casual observer of Nigerian history knows that Kaduna State has been torn asunder too often by religious discord of the most violent hue, and that even political differences rapidly degenerate into ethno-religious zero-sum games. Riots over the Danish cartoons took countless lives in Kaduna, as did the Miss World debacle and the 2011 elections. The result is a divided capital city, Kaduna, which has fallen from its pride of place as home to all as the capital of Northern Nigeria, the country’s most diverse region. The city is now divided into a mainly Muslim zone to the north of the River Kaduna and a mainly Christian enclave to the south. Its two other major cities, Kafanchan and Zaria have also tasted of the bitter grapes of religious violence. More recently, the claims of one religious group to decide who can use a public highway led to a tragedy that is now the subject of a Judicial Commission of Inquiry.

The proposed amendments to the law preserve the requirement for licensing preachers, a rational response to limit the irresponsible use of religion to stoke prejudice, violence and mass murder. Aside from this, it introduces only a few new features, including a prohibition on the use of loudspeakers for religious purposes after 8pm in a public place and expands the places where religious recordings can be played to include churches, mosques and any other designated place of worship. It also upholds the ban on on any religious recording that uses abusive language against any person, religious organisation or religious leaders.
Thus, neither the extant law nor the proposed amendments infringe on the right to faith or the right to worship. It is dangerous hyperbole to claim that it restricts any faith, Christian, Muslim or otherwise. In my view, it rightly seeks to ensure that those who will claim to exercise the power of spiritual leadership are known, and are certified to be equipped to reasonably exercise such powers. Muslims are already familiar with the fact that even in a very conservative and strict religious society like Saudi Arabia, all preachers need a license. One could concede that the idea of a license to preach may be novel to Christians but that does not render it anathema. Faith is too important an arena of the human experience to be left unregulated, and I daresay that any honest religious person (regrettably not a tautology) would concede that the potential for extremism is present in any creed. I have heard arguments that ordination as a religious minister should suffice as license for a global remit. License is permission to practice within a specified territory for a prescribed time the skills and knowledge that ordination have presumably bestowed. All rights are exercised within a context. A driver cannot reasonably interpret his right to freedom of movement as freedom to drive against traffic and imperil others. The cherished right to liberty does not bestow powers to constrain another’s. Just as the right to free speech is in many jurisdictions not an excuse for hate speech or incitement.

A government with a duty to secure lives in a climate of tensioned religiosity should be prudent and take the necessary precautions. The licensing of medical doctors and other professionals after long years of study reflects society’s view of the magnitude of the responsibility these professionals bear. Why should those who deal in the sacred realm, with the capacity to inspire both the finest human conduct and the most grievous orgies of prejudiced violence be without any supervision?

The Religious Preaching Edict and its amendment speak to the need to preserve good order in society, to secure the human beings who can practise and be nourished by faith only when they are alive. It seeks to remove noise pollution, penalise hate speech and preserve the practise of religion in the private sphere. I heard someone ask what it would mean for the Great Commission, that admonition to Christians to spread the Gospel. The Great Commission does not have to be practised as the Great Commotion, as an aggregation of the most noisome sound, or the passion of worship alone. The Christian is charged to be a light to the world, that is to be exemplary in conduct and in compassion. As for vigils, their solemn purpose should so thoroughly occupy the voluntary attendees that they should have no need to announce their piety by terrorising non-attendees with loudspeakers.

The amendment that the Kaduna State Government has proposed now brings the whole Religious Preaching Bill into a democratic setting. It restores the original two-year penalty for contraventions and is being subjected for the first time to scrutiny by elected legislators. During the public hearings and the process of legislation in general, grey areas can be clarified and further amendments made to help ensure that religion is no longer used to destroy humanity, but to enhance we frail homo sapiens that the Almighty God created and bestowed with different tongues, colours and creeds.

The nagging question then is why the hysterical and overboard reaction to a 32-year old statute in a state with such a painful history? No Christian or Muslim is hindered in the practise of his faith by this law, except perhaps those who may feel that their piety is measured only by the extent to which they can use it to disturb or form a menace to others. My view is that, even in our Third World morass, nobody should be allowed to insist on a veto over the preservation of security and good order.
source: http://www.africanliberty.org/manasseh-istifanus-the-kaduna-state-preaching-regulation-bill-and-the-need-for-logic-to-prevail/

What happened to the 2000 they legally recruited in May 2015, trained them for three months just to be dismissed by the present administration?

Awwal is a male given name...he is the son not the daughter.

Professor Attahiru Jega was today 15th august 2015, During the University's 18th, 19th and 20th Convocation Ceremonies, awarded a Honorary Doctorate Degree at the Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola. During the university's18th, 19th and 20th Convocation Ceremonies.

one thing we should understand is that: because you did not make it here doesnt mean that is the end of the road, u can only speak for your own performance at the interview u dont know how others performed. when u passed the CBT i bet u did not complain or question the credibility of the process, the fact is for every one person that got the job on connections there is another that got it on merit. so let us all be happy for them, atleast we have 2000 youths off the labour market. better things are in store for those in the labour market.
dont be a buzz kill.

Tope54:
please help me check for Falade Samuel

sorry i cant find ur name

I guess am not the only one who did not recieve the mail, but shorlisted on the site, fingers crossed we will recieve ours soon.

so much more

u will have sex after number 3

Amid the red and white striped Waldo sweaters, Harry Potter glasses and all-powerful Hobbitses rings, there was one outfit that stood out among the World Book Day costumes at a U.K. school Thursday.

According to the BBC, 11-year-old Liam Scholes was excluded from celebrations and photographs at Sale High School in Manchester, one of many British schools inviting children to come dressed as characters from books, after he turned up as Christian Grey.

"He wore a grey suit, white and grey tie," Scholes' mother told BBC radio Friday morning. "And he had an eye mask and two very small cable ties in his pocked as props.
Although she claimed that fellow students found it amusing and that it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, Nicola Scholes said the school told her son – who she admits hasn’t read 50 Shades of Grey or seen the film – that his outfit was "offensive"
"They told him he had to change his character, that he had to be James Bond, who is actually very promiscuous and kills people," she added.

Scholes also pointed out to the BBC and on Twitter there had been several permitted costumes she thought were less appropriate, including a teacher who had come dressed as a serial killer.

ellechrystal:
This is paid for n organised by Apc, or some ppl who want to make money, cos they will certainly b paid by Apc.
If it were pdp, some ppl will say it's paid for, n some ppl will come here n talk about ppl being patriotic.
Una go tire to trek.
Make sure u trek well,
Trekking oshi

ofcourse they will get paid: With good roads, security, stable power, economic growth, and a better english teacher for you.

Match for change 2015

mine shows invalid token after submission...anyone with d same problem?

Can you make two people fall in love? As it turns out, yes — you can. Apparently, all you have to do is sit two people in a room together and have them ask each other 36 questions.

Aron’s research involved pairing volunteers — heterosexual men with heterosexual women — and having them enter the lab through different doors. Over the course of the next hour or so, the pair of volunteers sat opposite each other while making their way down a list of 36 “getting to know you”-type questions. The questions were simple to start

Set One:

1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?

2. Would you like to be famous? In what way?

3. Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?

4. What would constitute a “perfect” day for you?

5. When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?

6. If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?

7. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?

8. Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common.

9. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?

10. If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?

11. Take four minutes and tell your partner your life story in as much detail as possible.

12. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?

Set Two:

13. If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future or anything else, what would you want to know?

14. Is there something that you’ve dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven’t you done it?

15. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?

16. What do you value most in a friendship?

17. What is your most treasured memory?

18. What is your most terrible memory?

19. If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why?

20. What does friendship mean to you?

21. What roles do love and affection play in your life?

22. Alternate sharing something you consider a positive characteristic of your partner. Share a total of five items.

23. How close and warm is your family? Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people’s?

24. How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?

Set Three

25. Make three true “we” statements each. For instance, “We are both in this room feeling …”

26. Complete this sentence: “I wish I had someone with whom I could share …”

27. If you were going to become a close friend with your partner, please share what would be important for him or her to know.

28. Tell your partner what you like about them; be very honest this time, saying things that you might not say to someone you’ve just met.

29. Share with your partner an embarrassing moment in your life.

30. When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?

31. Tell your partner something that you like about them already.

32. What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?

33. If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven’t you told them yet?

34. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?

35. Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing? Why?

36. Share a personal problem and ask your partner’s advice on how he or she might handle it. Also, ask your partner to reflect back to you how you seem to be feeling about the problem you have chosen.

Try this lets see how accurate the experiment is...

Epic response...typical naija mother

please has anyone written the 8-9pm.exams?

Sijo01:
Biting the hands that feed him. Same Nigerians made you who you are today., morafucker.

u think anyone of them that ever begged him on the street ever bought a ticket to his show...i bet non ever did

point 2 and 4 is actually contradicting.