₦airaland Forum

BigElEddy:
I was watching the news some days back when an advert came up about security numbers to call and report crimes ( asking for bail is a crime ). And I was just sad to the point of it became funny because the numbers were more than 20 different 11 digit phone numbers. I was like; with all the billions pumped into Nigeria's security sector, Nigeria's security sector still go around buying N100 sim cards for us to call? How in Heavens name is anyone going to remember those numbers in times of emergency? In America they have the famous 911. In Nigeria the easiest to remember 3 digit combination is 419. That number has meant Negative things for far too long. Its about time we put it to good use and turn its meaning to positive.

GOD BLESS THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

I support you bro for you are on point. The long digits are difficult to remember, the digits 419 is very common and easy to remember. We can turn it around for good.

resty4:
http://www.naij.com/325302-n100-note-no-hausa-ajami.html

It surprises me that Mr. Jari find this so important than the issues of corruption, poverty, hunger, high level of illiteracy, etc that is seriously affecting the North. Despite the Northerners ruling this country more than the southerner since independence, there is nothing good they can point to as the main achievement to the masses except their individual purse. They encourage them to be almajiri while their own children travel abroad to study. Mr. Jari did not see anything wrong in what BH are doing for him to condemn but his main problem is removing of arabic on new naira note. I wonder what type of human being
he is. He must be a trouble shooter, trying to incite the moslems against the christians

Fellow Nairalander,

Permit me ask this sincere but candid question. It is very clear that the battle line come next year is between APC and PDP, going by your own assessment on both political parties and without sentiments, tribal, ethnic or religious bias and no prejudice.
Just name the party no stories please: APC or PDP?

I am fully in support of churches and mosque paying tax and Government should stop sponsoring pilgrimage. Sponsoring of pilgrimages enriches the countries they travel to using our tax payers money. But my suggestion is tax that will be from these religious bodies should be managed under the supervision of a committee/commission with credible organization as members like Nigeria Network of NGOs(NNNGOs), Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Catholic Bishop Conference,and other Human Right Organization.
They will help in monitoring the way those fund are spent.

Well am not against any professional body from fighting for their entitlements. But my problem is they should stop comparing themselves with other countries, especially advanced ones. When agitating for anything let look at our country's economy, level of advancement and the members of the professional body attitude to government work.
If the Drs are demanding for rise in their pay and nurses too or any other profession,they should not work against each other. If the government can afford it let them go ahead if not reasons should be provided.
To me I don't think one profession is superior to other all profession is unique in its own

Can someone help me out. i have not receive my dividends from Zenith and Oando since 2008, while i have written to their registrars last year for the change of address. i dont know what to do again and am not leaving in Lagos where their offices are.pls i need advice

Packaging and Re-branding. This na serious matter and I can see the advert.Hope she is married cos I don't understand what this all about. Can someone pls tell me?

alaoeri: Abeg na kate hensaw i dey see for the pix Oº°˚˚° .

Omo I tire ooh! I think say na only me dey see am.

Pls how do I claim my dividends. I have shares in Zenith bank and Oando since 2005, was receiving my dividends till 2008 and from then till this moment I have not receive any dividends or correspondents. How do I claim my dividend, I have relocated and have written to them to that effect last year but till date no response. I need advice on what to do to get my dividend from 2008.

olu4life: Good day peeps,i'm presently confused and dont even know what to do about my PPA. I was posted to a private school last month [due to redeployment] in Ibadan. On resuming,i was told to teach Basic Science for JSS 1-3,which i am carrying out effectively. But last two weeks,the propietor sacked a teacher taking agricultural science and geography.
Only for me to be given agric to tach frm jss 1 to ss 3,which i immediately rejected. This led to a face-off with the man. He insulted me in front of the students,calling me names and also insulting my father. I responded immediately not to even include my father in this.
One week later,he called me saying he has assigned agric for ss to me,which i rejected. Last monday,he went into our quarters and seized my hot plate [cos he gave us accomodation] which up to date he hasnt stated why he seized it.
I reportes him to the LGI,only for me to be shocked with LGI's response. He supported him and told me to just teach the students rubbish. I accepted in good faith anyways.
Now, this morning,we wanted to collect clearance cos we are to sign PV starting from today. But he refused to give us saying its a lie.
Also told we corpers staying in the lodge to pack out cos he's no longer giving us accomodation. Am so confused right now. The LGI has been bribed by this man,so angry at the moment.
Please what measures can be taken
This is a man who has just 6 teachers and 6 corpers for a whole secondary school. He is bent on dealing with me simply because i refused to take agric

#UPDATE Am jus b



een told not to be given bed again. Cos the bed have been using is from the creche.Will i sleep on the floor Am so loosing it right now

What is the name of the school and where is the school located in Ibadan? Write an official letter to the ZI and copy the state Director. Make sure the copy of that letter get to the state Director, lay your complain and tell them to re deploy you to another school cos your security is not guaranteed in tge school

LagosShia: In a government school,where all students are equal citizens,if a female decides not to wear hijab because she a Christian (who haven't read Corinthians),she shouldn't be forced to wear hijab even if the majority of the school is muslim.likewise,if a female decides to wear hijab,she has the right to even if the government school is majority non-muslim or Christian.had this happened in Anambra state,I won't be suprised.but this principal obviously from another region of Nigeria is bringing her ignorance and fanaticism in Lagos,a Yoruba state where indigenous Yorubas are majority muslim.this is NOT acceptable.the principal should go back to the east or wherever she is from to practice her extremism and hatred for Muslims.

It is very wrong and bad for the so call Principal to order the canning of that girl for 43 times even though I found it difficult to believe that a girl of that age can be given such strokes of can and she is still normal but I want to believe that the school has rules and regulations they need to abide. Let us keep sentiment apart and ask if the school has been using the ijab before now or the girl decided to put it on in violations to the school authority. What is bad is bad but we must seek for the truth before passing judgement blindly. Meanwhile, may I ask where did you get your data that majority of the people in the west are muslim, pls am interested and will like to know

filiks: She's married and I'm married as well but she won't keep her distance!
I have a kid but all that means nothing to her! I'm tempted to put up
her picture here.

Guy e be like say u still wan do. Tell ur wife about her, invite her to a joint and introduce her to your wife. Case close

Phikom: Abuja – The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja inaugurated a national implementation committee on Traffic Camera Surveillance and Safety Certification Scheme to prevent risk and accident

Under the scheme, smart cameras would be deployed on the roads to assist in the reduction of serious and fatal speed-related road accidents and unethical behaviours.

The scheme is a Public Private Partnership championed by the Risk and Accident Prevention Society of Nigeria (RAPSON), an NGO, in collaboration with the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Ethics and Values.

Inaugurating the committee, Dr Sarah Jibril, the Special Adviser to the President on Ethics and Values, said that if every Nigerian would abide by the law, many lives would be saved.

“One needs autonomous morality, one needs to police oneself and be law abiding in order to be a responsible citizen,’’ she said.

The presidential Aide, however, urged Nigerians to embrace attitudinal change and ethical values to ensure the rapid development of the country.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/fg-inaugurates-committee-on-national-traffic-camera-surveillance/

NGO and the Special Adviser?hmmmm!!!!, why Abuja first and not Kano, Kaduna,Enugu or any other part of the country. I hope the cameras go see all the politicians that are always MAD when on the road. Well let's see how it goes

The question is where is the best place to be for the cross over night must it be either in the church or mosque?

Dear friends permit me to ask this question that has been bothering my mind. Many believed that the best place to be for the cross over night or better put, the best place the new year suppose to meet one is in the church/mosque or praying. Let me have your opinion with facts. I am asking must one be in the church or mosque for the cross over night?

EdesonNews: On December 6, 2012, 59-year-old Mrs. Oloruntoyin Adeola Alabi repeated the biblical Sarah’s feat when she gave birth to a healthy baby girl five years after reaching menopause. This educationist and proprietress of Praise Children’s School, Okota, Lagos proved science wrong and reinforced the belief that with God nothing is impossible. She laughed, just like Sarah did when the prophets told her she would conceive and bear a son. In Mrs Alabi’s case, the forebear didn’t tell the exact sex of the baby as Sarah was told.

Alabi, a native of Owu Local Government Area of Ogun State, got married on December 19, 1981, to 62-year-old Pastor Samuel Olasukanmi Alabi from Ibadan Southeast Local Government Area of Oyo State. When NEWSMEN visited the couple’s residence at Okota, Lagos, Mrs Alabi whose joy as she narrated her marital journey turned into misty eyes, said the 31-year-old inter-state marriage had passed through rough times, including three miscarriages in 1982, 1983 and 1984 before the tortuous journey of childlessness.
Narrating her ordeal, she said: “I am 59 years and four months old now; I’ll be 60 years by August 2013. I got married on December 19, 1981; that is 31 years ago. It was that I had problem conceiving, because immediately we got wedded, I got pregnant but I had miscarriages. In April 1982, I had the first miscarriage, it was a girl. In 1983, I had another miscarriage, this time it was a set of twins. In 1984, I lost another pregnancy. After that, pregnancy ceased and that was the beginning of my agony.”

Extended family pressures
Though she could not conceive again after three consecutive miscarriages, she said her in-laws were understanding and co-operative, but her own immediate family members were the ones that gave her sleepless nights. She said her family members wanted her to opt out of the marriage as they felt she might not be compatible with her husband, but as a devout member of the Deeper Life Bible Church, she turned down their offer. When she refused to divorce her husband, her people said she try a herbalist, who they believed could help her get pregnant, but she held on to her faith.

She said: “I remember my maternal uncle telling me that maybe it was not the will of God that we should marry, and advised me to end the marriage. and look for where I could get pregnant and have a baby. But, as a member of the Deeper Life Bible Church, I told them whatever God has joined together, nobody should put asunder. They made several suggestions, but we turned all of them down because they were against our faith as Christians. It was in the same 1984 that they left us to our faith after they had reminded me that my husband could get married even at the age of 100 and still bear children, but as for me, I have a limited time. In 1994, exactly 10 years after their last visit, they came back again and told me that since my God had still not given me children, I should go with them to an herbalist so that I could have children, but I still rejected the idea. I told them that God would do it and even if He didn’t, there was no cause for alarm, because your children cannot take you to heaven. If you have 10 children and you die, nobody will bury you with any of them; just be good to others so that when you die without a child, there would be people to bury you. So, it was my family that worried us. As for my husband’s family, they were only praying for us. They believed the God we serve would surely answer us.”

Medical trip abroad::
According Mrs Alabi, when all efforts to get pregnant after visits to several hospitals failed and her people were still pressuring her to find solution to her problem, her husband’s younger brother, who lives in the United States of America, invited them over for further medical check.
Speaking on their trip to America, she said: “When the pressure from my people became unbearable, my husband’s younger brother who lives in America took us there for assistance. According to the young man, stress in Nigeria was responsible for our problem. He made provision for my husband and I to be together for four months doing what husband and wife do to produce children, but when nothing happened after four months, he decided to take us to hospital. We went to one of the best hospitals in California, and at the end of the day doctors said the drug I was using in Nigeria, Clomate, had damaged all the eggs in my system. I used Clomate for more than 10 years just to conceive as prescribed by my doctor in Nigeria; although my doctor prescribed it only once, but I kept using it each time I saw my menses, hoping I could achieve pregnancy with it. The American doctors said I was old and that there was no live egg in my system again. I was 46 years then.”
So, with the verdict of the American doctors, they came back to Nigeria and consigned their fate to God. However, in 2007, at the age of 52, God blessed the Alabi family with a baby girl, Ayomide, but then, the 52-year-old educationist was still menstruating.

The prophecy::
Having had Ayomide, Mrs Alabi looked forward to having more children before the cessation of her menstrual flow, but that did not happen. In 2007, two years after God blessed her with Ayomide, she reached menopause, thus signalling the end of her child-bearing age, according to scientific postulations. Although she had wished for more children, she decided to console herself with Ayomide. So, in January, when a woman prophesied that she would conceive and bear a child this year, she did not believe the woman.
Speaking about the prophecy, she said: “I am a member of Deeper Life Bible Church and every January we have a covenant prayer with our General Superintendent (GS) Pastor Kumuyi. It is a one-month programme and when I came back one day from the programme, a woman, whose children attend my school, greeted me and said God had given her a message for me. I offered her a seat and listened to the message. She said she was praying when God told her in a vision to go to ‘Mama Praise’ and tell her that He would visit her with a baby this year, 2012. I just laughed and said okay; but she said I should not laugh because it was a message from God. She started raining curses upon herself if the message was not from God, but I intervened and stopped her. She is a member of another church. Immediately, she left, I went to my pastor to narrate what the woman had told me. That was because I didn’t believe what she told me. If I believed her, I wouldn’t have gone to tell my pastor again. But my pastor said well; let’s believe because there is nothing God cannot do. I still didn’t believe. As we were praying during the second Sunday of that January programme with our GS, I went into prayer mood. I was praying with my assistant pastor who has about nine children and as the prayer went on I held on to the woman and was saying, ‘God, this month should not pass me by. Let what you have said come to pass.’

Knowledge of pregnancy::
When asked how she knew she was pregnant, she said she went to hospital when her body was aching. She didn’t go to hospital for pregnancy test because she didn’t suspect anything; she had only gone to know why she was feeling pain all over her body:
“When I began to feel pains all over my body, I went for a medical check. After examining me, they asked if I wanted to be the biblical Sarah of today; I didn’t believe what they were saying. They told me I was five months pregnant.”

Life after medical check up:
When she came back from hospital with the result, she said: “I was only eating. I stopped going to church because the distance is far and I was having pains. I was attending the church in my house. I stopped working completely. I needed adequate rest and I was eating lots of vegetables and fruits. I discovered that I consumed more food than before. So, when the pregnancy finally showed, I was filled with joy; I had the joy of the Lord, but I sent for many pastors to pray for me because I still did not believe a baby was inside me. Could it be a disease? I was confused.

“When it was time for delivery, the baby only took about 10 minutes and it was through the normal virginal delivery. Her name is Oluwatobi Ayomikun Victoria.”
On her husband’s reaction when she told him of the prophecy, Mr Alabi said: “I just said, let the will of God be done, because there is nothing God cannot do, especially with the gift of our daughter who has been a great blessing to us. It’s like she was prophesying when she said, “mummy give me a sister.” We tried to tell her to ask for a brother, but she kept saying sister and that statement touched me because I didn’t want her to be alone. She is now seven. Today, God has answered her prayer and she now has a sister. To me, our God is so good; a God that can bring life out of death. So, it’s like God is bringing life out of death and that’s what really gives me joy.”

Like Mrs Alabi, who said her Christian belief never gave her cause to fear that her husband could take a second wife, Mr Alabi also said: “There was nothing like taking a second wife because of my background. I got married in Deeper Life Bible Church. We have been taught that marriage is for life and we believe that. We understand each other.

My ordeal – Mr Alabi
Although, it is all joy today as the family of Alabi now has two lovely daughters and everybody seems to have forgotten the journey so far, Mr Alabi is not in a haste to forget what his family passed through in the last 31 years. Remembering the past and relating it with the present, he said: “I want to add that the journey was not all that easy. After series of miscarriages, the pregnancy ceased. The last miscarriage was so serious, because it was about five months old and it was an ectopic pregnancy, (a pregnancy located outside the inner lining of the uterus). She was operated on and one of the fallopian tubes was cut off. She almost died. So, she has only one fallopian tube now. Since then, we have visited several hospitals, in and outside Nigeria.”

More children wanted if…
Although, his wife no longer sees her menstrial flow and he knows very well that even the birth of Victoria was a miracle, Mr Alabi wouldn’t mind more children if it’s the will of God. “I have no option; whatever God does is my wish. Let the will of God be done.”
In the same vein, Mrs Alabi would happily welcome more children if God so wishes even as she said it is not easy to care for new born at old age. She said: “Yes, I will be happy to have more children if God allows it.”

THE END.
What a miracle !

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.........He will answer your prayers when the time comes

Ymodulus: you cant be crius?? why did he allow the man to go to jain in the first place? y not forgive him dem? i tot the bible say forgive pple so ur heavenly father can forgive u?

My friend do u really know ur bible. U shuld remember that d bible say no sinner shall go unpunished,even if the sins are forgiven. He is serving the punishment of his sins while been forgiven. Sentiments apart, let's always think normal.

Jarus: 2010 - The Cabal (https://www.nairaland.com/570036/nairalands-politics-sections-hall-shame)
2011 - President Goodluck Jonathan (https://www.nairaland.com/825604/gej-inducted-into-nairaland-politics)
2012 -

From our nomination stage that lasted two weeks, the congress of Nairalanders have come up with these men as finalists: (https://www.nairaland.com/1121267/3rd-annual-politics-section-hall/5#13488514)

1, Mallam Faruk Lawan
2, President Goodluck Jonathan
3, Professor Chinua Achebe

This is the voting thread. Just type the name of your candidate and move on. No story please. Discussions may go on on the nomination thread.

Voting closes December 28, 2012

Mallam Farouk has the day, no challenger