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WilWily:
You are right, after visiting Aso Rock  Oni of Ife went home empty handed.

I think you are using diversionary tactics like Mustapha did.

WilWily:
Yes oooooooooooooooooooooooooo, Egunje Yorubas are Saints.
Mustapha is bad man and Lateef Jakande that betrayed Olefami Awolowo is a good man.
I warmly Salute Saint Yorubas.

If you are with your sense of reasoning, can you point to any logical statement that shows bribe had been offered to these Yoruba leaders in the scenario.

Mustapha who was not in the said meeting (because he had been ripped off his office), is now imagining what must have taken place in his absence. That is nothing but hallucination.  He taught Gen Abubakar most have released the said money to the Afenifere leaders just as he used to do with Nigeria money while ruling Nigeria with Abacha.

The statement was made after the death of M.K.O. How do you expect a dead man to head the Govt of National Unity? Al Mustapha is not saying the truth. The guy has got psychiatric problem. His brain should be examined. All of us knew that General Abubakar was making a lot of consultation during that time. Especially with Yorubas who were injured as a result of June 12. There is nothing wrong if Yoruba leaders were invited to Presidential Villa. They were in the best position to be invited to the Villa

It was an anti-climax of sorts on Thursday at a Lagos High Court presided over by Justice Mojisola Dada as the former Chief Security Office to the late Head of State Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Mustapha, failed to prove his allegations against two former leaders of the Yoruba pan socio-cultural group, Afenifere, the late Pa Abraham Adesanya and the late Chief Bola Ige.



Al-Mustapha had dropped hints during his appearances at the court on Monday and Wednesday that he had documentary and other evidences to prove that some South-West leaders who visited Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar at the Presidential Villa were bribed to truncate the movement for the revalidation of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election.



He had also tendered a video film and a memo in which Abubakar purportedly ordered the release of monies to pacify South-West leaders who were protesting the sudden death of the presumed winner of the election, the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, in custody. When asked to name the political leaders who visited Abubakar, he mentioned Adesanya and Ige.



He had said that the Afenifere chieftains in the video looked unhappy on arrival at the presidential villa but were laughing when they came out after they had been settled with money.



Led in evidence by his counsel on Wednesday, Olalekan Ojo, al-Mustapha had said, “On the day the Yoruba leaders visited the presidential villa, they were visibly angry, annoyed and mad. They refused to speak with the media men attached to the presidential villa. But when they were leaving, their countenance changed and they were very happy.



“The delegation of the Yoruba leaders was led by late Pa Abraham Adesanya. On leaving, they started granting interviews, downplaying on June 12. Their slogan became, ‘the nation must forge ahead.’



“There were two cameras which captured the visit of the South-West leaders to the presidential villa. One was for the Nigeria Television Authority and another one held by my bodyguard.



“Whether Bola Ige knew how Abiola was murdered or not is another matter, but I wrote him an 11-page letter sometime in June or July 2001 titled, ‘How you were unconsciously used in the murder of Abiola’.



He also said he witnessed when the $200m, E75m and N500m spent to settle the Yoruba leaders was brought to the presidential villa.



Already, the allegations had generated angry reactions by chieftains of Afenifere who questioned the integrity of al-Mustapha in making the allegations 13 years after the death of Abiola.



The ex-CSO is currently standing trial alongside one Lateef Shofolahan for the June 4, 1996 murder of the wife of Abiola, Kudirat. Shofolahan was a Personal Assistant to Kudirat.



However when the video was played on Thursday, the four-minute footage merely featured Adesanya, decked in a black suit and surrounded by six people, including Ige, addressing the press on Government of National Unity and Sovereign National Conference.



Adesanya, while fielding questions from the pressmen, spoke briefly on the team’s meeting with the former Head of State, Abubakar.



The encounter between Adesanya and the interviewers went thus:



What is your comment about the meeting that you just held with the Head of State?



I wouldn’t know, but the Head of State spoke with us and that was all.



What was the consensus reached at the meeting?



I don’t know of any consensus. There is no consensus.



What was the agreement reached?



There is no agreement. The Head of State said he would consider the points put before him.



What is the new position in view of the meeting that was just concluded and now that Abiola has died?



The new position is that the Government of National Unity will still be there but only that it will not be Abiola that will head it.



Who will head it?



We have not appointed anyone yet.We still want the Government of National Unity and a Sovereign National Conference that will prepare the constitution by which we are to be ruled. We have a proverb in Yoruba land that when two brothers get into the room to discuss, if they come out of the room with frowned faces it means they have spoken the truth to each other.



The video ended with members of Adesanya’s delegation chanting “press disperse, press disperse, press disperse.” In the video after the interview, Adesanya and Bola Ige moved towards a black Mercedez Benz with registration number,’CNU 29’, smiling. They entered the vehicle and zoomed off.



Al-Mustapha said the meeting was held “on July 8, a day after, Abiola was murdered.



When asked by his lawyer if he could identify the personalities in the video clip, Al-Mustapha said he didn’t know them, “apart from the two prominent leaders, Adesanya and Ige.”



The letter he claimed he wrote to Ige on July 5, 2001, was also admitted as evidence during the proceeding.



He said he was motivated to write the letter to Ige, then the newly appointed the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Justice, when he discovered that Lagos was receiving directives to ensure that he was convicted at all cost.



“I was motivated to write the letter when I discovered the directive given to Lagos to secure (my) conviction at all costs,” Al-Mustapha said.



“I did not write him the letter for him to help me quash the charges against me but to use his office as the Minister for Justice and Attorney-General to ensure that I got a fair hearing,” he added.



Ojo told the court that his client could only tender the photocopy of the original letter, saying it was impossible for him to get the original copy because Ige the supposed custodian had died.



Leading the prosecution on Wednesday, the Solicitor General of Lagos State, Mr. Lawal Pedro, had objected to admitting the letter as evidence.



Relying on Section 97(a) (i), (b) and (c) of the Evidence Act, Pedro said, the letter “has not passed the test of the Evidence Act as to the admissibility as secondary Evidence.”



He contended that the letter was not the original and that no evidence was shown that the witness had tried to search for the original.



Pedro also sought for the dismissal of the tendering of the letter on the grounds that it was “a mere piece of paper”, blank without any acknowledgement, either by the late Ige or any of his lawyer through whom he claimed the letter was sent to the addressee.



But Justice Dada, in her short ruling, overruled the objection, saying the court took “the judicial notice” of the fact that the addressee had died.



She said, “The question arises, to who will the witness expected to have issued the notice to serve the original copy.



“The interest of justice will be better served to admit it than rejecting it. The letter will be admitted as Exhibit DI4.”



She held that the admissibility of a document and its weight were not the same.



“The weight attached to it will be determined at the conclusion of the trial,” Justice Dada ruled.



Also on Thursday, al-Mustapha narrated to the court how the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, wanted to kill him but for the intervention of former Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro, who was then the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State.



He said, “Abiola’s family is my family. I can never go against Abiola’s family. I can’t betray his trust for me. If he doesn’t trust me he will not accept food from my wife’s pot. He will not confide in me issues concerning his private businesses.



“Nuhu Ribadu had an assignment to kill me and he had to do that but Okiro maintained that if there was going to be anything like this there should be a letter from Abuja.”



He said Okiro was transferred out of Lagos soon after that because of his (Okiro) opposition to the alleged plan.



He alleged that Ribadu’s coded instruction to the drivers who drove the Black Maria in which they conveyed him was “no gra gra.”



He said the slogan meant that they should drive them on rough roads and through potholes. He said he and others in the Black Maria sustained various degrees of fracture and injuries on those occasions.



The matter was adjourned for cross-examination and probable conclusion of the case for August 8, 9, 10 and 11.

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Jesus Christ is King of kings, Lord of lords, so he is the Greatest among who ever lived.

I think is bad of Angola to stage such tournament when they have such internal crisis and even went ahead to include Cabina in their Venues, CAF too are not standing up to their responsibilities instead their are blaming the innocent sousl for traveling by road. I admirer the spirit display by Togolese National Team for decided to stay and play.

@Abu Zola:

jesus said 'truly ! ALLAH is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him alone. This is a straight path' Quran 3:51

How can Jesus say that, when the concept of ALLAH as a god is total strange to the Jews? Had it been you say Yahweh/Jehovah/YHWH may be I will agree with you, Jesus can never mention Allah talkless of calling him his lord. Allah is an Arab god, Jesus is a Jew.

This knowledge should en-light us to let us know that we are all brothers, what muslims have in the east Yoruba equally possess it in Naija. They both look alike.
Ifa = Alfa, Odu Ifa = Koran,
we just need to delve into the content of both may be they have similar stories, at least some allegorical.

But those Muslim guys still post in Religion section, religion section is not for christian alone so I think Abu Zola and Olabowale deserve to be selected even though they might not win

We are taught in those days in primary school that Oodua a prince of a King name Lamurudu came from Mecca, We are equally told that one of his grandchildren Oranmiyan plan to go back and fight them but he was turn back at river Niger.

Is more likely that Oodua come from Mecca since there is no religion tolerance in the Mecca as at that time.

why are people so confused here?
imagine Abu Zola and IbrahimB the two muslim brothers fighting over messiah-ship of Jesus.

@Abu Zola

Muhammad is the greatest man, the term messiah refers to saviour, jesus came to rescue the children of Israel , he will come before the hour is established to fight for the muslim, he will kill all the unbelievers and will raise the flag of islam up. Jesus is a prophet like it was stated in the Quran and divinity is associated to him or his mother

and his brother response:
@IbrahimB

@Abuzola

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he will kill all the unbelievers and will raise the flag of islam up

Please where is it said that Jesus will kill ALL the unbelievers?! We should be careful what we say, please!

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@Abu Zola

nuclearboy, come lets finish it, wey youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, how many sons of God do we have ?

I say you should close the thread you a calling nuclearboy. keep quite. phem.

This thread should be closed.

The conclusion is that: The Bible not the Quran denotes that the earth is spherical. The idea of a Spherical Earth is not found anywhere in Quran. Whereas Bible says The Earth is hanging upon nothing, and equally refer to 'circle of Earth' . @viaro as finished the argument let us go to another thread. The Bible has won again and again.

It is certain that people will continue to fight against the Bible and his people but they have this assurance: "And they will be certain to fight against you, but they will not prevail against you" - Jeremiah 1:19

All of you that know truth but are trying to turn it read this:

"And just as they did not approve of holding God in accurate knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mental state, to do the things not fitting,  filled as they were with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, badness, being full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malicious disposition, being whisperers,  backbiters, haters of God, insolent, haughty, self-assuming, inventors of injurious things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, false to agreements, having no natural affection, merciless.  Although these know full well the righteous decree of God, that those practicing such things are deserving of death, they not only keep on doing them but also consent with those practicing them." Romans 1:28-32

In the Bible we read at Deuteronomy 6: 4-7:

“Listen, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.  And you must[b] love[/b] Jehovah your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your vital force.  And these words that I am commanding you today must prove to be on your heart;  and you must inculcate them in your son and speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up."

And at Deuteronomy 10:12:

“And now, O Israel, what is Jehovah your God asking of you but to fear Jehovah your God, so as to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and all your soul"

And at Leviticus 19:18

"You must not take vengeance nor have a grudge against the sons of your people; and you must love your fellow as yourself. I am Jehovah"

And Jesus Christ summed it up this way at Matthew 22: 37 - 40:

"You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. The second, like it, is this, ‘You must[b] love [/b]your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments the whole Law hangs, and the Prophets."

We are implore further at 1 John 4: 7,8:
"Beloved ones, let us continue loving one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born from God and gains the knowledge of God. He that does not love has not come to know God, because God is love."

What a powerful statement, imagine how our world and nations will be if only we could show that truly we love ourselves. Since we are living in a society that is multi-religious I try to see if I can found such admonition in Koran of Muslims,  that we should "love God and our neighbor" but I try to no avail. I have being reading Koran I didn't come across such,yet it claimed to come from the same God. Even though I read one post where the poster claim that love is prevailing among Muslim community. I am yet to see a verse (ayah) of Koran that teach them to do so.

I will implore you to bring ayah like these Bible verses from Koran. Since the Koran claim to confirm the Bible: “And we gave [Jesus] the Evangel with its guidance and light, confirmatory of the preceding Law; a guidance and warning to those who fear God . . . And to thee we have sent down the Book of the [Koran] with truth, confirmatory of previous Scriptures, and their safeguard.”—Sura 5:50-52, Rodwell

I think ignorance constitute to their accepting any rumor as a fact.

@ mrprsident
Eeyah, Mr Prsident where do u get all this ogbonge fact, you mean Islam is at its brink going to extinction ke, what then will happen to its dream of conquered the whole world. what a climax, i they feel you because e be like say oga american don dey destroy their strong hold, even President Obama don promise more soldier wey go destroy the fanatic and the extremist among then in, abeg i dey pray make all my families wey dey among them make them repent before it will be too late for them o. Them talk say Bible say make u na love your God with your heart and love our neighbour like yaself, fellow Nairalanders is it true that there is no similar statement in the Quran? May be I will research it and start a tread about "Love, Bible and Quran"

love ya all

After the 9/11,the united states signed the USA PATRIOT ACT into law WITHIN A MONTH.It covers all area of anti-terrorism both legal and illegal.It involves wire-tapping,phone bugging,interception of e-mails,static and mobile surveillance,illegal detentions,abuse of peoples' freedom,opening of guantanamo bay and other high profile dention centres and so many more.I learnt that apart from the israelis,the united is the best when it comes to counter-terrorism.That your analysis that the father did not call the boy a terrorist is a big joke.They  know more than us as they have their spies  everywhere who knows if they are on nL.A little intelligence is not wasted in the united states.

Then US government should quickly include his father and his colleagues in their investigation, because i could not see any reason for his father championing an Islamic Bank in Nigeria (after he has made hell of money from First Bank and UBA - non-religious banks) if he is not a religion extremist. The son is only reading the script of his father

eldee

The Americans and the Arabs are at war too.
Osama will get a capital punishment if he falls into the hands of the Americans today.

Osama is a COWARD he should wait to fight or be captured by American soldiers if you want to equate him with Samson; not for him (Osama) to be sending some brainwashed individual to there early grave in the name of fighting for Islam. What a poor people!

The Bible account did not say that Samson was sent to kill himself by unnamed selfish people. Open your eyes a Suicide Bomber must be sent out.

Suicide Bombers are brainwashed people (e.g. Umar Mutallib) that are being sent out by selfish individual (e.g. Osama bin Ladden), who are afraid of death but sent others to their early grave. His brother Sad-man Hussein was captured with American Dollars, open your eyes.

Brainwash is define as: "condition somebody to behave differently: to induce somebody to believe or do something" -
Microsoft® Encarta® 2009.

I think brainwashed is the right word or how can one describe the incident of Saddam that were inducing his people to fight American, and after many of his loyalists were killed he was captured with American dollars,

It is obvious that we are giving free will, we can be, we can choose whatever we want, that is why we are held accountable for our actions and in-actions. Why will God give us Law, if He has predestine us to obey it or not to obey it. Then if we are predestine to live our life in a particular way, who else should we hold responsible for all the atrocities, murders, killings, corruptions,  and stealing? God or Man? Evidently, God can not be blamed. 

Plsam 5: 4-6 Says:
"For you are not a God taking delight in wickedness;
No one bad may reside for any time with you.
No boasters may take their stand in front of your eyes.
You do hate all those practicing what is hurtful;
You will destroy those speaking a lie.
A man of bloodshed and deception Jehovah detests."

“Let anyone thirsting come; let anyone that wishes take life’s water free.” (Revelation 22:17)

Bible says anyone wishes not anyone predestine to take life's water.