₦airaland Forum

I pledge to Nigeria my Country.I cry for my country.everyday people come to Nairaland and show how divided they are..we see through ethnicity and religion..Muslims hating Christians, Christians hating Muslims, Northerners vs southerners.You forget that we are first humans and second Africans and third Nigerians..our common problem are poverty, illiteracy, disease, homelessness,poor power supply, unemployment.why the ordinary Nigerians abuse themselves and go to bed hungry? the elites fight for power, divide us Nigerians and loot our commonwealth..when they share our money,they don't think Muslim,Christian, Northerner or Southerner..wake up people...condemn and act against terrorism because we don't know who will die next or fall victim to the terrorists bombs and guns..if e never reach your family you no go know how painful it is..all we do here is hate ourselves..pity! how can we make progress? O Nigeria, you have alot to offer. May our leaders allow u to raise and not crumble.

You no go see the bigoted Igbos and Ijaws commenting because they all know our people are by far better than them administratively, the Late Yar'adua reversed the pump price of petrol from #75 to #65 their Ijaw thief increase it to #138 after observing it could not work reversed it to #97 now the former CBN governor met a #100 deduction upon withdrawal from other bank ATM but the Igbo thieves is now introducing #N65.
DIARIS GOD OOO.

You no go see the bigoted Igbos and Ijaws commenting because they all know our people are by far better than them administratively, the Late Yar'adua reversed the pump price of petrol from #75 to #65 their Ijaw thief increase it to #138 after observing it could not work reversed it to #97 now the former CBN governor met a #100 deduction upon withdrawal from other bank ATM but the Igbo thieves is now introducing #65.
DIARIS GOD OOO..

HONG KONG: A Nigerian man in Hong Kong has been placed in quarantine after he was suspected to be carrying the Ebola virus, said Chinese media on Sunday (Aug 10).
According to CCTV, the 32-year-old had arrived in the southern Chinese city from Nigeria on Thursday. He was sent to hospital after experiencing vomiting and diarrhoea. It also said the man has been sent to Princess Margaret Hospital, where he will undergo tests for the virus. CCTV added that the test result may be known on Sunday night.
South China Morning Post reported that Hong Kong’s Department of Health declined to comment on the case, but said it would make a public announcement if any Ebola case is confirmed.
Xinhua said the man had been staying at a guesthouse in Tsim Sha Tsui district. He reportedly told the building's security staff that he was feeling unwell. He was later sent conscious to hospital.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/nigerian-man-in-hong-kong/1306082.html

The Saudi Arabia Kingdom has been hit by the ravaging Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as a patient suspected to be infected in a recent business trip to Sierra Leone has been confirmed dead in Jeddah, the Saudi capital today.
The infection was confirmed by the Saudi authorities and World Health Organization (WHO) laboratories after the test samples of the victim certified EVD symptoms of “viral hemorrhagic fever”.
The Saudi Health Ministry stated it was working to trace the man travel’s route and identify those he had contact with.
Meanwhile, Saudi kingdom has suspended pilgrimage visas from West African countries as way to check possible spread of the deadly disease.
http://www.africanexaminer.com/saudi-arabia-loses-first-ebola-victim-suspends-pilgrimage-visa-in-west-africa/

Saudi Arabia is testing a man for suspected Ebola infection after he returned recently from a business trip to Sierra Leone, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
It said the man, a Saudi in his 40s, was at a hospital in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after showing "symptoms of viral hemorrhagic fever", which resemble symptoms of the Ebola virus.More info http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/08/05/saudi-arabia-testing-man-suspected-contracting-ebola-in-sierra-leone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fhealth+(Internal+-+Health+-+Text)

The new KANO state Emir and former CBN Gov HRH Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Had broken a record! !!

He was reported to have gathered all his palace workers inwhich he asked them ...........
• Has any of you ever attended Hajj pilgrimage? ??
•Anwers, all of them replied NOOOOOOO!!!!
He now urged them to choose 60 people among them to attend Hajj and 30 people for umrah this year.
This is not all...
Any worker receiving #10,000 is now entitled to #30,000 and those receiving #20,000 is entitled to #60,000 respectively.
Listen more!
Henceforth, he banned the removing of Shoes upon entering his palace except where its strickly instructed by GOD almighty to remove the shoe. E.g Palace, mosque
To God be the glory.
This is change we need in every leadership in any ramifications not abstract and singing all over about TRANSFORMATION Agenda without physical performance.
God knows he is a leader to save humanity that is why all forces could not succeed in his futile mission against him.

Long live SLS

NTA Haba! Help me sort it out
please...
1. There are more mosques in
Nigeria than in Saudi Arabia the
holiest place in Islam.
2. There are more churches in
Nigeria than in Italy where the
Pope lives.
In fact, we,Nigerians are the
most religious people on earth.
But the paradox is that, we don't
follow the TEACHINGS of
our religions as much as we
support its EXISTENCE!
This is like building a new house,
and instead of one to
move in when the building was
completed, one choose to stay
outside bragging that he or she
owned the best house!
My people Let us move into our
respective homes of faith and live
in
peace! Please NIGERIANS... !!

I am beginning to think south
africans are not creative!
Had mandela been a
Nigerian,
1. The corpse will stay in
mortuary
for five years
to enable government prepare
for befitting burial.
2. Government will setup a
planning committee
with
power to award contracts to
construct new roads leading
to
mandela's
hometown. Construction of
new airports, new stadium for
burial reception.
3. The body will fly round the
36
states of the
federation
including the FCT.
4. There will be national aso
ebi
(uniform)
imported
from holland, it will be made
compulsory for
every Nigerian to buy, sew
and
wear.
5. New slang will emerge, for
instance Yoruba
greeting will start e ku madiba
o,
or eku iku
mandela.
6. Our network will produce
new caller tunes e.g to hear
mandela's last
breath press 1. To hear the
last
word he spoke
press 2. E.t.c
7. New products will emerge
e.g
Madiba zobo
drink. Madiba pure water,
madiba
magic soap/cream.
8. Our musicians ? Aaaah 5
albums daily to
praise the icon.
9. New born babies will be
called
Mandela.
10,The igbo man will start
producing madiba t-
shet, madiba face cap, madiba
almanac,
11,All network subscribers will
be
charge us
madiba ringback tone of #50,
12,Police will be
asking motories & all suspect
'oya
madiba
roga'#50 #50 abi you know
say
we go do burial
for mandela?
13,Igbo man will force every
child
born
to.name mandela with there
parent pay 50k for
each naming,
14,Nff will organise madiba
match
with super
eagle and Brazil,
15,Silverbird will organised mr
mandela pargent,
m
16,Madiba ticket to watch
senima,
or
17,The christain will organise
mandela night of
last glory,
18,The musician/ comedia will
organize all
madiba stars show gate fee
20000, vip 200,000,
vvip 500,000,
19,All the next contract
awarded
will call
madiba for tranfomation
contract,
The youth will organise
madibas
nite award,
20,All 36 state governor will
host
madiba lying
in state, @ the end $49 billion
will
be spent on
mandela burial ceremony, we
will
be told they
host world leaders like obama,
bush, ban kimo
& 200 head of state,
Thank god mandela "madiba"
is
not a nigerian

Whosoever is supporting what
this ugly IYABO did to her father,
your own children will take you to
the market place and disgrace
you. Talk MORALITY not POLITICS
on this issue.

Ds man has spoken well!d lady is
nt wel brought up,irrespective of
anythn father is father o!only
fools re celebratn ha 4 doing ds

Sheik Ahmad Abubakar
Gumi said today that
Iyabo Obasanjo, Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo first
child who wrote a
scathing letter against him
on Tuesday, is a victim of
Westernization.
The respected cleric made the
observation in a social
media post, in which he
described it as “apolitical,
irreligious and un-African,”
noting that the letter had
exposed the Obasanjo
family feud.
“The letter became a distraction
from a
previous one written by
her father addressing very
important national issues,”
Gumi wrote. “Obasanjo is
not a saint, neither is she
one nor most Nigerians
are.
But what is worth noting is that,
at a crucial time
when the nation is
gripped by official
criminality of bloodshed,
financial misappropriatio n,
and moral decadence she
now sees the opportunity
to blast her father.”
He expressed the view that the
letter also shows
Iyabo lacks proper
religious upbringing.
“This is the segment that stirred
my attention. I
don't think any person
with proper religious
upbringing will ever do
that to his parent. I once
heard in the CNN a British
girl calling her Yemeni
father an evil man because
he took her sister back to
Yemen to marry. Evidently
afraid for his daughter the
moral decadence of the
Western society. Iyabo is a
victim of westernization.
One thus wonders what the
Western life does to
humanity.”
The cleric argued that respecting
one’s parents is
among the Jewish ten
commandments which
was also endorsed by
Jesus, “Thou knowest the
commandments, Do not
commit adultery, Do not
kill, Do not steal, Do not
bear false witness, Defraud
not, Honour thy father and
mother” Mark:10:19: and
in Matthew 15:4: “For God
commanded, saying,
Honour thy father and
mother: and, He that
curseth father or mother,
let him die the death.” -CULLED
FROM SAHARA REPORTERS

I am beginning to think south
africans are not creative!
Had mandela been a
Nigerian,
1. The corpse will stay in mortuary
for five years
to enable government prepare
for befitting burial.
2. Government will setup a
planning committee
with
power to award contracts to
construct new roads leading to
mandela's
hometown. Construction of
new airports, new stadium for
burial reception.
3. The body will fly round the 36
states of the
federation
including the FCT.
4. There will be national aso ebi
(uniform)
imported
from holland, it will be made
compulsory for
every Nigerian to buy, sew and
wear.
5. New slang will emerge, for
instance Yoruba
greeting will start e ku madiba o,
or eku iku
mandela.
6. Our network will produce
new caller tunes e.g to hear
mandela's last
breath press 1. To hear the last
word he spoke
press 2. E.t.c
7. New products will emerge e.g
Madiba zobo
drink. Madiba pure water, madiba
magic soap/cream.
8. Our musicians? Aaaah 5
albums daily to
praise the icon.
9. New born babies will be called
Mandela.
10,The igbo man will start
producing madiba t-
shet, madiba face cap, madiba
almanac,
11,All network subscribers will be
charge us
madiba ringback tone of #50,
12,Police will be
asking motories & all suspect 'oya
madiba
roga'#50 #50 abi you know say
we go do burial
for mandela?
13,Igbo man will force every child
born
to.name mandela with there
parent pay 50k for
each naming,
14,Nff will organise madiba match
with super
eagle and Brazil,
15,Silverbird will organised mr
mandela pargent,
m
16,Madiba ticket to watch senima,
or
17,The christain will organise
mandela night of
last glory,
18,The musician/ comedia will
organize all
madiba stars show gate fee
20000, vip 200,000,
vvip 500,000,
19,All the next contract awarded
will call
madiba for tranfomation contract,
The youth will organise madibas
nite award,
20,All 36 state governor will host
madiba lying
in state, @ the end $49 billion will
be spent on
mandela burial ceremony, we will
be told they
host world leaders like obama,
bush, ban kimo
& 200 head of state,
Thank god mandela "madiba" is
not a nigerian

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"Pres. Jonathan Can’t Win
In 2015" - Dokubo Asari
One of the biggest
supporters and kinsman of
President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan, Alhaji Mujahid
Dokubo-Asari, has declared
that the president has lost
the support of his political
base, the South-south and
the South-East owing to
the failure of his
government to deliver on
its promises.
Dokubo-Asari, at a press
conference in Abuja on
Friday, said that it would
be tough for Jonathan to
win the presidential
election in 2015 if he
decides to run based on
the poor showing of his
administration.
He said that his decision to
speak out was for him and
others who are ardent
supporters of Jonathan not
to be blamed for his failure
in 2015.
He said: “I want to start
with an Ijaw proverb,
which says: the eyes
watched its seven children
to death. Instead of
advising them, it was just
looking at them until they
died, while the mouth
talked its only child to life
and success.
“We have continued as
Ijaw people and the entire
Niger Delta and South-
South to support the
presidency of President
Goodluck Jonathan, but a
time has come when
silence cannot be golden.
“We mainly speak out in
issues that are very critical
to the survival of our
people, the survival of the
people of the South-South
and the South-East, which
happens to be the political
base of Goodluck Jonathan.
“Jonathan is surrounded by
very greedy people who
are only in the Presidency
to enrich themselves at the
expense of Goodluck
himself.
“This brings us to another
Kalabari proverb, which
says: where there are
elders, a goat cannot be
allowed to deliver tied to a
stick.
“If we don’t talk and we
continue to brush it aside,
tomorrow we will be
blamed and people will
say: Mujahid Dokubo-Asari
was around when
Goodlcuk Jonathan was
president and he didn’t
talk.
“Them I will be an
accomplice and accessory
after the fact….
“It is alarming because the
South-South must have its
uninterrupted eight years
tenure, which is
constitutional.
“But with how things are
going under Jonathan’s
watch, we are afraid that
we may not be able to
have our eight years
tenure because there will
be no magic about it if it is
going to be one man one
vote.”
Dokubo-Asari said he will
continue to speak out
despite the fact that he had
benefitted from Jonathan,
adding that one of those
causing trouble for the
President remains the
Minister of Niger Delta
Affairs, Chief Godsday
Orubebe.
He said: “I have benefited
immensely from Goodluck
Jonathan with my stake
but benefit alone is not
enough to make me to
keep quiet when the
period is very challenging
for our people.
“So, some of us are
tempted to ask this
question: why are all these
things happening?
“Why has the President
allow some ministers like
Godsday Orubebe to
continue in government?
“Everyday people die on
the East-West Road.
“If Orubebe is incompetent
as he has shown himself to
be, he should be removed.
“Nobody voted for
Orubebe.
“And why is Orubebe so
important to the President
that he can’t remove him
even in the face of his
obvious incompetence and
several allegation to
corruption?
“We feel very ashamed and
embarrassed.
“Orubebe was one of us.
“He was attending
meetings with us, sleeping
in the ground with us,
entering night bus with us
and we nominated him to
be appointed a minister.
“We have gone to him and
complained to him that we
don’t like they way things
are going in his ministry
and told him that if the
President leaves in 2015
without the completion of
the East-West Road, we are
finished.
“And the man keeps telling
us there is no money.
“When IBB (former military
President Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida) was
there, there was money.
“When Abacha was there,
there was money.
“When others were there,
there was money.
“How come the money
disappeared when
Jonathan got there?
“Jonathan and orubebe will
account for the death in
the East-West Road.”
On the face-off between
Jonathan and former
President Olusegun
Obasanjo, Dokubo-Asari
said there was no need for
it.
He said that no matter
what Jonathan feels, he
still remains a beneficiary
of Obasanjo’s large
heartedness.
He said: “First, there was
no need for Goodluck
Jonathan to disagree with
Olusegun Obasanjo.
“I don’t like Obasanjo.
“I don’t like his face.
“I hate him.
“But he was instrumental
in bringing Goodluck
Jonathan to power.
“And the greedy people
around Jonathan have not
managed him enough to
the extent that the
President and people
around him will allow
Jonathan to disagree with
Obasanjo openly.
“And if you check, all the
people who supported
Goodluck Jonathan and
fought to bring him to
power, have openly
disagreed with him.
“What was the cause of
these disagreements?
“These are the questions
we want to put to the
president.
“Some people say Obasanjo
is manipulating Goodluck
Jonathan, that is why
Jonathan is disagreeing
with him and we ask: what
has Goodluck Jonathan’s
government achieved to
show that it is a departure
from other governments
that have existed since
1956?
“For us, nothing has
changed.
“It is still business as usual.
“So what are the advice
that Obasanjo gave to
Jonathan that were so
difficult for him to fulfill,
that made him decide to
fall out with Obasanjo?
“Obasanjo was
instrumental and
manipulated the process
that illegally removed
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha
as governor of Bayelsa
State and installed
Jonathan as governor,
made him vice president,
fought for him to become
acting president and also
fought for him to become
president of Nigeria.
“Apart from Obasanjo,
there are so many people
who supported Goodluck
Jonathan, some have been
pushed out by those who
were not there to give him
any support, while some
others are trapped and
they cannot talk.
I have a feeling that Fulani
man Buhari would have
done more for Niger-delta
than Jonathan has done so
far Jonathan has done
nothing for Niger Delta
actually. It is getting more
and more difficult to
support him, the second
niger bridge is another
issue. Even his allies are
denouncing him. What a
shame!

Allahu akbar kabira

BREAKING NEWS
Man united have released howard webb on a free transfer !!

JTF arrests Pastor with
124 bags of Indian hemp
packed inside his church
The Joint Task Force, Operation
Restore Order, in Maiduguri, the
Borno State capital has arrested
a Pastor, Moses Edon, in
possession of 124 bags of
Indian hemp at the premises of
a Celestial Church of Christ.
Vanguard gathered that the
church was abandoned last
year, as its members fled due to
the insecurity perpetrated by
Boko Haram sect.
A statement by the JTF
spokesman, Lt-Col. Sagir Musa,
said: “Based on information
and intelligence, the Joint Task
Force (JTF) Operation Restore
Order at about 9.30am on July
10, 2013 raided the premises of
a Celestial Church of Christ at
House of Assembly Quarters,
Pompomari area of Maiduguri
metropolis.
“The raid led to the discovery
and seizure of 124 bags of
weeds suspected to be Indian
hemp packed in three rooms at
the premises of the church.
“The suspect who is a pastor of
the church, one Moses Edon,
admitted knowledge of the
content of the bags and
confessed that the Indian hemp
was brought to his church from
Ondo State for safe keeping by
a member of the church, one Mr
Segun Oni.”
The JTF said preliminary
investigation revealed that the
church has not been active for
some time now. It has been
used for safe haven for Indian
hemp business from where
some unidentified “partners in
business” distribute the
product to their customers in
Maiduguri and its environs.
S

Nigerians challenge
Patience Jonathan to
debate with Soyinka
Some Nigerians on Sunday
asked the wife of the
President, Patience Jonathan,
to make herself available for a
debate with Nobel Laureate,
Prof. Wole Soyinka.
The call came on the heels of
the diatribe the First Lady
launched against Soyinka in
which she described the
renowned playwright as an
“embarrassment’’ for
attributing the crisis rocking
Rivers State to her and her
husband, President Goodluck
Jonathan.
But some Nigerians, who took
to Twitter and other social
networks to voice their concern
over the development, called on
a Lagos-based private
broadcaster, Channels
Television, to organise a debate
for the two.
According to them, the TV
station’s Sunrise Daily, a news
and current affairs programme
that features prominent
Nigerians, who are experts in
their areas of specialisation, will
provide a level playing ground
for the duo to thrash out the
knotty issues they were arguing
on.
To actualise their dreams, a
cross section of them sent
messages in a tweet to the
handle of the programme
@sunrisedailynow as well as
the main official handle of the
television station, @Channels_TV
on Sunday.
A Twitter user, with the name
Abdul Slimzy, tweeting via
@abdulslimzy said, “It would be
really nice to see Patience
Jonathan and Wole Soyinka
argue on Channels TV
@sunrisedailynow in English
Language o.”
An anonymous reader on
lindaikeji..com said,
“Kindly call on Channels TV to
organise a debate between
Prof. Wole Soyinka and Dame
Patience Jonathan. I know we
go laugh pass ‘Night of a
Thousand Laugh.’’’
Another user of the micro-
blogging service with the name,
Hig-Wayne Cannon, who uses
the handle @dosinclair, said he
would be looking forward to
the debate on national TV as it
would be a clash of the titans.
Cannon notes, “You can expect
a volcanic grammatical literary
of freestyles. What a collabo
#Titans.”
However, some users of the
micro-blogging service boasted
that the wife of the President
would come out tops after the
debate. One of such users of the
social network who beat his
chest on this was Yakubu
Dogara who tweets via
@doyakubu.
He says, “I bet it that Dame
Patience will win the debate as
it will be unwise for the Prof.
(Wole Soyinka) to attend much
more utter a word.”
Another Nigerian tweeting via
@hobalawon said Soyinka, who
clocked 79 on Saturday, should
simply steer clear of joining
issues with the First Lady and
save himself from being on the
receiving end of public bashing
which he described as “lethal
weapon’’ emanating from her.
The social network user noted,
“Prof, even at 79, we still need
you around.”
Meanwhile, the exchange of
diatribe between the duo has
divided Nigerians on social
networks. While a section of
Nigerians argue that the First
Lady shouldn’t have descended
heavily on Soyinka and that the
onslaught was unpresidential,
others maintained that Soyinka
got what he deserved.
On nairaland.com, a Nigerian
with the name, My Time, argued,
“I still maintain that Patience
Jonathan has no moral
justification to attack the
professor. Her only portfolio is
being the wife of the President.
Soyinka has achieved a lot and
demands respect. He is one of
our national icons and a gift to
this nation. He commands more
respect outside the shores of
this country than she does and
can ever get.’’
An anonymous visitor on the
blog noted, “I see this current
government and her (Patience
Jonathan) agenda losing their
taste of civility and moral
standing. I don’t see any reason
why the First Lady should talk to
an elderly statesman with such
verbal brutality, irrespective of
what he (Soyinka) said to her.
Really, I think it’s quite
unpresidential.’’
However, those who believe
that Soyinka deserved Patience
Jonathan’s onslaught against
him said it was wrong for
Soyinka to insult another man’s
wife in the first place. They
noted that since Soyinka had
descended into an arena of
conflict, he could not avoid such
a treatment.
On another blogsite, one
Abidoh Jonathan said, “Why
exactly are people abusing the
First Lady? Prof. Wole Soyinka
made a derogatory remark
about her, and she reacted with
an on-point come back. What is
the big deal? If you ask me, I
think the Prof stooped too low
to comment and link the First
Lady to the current crisis
rocking Rivers State. He is a
renowned Prof. but hello, she
too is still the First Lady now
and she deserves some
respect.”

There was a mild drama in
Maiduguri on Thursday when an
11-year-old girl grabbed the
collar of a local scent (Turare)
vendor, accusing him of being
among those who slaughtered
her father and mother in the
dead of the night about nine
months ago.
Witnesses said the 11-year-old
girl who was hawking sachet
water at the Gamboru area of
Maiduguri metropolis, sighted
the man, believed to be in his
early 30s, and immediately
recognised his face as the man
who, in company of four others,
attacked her family.
“As soon as she saw the scent
seller at the Gamboru Market, the
young girl threw away her
sachet water container,
screamed, ran fast and grabbed
him by the collar, shouting in
Hausa ‘this is him...he is the one
who killed my mother. He is the
one who slaughtered my
father...help me to catch him,” a
witness told Weekly Trust.
Traders said the man could not
runaway because of the large
crowd that mobilized to the
scene. He was, however, saved
from being lynched as the police
arrived and whisked him to a
nearby police station.
“The girl vividly recollected what
happened on the night her
parents were killed. She told us
that the local scent seller
together with four others
stormed her family’s residence,”
another trader said.
In a related development, six
suspected Boko Haram members
were captured in Maiduguri.
Some youths had trailed and
arrested four in Mairi area along
Bama road and two others at the
Post Office area.
In the last two weeks, dozens of
insurgents had been captured by
vigilante groups formed by
young men in Maiduguri who
vowed to end killings by the sect
members in Borno State

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So ΨђåƮ do we call dis 1
now Dis tym around it
is a Christian trying to
burn down a mosque!!!
so are all christians
terrorists now? Where
ae the christian
brethren? *smh

So ΨђåƮ do we call dis 1
now Dis tym around it
is a Christian trying to
burn down a mosque!!!
so are all christians
terrorists now? Where
ae the christian
brethren? *smh

An 11-year-old boy (names
withheld) was yesterday
afternoon arrested by the
police at Nyanya Division for
allegedly trying to set ablaze
the Area B/C Mosque, near
Customs Quarters in Nyanya,
Abuja.
Imam of the mosque, Zubairu
Mohammed, told newsmen that
the boy had earlier set fire to
one of the Mosque’s Qur’anic
classroomc and did not know
that a security man was
sleeping inside and had noticed
the fire.
He said the security man after
extinguishing the fire, sighted
the boy holding a gallon of fuel
as well as a box of matches
near the main Mosque and
apprehended him.
“The incident happened during
the time of Juma’at Prayers
(1:30 pm) and it was my
security who first alerted me
before I rushed down to see
the boy with a gallon and box
of matches,” the Imam said.
The Imam said he ordered that
the boy be kept with the
mosque’s security’s custody and
went to Jumat service.
He said a senior Imam was told
of the incident and he sent for
the police, who took the boy to
their station.
The Imam praised the divisional
police officer for his effort in
calming the situation and
beginning the investigation.
At the Nyanya Police Station, the
divisional police officer was not
on seat but one Sergeant O.
Ibrahim, said that the boy, a
Christian, confessed that his
accomplice, a student of one of
the secondary schools in
Nyanya, escaped when he was
caught.
“The boy is with the juvenile
section of the station and we
are investigating the matter
because it is very serious,” the
police officer said.

EARLY CHRISTIANS PROSTRATION
AND PRAYER MATS: CHRISTIANS
PRAYING LIKE MUSLIMS.

Early Chistians Prayed Like Muslims
and Jesus...
Speaking of the 7th century,
Diarmaid McCulloch tells the
Christians were praying like
Muslims before the coming of
Islam:
…the characteristic prostration of
Muslim prayer was then normal in
the Christian Middle East, where it
still survives in some traditional
Christian communities. Prayer
mats, still one of the most familiar
features of the mosque today,
were extensively used by the
Christian monks as far apart as
Syria and Northumbria or Ireland
before the coming of Islam. [A
History of Christianity, Diarmaid
McCulloch, Penguin Group, 2009,
p258]
Why would early Christians pray
like Muslims?
Could it have anything to do with
Prophet Jesus (p) worshipping
God in the manner in which
Muslims pray? In fact, even
Christian sources point to this:
Going a little farther, he fell with
his face to the ground and
prayed, “My Father, if it is possible,
may this cup be taken from me.
Yet not as I will, but as you
will.” [Matthew 26: 39, NIV]
Going a little farther, he fell to the
ground and prayed that if
possible the hour might pass
from him. “Abba,[a] Father,” he
said, “everything is possible for
you. Take this cup from me. Yet
not what I will, but what you
will.” [Mark 14:35-36, NIV]
Also see: Luke 22:39-46
Apart from the glaring theological
problem which Trinitarians
encounter from such passages
(i.e. that of Jesus worshipping
God!) we can clearly see that Jesus
appears to pray in the manner of
the Muslims according to Christian
sources. Thus, from these
passages we can understand the
usage of prayer mats within
Christian communities prior to the
coming of Islam.
Note: The word Father (Abba) is
simply a Jewish term for God. It is
not to be taken literally, Professor
Geza Vermes writes: Jesus prayed
there in the solitude, invoking God
as ‘Abba’, ‘Father’ or My Father’.
The word is given in Aramaic in
Mark and in Greek in Matthew and
Luke. Abba is a familiar but also
respectful expression. It is not the
equivalent of ‘Daddy’, as some
New Testament scholars have
unwisely ventured to propose.
[‘Jesus’ Nativity-Passion-
Resurrection, Geza Vermes,
Penguin books, 2008, p. 208]