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I feel that you should discuss frankly with your wife about your medical condition and the necessity for the adoption, afterall you are already a step father.

Bring the SS3 daughter she had while in School, that is a good adoption, at least you are with the biological mother.  But where that does not work, I personally see nothing wrong with adoption provided it is done the right way.  We have heard of cases of theft of infants from hospitals and the like, do not venture into that murky water!

If you must adopt, do all the legal paper works, and make your wife understand that the low sperm count that you said was identified is the reason for your inability to procreate.  If and when the good Lord smiles on you and you do have your own baby, there should be no discrimination between the kids when your 'biological' children arrive the scene.

There should be no fighting and no jeering at each other.  Your wife should understand your medical condition and not make fun of you, it can make you go into your shell and such a family will be fragile.

If you are the religious type, put your trust in God and he will see you through this difficult situation.  Since the problem has been identified, try to seek medical solution, where it still fails, then adoption is it as the final word. There are babies seeking for love which you will provide.

I wish you luck as you confront the challenges of life.  It is not going to be easy, but you I wish you luck in the travails of life.

THAT IS WHY THEY ARE CALLED 'CIVIL SERVANTS'.  THE GOOD THING ABOUT IT IS THAT IT TRICKLES IN REGULARLY, JUST TO KEEP BODY AND SOUL TOGETHER.  :DWE HOPE IT WILL BE INCREASED SOON, AFTERALL THEY WERE PROMISED A 'LIVING WAGE' THIS YEAR. IT IS HOPED THEY WILL FEEL THE GOODLUCK OF AG. PRESIDENT JONATHAN.

The Governor's statement shows that the Commander knew about the attack that was why he now switched off his line.  This is very bad of him and unprofessional of him.  It is now an open secret that the military boys aligned along religious lines in the crisis, so much so that there have been cases of extra judicial killings.  The Commander spoken to must be brought to book and dealt with militarily.  

Some of those arrested have admitted to being sponsored.  Who are those evil people that do not want peace to reign in Plateau State.  Those sponsors must be dealt with to serve as a lesson to others still nursing such evil desires.  Whoever they are, they must be traced and given the appropriate punishment.

My heart bleads for the country.   Is the prediction of the American coming to fruition so soon?  It would better this country is broken into smaller nations that have one big giant of africa that the inhabitants will be killing one another for no reason.

Those figures are what is referred to as 'gross income' i.e. they are inclusive of taxes and other deductions that may be effected. It is not net pay, which you may call 'take home pay.

There could be other allowances, especially DTA which is payable if you are going to an official duty outside your duty station. These allowances are amended from time to time by Government circulars. The Duty Tour Allowance (DTA) is graduated according to your salary scale, the higher your scale the better,

Not to worry, when you are offered the job, you will get to know more about the civil service. . I hope I have answered your question.

Why they did that is because it is what aptly describes the situation in Nigeria, especially in Plateau State, where the muslims have vowed that the State will know no peace, and they ensured that they killed over 500 of the innocent people while in their sleep while there was a curfew in the State. Any need to go further on why Nigeria is described in war situations? I am sure you will think of a host of other reasons.

This is a serious matter. You should have known that marriage is serious business, and couples are admonished not to withhold themselves from each other as far as sexual matters are concerned. You did not give any reason for 'feeling not to sleep' with him. You did not say whether you loved him and in a space of two years, the love has waned.

Did you marry him with some expectations and within your time of being together, your expectations are now dashed? Whatever is the reason, since you have made a commitment to live together, you had better learn to accept him as your husband and allow him right of way in between your legs, or you will turn yourself into a punching bag not long from now. As you refuse him the performance of his conjugal duties, he will be forced to seek that elsewhere. Once that happens, he will begin to lose interest in you and before you know it, the fight starts. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.

Kai, this cannot be true. Just like you have said, these are persons who sort of institutionalised corruption in Nigeria and they still go about free as if nothing happened. There are good Nigerians who have not had the opportunity of coming to the seat of power. The resources that God has blessed this country with are so numerous that we have no business being poor, yet the people live in abject poverty, with no government programmes aimed at alleviating their hardships.

You do have a disciple in me to mobilise the people to sit up and see things as they are truly are and stop the likes of Mobutu in Nigeria from smelling the seat of power again.

These the people who have refused to create enabling environments for the teeming youths of this country from being gainfully employed and turn round to use them in self-destruction activities by being ready hands in religious uprisings and the like all over the place.

The solution to this problem is that Nigerians should be resolute and resist being taken for a ride for too long. This hide and seek game has been going on for over three months now without an end in sight.

I expect that Nigerians should put the nation first and no matter the situation, self interest should be last. Those who desire to cling on to power at all costs do not mean this country well. If the President is back and well, there will be no problem, but how could the President be passing instructions to the Vice or is it Ag. President through pressmen? Is there relationship that soar?

It is ovious that the President is not fit to remain in office given the way he was smuggled in, but the hangers-on do not want to have any of that. Yar'Adua should take the path of honour as advised by his predecessor and resign, than for him to be impeached, because the way we are going, it will lead to that so that this confusion will be put at bay so that the nation can move forward. We do not want to have a vegetable President. There are too many problems to be handled.

Nigeria should not be turned into a banana republic. If President Yar’adua is back as was reported under the cover of darkness so that his true state of health can be ascertained, the CPS has no business issuing a statement to that effect that Goodluck will continue to hold forth. Who authorised him to issue such a statement, has he seen the President? Is he now higher than the Ag. President? Do the offices of President and Ag. President have to relate through a lowly Presidential Spokesman? The cabal that wants to cling on to power at all costs should know by now that their game is over. Dr. Goodluck Jonathan should assert his authority as was constitutionally conferred on him to act, and the National Assembly puts in motion a machinery to put things in order by removing the ailing President so that a Vice President can come into the scene to move the nation forward. Enough of this hide and seek game.

I wish to congratulate him to ascending to the position of the Ag. President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I will advise him to be ware of praise singers, especially those from the Northern part of the country. This is so because their claim of the Presidency 'belonging to the North' shows that they do not wish this country well. No geographical location should be higher than the other. For the nation to move forward, we must shun sentiments and think of moving the nation forward, no matter who is on the mantle of leadership.

He should pay serious attention to the provision of power to the nation. Thank God, he was the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Power Generation. so he is already familiar with the problems therein.

Next, he should pay attention to infrastructural development, by ensuring that the roads are fixed, because a lot of people die on them daily.

Just like the Elders of the nation have advised him already, he should trim down the 7 points agenda so that he concentrates on what will move the nation forward and let us witness tangible development.

Plateau will surely rise again, despite the evil machinisation of the enemies of the State that abount. It is obvious that what is being witnessed in Plateau State is something that has been planned long ago and is being implemented gradually. We weep for our beloved State.

It will surely be an uphill task for Plateau State to regain its lost glory in as much as the Hausa-Fulani settler population are not willing to accept their position. They are not the only ones that are settlers in Jos. There are other Nigerian tribes too, but they have never contested the ownership of the town with the indigenes. It is now an open secret that the Jihadists are bent on prosecuting a war of annihilation and genocide against the natives tribes and will be quick to cry wolf where none exists. They have killed thousands of people and severely weakened the economic base of the State by destroying the Jos Ultra Modern Main Market, and in the recent crisis done the same to the Bukuru market.

The only way for peace to return to Plateau State, is the integration of all people in the Jos and Bukuru Metropolis especially in the areas that the Hausa-Fulani exclusively occupies.

Rejoinder to Human Rights Watch on Jos
Written by Akeem Adebayo Wednesday, 17 February 2010 11:22


Nigerians would do well to pay a closer attention to the sudden interest of Human Rights Watch in the murderous conflict in Jos. However, far from being an impartial observer, the American organisation has taken sides in Nigeria. Human Rights Watch or specifically, its so-called “senior West Africa researcher” Corinne Dufka has taken sides with the Hausa-Fulani forces in the Jos murderous impasse. This white American woman, who is based in Dakar, Senegal, has used her influence in the international media to becloud the issues at stake in the murderous conflict.

During the crisis of 28-29 November 2008, Human Rights Watch issued a press release accusing the police of using excessive force on mainly “Muslim youths”. The release came after reports of the Yoruba National Youth Corps (NYSC) who were bludgeoned to death with machetes by Hausa/Fulani gangs and other gory stories of violence perpetrated against Southerners had enraged the whole South. Out of the blues came the release – a way to create the impression that both Muslims and Christians were victims alike.

In January this year, as the outcry against Hausa/Fulani violence in Jos was assuming almost universal dimension in the country, Human Rights Watch again released another report on Kuru Karama, where it alleged that 150 “Muslim” (Hausa/Fulani) villagers were killed and their corpses stuffed into wells. Again, the organisation porganisationsa/Fulani as victims of mass murder in which they were actually the chief perpetrators._perpetratorsoday, there is no credible independent confirmation oconfirmationcidents that the so-called human rights organization corganization powerful media effect.

How come that it's the group that got wind of the information of the corpses in wells in Kuru Karama when the author of the report, Corinne Dufka, is based in Dakar and not Nigerian journalists who were present in Jos in large numbers at a time no one could even venture out into the streets because of the rumours that Hausa/Fulani soldiers were killing civilians indiscriminateindiscriminately uncritical press just adopted the story without much of a thought about its authenticity. authenticitynow it, opinion articles started appearing in our newspapers on Kuru Karama not to mention the wide international media coverage given to the phony discoveries.

All through the recent crisis in Jos, it was Corinne Dufka who appeared almost daily on Al Jazeera to explain the Jos crisis to their international viewers and she was extensively quoted by BBC, Reuters, AP and other international media organisations. And repeatedly, she said the frustration of the “Muslims” (Hausa/Fulani) over their discrimination through the settler/indigene dichotomy that was responsible for the violence. Yet, the white woman was in Dakar, Senegal – she was nowhere near the scene of the violence and she was speaking with full confidence to the world about the conflict in Jos.

Let me make a point about the wells.

The Hausa-Fulani have been accused since 2008 of using mass graves to hide the true identity of the victims of the Jos killings.  Reports have been circulating that the Hausa/Fulani killers take the bodies of their victims to the mosques and declare them as the remains of “Muslim” victims for the purpose of propaganda.

That is why they needed armoured vehicles to escort the trucks carrying the corpses to the mass graves in January. And that is the reason why the remains of many of the Southern and Christian victims have not been found till today by their loved ones. So if there were indeed corpses in wells, they might have been the victims of the Hausa/Fulani killers.

The obviously partisan intervention of Human Rights Watch or better said its Corinne Dufka has inadvertently laid the grinadvertently next round of genocidal violence in Jos. I will explain.

The Kuru Karama report is the one being quoted these days in the Northern Nigerian media and on the Internet relentlessly to show how “Muslims” suffered in Jos – to create an impression that it was “Governor Jang and his people” who killed “Muslim Northerners”.

“This is genocide in my own opinion, because the amount of massacre that took place was not witnessed during the Boko Haram crisis in Maiduguri in particular, and the Kala Kato crisis in Bauchi of recent,” Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, said at meeting of Northern traditional rulers, which took place in Kaduna on 26 January 2010.

In newspapers such as the highly influential Daily Trust (owned by the Fulani journalist Kabiru Yusuf and which is the chief propaganda press outlet of the Hausa/Fulani on Jos), whenever the Jos conflict is discussed these days, reference is always made to the Human Rights Watch report.

At the heat of the crisis, when news of the “corpses in the well” started spreading, if not for the gallant efforts of the Governor of Kaduna State, there would have been an outbreak of violence between Christians and Muslims in Kaduna State with the possibilities of spreading to other states.

All these show how dangerous the intervention of this so-called human rights organization in the Jos conflict is.

This isorganizationrwhelming evidence that the Hausa/Fulani, with the support of high-ranking officers in the security forces, planned and carried out the killings of other Nigerians during the latest crisis. That much has been testified to by Yoruba, Igbo, Benue State and South South indigenes who fled the city.

In fact, the accounts that the Benue indigenes narrated on getting home so infuriated the people of the state that policemen were deployed all over the state capital, Makurdi, to prevent the youths from attacking the Hausa/Fulani community and from burning down mosques in the city.

Some days ago, Corinne Dufka again wrote to Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, calling on him to investigate her phony Kuru Karama tale and the alleged excessive use of police force in 2008 and the extra-judicial killing of Boko Haram members last year.

Curiously, Ms Dufka did not mention the widespread allegations that Hausa/Fulani soldiers killed other Nigerians during the last crisis in her letter. Neither did the letter mention the need to protect the most fundamental of all rights, the right to life, of other Nigerians resident in Hausa/Fulani land who live in perpetual trepidation of genocidal violence. Since 2000, millions of Southern Nigerians and Christian Northerners have been moving southwards.

Human Rights Watch is obviously part of a grand conspiracy to stand the truth on its head. Alleging police high-handedness against Hausa/Fulani in a conflict in which they are obviously the aggressor is to cause confusion and prevent an understanding of the core issues at stake in Jos and in the North as a whole.

On the issue of police partiality, actually, it’s Hausa/Fulani members of the security forces who have a history of taking sides in times of crisis. It’s an established historical fact that Hausa/Fulani soldiers and policemen participated in the massacre of Igbos in the North in 1966, a fact that particularly enraged Emeka Ojukwu and one of the reasons why he declared a republic where in his words Igbos could live in safety.

Now to Jos. In 2001, the then commissioner of police in Plataeu State, A. Abubakar, was found to have abused his office by arming Hausa/Fulani youths and sending an all Hausa/Fulani patrol squad to shoot Jos indigenes and other Nigerians during the conflict. And that was the reason he was removed from his post. Although he was never charged to court.

In 2008, Hausa/Fulani soldiers were also said to have killed many inhabitants of the city. A fact attested to by the President-General of the Yoruba Community Council in the state, Chief Toye Ogushuyi, in his submission to the Bola Ajibola Panel. He said, with tears in his eyes, that many Yorubas were actually killed by Hausa/Fulani soldiers whom the victims thought were coming to offer them protection.

This year, in addition to the frightening accounts of Jos residents who allege that soldiers were going from house-house to shoot people in non- Hausa/Fulani areas, Assistant Commissioner of Police Dagogo was also found to have led Hausa/Fulani policemen in plain clothes to carry out killings in addition to arming Hausa-Fulani youths. That was why he was being suspended.

The accusation of bias against the now redeployed Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Mr Greg Ayating, who said, “The latest crisis in Jos, was started when armed Muslim  Hausa youths attacked churches during Sunday prayers without provocation on 20 January, is unjustified.

It’s an open secret that the attacks in Jos were always planned well in advance and with military precision. And that they are orchestrated from outside the state by Jihadists bent on conquering the city. In fact, since November last year, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Plateau State branch, has been crying out against what it described as a plot to burn down churches in Jos, but nobody believed them.

The trigger of an Hausaman “who was not allowed to rebuild his house in a Christian-dominated neighbourhood” was a set up. This is typical of the conflicts in the past. It must always be a small altercation between a Christian and Muslim; and within one hour of that encounter, shops, residential buildings and churches are already in flames with the streets strewn with corpses. For example, the September 2001 riots were supposedly sparked by a girl who crossed a road that had been closed while Muslim prayers were going on.

In several press statements issued by Corinne Dufka on the Jos impasse, Human Rights Watch called on the Nigerian government to “take concrete steps to end the discriminatory policies that treat certain groups as second-class citizens” which it says “lie at the root of much of the inter-communal violence in Nigeria.” “In Jos, members of the largely Muslim Hausa ethnic group are classified as non-indigenes though many have resided there for several generations.” In effect, Dufka is saying that there is discrimination against the Hausa/Fulani in Jos which she holds responsible for the perennial bloodletting in the city. But this is not true.

Let’s explain the settler/indigene dichotomy in Nigeria to Human Rights Watch.

Since independence, there is a general agreement albeit an unwritten one that certain ethnic groups are considered indigenous to different parts of the country for the sake of peace and stability.

What this means is that the chieftaincy (traditional political) institutions in these parts are exclusively reserved for these groups. However, there is no law that prevents a resident non-indigene from becoming the Governor of a State or the Chairperson of a Local Government in the state. In fact, there’re currently two commissioners of Igbo origin in the cabinet of Governor Raji Babatunde Fashola of Lagos.

In the case of Jos, the recognised indigenous peoples are the Berom, Anaguta and Afizere. In fact, these ethnics are not found in any other part of the country.

The Hausa/Fulani and other large communities in Jos, such as the Yorubas, Uhrobos and Igbos, came to the area in the wake of the tin mining activities of the British about 120 years ago. In fact, the first Church in Jos, a Baptist Church, was built by the Yorubas in 1910.

Out of all the ethnic groups, only the Hausa-Fulani contest the indigeneship of Jos with the Berom, Anaguta and Afizere. The purpose is to enable them to coronate their own traditional ruler, an Emir, which will conflict with and eventually lead to the abolition of the institution of the Gbong Gwon, the nationally recognised traditional ruler of Jos, who is a Berom.

The present troubles in Jos are therefore a continuation of the historic battle to incorporate Jos into the Hausa/Fulani cultural sphere through violence.  This would however amount to the indigenous peoples losing their cultural sovereignty – with eventual curtailments to the exercise of their religious freedom. In the latter part of the colonial era and until the coup that brought Yakubu Gowon into power in 1966, the Hausa/Fulani-dominated regional government of Northern Nigeria mounted pressure on the then Gbong Gwom  and the Berom elite to convert to Islam.

In Plateau State, there is a commissioner of Hausa-Fulani origin in the cabinet of Governor Jonah Jang while the legislator representing the federal constituency to which Jos belongs in the Federal House of Representatives in Abuja is a Hausa-Fulani. His name is Samaila Ibrahim and he was freely elected by an electorate that was not mainly Hausa/Fulani.

The claim that the Hausa/Fulani are being discriminated against in state employment is only propaganda. Which state in Nigeria employs on any appreciable scale today? Most of them actually have difficulties coping with their monthly wage bills hence there have been retrenchment by the governments of many states in the country in the last 10 years.

In truth, the Hausa/Fulani have no legitimate grievances in Jos.

The strategy of the Hausa-Fulani Jihadists in the battle of Jos in beclouding the issues at stake is to falsely portray themselves as victims and thereby occupy the moral high ground, and make the conflict intractable.

And during the organised killing campaigns, the murderous rioters are instructed to target all non-Hausa/Fulani inhabitants of the city irrespective of their ethnicity or religion, and their economic assets – a strategy aimed at driving away as many people as possible from the city until such a time that those remaining will willingly succumb to whatever demand of the Hausa-Fulani in the city, which is an Emirate.

President Jonathan should probe the role of Human Rights Watch in the Jos crisis. Human Rights Watch should also check the background of Corinne Dufka and its workers in Nigeria, as they’re obviously partial.