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An eye opener. Thanks for this information.

Here is another one that I found about the belief in the Supreme God before the advent of Christianity. Arochukwu is given that name because the founders believed in the existence of the Supreme God. Here is the link.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arochukwu

Nekai:
Mr. Siena you don't belong on this thread. Your baby is your carbon copy!

But yes, you are right. Why get into a marriage where there is no trust in the first place.

Someone just mentioned trust as the underlying reason for their decision not to have a DNA test done on their child. I also have to direct this question to them: Would you have your wife sign a prenuptial agreement before marrying her, or would you forego it, because of trust?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-13568.0.html

Yes, He is!

John 10:30

Very insightful article and will be a great blessing to those struggling with this undiagnosed learning disorder. For sometime now I have been wondering how to publicize this learning disorder in Nigeria now, because a lot of kids suffer from it, but we dont have the facilities to diagnose it. Rather, people would ignorantly comment, "Him no sabi book." For the child, it's very embarrassing, particularly if they come from a high achieving family. I dont know how it can be remedied, but thanks a lot for bringing it up on nairaland. Every problem has a solution.

stillwater:
Well we could use those indigenous tribes such as the Andamanese people in India, Bushmen of Namibia, even the Koma people of Nigeria as a case in point. That is how most of Africa would still look like till date.

I dont think you are right. Prior to colonialism, our forefathers tied loincloth around their waist and though they walked barefoot, but at least they were properly attired.

AjanleKoko:
lekside,
Far from it. I think people are lazy. Your comment regarding 'our leaders' even confirms it. The average Nigerian, nay African, appears to be waiting to be told what to do by a 'leader'. We have a leadership crisis in Nigeria primarily because nobody sees themselves as leaders. People sit and dream of a utopia that they expect a leader figure to provide, rather than than them rising vertically where they are.

For example, you hardly see a plumber putting everything into his plumbing profession, till he rises above other plumbers. Instead what you see is a plumber who prefers to maintain status quo, and when things go sour, blame someone else or even blame the plumbing profession. In Africa, you hardly see consistency. What you see is people stubbornly sticking to doing the same thing the same way year in year out, and when things go sour, they blame everything under the sun.

It's part of why I said earlier that colonialism was inevitable for Africa. The West needed resources, they turned to Africa, and deployed the only tool at their disposal - brute force. We were not ready, so we couldn't protect our motherland.

And we are still not ready to protect our motherland, otherwise, we would have shunned China from invading our continent. I was reading a publication the other day and it mentioned that the Chinese have taken over some of the the agrarian business that they not only hire the indigenes (Zambians), but also maltreat them too.

Read this story.

LOS ANGELES – A judge says it's too late for a man to contest nearly $200,000 in unpaid child support for a daughter who was likely fathered by comic Sam Kinison before he died in 1992.

Carl La Bove asked a judge to invalidate an agreement with his ex-wife that required him to make the payments.

Recent DNA tests have shown Kinison likely fathered the child born to La Bove's ex-wife.

Superior Court Judge Thomas Trent Lewis told La Bove during a brief hearing Tuesday that he was years late in contesting paternity and trying to nullify at least $188,000 in back child support. . .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110329/ap_en_ot/us_people_sam_kinison;_ylt=Ap7IOezjYoBlxku5CKuzyWtxFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTJtYmdiNGNxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwMzI5L3VzX3Blb3BsZV9zYW1fa2luaXNvbgRjcG9zAzIEcG9zAzQEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDanVkZ2Vva3NzdXBw

ChinenyeN:
True Love. Please o. Anyway, I'm just saying, you jumping off about Osu this (in particular), true love that, 'outdated these and those', just because of a topic of exogamy (not marrying/mating with 'family'), is simply doing too much (you're stretching it). The topic of exogamy is rather detached from the other issues you raised; or should I say, much more detached than is related. Just my interpretation. I wouldn't entertain your questions, unless of course you opened up another topic, but then again, the topic of osu (which I suspect is what your questions will eventually lead to) has already been overly discussed time upon time, upon times, and it's almost insulting to revisit it, especially under a topic that is about mating with/marrying non-relations. Just saying.

And were humans supposed to marry their relatives? Topic, like you said, is about marrying non-relatives, and I pointed out that sometimes, an educated person would not marry an osu, because of tradition. Why do you consider it insulting? For bringing up the truth, which is relevant to the topic? No, blame those who still practise this discrimination and yet are quick to cry wolf over discrimination by other tribes against them. Isnt that something?

ChinenyeN:
Ndipe, to be honest, considering the topic and context of this entire situation, I believe your posts make it easy for you to be accused of coming here just to look for trouble, if nothing else. Consider that.No one lives and wakes by the customs and traditions anymore

No I wasnt looking for any trouble. The topic is about rules and regulations of Ibo tradition that bars people from certain villages from marrying from certain villages. Andre Uweh's response is "No one lives and wakes by the customs and traditions anymore . . . " which, in my interpretation means that people have abandoned outdated customs in favor of true love. And my rebuttal is that the osu culture still acts as a barrier to true love, because even in today's world, some educated people would not marry an osu due to tradition. How did I err? Please tell me.

Andre Uweh:
This your brainless post is very irrelevant to the thread.

Why attack the truth?

Abagworo:
Comparing Amaechi with Akpabio is like comparing Christ with satan.ACN even campaigned in Amaechi's hometown and all across Rivers State no poster or billboard was removed.The opposition in Rivers State are free to campaign as much as they can because Amaechi performed creditably and everyone resident in Rivers knows this.

Akpabio did well infrastructurally but banning the opposition from entering his senatorial zone shows his popularity is no doubt questionable.

Nobody can be compared with Christ!

ifyalways:
Rules are meant to be broken.
[b]No one lives and wakes by the customs and traditions anymore.[/b]Ga chere m na nke stormy acha. 

Some 'free born' Ibos still adhere to the outdated customs that they should not marry an osu.

thehomer:
177,000? Where did you get that number from? I thought it was 144,000 that were destined for heaven. How do you even know that we are going to be reincarnated?

The 144,000 are those from the 12 tribes of Israel. I used to believe JW's doctrine that only 144,000 people will go to heaven to rule the earth, while the saved ones will remain on earth under their leadership. That's a false doctrine.

http://www.gotquestions.org/144000.html

You cannot marry from another village, you cannot marry osu, you cannot marry . . ., what's up with all this outdated customs?

You called a fellow who's been responding to his post (according to allegations by Image123) with numerous aliases a genius? I dont think so. Be honest, are you the culprit? If you are, please dont flatter yourself. Someone was busted on this thread a while back.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-208109.0.html

Virtueways:
Dear  N/landers, after all said what we should be asking ourselves is--where has her soul gone to now, for what shall it profit a man/woman, if he/she owns the whole world and loses his/her soul,

We dont know where her soul is, do you?

Jesus Christ could not have sinned, (and did not sin) because He was Divine. At the same time, He was tempted, like all humans, because He was also 100% man. Prior to His conception, His mom, Mary, was filled with the Holy Spirit, hence He could not inherit her sins. As His conception was not as a result of the union between a man and a woman, He was also exempted from inheriting the sins of what could have been transferred to him from His earthly father. All these was designed by God because in the old testament, the Lamb to be sacrificed to Him for the atonement of sins had to be pure and perfect. Similarly, the Savior of the Human Race had to be Divine in order to take away the previous sacrifices, otherwise, it would have been moot. It is a very very interesting story that is REAL.

segyemaro:
that ghuy is a genius

Who is a genius, segyemaro?

chima2011:
22 REASONS WHY BUHARI CAN NEVER RULE NIGERIA

Originally By: Kekere ekun and Co.


In my books, Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the follwoing reasons I can not vote for Buhari

1. He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers whose land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.
1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.

1 (b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.

1© Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whe he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo township.

2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution. He left untouched an alleged well known drug baron in Ibrahim Babangida who later overthrew his government.

3. He jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail.

4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash througth the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, the then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases were supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo.

5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."

6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of Northern population majority

7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.

8. He is a coup plotter.

9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.
9(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-caled trust fund.

10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.

11. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatia mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman.

12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in Kiri Kiri Prison by meanhearted Buhari.Up till today we are not told what was Emeka's offence.

13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention.The then Governor of Ogun State,Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.

14. Buhari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President,the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!

15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.

16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, co ordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago, Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame!

17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the North. If in doubt read El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election in 1999.

18. Buhari is unforgiven. When he "took over" by coup in 1983, even remembered an article written a very very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army function where he was reported to be very openly pro Fulani and pro Islam to the exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.

19. Buhari intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries without prior warning to the other candidates and a few of them protested, Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined. I subsequently saw him on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened me and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.

20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.

21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Buhari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologised at anytime.

22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. and At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilised citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are inching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.

If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial, egoistic, religious, fundamendalist, conscienceless human being like MOHAMMADU BUHARI with the presidency of Nigeria with his kind of track record, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?

I can not in good conscience support Buhari's candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds. However, I am 100 percent sure that Buhari will never again rule Nigeria.

For the good of Nigeria, vote any other candidate, but SAY NO TO BUHARI!!!

Shehu Kangiwa was never under house arrest, for he died in a polo game in 1981, several years before the Buhari/Idiagbon military coup in 1983. check your facts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shehu_Kangiwa

How true are these stories?

snowdrops:
supporters killing themselves while the politicians are sitting on their loot.

Na so I talk. Poverty and greed are behind it.

Here is the latest

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/mar/24/national-24-03-2011-002.htm

Here is another site praising Akpabio's free education scheme

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/education/31538.html

[quote author=baby.me link=topic=69425.msg7968247#msg7968247 date=1300872545]Emesiere o! Mbok emekop se iba ke Akwa Ibom? Mbre ukara Akpabio ye Udoedehe ado anwan. Mkpong ema ewod owo,efop ufok ye moto. Akpabio iyeme nno Udoedehe anam campaign ke annang. Mbok yak ineke ibong akam ibanga isong nnyin ye ukara obio nnyin. (Did u understand what i wrote? )[/quote]Yeah I did. Mman nkot si ikitepe mkpong ke internet. Adiok etieti, ake atepe ke Ikot Obong Edong. Mbon Akpabio ye mbon udoedeghe enwana enwan ewot mme owo, ebo ke ema efop moto. Yak Abasi odu ye nyin, onyung odu ye Akwa Ibom State, onyng odu ye Nigeria.

Dolemite:
Tainting that pure white blood, I'm not a big fan of inter racial relationships. . .imagine if miss Nigeria dated a white man, yeuch.

You are racist!

[quote author=Busy_body link=topic=628796.msg7966639#msg7966639 date=1300840756]Na wa oh, hope the dude doesn't maltreat the boy though [/quote]I hope not, I think the man was not interested in giving up the boy to his biological father. He told Oprah that his presence comforted him greatly after the death of his wife (and prior to the revelation of this betrayal).

While every man and woman would want their spouses to be faithful to them throughout the union, I have to ask, if you were in that man's situation, would you relinquish custodial rights of the tyke to his biological father, or would you consent to joint custody? It's a very sad story.

Here is the story I posted earlier

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-13738.0.html

Image123:
I have a gut feeling that the same person has being replying himself all through this page, apart of course from my sister pilgrim.1

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Funny stuff Please mention their names. I crack up about this multiple ID stuff.