Arrewa: How people of God easily find the will and courage to do this usually overwhelms me. Islam, religion of peace. Christianity, religion of love. And yet, we experience neither peace nor love in this country
Point of correction,Christianity is not a religion.its reconciled relationship with God.
The requirements to join Amotekun excludes birth certificate from the mosques. Does that sound fair and inclusive to you?
Assuming he had jumped into conclusion like he does most times and called Amotekun SW leaders and CAn attempt at Christian evangelism, won't you find it presumptuous?
quote author=Yenny4real post=86155501]I don't think this man is medically ok, if not something that was set up to tackle the insucurity of our region he's here saying it will only favour the Christians.i think he needs a check up.
You know one surprising thing is that this Amotekun is meant to work in southwest,not north.so why is it becoming a problem to the north.na wao
References: The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on Governors of Southwest States to allow the Operation Amotekun embrace all citizens living in the sub-region.
MURIC also advised that the new security organization should not lean towards any religion or target any ethnic group for victimization.
The call was made in a statement on Monday issued to DAILY POST by the Director of the human rights organization, Prof. Ishaq Akintola.
This was sequel to the resolution of the governors of the South West to give a legal backing to the Amotekun security outfit.
The statement added, “No homo sapien compos mentis living in Yorubaland will oppose the setting up of a security outfit to complement the existing security agencies on ground (the army, police, NNDC, DSS, etc).
“We all want lives and properties secured all over Nigeria. That is why people living on every street have security arrangements in place while some individuals also have both day and night guards in their private offices and homes.
“It is therefore mischievous to give the impression that Muslims are against the South West security initiative. No reasonable Nigerian today will frown at attempts to boost security in any part of the country. What we oppose is the religious and ethnic tinge which the handlers gave Amotekun.
“You cannot blame Muslims for crying out when you ask them to bring birth certificates from churches before joining Amotekun. Neither can you expect them to stand akimbo when you tell them to bring letters of recommendation from churches.
“Muslims in the Yoruba enclave are not opposing Amotekun per se. What they oppose is a situation where a ostensibly anti-Islam security outfit comes into operation in Yorubaland.
“Apart from the reference to birth certificates from churches and letters of reference from pastors, the choice of nomenclature is another controversial issue because it has a strong Christian identity.
“Why ‘Amotekun’ as a name for crying out loud? Research has revealed the biblical origin of this name and it makes Muslims suspicious. Why Amotekun of all brands?
“Jeremiah 5:6 says, ‘A leopard shall guard over their city’. Amotekun is mentioned in this verse with particular reference to guarding a city.
“Now, we have a sub-region where Muslims have been under persecution for ages coming up with a security outfit under the name of the same leopard mentioned in the bible as a guard over the city.
“This is not a coincidence. The handlers of Amotekun picked the name deliberately from the bible in order to score a spiritual point. It is very critical. It calls for serious concern. So why give a security unit a religious name?
“We advise the planners of the new security outfit to give it another name in the interest of peace and harmony in the sub-region. This is necessary if they want to carry all stakeholders along. Amotekun as a name is already controversial. We do not need a Christian security unit.
“Neither do we need a Muslim security outfit. The security agency in the South West must not only be neutral, it must also be seen to be neutral.
“We affirm that Muslims form the majority in the population of the South West. They are therefore critical stakeholders and the unity of the Yoruba cannot become fait accompli without involving the Muslims in the sub-region. Muslims must be carried along in any security network in the zone. We are interested in security.
“We are security conscious. We will therefore join a South West security initiative if it is not tainted with Christian landmarks. We will have confidence in a security outfit that involves Muslim leaders, not one that parades pastors, bishops and archbishops alone.
“It must also be noted that a security group that starts with subtle threats to our brethren in faith in another part of the country cannot be safe for Muslims in Yorubaland. There is no racism or tribalism in Islam (Qur’an 49:13). It is a global brotherhood. Yoruba Muslims love Yorubaland.
“They also love Nigeria. But they owe their Creator, Allah, an unflinching and undiluted love towards their brothers and sisters in Islam no matter their race, tribe or colour. From Allah we came and unto Allah we shall return.
“On that Day, nobody will be judged on the basis of his tribe but on the basis of his deeds on earth. Nonetheless, we believe in a united Nigeria and we will support a security unit that constitutes no threat to any tribe in the country, be it Igbo, Fulani, Ijaw, or Tiv.
“However, the latest assurance coming from certain quarters that birth certificates from churches and letters of reference from pastors was not part of the original pre-requisites is most welcome.
“MURIC will support any security arrangement anywhere in Nigeria so long as such arrangement is devoid of gymnastic religiousity and acrobatic ethnicity.
“In addition, the organisers of Amotekun must desist from attempts to intimidate perceived opponents of the scheme. Leaders of the group must caution their foot-soldiers against excesses.
“They must distance themselves from arm-twisting gimmicks like deliberately misinterpreting statements made by people who oppose the Amotekun idea.
“For instance, MURIC has very strong evidence that some elements in the Amotekun camp have issued death threats to its leader. That is unacceptable. It is an attempt to silence opposition.
“All opinions must be allowed in a democracy. That is freedom of speech. Those who attempt to muzzle opinions give the impression that they have hidden agenda. It presupposes that the Amotekun security project will be biased and unprofessional when it finally comes on board. We refuse to be intimidated. It changes nothing in our stand and style of advocacy.
“In a nutshell, as the organisers deliberate on the legal framework to back the complementary security project in the South West, we advise that such legal framework includes a clause that lays emphasis on religious neutrality, security for all citizens residing in Yorubaland regardless of their ethnic background and a new name which is acceptable to all faiths.”
Amotekun is to wage war on criminals against humanity,so nobody is making it religious.it amazes me how you must have put in time to research about what the Bible says about leopard.and I can see you are even making it sound anti religion.so that the muslims of south west will kick against it and then they will be reason to stop it.but these south west people are not religious bias.and that is what we called civilization.not your good use of English.
kingui: UNN Youngest Professor, Ozioma Onuzulike Writes About The Marlians Cult
*The Deadly Virus Called Naira Marley*
By Ozioma Onuzulike
“Quarter pass, you still want to get high/After one original tramadol extra…/ I want to wake up inside money… /Yeah, come! Am I guilty?/ I am smart and I am making money… /Am I a yahoo boy? No evidence…”
Taken from “Mafo” (2019), these lines easily spotlight the hot lure of our youth towards Naira Marley’s world of reckless lifestyle. Azeez Fashola took up the stage name “Naira Marley” in admiration of Bob Marley, the late reggae musician. Like Bob Marley, he wears dreadlocks and is a notorious smoker and promoter of cannabis (Indian hemp or Igbo). He is the latest deadly virus in town, creating a cult followership among the youth who are called Marlians.
Like an evil genius, Azeez Fashola easily sells the Marlian brand to his admirers by blowing their heads with customised volleys of “Marlians! Marlians! Marlians!...” Many adults have also swallowed the bait. One of them recently thumbed up Azeez Fashola’s photograph on the social media, gleefully declaring: “This is the Marlian Prince”. He proceeded to enlist as one of Naira Marley’s spin doctors, blatantly lying that Naira Marley “studied uptil (sic) Masters level in the UK and holds a degree with distinction in Business Law”. Is he correct? Has Azeez Fashola attended any degree-awarding school? Naira Marley’s last school was a Sixth Form college (Crossways College) at which point he left off formal education because, according to his own confession to the EFCC, “I had kids at that time, so I took a break and started making music till date”. But his spin doctor told ‘white’ lies in his spirited effort to convince his audience that Naira Marley is, according to him, “a successful young man, living an interesting life”. And why not? Naira Marley, born only on 9th May 1994, is married to two wives and has four kids!
Concerned parents should discountenance Naira Marley’s spin doctors on social media who are dutifully reading his recent Wikipedia entry upside down to the extent of expressly awarding him a master’s degree in an unknown field of study. They are working hard to dispel fears that real Marlians do not become school drop outs even when they are “mannerless” and smoke weed like their Prince, change women like clothes and immerse themselves in the quest for easy money that are spent on alcohol and sex – vices that constitute the selling points of their Prince’s music videos.
As a parent, take out some time to understand the lyrics of Naira Marley’s latest hit song “Soapy”, which he released after his recent “visit” to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Watch Naira Marley himself or members of his growing gang do the “Soapy Dance”. You will be surprised to witness how audacious Naira Marley has grown in injecting deadly viruses into the brains of our youth.
Before now, you may have seen people dancing lewd dances with their vibrating buttocks and changing gear sometimes to make gestures that are suggestive of the sexual act itself. But you have seen nothing yet. In his so-called “Soapy Dance”, Naira Marley has got those vulgar dance moves “improved” by his introduction of a very explicit sexual gesture that has extended the deadly reach of today’s insanity. Beginning with the song’s title, “Soapy”, he makes no pretensions about his glamorisation and promotion of masturbation. In doing this so-called “Soapy Dance”, the right or left hand is held in front of one’s groin in a way that visually suggests it is holding up a man’s charged “thing”. A rhythmic glide of the folded hand is sustained at work while the dancer seductively moves his or her groin in an aggressively suggestive way.
That is not all. It is even more perplexing and vexing to encounter Naira Marley’s deliberate injection of real or simulated voices of children into the “Soapy” choruses in ways that easily sway unsuspecting kids to sing along with him. What good does a practical lesson on masturbation do to your children? He even ends the song, most enchantingly, by cautioning on the wrong kind of soap to masturbate with. Your children innocuously sing with him, oblivious of the song’s poisonous flow that gradually finds its way into their vulnerable brain. Naira Marley’s “Soapy Dance” is sugar-coated poison! Like a delicious candy, your children nod their heads to its sweetness at first, but, if care is not taken, they are bound to be silently and gradually destroyed by the candy’s deadly core!
You may also examine Naira Marley’s “PXTA”, his music video featuring a large crowd of shameless young men and women dancing with bare bottoms and even copulating like dogs. You will find a set of pregnant girls dressed in what looks like secondary school pinafore uniforms and who suddenly turn to dance the “ass dance”. In this video, Naira Marley unambiguously defines the qualifications for admittance of young, impressionable minds into the Marlian “gang” (to use his own expression!). In the song’s introduction, you hear Naira Marley say “Hey control the crowd, control the crowd/ Marlians come forward, the rest Bleep off…” Well dressed young men are refused admission into the dance arena as Naira Marley intones, “If herb is not getting you high, just play Naira Marley song and you will scatter/We, the mannerless ones; zero belt, a thousand trousers”. The young men pull out their belts and stagger into the arena to join Naira Marley whose own ‘belt-less’ trouser hangs below his ass as he continues singing “Do you know MD?/ That means you should dance Marlian Dance/Can you see NBG?/ Don’t bother saying too much; it is we, the no belt gang!”
From my interactions with students of my university, “Zero belt, a thousand trousers” has become a very catchy line for them. So, to be a real Marlian, you have to dress without a belt and your trousers would have to hang down your ass, exposing your inner wear like that of Naira Marley. Why? “We, no manners” is the creed! After all, “U Bad-Oh!”
If you are patient to search out the English translation of Naira Marley’s “Opotoyi”, you will confirm that he has NOTHING good to offer your children. In this, he sings: “Marlians (7x)/Lift Your Legs (6x)/ Marlians (7x)/MD, MD, MD, this MD is Bad-Oh!/… South Africa owns this bottom mehn/Look at that bottom, they travelled to mould that bottom./So It's as big as this/You covered it up with clothes/It's as big as this…” He continues to sing about big bottoms. Suddenly, he adds “…Dance to my song, give me 5 minutes like indomie/ She's looking at me, seems she wants to bang me/ Give me my thing, man, give me my weed”. He glamorises illicit sex and Indian hemp. He then goes even more vicious: “I called my dealer, she sniffed, I had weed in my mouth, ganja!/She wants to kiss, baby girl can you kiss Tobi, Go down …/Small breast like tiger pussy/Sexy girl, let me lean on your chest”.
He is not done yet. In “Opotoyi”, Naira Marley tickles the fancy of your children towards MouthAction, raising their curiosity as he sings, “Just like sugar,… her pussy is as sweet as sugar… / Lick what you want, let them know we met wealth on earth/ So It's as big as this/ You covered it up with clothes…”. He continues with other lewd lines before the song comes to an end with hails of “Marlians! Marlians!...” And then, you wonder if Naira Marley is building your children for good or helping the devil to plant seeds of destruction in their impressionable minds. Or whether the devil himself has not cultured Naira Marley into a deadly virus.
Without doubt, what have characterised Naira Marley’s brand are illicit drugs, sex, alcohol and easy money. All of Naira Marley’s music lyrics and videos of 2019 that I have seen are never complete without the glamorisation of cannabis (Indian hemp), the female ass and alcohol. The glorification of internet fraud (yahoo-yahoo) is also his trademark. These are among deadly viruses that drive many young people away from their parents’ godly counsel and either destroy them completely or keep them disoriented.
Parents? Yes, I am referring to godly parents, those who are truly responsible and exemplary, not those who are probably worse than Naira Marley himself. One of Naira Marley’s strange fans among the university lecturers that I know has vehemently argued that Naira Marley is not the inventor of these vices and that they (these vices) will not end with him. Yes. There have always been these vices, no doubt. But the point is that Azeez Fashola (Naira Marley) is currently one of the most audacious promoters of them all. And responsible parents ought to be on their guard. They should be wary of the trending deadly virus of this time.
I urge all truly concerned parents to be on red alert, constantly guarding their children with the anti-virus of godly virtues. One of my own father’s efficacious anti-virus programmes is drawn from God’s word in Proverbs chapter 1, especially verse 10. I can confidently recommend that - “My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not!”
*Ozioma Onuzulike is a Professor of Ceramic Art and African Art History at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.*
Let that guy be please.pikin when go spoil go spoil e like dem born am for altar
smellingpussy442: Will this ppl ever be serious for once? All they do is to display a Cultural Exhibitions, and Masquerades while orther states are busy doing well for themself.
Tell me the state that is moving forward in Nigeria.despite the opportunity your state has,it can never be compared to any south east state.lets talk and compare individual achievements between your state and any south east state.
Coldie: I am Igbo but I don't need to read it to know its the truth our people don't know how to play politics.
Nobody will ever take us serious as long as we keep chanting Biafra.
Amongst the major tribes we igbos are the poorest, its not like we are not hardworking but no matter the kind of business u do, no matter the amount of Money u save up and make one political appointment and u will make all those Money in one day, what does that tell u?
Our leaders in the east see nothing wrong with the emigration of Igbo youths to other regions on a daily basis, leading to sparsely populated towns and villages and unoccupied houses, mansions and buildings littering the east yet they see nothing wrong with it.
Where is this ram coming from.what makes you an Igbo.you see how stupid you are.you can't even claim your tribe,because you are not proud of it that's why you are here claiming what you are not and will never be even in your next life.you are a total shame to your tribe.
Ebenezar2020: then how come your IPOB brothers suddenly drop the agitation for bia'fraud the moment PDP gave Presidential ticket to Atikuloot and Peter Obi?
Are you sure its not nunu you were raised with instead of human breast milk.who dropped agitation?.did you undergo brain surgery?
CSTR2: If you are not careful, your grand children will still be talking about leaving Nigeria, while others are becoming president.
Nonsense.
Are you this foolish,we don't want it,how on earth will our grand children want it.go ahead and become president,but we will rather die today standing on our legs than live forever on our kneels.proudly Igbo
shadeyinka: The East is not looking for political power. All they want is freedom to exist free from some backward thinking people in the contraption called Nigeria.
Kingsean: wow i actually admired ladies in hausa land not knowing that women are all the same. they were just hiding under the cover of religion. anyways, i don't think the stigmatization would stop no matter d evidence she brings out. she should just move to a different location where she can have rest of mind.
Jos is not an Hausa land.and specifically not a muslim land.it is a Christian land.
Osagyefo98: Same people here who shows crocodile sympathy for the girl are same set of people that will go to another thread defending an ineffectual buffoon like Buhari and Osibanjo
This will show you how hypocritical and mean an average Nigerian can be. In one thread you condemning abductors of leah shearibu in another twist you defending buhari and osibanjo lost hope of leadership.
That's how CAN chairman Adamawa lost his life. So be grateful that leah is alive and has a baby which makes her stay quite rossy and keeps her secure to have found favour in their sight
In essence if Leah was killed today, highest they will shout boko haram is wicked same way they shouted for the recently murdered CAN chairman.
If you looking for a country filled with hypocrites and pretenders look no further, Nigeria is the country.
If there exist a third term they will still vote him.
So I am happy Leah is adapting and she can even give birth to second child as far as that guarantees her safety. She is there on her own.
Anyday nature smiles upon her and she is released she will tell her story of what happened been kidnapped in a country where her Indigenes are hypocrites and has no conscience.
all these to defend yourself.just apologize.it won't cost you anything but your false pride.now you want to tell us everybody here is wrong,you are the only right person.otolo piapu gi isi.
nograv: Because from the Americans to the British, such help comes with a price.
American bases on your soil, like Djibouti, Japan or the United Kingdom. The individuals in those bases can kill or rape your people as they have done in Japan or the UK, yet they are above the law.
So help is a double edged sword. Bring them in, foreign armies will never leave.
says who.is that the reason why we will continue to dwell in abject poverty,sleeping in your own home with one eye open.
Made4naijalove: Burna Boy's album 'African Giant' was nominated for a Grammy Award for 'Best World Music Album'
The singer was nominated in the category alongside Angelique Kidjo, Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet, Bokanté & Metropole Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley and Altin Gün.
The award ceremony will take place on Sunday, January 26, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
Do you even know the history of where you come from?.because those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.do you even know the history of Nigeria let alone learn from it.or you stick to what the British says you are(Black monkey).
Do you even know the history of where you come from?.because those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.do you even know the history of Nigeria let alone learn from it.
[quote author=Simplyleo post=86095447]Can you imagine this pig.
Shebi you dey relaunch your foolish BSS?
Why not concentrate the 1 million miscreants under you on that project? What is your bloody business with Amotekun?
Many people believe there are two sides to a coin,but actually they forget that the edge of it is also another side.and that when you stand on the edge,you will be able to see the other two sides before making judgement.I have been following your post,and I must say you are more than narrow minded.Nigeria is deteriorating,and we have people who are sticking their necks out for the voicemail,yet buffons like you will come here to say senseless words.
Crime › Re: Angry Youths In Plateau Attack Fulani Settlement, Raze Down 23 Houses, Mosque by Obiagu01: 3:55pm On Jan 29, 2020
