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Anyone still unclear on this issue after this?

My thoughts on what brought the prophesy:
Taiwo Bello terminally ill with cancer, decides to sought spiritual help. Goes to Synagogue. TB knows this is a terminal case, and he cannot do the 'miracle'. He tactically ignores Taiwo, though he has his medical records and profession. TB takes to the pulpit and 'prophesies' to his awaiting gullible sheep. And few days later, Taiwo dies. What a prophesy!

[quote author=Awhy.com]But why are you taking Aregbe's matter too personal like this, are you in anyway related to him, if not then you must be a muslim or ACN supporter or better still a PDP hater, just wondering why someone will be this passionate about Aregbe.[/quote]Where are you in Iwo? And how has the group's activities affected you negatively? If you are truly in Iwo, I have some questions for you. This report is as silly as PDP can get. The group has ZERO influence even in Iwo town. I cannot believe people are even thinking there is any sense in this story. Most people just make up their minds when anything Islam is mentioned.

^^^ are you intentionally acting unlearned? Can you not tell the difference between shutting down roads and shutting down activities? Go read the two stories again and come back to repent

PointB: I couldn't care less if Osun state secedes and Aregbesola becomes the President. But my concern lies in the allegations of intention to export militants and terrorists to other part of the country! For crying out loud has he not learnt a thing or two about how Boko Haram came to be? What is wrong with Aregbe?

Why waste public fund promoting religious intolerance when Osun state is begging for infrastructures? Na wa for this guyman!

This news is the other way round. For sometime now, some overzealous teachers in secondary schools have been trying to cause religious tension by sending home students wearing ijab. This was never the case before, especially in Iwo, a notable Muslim town. The elders are jawjawing on the issue, and the governor so far has distanced himself from the case to prevent allegations like this.

NEVER should a first lady carry so much weight as to block roads for that long! She is not recognised in the constitution! So many issues we need to campaign against.

I was just wondering why most activists(at least the vocal ones) come from the South. Is it due to the long years of Northern rule? Or is it culture up North that hinders people speaking against authority? Or are Northern activists easily swayed by other sentiments such as religion, culture or even money? While many Northerners are clearly unhappy with GEJ, is this not a time for us to see more real, articulate oppositions to the government coming from the North? Rather, what we see is attacks on personality and mostly incoherent, sentimental attacks which do not really touch on important points. I know there are very brilliant minds up North, but why do they not speak up?
Forget the cosmetic El-Rufai and other political jobbers, are there young, opinionated Northerners? I know of an intelligent lady in Birmingham who voices her opinion frequently on national issues, but where are the others?
Boko Haram would also have been a big opportunity for the face of Northern youth to come out and be identified. Can we have any SUG president or youth activist from Maiduguri come out, and lead fellow students to tackle BH in the state? If they can come out, and team up with genuine activists down South, I think we can all shame the thieves in Abuja.
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In my opinion, this is an elaborate, impracticable approach! They want to take HIV away and infect the person with cancer?
The future of HIV cure is in targeting viral RNA and not some elaborate nonsense.

This should be in the joke section! Awon arindin Abuja!

Match highlights....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrTYRQgaj88&feature=youtu.be
Enjoy

A very good eye-opener. Nigeria will be great again if we use hungry players like this. Egypt played well, but Nigeria played better overall

Referee doing his bit to help Egypt

Egypt struggling to get out of their own half. Nigerian forward players pressing and working hard. Still 2-2

Game back underway. No changes yet. Egypt miss a sitter

I think we should use homebased attack and foreign based defence.

So far so brilliant. These guys are really making me happy. They can dribble, they can attack, they can counter attack, they can hold the ball, they can string passes, they can even do cheeky goals. This is the real Nigerian team.
Halftime: 2-2. egypt's second goal was one dubious penalty.
Link: http://www.justin.tv/bro_movies2/popout

olawalebab: Don't tell me you are a newbie. Lol.

Maybe not a newbie, but not an elder like you sir. lol

Salam Alaikum. Ola_pluto reporting for duty! There is nothing extra-ordinary about me. Male, closer to 30 than 20, born Muslim, started practising less than a decade ago, still striving to stop some bad bad things I do.
Nairaland Islamic section is a fun and educative place to be. I do not think I know anyone here, but I naturally take you all as my brothers and Sisters.

First you have to ask why people go to church. Then ask what people intend to gain from going to church. Once you clarify all that, then you reason what prophessy has to do with going to church. Should religion really be about prophessy or about making it to heaven. Of what use is the prophessy when most people are still corrupt and abuse God daily?

Salam alaikum dear brothers and sisters. I heard the sudden news of the death of my beloved grandfather last night. He was a great man who championed the cause of Islam in my town and environs. He loved everyone be you Muslim or not. He stood for the right things and I cannot remember anyone having anything against him. He was blessed financially from a young age, and he used his money to make people happy. He sponsored many people's educationand sponsored many people to hajj.
I felt a deep sense of loss when I heard the news yesterday. It has been affecting me even in my solat. I get emotional when reciting some verses. I really pray he makes paradise because he was a good man. I also pray that he finds it easy in his grave. He was not a sheik nor a mallim, but he never joked with his religion.
Brothers and sisters, Please pray for him, even if it is one suratul Ikhlas or ayat kursiy I will appreciate it.Please pray that he does not face any punishment in his grave. Please pray that Allah make it easy for him and all of us on the day of judgement. Please pray that the family he left behind be held in unity.
You do not have to reply this topic, your prayers will be much appreciated. I sincerely hope I can get myself to come to terms with the fact that he is no more. I love him so much. Thanking you in advance.

In any sane country, El-rufai will not be a free man.

After the impressive 7 medal haul at the African Wrestling Champs, 3 Nigerians have made it to the Olympics. Beijing veteran, Amarachi Obiajuwa Favour, made it to the final of the women 72KG freestlye, thereby qualifying for the olympics. Also, Oborodudu Blessing in the 63kg made it to the final. However, Oziti Sammy and Lovida failed to make it pass the semi-final stage.
A Nigerian man called D.i.ck made it too. See Link below:
http://www.totallympics.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1942&extra=page%3D1&page=6

I dont know why I find this video funny, but Inua really knows how to get attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeWjJDt4okw&feature=related

Invisible Children and Joseph Kony
March 6, 2012
You may have heard of the little film titled Invisible Children that came out in 2006 documenting the Lord’s Resistance Army and their kidnappings of children. It took the media world’s attention and ran with it, generating millions of dollars for their newly formed NGO, Invisible Children.The aim was to shine a spotlight on the atrocities, to bring people’s attention to what was happening – hence the title, Invisible Children. They were going to make these children visible.
I became aware of the film shortly after it was released as many in the Church took on the cause of raising money for Invisible Children, screening the film, etc… The filmmakers exploded onto the media and humanitarian scene, creating apparel (their store is now selling ‘action kits’), holding large events, and marketing in all corners – all ostensibly for the benefit of children in Northern Uganda, often centered around the Acholi people and even more so an area named Gulu, where the LRA leader Joseph Kony is from (I attended a church that held a ‘Gulu Walk’ mimicking the children’s flight).
Now, they’re out with a new film titled, Kony – which has again gone massively viral.The aim of the film, according to Invisible Children, is to “make Joseph Kony famous…to raise support for his arrest”.
The problem? From the beginning to now, the goal was premised on a White desire to save downtrodden Africa regardless of facts. The movies are premised on the idea that: North American (White) attention will save Africa. I wrote about this same thing in regards to Nick Kristof and the logic goes like this:
White people only care about White people and the only way to save Black people is to get White people to care about them, so to save Black people we need to talk about White people.
But the problem is even bigger than this. It feeds into the public perception of what Africa is. It’s full of war, famine and rape. Its people can’t help themselves.
Kony and his atrocities are nothing new; they’ve been happening for a long time. There have been numerous very public policy discussions within North America about how best to deal with Kony but he’s elusive, he knows how to run and really governments in North America are minimally interested. To the people in the area he terrorizes, they have had conversations about how to deal with Kony & how to deal with things bigger than Kony – malaria, disease, education, society. I have an Acholi colleague who is researching education in conflict/post-conflict Acholiland. They care, they know, they’re researching and problem solving – this is nothing new, Kony is already infamous. So what will educating White people do?
Some will say, what’s the problem with bringing attention to the atrocities? This is a good thing, now people will know and do something. Who cares if it is White people, Black people, or Purple people who do it?
One problem: It falls into the trap, the belief that the problem is ignorance and the answer is education. When we tell more people about Kony and the LRA, something WILL happen. It’s not true. Bono, Bob Geldolf, Angelina Jolie and thousands of others have brought more attention, more education, more money to issues – it doesn’t solve them. White ignorance is not the problem. White colonialism/oppression/domination/violence (whatever you want to call it) in the past and present is. It is built on the idea that Africa needs saving – that it is the White man’s burden to do so. More education does not change the systems and structures of oppression, those that need Africa to be the place of suffering and war and saving.
It’s also about history. White folk have for centuries built industries on saving Black people in Africa. In creating images of what Africans look like, in order to justify saving them. Is it any coincidence that all of the filmmakers and subsequent heads of the NGO are white? Is it any coincidence that, despite ‘partnering’ with local people, on Invisible Children’s website, in a colonial-esque era division, that the White people involved in the organization are framed in a modern, neutral (White) room in ‘hip’ fashion while the Africans all have straw huts in the background? No, the ideal African still lives in huts! They’re exotic and poor. This is all no surprise when we bring history into the picture.
Part of this is the centering of our Western vision and logic. The very idea of ‘Invisible’ is ludicrous – these children were never invisible to their communities and families – only to us. It harkens back to the ‘unspoilt’ land of the new worlds where ‘no one had ever been before’ and which completely ignored the lives and realities of the Indigenous people, the Africans who had lived there for centuries before – who knew everything there was to know about this ‘untouched’ land. It is the re-centering of the West and the glossing over of those whose lives are being impacted most. We need to learn: It’s not about us. Race does matter for this reason, because of how it is constituted by history and continues to shape how we view the world.
There are other critiques about where the money that is raised goes, the filmmakers are just kids with no idea how to distribute aid, whether aid is really effective in solving problem, that Kony is long gone from Uganda, etc… They are all relevant but huge issues in themselves. This article is about representation and how Invisible Children erases local realities while purporting to showcase them. It’s about those people who watch the film and believe awareness is the answer to solving the problems. Raising awareness is our generations pat on the back, our absolution of guilt, our mechanism for maintaining our neo-liberal, do-good Whiteness which separates us from those OTHER horrible people who ‘do nothing’. We believe making a film or watching a film changes systems of oppression, patterns of violence, or centuries of colonial erasure. That is what this article is about.
You can read more about how the film frames “Bad guys vs. Good guys” from How Matters.
For those of faith who are supporting Invisible Children, some bigger questions to think on regarding love and charity.

My mother’s family are members of the Acholi tribe, and they hail from Gulu, a town in Northern Uganda. Northern Uganda is a place which has experienced significant ups and downs in recent decades, but all the same I was very surprised to come home last night to find talk of it all over Twitter. And the hashtags continued this morning – #stopkony, #Kony2012, #stopKony2012, #InvisibleChildren, #MakeKonyFamous, #CoverTheNight, #LRA, #Uganda. All of a sudden, my family’s region was famous – or, at least, trending on Twitter. What was all this about?
The previous afternoon, I had received a message from a friend, the Nigerian poet and playwright Inua Ellams, asking if I had seen a video with a very moving message. I clicked on the link that he’d sent through, and what emerged was a painfully familiar tale. The video, created by Invisible Children, an American NGO, tells the story of Joseph Kony, and his horrific activities in Northern Uganda. For over twenty years, he and his Lord’s Resistance Army (or LRA) have been abducting children from villages there – boys so they can fight as soldiers in his army, girls so they can be subjected to rape and sexual enslavement. The video is part of a campaign, coming to a head this year, which aims to use a series of vigils to raise awareness of Kony’s atrocities. In doing so, Invisible Children aim to encourage the powers that be to stop this brutality and blood-letting.
Invisible Children has had some success already: late last year, President Barack Obama committed 100 US troops to provide “advice and assistance” to the Ugandan army in removing Joseph Kony from the battlefield. The President’s move came in part due to the NGO’s tremendous advocacy efforts. Everyone agrees that this a hugely important issue, but Invisible Children’s methods have come in for searing criticism; most scathingly, they have been attacked as “neo-liberal, do-good Whiteness”. Elsewhere, Foreign Affairs has provided some important context on this matter, in relation to Uganda’s strategic importance to the USA. I would also recommend the Twitter feed of Laura Seay, who was moved to comment this morning that “[Solomme Lemma] is tweeting links to great community-based organizations working in Northern Uganda. Give there if you really want to help.
I understand the anger and resentment at Invisible Children’s approach, which with its paternalism has unpleasant echoes of colonialism. I will admit to being perturbed by its apparent top-down prescriptiveness, when so much diligent work is already being done at Northern Uganda’s grassroots. On the other hand, I am very happy – relieved, more than anything – that Invisible Children have raised worldwide awareness of this issue. Murderers and torturers tend to prefer anonymity, and if not that then respectability: that way, they can go about their work largely unhindered. For too many years, the subject of this trending topic on Twitter was only something that I heard about in my grandparents’ living room, as relatives and family friends gathered for fruitless and frustrated hours of discussion. Watching the video, though, I was concerned at the simplicity of the approach that Invisible Children seemed to have taken.
The thing is that Joseph Kony has been doing this for a very, very, very long time. He emerged about a quarter of a century, which is about the same time that Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni came to power. As a result the fates of these two leaders must, I think, be viewed together. Yet, though President Museveni must be integral to any solution to this problem, I didn’t hear him mentioned once in the 30-minute video. I thought that this was a crucial omission. Invisible Children asked viewers to seek the engagement of American policymakers and celebrities, but – and this is a major red flag – it didn’t introduce them to the many Northern Ugandans already doing fantastic work both in their local communities and in the diaspora. It didn’t ask its viewers to seek diplomatic pressure on President Museveni’s administration.
About ten minutes into the video, the narrator asks his young son who “the bad guy” in Uganda is; when his young son hesitates, he informs him that Joseph Kony is the bad guy. In a sense, he let Kony off lightly: he is a monster. But what the narrator also failed to do was mention to his son that when a bad guy like Kony is running riot for years on end, raping and slashing and seizing and shooting, then there is most likely another host of bad guys out there letting him get on with it. He probably should have told him that, too.
I don’t think that Invisible Children are naïve. I don’t think that President Obama was ever blind to this matter either: his own father, a Kenyan, hails from the Luo, the same tribal group that has suffered so much at the hands of Kony. My hunch – and hope – is that they see this campaign as a way to encourage wider and deeper questions about wholly inadequate governance in this area of Africa.
And as far as President Museveni is concerned, my thoughts are these: if thousands of British children were being kidnapped from their towns each year and recruited into an army, you can bet that David Cameron would be facing some very, very serious questions in the Commons. You can bet that he would be grilled on why, years after the conflict began, there were still about a million of his citizens slowly dying in squalor in ill-equipped refugee camps. You can also bet that, after twenty-odd years of this happening on his watch, he wouldn’t still be running the country.

SOURCE:http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/07/stop-kony-yes-but-dont-stop-asking-questions/

Kony is evil yes. He is a very evil Christian terrorist. He should be caught. BUT how?
DO you know anything about this NGO?
Do you know that only 31% of money raised by this NGO actually go to Uganda?
This NGO is as good as a scam gets. It plays on people's emotions to paint Africa bad in order to get money. Things are not as they claim. Google will set you people free.
I will post one or two blogs about this issue. Think and think again, as Africans, if this NGO's way is realistic. Think and think again if any white man intervention has quenched any conflict in Africa. Think and think how many Nigerian soldiers died in Liberia, yet USA claims to have brought peace to Liberia. Think and think if Africa's problems can be solved this way.
Do not be carried away by a 30 minutes hollywood video. Stop and Think.

Issues to always remind ourselves of in this case: 1. Nigeria is not a high risk yellow fever nation.Last incidence reported was in1995. 2. No Nigerian government official was contacted before deportation. This is illegal. 3. If ever this yellow fever card is to be checked, it should have been done at visa issuance and not point of entry.
Finally, I expect that Nigerian government should make it mandatory for all SA citizens entering Nigeria to have a full HIV/AIDS as a first point of reciprocation. Then, they can move on to scrutiny of SA expats in the country. By the time both countries decide to go LEGAL, we will all see that SA is even more corrupt than Nigeria.

Game over, I give up

Where is the spirit of Aluta when you need it

Something is about to happen to Arsenal tonight. How did Milan miss that?

17 Minutes more. Gosh, its now 16, counting down now!

Health warning to Arsenal fans: Do not take pepper, water or anything that can choke. This match can go either way.