₦airaland Forum

I will like you or rather challenge you to provide one credible source where it was claimed Buhari certificate was dated 1953?

Believe me, I actually wanted you to be right. But I have checked and I couldn't find any date with 1953.

Once again, get me a source then i will support your assertion.

askibee:
first of all lemme say tank u fr ur matured counter.

I won't argue with u, but am sure u are in dis country and when this whole issue of cert came out there where so many dates being speculated.

about hating Mr president nope am too old and too wise to hate him cos I knw the implications, I don't have followers I was only observing and trying to point out so many lies this pple are making its subjects to believe as truth, ma dear kudos to you once more for ur effort


I will show this to my son when he has gotten to the stage and help him realise wat is going on, for now he is just 5

Civil servants in Cross River State on Friday condemned the decision of the state governor, Ben Ayade, to pay their December salary on the first day of the month.

Our correspondent learned that some civil servants had on December 1 received alerts for the month’s salary, as against the 25th of every month.

It would be the second time that workers would be receiving salaries on the first day of the month as they had in May 2016 got a similar gesture from the governor in commemoration of the Workers’ Day celebration.



The aggrieved workers said the decision to pay their salaries in advance would later cause untold hardship as the Yuletide approaches.

A top civil servant in the Ministry of Environment, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “The state government’s decision to pay December salaries of some civil servants within the first three days of the month will make us suffer in due course.

“The government should have employed caution by delaying December salary payments to a later date. Our governor may want to score a political point with this payment, but I think that those of us receiving this money stand to lose fiscally when January comes.”

But one of the governor’s aides, who pleaded anonymity, said the workers should applaud the governor instead of complaining.

The source said, “People are so impossible to please. There are states in this country where salaries are not paid as and when due, but in Cross River State, our governor pays salaries and even pays ahead to cater for special occasions like the Workers’ Day and this Yuletide.

“Instead of applauding him, some people say he shouldn’t have paid. Nigerians are difficult to please.

http://punchng.com/criver-civil-servants-protest-early-salary-payment/

Niyi Odebode, John Alechenu and Fidelis Soriwei

A week after the Ondo State governorship election, there are indications that the All Progressives Congress leaders, particularly the National Working Committee members, are still divided over a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Saturday PUNCH reliably learnt in Abuja on Friday that the party leaders had not agreed on how to handle the former governor on his alleged role in the Ondo State poll.

While some members believe that Tinubu and the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, worked against the interest of the party in the election, others are of the view that the duo did no wrong.

It was gathered that the hardliners in the APC, who are mostly against Tinubu, are calling for the sanctioning of the former governor and his loyalists.

Investigations showed that other APC leaders had called for caution, arguing that any tough measure against Tinubu would destroy the party.

It was learnt that those, who are sympathetic to the former governor, said the party should reconcile with him.

A chieftain of the party, who confided in Saturday PUNCH, said, “We have told those who are against the man to remember his contributions to the formation of the APC and the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari. We should not take any action that will destroy the party.”

But those calling for sanctions insisted that there should be consequences for party members who engaged in anti-party activities, irrespective of their status.

They argued that such sanctions would send a strong message to would-be rebels.

A former lawmaker, who spoke to Saturday PUNCH on the condition of anonymity, said, “We should not treat Tinubu like a god. The laws of the party should apply to all members.”

Those opposed to punitive actions against Tinubu argued that the outcome of the Ondo governorship election offered a new opportunity to unite rather than further divide the party.

But the APC leaders calling for sanctions are accusing the two party leaders of allegedly supporting candidates of rival political parties against APC’s standard bearer during the polls.

Specifically, they are accused of supporting the candidature of Chief Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy with funds and other logistics.

Oke had defected to the AD to contest the Ondo governorship election after losing to Akeredolu in the party’s primary held on September 3, 2016.

A source, who confided in one of our correspondents, also said another South-West APC governor was also among those believed to have funded Oke’s campaigns.

The source was silent on whether the governor would also face sanction or not.

One of the party leaders, who appealed for caution, said, “The outcome of the Ondo election is enough humiliation for these people. Why would anybody want to add salt to injury by sanctioning them?

“Besides, we cannot afford at this stage of our development to begin to behave like the former ruling party. Did anyone see Asiwaju or Aregbesola anywhere near Oke’s campaign? You know it is normal for politicians to drop names if such names will give them an edge over opponents.”

A member of the APC National Working Committee loyal to Tinubu, said calls for sanctions against Tinubu were misplaced.

He said, “Who are those making such calls? I am sure they are people who did not know how the APC was formed. When did showing preference for a particular party member over another constitute an anti-party activity?

“Anyone who can provide proof of any anti-party activity against Tinubu should come out in the open instead of chasing shadows.”

Tinubu contributed to the success of APC in Ondo –Aide

When contacted, Special Adviser (Media), to Tinubu, Mr. Tunde Rahman, said, “I’m not aware of any such call (to sanction Tinubu). If there is any, it has no basis. As a leader of the party, Asiwaju Tinubu contributed his quota to the success of the APC in Ondo, notwithstanding his initial misgivings about the party’s primaries. And immediately Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu emerged the winner of the election, Asiwaju Tinubu was one of the first to congratulate him and to urge all and sundry to rally round the governor-elect. Only on Monday, President Buhari acknowledged Asiwaju Tinubu’s role and contribution to the success of APC in that election.”

We will do a postmortem later – APC National Vice-Chairman

The APC National Vice Chairman (South-South), Hilliard Eta, said the party’s leadership was too preoccupied with preparations for another successful outing in Rivers State to give in to distractions.

Eta, who is also a member of the party’s National Working Committee, said, “We are going to do a post-mortem of the whole process later. For now, we have the elections in Rivers State coming up on December 10. This is our focus as we speak.”

Speaking on the issue, the Director-General, Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, dismissed reports of the planned sanction of Tinubu and Aregbesola as a “baseless rumour” being spread by enemies of the APC.

He said “Nothing could be further from the truth. The Governance Support Group met with Mr. President on Friday.

“When our people spoke on the affairs of the party, Mr. President said his business as the leader of the party was to see everybody as equal before him.

“He also said he would make sure that everybody got a sense of belonging. I don’t see Mr. President who spoke in this nationalistic manner trying to sanction anybody. It could be one of those rumours which lacks basis in fact.”

The newly elected National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Bolaji Abdulahi, did not pick the calls to his mobile telephone line on Friday.

Also Abdulahi had not responded to a text message on the issue as of the time of filing the story by 5pm.

However, the embattled Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Timi Frank, said that the party had directed everybody including the aggrieved persons to work together as there was still much work to be done.

He said that it was the duty of the governor-elect to unite everybody and not to go into who was involved in anti-party activities or not.

He said, “Well, for us, we have won Ondo State. This is not the time to talk who did something anti-party or who did not.

“We have accepted the victory and we have directed everybody to go and work together as there is still much to be done including those that are aggrieved.

“The duty of the newly elected governor is to unite Ondo State, not to go into who did anti-party or not.”

President Buhari had in a statement on Monday dismissed insinuations that there is a rift between him and the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu.

In the statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant (Media), Garba Shehu, he had said he was embarrassed by such suggestions.

The Ondo State governor-elect, had in an interview with state House correspondents on Wednesday, said Buhari was the national leader of the APC.

Explaining why he did not mention Tinubu in his victory speech, he had said, “On the names that were mentioned in my speech when expressing gratitude and that I didn’t specifically thank Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I thanked the President and the leader of our party profusely for the leadership which he showed leading to this election.”

http://punchng.com/ondo-poll-apc-leaders-divided-tinubus-role/

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said there was no truth in reports suggesting that he and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress were at loggerheads with a national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President described the reports as “unfounded and mischievous.”

Shehu said the President who, according to him, was highly embarrassed by such reports was in regular contact with Tinubu before, during and after the recent Ondo State governorship election.

He said any suggestions that the President and the party machinery were working to destroy Tinubu had no foundation in truth or any credibility.

The presidential spokesman added that the President was impressed by Tinubu’s assurance not to work against the party in Ondo and he honoured his words.

He said Buhari regarded Tinubu as a priceless political asset to the party whose immeasurable contributions to the development and progress of the ruling party were known to all.

He advised those he called rumour-mongers to stop spreading the seeds of discord and animosity between the President and Tinubu or the party, adding that the President “is proud of the Jagaban and his pivotal role in the party.”

The statement partly read, “President Buhari commended Tinubu’s spirit of comradeship in promptly congratulating Rotimi Akeredolu who was elected governor.

“The President also noted that at a time his administration is preoccupied with governance issues, rumours of divisions and alleged scheming within the party are counterproductive to internal unity and cohesion in APC.

“He appealed to the APC members and supporters to ignore rumours that could harm party unity.”


http://punchng.com/tinubu-didnt-work-apc-ondo-says-buhari/

Obijulius:
Pretty Lady

But let me ask, can't stuff like this be corrected with surgery. Doctors in the house please your opinion.

Yes, deformity can be corrected but the hand function might not be restored.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed motions seeking the disbandment of the Justice Ibrahim Saulawa panel of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which is handling the various cases relating to the dispute over the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship ticket in the forthcoming election in Ondo State.

The nine applicants are led by Biyi Poroye, who is the Chairman of the Ali Modu Sheriff faction of the party backing Jimoh Ibrahim as the party’s governorship candidate in forthcoming polls.

They had, in their motion, asked the apex court to disqualify the Justice Saulawa panel for going ahead to hear the appeals before it while the motions seeking stay of proceedings were pending before the apex court.

They urged the apex court to invoke its “disciplinary jurisdiction” against the three justices of the appeal court and an order disbanding the panel.

But the five-man panel of the Supreme Court led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, dismissed the motions for lacking in merit.

The apex court ruled that the joining of the Justices of the Court of Appeal as parties in the motion was an attempt to intimidate the justices of the appeal court.

It also ruled that the “pranks” would not augur well for democracy and must be discouraged.


http://punchng.com/%e2%80%8eondo-supreme-court-dismisses-motions-seeking-disbandment-appeal-panel/

Ezedon:
some times i realised that some people are born devil incarnate, and some people like you are Animal in Human skin.
Dont take it personal please i'm just joking

I wanted to swear for you, but God is already doing that and I wouldn't want to interrupt his work. Keep on advertising your foolishness online.

Ezedon:
The OP is the most stupid
No offence please

There was time I used to believe human intelligence is a function of his/her environment and that genetics played insignificant role.

however, people/someone like you have over time proven me wrong.

No matter what; either you are forced fed with knowledge or uprooted from your village to United Kingdom, USA or Japan, you will still be mentally handicapped or intellectual disabled.

Why? Because it is hereditary and it is unfortunately being passed from one generation to the other; from your ancestors down to you and sadly you will pass it to your children.

'No offence is intended please'

Who is most stupid

Did President-elect Donald Trump really call Africans "lazy fools"?

The BBC's Dickens Olewe looks at six comments he allegedly made about Africa which are doing the rounds on the internet.

'Africans are lazy fools only good at eating, lovemaking and thuggery'

According to fact-checking website Snopes this claim was first posted on 25 October 2015 on Politica, a fake news website. It was later picked up by blogs and other fake and satirical news websites on the continent.
According to online magazine Slate, a 1991 book about Mr Trump by former employee John O'Donnel relates an incident where the billionaire reportedly blamed the poor performance of a black worker on laziness saying that it was a "trait in blacks".
Fake news sites have tended to bolster their stories with comments Mr Trump did actually make. So some stories are quite plausible.
In the case of this article the intention seems to be satire. The writers used made-up Trump quotes to criticise African governments. For instance, this false quote attributed to Mr Trump is apparently trying to justify his comments:
"These are people who import everything, including matchsticks. In my opinion, most of these African countries ought to be recolonised again for another 100 years because they know nothing about leadership and self governance".

'Nigerians to be deported'


A common thread with Mr Trump's trumped up quotes is that they are inspired by a generic disparaging comment he has made about one group of people, which are then reversioned by fake news sites to appeal to their local audiences.
Cut outs of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are loaded onto a bus in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 7 November 2016.

In this case, the inspiration for the false story came from Mr Trump's comments about Mexicans and Muslims, which were easily reversioned to capture the attention of Nigerians.
Several websites ran stories based on these made-up quotes:
"American Billionaire and Republican Presidential Front-runner, Donald Trump, has shot a subtle warning to the Nigerian Community in the United States, after he said all Nigerians would be made to leave the country 'when he becomes President'. He made the 'threat' during a rally at Wichita, Kansas."
Both the quote and the event are fictitious.
Fact-checking site Snopes says: "Trump did not have a rally in Wichita, Kansas, as alleged by the above-quote, at any point in January 2016."

Pay legal fee for Cecil killer


The killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe last year sparked global outrage as people targeted their anger towards American dentist Walter Palmer who killed the famed lion in a hunt.

A fake story that Mr Trump had pledged to pay Mr Palmer's legal fees was shared at the time.


'Go back to Africa if you're not satisfied with America'

Mr Trump was accused of using innuendoes and name calling during his campaign. He abused, derided and disparaged many people.

These made-up comment were attributed to the president-elect to show that he does not approve of #BlackLivesMatter - a campaign by African-Americans to highlight deadly police shootings.

"If Black Lives Don't Matter Here Go Back to Africa.

"If I don't like the food the waitress brings me, I send it back to the kitchen. And I go eat somewhere else," the false quote by Mr Trump says.
Some of these comments fail in their imagination but have fooled many because they are written in a highly shareable way and they exploit a wide array of Mr Trump's comments which have upset many groups of people.

'Kenyans are conmen'


This quote was attributed to Mr Trump following Kenyan athletes' historic performance at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, 2015.
Kenya topped the table for the first time, winning seven gold medals.
Trump and Obama in Oval Office.
A false article claimed Trump called Obama "a conman"
At the time, Mr Trump was still promoting a false narrative that US President Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan, was not born in the United States.
The article seems to take advantage of the news about Kenyan athletes' win by concocting a quote from Mr Trump about the event.
The article falsely says that Mr Trump referred to Kenyans and Mr Obama as "conmen who dope and cheat on their way to the top".


'I will lock up Mugabe and Museveni'

This false story currently being peddled by various sites has been revived from a similar piece shared in January, with a threat that Mr Trump would "lock up" the presidents of Uganda and Zimbabwe.
"I want to reiterate here before America's greatest heroes that I will not condone any dictatorial tendencies exhibited by dictators around the world, especially the two old men from Zimbabwe and Uganda," the article says.
"Their days are numbered and I am going to lock them up in prison," it adds.
This is another classic example of people concocting words and phrases to criticise African politicians and put them in the mouth of Mr Trump.
Now that he is set to be the next US president, there are likely to be lots more of these false Trumpisms so don't believe everything you read.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37949183

A NOTE ON THE US ELECTORAL COLLEGE

The United States constitution was written in 1787 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At that time in human history there were no automobiles; people travelled on feet or horses. There were no electronic media. News took weeks before reaching from one state to another. It took weeks to travel from Georgia to Massachusetts. Therefore, it seemed rational for the founding fathers to require each state to elect its electors and have the electors then travel to the capital (initially, New York and later Washington DC) to vote for the president. It was simply impossible for all Americans to vote for the president on the same day and you count the votes on the same day. Having electors come to one spot and vote for the president seemed to make loads of sense.

Moreover, at the time we are talking about less than ten percent of the people could read or write; most Americans, white or black were illiterates. It made sense for the mass of illiterate Americans to select persons they knew in their communities as their leaders and have those travel to the far away capital to go elect the president.

There is a certain elitist element in this view. But if you think about it you probably would see the rationale. Is it really good for a bunch of illiterates to elect the commander in chief of the armed forces of America? Would it not be nice if only those who understood military matters did so? Would you have illiterates select the engineer that built your roads and bridges or have him selected by those who understand civil engineering? Would you like a person who had not taken a course on human physiology and anatomy select your medical doctor for you or have the recommendation of other doctors of who your doctor should be? Technocracy has some logic to it! Democracy combines technocracy and mass opinions, aristocracy and the people's emotion based opinions.

Clearly, the founding fathers had a certain fear of having the uneducated whims of the masses influence who is elected the president, a sort of surrogate king (please remember that the illiterates actually wanted George Washington to become a King!).

As it operates today, what happens is that each state sends the number of its Congressional delegates to the Electoral College. For example, California with its almost forty million persons has 53 members in the US House of Representatives and 2 senators in the US senate, thus it has 55 members in the Electoral College. Alaska has two senators and one member of the House of Representatives so it has three members in the Electoral College. (Alaska is the largest state in the Union, is one fifth the size of the USA, so if physical size determines the number of the electoral college Alaska would have the largest contingent in that august body! Alas, Alaska's population is less than a million!)

After elections the party whose candidate won California would select the 55 electors (and in Alaska select the 3 electors) and they meet, say, on December 19, and elect the president. Their vote then would be transmitted to Washington DC in January when the president is actually elected.

There are 435 members of the US lower House and 100 senators; these result in a total of 535 members plus the three members assigned to the District of Columbia, making for 538 members of the Electoral College. Since there are two credible presidential candidates then divide 538 by two and 269 is a tie; to win one need 270 votes.

The US President is not elected directly by the people. This system has resulted in sometimes the winning candidate winning less popular votes. For example, in 2000 Albert Gore had over 500, 000 more votes than George Bush yet Bush had more members of the Electoral College and won the election. In the present election, when the votes are all counted (not yet counted at the time of this writing) Hillary Clinton probably would have, may be, 200, 000 more popular votes than Donald Trump who won the presidency because Trump won more members of the Electoral College.

This system seems unfair. But is it really? Consider the number of states in the USA, 50. Clinton won only a handful of states: the liberal West coast and northeast states...California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, New York , Massachusetts and a few other North Eastern states; those are the most populous states (winning New York City and Los Angeles metropolitan area alone amounts to winning over 40 million votes! )

Trump probably will win over 35 states; those are in the middle of the country and they tend to be rural, sparsely populated and conservative! So, does it make sense for the person who won fifteen states to be considered the winner over the person who won thirty five states? If that were to happen there would be complaints, too!

Democracy is an interesting business. You have to balance popular votes with other pertinent factors if you want peace.

The Founding fathers mixed the James Madison Plan, also called the Virginia Plan with the New Jersey Plan in adopting the present pattern of representation. The James Madison Plan was strictly democratic and called for representation based on population. The smaller states kicked against it. New Jersey submitted an amended plan that called for equal representation in the Lower House and two senators from each state regardless of their size.

If the New Jersey plan had not been accepted the smaller states would have felt dominated by the larger states like Virginia and New York and there would have been no deal, no USA!

The point is that all kinds of considerations go into play in coming up with a workable political system.

Should Americans elect their presidents directly (they now elect their senators directly, initially it was not so)? May be, maybe not. I am not here to solve complex political issues; the salient point is that those prickly issues need to be thought through before they are acted on.

Edmund Burke reminded us in his Reflections on the French Revolution (1789) that we must be very careful before we throw away institutions that have worked well for us in the past, for if we do so hastily we may create chaos and anarchy.

It took the French two hundred years (1789-1959 fifth French Republic constitution) to reach another workable political arrangement. The easy part was throwing away the monarchy, the difficult part is coming up with what works.

The rational English kept their monarchy but made it ceremonial and have an elected House of Commons that rule and an unelected House of Lords that delay rush to legislation by the lower house.

If Americans tinker with what worked for them it might result in chaos that nobody wants!

Ozodi Thomas Osuji, PhD

November 9, 2016

Dr. Osuji teaches at the University of Alaska. He can be reached at (907) 310-8176 or (907) 227-5544 or ozodiosuji@gmail.com; oosuji@alasaka.edu


http://chatafrik.com/articles/us-affairs/why-donald-trump-won-the-2016-us-presidential-election

THE EVICERATION OF AMERICA'S INDUSTRIES

America began as an agricultural society but when industrialization began in Britain around 1746 Americans quickly embraced industrialization. By the 1830s America began industrializing. This meant manufacturing stuff with machines and the factory system came into being. Cities quickly grew up around factories hence the urbanization of America.

This was the way America was until the rise of Asian countries. The owners of America's factories recognizing that Asian workers are as good as the American worker, if not better, and, additionally, that they are cheap, and wishing to make enormous profits moved their factories to Asia.

American factories that hitherto employed millions of high school leavers and paid them living wages were no longer there. Thus, in today's America the two third of the population that do not go to universities find themselves not having well-paying jobs, and often doing mostly minimum wage jobs. You need to do two such jobs, full time, to be able to make the wage you need to pay your bills, and we are not even talking about supporting families. How would you like to work sixteen hours a day and is still unable to make ends meet? White working class feels like they are now slaves! This makes them furious at their leaders. Can you understand the anger of poor whites or would you, like Hillary ignore it and risk nationalist, fascist revolution in America?

The relocation of America's factories to Asia resulted in the pauperization of America. Everybody sees these things happen but liberals do not seem to mind that Americans are increasingly poor.

Obama became the president in 2009 and under his watch the trend accelerated; the only type of jobs he created are mostly minimum wage jobs and or allow those with rare technical skills to make billions of dollars whereas the middle class fell to lower class status.

Hillary had no real plans to change the fortunes of the poor. Instead, she used the system to make millions of dollars and became enormously wealthy. She and her husband, Bill Clinton, set up a reported phony Foundation and had folks contribute to the Foundation before they came see her at the State Department, where she was the Secretary of State.

Hillary's apparent corruption and lie telling issues apart, she did not seem to care for the pauperization of Americans. Trump, although a billionaire behaves like a working-class boy! He has kindred spirit with the working stiff. The working poor feel that he understands their pains and would do something about their plight and that is why they voted for him (Hillary told us that she has not gone to a grocery store to shop by herself in over twenty five years; apparently, she has lost touch with the lot of ordinary Americans!).

America's working class want America to stop moving its factories to other countries, to stop exporting their work to third world countries, especially to Mexico, the new low wage country (now that wages are rising in China).

RENEGOTIATE ADVERSE TRADE AGREEMENTS

Working class Americans want their government to renegotiate trade deals with other countries that allow those countries to dump their goods in America and not allow Americans to sell their goods in them. Japan, for example, dumps it cars in America but American car manufacturers hardly can sell a few cars in Japan. This situation seems unfair regardless of its cause (Japanese culture that asks the Japanese to buy their own goods, not foreign goods).

America cannot continue running indefinite trade deficits with other countries; if the trend is not reversed the American economy will collapse.

Obama ran the deficit upwards of ten trillion dollars, mostly borrowed from Asian countries. America now owes almost twenty trillion dollars to other entities. This is a travesty and Americans want the situation reversed.

THE IRAN DEAL

Obama negotiated some kind of deal with Iran that says that Iran is to stop moving towards manufacturing nuclear weapons for ten years after which they are free to resume doing so. As a result of this supposed good deal America released Iran's moneys in the USA, upwards of $150 billion dollars.

Iran is a known supporter of terrorism. In effect, Iran is given money with which to fund those who are out to kill Americans. What kind of deal is this, Americans ask?

OBAMA'S DISASTROUS FORIEGN POLICY IN IRAQ AND SYRIA

Obama's foreign policy included appeasing Muslims (he is suspected of been a closet Muslim). In the process America has lost influence in the Middle East.

Where there is power vacuum other political actors move in. Russia moved in and is now a power to be reckoned with in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Hillary is associated with Obama's Middle East debacle, especially with what happened in Libya and Egypt; if allowed to rule she probably would continue the policy that has produced nothing but chaos in the Middle East.

Americans want to either stay out of the Middle East or not go try changing governments in the Middle East; they know that such behavior bring about instabilities in Muslim countries. Muslim countries traditionally have authoritarian forms of governance; trying to make them democratic in a life time is a pie in the sky.

If you are going to have foreign policy you had better make yourself seen as strong, not weak, as Obama made America seem. Trump understood these things hence white folks flocked to him.

Obama's precipitous withdrawal of American troops from Iraq and refusal to go to war in Syria when Hafiz Assad crossed the red line he had set for him by using chemical weapons largely created a power vacuum in Syria and Iraq. ISIS emerged to occupy the power vacuum left by Obama and Hillary's foreign policy.

To the extent that ISIS jihadists are killing people in Europe and America, Obama and Clinton are partly responsible for it.

Trump understands that strength deters aggressors so a powerful America will deter jihadists from killing Westerners. And if jihadists dared killing Americans America ought to show them force: go in and kill as many of them as is possible so that they learn that what they can do other people can do better; since they like cutting off folks heads their own heads can be cut off, massively!

America has the military means to wipe off from the face of the earth the entire Muslim population of the world. Muslims are not the masters of the universe that they fantasize themselves to be. Obama allowed Muslims to run amok killing Westerners as if they have some kind of supernatural power that no one else has. Trump wants to reverse this trend and his desire appeals to the militaristic soul of Anglo Americans.

DISCUSSION

America has had two hundred and forty years of rule of laws, of elected governments that pass one administration from one to the other; whereas Germany was ruled by dukes, kings and emperors until the end of the First World War, 1918, hence had less than fifteen years' experience with democracy when Hitler came to power in 1933.

Trump is going to rule by the law because he was socialized to American democratic culture. Moreover, given the separation of powers in the American polity, he will do only what Congress and the judiciary allows him to do (even if he appoints three Supreme Court Justices).

The other branches of government are simply not going to allow him to rule unconstitutionally and transform America to a third world one man's rule. America is based on the rule of law and that will continue under Trump's presidency. The fear that he would become another elected Adolf Hitler who would make America a fascist state is exaggerated.

CONCLUSION

I can go on and on talking about other issues that led to the rise of Donald Trump, and there are legions of them. However, I hope that the above mentioned ones have given the reader an inkling of why Americans chose Trump as their new leader.

A leader is a person who articulates what is in the minds of those he leads; a leader is a person who knows his peoples aspirations and promises to actualize them for them. A leader mobilizes human resources and capital to achieve the goals he knows that his people desire. Americans, for example, desire well-paying jobs; Trump plans to rebuild America's dilapidated infrastructure and those pay good wages.

Whether Trump is going to deliver on his promises or not remain to be seen. The critical point made in this essay is that he senses what his people desire and promises to do it for them.

The essay did not evaluate the good or lack of it of what Trump's white people desire; that is a topic for a different paper. For example, is it good that white Americans want to reduce the number of non-white immigrants in their country?

cont'd


http://chatafrik.com/articles/us-affairs/why-donald-trump-won-the-2016-us-presidential-election

A very beautiful, long and comprehensive article by Ozodi Thomas Osuji, PhD. Please endeavour to read everything.

If you look at the two candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, regardless of your political orientation you are forced to conclude that Hillary is smarter and is the more polished of the two. She appears well schooled in the ways of the political world; she says all the right things. Donald appears like an uneducated bum from the boondocks, a hill-Billy from the Appalachian backwoods of Kentucky; Trump seems so dumb that you wonder what he is doing wanting to be the president of the world's greatest economic and political power.

However, what this facile assessment of Trump fails in recognizing is the nature of leadership. Leaders articulate what is in the minds of those they lead. Leaders are folks who tune into their peoples psyche and know what they want done and promise to do it and, hopefully, do it.

Hillary Clinton is not an American leader in the sense that she did not tune into what true Americans desired. She desires a globalist political economy regardless of its consequences for the average American; she wanted an open door immigration policy that flooded America with nonwhite persons and, more importantly, with Muslims.

WHO ARE US AMERICANS?

In 1492 Christopher Columbus became the first European (apart from the Scandinavian Leif Erikson who allegedly visited Greenland and Canada a thousand years ago) to set foot in the Americas. In 1500 the Portuguese landed at Brazil.

The Americas were given to the Spanish and Portuguese by the Pope. Other European powers, especially the Dutch, the French and the English tried to get a piece of the action. In 1587 the English under Walter Raleigh tried settling 100 men at Roanoke, Virginia but failed.

In 1607 the English finally made a permanent settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Thus, began the English experiment in North America.

Twelve years later, African slaves were brought to Jamestown in 1619 hence Africans have always been part of the USA.

When people talked about English America they meant English men and Africans. Of course, there were Native Americans in the USA but those where not always seen as part of America; indeed, they were not given American citizenship until 1924 (the Indian Citizenship Act, also called the Snyder Act)!

The USA was founded by Christian English men and is understood as the continuation of England and English culture.

Recently, there has been a flood of Muslims into the USA and that changes the cultural dynamics of America. When a critical mass of Muslims in America is reached America will change and, Muslims hope, no longer be a Christian country!

Muslims have a theocratic view of governance; in Muslim political culture, the leader who claims to rule on behalf of Mohammed, who claims to be rooted in the Koran, Sharia and Hadith, is supported by Muslims. This means that Muslim ruled countries look like something out of seventh century Arabia, something like today's Afghanistan and Iran.

The prospect of regressing America to a more primitive stage of human evolution is scary to white Americans but, apparently, Hillary Clinton was not cognizant of it and kept trying to please Muslims by talking about how inclusive her policies will be. Anyone who objected to her desire to bring in even more Muslims to America is told about the first amendment to the US constitution that guaranteed freedom of religion and separation of state and religion.

It is a red herring to say that the first Amendment of the US constitution guaranteed Islam's right to be in America.

America's founding fathers were all Christians. What they aimed at accomplishing was to not allow religious wars between the various Christian sects (Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans and Presbyterians etc.) to affect the state; they wanted the various Christian sects to go do their things outside the realm of government. They did not include other religions in the first Amendment.

They certainly did not include protecting Islam in their conception of freedom of religion, for, to them Islam was not a religion. Islam, they knew, was a political ideology with which Arabs wanted to dominate the world.

The founding fathers were well read men and knew the history of Islam. They knew that Mohammed (570-632 AD) used the sword to convert Arabia to Islam and that upon his death his followers used the sword to convert the entire Middle East, North Arica and Spain to Islam.

Europe fought several wars to keep Muslims out of it. Charles Martel, the king of the Franks, in 733 AD fought to get rid of Muslims from France. It took seven hundred years before the Spaniards (ruled by Arab Muslims from 711 AD) under Isabela and Ferdinand finally got rid of Muslims from Spain in 1492.

When the Turks (originally from Western China...they had been converted to Islam by Arabs when they expanded eastwards to China) took over the leadership of Islam they invaded Europe from the East and reached the gates of Vienna, Austria and were beaten back on several occasions. Finally, in 1453 Muslim Turks took Constantinople, the capital of Christian Byzantium Empire, and used the sword to convert its hitherto Christian people to Islam.

Turkish Muslims, now calling themselves the Ottoman Empire, proceeded to close Europeans overland trading with Asia.

To find an alternative sea route to India and China the Spanish and Portuguese inadvertently discovered the Americas in 1492 and 1500 respectively.

The Christian West, for three centuries, fought a Holy War, the Crusades (1095-1291), with Muslims aimed at driving Muslims out of their Holy Land, Jerusalem. (Muslims took over Palestine in 638 AD but allowed Christians to continue visiting Jerusalem. By around 1071 Muslims stopped Christian access to their Holy Land and Pope Urban called for a Holy War to go retrieve the Holy Land from the Mohammedans, hence the Crusades whereby Christian soldiers went to the Middle East to fight.)

The founding fathers were aware of this western adversarial history with Muslims and were not sympathetic to Islam, not even a little bit; the first Amendment to the US constitution was not meant to protect Islam in America, as Hillary and her fellow liberals disingenuously argue.

The Christian American knows that Islam is the enemy of America and want to keep it out of America and saw Trump as a leader in his fight against Muslim takeover of America. Trump is a leader in that he was able to sense what Americans wanted done, get rid of Muslims from America.

AMERICANS ARE CHRISTIANS

Americans came from Christian Europe and consider themselves Christians. Of course, there is admixture of agnostics and atheists in the American population, for not everyone accepts the idea that God created this world.

There are other religions in the world such as Hinduism, Buddhism and so on. Americans allow those religions to come and practice their religions in America. But no one has the illusion that the dominant religion of America is not Christianity.

What happened, lately, is that Muslims were allowed to come to the USA and suddenly they began talking about Islamizing America or trying to place their religion on equal footing with Christianity. Indeed, the radical parts of them talk about imposing their Koran, Sharia and Hadith on Americans! Such radical Muslims claim that their Muslim law precedes the US constitution and, indeed, teach that Muslims should not obey the US constitution for it is manmade and, instead, should only obey Muslim laws, Sharia for they supposedly came from God!

How do we know that the Koran came from God? It is because Mohammed claimed to have heard the voice of the angel Gabriel dictating the contents of the book to him. How do we know that the voice he heard is from the angel Gabriel, assuming that angels exist; how do we know that he was not a paranoid schizophrenic hallucinating and projecting his voices to what he called God? We do not know any of these things to be true or false. One can only accept them on faith!

What we know from empirical observation is that wherever Islam is imposed, such as the Middle East, people in it invariably live in seventh century Arabian culture, a non-scientific culture.

Here then come Muslims trying to return America to a primitive stage of social evolution! This is, to Christian Americans, as alarming as alarming can be.

Liberals, under the guise of the first amendment to the constitution, talk about allowing Muslims to build their mosques wherever they want to and spreading their religion in America. Indeed, after their terrorists destroyed the twin towers of the world trade center in New York, Muslims wanted to build their mosque there!

Barack Obama saw nothing wrong with that desire! Obama did not recognize the implication of what Muslims wanted to do: show their defeat of Christianity and colonization of North America! Or, maybe, he is in cahoots with them and wants them to take over America? Many Christians suspect that Obama is a Manchurian candidate planted by Saudi Arabia in a Christian country!

Christian Americans know that when Islam reaches a critical mass in America it would try to take over the country. It would do so by exploding suicide bombers all over the country and by committing all sorts of terrorist acts. Through these terrorist acts it would arouse the fear of being killed in Americans and intimidate them to embracing Islam.

It should be noted that it was through such means that Muslims took over Christian Middle East and North Africa. There is no doubt that Islam wants to take over the Western world and thereafter establish the world wide Muslim Caliphate that Mohammed envisioned.

Liberals do not seem to understand the existential threat to Western civilization posed by Islam and have an open door policy to Muslims. Christian white Americans are aware of the danger of Islam and want that religion kept out of America. Trump reads this message loud and clear and promises them to keep Muslims out of America.

THE FEAR OF THE SPREAD OF NON-CHRISTIAN VALUES IN AMERICA

Christian culture is predicated on the Bible. The bible provides Christians with a way of life. Clearly, Christians believe in living their lives as their religion's founder said that they should live: love God and love your neighbor like yourself, and do unto other people as you want them to do to you.

There are several passages in the bible telling Christians that a man supposedly having sex with another man or a woman supposedly having sex with a woman is sinful.

Despite biblical injunctions against homosexuality, in today's America liberals teach that any kind of sex between consenting adults is fine. They have embraced homosexuality with gusto; indeed, Barack Obama was lecturing Africans to discard their cultures opposition to homosexuality and embrace homosexuality otherwise he would not give to them the paltry economic aid that his administration gave to them.

In the liberal atmosphere of Obama and Hillary's America, there is little doubt that soon the country would also legalize pedophilia and bestiality; why not, there are people who prefer such sexual acts and in the liberals mind whatever people believe that they are oriented to do is natural and they ought to be allowed to do it.

Then is the issue of Abortion. Christians believe that no one has a right to kill other people; they include unborn children in this equation. Thus, many of them oppose abortion.

Hillary not only approves abortion but would permit it all the way before the child is born. From her perspective, a woman has the right to her body and that right includes killing the babies inside her.

Christian Americans see these trends in morality as against their religion; they see them as degeneration of their culture.

Instead of recognizing their fears they are told that they are backward and ought to embrace the new culture of everything goes. They are told to allow grown men to one day wake up and see themselves as women and go use the same bathrooms as their five year old daughters (and they suspect that their daughters may be raped by these transgender folks).

Clearly, homosexuality exists all over the world but evidence shows that when a culture approves it that that culture dies. Greece and Rome embraced homosexuality and pedophilia and became weakened and were defeated by more vigorous races. If many men live the homosexual life style, Christians believe that it is only a matter of time before they contract diseases and die off. America's culture and civilization will die if a significant number of the people live the homosexual life style.

Life affirming Christians therefore kick against the death affirming homosexual life style but are told to get over it and live with-it. Well, they do not want to get over it. Trump articulates their points of views and they voted for him.

Homosexuals must recognize that there are people who consider a man putting his penis into another's anus an absurdity; you cannot be absurd and ask people not to see your absurdity. The normalization of deviancy is offensive to Christians. This does not mean that Christians can wish away homosexuals.

Statistically, in every behavior, about three percent of the population deviates from the standard norm; there probably will always be those who deviate from sexual norms and are attracted by homosexuality, pedophilia and bestiality. Absurd behaviors probably will always exist in human society; rational societies generally seek ways to manage these absurdities rather than celebrate them, as Liberal Obama was doing. (As I pointed out elsewhere, it seems that one must find life meaningless and is existentially depressed and seek nihilistic coping measures to do what male homosexuals do.)

MULTICULTURALISM

We all know that the English founded the USA in 1607 when they settled at Jamestown, Virginia. From there on America has English culture.

Lately, folks from all over the world have come to America. These folks from non-English backgrounds were told by anthropologists that all cultures are equal; they imbibed the idea of cultural relativism. Now, they want to have their cultures taught at American schools hence the concept of multiculturalism.

Some of these recent Americans resent that English is the medium of instruction at American schools. Immigrants from Latin America where Spanish is spoken want Spanish to be taught at American schools on a coequal level with English (they do not do the same thing in their Latin countries, they do not teach English coequally in their schools).

Multiculturalism has led to a cacophony of cultures in America, with each competing to be accepted. The result is that that which held America together, the Anglo Saxon culture is attacked; the social fabric of America is tattered. These days, no one knows what the American culture is, any more.

These trends make the original Anglo Saxon Americans mad at what is happening to their country. They believe that if the trend continues their country would become like third world countries.

Africa and Latin America consist of backward countries where no real science and technology comes from so if the USA becomes like them science and technology dies; America would revert to primitive state of being.

White Americans want to take their country back from forces that they believe is dragging them backwards. Trump understands this fact.

THE CHANGING AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHICS

America used to be predominantly white and black. Now, it is about 72% white and 12% black. It is projected that in fifty years, if the current population trends continue, Latin Americans would become the dominant group in the USA.

Given that Latin Americans have made no significant contribution to science and technology or to mass culture, for that matter (the world's pop culture is dominated by black Americans), white Americans fear that their country would become like Latin countries, read, primitive countries.

As for Africans white folks ask: what exactly is good about Africa, what have they contributed to science and technology? If the answer is negative what makes Africans to feel that they should be admired by white Americans; why should white Americans embrace African cultures?

What good has come out of Africa? Honestly: who wants to be like an African, a people that cannot even govern their continent well, a place where corruption is the order of the day?

Go to any African country and the first question that enters your mind is: are there human beings who govern this joint? Are there political leaders in Nigeria running the bedlam or is it a wild animal preserve with unsupervised animals doing as they damn please?

Americans do not want to be like what they see as third world people; therefore, they fear the increasing changing American demographics. Trump understood this elemental fear in the American psyche.

cont'd


http://chatafrik.com/articles/us-affairs/why-donald-trump-won-the-2016-us-presidential-election

rheether:
I wish I can delete that comment.

I can feel your pain sis. You can actually delete the statement or change it to something else.

I wonder why this never makes it to FP

obailala:
My opinion is what I had on the second paragraph. Chibok is not scam, young girls, women and children were kidnapped in large numbers by paedophile terrorists; the Chibok case just happened to be one of the many cases of abduction by bokoharam.

Chibok case gained prominence and popularity for different reasons, one of which is that they were all secondary school students picked up from their school dormitory. Chibok also got the attention of the world due to the loud outcry of activists who decried the lackadaisical attitude of the government then. No doubts when something like that happens and the leadership of the country responds coldly, it presents a beautiful opportunity for opposition politicians to capitalise on to further their own political game. The APC leveraged greatly on the Chibok incident to further dent GEJ's political image. And for this very reason, die-hard GEJ fans still believe anything Chibok is scam orchestrated to unseat their hero. Die-hard GEJ fans also will never forgive anyone (activist or not) who in any way, helped to popularise the Chibok incident.

well said

laleye Aluko

As four pupils, a teacher and a vice-principal of Lagos Junior Model College, Igbonla, Epe, Lagos State, spend five days in captivity, the kidnappers have given their families 48 hours to pay the ransoms placed on them.

This is just as the abductors told the families on Monday that the health condition of the schoolboy, reported to be sick, had worsened.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the ransoms demanded for the six victims had also been reduced to N6m.



The attackers, said to be five gunmen and a woman, had last Thursday, at about 8am, invaded the school during the morning prayers.

The abductors reportedly shot into the air before making away with the pupils, identified as Isaac Adebisi, Okonkwo Emmanuel, Abu and Jeremiah; the English Language/Civic Education teacher, Lukman Oyerinde, and the VP, A.O. Oyesola.

Our correspondent had also reported that the kidnappers, who were still believed to be within the Epe area, got across to the families of the victims on the following day and demanded N5m for each of them.

The gunmen were said to have also fired a warning shot while conversing with the families on the telephone as the families reportedly begged, promising to pay the ransoms.

It was also reported on Monday that one of the schoolboys fell sick in the kidnappers’ hideout, as the attackers warned the families to hurry on the payment of the ransoms.

The kidnappers, who reportedly told the family of the affected schoolboy that they had administered treatment to him, later reduced the ransom to N3.5m for each of the victims.

By Monday, the ransom was reportedly reduced to N1m for each of the victims.

A source said the kidnappers gave them a 48-hour ultimatum to pay, as the condition of the sick schoolboy had worsened.

He said, “The men called on Monday and said they gave the family till Wednesday to pay the ransom. While the family members begged them, the kidnappers let them realise that the health of the boy had worsened, but they would not release him without a good ransom. They had come down from N3.5m to N1m ransom.

“The boy’s family has been able to raise some money and they were begging the gunmen to accept what they had. I hope the kidnappers will have mercy and consider the condition of the sick pupil, and let him go.”

Another source, close to the family of one of the victims, told PUNCH Metro that the family members had raised three-quarter of the ransom, adding that the money was not sourced from the government.

She said, “It is true that they called to warn the parents that the boy’s health is deteriorating. They told them to bring the ransom before Wednesday. The family has been able to raise three-quarter of the money. They are rallying round for the remaining sum. Nobody from any quarters is assisting them to raise the ransom. They are begging the kidnappers and trying to meet the deadline.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said in a text message on Monday that rescue operation was in progress.

http://punchng.com/kidnappers-lagos-pupils-give-families-48-hour-ultimatum/

ITbomb:
So finally, we don agree say money is always paid

Abi ooo

Naijji:
Etsako West

APC: 29,199

PDP: 10,843

Finishing

Balkan:
Those ministries that were merged together shows Buhari really do not know what he is doing.

Are you saying that is the reason we are in recession?

An elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to seek economic advice from a former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in order to rescue the country from recession.

Iwuanyanwu said with the present economic problems, no foreign investor would invest in the country.

The politician urged Nigerians to generate fresh ideas rather than attribute blames and give excuses.

He spoke in Owerri, the Imo State capital, when members of the African Youth Parliament from 50 African countries, led by the Nigerian representative, Ibrahim Mohammed, visited him.

Iwuanyanwu said, “When Nigeria was in this type of mess some years ago, former President Olusegun Obasanjo called on Okonjo Iweala to help. Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan also used her to revive the country’s economy. Nigeria, at this present stage of economic hardship and downturn, should also call on Okonjo-Iweala and others for help. We are in a recession now, if care is not taken, we shall go into depression soonest.”

The elder statesman also frowned on the way sensitive ministries were merged into one, adding that there was no way such supervising  minister would perform a miracle in his or her responsibilities.

“In fact, he (Buhari) should separate Works, Housing and Transport ministries and appoint a minister each for the ministries,” he said.

He advised the members of the African Youth Parliament to pass the message of peace to the youth.

“No good thing comes from destroying good things. I implore you to pass this message across, especially to the youth of the Niger Delta areas,” he added.



http://punchng.com/recession-seek-advice-okonjo-iweala-iwuanyanwu-tells-buhari/

The Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Nigeria Limited, Mr. Jide Omokore, has returned N200m to the Federal Government, Sunday PUNCHhas learnt.

It was learnt that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has also traced and frozen eight bank accounts allegedly belonging to Omokore.

Reliable sources in the commission told our correspondent that the eight accounts were opened at different branches of Skye Bank Plc.

Omokore, who is an ally of the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, among five others, are currently standing trial before a Federal High Court for an alleged $800m (N247bn at an exchange rate of N309/$1) fraud.

A top source at the commission said, “During investigations, we traced about eight accounts to Omokore in Skye Bank. Most of the accounts are company accounts. Some were domiciled in Marina, Adeola Hopewell and some other branches on the (Lagos) Island.

“We were able to identify about N200m. He raised some bank drafts in the name of the Federal Government and the money has been deposited into the Federal Government account while investigations continue.”

The commission had on Monday, July 4, 2016, arraigned Omokore, and five other individuals and firms, before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja on nine counts bordering on money laundering and procurement fraud.

Those arraigned with him were a former Managing Director of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited, Victor Briggs; a former Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Abiye Membere; a former Manager, Planning and Commercial of the NNPC, David Mbanefo ; Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Limited.

Omokore was alleged to have used the Strategic Alliance Agreement signed between the NPDC and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited to swindle the NPDC and the Nigerian government of billions of naira through the lifting of crude oil from some oil wells between March 2013 and May 2014.

The other accused persons, who were senior management employees of the NNPC, were accused of conspiracy in inducing the NPDC to facilitate the lifting of crude by Omokore, Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited.

They were equally charged with receiving car gifts from Omokore, Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited.

The charge read in part, “That you, Olajide Omokore, Atlantic Energy Brass Development Ltd, Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Ltd and Kolawole Akanni Aluko (now at large) between May 2013 and March 2014 within the jurisdiction of this honourable court obtained by false pretences and with intent to defraud, 7,551,867 barrels of crude oil (Brass blend) valued at the sum of $823,75,189.95 from NPDC, NNPC and the Federal Government of Nigeria on the false pretences that you had funds (both local and foreign) necessary to support the NPDC in petroleum operation for the OML 60,61, 62 and 63 and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act Cap. A6, 2010, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.”

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were read to them.

http://punchng.com/diezanis-ally-omokore-returns-n200m-govt/

Banana island should be number 1

Suprnov3r:
Quran (2:191-193) - "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief or unrest] is worse than killing... but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun(the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)"



Quran (2:216) - "Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not." Not only does this verse establish that violence can be virtuous, but it also contradicts the myth that fighting is intended only in self-defense, since the audience was obviously not under attack at the time.



Quran (3:151) - "Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority". This speaks directly of polytheists, yet it also includes Christians, since they believe in the Trinity (ie. what Muhammad incorrectly believed to be 'joining companions to Allah').

Quran (4:74) - "Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward." The martyrs of Islam are unlike the early Christians, who were led meekly to the slaughter. These Muslims are killed in battle as they attempt to inflict death and destruction for the cause of Allah. This is the theological basis for today's suicide bombers.



Quran (9:20) - "Those who believe, and have left their homes and striven with their wealth and their lives in Allah's way are of much greater worth in Allah's sight. These are they who are triumphant." The Arabic word interpreted as "striving" in this verse is the same root as "Jihad". The context is obviously holy war.

Mr OP, you challenged nairalanders to quote where it was written in the Quran that Muslims are commanded to "kill innocents".

But I have waited for hours for your response to above quotes from Quran.

Or are those not from Quran?

Or nobody is innocent among more than 6 billion non Muslim occupants of this earth?

lilyheaven:
how come the knife did not tear his anus into two? I thought what ever that passes through the mouth will come out through the anus.

Your knowledge of human gastrointestinal tract is very poor I must confess.

May be this is an opportunity for you to acquire knowledge about how long an indigestible object will have to travel from mouth to anus and various obstacles to such a movement.

Tunami:
If na naija na Rip we for dey type here.

You don't know what you are saying. To remove metallic objects from stomach or other part of intestine is not a difficult surgery but meticulous one.

Nigerian General Surgeons are among the best in Africa.

A knife was successful removed from a guy brain by a Nigerian neurosurgeon at Cedarcrest hospital, Abuja, after he was stabbed by armed bandit.

I hope you are aware that, that is a far more difficult surgery.

Please stop saying rubbish.

proeast:
So CIA was right after all, they only missed the date by a little margin!

Really

The Police have warned the Niger Delta Avengers against its planned secession from Nigeria, saying it is a treasonable offence.

The Force Public Relations Officer, Donald Awunah, stated that the security agencies would not allow any action that might lead to a breakdown of law and order in any part of the country.

He advised the militant group against daring the might of the Federal Government, describing their reported plan to declare a Niger Delta republic on October 1 as provocative.

Awunah admonished the militants to channel their grievances through legal means, insisting that the police and other security agencies would not condone any act of lawlessness in the region.

He said, “I believe they (militants) know that it is a treasonable felony to declare a republic. The police and other security agencies will not allow any treasonable action to be perpetrated in any part of the country. They have been warned.”

The Niger Delta Avengers on Thursday threatened that it will declare a Niger Delta Republic on October 1, should President Muhammadu Buhari fails to restructure the country.

It also said the group was praying for the Buhari-led Federal Government to discover oil in commercial quantity in the northern part of the country so as to free the people of the Niger Delta from her oppressive tendency.

The NDA had claimed responsibility for major attacks on oil facilities in the region in recent past, vowing not to relent until the nation’s economy was completely crippled.

The group’s spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo, stated this on Thursday in reaction to President Buhari’s order directing the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to increase the tempo on oil exploration in the North-East.

The group said that once oil in commercial quantity is discovered in the North, its people would appreciate what the people of the Niger Delta have been experiencing in the hands of the Nigerian government.

The NDA re-emphasized that the country was in dire need of restructuring to possibly save the country from doom, accusing the present government of dividing the country through her ‘misdirected policies.’

The NDA said, “Our prayer for Buhari and the Northern hypocrites (the Northern governors) is that oil should be found in commercial quantity in the North so that they can let the Niger Delta go.

“The Buhari-led government has failed Nigerians with its misdirected policies that have divided the country. As such, nobody wants to be part of that failed state; not even the Niger Delta.”

The statement added further, “The October 1 declaration of independence is still sacrosanct, if the Nigerian government fails to retrace its step by restructuring this country.

“We want to warn the general public that those using the NDA to defraud the  people, the days of reckoning are close-by.”

http://punchng.com/declare-republic-face-treason-police-tell-avengers/

The Body of Principal Officers of the House of Representatives said on Thursday that the decision to sack its former Chairman, Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin, was a collective action.

They also disassociated themselves from Jibrin and his recent allegations

It said Jibrin was sacked in response to agitation by the majority of members after they discovered that he abused the 2016 budget.

The principal officers also noted that the budget would have suffered more abuse in the hands of Jibrin had the House, the Senate and a team from the Executive not met to retrieve it from the former chairman.

They explained that the rescue mission started after various Ministries, Departments and Agencies complained of being harassed by Jibrin.

It was the first time the principal officers came out boldly as a body to disown Jibrin since he began his budget-padding allegations against Dogara and three of the principal officers on July 21.

All 10 principal officers of the House signed the document.

They are Dogara; Deputy Speaker, Yussuff Lasun; Majority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila; Chief Whip, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa; Deputy Leader, Buba Jibril; Deputy Whip, Pally Iriase; Minority Leader, Leo Ogor; Deputy Minority Leader, Chukwuka Onyeama; Deputy Minority Leader, Yakubu Barde; and Deputy Minority Whip, Binta Bello-Maigeri.

They described Jibrin’s allegations as “wild” and “baseless.”

The joint statement by the principal officers, read in part, “The proponent (of budget-padding), the recently sacked Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, sought to make allegations of impropriety against  the leadership of the House over the process and content of the 2016 budget passed by the National Assembly and signed into law.

“While the leadership is determined to ensure that absolute diligence, maturity and due process are employed in dealing with the allegations, instead of joining the accuser in a press war, it is important to state, in the interest of the agitated public, that the allegations are wild,  baseless and unfounded.

“Good enough, all the said allegations raise issues that can be easily verified and the public will be availed ample opportunity upon the resumption of the House.

“In the meantime, however, the leadership of the House of Representatives wishes to reaffirm that it took collective action, in conjunction with the Senate and a team from the Executive, to rescue the 2016 Budget when it became obvious that the former appropriation Chairman had placed both the document and the process in jeopardy resulting in a spate of agitation from Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

“Furthermore, the decision to relieve the erstwhile Appropriation Chairman of his position was a collective decision of the leadership in response to unrelenting pressures from the overwhelming majority of Honourable members who were irked by the former Chairman’s gross abuse of the budget process.

“Both actions were taken in the best interest of the institution and the nation for which we take full responsibility.

“Truth may be slow but it usually always wins the race in the end. We have no doubts.”

The development came as Jibrin said on Thursday that he stood by his allegations against Dogara, Lasun; Ado-Doguwa and  Ogor.

Jibrin, in a statement in Abuja, said he believed Dogara and the three other officials would soon be arrested by anti-graft agencies and charged for corruption.

He said this would be as a result of the petitions he submitted to the agencies against them.

Jibrin, who insisted that he stood by his allegations, claimed that many Nigerians had expressed support for his campaign and were worried that Dogara had yet to be arrested.

“For the avoidance of doubt, let me restate that I have interacted severally with anti-corruption agencies.

“It is however heartwarming to know that they are indeed working meticulously on the matter.

“I have little doubt that they will do justice expeditiously and sooner than letter, we will get to the point where every Nigerian is waiting for — the arrest of Speaker Dogara …”

Jibrin alleged that the Speaker had not been charged because he was using his position to obstruct “justice.”

He added, “Nigerians must remain vigilant because Speaker Dogara is using his office to obstruct and neutralise investigation.

“He is also using same and the time he has now before the long arm of the law catches up with him to hurriedly clean up the mess on his desk, spend money on all sort of consultants and people he thinks can help him out through subterranean means.

“On our side, while waiting for the response of our great party, the All Progressives Congress, on my letter, we are reaching out to everyone or group that can support this worthy cause against Dogara-Gate, the biggest corruption case in the history of our country.”

The speaker’s office said it had responded sufficiently to Jibrin’s allegations.

“Please, refer to our earlier statements on Jibrin,” the Speaker’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Turaki Hassan, said.

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