₦airaland Forum

Christianity thought us that Jesus was the only being that has ever resurrected and His resurrection is what brought hope to mankind but according to Greek mythology, Osiris resurrected too like Jesus. Could the Greek history be fabricated or is the resurrection of Christ not peculiar to Christ alone? Was it one of the roman catholic secrets they hid from mankind because the RC church had a hand in so many stories in the bible. Could the RC church have claimed that Jesus was the only resurrected being to mystify Jesus just like they refused to accept that Mary Magdalene married Jesus according to the davinci code?

Rastas believe in God(jah) but also believe in the deity of haille sellasie which distinguishes them from Christianity and an opportunity to see God and heaven. What exactly did Ethiopian Selassie do to get that honour? Besides, for those that practice that religion here, if Haille Selassie is a god, why is Ethiopia his homeland one of the poorest nation in the world plagued by famine?

Have you ever asked yourself how God came about? His origin, can it even be imagined?

What's her name?

Just for the records, nobody plans to divorce on or before the wedding day but sometimes it's inevitable.

Seun should create a law section where both of you can relax your muscles.

Lmbao. Seun can also employ free attorneys that can defend any erring member here inorder to be sure that nobody's right is violated. ehhm ehmm, do we have Nairaland jail?

@ Original Poster,

It is good to know that the actions of those named individuals pained you a lot but I want you to know that you actually do not know how the world is run. Those peddlers are nothing but people trying to make ends meet.
If you are into the kind of job I am into, you will know that the CIA you are quoting does more than those they are hunting. Do not get me wrong, I hate drugs and their pushers but those you are naming are just resellers. What about those that haul drugs in their private jet within God's own country.
Almost 70% of American dollars have traces of cocaine but we are here about to shoot eighteen brothers.
It is we Nigerians that bring out the worst in us. Since after Katrina, how many times have you seen CNN do an indepth on what those people are suffering now, that is America keeping their own dirt inside house.
They hunting 18 Nigerians' whereas they have all the Italian Mob, Irish, spanish cartels doing their things without fear or rethink. How many times have you seen Italian government come out to accept the fact that they are ruining the world with organized crime and drugs?
Do not crucify me yet but I do really think that television and low self esteem have made our newest generations to accept that Nigerians are a bunch disgraceful individuals. It ain't so. How many times have you turned on the news and heard about the good things Nigerian professionals are doing all over the world?
Brother the British have done this to us before by planting seed of discord in Nigeria, let us not do it to ourselves in this generation.
As much as i would like to condemn the activities of those you named, I will wait till they are convicted in a competent court before I will call out death to the smoochies.

Can we please stop making excuses for our crimes? It's like justifying prostitution because more westerners are engaged in the trade.

It is simple,

It is against the law to be gay in Gambia. Nobody is saying that it is illegal to be gay, it is just illegal to be gay in GAMBIA. Cheesy So if You are gay and You com into Gambia. Do yourself a favor, keep your faggishness to yourself. Or leave.

I believe the US has a law against polygamy I wonder who is contesting that.

Actually, you have a credible point here.

what if someone else have used your phone to send the text?

what level of punishement is to be given for such text message offence?

how do we define when a 'text message' becomes a crime?

It's like asking if you are still responsible if someone else shoots another with your gun.

Wouldn't mind

Get married
Fall in love
Have a baby/babies

Seriously, how can you get married, then fall in love. What kind of arrangement is that?

if she divorced more than five times, there she will have a kilometer name MADAMEKOKO-GATE-SEUN-OBASANJO-LIWAX-BUSH-SARKOZY-HILARIUS

imagine we have not any space to fill this name in whatever paperwork then we choose initial letter to become: MAGASEOLIBUSAHIL Undecided

Lol, thank you for giving me a good laugh today. You only forgot to add Obama to the list. MadamKoko-Obama.

Do you mean Seun ( as in site administrator )

Yes, Is his name not popular enough for keeps even after divorce?

but uumm, gates, yarardua is not that bad, eehnnn

Seun or Obasanjo nko?

I agree, I plan to keep my last name too. Even after marriage, its important enough, If my husband doesn't gree then it will be madam-koko-let-abc

an hyphenated name, and if he is soo important like Bill Gates, I will become madamkoko-gates. hands down no controversy.

Lol, or madamkoko-yaradua but we can never see anything like madamkoko-seun? abi?

I hope they stop the cat chase and remand husbands that abuse their wives verbally and physically in jail. We'll get there someday sha.

Man remanded in prison for intimidating housewife with text messages

Yekini Jimoh, Ilorin
Monday, June 9, 2008

A middle-aged man has been remanded in prison by a magistrate’s court in Kwara State for using text messages to intimidate a married woman.



advertisement

The accused, Toyin Hassan, was alleged to have used text messages to entice Mrs. Idowu Ahmed, contrary to Section 389 of the Penal Code and criminal intimidation, contrary to Section 397 of the the code.

According to the First Police Information, the woman reported to the police at the Share Police Station that the accused, who shared a compound with her, had been threatening her life through text messages and also any time the accused saw her with another man.

The police confirmed that it was the same accused who lured the woman out of her previous marriage to marry her but later abandoned her.

The magistrate, Mr. Azeez Oguntoye, in his ruling, said that to release the accused on bail would amount to aiding the accused’s intention and in effect, endangering the peace of the community of Share as a result of which the application of the accused seeking bail was refused.

He ordered that the accused be remanded at the Federal Prison, Lafiagi, and the case was adjourned till today.

http://odili.net/news/source/2008/jun/9/619.html

Somehow, divorcing my husband is not part of my future plans. . . .but if so so, sth happens, I'll still keep his name o. . .too much trouble changing names na

Will it not be better to leave your certificates intact and keep your last name from the get go? So many women are adopting that method in todays America. If men want uniform last names after marriage, they can as well change theirs to the wife's last name.

Don't tell me you are already considering divorce before you even marry!

haba, take it easy man. The way you men bail on women these days, any right thinking woman shouldn't be counting her eggs before they are hatched. Personally, I won't like to be stuck with my ex husbands ugly last name.

poster, if the Bobo is an important man, Me, I will keep his name whether he likes it or not.

Lol, this is funny. Will you still keep his name if he's Tuface Idibia?

[b]Abacha served Nigeria well, say Buhari, Abdulsalami[/b]

* He did not loot treasury, Babangida declares

From Adamu Abuh (Kano) and Kodilinye Obiagwu (Lagos)

TWO former heads of state and a military president yesterday rose in stout defence of their late colleague, Gen. Sani Abacha.


advertisement
The former rulers are Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who served in the Abacha regime as chairman of the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) declared that there was no basis for accusing Abacha of corruption.

Buhari's successor, who styled himself as military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and Abubakar also spoke in the same vein.

The Generals spoke yesterday in Kano barely a week after Abacha's widow, Mrs. Maryam, said there was no basis for accusing her husband of corruption.

According to Buhari: "All the allegations levelled against the personality of the late Gen. Sani Abacha will remain allegations. It is 10 years now, things should be over by now."

He added that rather than maligning Abacha, the late ruler deserved to be praised for initiating developmental ideas that moved the country forward.

Buhari, who was the presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in the 2007 polls said: "When Gen. Sani Abacha came into power, he did four major things, which Nigerians will continue to remember him for." "He came up with the idea of incorporating state governors into the National Council of State, he set up a tribunal to check unethical practices by banks and he also set up the Petroleum Trust Fund, which every Nigerian benefitted from its activities."

Buhari said the PTF ensured hundreds of roads, medical and educational facilities were constructed across the country.

He spoke with reporters in Kano at the 10th anniversary prayer session for Abacha. According to him, Nigerians are still reaping the fruits of PTF till date.

Also at the event, Babangida described Mrs. Maryam Abacha as a courageous woman, adding that the allegations levelled against the former head of state were unfounded and baseless.

He said: "It is not true that he looted public treasury, I knew who Abacha was because I was close to him."

Babangida specifically eulogised Abacha for initiating the Vision 2010, which he remarked was still a reference point for Nigeria's economic and political transformation.

Abdulsalami, who fielded questions from reporters at the occasion, faulted allegations of wrongdoing levelled against Abacha.

He said: "It is quite unfortunate and unfair to accuse the family of the late Sani Abacha of looting public funds. But now, we have been seeing what is happening. Whether we like it or not, Gen. Abacha has done a lot for this country.

"Lots have been done wrongly in the past. What should be done was not done, but we are hoping that subsequent administrations would build up positively from where the previous governments stopped."

Besides the three former military leaders who graced the prayer session at the Gidado home of the Abachas, there were hundreds of well-wishers, including the Emir of Gumel, Alhaji Ahmed Sani, Emir of Ringim, Alhaji Sayyadi Muhammadu Ringim, Sarkin Jama'a, Alhaji Muhammadu Isa The Great Prophet and the Sa'in Daura, Alhaji Ahmad Daura.

Among the issues that have remained controversial in the allegations of corruption against Abacha are the question of how much he actually looted and how much of it the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo recovered.

The chase for what became known as the "Abacha loot "has taken Nigeria to Switzerland and London where many foreign accounts allegedly owned by Abacha have been uncovered.

Last month, the Swiss government said it has returned all monies stolen by Abacha to Nigeria.

Giving a breakdown of the monies returned, the Charge d'Affairs of the Embassy of Switzerland, Mr. Fabio Baiardi, at a recent press conference in Abuja, said that a first instalment of $290 million was transferred on September 1, 2005, a second instalment of $168 million on December 19, 2005 and $40 million was transferred at the end of January 2006.

Findings from a joint initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Bank, the Stolen Asset Recovery (STAR) indicate that $505.5 million have been recovered from the Swiss authorities as part of the Abacha loot.

The monies stolen by Abacha is estimated to be between $3 billion and $5 billion. A total of about $1.3 billion may have been recovered. Of this amount, $800 million has been recovered from domestic institutions before $505.5 million was retrieved from the Swiss government.

In 2002, Obasanjo admitted that it was a hard decision for him to enter a compromise deal with the Abacha family to refund over $1 billion or 80 per cent of their liquid asset in exchange for freedom from litigation.

The former President told a news magazine in May 2002 that lawyers were on the deal for over two years. He said: "The first thing we did was to be able to freeze the Abacha family's loot where we were able to get the co-operation of the judiciary and governments of those countries. And what we were able to freeze in real cash and par bonds was close to $2 billion.

"We fought a case in London and we got $150 million or thereabouts released, about 300 million Deutschmark. Then there were little ones like $20 million by another group and that kind of thing.

"That case in London, for instance, cost us (to maintain our lawyer) a little bit over $1 million. The Abacha family's lawyer was paid over $12 million. They were able to pay that because it is not their money. It's your money and my money. But what the lawyer wanted on their side was to go on endlessly and they can do that almost for ever.

"So, our lawyers came and said: 'Well you have a choice to make. We got to a situation where we can get about $1.2 billion and the Abacha family may be $100 million and par bonds of about $300 million. But the value will be about 50 per cent of that because it matures in the future.

"So, you have to decide whether to go for this or continue with the litigation. And that's one of the hardest decisions I have to make in my life because I know that the Abacha family hadn't legitimately done any work to deserve $100 million.

"But should I go ahead to recover $1.2 billion of Nigeria's money or go to tell Nigerians that we are fighting this case and 25, 30 years from now you wouldn't get anything. So, when I thought about it, I said well at the end of the day, I had to explain to Nigerians.

"Even the Financial Times said this is a model for any country to follow because no nation has been able to achieve as much as that or anything close to that. So, I'm proud of what we have been able to achieve," Obasanjo said.

The out-of-court settlement, which according to a report, was worked on by the then Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Kanu Agabi (SAN) was supposed to see the Abacha family surrender $1.2 billion.

The family was allowed to keep $100 million and par bonds worth $300 million.

In the controversy surrounding the return of the loot, former Minister of Defence under Obasanjo, Lt.-Gen Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, has accused fthe immediate past former President of entangling himself in efforts to vilify Abacha. He had asked, "where is the so-called Abacha loot?"


http://odili.net/news/source/2008/jun/9/14.html

Rather than demanding money from my boyfriend[b], i'd rather want to know how he makes his money, so i can make mine too[/b], and possibly even more!

hmmmmm, This one is romance & entrepreneurship.

Because of the high divorce rate in Nigeria and the world today, is it advisable for a woman to take a man's last name after marriage? If yes, does it mean that those Nigerian women that marry up to 3 times should keep changing their last names 3x? Is it not a smarter thing for a woman to keep her last name/surname after marriage?

@Guys, will you get mad if your divorced wife still walk around town with your last name/surname? Also, will you be offended if your new wife decides to keep her last name for fear of her fate if the marriage eventually breaks up?

Fall in love

Get married

Have a baby after 3 years.

lmao

Lol, just read through the thread. Nothing new only the guy that threatened a law suit to a ghost member here was hilarious. The question is if Musa's remark is a criminal offense or an offense that is punishable by fine, if the latter is the case, whom will he pay the fine to? Oyo state or jay4pa?

Represent your state in here plz including FCT. Tell us more about your state, their website eminent citizens and interesting places to visit in your state.

Abuja is not a modern city as long as it does not have 'public transport' for its people.

Okada is sign of poverty and since 75% nigerians live below poverty line OKADA will remain part of Nigeria landscape; every where.

Grin Cheesy Grin

Note:
China was before a 'bicycle nation' now they are 'car-driving nation'; simple answer: better earning power of it people.

Well said.