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Of course, yes!
Faith and reason are in deed very compatible!
This was the main thrust of the teaching, research and faith of the scholastic philosophers.
Even in Classical Islam, there was a huge leaning toward the unicity of Faith and reason. The period in question is the great apogee of Islam in human history.

ab1x: You need to continue with the place u get the feeds from pending the time you get another place. Most of the people here are either located in Lagos or Ogun State. Another option is if u know a driver that can help u to purchase it from lag or ogun and bring it for u in Enugu. Wish u all d best.

Thanks,mate!

Abeg, where can one find foreign fish food in Enugu! I buy in Abakaliki, it's a bit pricey. Thanks

ogb5: In which custom is the woman the head of the man?
The woman came up with a baseless accusation and was made to eat her words.

You have not seen women who will accuse you of having an affair with any lady whose phone number is on your phone.

Serves her right, next time she wants to accuse her husband she will get her facts right.

@OP
You dey very sure she is wrong eh?
Even if she dey wrong, must he humiliate her.
That woman go seek for revenge, at a time and a form of her bidding.
That deputy governor,or whatever knows that fact.

Pvt. Parts:
Everyday in Nigeria is like another day in a Lunatic Asylum.

To some extent, that may be the case.
But, in reality, isn't the whole of life a lunatic asylum-like kind of experience?!?!?!?!

bory09: Made in nigeria ship. Hope is not working on witch craft

Old boy, your mouth sharp oooo

Ola Johnson: Maybe you should, as you want us to believe you're intelligent, tell us, especially the "Jews" the difference between Dennis Memorial Grammar School and Does Monkey Go to School?

Bros, this matter dey vex you too much. Cool down, abeg! My quip was a joke, in reaction to your play on DMGS.. Looks like you missed the whole point of the quip!
Abi, you be the progeny of Awolowo, or Soyinka in hiding.
No amount of insults can obliterate what/who Achebe means to the larger society! The man's writing has showed us the depths of his character and person, yours is also displaying to us the depth of your character and person.

Lastly, no fear! I was not keen on showing you how intelligent I am.. After all, Seun has not instituted a test of one's IQ as a prerequisite for joining Nairaland. If he did, a lot of persons wouldn't qualify to be here! Shi ke Na

Ola Johnson: Does Monkey Go to School?

Yes, If you really want to know the answer.
By the way, given the amount of time you have invested in denouncing Achebe, I expect you to know that he never attended DMGS (Dennis Memorial Grammar School). Achebe attended GC Umuahia.

percipi1: Honestly, I ask that you and Ola Johnson ignore this guy called son-of-el. If you don't stop to exchange words with a mad man, reasonable people will start to question your sanity. Allow him to enjoy his self delusion. It is his fundamental right to be stupid. Don't associate with people like him. He's probably an Igbo outcast{ osu} trying desperately to be acceptable to the freeborn Igbo

You still use language such as this, in this day and age?
The anonymity afforded us, on Nairaland, by Seun is both a blessing and a curse. I for like Sabi some people here, only so that I can avoid them on the street,

peter onyii: CHINESE ARE IMPROVING!!!!!

Na today? These guys done improve Tay Tay!
Look around your apartment, almost everything in it is Chinko made

Misunderstood_G: Yes, its good he talks, but when he talks, you fucktaards will be the ones to condemn him.. Human's can never be satisfied.. No matter what you do, whatever action you take, people will always critize you.. A man of few words is a wise man.. I hope you all see this, and stop critisizing him.. The other's who spoke before, what did it do Nothing. He talking won't change anything, rather it would give the public an avenue to misquote him..

Wow,Na where you study your own logic?
We stopped using equating silence and wisdom, aeons ago!
You must be one those who still think the Bible was an email attachment from God!

KnowAll: [size=16pt]The Mathematics came in handy at the end of the day, if a donation of $1000 dollars is levied on all parishes abroad, without mincing word, the funds raised from such mundane, casual, and normal exercise would be going to millions of dollars, without saying much Mathematics as a discipline and more importantly God has served Adeboye well.

I live in a small town in Kent, UK and we have 4 redeem churches in my Town[/size].

Hear, hear!

This man is very DANGEROUS! I hope loads of you are aware of this?
Please, someone should remind me of what this bigot said after the Youth Corpers were slaughtered in Bauchi?

This thread don reach 39 pages?
It is emblematic of Nigeria, in so many ways.

ban.shymmex:
WHy didn't his father let him live in this house...or betterstill buy a property near London, far away from where he was radicalised?

The psychotic guy in that video looks homeless.

Na True talk so!

Nedu31: Is Wole Soyinka there? Have he made his speech? I thought he said he will publish his long tribute to Achebe 2day,as he did when he turn 70th. I hav search all d daily news papers and some social blog,no avail.

Soyinka's tribute was in the Guardian Newspaper, yesterday or the day before! Came in the form of a poem; the poem was very Soyinka.

bobthebuilder99: People respected and admired him until he wrote that tribal book There Was a Country.

If Nigerians know anything, we know how to spot a common tribalist. That book ruined his reputation here in Naija.

That's your view, and you entitled to yours. I disagree with you, I doubt if you have read his last book. In that book, Achebe tries to tell you what went wrong at the birth of this country. He is keen to tell you the mistakes we made, but you are only interested in a tribal reading/viewing/interpretation of his works..
I make bold to say that " There was a Country" will become required reading in Nigeria, when eventually we rescue this country from the dogs that currently hold her hostage.
He was not a tribalist, he was a courageous man. A man who was capable to telling the truth.

MuyiGL: "Father" is a titled reserved only for pioneers in a certain field. You could call him anything you like; "King", "Greatest", "Most influential"... whatever. But he is not the "father" of African literature. Simple

And he is a pioneer in many ways, don't you understand contextual use of language! Re the title "father of African literature", Achebe never attached that accolade to himself. Again and again, Achebe makes clear the message that long before what we now know as African literature, literature existed and thrived in various parts of Africa. In fact, in his beautiful book 'There Was A Country", Achebe takes great pains to point out the various strands and genres of literature that predated the Oyibo man's arrival.
Abeg, quit attacking this man for the fun of it. A writer is measured by the amount of books he/she is able to shift, this man must have done something right to shift over 12 million books in his lifetime.

That over-hyped girl just referred to the Nobel Prize as being political. I'm sure her view would have been different if her Mentor, Achebe had won it!

With her Nobel-degrading utterances, I think she should forget ever winning the award![/quote]@OP
I hope you are not another tribal apologist masquerading as a literary connoisseur.
The Nobel is too politicised, it's a given.
Do not take Miss Adichie's word for it, google it.
Whilst you are at it, check out the list of those who have not won the Literature prize. Then come back and make your point.
Check out th risks that Chinua took, especially his seemingly suicidal, yet courageous, take-down of Joseph Conrad. Even Chinua, after reading the responses of our former colonisers, knew his chances of netting a Nobel were shot.

By the way, Wole Soyinka was and remains a worthy winner; I am knowledgeable enough to know that Achebe more than deserved one as well. It isn't Soyinka's fault that Achebe never got it, so why blame him?

Whilst the rich verbal turns, and deployment of words, have caught my attention: I have come away from this interview feeling less-than-satisfied.
Wole Soyinka the Nobel Laureate, and in deed a worthy winner, has not settled the controversies. If anything, he has poured oil on troubled waters. Contained in his robust replies are nuggets of wisdom and humility, meant for us all.
Some of us are speaking from positions that are not worthy of mention.

Talk Hoha: Speaking solely as a lover of literature, I think the comments about Anthills of the Savannah are wrong. It is not a trivial work. It did not win the Booker in 1987, but it was short-listed, not just long-listed for that most prestigious award for the novel form. A shortlist of six, from probably many hundreds of novels published that year throughout the Commonwealth? Far from marking a decline in Achebe's art, I think it was his most accomplished novel. There are different voices, there is literary sophistication, and Beatrice is in no way a lightweight or ephemeral creation. The charge of marginalised female characters can't be sustained about her. Anthills of the Savannah has layers, is witty and ironic. I recall the descriptions of the affected Englishness of Sam, the presentation of the sage of the northern tribe, the revolutionary mode of Ikem's speech at the University... I read that book years ago but scenes keep coming to mind. It is not a trival thriller.
As for the rest of Omatseye's comments, whether or not Achebe was great or merely good as a writer will continually be decided by his readers. The discussion tends to leave the realm of literary appreciation and become a tribal fray. If the Nobel were mine to award and I had to choose between Achebe and Soyinka, I would give it to Soyinka. That's just my humble literary judgment.

@ OP
Wonderful analysis of Achebe's Anthills of the savannah. Shows a mind that can actually process information at multiple levels.
Re the prize: were it down to me, Achebe will receive my nod. The other man has written along western lines. My two pence

Lins01: Are you on weed?

Beautiful question!

Enoyoh: Military, what are you guys waiting for? do away with this democracy before they destroy our country!

I can see where you are coming from, but that is not the proper solution. The military are just as bad.
Rather, let's take a cue from the widows of the Mopol Squadron 38. Those widows took advocacy to the next level, when they blocked the Akwanga-Lafia Highway. They gave their plight a human face, refusing to allow the top brass of the NPF and the political class to define them.
Let us advocate and ventilate our plight,may be that will shame them.

olisaokere: “Apart from the 61 MOPOL officers that were deployed from Akwanga, we have yet to see many others mobilised from the MOPOL base in Lafia, including the men of the State CID. So the claim that only 56 policemen died cannot be true,” an officer confided in our correspondent"

Police Recruitment 2013 forms will be available soon.

Your graveside humour is bam bam!
Abi you be medical doctor, or better still, a nurse?

robonski15: It will be a conprhensive training from the scratch for beginners and even existing farmers who wish to add more knowledge... Pure practical with indepth analysis..

Bros, costs and logistics. Thanks

Looks like a lot of us don't get it. The debacle in Nassarawa isn't what it may appear to be, it is beyond what we have seen before.

There are several lessons to be learnt from this crisis. In the first place, those advocating for the establishment of state govt police have basically lost their argument. How can we trust Nigerian elected state govt officials with a police force, ala the United States?

On a second note, can we honestly say freedom of religion does work in Nigeria? The sheer amount of religious bigotry exhibited by some of my fellow Christians is appalling. Let's not begin to talk about what some of our Muslim brethren are advocating. Nigeria does belong to us all, comments from a lot of us in this forum seem to suggest that only Christians and Muslims have the right to publicly practice their religion.

Ombwatse, or whatever it is called, is deserving of our respect and engagement. Nigeria, no matter what our pretentious religion obsessed public facade says, is tottering. Our politicians should stick to trying to save this country. Clearly, the governor of Nassarawa is up to something. Why is the Nigerian press giving him a pass?

kels on point:

Comot here joor!
This one an joke!

Wow! Those were the days!
Came back from first day school without mine (@ Army Children School, Myayoung barracks, Yaba, Lagos).
My not-so-pleased, but loving parents, had to cough up another pair the next day. One of the advantages of being a first born child.

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IGBO-SON:
All these stupi/d cults, religions and belief-systems in this 21st century!? No wonder we're finding it hard to progress as a people in science, technology, and good governance.

Paganism never held the Benin kingdom back, likewise the other empires that flourished in the entire sub-Saharan Africa
Abeg, leave the Eggon people alone. This crisis is not about the religion of the Eggon people, its all about the 2015. The bloodletting that has pre- staged 2015 should be a source of concern to all who love this country, Nigeria.
By the way, I am Christian. Let's learn to respect the religion of their people.