₦airaland Forum

Very true. Democracy is far better than any military regime.

Image123:
Why do i have to belong to APC if I'm not satisfied with what the current government has done? Do we all have to be politicians to vote or see or assess? If i see option A-E, I'm old enough to decide which is a good option or better option of the five. I don't have to be a party member or tribal person to choose. Pastors Adeboye and Kumuyi are older than Buhari and still good leaders in my opinion, so let's not play the age card. Buhari won his primaries while Tanbuwal stepped down. He is exercising his constitutional enabled right to vote and be voted for.
What exactly are dividends of democracy? To tell me infrastructure, because we know that the military gave us better infrastructure in short time. The airports, federal universities, refineries, and many long roads and bridges were built by the military.

To even suggest that the military is better is completely wrong. The military era put Nigeria in the situation it is today.

Nigeria has always favoured the North. Igbo people strive hard to achieve whatever they desire. This quota system shows that an average Northern graduate cannot be compared to his companions from the south. Hmmm, some doctors actually gained admission with low marks while their mates from the South may have been screened off because of one mark. Injustice is what this is.

jaydee87:
St Theresa college wears a scarf. its an all girls catholic school...

I would like to know the location of this school. Anyway, you mentioned that it is a catholic girls school, so they would have to comply with whatever the school wants. Ansar-u-deen and Al-hikma schools also have hijab wearing as a uniform, so their students must wear it. Do you now see that those catholic girls should not feel cheated if they suddenly leave St. Theresa to a public school? The same thing with the girls from muslim schools.

donroxy:
Apology , I think they are in the US .... By the time the court declared barring Hijab illegal your atlantic hall and corona would also have to comply else they would violating the law of Nigeria ..... Let's wait and see what the Appeal would declare !!

Apology for blasting you once again ... I'm so sorry !!

My brother, if you grew up in Nigeria, you would agree that wearing of hijab to public schools has never been the norm. Saying that it has been banned is saying that it was normal and the government suddenly stopped it. I have female muslim friends and classmates who currently work in different sectors and industries amd they can wear whatever they want now, but when they were in secondary school, they never wore hijab. And it wasnt a problem. I didnt see them as different. I saw them as my friends and classmates.

jaydee87:
wen commenting Dont use sentiment in comments, remember we have Muslim schools and catholic sch using the hijab.... we have schools that the hijab is part of their of there uniform....

Please, speak for yourself. Which catholic schools wear hijab?

MissMeiya:
Smh. You're too dull. Your question makes it obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about.

Alright, let me explain it slowly, since you didn't get it the first time. Freedom of religious practice is protected by the Constitution. In Muslim religious practice, women are obliged to cover certain parts of their bodies in front of men they are not related to. Male family members and other women are not included.

So, your question about if they must wear hijab in the bathroom is a stúpid one. Because their religion does not require them to hide their hair from themselves. But if Nigerian schoolgirls are in the practice of bathing with strange men, I assure you, the hijab would be the least of anyone's concerns.

See, let me ask you this question. Did you go to a government school in Nigeria? This issue of wearing hijab is just being introduced and made to look as if students have been wearing it since forever. I do not know a single secondary school were hijab is worn to school (except islamic schools). The scary part is that most of you clamouring for 'hijab rights' here passed through most of these government schools. What changed?

donroxy:
I hope I'm chating with Adult .... I said IRK as a religion studies teach Islam and Hijab is Islam then how would a muslim student (affected student) be taught Hijab is a model of dressing for a muslim girl/lady/woman then such is banned from her school ..... Lagos state Public school is religion intolerant and Lagos state can never win this struggle !!!

Later they would say Muslims are stubborn , why wouldn't muslims all over the world rise to these maltreatment and ill judgement !!!

How could a school destroy the tenet of modesty a home imbibed on a girl ...... A school as an agent of socialisation should promote the tenet of modesty from home and not barred the positive value system a home imbibed on their children !!!

If I were a lawyer, I would take up this for free ... I have high interest in this case .... Lets watch what will happened in Appeal court !!

See, my brother, Nigeria is not an Islamic State. Yes, wearing a hijab, even a niqab, is mandatory in Islam. However, student dressing in approved uniforms has never affected their academic performance in school. Other muslim women who finished from federal unity schools and state schools wore the approved uniforms and many of them are now Professors, Lawyers, Lecturers, Engineers, Doctors and equally still devout muslimas. Why is wearing the hijab in public schools suddenly a big deal?

BetaThings:
So why do we have
"So help me God" in the National Pledge?
Or is CRK not taught in public schools?

Why is it that Muslims never object to whatever Christians want while
Christians get agitated whenever Muslims want anything

Let me see how objective you are
Can we have?
Workdays as Mondays to Fridays 1st half of the year and
Sundays to Thursdays - 2nd half of the year
OR
Workdays as Mondays to Fridays odd number years
Sundays to Thursdays - even number years

Are you suggesting that Allah isnt God?
Is IRK not taught in public schools?
Maybe they dont get agitated because what they (christians) want is reasonable and acceptable by all?
Where in the world do they change calenders after six months?

BetaThings:
Why should we not go to work on Sunday when the constitution says we are not a Christian nation

Are China, Japan, Russia and India christian nations? No! And their citizens dont work on Sunday.

FIRDAUS3:
Who ever deny us Hijab denied us our right. Who ever denied us our right denied us our Life. Struggle continue................

This is how extremism starts. Please, if you want your daughters to wear hijabs, send them to muslim secondary schools. Simple.

SkySpirit:
Good development, I believe every part of the country has something to offer. They should also check Nasarawa State, there's a place that the Chinese have been digging up sand which many believe contains diamond and taking same to their country in the last 5years.

Imagine! Oil exploration and our overdependence on it has made Nigeria forgo other natural resources. Foreigners come here and exploit us horribly!

Soon, that place will become a death zone. Criminals will invade there and destabilize everything. The inhabitants need protection.

Obinoscopy:
Yes it is. Kudos to Oshiomhole.

How does this concern Oshiomole? That the project is situated in Edo State doesn't mean the state government played any role in its creation. According to the article, it was privately funded and backed by the federal government and world bank.

I hope this isnt another charade. Power Stations are being launched everytime but no major improvement in power supply. Lets hope this is the real deal.

This is getting scary. I googled Abuja Declaration 1989 and the information I obtained is very disheartening.
http://kingdomnewsng.com/news/103-beware-abuja-declaration-has-been-edited

Those who feel they are Royalty are still humans and must be forced to face the law. Today makes it 54 years since independence but still people face injustice in the same country. The security outfit, the police and the Bale know what should be done but refuse to because the culprit is not 'normal'.

Shinery0123: i'm glad u mentioned that they kill muslims too. It is too obvious that something is hitchy and that sumtin is what Nigerians, every religion, should try and find and tackle bt instead we allowed ourselves to be deceived. In islam killing is an unpardonable sin, even an unbeliever except guilty of a charge. The Bokoharamists kills muslim which is b4 Allah, u killed 1000 men. U can see how grave it is. Boko haramists fooled us by reciting the Qur'an and claiming they are muslims which i strongly believe is just for disguise. The truth shall be made known and the real perpetrators will be known. #we have a common enemy.

Maybe Al-Quaeda, Al-Shabab and the Taliban also disguised as muslims?

Surely001: and u called it a weird food combination? Mstchwwww Dats my best food sef... Try it out and ur life will never remain de same again...

I have. The taste is glorious!

Bwaal: omo this combinatination make sense come add garri omo school life na die av u ever tried yam and indomie or fried mango u can also try bread and coconut wah abt rice and garri mixed together chai cant forget moi peepz F4 gang

Guy, this your combinations na die!!!

kerny: @op ,guy I can so relate with your situation,I have also never really had a physical bf,only phone bf(we have never met),you ask me out today I say yes tomorrow and the nextday I say let's breakup,never had anything more than a day relationship,I always have this he will dump me and I will want to die situation,so I do it myself or sometimes there will be this boy I really like,after a while he comes taking to me and then I have a feeling am getting him bored or he's probably laughing at me now or this really cute guy I like walks up to me and I just can't compose my pathetic self(I start giggling ,smiling uneccesarily even at d most dumb things,there by freaking him out,nd just can't look straight into his gorgeous eye I keep staring down @ only God knows what)believe me I really do try to put myself together.My friends are begining to get worried about me(cos @ a point they thought I was a lesbian nd went well we accept u like that lol)since al of them have and some even talk about marriage(jezz they are just 19),and I never bring up anything like that cos have never been close to any,lately I started getting worried myself I kind of found out that ,the feeling of some1 telling me *ohh I don't like you anymore or omg your nw ugly* might kill me,and no I don't think I will be fine if it happens(I think I will just die,disappear or the world wud just end something drastic like that will occur if it eventually happens since I do have a cliche of what I fear the most always tend to happen)buh I also know I would die alone and lonely(I have a phobia for combination of both mind you)if I continue like this that's why have been working on myself ,no I haven't gotten there yet and nothing to show for it so far buh am positive and hoping it wud turn out good.

I like your post. Very truthful. Anyway, I believe only a true heart can say this. Just relax and understand that the person you like would be lucky to have you. Start with that mentality (but dont become arrogant) and you will boost your self-esteem.

Beans and Spaghetti.

rabzy: For those who are mention Moonday, thors-day, Freyas-day. It is not d name dat makes d day it is d celebration. So does anyone remember or celebrate any of those gods on those days, so if xtians don't continue d practise of celebrating dem under any guise den it should nt be used as a defense for d xmas celebration.

Please listen to yourself!!!

KasaMary: “Christmas is a Pagan Celebration”
by: KasaMary

On entering the Board Room for a presentation with a colleague, we were greeted by the subject of this article. A very articulate and energetic man was saying this to two colleagues who were trying to convince him that Christmas is not a pagan celebration.

This man seemed to have more “facts” or rather knew how to present his position better than his colleagues. Being my superiors, I couldn’t join in the "debate". What I could not share with them, I share with you.

Christmas is not a pagan celebration. It is the commemoration of the birth of Our Lord rather than the celebration of His birthday.

The feast of Christmas, “the Mass of Christ”, used to be celebrated on January 6. (January 6 is now being celebrated as the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord. The Feast of Epiphany which originated in the Eastern Church in the Third Century is a three-fold commemoration of Our Lord’s manifestation among men: First to the gentiles, in the persons of the Magi (Matt 2:1-12), second at the time of his baptism in the river Jordan when His divinity was made manifest (Matt 3:13-17, Mk1:9-11, Lk 3:21-22), and lastly at the wedding feast in Cana where He turned water into wine at His Mother’s request (Jn 2:1-12).

In the Eastern rite, the baptism in the Jordan was particularly stressed, whereas in our Latin rite the coming of the Magi is more prominent). Celebration of Christmas became distinct in the Roman Church at about 300AD and the date was December 25, but the Church in other states kept different days for a long time. Why was the date moved from January 6 to December 25 in Rome?

Ancient Rome was a highly pagan empire with numerous gods and elaborate and “gluttonic” celebrations in their honour. December 25 was the day they celebrated the great Roman Solar Feast, Notalis Solis Invicti, (the birthday of the unconquerable sun-god), which the Roman Emperor Aurelian made compulsory throughout his empire in AD 274. It was one of their greatest celebrations with rituals and feasting everywhere.

The Elders (Magisterium) of the growing but underground Church in Rome discovered to their dismay that most new converts still joined in this stupendous celebration, to eat and wine and enjoy themselves. So the Magisterium met, discussed and prayed ernestly about this trend. At the end, they and the Holy Spirit (Whom Christ has promised that He will be with the Church to guard, guide, inspire and help her to the end of time (Jn 14:16-17; 16:12-15)) decided (Acts 15:28) to move the Feast of Christmas to December 25th to supplant the pagan feast since Christ is the true “Light of the world” (Jn 8:12). They did this so that as the pagans celebrated theirs, the Christians in the catacombs commemorated the birth of the Messiah and as such would have no reason to join in the pagan celebrations. St. John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople from 397 till he died in exile in 404AD wrote and said: Who indeed is so unconquerable as our Lord? He is the Sun of Justice. So December 25 became the day to commemorate the birth of our Lord till tomorrow.

Does the supplanting of the pagan feast with Christmas make the feast of Christ’s birth (Christmas) a pagan celebration? Does the conquering of evil with good necessarily make the conqueror evil? Are we not urged in the Scripture to conquer evil with good (Rom 12:21)? On Christmas day, do we offer sacrifices to the non-existent ancient Roman sun-god or do we worship the Omnipotent God of the sun? Most Churches in the Eastern part of Nigeria are built on what used to be village shrines dedicated to certain gods; does this make worshipers in such church worshippers of the "overthrown" gods? No!

Christmas is not a pagan celebration but indeed the celebration of the conquering of evil and evil practices with the Divine and divine practices. That is what and why Christ came for: to supplant evil with good. The conquering has not only been in ancient Rome alone, but in most countries, towns and villages where Catholicism has triumphantly entered. And this conquering should also be the same in our individual lives. The gods of sexual revolution (fornication, adultery, masturbation, pornography) and materialism, the gods of gossip and lying, the gods of bribery and corruption, pride, jealousy, laziness, abortion, etc, must be conquered and burnt up by the Sun of Justice and supplanted with love for God and the godly. This is the bold statement the Church made by that singular decision. If the ancient Roman feast had subsisted and upheld by the Church, then the protestations would have been weightier. The argument is completely hollow, so long as that evil has been forever supplanted!

"Is it in the Bible?" Yes, the divine birth of Our Lord is in the Bible (Mtt1:18-25, Lk 2:1-7). What may not be explicitly stated in the Scripture is the date. And so what is the problem with that? Christ, "coming" from a humble and non-royal background, no one may have recorded the date of His divine birth. But the Church, in her wisdom and in union with the ever alive, present and active Holy Spirit have given us a date since the Third Century. And about the 19th and 20th centuries, about 1,600 (!!!) years after, people are still disputing it! (Read Gal 1:8, and be wise). The date should not bother us. Let the true celebration bother us, after all Christ lives timelessly. Even as we bother more about the true celebration of Christmas, let us realize that we still live in a timed world. A world where there is time for everything under the sun (Ecc 3:1-. And so, for the commemoration of the birth of Christ under the sun, His followers have chosen a date: formerly it was January 6, but now December 25 and they call it Christmas (Christ Mass or the Mass of Christ).

This is the best explanation anyone can ever give. Most places that were utterly diabolic in the east were converted by showing that God is greater than their idols. Most churches are built on evil forests. Does this make that church evil? Definitely not! Instead, it resets the heart of the villagers to turn to the true God. The love exhibited around the world during christmas cannot be compared to any other religion's celebration. Anyone who hates christmas hates christ!

omigyman: Hu said dis words F d kind
F d kingsguard n. F kingslanding

The Hound.

[quote author=Temmie360%]Hello house,
Please I would like to use this medium to pass out / throw some light concerning info about the getting & printing of the details on invitation for NYSC recruitment test. The pure fact of it is that; IF you did not receive an envidence of final submission during the time of recruitment (Sep 28 / Dec 3r, 2013) I.e Aknowledgement notice to your registered email. Consider your supplied info is not registered. Therefore, there would be no record of registration. Which means , you can not access, neither print any info about your NYSC reg.
Thanks.[/quote]please this your assumption is wrong. Two people i personally know didnt get any message delivered to their email but got texts inviting them to loyola college in Ibadan.
For those staying in Ibadan, pls can you give the name(s) of good and relatively cheap hotels around that school?

spyder880: Frontal looks

Good job man!!