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"Do the needful" is an expression which means "do that which is necessary", with the respectful implication that the other party is trusted to understand what needs doing without being given detailed instruction.

The expression is currently used mainly in South Asian English (particularly Indian English). The expression was current in both British[1] and American English[2] well into the early 20th century, but is now considered obsolete, slang, and improper. In later years it was sometimes used as a parody example of contemporary South Asian English.

The Oxford English Dictionary lists examples of usage from 1709 (Richard Steele in the Tatler), 1771 (Samuel Foote in Maid of Bath), 1821 (Maria Edgeworth in a letter), 1831 (Walter Scott in his journal), 1929 (I. Colvin in his Life of Dyer), and 1992 (Jeff Torrington in Swing Hammer Swing!), the last likely used humorously.[1]

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1.^ Jump up to: a b Oxford English Dictionary, Draft Revision, December 2008: "needful" (adj. and n.)
2.Jump up ^ The New York Times lists many examples of contemporary literal usage from its own pages mainly between 1860 and 1930




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Naira landers Please "DO THE NEEDFUL''(OOPS! IT IS AN OBSOLETE PHRASE'

[quote

author=mekula]Dayummm! This woman has stepped on one too many toes and
the conspiracy is really thickening. After all said and done, no
concrete evidence to implicate her other than mere conjectures and the
notion that its all a sponsored attack is becoming clearer by the day.
If you try to challenge the imperialist structure, this is what you get.
By the way nobody is talking about the rogue Farouk Lawan again, at
least he was caught on tape.[/quote]Please leave Farouk out of it, he was set up that was why he was on
tape. Besides he got his share of the bashing while it lasted.
Stella and her adorned line of desciples should (do the needful) be brave enough and face
theirs with remorse cox she was caught on paper.

nagoma: I can feel your pain. Not only Igbo commit crime but at least 90% of crimes are committed by them.

Wannan ai tsokana ce, ka rufa mana asiri kar ayi mana ruwan mashi....

[quote
author=Lagosbabe1]Is it the Mods fault that 90% of Drug related crimes, baby making
factories are carried out by one particular ethnic group in Nigeria?

What do you want the Mods to do?

Those curses you are raining down should be directed to the Emekas,
Shinedus, Shukuka, Nnamdi, Ikeshuku, Obioras that continually engage in
these criminal activities.[/quote]Lol Lagos babe! abi na Jennifer?

*sigh* Nigerians I hail thee!

[quote
author=nameo]You do not need a fish's brain to know that this is a
badly scripted PROPAGANDA piece by Sahara Reporters, do you? [/quote


IF U KNOW HOW MUCH BALA IS SPENDING FROM FCT PURSE FOR GOODLUCK AND PATIENCE CAUSES, YOU WILL NOT BE TALKING LIKE THIS... SO I WILL XCUSE UR IGNORANCE.

[quote

author=2ndChance]All I needed from her was just to be notified and nothing more. There is
no reason on earth that would have made me not to grant her my approval
eacept may be I don't have the money readily available which doesn't
apply in this situation. The building took her exactly one year to
complete and she never bothered to inform me until I found out myself.
The main issue there is that she has betrayed trust and loyalty in my
marriage that I now deeply fear for my safety. If I have assurance that
she means no harm, then I have no issue with the building or any of her
other investments that I may not be aware of. But unfortunately, she's
not talking and some key members of the family who are trying to savage
the situation are saying she is neither picking no returning their calls
as well. We can't make any meaningful progress here without
communication.[/quote]Good to hear, this is not enough reason to break up your home. Ask
yourself how many of such trust have you broken without her knowing.
Just tell her how you feel congratulates her on her achievement.

Let her be assured that she will always have your support and lastly, live up to your responsibility take care of her and the kids the way you have been doing before, forget the part she is earning more than you.

@Op
so your wife is the villain in the story? How many men consult their
wives when buying houses and cars for the other woman/girlfriend? thank
God you know the source of her income we wud have been hearing a different
story by now.

If she is bad she wouldnt have involved a man of God, she would have involve any other person but not a man of God.

some men do make a mistake of allowing their wives to shoulder the whole responsibility in the house the moment they know she has money.

Na their style, Kwankwaso, Nyako and Aisha houses and business premises have also been marked by FCTA. we are all waiting to see what will hapun.

[quote
author=Amaechi5]@op how i wish i knew ur wife,so that i know her own
side of the story.And the house u are living is it a rented house or u
built it.Maybe u are the type that got no plans and doesn't care about
tinz at all and she decided to ignore u and do her tin OR maybe she
actually told u about it.U know the problem with we men is that we don't
like our wife to be above us in terms of income,and any movement they
made or act we start seeing as an insult/disrespect.But if what u said
is just the plain truth,she didn't try at all.[/quote

God bless you my brother.

What

really is the problem? her owing a property or her not telling you? I
am a woman and I know alot of women that never had any investment or
landed property simply because they were waiting for their husbands
permission.

Alot of men usually get insecure the moment their wives start earning
more than them, they see evry action of hers as rude or unruly even if
she happens to be a better person than she was before.

Be honest, wud you have given her your consent if you knew?

Na

wa o! since when did Hausa interpreters became this scarce in Lagos?
didnt they knew that those guys need interpreters before taking them
to court?
How did they manage to take their statements? is it not the
responsibility of the state to provide a legal representative for an
accuse if he cannot afford one?

Why are the stalling this case?

[quote

author=Chartey]You can read the Bible in any language you want to. I know efforts have
been made to translate the Koran into different languages but this is
being discouraged by the Arabs so that people would have to learn the
language. If you too vex, start to dey type for Arabic make u see how
many people go answer u.[/quote]Haba.....Thank God we now have internet please google and see the number
of languages that the Quran has been translated into.

Muslims are encouraged to learn arabic cox some words, parables, idoms
do lose their meanings thru translations. This is just the reason
nothing more.

Bpriest: I'm a religious person

You've just said that you regard the Quran and Bible as comic books.
What religion are u? (am curious)

Bpriest: you are welcome. Now go and bend facing your masters' land

Lol, do have a lovely day and thanx for the reminder it is almost time for my noon prayer.
If you believe in God just sincerely ask Him to guide and show you the way cos we all need religion in our lives.

[quote
author=Bpriest]for the last time I'm not Christian. Can you stop
making silly comparisons?
So the Bible is filled with pornography and you dared call me a bigot?
You muslims are very funny, where did you get he was 10? Same way
according to you Mary was 12 right? You guys are sick and are always
quoting or twisting the Bible to support your claims. I scrutinized both
books and they both stink .I consider them as comic books[/quote]Thank you for wasting my time, atleast you if read the bible as you
claimed, you will know that I am not lying, it is there i did not put it
there neither did i ask them to put it there, so that i owe nobody any
apology.

it is easir working with someone with faith. Wat do u believe in?

[quote author=Bpriest]I'm not a bigot, you can be sure about that. I'm not a partisan of the cattle mentality either[/quot

Good to hear but why are u sounding like one? what does cattle mentality mean?

[quote
author=Bpriest]@ least you are not denying the lesbian part[/quote]i have updated, please you can go back for the updates. I am suprise it
is now taking a different dimension. First u start with arabic and
Muhammad, then quran and now homosexuality(he that live in glass house should not throw stone). What is it that you want?
I hope i have not wasted my time with a bigot.

[quote
author=Bpriest]that's my question. According to you Moslems prior the
visit or apparition of Gabriel, Mohamed was an illiterate so I'm
wondering how he wrote the Quran or how did he even understand what
Gabriel was saying? Did Gabriel taught him Arabic first?[/quote]go back to my post on this i have updated, the thing is my phone cannot upload lengthy texts. i will updating there so that it can flow better.

[quote






author=Bpriest]so you accept that Mohamed wrote the Quran? Good.
Now if I may ask, how did it happen? Did Gabriel told him what to write
in one day? Or they had several sessions?
Also how come you guys say he was illiterate?If indeed he was illiterate
how come he understood what Gabriel said and was even able to write it
down?[/quote]No, how can an illiterate write a book? Just as other messengers of God
before him receives their messages thru revealations so does he, what
happened was anytime the angel revealed came to him with the messages he
repeated it word to word and his learned disciples will write it on
animal skin, bark of tree, bones, engraved on stones e.t.c these
recordings were compiled in a period of 23yrs.

These collections were later compiled in a book form which we know now
as the quran.

Every chapter in the quran begins with 'In the name of God the most
beneficient the most merciful, it very common to find words like say,
tell them at the beginning of some verse.

Muhammad was an Arab so God can only speak to him in a language that he
can understand.
God spoke to Moses in his language. or are saying God cannot speak
arabic?

If you know the history of the bible you will know that the first bible
came into existence 200yrs after the death of Christ, the gospels of
John, Luke e.t.c were never written by them cox in some cases they were
50yrs after their death. Mark was around 10yrs old when Jesus was
crucify.

I will suggest that you put the bible under the same scutunity as you
are doing with the quran, read it with same glasses you are doing with
the Quran.

You see that the bible contains word of word, word of the prophets,
words of known and unknown historians, pornography e.t.c yet you
consider it to be the word of God.

If you are looking for the sayings and deeds of Mohammed then you have to read the Hadith.

Dont get me wrong as muslim, I am a believer of the Gospel of Christ the purest gospel devoid of historians interpolations,fabrications and concoctions.

[quote
author=Bpriest]deal. Will b waiting for your answers[/quote]Muhammad received this revealations thru Arc Angel Gabriel just was
Mary(pbuh) received glad tidings from Gabriel too, It was only Moses(on
record in d bible) that had the privilege of speaking with God directlly.

There are things are i will like to point out to u but they wont meaning unless you have a quran with you.
can you download one or open any chapter from it from the beginning, read it and tell me what you read or just copy and paste the first 2 or 3verses.

[quote
author=Bpriest]mallam the point is not what language momo the pedo
spoke, the issue at hand here is the origin of the Quran. did you guys
really believe that the Quran was given to him? Did it fall from the
sky? Ah ah[/quote]No! Neither did the old or new testaments. Remember how the ten commandments were given to moses. I am a she not he, can we put insults aside and argue with beautiful reasoning and logic? and I will answer all ur queries.

[quote
author=Bpriest]Mumu, so the Quran was given to him? Shm, by whom if I
may ask? So in your thick brain, God knows how to write Arabic? Why I'm
even surprised, your Arab masters taught you that God's language is
Arab.
The Quran was written by your so called illiterate warlord pedoph1le[/quote]And the Gospel was in English? you mean you did not know that the bible was a translation? Jesus never uttered a single word in english, God spoke to his messengers in their own languages.
This is just elementary and you dont know?
Get educated. Will answer all your queries when this sink.

[quote
author=el bin manny]that awkward moment wen u missed having 500,000
dislikes cos there is no dislike button to click [/quote]Do you want to tell me that you dont have a word for God in your language? Allah is arabic name for God.

Chartey: Hitler renounced Christianity.

Hitler? what brought into this thread. Even if he did not renounce christianity he was never a good christian. There are bad eggs in every religion but religion(s) shud not be put on trial based on the actions of their followers .

[quote
author=ummsulaym]Of what need is it for Him to perform miracle when the greatest of all
miracles 'AL-QURAN' was given to Him which he delivered to Us?... If the
miracles of Jesus was what made you accepted and believed in Him, no
doubt you would have rejected Him if GOD didn't permit him to perform
those miracle... If you read your bible well or ask ur pastor questions,
you will know that not all the past Prophets were sent to perform
'physical miracles'... Would you have accepted or rejected those
prophets if you had met them?
***An advice***SEEK FOR KNOWLEDGE***[/quote]Miracles are never a criteria for people to accept or reject faith, some people demanded for miracles when was shown to them, they still not belive. All the miracles that Jesus performed were witnessed by the Jews did they believe him?