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I wish they could impeach him.

This information would have been useful if we had a president. I'm sure US govt would help us but only after getting rid of this disgrace we call a government.

This man is fine sha. Ever heard of a 70-year old model?

Adyrin:
Mr man, David Mark is from Benue State(idoma) to be precise!
Benue nor be north Ooº° na middle belt abeg!

I think you need to wear our glasses and see the right person you should be quoting and addressing.

beengils:
GEJ is Nigeria's Idi Amin

Let's wait and see how it'll all end. They NEVER learn from history.

bruno419:
IN NIGERIA
Vice President -North.
Senate President -North
Speaker House of Reps - North.
PDP National Chairman - North.
Head of Service - North.
INEC Chairman - North.
Inspector General of Police - North.
Chief Justice of federation - North.
President Court of Appeal - North.
EFCC Chairman - North.
President Federal high court - North.
National Security Adviser - North.
Chief of Defense Staff - North.
Chief of Naval Staff - North.
Controller, Customs
Service - North.
Defence Minister-North.
Education Minister- North.
MD Port Authority- North.
MD NDIC - North
Controller Prison Services - North.
Richest man in Africa - North.
85% of Petroleum Marketers in Nigeria -
Northerners.
80% of Oil Block Owners in Nigeria -
Northerners.
99% of beggars in Nigeria - Northerners
Boko Haram - North.
Yet, the Poorest states in Nigeria and
Educationally
backward areas in Nigeria are in the North.
Now, ask yourself, what is the problem of the
Northerners?

This is a very fraudulent list. Why not show all other positions occupied by non-Northerners and let's compare side by side? Your desperation to support the fisherman while castigating the northerners is crazy, even though you expect the same northerners to vote for him.

Somebody is s political grave gradually.

It's a shame that one has to call this wimp president of one's country.

Cool! Following.

Nice one! Jonathan is a disaster to Nigeria.

Religion....promoting ignorance since 0AD.

When the (ex) president of all lawyers in a country says he's not interested in the law, then know that something else is pushing him.

Shame!

I thought the morons said Obasanjo was inconsequential.

Very nice. All Nigerians need to read this, especially the ethnic champions and fanatics from all religions.

I dey laff o..

Sweetlemon

Nice write-up. It's a sign of very low IQ but high levels of primitiveness/clanishness.

Unfortunately, a lot of Nigerians are like that, even the supposedly educated ones.

The 2-bar grille would give the front end more width, like the new 4Runner, while the other one would make it somehow look like a BMW X5. I think i prefer the X5 look.

But i think you should hold each one up against the front of the car and look at them from a distance. It would give you a better perspective.

This tells you what the PDP is all about - power grabbing and stealing.

diluminati:
Lets forget about this fufu politics now. Gej has lied to Nigerians

No Ceasefire deal
The girls have not yet being released
And ISIS is now supporting Boko Haram

Are you guys thinking at all?

You have a valid point but you could have made it without using those hideously large fonts.

Unfortunately, the president that all Nigerians (Christians & Muslims) voted for only cares about 2015 & Tambuwwal. Vote him in again at your own risk.

Do those idiots understand the meaning of the separation of powers? What's the executive arm's business with choosing a leader of the legislative arm?

Nice one. Fashola is one of the few Nigerian leaders who have their heads screwed on correctly.

He's in panic mode. No problem, Tambuwwal will take care of his own security. Let's see who laughs last.

Mprex:
Wrong interpretation of the bilble. I wont dwell on this sha

Hmnnnn, exactly what the writer mentioned here:

Bible and Quran believers who recognize verses in this list will no doubt protest that they have been taken out of context, as indeed they have. I think the appropriate response to such a complaint is a question: What context, exactly, would make these verses uplifting, inspiring or worthy of praise?

In what context are passages like these some of the most important and holy guidance that the creator of the universe might think to impart to humankind? In what context is a book that contains these passages and many, many more like them the apogee of divine goodness and timeless wisdom?

In my opinion, this is a very good reason for everyone to tone down the religious rhetoric. There's no perfect religion/religious books afterall. They were all written by ignorant men ages ago, when war/killing was the order of the day.

In this day and age, we should all emphasize the humanity that we all have in common so we can together solve our common problems such as hunger, poverty, disease, global warming etc.

Sheggy13:
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Thanks, but for some complex reasons, i don't want to use Glo/MTN on this device.

KingIOb:
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I just subscribed to it and it worked. They gave me 1GB instead of 500MB.

How well do you know your Holy Books?

The world has watched in horror while members of ISIS justify the next mass murder or icy execution with words from the Quran, followed by shouts of Allahu Akbar—God is the greatest! If beliefs have any power whatsoever to drive behavior—and as a psychologist I think they do—there can be little doubt that the Quran’s many endorsements of violence play a role in how exactly ISIS has chosen to pursue religious and political dominion.

At the same time, it should be equally clear a sacred text filled with violence is insufficient to trigger mass brutality unless other conditions are present as well. Culture, empathy, education and empowerment—and other factors scholars understand only in part—appear to have a protective influence, safeguarding even most fundamentalists against the worst teachings of their own tradition. We know this in part because the Bible contains commandments and stories that are as horrific as those being used to justify butchery in Iraq and Syria.

The following 30 violent exhortations are drawn from Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures. The generic word "God" is used for all deity names, and names of places or people have been replaced with generic terms. How well do you know your Torah, Bible or Quran and Hadith? Can you tell which is which? Give it a try and then check the key at the bottom.

1. Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the [holy man] who represents God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged.

2. I decided to order a man to lead the prayer and then take a flame to burn all those, who had not left their houses for the prayer, burning them alive inside their homes.

3. I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your streams will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword. I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am God.

4. Fight them until there is no more [disbelief or worshipping of other gods] and worship is for God alone.

5. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

6. Whoso fighteth in the way of God, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.

7. Make ready to slaughter [the infidel’s] sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants.

8. [God’s messenger]... was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The [holy man] replied, "They [women and children] are from them [unbelievers]."

9. Then I heard God say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children.”

10. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.

11. Keep [my holiday], for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die.

12. The punishment of those who wage war against God and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement.

13. If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.

14. It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war until he had made a great slaughter in the land...

15. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

16. I shall terrorize the [heathens]. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them, because they oppose God and his apostle.

17. A [holy man’s] daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.

18. So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them.

19. Everyone who would not seek God was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

20. And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction.

21. But if [a girl wasn't a virgin on her wedding night] and evidence of the girl's virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her father’s house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against God’s people by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

22. The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, "O [believer]! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."

23. If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you.

24. God’s Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but God."

25. Cursed be he who does God’s work remissly, cursed he who holds back his sword from blood.

26. God said, "A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. [Prophet], you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But God desires killing them to manifest the religion."

27. Anyone who blasphemes God’s name must be stoned to death by the whole community of [believers].

28. When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) [your religion]; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them... If they refuse to accept [your religion], demand from them [a tax]. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek God's help and fight them.

29. Anyone else who goes too near the [Holy Place] will be executed.

30. Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us.

Is the Quran more violent than the Bible? The question is hard to answer. A tally at the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible counts 842 violent or cruel passages in the Bible as compared to 333 in the Quran. That said, the Bible is a much thicker tome, and even though the New Testament endorses and adds to the violence in the Old, when percentages are compared, the Quran comes out ahead. In addition, the kinds of cruelty and violence vary as do the perpetrator and victim and the extent to which any verse can be interpreted as divine sanction for the behavior in question. Either way, this short test offers an illustrative sample from each sacred text.

Bible and Quran believers who recognize verses in this list will no doubt protest that they have been taken out of context, as indeed they have. I think the appropriate response to such a complaint is a question: What context, exactly, would make these verses uplifting, inspiring or worthy of praise? In what context are passages like these some of the most important and holy guidance that the creator of the universe might think to impart to humankind? In what context is a book that contains these passages and many, many more like them the apogee of divine goodness and timeless wisdom?

Members of each Abrahamic tradition are quick to point out the rational and moral flaws in the others. I wonder sometimes, what this world might be like if they were as quick to examine the flaws in their own.

__________________________

Key: Odd numbered quotes are from the Bible, even numbers from the Quran or Hadith. 1. Deuteronomy17:12 NLT; 2. Bukhari 11:626; 3. Ezekiel 35:7-9 NLT; 4. Quran 2:193; 5. Matthew 10:34-35; 6. Quran 4:74; 7.Isaiah 14:21 NAB; 8. Bukhari 52:256; 9. Ezekiel 9:5 NLT; 10. Quran 8:12; 11. Exodus 31:12-15 NLT; 12. Quran5:33; 13. Leviticus 20:10 NLT; 14. Quran 8:67; 15. Numbers 31: 17-18 KJV; 16. Quran 8:12; 17. Leviticus 21:9 NAB; 18. Quran 9:5; 19. 2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB; 20. Quran 17:16; 21. Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB; 22.Bukhari 52:177; 23. Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB; 24. Bukhari 8:387; 25. Jeremiah 48:10 NAB; 26. Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 484; 27. Leviticus 24:16 NLT; 28. Muslim 19:4294; 29. Numbers 1: 51 NLT; 30. Tabari 9:69

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I agree with you, OP.

Only looters, people driven by sentiments and the ignorant would not appreciate what the APC stands for, relative to the PDP.

dekronik:
You are making sense, but to every conspiracy theory there is an element of truth in it. For one, the US did arm fighters in Afghanistan in the 80's to rebel against soviet rule. These same fighters turned out to be the Taliban who fought against US. So if people say US armed ISIS, it may be true. I don't have the full details so I can't make any comment. But how can weapons be "accidentally" dropped to ISIS zones?

Looking at it, America really has nothing to gain from creating deadly terrorist groups in the Middle East because these guys pose more danger to US citizens in the long run. US doesn't rely so much on their oil anymore. They only want to maintain their ME presence in order to maintain the East/West rivalry between them and Russia/China.

If you followed the news closely over the past 2-3 years, you'd remember that the US was reluctant to arm the so-called "moderate" Syrian rebels. They mostly gave them non-lethal equipment such as binoculars, radios, body armor etc while Qatar & Saudi armed the Sunni rebels. It wasn't until the past few months that the US openely started arming them.

And yes, it's plausible that the weapons meant for the Kurds ended up with ISIL because the Kobane warfront is not clearly defined. Kobane isn't a big city anyway. And remember that the transport planes are dropping these things from 000s of feet above. According to the Dept of Defense, 2 packs were actually lost but they were able to destroy only 1 thereafter.

Repping #TeamBuhari

Credit goes to, in this order
-the health workers & volunteers
-Lagos State govt
-Rivers State govt
-Federal govt
-journalists
-Nigerians in general

News has it that it was one of the weapons drops parachuted to the Kurds that missed and found its way through to the ISIL side. Mistakes do happen in these kinds of circumstances.
But this weapon cache would not give ISIL a victory if you look at the big picture.

Some people even think that they are bugged with GPS transmitters so as to track ISIL fighters.

To the people saying that America started ISIL, it doesn't make you sound smart at all. ISIL/ISIS/IS started from Al Qaeda in Iraq who went to fight in Syria and basically took advantage of the Syrian war and the weak Iraqi military.

Yes, the US (republican) govt messed up by invading Iraq but saying that they started ISIL is unsubstantiated and just sounds dumb.

You don't have to rehash every conspiracy theory you find on the internet.