In Nigeria, rumour usually turn out to be true. But going by what the government did with Boko Haram and the amount of money they said they spent on amnesty, with all the Niger Delta leaders supporting the amnesty programme, especialy the governors, I think the government is waiting for provacation from MEND.

Disaster is looming

This guy is a 419 bastard.

To join the British Army na Nigerian way

go buy a carrot and stick it up ur ass

Jarus:

We are talking about city, not state. UN statistical sources put Lagos as 15th most populous city in the world, and with a growth rate of 5.8% per annum, it was projected to rise to 3rd most populous city in the world by 2015. By 2006 it was already ranked 8th.

However, with the outcome of 2006 census, all the statistical research agencies have reviewed their records, and from my latest research, Lagos is now ranked 14th most populous city in the world, as I type.


Kano? I can't see Kano on the list. Reason: I don't know.
Haba, koto yen. Don't take it too far, Funmi.

Reason because Kano is not a Mega city like Lagos. Sometimes ppl forget that there is difference between a city and state. The population given to Kano during the Census was not for Kano city but for Kano State. Lagos is State where everybody largely live in d city (correct me if Im wrong). But Kano have land mass with towns and villages.

Nigerians are hypocrites. Nobody cares that a conductor was killed. Months I remember the ppl of Nairaland and Nigerians users in Facebook were busy shouting for Justice for one lady, perharps may be cos ha papa is a rich a man. But now a bus conductor is shot dead nobody even want to talk about.

To create a just society, struggle for justice must be for all.

What we have in Nigeria is selective justice for selecitve struggle for justice.

My problem with what happened in Lagos is that the government act without planning. He shouldnt have demolished the place without providing alternative first, ask them to move, and when they refuse you demolished. This what we call lack of human feelings. He has destroyed the lives of so many Nigerians without thinking. His intentions might be good, but not done the right way. Therefore people should criticize him so that next time he will do it the right way. That is what democracy is all about. If In his own world the govenor said:

"Let me emphasise that we didn't just go to Oshodi because we wanted to go to Oshodi. We got a complaint from the community in a letter, about security of lives and properties and what was happening at Oshodi. They said the place had become a haven for criminals. We found all sorts of things there, including guns and cutlasses, during the exercise.

"Those who we had to move, they had no right to be there, because there is no market there, should be patient with us. I have a plan for them, it is almost finished. We have done the design and waiting for the cost, so that they can take proper safe trading unit there, in well appointed places that would not hinder traffic.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=100109&ptitle=Why%20Immunity%20Clause%20Should%20Stay,%20By%20Fashola

He should have waited untill he finnish his design and costing, the right place b4 demolishing it. A government is suppose to be a provider not a destroyer. Govt is suppose to give job to people to make people jobless. Government is suppose to eradicate poverty not make people poorer overnight.

Muza:

@ therma
the diff is that fulfulde is sexy and hausa is not.

@Muza

U lost. Thats not the difference. Hausa is sexy too.

If that is d only difference u can come up with, then u aint gonna learn Fulfulde. Not in ur life.

Se yeso, waye

it is the combination of the first alphabets of my siblings names

would you stay in ur son house, especially when ur husband is dead and u are kind of lonely? I think that is more appropriate. Women generally hate mother-inlaws but they love their son.

Dede1:



Please temper your emotions before replying to certain posts. If you fail to do so, you could post like an over-fed fool without aspirations. By the way, it would have been humanly impossible for the alluded civil war in your post to have ended the manner it did if the sole combatants were only Northern Nigerians and Biafrans. At least, you should recall that it took almost three (3 years) for the combined forces of Britain, USSR, Chad, Arab league, Egypt, Cameroon, Republic of Benin, Northern Nigerian, Western Nigerian, most of the Mid-western Nigeria and some of the ethnic minority groups in the Eastern Nigeria to achieve your fantasy.

Read very well. I said mobilize. It seems u dont read history of wars. Wars are fought with the support of allies.

Jarus:

I think you fulani folk should be proud your being lumped with Hausa made you appear in broad category of tribes in Nigeria. You may be more in number(?) than the Hausa, but if the compound name is to be done away with, and a simple name si to be used then Hausa, will be most likely adopted, in which case Fulani becomes like any other minority tribe of Ebira,igala, Tiv etc.

We dont pride ourselve in number, we are never bothered wether we are considered as minority or whatever. We have pride in our conviction. We can compete for our survival in whatever circumtances we find ourselves.

Well there are many reasons why they refer to some of them as hausa-fulani but honestly u need to get a hausa-fulani and ask him why he like to call himself Hausa-fulani.

However from my own understanding it is about identity. The north is made off numerous tribes that all speak the Language of Hausa. In Bauchi for instance I personally know of 7 different languages and in Gombe I know of at least 9. Normally people identify themselves with their particular tribe, but for the fulbe that have intermarried with hausa or other tribes and end up assimilated in to the main stream hausa usually call themselves hausa-fulani, but we dont consider them fulbe. My uncle married hausa woman and all her children consider themselves as hausa-fulani but we consider them as hausa.

Another thing I came to understand is because of Islamic identification. The fulbe consider themselves as constodians of Islam courtesy of Shehu Usmanu Foddiyo, as such to be identified with the fulbe used to be a pride in the north. Dont forget the emirs, apart from Bauchi, are all Fulbe. Moreover the elite in and around the emirs used to be fulbe, so to be identified with fulbe gives u some sense of pride and makes u feel superior. So the tradition kind of continued. So it is some kind of inferiority complex.

the major difference between fulfulde and hausa

ok. but which Nigerian language do u speak most? I will teach u but I have to give u an assignment! Agreed?

don't know yet, I havent met anyone yet

Anybody that call himself Hausa-fulani is Hausa, as far as we are concern. And for your information we - the people that speak the Fulfulde language- dont call ourselves Fulani. Thats is name used by the Hausa people to call us, just like they call Igbo people Inyamuri and they call Yoruba people Boda (though not sure if all the Hausa states used that). We are Fulbe as a tribe, and Pullo as an individual.

Sometimes I get pissed off with the tribalist here trying to accuse us, the northerners of every henious crime

However as Kobojunkie said it is a national problem. Recently we saw on channel 4 how children are being accused of being witches. We also read of babies factories in Enugu. And there are many such king of children in west too. However, the problem in the north is that the Almajiri system is institutionalized, to the extend that political leaders are afraid of taking side against it. In the olden days, the Almajiri system is not about beggin, they started begging when people started to become materialistic and also when farming ceased to be the main economic activity in the north. Mos t of the farming activities then were done by the Almijiri and they are paid in kind.

People should understand that in the North before the British invade us and killed the Sultan in 1903 we have our own system of education - which is Ajmi based. Because of that the western education faced a steep opposition in the north. Adequate awareness and transistion programmed was not created to facilitate the transformation of the Almjiri system of education. Our governments have failed in that respect and that is what we all complaining on daily basis.

hm, teach u? it is not easy to learn fulfulde. Anyway I was just curious to see if I could get any Fulani in this forum.

waleab:

let it collapse and lets see how they eat their deserts and PhD islamic studies

When the country collapse, we mobilize and then invade u. This time around, it wont be like after the civil war. There wont be anything like reconciliation. We will just be ur masters.

Abu-Maryam:

@poster
The problem is, the youths are like scalar quantity. Beside how are we going to change the country? Politically? Bloodshed? How? Apparently we all need change but how??

asha- menene yasa kike fadin haka?

Dont waste ur time and get angry. Nan kowa mahaukacine. Babu wanda yake fadan gaskiya. Taron marasa aikin yi ne. Da masu son bata lokacin su.

slimfine:

I thought u fulanis leave on the street begging.

Slim yama. Yama.

Go tell that to Sultan of Sokoto.

@Muza

senbe ma'on famdi.

@Muza,
Im following u,

Muza:

[b]Noi a wani?[/b]A nani fulfulde, ?

A fewai, na a pullo. lol

@Auwal
Bappa yecciyam ta nanta fulfulde na a pullo waye. A kadel ha toye?
Gam Hausa en don yidi fulbe

@Muza
An a pullo na? Ha toye a woni? berajon gon'do ha e picture ma dun kore mada na?

U know Nigeria have very few good people, either rich or poor. Just look at ur village and u will c what Im telling u. Even in our houses we will see the tendency of being corrupt in many of them. So Im not supprise that we have people celebrating Ribabus humiliatio. Nairaland is fast beig taken over by the corrupt politicians.

In another thread I saw one politician (son of another govt thief) trying to compaign here. I think most of the ppl now here are either politicians or they are paid to register on Nairaland.

Kuns what is d difference between ur story and the fairy tales of Oduduwa and Oladumare?

zoraro:

@tharma, I am not an alien. All I have posted are things people believed in even before Jesus was born. Now, can you explain why there is so much similarity with the Jesus story. Why did Jesus live a life that mirrored that of other gods that lived before His time.

Well I didnt all the things u have posted, and I couldnt fully comprehend what u are trying to say here. Similarity of the Jesus story with which story? Can u just summarized a bit of what u have posted ealier?

Kuns:

@tharma

So who told you that muslim's don't read the bible?

Bible and the Koran are essentially the same book?

Everything you find in the Koran is in the bible.

The Koran even as a chapter dedicated to the mother of Jesus (Isa) called Miriam or Mary.

and the bible mentions Jesus name more times than the name of the Prophet Muhammed.

Has the bible got a chapter dedicated to the mother of Jesus? No.

Many Muslim won't admit it, but when they are reading the Koran they are infact reading the bible to a certain extent.

Im aware of the similarities. My argument here is that if the Muslims of today could memorized the qur'an why wont the people of Jesus time memorized the accounts and then pass it from generation to generation before written down in a book. After all u dont need another account if one account can give all the (hopefullY) possible activities that might have occured. I

bindex:


Reverend King believed in hell yet he still killed people in his church, George Bush believes in Hell yet about a million people are dead because of him in Iraq, Saddam Hussien believed in hell yet he commited genocide,religious fanatics the world over believe in hell but still kell people, The crusaders believed in hell yet they killed lots of people, The early catholic church believed in hell yet they killed so many people during the period of inquisition, Nigerian leaders believe in hell yet uncoutable people have died from their direct actions or inaction, do I need to continue? go and sleep i believe its past you bed time  

These people are devil incarnet, and we believe (hopefullY) God will purnish them for their sins. Im talking about an individual.

So if there is no God u just believe these murderers will just co scot free. No retribution. Nothing. That is all. It will be my bad luck to be born in Jos or Iraq or Afganistan, or Odi?

KnowAll:

"when the self-acclaimed giant of Africa doesn't have nuclear warheads, intense military base,
how about warships, airstrip? how many do we have.? not even sufficient enough to fight NIGER DELTA, let alone guard the nation, meaning guarding the whole Africa would be child's play
US military budget is tipple the entire Nigeria budget."


no nation on earth needs nuclear war head, what for, why own a weapon you will never use meanwhile it will cost billions of $ to build such facilties, we can use the money that will build nuclear facilties to feed our people. Even America will have to re-think how much its spending on defence in the face of current economic down-turn, 5 million peeps will be jobless next year I don't think obama's priority will be increase defence expenses but to rather cut it down.

From the beginning of time human beings fight, maim and kill each other. Dont u read ur bible or qur'an? Dont u follow history? Or why do u think Britain is still building warships in Govan, Glasgow? Or why do u thing America is building defense shield? Dont decieve urself because of the current lul in the world crises. Time shall come again when man will go to war. And it will be catastrophic for poor Nigerians not to be armed at that time. We would be force to fight for other countries because he havnt got any interest to fight for

bindex:



I repeat The original request was for[b] one single solitary first hand account outside the New Testament[/b]. Still waiting. Even t[b]he poorly written gospels were not first hand accounts, because all were written many years after the alleged death and resurection of Jesus.
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What if the were memorizing it from generation to generation like muslims do. The fact that today u get many, hundred of thousands to millions of muslims that memorized the qur'an, it is not going to be a big deal for them to memorize the bible.

To Bindex and may be Kuns

One of my former neighbours one day told me that since when he was a kid he want to kill people, but it is this religion thing that is stopping because he dont want to go to hell. If people like him now meet u what will u tell him? No hell, go and enjoy ur life (and to him enjoy is to kill) because according to him he fantasise about killing people on daily basis. When he told me that I quickly gave my estate agents notice, pack and moved away from him.