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Nice one OP.

ib55:
what kind of field officer?
Cos i also applied but for the operations field officer. There is also humanitarian field officer.
And it also depends on location.Where is your friend located?

Any new info from them.

Have they shortlisted for logistics officer.(Abuja) I applied in Nov 2014.

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@sholatech,

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In this piece which he posted on his Facebook wall,
comedian Alibaba discusses the Nigerian woman and the
challenges of finding Mr Right. Read below...
I have a serious matter at hand that I want to share.
In fact, I should have shared this long ago, but the
primary message from a friend that prompted the
matter, was lost in between the series of inbox
messages from those strange girls that are looking
for romantic friendships on Facebook.
In a nutshell, a lady friend sent me an inbox message
on how it's harder to find a good man in Nigeria. And
that the men who are "manageable" (her words, not
mine) are so scarce and if you ever get them they are
either married to a lady that does not deserve them or
just repenting from a bad marriage from one of such
women. Or even just lost faith in the whole marriage
thing. Continue...
I later ran into her at a club. After the usual introductions
that have become common place with these social media
network of friends... (You are my friend on twitter,
Facebook, Tango, INSTAGRAM... That kind of thing).... I
chatted with her a bit and found out from what she told me,
that, many women are now settling for anything in between
MR Right, MR Not just ok and MR Nearly right. As she put
it, it's now a case of looking at what a guy checks out in
the top 10 box... And if he has 3 out of 10, snap him up...
Work on the rest 7, if you are lucky, you can get him to add
3 more of those top10 qualities... And begin to pray it lasts
for as long as you both can manage.
Much as I tried, to get her to rate me, she said, she can
only rate someone who is on her radar. So ladies have
relationship radar? Yes of course. You think you were not
in Mary's radar, and she waited for you to come back after
you... ? Ouch!!! (That was my guy who was listening in on
our private conversation) I wasn't on Mary's radar.... I
managed to mutter. Then she fooled you wellllll. She
quickly added.
It got me thinking... What does a man need to show to get
on any woman's radar? Money, sense of humor, fame,
dress sense, good job, intelligence, good diction, good
physique, some visible signs of affluence, confidence,...
She let me continue for a while, raised her glass of
Henessy VSOP, downed it, and said, "He must first be
AVAILABLE. Then you can begin to check out the rest." So
I asked, do I look available? She said, "Of course, to the
people who do not care if you are married, you are very
available! Not to me, OOO. Mary was my boss at Platinum.
So that strikes you out." So I asked the next possible
question, "so what can I do to look unavailable?" There is
nothing. You are even an easy pick. She added. Any man
who has a source of income, popular, dresses well, tall,
handsome small sef, has a car, is in the circles of
successful people, looks like he has potentials to become
somebody important and can pay the bills...
Our conversation started having K-leg when she lit a cigar,
not cigarette, Cuban cigar and started smoking. I took a
good look at her, and realized that, these women who are
looking for a MR Right all over Lagos, may just have met
him but he is also looking for a woman who doesn't drink
alcohol or smoke anything at all. That is the wahala. As
you are looking for MR right, he might be dodging you
because you are all shades of wrong...
While you are looking waiting for a guy to walk in and fit
into your radar, you are doing some things that also
confine you to the "never my type" hemisphere...
So, in conclusion, just as good men are hard to find,
"manageable" ladies are unicorns!!!!
What is GOOSE for Uganda... Is GOOD for PERU
http://lindaikeji..com.es/2014/09/the-nigerian-woman-and-challenge-of.html?m=1

Honestly, sometime I wonder the kind of educated people on this forum. You mean Lagos state can act in isolation in dealing with other countries without the permission of the federal government?

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A former Anambra State governor, Dr Chukwuemeka
Ezeife, has raised the alarm that the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been
hijacked by the North to actualize its unhidden
agenda to takeover power in 2015.
He premised the plot on the proposed review of poll­
ing units’ distribution chart in favour of the North and
the attendant arrogance and overflowing confidence
of leading politicians in the region ahead of next
year’s presidential elections.
This is the first time in history that the nation’s
electoral umpire is headed by a Northerner. Ezeife,
who spoke to Sunday Sun via electronic means
yesterday, deplored the distribution of polling units by
INEC, describing it as “shocking and a blatant rigging
design with impunity”. He decried the imperial
statements of Kano State Governor, Rabiu
Kwankwaso, and his Jigawa State counterpart, Sule
Lamido, saying they speak as people who have
background information.
He said: “In that distribution, North West has more
than 7000 units, the Southeast is given about the
same number of polling units as Abuja, the Federal
Capital – just a little more than 1000 units.
“The new distribution of polling units correlates nega­
tively or inversely with the distribution of votes for
Jonathan in the 2011 presidential election. The
Southeast is considered as Mr. President’s strongest
support base.”
Ezeife further revealed an impending plan by INEC to
“clean up the voters” register, which is alleged to
have resulted in wiping off more than half of
Southeast voters.
He raised some posers: “In view of published
distribution of polling units, doubt about the truth of
this “clean up” is weakened. Is there a grand plan to
rig the 2015 elections? Can it explain the indication
of strong but very surprising confidence oozing out
from the statements of some Northern politicians,
where ordinary political calculations and common
sense will suggest total absence of hope? Does it
give a clue to the attempt on Buhari’s life?”
Ezeife expressed optimism that the design will fail.
He urged President Goodluck Jonathan to push for
the confirmation of the report of the just concluded
National Conference, which has provided a
framework for a new Nigeria in which all the groups
in Nigeria can maximize their true interests.
He suggested that the affirmation of the National
Conference reports should take precedence over the
2015 elections.
Ezeife further submitted that the new Nigeria
envisaged by the National Conference will
accommodate the interests of all.
While explaining the willingness of the South East
geo-political entity to adapt in a united, progressive
and non-oppressive Nigeria, he said it will not
“object to peaceful disengagement and possible
regrouping. Concluding, he described Jonathan as a
tool in the hands of God, who has demonstrated a
huge deficiency in the archetypal manipulative
instincts of the Nigerian politician.
“A little deep thinking can reveal the hands of God in
the affairs of Nigeria “he said.
http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/2015-north-hijacks-inec-ezeife-1/

Facts have emerged that Rivers State Governor, Rotimi
Chibuike Amaechi and the state government compromised
in their handling of the Ebola virus case confirmed in Port
Harcourt, the state capital last week.
Had the state government swung into action immediately
the discovering of Ebola outbreak in the state, many lives
would have been saved. Competent sources said that as
soon as the carrier of the Ebola virus was identified by the
doctor who handled his case, the state government was
notified but Governor Amaechi swept it under the carpet
On Thursday last week, Governor Amaechi made a
statewide broadcast to the people where he confirmed the
death of one Dr. Ikechukwu Sam Enemuo on Friday, August
22, 2014 from suspected Ebola virus infection.
The governor had aid as a result of the death, his
administration had identified and quarantined about 100
contacts from the hotel, patients of Dr. Enemuo and patients
from the hospital where the deceased was treated with
different locations being decontaminated.
But investigations by Nigerian Pilot in Port Harcourt showed
that the governor’s broadcast was a last minute face-
saving move by his administration which did not respond
immediately to the discovering of the incident. Information
from well-placed sources in the state indicated that the
state government compromised on the Ebola outbreak in
Port Harcourt and has inadvertently put the lives of millions
of residents at risk. It was learnt that the state government
knew about the trip of the Economic Community of West
African States, ECOWAS diplomat to Port Harcourt as well
as his health condition and treatment by the late Dr.
Enemuo.
One of the close associates of the late medical doctor
confided in our reporter that upon noticing that the diplomat
had what looked like the Ebola virus, the late Dr. Enemuo
took samples of his blood and upon confirmation, duly
informed the Health Commissioner, Dr. Sampson Parker,
who subsequently informed the Governor Rotimi Amaechi.
But the governor instructed that the matter be kept top
secret.
“Rather than take proactive measures, including informing
the public, the state government kept the information under
wraps until it got out of hand. It also took them one whole
week to announce Enemuo’s death. A week is more than
enough period for the virus to spread round the state and
beyond.”
The late Dr. Enemuo, owner of Samsil Hospital in
Rumuokoro treated in a hotel room, an ECOWAS diplomat
who evaded surveillance in Lagos and travelled to Port
Harcourt after coming in contact with the late Patrick
Sawyer, the Liberian-American, who brought the virus to
Nigeria. The diplomat, whose name remains unknown, is
alleged to be Enemuo’s patient. He in turn infected the
doctor, who later died.
The diplomat lodged in hotel Port Harcourt where Dr.
Enemuo secretly treated and discharged him.
A week after his departure, Enemuo took ill and was rushed
to Green Heart Hospital located on EVO Road, Government
Reserved Area, GRA, with symptoms of fever and diarrhea.
In the course of treatment, the doctors became suspicious
and took blood samples for investigation. But before
Enemuo died, he carried out three surgical operations in his
hospital, as well as attended to several patients. His wife,
new born baby and grandmother are allegedly infected.
In three days, Dr. Enemuo died. His widow, who is also a
medical practitioner and who took care of him, took ill and
had been quarantined in Lagos but the diplomat is alive and
well.
Further investigations revealed that the ECOWAS diplomat
who got Ebola from Sawyer came into Port Harcourt
penultimate Monday. A source familiar with the matter told
Nigerian Pilot thus: “The Rivers State government was
aware that he left Lagos to Rivers State, they didn’t inform
anybody. The following day (Tuesday), his treatment by the
late doctor Enemuo commenced here in Port Harcourt and
Dr. Enemuo got infected. The Rivers State government at
some point was aware of Enemuo’s infection before he died
on Friday, 22nd August. Despite being aware of his health
condition, the state government allowed his body to be
taken to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital,
UPTH mortuary without taking the necessary precautionary
measures and without informing workers and the Federal
Ministry of Health. The ambulance driver who took him
there was not aware that he was carrying an Ebola virus
victim and the mortuary attendants were also not aware that
they had an Ebola corpse with them. Dr. Enemuo, before he
died, had been checked into another hospital where a doctor
colleague actually came into contact with Ebola fluid from
Enemuo. Dr. Enemuo was said to have at a time spat on the
body of his colleague doctor. Again, a female relation of Dr.
Enemuo, who is also a doctor, had been closely treating
him. These two doctors were not tracked down by the
Rivers State government. I even understand that another
concerned doctor was able to get their phone numbers and
relayed same to the relevant authorities in the Rivers State
so that they can track them down but this was not done for
a number of days; during that period, the female colleague
of his had gone on several trips to Aba and came back. So,
only today (Friday, 29thAugust), a week after the death of
Dr. Enemuo did the state government actually contacted
these two doctors.
“Information about the movement of the infected person was
not given to the public, the hotel which the initial Ebola
patient stayed and was treated; the details of the hotel
(such as location) hasn’t been given to the public so people
don’t even know if there are a lot of people who might have
visited that hotel. Only the name of the hotel has been
released to the public. There is even no evidence to show
that the hotel has been shut as claimed by the state
government, because there is no public information about
any hotel that the government has sealed up.
“Normally, if government shuts down a hotel even the
neighbours and people around there would know that a
certain hotel in the area has been sealed up and the news
would have spread, so people are still under assumption
that the hotel is still operational and more people are still
being put at risk by that. So, the Rivers State government is
certainly not handling the situation well. The relevant
information is not being given out to the public and the
movement of potential Ebola carriers is not being properly
monitored,” the worried source said.
As if that was not enough, the Health Commissioner on
Thursday called a meeting of all medical doctors in the
state in his office. In attendance were the two doctors who
treated late Dr. Enemuo. Some of the doctors who attended
the meeting queried why the commissioner would allow the
two doctors to sit together with them knowing the
implications. They expressed fears that some of them might
contact the dreaded disease and subsequently pass it on to
their patients in various hospitals, thereby expanding the
spread of the virus.
In the same vein, the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP has said that carelessness and
insensitivity on the part of Governor Amaechi and Dr.
Parker were responsible for the unfortunate spread of the
deadly virus in the state.
The PDP in a statement issued by Jerry Needan, Special
Adviser on Media to the state chairman, Prince Felix Obuah,
noted that Governor Amaechi and his health
commissioner’s laxity, coupled with not being proactive in
putting in place necessary facilities and modalities to
preventing the Ebola outbreak, was the reason for the ugly
development.
Describing the situation as devastating, the PDP regretted
that all efforts by the Federal Government to contain the
spread of Ebola to Rivers State were rebuffed by Amaechi,
including shunning a meeting convened in Abuja on the
prevention of the spread of Ebola to other states, presided
over by President Goodluck Jonathan, which had in
attendance, 35 states’ governors, except him (Amaechi).
At the meeting, modalities for containment of the spread of
the virus were considered and agreed upon, and all the
governors in attendance had immediately taken proactive
measures in impeding the spread, the statement noted.
When Nigerian Pilot visited the UPTH mortuary at the
weekend, two attendants were weeping profusely on
learning that the late Enemuo had Ebola. One of them
(names withheld) told Nigerian Pilot he and his colleague
received the corpse when it was brought to the morgue on
Friday, 22nd August, washed and dressed it for
preservation. “We never knew the doctor died of Ebola. We
even gave him special treatment when we heard he was a
medical doctor. He was here with us for one week and as a
routine, we bring out corpses everyday to check their
condition. Can you see the risk we have exposed ourselves
and families”, he said, weeping.
The ambulance driver who brought the corpse to the
morgue (names also withheld) equally bemoaned his fate,
regretting that he was kept in the dark on the identity and
cause of the death of Dr. Enemuo.
Nigerian Pilot moved round major areas of Port Harcourt at
the weekend to notice that the ugly incident had adversely
affected nightlife in the Garden City. Popular joints and night
clubs which used to attract huge patronage such as
Casablanca in the GRA, Rumuola, Stadium Road, Trans-
Amadi, Presidential Hotel on Aba Road, Tombia and other
areas, including Diobu, were deserted. Also visibly noticed
was the near absence of hordes of night sex workers who
usually hung around major hotels, night clubs and
recreation centres, with operators of the centres, food
vendors and cabs counting their losses in terms of revenue.
50 high risk cases identified
Meanwhile, the state Ministry of Health has banned
movement of corpses in an out of morgues without
clearance from the ministry. This stance was made public
by DR Parker yesterday when he briefed newsmen in Port
Harcourt.
Parker, who explained that the ministry was doing
everything within its power to track all those who had
primary and secondary contacts with the late Dr Enemuo,
stated that men of the state police command are expected
to stop ambulances and demand for clearance from the
ministry.
According to the commissioner, 50 Ebola high risk persons
have been identified in the state and that three persons have
been admitted at the treatment centre at Edoha. He blamed
stigmatisation for the reason why contacts had refused to
identify themselves.
Parker further informed that the state governor, Rt. Hon.
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is expected to meet with church
leaders and traditional ruler in the state over the menace.
“The governor will meet with church leaders tomorrow. He
will meet them by 10:00am. He will in the same vein meet
with all traditional rulers on Tuesday by 10:00am.
“But, 50 high risk contacts have been identified. Quickly, the
reason why I said so is because a lot of the news, stigma,
and all the rest, these persons are not coming up; we are
still on them. In fact, we are concentrating on these names
that we have found, than still going for new ones. Work is
being done to get new ones, but it is more important to
capture those names we have already.
“We now have three persons at the treatment centre at
Edoha; a pharmacist at Samsil Hospital and the doctor who
worked with Dr. Enemuo at the same hospital, and also a
lady, who was at the Good Heart Hospital while Dr. Enemuo
was there. However, they have not been confirmed, we are
waiting for the result of the investigation. Today (Sunday)
we should have them. Also, let me quickly tell you that Mrs.
Enemuo is in a stable condition in Lagos.
“Anyone who had primary or secondary contact with Dr.
Enemuo or the clinics and hotel, should voluntarily come
out and contact us. It doesn’t mean that you are infested;
all we need to do is just to observe you and if there is
anything, you let us know. The chances of survival are very
high. None of those that came up in Lagos had issues; most
of them were cleared.
“It is important that churches don’t keep admission wards
in their churches; some of them are running into churches
and groups of them are laying hands on them without
knowing”, he said.
http://nigerianpilot.com/ebola-how-rivers-govt-compromised/

Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has come down hard on
Nigeria’s Muslim leaders, saying that their oft-repeated
claim that Boko Haram’s activities are un-Islamic does not
in any way free them from blame.
Soyinka, in a video address yesterday to the World
Humanist Congress, at which he was presented with its
main award, argued that even moderate religious leaders
may be “vicariously liable” for sectarian hatred if they have
failed to argue against it.
A report in the British newspaper, The Independent , quoted
him as saying that Boko Haram’s members considered
abducting 200 girls to be “virtuous” and moderate Muslims
could not simply disavow their actions with “pious
incantations” that “these are not the true followers of the
faith”. “We have to ask such leadership penitents: ‘Were
there times when you kept silent while such states of mind,
overt or disguised, were seeding fanaticism around you?
Are you vicariously liable?’” was further quoted as saying.
He was also quoted as making it clear that the actions of
the Islamist extremists of Boko Haram – bombing churches,
killing civilians and abducting girls – are a warning to the
world.
“The conflict between humanists and religionists has
always been one between the torch of enlightenment and
the chains of enslavement,” said Soyinka. “Those chains
are not merely visible, but cruelly palpable. All too often
they lead directly to the gallows, beheadings, to death under
a hail of stones. In parts of the world today, the scroll of faith
is indistinguishable from the roll call of death.
“The lesson of Boko Haram is not for any one nation. It is
not for the African continent alone. The whole world should
wake up to the fact that the menace is borderless,
aggressive and unconscionable.”
The report said that Soyinka was presented with the
International Humanist Award at the secular body’s annual
conference, attended by more than 1,000 delegates from 67
countries.
http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/detail.php?news=6965&title=Soyinka-blasts-Muslim-leaders-over-Boko-Haram

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Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force,
NDPVF , Mujahid Asari Dokubo , Thursday morning
declared that the Niger - Delta part of Nigeria can no
longer sustain the north , which he called barren .
A recent statistics circulating on the internet shows that a
major part of the north has no contribution to the nation’ s
federation account and Dokubo said he would mobilise to
shut down Nigeria if the Niger - Delta region is not granted
full control of its resources .
In a statement signed by Comrade Rex Emojite Anighoro ,
for Dokubo and the group, the self - acclaimed freedom
fighter called Nigeria “a luciferian contraption of
convenience dubiously crafted to criminally sustain the
parasitic and predatory expansionist and supremacist
Gambari North . ”
Declaring that it is no longer business as usual , he
stressed : “ may it be known to all our representatives both
at the National Conference and the National Assembly
who continually compromise the interest of the Niger -
Delta region that they would be declared persona non
grata in the region and their sins visited on them in their
own life time . They would be treated as enemies of the
region as the profanity of Esau can no longer be
tolerated . ”
He said events of the past weeks at the National
Conference , Abuja, Nigeria ’ s Federal Capital , seem to
have given credence , beyond reasonable doubts , to his
argument “ that this Lugardian edifice is indeed a mistake
of 1914 that is beyond redemption and ought now to be
deconstructed .
“ Indeed, the lie of an illusional and nonexistent unity of
Nigeria has been glued and nourished at the monumental
expense of the South with specific mention of the Niger
Delta .
“ This is a hypocritical reality that must be dismantled ,
while we have continually shown an unneedful
accommodation , bending our backs to a breaking point in
the sustenance of a barren and impotent Gambari North ,
the putrifying odour of their arrogance in ignorance in
their dementia - thought patterns as the owners of our God
given commonwealth calls for the immediate revocation
of the further show of our charity .
“ While we have given a very difficult and unexpected
support to the National Conference in the hope that it may
help salvage and rework a defective foundation of a union
consummated in an illicit wedlock , we have been
vindicated that we are not rabble rousing incurable
separatist and war mongers .
“ Our call for a Sovereign National Conference to discuss
our collective terms of our existence at the table of
brotherhood has thoroughly enjoyed the contempt and
abuse of a people irrevocably determined to suffocate and
confiscate our commonwealth and non- extinguished
sovereignty .
“ Let us state very emphatically that irrespective of the
final determination of the National Conference , our
minimum expectation and demand as a people is and
remains 100 percent control of our resources or nothing .
“ Yes, the National Conference can go on and propose
even one hundred states, agree to rehabilitate and
develop areas ravaged by insurgency and internal
conflicts , agree to develop solid minerals resources and
whatever , but let it be known that not a dime of the
resources of the people of the Niger Delta should be
factored into this oddious compromise . ”
Dokubo said the current situation in the country now calls
for a definitive moment to demand the abolition of “ the
sustenance of the barren states of Nigeria with the
resources of the Niger - Delta in the name of monthly
allocations amongst others .
“ We hereby equivocate that going back to the creeks may
be inevitably preferable rather than allow for the wealth of
our people be used to develop or rehabilitate a parasitic ,
barren yet ignorantly arrogant Gambari North .
“ We are fully ready to mobilise our people from across
the Niger Delta and even in diaspora to stand up for
definite showdowns and direct actions .
“ The Gambari North must no longer be sustained at our
expense , our God given resources belong to us and not
Nigeria . The end of Lugard’ s Nigeria is Now !”
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/07/17/resource-control-asari-dokubo-threatens-northerners/

@IdiatFF, Joyce Banda is not the Malawian President but President Peter Mutharika.

Muslims claim that the name Allah can be found in the
Bible. This is no different than what the Jehovah's
Witnesses do for the name Jehovah. Allah is not called
Yahweh once in the Koran but neither is Yahweh
called Allah in the Bible. So they can't be the same
God. Neither is the word Elohim which is applied to
Yahweh over 2,500 times in the Bible used in the
Koran. Neither is he called I Am, which He said to
Moses would be His name forever.
The God of the Bible identifies himself as the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jacobs name is later
changed to the name Israel, being the father of the 12
tribes of Israel. The God of the Bible calls Jerusalem the
city of David and that the Messiah would descend from
his lineage. Neither does the God of the Bible does not
mention Mecca or Medina but instead Jerusalem 800
times. Yet Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Koran,
which the Muslim claims as there own.
The God in the Bible is called the God of the Jews, an
impossibility with Allah. They are called his chosen
people, but they are not Allah's chosen. Allah
commands the Muslim to not take the Jews or
Christians as friends, Sura.5:51 disdains the Jews.
Mohammed said, “The last hour will not come before
the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill
them.” (Mishkat Al Masabih Sh.M. Ashraf pp.147, 721,
810-11, 1130). So how could Israel inherit the land or
any of God's promises from Allah, if he is their God.
Clearly he is not the same God of the Bible.
Muslims trying to prove their position from the Bible
point to the Old Testament with the word alleluyah,
interpreting the first portion of the word alle as Allah.
The word [H]alleluyah is not a compound Hebrew
word. It is not two words but a singular word meaning
praise to Yahweh. (alle- praise, lu-to, yah-Yaweh). The
beginning of the word is Hallel meaning praise. This
has nothing to do with an Allah, and the last syllable of
the word is a reference to Yahweh the God of the Bible,
this is hardly any evidence for their assertions. They
are also confusing Aramaic with Arabic. This is not
unusual, as Muslims will often take words and
meanings set in another language and culture and
adopt them for proof of their own book or religion.
This word play only gets more ludicrous as they try to
have Jesus saying the name of their God. When Jesus
was on the cross they claim when he cried out Eli, Eli it
was really is Allah, Allah. The New Testament was
written in Greek, however it points us to him speaking
the Aramaic language, not Arabic. Jesus was quoting
Psalm 22:1 which read in full says, Eli, Eli Sabbathani
“My God, My God why have you forsaken me.” What
makes even less sense for this position is the fact that
they don't believe that it was Jesus on the cross in the
first place, but that another took His place. Some think
it was Judas; so it was Judas crying out Allah, Allah?
The first Arabic translation of the Bible was made
about the 9th century. Nowhere is the name of Allah
found in the Old or New Testament. When Islam
became the dominant political force people were
coerced to use the name Allah for God or suffer the
consequences from the hands of militant Muslims.
Because of Islam's dominance Allah became the
common name of God. The translators of the Bible gave
in to the religious pressures and substituted Allah for
Yahweh in the Arabic Bibles, but this is not the name
of the God of the Hebrews, nor of the creator who
made heaven and earth because of its source in
paganism. His nature and attributes have only a few
basic similarities and many more differences. And the
most important point is that all through the Qu'ran it
says Allah has no son.
culled from :Letusreason.org

To the Muslim God is strictly singular, all seeing, all
hearing, almighty, He is the first and the last. But what
differs is that he has no Son and he cannot be called
Father who relates to His son in a unique way (Son
and Father does not mean offspring in historic
Christianity).
Of the 99 names of God in Islam, not one is “Father” or
has a personal connotation. The difference is not to be
overlooked. The God of the Bible is personal and wants
an ongoing friendship with each of us. Islam portrays
God as one who expects us to do our religious duty or
He angers. There are rules to be obeyed and one can
only please him but not know him personally. No
Muslim would ever consider being able to have a
personal relationship with him, by talking to him, and
loving him. Jesus instead taught Christians to pray “our
Father in heaven” (Matthew 6:9). Throughout the Old
Testament God was real to the prophets who had him
personally speak to them and they to him. “ Have we
not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why do
we deal treacherously with one another by profaning the
covenant of the fathers? ” (Mal 2:10)
In Islam some state that if one memorizes the 99 names
of Allah and repeats them he will get into paradise
because they give the believer power, making them
conscious of God. Neither the Koran nor the Hadith
speak of these names in such a way. The Suras in the
Koran begin with “ In the name of Allah, most gracious,
most merciful. Yet in practice Islam's god is portrayed
as stern, harsh, having compassion on those who do
right and deals severely with those who do not.
To a Muslim the God of the Bible who is described as
triune is offensive and pagan, reminding them of what
Mohammed destroyed. This is recorded in their Qu'ran.
They interpret this as 3 separate Gods and not a unified
one. “ T hey are unbelievers who say God is a third of
three. No God is there but one God. ” While Muslims
affirm Jesus' virgin conception, they deny He had any
pre-existence that would imply He is God. To call a
prophet God is the ultimate in blasphemy to them. “
V erily God will not forgive the union of other gods with
himself .” This is a true statement; however if Jesus is
who He said He is, the true God, then it is they who
are in union with another than the true God.

“The name Allah, as the Qur'an itself is witness, was
well known in pre-Islamic Arabia. Indeed, both it and
its feminine form, Allat, are found not infrequently
among the theophorous names in inscriptions from
North Africa.” (Arthur Jeffrey, ed., Islam: Muhammad
and His Religion (1958), p. 85.)
The literal name of Mohammed's father in Arabic is
Abd Allah. His uncle's name Obred Allah. These names
show the devotion of Mohammed's families pagan
roots, and also prove that Allah was part of a
polytheistic system of worship before Allah was made
the supreme and only god from the other God's. This
should be proof to the pre- Islamic root of the name of
Allah to the Muslim. Remember they were pagans who
used this name. He kept his family name above all the
other names. Mohammad had good intentions in
removing the people from their polytheistic worship
however he did not go far enough in his reform.
Mecca was the place where the idol Allah was located,
so the people would face in that direction when they
prayed. Prior to Islam the people would pray 5 times a
day facing Mecca (The Encyclopedia of Islam p.303)
Prior to Islam's beginning each Arab tribe used Allah to
refer to its own particular high god. This is why Hubal,
the Moon god, (known by other names) was the central
focus of prayer at the Kaabah and people prayed to
Hubal and they used the name Allah. The crescent
moon was the symbol of the moon God Allah (Hubal)
and is still used as a symbol of Islam today (although
they have changed the meaning to be -from Mecca to
the moon Islam will spread). Today there is hardly a
Muslim that knows its ancient origin. History records it
as an ancient pagan fertility symbol that is found
throughout the Middle East. Mohammed smashed all
the idols that led the people into idolatry but the black
stone was kept which Muslims continue to kiss today.
This was another practice that preceded Mohammad.
Mohammed made Allah into a single being who, unlike
the Bible's God who is called Father, has no Son.
Because of this portrayal, there is no fellowship or love
among the godhead before God created man. Creation
and man therefore become a necessity for God to
express His attributes or characteristic's. This God has
never revealed Himself to man but revealed only His
will. This God is so removed from man that it is
impossible to know him in a personal way, he relates
to man only through his will and law. It is a religion of
obedience no different than any other.

Its unfortunate how we have degraded the office of the President of the Federal republic of Nigeria. This is not about Jonathan but its all about laying a precedent for future reference.God help Nigeria.

I don't understand why some people will play politics with almost everything in this country. Mr. Governor, i find it difficult to believe you don't know the hundreds of billion the government put in to curb the insurgency in the North East. That money will go a long way in addressing and providing infrastructure to my brothers & sisters in the North. If you and others will channel your energy in finding a lasting solution to the security challenge facing the NE,this country will be a better place. God bless Nigeria!

I thought it was designed to be a joke. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu stood reverently in front of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, pleading with him to come and rescue Nigeria along with the APC. “We’re resolved and determined
to rescue Nigeria... we want you to be our navigator,”
Tinubu told Obasanjo. Like seriously? All you need to attain sainthood in Nigeria today is to be opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan. If Gen. Sani Abacha were alive and had
written Obasanjo’s kind of letter to Jonathan, he would
have become an instant hero. Just six years ago, I would have sworn that nobody would ever take Obasanjo’s views seriously again, but this is Nigeria where our memory is so
shallow. Misfits get easily rehabilitated. We are told to
ignore the messenger, even when the messenger is the
eternally manipulative “navigator”.I would like to remind Tinubu, and other easily excited Nigerians, about the antics of the man called Obasanjo.Lagos State would have been enjoying uninterrupted power supply today but for the petty “navigator” who interrupted
Tinubu’s independent power projects. Obasanjo tried to
frustrate the Enron-built AES power plant (which today
supplies 230mw) until Tinubu reportedly went to prostrate to His Imperial Majesty inside his hallowed chambers at Aso Rock. But the “navigator” still made sure the other phases of the project did not see the light of the day.The 4th Mainland Bridge would have been completed by now but for Tinubu’s “navigator” who refused to give the necessary Country Guarantee to secure a World Bank loan.
(The same Obasanjo is hypocritically accusing Jonathan of stalling the Rivers water project - and Nigerians are clapping for him). In the 2003 elections, the “navigator” did
everything to uproot Tinubu as the governor of Lagos State.On INEC’s website, Funsho Williams (PDP) had been announced as the winner, the same way other AD governors were swept out. I still don’t know how Tinubu survived. In 2004,
Tinubu created additional local governments. The
“navigator” immediately withheld funds due to Lagos
councils, describing Tinubu’s action as unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court ruled that Tinubu’s action was in order
but that the councils were “inchoate” until listed in the
constitution. The court further ruled that Obasanjo had no power whatsoever to withhold funds due to any tier of government. The “navigator” still refused to release the funds, not even to the 20 constitutionally recognised councils. President Umaru Musa Yar’Adau released the
funds three years later
I saw General Muhammadu Buhari on the team that went to Abeokuta to plead with Obasanjo to come and rescue Nigeria. My heart sank. I supported and voted for Obasanjo in 1999, but I was so disgusted with his conduct in office that I shifted my loyalty to Buhari in 2003. We all know
how Obasanjo won his re-election that year. The
presidential poll, conducted on April 19, was for years
described as “419” election by Buhari. For instance,
Obasanjo won 72,000 votes from 72,000 registered voters in Brass, Bayelsa State. No more, no less. The 2003 presidential poll was called the most fraudulent election in Nigerian history. It is incredible how Obasanjo is now in the forefront of rescuing Nigeria as APC’s “navigator”simply because he criticised Jonathan - and I am very worried that Buhari has descended to this low level of politicking.Buhari told me something four years ago in his hotel room in London. I had been agonizing Just six years ago, I would have sworn that nobody would ever take
Obasanjo’s views seriously again, but this is Nigeria
where our memory is so shallow. Misfits get easily
rehabilitated that Obasanjo was president for eight years and still failed to address power and refinery issues. I said no matter what Obasanjo achieved as president, those two things would continue to taint him. Buhari then narrated an encounter he had with Obasanjo at a Council of State meeting sometime
in 2001. He recalled: “I said Mr. President, when you came into power in 1999, you said our refineries were not working because somebody (Abacha, that is) was awarding fuel import contracts to his family members.Two years on, Mr. President, who is getting the fuel import contracts? Are the refineries working now? He interjected and tried to stop me... That was the last time I attended Council meeting under Obasanjo’s government.” Well, the
meeting has now resumed in Abeokuta! I also saw Rivers
Governor Rotimi Amaechi peeping from behind in the APC group photograph with Obasanjo during their expedition to Abeokuta. Was he also trying to pour accolades on Obasanjo? If my memory serves me right, Obasanjo callously denied Amaechi the PDP ticket in the 2007 election, openly describing his candidature as having a “K Leg”. But for the Supreme Court, which bent backwards,Amaechi would not have been governor. He should count
himself lucky that the judgment was delivered when Obasanjo had left power, if not it would
never have been implemented. We were all witnesses to Obasanjo’s lawlessness anytime the courts passed judgments. He often refused to obey. His Attorney-General always had his own interpretation, even for matters as simple as “return to status quo ante”. I am waiting for Dr.Chris Ngige to pour his own encomium on the “navigator”. I don’t need to remind anyone what Obasanjo did to Ngige in
Anambra State in 2004. If you’re too young to know, please google it. I am also waiting for Chief Audu Ogbeh to take his turn. He was removed as PDP chairman by Obasanjo because of his letter on the Anambra brigandage, in which he passionately pleaded with Obasanjo not to allow “this
beautiful edifice of democracy to crumble”. As an APC chieftain now, Ogbeh can follow Tinubu’s footsteps and ask Obasanjo to be the “navigator”. No wonder, some people have given up on Nigeria. With Obasanjo as the “navigator”, a shipwreck is inevitable - as Professor Wole Soyinka has put it. If I may ask: what is Obasanjo’s electoral value? He has never won any election fair and square in his life. He lost woefully in the South-west in 1999, and used state power to corner those states for the PDP in 2003 and 2007. Naked without state power in 2011,
his candidate for governorship in his home state, Brig-Gen.Tunji Olurin, was roundly defeated - and his own daughter,Iyabo, could not win re-election into the Senate. Obasanjo
cannot deliver the polling booth in front of his house to
APC. His children will not even vote for him. How many
Nigerians will vote for a candidate because of Obasanjo’s endorsement? Is this the kind of “navigator” APC needs?
Agreed, Obasanjo has his nuisance value and his letters will always make headlines, but APC would be well advised to proceed with caution. I fully understand the disenchantment with President Jonathan. Nevertheless,APC should beware of 419.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/the-canonisation-of-obasanjo/167543/

Interesting.

Daily Trust quoted a revenue advocate as saying that the
state governments are simply too lazy to generate revenues internally because of the oil money they receive from Abuja every month.
Mr Dauda Garuba, coordinator of the Revenue Watch Institute, said “because of the oil revenue they collect monthly, state governors are no longer serious in making money for their states.”
Daily Trust investigations show that each of the 36 states pays yearly salaries in two-digit billions, but most of them generate IGR in single-digit billions annually.
Lagos generated N219 billion in 2012, three times its
annual wage bill of N76.5 billion.States that generated more than N10 billion in 2012 are Kano, Kaduna, Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Enugu, Edo, Delta, Cross River and Akwa Ibom.Among states with fairly strong revenue bases are Rivers,which generates the second highest IGR of N66.2 billion in 2012, but has an annual wages bill of N96 billion.Edo made N18.9 billion revenue but is weighed down by a salaries bill of N28 billion yearly, while Cross River generated N12.7 billion though it pays N22 billion wagesannually.
Even though Kano has the highest IGR in the North, the N24 billion it generated in 2012 is not enough to pay salaries of its workers, which is N36 billion yearly.
Kaduna, the second internal revenue earner in the North,
garnered N11.5 billion but which is less than half its N27.4 billion annual wage bill.The situation with the remaining states is worse, as their annual wage bills are several times larger than their internally generated revenues.
For instance, Zamfara’s internally generated revenue is N2.5 billion in 2012, while its annual wage bill is N13.2
billion; Yobe generated N1.7 billion, and has a yearly
salaries bill of N18 billion; while Adamawa’s N23 billion
wage bill is five times higher than its IGR of N4.6 billion.
Even oil-rich Bayelsa State generated only N3 billion in
2011, but pays N48 billion in salaries yearly.
Nasarawa made N4.1 billion in 2012 but spends N24 billion yearly in salaries; Sokoto generated N3.8 billion in 2010 and spends N16.8 billion on annual wages; and Kogi got
N3.1 billion in 2012 but it is workforce soaks up N44 billionyearly.
Kwara (salaries, N11 billion; revenue, N7.2 billion), Benue
(revenue, N8.4 billion; salaries, N34.8 billion) Katsina (salaries, N14.4 billion; revenue, N5 billion), Bauchi (salaries, 26 billion; revenue, N4.1 billion), Ondo (revenue, N10.1 billion; salaries, N48 billion), Plateau (revenue, N7 billion; salaries, N20.7 billion), Kebbi (revenue, N5.4 billion; salaries N12 billion), Niger (revenue, N3.7 billion;
salaries N31.2 billion), and Gombe (salaries, N14.4;
revenue, N3.7 billion).
Others are Abia (salaries, N30 billion; revenue, N3 billion),Akwa Ibom (salaries, N33.2 billion; revenue, N13.5 billion),Anambra (revenue, N6.1 billion; salaries, N16.3 billion),Borno (salaries, N20.7 billion; revenue, N2.4 billion), Delta (revenue, N45.5 billion; salaries, N85.2 billion) and Ebonyi (salaries, N16.8 billion; revenue, N14 billion).
There are also Ekiti (salaries N24 billion, revenue N3.8
billion), Imo (revenue N6.8 billion, salaries N22.8 billion),
Jigawa (salaries N33.5 billion, revenues N1.4 billion), Osun (salaries N22.8 billion, revenue N5 billion), Oyo (salaries N49 billion, revenue N14 billion), Taraba (revenue N3.4 billion, salaries N21.6 billion).Daily Trust quoted Revenue Watch Institute coordinator Garuba as saying: “It is unfortunate that the governors, particularly in the North abandoned agriculture. Every state
has the potential to be self-sufficient only if the chief
executive knows what he is doing.
“I still wonder why Niger and Nasarawa states can’t utilise
their proximity to Abuja by creating mega cities in Zuba and Mararaba respectively. These places, if well planned, can rake in billions for the two states. But, go there, what you find is terribly unorganised slums.”
Garuba noted that a recent report shows that “Yobe State alone can produce beans enough to supply the needs of West Africa,” lamenting: “But look at it today, the state is engulfed in conflicts.”
http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/detail.php?news=3896&title=PARASITES:-35-states-can%E2%80%99t-pay-salaries-without-federal-funds

Al-Mustapha said he has forgiven everyone involved in
his incarceration.
The former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, Sani Abacha, Hamza Al-Mustapha, has reacted to postulations by former president Olusegun Obasanjo in his famous letter
to President Goodluck Jonathan that he (Al Mustapha) was released from prison to help the president train assassins to
eliminate opposition politicians.Speaking to the Hausa Service of the Voice of America , VOA,monitored in Abuja on Wednesday, Mr. Al-Mustapha challenged the ex-president to a public debate on the allegations he raised.
Mr. Al-Mustapha said he was away in India receiving
treatment for injuries he sustained while in detention during the administrations of Abdulsalami Abubakar and Mr.Obasanjo when he heard of the allegations via a letter
published exclusively by PREMIUM TIMES.
“I read Obasanjo’s letter and subsequent comments by
Nigerians, I would have responded immediately, but I was away in India receiving treatment,” he said.
He also said although his name was not mentioned in the letter, he was sure the former president was referring to him.
“If he has anything to say on me, he should mention me
directly or even challenge me and not make allusions,” Mr.
Al-Mustapha said.
The former presidential security chief challenged Mr.
Obasanjo to publicly ask him anything; saying he would
provide him with answers.
Mr. Al-Mustapha swore that the allegation that he is being used by Mr. Jonathan to train assassins is false. He said he has always been in the vanguard of coming to the aide of people from the north to be recruited into the military and para-military agencies; and would therefore never involve
himself in anything that would hurt the region.
“Perhaps it is Obasanjo and his cronies that are planning
what he was insinuating,” he added.I have forgiven all
Mr. Al-Mustapha said he had decided to forgive all those
who had a hand in his incarceration when he was being tried for the murder of Kudirat Abiola, wife of the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Kudirat Abiola. He was initially convicted for the murder by a Lagos High Court but was discharged and acquitted by the Court of Appeal.
He, however, added that such people, including Mr.
Obasanjo failed to accept that fact and still harbour fears about him and what he knows about them.
“I urge everyone to pray for Obasanjo to accept my
challenge for a public debate so that the truth will come
out,” he said.
Mr. Al-Mustapha said he is focused on helping Nigeria find its rhythm by uniting the people, especially the youth and the poor.
“From 1974 to the present, a lot of things are buried with all sorts of lies. But all would be revealed one day,” Mr. Al-
Mustapha said.
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/152050-letter-jonathan-al-mustapha-challenges-obasanjo-public-debate.html

God bless Nigeria. The era where few individuals decide who become the President of this great country is gradually been threatened. This is a political Renaissance. Someday Nigeria will be GREAT again.

Former Anambra state governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju (1999 to 2003) tells Saturday Punch:
Well, a godfather has many connotations. You could
have positive godfathers and negative ones. The good ones work towards making things work and succeed but if you have a godfather that is always challenging, he wants to make appointments, if you
have 10 commissioners, he would want to have three or four. After you have given him two commissioners,
he will say he wants Special Advisers, Special Assistants and he will even want to choose their portfolios but I said these things are not done like that and they said it is done like that, that is
controversy.
There is a godfather who had an arrangement with the military that he would be paid N10m every month,
I wasn’t there when the agreement was made. When I tried to stop it, I was dragged to President
Obasanjo’s office and I told Obasanjo this is the situation I found on ground and Obasanjo said I had to go back and continue paying it; that it was legal.
At what stage did I renege? They will always try to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it. Obasanjo gave them contracts worth billions of naira, they were super rich, there was nothing I could give to them.You mean Obasanjo asked you to pay this godfather;who is he?
Yes, Obasanjo asked me to pay. The godfather is one
of the Uba family.
http://www.punchng.com/news/i-was-forced-to-pay-a-godfather-n10m-monthly-as-anambra-governor-mbadinuju/

Wives and children of military men were among the booty taken away by Boko Haram militants who attacked the Nuhu Muhammed Barracks in Bama, Borno State, on
Friday, it has been revealed.
A report published yesterday by the Associated French Press (AFP) said that an unknown number of soldiers’
wives and children were taken away by the Boko Haram fighters who attacked the military barracks around
2:30 a.m. The daring raid on the barracks located in the border town with Cameroon lasted for about three
hours.Unconfirmed reports said that about 13 soldiers, 18 women and children and about 100 Boko Haram sect members were killed during the attack.As at yesterday, the embarrassed military, according to AFP, had surrounded the village of Abbaram, near Bama,where they thought the Boko Haram fighters are holding their captives.“The soldiers have besieged the village and more troops are deploying in hundreds,” said one local, Ibrahim Idris.“Nothing is happening yet but from the huge number of troops deploying and the large number of Boko Haram in the
village one can imagine what may happen,” he added.
Military spokesman Mohammed Dole, did not comment on the report. Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade could not be reached for comment, the report said.
http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/detail.php?news=3828&title=Boko-Haram-warriors-kidnap-soldiers%E2%80%99-wives-and-children