₦airaland Forum

kaorama: Buhara boys at work. Could this be a reward for what their fathers did to the Biafrans?

samuelkaykay: Cheii,may be the critical health situation angered him unto the act of sending igbos back to onitsha or vice versa.RIP old man!

Biodup: The new leader sheik muhammadu buhari.

taiocol: pls wake up frm dream, buhari nd Apc knws he cant rule Nigeria, apc need a better Candidate to win Gej, or Gej till 2019.

payless: YOU HAVE SAID IT ALL.ALL WE NEED IS A LEADER WHO CAN DELIVER BE IT OLD OR YOUNG.


Tell that to PDP. There is Anenih, Tukur, Umar Dikko, and many politians in their 70s and 80s in PDP. Worry about people in your party.

Mandela became South African President at the age of 74. The current Indian Prime Minister is 82, Mugabe is 86, and many others are older than Buhari, yet serving honorably as leaders of free world. By the way, what has the youth who got opportunity to serve done in the last 14 years? Bankole, Orji Kalu, Ibori, Fayose, and co come to mind.

Memyselfu2009: They know what they re doing they think they re worshiping God and say Islam is a religion of peace and kill innocent people with bomb who is fooling who

mike404: when are they going to catch buhari and hand him over to JTF

tbaba1234: Many people find it difficult getting into the spiritual state that Ramadan requires and complain in the last ten days of the great month that their month has gone to waste. A major reason for this it seems is that they assume that Allah would have Muslims worship him one month of the year! Whilst worship is a daily affair, Allah would have us worship more in some months more than others. Furthermore, the righteous, in understanding the importance of Ramadan, would want to be as prepared as possible, and as a result, would begin preparation two months earlier in Rajab!

Sha’ban is the eighth month of the Islamic calendar and considered one of the special months for which we find particular sunan of the Prophet (peace be upon him). It is reported that the Prophet would fast most of the month of Sha’ban except for the last few days.

A’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that “Allah's Apostle used to fast till one would say that he would never stop fasting, and he would abandon fasting till one would say that he would never fast. I never saw Allah's Apostle fasting for a whole month except the month of Ramadan, and did not see him fasting in any month more than in the month of Sha'ban.”[Bukhari]

Although these fasts are supererogatory we can see how much importance the Prophet attached to them. We know that when he was asked by Usaamah ibn Zayd concerning his observance of the Sha’ban fasts, he answered, “It is a month that people neglect between Rajab and Ramadan; a month in which people’s deeds are taken up to the Lord of the Worlds and I would like my deeds to be taken up when I am fasting.” This hadith clearly indicates the importance of Islamic months, and living in the west we must maintain a relationship with Islamic religious symbols, the Islamic calendar being an important one. Additionally, the Prophet informed us of matters of the unseen, namely that our actions are taken up in this blessed month, and so, it would be sensible to be in a state of servitude whilst being taken to account.

We also know that the Prophet prayed for Sha’ban to be blessed and connected it to Ramadan thus informing us of an inextricable link between the two. He would supplicate, "O Allah, make the months of Rajab and Sha'ban blessed for us, and let us reach the month of Ramadan (i.e. prolong our life up to Ramadan, so that we may benefit from its merits and blessings)."[Al-Tabarani and Ahmad]

Many people find it difficult getting into the spiritual state that Ramadan requires and complain in the last ten days of the great month that their month has gone to waste. A major reason for this it seems is that they assume that Allah would have Muslims worship him one month of the year! Whilst worship is a daily affair, Allah would have us worship more in some months more than others. Furthermore, the righteous, in understanding the importance of Ramadan, would want to be as prepared as possible, and as a result, would begin preparation two months earlier in Rajab!

Abu Bakr al-Balkhi said: The month of Rajab is the month for planting, the month of Sha’ban is the month of irrigating crops, and the month of Ramadan is the month of harvesting the crops. He also said: The likeness of the month of Rajab is that of the wind, the likeness of Sha’ban is that of the clouds and the likeness of Ramadan is that of the rain; whoever does not plant and sow in Rajab, and does not irrigate in Sha’ban, how can he reap in Ramadan? Now Rajab has passed, so what will you do in Sha’ban if you are seeking Ramadan? This is how your Prophet and the early generations of the ummah were in this blessed month, so what will you do?

From amongst the forms of preparation is increasing in reciting the Quran. When Sha’ban would begin, ‘Amr ibn Qays (of the righteous early Muslims) would close his shop and free his time for reading Qur’an. The notion of excessive fasting, as quoted earlier, is found in the hadith of A’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that she “did not see him fasting in any month more than in the month of Sha'ban.”[Bukhari]

Fasting is a great act of servitude and devotion to Allah, and given that the Arabic word sawm (fasting) means to restrain from something, it implies the repression of one’s nafs and worldly abstinence out of a firm belief in the afterlife. Abu Hurairah narrates that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “Allah said: The fast is for Me and I will give the reward for it, as he (the one who observes the fast) leaves his sexual desire, food and drink for My sake. Fasting is a guard (from Hell) and there are two pleasures for a fasting person, one at the time of breaking his fast, and the other at the time when he will meet his Lord. And the smell of the mouth of a fasting person is better to Allah than the smell of musk.”[Bukhari]

Let us use Sha’ban to become people of prayer and fasting, that we use the coming month as a time of rectification and spiritual rectitude, and we prepare our souls for the last Ramadan we may ever face. A’ishah narrates that the Prophet never fasted in any month more than in the month of Sha'ban. He used to say, “Do those deeds which you can do easily, as Allah will not get tired (of giving rewards) till you get bored and tired (of performing religious deeds).” The most beloved prayer to the Prophet was the one that was done regularly even if it were little, and whenever the Prophet offered a prayer he used to offer it regularly.[Bukhari]

http://www.islam21c.com/spirituality/5402-welcoming-shaban

Had_one: HE SCORED F-10. THOSE WITH F-9 BETTER PASS THIS DULL MUMU.

Burger01: Faces of Boko Haram and their sponsors. God would punish you all. You can't do evil and expect pardon and compensation.
What do we do to the families of the victims of Boko Haram? Useless government.

ylaa: RUBBISH. WHY WONT HE COMMEND GEJ, AFTERALL HE IS ONE OF THEM. SHAME ON ALL BOKO HARAM.

tomakint: Errant nonsense from a foolish woman who nearly 'became President' after the demise of her husband, forgetting Nigeria is not a 'family affair politics' or 'oye idile'!

maxwello.yg:
lol..funny question..u wan make we elect him and give him power to islamize nigeria? walahi not while i am alive, else i go comot nigeria go mali, with my entire villagers..una go hear am,.buhari was a dictator nd he fit islamize 9ja,he no go send any maga, dat boko lord?

rafhell: TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT. BOKO HARAM IS FIGHTING A MUSLIM COURSE. MAJORITY OF MUSLIMS IN THE NORTH ARE HAPPY WITH THEM

emmysenior: Jonathan should quit pointing accusing fingers and focus on national development. Clamp down on him if he (Buhari) is truely their sponsor, stop acting childish. Nonsense.

Ngwakwe: The voice of Boko Haram is that of Buhari but the hands look more like that of Babangida.

Most Northern Politicians from all political divide are either sponsor/sympathetizer or at least in favour of the chaos as a means to spit GEJ presidency.

dfolan: u need to grow out of your illusions and face reality,
Islam is not what you think it is

aminho: As much as I hate him but I agree with him today
Islam means the religion of peace. A person following Islam will find that he or she is surrounded by noble teachings, the aim of which is to establish peace between man and Allah, the Creator of all; between man and man; and between man and the rest of Allah’s creation.

How does such a religion deal with the issue of terrorism And what does the word terrorist mean?

Dictionaries will define a terrorist as one who systematically uses violence and intimidation to achieve political ends – or one who controls or forces others to do something by violence, fear or threats.

All these definitions are covered by two words in the Holy Qur’an, the sacred book of Islam: Fitnah and Ikrâh.

Two of the very first verses of our Holy Book say: ‘Al-Fitnatu ashad-du minal qatl’ – meaning that in the sight of WELLSAID JAZZAKALLAHU KHAIRANAllah, ‘persecution, or making people constantly fear for their lives, is much worse than killing’.

And also: ‘Lâ ikrâha fid-dîn’ – ‘There shall be no compulsion in religion’, that is to say, that no one has the right to force others into complying with their demands or compelling others to follow their line of thinking.

In Islam, every effort is thus made to protect the peace of not only the Muslims, but also of the followers of other faiths.

Allah Almighty says: And if Allah did not defend some men by means of others, there would surely have been pulled down monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques wherein the name of Allah is oft remembered. (Ch.22: v.41)

The Prophet ordered:
‘You will meet those who remember Almighty Allah in their houses of worship. Have no dispute with them, and give no trouble to them. In the enemy country, do not kill any women or children, or the blind, or the old. Do not pull down any tree; nor pull down any building.’ (Quoted from Halbiyyah, Vol.3).

It is our belief that not only Islam, but no true religion, whatever its name, can sanction violence and bloodshed of innocent men, women and children in the name of Allah Almighty.

Lilimax: This is not true at all.Boko Haram members carry out their suicide misson based on the promises of 72 virgins in Al-janah. This is what they are thought in their religion. Afterall 99.9% of Boko Harams are Moslems.

dgitrader: Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, who is the spokesman of the Joint Task Force in Maiduguri, has asserted that the personal threats of Boko Haram will not distract him or stop him from performing his duties.

In a new video on Monday, the sect’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, accused Musa, of misinforming the public about the sect's attack on Monguno military barracks in Borno State.

“To the little brat called Lt Col Sagir we heard of your claims that your troops, JTF, had ambushed our men on the way to Monguno, killed several of our men and even retrieve four of our vehicles,” Shekau said. “These are all lies unbecoming of a soldier. It is a shame.”

Shekarau said that contrary to Musa’s account, members of his sect “easily invaded” the army barracks in Mungono and killed an unknown number of soldiers.

“We packed unknown quantum of arms and ammunition which was filled in two trucks, we burnt down the excess from the armoury. They left with gallantry chanting Allahu Akbar. Here are the arms in display. We have 15 Browning rifles in our armoury now, all from Monguno barracks.”

He bragged: “The arms we have is enough for us to bring down the entire Borno state. None of our members died as claimed by soldiers except for three persons. But the soldiers we killed in Monguno barracks. But Sagir Musa should continue to deceive the world, one day he would fall in our trap and we will deal with him, since we have his photograph with us. We know all your movement around Maiduguri in a small car.”[/b]

He warned Musa to leave Maiduguri because he will have no place to hide from his group, saying, [b]“You shall see, and you shall see.”

In a terse response, Musa said the Nigerian Army does not produce cowards and that what he enjoys most is serving humanity through protecting lives and property. “I strongly believe that is the noblest act on earth, which no amount of threat will distract, weaken or stop me from performing. The lives of all creatures are in the hands of ALLAH – He gives and takes from whoever he wills.”

Shekau, who on the video is shown surrounded by several hooded gunmen standing upon a pile of different shapes and sizes of arms and ammunition, said the weapons were those his group took away from the military armoury after they bombed Monguno Barracks.

The Kanuri-born Boko Haram leader, who spoke in Hausa and Arabic, said they still have the seven kidnapped French nationals in custody and would continue to keep them until the governments of Cameroon and Nigeria released their members and family detained in the two countries.

The seven French tourists, members of one family, were snatched last month in a neighbouring Cameroonian community before they were transported to Nigeria. The group had earlier released a video of the victims.

Mr. Shekau also warned journalists to avoid phantom groups parading themselves as Boko Haram, even as he officially declared one Abu Zinnira to be the new spokesperson that journalists should deal with henceforth. The group’s previous spokesman, Abu Qaqa, was reportedly killed last year.



http://saharareporters.com/news-page/boko-haram-latest-threats-maiduguri-jtf-spokesperson-sagir-musa-responds

Wily/Wily:
why should they face extermination?, these people want Islamic republic of Northern Nigeria and their people want it too, they should be left alone, Islam is their religion and they want to govern themselves in Islamic way,

ifihearam: I now see why Prince Afegbua said Wole Soyinka is suffering from mental cirrhosis.

2iic: The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the state pardon granted a former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, by President Goodluck Jonathan, as an act of impunity and a symbol of corrupt mentality.

Also,the Nigerian Bar Association on Wednesday described the pardon as a bad signal in the anti-corruption campaign.

Alamieyeseigha, who was convicted of corruption charges, was pardoned alongside other ex-convicts, including Shettima Bulama, Lt. General Oladipo Diya, Major-General Tajudeen Olanrewaju, the late Major General Musa Yar’Adua and the late Major-General Abdukareem Adisa.

Soyinka, on Wednesday, lent his voice to those of civil society groups, international community and individuals who had stridently condemned the President’s action.

He spoke in Lagos during a programme ushering in the Lagos Black Heritage Festival.

Referring to a statement made by the Special Adviser to President Jonathan on Media, Dr. Reuben Abati, who had, on a TV programme, described those who are criticising Jonathan over the matter as suffering from “sophisticated ignorance”, Soyinka said he did not mind being called such a name for bearing his mind on the state pardon.

“On the state pardon granted the former governor, I want to join the bandwagon of the ignorant persons. I am happy to be counted among them. For me, this kind of impunity is not unconnected to the controversy, which has been surrounding the N4bn allocation being sought by the First Lady Mission. It is part of the same corrupt mentality,” he said.

The renowned writer added that it was also disappointing that some ministers had given contradictory interpretations to the object of the pardon.

Soyinka said it was not right for Jonathan to lump Alamieyeseigha’s case with those of the other people granted pardon alongside him.

According to him, the cases of other ex-convicts were largely political, as evident in the antics of the late Sanni Abacha junta that implicated them in a controversial coup.

The Nobel laureate said, “What is going on right now gives the picture of a government that is floundering and justifying the unjustifiable. It amounts to encouragement of corruption. The felon is wanted by the United States Government. We have a case of an officer of the law – a governor – who went to another country and broke the law of the nation. He jumped bail.

“I believe that such a person does not deserve a state pardon. So, I have joined the league of the ignorant persons condemning the act. I criticise and deplore President Jonathan for granting pardon to the former governor.”

Reacting to the development after inaugurating the web-portal of the NBA in Abuja, NBA President, Mr. Okey Wali, SAN, said the presidential pardon had sent a bad signal in the war on corruption.

But he also noted that Jonathan acted within his constitutional powers.

“It is no doubt a moral issue; it is a bad signal in the fight against corruption.”

Noting that the President’s action was constitutional, in line with the provisions of section 175 of the 1999 Constitution, Wali added, “Nigerians have made their feelings known.”

He also reacted to plans by the Federal Government to finally remove the subsidy on petroleum products.

Jonathan had, at the Nigerian Economic Summit in Lagos on Wednesday, said the Federal Government would still remove fuel subsidy.

The NBA has, however, asked the Federal Government to fulfill its promise to implement far-reaching palliative measures before the final removal of fuel subsidy in the country.

The NBA President urged the Federal Government to make good its promise to implement some palliative measures in order to alleviate the hardship imposed on Nigerians as a result of the hike in the price of petroleum products.

Wali said, “We believe that the government will fulfill its promise to Nigerians.

“The NBA still has not seen much of the promise but we strongly believe that they will keep to their word by putting all the necessary infrastructure in place before taking any further action on fuel subsidy.”

Wali aso said the NBA was committed to enforcing discipline in the legal profession.

Features of the web portal include the full list of all the lawyers called to the Bar, as registered in the Supreme Court from the pre-Independence days till date.

It also contains the profiles of over 25,000 active lawyers, who have carried out their verification exercise, as directed by the NBA in 2011.

http://www.punchng.com/news/alamieyeseighas-pardon-symbol-of-corrupt-mentality-soyinka-nba/

Verbes: SSS needs undercover to win this war. That is how it's done all over the world. You don't fight terrorism with soldiers on the streets. All you need is information. Only an undercover agent can get you that.

ifihearam: You mean buhari abi?

Samsantos9: Later some clowns would come to Nl and start saying they target both christians and muslims alike if I may ask how many mosques have successfully been destroyed/bombed in Borno?

mawojuuche: pls what is d way forward?? Islam or Christianity

the_ripper: What rubbish, well, d only holiday I recognise na Christmas and easter. Dis one no concern me, work dey

confusion247: Arewa Consultative Forum, sultan of sokoto, ATIKU, ADAMU CIROMA, LAWAL KEITA GUMI SHEIK and many northern muslems will not be happy with this news if it happens to be true.

goodmike7: Blind follower to a blind leader.

Maxymilliano: I don't see anything inciting in what Buhari said, in Edo State, it was 'Rig and Roast' championed by the Comrade governor himself. Was Abati expecting him to have advised his followers to applaud any one caught tinkering with votes