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Boko Haram might just be what the south of Nigeria needs to break away - it is a group of young people fed up with the current system - deprived of both her commonwealth and the right to full religious practice; if I were the South I'll find a way to penetrate her since we share a common interest in seeing Nigeria break for good. congrats to the republic of South Sudan, although all of her problems won't disppear overnight half of her problem is gone. |
Negro_Ntns:Nigeria as is is a lie - as a people we have not agreed on the terms of our union-forced cohabitation and pretension at best. Am not saying that regions won't have their problems but if we must stay together let the constituent people have their say. A suituation where issues of national importance gets dragged in from the back door leaves sour taste in the mouth of the distrusting followership. Fundamentally the contrasting tenents of both religions hinders any thought of mild adoption of the belief of one over another. Yes, Catholics will disagree in specific doctrinal principle with the methodist nay baptist but hardly ever leads to wanton killings- at best snide remarks are made in religious publications but the same can never be said with religious difference with the muslim north. brothers will fight over land dispute but what binds them is more than what keeps them apart - what binds the catholic to the baptist is stronger than that which binds a muslim to a christian in Nigeria. |
Negro_Ntns:Nice histronics on violence but poor excuse for bad choices. The distrust between christians and muslim in Nigeria is deepseated - everyone turn and motive is viewed with suspicion by the other - that return that will enrich your life and let you determine how you want to pray to your God is paramount and overiding to many, that is the referendum you should vote for whenever it happens. |
EzeUche:It has always puzzled me why a people so desirous of a platfrom to exercise their religious belief without recourse to interference from the christian south have never for once taken to the street peacefully to push for a referendum to secede from this hindrance called Nigeria and practice their faith wholesomely. Why fight and kill for something you can get by vote? ![]() |
alj_harem:Sorry Mr Alj Harem the sarcasm was lost on you, go figure! |
talknafree:Hmm, modernisation indeed and here you are using the internet as an archaic tool to inform us of ALLAH's LAW. Please when a referendum is called to split this nation, Nigeria vote to split so that you can practice what you preach. |
The issue is not a hatred for Islam nor Christianity. It is one of distrust borne over time by a people deprived by a few who care less about religious inclination and profit from the sown hatred emmanating from created deprivation. |
omo alaro:Did you type the bolded for real? ''Intolerant people'' - coming from one whose youth went on rampage and killed serving corpers because their hero lost a supposedly rigged election, how rich. please support a referendum when we get there to separate both religions so you can practice what you preach. |
Negro_Ntns:Boko Haram are only agitating for what a lot of silent moderate muslim desire - a chance to practice their belief as they want and in line with Islamic tenents albeit with a barbaric method. If only they can put there guns down and demand a referendum to separate our ever clashing beliefs, wouldn't that be lovely? At least everybody will find a common ground to separate without bloodshed. I wonder why this is difficult, have an idea? |
Negro_Ntns:Inetersting summation. Now at least we are getting somewhere with the bolded. What you stick with is your choice - it shouldn't in any way hinder mine. A referendum is needed in this country more than ever to determine if we stay together or go our separate ways. There's no sense in this strange bed called Nigeria. At least everybody can go their way and practice what they preach. |
@All, There are fundamentals that should be cleared before we delve into any such practice. There is claim that such Islamic banks when set up will be for all - an ALL-COMER interest-free bank. I applaud. After most in here can testify to the crunching nature of shylock loans secured from conventional interest banks. Why won't any sensible person want a loan that is interest free? However there are basics that must be straightened out so that we don't have to move the goal post midway into practice. For this reason I have asked previously: on what law will this prospective interest-free Islamic bank be based since it will carter to all-comers? Will its laws interfer and prevent people with entrepreneural ability from scaling their business because of religious non-compliance? I gave pork farming and beer brewing as examples of such bussinesses - will Islamic banking support me in my quest as a Nigerian to grow any such bussiness against likely religious underlying tenents of its practices? These na some of the issues we suppose to dey yarn - proponents oya over to una |
Negro_Ntns:@ Negro_Ntns, if your reply was to my quest for clarification I find your summation troubling. The challenge in question is to educate people and create awareness about the difference and advantage of Islamic banking over conventional interest banking and I have just asked a question that could be a tipping point in the future for practioneers of the prospective banking system Sanusi and co wants to sell to us and you trivialize it. Christians eat pork and are involved in the business of beer brewering, would such Islamic bank(s) grant loan on an equal right basis to a chrisitian who seeks to grow his/her bussiness and make profit available for sharing? Or will these banks be segregated on this premise of religious belief? Please the comparison of Marijuana and prostitution to pork and brewery smacks of illogicity. Conventional interest banks loan to breweries and pork farmers, if such entrepreneurs can get loans that are interest free don't you think it will translate into better economic indices - good wlefare for employed workers etc. Please let us think. |
Would any such bank lend to me if my business border on Pork production and beer brewing, how and what plans does it have to include likeminded entrepreneurs whose business lines fall outside the purview of sharia requirements? Or should I be discriminated against because my business line doesn't fall within the tenents of the sharia code? Views please. |
I have had the opportunity of reading Prince Charles Dickson's ''Fairly Used Bombs for Sale in Nigeria'' and the question of our unity or lack of it is in question - it appears we are now practising pacifism - a suituation where each region can get what it wants by unleashing fear in the heart of the sitdan-look government passive and never proactive govt at the centre. MEND now figures in the budget, maybe Boko too in a supplementary budget perhaps Massob later and then OPC in no particular order. It seems aslong as there is enough to dole out to various reional factions and still keep a reasonable loot this emerging trend is here to stay. Please read the below.I would start my admonition in this essay qouting a very unlikely source, speaking recently in Geneva, former Nigerian President, Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo had the following to say, “When I was growing up and I had to go to university, there was only one university in Nigeria. Today, 120; there are other tertiary institutions; polytechnics, colleges of education, when you take all of them together they are more than 200, much more than 200. “If you count that they are graduating about 3000 every year and some are doing more than that for one tertiary institution. You have well over 600, 000. We are not creating 100, 000 jobs every year for graduates of our tertiary institutions; that is a tinder box on which we are all sitting and the fuse can be ignited anytime,” he said “can we really have social justice with 50 percent of citizens of a country being unemployed or being under employed? Can you really have social justice in a situation where democracy, rule of law and popular participation are absent? Obviously the answer will be no.” I do not whether Obasanjo said this at the 100th Session the International Labour Organisation (ILO) holding in Geneva, Switzerland, if he meant it, or it was just a honest speechwriter at work. Either way its good see these individual institutions in the Nigerian polity ringing the alarm bells. Read all the story here :http://www.saharareporters.com/article/fairly-used-bombs-sale-nigeria |
[b]Nigeria really is a conundrum - government at the centre stealing the commonwealth for the elite and by the elite; citizens of the country driven by ethnicity than by nationalism. Both failing to see and take opportunity when it presents - waiting for the other to effect change. The corrupt government is unwittingly waiting for her people to chase her out - calling the peoples bluff all the while having knowledge she can set them into discord by playing the ethnic card every other while. ''no be ya broda dem put there?'', ''abeg leave am joor, naim b d first persin to thief?'' , so the cyce continues and so too the conundrum. On the issue at hand: the opportunity is to move away from a government managed infrastructure to one of public enterprise. Can't the maintenance sector of the airport be privatized and managed by a workforce outside the influence of the government? For me, 3-4 small section-enterprise maintenance companies can best look out for infrastructure failure and better implement management of change processes. Of course there will be the disadvantage of a higher cost overhead but the benefit includes a publicly supervised workforce whose welfare is catered for & therefore have no case to be lax about their duty. I think some of us within Nairaland can set up such small enterprise companies. Let's walk the tak as citizens. Na d only way kontri go good |
The problem with our politics, it is too convenient for even those who disagree along their absent idelogies. I have ever wondered why our opposing politicians think the change we seek can't be achieved unless in power. <<shudders>> |
@poster your list consists of goals attainable from a value-based system that rewards hardwork. How as 9jarians do we get back values that enforce hardwork when big brother ain't watching, how? There was a time people queued in lines at bus stations hospitals, parks, had good sense of hygiene on the road[sub]no dumping while travelling[/how come we seek a retrace now, how? Where did it all start to go wrong? It is not impossible to do a Japan, it only requires critical self examination, each one of us-leader and lead. Change won't come from outside but from within. |
'', enemies they don't know ya name cos gossip comes with the doe & fame see once u get money in your polythene the news start broadcasting ur lower shame you gotta be superman for the lowest lame try to be 9ice they make u feel Toni's payne(read pain) and to them y'all was a game, some people have ur gist in their windpipe they'll all choke, God will indict [/b]and plus ur flow got an SS genotype ur not the same class not even the same flight, Jude ABAGA, bros! U got the [b]em-i-cee |
The story of Nigeria unfortunately bears a striking similarity with that of the parable of the good Samaritan in the bible. People who can rise above greed and be sympathetic amongst us are yet to travel the leadership route. Instead we've replaced white colonial masters with internal ones. It is foolhardy to expect rogue creations from Abuja who fill leadership positions in the ND to be different from their lords. Governance to these lot is like paying royalty from earnings( state allocation) to the center(Abuja). How the indigenes fair is neither their care nor concern. Ibori, Odili, Alams, Obong Attah, Lucky and co were never answerable to the people but Abuja. Each one was engaged in systemic resource mismanagement that enables self aggrandisement with ''extended courtesies'' to Abuja. Chrisbenogor's NNPC analogy is perfect for how things generally work in Nigeria nay ND. In truth the custodians of the ND are the creation of the Nigerian state-people whose motive collide in agreement to rob us all of meaningful development irrespective of cardinal location. Like I have said in the past when we as a people are ready to take back our country we will wake from our slumber, rise above ethnicity and pay the ultimate price for freedom from internal colonisation and create fucntional governance structures which will enable development to thrive, '', in here, ethnicity blinds us to the common good we search; it is prevalent in our write-ups so much so, we fail to see the lift in another's suggestion'' Make we rise. |
The more things change the more they remain the same. Once it was white against black, now privileged blacks in connivance with apparently ''civil'' white continue to exploit the weak. Dear Amaechi, the laws of this land, our land as made by your like with all the recognised loopholes is responsible for the weak governing structures which have failed to make the governor accountable to the governed. Shout all you want about multi-national complicity you and I know that development of our land will only happen if the governor is accountability to the governed. When that happens the multi-nationals will fall in line as they wouldn't have conspirators like your friends in Aso Rock. |
Ah Rude boi! Luv suppose be jeje and tender nothing sleek, only something to make una fonder I feel your pain cos like u my gal always dey on my mind e no easy to leave those u luv behind cos the picture dem impress stay there like print but for dis life me and u come no be sprint and when d time come u go find dat correct rib until dem dey kampke till i flash anoda luv beep |
Reference:You've got it nailed on, bravo. |
Kobojunkie:Well hear this: Where you Ms. Junkie come from don't put food on my table so I frigg1ng don't give 2 cent. You accused me in your previous rambling about ''trying to inject tribalism''visit your previous post and I promptly asked you to take your silly tag[b]TRIBALISTIC INSIGNIA[/b] elsewhere, wetin hard to understand there?, I am Rivers which makes me a Niger deltan, if anything am expected to kiss GEJ's @ss and shout dis na owa turn, yet I put he and his co pdp travellers in the same basketOkah inclusive as stumbling blocks why Justice and Truth have been systematically denied and that unless these charlatans are driven out by a united citizen it will be foolhardy to seek justice from their courts, it seems everyone has to agree with your position to be right abi?, there's this wonderful saying I have and it applies at this juncture, ''don't spend your time arguing with 1diots, they have been at it for years and will bring you down to their level then beat you with years of experience''. Troll on ms. na u sabi pass ![]() |
Again, take your pill cause it seems you are loosing it. You are rabble rouser suggesting this is some warped issue, [b]trying to inject tribalism [/b]etc as if that will change things somehow. This is NOT about what PDP wants but about what the people(regardless of tribal affiliation or sentiments) strive for no matter who is involved. Focus on the issue here, Nigerians deserve to know the truth no matter who is involved and we deserve Justice no matter what. It is that simple! [quote][/quote]''Trying to inject tribalism'', where and how did you come about that assertion? , etc? , what people are you talking about? We have on NL a microcosm of the larger society Nigeria with each section defending/championing tribalistically their patron regional ''leader'', the regional sentiment is nearly all the time obvious herein except to demagogue who choose to live in denial. I mean check out political rejoinders from BEAF vs oyb vs onlytruth vs Dede et al, the divide is plain as white paint on a wall. You just like to quibble, who says Nigerians don't deserve to know the truth, do you experience comprehension logjams?, I will break it in pidgin: since Lord Lugard join us by force and the various killi killi and magomago began we as citizen XYZ deserve from there to sabi wetin dey happen and wey b d truth but the SYSTEM<those ogbonge bros dem wey dey power ala cartel> don dey and continue to dey self-preserving with no moral obligation to offer sought after truth by itself., ''not about what pdp wants'' tell that to the marines, i go give you AK Dikibo house address make you go tell im family people or Marshall Harry, Claude Ake, Bola Ige, astoundingly you believe these charlatans in power will willingly open their can of worms because you, miss Ohio seek the truth and are demanding justice from your keyboard far away in Colombus . Ya make u wake up! I will say it again, when as a people we decide to shed off every toga of tribalism, wake up to sieze back our country from these shenanigans, install functional people-centred governance structures that will let citizen's right and justice prevail then we can without foolhardy begin to expect TRUTH at the end of our dispute. By the way am from Rivers state, so take dat ya silly tribalistic insignia about me elsewhere Ms. JUNkie. |
Kobojunkie:Stop rabble rousing, GEJ, Okah and the whole pdp shebang don't give 2 hoots about Truth, Justice and fair hearing. Oh! Please teach me how to demand truth and justice from a system set up to hide same. The only thing they care about has/is/will always be how to gaurd/protect their greedy interest by playing up regional cards whenever convenient, some of us see thorugh it like we do rain. I repeat again, when Nigerians wake up from their slumber they would have shed every toga of tribalism chase these shenanigans out from power. To seek truth & justice under a system that grants reprieve to their stealing lotsee Cecilia Ibru et al is utter folly. |
Kobojunkie:lol, my leaders not yours abi? Don't bust a vessel caliente, the truth you seek won't come from those you term ''(s)elected, cos ''the last time I checked they all rigged themselves into elective positions, funny how it is ''your'' and not ''our'' abi u no be Nigerian?, shame you cannot see the back and forth arguement of pro GEJ and anti GEJ battlers herein trying to outdo each other all in the name of ''demanding truth and justice'' from a lot who care nada, if you cannot discern that it is in their INTEREST that Jonathan, Okah and co are hell bent on burning Nigeria then GULLIBLE is a perfect description. Today na im broda fake im voice tomorrow his sister will get a call from Patience Jonathan making an offer for Aljazera claim rebuttal, listen ma'am Junkie; history has shown that these shenanigans won't go away voluntarily and will continue to appeal and play to our tribal sentiments. When as Nigerians we become ready we the citizens will drop every toga of tribalism herein expressed evidently by the divide, march against them lot on the streets and take back our country. Ask yourself this question, why is the truth and justice you seek different from BEAF's, NA SO's and co and vice -versa? How gullible we are is a function of our sentiments, in this case tribal sentiments. looking forward to chapter 39 ![]() |
The events unfolding the last 18 days will make for a good thriller novel, reminds me of The BlueNoWhere and The Pelican Brief, all the regular commentators on the Okah-GEJ saga will arguably make believable narration as counsel for whomever they hold brief. Make una carry on jor, when una finish make una compile all the different pages created on various Okah-GEJ saga and publish una own version, Nigeria, sick country, gullible people . |
lol, NL, Centre of free windup. Abaga may be better and Obama plus other celebs may be dissed too but those ain't the issue, stalking Mode about a distaste for his product bothers on the ridiculous. If you no like im music, no patronise, @ least that way im go no say im dey sing trash but to go to his page and spew disaffectioncriticism that is non-constructive towards his effort ain't helping him to be better. |
maedan:lol , ok[center]‘’farCLOSURE’’ 21 days and the sun no gree nack ogoro for my return each night, loneliness dey lie with me like dat virus SOLITUDE I come broke And closure<read kooli bodi> is far…this night Nouakchott sea rough I keep ear for ground, For your sweet whisper to bounce comot from water But, no! Only White horse dem dey do ojoro dey cross each oda <sighs> Like that message wey dem put for bottle I come hope For that break, any break…wey fit pinch ur loff song even if na small dat one wey only u fit make My bread and butter, but d thing no come show How far wey u and bros heart go dey assunder ? i DEY CARRY U WAKA FOR MY heart…miss you inside my bones <se na like dis e go dey dey?> Need you like air wey I breathe for this life. Lock you for dis heart-MY HEART, sa ki ofori! [/center] [center]‘’farCLOSURE’’ unedited 21 days and the sun still won’t set for my return Each night Loneliness lay by me like the virus SOLITUDE Am broken And closure is far…this night the sea is raging I listen For your sweet whisper in its splash But, no! Only White horse creases crisscrossing in their crests <sighs> Like that message in a bottle I’d hoped For that break, any break…of travelling love-strung song Orchestrated by My One and Forevermore, alas it never came <Shakes head> How further can a man’s heart be separated by distance? <editing thought> Feeling you in my heart…missing you in my bones <se na like dis e go dey dey?> Needing you for this life. Keeping you in this heart-MY HEART, Always! [/center] |
Haba jo shay ms Mae gotta da b00ty handy cheeks wey dey make u broda shout good laud!big sweet @sscake umm Jo needs dat cookie ![]() keep bros occupied even with im wi1ly burantashi rod so true Gs no fit beef Jo wey muscle be like power Uti ![]() cos ms Mae's super fine I fit bet against any odd ![]() so Jo & Mae, e-lovers make una carry fly ![]() high like Bob Marley on top of cannabis die ![]() cos dis una kpoju kpoju don pass hide & seek ![]() wey mushin shudren dey play 4 las gidi street ![]() |

perhaps Massob later and then OPC in no particular order. It seems aslong as there is enough to dole out to various reional factions and still keep a reasonable loot this emerging trend is here to stay. Please read the below.
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towards his effort ain't helping him to be better.
, ok