The question is how is Esther Breakthrough still existing after so many years of scamming people. Is there no Legal Action that the govt can take against them? If anybody knows the appropriate authorities for such cases, i think they should be reported. My sister fell a victim. And yeah when they finally gave her an offer it was at a recharge card selling centre, a lady with years and years of experience o.

maclatunji:

You are the one echoing jor. Lazy to make a much needed intervention.


I just couldn't resist 'pulling your legs.'

Lazy. and busy too. but mostly because I've seen enough interventions on here to know that it hardly ever stops them, either they ignore it or even turn around and attack the intervene-r.

drzed: All this argument and insult is uncalled for. Wetin?

Somebody started a thread in honour of Muslims that lost their lives. Clearly, this is a call to fellow believers of the religion to get together and do the spiritual things their religion demands in such times of grief and crisis.

There was no need for Christian involvement in this thread, especially of the 'we nko?' or controversial kind - unless to offer support. Islam is Islam, Christianity is Christianity. If the Muslims had gathered in a Mosque, would a Christian ask why he was not invited? What is all these rubbish? We could easily start a thread: In honour of christians who died, where we can quote all the quotable verses from Genesis to Revelation. Any muslim who goes there to insert silly comments is CLEARLY looking for trouble.

Having said that, it appears even the Muslims cannot get their act together. Common to pray for the Muslims who died in an air mishap has turned into another Shia vs. Sunni battle. Wharisalldis?

Going forward, the best thing is for the Owner of Nairaland and the moderators to do, is to BAN all threads that have religious extremism or attacking another religion. Same thing for tribal or ethnic issues. These things are simply tearing us further apart, EVEN IN TIMES OF GRIEF!

Anybody is free to go and start ShiaLand, SunniLand, BokoHaramLand, AkwhatAkwopLand, RedeemedLand, LivingfaithLand, VaticanLand and even CliffordOrjiLand. Let us keep NairaLand nuetral. In this regard, the moderators and owners of this forum have fallen short. There is freedom of expression, but freedom comes with responsibility, which many people lack, apparently. In my estimation 50% of Nairalanders cannot post anything without inserting an insult or two. It is becoming a childish playground....Your mama, your papa, Eediot, Winch, You be F0ol, etc, etc.

I am seriously going to re-consider my membership of this forum if these sorts of religious and tribal wars are allowed to carry on. I became a member to learn, to communicate, share ideas and help others who are in need - and ask for help when I am in need. Not listen to some religious or tribal extremists.

Before you know it, someone will insult me for this post.


Enough!

Thank you echoing the thoughts i was too lazy to organise and post myself.

mukina2: na wa o

na real wa o. real sad and

THE general belief held by most southerners about the North is that the region is not just mainly Muslim, but wholly Muslim. Whenever I meet someone from the South and introduce myself, I am correctly placed as a Christian. But once I am asked my state and I say Borno State, the next question becomes, ‘Are you a Muslim?’ This is despite my name being a very common Biblical name, Mark, which is the second Gospel. Matter of fact, I have been asked that question while attending a church programme, with a Bible conspicuously held in my hands. You could imagine my surprise at that question. This has also been the experience of a lot of friends with common names such as ‘Emmanuel’, ‘Daniel’, etc.

To start with, out of the 19 Northern states, at least five have a majority Christian population: Plateau, Adamawa, Nassarawa, Taraba and Benue. At least six more have at least 40 per cent Christian population. These states include Niger, Gombe, Kaduna, Kogi, Kwara and either Borno or Bauchi. That then leaves only Kano, Kebbi, Katsina, Jigawa, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara as having Muslim populations above 60 per cent. How then are we all seen as Muslims?This misconception could be excused when the person has an Arabic name, as there are many Northern Christians who bear names such as Jamila, Habiba, Halima, Sadiq, and Yunusa and so on. But when the person has an obvious Christian name and is even attends church services, you really begin to wonder.

Another common perception of the North is that we are all Hausa. My usual response to this is to borrow the logical argument of Simon Kolawole, the Editor-in-Chief of THISDay Newspapers. In an article in which he attempted to educate his largely southern readership base about the North, he went thus:

“If out of the estimated 250 tribes in Nigeria, we can say that the South-West is mainly Yoruba with a few other tribes around Badagry area, the South-East wholly Igbo and the South-South being most diverse in the South with about 40 tribes, that still leaves the remaining 200 tribes in the North.”

How then are we reduced to one single ethnic group, Hausa? It is only the North-West that is close to being homogenous, mainly Hausa and Fulan[/b]i, but with still some minority tribes in the Zuru area of Kebbi State and the multi-diverse Southern Kaduna. The [b]North-East and North-Central is filled with tribes, many of whom I have never even heard of. For example, Adamawa State is so diverse that the largest ethnic group, the Fulani, is just three per cent of the entire population. In my home state of Borno, there is a local government so diverse that from one village to another, you are likely to meet an entirely different ethnic group. The number of tribes there are so many that we just address the people as ‘Gwoza people’, after the name of the local government.

Even though we all speak Hausa as a lingua franca in order to communicate amongst ourselves as trading partners over the centuries, that doesn’t make us Hausa people as much as communicating English doesn’t make you and I English people. As a matter of fact, in the North-East, Hausa people are a minority and virtually non-existent in the North-Central region.

Now, this is one belief that whenever I am confronted with, it takes me a great deal of self-control not to flip out and lose my temper.

Times without number, when I tell people I am from Borno State, I am asked how come I speak such good English. What the hell? What am I supposed to speak? Arabic? The general expectation is that someone from the North is not supposed to be this learned, this well-spoken and articulate in English, this knowledgeable. I remember when a friend asked me if my mother went to school, and the surprised look on his face when I told him that my mum earned her masters’ degree over 20 years ago. There was also a time when my dad met someone at the Lagos International Airport and they got talking. When my dad told him his profession, the man, in a fit of surprise, exclaimed, ‘I didn’t know that there were professors in the North’.

I admit the fact that the North lags behind the South educationally, especially the North-West and the North-East. But this is not due to our inability to comprehend what we are being taught, but rather[b] due to the incompetence of leadership in the region to give education its premium importance[/b] as a form of human development. We, like every other human being on the face of this earth, can excel when given the opportunity. Talent and intellect abounds everywhere. Opportunity, however, does not. I personally know of many northerners who have excelled nationally and internationally. Daily, the story of young men like Ahmed Mukoshy, who is born, bred and schooled in Sokoto, and yet, rose above his environment to become one of the emerging forces in IT in this country in his early 20s inspires me. This is just one example among many that I could cite but for the lack of space.

I find it outright disgusting whenever people claim that if not for federal character and ‘zoning’, no northerner would be able to compete in this country. Last week, I was shocked when a friend said only 10 per cent of northerners in the Federal Civil Service deserved their places on merit, and went on to add that if he had not known me personally and I were to get a job with the Federal Government, he would believe that I did not earn it on merit.

The most ridiculous one I encountered was when earlier this year, former Minister of Finance, Dr Mansur Mukhtar was appointed a World Bank director. Most of the commentators on the 234Next article announcing this achievement for this Nigerian and Nigeria made the ludicrous assertion that the appointment was done to please the North, that Dr Mukhtar did not merit it. Little did they know that Dr Mukhtar had worked at the World Bank and the African Development Bank, prior to his heading Nigeria’s Budget Office on the invitation of the then and present Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former World Bank Managing Director, who also recommended him for the post of Finance Minister when she rejected former President Umaru Yar’adua’s invitation to join his government. What is even worse is that they did not care to know: their minds were already made up and could not be confused with the facts.

Another common belief among southerners and most especially spread by southern newspapers is that the entire 19 Northern states act and think as one when it comes to issues of Northern politics. This is one of the biggest untruths about the North. Whenever northern Nigeria is mentioned, the people of Benue, Kogi and Kwara states do not feel it refers to them. Geographically, they are part of the North; politically, however, they and the entire Middle-Belt act independently. This can be clearly in the last elections where President Goodluck Jonathan won in 7 Northern states, even against his strongest opponent, General Muhammadu Buhari, who is a northerner. This was something I am sure a lot of people in the South, save for the political savvy, did not see coming.

One common sight of this perception being entrenched by newspapers is when politicians of Northern extraction speak on national issues. I have innumerably seen a washed-out Northern politician, without any influence or popularity speak regarding an issue, and the next day, newspapers carry bold headlines saying, ‘North rejects this’ or ‘North plans to do that’, quoting the same washed-out politician as speaking for the entire North. I have rarely seen a Bola Tinubu speaking and being quoted as the mouthpiece of the entire Yoruba ethnic group, or a Chief Edwin Clark for the Ijaw people. Methinks this is a way of selling newspapers by capitalizing on the image of the North as one single, political force which moves in a particular direction all-together

Admittedly, as people of the same region, we share a lot in common culturally and socially in the general terms: our mannerisms, modes of dressing, traditional titles (apart from paramount rulers with the exception of emirates), etc. Despite that, the Jukun in Taraba and the Kataf in Kaduna are very different in the specifics, as even the Bura and Marghi people of Borno/Adamawa States. To pick the attitude of one ethnic group in the North and attach it to all the others, is to put it mildly, a very short-sighted way of knowing and understanding the people of Northern Nigeria.

Another belief in the South is that the entire North is but an empty landmass with nothing but trees.I remember the controversy of the 2006 census when Kano State was said to have a slightly higher population than Lagos State. Many of my southern friends called it ‘an impossibility’. In the words of one of them, ‘Lagos is so populated that when you throw grains of rice into the air, they wouldn’t land on the ground, but on people’. However, they all forgot to factor in land mass, because Lagos State is a much smaller state than Kano State, and hence has the highest population density in Nigeria, hence making it look as though it was way more populated.
http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/politics/39214-the-north-that-southerners-dont-know

la furia: If u undastand hausa and listen to the tape, u wud realise that the message was indirectly meant for their foolish members across the north. He tried to assure them that jona will do nothin just like d past threat. He mentioned dat God is on dia side that even pharoh collapse. He went on to say that d members shld not lose faith becos they are been killed that God does wat he want, that 2day the FG might kill 10 of dem but they can kill 100 of FG soldiers. He finally went on giving motivational sermon on hw God will give dem victory.
The guy was just brainwashing and hoping for new foolish members. The guy neva sounded so confident of himself. He complained abt pple usin dia name for mischief, hahaha. Y shld a tape last so long and yet the main message was just in d first 2mins.

I hardly post on NL these days but i had to comment to thank you for translating. Imagine Pat Utomi spreading lies on Facebook that they threatened to eliminate Christians and Christianity in the video just cos he knows people cannot verify for themselves.
In addition to your translation, Boko Haram used a verse from the Quran that tells muslims 'to worry not and remain steadfast in their faith cos Allah is with them' to encourage his people and foot soldiers. It gives a glimpse as to how the Quran is being used to brainwash his followers. They'll be like after all he interpreted it from the Quran, then he must be right.

deols:

it seems you are hausa and yes, it isnt common among hausas. that is why I tried not to generalise.

No deols i'm not hausa but most of my friends been hausa can explain why i don't see it around me.

Personally, i would not change to my husband's name. I'll make it compound.
As for the female scholars, i know a lot of knowledgeable females but they never step out into the public to deliver lectures or preach in public.

You should be Muslim because Islam is the way of life with submission to only one God who has no equals, no son or father, beginning or end. This one God sends prophets to tell us about him from the beginning of time and we Muslims accept all his prophets with no exceptions.

In my immediate society and group of friends, I haven't noticed deols observation of men not allowing ladies bear their father's name should they choose. Most Ladies i know make the choice themselves, keep the father's name, make it compound or change to husband's but in the end it was their choice.

This is nonsense. elrufai is NOT behind this idea, it was conceived and is being pushed by ordinary nigerian.s

Beaf:

They took the same ugly mindset and inflicted massive problems on Nigeria. It is taking boko haram and the loss of political power to finally begin seeing the clouds of almajiris and 10 year old girl-brides; a sitting Senator from one of the most backward states (Zamfara) even imported a 13 year old Egyptian child to phuck for N250,000.00 (Pardon my language, but the situation calls for it); many argued that their religion allowed such paedophelia and was above the constitution.

It is disgusting.

. . .And madam, the core-Northern elite feels superior? It is the nature of a parasite to feel superior to its host.
It is the core-Northern talakawa I pity in all this, they are the victims who are too illiterate to even realise it.

Its not just the core northern elite that feel superior, every northern hausa/fulani feels superior to other ethnic groups. Even the beggar on the road in his mind believes he is ultimately superior to you. The superiority in itself would be tolerable(as long as its a state of mind) if only it wasn't a major contributing factor to the retrogression of the region.

A People in Terminal Decline

For a while now, I’ve had reason to believe that the people of Northern Nigeria, especially the (in)famous “dominant” group, the Hausa-Fulanis seem to be in terminal decline. Could this conviction have stemmed out of the aftermath of the 2011 Nigerian general elections and the rampage of the Northern youths against the so-called Northern leaders or the recent spate of Boko Haram attacks in the northern cities of Kano and Kaduna? Perhaps it is the intensification of the unfair media bias and the recent vitriolic, virulent and hateful diatribes against the mostly Muslim Hausa-Fulani Northerners in the mainstream and social media or the serial decline and retardation of the economy in the north and/or the region’s growing political irrelevance in the scheme of things in Nigeria. This conviction is coupled with a growing realization that little or nothing is being done by us, the victims, of our mostly self inflicted problems to salvage our future which is in dire jeopardy.

The most obvious problem is the serious leadership deficit in the North which became magnified before and after the 2011 general elections. There is almost a general consensus that Northerners who were at the helms of affairs in the country for several decades did little to better the life of ordinary people in the region in terms of provision of healthcare, education and other infrastructure, direction of useful investments and creation of economic opportunities for the population. The leaders are seen to have enriched themselves and their cronies while using an adept mixture of religion and ethnicity to keep people subjugated in the shackles of illiteracy, ignorance, poverty, and misery. Few leaders have utilized accumulated wealth towards establishing profitable enterprises that employ people, philanthropic organizations that empower others or other productive ends. Rather accumulated wealth is squandered in consumerist behaviour, in opulence in the midst of absolute and abject poverty. Interesting exposés on the leadership deficit have been written by analysts such as Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed and the columnist Adamu Adamu amongst several others.

While the deficit of transformational leadership is not exclusively a Northern phenomenon, it is more magnified in the North. It is these leaders who are perceived by many to have “sold out” the north during the 2011 elections hence the rampage of the youths against various emirs, a former speaker of the House of Representatives amongst others. Consequently traditional, religious and political leaders who used to command tremendous respect from people have lost their credibility, and to an extent legitimacy to speak on behalf of the people. Certain enigmatic “geniuses” have been de-robed of their toga of mystique. The people in turn are plagued by frustration, helplessness and hopelessness in the wake of un-inspiring leadership. The newbreeds like Nuhu Ribadu and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who are viewed with suspicion or seem more interested in embroiling themselves in political controversy provide virtually little solace.

Closely following the heels of the leadership deficit is the economic decline and retardation of the region. This economic decline has been accelerated by the Boko Haram insurgency, thanks to which the holy grail of foreign investments will now become ever so elusive. Once the basket of the nation on account of its agricultural productivity – the legendary, towering groundnut pyramids of Kano come to mind –   and its budding industrial activity, the north is now plagued by rapid de-industrialization.

Buildings housing hitherto bustling factories lay derelict and abandoned in ominous gloom in Kano, Kaduna and Zaria. Poor incentives to farmers, lack of storage facilities and access to credit has led to a decline in agricultural productivity as state governments are embroiled in one fertilizer corruption scandal or the other. With the exception of Kano and to a lesser extent Kaduna, few businesses, and enterprises especially SMEs are owned and managed by Northerners. In many state capitals, the bulk of the labour force engaged in the formal sector are civil servants[b]. The neglect of agriculture, manufacturing and other economic activity for easy oil money coming from the federal government by the state governments [/b]has aggravated this situation as the allocation is hardly directed towards reviving infrastructure, capital projects, empowering the populace or investment in non-oil sectors of the economy. The CBN governor recently stated that many states, especially in the North are economically unviable without such allocations. Instead, monthly allocations which run into billions of naira each month are expended towards recurrent expenditure and unproductive ventures such as subsidies on annual Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage trips mainly to reward cronyism. This dependence on oil revenues which has done little to benefit the ordinary Northerner has created an impression of the North as an unproductive region, a “liability” which contributes virtually nothing to the nation’s kitty but consumes so much because of its population and its size. Though a cursory look at history deflates this impression since the proceeds from agricultural produce of the North virtually sustained the nation before the discovery of oil.

A socio-cultural aspect of our numerous problems and which lies at the heart of it is our mind set as a people, especially amongst the Hausa-Fulanis . We have developed a mind-set that paradoxically makes us feel culturally superior when infact we are progressively retrogressing in many aspects.  We look down on fellow Northerners of a different religion and ethnicity, we feel our own brand of Islam is better than the Islam practiced by a Yoruba man, an Igala or a Tiv such that you’d forgive anyone for thinking the Holy Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Hausa language somewhere in Kano. We feel many career choices especially those which involve working our way to the top are demeaning; our educated youths have been brought up with the mind set to only aim for the ultimate “secure government job” or bust, and as a result many an enterprising and creative youth’s dreams have died at stillbirth by the patriarch’s final fiat.

This paradoxical superiority complex has pitched us against other “minority” groups in the north who used to be our brothers but now regard us with contempt and derision and has been played upon by mischievous people to ferment ethno-religious tensions.  Many are quick to blame Islam or the mixture of religion and politics, but a comparison of predominantly Muslim societies who are doing relatively well-off such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Malaysia and Indonesia for instance shows Islam is not the problem, rather a crude cocktail of ignorance, and the perversion of religious teachings and cultural prescriptions. While in Iran, women outnumber men in Universities as many are highly educated and articulate, female literacy in Northern Nigeria by contrast remains abysmally low, one of the lowest in the world and ditto women empowerment though attitudes are positively changing at snail pace. The problem appears as a friend once stated that we haven’t found the right interface between culture and religion in the North.

Lastly is the all-out media war and propaganda against the North. From the mainstream media to social networks, online forums to blogs, it is hunting season for anything Northern (in this context, synonymous with the Northerner of Hausa-Fulani extraction but also any of the predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the north: Kanuri, Nupe etc). At most you need an advertorial on the pages of the numerous dailies, at the very least, you need an internet connected mobile phone and you are set to begin unleashing your full arsenal against “Northerners”. The activities of Boko Haram which have claimed more Muslim lives, wreaked more havoc to Northern cities than anywhere else are attributed to desperate Northern politicians who lost out in the political chess game, a view peddled around even by erstwhile respected intellectuals; sectarian crises and conflict which abound in every part of the country, but more frequently in the North are mostly attributed to the Hausa-Fulani Muslims who are seen to be the culprits even in situations where they are victims; even the lacklustre performance of the Jonathan administration is attributed to the “evil Northerners”. The problems highlighted above: leadership, economic decline and socio-cultural challenges have rendered us a voiceless people in this media war and propaganda, we are unable to tell our stories strongly from our own perspective while others do it for us, and they paint their version of the truth in whatever colour hue they deem fit.


Alleged Boko Haram Members Arrested in 2009
We are a people bedevilled by so many challenges which of course, this writer has barely scratched the surface of. The leadership deficit has aggravated our economic decline and retardation, and threatens not only our social cohesion but our very identity as a people. In times like these, a strong and transformational leadership is what is required to mobilize our abundant human and natural resources for us to realize our full potentials, but this deficit forms the bane of our problems. Paradoxically, while we acknowledge the failure of leadership, and the incapacity or inability of the present crop of leaders to do much to salvage our pathetic situation, we are still waiting on them.  Obviously our leaders cannot do much because they are constrained, because they are not interested or because it is a Frankestein’s monster has turned on Dr. Frankestein situation. While we “wait”, Boko Haram seems to be the only force filling this leadership vacuum in a very destructive and warped sense by co-opting the vast number of idle, unemployed and frustrated youths as willing recruits to its campaign of death and terror. Gradually, Boko Haram could become the only thing that defines us as a people, if this leadership vacuum persists and by then we WOULD BE DOOMED!


Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
To further buttress my point, when I googled “Northern Nigeria” and “Arewa Nigeria”, at least 50% of the images that came up in the search results were of Boko Haram, scenes of its attacks or images of its victims. That speaks volumes.

Whatever the case, it is our generation which will suffer most because the present crop of leaders have little to lose; we will live with the consequences of their actions while our children’s future becomes increasingly uncertain. Perhaps the tone here is a tad too pessimistic when this writer concludes that the numerous problems we face in the North crowned no less by Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency gives a gloomy premonition of a bleak future . We are in a terminal decline, the question is are we doing enough to address this? What can we or should we do to reverse this certain reality?

http://zainabusman./2012/02/17/a-people-in-terminal-decline/

I had this argument with a friend when i was in primary three. He insisted he was not a Nigerian because they didn't give birth to him in Nigeria but in Kano.

Already answered the second part, i said jihad nafs is the most enjoined.

Nafs- Naf's can be said to be our evil side. The part of us that tries to stray us astray from the path of Allah.

The Arabic name of the second one is Jihad Asghar (I think)

Jihad nafs is the most enjoined and it means jihad with one's self.
A second type of jihad is the physical one to stop oppression and in defence.
Can't remember the third one , now heading to google

A police in Lagos right in front of me admitted that he'll carry out attacks for boko haram for one million naira.

Reading through the first page of most posts on NL is quite exhausting. All the tribal and religious bashing. *sigh*

kpolli:

If I remember well, b4 the army went to kill the Boko haram members, they struck first. . . . pls why did the writer leave this out we are not all dumb

Prove it.


Anyone who can prove that Boko Haram attacked before "operation flush" clashed with them during a funeral should do so

nagoma:

@Poster
Now that the Boko haram sect is gradually being unveil as a political militancy group and not an Islamic group , will the confused poster reconsider his view? The media should not decide for you what God you worship.
The West(America) is at war with Islam and the media is one of the major frontlines in  this war, the violent side works in codes , war on terror, democratization etc. The full history of this war may only be written when the war is over and as the war will not be over (there will always be muslims in this world) the full story and full plan may never be accepted publically.
Its even more complicated when some so called important muslim countries are allies in this war - knowingly or unknowingly.
From whatever statistics Islam remains the fastest growing religon in the world and the fastest growing religion in America.
As this poster leaves islam temporarily (he is swayed by media) a dozen others are choosing to become muslims.

OP is not even a muslim. na wa o!!!

omo_to_dun:

I am pleading to all the female programmers on Nairaland: please, show yourselves, communicate with us, join our discourses and let us solve problems together. It is a pity that most of you are only showing up because you felt insulted. You do not need to prove yourselves to anyone because those who underestimate you will not stop to do so if you say otherwise or if you provide evidence to the contrary.

On a second thought, maybe the reason the ladies never show up is not because they are intimidated but because they think we are [i]i[/i]diots. Chei, I hope that is not the case o.

I for one only showed up to correct the misconception. I hardly come to NL anymore. Too little time and lots to do so apologies bt i doubt i'll be joining any discourse soon.

Princek12:

Women's brains are not created to be logical; they are created to be emotional. That is why many women don't fare well in computer science and engineering. They fare well with being counselors and other careers that requires less of a logical mind.

This is wrong on so many levels i'll rather not even start with it.

I'm a female programmer. I've been @ it for bout 3 years. I've worked with .net(c#,VB, asp.net), java. Dabbled in php, web design and all sorts.  Finally found my place in mobile. So now i'm fully java. i have an android app on the market, working on the BB version to be released soon and yeah i'm a "woman"

*dhtml:

Caramba. I have never met a female programmer in NIgeria, never. . .ever. I have met female bus conductors, female touts, female okada riders. . . but NEVER EVER a female programmer.

Hello!!. i'm zeeleso, a female programmer. I also have 3 other female programmer friends

Tried sending a Feedback but i got anoda error.

Warning: Missing argument 5 for mailer(), called in /home/nairaso1/public_html/feedback.php on line 65 and defined in /home/nairaso1/public_html/includes/fns.php

Dual Core:

I guess this site is new and its yours or belongs to someone you know. Pass this on to whom it may concern:

Forgotten Password does not work
No input validation for the login form
Site is open to SQL injection. . . bad use of the PHP include().

http://www.nairasocial.net/index.php?action=configuration
"Warning: include(configuration.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/nairaso1/public_html/index.php on line 74"


http://www.nairasocial.net/index.php?action=userpredictions
"Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/nairaso1/public_html/userpredictions.php on line 61"

Nope nt mine but its a new site . That i know. will copy your msg and send to d contact provided

There's also something similar to this i stumbled upon. Check out www.nairasocial.net its a sorta football/games/prediction forum.

Stella is still alive and would show up to reveal some of obj's secrets.

Some of the superstitions i remember from childhood:
beating a boy with a broom would make him sterile
pack dirts with ur hand and u'll have shaky hands.
People should not touch u on the head or they will place a curse on u.
if a child fall from the parents back, the first seven spouses the child has would die.
Dont pick things from the floor cos thy'v been touched by satan.

Now we r talking.
Quick question ,how do i test it on my physical android device?

Fayimora:

Blacksta is ryt. Its not all about the code. YOu havent event set up your environment so what you wanna do with code? By the way only the basics would be taught, Its left for you to do whatever you want to do with it

I have set up my environment and started trying out some children things on top it, you know how developers are can be sometimes impatient. .*slaps self on the face*., no b my fault its the developer in me.

As i was saying, *clears throat*, ermm, WHERE ARE the codes, *runs away to hide*

Lovely thread, but, ermm lets get moving. Where are the actual codes? we want more lessons.

somze:

Can you name one person that received the gift or one person that rejected it I don't want my uncle's friend told my uncle told my cousin told my brother who put it on twitter and facebook.

yAP @BUBUSN on twitter confirmed he collected the gifts and he has even attempted to justify why he is not wrong for collecting it.

its not a lie. People who were there have confrimed it. They were given 150k abj and 50k lag wit a samusng galaxy tab @ the end of the meeting.

Jigawa state is heavily in debts though. Saminu turaki collected a lot of loans for so many projects. Most of them were carried out @ over-bloated figures. I havnt followed the adminstration of Lamido but i like what i see.

@ OP one of those pictures u posted is not a housing estate per say, its the staff quarters for the Jigawa state institute of information technology.

Dring turaki's regime, the government released funds for laptops to be shared to all jigawa Indigenes of that institute. The laptops(the pricing is another scam on its own) were published in newspapers but only very few students who had connections were able to get it while the official funds released was calculated by laptop per person .
Once we went to visit one the top officers @ the Basic Education. . bla bla. And his three wives all had a piece of these laptops, they dont know how to operate it, and they kept on calling on my friend to help them change the music from one hausa song to another. I was soo angry. I had my c++ project to complete and i was suffering going to the virus-infested lab computers where of course ur work wasn't safe(too many people who knew how to crack all security measures) just to get the work done.

Kudos to Lamido sha.

dejyx:


Now to the main issue.  My own theory to all this crises are neither political, religious or tribal.  This crises is simply due to ENVY.  The typical hausa man is lost in this present dispensation. He is not educated (just a few are I mean) and you will agree with me that in the world we are living in today one must be educated, learn a trade or at least buy and sell before he can make a living.  The hausa populace in Nigeria have been sleeping. They reproduce massively without thinking of a way to provide for their offspring. You will find a jobless hausa man having four wives, concubines and twenty children just sitting on a mat under a mango tree from morning till night expecting God to drop manna from heaven for him my brothers and sisters how possible is that?

This now leads me to why I say it is pure envy.  The hausa man has put himself in a corner due to his decision to populate the earth and he now sees the average southerner hustling, a good example being the so called uneducated ones like the enterprising Igbo guys who come from various villages in the east to towns like Kano Jos kaduna and bauchi becoming millonaires. This is because of their involvement in businesses like the sale of spareparts, electronics pharmaceutical products cosmetics etc. All of a sudden you find the hausa man envious of these southerners the next that will happen is this an excuse will come up it will either be a christian butcher used the same knife to slaughter a pig and a cow and sold the beef to muslim brothers which is against their religion. You will now find groups chanting arabic words well armed with swords, axes and long sickles slaughtering maiming despoiling looting and burning churches. At the end of the day who are the victims?  Youth corpers, igbo business men, yoruba muslims etc.  Just because this group of southerners practice family planning have an education, have learnt a trade, can provide for themselves and their families translating to high living standards. The Hausas are a lazy bunch most of them into black market businesses which are not consistent eg sitting down by the road side to sell dollars and pounds, waiting for fuel scarcity to sell black market fuel, selling water in jerrycans, selling sweets and cigarate, selling sugarcane, selling kolanut, walking around town as a cobler, buying old bottles/newspapers (Mai kwalabe). Now the ones that are a little connected have friends in Abuja all they simply do is sit wait for contracts to be offered them by their friends in Abuja.  Contracts they will never execute or at worst sublet to Igbos and Yorubas.  You can see why they cant imagine power slipping off their hands.  Once power is off their hands no more fake contracts no more free money everyone will have to sweat for his money.  

Most southerners sweat for thier cash in this country most know that education is vital in this our internet age. The Hausa man is just realizing it.  Infact they have a group called BOKO HARAM meaning western education is forbidden. What a pity. This BOKO HARAM is funded by educated people/working class people and someone would come out to say crises is caused by illitracy/unemployment.  We all know the destruction this BOKO HARAM caused to the country.  

I would like to conclude that these bunch of Hausas are envious of the southerners lifestyle and  believe.  If a southerner is jobless what he will simply do is simply to engage himself in something, go to church and pray to God almighty to assist him and God that is God will perform wonders.  The opposite is the case of a Hausa man.  Once a Hausa man does not get what he wants or for example he sees that he has lost an election because his main source of living is the sharing of government money. The Hausa man will draw his sword and use the black market fuel he sells to start slaughtering maiming looting despoiling and burning churches due to ENVY. At the end of the day if you say this crises is political how does killing give one political power, if we say religous why does he kill his fellow muslims, if tribal the hausa man still slaughters his fellow hausa man.  

End of Part I

I agree wit some of your points.

The problem is Envy: It is much more deeper than that. To u hustling for your daily bread n sweating to live a high standard of life, it would appear that the poor hausa man who lives in his mud house wit 50 children and hz no technology nor education should be envious of u. NewsFlash: they r not. As a matter of fact he may even think himself superior to u. Twisted right ? I know. They are content in their lives as it is. The igbos are hustlers. The yourbas are hustlers. The hausa are sleeping. They other two have set up shop in their land and become successful. The hausa saw them thriving. They allowed them to continue thriving and even with the crisis the non-indigenes keep going back there. It says a lot about the Igbo man's resilience.I also once read someone commend jos indigenes for allowing the hausa to set up shop in their land.

They have a group called BokoHaram: I've stayed in the north for a while bt i dont know who Bokoharam r except wt i hear from the media. It says they attack churches, armed forces and politcians. What does dis tell me? It started out cos they thought they were fighting a cause now the goal has shifted and they now carry out the wishes of the highest bidder. But Boko hara, does nt represent the hausa masses. Most of them dont know who or wt boko haram is and couldnt care less. They just hear it on TV.

agabaI23:

Thanks. forget about the result indicating stuff.
A friend corper who worked in Bauchi said CPC was thumb printing for your maigaskyia
two corp members in NL have confirmed that too.
One was forced at gun point to register underaged voters the other one saw rigging with his korokoro abunna eyes

This proves nothing cos well a friend corper says a lot to me too, but for argument purposes i'll assume its true.
I could have said more than my one liner , i wanted to say more until i fully understood ur statement.  Your bias is obvious. You are grasping at air to give Buhari a bad name. If you go to such biased lengths just to discredit him then you mind is irrevocably made up which makes it pointless trying to change it. and i dont like going around in circles n engaging in futile arguments.

How can you single out Buhari for a statement that can be generalised for all and any politician in the world.  A concept that can be applied to any situation. You cant ask one to prove the invalidity of a statement that nature has made valid. We cannot know what people do behind our backs; Fact
We cant say noone rigged for buhari
We cant say none rigged for ribadu
We cant say none rigged for Obama
We cant say none gossiped about me today.

People rigging for Buhari is not the same as Buhari rigging. The latter implies the former but the former cannot do vice-versa. The knowledge of the actor about the accusation is required to validate his guilt on the alleged accusation. An accusation which though u wouldn't admit the results indicate are untrue.