otukpo:
El rufai is not fit to govern a state.

No, he is fit. He is simply pursuing the Fulani agenda of kill-and-occupy. One by one they are isolating and dealing with individual tribes. Unfortunately, these tribes have their differences which prevent them from coming together to form a common front to pay the murderous fulanis back in their own coins. So, the fulanis are winning.

owukpa:


SOURCE>>>>http://www.idomavoice.com/2016/11/for-third-time-senator-barnabas-gemade.html

Apparently, you have been stalking Senator Gemade. Would you be honest enough and swear that of all the over 100 senators in that chamber, Gemade sleeps more than the rest? Petty tribalism. "Owukpa"

Meanwhile, Fulanis are threatening the govt and people of Ekiti for arresting five cows whose runaway herders had contravened the anti open grazing laws of the state.

... Take over the oil wells from those lazy money-makers and rake in the money.

What's wrong with appreciating womanhood?

Elaine Foster: Last year due to hayfever and sinus problems I developed tinnitus - western medicine say its not curable but the chinese claim it is. You will now to have train your brain to focus on something else, its very difficult,I know.

I wish you a "quiet time", Elaine. I hope the Chinese actually mean what they claim. I will try find out what they've got to offer.

baby_123: It seems like you didn't complete the course of your treatment. What nature of infection was this? Do you have a good Ear, nose and Throat doctor around you? Do your research well and try the lagos teaching hospital. Let them do a comprehensive exam. To see if the infection was well treated and if there can be relief for the noise. Also look online for experiences of recently deaf people to see if the noise is normal. Am hoping that if you can hear the noise in your head, then you may not be totally deaf. Treating typhoid which is a regular illness in Nigeria is far different from the specialty that would ne needed to treat your condition. So that doctor may not be as competent as you think. I think lasuth is best, so a team of doctors can come together to agree of a good course of treatment or relief.

Thank you. I believe I completed the course of treatment prescribed by the doctor in the first hospital where I stayed for ten days. After series of tests, including X-rays, a nurse mentioned that traces of typhoid bacterial were found in my blood, but that they were too insignificant to worry about. As I said in my initial post, I felt better after three days of treatment and requested to go home but the doctors kept me there and continued with the treatment, which was made up of more iv-drugs than the oral ones.My body became weaker as the treatment progressed. I had to be moved to another hospital. I had no problems with my ears, nose or throat. I was quite healthy before the fever that took me to the hospital. The consultant who last handled my case told me there were no infections. He, however, refused to discuss the probable cause of my deafness and tinnitus. I have also been attending ENT clinic where an ENT consultant assessed me and sent me to Abuja for some tests, after which he recommended cochlear implant. I also went to a private audiologist at Enugu who also, after conducting some tests, said implant would benefit me the most. I have equally been using the internet to access information on such issues, and I have subscribed to Tinnitue Newsletter, published by a US Tinnitus "expert". They have what they call "Tinnitus Combo pack", a drug in capsules, but its orders are for those living in the US only. I take green tea and a lot of fruits, which seems to have cut down certain unnerving "tunes" that were almost sending me crazy. I have also cut down on salt and fresh meat, particularly the red type of fresh meat-as advised in an e-mailed written tips on how to manage Tinnitus. Actually, I wouldn't be typing these lines if the condition remains as it was in the beginning. There are, of course, very stressful moments, but I have been managing to cope with it.

I thank you and everyone here of your concern. God bless you all.

Vanneni: Awwww I felt bad reading this. I'm terribly sorry. I don't have any clues as to what can reduce the noise in your head but I'd do some research. Once again I'm sorry Sir. Do take things easy and may God help you. Amen.

Thank you. Unknown to many, such expressions as yours, verbal or written, do have certain positive effects in the psyche of people in this kind of situation. I appreciate.

I am not giving up, I believe humans are yet to exhaust their God-given gift of solving their physical problems by themselves. And, where human knowledge fails, God comes in with His healing grace. Therefore,either ways, I remain hopeful.

I lost my hearing sometimes in June 2010, shortly after my discharge from the hospital where I was treated with antibiotics, including gentamycin-IV, flagyl-IV, chloramphenicol capsules, and later, floxacilin tabs. I don't think I can remember all the drugs. The hearing loss started from the right ear and spread to the left within four days. I was later told that the effect of the drugs were responsible. A doctor who wasn't happy with the combination explained that some drugs are "ototoxic" so caution is always exercised in administering them on patients. He, however, said sometimes such combinations are necessary to save life, with hearing loss as a necessary price. However, I wasn't sick to the point of death: I had fever and sought treatment from an old doctor who had been treating other members of my family quite successfully. My nephew had typhoid and was passing out bloody stool but the same doctor treated him successfully. I had trust in Him. But, looking back, I keep wondering why the doctor objected to my request for discharge when I felt better after three days on admission. He said he wanted the course of the drugs he prescribed to be exhausted before my discharge. On the fourth day, I started losing appetite, I also had stomach pain. At a point I told my wife that I suspected the drugs were now my problems. She conveyed this to the doctor but he dismissed it. And, I was never told whether I had some kind of incurable disease or what was the real problem. I tested negative to HIV, and still do. A nurse later told me there were traces of typhoid, but not much. For whatever reason, the doctor kept me there for nine days and continue to pump drugs into my veins. By this time, I was tired and had to be supported to the toilet. Another Doctor-friend who visited me advised that I be transferred to another hospital owned by a medical consultant. On the tenth day of my admission, I was moved to the consultant's clinic. Here, I stayed for another ten days. Most of the drugs administered on me there were antioxidants-IV and a couple of tablets. I was also given floxacilin capsules. A day before my discharge, I lost hearing in the right ear. I told the consultant but he wasn't willing to discuss it, he merely said when I came from the other hospital I wasn't even "talking well". Well, I got better physically but lost hearing in the remaining ear, the left one, four days after the discharge.

Now, I'm profoundly deaf. I have this variety of sound in my head that makes life sometimes meaningless to me. I was over 48 years of age when this happened, I will be 51 in 5 days-March 26th. 2013. I have been told I need a cochlear implant to hear again. Cochlear implants cost between 60-70 thousand US dollars-so I was told. I'm a salary earner, about to retire in two years. I can't afford the implant, and my employer won't help either. I have kids to train with the little I'm earning. What I need is a "quiet time". If anyone would offer tips that could help in reducing these terrible sound in my head I will be most grateful. Thank you as I wait for your response.

O.T.I.S:

some people seem to be happy with the idea that they have this God that looks after them day after day, and takes interest in them. And yet by the time you've reached the end of this sentence dozens of children would have died of hunger in somalia because that same god wouldn't send rainfail, you wouldn't accept that sort of mentality from a person, but you accept it in a God through the fear of speaking out of line.
I like the idea of a God, but not one that prioritizes my general happiness over the health and well being of others. That's the God that people worship but they can't convince me that kind of leadership is somehow justifiable. Essentially, all the signs point to either no God or a malevolent God.

"Essentially" humans have underrated their God-given freedom and abilities to recreate conditions that would make them happy on this earth. God needs not come to our aid in such avoidable problems like hunger, wars, diseases and most of the natural disasters that are increasingly causing havoc around the world. Scientific inventions geared toward solving such problems would have since eliminated such a long time ago. We are responsible for our woes.

The least that God might be inclined to do is to remind us of the wrong paths we have chosen through selfishness and such other non altruistic indulgences; which He does continually through the Prophets and other men/women of goodwill. All that humans need to make this earth a 'paradise' are here with us, followed by an almost boundless intelligence which if fully and properly used could answer all questions of physical life. God's silence is intended to awaken us from the slumber of self-defeat. Let all human inventions and social ideas be made subjects of LOVE and the world's woes would disappear in a flicker.

Atheism is the product of a narrow world-view in which individuals seek escape from higher responsibilities by denying the existence of anything which cannot be "seen on the TV". It is also laughable when one reads certain wild claims that suggest there are no scientists other than those with atheistic background. Christians do not seek to win any debate; they merely try to broaden humankind's scope of understanding beyond the narrow world of physical things into an unseen realm wherein lies the FOUNDATION of all that we see around us. What harm is there to be found in such expansion of our field of knowledge and experiences? Anyway, when humanity is finally able to dismantle those artificial boundaries that have denied it uninterrupted view of what is necessary for its collective happiness on earth then all these argument about who is winning or losing shall find no meaning in such discussions.

[quote author=ZUBY77]"I have learnt to believe that anything is possible nowadays.
It could be through, who knows.
The only way i defend my mind daily is to keep every option open".

Thank God, you didn't use the word 'True'.

"

lacasa: My qtn is, how them find out say na FULANI HERDSMEN?v

Na dead body tell vanguard?

I. Prefer being unbiased in dealings pls no mata tribe n religion pls"

For your information, the fulanis are the only people roaming about with guns in the bush around central Nigeria, the rest are farmers who desperately need peace in order to go to their farms; they don't carry guns to the farms. This the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth!

Meanwhile, in Nassarawa State:-

Three women and three children,all Tiv, were killed yesterday, 20/03/2012, at
Ajimaka-a Tiv village-when armed fulani militia invaded the community as early
as 7 am. The women and the children were killed in their farms where they had
gone to clear land for the coming season.

Meanwhile armed soldiers were seen manning roads around Udei, Ortese-yogbo road,
all in Benue, where they conducted searches on persons going into those
villages. It was while the soldiers were in these places that the fulanis
started killing and burning Tiv villages in neighbouring Nassarawa state.
Speculation is rife that the soldiers were hired by fulanis to block Benue Tivs
who might be tempted to go to the invaded communities for assistance. To confirm
this suspicion the soldiers hurriedly around 4.30 pm.after many villages, most
of them already deserted, were burnt. Ironically, the governors of Benue and
Nassarawa met in Lafia where they 'resolved to settle the crises once and for
all. But would the renewed attacks allow for such settlement? By now it ought to
be clear to everyone that fulanis owe no obligation to states authorities, they
only obey instructions of their super union; the Miyeti Allah Cattle Breeders
Association Of Nigeria(MACABAN).

It may well be that having assisted the Jukuns in Taraba and Aragos in Nassarawa
to disenfranchise and take over political powers from the Tivs, the part B of
the fulani and allies' agenda is to pursue Tiv farmers from their lands for the
fulanis to occupy with their cows; no doubt!

It's been 23 years since she left but I remember her with nostalgia: As a playfully stubborn child, she would grab me and raise her hand high, thinking I was about to receive a heavy-handed spanking I would cower and tense my body only to feel a light cupped-palm with loud sound. There were of course moments of real beating, which were usually followed by an almost tearfully tender voice of admonition compelling me to look up into eyes that glowed with unreserved love; only a mother does that!

@FXKing2012;
You are not likely to receive any satisfactory response, going by the one-sided orientation of those who don't believe God or spirit exist. Reliance on the scientific method as the ONLY means to understanding and recognising God has always forced arguments like this to end prematurely. You find contradictions in the argument of all atheists. Many of them readily agreed that science is still an ongoing thing and yet are reluctant to admit their handicap in the task of disproving God. Richard Dawkins, a tin god in atheism, has been severally quoted as saying he was not entirely sure God does not exist. Perhaps, it may well be said that Dawkins has betrayed the trust of most atheists, most especially those of the Plebian class, and they are clearly in the majority. Subjectivity, an essential aspect in spiritual discernment, has no room in the thinking of atheists who believe that anything not understood through the scientific method does not exist. Quite a task ahead for atheists.

We miss the way when we think of God as having a physically singular identity separate from all that we see around us. God is not 'an addition' to the universe but an entirety, manifesting in diverse ways resulting to the objects we see or the forces we perceive around us. How can we then disprove such a 'proposition'? The major concern of those who don't have religious beliefs would have been to question the moral authority of religions with their sad history of tragic conflicts. No one can prove that God does not exist, nor there is no spirit; they can only, justifiably, point to the horrors committed by humans against their fellows in the name of religion.

@thekrafter,
I have proof that God exists.

I am a theist, a monotheist. I also believe in Jesus Christ as a true embodiment of God's sublime qualities. and His saving grace to humanity through His messages which he demonstrated fully. But, I would like to answer this question for atheists who have so far not responded adequately: Atheists have no evidence to prove that God does not exists, they are merely not satisfied with the way many defined God and His rules for humans. And since they declined the offer of subjective 'investigation' of God, which is needed for recognising the Godhead, the WHY would never matter to them. Their concerns remain within the 'seen' world and the physical laws pulsating through and influencing the physical universe.

"Jesus was a human being" through whom God's sublime qualities flawlessly manifested. He never called Himself God. It was a perplexed Jewish audience who sought to know God because of His numerous statements that he was sent by The Father, God, into the earth. Jesus told them that God is spirit Who could not be seen, he then explained that by seeing him they have seen the Father; because in Him was power, wisdom and love in their fullness which manifested through His activities among men. Divinity is God alone, no created thing is divine. We can only talk of divine qualities finding home in those who strive upwards through genuine acts of goodwill to fellow humans, recognising and acknowledging God as the beginning from whom creation came into existence and in whom all contradictions, as perceived by indolent and confused humans, resolve themselves. Jesus, as an embodiment of God's perceptible qualities, was from the beginning as God Himself; for those qualities defined God.

South American direct transfer of 'technology'! Colombians may have their own either in Kano or Maiduguri for BH warriors.

, and they work in one of the worst environments in the world. Really, they deserve our collective sympathy and support for better welfare, and to root out the bad ones among them!.

Those who called GEJ names and described him as childish when he said BH is in the executive (including security), legislature and Judiciary can now bury their heads in shame. When Jonathan talks the wise should listen! And now, the Borno state govt officials who were unable to talk glibly when Sokoto was arrested have now found their eloquence. Whatever anyone would like to say the truth remains that BH is the child of certain interest groups in the north, with al-qaeda in advisory position. THIS WAS A BRAZENLY (BUT NOT STUPIDLY) ARRANGED ESCAPE! Planes were used to fetch BH suspects from Damaturu/Maiduguri to Abuja; an indication of the seriousness with which boko haram suspects should be handled. why send a single Hilux without a back-up? My sympathy is with some innocent junior ranking cops who may have been used without their knowledge.

@LagoShia,
Your obsession with particle details which had their time-relevance within each religion is amazing. However, I'm not surprised since Islam is more about understanding coded Arabic language than preaching and practicing peaceful ways of living. You can't successfully debate with Christians until Islam is remodeled to discard its attachment to archaic narrations of some war mongers of old whose emotion-filled voices captivated and gingered their listeners into battle fields during the early days of the religion. Such days are over but your preachers still make references to such verses as if similar conditions under which they were written exist today. Islam needs refurbishing.

Why are they silent over complaints about their needlessly outrageous allowances and bonuses? This hoodwinking won't work!

GEJ is the real leader; one who loves his fellows. Though cynics describe him as shallow in understanding of statecraft and complex human constructs, he tells his people the truth, his fears, his answers and hopes, challenging all to a debate whose outcome he knows holds out no personal benefits,,,a debate of anger, a debate of sobriety, a debate of open discourse where all cards are laid open , where the unheard are heard, the unseen are seen,,, a debate in which he himself is a participant while the Judges are the hitherto unheard and unseen fellows, whose collective pains and sorrow formed the subject of the debate, and fully aware that he himself stands unprotected from its unknown outcome, be it bad or good; what a selfless leader! Indeed,GEJ is a real man, and a hero in the making.

@bashiemu
Sometimes one wonders at such attachment to details which are not necessary factors for being peaceful and loving to fellow humans. Both Christianity and Islam had at different times been hijacked by power-hungry leaders who used them to perpetuate their holds on the people. While Christianity has struggled through peace loving individuals to regain its principles of loving one another and living in peace, Islam remains rooted in the past and seems to be sliding into anarchy through factional interpretations of the Quran which has given birth to confusion and violence. Your main concern should be on how to help those who are giving your religion the bad name, rather than worrying about how others practice their religions. One who neither goes to the mosque nor church but loves others without discrimination is better in the eyes of God than those who murder or hate others because of religious beliefs.

The Hausa/Fulani north is unwittingly closing the curtain on the stage-play titled 'Nigeria'. So sad but true.

@Wily-Wily;
Neither empathy nor sympathy in you? Beside that, they aren't only killing themselves many outside their faith, and even atheists, may have died in those attacks. It's rather a sad and horrible human defect.

@daymauler,
You got it wrong; boko haram started as 'The Nigeria Talibans' and attacked the police station and bank in Bama, and the police barracks in Gwoza before the issue of helmets came up. Even the deaths recorded during the helmets incidence were caused by attempt by the sect members to disarm the police, in which many policemen sustained serious injuries. The truth is that initial sympathy exhibited in favour of the group by most Muslims in the north encouraged the group and, largely, obscured any harm suffered by security agents in such clashes. It is only now that even Muslims have become their targets that a general outcry is ringing out from there. Extra-judicial killings, though condemnable, has nothing to do with the principles that informed the group to carry arms against the state; they only use that to still attract some level of sympathy from ambivalent individuals, or groups.

Those who think boko haram will "fizzle out" are not up-to-date with the current state of Islamic fundamentalism world-wide. Boko haram has links with al-qaeda; al-qaeda's leaders have always maintained that their enemies are the West and Christians; alqaeda is firmly rooted in violence with a long history of "success' in most of their "projects"; al-qaeda has never fizzled out in any of the regions where it has established links with local allies. So, one wonders from what hindsight such optimism emanates. A careful analysis of messages preached by many Islamic clerics would reveal a major defect which is primarily responsible for the distortions that have given rise to the present-day fanatical violence: the failure to allocate time-relevance to Quranic interpretations. For example, chapter 4 verse 95 of the Quran reads; "Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of God with their goods and their persons. God hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath God promised good: But those who strive and fight hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward".

Unquote. The time and environment in which this was relevant no longer exists, yet many Islamic preachers can't (dare?) tell their flocks that that statement was made in the days of primitive and murderous attacks against the followers of Prophet Mohammed who were actually out to introduce and establish the "concept" of one undivided, most powerful and most compassionate God to the Arabs world, a concept he, Mohammed, accepted as true during the course of His interactions with the Jews. For such preachers, every verse in the Quran is ALIVE and applicable at all times and in all situations. No wonder, thousands of hungry and ill-informed "followers" move to foreign lands where it is possible to " fight and die for the cause of Allah and His messengers" so that they can get "special rewards". Until such misconceptions are removed by the muslim Ummah, a very tedious task indeed, boko harm is likely to remain with us for as long as those whole don't have the courage or wisdom to question some ambiguous interpretations of the Quran allow them to flourish in their backyard.

@frenzy, do you think 'the products of the Nigeria police' who have always come top in peace keeping operations world wide are imported 'products' of other nations' police forces? Why do they perform excellently abroad but can't do it here? Ask yourself these questions and you might change your views.