Brimmie: Monday, 29 July 2013
-Fashola’s aide defends unifying of 67 to Families in Anambra
-Says 1,708 beggars have so far been re-united to other states


No Culture Against Love – Wednesday July 31st, 2013 – Pastor Chris

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law (Romans 13:10).

All people are the same when it comes to love; they feel and react to love the same way. Love changes them. It brings everybody to the same plane, irrespective of the culture. There's no culture against love.

1 Corinthians 13:13 says, "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is love." If you walk in love towards people, they'll be compelled sooner or later to respond the same way, because love begets love. When you understand the love of God, you'd realize that it's the greatest power in the universe. It goes beyond cultural divides, religious barriers, ethnic differences, and social stratifications. The love of God can reach anyone, and melt the hardest heart.

Train yourself to walk in love. It's a conscious choice you have to make; it'll transform your life. Tell yourself, "I'm going to walk in love, no matter what." In John 13:34, Jesus said, "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." There shouldn't be anybody you can't love. The love-way is the way of victory; therefore, you must love everyone genuinely, even when their actions aren’t deserving of love.

The Bible tells us that God demonstrated His love for us, while we were undeserving of kindness: "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:.

Therefore, as His beloved children, we're to love like Him: "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour" (Ephesians 5:1-2).

To walk with God you'd have to love like Him. 1 John 4:7-8 says, "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God,and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." Let your language be consistent with the God-kind of love; let your life be the out-shining of His love.

Confession:
My life is the expression of the love of the father in my heart in Christ Jesus. I abound in love today, towards those in my world, and beyond, and declare that my heart is established blameless and in holiness before the Lord, for His love is perfected in me, in Jesus' Name.

Further Study:
1 John 4:7-8
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.


1 Thessalonians 3:12-13
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

Daily Scripture Reading

1 Year Bible Reading Plan: Romans 5:12-21, Psalms 52-55

2 Year Bible Reading Plan: Luke 12:13-21, Judges 6

Source : The Guardian

ndu_chucks: No one doubts the goodness in many of the Fashola's policies. Selling the so-called repatriation of "beggars" as some sort of family reunification is to say the least dishonest, and possibly criminal.




Sir many of those who were deported to the East did not choose to be deported, they were forcibly deported and accosted with armed guards. This act is criminalto say the least

naptu2: Now about the repatriation process.

I watched a documentary in 2007 in which the journalists followed the story of a man from Kaduna. The man had been a beggar on the streets of Lagos. He was arrested by the environmental sanitation task force. He was given the options of rehabilitation, imprisonment or repatriation. He chose repatriation because, according to him, he lived a better life in the village. He was bussed into Lagos by some people who promised him that he would be given a job as a security guard in Lagos. In actual fact there was no job. The people just dumped him at Ikeja. So he preferred to go home and farm. He was returned to Kaduna. The Kaduna State Government and his family were informed about his impending repatriation.

I am in favour of voluntary repatriation like the one described above, but I'm against forced repatriation. I think the Lagos State Government should launch an investigation into the repatriation process to find out if it's still working in the way that it was designed.

Some people have claimed that they were forcibly expelled from Lagos, but the Lagos State Government has also stated that it has not forcibly expelled anybody. It's important that an investigation is launched to find out

1) Who these people are

2) If they were arrested and expelled

3) Who arrested and expelled them (if they were actually arrested and expelled)

Etc.

It should also be noted that the Lagos State Government is not the only government that practices repatriation. The Federal Government, which controls Abuja, also practices repatriation.

bongila:
Stop posting lengthy BS abegiii.This is one time too many!@ Topic damage control.

django1: I'm beginning to think Naptu works in Alausa.

Why should you be telling these people the same thing over and over again? You no dey tire?

If you want to hang a dog, any rope will do. Fasola and the entire yoruba has been marked as enemy by the irrendentist from the east, no matter how much history lesson you give, they'll still come at you with another vile post.

Hahahahahahaha!

This is so interesting! I'm posting on two threads at the same time, on one thread I'm being called an "ACN goon" (the "Fashola largassese" thread), while on this one it is being implied that GEJ is my "master". Anyway I'll add them to my list.

naptu2:

I'm going to add that to my list.

Let's see. . . . All the things I've been called on nairaland.

"Government official or SSS agent", "Benefiting from Lagos State Government", "Yoruba Boy", "Northerner", "GEJ asslicker", "librarian", "journalist", "you people" (I suspect that the guy meant either muslim or northerner), "Fashola". I think there's more.

Ogbuefi_Negro:

Austin Peter's pikin
Peter Obe

lol

Ogbuefi_Negro:

Good morning my brother. lol.

oh i forgot o, add "oko ishilove" put for the names. where is she, surprised she hasnt shown up.

pro01:

I used to respect this guy, since I erroneously thought he was quite knowledgeable and objective. Unfortunately, his recent posts expose him as a terribly jaundiced, tribalistic, clannish, and shamelessly prejudiced character, no different from the other oily ACN worshippers trolling all over NL turning truth on its head with their hypocrisy. Now, one can no longer be deceived by his pretensions.

If you read the report about the ILLEGAL DEPORTATION of Nigerians from Lagos to Onitsha, you would have read that the victims were deported AGAINST THEIR WILL, and to a state other than their states of origin for that matter. How dare you and your fellow oily hypocrites come here to tell bare-faced lies about "re-integration" or "reunification"? So you take a Nigerian that hails from Ebonyi State but is LEGALLY resident in Lagos State, and forcefully deport him or her to a dangerous bridge-head in Anambra State in the middle of the night, and call that "reunification"? In any case, how many Igbo destitutes would you find in Lagos, compared to the Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba ones that are uncountable? If you have any truth in you, how many Igbo beggars have you encountered in the streets of Lagos? How come, then, you hateful twerps are more interested in 'reintegrating' igbo people, against their wish?

Look, a time would soon come when this matter would be taken up with the seriousness it deserves. You tribalistic, hatefully envious, lazy, oil-eating buffoons would get more than you bargained for. Just wait for it.

Hahahahahahaha!

This is so interesting! I'm posting on two threads at the same time, on one thread I'm being called an "ACN goon" (the "Fashola largassese" thread), while on this one it is being implied that GEJ is my "master". Anyway I'll add them to my list.

naptu2:

I'm going to add that to my list.

Let's see. . . . All the things I've been called on nairaland.

"Government official or SSS agent", "Benefiting from Lagos State Government", "Yoruba Boy", "Northerner", "GEJ asslicker", "librarian", "journalist", "you people" (I suspect that the guy meant either muslim or northerner), "Fashola". I think there's more.

Ogbuefi_Negro:

Austin Peter's pikin
Peter Obe

lol

Ogbuefi_Negro:

Good morning my brother. lol.

oh i forgot o, add "oko ishilove" put for the names. where is she, surprised she hasnt shown up.

naptu2:

Really? I'd like to see verifiable evidence. The fulani also had armed military escorts when they were relocated, but that did not mean that it was forced. They were only relocated after negotiations had taken place and they had agreed to be relocated.

victims:
One of the destitute, Mr. Osondu Mbuto, from Ohaozara in Ebonyi State and a petty trader in Lagos, had told journalists that they were dumped at about 3.00am on Wednesday morning at Upper Iweka after being detained in Ikorodu, Lagos, for over six months for alleged wandering and other minor offences by the Lagos State Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) officials.

They were brought to Onitsha in four buses, escorted by Anti-Riot Policemen. Mbuto said he was arrested by the KAI officials while going to his shop on December 18, 2012.

ndu_chucks:


The Fulani relocation you referenced above may have been negotiated but the deportation of Igbos in question was not a negotiated deportation as some would have us believe. Accounts by the deported victims do not support the idea of negotiated relocation in this case.

If you have any evidence of this negotiation, please provide it and some of us will apologize. For now, I still believe that the deportation was a criminal and inhumane act.



Pray tell, is it customary to dump people under a bridge after escorting them with Anti-Riot policemen? Sir this
does not appear to be a negotiated deportation at all. Please stop this lame attempt at defending the indefensible. naptu2, cut your losses now, give it up and apologize for a botched operation, on behalf of a otherwise, fine government.

But the Commissioner for Information in Lagos State, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba denied the speculations that the government deported 67 persons from Lagos.

He said: “We did not deport anybody. By the constitution of Nigeria, everybody has a right to live in any part of the country. But we have been emphasizing that people must live within the law. However, it is not true.”

naptu2:

The bolded has been said by one side, while the others side has said something different. You may choose to go with one side, but I will not. Secondly, why should I apologise? Am I the Lagos State Government?
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ndu_chucks:

You have been providing us with links to support your points and I appreciate the links. I challenge you to provide links to show that the said deportation was negotiated. Who negotiated on behalf of the deportees? Who represented the state?

Do you know why you will fail in your attempt to provide the links I asked for? Its because no negotiations took place. There is no need to appear dishonest about this issue.

By the way, the commissioner you quoted above did not have any choice but to deny the deportation, knowing fully well that such deportation constitutes a criminal act. I'm sure you didn't expect him to publicly admitting to a crime. The same commissioner made no mention of a negotiated repatriation, so where did you get that falsity from?

ndu_chucks: @naptu, ngwannu lets agree to disagree on this issue. We also agree that Eko o ni baje, kuma, Nigeria o ni baje lai lai lai.

naptu2:

There have been two sides to the story. You've decided to take one side hook line and sinker, without questioning it. I've decided to listen to both sides and question them. But I'm not surprised since I've noticed that you condemn anything that's done by the ACN regardless of whether it is good or bad. I also wish you knew how funny your post is. Anyway, read below.

Ishilove:
Only you??