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Let it be true o,since it is coming from a dean
of a university in nigeria,I know they won't be
intimidated.
Keeping my finger crossed,hoping this aint
fake.



Na wa o,hard fact,u wan b d first to comment?

Let it be true o,since it is coming from a dean
of a university in nigeria,I know they won't be
intimidated.
Keeping my finger crossed,hoping this aint
fake.

Let it be true o,since it is coming from a dean
of a university in nigeria,I know they won't be
intimidated.
Keeping my finger crossed,hoping this aint
fake.

KnowAll: It is not rocket science to determine wether the blooody thing works. Just test it on someone with HIV and the rest would be history! haba!!!

Do you read @ all? It was tested and it gave a positive result.

Bt they av to take their time to research well to avoid or defeat heavy criticism,internally or externally.

Let it be true o,since it is coming from a dean of a university in nigeria,I know they won't be intimidated.
Keeping my finger crossed,hoping this aint fake.

Thread closed till further notice

Lol,my joke president,u try.





Front page please.

Mr mod,why do you have to close my thread? wen it was very obvious I posted it first.

Mine was properly referenced,the same documentation.I don't like that.

www.nairaland.com/1153554/mfm-church-arrests-detains-saharareporters

Security and Task Force team at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, MFM, harassed, molested and detained illegally a renowned citizen journalist who attempted to report a New Year's Eve crossover night service at the church headquarters along the popular Lagos-Ibadan express road.
Omoyele Mr. Sowore, publisher of Saharareporters, accompanied by Lagos-basedcitizen journalist, Segun O'Law another journalist, who report for the site from Lagos, stopped over at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church to cover the said crossover night service, but a joint task force of the church made up of personal church security, armed police and the State Security Service turned the church into a rights violation ground.
The journalists did a stopover at MFM, as they were hinted that the church has one of the largest gatherings within the city that night.
The crossover night event is one of numerous church services in which every church establishment gets its largest congregations inthe night preceding the New Year, seeing the congregants waiting ecstatically with prayers for a new year of blessing and miracles.
But authorities of the church declined to respond to the allegations. A man who answered our reporter's call declined comments, saying we should come physically to the church's headquarters in Lagos for any enquiries. He insisted that the telephone number listed on the church's website was meant for those interested in prayer consultation. He also declined to give his name.
"I can't make any comment," the official said."Just come to our office and that is the only way we can respond to your enquiries."
Mr. Sowore arrived the church bearing a 5D Canon Camera, with a frame holder on his shoulder. The accompanying citizen journalist,Mr. O'Law, held a dual purpose shots and video-taping mini Panasonic Camera.
Upon entering the church's main gate, which outlooks the busy Lagos end of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the crew moved into the auditorium and identified themselves to the security officers and ushers they encountered every inch of their way, and telling their mission.
The crew's mission was to take photos and cover the crossover night service. Ushers and protocol officers allowed them in and motioned them towards the altar after scrutinizing their identity cards. But as Mr. Sowore reached the front of the General Overseer, Pastor D.K. Olukoya, who at that moment was giving his sermon, he was mobbed by several church Task Force officers guarding the altar, some of them wearing aprons with inscription 'Prayer City Army'.
Mr. Sowore was then dragged to the back of the altar by a mob that threatened at first to smash his camera. The mob later handed him over to the police and the SSS operatives attached to the church.
Accompanying citizen journalist, Segun O'Law, rushed to the scene to identify Mr. Mr. Soworeas a journalist and explain the team's mission to the church. By this time, a larger crowd hadgathered behind the altar minutes as Mr. Sowore argued that he was only doing his job. The mob was unimpressed.
The argument attracted more church members, one of who ranted that he would wear down the Jesus in him and transform intoSatan to kill Mr. Sowore.
For wearing neck beads designed of cowry shells (which he wears to showcase his 'Africanness'), some of the church security operatives described Mr. Sowore as a 'sinner', 'satan incarnate', among other vilifying christening.
Moments later, the crew were pushed into a security van and whisked to a detention post within the church's expansive premises. The Task Force, who had demanded Mr. Sowore's identity card had also seized it, forcefully detained the crew and invited the Division Police Officer of Ibafo Police station, which oversees security in the area.
The D.P.O., upon arrival, inspected Mr. Sowore's local identity card, which he uses as a special correspondent for one of the numerous Nigerian media he collaborates with. The D.P.O. confirmed it was genuine after making some calls through to the media office. The D.P.O. however disappeared after confirming who Mr. Sowore was, declared he would rather not get involved and advised the church to allow for amicable settlement to avoid possibly blowing the issue beyond reasonable proportion.
The church task force however adamantly refused. Instead, they repeatedly requested to delete the photos and video recordings in the cameras before releasing the devices and the journalists. The crew remained in the church detention for four hours.
Within the period of the journalists' illegal detention, one of the MFM pastors in the task force emerged with a cane and attempted to flog Mr. Sowore, but he was cautioned. The pastor and his task force team members had to the sight of the two journalists, flogged, slapped and humiliated some teenage boys and girls who were arrested within the church premises for selling bible literatures, prayer books, printed praises and worship songs and sachet water.
The online advocacy and anti-corruption whistle-blowing website publisher was shocked when he realized that MFM maintains an illegal detention security post.
Mr. Sowore said his intention was to maintain a low profile all through, so as to experience what an ordinary journalist would go through, while fighting against authoritarian attitude of established local African institutions towards journalists.
The low profile style of Mr. Mr. Sowore however ended when one of the senior ministers in the church, who had spotted Mr. Sowore among the crowd behind the altar before they were whisked away to the detention post, waded in and enlightened the task force that Mr. Sowore was the publisher of the international advocacy site, Saharareporters.com.
The mobs, security and task force men quicklyopened the website and googled Mr. Sowore's name. They were weakened and pleaded that all footages taken in the church be deleted, but Mr. Sowore turned down their request.
The church had a crowd of about one million people at the service and series offerings, including 'last offering for the year 2012' and 'first offering for the year 2013' among others were obtained from the over one million crowdpraying away their emotions in the night heralding the New Year.
On January 2nd, the crew also stopped by a festival of Masquerades while travelling through Ondo State to cover a traditional African masquerade dance in Erekiti. This time also,Mr. Mr. Sowore and his crew introduced themselves and presented same identity cards they showed the church security. The masquerades welcomed and warmed up to them. After their coverage, the crew contrasted between the attitudes of the MFM church and the masquerade practitioners in the same circumstances of filming an eventof public interest.
The MFM church sits on massive hectares of land along the popular Lagos-Ibadan expressway. It also runs an expensive private university attached to it.
The church's university, Mountain Top, is unaffordable to most of the offering-paying members of the MFM church, members say.
Some members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God and the Living Faith Church, otherwise known as Winners' Chapel, also complained they cannot afford tuitions in the Redeemers' University for Nations [RUN] and Covenant University [CU] respectively.
Universities founded by Islamic organisations are also believed to be too expensive than members can afford.
Before the emergence of the prosperity pentecostal churches, schools created by earlychurches were more affordable than most of the public schools, those who attended those schools said.
But there is now a reverse in the trend with schools owned by religious organisations now imposing overwhelming tuitions on students, encouraging state-owned institutions to increase their tuition by up to 200 percent to compete with expensive faith-based schools.






http://stateofnigeria.com/forum/index.php?page=topicview&type=misc&id=2715

Florena: 1. No lov btw d 2 of u
2. U re havin an argument
3. She is wayward

Sis,I just checked ur pic bt I have something to tell you,nairaland is fun is u re faceless so I think you should remove ur pic asap.

Asanwa!

seanet01: You are wrong. We ACN caucus already knows the next Governor of Lagos state.
First name starts with M and Last name ends with E.
Figure it out.

Muiz banire

For reservations pls call 040240440214021k
@ post,I ll modify later.

They just want gej to settle them.simple!

Fill the 10 litre,pull it in the 7 ltr,the one in the 10l will remain 3l(10-7)=3.repeat it 3rice u ll av your 9lt.

Remember to used an extra bucket for putting the 3l each time u re renewing the process.

I proclaim a violent free 2013 ijn.

May you be financially,medically,emotionally,academically successful in 2013 in jesus.

ikennaya: This question kept me thinking for years now..
WHAT GOES UP WITH TWO LEGS AND COMES DOWN WITH THREE LEGS?

Age

A very interesting thread and a frontpage material..
But pls,try and edit ur writing with the necessary paragraph,punctuation,and spaces to enhance readability.

Thanks,I love ur analysis,and u spoke well wen u said that they spend less time on nl.just like the political scams,u hadly see them comment on any other thread apart from gej,pdp and ac n.

A comedy film with a tragic ending.
Sad and unfortunate.

femi4: Which kain thread be this?

I no no ooo,I open thread to know the repercussion of pipu wey use juju dey scam.na so them come hijack am o

www.nairaland.com/1144960/fans-annoyed-dbanjs-koko-concert











THREAD CLOSED.
THANKS

la furia: ...people are allowed to walk in bikini while others who chose to cover from head to toe are not allowed because YOU dont feel comfortable about it smh. u talk about insecurity, u want us to beleive that most of the people behind d bombings were dressed like that? u just made it up with no fact, at least no one has said one of the gun men were dressed in burqa.
of what benefit is it to you id people? is the tag of suicide bomber written on peoples foreward. she uncovers her face for u too see but has a bomb underneath, what do u do? people donot hide their face in nigeria to commit crime. u simply hate people dressing in burqa which is ok and your opinon because the reality is people will surely create a way of commiting crime.i guess the govt should ban hoodies as well. so quit forming a SSS.

Smh.....you just failed common sense 101.
For allah's sake this ia nys"corp"(meaning a paramilitary),
Do you support out soldiers or policewomen dressed like this while carrying their duty?

Yes or no.
Your response will tell us the iq rate.

D'BanJ's Koko Concert Goes Bad!!!!


Dbanj disappointed his fans at the concert.
Micro-blogging site, Twitter, was agog with criticism of the end of the year concert by popular Afropop musician, Dbanj, tagged Koko Concert held at the Eko Atlantic Beach, Lagos .

Many of Dbanj’s frustrated fans who took to twitter to vent their anger described the concert as lacklustre and ill-managed.

In the past weeks, the concert has enjoyed a lot of hype in the media and was one of the most expensive musical concerts in the country. Some fans paid as much as N1 million to attend the concertwhich also has Hollywood actor Idris Elba; America rappers, Pusha T and Big Sean; as well as Nigerian-born British rapper Tinnie Tempah; on parade.
Fans were particularly disappointed by Dbanj’s performance. Many of them who went to the concert hoping to hear him perform some of his popular tunes were heartbroken as the musician chose to perform his most recent tunes that many have problems relating to.


“Dbanj does not have any song to sing.. Terrible. Let tomorrow come first,” said a fan tweeting from the handle @RicDizZle.
“Sing Suddenly or Mogbonofelifeli if you know say e sure for you!” @RicDizZle continued referring to some the musician’s popular tunes.

Dbanj, who is used to a mimed performance, had problems adjusting to performing to a live band, some attendees said.
“I think Dbanj is the worst performer of the night #kokoconcert. Easier to perform with a CD. Live performance no be beans [not easy],” said a fan tweeting from the handle @ebraheemshehu
“I have a lot of respect for #Nigerian artistes who perform with a live band but i don’t think #Dbanj killed it today. #kokoconcert,” said Fidelis Mbah, a reporter with the BBC.
“That’s not a live band, just a bunch of confused electricians,” said another fan tweeting from the handle @TheBlackHermit.
Insulted fans

His woeful performance aside, many of fans, who stayed awake allnight to see him perform at the concert and those watching the live stream of the event on NdaniTV, said Dbanj’s worst blunder of the night was when he said: “The people wey pay me money na dis sidedem dey” (those that paid me are on this side) while apologising to those at the VVIP section of the concert for below-par arrangement made for them. At a point he even asked those at the popular and VIP sections to apologise to those at the VVIP for the inconvenience they suffered.

Fans at the popular section and VIP paid 5,000 and 20,000 respectively. Many of his fans who felt insulted reacted sharply:
“Disgusting that he only keeps apologising to VVIP. The 5K ticket holders are the real fans and the ones promoting his music . Shame,” said a fan tweeting from @Rebl_jade.
“Dbanj needs to stop acting the fool with this VVIP thing. So rude!”said @EniolaHundeyin
“And he had the nerve to ask the 5k & 20k people to aplogise to the VVIPs. I say it, the concert was an allegory for Nigeria as a whole,” said Tola Sarumi tweeting from @AfroVII.

“Only in naija (Nigeria) you pay for something and STILL get insulted. Customer appreciation? Absolute zero,” said a fan tweeting from @kennagq
A complete mess
From tiresome trek along the sandy beach, inadequate parking space, to Dbanj’s fake American accent, the general perception was that the overpriced concert was a failure.
“The worst day of my life! Dec 29th, Koko concert. Despite d negativity, I managed to hold my head up nd stay positive! Home now..#NeverAgain” said eccentric Channel-O presenter, Derenle Edun.

“Call me a hater but Dbanj is too big of an artist to be putting out mediocre shows like that!! #kokoconcert,” said @natashamutale
“This guy better not be planning to drop any album soon. People will refuse to even bootleg it,” said Tome Buluku tweeting from the handle @IamTome.
“There’s def no koko concert next year sha. Not with this crap,” said Yemi O tweeting with the handle @mimio193
“D’Banj speaks like Igbo man from Iweka Road now,” said Onyeka Nwelue.
“@iamdbanj sold more VIP & VVIP tickets than d no of seats available..we had to hustle for seats..pathetic,” said Tokunbo Otitoju tweeting from the handle@fimiletoks
“In Koko Concert, Money can’t buy class. LOL. 1M for table no meanyou no go do endurance trek to and fro,” said @Shimoshi1.

http://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=488794394492064&id=250469034991269&set=a.298305133540992.69499.2504,

Is it the bamidele. Victor living in surulere or the one in epe or oshodi?

Na wa o

.....

Well,if u can't beat them,you.....
3rd to comment

Source pls

sexiestharam: Uncle Seun, why haven't you done something about this people who claim they are first, second, last to comment, etc. You banned a lot of us for using the G word. Is this their style not more idiotic
and stupid? Please
and please, stop them now or else, we the G family you killed will resurrect again. thank you!

Nonsense! Infact,how does this affect the price of .......em em em

Ok

Prediction time;This must make front page.

@ topic,dats cools,I didn't allow anybody tell me,I was there live and direct!