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goodslayer: well put, devoid of all the childish tantrums that characterize the gibberish churned out earlier by the bling bling wearing, 50 cents ala jay-z wannabe pastorprenuer P.R goons.

Falls from chair.

So, these politicians have no money to construct a better podium. No wonder they drive away while some people beg for 50 naira on the street under a scorching sun.

nora544: .

Well said.

torchwave: gosh....I don't make it a habit of giving answers to pointless questions. can't help you.

I didn't seek your help. You barged into my thread. Do you remember the way out?

<=================To the left. Remember to close the door.

torchwave: I believe I have already done that.

You didn't actually. Let me ask you again perhaps you skipped the question. Why can't you go around the continent to heal ebola patients. Did Jesus need help on the cross or not.

torchwave: I tell you, the ways of God are mysterious. He permitted her death for reasons best known to Him.

God is able to keep all His children from harm even without the need of their praying to Him like He kept the Israelites from the all the plagues He brought on the Egyptians through Moses, but He permits the death of some of His saints through various means for reasons best known to Him.

Know this, if the number of her days was not up in God's calendar, then the evd that took her life would have been unable to touch her.

Precious in the sight of God is the death of His saints. This means He already has a better plan for His children whose lives are cut short by evil in addition to the fact that He permitted their deaths so that they can come home to be with Him according to His good pleasure and what a glorious homecoming whether it be death by decapitation, burning on the stake, wild animals, cancer, hunger, disease, war, natural disasters, fatal accident, natural death etc etc....

It doesn't matter the means by which death takes a true child of God. He or she has been given the great grace to come and be with the Father forever and ever.

Note, like other evils that plague the world, God has permitted evd to take the lives of the just and the unjust as He makes His rain to fall on both and His sun to shine on both.

Blah blah blah. Answer the darn questions. I am tired of rhetoric.

Donfamous: and what about those martyred for Christ also? Isn't Christ powerful enof to save them. There is difference between he can do it and he'll do it. If such happens to u (god forbid) and takes u away, ppl will say the same thing like was he not a Christian why can't Christ save him? But u AV confessed in ur heart that is either the doctor saves u or die. As a man thinketh in his heart so he is. May ur faith make u whole

Continue to play with semantics. Are you saying there is duplicity in Jesus ways of selection? Sorry bro, Jesus cannot save. Your supposed Jesus could not save himself on the cross however.

torchwave: She preached the Word in the face of danger, she prayed for the sick, her life was a testimony because a dreaded disease like evd did not stop her from serving God - She fought the good fight of faith and died like a brave soldier of Christ.

Therefore is laid for her the crown of life which she shall receive for a life well spent and a glorious exit.

No Bros, leave story. Why did Jesus refuse to cure her?

Donfamous: there is nothing they can do if they were not sent. Only him has the power to do as he pleases.

LOL. So no one from the millions of Christians across African continent has been sent since. Is there a dearth of Messengers?

Can he truly cure Ebola. Why you and your pastors not traveling all over the continent in search for Ebola victims and give the adequate cure.

Donfamous: then ur salvation is ingenuine if u stiLl think Jesus can't cure ebola.

SporaD8: Thanks for the adjustment.
...but for the sake of everything that is good, why is this dude fashola not yet operating at federal level?
A big fish is swimming in shallow waters here!

Because he was not elected to operate at Federal level yet.

SporaD8: I don't mean to sound selfish.
With news like this continually gracing our nation dailies, tell me why Lagos will not be loved by foreign investors. Of course, Lagos will be held in high esteem!

Fixed.

mazaje: You are here, didn't you hear that pastor Jo traveled to Tanzania and healed a man with ebola in the name of Jesus?. . .Dey there. . .

Agbaje couldn't substantiate his claims. Using the name of man to cure diseases is absolutely fooolishness.

JOE BLOW TOWN, Liberia—“Sis” Jartu Kerkulah was in the floral-print chair in her living room when the burial team in biohazard suits found her. Behind her was a bulletin board with snapshots of some of the people who had enriched her life of 46 years, a list that included her four children, her siblings, and friends from her Pentecostal church. An open prayer book lay face-down on her armrest. A toy fire station rested on the linoleum floor beside her feet.
To the five men who had come to carry her away, she was apparently the latest victim of Ebola in lower Margibi County, a muddy stretch of land where gangly rubber trees bow over chest-high grass. To the scores of neighbors who stood in the fine rain outside her home that day in late August, and to others who knew her well, she was the praise-and-worship leader at the local Bethel Heart of Faith Church, the one who entered the homes of the sick to pray for their recovery.
“She was a prayer warrior,” recalled her friend, Retta Livingstone Wahid.
Sis Jartu would place her palms on the stomach, or at times the forehead, of the sufferer she visited. Then she’d speak to the Holy Spirit and request a heavenly intervention.
At other times, she’d sit on the lawn outside her house and chat with the passersby who walked the town’s dirt paths.
In the weeks before her death, as Ebola was stalking the tin-roof homes of rural Liberia, her friends and family had come to worry that she was growing closer to God in a way that jeopardized her stay on Earth, they said. They begged her to stop touching the sick. To each of them she replied, “I know my God will protect me,” Mrs. Wahid recalled.
Near the close of August, Sis fell ill. When her fever didn’t break, her children carried her to a health clinic nearby but there was no room to admit her, family members said. They left with a handful of painkillers. Then they returned her home, the place where most West Africans believed to be infected with Ebola now suffer as hospitals in the region cope with a shortage of space.
Her husband, David Kerkulah, a retired security guard, was among those who had gathered on her lawn that day to say goodbye. The two had been separated during the past year, he said, but after hearing the news of her death he’d come to see her off.
He’d spent the prior night sleeping on a wooden bench outside Sis Jartu’s window, he said. The couple’s four children weren’t able to join him. They were under quarantine in a clinic because they had bathed and cared for their ailing mother.
“I talked to them today on the telephone,” Mr. Kerkulah said to Rev. Kortu Koilor, acting director of Bethel Heart of Faith, as they stood together. “They told me they were doing well,” he added.
The men on the burial team made a circle on the lawn and took turns dressing each other for the biohazard. First the gloves, then another pair of gloves, then a head-to-toe plastic body suit, face mask, goggles, then a third pair of gloves. All set, they walked up to the side door of the lonely house at the bottom of a wet hill.
Sis Jartu had left a floral-print bedspread hanging on the laundry line. Inside, her cushions and chairs were scattered, her bed wasn’t made. It wasn’t typical for a woman who was known to loathe a mess, who died in one, alone, with nobody allowed to touch her.
She was carried from the house where she had lived for 15 years, into a cargo van, the biohazard crew spraying bleach on the beige and brown linoleum one last time as they went.
Some of her well-wishers shot video on their cell phones. Many teared up. Around their feet, her chickens stayed busy pecking at the grass.
She left Joe Blow Town in a body bag within another body bag, with a police car leading the way to the burial site. Her family had been given only 24 hours to process their loss. It wasn’t the kind of farewell they would have wished for.
Her oldest brother, John Simgbae, 52, who is also a pastor, would have wanted her buried in the customary manner for lower Margibi County, though he understood, he said, why that was not possible now.
First, the family would have brought her body to the church and spent the night there. They’d have spent all the next day in the church too, singing hymns over her and touching her, passing out soda and snacks to the bereaved. On the following day, they’d have walked her to the cemetery, wailing and sobbing. Some might have thrown themselves into the grave.
“Then the pastor would just take a shovel according to Genesis chapter two,” her brother said, taking off his spectacles to wipe his eyes, “as God said that from the dust you comes, dust you will go.”
Instead, Rev. Simgbae found himself standing on a soccer field, one of only four family members permitted by lower Margibi County to attend his sister’s funeral. They had to remain a safe 50 meters back from the spot just over the hill where pallbearers in rubber boots were burying Sis in the restricted, Ebola section of her hometown’s cemetery.
Only 23 people came to Sunday mass at Bethel Heart of Faith the next morning, enough to fill just two pews. The rest were too frightened, Rev. Koilor said.
The last month had taken a terrible toll on this congregation. Tebeh Moore, known as “Misses,” had come down with an ailment that started in early August with convulsions and fever, symptoms consistent with Ebola. The church director, Rev. George S. Karwah, had driven her an hour and a half to the hospital. A week later, Rev. Karwah got sick in the same way, according to several residents here. The associate director, Rev. Samuel C. David, came by the house to pray with him. Then, Rev. David got sick, residents said. That time, somebody called an ambulance, which took several days to come. All three died, they said.
“I am to announce to this church that we lost our praise and worship leader, Sis Jartu,” Rev. Koilor began into the microphone. “She was laid to rest yesterday.”
A wail came from the rear of the church, where a woman began to sob.
God was testing their faith, Rev. Koilor preached. “We are not going to stop worshipping you!” he shouted again and again to a chorus of “Amen!” from the pews.
As the sermon closed, a drummer, a boy of 11, picked up his sticks and began to play. The rhythm announced a hymn known all over Liberia, “Thank You Lord.” A keyboardist pumped out joyous notes.
The funeral mass became more like a celebration, as churchgoers spun around the aisles, ran circles through the church, and pumped their fists in the air. ”Thank you Lord!” they sang. It was, several later said, the kind of farewell Sis Jartu would have wanted.

Source:http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/BL-DISPATCHB-4119utm_content=buffer8aa01&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

^^ Guys, why these condolences and regrets?

Charity Uzoechima, the 26-year-old girl who converted to Islam and kept in the palace of Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, for “safety” for three months, is in the news again.

Her fate and whereabouts since July last year when she was brought to Government House, Minna, Niger State for reconciliation with her parents had not been known until days ago when she was said to be prepared and almost given out in marriage to a Muslim lawyer without the consent of her parents.

The last time she was brought to public glare was July 3,2013 in Government House, Minna.

She was not alone on that day. Her parents, Pastor and Mrs. Raymond Uzoechima; their lawyer, Femi Ikotun; the National Secretary of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Dr. Musa Atake; CAN Chairman, Niger State, Rev. Musa Dada; and immediate past governor of the state, Engr, Abdulkadir Kure; among other stake holders, were at the peace meeting held at Government House, Minna on that day with the deputy governor, Alhaji Musa Ibeto, presiding.

The purpose was to reconcile Charity with her family. But the reconcilation failed due to a pending court case that compelled Charity to remain in Etsu Nupe’s palace until the case was discontinued.

The deputy governor said after the meeting that the issue at hand was not religion but how to settle the case out of court amicably.

“We believe that the issue at hand is not the religion Charity should practice but how the case should be settled out of court amicably and get the girl reconciled with her parents,” Ibeto remarked. Charity’s father, Uzoechima, had filed a case on July 15, 2013, praying the court to bar the Sharia Court from entertaining a suit filed by his daughter on the grounds that the court lacked competence and jurisdiction to hear the suit.

Charity, now Aisha, had dragged her father to Sharia court, Bida, seeking its protection from the father over her conversion from Christianity to Islam in order to exercise her new faith without hindrance.

Meanwhile, the lady was withdrawn from the Etsu Nupe’s palace and kept in the deputy governor’s house where she was said to have been residing.

However, arrangements were said to have been made to give Charity out in marriage according to Islamic injunctions to a Muslim brother, said to be a lawyer.

The secret plan was allegedly halted only hours to the wedding when a letter was written by the National body of CAN to its Niger State wing to investigate the matter and make its findings available to appropriate quaters.

Niger State CAN Chairman, Dada, was said to have alerted the state Commissioner for Religious Affairs and the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice on the development, seeking to know what led to the Charity’s proposed wedding especially without the consent of the stakeholders especially the parents of the lady.

The Commissioners, it was gathered, could not give satisfactory answer and the matter was taken before the deputy governor, Ibeto, for intervention.

The stage was allegedly set for the wedding on a Friday with Imams and other Muslim clerics in attendance when Governor. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, after being consulted about the development ordered that the wedding should be aborted.

The aborted marriage has generated questions from different stake holders. What is the fate of Charity? For how long would she remain in “custody”? would have collected her dowry and on whose permission would have the marriage been contracted?

Charity was admitted to Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger State in 2012 to read public administration but converted to Islam along the line and could not accomplish her academic pursuit.

In an exclusive telephone conversation with her last year on the issue, the lady called on Nigerians to leave her alone to practice the religion of her choice, pointing out that nobody forced her into the religion and she should be left to carry her cross alone.

“I did it on my own. Nobody forced me into it. Am I the first to convert to Muslim in Nigeria?
I know it is people that are pushing my father and I am praying for him and other members of my family to know that this is the right religion,” she remarked.

On whether she would like to follow her father back home if the matter was amicably settled, Charity insisted that she was afraid going back with the parents for fear of being killed.
“I am not going back to my father because of his actions. He had been threatening me. But at my age, I am free to practice any religion of my choice and so, I should be left to decide,” Charity declared.

Efforts to get in touch with her parents on the latest development proved abortive.
Our correspondent reliably gathered that the state government may be forced to contract the wedding between Charity and her groom with or without the consent of her parents and family members.

These are marvelous. God bless Fashola and Lagosians. By the way, when are you guys going to develop Epe. Epe is better said to be in Ogun State or Ijebu-Ode extension. The politicians in that area are majorly crooks and f00lish murrafuckers.

Make we finish the one wey dey ND before Lagos enjoy its own alone

Save the country oh Lord.

Am following... I will reply later

Hmm. And the whole 5hit is not funny anymore. The fear of prosecuting indicted people is a soft-landing turf for the insurgents.

Unfortunately, most Nigerians cannot see the handwriting on the wall.

XketchDesigns: this is a very simple question, but so far everybody has avoided answering it. Beating around!
Just goes to show how much sentiment and bigotry has eating up the minds and thinking of Nigerians.

Now that those names were not mentioned as you wanted, can we have a rest?

How many times are we going to do this on Nl. Are you not tired?

The Organs of your body have their sensory touches at the bottom of your foot, if you massage these points you will find relief from aches and pains as you can see the heart is on the left foot.

Typically they are shown as points and arrows to show which organ it connects to.
It is indeed correct since the nerves connected to these organs terminate here.
This is covered in great details in Acupressure studies or textbooks.

God created our body so well that he thought of even this. He made us walk so that we will always be pressing these pressure points and thus keeping these organs activated at all times. God is Good and a great Provider!

That's the real definition of loophole.

Now you know why BH cannot be defeated and border crossing is still a mystery. All our uniform men do is to unleash terror on civilians while their match crush them.

lawrenceunaa: all u need is to have adope pdf reader installed in ur pc, open the pdf u want to convert now press'ctrl+A' then copy , open ur 'ms-word' and paste s
Then save

LOL. That will make the whole thing jumbled. You will hate the formatting appearance.

@Op. Get yourself Adobe Acrobat Pro. That is the best solution so far.

snipperswill: haha, why all this quran stuff, coming up twice on homepage

Why are you so sad? Do the needful...GnD

seankay: Will this stop them from bom*bing?

Yes it will if and only if you go to ISIS or BH and quote it while you have the rosary on your neck.

Oklander: had it been the report said, Malam Yusuf Usman stole the ipad and 17milla, this thread would have been hijacked by bunch of hypocritical brainless Islamophobic phools on nairaland, brainlessly piling the blame and insult on Islam and other Muslims. Seeing this is not the case but in fact the opposite, they will hypocritically ignore his name and the teachings of the religion he said he is following. All what they want to hear about Islam and Muslim is negative news, it incite and gives them high 0rgasmic feelings perhaps!!!

God bless you. No one has acknowledged he is a Muslim. They acknowledged his being a Nigerian. Zilly hypocrites.

priscaoge: A thread for those that are currently in Lag abi ....



*Catwalks out of thread like a Boss*

*Drags her back and gives her a dirty slap*

Bluetooth2: Whiteboy you are too ugly for that city and that's why you were deported. Ugly buffon

datguru: this is devilish

LOL. The guy is from hell.