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Rexxie: the change shud begin with u-join da voices n push for the enthronement of resource control and a true federal style of government for the above u stated to be activated n operate with expected ease...
@op,again its gud 2 see u living up to ur new j.....e..d status,uTRULYmakin'em proud..however,putting n gathering ur arsses together,whinning n farting as it were is the best or worst yall losers can do ..

does resource control also include wind and sun?

IGBOSON1: ^^^You're still looking at 'Nigeria' through rose tinted spectacles!

nwanne for now we are in Nigeria and we should live in the moment! its our Job to move this nation forward while we are still here! don't condone evil no matter who the perpatrator is!

frosbel: apologies for derailing.

fros you and me na one na

that day is yet to come, but I tell you bro, its very close at hand!

IGBOSON1: ^^^Oh, they have an agenda alright: to return power to the Hausa/Fulani oligarchs!

I'm made to understand the OP is Ijaw.....am i right?

stop judging from the ethnic views. these stereotypes are the problem with Nigeria.n so I cannot come from igboland and hold the sam view with an hausa man? Nwanne onwekwere ka o di o!

frosbel: not sure why I said it. It was meant to be a Joke.

you don't joke with religion and things of God bro! the ties run deep. I am a catholic but yet I brought up this issue because It is not right! evil flourish when the good men do nothing

Instead of gas, while not jonathan try alternative power like Wind and solar? The north is bleesed with plenty of those anf enough bare land to start-up any measure alternative energy project
. coal mines should be revived and we could also burn it to generate powet like china and US! if something seem not to be working, change it!

OP you mean Ebola Jonathan? that guy is carrying a disease worse than ebola cos there exist a lil chance that ebola might one day be curable, but cluelessness? not a chance in hell! the worse part of the disease is that the carrier and his infected follow-worshipers do not even know that they are carrying the deadly disease!

frosbel: is this where they abuse little children ?

at least they have the pride of honour to own up that they own the houses unlike pentecotal MOGs that hide billions they collected as tithes in private business and even abroad!

Mod frontpage!

after you declare abi? well you should know, they are your boys

Not all bishops live like princes, however.
Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley
resides in a rundown rectory on the
South Side.
"We no longer need all the symbols of the
past, especially when those symbols now
seem ambiguous at best and a
contradiction of some of our Gospel
values at worst,'' O'Malley said when he
moved out of the archbishop's traditional
mansion in 2003.
Archbishop Alexander Sample of
Portland, Oregon , shares part of a
converted convent with his elderly
mother.
And Archbishop Charles Chaput
of Philadelphia sold the church’s $10
million mansion when he moved to town
in 2011.
"He felt it was not really necessary to
live in a residence that large," said Ken
Gavin, a spokesman for the Archdiocese
of Philadelphia. "He wanted to live
more simply."
With Pope Francis leading the way,
more archbishops may be doing the same.
After getting an earful from angry
Catholics, Atlanta Archbishop
Wilton Gregory agreed to give up his
$2.2 million mansion.
Here's the 6,000 square-foot-house,
which sits in the city's upscale Buckhead
neighborhood.
Gregory apologized for building the
mansion, calling it a lapse in judgment
and out of step with his boss, the Pope.
"What we didn't stop to consider,"
Gregory said, "was that the world and
the church have changed."

Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of
Cincinnati , for example, lives by
himself in a four-bedroom, four-bath
house in Hamilton County, Ohio.
The archdiocese bought this house for
Schnurr in 2009 for $469,718 , which
led to some grumbling by local Catholics .
In response to questions about
archbishops' residences, representatives
for the church leaders say they are used
as more than living quarters. They also
have offices, host functions like
fundraisers and house church staff besides
bishops.
That's the case with Dolan's mansion,
which connects to St. Patrick's
Cathedral, said Joseph Zwilling,
spokesman for the Archdiocese of New
York. Besides, it's on the National
Register of Historic Places, which
means it can't easily be sold or converted
to other uses, he said.
"Even if, in your wildest imaginations,
you could dream up a scenario in which
the archdiocese would want to sell it, it
couldn't be sold since it is a landmarked
building and has to remain as-is,"
Zwilling said.
Dolan has acknowledged, however, that
Pope Francis' example has led him to
question "the perks, the cushiness, we
associate with being a bishop."
"I find myself examining my own
conscience ... on style, on simplicity, on
lots of things," he told National Catholic
Reporter last year. "I also find myself
thinking about living arrangements,
because that's a pretty nice house I'm
living in."
Zwilling said he's not aware of any
discussions about Dolan moving out of his
mansion.
As for George, he floated the idea of
selling his Chicago residence in 2002,
saying, according to the New York
Times, "How can I call on my priests to
display humility in their lives if I'm
living in a mansion like that?"
Colleen Dolan, a spokeswoman for the
Archdiocese of Chicago, said she's not
aware of any discussions about George
selling or leaving the mansion.
"The cardinal uses the building for
meetings and receptions with donors,"
Dolan said, "and we'd be hard-pressed
to find any other place that could serve
those purposes."
Catholics are a generous lot, said Sister
Sally Butler, a Catholic nun who
ministers in Brooklyn housing projects
and has clashed with bishops over their
response to the church's sexual abuse
scandal. But they expect their donations
to pay for missions like feeding the poor,
training priests and educating students,
not keeping up multimillion-dollar estates,
she said.
Like many Catholics, Butler said she is
particularly galled by revelations that
Archbishop John Myers of
Newark, New Jersey, is spending
$500,000 to add a wing to his
already $800,000 weekend/retirement
house. The new wing will include an
indoor exercise pool, a hot tub, three
fireplaces and a library.
"It's scandalous!" said Butler, 83. "I
guess they think they're entitled to it, but
someone has to take these archbishops
aside. It's so far from the gospel message
and the Pope's example."

The Archdiocese of Denver is
building a $6.5 million, 13,500-square-
foot center that will include meeting
space, a kitchen, a library, a chapel and
an apartment for Archbishop Samuel
Aquila. The residence portion, which
includes living space for several other
priests, will cost about $1.3 million ,
according to the archdiocese.
Even in smaller cities, some archbishops
live in houses few in their flock could
likely afford.

Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller
of San Antonio lives in this 5,000-
square-foot residence, which includes a
courtyard, a private chapel, a fireplace
and a wet bar.
The residence was built by Garcia-
Siller's predecessor in 2009 for $1.1
million . At the time, the archdiocese
was facing a budget shortfall that resulted
in the firing of 11 full-time employees,
according to the San Antonio Express-
News.
In addition to the above examples, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles
spent $7 million building a 26,000-
square-foot rectory for its former
archbishop in 2002, according to public
records. Archbishop Jose Gomez, who
moved to Los Angeles in 2010, now lives
there with six priests.

Archbishop William Lori's home
in Baltimore dates back to the very
first bishop in the United States, John
Carroll, historians say.
The 11,500-square-foot building, where
the archbishop lives with his priest-
secretary and the rector of the Baltimore
Basilica, is connected to the historic
basilica by a passthrough. The Maryland
Department of Assessment and Taxation
says the residence, which includes offices
for Lori and the rector of the basilica, is
worth about $1.24 million .

Archbishop Robert Carlson .
The 11,000-square-foot home, which
Carlson shares with a priest-secretary, is
worth $1.4 million , city appraisers
say. Two nuns also live on the property,
but not in the house, and cook and clean
for the archbishop. In 2008, Carlson also
bought a house in Estero, Florida, for
$327,500, according to public records.

Archbishop Thomas Wenski of
Miami lives with his secretary, a priest,
in this six-bedroom, six-bath house. A
tiki hut and pool in the backyard overlook
Biscayne Bay.
The 5,350-square-foot residence is
worth more than $1.38 million ,
according to Miami-Dade County
assessors.
This castle-like mansion, once featured
in an article on the "Palaces of St.
Louis," is home to St. Louis

Archbishop Leonard Blair of
Hartford, Connecticut , lives in this
nearly 9,000- square-foot mansion,
which was appraised at $1.85
million , according to government
records.

Archbishop James Sartain of
Seattle , for example, lives by himself in
this three-story house. The appraised
value is $3.84 million , according to
the King County Department of
Assessments.

Chicago's Cardinal Francis
George lives in a pretty fancy crib, too.
This mansion has 19 chimneys and sits on
1.7 acres of prime real estate in
Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast neighborhood.
It's worth $14.3 million "as is," but
the property could fetch far more,
appraisers told CNN.
George, whose private quarters occupy
the mansion's top two floors, according to
the archdiocese, shares the residence with
two bishops and a priest.
Three nuns who care for the cardinal
and his mansion live in a 5,800-square-
foot coach house near the main residence.
The mansion's size, architectural details,
location and unobstructed view of nearby
Lincoln Park make the residence "one of
a kind," said Thomas Schurer, director
of sales for Chicago's Real Valuation
Services, which appraised George's
residence for CNN.
Representatives for Cardinals Dolan and
George point out that their mansions
were built more than 100 years ago and
are used as offices and for hosting guests
and fundraisers as well as residences.
They also say the mansions are historical
landmarks and can't easily be sold or
converted to other uses.
A century ago, Catholics celebrated the
success of their church in the United
States by building mansions for their
archbishops, historians say. It was a way
of saying, "We've made it, and we're
here to stay."
But the point has been proved, some
Catholics say, and Pope Francis has
urged archbishops to refocus their
resources on caring for the poor and
marginalized.
"There's no reason a bishop has to live
like a prince or medieval monarch, even
if he inherited the place from his
predecessor," said the Rev. Steven
Avella, a Catholic priest and professor of
religious history at Marquette
University. "They should convert the
mansions to museums and move into
rectories."
In addition to regal residences, many
archbishops acquire other perks: live-in
assistants, housekeepers, chauffeurs and
cooks. Others live alone in roomy
residences.

Among archbishops, Cardinal Timothy
Dolan of New York leads the pack
with this 15,000-square-foot mansion on
Madison Avenue, in one of the priciest
corridors of Manhattan.
Vanderbilt Appraisal Company, a New
York firm hired by CNN to estimate the
building's value, said it's worth at least
$30 million . Dolan shares the neo-
Gothic mansion, which is reportedly filled
with thick red carpets and priceless
antiques, with three other priests.

"How I would like a Church which is
poor and for the poor!"— Pope
Francis
Clearly, "lifestyles of the rich and
religious" doesn't cut it for Pope
Francis.
The pontiff has said it "breaks my heart"
to see priests and nuns driving the latest-
model cars.
He's blasted "airport bishops" who spend
more time jet-setting than tending to their
flocks.
And he's warned against church leaders
who bear the "psychology of princes."
The Vatican fired one such "prince" last
year: German Bishop Franz-Peter
Tebartz-van Elst -- aka "The Bishop
of Bling" -- who spent $43 million to
remodel his opulent pad.
(Bronze window frames? $2.4 million.
Getting on the wrong side of the Pope?
Far more pricey.)
"God save us from a worldly Church
with superficial spiritual and pastoral
trappings!" Francis said in his book-
length blueprint for the church .
Say what you will, but this Pope puts
his preaching into practice.

donpeey22: So, going by your definition, the only quality women like is confidence? Need i remind you that countless number of confident guys have had their love advances turned down by ladies.

its not the only quality! I just pointed one out for you. its a couldron of qualities bro, its an art nad like everyother art requires some form of mastery before the final masterpiece is executed

amazing!

idbalo: Cristiano Ronaldo and many Actors around d world are Muslim? If u r too ignorant too see dat wat israel is doing is bad..keep shut mr man

if you are too dumb to know that all these things they do is for PR and nothing else, then your case is irredemable! CR7 doesn't give 2 fvcks about moslems same way The rock do not give a fVck about kidnapped chibok girls!

Descartes: @bolded you quoted the REALdozzybaba, please try quote the imposter @dozzzybaba who has been shamelessly parading someones Trademark

noted.

dozzzybaba: my brother
This is the part i find troubling about Gej's administartion; always giving excuses and blaming others

dozzybaba, its because the guy has since found our that Nigerians are pathetic tribal bigots and lazy denizens with amnesia. No matter how silly all these excuses sound, you would always have people who would support him. GEJ for now is invincible!