₦airaland Forum

oyebanji44:
No No he didn't destroy the future of Nigeria ..he and his henchmen jerked the nation from its political slumber and naivete.they also offered Nigerians their chance in history to choose by themselves,for themselves and without any pressure from an imperialist power,the type of constitution by which they would live and be governed.Nzeogwu was given"a hero's burial with full military honours"Gowon also paid a tribute to him saying"he was gallant soldier,with principles."many other Nigerians paid tribute to his memory and everybody believed he died a Nigerian,through fighting on biafra side.ofcourse,the federal authority knew that it was they who had confined him inside Biafra,total against his will.If the Gowon Government had released Nzeogwu and his henchmen they would have returned to the place of their choice in Nigeria.Not one of them would have involved in biafra

This is a spirited but pointless effort at rewriting history. Who elected or appointed Nzeogwu as the spokesperson of the people? What was his mandate and where did it come from? The man was acting in his own interests and in the interests of his cohorts, period. He introduced the idea of military dictatorship into the national psyche and dragged this country back 50 years. Till today we still have not recovered to develop our own concept of what democracy is. Even elected officials still act like dictators due to the history of coups in Nigeria. Please don't ever praise this Satanic fellow ever again.

jasonguru:
it was jerry rawlings that made Ghana as good as it is today

Nonsense. When Jerry Rawlings left power 18 years ago Ghana was nothing to write home about. In fact, he turned out to be more corrupt than any of the politicians he had executed. The people of Ghana worked very hard to make sure their democracy worked for them. That is why their country has been improving. Nigerians are still waiting for somebody else to do something about our problems.

oyebanji44:
Nzeogwu was a first class soldier.He was a born leader of men.Generations of Nigerians had read more about him and learnt a lot from him.chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu,adieu.

The man who destroyed the future of Nigeria.

jasonguru:
If the coup was successful, maybe Nigeria would be better by now

What about all the latter coups that were successful? It is foolish to think that the military can ever bring good governance. It is not their place.

Reno Omokri is one of the main reasons why PDP will lose the forthcoming elections. He has absolutely no ideas on how to campaign. Just throws political bombs left, right and centre. He has no business being anywhere close to power again.

Buhari needs to attend the presidential debate or he may be branded a coward. He may not be the best spoken candidate but he needs to be able to communicate his manifesto to the people he is asking to vote him for a second term.

Lifestone:
This is my point, what if he's found innocent after investigation? It's very appalling. Just mere claim and no single evidence even if circumstantial. So if I give a girl a ride now, she can come out and claim rape and you guys will simply believe.

Rape is very common in this country my brother. If someone accuses anybody of rape it's 50:50. It may be true or it may be false. But for so long we tend to brush it under the rug or blame the woman. Why did you enter the car? Or why did you wear that short dress?
All I'm saying is that such attitudes must stop. Rape accusations must be taken seriously and investigated. Any woman lying about rape must be prosecuted but any man found liable must also be prosecuted.
That is the only way such evils will stop.

Lifestone:
You are actually the one sounding silly here if only you could hear yourself. How on earth do you accused someone and there after you are looking for evidence. Geez

My point is, no rape victim will come to you with evidence especially if it happened a while ago. That is the job of the police to investigate and determine if the accusation is true or not. In the mean time, it is good for the sake of our conscience to believe women who claim to have been raped because sadly that thing is very very common in our society.
Let the police investigate and if it is found that the women are lying then let them be prosecuted.

Lifestone:
How do accuse someone with rape without providing a single piece of evidence?
Ridiculous

What piece of evidence are you expecting? DNA evidence or photographic evidence? Or are you saying all the women accusing him are all liars? Until men start getting raped then we'll stop seeing silly questions like this.

Tallesty1:
No experience so I will be sharing my senior brother's experience.


Dude came home one day with one tall bae like that from Anambra.


He called the fam together and introduced her as the girl he will marry, Oh Boy.... My old man no even let him finish before he provoke.


He said it ain't happening, that all his kids will marry from my state.

Mumsy calmed him but she sef no support the thing.

Later that night(after the girl don go) he(dad) called us together and started giving reason why we should not marry from another state.

My bro told him that he and the girl don tey so he no fit leave am like that.

I told them to let him marry whoever he likes after all nah he go live with am.


But the reason I supported him be say me sef dey date one girl from Anambra that time.

Mumsy later gree but palee refused so with mom's support, we do strong head go marry her.


To cut the story short, the lady is my dad's favorite daughter in law till today and they're happily married with 4 kids.

2 boys and 2 girls.

This is a great story bro with very useful lessons. By the way, what state are you guys from?

helinues:
This is the outcome when you don't play politics with sense. Is Dino the only senator critizing Buhari's government?

According to the report he is wanted for being somehow involved in the shooting of a police officer. This is a very serious allegation that is clearly beyond politics.

celeiyke:
But he is a Muslim na

He has since converted to Christianity.

This is why Africa is such a mess. Bastard politicians who think only of their own interests and bellies.

chris31:
He has gone so let's forget it
Who will be next to fire?
Let's not allow politics to block our brain sometimes especially when human life is involved

This is beyond politics, and you are the one playing politics with this sad tragedy. Nigeria is not safe. The security situation of the country has been very poor for a very long time. Dozens of people are killed every single day in the process of criminal actions like armed robbery and kidnappings. How can we be sure that this is not one of those incidents? Nobody knows, including you. Forget politics and let's be reasonable.

chris31:
Only stupid person will believe this story
This country is a joke

Can you prove with any actual evidence that the story is not true?

Tribalism is still the biggest challenge that this country has to overcome in order to make progress.

Igboblog:
How can you dedicate bastard to God?

Every single child is a gift from God, whether or not the parents are together is irrelevant.

toyosi20188:
So if your faith,for example, tells you that 4nternet fraud can be used to pay your children school fees(which is a good and honorable thing to do), will you do it?

If you are a born again Christian, the Holy Spirit will let you know that internet fraud is not a good thing and you should not do it. Whether you decide to listen or not after that is up to you. However, if you're not a Christian then none of the things we are talking about even applies to you at all. It doesn't matter if you do it or you don't do it. If you're not born again you're already condemned.

alBHAGDADI:
Then why are non-tithers attacking those who tithe? No one ever said tithing is compulsory.Bht if you know the benefits, you will want to tithe.

Can't you see that it is antitithers that have. been attacking those who tithe? Cam you mow see that they are in err of Romans 14 which you quoted?

I can only speak for myself. I don't attack anyone who decides to tithe or not to tithe. But I have personally been in several church services where the pastors openly condemned people for not paying their tithes. This is scripturally and spiritually wrong. The decision to give 10% or 20% or even 100% or 0% must be left to every Christian to make between themselves and God.

alBHAGDADI:
You are contradicting yourself. If the Holy Spirit tells you that sleeping with your sister is wrong, isn't that in line with what the law also says? Isn't that why the disciples never canceled that aspect of the law but canceled others? The Holy Spirit helps you know what is right and also reminds you of what Jesus said.

John 14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

I don't see why the Holy Spirit will remind you that tithing is no longer valid when Jesus never said such. But I can show you where Jesus approved of tithing.

Mathew 23:23
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

There is nothing wrong with tithing as a Christian, in fact it's a good thing. Just don't tell me that it is a compulsory practice.
Go and read Romans 14, especially verse 23. He who doubts is condemned if he eats because it is not from faith and whatsoever is not from faith is sin.
The law of Moses banned the Hebrews from eating any food sacrificed to idols. Paul in the book of Romans said we as Christians we can eat any food that we like as long as we are doing it from faith.
If your faith supports paying tithes please go ahead and God will reward you. If my faith does not support paying tithes and I try to do it by force to please any man, then God will not be pleased with me because my personal faith was not involved.
Leave the issue of tithe to every Christian and their conscience to decide.

alBHAGDADI:
You are contradicting yourself. If the Holy Spirit tells you that sleeping with your sister is wrong, isn't that in line with what the law also says? Isn't that why the disciples never canceled that aspect of the law but canceled others? The Holy Spirit helps you know what is right and also reminds you of what Jesus said.

John 14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

I don't see why the Holy Spirit will remind you that tithing is no longer valid when Jesus never said such. But I can show you where Jesus approved of tithing.

Mathew 23:23
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

There is nothing wrong with tithing as a Christian in fact it's a good thing. Just don't tell me that it is a compulsory practice. Go and read Romans 14, especially verse 23. He who doubts is condemned if he eats because it is not from faith and whatsoever is not from faith is sin.
The law of Moses banned the Hebrews from eating any food sacrificed to idols. Paul in the book of Romans said we as Christians we can eat any food that we like as long as we are doing it from faith.
If your faith supports paying tithes please go ahead and God will reward you. If my faith does not support paying tithes and I try to do it by force to please any man then God will not be pleased with me because my personal faith was not involved.
Leave the issue of tithe to every Christian and their conscience to decide.

alBHAGDADI:
Now, since you claim we are all the same, how many people were called Apostles whom Christians brought offerings before?

Since there is no record of the church speaking against sleeping with your sister, why not go ahead and sleep with her as against the law?

I'm sorry but I doubt if you're a Christian. You seem to be trying to make fun of Christianity with these absurd assertions. The Bible says in Jer. 31:33,34 and Heb. 10:16. In those days I will put my laws in their hearts and write them on their minds.
The whole point of being a Christian is that you don't need any laws to tell you what is right and what is wrong again. The Holy Spirit is within every Christian to let you know automatically what God wants you to do and what He does not want you to do.
The Old Testament laws are for the Hebrews. In the New Testament Jesus said I only give you one commandment, that is love. This is why Christianity is not a religion, we are no longer bound by any rules and regulations at all. The only requirement we have is to love one another and to love God.

You can stay in the shop and still pursue the thieves at the same time. The technology to do that is widely available.

alBHAGDADI:
Do you know what the problem os with you anti-tithers and everyone who believes the tithe money should be taken straight to widows and orphans instead of the house of God? You make decisions without Bible backings, in the process you offend God. Here you have said the house of God are widows and orphans. Where is that written in the Bible? You also said the society is the church. Where is that written in the Bible? Stop making claims based on your own understanding.

God said the tithe is his, he didn't say it is for widows even though he told the high priest to help the windows out of it. It is not your duty to give it to the widows because it means you are assuming the role of the priest. It is the duty of the priest to take some of the tithe and use it to help the needy.

Tithe is totally different from you helping the poor. Give God his dues and proceed to help the poor. Otherwise it will mean that you are wise in your own understanding.

And mind you, Jesus was talking about his brothers in that Bible Passage you quoted. Who are his brothers? They are believers, not some Tom divk and Harry across the street.

John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

This means that his brothers whom we are to feed are actually needy Christians whom we can find in Church, not some random loser on the street who only wants to remain a junkie and lazy because he knows someone will feed him.

The Bible says that we are a royal priesthood. There is no special priesthood in Christianity, all believers are kings and priests. Therefore the practice of levitical tithing can no longer be possible under the new testament. Remember in the book of Acts of the Apostles, it says that all the believers had everything in common and no one said this or that was his. They brought what they had to the apostles and there is no record of tithing at all in the early church.

Fashola has been a big disappointment on the issue of power, speaking as someone who had high expectations of him. His latest utterances suggest that he has been totally outmanoeuvred and defeated on this issue.

Congratulations to this amazing and long-suffering couple.

Alan Greenspan, the apostle of deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy. He is one of the people most directly responsible for the terrible economic recession of 2008.

The rantings of a mad man.

dokie:
But I thought the entire SW was for APC?

The SW is the only region in this country that actually divides its votes.

seunlly:
That does not mean buhari is staying in Aso rock till 2023.
He is out.

You are about to be shocked.

bluefilm:
Yoloba people sef

There is no Yoruba person involved in this story.

GuyWise101:
The uneducated herdsman that mistakenly found himself in the Nigeria army was marveled at the sight of the weapon that the highly intelligent Biafrans was using in dealing with him and his fellow Abok!s.

But they still lost. Maybe it takes more to win a war than being a highly intelligent Biafran.