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MASTERCHIEF0847:
Increase in cost of production, transportation etc... that is what you get in a dollar-dependent economy.

Cement is not being imported and the ingredients used are largely sourced locally. The rate of price increment is suspicious and warrants investigation by Government.

Thissystem:
Hhmm, that kind Househelp

But, who dey keep that kind big money at home?? That’s over N76M in today’s dollar to Naira exchange

And even carelessly kept where a hungry, eagle-eyed and economically messed-up househelp can see and touch. lol, not funny

The employee should be probed. What is he doing with such amount of dollars in cash? Apparently there is much more than that in his house.

Splashme:
Nigeria is laughable, I swear.

See NAFDAC approval boldly displayed on the bottle but it took the German food & drug agency to discover the fraud

Why did our own NAFDAC issue clearance to that poisonous drink in the first place?

Don't NAFDAC carry out random and routine check on our drugs?

Why is this country like this?
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That begs the question: How many drinks and mixtures have been approved by NAFDAC that are killing Nigerians like Coco Samba? If the mixture was not being exported to Germany and this requiring the Germans to check it out, would NAFDAC have found anything wrong with it? This is really really embarrassing and dangerous!

Abufo:
The same Erastus that took over intercontinentak bank from its igbo owners.........The Ogbogu kalus and that their former chairman from Anambra state Raymond Obieri...................when it comes to board room heist ndi yoruba are numero uno! number 1

Get your facts rights before rushing to comment and paint anyone in bad light. Dr. Raymond Obieri was still the Chairman of Intercontinental Bank while Dr. Erastus Akingbola was the MD/CEao as at the time it was taken over by Access Bank. No o e has ever come out to say Akingbola hijacked or stole Intercontinental Bank from anyone. If you claim it, please provide evidence.

Gjrich:
FG And State Governors Agreed To Creat State Police To Combat Insecurity.


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/02/15/tinubu-state-govs-mull-state-police?amp=1

We are not mature yet for State Police. That is the simple truth.

State Governments will use them to victimize political opponents and pay them poorly such that the State Police officers will start extorting citizens. Did we not see what happened with the Police Constabulary issue? How State Governments owed them salaries that were not even up to standard for months on end?

chokekachy:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/02/breaking-dantata-backs-transition-to-parliamentary-system-of-govt/?fbclid=IwAR3bnHcdQc7WjchPEDaug0ruc-wmfEZ7pfoF1j6ttrZJE28B095GjPMm5-A#google_vignette

Now that the North see their grip on power in the Presidential System reducing or being lost forever, they are proposing and supporting a move to the Parliamentary System that we started with but was rejected along the way. They want to leverage on their dominance in the Legislature to have a permanent slot as Prime Minister.

Thissystem:
https://dailypostngr.com/2024/02/breaking-apc-lawmaker-59-others-seek-change-from-presidential-to-parliamentary-system/

The reasons adduced are insufficient to warrant the change at this point in time. With all the lack of party discipline, ineffective institutions and widespread corruption even at the legislature, it will be disastrous to seek Parliamentary System at this point.

We already can see how the legislature is more about selfish interests than representing the people and how they are getting fat at the expense of the electorate and even making laws to feather their own nests. The Senate is the retirement home of Governors and the House of Representatives is not much different in serving the need of the people. So handing over Executive power to the same Legislature as required in a Parliamentary System will be total disaster.

2aces:
Why didn't you speak out when the perpetrator of a scam of such magnitude is still alive so he can defend himself??
It's not everything you people must turn into tribal confrontation, try to be sensible sometimes.

This is not a tribal thing. The story recounted by the OP has some truth to it and there are several news reports and even law suits regarding some aspects of it.

It is said that it is not good to speak ill of the dead but the success story of Aigboje Aig-Imokhuede and Herbet Wigwe is tainted with betrayal and wickedness.

See some of the stories dating back to 2009 in the news media:

https://www.nairaland.com/3038066/revealed-how-access-bank-fraudulently

https://yemojanewsng.com/revealed-how-access-bank-fraudulently-took-over-intercontinental-bank-the-bukola-saraki-lamido-sanusi-script/

https://saharareporters.com/2010/09/29/erastus-akingbola-petitions-agf-fraudulent-take-over-intercontinental-bank-plc-dr-bukola

https://m./1511772025757940/permalink/2123937621208041/

Yugoslavia247:
You are wicked and abused power.

Your brother stole something and sold. You left your brother who would soon become anini to go and fight helpless people.


Your brother carried it and uninstalled it and sold it.

Sue your brother first

Wicked man.
As you keep protecting your brother one day he will use gun and kidnap you.

Better refund their money. That is what you should have done in the first place.

Not call police because you have money and lawyer.

Then when your brother is caught you deal with him.

For the whole family to be against you it means you did wrong. Infact very wrong.

I am sure when he was uninstalling it no one challenged him because they felt you are brothers. So he carried it and sold it for ps3.

Now you went and challenged the buyer knowing fully well, that your brother sold it.

What if he sold it to aboki people you will go to their dump to retrieve it. Dey play


Useless brother.

Why not bring your brother to testify but because you know your thief of a brother is a disgrace you shielded him

Na u supposed dey beg.
They will return it.
Using police force. We dey misuse police ooo

All this your epistle while holding a wrong position in the eyes of the law. Are you a buyer of stolen goods for you to be so driven by emotion on the matter?

Simple question:

1. Do those buyers of the Solar Panels, Batteries and Inverter have a receipt for the purchase? The answer is NO because they have not shown it. What they rely on his theclaim that his brother sold it to them but they have no evidence of proper sales and payment of even the amount they claim. It is their responsibility to look for the seller (that is the brother on the run) to backup their claim, not for the owner of the Panels to provide his brother.

2. Do they have sufficient reason to believe the brother who sold the Solar Panels to them has true Ownership of the property? Does he have a job to warrant earnings to buy the Solar Panels? Would a true owner of the Solar Panels worth over 400K exchange it for 35K and PS3? If they cannot show reason for Believe that he owns the Panels when they entered negotiations with him, then it means they are partners with him in the crime and guilty of theft. And that is likely the position because they are even unable to produce receipt of the sale.

The first thing Police will ask you for as proof of ownership of anything is the receipt. If you are unable to produce receipt or strong evidence of ownership, then forget about it.

Try to reason rather than supporting theft and stupidity. All the family of the purported buyer should be locked up!

matify83:
His safety consciousness was very high.

I don't know why I detest those rotors stuff.

It has claimed men like Kobe Bryant, miles Munroe and Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, a Thai businessman and the owner of the Leicester City soccer club in the Premier League.

Its safety records in the aviation industry should be one of the worst among flying machines.

Pilots that have licenses for airplanes and helicopters always say that helicopters are much more difficult and tasking to fly than airplanes. Any slight mistake with a helicopter can result into a crash and death.

https://www.quora.com/How-hard-is-it-for-an-experienced-pilot-to-fly-a-helicopter-vs-a-plane

Jeans601:
That your business if lost your basic humanity feeling.

Even Jesus our lord had pity on a thief next to him on the cross.

Only a fool will rejoice and see nothing wrong with such number of dead people....27,000 humans.


No wonder God was really sad seeing what he created in his own image.

When you go around killing babies, you and old civilians and raping women without any provocation and rejoicing about such wickedness and even filming it, you should not expect anyone to mourn when your own children and wives are getting killed in retaliation. At least IDF have the decent to warn cities to evacuate before attacks and not rape anyone and their actions are based on response to provocation. They didn't go into houses to bring out children, mean and women and murder them in cold blood.

These numbers of the dead being reported by Hamas, if true, is collateral damage. And what do you expect when your combatants do not wear military uniform and fire rockets from playgrounds, schools and hospitals while using civilians as human shield? You claim to be a man who loves his family but you are hitting your enemy that is capable of retaliation while hiding behind your wives and childrens? Oh, what a courageous and loving father you are indeed!!!

Some people say IDF should fight Hamas and that Palestinians are innocent. But is it not these same Palestinians that not only celebrated Hamas for murdering Israelis but joined in the killing and looting of Israelis when they could? Is it not the same Palestinians that elected Hamas to power ad provided their children and youth as soldiers for Hamas, even when knowing fully well that one of Hamas founding objecrives is the eradication of Jews and Israelis?

Now you expect everyone to value the lives of Palestinian children and women when Hamas and the same Palestinians do not value those lives and are comfortable to sacrifice them for sympathy and propaganda?

There is a Yoruba adage that it is how you call your dog that people will help you to call it. If you call it Bingo people will not call it Lion.

Ibrahimcoomasie:
Access, GTB, UBA, Zenith Others To Pay Customers Money Sent From Abroad in Naira, Give Exchange Rate



https://www.legit.ng/business-economy/money/1577735-come-passport-nigerian-bank-announces-internation-money-transfer-operation/

This is a text book approach that works best when you have a uniform exchange rate. Due to the wide disparity with black market rate here, expect people to find ways to circumvent it and likely reduce forex inflow to the banks.

Alaigbo:
Who are the British to divide lands not theirs and are you claiming ship load of Jews were not shipped into Palestine in 1946 ?

To buttress how sensless n pathetic your reasoning n argument is when you claim there was no country called Palestine since 1920 can you show if there ever a country name Isreal in the middle East before 1946 ?

People like you take refuge in insulting others as a supplement for your shallow reasoning and weak arguments in the face of evidence. You will not cite any verifiable sources or provide any evidence but want people to take your words for value as if talking to inebriated guests in a beer palour.

For your information, the Hebrew written on the coins and notes translate to "Land of Israel" and date back to 1927.

Alaigbo:
Did your pastor or father tell you the land below to the Jews ?! Well I Have news for you two British shipped Jews info Palestine in 1947, the land was never theirs n it will never be Thiers just like South Africa will never belong to the Apartheid rulers.

If you chose to go historical in your Bible you will see isrealities never moved from Palestine to Egypt during the Joseph year, they never crossed the red to Egypt before the famine but crossed the see when they left Egypt with Moses parting the sea.

Joshua lead them to a land flowing with milk n honey before they arrived n it was never theirs so you no matter how far into history you go Isreal never owned that land.

You need to educate yourself more and learn to cite references to buttress your claims. This is an engagement beyond beer palour talk.

There has never been a country called Palestine. Mandatory Palestine which was established by the British between 1920 and 1948 was made up of Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews. There was a UN Partition in 1947 to create separate states for the Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews (Israel). While the Jews agreed, the Arabs went to war in a bid to eradicate the Jews. The outcome is that the Palestinian Arabs eventually lost part of their territory to the Jews and rather than make do with the remaining part, chose to be Stateless and became refugees.

The British Mandatory Palestine was made up of Jews and Arabs contrary to your claim of 1947 shipment of Jews.

I have attached here pictures of a British Mandatory Palestine Passport belonging to a Jewish couple as well as a Bank Note and Coin from 1927 clearly showing Palestine and Land of Israel written in Hebrew. You can see Hebrew writings on the Passport along with Arabic and English. So forget the story that Jews came to the region in 1947. Do not be deceived anymore!

aguluobi:
According to your weird reasoning you'd have argue South Africans shouldn't have fought those that perpetuated Apartheid on their land because they seek it from those stronger, same to Africans that got independence from war.

There is a adage that says all is fair in love and war. The meaning is that people do not follow the usual rules of behavior and therefore do things that are normally considered unfair but which are all allowed in situations of love or war. If you declare war on someone, you don't come running to social media with pictures of your dead children and relatives and then start shouting genocide to incite public sympathy.

The rules change when it is time of war. Forget about war crime tribunals. Those ones are post event and those who are dead are already dead. So approach issues of war or revenge with force carefully.

What have the Palestinians gained from their revenge all these years? They continue to lose territory,lose thousands of lives and have their facilities and infrastructure destroyed. Their economy is in shambles with more than 70% youth unemployment. So where is the gain from revenge?

And let me correct you, Africans seeking independence from Colonial masters is a different situation from Palestinians. The land historically belong to the Jews and they came back and resettled there after many years. These descendants of Philistines and Arabs that call themselves Palestinians are the usurpers contrary to their cries. I do not have time to explain here but you can read some of my previous posts on the matter below:

https://www.nairaland.com/7920509/netanyahu-gives-mossad-orders-kill/10#127177058

https://www.nairaland.com/7927531/hamas-sa-israel-destroyed-two-state#127273173

God1000:
As much as I don't agree with such attacks, you have to understand that almost 9 in every 10 Palestinians already have their family members and loved ones killed by Israeli forces and they will try in every possible way to avenge their deaths.

And this is why some of us have been calling for a dialogue, if you wipe out my entire family, I will fight you back with whatever I have.

The security and peace in Israel today and tomorrow is tied to Palestinian struggle.

Nobody should call me a terrorist sympathizer, I'm just a sane, compassionate and decent human being that abhors violence against any tribe, race and creed.

If you die seeking that revenge then it shouldn't be anyone's business. The end result of trying to revenge against someone stronger than you is death. Unfortunately it is Hamas and Palestinians seeking revenge that are crying genocide.

ASUU going on strike now may not achieve any objectives other than punishing the poor students. It is a no brainer that a Federal Government that is currently delaying January salary payment due to paucity of funds cannot muster anything to address any other financial obligation at the moment. They will at best only call for meetings and make promises again.

Jeboy:
https://punchng.com/efcc-recovers-n30bn-from-humanitarian-ministrys-looted-funds/

If over N 500 million has been recovered on the Betta Edu issue, who approved the disbursement since the Accountant General came out to say the memo from Betta Edu was not honoured?

If so much has been recovered from the Humanitarian Ministry, what steps are being taken to block the loopholes that allowed such monumental money laundering and theft? Is it not advisable to simply suspend the operations of the Ministry until all the loopholes are blocked? There is no point enriching thieves at the expense and in the name of the poor.

Visocrate:
Ok 👍 let’s see how the program does that

This is contrary to the founding aims and objectives of the NYSC. How can you aim for national integration with these Corp Members while pursuing capitalistic objectives? Are you going to be leasing them out as HR Consultants while collecting percentages from their salaries or you will put them in Farms and other Ventures to earn income for the Federal Government?

If the Government feels the NYSC has outlived it's objectives or cannot fund it anymore, then is it not advisable to let the prospective Corp Members get into the job market as soon as possible or make NYSC optional? Several young people lose their lives traveling for NYSC not to talk of those who get delayed for months to be mobilized and consequently miss out on recruitment age limits.

VeryWickedMan:
All Russians but everytime Hollywood tells us NASA this, NASA that.

Even Elon Musk's SpaceX came on the scene & overtook NASA in just 5 years.

Spending the longest accumulated time in space is not a scientific breakthrough or achievement. These times were accumulated from visits to the International Space Station which is jointly owned by Russia, USA, Japan, Canada and Europe.

Russia may be short staffed and consequently send the same cosmonauts more frequently to the ISS than other countries, hence the huge accumulated numbers per cosmonaut. It is not an achievement. They are not doing anything special on the ISS than the other countries.

The Russian side of the ISS is managed solely by Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) while the United States side is managed by NASA and the other countries. So it is not easy for the US side to have repeated long visits by the same personnel.

EreluRoz:
Trying so hard to force polygamy into Christianity

The man is not a Christian. Just some charlatan using God to deceive his followers and engage in sin. The Bible has said by their fruits you shall know them.

He calls marriage a personal choice and monogamy Paul's advice, yet any true Christian knows marriage is an institution ordained by God to be between a man and a woman. That much is clear from Genesis. And Jesus affirmed it in Matthew 19: 4 - 6.

His saying that he is a prophet and not a bishop as a means of escaping monogamy shows the shallowness his understanding of the Bible.

You can see how in all his talking, the emphasis is not on service to God but on wealth, his claimed prophetic gift and sensual relations with his multiple wives. Even his source of wealth, he has problems explaining it

God1000:
Atiku is too desperate and desperate people have nothing to offer, Tinubu is an example

Atiku is far more desperate than Tinubu. How many times did Tinubu decamp from one party to the other just to get the Presidential ticket? How many times has Tinubu vied for President in elections? Tinubu first aspired to be Vice-Presidebt and when that didn't work he didn't decamp or destroy the party because of that. Rather, he stood firm and bidded his time.

rofanx13:
This is a pre-election matter and the court has jurisdiction.
PDP goofed here and they are paying dearly for it.

Has it not been decided at the Supreme Court that the issue of validity of candidate nomination and conduct of primary elections within a party is the party affair?

Courts are not expected to be choosing candidates or removing candidates from elections because it creates room for undue interference.

AnonPoet:
https://punchng.com/jamb-under-oloyede-made-n50bn-for-fg-in-one-year-shettima/?amp

JAMB should not be a revenue generating body. It is one of the signs of all things that are wrong with our country. The fees being charged should be reduced in the interest of the public. How many poor people are denied due to paucity of funds or have to sell their things just to register for JAMB UTME annually?

jmoore:
USA didn't ban tinted glass because of kidnapping.
Stop adopting stoneage solutions.

Tracking of phone is what a wise person will suggest.

USA does not ban use of tinted glasses but it is regulated. A blanket permission for use of tinted glasses is very much against conventional wisdom in a country battling with kidnapping and other security challenges.

The official laws and regulation in Nigeria prohibit use of tinted glasses without authorization. A situation where it has been allowed to be dependent on the whims and caprices of the Inspector General of Police is not the best.

The Motor Vehicles (Prohibition of Tinted Glass) Act, CAP M21 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria specifically states that except with the permission of the "appropriate authority" and for "good cause", no person shall cause any glass fitted to a vehicle to be tinted, shaded, coloured lightly or thickly, darkened or treated in any way so as to render obscure or invisible persons or objects inside the car.

It is a security risk in the country to just allow indiscriminate tinting of vehicles without any serious enforcement of the law.

In Ghana, you can only tint side windows and that must be 70% visible so you can see and be seen. In fact the DVLA is trying to outrightly prohibit use of tinted glasses in vehicles.

In India you must have at least 50% visibility in the side windows in a vehicle.

In UK the front side windows must have 70% visibility in case of any tinting.

In South Africa there must be at least 35% visibility on tinted side windows so the vehicle occupants can be seen.

In the USA there are laws also regulating the use of tinted glasses in vehicles across the various States.

https://saharareporters.com/2013/04/04/concerning-tinted-vehicle-glass-%E2%80%93-all-you-need-know-csp-frank-mba

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/tinted-vehicle-windows-rules

https://www.klingshield.co.za/regulations-window-tinting-south-africa

https://yen.com.gh/ghana/228835-driver-vehicle-licensing-authority-cautions-motorists-using-tinted-windows/

https://allfloridatinting.com/united-states-tint-laws

[quote]According to a sermon or preaching video of the LOGIC Church that is circulating on Social Media, a Christian or Believer that has been saved by God does not need to ask for forgivenss whenever he or she sinsby Jesus Christ has paid the price once and for all.

I have brought this here so that genuine Christians should be warned and wary of these dangerous teachings that is capable of detailing their walk with Christ. The dangerous teachings are becoming the norm these days from half-baked and outrightly unbaked Pastors and self-titled Apostles.

In the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 and Luke 11, Jesus himself taught his disciples to ask for forgiveness but proponents of the heretic teachings claim that the prayer was taught before Jesus died on the Cross, and therefore the prayer is antiquated. Now is the Lord's Prayer for Believers or Unbelievers? If you say it is for Unbelievers, is God the Father of Unbelievers such that they can approach him as his children and say "Our Father...."? Will an Unbeliever make sense to ask not to be led into temptation when he already stands condemned?

1 John 1:8-9 clearly speaks to believers and not Unbelievers and it says and I quote:

8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

John wrote this and still went ahead in the following chapter to warn the believers against sin even though they have an advocate in Jesus. That we have an advocate in Jesus is what gives us the confidence that if we confess our sins, he will out of his faithfulness forgive us and "purify us from all unrighteousness". All unrighteousness is sin and sin here is taken as impurities. The believer is thus being purified from sin, because when a believer sins, he is polluted and needs to be clean again. Purify means to make clean again, to remove impurities. That same purify is also used again by John in 1 John 3:3 wherein a believer purifies himself with the goal of being pure as He is pure and with the hope that when He appears, we will be like Him.

Let no one deceive you, though he who has had a bath has his body clean as Jesus said in John 13:10, he nonetheless needs to clean his feet from impurities to be completely clean at all times. And that cleaning as much as is possible, involves his admission of the sin and asking for forgiveness from the Father.

Unbelievers confessing their sins and asking forgiveness from God have no assurance of forgiveness without first accepting Jesus as their Lord and savior. They already stand condemned. It is only a believer that can confess and ask for forgiveness and get assurance of forgiveness because of the sacrifice of Christ Jesus.

Be careful of dangerous teachings that can derail your walk with God. What do you gain from telling God when you fall into sin that you cannot confess and ask forgiveness because Christ paid the price, yet in his paying the price you have still found youself in sin? Or will you even take a further step off the ledge and say that as a believer, you cannot sin? Beware.

https://twitter.com/instablog9ja/status/1751557195664089387?t=TEZ7cRUIcwUvCTuXGi7ANQ&s=19

SoNature:
Growing IGR is good, but it shouldn't be at their detriment of businesses struggling to stay afloat. If someone who has never run a business before runs a state, business owners will bear the brunt!

Some people do not know that Government really exists to serve the people and not otherwise. What are the private school owners benefitting from the Government to warrant charging them discriminatorily?

abhosts:
Poor people usually have archaic cultural practices that stifles free expression and tolerance. That is how their evil leaders keep them in captivity. Just look at how they are demonizing Peter Obi's son who has wronged no one, neither did he break any UK law.

As a person of faith myself, I believe in live and let live. It should not be by force for everyone to share my values and religious beliefs. I would also want my religious rights and freedoms to be respected when i find myself in liberal countries that now have a palpable disdain towards organized religion.

Isn't it surprising to see how you express your disdain for Africans or people opposed to your point of view by referring to them as "poor people".

I have found quite a reasonable number of the LGBTQ crowd to be intolerant, discriminatory and manipulative. They will ride on Government policies and use State resources to further their agenda and force it down the throat of all people.

Imagine developed countries conditioning aid to poor African countries on their acceptance of LGBTQ while hiding under the guise of promoting liberal views. They are not as much concerned about whether the aid is stolen, misapplied due to bad governance or people die of hunger as much as their desire to see LGBTQ thrive in the midst of these poor Africans.

In the society and workplaces in these developed countries, people are getting punished for expressing their views and opinions in a purported liberal society simply because some group of people feel offended or their sensibilities insulted. Have you also thought about your promotion of LGBTQ as insulting to the sensibilities of others, like these Africans? Where is the justice where it is okay to insult religious figures and make caricatures of them without regard to the sensibilities of others but it is wrong and punishable to address a man with beards as "he" or "him" because he claims to identify as a woman or a binary? Is that not simply saying that the sensibilities of the LGBTQ community are more important than those of Christians or Muslims or other people of religion opposed to homosexuality? Can you see the hypocrisy?

The Christian God in the Bible has clearly expressed his disapproval for homosexuality. But rather than steering clear of the Christian Church and going where your LGBTQ is accommodated, the plan is to force LGBTQ down the throat of the Church even when it clearly contradicts the Bible. If you are able to get the Pope to dance to your tune, true Christians are not deceived and do know he is dancing not as an ambassador of Christ but that of the LGBTQ and the Anti-Christ.

nairalandkachy1:
Fubara swears in Ehison Edie as Chief of Staff, others

Chief of Staff is not a constitutional role. You may as well swear in your chief driver if you are doing same for chief of staff that is not constitutionally recognized.

reallifegospel:
SIN does not offend GOD, here are 3 things that really offends GOD:
- Apostle Constance C. Friday Ani

Sin does not offend God. God knows that Man cannot live or exist without committing sin.
  Man sins against GOD at almost every 60 seconds interval of his existence. The ones who are worse sin at every 20 or 30 seconds interval of existence.
  The ones who are above average still succumb to sin at least every 90 or 120 seconds.

GOD is merciful and slow to anger.

If God is not merciful and tolerant of our sins, we would all be dead by now. God would have slaughtered Adam and Eve instantly without asking too much questions after they both ate the forbidden fruit.
  The fact that God didn't do that, rather God killed a Bear and covered them with it's skin, is a sign that your being a sinful being or creature doesn't offend GOD.

Here are the 3 things that actually offends or gets GOD angry:

1. Pride
2. Wicked Imaginations
3. Injustice


Let's talk about them one by one

1. PRIDE:
Pride is displeasing to GOD because it's the nature and seed of evil itself. Pride is defined as trying to do better than GOD.
It's like telling GOD, "hey God, I don't think you know what you're doing, let me get this done on your behalf".
Proverbs 16:18-19
It's the reason why GOD threw Satan out of heaven.
Read Ezekiel 28:11-19 , Luke 10;18 and Isaiah 14:12-17

Pride is the seed that births every other kind of sin, that's why it pisses God off real good.
God sees the end from the beginning and it is what he wills to happen to humankind that happens. This is based on the choices and decisions of men.
Pride gets under God's skin, because pride is the egg of the cockatrice that hatches to bring venomous issues to fore.

*Pride is the cause of unrepentance,
*Pride is the cause of wickedness,
*Pride is the cause of more sin,
*Pride is the cause of rebellion against God.

Pride is the multiplier of sin, a person who steals for example can end up committing another sin while stealing due to pride.

After knocking up Uriah's wife, King David went ahead to kill Uriah because he was too proud to swallow the humiliation the exposure of his sin would bring him.

God didn't punish David for sleeping with Uriah's wife and getting her pregnant. God punished him for killing Uriah with the aim of hiding his sin.
Trying to hide or cover one's sin is an act of pride. And some folks commit worse sins while trying to cover up a sin with a smaller gravity although in the eyes of God, all sins are the same.

2. WICKED IMAGINATIONS:
When GOD destroyed the world with the great flood, he did so because man's imaginations were always wicked.


Genesis 6:5-7 (KJV)
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. "

Let's zoom in on the 2nd part or b part of verse 5 of Genesis chapter 6, it reads:

"Every imagination of the thoughts of the hearts of the men that were existing on earth as at that time were continually and constantly evil"

This means unlike what I stated above earlier, in 60 seconds, every single 1 second, and every single milliseconds and nanoseconds in every 1 second during the days of Noah, Man's thoughts, imagination and inner meditation were all wicked.
They were all against GOD. All Men in existence were telling GOD in their hearts; GOD you don't know what you're doing, let's be God in your place, or let's be GOD on your behalf.

Do you know why wicked imaginations piss God off?
In the realm of imagination Man has the maximised ability to create events on earth.
When man's imaginations are good, he creates good events that brings good to his fellow men and brings glory and praises to God.
When Man's imaginations are wicked or evil, he creates wicked and evil events that brings glory to Satan.
Anything that brings glory to Satan displeases GOD.

AND any being or creature that constantly brings displeasure to GOD will soon be destroyed by God if he/she/it does not repent.

Good imaginations please God, while wicked imaginations displease God and creatures who constantly displease GOD will be judged and destroyed by GOD.

SO Always say "Good Thinking, Good Product" until your mind is structured to only produce good imaginations.

3. INJUSTICE:
GOD hates injustice.
Things that are unjust such as refusing to pay your workers their wages/salaries when due, using resources meant for building the community healthcare centre to buy cars, private jets and other things to impress folks whom you don't need to really impress and denying justice to the poor or to the oppressed ones in the society.
All these things displease GOD.
Ahab and Jezebel's idol worship displeased God but God didn't move to destroy them. He kept sending the Prophet Elijah to bring them back to repentance, on and on and on until they both carried out an act of injustice that sorely displeased GOD.
They murdered Naboth and took his vineyard.
The murder of Naboth and the unjust takeover of his vineyard caused God to execute swift retribution against Ahab and his wife Jezebel.
King David's murder of Uriah was an act of injustice and God judged him for that. Each time anyone acts unjustly GOD executes a full weighty dose of judgement upon him/her.
It's here and there and everywhere in the scriptures.
Injustice of any kind or magnitude offends GOD and brings his wrath crashing down upon the wicked like a large stone landing from the sky on a building.
But God rewards every act of justice, good imaginations and humility with blessings. Good measures shaken together, pressed down and running over shall GOD give unto the just and happy shall you be when God blesses you immensely!

Article written by Apostle Constance C. Friday Ani.

Isaiah 59:2 says "But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear". That shows the level of abhorrence God has for sin.

Romans 6:23 says the wages of sin is death. It shows you how heavy the punishment for sin is from God.

When you offend someone, you make the person annoyed or upset about you. From these Bible verses and even the theme throughout the Bible, does it appear like God is happy about sin or even condones sin? Where did you learn God is not offended by sin?

Sin in its simplest definition is disobedience to God. How then can someone say God is not displeased with sin? Which Bible is he or she reading? Pride, wickedness and injustice are only types of sins. And mind you all sin is displeasing to God.

Most of the so called Pastors mouthing these heresies are "empty barrels" who have never grown under any sound theological tutelage or training and think the word of God is all about rhetorics and word play.

Beware who you follow if you cannot read your Bible, lest it becomes a case of the blind leading the blind to eternal damnation.